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This observer highlights the massive failures at the CDC.  Quote: "At the start of the year, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, implored everyone to remain calm, stressing that mosquitoes carrying Zika could appear in the U.S. but the threat here is much lower than in Latin America.  Now, as the Obama administration presses for a $1.9 billion emergency response to Zika, the CDC’s Zika preview is much more serious.  “Everything we look at with this virus seems to be a bit scarier than we initially thought,” said CDC Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat.  For experts, that big of a shift is unacceptable.  “That’s not the kind of quote that you want from a government agency that is charged with protecting the citizens from infectious diseases,” said Dr. Tom Borelli, who earned degrees in microbiology and biochemistry and frequently writes on the impact of a bloated federal government and is now calling for Congress to restructure the CDC."  While I am not convinced the CDC has its finger on the Zika issue, they repeatedly demonstrate incompetence which is the larger point of this article.  I agree that it needs to have its mission narrowed and undergo massive downsizing.     http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/major-zika-fail-feds-busted-for-lazy-response/ 

This provides information you need to know about aspartame.  If you use it, stop.  This poison was knowingly foisted on Americans by a company that took advantage of a new inexperienced FDA director.  Quote: "The earliest studies on aspartame discovered that the chemical caused grand mal seizures and death in monkeys. These findings were withheld from the FDA. Eventually, FDA scientists discovered this on their own, but G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, waited for a new FDA commissioner to be appointed — one that had no prior experience with food additives — before presenting it to the FDA for commercial approval."     http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/04/08/aspartame-five-surprising-facts-you-never-knew-about-this-chemical-sweetener/

This means we cannot trust what either the FDA or Big Pharma tell us.  Quote: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is once again having to both defend the legitimacy of its bloated existence, and petition Congress to pass legislation that will allow it to continue collecting "user fees" from Big Pharma in exchange for drug approval. And during a recent testimony, FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg admitted that this lucrative process caters specifically to those industry players who are willing to pay the agency the most money."  And, "This sad testament shows where the FDA's true priorities lie -- money. It does not matter whether or not a product is actually safe and effective -- those companies willing to pay the most will be given special treatment and have their products approved more rapidly and efficiently than others. And if Congress once again re-approves the PDUFA, the FDA will continue to cater to the drug industry rather than objectively look out for the best interests of the people." http://www.naturalnews.com/053945_FDA_approvals_medical_devices_payola_racket.html

This is a terrible trend that the medical community is pursuing.  Censoring what they don't like being revealed/challenged.  Quote: "The censorship of medical truth has reached a fever pitch as books, films and documentaries are now being maliciously attacked and censored in a desperate ploy to prevent the public from learning the truth about cancer, vaccines, antidepressant drugs and more.  In this podcast, I explain why censorship of medical truth has reached a level of insanity and criminality that we've never seen before in modern society. The entire medical establishment -- just like the political establishment -- is totally rigged against the People. And censorship is just one of the weapons the medical establishment uses to prevent people from getting well by making sure they stay sick, diseased and "revenue generating" for Big Pharma."     http://www.naturalnews.com/053637_medical_censorship_cancer_narrative_documentaries.html

The CDC is ramping up its Zika virus hype. I do not know what to think since the CDC's credulity has been called into question by many.  Take note of the words of  Jane M. Orient, M.D., executive director of Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.  Quote: "WHO and CDC are quick to indict Zika virus, which might eventually turn out to be an innocent bystander. But the chief culprit is known: a breakdown in vector control.  In 1970, the safest and most effective public health weapon in history – DDT – was banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In the 1990s, Mexico agreed to abandon its DDT program as a condition of NAFTA. Mosquitoes travel.  Alarm about Zika will be a public-relations exercise, covering the waste of countless human lives and billions of dollars on ineffective or harmful campaigns, if it does not open a discussion of why diseases on their way out in the 1970s are coming back now."  Here's what she has to say about the virus. "What should people do about Zika?  First, don’t panic. It’s not Ebola. Ebola and Zika are alike in that they were first recognized in Africa decades ago. Also, there is no cure or vaccine for either. But while Ebola has killed thousands, Zika has likely not killed anyone. Symptoms, if any, are mild: a few days of fever, rash, joint pains and red eyes. Ebola is extremely contagious through personal contact. Zika is primarily transmitted by mosquito, although it may be carried in semen.  The main problem with Zika is that, like rubella (German measles), it can apparently cause birth defects. (Rubella can cause microcephaly.)  Zika virus has been found in the brain of a few babies born with microcephaly. But two things are very clear: MOST microcephaly is NOT caused by Zika. About 7 of 10,000 babies born in the U.S. have microcephaly – no thanks to Zika. Most (more than 90 percent) of the Brazilian babies recently confirmed to have microcephaly tested negative for Zika.  Additionally, MOST mothers who have Zika during pregnancy give birth to a normal, healthy baby. Mothers in northeastern Brazil also had a lot of other problems, including malnutrition, heavy exposure to toxic agricultural chemicals and an aggressive vaccination campaign.     http://www.wnd.com/2016/04/the-zika-crisis-another-result-of-ddt-ban/    More reason to doubt the fear mongering that is endemic to the CDC and WHO.

This item reinforces the previous Zika piece.  Quote: "US health agencies want more than the $600 million they’ve allotted to the “war against Zika.” They want $1.9 billion. Why not? They always want more money. To make their case, the CDC has pushed out a new Zika study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM): “Zika Virus and Birth Defects — Reviewing the Evidence for Causality”. (For the CDC’s conference call with the android press, click here).  Before commenting on that study, let’s recall a devastating statement the NEJM’s former editor, Marcia Angell, issued in 2009, after she had headed up that non-science machine for 20 years: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.”  https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/04/16/zika-fake-science-back-in-the-news-con-artists-at-work/

Quote: "Recently the Christian Post interviewed me about comments by astronaut John Glenn on whether evolution is compatible with religion, and whether evolution should be taught in public schools. Although the vast majority of the interview was about science education policy, I was quoted as saying only one thing: "Some definitions of evolution are completely compatible with a belief in God and others aren't. That is a key aspect of evolution we need to remember."  Which is true, but there's so much more to talk about than that.  The article did quote extensively from Josh Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education. And that's fine. I have no objection to him presenting his viewpoint on evolution, but it's too bad readers missed the other side of the discussion. Intelligent design theorists have potent scientific arguments and rebuttals to many evolutionary claims. Those deserve to be heard as well."     http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/05/does_medical_sc096371.html

Draw your own conclusion.    https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/virus-fakery-my-conversation-with-a-white-house-insider/