Sandra Finley

Apr 202017
 

The café was playing this soundtrack.   A friend summarized:

It’s by Roger Waters, originally a Pink Floyd musician (Waters left in 1985 to do a solo career).   It’s about an alien culture that visits Earth after we’ve destroyed it.

And then the alien anthropologists  Admitted they were still perplexed

But on eliminating every other reason  For our sad demise

They logged the only explanation left  This species has amused itself to death . . . 

 

The song is also anti-war and about how we succumb.

I love Serendipity:  on this same day I read the little handbook (Cdn $11.00 plus tax),

On Tyranny 

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, 2017, by Timothy Snyder

  • – – –    Lesson 13    – – –

Practice corporeal politics. 

Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen.  Get outside.  Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people.  Make new friends and march with them.

Poetry that condenses language:

FULL LYRICS,  AMUSED TO DEATH    FOLLOWED BY EXPLANATION OF SOME REFERENCES

Doctor Doctor what is wrong with me

This supermarket life is getting long

What is the heart life of a colour TV

What is the shelf life of a teenage queen

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Ooh western woman

Ooh western girl

News hound sniffs the air

When Jessica Hahn goes down

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He latches on to that symbol

Of detachment

Attracted by the peeling away of feeling

The celebrity of the abused shell the belle

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Ooh western woman

Ooh western girl

And the children of Melrose

Strut their stuff

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Is absolute zero cold enough

And out in the valley warm and clean

The little ones sit by their TV screens

No thoughts to think

No tears to cry

All sucked dry

Down to the very last breath

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Bartender what is wrong with me

Why am I so out of breath

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The captain said excuse me ma’am

This species has amused itself to death               (Neil Postman‘s book Amusing Ourselves to Death)

Amused itself to death

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Amused itself to death

We watched the tragedy unfold

We did as we were told

We bought and sold

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It was the greatest show on earth

But then it was over

We ohhed and aahed

We drove our racing cars

We ate our last few jars of caviar

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And somewhere out there in the stars

A keen-eyed look-out

Spied a flickering light

Our last hurrah

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And when they found our shadows

Grouped around the TV sets

They ran down every lead

They repeated every test

They checked out all the data on their lists

And then the alien anthropologists

Admitted they were still perplexed

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But on eliminating every other reason

For our sad demise

They logged the only explanation left

This species has amused itself to death

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No tears to cry no feelings left

This species has amused itself to death

 INSERT:   the soundtrack continues . . . 

(Switch Channels)

[Alf Razzell:]   (INSERT:  see Paragragh 2 in the Explanations below)

“Years later, I saw Bill Hubbard’s name on the memorial to the missing at Aras[?]. And I…when I saw his name I was absolutely transfixed; it was as though he was now a human being instead of some sort of nightmarish memory of how I had to leave him, all those years ago.

And I felt relieved, and ever since then I’ve felt happier about it, because always before, whenever I thought of him, I said to myself, ‘Was there something else that I could have done?’

[Background: “I’d rather die, I’d rather die…”]

And that always sort of worried me. And having seen him, and his name in the register – as you know in the memorials there’s a little safe, there’s a register in there with every name – and seeing his name and his name on the memorial; it sort of lightened my…heart, if you like.”

(Woman) “When was it that you saw his name on the memorial?”

“Ah, when I was eighty-seven, that would be a year, ninete…eighty-four, nineteen eighty-four.”

 

With thanks to Wikipedia for explanations re Amused to Death

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amused_to_Death

. . .    The album’s artwork features a chimpanzee watching television in reference to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.[3] The image on the TV is a gigantic eyeball staring at the viewer.[3] According to Waters, the ape was “a symbol for anyone who’s been sitting with his mouth open in front of the network and cable news for the last 10 years.”[2] The album’s title was inspired by Neil Postman‘s book Amusing Ourselves to Death.[3] The album is organised loosely around the idea of an ape randomly switching channels on a television,[4] but explores numerous political and social themes, including critiques of the First Gulf War in “The Bravery of Being Out of Range” and “Perfect Sense”.

The first song, “The Ballad of Bill Hubbard”, features a sample of World War I veteran Alfred “Raz” Razzell, a member of the Royal Fusiliers (much like Waters’ father Eric Fletcher Waters had been in World War II) who describes his account of finding fellow soldier William “Bill” Hubbard, to whom the album is dedicated, severely wounded on the battlefield. After failed attempts to take him to safety, Razzell is forced to abandon him in no-man’s land. This sample is continued at the end of the title track, at the very end of the album, providing a more upbeat coda to the tragic story. The track also features the sound of several animals.[4] The second song, “What God Wants, Part I“, follows and contrasts the moving words of Razzell by opening with the TV being tuned instead into an excerpt that sounds like it’s taken from a vox pop of a child who says, “I don’t mind about the war. That’s one of the things I like to watch – if it’s a war going on. ‘Cos then I know if, um, our side’s winning, if our side’s losing…” he is then interrupted by the channel change and a burst of ape-chatter.

“Perfect Sense” is a two-part song about a world where live transmissions of wars are the main form of entertainment.[2] The first part of the song begins with a loud, unintelligible rant, and then a backwards message voiced by Waters: “Julia, however, in the light and visions of the issues of Stanley, we changed our minds. We have decided to include a backward message. Stanley, for you, and for all the other book burners.” The message climaxes with Waters yelling in the aggressive Scottish voice he used to depict the character of the teacher in The Wall. In the second part, famed sportscaster Marv Albert narrates a war as if it were a basketball game.

“The Bravery of Being Out of Range” includes a reference to a song written by Waters on Pink Floyd‘s 1977 album Animals, “Sheep” (not to mention the spiritual “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot“[5]).  (In “Sheep“, Waters sings “I’ve looked over Jordan and I have seen / Things are not what they seem”; in “The Bravery of Being Out of Range”, he sings “I looked over Jordan and what did I see / I saw a U.S. Marine in a pile of debris”.)

“Late Home Tonight, Part I” recalls the 1986 US air strike against Libya from the perspective of two “ordinary wives” and a young American F-111 pilot.

At the beginning of “What God Wants, Part II”, Charles Fleischer (better known as the voice of Roger Rabbit) performs the greedy evangelist’s sermon. . . .

The song “Watching TV” (a duet with Don Henley) explores the influence of mass media on the Chinese protests for democracy in Tiananmen Square.

 

Apr 202017
 

I had heard about Bill C-87 in Ontario, but hoped it wasn't!

Forced injections (vaccinations) are not only an issue of

  • HEALTH  (safety of the vaccines, the number, the age at injection, the ingredients, the combined effects)
  • INFORMED CONSENT  (the information that should be provided is not)

They are

  • a HUMAN RIGHTS issue.

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COMMITTEE HEARINGS (re Vaccines, Ontario Bill C-87):

DEADLINE,  WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS:   5:00 p.m. on Monday, May 8, 2017

Public hearings in Toronto:   April 12 and 26,  May 3 and 10   (Contact Clerk of the Committee by 12:00 noon on Friday, May 5 to register).

For Committee address, phone numbers, and a copy of the proposed legislation see

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

And,   more info on C-87.

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Read on.   If C-87 passes in Ontario,  it is coming to you.  Alberta already has some version of it,  see at very bottom of this posting, under heading “Update on provincial vaccine legislations“.

The movement in the U.S. against legislation that removes choice on whether, which, how many vaccinations, at what age, for your kids,  is growing by leaps and bounds.

The legislation in California is enacted:  if your kids aren’t vaccinated according to schedule they can’t go to school, not public or private.

Electronic, shared health records in the medical system, for every person, plus the ability to dictate the vaccine schedule  – – you have no say over what is injected into your children – – leaves me in disbelief.

It is a battle, not only for the U.S.   Get your boots on!

We need as much awareness, conversation and action on the Ontario legislation as possible, sufficient to stop it.

Many thanks to Vaccine Choice Canada   (VCC)  for their excellent work and the information package below excerpted from their newsletter.

Edda West, the head of VCC, was interviewed for The Truth About Vaccines, great to see the Canadian voice represented.   

Thanks to Janet M for helping distribute VCC’s info, who writes:  ” . . .  & a ton of good links on vaccines down at the bottom.”

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TEMPLATE

I sent this to 2 interested chiropractors, some First Nations in Ontario.  And many others.  Feel free to copy, edit, and paste.

 

Subject: ALERT: Vaccines – Ontario legislation to take away choice. Human rights issue.

 

Forced injections (vaccinations) are not only an issue of

  • HEALTH  (safety of the vaccines, the number, the age at injection, the ingredients, the combined effects)
  • INFORMED CONSENT  (the information that should be provided is not)

They are

  • a HUMAN RIGHTS issue.

Vaccine Choice Canada is creating awareness of Ontario legislation, Bill C-87.   It is a threat to all three.

Similar legislation is definitely in the works in other jurisdictions, and not only Canadian.

C-87 (Ontario)  has passed second reading. And is now in Committee.

Deadline, written submissions:   May 8, 5:00PM.

VCC needs help getting the information out.   Please share with your networks.

Awareness of what is at risk, and lobbying of Ontario’s legislature is very important.    C-87 will have to pass 3rd reading after the Committee Report.

Excerpt,  VCC newsletter,  re  Bill C-87,  see  http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=18889.

I suggest sending the information to everyone, regardless of where they live.  Alberta passed some version of C-87 in November 2016.

Note: I am not VCC – –  However, I am informed and aware of the threats posed by the legislation.   I can help answer questions or direct people to more information.

Best wishes,

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Vaccine Choice Canada V-Bulletin   March/April 2017

EXCERPT:  

Vaccine Exemption Rights Threatened

As many of you already know, the Ontario government is in the process of amending the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) for the specific purpose of targeting non-vaccinating families and to narrow parents’ access to vaccine exemptions.

The amendment will also require medical personnel to submit children’s vaccine records to public health officials, a violation of medical privacy rights.

The ISPA amendment is listed as Schedule 1 of Bill 87, the Protecting Patients Act 2016, an omnibus bill which also contains four other legislative amendments unrelated to vaccine exemptions.

As expected, the 2nd reading of Bill 87 (including “education session” amendments to the ISPA) has passed in the Ontario legislature 52 yes 44 no, and has now gone to a legislative committee that will hear submissions from the public.

Members of Vaccine Choice Canada plan on making both oral and written submissions voicing our opposition to the proposed changes to ISPA which we have articulated in our Summary of Concerns document.

These submissions will become part of the legislative and historic record of growing public alarm over government abuse of our informed consent rights and medical privacy laws.   Heather Fraser’s submission to the Committee on April 12, 2017 can be read here.

Since 1984, ISPA has provided parents in Ontario with the legal right to exempt their school age children from any or all vaccines for reasons of conscience or religion.

Once Bill 87 passes 3rd reading and the amendments to ISPA become law, no matter how well educated parents already are on the pros and cons of vaccination, they will be forced to complete an “immunization education session”, prior to being allowed to file a conscience or religious based vaccine exemption for their children.

At this point in time, no one knows the content of these “education sessions” or how they will be conducted or the kind of coercion parents will face.

The second aspect of the ISPA amendment that raises serious concerns is that doctors, nurses and other vaccine providers will be required to provide the medical officer of health (public health official) with the vaccine records of every child they have vaccinated.

Disclosure of patients’ medical records without the patient’s knowledge or consent is a serious breech of medical records privacy laws and must be contested.

In Ontario PHIPA, the  Personal Health Information Protection Act  is the legal instrument that protects people’s right to privacy of their medical records. As explained in this  summary document  patients have the right to “refuse or give consent to the collection, use or disclosure of your personal health information”, except in certain circumstances such as emergencies.

You have the right to make a voluntary and informed decision about medical treatments that carry a risk of injury or death. This includes vaccination. Your right to decide is protected by Canadian Medical Law and Ontario’s Health Care Consent Act, which uphold the right to Informed Consent.

The supreme law of the land is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which protects your right to “freedom of conscience and religion” and your right to “security of the person”.

Your body. Your health. Your Right!

Now is the time to speak up for our most basic human right – the right to say NO to unwanted medical treatments like vaccination.

Now is the time to take a stand to protect the right to make voluntary and informed vaccine choices for you and your children.

Now is the time to reject this overt move toward mandatory vaccination laws.

We urge you to make your voices heard!   We encourage you to present an oral or written submission to the legislative committee. Information on how to register to present your statement is provided at this link.

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A reminder to our subscribers – we post the top vaccine related news items from at home and abroad daily on our Facebook page. It is the best place to go for up to the minute breaking news at: www.facebook.com/VaccineChoiceCanada/

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In the News

The Truth About Vaccines – Free access to new 7-part documentary miniseries starts April 12 

Parent Gives National Post a History Lesson on Vaccines by Ted Kuntz

TVOntario: Science or Scientism?  by Ted Kuntz

Infant vaccine schedule endangers the immune system Paul Thomas MD discusses the problems with the CDC vaccine schedule

The Health Impact of Today’s Most Prevalent Environmental Toxin – Troubling Research Revealed at 12th Keele Conference on Aluminum by Celeste McGovern

Free Age of Aluminum e-book from CMSRI

Vaccine Papers – The science behind aluminum vaccine adjuvant toxicity: (excellent site – cutting edge analysis of published science)  (INSERT: the link works altho it shows as not.  17-04-20)

The Vaccine Safety Debate by Judy Wilyman

Did Chinese Scientists find Missing Link to Autism’s Missing Puzzle Pieces? by JB Handley

The MMR vaccine: why it’s sensible to worry about the way it has been regulated

How the anti-vaccine movement threatens us all

Mark Blaxil on Africa study re DPT increases mortality from other causes:  “all currently available evidence suggests that DTP vaccine may kill more children from other causes than it saves from diphtheria, tetanus or pertussis”

Laura Hayes: Parental Perspective on Improving Health & Reducing Costs

DPT vaccine associated with 212% increased infant mortality

Lesotho – severe measles vaccine reactions New vaccines still cause autism & the U.S. government know it

Metal Debris Found in Vaccine Supply

On Vaccines: the media is protecting us from ourselves and we should be thankful

Do you need a third mumps vaccine? Experts stuck on answer Merck has some explaining to do over its MMR Vaccine claims (from 2014)

The full story about Zostavax – The shingles vaccine Merck sued in Philly over shingles vaccine Mercury Facts from the World Mercury Project

Vaxxed Shown in a School EU Health Chief & 1700 cases of narcolepsy following H1N1 pandemic vaccine

Stop health authorities claiming that vaccines are safe Dr. Brownstein on Flu Vaccines (explains the statistical trick used to convince people)

Vitamin D protects from flu

Sharks Believe Double Dose Vaccinations in 2014 Will Keep Team Mumps Free

Devastated dog owners call for routine booster shots to be banned after pets die

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Vaccine Choice Canada receives no funding from government or corporate sources and is solely supported by our members.

Learn more about vaccines, diseases and how to protect your children from vaccine induced injuries. Become a member of Vaccine Choice Canada and receive our internationally acclaimed newsletters.

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Excerpt from Vaccine Choice Canada Newsletter,  Jan-Feb 2017:

Update on provincial vaccine legislations

Ontario 

On December 8, 2016, the Ontario government re-introduced a legislative amendment to the Immunization of School Pupils Act (ISPA) which will “require parents to complete an immunization education session before filing a statement of conscience or religious belief”.  The amendment is now embedded in Bill 87, Protecting Patients Act which mostly relates to seniors health issues.  

Since it was first introduced last spring as Bill 198, members of Vaccine Choice Canada have worked hard to alert the public about this impending assault on our health freedoms and the right to refuse unwanted medical treatments.  The previous Bill 198 died along with other bills when the Wynne government ‘prorogued’ parliament early last fall.   

The ISPA amendment now resurrected is tucked into Bill 87, the Protecting Patients Act which passed first reading on December 8.  Inserting the ISPA amendment into Bill 87 forces members of parliament who might vote against the ‘vaccine education session’ the province aims to impose on parents, would be conflicted and might feel they have to vote for Bill 87 because the majority of this legislation is about health issues unrelated to vaccines or children’s health.  

Our petition opposing the amendment garnered thousands of signatures and was presented to the Ontario legislature on three separate occasions. Many people met with their provincial members of parliament to voice their concerns about this restrictive legislation and to protest against the narrowing of our right to make voluntary and educated vaccine choices for our children. A foundational concern is that this bill violates the medical ethic of Informed Consent, and our Canadian Charter rights of freedom of conscience and religion.   

When the new session of the Ontario legislature convenes on February 21, Bill 87 will be pushed along to second reading, at which point we may have the opportunity to make a presentation opposing the amendment to a legislative committee. We must keep up the pressure on legislators….. 

Alberta 

An amendment to Alberta’s public health Act passed 3rd reading on Novermber 22, 2016.  The amendment gives public health officials more power to access children’s vaccination records, and will increase pressure on parents to comply with the provincial vaccine schedule.  This reply  (pdf) to VCC from Health Minister Sarah Hoffman also confirms that vaccination remains voluntary and that a form will be available for parents refusing vaccination for their child. We have not yet seen the form on the government website. 

“Student enrolment information will then be used by public health professionals, employed by AHS, to contact parents of students with missing immunization information to inform them that their child is missing immunization records, and to explain the benefits of immunization to parents with doubts or concerns. Parents will have to provide their child’s immunization records, complete any needed immunizations, get a letter from a doctor indicating a medical exemption, or sign a form indicating they decline immunization for their child. Immunization will remain voluntary.” 

Parents’ letter of concern to the Premiere of Alberta 

Alberta parents voice their concern about these new regulations. 

As of this writing, searches of the Alberta government website do not yield a link to a vaccine exemption form.  

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UPDATE #1 (Sandra speaking):

There is this update at the last link above:

Bill 28-Public Health Amendment Act received Royal Assent outside of house sitting and came into force on Nov.9, 2016, with exceptions, on Nov. 9, 2016.  PCE (Parents for Choice in Education) never received any response to questions asked below, from any member in the legislature, prior to the passing of this bill into law. 

UPDATE #2  (Sandra speaking):

April 18, 2017:   Ouch!   A trustee of the Edmonton School Board obtained unanimous support from the Board for action to make vaccinations more mandatory in Alberta than they already are.

Good news:  a petition

April 19 UPDATE:   Alberta Govt announces it is not supporting the Edmonton School Board position.   But read the article,  the discussion remains ill-informed.  And how I hate it when the leading proponents are PhD candidates.  From universities infiltrated by Big Pharma.

Alberta government not supporting mandatory vaccinations for students

Apr 192017
 

BELOW:    The Comments on “2017-04-14 Vaccines, Powerful combo: technology + people + information”.

They deserve a posting of their own.

Why are you spreading this crap?   – –  see  #2.

 

    1. Sent: April 14, 2017 2:47 PM
      To: Sandra Finley
      Subject: Re: Vaccines, Powerful combo: technology + people + information

      Thanks, will watch tonight. I notice Dr. Suzanne Humphries is in it. She’s great…she’s the first one I looked up on this subject a few years ago…she totally shaped my viewpoint on vaccinations…and by implication, many other issues in the current practice of medicine.

      To me this is like the nuclear issue in certain ways….

      I learned SO much about deceit and Big Science Agendas from being deeply involved in that nuclear stuff for 25 years… researching then learning about all the spin, almost-pseudo-science, lies of omission, exaggerations, media & politician manipulation, “nuke-speak”, and other bullshit…and the almost religious or cultish attitude of the pushers/alarmists. It was an amazing education for me – an education in worldliness.

    1. Sent: April 14, 2017 3:50 PM
      To: Sandra Finley
      Subject: Re: Vaccines, Powerful combo: technology + people + information

      Why are you spreading this crap? Do you want to go back a hundred years to the time when smallpox, polio, whooping cough, measles, rubella, diphtheria, mumps, etc., were rampant? I’m old enough to remember when whole communities lost children due to communicable diseases. I also knew people who were terribly scarred by smallpox. I lost good friends to TB, tetanus, and hepatitis. Your source of misinformation is not credible.

        • Sent: April 14, 2017 6:39 PM

          Hi,

          I was diagnosed with polio at age 3. Height of the 1952 epidemic. (INSERT: See below – – did I actually have poliomyelitis?)

          My kids were vaccinated in the early eighties.

          The world has changed in many ways since then.

          I have very serious questions about the number and kinds of vaccinations being given today.
          And the age at which they start the schedule.

          Unfortunately, as with other things, there is an enormous amount of money on the table.
          Especially if the vaccinations are purchased by the public purse.

          In the U.S. (the source of many of the problems) the pharmaceutical companies have a free pass.
          They cannot be sued if their vaccines do damage.
          There is a Vaccine Adverse Effects Compensation program, totally funded by citizens.
          A large percentage of the awards given are eaten up by lawyer fees.
          There are problems with that system.

          In spite of which, using the figures supplied by the program itself, (as I understand and it would be easy enough to confirm), more than $3 billion dollars have been paid out in compensation. Those cases involve healthy kids who get the scheduled vaccines one day and the next day they’re in severe distress and permanently damaged. There is no possibility of denial.

          I understand what’s happening in the same context as with the IBT Laboratory scandal in the U.S. in the 1980’s. It involved the chem companies, and pharma to a lesser extent. A journalist from Regina, SK was an important player in uncovering and exposing it. Until that time, if a chemical was licensed for use in the USA, it was automatically licensed in Canada.

          It was discovered that the chem companies (and others like pharma) were “purchasing” the science they needed to get their products registered. They used “independent” labs. But compromised the “science” with their money. Monsanto was involved.

          Canada established its own independent approval process (the PMRA) after the IBT scandal.

          However, using the example of Smartstax corn (2009), I wrote: By 2009 they have effectively removed the “independent” approval system in Canada. Smartstax was approved on the same day in Canada, as in the U.S. Which is to say that the “harmonization” of regulation that the industry has been working on, is now in place.

          This is not to divert attention from the vaccination issue. But only to say: beware the corporates. Citizens always have to be fighting against their corrupting influence.

          I have no problem if you, or anyone else, disagrees with my position on vaccinations. I have to go with what I understand. I listened to the taped information supplied by the CDC whistleblower, William Thompson. He was the statistician on the 5-member internal CDC Committee tasked with manipulation of the data set to show a different outcome on the link between thimerasol (mercury in the vaccine) and autism.

          To me, the information is overwhelming to say that there needs to be an investigation into the vaccinations, which if it happens, will help to clean out the corruption. And we can start anew.

          But rest assured, the next generation will have to do its own fight against the corrupting power of concentrated wealth. In the meantime, a lot of kids and families are suffering unconscionably because pharma is safely hidden behind the sacrosanct. It can’t be discussed.

          /Sandra

            • Sent: April 14, 2017 6:50 PM
              To: Sandra Finley

              There may be some corruption in the production and pricing of vaccines, but I do know that it is very much cheaper to pay for immunization than to pay for health care for the population if there is no immunization, to say nothing of the suffering and loss of life. Immunization is the most efficient form of disease prevention that we have, but of course to be maximally efficient it has to be universal.

                • Sent: April 14, 2017 7:08 PM

                  As with other things, researchers are changing our understanding of some things.

                  I received this input  (David,  #1 above)

                  I notice Dr. Suzanne Humphries is in it. She’s great…she’s the first one I looked up on this subject a few years ago…she totally shaped my viewpoint on vaccinations…and by implication, many other issues in the current practice of medicine.

                  To me this is like the nuclear issue in certain ways….

                  Humphries is joined by others in re-shaping the understanding.

                    • Sent: April 14, 2017 9:55 PM
                      To: Sandra Finley

                      RE:
                      > I notice Dr. Suzanne Humphries is in it. She’s great…she’s the first
                      > one I looked up on this subject a few years ago…she totally shaped my > viewpoint on vaccinations…and by implication, many other issues in the > current practice of medicine.

                      Dr Humphries does not appear to be a researcher. She is expressing opinions. I couldn’t find one piece of data to support her position.

    1. Sent: April 15, 2017 10:59 AM

      I’d like to put it to the test: the Truth About Vaccines reiterates that they want to answer any questions. I will submit the question of Humphries’ evidence to them to answer. Will get back to you when there’s feedback.

      (INSERT: the question – – was it poliomyelitis?)

      Back to the polio. I was diagnosed with it. I would have been a statistic among the cases that collectively met the criteria to apply “epidemic” status  for the 1952 outbreak of polio.  But in my adult life I have wondered whether I actually had polio. My Mother kept good records. I had a look at them some time ago when I was curious about whether the thimerasol (mercury) used in vaccinations might have been a factor.

      (INSERT: a symptom of mercury poisoning mis-identified as a symptom of poliomyelitis).

      I have not (yet!) followed thru on my intention to send hair from my first official haircut for heavy metal analysis, just as a matter of interest/curiosity.  That would reveal whether there is mercury in the hair sample or not.

      What the researchers are questioning is the historical record. Keeping in mind that different pharmaceutical companies manufacture their own vaccines, but for the same diseases. And within that, not all batches were/are uniform. I can obtain the citations for (I believe it’s factual and accepted): situations where the vaccine introduced the disease into a population.

      I just had a look at my early “immunization record”. The dates are recorded on the vaccine schedule. There is a hand-written entry by my Mother: Polio – May, June 20, Oct?

      On a different page, “Mother’s Notes”: On Nov 6, 1952 we took her into Dr. Kinnear in S’toon because she complained of pains in her right leg & he diagnosed it as polio. Had affected muscles in the right knee & she had a bit of a sidle in her walk. Skating seemed to be the answer in helping it. (I was taken to the skating rink almost daily, as I understand.)

      What the researchers are identifying is that there are toxins that can cause the same symptoms as the poliomyelitis virus. DDT is one of them. There are strong correlations between DDT use in agriculture and the onset of a disease epidemic.  I was raised in the vast farmlands of Saskatchewan.

      Simultaneously, the classification of what constituted the disease was changed.  There is the question of how the re-definition may or may not have changed the story of what was happening.

      Anyhow, there’s lots to ponder.

      Sandra

        • Sent: April 15, 2017 3:03 PM
          To: Sandra Finley

          Sandra,

          I’m not sure what you will do with the information you are seeking if and when you get it. I’d say that the odds for a happy life after use of the polio vaccine are a lot better than spending one’s life in an iron lung, as many did prior to the Salk vaccine coming on stream.

            • Sent: April 15, 2017 6:12 PM

              Katrina,

              The questions you raise are the same ones that others ask.
              Or, they just ask to be deleted from my distribution list!

              I hope you don’t mind: without identifying you by name, I documented our exchange in the “Comments” on the blog page.

              A copy of the 2 questions, as I submitted them to The Truth About Vaccines, is below (# 5 of the Comments in this exchange).

              RE: the Salk vaccine. This from the National institute of Health (U.S.):

              (The Salk vaccine) was not without tragedy –
              nearly 400,000 children had been inoculated with Cutter polio vaccine and 250 cases of atypical paralytic polio occurred
              . . . These incidents demonstrated the lack of oversight and safeguards . . .

              More about the “Cutter” vaccine below.

              So there was an outcry and there was more oversight.

              Then comes amnesia.

              And where are we today? . . . with several vaccines rolled into one, with many many more vaccines, and with additions to the vaccines that my common sense says “no” to.  Don’t you put that into me!  Let along into my children!

              . . . e.g. You know how little of a particular ingredient it can take to upset the body’s functioning? Well . .

              QUESTION: do you want to receive borax by direct injection? . . . It is used as an attenuator (used in the vaccine to weaken the virus – – the vaccine can’t contain the virus at full strength).

              I was kind of surprised (sceptical) that some vaccines contain borax, so I did my own research. I did not realize how potent it is. I recorded what I found:

              From the posting   fraud at the CDC   

              (Scroll down to How are vaccines made? Then down to ATTENUATION) 

              July 26, 2016
              Health Canada is advising Canadians to avoid using borax to make kids’ arts and crafts, such as homemade “slime,” over concerns that too much exposure to all forms of boric acid can cause “ developmental and reproductive health effects” in children and pregnant women
              .

              (See the posting – – there’s more.)

              Nice!  But failure to mention the direct injection of vaccines that contain borax.

              Same story as the mercury in vaccinations. A world-wide effort to ban products that contain mercury because even in miniscule amounts it is highly toxic.   BUT! Continue its use in some vaccines (absolutely it is still used in North America).   And who cares if the mercury-containing vaccines are used in 3rd world countries?

              Or, tell everyone to avoid fish because of their high mercury content – – when the main sources of mercury in humans is from dental amalgams (50% mercury) and from vaccinations that contain mercury (thimerasol).

              And so it goes.

              Best wishes Katrina.

              Appended:

              National Institute of Health, U.S. Excerpt
              https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2928990/

              C. Cutter and Wyeth Incidents
              Regretfully, the story of polio vaccine was not without tragedy. In April 1955, soon after mass polio vaccination began in the United States, reports trickled in to the Surgeon General concerning atypical cases of paralytic polio. Several paralytic polio cases were reported in California in patients who had received the polio vaccine about a week earlier but the paralysis only affected the arm or leg in which they received the injection. Each of these cases occurred in polio vaccine produced by Cutter pharmaceutical company.

              The Surgeon General immediately pulled all Cutter polio vaccine, but it was too late; nearly 400,000 children had been inoculated with Cutter polio vaccine and 250 cases of atypical paralytic polio occurred. There were also reports of the Wyeth pharmaceutical company polio vaccine causing paralysis and death in several children in the northeastern United States.19, 21

              It was soon discovered that some lots of Cutter and Wyeth polio vaccine were insufficiently inactivated with formalin leading to live polio virus in more than 100,000 doses. In fact, 16 lots of Cutter polio vaccine were retested and the first 6 lots produced were positive for live polio virus. These incidents demonstrated the lack of oversight and safeguards put into place before the vaccine was made so widely available. 12, 19, 21

    1. NOTE: the debate is focused on your right, versus the state right, to decide what will be injected into your body – – if, how much, when, how and what.

      It comes in the face of legislators in North America enacting legislation to take away your right to decide. Bill C-87 in Ontario has passed second reading.

      Thank goodness people like Vaccine Choice Canada are making submissions to the Committee of the Legislature. But they need help if the Legislation is to be stopped.

      We don’t see the contradictions: the legislation stands in contrast to legislation around reproductive rights. (We accept that we have a right over our own body  – – except when it’s big pharma/government and forced injections for which the science is badly flawed.)  There are potent issues around Charter Rights.

      The point is: vaccinations, what the pharmaceutical companies are doing, bona fide science, the historical record, an informed public, and so on – – these are not sacrosanct topics. Why can they not be discussed?

    1. FOLLOW-UP ON EXCHANGE WITH KATRINA:

      I submitted these 2 questions to The Truth About Vaccines. And will report back when the answers are received:

      1. Would you please provide a summary sheet with citations re Suzanne Humphries’ work. And include 2 or 3 researchers whose work is in the same field?

      (Debate on my blog with a woman whose views are usually similar to mine: She wrote “Why are you spreading this crap? …etc

      I defended with example of Humphries whose work is changing our understanding of historical record.

      She countered with: Dr Humphries does not appear to be a researcher. She is expressing opinions. I couldn’t find one piece of data to support her position.

      I replied that I would put the question to you. I am thinking you might have a link that addresses the “opinion” versus “fact” of the historical record? Thank-you.

       

      2. I was diagnosed with polio on Nov 6, 1952 at the age of 3, by a city doctor. In adulthood I have wondered about the accuracy of the diagnosis.

      I was raised in a rural agricultural community – – Canadian prairies, Saskatchewan.

      I have my immunization record (not black-and-white, I have a couple questions about it).

      I have hair from my first official haircut, March 2, 1953 (and earlier samples from haircuts given by my brother and me).

      Because of the thimerasol used in vaccines, I have long toyed with the idea of sending the hair for analysis (if thimerasol was a factor in the early fifties).

      However, after listening to Dr. Humphries perhaps the better question is: was DDT being used in the early fifties on these farmlands?

      What do you think? One, the other, or both lines of inquiry?  (Or neither!)

  1. Sent: April 18, 2017 10:47 AM

    (Personal info), so I haven’t read the article.

    Having said that I still believe that vaccines are necessary to young lives and old lives too.
    Take care.

Re the vaccines: the problem is with the corruption that has emerged, especially since the U.S. passed the legislation to exempt big pharma from any, and all, liability related to vaccines.

The other huge side of it is that the media gives minimal coverage, if any, for example, to the whistle-blower at the CDC. Or to things like what they are putting into the vaccines.

(The exchange above) covers some of the ground that gives me great pause on vaccines.   Start at  Why are you spreading this crap?

The thrust isn’t that vaccines should be totally eliminated. I don’t actually know the vaccine schedule in Canada, the info is American. But I do know that what they get in the U.S., they push in other countries. And the vaccines are the same.

Injecting newborns, right after birth with Hep B vaccine is nuts if their parents are known to be Hep B free (which most are). On top of which, newborns aren’t sexually active and they aren’t intravenous drug users.

Vaccinating boys against HPV to prevent cervical cancer doesn’t make sense – – they don’t have a cervix.

I remember when they introduced and promoted rotavirus vaccine. It was contaminated with a pig virus. How could that happen, and did it actually happen? I went on the manufacturer’s website. It happened – – acknowledged right on their website. No repercussions for them because of the law that says they can’t be sued. Anyhow – – the list goes on and on.

The vaccine schedule is mandatory (California); kids are not allowed to attend schools (public or private) if they aren’t vaccinated. Doesn’t matter how much you might know about the vaccine, or which vaccine, how many, at what age, and along with how many other vaccines – – if it’s on the schedule it is required.

It doesn’t matter if you can demonstrate that the amount of mercury, or aluminum, in just one of the vaccines is multiple times the allowable limit. Let alone what the levels are when you combine the amount of mercury or aluminum in the total combination of what they are administering.

The Ontario legislation is aimed at the same end as the California.  It is Orwellian, a characteristic of cruel and oppressive rule.

But enough. Except this: I don’t know what the comparison is in Canada. The amount of money received by the U.S. doctors’ (paediatricians) offices, for vaccinating their client list is, to me, staggering. They are on a quota system. They get the pay-out (from the insurance companies) if 63% of their kids are fully vaxxed, with the “Combo 10”. $400 per kid. The paediatrician interviewed has 13,000 clients. I just did the math. 63% is 8,190. He would get $400 for each one. $400 times 8,190 is $3,276,000.  I double-checked the numbers because that is unbelievable to me. This particular doctor’s office foregoes more than $3 million if they don’t give the “Combo 10” to 8,190 of his kids.

It is not the first time in history that medical treatments become pervasive whether or not they contribute to health. It’s according to how much money the procedure generates. Routine, fast procedures, assembly-line style generate gravy.

The public picks up all the bills. The vaccines are sold to local jurisdictions – – I was surprised to learn that the CDC itself owns numerous patents on the vaccines. They promote, stock, and sell vaccines themselves. But of course, the pharma corporations manufacture (and get paid for) the actual vaccine.

The American public also pays for the compensation paid to families who, first have to know about, then can afford a lawyer to go to the “Vaccine Court”, and finally who are able to win their case. More than $3 billion in damages have been paid out, which tells you something.  (And as I say, in the U.S., paid for by the public purse.)

/Sandra

PLEASE HELP:

Vaccine Choice Canada is coordinating a  campaign to stop Ontario Bill C-87  which has passed second reading and is currently in Committee – – open to citizen input.

California –  the call is for massive civil disobedience (the legislation is already enacted).

The Truth About Vaccines is well done and strategically sound.  Their excellent work is critical to forming a mass movement to stop forced .

Apr 142017
 

(I sent #2 to the Dean of Medicine, U of S, with a short introduction.    If I was them,  I would like someone to let me know about the information that has now entered the sphere of informed public debate.)

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  1. Ontario legislation says the State Knows Better than you.

Bill 87, Protecting Patients Act, 2017.   UPDATE

May 30, 2017 Royal Assent received

Makes it very difficult for citizens of Ontario to make the decision whether young family members get vaccinated or not, and with which vaccines.    Charter Rights go out the window.   Vaccine Choice Canada supplied excellent information in the fight for CHOICE.  But I guess Big Pharma has more clout.

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(2)    I watched Episode 2 of The Truth About Vaccines last night.  (Also watched Episode 1)

I would fail in my commitment to you and to our kids if I did not take the time to send you the link to the series.  The information is well presented.

I don’t know how it is possible to make informed decisions about a very serious topic if you DON’T have the info.

We are participating in something that could not have been done a short while ago:

powerful technology, empowered people, with powerful information.

/Sandra

 

From:   The Truth About Vaccines [mailto:info@thetruthaboutvaccines.com]

Subject:   Episode 2 is still playing

Hey Sandra,

The feedback from our second episode in the series has been wonderful, thank you.

If you haven’t watched yet,  . . .

Please watch it right here and share it with your family, every parent (experienced, new, or expecting) that you know.  . . .

I’ll see you there,

Ty Bollinger

P.S.    We’re here to help! We want to make sure that you have everything you need to make an informed decision and I want you to get all your questions answered.

On each episode page, there will be a section titled “Live Q&A …” where you can submit your top 2 questions about that specific episode (or topic) and at the end of the series, we’re going to hold a live video broadcast where we’ll answer all your top questions from each episode.

This way you’re guaranteed to get as much information as possible so that you have everything you need to make an informed decision 🙂  . . .

 

Apr 122017
 

NVIC’s Barbara Loe Fisher summarizes the history of broken vaccine injury compensation promises made to citizens by the U.S. Government and the need to repeal the liability shield given to vaccine-makers and providers. Learn more at www.NVIC.org

(Sandra speaking):

The Compensation Program  has paid out more than $3 billion dollars

  • funded totally by American citizens
  • the pharmaceutical companies have been granted legal immunity from prosecution
  • citizens who have received compensation must typically spend a significant amount of it on legal bills
  • large numbers of vaccine-injured persons do not know of the existence of the Program,  and
  • large numbers either can’t afford, or are unsuccessful in attempts to obtain compensation for vaccine-related injuries or death.

Barbara Loe Fisher provides an impassioned call for investigation and law reform.

If you aren’t familiar with the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program in the U.S.,  this article from Dr. Mercola covers it well:    Government Wipes Recent Vaccine Injury Data from Website

June 23, 2015
128,804 views  (as at April 12, 2017) 

 

Apr 122017
 
 Julian Assange:    WikiLeaks has the same mission as The Post and the Times

 Julian Assange. (Axel Schmidt/Reuters)

By Julian Assange April 11 at 7:26 PM

Julian Assange is the editor of WikiLeaks.  

 

On his last night in office, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a powerful farewell speech to the nation — words so important that he’d spent a year and a half preparing them. “Ike” famously warned the nation to “guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”

Much of Eisenhower’s speech could form part of the mission statement of WikiLeaks today. We publish truths regarding overreaches and abuses conducted in secret by the powerful. 

Our most recent disclosures describe the CIA’s multibillion-dollar cyberwarfare program, in which the agency created dangerous cyberweapons, targeted private companies’ consumer products and then lost control of its cyber-arsenal. Our source(s) said they hoped to initiate a principled public debate about the “security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons.”

The truths we publish are inconvenient for those who seek to avoid one of the magnificent hallmarks of American life — public debate. Governments assert that WikiLeaks’ reporting harms security. Some claim that publishing facts about military and national security malfeasance is a greater problem than the malfeasance itself. Yet, as Eisenhower emphasized, “Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”

Quite simply, our motive is identical to that claimed by the New York Times and The Post — to publish newsworthy content. Consistent with the U.S. Constitution, we publish material that we can confirm to be true irrespective of whether sources came by that truth legally or have the right to release it to the media. And we strive to mitigate legitimate concerns, for example by using redaction to protect the identities of at-risk intelligence agents. 

Dean Baquet, executive editor of the New York Times, defended publication of our “stolen” material last year: “I get the argument that the standards should be different if the stuff is stolen and that should influence the decision. But in the end, I think that we have an obligation to report what we can about important people and important events.” David Lauter, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, made a similar argument: “My default position is democracy works best when voters have as much information as possible . . . And that information often comes from rival campaigns, from old enemies, from all sorts of people who have motives that you might look at and say, ‘that’s unsavory.’ ”  

The media has a long history of speaking truth to power with purloined or leaked material — Jack Anderson’s reporting on the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to kill Fidel Castro; the Providence Journal-Bulletin’s release of President Richard Nixon’s stolen tax returns; the New York Times’ publication of the stolen “Pentagon Papers”; and The Post’s tenacious reporting of Watergate leaks, to name a few. I hope historians place WikiLeaks’ publications in this pantheon. Yet there are widespread calls to prosecute me. 

President Thomas Jefferson had a modest proposal to improve the press: “Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into 4 chapters, heading the 1st, ‘Truths.’ 2nd, ‘Probabilities.’ 3rd, ‘Possibilities.’ 4th, ‘Lies.’ The first chapter would be very short, as it would contain little more than authentic papers, and information.” Jefferson’s concept of publishing “truths” using “authentic papers” presaged WikiLeaks. 

People who don’t like the tune often blame the piano player. Large public segments are agitated by the result of the U.S. presidential election, by public dissemination of the CIA’s dangerous incompetence or by evidence of dirty tricks undertaken by senior officials in a political party. But as Jefferson foresaw, “the agitation [a free press] produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure.”  

Vested interests deflect from the facts that WikiLeaks publishes by demonizing its brave staff and me. We are mischaracterized as America-hating servants to hostile foreign powers. But in fact I harbor an overwhelming admiration for both America and the idea of America. WikiLeaks’ sole interest is expressing constitutionally protected truths, which I remain convinced is the cornerstone of the United States’ remarkable liberty, success and greatness. 

I have given up years of my own liberty for the risks we have taken at WikiLeaks to bring truth to the public. I take some solace in this: Joseph Pulitzer, namesake of journalism’s award for excellence, was indicted in 1909 for publishing allegedly libelous information about President Theodore Roosevelt and the financier J.P. Morgan in the Panama Canal corruption scandal. It was the truth that set him free.

 

Apr 112017
 

http://www.monsanto-tribunal.org/

The Monsanto Tribunal is an international civil society initiative to hold Monsanto accountable for human rights violations, for crimes against humanity, and for ecocide. Eminent judges heard testimonies from victims, and will deliver a legal opinion following procedures of the International Court of Justice. A distinct and parallel event, the People’s Assembly, was a gathering of social movements from all over the world that exchanged ideas and planned for the future we want.

The Tribunal and People’s Assembly took place between 14 and 16 October 2016 in The Hague, Netherlands. The legal opinion will be delivered on April 18th 2017 and livestreamed on this page (above URL).

(See also:   2016-12-09 Washington state sues Monsanto over PCB pollution)

The Monsanto Tribunal Report – Live Streaming
by Friends of the Earth Canada  and  CBAN

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Dear Sandra,

Friends of the Earth Canada and the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) invite you to a live streaming event of the final judgment of  The International Monsanto Tribunal:

April 18th, 2017 9:00am – 10:30am

25OneCommunity (251 Bank Street) Ottawa, Ontario

Reserve your seat here.

Snacks will be provided.

A panel of five esteemed legal experts including Canadian lawyer Steven Shrybman was brought together by civil society  groups to investigate and deliver a legal opinion on the actions of company Monsanto, to determine if the company can be held accountable for human rights violations, for crimes against humanity, and for ecocide.

Monsanto is the largest seed company in the world and a leader in the commercialization of genetically modified (GM) seeds. It has a history as a chemical company and, even now, is one of the world’s top six agrochemical companies.

Learn more: www.cban.ca/Monsanto

“The aim of the Tribunal is to give a legal opinion on the environmental and health damage caused by the multinational Monsanto. This will add to the international debate to include the crime of Ecocide into international criminal law,” says Beatrice Olivastri, CEO, Friends of the Earth Canada.

The Tribunal heard the testimony of more than 20 plaintiffs from around the world during hearings October 15th and 16th 2016 in the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague. “The tribunal process has given us an important opportunity to hear testimony from farmers and affected communities around the world ,” says Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN).

CBAN also undertook its own investigation of the impacts of GMOs in Canada. Learn more: www.gmoinquiry.ca

The Tribunal employed as its legal guidelines: the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, adopted by the Council of the UN Human Rights June 2011; the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court (ICC) giving it jurisdiction to try alleged perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression.

Join us in Ottawa for live streaming and discussion at 251 Bank Street from 9:00am – 10:30am.

Please book your seat due to limited space.

For background on GMOs in Canada, see: www.cban.ca We hope to see you there!

 

Beatrice Olivastri CEO Friends of the Earth Canada
John Bennett Senior Policy Advisor Friends of the Earth Canada
Apr 112017
 

I was bummed out by the news.

So I created my own good news by watching  – –  Where to Invade Next !    It’s a brilliant film.   Made me feel happy again.

In case you haven’t seen it:

YouTube trailer at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KeAZho8TKo .   And, if you look to the right hand side of the screen, there’s lots of supporting youtubes to choose from.

For example, this interview – – terrific!    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502zLfzUWmc  

Where to Invade Next  is available on Netflix, on DVD.

A few excerpts from some websites:

. . .   To show what the USA can learn from rest of the world, director Michael Moore playfully visits various nations in Europe and Africa as a one-man “invader” to take their ideas and practices for America.

. . .  Filmmaker Michael Moore visits various countries to examine how Europeans view work, education, health care, sex, equality, and other issues. From cafeteria food to sex ed, Moore looks at the benefits of schooling in France, Finland and Slovenia. In Italy, he marvels at how workers enjoy reasonable hours and generous vacation time. In Portugal, Moore notes the effects of the decriminalization of drugs.

. . .   Whether it is Italy with its generous vacation time allotments, France with its gourmet school lunches, Germany with its industrial policy, Norway and its prison system, Tunisia and its strongly progressive women’s policy, or Iceland and its strong female presence in government and business among others,  . . .

Apr 102017
 

 

April 10, 2017

TO:   CBC Radio, The Current, Host Anna Maria Tremonti

RE:   (April 10)   Why we think we know everything, a cognitive scientist explains

Note:  in this interview, Tremonti and the interviewee, Steven Sloman, agreed with each other that vaccines is a sacrosanct topic, not open to discussion.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-april-10-2017-1.4061220/why-we-think-we-know-everything-a-cognitive-scientist-explains-1.4061245 

 I mailed my reaction.

This great cartoon by Paulus is at the top of my letter to Anna Maria Tremonti.

I tried to sign in (toonpool.com) for permission from Paulus to use his cartoon. Sorry, kept getting rejected.

I tried to sign in (toonpool.com) for permission from Paulus to use his cartoon. Sorry, kept getting rejected.

 

 

QUESTION: Why did it take 60 years for lead to be banned as an additive to gasoline?

Be careful in your reply.   Because as you read about lead in gasoline you will know it applies equally to the pharmaceutical industry.   Which leads directly to the question “Why can’t you ask a question about vaccines?”. If you know everything, no questions, thank-you.   But maybe your knowledge sharing is out-dated?

 

ANSWER: if you know the answer (lead in gasoline), skip down to the next QUESTION.

some of America’s leading corporations–General Motors, Du Pont and Standard Oil of New Jersey (known nowadays as Exxon)- got together and put lead, a known poison, into gasoline, for profit. . . .

thimerasol – – mercury, a known poison into vaccines, for profit.

  • the severe health hazards of leaded gasoline were known to its makers and clearly identified by the US public health community more than seventy-five years ago, but were steadfastly denied by the makers, because they couldn’t be immediately quantified;

 

  • other, safer antiknock additives–used to increase gasoline octane and counter engine “knock”–were known and available to oil companies and the makers of lead antiknocks before the lead additive was discovered, but they were covered up and denied, then fought, suppressed and unfairly maligned for decades to follow;

 

  • the US government was fully apprised of leaded gasoline’s potentially hazardous effects and was aware of available alternatives, yet was complicit in the cover-up and even actively assisted the profiteers in spreading the use of leaded gasoline to foreign countries;

 

  • the benefits of lead antiknock additives were wildly and knowingly overstated in the beginning, and continue to be. Lead is not only bad for the planet and all its life forms, it is actually bad for cars and always was;

 

  • for more than four decades, all scientific research regarding the health implications of leaded gasoline was underwritten and controlled by the original lead cabal–Du Pont, GM and Standard Oil; such research invariably favored the industry’s pro-lead views, but was from the outset fatally flawed; independent scientists who would finally catch up with the earlier work’s infirmities and debunk them were–and continue to be–threatened and defamed by the lead interests and their hired hands;

 

  • confronted in recent years with declining sales in their biggest Western markets, owing to lead phaseouts imposed in the United States and, more recently, Europe, the current sellers of lead additives have successfully stepped up efforts to market their wares in the less-developed world, efforts that persist and have resulted in some countries today placing more lead in their gasoline, per gallon, than was typically used in the West, extra lead that serves no purpose other than profit;

 

  • faced with lead’s demise and their inevitable days of reckoning, these firms have used the extraordinary financial returns that lead additive sales afford to hurriedly fund diversification into less risky, more conventional businesses, while taking a page from the tobacco companies’ playbook and simultaneously moving to reorganize their corporate structures to shield ownership and management from liability for blanketing the earth with a deadly heavy metal.

https://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead/

QUESTION: In 2017, what do we know about “For Profit” practices of the leading corporations in the pharmaceutical industry?
  • $3 billion GSK settlement. 2012, GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to a $3 billion settlement for health-care fraud. . . . illegal promotion of prescription drugs, failure to report safety data,[9] bribing doctors, and promoting medicines for uses for which they were not licensed. The drugs involved were Paxil, . . . Those and others were involved in the kickback scheme.[10][11][12]   . . . The government investigation of GSK was launched largely on the basis of information provided by four whistleblowers who filed two qui tam (whistleblower) lawsuits against the company

What are your views of the whistleblowers on the vaccines front?   Of the credibility of William Thompson from the CDC, on fraud at the CDC in which he was a major participant?

 

 

QUESTION:   Why would people NOT ask questions about the vaccines (pharmaceutical industry)?

Apr 102017
 

I have a particular interest in the Rule of Law and the things that undermine it.    My response to the CBC is at the bottom.    I think Canadians have blind spots.   /Sandra

A woman hugs her husband, next to a placard which reads "I'm a pusher", who was shot dead by an unidentified gunman in Manila on July 23, 2016. There has been a surge in killings by anti-drug vigilantes who leave victims' corpses on city streets wrapped in packaging tape with signs accusing them of being drug dealers.

 

A woman hugs her husband, next to a placard which reads “I’m a pusher”, who was shot dead by an unidentified gunman in Manila on July 23, 2016. There has been a surge in killings by anti-drug vigilantes who leave victims’ corpses on city streets wrapped in packaging tape with signs accusing them of being drug dealers. (NOEL CELIS/AFP/Getty Images)

 

Listen 19:52

Last June, a foul-mouthed provocateur named Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines. 

He came to office with a pledge to stamp drug crime out, by any violent means necessary. He encourages police and civilians alike to kill drug dealers and users.  

Since he took office, several thousand suspected drug dealers and users have been killed by police and vigilantes. Human rights advocates and leaders around the world have expressed their alarm — but in a recent poll, his approval rating remained above 75 per cent.  

[Lynching] is a form of extrajudicial violence, or extralegal violence, that is public … perpetrators want people to see this, as a spectacle of violence. It is particularly cruel. In other words, it involves, always, some form of “over-killing.” It’s not just about causing the death of the victim, but actually dehumanizing the body.

 

– Gema Santamaria

 

It’s a reminder that vigilante killings are no mere historical relic of the US South, where African-Americans were terrorized by the regime of lynching for decades in the 19th and 20th Centuries. And it might be said that the Philippines are just catching up with the practice of extrajudicial violence in several Latin American countries. 

Gema Santamaria is a leading expert on vigilantism. She is an assistant professor and the director of the International Relations Undergraduate Program at ITAM, a university in Mexico City. Professor Santamaria recently spoke with Michael Enright from a studio in Austin, Texas.

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MY RESPONSE, SUBMITTED ON-LINE TO THE SUNDAY EDITION, CBC

Thank-you for another excellent interview.

If I was a techie I would dub it.   I would insert “Canada” for some of those unfathomable countries.    Then see how it reads.

As I understand things, the role of the state is to protect citizens against violence.   Citizens agree to abandon violence and vigilantism; we pay taxes for policing and the justice system, in exchange for the ability to live in relative security, without fear.

The Justice System is funded – – owned – – by citizens.   It is the responsibility of citizens.
If we are fortunate, in the face of ineffective systems, communities will find their own ways to meet local needs.  Neighbourhood Watch, for instance.   Or programs that focus on the healthy development of the community, all its children and the environment.

If we are ineffective, violence will increase for the simple reason that it’s affordable to hire someone to break the knee-caps of an aggressor.
It is not affordable to use the justice system.

The Police typically will not handle, for example, cyber violence.  Amanda Todd, the UN admonitions for countries to do something about  cyber violence come to mind.

If the Justice and Policing Systems, the Governments in Canada, will not dedicate resources to create access to a Justice System designed to serve every day citizens, violence will increase because people tolerate only so much before they take matters into their own hands.

Violence begets violence in that system – – it is the available means of defence.

The Rule of Law is fundamental to Democracy.  It is undermined through our failures to reform and evolve.   There are too many financial beneficiaries of the status quo, roadblocks to what needs to be done.

Democracy becomes more and more fragile, the more insecure people become.  Especially in environments where educational institutions and the pervading culture are about disempowerment and distraction of the individual.   I am thinking that, amidst the complexities, Vigilantism is a return of the feeling of power, after the social and political contracts have been broken.