[CTRL] Fwd: Dr. Clark re Quack Busters

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-Original Message-
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Subject: [ncndiscuss] Fwd: Dr. Clark re Quack Busters


Fwd.

I don't know about Dr. xx, but I do know that 
x is a "wanna-be" Quack Buster. (We call them the
"Quackpots")He is one of those that quotes Barrett.
One thing the Quackpots don't know, is that there is
an Electrical Engineer with a PhD that is working with
Dr. Clark. He and others are looking for ways to
improve the Syncrometer.
Here is some of the things we've learned about the
"Quackpots"

Opinion by Tim  Jan Bolen

Some of the things we have learned about the so-called
"Quack Busters"
(we call them "Quackpots"!)

The most prominent characteristic of the people in
this group is that while their own credentials may not
be all that impressive (i.e. a no-longer-licensed
psychiatrist who believes he is an expert in nutrition
because he once edited a nutrition magazine - Barrett;
a "pimple doctor"-  Polevoy;  a Physical Fitness
Ph.d., - Jarvis;  a house painter - Bill Ross, etc.)
Each one of them considers themselves to be experts on
all facets of medicine, to the point where they, and
only they, can determine what's "quackery" (basically,
anything different or "leading edge").
They quote from each other as their sources on what is
considered "quackery".  Did you notice Terry Polevoy
mentioned the "Quackpot" website and quoted from
Barrett?

They have, unfortunately,  had an impact in that they
actively get themselves appointed to the FSMB - The
Federation of States Medical Board (U.S.) - thus
influencing Medical Boards on what to look for in
"quackery" and training Medical Board Investigators on
same.  However, they are being discredited all the
time.

Barrett was faced down by Dr.'s at Johns Hopkins
University when he tried to quote from studies that
didn't exist!

Jarvis' attempt at respectability by claiming that the
"Quack Pots" were based from Loma Linda University was
yanked away from him after a letter from Dr. Julian
Whittaker and others, detailed his extremely unethical
behavior at a meeting to discuss health freedom
issues, to the University President.
We are researching and finding other examples like
this.

The main tactics the "Quackpots" use are intimidation,
public mockery and frivolous lawsuits.  However, when
they attack people (who often have far more impressive
credentials) they don't really research the people and
protocols they are trying to discredit. Barrett's
attack on Dr. Clark is ludicrous. He obviously doesn't
know what he is talking about, has not read her books,
and certainly knows nothing about the research on
which Dr. Clark, a scientist, bases her theories.
The  Quackpot's "Hit list" includes Dr. Linus Pauling
a two-time Nobel Prize winner, and other impressive
health humanitarians.

When you take a look at what they attack, it is easy
to come to the conclusion that there has to be some
funding by some major Pharmaceutical Companies,
somewhere. We are looking to be able to prove this.

Jan Bolen

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[CTRL] Fwd: Domestic Violence - Colorado House Bill HB 1158]

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-Original Message-
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Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 6:40 PM
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Subject: [ncnculture] [Fwd: Domestic Violence - Colorado House Bill HB
1158]




"Dr. Charles E. Corry" wrote:

   Today brings images evocative of Nazi Germany. In a case of
 gross mismanagement and incompetence our government uses practices I
 joined the Marine Corps to try and stop.
   Supposedly to reunite a child with his father the best way to do
 it is to threaten a 6-year old boy with a submachine gun in predawn
 darkness using 151 combat-armed agents dressed in a fashion only the
 Gestapo could admire.
   In a land where the rule of law was in force a single marshal
 would have walked up to the door of the home where the boy was, in
 full daylight, with a warrant or subpoena. The citizens in question
 would obey willingly out of respect for the courts, the law, and the
 police. Oh how far we have come from that!
Instead, in most of the United States, the greatest fear a
 father has is of dealing with the "family" courts.
Today, most commonly the marshal at the door or at his
 workplace is bringing a restraining order telling him he cannot ever
 see his children again because the mother claims he has abused her or
 the children.
Usually such restraining orders are issued ex parte and he has
 no chance to defend himself. The perfunctory hearing two weeks later
 is likely to be based more on hearsay than established rules of
 evidence.
In family court, the mere accusation of abuse or violence is
 sufficient to deny custody and visitation for a father.
It bears repeating that the safest place for a woman is in her
 home with the biological father of her children!
Despite that well-established fact, the Colorado legislature
 has passed law after law that destroys families by the thousands and
 drives fathers from their children on unsubstantiated claims by a
 woman that she was abused or assaulted.
Every available study shows that false allegations of child and
 domestic abuse are rampant in our society and occur by the millions
 every year. In a free society we cannot solve the problem of family
 violence and abuse unless we first solve the problem of false
 allegations.
And now comes the Colorado legislature with one more draconian
 measure that purports to control domestic violence by raising the
 level of punishment for such offenses to a felony in certain cases.
 HB 1158 has now passed in the House and is before the full state
 Senate, having passed out of committee on April 19th.
HB 1158 also further degrades due process by eliminating the
 requirement to notify a man who doesn't show up for the temporary
 orders hearing that the restraining order has been made permanent.
As an oceanographer I was often at sea for months at a time.
 Imagine a restraining order issued ex parte against me while I was at
 sea or doing research in some remote corner of the earth. I come home
 knowing nothing about it because HB 1158 doesn't require
 notification. I'm arrested, in jail, convicted, and have done nothing
 wrong except pursue my research. I get out of jail and go grocery
 shopping. She sees me there and I'm back in jail. Out again and one
 of the kids call me, or she calls me, and I make the mistake of
 answering the phone. No contact order means I'm back in jail again,
 only this time it is a felony charge under HB 1158.
Or it might happen to a long-haul trucker, a salesman, or a guy
 on an extended fishing or hunting trip. And I hear tales of this
 happening to men all the time under current law.
But now, without discernible testimony from any fathers, male
 victims of domestic violence, or victims of false allegations, we are
 going to make punishments even harsher, deny due process, destroy
 more families, and take more fathers away from their children.
Does the new law address mutual combat among couples who fight?
 Those are 50% of the cases but now we simply punish the man, destroy
 the family, and leave the children without a father. That makes no
 sense!
Does HB 1158 address how we might fix the problem of domestic
 violence? No! Simply harsher punishments are provided and due process
 denied.
Will the new law deter any act of domestic violence? Unlikely.
Will the new law further clog the courts? Absolutely.
Will HB 1158 be used to destroy families and deny fathers
 access to their children? Unquestionably.
So what does HB 1158 provide for citizens? Another method for
 vindictive women to flagellate some male they have taken a dislike to.
HB 1158 is bad law that solves nothing and will not prevent or
 deter any vengeance-minded individual. In fact, it will almost
 certainly be used for vengeance.
The issue of domestic violence deserves serious effort 

[CTRL] Feds: armed kidnapping in Miami

[Dave]

http://www.ashevilletribune.com/elianraid.htm


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[CTRL] FW: Doctors cause cancer

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-Original Message-
From: Bernie Simon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 7:35 AM
To: homeopathy related account
Subject: [H] Doctors cause cancer


The following is an excerpt fro Rachel's Weekly, an environmentalist
email newsletter.

 Gofman developed a novel approach: he found disease statistics for the
 entire U.S. population, broken down into 9 census districts (1940 to
 1990 for cancer, and 1950 to 1990 for coronary heart disease). Then he
 correlated these disease statistics, year by year, to the number of
 physicians per 100,000 population in each of the 9 census
 districts. [...] Gofman shows that cancer death rates RISE in
 lock-step with increasing density of physicians in a census district,
 while non-cancer deaths DECLINE in lock-step with increasing density
 of physicians per 100,000 population EXCEPT in the case of coronary
 heart disease (CHD), which follows the rising pattern of cancer.

The claim is that unnecessary X-rays cause cancer and heart disease,
but I think it more likely that allopathic suppression in general
causes these diseases.

Back issues of Rachel's Weekly are available at http://www.rachel.org

--
Bernie Simonhttp://ra.stsci.edu/bps/

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[CTRL] FW: DR. HULDA CLARK CHARGES DISMISSED! HALLELUJAH!!!

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Subject: DR. HULDA CLARK CHARGES DISMISSED! HALLELUJAH!!!


Subj:   hallellujah...a victory for Clark...
Date:   4/17/00 7:27:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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PLANETNEWS broadcast...


Monday, April 17, 2000
Contact Tim  Jan Bolen
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PRESS RELEASE
for Immediate Release

CHARGES “DISMISSED” IN HULDA CLARK CASE


In what was jubilant news for Hulda Regehr Clark,
PhD., attorney Steve Dillon’s office stated that the
judge had granted the defense “Motion-to-Dismiss” in
the charges against Clark for allegedly “Practicing
Medicine Without a License” in Indiana.  The “Motion
to Dismiss” was based on the extreme length of time
that had elapsed since charges were first filed in
June of 1993 and Dr. Clark found out about them when
she was arrested in San Diego, September, 20th 1999.

Seventy-one-year-old Hulda Clark, the controversial
author of books such as “The Cure for all Cancers,”
“The Cure for HIV/AIDS,” “The Cure For All Diseases”
and her latest book, “The Cure for all Advanced
Cancers” had been arrested in San Diego and held for
16 days before being transported in a 32 hour marathon
ride to Indiana where she was released on bail the
next day. Supporters around the world have rallied to
her cause, sending e-mails and letters to the courts,
and the media.

Since then, Dr. Clark has received the “New Scientist
of the Year Award” in Colorado, has spoken to standing
room only crowds in Kentucky and Canada and taught
about her testing device, the syncrometer, to classes
of interested people.  She is continuing her research
and updating her books.

“Hallelujah” rejoiced Dr. Clark, when told of this
decision. She went on to say, “This sets a progressive
tone. I hope it’s futuristic, reflecting the
appreciation of the public for the new skills of the
Alternative Practitioner.”

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[CTRL] FW: Allopathy exposed

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Conventional medicine "exposed" by an M.D. who is also a Homeopath.

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Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 3:46 AM
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Subject: Allopathy exposed


Here's a good article by a homeopath to read:

http://www.homeopathyusa.com/doctors_office_enter_at_your_own.htm

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[CTRL] FW: Lab Analysis Of Chemtrails: Virulent Bio-Toxin Soup...

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-Original Message-
 Subject: Chemtrail Info
 Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:35:37 -0800
 From: Penny Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 If you first take a tour to www.wildlandsproject.org/index.shtml, click on
the site map, then go to page 3 you will find where it states that they have
to reduce the size of the human population by humane means. This got me to
wondering if they thought that chemical spraying was in their opinion a
humane means to reduce the population. I don't know if you have heard of
William Thomas, but he has a lot of info on the chemtrails.  His website is
ww
w.islandnet.com/~wilco/
 If you click on issue # 6 you can get a lot of information.

 He has posted on his site BIOWARFARE TEST ON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

This states that the recently revised U.S. Code Title 50, Section 1520
states
that the Secretary of Defense may conduct tests or experiments "involving
the
use of a chemical agent or biological agent on a civilian population" if
they
are related to research activity. The law also stipulates that biowarfare
test can be carried out on Americans only if Congress is notified 30 days in
advance, and "only if informed consent to the testing was obtained from each
human subject in advance of the testing on that subject.

 There is plenty of pattern and precedent to suggest that clandestine
biowarfare experiments are routinely pacticed on the American public without
their informed consent. Two Congressional investigations in 1977 and 1994 -
and recently declassified British defense documents - detail 50 years of
"open air" testing that used ships and spray-equipped aircraft to spread
biological warfare simulaants on hundreds of cities across the U.S., Canada
and the U.K.
There is more to this article. I just wanted to give you some of the info
because I could spend the rest of the day typing this stuff up.

 So far some of the chemicals that were collected from the chemtrail spray
and lab tested is:

 1.   Bacilli  Molds
 2.   Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
 3.   Pseudomonas Florescens
 4.   Bacilli Amyloliquefaciens
 5.   Streptomyces
 6.   Enterobacteriaceae
 7.   Serratia Marcscens
 8.   Human White Blood Cells
 9.   A restricter enzyme used in research labs to snip and combine DNA
 10.  Enterobacter Cloacae
 11.  Other bacilli and other toxic molds capable of producing heart disease
and   meningitis, as well as acute upper respiratory and
gastrointestinal
distress.
 12.  JP-8 Jet Fuel = Ethylene Dibromide

 # 2.  Pseudomonas Aeruginosa =  Respiratory tract infection by the
ubiquitous bacterium.  Cancer and burn patients also commonly suffer attack
from this organism.  Unlike other bacteria that reside in the enviroment, P.
aeruginosa has a remarkable capacity to cause disease.  Pseudomonas has the
ability to adapt and thrive in many ecological niches, including humans.
Once infections are established, P. aeruginosa produces a number of toxic
proteins which cause not only extensive tissue damage, but also interfere
with the human immune system's defense mechanisms.  These proteins range
from
potent toxins that enter and kill host cells at or near the size of
colonization to degradative enzymes that permantly disrupt the cell
membranes
and connective tissues in various organs.  P. aeruginosa
successfully colonizes the respiratory tract.  One reason is that it
produces
a highly protective capsule made of the mucoid polysaccharide alginate.
This
allows the bacteria to resist engulfment by immune systemcells and better
adhere to the lining of the lungs.
 It is likely that antibiotics cannot effectively eradicate Pseudomonas from
the lungs
because of this protective capsule.  In addition, some Pseudomonas strains
can inactivate the drugs that threaten them by using enzymes to modify the
drug.

 # 7.  Serratia Marcescens is a significant opportunistic human bacterial
pathogen.  This microorganism has been shown to be the cause of many
life-threatening diseases such as pneumonia, meningitis and endocarditis. It
is one of the major causes of hospital-acquired infections.  The seriousness
of a S. marcescens infection is compounded by the fact that it is very
resistant to most commonly used antibotics, thus making treatment difficult.
In this study one of the factors contributing to the antibiotic resistance
of
S. marcescens will be examined.  In order for an antibiotic to kill or
inhibit growth of bacteria it must penetrate the outer surface or membrane
and enter the bacterial cell which is very difficult.

 I hope some of this helps you to better understand what we are fighting
against.

Penny

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[CTRL] Free Energy secrets placed in public domain

[Dave]

Bearden, Bearden, everywhere...

"Free Energy" is very intriguing, in every sense of the word...

Lt. Col Tom Bearden (retd.) is a ubiquitous presence in the field, one whose
rank and security clearances place in and amongst the "defense intelligence"
sector.
One is driven to speculate about how "retired" Lt. Col Tom Bearden (retd.)
actually is -
and about the interests of the power behind the  Dept. of Defense  other
governmental components in relation to "Free Energy."

An ex-partner in "Free Energy" research of Lt. Col Tom Bearden (retd.) is
ONE of a statistically significant portion of "Free Energy" researchers
who've met untimely deaths.

It's interesting to speculate on "who does" and "who does not" have an
allegiance to the entrenched capital overlords - the "owners" of captial
wealth and thereby of governmental process, and whether those interests are
served by positive, and open development of "Free Energy" 

still.. and interesting article..
http://www.cseti.org/position/addition/bedini.htm


Dave Hartley
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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Trudy W. Schuett
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:13 PM
To: NCF list
Subject: [ncnculture] [Fwd: Free Energy secrets placed in public domain]

"A.J. Craddock" wrote:

 Free Energy secrets placed in public domain

 In an altruistic move, electrical inventor John Bedini has placed the
 secrets of his over-unity battery in the public domain, and has stated
 his willingness to co-operate with qualified organizations or
 individuals to help develop it for the good of humanity and the
 biosphere.

 He and Lt. Col Tom Bearden (retd.), a leading theoretician in extended
 electromagnetics, have circulated the offer widely amongst key members
 of the Executive Branch, Congress, and the scientific community.

 This offer and an explanation of the theory involved is posted on the
 CSETI Website at http://www.cseti.org/position/addition/bedini.htm

 The general public are strongly encouraged to bring this to the
 attention of your local Government, Scientific and Industrial
 representatives in order to obtain development funding and start
 getting non-polluting energy sources such as this up and running on a
 mass scale.

 There is not much time - the bottom-end species of the food chain are
 already being wiped out by pollution, and this will inevitably work
 its way up the chain.
 Regards

 Tony Craddock
 Web Administrator
 CSETI
 http://www.cseti.org

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[CTRL] FW: Subtle Energies Research Article (XVII)

[Dave]

forwarded from the author..


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Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 7:00 PM
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Subject: Subtle Energies Research Article (XVII)


Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The below article was requested for the University of Science and
Philosophy's Spring issue of Cosmic Light. It gives an overview of some of
the issues regarding the existence and characteristics of the phenomenon of
subtle energy. It also highlights the work of several people in this area.

I thought you might find it of interest. Please fill free to share it with
anyone you would like.

With best wishes,

Paul

COSMIC LIGHT
(Spring-2000)
"Subtle Energy in Human Senses and Powers"
by
Paul Von Ward

This article reviews a series of discoveries that reveal inherent principles
of the subtle energy aspect of reality. The research moves us beyond the
descriptive articles and books that have thus far dealt with this topic. It
suggests how the human senses and powers that lie beyond the world of the
five senses actually function.

Such research provides support for the hypothesized existence of a three
faceted universe (with consciousness, subtle energy, and physical
matter/energy posited in my book SOLARIAN LEGACY: Metascience and a New
Renaissance) where consciousness is "primo entre pares" or predominant among
the three. I have suggested "subtle energy" is the conductive medium through
which consciousness acts on the realm of ordinary matter and energy.

The existence of subtle energies has been described in historical records at
least as old as Hinduism. The first discussions of chakras dealt with their
role as the vortices of interaction between this pervasive life energy and
the human body.(1) According to a 1990s National Institutes of Health
literature review, at least 52 terms are used for "subtle energy": chi,
prana, holy spirit, manna, ether, orgone, bio-magnetism, and zero-point,
among many others in our current vocabulary. William Collinge, in his fine
description of ways in which subtle energy plays a role in our lives,
settles on the term biofield.(2)

(In SOLARIAN LEGACY, I used the terms noumena, energeia, and phenomena for
the three aspects. The noumena comprises universal and local consciousness,
the realm of pure thought-ideas, concepts, patterns and numbers. Phenomena
is the realm of dark and light particles and waves-matter and energy, the
two poles of matenergy-and their antimatter counterparts. Energeia stands
for subtle energies, the "virtual reality" distinguished from the four
forces of physics.)

Regardless of the label, subtle energy appears to contribute to many
processes not currently explained by conventional science: telekinesis,
remote sensing, gut- or heart-based intuition, healing by prayer or other
psychic means, biocommunication between species, etc. Since these processes
have tangible effects that can be documented, but not explained by the known
principles of the electromagnetic force, they require that we hypothesize
another force through which conscious intent acts on the affected objects,
senses, and cells.

Some researchers believe a fuzzy part of the electromagnetic (E/M) spectrum,
beyond gamma rays, constitutes this force, but that it has not yet been
discovered due to the lack of refined instrumentation. People like Hal
Puthoff (see below), Beverly Rubik, Ph.D. (Head of the Institute for
Frontier Science in Oakland, CA), and William Tiller, Ph.D. (author of
SCIENCE AND TRANSFORMATION: Subtle Energies, Intentionality and
Consciousness) believe development of more advanced technology will enable
humans to use directly this fuzzy extension of the E/M field. (As the
harnessing of Maxwell's hypothesized radio waves and X rays had to await the
development of new technologies.) Others postulate that this subtle energy
exists in correspondence, but parallel, to the E/M spectrum, and may not
have the constraints of that spectrum, such as the speed of light.

Regardless of whether there are parallel spectra or all three aspects
(mental, emotional and physical fields) collapse into one unified force at
some level, there is practical value in viewing them as distinct, but
interrelated and interdependent facets of our universe. These distinctions
permit humans to consciously participate in the process. This article all
too briefly reviews the work of several people whose research shed some
light on these issues.

Backster and Primary Perception

Cleve Backster's work in the late '60s and early '70s was an important
impetus for the best selling book THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS by Peter
Tompkins and Christopher Bird. In the '80s and 90s, his work was chronicled
by Robert Stone in THE SECRET LIFE OF YOUR CELLS and many periodicals. His
research journey started with the 1966 almost accidental rediscovery that
plants are sentient an

[CTRL] Foes of New Economy Gaining Voice

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Monday, April 3, 2000

DIGITAL NATION

Foes of "New Economy" Gaining Voice

By Gary Chapman

Copyright 2000, The Los Angeles Times, All Rights Reserved

The baby boomers running and profiting from the "new economy" grew up in,
and were shaped by, the countercultural movements of the 1960s and '70s.
Indeed, the personal computer itself was once viewed as a "liberation"
from the boring, gray and tightly controlled kind of computing imposed by
large corporations and their mainframes.

Several notable pioneers of the PC era started out as hippies, commune
residents, meditation instructors and even campus radicals. But few if any
of these now middle-aged men understand that there's a new culture
emerging that's counter to what they've built.

The "dot-com" economy, as it rapidly matures, is setting itself up as a
big fat target for rebellion, dissent and possibly even sabotage. The
conditions are beginning to resemble what led to the blow-up of the '60s,
and if this happens again, it will be, to put it mildly, supremely ironic.

After shamelessly absorbing the rhetorical terms "revolutionary," "cool,"
"transformational" and all the rest, the new establishment of the new
economy may be in for a dose of the real thing.

There are tremors faintly tangible across the country these days.

Over the last few weeks, for example, the South of Market area in San
Francisco has been plastered with signs, put up by an anonymous guerrilla
propaganda group, that ridicule and satirize the neighborhood's
Internet-based companies.

The "KilltheDot" campaign has created slogans that are mostly obscene and
therefore can't be repeated here, but which skewer the pretensions and
silliness of "dot-com" services. The signs have proliferated around the
country through the Internet and are beginning to show up in other urban
technology centers.

Last year, we had the images of the "Battle in Seattle," the protests over
the World Trade Organization. Those events may be repeated in a few weeks
in Washington, D.C., in demonstrations against the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund. On April 14, there will be national teach-ins
on globalization in Washington, with scheduled protests by many of the
same groups that were in Seattle.

In recent weeks, 1,500 people marched in protest in Boston against
biotechnology and genetically altered foods. And 3,000 trade unionists
marched in downtown Los Angeles for higher wages and better working
conditions. Students at UCLA and other colleges are building organizations
to fight sweatshops in L.A. and overseas.

"There's more and more sense from our donor constituency that money isn't
everything, that this has gotten out of hand," says Catherine Suitor,
director of development for the Liberty Hill Foundation in Santa Monica.

Liberty Hill has sponsored donor events that address such issues as
"Raising Socially Responsible Children," and the turnout has been huge,
Suitor says.

Most of the activism in working-class neighborhoods and on college
campuses is about inequality. "It's more than just the new technology,"
Suitor says. "It's more about the divide created by the new economy." She
attributed the new restlessness to "anger at corporate power."

Jon Katz, a media critic and author of the new book "Geeks: How Two Lost
Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" (Villard Books, 2000), agrees. "What
you're seeing shape up is the first big political battle of the 21st
century, between individualism and corporatism," Katz says.

Katz follows the growing numbers of young computer mavens who are loosely
allied as proponents of open source software, free expression, an open
Internet and radical individualism.

These are the young people who are increasingly challenging corporations
that are trying to lock down the Internet and secure it for commerce. The
mounting wars over intellectual property and network security are just the
beginning, Katz says.

"Corporatism is a new phenomenon, and not the same as capitalism or
corporations," he says. "It means bigness, controlling markets, mass
marketing. Companies are now bigger than ever before. They've acquired
most of our mainstream culture, and now they're moving on to the Internet.

"There's a general sense of helplessness and anger," he added. "It used to
be you could be an individual and coexist with large corporations, but now
you can't. It's the Wal-Marting of America."

Because of the homogenization of mass culture, Katz says, "the place
individuals are turning to is the Internet." That's where the battle is
being waged by young, smart, computer-savvy free-thinkers.

"These kids are the freest people on Earth

[CTRL] IMF is denying press passes to ALL COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS etc.

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If you have not yet heard, the IMF is denying press passes to ALL
COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS!!! Additionaly, other progressive journalists are
being shut out. The following is the curt response I received from the IMF
regarding press credentials. Please read it and flood the IMF press office
with messages of outrage.
 Thanks,
 Craig Hymson
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 Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:47:13 -0400

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[CTRL] Oxygen AIDS

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 -Original Message-
From:   Peter Jovan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Friday, April 07, 2000 10:20 AM

A Patent Covering a Cure for AIDS?

You will see from the enclosed unique patent, (which was initially filed on
May 2, 1994), that it took Basil six (6) years of fighting the establishment
pharmaceuticals to finally have the only patent in the world clearly
accepted for combating HIV/AIDS.

Now the United States has primarily two patents covering AIDS/HIV, one is
the creation and cause of HIV/AIDS;

(HTLV I-II-III-IV-V) Patent # 9,208,784.
"human t-lymphotropic type II (HTLV -I/II/III/IV/  V) Immune suppresive
viral composition", Dr. Robert Gallo  Merck, Sharpe  Dohme Corporation
filed this horrifying patent.

The other patent is the cure for HIV/AIDS granted to Basil Earle Wainwright,
Patent # 6,027,688. "apparatus and method for inactivation of Human
Immuno-Deficiency Virus.

Richard Johnson
Historian


United States Patent6,027,688
Wainwright  February 22, 2000

Apparatus and method for inactivation of human immunodeficiency virus

Abstract
An apparatus and method for the inactivation of infectious organisms such as
viruses, bacteria, fungi and protozoa, and especially for the inactivation
of human immunodeficiency virus in proteinaceous material such as blood and
blood products, without adversely affecting the normal physiological
activity of the material, by contacting it for a time interval of only about
16 seconds with an ozone-oxygen mixture having an ozone concentration of
only about 27 .mu./ml. The apparatus includes a gas-liquid contact apparatus
through which the material and ozone-oxygen mixture flow in contacting,
counter-current relationship, and an ozone generator which produces an
ozone-oxygen mixture having a resonant frequency of about 7.83 Hz. The
apparatus and method of the invention provide precise control of the
concentration of ozone and the contact time between the material to be
treated and the ozone-oxygen mixture.

Inventors:  Wainwright; Basil E. (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Assignee:   Polyatomic Apheresis, Ltd. ()
Appl. No.:  237713
Filed:  May 2, 1994

U.S. Class: 422/28; 422/44; 422/186.08; 422/186.12; 422/186.14; 422/186.15;
422/186.18; 604/4; 435/2; 204/176
Intern'l Class: A61L 002/20; A61M 001/36; B01J 019/12; C01B 013/11
Field of Search:422/44.28,186.07,176.08,186.14,186.18 604/4.5 435/2
204/176

References Cited [Referenced By]
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=%2Fn
etahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htmr=0f=Sl=50d=CR00Query=ref/6,027,688

U.S. Patent Documents
3727612 Apr., 1973  Sayers et al.   422/44.
4314344
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=%2Fn
etahtml%2Fsearch-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50d=PALLRefSrch=yesQuery=PN%2F431434
4  Feb., 1982  Johns et al.204/176.
4372914
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=%2Fn
etahtml%2Fsearch-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50d=PALLRefSrch=yesQuery=PN%2F437291
4  Feb., 1983  Raible  435/2.
4632980
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=%2Fn
etahtml%2Fsearch-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50d=PALLRefSrch=yesQuery=PN%2F463298
0  Dec., 1986  Zee et al.  604/4.
4986968
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=%2Fn
etahtml%2Fsearch-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50d=PALLRefSrch=yesQuery=PN%2F498696
8  Jan., 1991  Hirth et al.422/186.
5052382
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFp=1u=%2Fn
etahtml%2Fsearch-bool.htmlr=1f=Gl=50d=PALLRefSrch=yesQuery=PN%2F505238
2  Oct., 1991  Wainwright  128/202.

Other References  "The Use of Ozone in Medicine" by S. Rilling/R. Viebahn
(Haug Publishers) (10 pages).  "Ozone Inactivates Extracellular Human
Immunodeficiency Virus at Non-Cytoxic Concentrations" by Joel K. Freeberg
and Michael T. Carpendale presented at IV International Conference on Aids
in Stockholm, Sweden --Jun. 15-16, 1988.  "Inactication of Human
Immunideficiency Virus Type 1 by Ozone in Vitro" by Keith H. Wells, Joseph
Latino, Jerrie Gavalchin and Bernard J. Poiez --Blood, vol. 78, No. 7 (Oct.
1, 1991: pp. 1882-1890).

Primary Examiner: McKane; Elizabeth
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Lambert; Dennis H.

Parent Case Text



This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/922,532, filed
Jul. 31, 1992, now abandoned.

Claims



1. An apparatus for the treatment of blood, blood products and other
materials to inactivate infectious organisms in the blood or other material,
by contacting the blood, blood products or other material with a gaseous
ozone-oxygen mixture, comprising:

a source of gaseous ozone-oxygen mixture;

a gas-liquid contact apparatus connected with the source of gaseous
ozone-oxygen mixture and with a supply of the ma

[CTRL] Vaccine/Autism Connection: Testimony in U.S. House Committee on Government Reform

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http://www.house.gov/reform/hearings/healthcare/00.06.04/



Testimony of Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.

Before House
Committee on Government Reform

April 6, 2000



The Autism Increase:  Research Needed on the Vaccine Connection

My name is Bernard Rimland.  I am a research psychologist (Ph.D.).
and am Director
Of the Autism Research Institute, which I founded in 1967.  I am also the
founder of the  Autism Society of America (1965), and the editor of the
Autism Research Review International.  My book,  Infantile Autism: The
Syndrome and Its Implication for a Neural Theory of Behavior (1964) is
widely credited with changing the field of psychiatry from its claim that
autism is an emotional illness, caused by destructive mothers, to its
current recognition that autism is a biological disorder.  I have lectured
on autism and related problems throughout the world, and  am author of
numerous publications.  I served as primary technical advisor on autism for
the film Rain Man.

  My son Mark was born in 1956.  It was obvious from birth that this
perfectly normal-looking infant had something drastically wrong with him.  I
had earned my Ph.D in experimental psychology 3 years earlier and had never
encountered the word autism.  Our pediatrician, with 35 years of experience,
had never heard of autism either.  Autism was extremely rare then – it is
extremely common now.

  Some supposed experts will tell you that the increase reflects only
greater awareness.  That is nonsense.  Any pediatrician, teacher or school
official with 20 or more years experience will confirm what the studies tell
us:  there is a real  increase in autism and the numbers are huge and
growing.  The epidemic is serious and world-wide.

  Soon after my textbook on autism was published in 1964, I began to
hear from other parents.  Many parents told me that their children were
normal until getting a triple vaccine – the DPT shot.  In 1965 I began
systematically collecting data on the symptoms and possible causes of
autism:  In 1967—33 years ago—I began querying the parents, specifically
about the child’s response to the DPT shot.  Many had reported marked
deterioration.

  During the past few years the Autism Research Institute has been
flooded with an upsurge in pleas for help from parents throughout the
world – from wherever the World Health Organization vaccine guidelines are
followed.  The majority of these parents say their children were normal
until getting the MMR – another triple vaccine.

  Let me dispel several myths promoted by those who deny the
autism-vaccine connection:

 1.  They claim the vaccines are safe, but physicians are indoctrinated
to disbelieve claims of harm and are not trained to recognize nor required
to report any adverse reactions.  From 90% to 99% of the adverse reactions
reported to doctors are never reported by those doctors to the government’s
extremely lax Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, known as the VAERS.

 2.  They say that the suspected linkage between the MMR vaccination and
autism has been disproved by a study conducted by Brent Taylor and his
colleagues in London, and published last year in The Lancet.   The Taylor
study is seriously flawed in many ways, as had been noted in a number of
letters to the editor of The Lancet  and in a number of additional letters
on the subject which have been posted on the internet.  It was subject to
strong attack at a recent meeting of the British Statistical Society.  I
have been a full-time researcher my entire professional life, for almost 50
years, and I respectfully asked Dr. Taylor for a copy of the data so that I
could reanalyze them.  He refused this ordinary professional courtesy, and I
have subsequently written to the editor of The Lancet  requesting that an
impartial committee be asked to reexamine Dr. Taylor’s statistical methods.
If he refuses again, I urged The Lancet  to retract his paper.

 3.  They say that autism has a large genetic component, and therefore
vaccines must play a minimal, if any, role in the causation of autism.  My
book Infantile Autism, published in 1964, was the first systematic attempt
to marshal the evidence for genetics as a contributing cause of autism, so I
am certainly not hostile to that idea.  However, genes do not begin to
account for the huge increase  in the incidence of autism, ranging from 250%
to 500% in various places.  I might add that we have just reviewed all of
the recent genetic studies for the next issue of the Autism Research Review
International,  which I edit.  The results are spectacularly inconsistent.
The best guess is that there are at least 20 different genes involved in the
causation of autism.  Gene therapy is decades off, and may be infeasible.

 4.  They claim that autism naturally occurs at about 18 months, when
the MMR is routi

[CTRL] FW: NSA's Subliminal Posthypnotic Scripts

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The write-up at the URL given below gives info on the 'god'-control and
pulsed microwave subliminal hypnosis methods used. It is missing the
technological mechanical set-up and tracking of the individual. An
exploration of this is up on http://www.geocities.com/wtmick/buckies.htm
which looks at the electro-technological means likely being used, within
existing documented technologies.

Mick

http://www.kimsoft.com/2000/NSA-psy.htm
s--)


NSA's Subliminal Posthypnotic Scripts

Subliminal implanted posthypnotic suggestions and scripts using acoustically
delivered and phonetically accelerated posthypnotic commands without
somnambulistic preparation in the subject for intelligence and
counterintelligence applications by the United States National Security
Agency.


1. INTRODUCTION:

1.1. The following information is an overview of one area of NSA
Intelligence Technology and Applications. A Technology Title, Applications,
Technology
Description, case history summaries and the NSA's Behavioral Modification
Procedure Outline documented for the non-technical person.

2. TECHNOLOGY TITLE:

2.1. Subliminal Implanted Posthypnotic Suggestions and Scripts Using
Acoustically Delivered and Phonetically Accelerated Posthypnotic Commands
without
Somnambulistic Preparation in the Subject for Intelligence and
Counterintelligence Applications by the United States National Security
Agency. "Computer
Simulated Subconscious Speech Language".

3. APPLICATIONS:

3.1. Intelligence:

3.1.1. Used on foreign and domestic diplomats, spies, and citizens to gather
intelligence, steal advanced technology for US Defense applications. Surveys
of citizen's
opinions to government events and propaganda. Heavy survey use during times
of war, economic strife and political elections. War against drugs. Used to
identify
investments that have high yield to support clandestine operations. Used to
direct field agents without the agents having to carry communications
hardware and
encryption devices.

3.2. Counterintelligence:

3.2.1. Used on foreign and domestic diplomats, spies, and citizens to
identify intelligence operations; scope, participants, communication
methods, and weaknesses
in individuals, systems, equipment, or signals that can be exploited.
Additional applications include misinformation dissemination, confusing and
confounding leaders
during critical decision moments, distorting significance of various facts
to sway decisions and actions in US favor, behavioral modification of
foreign spies to betray
their loyalties, self initiated executions (suicides).

3.3. Behavior Modification and Accelerated Resocialization:

3.3.1. This technology is used to develop and control spies, political
candidates, and other public figures through psychological intimidation,
fear and extortion.

3.3.2. The NSA uses this technology to resocialize (brainwash) the US
civilian voting population into "Giving their lives to Christ" (giving up
their personal will and
civil rights to the NSA). Each subject is required to maintain a "Personal
Relationship with Jesus Christ" (following the precepts of the Bible and
doing what is
ordered by the NSA). The technology is also used to monitor and optimize NSA
employee performance and loyalty.

4. DEFINITIONS AND ACRONYMS:

4.1. Age Regression: The act of bringing back past memories in a subject
though the use of hypnosis. The memories can be very vivid and real in the
mind of the
subject.

4.2. Hypnoamnesia: Temporary loss of memory due to a posthypnotic
suggestion.

4.3. NSA: United States National Security Agency, Fort Mead, Maryland.

4.4. ODO: On-Duty Officer, or officer-on-duty.

4.5. Posthypnotic Command: Same as Posthypnotic Suggestion. This term
"Command" is more commonly used when the hypnosis is forcibly given to the
subject
and when the subject's will has been broken down though the use of REM Sleep
Deprivation and Suggestibility Index increasing drugs like CNS and
Cardiovascular
Stimulants. The exposure to extreme REM deprivation and select chemical
stimulants cause the subject to have no ability to resist the "Suggestion"
any longer
thereby making it a "Command".

4.6. Posthypnotic Suggestion: A subconscious suggestion or command resident
and potentially active in the subject following a hypnotic trance or period
of direct
access to the subconscious mind.

4.7. Posthypnotic Suggestibility Index: An index or rating of a subject's
susceptibility and sensitivity to hypnosis.

4.8. REM DEP: Abbreviation for REM Sleep Deprivation or REM Deprivation. A
subject deprived from REM Sleep has multiple symptoms i.e. reduced protein
synthesis, black circles around eyes, loss of short term memory, confusion,
impulsiveness, anger, frustration, diminished self-esteem, increased
suggestibility, reduced
productivity, apathy, an

[CTRL] FW: ALERT: Magazines Paid To Spout Drug War Propaganda

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Mark Greer
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 12:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ALERT: Magazines Paid To Spout Drug War Propaganda


DrugSense FOCUS Alert # 167 April 5, 2000

Magazines Paid To Spout Drug War Propaganda

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DrugSense FOCUS Alert # 167 April 5, 2000

A few months ago, Salon.com published a story explaining how television
networks were getting paid federal money to insert government approved
anti-drug messages in their programming. The networks got the money as part
of the billion-dollar propaganda campaign organized by the Office of
National Drug Control Policy and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

Many were rightly shocked by this arrangement, but some argued that it
revolved around entertainment programming on television, where people don't
necessarily expect to find objective or accurate information. Daniel
Forbes, who wrote the original story for Salon, is back with another story
about how supposedly objective and serious magazines also got paid if the
ONDCP/PDFA liked the slant of their stories (The entire story of "The Drug
War Gravy Train" by Forbes can be read at
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v00/n428/a04.html, below is a short
Associated Press report on the subject.)

Forbes identifies the following magazines as those that took money for
publishing propaganda approved by the ONDCP: US News  World Report, The
Sporting News, Family Circle, Seventeen, Parade and USA Weekend. While the
editors at the magazines deny that the payoffs impacted the stories
published in the magazines, evidence collected by Forbes suggests otherwise.

"Take the case of two magazines: Family Circle and Woman's Day, the latter
published by Hachette Filipacchi Magazines Inc.  To the average reader,
these books probably appear about as different as Tweedledum and
Tweedledee.  But appearances can be deceptive.  According to Hall's
Magazine Reports Inc., an industry research group, Family Circle ran a
hefty eight-and-a-half pages of anti-drug editorial matter in 1999.
Woman's Day, on the other hand, ran none, states Hall's research director,
Sandy Santora.  Family Circle was the recipient of a $1.4 million
drug-office ad buy, second only to Parade.  The Woman's Day buy? Zero."

Please write letters to some or all of the magazines that took the payments
expressing disappointment at their willingness to place ad revenues and
drug war orthodoxy over independence and objectivity.

Thanks for your effort and support.

 WRITE A LETTER TODAY

It's not what others do it's what YOU do

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PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER OR TELL US WHAT YOU DID ( Letter,
Phone, fax etc.)

Please post a copy your letter or report your action to the sent letter
list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you are subscribed, or by E-mailing a copy
directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Your letter will then be forwarded to the
list with so others can learn from your efforts and be motivated to follow
suit

This is VERY IMPORTANT as it is the only way we have of gauging our impact
and effectiveness.

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CONTACT INFO

Source: U.S. News and World Reports
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Source: Parade Magazine
Contact: http://www.parade.com/email/index.html

Source: USA Weekend
Contact: http://www.usaweekend.com/about/mail_letter_eds.html

Source: Seventeen
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Source: Family Circle
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Source: The Sporting News
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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ARTICLE

Pubdate: Sun, 02 Apr 2000
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA)
Copyright: 2000 Los Angeles Times
Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Address: Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA 90053
Fax: (213) 237-4712
Website: http://www.latimes.com/
Forum: http://www.latimes.com/home/discuss/
Author: From Associated Press

6 MAGAZINES GIVEN ANTI-DRUG DISCOUNTS

WASHINGTON--The White House drug policy office offered financial incentives
to at least six magazines that ran stories discouraging drug use, an
arrangement similar to one with television networks.

The drug office and the publications say there were never any attempts to
influence the content of articles.  Under the deal with the networks, which
drew public attention earlier this year, programs that carried anti-drug
messages could be exempted from requirements to run anti-drug ads.

Stephen G.  Smith, editor of U.S.  News  World Report, one of the six
named in a report by the online magazine Salon, told Associated Press that
people on the editorial side were "utterly ignorant of any kind of
arran

[CTRL] FW: Biotech television ads begin

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-Original Message-
From: The Campaign [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: News Update [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 2:01 AM
Subject: Biotech television ads begin


Broadcast News From The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods
--

Dear Health Freedom Fighters,

The first television ads promoting genetically engineered foods began to be
shown on Monday. It is reported that Monsanto and other biotech companies
plan to spend $50 million this year and up to $250 million over the next
five years on their advertising campaign. Below are two articles. The first
is a front page article from the St. Louis Post Dispatch titled "Biotech
rivals team up in effort to sell altered food." The second article is from
the San Francisco Chronicle titled "Biotech Products to Get an Image
Booster."

The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods is preparing to spend
over $50,000 in April to print up 250,000 of our full color  "Take Action
Packets." So the biotech industry is spending nearly 1,000 times more than
we are. However, The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods has a
powerful secret weapon that the biotech industry lacks: the active
participation of thousands of grassroots activists.

This is a classic David and Goliath story. Just as David beat the powerful
Goliath, we intend to get genetically engineered foods labeled over the
continued objections of the biotech industry. The Campaign's goal is to
generate at least ONE MILLION LETTERS TO CONGRESS over the next seven
months
in support of the Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act.

Although we can't afford television ads, traffic continues to increase at
The Campaign's popular web site. As a matter of fact, our internet service
provider just increased our monthly fee because we are generating so much
traffic. But our most powerful tool in generating letters to Congress will
be the "Take Action Packet." This full color 24-page magazine will contain
an informative educational tutorial and five form letters addressed to the
House of Representatives, the Senate, Vice-President Gore and Governor
Bush.

We intend to raise the issue of genetically engineered foods to one of
presidential politics in the coming elections. The television and newspaper
ads of the biotech industry are likely to help us accomplish this goal.
When
the biotech industry tried an advertising campaign in Europe a couple years
ago, it backfired and increased public opposition to genetically engineered
foods. We anticipate the same situation will develop in the United States.

The Campaign's Take Action Packets are scheduled to begin shipping the
first
of May. They will only cost 25 cents each and sell in lots of 100 for $25
(price includes shipping). A copy of the Take Action Packet will be
available for viewing on our web site after April 20th. You will be able to
order the Take Action Packets directly from our web site by credit card on
our secured server. Naturally you may also send your order by U.S. mail.

Here we go folks: Grassroots activism by thousands of concerned citizens on
a shoestring budget vs. a multi-million dollar advertising campaign by the
world's leading biotech companies. We will win this battle if we all do our
part in generating the letters to our elected officials during the next
seven months.

Craig Winters
Executive Director
The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods

The Campaign
PO Box 55699
Seattle, WA 98155
Tel: 425-771-4049
Fax: 603-825-5841
E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.thecampaign.org

Mission Statement: "To create a national grassroots consumer campaign for
the purpose of lobbying Congress and the President to pass legislation that
will require the labeling of genetically engineered foods in the United
States."

***

Posted: Tuesday, April 4, 2000.
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Front Page  - A section

Biotech rivals team up in effort to sell altered food

By Bill Lambrecht
Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Monsanto Co. and its biotechnology rivals began a $50 million
campaign Monday to sell Americans on the benefits of genetically modified
food.

With television and print ads along with a Web site and toll-free number,
the newly formed Council for Biotechnology Information is seeking to raise
awareness and reduce worry at a critical juncture for a powerful new
technology.

The council says it may spend as much as $250 million on the campaign over
the next five years toward shaping opinion in the United States and Canada.

Monsanto spokesman Jeff Bergau said the campaign is designed to tell
consumers something they don't know a lot about.

"From the conversations that we've had wit

[CTRL] FW: Internet Privacy Hearing -- Live Audio

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-Original Message-
From: Barr, Press [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 2:27 PM
To: Barr, Press
Subject: Internet Privacy Hearing -- Live Audio


 U.S. Representative Bob Barr (GA-7) announced today that the Constitution
 Subcommittee, on which he serves, will hold hearings this Thursday on "The
 Fourth Amendment and the Internet."  Barr requested the hearing late last
 year following a debate about whether to build law enforcement wiretapping
 access into the Internet.

 There will be a live audio webcast of the hearing beginning at 2:30 p.m.
 Eastern on Thursday, April 6, 2000 at:

 http://www.house.gov/judiciary/schedule.htm

 "The Internet offers new ways to engage in communication and commerce, but
 it also gives third parties unprecedented abilities to compile and search
 data on every person who uses it.  It is important we clarify the manner
 in which time-tested Fourth Amendment protections apply in the electronic
 world.  Unless we get a handle on this, and provide some guidance for, and
 limitations on, government monitoring of the Internet, personal privacy
 will be an early casualty of this new century," said Barr.

 This newsletter is issued periodically and exclusively to subscribers who
 request it by the office of U.S. Representative Bob Barr (GA-7).  To
 remove your name from the list at any time, simply type "remove" in the
 subject line of this message and return it.


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Until this Moronski can get it through his allopathically indoctrinated
thick head that homeopathy works by a means which the pseudo-science which
he is a paid mouthpiece for (the guy is a paid professional "quack-watch"
goon, like Stephen Barrett and the amazing randi - not your average
"physician's assistant") -- cannot see, feel, measure, nor - apparently -
observe objectively (!!) he will be limited to idiotic whinings designed to
impugn what he cannot (WILL NOT) understand or observe.

Are we supposed to believe he is stupid enough to think that homeopaths 
their clients are not aware of the FACT that homeopathy isn't explainable by
a physician's assistant with a year of college chemistry ?!

Persons of Moronski's ilk have been known to respond to a question: "What
would you do if someone designed a suitable double-blind study PROVING that
homeopathy works?" -- with an answer such as: "Design another test."

NONE are so blind as those who WILL NOT see.
You can lead a physician's assistant to water, but you cannot make him
drink.
If a physician's assistant kills a patient and no one is watching, is the
patient really dead? Is the cause likely to be purposefully obfuscated?

The form of medicine that the quack-watch people are supporting by
attempting to demonize  deride other healing arts is now the 4th leading
CAUSE OF DEATH in the U.S., U.K.,  Canada, where it holds political power.
That political power was gained and is held by employing many moronskis to
attack any SUCCESSFUL ALTERNATIVE to the allopathic drugging industry.

SO - a paid political hatchetperson lobbying for the "medical" industry
which in and of itself is the FOURTH LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH is poking
sarcastic "fun" at an honorable and NON-death-dealing healing art   so
what?  Consider the source and don't even bother passing it on! Or consider
it as a reverse "seal of approval" - if the death-dealing
pharmaceutical/allopathic industry didn't feel threatened by homeopathy, you
can BET that they wouldn't be wasting money paying a bunch of moronskis to
attack it !


Most Sincerely,


Dave Hartley
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-Original Message-
From: Andrea Deslenick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 12:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can these issues be explained?


Dear all,

I believe and homeopathic science, I have used the remedies on many
occasions with good, satisfying outcome.

Faced with next arguments and issues, I didn't find  answers explaining them
satisfactorily, would you please provide some help to understand.  thank
you.


""Stan Polanski, a physician assistant working in public health near
Asheville, North Carolina, has
provided additional insights:

Imagine how many compounds must be present, in quantities of a molecule or
more, in every dose of
a homeopathic drug. Even under the most scrupulously clean conditions,
airborne dust in the
manufacturing facility must carry thousands of different molecules of
biological origin derived from
local sources (bacteria, viruses, fungi, respiratory droplets, sloughed skin
cells, insect feces) as well
as distant ones (pollens, soil particles, products of combustion), along
with mineral particles of
terrestrial and even extraterrestrial origin (meteor dust). Similarly, the
"inert" diluents used in the
process must have their own library of microcontaminants.

The dilution/potentiation process in homeopathy involves a stepwise dilution
carried to fantastic
extremes, with "succussion" between each dilution . Succussion involves
shaking or rapping the
container a certain way. During the step-by-step dilution process, how is
the emerging drug
preparation supposed to know which of the countless substances in the
container is the One that
means business? How is it that thousands (millions?) of chemical compounds
know that they are
required to lay low, to just stand around while the Potent One is anointed
to the status of Healer?
That this scenario could lead to distinct products uniquely suited to treat
particular illnesses is beyond
implausible.

Thus, until homeopathy's apologists can supply a plausible (nonmagical)
mechanism for the
"potentiation"-through-dilution of precisely one of the many substances in
each of their products, it is
impossible to accept that they have correctly identified the active
ingredients in their products.

Any study claiming to demonstrate effectiveness of a homeopathic medication
should be rejected
out-of-hand unless it includes a list of all the substances present in
concentrations equal to or greater
than the purported active ingredient at every stage of the dilution process,
along with a rationale for
rejecting each of them as a suspect.

The process of "proving" through which homeop

[CTRL] Terminator and Traitor Technologies Target Global Seed and FoodSupply

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Terminator and Traitor Technologies Target Global Seed and Food Supply
Part II: Traitor Technology

Copyright ©2000 by Geri Guidetti
All Rights Reserved
This Update may be reposted or reprinted intact and unedited only,
including contacts.


Nature can be cruel sometimes. With broad geographic brushstrokes, floods,
severe droughts, earthquakes or volcanic eruptions can wipe out the food
and drinkable water supplies for communities or whole regions in hours,
even minutes. Within days and weeks following a disaster, competition for
whatever resources remain can be fierce, even deadly. The formerly complex
rules of community life are quickly simplified to one: Food is Power.

Whoever has it, survives. Whoever controls it has virtually complete power
over those who don't.

Throughout human history, man has learned to manipulate that simple,
natural truth to starve out pockets of ideological resistance, to gain
control of strategic ports, or to turn whole populations into serfs for a
handful of powerful masters. Last week I discussed efforts and patents by
our own U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and an ever-smaller handful
of global gene giants to create and commercialize genetic seed
technologies designed to render food and fiber seeds sterile. The seed
embryos are genetically programmed to commit suicide. These first
generation Terminator technologies are designed to prevent farmers from
raising and saving their own seed for future crops. Please note, from my
original, June 1998 Terminator article (http://www.arkinstitute.com), that
the USDA clearly expects to profit monetarily from this patent. Dependence
for food seed on a handful of powerful global giants and a U.S. agency
ensures profits, but strips farmers and, eventually the people they feed,
of food security and freedom.

Yet, the now 30-plus Terminator-type technology patents are apparently not
enough profit insurance for these powerful multinational seed and
agrochemical companies or, for that matter, for the USDA. It has now been
learned that two more seed sterilization patents were issued to the USDA
and development partner, Delta  Pine Land. Patent No. 5,925,808 was
issued on July 20, 1999 and patent No. 5,977,441 on November 2, 1999.
According to RAFI Executive Director, Pat Mooney (http://www.RAFI.org):

"The U.S. government is advancing research and squandering taxpayer
dollars on a technology that has been universally condemned because it is
bad for farmers, food security, and biodiversity. It's an egregious
misallocation of public resources for the sole purpose of maximizing seed
industry profits."

RAFI Programme Officer, Silvia Ribeiro, commented:
 "Despite mounting opposition from national governments, United Nations'
agencies, farmers, scientists, and civil society organizations around the
world, USDA continues to ignore the public outcry at home (Maryland just
introduced a bill to ban the Terminator this month) and abroad."

Meet the Traitors

If you think it is difficult to imagine a more ruthless technology than
the Terminator, meet the Traitors, a collection of (so far) 29 patents
that introduce genetic traits to food plants that make those plants
dependent on the external application of a corporation's proprietary
chemicals to bring in a crop. What a perfect business plan! Sell them the
seed, and then you get to sell them all of your own chemicals, too! If
they don't buy and apply the chemicals, they don't eat! Here is a look at
some of the Traitors:

*AstraZeneca's Verminator II patent, WO 9735983 (The Verminator got its
name because a rat gene was used to create specific genetic controls in
the plant):
 Plants' genes are modified to create chemical junkies. Plants will need
continuing exposure to specific chemicals to germinate and grow. Killer
genes will direct the seed or plant to commit suicide unless the killer
compound, barnase, is inactivated by another pair of genes turned on by
the company's chemical(s). The junkies must have their chemical fix or
they die. The fix is only temporary, and it is inherited. Seed saved from
these plants are also junkies. No chemicals, no food. The company says the
technology can be used in all plants, especially in wheat, barley, rice,
maize (corn), apples, peaches, pears, carrots, cabbage, onions, lettuce,
melons, bananas, strawberries, tomatoes, tobacco, sunflowers, canola and
sugar beets. They said they will seek patent approval in 77 countries.

*Seed and chemical giant, Novartis, has patents that also create
chemically dependent plants, but with a different, perhaps more sinister
twist. They target plants' innate, natural pest and disease resistance
genes, eleven of them, and then genetically modify them so they can be
turned on or off externally.
 "...Novartis explicitly claims the introduction of traitor traits by the
deactivati

[CTRL] FW: Request for support:Seattle II

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FWD:
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Subject: Seattle II
Date:Fri, 31 Mar 2000 17:24:02 -0500
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Hi -- We are writing to ask for your ONE-TIME SUPPORT FOR A MAJOR
DEMONSTRATION ON APRIL 16 IN WASHINGTON, DC, against the IMF and World
Bank.  If you contribute, your name and address will not become part of a
"list." We will not share your name and address with other organizations.



PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.

David Schlein, National Vice President
American Federation of Government Employees

Robert L. Clark, Secretary-Treasurer
United Electrical, Machine, and Radio Workers

The Alliance for Global Justice is acting as the fiscal sponsor for the
April 16th Coalition.  Please donate on-line at
http://www.a16.org/form_support.html, Or by check, made out to
Mobilization for Global Justice/AGJ, 1247 E Street SE, Washington DC
20003.

THE MOVEMENT FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE HAD ITS U.S. COMING-OUT PARTY IN
SEATTLE.  The movement that came to light with the World Trade
Organization (WTO) meetings - the movement all of us have been building -
will have its next big opportunity to demand that people be put ahead of
profits in Washington, DC, the home of the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and World Bank, the rule-makers for the global economy.

WTO head Mike Moore is expected to join World Bank President James
Wolfensohn, new IMF head Horst Koehler, and the Finance Ministers and
heads of Central Banks who make up the governing body of the IMF on
Sunday, April 16.  This is one of the routine high-level meetings
dedicated to making the world safer and more profitable for corporations -
and more dangerous for the planet and its people.  The formal joint
meetings continue April 17.

ORGANIZATIONS FROM AROUND THE U.S., AND AROUND THE WORLD, ARE MAKING PLANS

TO COME TO WASHINGTON to tell the economic decision-makers that we are not
going to close our eyes to their actions.  Please see the list at
http://www.a16.org.  We know that the injustices of the global economy
were not born with the WTO, and are hardly the sole responsibility of the
WTO.  The IMF and World Bank, more than any other institutions, are the
coercive powers which have shaped the present global economy, and which
gave birth to the WTO in the first place.

The reason that the Seattle mobilization was so effective was that labor
stood with the direct action folks, if not alongside, at least near by.
The result was a story that could not be relegated to the back pages or
the cutting room floor.  The purpose of April 16 is to re-unite this
coalition.  Therefore the AFL-CIO together with the American Federation of
Government Employees (AFGE), United Electrical Workers (UE), United Steel
Workers (USWA) and the central labor councils of Washington DC, San
Francisco, and San Jose, are sponsoring a legal Rally and March for Global
Justice.

A week of activities is being planned, including
 *Sunday April 9, Jubilee 2000/USA mobilization for debt cancellation
 *Wednesday April 12, AFL-CIO lobbying day against China most favored
nation
 *Saturday April 15, Latin America/Caribbean Solidarity Conference
 *Sunday April 16, Two Main Events:
Legal Rally and March for Global Justice
Direct Action for Global Justice

The schedule for the direct action will not be final until April 15.

The Legal Demo will assemble on The Ellipse, between the White House and
the Washington Monument, at 11:00 AM on April 16, 2000.
 The tentative schedule is
 *11:00 Music and cultural events
 *12:00 Speakers, with a song or two
 *1:30 March
 *3:30 Return to Ellipse, more talk, a few songs.
 *5:00 Disperse to numerous receptions and SpokesCouncil

 *Tuesday April 18 11:00 - 1:00 Rally on the Ellipse

Invited speakers include
 *Members of Congress Dennis Kucinich and Cynthia McKinney,
 *AFL-CIO President John Sweeney,
 *AFGE President Bobby Harnage,
 *UE Secretary-Treasurer Robert L. Clark,
 *Michael Moore,
 *Amy Goodman,
 *DSA's Horace Small, TransAfrica's Randall Robinson, Philippines Freedom
from Debt leader Matet, India's Vanetta Gupta, South Africa's Dennis
Brutus, Kensington Welfare Rights' Cheri Honkala, and Public Citizen's
Ralph Nader.

Please donate on-line at http://www.a16.org/form_support.html.

Many of the organizations that played leading roles in organizing the
Seattle demonstrations -- Direct Action Network, the Ruckus Society,
Global Exchange, Rainforest Action Network, and others -- are organizing
for April 16 in Washington.  Caravans are being planned from as far away
as the West Coast and even from Winnipeg, Canada.  Experienced activists
from dozens of organizations have formed the Alliance for Global Justice
coalition with 10 working groups (e.g., communications, logistics,
outreach, labor, more being are added all

Re: [CTRL] [ncndiscuss] Cultural disease

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I'm reading a science-fiction (or izzat science-future? .. seems like a lot
of the stuff that was science-fiction 30 years ago is commonplace today) ...
book called "Diaspora" that deals with some of the questions below, as
consciousness migrates from flesh to silicon  nanotech.


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave


http://www.ru.org/93inaya.html
New Renaissance Vol. 9, No. 3

 New Futures Ahead: Genetics or Microvita?
by Sohail Inayatullah

The future might be just what we think it will be.



 The conventional view of the future assumes that life will keep getting
better. Income will go up, houses will increase in value, new technologies
will make life better for all, even if in the short run some of us have to
retrain. To be sure, there will be difficult times, but problems will be
solved, either through government or business. OECD nations will remain fair
societies, which take care of their most vulnerable members.

This incremental view of the future is challenged by some who say we are
coming into a post-industrial post-modern, ‘knowledge economy.’ Indeed, this
is a time of many ‘posts’, meaning that the new era is being created, its
outlines not yet clear, the institutional arrangements (what will government
look like, who will watch over whom) still being sorted out.

Deeper changes

But perhaps the transformation is even deeper, challenging not just
industrialism, but the entire rise of capitalism and of Western
civilization, the Colombian era.

Nano-technologies and artificial intelligence might make production on a
scale never before possible. Of course, these technologies are not yet
on-line but we are seeing hints of a society that challenges the idea that
poverty will always be with us (well at least because of technological
reasons).

Smarter markets will soon be possible. Here all products can be bar-coded
with complete pricing details (how much the Indonesian worker was paid, how
many trees were cut down, how much the middle-man made), allowing consumers
to vote with their dollars. ‘Standards’ will not just be the product’s
physical quality (what it looks like, is it safe and safely made) but also
its functional quality (how well it does what it claims to do) and its
ethical quality.

In this way, the Internet could level the inequalities of capitalism,
creating a giant people’s market. Capitalism could also transform through
another—global—depression, once the speculative bubble of the financial
markets bursts.

Multiculturalism will also play an important role, perhaps shattering any
notion of one culture, one state, one knowledge system, one view of science.
How will nations organize this gaia of civilizations; this ecology of
different world-views?

The nation-state as the sole holder of power has entered a terminal process
(even if the passport office retains its power to deport). Whether it will
take 50 years or a hundred, we know well that revolutions from below
(non-governmental organizations), revolutions from above (international
institutions), revolutions from capital (globalism), revolutions of culture
(new ways of seeing self and other, of boundaries) and revolutions of
technology (air travel, the Net) all make the nation-state deeply
problematic. Of course, the Milosevics, the brahmins and mullahs won’t
disappear. With no place to hold onto, they will fight until the bitter end,
hoping that enough of us will retain our patriotism (and be willing to kill
for it). They will hope to transform the quite legitimate concerns of
individuals fearing change, corporate control, foreigners and loss of jobs
into a politics of exclusion, of attacking the other.

Governance

What world might result from these historical revolutions in governance?
There is a range of possibilities. One alternative is that one religious
system dominates, creating a world church, temple or mosque. A second option
is that one nation dominates, creating a world empire. The former is
unlikely, as reality has become too fragmented. Neither Christians nor
Muslims (or Buddhists) are likely to convert en masse tomorrow, even if
Jesus, the Madhi, or Amida Buddha return. The problem of recognizing God is
not likely to be solved in the year 2000, even if the Redeemer does return.

The second option, world empire, is difficult given the democratic impulse.
The only nation currently vying for the job is caught by its own democratic
language. Disney and Microsoft are more likely victors than the US State
Department, despite what conspiracy theorists in Belgrade, Baghdad, Beijing
and Kuala Lumpur believe.

But can the world capitalist economy—the third alternative—define identity?
It has flourished because the economy has been global, expanding, while
identity has been national, fixed, as has politics. With the nation in deep
trouble, can a world economy with national politics continue? Localist
movements—th

[CTRL] Effective Microorganisms

[Dave]

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"Effective Microorganisms"
http://209.153.214.27/
http://emtech.org/toc.htm
http://emtech.org/naturefarming/sld001.htm (slide show)
re: pollution of waters by excess organic matter-OM-, and chemicals, and
helping farmers to wean off chemical fertilizers, and chemicals in general,
thereby decreasing amounts of same in our waters.


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave

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frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects
spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL
gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers;
be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and
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[CTRL] AN ACTIVISTS GUIDE TO EXPLOITING THE MEDIA

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http://www.oneworld.org/tlio/research/act2.html
http://www.videonetwork.org/media.html
http://www.urban75.com/index.html
http://www.gene.ch/pmhp/gs/media.htm


Here's an interesting set of sources (similar content in each) -
originally published as a pamphlet (date undetermined but certainly
on/before June 1999) in coordination with a british land use campaign.

Michael

AN ACTIVISTS GUIDE TO EXPLOITING THE MEDIA
By George Monbiot


This guide originates from The Land is Ours, a landrights campaign for
Britain. George Monbiot is an Activist and Environmental Journalist. ( a
regular columnist for The Guardian) Although it is written primarily for a
British audience much is relevent internationally. If you have any
additions which would make it more international please let us
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and The Land is Ours ([EMAIL PROTECTED] )
know.

(extracts)
-- AN ACTIVISTS GUIDE TO EXPLOITING THE MEDIA
By George Monbiot


 Every battle we fight is a battle for the hearts and minds of other
people. The only chance we have of reaching people who haven't yet heard
what we've got to say is through the media. We might, with good reason,
regard the papers and broadcasters with extreme suspicion, we might feel
cheapened and compromised by engaging with them. But the war we're
fighting is an information war, and we have to use all the weapons at our
disposal. Whether we use the media or not, our opponents will. However
just our cause and true our aims, they will use it to demonise and
demolish us, unless we fight back.

 EXPLOIT THE MEDIA, OR THE MEDIA WILL EXPLOIT YOU!

 [SNIP]

PART 7: CONCLUSION

All campaigning is hard work, and exploiting the media is just as hard as
any other aspect. We've tended to neglect it in the past, and then wonder
why no one comes to our actions. Our movement needs specialist media
workers just as much as it needs specialist tree-climbers. The more there
are, the more clearly our message will come across, and the more people
will be attracted to our cause. This is how small rumblings turn into
earthquakes. The revolution will not be televised, but that doesn't mean
that it won't also be live.
=


   Activists Guide to Writing a Press Release
 By George Monbiot
*   intro
*what we're up against
*our advantages
*how to get the press to your action
*dealing with journalists
*being interviewed
*following up
*conclusion




Anti-copyright for activists. Copyright for everyone else.

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Re: [CTRL] [ncndiscuss] FW: Patriot Action Television Network

[Dave]

-Caveat Lector-   A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"
/A -Cui Bono?-

One viewpoint.
No doubt perfectly valid, and at any rate - uniquely yours.
However, it serves little purpose, imho, to commandeer "higher ground" and
hand judgement down from above upon persons who may well (unbeknownst to
you?) be intensely taken with compassion and perhaps therefore: a desire to
expose their vision of truth to an audience which is the COMPLETE CAPTIVE of
the corporate monopoly owned mass media - wherein "honest journalism" is not
only oxymoron but anathema.

Many of us are interested in exposing some of the filth in government to the
cleansing light of day, and disturbing the status quo: secrecy, corruption;
figurative  literal sacrifice of human life in the worship of Mammon.

Some of those of us who are to some extent "activists" may also be on our
own path of spiritual growth, and may not be in particular need of being
told "look within, Grasshopper."

Contrary to populist  simplistic "spiritual" belief - all perceived "wrong"
is *NOT* necessarily in the eye/mind of the beholder. Consensual reality is
a meeting ground. Independent of my or your existence - relative good and
evil exist in this world. If your path is one of isolated
self-contemplation, who am I to deny that?

By the same token, I strongly support those with the courage of their
convictions; the awareness that there is a need for aggressive truth-seeking
in the halls of temporal power, and the will to (in their perhaps infinite
compassion ;) "fight" for my "right" to honesty in government.



Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tim Wees
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ncndiscuss] FW: Patriot Action Television Network


Sorry .. but this is wrong wrong wrong. The purpose of a journalist is to
reveal the truth NOT to damage anyone. The truth will set us free, but if
the truth is organised to be hurtful, it is no longer the truth, it's just a
different slant on the same bs that we have been peddled now for centuries.
The greatest enemy we have is the one who lies within, and if you look
within .. or without .. then the truth IS being called for .. but so is
something called compassion. You know that word anyone? Our world is crying
out for it.

Please do not subvert the cause of honest journalism by turning it into yet
another weapon.

  Tym

- Original Message -
From: "Dave" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 8:01 PM
Subject: [ncndiscuss] FW: Patriot Action Television Network


 hmm... Press Pass anyone ?


 Dave Hartley
 http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



 -Original Message-
 From: spiker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:23 PM
 To: Recipient list suppressed
 Subject: Patriot Action Television Network


 Patriot Action Television Network
 http://sites.netscape.net/inyourfacetv/patv

 If you are willing to carry a rifle for freedom...You should also be
 willing to carry a camcorder for freedom.

 WE DARE YOU TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP, TRUTH IS A VIRUS!

 You can help us dominate the airwaves by calling your local cable company
 and asking to be placed on the local public access channel.

 1.Fill out the forms.
 2.Request a prime time slot.
 3.Send us your time and channel and whether or not you wish to be an
 affiliate Camcorder Commando or anchor.

 Finally there are enough informed Americans to conduct a full frontal
media
 charge!

 A squad of Camcorder Commandos with fixed microphones will do more damage
 to the enemy than a million bullets.

 THE EMPIRE IS ON THE RUN!  WE ARE ON THE MARCH!

 Any General knows if the enemy is retreating...You don't let them regroup.

 P.A.T.V.  will operate like an army in the field with Battalion
Commanders,
 Platoons, Scouts, and Spies.

 Militia units should be used to this concept.  All others will be trained
 in cable boot camp.

 IMPORTANT NOTE!!!

 Your local T.V.  News channel has NO claim on what is or isn't news.  If
 you have access to the cable system, simply declare yourself a news crew
 and you are "one".
 No special news license exists!

 P.A.T.V.  will back you up on whatever kind of press credentials you care
 to use.  Create a press pass for yourself on a desktop publisher, (or have
 your friends do it).  Include the words P.A.T.V.  CABLE NEWS OFFICIAL
 BUSINESS---(Email us so we know.)

 Here is your assignment...

 Walk into your local city hall with cameraman press pass, etc

 And start asking hard core questions.

 (If you've been involved in the patriot fight for any length at all...You
 will know what to say.)

 Send us the tape.  We will edit all tapes from ALL over the country into
 one powerful documentary and send it back to you, plus put it on the
 Inte

[CTRL] Sightings.Com Story Links 27 March 2000

[Dave]

Title: New Page 1




Dave Hartleyhttp://www.asheville-computer.com/dave 
Sightings Data 
Link Dump 26 March 2000




  
  

  
  New 
  Roswell Eyewitness To Crash Scene  ET Ship Comes 
  Forward!
  

  
  Monsanto To Sell 
  NutraSweet For $440 million
  

  
  Aspar tame, 
  "Erin Brockovich"  Title 18 Of The Criminal 
  Code
  
New Mexico...The UFO 
  State
  

  
  China 
  Gathering Forces - 'Three Roads To Death' Warning
  

  
  Rare White 
  Buffalo Shot To Death
  
Cancer Link Said Found In 
  'Celtic Mutation'
  
Serious Progress 
  Hinted In Secret Anti-Gravity Projects
  
Top British Theologian 
  Advocates Legalizing Prostitution, Drugs, Homosexuality
  
Missouri UFO Ballot 
  Initiative Language Certified
  
The Fatal Sting - The 
  Other Rabin Murder Book
  
British Nuclear Plant 
  Investigates Possible Sabotage
  
Chemtrail Complaint 
  Open Letter Sent To Boxer, Feinstein, AQMD, Etc
  
Secrets Of The Giza 
  Plateau Revealed
  
DARPA Seeks To Build 
  Exoskeletons For Super Soldiers
  
Smith  Wesson 
  Gun Deal Spurs Intense Backlash
  
Terminator  
  Traitor Technologies Target Global Seed  Food Supply
  
Britain's 1950's 
  'Flying Saucer' Stealth Craft Revealed
  
British Crime Rate 
  Soars After Gun Ban
  
How To Defy Death - 
  Stay Thin
  
TB Epidemic Raging 
  Across Asia - Cases Soaring From China To Afghanistan
  
Terminator/Suicide 
  Seeds Still On Fast Track To Farmers!
  

  
  House Bill - 
  Repeal Income Tax, Abolish IRS,  Install National Sales 
  Tax
  
NRO Director's Presentation On 
  Future Militarization  Intel Assets In Space
  
World's Oceans 
  Warming Up
  
Europe Refuses To Ban 
  MTBE Despite US Prohibition
  
The Uncensored Gordon 
  Kahl Story
  

  
  Comparison Of 
  Invasions Of Taiwan Vs Normandy
  

  
  How The Red 
  Chinese Octopus Is Taking Control
  
Canadian Defense 
  Department Blunder - Secrets Set Sail
  
More Kidney 
  Infections In Women Becoming Drug-Resitant
  
Thief Grabs MI5 
  Laptop Loaded With Secrets
  
Vegans Advised To 
  Take Vitamin Supplements
  
'Andropause' - The Male 
  Version Of Menopause
  
Drug-Resistant 
  Strains Of TB On The Increase
  
Operation 
  Mockingbird - The Subversion Of America's Free Press By The 
  CIA
  
Confirmed: CNN Worked 
  With Army PsyOps Group During Kosovo War
  
Hundreds Of Chinese 
  Boats Intruding Taiwan Waters
  
Subliminal 
  Advertisting Alleged In Warners' 'Battlefield Earth'
  
Twelve-Year-Old Holds 
  Class At Gunpoint In Ohio
  
Mammoth Iceberg May 
  Soon Be Adrift In Antarctic
  
Dead Calves 
  Mystery In Oregon Continues To Baffle Officials
  
Herpes Is Infectious 
  And Contagious Without Symptoms
  
Geneticists Show 
  That Irish Are A Race Apart
  
Canadian Company 
  Tries To Reduce Cattle Flatulence For Environment
  
Smart Scalpal Knows 
  Which Cells Are Malignant
  

  
  Gi za 
  Plateau Ethical Research Coalition Announced
  

  
  Census Bureau Says 
  It Won't Prosecute Non-Filers
  
With a Census This 
  Intrusive, Count Me Out
  
Census 2000 Said 
  Legally Invalid
  
Census - Americans 
  Being Led To Slaughter?
  
UPDATECensus-Gate - 
  Major Scandal Brewing
  
UPDATE Americans Tell Uncle 
  Sam To Shove It Over Census
  
UPDATE The Smith  
  Wesson Sellout - The Rest Of The Story
  

  
  GOA Announces 
  Boycott of Clinton And Smith  Wesson
  
TWA 800 - The 
  Latest NTSB Response Termed More Lies
  
Do You Know What's 
  Organic?
  
Threat To World From 
  Weapons Of Mass Destruction Soaring
  
Striking Hubble 
  Images Of Orion Nebula - Interesting Things To See
  
Near-Record Iceberg 
  Reported in Antarctica
  
New Blood Test May Be 
  Best Predictor Of Heart Attack
  
'Free-Floating' 
  Planets Discovered In The Orion Nebula
  
Official China Paper 
  Details Plans To Attack Taiwan, Seize US Assets
  

  
  China 
  Building Land-Based Nuke To Prevent First Strike
  
Iraq Close To Nuclear 
  Bomb
  
Clinton's South 
  Asia Trip Fraught With Death Threats
  
West Nile Virus May 
  Have Infected 2000 In NYC Last Year!
  
Judge OKs Vilence 
  Against TV Show
  

  
  N ASA 
  Responds To Mars Polar Lander Charges
  

  
  NASA KNEW Mars 
  Polar Lander Was Doomed - And Lied To Us
  

  
  Disney's 'Mission 
  To Mars' First Of Spate Of Coming Mars Films /td 

[CTRL] FW: NEWS ALERT - www.ashevilletribune.com

[Dave]

-Caveat Lector-   A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"
/A -Cui Bono?-

Socialism and communism put "state property" rights ahead of private propery
rights.
The united States Constitution guarantees private property rights.
Does North Carolina need a governor or an attorney general who supports
socialist/communist undermining of private propery rights?


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: Asheville Tribune
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 10:36 AM
To: Advertising
Subject: NEWS ALERT - www.ashevilletribune.com


BREAKING NEWS - www.ashevilletribune.com.
---
MOUNTAIN LAND FIGHT LOOMING
Carolina man outbids state for forest land; State then considers
taking it from him by eminent domain at "market value"
By Dana Davis, The Asheville (NC) Tribune (Copyright 2000)

State officials, outbid by a private property owner, are now considering
ways to take his land in Transylvania County at "fair market value" and
claim it as state property so that they may be the arbiters of the 2,200
acre natural habitat, that is virtually surrounded by 8,200 acres of state
forest land, known as Dupont State Forest. Incidentally, the 2,200 acre
tract of land contains, arguably, three of the most beautiful and pristine
waterfalls in the state.

North Carolina Attorney General Mike Easley, running for Governor on the
Democrat ticket, is trying everything in his means to press forward on this,
suggesting that the state "Condemn" property owner Jim Anthony's land by way
of "Eminent Domain."

SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT www.ashevilletribune.com.

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[CTRL] FW: Patriot Action Television Network

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hmm... Press Pass anyone ?


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: spiker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:23 PM
To: Recipient list suppressed
Subject: Patriot Action Television Network


Patriot Action Television Network
http://sites.netscape.net/inyourfacetv/patv

If you are willing to carry a rifle for freedom...You should also be
willing to carry a camcorder for freedom.

WE DARE YOU TO PUT UP OR SHUT UP, TRUTH IS A VIRUS!

You can help us dominate the airwaves by calling your local cable company
and asking to be placed on the local public access channel.

1.Fill out the forms.
2.Request a prime time slot.
3.Send us your time and channel and whether or not you wish to be an
affiliate Camcorder Commando or anchor.

Finally there are enough informed Americans to conduct a full frontal media
charge!

A squad of Camcorder Commandos with fixed microphones will do more damage
to the enemy than a million bullets.

THE EMPIRE IS ON THE RUN!  WE ARE ON THE MARCH!

Any General knows if the enemy is retreating...You don't let them regroup.

P.A.T.V.  will operate like an army in the field with Battalion Commanders,
Platoons, Scouts, and Spies.

Militia units should be used to this concept.  All others will be trained
in cable boot camp.

IMPORTANT NOTE!!!

Your local T.V.  News channel has NO claim on what is or isn't news.  If
you have access to the cable system, simply declare yourself a news crew
and you are "one".
No special news license exists!

P.A.T.V.  will back you up on whatever kind of press credentials you care
to use.  Create a press pass for yourself on a desktop publisher, (or have
your friends do it).  Include the words P.A.T.V.  CABLE NEWS OFFICIAL
BUSINESS---(Email us so we know.)

Here is your assignment...

Walk into your local city hall with cameraman press pass, etc

And start asking hard core questions.

(If you've been involved in the patriot fight for any length at all...You
will know what to say.)

Send us the tape.  We will edit all tapes from ALL over the country into
one powerful documentary and send it back to you, plus put it on the
Internet!

Who you gonna shoot?

(with a TV camera)

THE MAYOR, THE CITY COUNCIL, THE POLICE CHIEF, THE SHERIFF, CONGRESSMEN,
PESKY TV ANCHOR LEFTISTS (they hate that) NEWSPAPER REPORTERS (who wouldn't
know a story if it bit 'em!)

Shoot EVERYBODY and not get arrested.  You don't leave messy bodies laying
around...PLUS...If they're really idiots in person, TV magnifies that
100X's!!!

Besides, You've been thrown out of better places...Right?!?

No.1 Rule...If they are a public servant in a public place---they're FAIR
GAME!!!

PUT IT IN THEIR FACE!

This site will be used as a news wire for affiliates...We expect you to
acquire PGP Crypto for secure communication.

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[CTRL] FW: Terminator NOT terminated !

[Dave]

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/A -Cui Bono?-

forwarded...


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 1:25 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Terminator NOT terminated !


Subject:
GMO Updates #9: Suicide Seeds on the Fast Track
Date:
Sun, 26 Mar 2000 03:12:06 -0500
   From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jean hudon)
 To:
undisclosed-recipients: ;




THIS NEWS INFO BELOW IS REALLY UPSETTING
BECAUSE WE ALL THOUGHT THAT THE
WOLRDWIDE PROTESTS AGAINST THE TERMINATOR
TECHNOLOGY HAD SUCCEEDED IN DEFINITLEY
PUTTING AN END TO IT. WE HAVE BEEN LIED TO BY
MONSANTO - NOW CHANGING NAME TO "PHARMACIA" -
WHICH IS THE WORST HYDRA THE WORLD HAS EVER
SEEN

Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000
From: Mark Graffis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Suicide Seeds on the Fast Track

   EarthVision Reports
   03/24/00

   SAN FRANCISCO, March 24, 2000 - A report released by the Rural
   Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) reveals that Terminator
   and Traitor technology are riding a fast track to commercialization.
   Terminator technology, the genetic engineering of plants to produce
   sterile seeds, is universally considered the most morally offensive
   application of agricultural biotechnology, since over 1.4 billion
   people depend on farm-saved seeds. Traitor technology, also known as
   genetic use restriction technology (GURTs), refers to the use of an
   external chemical to switch on or off a plant's genetic traits.

 "We've continued right on with work on the Technology Protection
 System [Terminator]. We never really slowed down. We're on target,
 moving ahead to commercialize it. We never really backed off."
 Harry Collins, Delta  Pine Land Seed Co., January, 2000

   "After Monsanto and AstraZeneca publicly vowed not to commercialize
   terminator seeds in 1999, governments and civil society organizations

   were lulled into thinking that the crisis had passed. Nothing could
be
   further from the truth," said RAFI's Executive Director Pat Mooney.
   "Despite mounting opposition from national governments and United
   Nations' agencies, research on Terminator and Traitor (genetic trait
   control) is moving full speed ahead."

   According to RAFI, Delta  Pine Land, the world's largest cotton seed

   company, is moving aggressively to commercialize Terminator. And
   despite massive protests, the US Department of Agriculture supports
   and defends its anti-farmer patent and research on suicide seeds.
Last
   year, AstraZeneca conducted field trials on genetic trait control
   technology (Traitor technology) in the UK. According to industry
   sources, it is not the first company to conduct field tests of this
   kind.

   RAFI's report concludes that corporate commitments to disavow
   Terminator are virtually meaningless in light of the pace of
corporate
   takeovers. Monsanto and AstraZeneca have each merged with other
   companies since they pledged not to commercialize suicide seeds.
 * On December 2, 1999 Novartis and AstraZeneca announced they would

   spin-off and merge their agrochemical and seed divisions to
create
   the world's biggest agribusiness corporation -- to be named
   "Syngenta."
 * On December 19, 1999 Monsanto announced that it will merge with
   drug industry giant Pharmacia  Upjohn to create a new company,
   named Pharmacia, with combined annual sales of $17 billion.

   The Director General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture
   Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf recently declared his opposition to
   Terminator. In publicly rejecting Terminator, FAO's Diouf has come to

   the defense of the 1.4 billion people who depend upon farm-saved seed

   for their survival.

   Among the national governments that have announced their intention to

   oppose Terminator technology are Panama, India, Ghana, and Uganda.
   India, one of the first governments to publicly reject Terminator,
   explicitly prohibits Terminator genes in a draft bill now before the
   Indian Parliament. Ghanaian Minister of Environment, Cletus Avoka,
   says that his government will not tolerate the use of Terminator
   technology. Panama's Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries writes
that
   his government "will adopt measures to prohibit the specific patents
   as well as the technology in general." Ugandan officials have said
   that their government is discussing measures to outlaw Terminator at
   the highest levels of government.

   Terminator and Traitor technologies are not limited to a single
   patent, nor is the research confined to one or two companies. Delta 

   Pine Land is currently the high-profile crusader for Terminator, but
   the goal of genetic trait control is industry-wide. According to
RAFI,
   over 30 pa

[CTRL] FW: [RuMills] HR2525 Fair Tax Act

[Dave]

-Caveat Lector-   A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"
/A -Cui Bono?-

Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 5:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [RuMills] Digest Number 154




Message: 1
   Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 15:23:12 EST
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HOUSE BILL TO REPEAL THE INCOME TAX-- ABOLISH IRS

Hearings by the U.  S.  House Ways and Means Committee will begin on April
11 on the FairTax.

 A HREF="http://www.theorator.com/bills106/hr2525.html"Fair Tax Act of
1999- H.R.2525/A
http://www.theorator.com/bills106/hr2525.html

106th CONGRESS
1st Session

H. R. 2525
To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the
income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and
enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 14, 1999
Mr. LINDER (for himself, and Mr. PETERSON of Minnesota) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL
To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the
income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, and
enacting a national sales tax to be administered primarily by the States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States
of America in Congress assembled,

Pull up the webpage and read the entire Bill -  A
HREF="http://www.theorator.com/bills106/hr2525.html"Fair Tax Act of 1999-
H.R.2525/A

From Mike Ford

Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 8:43 PM

The most significant tax proposal in 87 years --- and the most
well-researched in history.

Fair Tax Act of 1999- H.R.2525
http://www.theorator.com/bills106/hr2525.html

Hearings by the U.  S.  House Ways and Means Committee will begin on April
11 on the FairTax.

The FairTax (H.R.  2525, the Linder-Peterson Fair Tax Act of 1999) is a
national retail sales tax on new goods and services at the final point of
sale for personal consumption above the poverty level.
Used goods are not taxed.

The FairTax is the best choice for all Americans.
It will eliminate the complexity and injustice of our current system
entirely --- by repealing the federal income tax and all federal payroll
taxes.  The FairTax will replace them with a simple 23% federal retail
sales tax on new goods and services --- with a universal rebate for all up
to the poverty line.

The FairTax will:
Repeal the federal income tax, including capital gains taxes.
Repeal corporate and self-employment taxes.
Repeal all payroll taxes including Soc.  Sec.  and Medicare taxes.
Repeal all estate and gift taxes.
Repeal the 16th amendment to the Constitution that authorized taxation of
income.
Provide a universal rebate equal to the sales tax paid on essential goods
and services to ensure that no American pays taxes on necessities.**
Impose a 23% tax inclusive rate on the purchase of new goods and services
in the U.S.

The FairTax won't:
Cause prices to rise.
Decrease government revenue.
Unfairly burden the poor or elderly.
Unfairly burden retailers.
Be structured as a VAT.
Provide tax loopholes of any kind.

Actions to be taken:
1.  Visit http://www.fairtax.org and get informed.
2.  Then do what you can.

Mike Ford, Initiative for Texas
1750 Timber Ridge Road #116 Austin, Texas 78741-5574
web - http://www.initiativefortexas.org
Voice: (512) 347-1470
Fax: (512) 447-2381
E-mail: Mike Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[CTRL] Part 1 - Mental illness and the American Dream:

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"One can understand now why prevention has been a failure because
the only way to achieve effective results is through fundamental social
change; in other words, this isn't a public health issue in any
conventional sense but a social and political struggle."


WSWS : News  Analysis : North America

Mental illness and the American Dream: Part 1
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/ment-m24.shtml



A comment by Frank Brenner
24 March 2000

This is the first of a two-part series.

THE SURGEON-GENERAL'S REPORT

The numbers tell a nightmare. According to a major report on mental health
recently issued by Surgeon-General David Satcher, the top public health
official in the US, one in five Americans suffers from a diagnosable
mental disorder each year and half the entire population have such
disorders at some time in their lives.[1] Half the population! A
staggering figure, hard to get one's head around: is a term like epidemic
even adequate to characterize a situation of this magnitude? And yet,
horrifying as these numbers are, they aren't that surprising, certainly
not to anyone professionally involved in the field nor, I suspect, to a
large section of the general public. If the discussions I've had or heard
on this issue are anything to go by, a not uncommon reaction to this
information is: "Only half?" It isn't just that everyone seems to know
someone who's had "mental problems" or that, with the wholesale shutdown
of mental hospitals, the mentally ill (and the wretchedness of their
lives) have become a much more visible presence on city streets; it is
also the widespread feeling these days that people no longer have much (or
any) control over their lives and hence that there is something "crazy"
about what is happening to them.

There are a lot more numbers in the report, most of them tokens of
suffering:

* mental illness, including suicide, is the Number 2 cause of disability
(defined as " years of life lost to premature death and years lived with a
disability of specified severity and duration" ), less than heart disease
but worse than cancer and AIDS combined;

* a fifth of all children show signs and symptoms of a diagnosable mental
disorder in any given year, though only 5 percent suffer " extreme
functional impairment" ;

* among adults, ages 18 to 54, 15 percent suffer anxiety disorders, 7
percent have mood disorders and a little over 1 percent have
schizophrenia;

* depression is common among people 65 and older - this is the age group
with the highest suicide rates, though the report offers the dubious
consolation that " suicidal thoughts are sometimes considered a normal
facet of old age."

Five hundred pages long, the report ( Mental Health: A Report of the
Surgeon General) brings together a huge amount of data from the findings
of hundreds of recent studies. It would be hard to imagine a more
comprehensive document: this is the state of the art, as far as mental
health is concerned, at the end of the twentieth century. And, as The New
York Times points out, it carries added significance because it " puts the
imprimatur of the government on the findings" ; the hope of those involved
is that, like the 1964 Surgeon-General's report on smoking, this new
report will become a catalyst for a major shift in public attitudes to
mental illness.[2] Accordingly, the basic tone of the report (to use
current bureaucratic jargon) is "pro-active": though the suffering due to
mental illness is widespread, the expert opinion of the report is that
most of that suffering is avoidable. One of the document's key findings is
that nearly two-thirds of people who have mental disorders don't seek
treatment, even though effective treatments already exist. The report
highlights a number of reasons for this: simple ignorance that one has a
disorder or that it can be treated; a fear of being stigmatized as
mentally ill by family and friends; and - what is no doubt the decisive
factor for a great many people - the fact that they can't afford treatment
since they have no medical insurance or else the insurance they do have
doesn't cover mental illness.

Changing attitudes to mental illness and improving access to treatment
are, of course, laudable aims. Not so laudable is what the report says (or
doesn't say) about how to achieve them. It insists that its proposals
won't cost a lot of money; similarly, it assures HMOs and medical insurers
that cost increases from covering mental illness would be minimal. This is
nonsense: if the great bulk of people who need help and aren't now getting
it start showing up for treatment, it's obvious that they could only be
accommodated by a major expansion of mental health services, and that
means a major increase in funding. Why this denying of the obvious?
Be

[CTRL] Part 2: Mental illness and the American Dream

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"We are living in the twilight of the American dream. The epidemic of
mental illness, the pervasiveness of sexual misery - these both show that
the rift between the happy surface of society and the despair underneath
is becoming too great to sustain. Millions of people are losing any hope
that life will ever get better. But the fading away of a false dream can
also be the beginning of a revival of hope. "
==
WSWS : News  Analysis : North America

Mental illness and the American Dream: Part 2
URL: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/mar2000/ment-m25.shtml
A comment by Frank Brenner
25 March 2000


This is the conclusion of a two-part series. The first part appeared
on March 24.

The American dream

Let's say what the Surgeon-General's report could not: the underlying
cause of mental illness is desperate unhappiness. This is so obvious (at
least to the ideologically unblinkered) that it almost seems to cry out
from the report's findings. Add to this the fact that the epidemic of
mental illness is global (with the statistics for other industrialized
countries much the same as US levels or else quickly catching up to them)
and something else becomes clear - that the underlying cause of the
unhappiness is capitalism.

But probably nowhere else in the world is unhappiness a more unpopular
subject than in the land of the American dream. Everywhere you are
surrounded by images of happiness and success - TV sitcoms and Hollywood
happy endings and Calvin Klein billboards and celebrity faces staring at
you from virtually every magazine cover and tabloid front page. Of course
bad news gets lots of attention, but only after it's been sensationalized
(or demonized or trivialized) by the mass media - that is, after it's been
stripped of its relevance to most people's lives; sensibilities get so
deadened in this way that a basketball game can be more involving than
watching a city get blown up. This kind of unhappiness does little to
disrupt the veneer of happiness that envelops American society.

In official ideology, social classes don't exist in America, only
"winners" and "losers" do, and the promise of the American dream is that
everybody can be a "winner." That dream was always a mirage; 150 years
ago, Thoreau already saw the unhappy truth: " The mass of men lead lives
of quiet desperation." [1] Since that time, the mirage has become much
more sophisticated and alluring: the cult of success and celebrity lets
everyone be a "winner" vicariously. But the desperation has also
intensified. Consider, for instance, the misery contained in these facts:
America now has the longest work year of any industrialized country in the
world. The average American married couple now works 6 weeks more each
year than it did in 1989 (and 15 weeks more than it did in 1979).[2]
What's left of life after a 50- or 55-hour workweek and another 25 to 30
hours of unpaid work at home? People are worked like machines and run into
the ground - until their hearts stop or their minds snap. And, for all
that sacrifice, they have less and less to show for it, as living
standards fall and the class divide broadens into a chasm. It almost goes
without saying that most people are condemned to mind-numbing (and
eventually soul-destroying) jobs, which nevertheless they're terrified of
losing. And family life, which used to be, at least to some extent, a
haven from the misery of the outside world is now more likely to be itself
a source of pain and distress that is often emotionally devastating.

For many people it keeps getting harder to bear their desperation quietly.
But what can they do? Who can they turn to? The traditional channels for
social discontent - the Democratic Party, the trade unions, protest
movements - are all dead ends, and widely perceived as such. Besides, in a
world that just seems to stare back at you with a blank smile, it's
difficult even to see what connection your desperation has with reality.
And then there is the immense pressure to conform that makes itself felt
in every corner of American life, so that it isn't just those with
diagnosable mental illnesses who are "stigmatized" but all too often
anyone who "acts weird" or who simply doesn't "fit in." Under these
conditions, it isn't any wonder that millions of people break down,
dealing with an unbearable reality by what Freud called a "flight into
illness." Millions more are almost as miserable, but because they go on
functioning, their condition passes for "normal." And finally there are
those who, instead of internalizing their despair, lash out in explosive
rage, most often at their loved ones but increasingly in horrifying spasms
of indiscriminate carnage which the media persists in characterizin

[CTRL] FW: A great victory for natural health consumers

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Way to go, Minnesota !


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 3:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: A great victory for natural health consumers


Here's the latest from Minnesota

Lynn:


Monday, March 20th was an historic day for consumers of health care in
America.  The Freedom of Access to Complementary and Alternative Health
Care Bill in Minnesota took two giant strides toward success:

In the Senate, the bill was voted on and passed by a margin of 47 to 13!

In the House, our bill, which was article 3 in a large omnibus bill, was
challenged and survived.  Rep. Mulder proposed an amendment to delete our
entire bill from the omnibus bill.  After a lively and passionate debate,
the
amendment was resoundingly defeated, 111 to 18!  The rest of the omnibus
bill was debated at length and finally approved in its entirety at 2:30 in
the morning!

Actually, in both the House and Senate, there was long and passionate debate
on the Complementary and Alternative Health Care Freedom of Access Bill.
After the last few months of hard work on the nuts and bolts of minute areas
of the bill in committee, this debate was different.  It actually went back
to the whole concept of alternative health care in general.  It centered on
the advances of modern conventional medicine vs the ancient and time-honored
healing arts.  It explored the issues of safety and the rights of consumers
to have options when it comes to their own health care.  It was, in a word,
dramatic.  Fortunately, the debates were videotaped, and we will be able to
get a copy of them for posterity.

We owe many thanks to the legislators who stepped forward on the floor and
advocated articulately for our bill.  In the Senate debate, many thanks to
our author, Senator Twyla Ring, and to Senators Deanna Wiener, Michelle
Fischbach, Linda Berglin, Sandra Pappas, Gary Laidig, and John Hottinger. In
the House, hats off to our author Rep. Lynda Boudreau, and to
Representatives
Kris Hasskamp, Phil Carruthers, Dave Bishop, and Matt Entenza.

It would be great if you sent each of them an email to thank them.  Here's
how you do it:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

other senators are the same address, just start with sen. and their own
name.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

other reps are the same address, just change the name.

Its not over yet.  The bill now goes to conference committee to reconcile
differences in the two versions.  Then it comes back to the floor of the
House and Senate for final approval.  Then it goes to our governor for his
signature.

We are elated that our lawmakers have recognized the importance of this
concept, and we will continue to work hard at the Capitol to ensure that the
best of each version will go into the final product.

Stay tuned for further developments - Jerri Johnson

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 1:41 AM
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Subject: [LeadingEdgeResearch] Census-Gate 2000 Initial Data Collection



I have dubbed this Census controversy  "Census-Gate 2000". Maybe it
will stick. Here's a summary of some of the latest traffic, news, etc.
I have gathered on this up-and-coming issue as of 17 March 2000.   VV


Table of Contents:

1. Analysis of Census Long Form Documents and OMB Form Data, and
Anomalies
2. Don't Trust the Census - by John Gilmore  Past Abuse of Census
Data
Wall Street Journal Article:  Honesty May Not Be Your Best Census
Policy  8 Aug 1989
3. Matt Drudge Report 15 March 2000  on beginnings of the controversy
and New York Times article references.
4. Cooperative Alliance Between the US Census Office and the US Post
Office  16 Mar 2000 Census Bureau
5. News: "INS to Lie Low for Census"  ABP News
6. Lockheed-Martin Develops Census Capture Technology
7. Barcode Technology Insures Accurate Count  15 Mar 2000  US Census
Bureau
8. AP Corrects Story on Census Sampling
9. Census Computer Technology and Systems Processing Information


"Although the Constitution empowers Congress to conduct a census for
the purpose of apportioning representation, there is nothing there
which empowers them to demand answers to any questions they chose to
ask. Yet they have taken the position that it would perfectly all right
for them to compel you to enumerate what weapons you own or what
illicit substances you consume and pretend that this would not be a
violation of your constitution rights just because they won't divulge
any individual answers. We have already heard proposals to create
concentration camps for drug users and to seize all privately owned
semi-automatic weapons. There is simply no way to tell how the answers
that people supply today might be used against them in the future".
June Genis





1. Analysis of Census Documents Indicate OMB Anomalies - ALL Long Forms
Are For Puerto Rico ONLY
---
--

Regarding the Census: The long form is NOT required to be filled out AT
ALL, at least not by people residing outside PUERTO RICO. Proof: 1. The
form number for the long form (at least the one I have which was sent
to an address in ALABAMA) is "Form D-2(UL)". The title of the form is
"United States Census 2000". 2. The form states at the top: "This is
the official form for all the people at this address. It is quick and
easy and your answers are protected by law" Note that this means
that if THIS FORM is not valid and the above language is correct, there
is NO FORM for conducting the census for the people living at the
address contained on the form. 3. At the bottom right of the front page
of the long form is written "OMB No. 0607-0856: Approval expires
12/31/2000". 4. On the bottom of page 2 of Form D-2(UL) it states that
"The Census Bureau estimates that, for the average household, this form
will take about 38 minutes to complete" That doesn't sound very
quick, but then exactly what form or part of the form are they talking
about? 5. The next paragraph on Page 2 (a single sentence) is the key:
"Respondents are not required to respond to any information collection
unless it displays a valid approval number from the Office of
Management and Budget." I went to the official OMB site and looked up
the OMB number, 0607-0856.

 The site is: http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/omb/OMBINVC.HTM#Departm
ent of Commerce

Here is the exact information found on the site for this number:
= OMB NO: 0607-0856 EXPIRATION DATE: 12/31/2000 RESPS:106,200,000
HOURS:26,761,200 COSTS(000):$0 United States Census 2000 FORMS: D-1
D-1(E) D-1(E)SUPP D-1(HF) D-1(UL) D-1A(UL) D-2 D-2(E) D-2(E)SUPP
D-2(HF)\ ==

Note that the Form Name, "United States Census 2000" and the expiration
date are the same as on the form D-2(UL). However, as you will note,
form D-2(UL) is NOT LISTED. Therefore, OMB No. 0607-0856 is NOT a valid
OMB number and no one receiving it with THAT NUMBER on it is required
to fill it out. Since, according to page 1, "This is the official form
for all the people at this address", there must be NO VALID FORM for
anyone who receives the long form, D-2(UL). The next finding is even
more amazing. As I was cutting and pasting the above from the OMB site,
my eyes glanced down. BELOW the listing for 0607-0856 I found Form
D-2(UL) listed under OMB NO: 0607-0858, titled "Census 2000 -- Puerto
Rico". However, take a GOOD LOOK at the information for this OMB
number:

== OMB NO: 0607-0858 EXPIRATION DATE: 12/31/2000 RESPS

[CTRL] FW: Four mesmerizing stories: Night of the Red Sky + The Secrets of Thoth and TheKeys of Enoch + The Inca Prophecies + The Chinese Pyramids - AnExtraterrestrial Legacy

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-Original Message-
From: jean hudon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 4:49 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Four mesmerizing stories: Night of the Red Sky + The Secrets of
Thoth and TheKeys of Enoch + The Inca Prophecies + The Chinese Pyramids
- AnExtraterrestrial Legacy


Hello everyone

I've compiled for you 4 really mesmerizing, astounding, old
paradigm-shattering stories that are sure to change how you view both the
distant past of our planet as well as our immediate future.

The latest one I've read is this haunting "Night of the Red Sky" article
that I received yesterday.

Here is a short sample:

Night of the Red Sky

The Prophetic Vision of 'Grandfather'

In the 1920s, an Apache wise man had a Vision of four prophecies that
foretold death and destruction for mankind, unless we incorporate Spirit in
our daily lives.

Two of these prophecies may already have come true.


A number of people can predict the future, but few get the timing correct.
"Grandfather" was an Apache wise man and scout, named Stalking Wolf, who
grew up outside white man's influence. His many predictions not only came
true in the manner he predicted, but also when he predicted.

Tom Brown, Jr learned extensively from Grandfather for twenty years, from
their first meeting when Tom was seven years old. Stalking Wolf was the
real-life grandfather of Tom's best friend at the time. The following
excerpt from Tom's book, The Quest, tells of Grandfather's predictions for
all of mankind.

(CLIP)

Grandfather said that there was not future, only possible futures. The
'now' was like the palm of a hand, with each finger being the possible
future, and, as always, one of the futures was always the most powerful,
the way that the main course of events would surely take us. Thus his
predictions were of the possible future, which meant that he always left a
choice.

If a man could make the right choices," he said, "then he could
significantly alter the course of the possible future. No man, then, should
feel insignificant, for it only takes one man to alter the consciousness of
mankind through the Spirit-that-moves-in-all-things. In essence, one
thought influences another, then another, until the thought is made
manifest throughout all of Creation. It is the same thought, the same
force, that causes an entire flock of birds to change course, as the flock
then has one mind."

(CLIP)

Out of all the personal and major prophecies that Grandfather foretold,
there are four that stand out above all the rest. It is these four that
mark the destruction of man and life on Earth, as we know it to exist now.
Yet Grandfather said that we could still change things, even after the
first two prophecies came true, but that there could be no turning back
after the third.

Now that we have gone well past the second prophecy, danger and destruction
are very apparent, and our only recourse is to work harder to change what
has possibly become the inevitable. The urgency that I feel - now, more
than ever - is a direct result of the second, impossible prophecy coming
true. It is the reason that I teach, sometimes with a certain desperation,
and constantly with the sense that we are quickly running out of time.

(CLIP)

I recommend you read the entire article posted at
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/RedSkies.html
if you are ready and willing to face the visions and absolutely grim
prophecies of this Apache wise man from the 1920's for our near future on
this planet.

The First Sign he accurately described was the world televised great
African famine in Ethiopian that inspired the Bob Geldof "We are the World"
Live Aid relief effort.

The Second Sign is about Holes in the sky...

But I'll say no more on this... For now.

Is history going to repeat itself once again as happened for past and long
forgotten civilizations on Earth?

The answer depends on us all.

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000

*   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *   *

From: John Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Posted at: http://www.angelfire.com/ky/astral/index.html

10-16-99

The Secrets of Thoth and The Keys of Enoch

By Paul White

*Just after the Deluge, at the dawn of the present time cycle, an era the
Egyptians called ZEP TEPI, "The First Times", a mysterious group of "gods"
appeared, to initiate the survivors in the rudiments of civilisation. From
Thoth and Osiris in Egypt, to Quetzacoatal and Viracocha in the Americas,
traditions worldwide subscribe the origins of contemporary civilisation to
this sophisticated group*.   Despite the misleading popularity of Von
Danikan journalism, evidence from around the world, indicates these people
were the hi-tech survivors of the previous civilisati

[CTRL] TV Turnoff Week

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kill your television...

Dave Hartley
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-Original Message-
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Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 5:32 AM
To: NCF list
Subject: [ncnculture] [Fwd: TV Turnoff Week]



Culture Jammers Network wrote:

 *
 TV TURNOFF WEEK April 22 - 28
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 A handful of megacorporations now control most of the global
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 workplace, check out http://www.adbusters.org. You can get some ideas
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 Check out the new 30-second TV Turnoff "Uncommercial." It's a potent
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-Original Message-
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Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 6:37 PM
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NOTE:  Springfield Medical Institution has a long history of unusual drug
practices that often result in patients' involuntary loss of memory and many
other features of mind control.
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep
under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." --Anatole Franc



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__

EMERGENCY ALERT-URGENT ACTION

Dear Peltier supporters,

At 10:30 am this morning we received a call from Ernie Stevens Jr. who
had gone into Leavenworth to visit with Leonard Peltier (he is on his
regular
visiting list).  He was told that Leonard Peltier was not in the
institution.  Leonard Peltier's attorneys have been trying and are still
trying to find out what happened.  Meanwhile, we received a message from a
prisoner at Leavenworth that Leonard
was transferred this morning.  His belongings were packed by guards who
complained that the prison authorities had known well in advance that
Leonard would be transferred and they should have told him so he could pack
his own things.  One of the guards mentioned the medical facility at
Springfield, Missouri. LEONARD HAS BEEN CLEAR THAT HE DOES NOT WANT TO BE
TRANSFERRED TO SPRINGFIELD UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.


If we find out that this is the case, we will try to put an immediate stop
to it.
Meanwhile, please call Leavenworth: 913-682-8700 and the Bureau of
Prisons at: 202-307-3198. Tell the operator that you are aware that Leonard
Peltier has been transferred and that you are concerned for his safety.  Ask
them why they have transferred him without giving any notice to him, his
attorneys, or his family.  They are supposed to give 48 hours notice before
transferring someone.  The person answering the phone will not tell you
anything, but it is important to keep the calls coming in so they know
we are paying attention.  Ask them to give your message to Warden Booker
for Leavenworth and Kathleen Hawk Sawyer for the BOP.  Please call our
office 785-842-5774, if you do, by chance, receive any information.  Please
act
on this now and ask all of your contacts to do the same.  Thank you.

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[CTRL] Doctor says WTO gassing led to health problems

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http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000307/health-96
Excite News

Doctor says WTO gassing led to health problems

Updated 12:00 PM ET March 6, 2000

By Brian Hansen
Colorado Daily
U. Colorado

(U-WIRE) EUGENE, Ore. -- The chemical weapons that were used against
civilians during the tumultuous World Trade Organization conference in
Seattle three months ago have given rise to a number of mysterious and
potentially serious long-term health afflictions, says a medical doctor who
is studying the matter.

Dr. Kirk Murphy, an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA Medical School
and a representative of the group Physicians for Social Responsibility,
discussed the health-related consequences of the gas-choked WTO meetings
last weekend at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene,
Ore.

"What we saw happening in Seattle was the largest single application of
chemical weapons against civilians in the northern hemisphere," Murphy said.
"We've seen a range of symptoms arising from the Seattle experience,
including a subset of symptoms that are atypical for the chemical agents
that we've been able to confirm were used."

Law-enforcement officials maintain that four types of chemical agents were
used in the streets of Seattle during the WTO conference: OC, or "pepper
spray," as well as three varieties of gaseous irritants -- CN, CS, and CX.

According to Murphy, people exposed to OC "normally" suffer from intense
burning sensations of their skin and/or eyes, and sometimes from rashes and
minor vision changes in the minutes and hours after exposure. And the
"normal" reactions to the three types of "tear gas" agents reportedly used
in Seattle, Murphy explained, commonly include eye, nasal and throat
irritation, and sometimes respiratory and digestive system problems.

Teams of street medics treated thousands of people exhibiting these types of
symptoms on Nov. 30, the first big day of protests against the WTO, Murphy
noted. But the following day -- after martial law had essentially been
imposed throughout downtown Seattle -- the symptomatic effects of the
chemical weapons changed significantly, Murphy said.

"Starting on December 1st, we saw a set of symptoms that went beyond the
usual 'irritation' symptoms," Murphy said. "These came to be called the
neurotoxic set of symptoms."

People who were gassed on Dec. 1, when police stormed Seattle's Pike Place
Market and Capitol Hill neighborhood, suffered then -- and continue to
report now -- a mysterious and troubling set of afflictions, Murphy said.

"We've collected several dozen reports of (women) who had an immediate
on-set of menstruation, and there's at least one report of a spontaneous
abortion," Murphy said. "One person who came in (to a street clinic) was
technically delirious ... and had symptoms consistent with shock. So, we
started asking questions that night about what additional agents could be
responsible for what we were seeing."

Law-enforcement agencies have denied allegations that "nerve gas" or other
military-grade chemical agents were used against WTO protestors and other
civilians in downtown Seattle, and Murphy acknowledged that there is, at
this point, no molecular evidence to support that charge.

But based on a symptomatic assessment of a host of medical reports -- as
well as a laboratory analysis of several spent chemical weapons
containers -- Murphy and his colleagues at the Los Angeles Office of
Physicians for Social Responsibility have come up with a hypothesis.

"Broadly speaking, we've raised a few different possible means or methods by
which the atypical symptoms might have come about," Murphy said.

One explanation, Murphy said, is that the atypical symptoms exhibited in
Seattle were in fact completely consistent with OC and the various tear
gasses -- but that no one -- including the manufacturers of the chemicals
and the police -- know that yet.

"A lot of the information that was developed (on chemical weapons) came from
the armed forces, where most of the people in the uniforms tended to have
male genitals," Murphy said. "So, we don't have a lot of information from
when thousands of women are exposed to these agents."

Another possibility, Murphy said, is that age or temperature had caused some
of the chemicals to break down during storage.

"There's a (spent) canister chasing around Eugene that was manufactured in
1980," Murphy said. "There are a number of chemical reactions that one could
envision taking place over time in a stored sample."

A third possibility is that the so-called inert ingredients that are present
in the chemical weapons containers -- which are frequently toxic and
carcinogenic solvents -- independently caused the 

[CTRL] FW: WHISTLE BLOWER BANNED FROM COURTS FOREVER

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forwarded...


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-Original Message-
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Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 3:11 PM
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Subject: WHISTLE BLOWER BANNED FROM COURTS FOREVER


RMNews just recieved an email from Rodney Stich in which he stated he has
been barred from filing lawsuits against government corruption 
forever!!!

If the government can use the court system to keep its corruption hidden
from
the people --- what hope do we have of ever getting justice?


FROM RODNEY STICH --- ONE OF THE ORIGINAL WHISTLE BLOWERS --

AUTHOR OF

DEFRAUDING AMERICA

DISAVOW

DRUGGING AMERICA

UNFRIENDLY SKIES

 A HREF="http://www.defraudingamerica.com/"Introduction and description of
widespread government corruption./A
http://www.defraudingamerica.com/
THE ABOVE LINK WILL TAKE YOU TO ALL RODNEY'S BOOKS ---

RODNEY WROTE TO RAYELAN ALLAN:

For your information:
I went to the Oakland U.S. district court last Monday and submitted my
lawsit
to the clerk. It seems they were waiting for me. What happened next  is very
important and has serious national implications. The clerk advised me that
they
cannot allow me to file anything in the court, that Judge Marily Patel had
rendered an order in 1988 barring me for the remainder of my life from
filing
anything in court and in that way voiding for me all rights and protections
under
the laws and Constitution of the United States.

Now, this has very serious implications, that any judge can block a
whistleblower
from reporting federal crimes to a federal judge, as provided by Title 18
USC
Section 4, and that the whistleblower suffering government retaliation by
federal
judges cannot defend himself. This is not hyperbole. This is real!

One ramification of this is that federal judges are willing to prostitute
the
laws and Constitution of the United States when it suits them, such as
blocking
reporting of federal crimes in which they themselves are implicated.

I will attach to this a copy of the lawsuit that I tried to file. The
lawsuit
is
also on the web site at www.defraudingamerica.com, with a click at the
bottom
of
that page.

 A
HREF="http://www.defraudingamerica.com/lawsuit_highlights.html"Highlights
 of lawsuit exposing documented pattern of judicial corruption./A
http://www.defraudingamerica.com/lawsuit_highlights.html

 A HREF="http://www.defraudingamerica.com/lawsuit_complaint.html"Federal
lawsuit documenting wide pattern of judicial corruption/A

http://www.defraudingamerica.com/lawsuit_complaint.html
Although I am the plaintiff in that lawsuit, it could have been used as a
platform by any group wanting to expose the documented pattern of corruption
in
federal courts. It needs an attorney to file so as to get filed in court.
I'm
weighing my options.

There is also the possibility, or proability, tht Judge Patel will charge me
with
criminal contempt of court and with the help of Justice Department
prosecutors
send me to federal prison for having sought to report federal crimes and
trying
to defend myself against judicially inflicted civil rights violations.

What country are we in, for god sake!


--
Rodney Stich, E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.unfriendlyskies.com
http://www.defraudingamerica.com
http://www.druggingamerica.com

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[CTRL] Chlorinated tap water linked to Birth Defects

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No kidding? Putting deadly chlorine in water is not healthy?  duh.....


Dave Hartley
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Chlorinated tap water linked to Birth Defects
By Jacqui Thornton and Martyn Halle
UK Telegraph  Feb 24, 2000
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

AN independent study into the use of chlorine-treated drinking water
has been ordered by the Government because of fears that it may cause
spina bifida and stillbirths.

Scientists from Imperial College, London University, will carry out the
research after doctors in Norway, Canada and the United States reported
higher levels of birth defects in areas where chlorine is used,
compared with drinking water treated by alternative methods. All of
Britain's water companies chlorinate their supplies. The only people
who have non-chlorinated water are those with their own bore holes or
wells.

A Norwegian study of 141,000 births over three years found a 14 per
cent increased risk of birth defects in areas with chlorinated water.
Scientists have already found an association between chlorine and an
increased risk of bowel, kidney and bladder cancer, but it is the first
time that a link has been found with higher levels of spina bifida.

Last night the Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association said it was
"concerned" by the findings and would be discussing them with medical
advisers before considering making representations to the Government.
British water industry experts have not dismissed the findings but said
that the safety benefits of purification outweigh the risks of birth
defects.

Dr Per Magnus, who carried out the Norwegian research, said: "This is
an important finding because we know there are chemicals released by
the action of chlorine on organic particles at treatment works. We have
observed mutations in these chemicals which seem to tie up with
mutations that are found in babies. We were in a unique position in
Norway to make these observations because in some areas our water comes
from the mountains and doesn't require cleaning with chlorine."

The Norwegian government has ordered more research. Concerned families
there have been filtering tap water. A popular method has been to place
sachets of coral sand, dredged from fjords, into water before it is
drunk, removing all traces of chlorine in tap water in 15 minutes. In
Canada, at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, researchers found that
high levels of trihalomethanes, a by-product of chlorine in drinking
water, significantly increased the risk of stillbirth.

Dr John Marshall, of the Pure Water Association, a pressure group which
has been campaigning for safer drinking water, said: "It shows we
should be paying more attention to the chemicals we put in drinking
water and be looking for other alternatives to chlorination. A number
of safe, non-toxic options exist, such as treating water with the gas
ozone or ultra violet."

Chlorine is in the same chemical group as fluoride, which has been
linked with cancer and osteoporosis. There is also a connection between
fluoride and increased blood pressure and an increase in problems with
the thyroid gland. John Fawell, a leading specialist on water quality,
and an independent industry consultant, said the British Government and
water companies were taking the danger of birth defects seriously. He
said: "The people who have done this work in Norway and the United
States are reputable researchers and the Government and water companies
have commissioned their own research from London University.

"But at present the conclusion of the World Health Organisation and
other concerned bodies is that the risk from contaminated water
supplies outweighs the risk to health from chlorine. Levels of chlorine
and its by-products have been falling in water and the amount coming
out of the average tap is half a millilitre per litre."

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[CTRL] G dubya Bush, Texas Gov.

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The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George W. Bush, is
ranked:

50th in spending for teachers' salaries
49th in spending on the environment
48th in  per-capita funding for public health
47th in delivery of social  services
42nd in child-support collections
41st in per-capita spending on public education and ...
5th in percentage of population living in poverty
1st in air and water pollution
1st in percentage of poor working parents without  insurance
1st in percentage of children without health  insurance
1st in executions (avg. 1 every 2 weeks for Bush's 5  years)
Just think of what he could do for the country if he were  president!



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[CTRL] Poor Man's Chelation Therapy

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 Health Tip: (how to get rid of deposits of heavy metals in the physiology).

Source: Alternatives

Title: The Poor Man's Chelation Therapy

There's nothing I like more than learning about inexpensive, common herbs
or spices that exhibit unusual healing properties. Historically, the use of
herbs and spices in cooking evolved as a method to preserve foods and make
them safer to store and eat. While we've grown accustomed to using these
items to enhanced or accentuate flavors of food, researchers continue to
discover that they have much more to offer than just good taste. A recent
example involves the work of Dr. Yoshiaki Omura.

Dr. Omura recently informed us that he discovered almost by accident, that
the leaves of the coriander plant can accelerate the excretion of mercury,
lead and aluminum from the body. He had been treating several patients for
an eye infection called trachoma (granular conjunctivitis), which is caused
by the micro-organism Chlamydia trachomatis. Following the standard
treatment with antibiotics. Dr. Omura found that the patients' symptoms
would clear up initially, then recur within a few month. He experienced
similar difficulties in treating viral related problems like Herpes Simplex
types I  II and Cytomegalovirus infection.

Cilantro Helps Flush Out Heavy Metals

After taking a closer look, Dr. Omura found those organisms seemed to hide
and flourish in area of the body where there were concentrations of heavy
metals like mercury, lead and aluminum. Somehow the organism were able to
use the toxic metals to protect themselves from the antibiotics.

It just so happens that while he was testing for those metals, Dr. Omura
noticed the mercury level in the urine increased after one consumed a
healthy serving of Vietnamese soup. The soup contains Chinese parsley, or
it is better known in this country, cilantro. (Some of you may also know it
as coriander, since it comes from the leaves of the coriander plant.)

Further testing revealed that eating cilantro also increased urinary
excretion of lead and aluminum. And when cilantro was used concurrently
with antibiotics or natural anti-viral agents and/or fatty acids like EPA
with D.A., the above infection could be eliminated for good. (Acupnct
Electrother Res. 95:20 (3-4): 195-229.) Dr. Omura has made a remarkable
discovery. He's found a novel technique which greatly increases our ability
to clear up recurring infections both viral and bacterial. And perhaps more
exciting, he's discovered an inexpensive, easy way to remove (or "chelate")
toxic metals from the nervous system and body tissue - one that anybody can
use.

This is Great News for Amalgam Sufferers

Chelation therapy using chemicals like EDTA has long been used to help
remove these heavy metals, but cilantro is the only natural substance I'm
aware of that has demonstrated this ability. This will become news for
people suffering from the ill effect of amalgam dental fillings, which
contains approximately 50% mercury.

Dr. Omura recently performed another study in which three amalgam filling
where removed from an individual using all of the precautions available to
prevent absorption of the mercury from the amalgam. Even with strong air
and water suction, water rinses, and a rubber dental dam, significant
amounts of mercury were later found in the individual's lungs, kidneys,,
endocrine organs, liver and heart. There was no mercury in these tissue
prior to the amalgam removal.

Remarkably, without the help of any chelation agents, cilantro was able to
remove the mercury in two to three weeks. (Acupunct Electrother Res 96;21
(2): 133-60.) Since some of the patients didn't like the taste of fresh
cilantro, Dr. Omura had a pharmaceutical company create a 100 mg cilantro
tablet. In the above dental study, one tablet was taken four times a day.
As of yet, I haven't been able to find a tested commercial tablet of
cilantro.

It is believed that the active component in cilantro are easily destroyed
during processing. For this reason, I recommend sticking to fresh herb. It
can be eaten raw in soup or salad, on tacos, or as garnish with practically
any dish.

Recipe for Cilantro Pesto (Make That "Chelation Pesto")

I would think it should also work if the cilantro were juiced, but perhaps
the easiest and tastiest way to use the herb would be as the main
ingredient in a home made pesto sauce. You can start with the basic recipe
below and add other nuts and spices to suite your taste.

Cilantro Pesto 1 clove of garlic 1/2 cup of almonds, cashews, or other nuts
1 cup packed fresh cilantro leaves 2 tablespoons lemon juice 6 tablespoons
olive oil Put the cilantro and olive oil in blender and process until the
cilantro is chopped. Add the rest of the ingredients and process to a lumpy
past. (You may need to add a touch of hot water and scrape the sides o

[CTRL] White Coats and War Crimes

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Medical students getting a clue ?
from msJAMA, "Medical Student Journal of the American Medical Association

Dave Hartley
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http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/msjama/articles/vol_283/no_3/pask.htm

MSJAMA — Review
March 1, 2000

White Coats and War Crimes
The American Biological Warfare Program
Daniel Paskowitz, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets From the Early Cold War
and Korea, by by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman, 304 pp, $29.95, ISBN
0-253-33472-1, Bloomington, Ind, Indiana University Press, 1999

The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets From the Early Cold War
and Korea, by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman, offers a careful look at
the US biological warfare program from the beginning of World War II to the
end of the Korean War. The authors ask whether the United States actually
used biological weapons during the Korean War, as the Chinese and North
Korean governments alleged in February 1952. While Endicott and Hagerman
cannot quite prove these allegations, their study shows in great detail how
the federal government, the military establishment, the pharmaceutical
industry, and institutions of medical research worked together during an
extended period to create biological weapons and to prepare them for use in
war. Their findings should prompt members of the health professions to ask
whether, and how easily, their efforts to preserve human life might be
perverted for use in the killing of innocents for military and government
purposes.

The first chapter features an extensive discussion of classified Chinese
documents that describe a series of mysterious outbreaks of disease in
Northeast China in the winter and spring of 1952, while the Korean War raged
not far away. These include eyewitness accounts of US planes dropping
mysterious containers, found to contain insects carrying pathogens that had
not been present in the region for a long time. This highly effective
opening to the book forces even the skeptical reader to consider seriously
the possibility of biological warfare and gives a more humanistic
perspective to the issue by describing Chinese civilians whose lives were
cut short by infectious diseases, which occurred under suspicious
circumstances.

The next several chapters trace the US military and government
establishments and the development of the US biological warfare program,
whose existence is no longer secret or controversial. The most chilling part
of this section describes the post-World War II connection between the US
program with the Japanese war criminals, who gained immunity from
prosecution in exchange for sharing with the United States the results of
their country's bacteriological experiments on Allied prisoners. The authors
show that operational prototype weapons were in fact built and tested and
were incorporated into the US war plans for war in Europe.

The next part of the book deals with the Korean War. Endicott and Hagerman
argue that the United States did not fight the Korean War as a limited war.
Rather, US leaders were prepared to use "whatever methods and weapons were
considered necessary to achieve their goals."Documentation of bombing
campaigns against civilian targets supports this assertion. Endicott and
Hagerman also describe the administrative structures established by the
United States in Korea to carry out covert operations and the connection
between these structures to those individuals responsible for the biological
warfare program.

Careful scrutiny is given to specific missions that seem likely to have been
biological-warfare attacks. For example, disease-carrying insects were
packaged into the same containers used to drop leaflets warning civilians of
imminent bombings. The United States maintained that all such containers
dropped on Korea during the war contained only leaflets. However, on some
occasions, these "leaflet bombs" were dropped on an area just after bombing,
not before. Endicott and Hagerman conclude that these leaflet bombs probably
contained insects or other disease vectors that were dropped late in the
attack with information to protect civilians from possible exploding bombs.

Finally, the authors study the confessions of a number of US prisoners of
war to their Chinese captors about US biological warfare attacks. Although
all the captors retracted their confessions under threat of court-martial or
treason-trial on return to the United States, the evidence that the
confessions were extracted under duress is weak.

Endicott and Hagerman cannot absolutely prove that the United States
deployed biological weapons in the Korean War, because no US declassified
documents yet exist that explicitly admits these claims. However, through
exhaustive research and careful documentation, Endicott and Hagerman build
an effe

Re: [CTRL] [LeadingEdgeResearch] Re: new paradigm

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Just a comment..
If one develops an absolute knowingness of beingness as eternal Soul, it is
easier to follow such common sense dictums as:

#1: "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff"

#2: "It's All Small Stuff"

The key is POV (point of view).
From the point of view of an eternal being (like you,  me f'rinstance -
were we fully aware of it ;) a lifetime or ten on this earth planet is not
the all-compelling drama that might be played out in the mind of an
unknowing "victim" of reincarnated life.

Knowledge is power; self-knowledge + self responsibility = self
determination.

Things which have helped me connect to this "knowingness" (a word meaning
roughly: personal knowledge, gained through some form of experience, the
ONLY teacher)
Eckankar (don't let the "G" word turn you off, it's only dog backwards :)
http://www.eckankar.org
Taoism  Taoist practice, as discussed in many books by Mantak Chia (similar
to Qi-Gong; Chi-Kung)
http://healing-tao.com (english)
http://www.healingtao.org (european)
Falun Gong
http://minghui-ca.falunusa.net/eng.html

infinite blessings,


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



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Subject: [LeadingEdgeResearch] Re: new paradigm


Stephen,

Your message struck a chord within me - especially learning to travel
with light feet, greet others with a light hand, and oneself with a
light heart.  Just reading this lifted the heaviness from my soul and
my mind.

I find it difficult to balance this lightness with the information I
absorb daily; I don't know whether to avoid and ignore that
"apocalyptic" burden of dark deeds and forces or learn a better way to
let it pass through and out.  If I don't acknowledge these thoughts
consciously I find that they sneak out during sleep.  (or lack of)
I think I need to spend more time on the light side.  Thank you for
your beautiful insights.  I hope you are led to speak more.  I believe
everyone else in this forum would like to hear more about your
information "of a more metaphysical nature".

Leslie


 This is my first post to this list, as well.  I am led to speak,
which I
 do seldom, because I think I can feel your discomfiture, and seem to
 recognize in it a pattern that is quite universal.  A brief word about
 myself will put this in perspective, and perhaps permit you to
evaluate
 what I have to say.  By all means, if they not useful to you, you
should
 throw my words to the wind.  I am an academic, a philosopher to be
 precise, who has been working with esoteric materials since 1966. From
 the beginning I have had to deal with the tension between my deeper
 commitments and the demands of what it takes to keep body and soul
 together, including maintaining a respectible front in one of the most
 difficult fields to travel incognito.  The sense of detachment from
this
 "madness" that goes on all around us is very real.  It also poses a
very
 real dilemma for one seeking to integrate new ways of being and new
 sources of information.  Especially when one breaks through to a new
 framework for posing problems (I believe the word popular here is
 "paradigm," following the philosopher of science named Thomas Kuhn),
one
 is particularly prone to being disrupted on all kinds of levels.
 Notably difficult are relationships that are carry-overs from the
 settings we emerge from prior to our "shift."  I myself have been
 through many of these shifts.  And my humble advice is simply this: it
 does not serve one well to be too apocalyptic in one's dealings with
the
 world.  When relationships are outgrown, they tend to fall away
 naturally.  When survival questions (job issues, money, etc.) are no
 longer spiritually useful, they tend to resolve themselves
spontaneously
 if allowed to do so.  The key, as far as I can tell, is to learn to
 travel with light feet, to greet others with a light hand, and to
greet
 oneself with a light heart.  These simple points are more than useful
 homilies, but actually quite essential when dealing with esoteric
 energies, and charged information that are very heavy, and tend to set
 one's previous sense of the world one its head.
   As for the issue of a paradigm shift, then, I would say simply this:
 that for the most part one cannot effect such a shift with the mind
 alone.  And when the heart gets involved, it really is no longer a
 paradigm that is at issue.  It is acceptance.  Acceptance of self and
 acceptance of others.  This is the key to integrate higher energies
and
 unexpected information.  It is really the self that shifts, and yet,
in
 shifting, also does not: that is, it stabilizes or crystalizes in its
 essential structures.
   I am not greatly schooled in Mr. Valerian's work, but

[CTRL] homeopathy

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Hi Andy,

Nice article you wrote in Wired on homeopathy, the medicine of the 21st
century.
Coupla small corrections:
The "vigorous shaking" part is called succussing, and is done by banging the
vial by hand on a medium hard surface. (same root as percussion) -although
there are machines which are in use that are more like shaking.
The process of serial dilution is called - dilution grin
For in depth reading and online classes on homeopathy, see:
http://www.simillimum.com

For access to practically every book in print on homeopathy, with
subject/keyword/author search, many books listed with online reviews... see:
http://www.minimum.com


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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33749,00.html
Homeopathy -- Dilute And Heal
by Andy Patrizio
3:00 a.m. 15.Mar.2000 PST
With a little help from a scientist looking for a way to clean car engines,
a physician has been able to explain the confounding paradox behind why
homeopathic medicine gets more potent as it's diluted.

Homeopathic medicine, discovered by a German physician more than 200 years
ago, espouses many concepts seen in other forms of alternative medicine --
namely, that the body can and knows how to heal itself.

"Everybody's fine and hunky dory with [homeopathic concepts] until they come
to the part where the more you dilute and shake the substance, the more
powerful it gets and the deeper it reaches," said Dr. Bill Gray, author of
Homeopathy: Science or Myth.

"That doesn't make sense [for most practitioners], because we're used to
thinking in a chemical sense."

Just how the body reacts to varying dosages of medicine is still being
debated. Pharmaceutical and herbal medicines both operate under the notion
that more is more; whether it's aspirin, Prozac, or Echinacea, the more
milligrams per dose, the quicker the cure.

Not so in homeopathy. The "law of infinitesimals" states that the more you
dilute a drug, the more potent it gets. Arnica, for example, can address a
sprain or bruise in low potencies. In high potency, it can adversely affect
a person's mental state.

Remedies are made with one part of the material, which can be a chemical,
element, plant, or even poison, added to nine or 99 parts water. The water
is vigorously shaken after the material is added. Then one drop of that
water is added to another nine or 99 drops of water, a process called
"successing."

The mixture is again shaken and the process repeated. After repeating this
hundreds or even thousands of times, the water is poured onto sugar pellets,
which is how the medicine is administered.

This intense watering down conflicts with accepted laws of chemistry, namely
Avogadro's Principle, which states that any substance becomes untraceable if
it is diluted beyond when a single molecule of the chemical can be found.

Critics point out that homeopathic medicines are diluted far beyond
Avogadro's Number. The thesis of Gray's book is that water gains structure
through the whole successing process.

"The point is, now that modern research shows that water that's prepared
homeopathically is altered in its structure, this water does actually alter
tissue cultures, organ function, and entire animals," said Gray, who has
been practicing homeopathy in the San Francisco Bay Area for 29 years.

Validation of the dilution process came in a roundabout way, thanks to
research by California Institute of Technology chemistry professor Shui Yin
Lo, who was performing experiments on how to improve car engine efficiency.

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Subject: Fw: MN Alternative Health Care Bill Forges Ahead


The latest from Minnesota:

3/12/00

When the final gavel went down in Room 15 of the State Capitol, we were
jubilant.  SF 689,  The Complementary and Alternative Health Care Bill,  had
been passed in the Senate Government Operations Committee, the final policy
committee.   Our bill has now passed all policy committees in the House and
the Senate, and is referred to the Health and Family Security Budget
Division, chaired by Sen Linda Berglin, for recommendation regarding
financing.

We are truly elated over the progress our bill has made in the last two
weeks.  We do indeed feel that we have been laboring, and have given birth
to a bouncing baby bill.  After clearing all of the policy committees in the
House of Representatives last week, on Monday of this week, it cleared the
House Health Finance Committee and was laid over for possible inclusion in
the Omnibus  bill.  Many thanks to Rep. Fran Bradley, GOP, Chair of the
House, Health Committee, Rep Steve Smith, GOP, Chair of the House Civil Law
Committee, and Rep Kevin Goodno, GOP, Chair of the House Health Finance
Committee, for giving us hearings.

Then we faced a deadline looming of ONE WEEK to clear all Senate policy
committees.  Lots of people said it couldn't be done.  But our bill was
heard on Tuesday in the Senate Health Committee, and passed.  Thank you to
Sen.
John Hottinger, DFL, Chair of the Senate Health Committee for the hearing
time!  Wednesday, it was on to the Judiciary Committee, which also had a
very full schedule, but  thanks to Sen. Jane Ranum, DFL, Chair, who
squeezed it
in, it passed that committee.  Senators Linda Berglin, DFL,  and Deanna
Weiner, DFL, also gave eloquent support of our bill during the debates.
Thursday, Sen. James Metzen, DFL Chair of the Gov Ops committee fitted us in
his schedule, and we again passed that committee on an overwhelming voice
vote.  We made the deadline!

Many thanks to all the legislators, both GOP and DFL,  who gave us an
opportunity to make a case for the injustice of the present legal system
regarding natural health care.  In all, we had 13 separate hearings in two
subcommittees and seven full committees, for a total of 15 hours of
committee work.  The legislators have scrutinized our proposal, every jot
and tittle,
added and trimmed and tweaked, (sometimes to our consternation,) and finally
pronounced it as good public policy.

We just can't give enough thanks to our two strong chief authors, Rep. Lynda
Boudreau, GOP, and Sen. Twyla Ring, DFL.  They have advocated for access to
natural health care with their whole heart, and much of our past success,
and hopefully future success, depends on them.

We still have a long road to hoe, because the legislature as a whole must
now make its final decisions regarding bills which have passed committees.
If
our bill passes, it will take effect in July, 2001, and will establish a new
Office of Unlicensed Complementary and Alternative Health Care in the
Department of Health.  We are told there is still much work ahead of us
before passage is final.

We are learning as we go, and that's part of the charm of this grass-roots
movement.  We go to the lobbying room, and are surrounded by lobbyists in
expensive suits from every conceivable powerful interest group, working
their cell phones and lap-top computers!  We're just plain folks, and so
are you,
who care about access to natural health care, and look what we have done
together!  Some legislators have told us that what we have accomplished so
far is "just remarkable."

A big part of our success so far has been that you folks have made your
wishes heard, loud and clear, to the legislators, and as a result, they have
responded.  Senator Twyla Ring, our Senate author, showed me her file of
consumer letters regarding this bill.  I counted almost 60, all letters from
the heart.  In addition, phones have been ringing off the hook at the
Capitol in support of the natural health bill.  Boy, have these legislators
learned
a lot this year regarding health care options they never knew existed!  You
gotta say they have had an open mind to new ideas.

You've done a great job!  But you can't quit yet, and neither will we, till
we really reach the end zone.  This has been a huge
collective effort on the part of many people.  We will continue to be over
at the Capitol every day, doing what we can, but public support is crucial
at
this point.   We ask you to write letters to the people who will be leaders
on the Floor on this issue.  We'll let you know as we find out, but please
start with thanking the above-mentioned people.  As chairs of the relevant
committees, they will be key people.  Thank them for giving us fair
hearings, and ask them to help ensure final passsage of HF 537 and SF 68

[CTRL] FW: Miracle in the Void: The New Energy Revolution

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-Original Message-
From: jean hudon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 5:31 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Miracle in the Void: The New Energy Revolution


Hello everyone

Here is the compilation about the new energy sources as promised in my last
email. I was fascinated, reading a long article received at the beginning
of this year, about a number of new revolutionary ways of producing clean,
safe energy and I resolved to share this with you. One of the most basic
needs we have on Earth right now, as we look at the grim future our
profligate use of fossil sources of energy and nuclear power is sure to
create, is new ways of producing as much energy as required without further
jeopardizing and polluting our environment. The good news is that, as best
as I can judge, tantalizing possibilities exist to switch in the next few
years to such environmentally sustainable sources of energy. The bad news
is that neither the governments nor the multinational corporations and the
investors that could help bolster the chances of such good technologies to
become swiftly available to all of us seem anxious or even interested to
seriously look at these possibilities, prefering to invest their attention
and money into mostly traditional ways of generating energy that are
proving fatal to our whole planet. Is it shorth-sightedness on their part
of has it more to do with protecting the cash cows that make the fossil
fuel-based economy churn?

I'll let you decide. In any case, if you are someone who would like to be
amongst the first investors pioneering the solutions to our planetary case
of growing high fever, there is a golden opportunity below. But think fast,
because the delay is this March 15.

Onward towards a saner future

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000

NOTE: After reading "Miracle in the Void: The New Energy Revolution" (see
an abridged version below - the original version is available at
www.connexion.org/kaplan and will also be posted on the ERN website above),
I decided to first ask to Mr. Hal Fox, an expert in the unfolding new
energy revolution and publisher of a newsletter on the subject, his
assessment of the various technologies featured in this article. This is a
good introduction before entering into the heart of the matter. Also I must
add that this is certainly not a comprehensive review of all the options
that exist, but these are the lesser known and most exciting possibilities
that I've seen so far.

Date: 7 January 2000
From: Hal Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sending information.

Dear Jean Hudon,

According to knowledgeable observers, we should focus our attention on six
new technologies:

(1) plasma-type devices;
(2) solid-state electromagnetic devices;
(3) hydrogen gas cells;
(4) super motors based on super magnets;
(5) cold fusion or "new hydrogen energy" (the Japanese name for cold
fusion);
(6) hydrosonic or cavitation devices.

Here are my comments for what they are worth:

(1) plasma-type devices:

These are the most important type of devices. The best example is the
high-density, charge-cluster technology discovered first by Kenneth
Shoulders (U.S. Patent 5,018,180) and later by Ilyanok of Belarus, later
still by Mesyats in Russia. These were all independent discoveries. Such
devices tap the energy of space and will provide both thermal and
electrical energy for the future. Several other discoveries, knowingly, or
unknowingly, are based on charge-cluster phenomena. Laboratory work has
shown electrical energy output as much as one hundred times higher than
energy input.

(2) solid-state electromagnetic devices:

So far there has been one proven EM device that puts out considerably more
energy than is input to the device. This device has been carefully studied
by Greg Hodowanek and the results have been published by us.

(3) Hydrogen gas cells:

The only hydrogen gas cell that I know about is Dr. Randell Mills discovery
that hydrogen can be collapsed below its normal un-ionized orbit stage
(called the ground state). Your readers should read the papers in
www.blacklightpower.com

(4) super motors based on super magnets:

So far there are none that are effective. Dr. Harold Aspden has done the
best work and reports on this type of motor. He has a website.

(5) cold fusion or "new hydrogen energy" (the Japanese name for cold
fusion):

In my judgement, the cold fusion phenomenon is not sufficient robust to be
a good commercial device. Most of the energy comes from the creation of
charge clusters when the palladium cracks. It is much easier to make the
charge clusters directly. See plasma-type devices.

(6) hydrosonic or cavitation devices:

There are two groups that have had some success with cavitation devices:
James Griggs with his

[CTRL] Asheville Tribune: America's Back Door Market For Aborted Fetal Tissue

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from the Asheville Tribune
http://www.ashevilletribune.com/
controversial, to say the least.
Links to articles in the series appear on-site, marked (CONTINUE) in the
introduction below.
If you don't have wwweb access, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy
of all articles via email.


Dave Hartley
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America's Back Door Market For Aborted Fetal Tissue
http://www.ashevilletribune.com/report%20index.htm
Documentary Index:

Introduction to the report
An Investigative Documentary
By David Morgan and Matthew Mittan
The Asheville Tribune
(First published February, 2000.)

(CONTINUE)




In their own words . . .
The skin of a baby goes for $100, baby ears are $75, a spinal column is
$150, eyes are $75 (one is 40% less); a company in Florida specializes only
in baby heads.

(CONTINUED)



U.S. Senate joins the "fetal" debate, launches hearings
Read how it all came to be and what people can expect to come out of the
Congressional hearings.

(CONTINUED)




Funding fetal tissue research
In 1992, Senator John McCain agonized over the choice of maintaining his
unblemished antiabortion voting record or doing a favor for a friend. He
followed friendship.

(CONTINUE)



Court testimony on fetal brain harvesting techniques/effects

The graphic court testimony from July '97 where University of Nebraska
contract abortionist Dr. Leroy Carhart explains, under oath, how he conducts
the procedures.

(CONTINUED)



Planned Parenthood statement
on fetal tissue research
Following is a statement by Gloria Feldt, president, Planned Parenthood
Federation of America:
"Planned Parenthood deplores the on-going attempts by extreme anti-choice
politicians to curtail scientific research and medical advances for the sake
of hyperbole and to demonize women who seek to control their own fertility."

(CONTINUE)





Med schools recruiting
future abortionists
Some medical students are concerned about the downward trend in abortions,
which they feel is due to a decline in availability rather than a decline in
demand. This is the story of how they are trying to change that trend.
(CONTINUE)





Universities using aborted fetusesThe University of North Carolina is just
one in a growing list of public universities exploring new, controversial
boundaries within the medical field, which could cause some taxpayers to
question how their tax money is being used. This is an extensive list of,
and explanations from, those schools.

(CONTINUED)



Scans of actual documents
INVENTORY MEMOS
FEE SCHEDULE
PRICE LIST
PROMOTIONAL FLYERS
PURCHASE ORDERS



Further information - WARNING - During the course of our investigation, we
have obtained extensive photo documentation of fetal-tissue research and
harvesting practices. While relevant and factual to this documentary, we
made an editorial decision not to run many of those items in the print
edition of the report due to their graphic nature. However, we also feel
very strongly that all relevant information should be made available to the
public so that they may reach an informed decision. That is why we are
making available an online supplement to this printed report. The Internet
address is www.ashevilletribune.com/consentpage.htm. With strong emphasis we
reiterate that the material is extremely graphic and should be approached
cautiously.



A complete list of contributing sources for this report (CONTINUE)



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[CTRL] FW: fluoridation

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A German dentist speaks truth re: fluoride.
If you have access to a homeopathic materia medica, read up on fluoricum
acidum.
People drinking fluoridated water are effectively consuming a homoeopathic
dose of Fl. Ac.


Dave Hartley
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-Original Message-
From: isabella zimmermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 2:28 PM
To: Lisa Livingston; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: fluoridation


Hi Lisa !
As a dental doctor and homeopath Id like to share some ideas and insights
with You concerning the
administration of fluorides.
In the US , Canada and many European countries  until the Eighties
pediatricians used to administer
Fluoride tablets to babies from birth on.
Recently You can observe a new orientation .The reasons for this change are
the results of scientific
research in the last ten years :
1.) caries of teeth does rarely happen before the dentition of the
  milk molars.
2.) Fluorides seem to be more efficient in local application after the
completion of dentition.
  and not in systemic application, which overloads easily the not
totally developped liver of the
  child.
3.) there is a narrow space between therapeutical dose and overdose and
nowadays we see
 much more often the picture of DENTAL FLUOROSIS which is the result of
a chronic
 overdose and which happens much more often in weathier social levels.
 dont forget the
  extra dose of fluoride in toothpaste and salt and mouthwash etc).
  and it looks like white caries !!!
authentic source-material : American academy of Pediatrics 95 /1995 /777
   Clark.D.C Can.Med.Ass.J 149/ 1993/1787; Lewis D.W et al.:
Can.Med.Ass.J 152 / 1995 / 836
Mignot,G,: Rev.Prescr.16 /1996 /381

Please bone up :  CARIES IS NOT  A  FLUORIDE- DEFICIENCY- DISEASE  

If You read the MM of Fluoricum acidum You understand that this is one of
the
most unsensitive characters of the whole  Materia medica.
A Fluoricum-acidum-personality shows total indifference towards those loved
best.
It seems to have no emotions .
It is a deeply syphilitic remedy.
Today we are more and more confronted with incredible cruelty  in the
character of children.
As a dentist and homeopath i have become suspicious towards Fluorides
.

regards
from isabella




-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Lisa Livingston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Datum: Montag, 13. März 2000 21:19
Betreff: fluoridation


Dear List Members:

I have been reading about the dangers associated with
fluoridation.  Recently a very informed friend stated that
children of the wealthier population who drink only bottled,
non-fluoridated water are having dental problems.  Has
anyone access to studies attesting to this fact?  Any
information out there regarding fluoridation would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Lisa

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[CTRL] After Seattle: Understanding the Politics of Globalization

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Monthly Review
Volume 51, Number 10, March 2000


http://www.monthlyreview.org/300tabb.htm


March 2000

After Seattle: Understanding the Politics of Globalization
by William K. Tabb

WILLIAM K. TABB is professor of economics and political science at Queens
College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is
the author of Restructuring Political Economy (Routledge, 1999) and The
Amoral Elephant (Monthly Review Press, forthcoming in 2000).



The "Seattle Shock" - as Business Week called it in an editorial that
warned of a popular backlash against "our very economic system" - reflects
heartfelt indignation by the financial press at the intrusion of mass
democracy into an elite discourse. In the New York Times, columnist Thomas
Friedman raged at anti-World Trade Organization (WTO) protesters, whom he
presents as "flat-earth advocates" duped by knaves like Pat Buchanan.
Friedman, perhaps the most obtuse of the big-time columnists, complains
that "What's crazy is that the protesters want the W.T.O. to become
precisely what they accuse it of already being - a global government. They
want it to set more rules - their rules, which would impose our labor and
environmental standards on everyone else." #1

It is beyond Friedman's understanding that the demonstrators want to
democratize what has been an elite decision-making process, to challenge
the global dominance of capital and capital's state institutions. The
demonstrators know, and Friedman is outraged that others seem to agree,
that there are choices other than the global governance by corporate
capital. Most of the demonstrators, as the establishment press well
understood, had the sort of class analysis which working people
intuitively, if inchoately, often have. They have had enough of being told
that globalization is good and that they should just shut up. Friedman was
also clueless concerning the predominant politics. Few of the
demonstrators supported the sort of negative nationalism Buchanan
symbolizes, with its xenophobic and racist overtones. Rather what the
Friedmans of the world are afraid of is the solidarity and
internationalism of the movement, which prefigures a global movement from
below - threatening, as Business Week points out, to rock the system. And
if self-interest is not absent from the demands of trade unionists and
others, it rarely is or should be. The proposals for confronting
transnational capital are in class terms and, for the most part,
inclusive.

What is to be done after Seattle is a question many people, including but
not only activists, now confront. It is the one we take up here, in the
context of an analysis of both the corporate media's response to the
demonstrations in Seattle and the real issues of class power relations. It
is an analysis which focuses on corporate control of policy making,
addressing policies which weaken unions and diminish the lives and agency
of working people, reduce the sphere of public service provision, and pit
one community of workers against another. To this basic class analysis,
environmentalists have added a powerful critique of corporate greed and of
the single-minded pursuit of accumulation which threatens the planet and
all living things. A potentially powerful antisystemic movement is at an
important point in its development.

It is to be expected that the "irrationality" of the demonstrators is
woven through much of the commentary of the financial press. Typically, it
appears with a tone of offended outrage by the transnational ruling class
and its ideological flacks. Hot-tempered acting-out has suddenly replaced
the usual temperate condescension to which we have grown accustomed in
this dismal era of corporate triumphalism. Thus George Melloan, in an
opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, writes: "Given the virulence of
their protests against the achievements of private capitalism, one can
only assume that finally we have assembled in one place a representative
collection of people who `can't stand prosperity.'"#2 This theme - "you
have never had it so good, and that it is private capitalism which has
done all this for you" - is a view of globalization which is rejected by
most Americans.

In a Pew Research Center nationwide survey conducted in April 1999, 43
percent of respondents said that in the future a global economy would help
average Americans; 52 percent said it would hurt them. Support for
globalization was strong only in high-income brackets. Among the majority
of American families (those with incomes under fifty thousand dollars a
year), a positive view of globalization was held by just 37 percent. Such
differences are based on life experience. Kate Bronfenbrenner has done
careful studies of the impact of the threa

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Sorry to hear this...

Groom Lake Facility and Area 51 Researcher Norio Hayakawa

NOTE TO VISITORS FROM NORIO:
Norio has retired and shut down his web sites for an indefinite amount
of time and has retired from doing more research on Area 51.  This is
mainly due to recent hacker attacks and a virus placed on his computer
back in January in which he lost all of his files.  He sincerely
apologizes for this inconvenience and appreciates all those who have
supported his efforts and visited this web site in the past.  If you
would like a copy of his old files you can still get them at the URL
below, but Norio does not know when if ever he will make any more
updates to the internet.  Thanks again.

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GUARDIAN (London)  Monday March 13, 2000
 John Mullin, Ireland Correspondent

 Shoot to kill - army general's plan before Bloody Sunday
Secret memo weeks before killings called for targeting


The officer in day-to-day command of troops in Northern Ireland
recommended to his superior that the army adopt a policy of shooting
rioters three weeks before Bloody Sunday, it can be revealed today.

Major General Robert Ford wrote in a secret memo that rubber bullets and
CS gas no longer deterred rioters in no-go Catholic enclaves such as the
Bogside. The army dubbed them Derry's Young Hooligans.

Major General Ford recommended: "The minimum force necessary to achieve a
restoration of law and order is to shoot selected ringleaders among the
DYH, after clear warnings have been given."

His secret report to his boss in Northern Ireland, Lieutenant General
Harry Tuzo, includes recommendations on what bullets to use. It also may
throw light on the mysterious destruction two months ago of three army
rifles used at Bloody Sunday.

The memo's contents are certain to spark renewed controversy ahead of the
much-delayed start of Lord Saville of Newdigate's inquiry, which has so
far cost 13m. It is scheduled to begin taking evidence in Derry's
Guildhall on March 27.

Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobsen, authors of the forthcoming Bloody
Sunday chronicle "Those are real bullets, aren't they?", reveal Major
General Ford's memo in The Guardian today.

The Parachute Regiment shot dead 13 unarmed Catholics at an illegal civil
rights demonstration in Derry in disputed circumstances on January 30
1972. A man who was wounded died five months later.

Tony Blair announced Lord Saville's probe in January 1998, much to the
dismay of prominent figures in the armed forces. They had supported the
findings of Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery's 1972 tribunal, which
effectively exonerated the army.

Lord Widgery's report enraged relatives of the deceased, sparking an
enduring campaign to re-examine the evidence. They believed they have had
to suffer a Ministry of Defence-inspired whispering campaign against those
who died for almost 30 years.

Lord Saville's inquiry has been dogged by controversy throughout,
particularly when it tried and failed to ensure soldiers were named when
they appeared to give evi dence. The House of Lords ruled they should be
entitled to anonymity.

Lawyers for the 14 people killed are due to return to the High Court in
Belfast today. They are seeking a judicial re view of Lord Saville's
decision to deny them a postponement.

They have each so far received 60,000 pages of evidence. But there is
still significant material outstanding, and they doubt whether they could
digest it in time if it were passed to them immediately.

As well as providing an insight into military attitudes towards rioters 30
years ago, lawyers for the victims hope that it may resolve the mystery of
two missing rifles. The Ministry of Defence admitted last month three had
been destroyed three months after it gave an undertaking to Lord Saville
to preserve them.

There were 29 rifles available to Lord Widgery's tribunal. But 14 were
later destroyed and 10 sold to private companies. There were five left
when Lord Saville demanded they be kept safe.

In his memo Major General Ford said they were entitled to use the
high-velocity, large-calibre bullets that their rifles took to deal with
rioters. But he was worried about possible collateral damage, with the
bullets able to kill one person and pass through into another.

He suggested modifying some of the rifles to take smaller bullets "to
enable ringleaders to be engaged with less lethal ammunition". Just before
Bloody Sunday Major General Ford had sent 30 of the altered weapons to
Derry for training purposes.

Lawyers confirmed they were determined to probe Major General Ford's memo.
Pringle and Jacobsen suggest one victim, Kevin McElhinney, 17, may have
been shot with one of the smaller bullets.

Peter Madden, whose firm Madden and Finucane represents nine of the 14
bereaved families, said: "We need to know if the modified rifles were
used. This is a very serious area, and you can rest assured it is a key
issue. We are all determined fully to explore it."

Michael McKinney, 49, whose elder brother Willie, then 27, was killed,
said: "They were all innocent victims. My brother was not in the IRA; he
was not a gunman; he did not throw nail-bombs. We are determined that the
full truth comes out this time."

A statement published yesterday suggested soldiers started shooting
believing they were under fire after a sergeant was apparently shot. He
had instead been hit by the empty cartridge from one of his men's rifles
after he accidentally shot himself in the foot.

A retired colonel, then a captain in the Parachute Regim

[CTRL] Doctor says WTO gassing led to health problems

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http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000307/health-96
===
Doctor says WTO gassing led to health problems

March 6, 2000

By Brian Hansen
Colorado Daily
U. Colorado

(U-WIRE) EUGENE, Ore. -- The chemical weapons that were used against
civilians during the tumultuous World Trade Organization conference in
Seattle three months ago have given rise to a number of mysterious and
potentially serious long-term health afflictions, says a medical doctor
who is studying the matter.

 Dr. Kirk Murphy, an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA Medical
School and a representative of the group Physicians for Social
Responsibility, discussed the health-related consequences of the
gas-choked WTO meetings last weekend at the Public Interest Environmental
Law Conference in Eugene, Ore.

 "What we saw happening in Seattle was the largest single application of
chemical weapons against civilians in the northern hemisphere," Murphy
said.  "We've seen a range of symptoms arising from the Seattle
experience, including a subset of symptoms that are atypical for the
chemical agents that we've been able to confirm were used."

 Law-enforcement officials maintain that four types of chemical agents
were used in the streets of Seattle during the WTO conference: OC, or
"pepper spray," as well as three varieties of gaseous irritants -- CN, CS,
and CX.

 According to Murphy, people exposed to OC "normally" suffer from intense
burning sensations of their skin and/or eyes, and sometimes from rashes
and minor vision changes in the minutes and hours after exposure. And the
"normal" reactions to the three types of "tear gas" agents reportedly used
in Seattle, Murphy explained, commonly include eye, nasal and throat
irritation, and sometimes respiratory and digestive system problems.

 Teams of street medics treated thousands of people exhibiting these types
of symptoms on Nov. 30, the first big day of protests against the WTO,
Murphy noted. But the following day -- after martial law had essentially
been imposed throughout downtown Seattle --the symptomatic effects of the
chemical weapons changed significantly, Murphy said.

 "Starting on December 1st, we saw a set of symptoms that went beyond the
usual 'irritation' symptoms," Murphy said. "These came to be called the
neurotoxic set of symptoms."

 People who were gassed on Dec. 1, when police stormed Seattle's Pike
Place Market and Capitol Hill neighborhood, suffered then -- and continue
to report now -- a mysterious and troubling set of afflictions, Murphy
said.

 "We've collected several dozen reports of (women) who had an immediate
on-set of menstruation, and there's at least one report of a spontaneous
abortion," Murphy said. "One person who came in (to a street clinic) was
technically delirious ... and had symptoms consistent with shock. So, we
started asking questions that night about what additional agents could be
responsible for what we were seeing."

 Law-enforcement agencies have denied allegations that "nerve gas" or
other military-grade chemical agents were used against WTO protestors and
other civilians in downtown Seattle, and Murphy acknowledged that there
is, at this point, no molecular evidence to support that charge.

 But based on a symptomatic assessment of a host of medical reports -- as
well as a laboratory analysis of several spent chemical weapons containers
-- Murphy and his colleagues at the Los Angeles Office of Physicians for
Social Responsibility have come up with a hypothesis.

 "Broadly speaking, we've raised a few different possible means or methods
by which the atypical symptoms might have come about," Murphy said.

 One explanation, Murphy said, is that the atypical symptoms exhibited in
Seattle were in fact completely consistent with OC and the various tear
gasses -- but that no one -- including the manufacturers of the chemicals
and the police -- know that yet.

 "A lot of the information that was developed (on chemical weapons) came
from the armed forces, where most of the people in the uniforms tended to
have male genitals," Murphy said. "So, we don't have a lot of information
from when thousands of women are exposed to these agents."

 Another possibility, Murphy said, is that age or temperature had caused
some of the chemicals to break down during storage.

 "There's a (spent) canister chasing around Eugene that was manufactured
in 1980," Murphy said. "There are a number of chemical reactions that one
could envision taking place over time in a stored sample."

 A third possibility is that the so-called inert ingredients that are
present in the chemical weapons containers -- which are frequently toxic
and carcinogenic so

[CTRL] FW: Most Dangerous Woman --- Hilda Clark

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Subject: "Most Dangerous Woman" --- Hilda Clark


PRESS RELEASE -  "Most Dangerous Woman"  feted in Toronto

  Contact - Tim  Jan Bolen - JuriMed - (949) 728-0838,
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  
  “Most Dangerous Woman in America” feted in Toronto...
  Opinion by Tim Bolen
  
  Chemotherapy and radiation industry CEOs can’t sleep at night worrying
about the research of Doctor Hulda
  Regher Clark, Phd, N.D..  North American Oncologists
  hesitate to buy that new yacht.  Cancer hospital
  administrators are counting the number of cars in the
  parking lot, and wondering if they’re going to be able
  to make the lease payments on the Mercedes, next
  month... Their so-called “conventional medicine” has
  lost the War on Cancer, and the American public is
  turning away from them in droves.  That public is
  going where they get results, and they don’t give a
  damn about industry protective “scientific study”
  procedures, that take eleven years to get a new
  protocol through the pharmaceutical industry
  controlled U.S. Food  Drug Administration (FDA).
  
  Frankly, It’s over for the conventional, and blatantly
  ineffectual, mega-billion dollar, 55 year old cancer
  industry - and industry critics say that one of the
  big reasons is 71 year old medical researcher Hulda
  Clark, the author of four blockbuster books, The “Cure
  For All Cancers,” The Cure For HIV/AIDS,” The Cure For
  All Diseases,” and “The Cure For Advanced Cancer.”
  
  Hulda Clark, “The Most Dangerous Woman in America - to
  the medical establishment,” is the featured speaker at
   “Total Health 2000" at the Metro Toronto Convention
  Centre, North Building Upper Level, Saturday and
  Sunday, March 18th, and 19th, 2000.  Clark’s speech
  will begin at 3:00pm on Saturday.   She will conduct a
  seminar on Sunday.  Forty-one other top North American
  health humanitarians join her there.
  
  Don’t miss this event.
  
  Clark’s basic theories embrace the simple common sense
  idea that the human body heals itself if it is kept in
  good condition.  She believes, and proves in her
  books, that virtually all diseases rampant in our
  society today can be beaten one-on-one, and prevented,
  by removing viruses, bacteria, toxins and parasites
  from our bodies - and keeping them out.  Thousands of
  supporters, and success stories, world-wide, bear out
  her theories.
  
  Clark has been a researcher for over fifty years, most
  in the United States University system.  She retired
  seven years ago from the University of Indiana, and
  began her own research projects.   She now operates a
  research facility in Tijuana, Mexico directly across
  the border from San Diego, CA.  Her books are best
  sellers in the health world - in the top 3% of books
  sold on amazon.com.
  
  Clark’s  worldwide popularity  accelerated since she
  was arrested September 20, 1999 in San Diego, CA by
  the FBI on a fugitive warrant from Brown County,
  Indiana.  The arrest has become an amusing scandal in
  Indiana after it was discovered that the prosecutor,
  James Oliver, who issued the 1999 warrant, had
  recently married the woman who investigated the case
  seven years earlier, - and had failed to get earlier
  elected prosecutors to pursue Clark.  Oliver has since
  been removed from the case - and the judge has
  resigned.  The investigator, Amy Hoffman Oliver, has
  not yet been disciplined.
  
  A dubious self-proclaimed consumer organization,
  billing itself as The National Council Against Health
  Fraud (NCAHF), and egotistically nick-naming  itself
  “The Quackbusters,” is believed to have a major
  influence in the harassment of health humanitarian
  Clark, and others.  The NCAHF, current operation seems
  to be run by one Stephan Barrett, a de-licensed M.D.,
  out of his basement in Allentown, PA. The
  “quackbusters” have long positioned itself as an
  authority, without substantiation, on “health fraud.”
  They are known to accuse, virtually, every well known
  non-drug leading-edge health practitioner in America,
  including two-time Nobel prize winning Linus Pauling,
  of “quackery.”
  
  Although leading-edge health professionals scoff at
  the opinions of the NCAHF, Barrett, and his minions,
  falsely give the impression to law-enforcement
  agencies that they have some standing in the medical
  community.  They neglect to mention, for instance,
  that they, as an organization, were evicted from Loma
  Linda University in California, and ordered to no
  longer use Loma Linda’s name connected with their
  bizarre operation.   Critics, who helped get the NCAHF
  removed from the campus, say that 

[CTRL] Ken Welch on ChemTrails

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Source: http://www.sightings.com

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Chemtrails  Disinformation

by Ken Welch

http://www.kenwelch.com

March 10, 2000

Spring comes early to the Texas Gulf Coast and since we’ve had very little
winter to speak of this year, the main indicator in the Houston area has
been
an unusual amount of overcast skies. Since January, we’ve seen exhausted
cold
fronts periodically push down from the north, only to be pushed back again
by
warm moist air from the Gulf and lots of clouds. After more than a year of
chemtrail spraying, truly cloudless blue skies have become so rare that they
really stand out. One such day was Sunday before last, February 26th.
Because
I’ve been involved in a photo project to better identify spray planes, I was
delighted to awaken to perfect "seeing" weather. Our local spraying group
had
been busy for many days, with spray plumes often visible through breaks in
the clouds, and the occasional taste of Ethylene Dibromide drifting through
the city. While the day before had seen some rain, there was no sign of it
this morning. Yet, for some reason, the spray crews seemed to be
sleeping-in.
I was disappointed because clear weather would give me some great photos and
a chance to try out a new lens, yet the planes were nowhere to be seen. I
would just have to keep an eye on the sky to see if they showed up later in
the day.

Perhaps it was my imagination, but a wonderful mood seemed to be sweeping
over the whole area and it seemed everyone wanted to be outside. I was
quickly caught up in spur of the moment plans to visit several open-air
markets in a search of great bargains in outdoor furniture and the like, and
discovered that twice the usual number of people were engaged in the same
pastime. The beautiful weather held for the whole day, with warm Texas
sunshine and a delightfully cool breeze from the north that made it a joy to
be outside. And not a chemtrail in sight the whole day.

Not even one!

In fact, the breeze became cooler and a bit stronger as the day progressed,
and when we got home I finally checked the weather situation to see what was
actually happening. The previous day’s rain had signaled the arrival of cool
air from the north, which had continued during the day on Sunday. In fact,
Sunday night actually got a little cool for people who’d spent the day in
T-shirts.

The following day, warm moist air from the Gulf would flow northward again,
obliterating all traces of the exhausted cold front but reforming the cloud
cover that masked current spraying operations so well. Still, from our point
of view, the weather picture was quite significant. After fifteen months of
near continuous chemical spraying activity over Houston and so many other
major cities as well, why was there not a single white line in the sky on
that beautiful, cloudless Sunday?

Most readers will know that early last year I concluded that the chemical
spraying of civilian populations heralded a major event in the near future.
I
assume that this event will be marked by the heavy use of biologicals
because
decreased resistance to airborne infection is the only known result of
Ethylene Dibromide which seems relevant.

(Decreased fertility is gaining in significance as the program stretches out
over time.)

Others have more hopeful interpretations but I cannot see any reason for
this
other than wishful thinking. Since spraying operations have cost billions of
dollars at this point, I think it is safe to assume that we are looking at
an
event designed to create geopolitical and economic change of incredible
magnitude. As this "event" gets closer, we are seeing a sharp increase in
what I can only call disinformation.

I think that the expected curve of public awareness was carefully
calculated,
with the conclusion that not enough people would wake up to what is
happening
before it was too late. However, with the explosive growth of the Internet
chemtrail awareness is reaching "critical mass" much too soon. There are now
too many people who can say, "We know what you are doing, and when this is
all over you will pay."

At the same time a significant disinformation campaign is underway here and
in Europe to prevent this, and keep as many people as possible confused
about
what is really happening. To understand the logic, lets go back to that
beautiful Sunday. I’m up at the ranch today, and can see a nice spray
pattern
to the north over the city of Huntsville. Wind is from the west, so the
spray
planes working Houston will be west of the city this morning, beyond my
horizon. If it shifts northward this afternoon they’ll be up here and I’ll
get out the camera. But on that particular, beautiful Sunday all spray
operations stopped, and there was not a single white line in the sky.

Why

[CTRL] FW: [RuMills] Digest Number 143

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  2. BIOLOGICALS FOUND IN CA. BACKYARD OF FORMER S AFRICAN DOCTOR
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  3. IMPORTANT--- FROM RUMOR MILL NEWS ---
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  4. PATENT FOR AERIAL SPRAY VACCINE--CHEMTRAILS?
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  5. AP SLANTS LA TIMES BACKYARD BIOLOGICAL STORY
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Rumor Mill News Forum

ETHNICALLY TARGETED BIOS--OPERATION RAINDANCE
Posted By: RUMOR MILL NEWS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, 11 March 2000, at 1:17 p.m.

In Response To: SUSPICIOUS CANISTERS IN DR'S BACKYARD- BIOLOGICS? (RUMOR
MILL
NEWS)

===RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY===

"The research mirrors biological studies conducted by South African
scientists during the apartheid era and revealed in testimony before the
truth and reconciliation commission."

(RMNews—this is the reference that is of particular interest in light of
the
biologicals found in the backyard of the “suicided” doctor.)

"The disease could be spread by spraying the organisms into the air or
putting them in water supplies."

(RMNews—I wonder if they would use the same types of airplanes that are
being
used to spray the chemtrails?)

*

From an article in the archives of Rumor Mill News:

HANTA VIRUS DEATH

http://www.rumormillnews.com/archive/43098.txt

In the September, 1996 issue of Rumor Mill News, we ran story which was
leaked to us by one of our high ranking Navy Intelligence Sources. The story
he leaked was about a project called "Operation Rain Dance".

From Rumor Mill News, September, 1996 issue:

OPERATION RAINDANCE

"This project was set into motion by the Department of the U.S. Army, an Air
Force Special Research Unit, and Bio Medics from the U.S. Navy.

It was officially born in/during the first quarter of 1989, and held one
purpose in common; how to eradicate one special race of people. (Through
manipulation of genes, any race of people could be the target group.)

The project was called LVNM Special Labs Division. It was located at an
insane asylum in Las Vegas, New Mexico. (That's where the LVNM come form).

It also bore the code signal SB-17.

SB-17 was a virus they were working on to target and kill only native
Americans.

Desert rats were used to carry the virus into towns and municipalities.
There
the virus was transmitted, via fecal matter, into the local water supply,
and
broken down bacteriologically, it was able to enter the food chain.

Do you remember the 7-9 Navajo Indians who died of mysterious circumstances.
The coroner's report was "death induced by unknown virus". The experiment
was
a success. Only America Indians died of the virus which we now mistakenly
call, the Hanta virus."

***

According to the source who supplied this information the E-Coli bacteria is
also out of government labs... specifically Ft. Meade. It also kills.

All the government would have to do is alter its strain, and many, many
people could die of it. The Source went on to say that there are 65 of these
"animals" ready to set loose up mankind.

Will El Nino be blamed for the coming plagues that will eliminate half the
world's population?

Once when I sat at a table of high ranking Navy Intelligence types, they
told
me the story about, "The Great Dying". They said that the old plagues like
cholera and malaria would soon break out in South America and Central
America
and millions of dying people would be crawling northward, desperately trying
to escape the death that awaited them in the muddy waters of their
homelands.

The men who told me this tale said that the "official" story of "The Great
Dying" had already been written and made into a Fantasia type cartoon,
complete with a classical score from "Night on Bald Mountain" and other
classical works.

I was told that the survivors of "The Great Dying" would be too ignorant and
unschooled to read books or appreciate a newsreel type program, so it was
decided that a Disney type animated film would be the way to teach these
people.

As the men who worked on the project described the millions of men, women
and
children who were stretched out on the muddy ground, crawling their way to
salvation in the United States, I could 

[CTRL] London Times confirms that the KLA-CIA Link

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-Original Message-
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From: "David Crockett Williams" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG!  (Please forward)
Date: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:37 AM

THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG!
www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes]

London Times confirms that the KLA-CIA Link Goes Way Back  - Times article
follows our Introduction:

In HUMANITARIAN SPIES we charged that the OSCE (Organization for Security
and
Cooperation in Europe) Verification mission in Kosovo that was in place from
fall, 1998 until NATO started bombing in March, 1999 - that this was a cover
for a) spies and b) establishment of liason between US covert agencies and
the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).

Here's an excerpt from HUMANITARIAN SPIES:

"'Negotiated' (that is, 'coerced') under threat of NATO bombing last
October,
the Verification agreement let the OSCE send unarmed mediators into Kosovo,
supposedly to help defuse tensions. However everything about the
Verification
mission suggests military intelligence, not mediation.

"It was run by William Walker. Walker had no background as a mediator. He
wasn't even an expert in Balkans history or current politics. What he did
know about was counter-insurgency and black ops. His role in Iran-Contra and
his achievements in apologizing for the murderous El Salvador death squads
all but prove he is a high-placed intelligence operative. (See "MEET MR.
MASSACRE at http://www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/meetmr.htm

"The U.S. verification team was composed of employees of Dyncorp, a Virginia
company that has grown rich off Government work. At the 1992 Senate hearings
on R. James Woolsey's appointment as head of the CIA, Woolsey commented: "I
own less than one-quarter of one percent of the -- diluted shares of a
company named Dyncorp here in the Washington, D.C. area. And the corporation
has, from time to time, had a handful of very small contracts with the
Central Intelligence Agency." Ahh, sweet understatement. Dyncorp's "very
small contracts" have included covert work for the Company in Columbia and
Peru.

"...Given this command structure, doesn't it stand to reason that the U.S.
goal was a) to gather military intelligence and b) to establish
command-relations with the Kosovo Liberation Army? The goal was to bond with
the KLA which killed and is still killing ethnic Serbs and ethnic Albanian
"collaborators" Serbian State policemen, power line repairmen, school
officials, Yugoslav troops, even state-employed wood gatherers - just like
the Latin American death squads Walker "observed" during previous CIA
assignemnts. " (END OF EXCERPT from Humanitarian Spies at
www.emperors-clothes.com/analysis/humanita.htm )

Now the (London) Sunday Times has confirmed our charges. The OSCE
Verification Mission in Kosovo for 6 months prior to the bombing of
Yugoslavia was indeed a phony, a cover for the CIA to set up liason with the
KLA and spy on Yugoslavia. Walker was indeed creating another death squad
operation - just as he did in El Salvador. Dyncorps, which supplied the
'verifiers', is indeed a 'Company' company. The US horror-show government
has
made fools of the 'honest broker' Euro leaders - that is, if there are any
honest Euro leaders.

NATO MUST GET OUT OF KOSOVO NOW!

Here's the SUNDAY TIMES:

CIA aided Kosovo guerrilla army
Tom Walker and Aidan Laverty (posted 3-12-00)

From the Sunday Times (London)

AMERICAN intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo
Liberation Army before Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia. The disclosure angered
some European diplomats, who said this had undermined moves for a political
solution to the conflict between Serbs and Albanians. Central Intelligence
Agency officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999,
developing ties with the KLA and giving American military training manuals
and field advice on fighting the Yugoslav army and Serbian police.

When the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which
co-ordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week before airstrikes began a
year ago, many of its satellite telephones and global positioning systems
were secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that guerrilla commanders could
stay in touch with Nato and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the mobile
phone number of General Wesley Clark, the Nato commander.

European diplomats then working for the OSCE claim it was betrayed by an
American policy that made airstrikes inevitable. Some have questioned the
motives

[CTRL] FrankenFood / GE corn / Reference #: AAAA-4GL5ME

[Dave]

-Caveat Lector-   A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"
/A -Cui Bono?-

Dear Frito-Lay:

The letter below is confusing, but reading between the lines, I understand
that you have come under "regulatory agency" pressure to include
GE/FrankenFood corn in your products?

I am writing on behalf of a loose coalition of concerned food consumer
groups.

Regrettably, for the time being - we shall be forced to place your products
firmly within the DO NOT PURCHASE list, along with the recommendations of
Deutsche Bank - who recommends that it's investment clients divest
themselves of ANY and ALL holdings in the dangerous and extremely
CONTROVERSIAL biotech farce, which is supported primarily by Monsanto and a
few others with well-greased politicking in the U.S - support which has
ALREADY cost Monsanto MORE THAN ONE-THIRD of it's stock value in the last 14
months! They have now changed their name in attempting to evade reaping the
crop they've planted by trying to fool consumers into accepting untested and
unsafe products through political bullying and bad-science proclamations
where some egghead is paid to drivel on about how "safe" this insanely
UNSAFE and UNTESTED plan to feed people with potentially mutagenic
FrankenFood is.

I understand that your corn comes from growers under contract to you, and
you should have the right (in fact you DO have the right, and the
RESPONSIBILITY) to make a decent and honorable decision to allow consumers
to purchase food in the supermarkets, NOT UNTESTED FRANKEN-"food."

May I ask which agencies were involved and what form this pressure took?
Perhaps we can help you to find the courage of your convictions in standing
up to this pressure; if you will name some names, we will do all we can to
help you resist the pressure, and exercise your earlier, more honest,
responsible and truthful decision NOT to include untested and potentially
dangerous FrankenFoods in your products.

I have reproduced, below your reply, an excerpt from an article in the
Washington Post which you may wish to consider before numbly giving in to
bullying tactics that place you within the ranks of demonic corporate
criminals such as Monsanto, purveyor through politicking, fraudulent
"scientific" reports and other criminal means of the deadly poison
Aspartame - in diet sodas and dozens of other "food" products thus rendered
poisonous.


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: Affairs, Consumer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 1:09 AM
To: Dave
Subject: Re: FrankenFood / GE corn


Thank you for contacting Frito-Lay.  We are always pleased when our
consumers
take the time to share their thoughts with us.

Now that there is a renewed interest in biotechnology by regulatory agencies

and some consumer concern exists, we did not feel it appropriate to ask our
growers to include bt crops in what they sell us.

Just like other food companies, Frito-Lay relies on and supports the
regulatory
agencies charged with safeguarding our food supply when sourcing ingredients

for our products.  These agencies continue to report that genetically
modified
ingredients are perfectly safe.

Since we are also a large buyer of agricultural commodities, and more than a

quarter of the North American crop is derived from biotechnology, just like
other food companies, we could have biotechnology ingredients in our
products.

Thank you for taking the time to contact Frito-Lay.  We hope this
information
is helpful.

Frito-Lay Consumer Affairs

Reference #: -4GL5ME



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http://wpni.com/wp-srv/business/daily/oct99/monsanto26.htm

Crop Busters Take On Monsanto

By Justin Gillis and Anne Swardson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, October 26, 1999; Page E1

The face on the giant video screen looming above the hotel conference room
was drawn and ashen. Robert Shapiro, chief executive of Monsanto Co., was
admitting corporate sin to his worst adversaries.
"We have probably irritated and antagonized more people than we have
persuaded," he told a conference organized by Greenpeace, the environmental
group. "Our confidence in this technology and our enthusiasm for it has, I
think, been widely seen--and understandably so--as condescension or indeed
arrogance."

It was an extraordinary admission for the chief executive of one of
America's proudest companies. Shapiro promised to stop lecturing and start
listening in Monsanto's campaign to sell the world on the benefits of
genetically modified food. As a concession to his critics, he promised never
to deploy a gene dubbed "terminator" that might have protected Monsanto's
commercial interests by producing sterile seeds after one generation.

No company has bet more than Monsanto on genetically modified foodstuffs. No
company believed more deeply in their value--and 

[CTRL] US Organic food standards proposed

[Dave]

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http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave


GLICKMAN ANNOUNCES NEW PROPOSAL FOR NATIONAL ORGANIC STANDARDS

   Release No. 0074.00

   Susan McAvoy (202) 720-4623
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   Billy Cox (202) 720-8998
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]


GLICKMAN ANNOUNCES NEW PROPOSAL FOR NATIONAL ORGANIC STANDARDS

 WASHINGTON, March 7, 2000 Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today
announced  a new proposal for uniform and consistent national standards for
organic food.

 "This is the most comprehensive and strongest organic standard in the
world," said Glickman.  "I believe that is exactly what American consumers
and
organic farmers want."

 Essentially, the proposal offers a national definition for the term
"organic."  Currently, organic food is certified by various private and
state
organizations that each use their own standards for the term "organic."

 "A single national organic standard, backed by consistent and accurate
labeling, will greatly reduce consumer confusion," said Glickman.
"Consumers
will know what they are buying and organic farmers will know what is
expected
of them."

 The proposal details the methods, practices, and substances that can be
used in producing and handling organic crops and livestock, as well as
processed products.  It establishes clear labeling criteria and rules so
that
consumers know exactly what they are buying when they purchase organic food.
It specifically prohibits the use of genetic engineering, sewage sludge, and
irradiation in the production of food products labeled "organic."  The
proposal also prohibits antibiotics in organic livestock production and
requires 100 percent organic feed for organic livestock.

 USDA's proposal will allow organic farmers to export more easily their
products because trading partners can more easily deal with one national
standard rather than multiple state and private standards.

 The revised proposal is the result of careful analysis of more than
275,000 comments USDA received in response to its initial December 1997
organic proposal.

 "We listened to consumers and organic farmers and closely followed the
recommendations of the National Organic Standards Board to develop a
national
organic standard that is better than our original proposal," Glickman said.
"We believe these new standards fully meet consumer expectations and reflect
current organic farming practices."

 Secretary Glickman today also announced several other steps the
Administration is taking to promote organic agriculture.  President
Clinton's
fiscal 2001 budget proposes $5 million for research to develop improved
organic production and processing methods, evaluate economic benefits to
farmers, and develop new organic markets.  Glickman said USDA will establish
a
pilot organic crop insurance program to help organic farmers better manage
risk.  He also announced that USDA and the University of California at Davis
will conduct research on organic production and ways to enhance farmers'
ability to market organic fruits and vegetables.

 The proposed national standard and additional steps Secretary Glickman
announced today will help stimulate one of the fastest growing sectors of
American agriculture.  USDA estimates that the value of retail sales of
organic foods in 1999 was approximately $6 billion.  The number of organic
farmers is increasing about 12 percent per year and now stands at about
12,200
nationwide, most of them small-scale producers.

 Fact sheets and other background materials on the proposed organic rule
can be accessed on the web at www.ams.usda.gov/nop.

  The public has 90 days to respond to the USDA proposals which are to
be posed on the USDA Web site.
http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/

Where to write:
http://www.ams.usda.gov/nop/tmd-00-0.pdf


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[CTRL] vaccines/autism

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/A -Cui Bono?-

"Autistic children...caused by vaccine...? A report by Dr. Harold Buttram, a
practicing physician in Quakertown, Pa., suggests the recent increase in the
number of autistic children could be caused by the combination measles,
mumps an rubella, or MMR, vaccine routinely given to children at age 18
months." This World Daily Net article by Julie Foster is posted at
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosterj_news/2306_xnfoj_vaccine_li.
shtml


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave




 Vaccine linked to autism?
New report points to
dangers of MMR immunization




By Julie Foster
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com

A new report by Dr. Harold Buttram,
http://www.woodmed.com/WhoIsDrB.htm
a practicing physician in Quakertown, Pa., suggests the recent increase in
the number of autistic children could be caused by the combination measles,
mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine routinely given to children at age 18
months -- a phenomenon the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claim
is highly unlikely.
In a past study of autistic children, researchers found that 84 percent of
the children had antibodies against a certain type of brain tissue,
indicating that the immune system was destroying brain cells. The
researchers also found the brain tissue antibody to be very similar to the
antibody that's formed against the MMR vaccine. Additionally, MMR antibody
was found in 59 percent of the autistic children compared to 10 percent in
normal children.

Buttram also noted some experts believe certain childhood illnesses
including measles, mumps, rubella and chicken pox are a necessary and
helpful step in strengthening the immune system. Because the vaccines are
given by injection, the immune response of the mucous membranes, through
which these diseases enter the body, is not challenged and strengthened.
Those who support the theory also attribute the use of vaccines to the great
increase in cases of asthma and eczema, both of which are diseases of the
mucous membranes.

Buttram was quick to point out that measles and other diseases may result in
complications that cause brain injury. Therefore, physicians and government
officials may be choosing between the lesser of two evils.

"It is true that there may be situations where extreme measures may be
justified, as the lesser of two evils, to preserve life and health," Buttram
wrote. "The basic question, therefore, is whether the benefits of current
childhood vaccines outweigh the harm, or whether the reverse is true."

The incidence of autism in California increased 273 percent from 1987 to
1998, and a growing number of medical professionals are questioning the
FDA's vaccine safety tests.

"A small but growing minority of physicians and scientists are becoming
aware that safety testing for the various vaccines has been woefully
inadequate," Buttram wrote.

He cited a 1994 National Academy of Sciences review of the safety of the
hepatitis B vaccine. The review was done to investigate five possible
adverse effects of the vaccine. However, conclusions could not be made about
four of the effects due to a lack of enough research.

Dr. Bernard Rimland, founder and director of the Autism Research Institute
in San Diego, Calif.,
http://www.autism.com/ari/
told DiscoveryHealth.com, "There are no data on the triple vaccines."

When the institute opened in 1967, Rimland noticed that a number of parents
had mentioned that the diptheria, pertussin and tetanus, or DPT, vaccine
seemed to have an adverse effect on their children.

"In the late '70s and early '80s, we began hearing the same thing about
MMR," he said.

Rimland pointed out that triple vaccines can put additional stress on the
body. A person's immune system usually deals with one virus at a time.
Combining the individual measles, mumps and rubella vaccines into one
package results in a much more dangerous vaccine, he said.

Rimland also noted that doctors can report adverse effects of vaccines
through the Vaccine Adverse Effect Reporting System, which is mandated by
the Food and Drug Administration. However, the VAERS is a voluntary program.
According to the FDA, between 90 and 99 percent of adverse effects resulting
from vaccinations go unreported.

"The physician has been taught repeatedly that these vaccines are perfectly
safe and that any event that is supposedly associated with them is just a
coincidence," Rimland remarked.

He also cited possible malpractice suits, added paperwork and the lack of a
penalty as reasons why doctors do not report these occurrences.

In an exclusive WorldNetDaily interview, Jane Orient, M.D., executive
director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,
htt

[CTRL] Pending Vaccine Legislation VIOLATES SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

[Dave]

-Caveat Lector-   A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"
/A -Cui Bono?-

Vaccines are known to be dangerous and even deadly.
Separation of Chuch and State is a fundamental rule of U.S. law.
This proposal is unconstitutional, illegal, and immoral.
I am not a Christian, but I will see to it that my Christan brethren are
made aware of this lunatic incursion against religious freedom !

Vaccination is known to be damaging to health in the long term.
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS are paid out annually by the U.S. government to the
parents of children paralyzed or killed by vaccines.
http://www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/bhpr/vicp/

You legislators must back off of this practically insane power-play on the
behalf of the pharmaceutical industry, do a little research (HUNDREDS OF
LINKS on vaccine damage and vaccine danger:
http://www.trufax.org/links/link4.html ) and put your common sense and you
conscience and loyalty to your constituents and the Constitution of the
united States before the twisted goals of the pharmaceutical medical
industrial complex whose PROFITS increase greatly over a person's lifetime
due to vaccine damage !!

(or start looking for another job, next election.. like torturing animals to
produce vaccines, maybe?)

I hope that you get many responses from others who are righteously outraged
by this insanity!

sincerely

Dave Hartley
86 N. Lexington Ave
Asheville, NC (28801)
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 5:23 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Pending Vaccine Legislation


 *
 PLEASE DISTRIBUTE FAR AND WIDE
 Kathi Williams wrote:
 Yesterday NVIC was informed that a bill removing the religious objection
 to vaccination passed the IOWA Senate and has been referred to the Human
 Resources Committee in the House. It looks like this is going to move
 very rapidly and we only have a few days to try and stop it. The bill
 can be found at http://www.legis.state.ia.us. The bill number was 2314.
 An ammendment was introduced to restore the religious exemption and it
 lost. The final bill number is 3205.  Please notify your members in IOWA
 to do everything we can to stop this. A list of the members of the Human
 Resources Committee is attached.
 
  More information will follow.
  Kathi Williams/NVIC
  IOWA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
  MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE
 
  State Representative Dan Boddicker
  House District 39
  Republican
  Home Address:1052 195th St., Tipton IA 52772
  Home Telephone: (319) 886-2389
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative David Lord
  House District 77
  Republican
  Home Address:1250 K Circle, Perry IA 50220
  Home Telephone: (515) 465-2960
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Ro Foege
  House District 50
  Democrat
  Home Address:P.O. Box 128, Mt. Vernon IA 52314
  Home Telephone: (319) 895-6043
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Donna Barry
  House District 82
  Republican
  Home Address:3596 111th St., Dunlap IA 51529
  Home Telephone: (712)643-5745
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Gary Blodgett
  House District 19
  Republican
  Home Address:1225 North Shore Dr., Clear Lake IA 50428
  Home Telephone: (515) 357-8915
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Carmine Boal
  House District 65
  Republican
  Home Address:3080 NW 87th Lane, Ankeny IA 50021
  Home Telephone: (515)964-3335
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Bob Brunkhorst
  House District 22
  Republican
  Home Address:419 3rd Ave. SW, Waverly IA 50677
  Home Telephone: (319) 352-0065
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Polly Bukta
  House District 38
  Democrat
  Home Address:604 S. 32nd St., Clinton IA 52732
  Home Telephone: (319) 242-6603
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Danny Carroll
  House District 58
  Republican
  Home Address:244 400th Ave., Grinnell IA 50112
  Home Telephone: (515) 236-7043
  Office Telephone: (515)787-2026
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Galen Davis
  House District 93
  Republican
  Home Address:14277 120th St., Ottumwa IA 52501
  Home Telephone: (515)684-4385
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Wayne Ford
  House District 71
  Democrat
  Home Address:3108 36th St., Des Moines IA 50310
  Home Telephone:
  Office Telephone: (515) 288-4742
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Jane Greimann
  House District 61
  Democrat
  Home Address:1518 13th St., Ames IA 50010
  Home Telephone: (515)232-5238
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative Betty Grundberg
  House District 73
  Republican
  Home Address:224 Foster Dr., Des Moines IA 50312
  Home Telephone: (515) 277-8760
  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  State Representative James Hahn
  House District 48
  Republican
  Home Address:805 W. 4th St., Muscatine IA 52761
  Home Telephone: (319

[CTRL] Asheville Tribune: Internet Exclusive Column By Matthew Mittan

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To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Internet Exclusive Column By Matthew Mittan


Copyright 2000, Permission to forward, post or publish granted with
attribution. The Asheville Tribune is a Weekly News Magazine based in NC.


FIGHTING FEDERAL LAND GRABS
Commentary by Matthew Mittan, The Asheville Tribune

I have received literally hundreds of emails from people across the country
struggling to figure out "what to do" about all the federal land grabs
occurring across the nation. Those Emails have compelled me to share an
observation and thought with those who care to hear it. What you choose to
do from there is up to you.

The people that are carrying out these land initiatives are out of the reach
of the Constitutional process. They are not elected, they do not
specifically answer to Congress, as a matter of fact they have within their
grasps the full functions of every branch of government without any system
of checks and balances.

Many Federal Bureaucracies.

1 - make their own regulations (minus Congress),
2 - investigate violations of those same regulations (without independent
review),
3- impose their own fines/penalties (without the courts),
4 - arrest/apprehend people who defy them (without elected law enforcement
leadership)
5 - and the only defensive option private citizens have is to sue the
federal organization in a federal court.

Overwhelmingly, people will not resist federal agencies (due to lack of
money, knowledge or confidence). And here's the REAL kicker, when these
federal agencies DO get dragged into court, the TAXPAYERS pay for their
defense. A citizen would be hard pressed to outspend the federal government
on legal costs, don't you agree?

The bureaucrats involved face NO personal accountability for their actions.
They simply take the court setback, rename a program, then press on ahead
through towns and regions that do not question the Constitutionality of
their initiatives.

In addition to the institutional protection afforded to bureaucrats, rarely
do media report on their actions. And when they do they almost NEVER report
on them by name, they only refer to them as "an official from the Department
of _" or "a spokesman for the Bureau of _."

That is where I, as an American tax payer, see the challenge. Let's make the
individuals in these agencies PERSONALLY accountable for their own actions
AND for the programs/practices of their organizations. They must bare the
brunt of the financial, legal, public and career consequences of programs
that are found to violate peoples'/States inalienable rights THEMSELVES. Why
should we, the American tax payers, fund the continuous defense of
agents/agencies that attack the sovereign liberties of private citizens or
legitimate businesses?

If this type of reform were enacted by Congress, I believe that the kind of
activities that are igniting a fire of dissent in our nation would be
virtually erased, returning the control and functioning to The People, where
it belongs.

No number of "informed elected officials" with good intentions can ever
counter a system that is set up in the manner that the current Federal
Bureaucracies are now set up. Only by enforcing the ideal that individuals
within government must be held to the same measure of personal
accountability, as any individual or business owner in America would have to
face, will true change take hold.

(Mr. Mittan is the editor of The Asheville Tribune in North Carolina.
Website:
www.ashevilletribune.com)

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[CTRL] FW: Panel Acknowledges Failures of IMF and World Bank

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Website: http://www.50years.org

Congressionally Appointed Panel Acknowledges Failures of IMF and World
Bank to Help the World's Poor, But Lack of Accountability Remains
Unanswered

WASHINGTON, DC, March 8, 2000 A coalition of development and environmental
advocates today said a new report by a Congressionally appointed
commission is a welcome acknowledgement that the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group are largely failing in their mission to
address world poverty and economic stability, and need major overhaul.
However, the groups say that while the report contains some laudable
recommendations, it fails to address other fundamental problems.

According to the report, written by a panel of economists headed by Allan
Meltzer, the failures of the World Bank Group and IMF can be traced to
"overlapping missions," "ineffectiveness, corruption, and waste of
resources," and failure to develop successful regional programs in
agriculture, forestry, environment, health care, and other sectors among
other problems. But while the Commission also said "lack of transparency
and accountability" contributed to this failure, it did not offer any
reforms to address this problem.

"The Meltzer Commission report gives further weight to the growing
evidence that these institutions have caused serious social and
environmental damage to those nations they should be assisting," said
Carol Welch, International Policy Analyst for Friends of the Earth.
"However, until the IMF's chronic lack of accountability and democracy are
also dealt with, any reforms are unlikely to have a lasting positive
impact."

For example:
The IMF's lack of accountability and democracy, combined with US dominance
of the institution, has made the IMF an agent of Wall Street, rather than
an enabler of global stability and prosperity. The groups say an
independent evaluation unit and an ombudsperson are essential requirements
for an overhauled IMF, as is true participation of IMF borrowers in the
institution's governance.

While the Commission rightly identifies structural adjustment lending as a
function of the World Bank Group and not the IMF, it fails to call for
more oversight and attention to the environmental and social implications
of this function. Currently the Bank does not conduct environmental or
social assessments for these programs, despite more than a decade of
research that clearly demonstrates their negative impacts to poor
countries.

The Commission finds correctly that the World Bank Group should restrict
its financial support to sectors that have a direct and demonstrable
connection to poverty alleviation and sustainable development. However, it
overlooks a number of important sectors that can help fulfill this mandate
in environmentally and socially beneficial ways. These include investment
in renewable energy and efficiency programs, education, improved urban
living conditions, and combating pollution. The groups supported the
Commission's recommendations that the IMF's structural adjustment lending
program be eliminated, stressing that the IMF is not equipped to provide
poor countries with long-term development finance and capacity building.
They also endorsed the Commission's call for immediate debt cancellation
for the poorest countries. Finally, the groups backed the Commission's
call for elimination of the Multilateral International Guarantee Agency
(MIGA), the World Bank's private risk insurance arm, saying the World
Bank's development mandate should not be confused with that of supporting
the private sector or providing risk insurance to companies.

Website: http://www.50years.org
CONTACT: Jo Marie Griesgraber, Center of Concern: 202-635-2757, ext.126
Deborah Rephan, Environmental Media Services 202-463-1310, ext. 267
Andrea Durbin or Carol Welch, Friends of the Earth: 202-783-7400 or
202-744-8048

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[CTRL] EO on Alternative Medicine

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-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 3:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: US MOVES


THE WHITE HOUSE
 Office of the Press Secretary


For Immediate Release  March 8, 2000

EXECUTIVE ORDER
 - - - - - - -
 WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON COMPLEMENTARY AND
  ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE POLICY

 By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App.), and in order to establish the
White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy,

it is hereby ordered as follows:

 Section 1.  Establishment.  There is established in the Department
of Health and Human Services (Department) the White House Commission on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy (Commission).  The
Commission shall be composed of not more than 15 members appointed by
the President from knowledgeable representatives in health care practice
and complementary and alternative medicine.  The President shall
designate a Chair from among the members of the Commission.  The
Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) shall appoint an
Executive Director for the Commission.

 Sec. 2.  Functions.  The Commission shall provide a report, through
the Secretary, to the President on legislative and administrative
recommendations for assuring that public policy maximizes the benefits
to Americans of complementary and alternative medicine.  The
recommendations shall address the following:
 (a)  the education and training of health care practitioners in
complementary and alternative medicine;
 (b)  coordinated research to increase knowledge about complementary
and alternative medicine practices and products;
 (c)  the provision to health care professionals of reliable and
useful information about complementary and alternative medicine that can
be made readily accessible and understandable to the general public; and
 (d)  guidance for appropriate access to and delivery of
complementary and alternative medicine.

 Sec. 3.  Administration.  (a)  To the extent permitted by law, the
heads of executive departments and agencies shall provide the
Commission, upon request, with such information and assistance as it may
require for the purpose of carrying out its functions.
 (b)  Each member of the Commission shall receive compensation at a
rate equal to the daily equivalent of the annual rate specified for
Level 1V of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5315) for each day during
which the member is engaged in the performance of the duties of the
Commission.  While away from their homes or regular places of business
in the performance of the duties of the Commission, members shall be
allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as
authorized by law for persons serving intermittently in Government
service (5 U.S.C.  5701-5707).
 (c)  The Department shall provide the Commission with funding and
with administrative services, facilities, staff, and other support
services necessary for the performance of the Commission's functions.
 (d)  In accordance with guidelines issued by the Administrator of
General Services, the Secretary shall perform the functions of the
President under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C.
App.), with respect to the Commission, except that of reporting to the
Congress.
 (e)  The Commission shall terminate 2 years from the date of this
order unless extended by the President prior to such date.

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[CTRL] Industrial Hemp legalization: states vs DEA

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 ARTICLE:  Bill Would Allow Production of Industrial Hemp
  AUTHOR:  Bruce Schreiner, The Louisville Courier-Journal, KY
DATE:  Thursday, 9 March 2000, at 2:41 p.m.



A bill introduced in the General Assembly, House Bill 855, would legalize
industrial hemp production, with strict oversight by the state Agricultural
Department.

Pubdate: March 7, 2000 Lexington, Ky. Andy Graves pays more than lip
service to industrial hemp, a versatile plant long ago uprooted from
Kentucky agriculture.

On his Fayette County farm, a worker spreads shredded hemp as mulch
around trees showing the first signs of spring life. In a barn, bags
of the stuff are stacked to the ceiling for eventual sale as horse
bedding or to protect gardens.

The hemp was grown and processed in Canada, where the crop is part
of the agricultural landscape. In this country, industrial hemp is
lumped with marijuana, its potent cousin, as a controlled substance
that is illegal to produce.

Graves would like to see an official government pardon for hemp.

A bill introduced in the General Assembly, House Bill 855, would legalize
industrial hemp production, with strict oversight by the state Agricultural
Department.

A companion resolution, House Joint Resolution 121, would ask the
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to allow state-regulated hemp
production and processing. DEA approval is necessary before the crop
can re-emerge legally.

A handful of states have passed laws allowing it to be grown if the
DEA grants them permits, and experimental hemp production is under
way in Hawaii, said Graves, president of the Kentucky Hemp Growers
Cooperative Association. At least 12 other states are considering
similar legislation, he said.

"State by state, we‚re making it a states‚ rights issue,” Graves said.
"And the feds are changing their song slowly with this groundswell
of support."

But Kentucky‚s top law enforcement agency wants to keep hemp outlawed.

"It is marijuana with a low THC content,” said Lt. Kevin Payne, a
Kentucky State Police spokesman. THC is the active ingredient that
makes pot smokers high.

Hemp and marijuana are both varieties of the cannabis sativa plant.
As defined in the legislation, industrial hemp contains a THC concentration
of 1 percent or less. Marijuana plants contain 10 percent to 20 percent
THC.

Other than that, the two plants are alike, Payne said. And that would
cause problems for police if hemp were legalized, he said.

"From a law enforcement standpoint, it would be an enforcement nightmare,"
he said. "You would not be able to tell the difference between the
two plants."

Graves said marijuana growers should be the biggest opponents of legalized
hemp production. He said hemp pollen that floated into marijuana plants
would gradually lower the THC levels of marijuana, lowering the pot‚s
potency. That would hit marijuana producers in the pocketbooks, Graves
said.

"It will rob him of the street value," he said.

With burley tobacco production in steep descent, Graves sees industrial
hemp ˆ and its myriad applications ˆ as part of a crop mix to preserve
family farms.

"This is not a replacement for tobacco, but it may be one good idea
you can connect with six others and replace some of the lost economy,"
said Graves, whose 125,000-pound tobacco crop last year will shrink
under a 45 percent quota cut.

Hemp played an important part in Kentucky agriculture throughout the
19th century and early in this century. But the long, stalky plant
was banned in 1937 when the federal government outlawed marijuana.
(Some hemp was grown under government contract during World War II.)

Hemp‚s potential uses seemingly stretch as long as its history. Graves
said it can be used in paper products, textiles, as a fiberglass and
plastics substitute, and as an oil in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Just don‚t try to take a puff. "You can smoke that stuff all day and
what it will give you is a giant headache," Graves said.

In a sign that the hemp debate may be reaching the political mainstream,
the bill is co-sponsored by Reps. Joe Barrows, D-Versailles and a
veteran legislator, and Roger Thomas, chairman of the House Agriculture
and Small Business Committee.

Thomas, a farmer, said he has heard fellow tobacco growers discuss
hemp as a possible option to help offset lower burley production.

"We owe it to agriculture and to the farmers of Kentucky to at least
give it a hearing," said Thomas, D-Smiths Grove.

The bill has been assigned to Thomas‚ committee.

If hemp advocates can prove its potential profitability, then Kentucky
"needs to lead rather than follow" in hemp production, Thomas said.

But hemp still has doubters about its moneymaking potential

[CTRL] FW: WTO/SEATTLE ACTIVIST COMPENDIUM:alarming window on the future !!

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-Original Message-
From: MichaelP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 4:52 PM
To: unlikely suspects: ;
Subject: WTO/SEATTLE ACTIVIST COMPENDIUM:alarming window on the future
!!

A COMPENDIUM OF ACTIVISTS AT THE WTO MINISTERIAL

Thanks ChuckO for sharing your good fortune !  It looks authentic to me -
can't locate the original  with my favourite search engine, but there's no
difficulty in finding items if you search for  Burson Marsteller + WTO.

They've only done a poor, partial job; I think they just picked a sample
from participants  listed at http://www.n30.org
 - YOU are probably not mentioned, and I'M not even on one of the
mentioned lists, although there is a link to  the list which comprises a
rag-tag coalition of folk like me. But don't get too comfortable - if you
attended WTO/Seattle they have your picture and your arrest history and
your genetic code - Anything else ?

Cheers

MichaelP




===
Chuck0 sez:


First of all, I'd like to thank the elves which dropped this in my email
box this morning.

I'm not sure if this is legit or not, since the section on infoshop.org, a
website I work on with others, is pretty inaccurate. Still, we do
appreciate the positive review and hope to be moving up in the rankings
very soon.

Burson Marsteller, for those of you who don't know, is a powerful K Street
PR firm.

There is a reference in the 50 Years is Enough section which provides
evidence that corporate spies were present at last December's reportback
at UDC.

Apparently, this was scanned in from a paper version, so there may be a
few typos.


Mid-Atlantic Infoshop
http://www.infoshop.org/



Black, Kelly, Scruggs  Healy
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A Burson Marsteller Company
1801 K Street, N.W.,Suite 901-L,Washington, D.C. 20006-1201
202.530.0500,202.530.4800

January 14, 2000


Dear [Corporate Client]:

Enclosed is our "Guide to the Seattle Meltdown: A Compendium of Activists
at the WTO Ministerial". The "Guide" is a comprehensive listing of the
activist groups which protested against the WTO Ministerial in Seattle
this past November. It lists the groups and their leaders we were able to
identify, descriptions of their ethos (largely in their own words), as
well as web site addresses and other useful information. We wanted to
share this "Guide" with you, not so much as a retrospective on the past,
but as an alarming window on the future.

The spectacle created in Seattle during the WTO Ministerial meeting by a
diverse collection of activists may have significant short-term
ramifications for the business community. The perceived success of these
groups in disrupting Seattle and in contributing to the failure of the WTO
meeting will be a dramatic boon to them in several ways. First, their
victory and heightened visibility will lead to substantially enhanced
fundraising capability. Second, the smell of victory will lead to a
deepening of already existing coalitions and will strengthen the
recognition that broadening such coalitions to include non-traditional
allies exponentially increases effectiveness. Third, the Presidential
election campaign and several likely trade votes in Congress this year
will give activists golden opportunities to seek wider recognition and
gain additional strength. These high profile battles will allow activists
to further institutionalize and consolidate their gains, increase
coordination, gamier greater media attention and expand their targeting of
business interests.

What is less understood -- but perhaps more significant -- is the
potential ability of the emerging coalition of these groups to seriously
impact broader, longer-term corporate interests. Seattle was not an
anomaly and the consistent anti-corporate message of virtually all the
groups who participated there in November is not a temporary phenomenon.
Many have traditionally highlighted alleged corporate misconduct in mass
mail fund raising campaigns. More recently, some environmental groups have
resorted to targeting corporations for contributions in return for
suspending their public ire.

At Black, Kelly, Scruggs  Healey, we have developed a capability
direction of these groups, as well as to defend clients against their
attacks. I hope you find the enclosed "Guide" useful and if you have any
questions, please call me at: (202)530-4805.

Sincerely,

Gardner G. Peckham
Managing Director


Guide to the Seattle Meltdown: A Compendium of Activists at the WTO
Ministerial

"Many of the groups that helped organize the anti-WTO victories in Seattle
are already preparing for days of protest, education, training, and direct
action during the week of April 9-16 in Washington. The week begins on
Sunday, April 9th with a Jubilee 2000/USA mobilization for can

[CTRL] FW: CONSUMER WARNING/PHONING - ACTION ALERT - PLEASE POST!

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-Original Message-
From: Debbie Ortman (by way of Debbie Ortman
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Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 2:24 PM
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If you want a hard copy of this leaflet please send me your address.

CONSUMER WARNING - The Frankenfoods Fifteen(see list at end)

IF YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS IN  YOUR SHOPPING
CART, YOU BETTER ACT NOW!

HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY  ANY FOOD OR BEVERAGE
PRODUCTS IN YOUR GROCERY STORE ARE YOU EATING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS?
* Lab tests and industry disclosures indicate that 60-75% of all
non-organic supermarket foods now "test positive" for the presence of
genetically engineered (GE) ingredients.

* Despite growing public concern over the safety of milk and dairy products
from cows injected with recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), as well
as human health and environmental concerns over genetically engineered
corn, soy, canola, and cotton, the US government refuses to require
safety-testing or labeling for genetically engineered foods. As a result
Europe, Japan, and other nations are now refusing to buy many US food
exports.

*  Mounting scientific evidence suggests that genetically engineered foods
may present serious hazards for human health and the environment. The
British Medical Association has called for a global ban on GE foods, while
the New England Journal of Medicine has warned that "the allergenic
potential of these newly intoduced microbial proteins is uncertain,
unpredictable, and untestable." Scientists warn that GE foods may set off
allergies, increase cancer risks, produce antibiotic-resistant pathogens,
damage food quality, and produce dangerous toxins.

*  Environmental hazards of genetically engineered crops recently discussed
in scientific journals and the media include: increased use of toxic
pesticides, damage to soil fertility, genetic pollution of adjoining
farmlands, harm to Monarch butterflies and beneficial insects such as
ladybugs, and the creation of "superpests, "superweeds," and virulent new
plant viruses.

*  Consumer polls over the past decade have shown that 80-95% of Americans
want genetically engineered foods to be labeled--mainly so that we can
avoid buying them. Fifty members of Congress recently sent a letter to the
Food and Drug Administration demanding labeling. In addition, a federal
lawsuit has been filed by a broad coalition of scientists, environmental
groups, religious leaders, organic farmers, and consumer organizations
demanding that all genetically engineered foods be taken off the market
until they have been properly safety-tested and labeled.

*  Turn over this leaflet to see what you can do today to protect yourself
and your family from genetically engineered foods.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TODAY
TO AVOID GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOODS

Ask  your grocery store manager for a written statement on their policy
regarding genetically engineered foods. Request that they identify which
food products are genetically engineered and which are not.

Tell your grocer to offer a full-line selection of certified organic foods.
Organic farmers and producers operate under strict certification rules and
do not use any genetically engineered seeds or ingredients.

Buy certified organic foods from your local co-op, health food store,
farmers market or through a  CSA - (Community Supported Agriculture)
program.

Join the Organic Consumers Association and volunteer to help organize
opposition to genetically engineered foods in your local community.  Keep
informed on genetic engineering and food safety issues by visiting our  web
site at http://www.purefood.org

Call the 15 companies listed below - The Frankenfoods Fifteen - and tell
them you will not purchase their foods or beverages unless they can provide
you with written
assurance that their products do not contain genetically engineered
ingredients.

  You can also make a difference by registering your consumer opinion with
major U S. food manufacturers. Nestle and Unilever have already promised to
take GE ingredients out of their babyfoods; Kellogg's, General Mills,
Quaker, Nabisco, Kraft, McDonald's, Hershey's, Safeway, Healthy Choice,
Frito-Lay and Heinz are a few of the companies whose products have tested
positive for GE ingredients.

Say "This is (your name) and I'm a (company name) customer. I'm calling
to give you my opinion on Genetically Engineered ingredients in your
products. I'd like you to discontinue using them as soon as possible, and
until that time, please label any products that contain them." They might
ask for your address in order to locate you for their statistics. It's very
simple and easy to call 15 companies in less than

[CTRL] FW: Dalai Lama, interesting words of wisdom

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Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 5:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: ncndiscuss-l
Subject: [ncnculture] interesting words of wisdom
Subject: Message from the Dalaï_Lama



INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE

1.  Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great
risk.
2.  When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3.  Follow the three Rs:
   Respect for self
   Respect for others and
   Responsibility for all your actions.

4.  Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke
of luck.
5.  Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6.  Don't let a little dispute injure a great  friendship.
7.  When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct
it.
8.  Spend some time alone every day.
9.  Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back,
you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation.
Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each
other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

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[CTRL] FW: DEB Emergency Announcement; Cohen dropped from CODEX Committee

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 9:27 PM
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Subject: DEB Emergency Announcement; Cohen dropped from CODEX Committee


Subj:[notmilk] DEB EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT
Date:   3/7/00 7:05:12 PM Eastern Standard Time
From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Rietz)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#/#
$   EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT  $
#\#\#|#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#\#

MONSANTO has won a battle, and lost the war!

Robert Cohen has just been removed
from the American delegation to CODEX.

He will NOT be going to Tokyo on Saturday.

MONSANTO called in a favor, and in doing so,
removed America's voice of opposition.  In doing
so, they have revealed the scope of their power,
and exposed the continuing betrayal of American
interests by FDA officials.

Last night, FDA faxed a FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
ACT response to Cohen, and the information
contained within that document conclusively
demonstrates that MONSANTO defrauded the FDA
in 1994 during the approval process for their
genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.

Robert Lake removed Cohen from the CODEX
meeting.  Mr. Lake has ignored the multi-million
dollar lobbying efforts of other members of the CODEX
team.  MONSANTO does not want Americans to enjoy
the right to know whether the foods they eat are
genetically engineered or not.  MONSANTO has
Lake's ear, and Lake removed Cohen, despite Cohen's
protest.

Members of the MEDIA can call the Dairy Education
Board office at 201-871-5871.

MORE TOMORROW...

  Robert Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[CTRL] FW: monsanto.com news update

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Propaganda from death merchant and creator of Terminator Seeds and
FrankenFoods.
If you'd like to know where to apply pressure to Monsanto, I'd suggest that
these official propaganda communiques show sensitive spots..


Dave Hartley
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IN THE LIFE SCIENCES KNOWLEDGE CENTER

1) Genetically Engineered Food Could Be Lifeline For Developing World

In the developed world, societies enjoy abundant diets more varied now than
at any other time in history. That's in stark contrast to the developing
world where millions of people confront profound food insecurity every day.
Part of the solution to righting this imbalance might involve something that
is increasingly controversial in the developed world: genetically engineered
food.
http://www.biotechknowledge.com/showlib_us.php3?2859

2) Farm Progress Survey Shows Widespread Acceptance Of Biotech Grain By Corn
Belt Elevators

More than 80 percent of grain elevators throughout the Corn Belt have said
they are planning to accept biotech corn grain containing Bt and LibertyLink
traits in the fall of 2000, according to a survey by the Farm Progress
Companies. More than 88 percent of these elevators will accept biotech
soybeans produced with the Roundup Ready trait.
http://www.biotechknowledge.com/showlib_us.php3?2877

3) Scientists Embrace Food Biotechnology, But Some Food Companies Run for
Cover

Methods of modern biotechnology now provide farmers and food producers with
advanced tools to produce more healthful and better tasting food, as well as
produce which resist attacks by insects and survives inclement weather
conditions. Genetically modified food is really nothing new: farmers have
long performed cross breeding of plants to provide improved products. But
today's sophisticated science allows food producers to make alterations
selectively and with precision.
http://www.biotechknowledge.com/showlib_us.php3?2924

4) UK: Blair's GM Food Comment Not A U-Turn Says Minister

According to a Reuters story , the British government has maintained its
position on genetically modified (GM) food despite an article by Prime
Minister Tony Blair seen as signaling a shift in policy.
http://www.biotechknowledge.com/showlib_us.php3?2952

5) Cloudy Horizons In A Brave New World

These are tough times for agricultural and food biotechnology, but its
regulators are active and thriving. This is no coincidence.
http://www.biotechknowledge.com/showlib_us.php3?2955


AT MONSANTO.COM

1) Monsanto Reaffirms Safety Of Fiber From Cotton

Monsanto has completed more than 400 person-years of safety research for its
products, including biotech cotton. Additionally, regulatory agencies around
the world have agreed on the safety of biotech cotton plants.  All plants
contain genes and DNA.  Since each cotton fiber was once a living cell, it's
not surprising that small pieces of the DNA from those genes are included in
the pure cotton products on the market today.
http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/mediacenter/background/00mar02_cot.html

2) Outcrossing Of Herbicide-Tolerant Canola Can Be Controlled: Growers Have
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Pollen flow - or the natural dispersion of pollen - is natural and expected
in canola fields. It is important for growers to understand how pollen flow
occurs, what can happen and how to effectively manage it to maintain
productive yields and a healthy overall environment. In the February edition
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Scientist Emeritus Dr. R. Keith Downey, addresses here pollen flow in canola
and how growers can effectively manage a number of considerations for canola
growers, including herbicide tolerance.
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Hi Mel,

You may have heard that the only cure for trauma based MPD programming is
"Love" and/or Spiritual realization of self. (Love for higher self / God)
... maybe that is the only real cure for "the human condition" itself
smile

You might consider starting her out with a placebo to be taken in case of
"triggering" by tapping noises... or perhaps a flower essence - rescue
remedy?  Don't be too quick to settle on a remedy. Take a good case, be sure
that the remedy not only suits what is wrong with her, but also suits her
constitution and temperament. If there is much sexual abuse, it may be
important to consider the syphilitic miasm... in fact it is probably a big
part of

Involve her (empower her) in becoming an active and detached observer (this
is the viewpoint of "higher self" ... "soul".. ) by having her take the
placebo, and then carefully note effects of "triggering"  (panic,
earthquake, whatever)... have her take notes.. find a way to give her a way
out of being engulfed by the experience...

As far as how you effect the cure from the homeopathy angle:
Just do good homeopathy! Trust in homeopathy, and your client's trust in you
will be justified.
You need to know where you wish to go, roughly - but it is not so important
that you know exactly how to get there, let the homeopathy do that.

A good diet is important for her - any vitamin B deficiency will make it
more difficult, and will make sensitivity to noises stronger.
Also "earthy" or "grounding" foods will be helpful. (meat, potatoes; heavy
stuff.)
Exercise is good also - Chi Gung or Tai Chi would be very helpful. (or dance
or Yoga..)

Remember that "reality" is totally subjective.
It is very important that YOU *KNOW* THIS.
Everything can change in the wink of an eye - it is completely dependent on
Point Of View.
Your client is divine indestructible soul; as your point of view powerfully
affirms this, it will be commmunicated to her effortlessly.
She is not broken or damaged, truly - merely has had some bizarre and
frightening experiences.
Releasing the fear, trauma, and lack of trust in self (God? ... parent?  ...
people in general?) is the way to her healing.

Study the case until you are fairly sure that you have a remedy that has the
potential to unwind the whole case. Piecemeal is not good homeopathy, at
least not as an intention - shoot the arrow for the bullseye, if you miss,
then make corrections and the next attempt may be closer... but don't be too
hasty and give a remedy until you are fairly sure.

I don't know of a rubric for a lack of self trust, but perhaps this will
give food for thought.

 Complete - Mentals
CONFIDENCE want of self (101)
1 agn, 1 alum, 1 am-br, 1 am-c, 1 am-m, 3 AMBR, 2 aml-n, 3 ANAC, 1 anan, 1
ang, 1 anh, 1 aq-mar, 1 arg-n, 1 arist-cl, 1 ars, 2 aur, 1 aur-i, 1 aur-s, 1
bamb-a, 1 bar-acet, 2 bar-c, 1 bell, 2 bry, 1 buth-aust, 1 calc, 1 calc-sil,
1 canth, 1 carb-an, 1 carb-v, 1 carc, 1 caust, 2 chin, 1 chlor, 1 choc, 1
cob, 1 cocc, 1 dros, 2 dys-co, 1 foll, 1 gall-ac, 1 gels, 1 germ, 1 graph, 1
hydrog, 1 hyos, 1 ign, 1 iod, 2 kali-c, 1 kali-n, 1 kali-s, 1 kali-sil, 2
lac-c, 1 lac-h, 1 lach, 1 lap-c-b, 1 lap-gr-m, 2 lyc, 1 manc, 2 med, 1 merc,
1 mur-ac, 1 naja, 1 nat-c, 2 nat-m, 1 nat-s, 1 nat-sil, 1 nit-ac, 1 nitro-o,
1 nux-v, 1 olnd, 1 op, 1 ozone, 1 pall, 2 petr, 2 ph-ac, 1 phos, 1 pic-ac, 1
plb, 1 prot, 2 puls, 1 ran-b, 1 rhus-t, 1 ruta, 2 sac-alb, 1 sant, 3 SIL, 1
spong, 1 staph, 1 stram, 1 sul-ac, 1 sul-i, 1 sulph, 1 sumb, 1 syph, 1 tab,
1 thea, 1 ther, 1 verat, 1 verb, 1 viol-t, 1 zinc

Note that Anac. is a #3 in the rubric above... I've always thought I might
one day find a use for this rubric:

 Phatak - Phatak
IMAGINATIONS, SUPER HUMAN, CONTROL UNDER (5)
2 anac, 2 lach, 1 op, 1 plat, 1 thuj

Look at Mentals, self-control section of repertory.
If you have an ongoing interest in learning a lot about mental symptoms and
mind-based dis-ease, I'd suggest the homeopath's "Manual of Psychiatry" by
Dr. J.P.S. Bakshi and the "New Comprehensive Homoeopathic Materia Medica of
the Mind" by H.L.Chitkara


best regards,


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



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Subject: Re: Treating multiples


Dave,
What I meant by "How do I effect this" is: the patient cannot work because
she is triggered by tapping, which is everywhere. She wants to be able to
work in a normal environment. How can I integrate your information into
choosing a remedy? A rubric for lack of trust in self/

Should have known that someone with so much knowledge on this subject would
have a personal connection!
Thanks for your help,
Mel

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 Hi all --

 Before the column, a quick radio update…

 1) Thought you'd like to know that we're giving away $5000 a week on my
 new morning radio show...

 Working Assets is actually giving away over $100,000 total to worthy causes
nominated by listeners who visit their web page at
http://www.radioforchange.com.

 If there's an activist group you like -- national or local -- just go to
their online form, and then fill out who you are and why you support the
group.  We draw names every Thursday morning shortly after 9 am eastern time,
and if you hear your name drawn, run to the phone and call in, and you can
tell our growing audience what's so cool about the group on the air yourself.
 Working Assets will then send them the $5000 posthaste.

 This week's winner was the Safe Schools Coalition.  Becky, who nominated the
group, was really fun to talk with.  Maybe next Thursday I'll be talking with
you… it could happen…

 2) Not really a radio thing, but what the hell: congratulations should be
 sent to Doris "Granny D" Haddock, who completed her 3000-mile march for
 campaign finance reform on Tuesday.  If you were listening to the show,
 she was kind enough to squeeze my show ten minutes for an interview that
 very morning, in between NBC's Today Show and ABC's Good Morning America.
 What a sweet, amazing, cool woman.  You can read the news from the end of
 her journey and send her congrats at http://www.grannyd.com.

 3) Listenership to http://www.radioforchange.com has more than tripled in
 the last month.  I'd be writing about it even if I wasn't directly
 involved.  I hope you'll tune in.  Almost the entire Congressional
 Progressive Caucus have been guests on one show or another, and a number
 of our Action Alerts have already resulted in changes in government or
 corporate policies.

 On yesterday's show, Laura Flanders had an interview from Santiago with
 the brother of Orlando Letelier (the leading dissident assassinated by the
 CIA-supported Chilean secret police), speaking about the return to Chile
 of dictator Augusto Pinochet; I stopped blithering long enough to report
 on 24-hour satellite surveillance programs now being used on parolees,
 tracking their every move via the Global Positioning System; and Matt
 Rothschild from The Progressive told listeners about the resignations of
 the UN's main inspectors in Iraq in protest of the human cost of continued
 sanctions, a story almost completely unreported in the U.S.

 The hope for a genuine progressive, alternative broadcast medium seems to
 be a real one.

 This whole thing excites the hell out of me... check it out!

 Thanks!

 Bob

 THE SCOOP for March 6, 2000
  © copyright 2000 Bob Harris


 Fascism is on the rise... possibly because nothing else is for these people.

 Digressing for a moment: it's amazing what sort of lunatic ideas people can
choose to believe.  In England, there's a libel trial underway in which the
plaintiff (who claims that Auschwitz was a kind of "Disneyland") is basically
putting the Holocaust itself on trial.  So Israel, which has an obvious
interest in making sure that the millions of victims aren't dishonored, has
released the memoirs of Adolf Eichmann.

 The memoirs, while not the most fascinating reading, turned out to be, in
the words of the newspaper Ha'aretz, "very orderly."

 Well, *of course* they were orderly.  The guy *was* a Nazi, after all.
Adverbs, line up!

 And now much of the civilized world is alarmed and puzzled at the rise of
Nazi apologist Joerg Haider and his far-right Freedom Party.

 Is it caused by an influx of refugees from the Balkan wars?  A more general
resentment of economic union with the rest of Europe?  A societal
 desire to reframe and shed a shameful past?

 Maybe.  Or maybe there's a simpler, more direct explanation.

 Psychologist Wilhelm Reich explained fascism "the political manifestation
 of sexual repression."  Maybe so.  Look, the Nazis were consumed by the
 idea of sexual purity.  Phallic symbolism was ubiquitous in Nazi drag,
 right down to the stiff right arms extended in national salute.  Even the
 uniforms look like hardcore fetish gear.

 And now get this: the very same day the Haider's resignation -- a
 strategic move intended to improve his future chances of becoming
 chancellor -- crossed the newswire, so did the following:

 The European Union has set a uniform standard for latex condoms across
 Europe.  And according to Focus magazine in Berlin, there's only one
 problem: the standard condom keeps falling off German men.

 Ah...

 To paraphrase a line from my comedian friend Mike Irwin, maybe Haider's
 next platform should include free handouts of rubber bands.

 ___

[CTRL] FW: New Steamshovel Press

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Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 8:15 PM
FW: New Steamshovel


Steamshovel Press Electronic Newsletter, March 2000


PRESENTING THE NEW ISSUE OF STEAMSHOVEL PRESS ONLINE...

* FEATURE ARTICLE
   Media, Manipulation and the Cult of Consumerism
   An Interview with media critic/author Douglas Rushkoff

* OFFLINE ILLUMINATION
   Divide  Conquer: The Jesuit Way
   A Book Review of Rulers of Evil by Tupper Saussy

* ALT.MEDIA BY URI DOWBENKO
   "Boiler Room" -- Reach Out  Scam Someone

* THINGS ARE GONNA SLIDE
   "Execute Me. Please."
   An Open Letter from Wayne Henderson

* THE LATEST WORD
   Mass Control Redux
   by Katherine Sullivan

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   Below find two responses to media reports about Richard Metzger's Disinfo
Convention in New York City on February 19 (see http://www.disinfo.com),
where Steamshovel's Kenn Thomas moderated a panel that included Greg Bishop,
Rob Sterling, Jonathan Vankin and ALiens In America author Jodi Dean.

To New York Times:

Dear Editor,

   Jon Pareles misquoted me in his report on the Disinfo convention recently
held in New York. "Weird and Fun, Anything Goes When It's Cyberpalooza, 2/21
edition of the New York Times.) I moderated a panel on conspiracy theories
at the event and Mr. Pareles has me saying "The idea that there's an
absolute answer to anything is patently wrong." I actually said
"everything", not "anything", an important distinction considering how flaky
the newspapers often like to make conspiracy theorists look. In fact, I was
quoting Jonathan Vankin, author of The 70 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time
and a member of the panel. Mr. Vankin had made the point previously on a TV
news program, that absolute proof is not even a legal standard. The courts
only require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. It is precisely this
acceptance of uncertainty that fuels conspiracy "theories" and leads to
important discoveries and new facts. Pareles' misquote drops the discussion
into a cauldron of relativity that I did not intend.

Kenn Thomas
Steamshovel Press

To Suck (Wired Magazine)

Dear Editor:

   What a petulant little article on the recent Disinfo Con in NYC!  ("White
Men in Hammerstein Ballroom," Suck, 2/28/00
http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/02/28/)
Not enough women and blacks?!? Do observations come more phony and facile?
Richard Metzger had a lot of weird shit happening at Disnfo Con but least it
got beyond idea number two. That's more than can be said about the writer of
this article, who apparently was looking for the Democratic convention or
something similar to hold hands, sing "Kumbaya" and hope for a better
America. Kudos to Metzger for defying the false dialogue of the PC
psuedo-left and presenting some straightforward chaos.


Kenn Thomas
Steamshovel Press
POB 23715
St. Louis, MO 63121

---
The Steamshovel books will be available at the table belonging to The Book
Tree at the Internationl UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada, March 5-11. Book
Tree published the Cyberculture Counterconspiracy volumes, so look for those
in abundance. Contact http://www.ufocongress.com for more information.


Kenn Thomas will appear at the Fortean Times UnConvention in London,
April 29-30. Contact http://www.forteantimes.com for more information.
Thomas
lectures on Maury Island and the Forteans also promise to have a flea circus
at the event.


   YES, the new hard-copy Steamshovel is out now! Just in time, too. One
anxious subscriber contacted the Attorney General's office to complain about
the lateness of its arrival. It's the "Table Tapping" issue, with previously
unpublished interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and William S.
Burroughs, plus Acharya S on Rajneesh and much else. Available at bookstores
and magazine stands around the country, or for $6 from Steamshovel, POB
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[CTRL] FW: Liberty Update / W.T.O.

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March 6, 2000

Dear friend of liberty,

Our electronic march on Washington supporting the withdrawal of
the United States from the W.T.O. begins today.  Representative
Ron Paul and four other members of the U.S. House submitted a
privileged resolution (H.J. Res. 90) this afternoon directing
the United States to withdraw from the W.T.O.

Representative Paul stated, "Let's call a spade a spade.  The
W.T.O. is nothing other than a vehicle for managed trade whereby
the politically connected, campaign contributors and fat cats
get the benefits of exercising their position as a preferred
group.  Preferred that is, by the Washington and international
political and bureaucratic establishments."

Dr. Paul also stated, "It is an egregious attack upon our
national sovereignty, and this is the reason why we must
vigorously oppose it. No nation can maintain its sovereignty
if it surrenders its authority to an international collective.
Since sovereignty is linked so closely to freedom, our very
notion of American liberty is at stake in this issue."

To join our electronic march, please go to
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[CTRL] FW: Minnesota update

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Subject: Minnesota update


Here's the latest update from Minnesota!!

Lynn
-

 Dear friends of natural health care -

 Just wanted to update you on the exciting progress of HF 537, SF 689, the
Complementary and Alternative Health Care Freedom of Access Act.  This bill
will eliminate the arbitrary and biased prosecutions of natural health
practitioners on the grounds of "practicing medicine without a license."

 After successfully passing the Civil Law Committee last week, the bill
Passed  another big hurdle by passing the House Health and Human Services
committee  and being referred to the Health Finance committee.  This was an
exciting  victory, fraught with tension and suspense.  If you haven't been
coming to  these hearings, you're missing it!

 Quite a number of hostile amendments were introduced to stop, water down,
or  otherwise render our bill ineffective.  They covered everything from the
MnCare Tax, to legal responsibilities of parents who bring their children to
alternative practitioners, to the definition of unlicensed practitioners,
and  the duty to refer and the right to continue service after doing a
referral.

 Once again, our attorney/lobbyist Diane Miller, and our chief author,
Lynda  Boudreau did a great job speaking in opposition to these amendments,
and the committee voted most, but not all, of them down.

 One amendment was brought by Rep Tom Huntley, DFL, Duluth, asking to
Include  language saying that complementary and alternative health care may
not be as  effective as conventional health care.  Rep. Lynda Boudreau
retorted, "Mr.  Huntley, I am offended.   That language is insulting to me
and to the  supporters of this bill.  I have here a whole stack of letters
from people  testifying that they do not find natural health care to be less
effective.
 And these are not some form letters sent out by some network.  These are
real  people who really care about access to natural health care.  I am
offended,  and I ask the committee to vote NO on this amendment."The
amendment was defeated.

 On another note, the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice testified that
they  oppose this legislation because it does not establish a standard of
care, and  it does not establish educational requirements.  Lynda Boudreau
replied,  "This bill is not about the Medical Board.  It is not about
medical doctors.
 It is about consumers, and consumers want to have access to these natural
kinds of health care.  And consumers are the folks who I have been elected
to  represent, not the Medical Board.  Members of the committee, I ask you
to vote YES on this bill."  The bill was approved on a voice vote and sent
to  the Health Finance Committee.

 On Monday morning, at 7:30 am, the Health Finance Committee will vote on
whether to provide the necessary funds for the Department of Health to have
oversight over the natural health practitioners.

 In the Senate, our bill is tentatively scheduled to be heard in the Health
Committee on Tuesday, March 7th, possibly at 10 am, Room 15 at the Capitol.
 Call 612 721 3305 to confirm this time and place.  We need to pack this
chamber for this important hearing.  If you haven't written the Health
Committee, there is still time to call every member on Monday, leave a
message with the assistant asking for them to support SF 689.

 This is a BIG WEEK now.  We need to pass all policy committees in the
Senate  by Friday, March 10th.  This will almost certainly include the
Judiciary  Committee, so please get out your letter regarding your views on
natural  health care and mail copies to everyone on the Judiciary Committee.
Do this  today!  Address it to the Chair, Senator Jane Ranum.

 We are over at the Capitol daily, educating legislators and negotiating
this important bill.  You folks have done an awesome job in the House of
Representatives with your letters and calls and packing the chambers for
hearings - now we need to do the same in the Senate.  We have good momentum,
and that alone speaks a lot to the Senators.  DON'T SLACKEN IN YOUR EFFORTS
NOW - WE ARE GETTING CLOSE!
It is the voice of you consumers that have a tremendous impact on these
legislators.  Keep your letters and phone calls  coming.


 Here's the committees -

 Minnesota Senate Health and Family  Services Committee

 room   phone (296)  district
 Chair: John Hottinger-DFL-Mankato120 CAP   6153  24
 Vice Chair: Becky Lourey-DFL-Kerrick G-9 CAP   0293   8
 Linda Berglin-DFL-Minneapolis309 CAP   4261  61
Fridley306 CAP   2556 48
 Steve Dille-R-Dassel 103 SOB4131 

[CTRL] FW: A Small IRS Terrorism Project...

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Subject: A Small IRS Terrorism Project...


This is an absolute shame...

Re: IRS Terrorism
   Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:02:36 -0600
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A Small IRS Terrorism Project
   by Paul Stout

This is a report of the continuing IRS operation to terrorize one old
man
and his wife.

Paul Stout is 81 years old and is in feeble health as a result of a
stroke and a heart attack.  His wife is a house-bound invalid, suffering
from
celiac sprue, aortic aneurism, and other serious disorders.  They live on
Social Security and a small commercial pension which the IRS is threatening
to levy.

Now the IRS has obtained a US District court order to seize and sell our
home of many years for alleged taxes.

At issue was whether the IRS has ever made a lawful, procedurally
correct
assessment; that is, an assessment that conforms to statute and the Federal
Tax Regulations.

The government simply refused to produce any such assessment.  The court
ruled that a substitute document not conforming to the statutory
requirements
would suffice.  The court refused to allow this issue of fact to be heard by
a jury, as was our due process right.

The judge admitted that he had the power to prevent the sale of our home
"in order to protect a co-owner who is not liable" (my wife), in furtherance
of the "innocent spouse" doctrine.  But he refused to prevent the sale, thus
making a mockery of the concept of "innocent spouse", and making my wife an
innocent victim of the vindictiveness of the IRS.

We cannot appeal these issues, because no lawyer would lift a finger for
what we could afford to pay.

The IRS claimed to Rep. Henry Hyde that it is powerless to intervene in
the situation on grounds of hardship or for any other reason.  This is not
true.  According to law, the Secretary or the Attorney General can
intervene.
 The Taxpayer Advocate Office (Ombudsman) has complete authority to order
the
IRS to cease any action that is a hardship, or for any other reason.  But in
this case of manifest and serious hardship the IRS claims to be "powerless"
to do anything.

The eventual result of this "caper" will be to render two feeble old
people homeless and destitute.  Hardship? The IRS doesn't think so.  Does
anyone?

  Paul and Florence Stout
 150 N. Main St., Lombard IL 60148
 630-627-1421   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Suggestions, comments, contributions, and expressions of support will be
welcomed.  If you want people to know what the government is doing in the
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[CTRL] FW: Chemical warfare in Seattle N30 - D3

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Date: Thursday, March 02, 2000 11:28 PM
Subject: Chemical warfare in Seattle N30 - D3


   Here finally seems to be some solid information on the toxic elements of
the tear gas used in Seattle.  It is OUTRAGEOUS, but not surprising, given
the early symptoms that were coming in from the medical staff at the time.
While the police had admitted to OC and CS gas before, this was not the
case with the CN gas, containing methylene chloride.

Appended is the technical information on methylene chloride.  Note
under the last point in the second message, under point #5: "PERMISSIBLE
EXPOSURE LIMIT (PEL): MG/M3 (500 PPM)" means that the permissible limit
is 0.

This should keep a bunch of them doing a whole mess of damage control
for a while.

But it also means a whole whack of us got hit with massive amounts of
deadly toxins in the chemical warfare that the state unleashed on us in
Seattle.  And we will have to live with that posioning for the rest of our
lives.  It was chemical warfare against internal dissent using chemicals of
mass destruction.  Is this not a crime against humanity?  Was that not why
the governments said they bombed (and continue to silently bomb) Iraq?  Cuz
Iraq allegedly had weapons of mass destruction (ie nerve gas).  Well, not
only does the USA government have such weapons but it uses them AGAINST
THEIR PEOPLE.  And it does so when its people are engaged in non-violent
civil disobedience.

Any lawyers out there who want to take this one as far as it'll go?
It'll go quite a ways!
How about human rights organizations?  Surely we get to at least
complain about them killing us!  Never mind dreaming about making them
actually ACCOUNTABLE for these crimes.

   -   Bob


From: Paul Cienfuegos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tear Gas additives identified by WA Toxics Coalition

This was just forwarded to me by the WA Toxics Coalition office in Seattle.
Please share it widely with your lists. Thanks!
Paul Cienfuegos


The Washington Toxics Coalition recently requested and received Material
Safety Data Sheets from the Seattle Police Department for all chemicals
used in crowd control during WTO protests the week of November 29.  The
Department reported the use of an OC gas (active ingredient is oleoresin of
capsicum), Pyrotechnic CS agent (o-chlorobenzalmalononitrile) and Liquid
Agent CN (chlorolactetophenone).

One disturbing find was the solvent used in the CN agent.  The MSDS
indicated that the agent is 50% active ingredient and 50% methylene
chloride as a solvent.  Methylene chloride is a possible/anticipated
carcinogen as reported by the National Toxicology Program and the
International Agency for Research on Cancer.  The National Library of
Medicine's Toxnet website reports it to be an experimental carcinogen,
tumorigen, teratogen (causes birth defects when it reaches egg or sperm
cells of the parents, or the developing fetus) with experimental
reproductive effects.  The site also indicates that human mutagen (causes
mutations in cells) data exists.

In addition to these serious effects, central nervous system depression is
reported.  Many of the nervous system effects given on the Toxnet site are
similar to those experienced by protesters.  Some of the symptoms listed by
Toxnet are lethargy, mental confusion, headache, tingling of the limbs,
acoustical and optical delusions, liver and kidney damage, increased risk
of spontaneous abortion, coma, and death.

Another dangerous effect of methylene chloride is described in Gosselin's
Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products.  The compound is metabolized to
carbon monoxide in humans, which could be dangerous to persons with asthma
or cardiovascular problems.

In short, methylene chloride is a dangerous solvent suspected of causing
cancer, tumor growth, birth defects, reproductive system effects, cell
mutations and central nervous system depression.

*

forwarded by
The Edmonds Institute
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
**
From: Will Offley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Methylene Chloride MSDS


http://ehs.clemson.edu/msds/Methyl.html


--
MSDS for   METHYLENE CHLORIDE

--

   1 - PRODUCT IDENTIFICATION

--
PRODUCT NAME: METHYLENE CHLORIDE
FORMULA:  CH2CL2F
FORMULA WT:  84.93
CAS NO.: 75-09-2
NIOSH/RTECS NO.:  PA805
COMMON SYNONYMS:  DICHLOROMETHANE;  METHYLENE DICHLORIDE;
METHANE DICHLORIDE
PRODUCT CODES:9324,9341,Q480,9330,5378,5531,9315,9329,9264
  EFFECTIVE: 10/24/86
  REVISION #03
   PRECAUTIONARY L

[CTRL] MINNESOTA: Bill introduces 5 yr moratorium on GECrops!!

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PLANETNEWS broadcast

Minnesota has made history! The first state in the U.S. to introduce a
bill calling for a 5 year moratorium on planting GE crops.

The Organic Consumers Association is a national consumer advocacy group
based in Minnesota. We have over 25,000 subscribers to our newsletters,
1700 stores, co-ops, and CSAs working with us throughout the country and
receive over 250,000 monthly hits on our web site.

We are calling on all Minnesota Legislators to support holding a hearing
on the important issue of genetic engineering and the bills that have been
introduced in the MN Legislature that relate to: calling for a 5 year
moratorium on all GE crops from being planted; requiring manditory
labeling of all GE foods sold in Minnesota;  and insuring that liability
for genetic drift/pollution be born by the companies that manufactured the
technology, not the farmers.

There are over 250 certified organic farmers in Minnesota whose livelyhood
depends on preserving the integrity of their crops. There are documented
cases of genetic drift - where pollen from GE corn has traveled up to 5
miles away and polluted an organic corn crop. This is not acceptable!!
Just like the FDA was remiss in allowing DDT to be used for so many years
because they didn't do adequate testing to insure it wasn't harmful to the
environment, GE/GMO's have also not had adequate testing done.

Organic consumers, please contact your MN legislators immediately and ask
them to support these bills and hold hearings on these important issues.
For more information on these please check our website at
www.purefood.org.

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http://www.freedommag.org/english/la/issue02/page12.htm
(A scientology site)

The maestro of “mind-control”
continues to haunt America


 Articles in this edition describe some of the life-destroying effects
of psychiatry’s primary therapies — drugs and electric shock. The following
presents one of their chief advocates — Louis Jolyon West, director of the
UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute until his resignation following exposure of
possible violations of federal law regarding use of government funds.


In a lawsuit currently before the Los Angeles Superior Court, it has come to
light that the University of California at Los Angeles and UCLA Medical
Center have, since the early 1980s, attempted to remove psychiatrist Louis
Jolyon West from the roster of the university’s faculty.

 One psychiatric colleague who asked to go unnamed described West as
“supremely arrogant” and charged that he “misused his positions for his own
ends,” at the expense of the university.

 Many will not find such statements surprising, considering West
himself, whose history includes controversial LSD experiments for the
Central Intelligence Agency and even more controversial plans to construct
secret installations for the “study” and modification — by electric shock,
chemical castration and other means — of the behavior of citizens,
particularly minorities.

 Indeed, any discussion of CIA “mind-control” endeavors, such as the
infamous MK-Ultra, would be incomplete without West, who has, according to
information provided to Freedom, enjoyed a long and lucrative career in this
field. Although he has sometimes posed as a civil libertarian, he has not
sought to expose dangers of intelligence agency “mind-control” techniques,
but rather to secretly perfect its use on others.

 In a document released under the Freedom of Information Act, for
example, it was revealed that more than four decades ago, the CIA sought to
set West up in a clandestine laboratory to perform “mind-control”
experiments with hypnosis and LSD. A portion of the experiments with LSD and
other drugs in which West was enmeshed at the CIA’s behest were exposed in
the mid-1970s by the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired
by Senator Frank Church.

 West contributed to the early work which resulted in, among other
things, the death of tennis pro Harold Blauer in an experiment with a
mescaline derivative in New York City in 1953. The Senate Select Committee’s
investigation revealed drugging of unsuspecting targets, electric shocking
to obliterate memory and “programming” individuals to kill — acting under
psychiatric control.

 West’s career highlights included injecting a 7,000-pound bull
elephant, Tusko, with an overwhelming dose of LSD — roughly 1,435 times the
quantity, in West’s own words, one would have given to a human “to produce
for several hours a marked mental disturbance.” Not surprisingly, the
elephant collapsed in agony minutes later and died.

 West had ingested the mind-altering substance himself shortly before
killing Tusko, the prize of the Oklahoma City Zoo, and was evidently still
under its influence at the time he sloshed through the beast’s entrails,
performing an “autopsy” which he recorded on film. He later issued a report
to advance his “discovery” that elephants could be killed with LSD and to
promote use of the drug to cull elephant herds in Africa.

Prisons as Laboratories

  “Jolly” West moved on, changing his base of operations from Oklahoma
to Los Angeles. In keeping with intelligence proposals to utilize prisons as
experimental laboratories, he drafted a plan to use electric shock and drugs
on state inmates in what was called “aversion therapy.”

 In the 1960s, West could also be found in the Haight-Ashbury section of
San Francisco, conducting more LSD experiments, this time within the hippie
community.

 A pet project of West’s in the late 1960s and early 1970s was the
Center for the Study and Reduction of Violence. He proposed to establish a
“securely fenced” center at a remote, abandoned Nike missile base in the
Santa Monica Mountains, in keeping with earlier plans by the CIA to set up
“mind-control” stations off the beaten path, where experimentation could be
carried out free from such concerns as human rights. Ironically, West
embarked on a PR campaign to promote himself as a champion of “human
rights” — an effort that would be comical if not for the bottom line in
terms of human suffering.

 West’s plans for such centers were the subject of hearings by the U.S.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary in 1974, chaired by Senator Sam Ervin,
whose members were alarmed at reports that West planned to test radical
forms of behavior modification — mind-bending drugs, electric shock,
implantation of electrodes in the brain and forcible castration wit

[CTRL] fluoride( A report and references)

[Dave]

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Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



http://www.fluoride-journal.com/98-31-2/31259-60.htm
references follow
  DEATH KNELL FOR FLUORIDATION?

Two recent reports1,2 that raise further questions about the alleged
safety of water fluoridation reveal significant and
disturbing brain cell neurotoxicity from relatively low concentrations
of aluminium fluoride and sodium fluoride in
drinking water of rats. Abstracted and commented on at length in this
issue of FLUORIDE (pages 89-99), these
investigations demonstrate that long-term ingestion by rats of drinking
water containing either 0.5 ppm aluminium
fluoride (AlF3), or 2.1 ppm sodium fluoride (NaF) causes readily
detectible damage not only to neuronal brain cells and
vasculature but also to glomerular kidney cells.

In one set of experiments the commonly recommended 1 ppm fluoride ion
level used in water fluoridation was present
in the drinking water along with 0.5 ppm aluminium ion (reported as "
0.5 ppm AlF3" ), and in the other series the same
1 ppm fluoride concentration was derived from 2.1 ppm NaF. Both brain
cell and kidney cell abnormalities differed
between the AlF3 and NaF groups. Compared to controls with Al derived
from the diet, the Al levels in the brain tissue
were more than doubled in the AlF3 group but not quite doubled in the
NaF group. Although the kidney tissue Al levels
were also doubled in the AlF3 group, they were about the same in the NaF
group.

Other previous experiments with rats showed that the toxicity of 0.5 ppm
AlF3 in the drinking water, including severe
deterioration in overall health, was significantly greater than at 5 or
even 50 ppm AlF3. The reason for this paradoxical
concentration effect is obscure, as is the mechanism by which aluminium
along with fluoride passes through
hydrophobic membranes and enters cells of the brain and kidneys.

Considering the clear-cut character of these laboratory findings, it is
surprising that such adverse effects have not been
reported long before now. After many years of supposedly intensive
research, the 50th anniversary of the beginning of
water fluoridation in Grand rapids, Michigan, was celebrated on 25
January 1995 as an occasion for "justifiable pride".3
Even as recently as 1993 a National Research Council report of the US
National Academy of Sciences concluded that
the US Environmental Protection Agency's current Maximum Contaminant
Level of 4 mg/L (4 ppm) for fluoride in
drinking water was quite appropriate as an interim standard.4 This
position was supported by a selective review of
data concerning dental and skeletal fluorosis, bone fragility,
genotoxicity, carcinogenicity, and fluoride effects on the
renal, gastrointestinal, and immune systems. Not cited, however, were
fluoride effects on the central nervous system,
including clinical reports of cognitive impairment5 and findings of
impaired intelligence in both animals6 and
humans7,8 related to fluoride.

The "ethical basis"9,10 for adding fluoride to water supplies depends on
the procedure being safe or at least having a
highly favourable benefit/risk ratio. The new findings reviewed here,
showing impaired brain function from fluoride in
conjunction with aluminium, have clearly tipped the balance against
fluoridation. If we keep in mind the ancient
dictum primum non nocere, then the death knell for fluoridation has
begun to toll.


Bruce Spittle, Dunedin School of Medicine

Albert W Burgstahler, University of Kansas


REFERENCES

   1.Isaacson RL, Varner JA, Jensen KF. Toxin-induced blood vessel
inclusions caused by the chronic administration of
 aluminum and sodium fluoride and their implications for dementia.
Neuroprotective Agents. Annals of the New
 York Academy of Sciences 825 152-166 1997.
   2.Varner JA, Jensen KF, Horvath W, Isaacson RL. Chronic
administration of aluminum-fluoride or sodium-fluoride to
 rats in drinking water: alterations in neuronal and cerebrovascular
integrity. Brain Research 784 284-298 1998.
   3.Burt BA. AAPHD Symposium: Fluoride: how much of a good thing?
Introduction to the symposium. Journal of
 Public Health Dentistry 55 37-38 1995.
   4.Subcommittee on Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride. Committee on
Toxicology, Board on Environmental Studies
 and Toxicology, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research
Council. Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride.
 National Academy Press, Washington, DC 1993 pp 1-11.
   5.Spittle B. Psychopharmacology of fluoride: a review. International
Clinical Psychopharmacology 9 79-82 1994.
   6.Mullenix PJ, Denbesten PK, Schunior A, Kernan WJ. Neurotoxicity of
sodium fluoride in rats. Neurotoxicology and
 Teratology 17 169-177 1995.
   7.Li XS, Zhi JL, Gao RO. Effect of fluoride exposure on intelligence
in children. Fluoride 28 189-192 1995.
   8.Zhao LB, Liang GH, Zhang DN, Wu XR

Re: [CTRL] Day by Day

[Dave]

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/A -Cui Bono?-

Baylor College is heavily CIA connected.
Implicated in GWS conspiracy, and others.
It's also near the military base where the delta-murder commandos that were
illegally sic'd on American citizens @waco were based.

Based on the high level of unmitigated trash posted by shannon, I'd say this
one is par for the shannon course.

Get a clue, budman.


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of William Shannon
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 8:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Day by Day


-Caveat Lector-   A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"
/A -Cui Bono?-

In a message dated 2/29/00 9:11:58 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 Bill,
 Please cite your proof that Koresh was a child murder/rapist. 


Hmmm...I'll try though you'll dispute the source (undoubtedly)...


PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON WACO

Bruce Duncan Perry, M.D., Ph.D.
The Child Trauma Programs

A Partnership of:
Baylor College of Medicine
and Texas Children's Hospital


*This is an Academy version of testimony of Dr. B.D. Perry, before the
Subcommitee on National Security, International Affairs, and Criminal
Justice
of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight and the Subcommittee on
Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary at the Oversight Hearings on Federal
Law Enforcement Conduct in Relation to the Branch Davidian Compound near
Waco, Texas, and appended documents, Congressional Record, July, 1995.




ABUSIVE CHILDREARING PRACTICES AT RANCH APOCALYPSE

Destructive characteristics of this setting included undermining traditional
parent-child relationships by David Koresh. Attachments to parent figures
were continually undermined and replaced with inappropriate dependence upon
a
central figure, David Koresh. Continuous undermining of other relationships,
including sibling relationships, husband and wife relationships, and
friendships was pervasive. Any attachment judged to be more important to an
individual than the attachment to God or David was undermined. By 1992,
these
children were taught to view David Koresh as their father, and later, these
children were taught to consider David as God (see slides). In the context
of
this evolving theology, Koresh's views became increasingly restrictive,
unpredictable and harsh for the children living at Ranch Apocalypse (see
Attachment 7).

These children had a set of inappropriate and age-inappropriate behaviors
and
significant gaps in general understanding, reflecting the idiosyncratic
teaching practices present in the compound. For example, very young
children,
including a six year old girl, knew an incredible amount about weapons,
while
they knew almost nothing about other common age-appropriate concepts. In one
example, we had a room with a variety of toys, including a small bolt action
toy rifle. Invariably, in the first visit to the room, each child first went
over and picked up the rifle. In one interview, a young girl went over,
picked up the rifle, pulled the bolt back, looked down the barrel and said
with disgust, "This isn't a real gun."

It is clear that these children were significantly traumatized by previous
harsh and inappropriate disciplinary techniques including severe corporal
punishment, extended isolation (overnight), severe food restrictions and
separation from primary caretakers. These children were continually exposed
to harsh, capricious, and humiliating disciplinary techniques. Children
expected to be beaten for events such as spilling milk. Infants were
severely
spanked for 'misbehaving'. In addition, these children were threatened with
death if they revealed aspects of life inside the compound to the
'non-believers'. As is typical when an abusive adult threatens a child, they
were told that 'they will not understand our special ways'. These children
were convinced that David Koresh would return from the grave and punish them
if they betrayed the Davidians by interacting with, or disclosing to, the
'bad guys' (law enforcement, non-believers, 'Babylonians').

Koresh was exploitive and manipulative of these children and exposing them
to
a variety of inappropriate sexual content -- such as graphically describing
intercourse and sexual 'technique' in his hours-long sermons where children
were present. Furthermore, the girls were socialized to believe that sex
with
Koresh, by age 12 (and earlier), was normative, appropriate, and, indeed,
desirable -- being part of God's plan as revealed to David. All of the young
girls were being prepared to be David's wives and that was a healthy and
desired position to be in. One of the older girls expressed distress, now
that she had been released from the compound, that she would not be able to
be picked by David as one of his brides. Clear and compelling disclosure of
sexual abuse o

Re: [CTRL] TSD On Homeopathy

[Dave]

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Oh look, it's the fool shannon again, and he's found the U.S.'s foremost
drug-company owned and operated "quackbuster" (a quack meaning anyone who
fails to properly contribute to drug-company profits).

Someone point out to the poor numbskull that homeopathic remedies cost
fractions of a cent, and that worldwide, homeopathy is quite well respected
as a medical discipline.

Shannon naturally wouldn't have a clue, 'cuz his toob tells him no and he
hasn't a choice but to believe as he's told.

Poor guy..


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: Conspiracy Theory Research List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of William Shannon
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 8:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CTRL] TSD On Homeopathy


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In a message dated 2/29/00 9:10:37 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  Enhancement of the natural immune system is by far our
 best bet. 

Yup, you might be right...but taking expensive water or sugar pills ain't
going to do diddly to your immune system.
Bill.
=

Homeopathy: The Ultimate Fake
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Homeopathic "remedies" enjoy a unique status in the health marketplace: They
are the only category of quack products legally marketable as drugs. This
situation is the result of two circumstances. First, the 1938 Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act, which was shepherded through Congress by a
homeopathic physician who was a senator, recognizes as drugs all substances
included in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States. Second, the
FDA has not held homeopathic products to the same standards as other drugs.
Today they are marketed in health-food stores, in pharmacies, in
practitioner
offices, by multilevel distributors [A], through the mail, and on the
Internet.

Basic Misbeliefs
Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), a German physician, began formulating
homeopathy's basic principles in the late 1700s. Hahnemann was justifiably
distressed about bloodletting, leeching, purging, and other medical
procedures of his day that did far more harm than good. Thinking that these
treatments were intended to "balance the body's 'humors' by opposite
effects," he developed his "law of similars" -- a notion that symptoms of
disease can be cured by extremely small amounts of substances that produce
similar symptoms in healthy people when administered in large amounts. The
word "homeopathy" is derived from the Greek words homoios (similar) and
pathos (suffering or disease).

Hahnemann and his early followers conducted "provings" in which they
administered herbs, minerals, and other substances to healthy people,
including themselves, and kept detailed records of what they observed. Later
these records were compiled into lengthy reference books called materia
medica, which are used to match a patient's symptoms with a "corresponding"
drug.

Hahnemann declared that diseases represent a disturbance in the body's
ability to heal itself and that only a small stimulus is needed to begin the
healing process. He also claimed that chronic diseases were manifestations
of
a suppressed itch (psora), a kind of miasma or evil sprit. At first he used
small doses of accepted medications. But later he used enormous dilutions
and
theorized that the smaller the dose, the more powerful the effect -- a
notion
commonly referred to as the "law of infinitesimals." That, of course, is
just
the opposite of the dose-response relationship that pharmacologists have
demonstrated.

The basis for inclusion in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia is not modern
scientific testing, but homeopathic "provings" conducted during the 1800s
and
early 1900s. The current (ninth) edition describes how more than a thousand
substances are prepared for homeopathic use. It does not identify the
symptoms or diseases for which homeopathic products should be used; that is
decided by the practitioner (or manufacturer). The fact that substances
listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia are legally recognized as "drugs"
does
not mean that either the law or the FDA recognizes them as effective.

Because homeopathic remedies were actually less dangerous than those of
nineteenth-century medical orthodoxy, many medical practitioners began using
them. At the turn of the twentieth century, homeopathy had about 14,000
practitioners and 22 schools in the United States. But as medical science
and
medical education advanced, homeopathy declined sharply in America, where
its
schools either closed or converted to modern methods. The last pure
homeopathic school in this country closed during the 1920s [1].

Many homeopaths maintain that certain people have a special affinity to a
particular remedy (their "consti

[CTRL] FW: Alert: National Organic Standards Second Proposed Rule being issued next week

[Dave]

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I wonder why I should be surprised:
"There will be no USDA public hearings on the Proposed Rule."


Dave Hartley
http://www.asheville-computer.com/dave



-Original Message-
From: by way of Debbie Ortman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 10:39 AM
To: Recipient list suppressed
Subject: Alert: National Organic Standards Second Proposed Rule being
issued next week


OCA will be sending out an action alert once the NOS rule is out and we,
along with other
groups, have reviewed it.
Debbie Ortman

This is from Eric Kindberg an activist, organic farmer that has been
following this
issue.
A communication from the organic4um:
Facilitated by Eric Kindberg, certified organic farmer

Good morning,

In a telephone conversation with Keith Jones, USDA/NOP, he indicated the
second Proposed Organic Rule would be placed in the Federal Register for
public comment this coming week of March 6-10, 2000.

The Organic 4um will issue a side by side comparison of the Proposed Rule
with the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 very shortly thereafter.
Final
Recommendations of the National Organic Standards Board, CODEX Guidelines
for
Organic Farming and Handling and consumer expectations will be noted in the
Side by Side Comparison where appropriate.  Everyone is asked to critique
the
Proposed Rule and the Side by Side as well.

A report follows by a participant at a meeting held last week with Keith
Jones, staff director of the USDA National Organic Program.  It should be
noted there were no certified farmers or handlers in attendance.  Without
someone circulating the information of such meetings and the information
supplied at such meetings to certified organic farmers and handlers, we are
becoming more and more spoken for rather than spoken to.  We suggest that
for
information flow and transparency, that statements that impact on the
organic
community at such "organic community meetings" with federal government
representatives, need to be posted on the USDA Agricultural Marketing
Service
website the following day.
http://www.usda.gov
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(The ph # for Keith Jones,National Organic Standards,USDA is 202-720-3252
and Fax: 202-690-3924) (Keith Jones,Program Manager,USDA-AMS-TM-NOP,Room
2510 South Building,P.O. Box 96456,Washington,DC 20090-6456)


Monday, February 28 - Briefing with Keith Jones

Representatives of the Organic Committee, Campaign for Sustainable
Agriculture, met with Keith who updated us about the rule and program news.
Attending were Michael Sligh, Liana Hoode, Mardi Mellon, Joe Mendelson,
Stacy
Clary (CASWAG), Barbara Robinson (the USDA Secretary's legislative liaison),
Diane Goodman and two or three others.

Keith announced that the rule would be out within 10 days.  The Secretary
will hold a press conference announcing it and Keith will initiate
conference
calls to constituents on the same day.  Kathleen will do a briefing for the
Hill and with mainstream agriculture.

The rule includes a user-friendly index so if you wanted direction to a
subject like livestock, a find or search for that subject will turn up each
time the word is used in the rule.  It's 676 pages, double-spaced, single
sided and the web site has been redesigned to handle it, as well as a
capacity for 400,000 comments.

The Preamble includes a question and answer section, a section of changes
requested by those that commented and made by USDA, changes requested and
not
made and changes made by USDA on their own.

There is not a side by side comparison of the rule, NOSB Final
Recommendations, American Organic Standards, European Union Guidelines nor
CODEX.

There will be no USDA public hearings on the Proposed Rule.


NEXT National Organic Standards Board Meeting Scheduled:
The NOSB will meet in Buena Park, California March 21 and 22.
--Day 1, first half will be NOSB Committee Reports, Materials will address
ethylene, second half will be USDA briefing the Board about the Rule,
--Day 2, first half will continue USDA briefing and second half for public
input.

New NOSB appointments will not be announced before the second Proposed Rule
is issued.  They will be in place before the Board meets in June.

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handling
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--April 7   Seattle Workshop formats with State of Washington and Alaska
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DRUGSENSE WEEKLY

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DrugSense Weekly,March 3, 2000#139

A DrugSense publication  http://www.drugsense.org/

Read This Publication On-line at: http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm



TABLE OF CONTENTS:

* Feature Article

The DrugSense Weekly; Evolution  Hints for Easy Reading
 by Tom O'Connell M.D.

* Weekly News in Review

Drug Policy-

(1) Ecstasy Seizures Soar as Use Increases
(2) Meth Labs an Increasingly Common Problem in Area
(3) More Pre Schoolers on Psychiatric Drugs
(4) MI: D.A.R.E. Doesn't Work
(5) Drug Tests on Pregnant Women Studied
(6) Benedictine to Test for Drugs
(7) Students Skip Drug Question on Federal Form

Law Enforcement  Prisons-

(8) Many Snitches Still Doing Crime
(9) FBI Launches Probe into Rampart Scandal
(10) CA: Guards Accused of Arranging Attacks
(11) Column: Plan for Police Falls Short

Cannabis  Hemp-

(12) IL: U.S. Drug Czar Opposes Plan in Illinois
(13) Hemp Growers Reluctant To Abandon Their Dream
(14) CA: Pair Guilty of Conspiracy
(15) CA: Most Doctors Reluctant to Recommend Marijuana
(16) Pot Farms Invade National Parks

International News-

(17) Australia: $5 M Ecstasy Scam
(18) RCMP Want Nude-Cam for Toronto's Airport
(19) UK: Drug Abuse Deaths Among Young Men Double in 4 Years
(20) Scotland: Row Over 'Benign' Drug Use Report
(21) Colombia: Contractors Playing Increasing Role in U.S. Drug War
(22) Entering Colombia's Civil War Won't Solve the U.S. Problem
(23) Mexico: Tijuana Official Says Slaying Shows Traffickers' Power

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FEATURE ARTICLE

The DrugSense Weekly; Evolution  Hints for Easy Reading
by Tom O'Connell M.D.

The DrugSense News Archive is now just three years old and the Weekly,
which attempts a comprehensive review of the latest trends in drug
policy, is half-way through its third year. With that in mind I thought
it might be useful to review their origins and explain how the current
format of the newsletter evolved.

Shortly after MAP began, the News Archive- almost an afterthought to
the main goal of encouraging letters to editors (LTEs)- grew quickly
and was soon recognized as an asset in its own right. Kevin Zeese and
Mark Greer decided a newsletter focused on the latest additions would
help advertise the archive. It was our good fortune that webmaster Matt
Elrod was both librarian and computer genius; thus, our database has
always been well organized, searchable, and expandable; qualities which
later proved indispensable.

Also indispensable was Richard Lake; he recruited and organized a corps
of volunteer NewsHawks to find and transmit pertinent material from
around the world; he also recruited editors to follow high standards in
rapidly formatting and archiving submitted items. The bedrock of the
newsletter has thus always been a timely, reliable, and ever more
inclusive database representing (for the past year or more) most of the
drug policy material published in English by the popular press.

At first, newsletters were just lists of excerpted articles and URLs
deemed by informal consensus to be the more interesting- with no effort
to determine significance or relate them to reform efforts or media
patterns.

I first became involved when the newsletter was about 6 months old;
since I'd never done anything similar before and was also a computer
novice, it was very much a learning experience. I had to struggle just
to track the constant (and ever-growing) stream of submitted items; let
alone make some sense of them and communicate that sense to a busy,
informed, and growing readership.

Trial and error eventually produced the four durable categories now in
use: policy, law enforcement, cannabis and international. I gradually
learned to use the briefest possible excerpts of each item in order to
cover the most policy ground in the fewest words (4000, plus a short
feature is ideal). In that sense, HTML links are invaluable; readers
with a good Internet connection can go directly to the text of articles
which interest them; they can still get a useful gist of other items
from the combination of headline, COMMENT, and excerpt.

Since most of the words in each issue are either boilerplate or were
written by others, developing a style was a challenge. The guiding
principle turned out to be Joe McNamara's observation that "the drug
war can't

[CTRL] Just say no to biotech business

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Guardian (London) Thursday March 2, 2000
George Monbiot

Just say no to biotech business
 Tony Blair should be brave enough to do a swift u-turn on GM foods

The man who never changes his opinion," Blake observed, "is like stagnant
water, and breeds reptiles in the mind." It is, therefore, distressing to
see how determined politicians are to persuade us that they never refresh
their mental fluids. The u-turn, mysteriously, has become the gravest of
political crimes, even when adhering to existing policies is suicidal.
Having bred an imaginary reptile out of one amphibian-loving MP, for
example, Tony Blair is now becalmed in the stagnant water of his own
intransigence.

So the efforts this week of the cabinet enforcer, Mo Mowlam, to convince
us that Tony Blair has not changed his views on genetically engineered
food were sadly predictable. The government, she insists, remains, as it
has always been, neutral: "We are neither for nor against GM."

Well, neutrality, if this is what Mr Blair's position entails, certainly
represents a policy shift. Last year, the government allocated 13m "to
improve the profile of the biotech industry", by promoting "the financial
and environmental benefits of biotechnology". The prime minister, a
Downing Street spokesman insisted, "is very strongly of the view that
these products are safe". The UK "leads the way in Europe", according to
the government's Invest in Britain Bureau, "in ensuring that regulations
and other measures affecting the development of biotechnology take full
account of the concerns of business". If this is neutrality, the Pope's an
agnostic.

Genetic engineering has always troubled Tony Blair, for it divides his two
great constituencies - big business and Middle England. When faced, for
the first time in his premiership, with the need to alienate one by
supporting the other, he chose to side with the lobbyists, and against the
electorate. It was only after the business case for GM food collapsed that
he changed his position. Even so, while acknowledging the legitimacy of
public concerns about the environment and food safety, his article on
Sunday avoided the real issue: the corporate capture of the food chain.

Mr Blair's backing for the biotech companies has, as he now appears to
have recognised, done him untold harm. It has taught businesses that he's
a dupe who will sing to their tune, however off-key it may be. It has
encouraged voters to explore the other insalubrious liaisons in which he
has become entangled. His conversion to neutrality, even in the narrowest
political terms, is long overdue. But it will take a lot more than an
article in a Sunday newspaper to make it look convincing.

To recover his credibility, he must snatch government policy out of the
hands of the biotech business. This means relieving Lord Sainsbury, whose
crashing conflicts of interest remain a major political embarrassment, of
his duties as science minister. He must sack Professor Ray Baker, the head
of the government's biotechnology research council. Professor Baker has
used his post as a platform for misleading public statements in support of
GM, while his council gags researchers who wish to speak out against the
technology.

Meetings of the biotech advisory committees must all be made public, and
their members prevented from voting on decisions in which they have a
commercial interest. The flow of research funds should be reversed. Last
year the government spent 52m on developing GM crops, for which demand in
Britain is approximately zero, and 1.7m on research into organic farming,
for which demand outstrips domestic supply by 200%. The Foresight
committees, which help guide the allocation of government science funds,
but are dominated by business people, must be dismantled.

If field trials are to continue (and it's not easy to see the point of
spending taxpayers' money to discover whether plants engineered to destroy
wildlife are bad for the environment), they must be isolated from other
crops and redesigned. It is absurd that one of the key questions - of how
far GM pollen travels - has been left to Friends of the Earth and
Newsnight to investigate.

The government must revoke the legislation, passed by the Conservatives,
raising the permitted levels of glyphosate pesticide residues in soya by
200 times: a menace to public health engineered to allow Monsanto's
herbicide resistant beans to be sold in the UK. It should reverse its
support for the European directive permitting the patenting of genes,
which resulted in the undignified spectacle, at the end of last year, of
the prime minister begging the biotech companies not to use the new powers
his government has granted them.

Genetic engineering has become one of the great tests of Tony Blair's
premiership. 

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Organic View - An e-mail publication of the Organic
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v.2 n.2 February 29, 2000

Contents
1. Frito-Lay Asks Farmers Not To Plant Genetically
Engineered Corn
2. Biosafety Agreement Achieves Partial Victory
3. Safe Seed Inititiative
4. EPA Told To Respond To Lawsuit
5. Gene Drift Research
6. Interesting Recent Articles


1. Frito-Lay Asks Farmers Not to Plant Genetically
Engineered Corn

In the first move of its kind by a major US food company,
Frito-Lay has asked its farmers to not grow genetically
engineered corn to be used in the company's corn chips and
other food products. The Frito-Lay announcement is the most
significant sign that major US food companies are trying to
distance themselves from this uncertain technology.

A Frito-Lay spokesperson told the Associated Press that the
decision was made because consumers had expressed concern
about genetically engineered foods. ``There is some consumer
concern out there. We felt at this time it's appropriate to
ask our growers not to sell us genetically altered corn.''

In 1999, Frito-Lay (owned by Pepsico) bought 1.2 billion
pounds of corn to be used in products such as Doritos,
Fritos and Tostitos chips. More than 95 percent of the corn
purchased by Frito-Lay comes from farmers that are under
direct contract to the company.

It is unclear, however, how the company will take steps to
guarantee the other five percent of its corn is
non-engineered. In addition, Frito-Lay does buy some
ingredients in bulk, including oils, that could derive from
genetically engineered crops. The company is not
guaranteeing that its products are genetically engineered
free, and Frito-Lay has stated that it currently has no
plans to start marketing its products as
genetically-engineered free.

While a number of organic and natural food companies have
announced that they have no genetically engineered
ingredients, Frito-Lay's announcement is by far the most
significant by a major US food company. Last year, Gerber
and Heinz announced that they would not use genetically
engineered ingredients in their baby food.

An estimated 60 to 70 percent of processed foods on US
supermarket shelves have some genetically engineered
ingredients in them.

Frito-Lay is being sharply criticized by the biotech
industry and other large US food companies for its decision.
Give Frito-Lay a call:  1-800-352-4477. Or e-mail:
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Let them know that you support their decision to not grow
genetically engineered corn. Ask them to take the next step
and ensure that 100 percent of their ingredients are
genetically engineered free.

2. Biosafety Agreement Achieves Partial Victory

In Montreal last month, governments from around the world
reached agreement on the first treaty governing genetically
engineered crops. The agreement, known as the Biosafety
Protocol, was hailed as a good first step by environmental
groups.

The agreement involved over 130 nations and sets the
framework for additional negotiations over genetically
engineered foods and crops.

In a major victory for those fighting genetically engineered
foods around the world, the treaty acknowledges the
importance of the "precautionary principle" - which states
that these new foods can be rejected by other countries if
there are unanswered scientific questions pending their
safety. The US delegation has previously argued that
genetically engineered foods and crops should be considered
safe unless there is scientific proof that they are
dangerous.

The Protocol for the first time establishes on an
international level that genetically engineered foods are
distinct and different, and should regulated differently
than conventional foods.

Under the treaty, shipments containing genetically
engineered commodities must be labeled that they "may
contain" genetically modified organisms. Farmers and food
companies are not required to separate genetically
engineered seeds and other seeds. However, if engineered and
non-engineered crops are mixed together - they will have to
be labeled as "may contain." It is unclear whether this
label will serve as an incentive for US farmers to go
GE-free or for US exporters to segregate crops.

The protocol covers commodities, not foods, but most US
exports are currently commodities, including seeds.

The protocol is an outgrowth of the Convention on Biological
Divers

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Why did then-Arkansas Attorney General William Clinton sign a
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[CTRL] Bankers refusing to loan for GMO seeds (fwd)

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According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 4% of midwest ag bankers
will " not provide financing for GMO seeds" and 28%  "indicated they were
willing but did hold reservations." This is in the AgLetter from February
2000 - for a copy contact the Public Information Center, Federal Reserve
Bank in Chicago,312-322-5111. It is also on line at www.frbchi.org


Mark Ritchie, President
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Reuters:UK: February 29, 2000

EDINBURGH - Scientist Arpad Pusztai, who triggered concerns about
genetically modified food last year, said yesterday he was convinced more
needed to be done to ensure the technology was not harmful to animals and
humans.

He called in an interview with Reuters for international collaboration to
examine GM products.

"That conviction has been growing," said Pusztai, attending an
international conference in Edinburgh on GM foods.

"In the United States there are 42 genetically modified foodstuffs, so
there is plenty to look at. We ought to do it as soon as possible."

Pusztai said industry must also be involved in the effort but in an
indirect way because consumers would have no confidence otherwise in the
research.

"There will always be suspicions that money speaks. We have to evolve some
sort of system whereby we would be able to get money indirectly, for
example GM and biotechnology companies could put money in a trust and then
the trust would deal with it, rather than direct involvement," he said.

Pusztai said scientists from the United States and the European Union
should be involved.

GM FOOD CONFERENCE

Some 400 scientists, regulators and environmental and consumer activists
are attending a three-day conference on GM food set up by the Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

The meeting followed a request from the Group of Eight (G8) industialised
countries for more information.

The OECD has said it hopes the meeting will provide a constructive debate
about GM food and the way forward. The findings will be presented to the
next G8 meeting in July.

Pusztai said he stood by his original claims based on research on rats
that GM food might directly harm human health.

He found that rats fed potatoes modified to produce an insecticide
appeared to have immune response and growth problems.

He was criticised for voicing his concerns in a television documentary
before his research was published in a peer-reviewed journal and was fired
from his job at the Rowett Research Institute in Scotland.

The research has since been printed in The Lancet medical journal but its
validity is still questioned.

Professor Zhangliang Chen, vice president of Beijing University in China,
told the conference that similar research he had conducted using GM sweet
peppers and tomatoes had no adverse impact on rats.

Pusztai said he had not seen the Chinese research but it was important to
continue studies into the safety of GM products.

"At least he (Chen) did try to show whether it is safe or not," he told
Reuters. "Dr Chen did not say how he did the experiment. It is extremely
important to know how it is done."


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[CTRL] Confrontation on genetically manipulated foods

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Agence France Presse

Consumer advocates throw down gauntlet on transgenic foods

EDINBURGH, Feb 29 (AFP) -

Genetically-modified foods face a consumer revolt if biotech corporations,
scientists and policy-makers fail to overhaul the way they vet the safety
of these novel products, consumer watchdogs said Tuesday.

Speaking at a forum on the future of transgenic foods, they said that in
industrialised countries, especially in Europe, growing numbers of the
public felt the safety assessment process was determined by a narrow elite
and driven by corporate greed.

For many people, they said, food products risked being authorised that
could be dangerous for the health and the environment.

John Durant, professor of communications at London's Imperial College,
said bio-engineered food had been plunged into a "crisis of credibility"
among consumers, who saw no benefits and -- in the wake of the mad-cow
scare -- only risks.

"It's been lack of awareness of what citizens care about that has caused
most of the problems," Durant said. "The risks of policy-making behind
closed doors are greater than doing it in public."

Public hostility to the new foods had been fuelled by "a narrow scientific
interpretation" of the risks, said Julian Edwards, head of Consumers
International, a global association of consumer groups.

Genetically-modified foods are made from plants that have had material
added to their genes from other species.

Their supporters say there can be dramatic cost benefits for the farmer,
advantages in taste, nutrition or shelf life for the consumer and a
reduction in the amount of pesticides sprayed in the environment.

But these products are so new that there is no internationally-agreed
system for assessing whether these foods are safe.

National regulations, safeguards and approval procedures for this
innovation are unprecedented -- but they are often an obscure tangle that
has helped to stoke accusations of coverups and a public sense of
helplessness.

The three-day Edinburgh conference, hosted by the Organisation for
Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has exposed a deep rift over
"substantial equivalence," an international guideline that says a modified
plant should be acceptable if it is chemically similar to a conventional
strain.

Opponents say this chemical principle fails to take into account such
risks as "jumping genes" that may cross over from the modified species and
enter other forms of wildlife -- creating, for instance, superweeds that
grow out of control.

"This is a very new technology, and we need to be very humble about what
we don't know," said Michael Hansen, of the Consumers Union of the United
States.

He noted that, in the 1950s, there were optimistic claims about the safety
of nuclear power and the pesticide DDT. A decade later, new scientific
knowledge proved these claims to be absurdly wrong.

Friends of the Earth campaigner Pete Riley said an overlooked danger was
the effect of transgenic farm feed, such as corn and soy meal, on farm
animals.

"For some animals, a plant may account for 50 to 60 percent of its diet,"
he said. "Genetically-modified crops could have a much more significant
effect on farm animals than on humans."

In the United States, the feed was routinely only given a four-week test
period on a couple of animals, and this was hardly enough to assess
long-term risks that could be passed up the food chain to humans, Riley
said.

Biotechnologists from developing countries urged Europe not to let its
fears destroy a beneficial tool that could help feed their poor.

Chen Zhianglang, vice president of Beijing University, said there was no
evidence of any threat, and this had been proven by exhaustive lab tests
and exposure to hundreds of millions of people.

"This is a safe technology," he said. "In five years' time, it will be
considered mainstream."

Canadian scientist Alan McHughen, of the University of Saskatchewan, said
it was senseless for environmentalists to challenge researchers to prove
that there were no risks.

"As scientists, we cannot prove negatives," he said. "There is no zero
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[CTRL] Martial mindset permeates U.S. policing

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The Globe and Mail
TORONTO  Monday, February 28, 2000
DOUG SAUNDERS

How fierce war on L.A. gangs spawned police reign of terror

Hundreds of cops may be implicated in probe of massive corruption


Los Angeles -- Brian Hewitt was known on the streets of Los Angeles as a
brutal criminal, a brawny, angry white man with pork-chop sideburns and
club-like arms, a sadist who would administer terrible beatings. With no
apparent provocation, black and Latino men would be dragged to his
headquarters, where he and his companions would tie their hands behind
their backs and beat them bloody, break their limbs, choke them to the
verge of unconsciousness or batter their heads into concrete walls.

Brian Hewitt was a police officer. According to testimony from his
colleagues, his activities and those of dozens of officers like him were
considered normal procedure for years at the Los Angeles Police
Department's Rampart station, home to an antigang squad known as Community
Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH). If even a fraction of the
allegations are true, the LAPD has become as criminal and menacing as the
gangs it polices.

The revelations are coming to a head: The Federal Bureau of Investigation
and other federal authorities joined the LAPD's internal investigation
last week and the Los Angeles mayor worried the scandal could bankrupt his
city.

According to LAPD interviews with rogue police officers and informants,
whose leaked revelations have produced front-page headlines for the past
month, the CRASH officers wore death's-head tattoos, and their commanders
would reward them with plaques at drunken parties each time they shot
someone. A red plaque was given for a wounding, a black one for a killing.
Routine activities included beating or coercing confessions out of
suspects, intimidating witnesses into false testimony or silence, planting
guns or drugs on people, shooting people without cause, tampering with
death scenes and planting guns on victims to justify improper shootings,
paying informants with drugs, lying in court and selling seized drugs.

The allegations, which could involve hundreds of officers across the city,
form what could be the most widespread and serious police-misconduct case
in recent history. The case carries grave implications for other U.S.
cities that have employed the militaristic policing strategies that
Washington's war on drugs encourages.

"This seems to be on the scale of the biggest police scandals in U.S.
history," said Merrick Bobb, a lawyer who has investigated
police-misconduct cases and who was asked on Friday to lead a City Hall
inquiry into the Rampart case. "I don't think anybody at this point can
guess the depth and breadth of this particular scandal."

Whatever its scope, experts describe this as a new kind of police
corruption. Its roots are found in the militarization of U.S. police
during the late 1980s and '90s as part of federally funded war-on-drugs
initiatives, which have often valued arrest statistics over ethical
behaviour.

The Rampart station, in a squat modern building north of downtown Los
Angeles and 15 minutes from Hollywood, is remembered by many for its part
in the 1960s TV series Adam-12,which portrayed the sort of neighbourhood
policing that came to an end with the Nixon-era drug-war initiatives.

Today, Rampart sits in a community riddled with Latino gangs. It is one of
a dozen stations that have hired hundreds of extra officers, often hastily
and without the usual psychological and background screening, in antigang
and antidrug programs.

Those units seem to have ignored basic principles of civil rights and
justice. According to an investigation published in the Los Angeles Times
last week, the CRASH unit maintained a list of 10,000 Latinos living in
California and other states who were thought to be members or associates
of the notorious 18th Street gang.

Neighbourhood sweeps would be conducted in which anyone whose name
appeared on the list would be arrested, even if there was no evidence of
criminal activity. If a plausible crime could not be produced, the
individuals were often turned over to officials from the Immigration and
Naturalization Service for deportation, even though LAPD and INS rules
prohibit the organizations from working together.

So far, 21 officers had left their jobs because of allegations raised in
the inquiry, although none have faced criminal charges to date. Judges
have reversed indictments and freed at least 99 people from prison after
learning that officers had arrested them without cause or provided false
evidence in court.

The city estimates the cost of settling wrongful-conviction lawsuits for
those cases at $12-million (U.S.); most observers believe hundreds of
other cases will be discovered after the police probe delivers its report
to City Hall on Wednesd

[CTRL] FW: Food Safety Files 7: More aspartame horror stories -- Coca ColaRecalls FrescaSoda + Parent Alert on Pedialyte and Augmentin + RATE OF RITALIN USE FORTODDLERS RAPIDLY RISING IN THE U.S. + Secret report: The protest of theNational Soft Drink Association

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From: Jean Hudon

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000
From: Betty Martini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Personal note

Dear Jean,

I went ahead and sent you that last article rather than wait for Shoshanna
because the recall on Fresca is dated the 23rd of February.   I had to wait
until I could talk to Dr. Bowen before I sent it because I wanted to get
some insight on aspartame being added unlabeled.  He had been telling me
about so many people having reactions to regular pop who believed aspartame
had been included.

Plus yesterday when I spoke with all the mothers in Walmart who had used
Pedialyte I was really upset and had to cool down before I started
writing. When they tell you about babies that had died from it, and the
suffering some went through it just really got to me.  I picked up one baby
with urticaria (hives) who was so fretful and sick.  I asked the mother was
the baby on aspartame and she said she never used it.  Then when I
mentioned Pedialyte she said "oh yes, I gave him some today".  Most people
don't read labels.  Some of the most serious drinks are Crystal lite (being
taken off the market, thank God!) and Diet Kool Aide.  When people drink
gallons of this drug in these kind of products they get very
sick.  Pedialyte which comes in a large bottle to stop dehydration is
causing a lot of neurotoxin to the tender brains of these babies,
equivalent to an adult drinking gallons of products of the above.  And I
shudder to even think of how many babies may have died from these seizures
since we get so many complaints.  It brings you to tears to hear the
stories.

I did call Pedialyte and tell them to take this poison out of babies
products.  I was told, "we have one unflavored version that doesn't contain
the toxin".  I said:  "Look, just because you market one product without
arsenic doesn't give you the right to market others with arsenic and poison
our children."  Then she says: "Well, I'll pass on the message".  This
stuff is being advertised all over TV, in babies magazines and physicians
are telling mothers to use it.

All my best,
Betty

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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000
From: Betty Martini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fwd: Coca Cola Bottling Recalls Fresca Soda. Parent Alert on
Pedialyte and Augmentin. Recent study shows 1.5% of children 2 to 4 years
old using antipsychotic drugs! Aspartame connection discussion.

Feb 24: According to FDA, more than 24,000 cases of Fresca with undeclared
Acesulfame Potassium were distributed in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina,
Tennessee, California and Nevada. This is a Class III recall. Fresca also
contains aspartame. Fountain machines contain no PKU warnings required by
law for phenylketonurics who cannot metabolize phenylalanine. If a baby is
PKU if he survives aspartame at all which triggers birth defects, autism,
ADD, etc., he can be mentally retarded. No warning for pregnant women!

As to Acesulfame K, in Aspartame (NutraSweet) Is It Safe? by H. J. Roberts,
M.D., (Charles Press), page 283/284 it says:

"Acesulfame potassium (or acesulfame K) was approved for use by the FDA as
a safe artificial sweetener in July 1988. it is a derivative of acetoacetic
acid. Unfortunately, several potential problems associated with the use of
acesulfame have been raised. They are based largely on animal studies since
testing on humans remains limited.

* It stimulates insulin secretion in a dose-dependent fashion, thereby
possibly aggravating reactive hypoglycemia ("low blood sugar attacks") * It
apparently produced lung tumors, breast tumors, rare types of tumors in the
organs (such as the thymus gland), several forms of leukemia, and chronic
respiratory disease in several rodent studies, even when less-than-maximum
doses were given. Accordingly, the Center for Science in the Public
Interest formally petitioned on August 29, l988 for a stay of approval by
the FDA on August 29, l988 because of "significant doubt" about the safety
of acesulfame potassium."

Aspartame Disease has been declared a world epidemic by H. J. Roberts,
M.D., so Fresca should be avoided at all costs anyway.
(www.sunsentpress.com). A river of information on aspartame can be accessed
at www.dorway.com

RATE OF RITALIN USE FOR TODDLERS RAPIDLY RISING IN THE U.S.

Aspartame concern relating to children and babies: The Atlanta Journal
Constitution, front page story, on 2/23/2000 reported that "Doctors are
prescribing stimulants such as Ritalin and antidepressants such as Prozac
for preschoolers at rates that appear to be rising rapidly, according to a
study released Tuesday. The study covering children ages 2 to 4 in three
large health systems in different parts of the Uni

[CTRL] Herbicide Resistant Frankenweeds Emerge in Canadian Canola Fields

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Herbicide Resistant "Frankenweeds" Emerge in Canadian Canola Fields
TRIPLE-RESISTANT CANOLA WEEDS FOUND IN ALBERTA (Canada)

February 10, 2000
Western Producer
Mary MacArthur, Camrose bureau
http://www.producer.com/articles/2210/news/2210news01.html

Scientists have long said the use of herbicide-tolerant canola would
eventually, result in super-resistant plants.

Now they've been proven right.

The story says that volunteer canola resistant to three herbicide-tolerant
canola systems has been found in a field in northern Alberta.

Alberta Agriculture canola specialist Phil Thomas was quoted as saying,
 "We knew it was going to happen. It was only a matter of when." A series
of chemical and DNA tests confirm the weeds in Tony Huether's field near
Sexsmith are resistant to Roundup, Liberty and Pursuit chemicals. Denise
Maurice, agronomy manager with Westco Fertilizers, a fertilizer sales
company, was cited as saying it's the first official case of natural gene
stacking in canola since genetically modified canola was adopted by
farmers five years ago.

Canola scientist Keith Downey, who created modern canola, was cited as
saying the triple-resistant canola isn't a great problem, adding, "We
haven't created a superweed or anything like that." He said that adding
2,4-D or a similar herbicide to a chemical mix will kill any wayward
weeds, noting, "I don't think it means anything to consumers." [Web note:
2,4-D is a toxic herbicide]

Jenny Hillard, vice-president of the Consumer Association of Canada [Web
note Canada's so-called "Consumer Association" is pro-biotech], was cited
as saying this will just be another "horror story" tossed about to
frighten consumers, adding, "The backlash now is so little based on fact,
I know it won't make it any worse. The general public hasn't a clue of
what's going on. They're frightened with so little science behind their
fears. They need to get a handle on this or we'll lose the whole damn
technology."

Still, the story says, farmers like Huether have begun to question the
technology that led to the canola stew in his field. The gene crossings
have prompted him to stop growing genetically modified canola, adding, "I
wouldn't say I'd never do it again, but the way I feel, it's for the best
interest of the consumer that I don't."

The story says that Huether seeded two fields of canola in 1997. On the
west side of a county road he planted Quest, a canola tolerant of
Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. On the east side of the road he planted 20
acres of Innovator, a canola tolerant of Aventis's Liberty herbicide. The
rest of the 140-acre field was planted to 45A71, a Smart canola tolerant
to Cyanamid's Pursuit and Odyssey herbicides. All are Argentine types. The
two fields are about 30 metres apart. The year after he planted the field,
he discovered volunteer weeds resistant to Roundup where none had been
planted.

Double resistance was confirmed the first year. The next year, triple
resistance was confirmed. Triple resistance can't happen in one year, said
Downey. The mixing of all three herbicide-tolerant types has been blamed
on a combination of bees and wind that carry pollen between plants in
fields too close together. Researchers now recommend at least 200 metres
between genetically modified canola varieties and any other canola field
to prevent gene crossing.

Huether was further cited as saying he is bothered by the secrecy
surrounding the field tests adding, "Many plants were taken and a lot of
seeds taken and grown out in the lab and sprayed with herbicide, and DNA
tests done on it, and the results are not being made public. I feel that
should be made public." Huether points his finger at the close
relationship between chemical companies and government scientists,
stating, "It's hush hush because research is funded to a large extent by
big business. I'm losing more and more confidence in the whole system of
research and how things are approved." Carman Read, with Monsanto, was
cited as saying the company had nothing to do with the Alberta Agriculture
study and hasn't influenced Alberta Agriculture to withhold the results.
John Huffman, an Alberta Agriculture crop specialist who worked with
Huether to identify the problems, was cited as saying the report will
likely be released in two weeks.

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[CTRL] US pressure on Blair over GM food

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GUARDIAN (London) Monday February 28, 2000
David Hencke and Rob Evans

How US put pressure on Blair over GM food


President Clinton was briefed to put intensive pressure on Tony Blair to
open up Britain and Europe to US genetically modified food and crops
during private talks at the Downing Street summit in 1998, papers released
to the Guardian revealed yesterday.

And within 24 hours of US protests, Britain had acted to modify proposals
to try to open the way for more GM food being sold in Britain and the rest
of the European Union.

The approach, which was never made public, was timed for three separate
meetings - two in Downing Street's state dining room, and at Dunbar Court
in the foreign office, at the EU summit on May 18.

Documents released to the Guardian under the US freedom of information act
reveal President Clinton was briefed to warn Mr Blair - who then held the
EU presidency - that "the EU's slow and non-transparent approval process
for genetically modified organisms has cost US exporters hundreds of
millions in lost sales."

It goes on: "In the spirit of increased US-EU regulatory cooperation, we
urge the EU to take immediate action to ensure that these products receive
a timely review."

Papers for the meeting show the same complaints were put to President
Jacques Santer, then head of the European Commission, and Sir Leon
Brittan, then EU foreign affairs commissioner.

The papers show more detailed complaints were put to Margaret Beckett,
then trade secretary, and Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, by William
Daley, the US trade secretary, and Madeleine Albright, the US secretary of
state, at meetings in the foreign office and Downing Street that morning.

Participating in the talks were the co-chairmen of the Transatlantic
Business Dialogue - a lobbying organisation - Lodewijk de Vink, chief
executive of Warner-Lambert (now Time-Warner), the US in ternational media
company, and Juergen Schrempp, chief executive of Daimler-Benz, the car
makers, who back deregulation of European-US trade.

The papers show that not only did the US attack the EU over the slow
approval of GM crops but it criticised the labelling of GM foods.

The brief reads: "Differences among member states over labelling have been
an impediment to reforming the approval process. We will be watching the
commission's efforts to implement its new guidelines for labelling and we
hope the EU can now move quickly to complete review of the products in the
pipeline.

"That said, the US sees no reason to label a product simply because it has
been genetically engineered. Mandatory labelling of GMOs should be based
on sound science."

The next day the Financial Times reported that the UK presidency had
brought forward proposals to scrap plans for labelling food saying "it may
contain GM ingredients" which had created an impasse with national
governments. The UK government - in line with US policy - proposed to
limit the products that could be labelled as containing US soya bean
derivatives.

DOWNING STREET DENIED ANY AMERICAN PRESSURE.

Last night the Guardian's disclosure was welcomed by Tony Juniper, Friends
of the Earth campaigner on GM food. He said: " The government has
repeatedly denied in private and public that the US has ever raised or
tried to put pressure on the government over GM food. These previously
secret briefing papers suggest the opposite occurred."

The papers also show that neither John Prescott, the deputy prime
minister, who had overall responsibility for the environment, nor Michael
Meacher, the environment minister in charge of GM crops, were invited to
these discussions.

The briefing papers will be banned under home secretary Jack Straw's
freedom of information bill until 2029.
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[CTRL] Secret Report from early 80's: evidence that Coke/Pepsi were aware of aspartame dangers

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http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/27/stinwenws03032.html?999

Top sweetener condemned by secret report
Jonathan Leake, Science Editor



BRITAIN'S bestselling sweetener was condemned as dangerous and potentially
toxic in a report compiled by some of the world's biggest soft drinks
manufacturers - who now buy tons of it to add to diet drinks.
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other manufacturers produced the report in the early
1980s before the sweetener, aspartame, had been approved for use in America.
It warns that it can affect the workings of the brain, change behaviour and
even en-courage users to eat extra carbohydrate, so destroying the point of
using diet drinks.

The documents were un-earthed last week under freedom of information
legislation. It follows a decision by re-searchers at King's College in
London to study suspected links between aspartame intake and brain tumours.

Britons drink more than 9 billion cans or bottles of pop a year, of which
about half contain artificial sweeteners. Aspartame, made by Monsanto and
also marketed under the name NutraSweet, is 200 times sweeter than normal
sugar and is used in many popular low-calorie foods and drinks. It has been
declared safe in a number of studies and has been approved for use in both
America and Europe.

There has, however, always been concern at its tendency to break down,
producing methanol, which is both toxic in its own right and which breaks
down further to produce formic acid and formaldehyde. Phenylalanine, another
breakdown product of aspartame, is also dangerous to people with
phenylketonuria, a common enzyme deficiency.

The 30-page aspartame report was drawn up under the auspices of America's
National Soft Drinks Association (NSDA), whose governing body at the time
included senior Coca-Cola and Pepsi executives. It says: "We object to the
approval of aspartame for unrestricted use in soft drinks." It then lists
ways in which aspartame was believed directly to affect brain chemistry,
including the synthesis of vital neurotransmitters such as serotonin.

Other papers obtained with the NSDA documents show the Food and Drug
Administration also had misgivings. Despite this, it approved aspartame.

Dick Adamson, of the NSDA, said that, in l983, it evaluated the data on
aspartame and posed a number of questions. Once they were answered, it no
longer had concerns about the safety of aspartame in carbonated drinks.

Ben Deutsch, a spokesman for Coca-Cola, referred questions to the NSDA.

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[CTRL] FW: Health freedom Victory in House Civil Law Commiittee in MN

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Subject:Victory in House Civil Law Committee in MN
Date: Sat, 26 Feb. 2000 19:40:10 -0500

Saturday, 26 February, 2000

This afternoon, the Complementary and Alternative Health Care Freedom of
Access Act was passed out of the MN House Of Representatives Civil Law
Committee with
strong, if not unanimous, support of the committee, and with no objection.
This voice
vote ended an intense three hour hearing, with many amendment discussions
and votes.
The bill finally passed with the support of Representative Dave Bishop, a
powerful senior
member from Rochester, the home of the Mayo Clinic. In fact, Mr. Bishop was
very
instrumental in helping craft language that enabled the amendments to move
relatively quickly
through the committee.

This vote was the most important moment in the 3 1/2 year history of the
freedom movement and the 1 year history of the freedom legislation. The bill
must now be heard by all additional house committees by 10 March, and it is
expected that
the bill will be voted on by the full house of representatives by sometime
in April.

Now that the bill has passed the house civil law committee, the senate
health committee will hear the bill. It is expected that the bill will
follow a similar
road in the senate to the one it followed in the house, and, if successful,
that it will be enacted by
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When Discernment and Insight Replace Judgment and Victim Consciousness
Within the blessing of education, the proliferation of broadcast
communication and the printed word for the distribution of knowledge lies
the problem of discerning what is of value and what is deliberately placed
within these sources to mislead and misinform. Herein is the next level of
understanding that discernment as to what is appropriate and true must be
applied to all input. Within each is the source of such guidance. The
ability to tap into this wisdom is present within all and latent within
most. The lessons in learning to discern what is appropriate and what is not
are many and frustrating. For most, these are trial and error with
difficulty in figuring out what purpose experience serves in life. Once the
concept of discernment is understood, it is learning to use this important
tool that is at the basis of many of life's trials. It then becomes a useful
tool that enhances experiencing knowledge into wisdom.
It is to be understood that discernment is a tool that replaces what has
been called judgment. Each can then release the self-deprecation that comes
from "judging" self and others as being right or wrong. Discernment is an
internal process that eliminates looking outside of one's self for the cause
of the seemingly difficult experiences that plague the human life. The
dictionary lists "insight" as an appropriate synonym. Discernment can be
applied in a before or after mode. It is wise to consult one's inner
feelings carefully before undertaking an experience. It can be further
applied in retrospect to understand what lesson can be gleaned from an
experience that is happening or has happened. Unless a lesson is learned, it
is likely to be repeated until it is "discerned." Then a realization of what
the intended lesson is/was happens within the understanding of the
individual or group.
The practice of discernment is part of the application of the Law of
Allowance. To consider the appropriateness of an undertaking in either the
before, during or after mode requires a letting go of the emotions involved
in the experience so that the logic of it can be considered. This may be an
on going process of consideration before the totality of the lesson is
gained. Even partial understanding and realization of its purpose in the
totality of the life experience allows for greater knowledge to become
wisdom which in turn allows the individual to apply this and change their
pattern of expression to include different possibilities. In order to
consider the situation and its circumstances there is a letting go that is
necessary in order to allow the mind to consider the possibilities of the
who, what, why and how of the total picture. If there is considerable open
mindedness, possible scenarios can be played out in order to determine the
greatest number of possibilities. Through this process, the more logical
meanings become clear. Through this release needed solutions often become
accessible because the mind has been allowed to reach inward to access the
available wisdom from within. Each has a storehouse of available wisdom that
is obtainable through the practice of discernment. There must be a desire to
lift personal experience out of the daily morass of pointless repetition,
judgment and blame.
In order to shed the victim consciousness the individual must be willing to
turn their view of life from looking outside for the cause of situations and
circumstances to looking inside for the causes that invoke what the Law of
Attraction has brought into experience. These causes are to be found within
attitudes, opinions and self-talk, for the mind is speaking within in a
constant flow of chatter. Within this internal conversation are the keys to
many of the patterns of thought and behavior that set up the situations and
circumstances that are being experienced. Changing these patterns that are
the basis for the creation of the life pattern is not a simple task, but a
good beginning can be made with the awareness that it all begins with
discernment. The world does not just happen to anyone. It is invited through
the Law of Attraction, for like attracts like. A victim attitude draws not
only fellow victims into ones life, but also abusers to provide the victim
experience. As each begins to accept the responsibility that the cause is
within their own pattern of experience, and are willing to accept this idea,
then the practice of discernment is possible.
The discerning individual will find it necessary to logically assess their
attitudes and opinions. Are they judgmental and bla

[CTRL] Prescription of Psychotropics to Preschoolers

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Trends in the Prescribing of Psychotropic Medications to Preschoolers


  Julie Magno Zito, PhD; Daniel J. Safer, MD; Susan dosReis, PhD; James
F. Gardner, ScM; Myde Boles, PhD; Frances Lynch, PhD


Context  Recent reports on the use of psychotropic medications for
preschool-aged children with behavioral and emotional disorders warrant
further examination of trends in the type and extent of drug therapy
and sociodemographic correlates.

Objectives  To determine the prevalence of psychotropic medication use
in preschool-aged youths and to show utilization trends across a 5-year
span.

Design  Ambulatory care prescription records from 2 state Medicaid
programs and a salaried group-model health maintenance organization
(HMO) were used to perform a population-based analysis of three 1-year
cross-sectional data sets (for the years 1991, 1993, and 1995).

Setting and Participants  From 1991 to 1995, the number of enrollees
aged 2 through 4 years in a Midwestern state Medicaid (MWM) program
ranged from 146,369 to 158,060; in a mid-Atlantic state Medicaid (MAM)
program, from 34,842 to 54,237; and in an HMO setting in the Northwest,
from 19,107 to 19,322.

Main Outcome Measures  Total, age-specific, and gender-specific
utilization prevalences per 1000 enrollees for 3 major psychotropic
drug classes (stimulants, antidepressants, and neuroleptics) and 2
leading psychotherapeutic medications (methylphenidate and clonidine);
rates of increased use of these drugs from 1991 to 1995, compared
across the 3 sites.

Results  The 1995 rank order of total prevalence in preschoolers (per
1000) in the MWM program was: stimulants (12.3), 90% of which
represents methylphenidate (11.1); antidepressants (3.2); clonidine
(2.3); and neuroleptics (0.9). A similar rank order was observed for
the MAM program, while the HMO had nearly 3 times more clonidine than
antidepressant use (1.9 vs 0.7). Sizable increases in prevalence were
noted between 1991 and 1995 across the 3 sites for clonidine,
stimulants, and antidepressants, while neuroleptic use increased only
slightly. Methylphenidate prevalence in 2 through 4-year-olds increased
at each site: MWM, 3-fold; MAM, 1.7-fold; and HMO, 3.1-fold. Decreases
occurred in the relative proportions of previously dominant
psychotherapeutic agents in the stimulant and antidepressant classes,
while increases occurred for newer, less established agents.

Conclusions  In all 3 data sources, psychotropic medications prescribed
for preschoolers increased dramatically between 1991 and 1995. The
predominance of medications with off-label (unlabeled) indications
calls for prospective community-based, multidimensional outcome studies.

JAMA. 2000;283:1025-1030



The prevalence of psychotropic medication treatment for children and
adolescents with emotional and behavioral disorders has significantly
increased in the United States during the last few decades,
particularly in the last 15 years. Specifically, the 5 through
14-year-old age group has experienced a great increase in stimulant
treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and the
15 through 19-year-old age group has had sizable increases in the use
of antidepressant medications.1, 2

Approved and unapproved indications for psychotropic medications in
young children are not extensive. These include: short-term use of
analgesics and sedatives/hypnotics for pain relief; hydroxyzine for
situational anxiety associated with medical, presurgical, and dental
procedures; tricyclic antidepressants for nocturnal enuresis
(6-year-olds and older); and amphetamines for ADHD in those 3 years old
and older.3 Accordingly, the prevalence of psychotropic medication
treatment for children younger than 5 years old has not received much
professional attention until recently.4-6

Concern about this age group relates to off-label (unlabeled) use, ie,
for treatment indications with little or no proven efficacy and lacking
product package insert labeling information approved by the US Food and
Drug Administration (FDA).7 One psychiatric newsletter, citing
FDA-compiled marketing data, reported that 3000 prescriptions for
fluoxetine hydrochloride were written for children aged younger than 1
year in 1994.8 In a 1998 professional meeting report,5 pediatric
researchers noted that 57% of 223 Michigan Medicaid enrollees aged
younger than 4 years with a diagnosis of ADHD received at least 1
psychotropic medication to treat this condition during a 15-month
period in 1995-1996. Of the treatments, methylphenidate and clonidine
were prescribed most often.

Although the use of psychotropic medication in preschool-aged children
compared with older youths is relatively small, the reports cited argue
for additional assessment to more systematically estimate its use.
Consequently, 3 large, compute

[CTRL] CNN and U.S. Army 'Psyops'

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U.S. Army 'Psyops' Specialists worked for CNN

Trouw, 21 February, 2000
By Abe de Vries

Translated from the Dutch by an Emperors-Clothes volunteer

www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes]

WASHINGTON, ATLANTA - For a short time last year, CNN employed military
specialists in 'psychological operations' (psyops). This was confirmed to
Trouw by a spokesman of the U.S. Army. The military could have influenced
CNN's news reports about the crisis in Kosovo.

"Psyops personnel, soldiers and officers, have been working in CNN's
headquarters in Atlanta through our programme 'Training With Industry,'"
said Major Thomas Collins of the U.S. Army Information Service in a
telephone interview last Friday. "They worked as regular employees of CNN.
Conceivably, they would have worked on stories during the Kosovo war. They
helped in the production of news.''

These military, a "handful" according to Collins, stayed with CNN for at
least a couple of weeks "to get to know the company and to broaden their
horizons''. Collins maintains that "they didn't work under the control of
the army." The temporary outplacement of U.S. Army psyops personnel in
various sectors of society began a couple of years ago. Contract periods
vary from a couple of weeks to one year.

CNN is the biggest and most widely viewed news station in the world. The
intimate liaisons with army psyops specialists raise serious doubts about
CNN's journalistic integrity and independence. The military CNN-personnel
belonged to the airmobile Fourth Psychological Operations Group, stationed
at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. One of the main tasks of this group of
almost 1200 soldiers and officers is to spread 'selected information'.

American psyops troops try with a variety of techniques to influence media
and public opinion in armed conflicts in which American state interests
are said to be at stake. The propaganda group was involved in the Gulf
war, the Bosnian war and the crisis in Kosovo.

So far CNN has not commented on the allegations. "I don't believe that we
would employ military personnel; it doesn't seem like something we would
normally do," said CNN-spokeswoman Megan Mahoney on Friday evening. But
when the U.S. Army Information Service confirmed the news, Mahoney said
she would have to contact CNN's senior officials. However, on Sunday
evening CNN still could not provide an offical statement to Trouw.

CNN's coverage of the war in Kosovo, and that of other media, has
attracted criticism from several sides as having been one-sided, overly
emotional, over-simplified and relying too heavily on NATO officials. On
the other hand, journalists have complained about the lack of reliable
information from NATO; for almost all of them it was impossible to be on
the battlefield and file first-hand reports.

For more on the connection between CNN and U.S. Army opinion-control
operations, see 'The American army loves CNN'

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The American army loves CNN

Trouw, 21 February, 2000
By Abe de Vries

Translated by www.tenc.net [emperors-clothes]

* "Not only do the PsyOps people want to spread handpicked 'information'
and keep other news quiet, the army also wants to control the Internet, to
wage electronic warfare against disobedient media, and to control
commercial satellites." - Abe de Vries, Trouw, 2/21/00

BELGRADE - In the first two weeks of the war in Kosovo, CNN produced
thirty articles for the Internet. An average CNN article had seven
mentions of NATO politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, NATO
spokesmen like Jamie Shea and David Wilby or other NATO officials.

Words like refugees, ethnic cleansing, mass killings and expulsions were
used nine times on the average. But apparently the so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army (0.2 mentions) and the Yugoslav civilian victims (0.3
mentions) didn't exist for CNN.

Concentration on one central message is a favorite technique in
audiovisual mass media, but it is also important with military personnel
trying to win a war using 'Psychological Operations' (PsyOps). A media
organization may be interested in the maximum number of viewers and a
state may have special goals; these two can share an interest in
simplification and mystifying. The news that CNN employed PsyOps
specialists really leaves only one question to be answered: Did the
military learn from the TV people how to hold viewers' attention? Or did
the PsyOps people teach CNN how to help the U.S. government garner
political support?

No doubt, CNN will soon declare that the military (of course) didn't
influence their news. However, this whole thing looks very bad and
appearances count in these matters.

Colonel Christopher St. John is Commander of the Fourth Psychological
Operations Group. In a military symposium on Special Operations on that
was held behi

[CTRL] British prime minister changing tune on Genetic manipulation

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INDEPENDENT (London)27 February 2000
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment correspondent


Blair: GM may be a health risk



Tony Blair today admits that genetically modified foods may damage human
health  almost exactly a year after he said he was so confident of their
safety that he ate them himself.

His dramatic U-turn comes in an exclusive article in the Independent on
Sunday which senior government sources and environmental campaigners alike
last night hailed as a turning point both on GM policy and in the
"greening" of Downing Street,

In the article, Mr Blair  who a year ago expressed his "frustration" at
the outcry over genetic modification  acknow- ledges that there is cause
for "legitimate public concern" over the technology he has long
championed.

He endorses the main aims of this paper's campaign on GM foods and crops,
whereas last year he complained against "an extraordinary campaign of
distortion" by "parts of the media". He then swore to "resist the tyranny
of pressure groups"; now he says they "have an important part to play in
ensuring we reach the right answers".

This approach  described as "a total change for the Prime Minister" by a
senior government source  marks a triumph for two of his most spun-against
ministers, Michael Meacher and Mo Mowlam.

It is also designed to distance the Government from GM firms before they
have to announce that they have been unable to persuade enough farmers to
grow the crops on a trial basis this year.

"There's no doubt that there is potential for harm, both in terms of human
safety and in the diversity of our environment, from GM food and crops,"
says Mr Blair. He understands the "cause for legitimate public concern",
and says that because of possible ill-effects the Government is proceeding
"very cautiously indeed".

He shows how the Government has taken measures that meet the two main aims
of this paper's campaign  a moratorium on commercial planting of GM crops,
and labelling of GM foods. And while stressing the possible benefits of
the technology, he adds: "Jobs and profit will never be more important ...
than concern over human health and our environment."

It is a far cry from last February, when Downing St announced: "The Prime
Minister is very strongly of the view that these products are safe. He has
no hesitation about saying that and eating the products himself." He was
then the main driving force behind the Government's aggressive promotion
of GM technology. He privately told MPs that the public outcry was
short-lived "flash in the pan".

His new approach strongly echoes the line that Mr Meacher, alone among
ministers, has been advocating for over a year. Since Mo Mowlam succeeded
the pro-GM Jack Cunningham as Cabinet enforcer she has been urging the
Prime Minister to adopt the environment minister's more balanced approach.

Last night, Charles Secrett, executive director of Friends of the Earth,
said: "This is a fantastic leap forward. For the first time Mr Blair seems
to be listening to the people on these issues. The article signifies a
real change of approach both over GM technology and on environmental
issues as a whole."

Today, Mr Blair will be at the Old Vic Theatre in London to mark the 100th
anniversary of the Labour Party. He will outline a five-point plan
designed to keep Labour in power and in favour for the next century.

The five goals are: full employment in the new knowledge economy;
educational opportunity for all; restoring the NHS as the pride of Britain
and the envy of the world; ending child poverty in 20 years; and making
Britain "proud and strong in the world".

He will say: "Our reforms ... civilised the 20th century. Even when not in
power we forced onto the agenda our ideas of decency and justice ... Let
us make the second hundred years an even greater success."


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[CTRL] FW: GOLDMAN SACHS OFFERING FUNDS TIBET OCCUPATION

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-Original Message-
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Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 3:22 PM
FW: GOLDMAN SACHS OFFERING FUNDS TIBET OCCUPATION


Check out reference to Sudan ethnic cleansing. My understanding from a
friend just returned is that they are using lots of mind control programming
to help get this done.









GOLDMAN SACHS' PETROCHINA OFFERING WOULD FUND CHINA'S
OCCUPATION OF TIBET

Story Filed: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 8:00 AM EST
NEW YORK, Feb 23, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The following was issued
today by Students for a Free Tibet:
Citing significant financial and political risk factors, key players in the
Tibet Movement are calling on investors to not buy shares of PetroChina, a
controversial state-owned company poised to list on the New York, London and
Hong Kong Stock Exchanges. Engaged in a global effort to secure oil and gas
resources, PetroChina and its parent company, China National Petroleum
Corporation (CNPC) -- a state-run monolith laden with debt and implicated in
the deaths of nearly 2 million Sudanese-are seeking a massive injection of
capital from foreign investors. The $5-$10 billion initial public offering
(IPO) brokered by Goldman Sachs would help finance the extraction of Tibet's
oil and gas resources for use in mainland China and provide funds to advance
China's colonization of Tibet. An operation of this scale would severely
impact the Tibetan people. Resettlement of large numbers of Chinese gas
workers into northeastern Tibet would bolster China's decades long practice
of moving Chinese settlers into Tibet to strengthen its grip on the occupied
country. This policy of population transfer has already reduced Tibetans to
a minority in much of their own nation and increased ethnic tensions in the
area. Both Tibet and East Turkistan (Xianjiang), the regions targeted by
PetroChina's operations, are tinderboxes of suppressed nationalist rage.
Widespread civil unrest is prevalent, with bus bombs and attacks on oil
pipelines reported in East Turkistan.
"Goldman Sachs and PetroChina are really playing with fire," said John
Hocevar, Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet (SFT). "Heightened
industrial operations in these already tense regions will only exacerbate
the situation. With 500,000 Chinese soldiers deployed already, how many more
will be needed to maintain control?"
Adding to this, the environmental impacts of PetroChina's exploration and
extraction in this fragile high altitude ecosystem would be disastrous.
Given its record in China's Daqing oil fields, PetroChina's operations would
likely shatter the delicate balance of the regions environment and further
disrupt the traditional way of life of the Tibetan and Mongolian nomads.
Tibet's oil reserves are in the Tsaidam Basin, the same region in which the
World Bank drew a storm of international criticism for its proposed
resettlement of nearly 60,000 Chinese farmers. That project has been stalled
by intensive grassroots opposition, and is now under investigation by the
Bank's Inspection Panel. Leading activist groups in the Tibetan Freedom
Movement have begun distributing information about the offer and organizing
a grassroots campaign to stop the PetroChina IPO. Coalition members like
SFT, an organization with over 500 chapters worldwide, are calling on
universities, public employee mutual funds and other potential investors to
avoid the stock. If the IPO is successful they intend to launch a
broad-based international divestment campaign against PetroChina.
SOURCE Students for a Free Tibet (c) 2000 PR Newswire. All rights reserved.
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CONTACT:   John Hocevar or Lhadon Tethong, both of Students for a Free
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