The question that is appropriate is are we practicing the right kind of health care. Are the AMA, FDA, WHO and most governments actually correct in their assumptions of how to treat the human body. I think the other techniques of healing that are not invasive should be our first lines of defense. Many are valid and gentle and homeopathy is effective, has no side effects and is reasonable in cost.
At this time when we are in such a detailed examination of your system of health we should be asking this question too, for it is obvious that the corporation giants of the pharmaceutical industry have co-opted our system and the cost is unconscionable and its benefits only temporary.
Our future generations will suffer horribly if we continue weakening the human through invading the body with drug and vaccines. Mankind - What once is the most successful pinnacle of universal consciousness realized will have been destroyed.
It pains me to write this.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
FEAR - THE NEW WORLD EPIDEMIC Dr. Bach's understandings
I have used this heading before. It is the strongest ally of the pharmaceuticals in their current arsenal to get the world to take flu vaccines. The WHO (World Health Organization) supports this tactic with news flashes to keep us frightened. FDA, AMA, and government health programs in many countries have opted into this fear and the cost both emotionally and financially is devastating to our health care budgets.
Here below is what Dr. Edward Bach wrote about the subject in 1931. It was sent to me by Flower Essences Services after we had a conversation about Bach's Rescue Remedy. It could have been written yesterday.
Dr. Edward Bach on the fear of disease:
In this age the fear of disease has developed until it has become a great power for harm, because it opens the door to those things we dread and makes it easier for their admission. Such fear is really self-interest, for when we are earnestly absorbed in the welfare of others there is no time to be apprehensive of personal maladies. Fear at the present time is playing a great part in intensifying disease, and modem science has increased the reign of terror by spreading abroad to the general public its discoveries, which as yet are but half-truths.
The knowledge of bacteria and the various germs associated with disease has played havoc in the minds of tens of thousands of people, and by the dread aroused in them has in itself rendered them more susceptible of attack. While lower forms of life, such as bacteria, may play a part in or be associated with physical disease, they constitute by no means the whole truth of the problem, as can be demonstrated scientifically or by everyday occurrences. There is a factor which science is unable to explain on physical grounds, and that is why some people become affected by disease while others escape, although both classes may be open to the same possibility of infection. Materialism forgets that there is a factor above the physical plane which in the ordinary course of life protects or renders susceptible any particular individual with regard to disease, of whatever nature it may be.
Fear, by its depressing effect on our mentality, thus causing disharmony in our physical and magnetic bodies, paves the way for invasion, and if bacteria and such physical means were the sure and only cause of disease, then indeed there might be but little encouragement not to be afraid. But when we realise that in the worst epidemics only a proportion of those exposed to infection are attacked and that, as we have already seen, the real cause of disease lies in our own personality and is within our control, then have we reason to go about without dread and fearless, knowing that the remedy lies with ourselves. We can put all fear of physical means alone as a cause of disease out of our minds, knowing that such anxiety merely renders us susceptible, and that if we are endeavouring to bring harmony into our personality we need anticipate illness no more than we dread being struck by lightning or hit by a fragment of a falling meteor.
Heal Thyself, 1931
Here below is what Dr. Edward Bach wrote about the subject in 1931. It was sent to me by Flower Essences Services after we had a conversation about Bach's Rescue Remedy. It could have been written yesterday.
Dr. Edward Bach on the fear of disease:
In this age the fear of disease has developed until it has become a great power for harm, because it opens the door to those things we dread and makes it easier for their admission. Such fear is really self-interest, for when we are earnestly absorbed in the welfare of others there is no time to be apprehensive of personal maladies. Fear at the present time is playing a great part in intensifying disease, and modem science has increased the reign of terror by spreading abroad to the general public its discoveries, which as yet are but half-truths.
The knowledge of bacteria and the various germs associated with disease has played havoc in the minds of tens of thousands of people, and by the dread aroused in them has in itself rendered them more susceptible of attack. While lower forms of life, such as bacteria, may play a part in or be associated with physical disease, they constitute by no means the whole truth of the problem, as can be demonstrated scientifically or by everyday occurrences. There is a factor which science is unable to explain on physical grounds, and that is why some people become affected by disease while others escape, although both classes may be open to the same possibility of infection. Materialism forgets that there is a factor above the physical plane which in the ordinary course of life protects or renders susceptible any particular individual with regard to disease, of whatever nature it may be.
Fear, by its depressing effect on our mentality, thus causing disharmony in our physical and magnetic bodies, paves the way for invasion, and if bacteria and such physical means were the sure and only cause of disease, then indeed there might be but little encouragement not to be afraid. But when we realise that in the worst epidemics only a proportion of those exposed to infection are attacked and that, as we have already seen, the real cause of disease lies in our own personality and is within our control, then have we reason to go about without dread and fearless, knowing that the remedy lies with ourselves. We can put all fear of physical means alone as a cause of disease out of our minds, knowing that such anxiety merely renders us susceptible, and that if we are endeavouring to bring harmony into our personality we need anticipate illness no more than we dread being struck by lightning or hit by a fragment of a falling meteor.
Heal Thyself, 1931
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Diabetes Case Shows Pitfalls of Treatment Rules NY TImes
I am still learning how to reprint articles and I am sure in future I will improve. The article shows clearly that all people suffering similar symptoms cannot be treated in a single preordained way. Homeopathy recognizes each patient as unique.
It is clear in the article that the Pharmaceutical Industry is being challenged for conflict of interest by sitting on Boards that decide what is good and bad for the public.
It is a scary story for people started to die and the program was or is being withdrawn.
Diabetes Case Shows Pitfalls of Treatment Rules
By BARRY MEIER
It sounds like a simple idea for improving health care: draw up guidelines on how best to treat a particular illness and then pay doctors to follow
them. That strategy, which some insurers and health plans already employ, has been embraced during the health care debate by some lawmakers in Congress who want to extend it more broadly.
The goal is to improve treatment and, at the same time, save money. But setting guidelines that are good for every patient, it turns out, can get messy, with some experts warning that a big national plan of this sort poses risks. A recent case involving treatment for diabetes, one of the nation’s most pervasive illnesses, illustrates the difficulties.
Last year, a national guideline-setting group abruptly withdrew a controversial diabetes standard it adopted in 2006 that called for aggressive control of blood sugar, or glucose. The change came after a large federal study indicated that lowering glucose too quickly or too much in some patients could harm or even kill them.
In medical journal articles and elsewhere over the last year, some diabetes experts have lashed out at the group’s initial decision to approve the guideline, saying they warned back in 2006 that it was medically ill-advised for some patients.
“This was a case in which the advocates of a disease got caught up in their disease rather than the interests of patients,” said Dr. Rodney A. Hayward, a diabetes expert at the University of Michigan who had opposed the benchmark.
Critics like Dr. Hayward have also suggested that pharmaceutical companies influenced the guideline so they could sell more glucose-lowering drugs like insulin. The group that set the guideline, a Washington organization called the National Committee for Quality Assurance, received about $3 million, or 10 percent of its revenue, last year from drug and medical device makers. The group’s officials, and several outside experts who advise it, rejected such suggestions of industry influence. Still, some experts question why the group, which sets standards that are widely used by insurers and private health plans, should take even small amounts of drug-industry money.
“There should not be any industry funding of a group that is involved in working on national guidelines,” said Dr. Jerome E. Groopman, a professor of medicine at Harvard.
To many experts, the diabetes case shows how setting one guideline that works for all patients suffering from the same disease can be tricky. The main problem is that many guidelines are based not on rigorous studies like clinical trials but on weaker types of medical evidence. And critics like Dr. Groopman have argued that the guideline-setting process is often influenced by industry or by medical ideologues looking to advance their personal agendas.
“These guidelines often come out of specialty societies who tend to want to treat rather than not to treat,” said Arthur Levin, the executive director
of the Center for Medical Consumers, a patient advocacy group. Mr. Levin also serves as an adviser to the National Committee for Quality Assurance and took part in the diabetes decision.
The diabetes controversy began after several studies showed that patients with diabetes could significantly benefit from tighter control of their blood sugar. As a result, in 2005, the American Diabetes Association, along with others, began urging the National Committee on Quality Assurance to adopt an aggressive glucose control standard. The group’s guidelines are used by insurers and others to assess the performance of
doctors who work for them and, in some cases, to determine whether they qualify for a bonus.
On its face, the glucose proposal made sense. Excess levels of glucose can cause some of the worst complications of diabetes, including blindness and kidney failure. But lowering glucose too much can also create problems for some patients, particularly older, sicker ones, causing them to black out or to have seizures.
Pointing to such risks, some doctors like Dr. Hayward, who also works for the Veterans Administration, opposed extending the guideline too broadly. They said that one significant group of diabetics, those who also had heart problems or cardiovascular disease, had never been studied during the trials that showed the benefits of aggressive glucose control.
But supporters of the move, like Dr. Richard Kahn, then a top official of the American Diabetes Association, rejected such arguments. Dr. Kahn argued that even if the standard were adopted, doctors would still have plenty of discretion about how to treat their patients. “All of us can no longer sit silently thinking that our discipline is unified toward improving diabetes care,” he wrote in a 2006 e-mail message as the argument unfolded.
In mid-2006, a panel assembled by the National Committee for Quality Assurance that included insurers, major employers, doctors and Mr. Levin, the patient advocate, unanimously approved the new standard. Critics like Dr. Hayward were furious and later said they believed that diabetes experts with drug-industry ties had played a role in guiding the decision.
Both Mr. Levin and another adviser to the quality committee — Dr. Paul Wallace of Kaiser Permanente, the big health care provider — said they saw no evidence of that. Also, officers of the National Committee for Quality Assurance insist that medical products companies, who sponsor some of the group’s activities, do not play a role in setting its treatment standards. The diabetes standard was not in place for long. It was challenged last year when federal researchers abruptly halted a study of glucose control in older diabetics with cardiovascular disease, the group not previously studied.
In that trial, researchers aggressively treated patients with a variety of drugs in an effort to bring their glucose down to the level of a person without diabetes, but patients receiving the treatment started dying at an unexpected rate.
In light of the findings, the National Committee for Quality Assurance withdrew its standard and convened an expert panel that this time included critics like Dr. Hayward. A year ago, the group issued a more nuanced guideline that, among other things, exempted patients over 55 years old with heart or cardiovascular problems.
Those who opposed the initial measure, like Dr. Joseph Selby, a research director at Kaiser Permanente, feel their position has been vindicated. They see a straightforward lesson from the episode: faulty guidelines can pose risks to patients, particularly when linked to doctors’ pay, which is an idea under consideration in Washington.
If such treatment guidelines are created “in the absence of good evidence,” Dr. Selby said, “you risk perversion or even harm.”
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It is clear in the article that the Pharmaceutical Industry is being challenged for conflict of interest by sitting on Boards that decide what is good and bad for the public.
It is a scary story for people started to die and the program was or is being withdrawn.
Diabetes Case Shows Pitfalls of Treatment Rules
By BARRY MEIER
It sounds like a simple idea for improving health care: draw up guidelines on how best to treat a particular illness and then pay doctors to follow
them. That strategy, which some insurers and health plans already employ, has been embraced during the health care debate by some lawmakers in Congress who want to extend it more broadly.
The goal is to improve treatment and, at the same time, save money. But setting guidelines that are good for every patient, it turns out, can get messy, with some experts warning that a big national plan of this sort poses risks. A recent case involving treatment for diabetes, one of the nation’s most pervasive illnesses, illustrates the difficulties.
Last year, a national guideline-setting group abruptly withdrew a controversial diabetes standard it adopted in 2006 that called for aggressive control of blood sugar, or glucose. The change came after a large federal study indicated that lowering glucose too quickly or too much in some patients could harm or even kill them.
In medical journal articles and elsewhere over the last year, some diabetes experts have lashed out at the group’s initial decision to approve the guideline, saying they warned back in 2006 that it was medically ill-advised for some patients.
“This was a case in which the advocates of a disease got caught up in their disease rather than the interests of patients,” said Dr. Rodney A. Hayward, a diabetes expert at the University of Michigan who had opposed the benchmark.
Critics like Dr. Hayward have also suggested that pharmaceutical companies influenced the guideline so they could sell more glucose-lowering drugs like insulin. The group that set the guideline, a Washington organization called the National Committee for Quality Assurance, received about $3 million, or 10 percent of its revenue, last year from drug and medical device makers. The group’s officials, and several outside experts who advise it, rejected such suggestions of industry influence. Still, some experts question why the group, which sets standards that are widely used by insurers and private health plans, should take even small amounts of drug-industry money.
“There should not be any industry funding of a group that is involved in working on national guidelines,” said Dr. Jerome E. Groopman, a professor of medicine at Harvard.
To many experts, the diabetes case shows how setting one guideline that works for all patients suffering from the same disease can be tricky. The main problem is that many guidelines are based not on rigorous studies like clinical trials but on weaker types of medical evidence. And critics like Dr. Groopman have argued that the guideline-setting process is often influenced by industry or by medical ideologues looking to advance their personal agendas.
“These guidelines often come out of specialty societies who tend to want to treat rather than not to treat,” said Arthur Levin, the executive director
of the Center for Medical Consumers, a patient advocacy group. Mr. Levin also serves as an adviser to the National Committee for Quality Assurance and took part in the diabetes decision.
The diabetes controversy began after several studies showed that patients with diabetes could significantly benefit from tighter control of their blood sugar. As a result, in 2005, the American Diabetes Association, along with others, began urging the National Committee on Quality Assurance to adopt an aggressive glucose control standard. The group’s guidelines are used by insurers and others to assess the performance of
doctors who work for them and, in some cases, to determine whether they qualify for a bonus.
On its face, the glucose proposal made sense. Excess levels of glucose can cause some of the worst complications of diabetes, including blindness and kidney failure. But lowering glucose too much can also create problems for some patients, particularly older, sicker ones, causing them to black out or to have seizures.
Pointing to such risks, some doctors like Dr. Hayward, who also works for the Veterans Administration, opposed extending the guideline too broadly. They said that one significant group of diabetics, those who also had heart problems or cardiovascular disease, had never been studied during the trials that showed the benefits of aggressive glucose control.
But supporters of the move, like Dr. Richard Kahn, then a top official of the American Diabetes Association, rejected such arguments. Dr. Kahn argued that even if the standard were adopted, doctors would still have plenty of discretion about how to treat their patients. “All of us can no longer sit silently thinking that our discipline is unified toward improving diabetes care,” he wrote in a 2006 e-mail message as the argument unfolded.
In mid-2006, a panel assembled by the National Committee for Quality Assurance that included insurers, major employers, doctors and Mr. Levin, the patient advocate, unanimously approved the new standard. Critics like Dr. Hayward were furious and later said they believed that diabetes experts with drug-industry ties had played a role in guiding the decision.
Both Mr. Levin and another adviser to the quality committee — Dr. Paul Wallace of Kaiser Permanente, the big health care provider — said they saw no evidence of that. Also, officers of the National Committee for Quality Assurance insist that medical products companies, who sponsor some of the group’s activities, do not play a role in setting its treatment standards. The diabetes standard was not in place for long. It was challenged last year when federal researchers abruptly halted a study of glucose control in older diabetics with cardiovascular disease, the group not previously studied.
In that trial, researchers aggressively treated patients with a variety of drugs in an effort to bring their glucose down to the level of a person without diabetes, but patients receiving the treatment started dying at an unexpected rate.
In light of the findings, the National Committee for Quality Assurance withdrew its standard and convened an expert panel that this time included critics like Dr. Hayward. A year ago, the group issued a more nuanced guideline that, among other things, exempted patients over 55 years old with heart or cardiovascular problems.
Those who opposed the initial measure, like Dr. Joseph Selby, a research director at Kaiser Permanente, feel their position has been vindicated. They see a straightforward lesson from the episode: faulty guidelines can pose risks to patients, particularly when linked to doctors’ pay, which is an idea under consideration in Washington.
If such treatment guidelines are created “in the absence of good evidence,” Dr. Selby said, “you risk perversion or even harm.”
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Monday, August 17, 2009
Take a moment and read some wisdom about living.
This letter was written by Samuel Hahnemann in the 1800s and is to his patient, who was a tailor in Gotha and died at the age of ninety-two. It is so filled with advice that must be of benefit to every one in this age of haste - (Monthly Hom. Review, Vol. 31, p. 617. N. E. Med. Gazette, March, 1887.)
"My Dear Mr. X- :
" It is true that I am going to Hamburg, but that need not trouble you. If you do not grudge the few groschen a letter will cost you can still have my advice when I am there. Merely write my name, and Hamburg beneath it, and your letter so addressed will find me.
" For the present I must say that you are on the fair road to health, and the chief sources of your malady cut off. One source still remains, and it is the cause of your last relapse. Man (the delicate human machine) is not constituted for overwork, he cannot overwork his powers or faculties with impunity.
If he does so from ambition, love of gain, or other praiseworthy or blameworthy motive, he sets himself in opposition to the order of nature, and his body suffers injury or destruction.
All the more if his body is already in a weakened condition ; what you cannot accomplish in a week you can do in two weeks. If your customers will not wait they cannot fairly expect that you will for their sakes make yourself ill and work yourself to the grave, leaving your wife a widow and your children orphans.
It is not only the greater bodily exertion that injures you, it is even more the attendant strain on the mind, and the overwrought mind in its turn affects the body injuriously. If you do not assume an attitude of cool indifference, adopting the principle of living first for yourself and only secondly for others, then there is small chance of your recovery.
Men you are in your grave men will still be clothed, perhaps not as tastefully, but still tolerably well.
" If you are a philosopher you may become healthy, you may attain to old age. If anything annoys you give no heed to it ; if anything is too much for you have nothing to do with it ; if any one seeks to drive you go slowly and laugh at the fools who wish to make you unhappy. What you can do comfortably that do ; what von cannot do don't bother yourself about.
"Our temporal circumstances are not improved by overpressure at work. You must spend proportionately more in your domestic affairs, and so nothing is gained. Economy, limitation of superfluities (of which the hard worker has often very few) place us in a position to live with greater comfort- that is to say, more rationally, more intelligently, more in accordance with nature, more cheerfully, more quietly, more healthily.
Thus we shall act more commendably, more wisely, more prudently, than by working in breathless hurry, with our nerves, constantly overstrung, to the destruction of the most precious treasure of life, calmly happy spirits and good health.
"Be you more prudent, consider yourself first, let everything else be of only secondary importance for you. And should they venture to assert that you are in honor bound to do more than is good for your mental and physical powers, even then do not, for God's sake, allow yourself to be driven to do what is contrary to your own welfare.
Remain deaf to the bribery of praise, remain cold and pursue your own course slowly and quietly like a wise and sensible man. To enjoy with tranquil mind and body, that is what man is in the world for, and only to do as much work as will procure him the means of enjoyment --- certainly not to excoriate and wear himself out with work.
" The everlasting pushing : and striving of blinded mortals in order to gain so and so much, to secure some honor or other, to do a service to this or that great personage - this is generally fatal to our welfare, this is a common cause of young people ageing and dying before their time.
" The calm, cold-blooded man, who lets things softly glide, attains his object also, lives more tranquilly and healthily, and attains a good old age.
And this leisurely man sometimes lights upon a lucky idea, the fruit of serious original thought, which shall give a much more profitable impetus to his temporal affairs than can ever be gained by the overwrought man who can never find time to collect his thoughts. –
" In order to win the race, quickness is not all that is required. Strive to obtain a little indifference, coolness and calmness, then you will be what I wish you to be.
Then you will see marvellous things ; you will see how healthy you will become by following my advice. Then shall your blood course through your blood vessels calmly and sedately, without effort and without heat. No horrible dreams disturb the sleep. of him who lies down to rest without highly strung nerves.
The man who is free from care wakes in the morning without anxiety about the multifarious occupations of the day. What does he care ?
The happiness of life concerns him more than anything else. With fresh vigor he sets about his moderate work, and at his meals nothing, no ebullitions of blood, no cares, no solicitude of mind hinders him from relishing what the beneficent Preserver of Life sets before him.
And so one day follows another in quiet succession, until the final day of advanced age brings him to the termination of a well spent life, and he serenely reposes in an other world as he has calmly lived in this one.
"Is not that more rational, more sensible ? Let restless, self destroying men act as irrationally, as injuriously towards themselves as they please ; let them be fools. But be you wiser !
Do not let me preach this wisdom of life in vain. I mean well to you.
" Farewell, follow my advice, and when all goes well with you, remember.
"DR. S. Hahnemann
"P. S.- Should you be reduced to your last sixpence, be still cheerful and happy.
Providence watches over us, and a lucky chance makes all right again.
How much do we need in order to live, to restore our powers by food and drink, to shield ourselves from cold and heat ?
Little more than good courage ; when we have that the minor essentials we can find without much trouble. The wise man needs but little. Strength that is husbanded needs not to be renovated by medicine."
Hahnemann-
Born: 10 April 1755
Died: 2 July 1843
Nationality: German
Fields: Homoeopathy
"My Dear Mr. X- :
" It is true that I am going to Hamburg, but that need not trouble you. If you do not grudge the few groschen a letter will cost you can still have my advice when I am there. Merely write my name, and Hamburg beneath it, and your letter so addressed will find me.
" For the present I must say that you are on the fair road to health, and the chief sources of your malady cut off. One source still remains, and it is the cause of your last relapse. Man (the delicate human machine) is not constituted for overwork, he cannot overwork his powers or faculties with impunity.
If he does so from ambition, love of gain, or other praiseworthy or blameworthy motive, he sets himself in opposition to the order of nature, and his body suffers injury or destruction.
All the more if his body is already in a weakened condition ; what you cannot accomplish in a week you can do in two weeks. If your customers will not wait they cannot fairly expect that you will for their sakes make yourself ill and work yourself to the grave, leaving your wife a widow and your children orphans.
It is not only the greater bodily exertion that injures you, it is even more the attendant strain on the mind, and the overwrought mind in its turn affects the body injuriously. If you do not assume an attitude of cool indifference, adopting the principle of living first for yourself and only secondly for others, then there is small chance of your recovery.
Men you are in your grave men will still be clothed, perhaps not as tastefully, but still tolerably well.
" If you are a philosopher you may become healthy, you may attain to old age. If anything annoys you give no heed to it ; if anything is too much for you have nothing to do with it ; if any one seeks to drive you go slowly and laugh at the fools who wish to make you unhappy. What you can do comfortably that do ; what von cannot do don't bother yourself about.
"Our temporal circumstances are not improved by overpressure at work. You must spend proportionately more in your domestic affairs, and so nothing is gained. Economy, limitation of superfluities (of which the hard worker has often very few) place us in a position to live with greater comfort- that is to say, more rationally, more intelligently, more in accordance with nature, more cheerfully, more quietly, more healthily.
Thus we shall act more commendably, more wisely, more prudently, than by working in breathless hurry, with our nerves, constantly overstrung, to the destruction of the most precious treasure of life, calmly happy spirits and good health.
"Be you more prudent, consider yourself first, let everything else be of only secondary importance for you. And should they venture to assert that you are in honor bound to do more than is good for your mental and physical powers, even then do not, for God's sake, allow yourself to be driven to do what is contrary to your own welfare.
Remain deaf to the bribery of praise, remain cold and pursue your own course slowly and quietly like a wise and sensible man. To enjoy with tranquil mind and body, that is what man is in the world for, and only to do as much work as will procure him the means of enjoyment --- certainly not to excoriate and wear himself out with work.
" The everlasting pushing : and striving of blinded mortals in order to gain so and so much, to secure some honor or other, to do a service to this or that great personage - this is generally fatal to our welfare, this is a common cause of young people ageing and dying before their time.
" The calm, cold-blooded man, who lets things softly glide, attains his object also, lives more tranquilly and healthily, and attains a good old age.
And this leisurely man sometimes lights upon a lucky idea, the fruit of serious original thought, which shall give a much more profitable impetus to his temporal affairs than can ever be gained by the overwrought man who can never find time to collect his thoughts. –
" In order to win the race, quickness is not all that is required. Strive to obtain a little indifference, coolness and calmness, then you will be what I wish you to be.
Then you will see marvellous things ; you will see how healthy you will become by following my advice. Then shall your blood course through your blood vessels calmly and sedately, without effort and without heat. No horrible dreams disturb the sleep. of him who lies down to rest without highly strung nerves.
The man who is free from care wakes in the morning without anxiety about the multifarious occupations of the day. What does he care ?
The happiness of life concerns him more than anything else. With fresh vigor he sets about his moderate work, and at his meals nothing, no ebullitions of blood, no cares, no solicitude of mind hinders him from relishing what the beneficent Preserver of Life sets before him.
And so one day follows another in quiet succession, until the final day of advanced age brings him to the termination of a well spent life, and he serenely reposes in an other world as he has calmly lived in this one.
"Is not that more rational, more sensible ? Let restless, self destroying men act as irrationally, as injuriously towards themselves as they please ; let them be fools. But be you wiser !
Do not let me preach this wisdom of life in vain. I mean well to you.
" Farewell, follow my advice, and when all goes well with you, remember.
"DR. S. Hahnemann
"P. S.- Should you be reduced to your last sixpence, be still cheerful and happy.
Providence watches over us, and a lucky chance makes all right again.
How much do we need in order to live, to restore our powers by food and drink, to shield ourselves from cold and heat ?
Little more than good courage ; when we have that the minor essentials we can find without much trouble. The wise man needs but little. Strength that is husbanded needs not to be renovated by medicine."
Hahnemann-
Born: 10 April 1755
Died: 2 July 1843
Nationality: German
Fields: Homoeopathy
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
History is on no ones side it depends on what we do.
Immanuel Wallerstein wrote this and it is quoted on Page 260 of The Age of the Unthinkable by Joshua Cooper Ramo. It is near the end of the book when he exhorts us all to realize that we are all a part of history, in history so to speak,and we all can act or not. Our world thinking right now is guided by one mindedness of purpose whether its save the banks, fight the Taliban or vaccines will save us from a flu epidemic. These things are not done with anything other than the simple object in mind and the world has become reactionary to this. I rise in opposition to this and the the one minded answer the Pharmaceuticals have toward the flu and how they have co-opted us all to follow like sheep to their single answer will not win the battle. The pharmaceuticals are never going to defeat an enemy that mutates and strikes where and when it will and so we are left having our pockets stripped of our money and our immune systems stripped of their natural strength. The approach is a wrong as the 2nd world war bombing of German cities that was meant to demoralize the Germans or the failures of Vietnam and now Iraq. We have opted at this time to follow our leaders who are out of step with history. Neither will we win in Afghanistan if we follow our instincts to destroy the enemy and not support the people who have to live in the space of our destruction. Homeopathy leaves the enemy and deals with the symptoms of our discomfort which strengthens us to do our own work through our immune system.
Lessons are many in this book which I recommend all to read. It is a call to arms for all of us to be innovative and active in our quest for a safer world.
I answer that call and urge you to join in protecting yourselves gently and with the care of Homeopathy and not with the pharmaceuticals so laced with poisonous side effects.
Lessons are many in this book which I recommend all to read. It is a call to arms for all of us to be innovative and active in our quest for a safer world.
I answer that call and urge you to join in protecting yourselves gently and with the care of Homeopathy and not with the pharmaceuticals so laced with poisonous side effects.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Cars, water, gas and Murray
Summer was special for me when I was growing up. We had a cottage at Cedar Springs about 18 miles from Hamilton Ontario. Out in the country where the Credit river runs through a valley of cedars. There were 80 wooden cottages spread around a one mile ring road in amongst the cedars. It was pure fun. We had a 9 hole golf course, two tennis courts, a barn that was a community hall and the river was dammed up so we could swim. Tons of kids. 1946 or 47 is when Murray Schwenger got a nice old 1925 or 30 sedan. What a ball. Dust roads and tooling about.
Murray knew all about cars and would tinker with it all the time. Once he added a device he made to drip water into the carburetor to see if the car would still run and if he could save gas. He tried it several times and if we were going fast enough he could add water and we could still drive but when he accelerated to go up a hill it would be slower and sometimes the engine would conk out. He did save gas but the care did not run as efficiently.
I was thinking about that today when I was trying to explain what I feel is wrong with most pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines in the human body. They do give you more life but you do not operate at your best capability. Unlike the water in the gas idea we humans can’t turn off the drug tap so easily and often can’t get rid of the effects and side effects of the drugs. Often they just stay with us and so we end up not running very well. Our quality of life is sometimes compromised forever and we never know when the hill will come along and we will conk out so to speak.
The body is a marvellous creation and meant to run as it was made. We have inside ourselves all the tools necessary to keep it going and healthy. If we do get sick there are ways to heal that will not leave us compromised. Rest, exercise, and proper diet have to be a given but if help is needed then Homeopathic remedies and/or Bach Flower remedies will help us get back on track safely. They have no side effects unlike most pharmaceuticals and leave nothing behind to compromise our systems. Think about it.
Murray knew all about cars and would tinker with it all the time. Once he added a device he made to drip water into the carburetor to see if the car would still run and if he could save gas. He tried it several times and if we were going fast enough he could add water and we could still drive but when he accelerated to go up a hill it would be slower and sometimes the engine would conk out. He did save gas but the care did not run as efficiently.
I was thinking about that today when I was trying to explain what I feel is wrong with most pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines in the human body. They do give you more life but you do not operate at your best capability. Unlike the water in the gas idea we humans can’t turn off the drug tap so easily and often can’t get rid of the effects and side effects of the drugs. Often they just stay with us and so we end up not running very well. Our quality of life is sometimes compromised forever and we never know when the hill will come along and we will conk out so to speak.
The body is a marvellous creation and meant to run as it was made. We have inside ourselves all the tools necessary to keep it going and healthy. If we do get sick there are ways to heal that will not leave us compromised. Rest, exercise, and proper diet have to be a given but if help is needed then Homeopathic remedies and/or Bach Flower remedies will help us get back on track safely. They have no side effects unlike most pharmaceuticals and leave nothing behind to compromise our systems. Think about it.
Friday, August 7, 2009
How I will treat this years flu.
The symptoms of the flu are many including nausea, achy feeling, runny nose, chills, tiredness and on and on. I find people know when they are getting the flu usually and will say just that "I think I'm getting the flu." This to me means they feel lousy. Take a flu remedy on that first feeling knowing that if it is not right it just passes through you without effect at all. Remember that homeopathic remedies have no side effects.
Boiron has two remedies for the flu right now Boiron - Influenzinum 30c, 80 pellets This is for this years flu and the tube should say 2009 on it and may say 2009-2010 and that would mean the swine flu. The bottle will cost about 7.00 and although it says take 3 or 4 pellets just take one at a time as one is the same as two or three or four. If you get some relief from your symptoms then don't take more although you could take one 3 or 4 hours later just to be sure you got it beaten. If you get a bit better and then not so good take another pellet. You be the doctor. If nothing happens in 20 minutes or so take another pellet and wait again to see if you are leveling off in ill feeling but if you do not have some movement forward in 3 doses over about 1 1/2 hours I would think it is not about to help. I also drink fresh orange juice lots and usually buy Grove Stand which is good. I also think rest is smart. Pamper yourself.
In my large Hollywood Survival Kit I have anas barbariae 200C which is for bird flu and to my thinking the same symptoms exist as in the swine flu. You can read about it on my site #3 remedy.
Boiron make a product called Oscilloccocinum http://www.boironusahcp.com/products/oscillo_info.aspx this is their official page on this remedy. It is Anas Barbariae 200C the same remedy that is in my kit. Their remedy comes in a pencil shaped tube about 1 1/2 inches long and you take off the cap and it is full of pin head size pellets and the suggested dose is all of them. If you understand the principals of Homeopathy you will know that one pellet has the same value as the whole tube if taken at one time. If you get oscillo then the little inner cap has an indent in it so just carefully pour two or three of the tiny pellets into the lid and take that and the tube which has about 150 pellets in it will last a long time. Take the same way as you would the other remedy suggested. I would buy both and if one does not work go to the other. I am including a site that has a bit of history and many remedies that are used for flu. I don't suggest you get all these remedies but if you wonder about symptoms of flu this will tell you them and the remedy for each. It is worth looking at to identify the question of what are flu symptoms. http://www.hpathy.com//Swine-flu-symptoms-treatment.asp
This is a long and detailed article and will give you a ton of information. Enjoy the learning curve.
Most important I would get Bach Rescue Remedy and put 3 drops in a bottle of water and drink one bottle a day especially if you are worried about getting the flu. It will help you balance your perspective on all this and calm you down. It is not addictive although preserved in alcohol (good brandy). If allergic to alcohol just heat the water to evaporate the alcohol. The number 1 remedy in all my kits is based on this famous remedy. It is magic to calm and center one in every situation. You can read about it on my site under the remedies, #1. www.hollywoodsurvivalkit.com
Boiron has two remedies for the flu right now Boiron - Influenzinum 30c, 80 pellets This is for this years flu and the tube should say 2009 on it and may say 2009-2010 and that would mean the swine flu. The bottle will cost about 7.00 and although it says take 3 or 4 pellets just take one at a time as one is the same as two or three or four. If you get some relief from your symptoms then don't take more although you could take one 3 or 4 hours later just to be sure you got it beaten. If you get a bit better and then not so good take another pellet. You be the doctor. If nothing happens in 20 minutes or so take another pellet and wait again to see if you are leveling off in ill feeling but if you do not have some movement forward in 3 doses over about 1 1/2 hours I would think it is not about to help. I also drink fresh orange juice lots and usually buy Grove Stand which is good. I also think rest is smart. Pamper yourself.
In my large Hollywood Survival Kit I have anas barbariae 200C which is for bird flu and to my thinking the same symptoms exist as in the swine flu. You can read about it on my site #3 remedy.
Boiron make a product called Oscilloccocinum http://www.boironusahcp.com/products/oscillo_info.aspx this is their official page on this remedy. It is Anas Barbariae 200C the same remedy that is in my kit. Their remedy comes in a pencil shaped tube about 1 1/2 inches long and you take off the cap and it is full of pin head size pellets and the suggested dose is all of them. If you understand the principals of Homeopathy you will know that one pellet has the same value as the whole tube if taken at one time. If you get oscillo then the little inner cap has an indent in it so just carefully pour two or three of the tiny pellets into the lid and take that and the tube which has about 150 pellets in it will last a long time. Take the same way as you would the other remedy suggested. I would buy both and if one does not work go to the other. I am including a site that has a bit of history and many remedies that are used for flu. I don't suggest you get all these remedies but if you wonder about symptoms of flu this will tell you them and the remedy for each. It is worth looking at to identify the question of what are flu symptoms. http://www.hpathy.com//Swine-flu-symptoms-treatment.asp
This is a long and detailed article and will give you a ton of information. Enjoy the learning curve.
Most important I would get Bach Rescue Remedy and put 3 drops in a bottle of water and drink one bottle a day especially if you are worried about getting the flu. It will help you balance your perspective on all this and calm you down. It is not addictive although preserved in alcohol (good brandy). If allergic to alcohol just heat the water to evaporate the alcohol. The number 1 remedy in all my kits is based on this famous remedy. It is magic to calm and center one in every situation. You can read about it on my site under the remedies, #1. www.hollywoodsurvivalkit.com
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Thiomerosal - in our vaccines Not Good!!!
The WHO says the swine vaccine we will get has Thiomerosal in it and that it is safe. Others say it is not. I thought I would go to Wikipedia and read what they say. This is what they say. Does not sound safe to me on reading this.
Thiomersal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Thimerosal)
Thiomersal
IUPAC name
Ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S)
mercurate(1-) sodium
Other names Mercury((o-carboxyphenyl)thio)ethyl sodium salt
Thiomersal (INN) (C9H9HgNaO2S), or sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, commonly known in the United States as thimerosal, is an organomercury compound (approximately 49% mercury by weight) used as an antiseptic and antifungal agent.
It was invented and patented by Morris Kharasch. The pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company gave it the trade name Merthiolate and it has been used as a preservative in vaccines, immunoglobulin preparations, skin test antigens, antivenins, ophthalmic and nasal products, and tattoo inks. The compound is being phased out from routine childhood vaccines in the United States, the European Union, and a few other countries.
Use
Thiomersal's main use is as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. In multidose injectable drug delivery systems, it prevents serious adverse effects such as the Staphylococcus infection that, in one 1928 incident, killed 12 of 21 children inoculated with a diphtheria vaccine that lacked a preservative. Unlike other vaccine preservatives used at the time, thiomersal does not reduce the potency of the vaccines that it protects.[3] Bacteriostatics like thiomersal are not needed in more-expensive single-dose injectables.
In the United States, countries in the European Union and a few other affluent countries, thiomersal is no longer used as a preservative in routine childhood vaccination schedules. In the U.S., the only exceptions among vaccines routinely recommended for children are some formulations of the inactivated influenza vaccine for children older than two years. Several vaccines that are not routinely recommended for young children do contain thiomersal, including DT (diphtheria and tetanus), Td (tetanus and diphtheria), and TT (tetanus toxoid); other vaccines may contain a trace of thiomersal from steps in manufacture. Also, four rarely used treatments for pit viper, coral snake, and black widow venom still contain thiomersal. Outside North America and Europe, many vaccines contain thiomersal; the World Health Organization has concluded that there is no evidence of toxicity from thiomersal in vaccines and no reason on safety grounds to change to more-expensive single-dose administration.
Toxicology
Thiomersal is very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and in contact with skin (EC hazard symbol T+), with a danger of cumulative effects. It is also very toxic to aquatic organisms and may cause long-term adverse effects in aquatic environments (EC hazard symbol N). In the body, it is metabolized or degraded to ethylmercury (C2H5Hg+) and thiosalicylate.
Few studies of the toxicity of thiomersal in humans have been performed. Animal experiments suggest that thiomersal rapidly dissociates to release ethylmercury after injection; that the disposition patterns of mercury are similar to those after exposure to equivalent doses of ethylmercury chloride; and that the central nervous system and the kidneys are targets, with lack of motor coordination being a common sign. Similar signs and symptoms have been observed in accidental human poisonings. The mechanisms of toxic action are unknown. Fecal excretion accounts for most of the elimination from the body. Ethylmercury clears from blood with a half-time of about 18 days, and from the brain in about 14 days. Inorganic mercury metabolized from ethylmercury has a much longer clearance, at least 120 days; it appears to be much less toxic than the inorganic mercury produced from mercury vapor, for reasons not yet understood.
Risk assessment for effects on the nervous system have been made by extrapolating from dose-response relationships for methylmercury.[9] Methylmercury and ethylmercury distributes to all body tissues, crossing the blood-brain barrier and the placental barrier, and ethylmercury also moves freely throughout the body. Concerns based on extrapolations from methylmercury caused thiomersal to be removed from U.S. childhood vaccines, starting in 1999. Since then, it has been found that ethylmercury is cleared from the body and the brain significantly faster than methylmercury, so the late-1990s risk assessments turned out to be overly conservative. A 2008 study found that the half-life of blood mercury after vaccination averages 3.7 days for newborns and infants, much shorter than the 44 days for methylmercury.
Allergies
Thiomersal is used in patch testing for people who have dermatitis, conjunctivitis, and other potentially allergic reactions. A 2007 study in Norway found that 1.9% of adults had a positive patch test reaction to thiomersal; a higher prevalence of contact allergy (up to 6.6%) was observed in German populations. Thiomersal-sensitive individuals can receive intramuscular rather than subcutaneous immunization,[ so contact allergy is usually clinically irrelevant.[13] Thiomersal allergy has decreased in Denmark, probably because of its exclusion from vaccines there.
It was voted Allergen of the Year in 2002 by the American Contact Dermatitis Society.
Autism
Main article: Thiomersal controversy
Although there is no convincing evidence that thiomersal is a factor in the onset of autism, many parents, and some scientists and doctors, believe there is a connection. Parents may first become aware of autistic symptoms in their child around the time of a routine vaccination, and parental concern about vaccines has led to a decreasing uptake of childhood immunizations and an increasing likelihood of measles outbreaks. More than 5,000 U.S. families have filed claims in a federal vaccine court alleging autism was caused by vaccines, most implicating thiomersal; the majority of these claims are still being adjudicated. The U.S. federal government agreed to award damages in one case, to a girl with a mitochondrial enzyme deficiency who developed autistic-like symptoms after receiving a series of vaccines, some of which contained thiomersal. Many parents view this ruling as confirming that vaccines cause regressive autism;[20] however, most children with autism do not seem to have mitochondrial disorders, and the case was conceded without proof of causation.
History
Morris Kharasch, a chemist at the University of Maryland, filed a patent application for thiomersal in 1927;[22] Eli Lilly later marketed the compound under the trade name Merthiolate.[3] In vitro tests conducted by Lilly investigators H.M. Powell and W.A. Jamieson found that it was forty to fifty times as effective as phenol against Staphylococcus aureus.[3] It was used to kill bacteria and prevent contamination in antiseptic ointments, creams, jellies, and sprays used by consumers and in hospitals, including nasal sprays, eye drops, contact lens solutions, immunoglobulins, and vaccines. Thiomersal was used as a preservative (bactericide) so that multidose vials of vaccines could be used instead of single-dose vials, which are more expensive. By 1938, Lilly's assistant director of research listed thiomersal as one of the five most important drugs ever developed by the company.
Thiomersal's safety for its intended uses first came under question in the 1970s, when case reports demonstrated potential for neurotoxicity when given in large volumes as a topical antiseptic. At the time, the DPT vaccine was the only childhood vaccine that contained it; a 1976 United States Food and Drug Administration review concluded that this use of thiomersal was not dangerous. Concerns about mercury arising from Minamata disease and other cases of methylmercury poisoning led U.S. authorities to lower reference doses for methylmercury in the 1990s, about the same time that autism diagnoses began rising sharply. In 1999, a new FDA analysis concluded that infants could receive as much as 187.5 micrograms of ethylmercury during the first six months; lacking any standard for ethylmercury, it used methylmercury-based standards to recommend that thiomersal be removed from routine infant vaccines in the U.S., which was largely complete by summer 2001. Some parents of autistic children adopted thiomersal as an explanation for the increase in reported autism cases and sued vaccine makers; the mercury-autism hypothesis is accepted widely among parents of autistic children, despite scientific studies rejecting it.
Thiomersal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Thimerosal)
Thiomersal
IUPAC name
Ethyl(2-mercaptobenzoato-(2-)-O,S)
mercurate(1-) sodium
Other names Mercury((o-carboxyphenyl)thio)ethyl sodium salt
Thiomersal (INN) (C9H9HgNaO2S), or sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, commonly known in the United States as thimerosal, is an organomercury compound (approximately 49% mercury by weight) used as an antiseptic and antifungal agent.
It was invented and patented by Morris Kharasch. The pharmaceutical corporation Eli Lilly and Company gave it the trade name Merthiolate and it has been used as a preservative in vaccines, immunoglobulin preparations, skin test antigens, antivenins, ophthalmic and nasal products, and tattoo inks. The compound is being phased out from routine childhood vaccines in the United States, the European Union, and a few other countries.
Use
Thiomersal's main use is as an antiseptic and antifungal agent. In multidose injectable drug delivery systems, it prevents serious adverse effects such as the Staphylococcus infection that, in one 1928 incident, killed 12 of 21 children inoculated with a diphtheria vaccine that lacked a preservative. Unlike other vaccine preservatives used at the time, thiomersal does not reduce the potency of the vaccines that it protects.[3] Bacteriostatics like thiomersal are not needed in more-expensive single-dose injectables.
In the United States, countries in the European Union and a few other affluent countries, thiomersal is no longer used as a preservative in routine childhood vaccination schedules. In the U.S., the only exceptions among vaccines routinely recommended for children are some formulations of the inactivated influenza vaccine for children older than two years. Several vaccines that are not routinely recommended for young children do contain thiomersal, including DT (diphtheria and tetanus), Td (tetanus and diphtheria), and TT (tetanus toxoid); other vaccines may contain a trace of thiomersal from steps in manufacture. Also, four rarely used treatments for pit viper, coral snake, and black widow venom still contain thiomersal. Outside North America and Europe, many vaccines contain thiomersal; the World Health Organization has concluded that there is no evidence of toxicity from thiomersal in vaccines and no reason on safety grounds to change to more-expensive single-dose administration.
Toxicology
Thiomersal is very toxic by inhalation, ingestion, and in contact with skin (EC hazard symbol T+), with a danger of cumulative effects. It is also very toxic to aquatic organisms and may cause long-term adverse effects in aquatic environments (EC hazard symbol N). In the body, it is metabolized or degraded to ethylmercury (C2H5Hg+) and thiosalicylate.
Few studies of the toxicity of thiomersal in humans have been performed. Animal experiments suggest that thiomersal rapidly dissociates to release ethylmercury after injection; that the disposition patterns of mercury are similar to those after exposure to equivalent doses of ethylmercury chloride; and that the central nervous system and the kidneys are targets, with lack of motor coordination being a common sign. Similar signs and symptoms have been observed in accidental human poisonings. The mechanisms of toxic action are unknown. Fecal excretion accounts for most of the elimination from the body. Ethylmercury clears from blood with a half-time of about 18 days, and from the brain in about 14 days. Inorganic mercury metabolized from ethylmercury has a much longer clearance, at least 120 days; it appears to be much less toxic than the inorganic mercury produced from mercury vapor, for reasons not yet understood.
Risk assessment for effects on the nervous system have been made by extrapolating from dose-response relationships for methylmercury.[9] Methylmercury and ethylmercury distributes to all body tissues, crossing the blood-brain barrier and the placental barrier, and ethylmercury also moves freely throughout the body. Concerns based on extrapolations from methylmercury caused thiomersal to be removed from U.S. childhood vaccines, starting in 1999. Since then, it has been found that ethylmercury is cleared from the body and the brain significantly faster than methylmercury, so the late-1990s risk assessments turned out to be overly conservative. A 2008 study found that the half-life of blood mercury after vaccination averages 3.7 days for newborns and infants, much shorter than the 44 days for methylmercury.
Allergies
Thiomersal is used in patch testing for people who have dermatitis, conjunctivitis, and other potentially allergic reactions. A 2007 study in Norway found that 1.9% of adults had a positive patch test reaction to thiomersal; a higher prevalence of contact allergy (up to 6.6%) was observed in German populations. Thiomersal-sensitive individuals can receive intramuscular rather than subcutaneous immunization,[ so contact allergy is usually clinically irrelevant.[13] Thiomersal allergy has decreased in Denmark, probably because of its exclusion from vaccines there.
It was voted Allergen of the Year in 2002 by the American Contact Dermatitis Society.
Autism
Main article: Thiomersal controversy
Although there is no convincing evidence that thiomersal is a factor in the onset of autism, many parents, and some scientists and doctors, believe there is a connection. Parents may first become aware of autistic symptoms in their child around the time of a routine vaccination, and parental concern about vaccines has led to a decreasing uptake of childhood immunizations and an increasing likelihood of measles outbreaks. More than 5,000 U.S. families have filed claims in a federal vaccine court alleging autism was caused by vaccines, most implicating thiomersal; the majority of these claims are still being adjudicated. The U.S. federal government agreed to award damages in one case, to a girl with a mitochondrial enzyme deficiency who developed autistic-like symptoms after receiving a series of vaccines, some of which contained thiomersal. Many parents view this ruling as confirming that vaccines cause regressive autism;[20] however, most children with autism do not seem to have mitochondrial disorders, and the case was conceded without proof of causation.
History
Morris Kharasch, a chemist at the University of Maryland, filed a patent application for thiomersal in 1927;[22] Eli Lilly later marketed the compound under the trade name Merthiolate.[3] In vitro tests conducted by Lilly investigators H.M. Powell and W.A. Jamieson found that it was forty to fifty times as effective as phenol against Staphylococcus aureus.[3] It was used to kill bacteria and prevent contamination in antiseptic ointments, creams, jellies, and sprays used by consumers and in hospitals, including nasal sprays, eye drops, contact lens solutions, immunoglobulins, and vaccines. Thiomersal was used as a preservative (bactericide) so that multidose vials of vaccines could be used instead of single-dose vials, which are more expensive. By 1938, Lilly's assistant director of research listed thiomersal as one of the five most important drugs ever developed by the company.
Thiomersal's safety for its intended uses first came under question in the 1970s, when case reports demonstrated potential for neurotoxicity when given in large volumes as a topical antiseptic. At the time, the DPT vaccine was the only childhood vaccine that contained it; a 1976 United States Food and Drug Administration review concluded that this use of thiomersal was not dangerous. Concerns about mercury arising from Minamata disease and other cases of methylmercury poisoning led U.S. authorities to lower reference doses for methylmercury in the 1990s, about the same time that autism diagnoses began rising sharply. In 1999, a new FDA analysis concluded that infants could receive as much as 187.5 micrograms of ethylmercury during the first six months; lacking any standard for ethylmercury, it used methylmercury-based standards to recommend that thiomersal be removed from routine infant vaccines in the U.S., which was largely complete by summer 2001. Some parents of autistic children adopted thiomersal as an explanation for the increase in reported autism cases and sued vaccine makers; the mercury-autism hypothesis is accepted widely among parents of autistic children, despite scientific studies rejecting it.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
A Natural Miracle
The miracle of Homeopathy
We all take for granted that great advances have been made in medicine. While this is true in some areas, it hardly is in all. As a first response, its handling of acute situations is not as good as Homeopathy. My personal experiences have told me this time and again.
Generally speaking Homeopathy and the Bach Flower Remedies are a better and safer first response. They are effective; they are inexpensive; and are one hundred % safe: no side effects. It cannot be stated any more clearly.
I have added this summary rationale to my blog so everyone who has read my thoughts can decide what they think and how they will treat themselves.
Finally, I want to add that Homeopathic treatment of chronic sicknesses deserves to be looked at for long term care. It is safe over time. The body does not react negatively to the help offered as it moves back to better health.
Every pharmaceutical side effect is your body revolting to what you are ingesting.
Listen to your body. Homeopathy does, and resonates with the bodies healing energies, mobilizing them to defend you properly.
Homeopathy strengthens the body to protect itself.
I rest my case.
We all take for granted that great advances have been made in medicine. While this is true in some areas, it hardly is in all. As a first response, its handling of acute situations is not as good as Homeopathy. My personal experiences have told me this time and again.
Generally speaking Homeopathy and the Bach Flower Remedies are a better and safer first response. They are effective; they are inexpensive; and are one hundred % safe: no side effects. It cannot be stated any more clearly.
I have added this summary rationale to my blog so everyone who has read my thoughts can decide what they think and how they will treat themselves.
Finally, I want to add that Homeopathic treatment of chronic sicknesses deserves to be looked at for long term care. It is safe over time. The body does not react negatively to the help offered as it moves back to better health.
Every pharmaceutical side effect is your body revolting to what you are ingesting.
Listen to your body. Homeopathy does, and resonates with the bodies healing energies, mobilizing them to defend you properly.
Homeopathy strengthens the body to protect itself.
I rest my case.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Farms and Antibiotics
From the opinion page of the New York Times.
Published: July 23, 2009
The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of the antibiotics used in this country are fed to farm animals. These animals do not receive these drugs the way humans do — as discrete short-term doses. Agricultural antibiotics are a regular feed supplement intended to increase growth and lessen the chance of infection in crowded, industrial farms.
These practices are putting both humans and animals increasingly at risk. In an environment where antibiotics are omnipresent, as they are in industrial agriculture, antibiotic-resistant strains of diseases quickly develop, reducing the effectiveness of common drugs like penicillin and tetracycline.
Despite that danger, the Food and Drug Administration had been reluctant to restrict routine agricultural use of antibiotics. The F.D.A.’s principal deputy commissioner, Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, signaled a welcome change in direction recently, testifying on behalf of a new bill, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act. It would allow veterinarians to prescribe antibiotics to treat individual animals or prevent disease, but it would sharply restrict the routine feeding of antibiotics to farm animals — the practice most closely associated with the development of drug-resistant pathogens.
The legislation is drawing strong opposition from the farm lobby since the restrictions would make it much harder for industrial farms to crowd thousands of animals together in confined, inhumane and unhealthy quarters. But the current practice is dangerously self-defeating: treating more and more animals with less and less effective drugs and in turn creating resistant strains of disease that persist in the soil and water. Congress should stop this now before an entire class of drugs becomes useless.
Published: July 23, 2009
The Union of Concerned Scientists estimates that 70 percent of the antibiotics used in this country are fed to farm animals. These animals do not receive these drugs the way humans do — as discrete short-term doses. Agricultural antibiotics are a regular feed supplement intended to increase growth and lessen the chance of infection in crowded, industrial farms.
These practices are putting both humans and animals increasingly at risk. In an environment where antibiotics are omnipresent, as they are in industrial agriculture, antibiotic-resistant strains of diseases quickly develop, reducing the effectiveness of common drugs like penicillin and tetracycline.
Despite that danger, the Food and Drug Administration had been reluctant to restrict routine agricultural use of antibiotics. The F.D.A.’s principal deputy commissioner, Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, signaled a welcome change in direction recently, testifying on behalf of a new bill, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act. It would allow veterinarians to prescribe antibiotics to treat individual animals or prevent disease, but it would sharply restrict the routine feeding of antibiotics to farm animals — the practice most closely associated with the development of drug-resistant pathogens.
The legislation is drawing strong opposition from the farm lobby since the restrictions would make it much harder for industrial farms to crowd thousands of animals together in confined, inhumane and unhealthy quarters. But the current practice is dangerously self-defeating: treating more and more animals with less and less effective drugs and in turn creating resistant strains of disease that persist in the soil and water. Congress should stop this now before an entire class of drugs becomes useless.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
On keeping balance
On one of my first flights into Toronto the plane took a long sweeping turn as it got in line for the landing. When the plane leveled off I did not and so thought the plane was not horizontal to the ground. I was in panic for I thought we would crash for sure. I did not know if I should yell to alert the others. I was terrified. But then we hit the tarmac fine and I realized I was sitting off vertical. Later I was to understand that in fact I was suffering from vertigo at that moment. It was an awful moment in my life for I really thought I would die and all the unsuspecting passengers would too.
I feel this way now for I think we are being killed by our meds and the vaccines that are being now forced on the world. I know this is by design and pray it is not a conscious design but just another example of the greed of the pharmaceuticals and the compliance of everyone who can make a decision in their favour whether Government Health departments or physicians and to me the world at large has opted into this as the way to go and no one is screaming "We are all going to die". Am I just not sitting vertical and everything is alright or am I right? It is a great problem for me to try always to deal correctly in the world.
My faith in Homeopathy and the Bach Flower Remedies comes from actual observations of myself and others getting well when using the remedies. It is a reality I can attest to.
My feelings about vaccines and medicines being foisted on us comes more from reading news and doing research on the various medicines. It also comes to some extent from watching You Tube and such programs like Kymatica and Ian R. Crane talking about COdex Alimenarius. Am I the result of hearsay? Is Monsanto an upstanding citizen of the world or a greedy corporation who cares little for anything but the bottom line and how to make more money by controlling people and the market?
When I am told that Genetically Modified grains do not have the same amount of nutrients in them and that soon we are going to have restrictions on supplement dose sizes and that nutrient values will no longer be put on packaging I have to ask myself am I nuts or are we being weakened by what Governments are opting into? Am I off horizontal or what?
If you have a moment think about this and send me a note. I hate being off in my judgments.
I feel this way now for I think we are being killed by our meds and the vaccines that are being now forced on the world. I know this is by design and pray it is not a conscious design but just another example of the greed of the pharmaceuticals and the compliance of everyone who can make a decision in their favour whether Government Health departments or physicians and to me the world at large has opted into this as the way to go and no one is screaming "We are all going to die". Am I just not sitting vertical and everything is alright or am I right? It is a great problem for me to try always to deal correctly in the world.
My faith in Homeopathy and the Bach Flower Remedies comes from actual observations of myself and others getting well when using the remedies. It is a reality I can attest to.
My feelings about vaccines and medicines being foisted on us comes more from reading news and doing research on the various medicines. It also comes to some extent from watching You Tube and such programs like Kymatica and Ian R. Crane talking about COdex Alimenarius. Am I the result of hearsay? Is Monsanto an upstanding citizen of the world or a greedy corporation who cares little for anything but the bottom line and how to make more money by controlling people and the market?
When I am told that Genetically Modified grains do not have the same amount of nutrients in them and that soon we are going to have restrictions on supplement dose sizes and that nutrient values will no longer be put on packaging I have to ask myself am I nuts or are we being weakened by what Governments are opting into? Am I off horizontal or what?
If you have a moment think about this and send me a note. I hate being off in my judgments.
Monday, July 20, 2009
The way we die!!!
I find it unpleasant to write a title like that for I am just another person here on earth and how do I know how we die anymore than the rest of us do.
Once upon a time in Germany in the late 1700s about 1790 the medical profession was not doing very well getting people better. Leaches, bloodletting, purges and a plethora of mystical personal systems were the medical rages.
Samuel Hahnemann came along with a system that did not injure or invade the systems of the patient with harmful medicines.
He came up with the logical idea that the body was strong on its own and dis-ease and disease could be alleviated by pushing the core of the system, the immune system to do its work and not by killing or suppressing any symptoms at all. Hahnemann discovered Homeopathy as a way to heal.
Homeopathy is a different way of thinking. It is safe, efficient at healing, and best of all for the people it is very cheap. Much of it can be practiced at home for acute situations and I as a person in 2009, 210 years later can say this is true. My personal experiences of over 20 years and my experience in helping thousands of just ordinary people deciding what to take to heal has been positive more than 90% of the time.
Here we are now 210 years later and the tally can be taken; in health, in cost of service, in effectiveness and in the damage to people through side effects, addiction, malpractice, and worst of all massive cost of drugs and vaccines needed to sustain this erroneous idea of healing.
The medical profession and its partners the pharmaceutical companies of the world are our executioners. This does not mean that medicine has not done some great good and found ways to help dysfunctional people. This is about normal every day health we all supposedly start with at birth.
It has never been different and Hahemann’s statement that “he pitied the patients who came to see him for it seemed his medical training for he was a doctor only gave him ways of destroying the patient”, sparked him to research and look for other answers.
Out of this dissatisfaction with the medical paradigm Homeopathy was created.
Homeopathy has been constantly attacked and debunked by the medical/pharma fraternity since it first appeared.
The pharmaceutical industry attacks hardest and it always has from the beginning. Homeopathic remedies were minute so they could not charge for it by weight. It took time to make and a clean lab: they would lose money. It did not matter that the people got better.
It is the same today. Once a patient caught in the medical paradigm and you are a patient for life. The pharmaceuticals are determined to make this a fact and through their control of WHO and every government they can control this is happening.
Vaccines are a key to this. Trumpeted as the answer to the fight against nature everyone is slowly being forced into taking them or being ostracized like the herbalists in the 15th century were, called witches and burned when possible.
The Governments of the world are for the most part setting laws up that will limit our choices of healing systems. All other Governments are being pushed as hard as possible into this paradigm.
Forced vaccines are how in the end we will die. Antibiotics are how we will die. Bad nutrition through genetically altered foods that have not enough nutrients is how we will be weakened.
Laws against selling the very nutrient supplements lacking in our genetically modified foods adds to this weakening of the human.
By grace, good fortune and the many healers who are doctors of Homeopathy we can see their record over the time since Hahnemann began in 1800. Even today we can examine very well run hospitals, clinics, private practices and patients in India and several European countries and North and South America. Millions are helped every year.
Injury to the person through addiction and side effects does not exist in Homeopathy and death through malpractice is rare. In all plagues and epidemics Homeopathy has been much more effective than medicines. Do the research and be amazed. It is true.
Even I, an everyday person, can attest to the efficacy of Anas Barbariae 200C as a flu remedy and have seen my own eyes it successfully used on film sets to fight flu hundreds of times. This is true wherever my kits are used. It is a fact. Boiron even did an empirical testing to satisfy the FDA that testing like other drugs finds the remedy effective.
Put the systems side by side and count the dollars the medical and pharmaceutical companies are costing the world. Count the deaths through malpractice and mis-dosing.
Count the hospital deaths due to errors. It is huge. Add to that the cost of vaccines and the state of stress and fear encouraged and created in people around the world. All this is created and we poor humans have fallen for the bait. Not only that once in the system always in the system, stung for life.
Homeopathy beats Medicine in a heartbeat when it comes to keeping people well.
The medical credo is clear “At first do no harm”. Homeopathy obeys that first rule.
Medicine has co-opted a word associated with war “Collateral damage”. We all think this is just those poor folk that fell prey to medicines and got ill for life or died, but in fact we are all falling prey to medicines. We are all victims, each and every one of us.
So it is easy to see how we will die individually and as a species. Perhaps some will survive as mutants to rise again to despoil the paradise we inhabit and the gift of life we have been given, much like the viruses who mutate and make our antibiotics useless and our vaccines not today’s cup of tea.
The blind are faithful to their lack of sight.
Once upon a time in Germany in the late 1700s about 1790 the medical profession was not doing very well getting people better. Leaches, bloodletting, purges and a plethora of mystical personal systems were the medical rages.
Samuel Hahnemann came along with a system that did not injure or invade the systems of the patient with harmful medicines.
He came up with the logical idea that the body was strong on its own and dis-ease and disease could be alleviated by pushing the core of the system, the immune system to do its work and not by killing or suppressing any symptoms at all. Hahnemann discovered Homeopathy as a way to heal.
Homeopathy is a different way of thinking. It is safe, efficient at healing, and best of all for the people it is very cheap. Much of it can be practiced at home for acute situations and I as a person in 2009, 210 years later can say this is true. My personal experiences of over 20 years and my experience in helping thousands of just ordinary people deciding what to take to heal has been positive more than 90% of the time.
Here we are now 210 years later and the tally can be taken; in health, in cost of service, in effectiveness and in the damage to people through side effects, addiction, malpractice, and worst of all massive cost of drugs and vaccines needed to sustain this erroneous idea of healing.
The medical profession and its partners the pharmaceutical companies of the world are our executioners. This does not mean that medicine has not done some great good and found ways to help dysfunctional people. This is about normal every day health we all supposedly start with at birth.
It has never been different and Hahemann’s statement that “he pitied the patients who came to see him for it seemed his medical training for he was a doctor only gave him ways of destroying the patient”, sparked him to research and look for other answers.
Out of this dissatisfaction with the medical paradigm Homeopathy was created.
Homeopathy has been constantly attacked and debunked by the medical/pharma fraternity since it first appeared.
The pharmaceutical industry attacks hardest and it always has from the beginning. Homeopathic remedies were minute so they could not charge for it by weight. It took time to make and a clean lab: they would lose money. It did not matter that the people got better.
It is the same today. Once a patient caught in the medical paradigm and you are a patient for life. The pharmaceuticals are determined to make this a fact and through their control of WHO and every government they can control this is happening.
Vaccines are a key to this. Trumpeted as the answer to the fight against nature everyone is slowly being forced into taking them or being ostracized like the herbalists in the 15th century were, called witches and burned when possible.
The Governments of the world are for the most part setting laws up that will limit our choices of healing systems. All other Governments are being pushed as hard as possible into this paradigm.
Forced vaccines are how in the end we will die. Antibiotics are how we will die. Bad nutrition through genetically altered foods that have not enough nutrients is how we will be weakened.
Laws against selling the very nutrient supplements lacking in our genetically modified foods adds to this weakening of the human.
By grace, good fortune and the many healers who are doctors of Homeopathy we can see their record over the time since Hahnemann began in 1800. Even today we can examine very well run hospitals, clinics, private practices and patients in India and several European countries and North and South America. Millions are helped every year.
Injury to the person through addiction and side effects does not exist in Homeopathy and death through malpractice is rare. In all plagues and epidemics Homeopathy has been much more effective than medicines. Do the research and be amazed. It is true.
Even I, an everyday person, can attest to the efficacy of Anas Barbariae 200C as a flu remedy and have seen my own eyes it successfully used on film sets to fight flu hundreds of times. This is true wherever my kits are used. It is a fact. Boiron even did an empirical testing to satisfy the FDA that testing like other drugs finds the remedy effective.
Put the systems side by side and count the dollars the medical and pharmaceutical companies are costing the world. Count the deaths through malpractice and mis-dosing.
Count the hospital deaths due to errors. It is huge. Add to that the cost of vaccines and the state of stress and fear encouraged and created in people around the world. All this is created and we poor humans have fallen for the bait. Not only that once in the system always in the system, stung for life.
Homeopathy beats Medicine in a heartbeat when it comes to keeping people well.
The medical credo is clear “At first do no harm”. Homeopathy obeys that first rule.
Medicine has co-opted a word associated with war “Collateral damage”. We all think this is just those poor folk that fell prey to medicines and got ill for life or died, but in fact we are all falling prey to medicines. We are all victims, each and every one of us.
So it is easy to see how we will die individually and as a species. Perhaps some will survive as mutants to rise again to despoil the paradise we inhabit and the gift of life we have been given, much like the viruses who mutate and make our antibiotics useless and our vaccines not today’s cup of tea.
The blind are faithful to their lack of sight.
Monday, July 13, 2009
The Truth will out but will it matter? Up to you to act.
Population Reduction And Control Are Covert Goal Of U.S. & Global Health Agencies, Part 2
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Here in part 2 are pieces of information that anyone can quickly confirm with a Google search... and then begin to analyze and consider how these facts all fit into a larger picture of what is being carried out in our civilization and how that impacts our health.
DATA SET 1 (From Natural Solutions Foundation President, Major General Albert Stubblebine III, US Army, Ret.)
1. An "informal" [e.g., illegal] clinical trial of the Avian Flu vaccine on about 200 Polish vagrants resulted in 11 immediate deaths and an additional set of 20 later deaths (approximately 15% of the test population). The doctors and nurses involved were charged with murder. (Fact. 2008)
2. Approximately 3500 Chinese children died in an Avian Flu vaccine experiment. (Rumor, 2008)
3. The Philippine High Court convicted WHO (The World Health Organization) of involuntarily sterilizing over 3 million Philippina women through the use of vaccines. (Fact)
4. The WHO in 1985 documented that one of its' primary goals for the use of a sterility vaccine disguised as a smallpox vaccine was to "eliminate 150 million excess Sub Saharan Africans". (Fact, 1985-ongoing)
5. The WHO 5-shot vaccine programs for tetanus in third world countries in South and Central America caused the involuntary sterilization of millions of women. (Fact, ongoing)
6. Monsanto's MON 810 corn causes sterility according to studies published by the Austrian Government. (Fact, 2009)
7. Monsanto's MON 810 corn contains the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus which, when ingested, lowers the bodies CD 4 cells to a point which, on immune tests, indicate that a person has HIV/AIDS. The lowered CD 4 cells results from eating GMO corn, the staple of the diet in many parts of Black Africa. MON 810 is grown in Europe for animal feed and in many places, including the US, around the world for human food. (Fact, ongoing)
8. Merck's Gardasil vaccine causes death, collapse and chronic illness in young woman and girls, including a new, never-before described "disease" called Juvenile ALS, a fatal condition in which the nervous system is slowly destroyed while consciousness remains unimpaired. This vaccine increases cervical cancer by 44.7% in women and girls who already have Human Papilloma Virus. Cervical Cancer is easily detected and cured in early stages and is not a major killer of women. Gardasil contains substances which may cause sterility in women receiving it and any protection lasts only a few years, so 9 year olds will probably not be sexually active by the time this protection has worn off. (Fact, ongoing)
9. Baxter International Inc. was in the process of applying for a contract to provide Avian Flu vaccines to European countries in the event of an Avian Flu epidemic. Its Austrian laboratory shipped Seasonal Flu vaccines to 18 countries in Europe. A laboratory technician tested the Baxter Seasonal Flu vaccines sent to the Czech Republic and discovered that they were contaminated with a highly pathogenic version of the Avian Flu, 72 Kilograms of it, although Level 3 precautions were in place and such contamination "could not have happened accidentally" according to experts in the field. No documentation of the destruction of this highly infective material has been provided although the Austrian Health Ministry insists that the deadly viral material was destroyed. (Fact, 2008, 2009)
10. A WHO investigation into the Baxter contaminated vaccine issue resulted in NO findings and in NO disciplinary actions. An Austrian investigation into the same events yielded the same results. (Fact, 2009)
11. Baxter has been rewarded with a lead role in developing, producing and disseminating the Swine Flu vaccine for the upcoming pandemic. (Fact, 2009)
12. Swine Flu was first identified to the public as a serious problem in April/May 2009 when 168 persons in Mexico were confirmed by CDC and WHO to have died from the Swine Flu. This number was later revised downward to only 16 deaths. (Fact, 2009)
13. It normally takes a minimum of 12 to 18 months to create a vaccine after a specific virus has been identified. (Fact)
14. The US Government has spent more than a billion dollars to develop and to make available the Swine flu vaccine for a disease which poses no significant health threat. (Fact, 2009)
15. The "Seed Culture" for the Swine Flu virus was provided to vaccine companies in May, 2009. Baxter International Inc. announced in June, 2009 that they would have their vaccine ready in July, 2009 . (Fact, 2009)
16. A WHO container of Swine Flu virus from Mexico City exploded on a passenger train in Luzon, Switzerland. All of the current Swiss cases of Swine Flu are from the area where the explosion took place. It is illegal to ship pathogenic viruses in this way. (Fact, 2009)
17. A significant number of virologists and other scientists are on record stating that the Swine Flu was created in a laboratory and could not evolve naturally. (Fact, 2009)
DATA SET 2
1. Canada, Sweden, Norway, France and other countries have announced intentions to vaccinate every man, woman and child. To do so, they are ordering 2 shots per person of untested, unsafe and unnecessary Swine Flu Vaccines from a variety of manufacturers. The US Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services both stated in early 2009 that they would do so "beginning with those who want it". (Fact, 2009)
2. President Obama announced to the public shortly after his inauguration that every man, woman and child should receive the Avian Flu vaccine this fall along with seasonal flu shots this coming Fall. President Obama is on record saying that he believes that vaccinations should be mandatory. (Fact, 2009)
3. The United States has spent $714 Million GPS mapping every front door of every house and apartment in the country and listing who lives in each house or apartment under the direction of the White House. (Fact, 2009)
4. Many people have reported that they have received calls at home or at work from agencies of the US Government inquiring about the "number of unvaccinated children in the household". (Fact, 2009)
5. The United States, Norway, Sweden, Austria and other countries have announced that in case of a Swine Flu pandemic all health and security authority shall revert to teams and command centers run by the WHO. (Fact, 2009)
Natural Solutions Foundation www.healthfreedomusa.org
- Jed Shlackman, LMHC, C.Ht.
Miami FL www.phinsights.com
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Here in part 2 are pieces of information that anyone can quickly confirm with a Google search... and then begin to analyze and consider how these facts all fit into a larger picture of what is being carried out in our civilization and how that impacts our health.
DATA SET 1 (From Natural Solutions Foundation President, Major General Albert Stubblebine III, US Army, Ret.)
1. An "informal" [e.g., illegal] clinical trial of the Avian Flu vaccine on about 200 Polish vagrants resulted in 11 immediate deaths and an additional set of 20 later deaths (approximately 15% of the test population). The doctors and nurses involved were charged with murder. (Fact. 2008)
2. Approximately 3500 Chinese children died in an Avian Flu vaccine experiment. (Rumor, 2008)
3. The Philippine High Court convicted WHO (The World Health Organization) of involuntarily sterilizing over 3 million Philippina women through the use of vaccines. (Fact)
4. The WHO in 1985 documented that one of its' primary goals for the use of a sterility vaccine disguised as a smallpox vaccine was to "eliminate 150 million excess Sub Saharan Africans". (Fact, 1985-ongoing)
5. The WHO 5-shot vaccine programs for tetanus in third world countries in South and Central America caused the involuntary sterilization of millions of women. (Fact, ongoing)
6. Monsanto's MON 810 corn causes sterility according to studies published by the Austrian Government. (Fact, 2009)
7. Monsanto's MON 810 corn contains the Cauliflower Mosaic Virus which, when ingested, lowers the bodies CD 4 cells to a point which, on immune tests, indicate that a person has HIV/AIDS. The lowered CD 4 cells results from eating GMO corn, the staple of the diet in many parts of Black Africa. MON 810 is grown in Europe for animal feed and in many places, including the US, around the world for human food. (Fact, ongoing)
8. Merck's Gardasil vaccine causes death, collapse and chronic illness in young woman and girls, including a new, never-before described "disease" called Juvenile ALS, a fatal condition in which the nervous system is slowly destroyed while consciousness remains unimpaired. This vaccine increases cervical cancer by 44.7% in women and girls who already have Human Papilloma Virus. Cervical Cancer is easily detected and cured in early stages and is not a major killer of women. Gardasil contains substances which may cause sterility in women receiving it and any protection lasts only a few years, so 9 year olds will probably not be sexually active by the time this protection has worn off. (Fact, ongoing)
9. Baxter International Inc. was in the process of applying for a contract to provide Avian Flu vaccines to European countries in the event of an Avian Flu epidemic. Its Austrian laboratory shipped Seasonal Flu vaccines to 18 countries in Europe. A laboratory technician tested the Baxter Seasonal Flu vaccines sent to the Czech Republic and discovered that they were contaminated with a highly pathogenic version of the Avian Flu, 72 Kilograms of it, although Level 3 precautions were in place and such contamination "could not have happened accidentally" according to experts in the field. No documentation of the destruction of this highly infective material has been provided although the Austrian Health Ministry insists that the deadly viral material was destroyed. (Fact, 2008, 2009)
10. A WHO investigation into the Baxter contaminated vaccine issue resulted in NO findings and in NO disciplinary actions. An Austrian investigation into the same events yielded the same results. (Fact, 2009)
11. Baxter has been rewarded with a lead role in developing, producing and disseminating the Swine Flu vaccine for the upcoming pandemic. (Fact, 2009)
12. Swine Flu was first identified to the public as a serious problem in April/May 2009 when 168 persons in Mexico were confirmed by CDC and WHO to have died from the Swine Flu. This number was later revised downward to only 16 deaths. (Fact, 2009)
13. It normally takes a minimum of 12 to 18 months to create a vaccine after a specific virus has been identified. (Fact)
14. The US Government has spent more than a billion dollars to develop and to make available the Swine flu vaccine for a disease which poses no significant health threat. (Fact, 2009)
15. The "Seed Culture" for the Swine Flu virus was provided to vaccine companies in May, 2009. Baxter International Inc. announced in June, 2009 that they would have their vaccine ready in July, 2009 . (Fact, 2009)
16. A WHO container of Swine Flu virus from Mexico City exploded on a passenger train in Luzon, Switzerland. All of the current Swiss cases of Swine Flu are from the area where the explosion took place. It is illegal to ship pathogenic viruses in this way. (Fact, 2009)
17. A significant number of virologists and other scientists are on record stating that the Swine Flu was created in a laboratory and could not evolve naturally. (Fact, 2009)
DATA SET 2
1. Canada, Sweden, Norway, France and other countries have announced intentions to vaccinate every man, woman and child. To do so, they are ordering 2 shots per person of untested, unsafe and unnecessary Swine Flu Vaccines from a variety of manufacturers. The US Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services both stated in early 2009 that they would do so "beginning with those who want it". (Fact, 2009)
2. President Obama announced to the public shortly after his inauguration that every man, woman and child should receive the Avian Flu vaccine this fall along with seasonal flu shots this coming Fall. President Obama is on record saying that he believes that vaccinations should be mandatory. (Fact, 2009)
3. The United States has spent $714 Million GPS mapping every front door of every house and apartment in the country and listing who lives in each house or apartment under the direction of the White House. (Fact, 2009)
4. Many people have reported that they have received calls at home or at work from agencies of the US Government inquiring about the "number of unvaccinated children in the household". (Fact, 2009)
5. The United States, Norway, Sweden, Austria and other countries have announced that in case of a Swine Flu pandemic all health and security authority shall revert to teams and command centers run by the WHO. (Fact, 2009)
Natural Solutions Foundation www.healthfreedomusa.org
- Jed Shlackman, LMHC, C.Ht.
Miami FL www.phinsights.com
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Robert S. McNamara, Architect of a Futile War, Dies at 93
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/us/07mcnamara.html?th&emc=th
It is sad to read the hindsight of this man who was part of the great failed American strategies of his era. It does show us that directions of even great nations can be so totally wrong and the price paid is ongoing when the damage is irrevocable. The Vietnamese war was just a part of America's follies after the second world war and this article puts some perspective on some of these follies.
I contend that America is leading the world in an even greater folly with its efforts to fight the natural world we find ourselves in by disrupting the balances in both nature and man. In the article it say first and foremost that it is critical to know the enemy. I contend that we think we know ourselves and the world we live in but we are myopic and clutch onto what seems a good idea of how to manage our world: by resistance instead of going with the flow and strengthening both ourselves and how we deal with the problems of cultivation for food. It does not help that the motivators of the thrust to kill our enemies in nature and man are driven by profit as a first motive and good management of our natural and personal human resources second.
Like the great media machine that directed our thinking regarding our enemies and our responses after the second world war we are following this media machine again in our treatment of ourselves and our habitat. Examination by those who are thoughtful about our directions have tried without success to moderate our thinking. The doubters were around in McNamara's time as well and were not listened too for it is hard to be paid attention to when the profit mongers have captured and control the podium of the world; the media.
I strive as best I can to elicit curiosity in every post I make. It is the curiosity to examine what we are as a complete entity and to question how we are treating ourselves in spite of the growing knowledge that the body can manage itself without being invaded by drugs and vaccines. How we have survived this long in time without trying to offset the balance inside our wonderful bodies.
It is interesting to note that most if not all the people who have died due to the current Swine Flu pandemic have all been already compromised with underlying illnesses that have weakened the individual. The Swine flu is the end of the line of weakening the body not the culprit of the prime destruction. Each of us who gets a vaccine will be paying the price of enslaving our systems to a parade of vaccines to 'protect' us when in fact these vaccines are weakening our overall ability to care for ourselves.
I encourage everyone who reads this to examine what we are doing and come to their own conclusions. It is our duty to ourselves.
It is sad to read the hindsight of this man who was part of the great failed American strategies of his era. It does show us that directions of even great nations can be so totally wrong and the price paid is ongoing when the damage is irrevocable. The Vietnamese war was just a part of America's follies after the second world war and this article puts some perspective on some of these follies.
I contend that America is leading the world in an even greater folly with its efforts to fight the natural world we find ourselves in by disrupting the balances in both nature and man. In the article it say first and foremost that it is critical to know the enemy. I contend that we think we know ourselves and the world we live in but we are myopic and clutch onto what seems a good idea of how to manage our world: by resistance instead of going with the flow and strengthening both ourselves and how we deal with the problems of cultivation for food. It does not help that the motivators of the thrust to kill our enemies in nature and man are driven by profit as a first motive and good management of our natural and personal human resources second.
Like the great media machine that directed our thinking regarding our enemies and our responses after the second world war we are following this media machine again in our treatment of ourselves and our habitat. Examination by those who are thoughtful about our directions have tried without success to moderate our thinking. The doubters were around in McNamara's time as well and were not listened too for it is hard to be paid attention to when the profit mongers have captured and control the podium of the world; the media.
I strive as best I can to elicit curiosity in every post I make. It is the curiosity to examine what we are as a complete entity and to question how we are treating ourselves in spite of the growing knowledge that the body can manage itself without being invaded by drugs and vaccines. How we have survived this long in time without trying to offset the balance inside our wonderful bodies.
It is interesting to note that most if not all the people who have died due to the current Swine Flu pandemic have all been already compromised with underlying illnesses that have weakened the individual. The Swine flu is the end of the line of weakening the body not the culprit of the prime destruction. Each of us who gets a vaccine will be paying the price of enslaving our systems to a parade of vaccines to 'protect' us when in fact these vaccines are weakening our overall ability to care for ourselves.
I encourage everyone who reads this to examine what we are doing and come to their own conclusions. It is our duty to ourselves.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
HOW TO DIE?
Every 15 years the New York Times columnist THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN tell us that “we will add 1 billion people to the earth.” Who is kidding whom?
Will we die along with the depleted land from the chemicals used to make enough corn, wheat, rice and soy beans to sustain us? Will we die of the toxic chemicals put into our bodies at the control of the world pharmaceutical companies? The United States soon make rotovirus and influenza vaccinations mandatory. They already do with many of the infant and childhood vaccines. We have a right to ask our governments to rethink their actions. We have a responsibility to question the direction our world is taking.
The immune system that is a central part of all of us is the master guardian of the entity human. The immune system is being breached and weakened with every Pharmaceutical that enters it. Think about this for a second. Every vaccine you have taken has breached your core system and taken away some of the immune system's choices thereby limiting future possibilities of core actions to keep your entire system in balance. [use scientific terms and data like platelet count, T-cells, etc. How do we understand the immune system?]
Using Agent Orange, Roundup or future chemicals intended to annihilate insects and weeds create succeeding generations of those pests with genetic modifications to resist the insecticides. Unintended death to needed vegetation and reproductive flowers occur at a massive level. Pesticides have no brain, they kill everything in its path. It will kill us too. If you watch the news you will know it is killing the bee population of the world, a key partner to our own survival because bees pollinate our plants.
Fertilizers devastate our crops and supporting soil and deplete the nutrients held within the soil. Genetically modified [GM] crop lands can change the make-up of the diversity of our natural vegetation and create sterilization of seeds.
We are being hurled like a rush of lemmings over the cliff of extinction.
Most people, especially younger people, laugh and say you only live once when asked to think about MAN as going the way of the dodo. They shield themselves in a protective place called denial, where logical realization and its consequences become overwhelming. Taking a close look at actual repercussions of our past actions tell the story. The flu vaccine promoted by the US Government in the 1976 Swine Flu season resulted in a woman who needed leg braces to walk and neurological damage. The forced vaccination of babies and kids will suffer untold damage and destroy family lives. We take our chances that our own damage will be minimal and some of us will get through life without a problem and for more and more there are real palpable negative results.
Forced vaccination damages human life in unseen ways. Antibiotics take away parts of our immune systems. We are all compromised internally by this.
The rest of the Pharmaceutical Pandora's box of anti-depressants, sleeping pills, arthritis medications etc. play an ongoing role in our demise. The problem of addiction to some medicines is just the most overt fallout of the side effects created and newsworthy. Lack of focus and negative emotional states can strike even the modest users and are endured as the price of relief.
So to all of us alive now, we have to ask, how can we stay alive and protect our immune systems so we will be healthy till we die? Good health is a matter of personal choice and appropriate action. I hope enough of us speak out loud enough to force governments to turn around and create laws that will benefit the health and wellbeing of it’s citizens. It is a necessary and important step in protecting ourselves. Speak out with your pen and your voice!
reference Mike Wallace on Swine Flu Vaccination 1976 | Propaganda | Vaccine Video http://bit.ly/14e6t6
Will we die along with the depleted land from the chemicals used to make enough corn, wheat, rice and soy beans to sustain us? Will we die of the toxic chemicals put into our bodies at the control of the world pharmaceutical companies? The United States soon make rotovirus and influenza vaccinations mandatory. They already do with many of the infant and childhood vaccines. We have a right to ask our governments to rethink their actions. We have a responsibility to question the direction our world is taking.
The immune system that is a central part of all of us is the master guardian of the entity human. The immune system is being breached and weakened with every Pharmaceutical that enters it. Think about this for a second. Every vaccine you have taken has breached your core system and taken away some of the immune system's choices thereby limiting future possibilities of core actions to keep your entire system in balance. [use scientific terms and data like platelet count, T-cells, etc. How do we understand the immune system?]
Using Agent Orange, Roundup or future chemicals intended to annihilate insects and weeds create succeeding generations of those pests with genetic modifications to resist the insecticides. Unintended death to needed vegetation and reproductive flowers occur at a massive level. Pesticides have no brain, they kill everything in its path. It will kill us too. If you watch the news you will know it is killing the bee population of the world, a key partner to our own survival because bees pollinate our plants.
Fertilizers devastate our crops and supporting soil and deplete the nutrients held within the soil. Genetically modified [GM] crop lands can change the make-up of the diversity of our natural vegetation and create sterilization of seeds.
We are being hurled like a rush of lemmings over the cliff of extinction.
Most people, especially younger people, laugh and say you only live once when asked to think about MAN as going the way of the dodo. They shield themselves in a protective place called denial, where logical realization and its consequences become overwhelming. Taking a close look at actual repercussions of our past actions tell the story. The flu vaccine promoted by the US Government in the 1976 Swine Flu season resulted in a woman who needed leg braces to walk and neurological damage. The forced vaccination of babies and kids will suffer untold damage and destroy family lives. We take our chances that our own damage will be minimal and some of us will get through life without a problem and for more and more there are real palpable negative results.
Forced vaccination damages human life in unseen ways. Antibiotics take away parts of our immune systems. We are all compromised internally by this.
The rest of the Pharmaceutical Pandora's box of anti-depressants, sleeping pills, arthritis medications etc. play an ongoing role in our demise. The problem of addiction to some medicines is just the most overt fallout of the side effects created and newsworthy. Lack of focus and negative emotional states can strike even the modest users and are endured as the price of relief.
So to all of us alive now, we have to ask, how can we stay alive and protect our immune systems so we will be healthy till we die? Good health is a matter of personal choice and appropriate action. I hope enough of us speak out loud enough to force governments to turn around and create laws that will benefit the health and wellbeing of it’s citizens. It is a necessary and important step in protecting ourselves. Speak out with your pen and your voice!
reference Mike Wallace on Swine Flu Vaccination 1976 | Propaganda | Vaccine Video http://bit.ly/14e6t6
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Obama follows the crowd. It is a shame!!!
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/02/Obama-Plan-to-Change-US-Health-Care-System-Will-Cost-Nearly-Two-TRILLON-Dollars.aspx
This is some rant and lots of real information about what is happening under Obama with regards to the American health care system. It is thoroughly in the hands of the Pharmaceuticals and it scares me just to read how soon it will be nearly impossible to use any alternatives to what the mainstream has been saddled with.
This is some rant and lots of real information about what is happening under Obama with regards to the American health care system. It is thoroughly in the hands of the Pharmaceuticals and it scares me just to read how soon it will be nearly impossible to use any alternatives to what the mainstream has been saddled with.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
I am driven to help implement change
There is no way to alter my feelings but to get America and the world to reject Monsanto and the Pharmaceuticals trying to alter nature and man for profit and not overall healthy benefit. We and the world that we are a part of, all of it is being manipulated into an artificially supported existence.
Think of your beautiful son's or daughter's children and know they will only be able to stay alive if they take the drugs.
Right now it is happening to our food chain wholesale. It is not a question. It is only to muster enough strength to combat it. It is truly the war of the world. It is the final battle if it is lost.
The World According to Monsanto http://current.com/topics/85538011_monsanto/ Every documentary on this site is clear and supported. What Monsanto is doing to the food chain through genetics and chemicals like Roundup; bringing produce entirely under its control, is what is happening to people and fostered through the FDA,WHO and every government agency world wide. Monsanto completes this picture by buying up all other seed companies, Natural Health companies that can be bought or coerced into their fold.
The tactic is simple Greed brings the Ally. Money.
If you examine a few of these documentaries including http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0AL4yml3bw&NR=1 A chilling story of how Monsanto killed a Fox major documentary about Bovine Cow Hormone made by Monsaanto.
How can we regain possession of our lives and the world we live in. Is it possible?
Everyone knows this truth in about an hour of watching You Tube. No one to date who is really heard in the world is leading a concerted opposition in every country of the world. No one. No Religious leader, no country leader, not even any opposition parties.
We the people and we the land are not represented at the table. Scientists know and cannot gain enough force to lead us. We must lead ourselves. Each of us. Our lives depend on it. We must start an army. A Planetary Army. I know that everywhere we have forces amongst the people. The Planetary Party must be formed in every country with this as its major plank. We have a mountain of work to do but that is the way.
I know it.
I wonder if I can make this idea into a reality. I must begin and soon we will have our army forming around the world. If you want to join me then make a comment and sign up to get this blog when I write in it.
Think of your beautiful son's or daughter's children and know they will only be able to stay alive if they take the drugs.
Right now it is happening to our food chain wholesale. It is not a question. It is only to muster enough strength to combat it. It is truly the war of the world. It is the final battle if it is lost.
The World According to Monsanto http://current.com/topics/85538011_monsanto/ Every documentary on this site is clear and supported. What Monsanto is doing to the food chain through genetics and chemicals like Roundup; bringing produce entirely under its control, is what is happening to people and fostered through the FDA,WHO and every government agency world wide. Monsanto completes this picture by buying up all other seed companies, Natural Health companies that can be bought or coerced into their fold.
The tactic is simple Greed brings the Ally. Money.
If you examine a few of these documentaries including http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0AL4yml3bw&NR=1 A chilling story of how Monsanto killed a Fox major documentary about Bovine Cow Hormone made by Monsaanto.
How can we regain possession of our lives and the world we live in. Is it possible?
Everyone knows this truth in about an hour of watching You Tube. No one to date who is really heard in the world is leading a concerted opposition in every country of the world. No one. No Religious leader, no country leader, not even any opposition parties.
We the people and we the land are not represented at the table. Scientists know and cannot gain enough force to lead us. We must lead ourselves. Each of us. Our lives depend on it. We must start an army. A Planetary Army. I know that everywhere we have forces amongst the people. The Planetary Party must be formed in every country with this as its major plank. We have a mountain of work to do but that is the way.
I know it.
I wonder if I can make this idea into a reality. I must begin and soon we will have our army forming around the world. If you want to join me then make a comment and sign up to get this blog when I write in it.
Friday, June 26, 2009
OxyContin is a nasty drug. Michael Jackson used it.
A law enforcement official briefed on the pop star's death tells ABC that Jackson was heavily addicted to the painkiller OxyContin and received daily doses of the drug as well as Demerol.
On Wed. June 3rd I posted an article regarding OxyContin.
the June 2nd newsletter from Novus Medical Detox Center in Florida. They deal with people who are addicted to prescription drugs. The newsletter dealt with the Pharma hearings in Washington regarding the drug Oxycotin. It is described as legal heroin by Steve James the director of the Detox Center. He is directly involved with the hearings. The report is valuable reading to understand the real dilemma ordinary citizens are in. http://bit.ly/Qn3LW
On Wed. June 3rd I posted an article regarding OxyContin.
the June 2nd newsletter from Novus Medical Detox Center in Florida. They deal with people who are addicted to prescription drugs. The newsletter dealt with the Pharma hearings in Washington regarding the drug Oxycotin. It is described as legal heroin by Steve James the director of the Detox Center. He is directly involved with the hearings. The report is valuable reading to understand the real dilemma ordinary citizens are in. http://bit.ly/Qn3LW
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
SCARE HEADLINE Girl, 6, first child in Ont. to die from H1N1 flu
I have noted IN BOLD all the scares and all the questions this Canadian Press article raises. It seems to me that there is a lot of goobly goop being presented and not much real substance that would encourage me to feel good about our Government already spending millions on an untested Flu vaccine against the swine flu. Pharma will profit and money needed for our health care system will go to them.
SCARE HEADLINE Girl, 6, first child in Ont. to die from H1N1 flu
Updated Mon. Jun. 22 2009 4:52 PM ET
The Canadian Press
REASON WHY I THINK IT is A SCARE HEADLINE TORONTO -- A six-year-old girl from Peel Region west of Toronto has become the 14th Canadian to die after contracting swine flu, but officials were unsure Monday what role the H1N1 virus played in her death.
Authorities are not releasing the name of the girl, who is believed to be the youngest person in Canada with the virus to have died.
STATED AS HAVING FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS BUT NOT OBVIOUSLY KNOWN FOR SURE IF SWINE FLU Public health officials said the girl showed the usual symptoms of a flu -- coughing and fever -- on June 14, and died the next day without having been admitted to hospital.
HEADLINE MAKES PRESUMPTIONS WHEN CORONER DOES NOT KNOW CAUSE OF DEATH The coroner's office is still investigating the cause of the six-year-old's death, said Dr. Arlene King, Ontario's chief medical officer of health.
"While the H1N1 virus appears to have been a factor in the girl's death, the exact role the virus played is under investigation by the office of the chief coroner," King said.
"We are also investigating whether the child had any underlying medical conditions."
Laboratory tests last Friday confirmed the young girl did have the H1N1 virus, but she was not showing any symptoms the last day she had gone to school, King said.
"We do not recommend that any schools be closed if there is a suspected or confirmed case (of swine flu)," she said.
"I encourage parents to continue to send their kids to school unless they're feeling ill."
Health Minister David Caplan offered his condolences to the girl's family, friends and classmates, and said the province would continue its efforts to stay on top of the flu pandemic.
"As a father I can only imagine the difficulties they're facing," Caplan said. "It's something that no parent should ever have to go through."
"It's also a reminder about why we need to, and indeed have, remained vigilant in monitoring the H1N1 situation."
THIS WIDESPREAD FLU IN TORONTO HAS CAUSED IN TOTAL 14 DEATHS IN ALL CANADA SO MAYBE WE ARE BEING MISLEAD BY THESE STATEMENTS THAT WANT US TO SUPPORT VACCINES. FLU IS HERE EVERY YEAR AND IN TOTAL I DO BELIEVE THAT THIS YEAR HAS BEEN A MILD YEAR. King said the influenza outbreak is widespread in the Greater Toronto Area, including neighbouring Peel Region, and warned there will be more illnesses and deaths from H1N1 before the pandemic is over.
"We will expect this disease to wax and wane over the next 12 months," she said.
"It will come in waves, and there will be periods when we have more illness, more hospitalizations and very tragically, more deaths."
WE HAVE SO FAR 14 DEATHS IN ALL OF CANADA REPORTED TO BE SOMEHOW CONNECTED TO THE SWINE FLU AND YET THIS SAYS WE CAN EXPECT ON AVERAGE 500 DEATHS IN ONTARIO EACH YEAR ATTRIBUTED TO FLU. ODDLY UNBALANCED FOR WE ARE NOT SPENDING MILLIONS TO AVERT THESE NORMAL 500 DEATHS SO WHY FOR A FLU STRAIN KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.Ontario reports an average of 9,000 cases of seasonal flu each year, and approximately 500 deaths, including two or three deaths of children under age 19.
"So far this year four children have died with influenza (in Ontario)," she said.
THIS CONFIRMS THAT MOST WHO DIED AFTER CONTRACTING SWINE FLU HAD OTHER CHRONIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS Since the swine flu outbreak started in late April, 13 other people across Canada who had the H1N1 virus have died, but most had other chronic medical conditions.
THIS IS A SCARE STATEMENT FOR IT DOES NOT TELL US HOW MANY OF THE SICK HAVE UNDERLYING CHRONIC CONDITIONS However, dozens of people remain in hospitals across the country, including about 20 in Ontario and more than 30 people showing severe symptoms who remain in intensive care units at Manitoba hospitals.
ARE THEY SAYING HERE THAT THIS SWINE FLU IS THIS YEARS REGULAR FLU FOR I HAVE READ NOWHERE ABOUT A REGULAR FLU WHICH SHOULD BE HERE AT THIS TIME OF YEAR AND SHOULD CAUSE ABOUT 500 DEATHS. There have been more than 2,650 confirmed cases of swine flu in Ontario -- and more than 5,700 across Canada -- but most are considered mild with symptoms very similar to an annual seasonal flu.
THE 1918 FLU KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. ARE WE NOT OVERREACTING TO THIS STRAIN THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS AND IS WELL KNOWN. THE GLOBAL TOTAL OF DEATHS TO DATE DOES NOT EQUAL ONTARIO'S NORMAL TOTAL OF FLU DEATHS EACH YEAR. Globally, H1N1 has been confirmed in nearly 45,000 people in more than 90 countries, with about 180 deaths attributed to the virus.
W.H.O. HAS SET US UP TO BE SCARED AND TO SUPPORT THE VACCINES NOW BEING HURRIEDLY BEING MADE FOR THE FALL. MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS WILL BE SPENT TAKING NEEDED MONEY AWAY FROM OUR ALREADY IMPOVERISHED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. IT IS TIME TO EXAMINE WHAT WE ARE DOING.
SCARE HEADLINE Girl, 6, first child in Ont. to die from H1N1 flu
Updated Mon. Jun. 22 2009 4:52 PM ET
The Canadian Press
REASON WHY I THINK IT is A SCARE HEADLINE TORONTO -- A six-year-old girl from Peel Region west of Toronto has become the 14th Canadian to die after contracting swine flu, but officials were unsure Monday what role the H1N1 virus played in her death.
Authorities are not releasing the name of the girl, who is believed to be the youngest person in Canada with the virus to have died.
STATED AS HAVING FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS BUT NOT OBVIOUSLY KNOWN FOR SURE IF SWINE FLU Public health officials said the girl showed the usual symptoms of a flu -- coughing and fever -- on June 14, and died the next day without having been admitted to hospital.
HEADLINE MAKES PRESUMPTIONS WHEN CORONER DOES NOT KNOW CAUSE OF DEATH The coroner's office is still investigating the cause of the six-year-old's death, said Dr. Arlene King, Ontario's chief medical officer of health.
"While the H1N1 virus appears to have been a factor in the girl's death, the exact role the virus played is under investigation by the office of the chief coroner," King said.
"We are also investigating whether the child had any underlying medical conditions."
Laboratory tests last Friday confirmed the young girl did have the H1N1 virus, but she was not showing any symptoms the last day she had gone to school, King said.
"We do not recommend that any schools be closed if there is a suspected or confirmed case (of swine flu)," she said.
"I encourage parents to continue to send their kids to school unless they're feeling ill."
Health Minister David Caplan offered his condolences to the girl's family, friends and classmates, and said the province would continue its efforts to stay on top of the flu pandemic.
"As a father I can only imagine the difficulties they're facing," Caplan said. "It's something that no parent should ever have to go through."
"It's also a reminder about why we need to, and indeed have, remained vigilant in monitoring the H1N1 situation."
THIS WIDESPREAD FLU IN TORONTO HAS CAUSED IN TOTAL 14 DEATHS IN ALL CANADA SO MAYBE WE ARE BEING MISLEAD BY THESE STATEMENTS THAT WANT US TO SUPPORT VACCINES. FLU IS HERE EVERY YEAR AND IN TOTAL I DO BELIEVE THAT THIS YEAR HAS BEEN A MILD YEAR. King said the influenza outbreak is widespread in the Greater Toronto Area, including neighbouring Peel Region, and warned there will be more illnesses and deaths from H1N1 before the pandemic is over.
"We will expect this disease to wax and wane over the next 12 months," she said.
"It will come in waves, and there will be periods when we have more illness, more hospitalizations and very tragically, more deaths."
WE HAVE SO FAR 14 DEATHS IN ALL OF CANADA REPORTED TO BE SOMEHOW CONNECTED TO THE SWINE FLU AND YET THIS SAYS WE CAN EXPECT ON AVERAGE 500 DEATHS IN ONTARIO EACH YEAR ATTRIBUTED TO FLU. ODDLY UNBALANCED FOR WE ARE NOT SPENDING MILLIONS TO AVERT THESE NORMAL 500 DEATHS SO WHY FOR A FLU STRAIN KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.Ontario reports an average of 9,000 cases of seasonal flu each year, and approximately 500 deaths, including two or three deaths of children under age 19.
"So far this year four children have died with influenza (in Ontario)," she said.
THIS CONFIRMS THAT MOST WHO DIED AFTER CONTRACTING SWINE FLU HAD OTHER CHRONIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS Since the swine flu outbreak started in late April, 13 other people across Canada who had the H1N1 virus have died, but most had other chronic medical conditions.
THIS IS A SCARE STATEMENT FOR IT DOES NOT TELL US HOW MANY OF THE SICK HAVE UNDERLYING CHRONIC CONDITIONS However, dozens of people remain in hospitals across the country, including about 20 in Ontario and more than 30 people showing severe symptoms who remain in intensive care units at Manitoba hospitals.
ARE THEY SAYING HERE THAT THIS SWINE FLU IS THIS YEARS REGULAR FLU FOR I HAVE READ NOWHERE ABOUT A REGULAR FLU WHICH SHOULD BE HERE AT THIS TIME OF YEAR AND SHOULD CAUSE ABOUT 500 DEATHS. There have been more than 2,650 confirmed cases of swine flu in Ontario -- and more than 5,700 across Canada -- but most are considered mild with symptoms very similar to an annual seasonal flu.
THE 1918 FLU KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. ARE WE NOT OVERREACTING TO THIS STRAIN THAT HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS AND IS WELL KNOWN. THE GLOBAL TOTAL OF DEATHS TO DATE DOES NOT EQUAL ONTARIO'S NORMAL TOTAL OF FLU DEATHS EACH YEAR. Globally, H1N1 has been confirmed in nearly 45,000 people in more than 90 countries, with about 180 deaths attributed to the virus.
W.H.O. HAS SET US UP TO BE SCARED AND TO SUPPORT THE VACCINES NOW BEING HURRIEDLY BEING MADE FOR THE FALL. MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS WILL BE SPENT TAKING NEEDED MONEY AWAY FROM OUR ALREADY IMPOVERISHED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. IT IS TIME TO EXAMINE WHAT WE ARE DOING.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Drugmakers Rush to Produce a Swine Flu Vaccine
LONDON -- With swine flu now an official pandemic, the race is on among drugmakers to produce a vaccine. GlaxoSmithKline said Thursday after the World Health Organization declared a global flu epidemic that it would be ready
within weeks to begin large-scale vaccine production. Sanofi-Aventis also said it had started working on its own version.
On Friday, Swiss pharma giant Novartis announced it had created an experimental vaccine that has not been tested in people. Novartis' vaccine was made via a cell-based technology that may prove faster than the traditional way of making vaccines, which relies on chicken eggs.
Many rich countries like Britain, Canada and France signed contracts with pharmaceuticals long ago, guaranteeing them access to pandemic vaccine. WHO and others estimate that about 2.4 billion doses of pandemic vaccine could be available in about a year. The likely scramble for vaccines will leave many people in poorer countries empty-handed.
So far, swine flu has been mostly detected in developed countries like the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. "We do not know how this virus will behave under conditions typically found in the developing world," WHO chief Dr.Margaret Chan said Thursday. She said the agency expects to see a "bleaker" picture as the virus makes its way to Africa and Asia.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said officials were concerned people in poorer countries and those fighting other health problems like malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition and pneumonia might be more susceptible to swine flu.
On Friday, WHO said that 74 countries had reported nearly 30,000 cases including 145 deaths. But so far, the virus appears to be mild. Most people don't need medical treatment to get better. But the virus might have a more devastating effect in people with underlying health problems. About half of the people who have died from swine flu have had complications like asthma, diabetes, and obesity. "Any population that has health challenges is potentially going to be at higher risk with H1N1 (swine flu)," Hartl said.
In May, officials led by Chan and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked vaccine makers to save a portion of their production for poor countries. Chan was aiming to get 10 percent of the global pandemic vaccine supply reserved for poor nations.
Some companies have agreed to help. GlaxoSmithKline PLC offered to donate 50 million doses of pandemic vaccine to WHO for distribution to developing countries.
During the bird flu crisis, Sanofi-Aventis promised WHO about 60 million doses based on the H5N1 strain. WHO is now talking with Sanofi to switch some or all of those vaccines over to swine flu doses.
Because more than 95 percent of flu vaccines are still made in eggs, experts say the Novartis announcement is unlikely to significantly boost the world's pandemic vaccine supply.
But the news pushed up Novartis shares by 4.4 percent to close at 45 Swiss francs ($41.84) on the Zurich exchange Friday.
WHO and nongovernment organizations like Oxfam are continuing to ask drugmakers to make some of their pandemic vaccines available for poorer countries at a cheaper price, as well as asking donor countries and organizations to pay for the doses.
But in a pandemic situation, WHO's attempts to secure vaccine for the poor and even the contracts countries have signed
with drugmakers may make little difference to who actually gets the vaccine, some experts say.
In previous pandemics, vaccines have never left the country where they are made before all of that country's own needs
Drugmakers Rush to Produce a Swine Flu Vaccine http://www.thirdage.com/print/1505900
1 of 2 6/19/09 3:25 PM
have been met.
"WHO can say whatever it wishes, but pharmaceutical companies will take their marching orders from the politicians," said
David Fedson, a vaccines expert and former professor of medicine at the University of Virginia.
"Do you think any doses of vaccine made in France, Germany, the Czech Republic or anywhere will be allowed out to go to other countries just because there's a contract?" Fedson said.
Ultimately, Fedson said health officials and politicians will have to deal with a limited amount of vaccine for the billions worldwide who want it. "There's a lot of dirtiness in vaccine politics," he said. "We may try our best, but we won't succeed
in doing what's necessary."
Source URL: http://www.thirdage.com/cold-flu/drugmakers-rush-to-produce-a-swine-flu-vaccine
Article Source: Associated Press/AP Online
Drugmakers Rush to Produce a Swine Flu Vaccine http://www.thirdage.com/print/1505900
So. I and millions are going to be either asked or ordered to take this new swine flu vaccine. Some was tested years ago but its efficacy is not known. One company has a new way of making it not yet tested on humans.
Poor countries they do not know about at all and will only get some of the vaccines.
If one has underlying conditions it seems you are at greater risk if you take the vaccines.
I am still thinking about the forced folly we are encouraged and frightened to take part in and I for one will use Homeopathy which does very well helping flu sufferers and does not effect other problems the body is having as it stimulates the immune system. Half the patients who have died so far died of post complications or preexisting conditions that bloomed due to the weakening of the body during the flu.
If Homeopathy had been used in many of these cases I am sure the death rate would have been lower.
We are paying millions because we are being frightened and led to take vaccines which are questionable ways to deal with the flu.
within weeks to begin large-scale vaccine production. Sanofi-Aventis also said it had started working on its own version.
On Friday, Swiss pharma giant Novartis announced it had created an experimental vaccine that has not been tested in people. Novartis' vaccine was made via a cell-based technology that may prove faster than the traditional way of making vaccines, which relies on chicken eggs.
Many rich countries like Britain, Canada and France signed contracts with pharmaceuticals long ago, guaranteeing them access to pandemic vaccine. WHO and others estimate that about 2.4 billion doses of pandemic vaccine could be available in about a year. The likely scramble for vaccines will leave many people in poorer countries empty-handed.
So far, swine flu has been mostly detected in developed countries like the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia. "We do not know how this virus will behave under conditions typically found in the developing world," WHO chief Dr.Margaret Chan said Thursday. She said the agency expects to see a "bleaker" picture as the virus makes its way to Africa and Asia.
WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said officials were concerned people in poorer countries and those fighting other health problems like malaria, tuberculosis, malnutrition and pneumonia might be more susceptible to swine flu.
On Friday, WHO said that 74 countries had reported nearly 30,000 cases including 145 deaths. But so far, the virus appears to be mild. Most people don't need medical treatment to get better. But the virus might have a more devastating effect in people with underlying health problems. About half of the people who have died from swine flu have had complications like asthma, diabetes, and obesity. "Any population that has health challenges is potentially going to be at higher risk with H1N1 (swine flu)," Hartl said.
In May, officials led by Chan and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked vaccine makers to save a portion of their production for poor countries. Chan was aiming to get 10 percent of the global pandemic vaccine supply reserved for poor nations.
Some companies have agreed to help. GlaxoSmithKline PLC offered to donate 50 million doses of pandemic vaccine to WHO for distribution to developing countries.
During the bird flu crisis, Sanofi-Aventis promised WHO about 60 million doses based on the H5N1 strain. WHO is now talking with Sanofi to switch some or all of those vaccines over to swine flu doses.
Because more than 95 percent of flu vaccines are still made in eggs, experts say the Novartis announcement is unlikely to significantly boost the world's pandemic vaccine supply.
But the news pushed up Novartis shares by 4.4 percent to close at 45 Swiss francs ($41.84) on the Zurich exchange Friday.
WHO and nongovernment organizations like Oxfam are continuing to ask drugmakers to make some of their pandemic vaccines available for poorer countries at a cheaper price, as well as asking donor countries and organizations to pay for the doses.
But in a pandemic situation, WHO's attempts to secure vaccine for the poor and even the contracts countries have signed
with drugmakers may make little difference to who actually gets the vaccine, some experts say.
In previous pandemics, vaccines have never left the country where they are made before all of that country's own needs
Drugmakers Rush to Produce a Swine Flu Vaccine http://www.thirdage.com/print/1505900
1 of 2 6/19/09 3:25 PM
have been met.
"WHO can say whatever it wishes, but pharmaceutical companies will take their marching orders from the politicians," said
David Fedson, a vaccines expert and former professor of medicine at the University of Virginia.
"Do you think any doses of vaccine made in France, Germany, the Czech Republic or anywhere will be allowed out to go to other countries just because there's a contract?" Fedson said.
Ultimately, Fedson said health officials and politicians will have to deal with a limited amount of vaccine for the billions worldwide who want it. "There's a lot of dirtiness in vaccine politics," he said. "We may try our best, but we won't succeed
in doing what's necessary."
Source URL: http://www.thirdage.com/cold-flu/drugmakers-rush-to-produce-a-swine-flu-vaccine
Article Source: Associated Press/AP Online
Drugmakers Rush to Produce a Swine Flu Vaccine http://www.thirdage.com/print/1505900
So. I and millions are going to be either asked or ordered to take this new swine flu vaccine. Some was tested years ago but its efficacy is not known. One company has a new way of making it not yet tested on humans.
Poor countries they do not know about at all and will only get some of the vaccines.
If one has underlying conditions it seems you are at greater risk if you take the vaccines.
I am still thinking about the forced folly we are encouraged and frightened to take part in and I for one will use Homeopathy which does very well helping flu sufferers and does not effect other problems the body is having as it stimulates the immune system. Half the patients who have died so far died of post complications or preexisting conditions that bloomed due to the weakening of the body during the flu.
If Homeopathy had been used in many of these cases I am sure the death rate would have been lower.
We are paying millions because we are being frightened and led to take vaccines which are questionable ways to deal with the flu.
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