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Archive for April 29th, 2009

Houston Toddler Dies of Swine Flu!

Posted by Wendi T. on April 29, 2009

So screams the alarmist headline.  What they don’t tell you, is that the boy was from Mexico.  His family took him to Brownsville, where they then sought medical treatment for him.  Medical authorities in Brownsville transferred the boy to a Houston hospital, where he sadly lost his life.

I fully expect to see the city of Houston badly over-react to this, shutting down schools and possibly instituting involuntary quarantines (incarcerations) of persons presenting with symptoms of influenza, as they have done in other states.  Maybe they’ll even officially declare a state of emergency here because of this report.

The interesting thing is, out of more than two thousand confirmed cases of swine flu around the globe, there have been only 160 deaths.  All but one of those, occurred in Mexico.  Meanwhile, plain old garden-variety influenza ordinarily infects up to 20% of the population, causing 200,000 to be hospitalized, and killing 36,000.

So, why don’t we hear about pandemics, quarantines, and emergency drug rulings every year?

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Pushing compliance through Hollywood

Posted by crunchymountainmomma on April 29, 2009

I have a confession. I’m a Law and Order:SVU junkie. Sad, I know.

So last night, Hilary Duff played an irresponsible Mom whose toddler has disappeared. They find out she stole a credit card, bought a shovel and tarp with it. She insists it was just to buy a gift for her father. The toddler is supposedly with a babysitter, that n one can find. They do their television “gotta solve the crime in under so many minutes” magic and discover little Sierra’s dead body buried in an old ababdoned lot.

Pretty cut and dried, right?

Wrong.

When they do the autopsy, they find that little angel Sierra died of encephalitis, brought on by………….measles. Seems she was too young for the MMR shot. THEN they suddenly discover a measles outbreak. So they go searching for patient 0.

When they find paient 0, his Mom has done research, made a choice and is firm about her choice. the attorney for teh “bad mom” decides to sue the city, who in turn decides to arrest the “good mom” for not vaccinating her child-the charge? Second degree murder.

I went blooming nuts. I screamed at my television. I threw a pillow at it. I ranted. I raved. I fumed.

They go through the trial and the “good mom” ends up defending her choice-they come at her like a pack of dogs for the “irresponsible choice she made that caused the death of another child”. It made me SO mad to wtch last night’s episode. It actually bantered the idea of making children get their shots, because by not getting shots, they “endanger” other children, putting them at risk for diseases and possibly even death.

They had the SVU’s doctor on the stand and she gave a brief list of very mild symptoms that are possible of side effects of the shot. I mean MILD. Totally downplayed the major potential side effects…swelling, soreness, possible mild fever….

Found a site that was created by a pediatrician…

http://www.whale.to/a/quak.html

Here’s the side effects they DIDN’T mention:

Local erythemas
Fever
Irritability
Tiredness
General rashes (acute urticaria)
Conjunctivitis
Arthropathies
Peripheral tremor
Cough and/or coryza
Post-vaccinal meningitis (aseptic meningitis)
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Brachial neuritis
Anaphylactic shock
Multiple sclerosis
Chronic arthritis

They don’t even go into all the side effects, of course. Autism IS caused by that stupid shot. My Mom cares for a family that’s been affected by autism following an MMR shot. My own children had severe reactions-and my Mother goes into anaphylactic shock. None of that was addressed. And then there’s the idea that the shot confers lifelong immunity.

I’ve had the full round of MMR. All the toddler shots, the “starting school booster” and the booster they give you when you are 12.

I have NO immunity to rubella. I’ve had measles-AFTER the shot. I’ve had mumps-AFTER the shot. NOW I have lifelong immunity.

I hate the political spin they put on that show. It just disgusted me. the “good mom” wins her case-they find her not guilty. The “bad mom and grandma” try to do a civil suit, and then decide to go and attack the woman personally. The “bad grandpa”(who really did love the little girl) races into the “good mom’s” home and holds a gun on her. She cries out “Please don’t shoot me.” and he says “Now you’ve kiled 2 people!” and kills himself right in front of her.

I won’t be watching Law and Order: SVU anymore. I wonder how many parents felt “guilty” this morning after watching that and raced out to get shots for their kids?

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To Whom Do You Belong? Welcome to Class Warfare

Posted by swearnoallegiance on April 29, 2009

America is at that awkward stage; it’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. – Claire Wolfe

Have you ever heard of the Agorist Class Theory? No? That’s alright because I am new to the idea myself. Agorism–simply stated–is “a stateless society of peaceful black markets.” What the Agorist Class Theory does is it reforms Marxim’s idea of the class struggle. Proponents argue that Marx was partly wrong and partly correct in his thinking on class warfare, but that he errs in his identification of the oppressor of the proletariat (the common man). Marxism, in a nutshell, maintains that the relationship between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie (those who own the means of production aka entrepreneurs and the like) is simply a continuation of the ancient practice of slavery.

Agorism and Marxism agree on the following premise: human society can be divided into at least two classes; one class is characterized by its control of the State and its extraction of unearned wealth from the other class.

Thus for the Agorist, the class struggle is not between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, but rather, the producing class (all workers and entrepreneurs) versus the Political class as identified by Charles Comte and Dunoyer some 150 years ago:

The political class is the parasitic class that acquires its livelihood via the “political means”–through “confiscation, taxation, and other forms of coercion.” Their victims are the rest of us–the productive class–those who make their living through peaceful and honest means of any sort, such as a worker and an entrepreneur.

I believe the agorists to be correct in their revision of Marx’s idea on class and a class struggle certainly does exist in society. If you would like to be properly introduced to this idea, then I suggest that you read Agorist Class Theory by Wally Conger. The PDF is only 38 pages in length.

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