In These New Times

July 27, 2008 — Stefan Fobes

A War of Illusions

Seen as a victory by American anti-vaccine advocates and as an historic admission by the US government that vaccines cause autism,the Department of Health & Human Services recently conceded in a lawsuit that five vaccines simultaneously given to a Georgia girl, Hannah Poling when she was 19 months old, “aggravated a rare underlying metabolic condition that resulted in a brain disorder with features of autism spectrum disorder”. The sick crap about these vaccine cases is that you cannot sue the manufacturers directly. They are held in a special vaccine “court” and the best outcome possible even in there is to get some money from a federal vaccine fund. Even if a person believes the government is good and loving, and of course, there are people who do lie to milk some payments for themselves, but this unreasonable scorched earth policy is the smoking gun proof in this pudding of the Siamese twin style relationship between the government and the drug companies.

The government and medical associations insist that vaccines are 100% safe, and that there’s zero proof of any link between them and autism, despite all of the evidence pointing in the opposite direction. Safe? Hell, maybe the government’s right and what happened to little Hannah Poling is just an isolated case. Maybe not, though. Judicial Watch found, through a Freedom of Information Act request, that there were over 8,000 adverse reaction reports related to Merck’s HPV Gardasil vaccine in the two years since it has been approved for girls. These include the experiences of: Jamie Venice, who passed out and had a seizure after her shot, and three others who got paralyzed after theirs, and a dozen deaths to top it all off. The FDA, in an email to CBS, said none of these events are surprising to them, nor are the faintings that are “a common event” with teens and young adults after vaccinations. I bet if you asked the FDA about the Russian spy guy who had all the radioactive poison in his body before he died, they’d have said he was Olympic ready!

In America the debate is swirling and swarming. What’s causing the blaze of autism rate increases? It’s so mysterious. In 1990 the national rate of autism was 4.7 out of every 10,000 children. Now it’s 60 in 10,000, or about 1 in 166. In some parts of the country it’s even worse, at 1 in 150. Yes, you guessed right, I’m going to bring up mercury. Jim Donnelly, father of a boy who developed autism after taking his shots (pun intended) says that when he got tested, 20 times the EPA safety limit of mercury was found in his body. Actually, no amount of mercury is safe. Some children’s bodies dump most of it out, but others don’t and these end up as the many sad statistics. This is why, when Dr. Mady Hornig of Columbia University did his own mercury-autism link experiment, he found this:

Hornig injected a strain of mice with genetic tissues similar to those found in children with mercury-laden vaccinesequivalent to what kids got in the 1990’s. The mice developed profound brain problems.

So what types of behavior did Hornig see in the mice, and how does that compare with what we call autism? Dr. Hornig answers, “All sorts of strange behaviors that were repetitive in nature, where animals would just keep repeating the same behavior in a very stereotyped fashion.”

It wasn’t just repetition — the mice withdrew from their surroundings like autistic children. They resisted change and developed brain abnormalities affecting emotion and thinking, also like autistic children.

 

The National Autism Association is thinking along similar lines, questioning the validity of one of the studies saying that mercury containing ingredient thimerosal has no link to autism that the AMA and FDA no doubt love to throw in the faces of those disputing the official story about vaccines. PR Newswire reports:

“This study presents a greatly over-simplified explanation of a very complex
problem,” according to NAA board chair Claire Bothwell. “Rising numbers do
not confirm that thimerosal never had a role. We now know that many autistic
children suffer from heavy metal toxicity, but body burden testing for mercury
and other toxins has never occurred, despite numerous requests to the CDC and
NIH from parents.”

They raise some very good questions.

– Why do so many children regress into autism after receiving vaccines,
subsequently have symptoms of heavy metal toxicity, then get better when
mercury is removed through chelation?

– How can mercury and other toxic metals be removed from the bodies of our
children more safely and efficiently?

– What biological abnormalities exist that cause some individuals to be
unable to detoxify heavy metals?

They pretty much answered their first one themselves. Thimerosal, the preservative in vaccines, is 50% mercury by weight. The FDA (right above the reference part) tells you thison its own website. It is just one of many newts in a nasty little witch’s brew of ingredients. The Philadelphia Bulletin writerjust talks about this like it’s so everyday. “Vaccines for shingles and the chicken pox also make use of aborted fetal cells. Although the vaccines themselves do not contain cells or tissues, they are grown on cells. For example, Hepatitis B is grown on fungal yeast cells. And the polio vaccine, in addition to being grown on aborted-fetal cells, is grown on monkey kidney cells.”

Am I the only one dropping f bombs like it’s World War 2 or what?

Other ingredients, as listed on cdc.gov are aluminum, another heavy metal linked to breast cancer and Alzheimer’s, MSG, the excitotoxin which literally gets braincells so hyper that they die, and formaldehyde, which blocks RNA from fully forming and is used to preserve corpses because it kills most fungi and bacteria.

Mercury itself is a highly potent neurotoxin. In the sardine can I call home, New York, It is illegal to dispose of rechargable batteries. Why? The “City” says: “While rechargeable batteries reduce waste and can be more economical than regular household batteries, they may contain mercury, cadmium, lead and other heavy metals.”

These things are like the size of my pinky. What’s so wrong about them? It seems they are officially classified as a level 59 biohazard. Just kidding. But the Illinois EPA is not. What they say about the health problems associated with mercury horrifies me. “This depends on how much has entered your body, how it entered your body, and how long you have been exposed. Exposure to even small amounts of mercury over a long period may cause negative health effects including damage to the brain, kidney, lungs and a developing fetus. Brief contact with high levels of mercury can cause immediate health effects including loss of appetite, fatigue, insomnia and changes in behavior or personality.” Amazing info. It gets even worse. This is their protocol for handling mercury spills.

All mercury spills, regardless of quantity, should be treated seriously. If you have a broken mercury containing device or an elemental mercury spill in your home, contact the Illinois Department of Public Health at 888/522-1282 immediately for cleanup procedures.

Do

• Leave the area if you are not involved in the cleanup.
• Open windows and doors to ventilate the area.
• Collect very small amounts of mercury with adhesive tape or an eyedropper. Store it in a sealed plastic container for transport to a household hazardous waste collection.

Do Not

• Use a vacuum cleaner to clean up mercury. A vacuum cleaner will spread mercury vapors and tiny droplets and increase the area of contamination.

Let me give you just three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water, trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They said we didn’t need them. This was a week ago. FEMA–we had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked in my parish. The Coast Guard said, “Come get the fuel right away.” When we got there with our trucks, they got a word. “FEMA says don’t give you the fuel.” Yesterday–yesterday–FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, “No one is getting near these lines.” Sheriff Harry Lee said that if America–American government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn’t be in this crisis.

In 2000, the CDC met with pharmaceutical companies and the FDA in secret to review its findings linking Thimerosal with the dramatic rise in neurological illnesses. According to transcripts, participants were alarmed about the undeniable links between the Thimerosal and widespread brain damage in children. Dr. Bill Weil told the group, ”You can play with [the results] all you want. They are statistically significant.” Dr. Richard Johnston admitted he feared his grandchild getting a Thimerosal-containing vaccine. But the group was most concerned with keeping the findings secret. ”Consider this embargoed information,” said Dr. Roger Bernier, a senior director at the National Immunization Program, at the meeting’s close. The CDC now says it has ”lost” the data that supported the crucial study and has persistently defied congressional requests and federal law requiring it to open up the federal Vaccine Safety Database to scientists and the public.

All true, but intriguing nonetheless. I also found a family medical practice in Chicago called Homefirst that has thousands of never-vaccinated children as patients. According to its medical director, Mayer Eisenstein, he’s aware ofonly one case of autism and one case of asthma among those kids — not the 1 in 150 and 1 in 10 that are the national averages for those disorders — and he has the medical records to prove it.