A Factual, Logical Perspective on This Swine Flu (and the Hysteria Surrounding It)

I draw your attention away from the hysterical, goo-goo-eyed crowds of masked people as depicted by the television shows and present to you the most level-headed, factual article about the Swine Flu issue I have ever read. It's by Dr. Mercola at the Natural Health Center, based in Illinois. He gives resource links to the article, and presents a well-researched and intellligent discussion. It is a lengthy article, but a MUST READ: Critical Alert: The Swine Flu Pandemic.

In the article, Dr. Mercola addresses the fear-mongering:

I suspect you have likely been alarmed by the media's coverage of the swine flu scare. It has a noticeable subplot - preparing you for draconian measures to combat a future pandemic as well as forcing you to accept the idea of mandatory vaccinations.

On April 27, Time magazine published an article which discusses how dozens died and hundreds were injured from vaccines as a result of the 1976 swine flu fiasco, when the Ford administration attempted to use the infection of soldiers at Fort Dix as a pretext for a mass vaccination of the entire country.

Despite acknowledging that the 1976 farce was an example of “how not to handle a flu outbreak”, the article still introduces the notion that officials “may soon have to consider whether to institute draconian measures to combat the disease”.

The 1976 Swine Flu scare:

My guess is that you can expect to see a lot of panic over this issue in the near future. But the key is to remain calm -- this isn't the first time the public has been warned about swine flu. The last time was in 1976, right before I entered medical school and I remember it very clearly. It resulted in the massive swine flu vaccine campaign.

Do you happen to recall the result of this massive campaign?

Within a few months, claims totaling $1.3 billion had been filed by victims who had suffered paralysis from the vaccine. The vaccine was also blamed for 25 deaths.

However, several hundred people developed crippling Guillain-Barré Syndrome after they were injected with the swine flu vaccine. Even healthy 20-year-olds ended up as paraplegics.

And the swine flu pandemic itself? It never materialized.

The real numbers and level-headed account of the current disease:

According to the World Health Organization's Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response site; as of April 27, there are:

* 91 laboratory confirmed cases in U.S. -- 0 deaths (reported by CDC as of April 30)
* 26 confirmed cases in Mexico -- 7 deaths
* 6 confirmed cases in Canada -- 0 deaths
* 1 confirmed case in Spain -- 0 deaths

Additionally, nearly all suspected new cases have been reported as mild.

Personally, I am highly skeptical. It simply doesn't add up to a real pandemic.

But it does raise serious questions about where this brand new, never before seen virus came from, especially since it cannot be contracted from eating pork products, and has never before been seen in pigs, and contains traits from the bird flu -- and which, so far, only seems to respond to Tamiflu. Are we just that lucky, or... what?

There are very reasonable suspicions about this disease, and it's extremely unusual origin and characteristics:

Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don't have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.

Just last month I reported on the story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a "mistake" would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.

The H5N1 virus on its own is not very airborne. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological weapon. If this batch of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses had reached the public, it could have resulted in dire consequences.

There is a name for this mixing of viruses; it's called "reassortment," and it is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created in the lab. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak -- the 1977 Russian flu -- was started by a virus created and leaked from a laboratory.

Another example of the less sterling integrity of Big Pharma is the case of Bayer, who sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, even though they knew it was tainted with the AIDS virus.

So while it is morally unthinkable that a drug company would knowingly contaminate flu vaccines with a deadly flu virus such as the bird- or swine flu, it is certainly not impossible. It has already happened more than once.

But there seems to be no repercussions or hard feelings when industry oversteps the boundaries of morality and integrity and enters the arena of obscenity. Because, lo and behold, which company has been chosen to head up efforts, along with WHO, to produce a vaccine against the Mexican swine flu?

Baxter!11 Despite the fact that ink has barely dried on the investigative reports from their should-be-criminal "mistake" against humanity.

According to other sources,12 a top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, has concluded that the current swine flu virus possesses certain transmission "vectors" that suggest the new strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.

The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.

Dr. Mercola's article is very comprehensive and informative. Please read it before you take heed to anything the media is saying.

Let's Play P.I.G.

After sitting back for a few days, watching the media (and pharmaceutical companies) go absolutely ballistic about this "swine flu" thing, I have my strong suspicions that not only is the hysteria man-made, but this "virus" just may be, also. The rate of speed with which the virus appeared and traveled, not to mention its combination of viruses very unique in the flu pool, have made any thinking person very wary.

Of course, I'm not saying that it IS man-made, but that it is very possible. Even that seem anathema to some ("Of COURSE our government would never do this!" they say. Rrrright-- this isn't teen acne we're talking about here, people). The government has a record of abusing people as guinea pigs to get what they want...

And if the governments of North America were so terribly concerned about a "pandemic," why haven't the borders been closed? Unless, of course, the governments of North America are desiring a pandemic.

Jean, a fellow blogger and a NY Examiner, has had some excellent articles about this issue of pandemics. With all this information, something smells that there has been a media blackout of very important (yea, critical) news reports. And why the laissez faire attitude by the governments? Containment of the virus has not been in their agenda at all-- but control of the populace is. That makes them immediately suspect, in my opinion. We'll see how things develop. But realize that the government is looking for any tiny excuse to shut down our communications with each other, to suspend the Bill of Rights, and enforce martial law. Upstate New York seems to be the petri dish, too.

A recently proposed but little-noticed Senate bill would allow the federal government to shut down the Internet in times of declared emergency, and enables unprecedented federal oversight of private network administration.

The bill's draft states that "the president may order a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic" and would give the government ongoing access to "all relevant data concerning (critical infrastructure) networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access."

Why would they shut down the Internet? Why not the newspapers, magazines, radio, and television? Because shutting down the Internet is shutting down the people.

All very suspicious.

FFQF:Perpetual Debt As A Means of Slavery

When we think of slavery, we often think of white man vs. black man, as it has been ingrained into our brains since elementary school. But truly, this is a perverted view of slavery.

slav·er·y (slā'və-rē, slāv'rē)
n. pl. slav·er·ies

• The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household.
• The practice of owning slaves.
• A mode of production in which slaves constitute the principal work force.
• The condition of being subject or addicted to a specified influence.
• A condition of hard work and subjection: wage slavery.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

We must make our election between economy and liberty,

or profusion and servitude.

If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and
in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and
our amusements, for our calling and our creeds...

[we will] have no time to think,

no means of calling our miss-managers to account

but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves
to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers...

And this is the tendency of all human governments.

A departure from principle in one instance
becomes a precedent for [another ]...

till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery...

And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt.

Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression."

-- Thomas Jefferson. Source: Letter to Samuel Kercheval, Monticello, July 12, 1816

We're always hearing of that "separation of church and state" quote by Jefferson-- with progressives swinging it around like Samson's donkey's jawbone, but what of this quote above mentioned? Or hundreds of others, where he vehemently warns and admonishes us of homosexuality, heavy and undue taxation, and secular public education all of which are the darlings of progressives?

Nonetheless, undue taxation (and its largesse deemed on worthy sectors of society) is a means of enslaving those who are governed. Heavy and undue taxation by government is forced. It is never an "oops, I did it again!" event. It is FORCED. It is PURPOSEFUL. It is the enslaving of the next generation, as well as the present one, to a lifetime of labor to pay off the public debt. It is a CRIME.

You do not have to be a poor black man to be a slave to someone. Your entire life and that of your descendants is one of perpetual labor, working for the Machine that has been purchased and is controlled by that distant government.

How could it be that, before the Emancipation Proclamation, hundreds of thousands of black people never resisted their chains and bondage? How was it that so few tried to escape? Because the Massa' had brainwashed the slaves into thinking that they could not live without him; that everyone they loved and needed was here in chains, too; that the world beyond the cotton fields was a frightful place. And obviously, most of the slaves believed it so, simply because the Massa' said so.

Our government will never halt the slave trade while the slaves are happily chained. I will not believe that this system of indentured servitude for the past 100+ years is accidental. Even a cursory look at history tells me so. And this system of slavery is much more than IRS codes and being taxed by income, purchases, etc. It is a belief system, whereby we are convinced to believe that the government takes care of us-- they clothe us, regulate and manage our farms, feed us, educate us, protect us, bail us out after hurricanes, etc. It is a belief system taught and propagated from our earliest memories-- in the education system (managed, coincidentally, by the government) and constantly promoted to us by the mass media (influenced, coincidentally, by the government). It is this belief system that must be challenged and removed. Because even if the burdens of taxation are removed, and we remain dependent on the Massa', we are still wearing the chains of slavery, and it will be only a matter of time before a heavier burden is placed on us.

Founding Father's Quote Friday is hosted at Meet the Founders blog

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FFQF: The Power to Destroy

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation."

--John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819

"The government taxes you when you bring home a paycheck.
It taxes you when you make a phone call.
It taxes you when you turn on a light.
It taxes you when you sell a stock.
It taxes you when you fill your car with gas.
It taxes you when you ride a plane.
It taxes you when you get married.
Then it taxes you when you die.
This is taxual insanity and it must end."
-- J. C. Watts, Jr.

I don't think J. C. Watts even covered it all; but his point is made.

Taxed
Enough
Already

And it isn't merely the taxation that is the most disturbing; it is the "power to destroy." Through burdensome taxation, the government is given more and more power to meddle in our lives, legislate and regulate everything we do, accumulate and store our personal information, and more. Our government is in serious need of some appetite suppressants or something. Taxation, while extremely burdensome and easy to finger as a problem, is not the only issue at hand. We must be alert to the larger picture; that is, of tyrannical government so forceful and intrusive in its measures that it swallows us whole.

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Obama Just Hates Competition

What a bigot. What a narrow-minded, religious kook. Yeah, Barack Obama. he can't handle the "IHS" symbol in a church, so he ordered the symbol to be covered in black.

Amidst all of the American flags and presidential seals, there was something missing when President Barack Obama gave an economic speech at Georgetown University this week -- Jesus.

The White House asked Georgetown to cover a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name in Gaston Hall, which Obama used for his speech, according to CNSNews.com.

The gold "IHS" monogram inscribed on a pediment in the hall was covered over by a piece of black-painted plywood, and remained covered over the next day, CNSNews.com reported.

What's even more amazing is that the bishops covered it! And left it covered for the next day! (Perhaps they wanted to keep it up in case Obama made a second advent or something?)

Funny. Remember when John Ashcroft had a nude statue covered by a sheet while he gave a speech in front of it? How the liberals cowled and crowed, accusing Ashcroft & Co. of "censorship." Well, it's not to hard to see whose god is who, is it?


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Me, I think Obama just can't handle the competition.

TEA'd Off

Glad to see so many Tea Party Tax Revolt gatherings occurring in the state, and mationwide. Funny, I haven't seen ABC, CBS, or NBC report on it. And where's all that news that's fit to print?

To the Tea Party attenders, a word of warning: beware of plainclothes police or government employee infiltrators (aka, traitors), intent on raiding your revolt and stirring up violence (like, throwing rocks or hurling insults). They'd do this to get innocent protestors arrested or have the government shut the protest down. Such happened in Canada. Good thing some of the protestors were alert, and had camcorders.



We have every right to protest the tyranny of our government, to assemble peacefully, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. We also have the right of free speech and freedom of the press.

Yes, My Lord?

This may be a satire piece by Saturday Night Live, but I admit, I believed it to be true for a few moments. I mean, with ObamaMessiah, nothing is impossible, right?


Thanks to All That is Necessary for the video.

If you're looking for real truth in advertising, check out Alex Jones' Obama Deception.

FFQF: First Things First

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"Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom." Patrick Henry

"(If a) people (are) so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control, their reformation must be taken up ab incunablis (from the beginning). Their minds (must) be informed by education what is right and what wrong, (must) be encouraged in habits of virtue and deterred from those of vice by the dread of punishments, proportioned indeed, but irremissible. In all cases, (they must) follow truth as the only safe guide and eschew error which bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless succession. These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and good government." Thomas Jefferson

Certainly, sports, sports gifts, entertainments, and amusements have their place in society; there is nothing wrong with earned leisure time and fun. However, when amusements and leisure become the absorbing activities of a narcistic society-- beware, the chains of slavery are soon to be clapped. Our politicians have become so assured of our entertainment-doping that they are exceedingly bold with their plans. As Hitler published Mein Kamp yet his plans were virtually ignored by the Germans, so the Federal Reserve and the Fascist Government of the United States has outlined their agenda. Too few are awake enough to rise from the stupor to see.

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V.I.C.T.O.R.Y.

NYRI Quits; Power Line Project DEAD.

FFQF: E Unum Pluribus?

I'm going to cheat somewhat here, as I am copying and pasting a quote delivered to my email inbox today. It is inexplicably relevant to the topics I've been discussing of late (and of which has been the topic of discussion amongst liberty lovers for years).

"The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes [and] delegated to that government certain definite powers and whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. To this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming, as to itself, the other party. The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution the measure of its powers."

-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President

Source: in his draft of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 which were written in response to an attempt by Congress to expand the criminal jurisdiction of the federal government through a set of laws entitled the "Alien and Sedition Laws."

As much as I admire John Adams and dislike Thomas Jefferson, I believe Jefferson was within Constitutional boundaries when he rejected Adams' Alien and Sedition Acts and wrote the subsequent Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. The issue of State's Rights is sticky, but Jefferson is perfectly correct that the binding force of the Union is not the federal government, but rather the Constitution and it's limited powers. For this, I stray from being considered a complete Federalist. It doesn't take a technical and vocational schools guide to see that the states are sovereign for their own affairs:

Tenth Amendment:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

I could never understand why Federalists clung to the Elastic Clause, particularly considering the wording of the 10th amendment.

The Kentucky Resolutions brought their own abuse, I realize, fueling the secessionist fever that led to the Civil War. I am one of those who count Abraham Lincoln as being in the wrong by asserting dictatorial powers for preserving the Union. Slavery is wrong, always was wrong, but so is tyranny; the Civil War concerned much more than the issue of slavery. At it's basest, the issue was about State's Rights. Certainly secession was and is deadly to the Union. Equally, so is federal tyranny. I suppose the real question is, Which is worse?

Founding Father's Quote Friday is hosted at Meet the Founders blog

The Good Ol' Days of Josef Mengele

Saw this in the UK's Independent:

British scientists to create 'synthetic' blood

Human embryos will be used to make an unlimited supply for infection-free transfusions

A major research project is to be announced this week that will culminate in three years with the first transfusions into human volunteers of "synthetic" blood made from the stem cells of spare IVF embryos. It could help to save the lives of anyone from victims of traffic accidents to soldiers on a battlefield by revolutionising the vital blood transfusion services, which have to rely on a network of human donors to provide a constant supply of fresh blood.

The multimillion-pound deal involving NHS Blood and Transplant, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service and the Wellcome Trust, the world's biggest medical research charity, means Britain will take centre stage in the global race to develop blood made from embryonic stem cells. The researchers will test human embryos left over from IVF treatment to find those that are genetically programmed to develop into the "O-negative" blood group, which is the universal donor group whose blood can be transfused into anyone without fear of tissue rejection.

Funny thing is, there are no human "donors" here, and no "synthetic blood" being manufactured at all. The concocted blood soup is a replication of blood extracted from HUMAN EMBRYOS. I haven't seen any embryos raising their hands to participate in this experiment.

The aim is to stimulate embryonic stem cells to develop into mature, oxygen-carrying red blood cells for emergency transfusions. Such blood would have the benefit of not being at risk of being infected with viruses such as HIV and hepatitis, or the human form of "mad cow" disease. The military in particular needs a constant supply of fresh, universal donor blood for battlefield situations when normal supplies from donors can quickly run out.

But developing blood made from the cells of spare IVF embryos will raise difficult ethical issues for people not happy with the idea of destroying embryos to create stem cells. It also raises the intriguing philosophical question of whether the synthetic blood will have come from someone who never existed. In theory, just one embryo could meet the nation's needs.

The comments to this article are just as enlightening as the article itself. It sheds a lot of light on the debauched and darkened mentality that "science will save us," and "it's just a glob of disposable tissue."

Gosh, I'll bet these people are lamenting the good ol' Nazi days, aren't they? They probably have regrets, getting rid of Hitler and his famous mad scientist, Dr. Josef Mengeles. Because those guys with all their knowledge and daring-do could have been SO USEFUL in this day and age. Rats!