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For those who care, I was just given permission to share this news with you here on CS regarding our CS member Keys707, who has been AWOL for some time... I realize some of you have been wondering as to where he has been and his whereabouts, some haven't given his missing any thought or missed his inspirational blogs, and some of you think that he is no longer posting them because maybe you said something to run him away, and you're glad he is no longer posting...

Well, Keys is not a running, he is a true fighter,. After his last blog post, he became ill and it was found that he had a brain tumor. He's doing fine at this time undergoing his many treatments, with more to start on Monday.

Please pray for his emotional, mental, and physical healing and that he recovers very soon. Pray that God will touch his body with His mighty powerful healing hands, and Keys will recover and be completely enclosed in his right mind and regain his physical strength.

Thank you and I will keep you posted of his progress

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I think its about time I haul my worthless a** to bed.

Turning down a prescription from your doctor might not seem like a smart decision. However, recent research revealing the influence of pharmaceutical companies on doctors in many disciplines makes it clear that your prescription may have less to do with your health and more to do with a paycheck.

The most powerful pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. are paying doctors, teaching hospitals and other organizations to sell their products. In fact, in just over a year, these companies spent $3.49 billion in disclosed payments.

Even more, common names like Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer spent significantly more on marketing than they did on research and development of their drugs, with the former spending more than double, and the latter spending 72% the difference – and these companies aren’t alone, 90% of pharmaceutical companies are prioritizing marketing.

“Big pharma” is going above and beyond to ensure their products are being consumed by Americans, and their efforts have been successful. The U.S. spends $1,112 per capita on prescription drugs – more than any other country, and four times more than Mexico.

As well, in 2010, the U.S. consumed 99% of the world’s hydrocodone and 88% of oxycodone – two common painkillers – when only accounting for 5% of the world’s population.

Dr. Gordon Schiff suggests that doctors and hospitals should take a “conservative prescribing” approach which recommends prevention and lifestyle changes as opposed to prescription drugs. As well, education on the adverse effects of these drugs will help to prevent the influence of these companies.


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Where should state health care end & personal responsibility begin, a question I reckon we'll all have to answer very shortly, the NHS in the UK has appealed & lost a court case over whether it's the health service that should provide the drug HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), this is a pre-exposure drug effective at preventing hiv-aids & the NHS estimate of cost is £20 million a year, quite how they've estimated how many would need to take it is another question , there are as I see it two moral questions here -

Firstly, should members of the public be expected to pay for someone else's irresponsible s*xual practises, it could be argued that £20m isn't that much & the NHS spends way more on people who overeat or smoke

Secondly, and this is the biggy, if you've decided the NHS should provide this drug free the next step will be - Why aren't we providing it for 3rd world countries where the risks are even higher, are there lives not worth as much as ours

The £20m would look like small change compared to the cost of providing this drug free to say just Africa, how much are we all prepared to pay for someone else's sex life

Update, news today, seems possible the above is possibly no longer relevant no need of expensive pre-exposure drug when they may have the cure If so now the question will be who funds the drugs for the 35 million sufferers

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You know when you get stuck in a bog or certain types of deep mud, the more you try to pull out, the tighter it holds you in place. Thats how I feel trying to pull out of this whole depression thing. It just won't let go.

Still very very difficult to confront loneliness no matter how hard i try to be strong!

The scarring process.


For questions relating to my business, last Monday my leg was found in similar circumstances and, as is not the first nor the last, this does not worry me in a peculiar way; but being a vegetarian over the years affected, excessively, the process of healing my body, due to deficiency of my diet free of all kinds of meat and fish.


I appeal to your good will and your knowledge, any of you know of some effective natural remedies to help the healing process of my leg.


Please, it's not a joke; I really want your advice.


Thank you in advance for your help.

joe soaps of the world, Show more support to the Jr Doctors of Britain in their currant plight.
Im watching this on the news and I feel sickened over the last few days the way the media are vilifying the doctors who are fighting unjust expectations on an already overworked and under payed work force.
Hearing things like
"Theresa May told doctors to stop “playing politics”"
Sounds like an upper class twat telling the working class to know their place.

Sure its Low of the medical profession to hold people to emotional ransom to justify the ends of its argument. But its Just as bad for people to think they should not. That they should work without voice,
no matter what the burden.
Could this contract be the proverbial straw that breaks the back of the nhs beast of burden.

and if so will we see the same trend go global..
All I know is that the business of sickness is a multi billion industry,
and where business is involved people are secondary be they doctors or patients

The Privatization of Water:
Nestlé Denies that Water is a Fundamental Human Right

The current Chairman and former CEO of Nestlé, the largest producer of food products in the world, believes that the answer to global water issues is privatization. This statement is on record from the wonderful company that has peddled junk food in the Amazon, has invested money to thwart the labeling of GMO-filled products, has a disturbing health and ethics record for its infant formula, and has deployed a cyber army to monitor Internet criticism and shape discussions in social media.

This is apparently the company we should trust to manage our water, despite the record of large bottling companies like Nestlé having a track record of creating shortages:

Large multinational beverage companies are usually given water-well privileges (and even tax breaks) over citizens because they create jobs, which is apparently more important to the local governments than water rights to other taxpaying citizens. These companies such as Coca Cola and Nestlé (which bottles suburban Michigan well-water and calls it Poland Spring) suck up millions of gallons of water, leaving the public to suffer with any shortages. (source)

But Chairman, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, believes that “access to water is not a public right.” Nor is it a human right. So if privatization is the answer, is this the company in which the public should place its trust?

Here is just one example, among many, of his company’s concern for the public thus far:

In the small Pakistani community of Bhati Dilwan, a former village councilor says children are being sickened by filthy water. Who’s to blame? He says it’s bottled water-maker Nestlé, which dug a deep well that is depriving locals of potable water. “The water is not only very dirty, but the water level sank from 100 to 300 to 400 feet,” Dilwan says. (source)

Why? Because if the community had fresh water piped in, it would deprive Nestlé of its lucrative market in water bottled under the Pure Life brand.

In the subtitled video below, from several years back, Brabeck discusses his views on water, as well as some interesting comments concerning his view of Nature — that it is “pitiless” — and, of course, the obligatory statement that organic food is bad and GM is great. In fact, according to Brabeck, you are essentially an extremist to hold views opposite to his own. His statements are important to review as we continue to see the world around us become reshaped into a more mechanized environment in order to stave off that pitiless Nature to which he refers.



The conclusion to this segment is perhaps the most revealing about Brabeck’s worldview, as he highlights a clip of one of his factory operations. Evidently, the savior-like role of the Nestlé Group in ensuring the health of the global population should be graciously welcomed. Are you convinced?

Open Discussion Welcome!

We rely on machines for many applications, in most instances these machines either monitor a situation or carry out a programmed task, however, there are machines that assess criteria and it makes me wonder how much faith should be given to the results of these machines.

For example: I spent the afternoon being “evaluated” by a machine, the end synopsis being that I have to give up smoking.

Now I dont want to give up smoking, I feel fine, am never short of breath, have plenty of energy and sleep well, so, I ask myself, firstly, buy what standard does this machine measure me by (and who set that standard). Secondly, what if the machines calibration is wrong, perhaps even the machines software is incorrect.

Based on a graph drawn by a machine, how do I really know that giving up one of life’s pleasures is going to be of benefit to me?

I can tell you, it sure doesn’t make me feel any better!