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Quotes of Note: How Big Pharma Puts Vaccine Profits Before Safety

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This interesting piece is a compendium of quotes, with attributions that will make the concerned person’s hair stand on end. mine is.
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Profits before Safety
Quotes

[You can see how child safety doesn’t feature in the medical cartel’s agenda. Years after they find a vaccine is found to be “unsafe” (that’s just more unsafe than usual) in one country, it may eventually get withdrawn in others. Then they just sell it to a third world country, another weapon in their covert ploy to reduce the world’s population. And naive folk think they make vaccines to save children’s lives, and that they really think MMR is safe!]
1. Use up stock even though proven unsafe or use cheaper less safe vaccines
2. Use flawed or fraudulent methods to get vaccines on market
3. Avoid long term safety studies for obvious reasons
3b No government vaccine testing
4. Change the law to limit liability to government not vaccine companies so removing one of the main drivers for safe vaccines
4b Formulate a vaccine damage law (VICP) so it is very difficult to claim & prove vaccine damage against the government
5. Buy up the vaccine experts so you are less likely to lose vaccine damage cases that prove vaccine dangers
6. Keep safety data secret from government regulators
7. Government vaccine regulators & medical doctors “controlled” by vaccine companies
7b. Industry funds vaccine “Nonprofit” Groups
8. Buy up the media so investigative journalism on vaccine safety & dangers is almost non-existent:
9. Disregard for safety can be seen in the selling of withdrawn vaccines to third world, and unethical vaccine experiments
10. Non vaccine examples

“Clear and certain medical knowledge, namely that the BCG-vaccine is not only ineffective but also harmful, was kept quiet for 27 years (in Germany) while the vaccine continued to be used and children were being harmed by it….almost 500 (estimated) cases of vaccine damage per year.”–The Decline of Tuberculosis despite “protective” Vaccination by Dr. Gerhard Buchwald M.D. p119/117.

NAAR should know that I was on the WHO immunology panel for 20 years and continually urged discontinuation of thimersol in vaccines. The only ones who listened were the Scandinavian countries (esp. Finland, where I hold an honorary Ph.D.). Those countries banned thimersol in 1992.—–H. Hugh Fudenberg, M.D.

” Goldman also reports that shortly after communicating on authorship issues with health officials associated with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) concerning the shingles data and analysis, he was threatened with legal action if he published the manuscript in the medical literature. He said, “Whenever research data and information concerning potential adverse effects associated with a vaccine used in a human population are suppressed and/or misrepresented by health authorities, not only is this most disturbing, it goes against all accepted scientific norms and dangerously compromises professional ethics.”” ATA REVEALS THREAT OF SHINGLES EPIDEMIC FROM VACCINE USE Health Officials Threaten Legal Action Against Researcher

1. Use up stock even though proven unsafe or use cheaper less safe vaccines:

“DOCTORS have been told to come clean about Infanrix, the safer whooping cough jab available on the NHS – but only if directly challenged about it by parents. The compromise means that parents who ask no questions will have their children injected with the cheaper DTwP jab laced with ethyl mercury – a substance ordered out of US medicine on health grounds.”–Media Feb 2003

“For decades, American pharmaceutical companies have known how to produce the safer DPT vaccine but decided not to bring it to market because it would increase production costs and lower the drug’s 50% or higher profit margins.”–Money Magazine

“Drug companies keep DTP alive because it is less-expensive to make, offers a bigger profit margin and can be easily dumped on developing countries……Because many pediatricians prefer to reduce office visits by giving the combined DTP-HiB shot and because many HMOs use about 50 percent DTPH, as many as 30 percent of American infants still get reactive whole-cell pertussis.”–NVIC http://www.909shot.com/gnssafet.htm

“The British drug company Glaxo Wellcome allowed thousands of British babies to be inoculated with toxic whooping cough vaccines it knew had not passed crucial safety tests.”–Media July 2001

“MERCURY, one of the most dangerous substances known to man, is being used in a series of infant vaccines – in spite of a warning from NHS advisers that its use as a cheap preservative “may be toxic” to babies aged under six months….. “The very low thiomersal concentrations present in the pharmacological and biological products are relatively non-toxic in adults,” the UKMI report says. “But it may be toxic in utero [in the foetus] and during the first six months of life.” It is the first time any UK health official has admitted to the danger posed by mercury in vaccines…..The list includes four out of the seven flu vaccines issued this year by the government, a pneumonia vaccine and four of the 11 child vaccines. The main source is the triple DTwP jab, for whole-cell diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. “–Media Jan 2003

“They say there is growing concern that a mercury compound in the three-in-one DTP vaccine may cause autism and brain damage. The vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertusis or whooping cough, is given to infants of eight weeks and older. However, the Department of Health has said there is no cause for concern and that the vaccine is safe for children….”–Media Jan 2003

“Michigan had made too much DPT in its Lansing laboratory and wanted to sell it to other states. That required FDA testing and approval, as with any other manufacturer. However, the FDA denied approval and returned the vaccine, saying It was 300 percent too potent. State health officials disagreed and decided to test the vaccine on children in Ingham County (Lansing). Despite more adverse reactions than usual, health officials released 400,000 doses of the DPT vaccine for use throughout the state a month later.”—Fresno Bee DPT report 1984

“They began using MMR in April 1989 and by July doctors were already warning of side-effects, but the government didn’t take any notice because it was not convenient for them. They kept using it for another 3 years, securing the profits for the manufacturers”.—Shunsuke Fuji

“Congress requires records to be kept of the lot numbers of vaccines for which unusually large number of “adverse events” (side effects) are reported. But the information is then simply ignored. The “hot lots,” as they are called, are not destroyed, but continue to be injected into infants and children. (no use throwing out expensive vaccines–dollars are worth more than lives, just as in the U.K.) “—Dr Rimland

“SENIOR government advisers said as early as 1989 that vaccines could provide a route by which BSE could be transferred to human beings.”–Media report

“Up to 300 cases relate to this brand of vaccine – Pluserix – which was banned by the Department of Health in 1992 after being linked with meningitis. This was two years after an identical vaccine was banned in Canada.”–Media

“THE Department of Health has told doctors they must use stocks of a mercury-based vaccine for infants even though it is being phased out for safety reasons.”–Media Aug 2001

“According to one memo, SV40 was found in three of 15 lots of the oral vaccine seven months after the federal directive was issued in March 1961. Lederle released the contaminated vaccine to the public anyway, the memo shows. The documents also suggest that the company failed to test the monkey- kidney seed strains used to make the bulk polio vaccine for contamination, despite a written warning from Dr. Albert Sabin, who developed the oral vaccine.”–Media

“In 1990, scientists from the Queen’s Medical Centre Nottingham found some children developed a form of meningitis after receiving it. But despite this the Government went on using it for more than two years. The Canadian Government, also using the vaccine, immediately switched to a safer version. It was not until September 1992 that the UK Department of Health issued pharmacists with emergency supplies of a safer brand with instructions to withdraw existing batches.”–Sunday Express

“The British drug company Glaxo Wellcome allowed thousands of British babies to be inoculated (late 60’s-early 70’s) with toxic whooping cough vaccines it knew had not passed crucial safety tests.”–Media July 2001

2. Use flawed or fraudulent methods to get vaccines on market:

“The Prevnar pre-licensure clinical trials, which Wyeth Lederle paid Kaiser Permanente to conduct, compared two experimental vaccines against each other. To compound this basic methodological flaw, Kaiser and Wyeth Lederle, allowed most of the children in the trial to be given the more reactive DPT vaccine rather than use the safer, less reactive DTaP vaccine. This placed the children in that five-year experiment in greater danger and allowed the drug company to write off the seizures that occurred as being caused by DPT and not Prevnar, when in fact, they didn’t know. Even so, the groups of children who got Prevnar suffered more seizures, higher fevers, more irritability and other reactions than did the children who got the other experimental vaccine. It was a no-brainer as far as I was concerned: Kaiser and Wyeth Lederle had proved nothing about Prevnar vaccine safety.”–Barbara Loe Fisher

“The evaluation of safety and efficacy and federal approval of Prevnar is laden with ethical questions. Many of the doctors directly involved in the testing and approval process appear to have significant conflicts of interest. The efficacy of the vaccine is questionable and safety testing has been terribly inadequate. There are no long-term studies (i.e. more than 5 years) of the chronic, debilitating and life threatening diseases that this vaccine may cause. The fact that the vaccine is bio-engineered by combining various types and portions of bacteria should require it to undergo considerable scrutiny. Assuming the vaccine has any efficacy at all, the need for universal vaccination needs to be reexamined in light of the small number of children who might be at risk from serious complications from pneumococcal disease. “—Michael Horwin, MA

3. Avoid long term safety studies for obvious reasons:

JABS has not been able to find any properly conducted trials where the safety of the vaccines has been monitored for more than a few weeks. JABS has not been able to find any studies of the long-term consequences of the use of the MMR vaccines
Why Does The MMR Vaccine Need To Be Suspended? http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/jabs/mmrsuspend.html

“The anthrax vaccine was approved without every doing a controlled clinical study. There is no long term safety data on the anthrax vaccine. The government admitted this in congressional hearings. It is a distortion of the truth to say there is substantial safety data.”–Bart Classen

“Longest safety trial of of the triple vaccine (MMR, all live attenuated viruses) was three weeks.”–Dr Fudenburg MD

“I have minutes from a CDC Study Group Meeting on the Hepatitis B vaccine held in March, 1997. The minutes of the meeting show that it would take at least a 60 day study to show the onset of MS. Clinical studies done by the two manufacturers were four and five days in length, respectively. It should be noted that the afternoon session of this meeting was chaired by Dr. Robert Sharrar of Merck.”–Betty D. Fluck

3b No government vaccine testing:

“FDA virologist Peter Reeve…….. acknowledged that the FDA suspended its own independent tests of vaccine purity 15 years ago, leaving it entirely up to the manufacturers to ensure the vaccine is contaminant free.”–‘The Virus and the Vaccine’: Atlantic Monthly http://www.whale.to/vaccines/sv409.html

“In addition, the U.S. Office of Technology, one of the few semi-reliable agencies of the U.S. government, says there is no current system utilized by the CDC to determine if the vaccines do work or how dangerous they really are.”–Dr Douglass M.D.

4. Change the law so liability is limited to government not vaccine companies which removes one of the main drivers for safe vaccines:

“Vaccine manufacturers and others are sheltered from product liability lawsuits by a special 1986 act of Congress. (See the US Code 42 USC 300aa for details.) This act set up a fund to compensate those who can prove serious injury from vaccines.”–Roger Schlafly

“But instead of selling the safer Japanese (DPT) vaccine, Warchafsky says, U.S. manufacturers asked Congress to limit their liability for adverse reactions to any vaccine mandated by the government, hinting they might stop producing children’s vaccines without it. ” —-Congressional Quarterly Researcher

4b Formulate a vaccine damage law (VICP) so it is very difficult to claim & prove vaccine damage against the government

Vaccine law quotes

5. Buy up the vaccine experts so you are less likely to lose vaccine damage cases that prove vaccine dangers:

“And then the industry started buying up the experts,” he contends, citing the example of James Cherry, a widely recognized pertussis expert who has served on both the ACIP and the AAP’s vaccine advisory committee.”—-Congressional Quarterly Researcher

CASE No. 82-1232, Cossette Krause, vs F.K. Abbousy, MD et al (State of Ohio), transcipt of videotape deposition of Dr Edward Mortimer September 6, 1984.. On page 11 reads the following:

“Several years ago, because of the increasing amount of litigations over DTP, members of the so-called Red Book Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics agreed in a sense that we would sort of divide up the cases to try to help the manufacturers in these lawsuits, and therefore I and a number of my colleagues agreed to serve as expert witnesses.”

6. Keep safety data secret from government regulators:

“FDA virologist Peter Reeve…….. acknowledged that the FDA suspended its own independent tests of vaccine purity 15 years ago, leaving it entirely up to the manufacturers to ensure the vaccine is contaminant free.”–‘The Virus and the Vaccine’: Atlantic Monthly http://www.whale.to/vaccines/sv409.html

“Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can’t even tell health scientists the truth about vaccine contaminants and their likely effects. The agency is bound and gagged by proprietary laws and non-disclosure agreements forced upon them by the pharmaceutical industry. Let us not forget that the pharmaceutical industry, as a special interest group, is the number one contributor to politicians on Capital Hill.”–Leonard Horowitz

“Since vaccine development information is considered proprietary (protected by nondisclosure policies) government officials and researchers must shield potential safety issues from public scrutiny. This censorship is rationalized by the all too persuasive argument that vaccines cannot be criticized lest the public become non-compliant in taking them. Finally, this silence is buttressed by the small number of people capable of critically evaluating vaccine manufacturing and safety testing procedures. In essence, health care professionals and the general public know little about the possible dangers of live viral vaccines.”–Dr Martin

7. Government vaccine regulators & medical doctors “controlled” by vaccine companies

Vaccine Conflict of Interest Quotes

7b. Industry funds vaccine “Nonprofit” Groups quotes

8. Buy up the media so investigative journalism on vaccine safety & dangers is almost non-existent:

quotes Rare instances: Fresno Bee report Money Magazine William Carlsen

9. Disregard for safety can be seen in the selling of withdrawn vaccines to third world, and unethical vaccine experiments

“Using kids as guinea pigs in potentially harmful vaccine experiments is every parents’ worst nightmare. This actually happened in 1989-1991 when Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) jointly conducted a measles vaccine experiment. Without proper parental disclosure, the Yugoslavian-made “high titre” Edmonston-Zagreb measles vaccine was tested on 1,500 poor, primarily black and Latino, inner city children in Los Angeles. Highly recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), the high-potency experimental vaccine was previously injected into infants in Mexico, Haiti, and Africa. It was discontinued in these countries when it was discovered that the children were dying in large numbers.”–Dr Alan Cantwell MD

“To determine the effect of different amounts of the vaccines, researchers at the hospital inoculated newborns from mostly lower-income black families with doses ranging up to more than 100 times the dose recommended for adults.”–Media

On september 14, 1992 two measles vaccines (Pluserix & Immravax) were banned in the UK after it was revealed that children had developed meningitis. On Sept 16, 1992 the New Zealand government withdrew Pluserix

1997 Brazil:
OUTBREAK OF ASEPTIC MENINGITIS ASSOCIATED WITH MASS VACCINATION WITH A URABE CONTAINING MMR VACCINE

2002:
“Officers are also investigating how a consignment of potentially dangerous mumps vaccine was sent to one of Direct Health 2000’s suppliers. The vaccine sent by a German distributor turned out to be of the Urabe strain, banned in Britain since 1992 as it can cause viral meningitis in babies. “–Media 2002

10 .Non vaccine examples

“The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulation Agency found from information that had been in its possession for more than a decade that high doses of the anti-depressant can lead to aggression and thoughts of suicide. But instead of revealing the truth to the 17,000 people taking high doses and the other half-million Britons on a safer dose, the MHRA sat on its findings. Astonishingly, I was actually threatened with legal action by Professor Kent Woods, chief executive of the MHRA, if I revealed this.”—RICHARD BROOK

In the same year, the Washington Post (3) published the fact that Ritalin which is prescribed to very young children had never been tested on that age group (under 6’s) and yet, between 150,000 – 200,000 children between the ages of 2 and 4 were prescribed Ritalin. Hilary Butler letter to BMJ 2004

Nov 15, 2004 Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co Inc. had evidence by 2000 that its painkiller Vioxx, which was pulled off the market on Sept. 30, was not safe [Media Nov 2004] Merck Knew Vioxx Was Unsafe by 2000

[Media aug 2001] Drug scientists ‘put profits before lives’
CJD warnings ignored
[Media March 2004 Seroxat] Why I resigned over this disgraceful “happy pill” cover-up

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Another Must Read Article on Vaccination at Gun Point

Friday, February 29th, 2008

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Smallpox vaccine at Gunpoint?
By Barbara Flynn
Reprinted from The Idaho Observer , April 15, 2002:

On February 27, 2002, the Wisconsin Legislature passed a Mandated Vaccination/ Emergency Health Powers Act which calls for a $10,000 fine and /or nine months in prison for those who refuse vaccinations. The former Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Health Secretary Tommy Thompson is now calling for Model Emergency Health Powers Acts (MEHPA) in all states.

In an article in New Jersey’s Daily Record on January 20, 2002, District 21 Assemblyman Dr. Eric Munoz promised to spearhead a Rapid Mass Smallpox Immunization Plan for New Jersey. And in the February 1, 2002 edition of the Star-Ledger we find that the CDC has offered New Jersey $26.8 million to “come up with a plan” by April 15, 2002.

In 1902, Cambridge Massachusetts Board of Health passed an ordinance that required everyone to get smallpox vaccinations every 5 years or pay a $5 fine. Henning Jacobsen and his son who had both suffered severe and prolonged reactions to the vaccine refused both the vaccine and the fine. Both were found guilty by the Massachusetts Supreme Court and Jacobsen vs. Massachusetts became the first and only vaccination case to reach the highest court. The Supreme Court ignored compelling evidence that the vaccines did not work and were dangerous. “While we do not decide and cannot decide that vaccination is a preventative of smallpox, we take judicial notice of the fact that this is the COMMON BELIEF of the people of the State, and with this fact as a foundation we hold that the statute in question is a health law, enacted as a reasonable and proper exercise of POLICE POWER.” [What Every Parent Should Know About Childhood Immunizations, Jamie Murphy, 1990, p.124] In other words, an opinion poll was preferable to hard epidemiological and scientific data regarding vaccination.

What data might Jacobsen hypothetically have presented? Dr. Charles Creighton, professor of Microscopic Anatomy at Cambridge and author of Epidemics of Great Britain said, “The real affinity of cowpox is not to smallpox, but to the great pox (syphilis). The vaccinal ulcer of everyday practice is to all intents and purposes, a chancre (syphilitic ulcer).” Commissioned by Encyclopedia Britannica to assemble information on syphilis (9th Edition, Vol. 24, p23) he reported that “in the first year of compulsory vaccination (1854), deaths from syphilis among infants under one year of age suddenly increased by one-half and the increase has gone on steadily since.”

Edward Jenner who is credited with perpetrating smallpox vaccine on the public in 1796 believed that the syphilitic scar was an indication that the vaccine took or would provide immunity for life. According Dr. Hadwens editorial in “Truth” (1/10/23)

Edward Jenner was a country apothecary who purchased his Medical Degree from St. Andrew s College for the modest sum of £15 ($75). Based on a single experiment with eight-year-old, James Phipps with no clinical trials or follow-up studies, Jenner received £30,000 ($150,000) from the British Government for his great discovery.

The superstitious belief in “scar” production had tragic consequences for Marcella Gruelle, 13, daughter of “Raggedy Ann” book and doll creator, Johnny Gruelle. In 1915, she lost her life at the hands of the New York Public School System because she could not produce the scar. Her parents reluctantly gave permission for one school administrated smallpox shot. A few weeks later, without parental permission, she was inoculated again as it was deemed that the prior did not “take.” Paralysis and death followed quickly. [Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy, Patricia Hall, 1993, p. 87-92] Raggedy Ann, as American as apple pie, is really a pervasive symbol of smallpox vaccine injury and death.

If cowpox (vaccinia) more closely resembles syphilis than it does smallpox (variola), how did the vaccination wipe out smallpox? Apparently, it didn’t. On June 5, 1937, Dr. William Howard Hay testified before Congress about the effectiveness of the smallpox vaccine in the Philippines. Dr. Hay describes a vaccination program spanning a six-year period in which 10,000,000 people (95% of the population) were repeatedly vaccinated. In spite of vaccinations a terrible smallpox epidemic ensued. It was four times as fatal as any that had occurred before vaccinationa death rate of 60% as opposed to the usual 10% to 15%. Additionally, Anne Riley Hales 1935 book, The Medical Voodoo recounts the history of Englands smallpox vaccination and resulting epidemics.

Lastly, in 1900, Dr. Charles Campbell of Texas published findings that smallpox was a filth disease, carried by a blood sucking insect, Cimex lectularius (bedbug), that it was neither infectious nor contagious, and that vaccinations do not prevent it. So convinced was he of this that he would move in with and sleep in the same bedroom with those who had contracted smallpox once their homes were fumigated and bedbug free. His reports were ignored. [Bacteria Inc. Cash Asher, 1948,p. 36-37]

The Nuremberg Code (Doctors Trial, 1947) which specified that human beings could not be used as medical experiments without their consent, supercedes Jacobsen vs. Massachusetts (1905). However, Lawrence O. Gostin, the Georgetown University Law Professor who wrote the original 40 page MEHPA invoked the outdated Jacobsen vs. Massachusetts on the second page of his document to justify forcing untested vaccinations on the public at gun point. According to CNSNews.com Editorial Assistant Michael L. Betsch (12/16/01) Professor Gostin was awarded $300,000 per year for a period of up to three years by the CDC to develop his model legislation, among other projects. He also states that the Illinois Legislature has already rejected a proposed MEHPA Bill. On March 6, 2002 the Wyoming House Minerals Committee voted 8-1 to “kill” their MEHPA bill. [Sierra Times.com]

Historically, vaccination policy has been a conflict between the “thought police” who profit financially from this medical fraud and humanitarians who subscribe to the precautionary principle: “First do no harm.”

In the wake of September 11, tyrannous violations of human rights may be expected, but are they really in the interests of the public they are supposed to protect? “I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society. When machines and computers are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: 1967 Riverside Church Sermon] To Dr. King’s “triplet” we can add the surrender of bodily integrity to the government. Our challenge is to advance the revolution of values that Dr. King advocated, not to reverse it.

Barbara Flynn, MBA, of Summit, NJ, is the founder of CHERUBS (Children Having Everybody Really Upset Bout Shots) A Vaccination Alternatives Network. CHERUBS provides upport for those wishing vaccination exemptions. Barbara Flynn can be contacted by email at: be.cherubs@verizon.net.

AAP Fellow Speaks the Truth on Mercury: A Must Read

Friday, February 29th, 2008

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LES INCOMPETENTS: OPEN LETTER TO THE AAP

By K. Paul Stoller, M.D.

02/26/2008

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/02/aap-fellow-resi.html?cid=104990550#comments

“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.” —-Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society p50, 1953

As a pediatrician, who has been a fellow of the AAP for two decades, I find the AAP’s approach to the autism epidemic to be deeply disturbing.

Not only have they allowed the myth of better diagnosing (as the reason for all the notice given to affected children) to be perpetuated, but when they were put on notice at the CDC’s Simpsonwood meeting in 2000, that the mercury in the preservative Thimerosal was causing speech delays and learning disabilities, they obfuscated and hide that information. They never made good on their 1999 pledge to have Thimerosal eliminated from vaccines and almost a decade later joined in the protest against a fictitious TV show (Eli Stone) because it was critical of mercury being in vaccine. Out of 132 million doses of the worthless1 flu vaccine for the 2007-08 flu season, 8 million doses are Thimerosal free. That means 94% contain the full amount of Thimerosal.

If a pregnant woman got a flu shot in 2001 and her child followed the flu shot recommendations, the baby/fetus would have received six flu shots with the full amount of Thimerosal by the year 2005.

Today, flu vaccine for those under 3 year of age supposedly do not contain Thimerosal, but with no government agency testing vaccines for mercury, the only ones who know whether these Thimerosal free vaccine (flu or otherwise) actually are mercury free are the manufacturers themselves.

Vaccines with “trace” amounts of Thimerosal are supposed to contain less than 1 microgram of mercury per 0.5 ml dose (1 microgram (ug) Hg per 0.5 ml is the same as 2 ug Hg per ml which is the same as 2000 ug/liter. Micrograms per liter is parts per billion [ppb]2)

0.5 parts per billion (ppb) mercury = Kills human neuroblastoma cells (Parran et al., Toxicol Sci 2005; 86: 132-140).

2ppb mercury = U.S. EPA limit for drinking water (http://www.epa.gov/safewater/contaminants/index.html#mcls).

20 ppb mercury = Neurite membrane structure destroyed (Leong et al., Neuroreport 2001; 12: 733-37).

200 ppb mercury = level in liquid the EPA classifies as hazardous waste (http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/mercury/regs.htm#hazwaste)

25,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose, Hepatitis B vaccine vials, administered at birth from 1991-2001 in the U.S.

50,000 ppb mercury = Concentration of mercury in multi-dose DTP and Haemophilus B vaccine vials, administered 8 times in the 1990’s to children at 2, 4, 6, 12 and 18 months of age. Current “preservative” level mercury in multi-dose flu, meningococcal and tetanus (7 and older) vaccines.

For years the Infectious Disease division at the CDC (and others) have said the reason for the dramatic increase in autism is due to “better diagnosing” and “greater awareness.” They have encouraged those like the AAP to manufacture uncertainty by publishing articles that were less than truthful. The AAP shamefully played along, perhaps encouraged by the largesse of vaccine manufacturers who significantly contribute to the AAP’s yearly budget.

There is another budget to consider for eighty percent of autistic Americans under the age of 18, and we will soon begin to see a dramatic impact on Social Security in coming years as these children become dependent adults. There are no studies that have found the previously undiagnosed or misdiagnosed autistic individuals among older Americans. They simply aren’t there. So what is coming will significantly impact on society.

As there are no genetic epidemics, which leaves an epidemic linked to some sort of exposure. Now, the increase of autism has been linked to the increase in mercury exposure through fish and industrial sources, amalgam and additionally, through increased parenteral exposure to Thimerosal – no controlled, randomized study regarding the safety of amalgam or Thimerosal exists.

A recently released Scientific Consensus Statement on Environmental Agents Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders (by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment’s Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative) concludes that environmental contaminants are an important cause of learning and developmental disabilities.

Delayed detoxification of mercury severely impairs methylation reactions (required for the correct expression of DNA, RNA, and neurotransmitters), which further adversely affects growth factor derived development of the brain and attention abilities. Phospholipid methylation, which is crucial for attention, is impaired in autistic and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders.

In a first analysis of the VSD datasets, Verstraeten (et al) had described a 7.6 to 11.4 fold increase of autism risk in children at one month, with the highest mercury exposure levels compared to children with no exposure. In four subsequent separate generations of the analysis, which involve the exclusion of children with no Thimerosal exposure and less than two polio vaccines, the statistical significance disappeared. This is what was published by the AAP even though they knew the truth. How did they know the truth?

Again, they were presented at the Simpsonwood meeting in June 2000, a meeting that was illegal to hold. No Federal agency is allowed to call a meeting together with representatives of private industry (all the vaccine manufacturers were represented at this meeting) without opening the meeting to the public.

Thimerosal was tested only once, by Eli Lilly on 22 adult patients suffering from meningitis. There was no chance for follow- up to observe long-term effects, as all of the patients in this “study” died. Even if follow-up had been possible, damage to the developing brains of very young children would have remained an unknown. Eli Lilly said it was safe and the medical community accepted it. After the creation of the FDA, its use was simply continued. The federal government has never tested the type of mercury in vaccines for toxicity. This is an unconscionable oversight failure at best, at worse it is an example that we have left consensus reality to be created by the liars, thieves, cheats, killers, and the junk scientists they employ.

How it came to pass the AAP joined these rogues and became an active participant in this skullduggery is beyond reason – is even beyond greed. They have remained silent as mercury laden vaccine continue to be exported and used in all third world and second world countries.

We are living in a time where an incredible overplay and lies and self-aggrandizing behavior and non-science is the norm. We have tolerated the junk science that has covered up the true cause of this epidemic at a considerable cost to science, the public, and our very way of life in this country. Is it stretch to realize that by putting our collective heads in the sand about the autism epidemic we have made it possible for the destruction of our very civilization?

Not something easy to contemplate? Then ask why haven’t pediatricians come forward to demand the end of the use of Thimerosal once and for all, and to advocate for the treatment of these children before it is too late? Why are they not at the front of the line protesting the amounts of mercury allowed to come out of coal-fired power plants? Why aren’t they leading the charge to stop the use of mercury amalgam dental fillings that are placed in the mouths of young children and pregnant women?

The very Federal agencies that should have been sounding the alarm bell about environmental pollution creating future generations of mentally disabled citizens did less than remain silent because they have become arms of the very corporations that profit from selling and distributing poisons. Just look who sits on the FDA’s Scientific Advisory Boards – the conflicts of interest are so glaring as to suggest that the FDA has become a trade arm of big pharma.

Nevertheless, the hand writing is on the wall as the US government has quietly conceded a vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims.3 Pediatricians will no longer be able to hide behind the skirts of “Standard of Care” if they are giving autistic children heavy-metal laden vaccines. That is only one step away from giving vaccines and making normal children autistic.

The AAP should proactively be bringing in risk management specialists and be proactive towards how this could affect pediatricians in civil litigation for following the CDC recommendations on vaccinations after a diagnosis of any type of neurodevelopmental delay in a child. This is what they are afraid of and this is what the law of attraction will bring in upon the AAP and the minions of those that just followed the recommendations and drank the Kool-Aid that Big Pharma wanted them to drink.

For all the above reasons, I will no longer enable the AAP to be party to the damage that is being done to the world’s children by sending in my dues for a third decade. It is a token protest, but it has to begin with someone.

1 BMJ 2006;333:912-915 (28 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.38995.531701.80

2 http://www.ajph.org/cgi/eletters/AJPH.2007.113159v1

3 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

K. Paul Stoller, MD is the President of International Hyperbaric Medical Assoc and Medical Director of the Hyperbaric Medical Center of New Mexico.

Facts Worth Noting About Pediatric Flu Vaccination

Friday, February 29th, 2008

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November 18, 2007

The following article presents testimony and statistics which any health freedom advocate or parent will find useful in considering whether they want to be vaccinated or have their child vaccinated against their will.

Vaccinating For Profit – From Cradle to Coffin News
February 2, 2006. By Evelyn Pringle

Due to the flooding of special education classrooms, along with the rising medical costs of treating injured children, local taxes will soon go through the roof, at which time the public will be forced to face the unthinkable truth about the poisoned generation.

And when that happens, government officials had better not even think about trying to feign ignorance because parents, scientists, and medical experts have been screaming about the epidemic in vaccine injuries, from one end of the country to the other, since the 1990s, and the fact is that lawmakers knowingly allowed it to happen.

Over the past twenty years, our government has facilitated a nationwide experiment on our country’s youngest citizens via the Mandatory Childhood Vaccine Schedule, and the tragic results of the experiment can be equally credited to the joint efforts of compromised regulatory officials and politicians, and the pharmaceutical industry that stood to make billions.

In a perverse twist of fate, the vaccine program has evolved into a grand profiteering scheme, second only to the military industrial complex’s war on terror fiasco. Instead of prevention, the program has resulted in an epidemic of serious health problems for an entire generation of children and at the same time, produced an infinite market expansion for the sale of other prescription drugs, for the scheme’s developers.

The start of the epidemic can be traced to the late 1980s, when public health officials dramatically increased the number of vaccines, which contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, without taking into consideration the impact of the cumulative mercury load on developing brains of infants.

Once the mercury poisoning was discovered by the FDA in 1999, vaccine-makers claimed they were eliminating thimerosal from vaccines but they never recalled the vaccines already on the market and children continued to receive mercury in vaccines for several more years. Even today, the flu vaccine recommended for 6-month-old babies and pregnant women still contain a full dose of thimerosal.

Instead of ordering drug companies to get the preservative out of all vaccines, Congressional Republicans and President George W Bush spent much of the past 3 years working on strategies to give the pharmaceutical industry protection against lawsuits from vaccine injured children. A handful of shameless Congressional Republicans remained lurking around in the shadows for years, just waiting for the right moment to attach the protective provision to some “anti-terror” spending bill until they succeeded in December 2005.

Before the age of two in this country, children receive at least 20 injections involving twelve diseases. By the time they reach first grade, they have had at least 24 vaccinations, if they are in compliance with the CDC’s 2005 Immunization Schedule. [By the time they reach age 18, if they have been vaccinated according to the American Academy of Pediatrics schedule, they have received fully 78 vaccinations! Comment by Dr. Rima]

For good reason, many parents do not want their children to receive 24 injections for diseases they have never heard of [and another 58 by age 18! Comment by Dr. Rima]. However, government officials use every trick in the book to force them to inject these poisonous concoctions into their children, including economic sanctions for refusing to comply.

Refusing vaccination can result in citizens being denied enrollment in daycare, elementary school, and college; denial of health insurance; denial of employment; and denial of federal and state benefits for poor children including cutting off medical care under Medicaid, and food, under the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.

Medical professionals have been trying to get lawmaker to take notice of the health problems caused by vaccines since the 1990s. On June 14, 1999, Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associating of American Physicians and Surgeons, testified before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the Committee on Government reform and said:

“Striking increases in chronic illnesses have occurred in temporal association with an increase in vaccination rates,” she said. “Asthma and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, causes of lifelong morbidity and frequent premature death, have nearly doubled in incidence since the introduction of many new, mandatory vaccines.”

“There is no explanation for this increase,” Orient added.

“Even more alarming,” she told lawmakers, “is the huge increase in reports of autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, with devastating, life-long impacts.”

“Measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, and the whole panoply of childhood diseases are a far less serious threat,” Orient warned, “than having a large fraction (say 10%) of a generation afflicted with learning disability and/or uncontrollable aggressive behavior because of an impassioned crusade for universal vaccination.”

About 3 years later, across the country on the West Coast, Barbara Loe Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center, testified before the California Senate Committee on Childhood Immunization Mandates: Politics vs Public Health on January 23, 2002. Fisher acknowledged that the CDC, and American Academy of Pediatrics, vigorously deny that the vaccines could have anything to do with more children being chronically ill.

“Yet, the haunting question remains,” she said, “if we have wiped out polio and almost eliminated measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other childhood diseases with vaccines – why are so many of our children stuck on sick?”

“Why are our special education classrooms so crowded that we can’t find enough money or train teachers fast enough to care for these learning disabled, hyperactive, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic, emotionally disturbed, sick children?” Fisher asked.

Since 1982, she charged, “the numbers of American children with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder and asthma have doubled; diabetes has tripled; and the incidence of autism has reached epidemic proportions, increasing 200 to 600 percent in every state, marking a staggering 3400 percent increase in the prevalence of autism in our children.”

Scientist have also been warning lawmakers about the vaccine injuries. Dr Mark Geier, holds a PhD in genetics, and was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health for10 years. He has studied vaccines for over 30 years. Dr. Geier and his son, David Geier, are the only independent researchers who have gained access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink database controlled by the CDC, to conduct studies on the connection between vaccines and the epidemic in neurological problems.

In a March 22, 2003 letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, the Geiers reported: “we have concluded in our studies that a causal relationship exists between mercury from thimerosal in childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders.”

“Our best estimates are that the thimerosal contributed to about 75% of the cases of neurodevelpmental disorders while the MMR contributed to about 15%,” they said. “The remaining 10% of the cases were related to mercury in Rhogam, a shot given to Rh-negative women, and to other sources of neurotoxicity.”

On June 18, 2004, Representative Dave Weldon (R-FL), a doctor by calling, was on the floor of Congress waving red flags, and literally begging Congress to recognize the seriousness of the epidemic in children with neurological disorders all over the country.

“Mr. Speaker, something dreadful is happening to our youngest generation, and we must sound the alarm and figure out what is going on with our children,” he said.

He quoted the Department of Health and Human Services when explaining that one in every 167 children was being diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. “Furthermore,” Weldon reported, “one in 7 children is being diagnosed with either a learning disability or a behavioral disability.”

On June 19, 2002, James Bradstreet, MD, Clinical Director of The International Child Development Resource Center in Florida, testified in Washington before the Government Reform Committee, and warned lawmakers about the cost of the autism epidemic back then.

“ICDRC estimates the minimal cost in present value, to care for those 420,000 existing children with autism is $1,260,000,000,000 (based on $3million/lifetime and 420,000 children affected).”

“So a little over a $1 trillion in the next 50 years would be required if we stopped creating new cases today,” Bradstreet said.

“Because autism is doubling every four years, this is likely an overly conservative estimate” he added. “The societal cost could easily be $3-4 trillion.”

On June 20, 2005, Robert F Kennedy, Jr, a relatively new advocate calling for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines, appeared on the Don Imus Show on MSNBC, and warned the public that our government is allowing drug companies to ship thimerosal-containing vaccines for use on children in other countries.

“They’re giving this now to kids all over the third world,” Kennedy warned. “In China, autism was unknown five years ago,” he said. “They started giving them American vaccines containing thimerosal and now they’ve got 1.8 million cases of autism,” he added.

Autism is also exploding in Argentina, India, and Nigeria, Kennedy said.

“What’s going to happen when our enemies around the world realize that the United State’s most heralded foreign policy which is vaccinating the children of the world is poisoning the brains of developing third world children?” he warmed.

“This is just a disaster,” Kennedy told Imus.

But it gets worse. Over the past 15 years, the vaccine scheme has resulted in a full-circle cycle of profits for the pharmaceutical industry. After poisoning an entire generation, drug companies are now making record profits from drugging their victims.

And the true irony of the situation is that due to their partnership with compromised officials and lawmakers, they were able to pull most of it off on the tax payer’s dime. Federal and State government programs, are the largest buyers of vaccines, administered “free” beginning with pregnant women all the way up to seniors citizens in nursing homes.

The vaccine racket is raging on at full-throttle. In 2005, more vaccines were administered to infants under the age of 1 in the US than in any other country. The current immunization schedule calls for 3 doses of Hepatitis B, the first at birth, 3 doses each of DTAP, HIB, IPV, Prevnar, and one dose of flu vaccine before a child’s first birthday.

The first year of childhood vaccines costs $620, and the second year costs $340, according to Pediatric Preventive Care Cost, Estimated US Average, 2005, by Patient Age, Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care (RE9939) and Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, US, 2005.

For the year 2004, the CDC reported the US birth rate to be 4,115,590. Without an industrial size calculator, it would be impossible to do the math to multiply the birth rate by the vaccine costs above. Suffice to say that the total amount represents major profits for vaccine makers especially when most of the bill is sent directly to the tax payers.

As for making money off the vaccine-injured children, between 2000 and 2003, the number of children treated for “severe behavioral conditions” related to conduct disorder and autism rose more than 60%, according to Behavior Drugs Lead in Sales for Children, New York Times, May 17, 2004.

Tax dollars are being directly funneled to the pharmaceutical industry through the damaged children. Public funds currently account for 63% of all mental health spending and Medicaid spending has risen more than 50% since 2000 to more than $300 billion per year, according to Parity-Plus: A Third Way Approach to Fix America’s Mental Health System, Progressive Policy Institute, June 22, 2005; Medicaid Largest US Payer, Daily Health Policy Report, March 30, 20005.

Drug companies have also been raking in major profits from the sale of attention deficit drugs, with much of it coming from the public trough. The National Center for Health Statistics, reports that the number of children aged 3 to 17 with ADHD went from 3.3 million in 1997 to 4.4 million in 2002. Between 2000 and 2004, use of attention deficit stimulant drugs rose 56% among children, according to data compiled Medco Health Solutions, one of the largest prescription benefit managers in the nation.

According to testimony at the February 18, 2004, FDA hearing, by Dr Gianna Rigoni, of the FDA’s Office of Drug Safety, a combined total of approximately 10.8 million prescriptions were dispensed for SSRI antidepressants and atypicals antipsychotics to the 1 to 17-year-old population in 2002, and children between 1 and 11-years-old, accounted for about 2.7 million of those prescriptions.

In 2004, SSRIs and antipsychotics became the third-and fourth-biggest classes of drugs in the country, with sales of $20.7 billion. And much of that cost was borne by government health-care plans, according to the July 27, 2005 Wall Street Journal.

As for the continued use of thimerosal-laced flu vaccines with infants, according to the ACIP report of July 29, 2005 / 54(RR08);1-40, actual deaths from influenza are uncommon among children with and without high-risk conditions. A study that modeled influenza-related deaths estimated that annually, an average of 92 deaths, or 0.4 deaths per 100,000, occurred among children under 5 during the 1990’s.

So, are the risks associated with injecting a full dose of thimerosal into 4,115,590 six-month-old babies worth it when weighed against the benefits, if any, of flu vaccines? More and more parents think not.

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/articles/vaccine-profit.html

Food Fights and Fear in Australia

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Food prices are rising as biofuel uses up farm land and farmer’s time. Worse, Codex compliant foods, shipped long distances, add much more to global warming than locally produced and consumed foods (whose nutrients are more available and taste better, too). But all over the world, food is becoming so expensive, and the food shortages of food in storage are becoming so extreme that the ability of the poorest members of society to obtain food is becoming more and more difficult.

The following Australian article notes that a the price of a cow has increased in the past year from $700 Australian dollars to $1400 this fall. What this means to the poorest is cataclysmic. What it means to the middle class is difficult. What it means to the international corporations that control the production of food (Big Agribiz and Big Biotechna) is what disease means to Big Pharma and the rest of the illness care industry: profits, and big ones at that.

The David Suzuki Foundation notes that a basic North American meal could travel about 1,500 miles to get to your dinner table?
Transporting food causes greenhouse gases that lead to global climate change while locally grown foods help conserve farmlands and wildlife habitats. Local food also reduces the environmental costs of food transportation and is more likely to be fresh than food shipped long distances.

In fact, local eating has a new name: locovores. People whose diet consists primarily of food grown in their local areas have taken on the characteristics of a new type of human. Locovores celebrate the seasons and eat what their region produces all year long. Locovores can be meat eaters, non meat eaters, vegans, raw foodists or whatever they please. But whatever they fill their plates with, it did not travel long to get there. They are saving fuel, saving time, saving costs and saving the planet. And their food tastes better, too. Not a bad deal.

Grow and eat local organic produce to stem this tide of manipulated sticker shock and failing food supplies. Better yet, grow some or all of your own food in your own gardens or in community gardens. Find out more about community gardens from Canadian Health, the American Community Gardening Association (http://www.communitygarden.org/).

Do yourself and the planet a favor. Help counter the global food shortage by buying and eating locally.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org

Food fear beats climate change

Article from: The Advertiser, Australia

CLARE PEDDIE, SCIENCE REPORTER

January 17, 2008 09:30pm

A WORSENING global food shortage is a problem far more urgent than climate change, top Australian scientists have warned.
The Australian Science Media Centre briefing heard why prices for some staple foods had risen by as much as 60 per cent in the past year, and how dramatic price rises are expected to sweep across all staples in the near future.

Executive director of the Australian Farm Institute Mick Keogh said dairy products, grain and poultry had seen the strongest price rises in recent months.

Beef and lamb were forecast to follow, with nationwide livestock shortages taking the average price for a cow from $700 a head 12 months ago to $1400 a head going into autumn.

Key speaker at the national science briefing Professor Julian Cribb said the security of our food supply is “the global scientific challenge of our time”.

The problem was more urgent even than climate change, said Professor Cribb, from the University of Technology in Sydney, because it will get us first . . . through famine and war. “By 2050 we will have to feed the equivalent of 13 billion people at today’s levels of nutrition,” he said.

“This situation brings with it the very real possibility of regional and global instability. Investment in global food stability is now defence spending and requires proportionate priority.”

A “knowledge drought” – the lack of innovation to address farm productivity challenges – had added to the crisis, Professor Cribb said.

He called for a massive increase in public investment in agricultural research and development.

Farmers face challenges posed by drought, climate change, rising oil prices, erosion and nutrient loss combined with more demand for food stocks and biofuels.

Global grain stocks have fallen to their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1960, while Australia’s sheep flock is at its lowest since the mid-1920s, with about 86 million.

In September last year 2007 the Australian Bureau of Statistics found consumers were paying 11.9 per cent more for basic food items than they were two years before. That is almost double the Consumer Price Index rise of 5.9 per cent during the period.