Following up on my previous comment about the potential dangers of our water supply, there was an article in Truthout today about prescription drugs found in the drinking water (http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35303-drugs-in-the-drinking-water-don-t-ask-and-officials-won-t-tell). There appear to be MANY drugs in the water supply; the long-term effects of these drugs individually are little known; and certainly the effects of combinations of these drugs, in parallel with combinations of other chemicals found in the water supply, are completely unknown. So, while the (horrific) Flint crisis is capturing the headlines, perhaps the far larger story in terms of absolute numbers is remaining under the radar.

Sean Burke, congratulations on your decision, and the best of luck in your future life. You did the right thing in telling the school principal your reason for taking the kids out of school. The message will quickly get through. Be sure to wipe the dust from your feet when you leave that state!

Sean,

"Most people have no clue what is going on."

And these are the educators.
Good luck with your move.

Last week I was walking through a building to pick up my granddaughter at daycare and I saw on the building lobby TV Congressman Chaffetz talking about the riots against Trump and basically taking the media line that this is Trump's fault. So I was puzzled because it was out of context but then I realized...Oh this is the head of the Reform Committee that isn't willing to subpoena Thompson. Here he is on television being primed for a national audience. My instinct told me that he is being courted in order to keep the CDC fraud under the rug, do this and we'll make you a star. Maybe something similar happened in the California legislature when Autumn Burke voted against SB277 but now won't support a moratorium because she is a rising star suddenly. What would happen if someone decided to challenge the status quo? Would they become Falling Stars. We just have to keep shoving the truth in front of them a often as we can and attempt to elect other officials. So, so disappointed Chaffetz, so disappointed in Liu, in the whole lot of them that they care so very little about the poisoning of children----in California, the forced poisoning of children. Really??? They ran for office to get famous and important not to do any good at all for anyone... it's hard to imagine.

Linda1, this is what I have compiled about smallpox. Every aspect of the official story is a fabrication. And I mean even the aspects going back hundreds of years. The whole thing is made up.

The three main planks of the smallpox story are false:

1) Claims of its eradication are a bare faced lie. It still exists both from laboratory evidence and symptomatic people but the circular argument of “smallpox doesn’t exist anymore so everytime we see smallpox we will just declare those observations to be the product of sorcery” wins the day each time.

2) All of the claims about smallpox wiping out entire populations are fabricated.

3) Where actual counted data is available it is clear that the vaccine did nothing to reduce smallpox deaths.

Proof for the above:

Given that the virus thought to cause smallpox is so tiny, how on Earth did the great medical minds know that it didn't exist anywhere on the planet when they declared it to be eradicated? Are they omniscient because one would think that no mere mortal could possibly know such a thing?

But hang on. Surely if the CDC/WHO etc had found smallpox then the whole caper would be over right? Well that’s the thing. Just like with other so-called vaccine preventable diseases, circular arguments are all pervasive in this paradigm.

The CDC actually admit that positive tests along with smallpox symptoms would not generally mean a smallpox diagnosis because - in a wonderful piece of circular reasoning - smallpox doesn't exist anymore.

“In the absence of known smallpox disease, the predictive value of a positive smallpox diagnostic test is extremely low; therefore, testing to rule out smallpox should be limited to cases that fit the clinical case definition in order to lower the risk of obtaining a false-positive test result."

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/diagnosis/casedefinition.asp

and what is more even the deified polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can and has apparently given positive results for smallpox since its supposed eradication but, again, it couldn't have been smallpox because we all know smallpox doesn't exist does it?

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/smallpox/abstract_meyer.pdf

"Widespread smallpox testing, in the absence of disease, is likely to result in false-positive test results with unnecessary and alarming public health and security responses”

along with

"in the absence of endemic smallpox disease, the indiscriminate use of variola tests *will* [emphasis mine] lead to false positives"

http://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/diagnosis/pdf/poxalgorithm5-2-14.pdf.

Here are two stories related to the same outbreak. http://newsjharkhand.com/Topstories.asp?Details=2391

but not to worry you see because our erstwhile medical officials almost immediately decided that despite the children dying of pox conditions it couldn’t possibly have been smallpox

http://zeenews.india.com/home/no-small-pox-in-jharkhand-officials_695153.html.

Note that they had already decided it wasn’t smallpox before they had done the lab tests.

And just in case you are left in any doubt that smallpox still exists – here is the photographic evidence:

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=monkeypox+photo&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiWnrqs7sDKAhXlLKYKHSkpC5QQsAQIGw&biw=1298&bih=869

And by the way, all the talk of hundreds of millions of people dying of smallpox before it was eradicated are just wild guesses. These estimates come from countries with no cause of death data and barely any population data so there is no way of knowing how many people died, let alone what they died from (to give an example, historians (who were never there) claim that smallpox killed over ten million native Americans but Cortes (who was there) devoted just half a page to this supposed scourge).

We do have actual smallpox mortality data from the likes of the UK and other European countries in the 18th century and it is clear from that data that the smallpox vaccine provided no measurable benefit. And the mortality rates from smallpox from those countries where smallpox deaths were actually counted as opposed to guessed are absolutely nothing like the propaganda. Smallpox death rates in London were typically around 2 per 1000 per year before the vaccine. Not trivial but nothing like the propaganda we are fed. And that was for a densely populated city which would presumably have seen orders of magnitude higher rates of smallpox cases and deaths than rural populations.

What is more, deaths due to smallpox in those countries where actual data is available decreased at similar rates after the smallpox vaccine during the 19th century than it did for other diseases even though those other diseases (such as pertussis, diphtheria etc) had no vaccine at the time.

http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/wallace/S536.htm

@Benedetta, yes I can imagine the tea partiers and Moveon org all cozying up. They're all NWO!

Gary Ogden,

A massive rebellion does not necessarily have to mean uprisings, which seem to imply aggression and violence. What if the massive rebellion included:

1. Parents refusing to send their children to school if their children must be vaccinated in order to attend. Home schooling for all until vaccine mandates are abolished.

2. School superintendents nationwide joining together and refusing to implement vaccine mandate requirements for students.

3. Americans adopting a new attitude to help bankrupt pharmaceutical companies: "striving to be Pharma-free!". Americans learning to view food as medicine and learning about the many risk-free (i.e. non-Pharma) ways to protect, maintain, and enhance their health and that of their children.

4. Nationwide effort to make any politician a persona-non-grata wherever he or she goes, including in their own neighborhood, if they support in any way vaccine mandates, pesticide use on our food supply, the genetic adulteration of our food supply, the fluoridation of our water, etc. Citizens unite and develop plans to make such politicians terribly unwelcome wherever they go. This could be expanded to include Pharma executives, Big Ag and Big Chem executives, etc.

5. A daily commitment to educate those in one's community about the many ways American citizens are being poisoned and harmed, most of it legally, due to the bought and paid for votes of our legislators and bought-off government regulators.

6. Nationwide boycotts of companies that engage in destroying our health and environment.

As I said in my earlier comment, the obstacles blocking this needed rebellion center around a lack of awareness by the masses. Furthermore, often times when and where there is awareness, it is often after harm has been done, harm that makes it more difficult for that person to engage in the needed rebellion...more difficult, but not impossible...as modeled by the many parents, grandparents, and relatives here on AoA!

It's a slow process to wake up Americans to what is being done to them and their children, but it is happening, and it most often happens in one to one encounters...so let's all keep at it!

I always appreciate your excellent contributions to the discussions here on AoA, Gary...so please keep them coming! 😊

David,
Thank you for responding to my comment. I didn't even get to the second part of it about autism. I first went to look further on the smallpox stats. You are 100% correct. More than three decades before publication of Merck's book in 2003, those stats were known to be an erroneous estimate from 1947 that was challenged in 1970 in the below cited paper written not by some upstart anti-vaccine activists, but by US gov't public health officials and Johns Hopkins. And, it looks like they admit that not only did the vaccine cause illness and death, but that the vaccine caused smallpox. Thanks for making me look further.
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The Journal of Infectious Diseases October 1970

"Complications of Smallpox of Ten Statewide Surveys"

"From the Smallpox Eradication Program, National Communicable Disease Center, Health Services and Mental Health Administration, Public Health Services, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Atlanta, Georgia; and the Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland"

"Abstract [CAPS, MY EMPHASIS]
Direct surveys of physicians were used to identify patients with complications of smallpox vaccination occurring in 1968 in 10 states, which comprise 11.6% of the total population of the United States. In 8 of the states a survey at the end of the year yielded a total response from 83%. In 2 states, where quarterly or monthly surveys were conducted, 49% and 44%, respectively, of the total number of questionnaires were returned. Eighty-four percent of complications occurred in primary vaccinees. The rate of ACCIDENTAL IMPLANTATION AND OF GENERALIZED VACCINIA, the nonfatal complications, was 529.2 and 241.5 cases, respectively, per million primary vaccinations. These rates are 10 and 21 times as great as the rates computed from data from national surveillance of complications. The rate of postvaccinial encephalitis and vaccinia necrosum, potentially fatal complications, was 12.3 and 1.5 cases, respectively, per million primary vaccinees. These rates are 4 and 1.6 times greater than rates from national surveillance data. One death (from postvaccinial encephalitis) and 1 case of fetal vaccinia were detected."

From the body (caps, my emphasis):

"In the country little attention was given to complications of smallpox vaccination until Greenberg reported a mortality rate of approximately one per 1,000,000 in 1947 [1]. Reports following this one included Kempe's [2] and that of Sussman and Grossman [3], each citing cases and reporting on the effects of vaccinia immune globulin (VIG). the first published data on complications for the entire United States were for the year 1963 [4,5]. ...

Complications of vaccination against smallpox are not considered as officially reportable diseases, and statistics on incidence are not gathered systematically in the United States. A comparison of finding of the cases through the records on the use of VIG in 1963 with cases found through retrospective surveys of physicians in 4 small states indicates that COMPLICATIONS OF SMALLPOX OCCUR MORE FREQUENTLY THAN CAN BE DETECTED BY THE SYSTEM OF VIG DISTRIBUTION ALONE [4,5]. THE VIG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM MISSES MOST OF THE PATIENTS WITH LESS SEVERE CLINICAL ILLNESS AND FAILS TO DETECT MANY PATIENTS WITH POSTVACCINIAL DISEASE OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM [7]."

http://www.jstor.org/stable/30108332?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Use of a surgical clamp on the umbilical cord immediately after birth is not safe. How could this not be clear? Clamping the cord was recommended by Apgar and colleagues in the 1950s. Removal of the newborn from the "sterile field" for quick repair of the episiotomy was accomplished by clamping the cord as soon after birth as possible.

Before the 1950s all textbooks of obstetrics taught that pulsations of the cord should cease before tying or clamping it. Redirection of blood flow from the placenta to the lungs cannot be forced by clamping the cord. Many children suffer compromise during the neonatal period with fetal heart valves that remain open, or partially open.

By the mid-1980s immediate clamping of the cord after birth replaced the former teaching in textbooks. Nurse midwives and others have pointed out this error repeatedly over the past 30 years. How can the obstetric profession insist that more randomized-controlled studies are needed on the "tradition" of cord clamping?

A unique pattern of brain damage caused by a brief lapse in respiration at birth has been known since the 1960s. Injury within the auditory pathway, basal ganglia, oculomotor nuclei, cerebellum, are well described in the medical literature. These injuries are all implicated in the neurological signs of autism: Developmental language disorder, repetitive motor movements, and lack of eye contact.

The vaccine schedule is wrong, and more clearly evident than obstetric procedures. But present-day obstetrics is unethical. How might we demand a return to tradition???

In my just-previous comment to Linda1 about the vaccine makers' honesty or lack thereof! I should have included how the CDC is equally dishonest and flagrantly corrupt about vaccine reaction outcomes, for example the CDC William Thompson whistleblower affair conveniently languishing in dark cloakrooms in Congress, ignored by such as Cummings, subjects of this Post (I add this comment mainly to inform new AoA readers).

Laura Hayes: This is exactly what scares the hell out of me-mass uprisings. The Republicans will be doing everything in their power to deny Trump the nomination, and if they succeed, likely all hell will break loose. I'm not a fan, but it is refreshing to hear a presidential candidate speak with such abandon. In any case, things will never be the same, thank God. I have a persistent fantasy that, come November, everybody in Congress gets fired, except for Bill Posey, and President Sanders names Trump Secretary of DHHS, Agriculture, and Education, Trump abolishes them all, and goes back to wheeling and dealing, or whatever he does.

In other news today, two Americans killed by terrorists in Istanbul... should we spend another trillion on a new war ???

As with EVERY DAY and always / TEN infants died in the USA today of SIDS. no cause for alarm for these likely 2-6 month olds... they were probably well vaccinated.

WAR is when the government tell you who your enemy is,

REVOLUTION is when you figure it out for yourself.

Wasn't Calfornia's Congressman Darrell Issa going to be our hero a few years ago? What happened? Big fat nothing.

Benedetta,
From the Merck Manual 2nd Home Edition, c 2003:

"Vaccination against smallpox was once routine for everyone in the United States. Smallpox vaccination was discontinued over 20 years ago because of the elimination of the disease. Because the vaccine's protective effects wear off after about 10 years, most people are now susceptible to smallpox...The vaccine is generally safe, although serious adverse reactions develop in about 100 of every million previously unvaccinated people, and death occurs in 1 per million. The risk of serious adverse effects and death is lower in previously vaccinated people."

I have wondered too how many people got sick or died from this vaccine and the vaccine was not blamed. But they're admitting that in a birth cohort of 4 million, that 4 healthy babies would be expected to die, each year, from the smallpox vaccine. This was apparently accepted when we were kids.

Would be interesting to look at disease incidence to see what decreased when smallpox vaccination ended.

Can you imagine Moveon.org and the Tea Partiers all being cozy together, carrying anti Trump signs and sharing chants and songs and maybe a cup of cocoa.

Linda,

They told us it was life long. The scar is!

If that is the case then, my old country doctor was right; that I did indeed have small pox, not chicken pox, when I was in the third grade.

I was in the hospital with it for two weeks. The old country doctor said there was always plastic surgery. Except for five spots it all did go away, only two small ones were left on my face.

I think I got it at the end of the school year; in the third grade, I sat for an long while on the balcony, above the gym and watched all of the little kids come get their small pox vaccines.

So that answers that question of why my chicken pox was so bad.

We are so easily confused, are we not! Wow.

Bush didn't get the anthrax vaccine did he?

No, he is still walking around.

Benedetta,
I've read that the small pox vaccine is only expected to work for 10 years (and who knows what the real number is).

To all,
Re Trump...I believe that being able to protest is very important to democracy. However, the protests at the Trump rallies are disruptive to our democracy. I don't think that a candidate should be prevented from speaking or people prevented from hearing what any candidate has to say, by loud protesters. That's not right. It means that anyone can be shouted down by opposition and that's not democracy.

Great article and great comments so far, too.

We need a massive rebellion in our country, but unfortunately, the majority of our population seems unaware of this and/or too inTOXICated from iatrogenic harm and government-approved poisonings to comprehend or be in a position to do something about the dire straits in which we are living.

Without such awareness and comprehension, and minus the faculties and abilities needed, which have been altered in so many by toxins and poisonings, the will to do something about our dire situation won't be triggered. Quite the conundrum, eh?

Ronald;
Chicago's water was on the news last night too.

And this article has been needing to be written since 2003. I know Dan Burton meant it, but nothing came of that hearing either, except a dressing down!

I am 59 now; and I have a small pox scar on my left upper arm.
So what I want to know is why President Bush was getting a small pox vaccine back a decade ago, in front of the whole world - as he joined 500,000 troops who were ordered to receive the inoculation?

Did he not already have one as a child?

He did not already have one?

Dan,

I listened to the Flint Hearings for about an hour, but had to turn them off before I regurgitated. Many of these Congressional Hearings on sensitive topics are pure Kabuki theater; anyone who thinks that a Hearing on Thompson's MMR vaccine revelations would be any more meaningful is fooling themselves. It would be a deck stacked by both sides! The CongressPeople are figureheads who represent the GIMC (Government-Industrial-Media Complex) almost exclusively; they are bought and owned by the GIMC. Even under the extremely unlikely case that a future President would support a more reasonable and flexible vaccination policy, Congress would override it almost unanimously.

The Flint water issue is by no means unique. Washington, DC had a problem with excessive lead in drinking water about a decade ago, similar to what Flint is experiencing today. Congressional oversight hearings were held. The conclusion, in part, was:
(https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-decries-cdc-cover-up-of-lead-in-water-5202010)

"Congresswoman Norton sat with a House Science and Technology subcommittee during a hearing on its investigative report issued today that accused the CDC of making inaccurate and indefensible claims in a 2004 report concerning lead in the city's drinking water. Following the hearing, Norton said, "The CDC has participated in nothing short of a cover up that may have harmed families, especially children, in ways that could be difficult to redress." The subcommittee's investigation found that the number of children in the District of Columbia who had elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) in 2002 and 2003 was more than three times higher than the CDC reported. The subcommittee also found that that the laboratories that conducted these blood tests determined that at least 949 D.C. children had elevated blood lead levels in 2002 and 2003, although the CDC reported that only 315 D.C. children suffered from elevated blood lead levels at that time."

This may be the tip of the iceberg! There may be larger concerns that the present excessive lead crisis in Flint is masking. There are many potentially toxic substances that enter our water supply. We believe that our public servants (EPA et al) are looking out for our best interests, and monitoring our water supply for toxicity. We assume that 1) these potentially toxic substances have been identified; that 2) 'safe' levels have been established; and that 3) our water treatment facilities remove these potentially toxic substances. How do we know any of these three critical steps have been/are being followed?

I posted a brief mention to Dr. William Marcus in AoA, a while back. He was a toxicologist and Senior Science Advisor at EPA. He reported potential cover-up of cancers (by National Toxicology Program) resulting from fluoride ingestion, and was fired in 1992. He challenged this decision in court, and was re-instated. Unfortunately, the literature remains infested with 'manufactured' research on the safety of fluoride. The EPA maximum contaminant level goals (MCLG) limit of 4 milligrams per liter for fluoride remains in effect, even though the Public Health Service recommends 1/6 that concentration as a limit. Even then, how valid are these EPA and PHS limits? Are they any more stringent than the obscenely high FCC limits for non-ionizing radiation? After the EPA's suppressive efforts on the fluoride findings of Marcus and the biosludge findings of David Lewis, why should we trust the validity of ANY limits they impose on potentially toxic substances?

Additionally, why would we think fluoridation would be a unique case? How many other potentially toxic substances have not been identified, or more accurately, have not been openly reported in the public domain? Of those that have been identified, like fluorides, how many have approved EPA safety levels that are well above concentrations known to cause serious diseases? Finally, how well are excessive levels of toxic substances measured and reported to the public? It wasn't done in Flint for lead initially; why would anyone believe this is an isolated example?

The present Flint narrative is that when the lead in the water has been brought back to 'acceptable' levels, the water will be OK again. I'm concerned that this may not be the case, and what Marcus found for fluorides could be applicable for many substances. And, it certainly wouldn't be limited to Flint!

Dan,

I don't think I'm telling you or the AoA family anything new, but I want to get it off my chest.

Human Nature is the fundamental reason explaining the Congressional Reps who express great concern one day, and drop the topic the next day, and it is precisely connected to the age of virtually all those like Cummings on various Congressional Committees (with rare exceptions such as Dan Burton, et al. some years back).

The vast majority of those in Congress were born and raised from the 1940s through the 1980s, before the vaccine/poison onslaught that rocketed up in the early 1990s as you and Mark Blaxill so wrote about in your book exemplified by the Brick Township parents who then got stonewalled by our corrupt CDC, and ever since. On top of that, Cummings et al. have been guided by Pharma money and lobbyists for many decades.

Human nature can also explain the U.S. "army of pediatricians" that massively poison our babies, as this army was also raised healthy pre-1990, and they were naively (and cowardly) indoctrinated in med schools the last several decades that vaccines were the greatest medical success, ever.

As to all the Mainstream Media shills, again it's simple indoctrination, and money.

Cummings et al. simply don't study history and care to learn about the numerous, horrendous Medical Mistakes by "modern" human cultures. So, with their own limited experience growing up healthy before the vaccine onslaught, they naively trust what they are told by the likes of Leaders at NIH and CDC, on and on. It's human nature, as is also their corruptness (both Cummings et. al and the NIH/CDC).

It is unprecedented in history what has sprung up in the last 30 years as you and Mark have abundantly exposed - the massive damages and destruction by vaccines to our newborns, though to a relatively much smaller degree this same damage and death was amply demonstrated by the Decrees forcing smallpox inoculations in the 1800's. THIS smallpox inoculation genocide took place all around the world, but is conveniently covered by the mists of Time.

What is also extremely relevant is the Flu vaccine horror brainwashing and permeating not only adults in Congress, but also the public, taking place every year, virtually all through the year now, because this reinforces the false belief that vaccines are effective and safe, despite study after study showing the opposite. But, advertising works - that's human nature.

And, human nature is also why even my own family members shrug off most of what I say on this; they just "stumble over the bodies, pick themselves up, and keep walking, without seeing what they tripped over" (not original to me).

thanks bob! very well said. these folks are never going to help us.