Up Close and Personal
A brief summary by CTM founder, Phillip Day

ECLUB: So, how's it going?
PD: Great.
ECLUB: And where are you?
PD: Leeds, Yorkshire.
ECLUB: The new Attitude Tour starts soon. Tell us what it's all about.
PD: I'll be examining the mechanics of worry, stress, behavioral problems, addictions, demoralisation, motivation, passion and changing states. The goal of the talk is to link the mental with the physical and see how we can tune both to much higher levels of efficiency. I will of course be giving a round-up on the physical - that's fitness. We'll be looking much closer though at problems which rob us of health, even though we might be fit.
ECLUB: And in this EClub?
PD: The latest on mobiles and their phone masts. A world-renowned expert on the impact of electromagnetic fields and microwave radiation has warned that western governments are putting millions of lives at risk by allowing the continued and unlimited use of mobile phones. Professor Olle Johansson of Sweden said construction of all masts should cease immediately and an urgent investigation launched into the long-term health effects of this communications system.
ECLUB: Sounds like he knows something the rest of us don't.
PD: The problem is, the public is being exposed to this damaging type of EMF regardless of whether they have a mobile or not. And now we have the new wireless Internet coming on line to add to the pollution. A more disastrous band of frequencies could not have been chosen to affect the bioelectrical health of our bodies. While we're all tapping away and 'getting in touch with the ones we love', there are serious issues being stirred up by our renewed love affair with Marconi's invention. The Telecoms industry needs to be hit seriously and hard to avoid another débâcle like tobacco. All they are seeing is a great money-making opportunity and damn the consequences. They know they have about 20 years before they have to take the can back for the damage they are doing. We should be pursuing fibre-optics and giving people really rapid and reliable comms and Internet without this attendant danger of EMF.
ECLUB: What else?
PD: This EClub we're exposing the drugs that cause AIDS in another extract from The Truth About HIV by Steve Ransom and myself. Also, why youngsters should be taking essential fatty acid supplements; more on fish changing sex in the rivers because of the level of estrogens peed into the water supply. It's a jungle out there, Brian. I hope you've got your pith helmet.
ECLUB: You've also some great news on garlic?
PD: Yes, as promised, we have been working with Peter Josling of the Garlic Centre who spearheaded the great work in stabilising the engine of garlic, a substance known as allicin. This discovery has profound implications, I believe, for the treatment of disease, especially those conditions related to yeast, fungi, cancer and damage to the immune system. We're going to be examining parts of his excellent book, which we are now stocking at Credence.
ECLUB: And on the EU side?
PD: Well, Tony Blair intends wooing the British public into permanently wedding itself to the Great Satan of Europe if he wins this election. Do not vote for Tony Blair if you object to him stealing your vitamins and minerals (which he has worked so tirelessly to accomplish), and handing the keys of Britain over to a foreign power (the new EU Constitution, who's Yes campaign he intends to start on VE Day!). Michael Howard of the Conservatives I trust about as far as I can throw a moose. His stance on Europe is not unequivocal and in my view, Europe is THE ONLY issue of any election.
ECLUB: Why?
PD: Because all other matters flow from it, education, immigration, NHS, the economy, defence, etc. How can you administer these aspects of British life when you are being forced to follow European legislation on all these substrates? The British public still believes Westminster is ruling us, an illusion for the time being Brussels is keen to maintain. Once Tony is back in, the screws can start to be turned. Brussels has been running Britain at least since Nice, and some say way before that. Folks, if you are reading this and wonder what the devil I'm on about, please click here.
ECLUB: Any other thoughts?
PD: An intriguing bit on imperial measurements and how the designers of the Space Shuttle were forced to figure the width of two horses' bottoms into their calculations.
ECLUB: Huh?
PD: Horses for courses, Brian. Imperial Roman war-chariots, to be precise.

Europe's Bogus Benefits
Roger Helmer MEP (Con) Lutterworth, Leics

SIR - The benefits of EU membership claimed by Roger Liddle (report, Mar 5), of freedom, security and economic strength, cannot sustain a moment's critical analysis.

Under the EU arrest warrant, British citizens can now be arrested on the whim of a foreign magistrate in Greece or Slovenia. The Government's Draconian and illiberal house-arrest proposals are a direct consequence of the European Convention on Human Rights. That's freedom? Security?

Brussels's proposals for independent defence structures outside NATO, its adversarial approach to America, its Galileo GPS (with China as a partner), are undermining the transatlantic relationship on which our security has depended for decades, and continues to depend.

But Liddle's most preposterous claim is "economic strength". The Bundesbank has said "it can find no benefit for German industry" in the single market.

Commentators from Peter Mandelson to the European Commission itself have highlighted the costs of EU regulation. The hubristic "Lisbon process" promising "the most competitive knowledge based economy in the world" by 2010, lies in ruins.

The French and German economies are edging from failure to disaster, with the euro a key contributory factor. German unemployment is at levels not seen since Weimar. That's economic strength?

Liddle perfectly illustrates the folly of EU propaganda, flying in the face of reality and common sense.
Letters to the Editor, The Daily Telegraph, 10th March 2005

Further Resources
Find out about the EU's real agenda and JUST SAY NO.

Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
The Real Face of the European Union by Phillip Day, video documentary (PAL format only). A free copy of Phillip's excellent film is available to all attendees of his 2005 UK conferences. Have you booked your tickets yet?

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EU Diehards 'Ready to Gang up' on Britain
by David Rennie in Brussels

Plans have been drawn up to create an ad-hoc "core" of countries determined to pursue closer integration, in case Britain rejects the draft treaty establishing a European constitution, it was claimed yesterday.

Senior officials close to the German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, have told a leading pro-European think-tank, the Centre for European Reform (CER), that a scheme exists for a new, inner-circle of true believers, ready for unveiling the "day after" a British No vote, said Charles Grant, the CER director.

Officials in Paris and Brussels have also contributed.

The draft constitution must be ratified by all 25 EU member states, through referendums and parliamentary votes over the next two years.

Britain will be one of the last to hold a referendum, well into next year, and opinion polls indicate it will vote for rejection.

In a new pamphlet, What happens if Britain votes no? Mr Grant cites top officials to predict that a British No would most probably lead to the creation of a "messy core" of pro-integration states.

They would work on eight or nine chosen goals, such as merging their armed forces and embassies. France and Germany would lead the core, inviting Belgium, Luxembourg, and other pro-integration EU states to join them. Britain would become increasingly irrelevant.

"We would start with an objective… then work out how to get there," a German official told Mr Grant. "A decision to merge our armed forces could take a decade, like the creation of the euro. The key is political will."

A new "secretariat" would manage co-operation.

The plans also call for the harmonisation of criminal and civil law, the establishment of a European criminal court and tax harmonisation, and a single seat for core countries in international financial institutions.

Mr Grant, a pro-European, also predicted EU enthusiasts would try to salvage parts of the rejected constitution, such as its creation of a European foreign minister. Britain would find itself prey to ganging up by the inner core, increasingly forced to follow decisions in which it had little say.

But Mr Grant dismissed talk of Britain being thrown out of the EU in the event of a No vote. "Nobody wants to kick us out, we have the best soldiers, the best diplomats, and one of the best performing economies in Europe."
The Daily Telegraph, 1st March 2005

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: The above article does hint at how Britain is loathed by the EU diehards for not pitching in with total integration, and yet while we are ominously promised Britain will become increasingly irrelevant if we don't fully integrate, we are not being 'kicked out' of the EU! Hmmm. Couldn't be because we are paying for everything, could it? Couldn't be because Britain's the fourth biggest economy in the world by GDP and the corrupt, self-serving EU Commission knows the books won't balance without Britain's massive subsidy? (By the way, the EU has not had its accounts signed off for EIGHT YEARS because of fraud and corruption). In an age where nest-feathering has become a way of life in Europe, Britain would do best to go back to what she thought she was doing in 1972, namely sign a free trade agreement with Europe and, as usual, resolutely keep 23 miles of stormy Channel between us and this baleful European integration project we've had to tolerate and defeat on two previous occasions.

VOTE NO TO THE EUROPEAN CONSTITUTION!
YES TO TRADE WITH EUROPE
NO TO BEING RULED BY EUROPE

Further Resources
A free copy of my documentary video,The Real Face of the European Union, is available to all attendees to my British and Irish venues in 2005. Also: Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day

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Is This the True Face of the European Commission?
by Neil Herron

On Monday, 7th March 2005 the Metric Martyrs Defence Fund received the following unsolicited, foul and abusive e-mail. (Asterisks have been added to avoid causing offence):

Original message
From: "John M. Jones" john.jones@cec.eu.int
To: metricmartyrs@btconnect.com
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 5:55 PM

youre a bunch of f***ing luddites. Metric has to win cos thats what we learnt at school. Long live England. long live metric, with 5 metric unit names after UK scientists and 2 UK directors of the metre bureau. The imperialists are dead in the water.
ps: what in hell are you actually defending? look at great countries like australia and new zealand if you cant stand europe. you luddites in england make me sick.

Although very rare, it is not the first we have received, and will probably not be the last. However, what is significant is that the e-mail address is a European Commission employee's address. It appears that John Jones works for the Translation Service in Brussels.

We have requested that the Secretariat General of the European Commission initiates an investigation as this is not the type of behaviour expected from someone employed at the taxpayer's expense. We intend to make an official complaint and have requested the assistance from the three North East MEP's, Martin Callanan (Cons), Stephen Hughes (Lab) and Fiona Hall (Lib Dem). It is unusual in the North East that we have equal representation from the three main parties and we hope that their response to this type of behaviour by a Commission employee is one of unilateral condemnation.

European Commission's Code of Good Administrative Behaviour:

Objectivity and impartiality -
Staff shall always act objectively and impartially, in the Community interest and for the public good. They shall act independently within the framework of the policy fixed by the Commission and their conduct shall never be guided by personal or national interest or political pressure.

Neil Herron
Campaign Director
Metric Martyrs Defence Fund
12 Frederick Street
Sunderland
SR1 1NA
Tel. 00 44 191 565 7143
Mob. 00 44 7776202045
www.metricmartyrs.com
To support the campaign click here

Further Resources
Find out about the EU's real agenda and JUST SAY NO.

Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
The Real Face of the European Union, a video documentary by Phillip Day (PAL format only). A free copy of Phillip's excellent film is available to all attendees of his 2005 UK conferences. Have you booked your tickets yet?

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A Little History of Standards Used in Developing American Technologies:

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.

Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did they use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

What about the ruts in those roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot.

So the next time you are handed a spec and told we have always done it that way, it's because the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.

Now the twist to the story...

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters (SRB).

Thiokol, at their factory in Utah, makes the SRBs. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit wider, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass!
Anon

The AIDS Pharmacy

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the siren till she transforms us into beasts. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and provide for it." Patrick Henry, on the brink of the American Revolution

An individual given an HIV positive diagnosis is generally recommended 'early intervention' treatment with the drug Azidothymidine (AZT) and/or other AIDS-related medications. The AIDS physician suggests this course of action because this is what he has been taught to do. The theory runs that 'early pharmaceutical intervention' reduces the rate at which HIV spreads, thus raising the levels of immune function T-cells, which then do battle with the supposed virus, and thus delay the onset of AIDS-related diseases in the patient.

Let us now trace what happens to that individual, who maybe feels a little run down, and who has decided to go to the doctor. We'll call him Chris. Perhaps Chris belongs to one of the AIDS risk groups popularised by an emotionally charged media (active multi-partner, fast-track hetero/homosexual and/or drug user). Perhaps his tiredness and flu-like symptoms have worryingly coincided with his having recently returned from a trip abroad. Perhaps his tiredness and flu-like symptoms are just that - flu. Either way, through previous conversations, Chris's doctor is aware of the AIDS-type risk categories being presented in this instance, and he advises Chris to get tested for HIV.

But Chris is not aware of the truth concerning AIDS or the HIV tests. He has only been told that HIV is an incredibly volatile viral agent capable of spreading easily through bodily fluids and through the transfer of blood products. So Chris takes the highly unspecific 'HIV test', and after two weeks of inner turmoil waiting for the result, he is told he has 'the virus.' As Joan Shenton says:
"The inexorable death sentence - 'you have ten years at most' pronounced by doctors on young men and women, has led to some of the most intense human suffering imaginable. It has broken up families, alienated individuals from their communities and led to psychological death and suicide."
Looking quite unwell through the stress of it all, Chris is now recommended one of two courses of action:

· Early intervention treatment with anti-viral therapy (AZT, ddI, ddC, d4T, etc.)… or
· Go home untreated and come back when AIDS symptoms start to manifest.

Chris decides on early intervention with AZT - after all, his doctor knows best and this is modern medicine. Had Chris elected not to have AZT to begin with, but to go home and wait for the AIDS symptoms to manifest, he would not have long to wait before starting to notice a number of physical symptoms. That is because Chris is already showing signs of illness through stress alone. He has been persuaded by his doctor and a relentless media into watching for the common symptoms of AIDS. These indicators are 'something like flu', diarrhoea and pronounced fatigue. Notice that these are also psychosomatic symptoms, each of which can be brought on simply by the worry of being HIV positive and thus 'prone to AIDS'.

Gary Null has studied in detail the correlation between receiving bad news (a 'positive' result) and the onset of ill-health. Says Null:
"I've looked at all the literature on psycho-neuro-immunology and I have seen an abundant series of articles that show that if you give a person some bad news, all the quantitative measurements of immune function - natural killer cells, T-cells, phagocytes etc - go down. In a matter of hours, the entire immune system can become depressed. Now give them bad news that is only going to get worse and you're putting that person's psycho-neurological immune system into a tailspin."

Chris has not opted to go home and wait. Having received the equivalent of a verbal death sentence and now not feeling well at all, Chris has decided on the doctor's suggestion of early intervention treatment with AZT.

So what is AZT? Dissident AIDS researcher and author Christine Maggiore introduces us to this widely prescribed AIDS drug.
"AZT is not a new drug. It was not created for the treatment of AIDS and is not an anti-viral. AZT is a chemical compound that was developed - and abandoned - over 30 years ago as a chemotherapy treatment for cancer. Many cancer patients do not survive chemotherapy due to its destructive effects on the immune system. Because of the damage it causes, chemotherapy is never used as a prevention and is only administered for very limited amounts of time.

Since cancer is made of persistently growing cells, AZT was designed to prevent formation of new cells…. In 1964, experiments with AZT on mice with cancer showed that AZT was so effective in destroying healthy growing cells that the mice died of extreme toxicity. As a result, AZT was shelved and no patent was ever filed."

It has been reported by Project AIDS International that Richard Beltz, the creator of AZT, called for the abandonment of this drug because 1) its extreme toxicity made it unsuitable for any chemotherapy - even short term, and 2) it was carcinogenic (cancer causing) at any dose.

Barrister Anthony Brink remarks:
"In truth, AZT makes you feel like you're dying. That's because on AZT you are. How can a deadly cell toxin conceivably make you feel better as it finishes you, by stopping your cells from dividing, by ending this vital process that distinguishes living things from dead things? Not for nothing does AZT come with a skull and cross-bones label when packaged for laboratory use."

And indeed that is the case. With a skull and cross-bones on the outer label (see photo section), and a reminder to wear suitable protective clothing when handling, the inner contents of the AZT packaging include the following side-effects advisory notice:

WHOLE BODY: abdominal pain, back pain, body odour, chest pain, chills, edema of the lip, fever, flu symptoms, hyperalgesia.
CARDIOVASCULAR: syncope, vasodilation.
GASTROINTESTINAL: bleeding gums, constipation, diarrhoea, dysphagia, edema of the tongue, eructation, flatulence, mouth ulcer, rectal haemorrhage.
HAEMIC AND LYMPHATIC: lymphadenopathy.
MUSCULOSKELETAL: arthralgia, muscle spasm, tremor, twitch.
NERVOUS: anxiety, confusion, depression, dizziness, emotional lability, loss of mental acuity, nervousness, paresthesia, somnolence, vertigo.
RESPIRATORY: cough, dyspnea, epistaxis, hoarseness, pharyngitis, rhinitis, sinusitis.
SKIN: rash, sweat, urticaria.
SPECIAL SENSES: amblyopia, hearing loss, photophobia, taste perversion.
UROGENITAL: dysuria, polyuria, urinary frequency, urinary hesitancy.

Dr Stefan Lanka has this to say:
"…The use of AZT and other 'anti-retrovirals', which are supposed to target HIV replication, but actually kill cells indiscriminately (and ultimately the whole body), must be stopped immediately. It is especially distressing to note that AZT and its analogues preferentially attack those cells which divide most rapidly, namely cells in the intestines causing diarrhoea and malabsorption of food, and in bone marrow, ironically, the primary production site for cells of the immune system."

The horrific toxicity of AZT brings on the symptoms of AIDS: diarrhoea, malabsorption of food, leading to rapid weight loss and immune deficiency disorders. This, of course, has led some doctors to maintain the dosage of AZT or even increase it in the patient, believing the medication 'isn't working' and more is required. This, in turn, accelerates the degradation of the patient. More AZT is given. The patient relapses further, and so on, down the slippery slope to death. More disturbingly, while most cancer chemotherapy agents are only administered to the patient for a strictly limited period of time in view of their toxicity, AZT is prescribed until the end.

Chris is now quite literally dying. In being prescribed AZT, Chris is receiving white capsules with a blue band. Chris hasn't been told about the protective clothing worn in the AZT labs. He's read the side-effects insert, but he's resolved to fight his dreadful 'illness' with the strongest medicine the doctors have got.

Chris will not live much longer. Now his doctor advises that his dosage be increased to attempt to combat the ravaging effects of the HIV, now apparently evidencing itself so markedly. Chris agrees to the increased dose. And when Chris eventually dies of liver and heart damage, malnutrition and dramatic weight loss through internal haemorrhaging and other complications, his family will mourn the passing of a dearly loved husband, father or son who was brave to the very end, but who had, to the uninitiated, finally succumbed to the deadly HIV.

But Chris did not die of HIV/AIDS. Chris's death was by prescription.

In exactly this manner, thousands upon thousands of men and women have been persuaded to take AZT, a drug believed by the more discerning in the scientific community to be the leading cause of AIDS in the Western world. Researcher Newly Abbott remonstrates:
"AIDS is truly an iatrogenic disaster of the primary magnitude. By 'iatrogenic', we mean that clinical AIDS is a syndrome that is primarily being caused in the Western world now by doctors and their medicine. I'm not sure what's more terrifying, that this state of affairs continues to exist at all in spite of all the obvious evidence, or that the English language actually has a word for it."

Despite this catastrophic history, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) rises defiantly in defence of the positive benefits of its most infamous product. In fact, AZT's information leaflet, incongruously titled Positive Benefits, states "… there are no life-threatening side-effects associated with zidovudine [AZT]." GSK further cites numerous studies to substantiate its claims that AZT both "prolongs life" and "enhances its quality". The problem is, the only studies that appear to demonstrate these "positive benefits" are the studies funded, either directly or indirectly, by the GSK's Wellcome Foundation. As we shall see, independent studies conducted on AZT paints an entirely different picture.

How is it that such a drug can ever be prescribed today? Serendipity. Twenty years after AZT was shelved as an unusable poison, HIV was the talk of the medical establishment after Gallo's press conference. The emergence of the phenomenon of immune suppression known as AIDS presented an incredible opportunity for someone to come up with a lucrative, new drug to combat the supposed guilty virus.

David Barry, GSK's (Wellcome's) erstwhile chief researcher in the United States, was a man who knew a golden opportunity when he saw one. Barry had a number of advantages working for him. He knew US FDA drug approval procedures after having worked at the federal agency during the 1970s as a virologist. Barry's main advantage, however, was that he worked for the Wellcome Foundation, whose unusual non-profit charity status enabled the corporation to donate large sums of tax-free grant money to strategic institutions throughout government, universities and the corporate world. Wellcome thus had many grateful and influential friends.

David Barry turned his attention to the company archives in the early 1980s in search of previously rejected compounds. The race was on for an AIDS drug, there was no time to research a new substance from scratch, endure the interminable FDA approval procedures and expect to be first into the new and wide-open AIDS market. Barry knew if he succeeded in locating a suitable existing substance, Wellcome would save millions in research and development money in addition to being perfectly positioned to corner sales.

Barry selected a group of drugs and forwarded them to his friend, Dani Bolognesi, a professor at North Carolina's Duke University and a former colleague. Bolognesi tested the substances in his lab to see if any proved to demonstrate an ability to halt viral cell multiplication. One drug, codenamed Compound S, was wildly successful. Bolognesi wasted no time in sending his approval back to Barry for Compound S, or, as the archive tag in Barry's office would later identify it, AZT.

Bolognesi subsequently referred David Barry to Sam Broder, the man in charge of Robert Gallo's laboratory at the National Cancer Institute. Barry and Wellcome needed the clout the new 'Pope of AIDS', Robert Gallo, was able to bring to bear to get AZT through the FDA approval procedure. Barry duly sent Sam Broder a sample of Compound S in late 1984. The drug's ability to interrupt cell multiplication impressed Broder right away. Broder was later to become known in research circles as 'Mr AZT', such was his new-found fervour for the drug.

Barry and Broder were the right men at the right time for AZT, Bruce Nussbaum recalls:
"David Barry was the puppet master, and his favourite marionette was Sam Broder. While Broder was charging around promoting AZT at the National Institutes of Health, Barry was working quietly behind the scenes, orchestrating a whole panoply of actors who would ensure the drug's ultimate, commercial success."

Broder hurried AZT through its Phase 1 trials. Unprecedented FDA co-operation was extended because of the extreme pressure being brought to bear on the US government by pro-medication AIDS activist groups determined to see a drug onto the market as quickly as possible. Duesberg records what was happening in these hurriedly approved AZT trials:
"Sixty-six AZT recipients suffered 'severe' nausea… as compared to twenty-five in the placebo group. All AZT users saw their muscles waste away, while only three placebo recipients suffered this symptom. And a full thirty in the AZT group survived only with multiple blood transfusions to replace their poisoned blood cells, compared to five similar cases among the placebo users."

A follow-up study shattered anyone's illusions that AZT was in any way beneficial when all the patients were put on the drug. An unacceptable rate of fatalities prompted urgent calls for the trials to be stopped. Bruce Nussbaum again:
"A move to stop the trial began immediately. The toxicity of AZT was proving to be extremely high, much higher than indicated by Sam Broder's safety trials. PIs [Principal Investigators] began to worry that AZT was killing bone marrow cells so fast that patients would quickly come down with aplastic anemia, a murderous disease. This was terrifying to many PIs. "There was enormous pressure to stop," recalls Broder. "People said, 'My God, what's going on? We're getting these anemias. What's going on?' We never saw this level of anemia before."

Unknown to Broder however, another disastrously unscientific situation was developing. Some of the patients, completely sold on media rumours of AZT's miracle healing powers with AIDS, were determined to get their hands on the drug and forget the placebo. Discussions among the patients began, with some tasting another's medication. Some of the placebo group, unknown to the investigators, began taking AZT, further corrupting any blinding value the trials would have had in determining the effectiveness of the drug. Also, some of the AZT recipients simply were not able to complete their courses of AZT due to the drug's extreme side-effects. Margaret Fischl, who headed up the study, admitted:
"Drug therapy was temporarily discontinued or the frequency of doses decreased… if severe adverse reactions were noted. The study medication was withdrawn if unacceptable toxic effects or a [cancer] requiring therapy developed."

Here Fischl blatantly admits that doctors knew all along who was using AZT. So much for the double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Christine Maggiore records other trials, not funded by Wellcome, which were producing a similar worrying picture:
"A multitude of independent studies, including the Concorde study - the largest (1,749 subjects) and longest (three years in duration) - concluded that AZT increases T-cell counts only moderately and briefly without improving health (clinical status), and that it does not delay the onset of AIDS indicator diseases.

Following recommendations for 'early intervention', one third to one half of those who take AZT begin treatment before manifesting any symptoms of AIDS, although independent studies have shown that AZT actually accelerates clinical decline and decreases quality of life, at times even causing death before any AIDS defining illnesses appear - an occurrence officially described as 'death without any preceding AIDS-defining event.'"

British and French scientists organised what became known as the Concorde study in 1991. The purpose of the three-year study was to test whether AZT prevented the onset of AIDS indicator diseases in HIV positive but otherwise symptomless individuals, as compared with those who were already demonstrating the onset of AIDS. Evidently as the study progressed, arguments between the scientists erupted over whether to continue the trials in view of the appalling toxic attrition they were witnessing. They nervously agreed to continue.

After three years, the researchers published their results. Their indictment of AZT was total. The death rate in the AZT group who were taking the drug to avoid developing AIDS was 25% higher than the control group. Then again, some of those who survived could no longer stand the nausea, vomiting and anemia, so they flushed their AZT capsules down the toilet. The day before this news was reported in England, Professor Tony Pinching, director of immunology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, went on record in the Daily Telegraph, warning HIV positive, symptomless individuals that they would be better off without drug therapy. Not surprisingly, the Concorde report also clearly showed that AZT did not halt the development of AIDS.

Even Jerome Groopman, one of the participating scientists, had serious doubts about the humanitarian nature and efficacy of AZT. He gave it to 14 patients in his Boston hospital on a compassionate basis. Three months later, only three were still able to take AZT. "We found it nearly impossible to keep patients on the drug," Groopman admitted.

Gay historian and AIDS dissident John Lauritsen was incensed:
"The multi-center clinical trials of AZT are perhaps the sloppiest and most poorly controlled trials ever to serve as the basis for an FDA licensing approval.… Because mortality was not an intended endpoint, causes of death were never verified. Despite this, and a frightening record of toxicity, the FDA approved AZT in record time, granting a treatment IND [investigational new drug] in less than five days and full pharmaceutical licensing in less than six months."

Dr Joseph Sonnabend, an American AIDS researcher, had this to say about AZT:
"It is beyond belief. I don't know what to do. I'm ashamed of my colleagues. I'm embarrassed. This is such shoddy science. It's hard to believe nobody's protesting. Damned cowards! The name of the game is to protect your grants. Don't open your mouth. It's all about money. It's grounds for just following the party line and not being critical when there are obvious financial and political forces that are driving this."

And Dr Harvey Bialy, molecular biologist and science editor of Bio/Technology, states:
"I'm stunned by the low quality of science surrounding AIDS research. I'm horrified by the widespread use of AZT, not just because it is toxic, but because the claims of efficacy are false. I can't see how this drug can be doing anything other than making people extremely sick."

Another alarming trend noticed was that longer-term treatment with AZT brought on lymphoma (a type of cancer) in around half of the patients. Incredibly, even then, the virus-hunting lobby rushed to defend the drug, declaring that patients were living longer on AZT and therefore merely stood a higher, statistical risk of developing cancer! Dr Sonnabend filed a report with the Food & Drug Administration questioning the criteria and basis for the licensing of AZT. He never received a reply either from the FDA or from Burroughs-Wellcome.

In spite of these and other drug trial fiascos, the Food & Drug Administration approved AZT as an anti-retroviral treatment for AIDS. Once approval was granted, AZT became THE AIDS drug, and demand for the expensive and exclusive substance grew so fierce, Wellcome was hard pressed to supply the quota.

Despite the widely reported failures, Wellcome's income from AZT very quickly became the envy of its counterparts. Soon, other drug giants began vying for a piece of Wellcome's AIDS pie. Hoffman La-Roche produced dideoxycytidine (ddC) and Bristol-Myers Squibb marketed its version, known as ddI. During testing, ddI was found capable of destroying nerves throughout the body and causing fatal damage to the pancreas, something not even AZT was reported to do. Doctors began experimenting with ddI, giving it to patients who were unable to tolerate AZT. Many patients inexplicably died during these unofficial trials, but once again, the FDA was able to staunch the inevitable flood of complaints.

AZT (Retrovir) and its derivatives are still prescribed with reckless abandon. But, just as the turbulent history surrounding the UK's Windscale nuclear power plant necessitated a politically expedient name-change to Sellafield, Wellcome and other manufacturers are now giving their window display a fresh new look. At the 1996 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, a new generation of AIDS drugs known as 'protease inhibitors' was launched. Protease inhibitors, or 'combo cocktails', are said to enhance dramatically the effects of AZT and ddI. Since then, drug companies have been pushing the 'latest, great news' on AIDS, stridently insisting that their cocktails be taken, like margaritas, in large doses for life, yet in the small print stating "…the long-term effects of protease inhibitors are unknown." Christine Maggiore explains the drug companies' continued psychological conditioning of their vulnerable patients:
"The absolute compliance required for protease treatment is a popular subject of news reports and AIDS organization seminars. Patients are required to pop 30 to 50 pills a day on a 24-hour-a-day schedule - some taken with food, some on an empty stomach. Patients are warned that if they do not rigorously adhere to the strict protocol schedule, their virus will mutate into new, drug resistant strains."

Drug company Merck muscled to the front in getting FDA approval for its protease inhibitor cocktail drug, Crixivan. Such was the hype surrounding the AIDS scare, the drug received FDA approval in just 42 days. Christine Maggiore again:
"Crixivan's FDA approval broke a 72-day record for the fastest approval in FDA history, previously set by the protease inhibitor Ritonavir. Newsday articles noting the toxic effects of these drugs - diarrhea, nausea, fungal infections, bloody urine, kidney stones, weakness, headaches and liver inflammation requiring "doctor visits and additional medicines" - were ignored by AIDS organizations, who pressured the FDA for fast-track approval. Recently reported side-effects include CMV retinitis, diabetes, liver failure, 'buffalo humps' (large fat deposits at the base of the neck), acute kidney failure, acute pancreatitis, grade four diarrhea and sudden death."

Protease inhibitors have been wildly successful in one area however - breathing new life into the AIDS industry and increasing the cash-flow further. The US has traditionally dominated the HIV market in terms of sales and as of October 2004, is the largest market in terms of antiretroviral sales, accounting for 62% ($6.7 billion). Now that is a lot of money. Drug companies are promoting their protease inhibitors in an orgy of marketing excess. Billboards and magazines advise 'AIDS-infected positives' to "be smart about HIV" by "hitting early and hard" with the new generation of AIDS wonder cocktails.

Straight Up is a glossy African AIDS community magazine promoting the latest 'breakthroughs' in the war against AIDS. Featured in one section is a double-spread on alternative treatments for HIV positive sufferers, including the highly favoured homoeopathy. The basis of homoeopathy's alleged curative powers is to administer to the patient minute doses of the main aggravating agent, thus conforming to the principle of 'like cures like'. Where, one might legitimately ask, does the homoeopath obtain his minute quantities of HIV? Alongside other questionable, alternative treatments, the magazine also included several full-page adverts from the pharmaceutical industry:

"Stay Strong… HIV Care" - Glaxo Wellcome
"Celebration of Life…" and
"Investing in Your Future" - Pharmacia & Upjohn
"The Tide is Turning in HIV Therapy" - Boehringer Ingelheim
"In HIV Therapy, There is Hope… We're Working on It"…Merck, Sharp & Dohme

The fresh and healthy promises, a central feature of these multi-million-pound PR campaigns, mask the ugly, clinical reality concerning these drugs. And what is the ugly, clinical reality? It is that protease inhibitors have been a dismal failure from the very start. Merck actually delayed marketing their own protease inhibitors for four years because the drugs were killing their laboratory animals. This ethically controversial data was not made known to those people taking part in the protease inhibitor trials. Little wonder the New York Times reported that "…unexpected deaths amongst human protease inhibitor consumers are rising." Even Dr Michael Saag, a paid consultant for AZT's manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline and other pharmaceutical corporations, confesses that the cocktail dam holding back AIDS is already springing serious leaks:
"Failures [with Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART)] are occurring right and left," Saag confides. "[Doctors] should expect failure with whatever [HAART cocktail they] first use. We should plan on it. We should prepare for it. Clinicians should expect failure."

Fellow protease expert Dr David Rasnick is equally dismissive. For Rasnick, the press ecstasy and back-slapping over the release of protease inhibitors recalled the previous euphoria over AZT.
"Once again, all we have are researchers talking to reporters about incomplete studies that haven't been scrutinized by the scientific review process. And the researchers involved are funded by the companies that make the drugs in question. There is no justification for the claims coming from these sources, particularly when we have seen it all before [with AZT]."

Gallo too, in a break from his usual upbeat tradition, stated that "… these drugs are toxic… The longer you take the drugs, the greater the toxicity."

One would imagine that an organisation such as The AIDS Treatment Project would take the comments of Saag, Rasnick and Gallo into consideration before dispensing their advice to the HIV- positive community. Sadly, this is not the case. In their leaflets entitled An Introduction to Combination Therapy and Changing Treatment, there are numerous warnings to adhere strictly to the regime and not miss medication times:
"Use a pill beeper or alarm watch to set dose times…. If you are going away for a few days, take extra drugs…. If you have been taking all your drugs at the right time, but you have not had a very good response, you may need a drug concentration test. The £25.00 test will check to see if you are absorbing enough of the drugs.… The chance to return to the luxury of a drug-free period can help improve adherence to the regimen…. It is always safer to use a stronger combination than a weak one…." [emphasis ours]

Stephen Rogers recounts his nightmare encounter with protease inhibitors. Heralded as the Wonder Drug and possible cure for AIDS, Stephen was recommended to take part in a clinical trial for one of the new protease inhibitor products, Saquinavir. Stephen's account has been necessarily condensed, but the thrust of his story is self-evident:

"My trial consisted of AZT, ddl, and Saquinavir. During the first year, I needed a blood transfusion. During the second year I developed a mild attack of shingles and I became affected by the condition Lypodistrophy, with changes in my body shape and veins of the lower limb beginning to protrude and the skin on my thighs becoming more transluscent. My medication was changed to Ritonavir. My doctor brushed aside my concerns that some people had died of liver failure through this drug.

The first two weeks brought no side-effects and then… the onslaught. Numbing and tingling in the lips, lethargy, insomnia, crippling stomach cramps and chronic diarrhoea. My doctor then reintroduced Saquinavir, alongside the Ritonavir. I developed a skin abscess, which swelled to the size of a golf ball. My doctor tried to blame it on my sexual pursuits…. My clinic appointments were now a torture, occurring every two to four weeks. I began to feel more like a lab rat than a person. The mountain of pills and capsules I had in my hand now filled me with dread. Each time before taking them I would pause and think: 'These drugs are killing me.' I felt confused and frightened. The organisations set up to help people like me had become no more than shadow puppets, projecting the image of living longer and better on combination therapy, but with no actual substance to their claim.

And so, instead of accepting the situation as many do, I began a relentless quest for the truth and began asking lots of questions. When I learned the Viral Load Test is highly inaccurate, my fear turned to anger at being duped. I made a decision to stop taking the drugs."

Amazingly, Saquinavir was declared a 'Millennium Product' by the Millennium Design Council. Exhibited in the failed, now-dismantled Millennium Dome at Greenwich, London, and included in exhibitions in schools and colleges across the UK, a jubilant spokesperson for Roche, the manufacturers of Saquinavir, said, "We are proud that Saquinavir's contribution to anti-HIV therapy has been recognised and delighted that it has received this award."

Stephen believes he is alive today largely as a result of ceasing his 'award-winning' medication. AIDS establishment critic Dr Jens Jerndal notes:
"If statistics show that AIDS sufferers live longer now than they used to, do not let yourself be lulled into believing that this is due to scientific advances in treating AIDS. There are two reasons: One is that when AZT [and its derivatives] was first introduced, very high doses were prescribed, which finished off the patients quite fast, usually in 1 - 3 years. Eventually it was decided to reduce the recommended doses given, with the result that the patients now stay alive longer. So they do not live longer because they get better medicines. They live longer because they get less of the medicines. The other reason is simply that many AIDS patients secretly go for alternative and holistic treatments instead of drugs, or combine the two, and thus manage to escape or postpone their death sentences."

There are now too many medical case histories which bear out the fact that the body (as in Stephen's case) demonstrates a remarkable ability to recover from many of the illnesses we are witnessing today when one exchanges toxic medicines for a sensible lifestyle and sound nutritional regime. More information on this subject can be found in later chapters.

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Allicin
The Heart of Garlic
Nature's aid to healing the human body
by Peter Josling

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Peter Josling's excellent book will be an inspiration to all, and shows how to harness the 'engine' of garlic, allicin, in its stabilised, most potent form without the obvious downsides of pong and taste. This book will show how to combat and even reverse a wide range of ailments, especially microbial disease caused by bacterial, viral and fungal infections, including:

Allergies, arthritis, asthma, athlete's foot,
bacterial infections, bites, candidiasis, chest infections,
colds, cold sores, colitis, congestion,
diarrhea, eczema, environmental toxins, fungal infections,
gum disease, lyme, cholesterol, psoriasis,
ringworm, sinusitis, wound infections

You will learn how allicin can:

• Protect you from opportunistic ('infectious') diseases
  
• Defend you against fatal infections like tuberculosis, smallpox and flesh-eating
  bacteria
  
• Learn how to prevent the deadly "superbug" MRSA from spreading throughout
  the healthy population as well as among those who are most vulnerable
  
• Save money on your doctor and hospital bills
  
• Protect your body from further diseases and a wide range of
  environmental toxins
  
• Prevent infections from returning to invade your body

Peter Josling is Director of The Garlic Centre based in Sussex, England, established in 1993 to provide an independent source of information about the medicinal, culinary and general qualities of garlic. The Garlic Centre also advises commercial companies, research establishments, government agencies and the press and media.

In 1997, Josling also formed a speciality chemicals division to provide key garlic components including alliin, allicin and ajoene for research and product formulation.

Recently he led a team of chemists and chemical engineers in the invention, development and manufacture of the world's first commercially-available stabilised and patented allicin extract formulated into powder capsules, liquids and cremes, all to carry the name Allisure® as a guarantee of real allicin in the products.

The list of already proven herbal remedies that will gain extra impetus by the addition of allicin into their formulations is almost endless. We already know that allicin can be safely added to the following list of "healthy raw materials" to make them even better:

o Vitamin C
o Probiotics
o Ginger
o Ellagic acid
o Echinacea
o Vitamins A and E
o Swedish flower pollen
o Black walnut hulls
o Wormwood
o Grapefruit seed extract
o Broccoli
o Garlic powder
o Digestive enzymes
o Hyaluronic Acid
o Astragalus
o Ginkgo biloba
o Rosehips
o Gentian
o Hypericum
o Horse chestnut
o Ginseng
o Green tea
o Phosphatidyl serine

Allicin and Cancer Prevention

It is estimated that one on three people will develop a type of cancer at some time in their life and that cancer continues to account for around 25 per cent of all deaths recorded each year. The causes are numerous and varied. Whilst only recognised as a separate disease in the last century, physicians have been diagnosing and treating "tumours" for thousands of years. Traditional Chinese medicine has always used garlic as a part of any treatment for the patients who suffered from a tumor or cancer.

The search for compounds that prevent cancer has intensified, with the mounting evidence that many types of cancer are caused or triggered by factors relating to lifestyle and environment. It is well-known and documented that allicin can strengthen the immune system, which is vitally important for fighting cancer. When I reviewed this important area of medicine, I was surprised and pleased to find a considerable amount of data already published showing that by taking allicin powder capsules regularly, you can receive some degree of protection against various stomach cancers and boost your CD4-T cell count. Interestingly, the medical community has known about this for years and is currently trying to establish which compounds are the most protective, since evidence also shows major benefits from diallyldisulphide, which is a common breakdown component of allicin powder. Many of the breakdown products from allicin have been tested for their inhibiting effect on cancer cells, and in most experiments inhibition of tumor growth was established.

Evidence from laboratory experiments and population surveys is presently inconclusive as to the preventative activity of allicin. However, evidence also indicates that further research is warranted into the possible role of allicin in the prevention of cancer in humans.

Anti-cancer effects
In ancient times, garlic was used for the treatment of cancer of the uterus. Numerous reports, including several important epidemiological studies, have entered the scientific literature, asserting that garlic has a favorable effect on various forms of cancer. The following provides an overview of the current research and points of view concerning this very interesting special area of medicine.

Six decades ago, several statistical studies indicated that cancer occurs the least in those countries where garlic and onions are eaten regularly, such as France, Italy, the Netherlands, the Balkans, Egypt, India, and China. A review article published in 1936 referred to the connection between nutrition and cancer, and especially to the cancer growth-inhibiting effect of leek plants (allium plants). The practising physicians of the time were very good observers, but almost nothing was known about the real background of this phenomenon.

It was thought that the inhibitory action of garlic on putrefaction in the intestines, together with the secretion-stimulating effect, brought about detoxification and an increase in resistance. Stimulation of gastric juice secretion and restoration of the intestinal flora, combined with the resulting prevention of gastrointestinal autointoxication, may help to remove at least one of the possible causes of cancer. Garlic may therefore be useful as a cancer preventative agent, and its application as an anticancer "drug" is based on this assumption. More recently, this idea has again been pursued, not only in Europe, but also in the Third World countries, where the favorable effects of garlic for cancer are well known. For instance, the consumption of black or green tea, as well as of garlic, is known to be a culinary practice which inhibits tumourigenesis in the lung, forestomach, and esophagus.

The only known study in which garlic has been used to treat patients with advanced stages of cancer was conducted by Spivak (1962). An aqueous garlic juice preparation was administered in doses of 0.2-2mL intravenously or 1-5mL intramuscularly daily for 3-7 days. Of 35 patients with cancer at various sites (lung, cervix, stomach, lower lip, mammary gland, larynx, and leukemia), 26 showed positive treatment results of differing degrees, though complete healing was not achieved in any case. There is a single-case report, however, of a man whose pituitary tumour shrank by 50% during the 5 months in which he ate 5-7 grams of fresh garlic daily. This was the first case ever reported of reduction of this type of tumour without chemotherapy or surgery.

Treatment Regimen
Some notable success stories have been reported using allicin powder capsules, especially in Norway where patients with various types of cancer have dramatically improved their CD4-T cell count (remember this is a measure of how efficient your immune system is). Patients going through chemotherapy or radiotherapy tend to have a very poorly functioning immune system since they are effectively destroyed by treatment.

For 4 months, Mrs EH from Norway had cell poisoning. Now her lymph cancer has gone, but she's continuing with allicin powder capsules and vitamins and minerals.

"When I got the cancer diagnosis, I became more interested in my diet. I thought it was very important to strengthen my immune system. Amongst other things, I found out that garlic is a significant antioxidant which prevents the body from deteriorating," says Elsa.

Since it is difficult to ingest large amounts of fresh garlic, Elsa chose to invest in capsules. She started with two per day, but later increased this to six per day. She reports, "Then I was in control (in the summer). My blood count was very good. Personally, I think it was due to the allicin."

There are many garlic products on the market, but Elsa chose to take one that can guarantee real allicin. Elsa has now been without cell poisoning for over a year. She regularly goes to the doctor for check-ups but gets happier because her blood count gets better every time. She praises the doctor and the hospital because she got such good service.

Elsa believes that a healthy lifestyle without smoking and alcohol, together with allicin, vitamins and mineral supplements has given her a good immune system. Of course, she is concerned that the cancer may come back, but she chooses to think positively. She thanks God that she is well.

Anticancer Effects: Active Compounds
From the many publications reviewed, it is apparent that the anti-cancer effects of garlic are likely due to allicin and allicin-derived compounds as well as unidentified compounds not related to allicin. The following is a summary of the evidence for possible active compounds.

1) Epidemiological studies from six different countries have consistently shown that garlic consumption is associated with decreased risk of gastrointestinal cancer. Since garlic is mainly eaten cooked (allinase inactivated) in most of these countries, allicin may not be necessary to achieve significant cancer reduction.

2) A major decrease in incidence of gastric cancer in China, particularly where large amounts of allicin-yielding fresh garlic are eaten, is associated with the antibiotic effects of garlic and its thiosulfinates (allicin) toward decreasing the amount of nitrate-reducing bacteria in the stomach, hence the amounts of carcinogenic nitrosamines formed. Therefore, allicin does appear to have an important role in prevention of gastric cancer.

3) Animal studies have indicated the importance of allicin, since dietary fresh garlic (but not allinase-inhibited garlic), greatly decreased breast cancer incidence in mice. A large number of animal studies with allicin-derived diallyl disulfide and diallyl sulfide, most using very large doses (100-200mg/kg), have shown positive effects toward decreasing carcinogen-induced cancer. Although allicin itself has not been tested, these studies indicate that allicin derived-compounds have the ability to affect cancer incidence.

The new allicin containing products also naturally form all the beneficial components that are not stabilised when fresh or cooked garlic is used.

What is Allicin?
Allicin is derived from fresh, raw garlic. Heads of garlic are specifically selected to ensure that they contain significant enzyme activity (allinase enzyme). Garlic heads are split into cloves, which are left unpeeled and then subjected to crushing, filtration and a temperature controlled extraction process designed to produce pure liquid allicin dissolved in water. No chemical solvents are used. The alliin amino acid in fresh garlic is subjected to complete conversion by the allinase enzyme and to ensure a large volume of active allicin is harvested.

The volume of allicin produced is directly related to the enzymatic activity. At a high concentration allicin is an oily unstable substance that quickly decomposes. However the extraction process dilutes allicin very quickly to a concentration where it is stabilised and can be dried to produce allicin powder.

Allicin has been proven to prevent and treat the common cold in the only double blind placebo controlled study of its kind on a garlic product published recently in the peer reviewed American medical journal Alternatives in Therapy, Volume 18 Number 4, July/August 2001 pages 189-194.

Volunteers taking allicin were at least 50% less likely to contract a cold. They also recovered from a wide range of symptoms, including cough, sore throat, runny nose and headaches, very much faster (1.58 days vs 5.01 days) and were less likely to get another cold.

Genuine allicin products are also capable of destroying a wide range of bacterial and fungal infections. Published work shows excellent activity against Staphylococcus aureus, Candida albicans, streptococcus species, Escherichia Coli, Salmonella species and Helicobacter pylori.

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus bacteria (MRSA) treated with allicin powder, liquid and crème shows a large zone of dead bacteria usually left untouched by pharmaceutical treatments. No zone of inhibition.

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The Poisoned Rivers Making Fish Change Sex

by Julie Wheldon

Experts have uncovered further evidence that fish are changing sex due to gender-bending chemicals polluting Britain's waters. Scientists have found male fish are taking on female characteristics because of hormones and pollutants being discharged into rivers and estuaries.

A report published yesterday on the state of UK seas said signs of 'feminisation' have been found in flounder in estuaries such as the Tyne, Tees, Mersey, Clyde and Forth. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said tests on the blood of male flounder revealed yolk protein which is used to create eggs and normally found only in females.

There are also indications of 'feminisation' in freshwater trout. The report follows fears that some cod may be affected by the problem.

A conference in Japan was recently told that scientists have found evidence of female egg protein in the blood of some very old male cod.

Sex changes in fish are a concern because, if males take on female characteristics, it will interfere with reproduction and could jeopardize the survival of the species. Last year, the Environment Agency warned that a third of male fish in English rivers could be changing sex due to female hormones in the water released from treatment works.

It is believed the higher levels of oestrogen compounds are due to the widespread use of the contraceptive pill. Yesterday, Mike Waldrock, science director of the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, said fish such as flounder show more obvious changes, but can used as a kind of marker for other species.

"These are just indicators of underlying problems that may be found in many fish," he added. "Even in cod off shore, there are early suggestions that we might be able to see yolk protein in very large old male cod." But he stressed only small numbers of cod had been tested and there was no evidence of whether pollutants were to blame.

The DEFRA report also high-lighted how female dogwhelks, a type of snail, have taken on male sexual characteristics or become sterile because of chemicals called TBT compounds from paints on boats. These chemicals can no longer be used on small vessels and are totally from 2008.

Environment Minister Elliott Morley said he was concerned about the effect of hormone-disrupting chemicals on marine life. He added: "We know this is a problem. There is some evidence this has worsened over the years and we do not fully understand the long term implications."

He said that detailed research and monitoring were under way.

Mary Taylor, a chemicals campaigner at Friends of the Earth, said: "We are concerned that by the time that all the evidence has been gathered, it will be too late. Already compounds are building up in the food chain."

Experts are also worried because plankton, the first stage in the food chain, is moving north due to global warming. They fear other species will follow.
Daily Mail, 2nd March 2005

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Prof Olle Johansson of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden (one of the top research institutes in the world on EMF health effects) speaking to a Scottish newspaper yesterday, after recently speaking at meetings and briefing the Scottish Parliament about mobile phone mast health hazards.

Phone Masts a Risk to 'Millions of Lives'
By Michael Alexander

A WORLD-RENOWNED expert on the impact of electromagnetic fields and microwave radiation has warned that western governments are putting millions of lives at risk by allowing the continued and unlimited use of mobile phones.

In an exclusive interview with The Courier from Stockholm yesterday, Professor Olle Johansson said the Scottish Executive should suspend construction of all masts and launch an immediate investigation into the long-term health effects

While he claimed the whole population was at risk through constant exposure to mast emissions-regardless of mobile phone ownership-Professor Johansson said the latest research suggested children in particular were more vulnerable to early nerve cell damage.

Professor Johansson made the comment after being made aware of the latest campaign against mobile phone masts at St Andrews. Lending his support to north-east Fife campaigners who had "every right" to be concerned, he said, "The basic scientific issue is not primarily about the exact siting of base stations, it is about whether it is all right to irradiate the whole population with microwaves, and likewise. This is, of course, a full-scale human experiment, with you and me and the St Andrews kids in it."

Professor Johansson, a neuroscientist from the government-funded Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, has more than 20 years' experience. He was the first to study human sensitivity to mobiles, when adverse reactions were reported in the mid-1990s

Last week he visited Scotland to brief MSPs on the potential risks associated with exposure to mobile phones and masts. He also appeared as an expert witness before the Parliament's public petitions committee and at meetings in Aberdeenshire and Perth.

Professor Johannson said yesterday it was "worrying" that so many observations are made all over the world connecting health problems with telecom base station systems. If these proved wrong then many observations and scientific studies would have to be wrong.

"One of the latter is a recent paper by me and my co-worker demonstrating that 1997 was a very curious year in Sweden in that a large number of health- related measures suddenly started to indicate a fast degradation in the health of the Swedish population. Several health characteristics and diseases seem to correlate with the Swedish introduction of the GSM 1800 MHz system both in time and place

"A new paper, just published a few days ago, also shows acute effects of pulsed microwaves. Nerve cell damage was seen after 30 minutes of six W/kg microwave exposure consisting of 1.25 GHz radiation delivered as 5.9 microsecond pulses with a repetition frequency of 10 Hz. The authors concluded that the microwave exposure used changed neuronal ultrastructure in ways that depended on microwave frequency and neuron metabolic status.

"The area chosen for study is of great importance for movement disorders, such as Parkinson's disease and others. Naturally, the results could have an enormous impact on the health of children, since they could be much more vulnerable to early nerve cell damage."

Professor Johansson said governments should face up to their responsibilities and fund independent research

He said the profit-making phone companies were not responsible for the problem as they only followed "flawed" government guidelines. In his view, the only safe level both biologically and medically was zero.

As reported by The Courier last week, the latest protest against mobile phone technology has seen the chairman of a north-east Fife community council warn that thousands of pupils and hundreds of residents could have their health put at increased risk if an application for a third generation (3G) mobile phone mast to be built off Grange Road on the outskirts of St Andrews were approved.

Gordon Ball, chairman of Cameron Community Council, has written to the head teachers of Madras College and Langlands Primary in St Andrews, advising them of plans for a "potentially dangerous" 12.5-metre 3G mobile phone mast in a field several hundred yards to the rear of Madras's Kilrymont Road building.

The concerns come as debate continues nationwide about the possible health effects of TETRA police communication masts and mobile phone masts. Both technologies have been linked with alterations in the brain, increased blood pressure, nausea, dizziness, headaches, infertility and accelerated tumour growths. With reports sporadic and technology still in its infancy, however, scientific opinion has been divided.

The Scottish Executive has said that evidence suggests exposure to radiation below international guidelines "does not cause adverse health effects to the general population."

It says it will continue monitoring research in this area, but has also said, "The National Radiological Protection Board's 2004 report on mobile phones and health notes that there is no scientific basis for establishing minimal distances between base stations and areas of public occupancy."

Phone companies have also said they take health and safety very seriously but say there is overwhelming evidence that there is no cause for concern-although they say research continues to be monitored.

Last week Fife Council planning officials said it was guided by the Scottish Executive and its own development plan policies when it came to the siting and design of mobile phone masts. While the decision would rest with councillors, in the St Andrews Grange case, there appeared to be no health and safety reason why the mast should not be allowed.
The Courier, 8th March 2005

NZHT Newsletter No 11 - February 2005

Just last week it was announced that the proposed agency is now not likely to start until July 2006 but maybe sooner. This means that the Government has been forced to delay this project by up to 12 months from original start date which was to have been July this year. This delay has come about due to the intense opposition to the proposal and should be seen by us all as a sign of the impact we have had.

The Government has simply not been able to muster the political support to have the necessary legislation passed so far and this has forced them to delay the project.

We also know that the Government is now focused on making a significant push aimed at getting support from other parties. To this end recently the Minister of Health arranged a private meeting in her offices with a small number of companies in the Natural Health sector. Notably this meeting included representatives from large companies like Healtheries, Nutralife and Alaron but excluded the NZ Health Trust or any of the companies that, like us, have been strong in opposing the joint agency. The purpose of this meeting, we understand, was to show representatives of the opposition parties that the Government had "industry backing" for the proposal. Why would large companies support the restrictive TGA proposal read more.

The New Zealand Health Trust became aware of the meeting several days before it was held and made it clear to the Minister and other MP's that the meeting only involved those the Minister knew would support her and deliberately excluded anyone in opposition.

We made it clear that it did not reflect the views of the industry as a whole, or probably even a majority of the industry.

The meeting did make it clear to us however which companies are supporting the proposal and re-enforced how the Government will try and deceive other MP's into thinking this proposal has the support of the NZ industry and consumers.

These recent events have once again highlighted just how important it is that we can show the MPs the extent of the opposition. We are hearing from many of you of your views and the cards and email have been effective however we need to show the MP's just how far the opposition goes to avoid your views getting ignored in preference to the views of those who are saying what the Minister wants to hear.

We would like all of you who support what we have been doing in opposing the Australian pharmaceutical regulators taking over our natural health industry, to go to this link http://www.nzhealthtrust.co.nz/poll.php. You will be able to complete a form that records your opposition to this proposal. We need a large number of supporters to prevent a few large companies dominating this issue.

We want to hear from you, as consumers and those involved in the industry, directly. We are aware that there are a limited few natural health industry groups who no longer represent the views of their members and are becoming dominated by these same large companies who want the merger with Australia to go ahead.

Please - it will only take a minute and will help us continue to fight this potentially devastating proposal with a greater coordinated and united front.
NZ Health Trust

There is a Risk

Top cancer expert in phone mast warning:

Mobile phone masts would be banned for five years if ministers took the same cautious approach as they did when they withdrew hundreds of foods containing a rogue dye, a leading cancer expert has told the Echo.

Dr Ian Gibson, who chairs the Commons Science and Technology Committee, claimed the planning rules relating to mobile phone masts would have to be tightened up after the next election because of the scale of outcry by MPs. In an exclusive interview, the influential Government backbencher praised the Echo's Shockwaves campaign, which has drawn attention to the health fears of mobile phone masts. And he said his government had ignored the precautionary principle outlined by the Stewart Report.

Dr Gibson, Labour MP for Norwich North, said: "There is evidence of a cancer risk from masts from places such as Finland, Australia and Sweden. It's probably as good as any evidence you can get in these kind of fields. After all, Sudan 1 was banished without any effects on people being shown. There was no hesitation in doing it. If they treated masts in the way they've treated Sudan 1, there wouldn't be one put up in the next four or five years until the scientific evidence had come through."

Dr Gibson, who made his reputation as a cancer specialist at the University of East Anglia, said that numerous overlapping scientific studies commissioned by the Government were playing into the hands of the mobile phone industry. He added: "It suits the industry to have all these different bodies doing this.

"What I've found for several years now is that the operators just ignore the public hatred of the masts. They will say they are not sited by a school when they know they are right next door to a school. They just play on the fact there's no planning guidance that's going to make it more difficult for them."

The Echo recently launched a campaign against proposals for a controversial new mast to be sited in Exeter's Heavitree Road. It led the city council to write to Vodafone asking it to find a new location for the mast, which is planned for a site close to the city's maternity hospital, schools and a nursery.

More than 600 people have signed a petition against the proposal.
Dr Gibson mocked claims by Government departments that they have been following the "precautionary principle", as outlined by Sir William Stewart in his 2000 report. He said: "Bill (Stewart) has said the precautionary principle has not been used when I have questioned him. Mobile phone masts are a big, big issue in this country. If people weren't so quiet it would be a bigger issue.

"The next stage is going to be planning regulations after the next General Election. I think there'll have to be some modification to make it more difficult for planning consent to be obtained. It is becoming a clamour."

Dr Gibson is one of 130 MPs to sign a Commons motion calling for the recall of the Stewart Committee to look again at the health effects of base stations.

Meanwhile, MPs are being urged to support a private member's bill coming before the Commons on March 19 which could tighten up the planning procedure for applications for new masts.

The bill would scrap the prior approval process for masts under 15m high which many campaigners believe favours the mobile phone giants.

Network Rail and police authorities would also be forced to go through normal planning procedures for their private networks of masts.

Chris Maile, of campaign group Planning Sanity, who drafted the clauses, said: "Every member of the public, every councillor, every planning authority and every MP that has concerns over the present planning regime must support this bill."
This is Exeter in conjunction with Express & Echo, 8th March 2005

Grave Cell Phone Dangers Revealed...
by Will Thomas

Though intended for renovations, Chris Anderson would like all visitors to deposit their cellular phones in the cement mixer by his front door. This sounds excessive - until you step into Anderson's orchard, where the pegged needle of a shrieking electromagnetic radiation (EMR) meter placed beside a connected cellphone still shows significant exposure 100 feet away.

Much to the chagrin of this certified EMR-mitigation specialist, every day some 300 million cell phone users are "reaching out and touching someone you love. Yourself, and anyone else within range of the microwaves emitted by your cell phone."

Mesmerized by magical gadgets, we have yet to count the costs of miniature radio transmitters that are transforming Marconi's invention into new possibilities for portable personal pollution. As entire nations reach for pocket communicators, the explosively emergent $40 billion a year cell phone industry is poised to deliver a "Wireless Revolution" which, over the next five years, is expected to double the one-billion people connected by telephone lines over the past century.

Silicon sensors are already calling to each other. Soon, countless communicating microchips embedded in everything from bumpers to brooms will be sending streams of encoded electrical energy through glass, steel, concrete, bone and flesh. Exquisitely sensitive to subtle electromagnetic harmonies, human brains and bodies as intricate as galaxies depend on tiny electrical impulses to conduct complex life-processes - including the ability to read, recall and respond to these words. Acting as antennas, our anatomies just as easily tune into spurious signals from radio and microwave transmissions. Blake Levitt, author of Electromagnetic Fields, says that when it comes to cellphones, "a worse frequency could not have been chosen for the human anatomy."

As cell phones conquer consumer minds and markets, researcher Carolanne Patton notes that "the brain reaches peak absorption in the UHF bands, right where cellular telecommunications operate." British military scientists have discovered that cellphone transmissions disrupt the brain sites for memory and learning, causing forgetfulness and sudden confusion.

Other studies show that electromagnetic signals from cellular phones reduce the ability to concentrate, calculate and coordinate complicated activities such as driving a car. Startled by $4 billion a year in extra claims among cellphone-wielding drivers, North American insurers did a double-take that found simply juggling `cell phones is not causing a 600% increase in accidents over other drivers busy shaving, applying makeup, tuning radios, taming pets, making out, pouring coffee, retrieving dropped cigarettes, talking and gesturing to passengers, or actually steering the vehicle.

Instead of just another dangerous distraction, tests conducted by the U.S.Department of Energy found that using a cell phone severely impairs memory and reaction times. "Hands-free" mobile speaker-phones cause even more crashes because they typically emit 10-times more brainwave interference than handheld units.

For all drivers dialing out on their cell phones, University of Toronto investigators report that the heightened probability of cracking up your car persists for up to 15-minutes after completing a call. That's comparable to the risk of crashing while driving dead drunk exclaims Dr. Chris Runball, chairman of the B.C. Medical Association's emergency medical services committee. Reeling from "dial-a-collision" costs, the government of British Columbia may join England, Spain, Israel, Switzerland and Brazil in restricting or banning the use of cell phones by drivers.

In New Zealand, cellphone towers are prohibited on school property because of possible health effects. But Health Canada regulations ignore the hidden hazards of cell-wrenching cellphones, which send pulsed signals through the skull in a process one expert likens to "jackhammers on the brain." "Safety Code 6" looks only at microwaves burning skin. "Basically, Health Canada claims if it can't cook you, it can't hurt you," says Walter McGinnis. "It's like saying cigarettes aren't dangerous unless they burn you."

One of a handful of licensed electricians who understand electromagnetic fields well enough to eliminate them from household wiring, McGinnis has been testing EMFs and collaborating with fellow testers and researchers for nearly a decade. In Victoria, where he has helped residents defeat six cellphone towers, there was dancing in the streets after Microcell Connexions withdrew its application to erect a microwave transmission tower against the Wishart Elementary School fence in the spring of 1998. Microcell spokesman Colin McCrae points out that emissions from the company's towers carry about the same energy as a 50-watt lightbulb - well within federal guidelines.

This is hardly reassuring, retorts the former president of the Wisehart parents advisory council. Tania Berenuik observes that Health Canada "also told us thalidomide, asbestos and the blood supply were safe." Carrying similar risks of long-term lethality, and strangely just as legal, cellphone addiction mirrors the prestigious early allure of smoking - as well as an immensely profitable industry's steadfast denial of risk and responsibility. As poisonous as cigarette smoke and even harder to corral, the cellphone's "second-hand" microwave and to bystanders - particularly children riding in cars that transmit amplified cellphone signals through their steel structure. Reporting the conclusions of a 12-person British study team, scientist Sir William Stewart told London's Financial Times that "children may be more vulnerable because of their developing nervous system, the greater absorption of energy in the tissues of the head and a longer lifetime of exposure."

Roger Coghill became a long-standing advocate for health warnings to be affixed to cell phones after this biologist found that cellphone transmissions damage the ability of white blood cells to ward off infectious disease by disrupting the immune system's electromagnetic communications. Dr. Neil Cherry has measured accelerated aging, increased cell death and cancers caused by radio frequency microwaves from cellphones and their relay towers. With the brain's electro-chemical communications repeatedly zapped by lightning-like cellphone pulses, this Ph.D. biophysicist warns that headaches, fatigue, lethargy, nausea, dizziness, depression, arteriosclerosis and even Alzheimer's can result from frequent or prolonged calls on cell phones.

"There is also a higher incidence of cardiac problems," Cherry comments, "in terms of the timing function in hearts. You get more heart attacks and more heart disease - it has now been shown in many studies." The biophysicist from Lincoln University in Christ Church, New Zealand has also found that cell phones can murderously modify moods. In brains and bodies seriously derailed by tiny imbalances in trace minerals and hormones, depression, suicide, anger, rage and violence can result when calcium and serotonin levels are disrupted by cellphone transmissions.

In 1995, Cell phone sales in North America exceeded the birth rate.
Hired by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association to condone cellphones, public health scientist George Carlo found that rare tumors on the outside of the brain are more than doubled among cell phone callers - particularly on the right side of the head where phones are usually held. Carlo told ABC's "20/20" that cell phone causes genetic damage that leads to cancer. Warning of "the potential for a global health disaster," ABC recommended "prudent avoidance" of cellphones after finding that every cellphone they lab-tested exceeded the Federal Communication Commission's standards for EMF absorption rates. EMF researcher Dave Ashton cautioned 20/20 viewers that because cellphones constantly search for the nearest repeating tower, "long-term damage comes from cell phones in the stand-by mode." Cell phone "shields" and headsets "cannot adequately address these problems," Ashton added.

Dr. Carlo later told London's Express newspaper that cellphones cause genetic damage following a dose-response curve. That is, the more a person uses a cell phone, the more cellular destruction and health risks they incur. Cell phone-confused cells can go crazy, Carlo cautioned. Experiments on captive animals show that this cumulative DNA damage is passed on to succeeding generations.

Addicted as we are to a culture of convenience, we forget how inconvenient it is to contract cancer. An Adelaide Hospital study confirmed Carlo's conclusions after finding B-cell lymphomas doubled in mice within 18 months of one-hour daily exposure to power densities experienced by a cellphone user. B-cell lymphomas are implicated in 85% of all cancers.

Ready or Not
As magazine-size "cellular" relay antennas hidden in church steeples and rooflines keep popping up just about everywhere, more and more communities are declaring their airspace a "No Fry Zone". But in Canada, where cell phone towers come under federal jurisdiction, municipalities are only "advisers' to a process in which no permits are required to erect transmitter towers deemed necessary for "national security." Cellphones do save a lot of lives. FCC Chairman William Kennard reports that every day more than 98,000 people make 911 calls from wireless cell phones.

Many more lives are involuntarily imperiled by non-emergency calls. Pat Irwin was working in a Colwood health food store when she noticed a truck unloading metal framework. The next morning, a new cellphone tower was ready to add its emissions to another BC Tel tower already operating down the street. There had been no announcement, no public hearings - just a quiet notification to the municipality that a tower was going up, literally overnight.

The intruder radiated for a month when Irwin felt her immunity dropping. She wondered if other changes in her energy and menstrual cycle were "not from the moon or something that I ate."

Irwin also seemed more irritable after her central nervous switchboard began receiving round-the-clock cellphone calls. With cellular relay towers in Kansas and Oklahoma being shut down because they interfered with passing aircraft, Irwin sensed how the same transmissions plucked her own electrical circuitry, inflicting a "chronic edginess" that "twangs human nerves." Sleep disorders, she learned, are common among people exposed to high levels of electromagnetic pollution.

After several other women in the same business centre reported similar symptoms, Irwin quit her job. "I saw it as something that was there to stay and I'd be daily exposed to it over a long period of time," she told Alive. "All this stuff is what we're playing with on a daily basis, and we don't know the long-term health effects."

Implying recognized hazard, cell phone companies such as B.C.'s FIDO insist that the new digital phones operating at 1/50 the power of older analog models are safer. But there is nothing "safe" about the new 1.9 gigahertz broadcasting frequency. Much like a boxer taking repeated blows to the head, rapidly pulsing cellphones signal permanent brain damage. A study by Dr. Peter Franch found unequivocally that "cells are permanently damaged by cellular phone frequencies." This cellular damage, Franch noted, is maximized at low dosage - and "inherited unchanged, from generation to generation."

Attempting to explain a 25% increase in asthma and a 5% increase in asthma-related death rates throughout rapidly "mobilizing" metropolitan Sydney, Franch found that the production of histamine, which triggers bronchial spasms, is nearly doubled after exposure to mobile phone transmissions. Cellphones also reduce the effectiveness of anti-asthmatic drugs, and retard recovery from illness.

Katharina Gustavss, a certified Building Biology consultant with 25 years experience, explains that CDMA's 217 Hz spikes are very close to the frequencies of human cell membranes. Gustavss accompanied a Microcell technician to the Colwood microwave relay tower Irwin and others had complained about. When he waved a spectrum analyzer, Gustavss checked the display and saw "pretty scary" energy spikes. "What's that?" she asked the tech. "I've never seen that before," he told her. It turned out that this cellphone tower tester only set his meter to an averaging mode. Switching to "real time" froze the readings at "scary" maximum output levels.

How dangerous are cell phones? "The risk is extremely high," declares Dr. Cherry. "There are 66 epidemiological studies showing that electromagnetic radiation across the spectrum increaseS brain tumors in human populations. Two of those studies are for particular brain tumors from cell phones."

Cherry says that because cancer takes decades to develop, it will be another 10 or 20 years before "mobiles" manifest a big bonanza in brain tumors. But he adds, we're already seeing "acute effects that are noticed within minutes of using a cell phone."

After two minutes' conversation, a cell phone's digitized impulses disable the safety barrier that isolates the brain from destructive proteins and poisons in the blood. Professor Leif Salford, the neurologist who carried out the research for this finding, informed the Daily Mail: "It seems that molecules such as proteins and toxins can pass out of the blood, while the phone is switched on, and enter the brain. We need to bear in mind diseases such as MS and Alzheimer's which are linked to proteins being found in the brain."

Dancing with the Telecomonster
If you must pack a cell phone, treat it like a loaded pistol. Keep it turned off. Don't carry it near ovaries, testicles, or the heart. For partial protection, buy an antenna shield. Limit calls to one-minute, six to 10 minutes a month. Never fire off a cellphone with children anywhere in sight.

A better bet is to facilitate the growth of organic telephone networks with lots of fibre. Instead of more microwave towers, "We should be wiring up our cities with fibre-optic cables to provide Internet, fax, telephone, radio and television at very high quality," Cherry urges, "rather than saturating our cities with the microwave, radiowave and low frequency signals all the time."

When it comes to cells, consciousness and cell phones, every call is collect. How can convenience count more than cancer? What is gained by being in constant contact with disembodied voices, while being "out of touch" with the friends and neighbours around us? Are we comfortable having our location traced by monitoring authorities?

Unless we start voting with our wallets, consumer complacency could prove as species-limiting as corporate cynicism. "Microwave frequencies are the same as those used in radar and your microwave oven," says Florida cellphone tower opponent Joe Chwick. "You wouldn't think of sticking your head in the oven, but there is no hesitation to putting the cell phone to your ear."
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Why Youngsters Need Cod Liver Oil
by Sarah Harris

The junk food diet of youngsters is so poor that they need World War 2 - style doses of cod liver oil, experts said yesterday. Children deprived of good food during wartime rationing were given free cod liver oil to boost their vitamin intake, but researchers say today's children need similar free supplements.

They say children are deficient in essential Omega-3 fatty acids, which are found in fish oils and play an essential role in brain development. They say a return to wartime remedies - involving distributing supplements of Omega -3 fish oil and multi-vitamins may be necessary to help stave off future problems and boost pupils' concentration in schools.

The Dyscovery Centre, a research institution which receives Government funding to help those with learning difficulties, looked at the food eaten by 1,125 children aged 7 to eleven in 24 hours.

Researchers found 86 per cent ate no fish, 40 per cent had chips for dinner or lunch and 85 per cent had sweets, chocolate, cake and crisps. Seventy three per cent had no fruit, 66 percent had no vegetables and 55 percent had neither fruit nor vegetables.

The Dyscovery Centre received research grants from Haliborange, which produces vitamins.

The Department for Education said it was working to improve school meals before minimum nutrition standards were introduced in 2006.
Daily Mail, 2nd March 2005

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