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"Dr. Doom" Stephen Hawking Humanity To Be Wiped Out
By Linda1
I feel so smart today. It isn"t often that the scientific merit of my ideas is confirmed by Stephen Hawking. Today, there is an article in The Guardian, reposted in the MSN news, titled, "Most threats to humans come from science and technology, warns Hawking". Excerpt:
"Speaking to the Radio Times ahead of the BBC Reith Lecture, in which he will explain the science of black holes, Hawking said most of the threats humans now face come from advances in science and technology, such as nuclear weapons and genetically engineered viruses."
Genetically engineered viruses? Where have I heard that before? Oh, that"s what drug companies put into vaccines that doctors, nurses and pharmacists inject directly into and/or put in the mouths of people - vaccines for illnesses that include Hepatitis B, HPV, flu, and rotavirus.
The vaccine for Hepatitis B was the first to be made from a genetically engineered virus as announced in this New York Times article from July 1986 (please see - the reader will appreciate the historical significance). Note who, in 1986, the Hepatitis B vaccine was recommended for:
Dr. Young recommended vaccinations with either hepatitis vaccine for dental and medical workers, susceptible homosexuals and drug users, the newborn children of infected women, and, among other groups, travelers to parts of the world where hepatitis B is rampant, such as southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and parts of the Middle East.
That was a couple of years before they got the no doubt economically motivated crazy idea to assault every baby born in this country with the full series of this genetically modified concoction, the first dose of which would be given by their decree when the baby is in medical custody, in hospital, within 12 hours of birth.
The reader can easily find references supporting the genetic modification of many other vaccines already in use and others in development. I"ve included a few quotes from the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) below (both NVIC rotavirus quotes also link back to the manufacturer"s package insert) and have put in bold some of the references to genetic modification:
RotaTeqvaccine is manufactured by Merck and was licensed by the FDA in 2006.Description: RotaTeq is a genetically engineered vaccinemade of live, attenuated human-bovine hybridized reassortant rotaviruses. Other ingredients include sucrose, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate, sodium hydroxide, polysorbate 80, cell culture media, and trace amounts of fetal bovine serum. It does not contain preservatives.
Rotarixvaccineis manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and was licensed by the FDA in 2008.
Description:Rotarix is a genetically engineered vaccine made of live attenuated human rotaviruses. Other ingredients include: amino acids, dextran, sorbitol, sucrose, and Dulbeccos Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM). DMEM contains sodium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium sulfate, ferric (III) nitrate, sodium phosphate, sodium pyruvate, D-glucose, concentrated vitamin solution, L-cystine, L-tyrosine, amino acids solution, L-glutamine, calcium chloride, sodium hydrogenocarbonate, and phenol red.
The liquid diluent contains calcium carbonate, sterile water, and xanthan. The diluent includes an antacid component (calcium carbonate) to protect the vaccine during passage through the stomach and prevent its inactivation due to the acidic environment of the stomach. There is no preservative in Rotarix.
Hepatitis B Vaccine
You may be wondering how Dr. Hawking"s statement about genetically engineered viruses endangering mankind passed by the vigilant media vaccine censors, especially on MSN of all places? It is most likely because the vaccine censors don"t understand the products they are protecting and promoting. The vaccine censors don"t understand that vaccines contain genetically engineered organisms that are directly injected or ingested by humans. The complicit media censors don"t understand how genetically modified vaccines can endanger mankind. They follow their marching orders to propagandize and censor, blindly and thoughtlessly.
So once the censors realize that Dr. Hawking"s statement contradicts the WHO and CDC"s message to all the countries of the world that genetically modified vaccines are safe and effective and necessary for human survival - once they get wind of the fact that the golden egg that is the only egg in their basket (at their insistence) that they hold up to the world as the savior of mankind is actually a rotten egg that has the very real potential to destroy humanity, will they proceed to censor Dr. Hawking"s future statements? Will the vaccine fascists go after Dr. Hawking in order to protect their golden egg? Will their seemingly limitless hubris enable them to try to alter his message and go so far as to try to discredit the smartest man in the world?
I feel very smart today. But I live in a very stupid world, Dr. Hawking and present company excepted.
Linda1 is an AofA daily reader, commenter and contributor.
Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking warns a disaster on Earth is a "near certainty", owing to the growing risks posed by humanity"s own scientific progress.
Speaking in the lead-up to his eagerly expected public lecture on new research in relation to black holes, Hawking said the prospect of a planetary disaster is virtually inevitable, due to a number of ongoing threats for which we as a species are basically single-handedly responsible.
"We face a number of threats: nuclear war, global warming and genetically engineered viruses," he told Radio Times, as reported by Sarah Knapton at The Telegraph. "Although the chance of a disaster on planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, becoming a near certainty in the next thousand or ten thousand years."
Nonetheless, while the prospects Hawking describes are certainly bleak, he says in the short-term, humanity should be able to climb out of this hole provided we live long enough to realise our interplanetary ambitions, that is.
"By that time we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so it would not mean the end of the human race," he said. "However, we will not establish self-sustaining colonies in space for at least the next hundred years, so we have to be very careful in this period."
The ironic (but very believable) logic in Hawking"s arguments is that it"s humanity"s past advancements that have gotten us into this mess but it"s also only through continuing research and discoveries that we will be able to get out of it.
"Most of the threats we face come from the progress we"ve made in science and technology," he said. "We are not going to stop making progress, or reverse it, so we must recognise the dangers and control them. I"m an optimist, and I believe we can."
Hawking"s fears over the risks humanity faces before it can leave the planet are not new. For much of this century he"s spoken critically about where developments such as nuclear weapons and genetically engineered viruses may be leading us.
Last year, he joined a high-profile coalition of scientists and experts protesting against the development of autonomous weaponry controlled solely by artificial intelligence. His view is that political involvement is crucial, and that it"s everybody"s responsibility to keep progress steered where we need it to go.
"Science and technology are changing our world dramatically, so it"s important to ensure that these changes are heading in the right directions," said Hawking. "In a democratic society, this means that everyone needs to have a basic understanding of science, to make informed decisions about the future."
