WAWA/WeAreWideAwake is my Public Service to America as a muckracker who has journeyed seven times to Israel Palestine since June 2005.
WAWA is dedicated to confronting media and governments that shield the whole
truth.
We who Are Wide
Awake are compelled by the "fierce urgency of Now" [Rev MLK, Jr.] to raise
awareness and promote the human dialogue about many of the crucial issues of our
day: the state of our Union and in protection of democracy, what life is like
under military occupation in Palestine, the Christian EXODUS from the Holy Land,
and spirituality-from a Theologically Liberated Christian Anarchist
POV.
"Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all...and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave...a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils." George Washington's Farewell Address - 1796
"My aim is to agitate & disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast." Unamuno
"Imagine All the People Sharing All the World." John Lennon
"If enough Christians followed the gospel, they could bring any state to its knees." Father Philip Francis Berrigan
"You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down." Tom Petty
"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution." Emma Goldman
"We have yet to begin to IMAGINE the power and potential of the Internet." Charlie Rose, 2005
Only in Solidarity do "We have it in our power to begin the world again" Tom Paine
"Never doubt that a few, thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"You shall know the truth and the truth will set you free." John 8:32
DO SOMETHING!
Photo of George shown here and in web site banner courtesy of Debbie Hill, 2000.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that, among these, are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; and, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. -July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence
September 15, 2009: Swines: The Flu and Other Kinds
The day after President Obama's health care speech, I was shopping in a Florida J.C. Penney's for an upcoming wedding in Memphis, when a woman began yelling, "Help! Help! Help! My baby!"
I was the only one who ran over to her and panicked myself when I viewed an unconscious toddler in her arms.
I felt for a pulse but could not feel one and the adrenaline that coursed through my body had me shaking like the proverbial leaf.
The child was burning up with fever and I thought, "O God, is it Swine Flu? What do I do?"
I yelled, "Someone call 911! We need an ambulance and cold water!"
The mother said, "He needs Tylenol" and then she began speaking Spanish and I noticed an elderly woman near by with a double stroller; one child still inside.
I yelled, "NO! Nothing by mouth, he is unconscious; he'll choke! We need water to cool him down! Where's the ambulance?"
I nearly cried I was so worried that he would quit breathing and I would have to do CPR; but I could not recall the number of chest compressions to breathes and I silently begged God, "Don't let this kid quit breathing! What if it's Swine Flu, I will get it too!"
Finally a bottle of water was handed to the mother and I told her, "Pour it on the back of his neck and head and chest!"
As soon as the bottle was emptied, he began to cry and I said, "Get him to the Emergency Room, he needs a Dr!"
The adrenaline burst had made me more hyper than I could ever recall being and I wondered WHY did I have to be on that scene! I felt incompetent and thanked God nothing more was required of me than I could deliver. I had not worked as a nurse in 15 years and never in pediatrics.
More Spanish speaking people had converged near by and assuming they were all family, I wondered if any had medical insurance in the USA as I departed for the rest room where I scrubbed my hands and arms for three minutes.
What follows was received from Dr. Gary Kohls with related links at the end.
Oct. 6, 2009 UPDATE: My husband is an Internist and informed me that two pregnant women died in a hospital in Florida from the flu. The current medical consensus is that at risk groups should be vaccinated and that includes the young and pregnant women.
Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter # 382 Vaccine May Be More Dangerous Than Swine Flu from Russell Blaylock, MD – www.russellblaylockmd.com
An outbreak of swine flu occurred in Mexico this spring that eventually affected 4,910 Mexican citizens and resulted in 85 deaths. By the time it spread to the United States, the virus caused only mild cases of flu-like illness.
Thanks to air travel and the failure of public health officials to control travel from Mexico, the virus spread worldwide. Despite predictions of massive numbers of deaths and the arrival of doomsday, the virus has remained a relatively mild disease, something we know happens each year with flu epidemics.
Worldwide, there have only been 311 deaths out of 70,893 cases of swine flu. In the United States, 27,717 cases have resulted in 127 deaths. Every death is a tragedy, but such a low death rate should not be the basis of a draconian government policy.
36,000 annual flu deaths statistic is a propaganda lie
It is helpful to recall that the Centers for Disease Control, with the collusion of the media, constantly tell us that 36,000 people die from the flu each year, a figure that has been shown to be a lie. In this case, we are talking about 300 plus deaths for the entire world.
This virus continues to be an enigma for virologists. In the April 30, 2009 issue of Nature, a virologist was quoted as saying, “Where the hell it got all these genes from we don’t know.” Extensive analysis of the virus found that it contained the original 1918 H1N1 flu virus, the avian flu virus (bird flu), and two new H3N2 virus genes from Eurasia. Debate continues over the possibility that swine flu is a genetically engineered virus.
Naturally, vaccine manufacturers have been in a competitive battle to produce the first vaccine. The main contenders have been Baxter Pharmaceuticals and Novartis Pharmaceuticals, the latter of which recently acquired the scandal-ridden Chiron vaccine company. Both of these companies have had agreements with the World Health Organization to produce a pandemic vaccine.
The Baxter vaccine, called Celvapan, has had fast track approval. It uses a new vero cell technology, which utilizes cultured cells from the African green monkey. This same animal tissue transmits a number of vaccine-contaminating viruses, including the HIV virus.
The Baxter company has been associated with two deadly scandals. The first event occurred in 2006 when hemophiliac components were contaminated with HIV virus and injected in tens of thousands of people, including thousands of children. Baxter continued to release the HIV contaminated vaccine even after the contamination was known.
Scandal-ridden Baxter released last year’s seasonal flu vaccine contaminated with bird flu virus – but is still in business!
The second event occurred recently when it was discovered that Baxter had released a seasonal flu vaccine containing the bird flu virus, which would have produced a real world pandemic, to 18 countries. Fortunately, astute lab workers in the Czech Republic discovered the deadly combination and blew the whistle before a worldwide disaster was unleashed.
Vaccine’s immune adjuvants can cause rheumatoid arthritis, MS and lupus
Despite these two deadly events, WHO maintains an agreement with Baxter Pharmaceuticals to produce the world’s pandemic vaccine. Novartis, the second contender, also has an agreement with WHO for a pandemic vaccine. Novartis appears to have won the contract, since their vaccine is near completion. What is terrifying is that these pandemic vaccines contain ingredients, called immune adjuvants that a number of studies have shown cause devastating autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and lupus.
Squalene adjuvant deadly in guinea pig lab
Animal studies using this adjuvant have found them to be deadly. A study using 14 guinea pigs found that when they were injected with the special adjuvant, only one animal survived. A repeat of the study found the same deadly outcome.
So, what is this deadly ingredient? It is called squalene, a type of oil. The Chiron company, maker of the deadly anthrax vaccine, makes an adjuvant called MF-59 which contains two main ingredients of concern—squalene and gp120. A number of studies have shown that squalene can trigger all of the above-mentioned autoimmune diseases when injected.
The MF-59 adjuvant has been used in several vaccines. These vaccines, including tetanus and diphtheria, are the same vaccines frequently associated with adverse reactions.
Corrupted research from Novartis and Chiron
I reviewed a number of studies on this adjuvant and found something quite interesting. Several studies done on human test subjects found MF-59 to be a very safe immune adjuvant. But when I checked to see who did these studies, I found—to no surprise—that they were done by the Novartis Pharmaceutical Company and Chiron Pharmaceutical Company, which have merged. They were all published in “prestigious” medical journals. Also, to no surprise, a great number of studies done by independent laboratories and research institutions all found a strong link between MF-59 and autoimmune diseases. Squalene in Anthrax vaccine linked to Gulf War Syndrome, autoimmune disorders, ALS, Polyarteritis nodosa, MS, Lupus, transverse myelitis, endocarditis, optic neuritis, glomerulonephritis Squalene in vaccines has been strongly linked to the Gulf War Syndrome. On August 1991, Anthony Principi, Secretary of Veterans Affairs admitted that soldiers vaccinated with the anthrax vaccine from 1990 to 1991 had an increased risk of 200 percent in developing the deadly disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig’s disease. The soldiers also suffered from a number of debilitating and life-shortening diseases, such as polyarteritis nodosa, multiple sclerosis (MS), lupus, transverse myelitis (a neurological disorder caused by inflammation of the spinal cord), endocarditis (inflammation of the heart’s inner lining), optic neuritis with blindness and glomerulonephritis (a type of kidney disease).
Hyperimmune response to vaccine adjuvants associated with brain/microglial inflammatory diseases including MS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and encephalitis
Because squalene, the main ingredient in MF-59, can induce hyperimmune responses and induce autoimmunity, a real danger exists for prolonged activation of the brain’s immune cells, the microglia. This type of prolonged activation has been strongly associated with such diseases as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS and possibly vaccine-related encephalitis. It has been shown that activation of the systemic immune system, as occurs with vaccination, rapidly activates the brain’s microglia at the same time, and this brain inflammation can persist for long periods. Drug companies only observe patients for 1 – 2 weeks following vaccinations!
So, how would the gp120 get into the brain? Studies of other immune adjuvants using careful tracer techniques have shown that they routinely enter the brain following vaccination. What most people do not know, even the doctors who recommend the vaccines, is that most such studies by pharmaceutical companies observe the patients for only one to two weeks following vaccination—these types of reactions may take months or even years to manifest.
It is obvious that the vaccine manufacturers stand to make billions of dollars in profits from this WHO/government-promoted pandemic. Novartis, the maker of the new pandemic vaccine, recently announced that they would not give free vaccines to impoverished nations—everybody pays.
One must keep in mind that once the vaccine is injected, there is little you can do to protect yourself—at least by conventional medicine. It will mean a lifetime of crippling illness and early death.
There are much safer ways to protect oneself from this flu virus, such as higher doses of vitamin D3, selective immune enhancement using supplements, and a good diet. Duty to Warn: The Connections between War and Pestilence:
A Challenge for America and the Christian Church
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
The biblical “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” (in Ezekiel, Jeremiah
and Revelations) have been characterized in various ways with various
symbolic meanings, none of them good for humanity. They represent 1)
militarism, false messiahs; 2) war, slaughter; 3) famine, hunger; and
4) pestilence and death. The examples in the history of the world
legitimizing the pertinence and importance of the mythology are too
numerous to count.
The initiating event, however, of most if not all of the tragic
pestilences in the history of the world, is the organized mass
slaughter called war.
The Valley of Dry Bones in the Hebrew scriptures was likely the end
result of a battle that resulted in the butchery of warring humans, but
it was also an area that was widely avoided by humanity because of the
fact that it took so many months, even years, for the wild dogs, the
buzzards, the rats and the maggots to eat all the flesh off the
stinking, disease-producing and water-contaminating corpses that had
been left to rot. Battle grounds were not pleasant places to be around
in ancient times.
The genocide ordered by the generals and carried out by reluctant but
obedient soldiers in places like Vietnam, Iraq, Kurdistan, Rwanda,
Fallujah and Darfur is not much different in modern times, except that
the killing by modern warriors is usually less psychologically
traumatizing than the hand-to-hand combat of the Trojan Wars, for
example, and the corpses are now often dealt with more efficiently,
with rapid burials (including mass burials), more efficient sanitizing
and embalming of the bodies, making infectious epidemics less likely to
result.
The infamous "Holy" War Christian Crusades (where the blood in the
streets of Jerusalem was said to be knee-deep in the First Crusade),
the Christian Inquisitions (with burnings at the stake for “heresy”),
the 16th century Protestant Reformation Wars and the retaliatory
Counter-Reformation Wars were inevitably followed by epidemics fostered
by mutilated and infection-prone bodies, malnutrition, bad water, poor
hygiene. Typhus, cholera and the infamous highly-lethal bubonic plague
(the Black Death) were just three examples of the pestilence that
follows war.
The world-wide influenza pandemic of 1918 started in over-crowded US
military boot camps, first spreading to the US civilian population and
then on to Europe when the troop ships carrying sickened US soldiers
went off to the battlefields of France.
Horrific war-related illnesses and epidemics followed the military
destruction of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Manchuria, Germany, Poland, Russia,
Korea, Vietnam, etc, etc.
But pestilences can be psychological as well.
For American soldiers, there were the widespread psychological damage
that unaware soldiers suffered during and following the American Civil
War, World Wars I & II, Korean War, Vietnam War and now Gulf Wars
I & II.
Figurative or literal “rape and pillage” and the guilt associated with
such killing, maiming or torture of civilians have been common in the
world’s wars of the latter half of the 20th century, and those
“legalized” (albeit officially overlooked and usually unpunished) war
crimes have frequently resulted in epidemics of psychological trauma
that usually haunt the soldier-perpetrators, the soldiers’ families
back home, their surviving victims in the war zone and the
bystander-witnesses of the gruesome violence for the rest of their
lives. That reality is known as combat-induced posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD).
War-makers from Alexander to Napoleon to Hitler to Westmoreland to
Schwartzkopf have used "rapid overwhelming force”(the “Blitzkrieg”
tactic of Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht [distressingly similar to what was
euphemistically called the “Powell doctrine” in Gulf War I]) to
demoralize the enemy, disproportionately traumatizing unarmed innocent
civilians on the other side of the battle lines.
Total war tactics include bombing, burning, the use of ionizing
radiation (Ex: atomic bombs or depleted uranium), napalming, chemical
warfare, starvation and the various modes of state-sponsored terrorism
such as torture, threatened executions, poisoning of water supplies,
and intentional destruction of civilian sewage treatment plants,
electrical plants, communication facilities, baby formula plants,
pharmaceutical factories, healthcare facilities, food distribution
facilities and agricultural industries. Then, after these standard
“softening up” tactics, comes the invasion and occupation during which
the occupying armies notoriously fail to adequately provide for their
victim’s most basic human needs.
By that time, the weakened, radiated, poisoned, malnourished, mentally
traumatized and de-spiritualized victims have become sitting ducks for
whatever opportunistic germs are growing in the open sewers and
contaminated wells – germs spread by the vermin and insects that thrive
on the corpses of the war-torn environment.
Alexander the “Great” and Frederick the “Great” (as have most of the
other so-called "Great" villains of military history such as General
Sherman of Civil War infamy) poisoned and burned the productive
farmland of their "enemies". Sherman’s scorched-earth march to the sea
was just another one of those “every weapon in our armamentarium is on
the table” strategies of the perpetrators of aggressive war, sometimes
euphemistically and metaphorically described as “drying up the ocean
where the so-called ‘bad guys’ are swimming”.
Invariably, despite the lip service most militaristic nations claim
about offering compassion for their war victims, adequate shelter,
nourishing food, potable water and health care are denied most war
victims until it is too late, thus increasing the risk of adverse
health outcomes and shortened survival both during the war and after.
Those of us who are still thinking critically about the world's descent
into militarism-induced chaos have to make the connections between war
and pestilence (including, as mentioned above, the psychological,
emotional and spiritual wounding of all participants, soldiers as well
as civilians). We must start to question - and then resist - the most
common initiating causes of such devastations – the willingness to kill
in order to achieve nationalistic or tribal goals.
Then we must identify those whose positions of power, job security or
wealth are connected, directly or indirectly, to the world’s biggest,
most bureaucratic and costliest business going – the Pentagon. And we
must recognize the unholy union, in the name of “national security”, of
the Pentagon and the war profiteers in the
military/industrial/congressional/media complex that profit so
handsomely from the organized mass slaughter called war, which, if one
thinks about it, only breeds more violence, more retaliation and more
insecurity.
Finally, we must also challenge those ethical entities in our society
(who may prefer to claim innocence in the war-making) whose job should
be to speak moral truths to those Principalities and Powers that foster
war and violence.
Such entities, especially for “Christian America”, include churches and
church leadership that theoretically profess allegiance to the gentle,
pacifist Jesus and his ethical teachings of nonviolent love but who,
tragically, seem to have lacked the theological understanding,
commitment or will to speak out prophetically and courageously against
the anti-Christic, homicidal, organized violence called war, which
inevitably condemns many of the church’s member-soldiers, their
member-families and their non-member families as well as the nation
itself.
Such moral institutions must start courageously assuming the leadership
in the war and violence resistance movements or else their institutions
and their communities, if not the entire planet, will be doomed to
suffer some unnamed and unanticipated pestilence yet to surface.
Dr. Kohls is a retired Duluth, MN physician, a peace and justice
advocate and a founding member of the international Christian
faith-based peace organization, Every Church A Peace Church
(www.ecapc.org). Dr. Kohls’ medical practice mainly dealt with the
myriad of so-called mental “illnesses” that were largely the
consequences of psychological, emotional, physical, sexual, and
spiritual trauma and/or abuse, brain malnutrition and/or the adverse
effects from the use of neurotoxic, psychotoxic, dependency-inducing
psychiatric drugs or the withdrawal symptoms resulting from their
discontinuance. Dr. Kohls feels that, as a physician, it is his duty to
warn others about these dangers and to alert them to the reality that
mental ill health often has understandable and therefore preventable
root causes (especially psychological trauma, combat-induced or
domestic) and can often be treated - and cured - without resorting to
the use of potentially harmful brain-altering drugs.
September 4, 2009: Doctors, Nurses and The
Great Physician
"HOPE has two children.The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine
"He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." - Aquinas
Everyone has the right to freedom of
opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions
without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
" In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."-Mother Teresa
“You cannot talk like sane men around a peace table while the atomic bomb itself is ticking beneath it. Do not treat the atomic bomb as a weapon of offense; do not treat it as an instrument of the police. Treat the bomb for what it is: the visible insanity of a civilization that has ceased...to obey the laws of life.”- Lewis Mumford, 1946
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership....a leadership of intellect, judgment, tolerance and rationality, a leadership committed to human values, to world peace, and to the improvement of the human condition. The attributes upon which we must draw are the human attributes of compassion and common sense, of intellect and creative imagination, and of empathy and understanding between cultures." - William Fulbright
“Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. MLK
Establishment of Israel
"On the day of the termination of the British mandate and on the strength of the United Nations General Assembly declare The State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel: it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion it will guarantee freedom of religion [and] conscience and will be faithful to the Charter of the United Nations." - May 14, 1948. The Declaration of the Establishment of Israel
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