US Is 'Practically Owned' by China: Analyst
Published: Monday, 27 Sep 2010
The US supremacy as the top world economy will end sooner than many people believe, so gold is a better investment than the dollar despite it hitting a new record, Tom Winnifrith, CEO at financial services firm Rivington Street Holdings, told CNBC.com Monday.
Gold [XAU=X 1312.05 3.25 (+0.25%) ] hit a new record high Monday and silver [XAG=X 21.98 0.11 (+0.5%) ] rose to another 30-year peak as investors were worried about the dollar weakening further after the Federal Reserve hinted at more quantitative easing last week.
The US trade deficit and debt continue to grow and the authorities are reluctant to address the problem, preferring to print money, Winnifrith said.
"America is practically owned by China," he said.
He reminded of the fact that in 1900, sterling was the world's reserve currency but by 1948, that was no longer the case as the British Empire collapsed.
"America is doing what Britain did," Winnifrith said. "America spends much more than it can afford and it's not addressing the issue."
In 1832, China and India were the world's two largest economies and by 2032, they will regain that status, he predicted.
"The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change," Winnifrith said.
"The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar," he added.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39376706
Thousands of USA pregnant women miscarry after the H1N1 vaccine
September 27, 2010 Christina England
A new report by the National Coalition of Organized Women (NCOW), states,
that as many as 3,587 cases, may of either miscarried or had a stillbirth
after receiving the H1N1 vaccine.
In an exceptionally strong and well executed report, written on the Child
Health Safety Website entitled 'Flu Vaccine Caused 3,587 US Miscarriages
from H1N1 Vaccine,' they say :-
"The corrected estimate for the total number of
2009-A-H1N1-flu-shot-associated miscarriages and stillbirths during the
2009/10-flu season is 1,588 (95% goodness-of-fit confidence interval, 946
to 3587). That is, the lower and upper range-probability of miscarriage
and stillbirths due to the H1N1 vaccine was as low as 946 and as high as
3,587.
Eileen Dannemann, Director of NCOW, presented the findings for the second
time to Dr. Marie McCormick, chair of the Vaccine Risk and Assessment
Working Group, during the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV)
meeting, Sept 3, 2010. Just prior to Ms. Dannemann´s presentation Dr.
McCormick, had pronounced that there were absolutely no H1N1
vaccine-related adverse events in pregnant women in 2009/10, directly
contradicting the evidence publicly available."
Despite these alarmingly high figures being made public, which have been
fully backed up with reports taken from the Vaccine Adverse Events
Reporting System (VAERS), the Government still strongly recommends that
this potentially dangerous vaccine, reported to have killed thousands of
developing fetuses, to pregnant women of the USA.
On 22nd September 2010 Reuters had this to say :-
"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite landing in the hospital more often if
they catch the flu, no more than a quarter of pregnant women in the U.S.
get vaccinated against it.
That's according to the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, which has issued a recommendation urging all pregnant women
to get the flu shot.
While the recommendation itself isn't new, the statement, published in the
journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, adds evidence on the safety and
effectiveness of the vaccine, said Dr. William M. Callaghan of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
He said the CDC and several medical associations back the statement, which
notes that the shot not only protects the woman, but also her baby.
Flu vaccines aren't approved by the Food and Drug Administration for
infants younger than six months of age, but babies can get the protective
antibodies naturally through breast milk if their mother got the vaccine."
Note the sentence "Flu vaccines aren't approved by the Food and Drug
Administration for infants younger than six months of age" By recommending
this vaccine to pregnant women this is exactly what the FDA, are doing,
they are actively promoting a vaccine for use in babies of less than 6
months old.
The Bloomberg Business week agrees with the Governments recommendations
saying:-
"Based on expert medical opinion, we urge all pregnant women, and women
who expect to become pregnant, to get their influenza immunization because
the flu poses a serious risk of illness and death during pregnancy," Dr.
Jennifer L. Howse, president of the March of Dimes, said in a news release
from the organization.
"The flu vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective," she noted. "As
an added bonus, during pregnancy, mothers pass on their immunity,
protecting babies until they are old enough to receive their own
vaccinations."
However, Elileen Dannemann is not alone in her concerns relating to the
new H1N1 vaccine. The citizens of India have been very reluctant to have
this vaccine. On September 5th I wrote the article The public of India
boycott the H1N1 vaccine because they fear side effects I stated that
Prison Planet had said that the Indian public were rejecting the H1N1
vaccine through the fear of side effects. In their article 'India Rejects
H1N1 shots after vaccines kill children' by Paul Joseph Watkins, Watkins
reported that the rejections of the vaccine en masse, followed reports
that the measles vaccine killed four children in the village of Lucknow.
The H1N1 vaccine has already been rejected by Finland and Sweden, who have
suspended the vaccine, whilst Poland banned the vaccine totally. The Hindu
stated:-
"Poland has become the only country to reject H1N1 vaccines, in a decision
fraught with risk amid worldwide warnings of a spreading epidemic. The
country rejected the vaccines over safety fears and distrust in the drug
companies producing them – concerns international health experts reject as
unfounded."
This is the information leaflet for the H1N1 vaccine Pandemix and what the
USA Government have decided not to tell the citizens of the USA. This
information can be found on ANNEX I SUMMARY OF PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS –
Product information
"There are currently no data available on the use of Pandemrix in
pregnancy. Data from pregnant women vaccinated with different inactivated
non-adjuvanted seasonal vaccines do not suggest malformations or fetal or
neonatal toxicity.
There are no safety and immunogenicity data available from clinical
studies with Pandemrix (H1N1) in children aged less than 6 months.
There are limited data available from a clinical study with Pandemrix
(H1N1) in healthy children aged from 10 to 17 years, very limited data
available from a clinical study with Pandemrix (H1N1) in healthy children
aged from 6 to 35 months and limited data from a study with a version of
Pandemrix containing H5N1 antigens in children aged from 3 to 9 years.
Very limited data in children aged 6 to 35 months (N=51) who received two
doses of 0.25 ml (half of the adult dose) with an interval of 3 weeks
between doses indicate an increase in the rates of injection site
reactions and general symptoms (see section 4.8). In particular rates of
fever (axillary temperature ≥38°C) may increase considerably after
the second dose. Therefore, monitoring of temperature and measures to
lower the fever (such as antipyretic medication as seems clinically
necessary) are recommended in young children (e.g. up to approximately 6
years of age) after each vaccination.
There are limited data available from clinical studies with Pandemrix
(H1N1) in adults aged over 60 years and very limited data with Pandemrix"
In other words this vaccine is untested and should be taken with extreme
caution. There is a serious lack of data on adverse reactions in several
key groups of the population including pregnant women.
However, despite this missing data and despite Eileen Dannemann's damning
evidence, Dr McCormick remains undeterred and sticks firmly to her views
that there is absolutely no need for any concern. She continues to
maintain that in 2009/10 there were absolutely no H1N1 vaccine- related
adverse events in pregnant women. The Child Health Safety report said:-
"Just prior to Ms. Dannemann´s presentation Dr. McCormick, had pronounced
that there were absolutely no H1N1 vaccine-related adverse events in
pregnant women in 2009/10, directly contradicting the evidence publicly
available.
The very next week at the Sept 14th National Vaccine Advisory Committee
(NVAC) meeting Dr. McCormick, (despite having been informed on two
previous occasions of the VAERS data) pronounced, once again, that there
were no adverse events in pregnant women. At the conclusion of the NVAC
meeting, during public comment, Dannemann
submitted the data again"
However, there is evidence to suggest that this is not the first time that
Dr McCormick has been less than honest with the USA citizens, perhaps
McCormick is hired because, using US tax dollars she can be relied on to
do the wrong thing for the American people but the "right thing" for her
bosses. McCormick is a tool of those who hire her and apparently she is
very effective. The Child Health Safety report continues:-
"McCormick has done this before.
If a criminal recklessly discharges a firearm in the street that can be an
offence of reckless endangerment. If a Federal Health official recklessly
ignores plain evidence putting women and unborn children at risk and also
causing miscarriages and stillbirths what should the penalty be? Are life
sentences or death penalties appropriate for McCormick and her bosses?
They should all face stiff penalties.
Consider the following evidence from a Texas legal case and then ask
yourself: "What is the difference between hiring Dr Marie McCormick to sit
on one of these vaccine safety committees and hiring her to discharge
indiscriminately an M240 machine gun into a baseball stadium crowd of
pregnant school moms and kids.
Law firm Waters & Kraus produced in a Texas Court a closed session
transcript of a US Institutes of Medicine Committee chaired by McCormick
to investigate the link between vaccines and autism On file in the US
District Court of Texas, Eastern District; Case #5:03-CV-141
Dr. McCormick stated, "we are not ever going to come down that it is a
true side effect," before the committee had considered any evidence [page
97].
Dr. McCormick noted the US CDC "wants us to declare, well, these things
are pretty safe on a population basis." [page 33].
McCormick´s IoM committee colleague Dr. Stratton stated "the point of no
return, the line we will not cross in public policy is to pull the
vaccine, change the schedule. We could say it is time to revisit this but
we will never recommend that level. Even recommending research is
recommendations for policy. We wouldn´t say compensate, we wouldn´t say
pull the vaccine, we wouldn´t say stop the program.[page 74]"
Perhaps Dr McCormick would be wise to read these tragic stories from Mom's
who have trusted the Government and people like her and have tragically
lost their babies as a consequence, this is what bereaved mothers had to
say, when they explained what had happened to them, after they decided to
go ahead with the H1N1 vaccine. Organic Health reports
Is The H1N1 Vaccine Safe? Shocking Stories From Pregnant Women Who Have
Had Miscarriages After Taking The Swine Flu Vaccine
"sioux falls, south dakota:
I received the H1N1 vaccine on October 16th and started experiencing
cramping on the 22nd. I was nearly 17 weeks pregnant and gave birth to a
stillborn baby boy on the 23rd. Like many of the other women here, the
first thing I suspected was the H1N1 vaccine. I immediately asked a nurse
at the hospital if that would have anything to do with it. Without
hesitation, she told me "absolutely not." I had reservations about getting
the vaccine, but followed the advice of my long trusted family doctor. In
a follow up appointment with my doctor 3 days after I lost my baby, I
asked him if the vaccine would have had any adverse effects on my baby. He
also said that it was not possible. I don´t believe that my doctor was
necessarily lying to me, he was simply following the accepted practices
and opinions of his field. I do, however, believe that as a nation, we are
being lied to. This vaccine is NOT safe during pregnancy. There has not
been enough testing done to determine this and there are far too many
"coincidences" for this to be anything but a result of a vaccine that was
hastily pushed into production and distribution in an effort to stop
widespread panic. I have read so many stories in defense of the vaccine
that will talk about how common miscarriages are, but I would challenge
you to ask ANY health care professional how common second trimester
miscarriages are. My baby was doing perfect developmentally and I had felt
him move earlier that day. My heart goes out to all of you out there who
have had to go through the same heartache and loss that I have had in the
last couple of weeks. There is no reason that any woman or family should
have to go through this. Get the word out to all of the pregnant women
that you know. I know that if I had heard that women had been losing their
babies shortly after they received the vaccine, I would have followed my
gut and not gotten it myself. Maybe then Wyatt would have had a chance at
life.
kathy-sd:
I´m from a town of 2000 in SD, there are several women pregnant and we are
all due within a few weeks of each other. Four of us got the H1N1 vaccine
2 weeks ago and one by one each of us started to have preterm
contractions. We are all due in Nov and Dec so we are further along than
most of the people that lost their babies. There is no way you can tell us
that our preterm labor was not caused by the H1N1 vaccine. It may look
like a "fluke" to some people when these women are scattered all over the
country but we are talking about 4 of us in our small community. My heart
goes out to all of you that lost your babies.
Connie:
I also received the H1N1 vaccination on October 22nd, 2009 and went into
labor on October 25th, at 16 weeks pregnant and we just heard the
heartbeat and everything was fine with my pregnancy on October 16th, 2009,
then on October 28th my water broke then on October 29th, I delivered a
stillborn baby boy, and no one can tell me why…Everyone wants to say it
did not come from the shot but I believe it did. My baby was growing at
the correct pace and everyone wants to brush off the vaccination. I say if
you have the vaccination and suffer a miscarriage if they are able to
perform an autopsy have it done.
I also agree something needs to be done and looked more into with this
vaccination because most women are being advised it´s just something that
happens, but I also had two healthy children normal pregnancies and when I
received this vaccination with my third pregnancy, my baby is gone."
Ms Dannemann says in her report:-
"This baseless and fallacious assessment by the CDC assessment group"
says, Dannemann,"has given the green light to the CDC's Advisory Committee
on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to continue their recommendation to give
the 2010/11 flu shot to all people, including pregnant women. This
upcoming 2010/11 flu vaccine contains the same elements that are
implicated in the killing of these fetuses, the H1N1 viral component and
the neurotoxin mercury (Thimerosal). Additionally, it contains 2 other
viral strains- a 3 in 1 shot for all people"
When is this madness going to end? I was given a quote this morning which
I would like to pass to Dr McCormick, The quote is one by Thomas Szasz who
said:-
"Formally, when religion was strong and science was weak, men mistook
magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion is weak , men
mistake medicine for magic."
Point very much made I feel.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/188385
Now showing at MMIA: Nude images of passengers (for fun)
Security officials gather and giggle at naked travellers in body scanner
The 3D full-body scanners procured for thorough body check of passengers at the nation's major airports for security reasons are now being abused by security officials from the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), THISDAY can confirm.
Assumption: While the screenee, one presumes, will feel embarrassed and violated, the professional peeping toms screening techs will feel titillated and transfixed.
They use the machines, installed in the wake of the Farouk AbdulMutallab affair, to watch the naked images of female passengers for fun.
The controversial body scanners have been dubbed "e-stripping" in advanced countries because of the way they expose the nakedness of those being screened.
THISDAY discovered that during off-peak periods, the aviation security officials, who are trained on the use of the scanners, usually stroll from the cubicle located in a hidden corner on the right side of the screening area where the 3D full-body scanner monitors are located.
They do so to catch a glimpse of some of the passengers entering the machine and immediately go back to view the naked images, in order to match the faces with the images since the faces are blurred on the monitors while passengers are inside the machine.
The face that appears on the scanner's monitor is usually blurred so that the operator viewing the full body will not recognise who passes through the machine.
But by coming out to see the passenger in person and then going back to see his or her image, the objective of protecting the privacy of the passenger has been defeated.
THISDAY observed this development first-hand when it visited the screening area, passed through the conventional screening machine at 3pm last Saturday and observed that passengers were reluctant to use the new 3D full-body scanner.
To compel them to use it, one of the conventional scanners was put out of service, leaving the ones at the left end and another very close to the new scanner.
A FAAN senior official expressed shock in an interview with THISDAY, saying: "It is a breach of privacy. I will deal with it immediately I return to Lagos."
The official informed THISDAY that the actual passengers the scanner was meant for were US-bound passengers, who travel with Arik Air and Delta Air Lines.
But when THISDAY visited the airport last Saturday, these airlines were not checking in passengers.
In fact, it was only Emirates that had opened its check-in desk and passengers were just trickling in and passing through the screening machines.
"In Lagos, we ensure that passengers going to US through Arik Air and Delta pass through the full-body scanner. It is not compulsory for all passengers, but in Abuja all passengers meant for international flights pass through the full-body scanner," said the FAAN official.
THISDAY also learnt that two out of the four scanners at the Lagos airport are working, while the other two are not working because of non-functional monitors.
So far, only one 3D full-body scanner is working at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
FAAN recently ordered and procured 10 of the machines, which would be deployed in the four major airports in the country.
Since the failed underwear bomb attempt of US airliner by AbdulMutallab, in Detroit, Michigan, major airports in the world have deployed the 3D full body scanners for total body screening of passengers and crew to ensure safety in air travel.
However, there is anxiety over passengers' complete cooperation with the new screening method as some of them express fear that the radiation from the screening equipment is capable of causing health disorders like skin cancer.
Also, another class of passengers are resisting going through the screening machines for religious reasons, insisting that it is against their religion to expose their nakedness.
An aviation security expert told THISDAY in Lagos: "The scanner is capable of detecting and revealing substances that could pose security threats concealed on a person's body that other screening devices, such as metal detectors, cannot detect. The scanner can even reveal very small quantities of liquid explosives, non-metallic weapons, and plastic explosives that could be inimical to aviation safety."
The new device is expected to boost security operations at the nation's airports, as it helps to eliminate the threats posed by terrorists, drug carriers, and it will help to improve the image of the country on security.
http://odili.net/news/source/2010/sep/21/232.html
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