Who Put The Swine in Swine Flu?

I spoke today to a VERY reliable source regarding the current national push to have everyone vaccinated against H1N1.


Some points to consider: if you've done even the most rudimentary research, you will know

• that a vaccination this year protects you against whatever you've just been stuck for - but not until next year.
• That a vaccination got while you're already sick or if you've been exposed is moot: your body is going to develop antibodies due to exposure/sickness; the vaccine isn't going to do a thing
• Any vaccination is a possible prevention, NOT a cure.
  

What you may not know - and this is from my source and corroborated by a media hack who spoke off the record - is that the media has been pushing this 'issue' for eyes - meaning it's been an excellent way to get readers, viewers and listeners.

You may not also know that the current batch of Tamiflu that's been shilled via media-created panic has a best before date of 2010. Yes, folks you read that right. Best Before.

What that means is that the makers of Tamiflu must get rid of their stocks before the vaccine passes that date or they lose money. Profit.They'll have to chuck it all in the bin and Big Pharma does not like to waste (...their money. The shareholders hate that.Yours? Yeah, they're all over that).

So, if you're Big Pharma with a lot of profit to potentially lose, what better way to make sure that doesn't happen than to take advantage of a very in-trouble media by encouraging them to incite panic, leading you, Joe and Josephine Canada and you, Joe the Plumber, to tear off to the nearest long lineup of potentially ill people, where you wait for a nearly expired dose of vaccine that won't protect you from anything this year.

The other thing you must do is make sure you have the governments on side - because they're who's paying for us Canadians to partake - and to make sure said government takes all responsibility for any outfall a la 1976.

History: in 1976, the makers of Tamiflu had done their 15 - 20 years of lab testing and now needed mass human trials of a vaccine they were pretty sure was safe. Usher in scary new term - Swine Flu - and yes, media-induced panic and voila, sheep, disguised as people rushing off to get stuck. In the US about 300 people died from the flu - pretty average and something that happens every year. But in 1976, over 4000 people in the US launched lawsuits on their own behalf because they'd become debilitatingly ill from the vaccine, or on behalf of their family members, who couldn't do it themselves - because they had died from the vaccine.

Speed forward to 2006 and the makers of Tamiflu are stockpiling in anticipation of an outbreak, which didn't happen.... speed forward to early 2009 and Big Pharma's becoming desperate to get rid of their soon-to-expire stocks. Losing money is NOT Big Pharma's gig and certainly not in the midst of a recession....

Today at about 10:00 a.m., CBC Radio Calgary ran an interview with a doc who stated that "H1N1 is not even as virulent as the regular seasonal flu.".... Really. Hmmm...

Getting the picture?

Both Health Canada and Alberta Health Region have some suggestions for keeping yourself healthy: wash your hands often and use sanitiser; keep your hands away from your nose, eyes and mouth; cough into your sleeve to prevent the spread of airborne particles; stay away from large crowds; stay home if you're not feeling well. And last on the list? "CONSIDER" vaccination.

If, after reading this, you realise that you are one of those sheep disguised as people, you may be cured by passing this article on.

Many thanks to SodaHead.com for their great photo. Please have a look at the video on their site: it's called "Doctor Admits the Vaccine is More Dangerous than Swine Flu

Wanna Know What I've Been Up To???

Writing. For MONEY! And shooting too.

I've spent the last six months honing my craft. I've writing for The Reflector, The Calgary Journal and The Strathmore Standard. I've had a proper lashing from a well-known editor of a major city daily - and by the way, I heard via the very juicy grapevine that I won that round, despite what she said to/about me in her blog...

Anyway, here's the link to the Calgary Journal Archives. Anything with Julie in the headline is me. Now you know.

Oh yeah, I've been Twittering a BUNCH. It is absolutely the fault of all my interesting 'tweeps' that I've neglected this blog... ok, that and writing for three papers...

Follow me on twitter if you want. I still say all sorts of provocative things, just in 140 characters...

Vaccinating Mount Royal

Vaccinating Mount Royal

The 'pigs' who are really benefiting from H1N1

Check this LINK for more via www.snopes.com

SWINE FLU is a conspiracy. Do NOT go running off all freaked out about it. People are making money, as usual, from you being terrified.

I was cringing...

Lately I've been watching TV, which is to say paying more attention to the advertising. What strikes me, as 'civilized' countries are crawling out of a recession, is the amount of advertising that would encourage us to buy completely unnecessary crap.

Certain items stick out particularly: skin creams for women; creams that scream they'll make us younger when they plainly will not and cannot and will simply deprive us of money. Second is the cleaning product and scent market. WHY do we need these? Seriously. Why? They are costly items, they don't smell good and they put chemicals into the air and onto every surface we touch. And we wonder how we're getting cancer....

But over riding all of that is the utter blindness we have, certainly in Canada, the US and Britain to what constitutes real poverty. That $40 pot of cream - that 1 ounce jar - costs what amounts to 20 days' work for many, many people.

TWENTY DAYS' WORK.

Can you comprehend? That means many, many of us are spending 20 days' work on a pot of chemicals that will do nothing other than put poison into our bloodstream.

Those little pots of room freshener that cost $6? That is three days' work for some people. For what? So we can breathe in what cannot in any way be considered a safe to breathe product.

We are stupid. We consume anything in our path no matter the cost to ourselves, our planet and to the 95% of the rest of the human race that has nothing. That part of humanness that knows poverty - the kind that doesn't allow you to play bingo twice a week because you can get food at the foodbank. The kind that doesn't allow you to smoke a pack a day. The kind that means you watch your children die from lack of food rather than making them eat Kraft Dinner so you can go to the casino.

We're fat because we, like cattle, consume until there is no more - except in this country there is never going to be 'no more.'

We suck.

I'm embarrassed by our abundance and horrified at how cavalierly we waste the immensity of our fortune.

Goodbye my loyal friend

Christopher Monckton of Brenchley: Trudging intrepidly Through a Sea of Corporate Lies.

I had the great pleasure of hearing Christopher Monckton of Brenchley speak at the Westin on Thursday.

Monckton is a polarizing figure in climate 'science' fields due to his excellent research and presentations regarding the lies and manipulations that make up the climate debate.

There is no debate and, to quote, there is no apocalypse. There are those who benefit from the utter misrepresentation of figures and facts - Al Gore being one - and many, the entire planet otherwise, who stand to lose a great deal.

Already, the baseless science and changes related to it have caused widespread starvation in some areas of the planet; places you probably haven't heard of and places the media (probably hasn't heard of either) won't talk about. People who live in those places are disposable.

I have posted links to a variety of articles on Monckton's site. Look in Archives in the right side menu of this blog for the top three items.

I encourage you - no, IMPLORE you to educate yourself about how science and figures and facts have been criminally manipulated by a select few, Al Gore being a significant player.

Just sayin'

It is much the measure of a person's character when they cannot rise above their personal issues with another to speak a comforting word when that other is suffering.

Requiem

Our very loved dog, Charlie, was badly injured tonight, while doing what he loved to do - chasing a ball in his own back yard. The vet says he exploded a disk in his mid back, which essentially paralysed his hindquarters. There was the option of surgery but no clear guarantee of success - not enough of a guaranteed to warrant Charlie being in pain and unable to walk.

Charlie was a happy accident in many ways. He was born on a farm north of Calgary, the result of a farm accident between dogs living on neighbouring farms. We found him at Petland in Westhills on a trip to buy cat food. Charlie made us love him the second he put his little snout under my chin when I picked him up at the pet shop 10 years ago.

Charlie loved all humans. He was, I think, convinced humans were there to serve him, service being throwing a ball. He never met a human he didn't like, given that there was always that ball tossing possibility.

Charlie logged many, many kilometres with me on my runs. We haven't calculated but he certainly ran hundreds of Kilometres as our intrepid and focused training partner.

Tonight was no different than any other night. Charlie blasted out the back door like a runner off the block, headed for the middle of the back yard hoping I'd toss his ball, which I did. Seconds later, he was on the ground, paralysed and screaming in pain due to an exploded disk in his mid-back.

There was a possibility of repair but that required serious surgery and many months recovery and physiotherapy. For a dog who was only still when he was asleep - and sleep was not a priority when the humans were awake - to be still and unable to run was not going to be an optimal situation. Nor was the reasonable possibility Charlie would not walk again, so we made the terrible, terrible decision to let him go.

He was just a dog. I know. But those of you who knew him will know that he was utterly unique; a dog who's major frustration was that he could not speak.

My heart is so broken tonight.

Origin of Stupidity

Kirk Cameron and his banana friend are adding - UNLAWFULLY, I might add - 50 pages of utter crap to Origin of Species.

The upshot is they're giving away 50,000 copies free.

If you are anywhere you can get a few, PLEASE get as many as you can comfortably handle, rip out the 50 pages (and yeah read them if you must...) and donate them to anyone who needs ass wipe or fire starter...