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There are more than 340,000 temporary foreign workers currently in Canada, many are doing jobs which unemployed Canadians are certainly qualified to do, such as cleaning hotel rooms, flipping burgers or working a cash register. It’s clear that Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program is keeping wages low and Canadians unemployed. However, slightly less clear is the answer to the following question… Is abuse of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program increasing Canadians odds of catching the measles?

The number of temporary foreign workers has drastically increased over the past decade and many of them are from the Philippines where there is about 20,000 cases of measles already this year. Many media reports have linked recent Measles outbreaks in Canada & the USA specifically to the Philippines. One such example from The Star in February of this year reads, “a widespread outbreak in the Philippines that reportedly killed more than two dozen children last year seems to be slowly spreading to Canada.”

The Star article goes on to say “It is the sixth imported case of measles in Canada so far this year, all linked to visits to the Philippines.”

The Public Health Agency Of Canada says that indigenous measles was eliminated from Canada and the last endemic case of measles was reported in 1997. They confirm that “measles cases in Canada in recent years have been due to importation from endemic regions, some resulting in outbreaks”.

While the link is certainly not conclusive, since 2006 Harper and his so-called Conservatives have ensured the number of temporary foreign workers coming to Canada has skyrocketed, and the number of incidents of measles has also increased. In 2005 Canada had only 0.02 incidence of measles per 100,000 people and in 2006 it was only 0.04 per 100,000. 5 years later the numbers are much higher with 0.29 per 100,000 in 2010 and 2.17 per 100,000 in 2011 when Quebec experienced a large outbreak. To be fair, 2009 did see only 0.04 cases per 100,000 but The Public Health Agency of Canada has issued a warning that there have been a higher-than-usual number of measles cases in Canada since the start of 2014.

People like to blame the outbreaks on people who choose not to vaccinate. This is misguided blame, unless the unvaccinated person traveled to the Philippines or another endemic region. Anyone traveling to the Philippines should strongly consider vaccination before travel because of the high rate of infection. That said, vaccination does not guarantee immunity, keep in mind that health officials admit the MMR vaccine is not effective in at least 10-20% of the population, so even vaccinated people traveling to the Philippines have a significantly increased risk of catching the measles. In fact, based on current infection rates, a fully vaccinated person in the Philippines has a higher chance of infection than a person lacking vaccination in Canada.

How much has Canada’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program increased the number of measles outbreaks? A specific answer is unknown, but with the high percentage of Canadian & US measles cases linked to the Philippines, perhaps it’s a question we should be asking.

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The man at Fort Hood who killed three and wounded 16 of his fellow soldiers last week had requested leave shortly before the shooting rampage.

After a meeting where he had requested a leave to attend to personal matters, he was clearly agitated and disrespectful when his request was denied, reports the New York Times:

Fort Hood officials and a spokesman for Army investigators declined to comment on Friday about the meeting and its role in the shooting, but they confirmed in an afternoon news conference that the specialist,[] became angry with soldiers from his unit before the attack. Two of those he killed were in his unit, a transportation battalion of the 13th Sustainment Command. Officials stressed that they had still not established a clear motive.

But in an interview with a local Mississippi television station, Theodis Westbrook, of Smithdale, Miss., the father of Sgt. Jonathan Westbrook, who was wounded in the attack, said he was told that a soldier came to Fort Hood’s personnel office, where Sergeant Westbrook worked, to get a leave form. When one of the soldiers told the man to come back the next day to pick that form up, the man left, then returned with a gun and opened fire.

Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley has acknowledged that the attacker was taking psychiatric medication before the shooting. Infowars reports:

“Was he on any sort of medications….SSRI’s, anti-depressants, anything of that nature,” an Infowars reporter asked Milley, to which the General responded, “He was on medications that’s correct.”

In a subsequent report, officials also admitted that Lopez had been prescribed Ambien, a sleeping pill associated with accidents and aggressive outbursts.
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As the website ,SSRI Stories profusely documents, there are literally hundreds of examples of mass shootings, murders and other violent episodes that have been committed by individuals on psychiatric drugs over the past three decades. The number of cases is staggering, but the media has completely failed to generate a national conversation about the issue due to its obsession with exploiting mass shootings to demonize the second amendment.

A $65 million study produced three research papers which were published by The Journal of the American Medical Association Psychiatry. The study found that suicide rates for soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan more than doubled from 2004 to 2009 to more than 30-per-100,000, the trend among those who never deployed nearly tripled to between 25- and 30-per-100,000. USA Today reports:

Suicide rates soared among soldiers who went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan and those who never left the United States, according to the largest study ever conducted on suicide in the military.
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The research tracked soldier records through the end of 2009. But suicides in the Army continued to rise thereafter, reaching a record high in 2012 before dipping last year.

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General Electric’s Mark 1 system has had known unacceptable safety risks for decades, and the nuclear industry has incredibly limited liability.

In 1972, Stephen H. Hanauer, then a safety official with the Atomic Energy Commission, recommended that the Mark 1 system be discontinued because it presented unacceptable safety risks. Among the concerns cited was the smaller containment design, which was more susceptible to explosion and rupture from a buildup in hydrogen — a situation that may have unfolded at the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Later that same year, Joseph Hendrie, who would later become chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a successor agency to the atomic commission,said the idea of a ban on such systems was attractive. But the technology had been so widely accepted by the industry and regulatory officials, he said, that “reversal of this hallowed policy, particularly at this time, could well be the end of nuclear power.”

– NY Times

On February 2, 1976, Gregory C. Minor, Richard B. Hubbard, and Dale G. Bridenbaugh “blew the whistle” on safety problems at nuclear power plants. The three engineers gained the attention of journalists, and their disclosures about the threats of nuclear power had a significant impact. They timed their statements to coincide with their resignations from responsible positions in General Electric’s nuclear energy division, and later established themselves as consultants on the nuclear power industry for state governments, federal agencies, and overseas governments… Bridenbaugh described design flaws of General Electric’s Mark 1 reactors, which account for five of the six reactors at the Fukushima 1 power plant. Bridenbaugh claimed that the design “did not take into account the dynamic loads that could be experienced with a loss of coolant” and that, despite efforts to retrofit the reactors, “the Mark 1 is still a little more susceptible to an accident that would result in a loss of containment.”

– Wikipedia

A year after the disaster, Tepco was taken over by the Japanese government because it couldn’t afford the costs to get the damaged reactors under control. By June of 2012, Tepco had received nearly 50 billion dollars from the government.

The six reactors were designed by the U.S. company General Electric (GE). GE supplied the actual reactors for units one, two and six, while two Japanese companies Toshiba provided units three and five, and Hitachi unit four. These companies as well as other suppliers are exempted from liability or costs under Japanese law.

Many of them, including GE, Toshiba and Hitachi, are actually making money on the disaster by being involved in the decontamination and decommissioning, according to a report by Greenpeace International.

“The nuclear industry and governments have designed a nuclear liability system that protects the industry, and forces people to pick up the bill for its mistakes and disasters,” says the report, “Fukushima Fallout“.

“If nuclear power is as safe as the industry always claims, then why do they insist on liability limits and exemptions?” asked Shawn-Patrick Stensil, a nuclear analyst with Greenpeace Canada.

Nuclear plant owner/operators in many countries have liability caps on how much they would be forced to pay in case of an accident. In Canada, this liability cap is only 75 million dollars. In the United Kingdom, it is 220 million dollars. In the U.S., each reactor owner puts around 100 million dollars into a no-fault insurance pool. This pool is worth about 10 billion dollars.

“Suppliers are indemnified even if they are negligent,” Stensil told IPS.

– IPS

NBC News has reported that there are 23 nuclear plants in the United States that use the GE Mark 1 BWR. Yes, 23. There are 23 nuclear plants in the United States where the used fuel rods are suspended, in a pond, 100 feet above the ground. Additionally, 12 more reactors in the USA have GE’s later Mark II or Mark III containment system.

” Jeffery Immelt is the head of GE. He is also the head of the United States Economic Advisory Board. He was invited to join the board personally by President Obama in 2009 and took over as head in 2011 when Paul Volcker stepped down in February 2011, just a month before the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Fukushima.

Paul Volcker was often seen as being at odds with the administration, and many of his ideas were not embraced by the government. The appointment of Immelt, a self-described Republican, was seen as a move to give Obama a leg up when dealing with the Republican majority in the House.

There have been calls from many organizations for GE to be held accountable for the design faults in the reactors that powered the Fukushima plant. The fact that they had been known for so long does seem to indicate that the company ignored and over-ruled advice from nuclear experts.

… Any admission that radiation has spread across the Pacific Ocean and contaminated American soil is an admission that the technology was flawed, and that same flawed technology is being used in the United States. The government does not want anyone looking closer at the situation. They don’t want people poking around asking questions about why the radiation got out in the first place…it’s too close to home.

Better to say that the radiation is within safe levels, and then if such a disaster happens here they can mourn those in the immediate fallout zone and maintain that the rest of the country is okay, just as it was after Fukushima.

The fact that the CEO of GE works for Obama just highlights the facts. There is no way that Immelt doesn’t know about all the warning his company was given about the design flaws of the Mark 1; and if he knows, the government knows.”

– The Daily Sheeple

Can we trust the Obama Administration?
Can we trust the 23 Mark 1 reactors in the United States?

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The United States has already seen more than one outbreak of the mumps in 2014, but you can’t blame people who choose not to vaccinate. Outbreaks in both New York and Ohio have occurred on campuses which include a strict vaccine mandate.

At Fordham University in New York City all students are required to be vaccinated including the vaccination for mumps, measles, and rubella (MMR), but as of February 21st, 13 cases of the mumps had been reported with 100% of those infected having already been vaccinated.

In Ohio, as of March 24th there were 63 reported cases & 97% of those infected had been vaccinated.

Officials acknowledged that the vaccine is only 80-90% effective.

Dr Tetyana Obukhanych is an Immunologist who earned her PhD in Immunology at the Rockefeller University in New York and did postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. and Stanford University in California. In an interview with Catherine Frompovich, Dr Obukhanych explains why these outbreaks are occurring among the vaccinated population:

“I think this is happening because vaccination does not engage the genuine mechanism of immunity. Vaccination typically engages the immune response—that is, everything that immunologists would theoretically “want” to see being engaged in the immune system. But apparently this is not enough to confer robust protection that matches natural immunity. Our knowledge of the immune system is far from being complete.”

Dr Obukhanych describes natural immunity as: “in a way, a tautological expression because immunity can only be acquired naturally at this point, only through the exposure to an infected individual, although occasionally such exposure would go asymptomatic while still establishing immunity. Nevertheless, because there is a common misconception that vaccines also confer immunity, it is sometimes necessary to use a qualifier “natural,” when referring to immunity, to distinguish it from vaccine-based protection.”

In the following video Dr Obukhanych explains how protective serum titers drop very quickly after the second MMR dose, meaning some vaccinated people do not receive any lasting protection from the MMR vaccine.

Here is a screenshot of the chart in the video highlighting the data which shows the MMR booster is not very effective & provides at best, leaky immunity.

The CDC says mumps typically begins with a fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue and loss of appetite, followed by swelling salivary glands. People unfortunate enough to catch the mumps usually recover after a week or two, but occasionally the disease can cause serious complications.

Dr. Russell Blaylock, a board-certified neurosurgeon, author and lecturer who attended the LSU School of Medicine and completed his internship and neurosurgical residency at the Medical University of South Carolina explains how herd immunity is only truly obtainable through natural immunity:

“In the original description of herd immunity, the protection to the population at large occurred only if people contracted the infections naturally. The reason for this is that naturally-acquired immunity lasts for a lifetime. The vaccine proponents quickly latched onto this concept and applied it to vaccine-induced immunity. But, there was one major problem – vaccine-induced immunity lasted for only a relatively short period, from 2 to 10 years at most, and then this applies only to humoral immunity. This is why they began, silently, to suggest boosters for most vaccines, even the common childhood infections such as chickenpox, measles, mumps, and rubella.

Then they discovered an even greater problem, the boosters were lasting for only 2 years or less. This is why we are now seeing mandates that youth entering colleges have multiple vaccines, even those which they insisted gave lifelong immunity, such as the MMR. The same is being suggested for full-grown adults. Ironically, no one in the media or medical field is asking what is going on. They just accept that it must be done.”

Alternative Free Press has reported previously that 40% of the recent measles outbreak in California were also full vaccinated. 10 people were identified as likely sources of the measles outbreak having traveled to high risk areas, but it was not disclosed if any of the 10 were vaccinated or not. At the time we speculated “It’s likely safe to assume that if the majority of the ten people who visited an outbreak area were not vaccinated, we would be hearing about it. I’d guess that most people who are not vaccinated would avoid travel to an area with a large outbreak & it seems reasonable to assume that many of the ten people identified were vaccinated.” While we can only speculate about the measles, these recent mumps outbreaks are infecting vaccinated populations and were definitely not caused by people choosing to skip vaccinations.

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Sources for this article:

1. Mumps outbreak spreads beyond Ohio State campus http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/24/health/ohio-mumps/

2. Fordham University mumps outbreak jumps campuses http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?id=9438450

3. Interview with PhD Immunologist, Dr Tetyana Obukhanych- part 1, by Catherine Frompovich http://www.vaccinationcouncil.org/2012/06/13/interview-with-phd-immunologist-dr-tetyana-obukhanych-by-catherine-frompovich/

4. Forced Vaccinations, Government, and the Public Interest >http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=1975

5. Dr Tetyana Obukhanych Talk At Aligned Chiropractic Kelowna B.C. March 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dts3ebwWlo

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A new study out of Brazil, published in the journal Toxicology, proposes an explanation for the adverse neurological effects of glyphosate herbicide. Previous observations found that agrochemical exposure can lead to, or accelerate, neurodegenerative disorders, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease. However, the mechanism of glyphosate-induced neurotoxic effects needed to be determined.

“Mechanisms underlying the neurotoxicity induced by glyphosate-based herbicide in immature rat hippocampus: Involvement of glutamate excitotoxicity,” tested the neurotoxicity of Roundup in the hippocampus of immature rats following acute exposure (30 minutes) and chronic (pregnancy and lactation) exposure.

Results show that acute exposure to the herbicide (30 min) increases 45Ca2+ influx. This occurs by activating NMDA receptors and voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels, which leads to oxidative stress and neural cell death. Additionally, they found that Roundup affected the enzymes ERK and CaMKII. Acute exposure “increased 3H-glutamate released into the synaptic cleft, decreased GSH content and increased the lipoperoxidation, characterizing excitotoxicity and oxidative damage” and the study summarizes, “Taken together, these results demonstrated that Roundup® might lead to excessive extracellular glutamate levels and consequently to glutamate excitotoxicity and oxidative stress in rat hippocampus.”

The study found that “Exposure to environmental toxicants during pregnancy and suckling periods has the potential to affect embryo and fetal development.”

No more claims of coincidence, no more possible doubt… glyphosate is a brain-damaging neurotoxin, our food is being poisoned.

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1. Mechanisms underlying the neurotoxicity induced by glyphosate-based herbicide in immature rat hippocampus: Involvement of glutamate excitotoxicity http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X14000493