Sandra Finley

2010-01-12 Yikes! the Court is headed toward an Override of my Charter Right to privacy of personal information! The Oakes test, Govt must meet criteria.

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

Jan 122010

Section 1 of the Charter can be used to override charter rights, if the good of the larger society is more important than the individual right and freedom.

BUT there are tests that must be passed, in order to allow an over-ride.

At trial January 11-12 (2010) it suddenly dawned on me that the Prosecutor and Judge in my case are heading toward a Section 1 override of my Charter Right to privacy of personal information. Yikes! I am in over my head. I don’t know how to defend against an override.

I do not have the luxery of making any mistakes. There is too much on the line, for all Canadians. Should it come about that I lose the case, I will be appealing. I do not expect to lose, however, the situation is dicey at the moment (January 12, 2010).

I ran out the door of the Court House, straight to the lawyer, Steve Seiferling. Please take over the case; on my own I am going to lose it! And that charming, talented boy said “yes”.

And that has made all the difference. The tables are turned.

THE OAKES TEST TO OVERRIDE CHARTER RIGHTS. (The Government cannot meet the test.)

2010-01-11 Since the 2006 census your name is on your individual computerized census data record, from cross-examination of Anil Arora, Prosecution (StatsCan) witness at my trial.

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

Jan 112010

Work on the Canadian census was first out-sourced to Lockheed Martin (contractor) and IBM (sub-contractor) for the 2006 census.

There was a test run of the 2006 census in 2004 (called the “mini-census).

Prior to the 2006 census, the computerized census data base consisted of data that was not linked to a name. The records were for the purpose of generating “aggregate information”. You don’t need names in order to do that.

I confirmed in cross-examination of the StatsCan witness (Anil Arora) at my trial (January 12, 2010):

Beginning with the 2006 census (which includes the 2004 “mini census”) the computerized data base of census records contains the name that goes with the data. Previously the name was not part of the computerized record, it was on the microfiche record.

Above all, Governments SHOULD NOT HAVE detailed personal information on every citizen. That is the clear lesson of the Nazis in Europe, and a repeated lesson from every police-state in history.

StatsCan claims that groups of people (provinces, First Nations, people with disabilities, etc.) will not receive their share of the $7 billion in transfer payments if StatsCan does not have census data on every citizen.

The census is not a data base that contains all the personal information on every individual.

We are not in a police state. Unless we choose to be.

2010-01-11 and 12: The Crown presented its witness (evidence). I (representing myself) did cross-examination. I did not complete the presentation of my evidence before the Court adjourned, for continuation March 16th. Change strategy, hire a lawyer

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

Jan 112010

I am changing strategy. I have to hand the trial over to a lawyer.

I believe that the right of citizens not to be forced into handing over a “biographical core of personal information” to the state is critical in a free and democratic society. If I lose the case I will have done more harm than good, hence the need for a lawyer knowledgeable in Privacy Law to argue the case.

It suddenly dawned on me in Court that the Prosecution has established the groundwork for arguing that the benefit of the census data to all Canadians is greater than my individual right to privacy of personal information. I don’t know the legal arguments to defend against a “Section 1 override” as it is called. Get my butt to the lawyer!

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

Vaccinations (incl corruption of science & govt) No Responses »

Jan 062010

CONTENTS

(1) COMMENTARY

(2) 1999 MERCK’S ROTAVIRUS VACCINE PULLED FROM THE MARKET

(3) GIVE BABIES ROTAVIRUS VACCINE, DOCTORS SAY (CBC, OCT 4)

(4) PEDIATRICIANS WANT TO ADD ANOTHER SHOT (VANCOUVER SUN)

(5) GLAXO-SMITH-KLINE’S WEBSITE, RESPONSE AFTER THEIR ROTAVIRUS VACCINE FOUND CONTAMINATED WITH A PIG VIRUS, MAY 2010

(6) ROTAVIRUS VACCINE – WHAT’S A PARENT TO DO?

(7) FIGURES ON THE RISE IN AUTISM AND LEARNING DISABILITIES, U.S.A. – MERCURY POISONING

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(1) COMMENTARY

2009 – Rotavirus vaccine, contaminated with a pig virus, injected into more than a million kids in the U.S. alone (items #6 and #5)

Diarrhea and vomiting is no longer the flu bug, it’s rotavirus? Is that it? Spread the fear. Get out the needles, there’s money to be made.

20 – 60 deaths a year in North American children from (diarrhea and vomiting) rotavirus. Actually from dehydration caused by the diarrhea and vomiting.

And the response is to vaccinate children at public expense. Who pays and who profits?

Why not educate people to the risks of dehydration?

The virus is contagious. Why not pay a living wage so that one parent can stay at home with young children? Their immune systems are still in the developmental stages.

Medi-care doesn’t want to understand the human immune system.

Rotavirus kills about 30 children every year in the US, by one report. (20 – 60 in North America by another.)

That is unfortunate, but those children will also be ones with poorly-developed or poorly-protected immune systems.

Or they will be the children of people who have not been told about the danger of dehydration.

The numbers are significant in poorer countries. Vaccinate them, there’s money to be made. To hell with doing anything that would strengthen their immune systems, like cleaning up their water supplies and getting good food to them.

Dr. Walker, quoted in the media says: “Serious ill effects from vaccine are absolutely incredibly rare”. (Item #3) That is bull shit.

In 1999, Merck’s rotavirus vaccine was pulled from the market because of the health problems it created (item #2). In 2009 Merck’s rotavirus vaccine was pulled from the U.S. market because it was contaminated with a pig virus. Why would we be putting monkey and pig parts in human vaccines? ( . . maybe it’s because we are monkeys and pigs?!)

“Rotavirus is a major public health issue,” Walker said.

Isn’t that helpful for the profits of Glaxo-Smith-Kline and Merck?

Which are ensured when the Government and medical professionals become their promoters.

All publicly-funded.

The statements by the doctors quoted in the recent media around the rotavirus vaccine are propaganda. They do not contribute to informed dialogue.

See item #7. Autism is a major public health issue. In the fifties, it was 1/10000; 1/2000 in the seventies; 1/500 in 1996; 1/250 in 2000; 1/147 in 2001.

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(2) 1999 MERCK’S ROTAVIRUS VACCINE PULLED FROM THE MARKET

“In March 1998, the CDC’s (Centre for Disease Control’s) Advisory Committee … approved a live rotavirus vaccine made by genetically combining a human rotavirus strain with one from a monkey. . . . Excitement soon turned to concern and fear. In November 1999, the vaccine was pulled from the market because it was linked with ninety-nine reports of a rare bowel obstruction called intussusceptions and at least one death in infants. Without proper treatment … intussusceptions can be fatal.

Jane Oriet, M.D., executive director of the Assoc of American Physicists and Surgeons (AAPS), questioned why the vaccine was approved in the first place. (Conflicts of interest are documented.) “ . . . AAPS has been studying the reports and has concluded that the FDA and CDC may have ignored or concealed data that showed the problems from the outset.” . . . She believes that “the tragedy of the rotavirus vaccine might never have happened if the public had access to the data used by the FDA and CDC in recommending the vaccine.”

Was this the end of the rotavirus vaccine? No, it was not. A new rotavirus vaccine was approved in 2006 . . . At least 190 cases of intussusceptions in infants receiving the new rotavirus vaccine have now been reported. The CDC has reported that this is not higher than the expected rate of intussusceptions for unvaccinated children. . . .”

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children’s Vaccinations

Revised and Updated 2010

Published by Wellness Central

Author: Stephanie Cave, M.D., F.A.A.F.P.

page 35

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(3) GIVE BABIES ROTAVIRUS VACCINE, DOCTORS SAY (CBC, OCT 4)

rotavirus-vaccine.html

Give babies rotavirus vaccine, doctors say

Last Updated: Monday, October 4, 2010

CBC News

All Canadian babies should be vaccinated against rotavirus, a group representing pediatricians says.

Rotavirus is the most common cause of serious diarrhea in babies and young children, and children under two years are most at risk of getting very sick, the Canadian Pediatric Society said in a statement.

On Monday, the society called for public funding of the rotavirus vaccine, which is not covered by provincial or territorial health plans.

The virus spreads person to person or indirectly, such as by sharing toys. The illness usually lasts three to eight days and cannot be treated with antibiotics.

In Canada, outbreaks of rotavirus usually occur between February and May. Serious illness can cause dehydration.

About 14 per cent of those who get the virus will seek medical attention, said the group, which estimates that up to 600 children are hospitalized for rotavirus annually.

Two rotavirus vaccines are approved for use in Canada.

The vaccine is given orally in two or three doses, starting at six weeks of age and ending no later than eight months. It can be given to babies at the same time as other regular immunizations.

The World Health Organization also recommends including rotavirus in national immunization programs.

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(4) PEDIATRICIANS WANT TO ADD ANOTHER SHOT (VANCOUVER SUN)

(Link no longer valid http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canadian+pediatricians+recommend+rotavirus+vaccination/3619687/story.html )

Pediatricians want to add another shot to the panoply of vaccines Canadian children receive, urging that every baby in the country be vaccinated against a virus that sends thousands of children to hospital each year.

Rotavirus is the leading cause of gastroenteritis — inflammation of the stomach and intestines causing diarrhea and vomitting — in infants in Canada. The virus, which is highly contagious, can cause dehydration and shock in extreme cases. Infants under two are at the greatest risk for severe infection.

According to the Canadian Paediatric Society, rotavirus gastroenteritis is responsible for more sickness than any other common diarrheal illness in children.

In a new position statement, to be released Monday, the Ottawa-based group is recommending rotavirus vaccination for all infants. It’s also calling for universal funding of the vaccines, for which no province currently pays.

The doctor’s group says most children will experience at least one episode of rotavirus by age five and one in 20 will require emergency treatment for it.

Death from rotavirus is rare in Canada; two such deaths have been reported in recent years. But, because the virus isn’t a reportable disease and there’s no routine testing for it, “cases could go unrecognized or unreported,” according to the position statement.

In the United States, 20 to 60 deaths due to rotavirus are reported annually. More than 600,000 children in developing countries die each year from rotavirus infections.

Two vaccines are licensed in Canada — RotaTeq, manufactured by Merck Frosst Canada Ltd., and GlaxoSmithKline Inc.’s Rotarix. The liquid vaccines are given by mouth in a series of doses that are started when babies are about two months old.

“We think (the vaccine) is safe, it’s effective, it’s going to prevent severe infections and it will, we believe, save the provinces money,” says Dr. Robert Bortolussi, chair of the Canadian Paediatric Society’s infectious disease and immunization committee and a professor of pediatrics at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Efforts to bring rotavirus vaccines to the market have been shaky. The first licensed vaccine, called RotaShield, was pulled from the U.S. market in 1999, less than a year after it was approved, after it was linked with an increased risk of intussusception, where the bowel twists or slides into itself, causing potentially life-threatening intestinal blockage.

The pediatric society says that large trials involving tens of thousands of patients, as well as post-marketing surveillance based on millions of distributed doses have shown no increased risk of intussusception with the current vaccines.

But the call for widespread vaccination comes amid concern about the growing list of routine childhood immunizations. Two decades ago, children received about five shots before their second birthday. Today, they receive as many as 20 before they turn two.

“We are concerned that yet another vaccine is being added to the already crowded vaccine schedule imposed on Canadian babies today,” the British Columbia-based Vaccination Risk Awareness Network said in a statement emailed to Postmedia News.

“Of particular concern is that the two genetically engineered rotavirus vaccines approved for use in Canada may still be contaminated with DNA from pig viruses, announced by the FDA in May.”

Pieces of DNA from porcine circovirus (PCV) have been detected in the vaccines. Porcine circovirus DNA can be a contaminant of an enzyme obtained from pig pancreas. The enzyme is used during some manufacturing steps to produce the vaccines.

But Health Canada and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say that the pig viruses are not known to cause illness in humans and that there is no evidence they pose a safety risk.

According to information for parents posted on Health Canada’s website, “The benefits of the vaccines for infants are substantial.”

Rotavirus infections can cause profound dehydration. “That is what makes this potentially a quite dangerous condition,” says Dr. Robin Walker, a past president of the Canadian Paediatric Society and vice-chair of the board of the Canadian Institute of Child Health.

Severe dehydration leads to too little water and a “derangement” of the body’s electrolytes that can affect virtually every body system, he says.

“We worry particularly, though, about the impact on the brain. The derangement in water and salt can lead to seizures and, in extreme cases, even death.”

“Rotavirus is a major public health issue,” Walker said, but many parents are unaware of it. When his group surveyed 882 Canadian mothers of young children in 2007, “more than half had never even heard of it.”

Walker said most concerns about vaccines are not founded on evidence. “Serious ill effects from vaccine are absolutely incredibly rare and the rotavirus vaccine has gone through the same kind of testing as other vaccines,” he says.

“Yes, kids get a lot of immunizations, but there’s now excellent science to show that it doesn’t really matter how many immunizations you give,” Walker said.

“You can’t, at least in terms of current numbers of immunizations, give too many. There’s no evidence whatsoever that giving immunizations together, or giving more immunizations is in the slightest bit harmful.”

The natural virus is spread easily from person-to-person, and from contaminated hands, toys and other objects. Outbreaks usually occur between February and May in Canada. About one in 150 children will be hospitalized with rotavirus before their fifth birthday.

Symptoms of rotavirus include watery diarrhea, vomiting and fever. Signs that an infected baby is becoming dehydrated include dry skin, low urine output, sunken eyes, and no tears when the baby cries, dry mouth, a faster heart rate and listlessness.

Bortolussi said that none of the members of the committee advocating rotavirus vaccination for all infants have a financial interest in either of the two companies involved in making the vaccines.

The vaccines are widely used in the U.S., where state immunization programs cover them. In the U.S., “There’s been a very drastic reduction in the number of infants who need to be hospitalized because of rotavirus diarrhea,” says Bortolussi.

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(5) ROTAVIRUS VACCINE – WHAT’A A PARENT TO DO?

http://www.vancouverobserver.com/blogs/homeopath/2010/10/04/rotavirus-vaccine-%E2%80%93-what%E2%80%99s-parent-do

Rotavirus Vaccine – What’s a Parent To Do?

Pediatricians Want Kids to Get Rotavirus Vaccine” were headlines in The Vancouver Sun this week and it was an interesting read, particularly in the wake of the huge recall of Glaxo-Smith-Kline’s rotavirus vaccine Rotarix last year in the US, when it was discovered to have been contaminated with a pig virus – discovered only after the vaccine had been injected into over one million children in the US alone. While officials quickly reassured the public that this virus is benign in humans, such reassurances are not backed by any concrete evidence – there are no scientific studies showing what happens when this virus is injected and resides in a human body over the course of a lifetime.

Rotavirus, which as the article states is barely a household word, causes diarrhea and vomiting and is highly contagious. The danger comes from dehydration, which in small children can occur fast and if not rectified, be life-threatening. Third-world children living in poverty with poor sanitation are most at risk, however even in North America apparently death by Rotavirus dehydration causes between 20 – 60 deaths annually. So the idea is that by vaccinating children against this common but usually undiagnosed illness, those deaths due to Rotaviral dehydration won’t occur. But since viruses easily mutate, the chances of a child catching a mutated rotavirus or some other virus causing diarrhea and vomiting is pretty much guaranteed – meaning parents still need to know how to prevent their child from becoming dehydrated and support their healthy recovery.

For those parents who feel nervous injecting yet another pharmaceutical cocktail into their young child’s body, another option is to promote the health and development of their fledgling immune system through old-fashioned ideas such as good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle as well as educate themselves in natural therapies to use when their children do become ill. My three children have all come down with bouts of diarrhea/vomiting at various times but by treating them with a combination of homeopathic remedies and common sense (some of which came from my doctor on the rare occasions I needed to consult with her/him), again and again I was amazed by the miracle of homeopathy as their bodies responded quickly and positively.

Homeopathic remedies are a fantastic resource for a parent, especially in the middle of the night when your child wakes up vomiting or feverish. With a small selection of remedies commonly needed in acute illnesses, a book to help you in differentiating the remedies, and a basic understanding of how to match remedies to the sick person, it’s not unusual to ease the illness immediately and have everyone sleep through to morning. The wonderful thing about homeopathic remedies is that unlike drugs such as Tylenol which actually suppress the immune system’s functioning, they work to immediately stimulate the sick person’s healing processes. The experience of illness can then serve to actually make a child healthier overall – and therefore less susceptible to getting sick again, eliminating the cycle of antibiotics so many children end up on, particularly during the winter months.

If you are interested in learning to use homeopathy to treat common illnesses, consider taking a short seminar on the subject or pick up one of the many books available on using homeopathic remedies at home. Meeting other parents who have successfully been using homeopathy to treat their children’s illnesses without frequent trips to the walk-in clinic is another bonus of attending a seminar. As one of the most widely practiced medical systems in the world, homeopathy is once again gaining ground at a grass-roots level here in North America – despite the noisy opinions of those who are skeptical. While our wonderful modern medicine can be necessary in severe illnesses, there are many other situations where an informed parent and homeopathy can provide all the support their child needs to overcome whatever virus is challenging their system.

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(6) GLAXO-SMITH-KLINE’S WEBSITE, RESPONSE AFTER THEIR ROTAVIRUS VACCINE FOUND CONTAMINATED WITH A PIG VIRUS, MAY 2010

(Link no longer valid http://www.gsk.com/media/pressreleases/2010/2010_us_pressrelease_10030.htm)

This press release is intended for business journalists and analysts/investors. Please note that this release may not have been issued in every market in which GSK operates.

FDA says Healthcare Providers can resume use of Rotarix (Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral)

GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that U.S. healthcare practitioners can resume the use of Rotarix^® (Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral), effective immediately. This action supersedes theFDA’s recommendation from March 22, 2010 and reflects the agency’s assessment that the presence of porcine circovirus type 1 (PCV-1) in the vaccine poses no safety risk.

The FDA stated that the benefits of rotavirus vaccination are substantial, and include prevention of death in some parts of the world and hospitalization for severe rotavirus disease in the United States. The FDA further concluded that these benefits outweigh the risk, which is theoretical.

Barbara Howe, MD, Vice President, Director, North American Vaccine Development, GlaxoSmithKline stated: “We appreciate the swift and thorough review conducted by both the FDA and an expert advisory committee into the recent findings related to PCV-1 and the benefit/risk profile of Rotarix. We will continue to work with the FDA and other regulatory authorities on next steps as we maintain our commitment to helping protect infants from rotavirus disease in the U.S. and around the world.”

Notes to Editors

About PCV-1
Porcine circovirus 1 (PCV-1) is a small circular virus composed of a single strand of DNA. According to scientific literature, PCV-1 is a common virus that has been found in pork products. This is consistent with the body of literature that has not shown any evidence of PCV-1 infection in humans, or any other animals, including pigs.

About Rotarix^®
Rotarix is a two-dose, orally-administered vaccine that offers protection against rotavirus to infants and children. More than 69 million doses of the vaccine have been distributed globally, with 2.5 million in the United States.

In the U.S., Rotarix is indicated for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis caused by G1 and non-G1 types (G3, G4, and G9). It is approved for use in infants 6 weeks to 24 weeks of age.

The safety profile of Rotarix is based on extensive clinical data from the largest vaccine clinical trial program conducted by GSK, enrolling more than 90,000 participants in Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the U.S.

Important Safety Information Based on the Rotarix U.S. Prescribing Information

In clinical studies, common adverse events were fussiness/irritability, cough/runny nose, fever, loss of appetite, and vomiting.

Contraindications include a history of any of the following: Hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine including latex rubber (contained in the oral applicator), uncorrected congenital malformation of the gastrointestinal tract, or Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease (SCID).

Administration in infants suffering from acute diarrhea or vomiting should be delayed.

Safety and effectiveness in infants with chronic gastrointestinal disorders, or with known primary or secondary immunodeficiencies, have not been evaluated.

Vaccination may not provide 100% protection to all recipients.
About Rotavirus
Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe gastroenteritis among children below five years of age and a major disease burden in developing countries.It is estimated that more than half a million children die of rotavirus gastroenteritis each year, a child a minute worldwide. Of these deaths, 90% occur in Asia and Africa. More than 100,000 deaths each year occur in India and sub-Saharan Africa and 35,000 in China. It is predicted that rotavirus vaccination could prevent more than 2 million rotavirus deaths globally over the next decade.

Globally, 25% to 55% of all children under the age of five hospitalized with diarrhoea or acute gastroenteritis are infected with rotavirus.

Before rotavirus vaccination was introduced in the U.S, each year an estimated 2.7 million children younger than five years of age experienced rotavirus disease, resulting in hundreds of thousands of emergency room visits and more than 55,000 hospitalisations.

GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (GSK Biologicals), GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccines business, is one of the world’s leading vaccine companies and a leader in innovation. The company is active in the fields of vaccine research, development and production with over 30 vaccines approved for marketing and 20 more in development. For further information please visit www.gsk.com

GlaxoSmithKline – one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies – is committed to improving the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. For further information please visit www.gsk.com

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(7) FIGURES ON THE RISE IN AUTISM AND LEARNING DISABILITIES, U.S.A. – MERCURY POISONING

Item #7 is further to:

Sept 27: Addition to: Medical Orthodoxy, mercury in dental amalgams and in vaccinations (thimerosal)

Sept 21: Medical Orthodoxy: mercury in dental amalgams. Documentation.

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children’s Vaccinations

Revised and Updated 2010

Published by Wellness Central

Author: Stephanie Cave, M.D., F.A.A.F.P.

From the acknowledgements

“ . . sincere gratitude to Barbara Loe Fisher for her help in obtaining information . . . and to Dr. Bernard Rimland, now deceased, who started the quest for safer vaccines when he realized the possible connection for autistic children.

Finally, to Congressman Dan Burton, who has worked tirelessly to make vaccines safer for all children, I extend the gratitude of many parents and professionals”

EXCERPT from Cave:

http://www.whale.to/vaccine/cave_h.html

“ The incidence of autism is rising dramatically. In the fifties, it was 1/10000; 1/2000 in the seventies; 1/500 in 1996; 1/250 in 2000; 1/147 in 2001 according to the noted epidemiologist, Dr. Eric Fombonne. Is this rise in incidence because we have better diagnostic techniques? Are we better doctors now? I believe that if a child could not speak, had no eye contact, mutilated himself, and did not sleep but a couple of hours per night he certainly would have been given some kind of a diagnosis.

Nationwide statistics in US school children for the school years 97-98 vs. 98-99 in children ages 6 to 21 show a 2.6% increase in all disabilities, 2.3% increase in specific learning disabilities, 1% increase in speech impairments, 1.9% increase in severe emotional disturbance, and a 26% increase in autism. Autism is now the number one disability entering California’s developmental services system. Historically, autism accounted for 3% of the intakes into the system. Autism now accounts for 37% of the new intakes. From April 3 to July 8, 2001, 664 new children with autism were added to the system. This is the largest number of autistic children added to the system in the 32 year history of the group. At this rate, California will add 2700 new children with autism to it’s system in 2001 alone. This is more than all of the new cases entering the system in all of 1994, 1995, and 1996 combined. “

Stephanie Cave

http://www.whale.to/vaccine/cave_h.html

“ . . We also did a study on amalgam fillings (49.6 percent mercury) in mothers and found that the mothers of autistic children have significantly more of these fillings than the mothers of normal children. That’s another intrauterine source. Yet another in-utero exposure comes from the flu vaccine, currently recommended for all pregnant women past 14 weeks gestation. “

Barbara Loe Fisher

http://vaccineawakening.blogspot.com/

Dr. Bernard_Rimland

http://www.whale.to/v/rimland.html

Congressman Dan Burton

http://www.autismcoach.com/Congressman%20Burton%20on%20Autism.htm

2010-01-20 Mercury: Excellent Video “Poison in the Mouth”. Includes Dr. Lars Friberg.

Mercury poisoning, dental amalgams. See also Vaccinations. No Responses »

Jan 042010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeanAuZK_DY&feature=player_embedded (11 minutes)

“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. Lars Friberg (WHO)
the work of researchers at the University of Calgary (the sheep and monkey research) Dr. Murray Vimy and Dr. Fritz Lorscheider ; the research from U of Southern California (Dr. David Eggleston) regarding accumulation of mercury from amalgams in the brain; and Kentucky researcher Boyd Haley on Alzheimer’s connection. Mercury crossing the placenta. Etc.

Millions of people have dental amalgam silver fillings implanted in their teeth. Dental amalgam is the most commonly used material to repair cavities. Amalgams are a mixture of the toxic metals mercury, zinc, tin and copper. Amalgam fillings contain 50% mercury and only 20 to 35% silver. Mercury is highly toxic and causes many health problems!

http://relfe.com/mercury.html

Mercury vapor escapes from amalgam fillings, is inhaled and swallowed. This causes low level mercury poisoning in the body. The amount of mercury in the brain is directly linked to the number and the size of amalgam fillings. Mercury passes through the placental barrier and even enters the mother’s breast milk! Mercury affects the body chemistry and disrupts organs.
(Link no longer valid) http://wholebodymed.com/thescience.php

Symptoms of mercury poisoning include:
Auto-immune diseases, mental disorders, migraines, cancer, insomnia, arthritis, depression, oral lesions, infertility, birth defects, stomach pains, memory loss, autism, developmental disorders, ADHD, anxiety, mood changes, asthma, allergies, etc.
http://buzzle.com/articles/mercury-poisoning-symptoms.html

More videos about Dental Amalgam:
http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A84DA680BF7AD42A
http://mercuryundercover.com

Dental amalgams were first introduced in 1833 but many dentists refused to implant them due to the mercury. In 1843, the American Society of Dental Surgeons declared the use of dental amalgam a malpractice(!) and forced its members to abstain from using amalgams.

Proponents of amalgam continued to claim that dental amalgam was safe because it was supposedly inert in the filling. Since dental amalgam was less expensive and easier to work with than gold fillings, it wasn’t long before dental amalgam was routinely used by most dentists.

In 1926, Dr. Alfred Stock showed that mercury vapor escapes from amalgam fillings and that this could cause significant health damage. The American Dental Association (ADA) vigorously defended dental amalgams its widespread use was continued.

In 1986, the ADA finally admitted that mercury vapor escapes from the amalgam fillings but remained adamant that amalgams were safe, and in 1986 it changed its code of ethics, making it unethical for dentists to inform patients of the health risks of amalgams or to recommend removal of amalgams…
(Link no longer valid) http://wholebodymed.com/historypolit.php
(Link no longer valid) http://wholisticresearch.com/info/artshow.php3?artid=20

In 2008 the FDA admitted that dental amalgam can cause health problems.

Norway, Denmark and Sweden have ended use of mercury fillings and many dental schools no longer teach mercury placement. Germany, Canada, and California require mercury toxicity warnings to be given to pregnant women.

There are healthier alternatives to dental amalgam such as composite resin (white) fillings, porcelain, and glass ionomers but make sure they don’t contain added fluoride! Gold is not a healthy alternative as it will produce electrical currents within your mouth.

Improve your health by having your amalgam fillings removed!
http://hugginsappliedhealing.com/testimonials.php

Amalgam removal should be done SAFELY! Use a dentist who specializes in safe amalgam removal. Mercury vapor escapes during the removal process.
It is essential that you are protected!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MgIUrj7s3PA
http://sarkissiandds.com/articles/1001.html
(Link no longer valid) http://evenbetternow.com/proddetail.asp?prod=Mercury-Amalgam-Pak

Safely remove mercury and other metals from your body with Zeolite, a 100% natural mineral.
(Link no longer valid) http://hank.etszeolite.com/index2.html
http://zeoliteinfo.com/home.html

Don’t use a dentist who still implants amalgam fillings in other patients as this causes second hand mercury vapor.

Mercury-free & mercury-safe dentists:
http://dentalwellness4u.com/freeservices/find_dentists.html

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
Hosea 4:6 (KJV)

More information:
http://mercuryfreenow.com
http://mercuryundercover.com
http://dentalwellness4u.com
http://hugginsappliedhealing.com
http://naturaldentistry.us
http://drpgilbert.com/amalgam-poisoning.html
(Link no longer valid) http://y2khealthanddetox.com/mercfillings.html
http://alternativesmagazine.com/41/rubin.html
http://talkinternational.com
http://autism.com/ari/dental.htm
http://donaldrobbinsdmd.com
http://toxicteeth.org
http://yourhealthbase.com/amalgams.html
http://healingcancernaturally.com/toxic-root-canals-amalgam-etc.html
http://dentalmercuryvictims.blogspot.com
http://curezone.com/dental
http://iaomt.org

2010-01-04 People speaking out. Bill Moyers interview re Wall Street.

Freedom of Speech. (Remove some wrong postings from category), Lockheed Martin, War Economy (includes Cdn Census & Trials), Resource depletion (water in USA) No Responses »

Jan 042010

(Note to myself: find the email that is referred to. Definition of corporatocracy.)

Item #1 below: a very good interview that speaks beyond what is wrong (and how to make it right) in the U.S. systems of governance and economics (Wall Street).

AND THEN (item #2) an email: I thought I should tell Bill Moyers, Simon Johnson and Marcy Kaptur of the situation here.

ONE PART of what’s happening here is that Stephen Harper is proroguing Parliament. It will kill important legislation in progress, shut down the embarrassment over the Afghanistan War, among other things.

You will be sick of hearing me say: it is necessary to consider things IN CONTEXT. The context is partially spelt out in the email to Moyers, Johnson and Kaptur (ITEM #2). We are on very shaky ground.

Strategically, to regain ground after a major set-back (proroguation in this case), I:

focus on creating at least one new alliance (the letter to Moyers will tell you who that is).
make a point of finding 10 new people to add to my part of our network.
know that some others of you will do the same in your part of the network!

I believe that our best offensive is to simply increase our numbers, increase the number of informed people. We have email – it’s easy to do.

/Sandra

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(1) BILL MOYERS’ INTERVIEW

October 9, 2009

Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform from Washington, has Wall Street really changed? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) report on the state of the economy.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10092009/watch.html

To activate:

Click on the link. Then click on the picture of Bill Moyers in the “tv screen”. A “start arrow” will appear. Click on it and the audio/video should start.

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(2) EMAIL TO BILL MOYERS

SENT: Sun 03/01/2010 5:39 PM

Dear Bill Moyers, Simon Johnson and Marcy Kaptur,

I’ve forwarded the link to your PBS interview from October 9^thinto some email networks in Canada. The information is sent and re-sent.

You discussed the takeover by Wall Street. In general it is a takeover of Canada as well as the U.S. and other parts of the world. There are many quislings in Canada.

I increasingly use the word “corporatocracy” to explain our system of governance. And the need for citizens to become involved, to drive the change from corporatocracy to a form of governance that reflects our values.

I am concerned about the potential for Canadians to increasingly blame “the Americans” for worsening conditions. It is easier than getting up off our butts to set things right. But it is the road to hatred between nations, not a smart path to trod!

I recognize the potential in myself: “the Americans” becomes shorthand for American leadership. I know I am not supposed to say this, it might get me into trouble, but I have fantasized about striding into the office of Hugh Grant with a sub-machine gun (Grant is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of American chemical/biotech Corporation, Monsanto). I need to remind myself that it is these corporations, not “the Americans”, who are the evil empire. (But we are all culprits nonetheless: Corporations are merely a construct of our laws. The laws are of our making and we have the power to change the laws.)

A young American veteran of the Iraq war said it well, the wars are not between the citizens of our nations, whatever nations those may be (an excellent youtube video – I hope you have a few minutes for it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akm3nYN8aG8&feature=email ).

It is good when we go overseas and into areas that the media portray as hopeless. What we find is people who may be poor, but they put their hearts into exactly the same things as do we: safe, secure communities and education for our children. We are not different from those people; we are manipulated into believing they are different, as the young veteran explains.

When I was a teenager youth hostelling in Europe in the 1960’s, I learned the value of making my Canadian citizenship known. Numbers of people despised me if they mistook my accent as American.

Now, Canadians are in the same league as the Americans – I am sometimes hated by people from other countries because Canadian mining companies are ruthless in taking over, poisoning and depleting local water supplies. Robbery of resources. Also Canadians have joined the Americans, in the interests of the biotech corporations, in trying to impose unwanted GMO crops and the idea of corporate “ownership” of life forms (seeds) on other nations through trade organizations like the WTO. Our sins are joined to yours.

I am forever grateful to Prime Minister Jean Chretien: he kept Canada out of the war in Iraq (at least on the surface). But now we have Stephen Harper, a clone of George Bush, to collaborate with the Corporate- Big Government machine. His current abuses of democratic process in the proroguing of Parliament is beyond imagination, unless you are in a corporatocracy or plutocracy or some other form of warped and malignant governance.

In this era of rapidly depleting oil & gas reserves, and water, the American Empire, like the Nazi Empire before it, must appropriate the resources of other people to fuel its expansion and control. (I am thinking, just one example, of the Nazi’s need to take the iron ore from northern Sweden and to control Norway in order to move the ore across to shipping lanes along the Norwegian coast. The iron ore resource in Germany was used up; but they could not run their war machine without it. And so they took over other nations.)

Replace “Nazi” by “American”, “Sweden” by “Canada and “iron ore” by “oil & gas” and “water”. You have: The American Empire must appropriate Canadian oil and gas and water in order to fuel its expansion and control. The deed is almost already accomplished through the American corporate structure; the back-up military integration is in place lest difficulties be encountered. The bureaucracy here is riddled with people whose role is servitude to the corporate interests. The strategic puppet political leaders who will profit from collaboration are in place, making the sell-out quite easy. This is but one more performance of a well-rehearsed play that has taken place in the Congo (American copper interests) – the list is too long and you will know the countries and resources. Canadians have the illusion that we are somehow different. While Americans are often kept in the dark about American activities in foreign lands.

In Canada we are seeing the corporate (“Wall Street”) takeover, not only of our Government but also

of our Universities (the knowledge base) and
the Canadian “Defence” Department (which used to be more aligned with peace offensives).

The “Troop Exchange Agreement” (Feb 2009), the “Canada First Defence Strategy” (June 2009) are about “interoperability” and repugnant alignment with American war policy. Your military-industrial–congressional complex has almost taken over here, working with the quislings and collaborators.

Canadians are thereby actively involved in the insanity of “unmanned drones” used to drop bombs on other people. When other nations start to drop bombs from unmanned drones on us, they will be labeled “terrorist”. And we will be brainwashed through fear into hating them — when we (Americans AND Canadians through our “defence” integration) are the originators of the weaponry. “The terrorists” will only be mimicking us in self-defence.

The arms manufacturers do not care to whom they sell their weaponry. You have only to google Lockheed Martin Corporation to see the convictions against them for contravention of American laws that are supposed to prohibit weapon transfer into “the wrong” hands. French arms manufacturers are no different. Corporations are without conscience.

The weapons of Gandhi (which are the teachings of your Henry David Thoreau) are so obviously more intelligent and effective. I wonder at our gross stupidity in allowing and funding these corporations and the destruction they create, through our taxes.

I am on trial next week because I refused to fill in my 2006 Canadian Census form. I would not, because part of the work on the Canadian census was out-sourced to American arms dealer and war-monger Lockheed Martin Corporation.

Anyone familiar with the history of the draconian use of census data in Nazi Europe (“IBM and the Holocaust” by Edwin Black) would never allow even one tiny footstep of the American military into the arena of government census data on individual Canadians. The potential for abuse is magnified many times over what happened in Nazi Europe, by today’s technologies.

The situation is exacerbated by the Patriot Act which gives access, without notification to the owners, by the American military to data held by any corporation in the U.S. and its subsidiaries in other countries. (Why Americans allow Lockheed Martin to do your census indicates to me that you do not appreciate the wisdom of your own legal instruments for the protection of privacy, or of history generally. It was through the census contracts of IBM’s disguised subsidiaries in various European countries that the Nazis knew who the Jews were and where they lived, well before the Nazis actually entered the countries.)

It is also reprehensible to me that the Canadian government would out-source work to an American corporation that not only is a war profiteer, but also one that manufactures or has manufactured weapons in contravention of Canadian and International Law (land mines and cluster munitions). In these times, civil disobedience is called for (although in my case it is not really civil disobedience because the Government is the offender, not me).

I am thankful to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau who entrenched the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms into the Constitution of Canada. I expect to be found “not guilty” because my Charter Rights override the Statistics Act under which I am being prosecuted.

Sometimes it seems that we can never overcome the evils. But in fact we can, because there are so many of us.

Canadians can be motivated and hopeful, just by knowing people in the U.S. such as yourselves are also working very hard to make things right. We join hands across the border, in defiance of the wrongs committed in our names, enabled by our money (taxes) and by our former inaction. I believe that the success of Americans is critical to our success in Canada in overcoming the corporate (“Wall Street”) agenda.

We labor alongside you in “the good fight”; we take from you (e.g. Bill Moyers’ PBS programmes, Paul Hawken’s book “Blessed Unrest”, Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”, etc.). . . . .

Do you benefit from us? My guess is that because of the all-pervasiveness of the American media and the insulation that accompanies “Empire”, that people in America may not be too aware of the contributions that Canadians make to the overall fight. Which is okay – – I just want to ensure that we work together and that Canadians do not come to see “Americans” as “the enemy” that is responsible for creation of the havoc, and that people overseas do not come to see “Canadians” as the enemy – – – – which we are if we do not assume responsibility for our Governments.

I am reminded of Canadian Buffy St Marie’s “Universal Soldier”, also highly recommended if you have a few minutes.

(Lyrics and link to Buffy’s youtube : http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=5230 )

I wish to thank you, Bill, for the excellence and useability of your work. I periodically circulate it. One of the first pieces I used was your exposure of the chemical corporations.

My congratulations to the three of you for your efforts. We are all empowered by them.

Best wishes,

Sandra Finley

Saskatoon SK Canada S7N 0L1

(I am from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in Canada. I’ve run an activist email network for 10 years. And was the leader of the Green Party of Saskatchewan during the last provincial election (2007). I do not currently have a web-site because of the long-pending trial; I do not wish to supply information to the prosecutors that may in some way be used against me.)

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October 9, 2009

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10092009/watch.html

2010-01-11 Big win for bees, court win on pesticide. Email thread with Canadian regulators.

Food, Health No Responses »

Dec 302009

UPDATE ON BAYER’S “MOVENTO” AND BEES. ILLEGAL TO SELL IN THE U.S. WHAT IS STATUS IN CANADA?

On Dec 30, 2009 we circulated the U.S. story “Big Win for Bees: Judge Pulls Pesticide”.

I then sent an email to the Canadian Government to find out the status of Bayer’s chemical “Movento” (spirotetramat) in Canada. The following is the email thread. Scroll down to the responses from the Government.

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SENT: Wed 30/12/2009 10:57 AM

TO:

Karen Dodds, head of the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA, Health Canada)

(NOTE: Karen Dodds is now moved up the chain into “Policy”)

Connie Moase, toxicologist at the PMRA

CC: Carole Swan, head of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA, Agriculture Canada)

Louise Duke, also from the CFIA

Dear Ladies,

Please advise: what is the status of the pesticide spirotetramat (manufactured by Bayer CropScience under the trade names Movento and Ultor) in Canada?

In case you are not aware of the December court ruling in the U.S. which invalidates the registration of the EPA’s approval of the pesticide spirotetramat (Bayer, trade name Movento) I am drawing it to your attention. See the appended press release.

As of January 15^th it is illegal to sell spirotetramat in the U.S.

Is it legal to sell Movento and Ultor in Canada? If so, what are your plans regarding this chemical, in light of the situation in the U.S.?

Thank-you for your considered response.

Sincerely,

Sandra Finley (contact info)

APPENDED

the nastiest chemical known to bees, at least up until “Movento,” the neonicitanoid family, continues to be used with abandon, in North America
Regards, Larry

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Josh Mogerman at 312-651-7909

Big Win for Bees: Judge Pulls Pesticide

Bee toxic Movento pulled from market for proper evaluation

NEW YORK (December 29, 2009) – A pesticide that could be dangerously toxic to America’s honey bees must be pulled from store shelves as a result of a suit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Xerces Society. In an order issued last week, a federal court in New York invalidated EPA’s approval of the pesticide spirotetramat (manufactured by Bayer CropScience under the trade names Movento and Ultor) and ordered the agency to reevaluate the chemical in compliance with the law. The court’s order goes into effect on January 15, 2010, and makes future sales of Movento illegal in the United States .

“This sends EPA and Bayer back to the drawing board to reconsider the potential harm to bees caused by this new pesticide,” said NRDC Senior Attorney Aaron Colangelo. “EPA admitted to approving the pesticide illegally, but argued that its violations of the law should have no consequences. The Court disagreed and ordered the pesticide to be taken off the market until it has been properly evaluated. Bayer should not be permitted to run what amounts to an uncontrolled experiment on bees across the country without full consideration of the consequences.”

In June 2008, EPA approved Movento for nationwide use on hundreds of different crops, including apples, pears, peaches, oranges, tomatoes, grapes, strawberries, almonds, and spinach. The approval process went forward without the advance notice and opportunity for public comment that is required by federal law and EPA’s own regulations. In addition, EPA failed to evaluate fully the potential damage to the nation’s already beleaguered bee populations or conduct the required analysis of the pesticide’s economic, environmental, and social costs.

Beekeepers and scientists have expressed concern over Movento’s potential impact on beneficial insects such as honey bees. The pesticide impairs the insect’s ability to reproduce. EPA’s review of Bayer’s scientific studies found that trace residues of Movento brought back to the hive by adult bees could cause “significant mortality” and “massive perturbation” to young honeybees (larvae).

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), bees pollinate $15 billion worth of crops grown in America . USDA also claims that one out of every three mouthfuls of food in the typical American diet has a connection to bee pollination. Yet bee colonies in the United States have seen significant declines in recent years due to a combination of stressors, almost certainly including insecticide exposure.

“This case underscores the need for us to re-examine how we evaluate the impact of pesticides and other chemicals in the environment,” said Colangelo. “In approving Movento, EPA identified but ignored potentially serious harms to bees and other pollinators. We are in the midst of a pollinator crisis, with more than a third of our colonies disappearing in recent years. Given how important these creatures are to our food supply, we simply cannot look past these sorts of problems.”

The court decision is available at http://docs.nrdc.org/wildlife/wil_09122901.asp

More information on threats to honey bees at www.BeeSafe.org

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The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has 1.3 million members and online activists, served from offices in New York , Washington , Chicago , Los Angeles , San Francisco and Beijing .

______________________________

Josh Mogerman

Senior Media Associate

Natural Resources Defense Council

Midwest Program

312-651-7909 – o | 773-531-5359 – m

(Please note that my phone numbers have changed.)

jmogerman AT NRDC.org

—–Original Message—–

From: Marion Law [mailto:Marion.Law AT hc-sc.gc.ca]

Sent: January 11, 2010 11:51 AM

To: sabest1 AT sasktel.net

Cc: Maude Louis-Seize; denise_shields AT hc-sc.gc.ca

Subject: Status of Movento in Canada

Dear Sandra Finley,

Please accept my apologises for the delay in responding to your request of December 30, 2009, for information on the status of Movento in Canada.

Movento is currently registed for use in Canada as an insecticide.

The submission was a global joint review that involved Austria , the US and Canada working together on data studies and information submitted to support the registration of this product. The review determined that the pesticide did not pose an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment and included, as a standard part of the review and based on the information provided, an assessment of the potential impact of this product on pollinators such as honey bees. As a registration requirement, the PMRA, called for clear label statements for Movento to ensure the protection of human health and the environment, this included use restrictions to help mitigate any potential effects on pollinators.

Prior to the the registration, the PMRA solicited public comment on the decision to register. No comments were received as a result of this consultation process.

The PMRA is aware of the recent court ruling in the US involving Movento and is monitoring the situation closely.

I hope this information is useful and if I can be of further help, please do not hesitate to contact me by email or at the telephone number below.

Regards,

Marion Law

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Marion Law

Chief Registrar/ Chef de l’homologation

Registration Directorate/Direction gnrale d’homologation

PMRA/ARLA

Health Canada, Sant Canada

tel.: 613-736-3704

fax: 613-736-3707

—– Original Message —–

From: Sandra Finley [sabest1 AT sasktel.net]

Sent: 2010-02-05 05:36 PM CST

To: Marion Law

Subject: RE: Status of Movento in Canada

Thank-you Marion.

I am wondering whether there is a typo?

A “global joint review that involved Austria , the US and Canada”.

Should Austria be “Australia”??

And I am wondering whether a “global” joint review” should read a “3-nation joint review”?

Thank-you for your clarification.

Best wishes, Sandra Finley

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SENT: Feb 06, 2010

Ms. Finley – This is to confirm that Austria is the correct partner in the global review. Also as Austria was the rapporteur state for the EU this is considered to be global review.

Hope this helps clarify.

2009-12-29 Big Win for Bees: Judge Pulls Pesticide. Bayer’s “Movento” (spirotetramat)

Food No Responses »

Dec 292009

Movento (Bayer ag chemical threat to bees). Food production dependent on pollinators.

See the appended press release. Congratulations to the Natural Resources Defense Council in the U.S.!

It is insanity to be putting more chemicals that kill bees into the environment when we know the vast amounts of our food crops that cannot be produced if the pollinators disappear. We know the bees are disappearing. I suspect we know it because bees are raised commercially, they have direct monetary value.

I do not know if anyone is keeping track of other pollinators such as wasp populations which do not have any “ownership” and hence no financial value as far as our antiquated economic measurements are concerned.

I sent the (next posting) to the Bureaucrats who are responsible for the pesticides used in Canada. I see where others have sent letters to Stephen Harper (pm AT pm.gc.ca or harper.s AT parl.gc.ca), and to the Federal Minister of Agriculture, Gerry Ritz (ritz.g AT parl.gc.ca). (People in Saskatchewan should definitely contact (phone or email) Ritz – he is from North Battleford.)

The Ministers and Bureaucrats in Health and in Environment should also receive a wave of protest over the licensing of spirotetramat. (The Dept of Health is responsible for the licensing of the chemicals.)

GOVERNMENT OF CANADA, INFORMATION ON SPIROTETRAMAT:

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/part/consultations/_pmrl2008-19/index-eng.php

May 29, 2008; Date Modified: 2009-03-23

“…The evaluation of these spirotetramat applications indicated that the end-use products have merit and value and that the human health and environmental risks associated with their proposed uses are acceptable.”

The appended press release talks to the environmental risks. We have circulated information about the bee situation; people know it from the media. You can google to get more information. Statements such as this from the Government are deception. The risk (killing off of pollinator populations) is not acceptable. Common sense tells you that. I cannot understand these so-called “experts”.

NOTE: By googling the name of one of the responsible bureaucrats (Connie Moase) I came up with this website. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/part/fpt/_wg-gt/pdntewg-gtdpresnc-eng.php If you scroll down you will find names and email addresses for a number of bureaucrats from across Canada, a “working group”. I also sent the following email to them.

If I thought that yelling at them would work, I’d do it. What they are doing is madness, in the service of these corporations.

Thanks to Larry for drawing the U.S. court decision which makes the sale of spirotetramat immediately illegal, to attention.

the nastiest chemical known to bees, at least up until “Movento,” the neonicitanoid family, continues to be used with abandon, in North America
Regards, Larry
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Josh Mogerman at 312-651-7909

Big Win for Bees: Judge Pulls Pesticide

Bee toxic Movento pulled from market for proper evaluation

The court decision is available at http://docs.nrdc.org/wildlife/wil_09122901.asp

More information on threats to honey bees at www.BeeSafe.org

# # #

______________________________

Josh Mogerman

Senior Media Associate

Natural Resources Defense Council

Midwest Program

312-651-7909 – o | 773-531-5359 – m

(Please note that my phone numbers have changed.)

jmogerman AT NRDC.org

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

Corporatocracy or Democracy or Administrative State or WHAT?, Nuclear, Propaganda, Sustainability, Take back the University No Responses »

Dec 242009

from Dec. 24th R-Town News:

The University Needs Some Soul-Searching about Sustainability

By Jim Harding

Can we learn about the challenge sustainability presents our universities, from the roles professors play in public policy? On November 26^th Uranium Development Partnership (UDP) member, physics Professor Mathie lectured as if he was presenting “the basic science going on in these discussions”. This wasn’t really true. Whether discussing radiation, fission, power generation, nuclear wastes or nuclear medicine, Mathie selected knowledge to give backing to his support for the nuclear industry. He did what philosophers of science call post-hoc rationalization, creating an intellectual foundation for opinions already held. This gets us in serious trouble. Mathie ruling out the cost of energy didn’t really dodge the “economic bullet”, as shown by Minister Boyd’s December 17th announcement that nuclear is too costly and inappropriate for our grid. And not seriously talking about environmental health doesn’t make us safer, for we don’t live in a make-believe world.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

Discussing the build-up of nuclear wastes, Professor Mathie argued “it’s not because there’s no solution or no research.” Leave it to the expert, right? Yet the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is all industry-based with industry-appointed experts. And the federal review (1991-98) concluded Canadian’s don’t support deep geological storage, which the UDP and NWMO continue to promote. No mention that deep geological research has been stopped in Ontario and that both Quebec and Ontario ban nuclear wastes; or that centralized storage allowing future reprocessing of spent fuel makes plutonium more available for weapons. Or that President Obama just reaffirmed the US ban on reprocessing, a ban supported by the US Academy of Scientists, including its physicists.

Mathie lectured about “risks in life”. He reiterated that nearly one-half of us will get cancer and one-quarter of us will die from it. But this wasn’t a wake-up call to better understand how these risks accumulated to bring cancer from the 8^th to 2^nd cause of death. No, his risk philosophy was to get us to believe that there were relatively few additional risks from the nuclear industry when compared to overall cancer. Sounds reassuring, but this greatly oversimplifies the science of epidemiology and how health policy research should be done. The smoking industry obscured its major role in lung cancer by financing studies that compared lung cancer among smokers with average cancer rates. Differences were found but they weren’t statistical enough, industry claimed, so they stalled public health intervention. This was fallacious because the average rates already included lung cancers among smokers. You need to compare the lung cancer rate of non-smokers to smokers, which showed cigarettes are the primary cause of lung cancer.

Mathie doesn’t stand alone in his balancing act. The Chair of the UDP, Professor Florizone, also a physicist, wrote a piece for the Nov. 19^th Star Phoenix entitled “Nuclear industry offers challenges and opportunities”. He wasn’t identified as the Financial VP of the University of Saskatchewan, which would be a major beneficiary if the UDP’s proposals go ahead. Rather, Florizone is identified as a “policy fellow at the John-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy”. Interestingly, the UDP that Florizone chaired said “Partnering with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School …would help create relevant policy research and promote public discussion of nuclear-related issues” (p. 80-81). It all seems very incestuous. This School has already sponsored Florizone but to my knowledge hasn’t invited anyone outside the orbit of the nuclear industry. The UDP fully admits that “A close working relationship exists between Saskatchewan’s universities and industry”, and they want more. But there’s a cost, including for the quality of the education that the university provides. Blatant conflicts of interest such as we see with Professor Florizone will naturally increase with concentration of power.

Florizone’s opinion piece claims that “the nuclear option is cost competitive”, but then lists “capital costs” as one of the nuclear industry’s “challenges”. Yet he doesn’t mention that AECL’s recent proposal to the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) was three times the figure of $4.000 kW capacity he uses. (The UDP used $3,850.) How can an academic sworn to a version of the Hippocratic Oath say this with a straight face? As a Star Phoenix letter to the editor said, it is surprising “that a nuclear physicist working in finance should have taken so long to come to an awareness of this serious problem.”

INNOVATION SASKATCHEWAN

Has either the government or the universities learned anything from this debacle? Perhaps the recent announcement about university involvement in Innovation Saskatchewan provides a hint. Minster Boyd announced the board would include two Deans from the universities, which might seem all right, except they are both from engineering. The board includes the Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Mining Association (SMA) and CEO of the Calgary-based drilling company Total Energy Services Ltd. It sounds like the government wants academics to help industry expand uranium mining, oil and gas and perhaps tarsands in Saskatchewan. Apparently, here we go again!

What’s wrong with this picture? A narrow, instrumental relationship between the university and industry can never serve the greater public interest. Not only will the independence of the university be questioned but so, too, will the credibility of its education. The university has a higher purpose than colluding with government and industry to expand unsustainable economic growth, so it’s probably time to start asking fundamental questions about knowledge. For centuries we’ve tried to understand ourselves and the world by breaking things down and taking them apart. While we’ve learned a lot of analytical knowledge from this, when we look at the effects of our narrow-minded applications (e.g. climate change) we soon realize we haven’t become wiser. Sustainability challenges us to be wiser; to put the pieces back together and to finally realize that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Applying a compartmentalized view of the world may be of short-term value to industry but industry’s bottom line is not sustainability. If we are going to learn to do better, the university will have to help. It has some soul-searching to do while it still has a soul to save.

Jim Harding’s website – http://jimharding.brinkster.net

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

Corporatocracy or Democracy or Administrative State or WHAT?, Nuclear No Responses »

Dec 152009

A quick note before the press release on nuclear green light in Alberta. Many thanks to our neighbours and friends in C.A.U.S.E. for the alert.

INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATOCRACY

My next email works on the definition and characteristics of corporatocracy, a word not found in standard dictionaries. Discussion is hampered for parts of reality that have no vocabulary. Corporatocracy is on Wikipedia but needs more work.

I propose corporatocracy as the form of government that holds sway in Canada. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s recent “public meetings” in Saskatoon are a prime example of the shortfalls of corporatocracy. The following news from Alberta repeats the point that democracy is more myth than reality.

For maybe 3 decades Canadians have been in the process of making a choice over the idea of democracy versus corporatocracy, each with its own distinct set of values. We should be mindful of outcomes.

/Sandra

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Elena Schacherl
Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Subject: Fw: nuclear given green light
MEDIA RELEASE December 14, 2009

Citizens Advocating the Use of Sustainable Energy (CAUSE)

P.O. Box 32007,
Calgary, Alberta, T2T 5X6
www.nuclearfreealberta.ca <http://www.nuclearfreealberta.ca>

NUCLEAR GREEN LIGHT BAD NEWS FOR ALBERTANS

December 14, 2009, Calgary, Alberta

Today the Alberta Government released the results from the public consultation on nuclear held earlier this year. At the same time, Mel Knight announced that nuclear power would be considered as an energy option in this province on a case-by-case basis.

Elena Schacherl, Chair of Citizens Advocating the Use of Sustainable Energy (CAUSE), says:

³We are extremely disappointed. The Stelmach government today not only released the consultation results, but clearly gave the go ahead to nuclear energy in Alberta.²

³The government has taken a pronuclear stance from the start. First they appointed a biased nuclear panel that included a board member with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. This was followed by a slanted and one-sided report, followed by a short consultation period and no public hearings.²

In releasing the consultation report, the government chose to focus on the response that gave them the answer they wanted. Both the questions and results are ambiguous. In particular, the question on considering nuclear on a case by case basis was clearly intended to get the government off the hook in taking a position on nuclear. In the online workbook, which saw the largest number of Albertans consulted (about 3600), 55% were opposed to nuclear. Moreover, the consultation report show that 75% of Albertans are concerned about the health impacts of nuclear and 77% do not want to leave a nuclear waste problem for future generations. Another 75% advocate looking to renewable energy to meet our future electricity needs.

Robbin Penney, CAUSE Secretary says, ³The provincial government has failed to hear the majority of Albertans who have clearly said they do not want nuclear power in Alberta. The Alberta government is misleading Albertans by saying they will not subsidize the nuclear industry. Clearly, Bill 50 – the controversial transmission line bill – will allow nuclear plants to export surplus electricity on the very same transmission line for which all Albertans are going to pay². We can also expect our electricity costs to skyrocket if nuclear reactors are built. And the taxpayer will continue to pay the billions in federal subsidies needed to support nuclear.

Elena Schacherl concludes, ³CAUSE will continue to do everything possible to oppose nuclear power in Alberta despite the government¹s decision.²

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For more information, please contact:

Elena Schacherl, CAUSE Co-chair

nuclearfreealberta@gmail.com

Calgary, 403-244-8001 or 403-860-3372 (cell) or

Robbin Penney, CAUSE Secretary

Calgary, 403-277-9551 robbin@veloemail.com

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