this says it all

"In a perverse twist of fate, the vaccine program has evolved into a grand
profiteering scheme, second only to the military industrial complex's war
on terror fiasco. Instead of prevention, the program has resulted in an
epidemic of serious health problems for an entire generation of children
and at the same time, produced an infinite market expansion for the sale of
other prescription drugs, for the scheme's developers."

Vaccinating For Profit - From Cradle to Coffin
February 2, 2006. By Evelyn Pringle

Due to the flooding of special education classrooms, along with the rising
medical costs of treating injured children, local taxes will soon go
through the roof, at which time the public will be forced to face the
unthinkable truth about the poisoned generation.

And when that happens, government officials had better not even think about
trying to feign ignorance because parents, scientists, and medical experts
have been screaming about the epidemic in vaccine injuries, from one end of
the country to the other, since the 1990s, and the fact is that lawmakers
knowingly allowed it to happen.

Over the past twenty years, our government has facilitated a nationwide
experiment on our country's youngest citizens via the Mandatory Childhood
Vaccine Schedule, and the tragic results of the experiment can be equally
credited to the joint efforts of compromised regulatory officials and
politicians, and the pharmaceutical industry that stood to make billions.

In a perverse twist of fate, the vaccine program has evolved into a grand
profiteering scheme, second only to the military industrial complex's war
on terror fiasco. Instead of prevention, the program has resulted in an
epidemic of serious health problems for an entire generation of children
and at the same time, produced an infinite market expansion for the sale of
other prescription drugs, for the scheme's developers.

The start of the epidemic can be traced to the late 1980s, when public
health officials dramatically increased the number of vaccines, which
contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, without taking into
consideration the impact of the cumulative mercury load on developing
brains of infants.

Once the mercury poisoning was discovered by the FDA in 1999,
vaccine-makers claimed they were eliminating thimerosal from vaccines but
they never recalled the vaccines already on the market and children
continued to receive mercury in vaccines for several more years. Even
today, the flu vaccine recommended for 6-month-old babies and pregnant
women still contain a full dose of thimerosal.

Instead of ordering drug companies to get the preservative out of all
vaccines, Congressional Republicans and President George W Bush spent much
of the past 3 years working on strategies to give the pharmaceutical
industry protection against lawsuits from vaccine injured children. A
handful of shameless Congressional Republicans remained lurking around in
the shadows for years, just waiting for the right moment to attach the
protective provision to some "anti-terror" spending bill until they
succeeded in December 2005.

Before the age of two in this country, children receive at least 20
injections involving twelve diseases. By the time they reach first grade,
they have had at least 24 vaccinations, if they are in compliance with the
CDC's 2005 Immunization Schedule.

For good reason, many parents do not want their children to receive 24
injections for diseases they have never heard of. However, government
officials use every trick in the book to force them to inject these
poisonous concoctions into their children, including economic sanctions for
refusing to comply.

Refusing vaccination can result in citizens being denied enrollment in
daycare, elementary school, and college; denial of health insurance; denial
of employment; and denial of federal and state benefits for poor children
including cutting off medical care under Medicaid, and food, under the
Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program.

Medical professionals have been trying to get lawmaker to take notice of
the health problems caused by vaccines since the 1990s. On June 14, 1999,
Jane Orient, MD, Executive Director of the Associating of American
Physicians and Surgeons, testified before the Subcommittee on Criminal
Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources of the Committee on Government
reform and said:

"Striking increases in chronic illnesses have occurred in temporal
association with an increase in vaccination rates," she said. "Asthma and
insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, causes of lifelong morbidity and
frequent premature death, have nearly doubled in incidence since the
introduction of many new, mandatory vaccines."

"There is no explanation for this increase," Orient added.

"Even more alarming," she told lawmakers, "is the huge increase in reports
of autism and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, with devastating,
life-long impacts."

"Measles, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, and the whole panoply of childhood
diseases are a far less serious threat," Orient warned, "than having a
large fraction (say 10%) of a generation afflicted with learning disability
and/or uncontrollable aggressive behavior because of an impassioned crusade
for universal vaccination."

About 3 years later, across the country on the West Coast, Barbara Loe
Fisher, President of the National Vaccine Information Center, testified
before the California Senate Committee on Childhood Immunization Mandates:
Politics vs Public Health on January 23, 2002. Fisher acknowledged that the
CDC, and American Academy of Pediatrics, vigorously deny that the vaccines
could have anything to do with more children being chronically ill.

"Yet, the haunting question remains," she said, "if we have wiped out polio
and almost eliminated measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough and other
childhood diseases with vaccines - why are so many of our children stuck on
sick?"

"Why are our special education classrooms so crowded that we can't find
enough money or train teachers fast enough to care for these learning
disabled, hyperactive, autistic, asthmatic, diabetic, emotionally
disturbed, sick children?" Fisher asked.

Since 1982, she charged, "the numbers of American children with learning
disabilities, attention deficit disorder and asthma have doubled; diabetes
has tripled; and the incidence of autism has reached epidemic proportions,
increasing 200 to 600 percent in every state, marking a staggering 3400
percent increase in the prevalence of autism in our children."

Scientist have also been warning lawmakers about the vaccine injuries. Dr
Mark Geier, holds a PhD in genetics, and was a researcher at the National
Institutes of Health for10 years. He has studied vaccines for over 30
years. Dr. Geier and his son, David Geier, are the only independent
researchers who have gained access to the Vaccine Safety Datalink database
controlled by the CDC, to conduct studies on the connection between
vaccines and the epidemic in neurological problems.

In a March 22, 2003 letter to Senator Hillary Clinton, the Geiers reported:
"we have concluded in our studies that a causal relationship exists between
mercury from thimerosal in childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental
disorders."


"Our best estimates are that the thimerosal contributed to about 75% of the
cases of neurodevelpmental disorders while the MMR contributed to about
15%," they said. "The remaining 10% of the cases were related to mercury in
Rhogam, a shot given to Rh-negative women, and to other sources of
neurotoxicity."

On June 18, 2004, Representative Dave Weldon (R-FL), a doctor by calling,
was on the floor of Congress waving red flags, and literally begging
Congress to recognize the seriousness of the epidemic in children with
neurological disorders all over the country.

"Mr. Speaker, something dreadful is happening to our youngest generation,
and we must sound the alarm and figure out what is going on with our
children," he said.

He quoted the Department of Health and Human Services when explaining that
one in every 167 children was being diagnosed with an autism spectrum
disorder. "Furthermore," Weldon reported, "one in 7 children is being
diagnosed with either a learning disability or a behavioral disability."

On June 19, 2002, James Bradstreet, MD, Clinical Director of The
International Child Development Resource Center in Florida, testified in
Washington before the Government Reform Committee, and warned lawmakers
about the cost of the autism epidemic back then.

"ICDRC estimates the minimal cost in present value, to care for those
420,000 existing children with autism is $1,260,000,000,000 (based on
$3million/lifetime and 420,000 children affected)."

"So a little over a $1 trillion in the next 50 years would be required if
we stopped creating new cases today," Bradstreet said.

"Because autism is doubling every four years, this is likely an overly
conservative estimatem" he added. "The societal cost could easily be $3-4
trillion."

On June 20, 2005, Robert F Kennedy, Jr, a relatively new advocate calling
for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines, appeared on the Don Imus Show
on MSNBC, and warned the public that our government is allowing drug
companies to ship thimerosal-containing vaccines for use on children in
other countries.

"They're giving this now to kids all over the third world," Kennedy warned.
"In China, autism was unknown five years ago," he said. "They started
giving them American vaccines containing thimerosal and now they've got 1.8
million cases of autism," he added.

Autism is also exploding in Argentina, India, and Nigeria, Kennedy said.

"What's going to happen when our enemies around the world realize that the
United State's most heralded foreign policy which is vaccinating the
children of the world is poisoning the brains of developing third world
children?" he warmed.

"This is just a disaster," Kennedy told Imus.

But it gets worse. Over the past 15 years, the vaccine scheme has resulted
in a full-circle cycle of profits for the pharmaceutical industry. After
poisoning an entire generation, drug companies are now making record
profits from drugging their victims.

And the true irony of the situation is that due to their partnership with
compromised officials and lawmakers, they were able to pull most of it off
on the tax payer's dime. Federal and State government programs, are the
largest buyers of vaccines, administered "free" beginning with pregnant
women all the way up to seniors citizens in nursing homes.

The vaccine racket is raging on at full-throttle. In 2005, more vaccines
were administered to infants under the age of 1 in the US than in any other
country. The current immunization schedule calls for 3 doses of Hepatitis
B, the first at birth, 3 doses each of DTAP, HIB, IPV, Prevnar, and one
dose of flu vaccine before a child's first birthday.

The first year of childhood vaccines costs $620, and the second year costs
$340, according to Pediatric Preventive Care Cost, Estimated US Average,
2005, by Patient Age, Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care
(RE9939) and Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule,
US, 2005.

For the year 2004, the CDC reported the US birth rate to be 4,115,590.
Without an industrial size calculator, it would be impossible to do the
math to multiply the birth rate by the vaccine costs above. Suffice to say
that the total amount represents major profits for vaccine makers
especially when most of the bill is sent directly to the tax payers.

As for making money off the vaccine-injured children, between 2000 and
2003, the number of children treated for "severe behavioral conditions"
related to conduct disorder and autism rose more than 60%, according to
Behavior Drugs Lead in Sales for Children, New York Times, May 17, 2004.


Tax dollars are being directly funneled to the pharmaceutical industry
through the damaged children. Public funds currently account for 63% of all
mental health spending and Medicaid spending has risen more than 50% since
2000 to more than $300 billion per year, according to Parity-Plus: A Third
Way Approach to Fix America's Mental Health System, Progressive Policy
Institute, June 22, 2005; Medicaid Largest US Payer, Daily Health Policy
Report, March 30, 20005.

Drug companies have also been raking in major profits from the sale of
attention deficit drugs, with much of it coming from the public trough. The
National Center for Health Statistics, reports that the number of children
aged 3 to 17 with ADHD went from 3.3 million in 1997 to 4.4 million in
2002. Between 2000 and 2004, use of attention deficit stimulant drugs rose
56% among children, according to data compiled Medco Health Solutions, one
of the largest prescription benefit managers in the nation.


According to testimony at the February 18, 2004, FDA hearing, by Dr Gianna
Rigoni, of the FDA's Office of Drug Safety, a combined total of
approximately 10.8 million prescriptions were dispensed for SSRI
antidepressants and atypicals antipsychotics to the 1 to 17-year-old
population in 2002, and children between 1 and 11-years-old, accounted for
about 2.7 million of those prescriptions.

In 2004, SSRIs and antipsychotics became the third-and fourth-biggest
classes of drugs in the country, with sales of $20.7 billion. And much of
that cost was borne by government health-care plans, according to the July
27, 2005 Wall Street Journal.

As for the continued use of thimerosal-laced flu vaccines with infants,
according to the ACIP report of July 29, 2005 / 54(RR08);1-40, actual
deaths from influenza are uncommon among children with and without
high-risk conditions. A study that modeled influenza-related deaths
estimated that annually, an average of 92 deaths, or 0.4 deaths per
100,000, occurred among children under 5 during the 1990's.

So, are the risks associated with injecting a full dose of thimerosal into
4,115,590 six-month-old babies worth it when weighed against the benefits,
if any, of flu vaccines? More and more parents think not.


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