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GMO FILES: GMO Alfalfa in the Supreme Court “And the Winner IS….”

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

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June 30, 2010

BAN GMOs! Most plants are genetically modified to withstand (and thus encourage) high levels of dangerous agricultural chemicals like glyphosate, the active ingredient of Monsanto’s Roundup(c). The chemicals are toxic and the GMOs themselves are not tested for safety before FDA approves them, are forbidden to be labeled as GMO by the FDA and are associated with cancer, infertility, autoimmune diseases, fetal death and permanent changes to DNA in very cell of people who eat GMOs! More than 90% of the US food supply is either GMO or contains ingredients made from DNA. It’s time to end “FRANKEN-FOODS”! Click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049, to demand a total ban on GMOs and a scientific effort to find out how bad the genetic damage has been and how to correct it while there is still time.

FDA wants us to withdraw our Stop the Shot Citizens Petition. What a great reason to press forward! Click here to add your support to getting dangerous vaccines out of our healthcare system, our bodies and our children!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

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GMO CASE DECIDED FOR CONSUMERS, ORGANIC FARMERS. MONSANTO SAYS NO, THEY WON. THE TRUTH IS THAT PUSH BACK WORKS, AND WORKS AND WORKS BECAUSE YOU, THE HEALTH FREEDOM NET ROOTS, WORK AND WORK AND WORK!

The US Supreme Court gave us a tremendous win by making it clear, as the article below shows, that consumers – that’s us – have the right to sue corporations and government agencies to stop poor regulations from going into effect.

That’s exactly what the Natural Solutions Foundation is doing in our Stop the Shot case against the FDA and in our Ear Candling case against the same corrupt, multinational-corporation-controlled FDA.

In the first case, we are now preparing to file for the third time. Each of the first two times that we filed this case which says that US law clearly and unambiguously says that vaccines must be tested and shown to be BOTH safe and effective before they can be released to the public. No flu vaccine has passed those two tests. For that matter, no vaccine has passed those tests.

But the FDA continues to support the use of more, and more toxic, vaccines for children and adults in the absence of a single shred of evidence that vaccines work or are safe.

Each time we filed the Stop the Shot case, the standing of the plaintiffs (us) was undermined when the agency which was meancing our defendants with job loss or worse backed off on the eve of the trial going forward. Both times the judge said, “Well, you’ve won!” and sent us out of the Court House to go celebrate. But that was not the win we were looking for. We don’t just want the corrupt Department of Health Commissioner in New York State and the Governor to back down, we want all influenza vaccine banned. The next time, it was the mandate for all children under 5 in New Jersey to be vaccinated before they could be enrolled in a state-licensed day care center.

That is not what we are looking for although we congratulate the parents of young New Jersey children on having that mandate lifted.

We want a full and total ban on vaccines which have not been tested to prove their safety OR their effectiveness, as required by US law. That means that ALL influenza vaccines (and all other vaccines, but our standing is for influenza vaccine complaints right now) are, in fact, illegal, untested drugs in the US! That includes the absurd and dangerous H1N1 vaccines.

Yesterday, the FDA called the Natural Solutions Foundation asking us to withdraw our Citizens Petition about the dangers and illegality of the H1N1 vaccines! Why? Well, perhaps because about 5 months ago, just after a health emergency had been declared, they told us they would respond to us within 6 months since they were too busy to respond to our emergency petition [sic!] and the 6 months is almost up. Now they have to deal with us and they would clearly rather not. It is a great time for your to sign that Citizens Petition here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791.

So the FDA appears to be asking us NOT to go forward with our campaign to get dangerous vaccines off the market and out of our bodies. That seems to us the very best indication that we are definitely on the right track.

What does that have to do with GMOs? Everything. First, the principle of the Uber-Cartel. The companies which make genetically modified organisms (GMOs) do so to make sure that they tolerate and/or require very high levels of the highly profitable and enormously toxic herbicides and pesticides which destroy the balance of nature and create sick plants and super weeds and pests, requiring yet more of the toxic chemicals. In fact, when GMO crops are planted, the average use of toxic agrochemicals increases by 400% or more.

Of course, these toxin chemicals, such as the new generation of Monsanto’s Roundup(c), containing 70% Agent Orange [dioxin] get into your body, the environment and, tragically, the unprotected bodies of the unsuspecting farm workers whose cancers, infertility, fetal and infant death mimic those of the general population which eats these foods. Codex Alimentarious, the International Food Code, habitually sets permissible limits for foods so high that any limitation is meaningless.

When eaten, these toxic, genetically altered foods literally change the DNA of every cell of the eater – you – and any children that are in the womb or that come after you will also have permanently altered DNA. And so will the plants and animals whose DNA is contaminated by the contaminated DNA of these dangerous foods.

Cancer, permanent genetic alteration, decreased immune function, infertility, sterility, fetal and infant death, auto immune disease, gut, kidney and other organ damage are the rule in every study NOT sponsored by industry which looks at GMO ingestion. But the FDA and USDA do not, and, in fact, MAY not examine the safety or dangers of these patented organisms.

More than 90% of US food is now either genetically modified or contains ingredients derived from GMOs or both.

When you get sick, the very same companies that made money from the sale of the GMOs which required increasing amounts of toxic chemicals to grow AND manufactured and marketed the toxic chemicals are the companies that make the drugs that you are supposed to take when you get sick from their GMOs and toxic chemicals.

The model is circular. The effect is disastrous. That cycle of profit and death is what I call the “Uber-Cartel”.

We all understand that GMOs are untested and that they hide within our food supply since they MAY NOT be labeled, thanks to the every industry-friendly, corrupt and dangerous FDA. We all also understand that the manufacturer of 95% of the genetically modified seed and animal stock in the world, Monsanto, is as ruthless as any corporation in the world in contaminating farmers’ fields, controlling markets regardless of the tragic consequences of such control (e.g., starvation, farmers being driven off their land, increased cancer, infertility, deaths, starvation, crop failure, etc.).

Alfalfa is the 4th largest crop grown in the US after corn (almost entirely GMO in the US), soy (nearly all GMO) and wheat (emerging as a GMO crop now that Japan and other countries have dropped their ban on US wheat if GMO varieties were developed). Fed to cows, organic alfalfa is essential or organic dairy and beef production. It is also impossible to produce organic alfalfa if GMO alfalfa is grown anywhere in the area because of short and long distance contamination.

The USDA approved alfalfa for general planting and use with the usual lack of caution or sense. But this time, when they did so in the absence of the required Environmental Impact Statement, the Center for Food Safety sued. A lower court found that the approval of Roundup Ready(C) alfalfa seeds in the absence of the necessary studies was legal and Monsanto announced victory. But push back is a funny thing: dedicated people and groups are willing to fight the long fight, slog the long slog, to make sure that the right thing is done, that lawful outcomes are the result. The District Court ruled that the planing could not go forward and the case was appealed.

The Supreme Court ruled recently on the case and both Monsanto and the Center for Food Safety declared victory, Monsanto because the total ban on planing GMO alfalfa was reversed and the Center for Food Safety because the Supreme Court did not disagree that the USDA had mistakenly approved GMO alfalfa prematurely AND, even ore importantly, because the Supreme Court, for the first time, affirmed the concept that has also now ruled for the very first time ‘that “environmental harm” includes economic effects such as reduced agricultural yield or loss of market due to genetic contamination, as well as the concept of what biologists refer to as “gene flow” (in practice, the idea that genetically engineered material may get into conventional plants through cross-pollination). The Supreme Court now accepts that this phenomenon in and of itself is harmful and illegal under current environment protections.’

As Michael Hansen of Consumer’s Union says, “That’s a huge win for our side … That’s gigantic!” Future lawsuits can now confidently use the gene-flow argument against approval and use of genetically engineered crops.

So although Monsanto is focusing on the reversal of the total ban of GMO alfalfa, we, the People of the PushBack, see it differently. We see that litigation is essential to this health freedom process we are engaged in and that it can be a very powerful strategy.

That is why our Ear Candle suit, to prevent the FDA from declaring any and everything they do not like as an unapproved medical drug or device, whether it is or not, and demanding that it be removed from the market immediately, and our Stop the Shot case, to prevent illegal, untested, unnecessary, unsafe and uninsurable influenza vaccines from being deployed are so important.

To add your voice of support to the Ear Candle Case, click here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521

To make it clear that you do not want dangerous, unnecessary influenza shots, which kill, maim and have no effect (according to major studies) but do make children sick and set them up for a life long battle with a weakened immune system, seizures and even death, please click here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

And to bring home the point very clearly that personal and local agriculture is not something you want to lose, please help to keep the horrifying S. 510 from passing the Senate, click here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791

Oh, yes, one more thing: please give generously to make sure that we can continue to raise the health freedom voice high, sue wrongdoers, attend Codex, and otherwise make sure that the star of health freedom continues to rise: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27791.

Now that you have taken these actions, please take a moment to read the article below.

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.InternationalDecadeofNutrition.org
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Supreme Court’s ruling on Monsanto’s GE alfalfa: Who won?

by Tom Laskawy

June 21, 2010

The sustainable agriculture world is abuzz today with news of the Supreme Court’s ruling regarding an earlier lawsuit, brought by alfalfa farmers, that sought to stop any planting of Monsanto’s genetically engineered Roundup Ready alfalfa seed. While the press coverage heralds the ruling as a decisive victory for Monsanto, a close reading shows that, in fact, it’s a fairly significant win for opponents of biotech crops.

Hay dudes, not so fast

The background: As the fourth most-planted U.S. crop behind corn, soybeans, and wheat, alfalfa is worth $9 billion a year — the dairy industry is the biggest consumer — with annual seed sales valued at $63 million, according to a USDA study. Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa seed has been genetically engineered to be tolerant of glyphosate, the active ingredient of Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup.

Earlier this year, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco found that the USDA had illegally approved Roundup Ready alfalfa for planting — which the agency refers to as “deregulating” — by allowing Monsanto to sell and farmers to plant the seeds without the USDA completing a required full Environmental Impact Statement. (A preliminary one was under way.)

In response to a lawsuit filed by GMO-opposed alfalfa farmers along with the Center for Food Safety on behalf of consumers, the District Court halted all planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa until the USDA completes the EIS, which could take years. It also issued two injunctions: one that prevented the USDA from performing a so-called “partial deregulation” of Roundup Ready alfalfa, i.e. allowing restricted and otherwise limited planting, while it prepared the final environmental statement; the other stopping farmers from planting any Roundup Ready alfalfa starting with the 2010 crop year. (For a deeper look into the lead-up to the case, read Matt Jenkins’ excellent 2007 feature “Brave New Hay” from High Country News.)

Today, in a 7-1 opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court reversed both District Court injunctions, saying that the Court had overreached itself procedurally in halting the plantings. (Both Justices Steven Breyer and Clarence Thomas had conflicts of interest in the case — Breyer’s brother was the District Court judge on the case, while Thomas was corporate counsel for Monsanto earlier in his career, but only Breyer saw fit to recuse himself.)

Despite the news reports claiming victory for Monsanto, the Supreme Court did not overturn the central tenet of the case: that the USDA prematurely approved Roundup Ready alfalfa. The District Court, in effect, made it once again illegal to plant Roundup Ready alfalfa — and the Supreme Court endorsed that ruling. While the Justices did declare that the USDA, if it wants to, has the right to give the seed a preliminary approval (i.e. for limited, restricted planting), the Supreme Court decision does not by itself give Roundup Ready alfalfa the green light.

And it’s important to note that the USDA has not yet formally announced any intention to re-authorize the restricted plantings, which would come in the form of a rule for “partial deregulation” of Roundup Ready alfalfa. In fact, the agency and Monsanto had preciously submitted such a plan to the District Court in hopes that it would be incorporated into the final ruling, and instead, they received an injunction.

To some, that move appeared to be an attempt at an end run around the official rulemaking process. It’s not clear if the USDA will move forward with anything other than the “final” environmental review.

[Update:] The USDA office that oversees biotech crops, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), just released a brief statement via email in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling. In it, the agency leaves the door open to some sort of preliminary approval for the alfalfa seed, without indicating its intention one way or the other: “APHIS is carefully reviewing the Supreme Court ruling before making decisions about its next regulatory actions related to the deregulation of Roundup Ready alfalfa.” It also announced its intention to complete the full environmental impact statement “in time for the spring planting of alfalfa crops in 2011.” That start date presumes they get through the process without any more lawsuits or injunctions — not a safe bet, at all.

No mo’ gene flow?

More importantly, the Supreme Court has also now ruled for the very first time that “environmental harm” includes economic effects such as reduced agricultural yield or loss of market due to genetic contamination, as well as the concept of what biologists refer to as “gene flow” (in practice, the idea that genetically engineered material may get into conventional plants through cross-pollination). The Supreme Court now accepts that this phenomenon in and of itself is harmful and illegal under current environment protections.

“That’s a huge win for our side … That’s gigantic!” Michael Hansen, senior staff scientist of Consumers Union, told me. Future lawsuits can now confidently use the gene-flow argument against approval and use of genetically engineered crops.

Others share his glee. The Center for Food Safety called the ruling “a victory for the Center for Food Safety and the farmers and consumers it represents.”

For its part, Monsanto is spinning the ruling positively. In a statement posted on its website, the company said: “This is exceptionally good news received in time for the next planting season. Farmers have been waiting to hear this for quite some time. We have Roundup Ready alfalfa seed ready to deliver and await USDA guidance on its release. Our goal is to have everything in place for growers to plant in fall 2010.”

Well, from all appearances Monsanto has this flat wrong. Farmers can’t plant Roundup Ready alfalfa just yet. And even if the USDA tries for that preliminary approval, the Supreme Court made very clear that today’s ruling does not presume that any preliminary approval is (or isn’t) legal.

Indeed, the legal issues at the heart of the ruling aren’t over the rights of corporations or the science behind genetically engineered seed, but about the separation of powers between co-equal branches of government. The Supreme Court today stopped a District Court from telling a federal agency that it couldn’t make regulatory rules. For the judiciary to stop the government from doing its job requires meeting a very rigorous set of standards. After the Supreme Court decided to make this point the crux of its ruling, all the other issues fell by the wayside. Another way of looking at it is that the supposed “overreach” by the District Court was against the USDA, not Monsanto.

The Supreme Court has also made the point very clearly that outside groups have the ability to file lawsuits in order to stop any poorly conceived or improperly executed rule that a federal agency passes. And surprisingly enough, the Court — with its expansion of the definition of “environmental harm” to include things like gene flow — just gave consumer groups a whole new set of legal weapons to wield against the same companies currently crowing over the implications of today’s events.

Are You Making A Difference Through the Natural Solutions Foundation?

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

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June 27, 2010

David Korten is both a change agent and an observer of change. He has written a provocative article called, :The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know if You’re Making a Difference”.

He says that if you can answer “YES!” to ONE of the following criteria, you are making a difference.

Here are his criteria, taken from the article which you can read below:

1. Does it help discredit a false cultural story fabricated to legitimize relationships of domination and exploitation and to replace it with a true story describing unrealized possibilities for growing the real wealth of healthy communities?

2. Is it connecting others of the movement’s millions of leaders who didn’t previously know one another, helping them find common cause and build relationships of mutual trust that allow them to speak honestly from their hearts and to know that they can call on one another for support when needed?

3. Is it creating and expanding liberated social spaces in which people experience the freedom and support to experiment with living the creative, cooperative, self-organizing relationships of the new story they seek to bring into the larger culture?

4. Is it providing a public demonstration of the possibilities of a real-wealth economy?

5. Is it mobilizing support for a rule change that will shift the balance of power from the people and institutions of the Wall Street phantom-wealth economy to the people and institutions of living-wealth Main Street economies?

You, through the Natural Solutions Foundation, can answer
1. YES!!
2. YES!!
3. YES!!
4. YES!!
5. YES!! to this excellent assay of effectiveness.

Check out just a few of our accomplishments below and here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=195. These accomplishments are yours and ours, together, because without you, there would be no meaning to our work. It is the community of empowered people that makes a difference, and that is what you, and we, are, together.

Frankly, our “Accomplishments” page is out of date because the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation do not have time to get it up to date without taking time away from our rapid, profound and widely focused forward movement.

Consider: Our Codex eBook, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=220, was the first document to outline exactly how every country in the world, including, of course, the US!, could move to a higher standard for every class of food than Codex (which would not be hard!) without the dreaded World Trade Organization trade sanctions which are the club Codex waves to subdue countries that balk at degrading their food supply to make the globalists happy while their people die, just as we do, from toxic, degraded food and nutrients whose doses are so low that they have no beneficial impact worth noting – by design!

Our Codex DVD, “Nutricide“, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=156, is the lecture that has helped millions of people, including Codex delegates!, understand what Codex is about by understanding where it came from!

Our trips to the poorest countries all over the world resulted, for example, in their trusting our leadership so that we were able to block the US government’s attempt to get fluoride approved for inclusion at high levels in infant formula for normal babies at the Codex Committee for Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (Thailand, 2007). This, alone, is a major victory in policy change!

The Natural Solutions Foundation, with its radio show, the Dr. Rima Reports, www.BlogTalkRadio.com/FreedomizerRadio, 9 PM to Midnight Eastern Standard Time, every Sunday night, is getting information out. Just look at the lineup of guests for the next couple of months! http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4850

Our Action Items generate hundreds of thousands to millions of your emails to decision makers!

Our Blogs are widely circulated and passed from reader to reader around the world!

Our Videos, like
Nutricide, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634#
Should the US Get Out of Codex? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfCni-LuR_c
The Globalist Genocidal Agenda, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8f2P4GCJL8&feature=related
and dozens of others at www.Youtube.com/NaturalSolutions give people deeply researched, and deeply important information that they can use and share, changing local and leadership opinion. They, too, are passed from person to person around the world!

Radio appearances (on shows like Alex Jones, Jeff Rense and dozens of others), documentary film appearances (like “Making a Killing, Psychiatry, Industry of Death, and two of Governor Jesse Ventura’s Conspiracy Theories episodes, and other public information activities get the word out there. Uniquely, Natural Solutions Foundation gives people meaningful actions they can take – including growing their own food at www.FoodFreedomeJournal.org, for example.

And, uniquely among all the health freedom organizations we know of, we are actually creating a project to help the farmers of the world, the consumers of the world and the governments of the world to reclaim the production of clean, unadulterated food! It is called The Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, and it is a major forward step for people who want to live, to farm, to help or to enjoy a truly sustainable teaching community the temperate, beautiful Highlands of Panama.

Several governments have asked us to work with them to change their food supply to a clean, unadulterated, health-promoting one and, of course, we said “YES!”

On the eve of our departure for another grueling Codex meeting. Oh, Geneva is OK as a city. There are some decently priced restaurants for locals and the lake, surrounded by mountains is pretty enough. If I had my way, though, and if General Stubblebine had his, we would stay right here in Panama working on the development of the Valley of the Moon Eco Demonstration Project, www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org, getting ready for the Grand Opening of the Natural Solutions Center on August 7 and 8! By the way, consider this your invitation to join us for this event! If you are on the Health Freedom Action eAlert list (sign up here: www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) you’ll get all the details.

But we cannot stay here, much as we would like to. Hundreds of thousands of people -and more – want to know what the Codex Alimentarius Commission is doing to despoil the world’s foods to bring about the perpetual war on their bodies, their health and their freedom – indeed, their very existence, that Big Pharma, WHO, Big Chema and the other genocidal, callous and much-worse-than indifferent players on the global food scene, led by the US, of course. They wait for our live radio reports, our daily Codex Video and written updates and our analysis of what is happening so they can counter it.

They know, and they take action on, the dangers that bills like S. 510, the Food Fascism Bill (named, of course, the “Food SAFETY Bill”), http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26714, will bring to them if they remain inactive. And we’ve kept this horrible bill from being voted on since November, 2009! That’s impact.

They are willing to call for a complete ban on the dangerous technology which has invaded the world’s food and non-food plant and animal life forms – including US, our DNA. By clicking on this link, rapidly growing numbers of people are protecting their future, and that of every living thing on the planet: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2049

Millions of people demanded that they have the right NOT to receive the vaccine for the absurd and fraudulent “Level 6 Pandemic” nonsense known as H1N1 or Swine Flu and the US backed off from requiring mandatory vaccination.

Now we are demanding Congressional hearings and responsibility in controlling, stopping and reversing the loss of children because of devastating environmental toxicity, including vaccines that do not work, have no science behind them and are killing us and our kids, while rendering huge numbers of us infertile, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3688. And we are suing the FDA to prevent more vaccines from being used which have never, ever been either tested to make sure that they are safe OR effective, let alone both. That case, the Stop The Shot Case, is a companion case to the Ear Candle Case, which we are also suing the FDA in that one, too. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2521. You see, if they can innocuous ear candles, of which 20 million have been sold without a single meaningful adverse event, saying that they are a medical device for which there is no medical use, they can ban ANY device or nutrient claiming the same.

We backed them off this crazed behavior in March, 2008 when they first flew this particular idea to see what would happen. What happened was that we, 688,000 strong, roared NO!, HELL NO! They predictably went away and, just as predictably, came back with this absurd power-grab to make all natural health products and services illegal.

We were there that time, and we are there this time, too. By the way, your recurring tax deductible donations here, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189, are the essential lubricant which allows the health freedom wheels to keep turning. These donations are the only way that we can do this work, get to Codex, sue agencies, etc.

We are there, every time, because YOU are there. YOU are the netroots and YOU are the solution, the natural solutions. Thanks for making the Natural Solutions Foundation the largest health freedom organization in the world. And thanks for making a big, big difference.

Thanks, too, for your generous tax deductible donations. http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189
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Oh, yes, two other things: first, if you use coffee for health or pleasure, you will want to taste the Valley of the Moon(TM) Coffee – FREE coffee! Coffee that we grow here in Panama to teach other farmers how to grow coffee without ANY toxic chemicals, neither herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup(C), nor paraquat, nor Agent Orange products like 2-4D, nor pesticides or herbicides – NOTHING but sun, rain, fish meal and a 10 ingredient fermented compost! Other farmers are beginning to grow coffee this way, but there is nothing like our Valley of the Moon Coffee! Support your health and health freedom at the same time by making a tax deductible contribution and getting the healthy coffee. Oh, by the way, you can give this superb coffee as a thoughtful gift at any time of the year. Supplies are strictly limited so order NOW!

The second thing: All of this is great but without YOU as the person who disseminates this information, the Action Items and takes them once for each member of your family and then passes them along to all your contact, this information would stay the private knowledge of the few, a sort of information elite. Nice, but not effective. It is YOUR dissemination which makes this heath freedom thrust take wing and shape local, national and international policy.

It’s your world. Thanks for making us effective so that we do, in fact, make a difference!

Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD
www.DrRima.net
Medical Director

Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
www.GlobalHealthFreedom.org
Valley of the Moon™ Eco Demonstration Project
www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org
www.InternationalDecadeofNutrition.org
Valley of the Moon Coffee
www.ValleyoftheMoonCoffee.org
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www.NaturalSolutionsMarketPlace.org
The Dr. Rima Network: www.DrRima.net
Food Freedom eJournal
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The Big Picture: 5 Ways to Know if You’re Making a Difference
David Korten

David Korten’s newly revised and greatly expanded 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, outlines an agenda to create a new kind of economy: locally-based, community oriented, and devoted to creating a better life for all.

In this special pre-publication excerpt Korten explains how to tell if your actions are helping to build the new economy that “must be lived into being from the bottom up.”

For the many millions of us working to create a better world, it is easy to feel discouraged by the seeming insignificance of even major successes relative to the scale of the problems we face as a nation and a species. Consumed by the details and challenges of our daily engagements, we may easily lose sight of the big picture of the powerful social dynamic to which our work is contributing.

Step back from time to time; take a breath, look out beyond the immediate horizon to bring that big picture back into perspective. Reflect in awe and wonder at the power of the larger social dynamic to which your work contributes.

In my career in international development, I saw, time and again, that the most successful projects were not the largest or the most carefully, centrally planned; they were the ones that arose from the bottom up. Likewise, successful social movements are emergent, evolving, radically self-organizing, and involve the dedicated efforts of many people, each finding the role that best uses his or her gifts and passions. Their scope and their success may not, at first, be readily apparent. Social movements grow and evolve around framing ideas and mutually supportive relationships instead of through top-down direction. New ideas gain traction, or not, depending on what works for those involved in the movement. Some alliances are fleeting; others endure.

The organism, not the machine, provides the appropriate metaphor. The relevant knowledge resides not in the heads of outside experts but in the people who populate the system. The challenge is to help them recognize, organize, and use that knowledge in ever more effective ways.

This is the model I think of when I think about what it will take to build the New Economy—one based on fulfilling the basic needs of people and planet—that we need. It’s also the way that that economy is already being built: step by step, in creative and surprising ways, by people looking for alternatives to a system that isn’t working for them.

To bring down the institutions of Empire, we must begin to build the rules, relationships, and institutions of a New Economy. These must be lived into being from the bottom up.

So how do you know whether your work is contributing to a big-picture outcome? If you can answer yes to any one of the following five questions, then be assured that it is.

1. Does it help discredit a false cultural story fabricated to legitimize relationships of domination and exploitation and to replace it with a true story describing unrealized possibilities for growing the real wealth of healthy communities?
2. Is it connecting others of the movement’s millions of leaders who didn’t previously know one another, helping them find common cause and build relationships of mutual trust that allow them to speak honestly from their hearts and to know that they can call on one another for support when needed?
3. Is it creating and expanding liberated social spaces in which people experience the freedom and support to experiment with living the creative, cooperative, self-organizing relationships of the new story they seek to bring into the larger culture?
4. Is it providing a public demonstration of the possibilities of a real-wealth economy?
5. Is it mobilizing support for a rule change that will shift the balance of power from the people and institutions of the Wall Street phantom-wealth economy to the people and institutions of living-wealth Main Street economies?

These are useful guidelines for setting both individual and group priorities. Bear in mind that in a systems-change undertaking of this magnitude, there is no magic bullet and no one is going to make it happen on their own, so don’t be discouraged if the world looks much the same today despite your special and heroic effort yesterday. It took five thousand years to create the mess we are in today. It will take more than a few days to set it right.

David Korten adapted this article from the newly revised and expanded 2nd edition ofAgenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, available for advance purchase from the YES! Magazine web store.

David is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine, co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, president of the People-Centered Development Forum, and a founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE). His books include Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, and the international best seller When Corporations Rule the World.

Mercury in Vaccines Not IN SPITE of Devastating Toxicity, But BECAUSE Of It?

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Could mercury be included in vaccines not in spite of its devastating whole-body, all-systems toxicity, but BECAUSE it it? Read what Dr. Paul G. King, http://www.Mercury-freeDrugs.org, has to say on the topic.

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Does, asks Dr. King, the use of mercury (Thimerosal) make any sense in vaccines as a preservative and antiseptic since it is not an antiseptic, not a preservative, nor is it safe? No, it does not. So why, Dr. King asks, is it used? What could possibly explain the available data? Perhaps that data is explained by the unthinkable: that Thimerasol is included in vaccines precisely because it is a systemic poison.

That is a horrific and close-to-unthinkable idea unless…. unless you look at that data. The questions of why anyone would poison our children “unto the seventh generation” is not one that Dr. King takes up. I do. I maintain that the sustainability of the globalists, which they do so love to talk about, is their reason for poisoning us with vaccines, Codex-degraded foods, pollution, deadly medicines and, yes, vaccines.

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http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=189EDITORIAL – 23-06-2010
Thimerosal in Vaccines: A ‘Profitable’ Medical Maiming Agent?
Introduction to Thimerosal, a Highly Toxic Organic Mercury Compound

Paul G. King, PhD

Since the mid-1800s, we have been, and are being, exposed to increasing background levels of elemental,
inorganic, and naturally occurring organic mercury.

However, the history of mercury-containing poisons turned much more deadly when people began to make
synthetic organic mercury compounds specifically designed to be more toxic [1] to life than the common environmental inorganic mercury compounds.

[1] On a relative scale where metallic mercury has a relative toxicity of “1”, inorganic mercury compounds typically are “10 times more toxic as a group and organic mercury compounds are “100 to 1000” times more toxic on a weight basis than metallic mercury.

It is against this background that a chemist, M. S. Kharasch, synthesized a variety of “alkyl mercuric sulfur”
compounds, including sodium ethyl mercuric thiosalicylate [2], in the 1920s.

[2] Based on recent studies, this compound is on a molar basis at least 10 times more toxic to developing neurons and astrocytes than the methyl mercury compounds found in fish.

In 1928, the US Patent Office granted Kharasch a patent (“Alkyl Mercuric Sulfur Compound and Process for Producing it. US Patent 1,672,615”), relating to this alkylmercury sulfur-containing compound, which he had synthesized in the laboratory, and to the process for producing it.

He assigned this patent, along with two follow-on patents: “Kharasch, M. S. 1932. Stabilized Bactericide and Process of Stabilizing it. US Patent 1,862,896” and “Kharasch, M. S. 1935. Stabilized Organo-Mercuri-Sulphur Compounds. US Patent 2,012,820”, to the company for whom he worked, Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) [3].

[3] These patents clearly established the instability of water- containing solutions of sodium ethyl mercuric thiosalicylate such as those in vaccine formulations.

The “safety” studies Lilly-affiliated personnel conducted on this compound were limited to some cursory animal toxicity studies that killed many of the test animals, and a specious test on some patients dying from bacterial
meningitis in the days before modern antibiotics.

In spite of the obviously highly toxic nature of this mercury compound and its instability in water-containing solutions, Lilly chose to manufacture and market this compound under the trade name “Merthiolate” [4] in the 1930s.

[4] “Mer” from mercury and “thiolate” from thiosalicylate”. The other trade names for this compound include: Merfamin, Merthiolate sodium, Mertorgan, Merzonin, Merzonin sodium, SET, Thimerosal, Thimerosalate, and, principally in Europe, Thiomersal and Thiomersalate.

Lilly sold Merthiolate as a 0.1% alcohol solution [5] (Tincture of Merthiolate), which it promoted as a “safe” and “effective” over-the- counter (O-T-C) topical antiseptic.

[5] As studies conducted in the 1930s and 1940s clearly established, the only effective antiseptic was the alcohol in the tincture – Merthiolate/Thimerosal, ateven levels of 0.1%, was neitheran effective antiseptic nor bactericidal.

Lilly marketed this O-T-C antiseptic without any valid toxicological proof of either Merthiolate’s “safety” (or its “effectiveness” as an antiseptic beyond that of the alcohol in which it was dissolved) from the early 1930s.

It also used this compound, also trade-named Thimerosal, as a preservative in the serum and vaccine products Lilly sold until the mid- 1970s [6].

[6] When it exited the vaccines business in the mid-1970s, Lilly licensed the use of its proprietary processes for the manufacture of Thimerosal- preserved vaccines to other vaccine makers and, until 1994, continued to make the Thimerosal powder used in their manufacture.

In 1998, after decades of procrastinating, the US Food and and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of Merthiolate/Thimerosal and related mercury compounds as ingredients in the manufacture of O-T- C topical antiseptics and vaginal contraceptives.

The FDA banned these uses of these mercury compounds on the grounds that they were neither safe to be administered to humans nor effective as a bactericidal agent in such applications.

However, though the FDA recognized Merthiolate’s/Thimerosal’s lack of safety to humans at antiseptic levels (nominally, 0.1 % by weight/volume) and its failure to be an effective antiseptic or spermicide, the FDA continued to ignore the realities of Thimerosal’s toxicity when it is used in the making of prescription medicines, where it is used as a preservative and its nominal levels range up to 0.01% by weight/volume.

As of June 2010, the FDA continues to permit the use of Thimerosal in prescription drugs, including vaccines and other biological drug products.

Thus, without the required toxicological proofs of safety, Thimerosal is still being used in the manufacture of several FDA-
approved vaccines and other drugs.

From the early 1930s until the mid- 1970s, Lilly manufactured and distributed Thimerosal-preserved serums and vaccines under licenses granted by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), which regulated serums and vaccines.

In the late 1960s, because of the NIH’s mismanagement of vaccines, the oversight for serums and vaccines was transferred to the FDA.

Unfortunately, this transfer of oversight to the FDA included the transfer of key individuals from the NIH to the FDA’s then “Bureau of Biologics”.

Among the transfers was the then head of this FDA bureau, who continued to allow the use of Thimerosal as a preservative in biologics without the required toxicological proofs of safety.

Since 1973, all Thimerosal-containing serums and vaccines for use in humans have been regulated as biologics (biological drug products) under Title 21 of the United States Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR) in 21 CFR §§ 600 – 680, in specific, and under all of the applicable parts of 21 CFR, in general.

As of June 2010, the manufacturers who use it have apparently not proven that the use of Thimerosal as a “preservative” in such biological products is “safe” in the manner required by law.

This is the case because 21 CFR §610.15(a), the applicable current good manufacturing practice (CGMP) drug producer’s minimum nondischargeable “shall” compliance obligation, specifically requires: “Any preservative used shall be sufficiently nontoxic so that the amount present in the recommended dose of the product will not be toxic to the recipient” [7].

[7] Note: Scientifically, the dose of a compound is “nontoxic” when the maximum level present is properly proven to be below the compound’s NOAEL (no observed adverse-effect level) when, in the intended manner (injected in the case of vaccines), the appropriate animal surrogates for the most sensitive group for which the use of the compound is intended (for vaccines, the most sensitive groups are the fetuses of pregnant women and developing children) receives the maximum amount permitted in a single dose at a frequency that appropriately matches the maximum in the most sensitive group.

To be “sufficiently nontoxic”, as required here, the level of the preservative dose must be appropriately below the NOAEL by
more than one order of magnitude (> a factor of 10).

For example, if the NOAEL for injected Thimerosal in a vaccine formulation is about 0.01 micrograms/kg of body weight/per
day, then a maximum level of about 0.0001 micrograms/kg/day (a
factor of 100 lower) might be an appropriate to ensure that the dose delivered were “sufficiently nontoxic”.

The need for a safety factor of 100, or more, arises because of the highly toxic, bioaccumulative nature of Thimerosal and its metabolites. In most current Thimerosal- preserved vaccines, the nominal level of Thimerosal is on the order of nominally 100 micrograms per milliliter. Moreover, the developing fetus typically weighs in the range from less than 1 gram to no more than 6 kg.

Thus, it is obvious that Thimerosal is much too toxic for 0.5-mL injections into the pregnant woman (delivering nominally up to 50 micrograms of Thimerosal to the fetus) to be safe since the maximum level could exceed 50,000 micrograms of Thimerosal per kilogram of fetal weight during the early weeks of pregnancy!

Today, Thimerosal, sodium ethyl-mercurithiosalicylate, is a recognized human teratogen, mutagen, carcinogen,
immune-system disruptor, and reproductive toxin at levels well below 1 part per million (ppm).

With the preceding background in mind, let us consider the “criteria” for a profitable medical population-maiming
agent and then assess how well Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines meets these criteria.

The “Criteria” for a Long-term ‘Profitable’ Medical Population-Maiming Agent

1. Hidden sub-acutely toxic doses of the poison must be given to each cohort of developing children before, or shortly after, birth and periodically afterward in some medicine.

Ideally, for a mass poison that is intended to “permanently” maim, but not kill, many of those who are given it, the poison needs to be given as soon as possible to as many of the target population as possible – in all parts of the target country at about the same time.

Thus, when the target is humans, the first characteristic must be that, before birth or as soon as possible after birth, almost every child must be covertly exposed to a suitably “toxic” dose of the poison.

This non-lethal, sub-acutely toxic dose must be sufficient to slowly poison some small percentage of those given it in a manner that, over time, renders them chronically ill.

In addition, to maximize the cumulative profit, almost every child must be given multiple sub-acute doses
of this poison as he or she develops.


This tactic helps to ensure:
o The percentage chronically harmed will increase over time, and
o The general population will be slow to connect the harm done to the concealed poison repeatedly administered to the developing children.

2. The doses of the poison must be portrayed as contributing to the “safety” of the product in which they are placed and the public must consider the products containing the doses of poison to be “vital” for developing children to receive

To permit the poisoning to proceed for a long time before anyone starts to notice it, the population as a whole, an especially those administering the poisoning doses, must not notice the poison or, if they do notice it, perceive that the dose being given is an insignificant dose.

In addition, the poison should be presented as a contributor to the “safety” of the medical product in which it is delivered.

Finally, the poison should be concealed in a medical product that the public perceives, or is led to believe, is necessary or vital for most all children to receive.


3. Each small dose of the poison must cause chronic disease in some who are given more of it

The third key for an exquisite mass-use poison is that only a single small dose is required to cause long-term toxic effects in some, with successive doses causing increasing effects in an increasing percentage of the population.


4. The poison’s effects must be time delayed and/or slow to develop

The fourth attribute for a near-ideal mass poison is that its observable poisoning effects must be delayed and/or slow to develop so that the resulting poisoning is not closely associated with the maiming doses’ delivery.

5. The poison must be a systemic Poison

The fifth characteristic for a “ideal” mass poison is that it must be a systemic poison that affects all of the biological systems of the targeted population to varying degrees.

This ensures that the agent’s harm is harder to recognize because the poison’s effects are not be limited to
one specific organ (e.g., heart) or system (e.g., immune system).

6. When recognized, the poison must be difficult to remove and/or to reverse its ill effects

The sixth attribute for a mass poison designed to provoke chronic disease must be that, once the poisoning is
finally recognized, the poison’s final metabolic products must be bioaccumulative persistent toxins that are difficult to remove from the body or hard to neutralize – making the chronic effects difficult and/or medically costly to reverse.

7. The poison and/or its metabolites must be soluble in aqueous and non-aqueous systems

The seventh design parameter for an effective mass poison must be that the poison and/or its immediate toxic
metabolites are soluble in both aqueous (hydrophilic) and non-aqueous (hydrophobic) regions of the body to ensure that as many organs and systems as possible are adversely affected in as many manners as achievable in the target population.

8. The poison must induce multi-generational adverse genetic and/or epigenetic effects in some of those who are dosed with it

The eighth key characteristic is that the poison must have some probability that some of its adverse health effects will be passed on to some of the offspring that those who are directly poisoned may subsequently bear or father so that, even when the poison’s use is finally stopped, it will continue to generate chronic illness in some children for generations to come.

9. The Establishment must claim that the poison is “safe” and block the requisite toxicity studies that would prove it is not “safe”

The ninth key, for our ideal mass poison, is that the medical establishment, drug makers, health officials, all the relevant government agencies and the mainstream media must not only claim that this poison is “safe” at the level used but also
refuse to conduct, and/or otherwise block, the appropriate toxicity studies that would reveal its true
toxicity.

Thimerosal at Preservative Levels in Vaccines: An Ideal Poison for Medical Mass Maiming?

From the history of its discovery, isolation and characterization, it is clear that Thimerosal is not stable when dissolved in aqueous environments.

Then, why would any firm knowingly choose Thimerosal for use as a preservative in water-based (aqueous) vaccine formulations when it is unstable in aqueous solutions?

Moreover, if one were looking for a preservative that was “safe” and “effective”, why would a firm choose to use Thimerosal, a compound that:
o Becomes more toxic over time when dissolved in isotonic pH-buffered physiological saline, and
o Rapidly losses its effectiveness as a “preservative” in serums
and vaccines, when exposed to common protein components present in such products?

Yet, Lilly used Thimerosal/Merthiolate as a preservative (nominally, at .01%) in its serum and vaccine products from the 1930s until the mid-1970s when it exited the vaccines business.

In addition, along with other firms, Lilly marketed Thimerosal as an O-T-C topical antiseptic (Merthiolate) until the late-1990s, when, on the grounds of a lack of safety and a lack of effectiveness unequivocally established in the 1970s, the FDA finally banned its use as an ingredient in such O-T-C antiseptics and vaginal contraceptives.

Further, the Thimerosal-preserved early childhood vaccines (like Lilly’s DT and DPT vaccines) appear to meet the first two criteria for a profitable population-maiming agent:
1. An early population-wide deployment that maximizes the profit potential, and
2. The concealment of an “inconspicuous” amount (1 part in 10,000) of the agent as a “helpful” substance (a “preservative”) in “life saving” vaccines given several times in early childhood.

Thus, besides Tincture of Merthiolate, touted as a “safe” and “effective” topical antiseptic but not universally used by pregnant women or on young developing children, the first Thimerosal-based mass-maiming agents deployed appear to be the injected Thimerosal-preserved DT and DTP Vaccines [8], which Lilly made for administration to babies several times before their first birthday.
[8] After Lilly exited the vaccine market, other vaccine makers, principally what is now Sanofi Pasteur and GlaxoSmithKline as well as other vendors have marketed Thimerosal-preserved vaccines including some that are still being manufactured to this very day and are approved for US use.

From the 1980s until the early 2000s, in addition to Thimerosal- preserved DT and DTP vaccines, Thimerosal-preserved Td, TT, Hib, Hep B, Meningococccal, Inactivated-influenza and other vaccines were approved for use in various population segments including, for the Hib and Hep B vaccines, children.

With the phasing out of the Thimerosal-preserved DTP, Hib and Hep B vaccines as well as the Thimerosal-preserved Rho(D) products given to Rh-negative women during pregnancy in the early 2000s, in 2002, the CDC moved to replace the lost Thimerosal-maiming doses with the mercury in inactivated-influenza shots to be given to pregnant women and children 6 months to 23 months of age. By steadily increasing the upper end of the age range for
the children until it was up to 18 years in 2009, recommending 2 shots the first time a child is vaccinated for influenza, and, in the 2009-2010 flu season, adding recommendations that included one Thimerosal-preserved inactivated- influenza 2009-A-H1N1 vaccine for pregnant women and two additional doses of what could be a Thimerosal-preserved 2009-A-H1N1 vaccine for children under 9 years of age and 1 dose for those over nine years of age, the CD has effectively more than replaced the mercury removed for most of the pregnant women and children because most doses of
the inactivated-influenza vaccines (nearly 100% in the 2002-2003 flu season, and at least 75% in the 2009-2010 flu season) were Thimerosal-preserved doses.

The CDC’s recommendation to give flu shots to pregnant women is particularly egregious because all flu vaccines are: a)
“Pregnancy Category C” drugs, whose fetal and reproductive safety and effects have never been properly established and b)
drugs that have also not been tested for mutagenicity and carcinogenicity.

These Lilly vaccines were touted as life saving drugs that “immunized” (bulletproofed) children from getting deadly diseases, diphtheria (D), tetanus (T), and pertussis (P; whooping cough), which were often fatal.

Moreover, each dose of these “preserved” vaccines directly delivered nominally 50 micrograms of Thimerosal (25 micrograms of organic mercury) – a level that is more than sufficient to cause a low-level of harm in susceptible babies [9].

[9] Based on the only FDA-recognized chronic rat study for injected Thimerosal, the “nontoxic” level for injected Thimerosal is somewhere below 0.0042 microgram of Thimerosal-derived mercury per kilogram per day [see:
http://mercury-freedrugs.org/docs/090812_fnldrft_TheTruthAboutTheToxicityOfThimerosalr5b.pdf,
“The ‘Truth’ About The Toxicity Of Thimerosal (12 August 2009; 6 pages)”].

Based on several independent retrospective statistical population records studies, an exposure increase of 200 micrograms of Thimerosal (100 micrograms of organic mercury) in children vaccinated during their first year of life has been proven to be a statistically significant, or nearly statistically significant, population risk factor for a variety of serious childhood medical conditions (e.g., autism, tics, and, most recently, premature puberty).

In some reported monkey studies, a single weight-proportional birth dose of a Thimerosal-preserved hepatitis B vaccine has been shown to cause subtle, but serious, adverse effects on their early development.

Thus, Thimerosal, at preservative levels in vaccines, appears to meet the third criterion.

Moreover, the principal persistent adverse effects, like loss of words, failure to thrive, tics, or premature puberty, that have been linked to Thimerosal exposure from the injection of Thimerosal-preserved vaccines, are delayed effects.

In most cases, the exposed infant in America appears to progress normally for some period after the initial or one of the subsequent poisonings (e.g., at 2, 4, and 6 months for the Thimerosal-preserved DTP vaccines up until 2004, or at before birth and 6 [and 7] months for the Thimerosal-preserved flu shots that the CDC started ‘encouraging’ healthcare professionals to give pregnant women and healthy babies in 2002) [10].

[10] Building on the DTP program, the Thimerosal exposures were increased to at birth, 2 and 4 to 6 months when the early hepatitis B program was introduced in the 1990s, in addition to 3 more doses (at 2, 4, and 6 months) from the Hib
vaccines introduced in the late 1980s.
Further, as the level of Thimerosal was being reduced in the early childhood vaccines, the CDC started making recommendations that pregnant women and healthy children at 6 to 23 months of age receive the Thimerosal-preserved inactivated-influenza vaccines in 2002.

Currently, the CDC recommends inactivated-influenza vaccination for pregnant women and children at 6 and 7 months and annually thereafter, where the majority (not less than 75%) of the available doses are Thimerosal-preserved. In addition, in 2009 the CDC recommended an additional 2009- A-H1N1 inactivated-influenza vaccine shot for pregnant women; two of these flu shots for children up to age 9; and one of these flu shots for those 9 and older – where most all of the available doses of the 2009-A-H1N1 flu shots were again Thimerosal-preserved inactivated-vaccine doses.

Then, the susceptible exposed infant begins to “regress” or “change” as the symptoms of the maiming become evident months (usually, at or after 1 year of age) or, in the case of premature puberty (and probably childhood MS), several years later.

Thus, Thimerosal clearly satisfies the fourth, “effects delayed and/or slow to develop”, criterion for an effective population-maiming agent.

Thimerosal clearly satisfies the fifth criterion because it is a proven systemic human poison at low levels (part-per million and lower).

For example, Thimerosal is a known human carcinogen, mutagen, teratogen, immune-system disruptor and reproductive toxin (by California Prop 65 criteria) at levels below 1 part- per-million (ppm) of Thimerosal in the body.

Further, Thimerosal’s end-product metabolites are tissue-bound inorganic mercury species that have human half- lives on the order of one to two decades, depending on the tissue.

Thus, it is clear that Thimerosal is a bioaccumulative persistent toxin.

Moreover, as studies in monkeys have established, the tissue-bound “inorganic mercury” species form faster when an ethyl mercury compound was administered than when a similar methyl mercury compound was administered.

In addition, even when aggressive “mercury chelating” agents, like DMSA and DMPS, are used, the level of mercury “bound” in the tissues can only be slowly reduced.

Typically, chelation takes years to significantly reduce the poisoned individuals’ body-burden of tissue- associated, “inorganic” mercury to the point that those reversible [11] symptoms induced by the mercury- poisoning events are minimized or, in some instances, are apparently eliminated.

[11] Unfortunately, unless tested for mercury toxicity and treated before the adverse effects produce persistent symptoms, some of the developmental harm done seems, at present, to be non-reversible in many
instances.

Thus, Thimerosal has the characteristics required for the sixth key attribute for a maiming poison because any exposure to it can slowly provoke a wide range of chronic adverse clinical conditions and its mercury containing end-point metabolites (tissue-bound “inorganic mercury”) are difficult to remove from the tissues in which they reside.

Further, when a Thimerosal-containing solution enters the human body, the Thimerosal present reacts with the body’s aqueous fluids to form the following organic compounds:
– Ethyl mercury chloride (EtHgCl), which is highly lipophilic (hydrophobic);
– Ethyl mercury hydroxide (EtHgOH), which is highly hydrophilic; and
– Sodium thiosalicylate, which is further metabolized in the body.

Since both of the initial ethyl-mercury-containing metabolites of Thimerosal are small neutral species, they:
– Are easily transported within the human body;
– Apparently cross or circumvent the blood-brain barrier and cross the placenta and enter the fetus; and
– Once inside a given tissue, are rapidly converted into tissue-associated “inorganic mercury” that tends to bioaccumulate in
that tissue.

Given the preceding realities, it is clear that Thimerosal and its mercury-containing metabolites directly and indirectly poison almost all human biological processes to some degree wherever a mercury species can interfere with the body’s fundamental systems.

Thus, Thimerosal’s rapid breakdown in the human body into small neutral mercury-poisoning metabolites (that are both hydrophilic and hydrophobic and which migrate into the tissues and are converted into tissue-resident “inorganic mercury”) satisfies the seventh criterion for an exquisite mass-maiming poison.

Further, based on multi-generational reproduction experiments done in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) [12], sub-acute Thimerosal exposure is clearly capable of inducing epigenetic and/or genetic changes in the offspring who are exposed to Thimerosal in utero.

[12] Goncharuk GA. Experimental investigation of the effect of organomercury pesticides on generative functions and on progeny. Hyg Sanit. 1971; 36: 40-43.

The changes induced in utero were shown to be expressed in the non- Thimerosal-exposed second-generation offspring of the first-generation of indirectly exposed offspring.

Thus, Thimerosal, used as a preservative in vaccines, appears to be a multi-generational poison.

Moreover, these experimental findings help to explain why the then USSR, already experiencing a population decline, was the first European nation to ban the use of Thimerosal in vaccines (in the early 1980s) – more than 2 decades before the US finally began slowly reducing the level of Thimerosal in the previously Thimerosal preserved early childhood vaccines.

While, obviously driven by other imperatives, the FDA continued to approve additional Thimerosal- preserved vaccines (e.g., the vaccines for hepatitis B and Haemopholis influenza type B) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continued to add these additional FDA-approved Thimerosal-preserved vaccines to the recommendations for the national childhood vaccination program.

Thus, Thimerosal apparently meets the eighth key attribute for a near-ideal population-maiming toxin – its maiming effects can be transferred to the offspring of mothers who were themselves exposed during pregnancy as long as these in-utero-exposed ‘potential mothers’ are not so damaged that they are “miscarried” or they cannot bear children.

Finally, given:
-The official positions taken by the medical establishment, the vaccine makers, the health officials, academia, all relevant governmental agencies and the mainstream media that the use of Thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines is “safe” and
-The refusal of all to conduct (or report to the public) all of the applicable toxicity studies required to prove that this use of Thimerosal is “safe”,
Thimerosal clearly satisfies the ninth key factor for a near-ideal population-maiming poison that is touted a “beneficial” component (a preservative) and added to “life saving” vaccines that all American children are recommended to be repeatedly
given.

Thimerosal at Preservative Levels in Vaccines: A Near-ideal Medical Agent for ‘Profitable’ Mass Maiming

Thus, Thimerosal’s use as a “presser- vative” in medical vaccines seems to meet all nine (9) of the criteria for a ‘profitable’ medical mass-maiming poison.

Further, it seems clear that Lilly and the current vaccine manufacturers, which, without complying with 21 CFR § 610.15(a), continued to use Thimerosal as a preservative in vaccines and/or to
apparently profit from its on-going use, have been knowingly engaged in the apparent medical poisoning of
American children for decades in order to, at some point, profit over several decades from the Thimerosal-induced increase in the level of children in the USA who have life-long chroni health conditions (e.g., for ‘autism’, from less than 1 in 1000 children born in 1955 to more than 1 in 100 born in 2005; and, for asthma, from less than 1 in 1000 children in the 1950s to greater than 1 in 10 born in the 21st century).

Finally, these actions have apparently been, and are still being, undertaken with the tacit consent and/or assistance of all the Thimerosal-use-sup- porting facets of the Establishment.

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Concluding Remarks

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Fatal FDA Follies

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

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Fatal FDA Follies

You know that the FDA is so riddled with corruption and industry influence, that the good men and women who work there as scientists wrote to Obama after his election, but before his inauguration, pleading with him to clean house there1. Of course, no new broom swept the FDA clean.

New Users Fees will increase the ownership of the FDA by Big Pharma to the tune of a 65% increase, we have learned. All in all, the increase means the Fraud and Death Administration, which approves the leading cause of death in the US, properly used drugs and vaccines, will get a budget increase of a whopping 23% from $3.3 Billion to $4+ Billion.

Big Pharma, Big Chema, Big Agribiz and, even more horrifyingly, Big Biotech literally own the decision makers there. Big Pharma provides more than half of the FDA’s operating budget through “User Fees”, which are, in essence a tax on the end use, the patient, since the cost is passed directly on to the consumer. Worse, these User Fees turn the FDA, which is supposed to regulate the drug industry, into its client.

Add to this the fact that FDA decision makers are, astonishingly, permitted to own patents, stock options, shares, receive research grants, speaker’s honoraria and other significant financial rewards from the companies, and for the products, that they are approving and you can see why so many deadly drugs, like the Rotovac© Vaccine, Vioxx© and Avianda©, along with dangerous ingredients like Thimerosal, are regulated into high-profit marketability.

The User Fee hikes mean that Big Pharma’s contribution to its own regulatory agency will provide more than $1.1 Billion of the Agency’s 2011 budget.2

The LA Times Reports:

“The healthy increase in the face of the sagging economy and a debt-ridden federal government is a testament to 1) the FDA’s increasingly complex responsibilities monitoring a global supply chain in both food and drugs, 2) to a perception that the agency has been underfunded for many years, and 3) to its new duties as a regulator of tobacco. The FDA’s budget has swelled by 78% since 2008 and no agency programs are on an Office of Management and Budget hit list of line items slated for extinction or downsizing.

The increased spending would allow the FDA to add 1,200 jobs, expanding its workforce by 10%. Key boosts in spending for 2011 include $318 million to improve food safety, $215 million for anti-smoking programs and $100 million to improve the safety of drugs and medical devices.
More than one-third of the 2011 budget — about $1.5 billion — would come from user fees paid by businesses that make payments for FDA services such as evaluating new applications for drugs and medical devices. The FDA is collecting about $920 million in user fees this year, so the new figure represents a whopping 63% increase.

The increase in the “budget authority,” or tax-funded component of the budget, is relatively modest by comparison, rising 6% to $2.5 billion from $2.36 billion.”3

What does that mean for you? That more dangerous drugs and vaccines will be on shelves and in doctor’s offices, waiting to make a profit that is to die for.

Bill Gates Opens the Depopulation Floodgates

Oh, yes, the FDA, along with its playmate, the Phama Phunded WHO, has another little surprise in store for you: Permanent infertility without your knowledge or wish.4

Dangerous vaccines, approved at the behest of the FDA’s ownership, Big Pharma, are not only untested, unnecessary, unsafe and uninsurable (which is why we are suing the FDA to prevent any influenza shots, including the H1N1, from being used on people) but that they are knowingly designed to produce widespread permanent infertility and thus, population reduction against the wishes, and without the knowledge, of the women rendered infertile.

The Natural Solutions Foundation has been telling you this for quite some time and have so stated publicly. Many people have a hard time believing it, especially since it involves the World Health Organization, a seemingly high minded and benign organization. We know, of course that it is no more that than the FDA is.

“The idea of using vaccines to covertly reduce births in the Third World is also not new. Bill Gates’ good friend, David Rockefeller and his Rockefeller Foundation were involved as early as 1972 in a major project together with WHO and others to perfect another ‘new vaccine.’

The results of the WHO-Rockefeller project were put into mass application on human guinea pigs in the early 1990’s. The WHO oversaw massive vaccination campaigns against tetanus in Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines. Comite Pro Vida de Mexico, a Roman Catholic lay organization, became suspicious of the motives behind the WHO program and decided to test numerous vials of the vaccine and found them to contain human Chorionic Gonadotrophin, or hCG. That was a curious component for a vaccine designed to protect people against lock-jaw arising from infection with rusty nail wounds or other contact with certain bacteria found in soil. The tetanus disease was indeed, also rather rare. It was also curious because hCG was a natural hormone needed to maintain a pregnancy. However, when combined with a tetanus toxoid carrier, it stimulated formation of antibodies against hCG, rendering a woman incapable of maintaining a pregnancy, a form of concealed abortion. Similar reports of vaccines laced with hCG hormones came from the Philippines and Nicaragua.”5

AOf course, once the citizens of the developed nations stayed away in droves from the bogus H1N1 “Pandemic” vaccination, their governments came up with a plan to get rid of multi billions of dollars worth of useless vaccines: dump it on the third world!

“In the aftermath of the most recent unnecessary Pandemic declaration of a global H1N1 swine flu emergency, industrial countries were left sitting on hundreds of millions of doses of untested vaccines. They decided to get rid of the embarrassing leftover drugs by handing them over to the WHO which in turn plans to dump them for free on select poor countries. France has given 91 million of the 94 million doses the Sarkozy government bought from the pharma giants; Britain gave 55 million of its 90 million doses. The story for Germany and Norway is similar.

As Dr. Thomas Jefferson, an epidemiologist with the Cochrane Research Center in Rome noted, “Why do they give the vaccines to the developing countries at all? The pandemic has been called off in most parts of the world. The greatest threat in poor countries right now is heart and circulatory diseases while the virus figures at the bottom of the list. What is the medical reason for donating 180 million doses?” As well, flu is a minor problem in countries with abundant sunshine, and it turned out that the feared H1N1 Pandemic “new great plague” was the mildest flu on record.

The pharmaceutical vaccine makers do not speak about the enormous health damage from infant vaccination including autism and numerous neuro-muscular deformities that have been traced back to the toxic adjuvants and preservatives used in most vaccines. Many vaccines, especially multi-dose vaccines that are made more cheaply for sale to the Third World, contain something called Thimerosal (Thiomersol in the EU), a compound (sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate), containing some 50% mercury, used as a preservative.

In July 1999 the US’ National Vaccine Information Center declared in a press release that, “The cumulative effects of ingesting mercury can cause brain damage.” The same month, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) alerted the public about the possible health effects associated with thimerosal-containing vaccines. They strongly recommended that thimerosal be removed from vaccines as soon as possible. Under the directive of the FDA Modernization Act of 1997, the Food and Drug Administration also determined that infants who received several thimerosal-containing vaccines may be receiving mercury exposure over and above the recommended federal guidelines.”6

GMOs: Genocidally Modified Organisms

If you have been following the Natural Solutions Foundation’s health Freedom Action eAlerts for some time, you have read numerous articles and studies showing just how dangerous GMO “foods” really are. You know that they contaminate species other than their own, increase herbicide and pesticide use and intake, reduce genetic diversity, sow economic and social havoc, cause infertility, auto immune problems, loss of babies in the womb, and a host of other serious problems. You also know that they are approved for sale in the US without any labeling by the industry-friendly FDA. You recall that Dr. Barbara Schneeman told a Codex meeting on labeling GMO “foods” that the US knew that consumers overwhelmingly rejected GMOs but the FDA thought that was a mistake, so they forbade the labeling of GMOs to prevent people from rejecting them in error! (Oslo, 2008). You know that they are untested and that the FDA and USDA MAY NOT examine safety testing, or conduct any, yet they approve them for widespread human and animal use. If you visit our Health Freedom Blog and look for “GMO Files” in our search engine, you’ll find a great deal of scientific documentation making it clear that GMOs are astoundingly dangerous and shockingly untested.

You will also know well that GMOs are being pushed on Africa as a way of controlling the population there? Studies show that organ damage follows ingesting GMO corn for just 90 days7 and that fertility and successful pregnancies are strikingly reduced through eating GMO foods8 and that cancer is related to eating GMO “food” as well.9

“GMO crops have never been proven safe for human or animal consumption. Moreover, they are inherently genetically ‘unstable’ as they are an unnatural product of introducing a foreign bacteria such as Bacillus Thuringiensis (Bt) or other material into the DNA of a given seed to change its traits. Perhaps equally dangerous are the ‘paired’ chemical herbicides sold as a mandatory part of a GMO contract, such as Monsanto’s Roundup, the most widely used such herbicide in the world. It contains highly toxic glyphosate compounds that have been independently tested and proven to exist in toxic concentrations in GMO applications far above that safe for humans or animals. Tests show that tiny amounts of glyphosate compounds would do damage to a human umbilical, embryonic and placental cells in a pregnant woman drinking the ground water near a GMO field.

One long-standing project of the US Government has been to perfect a genetically-modified variety of corn, the diet staple in Mexico and many other Latin American countries. The corn has been field tested in tests financed by the US Department of Agriculture along with a small California bio-tech company named Epicyte. Announcing his success at a 2001 press conference, the president of Epicyte, Mitch Hein, pointing to his GMO corn plants, announced, “We have a hothouse filled with corn plants that make anti-sperm antibodies.”

Hein explained that they had taken antibodies from women with a rare condition known as immune infertility, isolated the genes that regulated the manufacture of those infertility antibodies, and, using genetic engineering techniques, had inserted the genes into ordinary corn seeds used to produce corn plants. In this manner, in reality they produced a concealed contraceptive embedded in corn meant for human consumption. “Essentially, the antibodies are attracted to surface receptors on the sperm,” said Hein. “They latch on and make each sperm so heavy it cannot move forward. It just shakes about as if it was doing the lambada.” Hein claimed it was a possible solution to world “over-population.” The moral and ethical issues of feeding it to humans in Third World poor countries without their knowing it countries he left out of his remarks.

Spermicides hidden in GMO corn provided to starving Third World populations through the generosity of the Gates’ foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Kofi Annan’s AGRA or vaccines that contain undisclosed sterilization agents are just two documented cases of using vaccines or GMO seeds to “reduce population.”10

By the way, what makes people in the Third World sterile, sick and suffering when they eat it, makes you that way, too. This is not a problem of the haves and the have nots. This is a problem of they tyrants and the free men and women they are seeking to oppress and kill – us.

Click here, http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2047, to tell the US Government in our millions, that we demand an immediate ban on all GMO life forms. If enough of us wage this battle, we will win it. Click here, now, and then send it to your contacts!

And for more about the FDA’s new budget increases, based on a hidden consumption tax, see our Counsel Ralph Fucetola JD’s comments:


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1 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123142562104564381.html

2 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/02/food-and-drug-administration-in-line-for-another-budget-boost.html

3 ibid

4 http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=3260&end=3280&view=yes&id=4385#newspost

5 ibid

6 ibid

7 http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2010/01/12/study-links-gm-corn-consumption-to-organ-damage/

8 http://www.opednews.com/articles/Austrian-Government-Study-by-Institute-for-Resp-081115-414.html

9 http://www.suite101.com/blog/oilsdragon/gmo_potatoes_cause_cancer_in_rats

10 http://www.theoneclickgroup.co.uk/news.php?start=3260&end=3280&view=yes&id=4385#newspost

Vacccine Files: Why Poison Our Kids? 75% of Those Fully Mumps Vaccinated Get the Disease!

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

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Vaccines are a magnificently financed, well-crafted fraud. They do not work. They are dangerous. There has NEVER been a single placebo-controlled, double blind standard to show whether vaccines do or do not protect against disease.

Kids vaccinated with seasonal influenza shots have three times the hospital admissions for all reasons. Asthma incidence and prevalence has gone up at the same rate as increases in pediatric vaccine schedule. Autism has followed the same curve. Infant mortality has, too, so that it is safer to be pregnant and give birth – for both mother and baby, in Bosnia than it is in the US where vaccines are ubiquitous.

People are getting wise and are becoming resistant to the lie that vaccines are safe or effective or, worse, both. They stayed away in droves from the H1N1 vaccine and, guess what? They did not die. Since the lab tests for H1N1 virus are wrong 90% of the time, and since nobody is doing those lab tests anymore, it is not clear that a single person has ever died from that genetically engineered, highly profitable virus.

It is clear, however, that no antibody produced by the body in response to a vaccine have ever been shown to protect the vaccinated person against the disease.

Vaccine programs create outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics.

Read the article following to see how it works and note carefully that 75% of the victims of mumps had been vaccinated either once or twice, considered full immunization by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5851a6.htm?s_cid=mm5851a6_e.

And be sure to read my Open Letter to Forbes Magazine’s absurd advice to “Just Get Vaccinated“, http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4568.

IF vaccines worked, perhaps the risk might be justified. When you clear away all the propaganda, though, the ultimate fact comes through: toxic and dangerous at all ages (seen the new ACIP schedule for adults yet? Click here: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5901-Immunization.pdf): the more vaccinations, the more toxic.
How many diseases are we willing to accept for a fraudulent procedure?
How many children are we willing to loose to it?
How many dollars are we willing to surrender to it when it simply turns us into life long ATMs for Big Pharma?
How many lies are we willing to look past because they are the social norm and truth challenges the astoundingly well-financed system of lies and deceit?
How many micrograms of aluminum, mercury (which literally changes not only our immune systems and brains, but our very DNA as well!), formaldehyde, leukemia viruses, antifreeze, infertility substances, fetal tissue, and other injected poisonous substances are we willing to offer ourselves and our children up for?

The Natural Solutions Foundation has initiated the Stop the Shot Federal Law Suit as our second round in legal assaults on this immoral poisoning of us all. Please support us in this health freedom battle for our very sustainability. If your tax deductible donation ends in the number “6”, your donation will automatically be earmarked for our legal fund.
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Oh, by the way, just a few days ago the New York State Legislature abandoned a vote on legislation which would have given the state permission to prevent or treat, including the use of vaccines, any sexually transmitted disease or anything related to one (which could be twisted into anything at all) WITHOUT PARENTAL KNOWLEDGE OR APPROVAL.
The uproar was so deafening that, once again, Push Back became Take Down and the vote was canceled. God job, New York State. You were an inspiration to the rest of us.

Oh, yes, one more thing: herd immunity is absurd. IF vaccines worked, they would provide individual immunity, and the herd would be totally irrelevant. More tobacco science. But, hey, what can you expect? It’s Big Pharma, the Mother of Lies!

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Vaccine Not Fail-Safe in Ongoing Mumps Outbreak
CDC says more than 1,500 cases have been reported in New York, New Jersey
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) — In a recent mumps outbreak occurring in the eastern United States, even some of those who were vaccinated against the infectious illness got sick, health officials report.

A study released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracked an ongoing outbreak of mumps, largely confined to an orthodox Hasidic Jewish group. The outbreak started among boys attending a religious summer camp in New York State and continued when the youngsters returned to their homes in New York and New Jersey. Currently some 1,521 cases have been reported, with more individuals coming down with the disease.

The mumps virus can cause swelling and pain in the salivary glands, giving people so-called “chipmunk cheeks,” as well as fever, headache, sore throat and pain when swallowing. Other symptoms include loss of appetite, vomiting and tired, achy muscles.

Symptoms can last for up to 10 days, and the disease can be spread one to two days before symptoms start and for up to nine days after symptoms appear. It can take up to 25 days after exposure to mumps before symptoms appear.

Mumps is a self-limiting disease with no specific treatment. It is best treated with bed rest and over-the-counter medications such as acetaminophen to reduce fever, according to the CDC.

“The outbreak has been ongoing since the end of June,” said study co-author and CDC epidemiologist Kathleen Gallagher. “Ninety-seven percent of cases are among this Jewish community.”

The outbreak has probably been confined to this group because they have less contact with the wider community, Gallagher noted.

She said the outbreak started in a summer boy’s camp. “The original [patient] case had traveled to Great Britain, where they are having, and have been having, an ongoing outbreak of mumps for a while now,” she said.

The report is published in the Feb. 12 edition of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Although the outbreak started among boys and remains mostly among them, the disease has spread to some adults and girls, Gallagher said. The concentration of the outbreak among boys is largely due to the separation of these boys and girls in school and other social and religious activities.

Most of the people who have become sick had received the mumps, measles and rubella vaccine (MMR), according to the report. In fact, 88 percent had received at least one dose of the vaccine and 75 percent had received two doses.

However, the vaccine is not 100 percent effective, the CDC team noted. Studies have found one dose 73 percent to 91 percent effective, while the effectiveness of two doses ranged from 79 percent to 95 percent, according to the report.

“That means if you were to expose 100 people to mumps, 10 of them might still come down with the disease,” Gallagher said. In this outbreak, these percentages are holding, she added.

Although the vaccine doesn’t protect everyone, it does work for most people and effectively prevents outbreaks from becoming worse. “We think that if we didn’t have such high levels of MMR coverage, we would have even more spread,” Gallagher said.

Outbreaks of mumps are not all that unusual, Gallagher said.

“We have had outbreaks of mumps in communities that have had two doses before,” she said. In 2006, there was a large outbreak of mumps among college students in the Midwest, she noted.

And mumps remains prevalent in other areas of the world.

“While we are well-vaccinated against mumps in the United States, many countries throughout the world don’t vaccinate at all against mumps,” she said. “There is a lot of mumps circulating globally. This means that anytime there is a potential for importation like happened with this summer camp, there is potential for mumps to be introduced even into a highly vaccinated population.”

More information

For more information on mumps, visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

SOURCES: Kathleen Gallagher, D.Sc, M.P.H., epidemiologist, Division of Viral Diseases, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta; Feb. 12, 2010, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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