VACCINES

I've just read an exhaustively researched book by Neil Z. Miller called Vaccines - Are They Really Safe & Effective? I recommend this book to everyone. The information it contains shocked me.

Since the Swine Flu Hoax of 2009, I've been sceptical about vaccines and wanted to learn more about them. By trawling through the Internet I found out about adjuvants - the toxic preservatives and 'vaccine boosters' added to vaccines - and I read many articles by both pro-vaccinators and anti-vaccinators.

The problem always was with the studies.

There are copious studies (paid for by drugs companies) that show vaccines are effective - if not always entirely safe. There are 'independent' academic studies (indirectly funded by drugs companies) that also present vaccines as a health benefit. There are genuinely independent academic studies showing some vaccines to be ineffective but others (such as polio and tetanus) to be worthwhile. And there are privately-financed studies demonstrating that vaccines are both ineffective and dangerous.

So what are we supposed to believe?

Then I came across Neil Miller's book. Here was a man who had made it his mission to find the truth and had spent many years comprehensively researching the subject. Did I already say I was shocked? Well, I was. And what Neil Miller discovered is so important that I feel it's my duty to précis the book's main discoveries and chuck them out here in this blog.

POLIO

In 1935, in the United States, the average number of polio cases was 5.8 per 100,000 people.

In 1940 diphtheria and pertussis vaccines were introduced. Almost immediately, polio cases shot up. By 1945 they had more than tripled. By 1950 they had more than quadrupled to 24.8 per 100,000.

(Source: National Morbidity Reports taken from U.S. Public Health surveillance reports; Lancet April 18, 1950, pp659-63.)

In 1953 the polio vaccine was introduced and guess? Cases of polio increased further. For example, in the state of Vermont, in the year before the introduction of the polio vaccine, there were 15 polio cases. In the year after the introduction of mass inoclulations there were 55 cases. Rhode Island reported 22 cases the year before the polio vaccine was introduced and a year after it was introduced reported 122 cases - a 454% increase. In New Hampshire the figures were 38-129; in Connecticut they were 144-276, and in Massachusetts they were 273-2027 - an increase of 642%.

The figures show unequivocally that the famous Salk polio vaccine did not immunise people against getting polio - it did the opposite (as did the later live virus vaccines). However, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, and drug companies with large investments in the vaccines, have coerced the U.S. Public Health Service into falsely proclaiming the measles vaccines are safe and effective.

TETANUS

About 85% of those who contract tetanus will recover. About 15% will die. Perhaps due to mass tetanus vaccinations the number of tetanus cases in the United States is now very small - only 47 cases per year on average. Neil Miller has found solid evidence that anti-tetanus injections (unlike polio vaccinations) do work.

The downside is the side-effects.

The authors of a study of 14,000 children between 1988 and 1994 (published in 2000 in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics) summarised that "Fifty per cent of diagnosed asthma cases (2.93 million) in U.S. children and adolescents would be prevented if the DPT (Diptheria Pertussis) and tetanus vaccination were not administered."

Studies show that between 23 and 30% of those receiving anti-tetanus shots develop asthma or allergy related respiratory symptoms.

MEASLES

In 1900, there were 13.3 measles deaths in the United States per 100,000. By 1955 - eight years before the first measles shot - the death rate had declined on its own by 97.7 percent to .03 deaths per 100,000.

Prior to 1970, most children in the U.S.A. contracted measles and healthy children recovered without incident. Complications from the disease occurred in malnourished children with compromised immune systems living in areas with poor sanitation and inadequate healthcare.

Unless you are malnourished with a dysfunctional immune-system, living in insanitary conditions (probably in a Third World country) measles is no threat; in fact it is a boon. Why? Because once you've had measles you have life-long immunity. A vaccination provides only temporary protection and can cause other problems down the road.

Measles in babies under one year of age used to be unknown - but, by the 1990's, more than 25% of all cases were occurring in babies. Why? Because mothers who were vaccinated in the 70's and 80's (denying them life-long immunity) could not pass protective maternal antibodies to their children.

And because vaccinations deny life-long immunity, epidemics of measles occur in vaccinated populations.

Neil Miller quotes Dr. William Atkinson, senior epidemiologist with the Center for Disease Control, saying: "measles transmission has been clearly documented among vaccinated persons. In some large outbreaks…over 95% of cases have a history of vaccination."

(Source: FDA. 'FDA workshop to review warnings, use instructions, and precautionary information on vaccines.' Rockland, Maryland: FDA, September 18, 1992, p. 27.)

In 1988, 69% of all school-age children who contracted measles in the U.S. had been vaccinated.

In 1989, 89% of all school-age measles victims in the U.S. had been vaccinated.

In 1995, 56% of all measles cases in the U.S. occurred in people who had been vaccinated.

(Source: Infect Med 1997; 14(4):297-300, 310. Several CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports.)

All the evidence shows that healthy children benefit from contracting measles because measles vaccines don't work and deny you life-long immunity.

They can also cause adverse effects.

These include: encephalitis, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, febrile convulsions, seizures, ataxia, anaphylaxis, angioneurotic edema, bronchial spasms, panniculitis, vasculitis, leukocytosis, pneumonitis, retinitis, optic neuritis, intestinal ulcers, bowel disease, deafness and death. That's right - death.

MUMPS

Contracting mumps in childhood is a good thing. Yes, mumps is good because it's a relatively trivial disease when contracted in childhood and getting it gives you life-long immunity. Mumps vaccines, however, deny you life-long immunity and if you get mumps as an adult it can be serious.

Prior to the introduction of the vaccine, most children under 10 years of age contracted mumps. However, the vaccine shifted incidence rates from young children to teenagers and adults. Mumps in children is a mild, benign disease. When contracted by older age groups it can cause orchitis (inflammation of the testes), hearing loss, transient meningitis and, in rare cases, sterility.

Can the mumps vaccination have side-effects? Yes. A large body of studies quoted in Neil Miller's book link mumps vaccines with the onset of Type-1 diabetes and a long list of ailments including aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, anaphylaxis and death.

In 1993, Japan removed the MMR vaccine (measles, mumps and rubella) from the market because it was causing encephalitis in 1 out of every 1044 people vaccinated.

(Source: Sawada , et al. Lancet 1993; 342;371.)

RUBELLA (GERMAN MEASLES)

When contracted by children, rubella is such a mild disease it escapes detection or passes for a cold. Getting rubella as a child is a good thing because it confers life-long immunity.

However, Rubella can be dangerous to pregnant women who have either 1) received a rubella vaccination or 2) never had rubella. The illness can cause birth defects. Cases of Congenital Rubella Syndrome in newborn babies doubled after introduction of the vaccine in 1969.

Before the introduction of the vaccine, most children were lucky enough to get rubella and develop permanent protection. As a result, about 85% of the adult population was naturally immune.

(Source: Cherry, J. D. 'The new epidemiology of measles and rubella' Hospital Prac. July 1980;56. Spika, J.S., et al. 'Rubella vaccination:a course becomes clear."Canadian Medical Association Journal (July 15, 1983;129(2);106-110).

The adverse effects of rubella vaccination (a strain of the live rubella virus named Wistar RA27/3) include arthritis, arthralgia, myalgia, Guillain-Barré syndrome, polyneuritis, polyneuropathy, anaphylaxis and death. Yes, death.

It's very rare but people have died as a result of being vaccinated for this harmless disease.

The chief side-effect of the inoculation in adults is arthritis. In one study of adult women vaccinated against rubella, 55% developed arthritis or joint pain within four weeks.

(Source: Annals of Rheumatic Diseases 1986;45:110-114).

DIPHTHERIA

The diphtheria death-rate plummeted long before the introduction of the vaccine.

Mortality from the disease decreased from 7.2 deaths per 10,000 in 1911 to 0.9 deaths per 10,000 in 1935 - an 88% decline.

In 1979, authorities changed the medical definition of diphtheria. This resulted in an instant 95% decline in cases the following year. Since then, the number of cases have declined even further. Diphtheria is now so rare in North America and Europe that vaccinating against it is probably unnecessary. Although, during the mid-1990s, there were some outbreaks in Eastern Europe.

However, so many of the cases occurred in persons who'd been properly vaccinated, that questions were raised about the merits of diphtheria vaccination programs. The efficacy of the diphtheria vaccines have not been established.

PERTUSSIS (WHOOPING COUGH)

Pertussis (unlike measles, mumps and rubella) can be a serious illness. This respiratory disease, although rarely fatal, is unpleasant and it can take two to three months to recover. Moreover, when infants under 6 months of age contract pertussis, it can be life-threatening.

The problem with the pertussis vaccine is that it doesn't appear to work. Also, it has been linked to many adverse effects.

Read Vaccines - Are They Really Safe & Effective? to get the details.

I'll quote just one study from the book: during a pertussis outbreak in Ohio, 82% of younger children stricken with the disease had received regular doses of the vaccine.

(Source: New England Journal of Medicine July 7, 1994: 16-20).

Adverse effects associated with the vaccine include: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, allergy-related respiratory disorders, epilelpsy, fever, convulsions, pain, swelling, diarrhoea, projectile vomiting and brain damage.

HEPATITIS B

Hepatitis B is a sexually transmitted disease that can also be contracted blood-to-blood. The groups at highest risk of getting it are prostitutes, sexually active gay men and intravenous drug users. Yet this vaccine is routinely given to babies. Why?

Authorities claim the Hep B shot provides immunity for 10 years but the data contradict this. One study showed 48% of the vaccine recipients had inadequate antibody levels after just four years. A similar study of 773 subjects (published in the New England Journal of Medicine) found that, after five years, antibody levels declined sharply - or no longer existed - in 42% of them. What's more, 34 of these subjects actually contracted Hepatitis B.

Adverse reactions to the shot are legion and can be very serious. They include: multiple sclerosis, arthritis, fever, herpes zoster, Bell's palsy, diabetes, central nervous system demyelination, lumbar reticulopathy, optic neuritis, transverse myelitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, anaphylactic shock and death.

Surveys in medical journals indicate that up to 87% of paediatricians and family practitioners do not believe the hepatitis B vaccine is needed by their newborn patients.

(Source: Pediatrics 1993;91:699-702. Journal of Family Practice 1993; 36:153-57.)

Here's a quick boil down on Neil Z. Miller's study of other vaccines. Get the book to learn all the facts.

CHICKENPOX.

Chickenpox can be itchy and uncomfortable for a few days but is not life-threatening. Efficacy rates for the vaccine have not been established. Children given the vaccine become mobile carriers of chickenpox and can infect others. Serious adverse reactions include blood disorders, brain inflammation, neurological disorders, seizures and death.

HIB (Haemophilus Influenzae Type B)

A nasty illness but uncommon. Only 144 cases in the United States in 1996 and 1997 combined. Ninety percent of Hib cases occur in children less than five years old. Kids are at risk of contracting Hib following their vaccination. Hib vaccinated children are six times more likely to get Hib than non-vaccinated children.

In one study of children who got Hib after their Hib vaccination, more than 70% developed meningitis.

PNEUMOCOCCAL DISEASE

Studies show the vaccine to be ineffective at preventing pneumococcal infections. Side effects include Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, pneumonia and diabetes. Most common reaction: vomiting and diarrhoea.

MENINGOCOCCAL DISEASE

The British Department of Health has stated: "Meningococcal infection is relatively rare, affecting approximately 5 in 100,000 people a year in the United Kingdom." And: "No adverse effects of the vaccine have been seen."

However, the British Committee on Safety of Medicines had received 7,742 Yellow Card reports following administration of this vaccine, including at least 12 deaths.

The vaccine does not contain the B strain of meningococcus - the most frequent cause of the disease.

There are anecdotal reports of meningococcal vaccinations causing meningitis.

RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS

This virus is associated with bronchiolitis and pneumonia and also causes severe respiratory illness in the elderly.

The clinical trial data suggest that children receiving the vaccine are more likely to experience upper respiratory tract infections than children who do not receive it. The vaccines have been found to increase the likelihood of otis media (an ear infection), liver-function abnormalities, fungal dermatitis, anaemia and hernia.

HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS (HPV)

This 'anti-cervical cancer' vaccine is designed to protect against four of the more than 100 different HPV strains.

There is no proof this vaccine protects against cervical cancer.

Adverse reactions include: Guillain-Barré syndrome, loss of consciousness, seizures/convulsions, swollen body parts, heart/kidney disorders, arthritis/joint pain, severe rashes, vomiting, miscarriages/birth defects, genital warts/vaginal lesions, HPV infection, death.

ROTAVIRUS

This causes diarrhoea, vomiting and middle ear infections in children. Trials found the vaccine actually caused these symptoms.

SHINGLES (HERPES ZOSTER)

This can be a painful rash that usually lasts 2-4 weeks, usually in the elderly. Side effects of the vaccine include: diarrhoea, congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema.

FLU

Serious reactions to the flu vaccine include Guillain-Barré syndrome - a severe paralytic disease. GBS can occur several weeks following a flu vaccine and is fatal in every 20 victims. Other adverse reactions to the vaccine include: brain stem encephalitis, encephalopathy, arthritis, polyneuritis and thrombocytopenia - a serious blood disorder.

The effectiveness of flu vaccines is problematic.

If the vaccine manufacturers guess right and the flu strain in the vaccine matches the flu circulating in the environment, the vaccination is 35% effective, which also means 65% ineffective. But if, as often happens, the vaccine manufacturers guess wrong, the vaccination is 0% effective.

Do doctors and nurses get flu shots? Yes - 30%. No - 70%.

SUMMARY

To be informed and protect the health of your children and loved ones, I urge you to buy Vaccines - Are They Really Safe & Effective? by Neil Z. Miller. You can buy a second hand copy for £1 at Amazon.com.

If you want detailed vaccine safety and efficacy data in a book containing over 1000 scientific citations - a comprehensive guide to vaccine risks and benefits - buy The Vaccine Safety Manual (2nd Edition).

Make an Informed Vaccine Decision by Dr. Mayer Eisenstein is another good book. Vaccine information is also available at www.thinktwice.com.

FLU JAB 2010

'The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, said that in the worst case scenario 30% of the UK population could be infected by the H1N1 virus with 65,000 killed.'

The Guardian Thursday 16 July 2009

The published death toll from last year's Swine Flu "pandemic" was 423 - not 65,000. However, an official House of Commons answer revealed that those counted as swine flu deaths had other health problems and only in some cases was swine flu confirmed as a (possible) component. In other words, not one single UK citizen died from swine flu alone.

The Department of Health is now pressurising GPs to sell more flu vaccines ahead of the 2010-11 flu season. What do we know about this year's flu vaccine?

1. It contains last year's H1N1 vaccine
2. It contains Thimerosol (mercury)
3. It contains Formaldehyde
4. It may contain AS03, AS04 and/or MF59 (Squalene)
5. It may contain aluminium

H1N1 vaccine. The manufacturers of the 2009 H1N1 vaccine are currently being prosecuted by the Council of Europe's Health Commission for fraud and endangering the public.

H1N1 vaccine deaths. There were 25 deaths from the H1N1 vaccine in the UK and several hundred serious adverse reactions. In Japan, where approximately 14 million were vaccinated, there were 104 deaths and roughly 1,900 serious side effects. In Turkey a doctor went into a coma after receiving the vaccination. In Manitoba, Canada, 170,000 doses of the vaccine were pulled after one person died and scores of others went into anaphylactic shock. In the Ukraine, 22 people died of "viral distress syndrome" after receiving the vaccination. In Germany, the Bild newspaper reported seven deaths from the H1N1 jab. In Sweden, 5 deaths and 350 serious adverse reactions were reported before a media blackout stopped the reporting of more deaths and side effects.

The British company GlaxoSmithKline, manufacturer of the H1N1 vaccine called Pandemrix, was given immunity for deaths and damage caused by their vaccine. Our government gave this drugs-maker permission to break the law. Was this ethical? Perhaps it was done on the same principle that supposedly gave James Bond a 'licence to kill'? Whatever the arguments for or against giving a corporation permission to break the law, it clearly demonstrates that GlaxoSmithKline knew their product might kill people or why else ask for indemnity?

Despite this, on October 6, 2009, (as reported by Reuters,) a World Health Organisation spokesman named Gregory Hartl said the H1N1 vaccine was "...among the safest vaccines that exist."

Thimerosol. This is a mercury compound long-associated with developmental disorders, neurological damage, endocrine dysfunction and chronic diseases of the lungs, bowel, pancreas, liver and cardiovascular system.

Studies show a "...7 to 1 increase in relative risk of injury for children born to mothers who received a thimerosol preserved flu shot in the first four lunar months of their pregnancy over matched mothers who did not." (Birth Defects and Drugs in Pregnancy - Heinonemm, Stone, Shapiro, 1983.)

"Significantly increased risk of autism, speech disorders, mental retardation, personality disorders, ataxia and neurological disorders were associated with thimerosol exposure." (Neuroendocrinology - Vol 27 Nov 4 2006. Mark R. Geier and David Geier).

Formaldehyde. This is a well-known neurotoxin and carcinogen.

M-59, AS03, AS04. These are different preparations of Squalene. Injected squalene can cause arthritis and lupus. All laboratory rats injected with squalene additives developed a disease that left them crippled.

Aluminium. This is a well-known toxin. It's poisonous. It damages multiple organs and the body's neural networks.

MANY STUDIES SHOW VACCINES ARE NOT EFFECTIVE

Children. "...no evidence that injecting children 6-24 months of age with a flu shot was any more effective than placebo." (Ref: "Vaccines for Preventing Influenza in Healthy Children" (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2. 2008.)

Asthma. "The inactivated flu vaccine does not prevent influenza-related hospitalisation in children, especially the ones with asthma...Children who get the flu vaccine are three times more at risk for hospitalisation than children who do not get the vaccine." (Ref: The American Thoracic Society 105th International Conference. May 15-20, 2009, San Diego.)

Healthy Adults. "Vaccination of healthy adults only reduced risk of influenza by 6%." (Ref: Vaccine for Preventing Influenza in Healthy Adults. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 1. 2006.)

Elderly. "Flu shots were non-significant for preventing the flu in elderly living in nursing homes. For elderly living in the community vaccines were not significantly effective against influenza, ILI or pneumonia..." (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 3. 2006.)

If you or a loved one choose to submit to a flu vaccination and experience adverse reactions, make careful notes of the symptoms.

Typical symptoms of flu vaccine injury:

1. Inability to focus. Lack of eye contact.
2. Depression, moodiness, tendency to overreact emotionally.
3. Delayed or unusual speech patterns such as high-pitched or flat intonation.
4. hyper or hypo sensitivity to sounds, crowds and other external stimulation.
5. Difficulty with motor skills such as handwriting, athletic coordination and endurance sports such as running and swimming.
6. Repetitive behaviours and ritualised activities.
7. Difficulty in relating to others.
8. Asthma and diet issues.
9. Conditions such as inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.
10. Significant abnormal bowel function or vasculitis.
11. Guillian Barré Syndrome, a neurological disorder.
12. Birth defects including cleft palate, microcephaly or pyloric stenosis.

Flu, though uncomfortable, is rarely life-threatening and - some believe - helps to fortify the immune system. However, if you have other health problems or a compromised immune system, you may consider non-toxic alternatives such as Vitamin C, Vitamin D and colloidal silver.

AIRPORT BODY-SCANNERS

There are two types of scanners at the airport; the MILLIMETRE WAVE SCANNER and the BACK-SCATTER X-RAY SCANNER.

Both emit ‘high-energy’ radiation and both are dangerous. There is no “safe” dose of radiation.

MILLIMETRE WAVE SCANNER

Also known as the 'Terahertz Wave Body Scanner'. Terahertz waves don’t travel far inside the body but they rip apart DNA. Exposure may cause skin cancer, breast cancer, testicular cancer, brain tumours and foetal damage in pregnant women.

BACK-SCATTER X-RAY SCANNER

Low-level X-rays produce the same kind of "see-through" images that millimetre wave technology produces. Backscatter images resemble a chalk etching. Unlike medical X-rays, the X-rays used in backscatter technology bounce off the skin, revealing what's under your clothes, but not what's under your skin. Safe exposure levels differ from person to person. Airport workers in proximity to these machines need to wear protective clothing or shelter behind lead shielding when the scanner is operational. The wearing, and regular testing, of radiation badges is also recommended.

IONISING RADIATION CAN CAUSE MUTATIONS IN DNA AND LEAD TO CANCER.

X-rays are ionising (penetrating) radiation. Ionising radiation in any dose causes genetic mutations, which lead to cancer. Cancers associated with X-rays include leukaemia, breast, bladder, colon, liver, lung, oesophagus, ovarian, multiple myeloma, prostate, nasal cavity/sinuses, pharyngeal, laryngeal, pancreatic and stomach cancers. A person undergoing a backscatter scan receives approximately 25 -45 millirems of radiation. 25millirems per year from a single source is regarded as the upper limit of safe radiation exposure. Widespread overuse of body scanners, and variations in radiation caused by different machines, could lead to many thousands of new cancer cases and deaths.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE. Friday November 12th 2010

WASHINGTON — US scientists warned Friday that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners that are being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the country may be unsafe.

"They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays," Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray lab at the department of biophysics and biophysical chemistry at Johns Hopkins University school of medicine, told AFP. "No exposure to X-rays is considered beneficial. We know X-rays are hazardous but we have a situation at the airports where people are so eager to fly that they will risk their lives in this manner," he said.

A group of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) raised concerns about the "potential serious health risks" from the scanners in a letter sent to the White House Office of Science and Technology in April. Biochemist John Sedat and his colleagues said in the letter that most of the energy from the scanners is delivered to the skin and underlying tissue. "While the dose would be safe if it were distributed throughout the volume of the entire body, the dose to the skin may be dangerously high," they wrote.

The Office of Science and Technology responded this week to the scientists' letter, saying the scanners have been "tested extensively" by US government agencies and were found to meet safety standards. But Sedat told AFP Friday that the official response was "deeply flawed."

NATURAL NEWS

When it comes to selling chemicals that claim to treat H1N1 swine flu, the pharmaceutical industry's options are limited to two: Vaccines and anti-virals The most popular anti-viral, by far, is Tamiflu, a drug that's actually derived from a Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called star anise.

But Tamiflu is no herb. It's a potentially fatal concentration of isolated chemical components that have essentially been bio-pirated from Chinese medicine. And when you isolate and concentrate specific chemicals in these herbs, you lose the value (and safety) of full-spectrum herbal medicine.

That didn't stop Tamiflu's maker, Roche, from trying to find a multi-billion-dollar market for its drug. In order to tap into that market, however, Roche needed to drum up some evidence that Tamiflu was both safe and effective.

ROCHE ENGAGES IN SCIENTIFIC FRAUD

Roche claims there are ten studies providing Tamiflu is both safe and effective. According to the company, Tamiflu has all sorts of benefits, including a 61% reduction in hospital admissions by people who catch the flu and then get put on Tamiflu.

The problem with these claims is they aren't true. They were simply invented by Roche.

A groundbreaking article recently published in the British Medical Journal accuses Roche of misleading governments and physicians over the benefits of Tamiflu. Out of the ten studies cited by Roche, it turns out, only two were ever published in science journals. And where is the original data from those two studies? Lost.

The data has disappeared. Files were discarded. The researcher of one study says he never even saw the data. Roche took care of all that, he explains.

So the Cochrane Collaboration, tasked with reviewing the data behind Tamiflu, decided to investigate. After repeated requests to Roche for the original study data, they remained stonewalled. The only complete data set they received was from an unpublished study of 1,447 adults which showed that Tamiflu was no better than placebo. Data from the studies that claimed Tamiflu was effective was apparently lost forever.

As The Atlantic reports, that's when former employees of Adis International (essentially a Big Pharma P.R. company) shocked the medical world by announcing they had been hired to ghost-write the studies for Roche.

It gets even better: These researchers were told what to write by Roche!

As one of these ghostwriters told the British Medical Journal:

"The Tamiflu accounts had a list of key messages that you had to get in. It was run by the [Roche] marketing department and you were answerable to them. In the introduction ...I had to say what a big problem influenza is. I'd also have to come to the conclusion that Tamiflu was the answer."

In other words, the Roche marketing department ran the science and told researchers what conclusions to draw from the clinical trials. Researchers hired to conduct the science were controlled by the marketing puppeteers. No matter what they found in the science, they had already been directed to reach to conclusion that "Tamiflu was the answer."

Now, I don't know about you, but where I come from, we call this "science fraud." And as numerous NaturalNews investigations have revealed, this appears to be the status quo in the pharmaceutical industry.

Virtually none of the "science" conducted by drug companies can be trusted at all because it really isn't science in the first place. It's just propaganda dressed up to look like science.

Sadly, even the CDC has been fooled by this clinical trial con. As stated by author Shannon Brownlee in The Atlantic:

"...the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appears to be operating in some alternative universe, where valid science no longer matters to public policy. The agency's flu recommendations are in lockstep with Roche's claims that the drug can be life-saving -- despite the FDA's findings and despite the lack of studies to prove such a claim. What's more, neither the CDC nor the FDA has demanded the types of scientific studies that could definitively determine whether or not the company's claims are true: that Tamiflu reduces the risk of serious complications and saves lives. Nancy Cox, who heads the CDC's flu program, told us earlier this year she opposes a placebo-controlled study (in which one half of patients would be given Tamiflu and the other half would be given placebo), because the drug's benefits are already proven."

Did you catch that last line? The CDC isn't interested in testing Tamiflu because "the drug's benefits are already proven." Except they aren't. But this is how the pharmaceutical industry operates:

Step 1) Fabricate evidence that your drug works.

Step 2) Use that fraudulent evidence to get your drug approved.

Step 3) Use fear to create consumer demand for your drug (and encourage governments to stockpile it).

Step 4) Avoid any actual scientific testing by claiming the drug has already been proven to work (and cite your original fraudulent studies to back you up).

This is the recipe the CDC is following right now with Tamiflu. It's a recipe of scientific stupidity and circular logic, of course, but that seems to be strangely common in the medical community these days.

EVEN THE FDA SAYS TAMIFLU DOESN'T WORK

The Food and Drugs Administration, remarkably, hasn't given in to the Tamiflu hoax. They required Roche to print the following disclaimer on Tamiflu lables -- a disclaimer that openly admits the drug has never been proven to work:

"Tamiflu has not been proven to have a positive impact on the potential consequences (such as hospitalizations, mortality, or economic impact) of seasonal, avian, or pandemic influenza."

An FDA spokesperson told the British Medical Journal, "The clinical trials... failed to demonstrate any significant difference in rates of hospitalization, complications, or mortality in patients receiving either Tamiflu or placebo."

It's the same message over and over again, like a broken record: Tamiflu doesn't work. And the 'science' saying Tamiflu does work was all apparently fabricated from the start.

THE TAMIFLU STOCKPILING SCANDAL

Junk science, though, is good enough for the U.S. government. Based on little more than fabricated evidence and Big Pharma propaganda, the U.S. government has spent $1.5 billion stockpiling Tamiflu. This turned out to be a great deal for Roche, but a poor investment for U.S. citizens who ended up spending huge dollars for a medicine that doesn't work.

As stated in the Atlantic:

"Governments, public health agencies, and international bodies such as the World Health Organization, have all based their decisions to recommend and stockpile Tamiflu on studies that had seemed independent, but had in fact been funded by the company and were authored almost entirely by Roche employees or paid academic consultants."

The upshot of all this is that governments around the world are flushing billions of dollars down the drain stockpiling a drug that doesn't work -- a drug promoted via propaganda and scientific fraud.

This isn't the first time your government has wasted taxpayer dollars, of course (it seems to be what the U.S. government does best), but this example is especially concerning given that this was all done with the excuse that natural remedies are useless and only vaccines and Tamiflu can protect you from a viral pandemic.

But as it turns out, vaccines and Tamiflu are useless and only natural remedies really work. That's why so many informed people around the world have been stocking up on vitamin D, garlic, anti-viral tinctures and superfoods to protect themselves from a potential pandemic that most world governments remain clueless to prevent.

I find it fascinating that the governments of the world are stockpiling medicines that DON'T work, while the natural health people of the world are stockpiling natural remedies that DO work. If a real pandemic ever strikes our world, there's no question who the survivors will be (hint: it won't be the clueless chaps standing in line waiting for their Tamiflu pills...).

Which remedies really do work to boost immune function and protect the body from infectious disease? I've published a special report revealing my top five recommended remedies: http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_A...

In addition to the remedies mentioned in that report, I also recommend high-dose vitamin D as well as the Viral Defense product from www.PlantCures.com

I have no financial ties to any of the companies whose products are recommended here, by the way. Unlike the pharmaceutical industry, I don't operate purely for profit. My job is to get valuable information out to the People -- information that can help save lives and reduce suffering. This is the job the FDA and CDC should be doing but have long since abandoned in their betrayal of the American people.

Sources for this story include:

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/2009...

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full...

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full...

The CDC Votes in Favor of a Flu Vaccination Assault on Americans’ Health

Big Pharma | Healthcare Policy | Medicine & Biology

by RichardGale | July 1, 2010 - 8:25am

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Richard Gale & Gary Null
Progressive Radio Network, June 30, 2010

A central principle of democracy is freedom of choice. We can choose our political party, our religion, and the food we eat, but this does not seem to be the case when it comes to our medical choices and our freedoms to make them.

The recent unanimous 11-0 vote by the members of the Centers for Disease Control’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) favoring every American over the age of six months receive the flu influenza vaccine is one more attempt by our federal health officials to open up our bodies to the free market capitalism of pharmaceutical coffers. It is another step to mandate a vaccine across the nation, a policy that has many supporters in the pro-vaccine science community.

The vote raises an alarm about our federal government’s scientific integrity, and calls into question its true allegiance and purpose: to protect the health of American citizens or increase Big Pharma profits. If the recommendation were ever enforced, the US would be the only nation in the world with mandatory flu vaccination. However, what our investigations show and what differentiates the US health agencies from the health ministries in other nations, is that in the US federal health system Big Pharma money, lobbying and corporate favors are what shape drug and vaccine policies and this is rampant throughout the system.

Mandatory influenza vaccination has been tried before across a nation. During the 1980s, Japan had mandatory flu vaccination for school children. Two large scale studies that enrolled children from four cities with vaccination rates between 1 and 90 percent discovered no difference in the incidences of flu infection. As a result, in 1987, Japanese health authorities ruled that flu vaccination was ineffective and was no more than a serious financial and legal liability if it was to continue. The mandatory policy was quickly overturned. By 1989, the number of Japanese taking the flu vaccine dropped to 20 percent. A follow up study at that time found that there was statistically insignificant change in influenza infection rates compared to when the vaccine was mandatory.[1]

Now we are hearing that for the forthcoming 2010-2011 flu season, the H1N1 flu strain will be included in the seasonal flu vaccine. This will be a quadravalent vaccine comprised of four strains including the H1N1. As of this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to evaluate the H1NI virus at a 5 level pandemic and issues warnings to deaf ears now that people realize the WHO’s word is disreputable. Nevertheless, we should still brace ourselves for another year of old yarn, fear-mongering, media spin and more voodoo science.

A brief overview of the past H1N1 pandemic boondoggle will help us to understand the addiction of denial permeating the ranks of the CDC’s advisory committee. It presents a picture of a delusional bubble, unrelated to medical facts, that the CDC has found comfort to float within. The simple fact remains that the CDC is disconnected from anything resembling legitimate science thereby making their recent decision ludicrous and criminally irresponsible.

The CDC’s predictions of particular strains during past flu seasons has never been especially accurate. In fact, often it has been extraordinarily dismal. The previous swine flu prediction in 1976 resulted in only one swine flu death but hundreds of people suffering permanent disabilities, including death, from the vaccine. For the 1992-1993 flu season, the prediction made for the virus used in the vaccine was off by 84 percent. For the 1994-1995 season, it was off by 43 percent for the primary strain targeted and off 87 percent and 76 percent for the other two strains. The Laboratory Center for Disease Control’s study comparing vaccine strains with the strains appearing during the 1997-1998 season found the match off by 84 percent. One would achieve a greater accuracy rate by simply flipping a coin.

An article published in the prestigious British Medical Journal in 2005, “Are US Flu Death Figures More PR Than Science” is apropos for addressing the wildly inflated figures by the WHO and CDC to present their case for mass vaccination measures. The article begins, “US data on influenza deaths are a mess.” The study reviews the CDC’s own statistical data and finds numerous inconsistencies and incompatibilities between “official estimates and national vital statistics data.” Although the government’s predictions never came close to the “dire outcomes” stated by our health officials, the CDC’s own communication strategy was marked by high levels of fear.[2]

The US government’s assessment of the past H1N1 scare is another example of flawed science and incompetence. In last August’s issue of USA Today, the White House’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, which receives its recommendations from the CDC, warned us that the H1N1 would kill between 30-90,000 American citizens. At the same time, the CDC was predicting 2 million people would be infected and as high as 40 percent of the entire population. The WHO, which sleeps in the same bed with the CDC in their shared complexes in Atlanta, was screaming figures of 7.5 million deaths worldwide. Consequently, the FDA fast-tracked swine flu vaccines manufactured by 5 different drug makers, none which met reliable standards of viable clinical testing and data to determine their efficacy and safety. And pregnant women, young children and the elderly were primary targets—those also most susceptible to serious vaccine adverse reactions. Over $1.6 billion tax dollars went to Big Pharma on orders of 229 million doses, of which only 90 million were actually administered and the remaining 71 million left to decompose on shelves or dump off on poorer nations out of the graciousness of the American philanthropic spirit.

However, as we witnessed in 2009 and the early months of 2010, people woke up to the false alarm of a swine flu pandemic. Often intuition is better suited to sniff out a hoax and scandal than the pseudo-science our federal health officials give obeisance to behind closed door conference rooms. And in the case of the so-called H1N1 pandemic, intuition proved correct. Our health agencies’ warnings and numbers propagandized over mainstream media simply did not add up and have been consistently found to be contrary to more medically reliable and unbiased facts generated by independent sources without ties to the private vaccine manufacturers.

Whenever the CDC, the FDA and the US Department of Health and Human Services post figures, it is a prudent rule of thumb to be suspicious and investigate their accuracy. The fact of the matter is that the CDC is completely clueless about this past season’s flu infection rate and the number of deaths due to the H1N1 strain. Let us explain why.

Immediately following the WHO’s decision in May 2009 to cease laboratory testing of samples to determine the actual biological cause of infectious cases with influenza-like symptoms, the US followed suit. Therefore, no matter what they tell you, no matter what Dr. Gupta and other tools of the media and establishment have to say, no proper testing was performed. Only PCR technology can determine the actual subset of a Type A flu strain, such as H1N1. But PCR diagnosis was not routinely performed in order to monitor and track rates and the spread of infection. By its own admission, a CDC report found that rapid influenza kits used in hospitals and clinics were wrong as much as nine out of ten times, and on average between 40-69 percent. The CDC determined that the instant tests are “not highly worthwhile for diagnosing H1N1 infections.”

So why would any organization responsible for the tracking of an infectious disease believed to be a global health threat, potentially threatening the lives of millions of people, make such a decision to not carefully monitor flu infections is beyond comprehension, unless it knowingly determined, with malice of forethought, that the H1N1 strain was mild and not a national danger. And many independent experts in infectious diseases had been stating this throughout the season but our health agencies preferred to ignore their warnings.

Yet it is the reported death rates due to H1N1 infection that seriously call the CDC’s integrity into question. According to the CDC reports, anywhere between 8,870 and 18,300 Americans died from swine flu. For the sake of simplicity, the health feds conveniently circulate the figure of 12,000 deaths.

Projections in the UK were equally off the mark. The British Ministry of Health was expecting 65,000 deaths, but reported only 500 towards the season’s end. British citizens, however, were better informed of the scandalous hoax and of the 110 million vaccine doses purchased, under contracts amounting to over $864 million to the drug makers (not including national preparatory measures bringing the total to over $1 billion for a small population), only 6 million Brits, approximately 10 percent, were vaccinated.

What figures does the World Health Organization report for the number of worldwide swine flu deaths? 18,036. That is correct, not millions. That is only 5 percent of the global figure for deaths associated with the regular seasonal flu. I don’t need an advanced degree to notice a grave discrepancy here, unless we are to believe that the H1N1 virus was on autopilot to target victims with American birth certificates or citizenship. But the reasons for the CDC’s erroneous numbers are quite easy to understand.

First, as mentioned, the CDC did not monitor the swine flu with any precision and accuracy. Our officials don’t have, and never had, the data to make any accurate determination.

Second, the CDC does not distinguish between deaths caused by an influenza virus and deaths due to pneumonia. The two are lumped together in their mortality statistics and pneumonia-related deaths are reported as having an initial influenza cause. For example, if we take the combined figure of flu and pneumonia deaths for the flu period of 2001, and spin the figures, we are left believing that 62,034 people died from influenza. The actual figures are 61,777 died from pneumonia and only 257 from flu. Even more amazing, in those 257 cases, only 18 were scientifically identified as positive for the flu virus. These are the CDC’s own figures. But does the New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post and all the others report this? No. Do any of the puppets that mumble on television, with access to official sources and data, actually do their homework? No. A separate study conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics for the flu periods between 1979 and 2002 reveals that the actual range of annual flu deaths were between 257 and 3006, for an average of 1,348 per year.[3] This is a far cry from the 36,000 annual flu deaths still found on the CDC’s website and vomited by the major media.

And here is the catch. If we apply the same criteria to determine the actual number of swine flu related deaths in 2009-2010, serious vaccine adverse effects, besides the hundreds of reported miscarriages, would far outweigh deaths and injury due to the virus.

Third, there are over 150 different viruses during any given flu season that can cause flu-like symptoms, such as adenovirus, parainfluenza, bocavirus, etc. Very few of these are ever tested. For example, in Canada where actual infection rates are more carefully monitored, during the 2004-2005 flu season, the Canada Communicable Disease Report showed that of the 68,849 laboratory tests performed for influenza, only 14.9% tested positive for a flu virus. The remaining 85.1% specimens were a result of other pathogens impervious to flu vaccines.[4] For the following 2005-2006 season, Health Canada received 68,439 tests for influenza like infections. Of these, only 6,580, or 10.4% confirmed positive for influenza. The rest, 89.6%, were other pathogens.[5] So no vaccine would have benefitted or protected those almost 90 percent in Canadians.

In the US, however, the CDC relies upon an esoteric witch’s brew of figures based upon various mathematical algorithms and speculative projections with no sound basis in reality. On one CDC site we find evidence of their flawed methodology: “Statistical modeling was used to estimate how many flu-related deaths occurred among people whose underlying cause of death on their death certificate was listed as a respiratory and circulatory disease.”[6] This is clearly an indication of policy turned dogmatic with utterly disregard for sound scientific evidence. It is all business as usual, negligent disregard for scientific reason, and full speed ahead.

And while the brilliant minds in the CDC decide to expose all Americans to the adverse risks of influenza vaccination— Guillain-Barre Syndrome, schizophrenia, neurological disorders, miscarriages, polyneuritis, encephalitis, multiple sclerosis, intense headaches suggestive or meningeal or brain irritation, aphasia (loss of speech), bronchopneumonia, sexual impotence, angor pectoris, anaphylactic reactions and death[7]—we should not lose sight of what is unfolding across the great pond in the European Union’s investigations into the CDC’s favorite bed partner—the WHO, an utterly corrupt organization at every level.

Two reports recently published have indicted the WHO for serious malfeasance and conflict in interests behind the fabrication and propagation of the 2009-2010 H1N1 swine flu pandemic and has been called a “momentous error” in global health oversight. The people at the WHO had as much accuracy in their predictions as the Bush administration did with WMDs in Iraq.

The British Medical Journal printed a research paper by its Features Editor, Deborah Cohen, and Philip Carter from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London, charging the largest global health organization with exaggerating the HI1N1 flu and being steered in their decisions and fraudulent fear campaign by the pharmaceutical industrial complex. According to the authors, “credibility of the WHO and the trust in the global public health system” has been damaged.

A second devastating preliminary report released by the Health Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (CE) found gross negligence and lack of transparency in the WHO’s handling of the swine flu scare. Throughout the WHO’s key advisory committees, particularly a secretive group known as the “emergency committee”, which steered the WHO’s assessment and predictions of the spread of H1N1 flu virus and advised them to announce a level 6 pandemic, were scientists entrenched in the morass of private vaccine and drug interests, particularly GlaxoSmithKline (H1N1 vaccine and Relenza anti-viral drug maker) and Tamiflu maker Roche AG. Even worse, the WHO never publicly disclosed widespread conflict of interests. Paul Flynn, the rapporteur for the CE’s report stated, “the tentacles of drug company influence are in all levels of the decision-making process,” and “they vastly over-rated the danger on bad science.” Following a lengthy investigation, a preliminary report, which still awaits a final version next month, states the result of the WHO’s negligence in proper oversight resulted in the “waste of large sums of public money and unjustified scares and fears about the health risks faced by the European public”

The WHO continues to withhold the names of the 16 members sitting on its secret “emergency committee.” However, this week, two of the members resigned, notably Dr. John MacKenzie from Curtin University in Australia, who was the WHO advisor who first urged the organization to call a pandemic and is well known to be entangled in financial interests and investments with the pharmaceutical cartel.

So far the CDC has weathered the WHO controversy in Europe unscathed. A fundamental oversight in the CE’s investigation and hearings has been solely targeting the WHO. It ignores the role of government health agencies’ complicity in promulgating the H1N1 hoax and the flushing away of billions of dollars into the drug industry, especially during an economic downturn and recession. As we witness the WHO’s indifference and denial of wrongdoing crumble, the question remains over whether or not the CDC was complicit in the propagandizing of the astronomically expensive H1N1 hoax.

Of course, the vaccine industry doesn’t give a damn about the investigations. Their vaccines, anti-viral drugs, and oligarchic rule over the medical caste system make them immune to independent international scrutiny. And we can be assured none of the lap dogs at the New York Times, MSNBC and other major media would expose their crimes. In the shadow of this medical charade, the drug makers are laughing their way to the banks. No Big Pharma executive is sitting before investigative committees to give an accounting of corporations’ role in the pandemic debacle. Instead, after scoring over $6 billion (Associated Press, May 19, 2010 ) it is again business as usual and another flu season ahead to further increase revenues.

Similar to the WHO, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Vaccination and Practice, which voted in favor of a flu vaccine-for-all policy, is equally stacked with individuals entrenched in financial ties with the vaccine and drug makers. The Committee’s Chair, Dr. Carol Baker from Baylor University, has consistently received research and educational grants and private donations from Big Pharma. She is also on the Board of Directors of the National Foundation of Infectious Diseases, a consulting body of scientists frequently wined and dined and provided perks by the pharmaceutical industrial complex. Another Baylor University committee member, Dr. Wendy Keitel, received clinical trial support from Novartis, the maker of the H1N1 vaccine most widely distributed in the US. Dr. Janet Englund at the Children’s University Medical Group in Seattle received financial support for clinical trials favoring vaccines made by Medimmune (the nasal flu vaccine), Novartis, and Sanofi Pasteur. Dr. Cody Meissner received Big Pharma support through Tufts University for his supporting clinical trials for Medimmune’s RSV vaccine and for participation in Wyeth’s streptococcus vaccine for children, Prevnar.

To put this into greater perspective, since the FDA relies on industry-funded clinical trials and subsequent data to approve vaccines and drugs, there also appeared in the news this month a critical finding from the German Institute for Quality and Efficacy in Health Care, published in the peer-reviewed journal Trials. The study investigated 90 approved drugs in the US (and let us make no mistake, vaccines are drugs! In fact, the flu vaccine is listed as a Category C drug; which means there are no adequate safety studies to determine whether flu vaccination adversely affects pregnant mothers and their fetuses.) and discovered that 60 percent of the 900 papers were unpublished and some were concealed from the federal regulatory agencies. Forty to sixty percent omitted clinical details or changed their final analysis. Among the pharmaceutical industry studies alone, 94 percent were unpublished, and 86 percent of the university studies sponsored by drug makers remained unpublished.

What does this tell us? If they were positive results, the drug companies would without hesitation publish their findings; but if the clinical studies’ results contradict their expectations negatively, thereby delaying and preventing regulatory approval and licensure of a product, then there is no incentive for their release. And they are under no regulatory obligation to publish or produce them. Hence the American public is denied approximately 90 percent of the actual clinical data performed on any given drug or vaccine. The German study concludes that drug makers intentionally “conceal unfavorable results or results that do not fulfill one’s expectations.” Therefore, the vaccine and drug makers are permitted to conduct their nefarious, quack science behind closed doors with full participation and cooperation from the WHO, CDC and FDA. Of course, the CDC and FDA condone this behavior because they are completely subservient to the power and wealth of the pharmaceutical industry.

The recent CDC vote continues a tradition of denial over independent studies and reports warning of the over-exaggerated alarm and the dangers of pushing forward with an H1N1 vaccine that was not given sufficient time to prove its safety and efficacy. They even deny their own voices.

Dr. Anthony Morris is a distinguished virologist and a former Chief Vaccine Office at the FDA. His view about influenza vaccines summarizes their efficacy well. In Morris’s opinion there is no evidence that any influenza vaccine thus far developed is effective in preventing or mitigating any attack of influenza,’ Dr. Morris states, as a matter of record, “The producers of these vaccines know they are worthless, but they go on selling them anyway.”

Canada’s Vaccination Risk Awareness Network (VRAN) website is a community of physicians, researchers and vaccine researchers and journalists reporting on vaccines’ flawed promises and pseudo-science. Among all vaccines, the flu vaccine is presented with “The Most Useless Vaccine Of-All-Time Award.”

Some of the most damning evidence about the efficacy of flu vaccines was reported in two studies performed by Dr. Tom Jefferson, head of the Vaccine Field Group at the prestigious independent Cochrane Database Group, published in The Lancet and the prestigious Cochrane Database Systems Review. The first study was a systematic review of the effects of influenza vaccines in healthy children.[8] The other was a review of all the available published and unpublished safety evidence available regarding flu vaccines.[9] The authors of the study had also contacted the lead scientists or research groups for all the efficacy and safety trial studies under their review in order to gain access to additional unpublished trial studies the corporations may possess. The conclusions are shocking. The only safety study performed with an inactivated flu vaccine was conducted in 1976. Thirty-four years ago! And that single study enrolled only 35 children aged 12-28 months. Every other subsequent inactivated flu vaccine study enrolled children 3 years or older.

Dr. Jefferson told Reuters, “Immunization of very young children is not lent support by our findings. We recorded no convincing evidence that vaccines can reduce mortality, [hospital] admissions, serious complications and community transmission of influenza. In young children below the age of 2, we could find no evidence that the vaccine was different from a placebo.”[10] With respect to adults, in 64 studies involving 66,000 adults, Jefferson noted, “Vaccination of healthy adults only reduced risk of influenza by 6 percent and reduced the number of missed work days by less than one day. There was no change in the number of hospitalizations compared to the non-vaccinated.”

And in another interview for the German magazine Der Spiegel on July 21, 2009, Jefferson seems to conclude his analysis of the H1N1 scare, “Sometimes you get the feeling that there is a whole industry almost waiting for a pandemic to occur. The WHO and public health officials, virologists and the pharmaceutical companies. They’ve built this machine around the impending pandemic. And there’s a lot of money involved, and influence, and careers, and entire institutions! And all it took was one of these viruses to mutate to start the machine grinding.”
Clearly there is no rationale for submitting the American population to a vaccine with higher risks of adverse effects than its record of efficacy in preventing flu infection. If the CDC’s vote withstands and were to ever become the law in the land, we will witness one of the largest crimes ever inflicted upon the American public, solely for corporate gain. Aside from rampant adverse effects in children, many that will not appear until their later years due to the number of toxins contained in flu vaccines, there will also be thousands of women having miscarriages. We will have entered a new medical twilight zone, where true science, responsible medical practice, and reliable public health become virtually nonexistent.

Richard Gale is the Executive Producer of the Progressive Radio Network and a former Senior Research Analyst in the biotechnology and genomic industries. Dr. Gary Null is the host of the nation’s longest running public radio program on nutrition and natural health and a multi-award-winning director of progressive documentary films, including Vaccine Nation and Autism: Made in the USA.

[1] http://www.whale.to/vaccines/flu7.html
[2] Doshi, Peter. “Are US flu death figures more PR than science?” BMJ 2005; 331:1412 (10 December).
[3] Doshi, Peter. “Are US flu death figures more PR than science?” BMJ 2005; 331:1412 (10 December)
[4] Statement on Influenza Vaccination for the 2004-2005 Season” Canada Communicable Disease Report. Volume 31, ACS-6, 15 June 2005.
[5] Hall, Celia (Medical Editor). “Flu Vaccines ‘Not Worth the Bother’” The Telegraph, UK, October 27, 2006.
[6] Centers for Disease Control. “Influenza death statistics”.www.cdc.gov/flu/about/diseases/us_flu-related_deaths.htm Accessed September 24, 2009.
[7] See the following sources: Ehrengut W, Allerdist H. Uber neurologische Komplikationen nach der Influenzaschutzimpfung. Munch. Med Wschr. 1977; 119/705-710. Miller H, Cendrowski W, Schapira K. Multiple sclerosis and vaccinations. BMJ. 1967. April 22: 210-3. Hennessen W, Jacob H, Quast U. Neurologische Affektionen nach Influenza Impfung. Der Nervenarzt. 1978. 49/90-96. Wells CEC. British Medical Journal. 1971. 2: 755.
[8] Jefferson T, Smith S, Demicheli V, Harnden A, Rivetti A. Assessment of the efficacy and effectiveness of influenza in healthy children: systemic review. The Lancet 2005; 365: 773-780.
[9] Smith S, Demicheli V, Jefferson T, Harnden T. Matheson N, Di Pietrontonj C. Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy children. Cochrane Database Syst. Rev. 2004. 3:CD004879.
[10] Reaney, Patricia. “No Evidence Flu Shots Work for Under-2s: Study. Reuters, September 22, 2005; Jefferson, Tom. “Safety of influenza vaccines in children.” The Lancet, 2005. 366:803-804

CLIMATE CHANGE

The Daily Telegraph has covered Climate Change extensively - dutifully publishing press releases from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the University of East Anglia, the Hadley Centre, the Met Office, the UK government's department of Energy and Climate Change and other Global Warming advocates.

However, to its credit, the Telegraph has also given space to a few writers sceptical of the theory, such as Chris Booker and James Delingpole. All the other newspapers have slavishly followed the Global Warming line - all except for the Daily Express. The Express has fearlessly attacked the climate alarmists but always done it, intentionally or otherwise, in a bumblingly clumsy fashion.

A well-researched quality piece on Climate Change by our national mainstream media is long overdue.

Thousands of articles have appeared on the Internet discussing the untruths and distortions emanating from the IPCC; the conspiracy to impose 'cap and trade' carbon taxes, the involvement of large corporations such as BP and Enron, international agencies such as the IMF and World Bank, international bankers and billionaires such as Mayer de Rothschild, George Soros and Al Gore in the creation of profit-generating 'carbon exchanges', a world government bureaucratic infrastructure and a new world currency based, in part, on carbon-credits.

The myths promulgated by the financially-motivated climate alarmists need to be exposed. Take polar bears for example. One of the axioms of the alarmists - and even taught in schools - is that polar bears are threatened with extinction because global warming is melting the North Pole and drowning them.

In truth, polar bears, whose numbers have quintupled since 1976, are far from endangered. Nor are they drowning. Polar bears are the greatest swimmers of all land mammals. They've been known to swim over 400 miles and routinely swim 150 miles when hunting. Another fact is that neither the North nor the South Pole are melting. Indeed, between 2007 and 2008 Antarctica's sea-ice increased by 32%.

The climate alarmists have made many predictions of sea-level rises, drowning cities, disappearing ice-caps, submerged islands, disastrous crop failures and on and on. Needless to say, none of the IPCC's dire predictions have come true. This is no surprise because none of the IPCC's computer models have been able to predict the past accurately either. This tells us that their expensive computer models don't work.

What's more, the 'Climate-Gate' scandal revealed that the UN-funded climate scientists were conspiring with one another to falsify reports and destroy raw data to 'hide the decline' of global temperatures. But why were they doing this?

To find out, we need to look at their employers: the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Who are these people?

Funded by the United Nations, they are a multi-national political group comprising about 2,200 policymakers from the G20 richest nations. These individuals include bankers, bureaucrats, diplomats, politicians, directors and major shareholders of transnational corporations and about 300 contracted scientists.

What is their purpose?

According to their own documents, the IPCC was set up in 1997 by Maurice Strong, a close associate of the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, to advance the UN's long-held and often announced aim to form a world government.

Anyone who reads the draft Copenhagen Treaty on Climate Change will see the terms 'global governance' and 'global government' often occurring. This aspiration for world government has also been stated by many leading politicians in public speeches. Public espousers of world government include George Bush senior, Henry Kissinger, Ban Ki-Moon, Gordon Brown, EU President Herbert von Rumpuy, and US President Barack Obama.

So, the purpose of the Climate Change policy is to advance world government. Dangerous Global Warming is a global problem requiring a global solution. What would that solution be? A global government, of course, dominated by the G20 richest world nations. Global Warming also justifies the world-wide imposition of carbon taxes to 'combat climate change' - all taxes to be paid to the International Monetary Fund, the new treasury of the world government.

Is there any truth to the notion that man-made Co2 contributes to global warming? No. There is no evidence whatever that man-made Co2 makes any significant difference to the climate. It's all made up.

DIVORCE

The relationship between the people and its governing class is a bit like a marriage; in other words: a power-struggle.

In this struggle, hurt is inflicted on both sides; but rarely does one side or the other behave so badly that divorce is the only option.

However, in 2010 (though barely acknowledged by the mainstream media) the divorce has occurred.

It's been on the cards for a while. Some say it dates back to the government's (Big Oil-directed) assault on the coal-mining industry and its use of dirty tricks to destroy the National Union of Mineworkers, or its incremental evisceration of the National Health Service, or the selling of our national railways to profiteering private interests, or the deceptions of Maastricht and Lisbon - treaties that, without reference to the British public, transferred British government powers to the European Commission.

In my view, what actually caused the divorce was something relatively trivial: the 2009 Swine Flu Hoax. If you remember, in early 2009, government officials were warning that a Swine Flu pandemic was on its way and predicting 40 deaths a day when it hit our shores.

When this didn't happen, this was the last straw - and the wife metaphorically packed her bags, left the house and moved in with her mother. In January 2010, in response to a Parliamentary Question (which must be answered honestly or trigger criminal charges) the Health Spokesman admitted there were no recorded deaths from the H1N1 Swine Flu. Unsurprisingly, this was not reported in the mainstream media that had been so enthusiastic in its fear-mongering.

Disgust with the mainstream media - and the reason for a drastic decline in newspaper sales (The Guardian, for example, has been unprofitable for the past four years) - is due to the spreading awareness that the 'free press' is an illusion; that the media is an arm of government.

This awareness began well before the Swine Flu hoax. I think the main disconnect happened during 2003 when people learned there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The media couldn't spin this because everyone could see that if there had been WMD's, the Iraqis would have used them to defend themselves.

Later, journalists working in the alternative media - mainly via the Internet - demonstrated that the UK government knew there were no WMDs before the invasion; that Blair agreed to invade many months earlier at George W. Bush's ranch, and that the Foreign Office considered an invasion illegal. Everyone knows now, without a doubt, that the government lied deliberately about WMDs in order (for its own, still secret, reasons) to justify attacking Iraq.

Maybe the trust between governors and governed could have been repaired if Tony Blair et al had owned up to the lies, explained them, apologised for them and made appropriate amends.

But this has not happened, the government appears not to give a toss about the truth or what the people think, and Iraq is still occupied by hundreds of thousands of foreign troops.

So it's hardly surprising the people don't want anything to do with the government. In response, the government has beefed up its police, paramilitary forces and close circuit spy cameras. Britain now has more CCTV cameras per head of population than any other country in the world - more even than China or North Korea. Like a husband spurned by his wife, the UK government has responded with 24 hour surveillance and threats of violence.

The public's reaction has been to duck is head and avoid the psychotic state machinery as much as possible. Perhaps if we ignore the government for long enough, it will go away? The people know there's no point in trying to overthrow the government because the government has all the weapons.

So it's a stalemate. The government, which needs the people for its blood supply, won't go away, and the public can't see how to get rid of it.

We're stuck.