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We have it on good authority that Ms. Hamburg is not ethically required to abstain from management decisions on the Virginia farm as it is not used for business.  This farm is privately owned for pleasure purposes.  Marti O. 

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Just another brick in the wall.  Although Hamburg and her hubby have had to divest themselves of drug company stocks and even though Ms. Hamburg worked for a medical supply company including the sale of vaccines, they will get to keep the partial ownership of Rockland Farm in Middleburg, Virginia but will abstain from any veterinary medicine or animal health issues and management decisions.  Well, of course they will!

May 20, 2009
Margaret Hamburg (CFR - Illumanati) is new FDA commissioner

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The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, will be the second woman to ever lead FDA. She comes from a background in public health and bioterrorism, and she appears to have the backing of the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

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Despite Hamburg’s lack of experience at the FDA,  the Senate unanimously confirmed her nomination on 18 May. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) endorsed the nomination, and lobbied for a quick confirmation.

This is why everyone is so keen to see her appointed …

1. Her father is David A Hamburg, an advisor to the board of  directors of the Nuclear Threat Initiative ( http://www.nti.org/b_aboutnti/b1_board.html ) of which she is a senior fellow specialising in their Biological programs.

2. Her Father David Hamburg is President Emeritus of The (Illuminati) Carnegie Corporation of New York .  http://www.nti.org/b_aboutnti/b1hamb.html

3. Margaret Hamburg is also a member of the (Illuminati) Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee of The (Illuminati) Rockefeller Foundation and Rockefeller University http://www.nti.org/b_aboutnti/b2_staffbios.html

4. She is a senior research fellow at the (Illuminati) Center for Strategic and International Studies whose trustees include the (Illuminati) Kissinger, Brzezinski, Carla Hills, Zalmay Khalilzad et al.  http://www.csis.org/about/trustees/

5. She is a trustee of the Sidwell Friend School Washington which happens to be where the children of Obama, Biden and formerly Clinton’s children attend.

6. She donated $10,000 to Obama’s 2008 Presidential election campaign and was nominated for the FDA chief’s position by Obama.

7. She is director of a medical equipment and vaccine supplier, Henry Schein. http://www.nndb.com/company/115/000123743/

8. She and her husband have a large portfolio of stocks and shares in major Big Pharma companies.  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124328188115551961.html?mod=googlenews_wsj9 .

Here is a summary of her connections:  http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?map=5543

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Margaret Hamburg, M.D.

Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., was confirmed on May 18, 2009 by a unanimous Senate voice vote to become the 21st Commissioner of Food and Drugs. The second woman to be nominated for that demanding position, Dr. Hamburg is exceptionally qualified for her new job by her training and experience as a medical doctor, scientist and public health executive.

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Dr. Hamburg graduated from Harvard Medical School, and completed her residency in internal medicine at what is now New York Presbyterian Hospital -- Weill Cornell Medical Center, one of the top-ten hospitals in the nation. She conducted research on neuroscience at Rockefeller University in New York, studied neuropharmacology at the National Institute of Mental Health on the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Md., and later focused on AIDS research as Assistant Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In 1990, Dr. Hamburg joined the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as Deputy Health Commissioner, and within a year was promoted to Commissioner, a position she held until 1997. During her tenure she was widely praised for her initiatives, decisive leadership, and significant public health measures she carried out despite severe budget constraints and while holding academic positions at Columbia University School of Public Health and Cornell University Medical College.

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Dr. Hamburg's accomplishments as New York's top public health official included improved services for women and children, needle-exchange programs to reduce the spread of HIV (the AIDS virus), and the initiation the first public health bio-terrorism defense program in the nation. Her most celebrated achievement, however, was curbing the spread of tuberculosis. In the 1990s, TB resurged as a major public health threat, largely because many patients did not complete the full course of the treatment and the disease became resistant to standard drugs. Dr. Hamburg confronted the problem by sending health care workers to patients’ homes and taking other steps to make sure they completed the drug regimen. Thanks to this program, in a five-year span, the TB rate in New York City fell by 46% overall, and 86% for the most drug-resistant strains. Dr. Hamburg's innovative approach has become a model for health departments world-wide.

In 1994, Dr. Hamburg was elected to the membership in the Institute of Medicine, one of the youngest persons to be so honored. Three years later, at the request of President Clinton, she accepted the position of Assistant Secretary for Policy and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

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In 2001, Dr. Hamburg became Vice President for Biological Programs at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a foundation dedicated to reducing the threat to public safety from nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. In that position, she has advocated broad reforms in public health infrastructure and policy, from local health departments to the national agency, in order to meet the dangers of modern bioterrorism as well as the threats of naturally occurring infectious diseases such as pandemic flu. Since 2005, Dr. Hamburg has served as the Initiative's Senior Scientist. President Barack Obama nominated her for the FDA Commissioner on March 25, 2009.

Upon Dr. Hamburg's confirmation by the U.S. Senate, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has praised her as "an inspiring public health leader with broad experience in infectious disease, bioterrorism, and health policy,” and added that "Personally, I have been impressed by the calm and confidence Dr. Hamburg has shown in the face of a wide variety of challenges."

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President Obama to Nominate Pro-Abortion Margaret Hamburg as FDA Director

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama plans to nominate former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg as the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Hamburg served as assistant HHS secretary during the Clinton administration and has been a key abstinence education opponent.

Hamburg takes a pro-abortion position and ran New York City's abortion counseling and family-planning centers for former mayor Rudy Giuliani. The nation's largest city is also the location of one of the highest abortion rates in the country.

A Giuliani aide once confirmed to the Village Voice newspaper that Hamburg supports abortion and said he "would never have considered anyone who wasn't pro-choice."

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Hamburg herself told the Village Voice in 2007 that "her pro-choice preferences were a given in the Giuliani administration."

She confirmed that she promoted abortion as the city's health commissioner saying, "There were no restrictions on abortion counseling."

While serving as New York City health commissioner, Hamburg opposed a "morality oath" put forth by the Board of Education in 1992 when New York City was considering abstinence-only sex education.

She also said that science-based public health strategies and not "moral judgment" or "wishful thinking" should be the basis of sexual education.

Meanwhile, Obama has picked Baltimore health commissioner Joshua Sharfstein, who led Obama's FDA transition team, as Hamburg's chief deputy.

Sharfstein is also pro-abortion and, in a 1991 article in the Harvard Crimson newspaper, wrote that pro-life laws "will undoubtedly undermine women's health. The reason is simple: It is more dangerous for a woman to go through childbirth than to have an abortion."

He said pro-life laws "force women to sacrifice their own health for the sake of their fetus--a responsibility not recognized anywhere else in American jurisprudence."

The FDA commissioner spot has been a controversial post.

In 2005, abortion advocates were delighted to see the resignation of FDA Commissioner Lester Crawford, who abruptly left his post just two months after the Senate confirmed him.

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News reports indicate personal issues may have caused him to step down, but pro-abortion groups were unhappy with the FDA's decision to delay approval of selling the morning after pill over the counter.

In addition to the controversy over the morning after pill, the FDA had been criticized for not being stringent enough on safety standards for the dangerous abortion drug RU 486.

Earlier this year, pro-life advocates were worried that Obama was considering Jane Henney to become the next head of the Food and Drug Administration.

Henney is a former FDA chief who oversaw the approval of the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug during the end of the Clinton administration.

Buzz up!

She-Viper Source of Energy For Reproduction

Karl Note: You could say that a "she-viper" has her best sex just after eating the enemy? There are TWO images of female vipers below.

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Some organisms rely on stored energy to fuel reproductive expenditure (capital breeders) whereas others use energy gained during the reproductive bout itself (income breeders).

Most species occupy intermediate positions on this continuum, but few experimental data are available on the timescale over which food intake can affect fecundity.

Mark–recapture studies of free-ranging female aspic vipers Vipera aspis have suggested that reproductive output relies not only on the energy in fat bodies accumulated in previous years, but also on food intake immediately before ovulation.

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A simple experiment was conducted to test this hypothesis, maintaining female snakes in captivity throughout the vitellogenic period and controlling their food intake. The energy input of a female strongly influenced the amount of mass that she gained and the number of ova that she ovulated.

Multiple regression showed that litter size in these snakes was affected both by maternal body condition in early spring (an indicator of foraging success over previous years) and by food intake in the spring before ovulation. Our experimental data thus reinforce the results of descriptive studies on free-ranging snakes, and emphasize the flexibility of energy allocation patterns among vipers. Reproducing female vipers may combine energy from ‘capital’ and ‘income’ to maximize their litter sizes in the face of fluctuating levels of prey abundance. (source)

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Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein was appointed by President Obama to be the FDA principal deputy commissioner. He served as Acting Commissioner for Food and Drugs from March 29 - May 25, 2009.

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From December 2005 through March 2009, Dr. Sharfstein was the Commissioner of Health for the City of Baltimore. In this position, he led efforts to expand literacy efforts in pediatric primary care, facilitate the transition to Medicare Part D for disabled adults, engage college students in public health activities, increase influenza vaccination of healthcare workers, and expand access to effective treatment for opioid addiction. Under his leadership, the Baltimore Health Department and its affiliated agencies have won multiple national awards for innovative programs, and in 2008, Dr. Sharfstein was named a Public Official of the Year by Governing Magazine.

From July 2001 to December 2005, Dr. Sharfstein served as minority professional staff of the Government Reform Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman Henry A. Waxman. Dr. Sharfstein is a 1991 graduate of Harvard College, a 1996 graduate of Harvard Medical School, a 1999 graduate of the combined residency program in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center, and a 2001 graduate of the fellowship in general pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine.

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Dr. Francis Collins -- Obama Campaigner -- Believes in the Brain as Link to Understanding Spirituality -- New NIH Director

BioLogos Foundation

Dr. Francis Collins

Founder, President

Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and for his leadership of the Human Genome Project.

BioLogos Foundation Articles

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As The BioLogos Foundation continues to gather content, this section will soon be home to all articles published by the staff of The BioLogos Foundation.

This section of BioLogos.org will offer a broad cross-section of materials related to the ongoing activities of the BioLogos team and our growing network of affiliated scholars. In this section, we will post interviews with scholars who work in the area of science and religion, as well as any articles published elsewhere, written by the BioLogos team.  The staff of The BioLogos Foundation have already published many articles, and this part of the website will let you keep up with their activities in that area.

For an example of our most recent writing, follow the link below:

The Neuroscience of Creativity

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With a three-year grant for $600,000, Dr. Rex Jung and his colleagues at the Mind Research Network and the University of New Mexico are conducting neuroscientific research on visual artists and other individuals who have exhibited talent in science, technology, and mathematics. Their goal is to discover the link between human creativity and discrete brain regions and modes of neuronal operation. Using a combination of neuro-imaging techniques, they hope to better understand the interplay among brain structure, cognitive function, and behavior associated with the creative process.

Results of their research were recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Describing this work, New Scientist wrote: "There may be more to creativity than simply letting the ideas flow. Brain measurements of a 'creativity chemical' are revealing a complex interplay between ingenuity and intelligence."

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Collins is also known for his consistent emphasis on the importance of ethical and legal issues in genetics.

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Formerly an atheist, Collins became a Christian in his 20s after realizing that his atheist perspective was unable to provide answers to profound questions about the meaning of life, and was inconsistent with observations about the nature of the universe and of humankind. He wrote about how he found harmony between the scientific and spiritual worldviews in The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press, 2006), which spent 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Collins coined the term “BioLogos” to describe the conclusions he had reached about how life (Bios) came about through God’s speaking it into being (Logos); in that sense DNA can be considered metaphorically as God’s language. Collins was the keynote speaker at the U.S. National Prayer Breakfast in 2007, and gives frequent lectures about science and faith on college campuses that regularly attract more than 1000 attendees. He is currently writing a book on personalized medicine.

Collins received a B.S. from the University of Virginia, a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Yale University, and an M.D. from the University of North Carolina. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor given by the President, in November 2007.

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Relationship Between NIH and FDA -- Private Opinion

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If you look at what type of knowledge counts to FDA, its natural ally is NIH. They both believe in the virtue of prospective clinical trials as the basis of actionable knowledge. NIH generates more clinical trials—directly or through grants—then any other entity in the world.

FDA and the National Eye Institute provide a model of cooperation that should be fostered FDA-wide and NIH-wide.  NEI had started to work with endpoints based on medical imaging and biological evidence of disease progression. FDA’s standard endpoint was still: how many lines on an eye chart had the patient improved or regressed. From working together, both NIH and FDA have advanced knowledge in the field and moved closer to standards appropriate for an increasingly sophisticated therapeutic area.

NIH-funded trials often have to be re-done because FDA won’t accept the endpoints or some other aspect of the clinical trial design. In many of those instances, NIH should be running trials with different endpoints to advance clinical knowledge or validate those endpoints. Many times though, early coordination would reduce the chances that expensive trials will need to be repeated….and patients might get beneficial therapies quicker.  A high level of coordination should be possible because NIH and FDA share similar values about the importance of knowledge derived prospectively. There are differences between them, but they are ones of degree, not kind.

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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Mental Hygiene (Division or DMH)

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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Mental Hygiene (Division or DMH), under the City Charter and in accordance with State Mental Hygiene Law, is responsible for administering, planning, contracting, monitoring, and evaluating early intervention services for children under three years old who have a developmental delay or disability, and community mental health, mental retardation, and chemical dependency services within the City of New York. In addition, DMH plans and collaborates with other City agencies to provide a variety of uniquely targeted programs, including those for individuals who are homeless or who have co-occurring disorders.

Services

DMH contracts for mental hygiene services in four areas: chemical dependency, early intervention, mental health, and mental retardation and developmental disabilities. Services are provided to infants and toddlers, children and adolescents, adults, and the elderly.

Margaret Assessing Suicide Risk

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Almost 1 out of every 6 adults (1 in 4 women and 1 in 10 men) are affected by
depression at some point during their lifetimes, but only 25% are adequately treated.1, 2

Local data from the 2004 New York City Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NYC HANES) indicate that 7.5% of adults in NYC may suffer from major depressive disorder, but only a third are in treatment.3 Post-partum depression affects 10% to 20% of women in the United States, and has a negative impact on maternal, infant, and family health.4 Children of depressed mothers are at higher risk for behavioral, anxiety, mood, and substance abuse disorders that may begin early in life and persist throughout adolescence and adulthood.5-8

Depression is one of the most commonly seen conditions in primary care.9 Primary care physicians (PCPs) and other non-psychiatrists can effectively screen for and manage depression.

Between 5% and 10% of patients screened for depression will meet the diagnostic criteria for a current episode of depression. One recent study found that among older patients who committed suicide, 20% had visited their PCP on the same day as their suicide, 40% had seen their doctor within the previous week, and 70% had done so within the previous month.10

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RECOGNIZING DEPRESSION
While some patients might say “Doctor, I think I might be depressed,” most cases of depression in primary care are recognized through observation and active listening during an office visit. Many patients, especially older adults, do not realize that they may be suffering from depression. In one study, 69% of patients
diagnosed with clinical depression reported unexplained physical symptoms (e.g., headache, pain) as their chief complaint.11

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DETECTING AND TREATING DEPRESSION IN ADULTS

• Primary care physicians can effectively detect and manage depression.
• Routinely screen for depression using a simple 2-question tool (PHQ-2).
• Depression can be treated. Medication and psychotherapy, alone or in
combination, can help most patients.

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Physicians should always be alert to the possibility that a patient might have depression, especially patients with a prior personal or family history of mood disorders or chronic medical illness. Other medical and psychiatric conditions
often coexist with depression (Table 1).

While performing a review of systems and taking a social history, be attentive to clues suggesting depression, especially in patients with chronic or severe physical illnesses. Asking questions in an open-ended manner about a patient’s level of functioning, energy, motivation, and any work or social difficulties
can reveal depression while avoiding stigmatization.

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Screen for depression by using a simple 2-question tool, the Patient Health Questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2).22, 23 If the patient’s response to both questions is “no,” the screen is likely negative.

If the patient responds “yes” to either question, or if you are still concerned about the possibility of depression, further evaluation is warranted.

DIAGNOSIS OF DEPRESSION

Further evaluation of depression can be facilitated by using the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9).24

This 9-item questionnaire is available in many languages, can be completed by the patient (or trained office staff) before or during an office visit, and can reliably assist in detecting and quantifying the severity of depression (Table 2). It is useful to go over the responses to the nine items with the patient during the visit while exploring other symptoms and history. Patients should be asked about any past history of and treatment for depression, other mental health conditions (e.g., anxiety), and substance or alcohol use.25 Patients should also be assessed for medical conditions and medications that can cause depression.

It is also important to assess suicide risk and to ask about any personal or family history of bipolar disorder or manic episodes; treating patients with an antidepressant alone may cause a manic episode in those with undiagnosed bipolar disorder.26

Clinical criteria for diagnosing a major depressive episode are provided in Table 3.27

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Assessing Suicide Risk

Patients with depression may be at increased risk for suicide; detecting suicidal risk can be life-saving. Asking a patient about suicidal thoughts or plans does not initiate such ideas or foster action. On the contrary, patients may be relieved if
they are asked directly about their thoughts and feel that you
are interested in their situation.28

PHQ-2 – Screen for depression by asking the following 2 questions:

Over the past 2 weeks, have you been bothered by:

• Little interest or pleasure in doing things?
• Feeling down, depressed, or hopeless?

A “yes” to either question requires further evaluation.

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Table 1. Medical and Psychiatric Conditions That Often Occur With Depression
Alcohol Use Disorder: Alcohol use can worsen depression and complicate its treatment. Adults with an alcohol use disorder in the past 12 months were more than twice as likely to have experienced a major depressive episode during that period compared to those without an alcohol use disorder.12

Anxiety Disorders: Anxiety often coexists with depression. Co-occurring anxiety and depression are associated with greater impairment and severity of symptoms.
In co-occurring anxiety and depression, the choice of specific pharmacologic and psychotherapy treatments may be different.13

Nicotine Dependence: People with depression are twice as likely to smoke as those without mental illness.14

The odds of having major depression are more than three times greater in those with nicotine dependence versus those who are not dependent.15

Myocardial Infarction: Patients are at increased risk for major depression following a heart attack.

One in three patients experienced depression in the hospital or within one year of discharge following admission for acute myocardial infarction.16

Diabetes: Patients with diabetes are twice as likely to have depression.17

Stroke: Depressive symptoms are common following stroke.18

Stroke severity, physical disability, and cognitive impairment are associated with
depression.19

Alzheimer’s Disease: About half of people with Alzheimer’s disease have clinically significant depressive syndromes, with about one-quarter having major depression.20

HIV: Depression often co-occurs with HIV. In HIV-infected adults receiving medical care, 36% screened positive for major depression.21

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Source: PDF File: Entire Booklet: Click Here

The WEB ADDRESS for this PDF Document is:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/chi/chi26-9.pdf

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Mandatory Vaccination Of "All People," Long Planned, Now Reality?

EMERGENCY UPDATE: French government document details forced mass vaccination plans from September 28th: GPs and hospitals to be excluded. Similar documents believed to be circulating in all WHO member states

Source, Private eMail to Karl, with link to "law"

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Click Here to read the PDF version of the Law in French

Karl Note: I do not read French, so cannot verify if this is a valid and true report. The report, however, fits in with my world view of what the governments of countries like the US and Europe will try to force people to accept. I welcome anyone reading French to write to me with a provable rebuttal to this allegation of forced drugging. I have started my investigation with the eMail below.

Scroll below for French Version On This Page:

An internal French government document that outlines detailed plans and orders for the force vaccination of the French population using secure “vaccine” facilities and starting from September 28th has emerged.

Click on the below link for this article on its original location.

http://www...sante-jeunesse-sports.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/Circulaire_vaccination_090824.pdf

The document dated August 21st and signed by the French Health Minister Rosaylne Batchelot-Narquin and the French Minister of Interior, Minister of the Interior, Overseas Territories Brice Hortefeux is addressed to the heads of each of France’s defense zones. the regional prefects in charge of police and the gendarmerie, the prefects of departments and the heads of regional health authorities for hospitalization.
The objective of the 19-page document is the systematic vaccination of the entire French population in the period October, November, December 2009 and January 2010.
Secure facilities are to be established in every region that will serve as “vaccination centers”.

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On page 3 the order is explicitly given that no medical establishments should serve as vaccine centers.

GPs are to play no role in the vaccination programme.
School age children are to be vaccinated by special mobile pandemic vaccination teams in their schools.

The largest vaccination facilities – Centers of Vaccination of a Large Capacity (Centres de vaccination de grande capacite (CVGC) – with added security (fonctionnement renforce) are calculated to vaccinate 2,100 people each day.

Vaccine “teams” are to work in parallel vaccinating people in three 4-hour blocs each day, and the document calculates that two teams operating in this way will allow 184,800 injections to be given to 92,400 people in a center working five days a week for the entire four month period of the mass vaccination campaign.

No explicit mention of forced vaccination is made but the document states that everyone in the country without exception is to be vaccinated.

Data from the health insurance bodies are to be used to ensure that everyone receives the toxic "swine flu" jab.
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The need to implement measures to track every single person in France to determine whether they have been vaccinated or not is stressed.

Provisions to protect vaccine supplies are included... Emphasis is given to the need to store the vaccines at temperatures between 2 and 8 degrees.

Babies from six months are to be given the vaccines, which contain ingredients such as the adjuvant squalene and also in a dose more than 60,000 times higher than the amount of squalene that caused the Gulf War Syndrome in US and UK soldiers.

The use of squalene is illegal in the USA and UK but is expected to be allowed there too under an emergency pandemic decree.

The French government has bought 94 million doses of “swine flu” vaccine from Baxter, GSK, Novartis and Sanofi to carry out the forced vaccination programme.

The GSK and Novartis vaccines are classified as bioweapons by US and EU regulators and contain the dangerous squalene.

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Baxter was found deliberately contaminating vaccine material with the live bird flu virus in Austria this February in order to start a global pandemic. WHO supplied the live bird flu virus, according to Baxter’s own spokesperson.

Baxter, Novartis and GSK executives sit on a key vaccine advisory board of WHO which recommended forced mass vaccinations in July, which are expected to bring in profits as high as 50 billion USD for vaccine companies.

Following WHO’s declaration of a pandemic level 6 emergency on June 11th, the world has moved under military law under WHO’s International Health Regulations 2005 incorporated in member state’s pandemic plans.

WHO, the UN, Baxter and other pharmaceutical companies are all linked with the Rockefeller and Rothschild and other family dynasties, who stand to make political and financial gains from the global forced vaccination programme under WHO.
WHO memos dating from 1972, discovered by Patrick Jordan, explain how to use vaccines to kill people by weakening their immune system, loading their bodies with viruses and creating a massive inflammatory reaction.

The August 21st document issued by the French government appears to be a chilling plan to initiate the mass murder of the French population by means of toxic vaccines under the cover of offering protection against a pandemic in just four weeks time.

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Similar documents are believed to be circulating in all 194 member states of the WHO.
It is addressed to high ranking government officials who are ordered to prepare to supervise and coordinate the implementation of the forced vaccination programme in their regions, and to submit appropriate plans by the middle of September.

The general public is only to be "informed" at the end of September of the plans by means of communications to the local press.

The establishment of large-scale vaccine centers in "secure" facilities is a chilling echo of the Nazi concentration camps such as Buchenwald where inmates were killed by injections.

The French plan lists in detail the duties the “vaccination” teams are to perform, the layout of the vaccination centers, the location of the furniture, such as tables, and the number of vaccinations to be carried out in specific time frames by centers of various sizes.
The number of people prescribed to be vaccinated in four-hour sessions by a typical “vaccine team” is 360.

A typical vaccination “post” is to consist of “three agents”, one "agent" responsible for "preparing" the vaccines, one for administering them and one for tracking people who have been vaccinated.

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A Table on page 11-12 lists the team's different responsibilities.
Personnel are to be assigned to “welcome” people and to issuing questionnaires.

However, no personnel are to be assigned to collecting or checking the questionnaires, sparking fears that the issuing of the questionnaires is just a control measure and a subterfuge to reassure people...

There is no mechanism envisaged for abandoning the mass vaccination campaign if evidence emerges that the vaccination campaign is causing injury or death as happened in the USA in 1976 in spite of fears that the “swine flu” vaccine is unsafe und untested.
Medical experiments using physical coercion on people are illegal under domestic and international law.

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The document refers to laws Article L3131-8 and Article L3131-9 that allow prefects and the Prime Minister to issue decrees to compel medical personnel, including medical students and medical army personnel, to administer vaccines or face penalties.

Here are the laws in French:

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Article L3131-8 Version en vigueur au 30 août 2009, depuis le 29 août 2007Créé par Loi 2007-294 2007-03-05 art. 1 I, II, art. 3 II JORF 6 mars 2007 en vigueur le 29 août 2007Créé par Loi n°2007-294 du 5 mars 2007 - art. 1 () JORF 6 mars 2007 en vigueur le 29 août 2007Créé par Loi n°2007-294 du 5 mars 2007 - art. 3 () JORF 6 mars 2007 en vigueur le 29 août 2007

Si l'afflux de patients ou de victimes où la situation sanitaire le justifient, le représentant de l'Etat dans le département peut procéder aux réquisitions nécessaires de tous biens et services, et notamment requérir le service de tout professionnel de santé, quel que soit son mode d'exercice, et de tout établissement de santé ou établissement médico-social dans le cadre d'un dispositif dénommé plan blanc élargi. Il informe sans délai le directeur de l'agence régionale de l'hospitalisation, le service d'aide médicale urgente et les services d'urgences territorialement compétents et les représentants des collectivités territoriales concernées du déclenchement de ce plan.

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Ces réquisitions peuvent être individuelles ou collectives. Elles sont prononcées par un arrêté motivé qui fixe la nature des prestations requises, la durée de la mesure de réquisition ainsi que les modalités de son application. Le représentant de l'Etat dans le département peut faire exécuter d'office les mesures prescrites par cet arrêté.

L'indemnisation des personnes requises et des dommages causés dans le cadre de la réquisition est fixée dans les conditions prévues par le chapitre IV du titre III du livre II de la deuxième partie du code de la défense. Cependant, la rétribution par l'Etat de la personne requise ne peut se cumuler avec une rétribution par une autre personne physique ou morale.

Les personnes physiques dont le service est requis en application du premier alinéa bénéficient des dispositions de l'article L. 3133-6.

En cas d'inexécution volontaire par la personne requise des obligations qui lui incombent en application de l'arrêté édicté par le représentant de l'Etat, le président du tribunal administratif ou le magistrat qu'il délègue peut, sur demande de l'autorité requérante, prononcer une astreinte dans les conditions prévues aux articles L. 911-6 à L. 911-8 du code de justice administrative.

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NOTA:
Loi 2007-294 du 5 mars 2007 art. 12 I : la présente loi entre en vigueur le 29 août 2007, jour suivant la date de publication du décret n° 2007-1273 du 27 août 2007.


Article L3131-9 Version en vigueur au 25 août 2009, depuis le 29 août 2007Créé par Loi 2007-294 2007-03-05 art. 1 I, II, III JORF 6 mars 2007 en vigueur le 29 août 2007Créé par Loi n°2007-294 du 5 mars 2007 - art. 1 () JORF 6 mars 2007 en vigueur le 29 août 2007

La compétence attribuée au représentant de l'Etat dans le département par l'article L. 3131-8 peut être exercée, dans les mêmes conditions, par les préfets de zone de défense et par le Premier ministre si la nature de la situation sanitaire ou l'ampleur de l'afflux de patients ou de victimes le justifient. Les réquisitions prévues au deuxième alinéa de l'article L. 3131-8 sont alors prononcées par arrêté du préfet de zone de défense ou par décret du Premier ministre.

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Dans chaque zone de défense, des établissements de santé de référence ont un rôle permanent de conseil et de formation et, en cas de situation sanitaire exceptionnelle, ils peuvent assurer une mission de coordination ou d'accueil spécifique.

NOTA:
Loi 2007-294 du 5 mars 2007 art. 12 I : la présente loi entre en vigueur le 29 août 2007, jour suivant la date de publication du décret n° 2007-1273 du 27 août 2007.

Karl Note: I have started an investigation on this, per the following:

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Promptly on August 31, 2009, I got this reply:

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Solomon <frank@solomongroup.co.nz> wrote:

Nope don't know you - didn't send the message anyway

Karl Further Note: I have not heard more on this alarming tale -- suspect it may be one of the common CIA-Sponsored "leaks" that allows a small bit of truth be "discovered" so that the much bigger stories of mind control coupled with bio-terrorism continue without exposure.

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HEALTH SUPPLEMENTS vs. HEALTH CARE 7-14-09 LMS

Forever Free - Poster by Leslie May Shumate. Nothing embodies the true spirit of freedom like the wild mustang horse, a symbol of the American West and the western world. 

Source: Author, Artist Leslie May Shumate

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Given the past attempts by some to put health supplements and vitamins under some sort of regulation, Idaho Senator Mike Crapo was asked if the anticipated Health Care Reform legislation could be the opening for which regulatory proponents have been waiting.

Crapo began his answer by commenting that as much as Health Care Reform legislation is being discussed and is in the news, there is no actual bill as yet. He said, “The Finance Committee on which I sit, which will draft the primary bill, has not yet come out with its work product.” He indicated the committee hasn’t developed the legislative language for what he said he is confident will be the ultimate product sent to and worked on by the full Senate.

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Returning to the inquiry Crapo said, “The answer to your question about whether health food supplements are potentially in the bill is, ‘Yes.’ There have constantly been those who would like to see a much higher level of regulation on health food supplements and vitamins and that industry. And, although I can’t tell you with certainty whether they will succeed in getting their proposed new regulatory standards in the bill or not…I can definitely tell you that they are seeking to and that that issue is one of many that are under discussion.”

TopCongress is being faced with huge documents on which to make seemingly rapid fire decisions that will affect the nation for generations. Crapo was asked how congressional people can possibly read and dissect each piece of legislation before making a voting decision. He said it is a difficult process involving many people. “We don’t have large enough staff to go through page by page but between the many different staff members who are there from different offices and who work together, they are able to go through literally page by page and review and read and provide summaries of what is in the bill.” He said congressional staffs also work closely with interested groups. The National Hospital Association and the American Medical Association are two of the many associations interested in the Health Care Reform legislation and all are contributing input. He said association staffs and attorneys will comb through the bill once it is written and identify things of concern to them and bring those concerns to the attention of members of congress.

Crapo said hundreds if not thousands of people will be analyzing the health care legislation. “So, one way or the other…unless we don’t have the time…we are able to find out what’s in the bill.”

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He said that was not the case in the House vote that passed the Cap and Trade Global Warming legislation. “The final bill that everybody voted on was just substituted for the one that was on the floor.” He said the vote to pass was very close and that House members voted on a bill without knowing what was in it. “There was no way for them to be able to tell because the time was so short.”

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The Need for Regulation of Dietary Supplements—Lessons From Ephedra

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Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD; Drummond Rennie, MD; Catherine D. DeAngelis, MD, MPH

Note: Deputy Editor of JAMA, Fontanarosa, is also the author of a book about "alternative medicine," which has the following abstract:

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As the public becomes more interested in complementary and alternative medicine, physicians and other providers of care are looking for an objective, evidence-based assessment of information from authoritative, reliable sources. Jama and Archives Journals Alternative Medicine: An Objective Assessment contains more than 650 peer reviewed, insightful pages, and covers a range of diagnostic and treatment modalities. Acupuncture, herbs, diet and nutrition, homeopathy, manual therapy, and spiritual aspects of medicine are major topics, each of which is covered using rigorous science-based findings and objective, research-based references. Neither inherently skeptical nor credulous, this book offers readers trustworthy coverage of today's hottest topics to enhance opportunities for patient education and dialogue.

Alternative Medicine: An Objective Assessment includes:
-- Overviews and guidance of each section by physician specialists to cover critical background information
-- Balanced coverage of today's hottest topics
-- Reliable Jama and Archives Journals perspectives
-- Definitions, tables, charts, and illustrations
-- References to additional research and other complementary and alternative medicine publications
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Karl Note: Under the new FDA Commissioner, Deputy Editor of JAMA, Fontanarosa, is likely to get his way in FDA regulation of vitamins, therefore reduction of choice and information on these health alternatives. In fact the JAMA is now likely to renew its interest in claiming that "vitamins are 'junk science' and should be required to prove, just as any other health product, that they are both safe and effective." Vitamins are FOOD and Drugs are not food, yet we can expect, under Obama, that drugs will have a much much greater usage in HIS health care concepts than surgery or any other type of care. Drugs are the cheap way of keeping a person alive, but not well and anti-depressant usage will be greatly facilitated so as to keep the person not only alive but "happy."

JAMA. 2003;289:1568-1570. (doi:10.1001/jama.289.12.1568).

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Dietary supplements encompass a wide spectrum of products, including vitamins and minerals, such as folate and calcium; herbal therapies and botanical agents, such as ephedra and ginkgo biloba; and enzymes or extracts from organs or glands, such as some "hormone" preparations.1 Dietary supplements are readily available in pharmacies, grocery stores, and health food stores, as well as by mail and via the Internet. These products are widely promoted, often with unsubstantiated claims of benefit and rarely with any mention of potential hazards. In the United States, dietary supplements are used by millions of people every day and account for billions of dollars in sales annually.

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Dietary supplements are regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), although under different regulations than those governing prescription medications and over-the-counter drugs.1 The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994 established that substances classified as dietary supplements are not "drugs" and substantially changed the role of the FDA in regulating these products.2 The DSHEA amended the existing federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with provisions that created a new regulatory framework governing the safety and labeling of dietary supplements.1

Under the provisions of DSHEA, manufacturers of dietary supplements are not required to provide evidence of efficacy or safety prior to marketing the product. Moreover, except for a supplement that contains a "new dietary ingredient," dietary supplements are not required to have FDA approval or to be registered with the FDA before they are produced and marketed. Manufacturers are responsible for establishing their own manufacturing practice guidelines, because there are no FDA regulations to ensure the identity, purity, quality, composition, or strength of dietary supplements.1 Once a dietary supplement is marketed, the FDA must demonstrate that the product is unsafe before it can take regulatory action against the dietary supplement, essentially amounting to a "postmarketing" regulatory framework.1, 3 As for advertising of dietary supplements, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is primarily responsible for ensuring that claims in print and broadcast ads, infomercials, catalogs, and direct marketing materials ". . . must be truthful, not misleading, and substantiated."4

Despite the widespread use as well as the pervasive and persuasive marketing of these agents, it is increasingly clear that for at least some dietary supplements, lack of sufficient oversight and inadequate regulation may pose a risk to the health and safety of the public. In this issue of THE JOURNAL, Shekelle and colleagues5 provide an evidence-based summary of the efficacy and safety of ephedra and ephedrine, which are among the most controversial dietary supplements. Based on their review of 52 controlled trials, the authors concluded that supplements containing these agents promote modest short-term weight loss (approximately 0.9 kg/mo more than placebo). However, the evidence was insufficient to support ephedra use for long-term weight loss or for enhancing athletic performance. Analysis of safety data from 50 trials revealed that ephedra and ephedrine are associated with 2- to 3-fold increases in the odds of psychiatric symptoms, autonomic symptoms, upper gastrointestinal symptoms, and heart palpitations. An additional evaluation of adverse event reports revealed 5 deaths, 5 myocardial infarctions, 11 cerebrovascular accidents, 4 seizures, and 8 psychiatric cases as "sentinel events" associated with prior consumption of ephedra or ephedrine.

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The results of this analysis cast doubt on any claims that use of dietary supplements containing ephedra or ephedrine can help achieve long-term weight loss or weight maintenance or can enhance athletic performance. The findings also strongly suggest increased risk of serious adverse effects associated with these products. Moreover, reviewing the accumulated reports of toxicity linked to these compounds, it is hard not to be impressed by the number of serious cardiovascular complications in young adults. The public, aware of recent reports of deaths in young athletes reportedly taking ephedra or ephedrine, is right to be alarmed that the regulation Congress has in place does so little to protect them from the hazards posed by these potentially dangerous compounds.

The article by Shekelle et al5 is based on a comprehensive 300-plus page Evidence Report/Technology Assessment on ephedra and ephedrine commissioned by the National Institutes of Health and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and conducted by the RAND Corporation.6 Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, released the results of the RAND report at a news conference on February 28, 2003,7 and also expressed concerns about the safety of ephedra and announced several regulatory actions.

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According to a recent White Paper on ephedra,3 the FDA has sent warning letters to manufacturers of ephedra instructing them to remove unproven claims for their products or substantiate those claims, especially those related to athletic performance. The FDA also has proposed "black box" warning labels on all products containing ephedra, indicating that serious adverse events and deaths have been reported after ephedra use.3 In addition, the FDA announced that it was seeking public comment to determine whether in light of current scientific evidence, dietary supplements containing ephedra represent "a significant or unreasonable risk of illness or injury"7 and whether "evidence of significant safety concerns, short of a definitive demonstration of a risk profile, is sufficient for new restrictions on products regulated under DSHEA."3

These actions are important and necessary steps in response to the new information on safety and effectiveness of ephedra provided by Shekelle and colleagues.5-6 However, the current system for regulation of dietary supplements is inadequate for ensuring the protection of the health and safety of the public who choose to use ephedra or other dietary supplements. Major changes in the system used to regulate these products are required.

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Labeling for dietary supplements is not permitted to include "disease claims" (eg, prevents Alzheimer disease), but these products nearly always include at least one "structure/function" claim (eg, improves mild memory loss associated with aging). Yet the only way such claims can be valid is if the dietary supplement actually promotes or has inherent biological activity. For example, ephedra alkaloids have biological actions, as evidenced by sympathomimetic pharmacological properties and adverse cardiovascular events.8 Another dietary supplement, saw palmetto, has been shown to suppress tissue levels of dihydrotestosterone in men with symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia and to alter the DNA chromatin structure and organization in prostate epithelial cells.9 Likewise, yohimbine, which is promoted as a remedy for male sexual dysfunction, selectively blocks the presynaptic 2 receptor and readily enters the central nervous system, where it acts to increase heart rate and blood pressure, enhance motor activity, and produce tremors.10-11

If dietary supplements have or promote such biological activity, they should be considered to be active drugs. On the other hand, if dietary supplements are claimed to be safe because they lack or have minimal biological activity, then their ability to cause physiologic changes to support "structure /function" claims should be challenged, and their sale and distribution as products to improve health should be curtailed. Manufacturers of dietary supplements are trying to have it both ways. They claim their products are powerfully beneficial, on the one hand, but harmless on the other. To claim both makes no sense, and to claim either without trials demonstrating efficacy and safety is deceptive. The public should wonder why dietary supplements have effectively been given a free ride.

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New legislation is needed for defining and regulating dietary supplements. Dietary supplements that have biological activity should be evaluated and regulated with at least the same degree of oversight as is used for over-the-counter medications, and for some, with regulation similar to prescription drugs. Currently, this is not the case, as dietary supplements are subject to less regulation than virtually any other products available for public consumption (Table 1).12

View this table: [in a new window] Table. Comparison of FDA's Regulatory Mechanisms to Help Ensure the Safety of Products*

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The first step is to address the scope of categories of products included under the definition of dietary supplements, which is too broad. The number of products marketed as dietary supplements has increased considerably in the nearly 10 years since DSHEA was passed into law. Each class of products within dietary supplements should be re-examined, and the types of products within each class should be reviewed and classified according to possible biological action, purported benefit, and potential risks.

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Second, dietary supplements should be subject to more rigorous regulation by the FDA. Lewis and Strom13 have proposed that manufacturers of any product with a health claim should be held to the same standards as the pharmaceutical industry and have suggested several features for a system to regulate nutritional supplements. Health claims for dietary supplements should meet the same rigorous criteria as claims by drugs used to prevent or treat disease.13 Data from acceptable studies must be approved by the FDA before the product can be marketed. Data on efficacy and toxicity should be submitted and carefully evaluated, and recommendations for dosages of supplements must be appropriate and evidence based. Manufacturing practices and quality control processes must be sufficient to ensure product content integrity and purity. Standards to document the content of products should be established and enforced.13

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Third, formal systems for mandatory postmarketing surveillance and mandatory adverse event reporting should be established to replace the current system of haphazard, voluntary reporting of anecdotal reports. According to a report from the Office of Inspector General,12 the potential of the current FDA dietary supplement adverse event reporting system to serve as a consumer safeguard is "inherently limited." The Office of Inspector General report noted that the FDA reportedly receives reports of less than 1% of all adverse events associated with dietary supplements; that data on these events are characterized by limited medical information, limited product information, limited manufacturer information, limited information on the affected consumer, and limited ability to analyze trends of adverse event reports; and that "FDA rarely takes safety actions related to the adverse event reporting system."12

Fourth, the Federal Trade Commission in cooperation with the FDA should ensure that advertising for dietary supplements is accurate and not misleading. As with advertisements for therapeutic drugs, advertisements for dietary supplements must not make claims without substantiation by scientific evidence and must include appropriate information about adverse effects.

The reports by Shekelle et al,5-6 along with other studies documenting the increased risk of adverse reactions associated with ephedra,14 are sufficient evidence to restrict the use of this agent. However, the most important lessons from the new information on ephedra are demonstration of the inadequate nature of the current system of regulation of dietary supplements and recognition that much more rigorous oversight of these biologically active agents is necessary to protect the health and safety of the public.

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Corresponding Author: Phil B. Fontanarosa, MD, JAMA, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610 (e-mail: phil_fontanarosa@ama-assn.org ).

Editorials represent the opinions of the authors and THE JOURNAL and not those of the American Medical Association.

Editor's Note: While the policies of THE JOURNAL generally preclude publication of original articles based on reports that are already published or in the public domain, the decision to publish the article by Shekelle et al was based on consideration of several factors. The information in the JAMA article has undergone peer review and editorial evaluation, is timely and relevant for readers, and is more accessible and focused than the Evidence Report/Technology Assessment from RAND. In addition, the authors had informed the editors about their full evidence report and its relation to the article they had submitted to JAMA. After the paper submitted to JAMA had been reviewed, revised, and accepted for publication, the authors and editors, along with staff members at AHRQ, had planned to coordinate release of the RAND report and publication of the JAMA article, and had agreed on the date for release of the materials. However, the decision to release the results of the RAND report at the news conference was beyond the control of the authors. In this specific case, it would be unfair to penalize the authors, who have acted in good faith, by not publishing their article in JAMA because of prior release of the full evidence report.

Author Affiliations: Dr Fontanarosa is Executive Deputy Editor, Dr Rennie is Deputy Editor, and Dr DeAngelis is Editor, JAMA.

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1. US Food and Drug Administration. Overview of dietary supplements. Available at: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/ ~dms/ds-oview.html. Accessibility verified March 5, 2003. 2. Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, Pub L No. 103.417. 3. US Food and Drug Administration White Paper on Ephedra. Evidence on the safety and effectiveness of ephedra: implications for regulation. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/ephedra/whitepaper.html. Accessibility verified March 5, 2003. 4. Federal Trade Commission. Dietary supplements: an advertising guide for industry. Available at: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/dietsupp.htm. Accessibility verified March 5, 2003. 5. Shekelle PG, Hardy ML, Morton SC, et al. Efficacy and safety of ephedra and ephedrine for weight loss and athletic performance: a meta-analysis. JAMA. 2003;289:1537-1545. FREE FULL TEXT

6. Shekelle PG, Morton S, Maglione M, et al. Ephedra and ephedrine for weight loss and athletic performance enhancement: clinical efficacy and side effects. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment No. 76 (Prepared by Southern California Evidence-based Practice Center, RAND, under Contract No. 290-97-0001, Task Order No. 9). AHRQ Publication 03-E022. Rockville, Md: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; February 2003.

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7. US Food and Drug Administration. HHS acts reduce potential risks of dietary supplements containing ephedra. February 28, 2003. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2003/NEW00875.html. Accessibility verified March 5, 2003. 8. Haller CA, Benowitz NL. Adverse cardiovascular events and central nervous system events associated with dietary supplements containing ephedra alkaloids. N Engl J Med. 2000;343:1833-1838. FREE FULL TEXT

9. Veltri RW, Marks LS, Miller MC, et al. Saw palmetto alters nuclear measurements reflecting DNA content in men with symptomatic BPH: evidence for a possible molecular mechanism. Urology. 2002;60:617-622. PUBMED

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10. Favreau JT, Ryu ML, Braunstein G, et al. Severe hepatotoxicity associated with the dietary supplement LipoKinetix. Ann Intern Med. 2002;136:590-595. FREE FULL TEXT 11. Hoffman B. Catecholamines, sympathomimetic drugs, and adrenergic receptor antagonists. In: Hardman JG, Limbird LE, Gilman AG, eds. Goodman and Gilman's the Pharmacologic Basis of Therapeutics. 10th ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill; 2001. 12. Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services. Adverse event reporting for dietary supplements: an inadequate safety valve. April 2001. Available at: http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-01-00-00180.pdf. Accessibility verified March 5, 2003. 13. Lewis JD, Strom BL. Balancing safety of dietary supplements with the free market. Ann Intern Med. 2002;136:616-618. FREE FULL TEXT 14. Bent S, Tiedt TN, Odden MC, et al. The relative safety of ephedra compared with other herbal products. Ann Intern Med. 2003. Available at: http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/ephedra.htm?hp. Accessibility verified March 5, 2003.

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Electroconvulsive SHOCK Treatment Not Regulated

Web Reports on use of ECT:

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2001 — No one would dispute that Huang Shurong is stubborn and outspoken. She is also smart, confident and articulate, attributes that would seem to leave her poised for success. But not in rural China.
Instead, for her tenacity in protesting a land dispute with her local government in rural Suileng County of Heilongjiang Province in the Northeast, officials have had her forcibly committed to a series of psychiatric hospitals, five times in the last three years.

Ms. Huang, who is 42 and divorced, has spend a total of 210 days under lock and key, at times subjected to powerful drugs and electroshock therapy, although friends and family, experts in Beijing and even some of the psychiatrists who have hospitalized her say she is perfectly sane.
ELISABETH ROSENTHAL (U.S. journalist), opening paragraphs, “In Rural China, Mental Hospitals Await Some Who Rock the Boat,” New York Times, 16 February 2002

2003 — Two years ago, Cao Maobing attempted to organize his fellow workers at a state-owned silk factory into a trade union. He was sent to the No.4 psychiatric hospital in Yancheng, the day after he spoke to Western reporters. His fellow workers, according to an American who knows Cao, described him warmly: “Mr. Cao is an upright, kind, and law-abiding citizen. He is a brave and intelligent worker. He made a lot of personal sacrifice to help other workers to uphold their right to basic living.” Cao’s wife said he was being forcibly medicated. “He’s absolutely not insane and refuses to take the medicine. But eventually they force him to take it.” She said she was told to leave the hospital after her husband was medicated. According to other reports, he was also given electroshock treatment on several occasions. Cao was released after six months and was never returned to trade union activity.
JONATHAN MIRSKY (U.S. journalist), “China’s Psychiatric Terror,” New York Review of Books, 27 February 2003

2003 — Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT). When depression is severe, the patient is suicidal and other therapies have not been effective, ECT can help. Electrical impulses are delivered to the brain via electrodes applied to the head. It sounds scary, but it is painless and a lot better than living the rest of your life seriously depressed.
ISADORE ROSENFELD (U.S. physician), “Come Out from Under Your Cloud,” Parade Magazine, 5 October 2003. This was Rosenfeld’s complete description of ECT in an article on the nature and causes of and treatments for depression. His column on medical issues appears regularly in Parade.

2004 — Under the Inpatient Psychiatric Facility (IPF) Prospective Payment System, an IPF would receive a federal per diem rate of $575.95 per Medicare beneficiary, paid prospectively in biweekly installments. For each ECT treatment given to a patient, the IPF receives an additional payment per treatment of $247.96.
FEDERAL REGISTER, summary, Part V, p. 62, 15 November 2004

2004 — BAGHDAD - Electric shock treatment is usually administered without anesthetic at Iraq’s biggest psychiatric hospital.
Only 16 doctors treat 900 patients. Mortar rounds land in the
courtyard, traumatizing the unstable.
But there is still a glimmer of hope at Baghdad’s Al-Rashad Teaching Psychiatric Hospital, a sprawling facility caught between U.S. troops and guerrillas that is recovering from post-war looters who raped patients last year.
With clean facilities, workshops and job programs for patients, it hopes to ease the anguish of mental illness in a city plagued by violence that offers little sanity outside....
“We really need anesthetics. We have to conduct electric shock
treatment two to three times a week and we hardly have anything for the pain,” said Dr. Yasser Abdullah.
MICHAEL GEORGY (British journalist), “Psychiatric Hospital Struggles to Heal in Iraq,” Reuters, www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml, 21 June 2004

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The FDA-Promoted, Embedded Medical Device That Allows "Someone" to Control Your Body

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Hospitals are costly places. Andrew Thompson hopes his company can help keep people out of them.

His Silicon Valley start-up, Proteus Biomedical Inc., is testing a miniature digestible chip that can be attached to conventional medication, sending a signal that confirms whether patients are taking their prescribed pills. A sensing device worn on the skin uses wireless technology to relay that information to doctors, along with readings about patients' vital signs.

 

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Corventis's wireless sensor monitors patients on the go.

Mr. Thompson predicts the company's technology will generate a wealth of new information about patients' evolving conditions and the impact of drugs they take. Doctors might decide to intervene, for example, when they notice a heart patient isn't sleeping well or is taking incorrect dosages -- problems that could lead to congestive heart failure.

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Proteus isn't alone. Dozens of large and small companies are turning to wireless technology to achieve what the Obama administration is seeking through legislation: a health-care system that keeps people healthier for less.

"Wireless applications have the potential to change every one of these areas," said Eric Topol, a cardiologist and genomics professor at Scripps Research Institute, at an industry event in San Diego last week.

Dr. Topol, who is also chief medical officer of the West Wireless Health Institute, a San Diego nonprofit research organization, cites a 2008 study that was distributed by a coalition of companies and organizations that support health-care reform. It put annual savings from remote monitoring at $10.1 billion for U.S. sufferers of congestive heart failure, $6.1 billion for diabetes and $4.9 billion for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

But claims about cost savings from new technology often don't pan out. There are "precious few" studies that back up such promises involving remote monitoring, says Mark Holland, managing director of System Research Services, an advisory firm focusing on health-care technology. And if reimbursements from Medicare or private insurers don't cover the cost of high-tech approaches, doctors and hospitals won't want to deploy them.

Using wireless technology has the potential to reduce costs in part because part of the infrastructure already is in place. With more than four billion cellphones sold to date, a large percentage of the world's population has access to devices and networks that can send medical data to doctors.

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Health Overhaul Opens Opportunities

While President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul proposals remain in flux, any new health plan will emphasize a more efficient and less wasteful health-care system. Those, unsurprisingly, are the very same promises the health-care technology companies are making.

But while such promises help improve Silicon Valley's health, it's less clear that technology can save the rest of the ailing industry time and money. And even if it does, networked technologies have a way of making things convenient for bad guys, too: Already, hackers have gained access to private health-care data.

But the system is so bloated and calcified that the opportunity for improvement is great -- a point not lost on the venture capital industry. Venture investments in health-care companies in the second quarter totaled $2.23 billion, outpacing the $1.88 billion pumped into tech companies -- the first time on record that health-care investing exceeded tech investing, according to research firm VentureSource, which is owned by News Corp., publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

Robin Bellas, a venture capitalist at Morgenthaler, says his firm has quickly invested in a number of health-care firms recently. "The tech world is still struggling to find the new, new thing," he says, "and the billion-dollar plus markets are more obvious on the health-care side right now."

-- Pui-Wing Tam

Another factor is the advancing sophistication of sensors. Triage Wireless Inc., a San Diego-based start-up, is testing a wearable device for wirelessly measuring vital signs in hospital rooms -- including a long-sought ability to continuously measure blood pressure, rather than conducting spot checks by inflating a cuff around a patient's arm. Corventis Inc., of San Jose, Calif., is focusing on monitoring patients on the go -- with a Band-Aid-style sensor called PiiX that includes measurement of respiration, fluid status and physical movements.

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Chip makers, seeing medical applications as a big new market, are racing to make such devices more capable and less expensive. Qualcomm Inc., known for its cellphone chips, is also developing low-power variants for wearable medical applications.

Intel Corp. has teams of researchers studying devices to help care for senior citizens at home, including what it calls a "magic carpet" -- a mat with sensors to track how a patient moves. The goal: to gather data to prevent falls, a major cause of accidental deaths and a big contributor to health costs.

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While President Obama and others are debating ways to cut health care costs, entrepreneurs are talking about ways to do the same thing with cutting-edge technology. Don Clark reports.

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Industry executives say they have been helped by changing attitudes in the medical community. Cellphones were once banned in many hospitals, for example, for fear of interference with medical instruments. But as those concerns have diminished, hospitals now see cutting wires as a way to cut costs.

For example, the cables that relay high-definition images from medical instruments to monitors are fragile and need to be sterilized between procedures, said William Chang, vice president and chief technology officer of the endoscopy unit of Stryker Corp. His company used technology from Israel-based Amimon Ltd. to help send such images without wires.

Smartphones such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone also have had a big impact. AirStrip Technologies LLC offers a smartphone application that allows obstetricians to remotely view data such as fetal and maternal heart rates.

But such advances come with concerns about safety and privacy, which could cause regulatory delays. Mr. Thompson of Proteus doesn't expect its technology to arrive in the U.S. until 2012, in part because of the regulatory review. He said its circuitry is safely digestible and, in high-volume production, will add less than a penny to the cost of a pill.

 

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Proteus Biomedical is testing digital chips that are implanted in conventional pills.

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Then there are cost questions. Doctors who only get reimbursed for office visits, for example, might not eagerly prescribe new technology that saves money in the long run by keeping patients at home, Mr. Holland said.

CardioNet Inc., a pioneer in remote monitoring of heart patients, believes the reimbursement system isn't properly evaluating its technology. Shares of the Conshohocken, Pa., company fell sharply last month after it disclosed that a unit of Highmark Inc. -- a regional administrator of Medicare services -- had proposed a 33% lower reimbursement rate for a monitoring program using CardioNet's technology, which had been set at about $1,100. A Highmark spokesman said the company establishes such rates after careful evaluation of Medicare requirements.

Randy Thurman, CardioNet's chief executive, estimates that similar monitoring in hospitals costs $26,000. The company is trying to have the reimbursement decision reviewed.

—Yukari Iwatani Kane contributed to this article.

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Security & Privacy of Implanted Devices May be Compromised Wirelessly

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Will Some DEATH PANEL Decide Whether Or Not I, Karl Loren, At 78, Will Get Care?

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Elderly Americans are turning out in droves to fight ObamaCare, and President Obama is arguing back that they have nothing to worry about. Allow us to referee. While claims about euthanasia and "death panels" are over the top, senior fears have exposed a fundamental truth about what Mr. Obama is proposing: Namely, once health care is nationalized, or mostly nationalized, rationing care is inevitable, and those who have lived the longest will find their care the most restricted.

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Far from being a scare tactic, this is a logical conclusion based on experience and common-sense. Once health care is a "free good" that government pays for, demand will soar and government costs will soar too. When the public finally reaches its taxing limit, something will have to give on the care and spending side. In a word, care will be rationed by politics.

Mr. Obama's reply is that private insurance companies already ration, by deciding which treatments are covered and which aren't. However, there's an ocean of difference between coverage decisions made under millions of voluntary private contracts and rationing via government. An Atlantic Ocean, in fact. Virtually every European government with "universal" health care restricts access in one way or another to control costs, and it isn't pretty.

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The British system is most restrictive, using a black-box actuarial formula known as "quality-adjusted life years," or QALYs, that determines who can receive what care. If a treatment isn't deemed to be cost-effective for specific populations, particularly the elderly, the National Health Service simply doesn't pay for it. Even France—which has a mix of public and private medicine—has fixed reimbursement rates since the 1970s and strictly controls the use of specialists and the introduction of new medical technologies such as CT scans and MRIs.

Yes, the U.S. "rations" by ability to pay (though in the end no one is denied actual care). This is true of every good or service in a free economy and a world of finite resources but infinite wants. Yet no one would say we "ration" houses or gasoline because those goods are allocated by prices. The problem is that governments ration through brute force—either explicitly restricting the use of medicine or lowering payments below market rates. Both methods lead to waiting lines, lower quality, or less innovation—and usually all three.

 

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A lot of talk has centered on what Sarah Palin inelegantly called "death panels." Of course rationing to save the federal fisc will be subtler than a bureaucratic decision to "pull the plug on grandma," as Mr. Obama put it. But Mrs. Palin has also exposed a basic truth. A substantial portion of Medicare spending is incurred in the last six months of life.

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From the point of view of politicians with a limited budget, is it worth spending a lot on, say, a patient with late-stage cancer where the odds of remission are long? Or should they spend to improve quality, not length, of life? Or pay for a hip or knee replacement for seniors, when palliative care might cost less? And who decides?

In Britain, the NHS decides, and under its QALYs metric it generally won't pay more than $22,000 for treatments to extend a life six months. "Money for the NHS isn't limitless," as one NHS official recently put it in response to American criticism, "so we need to make sure the money we have goes on things which offer more than the care we'll have to forgo to pay for them."

Before he got defensive, Mr. Obama was open about this political calculation. He often invokes the experience of his own grandmother, musing whether it was wise for her to receive a hip replacement after a terminal cancer diagnosis. In an April interview with the New York Times, he wondered whether this represented a "sustainable model" for society. He seems to believe these medical issues are all justifiably political questions that government or some panel of philosopher kings can and should decide. No wonder so many seniors rebel at such judgments that they know they could do little to influence, much less change.

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Mr. Obama has also said many times that the growth of Medicare spending must be restrained, and his budget director Peter Orszag has made it nearly his life's cause. We agree, but then why does Mr. Obama want to add to our fiscal burdens a new Medicare-like program for everyone under 65 too? Medicare already rations care, refusing, for example, to pay for virtual colonsocopies and has payment policies or directives to curtail the use of certain cancer drugs, diagnostic tools, asthma medications and many others. Seniors routinely buy supplemental insurance (Medigap) to patch Medicare's holes—and Medicare is still growing by 11% this year.

The political and fiscal pressure to further ration Medicare would increase exponentially if government is paying for most everyone's care. The better way to slow the growth of Medicare is to give seniors more control over their own health care and the incentives to spend wisely, by offering competitive insurance plans. But this would mean less control for government, not more.

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It's striking that even the AARP—which is run by liberals who favor national health care—has been backing away from support for Mr. Obama's version. The AARP leadership's Democratic sympathies will probably prevail in the end, perhaps after some price-control sweeteners are added for prescription drugs. But AARP is out of touch with its own members, who have figured out that their own health and lives are at stake in this debate over ObamaCare. They know that when medical discretion clashes with limited government budgets, medicine loses.

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OPERATION MIND CONTROL

1 THE CRYPTORIAN CANDIDATE

It may have been the biggest story since the atom bomb. The headline, however, was small and ignored the larger issue. "Drug Tests by CIA Held More Extensive Than Reported in '75," said the New York Times on July 16, 1977. What it should have said is "U.S. Develops Invisible Weapons to Enslave Mankind."

The testing of drugs by the CIA was just a part of the United States government's top-secret mind-control project, a project which had spanned thirty-five years and had involved tens of thousands of individuals. It involved techniques of hypnosis, narco-hypnosis, electronic brain stimulation, behavioral effects of ultrasonic, microwave, and low-frequency sound, aversive and other behavior modification therapies. In fact, there was virtually no aspect of human behavioral control that was not explored in their search for the means to control the memory and will of both individuals and whole masses of people...

2 ONLY ONE MIND FOR MY COUNTRY

Through the gray waters of amnesia he drifted, coming back from blind coma. First the echoes, like electronically amplified voices speaking from a deep, deep well... then, far off, the dim pink molecules of light... David's body lay still in the military hospital bed. Only his eyes rolled beneath the lids. For several hours he lay that way, perfectly still -- just eyes fluttering. The fluttering became more intense. Then his eyes opened. "When I woke up," David said, "I couldn't remember anything. I couldn't remember how I'd gotten there or why I was in the hospital." He asked nurses and aides why he was there. They told him he'd have to ask his doctor. When David finally saw him, the doctor said, "You tried to commit suicide..."

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This entire text was published by Karl Loren, around the time of 9/11 to explain how the people involved could be manipulated by the CIA or people like them. The remainder of this article can be found HERE.

Those technologies come under the theoretical regulation of the FDA and are used by the CIA. The FDA has made it easy for these psychiatric experiments to continue without public knowledge. The claim that the CIA is not doing them is simply misleading .

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The Assassin's Guild -- HASHSHASHIN

The Assassin's Guild -- HASHSHASHIN

In 1094 the religious control of Egypt was thrown into civil war as two sons fought over the succession from their dead father. The Hashshashin (assassins) were partisan supporters of the eldest son, Nizar, who seized and fortified a string of mountain strongholds in northern Persia These included Alamut in the Elburz Mountains, and Syria. From these fortresses they waged a campaign of terror against both orthodox Muslims and the Christian Crusaders. They often murdered prominent individuals - resulting in the word "assassin" coming to mean a politically motivated murderer in the English language.

This article was published by Karl Loren several years ago, to help explain how the suicide bombers, around the time of the 9/11 attack could be understood.

The remainder of the article is HERE.

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The health care madness worsens

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September 9, 2009

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The health care madness worsens

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If you have read my e-alerts the past several weeks, you're probably shocked at the plans our government has for our health care. As shocking as these plans are, what you're about to read could be the most shocking news yet. There's no conjecture in the following facts. The websites belong to the stated individual governments.

The state of Massachusetts is in the process of passing a law that will mandate vaccines for the swine flu. This law, which you can read here:

http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/186/st02/st02028.htm, requires total compliance with a state health "authority."

"Pure heaven for your backside!"

Sit for hours in front of the computer... in the car...in a sports stadium...or even on the most rigid of church pews with no discomfort or back pain.

This patented product actually relieves pressure and stress on the lower back while preserving natural posture.

Read on:

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According to this bill, they get to decide the emergency, not you. Next, it allows those "authorities" to impose vaccinations. If you refuse, they can haul you away into quarantine. If you refuse that, you'll be fined up to $1,000 per day, and possibly be incarcerated in prison for 30 days. In such emergency, a "local public health authority" may demand entry into your home or business. At his discretion, he can "decontaminate" your premises, even destroy it (which is violation of the 4th amendment). He also can restrict people from assembling (which is a violation of the 1st amendment).

If you refuse to cooperate, you can be arrested without warrant, upon the belief of said officer that you violated his authority. The attorney general of the state can impose price controls on medical care, (which is a violation of the 13th amendment prohibiting involuntary servitude).

Folks, this is real! And Massachusetts isn't the only state considering this type of law.
The state of Iowa has an internal document that was recently leaked on the Internet that follows Massachusetts example. It provides for a state round up of Iowa citizens who might be exposed to the swine flu virus. According to the Facility Quarantine Order, "The state has determined that quarantine in your home and other less restrictive alternatives are not acceptable." Then it lists mandatory provisions of compliance with relocation to a quarantine facility. The state has officially confirmed that the document is authentic: http://www.idph.state.ia.us/common/press_releases/
2009/20090831_clarification.asp.

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Some argue that these are just on the state level. But there's more. As if a central government takeover of medicine is not enough, there's a new bill in the House to worry about. If the House passes HR645, it will direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish national emergency centers, otherwise known as FEMA camp facilities. These will be on military bases. Here's the story:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-645.

Can you imagine what conditions will be like in a government-run detention center if an epidemic breaks out? I can. The images of the centers for Hurricane Katrina are fresh in my memory. We are now faced with a "determination" of your violation of rules that will be made by some "authority" in order to round you up. I simply don't like the sound of that.

There is growing unrest in this country over many things. There's the bad economy.

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People are showing up with vociferous opposition to a federal takeover of "health care" (i.e., disease management). The government is trying to scare us with the swine flu. And now there are reports of forced quarantines, mandatory vaccines, and outrageous fines.

There's an old saying. You can't cook a frog by throwing him into a pot of boiling water.

He'll jump out. But place him into tepid water and gradually turn up the heat and he won't jump out. Folks, with the bill in Massachusetts, the documents leaked from Iowa, proposals to build internment camps, and the talk of forced vaccinations, my conclusion as a reasonable man is that we are very near the boiling point now.

Please remember. We are the creators of government in the U.S. Asleep inside the heating pot, we have allowed our creation to turn into our pressure cooker. I do not have the power to stop our servants from turning up the heat. You do. Please call and write your representatives immediately (you can find the information at www.house.gov and www.senate.gov) and tell them to stop this madness immediately — before it's too late.

Yours for better health and medical freedom,

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Top 25 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers

April 2009

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Times may be tough for most folks, but not for the top moneymakers on Alpha magazine’s eighth annual ranking of the world’s highest-earning hedge fund managers. They took home, on average, an anything but average $464 million apiece in 2008. Four hedge fund managers took home more than $1 billion each. Altogether the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers made $11.6 billion, making 2008 the third-best year on record since Alpha began compiling its exclusive ranking.

Alpha uses two components to calculate earnings: the managers’ shares of their firm’s performance and management fees, as well as gains on their own capital invested in their funds.

The index below is a guide to the profiles of this year’s top-earning managers. Click on the bolded names below to read the top 11 hedge fund managers' profiles.

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Rank	Name	Firm Name	2008 Earnings
1	James Simons	Renaissance Technologies Corp. Karl Note: Renaissance is the firm where the new FDA Commissioner's husband is a Senior VP and shown as #2 Executive under Founder, James Simons	$2.5 billion
2	John Paulson	Paulson & Co.	$2 billion
3	John Arnold	Centaurus Energy	$1.5 billion
4	George Soros	Soros Fund Management	$1.1 billion
5	Raymond Dalio	Bridgewater Associates	$780 million
6	Bruce Kovner	Caxton Associates	$640 million
7	David Shaw	D.E. Shaw & Co.	$275 million
8	Stanley Druckenmiller	Duquesne Capital Management	$260 million
9 (tie)	David Harding	Winton Capital Management	$250 million
9 (tie)	Alan Howard	Brevan Howard Asset Management	$250 million
9 (tie)	John Taylor Jr.	FX Concepts	$250 million

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George Soros, Insider Who Bankrupts Nations and makes a huge profit doing just that.

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In British politics and economics, Black Wednesday refers to the events of 16 September 1992 when the Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after they were unable to keep sterling above its agreed lower limit. The most high profile of the currency market investors, George Soros, made over US$1 billion profit by short selling sterling. In 1997 the UK Treasury estimated the cost of Black Wednesday at £3.4 billion.

The trading losses in August and September were estimated at £800m, but the main loss to taxpayers arose because the devaluation could have made them a profit. The papers show that if the government had maintained $24bn foreign currency reserves and the pound had fallen by the same amount, the UK would have made a £2.4bn profit on sterling's devaluation.[1] Newspapers also revealed that the Treasury spent £27bn of reserves in propping up the pound.

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When the ERM was set up in 1979, Britain declined to join. This was a controversial decision as the Chancellor of the Exchequer Geoffrey Howe, despite his economically dry credentials[citation needed], was staunchly pro-European. His successor Nigel Lawson was also a believer in a fixed exchange rate, and although he was a mild Eurosceptic he admired the low inflationary record of West Germany, attributing it to the strength of the Deutsche Mark and the management of the Bundesbank. Thus although Britain had not joined the ERM, from early 1987 to March 1988 the Treasury followed a semi-official policy of 'shadowing' the Deutsche Mark. [2]

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Matters came to a head in a clash between Lawson and Margaret Thatcher's economic advisor Alan Walters, when Walters claimed that the Exchange Rate Mechanism was "half baked". This led to Lawson resigning as chancellor to be replaced by his old protégé John Major, who, with Douglas Hurd, the then Foreign Secretary, pressured Margaret Thatcher to sign Britain up to the ERM in October 1990, effectively guaranteeing that the British Government would follow an economic[3] and monetary policy that would prevent the exchange rate between the pound and other member currencies from fluctuating by more than 6%. The pound entered the mechanism at DM 2.95 to the pound. Hence, if the exchange rate ever neared the bottom of its permitted range, DM 2.778, the government would be obliged to intervene. With UK inflation at three times the rate of Germany's, interest rates at 15% and the "Lawson Boom" about to bust, the conditions for joining the ERM were not favourable at that time.

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From the beginning of the 1990s, high German interest rates, set by the Bundesbank to counteract inflationary effects related to excess expenditure on German reunification, caused significant stress across the whole of the ERM. The UK and Italy had additional difficulties with their double deficits, while the UK was also hurt by the rapid depreciation of the US Dollar - a currency in which many British exports were priced - that summer. Issues of national prestige and the commitment to a doctrine that the fixing of exchange rates within the ERM was a pathway to a single European currency inhibited the adjustment of exchange rates. In the wake of the rejection of the Maastricht Treaty by the Danish electorate in a referendum in the spring of 1992, and announcement that there would be a referendum in France as well, those ERM currencies that were trading close to the bottom of their ERM bands came under pressure from foreign exchange traders.

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The UK's prime minister and cabinet members tried all day to prop up a sinking pound and withdrawal from the monetary system the country had joined two years prior was the last resort. Prime Minister Major raised interest rates from 10 to 12 percent, then to 15, and he authorised the spending of billions of pounds to buy up the sterling being frantically sold on the currency markets.

But the measures failed to prevent the pound falling lower than its minimum level in the ERM.

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The Treasury took the decision to defend Sterling's position, believing that to devalue would be to promote inflation. [4] On 16 September the British government announced a rise in the base interest rate from an already high 10 to 12 percent in order to tempt speculators to buy pounds. Despite this and a promise later the same day to raise base rates again to 15 percent, dealers kept selling pounds, convinced that the government would not stick with its promise. By 19:00 that evening, Norman Lamont, then Chancellor, announced Britain would leave the ERM and rates would remain at the new level of 12 percent (however, on the next day interest rate was back on 10%). It was later revealed that the decision to withdraw had been agreed at an emergency meeting during the day between Norman Lamont, Prime Minister John Major, Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine and Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke (the latter three all being strong pro-Europeans as well as senior Cabinet Ministers), and that the interest rate hike to 15 percent had only been a temporary measure to prevent a rout in the pound that afternoon.

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Other ERM countries such as Italy, whose currencies had breached their bands during the day, returned to the system with broadened bands or with adjusted central parities. Even in this relaxed form, ERM-I proved vulnerable, and ten months later the rules were relaxed further to the point of imposing very little constraint on the domestic monetary policies of member states.

The effect of the high German interest rates, and high British interest rates, had been arguably to put Britain into recession as large numbers of businesses failed and the housing market crashed. Some commentators, following Norman Tebbit took to referring to ERM as an "Eternal Recession Mechanism"[5], after the UK fell into recession during the early 1990s. In his memoirs, John Major claimed that ERM membership had had the beneficial effect of wringing inflation out of Britain's system.

Indeed the performance of the UK economy subsequent to the events of Black Wednesday has been significantly stronger than that of the Eurozone[citation needed]and, despite the damage caused to the economy in the short term, many economists[who?] now use the term 'White Wednesday' to describe the day[citation needed](a term originally coined by Euro-sceptics happy at the stalling of further European integration). Ironically, sterling subsequently rallied strongly during the autumn of 1996 and early 1997 back to the levels which had prevailed before Black Wednesday[citation needed], and sterling's trade-weighted index remained stable at these levels until late 2006[citation needed].

However, the reputation of the Conservatives for competent handling of the economy was shattered. The Conservatives had recently won the 1992 general election, and the Gallup poll for September showed a 2.5% Conservative lead. By the October poll, following Black Wednesday, their share of the intended vote in the poll had plunged from 43% to 29%,[6] while Labour jumped into a lead which they held almost continuously (except for several brief periods such as during the 2000 Fuel Protests) until David Cameron became leader of the Conservative Party more than a decade later. It took 15 years for the Conservatives to regain the 42%+ popularity that is considered the minimum necessary for a Conservative general election victory. [7] [8]

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EU economists'[who?] analysis of this event concluded that stable exchange rates are the result, not the cause, of a common approach to economic management, resulting in the Stability and Growth Pact that underpins ERM II and subsequently the euro single currency.[citation needed]

Joseph Rose, a steel manufacturer, fell victim to Black Wednesday, dropping from 29th on the Forbes Rich List to obscurity.

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George Soros warns against optimism about US recovery

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Some investors are treating the fire-sale of fifth largest US investment bank Bear Stearns as though this marks the end of the financial crisis, rather than a further step downwards. Last week legendary investor George Soros published a new book warning that US stocks may not bottom out for another year.

George Soros is warning that US stocks have a way to fall yet

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Three Investing Lessons From the Tour de France

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by Ron Rowland   07-09-09

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The Tour de France is underway! Here in Austin many of us are fans of local hero Lance Armstrong. His record-breaking seven Tour victories are an inspiration to anyone facing a big challenge.

You see, this isn’t just another race … the Tour de France is a multi-week trek over steep mountains and across wide valleys, totaling thousands of miles. Every day brings new challenges. And winning the Tour is one of the greatest athletic feats in the world.

Lance Armstrong may be the greatest athlete alive today.

Most of us will never even compete in such a grueling race, much less win, but we’re all in a race for financial success. And the definition of that “success” varies from person to person. Whether you’re aiming for the stars or you’re satisfied with the simple life, you can still learn a few things from the Tour de France.

Lesson # 1:
Prepare For the Race

The Tour de France officially lasts about three weeks. The reality is that it starts years and maybe decades earlier — when the racers begin training as competitive cyclists.

Indeed, you can’t just jump on a bike and head over the Alps like Hannibal on an elephant. First, you have to train your body — and your mind — to take on the ordeal. If you don’t, you’ll collapse from the strain within minutes.

Likewise, investing success takes training, practice, and experience. Yes, some people possess a natural talent for reading the markets. Others just have “beginner’s luck.” But what if you aren’t one of them?

The truth is that life is tough. However, with grit and determination you’ll be stunned by the kind of obstacles you can overcome. This is just as true in cycling as it is in investing. What’s more, there are several steps you take right now to get on the path to success. For example, you can:

Winners train hard!

• Educate yourself with trustworthy resources like Money and Markets. Does it take time? Of course. Yet every minute is an investment in yourself — the one investment that is sure to pay off big.
• Find a good coach to show you the ropes. Few people cross the finish line alone. You need support from people you trust. But beware: Not everyone who says they want to help has your best interest in mind.
• Practice small before you go for the gold. However much money you have, resolve to keep most of it safely in cash until you are confident in your abilities. Even then, keep your bets small.
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Lesson # 2:
Remember Your Team

The Tour de France is a team effort. The team leaders get the headlines and publicity, but they’re the first to admit they don’t earn it by themselves.

Each cycling team has a variety of specialists: Sprinters, climbers, helpers, and others who all work in their own way to push the leader ahead in the “general classification.”

Your investment portfolio also has specialists:

All of these professionals work for you. By working together, they drive the team leader — that’s you — towards success. If you pick them well, and they do their jobs right, you’ll reap the reward.

Lesson # 3:
Focus On the Long Haul

Unlike most other competitions, the Tour de France is actually a series of more than 20 daily races, or “stages.” The winner is determined not by who wins the most stages, but by who has the best overall time.

The road to success is long and winding.

Some stages are relatively easy. Others are much, much harder. While the media likes to focus on the winners of each stage, what counts is the total elapsed time.

In fact, it’s quite possible to win the Tour de France without finishing first in a single stage! Greg LeMond, another famous American cyclist, did exactly that in 1990.

What does this tell you? Steady and consistent returns are the route to success. Wear yourself out on one stage and you’ll likely fall behind in the next.

In the same way, winning big in any one year does not guarantee a lifetime of investment success. Simply put, if you have a banner year, it may mean that you’re taking too much risk and just got lucky. And your luck will run out sooner or later.

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Suppose, for example, that you make a nice 10 percent return this year, next year, and the year after — in fact, you make 10 percent a year for twenty straight years! You think you’re a genius and keep on betting.

Then the twenty-first year brings an 80 percent loss. Oops. There goes your winning average — and possibly that comfortable retirement you thought was locked in.

Moral of the story: If you’re ahead in the race, don’t take needless risks. Trying to impress the crowd is a good way to lose your lead … it can happen in the blink of an eye.

The 2009 Tour de France is taking place right now. Meanwhile, your race for financial success is well underway, too. And your odds of winning it will go way up if you take these three lessons to heart.

Best wishes,

Ron

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By DANA MATTIOLI

The recession, combined with new technology, is sparking new skirmishes between employers and employees over leaks of sensitive or confidential information.

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In recent months, Yahoo Inc. and several big law firms have been surprised by disclosures of pending layoffs or internal memos detailing cost cuts on blogs or Internet news sites. In Yahoo's case, its instructions to managers conducting layoffs -- "15 minutes maximum," "don't engage in small talk" -- were published by the blog Valleywag.com. Yahoo declined to comment.

In June, leaders of Portland, Ore.-based law firm Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt told only three or four people internally about plans to lay off 19 of its 400 employees and cut the salaries of associates. Still, at 9:11 a.m. on June 15, just 41 minutes after the first employees were notified of the layoffs, the law firm received an email from AboveTheLaw.com, a legal Web site.

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"We had gone to extraordinary lengths to contain this because the people involved have been here for a very long time," says Mark Long, managing partner. He says the firm is reevaluating how it manages communications in an era of blogs and social media.

A week earlier, AboveTheLaw disclosed salary cuts at law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP before some associates had been told by managers, a spokeswoman confirms. The spokeswoman says the firm doesn't know who gave the information to the blog.

In a recent survey, 14% of 586 U.S. employees admitted they had sent confidential or potentially embarrassing company emails to outsiders. The survey was conducted by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute, a consulting firm.

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In response, employers are changing policies and deploying technology to prevent leaks. Flushing Financial Corp. is installing software that prevents employees from sending email to specified addresses and scans email attachments for sensitive information, says Allen Brewer, chief information officer of its Flushing Savings Bank unit. The bank had previously blocked its 350 employees from accessing personal email accounts at work, a common practice in the financial-services industry. Flushing hasn't had recent layoffs, but Mr. Brewer says executives wanted to tighten security.

Internet-security companies say more employers are installing such software. Optenet, a closely held Spanish software maker, says sales of its Web-monitoring and email protection software increased 50% in the first six months of this year, compared with the same period last year. Its technology can peer inside email for sensitive or confidential information, block the message and alert managers.

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, a Chicago-based law firm, is taking a different approach: avoiding company-wide memos on some topics. The firm didn't distribute a memo on its February layoffs. Managing partner Jerry Biederman says that reflected a desire to communicate more directly and personally. He adds, "If you send an electronic communication to more than a small group of people there is a substantial possibility it will turn up on a site."

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Employers have long sought to keep sensitive information private, and used a variety of techniques to plug leaks. But the emergence of blogs and Web sites, many targeted to a single industry or niche, combined with an abundance of recession-related bad news, has given the issue new urgency.

"There are more data breaches as the result of disgruntled insiders, and it's very much linked to the current economic environment and increase in layoffs," says Francis deSouza, senior vice president of the enterprise security group at Symantec Corp., a leading maker of security software.

When information does get out, some employers are aggressively pursuing leakers. Kroll Inc., a risk-consulting firm that specializes in electronic security, has received more requests from companies looking to identify leaks over the past 12 months than any similar prior period, says Rich Plansky, managing director of business intelligence and investigation.

The instantaneous nature of the Internet may prompt changes in established habits. Dallas Lawrence, vice president of digital solutions for Levick Strategic Communications, says employers can no longer expect to release information internally a few days before making a public announcement. Rather, he says the same message should be communicated internally and externally simultaneously.

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Stock Market Rally? Stinks. The Truth Stinks more!

Making Sense of Second-Quarter Earnings So Far

by Nilus Mattive   07-21-09

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As a stock guy, I keep a close eye on earnings releases … not just on the companies that I follow for Dividend Superstars, but across all sectors and industries.

That’s because earnings results are an important yardstick for sizing up the overall health of the stock markets and the underlying economy.

And equally important is the market’s reaction to the earnings reports coming out.

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What I’m finding this quarter is that my reactions are not typically matching up with those of other investors.

Let’s start with what seems to be the biggest news …

Many Financial Firms Are Beating Estimates

The market has been cheering the news coming from our nation’s financial firms.

Indeed, the recent stock market rally was sparked by news that Goldman Sachs handily beat analysts’ profit estimates. And the party continued as JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and other institutions posted similarly upbeat reports.

A quick rundown of the headline highlights:

• Karl Note: I hate to break the bubble, but Goldman Sachs has one of the dirtiest set of fingers on the globe. They are heavily involved in the deliberate and now-succesful plan to remove the US Dollar as the global currency, to bring down the American Economy and to prosper in China where all their future obscene and corrupt profits come from.

  JPMorgan Dhase? Here is the Rockefeller agenda, suceeding with corrupt earnings, just in time to take over the many small banks which will soon fail, with Chase as the only healthy (?) bank ready and waiting.

  Bank of America? Wait until I publish an excerpt from The Fourth Reich, and give the exact details of how BofA financed Hitler during WW II, just as it is helping Obama with hidden reserves and full intentions to emerge bigger and badder than ever.

  CitiGroup? Hardly needs comment. They are on the verge of bankruptcy, heavily involved in their predecessor names, in financing Hitlet and subverting the US.

  No, these are NOT the FINANCIAL firms you want to base a true stock market recovery on -- not at all.

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Aren’t these the same firms that were receiving billions and billions of our tax dollars just to (supposedly) stay afloat a couple months ago?

Um, yes.

And what have American taxpayers gotten in return?

That’s not exactly clear to me.

Sure, Goldman has already repaid the $10 billion it borrowed directly from Uncle Sam. That’s probably just so it can hand out huge bonuses again this year.

Meanwhile, can anyone tell me how much more of our money is still being used by the company to rack up record profits? For example, what about the $12 billion we gave them on account of their dealings with AIG?

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Investors don’t seem to care about such trivialities. They’re just cheering the news and move the stocks higher.

Here are a few more things I’m thinking about the financial earnings hoopla:

First, as I already said, they are largely based on government handouts used for big trading profits during self-inflicted volatility.

Something stinks here and I’m not ready to call this a true recovery for the sector.

Second, not all financial companies are smelling like roses. Consider the fact that CIT — a major small business lender — just barely cleared a deal to keep itself out of bankruptcy.

Third, most banks beat estimates because their trading units were big winners. But take a closer look at what’s happening in other parts of their businesses …

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Goldman is still wrestling with a losing commercial real estate loan portfolio and slow investment banking operations.

Meanwhile, JPM, BAC, and C are seeing deteriorating conditions in their consumer loan portfolios.

And with new legislation on the horizon — including the credit card reforms, possible caps on executive compensation, and other major initiatives — it’s hard to picture financial companies having smooth sailing from here on out.

Meanwhile …

Other Earnings Reports Have Also Been Typically
Better Than Expected, But Here’s a Word of Warning

So far, about two-thirds of the companies that have reported earnings have beaten analysts’ expectations.

That’s fairly positive news for stocks, even if the expectations were already rather low.

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But I have also seen some pitiful reports, particularly from some of the areas I’ve been warning you about in recent columns.

Harley-Davidson is the perfect example. Second-quarter profits fell 91 percent and the company is now laying off another 1,000 employees (11 percent of its workforce).

As I’ve been saying, consumers are changing their behavior. Credit is unavailable. And companies that produce frivolities are going to suffer the consequences.

Other examples of this same basic trend include Marriott, which said earnings dropped 76 percent as people travelled less and purchased fewer vacation timeshares, and Regency Centers, a shopping center real estate investment trust. The latter lowered its guidance for both the second-quarter and the full year.

As you can see, a consumer retrenchment is happening here. And in my opinion, that is an even bigger story than the individual earnings reports or big profits from Wall Street firms.

It’s going to dictate how quickly (or slowly) our economy turns around, and it has major implications for all the stocks in your portfolio.

So I suggest you pay attention to not just the earnings releases, but also the larger trends behind the numbers. The investing landscape is always changing, and some of these big-picture forces are going to affect your portfolio for years, not just the next few days or weeks.

Best wishes,

Nilus

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The CIA Mind Control Doctors: From Harvard to Guantanamo

Mandatory Flu Shots -=- Death By Government

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Swine Flu Madness

Under federal laws adopted post t9/11, the Secretary of HHS can declare a national emergency and order all citizens to be vaccinated.

These extreme powers can permit agents of the federalgovernment to enter private residences to compel those inside to receive vaccinations. 1

Jonathan W.

Emord

Attorney of

constitutional and

administrative law

More than a third of

parents don't want their kids

vaccinated, according to an

Associated Press-GfK poll yet

public health officials seem

ready to ram it down their

throats if possible. Parents

say they are concerned about

side effects from the new

vaccine and many say swine flu

doesn't amount to any greater

health threat than seasonal

flu. The AP poll found that 38

percent of parents said they

were unlikely to give

permission for their kids to be

vaccinated at school. The AP

poll, conducted Oct. 1-5, found

72 percent of those surveyed

are worried about side

effects.2

Health and Human Services

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

appealed for widespread

inoculation against swine flu,

vouching unconditionally for

the vaccine: "We know it's safe

and secure." This official has

what can only be considered as

Swine Flu Madness for she

really does not know if it’s

safe and secure. In fact she

has to know that a warning that

the new swine flu jab is linked

to a deadly nerve disease has

been sent by the Government to

senior neurologists in a

confidential letter. The letter

from the Health Protection

Agency, the official body that

oversees public health tells

the neurologists that they must

be alert for an increase in a

brain disorder called

Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS),3

which could be triggered by the

vaccine. GBS attacks the lining

of the nerves, causing

paralysis and inability to

breathe, and can be fatal. The

letter, sent to about 600

neurologists on July 29,4 is

the first sign that there is

concern at the highest levels

that the vaccine itself could

cause serious complications yet

Sebelius and others are on

their bullhorns telling the

public it is safe.

More than half a million U.S.

children yearly have
bad reactions or side effects

from widely used medicines
that require medical treatment

and sometimes hospitalization.5

U.S. health officials

have lost track of how many

illnesses and deaths have been

caused by the first global flu

epidemic in 40 years. And they

did it on purpose. Government

doctors stopped counting swine

flu cases in July.6 Yet at the

same time we find at a recent

CDC weekly meeting on swine

flu, Anne Schuchat, MD,

Director of the CDC’s National

Centre for Immunization and

Respiratory Diseases, informed

of the increasing illnesses,

hospitalizations, and deaths,

virtually all due to the H1N1

virus. To date, 37-states have

reported cases of swine flu,

with 19-paediatric deaths

reported last week, which means

76-children have died of swine

flu this year, many more than

the typical influenza toll in

the past years. According to

CDC, between 30th August and

3rd October, 1,784-American

adults and children have died

from pneumonia or different

strains of influenza.7 Health

officials seem to be confused;

are they counting or not?

Fortunately we have some

heroes standing up to the might

of the vaccine industry and

public health officials. Mike

Adams over at Natural News

reports that health freedom

attorney Jim Turner is filing a

lawsuit in Washington D.C.

mid-day Friday in an urgent

effort to halt the distribution

of the swine flu vaccine in

America. On behalf of

plaintiffs Dr. Gary Null and

other licensed health care

workers of New York State, the

lawsuit charges that the FDA

violated the law in its hasty

approval of four swine flu

vaccines by failing to

scientifically determine

neither the safety nor efficacy

of the vaccines. "The suit will

seek an injunction against the

FDA from approving the vaccine

and the core of the argument is

that they have not done the

proper safety and efficacy

tests on the vaccine to allow

it to be released at this

time," attorney Jim Turner told

Natural News.8

The World Health

Organization (WHO) restated its

confidence in the H1N1 flu

vaccine on October 6th, calling

it the most important tool

against the pandemic though

they admit that mild adverse

side effects such as muscle

cramps or headache are to be

expected in some cases, but

everyone who has access to the

vaccine should be inoculated

the WHO said. Of course they

don’t mention the possibility

of serious side effects

including death.

As soon as swine flu

vaccinations start next month,

some people
getting them will drop dead of

heart attacks or strokes, some
children will have seizures

and some pregnant women will

miscarry.

New York Times

September 28,

2009

A majority of doctors and

medical examiners are

notoriously prone to gloss over

the official cause of death

when mortality occurs in close

proximity to vaccine

administration. It is not

surprising that the WHO

recommends the vaccine even to

pregnant women for the WHO is a

front organization for one

world government, which

obviously could care less if

fetuses are contaminated.

Officials are worried about

spontaneous miscarriages,

because they are urging

pregnant women to be among the

first to be vaccinated even

though most of the vaccines

contain thimerosal, which is

fifty percent methyl mercury by

weight.

Any competent biochemist would

look at the structure of
thimerosal and identify it as

a potent enzyme inhibitor.
What is surprising is that the

appropriate animal and

laboratory
testing was not done on the

vaccines containing thimerosal

(and aluminum)
before the government embarked

on a mandated vaccine program

that
exposed infants to the levels

of thimerosal that occurred.

Dr. Boyd

E. Haley

Yet today we find the New

York Times giving space to Dr.

Paul A. Offit who says,

“Infants could safely receive

eight times as much mercury as

is contained in the H1N1

vaccine.”9 Dr. Haley, former

chairman of the chemistry

department of Kentucky

University is one of the most

intelligent and noble men I

have ever had the pleasure to

talk to. One can hardly say

that about Offit who has

financial stakes in the vaccine

industry.10

Doctor Admits Vaccine Is More

Deadly Than
Swine Flu Itself & Will Not

Give It to His Kids

Fox News

Why would you sign a

consent form for your children

to be injected with mercury,

which is 100 times more

brain-toxic than lead? And why

would your government want you

to do so? Pregnant women and

their fetuses are especially

sensitive to mercury and

mercury has been established by

the federal vaccine court to be

associated with autism in cases

where the children had

mitochondrial disease. Problem

is doctors and nurses have not

the slightest idea which

children have such metabolic

disorder before they inject

their little patients with so

many vaccines it would turn

grandma’s hair white if it

wasn’t already.

Documents from the archives of

Eli Lilly & Company
clearly demonstrate that it

was known as early as
April 1930 that the thimerosal

was dangerous.

The following is a list of

some of the nasty side effects

that the package insert for the

Influenza A (H1N1) 2009

Monovalent Vaccine manufactured

by Novartis admits to:11

*Local injection site

reactions (including pain, pain

limiting limb movement,

redness, swelling, warmth,

ecchymosis, induration)
*Hot flashes/flushes
*Chills
*Fever
*Malaise
*Shivering
*Fatigue
*Asthenia
*Facial edema.
*Immune system disorders
*Hypersensitivity

reactions (including throat

and/or mouth edema)
*In rare cases,

hypersensitivity reactions have

lead to anaphylactic shock and

death
*Cardiovascular disorders
*Vasculitis (in rare

cases with transient renal

involvement)
*Syncope shortly after

vaccination
*Digestive disorders
*Diarrhea
*Nausea
*Vomiting
*Abdominal pain.
*Blood and lymphatic

disorders
*Local lymphadenopathy
*Transient

thrombocytopenia.
*Metabolic and

nutritional disorders
*Loss of appetite.
*Arthralgia
*Myalgia
*Myasthenia
*Nervous system disorders
*Headache
*Dizziness
*Neuralgia
*Paraesthesia
*Febrile convulsions
*Guillain-Barré Syndrome
*Myelitis (including

encephalomyelitis and

transverse myelitis)
*Neuropathy (including

neuritis)
*Paralysis (including

Bell’s Palsy)
*Respiratory disorders
*Dyspnea
*Chest pain
*Cough
*Pharyngitis
*Rhinitis
*Stevens-Johnson syndrome
*Pruritus
*Urticaria
*Rash (including

non-specific, maculopapular,

and vesiculobulbous).

GlaxoSmithKline won a

further 22 government orders

for its H1N1 swine flu vaccine

in the last two months, taking

the total number of doses

ordered to 440 million worth

some $3.5 billion. Rivals in

flu vaccines include

Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis,

Baxter, AstraZeneca and CSL.

The President's Council of

Advisors anticipates that 2009

H1N1 may infect half of the US

population, require 1.8 million

hospitalizations, and result in

30,000-90,000 deaths12 but it

is not clear whether the virus

or the vaccines themselves will

be the major cause of what they

are anticipating. Considering

the fact that the swine flu has

been very mild we can easily

believe that the vaccines

themselves will do the dirty

work.

I have run against so many

histories of little children
who had never seen a sick day

until they were vaccinated and

who,
in the several years that have

followed, have never seen a

well day since.
I couldn’t put my finger on

the disease they have.
They just weren’t strong.

Their resistance was gone.
They were perfectly well before

they were vaccinated.
They have never been well

since.

Dr. William Howard Hay

Dr. Hay is not alone and

its public knowledge that tens

of thousands of health care

workers typically avoid flu

shots because of questions of

safety and effectiveness. Fewer

than half of them got flu

vaccinations last year,

according to a Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention

survey. That includes

physicians in clinics, lab

technicians, respiratory

therapists and home health

aides.

Approximately one-half of the

hundreds of parents
who call our office each month

report that their child
became autistic shortly after

receiving a vaccination.

Portia

Iverson

Cure Autism Now foundation in

Los Angeles

The official advice on

swine flu protection is

essentially limited to "wash

your hands, get your vaccine

shot and cough into your elbow.

The omission of vitamin D

(among many other things) is

another demonstration of

pharmaceutical and medical

terrorism. The officials we pay

and trust could care less if we

die from the flu or flu shot,

in fact our deaths substantiate

their theories and marketing

campaigns. The simple addition

of vitamin D supplementation or

recommendations to get healthy

doses of sun and vitamin C

would go a long way, longer

than the vaccines to mitigate

death from the flu. So would

recommendations to doctors and

patients to fully hydrate.

Yesterday I received a

testimonial13 of the use of

hydrogen peroxide and in

addition to the IMVA protocol14

for Swine Flu treatments.

Utter Criminal Madness to Use

Thimerosal in Vaccines

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

published in the Huffington

Post a few years ago

devastating evidence that

implicated the CDC in a

terrible scandal in regards to

the unnecessary injection of

millions of children with

thimerosal a few years back and

this is important because again

the CDC is going to allow

mercury containing thimerosal

to be used in the swine flu

shots as well as the regular

flu shots in the fall of 2009.

Correspondence obtained

under the Freedom of

Information Act reveals a

medical monstrosity at the very

center of the medical world.

Soon after the CDC in July 1999

recommended that the nation's

vaccine makers eliminate

Thimerosal as a preservative,

"as soon as possible," they

themselves (the CDC) secretly

discouraged Thimerosal removal

in effect deliberately exposing

millions of infants to

continued mercury poisoning.

According to Kennedy, in a

July 1999 letter, vaccine

producer SmithKline Beecham

tells CDC that it is ready to

produce non-Thimerosal DTP

(Diptheria/Tetanus/Pertussis)

vaccines immediately and has

sufficient inventories to

supply the entire U.S. market

during the remainder of 1999

and the first half of 2000, by

which time other vaccine

manufacturers would have their

Thimerosal-free DTP vaccines on

line. Thimerosal-laden DTP

vaccines containing 25

micrograms of mercury apiece

(75 thousand trillion atoms of

mercury) were then being

administered to American

infants at two months, four

months and six months -- far

exceeding EPA's recommended

safe level for mercury. Had CDC

accepted SmithKline's offer, it

could have immediately reduced

the mercury exposures to

vaccinated six-month-old

children by 40%.

Kennedy continued,

“However, in November, CDC

mysteriously sent a letter back

rejecting SmithKline's offer.

Then, on July 14, 2000 CDC

published a deceptive press

release promising to require

that all vaccines be

Thimerosal-free as soon as

"adequate supplies are

available." This was a full 12

months after the agency had

denied SmithKline's proposal.”

I devoted time to study this

issue because I believe that

this is a moral
crisis that must be addressed.

If, as the evidence suggests,

our
public-health authorities

knowingly allowed the

pharmaceutical industry
to poison an entire generation

of American children, their

actions arguably
constitute one of the biggest

scandals in the annals of

American medicine.

Robert F.

Kennedy, Jr.

"If CDC were basing its

decision on safety alone, it

would have taken SmithKline up

on its offer. That's a

no-brainer," said a federal

health official to Kennedy

anonymously. "So there were

other considerations beside

safety that were guiding their

decision making." “Among these

"other considerations" were

CDC's important concerns for

the preservation of the vaccine

program, a bureaucratic impulse

for self-preservation, and

protecting the economic

interests of its vaccine

industry friends."Immediate

withdrawal would send a strong

message; 'We messed up!'" the

health official told Kennedy.

"And I don't think they wanted

to send that message to

parents, the public or those

considering legal action."

"There was also concern," says

the federal official, "that an

immediate withdrawal might

discredit the international

vaccine programs for which CDC

is an important partner."

Why will CDC inject millions of

minority kids in America's

poorest
neighborhoods with poison

proven to kill brain tissue and

cause
learning disorders when

child-safe vaccines are

available?

Robert F. Kennedy

Jr.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical

Veritas Association
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The "Flu" Is The Body's Natural Remedy To Poor Life-Style Choices -- And To FDA UNNATURAL Manipulations To Force Those Choices On You

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Karl Note: There is no more insidious enemy to America's Health and Life than the stealth appointment of the new Commissioner of the FDA -- a person whose background is in mental health drugging and toxic remedies. The elimination of the FDA's influence over America has long been one of My Purposes for Vibrant Life. Those purposes have been published without change for decades, as:

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Dr. Young's passionate mission -- to teach the harm done with the usual acidic life style "people choose" because they are manipulated into it by "the authorities" and "do - gooders" such as now populate the ranks of the Obama devotees of death.

The image above is of my lovely wife, Jean Ross, CoFounder with me of Vibrant Life and Living Proof that you CAN be cured of deadly esophagus cancer - and that acidity, per Dr. Asai, is the cause of disease -- with Germanium ONE Remedy to that acidity but with Life Style Choices as the NATURAL REMEDY.

Karl Loren

Dear Karl,

The following is an email exchange between Matt Schweder and Dr. Robert O. Young concerning the so-called Swine Flu Virus and whether or not it is the cause of the so-called Swine Flu.

I am hopeful that this will clear up several questions that:

1) The Swine Flu virus does not exist.
2) The Swine Flu is NOT contagious, and
3) The Swine Flu virus does not cause flu symptoms.

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Kindest regards,

Dr. Robert O. Young

-----Original Message-----
From: <hschweder@insightbb.com>
Sent: Fri, Oct 16, 2009 3:27 am
Subject: RE: Keeping Yourself Healthy During a So-Called Flu Pandemic

I believe and love these emails and the pH information....but if flu has nothing to do with germs, how come it can be passed from person to person? I have been trying to ask this question for months and no one will ever answer me. Please.

I'm doing battle with my local newspaper and our county schools superintendent and trying to share information with other people and this is the one question that I get that I can't answer.

Thanks.

Matt Schweder
Lexington, KY

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Dear Matt:

Most people on this planet are living an acidic lifestyle and eating the same acidic foods and are therefore subject to the same acidic detox symptoms. The flu is the body's way of eliminating excess acid from the blood and tissues through the orfaces of the body caused by acidic lifestyle and dietary choice - not from germs! Germs are the effect of cellular transformation or degeneration not the cause!... Read More

If you go to a party and everyone is drinking alcohol excessively the majority of those drinking this acidic beverage will get drunk , will get sick to their stomach, have flu-like symptoms and will have a hang-over the next morning. Same symptoms from the same cause! The contagion was the acidic choice of drinking alcohol - a dietary choice - not a germ.... Read More

The same thing appies to flu symptoms. The flu symptom is the body removing excess metabolic and/or dietary acidity from the blood and tissues from over-ingesting too much meat, alcohol, sugar, bread, grains, high sugar fruit, acidic condiments, etc. during a season of time called the "Holiday Season" or "I eat and drink too much acidic crap dis-ease Season."

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People across the world are eating and drinking the same acidic food and living a similar acidic lifestyle and experiencing the same acidic detox symptoms, medical science calls the flu. This then gives people the illusion that there is a pandemic or that there is some so-called germ that is contagious causing this so-called flu. The theory that germs cause dis-ease or so-called disease is a scientific fraud! There is NO SWINE FLU VIRUS that is causing people to get sick. It is fear that is contagious! It is anger! It is regret! It is pride! It is acidic food! It is acidic drink! It is acidic drugs including antidepressants to birth control pills, to antibiotics, and now to toxic poisonous flu shot vaccines. It is the lack of pure clean alkaline water. It is the lack of exercise! It is the lack of oxygen. It is the lack of non-processed salt. It is the lack of healthy oils. It is the lack of chlorophyll from green foods and drinks. It is the lack of an alkaline lifestyle an
d diet. These are the viruses that are contagious that are the TRUE cause of excess acidity in the body that make us sick, tired, under-weight and over-weight that caused the body to purify itself with a flu. NOT SOME Phantom Flu Virus created by Big Pharma and Big Government for BIG Money!

Once again viruses or germs DO NOT KILL but acidic lifestyle and dietary choice will KILL! The flu is the body's natural defense remove excess acidity to save your life from acidic choice!

Keep in mind Matt that healthy alkaline body's Do Not have flu symptoms because they DO NOT need to detox their body's from excess acid from ingesting alcohol, bread, beef, chicken, fish, sugar, grains, vinegar, high sugar fruit, stress, etc. or from doing acidic emotions like fear and anger.

There is a saying that All roads lead to Rome, Italy. Eat and live an acidic lifestyle and diet and you will find yourself on the road to Rome with detox flu symptoms trying to save your sorry acidic ass. No GERM here Matt - just people who make poor ass lifestyle and dietary choices choking on their own acidic waste!

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If I sound passionate here - I am. I am trying to wake people up from their acidic stupor or mind blindness. The majority of people living on this planet are intoxicated or drunk from their acidic lifestyles and diets. WAKE UP PEOPLE! WAKE UP WORLD! YOU ARE ASLEEP AND DO NOT KNOW IT!

Save your life and say NO to the Swing Flu vaccine SHOT. Say NO TO TOXIC ACIDIC DRUGS and BIG Pharma and BIG Government! SAY NO TO A TOXIC ACIDIC LIFE! WAKE UP! It only takes one shot to kill and it already has!

In love and light,

Dr. Robert O. Young
In Love and Healing Light,

Robert O. Young, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Founder of 'THE NEW BIOLOGY' ®
Creator of the 'SCIENCE OF ALKALINE
LIVING'™ for Health.

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Swine Flu Vaccine Kills Americans -- Obama Hides This Report and Urges Children To Get The Shot

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Source: Newsletter from Dr. Young to Karl Loren

The Swine Flu Vaccine Kills

Dear Karl,

The acidic poisonous Swine flu vaccine has been linked to a killer nerve disease. A leaked letter reveals concern of neurologists over 25 deaths in America.

A warning that the new swine flu vaccine is linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.

The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, has been leaked to The Mail on Sunday, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins.

It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the Swine Flu vaccine.

"GBS is an acidic condition that ferments the lining of the nerves, causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal." states Dr. Robert O. Young, Director of Research at the pH Miracle Living Center, in San Diego, California.

The letter, sent to about 600 neurologists on July 29, is the first sign that there is concern at the highest levels that the vaccine itself could cause serious complications.

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It refers to the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the United States in 1976 when:

* More people died from the vaccination than from swine flu.
* 500 cases of GBS were detected.
* The vaccine may have increased the risk of contracting GBS by eight times.
* The vaccine was withdrawn after just ten weeks when the link with GBS became clear.
* The US Government was forced to pay out millions of dollars to those affected.

Concerns have already been raised that the new vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and that the effects, especially on children, are unknown.

It is being developed by pharmaceutical companies and will be given to about 13 million people during the first wave of immunization, expected to start in October.

Top priority will be given to everyone aged six months to 65 with an underlying health problem, pregnant women and health professionals.

The British Neurological Surveillance Unit (BNSU), part of the British Association of Neurologists, has been asked to monitor closely any cases of GBS as the vaccine is rolled out.

One senior neurologist said last night: ‘I would not have the swine flu vaccome because of the GBS risk.’

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"I am concerned that there could be a repeat of what became known as the ‘1976 debacle’ in the US, where the swine flu vaccine killed 25 people – more than the virus itself," stated Dr. Young.

A mass vaccination was given the go-ahead by President Gerald Ford because scientists believed that the swine flu strain was similar to the one responsible for the 1918-19 pandemic, which killed half a million Americans and 20 million people worldwide.

Within days, the acidic symptoms of GBS were reported among those who had been immunized and 25 people died from respiratory failure after severe paralysis. One in 80,000 people expressed this acidic condition. In contrast, just one person died of the so-called swine flu.

More than 40 million Americans had received the vaccine by the time the programm was stopped after ten weeks. The US Government paid out millions of dollars in compensation to those affected.

The so-called swine flu virus in the new vaccine is a slightly different strain from the 1976 virus, but the possibility of an increased incidence of GBS remains a concern.

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Shadow health spokesman Mike Penning said last night: ‘The last thing we want is secret letters handed around experts within the NHS. We need a vaccine but we also need to know about potential risks.

‘Our job is to make sure that the public knows what’s going on.
Why is the Government not being open about this? It’s also very worrying if GPs, who will be administering the vaccine, aren’t being warned.’

Two letters were posted together to neurologists advising them of the concerns. The first, dated July 29, was written by Professor Elizabeth Miller, head of the HPA’s Immunization Department.

It says: ‘The vaccines used to combat an expected swine influenza pandemic in 1976 were shown to be associated with GBS and were withdrawn from use.

‘GBS has been identified as a condition needing enhanced surveillance when the swine flu vaccines are rolled out.

‘Reporting every case of GBS irrespective of vaccination or disease history is essential for conducting robust epidemiological analysis capable of identifying whether there is an increased risk of GBS in defined time periods after vaccination, or after influenza itself, compared with the background risk.’

The second letter, dated July 27, is from the Association of British Neurologists and is written by Dr Rustam Al-Shahi Salman, chair of its surveillance unit, and Professor Patrick Chinnery, chair of its clinical research committee.

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It says: ‘Traditionally, the BNSU has monitored rare diseases for long periods of time. However, the swine influenza (H1N1) pandemic has overtaken us and we need every member’s involvement with a new BNSU survey of Guillain-Barre Syndrome that will start on August 1 and run for approximately nine months.

‘Following the 1976 program of vaccination against swine influenza in the US, a retrospective study found a possible eight-fold increase in the incidence of GBS.

‘Active prospective ascertainment of every case of GBS in the UK is required. Please tell BNSU about every case.

‘You will have seen Press coverage describing the Government’s concern about releasing a vaccine of unknown safety.’

If there are signs of a rise in GBS after the vaccination program begins, the Government could decide to halt it.

"GBS is an acidic condition brought on from acidic vaccines that destroys the lining of the nerves, leaving them unable to transmit signals to muscles effectively," states Dr. Young.

It can cause partial paralysis and mostly affects the hands and feet. In serious cases, patients need to be kept on a ventilator, but it can be fatal.

"Death is caused by acids that lead to paralysis of the respiratory system, causing the victim to suffocate," states Dr. Young.

The HPA said it was part of the Government’s pandemic plan to monitor GBS cases in the event of a mass vaccination campaign, regardless of the strain of flu involved. But vaccine experts warned that the letters proved the program was a ‘guinea-pig trial’.

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Dr Tom Jefferson, co-ordinator of the vaccines section of the influential Cochrane Collaboration, an independent group that reviews research, said: ‘New vaccines never behave in the way you expect them to. It may be that there is a link to GBS, which is certainly not something I would wish on anybody.

‘But it could end up being anything because one of the additives in one of the vaccines is a substance called squalene, and none of the studies we’ve extracted have any research on it at all.’

He said squalene, a naturally occurring enzyme, could potentially cause so-far-undiscovered side effects.

Jackie Fletcher, founder of vaccine support group Jabs, said: ‘The Government would not be anticipating this if they didn’t think there was a connection. What we’ve got is a massive guinea-pig trial.’

Professor Chinnery said: ‘During the last swine flu pandemic, it was observed that there was an increased frequency of cases of GBS. No one knows whether it was the virus or the vaccine that caused this.

‘The purpose of the survey is for us to assess rapidly whether there is an increase in the frequency of GBS when the vaccine is released in the UK. It also increases consultants’ awareness of the condition.

"Is the emotional acidic Panic over? The number of swine flu cases has fallen sharply in the past week," states Dr. Young.

"I COULDN''T EAT OR SPEAK... IT WAS HORRENDOUS," said
Hilary Wilkinson, a victim of the Swine Flu vaccine.

When Hilary Wilkinson woke up with muscle weakness in her left arm and difficulty breathing, doctors initially put it down to a stroke.

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But within hours, she was on a ventilator in intensive care after being diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome.

She spent three months in hospital and had to learn how to talk and walk again. But at times, when she was being fed through a drip and needed a tracheotomy just to breathe, she doubted whether she would survive.

The mother of two, 57, from Maryport, Cumbria, had been in good health until she developed a chest infection in March 2006. She gradually became so weak she could not walk downstairs.

Doctors did not diagnose Guillain-Barre until her condition worsened in hospital and tests showed her reflexes slowing down. It is impossible for doctors to know how she contracted the disorder, although it is thought to be linked to some infections.

Mrs Wilkinson said: ‘It was very scary. I couldn’t eat and I couldn’t speak. My arms and feet had no strength and breathing was hard.

I was treated with immunoglobulin, which are proteins found in blood, to stop damage to my nerves. After ten days, I still couldn’t speak and had to mime to nurses or my family.

‘It was absolutely horrendous and I had no idea whether I would get through it. You reach very dark moments at such times and wonder how long it can last.

But I’m a very determined person and I had lots of support.’

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After three weeks, she was transferred to a neurological ward, where she had an MRI scan and nerve tests to assess the extent of the damage.

Still unable to speak and in a wheelchair, Mrs Wilkinson eventually began grueling physiotherapy to improve her muscle strength and movement but it was exhausting and painful.

Three years later, she is almost fully recovered. She can now walk for several miles at a time, has been abroad and carries out voluntary work for a GBS Support Group helpline.

She said: ‘It makes me feel wary that the Government is rolling out this vaccine without any clear idea of the GBS risk, if any. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone and it certainly changed my life.

‘I’m frightened to have the swine flu vaccine if this might happen again – it’s a frightening illness and I think more research needs to be done on the effect of the vaccine.’

According to Dr. Young, "the flu is the body's way of removing excess environmental, metabolic and/or dietary acid out through the four channels of elimination - the bowels, the urinary system, the skin and the lungs. The most important fact to understand are the symptoms of the flu are not the disease but the body's attempt to re-establish the alkaline design of the body. This is where true immunity is found - in alkalinity - not in poisoning the body with an acidic vaccine. To prevent or reverse the symptoms of the so-called swine flu one must simply alkalize the body with alkaline water, food and supplements. An alkaline lifestyle and diet will buffer and eliminate the acidic waste products responsible for causing the flu-like symptoms. The beauty of this approach is the side-effects are good health."
In Love and Healing Light,

Robert O. Young, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Founder of 'THE NEW BIOLOGY' ®
Creator of the 'SCIENCE OF ALKALINE
LIVING'™ for Health.

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