Anthrax Disease

Archive for April, 2009

I have been working on a direct mail campaign for our team in many areas and we are finding that the yellow page listings and business list CDROMS contain so many closed companies that we are spending too much on the mailings, which are opened a little less because of the anthrax scare. Even customized lists are of little value. No one is keeping these lists fresh and deleting the ole data. Book of Lists are outdated as soon as they come out, CDROMS rip people off by disallowing lots of search downloads, yellow pages forget it. Phone numbers are wrong, addresses are Read the rest of this entry »

I have been working on a direct mail campaign for our team in many areas and we are finding that the yellow page listings and business list CDROMS contain so many closed companies that we are spending too much on the mailings which are opened a little less because of the anthrax scare. Even customized lists are of little value. No one is keeping these lists fresh and deleting the ole data. Book of Lists are outdated as soon as they come out, CDROMS rip people off by disallowing lots of search downloads, yellow pages forget it. Phone numbers are wrong, addresses are wrong as a matter of fact most business parks are 30% unoccupied, downtowns about 15% and Read the rest of this entry »

It appears the mini-blimp indoor theme and concept is making significant headway. We have seen them in the halls of Congress sniffing for anthrax. What else can we use them for? C-Stores can use Mini Blimps Advertising and Surveillance to prevent Shoplifting. These can be paid for by beer vendors, soda vendors as advertising signs, which float around the store like a pool sweeper around the family pool. It does not have to be a blimp shape, it could very well be any shape such as a giant banana or a football?

http://www.bizitairproducts.com/images/thu…mini/mini10.jpg

http://www.balloonstomorrow.com/special_shapes.htm

Costs paid can be fully paid by the vendors and advertisers. Mini camera equipment can be installed to prevent shoplifting. Perhaps even the new technology of video cell phone projectors can be incorporated where a commercial can be played on the glass of the refrigerator glass cabinets in the store for the purchaser, or perhaps a warning that they must have proper idea to buy anything in this section? These blimps can run on the power of small solar cells on the top of the blimp running from the lights like a solar powered calculator? Or, if that technology is unavailable or not sufficient enough a set of batteries, which are trickle charged off the solar cells, to keep the ion lithium batteries charged. Many universities have been doing maneuverability studies on mini blimps ever sense the Homeland Security made these things more viable with the trend towards indoor bio-safety sensors.

Maneuverability studies show these are very viable and with the nano robotics available the mini-blimp might drop suggestive coupons to the purchaser. Mini-blimps and payload dropping or coupon dropping is well within these devices capabilities.

“Lance Winslow” – If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs

It appears the mini-blimp indoor theme and concept is making significant headway. We have seen them in the halls of Congress sniffing for anthrax. What else can we use them for? C-Stores can use Mini Blimps Advertising and Surveillance to prevent Shoplifting. These can be paid for by beer vendors, soda vendors as advertising signs, which float around the store like a pool sweeper around the family pool. It does not have to be a blimp shape, it could very well be any shape such as a giant banana or a football?

http://www.bizitairproducts.com/images/thu…mini/mini10.jpg

http://www.balloonstomorrow.com/special_shapes.htm

Costs paid can be fully paid by the vendors and advertisers. Mini camera equipment can be installed to prevent shoplifting. Perhaps even the new technology of video cell phone projectors can be incorporated where a commercial can be played on the glass of the refrigerator glass cabinets in the store for the purchaser, or perhaps a warning that they must have proper idea to buy anything in this section? These blimps can run on the power of small solar cells on the top of the blimp running from the lights like a solar powered calculator? Or, if that technology is unavailable or not sufficient enough a set of batteries, which are trickle charged off the solar cells, to keep the ion lithium batteries charged. Many universities have been doing maneuverability studies on mini blimps ever sense the Homeland Security made these things more viable with the trend towards indoor bio-safety sensors.

Maneuverability studies show these are very viable and with the nano robotics available the mini-blimp might drop suggestive coupons to the purchaser. Mini-blimps and payload dropping or coupon dropping is well within these devices capabilities.

“Lance Winslow” – If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs

Employers forced out of offices by the Attack on America and employees fearful of future attacks of airplanes or anthrax are using technology to get the job done. Telecommuting, a trend of the past decade is enjoying a revival and presenting a new challenge for both employers and employees. Forced to develop specific guidelines for telecommuters, employers find themselves at a loss on how to manage the distance worker. Employees face the challenge of integrating their professional life into their personal space, often space previously used by family members. More challenging, perhaps, is that not every job, not every worker, is suited for working at home. So regardless of whether working at home is by choice or by necessity, possible negatives can be replaced by positives with good planning and follow-up.

While it may be realistic to be concerned about distractions home-based workers face we often overlook the continual distractions from chatty colleagues, time spent looking for misplaced information, and meetings that don’t produce results, that office workers face. Being at home may mean an employee moves laundry from the washer to the dryer while waiting for a document to download, but it can also mean grabbing a cup of yogurt from the fridge instead of taking 40 minutes to go to the café next door.

If you are the employer, consider these tips for making a smoother transition from employees in your building to productive members of your team outside of the company zip code:

Create guidelines and appropriate budgets for employees to help them set up their home office with appropriate equipment and supplies.

Provide training on how to use technology more effectively to increase communication and manage information. Ensure employee competency in electronic back-ups when necessary.

While working from home has some distinct advantages, lack of face-to-face contact can also be lonely and frustrating. Provide forums for required interaction to keep employees in touch.

Be clear about what behavior is acceptable and what is not. For example, letting a child answer the phone may not be, while taking 20 minutes to run to school to pick up a child may be, provided you put in the extra time in the evening.

Establish Telecommuting policy guidelines such as a requirement for full-time childcare in the home of the telecommuter.

Finally, if you are concerned about Anthrax scares, provide employees guidelines for opening packages if they are receiving mail at home, Consider having employees come to the office to get mail on a regular basis.

If you are the employee:

If possible, separate your workplace from your normal living space. It will be easier to focus on work, and you can physically leave your work at the end of the workday.

Talk with your family/housemates about their concerns about your home office. Review the situation periodically to see what’s working and what’s not.

Create a separate filing system for your professional life. If you don’t have a file cabinet, use portable file boxes to organize all your physical papers. Create a file index (www.thepapertiger.com) so you can find what you need quickly.

Learn all the features of your e-mail system. It will improve your ability to communicate, increase your productivity and impress your colleagues.

Develop specific ways to keep in touch with colleagues, based on their situation. While e-mail may be perfect in some situations, having lunch once a week may be more appropriate and productive.

Go to the office at least once a week to attend some meetings in person.

If you are the supervisor – have the staff make “field trips” to your house for meetings and strategizing.

Employees, who have the option to telecommute, and feel safer as a result, will produce better work and provide more value for the company. While working from home requires discipline, planning, and commitment, it can be very rewarding for employers and employees. The key to success is regular communication among family members, colleagues, and supervisors. If you want to know how the arrangement is working, ask!

© Barbara Hemphill is the author of Kiplinger’s Taming the Paper Tiger at Work and Taming the Paper Tiger at Home and co-author of Love It or Lose It: Living Clutter-Free Forever. The mission of Hemphill Productivity Institute is to help individuals and organizations create and sustain a productive environment so they can accomplish their work and enjoy their lives. We do this by organizing space, information, and time. We can be reached at 800-427-0237 or at www.ProductiveEnvironment.com

To download PHR’s Health in Ruins: A Man-Made Disaster in Zimbabwe (PDF)

Full report: http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2009-01-13.html

Summary: http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/documents/reports/2009-zimbabwe-health-report-summary.pdf

PHR released a short online video entitled ‘La Fleuve du Mal’ which is available at YouTube.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaXowzh-XCM

PHR’s photographs are also available on Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/physiciansforhumanrights/sets/72157612319502589/

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) mobilises the health professions to advance the health and dignity of all people by protecting human rights. In a report, Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of US Torture and Its Impact, released in June 2008, PHR documented the severe physical and psychological pain and long-term disability that has resulted from abusive and unlawful US interrogation practices in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay. The use of the word Genocide with regard to the atrocities committed in Darfur was first used by PHR in a report released in 2006. PHR shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.

For further information please visit www.physiciansforhumanrights.org or contact Jonathan Hutson at jhutson at phrusa dot org or on his mobile +1 857 919 5130 (roaming).

Johannesburg, South Africa (Vocus) January 13, 2009 — Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has published a report showing how the cholera epidemic which ravages Zimbabwe is but one symptom of an utter collapse of the country’s health system, and documenting how the Mugabe regime’s human rights violations contributed to this man-made disaster.

“The report released today by Physicians for Human Rights further documents that the people of Zimbabwe are being denied the most basic of life’s necessities – access to healthcare, food, clean water, even life itself,” said Archbishop Desmond Tutu in a statement endorsing the report. “The world must take action against the Mugabe regime for these crimes against humanity.”

“Mugabe’s regime has violated international human rights and abrogated the most basic state function in protecting its people’s health,” said Frank Donaghue, CEO of Physicians for Human Rights and contributor to the report.

The preface to the report, co-authored by Justice Richard J. Goldstone, Mary Robinson and Archbishop Desmond Tutu questions: “What happens when a government presides over the dramatic reversal of its population’s access to food, clean water, basic sanitation, and healthcare? When government policies lead directly to the shuttering of hospitals and clinics, the closing of its medical school, and the beatings of health workers, are we to consider the attendant deaths and injuries as any different from those resulting from a massacre of similar proportions?”

Goldstone is former Chief Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and a current PHR Board Member. Robinson is a former president of Ireland and is chair of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative. She also served the United Nations as a High Commissioner for Human Rights. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is Anglican Archbishop Emeritus of Capetown and Chair, The Elders.

When BioPort Corporation was formed in 1998, the price of the anthrax vaccine rose from $3.00 a shot to $10.64 a shot. Currently, BioThrax™ is available in the United States for $25.00 a shot.

In February 2009, BioThrax™ was approved and licensed for distribution to humans by the Drugs Control General Inspector of India (DCGI) to support India’s Emergency Response Preparations. Even though annual anthrax outbreaks regularly infect humans in India, unfortunately BioThrax™ is designed as a specific response to anthrax strains derived from the virulent Ames-strain, originally isolated in the United States. It has not been proven to be effective against many naturally occurring anthrax strains.

Vaccines created from killed anthrax cultures, which contain a significant fraction of B. anthracis capsid protein, have proven to be effective against a wide-range of anthrax strains. Killed anthrax vaccines are typically given to farm animals around the world. They are made using a process that was originally developed by Louis Pasteur. Unfortunately, killed anthrax vaccines have the potential of infecting the receiving animal with dormant anthrax spores, leading to anthrax disease. Only Russia maintains an inventory of killed anthrax vaccine that has been prepared for human use.

Emergent BioSolutions also produces Anthrax IG Therapeutic (http://www.emergentbiosolutions.com/AIG/), which gives patients harvested IgG from blood plasma donations by US military personnel who have received the anthrax vaccine. This product has not been approved by the FDA, and is considered an experimental therapy that is only available to the US military.

Under Executive Order 13139 signed by President Bill Clinton in 1997, any preventive medical therapies, FDA approved or experimental, will be administered to all military personnel, active and reserved, as required by the U.S. Secretary of Defense, without requiring their informed consent.

Also, under Executive Order 13139, the United States government has immunized the manufacturers of medical therapies from all liabilities due to injury and damages from the anthrax vaccine. The US government is responsible for all liabilities. By not recognizing the anthrax vaccine as causative of harm to military personnel, government employees, and their children, the US government has not paid any damages to date even under the US Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP).

In the United Kingdom, since the late 1990s, the Royal armed services are required to provide soldiers with an opportunity to provide informed consent before receiving the anthrax vaccine. Since the 1990s, a majority of the members of the Royal armed services have declined the anthrax vaccine. Over 5,000 former members of the Royal armed services are officially Registered Disabled in the United Kingdom with the wide-variety of symptoms associated with Gulf War Syndrome, but are still unable to receive proper compensation from their veteran services.

“A CALL TO ARMS 2009 EDITION” (2009) includes footage previously released by Scott Miller and Company as:

“RAVEN WARRIOR” (2000) – a dramatic short film;

“DIRECT ORDER” (http://www.directorder.org) (2003) – a documentary feature film;

“A CALL TO ARMS” (2007) – which won the Humanitarian Award presented by Prince Albert at the Monaco Charity Film Festival in May 2008.

An Apple Quicktime ™Trailer is located at: “A CALL TO ARMS 2009 EDITION” movie trailer (http://www.acalltoarmsmovie.com/trailer/medium)

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Further evidence of the production of Furin-sequestering IgG includes the unexpected number of children born with severe birth defects to women veterans after receiving the anthrax vaccine in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. IgG can cross the feto-placental barrier and will impart a mother’s immune defense on her unborn children. When Furin-sequestering IgG crosses into the blood stream of unborn children, it will prevent the activation of nerve growth factor and transforming growth factor beta-1, causing children to be born with either, or both, severe physical deformities and mental disabilities.

The approved US FDA label for BioThrax™ does not approve giving the anthrax vaccine to pregnant women, children, and geriatric populations.

A key symptom of Gulf War Syndrome is chronic to severe depression leading to suicidal tendencies. It is important to note that the lead anthrax vaccine researcher and prime suspect in the FBI’s 2001 Anthrax Letters Case, Dr. Bruce Ivins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Ivins), of USAMRIID, Ft. Detrick, Maryland, was being treated for chronic depression and incipient schizophrenia when he committed suicide in July of 2008. Dr. Ivins was required by USAMRIID to receive the anthrax vaccine for over 30 years.

It is also important to note that the reported domestic violence and suicide rate for active and reserve military since 1997 has increased significantly across all U.S. military services, especially during and after military tours in Afghanistan and Iraq where the anthrax vaccine is mandatory before deployment.

It is understood that Gulf War Syndrome symptoms can be ameliorated by immune suppressant drugs for short periods of time. In severe cases, to prevent further tissue damage due to production of Furin-sequestering IgG, it is necessary to use chemotherapy and radiation therapy to destroy a patient’s crippled immune system – and then rely on bone marrow stem cell transplants to create a “clean” immune system.

The major manufacturer of the U.S. anthrax vaccine program is Emergent BioDefense of Lansing, Michigan, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. (http://www.emergentbiosolutions.com/) (NYSE:EBS) of Rockville, Maryland. The anthrax vaccine is sold and distributed under the Emergent Biosolutions trademark BioThrax™. Formerly operated for the U.S. Army by the Michigan Department of Public Health, Emergent BioDefense was created in 2004 from BioPort Corporation, so named by the leveraged buy-out in 1998 created by Fuad El-Hibri, who also held a controlling interest in the United Kingdom’s Porton International Group, Ltd., the privatized anthrax vaccine distributor for the U.K. Health Protection Agency (HPA) (http://www.hpa.org.uk/).

It also features interviews with Executive Order 13139 dissenters Capt. Jon Buck, MD., US Air Force; then Maj. Tom Rempfer, Arizona Air National Guard; Major Russ Dingle, Connecticut Air National Guard; 1st Lt. Jamie Martin, US Marine Corps; and Maj. Sonnie Bates, US Air Force.

It also includes expert interviews with Prof. Emeritus Malcolm Hooper, University of Sunderland, U.K., and Chief Medical Spokesperson for the Royal Gulf War Veterans Association; Dr. Ken Alibek (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1985907/), CEO, AFG Biosolutions, former head of the Soviet Union’s Bioapparat; Col. “Sammy” Young, former Chief Inspector for the U.S. FDA; and Attorney Len Schroeter.

Because of the 2005 Bio Shield Act signed by Pres. George W. Bush, the United States has acquired a 60 million dose inventory of the anthrax vaccine in the Strategic National Stockpile, worth over $1.5 billion dollars. Because a dose of anthrax vaccine expires every 2-years, the United States government has to dispose of over $100 million in expired anthrax vaccine every year.

The U.S. Strategic National Stockpile is meant to provide a vaccine supply for domestic US first responders in the event of a national emergency. First responders include the National Guard, firemen, police, doctors, nurses, and all civilian emergency management personnel. The problem with the anthrax vaccine is that it requires a minimum of 18 months to develop useful immunity to anthrax skin disease, so a national emergency was declared in October 2008 to encourage voluntary anthrax vaccinations by US civilians.

Because the anthrax vaccine contains the aluminum hydroxide adjuvant, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 contains an additional $1 billion dollars, part of which is earmarked to develop a new anthrax vaccine formulation and replace the current vaccine inventory, since the aluminum hydroxide adjuvant can cause nerve cell death.

The fact that the time-limited immunity provided by the anthrax vaccine requires a start-up five injection series over 18-months, and then an annual booster shot, is considered to be proof that the anthrax vaccine will interfere with the human body’s ability to maintain immune system cell lines: in particular, memory B-cells which create antibodies in bone marrow; memory T-cells which can quickly produce a massive macrophage response, when you are re-infected; and regulator T-cells, which prevent auto-immune diseases by destroying anti-nuclear antibodies.

US military reservists, who leave active service for over one-year, are required to complete the entire anthrax vaccine start-up sequence if they are recalled to active duty.

It is important to note that the anthrax vaccine has never been approved for the prevention of human inhalation anthrax disease. The FDA has approved the anthrax vaccine as “safe” for production and distribution in 2005 and 2008, but has not approved the anthrax vaccine as a prevention to inhalation anthrax disease. There is no proof that persons exposed to aerosolized anthrax spores will be better protected by the anthrax vaccine, than by the immediate diagnosis and treatment with the generic methacillin antibiotic, doxycycline.

When animals vaccinated with the anthrax vaccine were challenged by aerosolized anthrax, 75% of the test animals died. Surviving animals showed evidence of permanent lung, liver, and lymphatic injury on autopsy.

It is important to note that the multi-symptom Gulf War Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_war_syndrome) is understood to be caused by the adverse interaction of the anthrax vaccine and the human immune system. One in three US veterans, who have received the anthrax vaccine since 1991 at US military bases around the world, have reported symptoms which are linked to the Gulf War Syndrome. The most often cited symptoms are chronic to severe depression and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Often these symptoms are associated with a wide variety of auto-immune diseases such as muscular sclerosis (MS), Lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, scleroderma, Sjøgren’s syndrome, etc. Because of the wide-variety of symptoms reported, it had been assumed by medical professionals that multiple causes were required to explain Gulf War Syndrome.

In October of 2008, one study proposed that Gulf War Syndrome be limited to neuropathology symptoms that could be explained by exposure to VX and Sarin nerve gas weapons and anti-nerve-gas drugs given to veterans, who were exposed in 1991 to the down-wind fallout from the destruction of Iraq’s weapons depot at Khamisiyah during Operation Desert Storm.

It is now understood that the symptoms are due to systemic tissue damage due to the sequestering of the FURIN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furin) activator protein by the immunoglobulin gamma (IgG) antibody, which can be created as an immune response to exposure to the anthrax vaccine’s primary ingredient, the Anthrax Protective Antigen.

Without Furin, the following essential chemicals will not activate in the human body: beta-secretase which supports gonadotropin production for sex organs; anti-inflammatory transforming growth factor beta-1 which supports connective tissues such as joints and tendons; von Willebrand’s factor which supports skin tissue; para-thyroid hormone which maintains general body metabolism; and nerve growth factor which supports the central and peripheral nervous systems.

Palm Springs, CA (PRWEB) March 18, 2009 — “A CALL TO ARMS 2009 EDITION” (http://www.acalltoarmsmovie.com) is a new documentary film directed by Scott W. Miller (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589298/), which traces the controversial Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program (AVIP (http://www.avip.osd.mil)) in the United States and the United Kingdom. Through the personal invitation of Rick and Rozene Supple, owners of the Camelot Theaters (http://www.camelottheaters.com), 2300 Baristo Rd., Palm Springs, CA, the documentary feature had its world premiere on March 13th, 2009, to an audience of concerned citizens, which included Louise Rempfer, the wife of Lt. Col. Thomas Rempfer, US Air Force, who is the lead plaintiff in the eleven year-old class-action lawsuit pending against the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for recovery of damages caused by the illegal US anthrax vaccine program. The film will play through Wednesday, March 18th.

The eighty-five minute documentary opens with the re-enactment of the 1999 court-martial of Lance Corporal Jared Schwartz of the U.S. Marine Corps at Twentynine Palms, California, played by actor Richard Otto. Corporal Schwartz was the first person court-martialed for refusing the anthrax vaccine under Executive Order 13139, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.

Featuring the voices of actors Michael Douglas and Linda Hamilton, director Scott W. Miller, and producer Melissa Mosich Miller, the 2009 Edition provides a timely update to “A CALL TO ARMS” (2007) to bring attention to the newly understood link between Gulf War Syndrome and the anthrax vaccine, when the immune system creates Furin-sequestering immunoglobulin gamma (IgG) antibodies in response to the BioThrax™ (http://www.emergentbiosolutions.com/Biothrax/) anthrax vaccine.

The new edition features anthrax vaccine victim interviews with Tech. Sgt. E6, Earl Stauffer, US Air Force Reserve; Chief Warrant Officer Second-Class, Rhonda Lynn-Wilson, US Army; Lt. Col. Rich Rovet, RN, US Army; Lt. Col. Jay Lacklen, US Air Force; Col. Derek Hall, MD., Royal Army Medical Corps; Private Robert Bowles, 1st Staffers, Royal Army; and Tech. Sgt. Jeff Moore, US Air Force.