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2011-02-05 Bush Cancels February 12th Geneva trip amidst charges of torture and calls for his arrest

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Feb 052011
 

Yeeeeay!   This is so exciting!  especially given earlier efforts by Canadians to get Bush arrested when he visited Canada.   He’s planning to visit Canada again, in October 2011.   We can do what the people of Switzerland have done   – –

The Washington Post and Cleveland Leader coverage of the cancelation of Bush’s Geneva engagement appears below.  There are numerous on-line reports to choose from.

Amidst calls for Bush’s arrest and plans by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights to file torture charges, Bush has canceled his Feb. 12/11 trip to Geneva. Many groups including LAW supported the move to lay charges and arrest Bush.

HISTORY OF EFFORTS TO GET BUSH ARRESTED:  Click on  George Bush War Criminal  (from the drop-down list of “PAGES” on the www.sandrafinley.ca blog).   George W Bush is going to be brought to justice eventually.  I am very happy that we did our part when he visited Canada in 2009.  Now the Swiss have taken their turn.   If they can force a cancelation of his visit, so can we.  We’ll just ramp up the 2009 efforts and use some new strategies!

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/05/AR2011020502822.html 

Bush trip to Switzerland called off amid threats of protests, legal action

 
 
 
 

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 5, 2011; 3:34 PM  

A planned trip to Switzerland next week by George W. Bush was canceled after human rights activists called for demonstrations and threatened legal action over allegations that the former president sanctioned the torture of terrorism suspects.

The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights and several European human rights groups said they were planning to file a complaint against Bush and wanted Swiss prosecutors to open a criminal case against him once he arrived in the country.

In what would have been his first European trip since leaving the presidency, Bush was scheduled to speak in Geneva on Feb. 12 at a dinner in honor of the United Israel Appeal. A lawyer for the organization said Bush’s appearance was canceled because of the risk of violence, and that the threat of legal action was not an issue.

“The calls to demonstrate were sliding into dangerous terrain,” the lawyer, Robert Equey, told the Swiss daily Tribune de Geneve.

A spokesman for Bush said the former president regretted that his speech was canceled.

“President Bush was looking forward to speaking about freedom and offering reflections from his time in office,” David Sherzer said in an e-mailed statement.

Sherzer said that Bush has traveled to Canada, Brazil, China, Japan, South Korea and the Middle East since leaving office.

Organizers of a rally outside the Hotel Wilson, where the speech was scheduled to take place, had called on demonstrators to each bring a shoe, an effort to echo the assault on Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in 2008 when an Iraqi journalist threw a shoe at him.

The Center for Constitutional Rights said in a statement that they had planned to bring the complaint under the Convention Against Torture on behalf of two of men, Majid Khan, who remains at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Sami al-Hajj, a former Al Jazeera cameraman who was released in May 2008. The 2,500-page complaint will not be filed in court, but will be released Monday at a media event in Switzerland.

“Whatever Bush or his hosts say, we have no doubt he canceled his trip to avoid our case,” the Center’s statement said. “The message from civil society is clear: If you’re a torturer, be careful in your travel plans. It’s a slow process for accountability, but we keep going.”

A Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman told the Associated Press that the country’s Justice Ministry had concluded that Bush would have immunity from prosecution for any alleged actions while in office. The Center for Constitutional Rights disputed that interpretation, arguing there is no such immunity under the Convention Against Torture.

The Center, and its European partners, earlier filed suits against former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other Bush administration officials in Germany and France.  Those cases were dismissed.

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FROM THE CLEVELAND LEADER:

George W. Bush Cancels Appearance in Switzerland Because He Could be Arrested on War Crimes

By Julie Kent. Published on 02/05/2011 – 5:10pm

Former U.S. president George W. Bush was due to address a Jewish charity gala in Switzerland, but canceled his appearance due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture.

Bush was set to be the keynote speaker at Kere Hayesod’s annual dinner on February 12 in Geneva. However, pressure has been mounting on the Swiss government to arrest Bush and open a criminal investigation if he entered the country.

Court officials have said that criminal complaints against Bush alleging torture have been lodged in Geneva. Human rights groups also said that they intended to submit a 2,500-page case against Bush on Monday for alleged mistreatment of suspected militants at Guantanamo Bay.

Bush’s visit would have also likely been greeted by protests. Leftist groups had called for a protest next Saturday. The gala’s organizers then announced that they were canceling his participation because of security concerns, not criminal complaints.

However, the International Federation of Human Rights and Human Rights Watch said that the cancellation was actually linked to growing pressure to hold Bush accountable for torture, including waterboarding.

In his memoirs and television interviews, Bush has admitted to ordering use of waterboarding, which simulated drowning, as an interrogation technique.

The human rights groups said that the actions taken in Switzerland show that Bush has reason to fear traveling to countries that have ratified an international treaty banning torture because legal complaints could be filed against him.

Reed Brody, counsel for Human Rights Watch, said:

“President Bush has admitted he ordered waterboarding which everyone considers to be a form of torture under international law. Under the Convention against Torture, authorities would have been obliged to open an investigation and either prosecute or extradite George Bush.”

Waterboarding is considered a form of torture by most human rights experts, which is banned by the Convention on Torture, an international pact prohibiting torture and other cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment. Switzerland and the United States are among 147 countries to have ratified the 1987 treaty.

2011-02-02 Important update re vaccinations. Aluminum.

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Feb 012011
 

The input below from VRAN (Vaccine Risk Awareness Network) (name changed to Vaccine Choice Canada) is extremely helpful in defining the actual problem.   Anyone with children will want to read it, I think.

Edda West from VRAN  expands our understanding:

Dear Sandra,

Thank you for taking the time to respond to CBC’s The Current and for the phone message you left on our voice mail yesterday (Monday).  It’s always inspiring to hear from other Canadians who are concerned about environmental toxicity issues vis a vis mercury, and the vaccine issue.

It wasn’t clear however from reading your material below whether you are aware that MMR vaccine does not contain thimerosal.  The issue around Wakefield does not focus on thimerosal, but rather on the fact that MMR vaccine contains 3 live virus vaccines which can cause neuroimmune injuries in susceptible children.  Since there is no testing to pre-determine which children are potentially susceptible to injury, it’s a given there will be “collateral” damage in unidentified vulnerable children.

In Canada, with the advent of Pentacel in 1997 (5 vaccines contained in one shot), thimerosal was no longer used as a preservative.  Influenza vaccine which wasn’t introduced into the infant schedule until recently is the exception and does contain thimerosal.

While background levels of mercury are increasing in the environment, the thimerosal issue in vaccines I believe takes a back seat to the neurodestructive role of aluminum adjuvants still used in many vaccines. See

  •   2011-02-01   The Impact of Vaccines on the First Two Years of Life, by Edda West, VRAN
  •   2011-02-01   Aluminum and Vaccine Ingredients: What Do We Know? What Don’t We Know?

A case in point are the 8 vaccines recommended in the Canadian Immunization Guide given to infants starting at two months of age, some of which contain aluminum adjuvants and are injected simultaneously into the baby. Starting in 1997, Pentacel which contains diphtheria, tetanus, acellular pertussis, Hib and Polio, was the first vaccine to contain five vaccines in one shot, is given to nearly all two month old babies in this country and does not contain thimerosal. It does contain aluminum.

Prevnar (7valent pneumococcal vaccine) is also started at two months and contains aluminum adjuvant but not thimerosal.

Menactra – Meningococcal vaccine does not contain aluminum, but is also injected starting at two months.

Hepatitis B vaccine, also started in many provinces at the two month mark is supposed to be thimerosal free for infant application, while adult multi-dose vials still contain thimerosal – this vaccine also contains aluminum adjuvant.

A pressing concern is the amount of aluminum adjuvant contained in the above 8 vaccines, and equally pressing is the concern that infants are exposed to this quantity of vaccine antigens so early in life when the immune system and brain are still so immature. See attached Editorial addressing this issue.  No adequate safety testing has been done on this practice of combining so many vaccines together, and lays the ground for a cascade of damaging neuroimmune events to happen in vulnerable infants. And no one can assess which infants are more vulnerable than others.  http://mothering.com/health/is-aluminum-the-new-thimerosal

The schedule is repeated at 4 and 6 months, then topped off with MMR and Varicella (chickenpox vaccine) at 12 months.  The injection of four live virus vaccines at 12 months seems to create a tipping point of toxicity or intolerance in susceptible babies, which is why so many thousands of families report their child began to regress after the MMR shot.   As well, the measles component of MMR is known to suppress the immune system at a critical juncture when the infant’s own cross placental immunity derived from its mother begins to wane.

Combine all this with the potential of this bolus of vaccines to disrupt the critical “windows of susceptibility” which mark specific milestones in brain development in the first two years of life and the die is cast for the kind of disaster we are witnessing in children’s health today.

We invite you to become a member of VRAN and join the many concerned families in Canada who support our work.  We publish an acclaimed newsletter which our members receive and are happy to send you a sample issue if you wish – just let me know.

Best wishes,

Edda West

VRAN – Vaccination Risk Awareness Network

info  AT  vran.org

www.vran.org

—– Original Message —–

From: Sandra Finley

To: tjames4  AT  shaw.ca ; info  AT  vran.org

Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 9:10 AM

Subject: Rebuttal. Slow poisoning by mercury (dental amalgams & vaccinations). Corrupt Big Pharma.

Hello Edda and Mary,

As per messages left for you, if you can use any part of the following please do.

I sent an email to The Current:  the science they are using to back-up their position on vaccinations was sent to me.  There are flaws in it.   The flaws are discussed in the appended.

Best wishes,

See  2011-01-28     I am like a fish; I store mercury in my body.  

2011-02-01 Aluminum and Vaccine Ingredients: What Do We Know? What Don’t We Know?

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Feb 012011
 

Aluminum is a heavy metal with known neurotoxic effects   …   If we’re going to do justice to the topic of vaccine ingredients, we need to look at the potential harm of all the vaccine ingredients at once, and examine their individual effects on our children’s immune and nervous systems…

The Doctor’s Corner
National Vaccine Information Center

Aluminum and Vaccine Ingredients:
What Do We Know? What Don’t We Know?

by Lawrence B. Palevsky, MD, FAAP

Thimerosal, which contains the organic compound ethyl mercury, is a known neurotoxin and used to be a major ingredient in childhood vaccines. There are over 15,000 articles in the medical literature describing the adverse health effects on the human body with exposure to varying amounts and forms of mercury.

In 1999 the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) urged government agencies to work rapidly toward reducing children’s exposure to mercury from all sources. Because any potential risk was of concern, the AAP and the USPHS (United States Public Health Service) agreed that the use of thimerosal-containing vaccines should be reduced or eliminated.[1] The AAP recommended that it would be a good idea to remove thimerosal from vaccines, even though according to them, there was no evidence linking childhood health issues to thimerosal exposure from vaccines. In 2008, children are still being injected with thimerosal-containing vaccines, and old stocks of thimerosal-containing vaccines manufactured by 1999 continued to be administered to children up to 2003.

However, a growing number of physicians, scientists and parents maintain that thimerosal has played, and continues to play a large role in contributing to the emergence of multiple chronic illnesses in children and adults, including the neurological spectrum disorders. Aluminum, which is present in the environment and in many childhood vaccines, may be affecting the health of our children in ways that we have yet to understand.

Aluminum is a heavy metal with known neurotoxic effects on human and animal nervous systems. It can be found in the following childhood vaccines – DTaP, Pediarix (DTaP-Hepatitis B-Polio combination), Pentacel (DTaP-HIB-Polio combination), Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Haemophilus influenzae B (HIB), Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), and Pneumococcal vaccines.[2]

In 1996, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a position paper on Aluminum Toxicity in Infants and Children which stated in the first paragraph, “Aluminum is now being implicated as interfering with a variety of cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system and in other tissues.[3]

A review of the medical literature on aluminum reveals a surprising lack of scientific evidence that injected aluminum is safe. There is limited understanding of what happens to children when aluminum is injected into their bodies, including whether or not it accumulates in tissues and organs or is properly eliminated from the body. It is also unknown if genetic factors affect long term adverse health outcomes for those injected with aluminum containing vaccines.

One in 6 children under the age of 18 in this country has developmental/learning disabilities, although the numbers may be higher since this 1994 report was published.[4] Ten percent of all children have asthma.[5] Growing numbers of children are living with different types of allergies. That means they have impairment, or even irreversible damage to their nervous and immune systems. Isn’t it possible that injected aluminum plays a role in affecting the health of our children’s nervous and immune systems, as the science we do have seems to suggest?

What is even more concerning is the lack of accepted scientific data explaining whether injected aluminum interacts with other vaccine ingredients to cause harm to our children. Boyd Haley, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky completed lab experiments showing the damaging effects on nerve cells when he exposed them to aluminum, especially in the presence of other vaccine ingredients like mercury, formaldehyde, and the antibiotic neomycin.[6] [7] His data, however, have been ignored by the scientific, medical and governmental institutions making vaccine policies.[8] The scientific community needs to be doing these experiments in the lab before shooting kids with these ingredients and declaring unequivocal vaccine safety for all children.

Aluminum is added to vaccines as an adjuvant so vaccines will produce a stronger antibody response and be more protective. It is this role as an adjuvant that may reveal to us the most significant relationship between aluminum in vaccines and the damage it imparts on the long term health of our children’s nervous and immune systems.

A Little Science Review

Children are born with a cellular mediated immune system (TH1 cells – T-helper 1), a humoral immune system (TH2 cells – T-helper 2), and a regulator immune system (TH3 cells – T-helper 3) as major pieces of their overall immune systems. These three arms are immature when babies are born, and begin to mature as children are exposed to their environments through their nervous systems, skin, airways and intestines. Antibiotics, poor nutrition, stress, exposure to heavy metals and other environmental toxins, and the use of vaccines, may interfere with the proper maturing process of these three arms of children’s immune systems. In theory, if the TH system is allowed to mature, and is not interfered with, children will develop a mature, balanced TH1, TH2 and TH3 immune system by age three.

TH1 and TH2 develop to protect children from the outside world, producing inflammation and anti-inflammation responses to foreign particles from the natural environment. TH3 immune cells develop to keep the TH1/TH2 arms of the immune system in check so the body only produces the amount of inflammation and anti-inflammation that is needed to protect itself from exposures in the natural environment.

When TH2 cells are activated properly, either directly via the natural environment, or through a direct signal from the TH1 system, the B cell arm of the immune system is then stimulated, leading to the production of the desired protective antibodies.[9] [10]

It’s important for the reader to know that the hallmark of a healthy, mature immune system in children is demonstrated by an equal and balanced TH1, TH2 and TH3 immune response to the natural environment. TH1, TH2 & TH3 do not work independently, and require a very important synergistic relationship to function properly in our bodies. As soon as one or more of these three arms begins to over or under work in relation to the other, chronic illness begins to express itself.

More on Aluminum

Aluminum is placed in the vaccines to selectively target the up-regulation of the humoral arm (TH2 cells) of children’s immune systems, to drive the production of antibodies. The medical community leads us to believe that this production of antibodies is what imparts for children a protective nature against vaccine-preventable illnesses. Yet, this outcome may come at a cost.

There are multiple articles in the medical literature demonstrating how chronic illnesses like allergies,[11] [12] asthma, [13] [14] [15] eczema,[16] lupus, [17] inflammatory bowel disease, [18] ADD/ADHD[19] and autism[20] all exhibit a skewed production and over-activity of the TH2 arm of the immune system.

Similarly, chronic illnesses like juvenile diabetes mellitus[21] [22] and rheumatoid arthritis,[23] multiple sclerosis,[24] uveits,[25] inflammatory bowel disease,[26] and autism[27] [28] all exhibit skewed production and over-activity of the TH1 arm of the immune system.

While aluminum in the vaccines is specifically targeting the over-activation of TH2 to encourage the body to produce antibodies, any direct or indirect effect of aluminum on the health or maturation of the TH1 or TH3 system is unknown. Yet, in many of these TH2 dominant chronic illnesses, TH1 and TH3 have also been shown to exhibit an impaired immune response to the environment.[29]

Any direct or indirect effect on the health or maturation of the TH1, TH2 and TH3 arms of children’s immune systems from any of the injected vaccine ingredients, either due to their individual action, or due to their combined interaction, is unknown as well.

The important synergistic, balanced activity of TH1, TH2 and TH3, in response to the environment is dysfunctional and impaired in all chronic illnesses. Children are not necessarily born with this dysfunction or impairment, although they may inherit the susceptibility from their parents. How then, do children develop the expression of these TH1, TH2, TH3 impairments, into what we describe as chronic illness?

What is clear is aluminum pushes the TH2 immune system to over perform, and multiple chronic illnesses in children show immune systems where the TH2 immune response over performs, while TH1 and TH3 responses are also impaired. Is there a connection? By having this type of effect on the TH2 system, is aluminum in any way contributing to the development of these chronic illnesses in children; especially in those children from families with a genetic history of the above mentioned chronic illnesses?

Does aluminum also affect the TH1 immune response, unbeknownst to scientists, clinicians and parents? Does aluminum play a role in impairing the overall synergistic, balanced activity of TH1, TH2 and TH3, which is a requirement for a healthy immune system response to the natural environment? There is no scientific evidence to clarify our understanding one way or the other, but the evidence may be right in front of us to conclude otherwise.

Aluminum forces the undeveloped and immature immune system of infants and children to produce greater amounts of humoral immune cells (TH2) and antibodies, before their immune systems have a chance to adapt to the world in which they’ve barely had a chance to live in.

Under these circumstances, the activity of aluminum appears to play a vital role in disrupting the maturation of the immune system in infants and children through its effects on TH2 and therefore, on TH1 and TH3.  

What effect this has on their overall health in the short or long term is unknown, but this model appears to help us understand how we may be contributing to the development of chronic illness in infants and children with the use of aluminum in vaccines. We also have little understanding of what might happen to the overall health of their immune systems if parents wait until later in life to expose them to vaccines containing aluminum, or if they’re exposed in smaller doses one at a time.

How much of a role does injected aluminum play, either acting alone, or in conjunction with other vaccine ingredients and environmental toxins, in the selection and subsequent development of chronic illnesses, in a susceptible population of children, through the disruption of TH1, TH2, TH3? There is no science to answer this question because no one has investigated this issue.

We have no scientific studies in infants, children or adults to help us understand the nature of the progression of TH1, TH2 and TH3 immune responses to any of the injected materials in vaccines.

You cannot do research on questions that enough people don’t believe is worth asking, or are afraid of what the answers might show if the proper studies were done.

It is unfortunate that we continue to drag out this dialogue by singling out each individual vaccine ingredient as a detriment to the health of our children. First thimerosal needed to be removed, despite contentions from the medical community that there were any real medical reasons to do so, and now aluminum. According to Environmental Defense[30] (formerly known as the Environmental Defense fund), all the vaccine ingredients are poisonous, carcinogenic or potentially harmful to the skin, gastrointestinal, pulmonary, immune and neurological systems in our bodies.

What about formaldehyde? Are we going to wait until another brave physician or scientist writes about the damaging effects of injected vaccine-containing formaldehyde on our children’s brains before we are called to demand that formaldehyde be removed? Or about the problems associated with having Polysorbate-80 in the vaccines?

Polysorbate-80 is used in pharmacology to assist in the delivery of certain drugs or chemotherapeutic agents across the blood-brain-barrier. What viral, bacterial, yeast, heavy metal or other vaccine containing ingredient need to pass into the brains of our children? Do they belong in the brain? Is that part of the needed immune response to protect our children from disease? Do vaccine materials pass across the blood-brain barrier with the help of Polysorbate-80? If so, are there complications from being in the brains of our children? Is this another connection to help us get an understanding of why 1 in 150[31] children have autism, or 1 in 6 children has developmental/learning disabilities?

If we’re going to do justice to the topic of vaccine ingredients, we need to look at the potential harm of all the vaccine ingredients at once, and examine their individual effects on our children’s immune and nervous systems. Then, we can examine the interactive effects of the vaccine ingredients on human tissue, and evaluate the potential for harm, as Dr. Haley has already successfully done.

How many more children need to be potentially harmed before we invoke the precautionary principle and the Hippocratic Oath – First, Do No Harm? If there’s no adequate science, and we have positive evidence of toxicity from aluminum, injected alone or in conjunction with other ingredients, and we have a potential model to understand why certain chronic conditions may be developing in a susceptible population of children, then injecting aluminum containing vaccines into anyone should stop right now until we have the proper scientific proof we need to say otherwise. We need the same scientific proof of safety for all vaccine ingredients and their interactions, and we need parents, scientists and practitioners to stand up and demand nothing less before we make matters worse.

Lawrence B. Palevsky, MD, FAAP
Pediatrician

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2011-02-01 The Impact of Vaccines on the First Two Years of Life by Edda West, VRAN

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Feb 012011
 

The Impact of Vaccines on the First Two Years of Life

By Edda West – VRAN Newsletter, 2011 

The first two years are the most vulnerable in a young child’s life. It is the time of most rapid brain growth, from the last trimester of pregnancy to two years of age.  During this time, critical windows of brain development occur, and the immune system begins to mature. 

It is during the first few months of life that the majority of vaccines are injected into the child. Today a child in Canada can receive up to 44 doses of 14 vaccines in the first 18 months of life.  Long term studies comparing the overall health outcome of vaccinated and unvaccinated children have not been done.  

Nor has it been proven safe to inject the infant with complex viral/bacterial particles, foreign proteins & DNA along with harsh chemical adjuvants which artificially “turn on” and manipulate immune response.  Growing numbers of researchers are concluding that environmental toxins and multiple vaccines are likely at the root of the current epidemic of neurodevelopmental disorders in children. 

While mainstream medicine aggressively promotes vaccination as the most important disease preventive measure, it fails to inform parents that vaccines are a class of drugs which carry both a risk of injury and death. Vaccines can trigger a range of neurological and immunological injuries which often don’t become apparent until weeks or months later. 

Parents are not told that these injuries have increased dramatically in the last twenty years along with the huge increase in the number of vaccines that have been added to the early childhood vaccine schedule. 

Parents are not told that the explosion of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), ADHD & behavioural disorders, the epidemic of allergic diseases which include asthma, allergies, eczema and life threatening anaphylaxis, diabetes and other degenerative diseases have also increased dramatically as the number of vaccines has increased. Allergic diseases, including asthma are the endpoint of a malfunctioning immune system.  They don’t tell you that there has been a precipitous decline in children’s health – that children are less healthy today than in previous generations. 

The doctors and nurses who routinely vaccinate children don’t mention that the medical profession has little understanding of how the infant immune system works in the first six months of life. Nor do they tell you that multiple vaccines given too early in life may interfere with the normal development of the brain and immune system. 

The infant immune system and brain are uniquely different from that of an older child or adult, and are particularly vulnerable to toxic assault.  A pressing concern that has not been adequately addressed by science is whether multiple vaccines injected during critical developmental phases of the brain and immune system, alter normal development – the first two years of life being a unique time of accelerated brain growth and immune system maturation. 

Brain Development and “Windows of Susceptibility” 

“Windows of susceptibility” are critical phases in brain development which occur during the first two years. 

The Institute of Child Health cautions that, “Exposures at critical periods of development – notably during embryogenesis, fetal life and infancy – can result in irreversible damage to growing nervous systems and affect emerging behaviour patterns, cause immune dysfunction, and have serious reproductive effects.  If a toxic exposure occurs during critical growth stages, the system affected can sustain permanent damage.”  These critical periods of development are thought of as ‘windows of susceptibility’.

The ‘windows of susceptibility’ are specific periods of vulnerability to neurotoxic effects. They occur over a broad time frame because age-related development of the brain and nervous system extends from fetal stage into adolescence. Damage to the “wiring” process of the brain is thought to underlie such permanent adverse effects as cognitive disability, developmental language disorders, learning disabilities, motor disorders, effects on intelligence and behavioural disorders, attention deficits and sensory abnormalities.” 

We know that cellular structures change so rapidly during embryonic and fetal growth that a toxic exposure at the wrong moment can permanently damage further development.  Small doses of neurotoxins during critical periods of brain development can alter those crucial neural pathways –“one mistake early on, and the brain may be forever changed in subtle or serious ways”, warns Dr. Landrigan, Chairman, Preventive Medicine, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.  

Canada’s Institute of Child Health in Ottawa, stresses that the environment must be viewed as the “ultimate health determinant”. “The fact that the endocrine and immune systems and the developing brain are susceptible to these ubiquitous pollutants [lead, PCBs and methylmercury, etc.] must be viewed with major concern.” 

But curiously, child health experts limit their focus to toxic substances children are exposed to from the external environment, i.e. from food, air, water. They fail to take into account the impact of the most obvious and common source of chemical/biological stressors the baby’s neurological system must deal with – multiple (and increasing) vaccines containing lab altered pathogens, chemical adjuvants which manipulate immune response and various foreign proteins & DNA particles, injected into the child’s sensitive internal micro-environment during critical phases of brain and immune system development. 

Aluminum is Hazardous to Normal Brain Development 

          “It should be of high concern that we know nothing about the potential hazards of   aluminum adjuvants in children despite the fact that worldwide, preschool children  are regularly exposed to the highest amounts of aluminum from vaccines through  [mandatory] immunization programmes.” (C.Shaw & L. Tomljenovic)                                              

A close examination of vaccine ingredients leaves little doubt that we are exposing our children to substances that have the potential to damage the brain and impair immune function.  A case in point is aluminum – an important vaccine ingredient.  Aluminum is used as a vaccine adjuvant to ramp up immune response to vaccine antigens. Without the aluminum adjuvant, the body fails to mount an adequate immune response, with the exception of live and attenuated vaccines. Aluminum is a heavy metal and a well established neurotoxin. 

 The highest quantities of aluminum are injected into the infant’s fragile micro-environment during the most rapid brain growth in the early months of life.  “No clinical studies have been conducted to establish the safety of aluminum adjuvants in infants and children”, report neuroscientist Chris Shaw PhD and his colleague Lucija Tomljenovic PhD.  They ask the question, “Does an elevated aluminum burden from vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism?” 

Shaw and Tomljenovic remind us that, “due to their low body weight children are more susceptible to hazardous chemicals than adults.  Furthermore, the developing nervous system of a child is more vulnerable to neurotoxic insults than that of an adult.  Thus, the earlier in life a vaccine is given, the greater the potential for harming the nervous system.” 

They have calculated the amount of aluminum injected into young babies in the first 15 months of life.  In the first 2-3 months, babies receive the highest amount of aluminum per body weight from vaccines – 270 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day (ug/kg/bw/day).  Thereafter, infants at 4, 6 and 15 months also receive very high amounts of vaccine-derived aluminum, ranging from 110.3 to 177.6 micrograms ug/kg/bw/day. 

The researchers have calculated that two month old babies in Canada, the U.K., U.S and Australia are exposed to 49 to 54 times the current safety limit for aluminum exposure.  This limit is set at 5 micrograms of aluminum per kilogram of body weight per day from parenteral sources –  i.e. by means other than through the digestive tract such as via intravenous or intramuscular injection. 

Shaw and Tomljenovic’s research has found that aluminum burden from vaccines highly correlates with increased prevalence of ASD (autism spectrum disorders) in western countries. In the U.S. the greatest annual increase of ASD “was observed in 1992, when ASD cases rose by 189%. This event was closely preceded by the addition of 6 doses of [two new] aluminum containing vaccines to the immunization schedule, 5 of which are administered in the first 4 months of life.”  The researchers report that currently, 1 in 91 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with ASD, while the current prevalence in the United Kingdom is 1 in 64 children. Canada has no clear statistics on ASD. 

Other researchers have shown that exposure to as little as 4 to 5 micrograms of aluminum per kg/bw/day has “long-term detrimental outcomes on neurologic development in preterm infants.  In adult human subjects, aluminum toxicity has been linked to a host of neurodegenerative complications and diseases”, including Parkinson’s, ALS, multiple sclerosis, Gulf War Syndrome and epilepsy. 

“It appears that the consistently rising trend in ASD prevalence should perhaps be of little surprise, given that two month old children in developed countries routinely receive 245 to 270 micrograms per kg/bw of aluminum per vaccination session – a burden equivalent to 38 standard adult-dose injections of hepatitis B vaccine”, say Shaw and Tomljenovic.  It would be naïve to assume that such an excessive burden of aluminum is safe for babies.  

It is a well known fact that male children are at a much higher risk of developing autism spectrum disorders.  Boys run a 4 X higher risk of developing ASD compared to girls.  Shaw and Tomljenovic suggest, “It would thus appear that the risks of adverse affects in children (especially young boys) as a result of multiple vaccinations, outweigh the uncertain benefits of preventing infections.”  

In addition to large doses of aluminum from injected vaccines, babies on certain soy-based formulas may ingest as much as 250 times the amount they would get from mother’s milk and three times more than the “provisional tolerable weekly intake” set by the U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture (FAO) who concluded that, “ aluminum compounds have the potential to affect the reproductive system and developing nervous system at doses lower than those previously set.”   

It is important to stress that only 0.25% of aluminum from dietary sources is absorbed into systemic circulation, whereas aluminum from vaccines is absorbed at nearly 100% efficiency!   

Shaw and Tomljenovic’s research reveals that “The sizes of most antigen-aluminum complexes are higher than the molecular weight cut-off of the glomerulus of the kidney (~18kDa) which would preclude efficient excretion of aluminum adjuvants.”  In other words, the body has difficulty eliminating the aluminum burden it receives from vaccines. “Thus, vaccine-derived aluminum would have a much greater potential to induce neurological damage than that obtained through diet”, and as already emphasized, “they are administered frequently during the most critical period of brain development.” 

Parents often find that their baby is much more susceptible to “bugs going around” after they are vaccinated with as many as 8 or 9 vaccines at the same time. Little wonder when one realizes that vaccine ingredients like aluminum skew the immune system, suppress the child’s ability to fight infections, while setting up a range of autoimmune disease possibilities.  Persistent ear infections commonly develop after vaccination prompting doctors to prescribe antibiotics which studies have shown do little to prevent ongoing ear infection, but go a long way in reducing gut health, further compromising immunity and the child’s overall health.   

“In order to fully understand the pathological effects on the developing brain and immune system of this kind of vaccination schedule, researchers would have to conduct a prospective, case controlled study comparing completely vaccinated to completely unvaccinated children. They would have to evaluate the children for at least 10 to 20 years for all morbidity and mortality outcomes, for pathological changes in immune and brain function at the cellular and molecular levels, and for changes in chromosomal integrity.  Within the first five to seven years, differences between the two groups, in terms of bilogocial integrity and rates of autism, learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, asthma, juvenile diabetes and other brain and immune system disorders, would begin to emerge”, writes Barbara Loe Fisher in her new book, Vaccines, Autism & Chronic Inflammation: The New Epidemic. 

So far, medical science has declined to conduct the kind of comparative study proposed by Barbara Fisher and other vaccine awareness activists. Across the board, ‘public health’ institutions exhibit a willful blindness while purporting to act for the greater societal good.  By excluding a discussion of the biochemical/biomedical impact of multiple vaccines on the developing brain, and immune system, they fail in their duty to critically evaluate the entire picture of complex multifactoral toxicities contributing to the collapse of children’s health today.

Too Many Vaccines Too Close Together Too Early in Life

Professor of Neurosurgery, Russell Blaylock, MD, has written a series of articles based on extensive review of the scientific literature in which he examines in great detail the destructive effects of excessive immune stimulation often triggered by too many vaccines given too close together, too early in life  –  a problem that will worsen as more vaccines are added to the already overcrowded schedule. 

As a neurosurgeon, Dr. Blaylock has intimate knowledge of the neurological system, and brain chemistry – a background which eminently qualifies him to interpret complex studies in neurology, immunology & chemistry to present an in depth perspective of the factors that can interfere with brain function, and cause long term damage.

A key concept for parents to understand is that impact to the child’s immune system is going to affect his/her neurological system.  Dr. Russell Blaylock’s work brings this knowledge home in the most profound way.  When the immature immune system of the infant is bombarded with vaccines, it sets off the brain’s own unique immune system. The neuroscience literature indicates that “excessive and especially repeated immune stimulation can result in severe disruption of brain development and even neurodegeneration”. 

That the immune system and nervous system are intimately interconnected has been known for some time.  What effects one effects the other. “There is compelling evidence that overactivation of the brain’s key immune cells (microglia) can result in alterations in brain growth and connectivity during rapid brain growth, the so-called ‘brain growth spurt’.” 

The science is already in place which shows that excessive vaccination overstimulates the immune system, which in turn hyperstimulates the brain’s immune activity leading to an outpouring of excitotoxic substances which result in varying degrees of brain injury.  “Unfortunately, this knowledge has not yet filtered out to vaccine policy makers, pediatricians, or parents”, says Blaylock. 

Dr. Blaylock refers to a growing number of scientific studies which demonstrate “serious dangers in our present vaccine policy, including altered brain development, seizures and loss of brain cell connections, called synapses.  These studies all point to over-vaccination as a real and present danger to our children, and in certain instances, to adults.” 

Keep in mind”, writes Dr. Blaylock, “that the child by age one will already have had 20 vaccine inoculations, each spaced no more than one or two months apart.  This means, the brain microglia (immune cells) are maintained in a constant primed state.  Each vaccine increases dramatically the damage done by the previous vaccine series.  One is not surprised that so many vaccinated children develop seizures, or that we have such a high incidence of autism  I can assure the elite of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC that over one million autistic children far exceeds the danger measles, mumps, diphtheria, chickenpox, tetanus, rotavirus, Hib meningitis and hepatitis pose to our youth.  Also, keep in mind that for every fully autistic child, there are ten times that many with lesser degrees of impairment.”  

A stark emblem of the arrogance of mainstream medicine is the assumption that an infant can be injected with an unlimited quantity of vaccines without deleterious effect to brain and immune system development – an assumption that has resulted in an unprecedented health disaster.

As humans, our brain is what sets us apart from other species and enables us to interact socially and participate in our complex society. Normal brain function enables us to be creative beings, to be academically or scientifically proficient, to be artistic and musical, to be able to choose our direction in life.  There are infinite ways in which we can develop our individual gifts and capabilities, thanks to a normally functioning brain. 

When the infant’s brain and immune system is protected from toxic assault and is optimally nourished, ideally through extended breastfeeding, the critical windows of brain growth are able to unfold in the species specific sequences that make us uniquely human.  Protecting and nourishing the baby’s brain is essential for the development of the child’s full potential. 

As parents, we are charged with protecting our children from accidental and environmental assault.  To do this, it is necessary to re-examine universal vaccination policies currently imposed on the global population.  We must determine whether these policies are helping or harming our children. 

Notes & References: 

-The Health of Canada’s Children, Third Edition, 2000, published by The Canadian Institute of Child Health

-.Lucija Tomljenovic,PhD & Chris Shaw, PhD – Does an Elevated Aluminum Burden From Vaccine Adjuvants Contribute to the Rising Prevalence of Autism?

– Judy Converse, MPH, RD – “Why do Pediatricians Deny the Obvious?

– Larry Palevesky, MD –  “Aluminum and Vaccine Ingredients: What Do We Know? What Don’t We Know?”

-.Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. –Vaccinations: The Hidden Dangers – The Blaylock Wellness Report: Vol.1, No.1. April 2004

– Russell L. Blaylock, MD, “Chronic Microglial Activation and Excitotoxicity Secondary to Excessive Immune Stimulation: Possible Factors in Gulf War Syndrome and Autism” – Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Vol.9 No.2 Summer 2004.

– Russell L. Blaylock, MD, “The Central Role of Excitotoxicity in Autism Spectrum Disorders” – Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association Vol. 6, No.1, Winter, 2003.

– Russell L. Blaylock, MD,  “Interaction of Cytokines, Excitotoxins, and Reactive Notrogen and Oxygen Species in Autism Spectrum Disorders”  Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association Vol.6. No.4 Fall 2003.

2011-02-01 Nuke Postings + LAST CALL! No thanks to nuclear waste dumps: Jim Harding’s speaking tour. Saskatoon TONITE, LaRonge, P.A. (Jan 2-3)

 Nuclear, Radioactive waste  No Responses »
Feb 012011
 

(1)    Premier Brad Wall is moving ahead once again on the nuclear agenda, in spite of the public consultations in summer 2009 that said “no”.   The following are now posted to the blog, in case anyone wants access to some of the past information we circulated. 

   2010-10-28   CORRECTION  Polonium is not plutonium! 

   2010-10-26   Letter: Ban nuclear dump, new Bruce Power web site, Hanley on unconventional fossil fuels 

   2010-09-13  Petro-state: there is no opposition.  Premier Brad Wall on “value added” for uranium.  NDP Opposition Leader Lingenfelter on nuke in Saskatchewan.  (The nuclear power is for tar sands development.) 

  2009-12-24  NUKE:  The University has soul-searching to do while it still has a soul to save.  

  2009-12-15  NUKE:  Introduction to corporatocracy, nuclear given green light in Alberta 

  2009-12-04  NUKE, Nuclear Waste.  Who is the NWMO?  Tactics.  John Ralston Saul “On Equilibrium”. 

  2009-11-29  NUKE  3.   The Chronology  IMPORTANT INFORMATION 

  2009-11-29  NUKE  2.  Panel decision – more Govt funding for the industry.  Medical isotopes. Hyperion. Small reactors.  UDP. University of Saskatchewan. 

(Note:  I haven’t found NUKE 1.  of this short series yet.)

  2009-10-21   Uranium mining moratorium B.C.  The result of one man’s efforts, Dr. Bob Woollard.  

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Saskatoon, Prince Albert and LaRonge are most likely on the planned route for the transportation of high-level radioactive waste.  Please send this email to everyone you know in these communities.  They should know what the plans are and what the alternatives are.  

Penny and I did a tour at the end of November that took in P.A., Smeaton, Nipawin, Tisdale and Melfort.  Local media were very interested and published very informative articles following our visit.  I will be in attendance at these meetings and look forward to connecting and re-connecting with old friends!  /Sandra

SASKATCHEWAN SPEAKING TOUR:  Dr. Jim Harding

– Why Saskatchewan Needs a Nuclear Waste Ban

Jim Harding, author of “Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System” will visit three Saskatchewan communities to speak about proposals to build a nuclear waste dump in our province and why we should say NO!
 
Tuesday, February 1, 2011   7:00 PM 
Frances Morrison Public Library,  311-23rd Street East, Saskatoon, SK. 

Wednesday, February 2, 2011   7:00 PM 
Kikinahk Friendship Centre   320 Boardman Street, La Ronge, SK 

Thursday, February 3, 2011   7:00 PM
JMC Public Library,   125-12th Street East, Prince Albert, SK 

You can find posters for these events on our web site, feel free to download, post and forward to your networks:
http://www.cleangreensask.ca/Home/upcoming-speaking-events-1/whysaskatchewanshouldsaynotonuclearwaste  

You can read more of Jim’s columns on our web site:
http://www.cleangreensask.ca/Home/jim-harding-s-column

2011-01-31 Census Lockheed Martin: Notice of appeal of Judge’s “guilty” decision has been filed.

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Jan 312011
 

Notice of Appeal of Judge Whelan’s “guilty” decision was filed on January 28th, 2011.   Scroll down to the text of the Appeal document.

The reasons for the decision to appeal the guilty decision are at  2011-01-21

In a nutshell, the question is:  do Canadians have a Charter Right to Privacy of personal information in the face of the Government and Lockheed Martin Corporation, or do we not?

It is not a good situation if citizens do not know what the actual law is.   As I (with legal counsel) have understood,  as stated in this excerpt from  the legal argument documented at 2010-12-23 :

“In fostering the underlying values of dignity, integrity and autonomy, it is fitting that s. 8 of the Charter should seek to protect a biographical core of personal information which individuals in a free and democratic society would wish to maintain and control from dissemination to the state.” 

COPY OF THE COURT RULING (“GUILTY”), JANUARY 13:     http://www.lawsociety.sk.ca/WhatsNew/NewJudgmentsPC.htm  

JUDGE WHELAN’S COMMENTS  DURING SENTENCING  (absolute discharge), January 20:  a transcript has been ordered.

EMAIL THREAD WITH LAWYER RE CONTENT OF THE NOTICE OF APPEAL,  AND A COPY OF THE NOTICE OF APPEAL, AS FILED:    

Note that the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal is called “Queen’s Bench”.

From: Sandra Finley    Sent: January 27, 2011 1:25 PM
To: Steve Seiferling �
Subject: RE: R v Finley   Notice of Appeal  

Thanks Steve (for draft copy of Notice of Appeal). 

(1)          Should there be something specifically related to the Judge’s conclusion that we didn’t prove that the information required by the census long form is “personal”, or is that already included in one of the grounds for appeal you cite?   ((vi) the existence of a subjective expectation of privacy; and (vii) the objective reasonableness of the expectation.) 

(2)          Should there be something to the effect that the Judge erred by including argument related to Charter 1 override of the individual Charter Right to privacy of personal information when the Prosecution chose not to include that as an argument in the case?  

As I understood what happened:  you pointed out to the Judge that only the Prosecutor could present the Section 1 argument to the Court.  Because the Prosecutor did not do that, you could not place the counter-argument to the Court.  

The Judge then turned around and based her decision on Section 1:  the  idea that the benefit to all Canadians is greater than the individual charter right to privacy.   Is that not a failure in procedure?  You weren’t able to present the counter-argument (the Oakes test)?

Sandra 

If an accused person establishes a reasonable expectation of privacy, the inquiry must proceed to the second stage to determine whether the search was conducted in a reasonable manner.

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REPLY FROM LAWYER, STEVE:

The broad grounds set out in the Notice cover everything you raise (and more). I wanted to keep the notice fairly simple, but keep them broad enough so that I can expand on them in the argument. 

Give me a call if you have questions.

Steve 

Steven Seiferling 

McKercher LLP

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THE NOTICE OF APPEAL AS FILED IN COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH,  JANUARY 28TH:  

 Q.B. NO. _______ of 2011 

IN THE COURT OF QUEEN’S BENCH

 FOR SASKATCHEWAN

JUDICIAL CENTRE OF SASKATOON 

BETWEEN: 

SANDRA FINLEY 

APPELLANT

(APPLICANT) 

– and – 

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, 

RESPONDENT

(RESPONDENT)

NOTICE OF APPEAL 

TAKE NOTICE:

  1. THAT SANDRA FINLEY, the above named Appellant, hereby appeals to the Court of Queen’s Bench from the Judgment of the Honourable Madam Justice Whelan (the “Trial Judge”) issued on the 13th day of January, 2011
  2. THAT the whole of the Judgment or the following parts are being appealed:

(a)         The Appellant appeals the summary conviction imposed by the Trial Judge.

  1. THAT the source of the Appellant’s right of appeal and the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the appeal is: 

(a)         Section 813(a)(i) and 830 of the Criminal Code

  1. THAT the appeal is taken upon the following grounds:

(a)         The Trial Judge erred in law by concluding that there was no breach of s. 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms;

(b)        The Trial Judge erred in law by misapprehending or failing to consider the criminal nature of a fine or jail sentence that may be imposed pursuant to s. 31 of the Statistics Act, R.S.C. 1985 c. S-19;

(c)         The Trial Judge erred in law in failing to consider whether the Appellant had a “lawful excuse” for refusing to provide a response to the long form census, pursuant to s. 31 of the Statistics Act; and

(d)        The Trial Judge erred in law by concluding that the collection of the personal information for statistical purposes attracts a diminished expectation of privacy.

  1. THAT the Appellant requests the following relief:

(a)         A declaration that the Appellant’s rights under s. 8 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms were breached by the compelled collection of personal information under threat of fine or imprisonment; and

(b)        An Order that the summary conviction be reversed, and an acquittal be entered.

  1. THAT the Appellant’s address for service is:

                   McKercher LLP

                   Barristers & Solicitors

                   374 – 3rd Avenue South

                   Saskatoon, Saskatchewan   S7K 1M5

                   Telephone: (306) 653-2000

                   Fax: (306) 653-2669

                   Lawyer in charge of file:  Steven J.R. Seiferling

 THAT the Appellant requests that this Appeal be heard at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 

                   DATED at the City of Saskatoon, in the Province of Saskatchewan, this __28th__ day of ____January_____, 2011. 

                   McKERCHER LLP 

                   Per:   __________________________________

                            Solicitors for the Appellant, Sandra Finley

TO:            The Registrar,

                   Court of Queen’s Bench

                   Court House

                   Saskatoon, SK

2011-01-30 You blow me away! Look at this from Iron Bolt. A poem says it all.

 Lockheed Martin, War Economy (includes Cdn Census & Trials)  No Responses »
Jan 302011
 

Och!  I go soft when I see the creativity and effort that you put out.   This is an inspired and inspiring piece of work. 

/Sandra 

At Lockheed Martin, we contract with people for profit:

http://bit.ly/cHbmqV 

At Lockheed Martin, we count people for profit:

http://bit.ly/g5RVUt 

At Lockheed Martin, we con people for profit:

http://bit.ly/R7qVr 

At Lockheed Martin, we coerce people for profit:

http://bit.ly/fWUfIL 

At Lockheed Martin, we control people for profit:

http://bit.ly/dQVdT9 

At Lockheed Martin, we kill people for profit:

http://bit.ly/eABhOY 

At Lockheed Martin, we never forget what we’re working for…

http://wp.me/p19dS3-5h

 

2011-01-30 Please, let’s show our solidarity with Egyptian protesters!!

 AVAAZ, Corporatocracy or Democracy or Administrative State or WHAT?  No Responses »
Jan 302011
 

It’s 3:30 pm my time in Saskatchewan, Sunday Jan 30. 

124,615  have signed onto the Avaaz petition.

200,000  is the goal. 

These kids are terrific.  Let’s give them a hand!   /Sandra 

Begin forwarded message: 

From: “Avaaz.org” <avaaz  AT  avaaz.org>

Date: January 30, 2011 8:51:03 AM GMT-05:00

Subject: Thanks for showing your solidarity with Egyptian protesters 

Thank you for signing the statement! Your name has been added. The more people join this campaign, the more powerful our call will be. Help spread the word — forward this link to friends and family, and join other Avaaz members in donating your status on Facebook: “I stand with the Egyptian people. http://j.mp/standwithegypt — Join me by making this your status message today!”

Thanks so much,

The Avaaz Team
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Dear friends in the Middle East and North Africa,

The demonstrations in Egypt this week could be a critical turning point away from three decades of repressive rule and towards democracy.



So far the government has responded with tear gas and mass arrests, and the Minister of Interior has outlawed public gatherings. But the Tunisian people have shown us what is possible when determined citizens raise their voices together. And now the government’s resolve is weakening — even the Prime Minister is supporting the right to peaceful protest, and Mubarak’s family has fled the country.



 The situation could change within days or even hours, and what happens next depends of all of us. Let’s stand with those on the streets and build a deafening outcry against rampant corruption and political repression, and for democratic reform. Sign the emergency petition to President Mubarak and forward this message widely:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/democracy_for_egypt/97.php?cl_tta_sign=4695c0d73dae2f9499ba4a69745753f0


For thirty years, the Egyptian people have experienced crackdowns on the free press and increasing limitations on their freedom of assembly and ability to participate in politics. Hundreds of people were beaten and detained during the 2010 Parliamentary elections as the government blatantly intimidated the opposition and incrementally changed laws to tighten its grip on power. This week more than 500 protesters have been detained across the country, and the government has tried to block access to Facebook, Twitter and other websites.

But the Egyptians are undeterred and across the country are peacefully trying to reclaim the government to serve the interests of the people. And recent events in Tunisia show if enough of us stand up, this radical change is possible.

Let’s show the government that peaceful people are tired of the entrenched regime’s corruption and repression, and that the movement is too large to break with intimidation and violence. Let’s join the protesters and call for reform now. Sign the petition, and forward it to everyone you know:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/democracy_for_egypt/97.php?cl_tta_sign=4695c0d73dae2f9499ba4a69745753f0 



Now is the time to stand firm and pursue our dreams of freedom, peace, and prosperity.




With hope,



Stephanie, Pascal, Alice, Rewan, Ricken, Morgan, Graziela and the rest of the Avaaz team

PS. Avaaz will work with internet activists to provide proxy servers to get Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks back up and ensure that critical messages of reform and real-time updates can reach the widest possible audience across Egypt and around the world.

More Information:

Egyptian police have used tear gas and water cannon to break up rare anti-government protests in the capital
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12283623

Clinton offered tepid support of the Egyptian government
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/01/26/us.mideast.concerns/

Egypt bans protests seeking end to Mubarak rule
http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFLDE70P1G820110126

Foreign Ministry declares that demonstrators had the right to express their views
http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/interior-ministry-policeman-killed-clash-demonstrators

‘Beginning of the end’ for Egypt’s Mubarak as son and wife flee
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/105117/20110126/beginning-of-the-end-for-egypt-s-mubarak-as-son-and-wife-flee.htm

Twitter and web video site face clampdown in Egypt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12284649

Amnesty International condemns the crackdown on demonstrations
http://amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/egypt-must-stop-crackdown-protesters-2011-01-26

Regular updates are being posted by Egyptian activists here:
http://www.elshaheeed.co.uk

Avaaz.org is a 6.5-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world’s people shape global decision-making. (“Avaaz” means “voice” or “song” in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 13 countries on 4 continents and operates in 14 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz’s biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

2011-01-28 Rebuttal: Slow poisoning by mercury (dental amalgams & vaccinations). Immune system. Corrupt Big Pharma.

 Mercury poisoning, dental amalgams. See also Vaccinations., Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt)  No Responses »
Jan 282011
 

NOTE:  this was written prior to the information  regarding the use of aluminum, another neuro toxin,  in vaccinations.  It is still valid, but the VRAN input takes it a step further.   See 2011-02-02 Important update re vaccinations.

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I am like a fish; I store mercury in my body.

They say that the mercury that has been in my mouth for 50 years  (in my dental amalgams)  is fine.  It “off-gases” into my body.    But don’t eat those fish.  They have mercrury in them! There is  mercury in a tetanus or a flu shot.   But don’t eat those fish.  They have mercury in them!

Like the fish, I die if I do not have water.  Like the fish, I die if my immune system is overwhelmed.  There is no “me” without my immune system.

A discussion on a causal relationship between mercury poisoning and health is without value if it doesn’t incorporate knowledge of how the immune system works.  The immune system is a “dynamic system”.  The rules of dynamic systems apply.

(INSERT:  Dynamic systems briefly:  feedback loops, appropriate corrective action has to be taken in time, appropriate action is directed at removal of cause of the problem, otherwise the system will continue to decline, once you are past the tipping point decay gathers momentum,  and past the tipping point it is not possible to reverse the downward spiral.  Damage is permanent and irreversible.  The system does not have sufficient resources to repair itself and return to healthy equilibrium.)

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Oh dear!  People aren’t obediently getting their vaccinations like they should or should not.

And Lord help Big Pharma if a link is established between various disease and developmental problems and their vaccinations, some of which contain mercury.  Might be good to say prayers, too, for the Government Health Programmes that administer the vaccinations-that-contain-mercury.

The information we circulated in the past on the mercury topic is accessible on this blog.   You’ll find it through the links in this email.

What I have heard of the recent onslaught to discredit those who state a link between

  • vaccinations-that-contain-mercury and
  • disease

is curious.   It is centred around ONE doctor (Wakefield) from England who, it seems to me, is being pilloried much like selected scientists in the past whose work shows a link between chemicals and disease outcomes.

The attack is in the U.S.  …  Why isn’t the attack directed at the American doctors who have supplied the science in the thimerosal (mercury)-in-vaccinations battle?   It only alerts my antennae when not one of the doctors whose work we have circulated is mentioned (at least not in the media coverage I have recently heard).   Simultaneously the name Wakefield does not appear even once in the documentation we assembled on the topic.  I heard a recent interview of Wakefield.  It seems to me that interviews with Boyd Haley (American) or Lyle Friberg (not American) or others would have had different outcomes.  (UPDATE:  See  2011-02-02 for an explanation on Wakefield from VRAN.)

Thanks to Karen for the article at  2004-03-30 Are the CDC, the FDA, and other health agencies covering up evidence that a mercury preservative in children’s vaccines caused a rise in autism? Anyone with a connection to children should at least read the article.

  • “In May 2003 the AAP stated, “All routinely recommended infant vaccines currently sold in the U.S. are free of thimerosal as a preservative and have been for more than two years.”

If the link between thimerasol (mercury) and developmental problems is merely a hoax or outdated belief, then why did they stop using it?  And please note that many vaccinations and “shots” still contain thimerasol.   (see  2011-02-02 Important update re vaccinations email from Edda West contains a list of the vaccinations for children and the adjuvants they contain).

This from the Canadian Paediatric Society, a source relied upon by some media:  “There is mounting evidence (27) that ASD (INSERT:  autism) has a strong genetic component – a very plausible cause for the disorder. ”    (from  2009-11-19 on H1N1, item 11 D.)

It seems implausible to me that a developmental disorder with the following record can be assigned to the normal meaning of  “it’s genetic (in the genes)”:   “In 2002, an estimated 1 in 250 American children was diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 500 in 2000, and 1 in 5,000 in the 1980s.”

But maybe they are using a different meaning of “genetic”.  Click on  2006-03-24 Dr. Frederica Perera, the “DNA Damage Detective“.     We put poisons into the environment or into our bodies,  it damages DNA, the damaged DNA can be (is) passed down from generation-to-generation.  Voila!  we have  “a strong genetic component“.   …  Too bad, we just have to accept it.  It makes more sense financially to just keep damaging more and more DNA.   Then spend millions on “find a cure”.  . . .   Remove the cause?  And ruin our profits?  Ya gotta be kidding.

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So what about it?   IS MERCURY IN VACCINATIONS JUST THE WORK OF THE DEVIL?   and  DID THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES THAT BANNED DENTAL AMALGAMS MADE WITH MERCURY, BOW TO UNINFORMED PUBLIC PRESSURE OR TO SOUND SCIENCE?

Given the information circulated about mercury in vaccinations, mercury in dental amalgams, disease and developmental outcomes,  and the corruption of science by Big Pharma,  also drawing on my own personal experience,

  • it seems to me that the issue is:   slow poisoning by mercury that we are putting straight into our bodies – –  the issue is  not vaccinations and not dental fillings.    There is not a single cause-and-effect, but a number of  slow persistent attacks on the immune system.  The attacks are from mercury from different sources.   The sources include various vaccinations that contain mercury, and dental amalgams that contain mercury.
  • but in addition, looking at it from the perspective of the ability of the immune system to deal with poisons, it ain’t only mercury honey.   The slow, persistent attacks on the immune system are from other poisons as well, chemicals that are known carcinogens and teratogens for example.  (A teratogen interferes with normal cell development.)
  • sugar suppresses the immune system

We LIKE single cause, single effect.  But it doesn’t actually work that way.

Getting back to mercury —   personal stories of Grant Schoenroth, Joe Bourgault, (who I know) and myself,  related to mercury poisoning from dental amalgams are at 2010-12-06.

It’s devilish trying to find “the truth”!  An adjuvant is “a pharmacological agent added to a drug to increase or aid its effect.”  It includes preservatives.  Ethyl mercury (trade name thimerasol) is used as a preservative in some vaccines, as are other agents foreign to our body. If you must get the swine flu vaccination, especially if it is being given to children, I would recommend that you at least ask for a list of the adjuvants in the vaccine.  From what I understand, most flu shots contain thimerasol.  Know what each of the adjuvants does.

Mercury is a heavy metal.  Heavy metals cause serious deterioration in neural pathways in the brain   (for the science on this,  for mercury,  from the University of Calgary, click on 2010-12-06 ).  The banning of lead in gasoline and in paint are examples of efforts to prevent brain damage in humans by lowering exposure to heavy metals.  As I understand, mercury is more poisonous to the brain than lead and other heavy metals.  Increasing numbers of vaccinations mean increasing levels of heavy metals in the body, IF ethyl mercury is an adjuvant in the vaccinations.  Mercury is not the only problematic adjuvant, just the best-known.

It is claimed that mercury in dental amalgams is one of those internet hoaxes.  It is far from that.  A number of European countries have outlawed dental amalgams.  Also, the information posted in  2010-12-06 comes from organizations such as the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, the Federation of American  Societies for Experimental Biology, the American Academy of Head, Neck and Facial Pain, numerous doctors, dentists and scientists, etc..

Excerpt from the posting  2010-12-06 and about the University of Calgary research:

A google of “mercury brain” comes up with this excellent youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImCpWzXJ_w

One of the researchers from the University of Calgary who participated in the research is Dr. Naweed Syed.  I phoned his office in the Department of Cell Biology / Physiology (Medicine) 403 220 5479, to confirm the authenticity of the video.  His assistant said that he usually gives permission for the video to be used.  . . . “

The video conversation with Dr. Boyd Haley is another valuable contribution to an understanding of mercury poisoning.  The URL I had no longer works.  It is easiest just to google “Boyd Haley Interview”.

The developing foetus and baby receive mercury in utero and in breast milk from the off-gasing of dental amalgams  in the Mother’s body.  (The evidence to support that statement  is in 2010-12-06.   Excerpt:

(3)    A LIST OF URL’s,  MERCURY IN DENTAL AMALGAMS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeanAuZK_DY&feature=player_embedded “Poison in the Mouth”   Includes how mercury is treated after it has been removed from the mouth (with hazardous material “haz mat” handling procedures).  Includes Dr. Lyle Friberg and the work of researchers at the University of Calgary (the sheep and monkey research), the research from California regarding accumulation of mercury from amalgams in the brain.   Kentucky researcher on Alzheimer’s connection.  Mercury crossing the placenta. Etc.

BACK TO THE BABIES WHO HAVE RECEIVED MERCURY IN UTERO AND IN BREAST-MILK

Many are, or have then been given vaccinations that contain thimerasol (mercury), not necessarily in the MMR (Measles Mumps Rubella) vaccination but in other shots.  All I am saying is KNOW what’s in the shots being received.  The Americans may not be putting thimerasol in the vaccines for babies in the U.S.;  they are still shipping vaccines with thimerasol for infants outside the U.S.

The information on the rotavirus vaccine that the Canadian Paediatric Society is pushing is at 2010-01-06.   If that doesn’t cause you to shake your head, I don’t know what will.  It is almost unbelievable – – it’s information from the public record.  With an exception:  it’s pieced together so you can see what they are doing, just with that one vaccination.  God awful.  In 2009 a million infants in the U.S. were given a rotavirus vaccine that was contaminated with a pig virus.  Sorry, it’s no joke.  You can verify it right on the manufacturer’s website.

I do have a problem with this excerpt from the science used by the CBC to refute the link between

  • vaccinations that contain mercury and
  • disease outcomes (autism)

supplied to them by the Canadian Paediatric Society:

Click on 2009-11-19.  Go to #11 D.  —-    Only two infant thimerosal-containing vaccines were used – hepatitis B vaccine and influenza vaccine; the latter was not administered to infants younger than six months of age, the age/size of infant of concern. Hence, any concerns about excessive ethyl mercury exposure in young Canadian infants were without foundation.

I also note the statement “In the absence of experimental or human evidence that vaccination affects metabolic, developmental, immune, or other physiological or molecular mechanisms that are related causally to development of autism, the IOM concluded that the hypotheses generated to date are theoretical. ‘

You have to be specific.  The specific is vaccinations that contain mercury (ethyl mercury).  There is so much documentation of the corrupting influence of Big Pharma that it is difficult to accept the good intention of the statements.  Is their statement based on vaccinations – –  or – –  on vaccinations that contain mercury?   It should be the latter.  What about vaccines that contain a pig virus?

Who is The Canadian Paediatric Society?   They recommended rotavirus vaccination for all babies.   Click on 2010-01-06.   The evidence is against vaccination for rotavirus (diarrhea and vomiting).   Time-and-time again you see where the industry (pharmaceutical, chemical, biotech)  buys their way into organizations OR they set up an organization that is nothing more than an industry front.  Given the CPS position on rotavirus I am not enthusiastic about accepting their statements regarding vaccinations.

http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/babiespregnancy/babies/article/870316–canadian-paediatric-society-recommends-rotavirus-vaccination-for-all-babies

Canadian Paediatric Society recommends rotavirus vaccination for all babies

October 4, 2010

OTTAWA- All Canadian babies should be vaccinated against rotavirus, according to a new statement by the Canadian Paediatric Society. The CPS is also calling for public funding of the vaccine, which is not currently covered by provincial or territorial health plans.  …

As I say,  please click on 2010-01-06 for the background on the incidence of deaths (negligible, and it’s from dehydration) from rotavirus and the history of the development of the vaccine.   This release from the Canadian Paediatric Society appears to me to support a public-money grab by the pharmaceutical corporations.

It is not ONE vaccination (MMR) or one dental amalgam that contains mercury but cumulative effects of  on-going mercury ingestion from different sources that is the problem.  Sometimes the individual hits a tipping point (overload) and the immune system succumbs to the accumulated mercury, stored in our body fat and in some of our body organs.  Like the fish.  The disease outcome of the mercury poisoning (in combination with exposure to other toxins) will be different in different individuals because the weaknesses in different bodies are different.

I pointed out what I believe to be flaws in the scientific argument presented by Dr. Jock Murray (click on 2010-12-06 ).  He said that MS (Multiple Sclerosis) patients do not show an elevated level of mercury in comparison with the rest of the population.  That is correct, but it does not establish that there is no relationship.   Almost everyone has dental amalgams, 88% of the population is the commonly-quoted figure.  Depending on the individual immune system, mercury poisoning leads to different disease outcomes in different people.  Logically, one would not expect to find elevated levels of mercury in specific disease groups.  There will be roughly the same mercury readings.  Because almost everyone has dental amalgams that contain mercury.   Take the mercury out of our mouths, stop the onslaught of mercury on our immune systems and disease levels will decline.  The article submitted by Karen at  2004-03-30 contains the story of a teething powder that contained thimerasol and the emergence of a new “Pink’s disease”.   When the teething powder was pulled off the market, Pink’s disease disappeared.

Other science quoted shows that when dental amalgams are removed, the situation of the MS patient (for example) does not  improve.  There is also an error in logic in accepting this as confirmation that a causal relationship does not exist.  When a dynamic system passes the tipping point recovery is not possible.  The damage becomes permanent.

I do not have the resources to evaluate  all the science used by the CBC.  If it’s along the lines of the preceding quoted science, there are flaws.  That the information comes from the Canadian Paediatric Society is suspect because of their position on rotavirus vaccine.  It must also be established that there is absolutely no industry money behind the “science”.  Who has time to do the sleuthing to determine this?

Robert F Kennedy Jr spells out the role of Big Pharma and money in all of this.   Click on 2009-07-25.   There is further documentation on the role of Donald Rumsfeld (Bush Administration) and Big Pharma in the flu vaccine (contains mercury) in another posting:  2009-10-07.  Also in 2004-03-30.

So what about it?   IS MERCURY IN VACCINATIONS JUST THE WORK OF THE DEVIL?   and  DID THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES THAT BANNED DENTAL AMALGAMS MADE WITH MERCURY, BOW TO UNINFORMED PUBLIC PRESSURE OR TO SOUND SCIENCE?

My role lies in assembling the information submitted and putting it back out there, making it available.  Ultimately, responsibility for our own health and the health of our communities lies in our own hands.  Over and over again the lesson is the same.  The system will attempt to protect the status quo.  It’s where the money is.  There are costs associated with acknowledging and accepting responsibility for the poisons.  Which is again a fault of the system we have constructed.  Thank goodness there are hundreds of thousands of people working toward a new political economy!

RESOURCE:  Vaccine Risk Awareness Network  http://vran.org/

REFER TO POSTINGS:

2010-01-06 In 2009  – Rotavirus vaccine contaminated with a pig virus, injected into more than a million kids in the U.S. alone.  Also the numbers on the rise of autism, the work of Dr. Stephanie Cave.

2010-12-06 Accumulated, on mercury poisoning. Vaccinations & dental amalgams.  Did the European countries that banned dental amalgams made with mercury bow to uninformed public pressure or to sound science?

2009-11-19 H1N1 (or nukes or gmo’s or energy)  in the context of “Selling Out”: the larger issue.

2009-10-07 I want parents to know this about vaccinations, mercury, Rumsfeld, and money devoid of conscience   (Rumsfeld’s connection to Tamiflu)

2009-07-27 This is all about the pharmaceutical, chemical and biotech corporations, and their collaborators in government.  All at the expense of our interest in health.  Some of it is heart-breaking.  Autism, Kennedy, Psych Ward story

2009-07-25 “Vaccinations: Deadly Immunity” by Robert F Kennedy Jr  (Autism)(Role of Big Pharma)

2004-03-30 Are the CDC, the FDA, and other health agencies covering up evidence that a mercury preservative in children’s vaccines caused a rise in autism?

2011-01-27 input from former StatsCan employee, “The issue of L-M was huge within the department”. Breaking of the social contract.

 Lockheed Martin, War Economy (includes Cdn Census & Trials)  No Responses »
Jan 272011
 

“ … The issue of L-M was huge within the department. … For many of us it was a multi-faceted issue:

1) contracting out,

2) contracting out to a foreign firm,

3) contracting out to a foreign firm involved in producing WMD and   (INSERT:  WMD = “Weapons of Mass Destruction”)

4) a betrayal of our confidentiality assurances.”

ASIDE:

I have also received information from an anonymous former StatsCan employee by telephone, provided to me while the trial was in progress:

2010-01-17    From anonymous person “ .. the rate of non-compliance with the long form doubled between the 2001 and the 2006 censuses.”

StatsCan witness Arora’s testimony was that there was no difference in the levels of non-compliance between the 2001 and 2006 censuses.

2010-12-13

“If an individual logs onto the census data base and VIEWS a record, but does not make any changes to it, will there be a record that the individual has accessed that record?”   According to the anonymous former StatsCan employee the answer to that question is “No”.  The technology exists to establish this audit trail, but StatsCan is not using it.

I cannot quote Anil Arora’s responses in cross-examination on this question.  He skated around.  Is there an audit trail if a person is accessing (viewing) but not changing records?   I understood him to say, yes there is.

The same anonymous person phoned me in March 2010 to say that Anil Arora was or has moved out of Statistics Canada.  Arora had been the main StatsCan witness at my trial in early January 2010.  He had been a long-time employee of StatsCan.

MOVING ON!   This is recent input initiated on the blog and by email: 

You may want to read this thread from the bottom up (1,2,3). 

(3)  From: (name removed)
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Subject: Re: Census Lockheed Martin.

Hi Sandra:

Thanks for your response re L-M and the Census.   Having worked at Stats Can and knowing the importance of the data and how seriously the issue of maintaining confidentiality used to be taken, I don’t have much patience for people who will not complete the Census because they feel it is an invasion of their privacy and the government doesn’t need to know how many bathrooms they have etc.   I believe that if confidentiality is taken serious, that it is a civic duty.  But with contracting out to WMD L-M that social contract has been broken.

I answered the last Census but did not put my name (they do not need it) , and crossed out my address and the last 3 digits of the questionnaire ID.   The last 3 digits of the questionnaire ID are the number of the block that you live on.   They do not produce data at that level – basically it is just a sort of accounting tool. (INSERT:  see information following this input.  There is another interpretation. /S)   I also scrawled on the questionnaire my reason for doing so – contracting out to L-M.   I read the info on IBM and the Holocaust – very thought provoking.

Harper’s cancellation of the long form Census is another matter.  Harper is a dangerous ideologue who does not need information because he plans to go ahead with his agenda no matter what the facts are.   Ironically I found myself blogging on CBC and G&M websites last summer defending the need for the Census.   What a messed up country.

Re us public servants here in Ottawa.  I will be brief.  We are normal people and a varied lot.  Some are lazy, stupid and lack a conscience but for the most part we are just regular Canadians who take pride in what we do and joined the P.S. because we wanted to do something for our country.    Next time someone bitches at a public servant, remember that we pay taxes too and don’t like to see our money wasted any more than you do.  Furthermore, those of us who work for the government suffer twice as much as the regular tax payer because we have to take up the slack for the lazy sobs that don’t do their job.

Good luck with you case.

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NOTE RELATED TO:  “ The last 3 digits of the questionnaire ID are the number of the block that you live on.   They do not produce data at that level – basically it is just a sort of accounting tool.”

The StatsCan witness at my trial, Anil Arora, described that “ . ..  the census starts with “the dwelling”, “maps and locations”.”  which happens to be the same jargon around the U.S. census that Lockheed Martin is also involved in.  Because the wording of Arora’s testimony was so close to what I’d read about the promotion in the U.S. related to the Census Bureau adding GPS locator information to their census records, in cross-examination I questioned Anil Arora about the plans at StatsCan for the same programme (marrying GPS locator information to individual census records)  in Canada.

There is more information on this at:  2010-01-17   Canada:  the census starts with “the dwelling”, “maps and locations”.  Is this the same as in the U.S. where they are marrying GPS locator information to individual census records?

That posting begins:

CONTENTS

(1)  FROM STATSCAN WITNESS AT MY TRIAL REGARDING GPS LOCATOR INFORMATION FOR CENSUS FILES.

(2)  DOOR-TO-DOOR COLLECTION OF CENSUS DATA FROM IBM AND THE HOLOCAUST.

This is further to 2009-01  The IBM/Lockheed Martin Census: GPSing Your Home (U.S.).  And what to do about it.

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(2)  (EMAIL THREAD CONTINUED)  MY RESPONSE TO COMMENT
— On Mon, 1/24/11, Sandra Finley wrote:
Subject: Census Lockheed Martin.Hi (name removed),Thanks very much for your input. I know there are excellent people working inside Government in service to Canadians.  We too seldom hear – almost never –  that side of the story. It is reassuring to know that StatsCan employees also objected to the involvement of Lockheed Martin.

I will be brief in reply.

Your questions:

Did you refuse to answer the Census because Lockheed Martin was involved in the processing?

RESPONSE:  Yes.

Would you have responded if the information had been processed by Stats Can employees?

RESPONSE: I would not have been alerted to the fact that there is ANY problem with the census, had it not been for the involvement of Lockheed Martin Corporation.  So, no – – I might have cringed at the amount of information requested, but I would have responded in some fashion.

In closing: I have run an activist email network for 10-11 years. People submit information related to the topics we are working on.  The book “IBM and the Holocaust” was recommended to me.

If you haven’t read it, you might want to read about it at  http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=185 .  People who have worked with censuses have a special interest.

Today I would not comply with the long-form census because of the state-of-the-world. It is all in media articles. “The Americans want the data” on all Canadians (Ottawa Citizen reporting on a security conference). “President of the Americans for Lockheed Martin”  describes to Macleans Magazine (Sept 2006) how they are going to get what they want – and not through legislative changes because they can’t get it that way.  They’ll get what they want by working through the bureaucracy, outside democratic control. And so on.  I posted the information (too much of it!) to the blog so that people will know I didn’t dream this all up.  It’s there, but it has to be pieced together in order to see the larger picture.

All the best to you in this next phase of your life.

Sandra

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(1)  COMMENT POSTED TO www.sandrafinley.ca ):

Hi Sandra:

I just discovered your blog and the outcome of your case. I don’t have time to spend hours reading so could you answer one question for me.  Did you refuse to answer the Census because Lockheed Martin was involved in the processing?  Would you have responded if the information had been processed by Stats Can employees?

I am a former Stats employee (retired last year).  The issue of L-M was huge within the department.  Stats Can has always sold itself by assuring iron clad confidentiality – and I can vouch that security is tight and confidentiality taken extremely seriously.  To  contract out Census processing to war mongering L-M was a big issue among many of us.  For many of us it was a multi-faceted issue: 1) contracting out, 2) contracting out to a foreign firm, 3) contracting out to a foreign firm involved in producing WMD and 4) a betrayal of our confidentiality assurances.
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