Friday, September 25, 2009

ALERT: PUBLIC MEETING re: Hazards of Flu/Swine Flu Vaccinations: MON., SEPT. 28, 2009: 6:30 PM

PUBLIC MEETING:
EDUCATE YOURSELF RE:
THE HAZARDS OF THE SWINE FLU VACCINATION PROGRAM

-- TAKE ACTION NOW! --

** PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT **

Sarasota Health Freedom Coalition (SHFC) demands an immediate suspension of the unprecedented and experimental “swine flu” mass vaccination program scheduled to begin soon in Sarasota and throughout the nation. We will hold our inaugural meeting on Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, at 6:30 PM. The meeting will be held in the meeting room at:

DENNY’S RESTAURANT, 3701 BEE RIDGE RD, SARASOTA.

BEVERAGES PROVIDED (NO FOOD).

WHERE: DENNY’S RESTAURANT
3701 BEE RIDGE RD, SARASOTA
(2 BLOCKS EAST OF BENEVA RD.)

WHEN: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009 AT 6:30 PM

COST: FREE

** OPEN TO THE PUBLIC **

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION,
PLEASE CALL LLOYD AT:
760 580 1562 (cell)

or visit: SARASOTA FOR VACCINATION CHOICE
http://svcsrq.blogspot.com/
for additional information as soon as it’s posted.

IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS UNPRECEDENTED AND EXPERIMENTAL MASS-VACCINATION PROGRAM, AND HOW IT WILL PUT YOUR CHILDREN AND FAMILY AT RISK, PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND, AND BRING A FRIEND!

Monday, September 21, 2009

Background/Comment re: FL Citizen Lawsuit Against Mandatory Vaccination:

http://svcsrq.blogspot.com/2009/09/backgroundcomment-re-this-press-release.html

Sarasota for Vaccination Choice comment:

This suit was filed 8/18/2009 by Carmen Reynolds, a very courageous retired Air Force Lt. Colonel, in Santa Rosa County, Florida.

Her suit seeks temporary injunction against any mandatory vaccination, on Florida Constitution basis.

Reynolds has stated that her health was severely damaged by the vaccines that she was required to take during her military service; she can't, and won't, risk further injury or death from any more mandated vaccines, and she is properly outraged that the State claims the power to invade her sovereign body with toxic, uninsurable vaccines which, according to vaccine manufacturers, are known to cause injury and/or death.

BY WHAT AUTHORITY?

Excerpt from Plaintiff Reynolds' OBJECTION TO DEFENDANT’S [Florida's] MOTION TO DISMISS”:

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Plaintiff Reynold’s objects to the Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss as follows:
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2. Plaintiff Reynolds objects to the assertion that she has no standing to challenge a law which allows the state to disregard her basic rights as a sovereign Floridian. A reading of the statute clearly assumes that the state may seize, incarcerate and forcibly medicate anyone it wishes. There is no due process before the denial of inalienable rights. Clearly, such actions could be taken by the state against anyone within Florida. Either the people of Florida are sovereign over their own bodies or not. If they are not sovereign over their own bodies, by what authority does the state claim ownership? By what authority does the state have the right to injure and possibly kill by forced medication and physically force a sovereign Floridian?

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As crazy as it seems, it is not hyperbole to say that we may be perilously close to that day when state officials might attempt to mandate forced vaccination. If not this go-around with "swine flu," authorities have near crystal-ball like precision in assuring us that our future is comprised of wave upon wave of "lethal" pandemics!? (How did we all even manage to survive this long without daily vaccinations?) New vaccine production plants are being built in the U.S. Those vaccinations will need a destination...

DID YOU KNOW?
Florida was in an official, state-declared 60-day "Public Health Emergency" from May 1 to June 30th, 2009. See: http://vaclib.org/pdf/florida/DOH-Declaration-Public-Health-Emergency-5-1-09.pdf

The Florida public health statute, revised post-9/11/2001, clearly conflicts with the Florida Constitution. During officially-declared "Public health emergency," state health officials can:

Order[] an individual to be examined, tested, vaccinated, treated, or quarantined for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to public health. Individuals who are unable or unwilling to be examined, tested, vaccinated, or treated for reasons of health, religion, or conscience may be subjected to quarantine.

Read further, and it states the official may order law enforcement to "use any means necessary to vaccinate or treat the individual."

Read the statute here: http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0381/SEC00315.HTM&Title=-%3E2009-%3ECh0381-%3ESection%2000315#0381.00315

Read the Florida Constitution here:
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?Mode=Constitution&Submenu=3&Tab=statutes

HEARING set for Oct. 1, 2009 on the State of Florida's motion to dismiss:
http://floridaswinefluvaccinelawsuit.blogspot.com/2009/09/hearing-scheduled-for-oct-1-2009-please.html

PLEASE NOTE: Sarasota health care workers have confirmed to me that they are being pressured to take the flu shots (seasonal AND swine flu, as soon as it's delivered), even though it's not (yet?) "mandatory" at this time.

One such employee, a Sarasota hospital worker, told me today that his boss even admitted that he doesn't plan to take it himself, because, to paraphrase, he doesn't get out and mix with the sick people! Nevertheless, he is pressuring his own employees to get the shot. What does the boss know that he's not sharing with his staff?

With swine flu hysteria increasing, we need to support Carmen Reynolds' efforts, BEFORE the possible declaration of another 60-day state health "emergency," during which YOU, your family, and your loved ones, regardless of their health condition, contra-indications, religious beliefs, etc., could be the victim of a state official's arbitrary and capricious orders to be vaccinated or medicated... AGAINST YOUR WILL!

Citizen Reynolds, who is not an attorney, has nobly brought her lawsuit to this point, but now the State is playing hardball and trying to dismiss it. She needs the help of a pro-bono or reduced-fee attorney to assist her in ensuring that her argument gets the PROPER HEARING it merits. If you know of such an attorney, please contact Carmen Reynolds via email: journalist@bellsouth.net

Please help support her by forwarding her links, spreading the word about our tenuous personal sovereignty, and asking your local media to cover this story.

We also need to demand that our representatives to the Florida Statehouse revise this depraved statute, immediately!
I've also written a commentary about this matter here:
Florida Law & Forced Vaccination vs. Informed Consent & Health Freedom
http://svcsrq.blogspot.com/2009/09/2009-florida-statutes-38100315-public.html

LAWSUIT LEGAL DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE HERE:
http://floridaswinefluvaccinelawsuit.blogspot.com/2009/09/lawsuit-legal-documents.html

Thank you,
Jason
Sarasota for Vaccination Choice:
http://svcsrq.blogspot.com/

Mandating vaccinations: APIC

http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/2009/09/mandating-vaccinations-apic.html

APIC is the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Its President and most officers are RNs, but no particular qualifications are required for membership, apart from a $175 annual fee. An August 31, 2009 APIC announcement says, "The association's more than 12,000 members direct infection control programs that save lives and improve the bottom line for hospitals and other healthcare facilities around the globe."

APIC's announcement further states: "All healthcare workers, including those who are pregnant, need to be immunized against seasonal influenza and 2009 H1N1 virus when vaccines become available... Current rates of healthcare worker immunizations are appallingly low and must not be tolerated. It's time for hospitals to require flu shots--and hold employees accountable for declining the vaccine."

Why is it so important to be immunized this year?

"Immunization will be especially critical for healthcare personnel during the 2009-2010 flu season because we will have more than one virus circulating,” said APIC 2009 President Christine J. Nutty, RN, MSN, CIC.

Pardon me, Ms. Nutty. Do you understand the facts upon which your assertions are based? There are multiple influenza viruses circulating every flu season, and sometimes outside the season. That is why seasonal flu shots contain antigens from 3 different strains. Frequently the circulating strains change mid-season. Therefore, having more than one virus circulating is not and has never been unique or critical. Here is the composition of this year's vaccine.

According to CDC's Anne Schuchat, 2% of currently circulating influenza virus is of the seasonal type, and 98% is swine flu. This suggests the population should be eligible to receive swine flu vaccines, but if seasonal flu remains at 2% it would hardly be necessary to vaccinate for it.

However, the swine flu vaccines have not completed safety testing. Nor do we know how effective they really are: the only data available currently concern antibody levels generated, not cases of flu prevented, and even these data are not available for children and pregnant women.

Why do you want to mandate vaccines whose safety and effectiveness are not yet known? Did one of your strategic partners, a partner in prevention or other corporate relationships suggest it? APIC should be held accountable for providing information on where this idea for mandating vaccinations really originated, and whether, how much and by whom APIC was paid to produce and disseminate it.

What to do If You Are Forced to Take Swine Flu Shot:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/09/19/The-Truth-about-the-Flu-Shot.aspx


Posted by: Dr. Mercola

September 19 2009 | 90,816 views

FDA Approves Experimental H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Prior to Children Safety Trials Beginning

http://vactruth.com/2009/09/16/fda-approves-experimental-h1n1-swine-flu-vaccine-prior-to-children-safety-trials-beginning/

September 19th, 2009

(vactruth.com) In a stunning move, the FDA has approved four monovalent Swine Flu vaccines for the following companies: CSL Limited, MedImmune LLC, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Limited, and Sanofi Pasteur, Inc. Adding to the confusion is the fact that purported ’safety trials’ for the Swine Flu vaccine haven’t even begun, in some instances.

By example, Novartis is just starting vaccine safety trials for three to eight year old children supposedly as of 09/15/09 as reported in the last article I wrote entitled, “Ingredients Found in Spermicides, Cleaners, and Cosmetics along with Thimerosal, and Squalene Present in Experimental H1N1 Vaccine“. One can only wonder as to what head FDA officials are thinking when they approved the vaccine on the same day. Yet, according to the newly released package inserts, we now know exactly why this decision was made.

The document concerning the Novartis trial becomes a pivotal piece in discerning what is happening behind closed doors. Generally speaking, all four package inserts communicate the same message and are structured similarly. Therefore, we will select quotes from the Novartis insert for the purposes of this article.

—-For the reader’s edification, here are links to information concerning the vaccine by manufacturer—-

(Injectable)Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine (CSL Limited)
(Injectable)Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine (Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Limited)
(Injectable)Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine (Sanofi Pasteur, Inc.)
(Intranasal)Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine (MedImmune LLC)
PAST STUDIES ARE THE JUSTIFICATION FOR APPROVAL

How does a vaccine get approved without being properly tested for safety? The press release entitled “FDA Approves Vaccines for 2009 H1N1 Influenza Virus” which can be read here gives us our first clue…

“Based on preliminary data from adults participating in multiple clinical studies, the 2009 H1N1 vaccines induce a robust immune response in most healthy adults eight to 10 days after a single dose, as occurs with the seasonal influenza vaccine.”

“Clinical studies under way will provide additional information about the optimal dose in children. The recommendations for dosing will be updated if indicated by findings from those studies. The findings are expected in the near future.”

Needless to say there is a fair amount of assuming going on by high government officials and those that are practicing ‘evidence based medicine.’ The main assumption of course that this vaccine is perfectly safe. “Where is Novartis and others receiving their information from,” one may ask? The package insert for Novartis clearly states,

“Safety data were collected in a total of 2768 adult and geriatric subjects (18 years of age and older) who have received FLUVIRIN in 29 clinical studies since 1982.” (pg 6)

“In 9 clinical studies since 1997, among 1261 recipients of FLUVIRIN, 745 (59%) were women; 1211 (96%) were White, 23 (2%) Asian, 15 (1%) Black and 12 (1%) other; 370 (29%) of subjects were elderly (≥65 years of age). All studies have been conducted in the UK, apart from a study run in the US in 2005-2006 where FLUVIRIN was used as a comparator for an unlicensed vaccine.” (pg 6)

“In 1987 a clinical study was carried out in 38 ‘at risk’ children aged between 4 and 12 years (17 females and 21 males)…Three clinical studies were carried out between 1995 and 2004 in a total of 520 pediatric subjects (age range 6 – 47 months).” (pg 10)

Are they implying no testing has been completed for this new experimental H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine? I can see the logic of someone believing that the experimental H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine is safe predicated on the fact it is created with the same ‘technology’ as past shots. Moreover, when official bodies of government reiterate a sound byte, it sure is easier to believe.

If the aforementioned studies in the vaccine insert indicate vaccine safety, it doesn’t make much sense to have safety trials. Even more so, wouldn’t the clinical studies performed would be totally useless if, by example, different formulations were different? It appears what is being said and what is being done are entirely different matters altogether.

SWINE FLU VACCINE TRIAL CONTRADICTS ‘OFFICIAL STORY’

Looking at the CDC’s website for the ingredients of FLUVIRIN, we see it contains the following ingredients:

“Beta-Propiolactone , Egg Protein, Neomycin, Polymyxin B, Polyoxyethylene 9-10 Nonyl Phenol (Triton N-101, Octoxynol 9), Thimerosal (multidose containers), Thimerosal* (single-dose syringes)” (page 2)

Yet if we look at what is being tested in the trial we can abundantly see the two vaccines are not the same. Please look at page 2 of 13 of the experimental swine flu vaccine paperwork.

“MF59 is an adjuvant which is used in influenza vaccines licensed for adults and/or elderly in many countries worldwide, but it is not contained in any vaccines currently approved in the United States.”

If the MF59 adjuvant is approved for adults and elderly in different countries, but not approved in the United States, and at the same time we are having clinical trials on children now, how valid are those referenced studies in the FDA-approved-vaccine-inserts? That doesn’t appear to be evidence based to many in the scientific communities.

Nonoxynol-9 (which is a spermicide) mentioned on page 8 of the vaccine trial document is not mentioned as an ingredient in FLUVIRIN, according to the CDC’s website. Additionally, just because a vaccine has been manufactured by using the same process as the H1N1 vaccine insert implies, does not mean it has the same ingredients as past vaccines. Therefore, we cannot be presumptuous that all is well in the land of neurology or immunology.

Moreover, it appears that the Novartis Swine Flu vaccine insert is mostly a copied and pasted from the FLUVIRIN insert. Both inserts indicate that the vaccine is not for use for children under four years of age. Yet, Novartis is having a trial as I write this on three year old boys and girls. Even harder to grasp is the CDC’s recommendation that pregnant women and children 6-months of age are being shoved to the front of the line for being vaccinated.

The cruel irony on page 2 of the Novartis Swine Flu vaccine insert remarks,

“Safety and effectiveness of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine have not been established in pregnant women, nursing mothers or children less than 4 years of age. (8.1, 8.3, 8.4)“

UNIVERSAL DECLARATIONS

I seem to recall not too long ago the FDA engaging in a witch hunt to prevent any alternative treatments for the H1N1 Swine Flu. In a press release, “FDA Warns Web Sites against Marketing Fraudulent H1N1 Flu Virus Claims” the FDA boldly declared,

“…the FDA warned consumers regarding products related to the 2009 H1N1 flu virus offered on the Internet. The products involved are those that are promoted and marketed to diagnose, mitigate, prevent, treat, or cure the 2009 H1N1 flu virus but are not approved, cleared, or authorized by the FDA. The agency advised operators of offending Web sites that they must take immediate action to ensure that they are not marketing products intended to diagnose, mitigate, prevent, treat, or cure the 2009 H1N1 flu virus that have not been cleared, approved, or authorized by the FDA.”

“The FDA will consider further civil or criminal enforcement action against those Web sites that fail to resolve the violations cited in warning letters. Actions could include seizure, injunction, and criminal prosecution.”

Let’s get this straight. The powers that be at the FDA asserts unequivocally that the experimental vaccines are safe and effective while some safety trials for the vaccines have not even been started. The formulations are clearly not the same from past flu vaccines although they are being treated as such. Additionally, testing is being conducted on children who are younger than the recommended ages in the vaccine inserts. Lastly, pregnant women and infants are FIRST in line for this vaccine. It almost all seems a bit criminal, doesn’t it?

When the FDA states that it will consider civil or criminal enforcement against blatantly falsified information, perhaps they can look no further than their own backyard.

FDA Warns Web Sites against Marketing Fraudulent H1N1 Flu Virus Claims

VacTRUTH Editor’s Note:

1. A great resource for readers to understand how vaccines are made and information about them can be located at: http://www.trackingvaccinations.com/ (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!)

2. The swine flu vaccine will have 25 mcg of thimerosal. A good read on the topic can be found here: http://katysexposure.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/washington-post-swine-flu-vaccine-will-contain-mercury-toxin-linked-to-autism-and-neurological-disorders/

PRESS RELEASE: Florida Citizen Files Lawsuit Against Mandatory Vaccines:

http://floridaswinefluvaccinelawsuit.blogspot.com/2009/09/press-release-florida-citizen-files.html

[LEGAL ACTION!] Navarre woman takes on Gov. Crist:

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/navarre-20754-crist-gov.html

September 19, 2009 4:27 PM
Mona Moore
Daily News

NAVARRE — A woman wants to take Gov. Charlie Crist to court.

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Carmen Reynolds has named Crist, Attorney General Bill McCollum and Florida Surgeon General Ana Viamonte Ros in a lawsuit in Santa Rosa County Circuit Court that challenges a state statute governing public health.

“I am retired military, so I understand about following orders and towing the line and falling in,” she said. “But, this is very troubling.”

Reynolds, who is serving as her own attorney, is opposed to a section of the statute that allows law enforcement to use any means necessary to vaccinate a resident in case if an emergency.

Chapter 381.00315(1)(b)4 says a person can be forced to be tested, vaccinated, treated, examined or quarantined for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to the public.

“I’m not against all vaccines, but I’m against any provision in any state statute that says we must forego all of our rights and, at the arbitrary whim of either our state government or our federal government, be subject to any and all force necessary to subject us to a vaccine. We’re talking physical force,” Reynolds said.

READ ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE:
http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/navarre-20754-crist-gov.html

Friday, September 18, 2009

Ten Swine Flu Lies Told by the Mainstream Media

http://www.NaturalNews.com/027055_swine_flu_vaccines_swine_flu_vaccine.html

Friday, September 18, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) The mainstream media is engaged in what we Americans call "bald faced lies" about swine flu. It seems to be true with this issue more than any other, and it became apparent to me recently when a colleague of mine -- a nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist -- told me their column on natural defenses for swine flu was rejected by newspapers all across the country. Many newspapers refused to run the column and, instead, ran an ad for "free vaccine clinics" in the same space.

The media, it seems, is so deeply in bed with the culture of vaccinations that they will do almost anything to keep the public misinformed. And that includes lying about swine flu vaccines.

There are ten key lies that continue to be told by the mainstream media (MSM) about swine flu and swine flu vaccines.

Lie #1 - There are no adjuvants used in the vaccines

I was recently being interviewed by a major U.S. news network when the reporter interviewing me came up with this humdinger: There are no adjuvants being used in the swine flu vaccines, he said!

I assured him that adjuvants were, indeed, a crucial part of the vaccine recipe, and they were being widely used by drug companies to "stretch" the vaccine supply. It's no secret. But he insisted he had been directly told by a drug company rep that no adjuvants were being used at all. And he believed them! So everything being published by this large news network about swine flu vaccines now assumes there are no adjuvants in the vaccines at all.

Lie #2 - The swine flu is more dangerous than seasonal flu

This lie is finally starting to unravel. I admit that in the early days of this pandemic, even I was concerned this could be a global killer. But after observing the very mild impact the virus was having on people in the real world, it became obvious that this was a mild flu, no more dangerous than a seasonal flu.

The MSM, however, continues to promote H1N1 swine flu as being super dangerous, driving fear into the minds of people and encouraging them to rush out and get a vaccine shot for a flu that's really no more likely to kill them than the regular winter sniffles. Sure, the virus could still mutate into something far worse, but if it does that, the current vaccine could be rendered obsolete anyway!

Lie #3 - Vaccines protect you from swine flu

This is the biggest lie of all, and the media pushes it hard. Getting a vaccine, they insist, will protect you from the swine flu. But it's just flat-out false. Even if the vaccine produces antibodies, that's not the same thing as real-world immunity from a live virus, especially if the virus mutates (as they often do).

As I pointed out in a recent article, statistically speaking the average American is 40 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to have their life saved by a swine flu vaccine. (http://www.naturalnews.com/026955_s...)

Lie #4 - Vaccines are safe

And how would any journalists actually know this? None of the vaccines have been subjected to real-world testing for any meaningful duration. The "safety" of these vaccines is nothing more than wishful thinking.

The MSM also doesn't want you to know what's in the vaccines. Some vaccines are made from viral fragments grown in diseased African monkeys. If that sounds incredible, read the true story here: http://www.naturalnews.com/026779_s...

Lie #5 - The vaccine isn't mandatory

You hear this lie all the time: The swine flu vaccine shot is voluntary, they say. But it's not true if you're an employee at a place where vaccines are being mandated. Millions of Americans are now being told by their employers that if they don't get vaccine shots, they will be effectively fired from their jobs. It's especially true with health care workers, day care employees and school teachers.

Lie #6 - Getting a vaccine shot is a good bet on your health

In reality, a vaccine shot is far more likely to harm you than help you. According to one viral expert, the actual mortality rate of the swine flu virus is estimated to be as low as .007 percent (http://www.reuters.com/article/heal...). That means H1N1 swine flu kills less than one person in 100,000. Even if the vaccine works, let's say, 10 percent of the time, you'd have to vaccine one million people to prevent one death from swine flu.

And in vaccinating one million people, you would inevitably harm or kill several people, simply from the vaccine side effects! Your net risk of death is increased by getting a swine flu vaccine.

Lie #7 - The vaccine isn't made with "attenuated live virus"

When the swine flu vaccines were first being announced several months ago, they were described as being made with "attenuated live virus." This was directly mentioned in CDC documents, among other places.

This term apparently freaked out the American news consumer, and it has since been all but erased from any discussion about vaccines. Now, journalists will actually argue with you and insist the vaccines contain no attenuated live viruses whatsoever.

Except they're wrong. The vaccines are, indeed, made with "attenuated live viruses." That's how you make a vaccine: You take live viruses, then you weaken them ("attenuate") and inject them into people.

Lie #8 - Wash, wash, wash your hands (to avoid exposure)

This idea of washing your hands a hundred times a day is all based on the assumption that you can avoid exposure to the swine flu virus. But that's impractical. The virus is now so widespread that virtually everyone is certain to be exposed to it through the air if not other means. This whole idea of avoiding exposure to the swine flu virus is nonsense. The conversation should shift to ways to survive exposure via a healthy immune system.

Of course, hand washing is a very good idea in a hospital setting. Recent news reveals that doctors are too busy to wash their own hands, resulting in the rampant spread of superbugs throughout most large hospitals in first world nations.

Lie #9 - Children are more vulnerable to swine flu than adults

This is just a flat-out lie, but it makes for good vaccine sales. Vaccines are right now being targeted primarily to schoolchildren.

But the truth is that swine flu is extremely mild in children. "It's mildest in kids," says Dr Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University. "That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic." Reuters actually had the guts to report this story, but most of the larger media outlets are still reporting that children are the most vulnerable.

Lie #10 - There is nothing else you can do beyond a vaccine and Tamiflu

This is where the media lies by omission. The mainstream media absolutely refuses to print just about any story that talks about using vitamin D, anti-viral herbs or natural remedies to protect yourself from swine flu. In the MSM, there are two options and only two: Vaccines and Tamiflu. That's it. No other options exist in their fictional reality.

Why is the mainstream media so afraid to print the truth these days? Why can't reporting on swine flu see the light of day... literally, with a mention of sunlight and vitamin D? Apparently, Big Pharma has such a tight grip on mainstream newspapers that no true story on swine flu can ever make it past the editor's desk.

Killing stories, deceiving the public

It must really be depressing to work for the mainstream media. Even the reporters I know can't stand it. The truth, they admit, rarely makes it into print.

Over the last few years, I've had a couple of job offers from large media outlets. They want to pay me a six-figure salary and stick me behind a desk where they can control what I report. Needless to say, I routinely reject those offers. If I can't write the truth like I do here on NaturalNews.com, there's no point writing at all. In too many ways, the mainstream media has become little more than a corporate mouthpiece, whoring itself out to the highest bidder / advertiser.

It's no fault of the frontline reporters who actually work there. For the most part, they agree with what I'm saying. It's the fault of the profit-oriented corporate mindset where news is about selling newspapers rather than actually informing the public.

Important news stories get killed every day in the newsrooms across America. They get killed not because they are poorly investigated or poorly written, but because they upset advertisers and corporate string pullers who shape the news and reject any stories that threaten their own financial interests.

Here in 2009, the distorted reporting on the swine flu vaccine has been one of the greatest media frauds ever perpetrated. The media has in every way contributed to the widespread ignorance of the American people on the subject of vitamin D and natural immune-boosting defenses that could reduce swine flu fatalities. Rather than informing readers, the MSM has made it a point to keep the people stupid, and in doing so, the media has failed its only mission and betrayed the very audience is claims to serve.
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About the author: Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate with a passion for sharing empowering information to help improve personal and planetary health He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a maker of energy efficient LED lights that greatly reduce CO2 emissions. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a noted pioneer in the email marketing software industry, having been the first to launch an HTML email newsletter technology that has grown to become a standard in the industry. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, Pilates and organic gardening. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org

Thursday, September 17, 2009

2009 Florida Statutes: 381.00315 Public health advisories; public health emergencies

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0381/Sections/0381.00315.html

[Sarasota for Vaccination Choice comment:

Florida Law & Forced Vaccination vs. Informed Consent & Health Freedom

". . . If the State can tag, track down and force citizens against their will to be injected with biologicals of unknown toxicity today, there will be no limit on which individual freedoms the State can take away in the name of the greater good tomorrow." -- Barbara Loe Fisher, National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)

On May 1, 2009, the Surgeon General of Florida, in concert with the Governor's Office, declared a 60-day "Public Health Emergency" concerning the H1N1 influenza. This declaration activated draconian provisions in Florida public health statutes, Chapter 381 (full text below, or see:

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0300-0399/0381/Sections/0381.00315.html

Today's Florida public health statutes reflect revisions made, post-9/11, to incorporate elements of the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act (MSHEPA), legislation criticized by both the right and the left for civil liberties violations. The Florida public health emergency officially expired on June 30, 2009, and was not extended.

Despite the expiration , the H1N1 "state of emergency" effectively continues in Florida. Disregarding the official recognition that H1N1 is a relatively mild form of influenza, the Florida Department of Health, acting at the direction of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Health & Human Services, continues to advise counties to implement massive seasonal and H1N1 vaccination programs, including
"drive-through" vaccination clinics and in-school vaccinations.

In this environment, schoolchildren, parents, hospital workers and others are arguably coerced to take the experimental vaccines. Informed consent is under assault.

Vaccines are pharmaceuticals for which the official, FDA-approved package inserts describe injury or death as potential adverse effects. They typically contain many more ingredients than just the biologic agent, often known hazards. In fact, injury and death do occur all too frequently as a direct result of vaccination. "Drive-through" vaccination clinics and schools, which lack personal physician oversight and rule out informed consent, are NOT proper settings to deliver such drugs.

Whether or not the State of Florida is currently operating in an official, legal "public health emergency," the State does arguably act outside the Florida Constitution in its hysteria-promoting and coercive efforts.

Here is the key language pertaining to individual rights during an officially declared "public health emergency":

“The State Health Officer, upon declaration of a public health emergency, may take actions that are necessary to protect the public health. Such actions include, but are not limited to:

...

“4. Ordering an individual to be examined, tested, vaccinated, treated, or quarantined for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to public health. Individuals who are unable or unwilling to be examined, tested, vaccinated, or treated for reasons of health, religion, or conscience may be subjected to quarantine.

“a. Examination, testing, vaccination, or treatment may be performed by any qualified person authorized by the State Health Officer.

“b. If the individual poses a danger to the public health, the State Health Officer may subject the individual to quarantine. If there is no practical method to quarantine the individual, the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to vaccinate or treat the individual.

“Any order of the State Health Officer given to effectuate this paragraph shall be immediately enforceable by a law enforcement officer under s. 381.0012.”

This language is overly broad, inviting arbitrary and capricious conduct by state officials. Qualified experts have been very vocal about the fact that H1N1 influenza does not represent a genuine public health crisis warranting draconian measures.

However, such revelations have not stopped the proponents of the unprecedented H1N1 vaccination campaign from characterizing H1N1 as a "communicable disease that [has] significant morbidity or mortality and present[s] a severe danger to public health."

In some officials’ hands, the language "may use any means necessary [italics added] to vaccinate or treat" could invite forceful and even injurious tactics. The statute must be rewritten to protect rather than endanger the public health, and to respect civil liberties.

Certain authorities have been promising a pandemic for at least the past eight years. Now, H1N1 – a mild influenza - appears, and legal precedents are being set. This is a slippery slope... even the U.S. Military has been enlisted to help with coercive vaccination methods.

What will happen in the coming months and years, if the legal precedents fail to recognize individual health needs, personal sovereignty over one’s body, and civil rights?

Florida citizens need to demand that our representatives revise this law, in order to codify and preserve the individual's sovereign right to refuse medical treatment or vaccination that violates his or her health, conscience and/or religion, and in order to free citizens from vaccine coercion, whether or not a "public health emergency" is in effect.

Read the law! Let’s find language that truly protects our health and our rights. Please spread the word.

--Jason B.]

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Title XXIX

PUBLIC HEALTH

Chapter 381

PUBLIC HEALTH: GENERAL PROVISIONS

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381.00315  Public health advisories; public health emergencies.--The State Health Officer is responsible for declaring public health emergencies and issuing public health advisories.

(1)  As used in this section, the term:

(a)  "Public health advisory" means any warning or report giving information to the public about a potential public health threat.

Prior to issuing any public health advisory, the State Health Officer must consult with any state or local agency regarding areas of responsibility which may be affected by such advisory. Upon determining that issuing a public health advisory is necessary to protect the public health and safety, and prior to issuing the advisory, the State Health Officer must notify each county health department within the area which is affected by the advisory of the State Health Officer's intent to issue the advisory.

The State Health Officer is authorized to take any action appropriate to enforce any public health advisory.

(b)  "Public health emergency" means any occurrence, or threat thereof, whether natural or man made, which results or may result in substantial injury or harm to the public health from infectious disease, chemical agents, nuclear agents, biological toxins, or situations involving mass casualties or natural disasters. Prior to declaring a public health emergency, the State Health Officer shall, to the extent possible, consult with the Governor and shall notify the Chief of Domestic Security. The declaration of a public health emergency shall continue until the State Health Officer finds that the threat or danger has been dealt with to the extent that the emergency conditions no longer exist and he or she terminates the declaration. However, a declaration of a public health emergency may not continue for longer than 60 days unless the Governor concurs in the renewal of the declaration. The State Health Officer, upon declaration of a public health emergency, may take actions that are necessary to protect the public health. Such actions include, but are not limited to:

1.  Directing manufacturers of prescription drugs or over-the-counter drugs who are permitted under chapter 499 and wholesalers of prescription drugs located in this state who are permitted under chapter 499 to give priority to the shipping of specified drugs to pharmacies and health care providers within geographic areas that have been identified by the State Health Officer. The State Health Officer must identify the drugs to be shipped. Manufacturers and wholesalers located in the state must respond to the State Health Officer's priority shipping directive before shipping the specified drugs.

2.  Notwithstanding chapters 465 and 499 and rules adopted thereunder, directing pharmacists employed by the department to compound bulk prescription drugs and provide these bulk prescription drugs to physicians and nurses of county health departments or any qualified person authorized by the State Health Officer for administration to persons as part of a prophylactic or treatment regimen.

3.  Notwithstanding s. 456.036, temporarily reactivating the inactive license of the following health care practitioners, when such practitioners are needed to respond to the public health emergency: physicians licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459; physician assistants licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459; licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, and advanced registered nurse practitioners licensed under part I of chapter 464; respiratory therapists licensed under part V of chapter 468; and emergency medical technicians and paramedics certified under part III of chapter 401. Only those health care practitioners specified in this paragraph who possess an unencumbered inactive license and who request that such license be reactivated are eligible for reactivation. An inactive license that is reactivated under this paragraph shall return to inactive status when the public health emergency ends or prior to the end of the public health emergency if the State Health Officer determines that the health care practitioner is no longer needed to provide services during the public health emergency. Such licenses may only be reactivated for a period not to exceed 90 days without meeting the requirements of s. 456.036 or chapter 401, as applicable.

4.  Ordering an individual to be examined, tested, vaccinated, treated, or quarantined for communicable diseases that have significant morbidity or mortality and present a severe danger to public health. Individuals who are unable or unwilling to be examined, tested, vaccinated, or treated for reasons of health, religion, or conscience may be subjected to quarantine.

a.  Examination, testing, vaccination, or treatment may be performed by any qualified person authorized by the State Health Officer.

b.  If the individual poses a danger to the public health, the State Health Officer may subject the individual to quarantine. If there is no practical method to quarantine the individual, the State Health Officer may use any means necessary to vaccinate or treat the individual.

Any order of the State Health Officer given to effectuate this paragraph shall be immediately enforceable by a law enforcement officer under s. 381.0012.

(2)  Individuals who assist the State Health Officer at his or her request on a volunteer basis during a public health emergency are entitled to the benefits specified in s. 110.504(2), (3), (4), and (5).

[Scotland] Mass swine flu coffins warning:

http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Mass-swine-flu-coffins-warning.5654348.jp

Published Date: 17 September 2009
By David Maddox

MINISTERS have been urged to have thousands of cardboard coffins ready for mass deaths should swine flu take a turn for the worse.

Scottish Government guidance was published yesterday looking at how to cope with large-scale death from catastrophic events, disease and terrorist attacks.

The document – Guidance on Dealing with Mass Fatalities in Scotland – was published amid coADVERTISEMENT

ncern that swine flu, which has so far been relatively mild compared to seasonal flu, could mutate and become much more virulent.

The guidance recommends the use of cardboard coffins and refrigeration centres to hold bodies. It also urges that mass graves should not be used.

It came as thousands of nurses and midwives whose registration has lapsed were being contacted to help cope with any surge in the swine-flu pandemic. Letters are being sent to about 10,000 people in Scotland, once registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to work in the UK.

To re-register, the nurse or midwife must have worked over the past five years for a minimum of 750 hours. Letters will go to 90,000 people in the UK. In Scotland this includes 7,695 nurses, 148 midwives and 1,686 people with dual qualification.

NMC chief executive and registrar Kathy George said they were writing to more than 90,000 nurses and midwives whose registration has lapsed in the last four years "encouraging" them to consider re-applying.

Labour health spokesman Dr Richard Simpson MSP said it was "absolutely vital" the time available was used to prepare for a potential second wave of flu cases. He said: "In a worst-case scenario, GPs could be dealing with over 5,000 extra cases per week."

Police and Military Train To Intern Swine Flu Vaccine Refusniks:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/police-and-military-train-to-intern-swine-flu-vaccine-refusniks.html

[Sarasota for Vaccination Choice comment: It is unfortunate that as "extreme" as the following seems, it can't be dismissed out of hand. CNN and FOX News have both reported that the US Military WILL be called upon to assist with FEMA swine flu response. We are a nation of laws, and the fact that we are now ~officially~ in a state of declared "emergency" means that we are left to defer to the authorities and hope that they don't abuse the draconian, arbitrary, and unconstitutional powers that they accrued during the post 9/11 era, and which they now ~claim~ to hold over us.]

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Only by diffusing the rampant hype behind the relatively harmless swine flu virus and re-affirming our right to reject enforced medical procedures conducted against our will under the Nuremberg code will the swine flu hoax, which is being used by governments as a smokescreen to accelerate and implement the police state, be defeated.
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Police and Military Train To Intern Swine Flu Vaccine Refusniks:
While health authorities create plausible deniability by acknowledging millions of deadly health problems will be blamed on the vaccine in the aftermath of mass immunization programs

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, September 17, 2009

Law enforcement and military personnel are training to set up checkpoints in order to catch people who refuse to take the swine flu vaccination according to whistle blowers, while health authorities are laying the groundwork for a mass vaccination campaign by warning that serious and potentially deadly health problems will be blamed on the H1N1 vaccine.

In a You Tube video, a woman describing herself as a soldier explains how she was part of a drill in California centered around setting up roadblocks and checkpoints so authorities could check who has received the swine flu vaccine. Those who have had the shots will be fitted with an RFID bracelet so they can be tracked. Those who have not taken the shot will be offered it there and then and if they still refuse, will be carted off to an internment camp, according to the woman.
Watch the clip.

This individual needs to go public with her full name and position because she will already be known to authorities. By remaining anonymous to the public only, her testimony can be dismissed as just someone ranting on You Tube. However, her statements about tracking people who have taken the vaccine via RFID bracelets is something that has already been beta tested by health authorities.

Former Kansas state trooper Greg Evensen underscored this claim back in July. “Have you been made aware of the massive roadblock plans to stop all travelers for a vaccine bracelet (stainless steel band with a micro-chip on board) that will force you to take the shot?” Evensen wrote on July 29. “Refuse it? You will be placed on a prison bus and taken to a quarantine camp.

What will you do when your children are NOT allowed into school without the shot? What will you do when you are not allowed into the workplace without the vaccine paperwork? Buy groceries? Go to the bank? Shop anywhere?? Get on a plane, bus or train? Use the toilet in the mall? Nope. Police officers will become loathed, feared, despised and remembered for their ‘official’ duties.”

Mr. Evensen made the following comment at an event in West Virginia:

Authorities in Boston have already trialed such technology, with the purpose of creating a “vaccination map” charting which people have taken the vaccine and which have not, or “creating a citywide registry of everyone who has had a flu vaccination,” as a Boston Globe article describes.

Participants were given a bracelet with a unique identifier code, exactly as described in the You Tube clip.

“Infectious disease specialists in Boston and elsewhere predicted that the registry approach could prove even more useful if something more sinister strikes: a bioterrorism attack or the long-feared arrival of a global flu epidemic. In such crises, the registry could be used to track who received a special vaccine or antidote to a deadly germ,” according to the article.

“Anything you can do to better pinpoint who’s vaccinated and who’s not, that’s absolutely vital,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy at the University of Minnesota. “I wish more cities were doing this kind of thing.”

While governments have publicly backed away from talk of mandatory mass vaccination programs, their actions behind closed doors indicate that they are preparing for a state of medical martial law.

An international swine fu conference held recently in Washington DC and attended by the world’s top health authorities featured workshops on enforced quarantines, mass vaccinations, and how to “control and diffuse social unrest and public disorder.” Individuals who attempted to gain access to the conference representing the media were turned away by officials at the conference.

As we reported earlier this month, a shocking internal document outlines the French government’s plan to impose a mass swine flu vaccination program on the entire population which would be focused around regional vaccination centers and would be carried out by H1N1 injection teams, completely bypassing medical establishments and GP’s.

Legislation has also been passed in the U.S. that would allow state vaccine teams to go door to door to conduction immunization “interventions” and look for people who have not taken the shot.
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It is unclear how authorities plan to enforce any such mandatory vaccination campaign, especially in light of anecdotal evidence suggesting that a large majority of the public will refuse to take the shots. Polls taken in the UK indicate that a majority of nurses and other health workers, the primary targets for the first round of vaccinations, will refuse to be vaccinated.

It is likely that threats, intimidation and removal of rights and conveniences will force most holdouts to take the shot. Once governments start imposing quarantines and travel bans on people for not taking the shot, a sizeable number are likely to acquiesce.

Since the dangerous ingredients that will be included in the H1N1 shots became known to the public, opposition to proposed mass vaccination programs has snowballed.

As we have previously documented, the swine flu vaccine was rushed through safety procedures while governments have provided pharmaceutical companies with blanket immunity from lawsuits arriving out of the vaccine causing deaths and injuries.

It was previously revealed that some batches of the vaccine will contain mercury, a toxin linked with autism and neurological disorders. The vaccine will also contain the dangerous ingredient squalene, which has been directly linked with cases of Gulf War Syndrome and a host of other debilitating diseases.

It was also recently reported that the UK government sent a confidential letter to senior neurologists telling them to be on the alert for cases of a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the vaccine. The CDC in America replicated this warning weeks later.

As a result of the dangers of the vaccine becoming widely known, authorities are moving to get out ahead of the story by acknowledging that millions of health problems in the aftermath of a vaccination campaign will be blamed on the vaccine, citing the 1976 swine flu debacle when the shot proved far deadlier than the actual virus.

Reuters reports that public health officials, “Expect an avalanche of so-called adverse event reports, which are reports of death, illness or other health trauma that occur within two weeks after receiving treatment — in this case, the swine flu vaccine,” in reaction to an estimated “one million heart attacks, 700,000 strokes and 900,000 miscarriages.”

“We are going to be overwhelmed with potential events,” said Mike Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota.

By coming out early and claiming that these problems would have occurred without the swine flu vaccine anyway, authorities are creating plausible deniability for when side-effects from the shot begin to appear.

A number of factors now indicate that authorities in both America and Europe are not only preparing mass vaccination programs, but are also training law enforcement and military assets on how to deal with those who refuse to take the shot.

Given the fact that around 150 million Americans own guns and would be prepared to use them to defend their families against police and troops forcibly jabbing needles into them, it seems unlikely that health authorities in the U.S. will go down this route. However, by implementing travel bans, school bans and other forms of general quarantine, a good number of those refusniks may eventually be intimidated into taking the dangerous shot.

But a good number of them will stand firm – and that’s probably where the internment camps and martial law will come into play.

Only by diffusing the rampant hype behind the relatively harmless swine flu virus and re-affirming our right to reject enforced medical procedures conducted against our will under the Nuremberg code will the swine flu hoax, which is being used by governments as a smokescreen to accelerate and implement the police state, be defeated.

Flu experts gear up for pandemic of vaccine worry:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE58F3A720090916?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandChannel=0

[Sarasota for Vaccination Choice comment: Is this article what's known as preemptive plausible deniability?]

Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:04pm EDT

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One million heart attacks, 700,000 strokes and 900,000 miscarriages -- U.S. public health officials want Americans to know these will happen every single year with or without a swine flu vaccine campaign.

Yet this year, they know a significant number will be blamed on the H1N1 vaccine, which will roll out within weeks, and they are struggling to be ready.

They expect an avalanche of so-called adverse event reports, which are reports of death, illness or other health trauma that occur within two weeks after receiving treatment -- in this case, the swine flu vaccine.

"We are going to be overwhelmed with potential events," said Mike Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota.

"Anything that happens to anybody in the period of seven to 14 days after vaccination will be reported."

And not just to U.S. officials. The World Health Organization is trying to reassure a global audience that vaccines being made by 25 different companies, with various formulations, are all safe.

"If we have a safety signal in one country it could stop vaccination efforts in others," WHO's top flu expert Dr Keiji Fukuda told a meeting of infectious disease specialists organized by the U.S. Institute of Medicine this week.

Flu experts themselves have little doubt the vaccine being made against H1N1 is safe. It is made using precisely the same technology as the annual seasonal flu vaccine, which is given to hundreds of millions of people every year.

But because H1N1 is new, vaccine makers have been testing it to learn what the right dose is.

SPIRIT OF '76

Memories linger of the 1976 swine flu debacle, when 43 million Americans were vaccinated against a virus that never spread, and newspapers filled with reports of a rare and crippling neurological disease called Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Guillain-Barre was never definitively linked with the vaccine, but many Americans have viewed immunizations with suspicion ever since.

"We have anticipated that there will be a need for enhanced surveillance for Guillain-Barre as well as other adverse events," Dr Nancy Cox of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the meeting.

And there will be more to contend with than critical newspaper and television reports. The Internet did not exist in 1976. Nor did blogs, Facebook, Twitter or dozens of other ways for people to communicate globally and instantly.

"Information is the most globalized product of all," Fukuda said. "The ability of blog sites to influence countries' decision-makers and so on -- coming to grips with how we deal with this is going to be a priority."

Continued...

To address this, CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are gearing up for one of the biggest surveillance efforts ever. "We know how absolutely essential clear, transparent communications are to the public in order to have a successful vaccination campaign," Cox said.

CDC's weapons of choice -- Facebook, Twitter, Internet RSS feeds, humorous "viral" videos posted on YouTube, iPhone apps such as the CDC News Reader. Children's Hospital Boston has an app (short for application) called Outbreaks Near Me that allows people to track the pandemic locally.

(Editing by Eric Beech)

Baxter ramps up swine flu vaccine yields:

http://www.reuters.com/article/internal_ReutersNewsRoom_ExclusivesAndWins_MOLT/idUSTRE58F5HI20090916

Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:09pm EDT

[Sarasota for Vaccination Choice comment: See: Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu viruses to subcontractor 26 Apr 2009: http://www.legitgov.org/baxter_flu_vaccine_260409.html]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Baxter International Inc on Wednesday said its production yields of a "swine flu" vaccine have increased three-fold.

In a presentation to investors, Joy Amundson, president of Baxter's Bioscience unit, said the company has begun shipping the swine flu, or H1N1, vaccines weekly.

Vaccine makers have been struggling with yields, creating concerns of a shortfall.

The new H1N1 strain of flu, declared a pandemic on June 11, could eventually infect 2 billion people, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates.

Novartis said earlier this month a single dose of its swine flu vaccine might protect against the virus, raising hopes that potentially tight supplies could go further when mass immunization starts.

A Baxter spokeswoman said it still was not known whether the Baxter product could give protection with a single dose.

She said it was also unclear whether or not Baxter would be able to fulfill its vaccine orders. But reports that it would not be able to meet its commitments were premature, she said.

It depends on yields, she said, and they are improving.

Hospitals pushing workers to get flu vaccines:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/hospitals-pushing-workers-to-get-flu-vaccines/1036827

By Richard Martin, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Thursday, September 17, 2009

They spread the message that the public should get the flu shot, but health care workers usually don't follow their own advice.

Every year, fewer than half of them get vaccinated, despite a government recommendation that puts them near the top of the list.

That could change this year, with the arrival of the H1N1 swine flu virus and a new vaccine for it. Hospitals here and nationally are stepping up efforts to vaccinate workers against both seasonal flu and H1N1. One state — New York — is even making flu vaccinations mandatory for health care workers.

Tampa General Hospital held an employee flu vaccine kickoff event Wednesday, offering free seasonal flu vaccines to workers. All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, which touts a 77 percent employee vaccination rate, plans a similar event later this month. Northside Hospital in St. Petersburg wants all of its workers vaccinated and is asking employees to wear masks at work if they choose not to get the shot.

Ingredients Found in Spermicides, Cleaners, and Cosmetics along with Thimerosal, and Squalene Present in Experimental H1N1 Vaccine

http://vactruth.com/2009/09/11/ingredients-found-in-spermicides-cleaners-and-cosmetics-along-with-thimerosal-and-squalene-present-in-experimental-h1n1-vaccine/

EXCERPT:

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OVERVIEW

Let us recap.
1. The vaccine contains squalene (MF59) which has not been tested for causing cancer.
2. The vaccine contains thimerosal, a known culprit in causing autism and neurological deficits.
3. The vaccine curiously contains nonoxynol-9 used in spermicides.
4. The vaccine will likely cause (and spread) the flu.
5. No neurological testing will be done to ensure the vaccine is safe from harmful neurological side effects.
6. Monitoring for safety will last 13 months, well beyond the flu season.

As to my knowledge, this information is the first of its kind validating the ingredients and the intent to use them on the population. Buyer beware of this vaccine as we are likely to see an onslaught of damaged men, women, and children if there are forced vaccines. The ‘new’ experimental vaccine is certainly unlike any other that we, as Americans, have been exposed to in the past.
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Body bags disrupt Canada’s flu-readiness message

http://ca.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idCATRE58F69K20090916

September 16th, 2009

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – The Canadian government sent body bags to some remote Indian reserves as it prepared for the winter flu season, sending a jarring message at odds with its promise that it’s ready for the H1N1 flu.

The body bags went to some reserves in Manitoba, the western province in which some remote Indian communities were hard-hit by the flu in the spring, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said on Wednesday.

“It is very disturbing,” Aglukkaq told reporters on a conference call. “It’s a serious issue and it’s very concerning to me.”

Aglukkaq said she didn’t have details of the body-bag shipments and has ordered officials to investigate.

At least four Manitoba reserves received body bags from Canada’s health department in shipments that also included supplies like masks and hand sanitizer, the Winnipeg Free Press said.

“This says to me they’ve given up,” the newspaper quoted Chief David Harper of Northern Manitoba’s Garden Hill reserve, which received some of the body bags, as saying.

Sending body bags is “a totally unnecessary thing,” said chief public health officer Dr. David Butler-Jones.

Canada, a country of 33.6 million people, has ordered 50.4 million doses of vaccine and plans to begin immunizations in November. If Canada doesn’t need all its order, it will leave some vaccines available for other countries, Butler-Jones said.

Government officials aim to first distribute H1N1 vaccine to pregnant women, people living in remote communities, people with chronic health conditions and health-care workers.

“The whole population can be immunized very quickly,” Butler-Jones said.

The flu, now a worldwide pandemic, has killed 76 people in Canada.

Swine flu death rate similar to seasonal flu: expert

http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE58E6NZ20090916?sp=true

[Sarasota for Vaccination Choice comment: Isn't it time, then, to slow down with the mass-vaccinations, and re-think this whole situation?]

Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:06pm EDT

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The death rate from the pandemic H1N1 swine flu is likely lower than earlier estimates, an expert in infectious diseases said on Wednesday.

New estimates suggest that the death rate compares to a moderate year of seasonal influenza, said Dr Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University.

"It's mildest in kids. That's one of the really good pieces of news in this pandemic," Lipsitch told a meeting of flu experts being held by the U.S. Institute of Medicine.

"Barring any changes in the virus, I think we can say we are in a category 1 pandemic. This has not become clear until fairly recently."

The Pandemic Severity Index set by the U.S. government has five categories of pandemic, with a category 1 being comparable to a seasonal flu epidemic.

Seasonal flu has a death rate of less than 0.1 percent -- but still manages to kill 250,000 to 500,000 people globally every year.

A category 5 pandemic would compare to the 1918 flu pandemic, which had an estimated death rate of 2 percent or more, and would kill tens of million of people.

Lipsitch took information from around the world on how many people had reported they had influenza-like illness, which may or may not actually be influenza; government reports of actual hospitalizations and confirmed deaths.

He came up with a range of mortality from swine flu, from 0.007 percent to 0.045 percent.

Either way, having new information about how many people were infected and did not become severely ill or die makes the pandemic look very mild, he said.

"The news is certainly better than it was in May and even better than it was at the beginning of August," Lipsitch said.

H1N1 swine flu was declared a pandemic in June after flashing around the world in six weeks. Experts all said a true death rate would not be clear for weeks because it is impossible to test every patient and because people with mild cases may never be diagnosed.

This lack of information made the epidemics in various countries and cities look worse at first than they actually were, Lipsitch said. People sick enough to be hospitalized are almost always tested first.

"Yes, there's been hype, but I don't think it's been an outrageous amount of hype," Lipsitch said.

Seasonal flu is usually far worse among the elderly, who make up 90 percent of the deaths every year. In contrast, this flu is attacking younger adults and older children, but they are not dying of it at the same rate as the elderly, Lipsitch said.

(Editing by Eric Beech)

More Deadly Swine Flu? CDC Mixes H1N1, H5N1 Viruses in Tests:

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/09/17/more-deadly-swine-flu-cdc-mixes-h1n1-h5n1-viruses-in-tests/

[Sarasota for Vaccination Choice comment: As far as we can determine, this article is not an 'April Fool's' joke. If North Korea, Iran, Cuba or Libya were doing this same research and bragging about it in The Wall Street Journal, at the same time as the massive GLOBAL CONNIPTION FIT over the relatively mild H1N1 swine flu, wouldn't the U.S. be bombing them already for 'bioterrorism' and weapons of mass destruction? Do we have the sovereign right to demand answers as to whether this research is: a) actually safe b) truly necessary c) prudent, ethical, and wise, or d) the worst fears of the 'conspiracy theorists,' i.e., research designed to ~create~ truly lethal bioweapons?]
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By Betsy McKay

Public-health officials are breathing a small sigh of relief that the H1N1 swine flu virus hasn’t mutated to become more deadly since emerging last spring. But what are the chances it will?

To find out, scientists at the CDC recently launched experiments in the agency’s labs in which they infected ferrets with both the new H1N1 virus and the highly lethal H5N1 avian flu virus to see if they might “reassort” to create a new hybrid.
The scientists want to know whether a combination of the H1N1 virus -– highly transmissible, but not terribly deadly -– and the H5N1 flu virus could create an easily transmissible, deadly scourge. The H5N1 virus has only sickened 440 people world-wide since 2003 and generally isn’t transmitted from one person to another. But it has killed 262, or about 60%, of those people, according to the World Health Organization.

As the new H1N1 flu has spread, flu experts have kept a close eye on Egypt and parts of the world where human H5N1 infections are occurring too. The two viruses could mix if they infected the same person simultaneously. The new H1N1 virus was also detected recently in turkeys in Chile, proving that it has the capacity to jump to birds, another potential source for reassortment.

The CDC scientists don’t have results of their lab experiments in ferrets yet, said Michael Shaw, associate director for laboratory science for the agency’s influenza division. While the experiments could produce viable combinations of the two viruses, the real question is whether any could create a virus that would spread, he said. “Viability is one thing,” he cautioned. “Whether it’s easily transmissible is another.”

Other experiments conducted so far suggest the new H1N1 virus isn’t terribly prone to doomsday changes. Viruses can change through either mutation of genetic material, or by reassorting with another flu virus. The new virus is lacking certain characteristics that would allow it to mutate to become more virulent, said Nancy Cox, chief of the CDC’s influenza division. “It would be difficult for this virus to acquire some of those known virulence markers,” she said.

As for reassortment, so far the new H1N1 virus hasn’t shown a penchant for mixing with other common flu viruses. In a research note published in late August on the Web site PloS Currents: Influenza, scientists infected ferrets both with the new H1N1 virus and common seasonal strains of H1N1 and H3N2 flu. The new H1N1 pandemic virus didn’t reassort.

“Co-infection of seasonal and pandemic strains did not result in the rapid selection of reassortant viruses that either improved replication or transmission or exacerbated virulence,” they concluded. The federally funded study was led by scientists at the University of Maryland.

Whatever any of the experiments show, CDC officials warn against drawing definitive conclusions. “Influenza is really unpredictable,” Cox said.

Image of H1N1 swine flu by C. S. Goldsmith and A. Balish via CDC

Florida injunction makes progress in spite of obstacles: please support

http://theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=580%3Aflorida-injunction-makes-progress-in-spite-of-obstacles-please-support&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=64&lang=en

Carmen Reynolds, who filed an in Florida against forced vaccination on the grounds that any such provisions are unconstitutional, has filed an Objection to the Motion to Dismiss the case that she received from the Governor of Florida’s state attorney’s office.

The hearing is scheduled for October 1st, in Santa Rosa Circuit Court. Admission is free.

“We could use some publicity and some "amicus" (friend of the court) briefs in support of the case,” says Jon in Florida, instrumental in drawing up the injunctions.

You can find copies of the Motion to Dismiss from the Florida state attorney’s office and the Objection to the Motion to Dismiss filed by Carmen Reynolds here:
http://theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=580%3Aflorida-injunction-makes-progress-in-spite-of-obstacles-please-support&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=64&lang=en

PUSHBACK: Virtual Interview with HHS Secretary Sebelius and Congressional Response

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PUSHBACK: Virtual Interview with HHS Secretary Sebelius and Congressional Response
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Dr. Laibow’s Virtual Interview with HHS Secretary Sebelius

September 16, 2009 – URGENT NOTE: Your Action Required Now to Secure Your Right to Refuse the Swine Flu Vaccine Without Incarceration



Health Freedom’s best friend in Congress has responded to our Push Back. We’ve sent more than 2 million emails demanding the right to say “NO!” to vaccines without punishment, incarceration or involuntary quarantine. The Congressman knows how important that is to health, liberty and, we have to imagine, sanity. We have been in discussion with his office about introducing a bill modeled on our Draft Legislation to prevent pandemic vaccination which is mandatory, compulsory or taken under duress of any type.

We received a call today from the Congressman’s office telling us that he is close to introducing a new No Compulsory Vaccine Bill to the House. Given the fact that we have sent well over 2 million emails to our State and Federal legislators, HHS Secretary Sebelius, DHS Secretary Napolitano, President Obama and the Governors of every State in the Union, we anticipate that his bill will garner a good deal of support.

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Now, on to the all too real, but still very surreal, testimony authorizing the Pandemic Swine Flu vaccines without any, that’s right, any safety testing. On September 15, 2009, a terrible, tragic and tyrannical event in America’s history took place. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified before the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce and, in that testimony, announced the “licensing” of the “Swine Flu” vaccines. Secretary Sebelius, please allow me to remind you that it is a crime to provide false testimony before Congress.

I was not in the chamber when the Secretary announced the approval of several Swine Flu vaccines using a combination of untruth, falsehood, illogic and deceit. But I would like to present my virtual interview of Secretary Sebelius as she reads her testimony before that Committee and I question her about it. Remember that every word following SKS (Secretary Kathleen Sebelius) is her unedited testimony, with nothing altered or changed in context. I guess she is counting on the declining quality of the educational system in the US to see her through.

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A virtual Interview with Secretary Sebelius on the “Swine Flu” Vaccine Licensing

My comments are in italics, labeled “REL”
Secretary Sebelius’ comments are labeled SKS.

SKS: Preparing for the 2009-2010 Influenza Season

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

SKS: Chairman Waxman, Ranking Member Barton, Chairman Emeritus Dingell, members of the Committee, thank you for this opportunity to update you on the public health challenges of 2009 H1N1 influenza. I want to assure the Committee that the Administration is taking these challenges seriously…

REL: These challenges do not exist, Secretary Sebelius. They have been manufactured as a kind of, at best, a cynical windfall of unprecedented proportions for Big Pharma. At worst, you and your conspirators are playing Doctor Death with America, starting with our next generation, children and pregnant mothers.

SKS: and has mounted an aggressive plan to address H1N1 throughout this fall and winter.

REL: The challenges you speak of do not exist. Without any challenge, an aggressive plan is totally unnecessary.

SKS: HHS has a leading role because this is a health event, and we are working in close partnership with virtually every part of the federal government under a national preparedness and response framework for action that builds on the efforts and lessons learned from this spring. Working together with governors, mayors, tribal leaders, state and local health departments, the medical community and our private sector partners, the federal government has been actively preparing for possible H1N1 virus outbreak scenarios that may develop over the next few months.

REL: Madam Secretary, you are saying “MAY develop” but your use of the phrase, “MAY DEVELOP” shows there is no sufficient scientific evidence that the so-called “Swine Flu” is a pandemic threat. You have called it a “novel” virus, which is a condition for there to be a pandemic potential, but you are not treating this vaccine as thought it were a novel vaccine, requiring safety testing. Given the costs in human and financial terms, I am afraid that “MAY DEVELOP” is not sufficient for vaccination of the population, starting with our most vulnerable population.

SKS: Since the initial spring outbreak of 2009 H1N1 influenza, the virus has triggered a worldwide pandemic,

REL: Well, no. Actually a world wide pandemic has been declared without any clear evidence that there actually IS a world wide pandemic. There is NO world-wide pandemic; there is a only legally declared pandemic, made possible only because the W.H.O. changed the definition of a “pandemic” for political reasons. The “pandemic” has been declared without any clear evidence that there is any world-wide threat. How has the Secretary ascertained, in the absence of accurate testing, that H1N1 is the “DOMINANT” flu strain? Australian authorities do not confirm your claim.

SKS: and has been the dominant flu strain in the southern hemisphere during its winter flu season.

REL: Just how is this ascertained in the absence of accurate testing, not just testing, mind you, but accurate testing that H1N1 is the “DOMINANT” flu strain? Australian authorities do not agree with or substantiate your claim.

SKS: The evidence to date shows that the virus has not changed to become more deadly.

REL: At last, Madam Secretary, we have common ground. We agree, and therefore, since both WHO and CDC has said that this H1N1 virus causes a disease that is milder than seasonal flu, requiring no medical intervention, why is major medical intervention required for something that poses no dangers and may, MAY, become a problem at some time, somewhere in the future?

I am sorry, Madam Secretary, but this is absurd, unscientific, dangerous and a ferocious waste of money, sort of like TARP and other corporate welfare programs, but this time for Big Pharma.

SKS: Unlike our typical seasonal flu, we continued to see flu activity in the United States over the summer, notably in summer camps.

REL: But since diagnosis is not being carried out, is it Swine Flu? Allergies to GMO junk food fed to children, perhaps, common colds, maybe? How would you know? The best tests we have are wrong 9 times out of 10. WHO and CDC requested countries not to test for the virus and not to keep accurate counts, just to guess – and it is on these guesses that you apparently are making your pronouncements, judgments and decisions.

SKS: More recently, we have seen an increase in 2009 H1N1 influenza activity in several states

REL: Based on what independently verified data? If you have no lab tests, you would have no idea of what you are seeing.

SKS: and expect this to continue across the United States during the coming months.

REL: All respiratory cases are being assigned the unscientific label of “Swine Flu” without testing. No one has any idea if any of these cases are causes by H1N1, except, apparently you, Secretary Sebelius. Assuming, however, that all of them are, there are no deaths which are not caused by underlying disease or treatments with toxic, but approved drugs such as Tamiflu, which killed a pregnant mother and the baby she gave birth to in Mumbai, India recently.

Diagnosis by symptom picture alone. Right. That is not exactly good science and it certainly is terrible medicine. Swine Flu walks like a duck, coughs like a duck and has a fever like a duck. What makes it a swine? Public relations and nothing else!

SKS: As fall begins, we anticipate that even more communities may be affected than those that saw cases this past spring and summer.

REL: Again I ask you, Secretary, based on exactly, precisely, what?”

SKS: In addition, communities may be more severely affected, reflecting wider transmission and causing potentially greater impact.

REL: I am afraid I have to ask again, based on what? You say that communities may be more severely affected, but the truth is that they may also be less severely affected. Where do you get your crystal ball serviced, Madam Secretary? Could it be the same place that Novartis used when they decided to patent a vaccine for the Swine Flu in 2008 when CDC and WHO declare that this is a novel, never-before-seen virus which arose, de novo, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus, in April, 2009? Could the same shop be servicing Baxter’s decision-making Magic 8 Ball so that they were able to apply for a patent for a Swine Flu vaccine in 2007? If so, Madam Secretary, this crystal ball is a national treasure and should be made available to “We the People of These United States.”

SKS: Seasonal influenza viruses may cause illness concurrently with 2009 H1N1 this fall and winter and it will not be possible to determine quickly if ill individuals have 2009 H1N1 influenza, seasonal influenza, or other respiratory conditions based on symptoms alone.

REL: It may. Or, then again, it may not. There is no hard data on which to make these predictions and the consequences of these predictions, including vaccines are dangerous and unwarranted by any level of fact or reality. I repeat, there is simply no hard data, or at least none that you have presented on your websites, public statements, press releases or here today.

SKS: It is also difficult to predict the severity of the disease that we will see in the coming months from either 2009 H1N1 or seasonal influenza.

REL: Right again, Madam Secretary. So why poison the populace for something whose dreadful menace did not materialize and is not showing any signs of materializing. In fact, its dreadful menace is a lot like the bogyman under the bed: a product of your big brother’s desire to scare you witless so that you will do whatever he says. The parallel is uncanny.

SKS: Influenza is an unpredictable disease and we know that things will change and we will learn more throughout the fall.

REL: So unpredictable, in fact, that seasonal flu vaccines are accurate less than 40% of the time although the toxins injected (mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, foreign protein, MSG, etc., fluoride, etc.) are toxic 100% of the time and become more so with more shots, which are increasingly r4commended by conflict-of-interest-laden ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) and others of their stripe. By the way, Secretary Sebelius, what is your financial interest in the medical and pharmaceutical industries?

SKS: Shared Responsibility and Science-Based Guidance Slowing the spread and reducing the impact of H1N1…

REL: From nothing to nothing?

SKS: …and seasonal flu is a shared responsibility…

REL: Exactly what does that mean? There is no meaningful impact from H1N1, but there certainly will be from yet another round of vaccines, even if those vaccines are, as falsely stated, but a strain change variation on a theme. Children vaccinated with attenuated live virus vaccines, specifically influenza vaccines, are many times more likely to be admitted to hospitals for all causes, many times more likely to develop serious asthma, etc. There is nothing trivial about influenza shots but, with the guidance of ACIP they are increasingly passed out as if they were either safe or effective. In fact they are neither and, if it is merely a strain change variation, then H1N1 is also neither safe nor effective. It it is a novel vaccine for a novel virus, it is clearly neither safe nor effective since it has never had any safety testing concluded. Were such safety testing to show that it were not safe or effective, then the sales and administration of it would pierce the veil of liability free manufacture, distribution and use which the Federal government has accorded to itself, its agents and to the manufacturers and distributors of these dangerous vaccines as we.. It is therefore in the ir best interest not to have any safety data (or data showing the lack of safety).

SKS: …and we all need to plan for what would need to be done when the flu impacts our community, school, business or home this fall.

REL: When? Shouldn’t the word be “IF” or “just in case” or “In the unlikely chance that it might, given the lack of evidence that it can”?

SKS: Given that flu already is circulating in the United States this fall, it’s important for every American family and business to prepare their own household and business plans and think through the steps they will have to take if a family member or co-worker contracts the flu.

REL: Tuberculosis is also circulating this fall. So are impetigo, gonorrhea, athlete’s foot, head lice and zits. Is the US Government offering a TARP bailout, at the expense of our lives, to the the very wealthy, very powerful Pharmaceutical Industry?

SKS: CDC has provided specific recommendations for what individuals, communities, clinicians, and other professionals can do.

REL: In the face of trivial disease, if it indeed exists in community distribution, for which there is no evidence that has forensic or scientific credibility, these common sense wash-yours-hands, cover your mouth and nose when you sneeze recommendations are more than sufficient the help out a perfectly unthreatened population. My mother taught me that, too, and it sufficed.

SKS: Individuals can take actions to prevent respiratory infections. We emphasize frequent hand-washing as an effective way to reduce transmission of disease. It is very important for sick individuals to stay at home,

REL: Really? Do employers know that and do they refrain from docking them?

SKS: and for parents to keep children who have a fever or flu-like illness home from school, childcare, the playground, or other places children gather.

REL: Flu is not necessarily Swine Flu.

SKS: Similarly, sick individuals should not get on an airplane or any public transport.

REL:This benign-sounding provision will result in persons who have not been vaccinated being denied boarding privileges on public transport in the United States unless we stop this medical fascism now. There is already talk of stainless steel RFID chipped bracelets at state trooper checkpoints. Where accurate or not, this suggestion illustrates how easily this type of tyranny would be to install. Tyrannical control never presents itself as that. it always wants to help, to take care of, to protect you. This process of constitutional abrogation, so well advanced at the state and federal levels, is receiving another set of supporting members in this document, Madam Secretary, and in this dangerous and unwarranted approval.

SKS: Taking personal responsibility for these things will help reduce the spread of this new virus as well as other respiratory illnesses.

We have issued new guidance from the CDC on www.flu.gov for schools, child care settings, colleges and universities, and large and small businesses that also includes strategies for preventing the spread of flu, especially in the early fall when the 2009 H1N1 vaccine will not yet be ready. These comprehensive guidelines provide advice on how individuals and institutions can guard against the flu and mitigate its spread. The CDC also has issued guidance for healthcare providers about appropriate use of anti-viral drugs to treat patients who are at highest risk from complications from the seasonal and 2009 H1N1 flu.

REL: These guidelines offer dangerous pharmacological usage practices which, like the vaccine approval itself, is not supported by science. In fact, the science of the antivirals suggests very strongly that they should not be used and their use, while increasing the liklihood of serious complications and death, does little or nothing to shorten or minimize the severity of the purported “Swine Flu” infection. Remember, it can only be purported because the laboratory testing is not being done, based on the recommendations of the CDC and W.H.O. Why? Because the testing is so inaccurate. Therefore any suggestion about incidence, prevalence or impact is mere fantasy. Tamiflu and Relenza have not been shown to bring about positive outcomes in this diagnostic fantasy matrix, in fact, quite the contrary.

SKS: Additional work is being done on critical guidelines to address infection control and worker safety in healthcare settings. Our recommendations and action plans are based on the best scientific information…

REL: Please refer to what I have said above and my comments below, Madam Secretary.

SKS: …available to help our nation respond aggressively and effectively to the 2009 H1N1 virus.

REL: This may sound awfully familiar by now, Madam Secretary, but why? Where is the justification for aggressive action or the demonstration that effective action is not achieved by the “Personal responsibility” suggestions and by the protection of the collective immune system through avoiding junk foods, chemicals, GMOs and other health degradation substances and processes permitted by your agency, the same FDA which is now so sanctimoniously declaring its benign intent here?

In fact, the same FDA has literally criminalized communications which offer non-vaccine, non-drug options to prevent, treat, mitigate or cure the Swine Flu. It is hard to see how the FDA is working to help our nation respond aggressively and effectively to anything except the need to make the population docile, obedient, sick and profitable in its chronic illness.

SKS: We are working to ensure that Americans are informed and consistently updated with information in clear language. This is a dynamic situation, but it is essential that the American people are fully engaged so they can be part of the response.

REL: Really? To my mind, being fully engaged would require clear, accurate information and, I am very much afraid that your testimony makes it clear that the intention of the FDA is to provide anything but that. You are providing information in easily understood words, but it is distorted and dangerous. If your FDA were interested in that goal, it would be offering abundant information on nutrition, antioxidants, homeopathy, Foods, nutrients, nano silver and supplements designed to support the immune system.

SKS: The federal government, particularly the CDC, will be conducting weekly and, when necessary, daily briefings that will be available at flu.gov to get critical information out to the American people.

Vaccination Campaign The federal government is also preparing for a voluntary national vaccination campaign for the 2009 H1N1 virus starting in October.

REL:The Federal Government has backed off from its earlier stance for mandatory vaccination, which was articulated by HHS on July 23, 2008 and by DHS on the following day in advisory communications.

SKS: With unprecedented speed, we have completed key steps in the vaccine development process — we have characterized the virus, identified a candidate strain, expedited manufacturing, and performed clinical trials.

REL: Clinical trials have not been performed. Brief dose response trials have been initiated, is some cases not even completed before this authorization.

SKS: The speed of this vaccine development was possible due to the investments made through ASPR/BARDA over the past six years in advanced research and development and infrastructure building.

REL: How convenient!

SKS: One-hundred ninety-five (195) million doses of H1N1 vaccine have been purchased from five manufacturers by the U.S. government.

REL:Vaccines have already been purchased, BEFORE their approval? That makes their approval sound very much as if it were pre arraigned. Why the haste? Why the collusion? Your agency declared a national state of health emergency on April 25, 2009, just 11 days after the first so-called death from the so-called novel virus in Mexico. A level 6 pandemic was declared on June 11, just shy of 2 months after the first alleged death. The death toll was reduced in Mexico from 168 to 16, a percentage decrease in mortality of 90.5%. This miracle of biblical proportions was not only ignored, but the decrease in observed mortality was apparently not factored into the response of either WHO or FDA.

SKS: Two types of vaccine will be available: vaccine made from killed virus for injection (flu shot) and vaccine with live, weakened virus administered by nasal spray.

REL: Madam Secretary, our information is that this is simply not correct. We have been informed that there is more than one inactivated live virus preparation. We are checking this out now.

SKS: The vaccines are being manufactured by the same methods used for the production of the seasonal flu vaccines administered every year.

REL: I am afraid that this is simply not true. Conventional influenza vaccines are cultured in eggs. Cell based, rather than egg based, vaccines are not the norm and are not just a simple “strain change” variation of the same old vaccine. MF59, and oil and water adjuvant, is not the norm. The virus is said by both WHO and FDA to be unpredictable and to be a totally novel virus. In that case, there is no possibility that all approved vaccines are merely strain change variations on a well proven, but not particularly safe, theme. FDA can only have it one way or the other, but not both, Madam Secretary.

SKS: NIH is conducting a series of clinical trials on the vaccine to determine the safety and number of doses needed to induce a protective immune response.

REL: Safety trials will not, according to the FDA< be completed until June, 2010. Approval of the novel vaccines before that point constitutes irresponsible dereliction of duty at the very least. Since full disclosure and informed consent are not possible under the conditions of secrecy which prevail in these tests, it is possible that they are illegal and that they constitute crimes against humanity.

SKS: Trials in healthy adults and the elderly began in the first week of August. Complete immune response data from the first trials—those studying two doses in healthy adults—are expected in late October.

REL: The approval of 5 different vaccines was announced today, September 15, 2009. There is no possibility that even the preliminary dosage trials in healthy adults have been completed. No trials in immuno compromised or suppressed people, vaccine injured persons, infants, people with atopic disorders like asthma, eczema, egg allergies, organ transplant recipients, cancer chemotherapy patients or those on steroids, etc., have been conducted. No safety information exists to guide usage or administration. This is consistent with the lack of information which would pierce the veil of liability protection as mentioned before.

SKS: Preliminary data indicate that the vaccines are safe

REL: What preliminary data. Is that sufficient to jeopardize the health of a nation for a non existent threat of a disease?

SKS: and that a single 15-microgram dose induces what is likely to be a protective immune response in healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 64.

REL: We should note that no one says that the dose will be protective since vaccines have never been shown to be protective of diseases for which they are administered. Not a single double blind, placebo controlled study on this question has ever been done. But the antibody production generated by vaccines is assumed, not know, to provide protection. Given the dangerous nature of these novel vaccines for a novel virus, don’t ou think, Madam Secretary, that more information about the conclusive results of carefully designed safety testing, with fully informed consent, would be in order before these vaccines were approved?

SKS: For adults aged 65 and over, the preliminary data indicate that the immune response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine is somewhat less robust, as is the case with seasonal influenza vaccine.

REL: And there is no intermediate or long term safety data on the adjuvanted vaccines whatsoever since no adjuvanted vaccine has ever been approved before in the US. the only two adjuvanted vaccines available in Europe are for patients on dialysis, whose immune function is so suppressed that they are deemed to need the extra “punch” of the squalene adjuvant and, according tot he controlling agency, have such a reduced life span that they are not expected to live long enough to develop side effects and complications from the vaccine and Cervavax, GSK’s competitor to Garadsil, the HPV vaccine.
Parents who continue to state that their daughters were either killed by, or seriously damaged by Cervavax administration are being warned that if they continue to disseminate that information their children will be taken from them.

The suggestions in this data is that although dangerous, the danger is being hidden. Without a good deal of further clarification, the approval of adjuvanted vaccines, or the potential administration of adjuvants by themselves or mixed with unadjuvanted vaccines, as being discussed now by CDC, makes the purchase some months ago of nearly $1/2 billion worth of squalene adjuvants make sense in the limited fashion that injecting a a known poison into large number of humans might be said to make sense.

Squalene, when injected into animals, causes such severe auto immune illness that its use is standard in laboratories where the induction of such disease is desired for research purposes. In that context, it is named after the scientist who discovered that it had that impact and is known as “Freund’s Adjuvant.

SKS: Trials in children began in mid-August, and trials in pregnant women have just begun.

REL:Does that mean that approval for the use of these vaccines for unrestricted use is based on …what? Certainly not science or data.

SKS: Our expectation is that vaccine will be a good match for the virus currently circulating in the United States based on intensive monitoring of the virus.

REL: But the expectation of the FDA and WHO for a “good match” between a circulating influenza virus and the next season’s disease is wrong well over 70% of the time. Secretray Sebelius, you and your Staff’s expectations are less than compelling. The regular administration of the seasonal flu vaccine that ACIP and CDC, both units of FDA, recommend year after year has been shown to increase the incidence of Alzheimer’s Disease by more than 600% while its accuracy in predictng which virus will be circulating is less than 30%.
FDA standards are not very high: according to your official website, the H1N1 vaccine will be considered a success if the anticipated antibody titer response (1:40) is found in 28% of the population. That means that these vaccines are being approved even if the number of people who do not show a robust laboratory antibody response (which is not associated with protection) is as high as 72%. So the risks of these vaccines are not accounted for and the efficacy is not required.

Furthermore, FDA has announced that the unadjuvanted vaccine, the strain change variety, is expected, under the best case scenario, to kill at least 30,000 people. The number who are expected to be maimed and crippled by this is not specified on the offical FDA website. If the 1976 disaster, which Secretary Sebelius says the FDA is looking to for guidance, is any indication, we can expect at least a thousand people sickened and crippled for each person who dies from the Vaccine. The math is hardly conducive to confidence in the FDA.

SKS: We are coordinating this 2009 H1N1 vaccination campaign with the seasonal influenza vaccination campaign, and are working hard with state and local authorities and the clinical community to address the challenges this presents.

From what we know as of today, 2009 H1N1 virus preferentially affects a population different from that affected by seasonal flu. In particular, this virus is infecting more young people including children, younger adults and pregnant women.

REL: What is this data based upon, given the lack of diagnostic specificity and the fact that symptoms are not distinguishable from all other types of colds or flus?

SKS: Typically these groups, particularly young children and pregnant women, are at greater risk of serious complications from any influenza, including the 2009 H1N1.

REL: Again I must ask, Secretary Sebelius, without diagnosis, how can that be ascertainined?

SKS: CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended on July 29 providing initial doses of the new H1N1 vaccine to five groups—approximately 159 million people.

REL: That is over one half of the entire population of the US. Wouldn’t it be more prudent, given that there is no legitimate health emergency, to not vaccinate more than half of the country, specifically the most vulnerable half, with an untested, unnecessary and uninsurable group of vaccines?

SKS: CDC endorsed these recommendations.

REL: Rather than reassuring me, this seems to me to be a clear cause for an overhaul of FDA and CDC with the possibility of criminal charges being investigated.

SKS: These groups are:
pregnant women,
people who live with or care for children younger than 6 months of age,
health care and emergency services personnel,
persons between the ages of 6 months through 24 years of age, and
people from ages 25 through 64 years who are at higher risk for novel H1N1.

REL: Note your use of the term “Novel”, Secretary Sebelius. As stated above, that precludes the claim that these vaccines are mere strain change variations on a well-worn theme.

SKS: because of chronic health disorders like asthma and diabetes or compromised immune systems.

REL: These are the very groups to whom squalene is the most dangerous and the crops to whom contaminates like leukemia-causing virus SV40, found in the line of monkey kidney cells that the Novartis Vaccine has been cultured.

SKS: The H1N1 virus is particularly dangerous to healthy women who are pregnant. Not only has this virus caused greater numbers of pregnant women to be hospitalized, it has also been fatal in a higher percentage of this population than in other affected groups.

REL: Does squalene cross the placenta. Does it damage the fetus? In what way? At what age? It is known that mercury does cross the placenta and does damage the Fetus. Yet the CDC is advising women to take the H1N1 vaccine(s) regardless of whether it has the preservative known as “Thimerisol” (49.6% mercury by weight). No mention has been made of the dangers of aluminum adjuvants, nor of the fact that polysorbate 80 (also called “Tween 80) is associated with infertility when injected?

SKS: The federal government will be working in partnership with states, territories, tribes, and local communities as well as the private sector to help distribute and administer the new H1N1 vaccine. Thanks to support from Congress, the federal government has allocated $1.444 billion for states and hospitals to support planning and preparation efforts. TARP AGAIN.

The large scale 2009 H1N1 vaccine program will begin mid-October with small amounts of vaccine becoming available the first full week in October. The vaccine itself will be available free of charge to the American people, but some public and private providers may charge an administration fee. It will be distributed to providers and state health departments in a manner similar to how federally purchased vaccines are distributed in the Vaccines For Children program. The CDC and states will work with a contractor to get vaccine to where it needs to go. The number of doses shipped will be reported to the CDC daily, and the number of doses administered will be reported to the CDC weekly.

REL: Where will the adverse relations be reported for the general public to track?

SKS: The fact that vaccine won’t begin distribution until October makes preventing the spread of flu even more critical. Again, we need to remind all Americans about the things they should be doing right now: washing hands, staying home if you’re sick, and taking the necessary precautions to stay healthy and avoid getting sick. Flu.gov has good tips for what you need to do to avoid getting the flu.

While the 2009 H1N1 flu virus has been the focus of attention since the spring, it is important that we do not forget the risks posed by the seasonal flu viruses. More than 36,000 people die each year from complications associated with the flu.

REL: This statistic is totally false and misleading. About 600 people per year from the complications of influenza, but marketing concerns have created this oft-repeated number from which bears little relationship to reality as the swine flu case numbers or death numbers.

SKS: CDC continues to recommend vaccination against seasonal influenza viruses, especially for all infants, children, and people at greater risk for influenza complications. Seasonal flu vaccine already is becoming available in many places.

It is not too early to get a seasonal flu shot as soon as it is available. The protection you get from the vaccine will not wear off before the flu season is over.

REL: There is no evidence that the seasonal flu strain in the vaccines is the one circulating but there is considerable evidence that the vaccines are dangerous, despite insistent government and industry denial.

SKS: Closing Remarks – At HHS, we are simultaneously working hard to understand and control this outbreak…

REL: What outbreak? See above.

SKS: …while also keeping the public and the Congress fully informed about the situation and our response. We are working in close collaboration with our federal partners as well as with other organizations with unique expertise that helps us provide guidance for multiple sectors of our economy and society. It is important to recognize that there have been enormous efforts in the United States and abroad to prepare for this kind of an outbreak and a pandemic.

REL: One would have to wonder why.

SKS: Our nation’s current preparedness is a direct result of the investments and support of the Congress and the hard work of state and local officials across the country. While we must remain vigilant throughout this and subsequent outbreaks, it is important to note that at no time in our nation’s history have we been more prepared to face this kind of challenge.

REL: Or more over-prepared to face a challenge which does exist.

SKS: But the government cannot solve this alone and, as I have noted, all of us must take constructive steps. Taking all of those reasonable measures will help us mitigate how many people actually get sick in our country.

We look forward to working closely with the Congress to best address the situation as it evolves in the weeks and months ahead. Again, Mr. Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to participate in this conversation with you and your colleagues. I look forward to taking your questions.

REL: Thank you Madam Secretary. I do think you have told us quite enough disinformation.