Dr. Mercola July 24 2007 52,908 views
Despite a 2004 campaign promise to the contrary, President Bush continues to allow the mercury-containing vaccine preservative thimerosal to be added to childhood flu vaccines.Thousands of parents believe the preservative has caused mercury poisoning and autism in their children. Still, President Bush plans to veto the HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill, which includes a measure to ban childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, because of the cost and “objectionable provisions.”As it stands, flu vaccines which contain thimerosal, are recommended for all pregnant women, infants and children, even though the Institute of Medicine recommended in 2001 that these population groups not be exposed to thimerosal-containing vaccines. One in every six women of childbearing age has enough mercury in their bloodstream to cause neurological damage to their unborn children, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Max Health July 20 2007
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Public Health Service requested that all mercury-containing thimerosal be removed from vaccines all the way back in 1999.Now, nearly a decade later, mercury is not only still a part of flu vaccines, but health officials are recommending them to the very population that mercury stands to harm the most: babies, children and pregnant women.Children’s developing systems often cannot tolerate the assault from a potent neurotoxin like mercury, and there are many who believe mercury-containing vaccines have fueled the autism epidemic in America.Aside from autism, mercury exposure has been liked to an alarming array of chronic health issues, including:
As far as breastfeeding and mercury go, mercury toxicity in the mom can be passed to the child - another serious problem. Heavy metals are not just in our children's environments, but actually in their family member's bodies, including their naturally birthing and breastfeeding moms. Spend some time talking to families with children with autism, and you will find this to be a serious concern and believed danger. Though most will still breastfeed because the option is pure poison.
That reply landed in the wrong spot somehow - sorry. It was in response to JulejuleLMTs post.
Sorry to read that story Rogway. Good question too about "if all parents knew... would they even try to change it" - I too have my doubts about that. I feel the both the entrenched (and carefully engineered) fear of illness AND fear of opposing those who have the cultural power to scream 'negligent parent' would be just too much for many. Even if they knew of the dangers.
I wonder what would happen if ALL parents insisted the needle-wielding vaccinator demonstrated just how safe and effective vaccines were by injecting themselves with exactly the same amount of vaccine PER KG BODY WEIGHT deemed appropriate for a child. It would be real interesting to have some candid cameras there to record reactions... to record the dodging, bluffing and blustering that would most surely occur.
Can you imagine the outcome though if even just a few thousand parents insisted on medical professionals injecting themselves first before they were allowed inject someone's child?!
And I wonder if that kind of revolution would make it to the public via global media outlets / channels so everyone world-wide learned to insist on this 'inject yourself first' behaviour from the pawns at the forefront of the vaccine game?
... or have my own childhood vaccines impaired my perception of reality...?
I appreciate Mercola.com because it encourages personal resposibility for and critical thinking about one's health. However, I am concerned about the lack of critical thinking present in the discussion of Bush's planned veto of a bill that would ban thimerosal in vaccines.
The bill is an appropriations bill and has nothing to do with vaccines. These kinds of bills are meant to fund a myriad of government programs. Many different amendments are tacked on to bills like these that have little to do with the main purpose of the bill. This is not a "mercury-vaccine-banning" bill, although an amendment to do just that has been tacked on to this bill.
Bush is planning to veto the bill for political reasons. He has stated that the bill is too expensive and would require tax increases to fund. He is trying to send a message to the Democrats that he is against higher government spending. (see www.govexec.com/.../072007cdam1.htm)
Also included in this bill is funding for health care services for the uninsured, adoption counseling for crisis pregnancies, abstinence education, domestic violence prevention, No Child Left Behind educational programs, and Pell grants among many other programs. No one is writing crazy articles claiming that Bush is going to veto this bill because it funds No Child Left Behind (a program he started!) or programs to decrease domestic violence. We're not seeing "Bush Supports Domestic Violence!" headlines. Because that would be ridiculous.
This veto is about Bush sending a message to the Democrats to reign in government spending (although in reality I've been disappointed with Bush's spending record and wish he would be more fiscally responsible). It has nothing to do with vetoing a ban of thimerosal. That portion of the bill will just be an unfortunate casualty in the political war in Washington over spending public funds.
SHIVA may be correct at least to some extent in his general comments, particularly as to the CiC's credibility, but this is not the Thimerosl Ban Bill. That ban is one teeny-tiny casualty in the ongoing War On Citizens being waged by the merely Far Left Republicrats*** and the Extreme Left Democlicans*** against the American public & republic.
I'm not the only one pointing that out here. What's changed is we now have the neocrats running the Congress in addition to the neocons running the Administration. The weirdness level has been ratcheted up significantly, the nonsense level is off the charts entirely, and it's only going to get worse. And we did it to ourselves by electing these whack-jobs that also lied through their teeth during their campaigns. This happens because too many people react (vote, in this instance) emotionally instead of using the brains they were born with, or at least what's left of them after Big Business & Big Pharma get their shots in (pun intended).
***Back in 2000[?] Mort Sahl remarked that "there doesn't seem to be much difference between the two major political parties in this country anymore." So I spoke to him, to tell him there was: "The Republicrats are GENERALLY faithful to their wives, and the Democlicans think that's absolutely hilarious." I forgot to tell him the other difference: the Republicrats come from Business, to visit in Government, in order to improve Business; but the Democlicans have no business in government whatsoever.
What is happening here is that Congress has added this issue to a bill they know Bush will Veto. This way they can be seen to vote for removal of the Thimerosal while blaming Bush for allowing it to continue. If Congress truly wanted to ban the addtive, they would make it a separate bill or add it to a sure-bet presidential approval such as funding for the military. This is another way to support the proliferation of Autism and other neurological disorders; one more instance where Congress as a group is supporting their most important contributors - the drug cartel. This is yet another government-sponsored program to ensure our ill-health-care system does not run out of chronically-ill subjects.
In the late '80's China ran the largest double-blind study on Thimerosal in child vaccines by starting to innoculate their children with these "wonderful" drugs from the USA. The caregivers and recipients had no idea what was being injected into them, hence double-blind. Before this program began, only one case in a population of nearly 1 billion people was autistic. Less than 5 years later, 1.8 million children were autistic. What a coincidence.
This issue is far greater than the war in Iraq, but where is our press coverage? Why aren't our Pulitzer-prize-winning journalists researching this subject and making front page headlines? Instead, our TV journalist parade forward their MD-educated quacks who "innocently" claim that we do not know what causes autism. They spout their drivel and consider that the issue has been adequately covered. Meanwhile, our unsuspecting parents are dutifully allowing their children to be injected with mercury starting age 1.5 days. Much of the problem would go away if they would wait until the child is 4 or 5 years old to receive their mercury shots. Better yet, they could take the time to make sure that the vaccine being given does not contain Thimerosal. This would likely be the single-dose vials that contain Aluminum.
If this was just a bill to ban thimerosal. It wouldn't be vetoed. Unfortunately it gets slipped within a bill with a whole lot of pork which would be foolish to approve. What happens then is that the claims go out like Bush for mercury in vaccines or congressman Jones approves of starving children, of Senator Smith in favor of kids smoking. Typical Washington doublespeak and both parties do it. Don't fall for the headlines or spin. Get your congessman to sponsor a bill banning thimerosal alone and not part of a bloated spending plan and see what happens then.
SEE...!?!? PAT23 gets it!!! That wasn't so hard, now, was it...!?