The Washington Post reported that an estimated 71.5 million doses of H1N1 vaccine may have to be discarded if not used before expiry, costing millions in taxpayer dollars.

The CDC estimates that only one-fifth of American adults were vaccinated for H1N1. And you can be sure that is a high estimate. Here’s something from the article that I made a point of stressing back when this swine flu scheme was being launched:

It was not uncommon to discard seasonal flu vaccine every year, she said, and the only difference with the H1N1 vaccine was that the federal government had bought the supplies.

Thanks to Big Pharma’s agents, who are scattered throughout the governmental-pharmaceutical complex, there were no lost profits for Big Pharma. Here’s my blog from January that explores the government’s attempt to re-launch the swine flu propaganda. Since that time, the Swine Flu Journal, the Swine Flu Times, and the Swine Flu Post appear to be backing off from the scaremongering that just wasn’t working.

If you are really unwilling to let go of the H1N1 panic, you can go to the CDC’s website and send a free propaganda e-card to someone you love, convincing them to get the government’s shot. Or you can sign up for the CDC’s “emergency” text messages or mobile website. You just can’t make this stuff up.

To be sure, we’ve been doing this for a reason I resoundingly applaud. Last fall, our financial system stood on the brink of a collapse that threatened a depression. The crisis required our government to display wisdom, courage and decisiveness. Fortunately, the Federal Reserve and key economic officials in both the Bush and Obama administrations responded more than ably to the need.

How many times can the media use the cliche about the US economy being “in the emergency room?” And once again, it takes “wisdom” and “courage” to exercise authoritative control over other people and their money, and run up the largest deficit in US history. Gee, I’m so infused with admiration I can hardly stand it. While he properly sketches the problem of skyrocketing spending and debt, and the impending dollar problem, he, as an ally of the regime, must tell the members of the regime how they did such a ‘great’ job of getting us to the brink of disaster. How can anyone stand to read this conformist slop anymore? Also, don’t miss his priceless poke at carbon emissions and melting icebergs.

But they also venture into suggestions for new restrictions. The recommendations call for communities to restrict the availability of unhealthy foods and beverages, institute smaller portion sizes, limit advertisements of unhealthy products and discourage consumption of sugary drinks. 

The recommendations generally apply to public venues, with the possible goal of prompting more widespread restrictions elsewhere. 

The FOX story brings up one very important point that people ought to remember: reducing obesity is at the heart of President Obama’s health care plan. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stated this fact at the conference yesterday. This means the implementation of a totalitarian plan for enriching special interests and restricting free choice for individuals, in regards to food and beverages, as a part of the totalitarian nationalized health care plan.

Other brilliant ideas offered up to collectively control the weight of millions of people are the usual: fat taxes and food stamps to subsidize the purchase/choice of  “healthy” foods. Bill Clinton, speaking at the conference (yes, Bill Clinton, expert on health), said:

It is a public health issue that cannot be dealt with entirely within the confines of a medical office,” Clinton told the CDC conference Monday, talking about childhood obesity. “If we want to change this, we have to change what goes on at home and in the community and in the neighborhood and in the schools.

Does that statement make the agenda appear somewhat obvious? Such change can only be accomplished when government takes bureaucratic control over individuals and their unique lifestyles. Public schools are public tools for the government to move in and indoctrinate and control young children, and this environment gives way to numerous possibilities for control policies within those boundaries. In fact, exercising weight control tyranny through the school systems will be a cinch. However, homes (!) and neighborhoods and communities are private. A family makes a home, households make up a neighborhood, and neighborhoods are the foundations for communities. Yet we have ex-government officials, who are still kept in the power loop, declaring that individuals and families should be subject to coercive changes that violate their ability to function as free individuals making free choices.

To make matters worse, the government’s policies have promoted obesity in recent decades, as opposed to actually reducing the problem. This is because of the corporate state interests that have gained control of the politicians they purchase through campaign donations, thereby keeping unhealthy foods a part of the government’s food policy (think everything corn, and ask yourself why there is such a powerful corn lobby and subsidies) while demonizing foods, for years, that not only don’t pose the health risks claimed by food nazi bureaucrats and their paid researchers, but that actually offer tremendous health benefits (think fats) and maintain lean, healthy bodies. Therefore, as powerful corporate interests buy favors from elected officials and influence public policy on food, your government will price you out of, or outright ban, healthy-but-unpopular foods and force unhealthy garbage such as refined, corn-based foods into its centrally-planned food policy.

If you want to see where this strategy is headed, read the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Here are some high-levels snippets from the government’s plan:

• The establishment of the Common Community Measures for Obesity Prevention Project (the Measures Project), with a goal to “identify and recommend a set of obesity prevention strategies and corresponding suggested measurements that local governments and communities can use to plan, implement, and monitor initiatives to prevent obesity.”
• The Measures Project will include a “select Expert Panel of nationally recognized content-area experts in areas of urban planning, built environ­ment, obesity prevention, nutrition, and physical activity assisted in the selection of the recommended strategies and measurements.”
• Twenty local government representatives, including city managers, urban planners, and budget analysts, who partici­pate in ICMA’s Center for Performance Measurement (CPM), have volunteered to pilot test the selected measurements. (My input: this means local government agents “volunteering” to force businesses and citizens within their community to adhere to arbitrary laws.)
• Implementing a policy to “affect the cost of healthier foods and beverages relative to the cost of less healthy foods and beverages sold within local government facilities in a local jurisdiction or on public school campuses during the school day within the largest school district in a local jurisdiction.”
• Partnering with communities to restrict the availability of less healthy foods and beverages, institute smaller portion size options, and limit advertisement of less healthy foods and beverages in public service venues.
• Requiring licensed child care facilities within the local jurisdiction to limit screen viewing time to no more than 2 hours per day for children aged ≥2 years.

If you breeze through these 32 pages you will observe see a grotesque plan for micro-management of diet, nutrition, weight management, and activities of the U.S population, by utilizing a collective strategy for restriction and implementation, including the taxation of unfavorable foods and the subsidization of favored foods and industries.

The government will use “available evidence and expert opinion” to recommend strategies. Never mind the fact that 1) “evidence” is influenced and/or produced by special interests that wish to profit financially from government policy, and 2) “experts” are those whose judgment is deemed to take the correct position according to the desires of powerful and influential politicians, corporations, and special interests who will reap power and profit from a centrally-planned food policy.

In staying with the usual course of dumbing down propaganda to cute, colorful, little pictures and graphs in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator, see the government’s cutesy little chart on page 8 of this PDF:

Healthy policies = Healthy Environments  = Healthy Behaviors = Healthy People

“The bloggers are parasitical on the conventional media,” Posner wrote. “They copy the news and opinion generated by the conventional media, often at considerable expense, without picking up any of the tab. The degree of parasitism is striking in the case of those blogs that provide their readers with links to newspaper articles. The links enable the audience to read the articles without buying the newspaper.”

His solution is to make linking on the Internet illegal. As much as you want to laugh, this idea has been picking up some steam for a few years now. Here’s Posner’s unhinged post at the Becker-Posner blog. He laments the decline of pro-establishment, old-guard newspaper media, and essentially his aim is to protect the industry and insure its continuation, in spite of the fact that the market has made its choice by rejecting stale, state media organs in favor of online content. Posner adds:

I am pessimistic about a recovery by the newspapers. One reason is the current economic situation. A serious, protracted economic crisis can result in changes in consumer behavior that persist after the end of the crisis. A change in consumption, even in some sense involuntary, can be a learning experience. People make what they think will be merely temporary adjustments in their consumption behavior to reduce financial distress but may discover that they like elements of their new consumption pattern; and businesses too, which have reduced their newspaper (and other print-media) ad expenditures drastically. They may never go back.

Posner laments the modernization of media, but more so, he despises the freedom, spontaneity, and lack of barriers to entry on the Internet. The state hates that the Internet lacks information gatekeepers, thereby undermining its propaganda spread through the slew of state-regulated media outlets.

Despite the incomplete data, GAO investigators conclude that the U.S., and in particular the Southwest border states of Texas, California and Arizona, are the source of most weapons trafficked into Mexico.

What’s truly remarkable is that the US government is propagandizing Americans and pushing them into thinking they should be disarmed in order to help the country to our south to “control” its gangs and drug cartels. Is this supposed to be of grave concern to Americans, especially those who are losing their jobs, house, cars, and financial wherewithal? Well gee, my priorities happen to be elsewhere. Selfish me.