ACIP targets up to 159 million Americans for H1N1 vaccination
The top US advisory panel on immunizations recommended today that groups totaling up to 159 million people be targeted for vaccination against the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus but that a narrower population of about 41 million have priority if initial supplies are short. Read CIDRAP article…
Military may assist with US H1N1 response
US military personnel may work alongside civilian authorities during any significant outbreaks of the H1N1 influenza virus this fall, according a CNN report. Unnamed Department of Defense officials said the proposal is awaiting approval by Secretary Robert Gates. Personnel from all branches of the military may be involved, and it has not been determined whether the troops would be pulled from active duty or from the National Guard and/or reserves. [Jul 29 CNN article]
Dear Senators and Representatives……we told you so when were informing you about NAIS, now the whole world knows.
From the trenches.
Accessed CIDRAP, July 27, 2009
A draft report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) used a flawed analysis in deciding to locate a special animal disease laboratory in Manhattan, Kan., the Washington Post reported today. The GAO said DHS greatly underestimated the risk of an accidental release of dangerous pathogens from the lab, as the site is in a tornado-prone area. The lab, called the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, will replace the Department of Agriculture’s Plum Island Animal Disease Center, located on an island near Long Island, N.Y. A US House subcommittee plans to hold a hearing on the site selection on Jul 30, the story said. The GAO critique reignited accusations that the site choice was driven by politics.
I discovered this on a recent search, Life Style Management (LCM). Eugenics applied to agriculture. I spit on this.
From the trenches,
Celeste
Accessed USDA July 11, 2009
For Educational Purposes Only
Research Project: Fiber Extrusion to Improve Use and Production of Ethanol Byproducts
Location: Brookings, South Dakota
Title: A Treatise on the Application of Life Cycle Management Principles in Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Farmers and ranchers who have demanded food safety throughout the centuries have a new tool which was launched this week. Detailed product labeling is being required as a result of COOL and other regulations/ laws. Many of us in the NoNAIS Movement have wondered how to drive our position home. Labeling is the perfect tool for us!
Whether you have fiber animals, food animals, dairy animals, companion animals please join me in the RFID Resistance Movement and label your products Chip-Free. There is no better way to advertise your product and let our government know that we will not tolerate RFID-chipped products.
Chip-Free Products
For Healthy and Safe Products
Hurry! We don’t have much time because the military and Public Private Partnerships such as Wal-Mart have a goal of 2010 for RFID labeling.
10 Minute Citizen: Buck the Global System. Make or order a Chip-Free label today.
This has been a dry year. As I carefully planted precious seeds in the earth it was necessary to water each seed and plant with a water bucket. The water came from a distance and then needed to be applied morning and evening, in the blazing sun. The parched earth soaked up more than the farmer can provide. Weeds prospered with the new and tender eatable plants struggled to find their place in the garden at the base of the mountain. The earth is not rich; crows, camp-robbers and plant destroying insects & blights were plentiful. These tiny sucklings are attempting to nurse nourishment from the ground also had to contend with predators who desired to devour and destroy. The elements include the killer frost which turns thriving plants a sickly yellow. Day in and day out the farmer works the ground, contends with predators, and keeps watch over the farm. The other day I saw a snake slithering by, whether it was poisonous or not only the good Lord knows.
“It’s not the poisonous snake, but sin that kills”.
Admittedly, it is enormously difficult for flesh and blood creatures in a cause-and -effect, material world to perceive that the pain, swelling, fever, and death were not caused by the venom of sin rather than the venom of snake. But belief in God demands no less. Just as we know the carpenter, not the hammer that drives in the nails, we must also know that it is God not bacteria, Who punishes. The difficulty in first accepting this concept intellectually and then translating it into a formula of life is a manifestation of God’s master plan: that His Name be hidden, that His Guiding Hand be hidden-and that mortal man be charged with the task of discerning His presence and His will.
There are few occupations where hard work and sweat are as directly related ot success as farming. Faith in God is typified in agriculture than other occupations. A man stranded on a desert island has no choice but ot have faith. A man who subsists through random chores may demonstrate faith that God will not forsake him. But God wants more of us.
A farmer labors long and hard from dawn to dusk, doing backbreaking work, under the burning sun and battling the elements throughout his career as he wrings his sustenance from the grudging earth. When the harvest is completed can he give his thanks to God, proclaiming that despite all his travail, his blessings came from God alone? That belief constitutes a vindication of man’s existence, for he has cut through the layers that obscure the ultimate fact that all blessing comes from God.
Introduction to the Artscroll commentary on Lamentations
The labor of the farmer has now been made more difficult through burdensome regulations and new laws that will extract the farmer’s precious time and money. The modern farmer will not only have to battle the elements but also genetically modified seeds, pollution from above, changes in weather, but most of the new global standards which will eradicate small traditional farming from the landscape of the globe. The traditional farming walls were breached as local, state and the federal government adopted the UN Terrestrial Animal Health Code which dictates much more than just animal health. Now that the historical wall has been breached a grievous famine will ensue, you can count on it, as this has happened before but this time will be unprecedented in world history.
10 Minute Citizen: There is no place to flee so please help support your local farmer and rancher: Say No to NAIS, no to global agriculture. Purchase fresh and safe local foods.
You put the bird flu in, you take the bird flu out, you do the hokey pokey, and ya shake it all about.
You put the swine flu in, you take the swine flu out, you do the hokey pokey, and ya shake it all about.
You put the 1918 in, you take the 1918 out, you do the hokey pokey, and ya shake it all about.
You put the hemorrhagic in, you take the hemorrhagic out, do you the hokey pokey, and ya shake it all about.
You put the fat people in, you take the fat people out, you the hokey pokey, and ya shake em all about.
It’s the *severe influenza* hokey pokey for fat people! The CDC has released a Press Release and transcript yesterday, July 10, that obesity may be a risk factor for the severe H1N1 [weaponized influenza]. This is further evidence that this *novel* influenza is manipulated & weaponized & targeted towards certain people. As you read the following report notice the emphasis on ‘complications’. Typically this indicates a secondary bacterial infection.
Here’s the skinny, or should I say, [B][U]Fat N’ Flu[/U][/B] news:
(CIDRAP News) – In a series of 10 cases of severe illness with the pandemic H1N1 virus in Michigan, nine patients were obese, suggesting that very overweight people may be particularly vulnerable to life-threatening H1N1 infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
Seven of the nine obese patients were considered extremely obese, and three of the nine patients died, according to the report, published as an MMWR Dispatch.
“Clinicians should be aware of the potential for severe complications of novel influenza (H1N1) virus infection, particularly in extremely obese patients,” the CDC report says.
The report is not the first time that obesity has been cited as an unexpectedly common finding in patients with severe H1N1 illness, but good data on the topic are scarce, said Dr. Anthony Fiore, a medical epidemiologist in the CDC Influenza Division and a coauthor of the report.
“It’s been noted in some of the data that’s been received by the WHO [World Health Organization],” Fiore told CIDRAP News. “It’s been a phenomenon that other people have noticed, but I don’t think in a quantitative sort of way.”
The 10 patients described in the report were referred to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) at the University of Michigan Health System between May 26 and Jun 18. The unit specializes in treating patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
The patients ranged from 21 to 53 years old, with a median age of 46, and all but one were men. Nine were classified as obese on the basis of a body mass index over 30, and seven of them had an index of 40 or over, classified as extremely obese. Two of the obese patients-one of them a smoker-had asthma, and a third had chronic lung disease.
All 10 patients required advanced mechanical ventilation, and two were treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Six of them also needed treatment for acute renal failure. Nine had multiorgan dysfunction syndrome when admitted to the SICU, and nine suffered from septic shock. Five patients were found to have pulmonary emboli at the time of admission or later.
All the patients received antiviral treatment, but the authors estimated that it was started a median of 8 days after symptom onset-well beyond the recommended 2-day window for greatest effectiveness.
As of Jul 8, two patients were still receiving ECMO or mechanical ventilation, five had been transferred back to the referring hospitals in stable condition, and three had died, the report says.
No evidence of bacterial infection was found in any of the patients, all of whom received antibiotic treatment before and after they were admitted to the SICU. But the authors say they couldn’t exclude the possibility of undetected bacterial infection
The report says the overall findings suggest that the patients’ lung damage was caused by primary viral pneumonia, but their own intense immune responses might have contributed as well.
Obesity prevalence called striking
“The high prevalence of obesity in this case series is striking,” the report states.
It says it is unknown whether obesity is an independent risk factor for severe complications of H1N1 infection. Obesity has not been tagged as a risk factor for severe seasonal flu. However, one study showed that mice with diet-induced obesity were more likely to die of seasonal flu infections than lean mice were, the report states.
Also, it notes that extremely obese flu patients, compared with normal weight patients, have a higher prevalence of other health conditions that increase the risk of flu complications, including heart, lung, liver, and metabolic diseases.
“It might actually be an issue that this [obesity] is a marker of other underlying chronic illnesses,” rather than an independent risk factor for H1N1 complications, said Fiore.
He said it’s possible that obesity also confers a risk for severe complications in seasonal flu, but it just hasn’t been identified before.
Fiore said the CDC is studying the issue further. “We’re certainly going to look at the information in our hospitalization data from a national perspective. It’s challenging because it’s not the usual sort of medical risk factor that people check off. It doesn’t show up in the usual codes like asthma or congestive heart failure.”
“There’s a large prevalence of obesity in the country right now, and of severe obesity, so we’d expect some flu patients to have those conditions, but we don’t have a national figure,” he commented. On the basis of telephone surveys, the CDC reported this week that 26.1% of Americans were obese in 2008, up from 25.6% in 2007.
CDC officials have previously mentioned obesity as a finding in some patients with severe H1N1 infections. In a May 19 press conference, Dr. Anne Schuchat commented, “We were surprised by the frequency of obesity among the severe cases that we′ve been tracking. I do think it′s an important result. The question of whether people with obesity need to be treated differently in terms of antiviral treatment or seasonal flu vaccinations is one we′re looking into.”
Today’s report notes that the 10 patients received oseltamivir treatment in higher doses and over a longer period than normal. It says that until more is known, increased oseltamivir regimens can be considered for severely ill H1N1 patients.
CDC. Intensive-care patients with severe novel influenza A (H1N1) virus infection-Michigan, June 2009. MMWR Dispatch 2009 Jul 10;58:1-4 [Full text]
Maybe the powers-that-be had failed frightening us with their fear tactics on poverty food standards, vaccinations, and influenza so they had to add another component in hopes we would bite in (oops, buy-in).
What selected group of individuals will be targeted next for this influenza cocktail? Remember, the United Nations has defined “freedom” as being free from disease. As we are living beings it would be impossible to remove all the ‘bugs’ from our system. Some of these ‘bugs’ are good ones that help us survive and thrive.
So remember, next time you eat that hamburger or cookie:[B][U] ‘Fatties’ Beware [/U][/B]the severe flu is aimed at you!
(By definition all of us who live in industrialized or post-industrialized countries are ‘fatties’)
Celeste Bishop
DOD and Pandemic Influenza
A flu pandemic is a worldwide epidemic [this means a disease can be spread and is located in as few as two locations globally] of an influenza virus. The United States response to a pandemic has international and domestic components. Domestic response includes efforts which would include contributions from every governmental level (local, state, tribal, and federal), non-governmental organizations, and the private sector.
On June 4, 2009 the CRS released a report on the Department of Defenses (DOD) role during a pandemic.
DOD Response
During a pandemic the Department of State would lead the federal government’s international “rescue” efforts while the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services would lead the federal government’s domestic “response” [take notice of the difference in language between the global effort and domestic effort, internationally it is ‘rescue’, domestically it is ‘response’]. The CRS report clearly states that that the Department of Defense (hereafter DOD) would be called first to support international efforts and then domestic influenza efforts.
DOD Support
With all due respects to civil authorities during influenza pandemic DOD support would include:
Have you noticed that the United States has been hit with an explosion of Listening Sessions? These Listening Sessions are a component of the governments Strategic Communication Plan also known as an Alignment Plan. A Strategic Communication Plan is a management approach that makes use of two-way communication processes and media products to increase civil society participation in agricultural governance, establish coalitions and build consensus.
Why does the government and particularly government agencies and “partners” need a strategic communication plan?
In a nutshell the Strategic Communication Plan is a tool that TRANSFORMS:
Research Into Policy
Information and education Into Behavior change
Global Agricultural Legislation Into the social norm
Conflicting interests Into Consensus
The Strategic Communication Plan is a marvelous tool. Government gets their message out and people become Partner-Putty in the hands of the Gov-Potter who will shape and mold it to their specifications. You may think you are an independent, rational thinker but when you buy-in and participate in a Lesson Session you have taken one step into enemy territory.
The USDA Position on Attendees of NAIS Listening Sessions
Take for instance the USDA. They have created these Listening Sessions to create the change that they want. They are focusing on key elements that they have been refining since those early “listening sessions” back around 2005 and 2006. They have a goal and they are rapid closing in on that goal so they want to be most attentive to the people to avoid any “unwanted surprises” in their plan to control agriculture.
Remember the early days in the NoNAIS movement when many of us got into the main stream press. Oh yes, the reporter would mention we opposed and even quoted us here and there but the main body of the text were the USDA’s “key messages” clearly letting people know what they were doing and intended to do.
These current listening sessions have been skillfully crafted to keep communication clear and focused, in the USDA’s favor, of course. Just as fishermen sets a hook on his line with some flashy distraction, so to the USDA sets a hook, to draw folks into their court by creating an opportunity to be heard and provide feedback on the National Animal Identification System, NAIS. The stifling silence from the USDA has wounded many of us who were shocked that our own government would not listen to “We the People”. We became much like an abused wife and now that the USDA has inclined their ear, in our perception, we go return to our abusive husband, to give it “one more shot” to communicate our position. The Listening Session works two-fold for the USDA. It gives them an opportunity for No NAIS’ers to enter their court and provides them with the public platform they “gave us an opportunity”. This is a brilliant strategic move in the days of “fairness doctrine”.
Just as a dancers enchant an audience with their performance, so too the USDA casts a spell over their audience with their strategic communication dance plan. Now the people are ripe for the subtle behavior change process. Through the past years the USDA has fuzzied up the lines in pulsating vacillation. Many an individual has fallen to become a causality of this war for total food control. Cunningly as a serpent the USDA will persuade people to take action for their desired outcomes. The agency will provide people in Listening Session attendance motivational information that will strike their NoNAIS activities to transform them to “willing” and consenting” stakeholders actively engaging in the Fantasy-Agri-Gov World Image that the USDA and its handlers have created. The USDA provides to tools that explains what to do and how to do it, after all it’s, so easy!
The Listening Session provides the USDA a opportunity to officially address ‘rumors’. They the also clarify objectives and plans that they desire to be public all the will a dark hidden agenda is being laid, step upon step, precept upon precept. Once again the USDA will throw the ball into the NoNAIS court and present the moral dilemma the “fairness doctrine” to offset demoralizing actions taken by the public at large. It’s true, you get a opportunity to give the USDA your two-cents but you will be rewarded by encouragement and stimulation to take the politically correct action.
Face it folks, if you participate in the USDA Listening Sessions, or any Listening Sessions going around the country, you have been duped. You have been target and are giving up the high ground to sink in the quicksand of bureaucratic mire. The USDA talker’s have modeled themselves after the ‘good ol country doctor’ who ran Plum Island who was hired because he could sway a distrusting public to wholeheartedly support his biological warfare program, against all odds. While the USDA is using plain language at these Listening Sessions most of us on the front lines of NoNAIS have witnessed their semantic games.
The USDA is gloating over its victory over the people and toasting their successes. Most of you know that the USDA is not interested in what you have to say about NAIS and they certainly aren’t going to change their plans because you aired your opinion or statement of fact, so why go into the lion’s den so that the agency can use it for their purposes later? Do you understand that by your participation (endorsement) you become a de-facto partner or stakeholder with the USDA?
10 Minute Citizen:
The USDA’s dance plan has 5 steps for easy success, your job is to stop them in their tracks:
Identify Stakeholders…
Refuse to be a de facto stakeholder or partner
Identify Issues……
They know the issues, refuse to participate in their global agenda
Research….
Throw a monkey wrench into their research with false data, etc….
Communicate and key is to develop a RELATIONSHIP…
Refuse to *bond* with them
Evaluate and Update..
Refuse to provide them with information on our farms so that they can create a better plan to kill our farms.
Refuse to give ground to the USDA and all agencies. Boycott all controlled Listening Sessions.