Sunday, May 8, 2011

Amanda Peet 2012 movie and vaccinations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Friedman_xcerpt:Friedman's
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son is screenwriter David Benioff, who is married to actress Amanda Peet.[citation needed]

Stephen Friedman (born December 21, 1937)[1] is the former Chairman of the United States President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He was nominated on October 27, 2005 to replace Brent Scowcroft in the position.


[edit] Life and career

Friedman graduated from Cornell University in 1959, where he was a wrestler and a member of the Quill and Dagger society. He received his law degree from Columbia Law School in 1962 (Law Review). He worked for much of his career with investment bank Goldman Sachs, holding numerous executive roles. He served as the company's co-chief operating officer from 1987 to 1990, was the company's co-chairman from 1990 to 1992, and the sole chairman from 1992 to 1994; he still serves on the company board.
From 1998 to 2002, he served as a senior principal of Marsh & McLennan Capital Corp. He was from 2002 to 2005 United States Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and director of the National Economic Council.
Among other public service activities, Friedman is the Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Columbia University, Chairman Emeritus of the Executive Committee of the Brookings Institution, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a benefactor of his alma mater Cornell University, particularly its wrestling program as the college's wrestling building is known as the Friedman Center.
On May 7, 2009 Friedman resigned as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in response to criticism of his December 2008 purchase of $3 million of stock in Goldman Sachs.[2] Friedman, who remains a member of Goldman Sachs' board, came into violation of Federal Reserve policy when Goldman was converted to a bank holding company in September 2008, thereby placing it under the regulatory authority of the New York Fed. Friedman requested a waiver from this violation when the conversion occurred, which was granted roughly two and a half months later.[3] In his resignation letter, Friedman stated that the Fed did not need the "distraction" caused by his "public service motivated continuation on the Reserve Bank Board...being characterized as improper."

[edit] Personal life

Friedman's brother is Richard Friedman, a law professor at the University of Michigan and a leading expert in the Confrontation Clause of the United States Constitution.[citation needed]
Friedman's son is screenwriter David Benioff, who is married to actress Amanda Peet.[citation needed]

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brent_Scowcroft
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http://articles.nydailynews.com/2008-09-30/gossip/29435141_1_childhood-vaccines-autism-treatment-jenny-mccarthy
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Jenny McCarthy and Amanda Peet duke it out over childhood vaccines and autism
BY ROSEMARY BLACK
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Both Jenny McCarthy and Amanda Peet have impressive credits attached to their names, but M.D. isn't one of them.
But that hasn't stopped them from raging a war in the press over childhood vaccines.
McCarthy, whose son is autistic, is against childhood vaccines because she believes there is a correlation between the shots and the impairment.
Peet, who has a toddler as well, is the spokesperson for Every Child By Two, a non-profit group that wants all kids vaccinated by age two. She labeled such anti-vaccine parents as "parasites" in a recent interview with Cookie.

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The article reignited sparks in what's been a lengthy debate over whether or not vaccines are in fact linked to autism.
Responding in Spectrum magazine, McCarthy says, "I am so proud to be a 'parasite.'"
Even though Peet later apologized for using the word "parasite," that has not quieted her critics.
"She did not apologize for what she said, she just apologized for the term 'parasite,'" says Amy Pisani, executive director of Every Child By Two. "We aren't here to talk about Jenny McCarthy or to argue about Jenny McCarthy. Amanda is just trying to give people access to the scientific information so they can make an informed decision about vaccinating a child, just as she did."
Autism, which is characterized by impairments in social communication and interaction, affects about 1 in 150 children and is typically diagnosed between the ages of 18 and 36 months. It affects four times as many boys as girls. Though early intervention is very effective, there so far is no proven cause of the disorder. Genetics is believed to play a role.
The American Academy recently released the following statement: "There is no valid scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism. But because of unfounded fears about vaccines, the U.S. is suffering its biggest measles outbreak in a decade."
More than 130 cases of measles have been diagnosed in the U.S. since the beginning of the year, says Dr. Ivy Chong, program director at the Scott Center for Autism Treatment at the Florida Institute of Technology. "Of these cases, 91 percent of the individuals who got measles had not been vaccinated," Chong says.
Why do parents believe there is a link between autism and vaccines?
Dr. Martin Myers, professor of both Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine & Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch and author of "Do Vaccines Cause This?" says it could be because autism shows up right around when shots are being given.
"We give a lot of vaccines to kids and we give them when the kids are young, often at the same time that developmental problems an be detected," he says. "It's hard for a parent to understand that the association is just coincidental."
Childhood vaccines have become suspect in recent years - especially as the number of recommended shots has grown. In 1983, the CDC recommended 23 doses of seven vaccines for kids up to age six. Today that number has climbed to 48 doses of 12 vaccines - and that doesn't even count the flu shot.


http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/08/every-child-by.html
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On the firing line was Lederle Laboratories of Wayne, NJ, one of the largest manufacturers of DTP vaccine at the time. A spokesperson for Lederle was charged with working the press to try and defend DTP, mercury, and vaccines in general--he was the Paul Offit of his time. This spokesperson, in January 1991, was quoted in the New York Times saying, "Any chemical product, because it is a chemical substance, does produce some side effects. The current vaccine [DTP], as far as we are concerned, is a very safe and efficacious vaccine."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyeth
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Wyeth, formerly one of the companies owned by American Home Products Corporation (AHP), was a pharmaceutical company. The company was based in Madison, New Jersey, USA. They were known for manufacturing the over-the-counter (OTC) drugs Robitussin and the analgesic Advil (ibuprofen), as well as the prescription drugs Premarin and Effexor, which both boast over US$3 billion in sales annually.
On January 23, 2009 The Wall Street Journal reported that Pfizer was in talks to buy Wyeth at a cost of US$68 billion.[1] On January 25, Pfizer agreed to the purchase, a deal financed with cash, shares and loans.[2] The deal was completed on October 15, 2009.[3]

http://www.carlyle.com/Media%20Room/News%20Archive/2010/item10919.html
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Mr. Essner said, "I am excited to join Carlyle and partner with the Carlyle healthcare team. We see a range of opportunities in the U.S. and globally for private capital to help strengthen and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare sector."

Mr. Essner served at Wyeth from 1989-2008, where he led Wyeth's transformation into a global leader in biotechnology and vaccines. After joining Wyeth (formerly American Home Products Corporation) in 1989 as Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, for Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, Mr. Essner was named Executive Vice President for Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories in 1991. He then became President of Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories in 1993. In 1997, Mr. Essner was named President of Wyeth-Ayerst Global Pharmaceuticals and was elected to the position of Executive Vice President and member of the Board of Directors for Wyeth. In 2000, he was named President and Chief Operating Officer. In 2001, Mr. Essner was elected Chief Executive Officer and in 2003 he became Chairman; he retired from both positions in 2008. Mr. Essner joined Wyeth from Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation where he was Chief Operating Officer.

http://www.us.sandoz.com/site/en/company/profile/history/content.shtml
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1996 By December, Ciba-Geigy, Ltd. and Sandoz Ltd. merged to form Novartis AG. With this merger, Novartis AG became one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. 

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/CibaGeigy-Ltd-Company-History.html
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Early in the century both Ciba and Geigy established factories in Germany, due in part to a labor shortage in Switzerland, but also to avoid enforcement of environmental laws designed to reduce pollution in the River Rhine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciba_Specialty_Chemicals
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History
Part of the merger agreement between Ciba Geigy and Sandoz was that the former's industrial chemicals business would be spun off as a separate business, leading to the formation of Ciba Specialty Chemicals plc.
In 2004 Ciba bought paper chemical manufacturer Raisio Chemicals from Raisio Group. In 2006, Ciba divested its Textile Dyes and Chemical Auxiliaries business in a sale to Huntsman Corporation.
In 2007 the company announced the intention to adopt the name Ciba Inc.
Ciba's board of directors agreed to a €3.4 billion takeover offer from BASF, the world's largest chemicals company, on 15 September 2008.[5]

[edit] Board of directors

  • Michael Heinz Chief Executive Officer
  • Armin Meyer Chairman of the Board
  • Beat W. Hess Vice Chairman of the Board
  • Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Member of the Board
  • Erwin W. Heri Member of the Board
  • Gertrud Höhler Member of the Board
  • Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn Member of the Board
  • Peter Littmann Member of the Board
  • Uli Sigg Member of the Board
http://www.basf.com/group/corporate/en/about-basf/corporate-management/board/heinz


http://www.corporateaccountability2010.com/london/faculty/beat-hess.php
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1972 - 1975
Various positions as legal advisor to Swiss government agencies and as law clerk at Swiss courts.

1977 - 1987

Legal counsel BBC Brown Boveri Ltd, a multinational engineering group and manufacturer of power plants and electrical equipment, domiciled in Switzerland.
International and multilingual practice with a wide range of transactional legal matters, contracts for large projects and extensive negotiation and drafting experience.

1988 to 2003

General Counsel ABB Group, created in 1988 after the merger between the BBC Brown Boveri and ASEA groups, with business activities in over 150 countries, mainly in power and automation technologies, oil, gas and petrochemical equipment, industrial installations and financial services; approx. 160,000 employees and USD 26 billion in sales.
Broad experience in leading a legal and compliance department with 150 lawyers, 50 compliance officers and over 50 intellectual property specialists; advice to Group Executive Management and Board of Directors on all legal matters of group-wide importance; leadership or key role in negotiations of large acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and other transactions; ultimate responsibility for all major legal issues, including litigation, intellectual property matters, risk assessments in large projects, group sales and agency organization, intra-group funding schemes and arms' length dealing terms, corporate organization; ultimate responsibility for compliance and risk management matters.

2003 to present

Group Legal Director and Member of the Group Executive Committee of Royal Dutch Shell plc.
Head of a global legal function with some 650 lawyers and approx. 350 intellectual property professionals, compliance officers, paralegals and support staff worldwide.
Member of the Shell Group Executive Committee with wide responsibilities for all legal, intellectual property (patents, trademarks) and compliance matters; ultimate accountability for all major litigation, corporate transactions and proceedings, regulatory affairs, the governance and structure of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, and for all legal aspects of the Group's business activities, strategic orientation and relationship with its stakeholders.

Dec 31, 2010 ... Dr. Beat W. Hess. Legal Director, Member of the Group. Executive Committee, Royal Dutch Shell plc, The Hague. Prof. Dr. Arnold Koller. Former member of the Swiss Federal ..... BASF, Ludwigshafen. Dr. Hanno Wollmann ...
www.mbl.unisg.ch/de/content/download/396/1865/version/8... www.mbl.unisg.ch/de/content/download/396/1865/version/8/file/Definitiv_MBL_Studienbroschuere_2010.pdf

http://www.answers.com/topic/schindler-holding-ag
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In 1985 a new generation of management took over the Schindler group. Alfred N. Schindler--an MBA graduate of the renowned Wharton School of Finance in Pennsylvania, as well as a graduate of the University of Bern Law School--together with Luc Bonnard and Dr. Uli Sigg were elected at the general shareholder meeting as the new executive directors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Lehn
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Jean-Marie Lehn

Born30 September 1939 (1939-09-30) (age 71)
Rosheim, France
NationalityFrance
FieldsSupramolecular chemistry
Known forcryptands
Notable awardsNobel prize in Chemistry in 1987

Jean-Marie Lehn (born September 30, 1939) is a French chemist. He received the Nobel Prize together with Donald Cram and Charles Pedersen in 1987 for his work in Chemistry, particularly his synthesis of the cryptands. Lehn was an early innovator in the field of supramolecular chemistry, i.e., the chemistry of host-guest molecular assemblies created by intermolecular interactions, and continues to innovate in this field. He has published in excess of 800 peer-reviewed articles in chemistry literature.

http://vactruth.com/2009/09/21/study-clearly-demonstrates-that-aluminum-found-in-vaccines-can-cause-neurologic-damage/
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Study clearly demonstrates that aluminum found in vaccines can cause neurologic damage

By Admin - vactruth.com | September 21st, 2009 | Category: Top Stories | 0 Comments and 0 Reactions

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Written by Roman Bystrianyk
Monday, 21 September 2009 22:17
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Randi Allaire was an Information Management Specialist in the military for almost four years. Three and one-half years were spent with the Air National Guard as Information Management, the previous five and half was with the Army Guard as a Flight Operations Specialist.
As part of the military’s program to protect their troops from chemical and biological weapons, Randi was required to take the anthrax vaccine. On March 14, 1999 she was given her fourth anthrax vaccine. It was after that shot that she has suffered chronic fatigue, memory lapses, migraines, pain in the forearms, and other aches and pains. She received no help with her condition and only denials that the anthrax vaccine could cause any of these problems and that the cause of her problems was likely the “flu” or too much “stress”. She was eventually thrown out of the military because she refused to take the fifth anthrax vaccine shot in fear for her own personal health.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17114826
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Neuromolecular Med. 2007;9(1):83-100.

Aluminum adjuvant linked to Gulf War illness induces motor neuron death in mice.

Petrik MS, Wong MC, Tabata RC, Garry RF, Shaw CA.

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Department of Ophthalmology and Program in Neuroscience, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. mspetrik@interchange.ubc.ca

Abstract

Gulf War illness (GWI) affects a significant percentage of veterans of the 1991 conflict, but its origin remains unknown. Associated with some cases of GWI are increased incidences of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurological disorders. Whereas many environmental factors have been linked to GWI, the role of the anthrax vaccine has come under increasing scrutiny. Among the vaccine's potentially toxic components are the adjuvants aluminum hydroxide and squalene. To examine whether these compounds might contribute to neuronal deficits associated with GWI, an animal model for examining the potential neurological impact of aluminum hydroxide, squalene, or aluminum hydroxide combined with squalene was developed. Young, male colony CD-1 mice were injected with the adjuvants at doses equivalent to those given to US military service personnel. All mice were subjected to a battery of motor and cognitive-behavioral tests over a 6-mo period postinjections. Following sacrifice, central nervous system tissues were examined using immunohistochemistry for evidence of inflammation and cell death. Behavioral testing showed motor deficits in the aluminum treatment group that expressed as a progressive decrease in strength measured by the wire-mesh hang test (final deficit at 24 wk; about 50%). Significant cognitive deficits in water-maze learning were observed in the combined aluminum and squalene group (4.3 errors per trial) compared with the controls (0.2 errors per trial) after 20 wk. Apoptotic neurons were identified in aluminum-injected animals that showed significantly increased activated caspase-3 labeling in lumbar spinal cord (255%) and primary motor cortex (192%) compared with the controls. Aluminum-treated groups also showed significant motor neuron loss (35%) and increased numbers of astrocytes (350%) in the lumbar spinal cord. The findings suggest a possible role for the aluminum adjuvant in some neurological features associated with GWI and possibly an additional role for the combination of adjuvants.

Alan Shaw on the Benefits of Industrial Biotechnology
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5u3qPj8MNg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_shuffling
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DNA shuffling is a way to rapidly propagate beneficial mutations in a directed evolution experiment. It is used to rapidly increase DNA library size. [1]

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[edit] Procedure

DNAse I is first used to fragment a set of parent genes into pieces of 50-100 bp in length. This is then followed by a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) without primers- DNA fragments with sufficient overlapping homologous sequence will anneal to each other and are then extended by DNA polymerase.
Several rounds of this PCR extension are allowed to occur, after some of the DNA molecules reach the size of the parental genes. These genes can then be amplified with another PCR, this time with the addition of primers that are designed to complement the ends of the strands. The primers may have additional sequences added to their 5' ends, such as sequences for restriction enzyme recognition sites needed for ligation into a cloning vector.
It is possible to recombine portion of these genes to generate hybrids or chimeric forms with unique properties, this is called DNA shuffling.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15011779
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Curr Opin Mol Ther. 2004 Feb;6(1):34-9.

Development of novel vaccines using DNA shuffling and screening strategies.

Locher CP, Soong NW, Whalen RG, Punnonen J.

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Maxygen Inc, Division of Infectious Diseases, 200 Penobscot Drive, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA. christopher.locher@maxygen.com

Abstract

DNA shuffling and screening technologies recombine and evolve genes in vitro to rapidly obtain molecules with improved biological activity and fitness. In this way, genes from related strains are bred like plants or livestock and their successive progeny are selected. These technologies have also been called molecular breeding-directed molecular evolution. Recent developments in bioinformatics-assisted computer programs have facilitated the design, synthesis and analysis of DNA shuffled libraries of chimeric molecules. New applications in vaccine development are among the key features of DNA shuffling and screening technologies because genes from several strains or antigenic variants of pathogens can be recombined to create novel molecules capable of inducing immune responses that protect against infections by multiple strains of pathogens. In addition, molecules such as co-stimulatory molecules and cytokines have been evolved to have improved T-cell proliferation and cytokine production compared with the wild-type human molecules. These molecules can be used to immunomodulate vaccine responsiveness and have multiple applications in infectious diseases, cancer, allergy and autoimmunity. Moreover, DNA shuffling and screening technologies can facilitate process development of vaccine manufacturing through increased expression of recombinant polypeptides and viruses. Therefore, DNA shuffling and screening technologies can overcome some of the challenges that vaccine development currently faces.

http://www.cov.com/practice/intellectual_property/patent_litigation/biotechnology/
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Representation of Maxygen in a case involving “gene shuffling.”  An arbitrator issued an injunction against opponent Enchira Biotechnology through 2017.  Maxygen was declared to be the exclusive owner of the technology as against Enchira, and was awarded attorneys fees and costs.


http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/21362/?mod=related
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They found that 25 patients in a screen of more than 5,000 people with mental retardation, autism, or congenital abnormalities were missing a similar 1.35 megabase piece of DNA. No one within a similar size group of healthy people harbored a variation in that region, meaning that the deletion is the likely cause--at least in part--of the patients' problems.

Newsmaker: Brent Scowcroft on strategy in Afghanistan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtNlmNb3Ldk


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Scowcroft
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Positions held
Prior to joining the Bush administration, Scowcroft was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc. He has had a long association with Henry Kissinger, having served as his assistant when Kissinger was the National Security Adviser under Nixon, from 1968.

Deputy Assistant For National Security Affairs Brent Scowcroft discusses the situation in Vietnam with Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller and Central Intelligence Agency Director William Colby during a break in a meeting of the National Security Council., 04/24/1975
He is the founder and president of The Forum for International Policy, a think tank. Scowcroft is also president of The Scowcroft Group, Inc., an international business consulting firm. He is co-chair, along with Joseph Nye, of the Aspen Strategy Group. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of The Center for Strategic and International Studies and The Atlantic Council of the United States.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Quill_and_Dagger_members
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Business

[edit] Banking and finance

[edit] Consumer products

http://www.ivygateblog.com/2010/03/secret-societies-stop-worshipping-satan-to-sell-t-shirts-become-total-pussies/
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Secret Societies Stop Worshipping Satan to Sell T-Shirts, Become Total Pussies
by Peter Finocchiaro | March 30, 2010 at 2:15 pm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Friedman_(PFIAB)
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Mother's Day not set up on commercialism

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12676 
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A New American Dream This Mother's Day

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 12:39pm.
SUSAN GALLEYMORE FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT
Every Mother's Day we mothers are subjected to the same consumer brainwash: that we deserve a "day off", and flowers, and brunch - or at least breakfast in bed.
But Mother's Day originated as a call for peace after the grisly, divisive carnage of Civil War. In 1870, Julia Ward Howe wanted to appoint "a general congress of women without limit of nationality...to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace."
On May 10, 1908 Anna Jarvis presided over the first official Mother's Day celebration at Andrew's Methodist Church... then was arrested trying to stop women selling flowers. She wanted to "keep the day one of sentiment not one of profit".
In 2005, Israeli Nurit Peled-Elhanan, whose 13-year-old daughter was killed in a Jerusalem suicide bombing, said, "Mothers have always been rebellious. In the Bible, in Greek mythology, there is always a mother who defies authority. The Talmud described mothers as prophets, because they looked ahead and understood what would happen to the children...."
Mother's Day is for the rebellious who concur, "Not for me flowers force-fed for profit in greenhouses built on land that ought to grow non-GM crops to feed the world's hungry and homeless"; "Not for me a day off, rather a day on...shutting down the -isms that thwart life's everyday ecstasy: neoliberalism, globalism, racism, sexism, elitism, oligarchic parasitism", "Not for me a day in fealty to consumerism but to remember Wordsworth: "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers"....
Instead of sitting down at the brunch table Mother's Day could signal the first day of the rest of our lives pledging to sit down in our nation's streets, blow our whistles, bang our pots, sound our alarms, and tell our politicians: "Stop bowing to the almighty corporate dollar, bring home our troops, tax the corporations and the rich to educate our children and ensure the health and well-being of all members of our society... or we will force you from office!"
Pledge to tell it like it is: profiteering shatters our society, tears up our earth, and contaminates our communities; sloganeering destroys our native intelligence, dumbs down our instincts, dulls our wits; careerism fogs our ethics, corrupts our morals, betrays our humanity; waging war kills the souls of all humans - whether made in America or where America makes war.
Fellow Americans may call us tough nuts, or a nut-busters, or just plain old nuts but remind them that another tough nut, United States Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler told us, even before transnational corporatism's firm grip on our time, our wallets, and our children, that:
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."
Nurit Peled-Elhanan said, "Mothers, women in general, are not used to saying, "No! No, I am nobody's property. No! My children are nobody's property. No, my uterus is not a national asset."
Lets try it. All together now: "No! No more wars promoted by patriotism but parlayed into profit."
For, oh, we still have such a long way to go, baby!
Nurit Peled-Elhanan tells her story in Susan Galleymore's book, Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak about War and Terror, where she shares the stories of mothers in the war zones of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, West Bank, Israel, Afghanistan, and the US. Galleymore is the mother of a former US Army soldier and host of progressive Raising Sand Radio who writes andblogs about the interconnectedness of life...war...environment...indigenous people...and sustainable living. Contact her atmailto:atsusan@raisingsandradio.org.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurit_Peled-Elhanan 
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Nurit Peled-Elhanan in a meeting of the European Parliament
Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli peace activist, one of the founders of the Bereaved Families for Peace. After the death of Elhanan's 13 year-old daughter in 1997, she became an outspoken critic of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

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Elhanan's daughter, Smadar Elhanan, was the victim of a suicide bombing attack Ben Yehuda Street Bombing in Jerusalem on September 4, 1997.[1] She states that she does not blame the group of suicide bombers for the incident, but rather the Israeli oppression of Palestinians as an indirect cause of her daughter's death.[2] She had commented the following on the death of her daughter:
"My little girl was murdered because she was an Israeli by a young man who was humiliated, oppressed and desperate to the point of suicide and murder and inhumanity, just because he was a Palestinian."[2]
"There is no basic moral difference between the soldier at the checkpoint who prevents a woman who is having a baby from going through, causing her to lose the baby, and the man who killed my daughter. And just as my daughter was a victim [of the occupation], so was he."[3]
Elhanan is a laureate of the 2001 Sakharov prize for Human Rights and the Freedom of Speech, awarded by the European Parliament.

[edit] Personal life

Peled-Elhanan is the daughter of the late general, Arab scholar and politician Mattityahu Peled, and married to Rami Elhanan, a co-founder of the Parents Circle - Families Forum.[4]
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[edit] Opinions

[edit] On Israel

"Some people are willing to modify their system of classifications, unfortunately in Israel this is not the case. Israel is a nation state and its discourse is monologic to the extreme. It is a multicultural and multilingual society that behaves like a monolingual and monocultural society. Its system of classification is racist and immutable. People are either Jews or non-Jews, and it doesn't matter what they are if they are non-us. They are worth less, not to say worthless. Their blood is cheaper."[2]
"This is the system that dictates the relationships between us and the Palestinians. How else can one explain young people who were educated to love their neighbour as they love themselves killing their neighbours, destroying their educational institutions, their libraries and their hospitals, for no apparent reason other than their being neighbours? The only explanation is that their minds are infected by parents, teachers and leaders, who convince them that the others are not as human as we are, and therefore killing them is not real killing; it has other legitimating names such as 'cleansing' 'purifying', 'punishment', 'operation', 'mission', 'campaign' and 'war'."[5]

[edit] Literature used in the school system

Elhanan has conducted extensive research on the textbooks used in Israel. She has stated that Israeli textbooks often portray the world as a divided between Jews and the non-Jews, and finds that Muslims are often misrepresented to Israeli children "only as stereotypical scarf-wearing Arabs, masked terrorists, or third world 'Oxfam images' and refugees."[6] Furthermore, many maps in the books lack a green line and show important sites in the West Bank as a part of Israel. She remarks that "this is merely a sophisticated way of ensuring that the pupil will espouse certain basic political assumptions."[7]

[edit] On the USA and Great Britain

Elhanan has stated that Muslims are represented as "...vile, primitive and blood-thirsty..." to the citizens of the United States and Great Britain despite "...the fact that the people who are destroying the world today are not Muslim. One of them is a devout Christian, one is Anglican and one is a non-devout Jew."[8]

[edit] On the killing of Abir Aramin, January 2007

10 year old Abir Aramin, the daughter of Bassam Aramin, an activist in Combatants for Peace, was killed in January 2007. Nurit Peled-Elhanan commented:
"I sit with her mother Salwa and try to say, "We are all victims of occupation." As I say it, I know that her hell is more terrible than mine. My daughter's murderer had the decency to kill himself when he murdered Smadar. The soldier who killed Abir is probably drinking beer, playing backgammon with his mates and going to discotheques at night."[9]

http://www.mothersdaycelebration.com/story-of-anna-jarvis.html
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Anna Jarvis: Her Disappointment with Mothers Day CommercialisationIt is poignant to note that though Miss Anna Jarvis devoted her life for the establishment of national Mothers Day but in the end she was disappointed at the way thing turned out. She was concerned with reform, not revenue. She hated the commercialisation of the day, so much so that she felt sorry for ever starting the tradition of celebrating Mothers Day.



http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-04-03/news/17423571_1_military-parents-iraqi-military-base/
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'Hey, Nick. Your mom's here.' / Anti-war Alameda woman's trip to see son serving in Iraq has surprises for bothApril 03, 2004|By Joe Garofoli, Chronicle Staff Writer
Susan Galleymore didn't expect her son to join the Army, and she worried when he was sent to Iraq. Chronicle photo by Carlos Avila GonzalezCredit: Carlos Avila GonzalezSusan Galleymore had traveled 7,472 miles from Alameda to search for her son in Iraq and was close to finding him. The Army Ranger had urged her not to come. He wouldn't even tell her where he was stationed. It was too dangerous, he said.
But on Feb. 1, seven days after she arrived, the 48-year-old woman was outside the U.S. military base where her son might be. Her car idled among a dozen waiting to be inspected. She stepped out, her face covered in a borrowed hijab, the traditional head scarf worn by Muslim women. She approached a gun- toting U.S. soldier as he inspected a car.
"I'm coming up behind you, I mean you no harm," she said. She pulled out her U.S. passport. "I have business here and I want to speak to your sergeant."

 "Ma'am," the guard said firmly, as he whirled toward her. "Get back in your car, ma'am!"
Galleymore held her ground. Six soldiers moved toward her. "I will do that as soon as I talk to your sergeant," she said, and pulled down her hijab.
"You're American," one of the soldiers said.
The tension melted. Soon, she was inside the gate, hugging her son.
Galleymore had done what some military parents only consider during their sleepless nights: She went to Iraq to find her son and see for herself how he was doing. And the 90 minutes they spent together, she said, was well worth the danger.
"I wouldn't change a thing," Galleymore said. "But I felt sad when I went home. I was going back to my safe little home, while all of these lives are being destroyed over there."
The weeks before and after Galleymore's 10-day visit to Iraq have been a complex transformation from the personal to the political. Her quest to find out about her son has evolved into trying to understand what Iraqi mothers, as well as other U.S. military parents, are going through.
That journey has been by turns lonely, satisfying and moving. It has cost her close friendships, given her new ones and complicated her relationship with her active-duty son Nick. Some objected to her post-trip writings about Iraqis who told her of how "jittery GIs shoot Iraqi civilians in the streets," as she mentioned in one online essay.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe
Excerpt:
Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet, most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".

 

[edit] Biography
Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the fourth of seven children born to Samuel Ward (May 1, 1786 – November 27, 1839) and Julia Rush Cutler. Among her siblings was Samuel Cutler Ward. Her father was a well-to-do banker. Her mother, granddaughter of William Greene (August 16, 1731 – November 30, 1809), Governor of Rhode Island and his wife Catharine Ray, died when Julia was five.
In 1843, she married Samuel Gridley Howe (1801 – 1876), a physician and reformer who founded the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.[1] They announced their engagement quite suddenly on February 21; though Howe had courted Julia for a time, he had more recently shown an interest in her sister Louisa.[2]
Her book, Passion-Flowers, was published in December 1853. The book collected intensely personal poems and was written without the awareness of her husband, who was then editing the Free Soil newspaper The Commonwealth.[3]

[edit] Social activism


The Battle Hymn of the Republic

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Julia Ward Howe was inspired to write her "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" after she and her husband visited Washington, D. C. and met Abraham Lincoln at the White House in November 1861. During the trip, her friend James Freeman Clarke suggest she write new words to the song "John Brown's Body", which she did on November 19.[4] The song was set to William Steffe's already-existing music and Howe's version was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1862. It quickly became one of the most popular songs of the Union during the American Civil War.
After the war Howe focused her activities on the causes of pacifism and women's suffrage. In 1870 Howe was the first to proclaim Mother's Day, with her Mother's Day Proclamation. From 1872 to 1879, she assisted Lucy Stone and Henry Brown Blackwell in editing Woman's Journal.
After her husband's death in 1874, Howe focused more on her interests in reform. She was the founder and president of the Association of American Women, a group which advocated for women's education, from 1876–1897. She also served as president of organizations like the New England Women's Club, the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association, and the New England Suffrage Association, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).[5]
From 1891 to 1909 she was interested in the cause of Russian freedom. Howe supported Russian emigre Stepniak-Kravchinskii and became a member of the Society of American Friends of Russian Freedom (SAFRF).

[edit] Death


Howe in her later years
Howe died on October 17, 1910, at her home, Oak Glen, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, at the age of 91.[6] Her death was caused by pneumonia. She is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[7]
After her death, her children collaborated on a biography, published in 1916. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.[8]

[edit] Honors

On January 28, 1908, Howe became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Howe was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
She has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a 15¢ Great Americans series postage stamp issued in 1987.
The Julia Ward Howe School of Excellence in Chicago's Austin community is named in her honor.
Her home in Rhode Island, Oak Glen, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic#Lyrics
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Lyrics
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
While God is marching on.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Our God is marching on.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/succour
Excerpt:
succour US, succor [ˈsʌkə]
n
1. help or assistance, esp in time of difficulty
2. a person or thing that provides help
vb
(tr) to give aid to
[from Old French sucurir, from Latin succurrere to hurry to help, from sub- under + currere to run]

http://www.ageofautism.com/2008/09/libby-rupp-is-a.html
Excerpt:

Libby Rupp is a Warrior Mother

Warrior_mom_photoManaging Editor's Note: I wrote the headline. Libby wrote this post. And take 8 minutes to watch the decline, fall and RISE of Libby's beautiful daughter, Miss Isabella.

By Libby Rupp

The mitochondrial disorder specialist that diagnosed Hannah Poling (HERE) and co-authored the study “Developmental regression and mitochondrial dysfunction in a child with autism” based on her case, last week told a group of parents in Minnesota that despite increased risk of complications, he supports a regular vaccine schedule and that he would never recommend chelation therapy to any of his patients.
In an address Sept. 12 to the Minneapolis-St. Paul chapter of the United Mitochondrial Disorder Foundation, Dr. John Schoffner said chelation is dangerous and that there are no studies showing that chelation benefits children or adults. He was unfazed when told that there are no studies, period, and that it is unfair to state there are no studies on the “benefits” when there are no studies on either side of the debate.

When asked if vaccines should be given one at a time, Dr. Schoffner stated that the regular vaccine schedule should be followed as it is based on considerable research.

http://wn.com/Isabella's_Story
Isabella's Story video

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1721109,00.html
Excerpt:
Hannah Poling, left, stands with her parents Terry and Jon Poling, right, at a news conference in Atlanta on March 6, 2008. Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in Hannah, and that she should be paid from a federal vaccine-injury fund.
W.A.Harewood / AP


Autism & Vaccines: Hannah Poling On Good Morning America youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5Ru-Tp27AM

http://www.safeminds.org/research/science-autism-mitochondria-mercury.html
Excerpt:
The Science on Autism, Mitochondria, and Mercury
Information has recently come to light that the U.S government has conceded a case in the Vaccine Injury Court. The case is a child diagnosed with autism who has a mitochondrial disorder. The child's vaccinations triggered an adverse effect that led to her autism. David Kirby, author of Evidence of harm, has written an extensive article on the Huffington Post about the case and its implications.
Kirby mentions that mercury, including thimerosal, can trigger mitochondrial dysfunction. Mercury can also lead to oxidative stress (OS) and calcium (Ca2+) dysregulation, both of which are key features of mitochondrial dysfunction. Several studies have linked increased OS, Ca2+ imbalance, and mitochondrial dysfunction to autism.
Also, read David Kirby's interview with Imus on WABC Radio.
To help our readers understand the science relevant to this court case, SafeMinds has posted an assortment of research articles (in full or the abstracts) that pertain to mitochondria function, related physiology (that is, calcium homeostasis and oxidative stress), mercury (including thimerosal) and autism.
Dr. Jon Poling to Dr. Steven Novella on Age of Autism
By Dr. Jon Poling, father of Hannah Poling.

OPEN LETTER TO DR. STEVEN NOVELLA IN RESPONSE TO
"Has the Government Conceded Vaccines Cause Autism?"

Dr. Novella,
Thank you for generating interesting discussion regarding my little girl, Hannah Poling.  I would like to give you additional information in order to generate further productive discussions on this matter amongst the neurology community.  This information should assist you, Dr. DiMauro, and Dr. Trevethan, who have also commented publicly, to formulate better theories as to the significance of Hannah’s mitochondrial dysfunction in relation to her autism.
1. Mito Dysfunction or Mito Disease?  Chicken or Egg?

READ THE ENTIRE LETTER


I lost my g'ma a long long time ago but there isn't a Mother's day that goes by that I don't have loving memories of her and me drawing and going thru costume jewelry and simply sharing good times.   I miss you g'ma and thx so much for simply being.  ...cal aka dedra

Happy mother's day as well goes up to heaven to my mom and even tho we weren't close she was who she was and she was that way because of the system and looking back, she did the best she could with what she had. 

My shrink; Tomar, once told me when I was having a pity party and bitching and moaning about my mother that my mom must have been quite a woman as she was sure I was who I was in part because of who she was. 
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