<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:15:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Trials,Tribulations and Maniacal Manipulations</title><description>Playing the Left-Right paradigm like a fuckin flute</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>74</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-646839941885350401</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-23T17:38:02.051-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>global warming</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cap and trade</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>global sustainability</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>climate change</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>eugenics</category><title>Leaky Climate Science Faucets a.k.a The anthropogenic LIE</title><description>&lt;script language="javascript"&gt;var VideoID = "8442"; var Width = 585; var Height = 370;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script language="javascript" src="http://eclipptv.com/general/hdplayer/rt.php"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In case you hadn't heard, a bunch of emails were stolen from climatologists working on the global warming/climate change issue. I haven't done enough research to know whether the smoking gun will come in the form of cumulonimbus emails but...thats why I am posting links, which I am about to follow and investigate. What I do know is that anthropogenic climate change acting as a function in the futherance of global sustainability and eventually eugenics is disgusting, criminal, and completely antithetical to the purpose of humanity, whatever that may be. One thing I do know, is I do not exist for some bureaucrat to tell me how much meat to eat, how much carbon to exhale, how much energy to use, how many children to have, or what kind of car to drive. Stop distorting markets with your putrid "greenwash the economy" campaign, stop telling me what light bulbs to use, and you can keep believing in your elitest, scorched Earth enviro-fantasies, but that freedom stops at the end of my nose. Fuck cap and trade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eastangliaemails.com/index.php"&gt;Climategate emails here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1259022880708"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.climatedepot.com/"&gt;Great website called Climate Depot, destroying anthropogenic global warming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/20/release-of-cru-files-forge-a-new-hockey-stick-reconstruction/#more-12968"&gt;And I may have linked to this site earlier, but Wattsupwiththat has some information on these happenings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Blacklistednews.com for the links/story, &lt;a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6423-0-6-6--.html"&gt;which can be found here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-646839941885350401?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/leaky-climate-science-faucets-aka.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-6253517165239790947</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-23T17:21:41.751-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>federal reserve</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Ron Paul</category><title>Ron Paul cleans up the MSM defecation</title><description>&lt;script language="javascript"&gt;var VideoID = "8443"; var Width = 585; var Height = 370;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script src="http://eclipptv.com/general/hdplayer/rt.php" language="javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;script language="javascript"&gt;var VideoID = "8444"; var Width = 585; var Height = 370;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script src="http://eclipptv.com/general/hdplayer/rt.php" language="javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's pretty hilarious to behold these talking heads and their oh-so-knowledgable talking points, it sounds like its taken straight from the global banker elite handbook on deflecting blame and criticism, and forcefully attack Dr. Paul sopranos mobsta-style. I was semi-impressed with this putrid display of falsity.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-6253517165239790947?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/ron-paul-cleans-up-msm-defecation.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-5664053199566316123</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-21T18:39:37.646-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>pandemic</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>h1n1</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cytokine storm</category><title>Cytokine Storms and Swine flu porn</title><description>The swine flu pandemic has taken some intriguing turns, &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gAG8JIi-BG6_KX_oghVIpFGidP8wD9C3EQKG0"&gt;mutations&lt;/a&gt; into tamiflu-resistant strains, &lt;a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&amp;amp;aid=16088"&gt;spreading like wildfire throughout the Ukranian pastures&lt;/a&gt;, and a &lt;a href="http://www.utahflufighters.org/?utm_source=AdReadyGoogleKW&amp;amp;utm_medium=300x250&amp;amp;utm_campaign=Vaccinator"&gt;continued media blitz to take your jab&lt;/a&gt;, stupid. But why take chances with a pandemic of epic proportions, to which I have no herd immunity, when the vaccine is so effective?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.straight.com/article-270843/vancouver/whats-your-vaccine"&gt;Whats in your vaccine?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chris Shaw wasn’t always skeptical about vaccines. The neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia had his teenage son vaccinated with most of the recommended shots. But then he started studying some of the ingredients commonly found in vaccines.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;What he discovered caused him to go cold turkey on all shots for his six-year-old daughter. And that includes the vaccine for the H1N1 flu.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;“I am not convinced H1N1 is sufficiently hazardous to most people to risk the potential downside of the vaccine,” Shaw said over the phone from his office in the research pavilion at the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Shaw isn’t an easily dismissed vaccine conspiracy theorist. He is a leading expert on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease) and Parkinson’s disease. While investigating unusually high rates of ALS and other neurological disorders among veterans who have Gulf War syndrome, he found evidence that the cause may have been aluminum salt, an ingredient in the cocktail of vaccines given to soldiers before deployment.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Although aluminum salt isn’t present in the H1N1 vaccine, Shaw’s discovery made him concerned about other vaccines, including the swine-flu shot. He isn’t alone in his thoughts. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Despite a full frontal assault of news about the dangers of the flu and the importance of vaccination, a survey in late October revealed that only 36 percent of Canadians said they would get the shot. Lack of trust in the vaccine was cited as the main reason for vaccine opposition. Another poll in November found that 65 percent of Canadians believe the media has overreacted to the threat of swine flu.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What interests me now when viewing the mass pandemic infections, is what Clyde Lewis was saying at the &lt;a href="http://mediamonarchy.blogspot.com/search/label/clyde%20lewis"&gt;Ground Zero Lounge&lt;/a&gt; a few months ago. He spoke of 'cytokine storms' and how the h1n1 presents a real danger, by creating cytokine storms inside the lungs, literally drowning a human in its' own fluid. This needs more research, but I thought a decent place to start was googling 'H1N1 + cytokine storm' and it only found around 95,000 articles. Will post a few here for further consumption.. &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1258851479266"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/05/06/H1N1-flu-may-induce-a-cytokine-storm/UPI-50901241584708/"&gt;H1N1 may induce a cytokine storm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="KonaBody"&gt;&lt;i&gt;SARANAC LAKE, N.Y.,  May 6 (UPI) -- The H1N1 flu may be dangerous for healthy, young adults because it contains &lt;a class="kLink" href="http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/05/06/H1N1-flu-may-induce-a-cytokine-storm/UPI-50901241584708/#" id="KonaLink0" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="undefined"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: trebuchet ms,arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 1px solid blue; color: blue; font-family: trebuchet ms,arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"&gt;genetic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="preLoadWrap0" style="position: relative;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="preLoadLayer0" style="display: none; left: -18px; position: absolute; top: -32px; z-index: 4000;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="kLink" href="http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/05/06/H1N1-flu-may-induce-a-cytokine-storm/UPI-50901241584708/#" id="KonaLink0" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="undefined"&gt;&lt;span id="preLoadWrap0" style="position: relative;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://kona.kontera.com/javascript/lib/imgs/grey_loader.gif" style="border: 0px none;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a class="kLink" href="http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/05/06/H1N1-flu-may-induce-a-cytokine-storm/UPI-50901241584708/#" id="KonaLink0" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="undefined"&gt;&lt;span id="preLoadWrap0" style="position: relative;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; components of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, U.S. researchers say. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The flu contains genetic components of the H5N1 avian influenza virus, which can induce a "cytokine storm," in which a patient's hyperactivated immune system causes potentially fatal damage to the &lt;a class="kLink" href="http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/05/06/H1N1-flu-may-induce-a-cytokine-storm/UPI-50901241584708/#" id="KonaLink1" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="undefined"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: trebuchet ms,arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: trebuchet ms,arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"&gt;lungs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;David L. Woodland, editor in chief of Viral Immunology and president of Trudeau Institute Inc. in Saranac Lake, N.Y., says a cytokine storm occurs when the body's immune system overreacts to an intruder, such as a virus, by producing high levels of cytokines, which are signaling chemicals that help mobilize immune cells capable of removing infectious agents from the body. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;When too many cytokines are produced, they can stimulate an inflammatory response in which the accumulation of immune cells and fluid at the site of &lt;a class="kLink" href="http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/05/06/H1N1-flu-may-induce-a-cytokine-storm/UPI-50901241584708/#" id="KonaLink2" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline ! important;" target="undefined"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: trebuchet ms,arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue; font-family: trebuchet ms,arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; position: static;"&gt;infection&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; may prevent affected tissues and organs such as the lungs from functioning properly and may cause death, Woodland says. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;What is known is that some H1N1 viruses have pandemic potential and that historical evidence supports the possibility that healthy young adults may be especially susceptible to more severe infection and poor outcomes due to the ability of a strong immune system to initiate a cytokine storm, Woodland adds."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cytokinestorm.com/"&gt;Cytokinestorm.com&lt;/a&gt; -extremely informative site&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Angela L. Petrosino, MPH, &lt;a href="http://www.nchec.org/" target="_blank"&gt;CHES&lt;/a&gt; (Northwest Ohio Consortium for Public Health)&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A &lt;a href="http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/352/18/1839" target="NEW" title="Cytokine storm"&gt;cytokine storm&lt;/a&gt; is the systemic expression of a healthy and vigorous immune system resulting in the release of more than 150 inflammatory mediators (cytokines, oxygen free radicals, and coagulation factors). Both pro-inflammatory cytokines (such as Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha, InterLeukin-1, and InterLeukin-6) and anti-inflammatory cytokines (such as interleukin 10, and interleukin 1 receptor antagonist) are elevated in the serum, and the fierce and often lethal interplay of these cytokines is referred to as a "Cytokine Storm". The primary contributors to the cytokine storm are TNF-a (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) and IL-6 (Interleukin-6). The cytokine storm is an inappropriate (exaggerated) immune response that is caused by rapidly proliferating and highly activated T-cells or natural killer (NK) cells. These cells are themselves activated by infected macrophages. The cytokine storm must be treated and suppressed or lethality can result."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="clear-block" id="page-title-rss"&gt;&lt;h1 id="page-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.emaxhealth.com/1020/90/30933/cytokine-storm-may-be-cause-swine-flu-pneumonia-deaths.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Cytokine Storm may be Cause of Swine Flu Pneumonia, Deaths&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 id="page-title"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Submitted by &lt;a href="http://www.emaxhealth.com/users/kathleen-blanchard-rn" title="View user profile."&gt;Kathleen Blanchard RN&lt;/a&gt; on May 6th, 2009&lt;/span&gt;          &lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Researchers say that H1N1 swine flu may be especially dangerous for young health adults because the H1N1 virus may cause a “cytokine storm” – a sudden release of inflammatory chemicals that prevent the lungs from functioning properly. Scientists, in reviewing cytokine storms in literature, wonder if high levels of cytokines cause so much inflammation when the H1N1 virus activates the immune system, that fluid and inflammation occur at the site of the infection, leading to pneumonia and death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;                                &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="clear-block"&gt;&lt;div class="node-content"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;A concern about the H1N1 swine flu is the number of deaths that have occurred in young adults with healthy immune systems, perhaps because of cytokine storm. The same held true for the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic that also caused deaths in healthy young adults.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;"We do not know how long ago this virus emerged, how deadly it is, whether it has pandemic potential, how the severity of infection relates to patient age, and why some infected patients die - whether a cytokine storm is responsible for these deaths," according to David L. Woodland, PhD, Editor-in Chief of Viral Immunology. Research articles about cytokine storm are published this month in the Viral Immunology Journal.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dr. Woodland says we still have a lot to learn about the H1N1 swine flu virus. "We do not know how long ago this virus emerged, how deadly it is, whether it has pandemic potential, how the severity of infection relates to patient age, and why some infected patients die—whether a cytokine storm is responsible for these deaths."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The review of current literature suggests that cytokine storm is the cause of pneumonia and severe infections seen with H1N1 swine flu in young adults, based on past evidence. In the upcoming months, cytokine storm as the cause of severe illness related to H1N1 swine flu may become a research focus.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.liebertpub.com/"&gt;Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 id="page-title"&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://immunology.suite101.com/article.cfm/h1n1_influenza_and_the_cytokine_storm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;H1N1 Influenza and the Cytokine Storm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;"Recent experience with a novel influenza virus shows that young, healthy individuals may have a higher risk for severe disease than the typical at-risk populations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The elderly and the very young are usually at greatest risk of death from infections with influenza. Ostensibly, people in these age groups have less efficient immune systems and are therefore more likely to succumb to the initial viral pneumonia caused by seasonal flu; they are also less likely to survive the secondary bacterial infections that sometimes accompany influenza.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Some influenza viruses, however - the 1918 “Spanish flu” strain, H5N1 (otherwise known as “avian flu”), and now, apparently, 2009 H1N1 - elicit a hyperimmune response that places those with exuberant immune systems at greater risk for severe disease and death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Health experts have coined the phrase “cytokine storm” to describe this exaggerated immune reaction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;A basic grasp of immune system function is useful for understanding this abnormally aggressive immune response.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="TixyyLink" style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://immunology.suite101.com/article.cfm/h1n1_influenza_and_the_cytokine_storm#ixzz0XY2JiFWT"&gt;http://immunology.suite101.com/article.cfm/h1n1_influenza_and_the_cytokine_storm#ixzz0XY2JiFWT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="TixyyLink" style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div id="TixyyLink" style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;h3 class="dynamic"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Influenza and the Cytokine Storm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Whenever a particularly virulent organism enters the body (one that the immune system recognizes as exceptionally deadly or that possesses certain molecular characteristics) an abnormally vigorous response may ensue.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;As this exuberant, all-or-none immune reaction proceeds, an outpouring of inflammatory cytokines occurs, and any tissues surrounding the “field of battle” experience collateral damage before regulatory mechanisms commence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Because damaged tissues themselves are recognized by the immune system as foreign invaders, a cascading cycle of immune cell response, cytokine production, and immune cell recruitment begins.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If uncontrolled, such a cytokine storm occurring in vital organs can lead to organ failure and death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Although medications and medical support are useful for dealing with the cytokine storm associated with infections by virulent organisms, the human immune system normally presents a very efficient challenge to foreign antigens. It is the immune system, after all, that allows humans to survive in a veritable soup of microorganisms that would otherwise reduce us to compost in short order.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Alas, the immune system can sometimes be indiscriminate in its efforts to eliminate perceived enemies. The cytokine storm is simply one manifestation of an unbridled immune response.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="TixyyLink" style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more: &lt;a href="http://immunology.suite101.com/article.cfm/h1n1_influenza_and_the_cytokine_storm#ixzz0XY2NgJRh"&gt;http://immunology.suite101.com/article.cfm/h1n1_influenza_and_the_cytokine_storm#ixzz0XY2NgJRh&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;And one final story to fully induce confidence in vaccination machination.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h2 class="headLine"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091119/Flu_Reaction_091119/20091119"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Batch of H1N1 vaccine pulled after bad reactions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;i&gt;More than 100,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine are being withdrawn across the country, after Manitoba health officials announced Thursday they'd noticed a higher-than-usual number of allergic reactions from one batch. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Vaccine manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline has asked several provinces to set aside the 170,000 doses from the questionable batch. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;GSK say the batch recall is a precaution an they will investigate to see whether there is something wrong with the batch. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"GSK is taking this cautionary action because the Public Health Agency of Canada has received a higher than expected number of reports of anaphylaxis in this lot number compared to other lots," the company said in a written statement Thursday. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;One or two allergic reactions are expected in a batch that size. But health officials recorded six severe allergic reactions and alerted GSK. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dr. Joel Kettner, Manitoba's Chief Medical Officer of Health, urged people not to be alarmed, noting the anaphylaxis reactions were short-lived&amp;nbsp;and all the patients recovered. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"We've been asked by the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline not to use this vaccine at this time, pending further investigation," said Kettner at a press conference Thursday. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"We are being cautious and following the advice... to hold onto the remaining stock until we get further information."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;About 1,500 doses of the vaccine were sent to Ontario, but officials say none were administered. Officials are now shelving them until the investigation is complete.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Alberta government has stopped giving out doses from the same batch, although it says it has not seen a jump in allergic reactions. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Health officials say the batch being investigated is fairly small, so it should not have an impact on the overall supply. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Earlier this week, the country's chief public health officer, Dr. David Butler-Jones, noted that of the 6.6 million doses of H1N1 vaccine given so far to Canadians, there have been 36 serious adverse reactions reported. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="headLine"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-5664053199566316123?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/cytokine-storms-and-swine-flu-porn.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-8987329731738836428</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-19T16:20:19.516-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>gardasil</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccinations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>monsanto</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>government</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>gmo</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>indymedia</category><title>Taliban Throw Blackwater daggers, Indygirl gaggers, and superior Monsanto Swagger</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/10/18628270.php"&gt;Indymedia.us fights off bogus FBI subpeona and gag order&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-IndyBay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Another police fishing expedition has been fought successfully over the course of the past year by one of the Indymedia.us server admins and the good folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), largely in secret due to dodgy gag orders (which actually didn't have any real legal standing to begin with).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;EFF Deeplinks blog entry by senior attorney Kevin Bankston: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Can the U.S. government secretly subpoena the IP address of every visitor to a political website? No, but that didn't stop it from trying.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;In a report released today, EFF Senior Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston tells the story of a bogus federal subpoena issued to independent news site Indymedia.us, and how the site fought back with EFF’s help. Declan McCullagh at CBSNews.com also has the story.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The report describes how, earlier this year, U.S. attorneys issued a federal grand jury subpoena to Indymedia.us administrator Kristina Clair demanding “all IP traffic to and from www.indymedia.us" for a particular date, potentially identifying every person who visited any news story on the Indymedia site. As the report explains, this overbroad demand for internet records not only violated federal privacy law but also violated Clair’s First Amendment rights, by ordering her not to disclose the existence of the subpoena without a U.S. attorney’s permission. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Because Indymedia follows EFF’s Best Practices for Online Service Providers and does not keep historical IP logs, there was no information for Indymedia to hand over, and the government withdrew the subpoena. However, as the report describes, that wasn’t the end of the tale: Ms. Clair wanted EFF to be able to tell the story of the subpoena and shine a light on the government’s illegal demand, yet the subpoena ordered silence. Under pressure from EFF, the government admitted that the subpoena’s gag order had no legal basis, and ultimately chose not to go to court to try to force Ms. Clair’s silence despite earlier threats to do so."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also check out &lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/09/taking_liberties/entry5595506.shtml"&gt;Declan Mccullagh on this issue&lt;/a&gt;, or an &lt;a href="http://geekfeminism.org/2009/11/10/interview-with-indymedia-sys-admin-kristina-clair/"&gt;interview with Ms. Clair&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Always interested in baseless federal assertions of authority, way to overstep legality there boys ;) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6359-0-20-20--.html"&gt;Taliban Blame ‘Blackwater’ for Pakistan Bombings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This gets filed in my "god I love this tasty ironic-flavored sandwich" file..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6359-0-20-20--.html"&gt;Taliban Blame Blackwater for Pakistan Bombings&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"On Monday, Al Jazeera reported that a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban said the group accepted responsibility for only some of the recent suicide bombings in Pakistan, laying the blame for others, including a deadly attack on a market last month that killed more than 100 civilians, on the American security firm formerly known as Blackwater. The spokesman claimed that the firm, now called Xe, was involved in an attempt to discredit the militants by staging deadly attacks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9p1qibeW4&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded"&gt;&lt;em&gt;This video report from Al Jazeera&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; includes shots of of Azam Tariq, a spokesman for the broad alliance of Pakistani militant groups known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban, saying, “I want to tell the people in Pakistan and the Muslim nation that the Tehrik-i-Taliban are not responsible for the bombings, but Blackwater and Pakistan’s spy agency are behind them.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably just a straightforward propaganda effort, but delicious nonetheless. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And those with a penchant for genetically engineered politics, Blacklistednews brings you: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6369-0-11-11--.html"&gt;"Former Monsanto Lawyer Hired by FDA as Key Advisor"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"A former lobbyist and Monsanto employee who is credited with playing an instrumental role in introducing genetically modified milk and known carcinogens into the U.S. Food supply has been hired as a key advisor for the FDA. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Michael Taylor has been hired to advise Margaret Hamburg, the FDA's commissioner of food and drugs. In his new position, Taylor will also work with the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, the Office of Regulatory Affairs, Congress and the White House. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Taylor's FDA career began in 1976, when he served as an attorney for the agency. From 1981 to 1991, Taylor functioned as a private attorney and lobbyist. During this time period, he wrote numerous articles criticizing the 1958 Delaney Clause, which prohibited known carcinogens from being introduced into the food supply. A number of chemical and pesticide companies had long been critical of the law, including agrochemical and genetic engineering giant Monsanto Corporation. Taylor rejoined the FDA from 1991 to 1994, serving as deputy commissioner for policy. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;At this time, Taylor remained an outspoken opponent of the Delaney Clause. The law was repealed in 1996. He is also widely viewed as instrumental in securing agency approval for Monsanto's recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), an artificial hormone that is used to increase milk production in cattle. After leaving the FDA, Taylor served as Monsanto's vice president for public policy from 1998 to 2000. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Taylor's long history of close ties with Monsanto led to a Government Accountability Office investigation into whether the rBGH approval process had been influenced by conflicts of interest. "&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And one final thought that gives me hope for the future of mankind....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125840777961751135.html"&gt;HPV Shot Requirement Dropped for Immigrants&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"DALLAS -- Immigrant girls and women will no longer have to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus to get their green cards.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Starting Dec. 14, the human papillomavirus vaccine will no longer be on the list of immunizations immigrant females ages 11 to 26 must receive before becoming legal permanent residents.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the change on Friday. In a Federal Register entry, the CDC said it will require immunizations for which there is a public health need at the time the person immigrates or changes their status to green-card holder.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"More than half of the immigrants who come to the U.S. seeking opportunity are women," Silvia Henriquez, executive director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, said in a statement. "We thank the CDC for restoring their dignity and reproductive justice."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Girls and women seeking to become legal permanent U.S. residents were required to get at least the first dose of the HPV vaccine, which protects against some strains of the virus blamed for cervical cancer. It was added to the list of required vaccinations for immigrants in July 2008.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Soon after, &lt;strong&gt;a coalition of more than 100 immigrant, health and women's advocacy groups challenged the requirement, saying it was unfair to require the HPV vaccine for immigrants but not for most U.S. citizens.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Attempts to require the vaccine for American girls has brought emotional debate and complaints that such mandates intrude on family decisions about sex education. In Texas, lawmakers fought off a 2007 order by Gov. Rick Perry requiring the shots for sixth-grade girls amid questions about vaccine's safety, efficacy and cost."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-8987329731738836428?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/taliban-throw-blackwater-daggers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-905685697363517033</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-19T10:30:59.455-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>h1n1</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ukraine</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ecoscience</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>Climate Change, Swine Strains, and Ecuadorian Waterways</title><description>Der Spiegel cries for Argentina, err.. Soetoro. &lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,661678,00.html"&gt;"Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;"US President Barack Obama came to office promising hope and change. But on climate change, he has followed in the footsteps of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Now, should the climate summit in Copenhagen fail, the blame will lie squarely with Obama.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The folder labeled "climate change" that George W. Bush left behind for his successor on the desk of the Oval Office in January likely wasn't a thick one. Although Bush once said that America is overly dependent on oil, he never got beyond that insight. He was too busy waging war on Iraq and searching for a legal basis for extraordinary renditions &lt;strong&gt;to pay much attention to the real threat facing humanity&lt;/strong&gt;. "Forget the climate" seems to have been Bush's unofficial motto.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;But few people expected that Barack Obama, of all people, would continue his predecessor's climate change plan. When he took office at the beginning of 2009, it was clear that the success of the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in December depended almost entirely on the US -- that America needed to take a clear leadership role on a problem that could shake civilization to its very core."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a bunch of dishonest blather. The world is thirsting right now to really deal the deathblow to the U.S. economy, we are expected to completely relinquish prosperity(whether real or imagined) while indebting ourselves to the world and paying to get them energy independent. Sounds like a great idea! NOT&lt;br /&gt;I wish there was a comments section so I could spit the flames but I suppose thats why I am here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cryptogon.com/?p=12173"&gt;"Chevron Sued for Billions After Poisoning Waterways in Ecuador; One of the Largest Environmental Damage Cases in History "&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Tens of thousands of Amazonians are suing Chevron, the American oil company, for poisoning their waterways in what is billed as one of the biggest environmental cases in history.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ecuadorean claimants said the company illegally dumped toxic waste from its oil production, which filtered into the lakes used by thousands of people for washing and drinking.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The result, they claimed, was one of the worst environmental disasters in history, which led to a public health crisis with rising levels of cancer, birth defects and miscarriages.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Some 30,000 Amazonians are behind a case to be heard by an Ecuadorean judge. Experts said the company might have to pay damages of up to $US27 billion ($29 billion).&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The company said there was no proof that any illnesses were caused by its operations. It said the responsibility for cleaning the area lay with the Ecuadorean government and Petroecuador, the state oil company."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I say soak em. The least you can do when extracting the wealth and natural resources from an LDC is pay them a stipend for poisoning their lifestyle, call me fascist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/deadly-flu-spreads-across-ukraine"&gt;Deadly Flu spreads across Ukraine &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Found this at zerohedge.com, pretty informative website for sure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i33.tinypic.com/ckeg3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://i33.tinypic.com/ckeg3.png" width="425" yr="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;"There are many aspects to this story. It is impossible to know where to begin -- let alone cover all the pertinent facts in just one article. Those who have followed my Zerohedge columns in the past may be aware the subject of pandemic influenza has been a regular feature, precisely because there have been multiple signs indicating a global pandemic would be exploited (and perhaps even initiated) by governments and international banks for political purposes. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;The signs have been building, including as I previously reported, forced quarantine orders inadvertently published by the CDC. What do these people know which the public does not?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Over the past two weeks, what appears to be a particularly virulent form of the flu has been spreading in Ukraine and adjacent Eastern European countries. This new flu is, in my opinion, a lethal new strain which has mutated (or was released). I speak with a background in virology. This new mutated flu virus appears to have a remarkable affinity for the lungs and is causing deaths to a much higher extent than the previous swine flu. Something in the virus has changed. I have covered this incredibly important story for two weeks now in my weekly column This Week In Mayhem, which is generally published on Monday mornings."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go cheque it. Till next time..-RTC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-905685697363517033?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/climate-change-swine-strains-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-9011914671547899631</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-13T22:21:20.061-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>h1n1</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ukraine</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>one world governance</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>WHO</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>International Health Regulations 2005, a primer</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.who.int/ihr/en/"&gt;WHO International Health Regulations 2005&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I read on &lt;a href="http://www.fightbackh1n1.com/"&gt;Fight Back H1N1&lt;/a&gt; that &lt;i&gt;"&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Ukraine is the first country to come under the control of the WHO and the UN under the International Health Regulations 2005, and the reality is that Yuschenko and his Prime Minister Julia Timoschenko are just carrying out the orders from WHO and the UN when they suspend civic rights and democracy under the pretext of fighting a pandemic emergency" &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;I decided to do some digging into these documents myself. I enjoy how the global governance apparatus publishes their manure for our collective consumption(or more accurately, non-consumption for people who don't give a shit). Not pointing any fingers here, I am as uninformed as the next joe douche bag, but I have an inquiring mind. Posted for all consumption as necessario. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the WHO site linked above: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;With the support of WHO, the 194 States Parties to the International Health Regulations (IHR) have been implementing these global rules to enhance national, regional and global public health security. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Key milestones for countries include the assessment of their surveillance and response capacities by June 2009 and the development and implementation of plans of action to ensure that these core capacities are functioning by 2012."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;Global government masters, what ARE these regulations?&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Q:&lt;/b&gt; What are the International Health Regulations?  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;A:&lt;/b&gt; The International Health Regulations (IHR) are an &lt;b&gt;international legal instrument that is binding on 194 countries across the globe, including all the Member States of WHO. Their aim is to help the international community prevent and respond to acute public health risks that have the potential to cross borders and threaten people worldwide. &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;In the globalized world, diseases can spread far and wide via international travel and trade. A health crisis in one country can impact livelihoods and economies in many parts of the world. Such crises can result from emerging infections like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), or a new human influenza pandemic. The IHR can also apply to other public health emergencies such as chemical spills, leaks and dumping, or nuclear melt-downs. The IHR aim to limit interference with international traffic and trade while ensuring public health through the prevention of disease spread. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The IHR, which entered into force on 15 June 2007, require countries to report certain disease outbreaks and public health events to WHO. Building on the unique experience of WHO in global disease surveillance, alert and response, the IHR define the rights and obligations of countries to report public health events, and establish a number of procedures that WHO must follow in its work to uphold global public health security.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The IHR also require countries to strengthen their existing capacities for public health surveillance and response. WHO is working closely with countries and partners to provide technical guidance and support to mobilize the resources needed to implement the new rules in an effective and timely manner. Timely and open reporting of public health events will help make the world more secure."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ok all is well and good so far, I suppose. From what I can tell, this web page was created/posted in April 2008, quite poignant eh? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting notes from the "&lt;a href="http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/5th_meeting_ihr/en/index.html"&gt;Director-General Statement following the fifth meeting of the Emergency Committee&lt;/a&gt;": &lt;i&gt;"The Emergency Committee held its fifth meeting, via e-mail, concluding on 23 September 2009. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Committee considered a proposal from the WHO Director-General regarding the continuation of three temporary recommendations issued under the IHR with respect to the on-going public health emergency of international concern. There was a consensus on continuing the three temporary recommendations proposed by the Director-General. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Having considered the views of the Emergency Committee, and the ongoing pandemic situation, the Director-General determined it was appropriate to continue these temporary recommendations, namely:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul class="disc"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;countries should not close borders or restrict international traffic and trade;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;intensify surveillance of unusual flu-like illness &amp;amp; severe pneumonia; and&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;if ill, it is prudent to delay international travel -- if ill after travel seek care."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It strikes me as odd that Swine-Eleven occurs and runs to level 6 worldwide pandemic proportions, enough to warrant waiving FDA regulations for the hastened pace of vaccine production, yet level 6 is not enough to restrict any international traffic or trade. Not saying that I advocate this, just interesting to note. One other oddity, the crazy pig influenza attacks and spreads, and the CDC decides to stop reporting on infection numbers? Will it "overwhelm" the testing systems and structures? Give me two breaks, please.    &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Now, the fightbackH1N1 site has listed some inflamatory statements, which may or may not be accurate about Ukraine cracking down on political opponents. We shall see if the WHO regulations come into effect. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, a swine flu report update out of the Ukraine:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xbkT-AhDNRE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xbkT-AhDNRE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Got more research on my plate...Peace!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-9011914671547899631?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/international-health-regulations-2005.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-511428221597084018</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-13T21:32:28.545-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>immortal technique</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>war</category><title>Russia Today Interviews Immortal Technique As He Spits Flames</title><description>If you take an interest in politics and/or hip hop, check this out immediately! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QJuxb7HddOM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QJuxb7HddOM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-511428221597084018?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/russia-today-interviews-immortal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-8348802933448540263</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-13T21:27:23.820-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ridiculous</category><title>Break Time for Funnies</title><description>I have an email address that has been whored out around the internet for years now, but this has got to be the best pron/spam email subject I've EVER read. Had to share it with the world. Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"These whores back-stabbed innocent guys and I've crossed professional ethics to offer payback - don't date those pieces of shit!‏"&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-8348802933448540263?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/break-time-for-funnies.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-7351605914729753289</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-13T10:31:00.425-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>wto</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>new world order</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>one world governance</category><title>Global Governance Soak-dreams via WTO</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.wto.org/english/news_e/sppl_e/sppl142_e.htm"&gt;Lamy sees need for “right global governance” to meet global challenges&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"And yet 20 years later the world is in a state of serious distress. We are in the midst of the worst ever economic crisis and the first to have a global reach. A crisis which has seen a decimation of employment. We are seeing our planet deteriorate due to global warming. With severe droughts and violent floods. With entire islands disappearing under water. With nuclear proliferation which poses a serious threat to world peace and security. What went wrong?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reality is that the end of the cold war caught everyone by surprise. It was the end of a bi-polar world. A new world order was being born. And yet there was not enough thinking and discussion about its governance structures. There was never a Bretton Woods Conference or a San Francisco Conference post 1989. As a result global governance structures did not adjust. And here lies the root of many of today’s problems. Global challenges need global solutions and these can only come with the right global governance, which today, twenty years later, remains too weak.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yet there is a place on earth where new forms of global governance have been tried following World War II: in Europe. More than half a century ago Jean Monet said: “the sovereign nations of the past can no longer provide a framework for the resolution of our present problems: And the European Community itself is no more than a step towards the organizational forms of tomorrow’s world”. This was as valid then as it is now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Governance to which end? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What do I mean by global governance? For me global governance describes the system we set up to assist human society to achieve its common purpose in a sustainable manner, that is, with equity and justice. Growing interdependence requires that our laws, our social norms and values, our mechanisms for framing human behaviour be examined, debated, understood and operated together as coherently as possible. This is what would provide the basis for effective sustainable development in its economic, social and environmental dimensions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether public or private, governance needs to provide leadership, the incarnation of vision, of political energy, of drive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also needs to provide legitimacy, which is essential to ensure ownership over decisions which lead to change. Ownership to prevent the in-built bias towards resistance to  modify the status quo"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh boy, I cannot wait!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-7351605914729753289?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/global-governance-soak-dreams-via-wto.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-2731990695847783123</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-13T10:27:15.595-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccinations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>Swine Eleven a.k.a The Ukranian connection</title><description>Have been absent for a few days, was out of town, but have not failed to follow the coverage. Some interesting swine-eleven related oddities:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Found a bunch of reports out of the Ukraine of a/n1n1 strain, but I am unsure whether this was just a mistranslation, as I can sadly only read english, I am no help here. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=130657"&gt;Epidemic situation in Ukraine threatens national security, 53 people die of cold and flu&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.tcunation.com/forum/topics/pneumonic-plague-in-ukraine-1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2009/11/02/11155.shtml&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.swineflunews.org/ukraine"&gt;Ukraine Swine flu updates&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this is just insulting: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/530805.html"&gt;Deputies Hold Boy Who Fled Flu Shot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"WHEELING - It took the strength of two sheriff's deputies to keep a middle schooler still enough to receive a shot of the swine flu, or H1N1, vaccine at a recent clinic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During a regular Wheeling-Ohio County Health Board meeting Tuesday, health department Administrator Howard Gamble told board members about the student's attempt to flee Wheeling Middle School during a vaccination clinic held there last Friday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He noted the boy's mother could not bear to watch the scene and left the gymnasium. Out of apparent fear of receiving the injection, the student ran out of the building. The school's resource officer, Ohio County Sheriff's Deputy John Haglock, coaxed the boy back inside. Once at the shot station, however, Haglock apparently needed some help keeping the boy still, and another deputy assisted."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-2731990695847783123?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/swine-eleven-aka-ukranian-connection.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-6969913383180159109</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-05T17:00:31.110-07:00</atom:updated><title>Holy Fuckin Shit, its the STIMULATOR</title><description>&lt;a href="http://submedia.tv/stimulator/"&gt;The Stimulator&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;gotta check out this dudes show/podcast/multimedia its fuckin great. big ups to you dude!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src='http://submedia.tv/mediaplayer-viral/player-viral.swf' height='388' width='480' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' flashvars='image=http%3A%2F%2Fa.images.blip.tv%2F571mul470r-FightingFascism597.jpeg&amp;link=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Ffile%2Fget%2F571mul470r-FightingFascism832.flv&amp;file=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Ffile%2Fget%2F571mul470r-FightingFascism832.flv&amp;plugins=viral-1d'/&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-6969913383180159109?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/holy-fuckin-shit-its-stimulator.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-812995628842279476</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-05T10:32:23.195-07:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccinations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>council on foreign relations</category><title>Swine flu vaccine scarcity, artificially induced?</title><description>Huge story by way of mediamonarchy.com and infowars: &lt;a href="http://www.infowars.com/cfr-recording-suggests-creating-false-scarcity-to-drive-up-demand-for-h1n1-vaccine/"&gt;cfr recording suggests creating-false-scarcity to drive up demand for h1n1 vaccine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"A recording of a recent Council On Foreign Relations symposium reveals attendees discussing ways and means of getting the public to take the H1N1 flu vaccine in spite of the mass resistance that has arisen due to questions over it’s safety.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The recording dates from October 16 when the CFR held a Symposium in New York entitled Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;People on a local news website message board are in constant disbelief about the shortages of the vaccine, decrying the unpreparedness of the government to deal with this "pandemic". One reason for Utah's shortage is that they simply did not even order enough vaccine to cover 10% of the population, so they are enacting creative ways such as "making reservations" to come get your jab. I can't wait. This idea did strike me though, that creating artificial scarcity can induce demand.. Simple economics, and you can see it in action with energy resources daily. This deserves more research..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-812995628842279476?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/11/swine-flu-vaccine-scarcity-artificially.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-3211878980837580932</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-29T10:23:22.257-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccinations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>squalene</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>thimerosol</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>mercury</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cdc</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>WHO</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>Swine Flu and/or WHO thirsts for bioweapons</title><description>Huge news: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fightbackh1n1.com/2009/08/who-memos-1972-explains-how-to-turn.html"&gt;WHO memos 1972 explains how to turn vaccines into a means of killing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"WHO memos 1972 explains how to turn vaccines into a means of killing&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Two key memorandums from WHO, discovered by Patrick Jordan, prove WHO has intentionally created the three-shot killer vaccine that people in the USA and other countries could soon be forced to take.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;1972 WHO Bulletin 47, No 2 Memordanda #1 and #2 Virus-associated immunopathology:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Animal models and implications for human disease * technically outline the ability to create biological weapons in the form of vaccines that:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;1) First totally disable the Immune System.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;2) Load every cell of the Victim’s body up with Infection.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;3) Switch the Immune System on causing the host to kill themselves in a Cytokine Storm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;One, Two, Three, Dead.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;These WHO Memorandas describe the three-stage impact of the three "shots" many people will be forced to take this fall to allegedly treat a virus that WHO also helped create and release.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a crucial piece of evidence of WHO's long-term genocidal intentions that could stand in any court of law because these memorandums give the best and fullest explanation WHO's and affiliated labs (such as the CDC) current activities, such as their patenting of the most lethal bird flu viruses, their sending that virus to Baxter's subsidiary in Austria, which weaponised it and sent out 72 kilos to 16 labs in four countries almost triggering a global pandemic.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;For every crime, there needs to be motive, an indication that it was deliberate, planned. The WHO memorandums provide the evidence of just that deliberate, long-term planning to kill people by weakening their immune system by use of the first vaccine, injecting a live virus into their body by a second, and creating a cytokine storm using squalene in a third.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Download the WHO Memoranda on:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?iid=169484"&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?iid=169484&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Scroll down until you find: &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Memoranda &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Virus-associated immunopathology : animal models and implications for human disease:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;1. Effects of viruses on the immune system, immune-complex diseases, and antibody-mediated immunologic injury &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bull World Health Organ. 1972; 47(2): 257?264.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;PMCID: PMC2480894&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2480894&amp;amp;blobtype=pdf &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Virus-associated immunopathology: animal models and implications for human disease:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;2. Cell-mediated immunity, autoimmune diseases, genetics, and implications for clinical research &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bull World Health Organ. 1972; 47(2): 265?274&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;PMCID: PMC2480896&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=2480896&amp;amp;blobtype=pdf " &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is taken directly from &lt;a href="http://www.fightbackh1n1.com/"&gt;http://www.fightbackh1n1.com/&lt;/a&gt; Implore you to go investigate if you take an interest in cytokine storms. I have definite research to do tonight..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-3211878980837580932?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/swine-flu-andor-who-thirsts-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-8720857543811912319</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-24T14:36:18.609-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccinations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccine</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>c</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>cdc</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>New York abandons swine flu vaccine mandate for health care workers, blames vaccine shortage</title><description>&lt;h1 class="Headline"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/027313_New_York_health_care.html"&gt;New York abandons swine flu vaccine mandate for health care workers, blames vaccine shortage&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="Headline"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;"(NaturalNews) New York State Health Commissioner Richard F. Daines announced today that public health workers will no longer be required to receive swine flu vaccinations. The state had been sued by the Public Employees Federation to stop the vaccine mandate, and a state judge had granted the group a temporary restraining order against mandatory vaccine injections (&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/027259_health_flu_vaccine_vaccines.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.naturalnews.com/027259_h...&lt;/a&gt;). The follow-up hearing was scheduled for October 30 to determine whether the temporary restraining order would be overruled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The New York Dept. of Health had vowed to fight the restraining order and force all health care workers to be vaccinated, even against their will. Those refusing to be vaccinated faced losing their jobs or being denied pay increases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The decision to abandon the swine flu vaccine mandate had nothing to do with the debate over the vaccination of health care workers, claims Richard Daines. Instead, he says, it was all caused by the shortage of vaccines. While the CDC had promised states that 120 million doses of swine flu vaccine would be available by the end of October, the reality is that thanks to vaccine production failures, only about 28 million doses will be available (roughly one-fourth the original estimate).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The CDC acknowledged that New York would only receive approximately 23 percent of its anticipated vaccine supply," Gov. David Paterson said in a story published by CNN. "As a result, we need to be as resourceful as we can with the limited supplies of vaccine currently coming into the state."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;As the article states, this stoppage of mandatory vaccination is for the wrong reasons, but this is still notable. With talk of other states drafting mandatory vaccination legislation, this warrants mention. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-8720857543811912319?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-york-abandons-swine-flu-vaccine.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-2503946031011980931</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-22T21:07:50.252-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>codex alimentarius</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>john p. holdren</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>h1n1</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>fda</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>food safety</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>eugenics</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>population control</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ecoscience</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>federal reserve</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>credit crisis</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>bailouts</category><title>Today's Run-Down-Malthusian Messiahs, Genetically engineered GMO policies, and more</title><description>A few questions being asked on NaturalNews.com regarding flu vaccines:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/027258_vaccines_flu_vaccine.html"&gt;"Ten questions about flu vaccines that doctors and health authorities refuse to answer"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;"(NaturalNews) Vaccine mythology remains rampant in both western medicine and the mainstream media. To hear the vaccination zealots say it, vaccines are backed by "good science," they've been "proven effective" and they're "perfectly safe."Here are ten questions vaccine-pushing doctors and health authorities absolutely refuse to answer:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1) Where are the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies proving flu vaccines are both safe and effective?&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Answer: There aren't any. (&lt;a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/027239_vaccines_flu_vaccine_.html" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.naturalnews.com/027239_v...&lt;/a&gt; " &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting read requiring more research for sure. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6376786/Chief-scientist-says-it-would-be-unwise-not-to-develop-GM-crops-in-Britain.html"&gt;Chief scientist says it would be 'unwise' not to develop GM crops in Britain&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Professor John Beddington said the world will have to produce 50 per cent more    food by 2030 in order to feed the growing population. He said the only way to do this is to grow more crops on less land by using    the latest scientific innovation, including crops genetically modified to be    drought or disease resistant.  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt; "This is such a problem that you cannot say we will not use GM technology    - that would be really unwise," he said. His comments come as a new Royal Society report also recommends GM crops to    tackle the impending food crisis.  &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report entitled 'Reaping the Benefits: Towards a Sustainable    Intensification of Global Agriculture' is expected to suggest that GM crops    could even be grown in Britain.GM has recently come back onto the political agenda. The first trial in a year    was recently re-started in Leeds, with the Government's support, and a    recent report on food security from the Deparment for the Enviroment, Food    and Rural Affairs backed further research into the technology."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this stuff reads like powerhungry fantasia: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"We do have a 'perfect storm' with the impending food crisis, climate    change and the recent economic crisis," she said. "It might seem    like the perfect opportunity for the bio-tech industry to promote its    products but the drivers of this crisis are so complex and need to be    tackled at a fundamental level - just the thought that GM can solve this or    play an important part is pie in the sky." &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Disgusting...While on the bio foods subject, must check out foodworldorder.com! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.roguegovernment.com/Bill_Granting_FDA_New_Powers_To_Oversee_Nation%27s_Food_Supply_Gets_Broad_Support/17787/0/17/17/Y/M.html"&gt;Bill Granting FDA New Powers To Oversee Nation's Food Supply Gets Broad Support&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Legislation granting the Food and Drug Administration new powers to oversee the nation's food supply has elbowed its way onto Congress' crammed calendar with bipartisan support and rare agreement between consumer groups and an industry stung by product recalls.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), would require the FDA to step up inspections of food facilities and to issue new rules to improve the quality of imported food and to combat contaminants in fresh produce. The measure also would give the agency authority to recall products on its own, instead of relying on industry cooperation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hardly a week goes by that there isn't a report of an outbreak of food-borne illness or death in America," Durbin said. "The current system really just reacts to food illness. We have to have a system that is protective of consumers" by preventing outbreaks or nipping them in the bud. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bill is slated for a committee hearing today even as lawmakers wrestle with the tasks of overhauling the healthcare system, writing new regulations for the financial services industry and shaping major measures on global warming and education.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason for a sense of urgency is evident from opinion polls. A July survey for the Pew Charitable Trusts found that nearly 90% of voters favored new food safety measures similar to those found in Durbin's bill and a slightly more expansive proposal that the House passed over the summer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"There's broad public support. It would be a quick win for both parties," said Erik Olson, director of chemical and food safety programs in Pew's Health &amp;amp; Human Services Policy program. "This is a rare situation where the industry is shoulder to shoulder with consumers." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that food-borne illness causes 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths annually in the U.S. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyond hazards to health, the food industry has paid a hefty toll. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Growers and distributors lost an estimated $100 million in a 2008 recall of salmonella-tainted jalapeño peppers and tomatoes initially blamed for the outbreak, said Patrick Delaney, a spokesman for the United Fresh Produce Assn., which represents fruit and vegetable producers. "&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cannot help but wonder whether these changing standards will include codex alimentarius tained philosophy, and assist with harmonization. Sadly I am not optimistic. Find out more on Codex at &lt;a href="http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp"&gt;codexalimentarius.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.nocodexgenocide.com/"&gt;No Codex Genocide&lt;/a&gt; and governmental and non-governmental agency websites. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.roguegovernment.com/Bailout_May_Cost_%2423.7_Trillion%3A_Barofsky/17783/0/8/8/Y/M.html"&gt;Bailout May Cost $23.7 Trillion: Barofsky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"WASHINGTON - The federal government has devoted $4.7 trillion to help the financial sector through its crisis, a level of assistance equal to about one-third of the overall U.S. economy, a watchdog report said Monday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under the worst of circumstances, the report said, the government's maximum exposure could total nearly $24 trillion, or $80,000 for every American.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The figures are part of a tough new quarterly report to Congress from special inspector general Neil Barofsky, who accuses the Treasury Department of repeatedly failing to adopt recommendations aimed at making one component of the government financial rescue effort more accountable and transparent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The $4.7 trillion commitment to the industry takes into account about 50 initiatives and programs set up since 2007 by the Bush and Obama administrations as well as by the Federal Reserve. Barofsky oversees one of the initiatives -- the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much of the government assistance is backed by collateral and Barofsky's $23.7 trillion estimate represents the gross, not net, exposure that the government could face."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the same subject one more econo-nightmare:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2 class="title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/04/06/assets-truly-worthless/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to 'Study Finds Toxic Assets Truly Worthless, Geithner’s Plan ‘Will Simply Transfer Wealth’ To Banks'"&gt;Study Finds Toxic Assets Truly Worthless, Geithner’s Plan ‘Will Simply Transfer Wealth’ To Banks from Think&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="title" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"&lt;a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/insolvent-banks-and-imaginary-fire-sales-2009-4"&gt;Via&lt;/a&gt; John Carney at Clusterstock, we have &lt;a href="chrome://sage/content/feedsummary.html?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2Fclusterstock%3Fformat%3Dxml"&gt;a study&lt;/a&gt; by Harvard’s Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford and Princeton’s Jakub Jurek, who concluded that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s assumption regarding the “&lt;a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/06/geithner-goldman-sachs/"&gt;inherent economic value&lt;/a&gt;” of toxic assets is &lt;a href="chrome://sage/content/feedsummary.html?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2Fclusterstock%3Fformat%3Dxml"&gt;bogus&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The analysis of this paper suggests that recent credit market prices are actually highly consistent with fundamentals.&lt;/strong&gt; A structural framework confirms that bonds and credit derivatives should have experienced a significant repricing in 2008 as the economic outlook darkened and volatility increased. &lt;strong&gt;The analysis also confirms that severe mispricing existed in the structured credit tranches prior to the crisis and that a large part of the dramatic rise in spreads has been the elimination of this mispricing.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;In short, the toxic assets clogging up the banks are worthless, and not, as Geithner believes, stuck at a depressed value due to our lousy economic climate. This is a problem because Geithner’s &lt;a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/21/geithner-krugman/"&gt;entire bank rescue plan hinges&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/06/geithner-goldman-sachs/"&gt;on the notion&lt;/a&gt; that these assets are worth something. If that notion is wrong, then the plan will, at best, “&lt;a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/bank-scams/"&gt;simply fizzle&lt;/a&gt;,” and at worst, be a very expensive &lt;a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/11/kashkari-proposal/"&gt;subsidy to savvy investors&lt;/a&gt; that does nothing to relieve banks of their toxic waste. &lt;br /&gt;Like &lt;a href="http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/03/26/roubini-geithner/"&gt;Nouriel Roubini&lt;/a&gt;, Coval, Stafford, and Jurek believe that “many major US banks are &lt;a href="http://www.usc.edu/schools/business/FBE/seminars/papers/F_4-2-09_COVAL-cjs.pdf"&gt;now legitimately insolvent&lt;/a&gt;.” Therefore, they write, “any taxpayer dollars allocated to supporting these [toxic asset] markets will simply &lt;a href="http://www.usc.edu/schools/business/FBE/seminars/papers/F_4-2-09_COVAL-cjs.pdf"&gt;transfer wealth to the current owners&lt;/a&gt; of these securities”: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;To the extent that these assets reside in banks that are now insolvent, the owners are essentially the bondholders of these banks. The reason their bonds are currently trading far below par is that the assets backing up their claim are just not worth enough (nor expected to become worth enough when their bonds mature) to repay them. And so while they will be cheered by any government overpayment for the toxic assets backing up their claims, &lt;strong&gt;their happiness will be at the taxpayer’s expense since, to the extent that current prices are fair, they will be receiving more than fair value for their investments.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Older but still just as offensive. What a swindle. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last topic of the day, gotta hit the "Malthusian Messiah" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Articles/Malthusian_Messiahs.htm"&gt;"When Malthusians   Become Messiahs"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;N&lt;/span&gt;owadays, anyone and everyone who   raises a disparaging word about the Obama Administration’s   policies is immediately assigned the stigma of   “alarmist,” “scaremonger,” or   “paranoid.” Perhaps such stigmas are actually   applicable in some cases, like Genesis Communications Network radio   talk show host Alex Jones and Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck.   In both of these cases, there are, no doubt, serious sanity issues   involved. However, those who have familiarized themselves with the   résumé of President Obama’s recently appointed   Science Czar, John Holdren, have good reason to be afraid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Having dispelled any accusations of partisan prejudices, allow   me to provide a brief overview of Holdren’s   résumé. In 1977, Holdren co-authored &lt;cite&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716700298/conspiracyarc-20/" title="Amazon: Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment"&gt;Ecoscience&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;   with Paul and Anne Ehrlich. Of course, Paul Ehrlich was the   environmental scientist who published &lt;cite&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000E1COTA/conspiracyarc-20/" title="Amazon: The Population Bomb"&gt;The Population Bomb&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/cite&gt;   in 1968.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;This hyperbolic collection of demographic doomsday prophecies   foolhardily predicted, “The battle to feed humanity is over.   In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions   of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash   programs embarked upon now.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Malthus’ genocidal policies specifically targeted the   poor. Through the promotion of hygienically unsound practices   amongst impoverished populations, Malthus believed that the   “undesirable elements” of the human herd could be   naturally culled by various maladies. The spread of disease could   be further assisted through discriminative vaccination and zoning   programs. Worse still, Malthus promoted infanticide for   illegitimate children, a practice that is still advocated by many   bioethicists today. Peter Singer is one case in point. Ominously   enough, Singer recently argued for the rationing of health care in   a &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt; editorial.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ehrlich’s prescriptions for the alleged “population   bomb” were equally draconian. They included “compulsory   birth regulation… (through) the addition of temporary   sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote   would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the   desired family size.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Go check it out, definitely a better discussion of the Malthusian elitests who wrote at length about their eugenic fantasies. Good luck.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-2503946031011980931?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/todays-run-down-malthusian-messiahs.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-6298122674533731874</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-22T18:31:05.137-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccinations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>squalene</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccine</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>Government to get special swine flu vaccine</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091018-22649.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Government to get special swine flu vaccine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;"Just a week after it emerged that the German armed forces was getting a different kind of A/H1N1 vaccine to the general population, Der Spiegel magazine reports that the government will also get special treatment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;The general population will be offered the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine, called Pandemrix, which contains a new booster element, or adjuvant, as well as a preservative containing mercury.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Controversy has grown around the rapid licensing of the GSK vaccine – and a similar one being made by Novartis. Critics said not enough testing had been conducted before European licensing authorities rushed an approval.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Chancellor Angela Merkel, her cabinet members and ministry civil servants as well as those working for other agencies will get Celvapan, produced by US firm Baxter, which does not have the adjuvant or the preservative, according to &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Der Spiegel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;It is thought the adjuvant may lead to a stronger reaction in the patient – which to a certain degree is the point, meaning the vaccine can contain less of the virus yet still provoke the crucial immune system reaction. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;But this is also what some say is the additional risk – and has led to stocks of the traditional kind of vaccine being bought in for pregnant women and young children. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Celvapan does not contain the adjuvant or the preservative. Rather, it contains entire dead viruses rather than the pieces which are in the traditional vaccine. The Baxter version is the one being given to the armed forces, as well as being made available for pregnant women and children. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;It seems now that ministers and civil servants are to be included in that category."&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always get lost in simple logic problems. Thimerosol and adjuvants like squalene are safe, but thimerosol was only allowed to be included in this vaccine under some kind of FDA emergency approval, JUST for the swine flu vaccine. They are totally safe, yet have been phased out except for the swine flu, and even though they are safe, some are getting a 'cleaner' vaccine. If all these additives are safe, why were they first outlawed, and why are certain factions escaping these totally safe additives? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-6298122674533731874?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/government-to-get-special-swine-flu.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-2648873258119516148</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T17:55:39.671-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccinations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>Totally Irrational Swine Flu Fear Propaganda....or is it?</title><description>&lt;h2 class="contentheading" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=1268%3Athey-got-sick-from-the-vaccine-in-sweden&amp;amp;catid=1%3Alatest-news&amp;amp;Itemid=64&amp;amp;lang=en"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Nurses got sick from the "swine flu" vaccine in Sweden • UPDATE - 1 suspected death&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;h2 class="contentheading" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Yesterday 30 people had been reporting to the authorities in Sweden that they experienced such severe side effects that they felt the need to contact a hospital. Today the number is 140. The swedish newspaper Expressen is the only one in Sweden reporting on these cases and as usual this is most likely only the tip of a rather large iceberg.&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;UPDATE: According to Dagens Nyheter, &lt;a href="http://www.dn.se/nyheter/vetenskap/190-tal-biverkningar-av-vaccinet-1.979474" target="_blank"&gt;the number of reported side effects are now a few hours later 190&lt;/a&gt;. 1 person dies after the injection but "no direct relation with the injection has been established". The biggest medical scandal in the history of Sweden has just started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even so, Annika Linde, director of The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) manages to spin this into something positive by stating "The vaccine has more side effects than the normal flu vaccine. It is a sign that proves that it gives an effective protection." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thousands of Swedes have been vaccinated so far and the reports of side effects are "flooding in" to The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI). Annika Linde: "It is obviously so that the vaccine against the swine flu results in more side effects than the normal flu vaccines. That is because the swine flu vaccine contains adjuvants, shark liver oil, which triggers the immune defense to respond. That also results in that the protection against the virus becomes better." &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Several severe cases of allergic reactions are reported to the unit for medicinal safety. "So far the reported side effects are not unexpected", says Gunilla Sjölin Forsberg. This unit has now asked some of the many units that vaccinate to report side effects to better get a grip on the situation. This statement alone is shocking since according to normal practice, all side effects should automatically be reported - right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A nurse who took the shot on wednesday last week is still feeling sick. She got high fever and shivers from the swine flu shot. "-I was shaking in my whole body. It was so sever that I could not even hold a glass of water in my hand.", Lotta Lindström says.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"- I am now thinking about what it is I have been injected with. I really was affected. It feels really unpleasant."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-2648873258119516148?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/totally-irrational-swine-flu-fear.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-8670351679047908840</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T17:53:27.208-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>NPT</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>Iran</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>war</category><title>Beating back warmongers bludgeon-style</title><description>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/6252385/Iran-agrees-in-principle-to-compromise-on-nuclear-programme.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Iran agrees 'in principle' to compromise on nuclear programme &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;"The breakthrough came after a day of talks in Geneva between Iran’s top    nuclear negotiator and the United States, Britain, Russia, China, France and    Germany. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In a sign that Tehran is eager to show more flexibility after a period of    heightened tensions, Iran indicated that it would also allow international    inspectors to visit its recently revealed second uranium enrichment plant    “within weeks”&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;After a long diplomatic chill, it agreed to a tight timetable of talks with    the same six powers designed to get a far-reaching diplomatic solution in    place by the end of the year.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; Speaking in Washington, President Obama called the talks “a constructive    beginning” but said hard work lay ahead.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; “Talk is no substitute for action,” he added, saying sanctions remained an    option if Iran did not fulfill its promises. "Iran must demonstrate through concrete steps that it will live up to its    responsibilities.”&lt;br /&gt;Although the details still needs to be hammered out, Javier Solana, the EU’s    top foreign policy official, said Iran had agreed “in principle” to export    most of its enriched uranium stockpile to Russia for further enrichment.&lt;br /&gt;The    uranium would then be sent to France for further processing and then    returned to Iran. People familiar with the issue said the process would make    it extremely difficult for Iran to use the uranium for bomb-making purposes,    setting back its alleged weapons programme"&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;I haven't been around the political scene that long, but have already learned the skill of retaining a healthy negativity about prospects for peace, so I am not under total delusions that this will equal peace with Iran and not war, but it has been one of the key issues in regards to Iran's nuclear program, and a way for Iran to maintain its responsibility and rights under the NPT, while also semi-placating the somewhat irrational fears of Iran's non-existent weapons program. Many believe this regime is duplicitous, so I suppose we shall find out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*gives fist bump to homeboi El Baradei*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-8670351679047908840?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/beating-back-warmongers-bludgeon-style.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-5392974431509344354</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T17:39:49.035-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>propaganda</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>kathleen Sebelius</category><title>Grassley: propaganda killah!</title><description>&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Grassley Warns HHS Web Site May Be ‘Propaganda’&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/39730-1.html"&gt;Grassley here&lt;/a&gt; is taking a page out of yours truly Reflux The Chemist's playbook, attempting to destroy propaganda efforts. The hubris located within this statement is sort of blinding..but worthy anyway.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules against government-funded propaganda.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Web page is accessed through a “state your support” button featured prominently on the HHS Web site and carries a disclaimer that the Web site is maintained by HHS.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;In a letter sent to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Tuesday, Grassley warned that “any possible misuse of appropriated funds by the executive branch to engage in publicity or propaganda in support of an Administration priority is a matter that must be investigated and taken seriously,” noting that in 2005 Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) argued that “the use of official funds for similar activities were 'underhanded tactics' and that these tactics 'are not worthy of our great democracy.'”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Isn't funding Gibbs' job title violating rules against government-funded propaganda? How about the CDC's press releases? Just saying..=0)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-5392974431509344354?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/grassley-propaganda-killah.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-4474248875085134623</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-22T16:12:57.008-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccinations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>louis farrakhan</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>H1N1 Vaccination- Funnies section</title><description>This definitely warrants a laugh. Although in some respects I can understand what he is saying, it is comical nonetheless, and also sad in that it discredits what I think are valid questions about vaccinations, or at least this vaccination campaign...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="in-article"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/280790"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Minister: H1N1 vaccine developed to kill people&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 class="in-article"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/8/9/9/i/3/7/6/p-small/farrakhan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://www.digitaljournal.com/img/8/9/9/i/3/7/6/p-small/farrakhan.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"&gt;"The 76-year-old Louis Farrakhan, speaking for nearly three hours to a religious group on the 14th anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington, believes the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccination is nothing more than a guise to depopulate the Earth, according to &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/10/19/Farrakhan-suspicious-of-H1N1-vaccine/UPI-63931256011008/"&gt;United Press International&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;“The Earth can't take 6.5 billion people. We just can't feed that many. So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can. We have to develop a science that kills them and makes it look as though they died from some disease." According to &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,568743,00.html?test=latestnews"&gt;Fox News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, Farrakhan said that wise people will not take the vaccine. A &lt;a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33109981/ns/health-swine_flu/"&gt;poll&lt;/a&gt; released last month showed that two-thirds of American parents will either delay giving their child the vaccine or just not give them the shots at all. Another &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5916FO20091002"&gt;survey&lt;/a&gt; that was released earlier this month shows that 40 per cent of Americans will not get the vaccine" &lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 class="in-article"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Another side note here.. This statement is sort of contradictory, because Farrakhan assumes as valid the malthusian premise that the Earth has a finite carrying capacity, and further, that it is basically reached after "6.5 billion people". Surely the Earth could not carry an infinite amount of people, but I don't believe we have yet reached that point, and who knows what the actual carrying capacity would be if we actually got serious about food production, and not serious in the sense that we frankenstein the crop and splice its genes... word! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-4474248875085134623?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/h1n1-vaccination-funnies-section.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-6487008942655337916</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T17:21:07.406-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>gardasil</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>h1n1</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>vaccinations</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>Not pushing the male anti-HPV shots? But why?!!?</title><description>&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE59K4L920091021"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;U.S. advisers decline to push Gardasil for boys&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. vaccine advisers declined to press for the use of Merck &amp;amp; Co's Gardasil in boys and men, opting instead on Wednesday to simply advise doctors they are free to use it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Despite some impassioned pleas from patients and doctors alike, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted almost unanimously for "permissive" use of the vaccine for boys. It protects against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes a variety of cancers and genital warts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;But the committee did recommend including Gardasil for eligible boys aged 9 to 18 in the Vaccines For Children program, a government-funded system that provides vaccines to children eligible for the state-federal Medicaid health insurance plan and other uninsured children.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; Merck's shares were down 1.7 percent at $33.16 in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends Gardasil for girls 11 and 12 years old and women 13 to 26 who have not been vaccinated."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This is interesting that the 'vaccine advisers' won't push for this vaccine, I don't really understand why...vaccines are &lt;a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/why-are-we-afraid-of-the-new-flu-vaccine/"&gt;awesome&lt;/a&gt;! &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Check out this brave dude:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/10/07/health/07well_flu/blogSpan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="226" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/10/07/health/07well_flu/blogSpan.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lil kid is &amp;gt; me in the courage category.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One other note about the gardasil vaccine, which deeply offended me is &lt;a href="http://www.newsinferno.com/archives/3927"&gt;found here:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;A new rule that makes the &lt;a href="http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/gardasil_side_effects"&gt;Gardasil&lt;/a&gt; vaccine mandatory for young women seeking U.S. citizenship has sparked anger and protest from immigration advocates and healthcare policy experts.&amp;nbsp; Immigration groups call the Gardasil rule discriminatory, and charge that it places an unfair financial burden on female immigrants. Meanwhile, policy experts see the requirement as excessive and unnecessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The U.S. &lt;a href="http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis"&gt;Citizenship and Immigration Services&lt;/a&gt; added the Gardasil vaccination requirement in July, and it went into effect on August 1. Under a 1996 immigration law,&amp;nbsp; any vaccination recommended by the U.S. government for its citizens becomes a requirement for anyone seeking permanent residency in the U.S.&amp;nbsp; The Centers for Disease Control recommended Gardasil for girls ages 11 through 26 shortly after it was approved in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyone who applies for permanent residency must visit a U.S. – approved physician or clinic to get vaccines and undergo tests in order to receive health clearance. Of the 14 required vaccines, 13 are designed to combat infectious diseases that are transmitted by respiratory route and are considered highly contagious.&amp;nbsp; But the virus Gardasil targets – HPV – is spread through sexual contact."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-6487008942655337916?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/not-pushing-male-anti-hpv-shots-but-why.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-4961948827948386726</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T16:13:29.015-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>education</category><title>Interesting website/pdf file- The deliberate dumbing down of America</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/"&gt;Deliberate Dumbing Down of America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An author by the name of Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt has apparently written a scathing rebuke of the education system and how it has been co-opted for other purposes. I have not yet read this, but will be shortly. Was going to purchase this book on amazon until a reviewer pointed to this website, where you can d/l free of charge, straight from the author. Thanks Iserbyt, I will be checking into your work soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-4961948827948386726?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/interesting-websitepdf-file-deliberate.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-3948128862405790692</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T16:10:52.452-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>obama</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>world government</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>sovereignty</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>nwo</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>government</category><title>Frightening specters and tightening financial sectors</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-5961-0-9-9--.html"&gt;Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty, Claims British Lord via Blacklistednews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"At [the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in] Copenhagen, this December, weeks away, a treaty will be signed. Your president will sign it. Most of the third world countries will sign it, because they think they’re going to get money out of it. Most of the left-wing regime from the European Union will rubber stamp it. Virtually nobody won’t sign it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I read that treaty. And what it says is this, that a world government is going to be created. The word “government” actually appears as the first of three purposes of the new entity. The second purpose is the transfer of wealth from the countries of the West to third world countries, in satisfication of what is called, coyly, “climate debt” – because we’ve been burning CO2 and they haven’t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. We’ve been screwing up the climate and they haven’t. And the third purpose of this new entity, this government, is enforcement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many of you think that the word “election” or “democracy” or “vote” or “ballot” occurs anywhere in the 200 pages of that treaty? Quite right, it doesn’t appear once. So, at last, the communists who piled out of the Berlin Wall and into the environmental movement, who took over Greenpeace so that my friends who funded it left within a year, because [the communists] captured it – Now the apotheosis as at hand. They are about to impose a communist world government on the world. You have a president who has very strong sympathies with that point of view. He’s going to sign it. He’ll sign anything. He’s a Nobel Peace Prize [winner]; of course he’ll sign it."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whoa!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-3948128862405790692?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/frightening-specters-and-tightening.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-7857605516160427937</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T13:44:30.324-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>health care debate</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>constitution</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>congress</category><title>Hoyer declares constitutionality</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-6028-0-29-29--.html"&gt;Hoyer Says Constitution’s ‘General Welfare’ Clause Empowers Congress to Order Americans to Buy Health Insurance&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;via Blacklistednews &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the individual health insurance mandates included in every health reform bill, which require Americans to have insurance, were “like paying taxes.” He added that Congress has “broad authority” to force Americans to purchase other things as well, so long as it was trying to promote “the general welfare.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Congressional Budget Office, however, has stated in the past that a mandate forcing Americans to buy health insurance would be an “unprecedented form of federal action,” and that the “government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoyer, speaking to reporters at his weekly press briefing on Tuesday, was asked by CNSNews.com where in the Constitution was Congress granted the power to mandate that a person must by a health insurance policy. Hoyer said that, in providing for the general welfare, Congress had “broad authority.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder if the general welfare clause includes forcing toxic garbage assets upon United Stations, and charging a non-governmental institution to counterfeit greenbacks, but hey, I'm no constitutional lawyer like Soetoro..I guess if I was, it would lead me to support and continue totally unconstitutional laws.I love(not really) bizarro world!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-7857605516160427937?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/hoyer-declares-constitutionality.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5059666656018046809.post-7245331417552765960</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T10:33:21.475-06:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>swine flu</category><title>Swine Flu overestimations?</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/21/cbsnews_investigates/main5404829.shtml"&gt;Swine flu overestimated?&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"CDC Quiet On Swine Flu Stats&lt;br /&gt;After repeated attempts made by CBS News asking the CDC to provide state-by-state data of swine flu testing before they halted individual testing and tracking, Dr. Thomas Frieden, CDC Director was asked directly at a recent news conference.&lt;br /&gt;(CBS) If you've been diagnosed "probable" or "presumed" 2009 H1N1 or "swine flu" in recent months, you may be surprised to know this: odds are you didn’t have H1N1 flu. &lt;br /&gt;In fact, you probably didn’t have flu at all. That's according to state-by-state test results obtained in a three-month-long CBS News investigation. &lt;br /&gt;The ramifications of this finding are important. According to the Center for Disease Control, CDC, and Britain's National Health Service, once you have H1N1 flu, you're immune from future outbreaks of the same virus. Those who think they've had H1N1 flu -- but haven't -- might mistakenly presume they're immune. As a result, they might skip taking a vaccine that could help them, and expose themselves to others with H1N1 flu under the mistaken belief they won't catch it. Parents might not keep sick children home from school, mistakenly believing they've already had H1N1 flu. "&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why you ask? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In late July, the CDC abruptly advised states to stop testing for H1N1 flu, and stopped counting individual cases. The rationale given for the CDC guidance to forego testing and tracking individual cases was: why waste resources testing for H1N1 flu when the government has already confirmed there's an epidemic? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some public health officials privately disagreed with the decision to stop testing and counting, telling CBS News that continued tracking of this new and possibly changing virus was important because H1N1 has a different epidemiology, affects younger people more than seasonal flu and has been shown to have a higher case fatality rate than other flu virus strains."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lol, we are going to stop testing because we know its an epidemic now...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5059666656018046809-7245331417552765960?l=reflux1.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://reflux1.blogspot.com/2009/10/swine-flu-overestimations.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (reflux the chemist)</author></item></channel></rss>