This email is about infectious disease (H1N1 example) and the pharmaceutical corporations.

You can interchange the phrases:

– “pharmaceutical corporations”

– “nuclear/uranium corporations”

– “the oil and gas corporations”,

– “the arms manufacturers” (Lockheed Martin example at Dalhousie University)

etc.

They are all “on-campus”.  The lessons are the same, regardless of the industry.  This one is a pharmaceutical corporation example.  The issue is larger than H1N1.

CONTENTS

(1) GARY NULL ADDRESSES NEW YORK STATE HEARING, H1N1 VACCINATIONS (YouTube)

(2) IS GARY NULL A “QUACK”?  WHICH DOCTORS ARE TRAINED AND OBEDIENT TO “MEDI”CARE?  WHICH ONES TAKE MONEY, TRIPS AND LARGESSE FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS FROM THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY?

(3) ARTHUR SCHAFER, ETHICIST, ON THE SWINE FLU

(4) MEDICARE DEALS IN DRUGS, NOT IN IMMUNE SYSTEMS

(5)  UPDATE ON NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT COURT CASE AGAINST PFIZER OVER DRUG TRIALS THAT KILLED PEOPLE.

(6)  THE CONSTANT GARDENER.  VIDO (VACCINE INFECTIOUS DISEASES ORGANIZATION) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN.

(7) “SELLING OUT”, THE OLIVIERI STORY AND THE SYNCHROTRON RELATED TO H1N1

(8)  APOTEX’S GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN. APOTEX, THE COMPANY IN THE OLIVIERI/UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CASE.

(9)  THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT STARTED THE PANIC. AND QUESTION: ARE YOUNG PEOPLE SUSCEPTIBLE, OR DOES THE WORST DIET AND LIFE-STYLE (NOT AGE) MAKE IT APPEAR THAT “YOUNG PEOPLE” ARE SUSCEPTIBLE?

(10)  OCT 7TH EMAIL ON H1N1

(11)  RESPONSES FROM YOU TO OCT 7TH EMAIL

A.  FROM ASHLEIGH, CITATIONS TO DISPROVE THE LINK BETWEEN AUTISM AND THIMERASOL

B.  FROM PAUL, UNDERSTANDING THE RISK

C.  FROM DOUG, MANIPULATED RESEARCH

D.  FROM RUTH’S DAUGHTER, THIMERASOL DOESN’T CAUSE AUTISM (WITH CITATIONS)

E.  FROM SHIV, FOREIGN PROTEIN CONSTITUENTS IN VACCINES LEAD TO THE VARIOUS DISEASES, MORE SO THAN THE MERCURY, ALUMINUM

(12) WHAT TO DO RE SWINE FLU

A. A FOOD SYSTEM THAT KILLS, THE ROLE OF “FACTORY FARMS” IN THE EVOLUTION OF SWINE AND BIRD (AVIAN) FLU.  REMEMBER ALL THOSE CHICKENS IN B.C. THAT WERE KILLED?

B. SIMPLE STEPS

C. FROM DENIS HALL, BE PRO-ACTIVE

(13)  AT THE UNIVERSITY: IT’S NOT INNOVATION, IT’S HYPED STATUS QUO.

(14)  “INTRODUCTION” AT THE END.  SUMMARY.

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(1) GARY NULL ADDRESSES NEW YORK STATE HEARING, H1N1 VACCINATION (YouTube)

Thanks to Brian:    Gary Null’s testimony before the NYS Assembly Hearing (10-13-2009).

“no holds barred”    This will make you mad.

Part 1.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3XlJB7J5-o&NR=1

Part 2.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5OuzB9L48

Part 3.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAgWO2yq1k8&NR=1

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(2) IS GARY NULL A “QUACK”?  WHICH DOCTORS ARE TRAINED AND OBEDIENT TO “MEDI”CARE?  WHICH ONES TAKE MONEY, TRIPS AND LARGESSE FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, FROM THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY?

The media contain allegations of “quacks”, bogus science, bogeymen, and conspiracy theories in response to questions surrounding the swine flu vaccinations.

I did a quick google on Null. Is he a quack? … His work is controversial.  You’ll have to make up your own mind.

I THINK that I am open-minded, but I know I pay attention to that which reinforces my thinking. Mind you, there is enough evidence in the form of court convictions to know how corrupt the pharmaceutical and chemical corporations are. Erin Brockavitch knows. Same story as the tobacco industry, but worse.

Elizabeth May, federal leader of the Green Party, went to see healthcare officials in B.C. in order to make an informed decision about H1N1. I questioned the outcome:

– Do you view Robert F Kennedy Jr as a credible source of information?  If so, you might want to read his work on swine flu.   It’s in the Oct 7th email.

Robert Kennedy’s report says there is a connection between vaccinations that contain thimerasol and autism.   2009-07-25

BUT! see the input below (item #9) from persons in our network.  It’s possible that it is not the thimerasol but other ingredients or a combination of ingredients in the vaccines, and/or cumulative impacts of numerous vaccinations.

Dr. Shiv Chopra offers:  “Bear in mind that more than mercury, aluminium, and other toxic materials, it is the foreign protein constituents in vaccines that lead to various auto-immune diseases, such as autism and other afflictions.”

I no longer trust research citations. That is a very serious situation for our society.  Corporations are buying the universities and the scientists (not ALL of them) to the point where it’s almost impossible to have confidence in “science”.  “Credentials” offer no guarantee of reliability or trustworthiness.

He who pays the piper calls the tune.  The piper is the pharmaceutical corporations in this example and they are as corrupt as hell – a statement made on very good, numerous, public and documented evidence.

It is no different from the situation today where the oil and gas corporations are paying for “science” and propaganda related to climate change, for no reason other than to ensure profits.

In the health field, in order to trust a research citation you have to go back and see whether the researchers have been funded by the pharmaceutical corporations.  And whether their methodology is sound.  Have they done things as in the Olivieri case where Apotex (drug manufacturer) tried to eliminate the tests that are more likely to reveal problems?  Are there longterm studies? – –  some of the effects are only known in the long term.  Do they have bona fide “control groups”, as is required in sound research (see Doug’s input in #9)?  Are they identifying root causes, or do they identify an association that comes about because the population shares a characteristic that is the underlying cause?  (like weakened immune systems from health-depleting diets.) Is it a case of flat-earthers whose world-view is obsolete but to which they cling, because their power, influence and life’s work is based on the flat-earth belief? They must deny that the earth is round? (Many, many drugs are extremely problematic bandaid solutions; there is another and better world-view.)  Is it a case of, as with the research trials that licensed Roundup, the ingredient (in this example glyphosate) that is identified as the herbicide, is tested in isolation without the other ingredients that make up the marketed product?  (the parallel example with the vaccines would be if you run the tests using the vaccine BEFORE the thimerasol or aluminum or foreign protein constituents, or other ingredients have been added)?

The money of the corporations has so debased research that it is impossible.  Who could possibly go through a list of citations and obtain the information you’d need to verify the science?  So we look for “peer-reviewed”.  It’s better, but not a guarantee.

– Did you ask the health officials about the CONTEXT:  probability of death in comparison to death rates that occur with flu outbreaks naturally and routinely, every year?

I have read that about 4,000 people die every year from the flu, during the flu season.  But don’t rely on my memory!

From the Globe & Mail article by Schafer (item #3 in this email): “The southern hemisphere has just gone through its flu season. In New Zealand, where 18,000 swine flu deaths had been predicted, the actual toll came to 17. Similar data have been reported from Australia and Argentina.”

– Did you see Wendy Mesley’s interview on CBC News, as a consequence of public reaction that news media are hyping H1N1?  She interviewed two doctors, one of whom was a former Chief Public Health Officer for Ontario (if I caught it right).

He addressed the question of the incidence very effectively.   The incidence of death is very small, insignificant in relation to deaths by other causes.  The problem was a 13-year old and his tearful (naturally) Father,  with whom I have heartfelt sympathy, but it is not representative (the news article is in item #7).

This doctor who was interviewed by Mesley is consistent in his statements with Schafer’s information (17 deaths in New Zealand). And it is consistent with Oct 7th email, item (4) PERSPECTIVE ON SWINE FLU, LIKELIHOOD OF DEATH.

– Anna Maria Tremonti (CBC Radio The Current) did an interview, I happened to catch the end of it.  What I heard focused on how our immune systems work, the effects of fear, for example.

(ASIDE:  Not related to the effects of fear on the immune system, we should all try to understand how fear works in us.  The cat pounces on the young bird who ignores fear in favour of the tasty seeds that lie on the ground.

The ones who survived and passed along their genes – whether birds or humans – were the ones whose wariness saved them from being eaten   . . fear is built into our evolved genes.  It’s good; but we should recognize how great a hold it has on us and, except in emergency situations, take time to gather information and think things through. Responding to the death of the 13-year old needs to be done with thought, not when fear is in the driver’s seat.  It is to the advantage of pharmaceutical profits if we stampede.)

– There is Gary Null’s address to the New York State hearing (the vaccination is mandatory for NY healthcare workers).  Unfortunately, Gary Null has some views that are challengeable and so he may lose credibility.

On the other hand, what he said to the New York State Government panel is consistent with the documentation by Robert F Kennedy Jr.   There is complexity, of course, but the information is aligned with the mercury video done by a researcher at the U of Calgary, who I called to confirm legitimacy (Oct 7 email, item #2).

The U of Calgary researcher and his colleagues put out a video that shows what happens to neural pathways in the brain when mercury is introduced. The evidence seems pretty solid to me that the vaccine manufacturers are using ethyl mercury (thimerasol) AND/OR other additives (“adjuvants”)(e.g. foreign protein constituents) for preservative and other effects.  Not surprisingly, there are now news reports about how mercury, in some forms, DOES NOT do harm.

It is a stated tactic of the chemical biotech industry (often owned by the pharmaceutical corporations) to deliberately create confusion….  “Yes, BUT, there is conflicting information.”  Intentionally.

The industry is great at using “science” to create confusion so we don’t know what is and isn’t true.  You can buy science to deal with science you don’t like.  Some of it is bona fide – but which?

Kennedy discloses the shenanigans that went on to cover up the relationship between the mercury in the vaccines (or is it other adjuvants?), increasing numbers of vaccinations given to children, and the increase in autism in particular.  It’s the tobacco industry story, the chemical industry story, the oil and gas corporate story and the pharmaceutical corporations’ multiple and unconscionable transgressions all over again.

I think that if we address “the larger issue” of the pharmaceutical corporations and their role in the Universities and in Government we would not be debating the autism connection.

Gary Null is new to me.  Had I only listened to the youtube videos of his presentation to NY State panel, I would freely distribute them because they are consistent with what I have learned about the pharmaceutical corporations over the years.  Reinforced by Kennedy, by Marcia Angell, the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine who wrote a book on the lies of the pharma industry, etc. etc. Gary Null addresses the surrounding issues to the H1N1 vaccination, the CONTEXT in which it is set. I would recommend you listen to Null’s presentation.

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(3) ARTHUR SCHAFER, ETHICIST, ON THE SWINE FLU

The Globe & Mail published a letter (October 26) from Arthur Schafer (Ethicist, University of Manitoba).  He addresses the incidence of H1N1 and also “effectiveness”. Note that the newspaper, not Arthur, would have assigned the word “fuss” which isn’t helpful to a public trying to sort out a very serious issue.

The swine flu fuss

Why all the media fuss about swine flu

(Fewer Canadians Interested In Getting H1N1 Shot – front page, Oct. 26)?

Somehow, a comparatively mild disease has attracted overwhelming media coverage. At the same time, a vaccine of questionable efficacy has been portrayed as our best hope for salvation.

The southern hemisphere has just gone through its flu season. In New Zealand, where 18,000 swine flu deaths had been predicted, the actual toll came to 17. Similar data have been reported from Australia and Argentina. The evidence is clear: Swine flu is a bust for doom-mongers. Perhaps this explains why so many Canadians are reluctant to be vaccinated.

Although the pandemic industry claims 90-per-cent effectiveness for the new swine flu vaccine, this does not mean the vaccine prevents flu in 90 per cent of cases. This figure refers to the percentage of people who develop antibodies in their blood after taking the vaccine. Will these people gain significant immunity as a result? There is no good scientific evidence showing this is the case.

Our public health establishment has enjoyed its day in the sun. Big Pharma has trucked fabulous profits to the bank. Perhaps it’s time for our media to turn their attention to more serious problems.

Arthur Schafer, Winnipeg

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From Wikipedia:

Arthur Schafer is a Canadian ethicist specializing in bioethics, philosophy of law, social philosophy and political philosophy. He is director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba.[1][2][3]

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Written by Marjaleena Repo:

There is gullibility of various sorts, including undeserved respect for the “official story” whatever it happens to be on any topic. Mocking those who sometimes perhaps clumsily question the sanctioned version does not contribute to the very necessary public discourse, but has the effect of intimidating and silencing the “differently-thinking.”

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(4) MEDICARE DEALS IN DRUGS, NOT IN IMMUNE SYSTEMS

Aside from decorum, when I die naturally, why can’t my family throw my corpse into a bag and take it to the landfill?  (I will not be attached to my body. The job of my skin and bones will be finished.)

. . .  I stopped checking the mouse trap when I didn’t catch anything.  Then, on return from holidays I checked.  The mouse had become a mass of wiggling larvae.  The mouse was not himself.

We are not ourselves; we are our immune systems.  When our immune systems stop, we become those other things, millions of organisms, that live comfortably inside our nice warm and humid insides. When the immune system says “I’m outta here”, or “this job of keeping all you organisms in check, with little help from my owner is more than I can handle”, those organisms happily multiply.  Some of them are pretty noxious.

You cannot dispose of a corpse that dies naturally simply as you wish; the law prohibits it.  One of the reasons is that without embalming or cremation the corpse becomes a wiggling mass of not-so-nice critters.

Some of us carry H1N1 viruses for a time, under control, or a little out-of-control.  30% of the population is estimated to be carrying tuberculosis organisms.  There are colonies of fungus from spores we inhale.  People will carry the HIV (AIDS) virus all their life and never know because their immune system is in control.

Disease outbreaks can flourish in the wake of natural disasters; lots of dead people means the previously-controlled organisms are free to have a heyday. At least until they get buried or burned up in a funeral pyre.

The problem for us is that it is not in the financial interests of “medi” care to understand anything about the immune system. And yet, we each owe our life to our immune system.

Love, good food, clean water, a warm home, an unpolluted environment, healthy relationships, good schools, opportunities to experience and learn about the world and one’s self, fresh air and exercise, no war, the chance to achieve your potential (the reason for your being) . . . the fear-filled threat of disease would disappear.  We would all be happier and safer with strong immune systems.

Poverty can mean a lack of all those things that strengthen the immune system. And so the diseases and fear will spread. And it threatens us all.  Or it doesn’t . . .  When we help look after others, we look after ourselves.

What exactly is it that we want out of life?  If you had to figure it out for yourself (unaided by advertising to create your “wants”), exactly what do you want?  Do you not want it for other people, too?  Does it not come back to be good for you and your children?  You can help do things that will strengthen the immune systems of other people – – out of SELF interest if you like.

I know how I contracted tuberculosis (see the last item, the “INTRODUCTION”).  And I know that tuberculosis is on the rise. I know that it is going to threaten some of you.

I know it for a number of reasons, just one of which is that the medi-care system relies entirely now on very expensive and nausea-causing drugs to TREAT the disease.  Medi-care currently does almost nothing to screen for and to isolate those who are contagious (which is how/why I breathed in TB organisms).

As long as the pharmaceutical industry is running the show at the universities and in the “medi”care system, the public interest in screening, isolating and removal of cause is lost.  It’s a recipe for more disease outbreaks – exactly what is happening with tuberculosis in Canada today.  (I use that EXAMPLE because I am very familiar with it.  It is my story.)

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(5)  UPDATE ON NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT COURT CASE AGAINST PFIZER OVER DRUG TRIALS THAT KILLED PEOPLE.

It looks as though the Nigerians have largely settled “out of court” for millions of dollars and no surprise, the pharmaceutical corporations deny, deny, deny.  See the article at http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4415 2009-04-06   $75 million.  Pfizer settles Nigerian drug case out of court  (criminal charges for death of children)

Information on the rush by the pharmaceutical corporations to patent the next cure for tuberculosis, because the organism has evolved in Eastern Europe, in Africa, etc. to be resistant to existing drug protocol, can be found in the listings at  http://sandrafinley.ca/?p=4401 (for people in Guatemala.)

It is a deadly game that is not in the public interest.  And it’s a no-brainer.  The next generation of antibiotics or tuberculosis “cure” or whatever, has to be more toxic than the last round.

Eventually “the cure” is as noxious as the disease organism.  AND it is so expensive that third world countries can’t afford it. Meanwhile the pharmaceutical corporations kill people in third world countries in their eagerness to be the first ones to patent the new “cure” and cash in on the profits.

The current approach to drugs is not “innovative”, as the University communications spin would have us believe; it is a deadly spiral.

My own case and experiment is instructive and was done with the cooperation of two doctors, the then-head of TB Control in Saskatchewan and a naturopathic doctor.

I was in a unique situation to experiment under their guidance: the disease was active in my body (I was very sick), but the TB had not advanced to the state of being contagious.

I did not take the drug treatment because, as I appealed to the head of TB Control:  we have to figure out a way to address these diseases without drugs.  We know absolutely that the organisms evolve to be resistant to the drugs and we know that any new drug has to be more toxic and expensive, therefore unaffordable by all except the rich.

In less time than the 9-month drug treatment, I overcame the TB organism without drugs, by addressing immune system issues.  (NOTE:  my case was unique.  I am not recommending anyone do what I did – – I am saying that it was a valid experiment with positive outcome.)

The new head of TB Control does not want to hear my experience.  There is absolutely no curiosity, no interest in true “innovation” or experimentation if it doesn’t fit the drug mould — even if it is obvious that the drug mould is taking us down a suicidal path.

I googled for an update on the charges brought by the Government of Nigeria against Big Pharma (Pfizer) for the deaths it caused by using human beings as guinea pigs in their attempt to develop the “next generation” of drugs.   We have been following this story that  gave rise to John le Carré’s novel-made-into-a-movie, “The Constant Gardener”.

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(6)  THE CONSTANT GARDENER.  VIDO (VACCINE INFECTIOUS DISEASES ORGANIZATION) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN.

I advise people to read the real life comments in “The Constant Gardener“. Le Carré says the story in his book is a holiday card version of what the pharmaceutical corporations do in the real world. His books are well researched.

(Another internationally-famous author, Henning Mankell, lives back-and-forth between Sweden and Africa, and has written a book similar to “The Constant Gardener“.  Thanks to Howard for drawing “Kennedy’s Brain” to attention.  I haven’t read it.    http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1673 )

I am very curious about what John le Carré  knew, or intuited.  In “The Constant Gardener” part of the search to uncover the truth about the pharmaceutical-company-related deaths in Africa takes place in Canada, at the University of Saskatchewan.  It was pretty shocking to me to be reading about the U of S in “The Constant Gardener”!

(Wikipedia):  The Constant Gardener is a 2001 novel by John le Carré. It tells the story of Justin Quayle, a British diplomat whose activist wife is murdered. Believing that there is more behind the murder, he seeks to uncover the truth behind her death, and finds an international conspiracy of corrupt bureaucracy and pharmaceutical money.

John le Carré writes in the book’s afterword, “By comparison with the reality, my story [is] as tame as a holiday postcard.” [1])”

From a blog:  “An important part of Quayle’s quest takes him to Saskatchewan, where he finds one of the drug’s main developers.”

At the time of seeing the movie I was weak and in the early stages of overcoming the TB organisms in my body.  I thought I was going to see a gardening movie of some kind!

I walked out of the theatre thinking I had been on some outer space hallucinatory experience.  The movie was about tuberculosis in a spy-thriller John le Carré setting. It was a disease I had thought had been eradicated from Canada and most of elsewhere – – which I now had.  Part of the action was at the University of Saskatchewan where I had just been for medical attention.  The timing of seeing the movie was all too bizarre and disorienting.

I have always wondered why le Carré  placed part of the action in Saskatchewan?  The only thing I could think was that the U of S is a big centre for biotechnology (developing crops that are resistant to chemical applications) and I knew there are biotech pharmaceuticals at the U of S. That was the only link I could think of.  I thought that John le Carré might have known more?

Later, when I read that the Bill and Linda Gates Foundation was donating a lot of money to help find the cure for the renewed rising threat of tuberculosis in the world, I wanted to tell the Gates:  put your money into finding alternatives.

If my one experiment was successful in combating the disease without potent drugs, then it is POSSIBLE that it can be done.  But as long as the pharmaceutical corporations are involved, the ONLY avenue that will be explored is the drug option.  And it is a wrong-headed approach, obviously.  You might think you are God, but you cannot stop evolution (drug-resistant organisms).

I thought that John le Carré  (his pen name) would have a better chance of talking to and persuading the Gates than me (ha!). Also, I wanted to thank David Cornwell (his real name) for his book. So I found an email address for the publisher.

I requested that the publisher forward my email.  After explanations and thanks, the email requested that Cornwell contact the Gates Foundation:

Bill Gates should read “The Constant Gardener” to understand the lay of the land with the pharmaceutical corporations, their murderous ways, and he might re-consider where he wants to donate his money.

Why not ask?!  It gets it out of my system, and it is supportive of people like Cornwell.  He’s not only a good guy, he is putting his neck on the line.  He needs our support.

I received a reply!

Mon 21/05/2007 5:03 AM

Dear Miss Finley

Your message has found its way to me, John le Carre’s agent.  I shall make sure that he sees it.

Yours sincerely

Bruce Hunter

David Higham Associates

Visit our website at www.davidhigham.co.uk

Monsieur le Carré hasn’t let me know if he communicated on the matter with Mr. Gates!  Oh well, my modus operandi is to “put it out there”.  And then let it go.  I don’t need to know what happened; that’s beyond my control.

That was all I knew, until this last week (Nov 2009). Howard Woodhouse’s book “Selling Out”, in the chapter on the synchrotron at the University of Saskatchewan talks about VIDO.

VIDO = Vaccine Infectious Diseases Organization at the University of Saskatchewan.   http://www.vido.org/

Excerpts:

VIDO is a not-for-profit organization owned by the University of Saskatchewan. A separate Board of Advisors contributes industry expertise and practical guidance. … VIDO continues to be competitive nationally and internationally, with more than 80 awarded U.S. patents.  . . . . .  VIDO is one of four Canadian teams offered funding through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative.

(If you didn’t know that the University of Saskatchewan is a wholly-owned subsidiary of various corporations, or about to become so, you SHOULD know!)

MAYBE John le Carré knew about VIDO, the work being done at the University of Saskatchewan for the pharmaceutical corporations, when he wrote “The Constant Gardener”?  Ramble through the VIDO website – it’s all there.

What University of Saskatchewan professor, Howard Woodhouse, makes clear in his book “Selling Out” and which is there again in the VIDO information is that WE citizens are paying the COSTS for the corporations.

The details and the extent, the amounts of the subsidies, are well documented in “Selling Out”.

It is “socialization of the costs and privatization of the profits” — for what is beneficial to the corporations, not what is necessarily beneficial for citizens.

The cost to students is financially large. There are “cutbacks” and higher tuition fees because the money is sucked up by the research for the pharmaceutical and other corporations. The University Administration hypes it as “Innovation”.

Conflicts-of-interest abound: professors in veterinary medicine who promote factory-size pig barns (origins of swine flu) receive money from that industry. That industry is now going into bankruptcy.  It was heavily subsidized by tax-payers, resisted by many communities.  It forced smaller, more humane and health-giving local meat producers out of production.  It also forced small producers in other countries out-of-business and into dependency upon imported cheap, inferior food from Canada. . . . Our Government and our University working for us in “public-private-partnerships”.

The “innovative” corporate model adopted by the University does not reflect our values. The conflicts-of-interest created by the “partnerships” should not be tolerated.

Old-timers in our network know the story where I challenged a salaried full-time government scientist who works at “Innovation Place” at the University.  Simultaneously he makes “up to ten thousand dollars” per contract he does for the very corporations he is supposed to be regulating. And which he had been doing for 8 years at the time. I received a letter from a lawyer threatening to sue me if I should say such-and-such to Saskatoon City Council about the situation.  (The City had a pesticide bylaw under consideration. There was a serious conflict-of-interest involved.)

The work at the University is NOT “innovative”, as they keep heralding and would have us believe.  The drug approach is the status quo.  The pharmaceutical corporations are corrupt.  And we are the silly ones putting up the money, in more ways than we know.  If more people knew, there would be a revolt. .. I think it’s well under way.

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(7) “SELLING OUT”, THE OLIVIERI STORY AND THE SYNCHROTRON RELATED TO H1N1

If Gary Null’s presentation (item #1) makes you mad, Howard Woodhouse’s case studies in his book “Selling Out, Academic Freedom and the Corporate Market” will add to your anger.

More on that in item “APOTEX’S GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN.  APOTEX, THE COMPANY IN THE OLIVIERI/UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CASE”.

It is more important to understand the significance of what is happening – which I find alarming.  H1N1 is just another part of the whole.  It’s a larger issue than swine flu.

Universities are critical to the maintenance of the knowledge base of the society.  Effective problem-solving is contingent upon a solid base of information, of “truth” and understanding.

We need “the truth”, an uncontaminated knowledge base if we are to keep learning.  The life of the individual and of the community is about grappling with and learning from problems in succession, one after the other.

If you fail to solve the problems, and to change through what you have learned, if you fail to move forward, you will live in misery.  Guaranteed.  It is true of the individual; it is true of the community.

The CITIZENS of this country understood the value of “the search for truth”, of learning.  They built universities to advance and to share knowledge.

Private ownership of knowledge is a recipe for keeping the population ignorant and poor.  Think of times past when the knowledge base was owned by powerful churches.  Rich clergy and poor peasants.

A theme of mine has been that an economy is based on a resource.  If you can own the resource you profit handsomely.  The Winnipeg “Wheat Kings” attempting to control the trade in wheat which led farmers to band together to defy poverty: outcome, the Canadian Wheat Board. The economy of the Maritimes built on fish. The economy based on oil and gas.

And now we have the “knowledge” or “information” economy.  Like the farmers who recognized “the issue”, we are now engaged in a fight with corporations over control of the universities and the whole system of “education”, our information and knowledge base.

Woodhouse’s book shows how far the pendulum has swung back toward private ownership of the knowledge base. We are the ones footing the bill.

The universities hype the status quo and call it “innovation”.  In the case of medi-care the status quo is increasing numbers of people who come down with disease and developmental problems.

TRUE innovation would, by definition, lead to a reversal in the numbers of people who come down with disease and developmental problems.

Corporations have no interest in removing the many known causes of disease.  Their interest is the status quo. The status quo is guaranteed as long as we accept corporate partnerships with the universities and government.  That is obvious.

More drugs, more vaccinations, more chemicals, more factory food, more factory-produced, genetically-designed crops, swine, bird, cattle, cows and fish, more patents for corporate ownership of life forms, are ALL the status quo.  Corruption of science and of the regulatory system is the status quo – – that has been well documented over the 10 years of the operation of our network.

There is nothing innovative or delightful about the status quo.  It ensures a continuation of the trend line:  increasing numbers of people who come down with disease and developmental problems.

If the university and the medicare system and the Departments of Health were measured by “results” in the levels of healthfulness in the community (the trendlines), they fail.

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(8)  APOTEX’S GIFT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN. APOTEX, THE COMPANY IN THE OLIVIERI/UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CASE.

The Olivieri case is internationally known.  The company that tried to silence Oivieri by repeated threats to sue her is Apotex.

In spite of that record, the University of Saskatchewan has embraced Apotex as a partner.  If the law worked for corporations as it does for individuals, the U of S would not be able to take money from Apotex because Apotex would be in jail.  One has to ask, what VALUES does the University embrace and role-model for students?

Dr. Nancy Olivieri was doing test trials for a drug manufactured by Apotex.  The results showed a loss of sustained efficacy.  And suggested increased liver fibrosis in her patients (children).  She believed that her patients should be told and did so.

(P. 95, “Selling Out”)  “As soon as Dr. Olivieri took action to inform both her patients and the authorities, Apotex terminated both trials in May 1996 and threatened her with legal action.”

(The use of the “justice system” to intimidate people is a VERY common tactic of the pharmaceutical-chemical-biotech corporations, the same tactic used on Percy Schmeiser (gmo canola), on a small dairy in Vermont that advertised its milk as the product of cows that are not injected with bovine growth hormone, the same as tried on me by the scientist from the Pest Management Regulatory Agency of Health Canada (responsible for the regulation of chemicals, and so on.)

P. 95 “At the same time Apotex began efforts to persuade medical administrators and patients in Toronto, as well as regulatory agencies and the scientific community that L1 was effective and safe and should be in wider use.  Apotex proposed a new treatment for .. patients in which annual liver biopsy, the test that had led to the identification of both of the unexpected risks of L1, would not be an integral part of the safety monitoring …”.

The University of Toronto did not stand behind Dr. Olivieri until they were embarrassed into doing so. “A wide coalition of individuals and groups coalesced” in support of Dr. Olivieri, including respected experts from Harvard and Oxford Universities.  There was media exposure.

Why did the U of Toronto not support its faculty?    “Selling Out“, P. 129:  “Corporate Connections and University Autonomy

Apotex’s $7 million investment of U of T’s Faculty of Pharmacy was considerable; however, if the biomedical centre that had initially been proposed in the early 1990s had materialized, the company’s stake in the medical sciences at the university would have been far greater.  The centre was shelved when the controversy between the company and Dr Olivieri over L1 became public …”

So now, look what’s happening at the University of Saskatchewan.

The University of Saskatchewan welcomes Apotex in spite of its well-known history.  The following is one announcement of the money going from Apotex to the U of S.  It’s not the full story.  You can google to find more examples.

http://announcements.usask.ca/news/archive/2008/09/university_of_s_62.html

September 23, 2008

University of Saskatchewan Pharmacy Education and Research Receives Boost

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – September 23, 2008

2008-09-13-PH&N

Students and faculty in the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Pharmacy gathered today in their pharmacy practice lab to thank Apotex Inc., Canada’s largest pharmaceutical company, for their recent gift to the college.

The $1.5 million donation from Apotex Inc., the largest single gift ever received by the college, will support three areas:

– a state-of-the-art pharmacy practice laboratory, which simulates a real-life pharmacy for undergraduate students, in the new Academic Health Science Centre

– additional research funding for faculty and graduate researchers

– increased graduate student support, providing crucial funding for continued study

“Our faculty members have achieved national and international distinction for their research activities in a variety of areas and we will build on that success by supporting new and innovative research ideas and projects,” said U of S Dean of Pharmacy and Nutrition Dennis Gorecki. “We have established a premiere graduate award to support outstanding students. And we can look to the future, with the completion of the Academic Health Science Centre and the Apotex Pharmacy Professional Practice Centre, to further enhance our undergraduate pharmacy program.”

“Apotex is a great Canadian business success story,” says Jack Kay, President of Apotex Inc. “but it does not stop there – giving back to our communities is just as important. This gift will help reduce the shortage of pharmacists in this country, and support great research and graduate work at the University of Saskatchewan. We are leaders in the support of pharmacy and we have committed over $16 million to all the Faculties of Pharmacy across Canada.”

The newly named Apotex Pharmacy Professional Practice Centre, currently located in the Thorvaldson Building on campus, will relocate to the university’s Academic Health Sciences Centre when it is complete. The Academic Health Sciences Centre will offer leading facilities to enable U of S health experts to teach, conduct research and practise in the community. In addition, the project will expand learning resources for students, healthcare instructors, clinical supervisors and practitioners across the province.

Located in the heart of Saskatoon, the University of Saskatchewan is one of the leading medical doctoral universities in Canada. With 58 degrees, diplomas and certificates in over 100 areas of study, the University is uniquely positioned in the areas of human, animal and plant studies. World-class research facilities, renowned faculty and award winning students make the U of S a leader in post-secondary education.

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For more information, contact:

Lisa Green, Development Officer

College of Pharmacy & Nutrition

University of Saskatchewan

Telephone: (306) 966-5823

Email: lisa.green   AT   usask.ca

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(9)  THE NEWSPAPER ARTICLE THAT STARTED THE PANIC. AND QUESTION: ARE YOUNG PEOPLE SUSCEPTIBLE, OR DOES THE WORST DIET AND LIFE-STYLE (NOT AGE) MAKE IT APPEAR THAT “YOUNG PEOPLE” ARE SUSCEPTIBLE?

Note that the question of CONTEXT in the news coverage of this teen’s unfortunate death is largely (not completely) underplayed. It states “swine flu has now killed close to 100 people across Canada” without saying how many people die every year from “the flu”.

The article waits until the tenth paragraph to provide context: “Most victims – about 90 per cent – had underlying health conditions. “Death is a rare event, and it’s a particularly rare event in young people,” said Dr. Arlene King, …”

The teen who died was “healthy”. … I, seemingly healthy and active, suddenly came down with an active case of tuberculosis (diagnosed before it was contagious) 4 or 5 years ago.  Why did I suddenly get TB?

I recuperated, NOT by taking the drugs for TB, but in part by addressing an underlying cause that goes undetected by normal allopathic (western) medicine.

A naturopathic doctor tested and concluded that my immune system was most likely overloaded by mycotoxins, the product of overgrown fungal colonizations in my body, of which I was completely unaware.

Old-timers in our network may remember mycotoxins from the work on GMO crops.  GMO crops have a higher incidence of the fungus fusarium.  Grain with fusarium is not allowed into the feed chain for humans or for animals because of the deadly mycotoxins they produce.

The remedy for my particular case of TB was to combat the fungal colonizations, take an anti-fungal agent and change my diet:  eat absolutely nothing that will feed fungal growth (sugar); avoid foods that are known to sometimes carry spores; if eating nuts, heat them up first to kill spores. No alcohol because it, like sugar, feeds fungal growth. I used a book of diets to combat candida yeast infections.  Same thing.  I got lots of rest and religiously took sun (vitamin D) every day.  As close to full body exposure as possible.  At first I was so weak I could only walk a block.  But every day I went a little further. It took 6 months to return to full health, which was less than the prescribed time for the drug treatment, 9 months.  The drugs are expensive and have side effects, not the least of which is nausea to the point where people want to stop taking the drugs, and do.  Which aids the development of resistant strains.

NOTE:  I do not advocate that everyone with TB should not take the drugs.  I was in a unique situation:  early detection meant I wasn’t contagious and I had the luxery of time to experiment.  There needs to be more experimentation to determine a “best path” forward.

When the news report says “no underlying health conditions I wonder whether the medical profession knows this for certain?  Allopathic (western) practitioners would have said “no underlying health conditions” in my case.

Also, when it is stated that young people are “at risk” for H1N1 I wonder.  Young adults in our society should be in their prime, the least susceptible to disease.  Is AGE the criterion?  If they happen to be the largest demographic with the worst diet and lifestyle (too much sugar, fast food, processed food, and booze coupled with not enough sleep and too much sedentary time, not enough fresh air and exercise) then it is diet and lifestyle that make them susceptible to H1N1.  Age is coincidental.

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THE NEWSPAPER REPORT  (thanks to Levi)

Sandy I saw your internet research on shots and I just wanted you to read this.

Levi

TORONTO – The swine-flu death of an otherwise healthy hockey-playing teen came without warning and should serve as a lesson to parents to keep a close eye on their ill children, the boy’s grief-stricken father said Tuesday.

Paul Frustaglio said it took barely more than a day for the H1N1 flu virus to kill Evan – his “best friend” – who turned 13 last month, a fatality that public health officials called rare.

“He fell so quickly,” Frustaglio told The Canadian Press. “I was watching him. I was there when he died.”

Evan’s death Monday came on the same day health authorities across Canada began rolling out a vaccination program against H1N1.

The teen would not have been considered a priority for the flu shot because he wasn’t in a high-risk group.

The Grade 8 student began feeling ill over the weekend during a hockey tournament. His symptoms included fever and some vomiting.

His dad took him to a walk-in clinic on Sunday afternoon, where he was seen and sent home with advice to take over-the-counter medication.

The family felt confident it was a simple case of flu that would soon pass. That seemed to be happening. By Monday morning, his fever had broken and he was no longer nauseated. The family thought he was on the mend.

Evan asked to take a bath. Ten minutes later, as his horrified father watched, he suddenly went limp. His father tried CPR as paramedics rushed to the west-end home. “They worked on my son feverishly for over two hours,” Frustaglio said. “His heart wasn’t responding. The disease had taken over his heart.”

The tragedy follows the death Saturday of a 10-year-old eastern Ontario girl from H1N1. Vanetia Warner of Cornwall, Ont., was sick for several days before her condition rapidly deteriorated. She died Saturday in Ottawa. It was not immediately known if she had any underlying medical conditions.

The swine flu has now killed close to 100 people across Canada. Ontario has had close to 30 deaths, six of them children, since April.

Three more deaths in British Columbia over the past week raised that province’s total to 12.

Most victims – about 90 per cent – had underlying health conditions.

“Death is a rare event, and it’s a particularly rare event in young people,” said Dr. Arlene King, Ontario’s medical officer of health.

Why the same strain of virus can cause mild symptoms in one healthy person and be lethal in another is a mystery, although its newness may be a factor.

“We don’t have all of the answers,” King said. “The key thing for all of us is to try to prevent ourselves from getting infected to begin with.”

Dr. David McKeown, Toronto’s medical officer of health, said Evan had “mild asthma,” something his father disputed. “Evan didn’t have asthma; he had been prescribed puffers a few years ago when he had a cold,” Frustaglio said.  A spokeswoman for Toronto public health later said the boy did not have asthma and the earlier statement had resulted from some confusion concerning his medical records.

Mary Margaret Crapper said Evan had no underlying health issues that public health was aware of.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty expressed sympathy for the family, calling it a “terrible tragedy.” The province, he said, was doing everything it could to provide a vaccination program as quickly as possible. “I continue to have confidence in our public health officials,” McGuinty said. “They’re making the right decisions, getting the vaccine into the communities as quickly as they can and respecting the order of priorities that they’ve put in place.”

Frustaglio refused to criticize the walk-in clinic, saying he was in too much grief to think about what might have been done differently.

However, he did warn parents against complacency or thinking that patients with swine flu will show symptoms for many days before deteriorating gradually.

“This didn’t even take a day and a half – it hit my son within 10 minutes,” he said. “If any one of your children has any kind of flu-like symptoms, please don’t take your eyes off of them. Make sure you get the medical attention you need and, if at any time, they don’t seem right, especially with their breathing, just get medical attention.”

Evan’s family began taking Tamiflu after his death as a precaution and immediately informed Evan’s teammates of what had happened so they, too, could seek medical attention.

Evan is survived by his brother Will, 10, and his mom, Anne-Marie, who was too distressed to speak about her loss. “I’m really having a hard time with this,” she said.

Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews said the “very sad case” should impress on people the need to get inoculated. “It doesn’t protect just you, it protects all the people around you,” Matthews said.

Evans’ death sparked an outpouring of sympathy and tributes on Facebook and YouTube, with numerous pictures and even a tribute video.

One Facebook writer said she hoped the tragedy would heighten awareness of the dangers of H1N1. “I feel for your loss; my heart aches for your sorrow,” Tracey Parr wrote. “Hope Evan’s passing will heighten the awareness of this flu, and preventative measures needed to be taken.”

Frustaglio called Evan a “wonderful” boy who was “full of spirit.” His son had switched this year to the Hill Academy north of Toronto – a small school with an emphasis on athletics – because “it was all about hockey.”

“My son is gone. He was here just 24 hours ago and now he’s not here. He was 13. He didn’t deserve to die,” he said. “Whenever you hear stories like this in the press, I say to myself, ‘Oh my god, I can never imagine how I could ever live without one of my kids,’ and now I’m asking myself that question.”

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(10)  OCT 7TH EMAIL ON H1N1

For the first email on H1N1, click on:   2009-10-07 I want parents to know this about vaccinations, mercury, Rumsfeld, and money devoid of conscience   (Rumsfeld’s connection to Tamiflu)

The CONTENTS are as follows:

(1)  FOX NEWS OCT 6TH, WHY YOU SHOULD NOT VACCINATE YOUR CHILDREN AGAINST THE FLU

(2)  UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, DEPT OF MEDICINE,  HOW MERCURY CAUSES BRAIN NEURON DEGENERATION

(3)  ROBERT F KENNEDY JR ON LINK BETWEEN VACCINATIONS (THIMERASOL, MERCURY) AND AUTISM.

(4)  PERSPECTIVE ON SWINE FLU, LIKELIHOOD OF DEATH

(5)  DONALD RUMSFIELD’S (BUSH ADMINISTRATION) FINANCIAL LINK TO THE FLU VACCINE

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.  Know what each of the adjuvants does.

Mercury is a heavy metal.  Heavy metals cause serious deterioration in neural pathways in the brain.  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.  Robert F Kennedy Jr makes the case for the connection between mercury in vaccinations and increases in autism.  (See #9 below for alternative interpretations.)

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(11) RESPONSES FROM YOU TO OCT 7TH EMAIL

A.  FROM ASHLEIGH, CITATIONS TO DISPROVE THE LINK BETWEEN AUTISM AND THIMERASOL

B.  FROM PAUL, UNDERSTANDING THE RISK

C.  FROM DOUG, MANIPULATED RESEARCH

D.  FROM RUTH’S DAUGHTER, THIMERASOL DOESN’T CAUSE AUTISM (WITH CITATIONS)

E.  FROM SHIV, FOREIGN PROTEIN CONSTITUENTS IN VACCINES LEAD TO THE VARIOUS DISEASES, MORE SO THAN THE MERCURY, ALUMINUM

A.  FROM ASHLEIGH, CITATIONS TO DISPROVE THE LINK BETWEEN AUTISM AND THIMERASOL

With thanks to Ashleigh Mattern:

Hi there,

I received your email at editor  AT   thesheaf.com, but I am writing this letter as a concerned individual, not as the editor of a newspaper.

Please, before you use your reputation and connection to a respectable political party to spread information, make sure that information is correct. Here are some additional links on the topics of vaccination.

From article “Autism prevalence” by Dr. Stephen Novella: “Autism rates continued to rise at a steady rate, essentially killing the hypothesis that thimerosal is a significant contributor to autism.” http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1049

From article “More evidence for vaccine safety” also by Novella: “The BBC reports today of a National Health Service study that shows that autism rates are consistent at about 1% among all age groups. If true, this has profound implications for the now-discredited notion that autism rates are rising and that this rise is linked to vaccines.” http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=940

The following is from “Mercury Rising: Exposing the Vaccine-Autism Myth” on http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-06-20#feature

“A Vast Government Conspiracy?

So what do vaccine opponents make of the evidence against the vaccine-autism hypothesis? Mostly, they assert a vast conspiracy propagated by government and industry. It is proposed that government agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in conjunction with scientists with varying ties to the pharmaceutical industry, have gone to great lengths to suppress evidence supporting a link between vaccines and autism. Indeed, this was the main point of Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Rolling Stone article. Kennedy and others claim that a conspiracy does exist and was formally discussed at a top-secret meeting in Simpsonwood, Georgia in 2000.

One hotly discussed result of this meeting is the purported doctoring of data by Thomas Verstraeten who, according to the vaccine opponents, presented data supporting the autism-vaccine link but later altered the data to support the opposite conclusion because he was, by then, employed by a large pharmaceutical company. Verstraeten has denied such manipulation and the data he reports support the conclusions reached by a number of other independent researchers.15 The problem is that the only evidence of doctored data sets, dubious activity at the Simpsonwood meeting, and assorted cover-ups seems to come from a small number of zealous vaccine opponents who can offer no corroborating evidence to support the hearsay.”

There is also some great information about the swine flu, etc., in the article “Swine Flu Vaccine Fearmongering” here: http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/09-09-23#feature

As you have asked me and the countless other people on your mailing list to consider some new ideas, I urge you to read and consider these links.

Thanks so much for your time,

…. Thanks Ashleigh.

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B.  FROM PAUL, UNDERSTANDING THE RISK

I am an employee of an organization that, in fact, does promote flu vaccination for at risk persons and has done so for many years.  There will be risk involved in virtually everything we do.  It is important, but also difficult, for individuals to try to understand and manage risk.

It is valuable to question most practices including those done in the name of public health.  It is valuable to question the information provided by any organization.  I am involved in issues related to tobacco use and I expect am known for questioning much of what is said and done under the guise of protecting health.  Bill C-32, passed just this week, is a good example of witnessing statements that were, I suggest, inaccurate, even though the basic purpose and general outcome of the Bill may have been positive.

Flu vaccine does contain mercury, and this does mean there is a theoretical possibility of health issues resulting from it.  The goal is certainly to stop the need for additive mercury but as yet this is not the case.  Fewer vaccines now contain this additive.

We can only respond to what we understand at the moment.  The good news, to use that phrase, is that the form of mercury resulting from this intake is excreted very quickly in children in comparison to other forms of the element and methods of intake.  It is also noteworthy that some of the increased costs associated with its removal are real and not a total fabrication of industry.  This is perhaps less important to middle class America but is a concern for children in many countries.

I am not suggesting that increased pressure in Canada to remove this preservative may be disadvantageous but the question remains as to the relative risk associated with the use of the current vaccine.  We would wish that all children have very good diets, are physically active and live in a positive environment (and personally I hope that will exclude nuclear energy as a major power source, for example) but we also appreciate that not to be the case.  For some our immune systems are what they are especially for children.

I think I am not overly naïve about large industry but at the same time I am content to know that rabies protection is available when I do run with the wolves.

Thanks again for all of your information,

Paul Van Loon

paul.vanloon   AT   sk.lung.ca

Health Educator

Lung Association of Saskatchewan

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C.  FROM DOUG, MANIPULATED RESEARCH

Doug’s point is the same one as made in the Olivieri case, where the drug manufacturer “proposed a new treatment .. in which annual liver biopsy, the test that had led to the identification of both of the unexpected risks .. would not be an integral part of the safety monitoring .. “.

He writes:

Yes, very similar story, but make sure not to get fooled into thinking it is only the mercury that is the problem. The immune challenges created by non-mercury vaccines can cause some horrible issues too.

Like most people don’t know that when a safety profile is done for a vaccine, it is NOT compared to a saline placebo (other drugs are compared to placebos for safety tolerance), but is compared to another vaccine with a “known” safety profile. So in essence, there is NEVER a control group receiving placebo.

Sheri Tenpenny , MD is a MD who uses actual CDC (Center for Disease Control) documents and med journal studies to go over a lot of the myths about vaccine “effectiveness” let alone even “safety”. It’s a great DVD for the science that is involved. AND she used to be head ER doctor at a huge Ohio hospital and health region.

http://www.realityzone.com/vaccinescdc.html

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D.  FROM RUTH’S DAUGHTER, THIMERASOL DOESN’T CAUSE AUTISM (WITH CITATIONS)

Hello Sandra:

I forwarded your information to my daughter, who is National Health Reporter for CBC Radio.  This is her reply; thought you would like to have it.

Best regards,

Ruth

Hi Mom,

I never underestimate the influence of the big dollars of pharma in covering up harms. But the thimerosal/autism link has been definitively de-bunked for some years. You’ll see the statement from the Canadian Pediatric Society below, and I’ve bolded the most easily understood, convincing part of this. But still the “theory” about thimerosal and autism continues, and as a result there have been huge outbreaks of sometimes deadly diseases (including measles) in Europe and North America, because parents have  been frightened off from getting their children vaccinated.  So this should be shared and distributed to people who are still circulating the outdated and erroneous information. Not saying thimerosal isn’t bad, just that it doesn’t cause autism!

Love,

(Your daughter)

THIMEROSAL-CONTAINING VACCINES

Thimerosal, a compound that contains ethyl mercury, has been used as an additive to biological therapies and vaccines because of its effect in preventing bacterial contamination, particularly in opened, multidose vials. In 1997, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Modernization Act called for a review and assessment of the risk of all mercury-containing foods and drugs. This action stimulated the United States Public Health Service and the American Academy of Pediatrics to issue a joint statement in 1999 (18) calling for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines. This action was undertaken as a precautionary measure; there was no evidence that ethyl mercury was harmful at the doses being administered to infants.

Of note, at that time in Canada, in contrast to the United States, the regularly used infant immunization product (pentavalent DTaPIPVHib vaccine) did not contain thimerosal. 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. Since 1999, several studies (19-23) have been conducted to evaluate the safety of thimerosal in vaccines. These studies were reviewed in detail by the IOM (10) in 2001 and 2004 with a focus on autism. The IOM Committee concluded that the evidence favoured rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism, as well as MMR vaccine and autism (10). 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. In a separate critical review (24) of published original data, a link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and ASD was not shown. Epidemiological studies that supported a link demonstrated significant design flaws that invalidated conclusions of these studies (10,24). Additional data from Canada published since 2004 also showed no association between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism (25).

An important factor to consider is what has happened to autism rates since the removal of thimerosal from vaccines. In studies from Canada (25), Denmark (20) and the United States (26) the rates of autism have continued to increase despite removal of thimerosal from vaccines.

Thus, the evidence is in, and the assessment of purported causality is clear. The MMR vaccine and immunization with thimerosal-containing vaccines are not causally associated with, nor are they a cause of, autism or ASD. There is mounting evidence (27) that ASD has a strong genetic component – a very plausible cause for the disorder.

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2.    Folb PI, Bernatowska E, Chen R, et al. A global perspective on vaccine safety and public health: The Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety. Am J Public Health 2004;94:1926-31.

3.    Canadian Paediatric Society, Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee [Principal author: J Embree]. Measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autistic spectrum disorder: A hypothesis only. Paediatr Child Health 2001;6:387-9.

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20.   Hviid A, Stellfeld M, Wohlfahrt J, Melbye M. Association between thimerosal-containing vaccine and autism. JAMA 2003;290:1763-6.

21.   Andrews N, Miller E, Grant A, Stowe J, Osborne V, Taylor B. Thimerosal exposure in infants and developmental disorders: A retrospective cohort study in the United Kingdom does not support a causal association. Pediatrics 2004;114:584-91.

22.   Heron J, Golding J, ALSPAC Study Team. Thimerosal exposure in infants and developmental disorders: A prospective cohort study in the United Kingdom does not support a causal association.

23.   Madsen KM, Lauritsen MB, Pedersen CB, et al. Thimerosal and the occurrence of autism: Negative ecological evidence from Danish population-based data. Pediatrics 2003;112:604-6.

24.   Parker SK, Schwartz B, Todd J, Pickering LK. Thimerosalcontaining vaccines and autistic spectrum disorder: A critical review of published original data. Pediatrics 2004;114:793-804. Pediatrics. (Erratum in 2005;115:200).

25.   Fombonne E, Zakarian R, Bennett A, Meng L, McLean-Heywood D. Pervasive developmental disorders in Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Prevalence and links with immunizations. Pediatrics 2006;118:e139-50.

26.   California Department of Developmental Services. Autism <http://www.dds.ca.gov/Autism/Autism_main.cfm> (Version current at April 17, 2007 ).

27.   The Autism Genome Project Consortium; Szatmari P, Paterson AD, Zwaigenbaum L, et al. Mapping autism risk loci using genetic linkage and chromosomal rearrangements. Nat Genet 2007;39:319-28.

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E.  FROM SHIV, FOREIGN PROTEIN CONSTITUENTS IN VACCINES LEAD TO THE VARIOUS DISEASES (MORE THAN THE MERCURY, ALUMINUM)

Bear in mind that more than mercury, aluminium, and other toxic materials it is the foreign protein constituents in vaccines that lead to various auto-immune diseases, such as autism and other afflictions.

Shiv Chopra, Author,

CORRUPT TO THE CORE: Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower

www.shivchopra.com

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(12) WHAT TO DO RE SWINE FLU

A. A FOOD SYSTEM THAT KILLS, THE ROLE OF “FACTORY FARMS” IN THE EVOLUTION OF SWINE AND BIRD (AVIAN) FLU.  REMEMBER ALL THOSE CHICKENS THAT WERE KILLED IN B.C.?

http://www.grain.org/articles/?id=48

Also, a fact sheet at:

http://www.beyondfactoryfarming.org/files/swineflu.pdf

B. SIMPLE STEPS

(attributed to Dr. Vinay Goyal,  MBBS,DRM,DNB (Intensivist and Thyroid specialist), having clinical experience of over 20 years.  He has worked in institutions like Hinduja Hospital, Bombay Hospital, Saifee Hospital, Tata Memorial, etc.  Presently, he is heading our Nuclear Medicine Department and Thyroid clinic at Riddhivinayak Cardiac and Critical Centre, Malad (W).

Also attributed to “Dr. Oz”.

The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it’s almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is.

While-you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced (instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu):

1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications).

2. “Hands-off-the-face” approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat or bathe.)

3.*Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine or Hydrogen Peroxide if you don’t trust salt).  *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In away, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthyindividual that Tamiflu has on an infected one. Don’t underestimatethis simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method.

4.Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water, or hydrogen peroxide. *Not everybody may be good atJala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasalcavities), but *blowing the nose softly once a day and swabbing bothnostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effectivein bringing down viral population.*

5.*Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). *If you have to supplement with VitaminC tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption.

6.*Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. *Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm.

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C.  FROM DENIS HALL, BE PRO-ACTIVE

“Remedial Health Care Folks” are physicians, surgeons, dentists, physio therapists, nurses, technicians, hospital administrators, etc. who have vested interests in people being sick.   The health care people make lots of money when people/patients buy into the delusion that they – the remedial health-care people – can fix what people/patients have let go wrong with themselves.   Other than for accidents and inherited disorders, some authorities estimate that at least 80% of patients in our health-care systems have let themselves get sick because they wrongly think the health-care system can remediate their health status.

Each of us must be pro-active and look after ourselves.  Either that or become victims of the health care system full of endless referrals, line ups, hospital stays, and prescriptions like we have no other life and as if the public purse is bottomless.

The current H1N1 flu pandemic scare is an excellent example of the need for each person to be pro-active about their own personal health care.  Each of us needs to make sure that we make our own personal fitness a priority so that when illness, injury, emergency or in this case a pandemic strikes, our body is equipped and prepared to fight.

In this vein of thinking, a priority first step is to immediately institute quality and compulsory daily physical education and health programs in schools, and to have such programs headed by degreed physical education and health-care educators.  Parents and students should be hounding educational leaders including school trustees, administrators and Ministry of Education officials in this regard.

Denis Hall

Retired Teacher/Principal

Director, YAS Sports Schools Inc.

Active Men’s Plus Member, Saskatoon YMCA

(Denis:  thanks.  May I add specifically also that ” health-care educators” need to somehow teach so effectively that young people WANT to change their diets?  Sugar-laden drinks and artificial food weaken the immune system.)

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(13)  AT THE UNIVERSITY: IT’S NOT INNOVATION, IT’S HYPED STATUS QUO.

It is natural that we have different view-points; our experiences are different.

However, finding “the truth” as far as it can be known, is very difficult in a world where corporate interests buy science, administrators and government regulators.  All of whom would deny the charge, I suppose!  Never mind there is ample evidence to support my statement.

I do not have trust in “the authorities” because too many of them are products of a system that has lost its curiosity. People are obedient to the status quo because that is where the money is.  The money is coming from drug lords, the pharmaceutical corporations.

Disease rates are going higher (diabetes, cancer, obesity, autoimmune disease, now tuberculosis (recent reports of TB in First Nations communities in Manitoba), and so on.  “The medicare system” has got to be challenged.  Numbers of people are doing that, Dr. Marcia Angell, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Dr. Shiv Chopra, etc.

If the system takes more and more money but doesn’t deliver results there is something very wrong. An old theme of mine:  the medicare system should be evaluated in terms of health outcomes.  The incidence of diabetes should be going down, not up. The incidence of Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease should be going down. The incidence of cancer (the number of people who get cancer) should be going down, not up – – and it would be, if we took three-quarters of the money out of drug “innovation” and did true innovation to get rid of known carcinogens and teratogens, etc.

“Innovation” is heralded as more drugs or more chemicals or more gmo’s or more industry money in universities and more vaccinations. That is not innovation; it is maintenance of “business as usual”, the status quo.  It is only hyped as innovation.

There is a serious and unacceptable undermining of “science”.  Large corporate interests “buy” science and they buy government regulators.  We have seen example after example.  There are court convictions.

These known-to-be-corrupt corporations buy their way into the universities where they debase the knowledge base.  We come to the point where you don’t know which “science” to trust.

There are very good people doing very good work.  We need to get rid of the bad apples and change the system.  The Governments need to fund the universities; it is not their (our) business to fund the corporations.  We need to be able to trust science.

Values lie at the base of the de-basing.

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(14)  “INTRODUCTION” AT THE END.  SUMMARY.

I can’t thank you enough for the thoughtful input on H1N1 (response to email sent Oct 7th). I hope I have not missed any of it.

It is a challenge to find “the truth”.  I leave it to you to find yours.  I hope this will be helpful to some.

My view-point on H1N1 and healthcare is influenced by my experience with another contagious disease.  I was diagnosed with an active case of tuberculosis 4 or 5 years ago, BUT in an early stage BEFORE it became contagious. I was curious, experimented and learned a lot.

Before my experience with tuberculosis, and after, we have circulated information on various cases of the terrible harm done knowingly by pharmaceutical corporations (Big Pharma).

The laws that create corporations are badly in need of change; they are our laws, we are the responsible parties. The changes will be welcomed by us, and by many in the corporate world.  It is not as though individual employees all like their corporate behavior; it is a way of making a living (not to deny the sometimes role of greed and lack of ethics (courage)!). The system is improperly structured; it does not serve the needs of our society. And so it will be changed.

My statements regarding the pharmaceutical industry are based on a cumulative history that is in the public record.  You cannot divorce their deeds and values from their money.

This email demonstrates that the university-corporate “partnerships” (in general and specifically in medicine and pharmacy in this example) are a wrong-headed approach that citizens need to change.

We are the enablers of the corporate takeover of the universities (if this is a democracy); and we are the funders in ways most of us do not know about.

Citizens are mobilizing to re-assert their set of values on their publicly-owned institutions.  Hallelujah!  There is hope!

/Sandra