Starfish Prime, Operation Dominic, Nuking the Pacific

The United States conducted 22 successful nuclear detonations as part of Operation Dominic here in 1962.

Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States of America on July 9, 1962, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency (which became the Defense Nuclear Agency in 1971). Launched via a Thor rocket and carrying a W49 thermonuclear warhead (manufactured by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) and a Mk. 4 reentry vehicle, the explosion took place 250 miles (400 kilometers) above a point 19 miles (31 kilometers) southwest of Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean. It was one of five tests conducted by the USA in outer space as defined by the FAI. It produced a yield of 1.4 megatons of TNT. continue

8 November 1957:
Grapple X Round C1, the first successful British hydrogen bomb test, detonates over Kiritimati's South East Point.

Harvest Cycle

What a great idea!

What could be more perfect? Eating locally grown organic fruits and veggies from Jessica's Stand and having them delivered via a Bicycle using Sarasota's first bicycle map from the Alliance for Responsible Transportation.

and then there's Cargo bikes too!

Genetically Modified Organism's - GMO's

Behind the Headlines: GM Food
"No one can control what happens when genetic material from
different species is mixed -- like putting a gene from, say, a fish
into a plant. It might do what you want it to do, or it might change
the plant in unexpected ways and even make it poisonous."

The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

By Arun Shrivastava

Genetically Modified (GM) food is definitely not what it appears to be.

Following is a review of F. William Engdahl's new book Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation

The last three or four years have seen a number of books, documentaries and articles on the dangers of Genetically Modified (GM) seeds. Majority has focused on adverse health and environmental impact; almost none on the geo-politics of GM seeds, and particularly seeds as a weapon of mass destruction. Engdahl has addressed this issue but the crop seed is one of the many “Seeds of Destruction” in this book.

Engdahl carefully documents how the intellectual foundations of 'eugenics,' mass culling of the sick, colored, and otherwise disposable races, were actually first established, and even legally approved, in the United States. Eugenics research was financially supported by the Rockefeller and other elite families and first tested on Jews under Nazi Germany.

It is purely by chance that world's poorest nations also happen to be best endowed with natural resources. These regions are also the ones with growing population. The fear among European ruling families, increasingly, integrating with economic and military might of the United States, was that if the poor nations became developed, the abundant natural resources, especially oil, gas, and strategic minerals and metals, may become scarcer for the white population. That situation was unacceptable to the white ruling elite.

The central question that dominated the minds of the ruling clique was population reduction in resource rich countries but the question was how to engineer mass culling all over the world without generating powerful backlash as it was bound to happen. When the U.S. oil reserves peaked in 1972 and it became a net oil importer, the situation became alarming and the agenda took the centre stage. Kissinger, one of the key strategists of Nixon, nurtured by the Rockefellers, prepared what is known as National Security Study Memo (NSSM#200), in which he elaborated his plan for population reduction. In this Memo he specifically targets thirteen countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey, Thailand, and the Philippines.

The weapon to be used was food; even if there was a famine food would be used to leverage population reduction. Kissinger is on record for stating, “Control oil, you control nations; control food and you control the people.” How a small group of key people transformed the elitist philosophy, of controlling food to control people, into realistic operational possibility within a short time is the backdrop of Engdahl's book, the central theme running from the beginning till the end with the Rockefellers and Kissinger, among others, as the key dramatis personae.

He describes how the Rockefellers guided the U.S. agriculture policy, used their powerful tax-free foundations worldwide to train an army of bright young scientists in hitherto unknown field of microbiology. He traces how the field of Eugenics was renamed “genetics” to make it more acceptable and also to hide the real purpose. Through incremental strategic adjustments within a handful of chemical, food and seed corporations, ably supported by the key persons in key departments of the U.S. Government, behemoths were created that could re-write the regulatory framework in nearly every country. And these seeds of destruction of carefully constructed regulatory framework -- to protect the environment and human health -- were sown back in the 1920s.

Pause to think: a normal healthy person can at the most go without food for perhaps seven days but it takes a full season, say around four months, for a seed to grow into food crop. Just five agri-biz corporations, all U.S. based (Cargill, Bunge, Archer Daniels, et al), control global grain trade, and just five control global trade in seeds. Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, DuPont, and Dow Chemicals control genetically engineered seeds. While these powerful oligopolies were being knocked into place, anti-trust laws were diluted to exempt these firms. Engdahl writes, “It was not surprising that the Pentagon's National Defense University, on the eve of the 2003 Iraq War, issued a paper declaring: 'Agribiz is to the United States what oil is to the Middle East.' Agribusiness had become a strategic weapon in the arsenal of the world's only superpower.” (page 143)

The “Green Revolution” was part of the Rockefeller agenda to destroy seed diversity and push oil and gas based agriculture inputs in which Rockefeller's had main interest. Destruction of seed diversity and dependence on proprietary hybrids was the first step in food control. (See my notes, Box 1)

It is true that initially Green Revolution technologies led to spurt in farm productivity but at a huge cost of destruction of farmlands, bio-diversity, poisoned aquifers and progressively poor health of the people and was the true agenda of 'the proponents of Green Revolution.'

The real impetus came with the technological possibility of gene splicing and insertion of specific traits into unrelated species. Life forms could be altered. But until 1979, the U.S. Government had steadfastly refused to grant patent on life form. That was changed

[my comment: helped much by a favorable judgment in the U.S. Supreme Court granting patent protection to oil eating bacteria developed by Dr Ananda Chakraborty]. Life forms could now be patented. To ensure that the world surrendered to the patent regime of the seeds corporations, the World Trade Organization was knocked into shape. How it conducted business was nobody's business, but it forced the world to accept intellectual property right of these corporations. There is opposition but these firms are too determined as Engdahl describes.

“The clear strategy of Monsanto, Dow, DuPont and the Washington Government backing them was to introduce the GMO seeds in every corner of the globe, with priority on defenseless. African and developing countries,” write Engdahl (page 270). However, Engdahl also describes how U.S. and Canadian farmlands came under GMOs. It was suspected that GMO could pose serious threat to human and animal health and the environment, yet efforts at independent biosafety assessment were discontinued. Scientists carrying out honest studies were vilified. Reputed scientific establishments were silenced or made to toe the line that was supportive of the Rockefeller's food control and mass culling agenda. The destruction of the credibility of scientific institution is yet another seed of destruction in Engdahl's book.

Engdahl cites the example of a German farmer Gottfried Glockner's experience with GM corn. Glockner planted Bt176 event of Syngenta essentially as feed for his cows. Being a scientist, he started with 10% GM feed and gradually increased the proportion, carefully noting milk yield and any side effects. Nothing much happened in the first three years but when he increased the feed to 100% GM feed, his animals “were having gluey-white feaces and violent diarrhea” and “milk contained blood.” Eventually all his seventy cows died. Prof Angelika Hilbeck of Swiss Federal Institute of Technology found from Glockner's Bt 176 corn samples Bt toxins were present “in active form and extremely stable.” The cows died of high dose of toxins. Not if, but when human food is 100% contaminated should be a sobering thought.

In the U.S. unlabelled GM foods were introduced in 1993 and that 70% of the supermarket foods contain GMOs in varying proportions in what should rightly be called world's largest biological experiment on humans. While Engdahl has clearly stated that the thrust of U.S. Government and the agi-biz is control over food especially in the third world, he has left it to the readers to deduce that American and European citizens are also target of that grand agenda. And there are more lethal weapons in the arsenal: Terminator seeds, Traitor seeds, and the ability to destroy small independent farmers at will in any part of the world, and these are powerfully presented in the book. Engdahl provides hard evidences for these seeds of final destruction and utter decimation of world civilizations as we have known.

It is a complex but highly readable book. It is divided into five parts, each containing two to four short chapters. The first part deals with the political maneuverings to ensure support to Seed and Agri-biz firms, the second deals with what should be widely known as 'The Rockefeller Plan', the third deals with how vertically integrated giants were readied for Washington's silent wars on planet earth, the fourth part deals with how GM seeds were unleashed on unsuspecting farmers, and the final part deals with how the elites is going on destroying food, farmers that would eventually cause mass culling of population. He does not offer any solution; he can't because it is up to the rest of the world, including Europeans and Americans, to wake up and take on these criminals head on. An essential read for anyone who eats and thinks.

(Source: Global Research.ca)

Viral Poppycock

For a population of seven million people, Hong Kong has stockpiled 20 million treatment courses of Tamiflu, a medicine to which the new swine flu virus has not yet developed resistance but it’s a toss up which is more dangerous, the swine flu or Tamiflu. Dr. Russell Blaylock writes, “I was in the military during the first swine flu scare in 1976. At the time it became policy that all soldiers would be vaccinated for swine flu. As a medical officer I refused and almost faced a court martial, but the military didn't want the bad publicity. Despite the assurance by all the experts in virology, including Dr. Sabin, the epidemic never materialized. What did materialize were 500 cases of Gullian-Barre paralysis, including 25 deaths-not due to the swine flu itself, but as a direct result of the vaccine.”

Jon Barron writes, “Pandemic doesn't mean what most people seem to think it means. A pandemic does not necessarily mean black-plague carts being hauled through the streets piled high with dead bodies. Nor does it mean flesh eating zombies wandering the streets feeding on the living. All a pandemic means is that a new infectious disease is spreading throughout the world. That's it. Symptoms associated with a given pandemic can be mild or deadly severe, but that has nothing to do with the word pandemic. It's quite possible to have a pandemic that kills very few people.”

It is good to remember how the CDC comes up with their number
of deaths from the flu. It was convoluted in that it wasn't the flu
itself causing deaths but the complications that arose from flu.

What is Really Going On



Dr Leonard Horowitz makes a case for a vaccine manufacturer letting loose a genetically modified bug to get what they need to move forward and increase demand for their vaccines. Very convincing must see video. Authorities have admitted that the current flu is a new combination but they are mum about who made it and why. The WHO is just now raising the pandemic alert level to level 5 indicating widespread human to human transmission. Someone and I doubt it was God, designed this virus for maximum effect though perhaps it will not be more dangerous than other flu outbreaks. It seems significant that it is not flu season. No matter how many people get this particular swine flu we have to do our best to reduce complications and deaths. The first step in this direction is to not administer or accept dangerous vaccines and medications like Tamiflu for all evidence and testimony seem to point to the dangers of doing so.
The advisability of magnesium measurement, as a second step, appears to be convincing in many medical circumstances1 yet when the flu strikes doctors stand around like the deaf, dumb and blind. Electrolyte abnormalities, mainly hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia, are associated with an increased risk for complications like developing cardiac arrhythmias. Magnesium replacement reduces morbidity and prolonged hospitalization from atrial fibrillation or mortality from sustained ventricular arrhythmias. It would make sense it would be much more difficult to die of the flu if deficient magnesium levels were raised as quickly as possible. Dr. Joseph Mercola, of all people, champions magnesium IVs saying, “My favorite is an IV of magnesium and hydrochloric acid (HCl). Folks this is a genuine pearl. I learned this from Dr. Wright and the therapy is over 80 years old.”

Cause of Death is Due to?

Due to lack of magnesium the heart muscle can develop a spasm or cramp and stops beating. Most people, including doctors, don’t know it but without sufficient magnesium we die. It is more than helpful to understand that our life span will be reduced if we run too long without sufficient magnesium in our cells and that the principle way our life is cut short is through cardiac arrest. Yet when someone dies of a heart attack doctors never say “He died from Magnesium Deficiency.” Allopathic medicine is designed to ignore the true causes of death and disease. In the field of cardiology this is more than telling.2 When it comes to the field of virology we have a sea of ignorance about these kinds of issues.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) wants doctors to stop using the term "shaken baby syndrome," wanting instead to call it “abusive head trauma." This issue highlights dramatically how wrong the medical establishment can be about cause of death or injury. Many defense attorneys and doctors believe shaken baby syndrome doesn't exist, arguing that it's impossible to shake babies hard enough to cause brain injuries without breaking their necks. The National Institutes of Health says shaking can cause bruising, swelling, and bleeding, "which can lead to permanent, severe brain damage or death." The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome says an estimated 1,200 to 1,400 U.S. children are injured or killed by shaking each year, but that the number may be much higher since many cases likely are not detected.

When it comes to Hepatitis B they have gone after the babies of the world. Injecting new born babies with mercury for some illusionary viral danger that 99.999 percent are not at risk for is more than a bad idea. True medical insanity was born with this one. We live in an insane medical world and 90 percent of the people don’t know it so they continue to vaccinate their children. Medical religion is the new religion of the world and there are more alters to it than the church ever had.

It is impossible for me to communicate my full feelings of disgust with the AAP and the medical industrial complex in general (which includes public health officials at the CDC and the FDA) about these issues. And I might as well include the medical staff reporters at the associated press and other mainstream media outlets because what they don’t report on is the probability that Shaken Baby Syndrome is just one more cover up for massive vaccine damage.

Dr. Irene Scheimberg3 warns that, “by relying on this famous triad of symptoms - brain hypoxia, subdural hematoma (SDH) and retinal haemorrhages - to diagnose shaken baby syndrome, when there's no evidence of inflicted trauma, we may be sending to jail parents who lost their children through no fault of their own.” The medical media and our present system of medicine are the most dishonest locusts to have ever inhabited our precious planet. It is truly sickening when they turn on children and their parents, which they routinely do with the childhood vaccination program that is killing many more children than are officially recorded by the federal government. That is absolutely correct. Vaccines kill children; there is no doctor or medical official that will deny that fact. The only question is if it is murder on a truly massive scale?

Investors hope this swine flu is the biggest thing since the bubonic plague. And they have it wrong on swine flu. It won't be an epidemic – it'll barely even be a ripple. I've run medical clinics in Africa – I know what an epidemic looks like. And this isn't it. Yes, they have apparently had some cases of bad swine flu in Mexico. They've had lots of dengue fever and chagas, too, but you don't need to stay up at night worrying about it. Beating the swine flu isn't any different from beating the regular flu.

Dr. William Campbell Douglass II.

I recently published a four-part essay on blood dynamics and the explanation in detail for brain hypoxia, SDH and retinal haemorrhages was put forth (a subject championed by Dr. Andrew J Moulden). We have the big lie working and a process of complete denial that Americans are especially used to. Who else would believe you could fly a modern jet airliner into the Pentagon and have all the wreckage disappear including titanium engines made by Roll Royce? Who else would believe World Trade building number seven (which was not hit by a plane) would just collapse in on itself without cause? But we believe parents are shaking their babies to death in a very skillful way, just so perfectly as to not break their necks but enough to cause massive brain damage.

There are no lab tests to confirm the
presence of the highly-pathogenic virus.
Dr. Anna Thorson

All we really have is a continuation of a cherished fantasy about viruses though it seems modern scientists have become very skilful at developing new combinations of DNA that attack us and give us the flu. Dr. Stefan Lanka, virologist and molecular biologist is just one of many voices that are smothered by the medical industrial establishment. There is one breathtaking fact for the public to deal with and that is the fact that not even one of the (medically relevant) natural viruses has ever been isolated; there is no proof of their existence. "So for a long time I studied virology, from the end to the beginning, from the beginning to the end, to be absolutely sure that there was no such thing as HIV. And it was easy for me to be sure about this because I realized that the whole group of viruses to which HIV is said to belong, the retroviruses -- as well as other viruses which are claimed to be very dangerous -- in fact do not exist at all," says Dr. Lanka.

Retroviruses are not living creatures but bits of
protein that attach themselves to living cells.

“For almost one year we have been asking authorities, politicians and medical institutes after the scientific evidence for the existence of such viruses that are said to cause disease and therefore require "immunization." After almost one year we have not received even one concrete answer which provides evidence for the existence of those "vaccination viruses," continues Lanka.

When it came to the bird flu threat Lanka said, “We’re being asked to believe that migratory birds in Asia have been infected with an extremely dangerous, deadly virus. These mortally diseased birds then keep flying for weeks on end. They fly thousands of kilometres, and then in Romania, in Turkey, Greece and elsewhere infect hens, geese or other poultry, with which they have had no contact, and which within a very short time get diseased and die. But the migratory birds do not get diseased and do not die, but keep on flying, for weeks on end, thousands of kilometres. Anyone who believes this will also believe that babies are brought by the stork.”

Actually we are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known and believe just about anything fed to us through the media, especially in the area of medicine. Our thoughts and attitudes are continually being shaped and molded by dishonest people who implant the public consciousness with thousands of medical media clips each year.

Just think about how many times you've heard an evening news anchor spit out some variation on the phrase, "According to experts ...." and we are supposed to trust them, naturally, that’s what being an expert is all about, being trusted in ones field. In reality there are two kinds of "experts" in question -- the public relations spin doctors behind the scenes and the "independent" experts paraded before the public, scientists who have been hand-selected, cultivated, and paid handsomely to promote the views of corporations.

Dr. Lanka reminds us, “Those side effects which are noted on the instruction slips accompanying packages of Tamiflu are almost identical to the symptoms of serious influenza. Thus, on a large scale, medicines are now being stored which cause precisely the same symptoms as those which appear in an actual so-called influenza. If Tamiflu is administered to sick persons, then this is likely to cause far more serious symptoms than those of a serious influenza. If a pandemic is stated to exist, then many people will take this medicine at the same time. In that case we will actually have unequivocal symptoms of a Tamiflu epidemic. Then deaths caused by Tamiflu are to be expected, and this will then be presented as evidence of the dangerous nature of the bird (or now swine) flu.”

Obviously something exists down on that level of
reality. Protein bits, little junks of life, biological debris.

“We live with an uncountable number of retroviruses. They're everywhere -- and they probably have been here as long as the human race,” says Dr. Kary Mullis. Dr. Lanka adds, “It is being maintained that these short pieces of genetic material, which in the sense of genetics are not complete and which do not even suffice for defining a gene, together would make up the entire gene substance of an influenza virus.”

The viral story hit the mainstream when Harper Magazine (March 2006 issue) ran a 13-page article titled "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science," which focused much attention on Dr. Peter Duesberg, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading AIDS dissident.

The orthodox view of HIV as a direct killer of human immune
cells has been thrown out. How could HIV kill so many T cells if one
could not detect significant numbers of free HIV in a patient's blood?
Dr. Peter Duesberg

Dr. Deusberg insists that there is no proof that HIV causes AIDS, and he is in a position to know. There are many hefty scientists and medical people around the world who do not believe a word from the CDC on AIDS.4 Most people do not know that it is almost impossible to isolate live virus from AIDS patients; a crucial point that Duesberg has been making for almost twenty years. “Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is not the cause of AIDS because it fails to meet the postulates of Koch and Henle, as well as six cardinal rules of virology,” wrote Deusberg in HIV Is Not the Cause of AIDS.5

Some suggest that this flu is no natural phenomenon, that it was caused by man, either unintentionally, or was caused or exacerbated by conditions created by factory farms. Some people think it is a beta test for bioterrorism. We know it started exactly at the time of Obama’s visit to Mexico and it was reported that one of the people he met was one of the first to die.6 Only a week later we have a report that Air Force One was strafing Manhattan causing New Yorkers to panic but we are told it was just a photo opt. Is the media fanning a firestorm of panic and fear, or are they covering up a growing threat from another direction? We really don’t know but no matter what the truth it’s a good idea to practice effective and safe preventive medicine.

Almost all of us believe in the terror of viruses and buy into the fear the medical industrial complex insists we should have about them. If they say so it must be so. The simple fact that health officials are not warning us of the real danger to our health speaks miles about the trust we should put in them about their warning of viral infections.
Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
publications.imva.info

Special Note: Wesley Pruden, writing for the Washington Post said, “We were all supposed to be in the graveyard by now, done in by AIDS, SARS, bird flu, poisoned peanut butter, Hong Kong flu, killer tomatoes, global warming and strangulation by kudzu. But here we are, proof that there really is life after death.”

Even the Health Ranger Mike Adams wants us scared insisting that the health authorities are trying to “downplay the true danger of this fast-spreading virus. It seems that the decision makers at the WHO, along with Mexico's health authorities, are working hard to make swine flu appear less dangerous than it really is.” No one has told him yet that the fast spreading virus is not the real danger – it’s our total ignorance of what to do about the flu once we get it or what to do before we even get it. His staff writer on the subject recommends garlic among a host of other things, all of which are good ideas. Reading the essay though one can understand why he is worried because one can easily get confused when confronted with dozens of choices. When treating life threatening situations we need to know what to reach for first, second and third. We need to have our priorities straight.

My own mother asks me if I would give Tamiflu to my kids and tells me there is nothing we can do about the flu. She had an excuse though; she had not received my latest email being an AOL subscriber. No one in my family takes me seriously about anything when it comes to medicine. And I doubt if anyone in the official medical establishment is interested in solid medical advice, which is evident since they have none to give. Through all the hype and scare they are offering no legitimate treatment or prevention for the swine flu except:

Certain fascist swine are hoping to make lots of money from selling vaccines and drugs like Tamiflu.

Robert Slovak, President of Original Quinton of North America wrote me in response to my Emergency Natural Allopathic Medicine article yesterday, “Your "Swine Flu Treatments" was the only meaningful and feasible information on the subject so far with nothing close in sight. Even your peers seem to be lost and the medical establishment is spouting deceptive or incompetent mumbo-jumbo.”

Something is happening of that we can be sure but what it is we can only doubt.

I also heard today that Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the day following his meeting Obama in Mexico (mentioned above), from symptoms similar to flu, actually died of a heart attack, which we already learned is actually death by magnesium deficiency. If you doubt that please read my book Magnesium – The Ultimate Heart Medicine.

And finally reports, though being quickly snuffed out in the press, are saying there was no plane actually taking the pictures of the Air Force One photo opt making a scandal only New Yorkers want to talk about.

The Federal Reserve quickly printed money to pay for the flights so the costs were minimal being no more than ink and paper, no big deal. Today, if you are the federal government, you can buy anything in the world for cheap having the greatest counterfeit printing press in the universe. Universe is the right word since America has more debt in dollars (if you count unfunded entitlements, corporate and personal debt) then stars in all the known galaxies in the universe. Our own home galaxy only has 100 billion stars and the US federal government can now spend that in ten days.

Haven’t we gotten wise yet, or, learned anything about how this corrupt elite oligarchy works? They play on our psychological weaknesses like pawns on a chessboard.
And yes, I left out a long list of other medicinal agents that could be helpful though I did mention chicken soup.

Robert Slovac did remind me of the use of pure seawater as the perfect medicine for dehydration when used in the correct dosage. But when I hear about MMS (magical mineral supplement, which is sodium chlorite) or colloidal silver (which is thought to be helpful by many) I retreat to my Natural Allopathic Medicine, which champions medicinals that the body needs rather than substances that are alien to human physiology, as all pharmaceuticals are. I would always choose iodine over MMS and magnesium chloride and bicarbonate over silver though I am not against using these harsh substances when all else fails.

Dr.Devin A. Mikles, MD reminded me of some medical history, “Of the fifteen hundred cases reported at the Homeopathic Medical Society of the District of Columbia there were only fifteen deaths. Recoveries in the National Homeopathic Hospital were 100%. Of 1,000 cases of influenza treated with homeopathy reported by T. A. McCann, MD, Dayton, Ohio, there were no deaths. In the state of Ohio 24,000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a mortality rate of 28.2% while 26,000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a mortality rate of 1.05%. In Connecticut, 6,602 cases treated with homeopathy had a fatality rate of less than 1%. A physician [Roberts] on a troop ship during WWI, had 81 cases of flu on the voyage to Europe, and he reported that every man was treated successfully with homeopathy with no deaths.”

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1 J Miss State Med Assoc. 2008 Oct;49(10):295-8.
2 Chernow et al. in a study of postoperative ICU patients found that the death rate was reduced from 41% to 13% for patients without hypo-magnesemia (low magnesium levels). Other post heart surgery studies showed that patients with hypomagnesemia experienced more rhythm disorders. Time on the ventilator was longer, and morbidity was higher than for patients with normal magnesium levels. Another study showed that a greater than 10% reduction of serum and intracellular magnesium concentrations was associated with a higher rate of postoperative ventricular arrhythmias. The administration of magnesium decreases the frequency of postoperative rhythm disorders after cardiac surgery.
3 The pathologist challenging shaken baby syndrome
4 Through the years the CDC added new diseases to the grand AIDS definition. The CDC has virtually doctored the books to make it appear as if the disease continues to spread. In 1993, for example, the CDC enormously broadened its AIDS definition. This was happily accepted by county health authorities, who receive $2,500 from the feds per year under the Ryan White Act for every reported AIDS case.
5 Duesberg, Peter H.Science, Vol. 241, pp. 514-517, July 29, 1988: 1) HIV is in violation of Koch's first postulate because it is not possible to detect free virus (1, 2), provirus (3-5), or viral RNA (4, 6, 7) in all cases of AIDS. Indeed, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has established guidelines to diagnose AIDS when all laboratory evidence for HIV is negative (8).
2) In violation of Koch's second postulate, HIV cannot be isolated from 20 to 50% of AIDS cases (1, 9-11). Moreover, "isolation" is very indirect. It depends on activating dormant provirus in millions of susceptible cells propagated in vitro away from the suppressive immune system of the host.
3) In violation of Koch's third postulate, pure HIV does not reproduce AIDS when inoculated into chimpanzees or accidentally into healthy humans (9, 12, 13).
4) In contrast to all pathogenic viruses that cause degenerative diseases, HIV is not biochemically active in the disease syndrome it is named for (14). It actively infects only 1 in 104 to > 105 T cells (4, 6, 7, 15). Under these conditions, HIV cannot account for the loss of T cells, the hallmark of AIDS, even if all infected cells died. This is because during the 2 days it takes HIV to replicate, the body regenerates about 5% of its T cells (16), more than enough to compensate for losses due to HIV.
5) It is paradoxical that HIV is said to cause AIDS only after the onset of antiviral immunity, detected by a positive "AIDS test," because all other viruses are most pathogenic before immunity. The immunity against HIV is so effective that free virus is undetectable (see point 1), which is why HIV is so hard to transmit (9, 12, 13). The virus would be a plausible cause of AIDS if it were reactivated after an asymptomatic latency, like herpes viruses. However, HIV remains inactive during AIDS. Thus the "AIDS test" identifies effective natural vaccination, the ultimate protection against viral disease.
6) The long and highly variable intervals between the onset of antiviral immunity and AIDS, averaging 8 years, are bizarre for a virus that replicates within 1 to 2 days in tissue culture and induces antiviral immunity within 1 to 2 months after an acute infection (9, 17). Since all genes of HIV are active during replication, AIDS should occur early when HIV is active, not later when it is dormant. Indeed, HIV can cause a mononucleosis-like disease during the acute infection, perhaps its only pathogenic potential (9, 17).
7) Retroviruses are typically not cytocidal. On the contrary, they often promote cell growth. Therefore, they were long considered the most plausible viral carcinogens (9). Yet HIV, a retrovirus, is said to behave like a cytocidal virus, causing degenerative disease killing billions of T cells (15, 18). This is said even though T cells grown in culture, which produce much more virus than has ever been observed in AIDS patients, continue to divide (9, 10, 18).
8) It is paradoxical for a virus to have a country-specific host range and a risk group-specific pathology. In the United States, 92% of AIDS patients are male (19), but in Africa AIDS is equally distributed between the sexes, although the virus is thought to have existed in Africa not much longer than in the United States (20). In the United States, the virus is said to cause Kaposi's sarcoma only in homosexuals, mostly Pneumocystis pneumonia in hemophiliacs, and frequently cytomegalovirus disease in children (21). In Africa the same virus is thought to cause slim disease, fever, and diarrhea almost exclusively (22, 23).
9) It is now claimed that at least two viruses, HIV-1 and HIV-2, are capable of causing AIDS, which allegedly first appeared on this planet only a few years ago (20). HIV-1 and HIV-2 differ about 60% in their nucleic acid sequences (24). Since viruses are products of gradual evolution, the proposition that within a few years two viruses capable of causing AIDS could have evolved is highly improbable (25).
6 The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obama’s trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu
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Swine-flu outbreak could be linked to Smithfield factory farms

. . .

Smithfield operates massive hog-raising operations Perote, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz, where the outbreak originated. The operations, grouped under a Smithfield subsidiary called Granjas Carroll, raise 950,000 hogs per year, according to the company Web site.

On Friday, the U.S. disease-tracking blog Biosurveillance published a timeline of the outbreak containing this nugget, dated April 6 (major tip of the hat to Paula Hay, who alerted me to the Smithfield link on the Comfood listserv and has written about it on her blog, Peak Oil Entrepreneur):

Residents [of Perote] believed the outbreak had been caused by contamination from pig breeding farms located in the area. They believed that the farms, operated by Granjas Carroll, polluted the atmosphere and local water bodies, which in turn led to the disease outbreak. According to residents, the company denied responsibility for the outbreak and attributed the cases to “flu.” However, a municipal health official stated that preliminary investigations indicated that the disease vector was a type of fly that reproduces in pig waste and that the outbreak was linked to the pig farms. It was unclear whether health officials had identified a suspected pathogen responsible for this outbreak.

Read the article Here

The Mexico swine flu outbreak should alert us to a highly globalised industry with global political clout

What about this Flu everyone is talking about

Swine Flu in Mexico: The "New" Bird Flu

by: Sherri Tenpenny, D.O.

In the fine print of the Division-E legislation, (available for download at www.drtenpenny.com so you can read it for yourself), there is a suggestion that a massive, bioterrorist vaccination program could be "voluntary."

Will the media make everyone aware of the one-line provision that potentially gives us the right to refuse?

Will government mandates override State exemption laws? The future is unclear but this has been suggested. Your personal rights in this area are growing very thin and activism has never been more important.

April 27, 2009

　We knew this was coming. Even though the bird flu hype was removed years ago from the nightly news, planning for the global pandemic and the development of pandemic flu vaccines has continued with little notice. Our government has instructed FEMA, made checklists for Homeland Security, given action plans to State and local authorities. These plans include methods and drills for global inoculation with a vaccine that will no doubt have the same deadly consequences as the Swine Flu vaccine in 1976.

My book, FOWL!, published in 2006, foretold the events that are now happening in Mexico. Reported death rates are skyrocketing, from 20 to 60 to 86, in a matter of hours. More than 1,300 others have supposedly become ill with "suspected" cases of the infection and reports are coming in from various States and Canada of swine flu. There are no sources or references given with these numbers; we have to take the word of CNN. A short look back at plans that were put in place several years ago will confirm this is not a spontaneous eruption and the solution – global vaccination – has been in the works for quite some time.

History Repeating

Even though April 30, 1975 marked the end of the U.S. presence in Vietnam, young men across the country continued to sign up for the all-volunteer army. Just after the Christmas holiday in 1975, thousands of enthusiastic new army recruits reported to the barracks at Fort Dix, New Jersey, to begin basic training. However, by mid-January, many were complaining of flulike symptoms; a few had even been hospitalized.

One recruit reported to his drill instructor that he felt tired and weak. Given the option to rest, he opted instead to participate in a five-mile training march on a cold February night. Twenty-four hours later, on February 6, 1975, the 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Ashley Falls, Massachusetts, was dead. Word arrived the following week from the CDC laboratory that his death was caused by an unusual influenza type A virus. Particularly worrisome was that four other samples taken from ill recruits at Fort Dix had also tested positive for influenza A virus—a type that had previously been detected only in pigs.

Within three weeks of Lewis’ death – the only person ever confirmed to have died from swine flu on the entire military base – researchers and public health officials converged in Washington to persuade members of Congress to implement a costly new program to vaccinate the country. A nationwide campaign, launched with the urgency of a five-alarm fire, was started by the CDC which ramped up the vaccine production with millions of government dollars allocated to develop of a novel vaccine for mass vaccination.

The same five-alarm fire is happening today. This morning, April 26, 2009, the federal government declared a public health emergency, as the number of cases of swine flu in the U.S. rises to a mere 20, announcing the arrival of the long-planned for and awaited pandemic.

Big Pharma Protected!

In 1976, the Federal Insurance Company advised Merck that all liability, indemnity, and defense costs associated with claims arising from the new swine flu vaccine would not be covered by its insurance plan. Having absorbed the embarrassment and the economic losses caused by the polio vaccine in 1955, the pharmaceutical industry and their insurance providers were determined that would not happen again.

This time, there are no worries. Drug companies have completely covered their tracks, and when reports of adverse event and deaths from the new swine flu vaccine start to roll in, they will be smiling all the way to the bank.

Flu shots were added to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Table in 2003, meaning, if anyone is injured, a claim needs to be filed through the Federal Court of Claims and it will be years before it is adjudicated. And that is just the basic layer of protection. All the drug companies have to do is whisper that this may be a "terrorist attack" and they are home free.. . . .

$ $ $

The swine flu outbreak is going to benefit one of the most prolific and successful venture capital firms in the United States: Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Share prices have already risen for two of eight public traded companies in the firm's portfolio of Pandemic and Bio Defense investments. BioCryst, up more than 26 percent, to $2.21 per share, and Novavax, maker of viral vaccines, escalated 75 percent to $1.42 per share on the first announcement of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico. . . . .

The Division-E provisions would protect the company from all liability!

Before he was voted out of office in 2006, then-senator Bill Frist (R-TN), a physician, drove through a bill that gave drug companies more immunity than any bill ever passed by Congress. The legislation, referred to as "Division-E" was tacked on to a Defense appropriations bill in the final minutes of the Congressional sessions before the Christmas recess.

Staying Healthy

Certainly, keeping yourself healthy and protected from all types of flu strains is a priority, now more than ever. Here are some suggestions:

Good hydration with alkaline water

If you don’t have access to an alkaline water machine, be sure to eat large amounts of alkalinizing, fresh vegetables and fruits such as broccoli, carrots, sprouts, avocados and berries. Here is a site with a great list: http://athma-pure.com/alkaline.aspx

Sleep

Get at least 8.5 hours per night, every night. Sleep is often overlooked at the key to health. This is simple to do and best of all, it is free.

Vitamin D

Much has been written on the importance of adequate vitamin D for resisting viral infections. Have your blood tested for 25-OH-vitamin D. Your doctor can order it or you can order it yourself through sites such as www.directlabs.com and www.labsafe.com. Your vitamin D level should be at least 50 ng/ml. It is safe to take at least 2000 IU of vitamin D3 per day. With summer coming, you can get your dose of D naturally from sunshine.

Vitamin C

Humans don’t store vitamin C and under stress, much more is required. Vitamin C is important for fighting viral infections. Take in at least 2000 mg/day for overall immune health.

Vitamin A

This vitamin is one of the best supporters you can have in your cabinet. Mycel A drops given in juice are easy to take for children and adults of all ages. By taking 5,000 IU/day for 5 days is safe for everyone and will give your immune system a protective boost against all types of viral infections.

While these suggestions are not meant to be all encompassing, these some simple solutions for you and your family.

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The Fluoride Deception

The Fluoride Deception: How a Nuclear Waste Byproduct Made Its Way Into the Nation’s Drinking Water

Journalist Christopher Bryson claims in his new book “The Fluoride Deception” that the post-war campaign to fluoridate drinking water was less a public health innovation than a public relations ploy sponsored by industrial users of fluoride–including the government’s nuclear weapons program.

Hailed as a harmless chemical that would prevent tooth decay, new evidence shows how fluoride could be linked to serious health problems.

Fluoridation was first advanced in the US at the end of the second World War. Proponents argued that fluoride in water and toothpaste would help to protect teeth and prevent decay. Over the following decades, fluoride was added to public water supplies across the country.

While the benefits of fluoridation have been held to be unquestionable, accumulating evidence points to a frightening prospect: that fluoride may have serious adverse health effects, including infant mortality, congenital defects and IQ.

Now a new book, titled “The Fluoride Deception” by Christopher Bryson examines the background of the fluoridation debate. According to Bryson, research challenging fluoride’s safety was either suppressed or not conducted in the first place. He says fluoridation is a triumph not of medical science but of US government spin . . . read the Democracy Now interview of Bryson by Amy Goodman.
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"The plain fact that fluorine is an insidious poison, harmful, toxic and cumulative in its effects, even when ingested in minimal amounts, will remain unchanged no matter how many times it will be repeated in print that fluoridation of the water supply is 'safe'." Ludwig Gross, M.D., former Chief of Veterans Administration Cancer Research, Bronx, NY.

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Canada Bans Plastic Bottles

By Ian Austin . . . . . . Published: April 18, 2008

OTTAWA — The Canadian government moved Friday to ban polycarbonate infant bottles as it officially declared one of their chemical ingredients toxic.
. . . . In Washington on Friday, Senator Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat from New York, said in a statement that he intended to introduce a bill that would create a widespread ban on B.P.A.-related plastics. It would prohibit their use in all children’s products as well as any product use to carry food or beverages for adults.
read the rest of the NYT article

"Project Green: The Chemicals Within"
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The World According to Monsanto -

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:47:00

The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see
watch videos
By Siv O'Neall
(Axis of Logic) -- The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years. The endless list of genetically modified seeds sold and controlled by Monsanto are putting at enormous risk age-old agricultural patterns under the presumptuous slogan of aiming at solving the huge problem of hunger in the world.

. . .The gospel according to Monsanto is that their patented GM seeds and their bovine growth hormone (BGH) will increase worldwide production of agricultural, dairy and meat products and Bt cotton to the extent that worldwide hunger and poverty will be eradicated.

The actual truth is rather the opposite. GMOs are creating serious damage all over the world and artificial BGH injection in cows cause numerous health problems, and even death.

other videos on Monsanto

Synergistic & Cumulative Effects of Toxins

The Message (question) in the Bottle is finally being discussed!

Finally, 10 years after I asked a scientist at a Risk Assessment* Seminar while discussing the chemical and nuclear contamination generated by weapons manufacturing at Los Alamos National Lab in Northern New Mexico, why these contaminants weren't looked at for their synergistic and cumulative effects. I was told by a scientist that they couldn't do that kind of science yet, maybe in 10 years!

Well it's FINALLY being discussed I recently learned, since January 2005 by the EPA itself! Has this science been suppressed for all these years? Yes, there are incredible amounts of variables that must be considered. The basic issue is that a multitude of toxins continue to be dumped into our air and water. We know they are detrimental to life. Let's turn off the toxic faucet, and then investigate.

Simple common sense tells us we are creating great harm to all life forms on our beautiful Earth by releasing toxic contaminants into our environment.
*and just who decides how much risk should be assessed, what an acceptable risk - acceptable to whom??

The following article is from Environmental Health Perspectives

Neurology
Triple Threat Activates Neurons

Scientists from the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, have reported on a potentially sinister synergy, showing that a combination of three common pollutants--bromoform, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene--alters nerve cell development, whereas the toxicants alone or in pairs do not. The discovery is an intriguing first step toward understanding whether this trio of pollutants is linked to neurological disorders such as autism.




Carol Reinisch, an expert in chemical-induced neurotoxicity, had read in the scientific literature about the contamination of municipal drinking water in Brick Township, New Jersey, and its possible connection to higher autism rates in local children. Chemical wastes dumped at the town's landfill over the years had contaminated nearby wells with bromoform, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene, and in 1983, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared the landfill a Superfund site. In the 1990s, autism rates in the town started rising, and researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry began to investigate in 1998. Although the incidence of autism was twice the national average, the federal scientists concluded in 2000 that the levels of individual well water contaminants were too low to adversely impact children's health.

Reinisch wondered whether the synergistic effect of the chemicals would tell a different story. Her lab was already using a surf clam (Spisula solidissima) embryo model to assess how polychlorinated biphenyls affect embryonic neuronal development. The transparency of the embryos and the fact that most basic molecular processes involved in early development are conserved across species make the surf clam a good model for such studies. She and her colleagues began studying the three well-water contaminants in combination.

When tested alone or in pairs, the toxicants produced no significant changes, even at levels 1,000 times those in the mixture. But the trio acted synergistically to upregulate a regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase, a ubiquitous protein involved in neurologic pathways and a key regulator of neuronal growth in the clam embryo model. The clam embryos also showed increased cilia movement. The study appears in the January 2005 issue of Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology.

"The fact that several events are speeded up is abnormal," says Reinisch. Coauthor Jill Kreiling, a developmental biologist, adds, "We found something unusual going on neurologically, but we cannot say this is causing autism."

Now the team is testing the mixture in zebrafish embryos, and their preliminary results parallel those for clam embryos. They hope others will undertake experiments in mice, rats, and higher mammals in order to confirm the association.

Studying mixtures of toxicants yields a more accurate picture of how contaminants work in the environment. "Most risk assessments look at single chemicals acting on single target organs with single outcomes, but that's not the way [exposures] work in nature," says Nigel Fields, a research program manager at the Environmental Protection Agency, which funded Reinisch's project.

Carol Potera
Environmental Health Perspectives
please read this as well
Assessing Cumulative Health Risks

Perchlorate in Tap Water

Gov't Study Shows Millions of Two-Year Olds Exposed To Dangerous Levels of Rocket Fuel Through Food and Water

EPA Must Set a Safety Standard for Perchlorate in Tap Water to Protect Children

Vegan Food Guide

Beware of Fluoride!

Fluoride is a hazardous waste by-product of the nuclear and aluminum industries.

An article in Scientific American states:

Researchers are intensifying their scrutiny of fluoride,
which is added to most public water systems in the U.S.
Some recent studies suggest that overconsumption of fluoride
can raise the risks of disorders affecting teeth, bones,
the brain and the thyroid gland.

So when I came across an article stating that the "ADA endorses fluoridated bottled water" I kept reading out of deep concern.

Having done some research on the ways of the FDA & the ADA, I know they don't always seem to be on the side of health for some strange reason . . . hmmm follow the money, as 'they' say.


ADA - American Dental Association is endorsing the inclusion of fluoride in bottled water! (There's also the issue of plastic bottles.)

Children should have pure water.

"Smile Healthy" certificates will be appearing this spring on one-gallon containers of "Kid Pure" fluoridated water bottled by Water Source One.

So when you see the "Smile Healthy" certificate, you may want to think twice - or run the other way~

Dr. Bob Martin is here in Hawai'i

When I was recuperating from a bad accident I lived in Arizona with my mom. I listened to the wisdom of Dr. Bob Martin every Saturday morning.

Dr. Bob is not a Big-Pharma pill-pushing doctor, which today, too many doctors unfortunately are.

Recently my mom who takes no drugs, is 84, and is extremely healthy went to the dr. because of her arthritis - She called me to ask me to look up the drug he wanted to inject - Reclasp. Whoa!
very nasty, but the good ol' FDA recently approved it, so drs. are pushing it. Don't take it! nor Boniva or Fosmax - all BAD news~ Dr. Bob recommends non toxic Prolo-therapy.

STOP Mandatory Vaccines - Boys Join the Target Market

Also Read: Death toll linked to Gardasil vaccine rises - Complications include shock, 'foaming at the mount.' convelsions, coma.

By Rob Stein

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 26, 2009

When a Merck & Co. vaccine designed to protect girls against a sexually transmitted virus arrived three years ago, the debate centered on one question: Would the shots make young girls more likely to have sex?

[The wrong questions were asked. First you ask IS IT SAFE?!?!?]

Now the vaccine's maker is trying to get approval to sell the vaccine for boys, and the debate is focusing on something else entirely: Is it worth the money, and is it safe and effective enough?

"We are still more worried about the promiscuity of girls than the promiscuity of boys," said Susan M. Reverby, a professor of women's studies and medical history at Wellesley College. "There's still that double standard."

The shift in the discussion about Gardasil (Bad Medicine?) illustrates the complex interplay of political, economic, scientific, regulatory and social factors that increasingly influence decisions about new types of medical care. For the vaccine, the new dynamic reflects a strategic tack by Gardasil's critics, growing concern about health-care costs, fears about whether medical treatments are being vetted adequately and stubborn biases about gender, experts say.

"There is the cost, the safety, the boys versus girls," said Susan F. Wood, a professor of public health at George Washington University. "These are some of the complexities that are going to have to be addressed one way or the other with this vaccine."

Gardasil protects against the human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted infection. HPV causes genital warts and, in women, can lead to cervical cancer -- a disease that strikes about 10,000 American women a year and kills about 3,700.

For males, the vaccine is aimed at protecting against genital warts and less common malignancies that HPV can cause, such as penile and anal cancer, as well as cancer of the mouth and throat. The virus causes at least 250,000 new cases of genital warts and an estimated 7,500 cancers in males each year, causing perhaps about 1,000 deaths. Vaccinating boys and men would also help prevent the spread of the virus to their sexual partners.

"By vaccinating men as well as women, you reduce the amount of virus that is out there that can be transmitted back and forth," said Richard M. Haupt, who leads the HPV vaccine program at Merck & Co., which makes Gardasil. "Hopefully there will be a benefit not only to men themselves, but to their partners and future partners."

After the Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine in 2006 for girls as young as 9, medical authorities recommended that they receive it at age 11 or 12 to protect them before they start having sex. Critics worried that vaccinating children would send a subtle signal that their parents assumed they would become sexually active and that it would give youngsters a false sense of security.

Merck also began an ambitious marketing campaign and lobbying push to persuade states to add the vaccine to the list of those required for children to attend school. But the company eventually abandoned the strategy in the face of an intense backlash from critics who argued that the decision should be left to parents. Although many states considered such mandates, so far only Virginia and the District have imposed one, and Haupt said the company has no plans to pursue that strategy again.

But in December, Merck asked the FDA to approve the vaccine for males ages 9 to 26, and in February it presented the results of a large study that tested the vaccine in men to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, in the hopes of winning the panel's endorsement. The committee's recommendations influence which vaccines schools require and whether private insurance companies and state programs will pay.

"There would be a tremendous public health benefit to vaccine 11- and 12-year-olds, both boys and girls," Haupt said.

The Merck study, involving more than 4,000 boys and men ages 16 to 23, showed that the vaccine is about 90 percent effective in preventing infection with four HPV types, as well as genital warts and precancerous lesions, Haupt said.

In preparation for a vote as soon as October, the CDC committee will meet again in June to consider cost-benefit analyses underway at the CDC and elsewhere. The relatively pricey vaccine costs about $500 for three shots and the associated office visits.

"The cost-effectiveness data will be looked at very carefully," said Lauri Markowitz, who leads the HPV vaccine work group for the CDC. "There is increased interest in taking cost-effectiveness into consideration when considering prevention efforts."

The American Academy of Pediatrics will also consider cost-effectiveness in deciding whether to endorse Gardasil for boys.

Some question that focus.

"The cost-effectiveness studies are really important, but I don't think they should be the sole driver of public health policy," said Gregory D. Zimet, a professor of pediatrics and psychology at Indiana University. "This is a vaccine that principally benefits women's health. I wonder if it was the reverse, and there was a vaccine for women that helped prevent prostate cancer in men, this would be as much of an issue."

Groups that initially were critical when Gardasil was introduced for girls say they now want to make sure the decision is left up to parents.

"We do not oppose the development or distribution of the vaccine," said Peter S. Sprigg of the Family Research Council. "The only concern we have is about proposals to make vaccination mandatory for school attendance. It's a parental rights issue."

Little research has been done on parents' attitudes about vaccinating their sons, but several experts said it would probably be a harder sell.

"For girls, you can go right to protection against cervical cancer. That's a powerful argument," said Zimet, who is studying the issue as part of his own research and in studies sponsored by Merck. "For boys, you have to make several arguments. Part of it is an altruistic argument. I think it's persuasive, but it's more complex."

Debbie Stein of Bethesda, whose 15-year-old daughter, Sara, was vaccinated, thinks she would agree to have her 11-year-old son, Ben, get the shots if his pediatrician recommended them.

"My feeling is it's a serious virus that causes cancer, and there's no reason not to vaccinate him," Stein said. "I think it will protect him and protect his wife in the future. I don't want to see him when he's 35 or 40 have a wife die of cancer."

But Agustin Zamora, who lives in the District, worries that Gardasil has not been studied enough to know that it is safe and effective for his 9-year-old son, Marco, and his twin 2-year-olds, Antonio and Joaquin.

"It's sort of like doing an experiment on people," Zamora said. "This is something you're giving to a lot of children. You need many years of study."

Federal health officials, Merck and others say they are confident that the vaccine is safe. But some experts said they are concerned that there is insufficient evidence about how long Gardasil's protection will last, whether serious side effects will emerge and whether the relatively modest benefits for boys are worth even the small risks associated with any vaccine.

"There are lots of things about this vaccine we do not know yet," said Karen K. Smith-McCune of the University of California at San Francisco. "I just want to be the voice in the room saying, 'What's the rush to vaccinate in the absence of the best available data?' "

Some also question whether the reduction in infections will mean fewer cancers in the future.

"There's probably enough data to say it probably is effective for the prevention of genital warts. They're not fun, but they're not at the same level as cancer or lethal infectious diseases," said Diane M. Harper, a professor of medicine at the University of Missouri at Kansas City who helped study the vaccine in women for Merck. "This may not be the best use of our resources at this time."

Bells Tolling for the Swine Flu

Following is a 16-page paper written by Teresa Forcades, a physician specializing in internal medicine with a PhD in Public Health from the University of Barcelona. She took her specialization in the United States at the State University of New York.

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Bells Tolling for the Swine Flu

An interview with Teresa Forcades
Monastery of Sant Benet
Montserrat – Barcelona
9/23/2009

My name is Teresa Forcades I Vila. I’m a Benedictine nun at Sant Benet of Montserrat’s monastery. Before joining the monastery, I practiced medicine for several years.

I’m a physician specializing in internal medicine and I have a PhD in Public Health from the University of Barcelona. I took my specialization in the United States at the State University of New York.

What we call swine flu (A), is also called in Catalonia, “the new flu.” This term may lead some people to believe that the “A” type flu virus is a new virus. Well, this isn’t a new type of virus ‐ “A” type viruses are part of the yearly common flu, the seasonal flu.

Regarding flu viruses, we have – maybe everyone’s aware of this, but I always start with the basics – A, B and C type of viruses. These are the known flu viruses affecting humans, but because the “C” virus only normally affects a smaller proportion of the population, it’s not used for the manufacturing of the yearly vaccines.

Therefore, every year, the seasonal flu vaccine is a mixture of “A” and “B” type virus, and so, the so‐called “new flu “ or swine flu is not new because it’s an “A” type of virus. But some would argue that it’s new because of the antigens of the A‐H1N1 virus, hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N), are surface proteins that could appear to give it a novel nature.

Well, this isn’t the case.

It must be said that these proteins are not providing a novelty nature to this virus because this same group, A‐H1N1, was the same flu virus group that in 1918 caused the terrible pandemic that killed more than 20 million people worldwide. It was this same type of virus and it existed amongst the population until around the mid 50s. In 1957, it seemed to disappear from what is now known as seasonal flu viruses and reappears in the year 1977.

This can be looked up by any physician or anyone in The New England Journal of Medicine, where last month, an article was published about the history of the flu viruses and I quote The New England Journal of Medicine as it’s the most well‐known and respected medical journal. The article confirms as fact that this virus reappeared (the A‐H1N1 virus) in 1977 because it had been resynthesized in a lab.

I say resynthesized but it seems that what happened was that they went to exhume the body of an Inuit, an Eskimo woman who died from this flu in 1918. As her body had remained under the ice, it was possible to recover from the tissues the necessary elements to reproduce, or to resynthesize this virus.

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To recap, this happened in 1977 and according to The New England Journal of Medicine, this is an established fact.

From 1977, we then had the A‐H1N flu virus as being part of the pool or mixture of the seasonal flu viruses. Well, what is new then this year?

The novelty is the viral strain (S‐OIV). This year’s viral strain (S‐OIV) is a strain unknown until now. And it’s this new strain which was first diagnosed on April, 17 (2009). It seems that’s the origin of the first diagnosis, of the two cases in California. These are the first cases on record when we first heard about the new virus.

Therefore, the novelty is just the strain (S‐OIV).

This is the first scientific fact. The second important scientific fact to bear in mind is that since it began on April 17th until September 15th, which is when I last read the statistics, the figures recorded – now, I’m quoting this figure by heart so it may not be exact but I won’t be so far off – are 137 deaths (TC: 137 in Europe, 3.559 deaths worldwide), having already gone through the south hemisphere countries, through what’s called Austral Winter with this new virus, and having had a lower mortality rate than usual during this period.

The numbers, as I say are by heart, from April 17th to September 15th, 137 deaths in Europe and 3,559 deaths worldwide (TC), but I won’t be wrong by too far. And I quote them because it’s important to do so. There have been a lot of declarations, but I’ll quote one by a member of the National Medical Ethics Committee of France, whose name is J. Dupre. Or for instance another by the President of the General Spanish Medical Associations, Rodriguez Sendin.

Both prestigious doctors have confirmed that based on the scientific data that we have at hand, this new virus has a lower mortality rate than the common flu or than common seasonal viruses. I’ll end this scientific part with an important note, an important piece of data fully accredited on medical literature that says that it seems that people older than 60, have already a 33% of immunity against this new virus. These are important objective facts to take into account before getting into an in‐depth assessment.

Next, I’ll mention two irregularities that have taken place in the way, or the consequences so far of the discovery of this virus relatively new strain. The irregularities remain, to my understanding and to the understanding of any objective observer; they’ve remained unclarified, and they’re too serious to remain unclarified.

Firstly, the investigative journalist Jane Burgermeister, (TC: she pressed bioterrorism and mass murder attempt charges against the WHO, the UN, and some CEOs of governments and companies) born in Switzerland, with Austrian and Irish citizenship, heard about what I’m about to tell you now, and she was the one who made the information available. Anyone can verify that the information that I’m going to disclose is accurate and objective.

What happened?

At the end of January 2009, before this new flu was discovered, Baxter Pharmaceuticals, a US company with a very important subsidiary company in Austria, proceeded to distribute from the Austrian subsidiary via neighboring European countries – the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany – to 16

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different laboratories, vaccination material for the flu, which was material for the vaccine to be
administered between February and March to the population of those countries for the seasonal flu virus vaccine. This material weighed 72 kg. Well, I haven’t calculated the exact number of doses but it certainly means thousands and thousands of doses.

So this was distributed, and here comes the point when through one of those life’s coincidences,
situations or plans are revealed that otherwise would have remained in the dark.

The Czech company Bio Test was one of the recipients of this material. One of their lab technicians decided, through his own initiative and as something he was qualified to do but not obliged, to carry out an extra security test with the vaccination material that they received before proceeding to its distribution.

So, before the distribution of this vaccine, what this lab technician did was to inoculate this vaccine to animals called in Spanish comadrejas or hurones – weasels or ferrets, small mammals that have been used since 1918 to test flu vaccines.

He inoculated these weasels and all of them died.

When he observed these unexpected deaths, and given that the inoculated vaccine shouldn’t have caused the death of the weasels, he immediately raised the alarm and they began checks to establish what this material received from Baxter contained because if its contents was for a vaccine, then the death of all the animals was inexplicable.

The results of the analysis showed that in the material delivered by Baxter to those 106 laboratories, two live viruses coexisted.

One was the bird flu virus – the bird flu virus is the virus that appeared in 2005, and that caused a high mortality rate but infected just a few people. The number of deaths worldwide, and I quote by heart, was around 250 but as far as we know, around 60% of those infected died. This means that if 250 died worldwide just around 600 got infected, whichever the exact number is, the mortality rate of this virus is very high, but its infection rate is minimal.

This virus was mixed with a seasonal flu virus that, as we all know, has an extremely low mortality rate, it means lower than, 0,01%, lower than 1% of mortality at any rate but with a high degree of transmission. Well, it’s highly contagious, with a high infection rate.

If you mix these two viruses and then you distribute it to thousands of people, what you’re doing is you’re maximizing the probabilities for these 2 viruses to merge, for them to recombine, and for a new virus to appear to be both very lethal and very infectious.

This is a fact and this has been admitted by Baxter.

They haven’t said “No, this is not true. This is just what by Jane Burgermeister says or whoever, but this material wasn’t there.” This has been officially admitted by Baxter, (TC: They have admitted that the contamination took place but not that the material was designed for human use.

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Claiming protection behind the confidentiality rights, they haven’t disclosed information about its destination, and that the total 72 kg of the material contained a mix of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses. This is a fact.

Could this have happened by chance?

The first thing that must be said is that it is extremely unlikely. And I say this simply because in science the word impossible is something we never say.

What does extremely unlikely mean?

It means that laboratories handling this kind of viruses have Bio Security Levels in place. The Bio Security Level 3 is the highest. And the one that must be applied to this laboratory, it means that if we talk in a scientific context about probability, based on known facts, the probability that this may have happened by chance is extremely low.

Not only this, how can we explain the mixing of two different live viruses?

But also because, the flu vaccines, as we all know, are vaccines made with attenuated viruses. This means that it’s perfectly normal for the flu vaccine to contain live virus; this is not an exception. But attenuated means that the virus must go through a radiation procedure.

These viruses found in the Czech Republic in the whole Baxter material hadn’t been attenuated.
Therefore the odds of it happening by chance, well…

That’s why I say that, scientifically or simply from a humanly prudent standpoint, we can’t say that it’s 100% impossible but, let’s be clear – it’s important to let it be known how unlikely it is for an accident to occur under these circumstances. In any case, this has happened and it’s under investigation.

This journalist, Burgermeister, has pressed charges, not only against Baxter, but also against the WHO. She has also pressed charges against governments of important countries because it seems that with the information at hand, it’s more probable to think in terms of malicious intent, and this is what she denounces rather than think that there have been a series of chance events almost impossible to conceive.

But, and I insist, it’s very important to separate objective facts from those which haven’t been proven yet. I think that the good thing about this video, about this information that we are facilitating, is that it may reach the wider public – the more people the better – and for it to reach those who are unaware about the existence of plans from a world elite that wants part of the population to disappear or even much of the population, that when hearing all this say “But… where’s all this coming from? This is science fiction, I’ve never heard about this.”

I know that there are people who have been studying this for a while but I would wish that my message reaches someone who says, “Look I don’t know anything about that stuff, but I’ve just heard that there was a laboratory that delivered a contaminated vaccine and that, interestingly… (I haven’t mentioned this but it’s a fact) it’s one of the laboratories in charge of making flu vaccines this year.”

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Well, this fact alone makes it justifiable to myself to think that until such time as an explanation is given about why this contamination took place, I won’t wish it on me, on my child, nor on anyone close to me. I don’t know if I’ve been clear enough about this point. Because I think it’s important to make it clear.

I’d like to get to the second irregularity, because there’s a second one even more scandalous than the first one. The second irregularity happened as follows:

What I’ve just said about Baxter happened in February, I’ve also said that in April 17th we had the first diagnosis of the new flu.

Well then, in April 29th, twelve days after those two first cases were discovered, WHO Director‐General Dr. Margaret Chan (the World Health Organization depends on the United Nations) made a public appearance and announced a Level 5 worldwide state of alert for the prevention of a pandemic.

What does this mean?

Level 5 is quite a high level, after 5 there is only Level 6 left. Level 6 means the pandemic is already happening.

What does a pandemic mean? So how could, we may ask, Dr. Chan and the whole World Health
Organization, how could they declare a pandemic? Because well, I haven’t mentioned this but, on April 29, they say Level 5, and one month and a half later, just one month after the appearance of the first cases, on April 17th, so now I’m talking about June 11th.

On June 11th Dr. Margaret Chan announces Level 6 (On 11/06/09, the WHO declares a Level 6 Pandemic, the maximum level of health alert). We then have a global pandemic of the A‐H1N1 flu virus. This global pandemic has already been declared form June 11th.

How could WHO declare a pandemic, taking into account that this virus has a mortality rate lower than the yearly virus?

Then, isn’t there a pandemic every year, if the yearly virus is a worse than this new virus?

How come we don’t declare a pandemic every year?

Well, it’s quite simple. The answer is that this year, in the month of May, the WHO changed the
definition of pandemic from its then current definition of an infection to “infectious agents
simultaneously present in different countries at the same time and with significant mortality ratio to the proportion of infected population,” removing from the definition the mortality characteristics.

Therefore, the new definition went to describe pandemic as a simultaneous infection present in various countries and carrying an infectious agent showing any novel characteristic, thus leaving us unable to know the type of immunity present within the population.

With this new definition – and it’s a definition I’m quoting from the British Medical Journal – I insist that all this information that I’m giving doesn’t come from the alternative press, for whom I have great respect, but I think it’s important to know that all this information comes from the most prestigious

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magazines and absolutely “mainstream,” as they say in English, free from any possible suspicion of tendentiousness anyway.

So this amended definition, is from May this year, if the mortality requirement disappears from the definition of pandemic, as I said, then we should ask ourselves, ”Well, what prevents the annual common flu from being declared a pandemic?”

And the answer is that, with this definition in place, nothing prevents it.

With this definition, what we are seeing now, with this investment… and I’ll now get into the political consequences, which is in fact where I wanted to get to.

All that is happening now that seems to be justifiable because of its exceptional nature, under the new definition; it wouldn’t present anything exceptional about it. So this would be the situation year after year, and this is just with the flu, not to mention other diseases with the same characteristics…

One may say, “Wait a minute. Isn’t it true that this virus is less infections, sorry… less lethal, that it presents a lower mortality rate than the annual seasonal virus?” And this fact can be read everywhere, everybody says so.

Even our minister (Health MP) here, they admit this is the case. Well, if this is the case, how can it be that a pandemic has been declared, bearing in mind the serious political consequences which we’ll talk about now.

So this is simply what I’m putting together. Perhaps the new piece of information that I’m giving is this (and I insist it’s from the British Medical Journal): that the definition of pandemic has changed, but this can be seen by anyone by asking WHO to send you the pandemic definitions for 2008 and 2009, and there you can see that this change has been made.

It can also be seen on their website, etc. In the document that I’m disseminating, I also quote an article from an American journal, where they explain that after visiting the WHO website, they commented “Listen, here it says that high mortality is a prerequisite for a pandemic and here nobody dies.”

They told them, “Wait a minute… ” and they changed the definition on the web.

This article has been quoted and taken from CNN, which is not a source under suspicion in this sense. Therefore, the WHO irregularity seems even more serious to me, because it’s equally objective, clear and easy to verify, and it brings us closer to the possible real consequences.

So it’s not just about elaborating on the possible intention or who did what, as you’ve seen I’ve stopped there, because I like to distinguish between what I can prove from what I cannot – about what it’s already happening now because of this definition.

To end this part of the irregularities, in the US, due to the June 11 pandemic declaration, because of the new virus, this same month, the US declares Public Health National Emergency (TC: in April, 26/04/09) which also carries political consequences. And this emergency declaration was made possible in the USA having at the time, in the month of April, just 20 cases of infection and 0 deaths.

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With 20 cases of people infected and all of them documented – I won’t get into the documentation as I don’t wish to drag on – but it’s also important to know that the documentation is not so reliable, it’s not so simple and it’s also not being carried out now.

It was in June or July, when WHO said to stop verifying with lab tests who had swine flu or not. In the UK, for instance, they do it through a phone consultation where the person reports the flu symptoms, then they note down swine flu. This is the way it is done now.

Therefore when they say there are 12,000 , 13,000 cases, whichever number they say now, it’s very important to be aware of the way in which these figures are worked out.

Once again, these are objective facts that can be verified on the official web. WHO – and I’m quoting by heart but I think it was in July – said that there was no need to verify every case in the laboratory, therefore we’re assuming that every flu case is a case, and in some countries (in many others they don’t even do this) they’re making surveys based on, “We had 100 and 50 were swine flu cases, so we assume that the rest is also that way”.

But this survey is a generalization, lacking sufficient data at least on the ones that I’ve seen in the books. And these are the irregularities.

Now I’ll move on to the third part, which focuses on the political consequences – political consequences of a pandemic declaration.

It’s as simple as this: WHO is an international organization that normally issues recommendations – “WHO’s recommendations are…” then it is assumed that each sovereign country applies or does not apply the recommendations following its own criteria, its own circumstances, and well, its own internal research.

This changed in 2005, allowing an exception precisely in case of a pandemic: this means that in a pandemic, WHO doesn’t make recommendations; it gives orders.

This means that the countries – again, this is verifiable and objective fact – in the case of a pandemic, and a pandemic is a real serious threat to the health of the whole population, and that justifies this medical emergency.

It does within the context of the old definition, not in the one that we have now. Therefore with the present definition, the title has remained the same, global pandemic, but its contents have totally changed, because the significant mortality rate doesn’t exist.

But the political consequences remain because of the heading, there the law says, “In case of a
pandemic” or the internal rules or WHO’s regulations within their treaties and agreements with the member countries.

So from 2005, when faced with a pandemic, WHO doesn’t recommend but orders member countries which actions to take.

That’s why we hear from the authorities in California and the whole of Spain, “We’re awaiting WHO’s recommendations…” Perhaps that’s a manner of speech. But it’s not just that they are waiting for them

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because they think it’s the right thing to do but because they have to abide by them, not as
recommendation but as orders from the moment that it’s issued.

You may ask “And what terrible thing may arrive?”

Well, the mandatory vaccination.

This is the most important point to me. It is very important to spread this information so that even if the vaccination is offered on a voluntary basis, the larger the number of people who know about the circumstances surrounding this vaccine and all the facts that we’re telling the better, so that each one of us can make an informed decision. The point we’re going to talk about now is slightly different, it’s about the real possibility that this vaccine was issued, or distributed, or announced as a mandatory vaccine.

And how can it be possible that I’m forced to have, or to accept a vaccine that I don’t wish to have?

The reasoning is quite clear: if we are in a global pandemic situation, although I insist, even if in the present case it doesn’t qualify, it seems that there’s a risk that if a person doesn’t take the shot, this may put other people’s health at risk.

Therefore, countries are under obligation to ensure that the law is obeyed.

If this is the law, what would this mean?

Well, the same as usual: fine or prison. Talking about fines, it seems that in Massachusetts, a document has already been made public in preparation for a possible mandatory vaccination, if this was the case, the fine would be $1,000 dollars per day, or it could reach up to $1,000 dollars a day.

So the thing works this way, you say, “No I don’t want to get vaccinated.” “Oh okay. Then look, $1,000 dollars daily from civil service, for every day you don’t get the vaccine.“ This is a way.

Other ways are happening right now but these are without the general law of obligatory nature. There are companies that say to their workers, “If you don’t take the shot, I fire you.” There are open lawsuits in different countries, in the US, in the UK, in France, because there are people that have already faced this dilemma and have tried to refuse.

In some cases in private companies, where there’s no collective labor agreement, in the US for instance, this has already made people lose their jobs for refusing to accept this vaccine.

And you may say “But there’s no vaccine yet.” Not yet, but the one that is already in distribution
because here in the monastery, we already have it; it already exists – the one for the seasonal flu. This has been delivered sooner because WHO has recommended to give the seasonal one and then, in most of the cases, in two doses, the new flu one. And now I’m going to talk about this.

Then, what may happen to a person who refuses to get his vaccine? If the vaccine is not mandatory, and by now it is not in any country, then nothing happens. You say no, and sign a document, if necessary, and the same for your children – they don’t get it and no problem. If the vaccine was mandatory, as I

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said, fine or prison, as it is what must be done in a country; if there’s a law, it must be obeyed. If not, this would be a joke.

Let’s see, facing this daily thousand‐dollar fine or facing the possibility of a prison sentence, one would say “Let’s not exaggerate, I got the vaccine every year, or not me but my father has, or I know people who get it, so we simply get it this year.” And it’s alright. “Look, a disaster, they’re making money, as always.” Like what happened with the papilloma (HPV).

But what can I say, I’m not paying $1,000 dollars a day, or I’m not risking going into prison. Facing this possible answer, it is important to know three factors that make the swine flu vaccine, or of this year’s flu, to be different to every year’s vaccine.

I mean, the argument of it being the same as every year’s vaccine, but this time it’s for the swine flu virus. Well, then we take it, we’ve been fooled once again, politicians or whoever, but it’s not going to be the last time.

Three novelties that this vaccine has, in contrast to the annual flu vaccine.

Why is this vaccine not going to be the same as every year?

The first novelty I have already mentioned. Based on the WHO recommendation, most of the
pharmaceuticals that are producing this vaccine, recommend it to be given in two doses. This is a
something new because nobody has ever heard before that flu vaccines come in two doses.

Normally, it’s given once and that’s all. Next year, you take it again, but it’s never given in two doses. This year it comes in two doses, and also, as I’ve said, WHO has already recommended it. In fact, the vaccine delivery has already arrived at senior care homes, monasteries and other places so that everybody takes the vaccine for the seasonal virus.

If WHO’s recommendations are followed this year, those who follow them will end up receiving three flu vaccinations: the seasonal one, the first dose of the swine flu and the second dose.

I’ve also heard that some laboratories produce it just with one, but most of them have announced it will be a vaccine in two doses. That way, the possibility of secondary effects is multiplied by three, theoretically it is multiplied by three, and these vaccines do have secondary effects.

But this is only theoretical, in practice, nobody knows what could happen because it’s never been done before.

Because no one has ever before received three doses of the virus, three shots with live viruses of the flu, and from different types one after the other, in the middle of a supposed pandemic or flu season, this is the first novelty.

Second novelty, it has to do with the coadjuvants.

This has been denounced by the French Labor Union of Nurses. The National Nurse Labour Union of France has published a document that you can also check, where they talk about (well, they put many

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examples, but I’m giving just one) the company Glaxo Smith Kline, one of the pharmaceutical companies that produce the vaccine.

In fact, it is responsible for the research with children that’s being done in Spain, the pioneer country in the world that has accepted that children, I think from 6 months old to 17 years old, try an experimental vaccine, and thus see what the secondary effects may be, or what point do they reach.

This is the company that promotes this research. This company is using a coadjuvant that’s never been used before in those flu vaccines. And this, in different ways, all the companies that produce swine flu vaccines have announced that they use stronger coadjuvants than the kinds that are normally used every year for flu vaccines.

What is a coadjuvant? A coadjuvant is a substance that’s generally added to the flu vaccine. “That’s added” means that the objective of the coadjuvant is to simulate and excite the immune system to produce a higher immune system response.

This is mainly done for the vaccine to be more effective, but in this case, French nurses have denounced that this coadjuvant is going to multiply ten times – this is the intention in the first studies – the immune system response, excite the immune system of the person so that it produces a response ten times higher than the normal and common one.

This coadjuvant seems to mix polysorbate with the excipient, or the coadjuvant squalene, which is the same coadjuvant used against anthrax and was given to the soldiers in the Gulf War.

There are many studies that prove that they had serious secondary effects, in terms of central
neurological system, paralysis and arthritis. This is squalene; this new coadjuvant is therefore, the second novelty.

There are coadjuvantss still untested, and that pharmaceutical companies justify precisely because they’ve been asked to produce millions and millions, in fact billions – 4.6 billions of doses of this vaccine, it’s what it’s been set – to vaccinate the whole population.

Rich countries and pharmaceutical companies have already announced that they are making donations of millions of doses to third world countries that couldn’t afford it. The plan is to vaccinate the whole world’s population. Well, in this production circumstance, some pharmaceutical companies justify using coadjuvants, still untested, so they can put fewer antigens and they save money. They can save antigen and in each injected dose of vaccine, fewer antigens and more coadjuvants. Which means, less natural immune system excitation, and more artificial excitation to compensate the lack of antigen to produced vaccines. This is the official explanation.

The thing is that it’s the second novelty, the coadjuvant is not the same as every year. Therefore,
nobody knows to what degree this artificial excitation of the immune system is going to cause
autoimmune diseases.

In fact, there’s one: the ascending paralysis of Guillain‐Barre. This is known or associated to the
administration, for instance, of the flu vaccines in 1976. In this moment it just affected the US, in a similar campaign, also through mass media and politicians. In this campaign they ended up vaccinating

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48 million US citizens. Among these 48 millions there was, I don’t have the numbers with me right now, but there were around 3,000 complaints of paralysis with the Guillan‐Barre syndrome.

So this is accepted as a consequence. In fact, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) of the United States (www.cdc.gov) has already announced that it is inevitable that there will be paralysis cases if the whole of the population gets the vaccine, but, despite this, they’re going ahead with it.

When, I insist, we must always keep in mind that this virus of the flu is more benign than the usual virus.

Therefore if you check the pros and cons, and this is what the French nurses do in their document, the possibility of spending a few days at home with the flu, like every year, in fact, less than every year, or the possibility of suffering an ascendant paralysis, which in some cases people recover from but in many cases they don’t and can even lead to death, then… at least this information must reach everybody so everyone takes responsibility.

And the last one, the third novelty regarding the annual flu vaccine is that pharmaceutical companies, because they’ve been asked to, supposedly make extraordinary efforts to produce such a vast amount of doses in record time.

They are forcing agreements, and in the US, it’s official that this agreement has been signed, an
agreement to absolve them of any legal responsibility in case that this vaccine has adverse secondary effects or even if it causes death.

In the US, the Secretary of Health, Sibelius, signed a document that gives immunity, political immunity – it won’t be possible to demand responsibility nor compensation, nor from the involved politicians nor from the pharmaceutical companies.

This is a third novelty that I think is very significant, for money can’t buy health or life, but if the
pharmaceutical company or the responsible person is not, let’s say it other way, is willing to financially compensate, we can take it as a guarantee that it is not unforeseen to have an avalanche of complaints.

If the responsible person makes sure, with objective, clear and verifiable public documents that it won’t be possible to bring a lawsuit against them, he is taking from us a guarantee that this vaccine is not going to have adverse secondary effects.

As a thought, I’d say to sum up what I said up to now, if what happened with Baxter and those
contaminated vaccines, which is proven to be true and they were contaminated, we don’t know why or how they were contaminated, but that they were contaminated we do know it for sure, if this contamination hadn’t been discovered by chance and this, let’s remember, was in February 2009, today we would have the pandemic, this terrible pandemic that they’re announcing without a real basis.

They’re talking about this pandemic without a real or objective basis.

If, in February, this hadn’t been discovered by chance by this Czech researcher or lab technician who carried that test (which he didn’t have to), today we would have this pandemic that is being announced.

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Then, knowing this, and keeping in mind the current WHO legislation and the irregularities, for instance, how is it possible that, what happened in February has not been discussed in the international press?

How is it possible that politicians haven’t talked about it? This hasn’t had any political or media impact.

This, we should ask to ourselves: how is all this possible?

Keeping this in mind, and keeping in mind that the pandemic would have happened, if this hadn’t been discovered by chance, I think it’s very important to state that the real threat, that those vaccines, which will arrive very soon, are contaminated, may be contaminated, and that a coercive legislation could be imposed when, despite the fact the they may be contaminated, that could force all of the population to take this vaccine by law.

I think this is a risk that cannot be and must not be minimized.

Do not, by any means, panic because panic doesn’t help in any way; quite the opposite. But one thing is not promoting, or having or expressing panic, and another is to not spread or share an information or a thought, like I’m doing, that may be important as we still have time for a reaction and that’s why I think this initiative is so important.

Therefore, do not minimize, this is just a risk, so I can’t say for sure that the vaccines will be
contaminated, I don’t know it for sure, I haven’t made them, nor analyzed them, I don’t think it’s going to be easy, either, to get access to this vaccine in order to analyze it independently. If it’s possible we will try or help to do it. But I don’t know of anybody who was able to do it.

What happens if more people start dying now? Or this that was announced, that a second wave is coming and a mutation is coming?

In terms of this, it is also very important to know that the swine flu virus has not mutated in 70 years. Then how is it possible to announce a mutation this year when this virus is not known to have ever mutated in this short period of time, during a period of 70 years?

I mean, what we didn’t have for 70 years is a flu coming in two waves with a different virus. Then again this is an irregularity.

But,let’s assume that many people start dying now, because of the flu or with compatible symptoms, then it will even more important to refuse to this vaccination, for two reasons.

First, because if this virus starts giving an increased mortality, it’s because it’s not the same – that is, it will have mutated. Although it’s something that doesn’t agree with up‐to‐date data, if it has mutated, the vaccine is of no use anymore. The vaccine that’s been produced now – this is why every year a different vaccine is produced because there are mutations – we have to produce a vaccine adapted to the new mutations.

So, if a significant part of the population doesn’t die, it is not necessary to take the vaccine, because, as I say, the risk is very high, the risk may be higher than the benefit.

If we start seeing a high rate of mortality caused by this flu, or because of compatible symptoms, then, this surprise could only be due to two reasons. The first is that the virus has mutated, therefore the

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vaccine is not good; or second, it is another virus or other viruses, and therefore, the vaccine is no good either, and it could even be the vaccine itself (that’s causing the deaths).

The means of transmission of those new viruses, based on what happened with Baxter in February, this is where my thoughts lead me.

Now, I’d like to conclude with a proposal. The proposal is very clear.

On one hand, stay calm, this is fundamental. To stay calm, take your usual precautions to not get
infected, common sense precautions, and do not get the vaccination.

Do not get the vaccination this year because there are all those circumstances. This is my
recommendation, but it is also the recommendation of many people of “seny” in Catalonian, “of
common sense.” There are many people talking this way, many doctors, a whole association, nurse unions, and so on… This is the first part.

But then we have a second part, which is the one that we may have not heard so often. And it’s that one, that I now, from this platform we are, is where I think I’m going to upload. Can I say it now?

Because last week, in Catalonia, I started an initiative called Catalunya Religio (.cat) This is a web site where the photos have not yet been posted, as it has just started. But I’ve been asked to collaborate a bit.

So, this week, I’m going to upload the link to the document that I’m talking about. I’m also going to give you this document, so I think it’s going to be accessible.

So I appeal, from this document, and now from the visual platform, I appeal to activate urgently all the civil citizenship resources and legal resources to avoid two things in our country.

The first one: that no one can force anybody in this country to get a vaccine that they do not want to get.

And the second one: those who, of their own will, desire to get the vaccination, should not be deprived of, I mean to avoid that anyone who desires to get the vaccine, is deprived of his right to demand responsibility or financial compensation in case the vaccine causes him serious disease or death.

First, maybe on a personal note, it would be about this part of “experts.” More and more, the world seems to move around experts, and that a person who is not a doctor or public health doctor, or who doesn’t have credentials, or who doesn’t consider themselves to have enough knowledge to critically evaluate this mass of information that comes to us from everywhere, it seems hard, unless it is investigative journalism, people who have been preparing for many years to do this.

What happens with those who are actually health professionals? That they have, unlike me – in this my case it’s different – their work depends on them acting according to what the profession as a whole is saying, or not going far away from it. It’s really hard.

If I were practicing medicine at a hospital, as I was for several years, I don’t know if I would be talking here and now. I know I have the knowledge and education, but my work, my everyday life and my surroundings don’t depend on that.

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My medical community, from Barcelona or my country, may think what I’m saying is correct or incorrect. That is I don’t have to feel this fear, and I say this just to point that it may be a reason for some health professionals who think the same way I do, or who are asking themselves the same questions but say “If I’m not 100% sure, I don’t want to take the risk of making these questions.”

Although, I must also say that there are many health professionals in our country that, maybe not everything I’ve said, maybe they haven’t touched the political aspects that much, but they perfectly handle the scientific data and they have made them public, with even more data than I’ve given. In this way, it’s very important to know that this is not something isolated.

I would like to make a note on “fear.”

Well, we must not be scared of the known swine flu (A). Because, as I’ve said a few times, but I’ll say it once more, according to objective facts, it has a lower mortality rate than seasonal flu. I didn’t mention this in the data but the mortality rate of the regular flu, the good years in Europe, the flu is not the same every year, some years it’s severe or more severe, and some others it’s more benign.

So, the official data of the disease center or the center that collects this information at the European level (that would be the CDC in the US) the ECDC. (European Center of Disease Prevention and Control http://ecdc.europa.eu).

This center’s numbers are: the good years of flu 40,000 people die from complications associated or derived directly to the flu. Forty‐thousand in a flu season; these are the “good years.” The bad years, it’s 220,000 deaths.

It’s very important to know it because when one says, “120 people have died!” Well, let’s wait; we
cannot just count them one by one. If every year, as a normal fact, in the best of the years, 40,000 people die, and in the bad years 220,000, if we count one by one, we spread an unjustified panic.

Therefore, we mustn’t fear the swine flu that is currently circulating if we take into account the numbers I’ve just quoted. However, in everything that I’ve said, there are many elements that may cause fear, or that can cause anguish or a real concern. I think that this anguish and real concern is good to have. It’s not good to let it shadow the political action, because that’s what it’s all about.

Now, nobody has declared a national emergency; nobody can do it either – with the information we have, this would be impossible. Now we have the doors open to act politically to ensure the two things I said before, in our country: that nobody can be forced to get a vaccine that they don’t wish and those who freely desire it and get it, won’t be deprived of their right to demand political responsibility and receive financial compensation.

And just as another note, if you want me to say something about what’s going around that I didn’t want to discuss directly, well, this hypothesis seems to underlie that it’s some sort of a plot. “What in the world is this? A plot to do something?”

Because WHO has said all of that, I’m not answering these questions, because I cannot answer them. But I may make a little note, so as far as we know about the history of humanity, there have been groups who wanted to dominate the world. This is not new. We cannot come in the 21st century and say

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“Ah! There’s a group who wants to dominate the world.” Sorry but that is not new, it’s as old as the world.

From the Romans, and if we go further, the Incas and every known empire with a good intention: that is an intention to fix a world that is chaotic and difficult to control. So let us control it, whoever this “us” is, to help humanity; to actually make a world where there’s a minimum order, so we won’t have a Hitler here, another thing there. And for a long time, it’s been said that there is overpopulation.

Well, if that was so, even if we look at it from this kind of hypothesis, I think fear is unjustified by this historical background. It’s just being aware that this happened before in history. There have been people who, irresponsibly, have caused world wars, and they could have foreseen and acted politically but they didn’t. We’re in the 21st century. Human beings are the same with their extreme goodness. And these conspiracies will never be able to break this human goodness, this impossibility to control the whole world.

But that there are people, who try throughout history; they have always existed. And I’m not amazed at the possibility that this has something to do with this kind of action.

I think that the spectacular nature of talking about international plots, global mass murder shadows the other side. And I think it’s a bit self‐defeating. I mean, now I’d like to not have said it just because with the things I said before, which is all I wrote in the written document, is more than enough for any person willing to take political responsibility or action, may be able to say “Okay, I’ve had enough, I know what I must do.”

Well, each one will do what they want, but at least it is easy, objective and well‐founded information. While, if we dwell on this morbidity, saying that “They want to dominate us… there’s a group that wants to own the whole humanity!” We rush off and I insist, I’m not saying it’s possible, but I’m not interested in touching that, because I think we are onto something more serious, which is this possibility, in a few weeks or a month, when those vaccines arrive, to really take up on a civilian action, and maybe, let me finish with this, these groups who care about human rights, and about the quality of our democracies because we talk about democracies, happens here in Catalonia.

Almost a year ago, there was a legislative initiative of the people, because Catalonia is, well, Spain is the country, in the European Union, with the highest proportion of transgenic farming, and it’s located, around 80% – and I’m quoting from memory, it may not be accurate, but it’s not very far – in Catalonia.

Therefore, from Catalonian pagesia (peasants), there was this initiative to promote this legislative initiative of the people, to debate in the parliament whether or not this should be. For instance, the transgenic in Catalonia, are not in all of Spain, the products, from the supermarket are not labeled to show if they contain transgenic or not. And this was one of the proposals in the project.

According to our democracies, the minimum number of signatures needed to promote a legislative initiative for the people is 50,000 signatures. And collecting 50,000 signatures is a lot of work. Well, they were collected or we collected, as I also participated, 102,000 signatures.

Despite this, the Catalonian Parliament has said that they’re not going to debate it. This happened here this year.

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When I talk about monitoring the quality of our democracies, they won’t be formal democracies but, at the time of truth, there’s a political practice that is closer to a dictatorship than to a democracy.

Oh yes, what I wanted to say, those who monitor the different people and groups, and jurists groups, and groups of people for the human rights but not the official ones, those groups commented, or summarized or highlighted in different documents as something special what happened in Spain. During the terrorist attack in Madrid, March 11th of 2004.

When there was the terrorist attack in Madrid, there was a political change, Popular Party (PP) lost and Socialist Party (PSOE) won. Well, this popular response against an attempt from those who held the power, to give an official version of the facts, making use of a moment of panic, and that was trying to imitate what happened in the US where, from a terrorist attack, that you may talk about causes and authors…

There are also many theories, but the one sure thing is that it causes panic among the population and they use that panic to reduce the people’s freedom. That didn’t happen here. And this, as I say, has been highlighted by international groups, that say, as if the Spanish state was an example of what happened.

Spontaneous call of people, strong enough to take to the streets – this is happening a lot nowadays – and stop the manipulation where they were near a declaration of a state of emergency or whatever, to justify this reduction in people’s freedom.

Then, well, we’ve done it before, so come on and let’s do it again.