http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJpyskHMwRs

What’s wrong with the world, mama
People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that’ll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin’
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you’re bound to get irate, yeah
Madness is what you demonstrate
And that’s exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y’all, y’all

People killin’, people dyin’
Children hurt and you hear them cryin’
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
‘Cause people got me, got me questionin’
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love
The love, the love

It just ain’t the same, always unchanged
New days are strange, is the world insane
If love and peace is so strong
Why are there pieces of love that don’t belong
Nations droppin’ bombs
Chemical gasses fillin’ lungs of little ones
With ongoin’ sufferin’ as the youth die young
So ask yourself is the lovin’ really gone
So I could ask myself really what is goin’ wrong
In this world that we livin’ in people keep on givin’
in
Makin’ wrong decisions, only visions of them dividends
Not respectin’ each other, deny thy brother
A war is goin’ on but the reason’s undercover
The truth is kept secret, it’s swept under the rug
If you never know truth then you never know love
Where’s the love, y’all, come on (I don’t know)
Where’s the truth, y’all, come on (I don’t know)
Where’s the love, y’all

People killin’, people dyin’
Children hurt and you hear them cryin’
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
‘Cause people got me, got me questionin’
Where is the love (Love)

Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love (The love)
Where is the love, the love, the love?

I feel the weight of the world on my shoulder
As I’m gettin’ older, y’all, people gets colder
Most of us only care about money makin’
Selfishness got us followin’ our wrong direction
Wrong information always shown by the media
Negative images is the main criteria
Infecting the young minds faster than bacteria
Kids wanna act like what they see in the cinema
Yo’, whatever happened to the values of humanity
Whatever happened to the fairness in equality
Instead of spreading love we’re spreading animosity
Lack of understanding, leading lives away from unity
That’s the reason why sometimes I’m feelin’ under
That’s the reason why sometimes I’m feelin’ down
There’s no wonder why sometimes I’m feelin’ under
Gotta keep my faith alive till love is found
Now ask yourself

Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?
Where is the love?

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
‘Cause people got me, got me questionin’
Where is the love?

Sing wit me y’all:
One world, one world (We only got)
One world, one world (That’s all we got)
One world, one world
And something’s wrong wit it (Yeah)
Something’s wrong wit it (Yeah)
Something’s wrong wit the wo-wo-world, yeah
We only got
(One world, one world)
That’s all we got
(One world, one world)

I love watching films, especially when something unexpected happens like a twist in the plot which completely floors you and leaves you wondering where the hell it came from. So i’m watching morning TV and I flick to an interview with Bill Nighy about his up and coming film Glorious 39. The only problem is, during his interview they mention there’s a twist in the film and that his character isn’t all that it seems. Great! Now i’m going to be sat there, watching the film, second guessing everything and wondering when the twist is going to kick in. Thanks Good Morning! If there are any budding film reviewers or interviewers of the stars out there who read this, one point to consider, don’t ruin it by saying the word “twist”.

On a plus note, I went to see Disney’s A Christmas Carol this evening in 3D which was am enjoyable traditional yet modern take on dickens’ work. Go see it, look out for the twist, the dancing that is…

I knew i’d be excited, it went without saying, having somebody like that, somebody so perfect, so in tune was like a dream. I knew she felt the same as it took under a second for her to answer the door. She just stood there in her baggy crimson PJ bottoms and black vest top beaming at me with open arms, those deep magical blue eyes of hers pulling me in. I dropped my bags on the door step and put my arms around her, she felt so good, so warm, as if she had been made that way especially for me, I was where I wanted to be. That connection while we stood there, in her hallway, on that cold winter eve was what I lived for, she was mine and I was hers. She whispered in my ear, “i’ve missed you Jay”…

I’m leaving facebook, i’m going to do it, i’m actually going to delete my account. 2010 is the new me year but there’s no harm in starting early. I may even attempt to blog a little more, at least that’s time spent being slightly more produtive…TBC

Non sequitur

I’ve had a number of odd coincidences which feels like i’m being given a message, but that makes no logical sense.

News: Doncaster College is offering courses in how to be an X-Person and scientists have predicted that if the population of the earth raise by 1 ton (907.18474 kilograms) the earth will fall out of orbit and we shall be floating by TN J0924-2201 by Christmas.

Get your winter jackets out peeps!

“When people begin exploding from stress, George Washington Winsterhammerman tries to ignore the epidemic and live his usual life, but then he suffers his first symptom.”

Need I say more?

Stop what you’re doing, this could get interesting, but first some history…

NB: It’s also probably best to put the kettle on and switch your phone off as this is going to take some digesting!

“On the cold afternoon of February 5, 1976, an Army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike. Within 24 hours, 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Ashley Falls, Mass., was dead, killed by an influenza not seen since the plague of 1918-19, which took 500,000 American lives and 20 million worldwide.”

Ever heard of Fort Dix? I came across it a few months ago while doing some research into Swine Flu and now have decided to return to the topic after reading the following BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8199629.stm). In February of 1976 Pvt. David Lewis died at Ft. Dix, an autopsy showed that his death was due to the flu strain A/New Jersey/76 (Hsw1n1) or as it’s more commonly called H1N1 the strain causing the current pandemic. In addition a number of soldiers localised at the base were also infected, from the reports i’ve read the figuures range for 230 to 500 with some saying a number were hospitalised but all made a full recovery. Gerald Ford immediately ordered a nationwide vaccination program and over 40 million people were vaccinated as it was believed they were dealing with a virus potentially as deadly as the one that caused the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic with reports stating that it caused the death of 20 to 100 million people world wide. In the end the vaccination program was stopped short due to over 500 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome, including at least 25 related deaths.

To summarise:

1. 1 death caused 40 million people to be vaccinated with a vaccine that hadn’t been properly tested hence the Guillain-Barre syndrome cases and associated deaths.

2. Vaccinations started taking place in October, 8 months after the initial death

3. The vaccination program cost $500 million in today’s money

4. The source of the outbreak and how it was contained has never been concluded (more to come on this matter)

The Story Continues…

Here’s where we encounter David J. Sencer and Richard Hodder. Sencer released a famous March 11, 1976, memorandum bearing the heading “Swine Influenza: ACTION,” (http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=177) and due to the actions made as a result of that memo he was fired as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. It turns out due to numerous court cases as a result of the effects of the vaccine, millions of dollars were paid out thus Sencer’s dismissal is a no brainer. Hodder was one of the Army epidemiologists who investigated the Fort Dix outbreak.

On reflecting upon what occurred during 1976:

“Dr. Sencer felt very strongly that he didn’t want to be the person who let a lot of Americans die because he sat on his hands,” Hodder said. “And you have to remember, there was nothing else – no Tamiflu or Relenza. Once the disease would start to spread, you’d be in trouble.”

“Sencer was unfairly blamed for the unforeseeable”

“Generals and doctors have the same problem: They have to make a decision today with the information they have”

This response is initially understandable, there was a huge responsibility, action needed to be seen and the initial logic behind the mass vaccination seems sound due to the quick human to human infections seen at Ft. Dix and the expectation of a pandemic but if vaccinations didn’t start until October and the outbreak was contained within Ft. Dix then what the deuce? I can’t help think that Sencer’s decision wasn’t in the publics interest and had a political bias. It was known that there could be neurological side effects and at the time Ford was competing against Reagan in the North Carolina Republican presidential primary and thus Sencer has to be seen as supporting Ford. Not only that, private pharmaceutical companies were to be contracted to produce the vaccine and as a result big profits.

So lets take notice of what’s going down with the current “crisis”…

The BBC have released a report (16:28 GMT, Thursday, 13 August 2009 17:28 UK) as mentioned early with the following break down:

• In October, those aged six months to 65-years-old in conventional at-risk groups for normal seasonal flu, such as those with diabetes or heart disease, will be vaccinated.

• This will be followed by all pregnant women, subject to licensing arrangements and better information on when in the pregnancy the vaccine should be given.

• People living in households with patients with suppressed immune systems and those over 65 in conventional at-risk groups will then be eligible.

• Front-line health and social care workers will then be vaccinated.

• By the middle of winter, the government hopes to have enough evidence to decide whether the campaign should be extended to healthy people.

The point which I find most interesting is the last one! I’ll rephrase it how I hear it “By February, the government will know if the vaccine that they have spent 3 months placing within 14+ million people is having any adverse effects and then make the decision to continue the program or to scrap it.”

It’s probably also worth bearing in mind that the Czech Republic have cancelled Baxter “swine flu” vaccines as Baxter can’t guarantee that it will be safe and have ”refused to pay compensation to anyone injured by the vaccine”. (http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/czech-republic-cancels-baxter-swine-flu-vaccines-because-baxter-refuses-to-guarantee-safety/)

Next the first case of the current Swine Flu pandemic has been reported to have occured in in Veracruz state in February, so that’s given a time period of approx 8 months to create a vaccine if they are to start in October. Obviously time is critical as it unknown when the second wave it going to hit but there is already a vaccine in place for the seasonal flu. NewScientist back in May ran a couple of article titled “Swine flu vaccine won’t be ready for next wave” and “First genetic analysis of swine flu reveals potency” concluding that the current strain spreads barely well enough to keep itself going and that a vaccine will probably not be ready until September which is after the predicted second wave.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227083.900-swine-flu-vaccine-wont-be-ready-for-next-wave.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17072-first-genetic-analysis-of-swine-flu-reveals-potency.html

My initial thoughts on the matter are is the vaccine safe and if so whether a mass vaccination is required? Since the initial out break there have been 229,446 confirmed cases world wide, 12,261 of which are from the UK with 49 death which is a 0.07% death rate compared to 3000-4000 deaths per year from seasonal flu, with the majority being over 65 and due to complications.

The second thing that concerns me is “Why do you never get the really good drugs” from your GP? What I mean here is your GP will rarely give you the cream of the crop on the drug front because a) over prescribing of the good shit increases the probability of the pathogen evolving to become resistant to said “good shit”. So on that logic if you vaccinate 14 million people in 3 months, what’s the chance of the strain evolving and becoming resistant to the current vaccine? I’d say quite high!! And then what? Well we don’t know? The strain might become more virulent, causing more people to become ill with a knock on effect of more death and b) the health service is also a business and thus the GPs will precribe what they’re being told to prescribe ie. what’s been sold to them at the “best” price.

What other brain food can I give you…

Here are some of the sites i’ve read giving you a further heads up on this matter if your interested:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/did-leak-from-a-laboratory-cause-swine-flu-pandemic-1724448.html

http://birdflu666.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/czech-republic-cancels-baxter-swine-flu-vaccines-because-baxter-refuses-to-guarantee-safety/

https://secure.gn.apc.org/members/www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4766&sid=927da4f09c8974e0d78031dc9c694ff5

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/swine-flu/6009820/Swine-flu-more-than-400-cases-of-Tamiflu-side-effects.html

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/7587

http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/Influenza.htm

It all smells a little big wrong…

While sat out back I thought if we eventually start getting some cures for cancer, in particular lung and throat cancer, will the tobacco industry attempt to profiteer, maybe by creating subsidiary companies with obscure names that people will never hear of and sponsor the companies who create the cancer curing “drugs”, or even buy shares in these companies to profit from the damage they have all been doing all these years? Watch this space.

Now go an listen to Don’t Be Light by Air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysk_dQ39ctE

When it gets to the point where the guitar solo kicks in, just wig out and then imagine me wigging out while sat at my desk doing full blown air guitar moves and then think of me and you actually stud together doing the actual guitar solo but with a tambourine round our foot keeping time…hop hop hop yeah!! I’m over excited…

PS: I now have a pen pal, the robot is called Veehaytchesss, the pterodactyl is called Gallaudet, because although happy she’s not very talkative and the octopus i’m leaving well alone. That look can’t fool me!

happy

  • adjective (happier, happiest) 1 feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. 2 willing to do something. 3 fortunate and convenient: a happy coincidence. 4 in combination informal inclined to use a specified thing excessively or at random: trigger-happy.

  — DERIVATIVES happily adverb happiness noun.

  — ORIGIN from HAP.

What is it that makes you happy? I can’t help but think that there are something that people do to attain a state of happiness which is just wrong. First port of call would be that the person isn’t mentally sound, that lump of matter between their ears isn’t wired correctly…[TBC : Lunch Time]