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VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 29 | JULY 18-24, 2019 | FREE 2019 18-24, JULY | 29 | ISSUE 28 VOLUME ILLUSTRATION BY CODY MARVIN CODY BY ILLUSTRATION HART STEBBINS DISCUSSES INDIGENIZING CHILE PUTS HEAT THE KIRTLAND FUEL SPILL OUR HISTORY IN OUR HEARTS NEWS: PAGES 6 AND 8 ART: PAGE 10 FOOD: PAGE 15 PUTTING THE PEDAL TO THE METAL SINCE 1992 SINCE METAL THE TO PUTTING PEDAL THE [ 2] WEEKLY ALIBI JULY 18-24 2019 JULY 18-24, 2019 WEEKLY ALIBI [3] thimerosal. Varicella (chickenpox), inactivated polio (IPV), and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have also never contained thimerosal.” We are aware that thimerosal was taken out of all alibi childhood vaccinations back in 2001 based on popular fears. The scientific consensus is that Email letters, including author’s name, mailing address and VOLUME 28 | ISSUE 29 | JULY 18-24, 2019 daytime phone number to [email protected]. Letters can these fears are unfounded. Neither the World Health Organization nor the United Nations also be mailed to P.O. Box 81, Albuquerque, N.M., 87103. EDITORIAL Letters—including comments posted on alibi.com—may have recommended banning the compound, and MANAGING EDITOR/ FILM EDITOR: be published in any medium and edited for length and it is widely used outside of the United States in Devin D. O’Leary (ext. 230) [email protected] clarity; owing to the volume of correspondence, we multi-dose vaccines. (Single-dose vaccines do not MUSIC EDITOR/NEWS EDITOR: regrettably can’t respond to every letter. August March (ext. 245) [email protected] require it.) FOOD EDITOR: ’ ’ We also know that Sweden and Japan have Dan Pennington (Ext. 255) [email protected] I m Not Saying (I m Just ARTS AND LIT.EDITOR: not “banned US vaccinations for being too Clarke Condé (Ext. 239) [email protected] Saying) dangerous.” In 2017 the Swedish parliament COPY EDITOR: rejected two proposals calling for mandatory Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] Dear Editor, CALENDARS EDITOR: This letter is in deep gratitude to Alicia Ruth’s vaccinations. They did so because all medical Ashli Kesali [email protected] “Big Pharma and Vacci-Nazis” letter [v28 i26]. care in Sweden is voluntary and because STAFF WRITER: nationwide compliance with childhood Joshua Lee (ext. 243) [email protected] My grandchildren were given the usual SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR: vaccines as babies. Both boys have diagnosed vaccinations in already extraordinarily high— Samantha Carrillo (ext. 223) [email protected] learning and behavior disabilities and recurring more than 97 percent of children over the age of CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: 2 have received the MMR vaccine, for example. Robin Babb, Rob Brezsny, Carolyn Carlson, Samantha health problems. Our girl is sensitive to chemicals Carrillo, Desmond Fox, Maggie Grimason, Steven Luthy, in cleaning and bath products. I am not saying, The US, in comparison, hovers near 90 Hosho McCreesh, Mayo Lua de Frenchie percent—and the number of children who without a doubt, this is all or even partially due to PRODUCTION vaccines. What I am saying is there are things receive no vaccines whatsoever has quadrupled in ART DIRECTOR: the US since 2001. Ramona Chavez (ext. 268) [email protected] that are seriously affecting the health of ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR: Americans. Japan, on the other hand, does have a history Corey Yazzie [email protected] Why I am grateful to Alicia Ruth’s letter is of going back and forth on the necessity of GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Xanthe Miller [email protected] that she took the time to research and let your vaccines, with very low nationwide immunization STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER: readers know about the mercury/thimerosal numbers. In 2016 the country switched from Eric Williams [email protected] using a combined MMR vaccine (because the CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: and/or aluminum in US vaccines, and that Japan Max Cannon, Kayla Church, Michael Ellis, Nate Hewitt, and Sweden both have banned US vaccines for mumps strain it used caused some children to Alyssa Metoyer, Ryan North, Mike Organisciak, being dangerous. Do we hear about this in develop aseptic meningitis—not because it Jen Sorensen America’s mainstream media? No! I do believe contained thimerosal). Japan now uses individual SALES Big Pharma is making us sick. A lot of what they measles, mumps and rubella vaccines. (As a SALES DIRECTOR: result, Japan is currently fighting its worst measles Tierna Unruh-Enos (ext. 248) [email protected] peddle to us seniors for instance, in my opinion, is ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES: criminal. outbreak in more than a decade.) In 2013 the Kittie Blackwell (ext. 224) [email protected] Maybe enough letters like Alicia Ruth’s will country’s health ministry suspended its Dan Pennington (ext. 255) [email protected] “recommendation” that all girls in their early David Casaus (ext. 270) [email protected] wake us up! Thank you Alibi for printing letters John Hankinson (ext. 235) [email protected] like hers and giving your readers a voice. teens receive an HPV vaccine—based on fears ADMINISTRATION Kay Stillman, that the vaccine could cause “chronic pain and PUBLISHER: Mountainair movement disorders in humans.” Since then, Constance Moss (ext. 222) [email protected] numerous court cases have fought over this issue. CONTROLLER: But to be clear, Japan has not “banned” any Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] Editor’s Response SYSTEMS MANAGER: vaccines, American or otherwise. Kyle Silfer (ext. 242) [email protected] Alibi is always happy to provide a forum for our We are not saying, of course, that all vaccines WEB MONKEY: or medicines peddled to the American public by John Millington (ext. 238) [email protected] readers to sound off. That’s the point of a letters OWNERS: page. Our hope is that a spirited community the pharmaceutical industry are necessary, safe or Christopher Johnson and Daniel Scott dialogue will be ignited by the free exchange of guaranteed not to have side effects. Not by a long ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE: Courtney Foster (ext. 257) [email protected] ideas—even the ones we don’t necessarily agree shot. (All we have to do is look at the current ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT: with. opioid crisis to know that.) 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According to a The Russian Orthodox church is considering a statement from Warrington and Halton ban on blessing weapons of mass destruction. Hospitals, the facility is “working with staff to According to Religion News Service, Russian exercise caution on receiving edible gifts.” Orthodox priests have been blessing military Hospital authorities said there were no issues weapons since the Kremlin’s seizure of Crimea related to the cake that compromised patient in 2014. Priests have reportedly blessed S-400 care. Cheshire Police said it was determined surface-to-air missiles, nuclear submarines, that the man had been unaware that the tanks and fighter jets for the Russian military. cake—which had been left over from his But last month the Russian Orthodox Church grandson’s birthday party—contained committee on ecclesiastical law suggested marijuana. No action was taken, but officers priests should discontinue the practice and reportedly gave the man’s grandson “strong bless soldiers instead of weapons of mass words of advice.” destruction.