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  • Former soldier wins landmark case over Gulf War Syndrome
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A former guardsman suffering from Gulf War Syndrome has won a landmark legal case against the Ministry of Defence.
    Daniel Martin, 35, who has suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome, memory loss and impaired concentration since the 1991 conflict, will receive a disability award under the "umbrella term" of Gulf War Syndrome.
    He is one of 1,500 soldiers who made a claim for a disablement pension because of the syndrome, which, for the past 14 years, the MoD has said does not exist.
    A war (…)

  • MOUNTAIN VIEWS: FORCED INOCULATIONS BEGINNING OF BUSH’S BAD BIRD FLU PLAN
    1 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Hanchette
    OLEAN — Last week’s column warned of imminent federal legislation that would toss powerful pharmaceutical companies billions of dollars and complete protection from liability suits in case untested and experimental bird flu vaccines damage American recipients. It drew heavy response.
    The bill (S. 1873) — a big congressional wet kiss to the drug industry — is dressed up in a noble-sounding title: "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act."
    In essence, (…)

  • US Coalition-restored Afghan opium & 0.4 million global drug deaths
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Since 2001 there have been about 0.4 million global drug deaths linked to US Coalition re-establishment of globally-dominant Afghan opium production (almost completely destroyed by the Taliban in 2000-2001 but 76% and 86% of global production in 2002 and 2004, respectively, after US Coalition invasion and conquest).
    Of these 0.4 million post-2001, US Coalition-complicit, opioid-related deaths 1,200 have been Scots, 2,000 Australian, 3,000 Canadian, 3,200 British and 50,000 American.
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  • Bird Flu Scam: Donald H. Rumsfeld - Former Chairman of Gilead Sciences
    25 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Do you get it yet?
    Foster City, CA, January 3, 1997 - Gilead Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced that board member Donald H. Rumsfeld will assume the position of Chairman, effective immediately. Mr. Rumsfeld succeeds Michael L. Riordan, M.D., who founded Gilead in 1987 and has served as Chairman since 1993. Dr. Riordan will continue to serve as a director on the board.
    "Gilead is fortunate to have had Don Rumsfeld as a stalwart board member since the company’s earliest days, and (…)

  • Paypal police
    23 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ray Boyd (28 Sept, 2005) The premier online money manager is a big bad corporation with big bad law enforcement complex... and they’re going after marijuana drug-related businesses and you.
    There it is, on the e-commerce websites of people selling bongs, cannabis seeds, weighing scales, hydroponics equipment, and cannabis cultivation books. It’s on the websites of marijuana advocates, left-wing activist groups, environmental organizations, gun dealers, and Bible wholesalers.
    What is (…)

  • A Sociologist Confronts ’the Messy Stuff’
    19 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
    Troy Duster is emphatic: the genomic revolution is moving way too fast.
    In more than a dozen books and articles, Dr. Duster, immediate past president of the American Sociological Association, urges geneticists to slow down and check their methods as they search for links between genes, disease and race.
    A professor of sociology at New York University, Dr. Duster, 69, wrote "Backdoor to Eugenics" and contributed to "Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind (…)

  • Cannabis improves the mind.
    17 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cannabis boosts brain power in rats
    by Medical Research News
    Scientists now say that Cannabis, the third most popular recreational drug after alcohol and tobacco, could boost brain power.
    Canadian researchers found that experiments on rats which were given a potent cannabinoid, showed the drug stimulates the growth of new brain cells.
    It appears that the drug caused neurons to regenerate in the hippocampus, an area that controls mood and emotions, after one month of treatment. (…)

  • UW-Madison News Release—Flu virus drug/pandemic
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CONTACT: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, (608) 265-4925,
    FLU VIRUS REPORTED TO RESIST DRUG ENVISIONED FOR PANDEMIC
    MADISON - An avian influenza virus isolated from an infected Vietnamese girl has been determined to be resistant to the drug oseltamivir, the compound better known by its trade name Tamiflu, and the drug officials hope will serve as the front line of defense for a feared influenza pandemic.
    Scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working with colleagues in Vietnam and (…)

  • Depleted uranium is WMD
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    de Leuren Moret
    My grandfather, U.S. Army Col. Edwin Joseph McAllister, was born in Battle Creek in 1895. He does not know that his first grandchild is an international expert on depleted uranium. I have worked in two U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories, and in 1991 I became a whistleblower at the Livermore lab. Depleted uranium is very, very, very nasty stuff: Depleted uranium (DU) weaponry meets the definition of weapon of mass destruction in two out of three categories under U.S. Federal (…)

  • We Are All Chemically Contaminated
    14 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By André Cicolella
    July 22, 1719, the ship Grand-Saint-Antoine left Marseille for the calls of the Levant (as they were described at the time). In Syria, the ship took on a Turkish passenger who died two days later, a victim of the plague that afflicted the region at that time. Eight sailors and the surgeon on board had died when the ship reached Livorno. Nonetheless, the Italian authorities allowed it to return to Marseille, where it arrived May 25, 1720.
    Capitan Jean-Baptiste (…)