Photo source Rick Shureih

A sad event on Father's Day.

Jiminy Cricket, you'd think an illustrious paper like the New York Post could spell their headlines better. Madonn'.....

Here's their headline after Governor Cuomo and the Democrats jammed through the removal of the religious exemption in the Empire State on Thursday.

Anti-vaxxers lose minds after religious exemption bill gets pushed through

The article then goes on to paint Orthodox Jewish citizens as crazy men - in classic narcissistic gas-lighting style. "These people are religious?"  Yes, and they are angry and they stood up for the rights of EVERY citizen in the state of New York.   Mark our words - adult mandates are coming down the Hudson river.  New York is now vying with California for the most heavy handed, jack booted medical thuggery in the nation.

Sports fans take to the streets lighting cars on fire and looting stores after a big win. Aw, heck, they're just fans letting off steam.  Riots have taken place over the decades for equal rights - Stonewall as one example. In New York City. THIS is how America was formed - not by complacency. And yelling is HARDLY an example of violence.  Swears?  Oh the delicate ears of New York politicians!  What an insult to the Jewish Community and ALL of our friends and neighbors and advocates who spent time to fight this travesty.

New Yorkers just lost the right to say no to any school mandated vaccinations. Their kids will not be educated. How is this remotely American? Stay tuned.

Anti-vaxxers lose minds after religious exemption bill gets pushed through

“And these are the religious people?!”

The state Capitol turned into a chaotic scene Thursday as both houses of legislature — and eventually Gov. Cuomo — passed a bill that will end New York’s policy of allowing religious exemptions from vaccine requirements.

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, the bill’s sponsor, got cursed out and flat-out threatened at one point by opponents of the legislation after it got passed and sent to the Senate floor.

“We’ll be back for you Jeffrey!” shouted one man in Orthodox religious garb, who was fuming in the gallery with others, many of whom had children with them.

“Motherf–ker!” screamed another person. “Shame!”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed legislation Thursday to end religious exemptions for vaccines.

The legislation comes as the U.S. grapples with one of its worst outbreaks of measles in years. Cuomo signed the bill almost immediately after the New York state Senate and Assembly advanced the measure."The science is crystal clear: Vaccines are safe, effective and the best way to keep our children safe. This administration has taken aggressive action to contain the measles outbreak, but given its scale, additional steps are needed to end this public health crisis," Cuomo said in a statement.

Governor Cuomo, we have countless disabled children who prove otherwise. The measles outbreaks were a Trojan Horse to remove freedom of medical decisions. Healthy children will be banned from school from The Hamptons to Buffalo. The USA now has bookend states, New York and California, where one party has trounced the freedoms of the entire population for pharma's gain. This isn't about measles. Never was. It's about the state controlling your health and healthcare so that industry profits.

Read more at The Hill.

Members of the American Medical Association voted this week to support state policies that would allow minors to override their parent’s objections to vaccinations.

Moving forward, the AMA will encourage state lawmakers to institute comprehensive vaccine and minor consent policies, according to a news release. The policy recommendation came Monday during the group’s annual meeting in Chicago. Read more here.

Really AMA? Not sure why the AMA is doing the AAP's work for starters. And then there's this: kids have to be 21 to choose other behaviors/products with risk - like cigarette smoking and drinking.  One drink or one cig will not kill or harm a 14 year old. But one Gardasil shot can. 

Remember friends, the AMA is like the AAP but for grown ups, they are the UNION for doctors. A UNION. A union's job is to protect the financial well being of its members. Unions are sometimes what one might call..... oh let's see, hmmm, (mumbles Jimmy Hoffa) less than a lily white bride on her wedding night pure.

My response to the suggestion that MINORS should make their own medical decisions for vaccination is this:

1) Fine! As long as the doctor and every nurse in the practice are held legally liable - by  name, address and social security number. Signatures on every sheet of paper. A paper trail as long as a CVS receipt.

2) Great! There must be a print out of every vaccine insert blown up and on the wall of every room and waiting room, preferably on Team Umizoomi background paper.

3) Before the child can say, "Boy Howdy! Gimme that DTaP!" he must undergo a full neuropsych evaluation and IQ testing, and an MRI.  Parents must be provided with the results. These tests cost thousands, the practice will happily pay the costs to allow Janey and Johnny their medical freedom of choice.  Each child must also have a speech and OT evaluation to determine baseline status.

3) After vaccination, the doctor's office must agree to FREE follow up visits at 1 month, 2 months, 4 months, 6, months, 9 months, 12 months, 24 months, 36 months, 48 months, and 60 months to review any changes to neurological, IQ or emotional status. Man, these will be LONG visits, not the 8 minutes allotted by insurance. None of these visits will be billable to insurance. Sorry Doc! We'll call them "WELL we warned you," VISITS. If the doctors want to make sure the kids are vaccinated, lost income is a small price to pay.

4) Malpractice insurance will have to be increased to cover the liability.

Any other suggestions, clever readers?

by John Stone

Seth Berkley, the director Gavi, who led the call for a clamp down on vaccine criticism in social media two years ago in the British mainstream journal the Spectator had a few months before been named in the Mail on Sunday as the worst charity fat cat. Ian Birrell had written  an article entitled 'The fattest charity fat cat of them all: Foreign aid boss made Millions out £1.5  billion handed to his charity by British taxpayers' (actually nearly £2.5 million, heading for $4million). He reports:

"Seth Berkley has taken home more than £2 million over the past four years as chief executive officer of Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi), which has been given £1.5 billion by Britain...Another official at the Geneva-based group collects a pay package of more than £500,000 a year...Incredibly, Dr Berkley was given a housing allowance on top of his £623,370 pay package... Like others at Gavi, he is also offered help with school fees and is exempt from paying Swiss income taxes under a deal struck by the organisation."

In November 2017 I wrote in evidence to the UK House of Commons media committee (DCMS) inquiry into Fake News: 

"In this regard it is disquieting to look at the global campaign by vaccine lobbyists which reached these shores this summer advocating compulsory vaccination, having scored recent successes in Australia, Italy, France and parts of the United States. The British Medical Association jettisoned its traditional opposition to compulsory vaccination... – dismissed only a few years ago by a former chairman, Hamish Meldrum, as “Stalinist” ... -   and called for the matter to be discussed. Just a few days before an article appeared in the on-line Spectator by the CEO of GAVI, a global agency promoting vaccination, calling for “anti-vaxxers” to be excluded from “social media”... It must be emphasised that anyone remotely critical or informed about the vaccine lobby and its products, is placed under the general pejorative label “anti-vaxxer”: it is the vaccine/pharmaceutical lobby that polarises the debate – anyone who is not in favour of their entire open-ended agenda is subject to opprobrium and ad hominem attack. Complex health issues are being reduced in the mainstream arena to “Four legs good, two legs bad” type arguments."

Gavi's partners include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, the WHO, the World Bank and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (notably Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck & Co., Novartis, Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis and Pfizer), a network which surely leads back to the Global Health Security Agenda launched in the White House by Barack Obama in September 2014 in the wake of the William Thompson affair.

We have to ask whether it was ever the welfare of humanity which was at stake, or just the welfare of a certain class?

John Stone is UK Editor for Age of Autism.

California's SB276 has moved forward through the Senate. (See excerpt below.)

Doctors are a needle’s width away from losing the right to make recommendations for their patients vis a vis medical vaccine exemptions in the state of California. From the bill ...require the State Department of Public Health, by July 1, 2020, to develop and make available for use by licensed physicians and surgeons a statewide standardized medical exemption request form, which, commencing January 1, 2021, would be the only medical exemption documentation that a governing authority may accept. The bill would require the State Public Health Officer or the public health officer’s designee to approve or deny a medical exemption request...

Dr. Richard Pan, pediatrician turned Merck's salesman of the year, pushed the plunger deep on this law.  No matter your stance on what is full or partial vaccination, what is "anti-vaccine," or not - medical decisions should never be taken away from a personal physician and given to a state bureaucrat. This is similar to what has happened in American healthcare - where someone at a desk at an insurance company can make life and death pre-approval decisions against your doctor's best advice and recommendation. This is the state taking over your body.  Meanwhile, the country is up in arms over the state taking control over women's bodies in the abortion debate. Democrat and Republican. Both sides claiming the moral high ground.

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SB276 Read the full text here:

God almighty, I am having one HELL of a flashback to when 2010 when my then ten year old daughter leapt of the bus sobbing inconsolably while bruises formed on her body.  Look at this beautiful little Wisconsin girl with the pigtails. Another girl on the bus, her seatmate, was "brutally biting" Miss Waldron.  This other student also has a disability - and I place no blame on a child. 

Here's where I disagree - Dad calls for a bus aide, which seems to make sense. But.... I never want an aide on my daughter's bus. It's written into her IEP - NO BUS AIDE. Why? The bus aide was the perpetrator, spraining Bella's hand day after day.  I place the blame on the bus driver in this Wisconsin case. He or she should have pulled over. Surely there was screaming. Autism vocalization is one thing. Screams of agony are UNMISTAKABLE. He should have pulled over.

Autism is a scourge. For those who have it. For those of us who love them. IT IS A CURSE AND A SCOURGE. You don't like that statement? Go read another happy shiny horsehshit site.  Kim

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GREEN BAY, Wisc. -- An elementary school student in Green Bay, Wisconsin, came home with bruises on her arm after being bitten by another student multiple times on the school bus, according to WBAY.

Lillian Waldron, 10, goes to Langlade Elementary School. Her mother said she is developmentally delayed and cannot speak.

When Waldron exited the bus Monday, she ran to her mother with tears in her eyes. Waldron was inconsolable, so her mother decided to calm her down by giving her a bath.

That's when she noticed the bruises.

Waldron's father said she sits directly behind the school bus driver in a bus with other students with special needs.

"She can't tell them to stop. She couldn't get away, because she's in a five-point harness car seat. She just had to sit there and take it and the bus driver wasn't stopping," Waldron's mother said.

All Green Bay Area Public Schools buses have video recording devices on them. The school district said it is now investigating the video.

Waldron's parents said the school principal already watched the video and told them it was "gruesome and horrifying to look at."  Read more if you can bear it here.

Yesterday afternoon and today, there is a nationally breaking story about San Francisco physician Ken Stoller receiving a subpoena from the San Francisco City Attorney for all his medical records for all vaccine exemptions he has written.

A new tactic is taking place to harm doctors who write vaccine exemptions in Squalorfnia, formerly known as California. Using public nuisance laws against them. Imagine that. The lengths to sell a bill. To remove rights. Let's chat about San Francisco, shall we?

San Francisco's is a squalid city of filth and disease. A city where there is human waste, poop, crap, shit - festering in the streets.  Maybe Tony Bennett will sing a new song, "I left my faaaarrrrrt, in San Francisco."

Public health is a farce in the Golden State. The agenda to jam vaccines into every citizen is not about health, but coercion, control and frankly, we do not know what else. It is monstrous. Until every child in the state goes to bed with a full belly in a clean bed, here in the United States of America, there in California, the claims of protecting children are shams. 

God help every doctor in that state who is trying to put patient rights and health first. And to the uber wealthy there who do not fully vaccinate, who have exemptions, and who could make a difference with the bills in play but who remain silent? Careful Karma doesn’t cause you to slip and fall face first on the streets.... of San Francisco.

From City Journal this Spring:

San Francisco’s homeless problem has become so grim that tourists wonder if they’ve just wandered into a seedy neighborhood. Last year, a Reddit user posted that he had “walked past numerous homeless” people who were “screaming and running all over the sidewalk near Twitter HQ.” He asked, “Is this normal or am I in a ‘bad part of town?’”

The “streets are so filthy,” National Public Radio reports, “that at least one infectious disease expert has compared the city to some of the dirtiest slums in the world.” A resident living in the South of Market neighborhood has documented an increase in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Jon Ashworth

By John Stone

"Jonathan Ashworth in his one specific example of social media misinformation has almost certainly misunderstood what he is reading. The cases he was reading about were almost certainly in the US where the Hep B vaccine is administered on the day of birth. Given that he himself seems horrified by the idea should not people be allowed to talk about it?"

(My comment in The Times, London)

Jonathan Ashworth, British Labour Party Spokesman on Health and Social Care, finds the idea of vaccinating an infant on the day of birth repugnant. He wrote in a Times of London editorial yesterday:

"The anti-vaccination content I’ve been able to find on Facebook in just a matter of minutes has been eye-opening. There appears to be a deep distrust in these closed groups of both the medical community and governments.

"I’ve found posts from terrified parents asking for advice on how to make sure their newborn babies aren’t taken away from them shortly after birth to be vaccinated.

"Other posts completely misinform the public about the science behind vaccinations. It’s why Tom Watson has called for a legally enforceable duty of care to be placed on these firms backed by hefty fines."

It is of course impossible know whether the other posts he read and felt challenged by were genuinely misinforming or whether he was just briefed to find them so, but in this instance what is almost certainly being referred to is the US practice of administering the Hepatis B vaccine to infants at birth, and it is quite interesting that he finds the idea - this does not happen in British hospitals - repugnant.

On a similar note I wrote to André Spicer, professor of organisational behaviour, Cass Business School (University of London)

Prof Andre Spicer

about his article last Friday in the Guardian(so far no reply):

Below is a letter from a Jewish woman to her Senator regarding vaccination choice. The letter is anon for her safety. We live in a tenuous time. Jewish Americans especially. We had a shooting at synagogue on Passover in San Diego this past weekend. The media push to demonize those who do not have an MMR vaccination is dangerous in the extreme. To vilify Americans of faith is to open them to hatred and violence - for what, to fund pharma, political campaigns? We need to stop and think. Fear generates hatred. Hatred opens the door to death.

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"Dear Senator,

I write to you about the bill to remove our rights to religious vaccine exemption. As a legislator who is involved with the Holocaust and Human Rights Center you must have affinity and an authentic appreciation for the "event", its lead up and its outcomes.

I am Jewish. I observe the laws of kashrut (kosher) that are articulated in Torah. I chose the philosophical exemption for my children years back because I carry a life long trepidation of "outing" the choices I make having foundation in being Jewish. I did not want record of my observance.

My grandma, mom's mom, got stuck in the progroms in Russia in the early 1900's. For too many years she lived a terrifying life very similar to Anne Frank. My Zeide, dad's dad, fought in the underground in Poland against the communists and the Nazis who both wanted us dead, years before the world was allowed any knowledge of what was going on there.

With what has transpired in NY and the exacerbation of anti semitic activity by the government and media focusing on orthodox Jews, my trepidation continues in this day. What the government has done gives my insides goosebumps. That this bill removes the G-d given right to observe the Torah is abhorrent to me beyond the words I have available to describe. Torah says no pig, no blood. My ancestors did not capitulate. They clung to the Torah and to G-d. They are my heritage. I am their legacy, as are my children. We will never take a vaccination.

That I will be unable to pursue educational advancement, as I continue getting older with less opportunity to pay for my own old age, or turn my back on my ancestors, my heritage, my faith, is heinous and an unforgivable choice that will be the result if this bill, in its current form, becomes law. It puts a disability on me personally and those like me.

I do not envy you as you have limited choice in what bills are presented. I appreciate your legislative service and the importance of your work. Please, consider what I have shared with you as time comes before you to vote.

Sincerely,
Your Constituent"

I hadn't heard about this case until yesterday. It brings up so many questions for our community. Is this young man "one of ours"? The article says a psychologist testified that he is on the spectrum. What does that mean? I wonder if he had a 504 or an IEP in school. Was he functioning at a level that allowed him to study without benefit of assistance?

Does diagnosis matter when it comes to a well thought out if poorly (thank God) executed crime?  My friend John Robison wrote in his book Look Me In The Eye about pranks he played that involved explosives. I can't imagine it ever occurred to him to blow up people, with intent to harm. What has changed in our young people to bring out a need to hurt? Read the article and let's discuss. As the epidemic ages out into adulthood, many questions will arise. Most difficult to answer.

From FOX13Now Salt Lake City:

ST. GEORGE, Utah — A teen who brought explosives to Pine View High School has been sentenced to jail time.

Martin Farnsworth, 17, was ordered to serve 415 days in detention with credit for time served (which he has already served). He also was given 48 months probation, 250 hours of community service, and court-ordered treatment and any recommended medication by 5th District Court Judge Michael Westfall. He was also ordered to have no access to the internet or explosive materials or bomb-making components. He pleaded guilty in March to a charge of intent to commit injury with an incendiary device, a first-degree felony.

He was originally charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon of mass destruction, as well as misdemeanor graffiti charges. The case was originally filed in juvenile court, but Farnsworth was later transferred to the adult court system.

Farnsworth was arrested last year after police said he brought a backpack loaded with a bomb to Pine View High. Prosecutors said he lit a fuse, but the bomb did not detonate.

Police also accused him of researching information about the terror group ISIS online. He was also accused of replacing an American flag at a school in Hurricane with a pro-ISIS flag.

“If I didn’t get caught from this, if people got hurt and I could get away from it? I would have laid low for a little while, kind of see what people’s reactions were, whether there were comments about it, etc. Then later on try to hang an ISIS flag somewhere like on a school or maybe on the freeway, make it look like ISIS is here. Then maybe after that try to contact ISIS, but I don’t really know how to do that. I need to do more research on that,” he told police, according to a court filing FOX 13 reported on last year.

A psychologist testified on his behalf that Farnsworth was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.

THE MAYOR'S SON WAS ARRESTED.  WTF is wrong with these teens??? What have YEARS of feel good do nothing autism "awareness" and blue lights and TV shows showing a unicorn version of autism done for OUR CHILDREN WHO FACE A WORLD OF HATE AND HORROR????? Where is empathy and compassion. Human decency? The report refers to the video as "troubling." Troubling is not being able to find a parking space at the mall. This attack is horrifying.  Ready for the future?

ROLLING HillS ESTATE, CA — Video footage of teens punching, kicking, mocking and robbing an autistic boy in Rolling Hills Estates roiled the community Friday after the mayor's son was among two men arrested in the attack.

The troubling video surfaced on social media, and it shows bystanders looking on while two men punched and kicked a man as he lies in the fetal position covering his head to defend against the onslaught. The attack paused only briefly when the assailants stopped to yell at the victim and one of the attackers appears to reach into the prone man's pocket to take something.

On Thursday, the Los Angeles Sheriff's deputies arrested 18-year-old Declan Bell-Wilson, the son of Rolling Hills Mayor Patrick Wilson and 18-year-old Korey Streeter, of Palos Verdes Estates.  Read this revolting story  here.

"One family member said Derek “can be violent and has attacked Rex in the past,” court documents stated. The family member also said Derek’s mother had died years ago and Rex was taking care of him alone."

This grisly story offers another side to the shiny, happy portrayal of autism during the month of April. A Spokane, Washington widowed physician, age 61, was found brutally murdered and his 29 year old, preverbal autistic son living amid squalor. It appears that the son is at least, a suspect. If not, he is also a victim, left alone in the home without life skills.  Either version is a far cry from what we're spoon fed about autism. This kind of tragic story is going to repeat itself over and over, like the stories of autistic children wandering and drowning. Parents will age. Strong adult men (and women) with autism will rage. The future may be bleak and harsh. Meanwhile, we're told we are "allowed" to seek awareness, but not cure or even true treatment. Our loved ones must suffer a lifetime of... autism.  God bless Dr. Rex Porter and his son Derek.

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Detectives are investigating the death of a retired Spokane anesthesiologist whose body was found dismembered and burned in the backyard of his Dishman Hills area home.

The victim, Dr. Rex C. Porter, 61, previously worked for Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center. He was the caretaker of his son, Derek C. Porter, 29, who is autistic and nonverbal, according to court documents. They lived on an 11-acre property in the 2800 block of South Park Lane near the Iller Creek Conservation Area.

On Saturday, a neighbor called 911 to report that Porter’s car had been sitting in the driveway for two days with a door open. A garage door had been left open, too.

Spokane County Sheriff’s deputies responded Sunday to the house for a welfare check, according to a search warrant filed Tuesday in Spokane County Superior Court.

Deputies reported seeing the house in disarray as they looked through the windows, including broken glass on the floor. Attempts to call Rex Porter were unsuccessful, prompting deputies to enter the house. They smelled a strong odor they believed to be animal feces, according to court documents.

Deputies continued their search downstairs to the basement and found more glass, along with blood and damaged items. They opened a door and “suddenly an adult male was standing in front of them with only shorts and a T-shirt,” according to court documents.

Deputies detained the individual, believing he was squatting in the house, according to court records.

In the bathroom, the toilet was full of feces and the sink held what deputies thought was the remains of a dead animal, court records stated....  Read more at Spokesman.com

This, my friends, is the very definition of a regressive tax. It affects the poor much more than the wealthy. $1000 to a rich family in Brooklyn, may be a drop in the budget bucket. $1000 to an Hasidic family with many children and a modest income is a kick in the gut. De Blasio has ordered the MMR vaccine into children as young as six months. Read the insert info below - IT WON'T WORK - so De Blasio is subjecting infants to an unnecessary vaccine for THREE diseases - with liability falling squarely on the backs of the families. That's not just regressive, it's OPPRESSIVE.

From the Merck package insert.

Infants Between 6to 12 Months of AgeLocal health authorities may recommend measles vaccination of infants between 6 to 12 months of age in outbreak situations. This population may fail to respond to the components of the vaccine. Safety and effectiveness of mumps and rubella vaccine in infants less than 12 months of age have not been established. The younger the infant, the lower the likelihood of seroconversion (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY). Such infants should receive a second dose of M-M-RIIbetween 12 to 15 months of age followed by revaccination at elementary school entry.{32}

Dr. Seuss The Sneetches

By Laura Hayes

In CA, SB276 would add further restrictions to already-difficult-to-obtain Medical Exemptions to vaccination. Should this bill become law, MEs currently on file will be scrutinized by a state public health officer or his designee, and be subject to being revoked. All future ME “requests” will be submitted via a standardized form to this state public health officer, who will be given the sole authority to accept or deny it. Reasons for requested MEs must be listed in the CDC’s guidelines for vaccine contraindications, an extremely limited and incomplete list.

Presently in CA, the rate of MEs is .7% of kindergartners, an extremely small number of students whom Senator Pan, initiator of SB276, wants to make even smaller, no matter the harm to those with MEs.

For those who follow my work, you know that I do not support focusing time and energy on retaining or broadening exemptions, as they will always be under attack to be further restricted and/or completely eliminated, as we are witnessing nationwide. Rather, I support and work toward the immediate banning of vaccine mandates, which would eliminate the need for exemptions completely. However, that does not keep me from pointing out this obvious injustice:

Why should children who have serious/certain medical conditions, as designated by the CDC, be more protected from vaccine harm than healthy children, or than children with “less serious”/non-designated medical conditions?

This is blatant discrimination, and it is wrong. In truth, no child should be injected with the toxic, neurotoxic, poisonous, carcinogenic, immune-and-nervous-system-destroying, GI-damaging, fertility impairing/sterilizing, mutagenic ingredients in vaccines.

In these tyrannical times, immediate legal action is urgently needed to make “healthy and non-CDC-designated sick children” a legally protected class.

To clarify, the group of people needing protection would have the common characteristic of being children who are either “healthy” or “not sick enough” (the latter according to the CDC). This group of people is being discriminated against by being mandated to be injected with 70 potentially-fatal vaccines, via numerous and frequent invasive medical procedures, beginning at birth, either because they are currently healthy or because their medical condition is not “serious enough” according to the CDC. They are being unjustly targeted to be disproportionately and unfairly responsible for “maintaining public health” via the purported, but incorrect and disproven, theory of vaccine-induced herd immunity.

The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

It was a cold day in February five years ago when a psychologist sent by the local authority issued a chilling warning to Sinead: Give up your rights to protect your son or we will take him from you.

After 25 years of caring for someone with autism, including winning a judicial review to ensure funding for his education, Sinead was not too scared by the threat. 

‘There is not a court in the land that would do such a thing,’ she replied.

One month later, police turned up on her doorstep with a council official to say that a secret court hearing had empowered the authorities to seize her son Martin. 

At the same time, social workers arrived at the farm where Martin was enjoying work experience and told him that they needed to take him into safety since his parents were unable to care for him – and then put him in a care home two counties away.

Read this chilling story at DailyMail.uk here.

Oh look! UPS wants to become United Poison Service bringing vaccines right to your door!

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United Parcel Service Inc wants to get beyond U.S. doorsteps with a new push into healthcare.

The world’s largest package delivery firm is preparing to test a U.S. service that dispatches nurses to vaccinate adults in their homes, Reuters has learned, as the company and its healthcare clients work to fend off cost pressures and competitive threats from Amazon.com.

UPS did not disclose which vaccines it would be using in the project, but drug and vaccine maker Merck & Co told Reuters it is looking at partnering with the company for the initiative. Read more here.

Vaxxed has been removed from Amazon's Prime streaming service. The DVD remains available and is ranked Number 1 in the entire category, even beating out... Mr. Rogers and RBG. See screen photos below.  American business is now fully embracing censorship of the vaccine safety topic. The efforts of producers like Del Bigtree, which have hardly been lucrative, these films are not award winning Hollywood fairytales, and are being treated like snuff films.  This behavior is more becoming of North Korea than any nation in North America. Let alone the USA.

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Following a CNN business report, Anti-vaccine movies disappear from Amazon after CNN Business report.

BuzzFeed News was first to report that "Vaxxed" was no longer available. Amazon did not respond to questions about why the films are no longer available on Prime Video.

Goering reminiscent of Augustus Gloop savoring a bit of chocolate

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger” - Hermann Goering

The message of Hermann Goering has not been lost on our present day leaders. Today we are no more at threat from disease than at any time in recent history, but a few cases of measles - not a death in sight, not even an injury - can now be used to bring a once great nation to its knees. Like Goering's "pacifists" we know perfectly well that there is no threat, certainly no threat which should involve citizens in voluntarily surrendering ultimate rights over their bodies to the state, and no grounds for turning well-informed doubters into public enemies. These people want absolute power, partly because that is what they want, and partly because they are petrified of the truth: they will say anything, do anything, to cover up what they have done to two generations of children (which is perhaps nothing compared to what they plan for the next), and they have no shame or dignity. We thought we had learned something from the Second World War: unfortunately, though, it looks as if many of our leaders learned from the wrong side.

After the war against what was supposed to be the most evil regime in human history the Nuremberg Code was instituted, which enshrined the idea that forced experimentation on humans was wrong, that informed consent was necessary for medical procedures. Now everything is twisted so that these pitiful,  incompetent, corrupt bureaucrats are becoming absolute dictators, answerable to no truth or criticism - allegedly protectors of ourselves against ourselves - the hirelings of the pharmaceutical state. Meanwhile, the politicians prostrate themselves before revealed stupidity, and they do not really seem to be in charge of the game either. 

https://www.ageofautism.com/2019/02/anthony-fauci-lies-then-backtracks-on-mmr-encephalitis-after-audience-gasps-at-federal-meeting.html

by John Stone

The deadly charade continues. British television viewers were told on ITV NEWS on Thursday night that an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) was to investigate "the  resurgence of the anti-vaccination movement".  They should not be deceived into thinking however that the APPG on Vaccination is the equivalent of a parliamentary committee. The secretariat for the group - which itself  consists of five little known members of the House of Commons and two of the House of Lords - is listed as an organisation  called Results UK, which is in turn a satellite of GAVI, which we all know is a partnership of  the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the WHO,  Unicef, the World Bank and the Pharmaceutical Industry etc. Every single vaccine manufacturer is represented within GAVI.

The strategy has been apparent since the summer of 2017 when the director of GAVI, Seth Berkley,  had an article published in the on-line Spectator - a British news journal - calling for "anti-vaxxers" to be banned from the web, when what he was really setting out to do was ban all criticism of vaccines from the web while simultaneously indulging in hate rhetoric. In the British context it might perhaps be a modestly hopeful sign that the present move comes from an undistinguished ad hoc group of parliamentarians rather than a standing committee: less helpful is the continuing treachery of the mainstream media which cannot any longer report anything without a having devious agenda behind it.

John Stone is UK editor of Age of Autism

A recent interview with British general practitioner, Dr Jayne Donegan, talking about her strange story to Polly Tommey when in 2007 she was tried before a General Medical Council tribunal and completely exonerated. With thanks to Peeps TV.

A written account by her of these events can be found at her website.

Kent, Washington, USA

This is why we have a "nightmares" category. Imagine a principal in 2018 locking a student out of the building.  Imagine a teacher seeing the student in the window and closing the blinds. Now imagine the student has autism. We just passed the anniversary of the death of Avonte Oquendo, a 15 year old who bolted from his autism program in New York and was found several weeks later dead in the East River. Schools are supposed to take care of their students. Keep them safely INSIDE. Not lock them out. What a disgrace. Our great sympathy to the family.

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From KIRO 7. Read more here.

A family is demanding answers after they say a fifth-grade student with autism was purposefully locked out of school by the principal.

The principal of Springbrook Elementary, Ashli Short, has now been placed on paid administrative leave pending an ongoing investigation, according to the Kent School District.

Lovine Montgomery says there’s no excuse for what her 11-year-old grandson endured on Dec. 14, 2018. Surveillance cameras from the school captured the fifth-grader wandering outside the school for 15 minutes.

Hi, friends. I saw this news report on Facebook yesterday.   Police: Mother Strangled, Abused 6-Year-Old Son With Autism After He Defecated In Pants Child abuse is nothing new.  Parents of typical children beat them, harm them even kill them out of anger for childhood "sins" like wetting or soiling their pants.  The comments on Facebook were appropriately and perhaps especially harsh toward this Mom, whose comments seemed anything but remorseful, according to the report. Many call for harming the Mom. "Just give me 5 minutes with her!" I get it. Child abuse in any form is anathema to the majority of us.

The boy in this story is just six years old. How will Mom cope when he is 16? 26? The stresses are too much for some parents to bear.    Many just don't have the support systems, pressure relief valves, money, respite, training, or simple parental patience, which for autism is about 1000X what's needed for a typical child. That said, wealthy parents with the world at their fingertips have murdered their autistic sons and daughters as the exhaustion, despair and frustration of parenting a child on the spectrum strikes every socioeconomic group.

I have 64 cumulative years of autism parenting under my belt. I still struggle with temper and patience when the chaos takes over. One of my children was not BM trained until almost 12 years of age.  Another used to play in toilet water to satisfy a perseveration, even when the toilet had not been flushed. I coined the term, "crapisode." That awful mess made my head explode every time. My first reaction was never sympathy. My second reaction was never to harm.  Sometimes I just shut the bathroom door with her in it and walked away to catch my breath. That's me. Or was me 12 years ago. Today I have many more support systems than I did a decade ago, despite choosing to divorce.  Like most of you readers, even with support, as the sole caretaker, I get tired.

I hope this Mom gets help. For herself first. So that she can begin to parent her son in an appropriate way.

Love,

Kim

By Kim Rossi

PHOENIX, Ariz. - Police in Arizona are investigating a possible sex abuse case after a hospitalized woman in a vegetative state gave birth.

The alleged victim has been a patient at the Hacienda HealthCare facility for at least a decade after a near-drowning incident left her in a vegetative state, an anonymous source told KPHO-TV.

The woman gave birth to a boy on Dec. 29.  Read more here.

Did no one notice her growing belly during the last nine months? Was she never cleaned or cared for or given medical attention?

This is why we can never die. Or rest. "Possible" sex abuse case. My posterior. My girls are perfect victims for a predator or simply for a crime of convenience. A horny guy see a chance to get off with a real live female. Even if she is in a vegetative state. Or has autism.

Below are two articles translated into English from Il Tempo regarding vaccine purity and reliability in manufacturing.  Please refer to our article last week CORVELVA VACCINEGATE: GSK's Infanrix Hexa Exposed.

It is an interesting development that Dr Bolgan, a graduate of Harvard Medical School has associated herself with project. Meanwhile, Drs Montanari and Gatti make the important point that without hands-on, independent regulation - which is patently absent - there is no basis for trust in the products. It would be problematic enough if they were what was said on the packet, but if they are they are not the we are into another territory altogether.

While we take comfort that Janie Gill did not murder her grandson Guy who has severe autism, the fact that she was compelled to abandon him at a rest stop is enraging. According to the article, she is raising the severely autistic teen because his parents died of drug abuse. Wow. Tragedy all around.  I fear that we these stories will grow in the coming years as cute boys (and girls) with 24/7/365 soup to nuts needs for all tasks of daily living grow into full sized adults. Dirty secret? Our kids are exhausting. My girls, whom I adore, are exhausting. When I am with them, my time is not my own. I am on call, sleeping with one eye open, circling the house like security guard, never, ever at full rest. Not everyone can handle this level of work. I'm not sure how any of us does it. There are few services for severely autistic teens and fewer for adults. Programs are for kids, under 13 is the norm. Yes, I blame Janie Gill for not taking her grandson to a hospital or police station. I also am grateful she did not murder him. That's a hell of a tradeoff. And this is the legacy of autism denialism, as written about by our own Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill. Autism can be a severe, debilitating weight on a family.

ROGERS COUNTY, Oklahoma -  A Rogers County grandmother is in jail, accused of dumping her 17-year-old autistic grandson at a Kansas rest stop and leaving him there alone.

Note: You can smell the irony in this story like a horse farm behind a pig farm next to a cow farm on a hot Texas day. New Jersey has one of the highest autism rates in the nation. The cute kids everyone buys blue light bulbs for in April in a do nothing feel good effort are going to grow into adulthood. The ones who aren't killed by a restraint or murdered by a distraught parent or drowned as a result of wandering, that is.  For those who grow into adulthood the questions never end for families: Where will they live? What will they do all day? How will they survive financially? Who will care for them now and when we die? The stress and anxiety is crippling in so many ways.

So imagine the revulsion we feel toward people who would be so against a community of people with autism that they would defile the property bought to create a loving, safe home. A home for people like  your sons, daughters and my daughters.  I picture a bunch of Hunter booted women in $100 yoga pants creeping across the property to wreak havoc late at night in a last ditch effort to chase away the...autistic.  In some states, group homes for autism are also including SEX OFFENDERS. Can you imagine a more dangerous "roommate" for our loved ones?

In 2019, we are launching a new member of the Autism Age non-profit family called Autism Ages. We'll be a community of diverse voices sharing ideas, helping each other learn how to navigate the future for our loved ones and I hope, learning from adults on the spectrum who will join us. Stay tuned. If you want to be an early participant, email me at AutismAges@gmail.com. We also have sponsorship opportunities.

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Neighbors debased farm for autistic adults with graffiti and horse manure: lawsuit

MIDDLETOWN - When a charitable organization tried to buy a farm on Middletown’s affluent Navesink River Road to use as a home for adults with autism, neighbors went to great lengths to block the sale and even tried to bribe the seller to back out of the deal, court papers allege.

When that didn’t work, and the sale went through, neighbors embarked on a pattern of harassment that included debasing the property with menacing graffiti and dumping hundreds of pounds of horse manure on the grounds, the court papers said.

Superior Court Judge Dennis R. O’Brien, sitting in Monmouth County, last year dismissed a lawsuit brought by Oasis Therapeutic Life Centers Inc. against its neighbors, saying the charitable organization failed to set forth a valid claim under the state’s Law Against Discrimination.

But a panel of appellate judges on Monday reinstated the lawsuit, saying the overarching goal of the Law Against Discrimination “is nothing less than the eradication of the cancer of discrimination."  Read more at NJ's App.com.

by John Stone

The term "smart power" was new to me when I encountered it recently in a British Medical Journal blog as part of the new-speak vocabulary of J Stephen Morrison 'senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and director of its Global Health Policy Center".  Morrison's article is interesting both because it discloses explicitly how 9/11 was made an opportunity  to draw health into the global security agenda of the United States while failing to understand how such a move might result in the shattering of "consensus" and the post war "Western post-war liberal order": "smart power" even if it is smart is not "liberal" and will not lead to consensus. But it also spells out that the global vaccine program has become a covert instrument of US power. If Morrison by any chance laments the passing of the centre-left government in Italy, then perhaps the White House putting Italy and its health minister, Beatrice Lorenzin, in charge of global vaccine strategy was an error.  

Morrison thinks it is a paradox but it is scarcely so if a government is seen to pursue coercive health measures over its citizens at the behest of a foreign power - even those who favor vaccination could be concerned at the state's new found powers over their bodies (which might also be indefinitely extended). If that was not so smart a political move perhaps the technology is not so smart either - as I remarked  to Steven Salzberg a few years ago: "The unwelcome news is that the “cruise missiles and drone helicopters” of the war on disease often hit the wrong target, and the more cruise missiles and drone helicopters you unleash the greater the risk".

Frankly, no one knows what they are going to be injected with next. Smart bombs become too easily the agents of international chaos and mistrust: just so the smart bombs of the war on disease, both for what they can do to your body and what they can do the political landscape, including destabilizing friendly governments. “Smart power” is also duplicitous: Italy is just the surrogate of the US. Why could the citizens of the world not have it directly from the mouth of Obama saying in effect your bodies are not your own and we inject into them what we like?

To make measles a key issue in global security is an unforgivable distortion of policy. It really is not clear why we are at more risk from disease now (apart from by the sinister development of viral technology) than at any time since the end of the Second World War, we are simply being gripped by a new manipulative rhetoric. Nor could we be further from the consensus that gave rise to the Nuremberg Code 70 years ago. Everything we have learnt has been stood on its head.

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Below is a letter I recently wrote to British Medical Journal (unfortunately not so far published):

"Smart power": reasons for disaffection in Italy, and the destruction of the post-war liberal order and consensus

Owen Dyer presents a rather incomplete background to recent political events in Italy [1]. The is is not to say that I have any insight into what Giulia Grillo - the Italian Health Minister - intends, but there are  some gaps in the narrative regarding the defeat earlier this year of the  governing centre-left coalition, in which Grillo's predecessor - Beatrice Lorenzin - was a key player over several years. This is to say that there are reasons for discontent which apart from anything else fall well short of outright rejection of vaccination.

In the first place we seldom if ever hear mention in mainstream reports of the appointment of Lorenzin, and Italy, to head global vaccine strategy by the Obama administration in September 2014. An Italian government press release states [2]:

"Washington, 29 September 2014 - Italy will lead vaccination strategies and campaigns in the world over the next five years. This was decided by the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) held last Friday at the White House. Our country, represented by the Minister of Health Beatrice Lorenzin, accompanied by the President of the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) prof. Sergio Pecorelli, has been commissioned by the Summit of 40 Countries, at which also spoke US President Barack Obama...."

Equally, demonstrators against mandated vaccinations in Summer 2017 will likely have been aware of the statement by GSK's Italian administrator - Daniele Finocchiaro in 2015 [3]:

 "Recently I accompanied our global CEO, Andrew Witty, to Matteo Renzi. The premier told us clearly that he considers - and rightly so - the pharmaceutical sector as strategic for Italy. Further, he said that the pharmaceutical is precisely the future of our country ... I then met also Minister Lorenzin and other members of the government who reiterated the sensitivity of the government to those who invest, create jobs and opportunities for young people. So we started on the right foot. To find such sensitivity in Roman palaces is not to be discounted. As for us, Andrew Witty asked few things: certain rules and stability in the face of very strong investments in advanced research and production equipment. We understood each other."

Citizens may also have been sceptical of Lorenzin's claim that 270 children had died in a recent outbreak of measles in London [3,4], and they may have wondered why ten vaccines had to be mandated to protect against one disease.

It is interesting in this light to view the complaint of  J Stephen Morrison (senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and director of its Global Health Policy Center) in BMJ Opinion that post-war consensus has broken down [5]:

"Global health is a product of the Western postwar liberal international order—an order that is today besieged, says Stephen Morrison"

"In the past two decades, we have witnessed an expansion of investments into global health that have been rooted in humanitarianism, the rule of law, and democracy. Underlying this action have been the principles of multilateralism, alliances, and partnerships. It has been consistently argued that investments outside home borders will not only save and improve lives but also promote economic growth and the stability of communities.

"In surprising and unforeseen ways, global health also benefited enormously from the post 9/11 counter terror doctrine that came to dominate the security strategies of the major Western powers. That doctrine aggressively advanced the argument that uncontrolled infectious diseases pose major transnational threats. It put a spotlight on smaller countries beset by weaker governance and fragile infrastructure, where grave health challenges can fuel armed, internal violence. Counter terror gave rise to the belief that focused investments—“smart power”—would achieve concrete results in improving lives while also winning hearts and minds in a global struggle."

But there is a paradox here that "smart power" is necessarily what everyone wants, or that the consensus is any longer "liberal". The Italian people were in effect being told that they must cede rights over their bodies and those of their children to the state because of the demands of global security strategy (starting apparently in the White House). Even if they accepted ten vaccines where would this end in principle? Could it be that the global strategists are themselves smashing the consensus, by  arrogating extraordinary rights over ordinary people? Morrison assumes this is a benefit of 9/11, but if so it was not one that the citizens of the world were consulted about, it was something which happened within US and global hierarchies and we were all just supposed to do as we were told.

[1] Owen Dyer, 'Italy’s health minister fires country’s top health board', BMJ 2018; 363 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k5158 (Published 05 December 2018)

[2] John Stone, 'Re: MEPs devise strategy to tackle vaccine hesitancy among public -Echoes of WMD', 26 March 2018, https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k1378/rr

[3] John Stone, 'Re: Too many vaccine mandates subvert measles vaccine update', 24 August 2018, https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3596/rr-6

[4] John Stone, 'Re: Compulsory vaccination and growing measles threat - Prof Melegaro's response', 21 October 2017, https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3429/rr-7

[5] J Stephen Morrison,  'Global health disruptors: Decay of the postwar multilateral Western order', BMJ Opinion 29 November 2018, https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/11/29/stephen-morrison-decay-of-the-postwar-multilateral-western-order/

John Stone is UK and European editor of Age of Autism

As sheriff's detectives investigate the incident, they say that there appears to be no evidence of foul play or criminal intent at this time. 

AT. THIS. TIME.

This boy was 13 years old. Perhaps he was prescribed Risperdal, an anti-psychotic drug given to people with autism to "help" with behavior. One side effect is severe weight gain. The boy was tall, but 280 pounds is more than just a tall kid. Restraint is difficult. If you train in martial arts, you might call a restraint a "submission."  Rhonda Rousey used to break arms with hers. You can break bones. Suffocate. It's called "choking out" when you apply pressure to the throat, neck or temple.  A restraint is a weapon.  I call this aggravated assault, not a school safety technique.

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From ABC10.

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. -- A 13-year-old student died after being restrained at an El Dorado Hills school.

The student was described by officials as being six feet tall, 280 pounds, and diagnosed with “severe autism.”

The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office responded to Guiding Hands School in El Dorado Hills on November 28. According to the sheriff's office, the boy had become violent and was restrained by school staff to prevent injuries to other staff and students.

While being restrained, the student became unresponsive and a teacher provided CPR until medical aid came. The student was taken to Mercy Folsom in critical condition and would later be transported to UC Davis.

The sheriff’s office was notified of his passing on November 30. As sheriff’s detectives investigate the incident, they say that there appears to be no evidence of foul play or criminal intent at this time.

This is a developing story.

Yesterday, our nation buried President George H.W. Bush, a World War II hero. Tom Brokaw wrote a book called The Greatest Generation about men like Bush, who served in what my Dad, a WWII Navy vet called "the great 'waah' in his Boston accent.  These men and woman catapulted America into the post-war boom years. My father was born in 1922. His granddaughters are part of the sickest generation, their lives shot down by autism.  I teach Karate to students beginning at age four. Last week, three kids, 8 years old or so, had a chat about epipens and how to use them. When I was 8 I talked about riding my bike after school and eating Hostess Big Wheels. Today's children face active shooter drills and constant medical interventions for chronic illness. Below, Children's Health Defense discusses the plight of the sickest generation.

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From Robert Kennedy's Children's Health Defense

Too Many Sick Children

More than 54% of American children are suffering from one or more chronic illnesses, with the late 1980s and early 1990s viewed as the gateway period that launched the decline. Autism, ADHD, asthma and allergies have doubled since that time, with autism now one in 34 children in some regions. Pediatric autoimmune conditions are also on the rise, and the proportion of public school children using special education services is estimated at 13% to 25% of school populations. Mounting evidence indicates environmental toxins such as heavy metals, pesticides and herbicides as the principal culprits, while studies link vaccines and toxic vaccine ingredients to a wide range of adverse health outcomes, including seizures, neurodevelopmental disorders, and infant death. As the medical, public health, and government circles remain silent on the social and economic fallout from these toxic exposures, American children have never been so sick.

Our comprehensive white paper, The Sickest Generation: The Facts Behind the Children’s Health Crisis and Why it Needs to End covers these chronic illness and more, along with the causes and the steps you need to take to protect your children now.

Read more here and share your own stories of what you see in children around you.

Those of us of a certain age recall Animal House with great fondness. The boys of Delta House tormented Dean Wormer and the entire Faber University at every torn. Today? Animal House is a reality in Eugene Oregon, where the movie was filmed almost 40 years ago.  The boys of Animal House were indeed naughty and puckish. But even John Belushi's Bluto was endearing, not enraging.   Today's school children are more reminiscent of another movie - Chuckie.  And I say that without meaning to belittle or shame. Behavior is out of control and not because our children are evil. Something(s) has happened to the young brain that is affecting their ability to function and cope. Screen time, forced academics far too early, changes to infant development, video games, chemicals masquerading as food, plastic in place of glass from cradle to grave, over vaccination in a a vast experiment on the human immune system and bolus doses of mercury before birth in the maternal flu vaccine. Violence and aggression are traits of mercury toxicity. This ties in with the overwhelming number of mass shootings in America. Unbridled, unchecked aggression and violence. The world is "easier" than ever to navigate. Children don't need to memorize a phone number, learn how to use an encyclopedia, read a map, make change for a $20 bill after a purchase - Siri and Alexa and iThisThatandEverything take care of thinking in so many ways. And yet they are tanking. There's no other word for it.

Shannon was referring to increased violent and disruptive student behaviors in Eugene-area schools that he said are pushing teachers and other school staff to the brink of quitting.

Meg Carnagey, a first-grade teacher at Adams, said students are becoming more aggressive.

“Kids are hitting, choking, tackling, biting and kicking,” she said. “They’re leaving bruises, red marks and bite marks.”

The teachers who spoke Wednesday are not alone in their observations, and nearly every educator or education advocate in the area agrees that the issue is growing.

In the last three years, Bethel, Eugene and Springfield school districts — along with their counterparts across the state — have seen the frequency and intensity of violent, threatening or disruptive behaviors steadily increase, especially at the elementary level, district officials said in a Register-Guard report that published earlier this month.

Eugene schools face ‘behavioral crisis,’ board told

Click over to the Bangor (Maine) Daily News to read this article and take the POLL asking whether you believe parents should have the right to Philosophical vaccination exemptions.  This is not the New England I was born in decades ago - we believe in freedom, even if it means a fight. Ginger Taylor is working hard in Maine to head off this Californication....

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Some Mainers are gearing up for a fight over the future of the state’s philosophical exemption for childhood vaccinations, a battle that is expected to play out during the upcoming legislative session.

That’s because many Maine families are choosing against vaccinating their children, and some lawmakers would like to change that. Nationally, nearly 2 percent of parents chose not to immunize their kindergartners for non-medical reasons last year. In Maine, 5 percent of parents of public and private school children decided against immunization, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Rep. Ralph Tucker (D-Brunswick) is among the Maine lawmakers, public health advocates, medical professionals and others who want that number to start trending downward. He’s planning to introduce a bill in the next legislative session that would eliminate the non-medical exemption for vaccines, including exemptions for both religious and philosophical reasons, thereby improving the state’s vaccination rate.

On Friday, this story was circulating on Facebook. A man, (young man) who appeared to have autism was found alone at a Kansas rest stop.  He could not speak. He "seemed lost." This could describe my Bella. Or even Mia, although she has speech. She is rarely able to answer a question without prompting that few in the world know how to offer her. Even my beautiful Gianna, who is as chatty as a magpie, would be hard pressed to provide answers about herself. She could tell you the date!

In 2019, I'm expanding the Autism Age family to launch a wholly new interactive platform called "AutismAges.org." Friends, we're going to have to build our kids' future brick by brick, just as we did with schooling. Because time makes you bolder, even children get older and I'm getting older too. So are you. Email me if you'd like to learn how to be a flagship participant sharing knowledge, ideas, solutions and asking 1000 questions about adult life with autism.

Individuals and organizations are welcome to become category leaders and participants  including adults with autism.   AutismAges@gmail.com

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From KAKE Kansas:

THE UPDATE:

The child located in our county earlier today has been identified. We are in the process of attempting to contact family members or a guardian. Thank you for all the information that has been provided by the community. There is no more need to call at this time.

(CHILD? He's 6 feet tall and approximately 220 pounds.)

ORIGINAL STORY:

I don't know which is worse here, the story or the horribly overwrought ad filled visual nightmare of a website called The Lakewood Scoop.   There are measles cases in Lakewood. Remember measles? The Brady Bunch had them. Wilma Flintstone had them.  Frank Sinatra sang, "I've had the measles and the mumps..." From Lakewood, New Jersey, the pharma and chemical heart of the USA.

"Approximately 50 Lakewood teachers say they are not returning if unimmunized children are allowed back in school."

This is likely the teachers UNION telling the teachers what to do.  Schools make  money from flu shot clinics and are an arm (pardon the turn of the phrase) of the local public health office. The comments from readers are disgusting as well. 

Another story from Lakewood:

LAKEWOOD — Schools, businesses and officials got serious about the spread of measles in an Ocean County community over the weekend, as confirmation of several potential additional cases is pending.

Four cases of measles were confirmed in Lakewood last week by the Ocean County Health Department. Four more potential cases are under investigation but lab results will not be back until Wednesday, according to OCHD spokesman Dan Regenye.

At least two businesses — a workout facility called The Gym and the Snaps Kosher restaurant — have banned customers who are not immunized. The Gym went so far as to require proof of immunization be presented.

Schools in 2018 are working to prevent bullying of all students - except the un- or undervaccinated.  A Kosher restaurant and gym also refused to serve the "unvaccinated."  The gym required, Papers Please.....  It's a slimey slope to forced vaccination and outright violence toward anyone - mostly children if you think about it - who is not fully vaccinated.   

I hope every adult in that area who thinks our kids who are not fully vaxxed are a danger lines up for ALL of the booster shots needed. The ENTIRE pediatric schedule - clear  your calendars folks! Roll up your sleeves and do your duty to protect others. Let us know how that works out for you. 

We will NOT be the last group in America to be protected by civil rights. NEIN.

Nine years ago, it was Kim Rossi (then Stagliano) viewing video of a bus attendant physically abusing her daughter. Almost a decade later, this abuse continues.  One of my daughters "spits" when she has zinc issues and/or stomach pain and /or is trying to form a SOUND to communicate. She is not an angry camel projecting sputum to harm you. She is a disabled young woman trying to get through the day. Like Miss India Knox. I am so sorry for her family. I know the rage that erupts from the very source of your soul when you see evidence of your child coming to harm. It's visceral anger.  To the attendant Mr. Valmont. You are a piece of merde.

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School bus attendant is caught on camera attacking 13-year-old special needs girl and pushing her head into the seat in front because she 'spat at other students'

Shaheen and Alex Knox are suing Leesel Transportation Corporation and attendant Beleck Valmont over the incident on October 30. Their daughter, 13-year-old India Knox, is dependent on 24-hour medical assistance and has the mental capacity of a five-year-old. Valmont was seen on video violently shaking the girl - who weighs just 84lbs - as they rode to the Manhattan Children's Center.  Justin Foster, the 34-year-old paraprofessional on the bus, said he filmed the altercation in order to protect India and the other children. The 48-year-old bus attendant claimed India had been spitting on other students. He has a daughter and has been working as a bus attendant for 13 years. Valmont was suspended and charged with six crimes including assault

NY Daily News reports:

Her parents said there’s nothing the 84-pound girl could’ve done to provoke Leesel Transportation Corp. attendant Beleck Valmont, who was captured on video shaking India by her head on the way to school. Another bus staffer, who was concerned by what he saw, shot cell phone footage of Valmont’s actions and notified school officials.

Ah yes, remember your SATs a hundred or so years ago?  It was loaded with "Comparative Analogy" questions designed to test your thought process and vocabulary.  The FDA just approved an opioid drug called Dsuvia that is dissolves under the tongue (you know, sublingual, like those dreaded homeopathic drugs the FDA loathes) for instant pain relief. No more pesky waiting for a needle to get the drug into your system or a pill to dissolved in your belly. How about instant euphoria 500 - 1000 times more powerful than morphine as an enticement to addiction and overdose?

From the manufacturer:

AcelRx is developing DSUVIA for the management of moderate-to-severe acute pain in a variety of medically supervised settings, including in emergency medicine, outpatient or ambulatory surgery, non-surgical patients experiencing pain in the hospital, or post-operative patients, following short-stay surgery, who do not require more long-term analgesia.

Moderate acute pain.  I had three babies without a Motrin. I was injured on my hand by a martial arts weapon earlier this year and I screamed, cried and would have wolfed down this pill in a NY minute.  Will ER doctors give this drug to the loudest patients who cause the most chaos, like our loved ones with autism, perhaps?  Will it become the "shut up" pill?

“It doesn’t seem reasonable to place another potent opioid on the market at this time, especially when we’re currently still writing 200 million prescriptions for opioids a year,” Brown told ABC News. “The need to put a drug like this on the market is not demonstrated. The ability to manage that drug once it gets past the FDA is not demonstrated.” Read more at ABC News.

FDA is encouraging even more overdoses in a nation with too many already. I have a dear high school friend whose 20 year old son died 3 years ago. I'm sure we all know someone crippled by pain meds into addiction.

Perhaps a few people will open their eyes to the real goals of FDA and yes, CDC. Promote pharmaceutical products with high risk and safety promises they can never keep as epidemics roll on and on. It's like it's planned. Wait, that's a simile.

Kim

Note:  Below is a revolting article about the scandalous treatment of people with autism in the United Kingdom. Restraint and seclusion.  Those words mean little to most parents outside our community. We know that they mean abuse, anger, retribution for having the behaviors of autism. They mean bullying people who often can not communicate AT ALL. Restraints kill. They choke. They break bones. Seclusion terrifies. The rooms are often dank, dirty, punitive. 

THIS is where the neurodiversity community can do some real good. Instead of attacking parents like me, JB Handley and others for working miracles to help our kids, they should focus on the abuse of their more impaired brothers and sisters across the globe. They like to say, "Nothing about us without us." I'd like to had, "Harm to one is harm to all."

While Britain focuses on the newly pregnant Princess, it turns a blind eye to the babies who are now children, teens and adults and being harmed. To the perpetrators? Take the keys and lock...them..up.

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From The DailyMailUK:


Scandal of the autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement: Hundreds of children are being held in appalling conditions and routinely abused in secluded padded cells

• Devastated families are having young adults taken from them and locked away   
• Investigation found teenagers were being forcibly injected violently restrained 
• An autistic man was sent away for 18 years and was 'abused and restrained'

Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked up in appalling conditions, routinely abused and stuffed into tiny, secluded padded cells, a Mail on Sunday investigation has found. Devastated families are having children and young adults taken from them against their wishes and locked away – in one case for an astonishing 18 years. Our shocking investigation found that confused teenagers are being fed through hatches in seclusion, forcibly injected with powerful drug cocktails to sedate them, and violently restrained by up to six adults at a time behind the locked doors of secretive units.

Note: When will the public health community cry for a cure for autism to prevent these non-stop deaths by wandering and drowning? This is its own epidemic. Children who are drawn to water, can not speak, have no defensive, self-preservation skills are dying.  I don't have stats, but I would would venture that more children have died from autism related wandering than measles in the last decade. (Let's start looking for that info.)  The body of Maddox Ritch was (may have been) found. I hate how USA Today says he "RAN OFF FROM HIS FATHER," as if the boy was a naughty little imp. "Well, he RAN OFF, what do you expect?"  Our kids bolt. Wander. Run. Meander. Explore. And they are as quiet as the drowning itself when they do so. Our hearts go out to this family. I've lost my girls. ALL THREE OF THEM.  Gianna wandered away from a get together and went into a neighbor's house (we hadn't met) and jumped on their guest bed. Mia was lost at a 2200 acre Marriott in Orlando when she slipped out of an adjoining room hotel suite. Bella walked out the front door when I had failed to lock the screen for 1 minute having gotten Mia off the bus. She lumbered up the street toward the HIGHWAY that is across from my neighborhood.  I saw her from my kitchen window and raced outside, running toward her screaming, "STOP BELLA PLEASE!!!" And she did not. She went right into the street at the exit. We are NOT BAD PARENTS. We are human.Oh, and get your flu shot. The world is very dangerously diseased.

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GASTONIA, N.C. — Search crews found a body Thursday that they believe to be a 6-year-old autistic boy who ran off from his father at a park, police said.

The body was found around 1 p.m. ET Thursday about 4 miles from the park where Maddox Ritch of Gastonia last was seen, according to a statement from police in this city about 25 miles west of Charlotte, North Carolina. The North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner will make the determination on the identity of the remains.

Maddox ran off Saturday as he, his father and a friend were walking along a paved trail in Rankin Lake Park, said the boy's father, Ian Ritch. Maddox had disappeared before his dad could catch up to him.

Both parents went before the media this week to plead for any information that would lead to the discovery of Maddox. On Wednesday, Ritch appeared on national television and at a news conference to repeat the pleas. Read more at USA Today.

Data compiled from government sources by Ray Gallup

Note: This is unacceptable. Or should be.  The vaccines were “from WHO and of the highest quality” - insert eye roll. Possibly so - the highest quality vaccine for many of our children was the equivalent of a bullet in the head. And vaccination program will continue. Of course. There's no need to stop a worldwide money maker just because 25 or so children got sick enough to go to the hospital taking a product that is supposed to keep them out of the hospital. Madness. And guess what was blame for the sickness. Not the vaccine. Madness. Literally. Hysteria. The emotion usually reserved for women. 

Hailakandi: As many as 25 students of Sahabad ME Madrassa, around 25km from here, under Katlicherra revenue circle in Hailakandi district of south Assam fell sick after being administered measles-rubella vaccine on Saturday.

Hailakandi deputy commissioner Adil Khan has ordered a probe to be headed by joint director of health ser vices Dr Avijit Basu and district immunization officer (DIO) Dr K.Thambalsena. They have been asked to submit a report to the deputy commissioner immediately.

Katlicherra legislator Suzamuddin Laskar, district development commissioner F.R. Laskar, additional deputy commissioner E.L. Fairhiem, circle officer James Aind and other officials visited the school and the block primary health centre (PHC) to take stock of the situation.

Following the vaccination, just after the mid-day meal, several students complained of nausea, fever, stomachache and vomiting and had to be admitted to the nearest Katlicherra Block PHC.

Basu, who rushed to the site, said six students have been hospitalised, while the rest were being kept under observation and would be discharged soon.  Read more here.

Note: Usually we are the ones to complain about the NIMBYs - Not In My Back Yard - the common cry of people who do not want a group home or any otherwise poorly perceived business in their area. This time I am hollering NIMBY - NEVER in my back yard.  Imagine placing a convicted sex offender in a group home? Why? How?   So now we all have another worry to add to the litany on our plates. Will our adult children's homes be compromised by criminals because "why not!"

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Sex offender placement at group home sparks outrage Families say the state never informed them of the impending arrival at Saratoga County facility.  From the Albany Times Union.

The home where he will be placed currently houses four adult men with developmental disabilities, including autism spectrum disorder, and is overseen by the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). It has room for five men, but a recent death created a vacancy, Ashe said.

"I don't know how I'm going to sleep at night knowing my son is at the house with a person like that," said Ashe, whose son is 47. "My husband and I are aging. We have him for two days on the weekend, but that place is really his home. He's been there 25 years. He needs those services."

Minister of Health

We're following this case in Samoa - two children died after receiving MMR vaccination. A  nurse has been charged - but it's unclear what she did. From the article,  In this tragic case, vaccinologists say they believe the problem was not in the vaccine itself, but how it was prepared before it was administered.   To be honest, I've no idea what this might mean. Was this a case of poor refrigeration? That's not preparation, per se, it's storage.  It's a single dose live virus vaccine. Did she possibly intentionally harm the children? Or did the vaccine itself really cause the deaths? Were they from the same manufacturing lot? Expired? So many questions. And a real concern for safety. God bless those children and their families, who tried to do "right" by their children and paid the ultimate price.

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From the New Zealand Herald.
A senior nurse has been charged with manslaughter in relation to the deaths of two 1-year-olds who died shortly after getting vaccinated in Samoa last month.

Local media reported that the nurse was officially charged on Friday and is due to appear in court tomorrow.

Authorities continue investigations into the deaths of Lannacallystah Samuelu and Lameko Si'u, who died shortly after receiving a measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination at Safotu District Hospital, on the island of Savaii, on July 6.

The manslaughter charge comes after police charged the woman with conspiracy to defeat the course of justice and negligence.

A thousand thanks to Josh Mazer for sharing his campaign to alert Maryland decision makers about the dangers of HPV vaccination. They ought to know already since they are pushing the HPV vaccine, but they do not since their info comes from Pharma and Public Health lobbyists.  The action alert to Governor Hogan is here.

Please click to the site HPVisSTD.com to read more: Maryland Department of Health Marketing HPV Vaccine to 11 & 12 Year Olds In State School Classrooms.  No Parental Consent or Knowledge.

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Dear Maryland State Legislator, School Board Member, and PTA Member:

The prestigious Cochrane Review has announced today through BMJ 
BMJ HPV Vaccine Safety Aug 9 2018  that they will be initiating an immediate and “urgent” review of the safety claims made about the HPV vaccine.

From: Mazer, Josh
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2018 8:09 AM
To: 'Howard M. Haft -MDH-'
Cc: Donna Gugel -DHMH-; Courtney Lewis -DHMH-; Kurt Seetoo -DHMH-; ' carly.hviding@maryland.gov '; 'Robert.Neall@Maryland.gov'; 'StateBoard MSDE -MSDE-'; ' matthew.clark@maryland.gov '; ' jeannie.riccio@maryland.gov '; ' lt.governor@maryland.gov '; ' sean.powell@maryland.gov '; ' tiffany.robinson@maryland.gov '
Subject: RE: Flint, Michigan Comes to Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Dear Dr. Haft:

Thank you for your prompt and courteous response. I appreciate the copy of the latest effort 
Revised School Letter  by your office to enlist state school personnel as de facto sales reps for Merck’s HPV vaccine. The current letter contains the same glaring, ethically indefensible lapses as the original letter- with the exception that you are including my recommended reference to HPV being an STD . The letter does not provide in any measure facts needed to create the moral and ethical imperative of informed medical consent. If you are not willing to publicly announce that our state schools and school personnel are being co-opted in this manner, the public policy is wrong and should be terminated post haste. Are you ready to make a public announcement that our schools are being used to target a captive audience of trusting 11 and 12 year olds for sales of a pharma product?

You write: “I believe you were not correct in your assertion that the State receives $96 million in funding from pharma to promote HPV vaccine. You seem to be pointing to the VFC funding which is provided to the State from the Federal government through the CDC.”

I did not say “receives.” I said received over 5 years.

Dr. Pete Doshi Peter Doshi, PhD, is an assistant professor of pharmaceutical health services research at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy and associate editor at The BMJ (formerly, British Medical Journal). Here is his 2017 analysis out of BMJ describing how CDC and pharma funded front groups lobby state legislatures by washing pharma money through ostensible “non profits” such as VFC:

“Education or lobbying?

Officially, the CDC is neutral on vaccine mandates, and the agency steers clear of directly influencing state law, telling The BMJ: “CDC’s policy is to not take positions on state-specific legislation.

But the CDC gives money to non-profits that actively work in this void. Presumably, these activities are funded from non-CDCsources, as US federal law prohibits the use of CDC award money for lobbying, a prohibition that “includes grass roots lobbying efforts by award recipients that are directed at inducing members of the public to contact their elected representatives to urge support of, or opposition to, proposed or pending legislation,” according to CDC policy.”

Note: There is a paywall, but you get the jist of this sad story from India. Of more children had died, would the parents be more believable? One death isn't horror enough? The media outlet is the Business Standard. Vaccines are a business at the beginning, middle and end of the day.  God bless this child and her grieving family.

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A 3-year-old girl died today after falling ill in Gujarat's Banaskantha district, with her family blaming her death on the Measles-Rubella vaccine which was administered to her.

Officials dismissed claims that she died due to complications from the vaccine. They said that she was administered the MR vaccine along with over 30 children and none of the others fell ill.   Guj: Girl died due to MR vaccine complications, alleges kin

Note: My God, my God. This article should be front page news in EVERY newspaper in America. Never happen. Newborns do NOT RESPOND OPTIMALLY to vaccines.  And why is this being discovered in IRELAND and not in the land of medical breakthroughs (pharma profits, the good ole USA! USA! USA!?

Just imagine the impact of FETAL vaccination  with flu vaccine, Dtap and anything else being pushed into pregnant women who want only ONE THING - a healthy baby.   

We vaccinate(d) because we thought we were protecting our children. Heck, I have the signed "consent" (what a farce) form for my Gianna's birth dose Hep B at Doylestown Hospital in Doylestown, PA.  I hope the nurse that administered that vaccine to her and EVERY NURSE still jabbing babies while wiping vernix off their bodies reads this article and then prays to God for forgiveness.  There's no pleading ignorance. Stand up for your tiny patients, for the love of all that is sacred.  Kim

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Irish scientists find distinct immune system in newborn babies

Irish scientists have discovered a distinct immune response system in newborn babies, which could lead to a reduction in the age at which vaccines can be first administered and in the need for “multiple booster” shots.

Note: America is a big country with 50 states. Every state has different services for autism. Some are pretty good, some are abjectly terrible.  North Dakota is reaching out for feedback on the ASD waiver, which stops at age 12. Our children do not miraculously find a cure at 13. They do not evaporate into the ether. They enter puberty and Katie bar the door. Life gets more challenging in the teen years, not easier. Sorry parents of young ones - it's the raw truth.

When I read about the explosion in autism and the lack of concern or the most basic journalism question, "WHY" I have a little trick I use to impart the gravity.  Just substitute another word for autism, heck use measles if you really want a scare... (sarcasm alert). Zinke adds, "The state is a very large place and Autism CANCER MEASLES CYSTIC FIBROSIS DIABETES LYMPHOMA MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY is getting more and more common."

From MyNDNow.com:

Autism is one of the fastest growing developmental disorders in the U.S. On average, it costs a family 60,000 dollars a year.

The North Dakota Department of Health offers an Autism Spectrum Disorder waiver to families who qualify.

As time nears for renewal of federal funding, the department is asking the public to voice their opinions.

Tricia Zinke and her son, Brody, spend a lot of one-on-one time together.

When Brody was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder four years ago, Zinke enrolled in services through the Department of Human Services.

Zinke explains, "We've been on the waiver now over three years, and he is just a completely different child. I don't really know what we would have done without it."

The service management portion of the waiver allows Brody to visit places like Poppy's Promise, where he can learn and socialize in a safe environment.

There are quite a few proposed changes, so I've highlighted a couple here:

Children would no longer have to be diagnosed by a psychiatrist or psychologist to be covered. 
Instead, diagnosis would be accepted from a longer list of doctors, practitioners and counselors.

Secondly, the number of service visits for families is decreasing from every 90 days to twice a year with the proposed changes.

In her comments, Zinke says the most important thing would be to extend the waiver past age 12. 

She explains, "That's kind of a key time for development in life, is when you start hitting those teenage years."

Right now, in North Dakota, enrollment is limited to 96 children.

Poppy's Promise Executive Director, Lorena Poppe says, "That really is pretty small as far as the number, when you consider the overall prevalence rate. One in 59 kids is born with an Autism Spectrum Disorder."

Zinke adds, "The state is a very large place and Autism is getting more and more common."

Note: At what point, if any, will Californians protest against the ramming of vaccines into children in their state? No other medical procedure is so viciously mandated. Childhood obesity is a life threatening problem. Where are the weigh ins to receive SNAP (food assistance) and other forms of Welfare?  Senator Pan. SB277. Now Assemblyman Chu with AB 1992 (autism epidemic anyone?),  LA Times owner and vaccine/medical company tycoon Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.  

Families should not have to take give a flu shot to feed their kids. Under no circumstances in the United State of America. This isn't a response to an Ebola epidemic, for instance. This isn't martial law to protect from a raging, deadly infectious disease. This is demanding parents give up their pittance to survive in the most expensive state in the nation unless they accept every single vaccine demanded by CDC/Pharma and these politicians. Our Adriana Gamondes (to ehom goes the photo credit) shared this: California has the HIGHEST rate of child poverty, with 22.8% or 2 million children living at or below poverty line. Cue the California SCREAMIN'.  

Vaccine-Before-Welfare' Bill Moves Forward in California

A controversial bill regarding access to welfare and immunizations passed out of a state Senate committee Tuesday. But the author said he would consider amending the aspect of the bill that troubles parents’ rights groups.

AB 1992, authored by Assemblyman Kansen Chu (D-San Jose) would improve access to the CalWORKS program to families that have not yet vaccinated children or have a hard time proving their vaccinations. State law requires immunizations for children in order to receive welfare benefits.

In addition to reducing financial penalties from $130 to $50 a month, Chu’s bill would give families who want immunizations access to such health care needs. He estimated there are 4,000 such families who do not meet the vaccine requirement.

But the bill also would also eliminate the personal belief exemption that allows families to opt out of the vaccine requirement altogether.

Senator Challenges Chu on Bill

That presented a problem to some members of the Senate Committee on Human Services. Sen. Janet Nguyen (R-Garden Grove) said she would otherwise support the bill, but questioned Chu about the removal of the exemption.

“The intention of this bill is really not a discussion of whether a personal belief exemption should exist or not. We already had the conversation a few years ago,” Chu answered, referring to SB 277 which removed the personal belief exemption from vaccines to attend public or private school.

Chu said that removing the exemption made the bill comply with current law.

Nguyen followed up by asking what the public risk was with unvaccinated recipients of welfare.

Note: Many of us are starting to think about where and how our children will live as adults, as we grow older, and after we die. Group homes are one option. But are they in any way appropriate for adults who may have moderate to severe behaviors, and/or who are not "compliant?" The world of special needs is not as it was 25+ years ago when most consumers had down syndrome or an intellectual disability or cerebral palsy, spina bifida and other diagnoses. Autism is the new kid on the block - and no one knows quite what to do with or for our kids. When consumers are not compliant, staff can become angry and belligerent and retaliate. It's a frightening prospect. Adults with autism may be excluded from any funding by virtue of IQ and yet, be unable to live independently. What of them? If the goverment tasked with taking on the autism epidemic via IACC is any indication of actual progress for us? We're in for a world of hurt, and so are our kids.

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Feds Urge Steps To Make Group Homes Safer

Five months after a scathing report found that injuries, serious medical conditions and even deaths of those with developmental disabilities living in group homes often go overlooked, federal officials are responding.

In a four-page informational bulletin issued this week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Center for Medicaid & CHIP Services said that it “takes the health and welfare of individuals receiving Medicaid-funded Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) very seriously.”

The agency described its new bulletin as the first in a series of guidance documents it plans to issue in response to a January joint report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, Administration on Community Living and Office for Civil Rights.

The findings were based on an audit of emergency room visits from group home residents in a handful of states, but investigators said that media reports from across the country suggested the problems were widespread.

Ultimately, the report recommended that states adopt model practices for better oversight and that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services establish a “SWAT” team to address problems. practices, the bulletin noted....

Social, mainstream and fringe media have become all but  intolerable. Friends, colleagues, family members are ripping into each other. I'm watching friendships break. Allegiances fail. Partnerships crumble.   I feel like our kids must feel - ears ringing, head dizzy with a cacophony of voices trying to out yell each other over what's right and wrong with every aspect of our political system from the President on down. I feel like we've traveled so far back in time - where tolerance on both sides is just plain gone.  Violence is invited. We're a nation of Sneetches with stars upon thars - or not.

Meanwhile, our kids with autism suffer in restraint and sanctioned seclusion in their schools.  Rotenberg Center in Massachusetts is known throughout the country as "that place where they use aversive shock as a behavior tool." THEY ELECTROCUTE CHILDREN.  Here's a grim  statistic from U Penn's David Mandell, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Mental Health Policy and Services Research.  From Spectrum News in January of 2018:

When we statistically controlled for children’s age, race, sex and state of residence, we found that children with autism were 2.4 times more likely, and children with intellectual disability 1.9 times more likely, to enter foster care than typical children².

And our kids continue to die - DIE - but there's barely a peep outside local or maybe state media. A beautiful 6 year old boy named Dylan Robertston lost his life this weekend.  Like many of our kids - he was likely quite smart - beneath his autism - and he found a way out of his house. You can write the rest of the story. Right down to the unhappy ending. He walked, found water, went in and drowned.

From  NBC 5 Dallas, Fort Worth Texas:

A 6-year-old boy with autism reported missing Sunday afternoon has been found deceased in a pond near his Kaufman County home.

A sheriff's spokesperson confirmed at 2:45 a.m. Monday the body of Dalton Robertson was recovered by divers overnight.

Authorities said Robertson was reported missing after 4 p.m. Sunday after being seen near the intersection of Cottonwood Lane and Farm-to-Market Road 987 wearing a pull-up diaper and black rubber boots. A Kaufman County Sheriff's spokesperson said the boy's parents believed the boy walked out of the house on his own.

I rarely look forward to election season. It seems to come so fast between Presidencies. I'm anxious for this one to get started so maybe folks on BOTH SIDES will realize that we can change. We can make things better or worse. But they will change.  Not sure how we'll manage and how much damage there will be to relationships between now and 2020. 

Kim