202,600 now dead, doctors conned into cooperating with this massive scam

Posted by Erin Elizabeth | Sep 26, 2018

An estimated 202,600 Americans died from opioid overdoses between 2002 and 2015, and drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death among Americans under the age of 50.

Chronic opioid use also accounted for 20 percent of the increase in male unemployment between 1999 and 2015 and, remarkably, 74 percent of farmers report being addicted to opioids, or know someone who is.

Aside from the staggering death toll, addiction to narcotic pain relievers also places an enormous economic burden on society, costing the U.S. an estimated $504 billion each year (2.8 percent of gross domestic product), according to a November 2017 White House report.

Opioid Epidemic Is No Random Fluke

Adding insult to injury, evidence suggests opioid makers are directly responsible. They knew exactly what they were doing when they claimed opioids — which are chemically very similar to heroin — have an exceptionally low addiction rate when taken for pain.

In fact, the massive increase in opioid sales and subsequent addiction rates have been traced back to an orchestrated marketing plan aimed at misinforming doctors about the drug’s addictive potential, and it is this false advertising campaign that seeded the current opioid epidemic — an epidemic so great it has even lowered the national life expectancy.

Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, was one of the most successful in this regard, driving sales of OxyContin up from $48 million in 1996 to $1.5 billion in 2002.
Studies now show addiction affects about 26 percent of those using opioids for chronic non-cancer pain, and 1 in 550 patients on opioid therapy dies from opioid-related causes within 2.5 years of their first prescription.

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• For the first time ever, lawsuit targets billionaire OxyContin family for causing opioid epidemic

Meanwhile, Purdue’s sales representatives were extensively coached on how to downplay the drug’s addictive potential, claiming addiction was occurring in less than 1 percent of patients being treated for pain.

Evidence also shows Sackler family members were intimately involved with the marketing machinations behind OxyContin. In fact, attorney Mike Moore — who represents Ohio, Louisiana and Mississippi in lawsuits against Purdue Pharma — claims to have evidence connecting the Sackler family “directly, and personally, to corporate misdeeds” committed in the 1990s and 2000s.

In 2007, Purdue Pharma did plead guilty to charges of misbranding “with intent to defraud and mislead the public,” and paid $634 million in fines. Alas, a decade later, it’s quite clear the company has not changed its ways to any significant degree. It, and the Sackler family, is still in the business of profiting from addiction.

OxyContin Maker Patents Opioid Addiction Treatment

The Spice That Prevents Fluoride From Destroying Your Brain

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Fluoride is found everywhere today, from antibiotics to drinking water, no stick pans to toothpaste, making exposure inevitable. All the more reason why research proving this common spice can prevent fluoride damage is so promising...

Fluoride's neurotoxicity has been the subject of academic debate for decades, and now a matter of increasingly impassioned controversy among the general public, as well. From 'conspiracy theories' about it being first used in drinking water in Russian and Nazi concentration camps to chemically lobotomize captives, to its now well-known IQ lowering properties, to its ability to enhance the calcification of the pineal gland – the traditional 'seat of the soul' – many around the world, and increasingly in the heavily fluoridated regions of the United States, are starting to organize at the local and statewide level to oust this ubiquitous toxicant from municipal drinking water.

A compelling study published in the Pharmacognosy Magazine titled, "Curcumin attenuates neurotoxicity induced by fluoride: An in vivo evidence," adds experimental support to the suspicion that fluoride is indeed a brain-damaging substance, also revealing that a natural spice-derived protective agent against the various health effects associated with this compound is available.
The study was authored by researchers from the Department of Zoology, University College of Science, M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur, India, who have spent the past decade investigating the mechanisms through which fluoride induces severe neurodegenerative changes in the mammalian brain, particularly in cells of the hippocampus and cerebral cortex.[i] [ii]

The study opens by describing the historical backdrop for concern about fluoride's significant and wide ranging toxicity:

"Fluoride (F) is probably the first inorganic ion which drew attention of the scientific world for its toxic effects and now the F toxicity through drinking water is well-recognized as a global problem. Health effect reports on F exposure also include various cancers, adverse reproductive activities, cardiovascular, and neurological diseases.[1,2]"

The Pertussis Vaccine Blame Game

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Story at-a-glance

• Whole cell pertussis vaccine is the most reactive vaccine still given to infants and children in developing countries because it costs drug companies just pennies to make a dose of it
• The pertussis vaccine in DPT contains whole B. pertussis bacteria heated and washed with formaldehyde, neurotoxic aluminum and mercury, along with shock-inducing endotoxin and brain damaging bioactive pertussis toxin
• Whole cell pertussis vaccine put pressure on the B. pertussis bacterium to mutate into vaccine resistant strains beginning in the 1950s
• Some vaccinologists are now trying to bring back whole cell pertussis vaccine in the U.S., as they believe it’s a little better at preventing whooping cough a little longer than the purified acellular pertussis vaccine in DTaP
• As early as 1965, public health officials in the U.S. and Europe knew whole cell pertussis vaccine in DPT was not preventing infections in many vaccinated children and previously vaccinated adults

By Barbara Loe Fisher
It is a primitive bacterial vaccine licensed in 1914.¹ It has not been given to babies in America for 20 years. It is the vaccine that had brain damaged so many children and caused so many vaccine injury lawsuits² that Big Pharma used it to blackmail Congress into giving vaccine manufacturers a partial product liability shield in 1986, which the U.S. Supreme Court made even bigger in 2011.³

I'm talking about whole cell pertussis vaccine in DPT, a crude brew of whole B. pertussis bacteria heated and washed with formaldehyde⁴ but still full of neurotoxic aluminum⁵ and mercury⁶ along with shock-inducing endotoxin,^7,8 as well as brain-damaging bioactive pertussis toxin,^9,10,11 a toxin so lethal that researchers use it to deliberately induce acute experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) in lab animals.^12,13,14

Whole cell pertussis vaccine: the most reactive vaccine still given to infants and children in developing countries because it costs drug companies just pennies to make a dose of it.¹⁵ Whole cell pertussis vaccine, the one that put pressure on the B. pertussis bacterium to mutate into vaccine resistant strains beginning in the 1950s.^16,17

Vaccinologists Beating the Drum to Bring Back Toxic DPT Vaccine

Now some vaccinologists are beating the drum to bring back that nasty old vaccine and give it to newborn babies in America.^18,19 They say they think the toxin-filled whole cell pertussis vaccine in DPT works a little better at preventing whooping cough a little longer than the purified acellular pertussis vaccine in DTaP.

They want to "prime" little 6- to 8-week-old babies with ALL the bioactive toxins in the whole cell pertussis vaccine's crude brew. Apparently, they think it is worth the risk to pretend like they have fixed the problem.

In the 1980s, parents of DPT vaccine-injured children worked for more than a decade to get the less reactive DTaP vaccine licensed in America because we knew Japan had been using it since 1981 with no reported whooping cough outbreaks and far fewer serious reactions.²⁰

As public outrage about the reactivity of whole cell pertussis vaccine grew and DPT vaccine injury lawsuits piled up, in 1996 U.S. public health officials finally licensed a purified acellular pertussis vaccine for infants.^21,22,23

Liability-Free Vaccine Industry Wants to Rewrite History

But they never forgave parents of vaccine-injured children for making it happen and, by 1998, they had branded vaccine safety advocates as "anti-vaccine."^24,25

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared FDA licensed vaccines to be "unavoidably unsafe" and handed drug companies a free "get out of jail" pass for vaccine injuries and deaths,²⁶ it is starting to look like the goal all along was to eventually bring back the old pertussis vaccine so the vaccine industry never again will have to spend another dime to improve a vaccine the FDA has licensed as "safe."

The attempt to rewrite history has begun, and the strategy is to rehabilitate the bad reputation of whole cell DPT vaccine so the clock can be turned back.

Vaccinologists may want to rewrite history, but it is harder to do when the facts are so well documented in the medical literature.²⁷ For those who want to get educated about the history of pertussis and pertussis vaccination, the online Library of Medicine is a great place to start.²⁸

• Pertussis Fact No. 1 — Described as the "100-day cough," B. pertussis disease has been around since at least the 16th century, and it can be especially serious for babies who cannot breathe when the sticky mucous produced by the gram-negative bacteria clogs their tiny airways.
The World Health Organization estimates that globally 85 percent of children have gotten three pertussis shots, but every year there are about 160,000 children under age 5 who die from pertussis complications like pneumonia, and over 60 percent of these children live in Africa.^29,30
Mortality from infectious diseases is always higher where people live in poverty, with crowding and poor sanitation, industrial pollution, substandard nutrition and lack of access to health care facilities.³¹
In 2017, there were 15,808 cases of pertussis reported in America with 13 deaths,³² although most cases of whooping cough are never identified and reported to the government. That's because you can be infected with pertussis and show few or no symptoms, whether you have been vaccinated or not.^33,34

• Pertussis Fact No. 2 — After recovering from a pertussis infection, natural immunity is thought to last between seven and 20 years and artificial immunity has been estimated to wane as early as two years after getting vaccinated with either whole cell or acellular pertussis vaccines.^35,36,37
Vaccinated and unvaccinated people can get two or three pertussis infections during their lifetime, and immunity can be asymptomatically boosted after the first infection.

EMERGENCY REPORT: Signed Executive Orders reveal Trump is planning mass arrests

EMERGENCY REPORT: Signed Executive Orders reveal Trump is planning mass arrests, military tribunals for deep state traitors like Comey, Clinton and Obama – UPDATE

Sunday, September 23, 2018 by: Mike Adams
Tags: barack obama, Collusion, deep state, executive orders, freedom, James Comey, Liberty, martial law, military tribunals, national emergency, President Trump, traitors, treason, White House

(Natural News) THIS IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY SPECIAL REPORT
As the documents cited here clearly show, President Trump is planning to carry out mass arrests of deep state traitors, including Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, James Comey and even Barack Obama. This is fully covered, with accompanying documentation from the U.S. Federal Register, in the links and video below. (This author is fully supportive of this effort to save America and arrest the traitors.)
The confirmation of Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court is the key to getting this done in a timely manner, which explains why the deranged Left is going to such outrageous extremes to fabricate false allegations against Kavanaugh and stage coordinated, well-funded protests to try to block the U.S. Senate from confirming him.

Once Kavanaugh is on the court, it will add the necessary support for constitutional “emergency powers” that concentrate power in the executive branch of government (currently headed by President Trump) during times of war and national emergencies.

FACT: The United States has been operating under a state of declared war since September, 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.

FACT: The United States has been operating under a declared national emergency, signed by President Trump, since December 20, 2017 (see proof document, below).

In this detailed video analysis, I lay out the evidence for President Trump’s plan to issue mass arrests of deep state traitors, then try them for treason under military tribunals. This is justified and lawful because the acts being committed against the United States of America by deep state traitors are acts of treason during a time of declared war. It is no coincidence that President Trump has deliberately funded the U.S. Pentagon with its most massive budgets ever conceived. This is because the Pentagon has agreed to run the military arrests of deep state traitors, under the direction of the Commander-In-Chief, President Trump.

President Trump, I believe, has decided to go to bat for America and utterly destroy the anti-American deep state crime ring that has been working for years to destroy this nation and end its national sovereignty. This will be Trump’s legacy. He may not even run for re-election after 2020, since his entire plan to arrest the traitors and restore the rule of law in America will require him to step aside once certain goals are accomplished (see detailed explanation below).

Note that in order to accomplish this, President Trump will need to declare temporary martial law. (UPDATE: See clarification about “martial law” in the video appended to the end of this article.) He will need our support during this time to maintain order and civility across the nation as the arrests and trials of deep state traitors are under way. We should all expect mass violence and chaos from the Left, which is following the “Rules for Radicals,” a blueprint for communist revolts and violent overthrow attempts of governments.

See the documents for yourself… this is all posted on the U.S. Federal Register government website

Here are the links to the documents cited in this comprehensive video:

Document #1: Executive Order 13818, signed December 20, 2017. “Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption”

This document specifically describes the crimes of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, James Comey and Robert Mueller under the “corruption” section, alluding to the Uranium One scandal and Obama’s multi-billion dollar money laundering operation that handed nuclear weapons capabilities to Iran. It says that the executive order targets, “any foreign person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney General… to be a current or former government official, or a person acting for or on behalf of such an official, who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in… corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery…”

This describes precisely what Clinton, Comey, Mueller, Obama, Brennan, McCabe and others carried out under the Obama regime. These are more than just felony federal crimes; they are acts of treason against the United States of America, carried out during a time of declared war.

From the Agenda Packet for the BOS Meeting 9.26.2018

From the Agenda Packet for the BOS Meeting 9.26.2018

A few nuggets of information for your enjoyment: 

The RFP for Stoney Bridge  "CPC is considering possibly funding it"

 Keep rolling over those short term loans.

Maybe someday, in our lifetime, Templeton will regain a Bond Rating.

In other news, looks like yet another road project was not submitted correctly to Mass DOT - this time to repave Bridge St. Need another Special Town Meeting vote? BTW, how about an update on the reconstruction of Royalston Road ? The Town has spent close to $1 million of Chapter 90 funds over multiple years to get that crappy road engineered.

Flooding in the basement of Scout Hall? Say it ain't so! 

 

 

ORWELLIAN

ORWELLIAN: Apple monitors your phone calls and emails, then calculates a “trust score” just like the communist Chinese government… it’s happening NOW, in America

Saturday, September 22, 2018 by: Vicki Batts
Tags: Apple, authoritarian regime, Big Tech, China, communism, computing, Glitch, Orewellian, Orwellian, police state, privacy watch, social credit score, spying, surveillance, technocrats, thought police, trust score

ORWELLIAN: Apple monitors your phone calls and emails, then calculates a “trust score” just like the communist Chinese government… it’s happening NOW, in America

Saturday, September 22, 2018 by: Vicki Batts
Tags: Apple, authoritarian regime, Big Tech, China, communism, computing, Glitch, Orewellian, Orwellian, police state, privacy watch, social credit score, spying, surveillance, technocrats, thought police, trust score

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(Natural News) If you value privacy and freedom, it may be time to ditch your iPhone (if you haven’t already). Thanks to some clever fine print, Apple is now granting itself the right to monitor users’ phone calls and emails. What is the massive left-wing tech company doing with this information? Generating “trust ratings” for Apple product users — a similar endeavor is currently underway in communist China. Overseas, the Chinese government is issuing “social credit scores” to its citizens, and now Big Tech is taking on a similar mission here on U.S. soil.

As Aldous Huxley once said, “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” And we surely are moving backwards: Under the regressive Left, technology today is now being used to quash freedom and silence dissenting thoughts and opinions, rather than to share information (as was once intended).

Apple now spying on users, giving out “trust ratings”

Apple has gone full-blown authoritarian with its latest initiative to crack-down on freedom. The corporate behemoth says that the “trust ratings,” which were added quietly in the latest iOS update, are benevolent in nature; supposedly these ratings will “help” with fraud prevention. Despite Apple’s insistence that the company is “fully committed to transparency,” and that the scores are “privacy-preserving,” how monitoring people’s phone calls and emails will prevent fraud (or preserve privacy) is never explained.

In fact, Apple hasn’t even provided a single scenario in which the trust score would prevent fraud.
Users can’t even see their own “trust scores,” unless they contact Apple directly and ask for their data.

This is where things go from authoritarian to Orwellian: Apple is now telling its users that by spying on them, the company is “protecting” them and preserving their “privacy.” This is what Orwell would have called “doublethink.” Big Tech and their followers see no quandaries with the idea of spying as a way to obtain privacy — and seemingly fail to notice these two ideas are at odds, probably because they’ve been indoctrinated into believing “Big Brother” knows best.

By now, anyone who partakes in the world of tech has accepted that they are being spied on to some degree — and that’s what they’re banking on. Tech companies like Apple are quietly inching towards the goal of total domination, slowly but surely. Some have already called Apple’s new trust scores “dangerous,” and it’s easy to see why.

Big Tech is on a slippery slope

Meetings the Week of September 24, 2018

Meetings the Week of September 24, 2018

 

Tuesday   9/25/18

Monty Tech              Fitchburg                            6:00 pm

Cap. Planning           PCS Town Hall*                  6:30 pm 

Planning                   PCS Town Hall*                    6:30 pm

 

Wednesday 9/26/18

 

Scout Hall                   PCS Town Hall*                    6:00 pm              
BOS                                PCS Town Hall*                 6:30 pm

 

 

Meeting Materials

 

Recreation                     PCS Town Hall*                     7:00 pm         
  

 

 

* Pauly Cosentino Sr. Town Hall 

Two Articles - Same Newspaper

 Article 1:September 19, 2018

S&P says Massachusetts reserves too thin to weather a recession

By Colin A. Young, State House News Service

Posted Sep 19, 2018 at 4:04 PM  

Updated Sep 19, 2018 at 4:04 PM

BOSTON — A decade after the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers and the financial crisis it triggered, analysts say only 20 states are well-positioned to handle the first-year shock of a recession with their reserves — and Massachusetts is not one of them.

A report from S&P Global Ratings this week placed Massachusetts at an “elevated risk” of financial distress during a hypothetical recession, one of 15 states that analysts said are the most poorly situated in the event of a new and prolonged downturn in the economy.

“Widening federal budget deficits and a still-low federal funds rate imply that the economic and fiscal brunt of the next recession is likely to fall more squarely on the states,” S&P analysts wrote, adding that state economies “could be challenged as never before by the next recession.”

To assess a state’s ability to respond to a recession, S&P considered a “moderate” recession in which the states experience a cumulative budget shortfall of $71.1 billion or 9.9 percent of revenues, and a “severe” shortfall of $84.7 billion or 11.8 percent, both exceeding the 8.1 percent year-over-year tax revenue decline between 2008 and 2009.

Massachusetts could expect to experience a 10 percent revenue shortfall under S&P’s moderate scenario and a 13 percent shortfall under the severe scenario. The state’s reserve fund could cover 62 percent of the shock of the first year of a moderate recession and 50 percent in a severe recession, S&P said.

The state’s reserves as of Aug. 1 stood at $1.3 billion, according to the state’s early August information statement. But House Speaker Robert DeLeo said this week that a $400 million deposit into the reserve fund this budget cycle meant the fund balance was “approaching something like $2 billion.” When Gov. Charlie Baker signed the newest state budget in July, his budget office estimated that fiscal 2018 would end with an estimated $1.78 billion in reserves.

“Unfortunately, things aren’t always going to be as rosy as they may be at this present time,” DeLeo said Monday night during an appearance on WBZ-AM. “You always have to be prepared, be prepared in terms of a possible recessionary period.”

In order to manage through the hypothetical recession, S&P said Massachusetts and other similarly-positioned states would have to make “fiscal adjustments that go beyond drawing from accumulated budget reserves alone.”

Though the credit rating agency warned many states are not prepared for a recession, it also said a recession is not likely to hit states in the next year.

“With GDP growth accelerating through mid-2018, S&P Global Ratings estimates the odds of a recession occurring during the next 12 months are even lower, in the range of 10% to 15%. Similarly, throughout 2018 state fiscal health has stabilized and strengthened,” the agency said.

DeLeo said he was “very excited” that the rainy day fund balance was growing.

“Not only is it a good sign of good fiscal management, it’s also again important should we hit a time when those funds may be necessary to take care of the most neediest amongst us,” he said on Monday.

In June 2017, S&P Global Ratings lowered its rating for Massachusetts bonds to AA from AA+ and admonished the state for its approach to savings.

“The downgrade reflects what we view as the commonwealth’s failure to follow through on rebuilding its reserves as stipulated through its own fiscal policies aimed at mitigating the state’s propensity for revenue volatility,” S&P Global Ratings credit analyst John Sugden said at the time.

Michael P. Norton contributed reporting.

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Article 2:

Massachusetts has a $1B surplus; why no hurry to spend it?

By Bob Salsberg, The Associated Press

Posted Sep 22, 2018 at 8:52 PM  

Updated Sep 22, 2018 at 8:52 PM

BOSTON — It seems a reasonable assumption that Massachusetts politicians would eagerly find ways to spend more than $1 billion that — in a manner of speaking — is just lying around on Beacon Hill.

Not so, apparently.

Nearly three months after the state’s previous fiscal year ended with a sizeable revenue surplus, the Democrat-controlled Legislature has yet to act on a plan for how to use that unanticipated cash and officially close the books on fiscal year 2018.

Republican Gov. Charlie Baker filed a so-called supplemental budget with lawmakers in July that includes spending about $150 million of the surplus to enhance school safety and other education initiatives.

The Legislature ended formal sessions for the year Aug. 1 without acting on the measure. While lawmakers continue to meet informally, only routine or uncontested bills typically advance during informal sessions.

The budget is stalled even as many candidates on the November ballot push for greater investment in things like transportation, education and opioid treatment.

A closer look:
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HOW DID WE GET HERE?

Massachusetts revenue officials say the state collected about $28 billion in taxes during the fiscal year that ended June 30. The total exceeded by more than $1.1 billion the projections on which the state had based its budget for the year, thereby creating a surplus.

Experts cautioned that the windfall, coming after several years of disappointing revenue performance, likely resulted from one-time taxpayer behavior and can’t be counted upon to repeat in future years.
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BAKER’S PLAN
Legislation filed by the governor July 13 called for spending roughly half the surplus and depositing the rest into the state’s rainy day fund.

The administration proposed using $72 million to help make public schools safer in the aftermath of school shootings nationally, including the Feb. 14 attack that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida. The plan includes $20 million to upgrade security and emergency communications in school buildings and $40 million for school districts to hire additional social workers and mental health counselors.

Also in Baker’s proposal: $30 million in “intervention and turnaround efforts” in districts with chronic student achievement gaps; $50 million for road and bridge repairs; $94 million to fund collective bargaining agreements with state workers; $48 million for unfunded retiree health costs; and $5 million in housing assistance for people who came to Massachusetts from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

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WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
Baker’s plan was introduced at a time when lawmakers were still grappling with an overdue budget for the new fiscal year that started July 1. They also were scrambling to complete work on other major bills before formal sessions ended.

The supplemental budget did not come up for a vote. It remains under consideration by the House and Senate Ways and Means Committees.
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WHERE THINGS STAND
House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Karen Spilka both said after a recent private meeting with Baker they remained committed to acting on the surplus.

“I know we will get it done as soon as we can,” Spilka said without providing a timetable.

The Legislature isn’t bound by the governor’s recommendations and could formulate its own plans for spending the extra cash. But it’s unlikely to be an easy process.

Under legislative rules for informal sessions, only bills with universal support can be enacted. A single dissenting vote would be enough to derail the measure. And it’s hard to imagine nearly 200 legislators fully agreeing on what to do with more than $1 billion.

Disagreements on spending priorities are likely. Some lawmakers may seek funding for projects in their own districts. There may well be calls for financial assistance to victims of the Sept. 13 gas explosions and fires in the Merrimack Valley. Republicans might demand a portion of the surplus go to tax relief.

Further adding to the uncertainty is that both the House and Senate budget-writing panels are in transition.

House Ways and Means Chairman Jeffrey Sanchez will leave office at the end of the year after being defeated in the Sept. 4 primary. Senate Ways and Means has been without a permanent chair since Spilka was elevated to the presidency in July.
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DEADLINE TO ACT?
By law, the state comptroller is required to file what is called the Statutory Basis Financial Report by Oct. 31, a document that officially closes the books on the state’s previous fiscal year.

But that deadline has been missed before. In fact, it was missed just a year ago when a supplemental budget wasn’t signed into law until Nov. 3.
 

 

  

 

Gas disaster exposes problems with Merrimack Valley pipes

Experts call replacement timeline 'aggressive'

• By Zoe Mathews and Lisa Kashinsky | Staff writers

A natural gas expert called the two-month timeline proposed for replacing 48 miles of pipeline in the Merrimack Valley "extremely aggressive."

Mark McDonald, president of NatGas Consulting, said the plan to restore gas service by Nov. 19 to all homes and businesses across the three communities affected by the gas disaster was "unrealistic, wishful thinking."

"Weeks doesn't come into my realm of possibility," McDonald said. "It would take normally one to two years to aggressively replace that level of infrastructure."

Over-pressurization of gas lines on Sept. 13 triggered a series of explosions and fires across Lawrence, Andover and North Andover that killed an 18-year-old, injured several more and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes. The incident forced the shut-off of 8,600 gas meters in the affected area, plus the shutdown of thousands more as a precaution.

Service is being restored quickly to customers in the area that was not affected by the over-pressurization -- but restoring service in the affected zone is expected to take much longer. The pressure is on to restore gas flow, as homes grow colder by the night and businesses continue to lose money by the day.

The gas disaster exposes larger issues with the Merrimack Valley's aging utility infrastructure, an antiquated system that still includes century-old pipes prone to leaks.

Governor meets with merchants to plan support, with 100 Andover businesses closed due to gas disaster,

 

Speaking after a business meeting in Andover Wednesday morning are, from left, Gov. Charlie Baker, Andover Town Manager Andrew Flanagan and state Housing and Economic Development Director Jay Ash.
courtesy photo

 

ANDOVER — Gov. Charlie Baker and Housing and state Economic Development Director Jay Ash met with Andover Town Manager Andrew Flanagan and local business owners Wednesday morning to discuss economic issues in the wake of last week's gas explosions.

"I appreciate the decision of the town manager to bring folks together this morning to talk about some of the on the ground issues that businesses are facing," Baker said.
State and local leaders said they are working to establish a timeline to get businesses crippled by the disaster back up and running.

Flanagan said Andover's entire downtown is in the area affected by the disaster, with about 100 businesses and 67 food establishments currently closed.

"In the coming days, I hope (we) are able to publicly announce a plan for restoration and to get these businesses open," Flanagan said.

Baker said the process for damage assessment and mitigation will "be in many respects, a house to house, building to building, business to business type activity."

"We're looking to get that started as soon as we have the resources marshaled to do it."

A complete report will appear in Thursday's print edition of The Eagle-Tribune and online at eagletribune.com.

 

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The Clear Legal Basis that Vaccines Cause Autism

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GreenMedInfo exclusive excerpt from the upcoming book, How to End the Autism Epidemic.

"I also find, with a high degree of medical certainty, that the set of immunizations administered to Yates at age 11 months while he was ill was the immediate cause of his autistic regression because of the effect of these immunizations to further impair the ability of his weakened mitochondria to supply adequate amounts of energy for the brain, the highest-energy consuming tissue in the body."
—Dr. Richard Kelley, Professor of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University (Kennedy Krieger Institute)¹

There are only a few people in the world I believe could end the autism epidemic single-handedly. The director of the CDC would be one, the president of the American Academy of Pediatrics probably another. Dr. Andrew Zimmerman, the former director of medical research at the prestigious Kennedy Krieger Institute at Johns Hopkins University, would be the third.
For years Dr. Zimmerman served as a go-to expert in “vaccine court” to dispute parental claims that vaccines caused their children’s autism. And as the reigning national expert on the topic of autism in the scientific community, Dr. Zimmerman’s opinions held tremendous weight: His written testimony helped deny the claims of the families of more than five thousand children with autism during an Omnibus Autism Proceeding in 2009 in vaccine court, as I will explain in a moment.

In the late 1990s a young doctor fresh out of medical school joined the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore as a resident and worked closely with Dr. Zimmerman. His name was Jon Poling. In 2000 Dr. Poling’s nineteen-month-old daughter, Hannah, experienced a massive regression into autism after her vaccinations, much as happened to my son. Unlike my son, Hannah’s parents had access to the most sophisticated autism research center in the world, and Dr. Zimmerman and several of his colleagues, including Dr. Richard Kelley, who was serving as director of Kennedy Krieger’s laboratory, tried to figure out what had happened to her, and why.

Of course, everyone at Kennedy Krieger initially approached the idea that vaccines had played a role in Hannah’s regression skeptically, including Dr. Poling himself. He was a decidedly mainstream neurologist, having attended Georgetown to get both his MD and PhD. He and his wife Teri had fully vaccinated Hannah, and he’d explain many times over the next few years that he wouldn’t have believed it if he hadn’t seen it himself.

Through an unexpected series of events, Dr. Poling and Dr. Zimmerman, colleagues at the most prestigious autism research facility in the world, nearly ended the autism epidemic in 2008. Because of Hannah Poling, Dr. Zimmerman became convinced that vaccines are indeed capable of causing autism under certain circumstances, representing a change in his previously held positions. Like any good scientist, Dr. Zimmerman appeared willing to go where the evidence took him, even toward something as inconvenient as a vaccine-autism connection.

Dr. Zimmerman’s professional opinion about what caused Hannah’s autism, given the tremendous weight he carried within the scientific c community and his long-time role as an expert witness, triggered a panic at both the CDC and the Department of Justice. It led to a quick twenty-million-dollar settlement with the Polings in 2010, but not before Hannah’s story became worldwide news.²

I’ve always had so many questions about the Hannah Poling case, Dr. Zimmerman, Dr. Kelley, and Dr. Poling. Soon after the news spectacle, the Polings disappeared from the public, never to be heard from again. Sources have told me that the Department of Justice made it clear to the Polings that if they wanted to receive their vaccine court compensation, they needed to keep quiet. They appear to have complied.

Very recently, however, Drs. Zimmerman and Kelley privately agreed to serve as expert witnesses in the first vaccine injury trial of any kind in a regular courtroom in more than thirty years. The trial is a medical negligence case in Tennessee, alleging that a pediatrician allowed a child to develop autism by vaccinating him when there was clearly excessive risk, based on previous reactions he’d had to vaccines. The boy’s name is Yates Hazlehurst, and he was one of three “test cases” in the aforementioned Omnibus Autism Proceeding back in 2009—only a year prior to the DOJ’s settlement with the Poling family—a case that was lost partially based on the written testimony of Dr. Zimmerman.³

Drs. Zimmerman and Kelley, under oath, provided depositions for the trial as expert witnesses. What’s significant is that in the future they would be testifying on behalf of the Hazlehurst family, confirming that in Yates’s case, vaccines caused his autism. Yes, you read that right. In 2009 the Omnibus Autism Proceeding concluded that Yates Hazlehurst’s autism was not caused by vaccination, a decision based partially on Dr. Zimmerman’s testimony—and a decision that, significantly, served as the basis for denying claims to more than five thousand other children.

Fast forward to 2017, and Drs. Kelley and Zimmerman are expert witnesses for the same child, and they are both saying, “with a reasonable degree of scientific certainty,” that vaccines caused Yates’s autism.

Confused yet? I know I was. Let’s start at the beginning.



The “Vaccine Court”
If vaccines cause autism, you’d think “vaccine court” would be a great place to find the evidence for it. Compensated claims typically include extensive details about timelines, medical tests, and doctors’ opinions. They read more like case reports in medical journals than legal settlements.

Fluoride, Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb

SOURCE: Waste Not # 414 | September 1997 | By Chris Bryson & Joel Griffiths

Introduction: The following article was commissioned by the Christian Science Monitor in the spring of 1997. Despite much favorable comment from editors, and full documentation, the story remains unpublished by the Monitor. By any yardstick, this report was an award-winning scoop for any national paper. The report offers a glimpse into the history of fluoride, a bio-accumulative toxic that Americans ingest every day. The authors, Griffiths and Bryson, spent more than a year on research. With the belief that the information should be withheld no longer, the authors gave their report to Waste Not, and others, with a short note: “use as you wish.”
This introduction is taken from Waste Not #414 (September 1997) where the article was first published. The article went on to be nominated as the year’s 18th most censored story in the 1998 Project Censored Series.

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Fluoride, Teeth, and the Atomic Bomb
by Chris Bryson & Joel Griffiths

Some fifty years after the United States began adding fluoride to public water supplies to reduce cavities in children’s teeth, declassified government documents are shedding new light on the roots of that still-controversial public health measure, revealing a surprising connection between fluoride and the dawning of the nuclear age.

Today, two thirds of U.S. public drinking water is fluoridated. Many municipalities still resist the practice, disbelieving the government’s assurances of safety.

Since the days of World War II, when this nation prevailed by building the world’s first atomic bomb, U.S. public health leaders have maintained that low doses of fluoride are safe for people, and good for children’s teeth.

That safety verdict should now be re-examined in the light of hundreds of once-secret WWII documents obtained by Griffiths and Bryson –including declassified papers of the Manhattan Project, the U.S. military group that built the atomic bomb.

Fluoride was the key chemical in atomic bomb production, according to the documents. Massive quantities of fluoride– millions of tons– were essential for the manufacture of bomb-grade uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War. One of the most toxic chemicals known, fluoride rapidly emerged as the leading chemical health hazard of the U.S atomic bomb program–both for workers and for nearby communities, the documents reveal.

Other revelations include:
* Much of the original proof that fluoride is safe for humans in low doses was generated by A-bomb program scientists, who had been secretly ordered to provide “evidence useful in litigation” against defense contractors for fluoride injury to citizens. The first lawsuits against the U.S. A-bomb program were not over radiation, but over fluoride damage, the documents show.

* Human studies were required. Bomb program researchers played a leading role in the design and implementation of the most extensive U.S. study of the health effects of fluoridating public drinking water–conducted in Newburgh, New York from 1945 to 1956. Then, in a classified operation code-named “Program F,” they secretly gathered and analyzed blood and tissue samples from Newburgh citizens, with the cooperation of State Health Department personnel.

* The original secret version–obtained by these reporters–of a 1948 study published by Program F scientists in the Journal of the American Dental Association shows that evidence of adverse health effects from fluoride was censored by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) –considered the most powerful of Cold War agencies– for reasons of national security.

* The bomb program’s fluoride safety studies were conducted at the University of Rochester, site of one of the most notorious human radiation experiments of the Cold War, in which unsuspecting hospital patients were injected with toxic doses of radioactive plutonium. The fluoride studies were conducted with the same ethical mind-set, in which “national security” was paramount.

* The U.S. government’s conflict of interest–and its motive to prove fluoride “safe” — has not until now been made clear to the general public in the furious debate over water fluoridation since the 1950’s, nor to civilian researchers and health professionals, or journalists.

Voter's Guide

Let Shiva Debate

Let Shiva Debate

Freedom means you have choices. Competition and meritocracy are the foundation of the American system. In the US Senate race, three are on the ballot, but only two get to be on the debate stage? Elizabeth Warren has colluded with the University of Massachusetts to leave me off the debate stage. She would rather have a "toy boy" to be her controlled opposition than a real opponent -- somebody with 4 degrees from MIT, who started 7 companies, creating jobs in Massachusetts and a real statesman.

How is this fair to the citizens of Massachusetts, the nearly 20,000 who signed our nomination papers, and the American people that I be left off the debate stage? This is not a left or right issue, but something no American should tolerate.

I will not allow them to do this to YOU. As of last Friday, September 14, 2018, I filed a preliminary injunction against the University of Massachusetts who has colluded with Warren to keep me off the debate stage. The good news is, the court has informed my attorneys, "In light of the time-sensitivity in this matter, the court enters the following expedited briefing schedule: defendants will have 7 days after plaintiff's filing of the return of service to submit an opposition to the PI motion, plaintiff will have 3 days thereafter to submit a reply of no more than 10 pages. The court tentatively schedules a hearing on this matter for Wednesday, 10/3/2018, at 3pm."

The complaint in the federal court in Massachusetts alleges the violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and Article 16 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.

To put this in perspective, independent candidates were included in the gubernatorial debates in 2010 and 2014.

Students Don't Vote Absentee Because "They Don't Know Where To Get Stamps," Study Shows

by Tyler Durden

Tue, 09/18/2018 - 21:45

 

Despite all of the "activism " taking place on college campuses (activism that is tantamount to harassment of individuals who don't agree with SJW orthodoxy), voting apparently isn't a high priority for many modern students, who are apparently too busy checking their Instagram to figure out where they can buy a stamp to send in their absentee ballots.



To wit, a Fairfax County focus group conducted this summer found that many college students who have requested and received an absentee ballot have simply neglected to send it in because they don't know where to buy a stamp for the envelope, according to WTOP.

Lisa Connors, who ran the focus group, said she was surprised to learn how frequently this came up.
The focus group, which was sponsored by the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs, involved college interns from across several county departments.

"One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don’t know where to get stamps," Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs said.

"That seems to be like a hump that they can’t get across."

With the Nov. 6 midterm vote drawing nearer, the county is encouraging area students to vote in-person absentee instead of relying on the envelope.

"We’re really working on information to get the college students to be able to actually vote where they’re registered and vote absentee because it’s very confusing and it has a lot of pieces that can sort of go wrong in the middle of it," said Kate Hanley, Fairfax County Electoral Board secretary.

Students can also opt to change their voter registration. Meanwhile, Fairfax County General Registrar Gary Scott said he wants to ensure that ballot request forms are filled out correctly, with students listing their home address and residence address in the correct boxes. If the form isn't filled out correctly, they won't receive their ballots. 

But instead of learning how stamps work, maybe students will find it easier to organize a nationwide protest demanding that the government authorize absentee voting via Snapchat.