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Imus has been under intense attack ever since he began sounding the alarm on the mercury poisoning of children with thimerosol based vaccines, and the resultant explosion in autism.
Imus has been viciously smeared by the Wall St. Journal and FOX News over the past year, but last week Oprah aired a show, and the issue was threatening to go 'Supernova.' Imus was not about to shut up, and the issue is gaining steam: so, no more Imus.
Background on the Imus-thimerosol story and media crackdowns:
http://www.choicechanges.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=163&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Jeffrey Schneider, ABC News Vice President for Media Relations called me yesterday, clearly annoyed about the controversy surrounding Thursday's sudden pulling of Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s story/interview package about Thimerosal slated for Good Morning America, 20/20, and a 3 minute piece on that evening's World News Tonight. He said the idea that an executive on the 'WEST Coast' - his phrase not mine-had the story yanked was ridiculous. He said that he suspected who the source was that gave the kill-story to The Huffington Post and that it was vendetta-driven. He was amused and a bit surprised , he said, that one web posting had created such a commotion. By mid-afternoon, the original story on The Huffington Post had vanished from Google News and replaced with a strong re-affirmation and claim that their source has 'first-hand knowledge' of the situation. This was simply a story's script that the producer took a look at before airing and said "I want more"; Mr. Schneider explained. I was finally able to get ahold of Mr. Kennedy about 20 minutes ago, just as he was getting off a plane, so I will update here when more details become available. Suffice it to say, after what Don Imus went through with the complete SMEARJOB in The Wall Street Journal, after daring to discuss Thimerosal poisoning, I'm starting to get the creeps.... JT"
John Tully :
http://www.lasun.net/
More articles on my main page at:
http://www.choicechanges.com
A story about a program being yanked, regarding this article, was carried in the Huffington Post on June 23,2005.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/06/23/a...edy_n_3071.html
Kennedy was slated to be interviewed on ABC's 20-20,right after his article was published. It wasn't approved because, ABC says, something was lacking in the script. Ultimately a segment was run about which Kennedy said:
from the Huff article:
"“When ABC asked us for this exclusive they said they believed in the story and were anxious to tell it to the American people,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when contacted by the Huffington Post. “The story that ultimately aired was so biased with vaccine industry distortions and spin and so filled with deceptions that it shocked even people who were already cynical about the journalism on network news.”
A blogger for the LA sun reporting this***, mentions that Don Imus went through an immediate smear in the Wallstreet Journal after daring to discuss Thimerosal poisoning.
Last week the story threatened to break big time on Oprah, and Imus has not shut up about this in a year.
video and background of Oprah show on autism:
online video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4uGWiQgRYs
Oprah brings up the vaccine issue - DR says NO it's been refuted, then Oprah lets one of the moms have her say ... LOVE IT!
THANK YOU OPRAH!
Katie (THE MOM) was told by the producers before the show was filmed that if she mentioned vaccines she would be off the show.
While taping, the pediatrician made the misstatement about vaccines and autism (that whole "no connection" reassuring bullchit), and, during break, Katie appealed directly to Oprah to let her respond, as you saw on the show.
However, Oprah's response to Katie about "opening the can of worms" and the audience's applause after what she said was actually based on a much longer exchange, all of which was edited out of the final cut of the show.
After the part you heard Katie say, Katie went on to say that the
preservatives in the vaccines made her son sick and that the
combination vaccines and the vaccine schedule were grossly unsafe.
Everyone's favorite pediatrician then jumped in and said that if the
schedule were changed there would epidemics. Katie responded by
saying there already is an epidemic and that our kids are not
disposable so the CDC can perpetuate irrational fears of the measles and the flu.
I think this highlights a number of things:
- The censorship most media outlets give to this issue is very high.
My personal opinion is that this is due entirely to the power of
pharma advertising and to the fact that the media outlets hear
directly from pharma in advance of these shows and get warned. The fact that the daughter of NBC's FORMER CEO must be deeply troubling for pharma because this is going to be one very tough person to shut up.
- Oprah over-ruled the directive Katie was given because she is
Oprah and appears to have strong moral fiber. If Don Imus is a 10, I
give Oprah a 5, which makes her second-best for national
personalities dealing honestly about our kids, although it is almost
incomprehensible to me that this is Oprah's first show on autism.
- The lame doctor saying "if the schedule were changed there would
be epidemics" has no idea what she is talking about. It is
unbelievable that it is NEVER reported that in the mid-1980s there
were 10 vaccines on the schedule and today its 36. We were not
having massive epidemics in the 1980s and the schedule has more than tripled due to money and recklessness, with no monitoring system that could ever catch a delayed-onset condition like autism.
- Katie is a true warrior for her son and all of our kids. She said so much more than America was allowed to hear.
This Oprah show proved the poisoned vaccine story is threatening to go big , and they had to shut Imus up before he did any further damage
link to download of Imus show on autism and mercury in vaccines:
Imus interviews author and expert David Kirby:
http://www.evidenceofharm.com/kirby1.avi
source: www.evidenceofharm.com
videos:
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=mercury+vaccines
Imus has been viciously smeared by the Wall St. Journal and FOX News over the past year, but last week Oprah aired a show, and the issue was threatening to go 'Supernova.' Imus was not about to shut up, and the issue is gaining steam: so, no more Imus.
Background on the Imus-thimerosol story and media crackdowns:
QUOTE
http://www.choicechanges.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=163&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Jeffrey Schneider, ABC News Vice President for Media Relations called me yesterday, clearly annoyed about the controversy surrounding Thursday's sudden pulling of Bobby Kennedy Jr.'s story/interview package about Thimerosal slated for Good Morning America, 20/20, and a 3 minute piece on that evening's World News Tonight. He said the idea that an executive on the 'WEST Coast' - his phrase not mine-had the story yanked was ridiculous. He said that he suspected who the source was that gave the kill-story to The Huffington Post and that it was vendetta-driven. He was amused and a bit surprised , he said, that one web posting had created such a commotion. By mid-afternoon, the original story on The Huffington Post had vanished from Google News and replaced with a strong re-affirmation and claim that their source has 'first-hand knowledge' of the situation. This was simply a story's script that the producer took a look at before airing and said "I want more"; Mr. Schneider explained. I was finally able to get ahold of Mr. Kennedy about 20 minutes ago, just as he was getting off a plane, so I will update here when more details become available. Suffice it to say, after what Don Imus went through with the complete SMEARJOB in The Wall Street Journal, after daring to discuss Thimerosal poisoning, I'm starting to get the creeps.... JT"
John Tully :
http://www.lasun.net/
More articles on my main page at:
http://www.choicechanges.com
A story about a program being yanked, regarding this article, was carried in the Huffington Post on June 23,2005.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/06/23/a...edy_n_3071.html
Kennedy was slated to be interviewed on ABC's 20-20,right after his article was published. It wasn't approved because, ABC says, something was lacking in the script. Ultimately a segment was run about which Kennedy said:
from the Huff article:
"“When ABC asked us for this exclusive they said they believed in the story and were anxious to tell it to the American people,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when contacted by the Huffington Post. “The story that ultimately aired was so biased with vaccine industry distortions and spin and so filled with deceptions that it shocked even people who were already cynical about the journalism on network news.”
A blogger for the LA sun reporting this***, mentions that Don Imus went through an immediate smear in the Wallstreet Journal after daring to discuss Thimerosal poisoning.
Last week the story threatened to break big time on Oprah, and Imus has not shut up about this in a year.
video and background of Oprah show on autism:
QUOTE
online video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4uGWiQgRYs
Oprah brings up the vaccine issue - DR says NO it's been refuted, then Oprah lets one of the moms have her say ... LOVE IT!
THANK YOU OPRAH!
Katie (THE MOM) was told by the producers before the show was filmed that if she mentioned vaccines she would be off the show.
While taping, the pediatrician made the misstatement about vaccines and autism (that whole "no connection" reassuring bullchit), and, during break, Katie appealed directly to Oprah to let her respond, as you saw on the show.
However, Oprah's response to Katie about "opening the can of worms" and the audience's applause after what she said was actually based on a much longer exchange, all of which was edited out of the final cut of the show.
After the part you heard Katie say, Katie went on to say that the
preservatives in the vaccines made her son sick and that the
combination vaccines and the vaccine schedule were grossly unsafe.
Everyone's favorite pediatrician then jumped in and said that if the
schedule were changed there would epidemics. Katie responded by
saying there already is an epidemic and that our kids are not
disposable so the CDC can perpetuate irrational fears of the measles and the flu.
I think this highlights a number of things:
- The censorship most media outlets give to this issue is very high.
My personal opinion is that this is due entirely to the power of
pharma advertising and to the fact that the media outlets hear
directly from pharma in advance of these shows and get warned. The fact that the daughter of NBC's FORMER CEO must be deeply troubling for pharma because this is going to be one very tough person to shut up.
- Oprah over-ruled the directive Katie was given because she is
Oprah and appears to have strong moral fiber. If Don Imus is a 10, I
give Oprah a 5, which makes her second-best for national
personalities dealing honestly about our kids, although it is almost
incomprehensible to me that this is Oprah's first show on autism.
- The lame doctor saying "if the schedule were changed there would
be epidemics" has no idea what she is talking about. It is
unbelievable that it is NEVER reported that in the mid-1980s there
were 10 vaccines on the schedule and today its 36. We were not
having massive epidemics in the 1980s and the schedule has more than tripled due to money and recklessness, with no monitoring system that could ever catch a delayed-onset condition like autism.
- Katie is a true warrior for her son and all of our kids. She said so much more than America was allowed to hear.
This Oprah show proved the poisoned vaccine story is threatening to go big , and they had to shut Imus up before he did any further damage
link to download of Imus show on autism and mercury in vaccines:
Imus interviews author and expert David Kirby:
http://www.evidenceofharm.com/kirby1.avi
source: www.evidenceofharm.com
videos:
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=mercury+vaccines
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. article in Rolling Stone Magazine:
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Deadly Immunity
By ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. investigates the government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal
Rolling Stone, Jun 20, 2005
In June 2000, a group of top government scientists and health officials gathered for a meeting at the isolated Simpsonwood conference center in Norcross, Georgia. Convened by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the meeting was held at this Methodist retreat center, nestled in wooded farmland next to the Chattahoochee River, to ensure complete secrecy. The agency had issued no public announcement of the session -- only private invitations to fifty-two attendees. There were high-level officials from the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration, the top vaccine specialist from the World Health Organization in Geneva and representatives of every major vaccine manufacturer, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth and Aventis Pasteur. All of the scientific data under discussion, CDC officials repeatedly reminded the participants, was strictly "embargoed." There would be no making photocopies of documents, no taking papers with them when they left. The federal officials and industry representatives had assembled to discuss a disturbing new study that raised alarming questions about the safety of a host of common childhood vaccines administered to infants and young children. According to a CDC epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten, who had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children, a mercury-based preservative in the vaccines -- thimerosal -- appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism and a host of other neurological disorders among children. "I was actually stunned by what I saw," Verstraeten told those assembled at Simpsonwood, citing the staggering number of earlier studies that indicate a link between thimerosal and speech delays, attention-deficit disorder, hyperactivity and autism. Since 1991, when the CDC and the FDA had recommended that three additional vaccines laced with the preservative be given to extremely young infants -- in one case, within hours of birth -- the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteenfold, from one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children.
Even for scientists and doctors accustomed to confronting issues of life and death, the findings were frightening. "You can play with this all you want," Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told the group. The results "are statistically significant." Dr. Richard Johnston, an immunologist and pediatrician from the University of Colorado whose grandson had been born early on the morning of the meeting's first day, was even more alarmed. "My gut feeling?" he said. "Forgive this personal comment -- I do not want my grandson to get a thimerosal-containing vaccine until we know better what is going on."
But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the vaccine industry's bottom line. "We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits," said Dr. Robert Brent, a pediatrician at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware. "This will be a resource to our very busy plaintiff attorneys in this country." Dr. Bob Chen, head of vaccine safety for the CDC, expressed relief that "given the sensitivity of the information, we have been able to keep it out of the hands of, let's say, less responsible hands." Dr. John Clements, vaccines adviser at the World Health Organization, declared flatly that the study "should not have been done at all" and warned that the results "will be taken by others and will be used in ways beyond the control of this group. The research results have to be handled."
In fact, the government has proved to be far more adept at handling the damage than at protecting children's health. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to "rule out" the chemical's link to autism. It withheld Verstraeten's findings, even though they had been slated for immediate publication, and told other scientists that his original data had been "lost" and could not be replicated. And to thwart the Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant database of vaccine records over to a private company, declaring it off-limits to researchers. By the time Verstraeten finally published his study in 2003, he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline and reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism.
Vaccine manufacturers had already begun to phase thimerosal out of injections given to American infants -- but they continued to sell off their mercury-based supplies of vaccines until last year. The CDC and FDA gave them a hand, buying up the tainted vaccines for export to developing countries and allowing drug companies to continue using the preservative in some American vaccines -- including several pediatric flu shots as well as tetanus boosters routinely given to eleven-year-olds.
The drug companies are also getting help from powerful lawmakers in Washington. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government's vaccine-related documents -- including the Simpsonwood transcripts -- and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist quietly slipped a rider known as the "Eli Lilly Protection Act" into a homeland security bill, the company contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000 copies of his book on bioterrorism. The measure was repealed by Congress in 2003 -- but earlier this year, Frist slipped another provision into an anti-terrorism bill that would deny compensation to children suffering from vaccine-related brain disorders. "The lawsuits are of such magnitude that they could put vaccine producers out of business and limit our capacity to deal with a biological attack by terrorists," says Andy Olsen, a legislative assistant to Frist.
Even many conservatives are shocked by the government's effort to cover up the dangers of thimerosal. Rep. Dan Burton, a Republican from Indiana, oversaw a three-year investigation of thimerosal after his grandson was diagnosed with autism. "Thimerosal used as a preservative in vaccines is directly related to the autism epidemic," his House Government Reform Committee concluded in its final report. "This epidemic in all probability may have been prevented or curtailed had the FDA not been asleep at the switch regarding a lack of safety data regarding injected thimerosal, a known neurotoxin." The FDA and other public-health agencies failed to act, the committee added, out of "institutional malfeasance for self protection" and "misplaced protectionism of the pharmaceutical industry."
The story of how government health agencies colluded with Big Pharma to hide the risks of thimerosal from the public is a chilling case study of institutional arrogance, power and greed. I was drawn into the controversy only reluctantly. As an attorney and environmentalist who has spent years working on issues of mercury toxicity, I frequently met mothers of autistic children who were absolutely convinced that their kids had been injured by vaccines. Privately, I was skeptical.
I doubted that autism could be blamed on a single source, and I certainly understood the government's need to reassure parents that vaccinations are safe; the eradication of deadly childhood diseases depends on it. I tended to agree with skeptics like Rep. Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California, who criticized his colleagues on the House Government Reform Committee for leaping to conclusions about autism and vaccinations. "Why should we scare people about immunization," Waxman pointed out at one hearing, "until we know the facts?"
It was only after reading the Simpsonwood transcripts, studying the leading scientific research and talking with many of the nation's pre-eminent authorities on mercury that I became convinced that the link between thimerosal and the epidemic of childhood neurological disorders is real. Five of my own children are members of the Thimerosal Generation -- those born between 1989 and 2003 -- who received heavy doses of mercury from vaccines. "The elementary grades are overwhelmed with children who have symptoms of neurological or immune-system damage," Patti White, a school nurse, told the House Government Reform Committee in 1999. "Vaccines are supposed to be making us healthier; however, in twenty-five years of nursing I have never seen so many damaged, sick kids. Something very, very wrong is happening to our children."
More than 500,000 kids currently suffer from autism, and pediatricians diagnose more than 40,000 new cases every year. The disease was unknown until 1943, when it was identified and diagnosed among eleven children born in the months after thimerosal was first added to baby vaccines in 1931.
Some skeptics dispute that the rise in autism is caused by thimerosal-tainted vaccinations. They argue that the increase is a result of better diagnosis -- a theory that seems questionable at best, given that most of the new cases of autism are clustered within a single generation of children. "If the epidemic is truly an artifact of poor diagnosis," scoffs Dr. Boyd Haley, one of the world's authorities on mercury toxicity, "then where are all the twenty-year-old autistics?" Other researchers point out that Americans are exposed to a greater cumulative "load" of mercury than ever before, from contaminated fish to dental fillings, and suggest that thimerosal in vaccines may be only part of a much larger problem. It's a concern that certainly deserves far more attention than it has received -- but it overlooks the fact that the mercury concentrations in vaccines dwarf other sources of exposure to our children.
What is most striking is the lengths to which many of the leading detectives have gone to ignore -- and cover up -- the evidence against thimerosal. From the very beginning, the scientific case against the mercury additive has been overwhelming. The preservative, which is used to stem fungi and bacterial growth in vaccines, contains ethylmercury, a potent neurotoxin. Truckloads of studies have shown that mercury tends to accumulate in the brains of primates and other animals after they are injected with vaccines -- and that the developing brains of infants are particularly susceptible. In 1977, a Russian study found that adults exposed to much lower concentrations of ethylmercury than those given to American children still suffered brain damage years later. Russia banned thimerosal from children's vaccines twenty years ago, and Denmark, Austria, Japan, Great Britain and all the Scandinavian countries have since followed suit.
"You couldn't even construct a study that shows thimerosal is safe," says Haley, who heads the chemistry department at the University of Kentucky. "It's just too darn toxic. If you inject thimerosal into an animal, its brain will sicken. If you apply it to living tissue, the cells die. If you put it in a petri dish, the culture dies. Knowing these things, it would be shocking if one could inject it into an infant without causing damage."
Internal documents reveal that Eli Lilly, which first developed thimerosal, knew from the start that its product could cause damage -- and even death -- in both animals and humans. In 1930, the company tested thimerosal by administering it to twenty-two patients with terminal meningitis, all of whom died within weeks of being injected -- a fact Lilly didn't bother to report in its study declaring thimerosal safe. In 1935, researchers at another vaccine manufacturer, Pittman-Moore, warned Lilly that its claims about thimerosal's safety "did not check with ours." Half the dogs Pittman injected with thimerosal-based vaccines became sick, leading researchers there to declare the preservative "unsatisfactory as a serum intended for use on dogs."
In the decades that followed, the evidence against thimerosal continued to mount. During the Second World War, when the Department of Defense used the preservative in vaccines on soldiers, it required Lilly to label it "poison." In 1967, a study in Applied Microbiology found that thimerosal killed mice when added to injected vaccines. Four years later, Lilly's own studies discerned that thimerosal was "toxic to tissue cells" in concentrations as low as one part per million -- 100 times weaker than the concentration in a typical vaccine. Even so, the company continued to promote thimerosal as "nontoxic" and also incorporated it into topical disinfectants. In 1977, ten babies at a Toronto hospital died when an antiseptic preserved with thimerosal was dabbed onto their umbilical cords.
In 1982, the FDA proposed a ban on over-the-counter products that contained thimerosal, and in 1991 the agency considered banning it from animal vaccines. But tragically, that same year, the CDC recommended that infants be injected with a series of mercury-laced vaccines. Newborns would be vaccinated for hepatitis B within twenty-four hours of birth, and two-month-old infants would be immunized for haemophilus influenzae B and diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis.
The drug industry knew the additional vaccines posed a danger. The same year that the CDC approved the new vaccines, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, one of the fathers of Merck's vaccine programs, warned the company that six-month-olds who were administered the shots would suffer dangerous exposure to mercury. He recommended that thimerosal be discontinued, "especially when used on infants and children," noting that the industry knew of nontoxic alternatives. "The best way to go," he added, "is to switch to dispensing the actual vaccines without adding preservatives."
For Merck and other drug companies, however, the obstacle was money. Thimerosal enables the pharmaceutical industry to package vaccines in vials that contain multiple doses, which require additional protection because they are more easily contaminated by multiple needle entries. The larger vials cost half as much to produce as smaller, single-dose vials, making it cheaper for international agencies to distribute them to impoverished regions at risk of epidemics. Faced with this "cost consideration," Merck ignored Hilleman's warnings, and government officials continued to push more and more thimerosal-based vaccines for children. Before 1989, American preschoolers received eleven vaccinations -- for polio, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and measles-mumps-rubella. A decade later, thanks to federal recommendations, children were receiving a total of twenty-two immunizations by the time they reached first grade. Under the expanded schedule of vaccinations, multiple shots were often administered on a single day: At two months, when the infant brain is still at a critical stage of development, children routinely received three innoculations that delivered 99 times the approved limit of mercury.
complete article:
http://www.choicechanges.com/modules.php?o...r=0&thold=0
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