My Hummingbird Cafe

Most reports we hear on television right now are negative and about problems with living in our times. It’s negative news on the current government administration, negative news on the state of our economy, negative news on the state of the dollar and it crashing soon, negative news on events going on around the world, and negative news on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. With all that negativity, how do we find something to be positive about today?

I enjoyed church this week, it inspired me to think more positive about the gloom and doom going on around me, so I thought it would be a good idea to share some of what I learned with you. Take it for what it’s worth to you and apply whatever you feel will help you deal with the negatives in your own life.

The first thing I learned is that how we deal with our circumstances is all about perspective, the way we view events taking place around us. We may choose to live in our own little world and think all is well, we can accept the reality of the world we live in and complain about it, or we can choose to accept things as they are but be positive in our responses to what we see and hear.

The way I see it, we have a choice to be negative or positive about our environment. If we choose to be positive, we may need to change our mindset. also, we may need to challenge ourselves to do something that helps us live in the world but not be of the world. In other words, we make the choice to be positive. Also, accepting that we are not alone in this world and that there is no need to suffer through it by ourselves gives us a sense of well-being. We have each other, we have our communities on the Internet and at home, and we have a “Father in Heaven”; a being who loves us and will protect us in the safe cocoon that he provides for us.

In this way, we are much like a grove of trees. Trees standing close together catch another when it falls. Also, trees lean against another until someone comes along to either tether them up to something in order to straighten them or cut them down.

We can become as a grove of trees. This means we catch each other when someone falls to prevent him or her from toppling over in a life storm or becoming washed away in the torrent. Also, it means we allow someone to lean on us for awhile until he or she tethers themselves to whatever helps them straighten up and stand again.

As we become more like a grove of trees in a storm, we gather strength from each other. This strengthens us as we fight the challenges we face right now, and helps us weather the brunt of our economic storms. By standing closely with each other, we know we can have someone near who understands what we are going through and knows how to help us. This knowledge alone can be very comforting to us.

Think about it, when we put together our resources, our time and talents, our encouragement and love, we can accomplish great things that would not normally be attainable alone.

Our nation is notorious for standing together in a crisis. Remember 9-11, how we came together to help those afflicted by the disaster! It made us stronger as a nation and a people. For a short time, we forgot about our differences and about politics, we actually came together and supported each other. It was a beautiful site to behold! I wrote the following thoughts after 9-11-2001, regarding the way people responded to the crisis.

You were an inspiration to this country, as you came together from far and wide across this nation, united in purpose and patriotism.

This was shown in the flags you raised and the songs you sang, in the candles you lit, and in the prays you said.

With heads held high and caring arms spread, you hugged each as tears were shed.

You were a ray of sunshine in the middle of turmoil, and an inspiration when this country was thrust into chaos.

No one did this alone; we did it together! Together we bridged the chasm of grief and despair, and together we face the future.

Although outraged for what happened that day, we must be united in order to be strong.

I saw people come out from all walks of life and all corners of the world to support the people in New York City in their time of need. In addition, I saw this nation reach out to other countries in their crisis as well, and many churches contribute food and  supplies to people suffering in a disaster. This is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about; caring for others in our own way and in our own community or online communities.

There are some really hard times in store for us as a nation in the near future. When the dollar crashes, it will cause huge problems for not only America, but for other nations as well. America’s dollar impacts the world and the world impacts America as well. One of the videos I posted points out that America will be the first to fall victim to over-spending and huge national debt. However, other nations have done the same and will follow the same path as America. So this is going to be a world-wide problem very shortly. This is why we need to become a grove of trees RIGHT NOW and prepare the best we can to respond appropriately to this type of world crisis. I suggest you watch some of the videos I posted on my vodpod: CLICK HERE. Also, you will  probably like OhWell-ItsOk.com and FamilyBasics.

I would love to hear from you. Tell us how you deal with the challenges of our times. Your advice can help someone who is suffering right now. I want you to be part of our grove of trees so please tell us your thoughts, questions, and advice. Tell us how you currently handle the economy and the trials you have overcome.

Listen to Dr. Mercola’s video and hear him say that the flu shots have terrible toxins you just do not want to put into your body.

Dr. Mercola also says that clearly, vitamin D is a good way to prevent the flu and other diseases. He makes a lot of sense,  and he tells us what a safe dose is for taking the vitamin so we don’t over-dose.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/mercola/videos/34/

Three Reasons to Reconsider Flu Shots

There are three major reasons why this government push to vaccinate 84 percent of the U.S. population with a yearly flu vaccine is so incomprehensible:

1. The majority of flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury; an amount considered unsafe for anyone weighing less than 550 pounds! And which groups are most sensitive to the neurological damage that has been associated with mercury? Infants, children, and the elderly.

2. No studies have conclusively proven that flu shots prevent flu-related deaths among the elderly, yet this is one of the key groups to which they’re pushed.

3. If you get a flu shot, you can still get the flu (or flu-like symptoms). This is because it only protects against certain strains, and it’s anyone’s guess which flu viruses will be in your area.

So why would you take a flu shot – EVERY YEAR — that has NEVER been proven to be effective, that can give you the very illness you’re trying to prevent, and has potential long-term side effects that are far worse than the flu itself?

The powers that be have done an excellent job of instilling fear into the population so they believe that they must get a shot to stay healthy, but the simple reality is it’s doing you more harm than good.

And, even if the flu vaccine could effectively prevent the flu, there have been several examples in past years where government health officials have chosen the incorrect influenza strains for that year’s vaccine. In 2004, the National Vaccine Information Center described how CDC officials told everyone to line up for a flu shot that didn’t even contain the influenza strain causing most of the flu that year.

Two-Thirds of This Year’s Flu Vaccines Contain a Full-Dose of Mercury

According to Dr. Donald Miller, MD, two-thirds of this year’s flu vaccines contain 25 micrograms of thimerosal. Thimerosal is 49 percent mercury by weight.

Each dose of these flu vaccines contains more than 250 times the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety limit for mercury.

By now, most people are well aware that children and fetuses are most at risk of damage from this neurotoxin, as their brains are still developing. Yet the CDC still recommends that children over 6 months, and pregnant women, receive the flu vaccine each year.

In addition to mercury, flu vaccines also contain other toxic or hazardous ingredients like:

Formaldehyde — a known cancer-causing agent
Aluminum — a neurotoxin that has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease
Triton X-100 — a detergent
Phenol (carbolic acid)
Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
Various antibiotics: neomycin, streptomycin, gentamicin – which can cause allergic reactions in some people
The Evidence Against Flu Vaccines

For those of you who are still unconvinced, know that there’s plenty of scientific evidence available to back up the recommendation to avoid flu vaccines – if nothing else, then for the simple reason that they don’t work, and don’t offer any real benefit to offset their inherent health risks. For example:

A brand new study published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children against the flu had no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during two recent flu seasons. The researchers concluded that “significant influenza vaccine effectiveness could not be demonstrated for any season, age, or setting” examined.
A study published in the Lancet just two months ago found that influenza vaccination was NOT associated with a reduced risk of pneumonia in older people. This supports a study done five years ago, published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Research published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine last month also confirms that there has been no decrease in deaths from influenza and pneumonia, despite the fact that vaccination coverage among the elderly has increased from 15 percent in 1980 to 65 percent now.
Last year, researchers with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institutes of Health published this conclusion in the Lancet Infectious Diseases: “We conclude that frailty selection bias and use of non-specific endpoints such as all-cause mortality have led cohort studies to greatly exaggerate vaccine benefits.”
A large-scale, systematic review of 51 studies, published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews in 2006, found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo in children. The studies involved 260,000 children, age 6 to 23 months.

The report below comes from Dr. Mercola’s website and gives you something to think about.

I hope you will click on the link and read the comments Dr. Mercola makes about this report. He has lots to say.

Warning: Swine Flu Shot Linked to Killer Nerve Disease

A warning that the swine flu vaccine has been linked to a deadly nerve disease has been sent by the UK Government to senior neurologists in a confidential letter.

The letter from the Health Protection Agency, the official body that oversees public health, was leaked to The Daily Mail, leading to demands to know why the information has not been given to the public before the vaccination of millions of people, including children, begins.

It tells the neurologists that they must be alert for an increase in a brain disorder called Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), which could be triggered by the vaccine. GBS attacks the lining of the nerves, causing paralysis and inability to breathe, and can be fatal.

The letter refers to the use of a similar swine flu vaccine in the United States in 1976 when:

• More people died from the vaccination than from swine flu
• The vaccine may have increased the risk of contracting GBS by eight times
• The vaccine was withdrawn after just ten weeks when the link with GBS became clear
• The U.S. Government was forced to pay out millions of dollars to those affected

Concerns have already been raised that the new vaccine has not been sufficiently tested and that the effects, especially on children, are unknown.

Now that you’ve read this report so far, you may think this is all related to the UK and what happened in 1976, but you need to finish reading this report by clicking on the link above. When you make the decision to get the shot, at least you can say it is an informed decision.

I don’t know what to think about this situation. I watched several reports on televsion about this disease and I am feeling that the likelihood of me getting sick with it is good and I think perhaps I might want the shot. I am not sure, so you may want to check into it more to be sure before you get your own shot.

It’s unbelievable the gall this administration has and the commitment to bring in socialism. I never would have believed this sort of reality could actually come to pass. And now I see that it is a real possibility. What we see goes a long with a movie I saw back in the 1980′s and our scenario today. You want proof that his can happen, fine! Watch the video with Glenn Beck and guests and hear what they have to say about what government can do.

I just got to this email so you may have already seen it. If you haven’t seen it, you need to see it now. If you have seen it, it wouldn’t hurt to read it again because this information is important. Please pass this information along to those who are for the health care plan.

The President is determined to get this plan passed and that concerns me. I can see Congress passing it because of the pressure that can be applied. I can also see the people accepting it as a good thing because they don’t care about the areas that concern others because they need a health care plan.

I think most of us are aware that health care needs reforming, so that is not what the opponets are against. Let’s put together a plan that makes sense and not one so racked with problem areas as the ones listed below.

This is a letter written by Dr. Stephen Fraser to Senator Bayh. If you would like to send it on to your Congressman, he says to feel free to copy it and send it around to our friends and to senators and representatives. July 23, 2009 Senator Bayh, As a practicing physician I have major concerns with the healthcare bill before Congress. I actually have read the bill and am shocked by the brazenness of the government’s proposed involvement in the patient physician relationship. The very idea that the government will dictate and ration patient care is dangerous and certainly not helpful in designing a healthcare system that works for all. Every physician I work with agrees that we need to fix our healthcare system, but the proposed bills currently making their way through congress will be a disaster if passed. I ask you respectfully and as a patriotic American to look at the following troubling lines that I have read in the bill. You cannot possibly believe that these proposals are in the best interests of the country and our fellow citizens. Page 22 of the HC Bill: Mandates that the Govt will audit books of all employers that self insure!! Page 30 Sec 123 of HC bill – THERE WILL BE A GOVT COMMITTEE that decides what treatments/benefits you get. Page 29 lines 4-16 in the HC bill: YOUR HEALTH CARE IS RATIONED!!! Page 42 of HC Bill: The Health Choices Commissioner will choose your HC Benefits for you. You have no choice! Page 50 Section 152 in HC bill: HC will be provided to ALL non US citizens, illegal or otherwise (I remember the news saying this part is a myth. Hum, guess they don’t want us to know this part so they deny it. They out right lied but what’s new about that?) Page 58 HC Bill: Govt will have real-time access to individuals finances & a National ID Healthcard will be issued! Page 59 HC Bill lines 21-24: Govt will have direct access to your banks accounts for elective funds transfer. Page 65 Sec 164: is a payoff subsidized plan for retirees and their families in Unions & community organizations: (ACORN). Page 84 Sec 203 HC bill: Govt mandates ALL benefit packages for private HC plans in the Exchange. Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications for of Benefit Levels for Plans = The Govt will ration your Healthcare! Page 91 Lines 4-7 HC Bill: Govt mandates linguistic appropriate services. Example – Translation: illegal aliens. Page 95 HC Bill Lines 8-18: The Govt will use groups i.e., ACORN & Americorps to sign up individuals for Govt HC plan. Page 85 Line 7 HC Bill: Specifications of Benefit Levels for Plans. AARP members – your Health care WILL be rationed. Page 102 Lines 12-18 HC Bill: Medicaid Eligible Individuals will be automatically enrolled in Medicaid. No choice. Page 124 lines 24-25 HC: No company can sue GOVT on price fixing. No “judicial review” against Govt Monopoly. Page 127 Lines 1-16 HC Bill: Doctors/ American Medical Association – The Govt will tell YOU what you can make! (salary) Page 145 Line 15-17: An Employer MUST auto enroll employees into public option plan. NO CHOICE! Page 126 Lines 22-25: Employers MUST pay for HC for part time employees AND their families. (Please don’t tell me that you have no problem with this concept!) Page 149 Lines 16-24: ANY Employer with payroll 401k & above who does not provide public option pays 8% tax on all payroll. Page 150 Lines 9-13: Business’s with payroll btw 251k & 401k who doesn’t provide public option pays 2-6% tax on all payroll. (I guess the small business person in network marketing or something similar will have an issue with this rule…..including doctors.) Page 167 Lines 18-23: ANY individual who doesn’t have acceptable HC according to Govt will be taxed 2.5% of income. (Can you believe the brazenness of this point?) Page 170 Lines 1-3 HC Bill: Any NONRESIDENT Alien is exempt from individual taxes. (Americans will pay) Page 195 HC Bill: Officers & employees of HC Admin (GOVT) will have access to ALL Americans finances /personal records. (Oh yea, this is a good idea! Who wants government’s nose in our businesses and personal affairs? ) Page 203 Line 14-15 HC: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax” Yes, it says that! Page 239 Line 14-24 HC Bill: Govt will reduce physician services for Medicaid Seniors, low income and poor are affected. (Quality health care? Right, and by whose standards?) Page 241 Line 6-8 HC Bill: Doctors, doesn’t matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same! Page 253 Line 10-18: Govt sets value of Doctor’s time, proffession, judgment etc. Literally value of humans. (Please don’t tell me you see no problem with this!) Page 265 Sec 1131: Govt mandates & controls productivity for private HC industries. Page 268 Sec 1141: Federal Govt regulates rental & purchase of power driven wheelchairs. Page 272 SEC. 1145: TREATMENT OF CERTAIN CANCER HOSPITALS – Cancer patients – welcome to rationing! Page 280 Sec 1151: The Govt will penalize hospitals for whatever Govt deems preventable re-admissions. Page 298 Lines 9-11: Doctors, treat a patient during initial admission that results in a re-admission -Govt will penalize you. Page 317 L 13-20: PROHIBITION on ownership/investment. Govt tells Doctors what/how much they can own! Page 317-318 lines 21-25, 1-3: PROHIBITION on expansion- Govt is mandating hospitals cannot expand. Page 321 2-13: Hospitals have opportunity to apply for exception BUT community input is required. Can you say ACORN?!! Page 335 L 16-25 Pg 336-339: Govt mandates establishment of outcome based measures. HC the way they want. Rationing. Page 341 Lines 3-9: Govt has authority to disqualify Medicare Advance Plans, HMOs, etc. Forcing people into Govt plan. Page 354 Sec 1177: Govt will RESTRICT enrollment of Special needs people! Unbelievable! Page 379 Sec 1191: Govt creates more bureaucracy – Tele-health Advisory Comittee. Can you say HC by phone? Page 425 Lines 4-12: Govt mandates Advance Care Planning Consult. Think Senior Citizens end of life patients. (This is another point they are trying to tell us is a myth. The media is saying that the opposition is spreading this myth. Well here it is in writing. Whose lying?) Page 425 Lines 17-19: Govt will instruct & consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney. Mandatory! (Can you believe the gall? Amazing how brazen they can be!) Page 425 Lines 22-25, 426 Lines 1-3: Govt provides approved list of end of life resources, guiding you in death. (assisted suicide) (Again, they say this is a myth being promoted by those in opposition. Whose the liar?) Page 427 Lines 15-24: Govt mandates program for orders for end of life. The Govt has a say in how your life ends. Page 429 Lines 1-9: An “advanced care planning consultant” will be used frequently as patients health deteriorates. (Not a bad idea but what would this entail? I am suspicious because of the other provisions for end of life care.) Page 429 Lines 10-12: “advanced care consultation” may include an ORDER for end of life plans. AN ORDER from GOVT! Page 429 Lines 13-25: The govt will specify which Doctors can write an end of life order. Page 430 Lines 11-15: The Govt will decide what level of treatment you will have at end of life! Page 469: Community Based Home Medical Services = Non profit organizations. Hello, ACORN Medical Services here!!? Page 472 Lines 14-17: PAYMENT TO COMMUNITY-BASED ORIGINATION. 1 monthly payment 2 a community-based organization. Like ACORN? Page 489 Sec 1308: The Govt will cover Marriage & Family therapy. Which means they will insert Govt into your marriage. (This is unbelievable. People, we can’t let them do this! We can’t let government intervene into our lives as much as this plan calls for. Are we that naive to accept this plan? Please read my story at the end of this report.) Page 494-498: Govt will cover Mental Health Services including defining, creating, rationing those services. (I really object to this one because I worked at mental health and saw how important this service is to people. I see people leave as a totally different persona than when they first walked in. ) Senator, I guarantee that I personally will do everything possible to inform patients and my fellow physicians about the dangers of the proposed bills you and your colleagues are debating. Furthermore, If you vote for a bill that enforces socialized medicine on the country and destroys the doctor/patient relationship, I will do everything in my power to make sure you lose your job in the next election. Respectfully, Stephen E Fraser MD

Let me tell you what I know about the idea of government solving all our problems by telling you about a movie I saw back in the 1980′s. I can’t remember the name of the movie but I have a vivid memory of the story line.

The movie started out with a revolution, where the youth were trying to win back the freedom their parents lost by asking government to take care of them. Slowly but surely, government convinced society that they needed government more and more until they had no more freedoms left. That is when government seized the old people and put them in a barbed-wired compound in the middle of town. These elderly people in the community were being killed off when they reached a specific age because they were a burden to society. The FREEDOM FIGHTERS were the youth whose parents were in the compound.

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NOW TELL ME THE TRUTH, DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT WE ARE FAR FROM THE SITUATION IN THE MOVIE? IS THIS REALLY THE NEW DIRECTION THAT WE WANT FOR AMERICA?

After you watch the video with Glenn Beck, keep in mind that the website he mentions is the same site you have to go to to trade in your clunker cars. Also, keep in mind that the old cars have no GPS (tracking system) so if Obama wants GPSs on the doors of every American to supposedly help census takers, then why is it so far fetched to think he wants to get rid of all vehicles that he can’t track.

Right now, government can track us through our new cell phones, our new vehicles, and soon our residence. Now that is darn right scary. It sounds like Russian KGB to me or Hitler’s Gestapo. What do you think?

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Also see: http://fleming.house.gov/index.html

In case you have not seen this report in your email yet, let me share what I know with you about this information.

I’ve heard several news reports that have safety concerns about the Swine-flu vaccine. The report below describes these concerns.

Because of questions about vaccinations and children resulting in autism (unsubstaniated they claim but with a lot of proof that it’s true) - one in every 150 children have autism – I think we should not be too quick in getting our own children vaccinated. We should, at the very least, consider the points made in this report first.

My philosophy is that “haste often makes waste”. In this case, I wonder if hast has caused vaccine manufacturers to over-look some of their concerns because they fear a pandemic. (Be sure to watch the video I’ve posted below for you about this flu. Then you decide on vaccinating your family or not.

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This report comes straight from my email as is except I added the bolded parts.

By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer Maria Cheng, Ap Medical Writer – 6 mins ago.

LONDON – In a drive to inoculate people against swine flu before winter, many European governments say they will fast-track the testing of a new flu vaccine, arousing concern among some experts about safety issues and proper vaccine doses.

The European Medicines Agency, the EU’s top drug regulatory body, is accelerating the approval process for swine flu vaccine, and countries such as Britain, Greece, France and Sweden say they’ll start using the vaccine after it’s greenlighted — possibly within weeks.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the World Health Organization’s flu chief, warned about the potential dangers of untested vaccines, although he stopped short of criticizing Europe’s approach outright.

“One of the things which cannot be compromised is the safety of vaccines,” he said Friday. “There are certain areas where you can make economies, perhaps, but certain areas where you simply do not try to make any economies.”

Flu vaccines have been used for 40 years, and many experts say extensive testing is unnecessary, since the swine flu vaccine will simply contain a new ingredient: the swine flu virus.

But European officials won’t know if the new vaccine causes any rare side effects until millions of people get the shots. Still, they say the benefit of saving lives is worth the gamble.

“Everybody is doing the best they can in a situation which is far from ideal,” said Martin Harvey-Allchurch, a spokesman for the European Medicines Agency. “With the winter flu season approaching, we need to make sure the vaccine is available.”

In Europe, flu vaccines are usually tested on hundreds of people for several weeks or months, to ensure the immune system produces enough antibodies to fight the infection.

But to ensure swine flu vaccine is available as soon as possible, the European Medicines Agency is allowing companies to skip testing in large numbers of people before the vaccine is approved.

The main issue is probably that without thorough testing it’s difficult to gauge the effective dosage — meaning Europeans might get too weak a vaccine. It’s unlikely the vaccine would endanger anyone, but until it is used in large numbers of people, no one will know for sure.

Europeans appear ready to use the vaccine widely before conducting any big studies to prove it is safe and effective. Neither the vaccine makers nor the European Medicines Agency would specify what basic safety tests are being done.

The U.S. is taking a more cautious approach: the government called Wednesday for several thousand volunteers to be injected with the swine flu vaccine in tests beginning in August to assess the vaccine’s safety. American officials said results should be ready by the time the U.S. plans to roll out a vaccination campaign in October.

Results from the U.S. tests will be of limited use to Europe, since countries like Britain plan to start vaccinating as early as August — before any American trial data is available. The vaccines used in the U.S. will also be different from those in Europe.

Some experts favor urgent action.

“The consequences of not having a vaccine if this virus gets worse are very high,” said Leonard Marcus, a public health expert at Harvard University. “If (regulatory authorities) took all the time that was necessary to make sure there are no side effects, ironically, in the effort to save a few lives, many lives could be lost.”

But critics say dangers lurk in any strategy to vaccinate without robust testing.

Scant information exists on flu vaccines with adjuvants, a component used to stretch the active ingredient that is commonly found in European flu vaccines. There are no licensed flu vaccines with the ingredient in the U.S.

There is also limited or no data on the safety and effectiveness of vaccines with adjuvants in children under 3 and pregnant women — two of the most vulnerable groups in a pandemic — a global outbreak.

Mass swine flu vaccination campaigns will also take place in the shadow of the 1976 swine flu disaster, when hundreds of people in the U.S. developed Guillain-Barre syndrome, a paralyzing disorder, after being vaccinated.

Experts don’t know why that happened, but say modern vaccine production techniques have improved since 1976. To avoid a similar episode, some say comprehensive testing before the vaccine is rolled out is essential.

“I can’t see any possible excuse to not test it for safety before it’s given to anyone,” said George Annas, a bioethics expert at Boston University.

If the vaccine turns out to have dangerous side effects, it could generate a public backlash, particularly in a country like Britain, where many people remain suspicious of vaccines because of unsubstantiated allegations linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism. That could lead to millions of people refusing vaccination.

When the bird flu crisis hit several years ago, the European Medicines Agency designed a special protocol to approve a vaccine for use in a pandemic as soon as possible.

The agency let companies submit data for a “mock-up” vaccine, using H5N1 bird flu. The idea was to do most of the testing before the global epidemic hit so when it did, drugmakers could insert the pandemic virus into the vaccine at the last minute.

When the first swine flu vaccine doses are ready, the European Medicines Agency will approve them largely based on data from the bird flu vaccine, since both will have the same basic ingredients.

If the agency thinks the bird flu data predicts how the swine flu virus will work, they will approve it, said spokesman Harvey-Allchurch.

The agency will then require regular reporting of the vaccine’s effects as it is being administered — monitoring that is normally done beforehand.

WHO’s Fukuda said everyone involved in making the vaccine, from manufacturers to regulatory agencies, is looking at what steps can be taken to streamline the process.

“But there is no one who disagrees that one of the absolutes is that there can’t be any question whether the vaccine is safe or not,” he said.

WHO reported that the swine flu viruses aren’t producing enough of a key vaccine ingredient, which may limit how much vaccine is available. Its laboratory network is now working to produce a new set of viruses that it hopes will work better.

Drugmakers including Baxter International, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Novartis and Sanofi-Pasteur, however, insist they will be able to start shipping the first batches of vaccine soon.

British health officials have repeatedly said they will start vaccinating in August, as soon as the vaccine is approved. Other European countries, including Greece, France, Sweden, say they will use the vaccine after it gets the green light from the European agency, but none other than Britain expect to start the shots next month.

The scare is not over about this disease and we still need to know more about it. Some people chalk this up to over played by the media. Others have become paranoid about it. The best thing to do in this situation is to know the facts and know how to protect yourself. I admit that a thought crossed my mind about this disease as I recently sat in an airplane and breathed the recirculated air in the cabin.

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Watching this video helps us understand why we need a supplement to provide the body this vital nutrient. Normally, I am not in the habit of advising a specific supplement on this website, so I will simply give you the information you need and then let you decide what you want to do with it.

Doctor Mercola say this about the supplement CoQ10. It is very informative.

Doctor Mercola also has this to say about the need for CoQ10.

You probably know that I normally don’t promote many supplements. I believe supplements should complement your healthy diet and never serve as a replacement.

There’s simply no substitute for eating healthy unprocessed whole foods.

However, there are a few supplements I consider highly beneficial for nearly all adults. One of these is Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10).

I believe one of the key elements in the aging process is free radical production. These free radicals are oxygen atoms deficient in electrons that become highly reactive. This in turn causes potential damage to your tissues and DNA.

Now, if you’re less than 25 years old, this is not an issue — your body is capable of converting Co Q10 from the oxidized to the reduced form. However, if you’re older, your body becomes more and more challenged to convert the oxidized Co Q10 to ubiquinol.

Another very important reason for using a Co Q10 supplement is to help boost your body’s cellular energy production.

So even if you do your best to eat wholesome unprocessed foods, your body’s capability to produce Co Q10 and convert it to ubiquinol declines over time.*

Critical Co Q 10 levels decline as you age. So I believe this is a must-have supplement!

Although Dr. Mercola advertises products on his site at Mercola.com, I would like you to check out his web page to learn more about this nuturient and about health issues in general. You might want to subscribe to his newsletter also, as I do, to be kept informed about important health issues that you need to know.

You may use this link as well to check out the Q10 supplement that I use.  Of course, since I’ve been using it for years, I am partial to this product over the others. You can find cheaper products in stores like WalMart and GNC, so make your own choice on what you want to use. The important thing is to recognize however, is your need to supplement or not to. If you need to supplement, then purchase the supplement and get started on taking it.

Sometimes, we make the decision to do something but then we get involved in life and forget about it.  I hope you put this supplement on the top of your priority list and not procratinate so that you end up forgetting about it.

Thank you for your patronage.  I appreciate you stopping by to read my reports.  I just hope you find them useful in making decisions about your health.

I came across this link today and enjoyed the message.  I thought that, perhaps, you might enjoy it too. I think it makes the point clearly that our priorities are out of wack if we don’t have our spiritual side in a healthy condition.

I think this link makes it clear what a healthy condition includes.

Click on this link http://www.nixthenews.com/WisdomSpeaksOut.htm

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Poll: 86 Percent of U.S. Wants Abortion Restrictions

Friday, July 10, 2009 1:45 PM

The American people continue to move to the pro-life perspective on abortion according to the latest Moral Compass survey by the Knights of Columbus and Marist Poll.

The poll mirrored findings of other recent surveys, showing that more Americans identify as pro-life than as pro-choice, and that the vast majority of Americans favor restricting abortion.

Among the key findings:

86% of Americans would significantly restrict abortion.
60% of Americans would limit abortion to cases of rape, incest or to save the life of a mother – or would not allow it at all.
53% of Americans believe abortion does more harm than good to a woman in the long term.
79% of Americans support conscience exemptions on abortion for health care workers. This includes 64% of those who identify as strongly pro-choice.
69% of Americans think that it is appropriate for religious leaders to speak out on abortion.
59% say religious leaders have a key role to play in the abortion debate.
80% of Americans believe that laws can protect both the health of the woman and the life of the unborn. This includes 68% of those who identified as strongly pro-choice.
Additionally, the data showed that since October nearly every demographic sub-group had moved toward the pro-life position except for non-practicing Catholics and men under 45 years of age.

Independents and liberals showed the greatest shift to the pro-life position since October, while Democrats were slightly less likely to be pro-life now than they were in October.

So, does this mean that the American people are finally placing more value on human life? It appears to be that they are seeing the problem with abortion and the toll it has on women who have them.

It seems that most Americans are unhappy with the unrestricted access to abortion availlable today (that is the legacy of Roe vs. Wade).  Does this also mean that our elected leaders should take note of the facts reported in this poll? Should they agree that abortion needs to be carefully considered before it is used for birth control or career advantages?  Abortion verses adoption is hardly a consideration anymore.  The proof is found in the small amount of babies available for adoption inside of America today.

NewsMax continues, “The American people have reached a basic consensus, and that consensus is at odds with the unrestricted access to abortion that is the legacy of Roe.”

The survey of 1,223 Americans was conducted May 28 – 31 and has a margin of error of +/-3%.

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Do we offer up our unborn children as a sacrafice to the god of lust and pleasure, to the god of career opportunities, and to the god of vanity and selfishness?  It is something to consider in this day and age, don’t you think?  Are we not like the people in bible times who sacraficed their young as appeasement to the gods?

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Many of our youth are good kids and have done a lot to show us they are ready to be our next generation of leaders. They show us that they are ready to be responsible citizens and parents. They show us that they have moral integrity and firm standards. These young people make us feel proud to have been part of their lives and excited about what they will contribute to our future.

Then there are youth we would rather not mention. Unfortunately, we tend to put all the kids of today in the same category as those who disrupt society. We blame them for their peer’s unruliness, their disrespect of parents, their disrespect of country and government, and their disrespect of authority in general.

In other words, we may blame kids of today for the movies they watch and the music they play, which is all about sex and violence or disrespect for parents and the law. We may blame them for their laziness and irresponsible attitude. We may go so far as to say that they have no goals, no responsible bone in their bodies, and they seem to have no reason to be otherwise.

The list could go on and on but the point is made that we often blame our youth for being a disastrous generation these days, right? But tell me, how did they get that way? Did we as their parents have anything to do with this? Did we as peers have anything to do with how our friends felt they needed to be when they were around us? Did we as role models have anything to do with how they interpret adulthood? I suspect the answer is yes to almost every one of these questions… I am sure that we each had a lot to do with the situation with our kids today.

I realize that you may say you did everything you could to be a good parent, and I suspect you might be right and that you were a good parent, but the influences around children now is so strong that it’s just too great for many of our kids to resist! On the other hand, I also suspect that there was something more we could have done that we did not do but should have – either because we didn’t know better or because both parents had to work outside the home and so we were not there to oversee our kids activities.

Believe me when I say that I am the last one to point fingers at parents who could have done better. I was a working mom as some of you are, and so I wasn’t home when my children came home from school. This means I wasn’t there to hear the phone conversations I should have heard or to see the visitors I should have seen come to our house but I wasn’t home.

If we are not home when our children come home from school, who will stop them from getting into trouble? Who will be there to give the support children need as teenagers growing up in a crazy world? I know it is difficult for parents today, and I really do understand the predicaments this situation creates for parents. I am not putting down parents who have to work, I am merely stating the obvious. Someone needs to ask the hard questions: such as “What can you do to help your children in the situations just described?”

Although our own children may have turned out to be pretty good teens, I am sure many of you know that there is usually one who chooses a different path than the others. We can try until we’re blue in the face . . .<<MORE>>