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What is in Your Vaccine?

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

By J A Blacker, Science Correspondent with Derek Ellis
RINF Alternative News

Folks, you had better sit down, take a very deep breath. Merk drug company vaccines admits injecting cancer viruses into their vaccines and we have the proof on video for you to watch.

This censored interview conducted by medical historian Edward Shorter for WGBH public television (Boston) and Blackwell Science was cut from The Health Century due to its liability–the admission that Merck drug company vaccines have traditionally been injecting cancer viruses (SV40 and others) in people worldwide.

This segment of In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Terrorism, produced and freely contributed by consumer protector and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, features the world’s leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, who explains why Merck’s vaccines have spread AIDS, leukaemia, and other horrific plagues worldwide.

Dr. Hilleman, who developed the Mumps, Rubella and Measles vaccines, said: “Vaccines are the bargain basement technology of the 20th century.”

In the taped interview (with about 6 Merck executives in the room, their nervous laughter audible in the tape) Dr. Hilleman explains how in his search for uninfected monkeys, Merck imported green monkeys from Africa. Those monkeys, it turned out, were carrying the AIDS virus: “I didn’t know we were importing AIDS.”

Dr. Hilleman also acknowledged that he discovered that the Sabine polio vaccine (manufactured by Merck) was infected with the SV-40 cancer virus. In the process of developing vaccines Merck scientists are shown to blithely disregarded public safety as they conducted massive tests exposing millions of unsuspecting people to wild viruses. Dr. Hilleman acknowledged that the cancer infected polio vaccine had been tested in massive field trials in Russia, then in the U.S.

The issues raised in this candid interview raise serious doubts about the propaganda the public has been fed about the safety of vaccines. Vaccines that have been promoted as “safe and effective” miraculous cures have been infecting (possibly) millions of people with cancer, leukaemia, and AIDS.

The interview was conducted by Dr. Edward Shorter, Professor of the History of Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. I checked the authenticity of the tape with Dr. Shorter who informed me that he did it when preparing a PBS series called “The Health Century.” Doubleday published a companion volume of the same title in 1987.

Dr. Shorter deposited the entire tape of the interview, including portions omitted from the book, along with other interviews in the National Library of Medicine.

The uncovered facts should prompt a re-examination of the advisability of US mandatory vaccine policies–

The person who posted this censored portion of the interview on Youtube is Dr. Leonard Horowitz, a controversial and prolific healthcare expert with multiple academic degrees–including 3 doctorates.

In his forthcoming documentary film, “In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism,” Dr. Horowitz examines official directives for national preparedness against outbreaks, nuclear explosions, and other disasters. A critical examination of what officials are saying and not telling that impacts the future of public health and urgent life-saving decisions every American is currently being encouraged to make.

In short you have been deliberately poisoned.

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VIDEO: Shell Oil - corporate criminals

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Oil company business as usual

Blood and oil in Ireland

We hear about a looming energy shortage and we see high fuels prices. The media talks endlessly about global warming, but when do we hear about what goes on “behind the scenes” of oil and gas extraction projects?

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/212.html

Shell Oil, one of the most notorious thug corporations, routinely uses violence and threats of violence to guarantee its profits.

Here were see a well trained group of thugs, paid for at taxpayers expense, attack unarmed demonstrators. Local politicians? Nowhere to be seen.

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Merck Vaccine Chief Brings HIV/AIDS to America

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

This stunning censored interview conducted by medical historian Edward Shorter for WGBH public television (Boston) and Blackwell Science was cut from The Health Century due to its huge liability–the admission that Merck drug company vaccines have traditionally been injecting cancer viruses (SV40 and others) in people worldwide.

This segment of In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism, produced and freely contributed by consumer protector and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, features the world’s leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, who explains why Merck’s vaccines have spread AIDS, leukemia, and other horrific plagues worldwide.

Please forward this clip (link) to everyone you know who thinks vaccines are “safe and effective.”

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When truth is under attack

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

By JA Blacker MSc IMI, Science correspondent
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Bullying journalists endangers us all

RINF has acquired first hand experience - the UK is now in the early stages of becoming a police state directed solely for the benefit of the ruling elite, but the cops on the ground doing the harassment are fairly friendly “just taking orders” - just like in 1932 NAZI Germany.
As a science reporter it is my job to accurately report to our readers police roadblock activities, but when the officers will not even give their names or the name of the operation because they are told not to, but demand your details - then you know the Police Authority have something sinister to hide.

“Common Purpose” is what they have to hide folks.” Common Purpose” is a well-funded EU organisation set up by the Euro political elite to undermine our British “Common LAW” democracy and the UK police; courts, judiciary and every facet of UK authorities are riddles with these characters like a spreading Cancer.

Many good colleagues would simply not even know who or what these characters are - and what their real adgender is. But here is how to spot one: Check out this Video

Ever wondered why our public services are becoming much more expensive, less efficient and more draconian, well now you know.

1st of December this year is being used by “Common Purpose” infested police forces up and down the UK as another excuse to harass law abiding shoppers & motorists, and apparently law abiding Journalists who report the harassment on the ground.

Drink Driving is unwelcome by anyone with an atom of respect for fellow motorist & general public alike, indeed it should not be understated, this is withought doubt an abhorrent activity and its potential for devastating innocent lives is very real. I personally would lock each and every Drink Driver up for a minimum of 30 days with only bread & water and those who cause fatality & Injury should be tried for MURDER or attempted MURDER.

BUT: The simple fact is more people will die from Smoking at Christmas than die from Drink Driving; taking all the hard drugs combined, Swigging Alcohol or ANY other activity!!! Including ALL Terrorism deaths, JET CRASH deaths, TRAIN CRASH deaths & every other type of Incident/ Accident - by a factor of 10 with room to spare.

If it really were about saving peoples lives at Christmas would the authorities not have Roadblocks about “Smoking”? How stupid would that be to most people? Yet Carbon Monoxide from Cigarettes sends folk to sleep at the wheel. Tobacco products harm those who take them & are harming those kids in the car being driven from A to B whilst having to suck it in!

Should we not be sick to the back teeth of NAZI dressed storm troopers with skinhead style JACK boots from stopping us going about our lawful business at Roadblocks based upon what is in reality a “Common Purpose” PLOY?

Are Roadblocks something you use to see in third world BANANA republics only -
Apparently not, according to one relatively friendly bunch of Cops who gave me the once over on Saturday 01st December. One chap in charge (WAS NOT GIVING HIS DETAILS) says he has been doing roadblocks for over 10 years.

Can anyone else remember roadblocks prior to “Common Purpose” riddled NEW LABOUR?

Why are there never any Roadblocks in the pub car parks, would it not be better to stop the problem at source rather than let it get on the road to start with? How about starting at the pubs the cops frequent and then work on the Clubs Barristers & Judges get sloshed at?

Now, as it so happens these officers were dressed like Storm troopers but it’s because they also do drug raids and respond to bar brawl punkouts, etc according to the (Anonymous) team leader. He claimed the other officers were on their TEA break. Cough Cough!

But that is the point exactly is it not?

If we wanted Storm troopers stomping about stopping traffic at checkpoints - we would have invited Hitler to do the job?

WELL, as you have observed from the video that is exactly what is being foisted on the unsuspected British Public by the back door - here is how their dictatorship style patter goes:

“Do you mind being stopped to help us with our drink drive campaign Sir/Madam?”

If you say you DO object, you then become a SUSPECT - in turn your car is searched and all your stuff thrown about and you are given the Christmas once over.

The Cops report back to COP HQ that most of the public do not mind being stopped to help the DD campaign. This is reported correctly, but in such a slanted way, because as one officer let slip “It keeps us in a JOB”.

And it is all very true; the vast majority of people do indeed say they welcome the Cop Checkpoints. Indeed I got the opportunity to ask one motorist before the Storm troopers harassed and stopped me for reporting the truth, and he “the motorist” wished to remain anonymous, clearly was not happy, but felt he had no other option but to put up with the police checkpoint and the inconvenience he was subjected. In fact his facial expressions of clear stress did not match him saying he did not mind - the guy looked like he was ready to have a heart attack. What would you say to an enquiring journalist if you had a cop dressed like a storm trooper stood over?

It was then my turn to receive the once over: the officer refused to give his name despite three separate polite requests and said he was not prepared to give his details at all. I then took the officers number L975 of which he was clearly not pleased. Well, as you can guess my scientific & journalistic curiosity questioned, why hide your name, if a public servant, and if indeed - one has nothing to hide?

I gave the officer my RINF.COM press badge and asked, “Could you tell me the name of this harassment operation officer?” I had already introduced myself to the officer in charge as John Blacker RINF.COM Science correspondent. For public information the storm troopers were operating from Lancaster (BLACK MERIA) Police unit registration X771 JEC at 20:06 on Saturday 01 December on Morecambe Road Lancaster England.

The officer then started to trump up charges of interfering with police duties & wasting police time because I was at the Roadblock asking questions. I then remarked, “It’s a public place; I am press reporting events live for RINF.COM.” The officer then claimed I should have followed press protocol and downloaded the official press release from the Internet.

LET US BE Absolutely clear here, this was suppression of the PRESS media, this was a deliberate stopping of me doing a lawful activity and reporting on the ground police harassment of motorists, disguised as Christmas DD campaign on 1st December 2007.

I was asked if I minded my vehicle being searched and I said I certainly do mind but go ahead.

Well, what do you know; as luck would have it – an emergency ensues – In the boot of my car appeared to be a juicy stash of contraband. I wonder how they got there?

Well, anyway, “HANDS UP!” “Step away from the vehicle!!”

I thought the officers handled this bit really well. Now, this is what we are paying these guys for, not to stop old codgers after dark frightening heart failure.

Anyway, after explaining the situation all was in order.

However before departing:

I took it upon myself to clearly inform the officers of X771 JEC that 911 was an inside job and so were the 7/7 London Bombings. They did not argue - because they already knew.

Indeed, I went on to explain US VICE President DICK CHENEY is being impeached for High Crimes. I told those good police officers that if they wanted real information they would have to go to RINF.COM as the mainstream media is not reporting worthy news such as WAR CROOK Cheney’s impeachment for high crimes.

Let us not forget this; it was first responders who were murdered along with ordinary civilians by Government Criminals on 911.

As I promised the officers of X771 JEC - Here is Dick Cheney impeachment video 2007:

Now we all know how much the UK news is being censored - and how free the UK press actually is.

Would you not expect Dick Cs Impeachment to be reported on the BBC as top headline news?

Surely, the best way to target & catch Road Hogs & motor offenders such as Drink Drivers is for the officers to be mobile, patrolling in groups of two or three. If that system was so inefficient - then why do police use it most of the time & the UK courts /JAILS are full?

Isn’t the REAL TRUTH the roadblock system is used in the run up to Christmas to lighten the loads on the justice services and at the same time groom the unsuspecting public to accept “Common Purpose” EU draconian adgender?

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Canada’s role in depleted uranium weapons

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

By Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, Med

The Government of Canada is in non-compliance with the statutes and regulations of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), prohibiting the use of Canadian uranium in depleted uranium (DU) weapons. Moreover, Canada has a bilateral nuclear co-operation agreement with the US, under which uranium exports to the US may only be used for peaceful purposes, and not in weapons. This includes ‘control over the high enrichment of Canadian uranium and subsequent storage and use of the highly enriched uranium,’ a Foreign Affairs document states. The same rules that apply to uranium apply to depleted uranium, according to the CNSC.

DU weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction under international law. Thus Canada may be complicit in the US use of weapons of mass destruction in the 1991 Iraq war I, the 1998 Balkans war, the 2001 war in Afghanistan, and the 2003 Iraq war II, where the British medical journal Lancet estimates that one million civilians have died. In each of these wars, it is likely that depleted uranium in the DU weapons used by the U.S. and the UK comes from Canadian uranium exported to the US and processed in US enrichment plants into depleted uranium and subsequently manufactured into DU weapons.

Depleted uranium is the uranium by-product that remains after the removal of the isotope U-235 during the enrichment process. For every ton of enriched U-235 uranium for the nuclear weapons and nuclear power industries, seven tons of depleted uranium containing the U-238 isotope are made for the munitions, DU weapons, and military armor industries. ‘Depleted uranium’ is a marketing term of the nuclear industry. U-238 depleted uranium was originally discovered as a poison gas weapon of mass destruction during World War II by the Manhattan Project, at the same time as the atomic bomb and Agent Orange. Because DU is pyrophoric, it bursts into high-temperature decomposition upon impact with military armour, releasing nanoparticles of ionizing radiation that contaminate all living things and the environment with deadly radiation with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. The public military excuse for the use of DU munitions, bombs and kinetic penetrators is that DU is heavy and easily penetrates military armour and other targets. The covert strategic military use of DU munitions, smart bombs, and cruise missiles is radiation contamination of terrain, and low level nuclear war against enemy troops, civilian populations, and all unprotected military troops, for purposes of depopulation.

DU weapons & war crimes

After 3 years of investigation by 60 expert witnesses and jurists at a cost of $1 million raised by Japanese citizens, the International Criminal Tribunal For Afghanistan at Tokyo on March 10, 2004 found President George W. Bush guilty of the war crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons by US forces in the 2001 war against Afghanistan.

Experts agree that a substantial portion of the depleted uranium in the DU weapons used by the US in Afghanistan came from Canadian uranium. Had the Tokyo Tribunal been diligent, it could have found Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, who resigned as Prime Minister on December 12, 2003, guilty as an accessory to genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, for failing to enforce Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission regulations, and the Canada-US Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, both of which prohibit Canadian uranium from being used in DU weapons.

Dr. Gordon Edwards, president of the Montreal-based Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility (CCNR) says, “Canada may have the policy, but it¹s not enforced. The Canadian government is taking directions and orders from the nuclear industry” . The uranium industry has a vested interest in ensuring its depleted uranium waste makes a profit and is not just left in storage. That¹s why some of Canada¹s depleted uranium is ending up in weapons, Edwards says. “The Canadian government can¹t even think for themselves.”

Depleted uranium in Hawaii

The depleted uranium that has contaminated the Hawaiian Islands with deadly radiation most probably has a Canadian uranium source. It is highly probably that the depleted uranium in DU munitions fired at bases on the Big Island and at military bases on Oahu, and in the nuclear weapons stored at Pearl Harbour is derived from Canadian uranium, exported to the US and processed into enriched uranium and DU.

Public health effects of DU weapons

The public health and environmental effects of the use of depleted uranium (DU) weapons can be considered per se violations of the war crime of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes under the Statute of the International Criminal Court. The demonstrated public health effects of depleted uranium (DU) weapons include: diabetes, cancer, birth defects, chronic diseases caused by neurological and neuromuscular radiation damage, mitochondrial diseases (chronic fatigue syndrome, Lou Gehrig¹s, Parkinson¹s and Alzheimer¹s disease, heart and brain disorders), global DNA damage in men¹s sperm, infertility in women, learning disabilities (such as autism and dyslexia), mental illness, infant mortality and low birth weights, increase in death rates and decrease in birth rates.

The Prime Minister stonewalls

So far, the Conservative government and the Liberal opposition have failed to take a public position on Canada¹s failure to stop the illegal use of its uranium in DU weapons. Stephen Harper refused to allow any Conservative MPs to appear on a June 13, 2007 North American radio special programme on the Canadian DU issue. Despite repeated conversations with Stephane Dion’s personal press attaché and attempts to reach Liberal MP and Foreign Affairs critic Ujjal Dosanjh, the Liberal Party chose not to send a representative to the Canadian DU radio programme. Liberal MP Dr. Keith Martin, MD, a physician and former Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Defence in the Paul Martin Government, appeared on a radio programme on the Canadian DU issue and stated that in his opinion, there were no adverse public health consequences to the use of DU weapons.

By contrast, at a May 12, 2007 Uranium-free BC Forum at the Brilliant Centre in Castlegar, BC, NDP MP Alex Atamanenko (Southern Interior) publicly stated he was opposed to the use of Canadian uranium in DU weapons. Atamanenko seeks Canadian legislation banning DU weapons, as Belgium has passed. On the June 13, 2007 Canadian DU radio programme, Atamanenko publicly committed to question the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on why Canada was not enforcing its regulations and treaty obligations against the use of its uranium in DU weapons. Connie Fogal, Leader of the Canadian Action Party, which passed a resolution in support of Canadian legislation outlawing DU weapons, committed to work against the use of Canadian DU in American weapons. Adriane Carr, Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada likewise committed to demand enforcement of Canada¹s prohibitions against use of its uranium in DU weapons.

What path is Canada taking?

Unbeknownst to the public, the Government of Canada seems to have strayed into aiding and abetting the serious war crimes of DU-induced genocide and crimes against humanity. By contrast, British Columbia has maintained a moratorium on uranium mining since the 1970s. There is substantial community support for a permanent ban on uranium exploration and mining in BC, as the recent Uranium-free BC Forum in Castlegar suggested. The detrimental impacts of uranium exploration and mining on public health and the environment is the driving force behind the ban.

Under the guise of combating climate change, the nuclear industry, led by the Bush Administration, is now promoting nuclear power plants to the tiger economies of India, China, Japan, and South Korea. Because of ionizing radiation and the nuclear waste issue, this amounts to a low level nuclear war against these populations. NASA recently reported vast uranium deposits in Khazakhstan and Afghanistan. Khazakhstan is expected to out-produce Canada (now the world¹s top producer) in uranium production within 12 years.

One might rationally ask: Why not ban uranium exploration and mining in BC, and organize collectively to secure a uranium exploration and mining ban in Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec? The public policy reasons for the ban on uranium exploration and mining in the rest of Canada public heath and environment are equally valid throughout Canada, as they are in BC.

Let¹s sunset our Canadian uranium industry. That is a practical way to save the health of Canadians, the environment, and innocent victims worldwide.

*************Alfred Lambremont Webre

Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd is the International Director of the Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS), and a Judge on the Kuala Lumpur International War Crimes Tribunal. Alfred can be reached at peace@peaceinspace.org Website at www.peaceinspace.org
For nuclear info visit www.ccnr.org

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Olmert plays down peace deal chances by end of 2008

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

By Ori Lewis

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday played down expectations for a peace deal with the Palestinians before the end of 2008 as laid out at a U.S.-sponsored peace conference last week.

“We will make an effort to hold speedy negotiations in the hope we may conclude by the end of 2008, but certainly there is no commitment for a firm timetable for their completion,” Olmert said at the start of Sunday’s Israeli cabinet meeting.

U.S. President George W. Bush assured Israeli and Palestinian leaders at the conference in Annapolis, Maryland, that Washington would actively engage in peacemaking, despite deep skepticism over chances for a deal before he leaves office.

Launching the first formal peace talks in seven years at the conference, Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to try and reach a deal on creating a Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank by the end of next year.

But skeptics say Bush’s time scale for peacemaking is too ambitious given both leaders are politically weak. Speaking at the first cabinet meeting since Annapolis, Olmert urged caution.

In an apparent hint to right-wing coalition partners he was not planning concessions without a reciprocal move from the Palestinians, Olmert said any progress on peace would depend on adhering to commitments under a stalled U.S. peace “road map”.

“The most important thing in the joint statement is that … any agreement that we reach in the future will be dependent on completion of all road map commitments.

“In other words, Israel will not have to implement any commitment which emanates from the agreement before all the road map commitments have been met,” he said.

The 2003 U.S. road map provides benchmarks that include a freeze of Jewish settlement activity in the West Bank, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war, as well as a Palestinian crackdown on militants.

GAZA MILITANTS

Israel will release about 430 Palestinian prisoners on Monday as part of efforts to bolster Abbas against Hamas Islamists, who seized the Gaza Strip in June and have rejected the peace drive, vowing to keep fighting the Jewish state.

Israel regularly launches raids into Gaza to try to stop militants firing rockets onto Israeli towns and said on Sunday it had stepped up attacks in the coastal strip in the past week.

A statement said Defense Minister Ehud Barak told ministers he had authorized more military action in Gaza, including the targeting of “manned military Hamas targets”. Barak said Israel had killed 22 militants in attacks in the past week.

Most Gaza petrol stations have closed and traffic has almost came to a halt since Israel began reducing the amount of fuel allowed into the coastal strip last month in response to the rocket salvoes.

“Cooking gas will run out within days and cars will stop within hours,” said Mahmoud al-Khuzundar, chairman of the society of petrol company owners, on Sunday.

Olmert’s comments playing down hopes of a quick deal came after the United States withdrew a draft United Nations resolution endorsing action agreed at Annapolis — a document Israeli officials said they felt was inappropriate.

Although Israel apparently had no problems with the uncontroversial text, analysts suggested it was worried a formal resolution would get the U.N. too involved in Middle East peace efforts. Israel and the United States often complain of bias in the world body against the Jewish state.

(Additional reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi in Gaza, Writing by Ori Lewis and Rebecca Harrison)

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Football agent slams ‘terrorist operation’

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

By Richard Bright

Football agent Willie McKay has claimed that a police raid on his home earlier this week was conducted like a “terrorist operation”.

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McKay’s house was targeted by City of London police officers on Wednesday morning as part of their investigation into allegations of corruption in the game, although he insisted that he had done nothing wrong.

Speaking about the raid, McKay said: “It was 6am, all I could hear was people shouting ‘police’ - I got out of bed and there were police officers all over the place.

“I got ready, but I was absolutely startled and amazed they actually came up into my bedroom - I think there were around 28 [officers involved]. How on earth can an inquiry for allegedly giving a player money lead to 28 officers storming my house with my family inside. It’s incredible.

“They were looking for transfer documents and the strange thing is that twice my lawyer has contacted the police and said, ‘we’re quite happy to meet you, speak with you and show any documentation you want’.

“I don’t blame the officers themselves. Their orders were to come up here, but it was like a terrorist operation. It was like something out of a film.”

McKay was arrested on Wednesday along with Portsmouth chief executive Peter Storrie, former chairman Milan Mandaric, former player Amdy Faye and the Portsmouth manager, Harry Redknapp - who yesterday also protested his innocence.

McKay continued: “They didn’t charge me, but said it was about giving Amdy Faye money. Does that warrant 28 police officers storming your house?

“There are other things the police could be doing rather than coming up here - I could have gone down there. They see fit to do this, and it’s upset me and my family.”

McKay has no doubt that he would be cleared of any wrongdoing.

“I’m not confident, I know I will be,” he said.

“The worrying thing is, how can somebody launch an attack like this on my property through lies? That’s all it’s been.”

After his prominent involvement in the Quest inquiry conducted by Lord Stevens into alleged bungs, when he decided to publicly ‘out’ himself as one of the nine unnamed agents who were supposedly unco-operative - something he also vehemently denied - McKay felt he was being victimised.

He claimed: “A chairman of a club in the North-West about three years ago told me ‘they’re gunning for you, it’s your head they want.”

“I have been through everything - the Quest investigation, this investigation, that investigation - where is it all coming to?”

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Who are the doctors of torture? Why the torture?

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Larisa Alexandrovna

I cannot stop thinking about the so called “medical doctors” and “psychiatrists” who are helping to torture prisoners in US custody at camps such as Gitmo, and secret prisons around the globe. Who are these people?

From a 2005 NYT article:

“The accounts shed light on how interrogations were conducted and raise new questions about the boundaries of medical ethics in the nation’s fight against terrorism.

Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman, declined to address the specifics in the accounts. But he suggested that the doctors advising interrogators were not covered by ethics strictures because they were not treating patients but rather were acting as behavioral scientists.

Several ethics experts outside the military said there were serious questions involving the conduct of the doctors, especially those in units known as Behavioral Science Consultation Teams, BSCT, colloquially referred to as ”biscuit” teams, which advise interrogators.

”Their purpose was to help us break them,” one former interrogator told The Times earlier this year.”

Behavioral scientists? So if they are not treating the patients, are they conducting behavioral experiments? That is what I read from that DOD statement. And then I remembered something about Dr. Ewen Cameron I had read in Naomi Klein’s monumental Shock Doctrine. I had heard of Dr. Cameron before, because believe it or not he had served on the Nuremberg Medical Tribunal. His claim to fame, however, was his horrific experiments on human subjects, funded by the CIA called MKUltra. What I remember from Klein’s book is the similarities that his methods share with those we see today in our own global torture chambers.

Here is Klein discussing Dr. Cameron on Democracy Now:

“McGill in Montreal. At the time, the head of psychiatry was a man named Ewen Cameron. He was actually an American citizen. He was formerly head of the American Psychiatric Association, which I think is quite relevant to the debates going on right now about complicity in the psychiatric profession with current interrogation techniques. Ewen Cameron was head of the American Psychiatric Association. He moved to McGill to be head of psychiatry and to head up a hospital called the Allan Memorial Hospital, which was a psychiatric hospital.

He got funding from the CIA, and he turned the Allan Memorial Hospital into this extraordinary laboratory for what we now understand as alternative interrogation techniques. He dosed his patients with these odd cocktails of drugs, like LSD and PCP. He put them to sleep, sort of into a comatose state for up to a month. He put some of his patients into extreme sensory deprivation, and the point was to make them lose track of time and space.

And what Ewen Cameron believed, or at least what he said he believed, was that all mental illness was taught later in life, that these were patterns that set in later in life. He was a behavioral psychologist. And so, rather than getting at the root of those problems and trying to understand them, he believed that the way to treat mental illness was to take adult patients and reduce them to a childlike state. And it’s been well known — it was well known at the time — that one of the side effects of electroshock therapy was memory loss. And this was something that was seen, actually, by most doctors as a problem, because patients were treated, they may have reported some positive results, but they forgot all kinds of things about their life. Ewen Cameron looked at this research and thought, “Aha, this is good,” because he believed that it was the patterns that — because he believed that it was the patterns that were set in later in life, that if he could take his patients back to an infantile state, before they even had language, before they knew who they were, then he could essentially re-mother them, and he could turn them into healthy people. So this is the idea that caught the attention of the CIA, this idea of deliberately inducing extreme regression.”

In her book, Klein describes that the real interest for the CIA in funding the McGill experiments was to see if a ‘Manchurian Candidate’ could be recreated out of the regressed, “empty slate” that the Cameron technique made out of a victim.

Now, I have not finished the book yet, so Klein may actually cover this. But I have long been unable to reconcile the notion that we are torturing people in order to obtain information from them with the reality of the number of people, the majority of whom were innocent of any wrongdoing, and the opinion of most experts that torture did not work for information gathering. What then, I thought, were we torturing people for?

In Klein’s book, she describes the applications of torture as a mechanism conducted to “shock” the belief system out of the believer as simultaneous military methods are used to shock the freedom out of a nation - for example, in Chile’s bloody Pinochet coup sponsored by the CIA. Ironically, this terrorism was also a September 11 event.

The problem, however, with applying the Cameron template to Iraq and Afghanistan and to extraordinary rendition victims from all over the world, is that unlike in Chile, the effectiveness of “shock” to individual and to his/her society by extension was successful because it was done by the light of day. It was used to both shock the individual out of their political beliefs and through example, those who witnessed the horrific tactics.

In Iraq, Afghanistan, and any number of prisons around the world run by the Bush-Cheney cabal, the “shocks” are delivered in secret. We, the public, only know of them because of courageous whistle-blowers, and sources who leaked to courageous reporters. These things have been so secret that it took years before we knew anything and to this day, we don’t know the half of it.

Moreover, the number of victims in unknown for sure, despite estimates, and the victims have come from a number of countries, including those we are not at war with, like Italy, Germany, and Canada. In other words, although the methods are clearly the same as Dr. Cameron’s torture methods (and also those of Nazi scientists that the US helped bring to safety post WWII in Operation Paperclip), the motive here appears to be different.

The selection of victims is based entirely on their religion and ethnicity. Most of the victims selected by the cabal are either Muslims or resembling Middle Easterners. Yet the victims selected for the torture chambers appear from Europe as well as the Middle East, Canada, as well as the US.

In a document leaked to me in 2005, we learned that at the very least (and these are only the ones known about and documented), the US had detained roughly 70 thousand people since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars:

“U.S. forces have held 35,000 detainees in Iraq since the onset of war. Of those, only 1,300 have been tried, and only half of those tried have been convicted, averaging roughly two percent of the detainee population.

The combined figures of those detainee in both Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 is upwards of 70,000.

According to CENTCOM sources, the Central Criminal Court of Iraq has so far held 684 ‘Coalition trials’ involving 1,259 security detainees, in which a total of only 636 detainees were convicted. Sources say that in total more than 21,000 detainees have been released from Iraq internment facilities.

The CENTCOM slide contains a graphical breakdown of each camp and its detainee population. Included in this count are Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, Fort Suse and Camp Ashraf. Other, less known camps are not included in this count, including Al-Kazimiyah and Al-Nasiriyah. Sources familiar with US detention camps also point to an alleged facility at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, as well as an installation on the USS Baton.”

Now, for collecting information, 70 thousand of men, women, and children are exactly why I do not believe that the torture has anything to do with intelligence gathering. Think about it, 70k people arrested and held without charge, tortured, all for identifying what? How many of these people could actually know anything of value? And even if they did, how many of these people could provides leads that the US could follow up? Where would we even get the manpower?

But let’s also consider, that many of the detainees were held for years, long after they were broken by torture and long after any information they could have provided would have been of use to anyone. Then they were quietly let go.

Whatever the torture is for, it does not appear to be for the shock element as described by Klein, although it has served that purpose in limited form (for example, Fallujah). The torture is also absolutely not part of intelligence gathering, because the numbers of people, their demographics in terms of age and gender, their unlikely access to actual terrorists (that would require something of a connection with Pakistani ISI and the Taliban) would make it a fruitless experiment in the already well known pointlessness horror of torture as a tool of good intelligence gathering .

Now for the speculation, which is all this can be with the limited amount of evidence there is in any direction.

Fake war on terror needs fake enemy soldiers?

We are very much in real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and with very real American casualties to prove it. What we are not, however, is in this thing called The War on Terror. That is a slogan, a label on a product line that does not exist in reality.

Because, if we were really fighting a war on terror, then why are we in Iraq? Why are the two major nations who train terrorists and fund terrorists our allies in a war against Iraq? I am speaking obviously of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Indeed, we have waged a war in Iraq at expense of any real or meaningful progress towards a fight against real terrorism. The War on Terror is a lie, that is something we already know. We also know that the lie has been pushed by people who believe in endless war and creative destruction. But if the incidents of terrorism were - as we know - rather limited on the world level prior to our invasion of Iraq (in comparison with post Iraq invasion numbers), how would an endless war be justified?

Remember, al Qaeda prior to the Iraq war was at its height maybe several hundred strong. Hezbollah had not targeted American interests in years. And all of the limited anti-American terrorism around the world pre-911, was aimed at our embassies, not at generating massive casualties of American civilians, which is what we saw on 9/11.

The only thing that I can conclude given that the mechanisms and methods of torture are almost exactly what Cameron and others were doing in order to create the perfect robot, is that the Bush-Cheney cabal needed an enemy army, a terrorist army that could be used to justify the war on terror as an endless necessary war for the safety of our nation.

Again, I am just speculating, so please do not take this to be anything more than a theory cobbled together out of a few shreds here and a few shreds there. But it is nevertheless an interesting possibility to consider.

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Is the dollar leading us into a depression?

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

A fallen greenback could mean economic turmoil, or it could trigger an economic crisis. Economists are having trouble predicting the outcome because investors are not behaving rationallyBy J. Bradford DeLong

The falling US dollar has emerged as a source of profound global macro-economic distress. The question now is how bad that distress will become. Is the world economy at risk? There are two possibilities. If global savers and investors expect the US dollar’s depreciation to continue, they will flee the currency unless they are compensated appropriately for keeping their money in the US and its assets, implying that the gap between US and foreign interest rates will widen. As a result, the cost of capital in the US will soar, discouraging investment and reducing consumption spending as high interest rates depress the value of households’ principal assets: their houses.

The resulting recession might fuel further pessimism and cutbacks in spending, deepening the downturn. A US in recession would no longer serve as the importer of last resort, which might send the rest of the world into recession as well. A world in which everybody expects a falling US dollar is a world in economic crisis.

By contrast, a world in which the US dollar has already fallen is one that may see economic turmoil, but not an economic crisis. If the US dollar has already fallen — if nobody expects it to fall much more — then there is no reason to compensate global savers and investors for holding US assets.

On the contrary, in this scenario there are opportunities: the US dollar, after all, might rise; US interest rates will be at normal levels; asset values will not be unduly depressed; and investment spending will not be affected by financial turmoil.

Of course, there may well be turbulence: When US wage levels appear low because of a weak US dollar, it is hard to export to the US, and other countries must rely on other sources of demand to maintain full employment. The government may have to shore up the financial system if the changes in asset prices that undermined the US dollar sink risk-loving or imprudent lenders.

But these are, or ought to be, problems that we can solve. By contrast, sky-high US interest rates produced by a general expectation of a massive ongoing US dollar decline is a macroeconomic problem without a solution.

Yet so far there are no signs that global savers and investors expect a US dollar decline. The large gap between US and foreign long-term interest rates that should emerge from and signal expectations of a falling US dollar does not exist. And the US$65 billion needed every month to fund the US current-account deficit continues to flow in. Thus, the world economy may dodge yet another potential catastrophe.

That may still prove to be wishful thinking. After all, the US’ still-large current-account deficit guarantees that the US dollar will continue to fall. Even so, the macroeconomic logic that large current-account deficits signal that currencies are overvalued continues to escape the world’s international financial investors and speculators.

On one level, this is very frustrating: We economists believe that people are smart enough to understand their situation and capable enough to pursue their own interests. Yet the typical investor in US dollar-denominated assets — whether a rich private individual, a pension fund, or a central bank — has not taken the steps to protect themselves against the very likely US dollar decline in our future.

In this case, what is bad for economists is good for the world economy: We may be facing a mere episode of financial distress in the US rather than sky-high long-term interest rates and a depression. The fact that economists can’t explain it is no reason not to be thankful.

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ENDGAME: Ron Paul

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Check out this link from the November 28th Republican YouTube debate, it’s straight out of Endgame:

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2007/11/28/sot.paul.na.conspiracy.cnn

Cooper:
We’ve got another question from a YouTube watcher. Let’s
watch, please.

YouTube question:
Good evening, candidates. This is (inaudible)
from Arlington, Texas, and this question is for Ron Paul.

I’ve met a lot of your supporters online, but I’ve noticed that a
good number of them seem to buy into this conspiracy theory
regarding the Council of Foreign Relations, and some plan to make
a North American union by merging the United States with Canada
and Mexico.

These supporters of yours seem to think that you also believe in
this theory. So my question to you is: Do you really believe in
all this, or are people just putting words in your mouth?

Presidential Candidate Ron Paul:
Well, it all depends on what you mean by “all of this.” the
CFR exists, the Trilateral Commission exists. And it’s a, quote,
“conspiracy of ideas.” This is an ideological battle. Some people
believe in globalism. Others of us believe in national sovereignty.

And there is a move on toward a North American union, just like
early on there was a move on for a European Union, and it
eventually ended up.

And there is a move on toward a North American Union, just like
early on there was a move on for a European Union, and eventually
ended up. So we had NAFTA and moving toward a NAFTA highway. These
are real things. It’s not somebody made these up. It’s not a
conspiracy. They don’t talk about it, and they might not admit
about it, but there’s been money spent on it. There was
legislation passed in the Texas legislature unanimously to put a
halt on it. They’re planning on millions of acres taken by eminent
domain for an international highway from Mexico to Canada, which
is going to make the immigration problem that much worse.

So it’s not so much a secretive conspiracy, it’s a contest between
ideologies, whether we believe in our institutions here, our
national sovereignty, our Constitution, or are we going to further
move into the direction of international government, more U.N.

You know, this country goes to war under U.N. resolutions. I don’t
like big government in Washington, so I don’t like this trend
toward international government. We have a WTO that wants to
control our drug industry, our nutritional products. So, I’m
against all that.

But it’s not so much as a sinister conspiracy. It’s just knowledge
is out there. If we look for it, you’ll realize that our national
sovereignty is under threat.

Cooper:
Congressman Paul, thank you.

(Applause)

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