SHUTTING DOWN THE INTERNET?
October 1, 2010 at 11:10 (Censorship, Corrupt Politics, Internet, Internet Security)
First they came for the lottery games..
I was silent as I do not play…
Then they came for sites that criticised government policies…
At that point I was FORCED to be silent.
locked-computer
Will the Justice Department Be Authorized to Shut Down Internet Sites?
by Rich Muny
On September 20th, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced legislation — S. 3804, the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act — that seeks to give the Department of Justice the power to shut down websites anywhere in the world that are found to infringe on intellectual property rights. This would be accomplished by ordering U.S. domain registrars and registries to stop resolving infringing sites’ domain names. While this bill has the noble-sounding goal of preventing online piracy, handing the federal government authority over the Internet would set a troubling precedent that would imperil Internet freedom in America and across the world.
One disquieting issue is the lack of any requirement that these sites be found to violate the laws of the countries from where they operate. In fact, under this bill sites operating perfectly legally under the laws of their own nations could be shut down by the U.S. Justice Department.
The concept that domain names of Internet sites operating legally in their home nations could be shut down by other nations for violation of their laws is one that should concern everyone. For example, a few years ago a French court ordered Yahoo.com to block French citizens from accessing portions of the site deemed to contain content unlawful under French law. Yahoo.com resisted this demand, citing free speech issues. What if French courts had the capability to shut down the domain www.yahoo.com to force compliance with that decision? What if every nation had the right to shut down Internet domains to force the entire Internet to comply with their local laws? If the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act passes, a very dangerous precedent will be set.
Additionally, there is a threat that this power will be expanded well beyond piracy. In fact, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear (D) is already in court seeking seizure of the domain names of 141 Internet poker and gaming websites — none based in the Commonwealth of Kentucky — with claims that these sites compete with the state lottery and with the horse racing industry.
The likelihood of this effort expanding well beyond issues of online piracy is simply too great. The Department of Justice should use its already ample tools and not resort to censoring the Internet.
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Background Checks Required to Visit Your Kids at School
Matt Ryan
Infowars.com
October 1, 2010
Image by Kevin Dooley
Over 3,700 schools in Texas and 7,000 nationwide have implemented a system requiring parents visiting their children to undergo a background check upon arrival to the school. This check is carried out by a company called Raptor, which summarizes their services as:
Thousands of schools and community facilities across the country use Raptor’s V-soft visitor management and screening technology to help protect children from sex offenders, domestic dispute offenders and other trespassers. V-soft works in conjunction with law enforcement to add an extra layer of security and keep our kids safe.
While the mission of protecting children from sex offenders has a broad appeal, domestic dispute charges include a broad range of situations including issues as minor as loud arguments among siblings. A definition of domestic dispute from USLegal.com describes the term as including non-crimes:
A domestic dispute is generally any quarrel, which may or may not include violence, within a family or between members of the same household. Definitions are governed by local laws, which vary, and may also cover including any child or an adult or fully emancipated minor who is a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant or person with whom a suspect has had a child or has or has had a dating or engagement relationship. It may or may not include criminal behavior. Local laws should be consulted for specific requirements in your area.
According to Raptor, their background check includes arrest records, which doesn’t indicate conviction or acquittal indicating that the notion of being innocent until proven guilty does not apply here. Below are the records included in a Raptor background check:
# Arrest Records (ARST)
# Administrative Office of the Courts
# Department of Corrections
# County Court
# District Court
# Superior Court
# Municipal Court
# District Clerk
# Common Pleas
# Clerk of Court
Recently, parents have begun taking legal action to defend their constitutional right to privacy, however, a federal appeals court has ruled that screening for sex offenders does not violate constitutional rights. The court failed to address the fact that Raptor screens for a much larger set of circumstances than sex offenses. Local Austin news station KXAN reported:
But a few years before, another mother, Yvonne Meadows, said, for simply wanting to see her child, Raptor seemed a little extreme, even an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.
“Don’t be asking me to fork out this information so I can go participate with my kids and their education,” Meadows told KXAN on the phone in 2008, when her case was still in the trial stage.
She has since moved away from the district, home schools her kids.
Disappointingly, teachers and faculty are being hired around the nation with often violent criminal records. Almost every week now, a story comes out about sex crimes being committed against students. While parents are being forced to reveal their entire history in order to see their own child, teachers are passed through the system.
Fresh food that lasts from eFoods Direct (Ad)
Public schools have become more and more like prisons over the years as students are issued ids allowing them to be tracked as they move from class to class, subject to aggressive and violent “training operations“, and otherwise treated more like prisoners and less like citizens. For years public schools have increased in militarism, allowing themselves to give up state’s rights for national control.
Infowars.com
October 1, 2010
Image by Kevin Dooley
Over 3,700 schools in Texas and 7,000 nationwide have implemented a system requiring parents visiting their children to undergo a background check upon arrival to the school. This check is carried out by a company called Raptor, which summarizes their services as:
Thousands of schools and community facilities across the country use Raptor’s V-soft visitor management and screening technology to help protect children from sex offenders, domestic dispute offenders and other trespassers. V-soft works in conjunction with law enforcement to add an extra layer of security and keep our kids safe.
While the mission of protecting children from sex offenders has a broad appeal, domestic dispute charges include a broad range of situations including issues as minor as loud arguments among siblings. A definition of domestic dispute from USLegal.com describes the term as including non-crimes:
A domestic dispute is generally any quarrel, which may or may not include violence, within a family or between members of the same household. Definitions are governed by local laws, which vary, and may also cover including any child or an adult or fully emancipated minor who is a spouse, former spouse, cohabitant, former cohabitant or person with whom a suspect has had a child or has or has had a dating or engagement relationship. It may or may not include criminal behavior. Local laws should be consulted for specific requirements in your area.
According to Raptor, their background check includes arrest records, which doesn’t indicate conviction or acquittal indicating that the notion of being innocent until proven guilty does not apply here. Below are the records included in a Raptor background check:
# Arrest Records (ARST)
# Administrative Office of the Courts
# Department of Corrections
# County Court
# District Court
# Superior Court
# Municipal Court
# District Clerk
# Common Pleas
# Clerk of Court
Recently, parents have begun taking legal action to defend their constitutional right to privacy, however, a federal appeals court has ruled that screening for sex offenders does not violate constitutional rights. The court failed to address the fact that Raptor screens for a much larger set of circumstances than sex offenses. Local Austin news station KXAN reported:
But a few years before, another mother, Yvonne Meadows, said, for simply wanting to see her child, Raptor seemed a little extreme, even an unconstitutional invasion of privacy.
“Don’t be asking me to fork out this information so I can go participate with my kids and their education,” Meadows told KXAN on the phone in 2008, when her case was still in the trial stage.
She has since moved away from the district, home schools her kids.
Disappointingly, teachers and faculty are being hired around the nation with often violent criminal records. Almost every week now, a story comes out about sex crimes being committed against students. While parents are being forced to reveal their entire history in order to see their own child, teachers are passed through the system.
Fresh food that lasts from eFoods Direct (Ad)
Public schools have become more and more like prisons over the years as students are issued ids allowing them to be tracked as they move from class to class, subject to aggressive and violent “training operations“, and otherwise treated more like prisoners and less like citizens. For years public schools have increased in militarism, allowing themselves to give up state’s rights for national control.
Reducing the world population through vaccines
Bill Gates says vaccines can help reduce world population
Posted By kurtnimmo On October 1, 2010 @ 7:42 am In Featured Stories | 249 Comments
Mike Adams
NaturalNews
October 1, 2010
In a recent TED conference presentation, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to new vaccine efforts, speaks on the issue of CO2 emissions and its effects on climate change. He presents a formula for tracking CO2 emissions as follows: CO2 = P x S x E x C.
P = People
S = Services per person
E = Energy per service
C = CO2 per energy unit
Then he adds that in order to get CO2 to zero, “probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty close to zero.”
Following that, Bill Gates begins to describe how the first number — P (for People) — might be reduced. He says:
“The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
You can watch this yourself at:
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A…
Reducing the world population through vaccines
This statement by Bill Gates was not made with any hesitation, stuttering or other indication that it might have been a mistake. It appears to have been a deliberate, calculated part of a well developed and coherent presentation.
So what does it mean when Bill Gates says “if we do a really great job on new vaccines… we could lower [world population] by 10 or 15 percent?”
Clearly, this statement implies that vaccines are a method of population reduction. So is “health care,” which all NaturalNews readers already know to be more of a “sick care” system that actually harms more people than it helps.
Perhaps that’s the whole point of it. Given that vaccines technology help almost no one from a scientific point of view (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_v…), it raises the question: For what purpose are vaccines being so heavily pushed in the first place?
Bill Gates seems to be saying that one of the primary purposes is to reduce the global population as a mechanism by which we can reduce CO2 emissions. Once again, watch the video yourself to hear him say it in his own words:
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A…
How can vaccines actually be used to reduce world population?
Let’s conduct a mental experiment on this issue. If vaccines are to be used to reduce world population, they obviously need to be accepted by the majority of the people. Otherwise the population reduction effort wouldn’t be very effective.
And in order for them to be accepted by the majority of the people, they obviously can’t just kill people outright. If everybody started dropping dead within 24 hours of receiving the flu shot, the danger of vaccines would become obvious rather quickly and the vaccines would be recalled.
Thus, if vaccines are to be used as an effective population reduction effort, there are really only three ways in which they might theoretically be “effective” from the point of view of those who wish to reduce world population:
#1) They might kill people slowly in a way that’s unnoticeable, taking effect over perhaps 10 – 30 years by accelerating degenerative diseases.
#2) They might reduce fertility and therefore dramatically lower birth rates around the world, thereby reducing the world population over successive generations. This “soft kill” method might seem more acceptable to scientists who want to see the world population fall but don’t quite have the stomach to outright kill people with conventional medicine. There is already evidence that vaccines may promote miscarriages (http://www.naturalnews.com/027512_v…).
#3) They might increase the death rate from a future pandemic. Theoretically, widespread vaccination efforts could be followed by a deliberate release of a highly virulent flu strain with a high fatality rate. This “bioweapon” approach could kill millions of people whose immune systems have been weakened by previous vaccine injections.
This is a known side effect of some vaccines, by the way. A study documenting this was published in PLoS. Read the story here: http://www.naturalnews.com/028538_s…
Here’s the study title and citation: Does Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Increase the Risk of Illness with the 2009 A/H1N1 Pandemic Virus?
Viboud C, Simonsen L (2010) Does Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Increase the Risk of Illness with the 2009 A/H1N1 Pandemic Virus? PLoS Med 7(4): e1000259. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000259
The short answer is yes, seasonal flu vaccines do cause increased susceptibility to the H1N1 pandemic virus. In other words, seasonal flu vaccines could set up the population for a “hard kill” pandemic that could wipe out a significant portion of the global population (perhaps 10 to 15 percent, as Bill Gates suggested).
* A d v e r t i s e m e n t
*
Conveniently, their deaths could be blamed on the pandemic, thereby diverting blame from those who were really responsible for the plot. As yet another beneficial side effect for the global population killers, the widespread deaths could be used as a fear tool to urge more people to get vaccinated yet again, and the entire cycle could be repeated until world population was brought down to whatever manageable level was desired… all in the name of health care!
The more people around the world are vaccinated before the release of the “hard kill” pandemic virus, the more powerful the effect of this approach.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into vaccine programs targeting people all over the world. One such program is researching the development of “sweat-triggered vaccines” that could use specially-coated nano-materials to deliver vaccines to people without using injections.
More interestingly, his foundation has also invested millions in sterilization technologies that have been called a “temporary castration” solution. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028887_v…)
It seems that the actions of the Gates foundation are entirely consistent with the formula for CO2 reduction that Bill Gates eluded to in his TED conference speech: CO2 = P x S x E x C.
By reducing birth rates (through sterilization technologies) and increasing vaccine penetration throughout the world population (by using sweat-triggered nano-vaccines), his stated goal of reducing the world population by 10 to 15 percent could be reached within just a few years.
Who will be left alive? The smart people
The interesting thing about all this is that this campaign to reduce global population through vaccines will obviously not impact people who consciously avoid vaccines. And those people, by and large, tend to be the more intelligent, capable people who actually have an improved ability to move human civilization forward with thoughtful consideration.
I can only imagine that those people designing this vaccine-induced population control measure might be sitting around a table chuckling to themselves and saying, “It’s only the stupid people that are going to be killed off anyway, so this is actually helping the future of humankind!” (Their words, not mine.)
In a weird world government kind of way, this effort might actually be based on some distorted vision of philanthropy where some of the most powerful people in the world quite literally believe the way to save humanity is to kill off as many of the gullible people as possible. Vaccines are, in effect, an “evil genius” kind of way to conduct an IQ test on the population at large: If you go get vaccinated every flu season, you’re not too bright and probably don’t engage the kind of strong mental faculties that humanity will no doubt need if it is to face a future where it is now all but obvious we are not alone in the universe.
If humanity is to save itself from its own destruction and compete as an uplifted species in our universe, killing off the least intelligent members of society (or making them infertile) may appear to the world controllers to be a perfectly reasonable approach. I disagree with that approach, but it may be precisely what they are thinking.
In any case, choosing to receive a seasonal flu shot is undoubtedly an admission that you have failed some sort of universal IQ test, whether or not this is the intention of world influencers such as Bill Gates. More importantly, it is also a betrayal of your own biology, because it indicates you don’t believe in the ability of your own immune system to protect you even from mild infections.
Fresh food that lasts from eFoods Direct (Ad)
Perhaps the world vaccine conspirators figure that if people are willing to betray themselves anyway, it’s not much different for governments and institutions to betray them as well. In other words, if you don’t even care enough about your own health to take care of your health, why should any government care about protecting your health, either?
As you ponder this, also consider something else: The U.S. is going broke due to sick-care costs which are rising dramatically under the new federal health care reform guidelines. Can you guess the fastest and easiest way to reduce those health care costs? If you guessed, “unleash a hard-kill pandemic that takes out a significant portion of the weak or sick people” then you guessed right. Sadly, killing off those most vulnerable to sickness could save the U.S. government literally billions of dollars in sick-care expenditures. Plus, it would save Social Security yet more billions by avoiding ongoing monthly payouts. (Again, I am completely against such an approach because I value human life, but I also know we live in a world where the people in charge have little or no respect for human life and will readily sacrifice human lives to achieve their aims.)
As far as Bill Gates goes, consider his statement in the context of what we’ve discussed here: “The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
It suddenly seems to make a lot of sense when you understand that reducing the population reduces CO2 emissions, and using more vaccines on more people increases the death rate of the population.
My advice? Try to avoid being among those 10 to 15 percent who get culled through global vaccine programs. You will not only save your life, you’ll also pass the “universal IQ test” which determines whether you’re smart enough to know that injecting your body with chemicals and viral fragments in order to stop “seasonal flu” is a foolish endeavor.
Be healthy and wise, and you’ll survive the world depopulation effort that victimizes conventional thinkers who don’t have the intelligence to question what they’re being told to do by their own corrupt governments.
Article printed from Infowars: http://www.infowars.com
URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/bill-gates-says-vaccines-can-help-reduce-world-population/
Posted By kurtnimmo On October 1, 2010 @ 7:42 am In Featured Stories | 249 Comments
Mike Adams
NaturalNews
October 1, 2010
In a recent TED conference presentation, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, who has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to new vaccine efforts, speaks on the issue of CO2 emissions and its effects on climate change. He presents a formula for tracking CO2 emissions as follows: CO2 = P x S x E x C.
P = People
S = Services per person
E = Energy per service
C = CO2 per energy unit
Then he adds that in order to get CO2 to zero, “probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty close to zero.”
Following that, Bill Gates begins to describe how the first number — P (for People) — might be reduced. He says:
“The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
You can watch this yourself at:
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A…
Reducing the world population through vaccines
This statement by Bill Gates was not made with any hesitation, stuttering or other indication that it might have been a mistake. It appears to have been a deliberate, calculated part of a well developed and coherent presentation.
So what does it mean when Bill Gates says “if we do a really great job on new vaccines… we could lower [world population] by 10 or 15 percent?”
Clearly, this statement implies that vaccines are a method of population reduction. So is “health care,” which all NaturalNews readers already know to be more of a “sick care” system that actually harms more people than it helps.
Perhaps that’s the whole point of it. Given that vaccines technology help almost no one from a scientific point of view (http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_v…), it raises the question: For what purpose are vaccines being so heavily pushed in the first place?
Bill Gates seems to be saying that one of the primary purposes is to reduce the global population as a mechanism by which we can reduce CO2 emissions. Once again, watch the video yourself to hear him say it in his own words:
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A…
How can vaccines actually be used to reduce world population?
Let’s conduct a mental experiment on this issue. If vaccines are to be used to reduce world population, they obviously need to be accepted by the majority of the people. Otherwise the population reduction effort wouldn’t be very effective.
And in order for them to be accepted by the majority of the people, they obviously can’t just kill people outright. If everybody started dropping dead within 24 hours of receiving the flu shot, the danger of vaccines would become obvious rather quickly and the vaccines would be recalled.
Thus, if vaccines are to be used as an effective population reduction effort, there are really only three ways in which they might theoretically be “effective” from the point of view of those who wish to reduce world population:
#1) They might kill people slowly in a way that’s unnoticeable, taking effect over perhaps 10 – 30 years by accelerating degenerative diseases.
#2) They might reduce fertility and therefore dramatically lower birth rates around the world, thereby reducing the world population over successive generations. This “soft kill” method might seem more acceptable to scientists who want to see the world population fall but don’t quite have the stomach to outright kill people with conventional medicine. There is already evidence that vaccines may promote miscarriages (http://www.naturalnews.com/027512_v…).
#3) They might increase the death rate from a future pandemic. Theoretically, widespread vaccination efforts could be followed by a deliberate release of a highly virulent flu strain with a high fatality rate. This “bioweapon” approach could kill millions of people whose immune systems have been weakened by previous vaccine injections.
This is a known side effect of some vaccines, by the way. A study documenting this was published in PLoS. Read the story here: http://www.naturalnews.com/028538_s…
Here’s the study title and citation: Does Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Increase the Risk of Illness with the 2009 A/H1N1 Pandemic Virus?
Viboud C, Simonsen L (2010) Does Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Increase the Risk of Illness with the 2009 A/H1N1 Pandemic Virus? PLoS Med 7(4): e1000259. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000259
The short answer is yes, seasonal flu vaccines do cause increased susceptibility to the H1N1 pandemic virus. In other words, seasonal flu vaccines could set up the population for a “hard kill” pandemic that could wipe out a significant portion of the global population (perhaps 10 to 15 percent, as Bill Gates suggested).
* A d v e r t i s e m e n t
*
Conveniently, their deaths could be blamed on the pandemic, thereby diverting blame from those who were really responsible for the plot. As yet another beneficial side effect for the global population killers, the widespread deaths could be used as a fear tool to urge more people to get vaccinated yet again, and the entire cycle could be repeated until world population was brought down to whatever manageable level was desired… all in the name of health care!
The more people around the world are vaccinated before the release of the “hard kill” pandemic virus, the more powerful the effect of this approach.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into vaccine programs targeting people all over the world. One such program is researching the development of “sweat-triggered vaccines” that could use specially-coated nano-materials to deliver vaccines to people without using injections.
More interestingly, his foundation has also invested millions in sterilization technologies that have been called a “temporary castration” solution. (http://www.naturalnews.com/028887_v…)
It seems that the actions of the Gates foundation are entirely consistent with the formula for CO2 reduction that Bill Gates eluded to in his TED conference speech: CO2 = P x S x E x C.
By reducing birth rates (through sterilization technologies) and increasing vaccine penetration throughout the world population (by using sweat-triggered nano-vaccines), his stated goal of reducing the world population by 10 to 15 percent could be reached within just a few years.
Who will be left alive? The smart people
The interesting thing about all this is that this campaign to reduce global population through vaccines will obviously not impact people who consciously avoid vaccines. And those people, by and large, tend to be the more intelligent, capable people who actually have an improved ability to move human civilization forward with thoughtful consideration.
I can only imagine that those people designing this vaccine-induced population control measure might be sitting around a table chuckling to themselves and saying, “It’s only the stupid people that are going to be killed off anyway, so this is actually helping the future of humankind!” (Their words, not mine.)
In a weird world government kind of way, this effort might actually be based on some distorted vision of philanthropy where some of the most powerful people in the world quite literally believe the way to save humanity is to kill off as many of the gullible people as possible. Vaccines are, in effect, an “evil genius” kind of way to conduct an IQ test on the population at large: If you go get vaccinated every flu season, you’re not too bright and probably don’t engage the kind of strong mental faculties that humanity will no doubt need if it is to face a future where it is now all but obvious we are not alone in the universe.
If humanity is to save itself from its own destruction and compete as an uplifted species in our universe, killing off the least intelligent members of society (or making them infertile) may appear to the world controllers to be a perfectly reasonable approach. I disagree with that approach, but it may be precisely what they are thinking.
In any case, choosing to receive a seasonal flu shot is undoubtedly an admission that you have failed some sort of universal IQ test, whether or not this is the intention of world influencers such as Bill Gates. More importantly, it is also a betrayal of your own biology, because it indicates you don’t believe in the ability of your own immune system to protect you even from mild infections.
Fresh food that lasts from eFoods Direct (Ad)
Perhaps the world vaccine conspirators figure that if people are willing to betray themselves anyway, it’s not much different for governments and institutions to betray them as well. In other words, if you don’t even care enough about your own health to take care of your health, why should any government care about protecting your health, either?
As you ponder this, also consider something else: The U.S. is going broke due to sick-care costs which are rising dramatically under the new federal health care reform guidelines. Can you guess the fastest and easiest way to reduce those health care costs? If you guessed, “unleash a hard-kill pandemic that takes out a significant portion of the weak or sick people” then you guessed right. Sadly, killing off those most vulnerable to sickness could save the U.S. government literally billions of dollars in sick-care expenditures. Plus, it would save Social Security yet more billions by avoiding ongoing monthly payouts. (Again, I am completely against such an approach because I value human life, but I also know we live in a world where the people in charge have little or no respect for human life and will readily sacrifice human lives to achieve their aims.)
As far as Bill Gates goes, consider his statement in the context of what we’ve discussed here: “The world today has 6.8 billion people… that’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
It suddenly seems to make a lot of sense when you understand that reducing the population reduces CO2 emissions, and using more vaccines on more people increases the death rate of the population.
My advice? Try to avoid being among those 10 to 15 percent who get culled through global vaccine programs. You will not only save your life, you’ll also pass the “universal IQ test” which determines whether you’re smart enough to know that injecting your body with chemicals and viral fragments in order to stop “seasonal flu” is a foolish endeavor.
Be healthy and wise, and you’ll survive the world depopulation effort that victimizes conventional thinkers who don’t have the intelligence to question what they’re being told to do by their own corrupt governments.
Article printed from Infowars: http://www.infowars.com
URL to article: http://www.infowars.com/bill-gates-says-vaccines-can-help-reduce-world-population/
Friday, May 7, 2010
Greys' Anatomy - The Aliens Responsible For Fluoride Being Forced Upon Us
A long, long time ago, the Earth was used as a dumping ground by many different alien races. Spacecraft-loads of toxic waste were strewn about the planet. Aluminium was one of the main waste products that was dumped on the Earth.
While it was detrimental to the Earth to be loaded with aluminium, hazards increased dramatically when humans began refining the metal. Fluoride is an extremely toxic by-product of aluminium refining. Since industrialists were unable to safely dispose of fluoride, they called upon the ruling elite's assistance to set their propaganda machine into motion. Before long, university professors, dentists, health officers and many others were espousing the "marvel" of fluoride in reducing dental caries (tooth decay). The propaganda is so effectively spread that it is difficult to find a non-fluoridated tube of toothpaste in most supermarkets. Due to the mass propaganda campaign in support of fluoride, a huge number of communities have fluoridated their water supplies and a vast amount of drinking water now contains the toxin.
Fluoride is no ordinary toxin - it is a highly protected medication (poison). Many who know the truth realize that it would be unlikely for a coroner to report a suspicious death from fluoride poisoning because the ruling elite would not want to alert the public to the fact that fluoride is highly toxic. In fact, fluoride is a very effective rat poison. Hence, it can also kill people. However, non-lethal doses, such as those found in ordinary toothpaste tubes, are often responsible for dental fluorosis or bone fluorosis.
The dental professionals have been targeted for maximum programming to advance the "beneficial" properties of fluoride. They have the propaganda forced upon them during their university training, and they parrot back the "benefits" of fluoride to their patients, who blindly accept that their family dentists would certainly have researched the issue thoroughly before recommending fluoride to them. Those who have seriously examined the "benefits" of fluoride realize that the studies supporting the use of the toxin are at best inconclusive regarding prevention of tooth decay. When pressured, some dentists will admit that fluoride is toxic, but follow this up with a parroted response that while it is poisonous, there is an optimum amount of the poison that is "beneficial" as long as one does not overdose on it.
One concern that dentists do voice is that because children often swallow toothpaste, they should be given small doses for brushing their teeth. Dentists know that if a child swallows too much toothpaste, it can be very dangerous, or even fatal. Surprisingly, this knowledge and these warnings are insufficient to break through the Reptilian propaganda supporting rat poison (sodium fluoride) in water and toothpaste.
One ought to remember that dentists also recommend the use of amalgam fillings to seal dental cavities. Amalgam fillings contain mercury, which is also a deadly poison. Consumers have enough knowledge to realize they should not eat fish that contains mercury, but again, they blindly accept their neighbourhood dentists' recommendations to put the poison into their mouths.
Dentists have become so indoctrinated by the ruling elite's propaganda that they ardently believe and support the "benefits" of fluoride for healthy teeth. The main reason that the malicious propaganda on fluoride is so widely accepted and promoted is the subtle programming behind it. This is not so much a physical programming as it is subliminal. The culprits behind the fluoride conspiracy are the Anunnaki Reptilians.
The Reptilians are a horrible race of aliens that sit atop the Dark hierarchy in the Virtual Reality. One should realize that among Reptilians there is also a hierarchy - they have rulers and subjects amongst them. It is primarily the Anunnaki Elites' agenda to bring in the New World Order and to take total control of the Earth.
The Reptilian programming runs through the occult and other fields to brainwash people in many ways. So, too, it is with the fluoride issue. The ruling elite want people to believe that sodium fluoride is beneficial. This lie is intended to be 100 percent effective. That means that the programming is directed at everyone to accept the benefits of fluoride.
Once a person accepts any form of programming, he or she is subjected to the programming. Since the Reptilians are striving for 100 percent acceptance of fluoride, there is little conflict over the issue. While a small group of people resist the programming, they are not allowed to present their cases to the public. The media has sealed the issue "drum tight" and anti-fluoridationists are not given an opportunity to present their cases. There is no open debate on the issue because to do so would expose the ruling elite's long-standing poisoning plan. The propaganda is so powerful that anti-fluoridationists are scorned, ridiculed, rejected and abused for taking a stance against fluoride.
In contrast to sodium-fluoride programming, consider how the theory of evolution has been presented and widely accepted by academics, who in turn indoctrinate their students in universities throughout the world. Acceptance of the theory of evolution was never intended to be 100 percent effective. The ruling elite has other simultaneous programming that is in total conflict with the acceptance of the theory of evolution. One such programming is the fundamentalist doctrine of creation as it is presented in the Bible. The programmed fundamentalists and the programmed evolutionists were programmed to have conflict and strife, which suits the ruling elite's plans quite nicely. The ruling elite also programmes denominations of religions to be in conflict with one another, and for independent religions to be in conflict with one another. This also allows the ruling elite to manipulate and control by imposing strife upon the people of the Earth.
As many of you might have suspected, the ruling elite have infiltrated and/or taken over the esoteric and occult, including the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, theosophy, metaphysics, astrology, all the major religions of all cultures including Gnosticism etc. Likewise, the ruling elite have sponsored the New Age movement. These seemingly divided groups are headed by those with a single purpose - to control all the inhabitants of the Earth. Sadly, many sincere people in the movements have no idea that they are supporting the ruling elite's plan for a One World Order!
So critical is the acceptance of the brainwashing of fluoride that it is aimed at 100 percent of the population. This unusual type of programming should sound many alarms. Firstly, it shows how effective Reptilian programming is. Secondly, it demonstrates that there can be no free speech on issues that the ruling elite want to seal off. Thirdly, it shows how evil the ruling elite are. Finally, it demonstrates how few people on the planet can think for themselves and resist Reptilian programming.
The recent calls from various governments to impose draconian laws, supposedly to fight terrorism, means that in future anyone who dares speak the truth on important issues such as fluoridation will simply disappear without a trace. This is frightening! When people are totally under the control of draconian regimes, they will be even more robotic than they are now in this robot farm of Virtual Reality.
The Reptilians have only relatively recently (a few hundred years ago) decided to eliminate the human race. To bring this about, they called upon the co-operation of the Greys, who were promised by the Reptilians that their race would be used as the main hominid race on the planet. However, this promise to the Greys was never a genuine one.
Believing that they would become a major force on the Earth, the Greys began performing DNA and genetic manipulation, trying to form hybrids using human and Grey DNA. The Greys are busily perfecting these hybrids, which explains many of the human abductions for experimental purposes. Greys are doing this brutal, surreptitious, unethical work without the consent of their victims. The result is even cruel to the hybrids, who do not really fit in to either the alien or the human societies. However, some hybrids, when they encounter their human or their alien parents, will sometimes be drawn to them, and vice versa. In performing these horrific genetic manipulations, Greys are relying on the false promise from the Reptilians, but the Reptilians will never allow the hybrids to dominate the planet.
Many sceptics mockingly ask, "Where are the aliens?" Little do they know that many aliens are now in human, animal and hybrid bodies.
Now, the Greys on Earth are in great numbers and they are scattered all over the world. Unlike most Reptilians, who live in spacecrafts or on high ground where they employ invisibility techniques, the Greys who are still in alien bodies live under ground.
Owing to living underground over a long period of time, the Greys have developed a peculiar deficiency that mainly affects their sight. Even the hybrids that use Grey DNA are afflicted with this visual malady. Thus, the Greys needed to develop a medication that was readily available throughout the world. The optimum medication they found is sodium fluoride, which is most effective when diluted in minute quantities in drinking water.
"One person's tonic is another's poison." So it is with sodium fluoride. It is extremely harmful to humans, but necessary for the Greys. The effects of long-term consumption of fluoridated water by rats has resulted in structural changes in the neurones of their brains and in their blood vessels. Fluoride has been shown to effectively reduce IQ and is also tied to certain memory disorders. If users of fluoride are malnourished, they age prematurely. Fluoride is also detrimental to spiritual awareness. Interestingly, high concentrations of Greys are found in or near many places where fluoride "naturally" occurs in water.
One dramatic piece of government propaganda states:
Since 1950, opponents of water fluoridation have claimed it increased the risk for cancer, Down syndrome, heart disease, osteoporosis and bone fracture, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, low intelligence, Alzheimer disease, allergic reactions, and other health conditions. The safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation have been re-evaluated frequently, and no credible evidence supports an association between fluoridation and any of these conditions. (Div of Oral Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC; 22 Oct. 99).
The above proclamations are typical of fluoridation proponents. Why do the ruling elite scoff, threaten and ridicule anti-fluoridationists who present real evidence concerning the dangers of fluoride? The medication (sodium fluoride) is forced upon an unsuspecting public under the guise that it reduces tooth decay. Are they really concerned about public health or do they have another agenda?
Perhaps the worst aspect of the fluoride conspiracy is that it is practically permanent pollution. Once clean water is contaminated with sodium fluoride, almost nothing short of distillation will remove it. Distillation is time-consuming, expensive and it leaves water tasteless and lacking in nutrition. So, it is a losing proposition to fight off fluoridation by distilling water.
Even when people avoid the fluoride invasion in their water at home, they face the poison everywhere they turn. It is in cosmetics, soft drinks, prepared foods and just about any food product imaginable.
The Reptilians have an elaborate scheme to convince the Greys by maintaining the illusion of their promise to them through actively programming the world to accept sodium fluoride in drinking water. In reality, the Reptilians are more interested in re-establishing a super race of Reptilians than allowing another alien race like the Greys to have any kind of foothold anywhere.
Since the Reptilians are worried about the mess on Earth and about the proliferation of the Greys, they have come to the conclusion that the Earth must be destroyed to eliminate the huge base of Greys on the planet and hopefully to resolve the many serious problems concerning the Earth. For a long time, the Greys have been subjected to the rule of the Reptilians. But this will not continue much longer. Already, friction has occurred between them because many Greys are suspecting that the Reptilian promise is an empty one. It will not be long before many, if not all, Greys will change sides and support the Vulturites. This will manifest as a shift in politics amongst nations of the world.
As I have discussed in some of my other postings, the Reptilians currently possess the Atu-waa (the device for re-starting time), but the Atu-waa is inoperable and irreparable. For many reasons, the Atu-waa cannot be removed from the Earth at this time. Even though the Earth is an ideal planet for the location of the Atu-waa, the Reptilians are worried about the growing numbers of Greys through the hybrids. No wonder the Reptilians now plan to destroy the Earth and re-locate the Atu-waa if they can re-start time.
The Reptilians have new plans for a new world that can safely house the Atu-waa without the threats from other alien races. These plans will not succeed because the Reptilians will not be able to re-start time.
To break away from any of the enslaving programming in this Virtual Reality, one has to consciously reject the programming. This can be difficult if one is not remotely suspicious of such programming. One has to employ the will of one's True Self to reject the programming. This will enable a person to automatically break any pre-set pattern or programming. To do this, a person needs to keep his or her emotions at a reasonable level so that one can bypass them.
One's will to resist Darkness and Its Dark programming is one's strongest tool to remain in the True Light.
While it was detrimental to the Earth to be loaded with aluminium, hazards increased dramatically when humans began refining the metal. Fluoride is an extremely toxic by-product of aluminium refining. Since industrialists were unable to safely dispose of fluoride, they called upon the ruling elite's assistance to set their propaganda machine into motion. Before long, university professors, dentists, health officers and many others were espousing the "marvel" of fluoride in reducing dental caries (tooth decay). The propaganda is so effectively spread that it is difficult to find a non-fluoridated tube of toothpaste in most supermarkets. Due to the mass propaganda campaign in support of fluoride, a huge number of communities have fluoridated their water supplies and a vast amount of drinking water now contains the toxin.
Fluoride is no ordinary toxin - it is a highly protected medication (poison). Many who know the truth realize that it would be unlikely for a coroner to report a suspicious death from fluoride poisoning because the ruling elite would not want to alert the public to the fact that fluoride is highly toxic. In fact, fluoride is a very effective rat poison. Hence, it can also kill people. However, non-lethal doses, such as those found in ordinary toothpaste tubes, are often responsible for dental fluorosis or bone fluorosis.
The dental professionals have been targeted for maximum programming to advance the "beneficial" properties of fluoride. They have the propaganda forced upon them during their university training, and they parrot back the "benefits" of fluoride to their patients, who blindly accept that their family dentists would certainly have researched the issue thoroughly before recommending fluoride to them. Those who have seriously examined the "benefits" of fluoride realize that the studies supporting the use of the toxin are at best inconclusive regarding prevention of tooth decay. When pressured, some dentists will admit that fluoride is toxic, but follow this up with a parroted response that while it is poisonous, there is an optimum amount of the poison that is "beneficial" as long as one does not overdose on it.
One concern that dentists do voice is that because children often swallow toothpaste, they should be given small doses for brushing their teeth. Dentists know that if a child swallows too much toothpaste, it can be very dangerous, or even fatal. Surprisingly, this knowledge and these warnings are insufficient to break through the Reptilian propaganda supporting rat poison (sodium fluoride) in water and toothpaste.
One ought to remember that dentists also recommend the use of amalgam fillings to seal dental cavities. Amalgam fillings contain mercury, which is also a deadly poison. Consumers have enough knowledge to realize they should not eat fish that contains mercury, but again, they blindly accept their neighbourhood dentists' recommendations to put the poison into their mouths.
Dentists have become so indoctrinated by the ruling elite's propaganda that they ardently believe and support the "benefits" of fluoride for healthy teeth. The main reason that the malicious propaganda on fluoride is so widely accepted and promoted is the subtle programming behind it. This is not so much a physical programming as it is subliminal. The culprits behind the fluoride conspiracy are the Anunnaki Reptilians.
The Reptilians are a horrible race of aliens that sit atop the Dark hierarchy in the Virtual Reality. One should realize that among Reptilians there is also a hierarchy - they have rulers and subjects amongst them. It is primarily the Anunnaki Elites' agenda to bring in the New World Order and to take total control of the Earth.
The Reptilian programming runs through the occult and other fields to brainwash people in many ways. So, too, it is with the fluoride issue. The ruling elite want people to believe that sodium fluoride is beneficial. This lie is intended to be 100 percent effective. That means that the programming is directed at everyone to accept the benefits of fluoride.
Once a person accepts any form of programming, he or she is subjected to the programming. Since the Reptilians are striving for 100 percent acceptance of fluoride, there is little conflict over the issue. While a small group of people resist the programming, they are not allowed to present their cases to the public. The media has sealed the issue "drum tight" and anti-fluoridationists are not given an opportunity to present their cases. There is no open debate on the issue because to do so would expose the ruling elite's long-standing poisoning plan. The propaganda is so powerful that anti-fluoridationists are scorned, ridiculed, rejected and abused for taking a stance against fluoride.
In contrast to sodium-fluoride programming, consider how the theory of evolution has been presented and widely accepted by academics, who in turn indoctrinate their students in universities throughout the world. Acceptance of the theory of evolution was never intended to be 100 percent effective. The ruling elite has other simultaneous programming that is in total conflict with the acceptance of the theory of evolution. One such programming is the fundamentalist doctrine of creation as it is presented in the Bible. The programmed fundamentalists and the programmed evolutionists were programmed to have conflict and strife, which suits the ruling elite's plans quite nicely. The ruling elite also programmes denominations of religions to be in conflict with one another, and for independent religions to be in conflict with one another. This also allows the ruling elite to manipulate and control by imposing strife upon the people of the Earth.
As many of you might have suspected, the ruling elite have infiltrated and/or taken over the esoteric and occult, including the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, theosophy, metaphysics, astrology, all the major religions of all cultures including Gnosticism etc. Likewise, the ruling elite have sponsored the New Age movement. These seemingly divided groups are headed by those with a single purpose - to control all the inhabitants of the Earth. Sadly, many sincere people in the movements have no idea that they are supporting the ruling elite's plan for a One World Order!
So critical is the acceptance of the brainwashing of fluoride that it is aimed at 100 percent of the population. This unusual type of programming should sound many alarms. Firstly, it shows how effective Reptilian programming is. Secondly, it demonstrates that there can be no free speech on issues that the ruling elite want to seal off. Thirdly, it shows how evil the ruling elite are. Finally, it demonstrates how few people on the planet can think for themselves and resist Reptilian programming.
The recent calls from various governments to impose draconian laws, supposedly to fight terrorism, means that in future anyone who dares speak the truth on important issues such as fluoridation will simply disappear without a trace. This is frightening! When people are totally under the control of draconian regimes, they will be even more robotic than they are now in this robot farm of Virtual Reality.
The Reptilians have only relatively recently (a few hundred years ago) decided to eliminate the human race. To bring this about, they called upon the co-operation of the Greys, who were promised by the Reptilians that their race would be used as the main hominid race on the planet. However, this promise to the Greys was never a genuine one.
Believing that they would become a major force on the Earth, the Greys began performing DNA and genetic manipulation, trying to form hybrids using human and Grey DNA. The Greys are busily perfecting these hybrids, which explains many of the human abductions for experimental purposes. Greys are doing this brutal, surreptitious, unethical work without the consent of their victims. The result is even cruel to the hybrids, who do not really fit in to either the alien or the human societies. However, some hybrids, when they encounter their human or their alien parents, will sometimes be drawn to them, and vice versa. In performing these horrific genetic manipulations, Greys are relying on the false promise from the Reptilians, but the Reptilians will never allow the hybrids to dominate the planet.
Many sceptics mockingly ask, "Where are the aliens?" Little do they know that many aliens are now in human, animal and hybrid bodies.
Now, the Greys on Earth are in great numbers and they are scattered all over the world. Unlike most Reptilians, who live in spacecrafts or on high ground where they employ invisibility techniques, the Greys who are still in alien bodies live under ground.
Owing to living underground over a long period of time, the Greys have developed a peculiar deficiency that mainly affects their sight. Even the hybrids that use Grey DNA are afflicted with this visual malady. Thus, the Greys needed to develop a medication that was readily available throughout the world. The optimum medication they found is sodium fluoride, which is most effective when diluted in minute quantities in drinking water.
"One person's tonic is another's poison." So it is with sodium fluoride. It is extremely harmful to humans, but necessary for the Greys. The effects of long-term consumption of fluoridated water by rats has resulted in structural changes in the neurones of their brains and in their blood vessels. Fluoride has been shown to effectively reduce IQ and is also tied to certain memory disorders. If users of fluoride are malnourished, they age prematurely. Fluoride is also detrimental to spiritual awareness. Interestingly, high concentrations of Greys are found in or near many places where fluoride "naturally" occurs in water.
One dramatic piece of government propaganda states:
Since 1950, opponents of water fluoridation have claimed it increased the risk for cancer, Down syndrome, heart disease, osteoporosis and bone fracture, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, low intelligence, Alzheimer disease, allergic reactions, and other health conditions. The safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation have been re-evaluated frequently, and no credible evidence supports an association between fluoridation and any of these conditions. (Div of Oral Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC; 22 Oct. 99).
The above proclamations are typical of fluoridation proponents. Why do the ruling elite scoff, threaten and ridicule anti-fluoridationists who present real evidence concerning the dangers of fluoride? The medication (sodium fluoride) is forced upon an unsuspecting public under the guise that it reduces tooth decay. Are they really concerned about public health or do they have another agenda?
Perhaps the worst aspect of the fluoride conspiracy is that it is practically permanent pollution. Once clean water is contaminated with sodium fluoride, almost nothing short of distillation will remove it. Distillation is time-consuming, expensive and it leaves water tasteless and lacking in nutrition. So, it is a losing proposition to fight off fluoridation by distilling water.
Even when people avoid the fluoride invasion in their water at home, they face the poison everywhere they turn. It is in cosmetics, soft drinks, prepared foods and just about any food product imaginable.
The Reptilians have an elaborate scheme to convince the Greys by maintaining the illusion of their promise to them through actively programming the world to accept sodium fluoride in drinking water. In reality, the Reptilians are more interested in re-establishing a super race of Reptilians than allowing another alien race like the Greys to have any kind of foothold anywhere.
Since the Reptilians are worried about the mess on Earth and about the proliferation of the Greys, they have come to the conclusion that the Earth must be destroyed to eliminate the huge base of Greys on the planet and hopefully to resolve the many serious problems concerning the Earth. For a long time, the Greys have been subjected to the rule of the Reptilians. But this will not continue much longer. Already, friction has occurred between them because many Greys are suspecting that the Reptilian promise is an empty one. It will not be long before many, if not all, Greys will change sides and support the Vulturites. This will manifest as a shift in politics amongst nations of the world.
As I have discussed in some of my other postings, the Reptilians currently possess the Atu-waa (the device for re-starting time), but the Atu-waa is inoperable and irreparable. For many reasons, the Atu-waa cannot be removed from the Earth at this time. Even though the Earth is an ideal planet for the location of the Atu-waa, the Reptilians are worried about the growing numbers of Greys through the hybrids. No wonder the Reptilians now plan to destroy the Earth and re-locate the Atu-waa if they can re-start time.
The Reptilians have new plans for a new world that can safely house the Atu-waa without the threats from other alien races. These plans will not succeed because the Reptilians will not be able to re-start time.
To break away from any of the enslaving programming in this Virtual Reality, one has to consciously reject the programming. This can be difficult if one is not remotely suspicious of such programming. One has to employ the will of one's True Self to reject the programming. This will enable a person to automatically break any pre-set pattern or programming. To do this, a person needs to keep his or her emotions at a reasonable level so that one can bypass them.
One's will to resist Darkness and Its Dark programming is one's strongest tool to remain in the True Light.
Global Warming - Natural or Artificial
by
Amitakh Stanford
1st June 2004
There has been extensive and often controversial debate about global warming, with some scientists still arguing that it is a myth. However, the evidence of increased air and water temperatures is undeniable - global warming is happening.
The theories that have been brought forward to explain global warming are sometimes in contradiction to one another. Some scientists claim that warming temperatures will bring on a new ice age, while others claim it will bring on a considerably hotter planet. There are some that think the effects of the warming will be minimal and others that think they will be catastrophic. It is quite a spectrum.
The theories for the causes of global warming range from calling it a natural cycling phenomenon to assigning the responsibility of global warming to pollution created by industrialization and population explosion. Again, there is a wide range of speculation on the subject.
Regardless of the causes for global warming, it is a very critical issue at this time. Many people are now starting to take it seriously as they witness the climatic changes around the world and the effects of these changes.
To rationally determine why the Earth is warming, one should first consider whether global warming is natural or artificial. The vast majority of the scientific research starts from the premise that warming is a natural process brought upon by various explainable natural causes. They hypothesize that the Earth's climate goes through cyclical changes just as seasons change, and they seek to explain climatic changes with a theory similar to the one about the orbit and tilt of the Earth being the cause of the seasonal changes. Those who would go outside the conventional paradigm and seek to explain climatic changes for non-physically explainable reasons are scorned for lacking rationality and being airy-fairy.
The majority of scientists considering the issue assume there is a natural cycle of climate for the Earth. They argue that the industrial revolution has contributed greatly to pollution of the land, water and air, which have brought about, among other things, a greenhouse effect from increases in carbon dioxide. This group would argue that global warming could be reversed if people took steps to correct the problem.
However, even if people attempt to mitigate the effects of pollution on the planet, global warming will continue. In fact, if all the humans were taken off the planet tomorrow, global warming would still continue because humans are only partially responsible for it.
The real problem of global warming is artificial and beyond human solutions. It cannot be solved by human efforts in mitigating the effects of pollution because it is an artificial imposition upon the Earth by aliens.
To explain, we must digress back to the days of Lemuria and Atlantis. Both civilizations were highly advanced because they were settled and governed by the Anunnaki. The people of Lemuria and Atlantis were in a constant state of conflict because they were trying to outdo each other technologically, and they were vying for superiority. Both were populated by conquering, cruel Anunnaki beings, and both had earthling slaves.
As the conflict continued, the Atlanteans received great support from off- planet allies, and a blockade was imposed that impeded support traffic for the Lemurians. When the interference of the supply lines became obvious, the Lemurians realized that they would succumb to the more powerful Atlanteans. Hence, they secretly constructed a huge underwater "city" which phonetically sounds like "At-wo-querhe" and many of the elite of Lemuria quietly migrated there with their human slaves.
Eventually, Atlantis attacked and destroyed Lemuria, but the Anunnaki from Atlantis did not know of the secret underwater "city," so they thought that they had totally annihilated the Lemurians.
As discussed in my earlier writings, the Anunnaki Elite thereafter destroyed Atlantis and fled the Earth with most of the highly sophisticated space crafts and technology. The Anunnaki Remnants who were left for dead but survived the destruction of Atlantis are currently controlling the ruling elite of the world.
Before fleeing to At-wo-querhe, the Lemurians "parked" two mother crafts (huge space crafts) in the hills on the continent of Antarctica, where they believed they would escape detection by the Atlanteans. There was not enough time for them to build a structure underwater that was large enough to house the mother crafts.
The Lemurians did not dare try to use the mother crafts for escape because they lacked sufficient fighter support to protect them from the Atlantean allied blockade. Besides, had their enemies spotted the Lemurians' mother crafts, a search would have been made for the underwater civilization, and it would have been destroyed by the Atlanteans. The mother crafts were not discovered by anyone, however, great sheets of ice have formed over the crafts.
At-wo-querhe is surrounded by a gigantic translucent dome. Outside of the dome is water, inside is a gaseous atmosphere. There is a parameter inside the dome that is unoccupied, much like a buffer zone or a frontier. The people living inside the parameter of the domed city live very much like they would on land. These people are beige coloured, flesh-and-blood beings of the same vibrational dimension as earthlings who still live on the surface of the planet. These Anunnaki should not be confused with aliens who have gone underground or beings that are of different vibrational frequencies.
The Lemurians have secretly influenced many things on Earth from At-wo- querhe. They are always watching what is going on above them, but they are careful not to give themselves away. While remaining inconspicuous, the Lemurians, like other groups of Anunnaki, have influenced all the major religions on the surface of the Earth. They have small crafts that are moored in their underwater community which occasionally travel out of the water and into the air and over land.
The Lemurians know that the time for the Earth is short because nobody has re-started "Time," and it is quickly ticking away. The Lemurians know the date when the Earth will end, but they had expected the Anunnaki Elite to return to Earth and re-start the cycle. They also surmised that they would be safe underwater during the "re-start" of Time. However, because the Attas of Light have kept the Anunnaki Elite at bay, the cycle is counting down with no chance of a re-starting.
The Lemurians sense something has altered the Anunnaki plans to keep the Earth in an endless and pointless cycle of re-starts. Therefore, they are taking desperate measures to free their ice-encased mother crafts on Antarctica. They do not know whether the crafts will still function, but their small crafts are inadequate and impractical for deep space travel. It is so desperate that they will risk running a blockade without any support since there is no other chance of their survival. They want to make a rapid exodus from Earth and hope that their mother crafts will function despite years of "hibernation" in the ice.
The Lemurians have constructed a huge microwave device that heats the water deep under the Antarctic seas. It is a device which pulsates with whitish- purplish light. As it rises and falls it superheats the water, which rises in a bubbling fashion and spreads under the ice shelves, causing them to melt. As the ice breaks away from the shelves, the glaciers will be more exposed to the water and air temperatures, which will cause them to melt rapidly. The heated water eventually causes the rise in air temperature around the globe.
The glaciers are like crusts that are covering the mother crafts. These ice crusts are the main targets of the Lemurians because they need to be peeled away if the Lemurians are to flee the Earth before it ceases to exist. The superheated water is dispersing throughout the world's oceans, which is causing havoc by heating the water, air and land to hotter and hotter levels.
The Lemurians are now furiously running the superheater. They are unconcerned about the damage the heated water is causing because they know time is running out and that they must free their mother crafts or they will die on the Earth when it collapses. If all goes according to Lemurian plans, both mother crafts will be visible by the survivors on land. Additionally, their project is causing the production of poisonous gas on the ocean floor that will ultimately kill much of the sea life.
The Lemurian exodus plan is the main cause of the seemingly inexplicable rapid increases in air, land and water temperatures. However, there are other causes such as underwater volcanoes adding to the problem. In addition to the global warming effects brought upon the Earth by the Lemurians desperate attempt to save themselves, other catastrophes are in store for the planet.
Another reason for global warming comes from another Anunnaki group's plans on the surface to overpopulate the Earth to drain resources and for other reasons. It did this primarily by manipulating religions and cultures to encourage large families.
It is said that there are over 6 billion human beings on the planet at this time. That is not accurate. Many of the "people" on the planet are clones who are basically robots although the clones are unaware of this. They are being used to replace many of the human beings. Some are cloned from children, while others are cloned from adults. These clones are then dispersed among the unsuspecting population. In other cases, human victims are kidnapped, then murdered and clones take over their identities. This sounds like science fiction, but it goes on far more often than most could imagine. Many of the clones are in religion, politics, business, education, science, media, entertainment and medicine. This gives the alien cloners a power base to work from. One example is a well-known royal figure who has been replaced by a clone.
There will be three MAJOR cataclysmic events to befall the Earth. The first one will startle many, however, many will survive the first. The second will take out further numbers, but the third one will be horrendous and few will survive it. These will occur because Evil has reached a saturation point and it is back flushing upon itself.
Fireballs appear in the sky;
The sky cries with bloodstained eyes;
While the ocean floors give out poisonous gas,
A smooth, boulder like object is targeted at Alaska;
Many places, including Istanbul, Barcelona and several parts of Italy will be devastated;
Many of the disasters will be artificially created quakes and floods;
Alien shooting wars will be waged in the sky and on the Earth.
Those who respect Truth will be attacked even more openly. The appearance of civility by those of the Shadows will be dropped, revealing their vicious nature for all to see. The separation of the wheat from the chaff is unavoidable, but everyone has been given ample opportunity and the free will to choose where they want to be.
It is not necessary for the people or other beings to have physical knowledge of the separation process or the Message. All classes of Creation, including the animals, plants, minerals etc. are being sorted out. The spirits within all beings understand what is occurring and the respective spirits have made their choices.
The children of the Shadows will continue to mock in vain until the very end. Their scorn is of no consequence.
The Path to Liberation from Darkness is narrow, and few chose to travel it. The Path to Destruction is wide, and many chose it. Each must listen to the small, still voice within them, and not be led like sheep by those who would keep them on the Path to Destruction. Like the story of the fallen angels, the children of the Shadows want to take as many down with them as they can.
The viable ones are those who have chosen the Light. They may suffer a little longer for now, but soon they will be returning to their Pristine Home, where there is Eternal True Love, Joy, Peace and Purity.
Amitakh Stanford
1st June 2004
There has been extensive and often controversial debate about global warming, with some scientists still arguing that it is a myth. However, the evidence of increased air and water temperatures is undeniable - global warming is happening.
The theories that have been brought forward to explain global warming are sometimes in contradiction to one another. Some scientists claim that warming temperatures will bring on a new ice age, while others claim it will bring on a considerably hotter planet. There are some that think the effects of the warming will be minimal and others that think they will be catastrophic. It is quite a spectrum.
The theories for the causes of global warming range from calling it a natural cycling phenomenon to assigning the responsibility of global warming to pollution created by industrialization and population explosion. Again, there is a wide range of speculation on the subject.
Regardless of the causes for global warming, it is a very critical issue at this time. Many people are now starting to take it seriously as they witness the climatic changes around the world and the effects of these changes.
To rationally determine why the Earth is warming, one should first consider whether global warming is natural or artificial. The vast majority of the scientific research starts from the premise that warming is a natural process brought upon by various explainable natural causes. They hypothesize that the Earth's climate goes through cyclical changes just as seasons change, and they seek to explain climatic changes with a theory similar to the one about the orbit and tilt of the Earth being the cause of the seasonal changes. Those who would go outside the conventional paradigm and seek to explain climatic changes for non-physically explainable reasons are scorned for lacking rationality and being airy-fairy.
The majority of scientists considering the issue assume there is a natural cycle of climate for the Earth. They argue that the industrial revolution has contributed greatly to pollution of the land, water and air, which have brought about, among other things, a greenhouse effect from increases in carbon dioxide. This group would argue that global warming could be reversed if people took steps to correct the problem.
However, even if people attempt to mitigate the effects of pollution on the planet, global warming will continue. In fact, if all the humans were taken off the planet tomorrow, global warming would still continue because humans are only partially responsible for it.
The real problem of global warming is artificial and beyond human solutions. It cannot be solved by human efforts in mitigating the effects of pollution because it is an artificial imposition upon the Earth by aliens.
To explain, we must digress back to the days of Lemuria and Atlantis. Both civilizations were highly advanced because they were settled and governed by the Anunnaki. The people of Lemuria and Atlantis were in a constant state of conflict because they were trying to outdo each other technologically, and they were vying for superiority. Both were populated by conquering, cruel Anunnaki beings, and both had earthling slaves.
As the conflict continued, the Atlanteans received great support from off- planet allies, and a blockade was imposed that impeded support traffic for the Lemurians. When the interference of the supply lines became obvious, the Lemurians realized that they would succumb to the more powerful Atlanteans. Hence, they secretly constructed a huge underwater "city" which phonetically sounds like "At-wo-querhe" and many of the elite of Lemuria quietly migrated there with their human slaves.
Eventually, Atlantis attacked and destroyed Lemuria, but the Anunnaki from Atlantis did not know of the secret underwater "city," so they thought that they had totally annihilated the Lemurians.
As discussed in my earlier writings, the Anunnaki Elite thereafter destroyed Atlantis and fled the Earth with most of the highly sophisticated space crafts and technology. The Anunnaki Remnants who were left for dead but survived the destruction of Atlantis are currently controlling the ruling elite of the world.
Before fleeing to At-wo-querhe, the Lemurians "parked" two mother crafts (huge space crafts) in the hills on the continent of Antarctica, where they believed they would escape detection by the Atlanteans. There was not enough time for them to build a structure underwater that was large enough to house the mother crafts.
The Lemurians did not dare try to use the mother crafts for escape because they lacked sufficient fighter support to protect them from the Atlantean allied blockade. Besides, had their enemies spotted the Lemurians' mother crafts, a search would have been made for the underwater civilization, and it would have been destroyed by the Atlanteans. The mother crafts were not discovered by anyone, however, great sheets of ice have formed over the crafts.
At-wo-querhe is surrounded by a gigantic translucent dome. Outside of the dome is water, inside is a gaseous atmosphere. There is a parameter inside the dome that is unoccupied, much like a buffer zone or a frontier. The people living inside the parameter of the domed city live very much like they would on land. These people are beige coloured, flesh-and-blood beings of the same vibrational dimension as earthlings who still live on the surface of the planet. These Anunnaki should not be confused with aliens who have gone underground or beings that are of different vibrational frequencies.
The Lemurians have secretly influenced many things on Earth from At-wo- querhe. They are always watching what is going on above them, but they are careful not to give themselves away. While remaining inconspicuous, the Lemurians, like other groups of Anunnaki, have influenced all the major religions on the surface of the Earth. They have small crafts that are moored in their underwater community which occasionally travel out of the water and into the air and over land.
The Lemurians know that the time for the Earth is short because nobody has re-started "Time," and it is quickly ticking away. The Lemurians know the date when the Earth will end, but they had expected the Anunnaki Elite to return to Earth and re-start the cycle. They also surmised that they would be safe underwater during the "re-start" of Time. However, because the Attas of Light have kept the Anunnaki Elite at bay, the cycle is counting down with no chance of a re-starting.
The Lemurians sense something has altered the Anunnaki plans to keep the Earth in an endless and pointless cycle of re-starts. Therefore, they are taking desperate measures to free their ice-encased mother crafts on Antarctica. They do not know whether the crafts will still function, but their small crafts are inadequate and impractical for deep space travel. It is so desperate that they will risk running a blockade without any support since there is no other chance of their survival. They want to make a rapid exodus from Earth and hope that their mother crafts will function despite years of "hibernation" in the ice.
The Lemurians have constructed a huge microwave device that heats the water deep under the Antarctic seas. It is a device which pulsates with whitish- purplish light. As it rises and falls it superheats the water, which rises in a bubbling fashion and spreads under the ice shelves, causing them to melt. As the ice breaks away from the shelves, the glaciers will be more exposed to the water and air temperatures, which will cause them to melt rapidly. The heated water eventually causes the rise in air temperature around the globe.
The glaciers are like crusts that are covering the mother crafts. These ice crusts are the main targets of the Lemurians because they need to be peeled away if the Lemurians are to flee the Earth before it ceases to exist. The superheated water is dispersing throughout the world's oceans, which is causing havoc by heating the water, air and land to hotter and hotter levels.
The Lemurians are now furiously running the superheater. They are unconcerned about the damage the heated water is causing because they know time is running out and that they must free their mother crafts or they will die on the Earth when it collapses. If all goes according to Lemurian plans, both mother crafts will be visible by the survivors on land. Additionally, their project is causing the production of poisonous gas on the ocean floor that will ultimately kill much of the sea life.
The Lemurian exodus plan is the main cause of the seemingly inexplicable rapid increases in air, land and water temperatures. However, there are other causes such as underwater volcanoes adding to the problem. In addition to the global warming effects brought upon the Earth by the Lemurians desperate attempt to save themselves, other catastrophes are in store for the planet.
Another reason for global warming comes from another Anunnaki group's plans on the surface to overpopulate the Earth to drain resources and for other reasons. It did this primarily by manipulating religions and cultures to encourage large families.
It is said that there are over 6 billion human beings on the planet at this time. That is not accurate. Many of the "people" on the planet are clones who are basically robots although the clones are unaware of this. They are being used to replace many of the human beings. Some are cloned from children, while others are cloned from adults. These clones are then dispersed among the unsuspecting population. In other cases, human victims are kidnapped, then murdered and clones take over their identities. This sounds like science fiction, but it goes on far more often than most could imagine. Many of the clones are in religion, politics, business, education, science, media, entertainment and medicine. This gives the alien cloners a power base to work from. One example is a well-known royal figure who has been replaced by a clone.
There will be three MAJOR cataclysmic events to befall the Earth. The first one will startle many, however, many will survive the first. The second will take out further numbers, but the third one will be horrendous and few will survive it. These will occur because Evil has reached a saturation point and it is back flushing upon itself.
Fireballs appear in the sky;
The sky cries with bloodstained eyes;
While the ocean floors give out poisonous gas,
A smooth, boulder like object is targeted at Alaska;
Many places, including Istanbul, Barcelona and several parts of Italy will be devastated;
Many of the disasters will be artificially created quakes and floods;
Alien shooting wars will be waged in the sky and on the Earth.
Those who respect Truth will be attacked even more openly. The appearance of civility by those of the Shadows will be dropped, revealing their vicious nature for all to see. The separation of the wheat from the chaff is unavoidable, but everyone has been given ample opportunity and the free will to choose where they want to be.
It is not necessary for the people or other beings to have physical knowledge of the separation process or the Message. All classes of Creation, including the animals, plants, minerals etc. are being sorted out. The spirits within all beings understand what is occurring and the respective spirits have made their choices.
The children of the Shadows will continue to mock in vain until the very end. Their scorn is of no consequence.
The Path to Liberation from Darkness is narrow, and few chose to travel it. The Path to Destruction is wide, and many chose it. Each must listen to the small, still voice within them, and not be led like sheep by those who would keep them on the Path to Destruction. Like the story of the fallen angels, the children of the Shadows want to take as many down with them as they can.
The viable ones are those who have chosen the Light. They may suffer a little longer for now, but soon they will be returning to their Pristine Home, where there is Eternal True Love, Joy, Peace and Purity.
Fairies and Pixies
Fairies and Pixies
by
Thomas, P.E.
(republished from Xee-A Magazine)
Fairies and pixies are the typical inhabitants of a very different world akin to a parallel universe where they abode amidst gardens and fields, forests and mountains, rivers and seas and indeed practically anywhere they fancy. Pixies are really just another species of fairies who reside in the fairyland.
Fairyland, where pixies, gnomes, leprechauns, fairies and others of the like dwell is a "magical" place where things are simply magical and where time passes at a different pace than the human physical realm. The inhabitants of Fairyland can manifest as whirlwinds, dust storms, rainstorms, or breezes, etc. when they visit the human realm. The Australians of the aboriginal tribe of Dieri believe that the sudden whirling dust in the Australian bush are the playful act of marching armies of fairies known to them as Kutchi.
Every culture on earth has its own fairy tales. Some fairies are good while others are not. Thus, good and evil also exists in the realm of the fairies.
The best-known pixie-fairy of the Never-Never land has got to be one who was known as Currah. He presents himself as Sir Gaylord Thomas to the humans whenever he needs to make an appearance in the physical realm of humans.
Currah is a happy, fun-loving, kind pixie who is a bit like the human's legendary Robin Hood. Currah is good and helpful to well-intended humans, animals and plants but will deal harshly but justly with the black-hearted ones. He loves playing pranks at time but he is never vindictive or irresponsible with his playful tricks. In this world of unjust karma, Currah is like a gallant white knight who helps and comforts good humans/animals and other beings who are in distress.
Currah's only sweetheart was a beautiful, and equally playful pixie named Tarayakee. She now incarnates as an English "rose" in the United Kingdom. Fairies, angels and even the "gods" incarnate as humans from time to time. The argument that angels do not incarnate as humans is false.
Currah is as well known for his kindness and valour as he is for his "mischievous" tricks on the scoundrels of this world. People claim that the legendary Currah sprinkles laughter, joy and happiness wherever he scoots about. Sometimes he rings "bells" when he visits. So be ever alert to the mysterious signals that mark his presence.
by
Thomas, P.E.
(republished from Xee-A Magazine)
Fairies and pixies are the typical inhabitants of a very different world akin to a parallel universe where they abode amidst gardens and fields, forests and mountains, rivers and seas and indeed practically anywhere they fancy. Pixies are really just another species of fairies who reside in the fairyland.
Fairyland, where pixies, gnomes, leprechauns, fairies and others of the like dwell is a "magical" place where things are simply magical and where time passes at a different pace than the human physical realm. The inhabitants of Fairyland can manifest as whirlwinds, dust storms, rainstorms, or breezes, etc. when they visit the human realm. The Australians of the aboriginal tribe of Dieri believe that the sudden whirling dust in the Australian bush are the playful act of marching armies of fairies known to them as Kutchi.
Every culture on earth has its own fairy tales. Some fairies are good while others are not. Thus, good and evil also exists in the realm of the fairies.
The best-known pixie-fairy of the Never-Never land has got to be one who was known as Currah. He presents himself as Sir Gaylord Thomas to the humans whenever he needs to make an appearance in the physical realm of humans.
Currah is a happy, fun-loving, kind pixie who is a bit like the human's legendary Robin Hood. Currah is good and helpful to well-intended humans, animals and plants but will deal harshly but justly with the black-hearted ones. He loves playing pranks at time but he is never vindictive or irresponsible with his playful tricks. In this world of unjust karma, Currah is like a gallant white knight who helps and comforts good humans/animals and other beings who are in distress.
Currah's only sweetheart was a beautiful, and equally playful pixie named Tarayakee. She now incarnates as an English "rose" in the United Kingdom. Fairies, angels and even the "gods" incarnate as humans from time to time. The argument that angels do not incarnate as humans is false.
Currah is as well known for his kindness and valour as he is for his "mischievous" tricks on the scoundrels of this world. People claim that the legendary Currah sprinkles laughter, joy and happiness wherever he scoots about. Sometimes he rings "bells" when he visits. So be ever alert to the mysterious signals that mark his presence.
Fairies and Pixies
Fairies and Pixies
by
Thomas, P.E.
(republished from Xee-A Magazine)
Fairies and pixies are the typical inhabitants of a very different world akin to a parallel universe where they abode amidst gardens and fields, forests and mountains, rivers and seas and indeed practically anywhere they fancy. Pixies are really just another species of fairies who reside in the fairyland.
Fairyland, where pixies, gnomes, leprechauns, fairies and others of the like dwell is a "magical" place where things are simply magical and where time passes at a different pace than the human physical realm. The inhabitants of Fairyland can manifest as whirlwinds, dust storms, rainstorms, or breezes, etc. when they visit the human realm. The Australians of the aboriginal tribe of Dieri believe that the sudden whirling dust in the Australian bush are the playful act of marching armies of fairies known to them as Kutchi.
Every culture on earth has its own fairy tales. Some fairies are good while others are not. Thus, good and evil also exists in the realm of the fairies.
The best-known pixie-fairy of the Never-Never land has got to be one who was known as Currah. He presents himself as Sir Gaylord Thomas to the humans whenever he needs to make an appearance in the physical realm of humans.
Currah is a happy, fun-loving, kind pixie who is a bit like the human's legendary Robin Hood. Currah is good and helpful to well-intended humans, animals and plants but will deal harshly but justly with the black-hearted ones. He loves playing pranks at time but he is never vindictive or irresponsible with his playful tricks. In this world of unjust karma, Currah is like a gallant white knight who helps and comforts good humans/animals and other beings who are in distress.
Currah's only sweetheart was a beautiful, and equally playful pixie named Tarayakee. She now incarnates as an English "rose" in the United Kingdom. Fairies, angels and even the "gods" incarnate as humans from time to time. The argument that angels do not incarnate as humans is false.
Currah is as well known for his kindness and valour as he is for his "mischievous" tricks on the scoundrels of this world. People claim that the legendary Currah sprinkles laughter, joy and happiness wherever he scoots about. Sometimes he rings "bells" when he visits. So be ever alert to the mysterious signals that mark his presence.
by
Thomas, P.E.
(republished from Xee-A Magazine)
Fairies and pixies are the typical inhabitants of a very different world akin to a parallel universe where they abode amidst gardens and fields, forests and mountains, rivers and seas and indeed practically anywhere they fancy. Pixies are really just another species of fairies who reside in the fairyland.
Fairyland, where pixies, gnomes, leprechauns, fairies and others of the like dwell is a "magical" place where things are simply magical and where time passes at a different pace than the human physical realm. The inhabitants of Fairyland can manifest as whirlwinds, dust storms, rainstorms, or breezes, etc. when they visit the human realm. The Australians of the aboriginal tribe of Dieri believe that the sudden whirling dust in the Australian bush are the playful act of marching armies of fairies known to them as Kutchi.
Every culture on earth has its own fairy tales. Some fairies are good while others are not. Thus, good and evil also exists in the realm of the fairies.
The best-known pixie-fairy of the Never-Never land has got to be one who was known as Currah. He presents himself as Sir Gaylord Thomas to the humans whenever he needs to make an appearance in the physical realm of humans.
Currah is a happy, fun-loving, kind pixie who is a bit like the human's legendary Robin Hood. Currah is good and helpful to well-intended humans, animals and plants but will deal harshly but justly with the black-hearted ones. He loves playing pranks at time but he is never vindictive or irresponsible with his playful tricks. In this world of unjust karma, Currah is like a gallant white knight who helps and comforts good humans/animals and other beings who are in distress.
Currah's only sweetheart was a beautiful, and equally playful pixie named Tarayakee. She now incarnates as an English "rose" in the United Kingdom. Fairies, angels and even the "gods" incarnate as humans from time to time. The argument that angels do not incarnate as humans is false.
Currah is as well known for his kindness and valour as he is for his "mischievous" tricks on the scoundrels of this world. People claim that the legendary Currah sprinkles laughter, joy and happiness wherever he scoots about. Sometimes he rings "bells" when he visits. So be ever alert to the mysterious signals that mark his presence.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING FROM A MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE
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The most commonly held perception regarding animal experimentation is that it is necessary for the development of vaccines, cures and treatments for human illness. Proponents ask the important question, what will happen to research on AIDS, heart disease, and cancer if animal experimentation is completely stopped? Will the progress in cures and treatments for these types of illnesses also come to a halt?
There is a growing movement of health care professionals including doctors, scientists, and
educated members of the public who are opposed to non-human animal based experimentation on specifically medical and scientific grounds. They argue that animal research is based on a false premise, that results obtained through animal experimentation can be applied to the human body.
I have studied the question of vivisection for thirty-five years and am convinced that experiments on living animals are leading medicine further and further from the real cure of the patient. I know of no instance of animal experiment that has been necessary for the advancement of medical science; still less do I know of any animal experiment that could conceivably be necessary to save human life. -H. Fergie Woods, M.D.
Animals not only react differently than humans to different drugs, vaccines, and experiments, they also react differently from one another. Ignoring this difference has been and continues to be very costly to human health.
The most famous example of the dangers of animal testing is the Thalidomide tragedy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thalidomide, which came out on the German market late in the 1950s, had previously been safety tested on thousands of animals. It was marketed as a wonderful sedative for pregnant or breastfeeding mothers and it supposedly caused no harm to either mother or child. Despite this "safety testing", at least 10,000 children whose mothers had taken Thalidomide were born throughout the world with severe deformities.
Clioquinol is another example of a drug that was safety tested in animals and had a severely negative impact on humans. This drug, manufactured in Japan in the 1970s, was marketed as providing safe relief from diarrhea. Not only did Clioquinol not work in humans, it actually caused diarrhea. As a result of Clioquinol being administered to the public, some 30,000 cases of blindness and/or paralysis and thousands of deaths occurred.
"Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it." - Dr. A. Sabin, 1986, developer of the oral polio vaccine
Are these two examples just isolated cases? Even though pharmaceuticals are routinely tested on animals, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 100,000 people every year are killed by prescription drugs and more than 2 million are hospitalized as a result of prescription drugs. The British Medical Journal recently reported that 4 out of every 10 patients who take a prescribed drug can expect to suffer severe or noticeable side effects, while numerous clinical observers agree that the incidence of iatrogenesis (medically induced disease) is now so great that approximately 1 in every 10 hospital beds is occupied by a patient who has been made ill by their doctor.
What about all the important breakthroughs, as a result of animal research, that have aided human health? The animal research industry cites many examples of treatments or cures for illness that have been found using animals. They claim that if animal research is discontinued, it will be at the expense of human health and life. Industry groups, such as Americans for Medical Progress credit animal research with advances such as the development of the polio vaccine, anesthesia, and the discovery of insulin. But a close examination of medical history clearly disputes these claims.
There are no alternatives to animal experimentation, for one can only talk of alternatives if these replace something of the same worth; and there is nothing quite as useless, misleading and harmful as animal experimentation. -Prof. Pietro Croce, M.D.
Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin, are credited with the development of a vaccine to combat poliomyelitis (polio). Yet in the medical industry itself there remains a dispute as to the means by which the development of the polio vaccine occurred and whether or not the vaccine even played a major role in stopping the virus. Dr. John Enders, Dr. Thomas H. Weller, and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins won the Nobel Prize in 1954 for proving for the first time that it was possible to grow poliovirus in laboratory cultures of non-nervous-system human tissue. This team stopped just short of creating the polio vaccine that would be released to the public. Around the time Enders, Weller, and Robbins won the Nobel Prize, Sabin and Salk began using monkey kidney cells to produce their polio vaccines despite the existence of better alternatives. It was unknown at the time that viruses commonly found in monkey kidney cells are now known to cause cancer in humans.
The claim that the polio vaccine was developed through the use of animal experimentation is misleading. Furthermore, as far as the benefits are concerned, there is ample evidence demonstrating the harmful effects the polio vaccine has had on human health. Deborah Blum, in her 1984 book, The Monkey Wars, wrote, "In the late 1980s, scientists tracking the life histories of 59,000 pregnant women all vaccinated with Salk polio vaccine found that their offspring had a thirteen times higher rate of brain tumors than those who did not receive the vaccine." (pg. 229) Many historians believe that the decline in cases in polio, like many epidemics of the past, must be attributed to factors such as improved hygiene and not solely vaccination.
Surgical anesthesia was discovered in the mid nineteenth century when Crawford Williamson Long observed the effects of ether on humans during "ether parties", a popular form of entertainment involving ether inhalation. Long observed that while etherized, people appeared impervious to pain. He transformed this observation into a more practical use in surgery. The discovery of anesthesia, like many other medical discoveries, came from the critical observation of humans.
At one time, due to the animal research based conclusions of Claude Bernard, diabetes was believed to be cause by liver damage. However, Thomas Crawley, in 1788 established the relationship between pancreatic damage and diabetes by performing autopsies on diabetic cadavers. Later on, Dr. M. Barron came to the conclusion that damage to the Islets of Langerhans causes diabetes in humans after studying the human pancreas. He concluded that insulin could be derived from an extract of the Islets of Langerhans. Then in 1920, Frederick Banting, using this knowledge, created the first extract that contained insulin.
Indeed, while conflicting animal tests have often delayed and hampered advances on the war on cancer, they have never produced a single substantial advance either in the prevention or treatment of human cancer. -Dr. Irwin Bros, director of Roswell Park Memorial
Animal research is not aiding the fight against cancer. In fact, it is diverting resources from
effective research and from the most obvious solution which is prevention. According to the National Cancer Institute, 80% of all cancers are preventable. Clinical observation and epidemiological studies have shown us that high fat diets, smoking, environmental pollutants, and other lifestyle factors are the main causes of cancer.
Animals are not good models for human cancer for 2 fundamental reasons:
1. Animals and humans do not get the same diseases. As a result, animal research focuses on artificially inducing symptoms of human cancer and attempting to treat those symptoms.
2. Experimental drugs and treatments that have been found effective on animal models will not necessarily work in people.
Moneim A. Fadali, M.D., in his book, Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame, reports:
"Despite screening over half a million compounds as anti-cancer agents on laboratory animals between 1970-1985, only 80 compounds moved into clinical trials on humans. Of these, a mere 24 had any anti-cancer activity and only 12 appeared to have a 'substantial clinical role.' Actually, these so-called 'new' active agents were not so new: they are analogs of chemotherapeutic agents already known to work in humans." (pg.25)
With billions of dollars, countless animals, and well over 30 years spent on the war on cancer, concrete results should have been seen if animal research was actually working. On the contrary, the incidence of cancer continues to rise.
The progress that has been made in the study of AIDS has come from human clinical investigation and in vitro (cell and tissue culture) research. Animal models continue to be used even though they do not develop the human AIDS virus. The development of life saving protease inhibitors was delayed by misleading monkey data. Referring to efforts to develop an AIDS vaccine, leading AIDS researcher Dr. Mark Feinberg stated: "What good does it do you to test something in a monkey? You find five or six years from now that it works in the monkey, and then you test it in humans and you realize that humans behave totally differently from monkeys, so you've wasted five years".
Clearly, if we are going to make medical progress, a new approach is needed. Human medicine can no longer be based on veterinary medicine. It is fraudulent and dangerous to apply data from one species to another. There are endless examples of the differences between humans and non-human animals.
* PCP is a sedative for chimps
* Penicillin kills cats and guinea pigs but has saved many human lives.
* Arsenic is not poisonous to rats, mice, or sheep.
* Morphine is a sedative for humans but is a stimulant for cats, goats, and horses.
* Digitalis while dangerously raising blood pressure in dogs continues to save countless cardiac patients by lowering heart rate.
The National Institutes of Health alone pours well over five billion dollars annually into superfluous
animal experimentation. Abolishing animal research will mean these resources could be redirected into prevention and the types of research which actually have a chance of advancing human medicine and human health.
Animal experiments confuse the issues and their results will never have scientific precision. There is absolutely no connection between vivisection and human health. The general belief in the value of animal experimentation is the result of brainwashing that the public has been submitted to for a long time. Behind it are the pharmaceutical industries, which spend fortunes on publicity and finance the research institutes and the universities. -Arie Brecher, M.D.
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>En Espanol
The most commonly held perception regarding animal experimentation is that it is necessary for the development of vaccines, cures and treatments for human illness. Proponents ask the important question, what will happen to research on AIDS, heart disease, and cancer if animal experimentation is completely stopped? Will the progress in cures and treatments for these types of illnesses also come to a halt?
There is a growing movement of health care professionals including doctors, scientists, and
educated members of the public who are opposed to non-human animal based experimentation on specifically medical and scientific grounds. They argue that animal research is based on a false premise, that results obtained through animal experimentation can be applied to the human body.
I have studied the question of vivisection for thirty-five years and am convinced that experiments on living animals are leading medicine further and further from the real cure of the patient. I know of no instance of animal experiment that has been necessary for the advancement of medical science; still less do I know of any animal experiment that could conceivably be necessary to save human life. -H. Fergie Woods, M.D.
Animals not only react differently than humans to different drugs, vaccines, and experiments, they also react differently from one another. Ignoring this difference has been and continues to be very costly to human health.
The most famous example of the dangers of animal testing is the Thalidomide tragedy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thalidomide, which came out on the German market late in the 1950s, had previously been safety tested on thousands of animals. It was marketed as a wonderful sedative for pregnant or breastfeeding mothers and it supposedly caused no harm to either mother or child. Despite this "safety testing", at least 10,000 children whose mothers had taken Thalidomide were born throughout the world with severe deformities.
Clioquinol is another example of a drug that was safety tested in animals and had a severely negative impact on humans. This drug, manufactured in Japan in the 1970s, was marketed as providing safe relief from diarrhea. Not only did Clioquinol not work in humans, it actually caused diarrhea. As a result of Clioquinol being administered to the public, some 30,000 cases of blindness and/or paralysis and thousands of deaths occurred.
"Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it." - Dr. A. Sabin, 1986, developer of the oral polio vaccine
Are these two examples just isolated cases? Even though pharmaceuticals are routinely tested on animals, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported that 100,000 people every year are killed by prescription drugs and more than 2 million are hospitalized as a result of prescription drugs. The British Medical Journal recently reported that 4 out of every 10 patients who take a prescribed drug can expect to suffer severe or noticeable side effects, while numerous clinical observers agree that the incidence of iatrogenesis (medically induced disease) is now so great that approximately 1 in every 10 hospital beds is occupied by a patient who has been made ill by their doctor.
What about all the important breakthroughs, as a result of animal research, that have aided human health? The animal research industry cites many examples of treatments or cures for illness that have been found using animals. They claim that if animal research is discontinued, it will be at the expense of human health and life. Industry groups, such as Americans for Medical Progress credit animal research with advances such as the development of the polio vaccine, anesthesia, and the discovery of insulin. But a close examination of medical history clearly disputes these claims.
There are no alternatives to animal experimentation, for one can only talk of alternatives if these replace something of the same worth; and there is nothing quite as useless, misleading and harmful as animal experimentation. -Prof. Pietro Croce, M.D.
Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Albert Sabin, are credited with the development of a vaccine to combat poliomyelitis (polio). Yet in the medical industry itself there remains a dispute as to the means by which the development of the polio vaccine occurred and whether or not the vaccine even played a major role in stopping the virus. Dr. John Enders, Dr. Thomas H. Weller, and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins won the Nobel Prize in 1954 for proving for the first time that it was possible to grow poliovirus in laboratory cultures of non-nervous-system human tissue. This team stopped just short of creating the polio vaccine that would be released to the public. Around the time Enders, Weller, and Robbins won the Nobel Prize, Sabin and Salk began using monkey kidney cells to produce their polio vaccines despite the existence of better alternatives. It was unknown at the time that viruses commonly found in monkey kidney cells are now known to cause cancer in humans.
The claim that the polio vaccine was developed through the use of animal experimentation is misleading. Furthermore, as far as the benefits are concerned, there is ample evidence demonstrating the harmful effects the polio vaccine has had on human health. Deborah Blum, in her 1984 book, The Monkey Wars, wrote, "In the late 1980s, scientists tracking the life histories of 59,000 pregnant women all vaccinated with Salk polio vaccine found that their offspring had a thirteen times higher rate of brain tumors than those who did not receive the vaccine." (pg. 229) Many historians believe that the decline in cases in polio, like many epidemics of the past, must be attributed to factors such as improved hygiene and not solely vaccination.
Surgical anesthesia was discovered in the mid nineteenth century when Crawford Williamson Long observed the effects of ether on humans during "ether parties", a popular form of entertainment involving ether inhalation. Long observed that while etherized, people appeared impervious to pain. He transformed this observation into a more practical use in surgery. The discovery of anesthesia, like many other medical discoveries, came from the critical observation of humans.
At one time, due to the animal research based conclusions of Claude Bernard, diabetes was believed to be cause by liver damage. However, Thomas Crawley, in 1788 established the relationship between pancreatic damage and diabetes by performing autopsies on diabetic cadavers. Later on, Dr. M. Barron came to the conclusion that damage to the Islets of Langerhans causes diabetes in humans after studying the human pancreas. He concluded that insulin could be derived from an extract of the Islets of Langerhans. Then in 1920, Frederick Banting, using this knowledge, created the first extract that contained insulin.
Indeed, while conflicting animal tests have often delayed and hampered advances on the war on cancer, they have never produced a single substantial advance either in the prevention or treatment of human cancer. -Dr. Irwin Bros, director of Roswell Park Memorial
Animal research is not aiding the fight against cancer. In fact, it is diverting resources from
effective research and from the most obvious solution which is prevention. According to the National Cancer Institute, 80% of all cancers are preventable. Clinical observation and epidemiological studies have shown us that high fat diets, smoking, environmental pollutants, and other lifestyle factors are the main causes of cancer.
Animals are not good models for human cancer for 2 fundamental reasons:
1. Animals and humans do not get the same diseases. As a result, animal research focuses on artificially inducing symptoms of human cancer and attempting to treat those symptoms.
2. Experimental drugs and treatments that have been found effective on animal models will not necessarily work in people.
Moneim A. Fadali, M.D., in his book, Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame, reports:
"Despite screening over half a million compounds as anti-cancer agents on laboratory animals between 1970-1985, only 80 compounds moved into clinical trials on humans. Of these, a mere 24 had any anti-cancer activity and only 12 appeared to have a 'substantial clinical role.' Actually, these so-called 'new' active agents were not so new: they are analogs of chemotherapeutic agents already known to work in humans." (pg.25)
With billions of dollars, countless animals, and well over 30 years spent on the war on cancer, concrete results should have been seen if animal research was actually working. On the contrary, the incidence of cancer continues to rise.
The progress that has been made in the study of AIDS has come from human clinical investigation and in vitro (cell and tissue culture) research. Animal models continue to be used even though they do not develop the human AIDS virus. The development of life saving protease inhibitors was delayed by misleading monkey data. Referring to efforts to develop an AIDS vaccine, leading AIDS researcher Dr. Mark Feinberg stated: "What good does it do you to test something in a monkey? You find five or six years from now that it works in the monkey, and then you test it in humans and you realize that humans behave totally differently from monkeys, so you've wasted five years".
Clearly, if we are going to make medical progress, a new approach is needed. Human medicine can no longer be based on veterinary medicine. It is fraudulent and dangerous to apply data from one species to another. There are endless examples of the differences between humans and non-human animals.
* PCP is a sedative for chimps
* Penicillin kills cats and guinea pigs but has saved many human lives.
* Arsenic is not poisonous to rats, mice, or sheep.
* Morphine is a sedative for humans but is a stimulant for cats, goats, and horses.
* Digitalis while dangerously raising blood pressure in dogs continues to save countless cardiac patients by lowering heart rate.
The National Institutes of Health alone pours well over five billion dollars annually into superfluous
animal experimentation. Abolishing animal research will mean these resources could be redirected into prevention and the types of research which actually have a chance of advancing human medicine and human health.
Animal experiments confuse the issues and their results will never have scientific precision. There is absolutely no connection between vivisection and human health. The general belief in the value of animal experimentation is the result of brainwashing that the public has been submitted to for a long time. Behind it are the pharmaceutical industries, which spend fortunes on publicity and finance the research institutes and the universities. -Arie Brecher, M.D.
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Rules and Regulations
Federal Laws, Regulations and Guidelines Governing Biomedical Research Using Animals
When animals are used in biomedical research, the following laws, regulations and guidelines govern their care:
U.S. Government Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research and Training.
A set of principles that underlie current federal regulations was developed in 1984 by representatives from all federal agencies that use or fund biomedical research. These include requirements that:
* procedures involving animals be relevant to human or animal health
* the minimum number of animals be used to obtain valid results
* alternatives to animals be considered
* animal pain or distress be avoided or minimized
* living conditions for animals be appropriate for their species
* research scientists and those caring for the animals be properly trained and qualified
These requirements are sometimes summarized as the 3R's:
1. Reduction-using the minimum number of animals necessary.
2. Refinement-enhancing animal welfare and ensuring the best conditions possible.
3. Replacement-using other models when appropriate.
Animal Welfare Act (AWA)
The Animal Welfare Act sets federal standards for all aspects of care for laboratory animals. It was enacted into law in 1966 and has been amended by the U.S. Congress several times. The act applies to all public and private research facilities in this country.
USDA licensing, reporting and inspection requirements: All research facilities covered by the law must be registered with the USDA and comply with the USDA animal welfare regulations. Each facility must report to the USDA each year verifying compliance and indicating the number and species of animals used. The USDA is required to inspect each facility at least once a year, unannounced, to ensure compliance with these standards. More frequent unscheduled inspections are made if significant deficiencies are identified. If the USDA inspectors find violations of any part of the act, they will allow the facility a limited time to correct them. If the violations are not corrected, the USDA can fine the institution or close the facility.
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee: The 1985 amendments to the AWA required all research facilities using animals to establish an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). The committee ensures that applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations are met, reviews and approves procedures involving animals before they take place, and inspects facilities twice a year for compliance with the AWA.
IACUC.org, a resource page for IACUCs, provides a wealth of information about these important committees.
The 1996 edition of National Institutes of Health publication, Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals provides further information about the committee and its role.
Our Ohio affiliate, OSERA, provides additional information about IACUCs, including an interview with a member.
The Purpose, Procedures, and Operations Manual from the IACUC at the University of Washington is provided as an example.
Health Research Extension Act.
This 1985 federal law applies to facilities that receive funding to do research from the federal government, in contrast to the Animal Welfare Act, which applies to all facilities regardless of the source of funds. The legal and regulatory requirements of the act are very similar to those of the Animal Welfare Act, and they apply to all research supported by the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) involving vertebrate animals, including rats, mice and birds. The PHS includes the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. PHS grants or contracts can be suspended or revoked for non-compliance with this law.
Voluntary Professional Standards. Research animals are well cared for, under the supervision of specialized veterinarians. Since 1965, the scientific community has sponsored an independent, peer review accreditation program under the auspices of the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC). Visit their web site for a free copy of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. AAALAC promotes the highest standards of animal care and use through a program of periodic inspection of research facilities that exceeds existing laws and regulations. AAALAC accreditation is considered to be the research community equivalent of the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval."
Federal Requirements for Animal Testing. Several federal laws require that the public be protected from hazardous products. The federal regulations that implement these laws require animal testing. There are four main federal agencies involved in administering these regulations:
Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA is responsible for administering statutes regulating human and animal food and drugs, medical devices, biological products, cosmetics, color additives and radiological products. The FDA requires that laboratory animal tests be conducted for prescription and over-the-counter drugs before these products can be tested in humans.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA uses data derived from animal tests and other sources to identify and regulate substances in the environment, such as air or water pollutants and wastes that might be hazardous to humans and animals.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The CPSC relies on animal data in identifying and regulating risks to consumers from household and other products.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA uses data from animal tests and other sources to set regulations that protect workers in the workplace.
Some information in this section was adapted with permission from the North Carolina Association for Biomedical research (NCABR).
Federal Laws, Regulations and Guidelines Governing Biomedical Research Using Animals
When animals are used in biomedical research, the following laws, regulations and guidelines govern their care:
U.S. Government Principles for the Utilization and Care of Vertebrate Animals Used in Testing, Research and Training.
A set of principles that underlie current federal regulations was developed in 1984 by representatives from all federal agencies that use or fund biomedical research. These include requirements that:
* procedures involving animals be relevant to human or animal health
* the minimum number of animals be used to obtain valid results
* alternatives to animals be considered
* animal pain or distress be avoided or minimized
* living conditions for animals be appropriate for their species
* research scientists and those caring for the animals be properly trained and qualified
These requirements are sometimes summarized as the 3R's:
1. Reduction-using the minimum number of animals necessary.
2. Refinement-enhancing animal welfare and ensuring the best conditions possible.
3. Replacement-using other models when appropriate.
Animal Welfare Act (AWA)
The Animal Welfare Act sets federal standards for all aspects of care for laboratory animals. It was enacted into law in 1966 and has been amended by the U.S. Congress several times. The act applies to all public and private research facilities in this country.
USDA licensing, reporting and inspection requirements: All research facilities covered by the law must be registered with the USDA and comply with the USDA animal welfare regulations. Each facility must report to the USDA each year verifying compliance and indicating the number and species of animals used. The USDA is required to inspect each facility at least once a year, unannounced, to ensure compliance with these standards. More frequent unscheduled inspections are made if significant deficiencies are identified. If the USDA inspectors find violations of any part of the act, they will allow the facility a limited time to correct them. If the violations are not corrected, the USDA can fine the institution or close the facility.
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee: The 1985 amendments to the AWA required all research facilities using animals to establish an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). The committee ensures that applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations are met, reviews and approves procedures involving animals before they take place, and inspects facilities twice a year for compliance with the AWA.
IACUC.org, a resource page for IACUCs, provides a wealth of information about these important committees.
The 1996 edition of National Institutes of Health publication, Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals provides further information about the committee and its role.
Our Ohio affiliate, OSERA, provides additional information about IACUCs, including an interview with a member.
The Purpose, Procedures, and Operations Manual from the IACUC at the University of Washington is provided as an example.
Health Research Extension Act.
This 1985 federal law applies to facilities that receive funding to do research from the federal government, in contrast to the Animal Welfare Act, which applies to all facilities regardless of the source of funds. The legal and regulatory requirements of the act are very similar to those of the Animal Welfare Act, and they apply to all research supported by the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) involving vertebrate animals, including rats, mice and birds. The PHS includes the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. PHS grants or contracts can be suspended or revoked for non-compliance with this law.
Voluntary Professional Standards. Research animals are well cared for, under the supervision of specialized veterinarians. Since 1965, the scientific community has sponsored an independent, peer review accreditation program under the auspices of the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC). Visit their web site for a free copy of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals. AAALAC promotes the highest standards of animal care and use through a program of periodic inspection of research facilities that exceeds existing laws and regulations. AAALAC accreditation is considered to be the research community equivalent of the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval."
Federal Requirements for Animal Testing. Several federal laws require that the public be protected from hazardous products. The federal regulations that implement these laws require animal testing. There are four main federal agencies involved in administering these regulations:
Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA is responsible for administering statutes regulating human and animal food and drugs, medical devices, biological products, cosmetics, color additives and radiological products. The FDA requires that laboratory animal tests be conducted for prescription and over-the-counter drugs before these products can be tested in humans.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA uses data derived from animal tests and other sources to identify and regulate substances in the environment, such as air or water pollutants and wastes that might be hazardous to humans and animals.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The CPSC relies on animal data in identifying and regulating risks to consumers from household and other products.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA uses data from animal tests and other sources to set regulations that protect workers in the workplace.
Some information in this section was adapted with permission from the North Carolina Association for Biomedical research (NCABR).
PHARMACEUTICALS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT U.S. ANIMAL TESTING OF
What substances are considered to be pharmaceuticals?
The term “pharmaceuticals” refers to medicinal products such as generic, over-the-counter, and
prescription drugs.
Who regulates pharmaceuticals in the U.S. and under what laws?
Responsibility for the regulation of human pharmaceuticals lies with the Center for Drug Evaluation
and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), while the FDA Center for Veterinary
Medicine is charged with oversight of veterinary pharmaceuticals. FDA’s statutory authority is rooted
in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.1
What animal tests are carried out on pharmaceuticals?
“Preclinical” testing in animals is a longstanding requirement for all human and veterinary medicinal
products. U.S. testing requirements for human2-3 and veterinary pharmaceuticals4 have largely been
harmonized with those of other major markets (i.e., the Europe and Japan) under the auspices of the
International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of
Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) and the International Co-operation on Harmonization of
Technical Requirements for Registration of Veterinary Products (VICH), respectively. Both entities
publish guidelines specifying trilaterally agreed-upon methods for assessing safety, effectiveness and
quality of pharmaceutical products. ICH guidelines call for a wide array of pre-clinical (animal)
studies, followed by several phases of human clinical studies, before a new drug is deemed safe for
marketing.5 VICH guidelines likewise prescribe a significant battery of conventional toxicology
studies, but also provide for evaluations of target animal and environmental safety, since a major use
of veterinary drugs is in farm animals.6
Animal tests common to both ICH and VICH schemes include the following:7
Absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination studies in rodents and/or other species
3 month repeated-dose general toxicity studies in rodents, dogs, and sometimes primates
12-24 month repeated-dose general toxicity studies in rodents, dogs, and sometimes primates
Lifetime (18-24 month) cancer studies in rats and mice (ICH allows for the substitution of
the 18-month mouse study with a shorter test in transgenic mice)
Genetic toxicity studies of at least 2 varieties
1 http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/fdcact/fdctoc.htm
2 http://www.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/cfrassemble.cgi?title=200321
3 http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/index.htm
4 http://www.fda/gov/cvm/Guidance/published.htm
5 http://www.ich.org/cache/html/250-272-1.html
6 http://www.vichsec.org/en/guidelines2.htm
7 http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animal_testing/toxicity_testing_overview.html
HSUS / HSLF Fact Sheet 2
Reproductive toxicity study in at least 2 generations of rodents (ICH allows for this to be
broken into separate adult fertility and post-natal segments in the context of a 1-generation
study design)
Pre-natal developmental toxicity in rodents and rabbits
Immunotoxicity in rodents
In addition to the “core battery” above, national regulators and quality-control bodies known as
Pharmacopoeias impose additional testing requirements on a case-by-case basis. For example,
medicated skin creams are often tested in the presence of UV light to be sure they do not foster
sunlight-induced “photo”-toxicity, while drugs administered intravenously must be specially tested to
ensure that they are not contaminated with fever-causing “pyrogens.”
How many animals may be used in pharmaceutical testing?
Some of the tests above consume hundreds or thousands of animals per study, and such testing is
typically required for both the active medicinal ingredient(s) as well as each formulated
pharmaceutical product (and sometimes for each new batch of a product). Unfortunately, laboratorybred
rats and mice and non-mammalian species are not covered under the U.S. Animal Welfare Act
standards for animals used in experiments, and as such, statistics concerning their use are not
recorded or made publicly available.8 However, according to European statistics for 2005, the
“production and quality control of products for human medicine and dentistry and for veterinary
medicine” consumed approximately 15.3% of all animals used for all experimental purposes that
year.9
Are animal tests accurate predictors of pharmaceutical risks to people?
Not necessarily, as catastrophic drug failure—such as the recent TGN 1412 incident in the United
Kingdom—have revealed.10 In fact, the World Health Organization reports that in some countries,
adverse drug reactions are responsible for upwards of 10% of all hospital admissions.11 And
according to the US FDA, “a new medicinal compound entering Phase 1 testing [in humans], often
representing the culmination of upwards of a decade of preclinical screening and evaluation, is
estimated to have only an 8 percent chance of reaching the market” because animal studies so often
“fail to predict the specific safety problem that ultimately halts development.”12
What are some practical alternatives to animal testing?
A number of in vitro and other alternative methods germane to pharmaceutical safety and quality
assessment have been endorsed as scientifically valid by the European Centre for the Validation of
Alternative Methods (ECVAM) and its counterparts worldwide for endpoints including skin and eye
irritation, sunlight-induced “photo”-toxicity, genetic toxicity, fever-inducing “pyrogenicity,” toxicity
to the developing embryo, and toxicity to the blood.13
In addition, an expert group comprised of 15 international pharmaceutical companies and contract
testing facilities, together with the UK National Centre for the 3Rs, has recently concluded that “the
information obtained from conventional acute toxicity studies is of little or no value in the
pharmaceutical development process,” and has recommended that single-dose acute systemic toxicity
studies be dropped from ICH and related national guidelines for human pharmaceuticals.14
8 http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/awa.htm
9 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/pdf/staff_work_doc_sec1455.pdf
10 http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animal_testing/limitations-of-animal-methods.html
11 http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs293/en/index.html
12 http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/criticalpath/whitepaper.html
13 http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animal_testing/alternatives.html
14 http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/news.asp?id=512
HSUS / HSLF Fact Sheet 3
Another innovative technique with the potential to not only reduce animal use, but also to obtain
much more relevant and meaningful scientific information, is called microdosing.15 By administering
a very small dose of a candidate drug to healthy human volunteers, important human-specific
information can be obtained, without the uncertainties associated with extrapolating test results from
one species to another.
What is the Humane Society doing to help animals used in pharmaceutical
testing?
The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund are actively working
to end animal testing—permanently. We are working to promote greater reliance on available nonanimal
testing methods, and are actively supporting the vision of “twenty-first century toxicology”
articulated by the U.S. National Research Council, which would see animal tests that are decades old,
costly, slow and of dubious relevance to people replaced by ultra-modern, efficient and humanrelevant
non-animal methods.16 We are calling for a “big biology” project to meet this challenge, akin
to the Human Genome Project of the 1990s, and are forging an international, multi-stakeholder
consortium to help make this landmark vision a reality as quickly as possible.
The Humane Society of the United States is the nation’s largest animal protection organization—backed by more than
10.5 million Americans. For over 50 years, HSUS has worked to reduce suffering and to create meaningful change for
animals in laboratories through public education, scientific outreach, legislative advocacy, and strategic partnerships.
Online at HSUS.org/research
The Humane Society Legislative Fund is a social welfare organization incorporated as a separate lobbying affiliate of
the HSUS. HSLF works to pass animal protection laws at the state and federal level, to educate the public about
animal protection issues, and to support humane candidates for office.
Online at HSLF.org
15 http://www.emea.europa.eu/pdfs/human/swp/259902en.pdf
16 http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animal_testing/hsus-projects/human_toxicology_initiative.html
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT U.S. ANIMAL TESTING OF
What substances are considered to be pharmaceuticals?
The term “pharmaceuticals” refers to medicinal products such as generic, over-the-counter, and
prescription drugs.
Who regulates pharmaceuticals in the U.S. and under what laws?
Responsibility for the regulation of human pharmaceuticals lies with the Center for Drug Evaluation
and Research at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), while the FDA Center for Veterinary
Medicine is charged with oversight of veterinary pharmaceuticals. FDA’s statutory authority is rooted
in the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.1
What animal tests are carried out on pharmaceuticals?
“Preclinical” testing in animals is a longstanding requirement for all human and veterinary medicinal
products. U.S. testing requirements for human2-3 and veterinary pharmaceuticals4 have largely been
harmonized with those of other major markets (i.e., the Europe and Japan) under the auspices of the
International Conference on Harmonization of Technical Requirements for Registration of
Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) and the International Co-operation on Harmonization of
Technical Requirements for Registration of Veterinary Products (VICH), respectively. Both entities
publish guidelines specifying trilaterally agreed-upon methods for assessing safety, effectiveness and
quality of pharmaceutical products. ICH guidelines call for a wide array of pre-clinical (animal)
studies, followed by several phases of human clinical studies, before a new drug is deemed safe for
marketing.5 VICH guidelines likewise prescribe a significant battery of conventional toxicology
studies, but also provide for evaluations of target animal and environmental safety, since a major use
of veterinary drugs is in farm animals.6
Animal tests common to both ICH and VICH schemes include the following:7
Absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination studies in rodents and/or other species
3 month repeated-dose general toxicity studies in rodents, dogs, and sometimes primates
12-24 month repeated-dose general toxicity studies in rodents, dogs, and sometimes primates
Lifetime (18-24 month) cancer studies in rats and mice (ICH allows for the substitution of
the 18-month mouse study with a shorter test in transgenic mice)
Genetic toxicity studies of at least 2 varieties
1 http://www.fda.gov/opacom/laws/fdcact/fdctoc.htm
2 http://www.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/cfrassemble.cgi?title=200321
3 http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/index.htm
4 http://www.fda/gov/cvm/Guidance/published.htm
5 http://www.ich.org/cache/html/250-272-1.html
6 http://www.vichsec.org/en/guidelines2.htm
7 http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animal_testing/toxicity_testing_overview.html
HSUS / HSLF Fact Sheet 2
Reproductive toxicity study in at least 2 generations of rodents (ICH allows for this to be
broken into separate adult fertility and post-natal segments in the context of a 1-generation
study design)
Pre-natal developmental toxicity in rodents and rabbits
Immunotoxicity in rodents
In addition to the “core battery” above, national regulators and quality-control bodies known as
Pharmacopoeias impose additional testing requirements on a case-by-case basis. For example,
medicated skin creams are often tested in the presence of UV light to be sure they do not foster
sunlight-induced “photo”-toxicity, while drugs administered intravenously must be specially tested to
ensure that they are not contaminated with fever-causing “pyrogens.”
How many animals may be used in pharmaceutical testing?
Some of the tests above consume hundreds or thousands of animals per study, and such testing is
typically required for both the active medicinal ingredient(s) as well as each formulated
pharmaceutical product (and sometimes for each new batch of a product). Unfortunately, laboratorybred
rats and mice and non-mammalian species are not covered under the U.S. Animal Welfare Act
standards for animals used in experiments, and as such, statistics concerning their use are not
recorded or made publicly available.8 However, according to European statistics for 2005, the
“production and quality control of products for human medicine and dentistry and for veterinary
medicine” consumed approximately 15.3% of all animals used for all experimental purposes that
year.9
Are animal tests accurate predictors of pharmaceutical risks to people?
Not necessarily, as catastrophic drug failure—such as the recent TGN 1412 incident in the United
Kingdom—have revealed.10 In fact, the World Health Organization reports that in some countries,
adverse drug reactions are responsible for upwards of 10% of all hospital admissions.11 And
according to the US FDA, “a new medicinal compound entering Phase 1 testing [in humans], often
representing the culmination of upwards of a decade of preclinical screening and evaluation, is
estimated to have only an 8 percent chance of reaching the market” because animal studies so often
“fail to predict the specific safety problem that ultimately halts development.”12
What are some practical alternatives to animal testing?
A number of in vitro and other alternative methods germane to pharmaceutical safety and quality
assessment have been endorsed as scientifically valid by the European Centre for the Validation of
Alternative Methods (ECVAM) and its counterparts worldwide for endpoints including skin and eye
irritation, sunlight-induced “photo”-toxicity, genetic toxicity, fever-inducing “pyrogenicity,” toxicity
to the developing embryo, and toxicity to the blood.13
In addition, an expert group comprised of 15 international pharmaceutical companies and contract
testing facilities, together with the UK National Centre for the 3Rs, has recently concluded that “the
information obtained from conventional acute toxicity studies is of little or no value in the
pharmaceutical development process,” and has recommended that single-dose acute systemic toxicity
studies be dropped from ICH and related national guidelines for human pharmaceuticals.14
8 http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/legislat/awa.htm
9 http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/pdf/staff_work_doc_sec1455.pdf
10 http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animal_testing/limitations-of-animal-methods.html
11 http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs293/en/index.html
12 http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/criticalpath/whitepaper.html
13 http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animal_testing/alternatives.html
14 http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/news.asp?id=512
HSUS / HSLF Fact Sheet 3
Another innovative technique with the potential to not only reduce animal use, but also to obtain
much more relevant and meaningful scientific information, is called microdosing.15 By administering
a very small dose of a candidate drug to healthy human volunteers, important human-specific
information can be obtained, without the uncertainties associated with extrapolating test results from
one species to another.
What is the Humane Society doing to help animals used in pharmaceutical
testing?
The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society Legislative Fund are actively working
to end animal testing—permanently. We are working to promote greater reliance on available nonanimal
testing methods, and are actively supporting the vision of “twenty-first century toxicology”
articulated by the U.S. National Research Council, which would see animal tests that are decades old,
costly, slow and of dubious relevance to people replaced by ultra-modern, efficient and humanrelevant
non-animal methods.16 We are calling for a “big biology” project to meet this challenge, akin
to the Human Genome Project of the 1990s, and are forging an international, multi-stakeholder
consortium to help make this landmark vision a reality as quickly as possible.
The Humane Society of the United States is the nation’s largest animal protection organization—backed by more than
10.5 million Americans. For over 50 years, HSUS has worked to reduce suffering and to create meaningful change for
animals in laboratories through public education, scientific outreach, legislative advocacy, and strategic partnerships.
Online at HSUS.org/research
The Humane Society Legislative Fund is a social welfare organization incorporated as a separate lobbying affiliate of
the HSUS. HSLF works to pass animal protection laws at the state and federal level, to educate the public about
animal protection issues, and to support humane candidates for office.
Online at HSLF.org
15 http://www.emea.europa.eu/pdfs/human/swp/259902en.pdf
16 http://www.hsus.org/animals_in_research/animal_testing/hsus-projects/human_toxicology_initiative.html
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