Healthy People 2010

CDC, USDA, NIH, NCHS, Various ^

[SheLion]

Puerto Rico is a State???

Yes :)

[3catsanadog]

I didn't know that there were federal goals to lower smoking. Where are the states going to get their sin tax money after we all quit?????

Oh - I know. From all the non-smokers.

[3catsanadog]

I think I found it:

http://www.telisphere.com/~cearley/sean/camps/first.html

First They Came for the Jews
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

[Calpernia]

I thought it was a territory?

[Calpernia]

Mark this for review. Our website is getting updated shortly. You need to get up to speed before the rest of the docs come in. There is MORE coming.

[SheLion]

I thought it was a territory?

Puerto Rico is a self-governing commonwealth in association with the United States. The chief of state is the President of the United States of America. The head of goverment is an elected Governor. There are two legislative chambers: the House of Representatives, 51 seats, and the Senate, 27 seats.

http://welcome.topuertorico.org/government.shtml

I thought it was a territory?

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1563944/posts
Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010


>>>Funding for the project, more than $369,000, was made possibly by a school safety grant through the National Institute of Justice, a research branch of the U.S. Department of Justice. "The idea is to improve school safety for the children," said Phil Meara, superintendent, Freehold Borough School District, on Monday. "We had a swipe-card system that operated the doors, but the technology was obsolete."<<<<

National Institute of Justice, NGO filtering the monies through the DOJ. Using the DOJ as leverage; but this is NOT a FEDERAL initiative.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564815/posts
Digital Angel and Microchip

[Calpernia]

I compiled the information and posted it to a website:

http://nationalpropertyowners.org

Go through the website in the order it is posted:
NAIS | CFR | SELL-OUT

[Calpernia]

I have the table of contents of that page, that now is not showing, copied over here at this post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1561077/posts?page=10#10


You can verify that this post is the page by reviewing the Internet Archives Cache (for as long as it stays cached!)

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:ksSL3KB9jvgJ:www.healthypeople.gov/Document/tableofcontents.htm+&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[SheLion]

Thanks for the links!!!

[SuziQ]

It's a push for national health care. They believe that's the only way that 'health care disparities' can be remedied. If everyone has access to the same crappy healthcare, it will all be more fair, don't you see?

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts?page=23#23

>>>University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)

NOTE: Robert Wood Johnson is UMDNJ



Robert Wood Johnson Lays Food Cops' Foundation
From ConsumerFreedom.com
Oct 27, 2003

"Greetings, fat people," writes Jack Gordon in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. "It cannot have escaped your notice that you lately have been reclassified as not merely unsightly but an actual public health hazard and a menace to society." The chunky among us, he continues, are now being blamed for "oppressing the innocent and the svelte by exerting upward pressure on their health-insurance premiums." And America's public health activists "intend to put a stop to you."

How did we get here? Part of the answer can be found in Princeton, New Jersey, where the biggest health cop in the world, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is headquartered. As we've told you before, RWJF is applying its anti-alcohol model to burgers, fries, and apple pie -- even proclaiming that our love-handles are "forcing what may be a cultural revolution" in which "ideas to cut obesity that once sounded extreme are gaining public attention and moving into mainstream thinking."

Thus far, RWJF's biggest contribution to this "cultural revolution" has been two studies it funded, published last year in the journal Health Affairs. Not surprisingly, RWJF lavished Health Affairs with nearly $2 million in 2002.

The first of these RWJF-funded studies, conducted by Rand Corporation researcher Roland Sturm, concluded -- through a tortured mess of statistical mumbo-jumbo -- that obesity is more expensive for our healthcare system than either alcohol dependence or tobacco. It's this kind of agenda-driven "research" that groups like the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) seize on to justify "solutions" like fat taxes and lawsuits against food companies. And as The Washington Post made clear in 2002, Sturm shares CSPI's agenda:

"Achieving lasting health behavioral change is difficult and rarely achieved by exhorting individuals to exercise more, eat healthier foods," writes Sturm. It takes changes in the environment to discourage overeating, he says. The narrow focus on diets "is not going to work," he says. "This is doomed to fail." He points to the tobacco analogy. Smoking rates have dropped not because the surgeon general exhorted individuals not to smoke, but because of higher taxes on cigarettes, the establishment of smoke-free buildings and work sites, limits on tobacco advertising, the isolation of smokers in restaurants and other public places, a broad public education campaign on smoking hazards and, finally, a legal attack on tobacco companies.

The second RWJF-funded study came out of a $36,801 grant it gave Brown University professor James Morone to analyze "the promises and pitfalls of government action, the varied roles of different political institutions, the coalitions of interest groups around obesity." Shortly thereafter, Health Affairs published Morone's article, "The politics of obesity: Seven steps to government action."

Morone begins by disparaging the "myths about individualism and self-reliance" in America:

[D]espite the enduring myths about American self-reliance, the U.S. government has a long tradition of intervening in what seems to be purely private behavior. From alcohol restrictions in the early Republic to the tobacco wars of recent years, personal behavior has regularly become subject to governmental intervention, regulation, and prohibition.

Three of Morone's "seven steps" deserve special attention. Regarding the concept of the "demon industry," he argues that "a growing literature slams fast foods, junk foods, and soft drinks":

With this trigger in cultural play, obesity begins to shift from being a private health matter to being a political issue. Scientific findings never carry the same political weight as does a villain threatening American youth. If critics successfully cast portions of the industry in this way, far-reaching political interventions are possible, even likely. When an industry becomes demonized, plausible counterarguments (privacy, civil liberties, property rights, and the observation that "everyone does it") begin to totter. [emphasis added]

Discussing the "mass movement" step, Morone quotes a New Republic profile of Twinkie-tax pioneer Kelly Brownell: "Brownell is not out leading a mass movement on the streets of New Haven and has no plans to do so." And Morone recognizes that "demonization generally precedes mobilization: The politics of the preceding trigger will affect the prospects for this one. If super-sizing a soft drink and fries begins to seem as dangerous as lighting up a cigarette, a movement may very well spring up." As it happens, Brownell predicted just such a mass movement last week.

Finally, describing the "self help" step, Morone writes: "Reformers frustrated by offenders' resistance to their message of uplift and self-improvement urge government sanctions." Here's where we get back to Jack Gordon and his hilarious column in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The mindset that Gordon mocks perfectly reflects the RWJF-funded studies of Sturm and Morone:

[E]ven if you were perfectly aware that overeating is unhealthy, you kind of figured you had a right to go to hell in your own way, yes? Well, those days are over. You have drawn the losing ticket in the victimological sweepstakes.

Once the merchants of death have been properly chastised and the lawyers have cashed in, however, the Legions of Light and Splendor will turn their censorious gaze upon you. Personally. They will not long be satisfied merely to scold you for biggie-sizing the No. 3 Value Meal. Instead they will hunt for an excuse that entitles them, in the name of plain self-defense, to slap that double cheeseburger right out of your jaws. And they will find one ... The scolding phase is still underway, but the real war against the obesity epidemic is about to begin.

[Calpernia]

The starvation experts speak!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts?page=96#96

[Calpernia]

Heads up.

One of the people that runs http://www.nonais.org/ just received a phone call from the USDA.

The following is an exact quote:

I just got a call from “‘Alice’ calling on behalf of the USDA.” She wanted to know if I would take part in a survey and said it would only take up a few minutes of my time. I asked what the questions are. Turns out she’s gathering the information that they could use to “Voluntarily” enroll me in NAIS without my permission. This already happened in Washington state. Watch out! The USDA and some states are making a big deal about how many “voluntary” enrollments they already have from farmers. They use this number to emphisize that farmers strongly support NAIS. Makes me wonder. Be very wary of any communications from the USDA and other agencies. Remember: “They’re from the government and they’re here to help us.”

[Calpernia]

Bergen County Chief Of Police Jack Schmidig leads Regional Roll-Out of VeriChip by Receiving a VeriChip
Friday April 22, 8:30 am ET

With Hospital Emergency Room Infrastructure To Provide Secure ID and Medical Record Access For VeriChip Patients, Thought and Opinion Leaders to Play Key Role in Adoption of VeriChip(TM)

Yahoo Financial News
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 2005-- VeriChip Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ: ADSX - News), announced today that the Bergen County, New Jersey Chief of Police has been implanted with the VeriChip. Chief of Police Jack Schmidig, a member of the police force for over 30 years, received a VeriChip as part of the Company's strategy of enlisting key regional leaders to accelerate adoption of the VeriChip. With hospital emergency room infrastructure forming, patients will have the ability to provide secure ID and medical record access in an emergency or clinical situation.

"High-profile regional leaders are accepting the VeriChip, representing an excellent example of our approach to gaining adoption of the technology," said Kevin H. McLaughlin, VeriChip Corporation's CEO. "The northern New Jersey area represents one of our early regional targets, and in a short time period we have secured a leading hospital in the region which has agreed to adopt the VeriChip System to scan patients; initiated efforts to educate the physician community in conjunction with one of our distribution partners Henry Schein Corporation, and implanted several high-profile members of the community with the VeriChip. We intend to employ this approach on a regional basis to accelerate acceptance of this Class II medical device."

VeriChip Corporation has adopted three key elements to its marketing strategy to develop regional acceptance for VeriChip. They include developing the infrastructure at regional hospitals to support the VeriChip System (scanner and database) in the Emergency Rooms; educating the medical community in the region in conjunction with Henry Schein and other distribution partners; and seeking high-profile members of the community to receive the VeriChip to raise awareness of the device.

Initially, the Company has identified several groups of patients that are likely to benefit from the VeriChip due to medical conditions. These include diabetics, chronic and cardiac care patients, memory impaired patients and patients with implanted medical devices. These patients would benefit from having a VeriChip as a result of medical conditions that increase the likelihood of an emergency room visit, which could require time-sensitive procedures where access to medical records would be critical.

Using the VeriChip System, the emergency room attendant could scan the VeriChip in the patient's arm, accessing a unique 16-digit ID number. This number would be linked to a medical records database, which would provide detailed information on implanted medical devices and patient medical records, which could provide valuable information allowing the hospital to quickly implement the appropriate procedures on patients who otherwise might not be able to communicate medical histories due to impaired conditions.

About VeriChip Corporation

VeriChip Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Digital, provides leading-edge security solutions for people, their assets, and their environments. From the world's first and only FDA-cleared, human-implantable microchip to the only active RFID tag with patented skin-sensing capabilities, VeriChip leads the way in next-generation RFID technologies. Today, over 3,000 installations in healthcare, security, industry, and governments worldwide benefit from both the protection and cost savings that VeriChip Corporation's innovation delivers. For more information on VeriChip Corporation, please visit www.verichipcorp.com.

About Applied Digital

Applied Digital develops innovative security products for consumer, commercial, and government sectors worldwide. The Company's unique and often proprietary products provide security for people, animals, the food supply, government/military arena, and commercial assets. Included in this diversified product line are RFID applications, end-to-end food safety systems, GPS/Satellite communications, and telecomm and security infrastructure, positioning Applied Digital as the leader of Security Through Innovation. Applied Digital is the owner of a majority position in Digital Angel Corporation (AMEX: DOC - News).

For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.adsx.com.

Statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues and earnings, and all other statements in this press release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, and the Company's actual results could differ materially from expected results. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances.
Contact:

CEOcast, Inc. for Applied Digital
Ken Sgro, 212-732-4300
kensgro@ceocast.com

[Calpernia]

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