When I began writing this blog in 2005, I spent a few weeks writing an Introduction, (click here to read) before it was set up, so that those of you who do not know me could have a chance to learn a little more about my writing style and goals for the blog.
I did not want anyone to be in the dark about my long term agendas for this endeavor.
Some things have changed for me politically in the past four years. I have steadily been moving from the Neo Con Camp to the Libertarian side of the political spectrum as world events have played out.
I am still a fierce Constitutionalist and lover of freedom, but as a confirmed news junkie, my sources for information have gradually shifted from all of the top conservative writers and thinkers (whom I still read), to include daily visits to web sites that have been written by writers from all over the political spectrum.
The observant policy analysis from such great thinkers coupled with my pubescent pedagogy from Professor Berkeley Breathed (Ack! Bill the Cat for Prez…spit…hey…THPPPT!), of Bloom County Fame, leave me uniquely equipped to comment on all things Political.
My number one goal of the promotion of Homebirth has not changed, but has only grown more intense as the health care debate has played out this year. I believe Childbirth should be done in the home for the vast majority of Mothers on planet earth.
And in the coming years this goal will continue on.
I’m thinking about starting a blog talk radio show for Moms in the coming months and as always will share bits and pieces of good information for those Mothers who would like to walk down a different path than the one that has been sold to us by the media and the corporations who manipulate what we are taught.
*Note: I am a trained Musical Theatre Performer, NOT a writer. I have been contacted many times over the years by readers who take issue with my presumptiousness at even calling myself a Blogger, much less a Writer.
And this is wut I have to say bout that:
Go HERE or HERE if you want to really understand how I feel about the craft of wordsmithing.
Gardasil Researcher Drops A Bombshell Harper: Controversal Drug Will Do Little To Reduce Cervical Cancer Rates
By Susan Brinkmann, For The Bulletin
Published:
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.
Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, made these remarks during an address at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia on Oct. 2-4. Although her talk was intended to promote the vaccine, participants said they came away convinced the vaccine should not be received.
“I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all,” said Joan Robinson, Assistant Editor at the Population Research Institute.
Dr. Harper began her remarks by explaining that 70 percent of all HPV infections resolve themselves without treatment within a year. Within two years, the number climbs to 90 percent. Of the remaining 10 percent of HPV infections, only half will develop into cervical cancer, which leaves little need for the vaccine.
She went on to surprise the audience by stating that the incidence of cervical cancer in the U.S. is already so low that “even if we get the vaccine and continue PAP screening, we will not lower the rate of cervical cancer in the US.”
There will be no decrease in cervical cancer until at least 70 percent of the population is vaccinated, and even then, the decrease will be minimal.
Apparently, conventional treatment and preventative measures are already cutting the cervical cancer rate by four percent a year. At this rate, in 60 years, there will be a 91.4 percent decline just with current treatment. Even if 70 percent of women get the shot and required boosters over the same time period, which is highly unlikely, Harper says Gardasil still could not claim to do as much as traditional care is already doing.
Dr. Harper, who also serves as a consultant to the World Health Organization, further undercut the case for mass vaccination by saying that “four out of five women with cervical cancer are in developing countries.”
Ms. Robinson said she could not help but wonder, “If this is the case, then why vaccinate at all? But from the murmurs of the doctors in the audience, it was apparent that the same thought was occurring to them.”
However, at this point, Dr. Harper dropped an even bigger bombshell on the audience when she announced that, “There have been no efficacy trials in girls under 15 years.”
Merck, the manufacturer of Gardasil, studied only a small group of girls under 16 who had been vaccinated, but did not follow them long enough to conclude sufficient presence of effective HPV antibodies.
This is not the first time Dr. Harper revealed the fact that Merck never tested Gardasil for safety in young girls. During a 2007 interview with KPC News.com, she said giving the vaccine to girls as young as 11 years-old “is a great big public health experiment.”
At the time, which was at the height of Merck’s controversial drive to have the vaccine mandated in schools, Dr. Harper remained steadfastly opposed to the idea and said she had been trying for months to convince major television and print media about her concerns, “but no one will print it.”
“It is silly to mandate vaccination of 11 to 12 year old girls,” she said at the time. “There also is not enough evidence gathered on side effects to know that safety is not an issue.”
When asked why she was speaking out, she said: “I want to be able to sleep with myself when I go to bed at night.”
Since the drug’s introduction in 2006, the public has been learning many of these facts the hard way. To date, 15,037 girls have officially reported adverse side effects from Gardasil to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). These adverse reactions include Guilliane Barre, lupus, seizures, paralysis, blood clots, brain inflammation and many others. The CDC acknowledges that there have been 44 reported deaths.
Dr. Harper also participated in the research on Glaxo-Smith-Kline’s version of the drug, Cervarix, currently in use in the UK but not yet approved here. Since the government began administering the vaccine to school-aged girls last year, more than 2,000 patients reported some kind of adverse reaction including nausea, dizziness, blurred vision, convulsions, seizures and hyperventilation. Several reported multiple reactions, with 4,602 suspected side-effects recorded in total. The most tragic case involved a 14 year-old girl who dropped dead in the corridor of her school an hour after receiving the vaccination.
The outspoken researcher also weighed in last month on a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association that raised questions about the safety of the vaccine, saying bluntly: “The rate of serious adverse events is greater than the incidence rate of cervical cancer.”
Ms. Robinson said she respects Dr. Harper’s candor. “I think she’s a scientist, a researcher, and she’s genuine enough a scientist to be open about the risks. I respect that in her.”
However, she failed to make the case for Gardasil. “For me, it was hard to resist the conclusion that Gardasil does almost nothing for the health of American women.”
October 19, 2009, Denver, CO – by EL MARCO
In more than 100 cities across the U.S. protesters converged on newspaper and television offices Saturday to denounce the liberal-left bias in national and international reporting. These latest rallies are a response to blatantly biased media coverage of the center-right taxpayer protests,which began in February as a response to Washington’s unprecedented deficit spending. Taranto at the Wall Street Journal did an interview with Andrew Bribart on this topic: Taking On the ‘Democrat-Media Complex’ The conservative Internet entrepreneur on bringing down Acorn, Hollywood liberals, and embarrassing the mainstream media.
“Dressing up as a pimp and prostitute in order to seek Acorn’s help in starting a child sex-slavery ring wasn’t Andrew Breitbart’s idea. But without the Internet entrepreneur’s flair for publicity, the hidden-camera sting might not have produced such impressive results. Within days of his publishing the video exposé, government agencies were cutting ties with the left-wing advocacy and community-organizing group, Congress was voting to end its federal funding, and news organizations were rushing to catch up with a sensational story they had initially resisted or ignored.”
No, the MSM is much more interested in 24/7 news coverage of a Colorado Hoax… Richard Heene has told reporters that a runaway balloon incident involving his son was “absolutely no hoax.”
I’ve had my own issues with poor journalism as a conservative activist. The one experience most documented on my blog was a rally held in 2007, when a couple members of our group were interviewed by a journalism student from CU, and he did not even mention we were there. I documented this experience in these videos:
My friend Dale and I were so concerned about the lack of judgement shown by this CU Intern that we held a bake sale for him to donate to the cause of helping him to be “honest” in his reporting. He declined our offer of $23.00 to help him, but I invested it in some Halliburton Stock in his name – no joke:) and certainly NOT a hoax.
I am still a fierce Constitutionalist and lover of freedom, but as a confirmed news junkie, my sources for information have gradually shifted from all of the top conservative writers and thinkers (whom I still read), to include daily visits to web sites that have been written by writers from all over the political spectrum.
My number one goal of the promotion of Homebirth has not changed, but has only grown more intense as the health care debate has played out this year. I believe Childbirth should be done in the home for the vast majority of Mothers on planet earth. 
