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MAY 19th in DALLAS – Tom DeWeese, on Agenda 21!

AGENDA 21
How Sustainable Development Negatively Affects Your Family and Community
Sustainable development may sound like a responsible avenue to travel, but dig deeper and you’ll find that’s not the case.

Join Tom DeWeese, a top Agenda 21 expert, for a presentation that will reveal the true intentions of those pushing sustainable development through the United Nations’ Agenda 21.

Saturday – May 19, 2012
9:00AM – Noon
Westin Park Central Hotel
12720 Merit Drive
Dallas, Texas 75261
Map: http://g.co/maps/hgzyc
TICKETS: $10 (cash, or check payable to John Birch Society
For More Information Call:
972 808-0876
Or email
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Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and American sovereignty and independence. He is Founder and President of the American Policy Center; www.AmericanPolicy.org

Saturday – May 19, 2012
9:00AM – Noon
Westin Park Central Hotel
12720 Merit Drive
Dallas, Texas 75261
Map: http://g.co/maps/hgzyc
TICKETS: $10
For More Information Call:
972 808-0876
Or email
JBSWSC@YAHOO.COM

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Sunday, November 13th at 8:00AM EST

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According to the Los Angeles Times, with the exception of existing in locked freezers in Russia and U.S. labs, the smallpox virus was eradicated in 1978. Yet, in a no-bid contract, the Obama administration has given $443 million of American taxpayers’ money for a “experimental smallpox drug” to a bio-defense company, Siga, controlled by billionaire Democrat-donor Ron Perleman and whose board ex-SEIU boss Andy Stern sits on.



According to the Times:

When Siga complained that contracting specialists at the Department of Health and Human Services were resisting the company’s financial demands, senior officials replaced the government’s lead negotiator for the deal, interviews and documents show.

When Siga was in danger of losing its grip on the contract a year ago, the officials blocked other firms from competing.

Siga was awarded the final contract in May through a “sole-source” procurement in which it was the only company asked to submit a proposal. The contract calls for Siga to deliver 1.7 million doses of the drug for the nation’s biodefense stockpile. The price of approximately $255 per dose is well above what the government’s specialists had earlier said was reasonable, according to internal documents and interviews.

Siga’s questionable government deal may eventually mean $2.8 billion in revenues for the company—thought Siga’s profits would have to be split with its former partner in a failed merger, PharmAthene.

In September, after years of litigation following a failed merger, a Delaware court ruled that PharmAthene was entitled to 50% of Siga’s profits from its ST-246 smallpox vaccines.

While the Times notes that there is no credible evidence that the threat of a smallpox outbreak is imminent and that the U.S. already owns enough vaccine to treat the entire population, the Obama administration’s ties to Siga become even more questionable, considering the recent recommendation to start experimenting with an Anthrax vaccine on America’s children.

A key panel of government advisers Friday recommended that the federal government sponsor a controversial study to test the anthrax vaccine in children to see whether the inoculation would protect young Americans against a bioterrorist attack.

The National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB), which advises the federal government on issues related to bioterrorism, voted 12-1 to recommend that the Health and Human Services Department move forward with a study aimed at determining whether the vaccine is safe and effective in children and identifying the best dose. Patricia Quinlisk of the Iowa Department of Public Health, who chairs the panel, was the only dissenter.

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Nicole Lurie, the assistant HHS secretary for preparedness and response who requested the panel’s review, said officials would consider the panel’s recommendation, but she did not give a time-frame for a decision on whether to conduct the study. [Emphasis added.]

Interestingly the primary producer of the Anthrax vaccine is PharmAthene. While PharmAthene has reportedly spent millions lobbying in 2011, there is at least one call for PharmAthene and Siga to consider merging again.

While, according to USA Today, the Obama administration will not begin testing Anthrax vaccine on children for now while it resolves the ethical questions, it is noteworthy that the panel review for testing Anthrax vaccines on children was recommended by Dr. Nicole Lurie.

Lurie, an Obama appointee, is the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services.

According to the LA Times, Lurie has also been involved in the negotiations over Siga’s profit margin with the smallpox vaccine:

Negotiations over the price of the drug and Siga’s profit margin were contentious. In an internal memo in March, Dr. Richard J. Hatchett, chief medical officer for HHS‘ biodefense preparedness unit, said Siga’s projected profit at that point was 180%, which he called “outrageous.”

In an email earlier the same day, a department colleague told Hatchett that no government contracting officer “would sign a 3 digit profit percentage.”

In April, after Siga’s chief executive, Dr. Eric A. Rose, complained in writing about the department’s “approach to profit,” Lurie assured him that the “most senior procurement official” would be taking over the negotiations.

“I trust this will be satisfactory to you,” Lurie wrote Rose in a letter.

The Obama administration’s apparent willingness to award its cronies with no-bid contracts, as well as the seeming willingness to test questionable vaccines on children makes one wonder if this is what the President meant when he said he has the most open and ethical administration in history.

HT: Moe Lane.

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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776

Cross-posted on LaborUnionReport.com and BigGovernment.com

PRESS RELEASE (Nov. 1, 2011)

Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/01/prescription-drug-deaths-skyrocket/ ) has recently reported on a serious problem in American medicine. The problem is known, inside the medical and pharmaceutical industries, as "non-compliance". Al Lee, candidate for Congress from Texas, may have the solution. (See short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kxi6If10Z4Y .)

Non-compliance simply means: failure to comply with the prescribed regimen for a medication. It results in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, hospital admissions, and medical procedures costing in excess of $100 Billion per year--a cost shared by all Americans who pay for health insurance.

Instead of the usual campaign buttons, Al Lee is giving out the simple little device described on his website. He is doing that to illustrate that new ideas, free enterprise, and the private sector can address our problems better than government intervention.

For more information, contact Al Lee (214.202.4965) friends@allee4congress.com.

Thanks,
Al

AlLeeForCongress.com

I want to thank everyone for their warmth and hospitality -- and passion! -- this past weekend.  As the only judge (and the only statewide elected official) in attendance, I was mighty honored to join you.  Thank you for your boundless energy and tenacity, and for being fierce champions for liberty in every corner of Texas.  I respectfully urge you to support my reelection to the Texas Supreme Court.  I'm widely regarded as the most conservative Justice on the Supreme Court, and my resolute conservative philosophy has been hailed nationally as the judicial antidote to ObamaCare.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/03/AR2010120306459.html  You can find me online at www.fb.com/justicedonwillett and www.donwillett.com.  Please help spread the word about the integral role the judiciary plays in safeguarding our liberty and the need for stalwart conservative jurists.  Again, it was wonderful being with everyone last weekend.  Thank you all so much.

I was saddened to hear the news that Travis Sampley, Chief of Staff for Rep. Ralph Sheffield had passed away.  My prayers and condolences go out to Travis’ family, Ralph and Debbie Sheffield and the rest of Rep. Sheffield’s team.  Please keep them all in your prayers.

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I am the new Texas iCaucus Regional Director. I am organizing a Vetting team for conservative candidates. iCaucus was founded 2008 by 2010 iCaucus citizen driven nationwide organization produced approx. 25 iCaucus State Representatives and  13 iCaucus Federal Representatives this accomplishment is nothing short of amazing. All are welcomed to join iCaucus - A National Citizens Organization focused on Principles over Big Money, Special Interests - taking our Government back one candidate at a time. www.icaucus.org

I've been hearing a lot today about how the Old Guard Republicans are on the move regarding demonizing Herman Caine and trying to insure he does not get the nod for the Primary.  This disgusts me, especially since Herman has soared in the polls and if favored by the people above Romney.  This has spurred me into action.  It is so important that we take contrl of our local Republican Party and insure we get the most quaified Conservative candidate running.  And for my money, that is Hermain Caine.  I urge everyone reading this to join me at those meetings.  If I am not mistaken, the next one will be Monday, Oct. 17th at the FOP of Beach Blvd. Not sure of the time yet.  If someone can verify this and add to this information, please do.

Orlando, FL 23 Sep 2011: Herman Cain at Republican debate pledges to aggressively prosecute CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations), ISNA (Islamic Society of North America), and NAIT (North American Islamic Trust) along with pledging to list the Muslim Brotherhood as a Designated Terrorist Organization.

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

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People think citizens against Agenda 21 are radicals who do not know what they are talking about. Florida is a test case & it will go farther (it is also in other states on a smaller way) if they win here. Obama has given the UN the Everglades. Now they want land next to & near it. The second & fourth grades have been chosen to dumb down & unAmericanize. Check it for yourself.
http://agenda21today.com/  ;
http://gulfspeaks.info/Education_Page.html  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM

I am the only true conservative running for congress in district 20. I need your support in defeating the socialist Debbie Wasserman Schultz in 2012. http://www.joegoldnerforcongress2012.com