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IN THE NEWS
31 July 2006
The king of fairyland will never grasp the realities of
the Middle East
A US leader
in his second term should have the power to rein in Israel. But George Bush
is no ordinary president
Of all the
curious things that have been written about Israel's assault on Lebanon,
surely the oddest is contained in Paddy Ashdown's article on these pages
last Saturday. "There is only one solution to this crisis, and it is the
same solution we have to find in Iraq: to go for a wider Middle East
settlement and to do it urgently. The US cannot do this. But Europe can."
The US cannot
do this? What on earth does he mean? At first sight his contention seems
plain wrong. While Israel intends to sustain its occupation of Palestinian
territory, a wider settlement is impossible. It surely follows that the
country that has the greatest potential leverage over Israel is the country
with the greatest power to broker peace. Israel's foreign policy and
military strategy is dependent on the approval of the United States.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1834553,00.html
THE SCOTSMAN - 30th July 2006 Irish refused bombs sent to
Prestwick airport
BOMBS
destined to be used by Israel are being flown via Scotland only because the
Irish government refused to allow them to land on its soil.
Scotland on
Sunday can reveal that after the conflict in Lebanon began three weeks ago,
Ireland turned down a United States request for planes carrying 600lb
so-called bunker busters to refuel at Shannon airport in Co Clare.
As a result,
cargo planes carrying the bombs, which the Israeli army is using in its
offensive against the Hezbollah, are being flown via Prestwick airport in
Ayrshire.
The War on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil
Is there a
relationship between the bombing of Lebanon and the inauguration of the
World's largest strategic pipeline, which will channel more than a million
barrels of oil a day to Western markets?
Virtually
unnoticed, the inauguration of the Ceyhan-Tblisi-Baku (BTC) oil pipeline,
which links the Caspian sea to the Eastern Mediterranean, took place on the
13th of July, at the very outset of the Israeli sponsored bombings of
Lebanon.
One day
before the Israeli air strikes, the main partners and shareholders of the
BTC pipeline project, including several heads of State and oil company
executives were in attendance at the port of Ceyhan. They were then rushed
off for an inauguration reception in Istanbul, hosted by Turkey's President
Ahmet Necdet Sezer in the plush surroundings of the Çýraðan Palace.
Also in
attendance was British Petroleum's (BP) CEO, Lord Browne together with
senior government officials from Britain, the US and Israel. BP leads the
BTC pipeline consortium. Other major Western shareholders include Chevron,
Conoco-Phillips, France's Total and Italy's ENI. (see Annex)
Israel's
Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was present at
the venue together with a delegation of top Israeli oil officials.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=2824
China blasts Security Council silence over UN deaths in
Lebanon
The UN
Security Council by Tim Witcher United Nations (AFP) Jul 27, 2006 China on
Thursday blasted the UN Security Council's failure to agree a statement
condemning the killing of four UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, amid signs of a
backlash on other key negotiations. An important meeting scheduled for
Thursday of six major powers on a resolution against Iran's nuclear
programme was postponed indefinitely -- the first apparent victim of the
Security Council deadlock over the Israeli attack that led to the deaths.
The United
States blocked any attempt to condemn the attack or criticise Israel,
diplomats said.
http://www.sinodaily.com/reports/a060727165650.uacy6tei.html
EMF News
Mobile
phone effects on children's event-related oscillatory EEG during an auditory
memory task
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2422929/
Comparison
of 864 MHz and 935 MHz microwave radiation effects on cell culture
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2423159/
Are
Microwaves a/the major Causal Factor in CFS/ME?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2452506/
It's the
Microwaves
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2452467/
About
health problems with microwave and problems with the unregulated
proliferation of microwave transmitters
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2437586/
Current
developments in industry and science concerning the health effects of
non-ionizing radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2437655/
About the
biological hazards of EMF and the link between microwave dosimetry and the
rise of illnesses
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2437682/
Support
from Blair as mast is refused
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2057234/
Canadian
Cancer Society...suggestions?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2274828/
Mast
Sickness UK Health Survey
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2441427/
Electro
Sensitive Questionnaire July 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2447437/
THE VOICE
OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UK
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2443088/
Urgent Plea
For Your Help!
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2447292/
New call on
phone masts
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2415185/
Villiers'
phone mast planning refusal wins local approval
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2422518/
People
power halts bid for new mast
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2433291/
Mast anger
at Dalkey
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2438031/
Mast plan
halted after protests
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2438266/
Phone giant
listens to fears of residents
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2441203/
Phone mast
warning as schools break up
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2441489/
Residents
'not told' about phone mast
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2442090/
What
happened to T Mobile who were caught putting up 3G phone masts illegally?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2449034/
WHY YOU
SHOULD GO WIRELESS
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2416819/
Rural
Africa joins mobile revolution
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2424352/
Hooked on
handsets
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2431939/
Again: JAMA
misled by docs over drug co. ties
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2423217/
Take action
and stand up for the rights of Verizon Wireless workers
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2434387/
MONACO
l'Alerte: Le saviez-vous?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2444886/
Nice et
Antibes: L'Inconscience?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2444907/
L'affaire
Repacholi n'est pas finie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2449889/
News from
Mast Sanity
http://tinyurl.com/aotw3
Omega-News
Collection 29. July 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2453303/
Smoke signals from the battle of Bint Jbeil send a warning to
Israel
Is it possible - is it
conceivable - that Israel is losing its war in Lebanon?
From this hill village in the
south of the country, I am watching the clouds of brown and black smoke
rising from its latest disaster in the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil: up to 13
Israeli soldiers dead, and others surrounded, after a devastating ambush by
Hizbollah guerrillas in what was supposed to be a successful Israeli
military advance against a "terrorist centre" .
To my left smoke rises too,
over the town of Khiam, where a smashed United Nations outpost remains the
only memorial to the four UN soldiers - most of them decapitated by an
American-made missile on Tuesday - killed by the Israeli air force.
Outcry as border guards seize British 'dirty bomb' lorry
heading for Iran
Border guards seized a British
lorry on its way to make a delivery to the Iranian military - after
discovering it was packed with radioactive material that could be used to
build a dirty bomb.
The lorry set off from Kent on
its way to Tehran but was stopped by officials at a checkpoint on Bulgaria's
northern border with Romania after a scanner indicated radiation levels 200
times above normal.
The lorry was impounded and
the Bulgarian Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NPA) was called out.
On board they found ten
lead-lined boxes addressed to the Iranian Ministry of Defence. Inside each
box was a soil-testing device, containing highly dangerous quantities of
radioactive caesium 137 and americium-beryllium.
The soil testers had been sent
to Iran by a British firm with the apparent export approval of the
Department of Trade and Industry.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=397124&in_page_id=1770
Judge Denies Bail, Adjourns Trial of Medical Workers Accused
of Infecting Libyan Children With HIV After Defense Witnesses Fail To Appear
Judge
Mahmoud Haouissa, the presiding judge on the three-member tribunal of the
Tripoli Criminal Court, on Tuesday adjourned until Aug. 8 the retrial of
five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian physician accused of intentionally
infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV after subpoenaed defense
witnesses did not appear before the court, Reuters South Africa reports (Sarrar,
Reuters South Africa, 7/25). The six medical workers were sentenced to death
by firing squad in May 2004 for allegedly infecting 426 children through
contaminated blood products at Al Fateh Children's Hospital in Benghazi,
Libya. They also were ordered to pay a total of $1 million to the families
of the HIV-positive children. The Libyan Supreme Court in December 2005
overturned the medical workers' convictions and ordered a retrial in a lower
court. The health workers say they are innocent of the charges, claiming
that they were forced to confess and that they were tortured by Libyan
officials during interrogations. According to Bulgarian foreign ministry
spokesperson Dimitar Tsanchev, the defense has provided the court with a
list of 211 instances of psychological torture measures taken against the
health workers based on the U. N.'s Istanbul Protocol, which declares
psychological torture a crime (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 7/10). Haouissa
earlier this month read out the charges that the health workers knowingly
infected 393 children at the Benghazi hospital with HIV, and the defendants
all pleaded not guilty to the charges
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=38713
Study: Autistic brains have fewer neurons
U. S. scientists say they've
determined the autistic brain has fewer neurons in an area related to
emotion and social behavior.
The study at the University of
California provides quantitative evidence linking autism to an abnormality
of the part of the brain called the amygdala, especially its lateral nucleus
-- a major emotion-processing area with connections to parts of the brain
responsible for higher cognitive functions.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060720-093403-2564r
British arms exports to Israel double in a year
Britain has almost doubled the
value of arms exports to Israel, according to official figures released
yesterday. Arms exports to Israel approved by the government totalled £22.5m
last year, almost twice the amount in 2004, according the latest annual
report on strategic export controls published by four government
departments.
The report was released as the
Liberal Democrat Leader, Sir Menzies Campbell, yesterday urged Tony Blair to
suspend any further arms exports to Israel. "In light of disproportionate
military action by Israel in Lebanon and Gaza the UK government must suspend
any further arms exports to Israel," Sir Menzies wrote to the prime
minister.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1828246,00.html
'Secret' Euro meetings under fire
Peers expected the G6 meetings
to attract widespread interest Ministers from the UK and the EU's largest
states have come under fire for holding meetings on issues about terrorism
and immigration "in secret". The UK House of Lords EU Committee says the
public has a right to know what goes on behind closed doors.
The peers claim important
decisions are reached, yet no report is ever made to Parliament and no
publicity is given about them by the Home Office.
However, the Home Office
insists that meetings of the G6 are "transparent".
New Scientist 29.7.06 "DICING WITH DEATH" - "THERE'S A GOOD
CHANCE THE PILLS YOUR DOCTOR PRESCRIBED WILL DO YOU NO GOOD & EVEN HARM YOU"
Drugs prescribed for irregular
heart beat in 1980s were later found to double or triple the risk of death.
Pharmacologist Raymond Woosley of Arizona Uni, said "It took a long time for
people (doctors) to stop prescribing them because they just couldn't believe
it." The conclusion of a study is that the heart drugs killed 50,000 people.
One fifth of drugs prescribed in US are "off-label" meaning that they are
prescribed for medical conditions which the FSA have not approved the drugs
for. Off-label prescribing has not been studied in the UK. It is agreed that
vigorous improvements in surveillance of drug prescribing & the effects on
patients are essential to drag drug prescribing towards a more
evidence-based footing.
D. Mail 27.7.06 "THE ASTHMA DRUGS THAT ARE PUTTING LIVES AT RISK"
Asthma sufferers could be
risking their lives by using drugs that treat the most severe forms of the
condition, doctors warned yesterday. Around half a million UK asthmatics
using the medication may increase the risk of severe heart attacks. Writing
in the "Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine" Dr. Vassilis Vassiliou &
Dr. Christos Zipitis from Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambs. expressed fears
about the drugs salmeterol & formoterol. A US trial of these drugs showed a
3-fold rise is the risk of death.
New Scientist 29.7.06 "MILITARY TEST VETERANS SUFFER "GULF WAR" EFFECT"
Veterans of chemical weapons
tests at Porton Down have a lower quality of life than the general
population, reports research at Oxford Uni. They suffer similar symptoms to
1991 Gulf War veterans including headaches, fatigue, sleep problems etc.
Calling UK Borreliosis / Lyme disease
sufferers
Can you
help
BADA-UK to raise awareness of this potentially devastating condition?
Do you
live in a city / town and suffer from Borreliosis, or are you a carer for
someone with this condition?
Are you
prepared to talk openly about how it affects you, or your loved one?
BADA-UK is working on a media project about Borreliosis over the coming
weeks, and we are looking for people who are prepared to be interviewed
about their experiences. We especially want to hear from you, if you have
previously been told that you have ME/CFS, but have later been diagnosed
with a Borrelia infection. We also especially want to hear from you, if you
think that you contracted Borreliosis within an urban area (city / town
parks, gardens or suburban recreational areas).
You
must be willing to talk about your experiences live on air, and have your
story published, although you can do this without using your real name, or
identifying the exact area where you live.
We most
urgently need to hear from people from the Nottingham, Sheffield or
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Click to
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Please
send us your story, along with your name, the area where you live, and a
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This is your chance to be heard!
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Company number 5539748
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D. Telegraph 26.7.06 "PUBLIC WARNED AS HEAT BRINGS AIR POLLUTION TO DANGER
LEVELS"
A health warning
has been issued after Satellite tracking of temperatures showed that nitrogen
dioxide & ozone from traffic fumes reacting with sunlight, have reached
dangerous levels in the air in many UK areas. "In Germany hospital A&E
admissions are up 25% & I think mortality rates (in UK) will rise sharply" said
a Met Office spokesman. Dr. Gary Corlett of Leicester Uni said the pollution can
cause breathing difficulties.
Guardian 26.7.06 "US COMPENSATION FOR BRITISH NUCLEAR TEST VETERAN"
A critically ill
UK ex-serviceman, exposed to nuclear radiation in past weapons tests has been
awarded compensation by the US, even though the Min. of Defence in UK refused
him any money. Roy Prescott, 66, is awarded £40,000 by the US for his lung
cancer, which was caused by the nuclear tests.
Evening Standard. 25.7.06 "AS NUCLEAR POWER GETS GO-AHEAD - LINKS WITH BROWN'S
LOBBYIST BROTHER"
Critics accuse
the Govt. of caving in to the nuclear propagandists, who include Gordon Brown's
brother, Andrew, & a string of lobbyists with high-levels links to Labour.
Between them their companies have donated tens of thousands of pounds to the
Labour Party in the past decade & spent fortunes to persuade ministers to
embrace nuclear energy.
More Than Seven Hours of Sleep Per Night Increases Your Risk of Brain Disease
A study from the
National Institutes of Health found that those who sleep nine hours or more each
night are almost twice as likely to develop Parkinson's disease as those who
sleep six hours or less.
The health of
80,000 nurses, none of whom had Parkinson's disease at the beginning of the
study, were tracked for 24 years. Analysis of the 181 women who developed
Parkinson's during the course of the study showed that the longer they slept,
the greater risk they had of developing the illness.
Nurses who slept
at least nine hours a night were 80 percent more likely to receive a Parkinson's
diagnosis, while eight hours elevated the risk by 60 percent and seven hours
increased it by only 10 percent.
FULL STORY
D. Telegraph 24.7.06 "CANCER TREATMENT CAN DAMAGE THE HEART, SAY EXPERTS"
Scientists warned
on 23 July 06 that the drug Glivec, known in the US as Gleevec, which is used to
treat stomach cancer & some forms of leukaemia, can damage the heart & lead to
heart failure. Research by Prof. Thomas Force of Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia.
D. Telegraph 24.7.06 "DRUG SHORTAGE LEAVES DYING PATIENTS IN PAIN"
Diamorphine used
to relieve the pain of cancer, heart attacks & severe injuries is still in short
supply 18 months after the Govt. warned of serious shortages. There are reports
of patients crying out & dying in agony because of a production problem at
private drug companies Chiron & Wockhardt UK. (My comment: surely the Govt.
could have sourced other suppliers?)
Guardian 24.7.06 "PUBLIC BETRAYED OVER GM CROPS"
letter from Dr
Caroline Lucas MEP (shortened) New Labour has ignored public opinion & led us
down a dangerous path. GM is bad for biodiversity & may pose a direct threat to
humans & wildlife. Millions in UK don't want to take that chance. If GM farmers
can't prevent contamination of non-GM crops this could spell the end for the
booming organic industry. What was the point of the Govt. holding the "GM
Nation" public GM consultation in 2003, if it is now going to ignore the result?
In that survey only 2% of people said they would be happy to eat GM food.
Guardian 24.7.06 "FOOD WASTE IS BURIED TREASURE CHARITY TELLS FIRMS"
Fareshare is
setting up a scheme to reduce the 7 million tonnes of food dumped in UK
landfills each year. A quarter of this is perfectly edible but companies,
including supermarkets, don't know what else to do with it. Fareshare would like
it given to homeless & vulnerable people.
The Shame of Being an American By Paul Craig Roberts
Gentle reader, do
you know that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon? Israel
has ordered all the villagers to clear out. Israel then destroys their homes and
murders the fleeing villagers. That way there is no one to come back and nothing
to which to return, making it easier for Israel to grab the territory, just as
Israel has been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians.
Do you know that
one-third of the Lebanese civilians murdered by Israel’s attacks on civilian
residential districts are children? That is the report from Jan Egeland, the
emergency relief coordinator for the UN. He says it is impossible for help to
reach the wounded and those buried in rubble, because Israeli air strikes have
blown up all the bridges and roads. Considering how often (almost always) Israel
misses Hizbollah targets and hits civilian ones, one might think that Israeli
fire is being guided by US satellites and US military GPS. Don’t be surprised at
US complicity. Why would the puppet be any less evil than the puppet master?
Of course, you
don’t know these things, because the US print and TV media do not report them.
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/060721_shame.htm
U. S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis
The Bush
administration is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which
requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign
against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday. The
decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little
debate within the Bush administration, the officials said. Its disclosure
threatens to anger Arab governments and others because of the appearance that
the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that
could be compared to Iran’s efforts to arm and resupply Hezbollah.
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/73192/index.php
D. Mail 22.7.06 "NHS WASTING BILLIONS ON OPS WE DON'T NEED"
Billions of
pounds are being wasted giving NHS patients operations they don't need, the
chief medical officer has warned.
6,000 hysterectomies could be avoided, 8,000 tonsil removals avoided & many
heart bypasses could be replaced by less invasive angiopasty. Prof. Sir Liam
Donaldson blamed doctors for failing to keep up to date with the latest research
or simply being stuck in their ways.
www.dailymail.co.uk/blunders
D. Mail 22.7.06 "THE PESTICIDE NUN"
Georgina Downs
had suffered for years from illnesses similar to Parkinson's or MS. At age 19
her weight was down to 6 stone. She used to wave to a tractor spraying a mist
around on crops outside her home. Suddenly she realised it must be spraying out
all kinds of toxic chemicals. Her doctor had put her illnesses down to "a
virus." Her father found which chemicals the farmer was using & they looked up
the side-effects & she finally identified the cause of her ill-health. Medical
tests later confirmed that her body fat contained the most powerful cocktail of
pesticides they had ever come across. They included highly dangerous Lindane
organochlorine - linked to breast cancer & a chlorobenzine. Other chemicals had
clustered around nerve cells. The Health & Safety Executive said the farmer
could spray as near to her house as he liked & wasn't even required to tell her
when or what he was about to spray. She videoed the spraying & questioned
officials. She then spotted the mathematical flaw in the experts' calculation of
the spray risk to bystanders. She says "It was based on an imaginary person who
is very occasionally exposed for just a few minutes, to 1 chemical. But the
reality is very different. People who live or work near farms are often exposed
repeatedly, over a long period of time, to a mixture of chemicals. It seems none
of these scientists in their ivory towers had ever thought of that." Thanks to
Georgina the "bystander assessment risk" has been completely revised.
Gilad Atzmon - Learn Math with Israel: 2 = 500,000
This is obviously
the outcome of the newly emerged Hebraic arithmetic laws. For 2 kidnapped
Israeli soldiers who are still kept alive, 500,000 innocent Lebanese civilians
are displaced. For 2 abducted Israeli soldiers, Lebanon, a sovereign state, is
brought back down on its knees. Its civil infrastructure is ‘gone’. Some of its
capital’s residential quarters and southern villages are already wiped out.
Indeed, ‘two equals half a million’ is the new arithmetic the Israelis insist
upon imposing on the region. Is it that surprising? Not at all, as predicted by
Gershon Sholem already in the 1930’s: once the Jews start to speak Hebrew, it
won’t take long before they consider themselves to be God.
http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2006/07/gilad-atzmon-learn-math-with-israel-2.html
THE TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS WERE CAPTURED IN LEBANON
The Lebanese
Shiite Hezbollah movement announced on Wednesday that its guerrillas have
captured two Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon. "Implementing our promise to
free Arab prisoners in Israeli jails, our strugglers have captured two Israeli
soldiers in southern Lebanon," a statement by Hezbollah said.
"The two soldiers
have already been moved to a safe place," it added. The Lebanese police said
that the two soldiers were captured as they "infiltrated" into the town of Aitaa
al-Chaab inside the Lebanese border. [Hindustan Times 7/12/06]
The Lebanese
Hezbollah movement announced Wednesday the arrest of two Israeli soldiers in
southern Lebanon. Lebanese police said that the two soldiers were arrested as
they entered the town of Aitaa al-Chaab inside the Lebanese border. Israeli
aircraft were active in the air over southern Lebanon, police said, with jets
bombing roads leading to the market town of Nabatiyeh, 60 kilometers south of
Beirut. [Bahrain News Agency 7/12/06]
TRANSLATION:
According to the Lebanese police force, the two soldiers were captured in
Lebanese territory, in the area of Aïta Al-Chaab close to the border, whereas
Israeli television indicated that they had been captured in Israeli territory. [fr.
news. yahoo 7/12/06
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/israeli_solders.html
EMF News
Cross Current
and The Body Electric
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2375974/
EMF Radiation
and Your Eyes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2399638/
Negative study
on parotid gland tumors and cell phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2413668/
de Salles
papers
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2407920/
ICNIRP
clarification
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2406287/
Corporate
Corruption of Science and its Effects on Workers and the Environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2393493/
Victory in
six-year fight to recognise electrosensitivity condition
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2372636/
Understanding
the causes of childhood leukaemia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2355748/
Dr Lisa Nagy's
electrical sensitivity story
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2408082/
A letter to EU
to complain about the installation of DECT, WLAN and other wireless systems in
public places
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2358397/
Neighbours face
new mast fight
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2351798/
Anti-mast
protestors triumph
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2368540/
HEAD'S WORRIES
OVER PHONE MAST
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2376231/
Why Wi-Fi may
be injurious to your health
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2377466/
Motor Neurone
Disease: A Family Affair
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2396732/
NO MORE: IT
STOPS NOW!
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2399447/
Group motivated
against mast bid
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2378731/
Schools’ joy as
phone mast plan is rejected
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2380891/
'SCAREMONGERING': Farmer accuses mast opponents
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2383247/
New phone mast
shock
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2383271/
Phone mast
protestors round on nuisance caller
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2400005/
Fighting talk
from phone mast objectors
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2406188/
Anger as legal
blunder allows mast to remain
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2407653/
PROTEST AT
CHURCH MOBILE PHONE MAST
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2407731/
PHONE MAST PLAN
'ON HOLD'
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2409100/
Report power
line concerns, cancer society urges B.C. residents
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2400073/
Homeowners fear
future with lines
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2353601/
Co. Cork
Power-line protesters in Dublin High Court
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2366788/
Court upholds
nearly $533,000 verdict in stray voltage case
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2399518/
Drawing the
line on power: Help needed for Your Supportive Opinion
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2405032/
Phones and MP3s
fuel robbery rise
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2405443/
Corporate
Corruption of Science
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1086376/
France Inter:
"le portable c'est l'enfer"
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2353651/
Intervention
rapide du 15 juillet 2006 sur la rue Félix Perrier à CREST
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2353664/
La Présidente
du Tribunal de Namur désigne un médecin expert pour enquêter sur l'état de santé
des Riverains d'antennes relais
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2370324/
Nogent-sur-Marne: les antennes-relais devront attendre
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2370338/
Personne ne
pourra dire: Je ne savais pas
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2376380/
Le Dauphiné
Libéré: A7, la pollution vers des sommets
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2398035/
Corruption des
industriels envers la science
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2398041/
News from Mast
Sanity
http://tinyurl.com/aotw3
Omega-News
Collection 22. July 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2414549/
Jim Wright is put on Trial by the MHRA for Selling Low Price Vitamins and
Alternative Remedies
In Port Talbot,
Wales, Jim Wright is put on Trial by the MHRA for Selling Low Price Vitamins and
Alternative Remedies
while Merck’s
drug VIOXX kills over 30,000 but British Claimants are Denied Legal Aid) by
Martin J Walker
http://www.zeusinfoservice.com/Articles/AlternativeRemedies.html
Autism rate in children has doubled, say doctors
THE number of
children suffering from autism and related disorders may be twice as high as
thought, with the condition likely to affect one per cent of British children. A
study by scientists at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals indicates that the
prevalence of autism is much higher than current rates suggest. They said that
improved diagnosis, a broader definition of the condition or an increase in the
number of children affected could be responsible for the rise.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-2269437,00.html
Third of GPs on new contracts drop child jabs
A third of family
doctor practices working to a new Government contract have stopped providing
vaccinations to children.
The contract
allows doctors to opt out of giving immunisations, leading to fears that parents
may find it harder to get their children vaccinated against life-threatening
diseases such as meningitis and measles.
Department of
Health statistics, provided in a Parliamentary answer, show that last year 36.7
per cent of practices working to the General Medical Contract refused to give
jabs for MMR, whooping cough, diptheria, meningitis and tetanus.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&xml=/news/2006/07/16/njab16.xml
Young doctors' poor drugs training 'is killing patients'
Patients are
dying because young doctors no longer receive adequate training in prescribing
drugs, leading pharmacologists said yesterday.
Four eminent
specialists said knowledge of how to use drugs was alarmingly low among medical
students and junior doctors at a time when increasingly complicated medications
were being taken by more people.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/19/nhs19.xml
Fight For Your Health And Your Life
“Any attack on
freedom is the business of every American. We are the land of the free and the
home of the brave. It is time to stand up and fight for our health.” --Byron J.
Richards, author of Fight for Your Health – Exposing The FDA’s Betrayal of
America
Most people think
that The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was created to protect the public
from harm and to make sure that manufacturers followed the law in developing,
testing and marketing their products. With the almost daily revelations about
the corruption in medical research and drug development that have been
splattered across the pages of the public press over the last year, a topic Dr.
Carolyn Dean and I first wrote about in our column, The Constant Gardener – Does
Art Imitate Life?, it is now dawning on people that they can’t believe
everything they hear from the FDA about the safety of the products it approves
for sale in the marketplace.
http://www.healthliesexposed.com/articles/article_2006_07_14_4751.shtml
D. Express 21.7.06 "HOW CALCIUM CAN SAVE LIVES OF MOTHERS-TO-BE"
Taking 1 gram of
calcium in a supplement everyday while pregnant halves the risk of developing
pre-eclampsia. It also reduces the risk of high blood pressure by 30%, found
Cochrane Collaboration who reviewed 112 studies.
D. Telegraph 21.7.06 "ALLERGY SUFFERERS ARE BEING FAILED BY INADEQUATE NHS"
The number of
people suffering allergies has risen dramatically, with about 1 in 3 people
(around 20m) suffering an allergy at some point in their lives. A review found
inadequate & uncoordinated NHS services, with just 33 allergy specialists in the
whole country. Allergy UK wants specialist doctor training & clinics. There has
been an increase in hospital admissions for allergy & in serious anaphylactic
allergic reactions, which can be fatal.
Guardian 21.7.06 "MINISTERS PAVE WAY FOR GM CROPS, AS ZERO POLLINATION RULED
OUT"
Ministers
yesterday paved the way for GM crops to be grown commercially in UK from 2009, &
warned consumers that they will have to put up with some GM contamination even
in organic food. The Soil Assoc. condemned this Govt. action & said it could
damage the future of organic food. At the moment organic food is not allowed to
contain GM contamination.
www.Guardian.co.uk/GM
D. Telegraph 21.7.06 "PLANS TO ALLOW GM FARMING IN SECRET ARE IRRESPONSIBLE"
GM crops could be
grown in secret under Govt. plans announced yesterday. The Royal Institute of
Chartered Surveyors said it could blight land & was irresponsible. GM farmers
would normally be under no obligation to notify neighbouring gardeners,
allotments or beehive keepers that they are growing GM crops nearby. The Govt
has ruled out a public register of GM schemes. Lord Melchett of Soil Assoc. said
this will deny consumers the right to choose non-GM.
D. Mail "WILDFLOWERS WILT AS BEES BUZZ OFF"
The journal
"Science" reports that in 100s of sites studies they found the range of wild
bees has fallen by 80% since 1980. The flowers which are pollinated by bees are
also in decline & could disappear, including primroses, cowslips & bellflowers.
Study by Dr. Biesmeijer of Leeds Uni.
Group aims to silence claims that vitamins are better than drugs for AIDS
South Africa's
leading AIDS activism group is back in court using its weapon of choice, the
law, in its fight for the adequate provision of treatment to South Africa's five
million people who are HIV positive.
The group is
suing a manufacturer of vitamins, who has fallen foul of regulators in the
United Kingdom and the United States, to stop him claiming that his vitamins are
more effective than antiretroviral drugs for people with AIDS. They also want
him to stop claiming that antiretroviral drugs are too toxic for people with
AIDS to take.
The group,
Treatment Action Campaign, is claiming damages against the vitamin manufacturer
for his assertion that the group is a front for the drug industry. The case is
expected to last several months.
The vitamin
manufacturer, Matthias Rath, has run large advertising campaigns in South
African newspapers as well as in the US telling people with AIDS that his
vitamins would be better for them than products made by drug companies.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/330/7503/1288
Hope for MMR doctor
Autism
whistleblower might avoid all charges despite 20-month 'witch-hunt'
The doctor at the
centre of the MMR vaccine controversy might not face misconduct charges after
all, despite a long-running investigation by the medical watchdog.
Dr Andrew
Wakefield, the first doctor to suggest a link between autism and the measles,
mumps and rubella jab, has been the subject of a 20-month inquiry into alleged
serious professional misconduct.
But the General
Medical Council admitted last night that it might not proceed with the charges -
and there is 'no guarantee' there will ever be a hearing.
The admission was
welcomed by Dr Wakefield's supporters. Jackie Fletcher, of the pressure group
Jabs, said: "It is appalling that they can have the power to hold this over
someone's head for close on two years. It has been an absolute witch-hunt.
"All he was
guilty of was listening to what parents said, clinically investigating the
children and then reporting his findings. All he did was hold up a red flag and
say, 'There's something going on that needs to be investigated further'."
http://www.naturalmatters.net/newsview.asp?news=2120
WHOOPING COUGH: The vaccination that doesn’t protect
The recent scare
about the rising numbers of whooping cough cases in the UK seems to have
overlooked one very important detail. In virtually every case, the child had
been vaccinated.
Research by
Oxford University suggests that whooping cough is 'widespread' among children in
the UK - and, despite the rising number of cases being reported, many others go
undiagnosed because doctors assume the vaccine is doing its job.
As it is, 237
cases were reported in 2004, and 289 cases in 2005. Most of the children had
been vaccinated against the disease.
But the real
picture is very likely much worse. The Oxford researchers interviewed doctors,
who viewed whooping cough as affecting only the very young who had not been
vaccinated. On that basis, most cases of whooping cough are going unreported.
The Oxford
researchers discovered that, of 172 cases of children who went to their doctor
with a bad cough, 64 of them had recently been vaccinated against pertussis
infection, and 55 had been fully immunised.
Despite this,
lead researcher Dr Anthony Harnden is adamant that the vaccine works. "The
immunisation is very effective - we know that because very few infants die of
whooping cough."
True, but surely
the vaccine is also supposed to protect against infection. Once established, the
course of the disease is then determined by many other factors, too, such as
nutritional status.
The Health
Protection Agency, which pronounces on all such things of moment, says the
vaccine has only a short life, and its protection soon wears off.
Sounds like a new
vaccine programme for older children is waiting in the wings.
(Source: BMJ
online. BMJ, doi: 10.1136/bmj. 38870.655405. AE)
MORNING SICKNESS: It's all to do with a bad diet
Morning sickness
seems to come with the territory for some women in the first few months of
pregnancy. And scientists now reckon they know the reason.
It could all be
down to the woman's diet - it's the body's way of protecting the fetus from a
'bad' diet. A woman who eats healthily is more likely to sail through the first
few months of pregnancy without any of the unpleasant symptoms of morning
sickness, unlike the woman whose diet is predominantly made up of processed and
fast foods.
A research study
has discovered that women are far more likely to suffer if they eat large
quantities of sugars, sweeteners, and fried foods.
Researchers
analysed 56 studies on morning sickness, collated from 21 countries, and found a
link with diets that were high in sugars, sweeteners and oil crops used in
frying foods. Other suspect foods include large amounts of meat, and stimulants
such as coffee and alcohol. Conversely, cereals and pulses reduced the risk of
morning sickness.
(Source:
Proceedings of the Royal Society B).
SURGERY: Unnecessary operations for the insured
The old saying
has it that if you have a hammer, you can only see nails. Similarly, if you
visit a surgeon, he'll suggest an operation.
An extreme
example of this old adage has been uncovered at a hospital in California, which
has been carrying out numerous cardiac operations that were completely
unnecessary.
Forty agents from
the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the hospital in 2002 following
reports of up to 769 unnecessary procedures.
The hospital is
owned by Tenet Healthcare, the second largest health provider in the USA, which
has agreed to pay $500m compensation to settle claims from patients and their
families.
Perhaps we need
to adapt the adage. If you have health insurance, you're getting an operation.
(Source: British
Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 59).
Above 3
stories from WDDTY e-newsletter
www.wddty.co.uk/e-news.asp
America's deadly messenger
It's not just
Israel's security that the decision-makers in the Bush administration have in
mind in their decisions to back its actions, but also America's.
WASHINGTON -
Across from UN headquarters in New York, Senator Hillary Clinton (Democrat, New
York) stood at a small podium adorned with the symbol of the Conference of
Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations to give a speech in praise of Israel.
Behind her and at her sides - a group of men in gray: Israel's Ambassador to the
UN, Danny Gillerman, the chairman of the Conference of Presidents, Malcolm
Hoenlein, the Israeli Consul General in New York, Arye Mekel. Mummified in their
neckties in the sweltering heat of the east coast, serious of mien, nodding. "We
will stand with Israel, because Israel is standing for American values as well
as Israeli ones," Clinton said. Here you have it - the whole foreign relations
Torah on one slightly perspiring foot.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/739976
The Human Shields of Nazareth
Nazareth hit the
international headlines for the first time in this vicious war being waged by
Israel mostly on Lebanese civilians. Reporter Matthew Price, corseted in a blue
flak jacket in Haifa, told BBC viewers that for the first time Hezbollah had
targeted Nazareth late on Sunday. "Nazareth is a mostly Christian town," he
added, managing to cram into a single sentence of a few words two factual
mistakes and a disturbing hint of incitement.
Whatever the
precision of its rockets (and Nazareth's residents are certainly worried enough
about that), Hezbollah struck not at Nazareth but at a site some distance from
Nazareth – a site of strategic significance to Israel, though I cannot say more
than that as we are now officially under martial law in the country's north.
Matthew Price was
also wrong about Nazareth being a "mostly Christian town." During the 1948 war
in which Israel's army ethnically cleansed much of the surrounding area of
Palestinians, Muslim villagers fled to Nazareth in search of sanctuary. Today,
two-thirds of the city's 75,000 inhabitants are Muslim – or at least they are by
the religious classification system imposed on all citizens by the Israeli
authorities.
Which brings us
to the nasty element of incitement from our BBC reporter.
Several Israeli
armaments factories and storage depots have been built close by Arab communities
in the north of Israel, possibly in the hope that by locating them there Arab
regimes will be deterred from attacking Israel's enormous armory. In other
words, the inhabitants of several of Israel's Arab towns and villages have been
turned into collective human shields – protection for Israel's war machine.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=9333
Robert Fisk in Beirut: Israeli Assault on Lebanon Inflicting "Mass Punishment on
a Whole People"
The Israeli
attack on Lebanon has entered its second week and the death toll now stands at
about 300, nearly all Lebanese civilians. We go to Beirut to speak with Robert
Fisk, chief Middle East correspondent for the London Independent. Fisk discusses
the assault on Lebanon, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, the role of Syria
and Iran in the crisis, embedded reporters in the Israeli military and more.
[includes rush transcript]
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/19/1345257
DID THE PALESTINIANS REALLY DIG A TUNNEL UNDER THE NOSES OF THE ISRAELIS?
I don’t know what
has happened to Cpl. Gilad Shalit. I don’t know if he was captured, or, if he
was, I don’t know how he was captured. Frankly, I don’t even know that he
actually exists apart from the pictures of him that we have all seen. One hopes
that these are all questions that will eventually be answered.
I do know,
however, that there is something extraordinarily odd about the story the Israeli
Defence Force claim is behind his disappearance. In particular it’s the part
about the tunnel which I can’t get to grips with.
http://lataan.blogspot.com/2006/07/did-palestinians-really-dig-tunnel.html
LEBANON: DEATH, INJURY AND DESTRUCTION MADE IN AMERICA
I have to post
these images, because, as an American, I am responsible for this. All Americans
are responsible for this
http://cryptogon.com/2006_07_16_blogarchive.html#115319409589933810
20 July 2006
Maine AG Files Suit Against Gentle Wind
In the
last few days, we have learned that the Gentle Wind Project - a 'healing
organisation' based in Maine, USA, which was heavily criticised in past
issues of the Truth Campaign - have been served with a lawsuit by the
Maine Attorney General. It would appear that the Maine AG shares most of
the same concerns that we expressed, and has called for the Gentle Wind
Project to be disbanded, with financial penalties, return of what GWP
describe as 'donations' for their 'healing devices', and backdated taxes
to be paid on such 'donations', which the AG sees as actual purchases of
products.
After
publishing articles, heavily critical of the GWP, their 'healing
devices', and their financing arrangements, in both the Truth Campaign
and on GWP's internet forum, Steve Gamble (also Equilibra) and I (also
The Truth Campaign) were served with a lawsuit in 2004 alleging a
conspiracy and racketeering in concert with ex-GWP members and several
cult awareness experts to deliberately benefit from a campaign to
deliberately damage GWP. This lawsuit cost Steve and I several thousand
pounds and nearly destroyed the Truth Campaign. I am still paying back
the money borrowed to fund our legal fees, which came at a time when we
were for the first time starting to make financial progress as an
organisation and managing to pay off the debts and loans that have been
necessary over the years to keep us going.
The legal
fees were simply too overwhelming, and we ultimately had to enter a
mutual agreement in order to be dismissed from the lawsuit. The
agreement was actually something of a minor miracle, and left both Steve
and I with only minor modifications to make in our material, and with
mutual restrictions on what the GWP could publish about us. For a
summary of our agreement see
www.equilibrauk.com/lawsuit.htm
In
February of this year, the entire case involving the remaining
defendants was thrown out of court - see
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packets/vol_3_no_6/003812.shtml
The GWP
then launched a new lawsuit in civil court against the remaining
defendants, which is yet to go to trial.
However,
in light of this recent move by the Maine AG, one wonders if that will
now take place.
Ivan
Fraser
Maine AG Files Suit Against Gentle Wind
AUGUSTA,
Maine -- The Maine Attorney General's Office has filed a lawsuit against
a controversial Kittery-based nonprofit group. The Gentle Wind Project
designs and sells what it calls "healing instruments" that it said solve
a variety of physical and emotional ailments. Others said the group is a
scam.
The
attorney general's office accused the group of falsely claiming that
their products had healing qualities and of considering the income from
their sale as charitable donations rather than sales proceeds.
Prosecutors want the Gentle Wind Project to liquidate its assets, pay
the state's legal fees and refund anyone who bought items between 2000
and the present.
source:
www.wmtw.com/news/9516341/detail.html
The Scotsman Wed 19 Jul 2006 - 340 dead ... so why
were two tsunami alerts ignored
INDONESIA
received alerts from two regional agencies that Monday's undersea
earthquake could trigger a tsunami, but officials made no attempt to
alert threatened communities, a government minister admitted yesterday.
Kusmayanto Kadiman, the science and technology minister, said bulletins
came from the US Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre and Japan's
meteorological agency, but "we did not announce them".
The
warnings were sent about 45 minutes before the tsunami struck.
Even if
the government had attempted to phone, radio or e-mail local
authorities, it is unclear how the word would have been spread to
residents or tourists on the beach, with no alarm systems in place.
Timeline: how Middle East crisis has unfolded
Here are
the key events of the last 19 days that have pushed the Middle East to
the brink of a regional crisis:
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2268256,00.html
D. Telegraph 19.7.06 "YOUNG DOCTORS POOR TRAINING IS
KILLING PATIENTS"
100s of
patients are dying needlessly because young doctors are not being
properly trained to prescribe medicines. Some of Britain's leading
doctors yesterday issued a stark warning that many young doctors'
knowledge on prescribing drugs is alarmingly low. Closure of university
pharmacology depts & downgrading of the subject in medical training is
the reason. Official estimates suggest serious reactions to medicines
account for 1 in every 15 hospital admissions & errors in prescribing
are likely to cause 100s of deaths a year. Prof. Mike Rawlins, chair of
NICE confirmed this to be true. Prof. Jeffrey Aronson of Oxford Uni said
that errors may include prescribing the wrong drug, or the wrong dose,
or not taking into account how the drug might react with other drugs the
patient is already using. The cost to the NHS of drug prescribing errors
to is estimated to be £466million.
If Israel has the right to use force in self defence,
so do its neighbours
The west
appears to insist that only one side in the conflict is able to
intervene militarily across borders. That will never be accepted
Much has
been made in recent days - at the G8 summit and elsewhere - of Israel's
right to retaliate against the capture of its soldiers, or attacks on
its troops on its own sovereign territory. Some, such as those in the US
administration, seem to believe that Israel has an unqualified licence
to hit back at its enemies no matter what the cost. And even those
willing to recognise that there may be a problem tend to couch it in
terms of Israel's "disproportionate use of force" rather than its basic
right to take military action.
But what
is at stake here is not proportionality or the issue of self-defence,
but symmetry and equivalence. Israel is staking a claim to the exclusive
use of force as an instrument of policy and punishment, and is seeking
to deny any opposing state or non-state actor a similar right. It is
also largely succeeding in portraying its own "right to self-defence" as
beyond question, while denying anyone else the same. And the
international community is effectively endorsing Israel's stance on both
counts.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1822923,00.html
Israel’s Terrorism
The
Middle East is boiling over yet again. Israel is resorting to the one
strategy it has perfected since the day it was created, murdering
civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure.
The
Israeli defense doctrine, old as Israel itself, considers bombing of
civilian targets a means for pressuring “militants” and uncooperative
governments. So Israel bombs bridges and villages in South Lebanon,
power plants in Gaza, orchards, fields, schools, hospitals, residential
neighborhoods, beach barbecue parties, etc. Everything is a legitimate
target. Israeli ministers announce publicly that their chief strategy is
to cause civilian suffering. Every day sees its Guernica, and the U. N.,
which proudly displays a reproduction of the painting, is mum in the
face of a hundred Guernicas.
To be
clear, Israel’s actions fit the very definition of terrorism. Doubly so
now, since the bombing campaign is a response to attacks on Israeli
soldiers, not civilians. The ever more morally bankrupt “international
community” sees nothing, hears nothing, and says nothing. Don’t take my
word for it. An aide of the Israeli PM said recently: “We are acting
there [in Gaza] in an unprecedented manner; we’re firing hundreds of
artillery shells, attacking from the air, sea and land and the world
remains silent.”
http://dissidentvoice.org/July06/Ash18.htm
Israel's monstrous legacy brings tumult a step closer
Ever
since the Israelis ended their occupation of southern Lebanon in 2000,
this weak and diminutive country has enjoyed an almost unmarred respite
from the turbulence of the region to which it so easily and habitually
falls victim. But overnight it has been plunged back into the role it
endured for a quarter century and more - that of hapless arena for other
people's wars, as well as pawn in the ambitions and machinations of
regional players far more powerful than itself.
www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1820101,00.html
Hundreds of Palestinian 'suspects' have been kidnapped
from their homes and will never stand trial
It's the
wee hours of the morning, still dark outside. A guerrilla force comes
out of nowhere to kidnap a soldier. After hours of careful movement, the
force reaches its target, and the ambush is on! In seconds, the soldier
finds himself looking down the barrel of a rifle.
A smash
in the face with the butt of the gun and the soldier falls to the
ground, bleeding. The kidnappers pick him up, quickly tie his hands and
blindfold him, and disappear into the night.
This
might be the end of the kidnapping, but the nightmare has just begun.
The soldier's mother collapses, his father prays. His commanding
officers promise to do everything they can to get him back, his comrades
swear revenge. An entire nation is up-in-arms, writing in pain and
worry.
Nobody
knows how the soldier is: Is he hurt? Do his captors give him even a
minimum of human decency, or are they torturing him to death by
trampling his honor? The worst sort of suffering is not knowing. Will he
come home? And if so, when? And in what condition? Can anyone remain
apathetic in the light of such drama?
FULL STORY
Guardian 15.7.06 "PORTON DOWN CHEMICAL WEAPONS TESTS
UNETHICAL, SAYS REPORT"
Over 400
military personnel were deliberately exposed to chemical weapons in
Govt.-run experiments, which seriously breached ethical standards, an
official report has concluded. Prof. Sir Ian Kennedy, an expert in
scientific ethics has evaluated the experiments. He found they were
exposed to painful nerve & mustard gas which were "uncontrollably
dangerous" & "went too far" & he doubted they consented to the
experiments. Some suffered serious burns & their eyes were also
experimented on. A total of 11,000 servicemen were exposed to mustard &
nerve gas experiments between 1939 & 1981 & some claim they suffered
long-term damage. Ronald Maddison died after nerve gas was dripped onto
his arm.
Guardian 15.7.06 "DOCTORS TO FACE INDEPENDENT REVIEW IN CASES OF
MISCONDUCT"
Radical
proposals to overhaul the GMC, which regulates & disciplines doctors, is
planned by Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer. The
self-regulation doctors have enjoyed for decades would be watered down.
At the moment the GMC prosecutes & judges errant doctors. Under
Donaldson's plans cases will be decided by an independent tribunal &
more doctors could theoretically be struck off.
After Hesitation, Germany Agrees to Arms Sale to
Israel
The
government of Germany has approved the sale to Israel of German-designed
Dingo II APVs and two Dolphin-class submarines.
Die Welt
newspaper reported this month that the German government initially
hesitated in providing the All-Protected Vehicles (APVs), concerned that
they were to be used in confrontation with the Palestinian Authority. At
the time, former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder argued that the vehicles
could be used in territories "occupied by Israel." However, Die Welt's
sources in the German security council said that Berlin no longer
objects to the sale "for test purposes."
www.arutz7.net/news.php3?id=107031
Israel's State-Sponsored Terrorism
The
Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has exploited the
capture of Army Corporal Gilad Shalit to restore the country's
diminished deterrence against militant Palestinian factions, to break
the elected Hamas government and to impose its unilateral territorial
solution on the West Bank. But when the dust finally settles, Israel's
offensive against the besieged territories--and now Lebanon--will have
left the region with more destruction and death and the Israeli
government with the same strategic deadlock. That's why instead of
lashing out against their neighbors, Israelis must end the vicious cycle
of provocations and retaliations, and pursue meaningful negotiations to
end the occupation.
www.alternet.org/story/38937/
EMF Omega News
Childhood
leukemia and magnetic fields in Japan
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2334471/
Girl & pet dog
share same cancer ordeal
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2333859/
Being a member
of ICNIRP or the WHO EMF project means having a ticket to ride
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2310262/
Repacholi's
money or WHO's?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2310876/
Conflict of
Interest and Bias in Health Advisory Committees: A case study of the WHO’s EMF
Task Group
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2310876/
It's official:
Mike Repacholi has left the WHO
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2334553/
Global
Umberella Organization for Protection from Non-thermal EMFs and EMR (Update)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2307799/
Computer
network forced man to quit job
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2317407/
New problems
with cellphones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2341473/
Mod cons that
could kill you
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2326886/
Cancer risk for
radiation workers
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/cancer_risk_for_rradiation_workers.pdf
Charity
Children with Leukaemia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2341814/
Company appeals
for mast
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2317620/
Headteachers
add weight to fight against mobile mast
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2318730/
Early warning
call on masts
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2326655/
Cancer fears
spark new mast fight
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2334821/
New tactics in
mast fight after lie-down protest
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2338399/
Mum urges
families to fight mast plans
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2343511/
May we all
unite as one voice to defeat these enemies that faces us all
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2349158/
Mast plans go
before council
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2348816/
PHONE MAST
PROTESTERS TARGET AHERN
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2349208/
Fresh fury at
school blow
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2350992/
Giant airships
could replace mobile phone masts
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2345691/
Substation move
welcomed by staff
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2333747/
ES and
"psychological"
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2338273/
Complaint about
interference to video TV facilities from the 02 Airwave police communications
system TETRA
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2350985/
BCUC approves
power line upgrade Gulf Islands
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2340639/
Power line
decision shocks residents
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2350265/
Chernobyl's
'nuclear nightmares'
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2346654/
Medical journal
reveals that 70 percent of drug decision-making panel members have financial
ties to industry
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2346427/
Michèle Rivasi,
Lettre à Monsieur Xavier Bertrand, Ministre de la santé
http://omega-news.livejournal.com/267797.html
En Belgique, un
électrosensible accuse son Ministre de la santé
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2328349/
Zone Santé =
Zone Blanche: le nouveau label Européen
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2328408/
Orange et SFR
contre Etienne Cendrier pour diffamation
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2338122/
Réunion avec le
Groupe des Verts au Conseil de Paris
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2338134/
"L'Antenne-relais
n'est pas passée"
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2340677/
Les habitants
font barrage à la nouvelle antenne-relais
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2340688/
Les antennes
relais du Bel-Air, une menace pour la santé?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2341540/
Les articles "censurés"
(cachés) d'Indymedia RU sur les rayonnements
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2341589/
Les Sacrifiés
d'Orange
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2341605/
La Symbolique
des Drapeaux
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2350385/
News from Mast
Sanity
http://tinyurl.com/aotw3
Omega-News
Collection 15. July 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2351203/
The Times 14.7.06 "AUTISM RATE IN CHILDREN HAS
DOUBLED, SAY DOCTORS"
A
large study by Prof. Gillian Baird has revealed a record rate of autism
disorders which now affect over 1 in 100 children. This is the tip of
the iceberg because this does not include the rising hyperactivity &
behavioural problems, such as ADHD. Dr. Paul Shattock of Autism Research
Unit at Sunderland Uni said possible causes are pesticides, antibiotics,
vaccines, diet etc. Until the 1990s the accepted figures were 4 or 5
cases of autism per 10,000 people, rising to 20 if autistic spectrum
disorders were included such as Asperger's syndrome. Prof. Baird said
the autism rates are much higher than previously thought & that
environmental factors could not be ruled out. Published in "The Lancet."
Watford Observer 14.7.06 "I WANT JUSTICE FOR MY DAUGHTER'S SUFFERING"
Deborah
Mann of South Oxhey, near Watford, is taking legal action against
Europe's largest drug manufacturer who make Epilim (sodium valproate)
which she was prescribed for epilepsy during pregnancy. Both her
daughters were born with physical disabilities & severe learning
disabilities.
I cured myself of MS
Conventional medicines says multiple sclerosis is incurable. This man
insists he beat it with diet, ancient Chinese exercises and mind over
matter. Wishful thinking - or truly extraordinary breakthrough?
In 1998,
Dermot O'Connor, 36, from Dublin, was diagnosed with a severe form of
multiple sclerosis (MS) - the 'incurable' and degenerative neurological
disorder.
He left
his job to dedicate himself to fighting the condition. Eight years
later, in perfect health and symptom-free, he has written a book telling
how he achieved this through nutrition, acupuncture and forms of mind
and body medicine.
http://www.naturalmatters.net/article.asp?article=2056&cat=247
Boy awarded $43.1 million The 7-year-old’s settlement
comes under a national vaccine compensation program.
The
Kansas City Star National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program In what is
thought to be one of the largest such settlements ever, a quadriplegic
boy has been awarded $43.1 million under a government vaccine injury
program.
Seven-year-old Mario Arturo Rodriguez, who once lived in Kansas City and
received a vaccination at Children’s Mercy Hospital, will receive the
money under a settlement reached this week through the no-fault National
Vaccine Injury Compensation Program of the U. S. Department of Health
and Human Services.
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/14982718.htm
UK continues study despite controversy Officials insist
PolyHeme blood substitute safe for human trials
A UK
trial involving an experimental blood-replacing drug is still underway
and the head of the trial said controversy surrounding the drug is
unfounded and no problems have been observed in UK's trial.
PolyHeme,
an experimental blood replacement made by Northfield Labs Inc. of
Indiana, came under fire in a Wall Street Journal article published in
late February. In it, the article detailed that 10 of 81 patients who
received PolyHeme suffered heart attacks within a week and two of them
died.
FULL STORY
Artificial Blood Experiment: Is Your City
Participating?
Northfield Lab's experimental blood substitute Polyheme is currently in
randomized phase III clinical trials recruiting patients without
informed consent all over the country. At one point, it was being tested
in as many as 27 cities; it is still being tested in 23 hospitals in 20
cities.
With the
FDA's approval, Northfield Lab has recruited hospitals to participate in
the trial study with exemption from informed consent requirements on
study participants. Although Northfield Lab claims that extensive
information on the study has been made public, a vast majority of the
general public has never heard of the trial.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2166058&page=1&WNT=true
19 July 2006
Doctors who take drug firm 'freebies' face being
struck off
Doctors
who accept gifts or hospitality from drugs companies could be struck
off.
Under
revised rules, due to be published later this year, the General Medical
Council (GMC) will warn doctors who take "freebies" from pharmaceutical
companies that they may be putting their registration at risk. The GMC
will also encourage doctors to blow the whistle on colleagues who are
taking bribes from drug companies.
FULL STORY
Britain falls out of love with America
A
majority of Britons think American culture and the actions of the
present American administration are making the world a worse place to
live in, and almost no one believes America is now, if it ever was, a
beacon to the world. Well over half of those interviewed regard the US
as an imperial power bent on dominating the world by one means or
another.
FULL STORY
Gorbachev: 'Americans Have a Severe Disease'
Mikhail
Gorbachev is generally regarded as the man who broke down the "iron
curtain" that separated the communist world from the West and thawed the
Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Now, 15
years after a coup removed him from power and the Soviet Union
dissolved, he has some stern words for the United States, whose
relationship with Russia has soured lately.
"We have
made some mistakes," he said, referring to recent attacks on Russia's
democracy. "So what? Please don't put even more obstacles in our way. Do
you really think you are smarter than we are?"
The
former general secretary of the Soviet Union Communist Party accused
Americans of arrogance and trying to impose their way of life on other
nations.
"Americans have a severe disease — worse than AIDS. It's called the
winner's complex," he said. "You want an American style-democracy here.
That will not work."
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2182020&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
DRUG REGULATORS: Turning a blind eye to antidepressant
dangers
Just what
exactly is the role of our drug regulators? Are they there to protect
us, or to help the drug companies generate greater profits? These are
questions we've been asking for a while now, but it comes to something
when doctors join in. Top psychiatrist David Healy wants to know why it
is that a drug company has written to him, admitting that its
antidepressant paroxetine may increase the risk of suicide six-fold,
while the official data from the regulators paints a far rosier picture.
"Many
people expect drug companies to be slow to concede that a drug causes
hazards, but we do not expect our regulators to be even slower," he
says.
The
reluctance of the drug regulators to issue warnings about drugs happens
on both sides of the Atlantic. Prof Healy, from the North Wales
Department of Psychological Medicine, points out that "every
antidepressant licensed since 1987" is associated with a higher risk of
suicide compared to placebo, and yet America's drug regulator, the Food
and Drug Administration, continues to obscure this vital fact.
The FDA
is aware that drug manufacturers have tried to muddy the waters by
wrongly blaming some suicides and suicide attempts on the placebo rather
than the drug itself, and yet has done nothing about it.
His
observations add weight to a move to stop drug companies directly
funding research into their own drugs.
(Source:
British Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 92-5).
DIABETES: Psychology can control glycaemic levels
Mind over
Matter corner. Psychological techniques, such as cognitive behaviour
therapy, can lower the glycaemic levels in children, a new study has
discovered.
Researchers have found that the levels fell by a small, but significant,
amount in children with type I diabetes. In a review of 29 trials, which
involved 543 children, researchers discovered that children saw their
glycaemic levels fall by an average of 0.5 per cent when they had some
form of psychological therapy, such as counselling, cognitive behaviour
therapy, and psychodynamic therapy.
Interestingly, the therapies had absolutely no effect on adults who were
also tested.
(Source:
British Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 65-8).
MEDICAL ERRORS: It seems bad, but actually it’s worse
Around 22
per cent of medical mistakes that lead to a serious reaction or even
death go unreported in the UK. As it is, there are 974,000 medical
mishaps every year that get recorded, a report to Britain’s parliament
has revealed.
According
to figures released by the government this week, there are:
* 974,000
recorded ‘accidents’ every year by doctors and hospitals in the UK*
* 300,000
hospital-acquired infections every year in UK hospitals
* 250,000
serious adverse reactions to a pharmaceutical drug reported every year
in the UK**
* This is
a conservative estimate, and government officials accept the figure is
more likely to be 1,190,000
** This
is a very conservative estimate, and is based only on reported
reactions. A truer figure is believed to be closer to 1,200,000 every
year, according to officials.
This
means that up to 2,690,000 people could be harmed by medical mishaps
every year,, which represents around 4.5 per cent of the entire
population. In the USA, where medicine is even more aggressive, the
problem could be affecting up to 13,450,000 people every year.
It's a
recognized fact that there is a massive under-reporting of mistakes –
usually because of fears of litigation – but government officials were
shocked to hear that nobody knows how many of the reported blunders end
in the death of the patient. Only 1 in 4 hospitals 'owns up' to the
patient when something goes wrong; the rest blame it on the disease
itself, while just 1 in 25 drug reactions is ever reported.
As it is,
1 in 10 people admitted to a hospital in Britain every year will suffer
a mishap or accident that will harm him, said Edward Leigh, chairman of
the Commons Public Accounts committee, which was presented with the
shocking figures this week. And this is based on the known, reported
accidents.
"These
figures would be terrifying enough without our learning that there is
undoubtedly substantial under-reporting of serious incidents and deaths.
To top it all, the NHS simply has no idea how many people die each year
from patient safety incidents," said Mr Leigh.
Worse, Mr
Leigh and his committee members have discovered that the situation is
not getting any better. Doctors and hospital staff are not learning from
the mistakes, but are merely repeating them every year. Guidelines are
being consistently ignored, and safety recommendations are not being
implemented.
(Sources:
British Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 59; Parliamentary Public Accounts
Committee Report: A Safer Place for Patients: Learning to Improve
Patient Safety).
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ECZEMA: Solids for baby are to blame
Doctors
encourage mothers to supplement breastfeeding with solids far too early.
And, as a result, the children are far more prone to allergic problems,
and especially eczema, new research has found.
In a
review of 13 studies, researchers discovered that babies who were
introduced to solids before they were four months old were far more
likely to develop allergic problems such as eczema, which, in some
cases, lasted for 10 years.
Another
study discovered a link between early introduction of solids and pollen
allergy such as hay fever.
The
researchers also found some evidence that may link solids with asthma,
food allergies, allergic rhinitis, and animal dander allergy, although
it was not convincing, they said.
(Source:
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 2006; 16: 502-7).
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Good diet helps in cancer treatment
... but
very few sufferers are given any advice on how to improve what they eat.
Barbara Lantin (The Telegraph) reports on new research that emphasises
the key role of food
The role
of a healthy diet in cancer prevention is now widely accepted - the
World Cancer Research Fund's "bible" on the topic runs to 650 large
pages stuffed with thousands of research citations.
But until
recently, little attention has been paid to the benefits of sensible
eating for people who have actually received a cancer diagnosis.
www.naturalmatters.net/article.asp?article=2099&cat=223
Enough Rash statements on Measles!
The
Informed Parent are calling for an end to the constant flow of
scaremongering statements from so-called 'health' professionals. The
latest threat of a measles epidemic appears to be yet another attempt to
increase the MMR uptake. Measles has been on a major decline since the
mid 1850s and this has absolutely nothing to do with any measles or MMR
vaccination. The most dramatic decline in cases and deaths occurred
BEFORE vaccination.
www.naturalmatters.net/newsview.asp?news=2080
Herb tea fights breast cancer
Drinking
herbal tea can lower the risk of developing breast cancer.
Research
based on 4,400 women who were monitored for more than six years shows
that those who drank herbal tea more than halved the risk of developing
the disease.
www.naturalmatters.net/newsview.asp?news=2094
China launches international project on herbal
medicine
China,
the world's main producer of traditional and herbal medicines, has
launched an international project to modernise the sector.
Yesterday
(4 July) the Ministry of Science and Technology pledged an initial 100
million yuan (US$12.5 million) for projects that focus on developing new
treatments for diseases such as cancer and HIV/AIDS.
It is the
first time that China has initiated a multinational research project of
this kind, which it hopes will provide an opportunity to boost health
research in developing nations.
Jin
Xiaoming, a senior ministry official says it is likely that China will
launch research on artemisinin — a herbal medicine regarded as the best
treatment for malaria — with African countries such as Kenya and South
Africa.
The
scheme has already attracted countries including the United States,
Japan and Singapore, says Shang Yong, vice minister of science and
technology.
The first
50 programmes, which will be selected by the ministry and matched with
international partners, are due to start by the end of the year.
China
hopes the project will help increase its share of the global market for
traditional medicines.
Until
now, traditional medicine's entry into global markets has been hampered
by a lack of consensus in how to measure its efficacy. Thus the project
will also include efforts to develop international standards for
traditional remedies.
"It is
much cheaper to develop a new herbal medicine than a Western one," says
Shang. "So our programmes will have a strong appeal for transnational
companies."
www.naturalmatters.net/newsview.asp?news=2087
Want to Live Longer? Make Sure Your Mom is Less Than 25
Years Older Than You
Those who
live to be 100 years and older are more likely to have had young
mothers, according to research from the University of Chicago's Center
on Aging.
A
mother's age when she gives birth has a large impact on the future
lifespan of her child, the study found. Researchers reviewed census
data, social security administration database and genealogical records
and identified 198 U. S. centenarians born from 1890 to 1893.
FULL STORY
A Timely Reminder of Israeli anti-Semitism (Israel's
'enemies' in
fact having a greater claim to 'Semitism' than the majority of Jews):
Israel's Chemical Weapons by James Brooks - July 08,
2004
"On June
10th, 2004, the two clinics in Al-Zawiya treated 130 patients for gas
inhalation. The patients were children, women, old people and young men.
Dr. Abu Madi related that there was a high number of cases of [tetany],
spasm in legs and hands, connected to the nervous system. Pupils were
dilated. … Other symptoms included shock, semi-consciousness,
hyperventilation, irritation and sweating."
Thus
reads a report by medical units serving the West Bank village of Al-Zawiya,
where nonviolent resistance to Israel's impending wall has been
extraordinarily resolute. According to the medical report (procured by
the International Middle East Media Center [IMEMC]), "the gas used
against the protestors is not tear gas but possibly a nerve gas."
The
following day, Israel's "Peace Bloc," Gush Shalom, began a press release
with the following quote from Al-Zawiya:
"What the
army used here yesterday was not tear gas. We know what tear gas is,
what it feels like. That was something totally different. … When we were
still a long way off from where the bulldozers were working, they
started shooting things like this one (holding up a dark green metal
tube with the inscription "Hand and rifle grenade no. 400" - in
English). Black smoke came out. Anyone who breathed it lost
consciousness immediately, more than a hundred people. They remained
unconscious for nearly 24 hours. One is still unconscious, at Rapidiya
Hospital in Nablus. They had high fever and their muscles became rigid.
Some needed urgent blood transfusion. Now, is this a way of dispersing a
demonstration, or is it chemical warfare?"
The
incident in Al-Zawiya appears to be the tenth attack by Israeli soldiers
using an "unknown gas" against Palestinian civilians since early 2001.
We have photographs of the canisters. We have film of victims suffering
in the hospital. We have interviews with Palestinian and European
doctors who have treated the victims. And we presumably have hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of survivors. But we know nothing of their fate.
Despite the evidence, we have not inquired.
Though it
is a state secret, Israel's development of chemical and biological
weapons has been known and analyzed for decades. From the typhoid
poisoning of Palestinian wells and water supplies in 1948 to the
conversion of F-16s into nerve gas "crop dusters" in 1998, Israel has
always demonstrated a strong interest in developing CBW agents and
methods for their dispersal.
In 1992
an El Al 747 flying nerve gas ingredients from the U. S. to Israel
crashed into an Amsterdam apartment building. According to Salman Abu-Sitta,
president of the Palestine Land Society, the respected Dutch daily NRC
Handelsblad followed up the crash with an in-depth investigation of the
Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Israel's CBW complex in
Nes Ziona. The paper reportedly found "strong links" with several U. S.
CBW and medical research centers, "close cooperation between IIBR and
the British-American biological warfare program," and "extensive
collaboration on BW research with Germany and Holland."
At IIBR,
doctors publish world-class research in acetylcholine, the mother lode
of nerve gas design. The Nes Ziona complex is reputed to have invented
an "undetectable" poison-needle gun for "clean" assassinations. In
September 1997, two days after Jordan's King Hussein told Israeli PM
Netanyahu that Hamas was seeking negotiations, Mossad agents in Jordan
attempted to kill Hamas leader Khaled Misha'al with a lethal dose of
fentanyl.
For
years, rumors persisted that Israel was using or testing unknown
chemical agents on Palestinian civilians. The rumors began to reveal
their substance February 12, 2001, when Israel began a six-week campaign
of "novel gas" attacks in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. By chance,
American filmmaker James Longley arrived in Khan Younis, Gaza in the
middle of the first attack. That afternoon he began filming the victims.
His award-winning film, Gaza Strip, documents the naked reality of
Israel's chemical weaponry - the canisters, the doctors, the
eyewitnesses, and the hideous suffering of the victims, many of whom
remained hospitalized for days or weeks.
www.antiwar.com/orig/brooks.php?articleid=2957
AND
Israeli Textbooks and Children’s Literature Promote
Racism and Hatred Toward Palestinians and Arabs
By
Maureen Meehan Israeli school textbooks as well as children’s
storybooks, according to recent academic studies and surveys, portray
Palestinians and Arabs as “murderers,” “rioters,” “suspicious,” and
generally backward and unproductive. Direct delegitimization and
negative stereotyping of Palestinians and Arabs are the rule rather than
the exception in Israeli schoolbooks.
Professor
Daniel Bar-Tal of Tel Aviv University studied 124 elementary, middle-
and high school textbooks on grammar and Hebrew literature, history,
geography and citizenship. Bar-Tal concluded that Israeli textbooks
present the view that Jews are involved in a justified, even
humanitarian, war against an Arab enemy that refuses to accept and
acknowledge the existence and rights of Jews in Israel.
www.washington-report.org/backissues/0999/9909019.html
"Israel Imprisons the Vice President of the Euro-Med
Assembly and where is the EU?"
"I have
no more words to express my indignation for the repeated and unpunished
violations of the legality by the Israeli government. But it seems that
the European Union is speechless either, since it hasn't condemned yet
the imprisonment, that took place on Friday 7 July, of Mr Hassan Khreshi,
Vice President of the Political Committee on Security and Human Rights
of the Euro-Mediterranean Parliament Assembly (EMPA), of which I am
member as well" declared Luisa Morgantini (GUE/NGL).
"What
more Israel has to do, which other violation Israel has to commit, how
many other murders of civil victims have to be completed before the EU
firmly orders to Israel to respect the international law and the human
rights?"
www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=10764&CategoryId=32
The Israeli Moles Who Controlled US Defense Computers On
911
As an
investigative reporter working for American Free Press, I have spent
many hours digging into the criminal network behind the 9/11 terror
attacks. What I have found leads me to believe that Israelis are behind
these "false flag" attacks on the United States.
http://rense.com/general72/moles.htm
D. Telegraph 11.7.06 "STROKE
VICTIMS ARE DYING NEEDLESSLY"
An estimated 550 people die unnecessary in
England each year & 1,000s are incapacitated because the Govt. has
failed to give enough resources for stroke treatment, says the Commons
public accounts committee. They said stroke victims should be given a
scan as soon as possible, be cared for on specialist stroke units & be
given intensive rehabilitation.
Why Judges Shouldn't Have Control
Over Everything Cannabis is a First-Line Treatment for Childhood Mental
Disorders
In 1996, California legalized cannabis as a
treatment for "any... condition for which marijuana brings relief."
Although the law does not constrain physicians from approving the use of
cannabis by children and adolescents, the state medical board has
investigated physicians for doing so, exerting a profoundly inhibiting
effect.
Even doctors associated with the Society of
Cannabis Clinicians have been reluctant to approve cannabis use by
patients under 16 years of age, and have done so only in cases in which
prescribable pharmaceuticals had been tried unsuccessfully. The case of
Alex P. suggests that the practice of employing pharmaceutical drugs as
first-line treatment exposes children gratuitously to harmful side
effects.
www.counterpunch.org/mikuriya07082006.html
France - Prof. Faurisson On Trial
For Thought Crimes By Dr. Robert Faurisson 5-20-6
My own trial is to take place on Tuesday
July 11 in the XVIIth chamber of the Paris criminal court (2, 4
Boulevard du Palais; nearest underground station: "Cité") at 1.30 p. m.
I am accused of having granted, last year, an interview of revisionist
nature to the Iranian radio and television station Sahar, in the context
of a telephone conversation with a Teheran journalist who had called me.
Since the satellite channel Sahar's broadcasts can be picked up in
France, our Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), headed by
Dominique Baudis, filed charges against me with the public prosecutor's
office in Paris.
www.rense.com/general71/intrail.htm
Western Mail - July 7, 06. "DRUG
COMPANIES & REGULATORS '"TOO CLOSE"
Drugs regulators and manufacturers
are "too close", meaning they ignore warning signs over potentially
dangerous medications, a Welsh doctor claimed today.
David Healy, Professor of
Psychiatry at Cardiff University, said bodies like the Medicines and
Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) do not always act in the
best interest of patients.
In a paper in the British Medical
Journal, Prof Healy points to the increased suicide risk from taking
some anti-depressants, such as Seroxat.
The US medicines regulator, the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ordered a review of its clinical
evidence, leading GlaxoSmithKline and the MHRA to concede that there was
an increased risk of adults feeling suicidal.
Previously, the MHRA had said
there was no evidence to back up a claim of suicide risk in adults.
Today, Prof Healy said the MHRA is
too much in the pocket of drug manufacturers.
An original campaigner on the
issue, he said evidence on the side effects of anti-depressants first
appeared in the mid to late 1980s.
Trials in children from the
mid-1990s onwards showed a doubling of the risk of suicidal acts,
leading to a warning on their use in youngsters.
But trials showing a similar risk
for adults did not lead to a warning for adults until May this year,
Prof Healy said.
Doctors had been saying for years
that some patients experienced severe side effects on drugs such as
Seroxat and Prozac, he said. "The drug companies and regulators had
"too close a relationship he said.
In her BMJ editor's column, Fiona
Godlee said the MHRA needs "urgent review and reform".
Crisis in US Media Coverage of Gaza by Patrick
O'Connor July 05, 2006
One
element fuelling the current crisis in Gaza is the ongoing failure of US
corporate media coverage of Israel/Palestine. US policy, public opinion
and mainstream media coverage of Israel/Palestine are all dangerously
biased towards Israel. Media coverage both reflects and influences
policy and public opinion. Media coverage of events in Gaza again
illustrates how the US mainstream media privileges the Israeli
narrative, and frequently ignores both Palestinian experiences and
international law, providing the US public and policymakers with only
part of the story.
On
Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that he intended to
commit war crimes in Gaza, telling his cabinet that he wanted “no one to
be able to sleep tonight in Gaza”. Olmert thus officially acknowledged
Israel’s policy of collectively punishing 1.4 million Palestinians, a
violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention. But none of the US’ three
leading newspapers - The New York Times, Washington Post and LA Times -
reported Olmert’s statement, even though it was widely quoted around the
world.
www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=10521
Cindy Sheehan on Hunger Strike at the White House
"We’ve marched,
held vigils, lobbied Congress, camped out at Bush’s ranch, we’ve even gone to
jail, now it’s time to do more"
"This war
is a crime," the icon mother told a crowd of clapping, cheering
protesters.
"We
represent millions of Americans who withdraw their support from this
government."
Millions
of American have just watched in disgust as our congress ignored the
will of the American people and voted against setting a timetable for
withdrawing our troops from Iraq. Who exactly are they representing and
what course of action do 'we the people’ have at this point?
Cindy
Sheehan has began a hunger strike at the White House and is pledging to
stay as long as it takes until our government does right by our troops
and the Iraqi people and returns US troops from Iraq immediately. If you
browse around the net however, you wouldn’t even know that she and 150
patriots are camped out in direct confrontation of Bush and his
policies. Cindy is providing the spark, but she needs our help to spread
the word and raise the volume of our demands for justice.
Cindy
needs our support to stop this war now. It is time to start asking
questions of everyone who still supports these war crimes, starting with
your 'representative’ and senators
www.uruknet.info/?p=m24395&l=i&size=1&hd=0
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Do GSM 900MHz
signals affect cerebral blood circulation?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2276249/
Comments on
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Electric and Magnetic Fields (EMF)
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2298775/
An extremely
low frequency magnetic field attenuates insulin secretion from the insulinoma
cell line, RIN-m.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2298141/
Leukemia and
Diabetes Increase with Electrical Exposure (EMF)
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/shock_news_leukemia_diabetes_exposure.pdf
Limitations of
the Interphone study: Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma
and Meningioma
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2279060/
On ICNIRP EMF
exposure guidelines
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2289938/
Canadian Cancer
Society advises on EMFs
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2274828/
What Happened
To Me
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2279944/
Childs less
than 18, diagnosed with a brain tumor using a cellphone prior to diagnosis,
searched
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2285455/
Yet another
building cancer cluster in Australia
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2303422/
ELECTRO
SENSITIVITY: CASE STUDIES
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2285657/
Making us sick,
the true health costs of the mobile/wireless revolution
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2303684/
Sefton MBC:
Draft Scrutiny Report
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2292653/
UK Economy and
GDP associated with the mobile phone industry
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2298726/
Prescription
for misperceptions from Dr. Repacholi
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2303819/
‘The fight goes
on’
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2272126/
Global
Umberella Organization for Protection from Non-thermal EMFs and EMR
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2307799/
Where Are All
the Birds?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2289696/
Proposed FPL
poles spark health concerns
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2276681/
Phone masts
face new restrictions
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2292129/
The proposed
Vodaphone phone mast in St Mary's Church in Bathwick
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2244330/
Road Rage
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2294874/
Phone mast
inquiry has been withdrawn
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2297760/
FARMERS
CONTINUE BLOCKADE AGAINST ESB LINE - RADIO MAST OBJECTIONS
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2299801/
PROTEST
VICTORY: Delight as council says no to phone giant's application
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2303748/
Phone mast
'could close playgroup'
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2304039/
‘We had to
approve mast plan’
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2304039/
OAP: I'll move
if they put phone mast here
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2305178/
PEOPLE POWER
RINGS TRUE FOR PHONE MAST
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2305987/
Angry residents
put telecoms giant before mast
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2306045/
Neighbours say
no to mast plan
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2306845/
L'Analyse
"choc" du Dr Jean-Pierre Willem: "Une expérience menée sur 1,5 milliard
d'humains"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2273716/
Drôme de drame:
Collège Marc Seignobos Chabeuil, France
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2298886/
La lutte contre
les maladies cachées
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2298911/
Investigation
du signalement d’un agrégat de pathologies diverses à Saint-Cyr-l’Ecole
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2298927/
ANTENNES-RELAIS
Cancers à St Cyr-l'Ecole: "le hasard"
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2298941/
Dr George
Carlo: Portables en accusation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2302196/
Antennes relais:
ECOUTER le Témoignage de Jean-Luc
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2302217/
News from Mast
Sanity
http://tinyurl.com/aotw3
Omega-News
Collection 8. July 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2309601/
Government accused of NHS 'privatisation by stealth'
The
Government is at the centre of a row over the 'privatisation by stealth'
of the NHS.
It came
after the Department of Health invited private companies to bid to spend
vast sums of the multi-billion pound NHS budget.
A
six-page advert in the Official Journal of European Union asked private
health insurers to apply to run key roles in Primary Care Trusts. PCTs
control 80 per cent of the annual £80 billion NHS budget, funding GP
surgeries, hospital operations and drugs.
Critics
said the move was a 'giant leap' towards privatisation of healthcare -
and effectively lets outside companies commission health services It
will fuel doctors' fears that the Government is trying to break up the
NHS without proper parliamentary debate and consultation with medical
experts.
FULL STORY
One NHS patient in 10 'is harmed in hospital'
Nearly a
million patient safety incidents or "near misses" in a single year were
recorded in NHS trusts, MPs say today in a report which questions the
effectiveness of the National Patient Safety Agency.
The
agency, which cost £35 million to run last year, has made insufficient
progress and experienced cost over-runs and delays, the public accounts
committee (PAC) said.
In
2004-05 there were 974,000 patient safety incidents in England and Wales
and MPs believe that 22 per cent of mistakes go unreported.
FULL STORY
STROKE: The people who are at greatest risk
Heart
specialists like to put a brave face on it, but they really don't fully
understand the role of cholesterol in heart disease. While they repeat
the catechism that high cholesterol is bad for us, they don't point out
that low cholesterol is just as bad. In fact, someone with low
cholesterol is running a big risk of suffering a major stroke.
This
rarely mentioned fact should make any cholesterol-lowering strategy a
fine balancing act, and doctors have to consider that lowering a
patient's cholesterol levels may be doing more harm than good.
To help
understand the factors better, researchers analysed the records of 4,000
patients who had suffered a haemorrhagic stroke. As expected, most had
low cholesterol levels – but they also had high blood pressure, brought
on by heavy alcohol consumption.
So, on
its own, a low cholesterol level is not a marker for a possible stroke.
Patients who are heavy drinkers, and have raised blood pressure as a
result, shouldn't have their cholesterol levels lowered.
(Source:
British Medical Journal, 2006; 333: 22-5).
from WDDTY e-newsletter
www.wddty.co.uk/e-news.asp
UK 'lagging' on renewable energy
Renewable
energy will meet only 10% of the UK's power needs by 2020 - half the
government's target - according to a report from a government-funded
group
The
Carbon Trust said official policies and high costs for wind, solar and
other forms of renewable energy were hampering the sector's growth.
A
Department of Trade and Industry spokesman said targets were
"deliberately ambitious".
Last year
renewables reached 4% of energy for the first time, he added.
However,
the Carbon Trust said it was still possible renewables could meet almost
20% of energy needs by 2020, with offshore wind power looking a
particular good prospect.
www.naturalmatters.net/newsview.asp?news=2068
DDT pesticide 'link' to slow child progress
Children
exposed to the pesticide DDT while in the womb experience development
problems, researchers say.
The
pesticide was banned in the US and UK in the 1970s, but it is still used
in some countries to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
It was
already known DDT was linked to premature births and low birthweight.
The
University of California Berkeley researchers say their findings,
published in Pediatrics, should be borne in mind when addressing
malaria.
DDT, an
organochlorine, persists in the environment long after use, accumulating
in the food chain and in fatty tissues of animals and humans.
Over
time, it degrades into DDE and DDD, which have similar chemical and
physical properties.
Thirty-three years after its use was banned in the US, DDT is still
detectable in about five to 10% of people, while DDE is detectable in
nearly everyone.
www.naturalmatters.net/newsview.asp?news=2065
Codex Chairman Seeks to Thwart Pro Health Initiative
"Codex'
restrictive "Vitamin and Mineral Guideline" treats nutrients as toxins
to be regulated on the basis of "risk analysis" without regard for
benefit. Incredibly, a US dominated* WHO Workshop on the Application of
Risk Assessment to Nutrients expanded the concept from Vitamins and
Minerals to all nutrients and offered further guidance which defines an
adverse event related to any nutrient as "any change in a bio marker".
This means that any nutrient which produces any change, no matter how
beneficial, will be a prohibited substance for international trade. At
the same time, nations are being advised to adopt the alleged "science
based" Codex Guidelines as their own domestic legislation in a process
called "harmonization". Based on poor science, many of these Guidelines
guarantee poor nutritional status and preventable ill health for
billions of people, starting with the most nutritionally vulnerable."
www.naturalmatters.net/newsview.asp?news=2069
The G8 summit: A chronicle of wasted time
With less
than 10 days before the Group of Eight (G8) summit meeting at St
Petersburg, the United States has quietly yanked the carpet out from
under the prestigious forum.
The
International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced last week a list of
countries that will initiate consultations to "produce a common vision
for action, with balanced contributions and collective benefits, to
address vulnerabilities that affect ... the international financial
system". The list of countries is headed by the US, of course, and
includes China, Saudi Arabia and Japan.
Washington has implied that the G8 [1] is not necessarily the lead forum
for exercising "multilateral surveillance" when it comes to dealing with
the issues and imbalances of the world economy. The list of invitees to
the IMF high-level talks on global financial imbalances is a virtual
"who's who" of countries that Washington considers relevant to
addressing pressing issues of financial imbalances in the world economy.
And the list excludes Russia, the host of the G8 summit on July 15.
Curiously, the development came on the eve of Russia making the ruble a
fully convertible currency effective July 1, joining a select group of
20 countries (including the US, Canada, Japan, the eurozone and
Scandinavian countries, Britain, Australia and New Zealand) that do not
put restrictions on currency control and regulation.
www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/HG06Dj01.html
BT to build a dozen wireless cities
BT is
rolling out a programme to build city-wide Wi-Fi networks in a dozen
British urban centres.
The
Wireless City initiative will see extensive linked Wi-Fi grids installed
in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool, Cardiff and Westminster. Six
other cities are scheduled to follow.
www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2156314/bt-build-dozen-wireless-cities
Belgian court condemns two men for online revisionism
A
Brussels criminal court sentenced two employees of the Belgian Islamic
Centre to 10 months jail on Wednesday. They were convicted for inciting
race hatred against Jews by spreading revisionist and xenophobic texts
via the centre's website.
The
plaintiffs’ lawyers said the sentence was “memorable”.
Abdel
Rahman Ayachi, 26, and Raphaël Gendron, 30, run the centre's website.
When leaving the courtroom, they said the “Jewish lobby” had “inspired”
the complaint.
www.ejpress.org/article/9213
Dershowitz Contradicts Himself on the Power of the Israel
Lobby
I was
reading Alan Dershowitz's autobiography, Chutzpah, the other night when
I came to some lines on page 16 that I found shocking:
My
generaton of Jews was too young to fight against Nazism or for Israeli
independence, too American to make aliyah (emigrate to Israel), too
comfortable to put our bodies on the line for anything Jewish. Instead,
we observed, contributed... We became part of what is perhaps the most
effective lobbying and fund-raising effort in the history of democracy.
[my emphasis] I say shocking because when Walt and Mearsheimer published
their bombshell paper on the power of the Israel lobby in March, the
Harvard Law Professor was their leading attacker. He said the scholars
had "destroyed their professional reputations" (a disgraceful statement
that Zbig Brzezinski would appear to include when he talks in Foreign
Policy of "self-demeaning" attacks by critics of Walt and Mearsheimer)
and three weeks after their paper was published, rushed a response onto
Harvard's Kennedy School website, saying that speed was "essential"
"because of the attention the original paper has received."
http://mondoweiss.observer.com/2006/07/dershowitz-contradicts-himself-on-the-power-of-the-israel-lo.html
Night Light Increases Breast Cancer Risks
Disruptions to a person's natural body clock, such as being exposed to
artificial light or staying up for long periods at night, increase the
risk of breast cancer, according to a study by the American National
Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences.
The
researchers used mice that had been implanted with human breast cancer
cells, and injected blood samples from women into the mice. The blood
samples were taken at three different times: during the day, early
morning, and at night after exposure to artificial light.
While the
blood taken at night slowed tumor growth by 80 percent, blood taken
after exposure to artificial light increased cancer growth.
The
findings represent the first proof that light is a risk factor for
cancer. It is thought to act by inhibiting levels of the hormone
melatonin, which is secreted by the pineal gland mostly at night and is
an important variable in regulating a person's sleeping and waking
cycles.
www.mercola.com/2006/jul/6/night_light_increases_breast_cancer_risks.htm
North American Union to Replace USA?
President
Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union,
effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was
the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders
policy.
Secretly,
the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA
politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to
encompass the U. S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration
truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open
borders with Mexico and Canada.
President
Bush intends to abrogate U. S. sovereignty to the North American Union,
a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly
forming, much as the European Union has formed.
www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14965
Another Teacher Persecuted for 9/11 Heresy
Now that
firebrand and apparent gatekeeper of the official version of nine
eleven, Ward Churchill, is in the process of losing his job at the
university of Colorado, another academic, Kevin Barrett, has come under
the gun.
“A state
lawmaker is calling on the University of Wisconsin-Madison to fire a
part-time instructor who has spoken out on his beliefs that figures in
the U. S. government, not al-Qaida, were behind the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks,” reports WFRV, a CBS affiliate.
Barret
made the mistake of calling a local radio show where he “disputed most
of the widely accepted information about the attacks,” information a
large percentage of the public now holds to be suspicious, although you
wouldn’t know it if you watched WFRV or CBS. Barrett “acknowledged
discussing Sept. 11 in teaching classes, but said it was only to give
both sides of the issue, not to convert anyone to his point of view,” a
major faux pas, or rather a political crime punished by denying thought
criminals employment.
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=441
02 July 2006
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006
www.projectcensored.org/censored_2006/index.htm
Beirut to complain to UN about 'Israeli' hand in
assassinations
Lebanon
has decided to file a complaint with the United Nations Security Council
asserting that Israel was behind a string of assassinations in the
country, the Lebanese prime minister said on Saturday.
"We
consider this as an act of aggression (by Israel)," Fouad Siniora told
reporters.
"We are
working on the file and once it is completed we will submit a complaint
to the United Nations Security Council."
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/727851.html
The war on children By John Pilger
A
final solution, agreed by the United States and Israel, to the problem
of the Palestinians. While the Israelis fire missiles at Palestinian
picnickers and homes in Gaza and the West Bank, the two governments are
to starve them. The victims will be mostly children.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13627.htm
Massacre on a Beach in Gaza By Mike Whitney
It's
quite extraordinary. One day they blow up a family peacefully touring in
their new car; killing 3 generations with one mighty blast, and then a
few days later they fire a mortar round at a beach in Gaza wiping out 7
members of another family.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13633.htm
Israeli air strikes hit at least 30 targets in Gaza
Israel
Friday intensified its offensive aimed at freeing a soldier held captive
by Palestinian militants, launching air strikes on at least 30 targets
in the Gaza Strip overnight, including the Hamas-controlled Interior
Ministry in Gaza City.
Six other
offices belonging to Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, roads, arms
warehouses and open fields used as militant training camps were also
hit, security officials on both sides said.
Israel
also stripped a Hamas minister and three lawmakers from Israeli-occupied
East Jerusalem of their right to reside and vote in the city, a day
after, in an unprecedented move, it arrested nearly the entire Hamas
leadership in the West Bank.
Full Story
EMF Omega News
The effects of
recall errors and of selection bias in epidemiologic studies of mobile phone use
and cancer risk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2235304/
Mobile phone
emissions and human brain excitability
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2239017/
Clinical and
physiological investigations of people highly exposed to electromagnetic fields
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2253923/
Review of
ICNIRP EMF exposure guidelines
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2253406/
More Than
Quarter of Staff at Wisconsin School have Cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2253836/
Are cell phones
addictive?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2254079/
Phone masts on
the roof of our local secondary school have resulted in 10 teachers (at least)
with cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2244046/
Families
prepare for phone mast battle
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2230314/
The WHO Model
Legislation for EMF Human Exposure Act
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2230334/
Mobile Chiefs
Seek to Allay Fears Over Phone Radiation
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2234278/
Victory in
phone mast battle
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2240972/
The risk of
inappropriate material being sent to children on mobile phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2246007/
Is it OK to use
a mobile phone?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2246665/
TERMINATE THIS
UNHOLY ALLIANCE
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2244330/
Towering
intrusion
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2253286/
Phone mast
signals problems for stairlifts, disabled widow fears
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2255971/
School phone
mast U-turn
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2258100/
West Kirby
residents defeat telecommunications giant, 02
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2260127/
We had no say
on mast
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2261959/
Dad’s desperate
plea to mobile phone company
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2261999/
Mast deal was
never on
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2262679/
Protesters:
Mast fight goes on
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2262720/
HPA Response to
the Science and Technology Committee
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2263328/
Survey for Sir
William Stewart
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2264418/
Geemarc DECT
poster campaign using children
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2270010/
Are You Being
Electrified?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2271185/
Hands-free car
phones are 'as dangerous as drink-driving'
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2268207/
Portable
Internet
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2266244/
Beware of
exploding laptops
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2265646/
Portables en
accusation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2258210/
L' adieu d'ASL
à René Riausset
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2270042/
News from Mast
Sanity
http://tinyurl.com/aotw3
Omega-News
Collection 1. July 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2271572/
Vets demand official rejection of homeopathy
Many vets
are aghast that unproven homeopathic treatments are routinely prescribed
to animals (New Scientist, 10 December 2005, p8). The Royal College of
Veterinary Surgeons in London, however, seems unsure of its stance.
New
Scientist has learned that the RCVS decided back in February to quietly
remove a list of vets that offer homeopathic treatments from its
official published register of licensed veterinary practitioners. Vets
who believe it is against animals' best interests to undergo unproven
treatments say pets should only be given orthodox medicines, and that
the RCVS's list withdrawal is not enough. They add that details of
homeopathic vets remain available on its website. Forty vets have
written to the college demanding it reject homeopathy.
www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19125583.200-vets-demand-official-rejection-of-homeopathy.html
Chest X-ray exposure may increase likelihood of breast
cancer
An
analysis of 1,600 women with BRCA 1/2 mutations suggests that exposure
to chest X-rays may increase the risk of breast cancer, and that
exposure before the age of 20 may be linked to particularly heightened
risk. The research, conducted by a consortium of European cancer centers,
was the first to analyze the impact of low-level X-ray exposure among
women at genetically high risk for the disease. The study will be
published online June 26 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-06/asoc-cxe062306.php
Will Nature, Science Allow Aids Discussion? Categories
Epidemics
Darin
Brown, initiator of the Aids Wiki is asking a very interesting question:
Why is it that scientific media refuse to allow discussion of the
different scientific views that exist on the etiology and the best
treatment modes of Aids? In the article, titled Who Are the Real AIDS
Denialists? – Testing the 'Moore Assertion' Brown cites Prof. John P.
Moore, self-appointed "Major General in the War on AIDS" and
spokesperson for "The Scientific Community." Moore recently appeared on
the Wiki only to refuse any public debate with the words:
"Participating in any public forum with the likes of Bialy would give
him a credibility that he does not merit. The science community does not
‘debate’ with the AIDS denialists, it treats them with the utter
contempt that they deserve and exposes them for the charlatans that they
are. Kindly do not send me any further communications on this or any
related matter."
www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/06/23/will_nature_science_allow_aids_discussion.htm
Neither
the scientific establishment, the media, nor our nation's health care
agencies have permitted the disclosure of documents that challenge the
validity and accuracy of the so-called “HIV Tests.”
www.kimbannon.com
Kickbacks, cartels and chatrooms: how unscrupulous drug
firms woo the public
Companies violate own ethical codes, says study · Patient group
promotions bypass ban on advertising
Drug
companies use unscrupulous and unethical marketing tactics not only to
influence doctors to prescribe their products but also subtly to
persuade consumers that they need them, a report claims today. Consumers
should be concerned because time and again the companies violate their
own industry's ethical marketing codes. Patients' health may suffer if a
drug like Vioxx - a painkiller later withdrawn - is over-promoted. Yet,
says Consumers International, which has compiled the report, there is "a
shocking lack of publicly available information about the $60bn [£33bn]
spent annually by the industry on drug promotion".
The
report examines the marketing practices of 20 of the world's biggest
drug companies. It alleges that:
· Drug
companies are promoting their products through patients groups, students
and internet chatrooms to bypass the ban on advertising except to
doctors.
· They
offer information to the public on "modern" lifestyle diseases, such as
stress and poor eating habits, to encourage people to ask their doctors
for medicines.
· They
make inaccurate claims about the safety and efficacy of their drugs.
· Doctors
are offered incentives to prescribe and promote drugs including
kickbacks, gifts, free samples and consulting agreements.
· Many
companies have been implicated in anti-competitive strategies, including
cartels and price hikes.
Drug
companies are not permitted to advertise products to the public. But
companies are increasingly looking to influence consumers directly
through funding patient groups and launching "disease awareness
campaigns", which do not name a product but are likely to encourage
patients to seek treatment.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/health/story/0,,1806024,00.html
8 Ministers, 20 MPs abducted by Israel, PM is not
immune
Israeli
troops invaded several areas in the West Bank late Wednesday night into
the early hours of Thursday morning, abducting 64 Palestinian officials,
including 8 ministers, 20 lawmakers, and a mayor. Israel announced that
arrests of Hamas-affiliated lawmakers will continue, stating that
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh is not immune from being
targeted for arrest.
Israeli
officials said the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya is not
immune and could be arrested.
Haniya is
a Gaza resident and arresting him would require a major invasion to the
Gaza Strip.
www.imemc.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19608&
Major Israeli websites hacked
More than
750 Israeli websites hacked in recent hours. Among them: Soldier’s
Treasury Bank, Rambam Hospital, and Globus Group ticket center. Hackers:
You’re killing Palestinians, we’re killing servers
Unprecedented number of Israeli websites hacked: Hundreds of websites
were damaged by hackers in recent hours, following IDF activity in the
Gaza Strip. The hackers are members of the Moroccan “Team Evil” group,
responsible for most of the website damage in Israel in the past year.
This is the largest, most concentrated attack on Israeli websites in
recent years.
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3268449,00.html
Hamas arrests planned weeks ago; G8: Move raises
'concerns'
The
detention of dozens of Hamas lawmakers in the early hours of Thursday
morning had been planned several weeks ago and received approval from
Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Wednesday. The same day, Shin Bet
Director Yuval Diskin presented Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with the list
of Hamas officials slated for detention.
The Group
of Eight industrialized countries said Thursday that the Hamas arrests
raised "particular concerns."
Israel
Defense Forces troops launched the major arrest operation overnight,
detaining 64 of the ruling party's cabinet ministers and
parliamentarians in the West Bank, as well as another 23 military
activists.
www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=732528
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