New Pentavalent Vaccine Investigated For Infants Death
December 22, 2011
Aware and Prepare
By AAP
“More problems arise from vaccines. They are not safe and effective.” –KTRN
Throughout India, the new pentavalent vaccine is being rolled out as part of the Government Universal Vaccination Program. The pentavalent vaccine in 5 vaccines in one, leading many to believe makes it much more dangerous challenging a childs fragile immune system. Add to this the question of necessity of involved vaccinations, the most recent report of a 58 day old child dieing within 24 hours of the vaccination backs the worries of vaccine injury and vaccine related death.
A high-level team consisting of experts from the Union Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) has started investigating into the sudden death of a 58-day-old baby at Vithura near here on Thursday.
The death of the infant, which occurred a day after she was given the first dose of pentavalent vaccine, is being treated as the first case of Adverse Events Following Immunisation (AEFI) following the introduction of the vaccine under the Universal Immunisation Programme in the country on December 14.
Kerala was the first State to have introduced the pentavalent vaccine, which combines the antigens against five diseases in a single shot (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis B and Hib or meningitis) under the national immunisation schedule.
To allay any fears about any possible risks of the vaccine, Health Secretary Rajeev Sadanandan had made it clear earlier that every case of AEFI would be thoroughly investigated and that every child who had been given the vaccination would be followed up over a period.
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J&J Pulls 12 million Motrin Bottles From Shelves
December 22, 2011
Reuters
By Reuters
“HAHA – this is funny. It’s laughable just how many stories continue to come out about pharmaceutical drugs being recalled. When was the last time a batch of vitamin D3 was recalled?” –KTRN
Johnson & Johnson, the consumer products company which has been plagued by product recalls in the past two years, said it is voluntarily asking retailers to remove about 12 million bottles of Motrin pain relievers from store shelves.
The coated caplets may not dissolve as quickly as intended when they near their expiration dates, the company found when testing product samples, according to a statement posted Wednesday on a website of J&J’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division.
“There is no safety concern if consumers continue taking the product in accordance with its label; however, it is possible there may be a delay in experiencing relief,” the statement said.
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What If Ron Paul Wins Iowa?
December 22, 2011 by William
Filed under Government
December 22, 2011
Christian Science Monitor
By Amanda Paulson
“Even if Ron Paul does not win this thing, his message of liberty is getting out to the people like never before. This is a good thing.” –KTRN
According to the latest Iowa survey of the Republican presidential field, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is now on top, with 23 percent of likely caucusgoers supporting him. The Public Policy Polling survey puts former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney second (20 percent) and a rapidly falling Newt Gingrich third (14 percent).
A second poll released Monday also has Congressman Paul leading Mr. Romney, 24 to 18 percent. In that poll, by Insider Advantage, Texas Gov. Rick Perry actually comes out 1.5 points ahead of Mr. Gingrich.
And New York Times polling analyst Nate Silver, who has developed his own forecasting model, is predicting a Paul victory in Iowa. That model – which takes various polls into consideration, and weighs them according to accuracy and other factors – now gives Paul a 52 percent chance of an Iowa victory. It assigns Romney a 28 percent chance of winning, and Gingrich an 8 percent chance.
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The Iowa caucuses are just over two weeks away, and a lot can change in that time – even in a primary field less volatile than this one has been.
But what if Paul actually wins Iowa?
Few experts believe he has much, if any, chance to win the ultimate nomination. His views – which include abolishing the Federal Reserve, drastically cutting military spending, and dropping any federal role in regulating marriage – are too far outside the Republican mainstream, they say. And despite being called the “godfather” of the tea party movement, an unscientific tea party straw poll taken by phone Sunday night gave Paul just 3 percent of the 23,000 votes cast.
That doesn’t mean, however, that he won’t be a factor.
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Can The U.S. Government Close Social Media Accounts?
December 22, 2011 by William
Filed under Government
December 22, 2011
Salon
By Glenn Greenwald
“If they close down social media accounts of “terrorists,” they can close down yours for posting anything negative about the government. Not to mention they then will have information on who doesn’t like the current administration.” –KTRN
The Obama administration and The New York Times are teaming up to expose and combat the grave threat posed by a Twitter account, purportedly operated by the Somali group Shabab, and in doing so, are highlighting the simultaneous absurdity and perniciousness of the War on Terror. This latest tale of Dark Terrorist Evil began on December 14 when the NYT‘s Jeffrey Gettleman directed intrepid journalistic light on the Twitter account maintained under the name “HSMPress,” which claims to be the press office of Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahedeen, the Shabab’s full name. Gettleman’s article included this passage early on in its account:
But terrorism experts say that Twitter terrorism is part of an emerging trend and that several other Qaeda franchises — a few years ago the Shabab pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda — are increasingly using social media like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter.
That has to be the single most amusing phrase ever to appear unironically in the Paper of Record: Twitter terrorism. And, of course, the authority cited for this menacing trend is that ubiquitous sham community calling itself “terrorism experts,” which exists to provide the imprimatur of scholarly Seriousness on every last bit of inane fear-mongering hysteria. That cottage industry (like the government’s demands for greater power and Endless War) remains vibrant only if Terrorism does (that is, Terrorism by Muslims: a propagandistic redundancy). Thus, with Osama bin Laden dead, a full decade elapsed since the last successful Terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and the original Al Qaeda group rendered inoperable, these experts are now warning the nation about lurking sleeper tweets.
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Iraq: At Least $6 Billion Gone Missing Due To Overlooked Oversight
December 22, 2011 by William
Filed under Government
December 22, 2011
Time
By Mark Thompson
“Can you imagine have we could help this country if we weren’t spending so much on these wars? We could fix the roads, build high speed rail, help the poor, and give everyone living in the US a good life. It wouldn’t be socialism either – it would helping the country and the people living (legally) in it. There is a big difference. We have the money. We’re not broke. We’re still one of the richest countries on the planet – but we’re spending what we have in the wrong places. ” –KTRN
Now that the U.S. military has left Iraq, it’s time to tally how much the nation wasted putting it back together. Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, bluntly calls it a “disorganized American occupation” that frittered away at least $6 billion.
He rattles off the numbers like a machine gun set on automatic fire: his auditors have documented at least $6 to $8 billion of the $61 billion the nation spent reconstructing Iraq was wasted in sloppy contracting and inefficiencies. A total of $170 million in fraud has been found and recovered from 61 convicted contractors. All told, Bowen’s band of green-eyeshaded bean-counters has collected close to $1.7 billion in mal-spent – or maliciously-spent — federal funds inside Iraq.
“It was abnormal and unnecessary,” he tells Battleland, “but certainly unsurprising given the fact that we were not structured in 2003 to carry out an overseas rebuilding operation that cost tens of billions of dollars.” Bowen, who has been on the job for an amazing eight years, recalls that the original U.S. mission in Iraq was “liberate and leave” – something that was supposed to be wrapped up in three months. But the looting and lawlessness that happened following the 2003 invasion – and the lack of U.S. troops to deal with it – turned that modest mission into a far longer and more costly one.
“An ad-hocracy was created to manage this occupation,” Bowen says. It was, he says, plagued by three major shortcomings:
1. There was no “unity of command in post-war reconstruction,” he says. “We do not have a structure in place that has the capacity to carry out inter-agency stabilization operations.” The haphazardness led to waste on a massive scale. “Six to eight billion, minimum,” Bowen says, “was wasted.”
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It Is Not A Brave New World
December 22, 2011
Codgerville
By Codgerville
“Every member of congress who voted for the National Defense Authorization Act should be sent to prison – indefinitely.” –KTRN
Yes, the National Defense Authorization Act passed last night and I sent a late night email to friends and family to let them know that we had entered a Brave New World. But, the more I thought about it, the more that I realized that it is time for us to crawl out of the SOMA induced narcissistic lifestyle which was Aldous Huxley’s main theme the Brave New World. That is how we got here. It is living the 20th and 21st Century model of an advertising based lifestyle that has so thoroughly deluded the thinking of Americans. I’ll go a step farther and say it is the cause of the destruction of the thinking process in America.
If you have not already watched SGT’s excellent mini-doc The Madness Of A Lost Society please watch it now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOshw4kIGR4 and watch the sequel here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRvjufH29vE .
Remember when your kids were small or when you were small and you would ask about every 20 to 30 minutes, “Are we there yet?” Well, yes, Virginia, we are there. I could also make the case that it was purposely passed right before Christmas. Why? Because everybody is busy shopping, busy making plans to visit family, absorbed in what to buy Little Johnny, Little Susy, Granny, Gandpa the neighbors dog Spot. The majority of Americans are too busy to have to worry about what has just happened in this country. “Oh, my gosh, I forgot to buy something Becky, I don’t have time to watch the news. Besides it is so negative.” Or something to that effect. I know you have heard it.
I also know that you have heard at least one of the following: why are you always so negative? Don’t you think the people in Washington are smarter than you about the government? That would never happen in America. You must have heard or read that wrong. Oh, quit listening to that junk on the radio/internet. If it was true it would be on CBS/ABC/NBC. How many times have you heard don’t be silly, don’t be so negative, don’t be so paranoid, don’t be so critical?
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Spying On Americans Rising Rapidly
December 22, 2011
Natural News
By J.D. Heyes
“Wonder how easy it is for the government to lock into your computer web cam to watch your every move – or your phone’s camera … they could be watching you right now.” –KTRN
There was a time when ordinary citizens still had an expectation of the right to privacy, even in public, but as technology has improved over the past generation, so has the government’s ability to get around the Constitution and the rule of law when it comes to keeping the common folk under surveillance.
We’re talking about more than just traffic light and city surveillance cameras. We’re talking about the use of undercover police to infiltrate otherwise peaceful groups, and employing drones to spy on citizens without proper legal authority to do so.
“There is no question that this could become something that people will regret,” said former U.S. Rep. Jane Harmon, D-Calif., on the use of federally owned drones by state and local police agencies. Harmon, a onetime chairperson of the House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on homeland security, said when federal agencies like Customs and Border Protection were first authorized by Congress to unarm Predator drones, use by local agencies was never discussed.
“Any time you have a tool like that in the hands of law enforcement that makes it easier to do surveillance, they will do more of it,” added Ryan Calo, director for privacy and robotics at the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.
In recent Occupy L.A. protests, local undercover cops infiltrated the group on the grounds that they might be stockpiling human waste and crude weapons. Though cops wound up arresting more than 40 people on various charges including drug use, and discovered buckets of feces, water bottles filled with urine and pieces of bamboo with sharpened tips stashed in bushes and trees after breaking the protest up Nov. 30, it was the manner in which they made those arrests that troubled civil libertarians.
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Military Contractors Funded Defense Authorization Act
December 22, 2011
Aware and Prepare
By AAP
“Remember, it’s always about the money – always.” –KTRN
If you have been keeping up with the Republican debates, one thing is for sure, there are opposing opinions on national security and defense. You have Ron Paul, a defender of civil liberties and rights who says that the military industrial complex, war propaganda and bills such as the Patriot act are stripping US citizens rights and liberties. On the other side of the coin you have…everyone else who seems to support the fear, war mongering and military industrial complex. The Defense Authorization Act was just approved which contains language that innocent US citizens can be detained for undetermined amount of time, without being proven guilty.
Would you be surprised to find out that military contractors are the ones funding the defense authorization act, they are exactly the ones who profit from war as the sovereignty and financial power of the US falters.
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The 4 Causes of Illness and Disease
December 21, 2011 by KT
Filed under Kevin's Blog
If you read my book, Natural Cures They Don’t Want You to Know About, I mentioned the four causes of virtually every disease. I don’t care if you have lupus, MS, heart disease, breast cancer, or prostate cancer. I don’t care if you have headaches, migraines, insomnia, or depression. I don’t care if you have herpetic viruses, or if you get colds and flus, or if you have fibromyalgia, arthritis, acid reflux, gas, bloating, or indigestion. You name the problem…it’s caused by four things!
Number one is nutritional deficiencies. For example, we know scurvy is a vitamin C deficiency. Rickets is coming back with a vengeance, and it caused by a vitamin D deficiency. So nutritional deficiencies cause illness and disease.
Click here to find out the three other things that are causing illness and disease in your body!
Yours in health,
KT
Super Young Retirement Savers
December 21, 2011
CNN Money
By Various
Fabian Fernandez-Han
Age: 14
Age started saving: 10
Amount saved: $10,000
Hometown: Houston, TX
One day I saw my dad trading on eTrade. It looked interesting so I wanted to do it. I had always saved my allowance money and birthday money, and the first thing I bought was Apple stock — when shares were only $100.
I now have an eTrade account and a Scottrade account. In addition to Apple, I’ve also invested in other stocks like Google, Microsoft and Rim. I have some money in a savings account, too. But most of the money I plan to use for retirement is invested in stocks.
This January, the New York Stock Exchange was sponsoring a competition where the challenge was to create something to teach other kids how to save and invest. I decided to make an iPhone app called Oink-a-Saurus targeted at kids and teens who want to learn ways to save money, and I ended up winning first place.
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