Pfizer and Merck both spent a quarter million each, and just in Maine. How the hell is this corporate influence being tolerated? Notice the vaccinate-at-any-cost group, Every Child By Two, also donated a massive amount. But it’s really just more Pharma money, laundered through an organization that gives i a faux-scientific prestige.
Hat tip to the Facebook group, The Thinking Mom’s Revolution.
House Bill 3227, which would allow cannabis deliveries to patients unable to travel to a dispensary, passed unanimously out of committee, and is headed for a vote by the legislature, which will surely pass.
If there’s one act of legislative authoritarianism guaranteed to draw thousands of opponents to the state capitol, it’s a mandatory vaccination bill. The most recent example being bill 5044 in Connecticut, which would eliminate the religious and philosophical exemption currently allowed for school children. A hearing and testimony on the bill drew thousands of opponents to the state capitol, many of whom remained all night until their voice was heard.
Other examples abound. New Jersey, for instance. A mandatory vaccine bill in that state’s legislature died amid the protests of thousands of citizens who gathered around the capitol building for over 8 hours.
And here in my home state of Oklahoma, the very active and very effective Oklahomans for Health and Parental Rights organization rallies hundreds to the state capitol for Parental Rights Day, to protect the parents of this state from the encroachments of a medical community that appears to care more about forcing a pharmaceutical product on as many children as possible than the rights of those children or their parents.
We are to believe that the mandated use of a product that has resulted in over $4 billion in injury settlements and whose manufacturers are shielded from legal liability over vaccine injuries should be mandatory? A steadily increasing schedule of vaccines required of children, combined with a steady rise in autoimmune and neurological disorders among US children, means that fewer and fewer people are buying the “safe and effective” line, and they will show up in thousands at the mere hint of a mandatory vaccine bill.
It’s no surprise that the cartelized, anti-competitive, authoritarian organizations that comprise the U.S. medical establishment opposes the protection of parental rights; after all, children are an extremely profitable market, but that profitability can only be tapped once the power of parents to intercede is removed. And so it is no surprise that the Oklahoma State Medical Association opposed House Bill 3014, which would update the current ‘Parent’s Bill of Rights’ to simply and explicitly include protections against medical procedures performed on children without parental consent. It would also discourage doctors from retaliating against the parents of patients by involving child protective services in the event that the parents disagreed with the doctor’s medical opinion. Seems like a fairly common sense, straightforward assertion of rights in a country of free individuals, right? The problem is that very little liberty exists for the average American citizen when they deal with the healthcare industry in this country. It’s authoritarianism is deeply entrenched, and any exercise or assertion of parental rights is seen as an act of defiance that the medical authorities attempt to punish, whether through intimidation, or the involvement of law enforcement.
The HB 3014, voted on February 19th, unfortunately did not pass out of committee.
Foreign policy is not something that Bernie Sanders speaks of often. His focus has been primarily on domestic policy. But it is inevitable that if he wins the White House, foreign policy will come front and center. And he will have to make one of two choices: an easy one, and a hard one. The easy choice will be to allow the bombs to drop, to expand the bombing. The hard choice will be to refuse. I have a feeling that he will give in. I’d bet the farm on it, in fact. He will sign off on the bombs just like every other President has thus far. He’ll grovel before Saudi Arabia and Israel, he’ll threaten Iran, he’ll make an attempt to implement his domestic policies, most of which will have a fate similar to that of Trump’s Wall. The question is, how will his supporters react once he bloodies his hands as commander in chief of a vast and violent empire? How will they react to the varied rationales for war that he will give Congress and the country?
Sanders appears to have no solid principle regarding foreign policy. Which means that he will fold up like a wet noodle to the incessant pressure of the foreign policy Establishment that has crafted into high art the bullying of elected leaders into acquiescing to their policy demands. Unlike Tulsi Gabbard, who is immovable as a sequoia in matters of foreign policy, Sanders will compromise. In fact, “compromise” remains the only principle left among our elected officials. Compromise being the default position of those without anything unyielding within them, and it shows in their mannerisms, the sound of their voice, and their actions. It is an ugly thing to behold, but so common now that its expected. Sanders will compromise on foreign policy to get what he wants on domestic policy. He’ll sign off on the massive military budgets, sign off on the next war, sign off on surveillance, in order to have a shot at “Medicare for all”. It won’t happen, but the military-industrial-tech complex will most certainly get their check. Sad, but true.
Once it happens, once President Bernie begins giving his seal of approval to wave upon wave of bombings, what will his supporters say? They say and do the same thing that the supporters of President Trump have done: absolutely nothing. But they will vote for him again.
Very interesting and concerning article up at Dogs Naturally, discussing the unintended, never-discussed consequences for dogs of getting their shots:
“The vaccinated, but not the non-vaccinated, dogs in the Purdue studies developed autoantibodies to many of their own biochemicals, including fibronectin, laminin, DNA, albumin, cytochrome C, cardiolipin and collagen.
This means that the vaccinated dogs — “but not the non-vaccinated dogs”– were attacking their own fibronectin, which is involved in tissue repair, cell multiplication and growth, and differentiation between tissues and organs in a living organism.”
The concern that vaccines are confusing the immune system, causing it to begin attacking the body itself, has been a primary concern for all those people that have been marginalized and dismissed as crazy “anti-vaxxers”. Why the disconnect? Why is it so hard for so many people to discuss the dangers of vaccination?
H/t Facebook group, “Your Baby, Your Way”
Again from Annie Dillard’s brilliant book, The Writing Life:
“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
“In a white paper out Tuesday, the groups say they do not recommend active shooter training for students. And if schools do choose to do these drills with students, they shouldn’t be unnecessarily realistic and schools should give plenty of warning. Plus, they should be done with age-appropriateness and sensitivity toward children with special needs or those who have experienced trauma.
The group Moms Demand Action for Gun Safety in America, part of Everytown, focuses on raising awareness about gun violence. But founder Shannon Watts said she was increasingly hearing from parents whose children were terrified by active shooter drills. So, she started to look at emerging evidence that “these drills cause trauma, whether it’s anxiety or depression, sleeplessness, worsening school performance in kids.” There are reports, Watts says, of drills getting “over the top” with things like teachers being shot with pellet guns. “When we have a fire drill in a school, we don’t set a fire in the hallway.””
Horrifying tale of modern-day barbarism over at Reason.
Court-ordered shock therapy, where electrodes are attached to the temples, through which electricity flows and triggers brain seizures, is still practiced in Connecticut today. One patient has apparently been forced to undergo the procedure 500 times in a single year. The side effects include memory loss, cognitive impairment, and a host of others, as one can imagine.