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The Beginning of the Genetically Modified Person

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Health freedom is being bashed around the head and shoulders in Minnesota. And at the Federal level as well.

Do you the right to control who knows what about you? Who owns your DNA? Who owns your child’s DNA? Minnesota has answered the question: the State owns your most intimate data and there is not much people can do about it unless they control their legislators and turn the intrusive system on its head.
MinnesotaMinn Stat 144.651 has been described as “a wrongful taking” under the 5th Amend and is probably illegal without a warrant based on probable cause-is this the type of Government YOU trust?
This is no small matter: what comes next is “preemptive’ strikes against all sorts of things: diseases, “criminality”, obesity, who knows what!

Government stakes claim to every newborn’s DNA
‘We now are considered guinea pigs, instead of human beings with rights’
April 03, 2008

By Bob Unruh
(c) 2008 WorldNetDaily
An Orwellian plan that has state and federal governments staking claim to the ownership of every newborn’s DNA in perpetuity is advancing under the radar of most privacy rights activists, but would turn the United States’ citizenry into a huge pool of subjects for involuntary scientific experimentation, according to one organization alarmed over the issue.
“We now are considered guinea pigs, as opposed to human beings with rights,” Twila Brase, president of the the Citizens’ Council on Health Care, a Minnesota-based organization familiar with the progress in that state.
She warned ultimately, such DNA databases could spark the next wave of demands for eugenics, the concept of improving the human race through the control of various inherited traits. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, advocated for eugenics to cull those she considered unfit from the population.
In 1921, she said eugenics is “the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems,” and she later lamented “the ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.”
Lawmakers in Minnesota recently endorsed a proposal that would exempt stockpiles of DNA information already being collected from every newborn there from any sort of consent requirements, meaning researchers could utilize the DNA of more than 780,000 Minnesota children for any sort of research project whatsover, Brase said.
“The Senate just voted to strip citizens of parental rights, privacy rights, patient rights and DNA property rights. They voted to make every citizen a research subject of the state government, starting at birth,” she said. “They voted to let the government create genetic profiles of every citizen without their consent.”
The result will be that every newborn’s DNA will be collected at birth, “warehoused in a state genomic biobank, and given away to genetic researchers without parent consent – or in adulthood, without the individual’s consent. Already, the health department reports that 42, 210 children have been subjected to genetic research without their consent,” Brase told WND.
She said although her organization works with Minnesota issues, similar laws or rules and regulations already are in use pretty much all across the nation.
The National Conference of State Legislatures, in fact, lists for all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia the various statutes or regulatory provisions under which newborns’ DNA is being collected.
Such programs are offered as “screening” requirements to detect treatable illnesses. They vary as to exactly what tests are done but the Health Resources and Services Administration has requested a report that would “include a recommendation for a uniform panel of conditions.”
Further, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., is on record proposing a plan that would turn the program into a consolidated nationwide effort.
“Fortunately,” he said at the time, “some newborn screening occurs in every state but fewer than half of the states, including Connecticut, actually tests for all disorders that are detectable. … This legislation will provide resources for states to expand their newborn screening programs…”
His plan specifically would provide millions of dollars for educating and training health care professionals in “relevant technologies,” and set up standards for updating tests and maintaining the quality of test results.
So what’s the big deal about looking into DNA to hunt for various disease possibilities?
Nothing, said Brase, if that’s where the hunt would end.
However, she said, “researchers already are looking for genes related to violence, crime and different behaviors.”
“This isn’t just about diabetes, asthma and cancer,” she said. “It’s also about behavioral issues.”
“In England they decided they should have doctors looking for problem children, and have those children reported, and their DNA taken in case they would become criminals,” she said.
In fact, published reports in the United Kingdom note that senior police forensics experts believe genetic samples should be studied because it may be possible to identify potential criminals as young as age five.
“If we have a primary means of identifying people before they offend, then in the long-term the benefits of targeting younger people are extremely large,” Gary Pugh, director of forensics at Scotland Yard, was quoted saying. “You could argue the younger the better. Criminologists say some people will grow out of crime; others won’t. We have to find who are possibly going to be the biggest threat to society.”
The United Kingdom database already has 4.5 million genetic samples and reportedly is the largest in Europe, but activists want to expand it. Pugh said that it is not possible right now to demand everyone provide a DNA sample, but only because of the costs and logistics.
One published report cited the Institute for Public Policy Research, which is suggesting children from 5-12 in the United Kingdom be targeted with cognitive behavioral therapy and Pugh has suggested adding the children in primary schools, even if they have not offended, to the database.
There, Chris Davis of the National Primary Headteachers’ Association warned the move could be seen “as a step towards a police state.”
But Pugh said the UK’s annual cost of $26 billion from violent crime makes it well worth the effort.
Brase said such efforts to study traits and gene factors and classify people would be just the beginning. What could happen through subsequent programs to address such conditions, she wondered.
“Not all research is great,” she said. “There is research that is highly objectionable into the genetic propensities of an individual. Not all research should be hailed as wonderful initiatives.”
It can identify some tendencies for potential problems, and that is one of its downfalls, she said.
“It lends itself to be the beginning of discrimination and prejudice,” she said. “People can look at data about you and make assessments ultimately of who you are.”
Further, the invasion of privacy is huge. DNA is the most intimate identifier that exists, she said.
“This, however, says our DNA is not ours but the government’s,” she said. “It says our values, our ethics, belief systems have to be [subjected] to the interests of the government.”
Right now various states obtain DNA under different plans, and keep the information for varying time periods. In Minnesota, the legislature is working on legal authorization for the state government to take it without consent, keep it forever, and use it for whatever purposes the state desires – all without obtaining consent or even letting people know.
A mandatory sample of a newborn’s DNA also pulls back the veil on information about the parents as well, Brase told WND.
“It’s like they’re collecting information on the whole family,” she said.
The Heartland Regional Genetics and Newborn Screening is one of the organizations that advocates for more screening and research.
It proclaims in its vision statement a desire to see newborns screened for 200 conditions. It also forecasts “every student … with an individual program for education based on confidential interpretation of their family medical history, their brain imaging, their genetic predictors of best learning methods…”
Further, every individual should share information about “personal and family health histories” as well as “gene tests for recessive conditions and drug metabolism” with the “other parent of their future children.”
Still further, it seeks “ecogenetic research that could improve health, lessen disability, and lower costs for sickness.”
“They want to test every child for 200 conditions, take the child’s history and a brain image, and genetics, and come up with a plan for that child,” Brase said. “They want to learn their weaknesses and defects.
“Nobody including and especially the government should be allowed to create such extensive profiles,” she said.
The next step is obvious: The government, with information about potential health weaknesses, could say to couples, “We don’t want your expensive children,” she said.
“I think people have forgotten about eugenics, the fact of the matter is that the eugenicists have not gone away. Newborn genetic testing is the entry into the 21st Century version of eugenics,” she said.
“This is in every state, but nobody is talking about it. Parents have no idea this is happening,” she said.
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Medical Privacy? Could You Define That, Please? I’m an American.
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The Natural Solutions Foundation, the leading Global Health Freedom organization, is proud to present this information to you. We protect your right to know about – and to use – natural ways to maintain and regain your health, no matter where in the world you live. Among your freedoms is the right to clean, unadulterated food free of genetic manipulation, pesticides, heavy metals or other contaminants and access to herbs, supplements, frequency devices and other means as therapies that may benefit or to protect your well-being without drugs and other dangerous interventions, if you choose.

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Once Upon a time not so long ago in a land not so away what you told your lawyer and your doctor were Sacred Secrets. If they so much as breathed a word about you and your situation, no matter how thrilling or compelling the conversation it might make, they were liable to prosecution and the loss of their licenses. In a heartbeat.

“Doctor-Patient Confidentiality” and “Attorney-Client Privilege” were magic words which kept the law, and other people, out of your magic circle of trusted confidences. There is a long and sordid history of the invasion of that secrecy but we all noticed downward jumps in the safety of our secrets when

The Nixon White House broke into the office of Daniel Elsberg’s psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg) in order to find Elsberg’s file to find something to use against Elsberg. This act was considered an outrage both because it was illegal (which it was) and because it sought to violate Doctor-Patient Confidentiality, specifically protected by numerous laws.

Then came Tarasoff and the duty of a psychiatrist (and then a physician) to warn potential victims of threatened harm confided to them by a patient. When Prosinjit Podder, an Indian Graduate student studying at Berkeley became obsessed with Tatiana Tarasoff in 1974 and she rebuffed him, their tragedy led to the beginning of the end in Doctor-Patient Confidentiality. The final cataclysmic destruction of any hint of privacy between you and your doctor came with the misnamed HIPAA or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Or at least, that was as bad as it got unitl Yahoo! and Google got into the game!

The Tarasoff story goes like this: Podder and Tarasoff meet at a dance, kiss and he knows that she is his intended. She does not see it that way and he gets upset but goes to get counseling at the University Health Service. Dr. Moore, the psychologist there learns from him that he wants to get a gun and shoot Tarasoff. Dr. Moore, as many of us would, violates the law and sends letter to campus police who decide that Podder is not a danger but they tell him to avoid Tatiana anyway.

When Tatiana returns from Brazil at the end of summer, Podder stalks her and stabs her to death.

Tanya’s mother sues the Berkeley campus police, University of CA Regents and the Berkeley Health Service for failure to warn Tatiana about Podderâ€™s desire to kill her. Initially, the case is dismissed and the judge rules that there is no cause of action, because of confidentiality between doctor and patient (Dr. Moore and Podder). This means, says the judge, that the Doctor has a duty only to the patient, not to third parties. [Emphasis added – REL]

Not so fast. Tanya’s mother appeals and, ultimately, the CA Supreme Court says that a â€œtherapist bears a duty to use reasonable care to give threatened persons warnings as are essential to avert foreseeable danger.â€ That means that the therapist needs to violate the sanctity of the Doctor-Patient relationship or face charges up to and including accessory murder charges for NOT violating your secrets.
Then things get worse: The California Supreme Court decides that â€œThe discharge of this duty may require the therapist to take one or more of various steps. This, it may call for him to warn the intended victim, to notify the police, or to take whatever steps are reasonably necessary under the circumstances.â€ [Emphasis added]. Now we have the doctor as enforcer who MUST violate confidentiality and “take whatver steps are necessary under the circumstances[!]”.
But wait: Tarasoff did more damage yet to your privacy with your doctor: Subsequent Cases related to Tarasoff (Landmark Cases):

Lipari v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, US District Court, Nebraska, 1980:
Mr. Cribbs, history of involuntary treatment at VA, buys gun at Sears. One month later, he leaves outpatient VA program AMA. Thirty days later, he fires shotgun in Omaha club, kills Mr. Lipari, wounds Mrs. Lipari. Lipari sues Sears, Sears sues VA, Mrs. Lipari sues VA. District Court rules that the therapist has a duty to detain dangerous people if they are a threat to the public (based on Tarasoff).

Jablonski by Pahls v. United States, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1983:
Ms. Kimball and Mr. Jablonski are dating. She loves him, but is afraid of his past threats, attempts to kill her mother (Ms. Pahls), and her. She takes him to the Loma Linda VA when he has threatened her mother, on 7/10/78. Doctor says that she should leave him, but feels that he is not dangerous, as Mr. Jablonski has not threatened her currently. Heâ€™s released, then he kills Ms. Kimball 7/16/78. Kimballâ€™s daughter (with help of Kimballâ€™s mother Ms. Pahls) sues VA, alleges that there was a duty of the psychiatrist to protect Ms. Kimball. Court rules that Ms. Kimball was a foreseeable victim of Jablonskiâ€™s violence, and necessary steps were not taken in protecting her.

Naidu v. Laird, Supreme Court of Delaware, 1988:
Mr. Putney is released from the Delaware State Hospital, after being treated for the seventh admission, for paranoid psychosis symptoms. Leaves voluntary admission March 1977. Five months later, he drives over Mr. Laird, while in a psychotic state, and kills him. Ms. Laird sues, Supreme Court of Delaware holds that Mr. Laird was a foreseeable victim to Mr. Putneyâ€™s dangerousness, and did not discharge duty to warn properly.

Currently, the courts say that a duty is present by the therapist (remember, health professionals off all sorts are included here) to take some action to prevent foreseeable harm to a third party injured by the client. That’s any harm, such as not giving your child fluoridated water, not having your mother take a flu shot, sending peanuts to lunch with your 6 year old who is NOT allergic to them while someone int the class MIGHT be allergic to them.

Most states now require the third party be defined as an â€œidentifiable victim,â€ before the therapist can be said to have a duty to this victim. This is commonly now defined as a person the client has actually defined as a potential victim, and therefore the therapist has a knowledge of this specific need to protect. But this is not the case in all states; some states continue to hold that foreseeable harm to any third party creates a duty for the therapist.

And then, decending rapidly downward, there was HIPAA, the 1996 act which supposedly protects your confidentiality (Doctors can no lonher greet you by your last name (“Good morning, Mrs. Smith. How is your husband feeling?) since that might compromise your privacy about who you are, which you might want to hide. By the same token, of course, you need to sign in at the reception window either as a number or a first name entity.

Of course, the Federal Government, or any of its designees, including credit card companies, the FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, insurance companies, or other non-involved entities, at least as far as your health is concerned, can have access to every last item of information in your record. IF anyone in the office tells you that your records are being accessed, however, if the receptionist or the nurse or the doctor or the file clerk TELLS you that your records have been, or are being, or will be, accessed by any of these agencies, who are, by the way, operating without a warrant, the snitch, the person who told you, can face felony charges and go to jail.

Then there is the issue of who owns your laboratory results. The Department of Health of the City of New York thinks that they do. Every time you have a blood sugar and and IGF test, or any other test related to your diabetes, the City of New York gets a copy and monitors your results. If they do not like the results, or if you doctor is helping your control or eliminate your disease without drugs, your doctor and you will both receive letters directing your treatment. That’s right. your lab results have to be right and the drugs have to be right for the City of New York to allow you and your doctor to go forward! See Whose Blood Sugar Is It, Anyway (www.healthfreedomusa.org/docs/blood_sugar.pdf) for more details on another aspect of the invasion of your medical privacy. It goes without saying of course, that this invasion is not limited just to diabetes.

Now how does all of that make you feel when you think about your Sacred Secrets? I know what it does to me as a physician and as a patient: It absolutely enrages me.

So here is what I have done in order to protect myself and my patients: First of all I dropped all, all insurance companies and never submitted electronically to any of them. Why not? Because using electronic submissions methods (email, fax, phone, etc.) puts you and your office (and therefore all of your patients under HIPAA I never again used any such means to communicate about my patients to their insurance companies.

The second thing I did was to declare my practice exempt from HIPAA under the “Country Doctor Exemption” which says that physicians in groups with less than 10 doctors do not have to comply with HIPAA which, predictably, costs the medical office a great deal to meet the requirements heaped upon us.

The third thing that I did was to immediately separate myself from any health insurance reimbursement plan for any of my patients. Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Aetna, Cigna, Oxford, you name it, I dropped it. Why? Because your records are safe only in the hands of a physician who does not deal with insurance companies which own not only your medical records and the data in them, but can have access to the medical records of every single person in the practice since agencies typically go on a snooping expedition when they are looking for ways to make trouble. Physicians other and health care professionals who do not use drug treatments are under constant attack. That means that the reimbursement you might get from your insurance carrier for outpatient services is very very expensive for you in terms of privacy and for your doctor since that willingness to bill insurance companies on your behalf (or accept assignment) opens the doctor to outrageous invasion for you and your records. Good by Sacred Secrets! The only Sacred Secret is whether your records are being accessed. This same set of regulations also opens the possibility for attack upon your doctor by those same agencies (including the Medical Board of his/her state since boards receive payments from insurance companies to attack doctors who do “too many tests” since patients generally want to fix what the test finds). Too many for whom? Who makes that decision? Is it in your best interest? Not that I have seen!

And as a patient, I visit ONLY doctors who have done the same. I pay them out of pocket or, if I do not have enough money for their services, I discuss that openly with them and we come to some sort of accommodation. In fact, if a doctor accepting any sort of insurance were to do that, it could be called “inducement” which is a felony charge. Your doctor could go to jail for making it easier for you to see him or her or extending professional courtesy to you or your family if you are a health professional, or poor, or a friend or whatever.

I thought that was as bad as it was likely to get. I was wrong. Read the article below and then ask how safe you private information given the number of identify thefts and security breeches we know about in huge electronic data bases.

Feeling safe yet? Neither am I.

Take the following action: immediately switch doctors if your doctor takes insurance. Find one who does not accept ANY insurance and pay that doctor out of your own funds. Insurance docs (those who accept any insurance of any kind) cannot keep your records and your information safe. Non-insurance docs can. Discuss whether they will and have him not this discussion in your chart.

Health freedom is under continuing attack from multiple directions. Only one organization covers it all for you and takes action with you and for you on each issue. Please keep us strong and active. Make your generous tax deductible donation now. Click here (https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/index.php?page_id=189). Sign up for the Health Freedom eAlerts (https://www.staging.healthfreedomusa.com/index.php?page_id=187) to stay abreast.
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Rima E. Laibow, MD
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National health records network to hook up with Google, Microsoft
Published on Friday, March 28, 2008.

Source: Gov Exec

The federal office in charge of creating a national network of electronic health records plans to integrate the system with the health care databases that Google and Microsoft launched last year, on which individuals can store their health records, a top official with the Health and Human Services Department said.

The Office of the Coordinator of Health Information Technology plans this year to expand its Nationwide Health Information Network to also include electronic health records stored in networks operated by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, and the Indian Health Service, and integrated health care systems that span numerous communities, said Charles Friedman, chief operating officer for the health information office, which is part of HHS. Friedman spoke March 26 at the Defense Health Care Information Technology Conference at Georgetown University in Washington.

The NHIN is the primary component of a project that President Bush kicked off in 2004 to create a network that eventually will integrate the electronic health records of every American. Bush set 2014 as the deadline to have the majority of the public’s electronic health records available to any doctor’s office, hospital or clinic hooked up to the network. The original architecture for the national network will be built around four multistate Regional Health Information Organizations that will share their patients’ medical data. HHS set up the four RHIOs in 2005 when it awarded contracts to Accenture, Computer Sciences Corp., IBM and Northrop Grumman.

Friedman provided few details on how the office would incorporate personal health records from Google Health and other organizations developing similar applications, such as Microsoft’s HealthVault, which it launched in October. By the end of this year, HHS will have demonstrated the exchange of different kinds of health information through the network.

Last month, Google launcheda pilot project with the Cleveland Clinic to provide patients the results of their doctor visits, prescriptions, tests and procedures through Google’s secure Web authentication proxy service.

Friedman did not say how his office will incorporate multicommunity integrated health care delivery systems, but plans to tie these systems into the NHIN indicate that the HHS office wants to expand the network from the state to the local level, with the network hooking up cities and towns within a state, according to an executive of a health IT vendor at the conference who declined to be identified.

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

If you think doctor patient confidentiality is a right, you’re wrong. According to the US Government, whatever somebody wants to know about your health and your life, they can find out, with a little help from their friends at Google and Microsoft.

If you are concerned about this issue, the best protection you can give yourself and your medical records to assure their privacy is to consult physicians who do not take any kind of insurance and have availed themselves of the “Country Doctor Exemption” for physicians in practices of 10 doctors or less.

So-called “Country Doctors” are exempted from the onerous, expensive and highly invasive paper trail imposed by HIPPA supposedly to protect your privacy but actually to destroy any shred of privacy you have remaining.

YesFederal interfaces to the health network will be through an entity called NHIN Connect, Friedman said. NHIN Connect will be based on the National Health Information Exchange Gateway, which Harris Corp. will develop under a contract HHS awarded last week, said Lt. Col. Hon Pak, director of the advanced information technology group of the Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center at Fort Detrick, Md.

Pak, who serves as the Defense representative on NHIN Connect, said the network will use software developed by Defense and VA for the Bidirectional Health Information Exchange, which clinicians in both departments use to share electronic patient information, and software developed by the National Cancer Institute for its Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid. The NHIN Connect gateway integrates health care IT information from several federal agencies into the NHIN. This includes VA, Defense and the Indian Health Service as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Pak said. NHIN Connect is in an early development stage; the first multiagency planning meeting was held yesterday, he added.

The NHIN gateway will save the government significant money by correlating simple demographic information with federal programs, such as determining who is alive and who has died, said Dr. Stanley Saiki Jr., director of the Pacific Telehealth and Technology Group, a joint Defense and VA research organization funded by the Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center.

States and the federal government “really can’t even keep close track of who dies so that their Social Security and other benefits can be terminated,” Saiki said. “This savings alone could go a long way to finance important data systems. Magnify this by the potential increased efficiency in the delivery of health care and magnify this again with universal coverage and [the gateway and NHIN Connect] is a big deal.”

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Cut the Crap! Thanks, Eve Pringle, For the Straight Talk on Mercury.

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

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This is a remarkably important article which every one interested in vaccination, autism or protecting our young ought to read and forward. And while you are doing that, think about the fact that the US Government’s NorthCom, the US Northern Command, has signed a pact with Canadian Military to allow the Canadians to enter the US if their help is needed. Needed for what, you might ask? Well the ONLY button focusing on a threat on the official site of NorthCom, http://www.northcom.mil/, is one button on Avian Flu. When you go there, you see the usual deceptive fear mongering. Remember, though, that on April 17, 2007, the FDA announced that it had approved an Avian Flu Vaccine (http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01611.html) despite the fact that a vaccine CANNOT be made against an organism which allegedly does not exist. Leaving aside this biological absurdity, the FDA announced,

The vaccine was generally well tolerated, with the most common side effects reported as pain at the injection site, headache, general ill feeling and muscle pain. The study showed that 45 percent of individuals who received the 90 microgram, two-dose regimen developed antibodies at a level that is expected to reduce the risk of getting influenza. Although the level of antibodies seen in the remaining individuals did not reach that level, current scientific information on other influenza vaccines suggests that less than optimal antibody levels may still have the potential to help reduce disease severity and influenza-related hospitalizations and deaths. Additional information on this H5N1 influenza vaccine is being collected on safety and effectiveness in other age groups and will be available to FDA in the near future.

but has none the less, at that point, nearly a year ago, the FDA said on the same site,

With the support of FDA, the U.S. National Institutes of Health and other government agencies, sanofi pasteur and other manufacturers are working to develop a next generation of influenza vaccines for enhanced immune responses at lower doses, using technologies intended to boost the immune response. Meanwhile, the approval and availability of this vaccine will enhance national readiness and the nation’s ability to protect those at increased risk of exposure.

In other words, we, the tax payers of the United States were paying for industry to make yet another very dangerous vaccine.

Then on August 3, 2007, the Avian Flu Diary, http://afludiary.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-govt-orders-additional-pre-pandemic.html, published this announcement:

US Govt Orders Additional Pre-Pandemic Vaccine

# 1041 A pre-pandemic vaccine is a bit of a gamble. It may, or may not, prove effective once a pandemic strain emerges. The hope is that even a poorly matched vaccine might afford enough protection to the recipient that while it might not stop them from becoming infected, it might lessen the severity of their illness and improve their chances of survival.

GSK (Glaxo-Smith Kline) announced today that the HHS has ordered an additional 22 million doses of this pre-pandemic vaccine, on top of an order for 5 million doses made last November.

This is a substantial increase in the national vaccine stockpile, with perhaps enough vaccine for 10% of the nation.

Tow years earlier, on August 8, 2005,the New York Times announced,

A Successful Vaccine Alone Is Not Enough to Prevent Avian Flu Epidemic

By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and KEITH BRADSHER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 – Health officials, who over the weekend announced success in an initial test of a human vaccine against avian influenza, cautioned Sunday that the existence of a vaccine in itself would not be enough to avert a worldwide pandemic.

They said countries need to quickly organize ways to give the shots when they become available, a task that will take coordination, money and more scientific work.

www.nytimes.com/2005/08/08/politics/08flu.html

Enter NorthCom and its cozy little deal with the Canadian Military.

By the way, in case you are worried about the Constitutional problem presented by the prohibition against quartering foreign troops on US soil (which apparently might trouble you and me, but not the US Military and the Department of Homeland Security), since the North American Union and the Security and Prosperity Perimeter signings (minus referendum, advice and consent of Congress or any parliament or any other non New World Order input), that little issue is of no consequence since either the US and Canada ARE one country now or the constitutions of all three countries whose presidents (elected and unelected) and premier who signed the agreement in 2003 were abrogated and nullified in that signing.

In that same New York Times story, the ringing call for more Tamiflu for the poor nations that could not afford the vaccine was issued. The only problem with that (aside from the highly interesting 1/4 patent share ownership of Donald Rumsfeld in that failed and dangerous anti-viral drug) is that it does not work against Avian Flu since the drug had already become resistent to it by the time this clarion call for more drug profits for the Secretary of Defense was made.

The Avian Flu pandemic to come is, however, is a bit different from seasonal flu or diptheria or whooping cough or Hepatitis B. While marketing words like “very severe”, “lethal” and “deadly” are intentional parts of the strategy to sell vaccines, the Avian Flu danger, real or not (and I have very grave doubts about whether it is another marketing ploy for profits and fascism) will, I believe, be pulled out of the quiver of slings and arrows against of outrageous freedom (Sorry Mr. Shakespeare) to compel vaccination, at gun point if necessary, for a pestilence which is either wholly illusory or totally manufactured. Once the word “Pandemic” is uttered by the head of Health and Human Services, for example, compulsory vaccination swings into place along with Martial Law. Those who do not accept vaccination will be “quarantined” indefinitely, according to the Patriot Act I and II, Bio Shield I and II and a host of Homeland Security directives and similar edicts.

Remember, the “tetanus” shots so generously provided in South and Central America and the and “smallpox” in Africa which the World Health Organization handed out contained not only goodies like stealth viruses and, we believe, CMV 40, a potent leukemia-causing virus, as well as the usual witches brew of mercury, aluminum hydroxide, etc., etc., etc., but a vaccine which renders women sterile as well. That same vaccine is now approved by the FDA for use in this country.

Many people believe that under the auspices of the WHO those same small pox vaccinations also contained an agent that destroys the immune system and opens it up to opportunistic infections and diseases – HIV, in other words. I must admit that I have reluctantly come to the horrifying conclusion that this belief is justified.

Is it any wonder, then, that the shameful whitewash of vaccination and its tools is carried out so stridently and adamantly by the CDC, the FDA and other agencies with a stake in protecting the vaccine producers, their own behinds and their various real intentions?

Read Eve Pringle’s outstanding article and pass it along to everyone you know. And while we are cutting the crap along with Ms. Pringle, let’s cut the Bird Flu crap as well

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And remember, too that the US has announced that it has enough Avian Flu vaccine for every Evelyn Pringle: Autism – Cut The Crap
Sunday, 31 July 2005, 4:25 pm
Opinion: Evelyn Pringle

Autism – Cut The Crap

By Evelyn Pringle

In their public statements, officials within the FDA and CDC, are always claiming that researchers and scientists who conduct studies, not funded by drug companies or the government, are making unfounded claims about a link between thimerosal-laced vaccines and autism, and other neurological disorders, which they claim could lead to reduced vaccine coverage, resulting in preventable outbreaks of disease affecting the entire planet.
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I say cut the crap.

Think about it. Why would so many highly respected scientists, researchers and physicians go to such great lengths to concoct bogus studies and issue false reports, in essence putting their professional reputations on the line, if their was no connection? I want these officials to do two things. First I want them to give me one good reason why these professionals would make this up, and two, I want them to give me one logical alternative theory for the current epidemic of disorders.

Lets look at a few of these experts.

Dr Jeffrey Bradstreet, is a practicing physician who treats children with autism and other brain-damage disorders. While in the Air Force, he was trained in toxicology and environmental health. His duties as an Officer included the responsibility for military personnel who had exposure to a wide variety of toxins, including mercury.

Dr Bradstreet has evaluated well over 2000 children with neurological disorders. He also directs a school for children with neurodevelopmental disorders where his responsibilities include supervising occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, and applied behavioral analysts.

Dr Bradstreet is a Harvard Certified Medical Education Instructor in autism and has written three peer reviewed papers regarding the relationship between thimerosal, developmental disorders and biological markers for Mercury-Susceptibility.

In addition, he has conducted research regarding these disorders and has worked with some of the most highly respected professionals in the country, including Dr Jane El-Dahr of the Tulane University Medical Center; Dr V.K. Singh of the Utah State University Biotechnology Center; the University of Michigan Department of Pharmacology; Dr Vas Aposhian of the University of Arizona; Dr Anne Connolly of the Washington University Hospital; Dr Walter Spitzer of McGill University; the Department of Pediatrics at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Dr Jim Adams of the University of Arizona; and Dr Jill James, a former FDA researcher, now with the University of Arkansas, Department of Pediatrics.

Apparently the FDA, CDC, and vaccine makers expect us to believe that this long line of highly respected professionals from Universities all over the country somehow got together and conspired to conduct fraudulent research for decades and then authored 1000s of false reports and other publications.

I do not buy it. What would be the payoff?

Dr Mark Geier is a medical doctor who holds a PhD in genetics and is board-certified in medical genetics and forensic medicine. He was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for 10 years and was previously a professor at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied vaccines for more than 30 years and has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers on vaccine safety, efficacy, contamination and policy.

He was instrumental in convincing officials to switch from the whole-cell Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis (DTP) vaccine to the safer version (DTaP). In fact, he wrote the article, â€œThe True Story of Pertussis Vaccination: A Sordid Legacy?â€ which in 2002, won the first annual Stanley W. Jackson award for the best paper published in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences during the period of 2000 to 2002.

Dr Geier has made several presentations to the Institute of Medicine on the adverse effects of vaccines including one on thimerosal in 2004. He and his son, David Geier, are the only independent researchers who have ever been permitted to study the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) database of the CDC.

Dr Geier has testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform Investigating Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic to critique the Hviid study, conducted in Denmark on autism and thimerosal exposure and he has also addressed the FDA Advisory Committee regarding vaccine safety.

Finally, Dr Geier has testified as an expert witness in about 100 cases before the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the US Court of Federal Claims.

In one such case, on November 25, 2003, the Special Master French issued an opinion in which he praised Geierâ€™s credentials and vast experience and said in part:

Dr Geier â€œranks high among those who have studied vaccine issues through the medical literature on vaccines, databases, studies, articles and information on vaccine safety and efficacy in vaccine policy.â€ … â€œThe tenor of his testimony in this case addressed the importance of statistical databases in providing statistical reliability and validity in interpreting the epidemiology and issues relating to autism and various vaccines. . . . Dr Geier has recently proposed a data-sharing process that would improve the reliability of present statistical data that would include the present VAERS statistical database. It would be helpful in interpreting the epidemiology and issues relating to the autism controversy.â€

Give me one good reason why this world renowned scientist would put his professional career on the line by lying under oath, not only in court 100 times, but also before a congressional committee?

The drug makers and government officials have waged an all out attack on this particular expert in attempt to discount his opinions because Dr Geier speaks in term most people understand. He has reported on the staggering statistical numbers showing the rise in brain-damaged kids who were vaccinated with thimerosal compared to the children who received very little mercury, or mercury-free vaccines, and were not injured. When he speaks, people â€œget it,â€ and the powers that be know it.

Then there is expert, Dr George Lucier, who in the year 2000, retired from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences where he was Director of the Environmental Toxicology Program and Associate Director of the National Toxicology Program. In that capacity, he was responsible for coordinating toxicological research and testing across federal agencies as well as conducting risk assessments for exposure to toxic substances including mercury. He has authored well over 200 scientific publications involving toxicology, pharmacology and risk assessment, including ten articles on mercury.

In 1998, Dr Lucier was appointed the Chair of the Organizing Committee for the White House Workshop on Scientific Issues Relevant to Assessment of Health Effects from Exposure to Methylmercury. He has presented his opinions on numerous occasions in various forums and for 28 years, he was the co-editor in chief of the prestigious scientific journal, Environmental Health Perspectives.

Why would this guy lie under oath?

Another renowned scientist expressing the same view on thimerosal, is Dr Boyd Haley, who is currently a Professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemistry with a joint appointment in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Kentucky.

He teaches a class on mercury toxicology and has published more than 110 articles in the peer-reviewed literature including the toxic effects of elemental mercury. Since 1989, his laboratory has been conducting research on the relationship between mercury and neurological diseases, and has performed experiments with thimerosal. In 2001, Dr Haley made a presentation on â€œIn Vitro Studies of Thimerosal Toxicity,â€ to the IOM.

So why would this guy spend 25 year of his life conducting bogus studies, rendering fraudulent results and authoring a 100 dishonest articles?

An expert I consulted during my initial investigation of this issue was Dr David Ayoub, MD, who when asked how certain he was of the link between autism and thimerosal, told me, â€œI can state that the certainty of the science supporting mercury as a major cause of autism is probably more overpowering than the science behind any other disease process that I studied dating back to medical school.â€

Dr Ayoub is the Director of the Prairie Collaborative for Immunization, an organization that is self-funded, which aids organizations, journalists, and legislators obtain accurate information to assist their work. He is also the author of the report, â€œPregnancy and the Myth of Influenza Vaccination-Is it safe, is it effective, is it necessary? What the CDC documents reveal.â€

When asked why so many scientist were now conducting research Dr Ayoud said, â€œI think a disease that effects more individuals than AIDS or cancer, in previously normal infants and children, has created a sense of urgency amongst researchers.â€

Flu shots with a toxic dose of mercury are still being given to pregnant women and Rh negative shots with thimerosal are still being given to pregnant women. Even though recent studies have shown that lower IQ levels linked to mercury exposure in the womb costs the US $8.7 billion a year in lost earnings potential, according to a study released in February 2005, by researchers at the Mount Sinai Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, who combined a number of previous studies to determine hundreds of thousands of babies are born every year with lower IQ associated with mercury exposure.

Lead researcher and pediatician, Leonard Trasande, said annually, between 316,588 and 637,233 infants are born with umbilical cord blood mecury levels linked to IQ loss and about 4% of babies are born with mercury levels between 7.13 and 15 micrograms per liter which at that level, causes an IQ loss of 1.6 points.

The drug makers have been marching their own experts into court so lets look at the credentials of some of their experts to see how they match up with those listed above.

In the case of Vera Easter verses Aventis Pasteur, although Harvard-educated and the author of some 80 peer-reviewed articles, according to his deposition, Dr Philip Wangâ€™s specialty was epidemiology related to antidepressants. Prior to being retained as an expert for the vaccine makers, Dr Wang had not done any evaluations associated with vaccines, had no specific training whatsoever regarding mercury, and had written no articles on the effects of heavy metal exposure.

Dr Wang has never investigated any illness claimed to be associated with heavy metal exposure and has never been asked to do a formal epidemiologic evaluation of the hypothesis that the thimerosal could cause neurological disorders or autism.

He claimed that he did know that the VAERS database existed prior to being retained as an expert, but had never conducted any analysis on the Vaccine Safety Datalink.

Dr Wangâ€™s knowledge of vaccines and thimerosal was limited to what he learned in 30 to 35 hours of meetings with defense attorneys and reading the relevant medical literature, most of which was provided by the defense attorneys.

Finally, Dr Wang only offered an opinion on the link between thimerosal and autism and not on the issues relevant to the case relating to other neurological disorders.

For some reason, I donâ€™t think Dr Wang would fare too well if called upon to take the stand to disprove the opinions of the many established experts on the plaintiffâ€™s team with their combined decades of research experience in this area of expertise.

Another drug maker expert in the case was Dr Chris P Johnson, who in her deposition agreed that, prior to the case, her experience with mercury poisoning cases was zero. She has had no experience related to mercury or its neurotoxic effects and conceded that she was not an expert on mercury or the effects of mercury exposure on the human body.

I hardly think Dr Johnson is a match for the experts above. In fact I think it would be grossly unfair to even throw this gal in the ring with the other heavyweights. I guess it just goes to show how much humiliation some people are willing to endure to make a buck.

Partnerships Between Industry and Regulatory Officials

In reaching decisions, officials within regulatory bodies seem more concerned about the impact of their decision on global vaccination policies than making an unbiased appraisal of the scientific evidence. In reviewing statements by these agencies, people need to consider the inherent conflicts of interest between the CDC, charged with investigating medical issues; the FDA, charged with regulating vaccines; the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which examines policy issues; and the vaccine manufacturers.

After an on-going investigation of several years, the Mercury in Medicine Report was published on May 21, 2003 by the Subcommittee on Human Rights and Wellness of the Committee on Government Reform, and included testimony from numerous experts. The report rendered a number of specific findings.

Most significant was its statement that, â€œThe CDC in general and the National Immunization Program are particularly conflicted in their duty to monitor the safety of vaccines, while also charged with the responsibility of purchasing vaccines for resale as well as promoting increased immunization rates.â€

The report went on to say that the CDC due to its â€œbiases against theories regarding vaccine-induced autism,â€ had chosen to fund researchers â€œwho also worked for vaccine manufacturers to conduct population-based immunologic studies. . .â€ But most importantly, it identified Thimerosal as the culprit in plain language and in no uncertain terms:

â€œThimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic. This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal and the sharper eyes of infant exposure to this known neurotoxin. The public health agenciesâ€™ failure to act is indicative of institutional malfeasance for self protection and misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry.â€

The CDCâ€™s decision to promote the publication of research supportive of the vaccine industry to refute this report by a congressional committee, demonstrates just how far it will go to support its partners in crime.

Blatant evidence of this partnership can be found in a CDC plan to promote flu vaccine sales which detailed a â€œ7 step recipe for generating interest in, and demand for, flu (or any other) vaccination.â€ The document discusses the â€œbest recipeâ€ that would foster interest and demand, including use of terms like â€œvery severe,â€ â€œmore severe,â€ and â€œdeadlyâ€ to â€œmotivate behaviorâ€ and increase sales. For any doubters, this evidence should confirm that the interests of the CDC and the industry are one and the same.

In addition, numerous articles published in medical journals between 2001 to 2004, were quoted as key studies relied upon by the Institute of Medicine, which as it turns out, were written by authors and researchers with direct conflicts of interest and real biases in favor of claiming that thimerosal did not cause injuries or autism. Many of the conflicts were not revealed by the authors at the time the articles were written in direct violation of policy rules pertaining to medical journals.

For instance, one article relied upon by the IOM, although not a population study, was Pichichero et al. Mercury concentrations and metabolism in infants receiving vaccines containing Thimerosal: a descriptive study, published in Lancet in 2002.

Pichichero did not declare any conflicts, despite the Lancetâ€™s strict policy requiring that conflicts be disclosed. However, in a subsequent New York Times article, Pichichero admitted that he had done work for Lilly and other drug companies. But a fact that must have slipped his mind was that in an earlier article in American Family Physician, Pichichero had declarated:

The author has received research grants and/or honoraria from the following pharmaceutical companies: Abbott Laboratories, Inc.; Bristol Myers Squibb Company; Eli Lilly & Company; Merck and Co.; Pasteur Merieux Connaught; Pfizer Labs; Roach Laboratories; Roussel-Uclaf; Schering Corporation; SmithKlineBeecham Pharmaceuticals; Upjohn Company; Wyeth-Lederle.

In defending thimerosal, officials will often refer to the World Health Organization as a body that has found it safe. Well in a June, 2001 WHO report, the agency itself refers to vaccine manufacturers as a full and equal â€œpartner.â€ When the WHO was worried that regulations had affected drug makerâ€™s costs, it stressed the need to get them to stay in the market, and even proposed a â€œcommunication strategy that would take account of public concern about adverse effects of vaccines.â€

So, in a subsequent WHO meeting on April 15-16, 2002, a decision was made to â€œlobby Ministry of Health and senior regulatorsâ€ on the thimerosal issue and to â€œdevelop a strong advocacy campaign to support the ongoing use of thiomersal.â€œ It can readily be seen that the WHO has similar reasons to those of the CDC to support the industryâ€™s position.

As thimerosal containing vaccines continue to be shipped to countries all over the world, its becoming more and more apparent that these cozy â€œpartnershipsâ€ wield a considerable amount of power when it comes to making decisions related to vaccine safety.

Who Knew What And When

The well-documented sordid history of thimerosal, including the continuing misrepresentations by its inventor, Eli Lilly, confirms that the product should never have been used in childhood vaccines, and should have definitely been removed prior to the doubling of the content that resulted from the addition of the HIB and Hepatitis B vaccines in the late 1980â€™s to mid-90â€™s.

Mercury in vaccines was tested and shown to be lethal many times over the past 40 years. In May of 1967, an article was published in Applied Microbiology, titled â€œEnhanced Toxicity for Mice of Pertussis Vaccine When Preserved with Merthiolate.â€ The abstract states: Pertussis vaccines preserved with 0.01% merthiolate (thimerosal) are more toxic for mice than unpreserved vaccines prepared from the same parent concentrate containing the same number of organisms.

In this study, twenty mice were injected with a vaccine with no thimerosal and none died. 30 others were injected with the same vaccines, plus thimerosal, and 5 died. The article stated that â€œit would not be surprising if injection of this vaccine influenced the susceptibility of the mouse towards a mercurial preservative.â€œ The authors also noted that â€œother laboratoriesâ€ had observed toxicity of final lots of preserved vaccine when the vaccines themselves were â€œatoxic or only slightly toxic.â€

In 1972, Lilly received an article that confirmed that thimerosal had caused 6 deaths when too much of it had been used, which said: â€œThe symptoms and clinical course of the 6 patients suggests subacute mercury poisoning.â€

In 1975, autopsies on squirrel monkeys treated with thimerosal-containing nose spray, determined that mercury accumulated in the brain â€œwhich may represent a potential hazard in the chronic use of thimerosal as a preservative in products intended for human use.â€

By the late 1970â€™s, vaccine companies realized the need to remove thimerosal because of its poisonous effects. In an October 12, 1979 memo, Merck scientists discussed the â€œpotential problemâ€ of having mercury in its flu and meningococcal vaccines, as well as the Hepatitis B vaccine that was under development and asked: â€œShould a program of replacement be initiated now to guard against any spontaneous rally to avoid its (thimerosal) use in injectables?â€

This memo proves that the industry knew about the dangers long before the mercury-loaded Hib and Hep B vaccines were added to the schedule in the 1980â€™s and 1990â€™s.

In 1986, an article titled, â€œOrganic Mercury Compounds and Their Toxicity,â€ noted that thimerosal had caused problems and stated that it was â€œnow accepted that multidose injection preparations are undesirable, and preservatives should not present in unidose preparations.â€œ

In the early 1990â€™s, the level of thimerosal in vaccines increased drastically, and in many cases doubled. The drug companies knew that adding 3 or four HIB vaccines and as many as 3 Hep B shots would substantially increase the level of mercury injected into infants at a critical period of brain development.

We now know that by 1991, Merck absolutely knew that the increase was harmful. A 1991 internal memo, recently revealed by the LA Times, concluded that exposure in infants within the first six month of life could be 87 times the level determined safe. The memoâ€˜s damning revelations said:

For babies: the 25 ug of mercury in a single 0.5 ml dose and extrapolated to a 6 pound baby would be 25 times the adjusted Swedish daily allowance of 1.0 micrograms for a baby of that size. The total mercury burden in a baby is unknown, but it has been stated that the blood level of a newborn may exceed that of the mother. If eight doses of thimerosal-containing vaccine was given in the first six months of life (3 DTP, 2 HIB, and 3 Hepatitis B) the 200 micrograms of mercury given, say to an average size of 12 pounds, would be about 87 times the Swedish daily allowance of 2.3 micrograms for a baby of that size.

In the memo even acknowledged that â€œthe best way to go is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines without adding preservatives.â€ However, it went on to say that while this was the best solution, there was â€œa cost consideration the head of Health Services has to consider. Several large ampoules or bottles are more expensive than a smaller number of larger packages.â€

So in essence, this Merck memo proves that by 1991, vaccine makers knew that they were injecting poison into infants and decided that profits were more important than the countryâ€™s most precious asset, an entire generation of children.

The vaccine makers are fighting hard against the removal of thimerosal for two reasons. The first is the usual suspect, greed. But the second reason is now higher on their list. The industry knows that if thimerosal were to be completely removed from all vaccines tomorrow, the public would not be able to ignore the corresponding decline, not only in cases of autism, but in the epidemic of all the strange disorders that have engulfed the public school system in all 50 states over the past 15 years. The decline is already happening in California, one of the first states to ban thimerosal.

In attempt to confuse the issue, officials have tried to avoid any discussion of the evidence establishing an association between mercury and a host of other neurological disorders.

In addition to autism, the epidemic includes attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and speech or language delay and each has its own spectrum of symptoms. For example, autism is characterized by impairments of social interaction, communication, and behavior. ADD/ADHD is typified by persistent patterns of inattention and/or hyperactivity. Speech and language delay are characterized by sensory and auditory processing disorders impacting on communication. See Immunization Safety Review, Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines and Neurodevelopmental Disorder, IOM 2001.

Officials should quit using scare tactics to infer a threat to the vaccine program as a whole. The issue is not the vaccines, its the preservative that has to go. And its not just contained in childhood vaccines. Thimerosal is in other products given to unsuspecting victims.

The flu vaccine is probably the most commonly used product that still contains the preservative, but there are other shots that have it as well. For instance, I just found out that a shot given to stop contractions in pregnant women who go into labor too early contains thimerosal.

I traveled to Wisconsin to be sure that I would be in the hospital at the time of delivery to protect my first grandson from any nurse with a needle looking to stick him with a Hep B vaccine. A few days ago, my daughter began to have early contractions. The doctor told her not to worry, to just come in for a check up. She came home with the great news that a shot stopped the contractions, only to find out a few hours later that the miracle shot may have contained thimerosal.

That was three days ago and I am still in shock!

While adverse effects of vaccines to a small number of susceptible individuals might seem justified in the interest of the greater good to mankind, the brain-injuring effects arising as a result of the government forcing parents to inject a known poison into their precious children should not be tolerated.

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GM Files: GM Corn to Make Men Sterile Already a Reality

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

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The World Health Organization has a Task Force on the Regulation of Male Fertility. In 1990 a paper was published in Lancet, a well-regarded British medical journal detailing the use of testosterone injections to render men sterile. The abstract of the article noted “Hormonal regimens that induce azoospermia [lack of fertile sperm] can provide highly effective, sustained, and reversible male contraception with minimum side-effects.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1977002
Minimum, that is, if the increase in testosterone does not promote tumors (including cancer) in the brain, prostate and elsewhere as it is well documented to do.

The Natural Solutions Foundation believes that the genetic engineering of food will inevitably lead to serious damage to animals, plants and the environment which have not been taken into account through the US policy of declaring GM foods equivalent to non GM ones. This policy was put into action by President George H. W. Bush and has led to the FDA’s refusal to require or conduct safety (or other) tests on GM foods and to allow ANY food patented for its GM modifications on the market. In a clever end-run, the US is now attempting to have Codex Alimentarius, the body which sets standards for the international trade of food, to declare that any food on the market is, by definition, to be considered safe. That way, countries which require labeling of GM foods, or which ban it outright, will likely face crippling World Trade Organizations sanctions.

At the Working Group convened by the Codex Committee on Food Labeling (CCFL) this past February in Accra, Ghana, the US worked mightily to make that language part of a document which it helped to author and which may become an official Codex text. African countries saw the strategy and opposed it en bloc, supported by Russia, Japan, Norway, Switzerland and the EU.

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The World Health Organization also has a Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation. An article in Human Reproduction (Human Reproduction, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 166-172, 1991Â© 1991 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) called “The WHO Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation. Its formation, objectives and research activities” by P.D. Griffin of the Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organization 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland summarized its work this way:

“Over the past 18 years, the WHO Task Force on Vaccines for Fertility Regulation has been supporting basic and clinical research on the development of birth control vaccines directed against the gametes or the preimplantation embryo. These studies have involved the use of advanced procedures in peptide chemistry, hybridoma technology and molecular genetics as well as the evaluation of a number of novel approaches in general vaccinology. As a result of this inter national, collaborative effort, a prototype anti-HCG vaccine is now undergoing clinical testing, raising the prospect that a totally new family planning method may be available before the end of the current decade.”

That means that since 1973 the World Health Organization has been looking for ways to use vaccines and injections to control the world’s fertility. If those methods are offered to men and women so that they can make a choice about their reproductive lives, well and good. If, however, they are hidden in smallpox vaccines (Africa) with the avowed purpose of “eliminating 150 million excess Sub Saharan Africans” as they were in vaccines distributed by the WHO starting in 1985, or in tetanus vaccines which would cause abortions in South and Central America women starting in the 1990’s, we are not dealing with reproductive options, but reproductive genocide.

The FDA approved the same sterility vaccine in the US within the last 18 months. For what purpose? Which group will receive it in which vaccine, hidden in a syringe supposedly offered to “protect” patients?

Is the World Health Organization empowered to decide which group of people may reproduce and which must become sterile? And if so, by whom is it so empowered? How about the FDA?

As bad as this news is, there is worse news yet to come. Corn, sacred in Mexico and Central America as the very staff of life, has been turned into the very end of life. Genetic modification of corn has turned the Mexo American giver of life into the stuff that can end a race – perhaps the human race – by engendering sterility in males who eat it.

Genetically modified corn is used to create high fructose corn syrup, flavors, starches, flours, proteins, sugars and most of the other ingredients which make up our processed foods. The US refuses to allow the labeling of foods which contain genetically modified ingredients (like corn) to be labeled to indicate that fact so we are looking at the possibility of undeclared birth control “foods” rendering whole populations sterile. The US Government, starting with George Herbert Walker Bush, has adopted the policy that genetically modified foods are the same as unmodified ones. The sterility corn is therefore, under this policy, the same as natural corn.

If the US has its way, all such products will be acceptable for international trade without any labeling. It behooves the other countries of the world to face down the demands of the US and its allies at the Codex table to make sure that no such permission is granted, that a ban on GM food is put in place for the international trade of seed and processed food, flours and other consumables, that animals are not fed GM feeds and that all genetically modified foods imported from countries such as the US bear not only the information that they contain GM food, but the specific strain which they contain listed on their label for both bulk processors and the final consumer

A small California biotech company, Epicyte, in 2001 announced the development of genetically engineered corn which contained a spermicide which made the semen of men who ate it sterile. At the time Epicyte had a joint venture agreement to spread its technology with DuPont and Syngenta, two of the sponsors of the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Vault. Epicyte was since acquired by a North Carolina biotech company. Astonishing to learn was that Epicyte had developed its spermicidal GMO corn with research funds from the US Department of Agriculture, the same USDA which, despite worldwide opposition, continued to finance the development of Terminator technology, now held by Monsanto.

In the 1990’s the UN’s World Health Organization launched a campaign to vaccinate millions of women in Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines between the ages of 15 and 45, allegedly against Tentanus, a sickness arising from such things as stepping on a rusty nail. The vaccine was not given to men or boys, despite the fact they are presumably equally liable to step on rusty nails as women.

Because of that curious anomaly, Comite Pro Vida de Mexico, a Roman Catholic lay organization became suspicious and had vaccine samples tested. The tests revealed that the Tetanus vaccine being spread by the WHO only to women of child-bearing age contained human Chorionic Gonadotrophin or hCG, a natural hormone which when combined with a tetanus toxoid carrier stimulated antibodies rendering a woman incapable of maintaining a pregnancy. None of the women vaccinated were told.

It later came out that the Rockefeller Foundation along with the Rockefeller’s Population Council, the World Bank (home to CGIAR), and the United States’ National Institutes of Health had been involved in a 20-year-long project begun in 1972 to develop the concealed abortion vaccine with a tetanus carrier for WHO. In addition, the Government of Norway, the host to the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Vault, donated $41 million to develop the special abortive Tetanus vaccine.

Is it a coincidence that these same organizations, from Norway to the Rockefeller Foundation to the World Bank are also involved in the Svalbard seed bank project? According to Prof. Francis Boyle who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 enacted by the US Congress, the Pentagon is ‘now gearing up to fight and win biological warfare’ as part of two Bush national strategy directives adopted, he notes, ‘without public knowledge and review’ in 2002. Boyle adds that in 2001-2004 alone the US Federal Government spent $14.5 billion for civilian bio-warfare-related work, a staggering sum.

Rutgers University biologist Richard Ebright estimates that over 300 scientific institutions and some 12,000 individuals in the USA today have access to pathogens suitable for biowarfare. Alone there are 497 US Government NIH grants for research into infectious diseases with biowarfare potential. Of course this is being justified under the rubric of defending against possible terror attack as so much is today.
Many of the US Government dollars spent on biowarfare research involve genetic engineering. MIT biology professor Jonathan King says that the ‘growing bio-terror programs represent a significant emerging danger to our own population.’ King adds, ‘while such programs are always called defensive, with biological weapons, defensive and offensive programs overlap almost completely.’

Time will tell whether, God Forbid, the Svalbard Doomsday Seed Bank of Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation is part of another Final Solution, this involving the extinction of the Late, Great Planet Earth.

F. William Engdahl is the author of Seeds of Destruction, the Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation just released by Global Research. He also the author of A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order, Pluto Press Ltd.

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State Using Children as Young as Five As Informants Against Parents
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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(NaturalNews) Encouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), pediatricians across the United States have begun questioning children about their parents’ habits, in some cases even filing police reports based on this information, according to an opinion article published in the Boston Herald.

Article author Michael Graham recounts that his own children were asked by their doctor whether their parents used drugs and alcohol, owned guns, or were abusive. The doctor did not seek parental permission before asking the questions, nor did he inform them that they were being asked; Graham and his wife found out only after their children came home from the visits.

“The doctor wanted to know how much you and mom drink, and if I think it’s too much,” Graham reports his daughter saying. “She asked if you two did drugs, or if there are drugs in the house. The doctor wanted to know how we get along. And if, well, Daddy, if you made me feel uncomfortable.”

Graham also reports the case of an Uxbridge, Massachusetts man who had his legal gun ownership reported to the police by his daughter’s doctor. The doctor filed a police report after asking the 5-year-old girl if her father owned a gun, then following up with questions to her and her mother about the type and number of the weapons.

Graham blames the trend on guidelines issued by the AAP, which classifies parents as “persons of interest” and encourages doctors to ask children questions in order to uncover inappropriate or illegal behavior.

“The paranoia over parents is so strong that the AAP encourages doctors to ignore ‘legal barriers and deference to parental involvement’ and shake the children down for all the inside information they can get,” Graham writes.

According to Graham, anti-gun advocacy by pediatricians is widespread enough that “some states are considering legislation to stop it.”

“What this interrogation of children demonstrates,” added consumer health advocate Mike Adams, “is just how deeply the medical establishment now believes it has total authority over the lives of patients. This kind of behavior is arrogant, outrageous and should be outlawed,” Adams said.

http://www.naturalnews.com/022764.html

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