I will offer some advice on how to protect
yourself naturally, without having to line up for dangerous vaccines
or take expensive "anti-viral" drugs with all their
side effects. As with other national emergencies our biggest danger
may be economic if the government overreacts and shuts down travel
and commerce. Mexico is going down that path and has told everyone
to stay at home, but that can't last long. People have to make
a living and will have to go back to work soon. Mexicans have
little food on hand due to their habit of shopping daily rather
than weekly. If governments overplay their hand, this panic could
damage any hope of a quick economic recovery.
Paul Joseph Watson of prisonplanet.com
presents the worse-than-reported case: "A doctor in Texas
claims that swine flu cases are at least ten times worse than
officials are letting on, and that hospitals are becoming overwhelmed
as the virus has already crossed the threshold to be considered
a phase 6 global pandemic [not true at all]. Dr. Marcus Gitterle,
an emergency medicine physician based out of New Braunfels, Texas,
sent out an internal alert which contains several stunning claims
about swine flu that, if true, officials have presumably sought
to keep from the public.
"After I returned from a public health meeting
yesterday with community leaders and school officials in Comal
County and Hays County, (name removed) suggested I send an update
to my patients in the area, because what we are hearing privately
from the CDC and Health Department is different from what you
are hearing in the media," writes Gitterle. The doctor claims
that the actual number of confirmed cases of swine flu is 10 to
25 times worse than has been reported, and that people are not
recovering easily, as has been claimed, but that many Americans
are in fact seriously ill."
I think the doctor is over-reacting and exaggerating.
It might be 2-3 times more than reported, but not 10-25 times.
Credible doctors reported from California that most of the California
cases are mild and will easily recover, even without giving anti-viral
drugs. In Mexico it may be bad, but not yet in America.
The Olympian newspaper reports how Mexico is
reacting (changing daily): "In Mexico City, surgical masks
given to subway passengers, public events canceled, schools and
public venues closed and church services postponed. President
Felipe Calderon has assumed new powers to isolate infected people.
World Bank is providing Mexico with more than $200 million in
loans to help with the outbreak." Travel restrictions and
quarantines are the next shoes to drop. Argentina has demanded
that all passengers arriving from Mexico check in with the ministry
of health.
Here is a report from a British ex-patriot living
in Mexico and working in health care (relayed through James Wesley
Rawle's Survivalblog.org).
"The number of cases increases significantly every day. The
number of fatalities is also increasing. At least three doctors
are said to have died from swine flu. There is great fear among
the medical community. We know that the situation is very serious
and that we are at high risk of infection.
But we are more scared of carrying it into our
homes and infecting our loved ones. One of my colleagues that
was exposed chose to stay in a hotel rather than run the risk
of infecting her daughters. These fears are getting worse as we
realize that it is not possible to get antiviral drugs from pharmacies
and that in the health sector they are close to being delivered
in droppers. Despite this, the government says that it can rely
on antiviral drugs to treat a million cases. We do not have easy
access to these, even though we are part of the health sector."
Some lower level health care workers in Mexico
are not showing up for work due to fear of the high levels of
contamination in hospitals themselves. Some are already ill. However,
most hospitals in the US are still reporting zero cases. Even
if sick, I don't think I'd go to a hospital. If you had a lesser
form of the flu, you'd be sure to catch a worse variety there.
Besides, hospitals only rely on anti-viral drugs, and know nothing
about natural therapies, or even good nutrition (judging by hospital
food). I can't find any compelling reason to go into the infected
atmosphere of a hospital in such a crisis.
World and national health officials are caught
between two difficult positions—waiting until things really
get bad before declaring an emergency (and risk being charged
with reacting too late) or rolling out quarantine plans now and
shutting down all public meetings and transportation as a preventative
measure. The latter has huge risks as well, especially if it doesn't
turn into a really serious epidemic.
If the establishment is looking for an excuse
to practice draconian intervention on the American public, they
may have their chance, but already the travel industry is demanding
they wait so as to not damage already waning public confidence
in flying. The World Health Organization says, as of April 28th,
"there were only seven laboratory-confirmed swine flu deaths,
all in Mexico, from 79 confirmed cases around the world."
In deference to the pork industry, which has
seen a steep sell off in pigs (trying to beat the collapse in
hog prices) the WHO has said that the most recent research on
swine flu has shown that "the virus is not caused by pigs,"
which is true. The disease is now being referred to as Mexican
flu or influenza A (H1N1)." The WHO has also moved the pandemic
alert from four to five, on a scale of six, but refusing to go
higher despite pressure from some government sources.
Meanwhile, the US Dep. Of Homeland Security is
preparing its quarantine guidelines. As CBS reports, "DHS
has sent a memo to some health care providers noting procedures
to be followed if the swine flu outbreak eventually makes quarantines
necessary. 'The Department of Justice has established legal federal
authorities pertaining to the implementation of a quarantine and
enforcement. Under approval from HHS, the Surgeon General has
the authority to issue quarantines.'
"Bridger McGaw [DHS' acting assistant secretary
for the private sector] appears to have been referring to the
section of federal law that allows the Surgeon General to detain
and quarantine Americans 'reasonably believed to be infected'
with a communicable disease [very broad powers without many restrictions].
Federal quarantine authority is limited to diseases listed in
presidential executive orders; President Bush added 'novel' forms
of influenza with the potential to create pandemics in Executive
Order 13375. Anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished
by a $250,000 fine and a one-year prison term.
"The memo from McGaw also said: 'U.S. Customs
and Coast Guard Officers assist in the enforcement of quarantine
orders. Other DOJ law enforcement agencies including the U.S.
Marshals, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives may also enforce quarantines.
Military personnel are not authorized to engage in enforcement."
If this gets bad, it is likely we'll see military troops enforcing
quarantines. On CNBC they showed a uniformed Admiral who was present
in the Health and Human Services command center monitoring the
outbreak. Quarantines are very tough to enforce and there are
not enough law enforcement to enforce a medical martial law operation.
On the other side of the story, there are those
claiming this is overblown, like Patrick Wood and Dr. Russell
Blaylock, MD: "Are globalist fear-mongers driving the media
to panic the public into universal healthcare solutions? Or federally-mandated
vaccinations? By definition, a 'pandemic' is an epidemic that
is geographically widespread. Fear-mongers are always careful
to add the innuendo that millions of people could and probably
will die, as in the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 that killed between
20 and 100 million people worldwide.
Excuse me, but how does the death of even a few
hundred equate to 20 million? Almost all of the deaths, limited
as they are, are in Mexico. The ratio of deaths to infections
is very small. Again, how does this outbreak even remotely qualify
as a pandemic? Answer: It does not!" His point about the
ratio of deaths to infection being less than 10% is significant.
In all other worldwide plagues, the death ratio has been well
above 50% of those infected.
Tom Randall of Bloomberg says that "Travel
restrictions under consideration by the U.S. to prevent the spread
of a new flu virus may be influenced by politics more than science,
the World Health Organization's chief said today. WHO doesn't
recommend closing borders or restricting the movement of people
or goods, Margaret Chan, director-general of the United Nations
agency told leaders from health groups around the world in a conference
call today. The disease, which may have caused more than 100 deaths
and sickened more than 1,000 people, has spread too far and would
be impossible to contain by closing borders, she said."
The scare, whether real or invented, will spur
Congress to accede to more power for government action. Congress.org
says, "As the world grapples with a potential health crisis
from the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico, Congress is responding
on several fronts. Expect the potential pandemic to ignite debate
over vaccination stockpiles, health care reform, immigration policy
and border security, among other issues."
There will also be a lot of profiteering going
on—especially on the part of the big pharmaceutical companies
who manufacture anti-viral drugs and vaccines. They have been
granted immunity from liability on all these dangerous products,
so they win weather vaccines succeed or fail--at the expense of
the drug taking public, of course, who will suffer adverse side
effects. It's one thing to take high risks on drugs when there
is a 90% chance you will die, but quite another when the danger
of dying from a virus perhaps even less than the risk of drug
or vaccine harm.
As James Ridgeway wrote, "With no vaccine
in sight, the U.S. government, along with others, is belatedly
stocking up on Tamiflu, a drug that supposedly offers some defense
against bird and swine flu. But in 2005 Japanese newspapers told
how [some] children who were administered Tamiflu went mad and
tried to kill themselves by jumping out of windows. In a cautionary
statement the FDA noted 12 deaths among children, and said there
are reports of psychiatric disturbances, including hallucinations,
along with heart and lung disorders. Roche, the manufacturer,
is quoted by the BBC as stating that the rate of deaths and psychiatric
problems is no higher among those taking its medication than among
those with flu. The company is increasing Tamiflu production to
300 million doses a year to meet demand."
THE VACCINE ISSUE
Mandatory vaccinations are one of the powers
claimed by government in a pandemic and can be even more dangerous
than quarantine. Due to the problems inherent in vaccine safety
and their marginal effectiveness against viral infections, this
should be resisted at all costs. That's how strongly I feel about
the issue. Congressman Ron Paul, an MD, pointed out that the 1976
Swine flu outbreak, turned out to be no epidemic at all. As explained
below it was a man made disease caused by the government using
soldiers at Fort Dix as guinea pigs for a new vaccine, which actually
gave them the flu. One soldier died and 25 civilians who also
took the tainted vaccine.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, a pandemic flu expert
at the University of Minnesota questioned the efficacy of the
government trying to encourage everyone to take a flu vaccine.
"No vaccine specifically protects against swine flu, and
it is unclear how much protection current human flu vaccines might
offer."
Patricia Doyle, PhD a medical writer warns against
taking any vaccines. "I am making a plea to everyone who
reads this, please, please DO NOT TAKE ANY VACCINE THAT IS PURPORTED
TO 'PREVENT' THIS FLU. Remember 1976 and the so called Swine Flu
outbreak that was purported to be a coming pandemic? It only infected
recruits at Ft. Dix. Why? Because I believe that the so called
Swine Flu virus infected the recruits due to the vaccines they
were given [full story below] . . . I was one of the people duped
into taking a Swine Flu shot and it made me so sick. I was sick
in bed for three months after taking the vaccine.
"There is also a safety issue in any experimental
vaccine, much like the one in 1976. It could trigger Guillain-barre
syndrome, Typhus or some other condition. An Influenza vaccine
does not protect or prevent a person from contracting flu. It
is purported to, maybe, prevent some complications of flu and
maybe shorten duration. I am not even sure it does that. Personally,
I feel the vaccine weakens our immune system and also sickens
us due to contaminants in the vaccine.
I feel that people can better protect themselves
by washing hands often and thoroughly. People should also use
protective gloves when out and about during epidemics. Don't be
afraid of 'looking odd.' I would not be ashamed to use a mask
and gloves. I see that the Mexicans are using them. A big problem
during a pandemic is that these simple supplies will become extremely
scarce awfully quickly. Stock up now on medical supplies."
She is right about stocking up. I recommend more
than just the medical style surgical mask or the white utility
dust mask sold in stores. While better than nothing, none of the
paper or cloth face masks make a tight seal about the face. I
recommend you buy a painter's respirator—the kind that looks
like an oxygen mask with two filters on either side at the cheek
position. These respirators block not only dust, but mold, bacteria
and chemical vapors. They can even double as a smoke mask if you
have to get out of a house in a fire, or rescue a child. I always
keep one in my car just in case.
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, D.O., also recommends you
not take vaccines. "We knew this was coming. Even though
the bird flu hype was removed years ago from the nightly news,
planning for the global pandemic and the development of pandemic
flu vaccines has continued with little notice. Our government
has instructed FEMA, made checklists for Homeland Security, given
action plans to State and local authorities. These plans include
methods and drills for global inoculation with a vaccine that
will no doubt have the same deadly consequences as the Swine Flu
vaccine in 1976... A short look back at plans that were put in
place several years ago will confirm this is not a spontaneous
eruption and the solution—global vaccination—has been
in the works for quite some time.
"The Fort Dix tragedy: Even though April 30, 1975 marked
the end of the U.S. presence in Vietnam, young men across the
country continued to sign up for the all-volunteer army. Just
after the Christmas holiday in 1975, thousands of enthusiastic
new army recruits reported to the barracks at Fort Dix, New Jersey,
to begin basic training. However, by mid-January, many were complaining
of flu-like symptoms; a few had even been hospitalized. One recruit
reported to his drill instructor that he felt tired and weak.
Given the option to rest, he opted instead to participate in a
five-mile training March on a cold February night. Twenty-four
hours later, on February 6, 1975, the 19-year-old Pvt. David Lewis
of Ashley Falls, Massachusetts, was dead.
Word arrived the following week from the CDC
laboratory that his death was caused by an unusual influenza type
A virus. Particularly worrisome was that four other samples taken
from ill recruits at Fort Dix had also tested positive for influenza
A virus—a type that had previously been detected only in
pigs. Within three weeks of Lewis' death—the only person
ever confirmed to have died from swine flu on the entire military
base—researchers and public health officials converged in
Washington to persuade members of Congress to implement a costly
new program to vaccinate the country. A nationwide campaign, launched
with the urgency of a five-alarm fire, was started by the CDC
which ramped up the vaccine production with millions of government
dollars allocated to develop of a novel vaccine for mass vaccination.
"The same five-alarm fire is happening today.
This morning, April 26, 2009, the federal government declared
a public health emergency, as the number of cases of swine flu
in the U.S. rises to a mere 20, announcing the arrival of the
long-planned for and awaited pandemic.
"Pharma Protected: In 1976, the Federal
Insurance Company advised Merck that all liability, indemnity,
and defense costs associated with claims arising from the new
swine flu vaccine would not be covered by its insurance plan.
Having absorbed the embarrassment and the economic losses caused
by the polio vaccine in 1955, the pharmaceutical industry and
their insurance providers were determined that would not happen
again. This time, there are no worries.
Drug companies have completely covered their
tracks, and when reports of adverse events and deaths from the
new swine flu vaccine start to roll in, they will be smiling all
the way to the bank. Flu shots were added to the Vaccine Injury
Compensation Table in 2003, meaning, if anyone is injured, a claim
needs to be filed through the Federal Court of Claims and it will
be years before it is adjudicated. And that is just the basic
layer of protection. All the drug companies have to do is whisper
that this may be a 'terrorist attack' and they are home free.
"Before he was voted out of office in 2006,
then-senator Bill Frist (R-TN), a physician, drove through a bill
that gave drug companies more immunity than any bill ever passed
by Congress.
1. Immunity from liability for all drugs, vaccines,
or biological products deemed as a covered countermeasure against
bioterrorism in the event of an outbreak of any kind.
2. Immunity for any product used for any public
health emergency declared by the secretary of HHS. The authority
to declare an emergency now rests completely in the hands of the
secretary of HHS----an appointed, non-medical person who has no
accountability to the general public. The president's hand-picked
person that is part of his inner circle will have the power to
mandate vaccines and other medications given to the American people.
3. Immunity from accountability. No matter what
a drug company does wrong, they are protected. Even if the company's
dirty facility created a batch of contaminated vaccines that resulted
in death or injury to thousands of people, the drug company will
not be held accountable.
4. Immunity from law suits. A person who suffers any type of loss
will be prohibited from suing the drug companies. The bill provisions
provide a mechanism for filing a lawsuit, but the language explicitly
prevents frivolous suits by setting a standard for liability more
rigid than any known standard of negligence. In simple terms,
if a claim is filed by a plaintiff it can go forward only if the
injured party can prove that the company performed an act of 'willful
misconduct' resulting in an injury or a death. In other words,
the injured party would have to prove the vaccine maker intentionally
caused him harm [which is impossible].
"Division-E goes even one step further.
Unbelievably, even if a pharmaceutical company knowingly harms
people, the company will be immune from legal prosecution unless
the U.S. attorney general initiates 'enforcement action' against
the drug company in the name of the claimant.
"Staying Healthy: Certainly, keeping yourself
healthy and protected from all types of flu strains is a priority,
now more than ever. Here are some suggestions:
"1. Good hydration with alkaline water:
If you don't have access to an alkaline water machine, be sure
to eat large amounts of alkalinizing, fresh vegetables and fruits
such as broccoli, carrots, sprouts, avocados and berries. [What
she is referring to is the fact that lots of food like meats and
sweets cause your system to become acidic, which is the perfect
ph to breed disease. In fact no one gets sick unless they are
acidic. This condition is also the stimulus to the body to take
calcium from the bones, which it dumps into the blood stream to
bring the ph back to alkaline].
"2. Sleep: Get at least 8.5 hours per night,
every night. Sleep is often overlooked at the key to health. This
is simple to do and best of all, it is free.
"3. Vitamin D: Much has been written on
the importance of adequate vitamin D for resisting viral infections...
It is safe to take at least 2000 IU of vitamin D3 per day [up
to 5,000 if it is natural and combined with natural vitamin A].
With summer coming, you can get your dose of D naturally from
sunshine [only if you spend time in the sun].
"4. Vitamin C: Humans don't store vitamin
C and under stress, much more is required. Vitamin C is important
for fighting viral infections. Take in at least 2000 mg/day for
overall immune health [Don't use the cheap ascorbic acid variety
sold in supermarkets (which are synthetic vitamins put out by
major pharmaceutical companies). Instead, look for bioflavonoids
and rose hips included].
"5. Vitamin A: This vitamin is one of the
best supporters you can have in your cabinet [but it must be from
natural sources, like Cod Liver oil]."
HOW TO TREAT VIRAL INFECTIONS WITHOUT DRUGS
The symptoms of the new flu are hardly any different
from other flu cases: cough, fever, sore throat [hoarseness],
shortness of breath, and muscle and joint pain. You should be
prepared to stay in top physical condition during this period
of risk. But, exercise only outdoors, not in closed gyms with
other people. If this does become a true epidemic you must limit
your contact with groups of people. If the virus hits your neighborhood
hard, keep your kids out of schools, don't go to Church, and arrange
to work from home if possible. If it really gets bad, you must
get out of town into rural areas with fewer people—get out
of the cities early enough to avoid an quarantine orders prohibiting
people from leaving.
No natural treatment works well unless you get
off junk food—and not just while you are sick. Give up soda
drinks (especially diet drinks that have synthetic sugars—they
are ALL bad for your health), doughnuts, store bought cookies
and snacks, candy bars and ready made foods or mixes. Drink water
or real fruit juices—but try to avoid those sweetened with
corn syrup. When sick or fearful of getting sick, eat much less
food than normal. Eat organically grown fresh vegetables and fruits
and very little meat or cooked carbohydrates. Raw things are best,
as are green salads, but don't use commercial salad dressings.
They have too many chemicals and sugar in them.
I also want to add more background to what Dr.
Tenpenny said about vitamin D3. The normal flu season takes place
in the dead of winter because of low sunshine, which in turn,
results in low Vitamin D output within the human body. Vitamin
D3 is created in the skin by Ultraviolet light from the sun, and
people get little sun in the northern hemisphere in the winter,
and even less year-round because most work indoors. Vitamin D3
is especially important in creating certain Peptide proteins that
attack both bacteria and viruses and protect the immune system.
Here are excerpts from a peer-reviewed research
article by Dr. John Cannell of Atascadero, California on the relationship
between Vitamin D and people's resistance to the flu and viruses
in general. He begins by telling how certain mental patients who
were given high doses of Vitamin D for various mental conditions
all became resistant to a flu epidemic that swept through the
hospital.
"In 1918, when medical scientists did autopsies
on some of the fifty million people who died during the 1918 flu
pandemic, they were amazed to find destroyed respiratory tracts;
sometimes these inflammatory cytokines had triggered the complete
destruction of the normal epithelial cells lining the respiratory
tract. It was as if the flu victims had been attacked and killed
by their own immune systems. This is the severe inflammatory reaction
that vitamin D has recently been found to prevent.
"I subsequently did what physicians have
done for centuries. I experimented, first on myself and then on
my family, trying different doses of vitamin D to see if it has
any effects on viral respiratory infections. After that, as the
word spread, several of my medical colleagues experimented on
themselves by taking three_day courses of pharmacological doses
(2,000 units per kilogram per day) of vitamin D at the first sign
of the flu.
"I also asked numerous colleagues and friends
who were taking physiological doses of vitamin D (5,000 units
per day in the winter and less, or none, in the summer) if they
ever got colds or the flu, and, if so, how severe the infections
were. I became convinced that physiological doses of vitamin D
reduce the incidence of viral respiratory infections and that
pharmacological doses significantly ameliorate the symptoms of
some viral respiratory infections if taken early in the course
of the illness.
"As I waited for the hospital to finish
collecting data from all the patients taking vitamin D at the
time of the outbreak _ to see if it really reduced the incidence
of influenza - I decided to research the literature thoroughly,
finding all the clues in the world's medical literature that indicated
if vitamin D played any role in preventing influenza or other
viral respiratory infections. I worked on the paper for over a
year, writing it with..[names list of distinguished professors
and co-authors].
"Epidemiology and Infection, recently published our paper..
We proposed that annual fluctuations in vitamin D levels explain
the seasonality of influenza. The periodic seasonal fluctuations
in 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels, which cause recurrent and predictable
wintertime vitamin D deficiency, predispose human populations
to influenza epidemics. We raised the possibility that influenza
is a symptom of vitamin D deficiency.
"In the paper, we propose that vitamin D
explains the following 14 observations:
1. Why the flu predictably occurs in the months
following the winter solstice, when vitamin D levels are at their
lowest,
2. Why it disappears in the months following
the summer solstice,
3. Why influenza is more common in the tropics
during the rainy season,
4. Why the cold and rainy weather associated
with El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which drives people
indoors and lowers vitamin D blood levels, is associated with
influenza,
5. Why the incidence of influenza is inversely
correlated with outdoor temperatures,
6. Why children exposed to sunlight are less
likely to get colds,
7. Why cod liver oil (which contains vitamin
D) reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections,
8. Why Russian scientists found that vitamin
D-producing UVB lamps reduced colds and flu in schoolchildren
and factory workers,
9. Why Russian scientists found that volunteers,
deliberately infected with a weakened flu virus - first in the
summer and then again in the winter—show significantly different
clinical courses in the different seasons,
10. Why the elderly who live in countries with
high vitamin D consumption, like Norway, are less likely to die
in the winter,
11. Why children with vitamin D deficiency and
rickets suffer from frequent respiratory infections,
12. Why an observant physician (Rehman), who
gave high doses of vitamin D to children who were constantly sick
from colds and the flu, found the treated children were suddenly
free from infection,
13. Why the elderly are so much more likely to
die from heart attacks in the winter rather than in the summer,
14. Why African Americans, with their low vitamin
D blood levels, are more likely to die from influenza and pneumonia
than Whites are.
"Although our paper discusses the possibility
that physiological doses of vitamin D (5,000 units a day) may
prevent colds and the flu, and that physicians might find pharmacological
doses of vitamin D (2,000 units per kilogram of body weight per
day for three days) useful in treating some of the one million
people who die in the world every year from influenza, we remind
readers that it is only a theory . . . However, as vitamin D deficiency
has repeatedly been associated with many of the diseases of civilization,
we point out that it is not too early for physicians to aggressively
diagnose and adequately treat vitamin D deficiency."
Dr. Stan Monteith MD, of Radio Liberty fame,
also recommends 5,000 units per day of Vitamin D as well as an
immune system boosting product called Allibiotic—a combination
of essential oils and garlic for immune support during seasonal
flu season. Here's the online link http://www.radioliberty.com/Vitamins.html
It's getting harder and harder to find natural
food source vitamins. The best source of high vitamin D is from
Cod liver oil. Unfortunately, the FDA requires excessive processing
of the oil in order to meet certain erroneous standards of toxicity
and fatty acid content—which strips out the natural vitamins.
Manufacturers add back synthetic vitamins, but they have some
risk of toxicity. Toxicity of Vitamin A and D has most often been
demonstrated with synthetics and only when tested separately.
Natural Vitamins A and D should always be taken
together since they balance each other out. There is now only
one source of high Vitamin Cod liver oil that evades this requirement
since they use a fermentation process to produce the oil. Here
is the link: www.greenpasture.org The fermentation process has
the added benefit of yielding vitamin E and K as well.
Business Preparations: Ultimately, in a
widespread disease environment, everyone has to consider how they
are going to continue making a living when contacts with people,
or even business travel, may be severely restricted. Businessmen
should begin right now to develop plans, where possible, for employees
to telecommute from home. They should have a supply of painter's
respirators for those who must come to work. They should stockpile
necessary office and inventory items in case suppliers shut down.
Internet suppliers will be vulnerable if transportation is restricted.
Find local suppliers for everything and be prepared to go pick
them up yourself.
Adapted from: Joel Skousen's April 26, 2009 World Affairs Brief
( http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com
) Used by permission.
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