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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 01:48 AM
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The Truth about the H1N1 Flu
A very well-explained talk by Terese Forcades - doctor in Public Health, and Benedictine nun - who reflects on the history, and gives scientific data, of "A" type flu, explains swine flu, and lists all the irregularities related to this so-called pandemic.

She explains the consequences of the declaration of a pandemic, the political consequences from this declaration and makes a proposal to keep calm.

She calls for an urgent activation of all legal mechanism and the participation of all citizens in this matter.

About Terese Forcades: Terese is a Benedictine nun at the at the Monastery of Sant Benet, Monstserrat, Barcelona. She is also a physician specialized in internal medicine, with a PHD in Public Health at Barcelona University. She carried out her specialization at the State University of NY, USA.

There are 6 parts which may be easier to just read with the sound off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61ySNSQTR-Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv71CqP6kqQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj2N4pVyS8g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBggkkO_PYU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYU-7Ng-8mw&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvA4iYBVNGs&feature=related
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Kalun D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 01:52 AM
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1. all you need to say
""the irregularities related to this so-called pandemic.""

it's not a pandemic, it's fear mongering from the greed monger fascist corps that own our politicians and run the country
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 01:57 AM
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2. You need to look up the word "pandemic."
The H1N1 influenza fits the criteria.

However, it's not the killer in the developed world that early information out of Mexico said it might be.

It's still a pandemic.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 03:02 AM
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8. one of the claims made in the film is that the official definition of pandemic was
changed--so that this flu would fit it.
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Go2Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 03:39 AM
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10. There are a lot of really misinformational sites out there
Edited on Fri Dec-04-09 03:40 AM by Go2Peace
I am heading to a part of the world that has been hit hard later this winter and have read extensively. H1N! is very serious, not so much because the existing genetic variant is that bad, but because of how easily is spreads and how easily it encorporates new genetic material.

They (who, other scientific orgs) came out pretty strong, and it may turn out that this fizzles out, but it will not be because it was not a dangerous situation, it may be that people became aware enough that the threat is reduced, or it may be that we got lucky. Along with what is going on in the general public they have been watching very carefully the mutations.

H1N5 is now emerging, which is made of 5 different species' genes. That is a very dangerous combinant. It could die off, or, it could become the major strain next year, if it does, it could be a LOT more deadly than this year's virus.

What they are really trying to do, I believe, is they are trying to gut punch it, BEFORE it get's to it's truly dangerous form. If they are successful, it could look to the casual observer like it was all hype. But in reality, they could have saved millions in future deaths by nipping it in the bud.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 06:46 AM
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12. It doesn't "incorporate new genetic material easily," were that the case
Edited on Fri Dec-04-09 06:50 AM by Hannah Bell
it would have a rapid mutation rate, which it hasn't.

H1N5 isn't this year's swine flu, it's 2005's bird flu. seems like you've been reading scare sites.

all these flus are flus we've seen before.


"they" can't "gut punch" the flu.

edit: you should view the video. you'd learn something. like why this flu is "new," something the media hasn't explained well.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 02:17 AM
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3. There was no "irregularities" as you put it, and it is a pandemic. Those who are able to get the
vaccine are either getting for low cost or free. In fact many schools are offerring it at no cost to the children

The H1N1 vaccine, is not the huge money-maker that you are implying, and thank goodness it didn't mutate to something like the 1918 strain


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Kalun D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 02:35 AM
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4. big-cancer, big-pharma, big-killers
ep·i·dem·ic
adj.
1. Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or a population at the same time:

pandemic
adj
(Medicine / Pathology) (of a disease) affecting persons over a wide geographical area; extensively epidemic

depends on your definition of "many" and "extensively"

so if H1N1 has only killed 4,000 since April and the normal seasonal flu kills 36,000 annual how is that an epidemic? Is seasonal flu ever referred to as an epidemic?

I've never heard so much frothing at the mouth fear-mongering from the CORPORATE media in my life. It's a bunch of BS to get people to go out and get a mercury laced "vaccine" that will have bad long term affects. Gotta keep the big-cancer and big-pharma trains a runnin.

""vaccine are either getting for low cost or free""

right, the government IE the taxpayer pays for it in no-bid contracts no doubt.
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Go2Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 02:42 AM
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6. You need to read more before you spread misinformation
Sure, the profiteers would screw it up for a buck. But the basis of the concern is real. There is a serious concern behind it.
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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 08:47 AM
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15. Seasonal flu is always excluded from the definition and pandemic usually refers to cross
Edited on Fri Dec-04-09 08:49 AM by SemiCharmedQuark
continental.

These are basic facts you learn in any basic undergraduate biology course if you haven't learned it in HS biology.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 09:39 AM
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21. Sorry, but I'm NOT going to perform my patriotic duty of dying off to suit your ideology
Edited on Fri Dec-04-09 09:39 AM by LeftishBrit
Don't get a vaccine if you don't want to.

Don't take any drugs if you don't want to.

But don't try to deny others our BASIC HUMAN RIGHY to access to modern medicine.

As a taxpayer, I am happy to put even more money into ensuring access to this most precious of basic human rights to myself and others who are medically vulnerable (but I suppose you think it's all our fault for being weaklings and that we must be eating a bad diet, and as far as you're concerned, let the medically vulnerable eat cake, er, I mean eat a Better Diet). Much better investment of resources than endless wars, or tax cuts for the rich.

I don't think that humans need to die off, but I think that this anti-modern-medicine (i.e. anti-physically-vulnerable-people) ideology needs to die out before it *does* kill us all off!
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ConnorMarc Donating Member (196 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 09:43 AM
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22. Amen!
Say it again.
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Go2Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 02:40 AM
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5. actually it is very serious. They are afraid of the future mutations, and trying to stop it early
the trouble is that it is hard to explain to people who live in the moment why this strain is so dangerous. Each year it mutates. Next year will be a mix of H1N1 and H1N5. It is the incredible ability to jump from host to host and how quickly it can encorporate dna from the new host that has them worried.


We are such sceptics. Do we really believe that the world health organization is trying to stir unnescessary fear? And entire organization of physicians and scientists dedicated to world health and they have nothing better to do than scare everyone?
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Kalun D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 02:58 AM
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7. Who is?
Who is the WHO?

who are they beholden to? We all know who big pharma is beholden to, it's the almighty dollar.

this poor earth needs a good human die-off, there's too many ignorant uncaring humans, they are ruining the planet. Too bad they can't invent a killer disease that attacks only corrupt bankers and fascist corporate profiteers.

There's less people dying from disease because of improved sanitation etc, not so much mercury laced drugs which just cause cancer and other problems in the long term

flu vaccine isn't going to help you if you have a typical American garbage food diet.
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Go2Peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 03:32 AM
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9. World Health Organization. You really need to read more from science and a little less from
Edited on Fri Dec-04-09 03:32 AM by Go2Peace
teh conspiracy sites. Don't get me wrong, I also have some problems with the way the corporations try to capitalize on this, but there really are credible scientific concerns behind H1N1.

Read more at the world health organization's site. Please, before you spread more incorrect info.
http://www.who.int/en/
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 03:42 AM
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11. i'm fairly sure the poster knew what "WHO" stands for. The question is, whose interests do they
Edited on Fri Dec-04-09 03:43 AM by Hannah Bell
represent?

maybe you should watch the video before commenting.
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 09:12 AM
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16. So, you think the earth needs a human die-off, eh?
Starting with whom, pray tell? I assume you don't think it should be you.

I think, perhaps, it should start with folks who write ungrammatically and don't use standard capitalization. How's that?

If you believe people should die off, you're on the wrong damned forum, my misanthropic friend.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 09:31 AM
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20. OK, so why don't you set a good example for what you're preaching and
shuffle off the old mortal coil?
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 06:08 PM
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27. A good human "die-off?"
You could probably handle that through a good, old-fashioned genocide if you want to save the earth.

:eyes:

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Locrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 07:27 AM
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13. thanks - bookmarking to read/watch later -- n/t
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 08:25 AM
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14. I think I'll go to Free Republic or even DU and find out the truth about Obama
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 09:22 AM
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17. Thanks, but I prefer to get medical information...
from someone who works in a lab or a hospital, not in a monastery.

Sid
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 09:26 AM
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18. "So-called" pandemic? Right.
Oh good grief. Thanks for reminding my why I don't visit the Health forum. I get quite enough of Nucking Futz right here in GD. Take your prescient nun and slither back to the Health forum crazy cave, kthnxbai.

:eyes:
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 09:30 AM
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19. Thanks..rec'd and bookmarked..
am watching now.
:hug:
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 09:43 AM
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23. Is this not a topic for the Health forum?
It would fit in there along with all other anti-vaxxer propaganda.
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 09:47 AM
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24. The mods think so...
:)

Sid
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 10:45 AM
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25. So I see. Good.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 11:06 AM
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26. There is an error in your subject line.
The word "truth" needs to be in quotes.
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