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http://www.blogtalkradio.com/labvirus/2010/03/11/the-labvirus-show-episode-4

Today I discussed the upcoming SCOTUS vaccine damage trial, chemtrails, Monarch/MKUltra, the toxic H1N1 vaccines, the Montauk Project, Dr. LIEman, and more. Thanks to the two guest callers.

BO’s BULLSHIT BINGO

This is clever, humorous and provides a solitary moment of joy from listening to any of BO’s almost daily egotistical and lengthy speeches.

Rules for Bullshit Bingo.

1. Before B-O’s next televised speech, prepare your “B”Bullshit Bingo” card by drawing a square. I find that 5″ x 5″ is a good size — and dividing it into columns –five across and five down. That will give you 25 1-inch blocks.

2. Write ALL of the following words/phrases, one in each block:

. Restored our reputation
. Strategic fit
. Let me be clear
. Make no mistake
. Back from the brink
. Signs of recovery
. Out of the loop
. Benchmark
. Job creation
. Fiscal restraint
. Win-win
. Affordable health care
. Previous Administration
. Greed on Wall Street
. At the end of the day
. Empower (or empowerment)
. Touch base
. Mindset
. Corporate greed
. Ballpark
. Game plan
. Leverage
. Inherited as in “I inherited this mess”
. Relief for working families

3. Check off the appropriate block when you hear one of those words/phrases.

4. When you get five blocks horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, stand up and shout “BULLSHIT!”

Trivalent influenza vaccine for the 2010-2011 season
by Vincent Racaniello on 10 March 2010
http://www.virology.ws/2010/03/10/trivalent-influenza-vaccine-for-the-2010-2011-season/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+VirologyBlog+%28virology+blog%29

[this is a propaganda piece promoting the "effectiveness" of the H1N1 vaccine and which urges people to get multiple vaccinations, every year. -ed]

The World Health Organization and the US Food & Drug Administration have decided on the composition of the influenza virus vaccine that will be used during the 2010-2011 season in the northern hemisphere. The trivalent preparation will contain the following influenza virus strains: A/California/7/2009 (H1N1) [an early strain not containing any RBD changes such as D225G, which is now completely extinct]; A/Perth/16/2009 (H3N2); and B/Brisbane/60/2008. The same trivalent vaccine is also being used to prepare for the upcoming winter in the southern hemisphere.

The A/California/7/2009 (H1N1) virus is the pandemic strain that was used in the 2009 H1N1 monovalent vaccine. That virus has not yet undergone sufficient antigenic drift to warrant selection of a new strain for the vaccine. Note that a seasonal H1N1 strain from previous years will not be included in the vaccine. This change has been made because epidemiological evidence suggests that these viruses will probably not circulate at significant levels during the 2010-2011 northern hemisphere season. Although the vast majority of circulating influenza viruses in humans are related to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic strain, sporadic influenza A(H3N2) activity continues to be reported in several countries. This is the reason why an H3N2 component is part of the vaccine.

The selection of viruses for seasonal flu vaccines is based on which influenza viruses circulate during the previous season. Sample viruses are collected by 130 national influenza centers in 101 countries and data on disease trends are analyzed by the four World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centers for Reference and Research on Influenza. Vaccine viruses are selected which will most likely protect against the main circulating viruses during the next influenza season. WHO makes recommendations about which specific virus strains should be included in the vaccine. Individual countries then decide which viruses will be included in the influenza vaccine.

Even though the 2009 H1N1 strain has not undergone significant antigenic changes, it’s important to be immunized again in anticipation of the next influenza season. That’s because immunity conferred by the vaccine isn’t particularly long lasting. As Adolfo Garcia-Sastre told me today*, even if influenza didn’t change, you would still have to be immunized every year to protect against infection.

*I recorded our conversation. Look for it at TWiV within the next few weeks.

[this makes me sick to my stomach. these people should be hanged. -ed]

Did Kathleen Sebelius Pressure Media to Deny Vaccine Safety Voices?
By Jake Crosby
http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/did-kathleen-sebelius-pressure-media-to-deny-vaccine-safety-voices.html?cid=6a00d8357f3f2969e201310f866a97970c

“There are groups out there that insist that vaccines are responsible for a variety of problems despite all scientific evidence to the contrary. We have reached out to media outlets to try to get them to not give the views of these people equal weight in their reporting to what science has shown and continues to show about the safety of vaccines,” (HERE) according to HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, in her interview with Arthur Allen for The Reader’s Digest, on February 5th of this year. Sebelius basically admitted to pressuring media outlets to report disinformation to the public in place of information that does not support the safety of the government’s most heavily promoted drug. As shocking as this statement was the first time I read it, I honestly could have predicted such a scenario.

One year ago, I wrote a short post for Age of Autism entitled “History Suggests HHS Candidate Not Unbiased on Thimerosal-Vaccine Issue,” amidst the Brian Deer-concocted hysteria and the flurry over autism cases in vaccine court. It was written in response to a number of disturbing things I read at the time about members of her staff dismissing concerns about thimerosal when she was Governor of Kansas. I was disappointed with the lack of mobilization in response to my post, though the timing of her nomination was very unfortunate. What was especially disappointing was that she replaced Senator Tom Daschle, who helped kill the Homeland Security Rider that would have protected thimerosal manufacturers such as Eli Lilly from litigation.

Worst of all, I was right. When I first saw her interviewed for CBS by Katie Couric last year, Sebelius confirmed that she was biased when she insisted thimerosal was safe. I was disappointed, but not shocked. Now as it turns out, she not only believes thimerosal is safe, but is getting the media outlets to say so for her. The New York Times, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The Washington Post, TIME, Wired…I can only guess!

It goes without saying that the government is no more entitled to its share of media coverage than consumer groups are. That news reporters are even following through on the government’s demands is unacceptable and in violation of journalism ethics.

Government officials like Sebelius have also launched a very successful two-pronged campaign so far. The first is one of positive publicity and self-promotion, selling themselves as the “experts” in autism. In reality, public health officials are not experts in autism at all, and Sebelius’ specialty is in insurance, which means her background does not even give her the most vague knowledge about autism. Meanwhile, Paul Offit feigns authority in a favorite argumentative technique claiming, “Science is best left to scientists.” Yet the real scope of his knowledge is made clear on posts he had written for “Science”Blogs, in which he said he learned about autism primarily through newspapers and lay people with personal connections to the disorder.

Looks like he’s not much of a scientist after all. So we are the real experts on autism, the ones who actually take the time to educate ourselves about this disorder and actively pursue relevant information about the condition. That’s not to say having an MD cannot be a huge plus, though it can also be a huge minus, simply that actively pursuing information about autism, be it in books or on the internet, not passively reading about it in the news, is what really counts. As the consumer voice on this issue we should have every bit as much of a say as does government. The second PR game of the government’s is a negative publicity campaign against the consumer advocates. It basically builds on its previous tactic of feigning credibility and expertise where it has none, and from that they develop their claim that by daring to disagree with them, we are unreceptive to criticism. This is exactly the kind of argument officials like Sebelius have been making. What more can one expect from a government official whose pet healthcare plan has received an $80 billion pledge from the drug industry? In reality, it is nothing more than a bizarre brand of newspeak the government and industry has been engaging in for some time: being unreceptive to all criticism of the blatant tobacco science defending vaccines, and then proceeding to stifle that criticism by projecting their lack of reception onto their critics. Needless to say, if Sebelius and the rest of the government really had science on their side they would not have to go to great lengths of telling media outlets to stifle evidence unfavorable to them. In fact, nothing would serve their viewpoint better than an article that stacks up their arguments next to our arguments and allow readers to draw their own conclusions, if they had the facts on their side that is. Perhaps that is why they despised David Kirby’s book, “Evidence of Harm,” so much.

On the bright side, at least Sebelius’ quote explains why the past year has been a particularly terrible one in terms of media coverage. We need to send our own message out to the media, to not listen to this conflicted government that shields drug companies from vaccine litigation, and promotes vaccines in a way unlike any other drugs. They need to be pressured to do their jobs as the media watchdogs of public health, not lapdogs as even The New York Times’ Nicolas Kristof admits, who then proves his own point by saying the vaccine-autism link has been “discredited.” The government’s easily debunk-able myth that all scientific evidence points to vaccines being safe must be dispelled with scientific evidence that some vaccines are not safe, especially the government’s own court concessions that vaccines cause autism to show it is doing one thing, while saying another.

In the meantime, lessons must be learned so another Sebelius-type does not get assigned to a position in the Presidential Administration. The Senate confirmation of Ari Ne’eman to the National Council on Disability is still pending. We have to do all we can to resist this and pressure our senators to reject his nomination outright.

Jake Crosby is a history student with Asperger Syndrome at Brandeis University, and Contributing Editor to Age of Autism

The Layman’s Guide to Mind Control
Catherine and The Solari Report,
February 4, 2010 at 3:02 pm
http://solari.com/blog/?p=5960

“Your greatest weapon is in your enemy’s mind.”
-The Buddha

Who controls your mind? Is it you? Or is it someone who wants to control you or profit at your expense?

* Are your opinions determined by your assessment of the important facts in a given situation? Or are they manipulated by subtle broadcast techniques spawned by billions of dollars of research on how to get you to act against your own best interest?
* Are you spending years and thousands of dollars getting an education that gives you an accurate picture of how the world works? Or are you learning a history created by the “winners” – a history that was intentionally designed to serve the future control of a hidden oligarchy at your expense?
* Do you keep choosing leaders that have been credentialed and promoted by private interests to engineer the destruction of your rights and the theft of your assets? Why?
* Are your thinking and your ability to act deteriorating as a result of intentional promotion of destructive agendas by means of vaccines, processed foods, water fluoridation, pharmaceuticals and chemtrails? Are you lured by false promises of financial reward, inclusion, and social prestige into promoting these and other harmful substances or pretending they are not a problem?
* When you choose vendors for your business, is it because they offer the best services with integrity or because they use entrainment and subliminal programming on phone calls without your knowledge? Does their understanding of your business reflect trap doors that they have illegally included in the software programs they sold you or high tech eavesdropping of your internal meetings? Have they planted someone in your business who works for them to “manage” your opinions from the inside?

* When your children consume violence on TV and in video games, are they being entertained? Could it be that they are being programmed with the same methods that the intelligence community has used to train assassins to be comfortable with killing?
* Were you persuaded to support gun control as a consequence of school shootings by children? Have you considered that some or all of those children may have been “Manchurian candidates,” programmed for covert operations? Indeed, the history of using children for assassination and covert operations is centuries old, including by American military and intelligence agencies.
* When you moved your mother from a government subsidized rent-controlled apartment to government assisted living managed by the same property manager and real estate investment fund, was it because her mental acuity had deteriorated simply as part of the aging process? Or was it due to poisons or electromagnetic weaponry arranged by the landlord with the help of a private security firm to increase profitability per elderly tenant by engineering an accelerated deterioration?

Mind control is one of those topics often excluded from polite conversation. It requires us to face the fact that we and the people we love are being manipulated by something that our current education and social status – and even local law enforcement – may not be able to protect us from. It is a topic that can be overwhelming, even terrifying.

Yet the first step toward protecting ourselves is to be able to understand our environment, make decisions clearly, and act in our own best interest – even organize with others to do so.

As unnerving as learning about it can be, mind control is a topic essential to your health and safety. To protect yourself, you must protect your mind and maintain an accurate map of the world around you – including the ways that others are trying to use your mind as a weapon against you.

The good news is that learning about mind control also involves discovering your mind’s extraordinary power – a positive step towards using your mental powers to serve your purpose and act in the highest and best interest of all concerned.

On this week’s Solari Report, I will present a specially prepared briefing, “A Layman’s Guide to Mind Control.” I will introduce the topic of mind control and its various aspects, review its history, and discuss current applications that create risk to you and your assets. I will review the best books, documentaries and movies – which I have distilled from hundreds of sources – to help you explore and master this important topic. A recommended list will be posted at your subscriber cart along with the audio.

In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will review two movies about mind control – Telefon and The Manchurian Candidate (2004).

I will start with a review of the extraordinary financial and geopolitical developments over the last two weeks in Money & Markets and answer questions in Ask Catherine.

[this is preparation for the bioweapon blowback from Israel's planned attack on Iran, which is now evidenced to be imminent. -ed]

Israel begins distributing gas masks to citizens
By Haaretz Service, The Associated Press
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152859.html

Israel has begun distributing new gas masks to its 7 million citizens to offer protection against a possible chemical attack.

Israel’s postal service is handing out the equipment in a process, it says, that will take about three years.

Avi Hochman, CEO & President of the Israel Postal Company stated that they have made the necessary preparations for the task, including a state-of-the art technological and logistical infrastructure.

Distribution began Sunday in the city of Or Yehuda. The distribution will continue over a period of 6 days and will then be extended to Kiryat Ono, in central Israel, and the surrounding areas.

The Israeli military says it is routine and not in response to a specific threat. Israel believes a chemical attack could potentially come from Syria or Iran.

Israel has distributed gas masks and kits with antidotes in the past, beginning with the first Gulf War in 1991. Three years ago, Israel recalled masks after some components passed their expiration date.

Testing of cocaine vaccine shows it does not fully blunt cravings for the drug
By Rachel Saslow Tuesday, January 5, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010402752.html

Scientists may have created a vaccine against cocaine addiction: a series of shots that changes the body’s chemistry so that the drug can’t enter the brain and provide a high.

The vaccine, called TA-CD, shows promise but could also be dangerous; some of the addicts participating in a study of the vaccine started doing massive amounts of cocaine in hopes of overcoming its effects, according to Thomas R. Kosten, the lead researcher on the study, which was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in October.

“After the vaccine, doing cocaine was a very disappointing experience for them,” said Kosten, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Nobody overdosed, but some of them had 10 times more cocaine coursing through their systems than researchers had encountered before, according to Kosten. He said some of the addicts reported to researchers that they had gone broke buying cocaine from multiple drug dealers, hoping to find a variety that would get them high.
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Of the 115 addicts in the study, 58 were given the vaccine, administered in a series of five shots over 12 weeks, while 57 received placebo injections. Six people dropped out before the end of the study. The researchers recruited the participants from a methadone-treatment program in West Haven, Conn., which made it possible to track them for the full 24 weeks of the study. The patients were addicted to cocaine and heroin; TA-CD is designed to work only on cocaine, including the crack form of the drug.

Like disease vaccines, TA-CD stimulates a person’s immune system to produce antibodies. Of those who received all five vaccine injections, 38 percent reached antibody levels that were high enough to dull the effects of the drug. The antibodies stayed active for eight to 10 weeks after the last shot.

In the high-antibodies group, 53 percent stayed off cocaine more than half the time once they had built up immunity. That compares with 23 percent of those who produced fewer antibodies. The researchers monitored cocaine use through regular urinalysis.

“In this study, immunization did not achieve complete abstinence from cocaine use,” Kosten said. “Previous research has shown, however, that a reduction in use is associated with a significant improvement in cocaine abusers’ social functioning and thus is therapeutically meaningful.”

About a quarter of those who received the vaccine did not make sufficient antibodies at all; Kosten isn’t sure why.

“That’s the million-dollar question,” said Margaret Haney, a professor of clinical neuroscience at Columbia University Medical Center, who is also researching the cocaine vaccine though she was not involved in Kosten’s study.

In October, the journal Biological Psychiatry published online an article by Haney that also tested the effects of TA-CD.

Through newspaper ads, Haney had recruited 15 cocaine-dependent men to participate in her study. (Only 10 stayed to the end.)

She and her colleagues gave crack cocaine to each man 39 times over 13 weeks while monitoring his heart. (“A nurse held a flame on the cocaine and participants were instructed to take one large inhalation and hold it as long as they would outside the laboratory,” according to the study.) The researchers vaccinated each participant with TA-CD on weeks 1, 3, 5 and 9 and periodically asked him to fill out a survey about his mood.

Haney, who has been studying pharmacological treatment for cocaine addiction for 15 years, said she was surprised by how effective the medication was in blocking cocaine’s effects. In the conclusion of her study, Haney suggested that the vaccine could help protect motivated treatment-seekers from relapse because if they slipped and used some cocaine, they wouldn’t get high and trigger the craving for more drugs.

Regarding the ethics of giving laboratory-produced crack cocaine to the men, none of whom was seeking treatment for his addiction at the time of the study, Haney said that the benefits of developing a vaccine outweighed any potential harm. She said scientists have been doing these types of studies — funded by the federal government — for 20 years under safe, controlled conditions. “I sleep well at night because it’s unethical not to do well-designed studies,” she said.

A larger six-site clinical trial of the vaccine organized by Kosten is scheduled to start in the spring.
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The idea of developing a medication to block addiction has long been attractive: Disulfiram (now sold under the name Antabuse), which makes people ill if they drink alcohol, has been available for alcoholism since 1948. Kosten said he hasn’t received any inquiries from drug companies wanting to manufacture a large-scale cocaine vaccine. (He and Haney are conducting research on TA-CD under an agreement with the private equity firm that controls the prospective vaccine; both of their studies were largely funded by the National Institutes of Health.)

According to the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 2.1 million Americans had used cocaine within the previous month.

Haney said she receives phone calls from desperate people asking where they can get the vaccine for a family member who is addicted.

“They have a mistaken view of how a vaccine might work, thinking of it as magic, where what it’s doing, at best, is blunting the effects,” Haney said. “They get very excited, and it’s heartbreaking.”

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AIDS vaccine effects may wear off, researchers say
By Maggie Fox, Reuters February 19, 2010
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Cars/AIDS+vaccine+effects+wear+researchers/2586524/story.html#ixzz0hqrFGodV

A Thai official walks past an anti-AIDS campaign poster displayed at the Thai Ministry of Public Health in Bangkok on September 24, 2009. An AIDS vaccine that appears to have worked at least partly in Thailand may only temporarily protect patients, with the effects starting to wane after a year or so, researchers report.

A Thai official walks past an anti-AIDS campaign poster displayed at the Thai Ministry of Public Health in Bangkok on September 24, 2009. An AIDS vaccine that appears to have worked at least partly in Thailand may only temporarily protect patients, with the effects starting to wane after a year or so, researchers report.
Photograph by: Pornchai Kittiwongsakul, AFP/Getty Images

WASHINGTON – An AIDS vaccine that appears to have worked at least partly in Thailand may only temporarily protect patients, with the effects starting to wane after a year or so, researchers reported on Thursday.

That may explain why results of the experimental vaccine have been so difficult to interpret, said Dr. Nelson Michael, a colonel at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute of Research in Maryland, who helped lead the trial,

Michael’s team is trying to find out how or why it might have worked. They surprised the world last September when they showed the experimental vaccine cut the risk of infection by 31 percent over three years.

“It is very likely that this vaccine only worked for a short period of time,” Michael said in a telephone interview.

“It is a weak, a modest effect but something that we can build on.”

The vaccine is a combination of Sanofi-Pasteur’s ALVAC canarypox/HIV vaccine and the HIV vaccine AIDSVAX, made by a San Francisco company called VaxGen and now owned by the nonprofit Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases.

Michael told the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco that it may be possible to design a trial that will show better whether the vaccine can really help people.

Part of the problem, he said, was that the 16,000 Thai volunteers who tested the vaccine were not at especially high risk of AIDS infection.

He said he would work with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, to design trials in Asia or Africa.

According to the United Nations, more than 33 million people are infected with the fatal and incurable virus, with 2.7 million new infections every year.

Even a vaccine that protected for just a year would be useful, Michael said.

“Is that ideal?” No,” Michael said. “But it is true there are vaccines like the flu vaccine where you have to get them every year.”

Within the next few weeks, Michael said studies will also start to try to find clues from the blood of the vaccinated volunteers.

“Everyone wants to know why this worked and what lab measurements we could take that could predict this,” he said.

Results will take roughly a year, he said, but labs all over the world will be looking for so-called correlates — measurements such as antibody levels that will show whether a vaccine has affected the immune system in the desired way.

“It is what I call an all-hands-on-deck exercise,” he said.

The AIDS virus has killed 25 million people since it was identified in the 1980s. Cocktails of drugs can control HIV but there is no cure. In 2007, Merck & Co ended a trial of its vaccine after it was found not to work, and in 2003, AIDSVAX used alone was found to offer no protection, either.

H1N1 Vaccine: Have Negative Side Effects?
By admin – Last updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
http://www.treatdermatitis.com/guest-reviews/h1n1-vaccine-have-negative-side-effects-1622/

Some of the general public and also medical officials feel that the H1N1 vaccine was developed too quickly, and are concerned that this vaccine may not be entirely safe for all persons. Concerned citizens have many questions about swine flu injections, and more specifically about the side effects that may occur. As well, the media is filled with debates and uncertainty of just who in the general public should receive this vaccine, as well as when it should be administered.

Health care providers tell us that the typical side effects that come from the H1N1 vaccination are not that serious and they usually occur within the day of receiving the shot, and are gone shortly thereafter. These side effects include swelling, redness and soreness, especially where the shot was administered, fever, nausea, headaches and even fainting for some individuals. There is no risk of getting the flu from an H1N1 shot since the vaccine effectively terminates the virus.

There are more serious side effects that could occur after receiving the H1N1 vaccination. These are rare but they do occur, especially if you have an allergic reaction. Any respiratory difficulties, such as if it is hard to take a full breath, and wheeziness or any other problems with breathing are considered a severe reaction. If you experience swelling in the face, especially around the eyes or mouth, then this could be an allergic reaction, as could dizziness, an irregular heartbeat or becoming severely pale. While these are not typical reactions, they can happen as part of this approved swine flu treatment, and you should look for them after you have had your shot.

If you do experience severe side effects after your H1N1 vaccine, you should of course contact your doctor immediately. It is useful to note the date and time that you noticed the symptoms and the severity of your condition. In order to keep authorities up to date with reactions to the vaccine, you can have your side effects reported and sent on to the government. Talk to your physician about how to obtain a Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) form and fill it out yourself.

The H1N1 vaccine was created to protect citizens against the influenza pandemic, but because it was developed so quickly, there are concerns about it. Take the time to educate yourself about all the side effects and the positives of receiving the vaccination versus the possibilities of what may occur if you don’t. There have been thousands of shots given out to treat this particular flu, and so far there have been few major reactions. It is a complicated and sensitive topic at the moment, so take the time to understand the facts before you make your decision.