Analysis Finds Flu Vaccine Efficacy Lacking

Analysis Finds Flu Vaccine Efficacy Lacking, as Flu Vaccines are Suspended Across Europe and Canada

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By Dr. Mercola

With flu season just around the corner, health agencies are telling Americans to just "get your flu shot," assuring everyone that it's safe and effective. Many, like MedicineNet.com,¹ chalk up any and all safety concerns as "myths."

"It's the time of year when you should be thinking about flu vaccinations for yourself and your family," they write. "Some people, however, decide not to get the flu vaccine and put themselves and others at risk of getting sick just because they believe long-held myths about the vaccine."

Myths? I think not.

Vaccine Claims are Not Based on Science-Backed Medicine

The only myth here is the unscientific claim that the flu vaccine is safe and effective and "the best way" to protect yourself against the flu. Nothing could be further from the truth. Numerous studies have shown that the flu vaccine is NOT an effective way to prevent influenza and the real-life experiences of vaccine victims offer a window into the indisputable reality that flu vaccines are NOT without serious risks.

Most recently, a University Of Minnesota study² published in January found that flu vaccines may not offer as much protection as previously thought. The elderly, in particular, do not appear to receive measureable value from the flu shot, which is the same conclusion reached by several previous studies. Trivalent inactivated influenza vaccines also didn't offer much protection to children over the age of seven.

The study differs from other meta-analyses in that it assessed efficacy and effectiveness of licensed influenza vaccines in the US by including only those studies that used sensitive and highly specific diagnostic tests to confirm cases of influenza. Eligible articles were published between Jan 1, 1967, and Feb 15, 2011, and used RT-PCR or culture for confirmation of influenza. According to the authors:

"Influenza vaccines can provide moderate protection against virologically confirmed influenza, but such protection is greatly reduced or absent in some seasons. Evidence for protection in adults aged 65 years or older is lacking."

In essence, if you're a senior, you're taking a health risk for a theoretical health benefit that can't be confirmed and, if you're a healthy adult, it's a shot in the dark. According to this analysis, at best you'll have up to 59 percent protection IF the selected type A and B influenza strains included in the vaccine are exactly those you happen to be exposed to. If not, you'll have no protection at all. So, again, you're taking a health risk for little or no benefit. Lead researcher Osterholm told WFMY News 2:³

"We found that current influenza vaccine protection is substantially lower than for most routine recommended vaccines and is suboptimal."

Even the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Michael T. Osterholm, is questioning the effectiveness of the vaccine. "We have overpromoted and overhyped this vaccine, it does not protect as promoted. It's all a sales job: it's all public relations" said Osterholm. 

Powerful Profile of a Vaccine Victim

While the efficacy of flu vaccines may be "suboptimal" or missing altogether, the same cannot be said about the potential health risks, so a calm, level-headed risk versus benefit analysis is crucial before you decide to get vaccinated.

I urge you to watch the profile of a flu vaccine victim below, and weigh the potential of such an outcome against the potential of having to spend a week in bed with the flu... Remember most deaths attributed to the flu are actually due to bacterial pneumonia. But these days, bacterial pneumonia can be effectively treated with advanced medical care and therapies, like ICUs, respirators and parenteral antibiotics.

While infants and young children are at greatest risk, NO ONE is exempt from the potential serious complications of vaccination, one of which is Guillaine-Barre syndrome (GBS). In the video above, Barbara Loe Fisher, co-founder and president of the non-profit National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), interviews a Connecticut artist and her mother, a former professor of nursing, who developed GBS after getting a seasonal flu shot in 2008 and today is permanently disabled with total body paralysis.

This family has chosen to share their heartbreaking story to help those who have had the same experience feel less alone, and to educate others about what it means to be vaccine injured. What happened to this family is a potent reminder of just how important it is to make well-informed decisions about vaccinations.

The inactivated influenza vaccine has been associated with development of GBS since 1976, when an inactivated "swine flu" shot given to millions of healthy Americans caused GBS in several hundred previously healthy Americans and there were 30 deaths.⁴

Early symptoms of GBS include sudden muscle weakness, fatigue and tingling sensations in the legs that can take days or weeks to spread to the arms and upper body and can become painful, eventually ending with either partial or total paralysis. When there is total paralysis, GBS becomes life-threatening because it can impair breathing and interfere with the heart rate and cause high or low blood pressure that can lead to serious complications, such as heart attack and stroke. It is important to recognize the early symptoms of GBS, whether you have been vaccinated or not, and seek immediate medical care.

All Vaccines Cause Inflammation, Can Alter Immune Response

You also need to understand that vaccines can be immune suppressive – that is, they can suppress your immune system, which may not return to normal for weeks to months. Here are just some of the other ways vaccines can impair and alter your immune response:

• Some components in vaccines are neurotoxic and may cause brain and immune dysfunction, including heavy metals such as mercury preservatives and aluminum adjuvants.
• The lab altered bacteria and viruses in vaccines may also affect your immune response in a negative way.
• Vaccines may alter your t-cell function and lead to chronic illness.
• Vaccines can trigger allergies, autoimmune or neurological disorders, particularly in individuals genetically predisposed to being unable to resolve inflammation. Vaccines introduce large foreign protein molecules into your body and induce an inflammatory response to stimulate antibodies. However, if your body responds to these foreign particles in a way that causes a type of inflammatory response that does not resolve, you can develop severe allergies, autoimmunity or brain dysfunction. In 2011, the Institute of Medicine acknowledged there is individual susceptibility to adverse responses to vaccination involving unidentified genetic, biological and environmental factors. So check your family history for evidence of allergy, autoimmunity and neurological disorders and carefully evaluate the potential individual risks of vaccination for you and your family.

The flu vaccine may also pose an immediate risk to your cardiovascular system due to the fact that vaccination elicits an inflammatory response. One 2007 study published in the Annals of Medicine⁵ concluded that:

"Abnormalities in arterial function and LDL oxidation may persist for at least two weeks after a slight inflammatory reaction induced by influenza vaccination. These could explain in part the earlier reported increase in cardiovascular risk during the first weeks after an acute inflammatory disorder."

Novartis Flu Vaccine Now Banned in Several Countries Following Particle Contamination

It all began on October 17, when vaccine maker Crucell, a unit of U.S. drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, suspended delivery of 2.36 million doses of their seasonal flu vaccine, Inflexal V, destined for Italy and other European countries, after discovering "problems" with two of the 32 lots.⁶

A week later, on October 24, Italy banned the sale and use of four flu vaccines manufactured by Novartis.⁷ The Italian Health Ministry issued an advisory stating that use of Agrippal, Fluad, Influpozzi and adjuvanted Influpozzi was suspended until further notice, following the discovery of white particles in the vaccines. The following day, the ban on Novartis' flu vaccines spread to a number of other countries:

• Switzerland⁸
• Spain⁹
• Germany
• Austria
• France¹⁰

On October 27, Canada also suspended sale and use of Novartis' flu vaccines sold under the names of Fluad and Agriflu, both of which are manufactured in Italy.¹¹

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal:¹²

"Problems with its flu vaccines represent a new blow for the Swiss drug maker [Novartis], which has struggled with a series of manufacturing problems recently. The Basel-based company is still trying to resume production at its troubled facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, which was shut down in December because of manufacturing flaws, and recently had to recall a birth-control pill because of a packaging error.

Novartis Chief Executive Joe Jimenez in a call with journalists sought to reassure that its flu shots are safe, adding that the company is cooperating with health authorities. 'We are confident that the safety of the vaccines is assured. The lot in question had a deviation, it has been identified and put on hold and has not been released to the market,' he said. 'The manufacturing of vaccines is a complex procedure. Italian authorities are free to continue investigating,' but there is evidence that such deviations wouldn't affect safety or efficacy, Mr. Jimenez said."

Flu Vaccine for Pregnant Women Called into Question

In the U.S., trivalent influenza vaccination is universally recommended for all pregnant women, but a study¹³ published last year calls this practice into question. If you're pregnant, you'd be wise to consider the potential risks involved and resist being bullied into taking the flu vaccine unless you really feel it's worth the gamble.

The study examined "the magnitude, time course, and variance in inflammatory responses following seasonal influenza virus vaccination among pregnant women." The women were assessed prior to, and at one day, two days, and one week following vaccination. The analysis showed significant increases in C-reactive protein (CRP) and other markers of inflammation following the vaccinations. According to the authors:

"Trivalent influenza virus vaccination elicits a measurable inflammatory response among pregnant women... There was considerable variability in magnitude of response; coefficients of variation for change at two days post-vaccination ranged from 122 percent to 728 percent, with the greatest variability in IL-6 [cytokine interleukin-6] responses at this timepoint.

...As adverse perinatal health outcomes including preeclampsia and preterm birth have an inflammatory component, a tendency toward greater inflammatory responding to immune triggers may predict risk of adverse outcomes, providing insight into biological mechanisms underlying risk... further research is needed to confirm that the mild inflammatory response elicited by vaccination is benign in pregnancy."

There are serious questions about the safety of giving flu shots to pregnant women because stimulating a woman's immune system during midterm and later term pregnancy may significantly increase the risk that her baby will develop autism during childhood and schizophrenia sometime during the teenage years and afterward.¹⁴ This risk is not minor. According to Dr. Blaylock, it's a well-accepted fact within neuroscience that eliciting an immune response during pregnancy increases the risk of autism and schizophrenia in her offspring seven- to 14-fold!

As stated by the authors of one 2007 study in the Journal of Neuroscience:¹⁵

"Schizophrenia and autism are thought to result from the interaction between a susceptibility genotype and environmental risk factors. The offspring of women who experience infection while pregnant have an increased risk for these disorders. Maternal immune activation (MIA) in pregnant rodents produces offspring with abnormalities in behavior, histology, and gene expression that are reminiscent of schizophrenia and autism, making MIA a useful model of the disorders.

...Here we show that the cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) is critical for mediating the behavioral and transcriptional changes in the offspring. A single maternal injection of IL-6 on day 12.5 of mouse pregnancy causes prepulse inhibition (PPI) and latent inhibition (LI) deficits in the adult offspring."

More Craziness, ACIP Recommends Tdap Vaccine During Each Pregnancy

In light of the uncertainty around the safety of vaccines during pregnancy, the recent decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to recommend that a tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis (Tdap) booster vaccine be given to pregnant women during each pregnancy is truly mindboggling. The previous recommendation was that pregnant women only receive the Tdap vaccine if they had never previously received it.

Not only do we lack safety information about the use of vaccinations in general during pregnancy, we also do not have any information about the safety of multiple or consecutive Tdap vaccinations. Infectious Diseases in Children reported on October 24:¹⁶

"A lack of safety data about multiple Tdap vaccinations caused some hesitancy among the committee, especially when considering women who have short intervals between pregnancies. There are no data available that address this specific issue, but available data suggest that there is no excess risk of adverse events, Liang said, adding that the CDC working group supports the need for a prospective study to determine the adverse event risk in women with multiple pregnancies.

She said data indicate that the average woman has two children, and most have an interval of at least 13 months between pregnancies, meaning that most women would not receive more than two doses of the vaccine."

This is ludicrous. Since when is it wise to make widespread recommendations without ANY scientific evidence that it is safe to do so? Yet this is exactly what is happening with vaccine recommendations. We've seen this blasé attitude against safety again and again. The HPV vaccine is another excellent example of what can happen when you jump the gun and start mandating a vaccine for everyone without proper long-term safety and efficacy studies to back up your recommendation.

How to Protect Yourself During the Flu Season

Fortunately, avoiding a serious case of the flu doesn't require a flu vaccination. By following these simple guidelines, you can help keep your immune system in optimal working order so that you're far less likely to acquire the infection to begin with or, if you do get sick with the flu, you are better prepared to move through it without complications and soon return to good health.

• Optimize your vitamin D levels. As I've previously reported, optimizing your vitamin D levels is one of the absolute best strategies for avoiding infections of ALL kinds, and vitamin D deficiency may actually be the true culprit behind the seasonality of the flu – not the flu virus itself. This is probably the single most important and least expensive action you can take. Regularly monitor your vitamin D levels to confirm your levels are within the therapeutic range of 50-70 ng/ml.
Ideally, you'll want to get all your vitamin D from sun exposure or a safe tanning bed, but as a last resort you can take an oral vitamin D3 supplement. According to the latest review by Carole Baggerly (Grassrootshealth.org), adults need about 8,000 IU's a day.
• Avoid Sugar and Processed Foods. Sugar impairs the function of your immune system almost immediately, and as you likely know, a healthy immune system is one of the most important keys to fighting off viruses and other illness. Be aware that sugar (typically in the form of high fructose corn syrup) is present in foods you may not suspect, like ketchup and fruit juice.
• Optimize Your Gut Flora. The best way to do this is avoid apply the step above by avoiding sugars, processed foods and most grains, and replacing them with healthy fats and taking regular amounts of fermented foods which can radically improve the function of your immune system
• Get Enough Rest. Just like it becomes harder for you to get your daily tasks done if you're tired, if your body is overly fatigued it will be harder for it to fight the flu. Be sure to check out my article Guide to a Good Night's Sleep for some great tips to help you get quality rest.
• Have Effective Tools to Address Stress. We all face some stress every day, but if stress becomes overwhelming then your body will be less able to fight off the flu and other illness. If you feel that stress is taking a toll on your health, consider using an energy psychology tool such as the Emotional Freedom Technique, which is remarkably effective in relieving stress associated with all kinds of events, from work to family to trauma.
• Get Regular Exercise. When you exercise, you increase your circulation and your blood flow throughout your body. The components of your immune system are also better circulated, which means your immune system has a better chance of finding an illness before it spreads. Be sure to stay hydrated – drink plenty of fluids, especially water.
• Take a Good Source of Animal-Based Omega-3 Fats. Increase your intake of healthy and essential fats like the omega-3 found in krill oil, which is crucial for maintaining health. It is also vitally important to avoid damaged omega-6 oils that are trans fats and in processed foods as it will seriously damage your immune response.
• Wash Your Hands. Washing your hands will decrease your likelihood of spreading a virus to your nose, mouth or other people. Be sure you don't use antibacterial soap for this – antibacterial soaps are completely unnecessary, and they cause far more harm than good. Instead, identify a simple chemical-free soap that you can switch your family to.
• Tried and True Hygiene Measures. In addition to washing your hands regularly, cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze. If possible, avoid close contact with those, who are sick and, if you are sick, avoid close contact with those who are well.
• Use Natural Antibiotics. Examples include oil of oregano and garlic. These work like broad-spectrum antibiotics against bacteria, viruses, and protozoa in your body. And unlike pharmaceutical antibiotics, they do not appear to lead to resistance.
• Avoid Hospitals. I'd recommend you stay away from hospitals unless you're having an emergency and need expert medical care, as hospitals are prime breeding grounds for infections of all kinds. The best place to get plenty of rest and recover from illness that is not life-threatening is usually in the comfort of your own home.

Protect Your Right to Informed Consent and Vaccine Exemptions

With all the uncertainty surrounding the safety and efficacy of vaccines, it's critical to protect your right to informed consent to vaccination and fight to protect and expand vaccine exemptions in state public health laws. The best way to do this is to get personally involved with your state legislators and the leaders in your community.

THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY.

Mass vaccination policies are made at the federal level but vaccine laws are made at the state level. It is at the state level where your action to protect your vaccine choice rights can have the greatest impact. It is critical for EVERYONE to get involved now in standing up for the legal right to make vaccine choices in America because those choices are being threatened by lobbyists representing drug companies, medical trade associations and public health officials, who are trying to persuade legislators to strip all vaccine exemptions from public health laws.

Signing up for NVIC's free Advocacy Portal at www.NVICAdvocacy.org gives you immediate, easy access to your own state legislators on your Smart Phone or computer so you can make your voice heard. You will be kept up-to-date on the latest state bills threatening your vaccine choices and get practical, useful information to help you become an effective vaccine choice advocate in your own community. Also, when national vaccine issues come up, you will have the up-to-date information and call to action items you need at your fingertips..

So please, as your first step, sign up for the NVIC Advocacy Portal.

Share Your Story with the Media and People You Know

If you or a family member has suffered a serious vaccine reaction, injury or death, please talk about it. If we don't share information and experiences with each other, everybody feels alone and afraid to speak up. Write a letter to the editor if you have a different perspective on a vaccine story that appears in your local newspaper. Make a call in to a radio talk show that is only presenting one side of the vaccine story.

I must be frank with you; you have to be brave because you might be strongly criticized for daring to talk about the "other side" of the vaccine story. Be prepared for it and have the courage to not back down. Only by sharing our perspective and what we know to be true about vaccination will the public conversation about vaccination open up so people are not afraid to talk about it.

We cannot allow the drug companies and medical trade associations funded by drug companies or public health officials promoting forced use of a growing list of vaccines to dominate the conversation about vaccination. The vaccine injured cannot be swept under the carpet and treated like nothing more than "statistically acceptable collateral damage" of national one-size-fits-all mandatory vaccination policies that put way too many people at risk for injury and death. We shouldn't be treating people like guinea pigs instead of human beings.

Internet Resources Where You Can Learn More

I encourage you to visit the following web pages on the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) website at www.NVIC.org:

• NVIC Memorial for Vaccine Victims: View descriptions and photos of children and adults, who have suffered vaccine reactions, injuries and deaths. If you or your child experiences an adverse vaccine event, please consider posting and sharing your story here.
• If You Vaccinate, Ask 8 Questions: Learn how to recognize vaccine reaction symptoms and prevent vaccine injuries.
• Vaccine Freedom Wall: View or post descriptions of harassment and sanctions by doctors, employers, school and health officials for making independent vaccine choices.

Connect with Your Doctor or Find a New One that Will Listen and Care

If your pediatrician or doctor refuses to provide medical care to you or your child unless you agree to get vaccines you don't want, I strongly encourage you to have the courage to find another doctor. Harassment, intimidation, and refusal of medical care is becoming the modus operandi of the medical establishment in an effort to stop the change in attitude of many parents about vaccinations after they become truly educated about health and vaccination.

However, there is hope.

At least 15 percent of young doctors recently polled admit that they're starting to adopt a more individualized approach to vaccinations in direct response to the vaccine safety concerns of parents. It is good news that there is a growing number of smart young doctors, who prefer to work as partners with parents in making personalized vaccine decisions for children, including delaying vaccinations or giving children fewer vaccines on the same day or continuing to provide medical care for those families, who decline use of one or more vaccines.

So take the time to locate a doctor, who treats you with compassion and respect and is willing to work with you to do what is right for your child.

Gulick Update with Nancy about Fallout

Nancy;

Thank you for confirming this is worse getting worser. Asking for help is not my ability to do so from here.

My NexBoom Champions, for the most of them, are 'spot on' with you and your findings. Others, for the most part,

are like 'dear readers in the dark' and this e-mail is being sent to many!  How can this much stupid be fixed?

At this very moment, we have high radiation showing up, based on monitors turned on, at:

Moments ago, New York & New Jersey were up to 78 CPM and now fallen back to 53 CPM.

Notice your reading is not listed. Wonder why?

If you have a moment, please listen to Alex Jones radio show that will repeat until 12:00 PM EST.

Windows Media.

On the Thursday, November 8 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex covers the continued implosion of the economy following the reselection of Obama and its promised acceleration under the mandates of Agenda 21. Guests today include Prison Planet.com editor and journalist Paul Joseph Watson, who will talk about TSA Opt Out Week over Thanksgiving as the gropers at the federal Gestapo agency gear up for a feast of molestation over the holidays. Mike Adams of Natural News also talks with Alex about Proposition 31, the GMO labeling initiative defeated by the corporatists, and the future of the movement to find out what they are putting in our food.

I am up and enjoying another 'perfect day' on this end. About to face a few of the 330 million 'dumbed' Great Americans

as I drive north of here for auto repairs. Life happens.

What is your take on the BP Gulf Oil Disaster? I have business & need to start visiting Florida soon. East side

only.

I really have to go. Thank you for keeping me informed from your good works.

G. Gulick

HOW MONEY WORKS - SINCE 1970

919-805-0332

xxxxx

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 5:10 PM

Subject: YOU have poisoned by radiation, and YOU can help stop the radioctive contamination

To the folks that have just been copied into this email thread:

This is an example of the challenges we face, trying to save your lives from the radiation poisoning.

ALL LIFE on Earth has been affected by the ongoing Japan nuclear crisis. Hurricane Sandy damaged several nuclear reactors, and we came dangerously close to a "Fukushima event" on the east coast.

Consider what YOU can DO to help, sending this email thread to others, and posting on blogs.

Email thread as follows (most recent first):

If you do not believe that the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan is an Extinction Level Event, then TELL ME.

I will stop bugging you.

How many times do I need to ask for someone to handle the testing?

John Hutchison is NOT an "academic scientist". We all should be thankful that he is able to think outside the box.

He does not write reports. He has others test and evaluate his technology. They then write the reports.

The "academic approved" testing and reports are a requirement for mainstream credibility.

Why should we care?

Because the more this technology is proven by "academic testing and procedures", the more places will be available for us to bring the technology---like the mess at Hanford.

This is where we need HELP.

1. Find a LAB to do "before and after" testing of the samples--we prefer close by, in Oregon.

2. Define what SPECIFIC equipment (Geiger counter, scintillation counter, etc.) is needed, and where to purchase it.

(Within budget, we have funds for equipment)

3. Define what samples are to be tested, and where to purchase the samples.

4. Define what tests will be acceptable to "academic scientists".

5. COME here and set up the testing. (I can monitor, once the tests are set up.)

6. Write the report and publish it.

John and I have come here with the equipment, and are running it 24/7, for FREE.

Andy has provided a place for us to stay, and has donated funds for the testing equipment and remodeling of the building.

Do the people who have been involved in this email thread expect us to solve the global radioactive contamination by ourselves?

John and I have been having some heart to heart talks about "humans".

Frankly, we are both quite fed up with the apathy.

Because of John's technology, we are in the safest place on Earth.

We could just sit here, in a protective bubble, and let everything else on Earth slowly die from the radiation.

However, ALL life on Earth is poisoned.

We have to think about our responsibility to LIFE, and not just saving the apathetic humans.

People who know me, understand that I don't mince my words.

You want to get bitch slapped? Just tell me some lame excuse of why YOU are too busy to save the life of someone else.

Tell me how whatever you are doing is more important than my grandbaby, a statistic, one of the 38% increase in infant mortality along the west coast.

Meehow, Tenasi and Andrew. You folks "came here to visit". I told you we need you guys to come here and HELP in what we are building. Since I sent you that email, saying people coming here need to WORK, you have been SILENT.

Kent--the email I was hoping to see from you, was, "Yes, I can handle that."

There ARE people that understand the crisis the world is facing.

Most of these people do not have the knowledge and expertise to set up the testing.

Many of these people have emailed us, asking how THEY can help.

What am I to say to them? "The people here in Oregon that CAN do this testing, refuse to come and do so."

Okay, I'm copying these people on this email thread.

Folks...maybe you can find some scientists that are willing to actually come here and set up the testing.

There are many ways you can help, even if you do not have the scientific skills for testing.

Check out the new website here: http://www.life-ray.org/life-ray.org/Video_Intro.html

Send links to the website to everyone you know.

Have people that want to help email us at: contact@life-ray.org

Send this email to others, post it on blogs.

Peace. Be well.

Nancy (Lazaryan) Hutchison

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Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2012 10:39 AM
Subject: RE: scintillation counter

These are CZT detectors, a little different from what Steve described. Sensitive, and less expensive.

http://www.evmicroelectronics.com/products.html

These are vendors for a wide variety of gamma detectors and spectroscopy. Some good literature available there too. Berkeley is a good company, works closely with the company I work for. Helpful. Not too closely linked with nuke industry, but they are tight with the Lawrence Livermore and Berkeley groups.

http://www.berkeleynucleonics.com/products/nuclear_spectroscopy.html

http://www.berkeleynucleonics.com/products/Custom_Scintillators_Probes.html#bgo

And also check ebay. I saw some of the same scintillators there recently.

Study before you buy anything. There is much to know, even I am not prepared to try to be an expert in that. For starters, its not a scintillation counter, its a scintillation spectrometer. Way different. It separates each pulse by the amount of energy and creates a graph that shows the mix of energy lines, from which you can identify what the isotopes are. You need a scintillator AND a multichannel analyzer, which separates the energy of the pulses.

Each source has a unique blend of energy lines, and it gets very confusing quickly because you are also measuring the energy lines of all the daughter products. So a uraninite sample will have thorium, polonium, radon, and all the other stuff all mashed together. You really need a system that automates the isotope recognition, meaning advanced software usually.

With these graphs, you can even identify WHEN a source was made (out of a reactor) by analyzing the ratio of various daughter products. So if you get a sample of polonium, an expert could tell you which reactor it came from and what date. This could be very useful in your work because you could show an unusual ratio that could only happen by unusual methods, and how it changed over time.

Also there are many different kinds of scintillators. Steve described a liquid scintillator. More typical is a solid crystal that you point at a solid sample or simply wave around in the air. Different parameters, harder to make a quantitative activity measurement.

Check this online course out

http://www.berkeleynucleonics.com/training/ScintillationDetectorsCourse/Index.htm

Kent

-----Original Message-----

Subject: scintillation counter

Anyone know where I can purchase a scintillation counter?

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Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: Update on samples being tested

Hello,

If the group got a scintillation counter, the difficulty of accurate measurement of sample radioactivity would be much less of an issue. Scientific papers almost never report geiger counter measurements, precisely because of the difficulties discussed here.

The manner in which a scintillation counter measures the sample, by converting the particle energy into light flashes and  counting in a small vial, a fixed distance from the detector, with the sample either in solution, or as powder in suspension in liquid, eliminates issues deriving from sample shape, distance from the detector, sheilding amount, and sample self-absorption.

Most scintillation fluids are also specific for beta radiation; gamma can be detected by Cherenkov counting, without fluid, and alpha can be detected by using a vial with an alpha sensitive coating, such as zinc sulfide. I think that a scintillation counter should be the first major instrument purchased by the group, both to lay some of these measurement issues to rest, and also to be taken more seriously by mainstream science, when we publish our results.

Thanks,

Steve Colbern

From: Nancy (Lazaryan) Hutchison <nancylazaryan@yahoo.com>
To: "knoonan@MauiLight.com" <knoonan@MauiLight.com>; 'Steve Colbern' <s_colbern@yahoo.com>; 'jason klubben' <jasonklubben@yahoo.com>
Cc: 'Peter Hoyt' <cannon1861@charter.net>; 'Asha Deliverance' <asha@pacificdomes.com>; 'Dr. Richard Alan Miller' <rick@nwbotanicals.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Update on samples being tested

Kent (and all),

The uraninite sample is very small, approx. 1/6" x 3/8" x 1/4"
I place the sample on the counter.
I use a piece of trim molding that is cut a right angles and creates a platform
the molding is approximately 1/2" tall
the sample is placed, on the counter, in the inside corner of the molding
the Geiger counter straddles the molding, with the alpha window directly over the sample

this is a constant distance that has been established

When I took the beta gamma reading, I turned the Geiger counter so that the tube on the side of the Geiger counter (beta gamma reading) is in the same position the alpha window was in. I will also test with the paper and the aluminum foil, per your suggestion.

Okay now, folks....this is when you you get really mad at Nancy, or you grow up and act like adults

Anyone think that Fukushima blew out enough radioactive contamination to kill everything on Earth?
A nice, slow radiation poisoning that will take some years to mutate and/or kill everything?
Other scientists are reporting this. John believes the contamination is massive.

John, Andy and I came to the coast of Oregon because we KNOW how bad the radioactive contamination hit the west coast. We left our home in Minnesota, made the commitment to help HERE. We run John's equipment 24/7.
The current radiation levels here are VERY low.

We do this for FREE.

Now I'm going to do the Catholic guilt thing. (I was raised Catholic, so I can identify and use this technique).

ANYONE who is aware of the radioactive contamination, and that we are here trying to help,
NEEDS to DO SOMETHING.

COME here and set up tests.
Bring samples.
Document what is happening.
Find us some labs that can test the samples before and after.

Kent, I have asked YOU to do this.
For YOU to come here with samples and to set up test criteria.
Peter, you offered that I could take a BATH in your house. I don't want a bath, we need HELP in this testing.

Call me a bitch, I don't care.
If you have the ability to assist in eliminating the radioactive contamination, and you do not COME and HELP, then you are selfish children. John, Andy and I gave up our homes in Minnesota, drove for days to get here, slept in the front of the bus for six weeks and now live in very primitive quarters...so we could try to save YOUR lives.

Steve Colbern drove from the L.A. area to stay for a few days and come and help.
Another gentleman drove from FLORIDA and stayed for a month. He is coming back, from Florida, with a truck full of supplies and going to stay for a year.

Kent and Peter, you do not live in Minnesota, Florida or L.A.
You have knowledge and skills that are needed to help save LIFE on this planet.

Please don't tell me "what to do".
Instead, consider what YOU can DO, here.

There's the guilt trip.
Tell me if it works.

Peace. Be well.

Nancy

Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 10:15 AM
Subject: RE: Update on samples being tested

Hi Nancy, Kent Noonan here. I have some questions and observations about this. It would be really helpful if I could see a photo of the test setup, how the sample is arranged with the detector while it is being measured in each of the positions you mention. What is the shape of the sample?

There are many  things that can change your readings. So some indication that those things are being systematically eliminated goes a long way. One way to easily show that is to make the same reading repeatedly and show that you can get the same reading, remove the sample and just put it back in place and read it again. This will provide a range of readings that you can confidently say the "true " number is somewhere in the middle. It appears you may have already done this from the range of numbers you stated, but it is not clear from your description.

One of the most important variables is distance from the sample to the geiger tube. As that distance becomes shorter, the small variations become more important. So if you are measuring at say 1 inch, the shape of the sample could easily introduce an error of 1/4", which would be a large change in measured activity. The same test and error with a distance of a foot introduces almost no error in measurement.

Another factor to monitor you have already indicated is a big question mark. What is the mix of alpha/beta/gamma? Your Rad100 can measure the combination of all three. You can make a controlled measurement with that, then do it again with a piece of paper as an alpha filter between the sample and the detector, then again with a piece of aluminum sheet metal in there to filter alpha plus beta, all while not moving anything but the filter.

The same technique can be done with the beta/gamma meter using only the aluminum filter.

Doing this and logging the differences in readings will give you a lot of information with almost no extra work. You can simply subtract one reading from another and estimate the balance of alpha, beta, gamma, and be able to say definitively what changed.

You should be very careful when making alpha measurements, because the particles only travel about 1/2" to 1". That means the sample surface must be flat and closely spaced to get a reproducible measurement. It is very difficult. I have done testing with the Rad100 to try to document the repeatability of calibration tests, and I found that the distance needs to be accurately placed in all 3 axes to a tolerance of about .025" to get results accurate to about 15%.

Another material you could test is easily obtained. You can take the Am241 out of a smoke detector. It is a very high activity almost pure alpha source. Be very careful with it after removing the shield. Its HOT. You can get alpha counts over 150,0000 CPM with it, and the sample is only about 1/16". If your beam is changing the activity of alpha emission, this would be a good way to show it. If you set up the measurement apparatus near the interferometer on a breadboard, start taking data, then move it into the path of the interferometer, you may be able to document the increase of alpha emission and the decay to beta/gamma daughter products (using the filtering method described above).

Attached is a photo of my Am241 source. The disc is a holder for the source in the center, part of the smoke detector. I stuck it on a piece of wood with double sticky foam tape as a handle. The lead container came from the scrap metal place in White City, storage container from medical sources, cost about a buck. I have an extra one here if you want it. They are the right size to hold a 1" plastic disc commercial Cs137 source. Available here http://www.spectrumtechniques.com/disc&laminated_sources.htm

When you are ready to shock the world with irrefutable data, buy one of these sources (maybe Cs137, beta/gamma?) with "NIST calibration" and serial number, do your treatment, then send it to a calibration lab to be recalibrated. Then all testing would be performed by an independent and traceable lab, with serial number tracking and a tamper proof container (inside the plastic disc). The whole thing would cost a few hundred dollars. I am about to get involved in a test at a lab in California that could do the second test, I think they charge about $75.  I'll let you know how they are to work with, and get contact info for you. The first test comes from the source vendor, costs an extra $50-100 I think. I think the calibration is for gamma only, so you want to be sure your method produces results on gamma before doing it.

Another caution in data gathering: If you use the Geigergraph software to collect data, it is only accurate at low count rates. As the rate goes up, more data is missed by the Windows operating system USB interface. So at high rates, you need to rely on the Rad 100 display. I think I measured 5% errors on the Software measurement with a rate around 1000CPM.

I hope this is helpful.

Best Regards,

Kent

-----Original Message-----


Subject: Update on samples being tested

Nov. 5, 2012

Okay folks, if you haven't been in the loop for all of this, we have two different samples being tested.

1. highly active uraninite

2. pellets of bismuth

the bismuth did a wild "event" a couple months ago

we did a video on it

just recently, the broken pieces started growing crystals

I'll do a video on the bismuth crystal farm

uraninite

Steve Colbern said that before he gave us the sample it was reading over 10,000 CPM on his Geiger counter

Colbern's counter does beta and gamma...NO alpha

typically, uraninite is about 2/3 to 3/4 bet and gamma, the rest alpha

we have been doing a TOTAL (alpha beta gamma) count for a couple months

have gone from 7800 CPM to 2800 to 3500 CPM depending which side of the piece is tested

a very small gold color began to appear on the tip, hardly visible

that area is now about three times the size

now here's the interesting part

I decided to check just the beta gamma on the uraninite

each side was only 700 to 800 CPM

I'm going to be REALLY curious what Colbern's Geiger counter says, because he was at 10,000 CPM beta gamma

the sample uraninite has become a different "mix" than what "normal" uraninite is.

it is MOSTLY alpha (normal uraninite is 1/4 to 1/3 alpha, the testing sample has become 3/4 alpha)

now here's a twist

the "gold tip" is about 800 to 900 CPM total alpha beta and gamma

is is EXACTLY the same beta gamma as the flat sides....700CPM

the gold tip is MOSTLY beta gamma

I was talking to Steve Colbern about this a few days ago.

My theory is the alpha is getting wildly increased as the uranium is rapidly decaying.

and..the flat sides of the uraninite are changing, have a gray color and speckles appearing

and the rock itself looks "etched".

I'll do a video on the bismuth crystals and take some tight pics of the uraninite.

EVERYONE---

We sure could use some HELP in finding a lab close by here to test these samples!

Thanks.

Peace. Be well.

Nancy

P.S. Website for Life Ray has been built, hope to have it upon the internet and live in the next day or so.

A little perspective from across the pond

Dear America / Americans

After watching the complete decimation of your country over the last 15 years as an adult, you truly have become a nation of insane people, screaming and shouting about "Democracy" but yet you still let your corporation run wild around the world Raping, Pillaging and Killing anyone who doesn't agree with U.S.S /AMERICA INC.

You have let yourselves be talked onto becoming the Bullies or the world, and what do you get for that, Hatred, Anger,Resentment, Mockery, Laughed at and Ridiculed.

You Strut around the playing field as you own even the air in the sky, chanting "GOD SAVE AMERICA" and that you the "GREATEST NATION"on earth.

Well it's time to wake up young children, plain an simple, you are NOT! America and Americans are not better than any other country or human beings on this Planet. You must now, throw away your diapers and join the majority or adult Men and Women who also inhabit this Planet.

Everyone is sick and tired of your your bluster, arrogance and letting and consenting to your government feel that is is their Right to be the Police of the world, well i have news for you, myself, and im sure other Men and Women feel so and agree that they do not need to be Policed by anyone! we are quite capable of standing at our word, holding our morals, ethics, integrity and following the rule or do no harm, we do not need your help or force to do it.

I know there are many of you who will agree with what i am saying here, as you feel the same about your lives and that is a truly great thing i send you my upmost respect for that, but there are many adolescence out here who just dont get the game an what is really going on.

Stop your whining about voter fraud and election this, election that. Your government is just a private corporation, so what makes you think that you have a choice and say as to whom becomes president!

you have no say, the president of a corporation is not chosen by the employees. If you don't like who is in charge of you, then leave the corporation, renounce your citizenship to the corporation and kick them out or close them down, simple as that.

You are like a 16 year old who has been given the keys to a formular one racing car and you've jumped in and sped away without regard for yourself or anyone else on the track and you've caused a lot of crashes, problems and holdups.

It's time to pull over, get out and learn the Rules, Theory, Safety and Etiquette of driving before you go for a ride. 

You have many many great minds over there and you have to start listening to them.

My opinion form across the pond.

Where's the help?

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Important safety tip for November ~ Humor

OBAMA IS FORMALLY AND CRIMINALLY CHARGED WITH TREASON BY U.S. MILITARY

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BREAKING: OBAMA IS FORMALLY AND CRIMINALLY CHARGED WITH TREASON BY U.S. MILITARY

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Date: Friday, 9-Nov-2012 00:40:26

Breaking: Obama is Formally and Criminally Charged with Treason, By U.S. Military READ THE ARTICLE AND WATCH THE VIDEO: http://www.wrecklessfaith.com/breaking-obama-is-formally-and-criminally-charged-with-treason-by-u-s-military/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  The Rumor Mill News Reading Room  LINKS FOR DOWNLOADS Posted By: Seawitch [Send E-Mail] Date: Friday, 9-Nov-2012 02:16:18 In Response To: BREAKING: OBAMA IS FORMALLY AND CRIMINALLY CHARGED WITH TREASON BY U.S. MILITARY(Seawitch) "The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution." ~Thomas Sowell Comment by Jim Campbell, Citizen Journalist and Patriot. The directions to do our part could be no more clearly written below. Are you ready to do something you never thought you would consider? Remember, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”~Sir Edmond Burke DAUNTLESS and UNAFRAID in DEFIANCE! “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps, the end of the beginning.” -Sir Winston Churchill speaking on 9 November 1942 The latest formal criminal complaint naming OBAMA in TREASON was filed this morning at 1131 hours local (11: 31 a.m. EST). CLICK HERE: For the .pdf download of the 8 November 2012 formal criminal complaint OBAMA TREASONhttp://thejaghunter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/8-november-20... CLICK HERE: For the .pdf download of the 8 November 2012 TREASON COMPLAINT ADMINISTRATION RECORDS http://thejaghunter.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/8-november-20... CLICK HERE: For a history of the TREASON complaints since 17 March 2009! Scroll down to “TREASON ON THE BOUNTY,” and clikc on the links directly below! https://thejaghunter.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/obamas-treason-... Now, as is assiduously, urgently importuned since 17 March 2009 it is going to take a very large number of people, acting in groups and in a coordinated way, to advance this formal criminal complaint naming OBAMA in TREASON so as to take effect. Individuals must file individual complaints in the same way this complaint was administered. Then the individual complaints must be collected up and submitted in mass everywhere possible across the United States. OBAMA can and must be removed from his residence in the White House as a common thug, punk street wise criminal. I’m not talking impeachment, I’m talkin’ ’bout OBAMA being taken down as any other accused felon. It can be accomplished if enough people get behind the effort in a way that soars over any gathering or group action before. FIND A WAY OR MAKE ONE! DO IT NOW! HERE ENDTH THE LESSON! ( More treasonous activities below) Thursday, 8 November 2012 – 70th Anniversary OPERATION TORCH – World War II Northwest Africa – Casablanca From: Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III United States Navy Retired To: Robert Swan Mueller, III, Director – Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington D.C. (ORIGINAL) The Foreman of the two sitting Federal Grand Juries sitting in Knoxville, Tennessee via William C. Killian, U.S. Attorney for Tennessee’s Easter District SUBJECT: FORMAL CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS NAMING BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN COMMISSION OF TREASON 1. OBAMA represents a clear and present danger to U.S. national security, to the U.S. Constitution and to our Republican form of government. OBAMA IS A FOREIGN BORN DOMESTIC ENEMY! OBAMA is working assiduously to destroy America! No document record exists showing Barack Hussein OBAMA to be a United States citizen. 2. OBAMA paid money and aided and abetted Al-Qaeda members and groups that attacked Americans on U.S. territory in Benghazi, Libya on 11 and 12 September 2012. Al-Qaeda is the jihadist terrorist organization that attacked the United States on 11 September 2001. 3. Pro-jihadist and Islamist OBAMA personally denied frantic cries for help from Americans in mortal danger throughout a 7-hour attack by approximately 150 heavily armed known jihadists. OBAMA watched four Americans die in real time. OBAMA is allowing our enemies to slaughter our servicemen piecemeal at the same time ordering our troops to disarm. 4. OBAMA lies to the American people about his TREASON with every opportunity. OBAMA is lying to the American people about the 11-12 September attack in Benghazi, Libya in a cover story intended to protect OBAMA from facing a criminal prosecution and conviction.http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/obama-is-formall... LINK: http://m.sodahead.com/united-states/obama-is-formally-and-criminally-charged-with-treason-by-the-us-military/question-3309351/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ysAsw7NHHrI

NEW WORLD ORDER-GREATEST CRIMES!

Folks, prepare for the ride because this is JAW DROPPING!

We all know the “NEW WORLD ORDER”  conspiracy exists, but what you DON’T know is the SUPER SECRET science they have so desperately sought to conceal in covert obscurity for almost a century which culminates the END GAME for the rest of “US” as part of their twisted and insane quest for absolute subjugation and eradication of everyone outside of their demented and synthetically false plan to keep the majority of humanity locked into a spiraled web of deceit, manipulation, and DE-EVOLVED state.

This is being done as a means of DISTRACTION and ultimately a STALL tactic in order keep humanity locked into the current 3D paradigm and installed BELIEF archetypes, as the Cosmic Clock rapidly thrusts the Sun, the Earth, and Mankind towards the natural and inevitable Stellar evolution of ASCENSION!…

Here and Now, comes to us from a genius insider recruited directly out of college to work on SUPER SECRET “BLACK PROJECTS”, the desperately concealed REAL SCIENCE  that outlines the structure and malicious actions perpetrated on humanity for nearly a century. Those of “US” that consider ourselves “AWAKE” know about various plots, plans, and agendas aimed at the ultimate subjugation and extermination of most of “US”, but this is NOT merely for the purpose of enslaving most of humanity to serve the “ILLUMINATI ELITE”, but rather these are mere actions aimed at a MUCH GRANDER SCHEME!

Please see below these 2 reports that outline the direct relation of these various malicious agendas, and perhaps the GREATEST CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ever perpetrated, as you realize how this all fits into the ULTIMATE END GAME, and how the NWO plan is to keep all of “US” from being able to survive the “SCIENCE OF ASCENSION” at the dawn of this historic moment of our solar system, planet, and humanity’s very existence!……

So take a walk with me as we embark on a journey into understanding Geoengineering, Chemtrails, HAARP, World Orders, Times, and the “Science of Ascension” they have been hiding. The beginning of the paper is bit difficult in your a layman like me trying to get your head around some of the physics concepts, BUT once your past this, everything beautifully falls into place as your “jaw begins to drop” while you discover that “existence” is not what our so called experts have told us, but rather the complete OPPOSITE as identified here as “RECIPROCAL SYSTEM”, and that everything we know about how Stellar evolution works is backwards.

Discover why what’s happening with our Sun, and as a result of this perhaps the biggest secret suppressed to humanity and flipped upside down intentionally as we finally realize the “NATURAL” course of how things work, and the “ARTIFICIAL” illusion the New World Order elite have attempted to use as the greatest deception ever conspired and their absolute demented and evil plan to use it against us….

Geoengineering, Chemtrails, HAARP,

World Orders, Time Lines and Ascension

UPDATE RELEASED NOW: Time and Timelines, where we continue our journey into the understanding  of the Reciprocal relationship of Space and Time. We learn that by understanding “Coordinate Time”, we begin to realize how this works and how “navigation” through such relates too but differentiates from “Clock Time & Clock Space”.

We also begin to understand what is:

•Precognition is nothing more than seeing something in the distance, in the temporal landscape.
•Telepathy is two people standing next to each other in time chatting, regardless of how far apart they are in space.
•Telekinesis is just manipulating the temporal component of an object with your temporal arm, and watching how “time changes space.”
•Clairvoyance is a pair of temporal binoculars.
•Clairaudience is yelling down the street at someone in the temporal landscape.
•Clairalience is a barbecue in the temporal neighborhood.

Time and Timelines

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WHO ARE THE “ELECTORS” IN YOUR STATE???

I smell a RAT!

WHO ARE THE “ELECTORS” IN YOUR STATE???

I’ll bet you don’t know, do you? Did your “vote” count?? Why not???

Generally, the political parties nominate electors at their State party conventions or by a vote of the party's central committee in each State. Electors are often selected to recognize their service and dedication to their political party. They may be State elected officials, party leaders, or persons who have a personal or political affiliation with the Presidential candidate. Then the voters in each State choose the electors on the day of the general election. The electors' names may or may not appear on the ballot below the name of the candidates running for President, depending on the procedure in each State.

The number of electors in each State is equal to the number of members of Congress to which the State or District of Columbia is entitled. Currently, the total number of electors is 538 (with around 40,000, bought and paid for, registered lobbyists, bearing (bare gifts) that are not talked about and only seen in dim light). There are 435 representatives and 100 senators, plus the three electors from the District of Columbia. Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution (which provides that no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States – this leaves ONLY the office of Honor) shall be appointed an Elector specifies the number of electors to which each state is entitled and state legislatures decide how they are chosen. The Twenty-third Amendment specifies the number of electors for the District of Columbia.
[It is my comprehension that, originally when people could not ‘travel’ to their respective polling stations, they sent their ‘electors’ to place their vote for them. If that is true, is it necessary today? I think not.]
Voters in each state and the District of Columbia cast ballots selecting electors pledged to presidential and vice presidential candidates. In nearly all states, electors are awarded on a winner-take-all basis to the candidate who wins the most votes in that state. Although no elector is required by federal law to honor a pledge, in the overwhelming majority of cases each elector votes as pledged. The 12^th Amendment provides for each elector to cast one vote for President and one vote for Vice President. It also specifies how a President and Vice President are elected.

Each state’s Certificates of Ascertainment confirms the names of its appointed electors. A state’s certification of its electors is generally sufficient to establish the qualifications of electors.

List of State Laws and Requirements Regarding the Electors as of November 2000

Source: Congressional Research Service

The Office of the Federal Register presents this material for informational purposes only, in response to numerous public inquiries. The list has no legal significance. It is based on information compiled by the Congressional Research Service. For more comprehensive information, refer to the U.S. Constitution and applicable Federal laws.

Legal Requirements or Pledges
Electors in these States are bound by State Law or by pledges to cast their vote for a specific candidate:

ALABAMA – Party Pledge / State Law – § 17-19-2
ALASKA – Party Pledge / State Law – § 15.30.040; 15.30.070
CALIFORNIA – State Law – § 6906
COLORADO – State Law – § 1-4-304
CONNECTICUT – State Law – § 9-175
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA – DC Pledge / DC Law – § 1-1312(g)
FLORIDA – Party Pledge / State Law – § 103.021(1)
HAWAII – State Law – §§ 14-26 to 14-28
MAINE – State Law – § 805
MARYLAND – State Law – § 20-4
MASSACHUSETTS – Party Pledge / State Law – Ch. 53, § 8, Supp.
MICHIGAN – State Law – §168.47 (Violation cancels vote and Elector is replaced.)
MISSISSIPPI – Party Pledge / State Law – §23-15-785(3)
MONTANA – State Law – § 13-25-104
NEBRASKA – State Law – § 32-714
NEVADA – State Law – § 298.050
NEW MEXICO – State Law – § 1-15-5 to 1-15-9 (Violation is a fourth degree felony.)
NORTH CAROLINA – State Law – § 163-212 (Violation cancels vote; elector is replaced and is subject to $500 fine.)
OHIO – State Law – § 3505.40
OKLAHOMA – State Pledge / State Law – 26, §§ 10-102; 10-109 (Violation of oath is a misdemeanor, carrying a fine of up to $1000.)
OREGON – State Pledge / State Law – § 248.355
SOUTH CAROLINA – State Pledge / State Law – § 7-19-80 (Replacement and criminal sanctions for violation.)
VERMONT – State Law – title 17, § 2732
* VIRGINIA – State Law – § 24.1-162 (Virginia statute may be advisory – “Shall be expected” to vote for nominees.)
WASHINGTON – Party Pledge / State Law – §§ 29.71.020, 29.71.040, Supp. ($1000 fine.)
WISCONSIN – State Law – § 7.75
WYOMING – State Law – §§ 22-19-106; 22-19-108

No Legal Requirement
Electors in these States are not bound by State Law to cast their vote for a specific candidate:

ARIZONA ARKANSAS DELAWARE GEORGIA IDAHO ILLINOIS INDIANA IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY LOUISIANA MINNESOTA

MISSOURI NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW YORK NORTH DAKOTA PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE TEXAS UTAH WEST VIRGINIA

Receipt of Certificates of Ascertainment
Certificates should begin arriving at NARA shortly after the general election held on November 6, 2012. The Archives makes a record of the Certificates of Ascertainment it receives and transmits them to the OFR’s Legal Affairs and Policy Staff by special delivery. The OFR logs in a record of the Certificates and checks them for facial legal sufficiency. If there are any problems with a Certificate, an OFR attorney calls the contact person in the State to advise them of the defect. The OFR makes copies of the Certificates of Ascertainment available for public inspection and secures the originals.

The above paragraph and much of the below was taken from:

 http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/roles.html#ofr

And, still, my question begs to be answered, “WHEN are the Electors ‘voted’ in?” Were the electors for this year placed 4 years ago?

Appoint Electors
The United States Constitution and Federal law do not prescribe the method of appointment other than requiring that electors must be appointed on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November (November 6, 2012).

Key Electoral College Dates and Events

View all the 2012 Presidential Election Key Dates

• November 6, 2012—Election Day:
  The voters in each State choose electors to serve in the Electoral College. As soon as election results are final, the States prepare seven original "Certificates of Ascertainment" of the electors chosen, and send one original along with two certified copies to the Archivist of the United States at the Office of the Federal Register.
• December 17, 2012—Meeting of Electors:
  The electors in each State meet to select the President and Vice President of the United States. The Electors record their votes on six “Certificates of Vote,” which are paired with the six remaining original “Certificates of Ascertainment.” The electors sign, seal and certify the packages of electoral votes and immediately send them to the Federal and State officials listed in these instructions.
• December 26, 2012—Deadline for Receipt of Electoral Votes:
  The President of the Senate, the Archivist of the United States, and other designated Federal and State officials must have the electoral votes in hand.
• January 6, 2013—Counting Electoral Votes in Congress:
  The Congress meets in joint session to count the electoral votes (unless Congress passes a law to change the date).

Am I just totally dense, or is this making the situation explicitly clear that; the ‘Electors’ are bought and paid for 4 years before a Presidential Election??? Read it for yourself! Or, has the ‘election’ not yet been held?