Up Close and Personal
A monthly chat with CTM founder, Phillip Day

ECLUB: Been off researching?
PD: Samantha and I went with the in-laws off to Normandy.
ECLUB: What's in Normandy?
PD: Normans, Brian.
ECLUB: There's a sense in which quite a few things are hotting up now, isn't there?
PD: I think everyone agrees the frontal assault against personal freedom of choice in many areas is now underway. Once again, the wretched Edzard Ernst, who touts himself as Britain's only complementary medicine 'professor', perversely continues to warn the world against the harmful effects of complementary medicine. Just recently he's attacked alternative cancer treatment web-sites for being dangerous, irresponsible and guilty of leading people away from the tried and tested chemotherapy and radiation which, he insists, save lives.
ECLUB: Hmmm.
PD: Folks, this is precisely the purpose for which CTM was founded and what we have worked so hard towards all this time. To educate and warn the public about exactly the abuses we are seeing taking place before our very eyes which are hurting people. How many, for instance, have heard me railing on about the dangers of chemotherapy? How many times have we discussed the dangers of mercury in vaccines? Bit by bit, the truth emerges, sadly not fast enough to save many. Certainly expect to see a mighty struggle by the orthodox lot to hang on to their Jaguars and bad-mouth everything they see as a threat to their bottom line. These issues have always been the real Health Wars.
ECLUB: Are most doctors aware of the truth?
PD: Most have a nasty inkling, but it's much easier to pursue the path of least resistance, keep the children in private school, and follow the party line. Those like Ernst, however, know precisely what they are up to, which renders their actions, in my eyes, all the more demonic for their intent.
ECLUB: What can EClub members do that they are not already doing?
PD: Create one huge, all-pervading and relentless stink. And keep doing it. Ladies and Gentlemen, all the research shows significant numbers of the western populations routinely use some form of nutritional alternative to drugs and are getting the benefits. These choices are now to be taken away from them. Also, millions are angered by these phoney scare tactics directed at alternative health treatments routinely emblazoned across their newspapers. How many people have worked out that the media is not your friend! You are faced with a monolithic, industrial complex whose only tactic is to convince the majority that any alternatives to the drug-junk they are offering are dangerous and should be 'regulated' immediately. This is the classic tactic of creating problems and offering only those solutions which result in the protection of profits and, of course, an expansion of socialistic government 'to protect us idiots from ourselves'.
ECLUB: This does not mean, of course, that all alternative remedies are safe…
PD: No it doesn't. Yet how many honestly die every year because of overdoses of alternative remedies? How many compared to the hundreds of thousands who perish every year at the hand of chemical treatments which had been allegedly been put through 'regulation' to render them safe? It is an obscene thing. In my view, drugs are really what the public needs protecting from, as well as from 'experts' like Ernst, together with the blithering dictum that the average citizen is too dumb, thick and stupid to make his own choices in just about anything these days. The few problems with alternatives, such as they are, usually revolve around interactions caused by chemical medications taken simultaneously - drugs which, if the head of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline is to be believed, don't even work for the majority who are given them anyway.
ECLUB: So we should get active, pen those e-mails off…
PD: Only if you're interested in maintaining your freedoms. Many aren't and can't be bothered. These are the ones I do not wish to hear from when finally it dawns that it's all too late. Why weren't we told? Yadda yadda.
ECLUB: What's happening on the touring front?
PD: The second half of the UK/Ireland 'Break Free' Tour commences in Belfast on 30th August and covers a good chunk of Britain as well as Ireland, so have a look at the schedule, get yourself a ticket, come along and get active!
ECLUB: You're off down under soon, aren't you?
PD: Yes, can't wait. Tickets are now available for meetings across Australia and New Zealand and are going fast, so please book now to avoid disappointment. I am particularly pleased with the amazing support CTM has received in Australia and NZ, two of my favourite countries which sadly are both cursed with two of the most militant health systems on the planet.
ECLUB: Worse even than Britain's?
PD: Right up there with Britain's.
ECLUB: Thank you, Phillip.
PD: You're welcome.
ECLUB: By the way, you never said what you were researching over in Normandy.
PD: You're absolutely right, Brian. I didn't.

EU Costing us £40bn a Year
by George Pascoe-Watson

Britain could save up to £40 billion a year - or 14p off income tax - by quitting the European Union, a study reveals today.

Costly payments to EU funds coupled with the drain on business through red tape would go at a stroke. Experts used the Government's own figures to show how the UK would benefit from striking a trade-only deal with Brussels.

And think-tank Civitas slams Tony Blair's repeated claims that Britain would lose 60 per cent of its trade and three million jobs.

The bombshell for the PM comes just after he buried the hatchet with Gerhard Schroeder yesterday following a bitter row over who leads Europe. He welcomed the German Chancellor to No 10 for talks and they were all smiles.
The Sun, 16th July 2004

EU is Exclusive Club

SIR - I object to Denis MacShane's statement that euroscepticism is xenophobic (report, Aug 7). Far from it. What I object to about the European Union is that it is itself overtly xenophobic, a closed-bordered Caucasian club looking to create confrontation in trade talks with the rest of the world, where we used to just get on with it to the betterment of all. The EU is intentionally deeply damaging to other places. Africa, for instance, wants to trade more with Europe but finds itself discriminated against by the EU. Not by Britain, nor by France nor by Russia or Portugal, but by the EU. This is wrong; different areas of the world are different, not inferior.

The European dream might have seemed rosy 50 years ago to generations who turned my home continent into one big bomb site, but to me it is an unrequired exclusive club, an extension of the political élitism that caused two world wars in one century.
Sue Doughty, Woodley, Berks,
Daily Telegraph, Letters

Further Resources
Spread the word to friends with The Real Face of the European Union by Phillip Day, a video documentary (PAL format only) which lays out the serious problems with the European Union and what you can do about it. Also, don't miss the two following incisive commentaries on the dangers of Britain's involvement with the EU:

Ten Minutes to Midnight by Phillip Day
Vigilance by Ashley Mote
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Change Law to Give Us Vote on EU, Say Germans
Schroder comes under growing pressure to hold
referendum on new constitution
by Tony Paterson

The German Government is under growing pressure to hold a referendum on the new European constitution after 30 of the country's most eminent legal scholars declared that federal law could easily be changed to allow a vote.

Opinion polls show that 70 per cent of Germans want a vote on the treaty but Chancellor Gerhard Schroder has refused to follow the British and French in staging a referendum.

Mr Schroder insists that Germany cannot do so because the country's post war constitution expressly forbids extra-parliamentary plebiscites, to make it harder for an extremist party to seize power. "Even if we wanted to have a vote, we would not be allowed to. Plebiscites are illegal under German law," he said last week, declaring that his government would override public opinion and seek only parliamentary approval for the EU constitution this year.

The legal scholars have, however, undermined Mr Schroder's claims. In a joint statement published last week, 34 professors, led by Hans Herbert Arnim from the University of Speyer, declared: "A small addition to the text of the [German] constitution could enable the German people to vote in a referendum." The letter said that a vote was "necessary" because Germans had been denied the chance to elect directly members of the European convention, which drew up the EU constitution. Previously, they had been denied a vote on whether to join the euro.

Nine of the EU's member states, including Britain, France and Spain are to hold referendums on the constitution next year. Fourteen other member states remain undecided. Germany and Greece have ruled out the idea.

German politicians were surprised when Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, caved in to pressure for a referendum earlier this year, and shocked when president Jacques Chirac followed suit last month.

Germany's ban on national referendums was designed to ensure that, unlike its Nazi predecessor, post war Germany remained anchored in parliamentary democracy. Supporters of a referendum point out that the Nazis did not use plebiscites to gain power, but initially won it in an election. However, in 1934 Hitler won overwhelming backing in a referendum for his move to become president and assume dictatorial powers.

German law stipulates that ratification of key EU reforms can only be achieved through a two-thirds parliamentary majority. The professors' statement has added to a growing clamour for a vote from across the political spectrum. Edmund Stoiber, the conservative Bavarian prime minister who ran against Mr Schroder in Germany's 2002 general election, declared last week: "If the French, the British and the Spanish are to hold a referendum on this issue, the Germans cannot be barred from the process."

Mr Stoiber's views are echoed by Roman Herzog, Germany's former conservative president, who argued recently that Germany faced the prospect of being the "only country in Europe" not to hold a referendum. Other advocates include Guido Westerwelle, the leader of the country's liberal Free Democratic party, Wolfgang Thierse, Germany's Social Democrat parliamentary president, leading Green party MPs and at least 5 of Germany's 16 regional branches of Mr Schroder's governing party.

Mr Stoiber's Bavarian conservatives and the liberal Free Democrats have already drawn up proposals which would allow the constitution to be altered by a two-thirds majority in the country's upper and lower houses of parliament to enable a one-off referendum on the EU constitution next year.

Mr Schroder does have one key ally, the opposition leader. Angela Merkel, who is also resolutely opposed to circumventing parliament on a key EU issue.

Senior government and opposition MPs said last week that Mr Schroder's reluctance to consider a referendum stemmed from fears that a plebiscite could backfire, and be used to deliver a vote of no confidence in the government.

German politicians are still smarting from the disaster in 1996 when a regional referendum on whether to merge the city state of Berlin with the surrounding region of Brandenburg resulted in the proposal being rejected outright despite a vigorous pro campaign by the main political parties.

Wolfgang Schauble, the former Christian Democrat party leader, warned: "There is a danger that a referendum on the EU constitution would lead to a vote that has nothing to do with the EU at all."

Reflecting the prevailing mood in the Berlin Chancellery, Michael Muller, the deputy head of the Democrats' parliamentary party, added: "Sometimes the electorate has to be protected from making the wrong decisions."

German constitutional experts such as the Frieburg lawyer Thomas Wurtenberger insisted last week that Germany's constitutional ban on national referendums was out of date. "It is simply no longer convincing," he said.
The Sunday Telegraph, 1st August 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: I suppose we should not be surprised European politicians with a lot to lose are trying to deny their nations a voice in the future, knowing already the destructive effects of the Union have turned many against them. But who gets the chills when Michael Muller arrogantly intones: 'Sometimes the electorate has to be protected from making the wrong decisions'?

Unpopular, minority or even extremist agendas can only succeed if the majority of the public are cowed into apathy from being told they are dumb, gullible, stupid and unable to come to the 'right decision' about what's best for them. This is Global Socialism, one big, overarching, all-knowing and all-powerful government (doubtless in the foreseeable future, soon to be a world-wide monstrosity), calling the shots on everything, and if you don't like it, so much the worse for you.

In this edition of EClub, you will see this supercilious condescension leveled at alternative medicine, those who oppose vaccination, those who want law and order instead of liberal anarchy, and those who want the simple right to choose alternative medications if they so desire. The EU is probably the single-most shameful 'human rights' violation in Europe today, the scale of which can only begin to be comprehended when one stops to take even a cursory glance at what we're being sold. Do not go another day without understanding the real issues at stake here, and what they will mean for you.

Further Resources
Spread the word to friends with The Real Face of the European Union by Phillip Day, a video documentary (PAL format only) which lays out the serious problems with the European Union and what you can do about it. Also, don't miss the two following incisive commentaries on the dangers of Britain's involvement with the EU:

Alternative Vs. Conventional: Why Doctors Don't Get It
By Dr. Joseph Mercola
with Laina Krisik

If you live in the United States and need medical care or treatment for a disease, you can follow one of two paths to better health: conventional or alternative. In making this decision it is important to know the differences between the two practices.

A Comparison of Conventional to Alternative Medicine

A growing number of people are turning to alternative therapies, more and more now the chosen form of medical treatment among Americans.

Consider these statistics:

· One in every three Americans uses some kind of alternative medicine.

· Between 1990 and 1997 there was a 47 percent increase in visits to alternative practitioners, from 427 million to 629 million, bypassing the estimated total number of visits made to all conventional primary-care doctors in 1997.

Since these statistics reveal the rapidly increasing number of people choosing alternative therapies, the debated question among the health care industry is, "Why don't more conventional doctors recommend alternative medicine?"

Pharmaceutical Ties
The driving force behind the continuing growth of conventional medicine has been the pharmaceutical industry, embraced by both doctors and pharmacists, who calculate their worth through treating disease by prescribing medications. For example, if a patient is diagnosed with breast cancer, the protocol for the doctor is sometimes to prescribe tamoxifen. If a patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia, clozaril is prescribed.

Medical Schools Receive Funding From Drug Companies
Most medical schools receive a huge chunk of funding from the pharmaceutical industry which has a vested interest in marketing their medicines. Evidence of this can be seen in Pfizer Inc, a company that develops, produces and markets the leading prescription medications and offers several scholarships and grants to American Medical Schools.

The Media Favors Drug Advertising
Just as pharmaceutical companies are about profits, so too is the media in the realm of advertising. The public is routinely exposed to drug commercials every day. The number of these has exploded over the past few years. In 1999, drug companies spent $1.8 billion on direct-to-consumer advertisements for prescription drugs. Even more disturbing, it was discovered that around 10 percent of the people who watched the commercials enquired to their doctor about the specific drugs.

Even the American Medical Association maintains a relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. Just a brief visit will see a sizable advertisement for the statin drug, Crestor.

Research Discrepancies
The scale for funding of medical research is disproportionately tipped to favor conventional medicine over alternative medicine. An example of this can be seen in the 0.08 percent of the British National Health Service research budget set aside for alternative research. Also, out of $12 billion allocated every year by Congress to the National Institutes of Health, a mere $5.4 million goes to the Office of Alternative Medicine to investigate the claims of approximately 50 therapies.

The lack of alternative medicine research funding results in three critical consequences:

· The prevention of relevant research projects
· Prevents the creation of a research infrastructure similar to the conventional medicine model
· Deters well-trained career scientists from entering the field

Questionable Research
One of the chief complaints against alternative medicine is the lack of scientific research to support its practices. But then, much of the research on conventional medicine has also raised speculation over validity issues. Examples of this are the hundreds of articles published in top medical journals claimed to be written by academic researchers, but in fact crafted by ghostwriters working for agencies, which receive large amounts of money from pharmaceutical companies to market their products. These are the very journals medical professionals rely on when determining treatment options.

Over 60 percent of clinical studies involving human participants receive financial backing from drug companies and not from the federal government. Studies also show it is common for companies to hold off publication of data which might reveal that their drugs are ineffective.

Conclusion
The conventional medical model is largely profit-driven by the pharmaceutical industry that influences the media through drug advertisements. Evidence that the American public has become discouraged can be clearly seen in the aforesaid figures revealing the numbers now turning to alternative treatments.

Convincing doctors and the media of the value of alternative medicine might be some way off yet, considering their ties with the drug industry. Profit-hungry corporations will never make the move to change the attitude of conventional doctors unless brought under heavier pressure. Too much money to make. Too much money to lose. Which leaves it up to the public to take control over their own health and continue making their choices.
Healthy News You Can Use, 21st July 2004, issue 552
www.mercola.com

Further Resources
Health Wars by Phillip Day
Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom

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An Unnatural Point Of Entry
by Steven Ransom

With all the recent controversy about the dangers of MMR, thimerosal, formaldehyde, etc., notice the only choices now being given to parents: Do you want the triple or quintuple vaccine, or do you want them administered separately? At no time is it ever remotely discussed that you do not need the infernal things at all.

It would seem reasonable to suggest that introducing a toxic vaccine directly into the bloodstream is a dangerous intervention. Surely, if a child gets a naturally-occurring illness such as measles, (not generally a serious condition), the body reacts to that condition in its own natural way. But when you inject a vaccine into the body, you're actually performing an unnatural act because you are injecting a toxic substance directly into the bloodstream. In the case of measles and smallpox, or any disease for that matter, this is not the natural port of entry. In fact, the whole immune system in our body is geared to prevent this from happening. The body has several defence mechanisms to prevent the entry of poisonous and toxic material and takes a lot of care to ensure the purity of the bloodstream. A toxin will smell or taste bad and the nose and mouth should reject them. If it is nevertheless swallowed and not vomited out, the liver and stomach will do their best to neutralise it and the kidneys eliminate it.

Vaccination bypasses all our natural defence mechanisms. How long does this toxic material from the vaccine stay in the bloodstream? How overloaded does the immune system become from such an unnatural attack? And could this overload prolong the original illness? And could it also increase the chance for an apparently unconnected and potentially even more serious illness to manifest as a result? Again, these issues are never discussed in standard vaccine promotions.

RB Pearson is the author of Pasteur, Plagiarist, Imposter: The Germ Theory Exploded. (Pasteur's germ theory is looked at in more detail later in this book.) Pasteur's own experiments with vaccination - his infamous rabies experiments, for instance - were actually responsible for causing rabies in his patients, not curing the condition. Pearson argues against any form of vaccination thus:

"…But when nature's coat of mail, the skin, is violated, and the drug inserted beneath the skin, nature's line of defence is taken in the rear, and rarely can anything be done to hinder or prevent the action of the drug, no matter how injurious, even fatal it may be. All the physicians of the world are incompetent either to foresee its action or to hinder it."

MMR FOR INSTANCE
Those persons not wishing to know the products used in the development of the standard measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, look away now. MMR contains neomycin, sorbitol, hydrolysed gelatin medium and human diploid cells, originating from aborted human foetal tissue. The tuberculosis vaccine uses a medium composed of glycerin, asparagine, citric acid, potassium phosphate, magnesium sulphate, and iron ammonium citrate. This mixture is used as the medium to help to grow what is then injected directly into the human system. Tetanus vaccine is produced using aluminium phosphate, formaldehyde, ammonium sulphate, washed sheep red blood cells, glycerol, sodium chloride, thimerosal medium (49% mercury) and pig pancreas derivatives. Both MMR and TB are covered in a later chapter.

THIMEROSAL
Lawsuits are continually being filed by parents of autistic children, who believe their children's autism was caused by vaccines containing thimerosal, the mercury-based preservative made by pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly. The incidence of autism has increased considerably over the last two decades, and many parents report that their children's autistic symptoms appeared shortly after receiving vaccines containing thimerosal. Quite worryingly, a recent report in the US Boston Herald asked why it was that a provision shielding vaccine manufacturer Eli Lilly from literally $billions of lawsuits had been inserted, at the last minute, into the recently passed Homeland Security Bill.

INSIDER TIES
Thimerosal had been added to many common children's vaccines in the 1930s supposedly to prevent infections from fungus and bacteria. It was used, unnoticed, for many years until the late 1990s when researchers realized that, due to the increased number of vaccinations given, children could be exposed to unsafe levels of mercury. Mercury can accumulate in the body, impairing brain development, which, some researchers say, could lead to autism. With the recent provision, however, Lilly is exempt from all such lawsuits. People are asking whether Lilly's $1.6 million contribution to the past election, coupled with the Bush administration's close ties to Lilly, (the White House budget director Mitch Daniels is a former Lilly executive; Lilly's CEO Sidney Taurel is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; and former President George Bush Sr. once belonged to the company's board) may have influenced the passing of the provision. Officials at Lilly, however, say that neither the company nor its connections had anything to do with the inserted provision.

DO DOCTORS PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH?
According to conventional medical wisdom, doctors are among the highest risk population groups and therefore should require multiple vaccinations for all the diseases they encounter. Many hospitals and practices make it mandatory for physicians to be vaccinated. Vaccine researcher and author Neil Z. Miller reports that in one study, approximately 66% of paediatricians and obstetricians refused the MMR shot. An equal percentage of doctors also refused the hepatitis B shot, mostly citing safety concerns because of rumours of animal contamination. The American Medical Association's Archives of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine cite a 1994 study where approximately 1/3 of doctors were working without the mandatory flu vaccine, yet these same doctors followed national recommendations to vaccinate every child - sometimes with as many as five vaccines in one visit.

The 20th February 1981 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, contained an article entitled 'Rubella Vaccine in Susceptible Hospital Employees, Poor Physician Participation'. The report stated that the lowest vaccination rate among medical personnel for the German measles vaccine occurred among obstetricians and gynecologists and the next lowest rate occurred among paediatricians. The authors conclude, "The fear of unforeseen vaccination reactions was the main reason for the low uptake rate of physicians to be vaccinated."

Dr. Robert Mendelson wrote a report about a Los Angeles physician who refused to vaccinate his own 7-month-old baby. According to Dr Mendelson, this doctor stated, "I'm worried about what happens when the vaccine virus may not only offer little protection against measles but may also stay around in the body, working in a way that we don't know much about." Yet the doctor was still vaccinating his patients and justifying his actions: "As a parent I have the luxury of making a choice for my child. As a physician, legally and professionally, I have to accept the recommendations of the profession."

In the British Medical Journal, an article entitled 'Attitudes of General Practitioners Towards their Vaccination against Hepatitis B' tells us that, of 598 doctors questioned about hepatitis B vaccine, 86 percent believe that all general practitioners should be vaccinated against hepatitis B. Yet 309 of those practitioners had not been vaccinated themselves. This less than enthusiastic response by physicians is further noted in another British Medical Journal article on hepatitis B vaccination and surgeons:

"Infection with hepatitis B virus is a serious hazard for health workers. Surgeons are particularly at risk with potentially devastating consequences to their well-being and a major threat to their livelihood if they become carriers. Despite good evidence of an increased risk of infection, a high percentage of surgeons in this study had not been immunised. Clearly, there is a failure by all surgeons to protect themselves and to insist that junior staff are protected."

The alarmist reporting on the 'condition' known as hepatitis B bears uncanny resemblance to the hysteria surrounding HIV, which is discussed in more detail in another Credence title, World Without AIDS.

VACCINATION - AN ICON OF MODERNITY
Kevin Dew teaches applied social science research to Masters students at the Victoria University of Wellington. Part of his report, Epidemics, Panic and Power, considers the psychological and political mechanisms at work, which keep vaccination from falling from grace. Dew states:

"Another element that feeds into the way in which vaccines can be regarded as icons of modernity relates to the eradication of smallpox. The elimination of this disease is seen as a successful model for universal disease-prevention strategies. The successful campaign offers incredibly powerful imagery that encourages efforts to re-create this success in other domains. It can be suggested that the hope of emulating this achievement and thus, wiping deadly diseases from the face of the earth, establishes goals that allow for no dissension, and that if there is a price to pay for some in terms of adverse reactions, then this is ultimately for the good of the whole community, and the whole world.

At a much broader level, concern has been expressed over the way in which the World Health Organization and UNICEF have imposed programs on nations, with such an imposition being eagerly accepted by governments despite the lack of 'scientific' evidence to support them."

FEAR AND PRESSURE
If it is reliable, long-term solutions to long-standing human and animal health dilemmas we are seeking, vaccination can never be the answer. We must break free of the current thought-pattern in this regard. But such is the pressure put upon us by the conventional establishment and media that tremendous guilt assails us if we do not vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate. This from Dr John Keller:

"Since people cannot be vaccinated against their will, the biggest job of a health department is always to persuade the unprotected people to get vaccinated. This we attempted to do in three ways, education, fear, and pressure. We dislike very much to mention fear and pressure, yet they accomplish more than education because they work faster than education, which is normally a slow process. During the months of March and April, we tried education and vaccinated only 62,000. During May we made use of fear and pressure and vaccinated 223,000 people."

An elderly lady contacted me recently, concerned that her local heath authority was scaring their patients into the surgery to receive a flu vaccine. Her two appointment letters began thus, "Dear Miss C, on behalf of the Scottish Health Department, I urge you to take up the offer of your influenza vaccine this year." And "Dear …., according to our medical records, there is a risk of you catching a serious infection…. Please make an appointment to discuss this important vaccination." One of the letters was sponsored by Aventis Pasteur MSD Ltd, the foremost flu vaccine manufacturer in the world today.

200 NEW VACCINES IN THE PIPELINE
What began as a false premise has now turned into an industry of massive proportions. The World Health Organization confirms that some 12 billion injections are being carried out across the world annually. Vaccination is big, big business. According to a Yahoo News bulletin, dated 7th January 2003, vaccine sales are expected to reach nearly $10 billion in 2006, up from $5.4 billion in 2001. Flu vaccines are thought to be the fastest growing section of the market, with sales projected to more than double to $2 billion in the next five years. The infant section of the vaccine market had sales of $2.5 billion in 2001, and currently makes up the largest section of the vaccine market. Four large pharmaceutical companies - Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Wyeth and Merck & Co - currently account for 85% of all vaccine sales.

There are currently some 200 human vaccines in the pipeline, including Epstein Barr, cholesterol, diabetes, ulcer, multiple sclerosis, SV40, asthma, arthritis, allergy, clostridia, psoriasis, nicotine, gonorrhoea, syphilis, chlamydia, cocaine, anti-marijuana, lumpy skin disease(!), STD, PCP, shingles, osteoporosis, Parkinson's Disease, anti-fertility, Candida, warts, herpes, periodontal, dental caries, RSV, diarrhoea, peanut allergy, fifth disease, E Coli, leptosporosis, malaria, fungal disease, Alzheimer's, ebola, penicillin-resistant infection, West Nile virus, HIV, Lyme disease, rhinovirus, rotavirus, TB, anthrax, smallpox, yellow fever, typhoid, cholera, and another 170 besides.

The pharmaceutical industry has proven itself a consummate master at keeping up appearances and making extraordinary amounts of money from our misplaced faith that its glittering technology (as opposed to our own common sense) will eventually eradicate disease. These companies are the master weavers. They have successfully spun a garment without substance, a cloth without thread. Breaking free from the mummifying wrap of these silken vaccine garments frees us from the biggest enemy to human and animal health - toxic medicines and the corporations promoting and selling them - Big Pharma, Big Business and their biggest supporters - Big Government.

Wherever there is a great deal of money being made by powerful corporations, there will always be difficulties in bringing to light any hidden dangers within those industries and the underhand means they use to boost income. Readers are encouraged to research this subject for themselves. There are also many texts which attest to the wide choice of non-toxic approaches available to prevent and reverse disease. The list of Credence titles covering some of these treatments is found below.

But enough of this. Have your had your flu jab yet?

© Copyright Steven Ransom 2003
Excerpted from Wake up to Health in the 21st Century

Further Resources
Need to know more about the vaccine controversy?
Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom
Health Wars by Phillip Day

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Sweet Misery: The Horrors of Aspartame Revealed in Documentary
by Dr Joseph Mercola

The new documentary, Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World, thoroughly examines a hot-button many consider to be imaginary: the toxicity of aspartame. This man-made sweetener is certainly a fact of life and hard to avoid. Aspartame is found in more than 5,000 food products, including diet soft drinks and snacks like puddings.

Sweet Misery starts with filmmaker and narrator Cory Brackett's moving story about how she discovered aspartame's effect on her health was affecting her fight with multiple sclerosis. Once she stopped using aspartame-sweetened products, her symptoms went away almost by magic.

But that's just the beginning of Brackett's journey across the United States to learn more about the devastating effects of aspartame from a laundry list of well-known medical experts, including Dr. Russell Blaylock and Dr. Betty Martini.

Martini is the director of Mission Possible, an Atlanta-based non-profit group that works to spread the word about the dangers of aspartame as a toxic poison, unfit for human consumption and a slow neurotoxin that's especially bad for diabetics.

In addition to the experts, the filmmakers use archival footage from G.D. Searle and federal officials to describe the amount of propaganda and "dirty tricks" big business used to get aspartame on the market.

Some of the most moving moments were heartfelt interviews sprinkled in between the scientific data with some of the victims of aspartame. One victim Brackett interviewed suffers in a different and more excruciating way than most: This middle-aged mother and spouse is serving a life sentence for allegedly poisoning her late spouse, although many of the health signs point to her late husband's bad reaction to aspartame.

Another key interview is Brackett's fireside chat with Arthur Evangelista, a former Food and Drug Administration investigator, who exposes how far major conglomerates went to legalize the use of aspartame in the United States, and the resulting domino-effect on its use in other countries.
News with Views July 6, 2004
Per www.mercola.com
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DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: If you aren't familiar with all the diseases associated with this artificial sweetener - diseases like multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease - this movie will indeed open your eyes to a problem that has been covered up for far too long.

For the record, aspartame is about 200 times sweeter than the refined sugar it is meant to replace, but it is known to erode intelligence and affect short-term memory. Once upon a time, aspartame was on a Pentagon list of biowarfare chemicals submitted to Congress, which just goes to show how lethal a chemical it really is.

Although seizures are common among aspartame users, headaches are the most common complaint. According to a nutrition consultant, diet could be one of the reasons 18 million Americans suffer from migraines, with aspartame listed as a possible culprit.

Because more than 5,000 products contain aspartame, it's in your best interests as well as your family's health to read the labels of any processed food you're concerned about. Your life may depend on it.

Orphans on Trial
Abandoned Kids are Force-Fed Experimental AIDS Drugs at a Catholic Children's Home in Washington Heights. And the City Wants it That Way. by Liam Scheff

When Christine Maggiore tested HIV-positive in 1992, her doctor told her to get ready to die. But she wasn't interested in dying.

Maggiore was told that the AIDS drugs would make her sick, so she skipped them, instead relying on natural methods to support her health. A year and a half later, she was so healthy that her doctor said there was something wrong and she should retest.

She did retest, several times. The tests came back negative, indeterminate and positive. Maggiore investigated the medical literature and found what was recounted above: HIV tests are highly inaccurate. She also discovered that there are gaping flaws in the HIV hypothesis itself. Believing that this is the sort of thing people should know, she founded Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives, a resource for people who, like herself, want to make fully informed decisions about their health.

Since testing positive, Maggiore has had two children. Her kids, two and six years old, have never been tested. They've been raised on organic food, with a naturopathic approach to health. They're both intelligent and active. They don't take AIDS drugs. And they're not in the least bit sick. They regularly see their pediatrician, who has no medical complaints about their well-being.

And they're not alone. There are thousands of healthy HIV-positive people who don't take the drugs, who rely on natural regimens to support their immune function.

It was through Maggiore that I met Mona, whose children, Sean and Dana, have tested HIV-positive. By the state's definition, they're not actually her children; Mona is their great aunt and legal guardian. Her niece, a long-time drug user, was unable to act as a responsible mother, so Sean and Dana were remanded to state foster care. Mona took them back to raise as her own.

When I first spoke with Mona, she was stressed and nervous. Sean had twice been sent to the Incarnation Children's Center (ICC), a "home for HIV positive children" located in Washington Heights. First, as an infant, then again four years ago. And Dana was there until June.

"Why did they take her?" I asked.

"They said I was a negligent parent because I didn't want to give the drugs."

She'd been taking Sean and Dana to a naturopath. That the children were healthy didn't matter. When city agencies found out that the children weren't on the drugs, they took them away for mandatory treatment at a clinic and then transferred them to ICC. There, they were locked up and pumped full of drugs day and night.

"What drugs?"

"AZT, Nevirapine, Epivir, Zerit. All kinds of drugs."

To read through the list of drug studies either currently underway or recently concluded at ICC - studies sponsored by government agencies - NIAID, NICHD; and huge pharmaceutical companies - Glaxo, Pfizer, Squibb, Genentech and Biocene... etc. is to take a trip through the nightmare world of pediatric drug research.

For example, the study called "The Effect of Anti-HIV Treatment on Body Characteristics of HIV-Infected Children" is looking for the causes of "Wasting and Lipodystrophy [fat redistribution]" by using drugs known to cause wasting and lipodystrophy.

Or consider "The Safety and Effectiveness of Treating Advanced AIDS Patients between the Ages of 4 and 22 with Seven Drugs, Some at Higher than Usual Doses." The seven drugs in the study are all known to cause debilitating, potentially fatal side-effects, yet they are administered at "higher than usual doses" in four-year-olds.

Then there's a study with "Stavudine Alone or in Combination with Didanosine…" Stavudine plus Didanosine has killed pregnant women. Or the vaccine study to be administered to children "12 months to 8 years" using "live chickenpox virus," even though one of the consequences of a live virus vaccine can be the disease itself.

Another measures "HIV Levels in Cerebrospinal Fluid." Cerebrospinal fluid can only be gathered from a spinal tap, a dangerous and invasive procedure. There's even a study on HIV-negative children born to HIV-infected mothers that uses an experimental HIV vaccine.

Mona was never informed that Sean had once participated in clinical trials at ICC.

"But they're always changing the children's medications," she said.

I asked Mona how the children at ICC tolerate so many medications. She a lot of them don't. "The ones that can't are drugged through a tube," she said.

"There's a tube down their throat?" I asked.

"No" she answered, matter-of-factly, "they take them in for surgery."

"A surgeon puts a hole in them?"

" Where?"

"In their stomachs," she said. "If a child refuses drugs too many times, they take them away for the operation. I've seen it happen to children who refuse the medication."

Incarnation Childrens Center is a foster home administered by the Catholic Home Bureau under the Archdiocese of New York. According to the ICC website, it was established in 1987 "to deal with the boarder baby crisis." Boarder babies are children abandoned at the hospital.

In 1992, "an outpatient clinic for HIV-positive children was established" and, with funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is a subdivision of the National Institutes for Health (NIH), "the clinic became a subunit of the Columbia University Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Unit."

That's when ICC went from being a home for children of impoverished, drug-addicted mothers to a recipient of funds for allowing the NIH to use these HIV-positive orphans as test subjects. The ICC webpage listed dozens of trials with AZT and Nevirapine conducted through the late 90s. The NIH site recently listed "five studies currently recruiting for drug trials," and "27 studies ongoing or recently completed" - all on children at ICC - as well as more than 200 at Columbia Presbyterian, ICC's parent hospital. The studies are sponsored by NIH subdivisions; many are cosponsored by the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture the drugs being tested. The studies use the standard AIDS drugs: nucleoside analogues, protease inhibitors and Nevirapine.

Nucleoside analogues, like AZT, work by stopping cell division. They stop the formation of new blood in the bone marrow, in some cases causing anemia and bone marrow death. They've caused death in pregnant mothers, spontaneous abortion, birth defects, liver failure, pancreatic failure, muscle wasting, developmental damage and death in children and adults. They also may cause cancer.

Protease inhibitors interfere with the body's ability to build new proteins. Since we're made of protein, protease inhibitors have pronounced effects on physical appearance and organ function. The side effects can be bizarre, grotesque and often fatal: wasting in the face, arms and legs, fatty humps on the back and shoulders, distended belly, heart disease, birth defects, organ failure - and death.

Almost all of this is found on the warning labels.

The first AIDS drug, AZT, was designed in the 60s as a chemotherapy drug for cancer patients, but it was never approved. Critics declared it too toxic even for short-term use, yet in 1987 it was pushed through for lifelong use in HIV-positive people. Although its trials were later revealed to be fraudulent, AZT remains on the market.

Finally, there's Nevirapine, which also interferes with normal cell function.. In test trials, Nevirapine has caused severe liver damage and death in dozens of patients. Most die from organ failure due to drug toxicity. Nevirapine can also cause a violent skin disorder called Steven-Johnsons Syndrome? a horrifying condition in which the skin blisters and ruptures or peels off in large swaths, leaving bloody, exposed flesh.

Clinical examples of SJS and TEN cases related to Nevirapine (a) Erosions of lips and mouth are characteristics of SJS and TEN. (b) Magnification of cutaneous lesions showing purpuric macules, small blisters and positive Nikolski, i.e. detachment of epidermis on pressure. (c) Skin biopsy showing the detachment of necrotic epidermis. (d) SJS with discrete non-confluent small blisters, involving , <10% of the body surface area. (e) Coexistence of small blisters and detachment of the epidermis on 35-40% of the body surface area in TEN. (f) Detachment of the epidermis is frequent on palms and soles.

2 related scientific papers on Nevirapine toxicity (PDF):

1) Nevirapine and the risk of Stevens-Johnson syndrome ortoxic epidermal necrolysis
2) Nevirapine-associated Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Despite causing so many serious medical issues in the course of treatment, AIDS drugs don't even claim to work. Every AIDS drug label bears a version of this caveat:

"This drug will not cure your HIV infection. Patients receiving antiretroviral therapy may continue to experience opportunistic infections and other complications of HIV disease. Patients should be advised that the long-term effects are unknown at this time."

So why do people take the drugs? Because they test HIV-positive. But as Christine Maggiore learned, HIV tests are highly inaccurate.

Most HIV tests are antibody tests, which means that they can cross-react with normal proteins in human blood. There are nearly 70 commonly occurring conditions - as listed in the medical literature - that are known to make the tests come up positive. These include yeast infections, colds, flus, arthritis, hepatitis, herpes, recent inoculations, drug use and pregnancy.

The remaining HIV tests, called viral load tests, can produce dozens of conflicting results, even from the same blood sample.

HIV tests are so unreliable that they all bear a disclaimer: "At present there is no recognized standard for establishing the presence or absence of HIV-1 antibody in human blood," or "The AMPLICOR HIV-1 MONITOR [Viral Load] test is not intended to be used as a screening test for HIV or as a diagnostic test to confirm the presence of HIV infection," or "Do not use this kit as the sole basis of diagnosis of HIV-1 infection" (Abbott Laboratories HIV Test, Roche Viral Load Test and Epitope, Inc. Western Blot Test, respectively).

And the kicker: Positive test results can occur due to "prior pregnancy, blood transfusions...and other potential nonspecific reactions" (Vironostika HIV Test, 2003).

In short: In the 90s, drug companies like Glaxo Wellcome and Abbott Labs began recycling old chemotherapy drugs for the new AIDS drug market. This market consisted of gay men who weren't told that the HIV test was a nonspecific antibody test. They were told, however, that AIDS was an unavoidable outgrowth of testing positive on this test, and that HIV was a fatal condition.

If you look in the medical literature, you'll find that neither of these assumptions is true. Mona's son Sean has lived in a virtual coma his entire life. He was put on AZT in infancy. The drug made him so sick that he couldn't swallow solid food and, as a result, he ate through a tube in his nose until he was three. He had no energy. He was constantly ill. He couldn't play or even walk without becoming exhausted. Sean got sicker every time Mona gave him the drugs, so she cut down the doses. His energy level began to improve. She continued to wean him off the drugs and started taking him to a naturopath.

"For the first time in his life," she told me, "he became a normal boy. He could play with the other children, he could walk, he could run. He smiled and laughed. He was normal."

This would've been good news, except that Sean was born to a mother who once tested HIV-positive. Sean, the recipient of his mother's antibodies, also tested positive.

The Administration for Children's Services (ACS) came down hard on Mona for not drugging him. She was sent to a new doctor, an AIDS specialist at Beth Israel, who put Sean on a "miracle drug," Nevirapine. Within six months, he was on life support due to organ failure.

That's when ACS decided that Sean should be put into ICC. They said he'd be there for four months; he was there for more than a year. Mona had to get a lawyer to get him out.

Mona showed me Sean's medical records. They told the same story: AZT, Nevirapine, the ICU.

"Now they have Dana on the drugs."

Mona introduced me to Sean on a basketball court near their home. He was a cute kid. His jacket was too big for him, and he walked with a little shuffle - and a little wariness. He was small. I have a picture of myself at four years old, oversized denim jacket, swinging my legs a bit as I walked, and I was about the same size as Sean. Except Sean was 13. He weighed 50 pounds and was about four feet tall. An AZT baby. Stunted, his cells damaged from the inside out.

Incarnation Childrens Center is housed in a four-story brick building, a converted convent with barred windows. At the entrance, there are glass panes on either side of a large, solid door with a camera above it. The day I went to ICC, there were children pushing up against the glass beside the closed door looking at me. I walked through the door and into a waiting room with a wide steel elevator door at the far end. I signed in as a family friend of Mona's. The nurses eyed me suspiciously but didn't stop me from entering.

Beyond the reception area was a large, dark room with stained-glass windows on the far back wall. Children were grouped around folding tables.

The kids ranged from a couple years old to almost adult. Except for a few Hispanic kids, they were mostly African-American. A number of the children were in wheelchairs. There was a boom box playing in the background. Somebody had brought in pizza in cardboard boxes. A young woman in sweatpants sat on one of the chairs. She looked at me and seemed embarrassed; it was her 18th birthday party. A few bored, pale teenagers sat around in the corners, watching with detached, vague expressions. They were volunteers, coming to do community service for the AIDS children.

The wheelchair-bound kids were being fed or drugged, or both, with a milky-white fluid dispensed through tubes coming out of hanging plastic packs. The tubes disappeared beneath their shirts. Their eyes were vacant, pained, focused at a point in the distance that I couldn't see. I walked down a short hall into another room. There was a boy, maybe 10 years old, who had a bloated, water-logged appearance. He waved and shouted, motioning for me to come play with him. A childcare worker said his name sharply, like a warning, then looked at me sternly.

Back in the hallway, another little boy approached me and held out his arms. I picked him up, and he squealed and squirmed playfully. As I tried to get a better grip, my hand hit something hard - plastic. There was a piece of plastic covering a hole in his abdomen. I went cold and put him down carefully. Again, the nurses stared at me.

Getting ready to leave, I noticed a girl with a bloated stomach. She was probably 12 or 13 years old. I looked down - there was a clear, hollow plastic tube curling out of her sweatpants.

The thick, stale air was overwhelming, and it's then that I realized the windows were not only barred, but shut.

"If they were open," Mona would later tell me, "the kids would try to get out."

As I left, I again noticed the massive steel elevator door. According to Mona, it led to the clinic.

"That's where they give them the drugs. Upstairs. They used to do it down here, but they didn't like the other children seeing them give the drugs."

Dr David Rasnick is a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley whom I worked with on a series of articles examining the AIDS debate. When I told him what I'd seen at ICC, he was disturbed - but not entirely surprised.

"AIDS doctors always assume their patients are going to die," he said. "Nobody ever asks if an AIDS patient is actually sick from drug toxicity, because they never considered that the person had a chance anyway."

Last September, I requested an interview with an ICC official. A nurse told me that no one could come because "the children all have chickenpox." I remembered the live chickenpox vaccine. I showed up anyway. They wouldn't let me in, but they gave me a brochure. It was filled with black and white pictures of patients, exactly like the children I'd seen, drugged, damaged, with tubes hanging out of them.

In the middle of the brochure was a two-page photo of a drug tray filled with syringes. The drug schedules read, "8 am, Valium, Lasix, Prednisone, Bactrim, Epivir, Colace, ystatin, Ceftriaxone." There was a caption below the photo: "Medicine, medicine, medicine, medicine. The medicines give you a clue of how complicated HIV disease in childhood is. Ironically, years ago, one of my old professors told me that any patient who's put on more than four drugs should find a new doctor."

In the back of the brochure, there was a photo of a man handling a small white coffin, and another of a child's coffin in the front seat of a hearse. In the back seat, an infant sat on a woman's lap. There was no mention of drug toxicities. When these children die, they just call it AIDS.

Rasnick had told me about a nurse, Jacqueline Hoerger, who'd worked at ICC in the early 90s and had an experience similar to Mona's.

Hoerger had tried to adopt two little girls from ICC to raise and care for with her husband. She administered the drugs "by the book" for about a year, and watched as the girls got sicker. She started researching the AIDS drugs. After much consultation with an open-minded MD, she decided to give the girls a permanent "drug holiday." To her relief and amazement, the girls improved remarkably. She documented their improvement with her doctor.

When it was revealed to the adoption agency that she wasn't drugging the girls, New York Administration for Children's Services took them away and returned them to foster care. It didn't matter that they were better. It only mattered that they took the drugs.

In October 2003, I contacted ICC's executive director, Caroline Castro. She told me to write out my questions and send them in an email, which I did.

Where do the kids come from?

What's the current protocol for treating HIV-positive children?

I read on your website that you're participating in clinical trials. What kind of trials? What kind of funding do you get for participating?

Castro replied: "ICC appreciates your interest in our services but regretfully declines to participate in your project."

I called her anyway and asked her about the clinical trials. She said that ICC wasn't participating in clinical trials. When I noted that the NIH website lists ICC as a participant, she yelled at me.

"Why do you have to write about ICC?" she asked. "Don't write about us. You should write about somebody else." Then she hung up.

I called ICC's medical director, Dr. Katherine Painter. I got lucky, she agreed to speak with me. Evidently, she and Castro weren't sharing emails that day. I interviewed Dr. Painter for about an hour. Painter responded to my questions in extremely cautious, academic language.

When I mentioned the toxicity of AZT, she agreed that there had been some problems. But, she assured me, the new drugs had solved them.

According to Painter, the "biggest problem facing families with HIV-positive children is adherence." Adherence is a code word for people who don't want to take the pills. It doesn't mean illness; it means obedience to a drug regimen.

I asked her if ICC participated in clinical trials.

"Many of the clinics that refer to us are participating in clinical drug trials. Children participating in a drug trial undergo monitoring, testing and supply of an experimental drug through their outpatient clinic and we maintain that treatment here."

Had Castro lied to me? Clearly, the Incarnation Children's Center was participating in clinical trials. The kids may be enrolled at various area hospitals, but they're housed and drugged at ICC - which sounds an awful lot like participation.
I noted that the NIH clinical trial database listed hundreds of drug studies using children.

"There are loads and loads of trials going on in children," she replied.

As for adherence among the young patients, Painter noted that the drugs have a "significant, lingering, bitter taste." So they mix the pills or powders in chocolate or strawberry syrup.

But "for some cases," she said, "it's better administered through a g-tube." That's the stomach tube.

I asked her how they put in a g-tube. She said a surgeon cuts through the child's abdomen, "through the abdominal wall musculature, and then through the stomach. It creates a very small hole, about a quarter inch. It takes several weeks to heal well, so it's a bit tender. A small tube is placed through the stoma or opening. From the outside you can connect a syringe or feeding tube."

I asked why ICC insisted on drugging children in this manner when there are thousands of HIV-positive individuals who aren't sick, or who are pursuing naturopathic regimens with great success.

Painter admitted that she knew about these people - she used the industry term, LTNP (long-term non-progressors). This is a title used by AIDS academics to dodge the fact that even the Center for Disease Control & Prevention agrees the majority of people with HIV aren't sick. Most AIDS patients are given the diagnosis because of a T-cell count rather than an actual illness.

The LTNPs I know are involved in health-supportive regimens, they avoid immune-damaging practices, foods and substances - including the AIDS drugs.

"In treating AIDS," I asked, "why aren't we looking at supporting the immune system? Why are we giving people who are already sick drugs that kill the lining of the intestines and cause liver failure? Look at the adverse effects of any of these drugs?"

She interrupted. "Yes, of course, drugs have adverse reactions. But the risk/benefit of any medication must be weighed." She was becoming irritated. "May I remind you that untreated HIV infection is a terminal diagnosis.

And there it was, exactly as Dr. Rasnick had said: "AIDS doctors always assume that their patients are going to die."

But Painter had already agreed that wasn't true. There were the LTNPs. If they weren't dying and they tested positive, then her statement was incorrect.

She began to lecture me about the progression of the disease. First positivity, then, ten years later, sickness, then inevitably, death.

"Fine," I said, "let's say that someone who tests positive is indeed ill. The kids in ICC, besides being drugged all the time, are children of chronic drug-abusers. Isn't that a good reason to be sick?"

"No," she said.

"But HIV tests cross-react with antibodies produced from drug abuse."

"No," she protested.

"Yes, they do," I said. "Drug abuse, hepatitis, there are about 70 recorded conditions that make the test come up positive."

In reporting on the AIDS debate, I'd never met an HIV researcher or doctor who told me that HIV tests were even close to 100 percent accurate. Even the lab technicians I've met accept that the tests can be inaccurate and unreliable.

I ask again: "Why are we treating AIDS patients with drugs that kill their immune systems? Shouldn't we be helping them build immunity? Shouldn't we be saying anything that works in the treatment of AIDS is valid?"

Painter said that there was room for "supplementary therapy, including nutritional support" but, she reiterated, "anti-retroviral therapy has been the leading intervention that has significantly reduced morbidity and mortality in HIV infection."

I looked at my pile of papers: dozens of drug studies in which patients had died, in the researcher's own estimation, specifically because of the drugs. I looked at the warning labels: heart attack, organ failure, wasting, bone loss, anemia, birth defects, skin loss, bloody rashes, deformation and death.

Painter was in charge of at least 20 kids at a time, many of them orphans taken from their homes for the purpose of having a drug regimen enforced. She knew or was willing to admit less about HIV tests and HIV drug toxicity than almost any medical professional I'd ever spoken with. I thanked her for her time, and hung up.

Inside Incarnation Childrens Center, the children in wheelchairs stared ahead, unable to focus. I wanted to take them all outside into the fresh air. It was a bright sunny day, and they were locked up in this room, a girl's 18th birthday party under stained glass.

I approached one of the children in a wheelchair, a boy about 12. There was something strange in his face - his head was oddly shaped. It was a bit squashed, with the eyes spaced widely. His limbs and torso were slightly warped, shortened and weak-looking. This is what happens to AZT babies.

I looked at the other children. Same arms, same legs, same faces. One boy on half-crutches trying to dance to the music. His legs dangled beneath him, his feet at odd angles to the ground. I knelt by the boy in the wheelchair. He made a slight sound, like a panic deep inside trying to get out. I didn't want to alarm him, so I got up.

I met a boy named Amir who was sitting at one of the tables. He was about six years old. Amir had a stomach tube. He had also undergone multiple plastic surgeries to remove "buffalo humps" - that's what the AIDS doctors call the large, fatty growths from the necks and backs of people who take protease inhibitors.

I walked over to him, and he smiled broadly. His head was in that same squashed shape, and his back and shoulders were oddly rounded. He grabbed onto my shirt. I knelt down and he put his arms around my neck for a hug. There were large round discolorations on his neck where the lumps had been removed. After a couple minutes, I tried to get up, but he held on. I took his hands gently in mine, held them for a moment, then carefully let go.

Five months later, Mona saw Amir in the hospital. "My stomach is swollen; it got big," he told her. "They cut me, they cut me." He pointed to an incision on his side.

"I think it's the tube," Mona told me. "I think it's infected."

When I asked Dr. Painter how they decide that the stomach tube should be used, she told me, "When other interventions to help a child take the medication by mouth have failed."

Something certainly failed with Amir. Two weeks after Mona saw him in the hospital, he was dead.
NY Press http://nypress.com/17/28/news&columns/LiamScheff.cfm

CTM COMMENT: For those not fully conversant with the complete fraud that is the AIDS industry today, and how this disease is NOT being caused by any 'HIV', we recommend taking the AIDS tour for a brief review.

The above paper deserves credit for its courage. The NY Press has a large and active letters page and will, no doubt, receive their share of fan mail from the mainstream for publishing this. It is very important that each CTM subscriber does his bit in letting them know their decision to publish this is appreciated, and important to the health and welfare of people everywhere who are fighting medical tyranny.

Drop 'em a line.

And Liam too for his hard work.

Letters - editorial@nypress.com
Liam Scheff :liamscheff@yahoo.com

Letter page - http://nypress.com/17/28/mail/TheMail.cfm

Danger: Jam Sponge
Cakes the Ladies of the Women's Institute Bake For Patients are Banned by Hospital as a Potential Health Hazard
by James Mills

Think of cakes and you probably think of the Women's Institute. They go together like, well, jam and sponge.

With elderly patients at a hospital in Essex, the freshly baked Victoria sandwiches, tarts and fruit cakes brought in by the WI once a month certainly went down well.

But the tea-time treat has been banned by officials at Saffron Waldron Community Hospital - who have branded the cakes as a potential health hazard.

They claim they breach guidelines because the kitchens of the WI members have not been inspected.

Not surprisingly, at a time when hospital superbugs are claiming up to 20,000 lives a year, angry members of the WI are boiling like a pan of jam. "Whoever died from eating a jam tart or a Victoria sandwich?" said 62-year-old retired teacher Sue Bright, who specializes in jam sponges. "The poor patients will probably have to eat biscuits now instead."

Glynis Straker, a mother of three, said it was an insult to suggest her chocolate sponges could put the patients at risk. "This is just another example of the silly bureaucracy brought in at the expense of common sense," said the 49-year-old dental practice manager. "It really is getting out of hand.

"The WI are well known for their baking skills and home-made jam so we know what we are doing and our kitchens are certainly not a health hazard. In fact, they are probably a sight cleaner than some hospitals these days. I know they're worried about the MRSA bug, but it certainly isn't going to come from my kitchen. What are they providing for the patients now instead of our cakes?

"We've been making cakes for years now without any problems. We used to make them for Saffron Waldron Hospice until it closed a year ago and then we were asked to bake them for the elderly patients at the hospital.

There are 12 WI groups in the area and each month the members of one of the groups would make ten cakes. The patients loved them and always looked forward to our deliveries. It seems a shame they are now being denied this small pleasure."

The WI's cakes were banned after a routine inspection by the Uttlesford Primary Care Trust.

The Trust claims the decision was made after advice was sought from environmental health officers and the Department of Health.

A spokesman said: "We are not in any way suggesting the cakes the WI has kindly provided us are unsafe. However, the Trust has to adhere to strict hygiene criteria and without inspecting the kitchens of the WI members who prepare the cakes, we cannot eliminate all potential risks. The hospital treats very vulnerable elderly patients, many of whom have special dietary requirements. Patient safety is our top priority.

"The problem is that we have no authority to go in and inspect a private individual's kitchen. The WI is not a commercial business with whom we have a contract. We appreciate that some members will be upset, but we very much hope that we can continue to work with the WI in other ways."

A spokesman for Uttlesford District Council's environmental health department, said: "Everyone has to have a hazard assessment done when making and selling cakes to old people. These are established guidelines."

The Department of Health said it was up to individual hospitals to decide food policies as long as they met safety legislation.
Daily Mail, 29th July 2004

CTM COMMENT: Could not resist this classic example of the blind leading the blind and they both fall in a ditch. The big-hearted cake-making divas of the WI are of course understandably incensed at the rejection of their culinary talents, but for the right reasons? Apparently, it is not because of what all that sugar will do to people's cancer, fungi, yeast overgrowths, etc., but because patients may contract the MRSA super-bug!

Guess they'll have to make do with the sugar-laden biscuits instead.

Goodness, we're never going to be out of a job at CTM.

Ever.

The Deadly Hazards of Cancer-Cure
by Sam Lister

An investigation is being urged of online sites that offer treatments with no scientific backing.

Thousands of cancer patients are risking their health by following the advice of alternative therapy websites that promote bogus cures, a leading expert in complimentary medicine said yesterday.

Edzard Ernst, Britain's only professor of complementary medicine, who is based at the University of Exeter, called for Government guidance to steer patients away from treatments promoted on the internet that were not supported by a "shred of evidence".

He said that in some cases patients were hastening their own deaths by rejecting conventional treatment.

In a study of 32 of the most popular alternative and complimentary therapy websites, which attract tens of thousands of visitors every day, researchers found dozens of so-called remedies that are promoted as curing or preventing cancer, including shark cartilage, coffee enemas, mistletoe and apricot extracts. But none of the treatments and approaches promoted online had been shown definitively to cure or prevent the disease, Prof Ernst said.

He and Katja Schmidt, the co-author of the study report, found that in 3 per cent of cases the websites actively discouraged patients from using conventional cancer treatments, and 16 per cent did the same indirectly through information they provided.

One British-based website was judged to be offering advice where definite harm was conceivable, while two American sites were also categorized as potentially harmful. Another six of the sites were considered to be of some conceivable harm to cancer patients. "This was, to us, quite an eye-opener and pretty scary stuff," Professor Ernst said. "We found that between these 30-odd sites, 118 different cancer 'cures' were recommended, complementary treatment that claimed to be able to cure cancer. Not everything that is natural is risk-free. People should use their common sense and think twice about the motives of these websites. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. You cannot believe ridiculous promises and claims."

He said that a further 59 preventive treatments were recommended, but again there was no evidence that any of them worked. Two prime examples were shark cartilage and laetrile, which is made from apricot stones. In the first case, the demand for ground up shark fins has brought two species of shark close to extinction, Professor Ernst said. Yet there was no evidence that it helped to cure patients.

An estimated 40,000 complimentary therapists, registered and unregistered, are thought to be practising in the UK, and about a quarter of the British population is believed to use a complimentary treatment in any given year. In the US, the figure is 60 per cent and in Germany, as high as 75 per cent. "If you take patient populations, these figures can be very close to 100 per cent," Professor Ernst said. A recent survey showed that one in five patients took herbal remedies without their GP's knowledge. Ten per cent of patients were found to be taking both warfarin, a prescription medication for thinning the blood, and a herbal therapy known to react dangerously with that drug.

Professor Ernst said that many doctors were woefully ignorant about the potential risks of complementary treatments, especially with regard to their interaction with conventional medicines. He said pharmacists also need better training. The Professor, who has run the Complementary Medicine Peninsular Medical School for ten years, said that in that time a handful of complementary therapies had been shown scientifically to be beneficial.

Examples include ginko biloba, which delayed the progression of senile dementia; hawthorn, which could help patients with congestive heart failure; garlic, which lowered cholesterol levels; feverfew, which helped to prevent migraine attacks; and peppermint, which reduced symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome.

Last night, George Georgiou, a herbal therapist from St Albans, rejected Professor Ernst's claims. He said that his website, which has more than 40,000 visits a month, had never received any serious complaints from users.

"Why are we not shouting about the side-effects of some conventional medications which can be huge killers?" he said. "Why would all these people be buying these products if they were not working? The fact is, we are living in a democracy, and people have the right to choose."

The Department of Health said that the regulation of complementary medicine and advice on good practice remained a continuing concern.

Proposals for the statutory regulation of herbal medicine and acupuncture practitioners were published in March, and results from consultations are still being assessed.
Times (UK), 3rd August 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Well, folks, here he is again, Edzard Ernst, Britain's only 'Professor of Complementary Medicine', who spends most of his days rubbishing complementary medicine on behalf of his string-pullers. The only way the drug industry can end the threat to its profits is by casting doubt and accusation against unpatented medicine, predictably resorting to a 'complementary medicine professor' who unbelievably declares that all alternative remedies are quackery, for by definition, if they worked, they would be used in orthodox medicine.

But, you all know the script. Edzard Ernst is rightly declared a menace to public health, but he is getting the column inches. The UK Times, which published the above, would like to hear from everyone about this issue. What do you think about Edzard Ernst? Should medicine be left to the health professionals? Drop 'em a line.

If you are not sure about the controversy surrounding medicine's failure to combat cancer with radiation and drugs (and many other diseases for that matter), pick up a book from our book-store and have a browse through the previous EClub articles we have published on the subject.

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Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth by Phillip Day
Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom

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Previous Articles:

CANCER: WHO CAN WE TRUST? Is the medical establishment 'winning the war on cancer?' How safe are alternative treatments compared to chemo and radiation? Can we trust the information about cancer we are given in the media?

THE CANCER CHARITIES: Steven Ransom presents an in-depth look inside the cancer charities and big drug companies and unravels a littany of vested interests and manipulation of information.

CHEMO(TOXICO)THERAPY: A candid view of this commonly prescribed treatment and the harsh fact of expert and subtle manipulation behind the oft-quoted 'success' statistics.

CANCER: An excerpt from Phillip Day's ABC's of Disease.

MAMMOGRAPHY - MORE PROBLEMS: The false positive rate of mammograms, those patients without cancer but with a positive finding on testing, turns out to be another problem. Only one biopsy in six was found to be positive for cancer when done on the basis of a positive mammogram or breast examination.

THE NITRILOSIDES IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS: Ernst T Krebs Jr. discusses the active, anti-cancer role of the Vitamin B17 nitrilosides in the plant and animal kingdoms.

DEATH BY MEDICINE: A group of researchers meticulously reviewed the statistical evidence and their findings are absolutely shocking. The result is a paper entitled "Death by Medicine" that presents compelling evidence that today's (medical) system frequently causes more harm than good.

IS LAETRILE (B17) USELESS? A collection of documented case studies showing results of cancer treatment using B17 in response to recent claims in the media that it is useless.

MORE PROBLEMS WITH CHEMO AND RADIOTHERAPY: An excerpt from B17 Metabolic Therapy detailing the common perceptions of cancer and conventional treatments vs the reality of the situation.

CANCER THE NEW APPROACH: A look at some of the doctors who took a different view of the probable causes of cancer and their experiences using B17 metabolic therapy to treat their patients.

BREAST CANCER DRUG THAT RAISES SURVIVAL RATES BY A THIRD: Once again a bright and rosy picture is painted and a new drug hailed a success. However, perhaps we should read the 'fine print' before opening the bubbly.

THE REAL HEALTH SCARE: Recently the UK's Daily Telegraph published an Opinion entitled 'The Real Health Scare', wherein alternative approaches to disease were given the usual panning. Here, one CTM member certainly felt the newspaper had simply gone a pill too far.

CANCER BOY'S PARENTS WIN 'AMPUTATION' FIGHT: A couple who lost custody of their young son to social services after insisting that his bone cancer was treated using alternative medicine last week won a lengthy legal battle to get him back.

MEDICINE OR CHEMICAL WARFARE? Author Steve Ransom discusses the horrors of gas weapons used in the two world wars and the alarming parallels to modern chemotherapy.

OUR HEREDITARY SUBMISSIVE ATTITUDE? A discussion into the mental state of the newly diagnosed cancer patient, the rush to conventional treatment, and the phenomenon of our unquestioning submission.

THE MERCHANTS: In this excerpt from Great News on Cancer in the 21st Century, Steve Ransom unveils the ties between the pharmaceutical industry and governing bodies as well as the industry's stranglehold on medical academia.

Sweeping Changes to Baby Vaccines
by Celia Hall

Babies will no longer be given vaccine that contains the neurotoxin mercury when they are eight weeks old. The move follows pressure from parents and fears of a link between the metal and the development of autism.

Doctors across the country are being sent letters telling them of changes to the infant vaccine programme, which introduce a new five-in-one jab at two months of age.

They are also being told to switch from live polio vaccine, given by mouth, to an injection of a "killed" vaccine which avoids the rare cases of polio contamination.

Campaigners welcomed the removal of mercury from children's vaccines but were worried about giving babies five vaccines at once.

Jacquie Fletcher, founder of the parent support group Jabs (Justice, Awareness and Basic Support), said yesterday: "Giving five vaccines increases the risk of an adverse event as well as making it more difficult to find out which element is the cause if something goes wrong. I would also like to know why they have now decided to take mercury out of the vaccine. We have major concerns about mercury. We need to be assured that the new vaccine is safe. I want to know what safety and efficacy trials they have run which are large enough to show up what may be rare events."

The changes are expected to take place next month when sufficient stocks of the new five-in-one vaccine have been amassed.

The new injection, the first a baby is given, will inoculate against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hib and polio. The whooping cough element is the part of the vaccine that has, until now, contained mercury in a form called thiomersal.

Thiomersal is used in a range of household products and medicines as an anti-fungal and antibacterial agent.

Much concern has been raised about the triple jab for measles, mumps and rubella, and its links with autism, which have been strenuously denied. There is a separate concern over links between mercury in vaccines and autism.

The Department of Health has always said that there is no evidence of such a link. Dr Peter English, consultant in communicable diseases at the Health Protection Agency, says in the circular letter to GPs that there are three reasons for the change.

"The primary objectives are: to do away with whole cell pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine; to do away with live, oral polio vaccine and to do away with thiomersal vaccines."

Dr English asks doctors and other health professionals to treat the information "sensitively and keep it within the circle of health professionals" until the formal announcement, which will be made by the chief medical officer, Prof Sir Liam Donaldson, on Monday.
There is to be no change to the meningitis C vaccine programme or to the existing measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, which does not contain mercury.

Prof John Oxford, professor of virology at Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, commenting on the decision, said that if there was "any doubt whatsoever" about the safety of mercury in vaccines then it should be removed.

He said there were no grounds for concern in giving five vaccines at once: "I don't think anyone has shown a shred of evidence that multiple vaccines can overwhelm the immune system. Every day our immune systems are exposed to much more than that."
Daily Telegraph, 7th August 2004

Politicians and Doctors Should Do the Right Thing for Vaccine Victims

SIR - I read with emotional interest the news report on mercury and the whooping cough vaccination. Last September, our granddaughter had her first set of vaccinations at the age of eight weeks; that afternoon she had her first seizure. Her condition has been an uncontrollable nightmare ever since and her development has been severely delayed.

We were told that either this was a bizarre coincidence or a predisposed problem was triggered. Our suggestion that there was a link to the vaccinations was rejected. The sooner that the medical pundits accept that one solution does not fix all and that reactions to a sudden infusion of a combination of foreign chemicals into small babies are a possibility, the more respect I will have for their opinions.
Jennifer Hall
Market Drayton, Shropshire
Letters to the Editor, Daily Telegraph, 9th August 2004

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Wake up to Health in the 21st Century by Steven Ransom
Health Wars by Phillip Day

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The Fluoride Action Network
http://www.fluoridealert.org

Dear All,

This story gives hope to all those communities who have recently been fluoridated - it can come out as quickly as it goes in! The beauty of this issue is that once the political will is there fluoridation can be ended as simply as turning off a tap. That is what has happened in Sumner, Washington State this week. It was put in because the arms of local officials were twisted by the Tacoma-Pierce County health board. Now the State Supreme Court has ruled that the health board went beyond its authority, the untwisted arms have reached out and are about to switch off the tap.

Note especially this statement: "If there are one or two people in Sumner who have negative health effects because of fluoride, that's not fair," said Councilman Curt Brown. "They have no choice, and we have seen that there are other ways to get fluoride."

One or two people. At last, the rights of the INDIVIDUAL are being recognized.
Paul Connett

Sumner to Stop Putting Fluoride
in Water (Washington State)
by Miriam Gottfried

Sumner's water fluoridation program will soon come to a halt.

The City Council voted 7-1 Monday to stop putting fluoride in its drinking water, terminating the city's contract with the Tacoma-Pierce County health board.

The decision means the city will lose the $122,000 it has spent to install the system, including $58,000 that would have been covered by a grant from the county Health Department. But stopping fluoridation also will save Sumner about $20,000 per year - the approximate cost of maintaining the system.

The decision also should end, or at least curtail, the sometimes bitter local debate about fluoride's health effects.

"If there are one or two people in Sumner who have negative health effects because of fluoride, that's not fair," said Councilman Curt Brown. "They have no choice, and we have seen that there are other ways to get fluoride."

Mark Evers was the only councilman to vote against the motion.

"I think we have to listen to the experts on this issue," he said. "If we're talking about choice, the 5-year-old kids who are coming to the dentist with cavities don't have a choice, either."

Councilman Mike Connor attempted to amend the motion to include a provision to bring the issue to a public vote. His amendment failed, 4-3.

About 10 members of the public also spoke before the council vote.

Though fluoridation will end immediately, the equipment will be left in place, said Bill Shoemaker, Sumner public works director. He said that about half of the money was used for design and engineering, so the city can't recoup its losses by selling the equipment it purchased.

Monday's vote followed an emotionally charged public hearing July 19 at which about 20 residents expressed opposition to fluoridation and about 10, including four dentists and two physicians, spoke in favor of it.

Sumner began fluoridation March 31 under orders from the health board. There were few public complaints at that time.

But the state Supreme Court overturned the order on May 13, after which a majority of the City Council came out in opposition to fluoridation. The council members said they would wait until after the public hearing to decide whether to fulfill the contract.

In 2002, the county health board ordered fluoridation for 14 local drinking water suppliers, each serving more than 5,000 consumers. Sumner and others complied, but another group of cities, including Bonney Lake and Lakewood, appealed. When the Supreme Court overruled the order, health department officials said that Sumner, Milton and two other water suppliers had signed contracts to receive grants and thus were obligated to fluoridate.

Health board officials say that fluoride helps promote oral hygiene. Some city leaders, including Mayor Barbara Skinner, have come out in favor of fluoridation, citing national evidence that it fights cavities, especially among poor children who might not get regular dental care.

Opponents say that fluoride has negative effects as well. Putting it in the city's water, they say, will amount to forced medication.

About 300,000 people in Pierce County already have fluoride in their drinking water, including residents of Tacoma, University Place, Fircrest and military bases.
The News Tribune, 3rd August 2004

http://www.tribnet.com/news/story/5379245p-5317500c.html

MoD 'Gag' on Details of Gulf War Illness
By Oliver Poole

The "manipulations and manoeuvres" of the Ministry of Defence were condemned yesterday after it approached scientists researching "Gulf War Syndrome" and asked them to limit their co-operation with an independent inquiry into veterans' illnesses.

The criticism came on the second day of the open hearings to Lord Lloyd of Berwick, a former Lord Justice of Appeal. The inquiry had been taking testimony from former servicemen who blame the 1991 conflict for a range of subsequent medical problems.

The Ministry of Defence last week announced it would be "inappropriate" to allow ministers, civil servants and serving members of the armed forces to appear, but pledged it was "committed to openness" and promised to provide "appropriate documents".

However, Malcolm Lingwood, the director of the MoD's veterans policy unit, sent a letter on Wednesday to more than 40 scientists and advisors that had been paid by the Government to research Gulf War-related illnesses. It asked them not to reveal any continuing findings until they could be published in the completed official report to preserve their "confidentiality".

Prof Malcolm Hooper, a Government advisor on Gulf War illnesses, said he saw it as a Government attempt to limit the inquiry's ability to explore the extent of the problem.
The Daily Telegraph, 20th July 2004

PHILLIP DAY'S COMMENT: Here, of course, is another example of Big Brother frantically attempting some damage control over the catastrophic matter of aspartame and depleted uranium poisoning, and anthrax inoculations for our boys in the Gulf. Welcome to the 21st century, where everyone has rights but seemingly no responsibilities.

An Interview with Martin J. Walker
by Louise McLean

When Martin Walker published his fifth book in 1993 - Dirty Medicine: Science, Big Business and the Assault on Natural Healthcare, it sent shock waves through the natural healthcare industry. He set up Slingshot Publications to publish this book and others for writers having difficulties getting their books published by mainstream publishing houses. Louise McLean talks to Martin about his books, his views and his writing.

Many people believe there is presently a worldwide move through Codex Alimentarius to outlaw natural therapies and remedies. The first phase of these has been implemented through the EU Food Supplements Directive, with the Herbal and Medicines Directives to follow. In your book Dirty Medicine you outlined some of the strategies used by the pharmaceutical industry to discredit alternative medicine. What do you think is going on at the moment?

When I was writing Dirty Medicine from 1988 to1993, I don't think I realised the importance of the attack on vitamins and mineral supplements. It's only recently that I've understood that the people attached to the Campaign Against Health Fraud (CAHF - now called Health Watch) in the UK, the American National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) and Quackbusters in America were only the first wave of a more organised, powerful and centralised attempt to destroy vitamin and mineral supplements. I tended at that time to view the people I was writing about as rather quirky individuals who were in favour of professional medicine, biased towards scientific medicine and the pharmaceutical companies, but not as people supported by multinational agencies involved in a continuous conflict over supplements and holistic health therapies.

Of course now that the plan has been unveiled, I can see that the organisation of CAHF and NCAHF was the first stage in the battle. The techniques they were using - the character assassination of alternative practitioners and researchers, the commissioning and planting of press stories, the linking up with more formal agencies like the FDA and the MCA, raiding premises, striking people off professional registers, bringing people before disciplinary board hearings, conducting bogus scientific trials, the undeclared work with large corporations. All these things were linked to a kind of regulatory ground-clearing exercise. Now, a legislative battle is taking place on a different level and involving whole groupings of countries. The pharmaceutical cartel are losing money worldwide to natural health care. They don't really want people to get better by themselves when they could be taking pharmaceutical medicine.

The chemical and pharmaceutical companies would like to retain hegemony over the social structure of health and medicine. It isn't that they want to do away with vitamins and food supplements, it's that they want to control production and distribution of these things to maximise profit. The fact that they are campaigning to end self-administration of vitamins, minerals and food supplements would not stop them from putting them in food, for instance. They want to control pre-packaged distribution of vitamins and if they could put them in foods, shirts, lipsticks or patches or whatever, they will do that. They also want to end the confusion that has arisen between nutrition and medicine and they want to end any evident connection between nutrition and health so that in the public perception, health is dependent upon professional medicine and pharmaceutical products.

Tell me more about the other books Slingshot has published or is going to publish?

When I published Dirty Medicine in 1993 I set up Slingshot Publications and it was my intention to publish my own books. Dirty Medicine went out of print in 1998 after selling 7, 000 copies mainly by mail order.

In 1998 I published a small booklet about Loic Le Ribault, an important French forensic scientist, mercilessly denigrated by the French State and by medical interests because he discovered the use of organic silica as a medicine for arthritis. I wrote a short booklet about him and he has since published his own series of books about his struggles, culminating in the recent publication of The Cost of A Discovery (available from LLR-G5 Ltd., C/o Ross Post Office, Castlebar, County Mayo, Republic of Ireland).

Around 1999 or so, I thought that I would actually like to publish other people's work as well. In December 2002 Slingshot published A Cat in Hell's Chance, a campaigners view of the battle to close Hill Grove Farm in Oxfordshire, which bred cats for vivisection. During its production I came to understand more than I had previously about the link between vivisection and medicine and therefore people's health. There are no good aspects of vivisection or chemical testing and they have to be absolutely abolished, they cannot be reformed. SHAC, the campaign against Huntington Life Sciences is the way forward, attacking companies and the industry on every front possible and trying to cut off their financial backing and destroy their economic infrastructure.

One of the things that has always been of interest to me is the generational continuity of ideas, especially political ideas. So I thought it would be a good idea to publish some of the original texts which had a great impact on people. I offered to reprint an English language edition of Hans Ruesch's ground-breaking and seminal anti-vivisection book Slaughter of the Innocent. This book has just come out.

Although it was first published over 20 years ago in 1979, it still gives you a sense of direction today. It was very difficult to do, we had to create an electronic manuscript for it which meant copying every page with data recognition technology. Then it all had to be typeset again in the original form, so that there was continuity of the references.

Despite the fact that testing on a tiny mouse or rat cannot have any real bearing on how a drug will affect a human and can lead to adverse reactions when given to humans, there are apparently more animals being experimented on today than ever before, even though New Labour promised in their manifesto to cut down.

The New Labour government has reneged on its anti-vivisectionist vote-catching rhetoric because they are so heavily indebted to and entrenched with the pharmaceutical multinationals. They can't back down from the position the chemical and pharmaceutical companies demand and that is why millions of animals continue to be slaughtered every year.

Testing of chemicals on animals is growing in Britain and America. When it comes to the questioning of a particular chemical, which has been known to be carcinogenic for a long time, the solution that has occurred to the chemical companies is to get full-scale massive animal testing trials for that chemical. This means that they can put off making decisions for at least 5 or 6 years, which gives them another 5 or 6 years' profit and another 5 or 6 years' unaccountable deaths, while we wait for these massive animal slaughtering exercises to be carried out. Then of course there is another 5 or 6 years in implementing any reforming regulations.

Buying time?

If the tests prove to be unequivocally against the chemical, no doubt the chemical companies will come up with bizarre arguments such as: 'Oh well, you can't rely on animal testing, can you? It's not the same as human physiology'. Which is what they have said in the past. Then you get another 5 years of: 'How can we test chemicals on humans?' or 'How can we collate anecdotal stories of the effect of chemicals on humans?' and 'Let's have a think about this and find some way of doing it'. Then there's another 5 years and it just goes on indefinitely.

Talking of chemicals, I believe you wrote a paper about the epidemiologist, Sir Richard Doll and his work on the (lack of a) link between cancer and the vinyl chloride industry, while he was a consultant for Monsanto, at that time one of the major producers of vinyl chloride?

I don't want to go into the details of that particular paper, its one of two papers I wrote over the last couple of years about the contemporary role of medical epidemiologists. I am very interested in writing about the connection between the life of the professional and those larger agencies in society which have power and which determine power and the direction of society. One of the best works on asbestos for example, is the book by Geoffrey Tweedale, called From Magic Mineral to Killer Dust. It isn't just about the company that manufactured asbestos or about the scientists who agreed the toxic and regulatory levels for asbestos fibre. It's about a whole nexus of social, scientific and economic factors. In important writings about health, one has got to take account of a whole series of social and political ideas, not just write about one particular avenue.

There is a real problem with much contemporary writing about health, in that it is over-simplistic, written by people who are trying to push a particular theory or aspect of health. Sociologically or in relation to campaigns, such books are useless because they don't take into account the whole of the social structure that surrounds that illness or therapy.

Can you tell us about companies and organisations that are set up to allay the fears of the public on health and environmental issues but are really working for the benefit of chemical and pharmaceutical industries?

Up until the end of the '80s, if a company wanted to deflect public criticism, in the area of health, it would set up its own propaganda arm, creating an institute or some kind of lobby organisation that was probably part of a PR company. Towards the mid-1990s, a lot of critics, commentators and journalists began to see these organisations for what they were. You couldn't just run a fake institute that published good news about your industry without somebody finding out the financial links between the industry and that institute.

So in the mid-1980s, a number of companies came into being which were problem-solving companies. A part of these companies' briefs entailed finding technical, scientific or mechanical solutions to industry or company problems. Another part of their work however, involved solving problems of 'consumer perception' faced by a particular industry, company or product. So if the waste disposal industry had a problem with the public perception of Dioxin, for example, then the 'problem solving' company would take this on.

Their role is clearly similar to the one taken by PR companies in the past. The difference is that their approach is more integrated. These companies have their own epidemiologists, their own scientists, their own smaller agency companies. They have managed to integrate all of these areas into government structures as well. They receive government grants for various projects and are represented on peer review panels, etc. They carry on a more authoritative and aggressive protection of harmful products and a more determined attack on consumer and citizens' lobbies. These organisations are much more dangerous in terms of their defence of bad health products because you can't track them down easily.

Let's move on to another Slingshot book due out next year, 'The Gatekeepers', which deals with alternative cancer healers.

The Gatekeepers is a book which I started by accident. When I finished Dirty Medicine, I was doing a lot of research into chemicals and cancer and I came across a particular naturopath, who had been a cancer healer in England. I followed and researched his work and looked at his methods in some detail. I found that the British Ministry of Health as it was then and the organs of orthodox medicine, had waged a campaign against him. I had only previously read about American cancer therapists and the way the American government, American industry and American professional medicine had attacked them.

I studied the work of this naturopath and uncovered the things that happened to him. I went on to look at others and decided to write The Gatekeepers, about the struggle between natural cancer curers, orthodox medicine and the British government from 1850 to the present day. It's not a book about alternative cancer cures or a book about cancer. It's a book about the power of professional medicine - dirty tricks and strategies that are used by people in power to deny other people a competitive place in the market. It deals with just three or four people and looks at their cases in depth, as individuals and therapists in an attempt to describe them in rounded terms and not just at their cancer cures.

I've tried to look at these people, at their therapies and philosophy as an aspect of their life and then I've looked at the people who are attacking them in the same way - although it's quite difficult. For instance in the case of this particular naturopath, somebody in the Ministry of Health set the police on him. It's difficult to understand the consciousness of police officers trying to track down and bring to trial an alternative medical practitioner. We can understand the police arresting a criminal doing obvious harm to property or to a person but we are not quite sure how to describe the social environment of a police officer involved in a campaign on behalf of the State against an alternative medical practitioner.

This obviously has something to do with the common view about medicine, the honesty of the medical profession and the implied lack of competence of 'untrained' practitioners. There is clearly a view, very often projected in the press, that whereas doctors have only one motive which is to cure people, alternative practitioners have pecuniary motives and can be responsible for harming people.

Yes, this is clearly the case when you think about it and of course there is the contact with the pharmaceutical industry which affects much professional medicine. The Gatekeepers is going to be an interesting book to finish because I've been working on it now for nearly 10 years on and off. I spent 2 years in 2001 and 2002 trying to help look after my mother who died of cancer and that brought me into conflict with a lot of things I questioned in the NHS.

I have tried to introduce personal anecdotal narrative into the book because I became very involved in my investigation into the naturopath. I wanted as well to write about the process of investigating because I think it is important to people. Writers as a professional body tend to keep their methodologies to themselves. We should really try to explain how we research a subject and put information together, just so the reader can more fully understand where we are coming from. In The Gatekeepers, I talk about my investigations, and how you look at people and their past.

An idea that has come into focus for me recently, is to do with the intrusion of the State and medicine into the life of the family. I want to write more about this. The State and the medical profession these days seem to be taking great leaps and bounds into the previously accepted private area of the family. Ironically a direction which the British Conservative establishment was accusing communists, socialists and Labour followers of in the early part of the last century.

Are you referring to situations like the Shaken Baby Syndrome and MMR court cases?

Yes, and for example the HIV baby test case about whether the baby should be tested for HIV. And of course the whole trend in North America of legislating for pre-birth or even pre-pregnancy testing for possible hereditary illnesses. At the end of this continuum there is the overshadowing question of legislating for various kinds of genetic testing.

There are examples too in another of my books, SKEWED, regarding ME and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Cases are described where psychiatrists put children with ME in closed mental hospital facilities. In some cases the parents are arrested and in one case imprisoned because they were said to be inflicting false illness beliefs on their children. Some of the mothers were accused of having Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy.

It appears that we are entering an area where abuse becomes defined by doctors, not simply in criminal terms or in terms of violence or even mental cruelty but on the grounds that the parent disagrees with orthodox medicine. This is going in the wrong direction and appears to be part of a much larger plan for the medical profession, science and pharmaceutical interests to gain a greater hegemony over the family.

Let's talk about your book 'Skewed'. Nowadays many people are becoming ill from 'hidden' causes such as air pollution, pesticides in food, prescription drugs, vaccinations, radiation from mobile phones and computers. They become tired and weak. This book deals with the fact that these people, who are diagnosed with ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, are frequently referred to psychiatrists. Since no concrete physical diagnosis can be found, these sufferers are told that 'it is all in their minds', that it's psychosomatic.

Skewed came out at the end of October 2003 and it's a book about the way that a small group of psychiatrists have tried to control and redefine the illness of ME.

What this particular group of psychiatrists has done is to erase ME and subsume it into a whole category of illnesses which they have termed Chronic Fatigue. What was once a very specific illness, with very specific signs and aetiology, has now been incorporated into a massive group of symptoms with one set of treatments being given to all sufferers. A moratorium has been called on diagnostic testing so that there is going to be no further research, in Britain anyway, into what actually caused ME or what ME is. One of the treatments now prescribed for CFS is graded exercise therapy to get people fit and out of their fatigue.

Surely that would make them tireder?

If you are suffering from fatigue, and especially if you are one of the 25% immobilised sufferers, in considerable pain, why would you want to get involved in graded exercise? Some psychiatrists say that fatigue is all in the mind and the patient has got to be able to conquer it. They prescribe GE along with 'cognitive behaviour therapy'. The idea is to get the patient to understand their symptoms, to get rid of false illness beliefs.

What about the drugs they prescribe?

Both these therapies go along with the prescription of anti-depressant drugs.

Which are very addictive.

And they don't solve the problem. What the psychiatrists say is that depression and the psychiatric condition are primary in these cases. Other people say yes, of course if you've got an illness like ME, you're going to be depressed, you can't get out of bed, you can't do the things you used to, you may be in considerable pain and you have probably had to stop work.

However, SKEWED is not a book about ME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, about their causes or even about their treatment. I've tried to trace the arguments used by psychiatric doctors since World War II - they believe that people who suffer from ME and certain chemically induced illnesses are suffering from mental rather than physical illness. I've tried to suggest where this argument comes from, how it has been used since the 1950s by chemical companies and the government to dismiss anybody who has an illness which isn't easily identifiable, doesn't have a characteristic symptomatology and doesn't have any clear treatment. The last thing the chemical companies in Britain or America want to do is admit such a thing as chemical illness because it means a massive liability. SKEWED deals with ME, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Gulf War Syndrome. It uses them all as examples of how the psychiatric argument is used to cloak any research into organic aetiology.

Can you tell me more about your plans for Slingshot?

We are concentrating at the moment on getting an Associate Membership scheme working, where people pay £50 to receive all the books published by Slingshot over the first year they join, in the following year they get a year's books at perhaps half the membership price, somewhere around £25. If we could get a good turnover and large enrolment of Associate Members, we would be well on the way to financing the books. The message of the books are the important thing.

I would be grateful if anybody can help Slingshot to distribute these books, get more Associate Members or help with publicity. We just want to produce books which are integral to campaigns that can be sold on the ground to people involved or interested in these campaigns. We try to sell our books either by mail order or by campaigning groups in the community. We are trying very hard to create a situation whereby we can offload hundreds of books to organisations at very low prices, so that they can then sell them at cover price to make money for their campaigns. I want this to be an organic thing that gets books to people cheaply. We don't have significant problems selling our books but we are always undercapitalised when going to the printers with a new book. Obviously we are never going to be a multinational with significant amounts of money in reserve but if we could find some way of being assured of borrowing up-front printing costs of each book it would be a great relief.

Although you have a major interest in politics, I believe your true profession was that of an artist?

I have been involved in politics since I was at Hornsey College of Art in 1968. I try to keep the 'art' side of things going. For many years I designed and printed political posters and for the last five years or so I have been doing ceramics, mainly tile design, which I am very committed to.

I'm of the generation of 1968. I was expelled from Hornsey for my part in the occupation of the college during those months around May 68, when occupations and demonstrations swept through Europe. Then, politics was so organic, so much ingrained in our lives. For my generation of activists, politics was a part of everything you did. I did political posters as a part of a poster collective in the seventies, and between 1974 and 1994, I was consistently part of community campaigns of different kinds.

Between the 60's and the 80's, politics appeared relatively straightforward. Then for a variety of reasons, the climate changed. In my case, the vacuum began to be filled with questions about health. Even though sometimes I'm tempted to think this isn't real politics, it is. Even in the 1960s, the politics of mental, sexual and physical health was at the forefront of the agenda.

I've always wanted my writing to grow out of my actions. I think the struggle to understand your own health is part of the struggle to understand your own identity in a complex world. It's to do with an ongoing internal movement to find a way of living that is in tune with the environment that you want to live in.

People tend not to link the older forms of politics with newer ideas. Current ideas in relation to nutrition are a good example of this. Nothing is more political than the production and consumption of food. People should be as expansively political about attacking multinational food companies, about setting up food cooperatives, about boxed deliveries of organic food, about setting up well women clinics in their areas, as they are about campaigning, say, against the arms trade.

People are constantly treating what they consider to be newer ideas about nutrition or health therapies as personal, rather than political. Of course the two things are intimately involved. We need a political collective or a community response to ideas about health. Our thinking, for instance, should not just be against drugs, it should be for good nutrition. It should be against pharmaceutical drugs but for new health care practices based in the community.
Martin Walker,
Slingshot Publications,
BM BOX 8314
London WC1N 3XX

From the Mailbag

To The BBC
"Sirs. On the 6 o'clock news tonight a medical professor was stated as saying that it was dangerous to try to cure cancer by 'untried' and 'unscientific' alternatives to the usual methods applied in hospitals.

May I say briefly that I have been cured by one of the horrors he mentioned, namely 'eating apricot kernels.'

Some years ago a nasty oozing swelling on my right ear would not respond to any treatment, but just grew in size. It was painful, it messed up my pillow each night and caused me emotional worry. Eventually I was sent to the Lincoln Hospital by my GP. They took a biopsy, and a specialist told me that I had a squamous cell carcinoma and that I would have to have a certain percentage of my ear removed. This was not good news. I deferred having treatment. I said I wanted time to think it over.

As it happened, I soon got to hear about apricot kernels, and began taking about ten each day, together with a generous helping of pineapple plus supplements. Within a couple of weeks I began to notice an arresting of the ulcer, and then it gradually began to decrease in size until finally, after a few months, I was left with nothing but fresh pink skin. The specialist was very interested, and took photographs, and said he would confer with other specialists in the hospital. He asked to see me on a regular basis, in case the cancer had spread to glands in the neck. But after twelve months he declared that I had been healed, and didn't need to attend the clinic any more. Strangely, he didn't seem inclined to discuss the matter further.

As I understand it, the medical profession is not willing to accept 'anecdotal evidence.' Let me say this. I am not a medical man but a physicist. Even if Newton's apple is apocryphal, he certainly knew about things falling to the ground, and using his keen mental acuity, formulated the theory of gravitation. Astronomers knew all about the peculiar motion of the orbit of Mercury, but it took the mind of Einstein to provide us with the reason via relativity. These 'anecdotes' were the stuff of scientific method and advancement. If I (and apparently quite a number of others) are finding that skin cancers respond quite quickly to the eating of apricot kernels, the medical profession should be asking why, and coming to a scientific solution, rather than denouncing the anecdotes as 'unscientific', and the apricot kernels as 'dangerous.'

Who is behind this? I wouldn't be at all surprised if the pharmaceutical companies have made an unwritten ban on advertising such simple cures, because they hold the reins of an empire. Incidentally, I have since been informed that apricot kernels contain Vitamin B17, which is apparently the essential ingredient in dealing with the cancer. It works in the same way as Vitamin C for scurvy, in other words, the maladies are by nature 'deficiency diseases.' More than that I don't know, but the medical boys should begin to treat this matter with a little more real science." - Arthur E., Alford, UK

"Hello Phillip Day, I just wanted to thank you so much for all of your research and for always taking the time to answer my e-mails. Because of your help our friend from Edmonton is cancer free and very healthy! Thank you very much!!! Below is the e-mail he sent to us. Isn't it great to know another life has been saved! Your work has been a great help to us all. Have a great day!!" - Kimberly N., ON, Canada

"Hi Friends,
In February when I was feeling unwell, but before I was diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome and lymphoma, I started to take a vitamin/nutritional supplement to build up my body and give it a better fighting chance. In March after I was diagnosed, I went to a naturopath and began taking some natural anti-malignancy remedies he prescribed.

In April, when the oncologist was recommending chemotherapy, after much research and prayer, I started an alternative cancer treatment Vitamin B-17: apricot seeds that Tracy and I had read about on Terry and Kimberly's excellent web site - instead of chemotherapy. (I am currently finished the 90 day Vitamin B-17 'treatment phase' and doing the six month maintenance phase - then I plan to eat apricot seeds daily for the rest of my life!!)……….

It was in April that the oncologist had recommended chemotherapy as treatment for my lymphoma. I had decided to try an alternative therapy instead of the (toxic) chemotherapy. The oncologist didn't object to this decision (to my surprise), but asked to se me again in three months time.

In April, I was feeling really run down, very fatigued and generally sick. I sometimes had to leave work or family events to go and lie down, away from everyone. Day after day I felt so ill. But then in May, there was a definite turning point - I was even able to drive to Winnipeg and back for the Church services on the May long weekend, something that three weeks prior had seemed impossible. Steadily I felt better, the swelling in my neck diminished, I could no longer feel the lump…. My energy and stamina improved significantly, and since mid- June I have been feeling healthy.

Last week was my appointment with the naturopath. He was happy to see that my 'cancer levels' were getting lower, to the point where they are virtually non-existent, according to his tests. In fact he suggested that many people, when they begin to heal, revert back to 'old ways' (diet, lifestyle, etc). He encouraged me not to 'slack off,' but instead to 'keep focus' and continue on with what I am doing until every trace of the cancer is gone.

Then yesterday I had an appointment at the cancer clinic: the oncologist looked at me, felt my neck and said, "This is remarkable. Amazing." He noted that all of the swelling had gone in my neck, and the lump that had been there had disappeared. He said, "I think it's safe to say that your cancer is gone". He was very quiet for a moment. Then he went on to say that "sometimes diseases are like an onion. We peel of layer after layer searching for a cause and cure, and so often we come up empty."

He expressed the opinion that sometimes cancers 'come and go.' He seemed unwilling to acknowledge that prayer and /or alternative cancer therapy can have a role in healing. When Tracy asked him if he suggested any tests to confirm the absence of cancer he said "No!" He felt it had gone. He said with a smile hat my clinical picture was 'boring' and also that I didn't need to come back for any type of follow-up but to get in touch with him if I had any recurrence of swelling in my neck, etc. I am not sure that it has sunk in yet. We left the appointment with confirmation of what we felt God had already shown us these past weeks - that He had healed me of the cancer." - Dietmar, Ontario, Canada

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More Evidence of Doctors Over-Prescribing Drugs

Despite mounting evidence on the negative side effects of high-dose consumption of the arthritis pain reliever, Vioxx, doctors continue to prescribe the drug.

Study on Vioxx Users
Participants of the study were over the age of 49 and taking a prescription for a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

Out of 40,000 participants, 10,000 were prescribed Vioxx Over 1,000 of that number were taking high-doses of Vioxx

Experts stated that 25 mgs has been the recommended dosage for long-term use for Vioxx. Research showed 50 mg dosages were not any more effective at helping with chronic pain than the lower doses. Higher doses also contributed to an increased risk of heart attacks.

Since 1992, red flags have been raised over the high dosages and dangerous side-effects associated with Vioxx.

High dose-Vioxx has been linked to a variety of health conditions such as congestive heart failure, heart attacks, raised blood pressure and a growing number of cases of edema, a swelling found in the arms or legs that can weigh heavily on the heart.

Other conditions related to high dose Vioxx include stress on the kidney, which causes fluid retention, edema and elevated blood pressure.

Some doctors are against prescribing Vioxx to patients who are in the high-risk category for developing high blood pressure, due to the likelihood the drug could cause a rise in blood pressure. On the contrary, other doctors continue to downplay the drug's ability to induce negative side effects such as edema, hypertension and heart failure.
EurekAlert 13th July 2004
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Drug that Cuts Cholesterol on Sale at Chemists
By Celia Hall

Drugs that reduce harmful cholesterol in the blood became freely available from chemists yesterday to the applause of heart doctors.

The decision to allow the drugs, known as statins, to be sold without prescription was made earlier this year as part of the Government's drive to offer patients more choice in health care.

But it is controversial. The British Heart Foundation has welcomed the potential to cut heart attacks and strokes, but the Consumers' Association said lifting restrictions was worrying.

Wendy Garlick, a spokesman, said: "The public could be at risk due to lack of specific clinical trials of such use of the drug in the population of people at moderate risk of heart disease."

The Lancet said this year that the Government had made statins freely available only to save money on prescriptions. The drugs are expected to cost the NHS £2 billion a year by 2010.

The first statin to be made available is Zocor (simvastatin), from Johnson & Johnson at £12.99 for a four- week supply of 10 mg tablets. Pharmacists will advise on appropriate use and in some cases refer customers to their GPs. Dr Tom Bowker, associate medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said the development of statins had been a breakthrough that had already saved thousands of lives in Britain.

"This makes today a big step forward for cardio-vascular medicine," he said. "The BHF is confident in making simvastatin available without prescription will help improve many people's lives and reduce risk of heart attack or stroke."

Johnson & Johnson said statins had a good safety record and could benefit 7.4 million people at moderate risk of heart attack.

Dr Stephen Mann, from the company's research and development department, said consumers would be warned of possible side effects at the point of sale, but these were "very rare" and the risk was lowest at 10 mg dosage.

Statins on prescription are taken by 1.8 million people in Britain and thought to save 6,000 to 7,000 lives a year.

Over the counter, they are recommended for all men over the age of 55.

They are also advised for men aged 45 to 54 and for women over 55 who have other risk factors, such as being overweight, smoking and having a family history of early heart disease.
The Daily Telegraph, 30th July 2004

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The Fluoride Action Network
Dear All,

Well at least one British newspaper - yesterday's Sunday Express -has taken seriously the warnings of fluoride's possible dangers to the baby's developing brain. The Sunday Express printed both an article - Fluoride Alert for Children - and an editorial - Don't Toy With Fluoride - on the matter (see below).

It has been my firm belief for a number of years that the number one argument that destroys any notion that fluoride is necessary for good teeth (or anything else for that matter) is the very low level of fluoride in mothers' milk. The average level is between 0.005 to 0.01 ppm in breast milk, which is up to 200 times lower than that added to water in fluoridation programs. If fluoride was needed for healthy teeth why would nature have been so incompetent as to have virtually excluded it from baby's first meal?

But a more important question is: how much damage are we doing to the delicate machinery of a child's developing brain by bottle feeding with fluoridated tap water? This was one of the key concerns given by Dr. Arvid Carlsson (Nobel Laureate for medicine in 2000) when he led the successful campaign against fluoridation in Sweden in the 1970's. It is also one of the arguments used by Dr. Vyvyan Howard, a fetal and infant pathologist from the University of Liverpool, who was interviewed in the Sunday Express article.

Who in their right minds would take the risk of damaging the brains of children in an effort to protect their teeth? Please email the Sunday Express and thank them for speaking up on this issue, their email address: sunday.exletters@express.co.uk.

Paul Connett
FAN CAMPAIGN, Bulletin #87, 19th July 2004
www.fluoridealert.org

Fluoride Alert for Children
by Lucy Johnston, Health Editor

'The problems far outweigh the possible benefits to their teeth' Tap water could be lowering children's intelligence, leading experts have warned.

Top doctors claim fluoride in drinking water can interfere with a child's brain function. They believe this can lower IQ levels and lead to behavioural problems.

Last night, Dr Vyvian Howard, an expert in chemicals and infant health at Liverpool University, told of his concern. He said: "Babies are on a wet diet for the first four months. If they drink infant formula they get fluoride through tap water, which is toxic and can affect brain development. We know mothers screen out fluoride, preventing it from getting into breast milk. This is a natural evolutionary process to protect them. Fluoride is not safe for babies."

Ten per cent of the country has fluoridated tap water to keep teeth healthy and the Government plans to extend coverage under a new act now passing through Parliament. Fluoride is also added to toothpaste and is found in tealeaves, fertilizers, pesticides and air pollution. Doctors think there are so many sources that children could also be overdosing.

Dr Peter Mansfield, a GP and director of the Good Health Keeping service at Louth, Lincolnshire, studied more than 100 children with behavioural problems.

He discovered those with high levels of fluoride in their bodies were more likely to have developmental and behavioural problems.

Once the fluoride was taken out of their diet they got better.

He said: "This is very worrying. Fluoride is toxic and could cause mental problems. It could be that thousands of children are under performing as a result. We had children we thought were affected by fluoride. In some cases they were hyperactive, lacked concentration and were unhappy all the time. We tested them and quite clearly demonstrated that fluoride was causing their problems. The trouble fluoridated water is causing far outweighs the possible benefits to children's teeth. Nothing like enough work has been done on this and no one is checking - it's very worrying."

His findings are borne out by a Unicef-backed study of 769 schoolchildren in China. It found those with mental retardation or low IQ levels had excess fluoride in their systems.

The study concluded that the chemical makes mental health problems worse by interfering with the central nervous system. Another study carried out in America found that rats behave like hyperactive children when given a comparable amount of fluoride.

Some experts including Dr Howard also fear fluoride is fuelling rising obesity levels. They think it interferes with the body's hormone balance, especially the thyroid gland, which controls weight gain.

Medical author Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield said: "Fluoride disrupts the hormones that control the thyroid gland. This causes an underactive thyroid which leads to obesity, tiredness and depression."

And Dr Howard said: "Fluoride was once used as a medicine to treat thyroid over activity."
Sunday Express, 18th July 2004

Don't Toy with Fluoride

OUR Government has the best of motives in wanting to extend the fluoridisation of our water supply. But it is embarking on a risky experiment which, as we report today, some believe could lower children's intelligence, lead to behavioural problems and cause health problems in adults.

Our modern sugary diet is not only making our children obese, it is also rotting their teeth. Toddlers as young as two have teeth removed. One hospital in Sheffield extracts all the milk teeth from a child once a week on average. In Glasgow, 2,000 children aged under five have extractions each year.

It is an uphill struggle to persuade people to change their family's diets. Therefore, the Government reasons that the best way to strengthen children's teeth is to add fluoride to water which everyone drinks.

But some experts claim the benefits of fluoride are negligible or non-existent. Others worry that fluoride has dangers which outweigh any benefits, particularly in babies with underdeveloped systems.

The Government must not embark on what amounts to mass medication of the population without exhaustive studies that are carried out to the highest scientific standards over a long period.
Sunday Express Opinion, 18th July 2004
sunday.exletters@express.co.uk.

King George III: Mad or Misunderstood?

Last year a remarkable exhibit came to light. Hidden in the vaults of a London museum was a scrap of paper containing a few strands of hair. The paper was crudely fashioned into an envelope but the words on it immediately caused a stir: "Hair of His Late Majesty, King George 3rd."

For Professor Martin Warren, it was the clue that would help him finally solve the mystery of King George's illness. His investigation is featured in the BBC documentary, Medical Mysteries.

"King George is largely remembered for those periods when he lost his mind. But it's been difficult to explain these attacks, so I was keen to analyse this hair sample," said Professor Warren.

When the hair was tested by the Harwell International Business Centre for Science & Technology in Didcot, Oxfordshire, the results were surprising. The king's hair was laden with arsenic. It contained over 300 times the toxic level.

"This level is way above anything we were expecting - it's taken us completely by surprise."

More detective work
Far from being an answer, this remarkable finding was just the start of Warren's detective work. In King George's time, his bizarre behaviour and wild outbursts were treated as insanity. He was bound in a straitjacket and chained to a chair to control his ravings. King George was officially mad.

It wasn't until the 1970s that a new and controversial diagnosis was made. Two psychiatrists - Ida MacAlpine and her son Richard Hunter - revisited the king's medical records and noticed a key symptom; dark red urine - a classic and unmistakable sign of a rare blood disorder called porphyria.

Porphyria can be a devastating disease. In the acute form, it can cause severe abdominal pain, cramps, and even seizure-like epileptic fits.

Misdiagnosed
It is frequently misdiagnosed, and even in modern times, some sufferers have been thought to be mentally ill. Pauline Bradshaw was 40 when she was finally diagnosed with acute porphyria.

"I was very confused and frightened, because I didn't know why I was feeling so bad," she said. "Every day was this battle, you know, feeling sick and dizzy not knowing what was wrong or what was causing it."

For years her GP put her symptoms down to depression and prescribed anti-depressants, but when a relative wrote to say she had been diagnosed with acute porphyria, Pauline's symptoms fell into place. Since then, with support from the British Porphyria Association, she has learnt how to live with this incurable condition.

One of the great mysteries of King George's porphyria was the severity of his attacks. It is rare for men to suffer this acute form at all - normally males show no symptoms. And - a final puzzle - King George didn't have any attacks before his 50s.

Arsenic to blame?
Professor Warren knew that porphyria attacks can be triggered by a wide range of substances - alcohol, common medication, even monthly hormones. Perhaps arsenic could also be a trigger. He contacted Professor Tim Cox, an expert on extreme cases of porphyria at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge.

Professor Cox confirmed his guess - arsenic was listed as a trigger. And the massive levels found in King George's hair suggested that the arsenic had been liberally ingested over a long period of time. The two professors began poring over the King's medical records preserved in the Royal archive at Windsor.

There was passing reference to arsenic used as a skin cream, and as wig powder, but nothing that could explain the staggering levels of arsenic showing up in the king's hair. The most common medication he was given was James' Powders, a routine medicine he was being given several times a day - made of a substance called antimony.

Final clue
Tracking down James' Powders at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Warren found the final piece of the puzzle in a 19th century almanac. Antimony, even when purified, contains significant traces of arsenic. The arsenic from the very medication he was being given to control his 'madness' was triggering more attacks.

His porphyric attacks had been brought on after a lifetime's arsenic accumulated in his body, and then were made much more prolonged and more severe by the medicine to treat him.

For Professor Warren it is the end of a long trail.

"It is a very convincing explanation of the king's attacks, and could account for why he had them at such a late stage in life and why they were so severe. So in that sense, yes, it's very satisfying."

BBC NEWS, 13th July 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/3889903.stm

CTM COMMENT: Well, sadly George Hanover must join the line of other leaders poisoned or killed by their own doctors, viz. Charles II, George Washington, and King Hussein of Jordan. No wonder the Queen Mum tried to stay clear of them at every available opportunity. She lived to be 101.

The MMR Lawsuit

The decision to withdraw legal aid for the 1,000-plus families who believe their children were damaged by MMR came just as the lawyers for the families obtained what they believe is their most striking evidence of a link between the triple jab and the autism and brain damage suffered by the children.

Measles virus has been found in the spinal fluid - and therefore the brain - in three of the six children at the centre of the huge high court battle over the safety of the vaccine. It has also been found in 18 children in the United States who developed autism after receiving MMR.

By contrast the virus was found in only one of more than 20 control samples - taken mainly from spinal taps on children with leukaemia.

Just as the results came in, however, the legal services commission announced its decision - after four and a half years and only six months before trial - to withdraw funding ''because medical research has yet to prove a conclusive link''.

Jeremy Stuart-Smith, QC for the families, told the High Court last week that the legal aid decision was ''flawed'' and likely to be judicially reviewed. Clearly frustrated by this setback, he described to Mr Justice Keith, who was due to hear the case next April, how the families had got this far ''against all odds''. He accused the defendant drug companies, with their ''huge'' resources, of laying down obstacles and ''a trail of litigation treacle'' through which families were forced to wade.

Not least, the drug companies' lawyers had even tried to stop the spinal tests by seeking an injunction banning them as ''invasive and unethical''. As it was, the families were forced to go to the US for the spinal taps because every hospital they approached in Britain, whether private or NHS, refused. The reasons for rejection were, said Mr Stuart-Smith, ''from the perfectly reasonable to the near incredible''. One hospital which had provisionally agreed to do the work suddenly withdrew at the 11th hour.

The QC described how ''with a determination that could only be admired'' Alexander Harris, the firm of solicitors acting for the families, had found a hospital in the US that was prepared to help. At very short notice - and with extreme difficulty - the severely disabled children and their parents and carers flew to the US where ''every conceivable obstacle'' was put in their way.

As the parents have since revealed, within hours of landing in Michigan the hospital which had agreed to test the children suddenly announced it was no longer prepared to. Using contacts involved in US drug litigation, the families found a private clinic and sympathetic anaesthetist willing to carry out the tests, just two hours away. But they were nearly thwarted again when the defendant drug companies made an emergency application to the high court in London for an injunction.

The high court judge declined to grant an injunction; but the tests were delayed a couple of hours so the pharmaceutical companies could send a doctor. In the event they sent a lawyer instead.

Relieved but exhausted, the parents and children then went to the airport to catch their flight back to the UK armed with their precious samples, carefully stored in a special container. It was then that US customs stepped in and quizzed the party about their cargo. One parent told the Eye they were even asked about the ethics of invasive tests on their children, suggesting the officials were well briefed. On their stopover in Amsterdam they were questioned again by Dutch officials. Coincidence? The parents don't think so.

The families believe their efforts have been vital. As Mr Stuart-Smith said last week: ''The contrast between three positive results for measles from the six lead cases, real candidates for proving that MMR causation exists, and one positive of the leukemic patients, is striking.''

The results of course need more investigation. For a start, the drug companies contest the ''positive'' findings (although they are using different testing techniques, and sensitivity to measles virus is very variable). But neither that crucial investigation - nor any other work to settle the case one way or another - is going to go ahead without legal aid. The drug companies and government are clearly not going to do it. The case has cost £15m so far and could be concluded for another £10m (see panel).

Mr Justice Keith, who was due to hear the case in April, has said on several occasions that the case is important not only for the children involved but the wider public. For it to continue, the families are now in the ludicrous position of having to go cap in hand to the legal services commission to get funding for more lawyers to fight a costly judicial review of the commission's decision to withdraw legal aid in the first place.
Private Eye magazine
Per JABS, the support group for vaccine damaged children

Is There a Plot to Turn Earth into Stepford?
An examination into 'Mental Hygiene'
by Phillip Day

Recently Hollywood released a remake of the old classic 'The Stepford Wives', featuring a controlled community wherein, on the surface at least, everyone appears blissfully contented and provided for. But is the idea of creating a 'benevolent utopia' on Planet Earth mere fiction and a laughingly improbable idea, or….?

Phillip Day examines the unsettling agenda that may yet have us all crunching our cornflakes, afraid even to think incorrect thoughts or to mutter out of turn.

The idea of eugenics, the controlled birthing of ideal offspring, and all those horror stories of communism, Nazism, the controlled society of Brazil and 1984 still cause repugnance among free-thinking citizens. And yet many over the past thirty years have become increasingly uneasy at the realities of the new Global Socialism.

YIELD TO OUR 'MOLDING HANDS'
Educational 'luminaries' Russell, Thorndike and Dewey, who did so much to destroy free-thinking, traditional education from the 1920's onwards, remained at Teacher's College for thirty years, presiding over increased funding from the John D Rockefeller-founded and -financed General Education Board to produce teachers and headmasters who thought the same way they did. In language reminiscent of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, which the Rockefellers and other leading eugenicist families of America's Illuminati-influenced Eastern Establishment are widely believed to have endorsed, the Board's Occasional Letter No. 1 declared:

"In our dreams we have limitless resources and the people yield themselves with perfect docility to our moulding hands. The present education conventions fade from their minds, and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and responsive rural folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children into philosophers or men of learning, or men of science. We have not to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters, musicians nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply.

The task we set before ourselves is very simple as well as a very beautiful one; to train these people as we find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are [i.e. no personal initiative. Keep the masses entertained with bread and circuses]. So we will organise our children and teach them to do in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way, in the homes, in the shops, and on the farm."

Social control, eugenics and 'moulding' societies were the buzz topics in government, philosophy and at dinner throughout the 1920's. By 1928, Rockfeller-sponsored Board grants to Teacher's College totalled $2,000,000. By the early 195o's, the infiltration of psychiatric thought and strategy into the US school system and those around the world was staggering. From the horse's mouth itself, A History of Teacher's College, Columbia University tells the world in 1953:

"The single most powerful educational force in the world is at 120th Street and Broadway in New York City. Your children's teachers go there for advanced training.… With 100,000 alumni, Teacher's College has managed to seat about one-third of the presidents and deans now in office at accredited US teacher training schools. Its graduates make up about 20% of all our public school teachers. Over a fourth of the superintendents of schools in the 168 US cities with at least 50,000 population are TC-trained."

That was fifty years ago.

MENTAL HYGIENE
A British organisation, the National Committee on Mental Hygiene, was founded by Clifford Beers, a former mental patient. Beers received the support of psychiatric leaders William James and Adolf Meyer, a German who had emigrated to the United States. Beers' organisation soon began receiving huge funding from the Rockefeller foundations.

In a 1982 speech before the History of Education Society, the society's president Sol Cohen said, "Few intellectual and social movements of this century have had so deep and pervasive an influence on the theory and practice of American Education as the mental hygiene movement." Cohen's views were summed up in the Society's quarterly magazine, under the heading "The Mental Hygiene Movement, The Development of Personality and the School: The Medicalization of American Education".

Britain's John Rawlings Rees, former deputy director of the Tavistock Clinic, the British government's psychological warfare body, was frank about using his own considerable talents to subvert the existing educational system. Imagine the incongruity one of the former chiefs of British psychological warfare stating:

"We can therefore justifiably stress our particular point of view with regard to the proper development of the human psyche, even though our knowledge be incomplete. We must aim to make it permeate every educational activity in our national life.… We have made a useful attack upon a number of professions. The two easiest of them naturally are the teaching profession and the Church; the two most difficult are law and medicine….

If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people, I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organise some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread, we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity…. Let us therefore, very secretly, be fifth columnists [persons secretly aiding the enemy - traitors]."

What were these pervasive influences and doctrines promoted by psychiatry, the Mental Hygiene movement and the British and American governments? Bruce Wiseman enlightens:

"The hygienist's idea on mental illness was that it was the result of improper personality development. If somehow one could reach into the personal lives of humanity and control the growth process of personality, it was reasoned, mental illness would be eliminated."

Regarding children, hygienists believed:

Ø Childhood is the most important period in the development of personality.
Ø Children are very susceptible to 'personality disorders'.
Ø The school is the ideal focal point for detecting, preventing and fixing personality disorders.
Ø The development of personality must take precedence over any other educational objective.
Ø Shyness, daydreaming, withdrawal, introversion, the 'shut-in personality' are psychiatric danger signals in children.
Ø Stress is the chief precipitating cause of psychiatric symptoms, and stress warps personality."

Cohen's statement on one of the main strategies of mental hygiene clarifies his view that the child cannot be held responsible for its actions, thus it is up to society (schools) to remove all stress from pupils which may cause them harm: "Hygienists called upon the teacher to pay less attention to the child's overt behaviour and more attention to understanding the motives, 'more or less conscious', underlying behaviour, over which the child had little control and for which the child could not be held responsible."

Thomas Salmon, an early director of the National Committee, saw society's urgent need for his services: "Psychiatry… should be permitted to enter the schools."

Ralph Truitt, head of the National Committee's Division of Child Guidance Clinics, declared in 1927: "If we are going to prevent dependency, delinquency, insanity, and general inadequacy, the school should be the focus of our attack."

VIOLENCE, ILLITERACY AND CONTEMPT
With psychiatry's influences scoring direct hits into schools from the mid-1950's onwards, emphasis was taken off academics and disciplinary procedures and focused on the 'personality disorders' of the pupils. Naughtiness, truancy, abuse and other childhood behaviours were now "not a sin, but a symptom". With the role of parenting transferred from the home to the classroom, successive legislation ensured that psychiatry would become a permanent feature of the educational curriculum, accepted by almost all schools by the mainstream Teacher's College-influenced academics who ran them.

Today we have indeed inherited the legacy of this catastrophic wrong turn with a massive increase in violence, illiteracy and apathy in the world's classrooms. 13% of American 17-year-olds are functionally illiterate, that is, they cannot read above a 10-year-old's level. The Citizen's Commission on Human Rights reports that the figure may run as high as 40% among minority youth:

"Between 25 and 44 million American adults cannot read the poison warnings on a can of pesticide, a letter from a child's teacher, or the front page of the daily newspaper. In 1930, 80% of African Americans over the age of 14 could read. By 1990, only 56% could read. 16% of white adults, 44% of blacks and 56% percent of Hispanic citizens are functional or marginal illiterates."

OVER-PRAISING TO REDUCE 'STRESS'
That this psychiatry-induced educational philosophy has permeated the educational halls worldwide today is beyond doubt. The strategy of over-praising children and refusing to punish wrongdoing is alive and kicking. Jenni Murray, writing for Britain's Daily Mail, comments:

"Annabel is a case in point. She arrived in our office not very long ago with the air of a woman who has hardly slept for a week, and the tell-tale red eyes of recent tears. One gentle question about what was the matter opened up a floodgate of anxiety. She, like many of her ilk, had signed up for one of the parenting classes so admired by the present government.

Her class tutor had told her it would be all too easy if she followed her advice." 'What advice?' I asked her. "It's all about being child-centred - praise and positive reinforcement," she explained.

"You are never allowed to be angry or raise your voice. If the big one's pulling the little one's hair, or hitting him over the head with Thomas the Tank Engine, you have to say, in the sweetest possible tones: "Darling, is it a good idea to do that?"

"If the kid back-chats you, you're supposed to bite your tongue. If they bound into your bed at 4:30am, wanting to play a game, you have to welcome them and be jolly. You've got to be nice all the time and I can't do it!"

Here we note that the suggestion is being made by the course tutor that discipline should be totally retracted in the household. Chaos results. In the same article, Murray recounts her childhood and how it was done 'in the old days':

"Throughout my own childhood and teenage years, unacceptable behaviour was punished by a withdrawal of privileges, and a threat made was invariably carried out.

If I failed an exam, I hadn't tried hard enough. If I was swinging the lead to get another day off school, my mother would get out the thermometer, declare me fit as a fiddle, and pack me off with the warning that you got molly-coddled only if you were a stretcher case. If I didn't get the part I wanted in the school play, she reckoned there was obviously someone more suitable. Mooning over a lost love, I was told there were plenty more fish in the sea.

Dust yourself down, pick yourself up and start all over again - that was the culture. Both parents praised me when I did well, and criticised when I fell short of the mark. There were times when I thought them excessively strict or unfair. It's only as I have grown older and coped with whatever slings, arrows or adulation have come my way that I've appreciated what they did for me - and how much that approach could do for today's children."

Learning the tools and skills with which to cope with life's trials was the legacy of the old, 'tough' educational system of past centuries. Many nations today however have a crisis with the ineffectiveness of their educational systems and lack of disciplinary and punishment procedures. Is it at all questionable that flagrant misbehaviour in the classroom and an increase in criminal activity on school campuses have been the result? In Plato's declaration that "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life", we receive another confirmation that education has made the youth what it is today. How then can 'society' be blamed for the decline in social and moral standards that began in our schools and homes? Has the New Way made us happier and more liberated? Let the reader judge.

TELLING KIDS THEY'VE MADE IT WHEN THEY HAVEN'T
Is true self-reliance and an ability to deal with life's problems instilled in a young child through discipline and proper achievement, or by sheltering a child from the stressful realities of life? How will a child ever know what pinnacles of endeavour humans are capable of, and of what base and degrading states, without studying literature, history and the arts? How can a teenager express and become what cannot be thought of or written? Who now knows what is right or wrong? Is rightness really just a matter of an individual's opinion?

A 1993 US News and World Report article entitled "A For Effort… Or For Showing Up" illustrates the complete contempt modern educational chiefs have for academia. "At Harvard in 1992, 91% of undergraduate grades were B- or higher. Stanford is top-heavy with As and Bs too; only about 6% of all grades are Cs. At Princeton, As rose from 33% of all grades to 40% in four years.… For whatever reason (and the feel-good, self-esteem movement is surely one), marks have broken free of performance and become more and more unreal. They are designed to please, not to measure or guide students about strengths and weaknesses."

Leading educator Alan Larson: "Children who are told they made it when they didn't absolutely despise adults. They think they are total fools. And when their whole life is like that, they become apathetic about it, because the whole world is crazy. They feel bad about hiding the truth (that they didn't make it) and they withdraw from the area and it produces a complete disassociation of the kid from the subject of education, because it is a lie. And kids know it underneath. Kids know that the only thing that causes self-esteem is confidence and production."

READY CASH
There is of course no question that there are many children who are experiencing a whole range of behavioural problems. There is nothing fictitious about most of their difficulties, as I describe in The Mind Game. But today, schools and parents are actively encouraged to brand their children 'special needs' or 'learning disordered'. To do so, according to research carried out by US News and World Report, guarantees federal grants and supplementary payouts earmarked for the handicapped. In 1990 new federal guidelines allowed an American family to receive $450 for each 'ADHD' child. 'ADHD' diagnoses rose from 5% of disabled children to nearly 25% by 1995. Some parents were reported to have coached their children to do poorly at school and act in an aberrant fashion in order to obtain the payout.

So successful has the indoctrination been that, in many countries, by applying the current criteria for 'mental illness' promoted by the neighbourhood psychiatrist and psychologist, teachers can deem well over 50% of their school populations 'mentally ill'. According to Thomas K Fagan, Professor and Coordinator of School Psychology Programs at Memphis State University, in 1920, there were 200 psychologists in American schools. By 1990, this figure had risen to 22,000. Today, American schools spend a combined $1 billion a year on psychologists who work full-time to diagnose students.

And if the campaign is to reduce stress and induce a 'balanced psyche', what are we to make of what is actually being taught? One student relates the following:

"We had an English course in the ninth grade junior high whose title was 'Death Education'. In the manual, 73 out of the 80 stories had to do with death, dying, killing, murder, suicide, and what you wanted on your tombstone. One girl, a ninth grader, blew her brains out after having written a note on her front door that said what she wanted on her tombstone."

Another 'Values Clarification' student, Paulette, has this tale to tell: "I was 13 when the teacher told our social studies class that we were to have a special film shown to us about 'life'. The film was about a Confederate soldier who was going to be executed. The rope around his neck breaks and he falls into the water and gets away from his captors. He runs down a road towards a woman who is obviously his wife and the whole class cheered, believing that the message was that you can always surmount any odds and that the family was important.

However, just as the man goes to hug his wife, the trap door opens and you see and hear the soldier's body hanging. His getting away was just a fantasy in the last moments before his death. There was shocked silence in the classroom. I had nightmares from this and thereafter didn't trust my teachers. Whenever there was an announcement that another film was to be shown, I'd cut class and I started smoking pot in the park instead."

Tom DeWeese of the American Policy foundation, and an expert on the infamous Outcome Based Education program (OBE), told a Washington press conference in 1995 of a case he had studied: "A 9-year-old boy told his mother he ranked lumberjacks in the same class as murderers and bigots after a 'Values Clarification' class. These psychology-based programs are harming children…. OBE is not education, it's [state] mind control from womb to tomb."

In Grand Rapids, Michigan, the local Community Health Service provided staff to teach a course to 20 students, aged 13 to 17, on 'Self-Pleasuring Techniques' and 'Sexual Fantasies' (perhaps to reduce stress?). Parents filed a suit against the authority after their children brought home materials depicting graphic pictures and descriptions of masturbation, group and oral sex.

In 1991, California 13- and 14-year-old pupils were asked to complete a survey in which they were asked how many times they had had vaginal intercourse with girls and anal sex with boys during the past twelve months. The multiple choice ranged from 'never' to 'more than 20 times'. Also requested was whether the pupil was intending to use a condom during the coming year and what their parents would feel about this.

Mental health watchdog CCHR reports similar cases that have been reported and investigated by them:

In a fifth grade 'health class' in Lincoln City, Oregon, homosexuality was presented to 11-year-olds as an 'alternative lifestyle'. Anal intercourse was described. In this same class, a plastic model of female genitalia with a tampon insert was passed around to the boys to encourage their understanding of tampons. Birth control pills were also passed around and explained. A parent who observed this said: "At no time was there any mention of abstinence as a desirable alternative for fifth graders [11-year-olds]. The morality taught in the classroom that day was complete promiscuity. As a result of this kind of education, we are experiencing pregnancy among 13-year-olds with resulting abortions."

Beverly Eakman, author of Cloning of the American Mind, Eradicating Morality Through Education, summarises her extensive research:

"Most people today suspect that education is not really about literacy, 'basics' or proficiency at anything. What is less well understood is that there exists in this country, and indeed throughout the industrialised world, what can best be described as an 'Illiteracy Cartel' - ostensibly aimed at furthering 'mental health'. This cartel derives its power from those who stand to benefit financially and politically from ignorance and educational malpractice; from the frustration, the crime, the joblessness and social chaos that mis-education produces."

Testimony before the US Department of Education in 1984 revealed the Values Clarification Program, a system launched as a full-on assault against the integrity of the family unit, religion, sexual maturity and traditional values. Freud is no doubt dancing like a ghoul in his grave over the destruction of the 'hateful' sexual paradigms of religion. Here are some exercises pupils are regularly required to complete:

· How many of you think there are times when cheating is justified?
· How many of you would approve of a marriage between homosexuals being sanctioned by a priest, minister or rabbi?
· How many of you would approve of contract marriages, in which the marriage could come up for renewal every few years?
· Advise where you stand on the topic of masturbation?
· To whom do you tell your doubts about religion?
· "I would lie if __________________."

William Kilpatrick, author of Why Johnny Can't Tell Right From Wrong, tells us that in Values Clarification "…feelings, personal growth, and a totally non-judgemental attitude are emphasised…. No time is spent providing moral guidance or forming character. The virtues are not explained or discussed, no models of good behaviour are provided, no reason is given why a boy or a girl should want to be good in the first place…. They come away with the impression that even the most basic values are matters of dispute."

The authors of the original 1966 text on Values Clarification stated: "It is entirely possible that children will choose not to develop values. It is the teacher's responsibility to support this choice also."

A mother, distraught over her son's drug use and subsequent suicide on 7th September 1981, stated: "He had used marijuana since junior high school. About a month before he died, He told my husband that he had decided to give up smoking pot. He went into deep depression and took his life by carbon monoxide poisoning. He left a note saying, 'I did it because I couldn't think or nothing.'"

Only after his death did the parents discover their son had been part of a 'Values Clarification' program with the objective: "We will attempt to teach the different categories of drugs, their effect and, hopefully, how to make a knowledgeable choice, using your own values system."

Joey, an 8-year-old African American boy, was part of a 'problem solving' class in his school and was shown a film which depicted a young boy trying to kill himself by tying a rope around his neck. In the film, the boy talks about not being liked at school, being teased and worrying about growing up. Joey's mother did not know about the program as the school curriculum merely stated that it was 'social sciences'. Two days after her son watched this video, she walked into his room and found him hanging by a rope from his bunk bed.

And what about little Sam Back? Was he another victim of society's easy tolerance of drugs? "His parents had the best possible start in life, and Sam Back deserved the same. Yet before he was two, he had been neglected, abused and murdered. Sam was the victim, not just of inhuman cruelty, but of the drugs which enslaved his mother Emma Back and stepfather Aaron Goodman…. After handing out months of ill-treatment, Goodman, a cocaine and crack addict, punched the child so hard in the stomach that his bowel ruptured. The child's body had 63 injuries, including a bite mark on his leg. His body also contained traces of crack cocaine, which was constantly smoked around him."

Cocaine-addict Sigmund Freud's death knell for traditional biblical morality, sounded decades before, has certainly resulted in his desired removal of religion's "obsolete, offensive vestments". The trouble is, time-honoured values, such as 'Thou shalt not lie…' 'thou shalt not murder…' and 'thou shalt not commit adultery…', traditionally seen as essential for the maintenance of a stable, civilised society, were fed into the shredder along with the cassocks. Let us remind ourselves that decades before, G Brock Chisholm had wished society would hurry up and rid itself of the "… poisonous certainties fed us by our parents, our Sunday and day school teachers, our politicians, our priests, our newspapers and others with a vested interest in controlling us…. If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil, it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility."

How has it worked out sixty years down the road? What has been the result of all this freedom from the 'crippling burdens' of good and evil G Brock wanted our children to enjoy?

"A young woman is phoning for help from her apartment.… Just before the tape goes dead - police believe the phone was ripped from the wall - she can be heard screaming, 'Don't harm my baby!'… Over the next several minutes she was beaten bloody with a mop handle and raped. The attacker was a neighbour who had apparently become infatuated with her. The woman, who survived, is 22. The accused rapist, Andre Green, is 13."

Copyright © 2004 Phillip Day
Extracted from The Mind Game

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Study: Hospital Errors Cause 195,000 Deaths
Report Doubles Earlier Institute of Medicine Estimate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- As many as 195,000 people a year could be dying in US hospitals because of easily prevented errors, a company said Tuesday in an estimate that doubles previous figures.

Lakewood, Colorado-based Health Grades Inc. said its data covers all 50 states and is more up-to-date than a 1999 study from the Institute of Medicine that said 98,000 people a year die from medical errors.

"The Health Grades study shows that the IOM report may have underestimated the number of deaths due to medical errors, and, moreover, that there is little evidence that patient safety has improved in the last five years," said Dr. Samantha Collier, vice president of medical affairs at the company. The company, which rates hospitals based on a variety of criteria and provides information to insurers and health plans, said its researchers looked at three years of Medicare data in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

"This Medicare population represented approximately 45 percent of all hospital admissions (excluding obstetric patients) in the U.S. from 2000 to 2002," the company said in a statement.

Health Grades included as mistakes failure to rescue dying patients and the death of low-risk patients from infections -- neither of which the Institute of Medicine report included. It said it found about 1.14 million "patient-safety incidents" occurred among the 37 million hospitalizations.

"Of the total 323,993 deaths among Medicare patients in those years who developed one or more patient-safety incidents, 263,864, or 81 percent, of these deaths were directly attributable to the incidents," it added. "One in every four Medicare patients who were hospitalized from 2000 to 2002 and experienced a patient-safety incident died."

The U.S. government said it is trying to spearhead a move to get hospitals and clinics to use electronic databases and prescribing methods. The Institute of Medicine report said many deaths were due to medication prescribing errors or to errors in delivering medications.

"If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual list of leading causes of death included medical errors, it would show up as number six, ahead of diabetes, pneumonia, Alzheimer's disease and renal disease," Collier said.
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