The CDC says people should keep taking this vaccine. It’s actually killed quite a few and made many, many ill, but please, continue to allow yourself to be injected with their crap. The CDC is the same group that applied major governmental mathematics to take 21 illnesses from raw milk and turn it into 20,000 illnesses. More on that later…Here’s an article regarding the recall. Please note they are admitting to it having glass particles in the vaccine, amongst the other goodies.

Merck issues voluntary recall of 743,360 vials of Gardasil HPV vaccine

Merck is issuing a voluntary recall of one lot of Gardasil vaccines due to the risk that some vials of the vaccine may contain glass particles, according to a statement released today by the pharmaceutical company.

The company estimates that only 10 of the 743,360 vials in the lot may have been affected by the incident, which was the result of a breakdown in production.  A medical assessment conducted by Merck concluded that if a patient were to receive one of the contaminated vaccines, they had a “remote risk” of experiencing a reaction at the injection site.

This lot of vaccines was distributed between August 20, 2013 and October 9, 2013. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that it purchased 350,000 doses of Gardasil from this lot for their own vaccination programs.

“Vaccines from the affected lot were distributed between August 20, 2013, and October 9, 2013. No other lots are affected,” the agency said in a statement released Friday. “People who have recently received an HPV vaccine or their parents do not need to take any action as a result of this recall.  If a vaccine containing glass particles (tiny enough to get through a needle) is given to a patient, mild reactions routinely seen after vaccination may occur (for instance, redness or swelling at the injection site).”

So far, no injuries have been reported related to the contaminated vaccines, according to the CDC. People who received a vaccine from the contaminated lot do not need to be revaccinated, and the sterility of the vaccine was not affected, according to Merck.

Merck said it is in the process of contacting customers who purchased vaccines from this lot, # J007354, which was distributed in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Gardasil protects against certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer in women. The CDC added that it continues to recommend that all preteen girls and boys receive three doses of the vaccine at age 11 or 12 years old.

I have a confession to make. A rather horrifying one, but nonetheless, in some way I hope you find it amusing and that it helps you avoid the same mistake.

A few weeks ago, my 9 year old was begging for a Happy Meal in hopes of getting a toy she really wanted. It was almost 2:30 and we hadn’t eaten any lunch yet and I caved. We pulled into the McDonald’s here in our small town and went on in.

Yummy?

I was looking at the menu and they had a picture of a mushroom burger that looked rather appetizing to me at the moment. However, I didn’t want to spend that much on something that would be disappointing, so I went with the dollar menu and ordered a “cheeseburger”. I think it may have been the double one, but whatever it was, it wasn’t food.

We got our order and sat down and prayed. We do that over all food, but this wasn’t food. It was more like praying to not get sick from eating the JC Penney catalog.

I opened up the burger and thought to myself, “Crud, I forgot to tell them no yellow mustard”. With a sigh, I took a bite. Unbelievable!

The “burger” tasted like shredded cardboard that had been mixed with half a beef bouillon cube and formed into a pancake of sorts before being put into the microwave. The cheese tasted like yellow half melted plastic and the bread for the bun was the grand finale of the experience. That wrapped up the entire taste extravaganza as a pile of wet paper towel slathered with a lot of ketchup and mustard to try to cover up the recycled paper product affect of the entire package.

I looked at my daughter and said, “Honey, this isn’t food.” She looked up from her Happy Meal and said, “Well, I like the fries, but other than that, not so much.”

We wrapped the recycled paper products up in the paper they came in and threw them into the trash as we left. And my daughter didn’t even get the toy she was hoping for. It might beat a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but not by much.

This is the latest of the Snowden releases. While I am not against national security, America is flatly out of control on a global level. The citizens of the nation have allowed the government to hamstring us into being unable to produce without permission, threatening our physical security by being unable to feed and clothe ourselves due to policy; and US foreign policy for decades has been most similar to a rampaging bull on a rape spree. “We’re big, clumsy, and doing what we want because we can!” The US makes lots of friends that way, right?

Let’s sit back and watch to see if all the nations threatened by this cyber sleeper form of warfare by the NSA are going to be easily appeased by the Obama Administration. Here’s the article:

NSA Has 50,000 ‘Digital Sleeper Agents’ Via Computer Malware, Says Latest Snowden Leak

Sleeper agents are among the most sinister spy assets: they lie in wait, wolves in sheep’s clothing, and then deliver a critical blow when activated. The NSA has 50,000 of those waiting for the literal push of a button, according to the latest batch of leaked Snowden documents, as seen by Dutch daily evening newspaper NRC. But these aren’t people, like Keri Russel and Matthew Rhys in The Americans – these are computers, infected with malware and untroubled by conscience or the risk of going native.

The NSA reportedly infected 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software with the sole aim of harvesting sensitive information it wasn’t privy to, which is basically what you’d call textbook spy work in the digital age, from an agency tasked with spying. That’s not to excuse or dismiss the significance of this revelation, but we’ve heard from the Washington Post previously that the NSA was working on this sort of thing and that at least 20,000 computers had been infected by the program as of 2008. So to hear from Snowden documents via the NRC that it’s now climbed to 50,000 is hardly surprising.

New details brought to light indicate that operations from its so-called “Computer Networks Exploitation” program are active around the world, and can remain active for many years without being detected in some parts of the world like Venezuela and Brazil. All the malware can we watched and controlled remotely, and turned on and off “with a single push of a button.” A New York Times report published yesterday also asserts that the NSA has been pushing to stretch its surveillance powers even further, with the aim of catching up to the spread and reach of digital technology and online communications.

The truly amazing thing about this is just how pedestrian the NSA’s efforts are – according to NRC, they’re essentially running the same kind of phishing scams with false email requests that you’ll see from any other purveyor of malicious software. As an example, NRC points to how the British GCHQ used false LinkedIn pages to lure and infect Belgacom network employees. Just one more good reason to never click on anything sent from anyone ever.

The ongoing NSA debacle is like a Breugel painting, with more and more detail emerging every time you look at it anew. Yahoo and Google’s networks were apparently compromised in a similar fashion, documents revealed in late October, and with up to 200,000 documents in total potentially taken by Snowden and shared with reporters, it’s unlikely we’re anywhere near seeing the whole picture at this point.

The NSA declined to comment on this story or the original report.

This is rather interesting news. A producer suing, and I am soooo hoping she wins, for the right to talk about her raw milk production. I will keep up on this case. Wouldn’t it be great if we were actually free here? Wow. That would be something.

Raw milk producer sues Oregon Department of Agriculture over advertising ban

An Oregon farmer filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Agriculture on Tuesday in a bid to overturn the state’s decades-old ban on the advertising of raw milk.

Christine Anderson, owner of Cast Iron Farm in McMinnville, filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Portland, asking for a judgment that declares the ban a violation of free speech rights.

Oregon law forbids retail raw milk sales but allows farmers with a limited number of animals to sell unpasteurized milk directly to customers on-site. But the law bans any advertising, including website postings, fliers and emails.

Anderson says that ban infringes on her business.

“Raw milk is legal to sell but you can’t talk about it,” she said. “I work really hard, and I do a good job as a producer. I want to be able to talk about it. I would like to go about my small farm business without a lot of fear that what I’m doing can be construed as breaking the law.”

Katy Coba, director of the Department of Agriculture, is named in the suit as the sole defendant. She declined to comment.

Bruce Pokarney, the department’s spokesman, said agriculture officials did not enact the law but are responsible for enforcing it.

But he said raw milk is not a department priority.

“We haven’t gone out and looked for anybody who’s advertising raw milk,” Pokarney said. “But if we become aware of it … we’ll respond to somebody’s complaint.”

A complaint is exactly what led to the lawsuit, Anderson said. In August 2012, an Oregon Department of Agriculture inspector visited her farm over a complaint about a raw milk price list on her website. The inspector told Anderson that constituted advertising, which is banned under the law.

Anderson took it down. She later received a cease and desist order from the department, she said, telling her to stop selling raw milk cheese. Anderson said she doesn’t make cheese so that didn’t pose a problem for her. But she said the advertising ban means that she can’t put a sign in front of her property, indicating it’s a raw milk dairy, post fliers at local health food stores or promote her business at local fairs.

She said the ban hampers sales of the milk, which she sells for $14 a gallon.

The suit is backed by the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm headquartered in Virginia. The group also filed two other lawsuits on Tuesday, one over Florida’s ban on front yard vegetable gardens and another against Minnesota’s restrictions on small food producers, as part of a nationwide “food freedom initiative.”

Anderson is not trying to change the ban on retail raw milk sales in Oregon, enacted in 1999. Before that raw milk dairies were inspected by the Department of Agriculture. But Oregon law has long required small producers to only sell on-site while barring them from advertising, agriculture officials said.

The exemption allows small producers such as Anderson to have up to three cows, nine sheep and nine goats and sell raw milk on the farm. For decades, the law has banned small farms from advertising, agriculture officials said.

Under the law, a farmer who violates the ban is subject to a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail, $6,250 in fines and civil penalties up to $10,000, the lawsuit says.

The law aim to limit access to raw milk, widely considered by health officials to be a high-risk product.

In April 2012, nearly 20 people were sickened by unpasteurized milk produced at Foundation Farm near Wilsonville. Oregon Public Health officials confirmed that the milk was contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, a potentially deadly strain. Four children were hospitalized in the outbreak, including three children who were put on kidney support.

That outbreak was the sixth in Oregon traced to raw milk since 1996, said Jonathan Modie, spokesman for the Oregon Public Health Division. No one has died.

Anderson, who tests her cow’s milk monthly for harmful bacteria, acknowledged the health risks.

“Raw milk does contain the ability to make somebody sick,” she said. “I don’t want to debate the safety of it.”

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The strikes me as very wrong headed. I am not for the ivory trade at all, but to me, destroying this ivory is like adding insult to injury. These animals were killed for the very thing that is going to be destroyed, and destroying it will likely only bring up the black market price of the raw product over all. So why not do something positive like spread them out amongst colleges for displays on the subject? Heck, why not admit that the reason we have this heinous practice is because we, the “civilized nations” decided to control Africa and make it all about “money” and not allow them the capacity to make money in less destructive ways? No….we’ll just destroy the only thing left of these animals and create a higher market price for the product. It makes me doubly sad…

Obama administration to destroy 6-ton ivory stockpile

The Obama administration is set to pulverize 6 tons of ivory with a rock crusher in a bid to send a worldwide message that the U.S. does not accept poaching.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will crush the ivory – which includes raw and carved tusks, ornaments and jewelry seized over the past 25 years — on Nov. 14 at the national wildlife repository in Denver, according to TIME.

“We are taking an important step next week, Daniel Ashe, the director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said Tuesday. “We’re doing that in the hopes of raising the profile of this issue and also to try to inspire other nations around the world to deal with their stockpiles.”

The ivory crushing will be America’s first, but it only represents a fraction of the ivory that is available on the global market, TIME reports.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wildlife Fauna and Flora said in 2011 illegal trade of ivory was at its highest level in two decades, fueled by demand from areas like East Asia and the involvement of criminal groups. Ivory trade generates an annual revenue of around $10 billion.

The African Conservation Act, passed by Congress in 1989, has largely banned imports and exports of ivory in the U.S., with shipments being seized at borders and ports.