Air Force Threatens to Expel Kids Who Don't Get H1N1 Vaccine

By GottaLaff

One of my Twitter pals, Allen McDuffee, has a rather eyebrow-raising post up at Truthout. Please read the whole thing, but here is the gist:

About 25,000 children in on-base Air Force daycare centers will be forced to receive the H1N1 vaccine or face being barred from school, Truthout has learned following reports from concerned parents. [...]

A parent at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL, speaking on condition of anonymity out of concern for reprisal against herself and her husband, was disturbed by the complete lack of confidence and answers from the center's administrators.

"What I got was a lot of 'shoulds.' It 'should' be fine. There 'should' be no problems with the vaccine."

"If they're not sure," she said, "why should I be?"

Please read the rest here.

Blackout: Military Personnel Banned From H1N1 Vaccine Sites

By GottaLaff

My pal Allen McDuffee has a post up that he wanted to share, and with good reason. It's pretty disturbing.

Here are some excerpts, but please read the whole thing:

Shortly after the Pentagon announced that all Armed Services personnel would soon be facing a mandatory H1N1 vaccination program, I started receiving email from soldiers, airmen, marines and sailors because of a previous story I had written on the anthrax vaccine.

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With a vaccine that was so new and little known about it, like many Americans, troops were heading to the web to find answers to their very legitimate questions -- not only for themselves, but for their families who have the option of receiving the vaccine on base. What they found instead is that several websites and blogs with key information asking critical questions had been blocked from their viewing.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-mcduffee/blackout-military-personn_b_346908.html&cp

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The Center for Disease Control (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sites, however, are all available for military personnel. The official word from governmental agencies is welcome but critics, regardless of whether they were considered experts, are not.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-mcduffee/blackout-military-personn_b_346908.html&cp

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Making sure that servicemen and servicewomen consent to the vaccine and are informed is apparently not a concern for the Department of Defense. But the message is very clear for one service member who contacted me: "All you need to know is what we're telling you, so shut up and take the vaccine with no questions asked."

Nass, one of the experts whose site has been blocked, points out the real shame in all of this: "It's unfortunate that the service members who are defending our civil rights are not afforded the same consideration."

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-mcduffee/blackout-military-personn_b_346908.html&cp

Please read the whole thing here. Then please talk me down.

Video- Don Imus' Wife Deirdre: "Obama's Daughters Should Be H1N1 Vaccinated On TV"

Your morning load of hooey. How many kids a year get "ammonia" Sean?

White House memo exposes Rove knew of problems with anthrax vaccine

By GottaLaff

Rove said Gulf War Syndrome, vaccine political stumbling block

So KKKarl was concerned--what a softy-- which means once again, BushCo was more concerned about secrecy and politics than about putting lives at risk:

The Department of Defense continued its controversial mandatory anthrax vaccinations program despite high ranking Bush administration officials acknowledging there were problems with the vaccine within months of the Bush administration taking office—well before the 9/11 attacks and the October 2001 anthrax letters.

A 2001 memorandum from former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz indicates that the White House knew of problems relating to the Gulf War Syndrome and the military's controversial anthrax vaccine.

More details here. It's mind-boggling how corrupt this White House is. Imagine if we knew everything that they've been up to over the last 7+ years. But then, what would it matter, since Nancy Pelosi would probably still keep impeachment off the table.