WHO declares first flu pandemic in 41 years

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Everyone was warned - at least as of four years ago....

 

Below will be a recent article put out (2009).

 

See below Op-Ed below article and links to the laws done in 2005, great thanks

to Barb Fisher.

 

The alarm has been ringing for years......

 

 

http://news./s/ap/un_un_swine_flu

WHO declares first flu pandemic in 41 years

 

GENEVA – The World Health Organization says the spread of swine flu has

created the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.

The announcement by WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan came Thursday as

infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and

elsewhere to near 30,000 cases.

Chan said she decided to raise the pandemic alert level from phase 5 to 6,

meaning that a global outbreak of swine flu has begun, after an emergency

meeting on swine flu with top experts.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's

earlier story is below.

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization told its member nations it was

declaring a swine flu pandemic Thursday — the first global flu epidemic in 41

years — as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South

America and elsewhere.

In a statement sent to health officials, WHO said it decided to raise the

pandemic warning level from phase 5 to 6 — its highest alert — after holding

an emergency meeting with its flu experts.

WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan was expected to make a formal announcement on the

pandemic later Thursday.

The long-awaited pandemic decision is scientific confirmation that a new flu

virus has emerged and is quickly circling the globe. It will trigger drugmakers

to speed up production of a swine flu vaccine and prompt governments to devote

more money toward efforts to contain the virus.

" At this early stage, the pandemic can be characterized globally as being

moderate in severity, " WHO said in the statement, urging nations not to close

borders or restrict travel and trade.

WHO also told countries it was in " close dialogue " with flu vaccine makers and

it believed the firms would work " to ensure the largest possible supply of

pandemic vaccine in the months to come. "

Flu vaccine makers like GlaxoKline PLC and Sanofi-Aventis have been working

since last month on a swine flu vaccine. GlaxoKline spokesman Rea

said the company was ready to start making swine flu vaccine in large quantities

once it finished its regular flu vaccine production in July.

On Wednesday, WHO said 74 countries had reported nearly 27,737 cases of swine

flu, including 141 deaths. The agency has stressed that most cases have been

mild and required no treatment, but the fear is that a rash of new infections

could overwhelm hospitals and health authorities — especially in poorer

countries.

Still, about half of the people who have died from swine flu, also known by its

scientific name H1N1, were previously young and healthy — people who are not

usually susceptible to flu.

Swine flu is also continuing to spread during the start of summer in the

northern hemisphere. Normally, flu viruses disappear with warm weather, but

swine flu is proving to be resilient.

The last pandemic — the Hong Kong flu of 1968 — killed about 1 million

people. Ordinary flu kills about 250,000 to 500,000 people each year.

Many health experts say WHO's pandemic declaration could have come weeks earlier

but the agency became bogged down by politics. In May, several countries urged

WHO not to declare a pandemic, fearing it would cause social and economic

turmoil.

" This is WHO finally catching up with the facts, " said Osterholm, a flu

expert at the University of Minnesota who has advised the U.S. government on

pandemic preparations.

Despite WHO's hopes, raising the epidemic alert to the highest level will almost

certainly spark some panic about spread of swine flu.

Fear has already gripped Argentina, where thousands worried about swine flu

flooded into hospitals this week, bringing emergency health services in Buenos

Aires, the capital, to the brink of collapse. Last month, a bus arriving in

Argentina from Chile was stoned by people who thought a passenger on it had

swine flu. Chile has the most swine flu cases in South America.

In Hong Kong on Thursday, the government ordered all kindergartens and primary

schools closed for two weeks after a dozen students tested positive for swine

flu — a move that some health experts would consider an overreaction.

In the United States, where there have been more than 13,000 cases and at least

27 deaths from swine flu, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention said the move would not change how the U.S. tackled swine flu.

" Our actions in the past month have been as if there was a pandemic in this

country, " Glen Nowak, a CDC spokesman, said Thursday.

The U.S. government has already taken steps like increasing availability of

flu-fighting medicines and authorizing $1 billion for the development of a new

vaccine against the novel virus. In addition, new cases seem to be declining in

many parts of the country, U.S. health officials say, as North America moves out

of its traditional winter flu season.

Still, Osterholm said Thursday's decision was a wake-up call for the world.

" I think a lot of people think we're done with swine flu, but you can't fall

asleep at the wheel, " he said. " We don't know what's going to happen in the next

6 to 12 months. "

Randi J. Airola, © 517-819-5926

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Readying Americans for Dangerous, Mandatory Vaccinations

By Lendman

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va & aid=13925

Global Research, June 10, 2009

At least three US federal laws should concern all Americans and suggest what may

be coming - mandatory vaccinations for hyped, non-existant threats, like H1N1

(Swine Flu). Vaccines and drugs like Tamiflu endanger human health but are

hugely profitable to drug company manufacturers.

The Project BioShield Act of 2004 (S. 15) became law on July 21, 2004 " to

provide protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological, or

nuclear agents that may be used in a terrorist attack against the United States

by giving the National Institutes of Health contracting flexibility,

infrastructure improvements, and expediting the scientific peer review process,

and streamlining the Food and Drug Administration approval process of

countermeasures. "

In other words, the FDA may now recklessly approve inadequately tested,

potentially dangerous vaccines and other drugs if ever the Secretaries of Health

and Human Services (HHS) or Defense (DOD) declare a national emergency, whether

or not one exists and regardless of whether treatments available are safe and

effective. Around $6 billion or more will be spent to develop, produce, and

stockpile vaccines and other drugs to counteract claimed bioterror agents.

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act slipped under the

radar when Bush signed it into law as part of the 2006 Defense

Appropriations Act (HR 2863). It lets the HHS Secretary declare any disease an

epidemic or national emergency requiring mandatory vaccinations. Nothing in the

Act lists criteria that warrant a threat. Also potential penalties aren't

specified for those who balk, but very likely they'd include quarantine and

possible fines.

The HHS web site also says the Secretary may " issue a declaration....that

provides immunity from tort liability (except for willful misconduct) for claims

of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or

use of (vaccine or other pharmaceutical) countermeasures to diseases, threats

and conditions determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible

risk of a future public health emergency.... "

The industry-run US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notoriously rushes

inadequately tested drugs to market, putting their efficacy and safety into

question, and turning those who use them into lab rats. It includes everyone if

a mass vaccination is ordered on the mere claim of a public emergency - no proof

required.

The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (S. 3678) is the other worrisome

law, effective December 19, 2006. It amended " the Public Health Service Act with

respect to public health security and all-hazards preparedness and response, and

for other purposes. " Even its supporters worry about issues of privacy,

liability, and putting profits over public health. Critics express greater

concerns about dangerous remedies for exaggerated or non-existant threats as

well as mass hysteria created for political purposes.

At least one other measure is also worrisome - The Model State Emergency Health

Powers Act (MSEHPA). So far it's just a proposal by the Center for Law and the

Public's Health - " A Collaborative at s Hopkins and town Universities

(as) a primary, international, national, state, and local resource on public

health law (and) policy for public health practitioners, judges, academics,

policymakers, and others. "

MSEHPA is now " track(ing) legal responses to the emerging international response

to the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak, including declarations of public health

emergency at the international, national, state, and local levels.... " even

though forensic evidence can't confirm any H1N1 deaths. No emergency exists

anywhere, and reporting one is all hype to sell dangerous drugs to unsuspecting

people globally.

On its web site, the ACLU says this about MSEHPA:

It's " written in a way that doesn't adequately protect citizens against the

misuse of the tremendous powers that it would grant in an emergency. (It's)

replete with civil liberties problems. Its three top flaws are that:

(1) It fails to include basic checks and balances (by) grant(ing) extraordinary

emergency powers (that) should never go unchecked. (It) could have serious

consequences for individuals' freedom, privacy, and equality. "

(2) " It goes well beyond bioterrorism (with) an overbroad definition of 'public

health emergency " that may be anything a local or national authority declares

for any reason with no conclusive evidence for proof.

(3) " It lacks privacy protections (and) undercut(s) existing protections for

sensitive medical information. "

MSEHPA worries other organizations besides the ACLU, both conservative and

progressive - including the Free Congress Foundation, American Legislative

Exchange Council, conservative association of state legislators, Human Rights

Campaign, and Health Privacy Project.

The Real Threat of Dangerous, Mandatory Vaccinations

In the wake of the hyped Swine Flu scare, media reports suggest mass

vaccinations are coming. The May 6 Kindy - Ceci Connolly Washington

Post one, for example, headlined " US May Add Shots for Swine Flu to Fall

Regimen " without saying they'll be mandatory but reading between the lines

suggests the possibility this year or later.

The writers report that " The Obama administration is considering an

unprecedented fall vaccination campaign " to include regular and Swine Flu shots,

the latter because it's " spreading across the globe. "

HHS' Dr. Robin said " We are moving forward with making a vaccine, " and

if the government proceeds with a national program, enough supply will be

produced to provide two doses for all Americans with spokespersons like National

Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci, claiming adverse

reactions aren't to be expected and adding another shot for Swine Flu " should

not present a problem. "

The New York Times also hypes the scare with reports of city schools closed

after unconfirmed Swine Flu cases, a few adult deaths blamed on H1N1 bringing

the claimed total in the city to seven, and the World Health Organization (WHO)

saying on June 3 that it's moving closer to declaring a worldwide (Level 6)

Swine Flu pandemic - even though none exists.

With all the hype, misinformation, and willful lies WHO's Dr. Keiji Fukuda, in

charge of flu, said only 117 deaths globally have been " blamed " on Swine Flu and

any warning may include the caveat that the virus isn't very lethal. A more

accurate statement would explain that no forensic evidence links any deaths to

H1N1, and influenza annually kills about 30,000 people in America alone -

something the major media never report or that scattered accounts of any type

flu deaths worldwide are no cause for alarm or reason for scary headlines.

It's also unconscionable for the WHO, US and other nations' officials to spread

lies, deception, and hysteria so major pharmaceutical companies can foist

dangerous vaccines and other drugs on unsuspecting people, harming their health

and making them vulnerable to later diseases and possible early deaths.

Massachusetts May Be A Forerunner of What's to Come

On April 28, the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed a pandemic flu

preparation bill that rises to the level of martial law. If approved by the

House and signed into law, it will mandate among other measures:

-- " vaccination, treatment, examination, or testing of " all individuals involved

in providing health care - as perhaps step one before ordering the same process

for all state residents;

-- owners or occupiers of all premises " to permit entry into and investigation

of the premises; "

-- closure, evacuation, and decontamination of all suspected facilities; and

-- restricting or prohibiting " assemblages of persons. "

Other states may be planning similar measures as precursors to mandatory

nationwide vaccinations and overall suspension of civil liberty protections.

Adverse Vaccination Effects on Gulf War Troops

Before deploying to the Persian Gulf in 1990 - 91 (and thereafter to the

present), all US troops got a standard series of inoculations against infectious

diseases - the same ones given to all US citizens traveling to the region. After

arriving, 150,000 also got anthrax vaccinations and 8000 botulinum toxoid ones

even though concerns were raised about adverse long-term health consequences.

A National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM) study was conducted

to assess them with results released in September 2000. In December 1997, the

Department of Defense (DOD) announced that all US military forces would receive

anthrax vaccinations. The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) began in

March 1998 even though IOM found little published peer-reviewed scientific

information on its safety.

In its study, IOM reported evidence of an association between vaccinations

studied and transient acute common health effects, including redness, swelling,

and fever commonly associated with other vaccinations. However, conclusive proof

of long-term problems wasn't determined - likely because study findings were

skewed not to find them. More on that below.

IOM also studied botulinum toxoid vaccines and found evidence of an association

between the vaccine and transient acute local and systemic effects similar to

anthrax vaccinations. Again, conclusive proof of long-term adverse health

effects wasn't found - another very dubious conclusion as evidence below

explains.

Military personnel usually get multiple vaccinations. IOM studied their effects

but didn't prove or disprove any long-term adverse effects. However several

independent studies of British Gulf War veterans found some link between

multiple vaccinations and later health problems.

Matsumoto is a New York-based award-winning investigative journalist. His

2004 book, " Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our

Soldiers and Why GIs are Only the First Victims " took sharp issue with IOM

results and the Pentagon's denial of Gulf War syndrome.

Investigating the shadowy vaccination development world, he discovered US

military-employed doctors and scientists conducted secret medical experiments on

US citizens in violation of the Nuremberg Code and fundamental medical ethics.

For its part, Nuremberg established legal medical experimental standards now

incorporated into ethical medical codes, including:

-- requiring voluntary consent of human subjects without coercion, fraud,

deceit, and with full disclosure of known risks;

-- experiments should avoid " all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and

injury; "

-- experiments should never be conducted if there's " an a priori reason to

believe death or disabling injury will occur; "

-- risk " should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of

the problem to be solved..; " and

-- experiments should be terminated if there's reason to believe they'll cause

" injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject. "

According to Matsumoto, the Pentagon violated these and other standards,

betrayed the troops, and the fundamental duty of military and civilian leaders

to protect them. Since at least 1987, biowarfare development trumped the welfare

of tens of thousands of GIs used as human guinea pigs for inoculation with

experimental unlicensed anthrax vaccines containing squalene - an oil-based

adjuvant (to enhance immunity) known for decades to cause severe autoimmune

diseases in lab animals, yet administered involuntarily without disclosure of

its harmful effects to human health. Matsumoto wrote:

" The unethical experiments detailed in this book are ongoing, with little

prospect of being self-limiting because they have been shielded from scrutiny

and public accountability by national security concerns. " He suggested the

" writing (was) on the wall " of what's to come with prospects now it may be soon.

" When UCLA Medical School's Whitehouse and Frances Beck injected

squalene combined with other materials into rats and guinea pigs back in the

1970s, few oils were more effective at causing the animal versions of arthritis

and multiple sclerosis. " In 1999, immunologist Dr. ny Lorentzen at Sweden's

Karolinska Institute found that on injection, an " otherwise benign molecule like

squalene can stimulate a self-destructive immune response, " even though it

occurs naturally in the body.

Other research shows that squalene is the experimental anthrax vaccine

ingredient that caused devastating autoimmune diseases and deaths for many Gulf

War veterans from the US, UK, and Australia, yet it continues in use today and

for new vaccines development in labs. There's a " close match between the

squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans injected with

this oil: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus

erythematosus. "

Other autoimmune diseases are also linked to humans injected with squalene.

" There are now data in more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, from

ten different laboratories in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, documenting

that squalene-based adjuvants can induce autoimmune diseases in

animals...observed in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits. Sweden's Karolinska

Institute has demonstrated that squalene alone can induce the animal version of

rheumatoid arthritis. The Polish Academy of Sciences has shown that in animals,

squalene alone can produce catastrophic injury to the nervous system and the

brain. The University of Florida Medical School has shown that in animals,

squalene alone can induce production of antibodies specifically associated with

systemic lupus erythematosus. "

Micropaleontologist Dr. Viera Scheibner conducted research into the adverse

effects of adjuvants in vaccines and wrote:

Squalene " contributed to the cascade of reactions called " Gulf War syndrome.

(GIs developed) arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive

rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair

loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory

loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects,

anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus

erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Raynaud's phenomenon, Sjorgren's

syndrome, chronic diarrhea, night sweats and low-grade fever. "

Matsumoto's book includes numerous case studies of GIs afflicted with one or

more of the above syndromes, their devastating effects, and the outlandish US

government reaction - failing to acknowledge their existence or a connection

between them and administered vaccines. Also denying the effects of other toxic

Gulf theater exposures (like depleted uranium) as well as withholding meaningful

treatments or protocols.

US Army Captain L. Skypeck spoke eloquently for many when he said:

" Was the character of my valor less intense than those at Lexington? Was the

pain of my wounds any less severe than those at Normandy? And was my loneliness

any less sorrowful than those at Inchon? Then why am I forgotten amonst those

remembered as 'heros?' "

If mass vaccinations are ordered, millions of Americans may ask: Why do you keep

using unsafe vaccines and other drugs when clear evidence shows their dangers?

Why do you jeopardize all Americans by unleashing a future plague of serious

illnesses, diseases, and disabilities? Why have you willfully and maliciously

ruined my health?

Immunologist Dr. Pamela Asa first recognized autoimmune diseases showing up in

GIs that mirrored those in lab animals injected with oil formulated squalene

adjuvants. By 1997, hundreds of millions of dollars had been spent testing

vaccines containing them, in animal studies since 1988 and human clinical trials

since 1991 - by leading research institutes like NIH, the National Cancer

Institute, and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

(NIAID).

According to Matsumoto, today, " Squalene adjuvants are a key ingredient in a

whole new generation of vaccines intended for mass immunization around the

globe " even though researchers at Tulane Medical School and the Walter Army

Institute of Research proved " that the immune system responds specifically to

the squalene molecule. "

The immune system " see(s) and recognizes it as an oil molecule native to the

body. Squalene is not just a molecule found in a knee or elbow - it is found

throughout the nervous system and the brain. " When injected in the body, the

immune system attacks it as an enemy to be eliminated. Eating and digesting

squalene isn't a problem. But injecting it " galvanize(s) the immune system into

attacking it, which can produce self-destructive cross reactions against the

same molecule in the places where it occurs naturally in the body - and where it

is critical to the health of the nervous system. "

Once self-destruction begins, it doesn't stop as the body keeps making the

molecule that the immune system is trained to attack and destroy.

Immunologist Dr. Bonnie Dunbar also did extensive research on hepatitis

B-inflicted illnesses and found similar autoimmune processes involved in

molecular mimicry in people with devastating neuroimmune syndromes after getting

vaccine injections.

Matsumoto says " Squalene is a kind of trigger for (a) real biological weapon, "

what Soviet researchers called " a biological time bomb!! " and Matsumoto says is

" the immune system. " When its " full repertoire of cells and antibodies (attack)

tissues they are supposed to protect, the results can be catastrophic. " He and

Dr. Pam Asa conclude that " Oil adjuvants are the most insidious chemical weapon

ever devised, " including ones with squalene - something the Soviets knew could

be used as a weapon in the 1980s.

Matsumoto says that " the real problem with using squalene (isn't) that it mimics

a molecule found in the body; it is the same molecule. So what American

scientists conceived as a vaccine booster (or what's now being developed in

labs) was another 'nano-bomb,' instigating chronic, unpredictable and

debilitating disease. When the NIH....argued that squalene would be safe because

it is native to the body, just the opposite was true, " and, of course, still is.

" Squalene's natural presence in the body made it one of the most dangerous

molecules ever injected into man " and using it in vaccines is outlandish and

criminal.

So why does Washington sanction its use? According to Matsumoto: " scientists in

the United States are now literally invested in squalene. Army scientists who

developed the second generation anthrax vaccine have reputations to protect and

licensing fees to reap (as well as) worldwide rights to develop and

commercialize the new recombinant vaccine for anthrax " and ones for other health

threats.

Disturbingly, " Many of the cutting-edge vaccines currently in development by the

NIH and its corporate partners contain squalene in one formulation or another.

There is squalene in the prototype recombinant vaccines for HIV, malaria,

herpes, influenza (including the swine strain), cytomegalovirus and human

papillomavirus. " Some of these " are intended for mass immunization(s) around the

globe " and that possibility should terrify everyone enough to refuse any mandate

or doctor's prescription to take them.

Another problem is that " Autoimmunity (takes) years to diagnose " because early

symptoms (headaches, joint pain, etc.) are so vague they can easily be from

other causes.

From inception, vaccines have always been dangerous enough for some experts to

call them biological weapons undermining health, manipulating and crippling the

immune system, and creating the possibility of future debilitating diseases. So

Big Pharma's solution is new, more potent genetically engineered vaccines and

drugs that may end up harming or killing many who take them, especially people

with weakened immune systems.

Matsumoto and others sounded the alarm to alert everyone to avoid these poisons

masquerading as protective drugs. In fact, they benefit only the bottom lines of

companies that manufacture them and scientists reaping generous royalties.

Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on

Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at

lendmanstephen@....

Also visit his blog site at www.sjlendman.blogspot.com  and listen to The

Global Research News Hour on www.RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday at

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“Bioshield II†- Legislation Threatens our Freedom

 

Since the attacks of September 11th, 2001, the citizens of the United States

have been challenged by elevated alerts predicting bioterrorism.  The facts,

however, do not support this paranoia. In the only biological attack in our

nation’s history our country was assaulted with anthrax spores that originated

from a “domestic†source according to the FBI and the White House. We are

told that we will not let the terrorists change our lives, but that's exactly

what our Government is mandating through legislation.

 

While the Government attempts to evade detection for misleading the American

people in policies abroad, they are diverting their attention, and ours, to new

undetectable domestic threats. The intended solutions to bioterrorism and the

risk those solutions place on our citizens needs sharp review.  In the midst of

the diversionary hype our Government is simultaneously indemnifying itself and

Biodefense manufacturers against any liability from damages caused by their

vaccines or drugs meant to protect us against these new threats, real or not.

Compliance will be mandatory.

 

Senator Burr (R-NC) has introduced a bill titled the “Biodefense and Pandemic

Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005†(S. 1873, aka: “Bioshield IIâ€),

co-sponsored by Senators Frist (R-TN), Enzi (R-WY) and Gregg (R-NH).  From the

title, the intent appears to be for the protection of the American people;

however, upon closer scrutiny, this Act is more concerned with protecting the

pharmaceutical industry.  In fact, it strips the citizens of the United States

of their basic human rights.  Examining the facts one at a time, S. 1873 shows

us the following.  The Act:

 

·     Provides sweeping immunity to any manufacturer that produces any type

of countermeasure from any type of lawsuit stemming from injuries or death that

may occur to the recipient;

 

·   Provides a Government fund for any person that has been injured or died as

a result of any countermeasure taken, with a cap of $250,000.00 per person, per

life. If a person becomes permanently disabled, it is unrealistic to believe

that this sum will last a couple of years, let alone a lifetime;

 

·     Creates a new agency, the " Biomedical Advanced Research and

Development Agency " (BARDA), which will be exempt from the Freedom of

Information Act (FOIA), the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), and judicial

review;

 

·     Determines the Secretary of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to be the

sole authority on whether or not a person's injury or death resulted from the

countermeasure. The Secretary's decision is final and not subject to judicial

review.

 

So the Secretary authorized to declare a national emergency, would

coincidentally be the person who would review and rule on whether or not an

injury or death was the result of his/her decision, that would not be subject to

judicial review.  Such practice may be suitable in an oligarchy but not in a

democracy.  This is a significant conflict of interest.

Under " Project Bioshield " , the Secretary of DHHS, an appointed, unelected

official, can declare a national emergency based on intelligence of threats of

bioterrorism/pandemics/ epidemics (whether natural outbreaks or bioterrorism),

and whether those threats are real or potential.  Should that occur, then every

American can be forced to submit to whatever countermeasure is deemed

appropriate, whether that countermeasure is FDA approved or not.  To say the

least, this is completely unenforceable.  The Bill of Rights cannot logically

coexist with such a law.

 

            The " Homeland Security Act of 2002 " , removes liability

for injuries or deaths caused by the smallpox vaccine when it is used as a

countermeasure. Currently, the product label with the Wyeth Smallpox vaccine now

carries a " black box warning " about potentially fatal dangers to the heart.

 

The " Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of

2002 " , proposed changes to the vaccine and drug licensure standards. Under this

Act, known as the " animal efficacy rule " (meaning that testing on animals will

be deemed sufficient), could be enacted in order to use a drug or vaccine.  The

true human cost in terms of injuries or deaths will not be known until mass

vaccination occurs.

 

The " Emergency Use Authorization " (EUA) allows the FDA to put into use

countermeasures that has either not been approved, or, not approved for their

intended use. The EUA has already injected the anthrax vaccine into over 1

million of our military service members under a Department of Defense order.

This has resulted in thousands of injured individuals, 21 deaths that are

admitted, and hundreds of court-martials which have resulted in felony

convictions. A federal judge (Doe v. Rumsfeld) put an end to this mandated

illegal practice.  If however, S. 1873 is passed, there will be no judicial

review.

 

To ensure compliance to rapid responses, the " Model State Emergency Health

Powers Act " (MSEHPA) is an Act which allows Governors to declare an emergency

and to utilize the state militia in the control of all roads leading into and

out of the cities and the state.  It allows the Governor to seize citizens'

personal property, to arrest and detain and forcibly examine, vaccinate and

medicate citizens and/or their minor children without informed consent.  Should

death or injury occur during any of this process, any person acting on behalf of

the Government would not be held liable.

 

Taken as a whole or even in part, S. 1873, and the other Acts cited above are a

serious threat to our Constitution and to the liberty of all Americans.  These

Acts are a direct assault on every American's freedom.

Written by Randi Airola, randiceaj@..., and Gowan,

jggowan@...

To read the full paper with links and references to Senator Burr's staff

regarding S. 1873, and all other Acts cited above, by Barbara Fisher, go to:

http://www.nvic.org/2005_11-15_NVIC_Sen%20Burr_BioShield%202_v7.pdf

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Heed this warning. If we do not act now by contacting our parliamentarians /

members of congress, we will be lining up to be shot with not 1, not 2 but 3

vaccines in less than 6 months’ time – whether we want to or not. If you

believe in our freedom to choose not to be subjected to dangerous drugs against

our wishes, join the vaccine support organizations near you (in Australia, it is

the Australian Vaccination Network – www.avn.org.au) support them with

donations, write letters, make phone calls, contact the media, write letters to

the editor. This is probably the most dangerous time the pro-health choice

community has ever experienced – we must be active now or it will be too late

before we know it.

If you are in Australia and would like information on what to put in your

letters or who to contact, please visit our website where I will be posting

links to articles and other information later on today. Look for a link to a new

page on the left hand menu called Influenza Pandemic. Give me a few hours to

get all the info up there please.

All the best,

Meryl

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf

Of Randi Airola

Sent: Friday, 12 June 2009 2:37 AM

Anthrax No; MBVP

Subject: WHO declares first flu pandemic in 41 years

Everyone was warned - at least as of four years ago....

Below will be a recent article put out (2009).

See below Op-Ed below article and links to the laws done in 2005, great thanks

to Barb Fisher.

The alarm has been ringing for years......

http://news./s/ap/un_un_swine_flu

WHO declares first flu pandemic in 41 years

GENEVA – The World Health Organization says the spread of swine flu has

created the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.

The announcement by WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan came Thursday as

infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and

elsewhere to near 30,000 cases.

Chan said she decided to raise the pandemic alert level from phase 5 to 6,

meaning that a global outbreak of swine flu has begun, after an emergency

meeting on swine flu with top experts.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's

earlier story is below.

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization told its member nations it was

declaring a swine flu pandemic Thursday — the first global flu epidemic in 41

years — as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South

America and elsewhere.

In a statement sent to health officials, WHO said it decided to raise the

pandemic warning level from phase 5 to 6 — its highest alert — after holding

an emergency meeting with its flu experts.

WHO chief Dr. Margaret Chan was expected to make a formal announcement on the

pandemic later Thursday.

The long-awaited pandemic decision is scientific confirmation that a new flu

virus has emerged and is quickly circling the globe. It will trigger drugmakers

to speed up production of a swine flu vaccine and prompt governments to devote

more money toward efforts to contain the virus.

" At this early stage, the pandemic can be characterized globally as being

moderate in severity, " WHO said in the statement, urging nations not to close

borders or restrict travel and trade.

WHO also told countries it was in " close dialogue " with flu vaccine makers and

it believed the firms would work " to ensure the largest possible supply of

pandemic vaccine in the months to come. "

Flu vaccine makers like GlaxoKline PLC and Sanofi-Aventis have been working

since last month on a swine flu vaccine. GlaxoKline spokesman Rea

said the company was ready to start making swine flu vaccine in large quantities

once it finished its regular flu vaccine production in July.

On Wednesday, WHO said 74 countries had reported nearly 27,737 cases of swine

flu, including 141 deaths. The agency has stressed that most cases have been

mild and required no treatment, but the fear is that a rash of new infections

could overwhelm hospitals and health authorities — especially in poorer

countries.

Still, about half of the people who have died from swine flu, also known by its

scientific name H1N1, were previously young and healthy — people who are not

usually susceptible to flu.

Swine flu is also continuing to spread during the start of summer in the

northern hemisphere. Normally, flu viruses disappear with warm weather, but

swine flu is proving to be resilient.

The last pandemic — the Hong Kong flu of 1968 — killed about 1 million

people. Ordinary flu kills about 250,000 to 500,000 people each year.

Many health experts say WHO's pandemic declaration could have come weeks earlier

but the agency became bogged down by politics. In May, several countries urged

WHO not to declare a pandemic, fearing it would cause social and economic

turmoil.

" This is WHO finally catching up with the facts, " said Osterholm, a flu

expert at the University of Minnesota who has advised the U.S. government on

pandemic preparations.

Despite WHO's hopes, raising the epidemic alert to the highest level will almost

certainly spark some panic about spread of swine flu.

Fear has already gripped Argentina, where thousands worried about swine flu

flooded into hospitals this week, bringing emergency health services in Buenos

Aires, the capital, to the brink of collapse. Last month, a bus arriving in

Argentina from Chile was stoned by people who thought a passenger on it had

swine flu. Chile has the most swine flu cases in South America.

In Hong Kong on Thursday, the government ordered all kindergartens and primary

schools closed for two weeks after a dozen students tested positive for swine

flu — a move that some health experts would consider an overreaction.

In the United States, where there have been more than 13,000 cases and at least

27 deaths from swine flu, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention said the move would not change how the U.S. tackled swine flu.

" Our actions in the past month have been as if there was a pandemic in this

country, " Glen Nowak, a CDC spokesman, said Thursday.

The U.S. government has already taken steps like increasing availability of

flu-fighting medicines and authorizing $1 billion for the development of a new

vaccine against the novel virus. In addition, new cases seem to be declining in

many parts of the country, U.S. health officials say, as North America moves out

of its traditional winter flu season.

Still, Osterholm said Thursday's decision was a wake-up call for the world.

" I think a lot of people think we're done with swine flu, but you can't fall

asleep at the wheel, " he said. " We don't know what's going to happen in the next

6 to 12 months. "

Randi J. Airola, © 517-819-5926

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Readying Americans for Dangerous, Mandatory Vaccinations

By Lendman

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va & aid=13925

Global Research, June 10, 2009

At least three US federal laws should concern all Americans and suggest what may

be coming - mandatory vaccinations for hyped, non-existant threats, like H1N1

(Swine Flu). Vaccines and drugs like Tamiflu endanger human health but are

hugely profitable to drug company manufacturers.

The Project BioShield Act of 2004 (S. 15) became law on July 21, 2004 " to

provide protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological, or

nuclear agents that may be used in a terrorist attack against the United States

by giving the National Institutes of Health contracting flexibility,

infrastructure improvements, and expediting the scientific peer review process,

and streamlining the Food and Drug Administration approval process of

countermeasures. "

In other words, the FDA may now recklessly approve inadequately tested,

potentially dangerous vaccines and other drugs if ever the Secretaries of Health

and Human Services (HHS) or Defense (DOD) declare a national emergency, whether

or not one exists and regardless of whether treatments available are safe and

effective. Around $6 billion or more will be spent to develop, produce, and

stockpile vaccines and other drugs to counteract claimed bioterror agents.

The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act slipped under the

radar when Bush signed it into law as part of the 2006 Defense

Appropriations Act (HR 2863). It lets the HHS Secretary declare any disease an

epidemic or national emergency requiring mandatory vaccinations. Nothing in the

Act lists criteria that warrant a threat. Also potential penalties aren't

specified for those who balk, but very likely they'd include quarantine and

possible fines.

The HHS web site also says the Secretary may " issue a declaration....that

provides immunity from tort liability (except for willful misconduct) for claims

of loss caused, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from administration or

use of (vaccine or other pharmaceutical) countermeasures to diseases, threats

and conditions determined by the Secretary to constitute a present, or credible

risk of a future public health emergency.... "

The industry-run US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notoriously rushes

inadequately tested drugs to market, putting their efficacy and safety into

question, and turning those who use them into lab rats. It includes everyone if

a mass vaccination is ordered on the mere claim of a public emergency - no proof

required.

The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (S. 3678) is the other worrisome

law, effective December 19, 2006. It amended " the Public Health Service Act with

respect to public health security and all-hazards preparedness and response, and

for other purposes. " Even its supporters worry about issues of privacy,

liability, and putting profits over public health. Critics express greater

concerns about dangerous remedies for exaggerated or non-existant threats as

well as mass hysteria created for political purposes.

At least one other measure is also worrisome - The Model State Emergency Health

Powers Act (MSEHPA). So far it's just a proposal by the Center for Law and the

Public's Health - " A Collaborative at s Hopkins and town Universities

(as) a primary, international, national, state, and local resource on public

health law (and) policy for public health practitioners, judges, academics,

policymakers, and others. "

MSEHPA is now " track(ing) legal responses to the emerging international response

to the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) outbreak, including declarations of public health

emergency at the international, national, state, and local levels.... " even

though forensic evidence can't confirm any H1N1 deaths. No emergency exists

anywhere, and reporting one is all hype to sell dangerous drugs to unsuspecting

people globally.

On its web site, the ACLU says this about MSEHPA:

It's " written in a way that doesn't adequately protect citizens against the

misuse of the tremendous powers that it would grant in an emergency. (It's)

replete with civil liberties problems. Its three top flaws are that:

(1) It fails to include basic checks and balances (by) grant(ing) extraordinary

emergency powers (that) should never go unchecked. (It) could have serious

consequences for individuals' freedom, privacy, and equality. "

(2) " It goes well beyond bioterrorism (with) an overbroad definition of 'public

health emergency " that may be anything a local or national authority declares

for any reason with no conclusive evidence for proof.

(3) " It lacks privacy protections (and) undercut(s) existing protections for

sensitive medical information. "

MSEHPA worries other organizations besides the ACLU, both conservative and

progressive - including the Free Congress Foundation, American Legislative

Exchange Council, conservative association of state legislators, Human Rights

Campaign, and Health Privacy Project.

The Real Threat of Dangerous, Mandatory Vaccinations

In the wake of the hyped Swine Flu scare, media reports suggest mass

vaccinations are coming. The May 6 Kindy - Ceci Connolly Washington

Post one, for example, headlined " US May Add Shots for Swine Flu to Fall

Regimen " without saying they'll be mandatory but reading between the lines

suggests the possibility this year or later.

The writers report that " The Obama administration is considering an

unprecedented fall vaccination campaign " to include regular and Swine Flu shots,

the latter because it's " spreading across the globe. "

HHS' Dr. Robin said " We are moving forward with making a vaccine, " and

if the government proceeds with a national program, enough supply will be

produced to provide two doses for all Americans with spokespersons like National

Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci, claiming adverse

reactions aren't to be expected and adding another shot for Swine Flu " should

not present a problem. "

The New York Times also hypes the scare with reports of city schools closed

after unconfirmed Swine Flu cases, a few adult deaths blamed on H1N1 bringing

the claimed total in the city to seven, and the World Health Organization (WHO)

saying on June 3 that it's moving closer to declaring a worldwide (Level 6)

Swine Flu pandemic - even though none exists.

With all the hype, misinformation, and willful lies WHO's Dr. Keiji Fukuda, in

charge of flu, said only 117 deaths globally have been " blamed " on Swine Flu and

any warning may include the caveat that the virus isn't very lethal. A more

accurate statement would explain that no forensic evidence links any deaths to

H1N1, and influenza annually kills about 30,000 people in America alone -

something the major media never report or that scattered accounts of any type

flu deaths worldwide are no cause for alarm or reason for scary headlines.

It's also unconscionable for the WHO, US and other nations' officials to spread

lies, deception, and hysteria so major pharmaceutical companies can foist

dangerous vaccines and other drugs on unsuspecting people, harming their health

and making them vulnerable to later diseases and possible early deaths.

Massachusetts May Be A Forerunner of What's to Come

On April 28, the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed a pandemic flu

preparation bill that rises to the level of martial law. If approved by the

House and signed into law, it will mandate among other measures:

-- " vaccination, treatment, examination, or testing of " all individuals involved

in providing health care - as perhaps step one before ordering the same process

for all state residents;

-- owners or occupiers of all premises " to permit entry into and investigation

of the premises; "

-- closure, evacuation, and decontamination of all suspected facilities; and

-- restricting or prohibiting " assemblages of persons. "

Other states may be planning similar measures as precursors to mandatory

nationwide vaccinations and overall suspension of civil liberty protections.

Adverse Vaccination Effects on Gulf War Troops

Before deploying to the Persian Gulf in 1990 - 91 (and thereafter to the

present), all US troops got a standard series of inoculations against infectious

diseases - the same ones given to all US citizens traveling to the region. After

arriving, 150,000 also got anthrax vaccinations and 8000 botulinum toxoid ones

even though concerns were raised about adverse long-term health consequences.

A National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM) study was conducted

to assess them with results released in September 2000. In December 1997, the

Department of Defense (DOD) announced that all US military forces would receive

anthrax vaccinations. The Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP) began in

March 1998 even though IOM found little published peer-reviewed scientific

information on its safety.

In its study, IOM reported evidence of an association between vaccinations

studied and transient acute common health effects, including redness, swelling,

and fever commonly associated with other vaccinations. However, conclusive proof

of long-term problems wasn't determined - likely because study findings were

skewed not to find them. More on that below.

IOM also studied botulinum toxoid vaccines and found evidence of an association

between the vaccine and transient acute local and systemic effects similar to

anthrax vaccinations. Again, conclusive proof of long-term adverse health

effects wasn't found - another very dubious conclusion as evidence below

explains.

Military personnel usually get multiple vaccinations. IOM studied their effects

but didn't prove or disprove any long-term adverse effects. However several

independent studies of British Gulf War veterans found some link between

multiple vaccinations and later health problems.

Matsumoto is a New York-based award-winning investigative journalist. His

2004 book, " Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our

Soldiers and Why GIs are Only the First Victims " took sharp issue with IOM

results and the Pentagon's denial of Gulf War syndrome.

Investigating the shadowy vaccination development world, he discovered US

military-employed doctors and scientists conducted secret medical experiments on

US citizens in violation of the Nuremberg Code and fundamental medical ethics.

For its part, Nuremberg established legal medical experimental standards now

incorporated into ethical medical codes, including:

-- requiring voluntary consent of human subjects without coercion, fraud,

deceit, and with full disclosure of known risks;

-- experiments should avoid " all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and

injury; "

-- experiments should never be conducted if there's " an a priori reason to

believe death or disabling injury will occur; "

-- risk " should never exceed that determined by the humanitarian importance of

the problem to be solved..; " and

-- experiments should be terminated if there's reason to believe they'll cause

" injury, disability, or death to the experimental subject. "

According to Matsumoto, the Pentagon violated these and other standards,

betrayed the troops, and the fundamental duty of military and civilian leaders

to protect them. Since at least 1987, biowarfare development trumped the welfare

of tens of thousands of GIs used as human guinea pigs for inoculation with

experimental unlicensed anthrax vaccines containing squalene - an oil-based

adjuvant (to enhance immunity) known for decades to cause severe autoimmune

diseases in lab animals, yet administered involuntarily without disclosure of

its harmful effects to human health. Matsumoto wrote:

" The unethical experiments detailed in this book are ongoing, with little

prospect of being self-limiting because they have been shielded from scrutiny

and public accountability by national security concerns. " He suggested the

" writing (was) on the wall " of what's to come with prospects now it may be soon.

" When UCLA Medical School's Whitehouse and Frances Beck injected

squalene combined with other materials into rats and guinea pigs back in the

1970s, few oils were more effective at causing the animal versions of arthritis

and multiple sclerosis. " In 1999, immunologist Dr. ny Lorentzen at Sweden's

Karolinska Institute found that on injection, an " otherwise benign molecule like

squalene can stimulate a self-destructive immune response, " even though it

occurs naturally in the body.

Other research shows that squalene is the experimental anthrax vaccine

ingredient that caused devastating autoimmune diseases and deaths for many Gulf

War veterans from the US, UK, and Australia, yet it continues in use today and

for new vaccines development in labs. There's a " close match between the

squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans injected with

this oil: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus

erythematosus. "

Other autoimmune diseases are also linked to humans injected with squalene.

" There are now data in more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, from

ten different laboratories in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, documenting

that squalene-based adjuvants can induce autoimmune diseases in

animals...observed in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits. Sweden's Karolinska

Institute has demonstrated that squalene alone can induce the animal version of

rheumatoid arthritis. The Polish Academy of Sciences has shown that in animals,

squalene alone can produce catastrophic injury to the nervous system and the

brain. The University of Florida Medical School has shown that in animals,

squalene alone can induce production of antibodies specifically associated with

systemic lupus erythematosus. "

Micropaleontologist Dr. Viera Scheibner conducted research into the adverse

effects of adjuvants in vaccines and wrote:

Squalene " contributed to the cascade of reactions called " Gulf War syndrome.

(GIs developed) arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive

rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair

loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory

loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects,

anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus

erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Raynaud's phenomenon, Sjorgren's

syndrome, chronic diarrhea, night sweats and low-grade fever. "

Matsumoto's book includes numerous case studies of GIs afflicted with one or

more of the above syndromes, their devastating effects, and the outlandish US

government reaction - failing to acknowledge their existence or a connection

between them and administered vaccines. Also denying the effects of other toxic

Gulf theater exposures (like depleted uranium) as well as withholding meaningful

treatments or protocols.

US Army Captain L. Skypeck spoke eloquently for many when he said:

" Was the character of my valor less intense than those at Lexington? Was the

pain of my wounds any less severe than those at Normandy? And was my loneliness

any less sorrowful than those at Inchon? Then why am I forgotten amonst those

remembered as 'heros?' "

If mass vaccinations are ordered, millions of Americans may ask: Why do you keep

using unsafe vaccines and other drugs when clear evidence shows their dangers?

Why do you jeopardize all Americans by unleashing a future plague of serious

illnesses, diseases, and disabilities? Why have you willfully and maliciously

ruined my health?

Immunologist Dr. Pamela Asa first recognized autoimmune diseases showing up in

GIs that mirrored those in lab animals injected with oil formulated squalene

adjuvants. By 1997, hundreds of millions of dollars had been spent testing

vaccines containing them, in animal studies since 1988 and human clinical trials

since 1991 - by leading research institutes like NIH, the National Cancer

Institute, and the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

(NIAID).

According to Matsumoto, today, " Squalene adjuvants are a key ingredient in a

whole new generation of vaccines intended for mass immunization around the

globe " even though researchers at Tulane Medical School and the Walter Army

Institute of Research proved " that the immune system responds specifically to

the squalene molecule. "

The immune system " see(s) and recognizes it as an oil molecule native to the

body. Squalene is not just a molecule found in a knee or elbow - it is found

throughout the nervous system and the brain. " When injected in the body, the

immune system attacks it as an enemy to be eliminated. Eating and digesting

squalene isn't a problem. But injecting it " galvanize(s) the immune system into

attacking it, which can produce self-destructive cross reactions against the

same molecule in the places where it occurs naturally in the body - and where it

is critical to the health of the nervous system. "

Once self-destruction begins, it doesn't stop as the body keeps making the

molecule that the immune system is trained to attack and destroy.

Immunologist Dr. Bonnie Dunbar also did extensive research on hepatitis

B-inflicted illnesses and found similar autoimmune processes involved in

molecular mimicry in people with devastating neuroimmune syndromes after getting

vaccine injections.

Matsumoto says " Squalene is a kind of trigger for (a) real biological weapon, "

what Soviet researchers called " a biological time bomb!! " and Matsumoto says is

" the immune system. " When its " full repertoire of cells and antibodies (attack)

tissues they are supposed to protect, the results can be catastrophic. " He and

Dr. Pam Asa conclude that " Oil adjuvants are the most insidious chemical weapon

ever devised, " including ones with squalene - something the Soviets knew could

be used as a weapon in the 1980s.

Matsumoto says that " the real problem with using squalene (isn't) that it mimics

a molecule found in the body; it is the same molecule. So what American

scientists conceived as a vaccine booster (or what's now being developed in

labs) was another 'nano-bomb,' instigating chronic, unpredictable and

debilitating disease. When the NIH....argued that squalene would be safe because

it is native to the body, just the opposite was true, " and, of course, still is.

" Squalene's natural presence in the body made it one of the most dangerous

molecules ever injected into man " and using it in vaccines is outlandish and

criminal.

So why does Washington sanction its use? According to Matsumoto: " scientists in

the United States are now literally invested in squalene. Army scientists who

developed the second generation anthrax vaccine have reputations to protect and

licensing fees to reap (as well as) worldwide rights to develop and

commercialize the new recombinant vaccine for anthrax " and ones for other health

threats.

Disturbingly, " Many of the cutting-edge vaccines currently in development by the

NIH and its corporate partners contain squalene in one formulation or another.

There is squalene in the prototype recombinant vaccines for HIV, malaria,

herpes, influenza (including the swine strain), cytomegalovirus and human

papillomavirus. " Some of these " are intended for mass immunization(s) around the

globe " and that possibility should terrify everyone enough to refuse any mandate

or doctor's prescription to take them.

Another problem is that " Autoimmunity (takes) years to diagnose " because early

symptoms (headaches, joint pain, etc.) are so vague they can easily be from

other causes.

From inception, vaccines have always been dangerous enough for some experts to

call them biological weapons undermining health, manipulating and crippling the

immune system, and creating the possibility of future debilitating diseases. So

Big Pharma's solution is new, more potent genetically engineered vaccines and

drugs that may end up harming or killing many who take them, especially people

with weakened immune systems.

Matsumoto and others sounded the alarm to alert everyone to avoid these poisons

masquerading as protective drugs. In fact, they benefit only the bottom lines of

companies that manufacture them and scientists reaping generous royalties.

Lendman is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on

Globalization. He lives in Chicago and can be reached at

lendmanstephen@... <mailto:lendmanstephen%40sbcglobal.net> .

Also visit his blog site at www.sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to The Global

Research News Hour on www.RepublicBroadcasting.org Monday - Friday at 10AM US

Central time for cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on world and

national issues. All programs are archived for easy listening.

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“Bioshield II†- Legislation Threatens our Freedom

Since the attacks of September 11th, 2001, the citizens of the United States

have been challenged by elevated alerts predicting bioterrorism. The facts,

however, do not support this paranoia. In the only biological attack in our

nation’s history our country was assaulted with anthrax spores that originated

from a “domestic†source according to the FBI and the White House. We are

told that we will not let the terrorists change our lives, but that's exactly

what our Government is mandating through legislation.

While the Government attempts to evade detection for misleading the American

people in policies abroad, they are diverting their attention, and ours, to new

undetectable domestic threats. The intended solutions to bioterrorism and the

risk those solutions place on our citizens needs sharp review. In the midst of

the diversionary hype our Government is simultaneously indemnifying itself and

Biodefense manufacturers against any liability from damages caused by their

vaccines or drugs meant to protect us against these new threats, real or not.

Compliance will be mandatory.

Senator Burr (R-NC) has introduced a bill titled the “Biodefense and Pandemic

Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005†(S. 1873, aka: “Bioshield IIâ€),

co-sponsored by Senators Frist (R-TN), Enzi (R-WY) and Gregg (R-NH). From the

title, the intent appears to be for the protection of the American people;

however, upon closer scrutiny, this Act is more concerned with protecting the

pharmaceutical industry. In fact, it strips the citizens of the United States

of their basic human rights. Examining the facts one at a time, S. 1873 shows

us the following. The Act:

· Provides sweeping immunity to any manufacturer that produces any type of

countermeasure from any type of lawsuit stemming from injuries or death that may

occur to the recipient;

· Provides a Government fund for any person that has been injured or died as

a result of any countermeasure taken, with a cap of $250,000.00 per person, per

life. If a person becomes permanently disabled, it is unrealistic to believe

that this sum will last a couple of years, let alone a lifetime;

· Creates a new agency, the " Biomedical Advanced Research and Development

Agency " (BARDA), which will be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act

(FOIA), the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), and judicial review;

· Determines the Secretary of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to be the

sole authority on whether or not a person's injury or death resulted from the

countermeasure. The Secretary's decision is final and not subject to judicial

review.

So the Secretary authorized to declare a national emergency, would

coincidentally be the person who would review and rule on whether or not an

injury or death was the result of his/her decision, that would not be subject to

judicial review. Such practice may be suitable in an oligarchy but not in a

democracy. This is a significant conflict of interest.

Under " Project Bioshield " , the Secretary of DHHS, an appointed, unelected

official, can declare a national emergency based on intelligence of threats of

bioterrorism/pandemics/ epidemics (whether natural outbreaks or bioterrorism),

and whether those threats are real or potential. Should that occur, then every

American can be forced to submit to whatever countermeasure is deemed

appropriate, whether that countermeasure is FDA approved or not. To say the

least, this is completely unenforceable. The Bill of Rights cannot logically

coexist with such a law.

The " Homeland Security Act of 2002 " , removes liability for injuries

or deaths caused by the smallpox vaccine when it is used as a countermeasure.

Currently, the product label with the Wyeth Smallpox vaccine now carries a

" black box warning " about potentially fatal dangers to the heart.

The " Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of

2002 " , proposed changes to the vaccine and drug licensure standards. Under this

Act, known as the " animal efficacy rule " (meaning that testing on animals will

be deemed sufficient), could be enacted in order to use a drug or vaccine. The

true human cost in terms of injuries or deaths will not be known until mass

vaccination occurs.

The " Emergency Use Authorization " (EUA) allows the FDA to put into use

countermeasures that has either not been approved, or, not approved for their

intended use. The EUA has already injected the anthrax vaccine into over 1

million of our military service members under a Department of Defense order.

This has resulted in thousands of injured individuals, 21 deaths that are

admitted, and hundreds of court-martials which have resulted in felony

convictions. A federal judge (Doe v. Rumsfeld) put an end to this mandated

illegal practice. If however, S. 1873 is passed, there will be no judicial

review.

To ensure compliance to rapid responses, the " Model State Emergency Health

Powers Act " (MSEHPA) is an Act which allows Governors to declare an emergency

and to utilize the state militia in the control of all roads leading into and

out of the cities and the state. It allows the Governor to seize citizens'

personal property, to arrest and detain and forcibly examine, vaccinate and

medicate citizens and/or their minor children without informed consent. Should

death or injury occur during any of this process, any person acting on behalf of

the Government would not be held liable.

Taken as a whole or even in part, S. 1873, and the other Acts cited above are a

serious threat to our Constitution and to the liberty of all Americans. These

Acts are a direct assault on every American's freedom.

Written by Randi Airola, randiceaj@...

<mailto:randiceaj%40sbcglobal.net> , and Gowan, jggowan@...

<mailto:jggowan%40comcast.net>

To read the full paper with links and references to Senator Burr's staff

regarding S. 1873, and all other Acts cited above, by Barbara Fisher, go to:

http://www.nvic.org/2005_11-15_NVIC_Sen%20Burr_BioShield%202_v7.pdf