by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Senate Bill S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act vote imminent: Would outlaw gardening and saving seeds
(NaturalNews) Senate Bill 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, has been called "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America." It would grant the U.S. government new authority over the public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods. This would give Big brother the power to regulate the tomato plants in your backyard. It would grant them the power to arrest and imprison people selling cucumbers at farmer's markets. It would criminalize the transporting of organic produce if you don't comply with the authoritarian rules of the federal government.
"It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one's choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God." - Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower (http://shivchopra.com/?page_id=2)
This tyrannical law puts all food production (yes, even food produced in your own garden) under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. Yep -- the very same people running the TSA and its naked body scanner / passenger groping programs.
This law would also give the U.S. government the power to arrest any backyard food producer as a felon (a "smuggler") for merely growing lettuce and selling it at a local farmer's market.It also sells out U.S. sovereignty over our own food supply by ceding to the authority of both the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Codex Alimentarius.
It would criminalize seed saving (http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/seeds-how-to-criminalize-them/ ), turning backyard gardeners who save heirloom seeds into common criminals. This is obviously designed to give corporations like Monsanto a monopoly over seeds.
It would create an unreasonable paperwork burden that would put small food producers out of business, resulting in more power over the food supply shifting to large multinational corporations.
I encourage you to read more about this dangerous bill at the Food Freedom blog on Wordpress: http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/seeds-how-to-criminalize-them/
Watch this excellent video on NaturalNews.
TV which explains S.510 in more detail: http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=9209B7B02D4A5A8EA8B71038D6C18D26
Take action now or lose your right to grow your own foodSign this petition at Citizens for Health:http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=2312 Do it today! This is really important.
In addition, the Cornucopia Institute recently sent out an urgent call-to-action email containing the following information: (http://www.cornucopia.org/2010/11/action-alert-act-by-nov-17-on-senate-food-safety-legislation/)
How to protest Senate Bill 510
1) Go to Congress.org and type in your zip code in the box in the upper right hand corner.
2) Click on your Senator's name, and then on the contact tab for their phone number. You can also call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator's office: 202-224-3121
3) Once connected ask to speak to the legislative staff person responsible for agriculture. If they are unavailable leave a voice mail message. Be sure to include your name and phone number.
Give them this message in support of the "Tester Amendment" which would exempt small farms from S.510: "I am a constituent of Senator___________. I ask that he/she support the Tester Amendment to the food safety bill. The Tester Amendment will exempt the safest, small, owner-operator farms and food facilities and farmers who direct market their products to consumers, stores or restaurants. Food safety legislation should not create inappropriate and costly regulatory barriers to family farms and the growing healthy food movement in the drive to crack down on corporate bad actors. Please support the Tester Amendment and market opportunities for small and mid-sized family farms, and small food processing facilities.
"You may also wish to explain that you oppose the Food Safety Modernization Act in its entirety, and it is a destructive, freedom-crushing law that will destroy the future of food in America.
Remember, America has already lost control over its money supply to the Federal Reserve (nearly a hundred years ago). America has lost its health due to the medical industry and its profit-from-sickness agenda. Now we may lose our right to grow our own food and save our own seeds if Senate Bill 510 passes.
This is a dangerous, tyrannical law that would thrust the American people into an age of darkness and malnutrition. It would criminalize many of the very people growing our food and turn food production into yet another corporate monopoly.
Please take the time right now to contact your U.S. Senator and voice your strong opposition to this bill.
http://www.naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html
How they voted so far
Here’s how the senators voted on the motion to send S.510 to a full floor vote: (this is a procedural vote to move the bill forward so that it can be voted on for final passage)
Who voted in FAVOR of moving S.510 forward
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Who OPPOSED S.510
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)
All of you who live in states where senators voted in favor of this need to call your U.S. Senate offices today — right now — and urge them to oppose this nefarious bill.
Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator’s office: 202-224-3121.
We are about to lose our food freedoms over the bill, because unless more pressure is brought to bear, it looks like this bill will soon pass — and we will be thrust into a new era of FDA tyranny over the food supply.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Senate bill S 510 vote imminent – procedural vote passes 74-25
Mike Adams
Natural News
Thursday, November 18, 2010
(NaturalNews) U.S. Senate Bill S 510 is now on the Senate floor where a vote is expected shortly. Yesterday, the Motion to Invoke Cloture passed on a vote of 74-25 (see how they voted, below), sending the bill forward for a final vote perhaps as early as today.
US Senate offices are experiencing a huge backlash of grassroots opposition to the bill — called the Food Safety Modernization Act — as virtually every health freedom organization, family farm group and even dietary supplement companies have aligned to oppose this new bill. It is being called “The most dangerous bill in United States history” and would thrust America into a new Dark Ages of FDA tyranny over seeds, foods, herbs, gardens and nutritional supplements. (http://naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html)
Opposition to the bill has been widespread. For example, the John Birch Society issued this alert yesterday:
Senate Bill 510 has already passed committee and is on the Senate calendar. It calls for enhanced expansion of FDA authority over small farms, ranches, and other food producers, establishes burdensome administrative requirements for large and small operations, and arbitrary legal authority to recall “unsafe medications,” the definition of which is not clearly established; if in line with the global standard set by Codex Alimentarius, “unsafe medications” could extend to dietary supplements and herbal products. There is language that currently exempts from heavy regulation dietary supplement manufacturers and packagers. However, the FDA and its agents are notorious for interpreting regulations their own way.
Take Action: Click here to sign the John Birch Society petition opposing S.510.
http://www.votervoice.net/core.aspx?APP=GAC&AID=972&IssueID=22734&SiteID=-1
The John Birch Society insists that “My right to produce, distribute, and consume the foods of my choice is part of my right to life and liberty under the Constitution.”
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I happen to agree. The FDA has no business telling us we can’t buy raw milk, or we can’t save our own garden seeds or grow organic produce and sell it at the farmer’s market.
How they voted so far
Here’s how the senators voted on the motion to send S.510 to a full floor vote: (this is a procedural vote to move the bill forward so that it can be voted on for final passage)
Who voted in FAVOR of moving S.510 forward
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Who OPPOSED S.510
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)
All of you who live in states where senators voted in favor of this need to call your U.S. Senate offices today — right now — and urge them to oppose this nefarious bill.
Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator’s office: 202-224-3121.
We are about to lose our food freedoms over the bill, because unless more pressure is brought to bear, it looks like this bill will soon pass — and we will be thrust into a new era of FDA tyranny over the food supply.
Sign this petition at Citizens for Health:
http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=2312
Natural News
Thursday, November 18, 2010
(NaturalNews) U.S. Senate Bill S 510 is now on the Senate floor where a vote is expected shortly. Yesterday, the Motion to Invoke Cloture passed on a vote of 74-25 (see how they voted, below), sending the bill forward for a final vote perhaps as early as today.
US Senate offices are experiencing a huge backlash of grassroots opposition to the bill — called the Food Safety Modernization Act — as virtually every health freedom organization, family farm group and even dietary supplement companies have aligned to oppose this new bill. It is being called “The most dangerous bill in United States history” and would thrust America into a new Dark Ages of FDA tyranny over seeds, foods, herbs, gardens and nutritional supplements. (http://naturalnews.com/030418_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_seeds.html)
Opposition to the bill has been widespread. For example, the John Birch Society issued this alert yesterday:
Senate Bill 510 has already passed committee and is on the Senate calendar. It calls for enhanced expansion of FDA authority over small farms, ranches, and other food producers, establishes burdensome administrative requirements for large and small operations, and arbitrary legal authority to recall “unsafe medications,” the definition of which is not clearly established; if in line with the global standard set by Codex Alimentarius, “unsafe medications” could extend to dietary supplements and herbal products. There is language that currently exempts from heavy regulation dietary supplement manufacturers and packagers. However, the FDA and its agents are notorious for interpreting regulations their own way.
Take Action: Click here to sign the John Birch Society petition opposing S.510.
http://www.votervoice.net/core.aspx?APP=GAC&AID=972&IssueID=22734&SiteID=-1
The John Birch Society insists that “My right to produce, distribute, and consume the foods of my choice is part of my right to life and liberty under the Constitution.”
Having A Supply Of Healthy Foods That Last Just Makes Sense (AD)
I happen to agree. The FDA has no business telling us we can’t buy raw milk, or we can’t save our own garden seeds or grow organic produce and sell it at the farmer’s market.
How they voted so far
Here’s how the senators voted on the motion to send S.510 to a full floor vote: (this is a procedural vote to move the bill forward so that it can be voted on for final passage)
Who voted in FAVOR of moving S.510 forward
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Who OPPOSED S.510
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)
All of you who live in states where senators voted in favor of this need to call your U.S. Senate offices today — right now — and urge them to oppose this nefarious bill.
Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator’s office: 202-224-3121.
We are about to lose our food freedoms over the bill, because unless more pressure is brought to bear, it looks like this bill will soon pass — and we will be thrust into a new era of FDA tyranny over the food supply.
Sign this petition at Citizens for Health:
http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=2312
S510 Illegal Homegrown Food and Monsanto (What They Feed You 5)
ChangeDaChannel November 17, 2010
S.510 - http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/S.-510.pdf
Federal Food, Drug,and Cosmetic Act - http://www.nicfa.com/HR2749.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/health/policy/14fda.html?scp=1&sq=Food%20Safety%20Czar%20Michael%20R.%20Taylor&st=cse
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/senate-to-take-up-food-safety-bill/?scp=1&sq=%27Food%20Safety%20Bill%27&st=cse
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510&tab=summary
http://www.theworldsprophecy.com/senate-bill-s510-makes-it-illegal-to-grow-share-trade-or-sell-homegrown-food
http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/2010/08/for-immediate-release-gates-foundation-invests-in-monsanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor
How they voted so far
Here’s how the senators voted on the motion to send S.510 to a full floor vote: (this is a procedural vote to move the bill forward so that it can be voted on for final passage)
Who voted in FAVOR of moving S.510 forward
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Who OPPOSED S.510
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)
All of you who live in states where senators voted in favor of this need to call your U.S. Senate offices today — right now — and urge them to oppose this nefarious bill.
Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator’s office: 202-224-3121.
We are about to lose our food freedoms over the bill, because unless more pressure is brought to bear, it looks like this bill will soon pass — and we will be thrust into a new era of FDA tyranny over the food supply.
S.510 - http://www.foodpolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/S.-510.pdf
Federal Food, Drug,and Cosmetic Act - http://www.nicfa.com/HR2749.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/health/policy/14fda.html?scp=1&sq=Food%20Safety%20Czar%20Michael%20R.%20Taylor&st=cse
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/senate-to-take-up-food-safety-bill/?scp=1&sq=%27Food%20Safety%20Bill%27&st=cse
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510&tab=summary
http://www.theworldsprophecy.com/senate-bill-s510-makes-it-illegal-to-grow-share-trade-or-sell-homegrown-food
http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/2010/08/for-immediate-release-gates-foundation-invests-in-monsanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_R._Taylor
How they voted so far
Here’s how the senators voted on the motion to send S.510 to a full floor vote: (this is a procedural vote to move the bill forward so that it can be voted on for final passage)
Who voted in FAVOR of moving S.510 forward
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Who OPPOSED S.510
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)
All of you who live in states where senators voted in favor of this need to call your U.S. Senate offices today — right now — and urge them to oppose this nefarious bill.
Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator’s office: 202-224-3121.
We are about to lose our food freedoms over the bill, because unless more pressure is brought to bear, it looks like this bill will soon pass — and we will be thrust into a new era of FDA tyranny over the food supply.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Fiat money = fabrication.
Joe Belanger
July 19, 2010
Fiat money = fabrication.
I can fabricate as well as any. I can sign the document as well as anyone, and put a fabricated number which happens to equal the debt plus cost for recovery of the economy. Anyone can do this, except, that the Banks might not like competition.
But, YHWH does not care for competition either. How about we ask the creator?
Yeah, this guy here.
MichelleNye | July 16, 2010
MichelleNye's webcam video July 16, 2010, 01:52 AM
He's out of his mind. Right?
But, he makes more sense then the one's with documents that are evidence now against them.
Obama was probably smoking this since the day of the Oil Spill, that would be one excuse for killing a section of the PLANET..
To say he did not have a hand it it- Is mental illness in the making.
How can anyone say, he had no power to stop it?
Who did not have such a desire to stop this disaster?
Even before it happened, was evidence of foul death planned.
There is no excuse that I can fathom that does not equal mass murder.
Genocide. Sped up with toxic chemicals.
They have the numbers to predict mass hysteria. Perhaps revolution.
Why embark on their design? Who would agree to such a design?
Someone with mental illness.
That is the definition of mental illness.. > To cause harm to others or self.
Brian may appear insane, out of his mind, crazy. But it is not the desire to destroy any. At least upon that which is evident.
It is the Chafe that is taken up, in what churches of liberty profess is a "rapture". If there is in you, the hope for rapture, it is the reaping.
We reap ourselves. We are our own fruit upon which each is measured by self in reflection of what is thought to be God, if you believe in God.
If you do not believe in God, you have your own reflection to contend with. You are reincarnated, and you will find your place in it, as remedy for your past karma.
If you find you do not believe this, that is most understandable. Vaccines, needles with memory damage. Trauma of hospitals. Cold hand have made way and all efforts, that you do not recall such a thing.
It is of interest that you remain ignorant, and lost. It is of interest that you pray to a hope, and not to YHWH, who is evident in all that exists.
Unfair advantage of Nazi's and the war over your mind to keep it in submission. To train it into a state of entertainment, and FEAR.
In an order, and time relevant to study. Deep long study. They know your every word, before you speak it. You are as an animal.
You are the white rabbit in the cage. "Did you see that game?" "Wow, I never thought of that. Just a minute, someone's calling.".
You are in time with them. You are marching in a dream state towards bliss of not knowing you were killed, at the end of days.
Trauma of birth is not a new thing. Trauma of rebirth is the same.
Trauma of death, is the speed of unknown approaching.
I'm a blabbing. Read your toothpaste label.
"Here", said the doctor. "Take this pill once a day.".. It will kill you slow, rather than quickly for not complying with what is shown to be good for you.
Just take it. It helps you forget that you wanted to be healthy and have energy to repair damage to others.
I know. I'm a way whacked out conspiracy nut case gone over the edge to my peers.
What's the difference?
You claim to find sanity in your job that has no stable place of land to stand?
Sanity in supporting the troops that help to destroy themselves and their families-- that they are so blind to never consider it in the first place.
The military has lots of shots. LOTS of SHOTS.. Needles, Pressure injection, depleted uranium. Damage to property is not against the law, if it is your own property.
At least, I have not read it if such a law exists.
In service to your country, you become property of the United States.
The oath spoken, and understood that it is, it is your being making a promise. Not your STRAWMAN.
It is a verbal agreement. Even if you do not speak the words. When you serve, it is assumed as absolute evidence, that you understand it, and you are under Oath before God and all Nations.
Specifically America. Specifically the U.S. Constitution.
That is the DUTY of a soldier.
Not to kill the threat of war. But to face war when it is apparent and is in place to remove freedom, and land, which is allowed, by an agreement contract, which is the Constitution.
I have pity for soldiers, as they had no work, and envisioned places to go. travel the world, and be paid. To be promised places of training. Places of liberty.
When you sign your contract however. You surrender any ideas you had of a "plan" prior to basic training. You are property.
Only by agreement, are you willingly property. If you can read this, and understand it. If you are serving. You are destroying your country.
You are not fighting for freedom. You have become tricked into stealing it from an innocent nation. As innocent as America.
It is a home of privacy, that has survived many, many, many years. They have survived on less, and even that is being taken.
What mercy is there for you, that is in it, to kill the "Sand Niggers" as I have heard it spoke. They are brothers. They, as well as you, are victims of media.
Media of religion. Media of secret societies. Media of every type that is in support to terrorizing in order to control.
We are not victims of terrorism. We are the terrorists.
We have been made blind to see it.
By media.
Media that influences damage upon any. Is evidence of ignorance, but honest hearts of anger once.
Anger that need not be carried so far into this day. Nor tomorrow.
that's my nutcase dramatic blah blah opinion.
July 19, 2010
Fiat money = fabrication.
I can fabricate as well as any. I can sign the document as well as anyone, and put a fabricated number which happens to equal the debt plus cost for recovery of the economy. Anyone can do this, except, that the Banks might not like competition.
But, YHWH does not care for competition either. How about we ask the creator?
Yeah, this guy here.
MichelleNye | July 16, 2010
MichelleNye's webcam video July 16, 2010, 01:52 AM
He's out of his mind. Right?
But, he makes more sense then the one's with documents that are evidence now against them.
Obama was probably smoking this since the day of the Oil Spill, that would be one excuse for killing a section of the PLANET..
To say he did not have a hand it it- Is mental illness in the making.
How can anyone say, he had no power to stop it?
Who did not have such a desire to stop this disaster?
Even before it happened, was evidence of foul death planned.
There is no excuse that I can fathom that does not equal mass murder.
Genocide. Sped up with toxic chemicals.
They have the numbers to predict mass hysteria. Perhaps revolution.
Why embark on their design? Who would agree to such a design?
Someone with mental illness.
That is the definition of mental illness.. > To cause harm to others or self.
Brian may appear insane, out of his mind, crazy. But it is not the desire to destroy any. At least upon that which is evident.
It is the Chafe that is taken up, in what churches of liberty profess is a "rapture". If there is in you, the hope for rapture, it is the reaping.
We reap ourselves. We are our own fruit upon which each is measured by self in reflection of what is thought to be God, if you believe in God.
If you do not believe in God, you have your own reflection to contend with. You are reincarnated, and you will find your place in it, as remedy for your past karma.
If you find you do not believe this, that is most understandable. Vaccines, needles with memory damage. Trauma of hospitals. Cold hand have made way and all efforts, that you do not recall such a thing.
It is of interest that you remain ignorant, and lost. It is of interest that you pray to a hope, and not to YHWH, who is evident in all that exists.
Unfair advantage of Nazi's and the war over your mind to keep it in submission. To train it into a state of entertainment, and FEAR.
In an order, and time relevant to study. Deep long study. They know your every word, before you speak it. You are as an animal.
You are the white rabbit in the cage. "Did you see that game?" "Wow, I never thought of that. Just a minute, someone's calling.".
You are in time with them. You are marching in a dream state towards bliss of not knowing you were killed, at the end of days.
Trauma of birth is not a new thing. Trauma of rebirth is the same.
Trauma of death, is the speed of unknown approaching.
I'm a blabbing. Read your toothpaste label.
"Here", said the doctor. "Take this pill once a day.".. It will kill you slow, rather than quickly for not complying with what is shown to be good for you.
Just take it. It helps you forget that you wanted to be healthy and have energy to repair damage to others.
I know. I'm a way whacked out conspiracy nut case gone over the edge to my peers.
What's the difference?
You claim to find sanity in your job that has no stable place of land to stand?
Sanity in supporting the troops that help to destroy themselves and their families-- that they are so blind to never consider it in the first place.
The military has lots of shots. LOTS of SHOTS.. Needles, Pressure injection, depleted uranium. Damage to property is not against the law, if it is your own property.
At least, I have not read it if such a law exists.
In service to your country, you become property of the United States.
The oath spoken, and understood that it is, it is your being making a promise. Not your STRAWMAN.
It is a verbal agreement. Even if you do not speak the words. When you serve, it is assumed as absolute evidence, that you understand it, and you are under Oath before God and all Nations.
Specifically America. Specifically the U.S. Constitution.
That is the DUTY of a soldier.
Not to kill the threat of war. But to face war when it is apparent and is in place to remove freedom, and land, which is allowed, by an agreement contract, which is the Constitution.
I have pity for soldiers, as they had no work, and envisioned places to go. travel the world, and be paid. To be promised places of training. Places of liberty.
When you sign your contract however. You surrender any ideas you had of a "plan" prior to basic training. You are property.
Only by agreement, are you willingly property. If you can read this, and understand it. If you are serving. You are destroying your country.
You are not fighting for freedom. You have become tricked into stealing it from an innocent nation. As innocent as America.
It is a home of privacy, that has survived many, many, many years. They have survived on less, and even that is being taken.
What mercy is there for you, that is in it, to kill the "Sand Niggers" as I have heard it spoke. They are brothers. They, as well as you, are victims of media.
Media of religion. Media of secret societies. Media of every type that is in support to terrorizing in order to control.
We are not victims of terrorism. We are the terrorists.
We have been made blind to see it.
By media.
Media that influences damage upon any. Is evidence of ignorance, but honest hearts of anger once.
Anger that need not be carried so far into this day. Nor tomorrow.
that's my nutcase dramatic blah blah opinion.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
WARNING FOR THE 4TH JULY...NO FIREWORKS
MichelleNye | June 27, 2010 | 9:57
Stewwebb.com...whistleblower site news for intelligence and the military warns of possible nukes throughout US cities..Yahweh warns of fireworks igniting the gases at god knows where by...stay away from them and alert everyone you know to not light fireworks anywhere throughout the country....
Stewwebb.com...whistleblower site news for intelligence and the military warns of possible nukes throughout US cities..Yahweh warns of fireworks igniting the gases at god knows where by...stay away from them and alert everyone you know to not light fireworks anywhere throughout the country....
Saturday, June 26, 2010
EXTREME RED ALERT! Evacuation about to happen! Janelle/Asherah
EXTREME RED ALERT! Evacuation about to happen! Janelle/Asherah
MichelleNye June 25, 2010 6:31
YAHWEH IS ALREADY ON THE EARTH THROUGH REBIRTH..GO TO MICHELLENYE YOUTUBE..LATEST VIDS EXPLAIN WHAT LUCIFER'S PLAN IS FOR THE GULF...AN EXPLOSION 1BILLION TIMES GREATER THAN AN H BOMB..THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HE HAS BEEN HERE SINCE 1944 HAS BEEN WITHHELD BY LUCIFER
MichelleNye June 25, 2010 6:31
YAHWEH IS ALREADY ON THE EARTH THROUGH REBIRTH..GO TO MICHELLENYE YOUTUBE..LATEST VIDS EXPLAIN WHAT LUCIFER'S PLAN IS FOR THE GULF...AN EXPLOSION 1BILLION TIMES GREATER THAN AN H BOMB..THE KNOWLEDGE THAT HE HAS BEEN HERE SINCE 1944 HAS BEEN WITHHELD BY LUCIFER
Friday, June 25, 2010
EXTREME RED ALERT! Evacuation about to happen! Storms are mobilizing FEMA
PropheticSeer June 25, 2010 4:54
http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/extreme-alertmove-your
EXTREME RED ALERT! Evacuation about to happen! Storms are mobilizing FEMA
There is FIRE in the WATER!!!! Wake up gulf region....you are blindly going toward your own death if you do not heed these warnings! Obama wont tell you or come to your aid anymore than GW Bush didnt when Katrina hit.... this will be 1000's of times worse though! Millions will be effected and physically harmed
MichelleNye
Yawheh is already on the earth He posted hours ago the explosion they will cause using haarp go to MichelleNye youtube latest vids...get out now...do not wait...bomb haarp take out the administration rise up Yahweh is telling you to take out these devils who have planned this since 1903.get out and go ..do not wait go now..head WEST TOWARD BAJA PENINSULA...go go go Jesus has been on the earth since January 11th 1944...you have been scammed at every level and that knowledge has been kept from you
http://snardfarker.ning.com/profiles/blogs/extreme-alertmove-your
EXTREME RED ALERT! Evacuation about to happen! Storms are mobilizing FEMA
There is FIRE in the WATER!!!! Wake up gulf region....you are blindly going toward your own death if you do not heed these warnings! Obama wont tell you or come to your aid anymore than GW Bush didnt when Katrina hit.... this will be 1000's of times worse though! Millions will be effected and physically harmed
MichelleNye
Yawheh is already on the earth He posted hours ago the explosion they will cause using haarp go to MichelleNye youtube latest vids...get out now...do not wait...bomb haarp take out the administration rise up Yahweh is telling you to take out these devils who have planned this since 1903.get out and go ..do not wait go now..head WEST TOWARD BAJA PENINSULA...go go go Jesus has been on the earth since January 11th 1944...you have been scammed at every level and that knowledge has been kept from you
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Polish Murders Smolensk
MichelleNye — May 02, 2010 — 1 Polish Murders Smolensk Jet destroyed by London, Moscow and Washington under orders from the Vatican
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
70 Stories of Lives Destroyed by H1N1 Vaccine
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Date: 11/30/2009 7:19:58 PM
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70 Heartbreaking Stories From People Who Have Had Their Lives Destroyed By H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Side Effects
While a few stories about adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine have gotten into the mainstream media, the reality is that most mainstream media outlets are extremely hesitant to publish such stories. The general belief in the media seems to be that if they publish a story about a "rare" adverse reaction to the H1N1 vaccine, then the general public may be discouraged from taking the vaccine and more people will get sick. However, this is a totally false assumption by the media. The truth is that reports of serious adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are constantly pouring in. In addition, the pharmaceutical companies who produced these vaccines spend millions of dollars to advertise on mainstream media outlets. Do you think that the owners of those mainstream media outlets are going to do anything that will jeopardize that source of income? The truth is that the mainstream media is not going to tell you the stories of those people who have had their lives destroyed by H1N1 swine flu vaccine side effects. Since the mainstream media will not give these victims a voice, we will.
The personal H1N1 vaccine horror stories that you will read below come from comments on this blog along with stories from the following sources.
Bird Flu Pandemic
BabyCenter Community
Miscarriage / Pregnancy Loss Blog
Health Freedom Alliance
H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine, Possible Side Effects and the Potential Dangers of Squalene
Canadians for Health Freedom
Facebook Group - h1n1 Vaccine Reactions
Facebook Group - don't get the h1n1 vaccine
Facebook Group - Refusing The H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine
These are stories that you will not hear in the mainstream media. The reality is that a significant number of people are being hurt by the H1N1 swine flu vaccine and people need to know.
What follows are unedited stories from victims of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine in which they share what has happened to them in their own words.
#1) Margaret Densmore:
I GOT THE SHOT AND ALMOST DIED! I went into anaphlylatic shock, almost died and then (after getting out of ICU) proceeded to have two more extreme reactions over the course of 1 week. I went hystonic the second time and had excessive vomitting for two days as a third reaction, requiring hospitalization
#2) Maureen Burke:
My family has a long history of vaccine injuries that are not reported as vaccine injuries. The list includes three cases of GBS in same family. My mom got her H1N1 shot on Monday of last week. She is high risk health care worker..I begged her not to get shot. But she did anyway to protect her residents. She thought she may be getting a cold on Wed. She went into resp and cardiac arrest on Sat. They say double pnumonia. septic. She has been on life support for the last five days. She is not breathing on her own, she is in medically induced heavy sedation/coma. One has something to do with the other..what does it take to get medically advised not to take these damn shots???
#3) Ebonee Jones:
I was released from the hospital this morning after delivering my stillborn 26 week old son last night. I am a firm believer that the swine flu vaccine I received a few weeks ago contributed to my son’s demise. My baby was very active and then I received the vaccine. After that, I noticed a change in his activity and then I noticed no movement over the weekend. When I went into the doctor’s office yesterday, there was no heartbeat and I was induced. I would not wish this pain on my worse enemy. To carry a child for 6 1/2 months and then lose him is worse than anything imaginable.
#4) Maja:
hi everyone, im 21 years old and I got the H1N1 shot on friday morning. Ive been on the fence about this shot for a few weeks but finally decided that I did not want to be a carrier and just to go for it.
About 5-10 minutes after the shot I fainted, but they let me go half an hour later when my blood pressure was back to normal. immediately i started to worry i was having severe allergic reactions or signs of GBS. About 2 hours later at work I started to get tingling sensations in my right leg (I got the shot in my left arm), and I started to worry. It is now about 30 hours post shot and i just came home from work because i had a panick attack that i was getting GBS. My right arm started to tingle a while ago, and i have what seems like a big lump in my throat (ive been crying so maybe its from crying). Currently my legs are tingling and i am a giant stressball.
#5) Katharine Theodosiou Loucaidou:
I got vaccinated 17 days ago. At first, had the sore arm and swollen lymph nodes which went away after 3 days... then day 4 woke up with weak legs... weakness progressed making it difficult to stand for more than 10 min. at a time. Was able to walk but felt very shaky. Day 11 woke up with arm in the same weakened state... as my legs. Weakness progressed to the point that I had to go to emerge on Day 14...did a battery of tests, which show nothing..... now Day 17 weakness in arm gone, but still in the legs.... has anyone had anything like this? I haven't come across anyone with a similar reaction.
#6) sm:
I live in Toronto, Canada and got the h1n1 non-adjuvanted vaccine for pregnant women on Tues Nov 10th. I was 4 1/2 wks along. I started spotting next day but tried not to worry because i thought it may have been implantation spotting, next day I started bleeding heavily. I have miscarried the baby. Like you i will never know if it was the vaccine or not however it is heartwrenching to go through something like this. I have had 2 healthy full term pregnancies, no history of miscarriages, am healthy so I know in my heart the vaccine had to do with my loss.
#7) Noell A.Teasley:
I had the H1N1 vaccination about 6 weeks ago and the needle became jammed (the medicine had to be transferred to a second needle) and hurt immensely; the second shot felt normal. The nurses at the health department said that they had had alot of trouble with the needles that the state had provided (they were bigger, lo...nger and less likely to work as well as the normal needles they use do). The injection was in my left arm and I still can not move it without severe pain. I have notified my doctor and the health department and they are quite concerned, but have no idea of what is the matter or what to do. I am posting this information in the hopes that it will be helpful in the research/
#8) Ann:
My friend was diagnosed w/GBS today. She had the H1N1 vaccine on Tuesday. She woke up friday morn. with one side of her face paralized, now almost her whole face is paralized. She is starting blood and plasma transfusions tonight. She will be transferred to Barnes hospital soon for more extensive testing. To those who laugh at the severity of this strange, unknown sickness and vaccine I hope you stay informed and not ignorant.
#9) H. Gordon:
I am a 39 year old healthy female with no underlying health conditions and was feeling fine. I received the adjuvanted H1N1 shot on the afternoon of October 25/09 in Ottawa. I have had a reaction to the regular flu shot in the past so I do not get them; so I expected a reaction to this one as well. The reaction was much worse than I expected. By 9pm that evening I could barely move my arm it was so sore; I also felt a bit anxious and shaky. By 12:30 at night, I was sweaty and shaky and had a fever of 38.8 and lay awake unable to sleep till about 3:30 am. By the morning, I couldn’t lift my arm and my hand/wrist was swollen and I still had a fever…I took Tylenol and spent the day at home resting. I had wicked chills and my skin was crawling and I still had a fever. By the next morning, my fever had dropped to 37.5 and I started to feel better. It took a week to feel mostly back to normal. I then developed a really bad cold and sinus infection with a cough too so went to the doctor. Asked about the reaction to the shot and was told that likely I am allergic to one of the preservatives in the shot. Not a happy camper at all as I sat on the fence for awhile and tried to educate myself as best as I could before getting the shot.
#10) Felicia Kuo Wong:
I broke out in severe hives within 24 hours after the shot. Despite taking benadryl 50mg every 4 hours x 4 cycles, the hives just kept on getting worse to the point I was red like a lobster from my neck to my knees and it was spreading out more and more. I started Prednisone this afternoon and finally starting to get better!
#11) Alice Wodarek:
My daughter came down with Bells Palsy seven days after receiving the H1N1.
#12) Mindy:
i took the vaccine a week ago at 7 weeks and pregnant and i lost my baby three days ago at 8 weeks. plz plz plz dont make the same mistake i did and get the vaccine if you are pregnant. learn from me and save yourself the grief. if this will help some one so be it. i sure hope it does. dont get the vaccine
#13) AL:
I too received the H1N1 vaccine just one day before finding out I was pregnant (Nov 2). On Nov 12th I miscarried. I was 6 weeks pregnant. I have no other medical conditions and had 3 other healthy and to term pregnancies. I work in a hospital setting and was pushed by my employer to get vaccinated. My gut told me no but I did it anyway… now living to regret it.
#14) Kim Bruce:
I got my H1N1 shot two weeks ago on Tuesday, woke up Wednesday with a sore throat and stuffy nose, Thursday had a terrible chest congestion/
#15) Roger Hoelderlin:
Any one have a long lasting headache I got shot last tuesday and I have a headache lasting like 5 days with little relief, any suggestions!
#16) carole-anne:
I had the shot on Tuesday, after much pressuring by my medical employer. I wish I had stuck with my first thought which was to leave well alone. I get the winter shot every year and the H1N1 virus in in it. The swine flu is H1N1v. a sub group.
Tuesday evening my arm started hurting and I had nausea.
Wednesday morning i had a local reaction the size of a saucer on my arm. it was hot, swollen red and very painfull.
#17) Theresa Farris:
I had an ultrasound at 14 weeks on Oct 29th 2009 reporting all was well with myself and the baby. On that same day I received both the flu shot and the H1N1 shot. Two weeks later I went for a routine check up where the doctor could not find the heartbeat. I had another ultrasound showing no heartbeat or activity. After reveiwing the scan my OB said the baby died 12 days prior which would have been two days after the shot was administered. On Friday the 13th 2009 I had a DNC. I asked my doctor if that shot could’ve played a role in this “missed miscarriage”. He said absolutely not.
#18) Shelly Curl:
My two year old son had his H1N1 vaccine, a week later his leg was inflammed and covered in red blotches all over the area where he got it. The injection site got infected with a 2.5cm lump and he was treated with antibiotics and some benedryl & an ice pack to stop the itch.
#19) fe:
I have had the same reactions. Chest congestion and vomiting. I am 7 months pregnant. I am going to go to the ER tomorrow. I had none of these symptoms in anyway before getting the shot two weeks ago.
#20) Sam Snow:
A good friend of mine, after getting the swine flu vaccine, got a pain in his arm so severe it kept him awake all night. And he said he felt very ill for a couple of days. His sister also felt very ill after having this vaccine. What concerns me most are the long-term effects which, at present, we don’t know of.
#21) Kevin:
I work with someone who was 4 months pregnant. Her husband got swine flu, so both she and her son got the vaccine “just to be safe.” A week later, she had a miscarriage.
#22) Christina Pandiscia Grasso:
11 year old son had H1N1 shot/vaccine on Monday. Within 15 mins. blood pressure plummeted, vomited at the site of the H1N1 clinic, Dizzy, eyes dilated, verge of fainting, turned snow white. Blood pressure did not return to normal for two hours.
#23) Carrie:
I am a healthcare employee…the only vaccine offered to employees was the live vaccine. I decided to get it and be the “guinea pig” instead of my toddler. Received the nasal spray on Tuesday, woke up Wednesday with a sore throat and stuffy nose, Thursday had a terrible chest congestion/
#24) Ann Marie Lyons-Misko:
My son is 16..he had his H1N1 shot last week...as of yesterday he was complaining his leg hurt very bad..today both legs hurt...I am about to contact his doctor but can this be a side effect of the shot? He is not in sports and has done nothing strenuous to cause the pain.
#25) rsmitty:
Amy got her H1N1 flu shot today and had a nasty reaction. Just wanted to let everyone know so they can beware if and when you get yours. I am not getting one myself.
She lost her hearing, got diarreah, felt like she was going to pass out, heart heart was very racey, she felt like she couldn't breath, she was slurring her speech, her head felt very blurry/foggy etc.. She really did not want to get it to begin with and the doctor talked her into it. She said she will not get it again that's for sure. She said she thought she was gonna die. And as if she had a stroke. She is fine now but it took awhile for her to feel better. They kept her in the office for a while to keep an eye on her.
#26) Cheryl Ann Scott-Davis:
I had my 3 children done. My 12yr old had a fever, weakness and fatigue for about a week. My 5 yr old only had a sore arm. My 3yr old had a fever, diarrehia and severe swelling of her eyes within 24hrs after and had to be treated at the er.
#27) Audrey:
So the call Aaron got Wed about the 18 yr. old Scott who had a stroke!!!! I talked to the girlfriends mom Kerrie who is our friend. He is still in a coma. They said it is bacterial, and brought in a specialist from the states. He is bleeding from his brain, and many internal organs. Last night Kerrie left me a message saying the doctors, and specialist have spoken with the parents and admitted it is due to the h1n1 vaccine!
#28) Pregnant:
" i heard some of the nurses and staff talking today about kids who have gotten the h1n1 shot…i think a boy under or just 2 died from the shot (I will ask around for confirmation), and a lot of kids have gotten really sick from the shot, some kids have gotten swine flu from the shot. i talked to 4 people today that got the shot and got really super sick. i’ve been here since thursday…i went to my OB’s clinic and they are giving out shots to pregnant women in the clinic, and the place was packed. they have tried to vax me 3 times but i have refused!"
#29) Melody:
I had the H1N1 shot about 3 weeks ago, my son received the vaccine about 2 weeks ago, I have had pain in my arm since then, and he has also complained of arm pain.
#30) Barb:
a friend of mine today shared that her daughters friend ( a teenager) had taken the vax, and that same day she was bathing and became instantly ill… she felt light headed to the point of passing out, couldn’t communicate, managed to get her house coat on, head spinning and got down stairs opened the front door so she could yell out for help because she didn’t know what was happening to her. she passed out at the door.
#31) Pamela Genge-Way:
I had my vacine last friday around 2:00pm and around 10:00 that night, I started breaking out in hives. Have never had hives before this. All the hives started joining together, crazy itchy!!!! I was like I had a sunburn over my whole body. Started to swell in the arm, hands, legs, feet, chin, and lip. My feet is still swollen, but not itchy now. Thank God!!!
#32) Melissa Steinhart:
My 3 yr old got the shot, 2 days later came down with a runny nose, high fever (103) and massive headache. 36 hours later, the fever went away, but the headache remained. No one at her school was sick or is sick, so I know it was this shot. NO WAY am I getting the 2nd one..
#33) Heather Noëll:
I have a friend who's elderly aunt received the H1N1 vaccination and then died of swine flu two weeks ago.
#34) Kim from Ontario:
My two boys had the shot and they both had different reactions. The first one had difficulty breathing about 4 hours after……but is fine now. My second son had diminished reflex ability in the arm that he got the needle in but it developed a week later. It would shake when he extended it and would be in great pain. Did anyone one else experience that? I too had the shot and had a sore arm and it was soar to lift but i think everyone had that. His arm is almost able to extend fully now but it still shakes. Would I get the shot if i were to do it all again. NO WAY!
#35) Sheryl Colbourne:
My 10 month old son had his needle on Sat morning... 9 hours later he developed a Fever of 100-102 and very soar leg, didnt want to walk or crawl.
#36) Jennifer Griffith:
My doctor is treating a 4 yr old who was perfectly healthy before he got the Swine/H1N1 vaccination a few weeks ago. His brain swelled, and he was given 2 weeks to live as his body is shutting down. As of today he's alive, but my doctor is not sure if he's going to make it.
#37) Lisa Engle:
ran into a mom who was LIVID after vaccinating her son last week. his arm is still swollen and splotchy, he's had a fever and been vomiting since.
#38) Laurie Sasser:
I was 13 weeks pregnant and had the H1N1 vaccine on October 26th and miscarried early morning of October 29th.
#39) Mona Tannous:
Took my 2 yr and 10 month for shot yesterday. My 10 moths seems ok with no reaction. My 2 yr daughter didnt sleep all night. Started with very sore arm and I think joint pain since she was pointing to her knees. Then she started low grade fever. She vomitted. Then she woke up again complaining of stomach pain and vomitted another time!
#40) EBWashington:
I am so upset. I was so excited to be pregnant after trying for a year. As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I joined this birth club and I was due June 25th. We have two healthy boys with no history of miscarriage. Everything was going great. Last Monday, I got the H1N1 vaccine thimerosal reduced (mercury reduced for pregnant women). On Tuesday morning, I started cramping and on Wednesday I started bleeding heavily. My hcg was 50 on Wednesday and I was almost 6 weeks along so it was low. They still thought that I might be pregnant but on Friday my hcg was down to 22. I am an emotional wreck. I feel like I had a healthy baby and I caused this by getting the H1N1 vaccine. My doctors pushed it. I researched online and there have been many miscarriages after the H1N1 vaccine but they haven't been reported since it is hard to say what caused the miscarriages. I hope that I did not cause this. I wish everyone the best.
#41) Rupen:
I am diabetic (type 2) and had the H1N1 shot a few days ago.I was mildly sick for about three days after. My wife (49) had the two shots yesterday (Nov.20th) at noon and at 11PM she had wicked chills and fever.No sleep all night, and I treated her with Advil. No more Chills, but feverish and cold even 3 hrs after.Both arms are sore too.
#42) Tayla08:
I don't have an answer for you, but a friend of a friend just had a miscarriage 2-3 days after getting the shot. She was 7weeks. She had no previous history of m/c No one can answer if they're related...it hasn't been out long enough and there haven't been any studies done on pregnant women. I will tell you, that it has made up my mind on getting it...I won't and I'm not going to get it for my DD either. My daughter and I both had H1N1 last week, and although it truly sucks...I think I'll take my chances. One doctor will tell you to get it and the next will tell you not too...you have to do what's in your heart.
#43) 90707:
my heart goes out to you as i recently miscarried as well and was due in june. i had a healthy heart beat at 6wks. then at 7.5 wks my son got the h1n1 mist vaccine which has live vaccine in it. the nurse said to be careful b/c it could technically spread if he rubbed his nose and touched a surface etc. the next night i miscarried and 5 days later was diagnosed with h1n1. i work from home, kids are home, hadnt been anywhere during that time. so the chances that it is all related are very high. the flu mist vaccine warns for immunocompromis
#44) Regrets:
I got both vaccines on Thursday. I was 9 weeks pregnant. I miscarried on Sunday. I was told by several doctors to get these vaccines. Now I wish I followed my gut feeling and not get them at ALL!
#45) Laura J:
I got my h1n1 shot on November friday 6th, I really regret I did it, I have not feeling well since then, I am very concerned about my health!!! I started having pain at the injection site and after 2 days, headache, fatigue, shivering so bad, sweating and ache in my musles, and as a consequence… not going to work the whole week!!!. Is there going to be any kind of treatment after this very bad decision alot of people made??
#46) anonymous:
i work in a hospital like setting and was told ‘the benefits outweigh the risks” 1am i got the vaccine, 3am i started bleeding and craming, 3pm miscarried. you decide
#47) sue:
I had the H1N1 vaccination and 24 hours later had a miscarriage.
#48) Linda Hill:
My daughter in law was 10 weeks pregnant and had the H1N1 vaccine on Friday that night she miscarried.
#49) SoSorry:
I was so ready to get the H1N1 vaccine last week and they were only giving them to pregnant women. I was 6 weeks along and got it and the next day I started cramping and miscarried. I already had two healthy pregnancies and never miscarried or had any problems. My doctors think I am crazy to think it was the H1N1 but if no one looks into this than other women will not know. I am so sorry that I got it.
#50) Cameron Neal:
I’m in Cornwall Ontario, have heard a couple of friends and their children coming down with the flu after only a few short hours of having the H1N1 vaccine, and have heard of several others neighbors and friends on my facebook that have said they were very ill after receiving the shot, including high fevers, the flu, major of their arm, grogginess. and in bed for a few days etc.
Also I was told by a friend who was visiting a Cornwall nursing home that he overheard nurses speaking and that they were saying of their residents had went crippled from the H1N1 vaccine!
#51) Connie:
I also received the H1N1 vaccination on October 22nd, 2009 and went into labor on October 25th, at 16 weeks pregnant and we just heard the heartbeat and everything was fine with my pregnancy on October 16th, 2009, then on October 28th my water broke then on October 29th, I delivered a stillborn baby boy, and no one can tell me why…Everyone wants to say it did not come from the shot but I believe it did. My baby was growing at the correct pace and everyone wants to brush off the vaccination. I say if you have the vaccination and suffer a miscarriage if they are able to perform an autopsy have it done.
I also agree something needs to be done and looked more into with this vaccination because most women are being advised it’s just something that happens, but I also had two healthy children normal pregnancies and when I received this vaccination with my third pregnancy, my baby is gone.
#52) Linda:
I had my shot on Friday evening as well, and they had to call my husband to come and pick me up from the clinic due to nausea, tingling hands, feet and face as well as feeling like I was going to faint. I felt sick all weekend, and missed work yesterday. I am at work today, but still feel very weak and am experiencing strange sensations in my hands and feet.
#53) sioux falls, south dakota:
I received the H1N1 vaccine on October 16th and started experiencing cramping on the 22nd. I was nearly 17 weeks pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby boy on the 23rd. Like many of the other women here, the first thing I suspected was the H1N1 vaccine. I immediately asked a nurse at the hospital if that would have anything to do with it. Without hesitation, she told me “absolutely not.” I had reservations about getting the vaccine, but followed the advice of my long trusted family doctor. In a follow up appointment with my doctor 3 days after I lost my baby, I asked him if the vaccine would have had any adverse effects on my baby. He also said that it was not possible. I don’t believe that my doctor was necessarily lying to me, he was simply following the accepted practices and opinions of his field. I do, however, believe that as a nation, we are being lied to. This vaccine is NOT safe during pregnancy. There has not been enough testing done to determine this and there are far too many “coincidences” for this to be anything but a result of a vaccine that was hastily pushed into production and distribution in an effort to stop widespread panic. I have read so many stories in defense of the vaccine that will talk about how common miscarriages are, but I would challenge you to ask ANY health care professional how common second trimester miscarriages are. My baby was doing perfect developmentally
#54) Mac:
I had the regular H1N1 vaccination on Monday, November 16th in the morning. I was fine until about 1:00 in the morning (now Tuesday). I awoke with severe stomach pains and diarhea. This lasted until Saturday – off and on. On Tuesday afternoon, I suddenly felt very exhausted and then started coughing, had a headache, a fever, muscle achiness and just felt basically rotten. Here it is now Sunday evening, and I am still not feeling great. My stomach pains are gone, but all the rest remains, although not as bad as a couple of days ago. My fever is lower than before (it was usually around 38.6 – 39), but still comes and goes.
My arm has been sore most of the week, but nothing I couldn’t handle until last night. The pain has really increased and now there is a red spot where the injection site was. My whole arm is sore now and very difficult to lift and extremely sore if I role on it while laying down (which is something I must do a lot of right now).
#55) Marina Rossi:
I recently got the H1N1 vaccine and miscarried 3 days later. I thought it could have been the vaccine but didnt ask. After finding this site I believe it was the vaccine. Sorry to everyone else out there who has just experienced a miscarriage.
#56) Jody:
I got the shot on october 21 i have went to the hospital 4 times because i felt like i couldnt breathe shaking and felt nausea. after about 10 days i started felling better it lasted almost 2 weeks of feeling good then yesterday i ended up at the hospital again they checked my blood did a nerve test and said everthing was good but iam still experiencing tingling in my arms and legs and feeling like vomiting very damn scary and i so regret getting the vaccination
#57) kathy-sd:
I’m from a town of 2000 in SD, there are several women pregnant and we are all due within a few weeks of each other. Four of us got the H1N1 vaccine 2 weeks ago and one by one each of us started to have preterm contractions. We are all due in Nov and Dec so we are further along than most of the people that lost their babies. There is no way you can tell us that our preterm labor was not caused by the H1N1 vaccine. It may look like a “fluke” to some people when these women are scattered all over the country but we are talking about 4 of us in our small community. My heart goes out to all of you that lost your babies.
#58) Maria:
I received adjuvant vaccine. 3 days later, developed rt side back pain with tingling in feet. Tingling has persisted mostly on feet up to calves, sometimes on hands. After the tingling, sometimes have a tight, weak feeling in the calf/foot muscles. This is now Day 16 post vaccination. Symptoms are no better but do wax and wane, most often they are present. Have reported this to Public Health and have seen a specialist but can get no reassurance or prognosis. They don’t know if it is temporary or permanent and can offer no advice. They just don’t know enough about this vaccine. Have spent every day worrying about Guillain Barre and whether this is permanent.
#59) ashley:
Im not sure but not only myself, i know someone that withing 4 days of getting the shot we both miscarried, i was only 6 weeks and she was 4 months along, not sure if the shot caused it and cant find any other information but i am a little concerned about this coincidence.
#60) Wendy:
My daughter had the vaccine, and about 10 minutes later she got extremely thirsty and panicky. Then she suddenly felt very ill and nauseus and tried throwing up. She suddenly went pale ( I mean white from head to toe, her arms were white), we were told to take her to lie down on the mat, and by the time we were walking to the mat her skin turned green! I mean absolutely green, I didn’t even know that someone could turn green! Her arms were green too, and especially around her lips. I was so scared!! She also complained of feeling very sweaty. It took her awhile to get her color back to normal, she had a headache after and was extremely tired.
#61) Nurse in Nashville, Tennessee:
Increased Body aches, nausea/
#62) Kayte:
My husband’s pregnant coworker (5 months along) called her doctor on the day they were giving the regular flu shots at work. He said she should get it. She did, and lost her baby the next week. This enrages and sickens me that the medical industry is pushing these shots on pregnant women and children, especially the new, little-tested, experimental H1N1 vaccine!
#63) Shannon Bzowy:
my sister in law felt perfectly healthy went for her vaccine and ended up in hospital almost died.Scared me.
#64) Kevin:
I work with someone who was 4 months pregnant. Her husband got swine flu, so both she and her son got the vaccine “just to be safe.” A week later, she had a miscarriage. Any supposed benefits from the vaccine are clearly outweighed by the tremendous risks.
#65) Carolyn Hicks:
My sons girlfriend just took the vaccine on November 16 and miscarriaged on November 18th. I totally agree that it was the vaccine. Please Please do not take the vaccine if you are pregnant.
#66) Sufferer:
Please do not take this flu-shot vaccination. I got one about 8 years ago and look what happened to me, I have peripheral neuropathy. It started with the arm they injected; numbness and tingling, all seemed quite harmless at first. But then it spread like a wild fire throughout my entire body, slowly but surely. Trust me, you don’t want any neurological disease, you would rather die its quite terrible. You can almost cure any part of your body except your nerves, any damage is usually irreversible and incurable.
#67) Debra Giraudo:
My son and his pregnant wife just lost their little baby. She got a swine flu vaccine and lost the baby that day. We would like to join others in a class action suit. Do you have any information?
#68) shantelle:
I Have Some Of these Side Of Affects …And i think Its Not Right Because they Didnt Tell me Anything about This..All told me Is that There Be a Some redness and Ur Arm Would Hurt…But They Didnt Tell Me After That Bull Is Done…I’ll Start Coughing Snizzing…Feelin
#69) Kim:
My son is with the 2010 games security force. He was given the vaccine a couple of weeks ago and has come down with some kind of lung infection. He has never had any kind of respiritory issues before. He is healthy and 21 years old.
#70) Alicia Lamb:
I received the H1N1 vaccine on October 29th and I was 14 weeks and 1 day pregnant. On November 11th my water broke. I was 16 weeks pregnant. Up until that point I was having a healthy normal pregnancy without any symptoms until November 8th when I started having mild cramps off and on. This was my first pregnancy and my doctor said that this was normal. I delivered a still born on November 12th and I really do believe that the vaccine had something to do with it. I am not sure if I will ever be able to forgive myself for getting this vaccine even though my doctor recommended it, it was ultimately my decision to get it.
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It would be hard to imagine anyone reading those heartbreaking stories without getting incredibly disturbed. Unfortunately, there are an increasing number of environmental extremists who would be more than happy for large chunks of the earth's population to suddenly perish. In fact, The United Nations Population Fund has just released its annual State of the World Population Report, and in that report the UNPF openly declares that population growth needs to be reduced in order to combat climate change.
You see, to many environmental extremists, humanity is a disease that needs to be eradicated. They would willingly sacrifice "one species" in order to "save the earth".
But we know that humanity is not a disease. Human life is precious, and it should be vigilantly protected and guarded. The fact that vaccines are damaging so many lives should be of great concern to all of us. If you know of any other stories of adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine please share them with us in the comments section below.
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70 Heartbreaking Stories From People Who Have Had Their Lives Destroyed By H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine Side Effects
While a few stories about adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine have gotten into the mainstream media, the reality is that most mainstream media outlets are extremely hesitant to publish such stories. The general belief in the media seems to be that if they publish a story about a "rare" adverse reaction to the H1N1 vaccine, then the general public may be discouraged from taking the vaccine and more people will get sick. However, this is a totally false assumption by the media. The truth is that reports of serious adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are constantly pouring in. In addition, the pharmaceutical companies who produced these vaccines spend millions of dollars to advertise on mainstream media outlets. Do you think that the owners of those mainstream media outlets are going to do anything that will jeopardize that source of income? The truth is that the mainstream media is not going to tell you the stories of those people who have had their lives destroyed by H1N1 swine flu vaccine side effects. Since the mainstream media will not give these victims a voice, we will.
The personal H1N1 vaccine horror stories that you will read below come from comments on this blog along with stories from the following sources.
Bird Flu Pandemic
BabyCenter Community
Miscarriage / Pregnancy Loss Blog
Health Freedom Alliance
H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine, Possible Side Effects and the Potential Dangers of Squalene
Canadians for Health Freedom
Facebook Group - h1n1 Vaccine Reactions
Facebook Group - don't get the h1n1 vaccine
Facebook Group - Refusing The H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine
These are stories that you will not hear in the mainstream media. The reality is that a significant number of people are being hurt by the H1N1 swine flu vaccine and people need to know.
What follows are unedited stories from victims of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine in which they share what has happened to them in their own words.
#1) Margaret Densmore:
I GOT THE SHOT AND ALMOST DIED! I went into anaphlylatic shock, almost died and then (after getting out of ICU) proceeded to have two more extreme reactions over the course of 1 week. I went hystonic the second time and had excessive vomitting for two days as a third reaction, requiring hospitalization
#2) Maureen Burke:
My family has a long history of vaccine injuries that are not reported as vaccine injuries. The list includes three cases of GBS in same family. My mom got her H1N1 shot on Monday of last week. She is high risk health care worker..I begged her not to get shot. But she did anyway to protect her residents. She thought she may be getting a cold on Wed. She went into resp and cardiac arrest on Sat. They say double pnumonia. septic. She has been on life support for the last five days. She is not breathing on her own, she is in medically induced heavy sedation/coma. One has something to do with the other..what does it take to get medically advised not to take these damn shots???
#3) Ebonee Jones:
I was released from the hospital this morning after delivering my stillborn 26 week old son last night. I am a firm believer that the swine flu vaccine I received a few weeks ago contributed to my son’s demise. My baby was very active and then I received the vaccine. After that, I noticed a change in his activity and then I noticed no movement over the weekend. When I went into the doctor’s office yesterday, there was no heartbeat and I was induced. I would not wish this pain on my worse enemy. To carry a child for 6 1/2 months and then lose him is worse than anything imaginable.
#4) Maja:
hi everyone, im 21 years old and I got the H1N1 shot on friday morning. Ive been on the fence about this shot for a few weeks but finally decided that I did not want to be a carrier and just to go for it.
About 5-10 minutes after the shot I fainted, but they let me go half an hour later when my blood pressure was back to normal. immediately i started to worry i was having severe allergic reactions or signs of GBS. About 2 hours later at work I started to get tingling sensations in my right leg (I got the shot in my left arm), and I started to worry. It is now about 30 hours post shot and i just came home from work because i had a panick attack that i was getting GBS. My right arm started to tingle a while ago, and i have what seems like a big lump in my throat (ive been crying so maybe its from crying). Currently my legs are tingling and i am a giant stressball.
#5) Katharine Theodosiou Loucaidou:
I got vaccinated 17 days ago. At first, had the sore arm and swollen lymph nodes which went away after 3 days... then day 4 woke up with weak legs... weakness progressed making it difficult to stand for more than 10 min. at a time. Was able to walk but felt very shaky. Day 11 woke up with arm in the same weakened state... as my legs. Weakness progressed to the point that I had to go to emerge on Day 14...did a battery of tests, which show nothing..... now Day 17 weakness in arm gone, but still in the legs.... has anyone had anything like this? I haven't come across anyone with a similar reaction.
#6) sm:
I live in Toronto, Canada and got the h1n1 non-adjuvanted vaccine for pregnant women on Tues Nov 10th. I was 4 1/2 wks along. I started spotting next day but tried not to worry because i thought it may have been implantation spotting, next day I started bleeding heavily. I have miscarried the baby. Like you i will never know if it was the vaccine or not however it is heartwrenching to go through something like this. I have had 2 healthy full term pregnancies, no history of miscarriages, am healthy so I know in my heart the vaccine had to do with my loss.
#7) Noell A.Teasley:
I had the H1N1 vaccination about 6 weeks ago and the needle became jammed (the medicine had to be transferred to a second needle) and hurt immensely; the second shot felt normal. The nurses at the health department said that they had had alot of trouble with the needles that the state had provided (they were bigger, lo...nger and less likely to work as well as the normal needles they use do). The injection was in my left arm and I still can not move it without severe pain. I have notified my doctor and the health department and they are quite concerned, but have no idea of what is the matter or what to do. I am posting this information in the hopes that it will be helpful in the research/
#8) Ann:
My friend was diagnosed w/GBS today. She had the H1N1 vaccine on Tuesday. She woke up friday morn. with one side of her face paralized, now almost her whole face is paralized. She is starting blood and plasma transfusions tonight. She will be transferred to Barnes hospital soon for more extensive testing. To those who laugh at the severity of this strange, unknown sickness and vaccine I hope you stay informed and not ignorant.
#9) H. Gordon:
I am a 39 year old healthy female with no underlying health conditions and was feeling fine. I received the adjuvanted H1N1 shot on the afternoon of October 25/09 in Ottawa. I have had a reaction to the regular flu shot in the past so I do not get them; so I expected a reaction to this one as well. The reaction was much worse than I expected. By 9pm that evening I could barely move my arm it was so sore; I also felt a bit anxious and shaky. By 12:30 at night, I was sweaty and shaky and had a fever of 38.8 and lay awake unable to sleep till about 3:30 am. By the morning, I couldn’t lift my arm and my hand/wrist was swollen and I still had a fever…I took Tylenol and spent the day at home resting. I had wicked chills and my skin was crawling and I still had a fever. By the next morning, my fever had dropped to 37.5 and I started to feel better. It took a week to feel mostly back to normal. I then developed a really bad cold and sinus infection with a cough too so went to the doctor. Asked about the reaction to the shot and was told that likely I am allergic to one of the preservatives in the shot. Not a happy camper at all as I sat on the fence for awhile and tried to educate myself as best as I could before getting the shot.
#10) Felicia Kuo Wong:
I broke out in severe hives within 24 hours after the shot. Despite taking benadryl 50mg every 4 hours x 4 cycles, the hives just kept on getting worse to the point I was red like a lobster from my neck to my knees and it was spreading out more and more. I started Prednisone this afternoon and finally starting to get better!
#11) Alice Wodarek:
My daughter came down with Bells Palsy seven days after receiving the H1N1.
#12) Mindy:
i took the vaccine a week ago at 7 weeks and pregnant and i lost my baby three days ago at 8 weeks. plz plz plz dont make the same mistake i did and get the vaccine if you are pregnant. learn from me and save yourself the grief. if this will help some one so be it. i sure hope it does. dont get the vaccine
#13) AL:
I too received the H1N1 vaccine just one day before finding out I was pregnant (Nov 2). On Nov 12th I miscarried. I was 6 weeks pregnant. I have no other medical conditions and had 3 other healthy and to term pregnancies. I work in a hospital setting and was pushed by my employer to get vaccinated. My gut told me no but I did it anyway… now living to regret it.
#14) Kim Bruce:
I got my H1N1 shot two weeks ago on Tuesday, woke up Wednesday with a sore throat and stuffy nose, Thursday had a terrible chest congestion/
#15) Roger Hoelderlin:
Any one have a long lasting headache I got shot last tuesday and I have a headache lasting like 5 days with little relief, any suggestions!
#16) carole-anne:
I had the shot on Tuesday, after much pressuring by my medical employer. I wish I had stuck with my first thought which was to leave well alone. I get the winter shot every year and the H1N1 virus in in it. The swine flu is H1N1v. a sub group.
Tuesday evening my arm started hurting and I had nausea.
Wednesday morning i had a local reaction the size of a saucer on my arm. it was hot, swollen red and very painfull.
#17) Theresa Farris:
I had an ultrasound at 14 weeks on Oct 29th 2009 reporting all was well with myself and the baby. On that same day I received both the flu shot and the H1N1 shot. Two weeks later I went for a routine check up where the doctor could not find the heartbeat. I had another ultrasound showing no heartbeat or activity. After reveiwing the scan my OB said the baby died 12 days prior which would have been two days after the shot was administered. On Friday the 13th 2009 I had a DNC. I asked my doctor if that shot could’ve played a role in this “missed miscarriage”. He said absolutely not.
#18) Shelly Curl:
My two year old son had his H1N1 vaccine, a week later his leg was inflammed and covered in red blotches all over the area where he got it. The injection site got infected with a 2.5cm lump and he was treated with antibiotics and some benedryl & an ice pack to stop the itch.
#19) fe:
I have had the same reactions. Chest congestion and vomiting. I am 7 months pregnant. I am going to go to the ER tomorrow. I had none of these symptoms in anyway before getting the shot two weeks ago.
#20) Sam Snow:
A good friend of mine, after getting the swine flu vaccine, got a pain in his arm so severe it kept him awake all night. And he said he felt very ill for a couple of days. His sister also felt very ill after having this vaccine. What concerns me most are the long-term effects which, at present, we don’t know of.
#21) Kevin:
I work with someone who was 4 months pregnant. Her husband got swine flu, so both she and her son got the vaccine “just to be safe.” A week later, she had a miscarriage.
#22) Christina Pandiscia Grasso:
11 year old son had H1N1 shot/vaccine on Monday. Within 15 mins. blood pressure plummeted, vomited at the site of the H1N1 clinic, Dizzy, eyes dilated, verge of fainting, turned snow white. Blood pressure did not return to normal for two hours.
#23) Carrie:
I am a healthcare employee…the only vaccine offered to employees was the live vaccine. I decided to get it and be the “guinea pig” instead of my toddler. Received the nasal spray on Tuesday, woke up Wednesday with a sore throat and stuffy nose, Thursday had a terrible chest congestion/
#24) Ann Marie Lyons-Misko:
My son is 16..he had his H1N1 shot last week...as of yesterday he was complaining his leg hurt very bad..today both legs hurt...I am about to contact his doctor but can this be a side effect of the shot? He is not in sports and has done nothing strenuous to cause the pain.
#25) rsmitty:
Amy got her H1N1 flu shot today and had a nasty reaction. Just wanted to let everyone know so they can beware if and when you get yours. I am not getting one myself.
She lost her hearing, got diarreah, felt like she was going to pass out, heart heart was very racey, she felt like she couldn't breath, she was slurring her speech, her head felt very blurry/foggy etc.. She really did not want to get it to begin with and the doctor talked her into it. She said she will not get it again that's for sure. She said she thought she was gonna die. And as if she had a stroke. She is fine now but it took awhile for her to feel better. They kept her in the office for a while to keep an eye on her.
#26) Cheryl Ann Scott-Davis:
I had my 3 children done. My 12yr old had a fever, weakness and fatigue for about a week. My 5 yr old only had a sore arm. My 3yr old had a fever, diarrehia and severe swelling of her eyes within 24hrs after and had to be treated at the er.
#27) Audrey:
So the call Aaron got Wed about the 18 yr. old Scott who had a stroke!!!! I talked to the girlfriends mom Kerrie who is our friend. He is still in a coma. They said it is bacterial, and brought in a specialist from the states. He is bleeding from his brain, and many internal organs. Last night Kerrie left me a message saying the doctors, and specialist have spoken with the parents and admitted it is due to the h1n1 vaccine!
#28) Pregnant:
" i heard some of the nurses and staff talking today about kids who have gotten the h1n1 shot…i think a boy under or just 2 died from the shot (I will ask around for confirmation), and a lot of kids have gotten really sick from the shot, some kids have gotten swine flu from the shot. i talked to 4 people today that got the shot and got really super sick. i’ve been here since thursday…i went to my OB’s clinic and they are giving out shots to pregnant women in the clinic, and the place was packed. they have tried to vax me 3 times but i have refused!"
#29) Melody:
I had the H1N1 shot about 3 weeks ago, my son received the vaccine about 2 weeks ago, I have had pain in my arm since then, and he has also complained of arm pain.
#30) Barb:
a friend of mine today shared that her daughters friend ( a teenager) had taken the vax, and that same day she was bathing and became instantly ill… she felt light headed to the point of passing out, couldn’t communicate, managed to get her house coat on, head spinning and got down stairs opened the front door so she could yell out for help because she didn’t know what was happening to her. she passed out at the door.
#31) Pamela Genge-Way:
I had my vacine last friday around 2:00pm and around 10:00 that night, I started breaking out in hives. Have never had hives before this. All the hives started joining together, crazy itchy!!!! I was like I had a sunburn over my whole body. Started to swell in the arm, hands, legs, feet, chin, and lip. My feet is still swollen, but not itchy now. Thank God!!!
#32) Melissa Steinhart:
My 3 yr old got the shot, 2 days later came down with a runny nose, high fever (103) and massive headache. 36 hours later, the fever went away, but the headache remained. No one at her school was sick or is sick, so I know it was this shot. NO WAY am I getting the 2nd one..
#33) Heather Noëll:
I have a friend who's elderly aunt received the H1N1 vaccination and then died of swine flu two weeks ago.
#34) Kim from Ontario:
My two boys had the shot and they both had different reactions. The first one had difficulty breathing about 4 hours after……but is fine now. My second son had diminished reflex ability in the arm that he got the needle in but it developed a week later. It would shake when he extended it and would be in great pain. Did anyone one else experience that? I too had the shot and had a sore arm and it was soar to lift but i think everyone had that. His arm is almost able to extend fully now but it still shakes. Would I get the shot if i were to do it all again. NO WAY!
#35) Sheryl Colbourne:
My 10 month old son had his needle on Sat morning... 9 hours later he developed a Fever of 100-102 and very soar leg, didnt want to walk or crawl.
#36) Jennifer Griffith:
My doctor is treating a 4 yr old who was perfectly healthy before he got the Swine/H1N1 vaccination a few weeks ago. His brain swelled, and he was given 2 weeks to live as his body is shutting down. As of today he's alive, but my doctor is not sure if he's going to make it.
#37) Lisa Engle:
ran into a mom who was LIVID after vaccinating her son last week. his arm is still swollen and splotchy, he's had a fever and been vomiting since.
#38) Laurie Sasser:
I was 13 weeks pregnant and had the H1N1 vaccine on October 26th and miscarried early morning of October 29th.
#39) Mona Tannous:
Took my 2 yr and 10 month for shot yesterday. My 10 moths seems ok with no reaction. My 2 yr daughter didnt sleep all night. Started with very sore arm and I think joint pain since she was pointing to her knees. Then she started low grade fever. She vomitted. Then she woke up again complaining of stomach pain and vomitted another time!
#40) EBWashington:
I am so upset. I was so excited to be pregnant after trying for a year. As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I joined this birth club and I was due June 25th. We have two healthy boys with no history of miscarriage. Everything was going great. Last Monday, I got the H1N1 vaccine thimerosal reduced (mercury reduced for pregnant women). On Tuesday morning, I started cramping and on Wednesday I started bleeding heavily. My hcg was 50 on Wednesday and I was almost 6 weeks along so it was low. They still thought that I might be pregnant but on Friday my hcg was down to 22. I am an emotional wreck. I feel like I had a healthy baby and I caused this by getting the H1N1 vaccine. My doctors pushed it. I researched online and there have been many miscarriages after the H1N1 vaccine but they haven't been reported since it is hard to say what caused the miscarriages. I hope that I did not cause this. I wish everyone the best.
#41) Rupen:
I am diabetic (type 2) and had the H1N1 shot a few days ago.I was mildly sick for about three days after. My wife (49) had the two shots yesterday (Nov.20th) at noon and at 11PM she had wicked chills and fever.No sleep all night, and I treated her with Advil. No more Chills, but feverish and cold even 3 hrs after.Both arms are sore too.
#42) Tayla08:
I don't have an answer for you, but a friend of a friend just had a miscarriage 2-3 days after getting the shot. She was 7weeks. She had no previous history of m/c No one can answer if they're related...it hasn't been out long enough and there haven't been any studies done on pregnant women. I will tell you, that it has made up my mind on getting it...I won't and I'm not going to get it for my DD either. My daughter and I both had H1N1 last week, and although it truly sucks...I think I'll take my chances. One doctor will tell you to get it and the next will tell you not too...you have to do what's in your heart.
#43) 90707:
my heart goes out to you as i recently miscarried as well and was due in june. i had a healthy heart beat at 6wks. then at 7.5 wks my son got the h1n1 mist vaccine which has live vaccine in it. the nurse said to be careful b/c it could technically spread if he rubbed his nose and touched a surface etc. the next night i miscarried and 5 days later was diagnosed with h1n1. i work from home, kids are home, hadnt been anywhere during that time. so the chances that it is all related are very high. the flu mist vaccine warns for immunocompromis
#44) Regrets:
I got both vaccines on Thursday. I was 9 weeks pregnant. I miscarried on Sunday. I was told by several doctors to get these vaccines. Now I wish I followed my gut feeling and not get them at ALL!
#45) Laura J:
I got my h1n1 shot on November friday 6th, I really regret I did it, I have not feeling well since then, I am very concerned about my health!!! I started having pain at the injection site and after 2 days, headache, fatigue, shivering so bad, sweating and ache in my musles, and as a consequence… not going to work the whole week!!!. Is there going to be any kind of treatment after this very bad decision alot of people made??
#46) anonymous:
i work in a hospital like setting and was told ‘the benefits outweigh the risks” 1am i got the vaccine, 3am i started bleeding and craming, 3pm miscarried. you decide
#47) sue:
I had the H1N1 vaccination and 24 hours later had a miscarriage.
#48) Linda Hill:
My daughter in law was 10 weeks pregnant and had the H1N1 vaccine on Friday that night she miscarried.
#49) SoSorry:
I was so ready to get the H1N1 vaccine last week and they were only giving them to pregnant women. I was 6 weeks along and got it and the next day I started cramping and miscarried. I already had two healthy pregnancies and never miscarried or had any problems. My doctors think I am crazy to think it was the H1N1 but if no one looks into this than other women will not know. I am so sorry that I got it.
#50) Cameron Neal:
I’m in Cornwall Ontario, have heard a couple of friends and their children coming down with the flu after only a few short hours of having the H1N1 vaccine, and have heard of several others neighbors and friends on my facebook that have said they were very ill after receiving the shot, including high fevers, the flu, major of their arm, grogginess. and in bed for a few days etc.
Also I was told by a friend who was visiting a Cornwall nursing home that he overheard nurses speaking and that they were saying of their residents had went crippled from the H1N1 vaccine!
#51) Connie:
I also received the H1N1 vaccination on October 22nd, 2009 and went into labor on October 25th, at 16 weeks pregnant and we just heard the heartbeat and everything was fine with my pregnancy on October 16th, 2009, then on October 28th my water broke then on October 29th, I delivered a stillborn baby boy, and no one can tell me why…Everyone wants to say it did not come from the shot but I believe it did. My baby was growing at the correct pace and everyone wants to brush off the vaccination. I say if you have the vaccination and suffer a miscarriage if they are able to perform an autopsy have it done.
I also agree something needs to be done and looked more into with this vaccination because most women are being advised it’s just something that happens, but I also had two healthy children normal pregnancies and when I received this vaccination with my third pregnancy, my baby is gone.
#52) Linda:
I had my shot on Friday evening as well, and they had to call my husband to come and pick me up from the clinic due to nausea, tingling hands, feet and face as well as feeling like I was going to faint. I felt sick all weekend, and missed work yesterday. I am at work today, but still feel very weak and am experiencing strange sensations in my hands and feet.
#53) sioux falls, south dakota:
I received the H1N1 vaccine on October 16th and started experiencing cramping on the 22nd. I was nearly 17 weeks pregnant and gave birth to a stillborn baby boy on the 23rd. Like many of the other women here, the first thing I suspected was the H1N1 vaccine. I immediately asked a nurse at the hospital if that would have anything to do with it. Without hesitation, she told me “absolutely not.” I had reservations about getting the vaccine, but followed the advice of my long trusted family doctor. In a follow up appointment with my doctor 3 days after I lost my baby, I asked him if the vaccine would have had any adverse effects on my baby. He also said that it was not possible. I don’t believe that my doctor was necessarily lying to me, he was simply following the accepted practices and opinions of his field. I do, however, believe that as a nation, we are being lied to. This vaccine is NOT safe during pregnancy. There has not been enough testing done to determine this and there are far too many “coincidences” for this to be anything but a result of a vaccine that was hastily pushed into production and distribution in an effort to stop widespread panic. I have read so many stories in defense of the vaccine that will talk about how common miscarriages are, but I would challenge you to ask ANY health care professional how common second trimester miscarriages are. My baby was doing perfect developmentally
#54) Mac:
I had the regular H1N1 vaccination on Monday, November 16th in the morning. I was fine until about 1:00 in the morning (now Tuesday). I awoke with severe stomach pains and diarhea. This lasted until Saturday – off and on. On Tuesday afternoon, I suddenly felt very exhausted and then started coughing, had a headache, a fever, muscle achiness and just felt basically rotten. Here it is now Sunday evening, and I am still not feeling great. My stomach pains are gone, but all the rest remains, although not as bad as a couple of days ago. My fever is lower than before (it was usually around 38.6 – 39), but still comes and goes.
My arm has been sore most of the week, but nothing I couldn’t handle until last night. The pain has really increased and now there is a red spot where the injection site was. My whole arm is sore now and very difficult to lift and extremely sore if I role on it while laying down (which is something I must do a lot of right now).
#55) Marina Rossi:
I recently got the H1N1 vaccine and miscarried 3 days later. I thought it could have been the vaccine but didnt ask. After finding this site I believe it was the vaccine. Sorry to everyone else out there who has just experienced a miscarriage.
#56) Jody:
I got the shot on october 21 i have went to the hospital 4 times because i felt like i couldnt breathe shaking and felt nausea. after about 10 days i started felling better it lasted almost 2 weeks of feeling good then yesterday i ended up at the hospital again they checked my blood did a nerve test and said everthing was good but iam still experiencing tingling in my arms and legs and feeling like vomiting very damn scary and i so regret getting the vaccination
#57) kathy-sd:
I’m from a town of 2000 in SD, there are several women pregnant and we are all due within a few weeks of each other. Four of us got the H1N1 vaccine 2 weeks ago and one by one each of us started to have preterm contractions. We are all due in Nov and Dec so we are further along than most of the people that lost their babies. There is no way you can tell us that our preterm labor was not caused by the H1N1 vaccine. It may look like a “fluke” to some people when these women are scattered all over the country but we are talking about 4 of us in our small community. My heart goes out to all of you that lost your babies.
#58) Maria:
I received adjuvant vaccine. 3 days later, developed rt side back pain with tingling in feet. Tingling has persisted mostly on feet up to calves, sometimes on hands. After the tingling, sometimes have a tight, weak feeling in the calf/foot muscles. This is now Day 16 post vaccination. Symptoms are no better but do wax and wane, most often they are present. Have reported this to Public Health and have seen a specialist but can get no reassurance or prognosis. They don’t know if it is temporary or permanent and can offer no advice. They just don’t know enough about this vaccine. Have spent every day worrying about Guillain Barre and whether this is permanent.
#59) ashley:
Im not sure but not only myself, i know someone that withing 4 days of getting the shot we both miscarried, i was only 6 weeks and she was 4 months along, not sure if the shot caused it and cant find any other information but i am a little concerned about this coincidence.
#60) Wendy:
My daughter had the vaccine, and about 10 minutes later she got extremely thirsty and panicky. Then she suddenly felt very ill and nauseus and tried throwing up. She suddenly went pale ( I mean white from head to toe, her arms were white), we were told to take her to lie down on the mat, and by the time we were walking to the mat her skin turned green! I mean absolutely green, I didn’t even know that someone could turn green! Her arms were green too, and especially around her lips. I was so scared!! She also complained of feeling very sweaty. It took her awhile to get her color back to normal, she had a headache after and was extremely tired.
#61) Nurse in Nashville, Tennessee:
Increased Body aches, nausea/
#62) Kayte:
My husband’s pregnant coworker (5 months along) called her doctor on the day they were giving the regular flu shots at work. He said she should get it. She did, and lost her baby the next week. This enrages and sickens me that the medical industry is pushing these shots on pregnant women and children, especially the new, little-tested, experimental H1N1 vaccine!
#63) Shannon Bzowy:
my sister in law felt perfectly healthy went for her vaccine and ended up in hospital almost died.Scared me.
#64) Kevin:
I work with someone who was 4 months pregnant. Her husband got swine flu, so both she and her son got the vaccine “just to be safe.” A week later, she had a miscarriage. Any supposed benefits from the vaccine are clearly outweighed by the tremendous risks.
#65) Carolyn Hicks:
My sons girlfriend just took the vaccine on November 16 and miscarriaged on November 18th. I totally agree that it was the vaccine. Please Please do not take the vaccine if you are pregnant.
#66) Sufferer:
Please do not take this flu-shot vaccination. I got one about 8 years ago and look what happened to me, I have peripheral neuropathy. It started with the arm they injected; numbness and tingling, all seemed quite harmless at first. But then it spread like a wild fire throughout my entire body, slowly but surely. Trust me, you don’t want any neurological disease, you would rather die its quite terrible. You can almost cure any part of your body except your nerves, any damage is usually irreversible and incurable.
#67) Debra Giraudo:
My son and his pregnant wife just lost their little baby. She got a swine flu vaccine and lost the baby that day. We would like to join others in a class action suit. Do you have any information?
#68) shantelle:
I Have Some Of these Side Of Affects …And i think Its Not Right Because they Didnt Tell me Anything about This..All told me Is that There Be a Some redness and Ur Arm Would Hurt…But They Didnt Tell Me After That Bull Is Done…I’ll Start Coughing Snizzing…Feelin
#69) Kim:
My son is with the 2010 games security force. He was given the vaccine a couple of weeks ago and has come down with some kind of lung infection. He has never had any kind of respiritory issues before. He is healthy and 21 years old.
#70) Alicia Lamb:
I received the H1N1 vaccine on October 29th and I was 14 weeks and 1 day pregnant. On November 11th my water broke. I was 16 weeks pregnant. Up until that point I was having a healthy normal pregnancy without any symptoms until November 8th when I started having mild cramps off and on. This was my first pregnancy and my doctor said that this was normal. I delivered a still born on November 12th and I really do believe that the vaccine had something to do with it. I am not sure if I will ever be able to forgive myself for getting this vaccine even though my doctor recommended it, it was ultimately my decision to get it.
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It would be hard to imagine anyone reading those heartbreaking stories without getting incredibly disturbed. Unfortunately, there are an increasing number of environmental extremists who would be more than happy for large chunks of the earth's population to suddenly perish. In fact, The United Nations Population Fund has just released its annual State of the World Population Report, and in that report the UNPF openly declares that population growth needs to be reduced in order to combat climate change.
You see, to many environmental extremists, humanity is a disease that needs to be eradicated. They would willingly sacrifice "one species" in order to "save the earth".
But we know that humanity is not a disease. Human life is precious, and it should be vigilantly protected and guarded. The fact that vaccines are damaging so many lives should be of great concern to all of us. If you know of any other stories of adverse reactions to the H1N1 swine flu vaccine please share them with us in the comments section below.
http://organichealthadviser.com/archives/70-heartbreaking-stories-from-people-who-have-had-their-lives-destroyed-by-h1n1-swine-flu-vaccine-side-effects
Monday, November 30, 2009
Depleted Uranium, The Emerging Radiation Crisis in Iraq and US Students
For OpEdNews: Don Lieber - Writer
November 24, 2009
Depleted Uranium, The Emerging Radiation Crisis in Iraq and US Students: Vermont Takes Lead with Divestment
On Oct 24, The Board of Trustees at the University of Vermont adopted a resolution, without fanfare, to divest the University's investment funds from companies involved in the production of depleted uranium weapons (DU), citing the weapon's "indescriminate use" and "broad adverse effects to human health and the environment" 1)
This appears to be the first large University system in the United States to take this step, as reports are increasing out of Iraq suggesting an emerging radiation crisis in areas where these highly radioactive weapons have been used.
Many health professionals and scientists, including a former director of the Army's "Depleted Uranium Project" in Iraq, are documenting a dramatic rise in birth defects, cancers, genetic mutations and other conditions consistant with severe radiation exposure from Fallujah and Basra - where major battles included the use of DU weapons by US forces. Disturbing photos show grotesque malformations including huge hydroencephaly (enlarged heads), webbed fingers and eyelids, and severe organ protrusions (photos available at cited reference) 2)
DU weapons have been the subject of ongoing concern from experts and activists who have warned about the serious health risks posed from the highly radiactive materials used in their manufacture. Military analysts acknowledge their effective battlefiled applications - particularly as armour and concrete penetrating 'bunker busters', and the government has consistantly refuted the health concerns.
The University did not not identify publically the names of the manufactures involved nor their investors, but said the divestment would focuson the known "three main producers" and their financers. The three largest producers of DU weapons in the United States, are General Dynamics, ATK Alliance Systems, and Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee. Their US financers include Bank of America, US Bank, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and many more, according to several DU watchdog groups. 3)
Two of the areas in Iraq reporting significant radiation exposure are Fallujah and Basar, sites of major battles where DU weapons were used.
Saud Al-Azzawi, an environmental engineer who has been involved in several epidemiological research studies in the Basra region, said "A few years after exposure to (DU) contamination, multifold increase of malignancies, congenital malformations, miscarriages, children leukemia, and sterility cases have been registered in suburb areas of Basra and other surrounding areas". 4)
The Army has repeatedly denied any link between Depleted Uranium and high rates of cancer or other conditions in Iraq. "There is not really any danger, at least that we know about, for the people of Iraq," said Lt. Col. Michael Sigmon, deputy surgeon for the US Army's V Corps. 5), 6)
Individual experts from the military, however, have contradicted the official denial.
Dr Alexandra C. Miller of the Armed Forces Radiological Research Institute reported that DU has significant carcinogenic potential, is mutagenic and genotoxic. Another expert, Dr. Doug Rokke, who was the director of the Army's Depleted Uranium Project in Iraq in 2003 (charged to study how to safegaurd U.S. troops from DU and properly dispose of DU material) - has become a leading advocate for a total ban on their use. 7,8).
A brief search of Army practice suggests further contradictions to its own public denial of health risks:
Army and Defense Department regulations prohibit the use of DU munitions during training. 9)
U.S. troops are instructed to avoid any sites where DU weapons have been used — destroyed tanks, exploded bunkers, etc.—and to wear masks if they do have to approach. 10)
The U.S. removed over 6,000 tons of DU contaminated soil from Kuwait after the 1991 Gulf war. The contaminated material was brought back to the US for disposal to a radioactive waste managment company, the American Ecology Corporation, based in Bosie. Army trucks hit by 'friendly' DU fire in Iraq also had to be brought back to radioactive waste disposal facilities in the U.S. 11)
And - perhaps the striking example - the Army has built a new, state-of the art hospital in Basra specializing in advanced pediactric cancer treatment.
It is the first hospital of its kind in Iraq - a multi-million dollar, 90-bed unit - built to serve an area known for significant DU weapon use by US forces.
The Department of Defense website, in touting the Army's humanitarian efforts, cites the high cancer rates in the region without making reference to any potential causes. 12)
Fallujah - another area where US forces used considerable DU munitions during the battles in 2004 - now is also reporting an observable rise in birth defects and other radiation-related conditions. A report sent to the UN General Assembly on October 12, 2009, by Dr Nawal Majeed Al-Sammarai, Iraq's Minister of Women's Affairs, stated that 24% of the babies born in Fallujah General Hospital in September 2009 died within their first week of life. Of the remainder of the babies who survived beyond the first week of life, a full 75% were reported born with deformaties.
Statistics from the same hospital in 2002 - six months prior to start of the 'shock and awe' attacks of 2003 (which included DU weapons) - recorded 530 live births with only six dying in the first week and only one deformity. 13)
An important detail of DU risk to humans is that the most dangerous form of exposure is inhalation (rather than contact). This happens when DU weapons 'aerosolize' upon impact. A single particle of inhaled DU can expose the surrounding tissue to radiation 800 times the annual dosage considered safe by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the entire body. (Authors Note: The US Army has no established protocols for diagnosing, nor treating soldiers with suspected inhaled DU). 14)
Several sources place the amount of DU used in US weapons since 2003 at over 1,600 tonnes: this amount would create a staggering, uncountable amount of particles to be dispersed in the soil, water and air. 15) This corresponds to studies now showing local soil, water and air which now show radiation levels 'hundreds to thousands of times' above what occurs naturally. An American reporter from the Christian Science Moniter described that radiation meters which his crew brought to the region went "off the scale" in some areas. 16)
The emerging reports out of Iraq have been virtually absent in the United States media, with scant attention in European media - two recent reports in the Guardian (UK) being notable exceptions. 17)
Largely out of the US press, however, some governments and humanitarian organizations are reacting.
The government of Belgium in 2007 became the first nation to ban "all weapons" which contain Depleted Uranium. In 2008 the European Parliament adapted a resolution for both a moratorium and an international treaty to ban them . The International Coalition to Ban UraniumWeapons, based in Manchester, is seeking an international ban modeled after the Ottawa Landmine-Ban Treaty and has called upon the United Nations to do so.
And at least one U.S. University has voted to cease doing business with producers of a weapon which one former nuclear expert from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory described as a "a dirty bomb...in every way". 18)
So what led the students in Vermont to ask the University to divest - on an issue relatively unknown in the United States - at a time when any number of pressing issues could well have merited more publicized attention?
"At UVM social and political activism are both things that are taken very seriously" said Hillary Walton, the student journalist who first wrote about the divestment vote in the campus newspaper The Vermont Cynic. The University's culture indeed appears to welcome student social activism, perhaps more than most US universities: It previously created a Socially Responsible Investing Work Group which is composed of students, faculty, administration, and staff: all have equal vote in deciding which issues to bring before the Trustees. Previous divestment resolutions have passed regarding tobbaco and the human rights in Sudan. 19)
Whether other US Universities follow Vermont's lead on DU weapons and the emerging radiation crisis in Iraq remains to be seen.
In their October 22 divestment resolution, the University Trustees said "... The University's policy of fiscal prudence shall not preclude the consideration of moral, ethical and social criteria in determining which companies to invest." 20)
It appears that the CEOs and Board of Directors at General Dynamics, ATK Alliance Sytems, and Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee - along with their their US Banking partners and Army contractors - have it the other way around.
Don Lieber is an independent journalist whose previous works have been published with the Associated Press, the United Nations, The Willamette Week (Portland Ore.), The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and others.
FOOTNOTES
1) Budget, Finance and Investment Minutes, Board of Trustees Meeting, University of Vermont, October 22-24, 2009. click here
2) click here
Explicit and disturbing photos of children displaying severe symptoms associated with radition exposure as collected by Iraq hospital officials, and health researchers, can be seen at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/extremedeformities.html
3) International Coalition to Ban Depleted Uranium. http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/docs/32.pdf
According to the ICBDU, the three main producers of DU weapons are:
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems,
Michael S. Wilson President,
11399 16th Court North, Suite 200
St. Petersburg, FL 33716
Main Number: (727) 578-8100 (727) 578-8100
Fax Number: (727) 578-8119
Web Site:http://www.gd-ots.com/
ATK Armament Systems
Amanda Covington, Director of Communications
Clearfield, Utah
Phone: 801-779-4625 801-779-4625
ATK Alliance Systems - Corporate Headquarters
7480 Flying Cloud Drive,Minneapolis, MN 55344
Phone: 952-351-3000 952-351-3000
atk.corporate@atk.com
Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee, Inc.
Jonesborough, Tennessee.
1367 Old State Route 34,
Jonesborough, TN 37659
(423) 753-1200 (423) 753-1200
(423) 753-8645 (FAX)
4) Remarks given by Souadd Al-Azzawi, Associate Professor of engineering, Kuala Lumpur International Conference to Criminalise War, Putra World Trade Centre, 28-31 October 2009
5) Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq.
Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, May 15, 2003.
6 ) The government's denial also applies to thousands of returning US soldiers also exposed to DU fallout in Iraq. For a detailed account of this, see: Paul Zimmerman, Depleted Uranium and the Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans, as published November 20, 2009, in TruthOut,org http://www.truthout.org/1120097.
Authors note: The Army has "no code" (i.e., established protocols) for the testing, diagnosing, or treatment suspected exposure from inhalation of DU - despite the awareness that this is most dangerous form of DU exposure (unlike 'contact' exposure, such as shrapnel, for which the Army has extensive diagnosing and treatment protocols).
See: Memorandum for Commanders,
26 June 2007,
Subject: Medical Management of Army Personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium,
Department of the Army, Headquarters, US Army Medical Command. click here
7) Alexandra C. Miller, Mike Stewart, Rafael Rivas, Robert Marlot, and Paul Lison, Depleted Uranium internal contamination: Carcinogenisis and Leukeinogenisis in Vivo. Proc. American Association of Cancer Research. Volume 46, 2005.
8)The War Against Ourselves: Interview with Dr. Doug Rokke, Yes!Magazine, March 31, 2003. Dr. Rokke's public speeches on DU are available on YouTube. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VkpR-wka8.
9) Army Installation Management Command, Pacific Region Information Booklet "Depleted Uranium in Hawaii"
10) Peterson, Remains of Toxic Bullets, Christian Science Monitor, as cited.
11) Peterson, Remains of Toxic Bullets, and Al-Azzawi, Remarks, as cited.
12) U.S. Department of Defense News Website, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=54623
13). http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=6744&blz
14) Rosali Bertell, Depleted Uranium: All the questions about DU and Gulf War Syndrome are not yet answered. International Journal of Health Service 36(3), 503-520, 2006, and Memorandum for Commanders, 26 June 2007, Subject: Medical Management of Army Personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium, Department of the Army, Headquarters, US Army Medical Command. click here)
As described in Bertell et.al, DU weapons, when they combust upon impact, create clouds of highly toxic, microscopic particles of radioactive uranium oxide which can be inhaled. The particles enter the lungs, cross the lung-blood barrier and gain entrance to tissue cells. Once in the cells, DU - a heavy metal - disrupts DNA and RNA functions, among other functions linked to the development of chronic diseases, tumors and cancer. Scientific details on the biology and epidimiology of DU exposure is reviewed in Depleted Uranium Contamination: Iraq: An overview, August 31, 2006. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3116, and multiple other sources as cited in this article.
15) Memorandum for Commanders, 26 June 2007, Subject: Medical Management of Army Personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium, Department of the Army, Headquarters, US Army Medical Command. click here
16) http://www.janes.com/defence/news/jid/jid040402.
For a detailed account of DU use in Iraq, see Depleted Uranium Contamination: Iraq: An overview, August 31, 2006 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3116
17) Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan
by Doug Westerman, Global Research.ca, May 3, 2006 and multiple sources.
18) Marion Falk, a former physicist who worked on nuclear weapons at the government's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, told Agence France Press that DU weapons operate in a similar manner as a dirty bomb. "That's exactly what they are," Falk said "They fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way." click here
19) Board Votes to Divest from Cluster Ammunitions
By Hillary Walton
The Vermont Cynic, November 16, 2009
20) Budget, Finance and Investment Minutes, Board of Trustees Meeting, University of Vermont, October 22-24, 2009. click here
Don Lieber is an independent journalist. His works have been published by the Associated Press, the United Nations, the International Campaign to Ban the Use of Landmines, Willamette Week (Portland Oregon), the Coalition to Ban the Use of Child (more...)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Depleted-Uranium-The-Emer-by-Don-Lieber-091124-39.html
November 24, 2009
Depleted Uranium, The Emerging Radiation Crisis in Iraq and US Students: Vermont Takes Lead with Divestment
On Oct 24, The Board of Trustees at the University of Vermont adopted a resolution, without fanfare, to divest the University's investment funds from companies involved in the production of depleted uranium weapons (DU), citing the weapon's "indescriminate use" and "broad adverse effects to human health and the environment" 1)
This appears to be the first large University system in the United States to take this step, as reports are increasing out of Iraq suggesting an emerging radiation crisis in areas where these highly radioactive weapons have been used.
Many health professionals and scientists, including a former director of the Army's "Depleted Uranium Project" in Iraq, are documenting a dramatic rise in birth defects, cancers, genetic mutations and other conditions consistant with severe radiation exposure from Fallujah and Basra - where major battles included the use of DU weapons by US forces. Disturbing photos show grotesque malformations including huge hydroencephaly (enlarged heads), webbed fingers and eyelids, and severe organ protrusions (photos available at cited reference) 2)
DU weapons have been the subject of ongoing concern from experts and activists who have warned about the serious health risks posed from the highly radiactive materials used in their manufacture. Military analysts acknowledge their effective battlefiled applications - particularly as armour and concrete penetrating 'bunker busters', and the government has consistantly refuted the health concerns.
The University did not not identify publically the names of the manufactures involved nor their investors, but said the divestment would focuson the known "three main producers" and their financers. The three largest producers of DU weapons in the United States, are General Dynamics, ATK Alliance Systems, and Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee. Their US financers include Bank of America, US Bank, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and many more, according to several DU watchdog groups. 3)
Two of the areas in Iraq reporting significant radiation exposure are Fallujah and Basar, sites of major battles where DU weapons were used.
Saud Al-Azzawi, an environmental engineer who has been involved in several epidemiological research studies in the Basra region, said "A few years after exposure to (DU) contamination, multifold increase of malignancies, congenital malformations, miscarriages, children leukemia, and sterility cases have been registered in suburb areas of Basra and other surrounding areas". 4)
The Army has repeatedly denied any link between Depleted Uranium and high rates of cancer or other conditions in Iraq. "There is not really any danger, at least that we know about, for the people of Iraq," said Lt. Col. Michael Sigmon, deputy surgeon for the US Army's V Corps. 5), 6)
Individual experts from the military, however, have contradicted the official denial.
Dr Alexandra C. Miller of the Armed Forces Radiological Research Institute reported that DU has significant carcinogenic potential, is mutagenic and genotoxic. Another expert, Dr. Doug Rokke, who was the director of the Army's Depleted Uranium Project in Iraq in 2003 (charged to study how to safegaurd U.S. troops from DU and properly dispose of DU material) - has become a leading advocate for a total ban on their use. 7,8).
A brief search of Army practice suggests further contradictions to its own public denial of health risks:
Army and Defense Department regulations prohibit the use of DU munitions during training. 9)
U.S. troops are instructed to avoid any sites where DU weapons have been used — destroyed tanks, exploded bunkers, etc.—and to wear masks if they do have to approach. 10)
The U.S. removed over 6,000 tons of DU contaminated soil from Kuwait after the 1991 Gulf war. The contaminated material was brought back to the US for disposal to a radioactive waste managment company, the American Ecology Corporation, based in Bosie. Army trucks hit by 'friendly' DU fire in Iraq also had to be brought back to radioactive waste disposal facilities in the U.S. 11)
And - perhaps the striking example - the Army has built a new, state-of the art hospital in Basra specializing in advanced pediactric cancer treatment.
It is the first hospital of its kind in Iraq - a multi-million dollar, 90-bed unit - built to serve an area known for significant DU weapon use by US forces.
The Department of Defense website, in touting the Army's humanitarian efforts, cites the high cancer rates in the region without making reference to any potential causes. 12)
Fallujah - another area where US forces used considerable DU munitions during the battles in 2004 - now is also reporting an observable rise in birth defects and other radiation-related conditions. A report sent to the UN General Assembly on October 12, 2009, by Dr Nawal Majeed Al-Sammarai, Iraq's Minister of Women's Affairs, stated that 24% of the babies born in Fallujah General Hospital in September 2009 died within their first week of life. Of the remainder of the babies who survived beyond the first week of life, a full 75% were reported born with deformaties.
Statistics from the same hospital in 2002 - six months prior to start of the 'shock and awe' attacks of 2003 (which included DU weapons) - recorded 530 live births with only six dying in the first week and only one deformity. 13)
An important detail of DU risk to humans is that the most dangerous form of exposure is inhalation (rather than contact). This happens when DU weapons 'aerosolize' upon impact. A single particle of inhaled DU can expose the surrounding tissue to radiation 800 times the annual dosage considered safe by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for the entire body. (Authors Note: The US Army has no established protocols for diagnosing, nor treating soldiers with suspected inhaled DU). 14)
Several sources place the amount of DU used in US weapons since 2003 at over 1,600 tonnes: this amount would create a staggering, uncountable amount of particles to be dispersed in the soil, water and air. 15) This corresponds to studies now showing local soil, water and air which now show radiation levels 'hundreds to thousands of times' above what occurs naturally. An American reporter from the Christian Science Moniter described that radiation meters which his crew brought to the region went "off the scale" in some areas. 16)
The emerging reports out of Iraq have been virtually absent in the United States media, with scant attention in European media - two recent reports in the Guardian (UK) being notable exceptions. 17)
Largely out of the US press, however, some governments and humanitarian organizations are reacting.
The government of Belgium in 2007 became the first nation to ban "all weapons" which contain Depleted Uranium. In 2008 the European Parliament adapted a resolution for both a moratorium and an international treaty to ban them . The International Coalition to Ban UraniumWeapons, based in Manchester, is seeking an international ban modeled after the Ottawa Landmine-Ban Treaty and has called upon the United Nations to do so.
And at least one U.S. University has voted to cease doing business with producers of a weapon which one former nuclear expert from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory described as a "a dirty bomb...in every way". 18)
So what led the students in Vermont to ask the University to divest - on an issue relatively unknown in the United States - at a time when any number of pressing issues could well have merited more publicized attention?
"At UVM social and political activism are both things that are taken very seriously" said Hillary Walton, the student journalist who first wrote about the divestment vote in the campus newspaper The Vermont Cynic. The University's culture indeed appears to welcome student social activism, perhaps more than most US universities: It previously created a Socially Responsible Investing Work Group which is composed of students, faculty, administration, and staff: all have equal vote in deciding which issues to bring before the Trustees. Previous divestment resolutions have passed regarding tobbaco and the human rights in Sudan. 19)
Whether other US Universities follow Vermont's lead on DU weapons and the emerging radiation crisis in Iraq remains to be seen.
In their October 22 divestment resolution, the University Trustees said "... The University's policy of fiscal prudence shall not preclude the consideration of moral, ethical and social criteria in determining which companies to invest." 20)
It appears that the CEOs and Board of Directors at General Dynamics, ATK Alliance Sytems, and Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee - along with their their US Banking partners and Army contractors - have it the other way around.
Don Lieber is an independent journalist whose previous works have been published with the Associated Press, the United Nations, The Willamette Week (Portland Ore.), The International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and others.
FOOTNOTES
1) Budget, Finance and Investment Minutes, Board of Trustees Meeting, University of Vermont, October 22-24, 2009. click here
2) click here
Explicit and disturbing photos of children displaying severe symptoms associated with radition exposure as collected by Iraq hospital officials, and health researchers, can be seen at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/extremedeformities.html
3) International Coalition to Ban Depleted Uranium. http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/docs/32.pdf
According to the ICBDU, the three main producers of DU weapons are:
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems,
Michael S. Wilson President,
11399 16th Court North, Suite 200
St. Petersburg, FL 33716
Main Number: (727) 578-8100 (727) 578-8100
Fax Number: (727) 578-8119
Web Site:http://www.gd-ots.com/
ATK Armament Systems
Amanda Covington, Director of Communications
Clearfield, Utah
Phone: 801-779-4625 801-779-4625
ATK Alliance Systems - Corporate Headquarters
7480 Flying Cloud Drive,Minneapolis, MN 55344
Phone: 952-351-3000 952-351-3000
atk.corporate@atk.com
Aerojet Ordnance Tennessee, Inc.
Jonesborough, Tennessee.
1367 Old State Route 34,
Jonesborough, TN 37659
(423) 753-1200 (423) 753-1200
(423) 753-8645 (FAX)
4) Remarks given by Souadd Al-Azzawi, Associate Professor of engineering, Kuala Lumpur International Conference to Criminalise War, Putra World Trade Centre, 28-31 October 2009
5) Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq.
Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, May 15, 2003.
6 ) The government's denial also applies to thousands of returning US soldiers also exposed to DU fallout in Iraq. For a detailed account of this, see: Paul Zimmerman, Depleted Uranium and the Mismanagement of Gulf War Veterans, as published November 20, 2009, in TruthOut,org http://www.truthout.org/1120097.
Authors note: The Army has "no code" (i.e., established protocols) for the testing, diagnosing, or treatment suspected exposure from inhalation of DU - despite the awareness that this is most dangerous form of DU exposure (unlike 'contact' exposure, such as shrapnel, for which the Army has extensive diagnosing and treatment protocols).
See: Memorandum for Commanders,
26 June 2007,
Subject: Medical Management of Army Personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium,
Department of the Army, Headquarters, US Army Medical Command. click here
7) Alexandra C. Miller, Mike Stewart, Rafael Rivas, Robert Marlot, and Paul Lison, Depleted Uranium internal contamination: Carcinogenisis and Leukeinogenisis in Vivo. Proc. American Association of Cancer Research. Volume 46, 2005.
8)The War Against Ourselves: Interview with Dr. Doug Rokke, Yes!Magazine, March 31, 2003. Dr. Rokke's public speeches on DU are available on YouTube. See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VkpR-wka8.
9) Army Installation Management Command, Pacific Region Information Booklet "Depleted Uranium in Hawaii"
10) Peterson, Remains of Toxic Bullets, Christian Science Monitor, as cited.
11) Peterson, Remains of Toxic Bullets, and Al-Azzawi, Remarks, as cited.
12) U.S. Department of Defense News Website, http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=54623
13). http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=6744&blz
14) Rosali Bertell, Depleted Uranium: All the questions about DU and Gulf War Syndrome are not yet answered. International Journal of Health Service 36(3), 503-520, 2006, and Memorandum for Commanders, 26 June 2007, Subject: Medical Management of Army Personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium, Department of the Army, Headquarters, US Army Medical Command. click here)
As described in Bertell et.al, DU weapons, when they combust upon impact, create clouds of highly toxic, microscopic particles of radioactive uranium oxide which can be inhaled. The particles enter the lungs, cross the lung-blood barrier and gain entrance to tissue cells. Once in the cells, DU - a heavy metal - disrupts DNA and RNA functions, among other functions linked to the development of chronic diseases, tumors and cancer. Scientific details on the biology and epidimiology of DU exposure is reviewed in Depleted Uranium Contamination: Iraq: An overview, August 31, 2006. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3116, and multiple other sources as cited in this article.
15) Memorandum for Commanders, 26 June 2007, Subject: Medical Management of Army Personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium, Department of the Army, Headquarters, US Army Medical Command. click here
16) http://www.janes.com/defence/news/jid/jid040402.
For a detailed account of DU use in Iraq, see Depleted Uranium Contamination: Iraq: An overview, August 31, 2006 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3116
17) Depleted Uranium Dust - Public Health Disaster For The People Of Iraq and Afghanistan
by Doug Westerman, Global Research.ca, May 3, 2006 and multiple sources.
18) Marion Falk, a former physicist who worked on nuclear weapons at the government's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, told Agence France Press that DU weapons operate in a similar manner as a dirty bomb. "That's exactly what they are," Falk said "They fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way." click here
19) Board Votes to Divest from Cluster Ammunitions
By Hillary Walton
The Vermont Cynic, November 16, 2009
20) Budget, Finance and Investment Minutes, Board of Trustees Meeting, University of Vermont, October 22-24, 2009. click here
Don Lieber is an independent journalist. His works have been published by the Associated Press, the United Nations, the International Campaign to Ban the Use of Landmines, Willamette Week (Portland Oregon), the Coalition to Ban the Use of Child (more...)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Depleted-Uranium-The-Emer-by-Don-Lieber-091124-39.html
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Columbus and the Beginning of Genocide in the "New World"
Thanks to: Star Wisdom OM (Omfalon Murado) (157206876)
History Not Taught is History Forgot:
Columbus' Legacy of Genocide
Excerpted from the book Indians are Us
(Common Courage Press, 1994)
by Ward Churchill
Columbus and the Beginning of Genocide in the "New World"
History Not Taught is History Forgot:
Columbus' Legacy of Genocide
Excerpted from the book Indians are Us
(Common Courage Press, 1994)
by Ward Churchill
Columbus and the Beginning of Genocide in the "New World"
Ward Churchill
It has been contended by those who would celebrate Columbus that
accusations concerning his perpetration of genocide are distortive
"revisions" of history.
Whatever the process unleashed by his
"discovery" of the "New World," it is said, the discoverer
himself cannot be blamed. Whatever his defects and offenses, they are
surpassed by the luster of his achievements; however "tragic" or
"unfortunate" certain dimensions of his legacy may be, they are
more than offset by the benefits even for the victims of the resulting
blossoming of a "superior civilization" in the Americas.
Essentially the same arguments might be advanced with regard
to Adolf Hitler: Hitler caused the Volkswagen to be created, after
all, and the autobahn. His leadership of Germany led to jet
propulsion, significant advances in rocket telemetry, laid the
foundation for genetic engineering. Why not celebrate his bona fide
accomplishments on behalf of humanity rather than "dwelling" so
persistently on the genocidal by-products of his policies?
To be fair, Columbus was never a head of state. Comparisons of
him to Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler, rather than Hitler, are
therefore more accurate and appropriate. It is time to delve into the
substance of the defendants' assertion that Columbus and Himmler, Nazi
Lebensraumpolitik (conquest of "living space" in eastern Europe) and
the "settlement of the New World" bear more than casual
resemblance to one another. This has nothing to do with the Columbian
"discovery," not that this in itself is completely irrelevant.
Columbus did not sally forth upon the Atlantic for reasons
of "neutral science" or altruism. He went, as his own diaries,
reports, and letters make clear, fully expecting to encounter wealth
belonging to others. It was his stated purpose to seize this wealth,
by whatever means necessary and available, in order to enrich both his
sponsors and himself. Plainly, he pre-figured, both in design and by
intent, what came next. To this extent, he not only symbolizes the
process of conquest and genocide which eventually consumed the
indigenous peoples of America, but bears the personal responsibility
of having participated in it. Still, if this were all there was to it,
the defendants would be inclined to dismiss him as a mere thug along
the lines of Al Capone rather than viewing him as a counterpart to
Himmler.
The 1492 "voyage of discovery" is, however, hardly all that is
at issue. In 1493 Columbus returned with an invasion force of
seventeen ships, appointed at his own request by the Spanish Crown to
install himself as "viceroy and governor of [the Caribbean islands]
and the mainland" of America, a position he held until
1500. Setting up shop on the large island he called Espa–ola (today
Haiti and the Dominican Republic), he promptly instituted policies of
slavery (encomiendo) and systematic extermination against the native
Taino population.
Columbus's programs reduced Taino numbers from as
many as eight million at the outset of his regime to about three
million in 1496. Perhaps 100,000 were left by the time of the
governor's departure. His policies, however, remained, with the
result that by 1514 the Spanish census of the island showed barely
22,000 Indians remaining alive. In 1542, only two hundred were
recorded. Thereafter, they were considered extinct, as were Indians
throughout the Caribbean Basin, an aggregate population which totaled
more than fifteen million at the point of first contact with the
Admiral of the Ocean Sea, as Columbus was known.
This, to be sure, constitutes an attrition of population in
real numbers every bit as great as the toll of twelve to fifteen
million about half of them Jewish most commonly attributed to
Himmler's slaughter mills. Moreover, the proportion of indigenous
Caribbean population destroyed by the Spanish in a single generation
is, no matter how the figures are twisted, far greater than the
seventy-five percent of European Jews usually said to have been
exterminated by the Nazis. Worst of all, these data apply only to the
Caribbean Basin; the process of genocide in the Americas was only just
beginning at the point such statistics become operant, not ending, as
they did upon the fall of the Third Reich. All told, it is probable
that more than one hundred million native people were "eliminated" in
the course of Europe's ongoing "civilization" of the Western
Hemisphere.
It has long been asserted by "responsible scholars" that this
decimation of American Indians which accompanied the European invasion
resulted primarily from disease rather than direct killing or
conscious policy. There is a certain truth to this, although
starvation may have proven just as lethal in the end. It must be borne
in mind when considering such facts that a considerable portion of
those who perished in the Nazi death camps died, not as the victims of
bullets and gas, but from starvation, as well as epidemics of typhus,
dysentery, and the like. Their keepers, who could not be said to have
killed these people directly, were nonetheless found to have been
culpable in their deaths by way of deliberately imposing the
conditions which led to the proliferation of starvation and disease
among them. Certainly, the same can be said of Columbus's regime,
under which the original residents were, as a first order of business,
permanently dispossessed of their abundant cultivated fields while
being converted into chattel, ultimately to be worked to death for the
wealth and "glory" of Spain.
Nor should more direct means of extermination be relegated to
incidental status. As the matter is put by Kirkpatrick Sale in his
recent book, Conquest of Paradise,
The tribute system, instituted by the Governor sometime in 1495, was a
simple and brutal way of fulfilling the Spanish lust for gold while
acknowledging the Spanish distaste for labor. Every Taino over the age
of fourteen had to supply the rulers with a hawk's bell of gold every
three months (or in gold-deficient areas, twenty-five pounds of spun
cotton); those who did were given a token to wear around their necks
as proof that they had made their payment; those who did not were, as
[Columbus's brother, Fernando] says discreetly "punished"-by having
their hands cut off, as [the priest, BartolomŽ de] las Casas says
less discreetly, and left to bleed to death.
It is entirely likely that upwards of 10,000 Indians were
killed in this fashion alone, on Espa–ola alone, as a matter of
policy, during Columbus's tenure as governor. Las Casas'
Brev’sima relaci—n, among other contemporaneous sources, is also
replete with accounts of Spanish colonists (hidalgos) hanging Tainos
en masse, roasting them on spits or burning them at the stake (often a
dozen or more at a time), hacking their children into pieces to be
used as dog feed and so forth, all of it to instill in the natives a
"proper attitude of respect" toward their Spanish "superiors."
[The Spaniards] made bets as to who would slit a man in two, or cut
off his head at one blow; or they opened up his bowels. They tore the
babes from their mother's breast by their feet and dashed their heads
against the rocks...They spitted the bodies of other babes, together
with their mothers and all who were before them, on their swords.
No SS trooper could be expected to comport himself with a more
unrelenting viciousness. And there is more. All of this was coupled to
wholesale and persistent massacres:
A Spaniard...suddenly drew his sword. Then the whole hundred drew
theirs and began to rip open the bellies, to cut and kill [a group of
Tainos assembled for this purpose] men, women, children and old folk,
all of whom were seated, off guard and frightened...And within two
credos, not a man of them there remains alive. The Spaniards enter the
large house nearby, for this was happening at its door, and in the
same way, with cuts and stabs, began to kill as many as were found
there, so that a stream of blood was running, as if a great number of
cows had perished.
Elsewhere, las Casas went on to recount how
in this time, the greatest outrages and slaughterings of people were
perpetrated, whole villages being depopulated...The Indians saw that
without any offense on their part they were despoiled of their
kingdoms, their lands and liberties and of their lives, their wives,
and homes. As they saw themselves each day perishing by the cruel and
inhuman treatment of the Spaniards, crushed to earth by the horses,
cut in pieces by swords, eaten and torn by dogs, many buried alive and
suffering all kinds of exquisite tortures... [many surrendered to
their fate, while the survivors] fled to the mountains [to starve].
Such descriptions correspond almost perfectly to those of
systematic Nazi atrocities in the western USSR offered by William
Shirer in Chapter 27 of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. But,
unlike the Nazi extermination campaigns of World War II the Columbian
butchery on Espa–ola continued until there were no Tainos left to
butcher.
Evolution of the Columbian Legacy
Nor was this by any means the end of it. The genocidal model
for conquest and colonization established by Columbus was to a large
extent replicated by others such as Cortez (in Mexico) a Pizarro (in
Peru) during the following half-century. During the same period,
expeditions such as those of Ponce de Leon in 1513, Coronado in 1540,
and de Soto during the same year were launched with an eye towards
effecting the same pattern on the North American continent proper. In
the latter sphere the Spanish example was followed and in certain ways
intensified by the British, beginning at Roanoake in 1607 and Plymouth
in 1620. Overall the process of English colonization along the
Atlantic Coast was marked by a series of massacres of native people as
relentless and devastating as any perpetrated by the Spaniards. One of
the best known illustrations drawn from among hundreds was the
slaughter of some 800 Pequots at present-day Mystic, Connecticut, on
the night of May 26, 1637.
During the latter portion of the seventeenth century, and
throughout most of the eighteenth, Great Britain battled France for
colonial primacy in North America. The resulting sequence of four
"French and Indian Wars" greatly accelerated the liquidation of
indigenous people as far west as the Ohio River Valley. During the
last of these, concluded in 1763 history's first documentable case of
biological warfare occurred against Pontiac's Algonkian
Confederacy, a powerful military alliance aligned with the French.
Sir Jeffrey Amherst, commander-in-chief of the British forces...wrote
in a postscript of a letter to Bouquet [a subordinate] that smallpox
be sent among the disaffected tribes. Bouquet replied, also in a
postscript, "I will try to [contaminate] them...with some blankets
that may fall into their hands, and take care not to get the disease
myself."...To Bouquet's postscript Amherst replied, "You will do
well to [infect] the Indians by means of blankets as well as to try
every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable
race." On June 24, Captain Ecuyer, of the Royal Americans, noted in
his journal: "...we gave them two blankets and a handkerchief out
of the smallpox hospital. I hope it will have the desired effect."
It did. Over the next few months, the disease spread like
wildfire among the Mingo, Delaware, Shawnee, and other Ohio River
nations, killing perhaps 100,000 people. The example of Amherst's
action does much to dispel the myth that the post contact attrition of
Indian people through disease; introduced by Europeans was necessarily
unintentional and unavoidable. There are a number earlier instances in
which native people felt disease, had been deliberately inculcated
among them.
For example, the so-called "King Philip's War" of1675-76
was fought largely because the Wampanoag and Narragansett
nations believed English traders had consciously contaminated certain
of their villages with smallpox. Such tactics were also continued by
the United States after the American Revolution. At Fort Clark on the
upper Missouri River, for instance, the U.S. Army distributed
smallpox-laden blankets as gifts among the Mandan. The blankets had
been gathered from a military infirmary in St. Louis where troops
infected with the disease were quarantined. Although the medical
practice of the day required the precise opposite procedure, army
doctors ordered the Mandans to disperse once they exhibited symptoms
of infection. The result was a pandemic among the Plains Indian
nations who claimed at least 125,000 lives, and may have reached a
toll several times that number.
Contemporaneously with the events at Fort Clark, the U.S. was
also engaged in a policy of wholesale "removal" of indigenous nations
east of the Mississippi River, "clearing" the land of its native
population so that it might be "settled" by "racially
superior" Anglo-Saxon "pioneers." This resulted in a series
of extended forced marches some more than a thousand miles in length
in which entire peoples were walked at bayonet-point to locations west
of the Mississippi. Rations and medical attention were poor, shelter
at times all but nonexistent. Attrition among the victims was
correspondingly high. As many as fifty-five percent of all Cherokees,
for example, are known to have died during or as an immediate result
of that people's "Trail of Tears." The Creeks and Seminoles also
lost about half their existing populations as a direct consequence of
being "removed." It was the example of nineteenth-century
U.S. Indian Removal policy upon which Adolf Hitler relied for a
practical model when articulating and implementing his
Lebensraumpolitik during the 1930s and '40s.
By the 1850s, U.S. policymakers had adopted a popular
philosophy called "Manifest Destiny" by which they imagined themselves
enjoying a divinely ordained right to possess all native property,
including everything west of the Mississippi. This was coupled to what
has been termed a "rhetoric of extermination" by which
governmental and corporate leaders sought to shape public sentiment to
embrace the eradication of American Indians. The professed goal of
this physical reduction of "inferior" indigenous populations was
to open up land for "superior" Euro-American "pioneers."
One outcome of this dual articulation was a series of general
massacres perpetrated by the United States military.
A bare sampling of some of the worst must include the 1854 massacre of
perhaps 150 Lakotas at Blue River (Nebraska), the 1863 Bear River
(Idaho) Massacre of some 500 Western Shoshones, the 1864 Sand Creek
(Colorado) Massacre of as many as 250 Cheyennes and Arapahoes, the
1868 massacre of another 300 Cheyennes at the Washita River
(Oklahoma), the 1875 massacre of about 75 Cheyennes along the Sappa
Creek (Kansas), the 1878 massacre of still another 100 Cheyennes at
Camp Robinson (Nebraska), and the 1890 massacre of more than 300
Lakotas at Wounded Knee (South Dakota).
Related phenomena included the army's internment of the bulk
of all Navajos for four years (1864-68) under abysmal conditions at
the Bosque Redondo, during which upwards of a third of the population
of this nation is known to have perished of starvation and
disease. Even worse in some ways was the unleashing of Euro-American
civilians to kill Indians at whim, and sometimes for profit. In Texas,
for example, an official bounty on native scalps any native scalps was
maintained until well into the 1870s. The result was that the
indigenous population of this state, once the densest in all of North
America, had been reduced to near zero by 1880. As it has been put
elsewhere, "The facts of history are plain: Most Texas Indians were
exterminated or brought to the brink of oblivion by [civilians] who
often had no more regard for the life of an Indian than they had for
that of a dog, sometimes less." Similarly, in California, "the
enormous decrease [in indigenous population] from about a
quarter-million [in 1800] to less than 20,000 is due chiefly to the
cruelties and wholesale massacres perpetrated by miners and early
settlers."
Much of the killing in California and southern Oregon Territory
resulted, directly and indirectly, from the discovery of gold in 1849
and the subsequent influx of miners and settlers. Newspaper accounts
document the atrocities, as do oral histories of the California
Indians today. It was not uncommon for small groups or villages to be
attacked by immigrants...and virtually wiped out overnight.
All told, the North American Indian population within the area
of the forty-eight contiguous states of the United States, an
aggregate group which had probably numbered in excess of twelve
million in the year 1500, was reduced by official estimates to barely
more than 237,000 four centuries later. This vast genocide
historically paralleled in its magnitude and degree only by that which
occurred in the Caribbean Basin is the most sustained on
record. Corresponding almost perfectly with this
upper-ninetieth-percentile erosion of indigenous population by 1900
was the expropriation of about 97.5 percent of native land by
1920. The situation in Canada was/is entirely comparable. Plainly, the
Nazi-esque dynamics set in motion by Columbus in 1492 continued, and
were not ultimately consummated until the present century.
The Columbian Legacy in the United States
While it is arguable that the worst of the genocidal programs
directed against Native North America had ended by the twentieth
century, it seems undeniable that several continue into the
present. One obvious illustration is the massive compulsory transfer
of American Indian children from their families, communities, and
societies to Euro-American families and institutions, a policy which
is quite blatant in its disregard for Article l(e) of the 1948
Convention. Effected through such mechanisms as the U.S. Bureau of
Indian Affairs (BIA) boarding school system, and a pervasive policy of
placing Indian children for adoption (including "blind" adoption) with
non-Indians, such circumstances have been visited upon more than
three-quarters of indigenous youth in some generations after 1900. The
stated goal of such policies has been to bring about the
"assimilation" of native people into the value orientations and
belief system of their conquerors. Rephrased, the objective has been
to bring about the disappearance of indigenous societies as such, a
patent violation of the terms, provisions, and intent of the Genocide
Convention (Article I(c)).
An even clearer example is a program of involuntary
sterilization of American Indian women by the BIA's Indian Health
Service (IHS) during the 1970s. The federal government announced that
the program had been terminated, and acknowledged having performed
several thousand such sterilizations. Independent researchers have
concluded that as many as forty-two percent of all native women of
childbearing age in the United States had been sterilized by that
point. That the program represents a rather stark¾and very
recent¾violation of Article I(d) of the 1948 Convention seems
beyond all reasonable doubt.
More broadly, implications of genocide are quite apparent in
the federal government's self-assigned exercise of "plenary power" and
concomitant "trust" prerogatives over the residual Indian land
base pursuant to the Lonewolf v. Hitchcock case (187
U.S. 553(1903)).
This has worked, with rather predictable results, to
systematically deny native people the benefit of their remaining
material assets. At present, the approximately 1.6 million Indians
recognized by the government as residing within the U.S., when divided
into the fifty-million-odd acres nominally reserved for their use and
occupancy, remain the continent's largest landholders on a per
capita basis. Moreover, the reservation lands have proven to be
extraordinarily resource rich, holding an estimated two-thirds of all
U.S. "domestic" uranium reserves, about a quarter of the readily
accessible low-sulfur coal, as much as a fifth of the oil and natural
gas, as well as substantial deposits of copper, iron, gold, and
zeolites. By any rational definition, the U.S. Indian population
should thus be one of the wealthiest if not the richest population
sectors in North America.
Instead, by the federal government's own statistics, they
comprise far and away the poorest. As of 1980, American Indians
experienced, by a decided margin, the lowest annual and lifetime
incomes on a per capita basis of any ethnic or racial group on the
continent. Correlated to this are all the standard indices of extreme
poverty: the highest rates of infant mortality, death by exposure and
malnutrition, incidence of tuberculosis and other plague
disease. Indians experience the highest level of unemployment, year
after year, and the lowest level of educational attainment. The
overall quality of life is so dismal that alcoholism and other forms
of substance abuse are endemic; the rate of teen suicide is also
several times that of the nation as a whole. The average life
expectancy of a reservation-based Native American male is less than 45
years; that of a reservation-based female less than three years
longer.
It's not that reservation resources are not being exploited,
or profits accrued. To the contrary, virtually all uranium mining and
milling occurred on or immediately adjacent to reservation land during
the life of the Atomic Energy Commission's ore-buying program,
1952-81. The largest remaining enclave of traditional Indians in North
America is currently undergoing forced relocation in order that coal
may be mined on the Navajo Reservation. Alaska native peoples are
being converted into landless "village corporations" in order that the
oil under their territories can be tapped; and so on. Rather, the BIA
has utilized its plenary and trust capacities to negotiate contracts
with major mining corporations "in behalf of" its "Indian
wards" which pay pennies on the dollar of the conventional mineral
royalty rates. Further, the BIA has typically exempted such
corporations from an obligation to reclaim whatever reservation lands
have been mined, or even to perform basic environmental cleanup of
nuclear and other forms of waste. One outcome has been that the
National Institute for Science has recommended that the two locales
within the U.S. most heavily populated by native people¾the Four
Corners Region and the Black Hills Region¾be designated as
"National Sacrifice Areas." Indians have responded that this
would mean their being converted into "national sacrifice
peoples"
Even such seemingly innocuous federal policies as those
concerning Indian identification criteria carry with them an evident
genocidal potential. In clinging insistently to a variation of a
eugenics formulation dubbed "blood-quantum" ushered in by the 1887
General Allotment Act, while implementing such policies as the Federal
Indian Relocation Program (1956-1982), the government has set the
stage for a "statistical extermination" of the indigenous
population within its borders. As the noted western historian,
Patricia Nelson Limerick, has observed: "Set the blood-quantum at
one-quarter, hold to it as a rigid definition of Indians, let
intermarriage proceed...and eventually Indians will be defined out of
existence. When that happens, the federal government will finally be
freed from its persistent 'Indian problem'." Ultimately, there is
precious little difference, other than matters of style, between this
and what was once called the "Final Solution of the Jewish
Problem."
The above article is an excerpt of a legal brief from Ward Churchill's
book Indians Are Us? Culture and Genocide in Native North America
(Common Courage Press, 1994). The defendants in the brief are leaders
of the American Indian Movement, who were charged for stopping a
Columbus Day celebratory parade near the Colorado State Capitol
Building in Denver, Colorado on October 12, 1991.
http://www.mit.edu/~thistle/v9/9.11/1columbus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Churchill
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