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First Lady Encourages U.S. Team Members to 'Try to Have Some Fun'
By MARY PILON
Published: July 28, 2012
LONDON -- Michelle Obama, visiting the Olympics as part of her campaign against childhood obesity, met with members of the United States Olympic team Friday morning, telling them that she remembered watching the Games on television with her family growing up in Chicago and ''cheering at the top of our lungs.''
As part of a tour that includes meetings with dignitaries and appearances at Olympic events, the first lady was at the U.S.O.C.'s training center based at the University of East London's Docklands campus. Basketball, fencing, taekwondo, badminton, wrestling and weigh lifting athletes are training there and made up most of the crowd at the breakfast.
Among those in attendance were several women's basketball players, including Seimone Augustus, Sylvia Fowles and Sue Bird, as well as the two-time gold medalist fencer Mariel Zagunis, who served as the flag bearer for the United States team at Friday's opening ceremony.
''I'm still so inspired by you all,'' Obama said.
She was introduced by the former Olympic gymnast Dominique Dawes, who joked about jumping rope with the Obamas and how the first lady could hold her own when it came to fitness.
''Don't be fooled by her heels,'' Dawes said.
Obama spoke about watching the Games with her father, who boxed and swam in his youth, but was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
''He wasn't able to walk without the assistance of crutches,'' she said, ''but he retained his love of sports.''
She said this was the first Olympics she had attended and described the experience as ''otherworldly.''
After her brief remarks, Obama exchanged handshakes and hugs with the athletes and their coaches and posed for photos before making her way to another event in London tied to her ''Let's Move!'' campaign to combat childhood obesity.
The Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, are also in London for the Olympic Games. A horse co-owned by Ann Romney will compete for the American team in dressage events that begin Aug. 2.
Obama was among those at a reception held by Queen Elizabeth II on Friday evening at Buckingham Palace and then attend the opening ceremony.
''We are all proud of you,'' she told the American athletes. ''And try to have some fun.''
ARCHERS BREAKS HIS MARK The archer Im Dong-hyun of South Korea, who is legally blind, set the first world record of the London Olympics, breaking his own mark in the 72-arrow event and helping South Korea set a team record in the opening round. He broke the record he set in Turkey in May by 3 points with a score of 699, hours before the opening ceremony.
''This is just the first round, so I will not get too excited by it,'' said Im, who has 10 percent vision in his left eye and 20 percent in his right.
He combined with Kim Bub-min and Oh Jin-hyek to break the record for 216 arrows with a score of 2,087. That was 18 better than the mark South Korea set in May.
Im, 26, does not wear glasses in competition, saying he relies on distinguishing between the bright colors of the target. He won gold in the team event at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.
South Korean coach Jang Young Sool also did not seem too impressed by his team's accomplishment. He said his archers must get ready their next test.
''We will have a day of rest now and prepare for tomorrow,'' he said of the gold medal match Saturday.
France finished second in the team event, followed by China and the United States, which was ranked No. 1 coming into the event. Brady Ellison of the United States, the world's No. 1 individual archer, said that the conditions were ideal Friday and that he was not surprised the individual world record fell.
''I don't think you get those types of scores anywhere if the weather wasn't just perfect today,'' Ellison said. ''Korea shoots good, and if you look at the scores, they're always top in the ranking round.''
Also Friday, the American women's team scored a surprising second-place finish. Miranda Leek, Jennifer Nichols and Khatuna Lorig scored 1,979 points with 216 arrows. They were 14 points behind South Korea, which scored 1,993 points. The American team is ranked No. 6 in the world. (AP)
PHOTO: The South Korean archer Im Dong-hyun after setting the first world record of the 2012 Games, in the ranking round of the men's individual 72-arrow event. (PHOTOGRAPH BY DOUG MILLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES)
GRAPHICS: Different Games: Khatuna Lorig, a member of the United States archery team, coached Jennifer Lawrence for her role as Katniss Everdeen in the movie ''The Hunger Games.''


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Non-Stick Cookware Proven Toxic & Why You Should Use A Cast Iron Skillet Instead
Cooking has become a cherished pastime of mine over the last several years. It began in college when I found I could no longer stomach the meals the cafeteria was providing me. I knew I wanted to know what was in my food, so I moved off campus into my own apartment and began calling my mother incessantly for recipes, and then calling her back after mulling over what it meant to julienne an onion. And to be honest, as time has gone by my questions have only increased in number — though, to be fair, this is most likely because I am becoming increasingly familiar with the intricacies of the subject. But one thing I've noticed in the past year is my ever-mounting desire to understand what I should and shouldn't have in my kitchen for efficiency as well as health purposes (yes, I have replaced all plastic food storage containers with glass ones).
I'm the clean type. I don't like dirty dishes soaking in soap to slowly soften residue for removal hours later. I prefer things to get clean immediately, hence my affection for non-stick cookware. But, as many of us know, there's a not-so-secret staple in it that is a major danger to our health: Teflon. This synthetic polymer is found in metal pans to ease the process of cooking and cleaning. But at what risk? From health dangers to environmental hazards, the cons of cooking with it outweigh the pros. Even manufacturers warn their consumers of cooking at too high of a heat when using Teflon due to the emission of toxic particles and gases from the coating breaking apart. Take a look at the below chart to get an in-depth look at exactly what happens when you cook with Teflon at certain temperatures:
So once the dangers of Teflon were nailed into my head I began using the healthiest alternative I knew of: stainless steel. I quickly realized why so many people have trouble with these, however. My morning eggs, veggie stir-fries, and more became burnt bottoms to my pans (to which I have discovered that trial and error is necessary in achieving the right heat to oil ratio). But then I became aware of the joys of a cast iron skillet — another healthy alternative to non-stick cookware that doesn't have me constantly trying to get it right. Here are seven benefits of making it a staple in your kitchen:
1. It's Non-Toxic
Cast iron skillets don't emit any toxic chemicals into the air or into your food. In fact, the only thing that they have been found to release is iron, which many people are deficient in.
2. It's Nonstick
So long as you care for it the right way and season it properly when adding in your ingredients, a cast iron skillet will provide you with the nonstick outcome most cooks hope for. Learn some tips and ticks to ensure you do it right every time here.
3. You Can Use It In The Oven
A big benefit of any kitchen item is being multi-purposeful; not only can you use a cast iron skillet on the stove, but you can also use it in the oven.
4. It's Easy To Clean
As mentioned above, I'm not a fan of letting my pans soak for too long, which is why I like how easy it is to clean cast iron skillets. The food comes off easily, and you don't even have to use soap. In fact, using it isn't recommended, as it damages the seasoning.
5. It Doesn't Scratch
When I first began cooking, I remember being told time and time again not to use any metal when scraping food from my non-stick cookware for the fear of Teflon flakes making their way into the food. This left me either using plastic or wooden utensils, but if need be, you can still use your silverware to stir your ingredients or scoop out the finished product since they do not scratch.
6. You Can Use Less Oil
One of the things that bothered me most when switching to stainless steel was how much oil I found myself using during my trial and error stage, but that has yet to be a problem with a cast iron skillet.
7. It Stands The Test of Time
Something I've found to be a big bummer in newer technologies is how quickly products need to be replaced. There's something to be said for age-old items passed down from generation to generation with the knowledge that our health nor our wallets are not at risk. Want to learn how to make the most out of your skillet and have it last "forever"? Check out some valuable information here.
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25 Reasons to Avoid the Gardasil Vaccine
It has been 13 years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) supplied fast-tracked approval for Merck's Gardasil vaccine—promoted for the prevention of cervical cancer and other conditions attributed to four types of human papillomavirus (HPV). The agency initially licensed Gardasil solely for 9- to 26-year-old girls and women, but subsequent FDA decisions now enable Merck to market Gardasil's successor—the nine-valent Gardasil 9 vaccine—to a much broader age range—9 to 45 years—and to both males and females.
As a result of Gardasil's expanding markets not just in the U.S. but internationally, the blockbuster HPV vaccine has become Merck's third highest-grossing product, bringing in annual global revenues of about $2.3 billion. However, Gardasil's safety record has been nothing short of disastrous. Children's Health Defense and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. have just produced a video detailing the many problems with the development and safety of Gardasil. Please watch and share this video so that you and others may understand why Mr. Kennedy refers to Merck's methodologies as "fraudulent flimflams."
What follow are 25 key facts about Gardasil/Gardasil 9, including facts about the HPV vaccines' clinical trials and adverse outcomes observed ever since Merck, public health officials and legislators aggressively foisted the vaccines on an unsuspecting public.
Inappropriate placebos and comparisons
- A placebo is supposed to be an inert substance that looks just like the drug being tested. But in the Gardasil clinical trials, Merck used a neurotoxic aluminum adjuvant called AAHS instead of using an inert saline placebo.
- Among girls and women who received the vaccine and among girls and women who received AAHS, an astonishing 2.3% in both groups experienced conditions indicative of "systemic autoimmune disorders," many shortly after receiving Gardasil.
- Multiple scientific studies associate aluminum not just with autoimmune diseases but with autism, Alzheimer's disease, dementia and Parkinson's disease as well as behavioral abnormalities in animals.
- Merck lied to study participants, falsely saying that the clinical trials were not safety studies, that the vaccine had already been found to be safe and that the "placebo" was an inert saline solution. [Source: The HPV Vaccine on Trial (photo evidence, pp. 6 and 12).]
- When Merck conducted clinical trials for its next HPV vaccine formulation, Gardasil 9, it used Gardasil as the "placebo" in the control groups, again relying on the lack of an inert placebo to mask safety signals.
- The 500 micrograms of aluminum adjuvant (AAHS) in Gardasil 9 are more than double the amount of aluminum in Gardasil; this raises the question of whether Gardasil 9's heavy reliance on the Gardasil trials for comparison is justifiable.
- The World Health Organization states that using a vaccine (rather than an inert substance) as a placebo creates a "methodological disadvantage" and also notes that it may be "difficult or impossible" to assess vaccine safety properly without a true placebo.
Inappropriate inclusion and exclusion criteria
- In the only Gardasil trial in the target age group (11- and 12-year-old girls) with a control group design, fewer than 1200 children received the vaccine and fewer than 600 served as controls. This single trial involving fewer than 1800 children set the stage for the vaccine's subsequent marketing to millions of healthy preteens all over the world.
- The Gardasil clinical trials had numerous exclusion criteria. Not allowed to participate in the trials were people with: severe allergies; prior abnormal Pap test results; over four lifetime sex partners; a history of immunological disorders and other chronic illnesses; reactions to vaccine ingredients, including aluminum, yeast, and benzonase; or a history of drug or alcohol abuse—yet Merck now recommends Gardasil for all of these groups.
Inadequate monitoring
- Some of the study participants—but not all—were given "report cards" to record short-term reactions such as redness and itching. The report cards monitored reactions for a mere 14 days, however, and Merck did not follow up with participants who experienced serious adverse events such as systemic autoimmune or menstrual problems.
- Injured participants complained that Merck rebuffed their attempts to report adverse side effects. In numerous instances, Merck maintained that these "weren't related to the vaccine."
- Half (49.6%) of the clinical trial subjects who received Gardasil reported serious medical conditions within seven months. To avoid classifying these injuries as adverse events, Merck dismissed them as "new medical conditions."
Cervical cancer risk-benefit ratio not worth it
- The median age of cervical cancer death is 58 years. Gardasil targets millions of healthy preadolescents and teens for whom the risk of dying from cervical cancer is practically zero. Interventions for healthy people must have a risk profile that is also practically zero.
- Annual deaths from cervical cancer in the U.S. are 2.3/100,000. The death rate in the Gardasil clinical trials was 85/100,000—or 37 times that of cervical cancer.
- With 76 million children vaccinated at an average cost of $420 for the three-shot Gardasil series, the cost of saving one American life from cervical cancer amounts to about $18.3 million dollars. By contrast, the value of a human life according to the Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS's) National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is $250,000—the maximum amount that the government program will award for a vaccine-related death.
- According to Gardasil's package insert, women are 100 times more likely to suffer a severe event following vaccination with Gardasil than they are to get cervical cancer.
- The chances of getting an autoimmune disease from Gardasil, even if the vaccine works, are 1,000 times greater than the chances of being saved from a cervical cancer death.
- Women in Gardasil clinical trials with evidence of current HPV infection and previous exposure to HPV had a 44% increased risk of developing cervical lesions or cancer following vaccination.
- Women who get the Gardasil vaccine as preteens or teens are more likely to skip cervical cancer screening as adults, mistakenly assuming that HPV vaccination is a replacement for screening and that the vaccine will eliminate all risk.
Fertility effects
- Accumulating evidence points to Gardasil's potentially severe adverse effects on fertility, including miscarriage and premature ovarian failure.
- Merck never tested the vaccine for fertility effects. However, Gardasil and Gardasil 9 clinical trials showed high spontaneous miscarriage rates of 25% and 27.4%, respectively—significantly higher than the background rates of approximately 10%-15% in this reproductive age group.
- Polysorbate 80 and sodium borate (Borax) are associated with infertility in animals. Both are Gardasil ingredients, and both were present in the one clinical trial protocol that professed to use a benign saline placebo.
- In 2015, Denmark opened five new "HPV clinics" to treat children injured by Gardasil. Over 1300 cases flooded the clinics shortly after their opening.
- Since Gardasil came on the U.S. market in 2006, people have reported over 450 deaths and over 61,000 serious medical conditions from HPV vaccines to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS).
- Merck lied to VAERS about the case of Christina Tarsell's death, falsely claiming that her doctor blamed a virus instead of Gardasil. [Source: The HPV Vaccine on Trial (p. 144).]
The vaccine that should never have been licensed
As suggested in the conclusion to the 2018 book The HPV Vaccine on Trial, the rollout of Gardasil in 125 countries worldwide has illustrated—in an all-too-real and shocking manner—the phenomenon that prompted Hans Christian Andersen to write "The Emperor's New Clothes." Around the world, over 100,000 Gardasil-related adverse events have now been reported to the FDA and WHO, and accounts continue to multiply of "scandal, lawsuits, severe injuries, and deaths." For almost 200 years, Andersen's story has taught readers about the need to speak the truth, pay attention to evidence and listen to children. The rosy narrative manufactured for the dangerous Gardasil vaccine must not be allowed to hold sway any longer. It is time, in the words of the HPV Vaccine on Trial authors, to proclaim—loudly—that "the Emperor has no clothes."
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Wikileaks: Ecuador is Being Run By "Criminals & Liars." Assange's Entire Legal Defense Given To The United States
In Brief
- The Facts:
Three weeks before the U.S. deadline to file its final extradition request for Assange, Ecuadorian officials are travelling to London to allow U.S. prosecutors to help themselves to Assange's belongings.
- Reflect On:
How do the global elite have the right and power to do what they do to people like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden? Do we really live in a democracy when small groups of people in power can basically make decisions that go against the majority?
What's happening with Julian Assange is heart-breaking. He's a hero, just like Edward Snowden. Government secrets are kept, not to protect 'national security' as commonly claimed, but rather to protect political and corporate interests. After all, the United States is evidently run by a small group of corporations. These corporations have a huge influence when it comes to dictating government policy, and they do not like those who disclose their secrets. For years, Wikileaks has been leaking documents that've exposed major corruption within multiple governments, including the United States and basically the entire western military alliance. They've exposed that our world operates very differently than how it's been presented, and they've never had to retract a single story. They exposed the invisible government, or "the real menace of Republic," a term coined by John F. Hylan, former Mayor of New York City. Hylan has said that the "invisible government, which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities, states and nation." He exposes the ones "who virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes." (source)
Transparency is what Julian Assange is all about, and the American empire and even the global empire have been desperately trying to keep their secrets and prosecute anyone or anything that threatens their secrecy. That's what this is all about. And they proved that with Chelsea Manning.
It's not just people like Assange who are being demonized and hunted, it's alternative media as well. The war on 'fake news' that's been happening for the last little while has resulted in alternative media outlets being labeled as 'fake', even if they're presenting credible information and sources. Any media outlet who even questions a controversial issue has been labeled as 'wrong' or 'fake.'
What is happening to Assange is extremely unjust, and should serve as a massive 'wake up' call for anyone who isn't already 'awake.' Truth and free press threaten the ability of the global elite to continue their cycle of creating problems and then proposing solutions in order to achieve their desired outcome. Some of the biggest leaks WikiLeaks has made were when they revealed the connections between terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda and ISIS to the western military alliance, and more specifically to the US government. Current presidential candidate and Congresswoman at the time, Tulsi Gabbard, even introduced a bill to stop this from happening.
We saw arms deals and the funding/support of terrorist organizations that the US claimed to be fighting against. This is a great example of how the global elite funds and creates a problem in order to justify a desired outcome (in this case it was heightened national security measures back home to protect people from 'the war on terror' and justify their infiltration of another country for ulterior motives).
I could go deeper into this, but the bottom line is that the arrest of Julian Assange comes at the hands of the criminals around the globe he was exposing, and it's ironic that they are using their power and influence over mainstream media to portray Assange as the one who needs to be put behind bars.
The Latest Update On Assange
Below is the latest update from the Wikileaks team via a recent press release.
Three weeks before the U.S. deadline to file its final extradition request for Assange, Ecuadorian officials are travelling to London to allow U.S. prosecutors to help themselves to Assange's belongings.
Neither Julian Assange nor U.N. officials have been permitted to be present when Ecuadorian officials arrive to Ecuador's embassy in London on Monday morning.
The chain of custody has already been broken. Assange's lawyers will not be present at the illegal seizure of his property, which has been "requested by the authorities of the United States of America."
The material includes two of his manuscripts as well as his legal papers, medical records and electronic equipment. The seizure of his belongings violates laws that protect medical and legal confidentiality and press protections.
The seizure is formally listed as "International Assistance in Criminal matters 376-2018-WTT requested by the authorities of the United States of America." The reference number of the legal papers indicates that Ecuador's formal cooperation with the United States was initiated in 2018.
Since the day of his arrest on April 11, 2019, Mr. Assange's lawyers and the Australian consul made dozens of documented demands to the embassy of Ecuador for the release and return of his belongings, to which they received no response.
Earlier this week the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy, who met with Mr. Assange in Belmarsh prison on April 25, asked to be present to monitor Ecuador's seizure of Assange's property. Ecuador inexplicably refused the request, despite the fact that since 2003, Ecuador has explicitly committed itself to granting unimpeded open invitations for UN special rapporteurs to investigate any aspect of their mandate in Ecuadorian jurisdiction.
The seizure and transfer of Mr. Assange's property to the U.S. is the second phase of a bilateral cooperation that in January and February saw Ecuador arranging U.S. interrogations of past and present Ecuadorian diplomats posted to the embassy of Ecuador in London while Mr. Assange was receiving asylum. The questioning related to the U.S. grand jury investigation against Assange and WikiLeaks. As part of phase one of the cooperation, the United States also asked Ecuador to provide documents and audiovisual material of Assange and his guests, which had been gathered during an extensive spy operation against Assange inside the embassy.
On Friday, President Lenin Moreno initiated a state of emergency that suspends the rights of prisoners to "inviolability of correspondence, freedom of association and assembly and freedom of information" through Executive Decree 741.
Kristinn Hrafnsson, Editor-in-Chief of WikiLeaks said:
"On Monday Ecuador will perform a puppet show at the Embassy of Ecuador in London for their masters in Washington, just in time to expand their extradition case before the U.K. deadline on 14 June. The Trump Administration is inducing its allies to behave like it's the Wild West."
Hrafnsson continued:
"Ecuador is run by criminals and liars. There is no doubt in my mind that Ecuador, either independently or at the behest of the US, has tampered with the belongings it will send to the United States."
Baltasar Garzon, international legal coordinator for the defence of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, said:
"It is extremely worrying that Ecuador has proceeded with the search and seizure of property, documents, information and other material belonging to the defence of Julian Assange, which Ecuador arbitrarily confiscated, so that these can be handed over to the agent of political persecution against him, the United States. It is an unprecedented attack on the rights of the defence, freedom of expression and access to information exposing massive human rights abuses and corruption. We call on international protection institutions to intervene to put a stop to this persecution."
Lawyer for Mr. Assange, Aitor Martinez, whose confidential legal papers were photographed with a mobile phone by embassy workers as part of a spy operation against Mr. Assange in October 2018, said:
"Ecuador is committing a flagrant violation of the most basic norms of the institution of asylum by handing over all the asylee's personal belongings indiscriminately to the country that he was being protected from–the United States. This is completely unprecedented in the history of asylum. The protecting country cannot cooperate with the agent of persecution against the person to whom it was providing protection.
Ecuador has now also refused a request by the UN Special Rapporteur on Privacy, Joe Cannataci, to monitor and inspect the cooperation measure. Ecuador's refusal to cooperate with the UN Special Rapporteur defies the entire international human rights protection system of the United Nations. Ecuador will from now on be seen as a country that operates outside of the system of safeguards of rights that defines democratic countries."
Ecuadorian defence attorney for Mr. Assange, Carlos Poveda, said:
"In the face of countless abuses, and acting on provisions in domestic legislation and international human rights instruments, the defence has challenged the execution of this measure. All applications have been rejected. While the prosecution office proclaims its commitment to human rights protections, there has been no transparency and the investigation is conducted in secret. Without justification, and absent of all legal criteria, the measure shows the interest in obtaining information that the United States can use to proceed with its flagrant persecution. Meanwhile Ecuador has hinted that it too intends to proceed with investigations. Meanwhile, to date our criminal complaints of espionage against Julian Assange remain unprocessed, despite the gravity of the facts reported."
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New Study Finds That Measles Outbreaks Are Occurring In Many VACCINATED Individuals
In Brief
- The Facts:
A new study from China has been added to the long list that questions the effectiveness of the MMR vaccine given the fact that outbreaks are occurring in highly vaccinated populations and within vaccinated individuals.
- Reflect On:
Are vaccines really as safe as they're marketed to be?
There is a lot of hysteria surrounding measles outbreaks right now, and a lot of mainstream media bombardment in North America whereby unvaccinated children are wrongfully blamed for multiple measles outbreaks. This media hysteria capitalizes on terms like "anti-vax conspiracy theorists" instead of actually acknowledging the points that are being made by vaccine awareness advocates, many of whom are scientists and doctors. The point is, when people are trying to shut down and block credible information and critical thinking, you know something is up.
When it comes to the measles, blaming these outbreaks on unvaccinated people makes absolutely no sense at all. Why? Because, since the introduction of the measles vaccine, outbreaks have occurred in highly vaccinated populations. Furthermore, ample evidence has been presented showing that vaccinated people might also be shedding their virus and infecting others with it.
For example, during the measles outbreak in California in 2015, a large number of suspected cases occurred in recent vaccinees. Of the 194 measles virus sequences obtained in the United States in 2015, 73 were identified as vaccine sequences. The media (Pharma-owned) generated high public anxiety. This fear mongering led to the demonization of unvaccinated children, who were perceived as the spreaders of this disease. Rebecca J. McNall, a co-author of the published report, is a CDC official in the Division of Viral Diseases who had the data proving that the measles outbreak was in part caused by the vaccine. It is evidence of the vaccine's failure to provide immunity. (source)
There are dozens of studies on measles outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations that found that the cause of these outbreaks was not due to failure to vaccinate, but rather because of a failing vaccine. I will provide more examples further in the article, but for now, I want to get to some recently published information.
This research was published in the journal Vaccine, titled "Assessing measles vaccine failure in Tianjin, China," and it's another study showing measles outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations.
"Despite increasing global measles vaccination coverage, progress toward measles elimination has slowed in recent years. In China, children receive a measles-containing vaccine (MCV) at 8 months, 18– 24 months, and some urban areas offer a third dose at age 4–6 years. However, substantial measles cases in Tianjin, China, occur among individuals who have received multiple MCV doses."
The study explains how there has been an increase in global measles vaccinations, and they're right. Despite this fact, mainstream media in America continues to blame low vaccination rates for these outbreaks, when that could not be further from the truth. Luckily, the CDC has a super-easy, interactive map that illustrates this data very clearly, and it would be great if members of the mainstream media actually started to take a look at the data. Vaccination rates in the States are actually very high. So why are they blaming the unvaccinated? Washington State, for example, has a 90 percent MMR vaccination coverage.
The study from China goes on to explain:
Twenty-nine percent of those in the surveillance dataset and 54.4% of those in the case series received at least one dose of MCV. The minimum and median time-to-diagnosis since vaccination revealed an increase in time since vaccination for incremental doses. Considerable measles cases in Tianjin occur in vaccinated children, and further research is needed to understand the reasons for vaccine failure.
Another study published in the highly authoritative Bulletin of the World Health Organization looked at recent measles occurrences throughout China and found that there were 707 measles outbreaks in the country recorded between 2009 and 2012, with a steep upward trend in 2013. "The number of measles cases reported in the first 10 months of 2013 – 26,443 – was three times the number reported in the whole of 2012." This is odd considering that since 2009 "…the first dose of measles-virus-containing vaccine has reached more than 90% of the target population." (source)
A study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases – whose authorship includes scientists working for the Bureau of Immunization, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA – looked at evidence from the 2011 New York measles outbreak, which showed that individuals with prior evidence of measles vaccination and vaccine immunity were both capable of being infected with measles and infecting others with it (secondary transmission). The study concluded that "measles may occur in vaccinated individuals, but secondary transmission from such individuals has not been documented." (source)
Furthermore, according to a MedAlerts search of the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, as of 2/5/19, the cumulative raw count of adverse events from measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines alone was: 93,929 adverse events, 1,810 disabilities, 6,902 hospitalizations, and 463 deaths. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has paid out approximately $4 billion to compensate families of vaccine injured children. As astronomical as the monetary awards are, they're even more alarming considering HHS claims that only an estimated 1% of vaccine injuries are even reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). If the numbers from VAERS and HHS are correct – only 1% of vaccine injuries are reported and only 1/3 of the petitions are compensated – then up to 99% of vaccine injuries go unreported and the families of the vast majority of people injured by vaccines are picking up the costs, once again, for vaccine makers' flawed products.
From 2013 to 2017, measles killed 2 people, but the vaccine killed 127 people. The odds of dying from the measles are 0.01 – 0.02 percent, meaning you have a greater chance of getting hit by a lightning bolt multiple times. Furthermore, if your child contracts the measles, they will be immune for life, but that cannot be said for vaccinated children.
Our Episode About Vaccines On CETV
On a recent episode of CETV, we discussed the mainstream media and the way they fear monger and blame the unvaccinated without addressing important facts. We talked about the history of measles outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations, provided multiple clips from scientists and doctors sharing information related to the above, and cited examples of fraud, specifically with regards to the MMR vaccination and the CDC.
Below you can watch our discussion, and the first hour is free. To watch the other 2 hours of this episode, become a member of CETV.
Another Episode Specifically About The MMR Vaccine
In a later episode of The Collective Evolution Show on CETV, Joe, Richard and I discussed New York's mandatory vaccination order as well as Del Bigtree's analysis of the MMR studies he received and the reason that Big Pharma does not want to do proper, large-scale studies on the safety of vaccines.
A FOIA request by Del Bigtree reveals that the 8 studies supporting the release of the MMR vaccine were only 6 weeks long, used only 800 children, and led to respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses in many of the children.
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We now know that aluminum, once injected, does not leave the body but travels to distant organs and the brain. More information on that in the article linked above.
More Examples of Measles Outbreaks In Highly Vaccinated Populations
A measles outbreak in vaccinated individuals occurred in Israel during 2017—reported on by the CDC—where all but one patient had laboratory evidence of a "previous immune response" (secondary vaccine failure), and the one patient who did not display such evidence reported having received two doses of the vaccine (primary vaccine failure). In addition, the index patient—the one who launched the chain of transmission—had received three doses of the measles-containing vaccine.
If we go back in history a little bit:
Barratta et al. (1970) investigated an outbreak in Florida from December 1968 to February 1969 and found little difference in the incidence of measles in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. (source)
Robertson et al. (1992) wrote that in 1985 and 1986, 152 measles outbreaks in US school-age children occurred among persons who had previously received the measles vaccine. "Every 2-3 years, there is an upsurge of measles irrespective of vaccination compliance." (source)
In 2010, there were a number of children in Croatia who had contracted measles that were fully vaccinated (source). The interesting thing about this case was the fact that not only had they become infected with measles from the vaccine strain, rather than the normal "natural" strain, but they were also contagious.
According to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1987, "An outbreak of measles occurred among adolescents in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the spring of 1985, even though vaccination requirements for school attendance had been thoroughly enforced." They concluded that "outbreaks of measles can occur in secondary schools, even when more than 99 percent of the students have been vaccinated and more than 95 percent are immune." (source)
An article published in the American Journal of Epidemiology titled, "A persistent outbreak of measles despite appropriate prevention and control measures," looked into an outbreak of 137 cases of measles in Montana. School records indicated that 98.7% of students were appropriately vaccinated, leading the researchers to conclude: "This outbreak suggests that measles transmission may persist in some settings despite appropriate implementation of the current measles elimination strategy." (source)
According to an article published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1991, "In early 1988 an outbreak of 84 measles cases occurred at a college in Colorado in which over 98 percent of students had documentation of adequate measles immunity…" due to an immunization requirement in effect since 1986. They concluded that "…measles outbreaks can occur among highly vaccinated college populations." (source)
According to an article published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health in 1991, a 1989 measles outbreak was "largely attributed to an incomplete vaccination coverage," but following an extensive review the researchers concluded that "incomplete vaccination coverage is not a valid explanation for the Quebec City measles outbreak." (source)
According to an article published in the journal Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, in a measles outbreak from March 1991 to April 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, 76.4% of those suspected to be infected had received measles vaccines before their first birthday. (source)
According to an article published in the South African Medical Journal in 1994, "[In] August 1992 an outbreak occurred, with cases reported at many schools in children presumably immunised." Immunization coverage for measles was found to be 91%, and vaccine efficacy found to be only 79%, leading them to conclude that primary and secondary vaccine failure was a possible explanation for the outbreak. (source)
Furthermore, what about the bioaccumulation of vaccine ingredients? Studies have shown that injected aluminum does not exit the body, and can be detected inside the brain up to a year after injection. There are several other concerning vaccine ingredients like aborted human fetal cells, formaldehyde, and MSG. Why are these never looked at when studies are being conducted? You can read more and access information and studies about aluminum here.
The Takeaway
How safe are our vaccines? Why does the mainstream constantly use terms like "anti-vax conspiracy theorists" to brainwash people instead of actually addressing the points made by vaccine awareness advocates? Why are they always attacking instead of just discussing? It's OK to question vaccines, think for yourself, utilize critical thinking, and seek out information that mainstream media seems to ignore.
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The source code is written using standard Fortran 90.
The source code was developed using the CVS revision control system, but only one "tagged" version of the code is available within any source code distribution. The code contains CVS information that can be used to identify the code contained in a particular distribution.
The datm model source code itself (found in .../models/atm/datm6/ in the CCSM distribution) is incomplete and cannot be compiled (due to missing subroutines) unless it is compiled along with "CCSM shared code" (found in .../models/csm_share/ ). This shared code is an un-compiled library of support routines.
The source code itself has no machine dependencies, although the CCSM shared code does have some machine dependencies. One function of the shared code is to collect and isolate machine dependent code, and to provide CCSM component models with machine-independent wrappers to such code.
Another function of the shared code is to provide a mechanism for the various component models to be consistent with one another, for example, to use an identical value for pi or for the latent heat of fusion. Similarly, the shared code contains a library routine for calculating a solar angle, so that all component models can be consistent in their solar angle calculations.
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text: At 06:46 PM 4/27/2005 -0400, Joe Landman wrote: > > >Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> A raid5 array of 2 terabyte costs like $2000-$3000 and it can deliver >> 400-600MB/s i/o hands down when attached to a single machine. So if you >> make the 1 tflop processor, there is no need to worry! > >I need to find out where you are getting your raids... I'm no major expert here, but i plan to buy a cheap 400 euro raid-5 from 3ware. The shop has no other raid cards than that, so perhaps there is better brands out there, but even real cheapo S-ATA it gets 400MB/s readspeed at a slow P4 2.4Ghz says their homepage. If you look further perhaps you'll find a tad faster. Not sure for you, for me only readspeed matters. Writing speed less important. Use Raid 0 for that and now and then backup the data :) So my viewpoint still hasn't changed. Get a cheap single cpu machine. Get a cheapo 400 euro S-ATA controller. Get a bunch of cheak S-ATA disks. Get 400MB/s+ a second i/o speed from it and all what you need is a few memory banks with expensive memory and the virtual 1 Thz processor. Oh and all i want it to output is 42 anyway :) >[...] > >> Anything that has to do with huge calculations is in the first place cpu >> power limited. Not anything else. > >There is a statement I like to make when I see comments like this. > >"Gross generalizations tend to be incorrect". > >If you think about it long enough, you can see the recursive humor. > >There are many different factors that will affect the overall >performance of a machine on a particular code/data set. To illustrate >this, I often suggested the following gedankenexperiment. > >Imagine you have a CPU that is infinitely fast, coupled to resources >that are not infinitely fast. This means that while operations take >exactly 0 time on the CPU, we haven't done a thing to make the memory or >IO faster. In this gedankenexperiment, how much of a speedup do you get >from an infinitely fast CPU? Memory moves still take time. Data >loading and storing still takes time. Data motion is quickly becoming >one of the (if not the) most critical aspect of performance for a fair >number of calculations. So unless all parts are infinitely fast, you >still have to pay for the data motion time, the IO time, the memory-> >memory time, the memory->CPU time (and CPU to memory time). > >In short, an infinitely fast CPU would reduce the execution time of >(possibly significantly) a class of applications that are only CPU >bound (say operating out of internal cache only). > >It will do very little for a code which is IO or memory bandwidth or >latency bound. > >> Big RAM is nice to have for most clever algorithms, but it is second most >> important. CPU power is most important. If there is some bottleneck that >> limits the RAM we have, do not worry! >> >> We will find a solution! >> >> The real bottleneck is in the end the number of instructions a cpu can >> process a second. > >Not really. The bottleneck in performance is how full you can keep the >multiple pipelines of the processor. Branch statements tend to force >pipeline flushes. You can "handle" this with speculative execution. >Real memory accesses can bottleneck the memory subsystem, so real >processors allow specific mixtures of instructions in flight at once to >reduce resource contention. If you overflow any of the fixed CPU >resources, you can stall a pipeline while waiting for the contention to >be eliminated, or you can stall the entire CPU while flushing TLB and >other shared resources. Basically you have multiple simultaneous zero >sum games (fixed number of operations per unit time, specific mixtures >of operations that maximize the performance of instructions in flight). > Compilers are, as I indicated before, not particularly smart in most >cases, and they generate code locally that might not make sense >globally. Moreover, how instructions are ordered and presented to the >CPU will fundamentally impact the overall performance. Code optimizers >are, in a large sense, an attempt to better fit the emitted instructions >to the processor architecture, by rewriting loops, mathematical >constructs, and related. Optimizers are not perfect. > >Some architectures are pretty much impossible to write optimal code for >(turns out to be NP-hard), and you have to accept a set of compromises >at some point to avoid having your compilation take 24 hours (my MD >codes used to take about 24 hours to build on a Trace Multiflow, VLIW >architecture). > >The overall point of this is > >a) writing good code is hard >b) writing fast code is harder >c) CPUs don't automagically make things faster, compilers are implicated >in this mess >d) some optimizers are better left off :( > >-- >Joseph Landman, Ph.D >Founder and CEO >Scalable Informatics LLC, >email: landman at scalableinformatics.com >web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com >phone: +1 734 786 8423 >fax : +1 734 786 8452 >cell : +1 734 612 4615 > > >