Almost Daily Rant

TSA Backlash

It's good to see the growing backlash against the TSA, an out-of-control organization of 50,000 whose main purpose is to condition the public that being treated as a prisoner is the new normal. In what bizarre fairytale must one live for it to be acceptable for unelected bureaucrats to radiate us with back scatter X-rays, grope our wives and naked scan our children in violation of child pornography laws without any reasonable cause?

The letter to John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, signed by PhD’s from the University of California, San Francisco frames the potential health risks well.

Airports and warzones are the proving grounds for surveillance state technologies deployed on the homeland.  A case in point - the backscatter x-ray vans, once used in Afghanistan and Iraq are coming to a city near you. It isn’t hard to imagine the chorus of voices claiming that this technology will increase the effectiveness of drug checkpoints in the US as they scan each vehicle with ease.

Search points, such as the TSA Visible Inter-mobile Prevention and Response (VIPER) operation at a truckstop on I-20 outside of Atlanta are becoming more common. VIPER has now moved into bus stations.

You know this dance. It’s always the Orwellian mantra of terror, drugs and safety. If travelers go along with the airport “nakedizers” without a fuss, expect to see them appear at the entrance of state buildings, schools and stadiums.

Turning larger economic interests against TSA practices will be more effective than in-line heroics. For now, yes you can opt out for a grope, but what happens when you can’t? The only way the TSA gets checked is if big spender travelers make it clear to the world’s largest airlines, hotel chains and tourist destinations that the TSA is a barrier between them and their money.

“Dear Disney/Hilton/Marriott/Southwest/American/Continental/City Chamber of Commerce etc. I was planning a trip this year, but will not expose my family to the TSA’s potentially hazardous and tyrannical practices and will instead be content to spend my money locally...”

Avoiding GMOs

Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods from Jeffrey Smith on Vimeo.

Download this Shopping guide for avoiding GMOs.

Chart of the Day 4Nov10

As the arsonists at the Fed launch the next round of currency destruction with QE2 igniting all tradable asset markets, Bernanke has the audacity to recite the “modest inflation of 1-2%" nonsense.

I don’t have to tell you savvy readers that the government core inflation figures are meaningless. Sure, prices are stable if you don’t eat, use fuel or require any commodity that comes out of the ground. The reality of cost of living increases is best shown in the chart below courtesy of the folks at Casey Research. 2% huh?

 

Vaccination Schedule

As a follow-up to the last posting on vaccines, and the fear mongering effort behind the H1N1 scare of 2009, I wanted to re-link an older but must-read article below on infant and child vaccination schedules by Donald W. Miller, Jr, MD.

And again to the fierce defenders of the medical establishment, this is not to say that all vaccinations are bad, but rather to repeatedly expose the blatant suppression of data that suggests the risks are much greater than advertised, when the benefits in many cases are questionable at best. The collusion between BigPharma and government agencies at the Simpsonwood Conference in 2000 is a case in point.

The medical, political and legal doctrines are structured such that the burden of proof to demonstrate without a reasonable doubt that vaccinations are harmful falls on an ill-equipped public, rather than requiring the vaccination establishment to prove that they are not. Once again, the situation is symptomatic of a corporatist system that trumps the rights of individuals to act on informed decisions.

Vaccination is a controversial subject, and many parents worry about subjecting their children to them. Readers of my article "Mercury on the Mind," about vaccines and dental amalgams, have asked what vaccines I would recommend their children receive. This article addresses that question.

In the Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule put out by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 12 vaccines are given to children before they reach the age of two. Providers inject them against hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus (lockjaw), pertussis (whooping cough), polio, pneumococcal infections, Hemophilus influenzae type b infections, measles, mumps, rubella (German measles), chickenpox, and influenza (the flu).

Infectious disease was the leading cause of death in children 100 years ago, with diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, and pertussis accounting for most them. Today the leading causes of death in children less than five years of age are accidents, genetic abnormalities, developmental disorders, sudden infant death syndrome, and cancer. A basic tenet of modern medicine is that vaccines are the reason. There is growing evidence that this is so, but perhaps not quite in the way conventional medical wisdom would have it. (Read Full Article)

Also, Mercola just published an excellent summary on risks of the Hepatitis B vaccine.

Hepatitis B vaccination has been recommended by federal health officials since 1991 for all infants and children.

There are now hepatitis B vaccine mandates for children to attend daycare or school in 47 states, despite strong evidence that the health risks of doing this outweighs the benefit for your child.

Three hepatitis B shots are part of the standard government-recommended childhood vaccination schedule, with the first dose given at 12 hours of age in the newborn nursery of most hospitals.

But hepatitis B is a primarily blood-transmitted disease associated with risky lifestyle choices such as unprotected sex with multiple partners and intravenous drug use involving sharing needles—it is NOT primarily a "children's disease."

As Dr. Jane Orient of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) so eloquently testified to Congress:

"With hepatitis B vaccine, the case for mandatory immunization with few exemptions is far less persuasive than with smallpox or polio vaccines, which protected against highly lethal or disabling, relatively common, and easily transmissible diseases...

"For most children, the risk of a serious vaccine reaction may be 100 times greater than the risk of hepatitis B."

There are more reports of serious adverse reactions in children than there are cases of childhood hepatitis B reported in America and, despite what you may hear in the media, reactions can be serious. (Read Full Article)