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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 d |