Vatic Note: THIS IS A MUST READ ARTICLE: This article begs the question, is this a false flag operation by Mossad who appears to be more active in these kinds of operations than our own CIA or at least they are working more independantly than before. The Question then arises "Why" What is the purpose of doing this? Morale? To harm the morale of our troops? What are Israeli's doing there pretending to be German contractors and other non israeli personnel with passports from all over the place? This is an excellent article that really gives us a good look into the perversion of this war on a subversive level, the undermining of a nations leadership and government, along with the increasingly EXPOSED ROLE THAT ISRAEL is playing in this entire game of empire building. I am asking more and more, just exactly WHO is our real enemy here??? Another military soldier used either voluntarily or involuntarily by Israel for their own purposes. As a people, we best start seriously looking at who our enemy is and who we should be fighting a war against.
Title: CAPTURED AMERICAN SOLDIER IN AFGHANISTAN RAISES MANY QUESTIONS
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/09/gordon-duff-captured-american-soldier-in-afghanistan-raises-many-questions/
By: Gordon Duff, Veterens Today
Date: April 9, 2010
Yesterday, a very odd video of PFC Robert Bergdahl was released to the media. It was said to have been “found” on the internet by SITE Intelligence, misidentified as a “Washington” group. “SITE Intelligence” has long been tied to Israeli intelligence, the Mossad, and has been the source of many questionable items including bizarre Osama bin Laden tapes of all kinds.
George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent'
Title: George W. Bush 'knew Guantánamo prisoners were innocent'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7092435.ece
By: Times on Line, Contributed by the CLG Newsletter, Lori Price Editor
Date: April 9, 2010
Two detainees are escorted to interrogation by US military guards at Guantánamo Bay
Tim Reid, Washington
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.
The accusations were made by Lawrence Wilkerson, a top aide to Colin Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State, in a signed declaration to support a lawsuit filed by a Guantánamo detainee. It is the first time that such allegations have been made by a senior member of the Bush Administration.
Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he ran the State Department, was most critical of Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was “politically impossible to release them”.
General Powell, who left the Bush Administration in 2005, angry about the misinformation that he unwittingly gave the world when he made the case for the invasion of Iraq at the UN, is understood to have backed Colonel Wilkerson’s declaration.
Colonel Wilkerson, a long-time critic of the Bush Administration’s approach to counter-terrorism and the war in Iraq, claimed that the majority of detainees — children as young as 12 and men as old as 93, he said — never saw a US soldier when they were captured. He said that many were turned over by Afghans and Pakistanis for up to $5,000. Little or no evidence was produced as to why they had been taken.
He also claimed that one reason Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld did not want the innocent detainees released was because “the detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were”. This was “not acceptable to the Administration and would have been severely detrimental to the leadership at DoD [Mr Rumsfeld at the Defence Department]”.
Referring to Mr Cheney, Colonel Wilkerson, who served 31 years in the US Army, asserted: “He had absolutely no concern that the vast majority of Guantánamo detainees were innocent ... If hundreds of innocent individuals had to suffer in order to detain a handful of hardcore terrorists, so be it.”
He alleged that for Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld “innocent people languishing in Guantánamo for years was justified by the broader War on Terror and the small number of terrorists who were responsible for the September 11 attacks”.
He added: “I discussed the issue of the Guantánamo detainees with Secretary Powell. I learnt that it was his view that it was not just Vice-President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld, but also President Bush who was involved in all of the Guantánamo decision making.”
Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld, Colonel Wilkerson said, deemed the incarceration of innocent men acceptable if some genuine militants were captured, leading to a better intelligence picture of Iraq at a time when the Bush Administration was desperate to find a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, “thus justifying the Administration’s plans for war with that country”.
He signed the declaration in support of Adel Hassan Hamad, a Sudanese man who was held at Guantánamo Bay from March 2003 until December 2007. Mr Hamad claims that he was tortured by US agents while in custody and yesterday filed a damages action against a list of American officials.
Defenders of Guantánamo said that detainees began to be released as early as September 2002, nine months after the first prisoners were sent to the jail at the US naval base in Cuba. By the time Mr Bush left office more than 530 detainees had been freed.
A spokesman for Mr Bush said of Colonel Wilkerson’s allegations: “We are not going to have any comment on that.” A former associate to Mr Rumsfeld said that Mr Wilkerson's assertions were completely untrue.
The associate said the former Defence Secretary had worked harder than anyone to get detainees released and worked assiduously to keep the prison population as small as possible. Mr Cheney’s office did not respond.
There are currently about 180 detainees left in the facility.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7092435.ece
By: Times on Line, Contributed by the CLG Newsletter, Lori Price Editor
Date: April 9, 2010
Two detainees are escorted to interrogation by US military guards at Guantánamo Bay
Tim Reid, Washington
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.
The accusations were made by Lawrence Wilkerson, a top aide to Colin Powell, the former Republican Secretary of State, in a signed declaration to support a lawsuit filed by a Guantánamo detainee. It is the first time that such allegations have been made by a senior member of the Bush Administration.
Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he ran the State Department, was most critical of Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was “politically impossible to release them”.
General Powell, who left the Bush Administration in 2005, angry about the misinformation that he unwittingly gave the world when he made the case for the invasion of Iraq at the UN, is understood to have backed Colonel Wilkerson’s declaration.
Colonel Wilkerson, a long-time critic of the Bush Administration’s approach to counter-terrorism and the war in Iraq, claimed that the majority of detainees — children as young as 12 and men as old as 93, he said — never saw a US soldier when they were captured. He said that many were turned over by Afghans and Pakistanis for up to $5,000. Little or no evidence was produced as to why they had been taken.
He also claimed that one reason Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld did not want the innocent detainees released was because “the detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were”. This was “not acceptable to the Administration and would have been severely detrimental to the leadership at DoD [Mr Rumsfeld at the Defence Department]”.
Referring to Mr Cheney, Colonel Wilkerson, who served 31 years in the US Army, asserted: “He had absolutely no concern that the vast majority of Guantánamo detainees were innocent ... If hundreds of innocent individuals had to suffer in order to detain a handful of hardcore terrorists, so be it.”
He alleged that for Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld “innocent people languishing in Guantánamo for years was justified by the broader War on Terror and the small number of terrorists who were responsible for the September 11 attacks”.
He added: “I discussed the issue of the Guantánamo detainees with Secretary Powell. I learnt that it was his view that it was not just Vice-President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld, but also President Bush who was involved in all of the Guantánamo decision making.”
Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld, Colonel Wilkerson said, deemed the incarceration of innocent men acceptable if some genuine militants were captured, leading to a better intelligence picture of Iraq at a time when the Bush Administration was desperate to find a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, “thus justifying the Administration’s plans for war with that country”.
He signed the declaration in support of Adel Hassan Hamad, a Sudanese man who was held at Guantánamo Bay from March 2003 until December 2007. Mr Hamad claims that he was tortured by US agents while in custody and yesterday filed a damages action against a list of American officials.
Defenders of Guantánamo said that detainees began to be released as early as September 2002, nine months after the first prisoners were sent to the jail at the US naval base in Cuba. By the time Mr Bush left office more than 530 detainees had been freed.
A spokesman for Mr Bush said of Colonel Wilkerson’s allegations: “We are not going to have any comment on that.” A former associate to Mr Rumsfeld said that Mr Wilkerson's assertions were completely untrue.
The associate said the former Defence Secretary had worked harder than anyone to get detainees released and worked assiduously to keep the prison population as small as possible. Mr Cheney’s office did not respond.
There are currently about 180 detainees left in the facility.
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RUSSIA & OTHER COUNTRIES BAN POULTRY IMPORTS FROM USA DUE TO CHLORINE
Vatic Note: Gosh, does that mean Russia cares more for the health and safety of their people than our Government does about our people? We have to address our entire food system again. At one time we were very good about the safety of our food but since the advent of Corporate Farming, its gone down hill as has the processing of that food by the corporations that convert it into storable products, like canned vegetables and fruits. Combine that with our Killer drug companies and its a miracle most of us are still alive even if not very healthy.
Title: RUSSIA & OTHER COUNTRIES BAN POULTRY IMPORTS FROM USA DUE TO CHLORINE
http://www.naturalnews.com/028363_chicken_chlorine.html
By: Natural News on line, contributed by Gypsy, Australia
Date: 03/16/2010
NaturalNews) Beginning on January 1, 2010, Russia has officially
banned imported poultry products from countries that use chlorine in
their processing methods. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
announced that Russia will no longer allow chicken imports from the
U.S. because the chlorine baths used to sanitize chickens do not meet
Russian food safety standards.
Since it comes from Russia, many may dismiss the ban as being
politically charged with no scientific validity. However many nations
around the world, including all within the European Union, have banned
poultry imports from chlorine-using countries because of the dangers
posed by the chemical. These countries use different methods to
disinfect meat, including air chilling and electrolyzed water
treatments, which do not expose the meat to harmful chemicals.
Putin expressed that Russia is working to become poultry
self-sufficient by the year 2015 but, until then, will import only
from nations that do not use chlorine in meat processing. Each year,
the import quota will be dropped until, eventually, all chicken will
be domestically raised in Russia.
When the issue first surfaced back in 2008, the U.S. Poultry & Egg
Export Council tried to persuade Russia that the chlorine treatment
methods used on chicken are both safe and effective. According to the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the hypochlorus chemical used,
which is an active form of chlorine, is an effective antimicrobial.
Rather than reconsider the safety of its own treatment methods, U.S.
regulators tried to use rhetoric to convince Russia to accept U.S.
imports and failed miserably. Russia refused to hear any of it, ending
$825 million worth of U.S. chicken imports into its country.
The truth about chlorine chicken baths is that not only are they not
truly effective but they expose people to a steady stream of toxic
chlorine every time they consume chicken. Chlorine is known to
increase cancer risk and cause other serious problems including
respiratory illness and heart disease. Like other environmental
halogens, chlorine contributes to thyroid dysfunction as well.
The levels of chlorine used in chicken baths, which average somewhere
between 20 and 50 parts per million (ppm), do not always kill all the
pathogens present. According to a European Consumers' Organization
study conducted in 2007, 83 percent of U.S. chicken that had been
treated in chlorine baths still contained harmful pathogens. The bath
essentially becomes a pathogen cesspool that contaminates all the
other chickens that are submerged in it.
It is no wonder that Russia, the E.U., and a growing list of nations
around the world are refusing chlorinated U.S. chicken.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news
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Title: RUSSIA & OTHER COUNTRIES BAN POULTRY IMPORTS FROM USA DUE TO CHLORINE
http://www.naturalnews.com/028363_chicken_chlorine.html
By: Natural News on line, contributed by Gypsy, Australia
Date: 03/16/2010
NaturalNews) Beginning on January 1, 2010, Russia has officially
banned imported poultry products from countries that use chlorine in
their processing methods. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
announced that Russia will no longer allow chicken imports from the
U.S. because the chlorine baths used to sanitize chickens do not meet
Russian food safety standards.
Since it comes from Russia, many may dismiss the ban as being
politically charged with no scientific validity. However many nations
around the world, including all within the European Union, have banned
poultry imports from chlorine-using countries because of the dangers
posed by the chemical. These countries use different methods to
disinfect meat, including air chilling and electrolyzed water
treatments, which do not expose the meat to harmful chemicals.
Putin expressed that Russia is working to become poultry
self-sufficient by the year 2015 but, until then, will import only
from nations that do not use chlorine in meat processing. Each year,
the import quota will be dropped until, eventually, all chicken will
be domestically raised in Russia.
When the issue first surfaced back in 2008, the U.S. Poultry & Egg
Export Council tried to persuade Russia that the chlorine treatment
methods used on chicken are both safe and effective. According to the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the hypochlorus chemical used,
which is an active form of chlorine, is an effective antimicrobial.
Rather than reconsider the safety of its own treatment methods, U.S.
regulators tried to use rhetoric to convince Russia to accept U.S.
imports and failed miserably. Russia refused to hear any of it, ending
$825 million worth of U.S. chicken imports into its country.
The truth about chlorine chicken baths is that not only are they not
truly effective but they expose people to a steady stream of toxic
chlorine every time they consume chicken. Chlorine is known to
increase cancer risk and cause other serious problems including
respiratory illness and heart disease. Like other environmental
halogens, chlorine contributes to thyroid dysfunction as well.
The levels of chlorine used in chicken baths, which average somewhere
between 20 and 50 parts per million (ppm), do not always kill all the
pathogens present. According to a European Consumers' Organization
study conducted in 2007, 83 percent of U.S. chicken that had been
treated in chlorine baths still contained harmful pathogens. The bath
essentially becomes a pathogen cesspool that contaminates all the
other chickens that are submerged in it.
It is no wonder that Russia, the E.U., and a growing list of nations
around the world are refusing chlorinated U.S. chicken.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news
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2010-04-09
Russia Moves Against US In Kyrgyzstan, Thailand As World War III Nears
Title: Russia Moves Against US In Kyrgyzstan, Thailand As World War III Nears
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/04/russia-moves-against-us-in-kyrgyzstan-thailand-as-world-war-iii-nears/print/
By: The EU Times
Date: April 8, 2010
Early reports circulating in the Kremlin today from the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU) are showing that Russian forces have successfully engineered government coups against the American “puppet states” of the United States, Kyrgyzstan and Thailand.
To the dangerously chaotic situation now existing in Kyrgyzstan we can read as reported by London’s Times Online News Service who are reporting:
“More than 100 people were feared dead tonight after police fought street battles with protesters attempting to storm the presidential palace in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.
The opposition claimed that the Government had been driven from power and President Bakiyev had fled the capital. That assessment was contradicted, however, by the US State Department, which said that the Kyrgyz government was still in control.”
To the equally dangerous situation in Thailand we can further read as reported by the LA Times News Services:
“After weeks of demonstrations that saw glitzy shopping malls blocked, blood splattered on the prime minister’s residence and tourism dented, Thailand’s leader on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in Bangkok, handing the army broad power to restore order.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva made the move after anti-government protesters broke into the parliament building, leading some lawmakers to make a rooftop escape aboard a Black Hawk helicopter as other parliamentarians scaled compound walls.”
Fueling Russian anger against the Untied States were this past weeks series of terrorist attacks against the Motherland masterminded by CIA-linked al Qaeda terrorist forces that included the catastrophic bombing of Moscow’s subway system leading to the loss of over 40 innocent lives and which President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin vowed to find and "destroy".
Also angering Russia has been US President Obama and NATO’s refusal to stem the devastating Afghan heroin drug trade run by the CIA and which to date Victor Ivanov, head of Russia’s federal drug control agency, has estimated has claimed over 30,000 Russian citizens lives.
[Note: Important to note about Afghanistan’s heroin drug trade was that by early 2001 the Taliban had totally eradicated its production thus depriving the CIA of tens-of-billions of dollars of drug income necessitating the 9/11 “charade” which then allowed the Americans to regain control and re-start this vital component of their vast illicit Global drug empire under the “protection” of US Military Forces.]
According to these reports, Russian Military Forces are attempting by these Great Game “shadow wars” in Kyrgyzstan and Thailand to deny the US and its NATO allies the use of critical airbases [Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base: Thailand and Ganci Air Base: Kyrgyzstan] needed for their, the Americans, attempt to seize control of the vast oil and gas deposits in Central Asia, and which both Russia and China have vowed not to allow them to accomplish.
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/04/russia-moves-against-us-in-kyrgyzstan-thailand-as-world-war-iii-nears/print/
By: The EU Times
Date: April 8, 2010
Early reports circulating in the Kremlin today from the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU) are showing that Russian forces have successfully engineered government coups against the American “puppet states” of the United States, Kyrgyzstan and Thailand.
To the dangerously chaotic situation now existing in Kyrgyzstan we can read as reported by London’s Times Online News Service who are reporting:
“More than 100 people were feared dead tonight after police fought street battles with protesters attempting to storm the presidential palace in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan.
The opposition claimed that the Government had been driven from power and President Bakiyev had fled the capital. That assessment was contradicted, however, by the US State Department, which said that the Kyrgyz government was still in control.”
To the equally dangerous situation in Thailand we can further read as reported by the LA Times News Services:
“After weeks of demonstrations that saw glitzy shopping malls blocked, blood splattered on the prime minister’s residence and tourism dented, Thailand’s leader on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in Bangkok, handing the army broad power to restore order.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva made the move after anti-government protesters broke into the parliament building, leading some lawmakers to make a rooftop escape aboard a Black Hawk helicopter as other parliamentarians scaled compound walls.”
Fueling Russian anger against the Untied States were this past weeks series of terrorist attacks against the Motherland masterminded by CIA-linked al Qaeda terrorist forces that included the catastrophic bombing of Moscow’s subway system leading to the loss of over 40 innocent lives and which President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin vowed to find and "destroy".
Also angering Russia has been US President Obama and NATO’s refusal to stem the devastating Afghan heroin drug trade run by the CIA and which to date Victor Ivanov, head of Russia’s federal drug control agency, has estimated has claimed over 30,000 Russian citizens lives.
[Note: Important to note about Afghanistan’s heroin drug trade was that by early 2001 the Taliban had totally eradicated its production thus depriving the CIA of tens-of-billions of dollars of drug income necessitating the 9/11 “charade” which then allowed the Americans to regain control and re-start this vital component of their vast illicit Global drug empire under the “protection” of US Military Forces.]
According to these reports, Russian Military Forces are attempting by these Great Game “shadow wars” in Kyrgyzstan and Thailand to deny the US and its NATO allies the use of critical airbases [Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base: Thailand and Ganci Air Base: Kyrgyzstan] needed for their, the Americans, attempt to seize control of the vast oil and gas deposits in Central Asia, and which both Russia and China have vowed not to allow them to accomplish.
Kyrgyzstan moves to shut US-run Menas air base
Vatic Note: Remember, in Zbigs plans for Eurasian domination, it was to be either by alliance with the surrounding nations of Russia and China, or by war. Well, in this case we had an ally in this country and now that the government has been overthrown the tables have turned on us. What does that mean for us and the region? Will we now pursue a war stance with them? How can we, stretched so thin we can barely handle what we have now, so it should prove interesting how Obama's DOD man decides how to handle the situation at this point.
Title: Kyrgyzstan moves to shut US-run Menas air base
http://www.presstv.ir/pop/Print/?id=122832
By: Staff - Press TV
Date: April 9, 2010
The US set up Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan and a base in neighboring Uzbekistan around seven years ago.
Kyrgyzstan's new leaders have said they intend to remove a US military base, which currently serves as the premier air mobility hub for the US-led forces in Afghanistan, from their soil.
The interim government led by ex-foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva, has said it wants the US base, Manas, closed down for security reasons.
The remarks came amid growing uncertainty over whether the new Kyrgyz authorities would allow the US to use the base.
Russia, which itself maintains an air base at Kant, just 20 miles from Manas, has been keen to block US military presence in the region.
Moscow has been increasingly concerned about US military's prolonged presence in the geo-strategically important Region.
This is while the opposition has taken power and dissolved the parliament. Otunbayeva has promised a new constitution and a presidential election at some point in the next six months. She says a care-taker government will serve as both presidency and parliament for now.
The ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev has refused oppositions demands to resign.
Meanwhile, protestors in the capital Bishkek have demolished and burned the house of the toppled president.
The opposition claims to be in full control of the capital, the armed forces and the media. Earlier, the interim government allowed police to use firearms and shoot looters across the Kyrgyz capital.
Wednesday's unrest that toppled the government claimed at least 75 lives with over 1000 others injured.
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Title: Kyrgyzstan moves to shut US-run Menas air base
http://www.presstv.ir/pop/Print/?id=122832
By: Staff - Press TV
Date: April 9, 2010
The US set up Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan and a base in neighboring Uzbekistan around seven years ago.
Kyrgyzstan's new leaders have said they intend to remove a US military base, which currently serves as the premier air mobility hub for the US-led forces in Afghanistan, from their soil.
The interim government led by ex-foreign minister Roza Otunbayeva, has said it wants the US base, Manas, closed down for security reasons.
The remarks came amid growing uncertainty over whether the new Kyrgyz authorities would allow the US to use the base.
Russia, which itself maintains an air base at Kant, just 20 miles from Manas, has been keen to block US military presence in the region.
Moscow has been increasingly concerned about US military's prolonged presence in the geo-strategically important Region.
This is while the opposition has taken power and dissolved the parliament. Otunbayeva has promised a new constitution and a presidential election at some point in the next six months. She says a care-taker government will serve as both presidency and parliament for now.
The ousted president Kurmanbek Bakiyev has refused oppositions demands to resign.
Meanwhile, protestors in the capital Bishkek have demolished and burned the house of the toppled president.
The opposition claims to be in full control of the capital, the armed forces and the media. Earlier, the interim government allowed police to use firearms and shoot looters across the Kyrgyz capital.
Wednesday's unrest that toppled the government claimed at least 75 lives with over 1000 others injured.
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Engineering a new way to study hepatitis C - Part IV (b) Tavistock group
Vatic Note: Again we see MIT involved along with the Rockefeller University keeping in mind the many decades of close relationship between rockefeller and the Tavistock Group and their psychological work in Human relations. Is this the new AIDS pandemic? Suspicion is prevelant due to the Cheney's New American think tank's "Pax Americana" paper that began all that we see. In that paper was a section that stated "....using bioweapons, by genotype, for political reasons". That alone was cause for great concern and with no trust anymore in anything to do with international governance, its easy to made the connection of this to the robber barons stated purpose and funding programs to eugenics and depopulation. Keep that in mind. Controlling how we react to all of this is assigned to the tavistock group to deal with and they do through their affiliates here in the states like MIT and other think tanks and research facilities and government agencies such as the CIA. Part V will tie all this together.
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV & Part IV (a)
Title: Engineering a new way to study hepatitis C
Jen Hirsch - MIT News Office
January 25, 2010
http://web.mit.edu/press/2010/hepatitis-c.html
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Researchers at MIT and Rockefeller University have successfully grown hepatitis C virus in otherwise healthy liver cells in the laboratory, an advance that could allow scientists to develop and test new treatments for the disease.
About 200 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis C, which can lead to liver failure or cancer, and existing drugs are not always effective. To develop better treatments, researchers need to test them in laboratory experiments in liver cells, but it has been difficult to create a suitable tissue model because healthy liver cells tend to lose their liver functions when removed from the body.
Previously, researchers have been able to induce cancerous liver cells to survive and reproduce outside the body, but those cells are not sufficient for studying hepatitis C because their responses to infection are different from those of normal liver cells.
Now, Sangeeta Bhatia, professor in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, in collaboration with Charles Rice of the Rockefeller University, has developed a way to maintain liver cells for four to six weeks by precisely arranging them on a specially patterned plate. The cells can be infected with hepatitis C for two to three weeks, giving researchers the chance to study the cells’ responses to different drugs.
The new model, described in next week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could allow researchers to test the effectiveness of various combinations of drugs, including interferon, a common current treatment, and experimental antibodies that may block the virus from entering cells.
How they did it: The researchers used healthy liver cells that had been cryogenically preserved and grew them on special plates with micropatterns that direct the cells where to grow. The liver cells were strategically interspersed with other cells called fibroblasts that support the growth of liver tissue.
“If you just put cells on a surface in an unorganized way, they lose their function very quickly,” says Bhatia. “If you specify which cells sit next to each other, you can extend the lifetime of the cells and help them maintain their function.”
Next steps: The current system may already be suitable to screen drugs against the strain of hepatitis C used in this work; however, this strain, which was derived from a Japanese patient with fulminant hepatitis, is the only strain ever successfully grown in a laboratory environment. The researchers hope to modify the system so they can grow additional strains, such as those more common in North America, which would allow for more thorough drug testing.
Source: “Persistent hepatitis C virus infection in microscale primary human hepatocyte cultures,” Alexander Ploss, Salman Khetani, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, week of Jan. 25, 2010.
Funding: Greenberg Medical Research Institute, Ellison Medical Foundation, Starr Foundation, Ronald A. Shellow Memorial Fund, Richard Salomon Family Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant 1 R01 DK085713-01.
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Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV & Part IV (a)
Title: Engineering a new way to study hepatitis C
Jen Hirsch - MIT News Office
January 25, 2010
http://web.mit.edu/press/2010/hepatitis-c.html
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Researchers at MIT and Rockefeller University have successfully grown hepatitis C virus in otherwise healthy liver cells in the laboratory, an advance that could allow scientists to develop and test new treatments for the disease.
About 200 million people worldwide are infected with hepatitis C, which can lead to liver failure or cancer, and existing drugs are not always effective. To develop better treatments, researchers need to test them in laboratory experiments in liver cells, but it has been difficult to create a suitable tissue model because healthy liver cells tend to lose their liver functions when removed from the body.
Previously, researchers have been able to induce cancerous liver cells to survive and reproduce outside the body, but those cells are not sufficient for studying hepatitis C because their responses to infection are different from those of normal liver cells.
Now, Sangeeta Bhatia, professor in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, in collaboration with Charles Rice of the Rockefeller University, has developed a way to maintain liver cells for four to six weeks by precisely arranging them on a specially patterned plate. The cells can be infected with hepatitis C for two to three weeks, giving researchers the chance to study the cells’ responses to different drugs.
The new model, described in next week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could allow researchers to test the effectiveness of various combinations of drugs, including interferon, a common current treatment, and experimental antibodies that may block the virus from entering cells.
How they did it: The researchers used healthy liver cells that had been cryogenically preserved and grew them on special plates with micropatterns that direct the cells where to grow. The liver cells were strategically interspersed with other cells called fibroblasts that support the growth of liver tissue.
“If you just put cells on a surface in an unorganized way, they lose their function very quickly,” says Bhatia. “If you specify which cells sit next to each other, you can extend the lifetime of the cells and help them maintain their function.”
Next steps: The current system may already be suitable to screen drugs against the strain of hepatitis C used in this work; however, this strain, which was derived from a Japanese patient with fulminant hepatitis, is the only strain ever successfully grown in a laboratory environment. The researchers hope to modify the system so they can grow additional strains, such as those more common in North America, which would allow for more thorough drug testing.
Source: “Persistent hepatitis C virus infection in microscale primary human hepatocyte cultures,” Alexander Ploss, Salman Khetani, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, week of Jan. 25, 2010.
Funding: Greenberg Medical Research Institute, Ellison Medical Foundation, Starr Foundation, Ronald A. Shellow Memorial Fund, Richard Salomon Family Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, Grant 1 R01 DK085713-01.
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Is Lady Booth "Olsen, wife of Ted Olsen, really Barbara Olsen?
* must see the facial overlay of barbara and lady booth here
Vatic Note: The key arguement for me was the fact that they could not find any pictorial history of Lady Booth Olsen anywhere, so they are calling for anyone who went to school with her or knew her growing up or her family etc. to contact them as soon as possible and that goes for the general public as well, add to that the fact that Baraba does not show up on the death list for social security as many others do not as well, and you have enough to truly start asking questions. Anyone with any, ANY information, especially a pictorial history of Lady Booth Olsen, please contact Phil at the Lets Roll 9-11 forums here
http://letsrollforums.com/. There were others Phil had identified and researched and found the school photos clearly show that the person/victim listed was not the same person as that identified as a 9-11 victim. They are continuing their work along these lines, so any help and information would be extremely helpful one way or the other.
Title: Are Some of the 9/11 Passengers Still Alive?...and other disturbing questions
http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/radio-show/58-broadcasts/13791-are-some-of-the-911-passengers-still-aliveand-other-disturbing-questions.html
By: Staff, TV News Lies, and Lets roll 9-11 Forum
Date: April 7, 2010
[Are the two people in this photograph the same person? A nose job, some cheek implants and a little eyelid work and maybe we have a before-and-after image. Maybe.
I am the first one to admit that there are a lot of far fetched theories and allegations floating around about what really happened on September 11th, 2001, none crazier however than the official explanation. But the latest information to come my way, courtesy of our guest Phil Jayhan of the LetsRoll Forums, has left me stumped and thirsting for answers, which some of you out there may be be able to provide.
I am asking for your help. If you can shed some light on the disturbing questions that we are going to raise during our broadcast we may be able to put some of our suspicions to rest, or - if not - we may just have found some solid proof that the events of 9/11 involved more people than any of us could have imagined.
Out of respect for the victims of 9/11, some topics have been completely taboo, even among 9/11 researchers. Well, I have to tell you that I have seen too much disturbing information about the people on the flight lists for me to ignore this topic. And that information is the focus of this week's radio broadcast.
Vatic Note: The key arguement for me was the fact that they could not find any pictorial history of Lady Booth Olsen anywhere, so they are calling for anyone who went to school with her or knew her growing up or her family etc. to contact them as soon as possible and that goes for the general public as well, add to that the fact that Baraba does not show up on the death list for social security as many others do not as well, and you have enough to truly start asking questions. Anyone with any, ANY information, especially a pictorial history of Lady Booth Olsen, please contact Phil at the Lets Roll 9-11 forums here
http://letsrollforums.com/. There were others Phil had identified and researched and found the school photos clearly show that the person/victim listed was not the same person as that identified as a 9-11 victim. They are continuing their work along these lines, so any help and information would be extremely helpful one way or the other.
Title: Are Some of the 9/11 Passengers Still Alive?...and other disturbing questions
http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/radio-show/58-broadcasts/13791-are-some-of-the-911-passengers-still-aliveand-other-disturbing-questions.html
By: Staff, TV News Lies, and Lets roll 9-11 Forum
Date: April 7, 2010
[Are the two people in this photograph the same person? A nose job, some cheek implants and a little eyelid work and maybe we have a before-and-after image. Maybe.
I am the first one to admit that there are a lot of far fetched theories and allegations floating around about what really happened on September 11th, 2001, none crazier however than the official explanation. But the latest information to come my way, courtesy of our guest Phil Jayhan of the LetsRoll Forums, has left me stumped and thirsting for answers, which some of you out there may be be able to provide.
I am asking for your help. If you can shed some light on the disturbing questions that we are going to raise during our broadcast we may be able to put some of our suspicions to rest, or - if not - we may just have found some solid proof that the events of 9/11 involved more people than any of us could have imagined.
Out of respect for the victims of 9/11, some topics have been completely taboo, even among 9/11 researchers. Well, I have to tell you that I have seen too much disturbing information about the people on the flight lists for me to ignore this topic. And that information is the focus of this week's radio broadcast.
Suspicions that Wikileaks is part of U.S. cyber-warfare operations
Vatic Note: This is one of those that we have to read and either make our decisions about what we believe, or simply keep our eyes and ears open and watch for confirmation one way or the other. These days with the sophistication involved in disinfo and propoganda, its now difficult to say which it is, however, time and continued observation usually exposes truth in the end. Keeping in mind that if the CIA is going after them, this would be no problem for them to set all this up, on the other hand, it could be a ploy to assure the viewing audience they are legit when in fact, like Turner, they could be part of the psychops/disinfo program. This is definitely a wait and see proposition.
Title: Suspicions that Wikileaks is part of U.S. cyber-warfare operations
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=12441
By: arthurzbygniew.blogspot.com – March 2010
WMR has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad's own cyber-warfare activities.
Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video footage of a U.S. Predator air strike on civilians in Afghanistan and that covert U.S. State Department agents followed Wikileaks's editor from Iceland to Norway in a surveillance operation conducted jointly by the United States and Iceland. Iceland's financially-strapped government recently announced a policy of becoming a haven for websites that fear political oppression and censorship in their home countries. However, in the case of Wikileaks, countries like China and Thailand are suspicious of the websites' actual "ownership."
Wikileaks says it intends to show its video at an April 5 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC but that its presenters may be detained or arrested before that time. WMR's sources believe the Wikileaks "militancy" in the face of supposed surveillance appears fake.
Our Asian intelligence sources report the following: "Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence- when it is U.S. intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks'] activities in Iceland are totally suspect." Wikileaks claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program] operation directed by the Pentagon and various U.S. intelligence agencies. WMR's sources believe that it is Wikileaks that is part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign, such as that proposed by President Obama's "information czar," Dr. Cass Sunstein.
In January 2007, John Young, who runs cryptome.org, a site that publishes a wealth of sensitive and classified information, left Wikileaks, claiming the operation was a CIA front. Young also published some 150 email messages sent by Wikileaks activists on cryptome. They include a disparaging comment about this editor by Wikileaks co-founder Dr. Julian Assange of Australia. Assange lists as one of his professions "hacker." His German co-founder of Wikileaks uses a pseudonym, "Daniel Schmitt."
Title: Suspicions that Wikileaks is part of U.S. cyber-warfare operations
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=12441
By: arthurzbygniew.blogspot.com – March 2010
WMR has learned from Asian intelligence sources that there is a strong belief in some Asian countries, particularly China and Thailand, that the website Wikileaks, which purports to publish classified and sensitive documents while guaranteeing anonymity to the providers, is linked to U.S. cyber-warfare and computer espionage operations, as well as to Mossad's own cyber-warfare activities.
Wikileaks claims to have decrypted video footage of a U.S. Predator air strike on civilians in Afghanistan and that covert U.S. State Department agents followed Wikileaks's editor from Iceland to Norway in a surveillance operation conducted jointly by the United States and Iceland. Iceland's financially-strapped government recently announced a policy of becoming a haven for websites that fear political oppression and censorship in their home countries. However, in the case of Wikileaks, countries like China and Thailand are suspicious of the websites' actual "ownership."
Wikileaks says it intends to show its video at an April 5 press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC but that its presenters may be detained or arrested before that time. WMR's sources believe the Wikileaks "militancy" in the face of supposed surveillance appears fake.
Our Asian intelligence sources report the following: "Wikileaks is running a disinformation campaign, crying persecution by U.S. intelligence- when it is U.S. intelligence itself. Its [Wikileaks'] activities in Iceland are totally suspect." Wikileaks claims it is the victim of a new COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program] operation directed by the Pentagon and various U.S. intelligence agencies. WMR's sources believe that it is Wikileaks that is part and parcel of a cyber-COINTELPRO campaign, such as that proposed by President Obama's "information czar," Dr. Cass Sunstein.
In January 2007, John Young, who runs cryptome.org, a site that publishes a wealth of sensitive and classified information, left Wikileaks, claiming the operation was a CIA front. Young also published some 150 email messages sent by Wikileaks activists on cryptome. They include a disparaging comment about this editor by Wikileaks co-founder Dr. Julian Assange of Australia. Assange lists as one of his professions "hacker." His German co-founder of Wikileaks uses a pseudonym, "Daniel Schmitt."
2010-04-08
Not Just Guantanamo: US Torturing Muslim Pretrial Detainee in New York City
Title: Not Just Guantanamo: US Torturing Muslim Pretrial Detainee in New York City
http://www.truthout.org/not-just-guantanamo-us-torturing-muslim-pretrial-detainee-new-york-city58304
By: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t
Report
Date: April 5, 2010
Today, in New York City, the US is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial.
For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pretrial isolation inside in a small cell under 24-hour video and audio surveillance. He is forced to use the bathroom and shower in full view of the video. He has not seen the sun in years. He takes his meals alone in his cell. He cannot see any other detainees and he is not allowed to communicate in any way with any prisoners. He cannot write letters to friends and he cannot make calls to anyone but his lawyer. He is prohibited from participating in group prayer. He gets newspapers that are 30 days old with sections cut out by the government. One hour a day, he is taken into another confined room where he is also kept in total isolation.
Children are taught that the US Constitution protects people accused of crimes. No one is to be punished unless their guilt or innocence has been decided in a fair trial. Until trial, people are entitled to the presumption of innocence. They are entitled to be defended by an attorney of their choice. And the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
The punishment of Hashmi has been going on for years while he has been waiting for trial. In addition to the punitive isolation he is subjected to today, he was denied the attorney of his choice. He was allowed only counsel investigated and preapproved by the government. He is not allowed to look at any translated documents unless the translator is preapproved by the government. He is not allowed any contact with the media at all. One member of his family can visit through the heavy screen for one hour every other week unless the government takes away those visits to further punish him. The government took away his family visits for 90 days when he was observed shadow boxing in his cell and talked back to the guard who asked what he was doing.
http://www.truthout.org/not-just-guantanamo-us-torturing-muslim-pretrial-detainee-new-york-city58304
By: Bill Quigley, t r u t h o u t
Report
Date: April 5, 2010
Today, in New York City, the US is torturing a Muslim detainee with no prior criminal record who has not even gone to trial.
For the last almost three years, Syed Fahad Hashmi has been kept in total pretrial isolation inside in a small cell under 24-hour video and audio surveillance. He is forced to use the bathroom and shower in full view of the video. He has not seen the sun in years. He takes his meals alone in his cell. He cannot see any other detainees and he is not allowed to communicate in any way with any prisoners. He cannot write letters to friends and he cannot make calls to anyone but his lawyer. He is prohibited from participating in group prayer. He gets newspapers that are 30 days old with sections cut out by the government. One hour a day, he is taken into another confined room where he is also kept in total isolation.
Children are taught that the US Constitution protects people accused of crimes. No one is to be punished unless their guilt or innocence has been decided in a fair trial. Until trial, people are entitled to the presumption of innocence. They are entitled to be defended by an attorney of their choice. And the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
The punishment of Hashmi has been going on for years while he has been waiting for trial. In addition to the punitive isolation he is subjected to today, he was denied the attorney of his choice. He was allowed only counsel investigated and preapproved by the government. He is not allowed to look at any translated documents unless the translator is preapproved by the government. He is not allowed any contact with the media at all. One member of his family can visit through the heavy screen for one hour every other week unless the government takes away those visits to further punish him. The government took away his family visits for 90 days when he was observed shadow boxing in his cell and talked back to the guard who asked what he was doing.
HEPATITIS C NEXT LETHAL VACCINE PROTOCOL?, Part 4 (a), Tavistock
Vatic Note: Notice another MIT - Tavistock institution messing with dangerous diseases and now based on genotype, just like it says in the Pax Americana policy paper, straight from Cheney's New American Century Think Tank. It should be a miracle if anyone ever takes another vaccine for anything.
Title: HEPATITIS C NEXT LETHAL VACCINE PROTOCOL?
2010 Mar 15 from Lee Bracker
http://www.realityzone.com/20100319.html
This is a very important low-down on what is brewing behind the vaccination scene and may surface next as a general populace protocol. Do not take this lightly PLEASE!!!
I Just linked two dots that could spell disaster for the globe during the next phase of vaccination. It would be an adjuvant or addition, the CATALYST POTENTIATOR, for those who accepted the first round, or multiples and other various vaccines of live H1N1 shots in 2009. These are laboratory grown genetically engineered strains of Hepatitis C targeted to North Americans as well as worldwide.
They used the same propaganda and tactics during the resurrection of the the 1918 swine flu virus "to study and develop treatments" as claimed in the article "Engineering a new way to study Hepatitis C". (Notice in the link its MIT again?) Their intention is vastly different than what mainstream presents (spins). We saw what Baxter Chemical did last year claiming accidental inclusion of the live Avian flu strain with the regular flu shots that almost made it undetected to 18, or more, countries outside the States.
The intention is too wipe out our immune efficacy. An attack on the liver spells double trouble because, from what I have learned as one theory, that what ends the life of those infected with the swine flu is the condition of dysentery, i.e. mutated strain of C. difficile. A person becomes so dehydrated as a result of diarrhea resulting in death.
I "reversed engineered" (a practice that is getting better and easier as events unfold) the important connection where it reads, "...engineering a new way to study hepatitis C..." Towards the end of the article where they document the discovery of a rare, actually the only, robust hepatitis C culture from a Japanese patient. This particular virus survives the experimentation process which has finally facilitated their ability to genetically modify Hep C for "study and research."
This scenario has similarities to the a not so well known cancer industry story that centers around extremely rare cancer cells taken from one person, Henrietta Lacks, in 1952. These cells were essentially stolen from the deceased woman in order to build a cancer industry stronger than had been to that point. Billions of revenue dollars were generated for research and development. Her cells were sold on the market to research and development entities for the purpose to create more problems that would, of course, require "their" treatments.
Side note: Laetrile was introduced in the same year, 1952, which also marks the accelerated activity of federal suppression of natural cancer treatments. The Lack family never received a single cent. Here's the clincher, "they" want to create regional strains of hepatitis C based on race for use on North American inhabitants. This dovetails into the eugenics agenda/mass genocide ongoing depopulation program.
This is appropriate preparation for all of us before the next round of vaccination formulations -- the Hep C may be hidden in other ingredients, if forced or under coercion (potential Martial Law), and else ways. I trust my research and and I sense that this article, propagandized and seemingly benign as it is, has far reaching implications. This is a very big one. No joke. Email to everyone you know as well as Blog it. Make this viral on the net.
The article: Engineering a new way to study hepatitis C http://web.mit.edu/press/2010/hepatitis-c.html
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Title: HEPATITIS C NEXT LETHAL VACCINE PROTOCOL?
2010 Mar 15 from Lee Bracker
http://www.realityzone.com/20100319.html
This is a very important low-down on what is brewing behind the vaccination scene and may surface next as a general populace protocol. Do not take this lightly PLEASE!!!
I Just linked two dots that could spell disaster for the globe during the next phase of vaccination. It would be an adjuvant or addition, the CATALYST POTENTIATOR, for those who accepted the first round, or multiples and other various vaccines of live H1N1 shots in 2009. These are laboratory grown genetically engineered strains of Hepatitis C targeted to North Americans as well as worldwide.
They used the same propaganda and tactics during the resurrection of the the 1918 swine flu virus "to study and develop treatments" as claimed in the article "Engineering a new way to study Hepatitis C". (Notice in the link its MIT again?) Their intention is vastly different than what mainstream presents (spins). We saw what Baxter Chemical did last year claiming accidental inclusion of the live Avian flu strain with the regular flu shots that almost made it undetected to 18, or more, countries outside the States.
The intention is too wipe out our immune efficacy. An attack on the liver spells double trouble because, from what I have learned as one theory, that what ends the life of those infected with the swine flu is the condition of dysentery, i.e. mutated strain of C. difficile. A person becomes so dehydrated as a result of diarrhea resulting in death.
I "reversed engineered" (a practice that is getting better and easier as events unfold) the important connection where it reads, "...engineering a new way to study hepatitis C..." Towards the end of the article where they document the discovery of a rare, actually the only, robust hepatitis C culture from a Japanese patient. This particular virus survives the experimentation process which has finally facilitated their ability to genetically modify Hep C for "study and research."
This scenario has similarities to the a not so well known cancer industry story that centers around extremely rare cancer cells taken from one person, Henrietta Lacks, in 1952. These cells were essentially stolen from the deceased woman in order to build a cancer industry stronger than had been to that point. Billions of revenue dollars were generated for research and development. Her cells were sold on the market to research and development entities for the purpose to create more problems that would, of course, require "their" treatments.
Side note: Laetrile was introduced in the same year, 1952, which also marks the accelerated activity of federal suppression of natural cancer treatments. The Lack family never received a single cent. Here's the clincher, "they" want to create regional strains of hepatitis C based on race for use on North American inhabitants. This dovetails into the eugenics agenda/mass genocide ongoing depopulation program.
This is appropriate preparation for all of us before the next round of vaccination formulations -- the Hep C may be hidden in other ingredients, if forced or under coercion (potential Martial Law), and else ways. I trust my research and and I sense that this article, propagandized and seemingly benign as it is, has far reaching implications. This is a very big one. No joke. Email to everyone you know as well as Blog it. Make this viral on the net.
The article: Engineering a new way to study hepatitis C http://web.mit.edu/press/2010/hepatitis-c.html
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Transplanted organs impart memories onto recipients
Vatic Note: Its amazing the technology in every area of science that we are experiencing with very little MSM notification. We have to rely more and more on alternative sources for this information.
Title: Transplanted organs impart memories onto recipients
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
http://www.naturalnews.com/z028537_organ_transplants_memories.html
Date: April 8, 2010
(NaturalNews) Becoming an organ donor is a great way to help out a person in the event of one's death. A study has shown, however, that sometimes donor recipients take on certain characteristics or personality traits from the donor, a phenomenon that researchers are having a difficult time explaining.
Paul Pearsall, a neuropsychologist, wrote about this interesting topic in his book, The Heart's Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart Energy. In it, he provides insight into his belief that the physical heart contains within it memories belonging to its person. Part of Pearsall's research for the book included tracking several real life cases of heart transplant recipients who mysteriously inherited some of their donors' traits.
In one case, a Spanish-speaking man began using words that he had not used prior to his transplant. He received his heart from a man named David who had died in a car accident. David's wife, Glenda, when meeting the recipient of her husband's heart for the first time, used the word "copacetic" to describe the situation. The recipient's mother quickly replied that her son had begun using that word for the first time and that it did not even have a Spanish equivalent, indicating that he had adopted the word from David.
The recipient's son, who had before been a vegetarian, began craving meat and greasy food after his transplant. His music preferences also changed from favoring heavy metal to preferring fifties rock 'n' roll. All of these preferences turned out to be David's preferences as well.
In another case, an 8-year-old girl who had received a heart transplant from a 10-year-old girl that had been murdered, began to have nightmares about the donor's murderer. After several consultations with a psychiatrist, it was decided that the police should be notified. The 8-year-old recipient was able to identify key clues about the murder, including who the murderer was, when and how it happened, and even the words spoken by the murderer to the victim. Amazingly, the entire testimony turned out to be true and the murderer was convicted for his crime.
Pearsall's 73 different case studies point to the fact that both the brain and the heart hold important information about a person. According to his analysis, cell communication that occurs throughout the body on a continual basis can continue to occur after an organ has been removed from one person and transplanted into another. Information from the donor seems to install into the recipient's memory.
Critics argue that such a phenomenon is not possible, but the proof is in the cases themselves. In one case, a 3-year-old Arab girl received a heart transplant from an 8-year-old Jewish boy who died in a car accident. After her surgery, the girl asked for a type of Jewish candy that, prior to the surgery, she did not even know existed.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/do...
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Title: Transplanted organs impart memories onto recipients
by Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
http://www.naturalnews.com/z028537_organ_transplants_memories.html
Date: April 8, 2010
(NaturalNews) Becoming an organ donor is a great way to help out a person in the event of one's death. A study has shown, however, that sometimes donor recipients take on certain characteristics or personality traits from the donor, a phenomenon that researchers are having a difficult time explaining.
Paul Pearsall, a neuropsychologist, wrote about this interesting topic in his book, The Heart's Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart Energy. In it, he provides insight into his belief that the physical heart contains within it memories belonging to its person. Part of Pearsall's research for the book included tracking several real life cases of heart transplant recipients who mysteriously inherited some of their donors' traits.
In one case, a Spanish-speaking man began using words that he had not used prior to his transplant. He received his heart from a man named David who had died in a car accident. David's wife, Glenda, when meeting the recipient of her husband's heart for the first time, used the word "copacetic" to describe the situation. The recipient's mother quickly replied that her son had begun using that word for the first time and that it did not even have a Spanish equivalent, indicating that he had adopted the word from David.
The recipient's son, who had before been a vegetarian, began craving meat and greasy food after his transplant. His music preferences also changed from favoring heavy metal to preferring fifties rock 'n' roll. All of these preferences turned out to be David's preferences as well.
In another case, an 8-year-old girl who had received a heart transplant from a 10-year-old girl that had been murdered, began to have nightmares about the donor's murderer. After several consultations with a psychiatrist, it was decided that the police should be notified. The 8-year-old recipient was able to identify key clues about the murder, including who the murderer was, when and how it happened, and even the words spoken by the murderer to the victim. Amazingly, the entire testimony turned out to be true and the murderer was convicted for his crime.
Pearsall's 73 different case studies point to the fact that both the brain and the heart hold important information about a person. According to his analysis, cell communication that occurs throughout the body on a continual basis can continue to occur after an organ has been removed from one person and transplanted into another. Information from the donor seems to install into the recipient's memory.
Critics argue that such a phenomenon is not possible, but the proof is in the cases themselves. In one case, a 3-year-old Arab girl received a heart transplant from an 8-year-old Jewish boy who died in a car accident. After her surgery, the girl asked for a type of Jewish candy that, prior to the surgery, she did not even know existed.
Sources for this story include:
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/do...
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
Study: Magnetic Waves Alter Moral Compass - Part IV (Tavistock group)
Vatic Note: This was put up for several reasons. First of all MIT is heavily connected to the Tavistock Group, (See Vatic series on Tavistock Institute and Mind control) even though they are a thoroughly American Institute, they are subservient to the needs of Tavistock and you can check out the connect here http://www.educate-yourself.org/nwo/nwotavistockbestkeptsecret.shtml Scroll down the page until you see the MIT segment and its connection to Tavistock. The Second reason this was put up is the potential impact of systemic use of HARP on our psychi's and the implications of that use to whole populations social structure based on cultural moral compass. It has to be asked, "how could Americans so readily accept Torture of little children and others when they never had before?" It is sufficient to ask the question, in light of this information. Please just keep all this in mind and over time, we may be able to connect the dots. Follow a long and stay in touch. Was our use of torture on our bogus enemies experimental for mind control? Remember, a Bush White House staffer exposed the fact that most in Gitmo were innocent. Its why they had to use the military tribunals to cover up the fact these were guinie pigs and not real terrorists. I keep remembering the panty bomber who was in GITMO, released per Cheney and then not on the Watch list. Lots to connect here.
Part I
Part II
Part III
Title: Study: Magnetic Waves Alter Moral Compass
MIT Researchers Find That Magnetic Pulses Directed at Brain http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/30/tech/main6347079.shtml
By: By Alex Sundby, CBS News
Date: 04/2010
A device that emits an invisible beam affecting a person's ability to tell right from wrong might sound like the kind of weapon a comic book villain would use to wreak havoc around the world.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say such a device allowed them to observe the effects magnetic rays have on a person's sense of morality.
In a new study, volunteers were subjected to magnetic pulses just above and behind of the right ear, focusing on the area of the brain believed to be the area controlling morality. The pulses were intended to block cell activity that contributed to the volunteers' sense of right and wrong.
MIT's researchers explain the study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"You think of morality as being a really high-level behavior," Dr. Liane Young, the study's lead researcher, told the British Broadcasting Corporation. "To be able to apply a magnetic field to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing."
To see what effect a 500 millisecond magnetic pulse had, researchers gave the 20 volunteers a series of tests. In one test, the volunteers were given an ethical dilemma: should a man let his girlfriend walk across a bridge he knew wasn't safe?
The volunteers based their answers on how the scenario played out. If the girlfriend crossed with bridge safely, the man wasn't at fault. The volunteers based their decision on the outcome of the dilemma, not the moral principle, because of the magnetic pulse, the researchers wrote.
In another test, volunteers were exposed to 25 minutes of weak electric currents that prevent brain cells from functioning normally. They then had to read stories about morally questionable characters and judge whether the characters' actions caused harm. Researchers found that the volunteers accepted morally dubious actions that resulted in a "happy" ending.
IS THERE A CONNECTION TO HAARP?
Part I
Part II
Part III
Title: Study: Magnetic Waves Alter Moral Compass
MIT Researchers Find That Magnetic Pulses Directed at Brain http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/30/tech/main6347079.shtml
By: By Alex Sundby, CBS News
Date: 04/2010
A device that emits an invisible beam affecting a person's ability to tell right from wrong might sound like the kind of weapon a comic book villain would use to wreak havoc around the world.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say such a device allowed them to observe the effects magnetic rays have on a person's sense of morality.
In a new study, volunteers were subjected to magnetic pulses just above and behind of the right ear, focusing on the area of the brain believed to be the area controlling morality. The pulses were intended to block cell activity that contributed to the volunteers' sense of right and wrong.
MIT's researchers explain the study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"You think of morality as being a really high-level behavior," Dr. Liane Young, the study's lead researcher, told the British Broadcasting Corporation. "To be able to apply a magnetic field to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing."
To see what effect a 500 millisecond magnetic pulse had, researchers gave the 20 volunteers a series of tests. In one test, the volunteers were given an ethical dilemma: should a man let his girlfriend walk across a bridge he knew wasn't safe?
The volunteers based their answers on how the scenario played out. If the girlfriend crossed with bridge safely, the man wasn't at fault. The volunteers based their decision on the outcome of the dilemma, not the moral principle, because of the magnetic pulse, the researchers wrote.
In another test, volunteers were exposed to 25 minutes of weak electric currents that prevent brain cells from functioning normally. They then had to read stories about morally questionable characters and judge whether the characters' actions caused harm. Researchers found that the volunteers accepted morally dubious actions that resulted in a "happy" ending.
IS THERE A CONNECTION TO HAARP?
2010-04-07
ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)
Vatic Note: Remember, schools are getting funds cut, seniors cut in medicare, freeze on Soc Sec, families are in the streets in record numbers and EXXON PAYS NO TAXES IN 2009 FOR RECORD BREAKING PROFITS IN THE HISTORY OF THIS NATION???? Its actually against the Constitution for them not to pay taxes. In fact, its specific in there that only corp profits were suppose to be taxed since our labor is an asset and we exchange it for another equal value asset so its not suppose to be taxed, but be that as it may, its clearly stealing to not pay any taxes on bogusly obtained profits.
Title: ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/06/exxon-tax/
By: Forbes magazine, Think Progress, and contributed to us by Chris Lawson
Date: April 07, 2010 1:53 PM
Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any corporation, but none of it went to the IRS:
Title: ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/06/exxon-tax/
By: Forbes magazine, Think Progress, and contributed to us by Chris Lawson
Date: April 07, 2010 1:53 PM
Last week, Forbes magazine published what the top U.S. corporations paid in taxes last year. “Most egregious,” Forbes notes, is General Electric, which “generated $10.3 billion in pretax income, but ended up owing nothing to Uncle Sam. In fact, it recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion.” Big Oil giant Exxon Mobil, which last year reported a record $45.2 billion profit, paid the most taxes of any corporation, but none of it went to the IRS:
Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go Away - Part III
Vatic Note: Please review all the links in this piece as it gives a history of how far back this all goes. This is a third in a series of articles leading up to present day to lay the foundation for a history of Sexual & Labor slave trade, internationally with involvement by US Corporations, High government and corporate officials and royalty of Europe. This is foundational work to show just how DEEP THE RABBIT HOLE GOES AND WHAT WE CAN EXPECT IN A GLOBALIZED NON ELECTED GOVERNANCE SYSTEM FOR ALL OF US, NOT JUST THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. Its to show the extent not only of Pedophilia, but also the entire scope of this problem and the need for something to be done to stop it. Its our intent to show just how far up the ladder this scandel goes right up to modern day times with this historical foundation laid first. This was in 2006, in which congress had told the pentagon "no more contracts" until this all stops, and the pentagon ignored congress and continued to award contracts to Dynacorp. More to follow on who at the top are currently & heavily involved in this EVEN TODAY. You may or may not be shocked at who the players are in this contemporary 2010 environment.
Part I
Part II
Title: Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go Away
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/010106sexslavescandal.htm
By: Paul Watson & Alex Jones, Prison Planet
Date: January, 2006
Almost a year after Representative Cynthia McKinney was told by Donald Rumsfeld that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to reward companies that engage in human trafficking with government contracts, the scandal continues to sweep up innocent children who are sold into a life of slavery at the behest of Halliburton subsidiaries , Dyncorp and other transnational corporations with close ties to the establishment elite.
On March 11th 2005, McKinney grilled Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers on the Dyncorp scandal.
"Mr. Secretary, I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?"
The response and McKinney's comeback was as follows.
Rumsfeld: "Thank you, Representative. First, the answer to your first question is, is, no, absolutely not, the policy of the United States Government is clear, unambiguous, and opposed to the activities that you described. The second question."
Part I
Part II
Title: Dyncorp and Halliburton Sex Slave Scandal Won't Go Away
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/010106sexslavescandal.htm
By: Paul Watson & Alex Jones, Prison Planet
Date: January, 2006
Almost a year after Representative Cynthia McKinney was told by Donald Rumsfeld that it was not the policy of the Bush administration to reward companies that engage in human trafficking with government contracts, the scandal continues to sweep up innocent children who are sold into a life of slavery at the behest of Halliburton subsidiaries , Dyncorp and other transnational corporations with close ties to the establishment elite.
On March 11th 2005, McKinney grilled Secretary Rumsfeld and General Myers on the Dyncorp scandal.
"Mr. Secretary, I watched President Bush deliver a moving speech at the United Nations in September 2003, in which he mentioned the crisis of the sex trade. The President called for the punishment of those involved in this horrible business. But at the very moment of that speech, DynCorp was exposed for having been involved in the buying and selling of young women and children. While all of this was going on, DynCorp kept the Pentagon contract to administer the smallpox and anthrax vaccines, and is now working on a plague vaccine through the Joint Vaccine Acquisition Program. Mr. Secretary, is it [the] policy of the U.S. Government to reward companies that traffic in women and little girls?"
The response and McKinney's comeback was as follows.
Rumsfeld: "Thank you, Representative. First, the answer to your first question is, is, no, absolutely not, the policy of the United States Government is clear, unambiguous, and opposed to the activities that you described. The second question."
New Doubt Cast on True Cause of Deaths in 1918-19 Flu Pandemic (how far back does this go?)
Vatic Note: I put this up here because of the "pandemic" we were suppose to have and didn't, and the billions the taxpayers spent on gov purchase of vaccines, and it appears this game has been going on for a very long time. I am finally beginning to wonder just how deep and long this planned actions against us on this globe have been in existance. This is an extraordinary article and well worth the education and read. There has not been such an indepth treatment of the Avian flu virus, the vaccine scam, the historical perspective as Dr. Mercola has done in this outstanding article. Please read it and all the links as we must become educated before spring when they do this to us again to dump all those vaccines.
Title: New Doubt Cast on True Cause of Deaths in 1918-19 Flu Pandemic
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/06/could--the-us-surgeon-general-be-the-real-cause-of-massive-1918-flu-deaths.aspx
By: Dr. Mercola
Date: April 06 2010
A researcher who authored one of the first articles connecting aspirin to Reye's Syndrome, a lethal disease that attacks the liver and brain, is suggesting that aspirin also could be to blame for a significant portion of deaths in the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic.
In an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases, California internist Dr. Karen M. Starko talks about the high doses of aspirin that were used to treat fever and the aches and pains of the early 20th century flu.
The symptoms of aspirin overdoses, she says, may have been difficult to distinguish from those of the flu, especially among those who died shortly after they became ill.
This information is particularly relevant today, not only because CDC officials are pushing for people to get the H1N1 shot before they go on spring break, but also because they have now decided that H1N1 will be part of the seasonal flu shot scheduled for the 2010-11 flu season.
They also have expanded the flu shot schedule to include the elderly and infants 6 months of age and older.
Sources:
New York Times October 13, 2009
Science Daily October 3, 2009
Flu.gov March 5, 2010
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
No one will ever know whether aspirin therapy was actually a culprit in the deaths of the 1918 pandemic. But the history lesson is important, especially since the 1918 pandemic is being used as a benchmark to fuel flu fears today.
Even as world health officials sit with egg on their faces, pondering why the 2009 H1N1 swine flu proved not to be the pandemic they predicted, they still insist people get vaccinated, even though the flu season is mostly over. And in a sky-is-falling move, they've also decided to include H1N1 in the seasonal flu vaccines for 2010-2011.
I have already commented on the hyped-up H1N1 numbers that the US was reporting during the “height” of this non-pandemic. The lid was blown off by CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who revealed that the vast majority of “swine flu” cases were not H1N1 at all -- but, rather, some sort of respiratory infection.
Title: New Doubt Cast on True Cause of Deaths in 1918-19 Flu Pandemic
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/06/could--the-us-surgeon-general-be-the-real-cause-of-massive-1918-flu-deaths.aspx
By: Dr. Mercola
Date: April 06 2010
A researcher who authored one of the first articles connecting aspirin to Reye's Syndrome, a lethal disease that attacks the liver and brain, is suggesting that aspirin also could be to blame for a significant portion of deaths in the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic.
In an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases, California internist Dr. Karen M. Starko talks about the high doses of aspirin that were used to treat fever and the aches and pains of the early 20th century flu.
The symptoms of aspirin overdoses, she says, may have been difficult to distinguish from those of the flu, especially among those who died shortly after they became ill.
This information is particularly relevant today, not only because CDC officials are pushing for people to get the H1N1 shot before they go on spring break, but also because they have now decided that H1N1 will be part of the seasonal flu shot scheduled for the 2010-11 flu season.
They also have expanded the flu shot schedule to include the elderly and infants 6 months of age and older.
Sources:
New York Times October 13, 2009
Science Daily October 3, 2009
Flu.gov March 5, 2010
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
No one will ever know whether aspirin therapy was actually a culprit in the deaths of the 1918 pandemic. But the history lesson is important, especially since the 1918 pandemic is being used as a benchmark to fuel flu fears today.
Even as world health officials sit with egg on their faces, pondering why the 2009 H1N1 swine flu proved not to be the pandemic they predicted, they still insist people get vaccinated, even though the flu season is mostly over. And in a sky-is-falling move, they've also decided to include H1N1 in the seasonal flu vaccines for 2010-2011.
I have already commented on the hyped-up H1N1 numbers that the US was reporting during the “height” of this non-pandemic. The lid was blown off by CBS investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who revealed that the vast majority of “swine flu” cases were not H1N1 at all -- but, rather, some sort of respiratory infection.
Impending GMO Contamination of the Food Chain
Vatic Note: Just a reminder when read this blog below, that Obama just did a recess appointment to the dept of Agriculture (1 out of 18, that he said he would not do back when Bush did it) who is a previous lobbyist and Monsanto man, which ensures a massive and illegal conflict of interest which is a crime (unless they changed that law as well). Here is the link just to refresh your memory..... http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/04/obama-gives-key-agriculture-post-to.html
Title: Impending GMO Contamination of the Food Chain;
Farmers and Consumers Demand Prohibition of Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
http://globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=18501
By: The National Organic Coalition, Global Research and contributed to Vatic by Gypsy, Australia
Date: April 5, 2010
Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry
The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and conclusions of its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on Genetically Engineered (GE) Alfalfa. Groups, including NOC, Center for Food Safety (CFS), Organic Consumers Association, Food & Water Watch, CREDO Action and Food Democracy Now, mobilized their communities to help generate the unprecedented number of comments.
In addition, more than 300 public interest organizations, farmers, dairies, retailers and organic food producers from the U.S. and Canada delivered a strongly worded letter to USDA, calling upon it to deny approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered, Roundup Ready alfalfa (GE alfalfa). The letter cites the inevitable contamination of organic and non-GE alfalfa hay and seeds and threats to the viability of organic dairies, livestock, and meat and dairy producers as reasons for urging the denial. NOC, Organic Valley, Whole Foods, National Cooperative Grocers Association, CFS and others agree that it would be irresponsible government policy to approve GE alfalfa in the absence of legal requirements holding companies accountable for GE contamination, as is currently the case.
In 2006, CFS sued USDA for its illegal approval of Monsanto’s GE alfalfa. USDA failed to conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS), as required by law, before deregulating the crop. The federal courts sided with CFS and banned GE alfalfa plantings until USDA analyzed the impacts of GE alfalfa on the environment, farmers and the public. Today marks the deadline for submitting public comments on the draft EIS, which recommends approving Monsanto’s GE alfalfa.
Title: Impending GMO Contamination of the Food Chain;
Farmers and Consumers Demand Prohibition of Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
http://globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=18501
By: The National Organic Coalition, Global Research and contributed to Vatic by Gypsy, Australia
Date: April 5, 2010
Resulting contamination of non-GE and organic alfalfa hay and seed would devastate livelihoods and organic industry
The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced that more than 200,000 people submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) critiquing the substance and conclusions of its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on Genetically Engineered (GE) Alfalfa. Groups, including NOC, Center for Food Safety (CFS), Organic Consumers Association, Food & Water Watch, CREDO Action and Food Democracy Now, mobilized their communities to help generate the unprecedented number of comments.
In addition, more than 300 public interest organizations, farmers, dairies, retailers and organic food producers from the U.S. and Canada delivered a strongly worded letter to USDA, calling upon it to deny approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered, Roundup Ready alfalfa (GE alfalfa). The letter cites the inevitable contamination of organic and non-GE alfalfa hay and seeds and threats to the viability of organic dairies, livestock, and meat and dairy producers as reasons for urging the denial. NOC, Organic Valley, Whole Foods, National Cooperative Grocers Association, CFS and others agree that it would be irresponsible government policy to approve GE alfalfa in the absence of legal requirements holding companies accountable for GE contamination, as is currently the case.
In 2006, CFS sued USDA for its illegal approval of Monsanto’s GE alfalfa. USDA failed to conduct an environmental impact statement (EIS), as required by law, before deregulating the crop. The federal courts sided with CFS and banned GE alfalfa plantings until USDA analyzed the impacts of GE alfalfa on the environment, farmers and the public. Today marks the deadline for submitting public comments on the draft EIS, which recommends approving Monsanto’s GE alfalfa.
Records Show Upper Big Branch Mine Amassed Scores of Safety Citations, Thousands in Fines
Title: Records Show Upper Big Branch Mine Amassed Scores of Safety Citations, Thousands in Fines
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10293691
By: By MATTHEW MOSK and ASA ESLOCKER
Date: April 6, 2010
The West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 25 workers and left another four unaccounted for in the worst mining disaster since 1984 had amassed scores of citations from mining safety officials, including 57 infractions just last month for violations that included repeatedly failing to develop and follow a ventilation plan.
Coal Boss Don Blankenship: If you take photos, "you're liable to get shot."
The federal records catalog the problems at the Upper Big Branch mine, operated by the Performance Coal Company. They show the company was fighting many of the steepest fines, or simply refusing to pay them. Performance is a subsidiary of Massey Energy. Another Massey subsidiary agreed to pay $4.2 million in criminal and civil fines last year and admitted to willfully violating mandatory safety standards that led to the deaths of two miners. The fine was the largest penalty in the history of the coal industry.
The nation's sixth biggest mining company by production, Massey Energy took in $24 million in net income in the fourth quarter of 2009. The company paid what was then the largest financial settlement in the history of the coal industry for the 2006 fire at the Aracoma mine, also in West Virginia. The fire trapped 12 miners. Two suffocated as they looked for a way to escape. Aracoma later admitted in a plea agreement that two permanent ventilation controls had been removed in 2005 and not replaced, according to published reports.
The two widows of the miners killed in Aracoma were unsatisfied by the plea agreement, telling the judge they believed the company cared more about profits then safety. After the deal, the Massey subsidiary pledged a renewed focus on safety after the fines were levied.
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=10293691
By: By MATTHEW MOSK and ASA ESLOCKER
Date: April 6, 2010
The West Virginia coal mine where an explosion killed 25 workers and left another four unaccounted for in the worst mining disaster since 1984 had amassed scores of citations from mining safety officials, including 57 infractions just last month for violations that included repeatedly failing to develop and follow a ventilation plan.
Coal Boss Don Blankenship: If you take photos, "you're liable to get shot."
The federal records catalog the problems at the Upper Big Branch mine, operated by the Performance Coal Company. They show the company was fighting many of the steepest fines, or simply refusing to pay them. Performance is a subsidiary of Massey Energy. Another Massey subsidiary agreed to pay $4.2 million in criminal and civil fines last year and admitted to willfully violating mandatory safety standards that led to the deaths of two miners. The fine was the largest penalty in the history of the coal industry.
The nation's sixth biggest mining company by production, Massey Energy took in $24 million in net income in the fourth quarter of 2009. The company paid what was then the largest financial settlement in the history of the coal industry for the 2006 fire at the Aracoma mine, also in West Virginia. The fire trapped 12 miners. Two suffocated as they looked for a way to escape. Aracoma later admitted in a plea agreement that two permanent ventilation controls had been removed in 2005 and not replaced, according to published reports.
The two widows of the miners killed in Aracoma were unsatisfied by the plea agreement, telling the judge they believed the company cared more about profits then safety. After the deal, the Massey subsidiary pledged a renewed focus on safety after the fines were levied.
2010-04-06
U.S. military goes hungry in Afghanistan - (Crime against humanity)
Vatic Note: Excuse me? Logistics, supply services, food & water etc did not match the increase of troops??? I simply do not believe it. So how much did the tax payer have to pay Kellogg, Root, and Brown for not feeding and watering our people??? Having been in the military, it just doesn't happen that way UNLESS its intentional. Here is my guess. The US is suppose to lose whatever real war we get into against either Russia or China. I never talked about this because I could not find a supportive source to confirm, but actions the military has engaged in since during Bush until now, simply shows an intent here that is inhumane and for some purpose, thus I am now taking it as a confirmation by their behavior, these people know what they are doing. I can only guess at the purpose, but the facts are clear. They did this to our troops in Iraq with no flack jackets that are standard in war zones, no armoured humvees when road side bombs were the weapons of choice, then when the military did armour them, they did not do the floor of the cab, which is as bad as no armour since the bombs are on the road. Finally the new amoured vehicles arrived in Kuwait and sat there for six months before being distributed to our fighting men and women and now no food and water??? In these past 9 years of war, we have lost 78,000 men in all three theatres, and over 1 million permanently maimed. What does that sound like to anybody??? Depopulation or destruction of our military capability for a reason. I suggest its a bit of both. What in the world are we going to do about this??? We simply have to decide what we can do to help our people who are stranded over there without food or water. This is High treason. A death penalty offense.
Title: U.S. military goes hungry in Afghanistan
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290054
By: By Samantha A. Torrence.
Date: April 5, 2010
The United States Military is in the midst of a troop surge in Afghanistan, but the surge has caused the ratio of resources to troops to widen. Many American Forward Operating Bases are experiencing food and water shortages.
Sgt. Hill, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, has been in Afghanistan only a few months as part of the new troop surge into the country. The troops are mainly focused on training and promoting the Afghanistan army and police force. The training is the United States' attempt to "teach a man to fish," in the security department of the ever turbulent country, a country which is still undecided if it wants to break free from Taliban influence. With these larger issues at hand the need for proper amounts of food and water have fallen by the wayside.
Initially it was expected that resources for surging troops would be low, as many bases were unprepared for the push ordered by the Obama administration. The surge, it is argued, was far too swift and did not give the military time to lay the proper infrastructure and provide housing and other amenities for the troops. The reality of the lack of preparation has been felt by Sgt. Hill and other troops currently in Afghanistan.
Over weeks of correspondence Sgt. Hill has informed Digital Journal of the conditions the logistics of just being able to eat. General McChrystal announced that fast food places like Burger King and Pizza Hut were going to be shut down and moved to make more room for essentials the troops will need for war.
As reported on Digital Journal:
"Supplying non-essential luxuries to big bases like Bagram and Kandahar makes it harder to get essential items to combat outposts and forward operating bases, where troops fighting every day need to be resupplied with ammunition, food and water." (non believable comment)
Title: U.S. military goes hungry in Afghanistan
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/290054
By: By Samantha A. Torrence.
Date: April 5, 2010
The United States Military is in the midst of a troop surge in Afghanistan, but the surge has caused the ratio of resources to troops to widen. Many American Forward Operating Bases are experiencing food and water shortages.
Sgt. Hill, whose name has been changed to protect his identity, has been in Afghanistan only a few months as part of the new troop surge into the country. The troops are mainly focused on training and promoting the Afghanistan army and police force. The training is the United States' attempt to "teach a man to fish," in the security department of the ever turbulent country, a country which is still undecided if it wants to break free from Taliban influence. With these larger issues at hand the need for proper amounts of food and water have fallen by the wayside.
Initially it was expected that resources for surging troops would be low, as many bases were unprepared for the push ordered by the Obama administration. The surge, it is argued, was far too swift and did not give the military time to lay the proper infrastructure and provide housing and other amenities for the troops. The reality of the lack of preparation has been felt by Sgt. Hill and other troops currently in Afghanistan.
Over weeks of correspondence Sgt. Hill has informed Digital Journal of the conditions the logistics of just being able to eat. General McChrystal announced that fast food places like Burger King and Pizza Hut were going to be shut down and moved to make more room for essentials the troops will need for war.
As reported on Digital Journal:
"Supplying non-essential luxuries to big bases like Bagram and Kandahar makes it harder to get essential items to combat outposts and forward operating bases, where troops fighting every day need to be resupplied with ammunition, food and water." (non believable comment)
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In one packed weekend, Understanding Deep Politics will bring together ten distinguished speakers and hundreds of concerned citizens for the purpose of challenging the mainstream perceptions of political reality - revealing the hidden forces behind many widely accepted historical and current events.
This unprecedented and provocative conference will span three days, including an early Friday evening meet and greet get-together.
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With Speakers: Cynthia McKinney, David Ray Griffin, Peter Dale Scott, Ellen Brown, Ian Crane, Annie Machon, Jim Marrs, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips, and Barrie Zwicker
In one packed weekend, Understanding Deep Politics will bring together ten distinguished speakers and hundreds of concerned citizens for the purpose of challenging the mainstream perceptions of political reality - revealing the hidden forces behind many widely accepted historical and current events.
This unprecedented and provocative conference will span three days, including an early Friday evening meet and greet get-together.
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Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA? Part II of the British Travistock Series
Vatic Note: How did we come to the place where we are now in our country? What role has the CIA played in all of this and who are the players? This is an introductory article leading up to the indepth look at the CIA and other US institutions heavily tied into the British Tavistock Group funded by the Rockefeller foundation and created for psychological research into human relations and behavior. Keep in mind also, that Rockefeller was simultaneously funding Eugenics. This group, Tavistock, created the CIA ironically, through Truman who later expressed deep regret in having done so as he said, "I have no idea what they are doing and I wish I had never created them". The CIA is the foremost expert on pschops activites (Keep in mind their MKL program for brainwashing) through the training and research by the Tavistock Group. Its time to expose them to the light of day. This article plus the earlier one on the officer now being examined for mental illness, is a great example of where all this is going with the CIA's black psychops. Kennedy tried to do away with them when he realized just how out of control our executive branch was over this group and how powerful a control a foreign country had over it. We all know what happened to Kennedy for doing so. (I believe this will turn into a 3 part series)
Part I
Part III
Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA?
By Ray McGovern for Op Ed News
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Are-Presidents-Afraid-of-t-by-Ray-McGovern-091230-613.html
December 30, 2009
In the past I have alluded to Panetta and the Seven Dwarfs. The reference is to CIA Director Leon Panetta and seven of his moral-dwarf predecessors--the ones who sent President Barack Obama a letter on Sept. 18 asking him to "reverse Attorney General Holder's August 24 decision to re-open the criminal investigation of CIA interrogations." http://tinyurl.com/my4jc5
Panetta reportedly was also dead set against reopening the investigation--as he was against release of the Justice Department's "torture memoranda" of 2002, as he has been against releasing pretty much anything at all--the President's pledges of a new era of openness, notwithstanding. Panetta is even older than I, and I am aware that hearing is among the first faculties to fail. Perhaps he heard "error" when the President said "era."
As for the benighted seven, they are more to be pitied than scorned. No longer able to avail themselves of the services of clever Agency lawyers and wordsmiths, they put their names to a letter that reeked of self-interest--not to mention the inappropriateness of asking a President to interfere with an investigation already ordered by the Attorney General.
Three of the seven--George Tenet, Porter Goss, and Michael Hayden--were themselves involved, in one way or another, in planning, conducting, or covering up all manner of illegal actions, including torture, assassination, and illegal eavesdropping. In this light, the most transparent part of the letter may be the sentence in which they worry: "There is no reason to expect that the re-opened criminal investigation will remain narrowly focused."
Part I
Part III
Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA?
By Ray McGovern for Op Ed News
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Are-Presidents-Afraid-of-t-by-Ray-McGovern-091230-613.html
December 30, 2009
In the past I have alluded to Panetta and the Seven Dwarfs. The reference is to CIA Director Leon Panetta and seven of his moral-dwarf predecessors--the ones who sent President Barack Obama a letter on Sept. 18 asking him to "reverse Attorney General Holder's August 24 decision to re-open the criminal investigation of CIA interrogations." http://tinyurl.com/my4jc5
Panetta reportedly was also dead set against reopening the investigation--as he was against release of the Justice Department's "torture memoranda" of 2002, as he has been against releasing pretty much anything at all--the President's pledges of a new era of openness, notwithstanding. Panetta is even older than I, and I am aware that hearing is among the first faculties to fail. Perhaps he heard "error" when the President said "era."
As for the benighted seven, they are more to be pitied than scorned. No longer able to avail themselves of the services of clever Agency lawyers and wordsmiths, they put their names to a letter that reeked of self-interest--not to mention the inappropriateness of asking a President to interfere with an investigation already ordered by the Attorney General.
Three of the seven--George Tenet, Porter Goss, and Michael Hayden--were themselves involved, in one way or another, in planning, conducting, or covering up all manner of illegal actions, including torture, assassination, and illegal eavesdropping. In this light, the most transparent part of the letter may be the sentence in which they worry: "There is no reason to expect that the re-opened criminal investigation will remain narrowly focused."
Army Suggesting Brain Scan on Decorated Physician for doubting Obamas Eligibility - Part III Tavistock Series
Vatic Note: Just think about this for a moment and the implications. Remember yesterday we viewed an article on a psychology today author who said that "conspiracies" represent a mental illness, and that was written by the elitest school trained psychologist (princeton who gets funding from the Tavistock Human Relations division of their psychology institute in Great Britian) which means this is an approved and funded project for this psychologist who has no regular full time job anywhere, but is touted by the neocon owned press as a great guy. See other article from yesterday. So today we see this happening to a military officer who is expressing his dissent, whether you agree with him or not, when did we ever resort to a Hitler type treatment of someone who exercises his right to free speech? He should have been handled the same way the military handles anyone who disobeys an order, so why do this? Are we moving closer and closer to that pot of warm water beginning to boil???
The Travistock Institute in Britian was the Rockefeller funded org that helped to institute the CIA here in America and provided all the training necessary on Psychops for that org. Later, we will be doing a whole piece on the Travistock Institute so you can see the pervasion of this organization into our institutions. Even Truman said, he had no idea what the CIA did and wished he had never allowed it to exist.
Part I
Part II
Part IV
Title: Army Suggesting Brain Scan on Decorated Physician for doubting Obamas Eligibility
Posted By Europe On 05/04/2010 @ 2:35 am
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/04/army-suggesting-brain-scan-on-decorated-physician-for-doubting-obamas-eligibility/print/
By: EU Times
The U.S. Army is – unofficially – suggesting a brain scan and medical evaluation for an officer who announced he would refuse to follow further orders until and unless President Obama documents his constitutional eligibility to be commander in chief.
A spokeswoman for the developing case of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, a flight surgeon with 18 years in the service, said the recommendation came to Lakin today from an officer whose name was not being used who implied that those higher up the chain of command thought it was a good idea.
The suggestion was described to WND by spokeswoman Margaret Calhoun Hemenway, a veteran Washington appointee and now volunteer spokeswoman, as being presented in a “solicitous” manner.
Officially, the U.S. Army says it has no plans for formal action at this point against the officer. But the controversy also raises the prospect that the government may be unwilling to pursue a prosecution because of the possible ramifications – including a defense demand for a court-ordered discovery process that would target Obama’s historical documentation.
As WND reported, Lakin is an active-duty flight surgeon charged with caring for Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey’s pilots and air crew.
The top-ranking, highly decorated officer says he’s refusing all orders until Obama releases his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate to prove his eligibility to serve as commander in chief.
“I feel I have no choice but the distasteful one of inviting my own court martial,” Lakin said in a statement. “The Constitution matters. The truth matters.”
He continued, “For the first time in all my years of service to our great nation, and at great peril to my career and future, I am choosing to disobey what I believe are illegal orders, including an order to deploy to Afghanistan for my second tour of duty there. I will disobey my orders to deploy because I – and I believe all servicemen and women and the American people – deserve the truth about President Obama’s constitutional eligibility to the office of the presidency and the commander in chief.
“If he is ineligible, then my orders – and indeed all orders – are illegal because all orders have their origin with the commander in chief as handed down through the chain of command.”
The Travistock Institute in Britian was the Rockefeller funded org that helped to institute the CIA here in America and provided all the training necessary on Psychops for that org. Later, we will be doing a whole piece on the Travistock Institute so you can see the pervasion of this organization into our institutions. Even Truman said, he had no idea what the CIA did and wished he had never allowed it to exist.
Part I
Part II
Part IV
Title: Army Suggesting Brain Scan on Decorated Physician for doubting Obamas Eligibility
Posted By Europe On 05/04/2010 @ 2:35 am
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/04/army-suggesting-brain-scan-on-decorated-physician-for-doubting-obamas-eligibility/print/
By: EU Times
A spokeswoman for the developing case of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, a flight surgeon with 18 years in the service, said the recommendation came to Lakin today from an officer whose name was not being used who implied that those higher up the chain of command thought it was a good idea.
The suggestion was described to WND by spokeswoman Margaret Calhoun Hemenway, a veteran Washington appointee and now volunteer spokeswoman, as being presented in a “solicitous” manner.
Officially, the U.S. Army says it has no plans for formal action at this point against the officer. But the controversy also raises the prospect that the government may be unwilling to pursue a prosecution because of the possible ramifications – including a defense demand for a court-ordered discovery process that would target Obama’s historical documentation.
As WND reported, Lakin is an active-duty flight surgeon charged with caring for Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey’s pilots and air crew.
The top-ranking, highly decorated officer says he’s refusing all orders until Obama releases his long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate to prove his eligibility to serve as commander in chief.
“I feel I have no choice but the distasteful one of inviting my own court martial,” Lakin said in a statement. “The Constitution matters. The truth matters.”
He continued, “For the first time in all my years of service to our great nation, and at great peril to my career and future, I am choosing to disobey what I believe are illegal orders, including an order to deploy to Afghanistan for my second tour of duty there. I will disobey my orders to deploy because I – and I believe all servicemen and women and the American people – deserve the truth about President Obama’s constitutional eligibility to the office of the presidency and the commander in chief.
“If he is ineligible, then my orders – and indeed all orders – are illegal because all orders have their origin with the commander in chief as handed down through the chain of command.”
Israel faults troops in two fatal W.Bank incidents
Vatic Note: While this is a step in the right direction, its still far from the reality on the ground of what happens there daily. An international independant investigation into this should be done but not if the results are going to be ignored like the Goldstone report. One more time of Israel violating international law and the country will need to be designated a "ROGUE NATION" and treated as such. That is who should get all the embargo's and boycotts and then if they continue to be taken to task by the entire world.
Its an option in our people to people initiative for tactics, that is coming to soon, watch for them as they begin to come out for your input.
Title: Israel faults troops in two fatal W.Bank incidents
http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USTRE6352PS20100406
By: Reuters - Staff report
Date: April 6, 2010
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Unnecessary intervention by Israeli troops in a West Bank protest last month resulted in the deaths of two Palestinian youths, according to an internal investigation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
And more professional conduct by troops in an incident in the same vicinity on the following day might have avoided at least one further fatal shooting, the IDF report said.
The findings were summarized in an IDF statement on Tuesday in response to a query by Reuters. It is unusual for the army to criticize its troops publicly.
Its an option in our people to people initiative for tactics, that is coming to soon, watch for them as they begin to come out for your input.
Title: Israel faults troops in two fatal W.Bank incidents
http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USTRE6352PS20100406
By: Reuters - Staff report
Date: April 6, 2010
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Unnecessary intervention by Israeli troops in a West Bank protest last month resulted in the deaths of two Palestinian youths, according to an internal investigation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
And more professional conduct by troops in an incident in the same vicinity on the following day might have avoided at least one further fatal shooting, the IDF report said.
The findings were summarized in an IDF statement on Tuesday in response to a query by Reuters. It is unusual for the army to criticize its troops publicly.
Obama Gives Key Agriculture Post to Monsanto Man
Title: Obama Gives Key Agriculture Post to Monsanto Man
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=RUS20100405&articleId=18499
By: Gary Ruskin, Global Research, contributed by Gypsy from Australia
Date: 04/05/2010
Today, President Obama announced that he will recess appoint Islam A. Siddiqui to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Siddiqui is a pesticide lobbyist and Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, an agribusiness lobbying group that represents Monsanto.
Following is a letter sent by 98 organizations to U.S. Senators in opposition to Siddiqui's appointment, and a fact sheet about him.
Dear Senator:
The following 98 organizations are writing you to express our opposition to the nomination of Islam Siddiqui as Chief Agriculture Negotiator at the office of the United States Trade Representative. Our organizations— representing family farmers, farmworkers, fishers and sustainable agriculture, environmental, consumer, anti-hunger and other advocacy groups—urge you to reject Dr. Siddiqui’s appointment when it comes up for a floor vote, despite the Senate Finance Committee's favorable report of his nomination on December 23, 2009.
Siddiqui’s record at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and his role as a former registered lobbyist for CropLife America (whose members include Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont and Dow), has revealed him to consistently favor agribusinesses’ interests over the interests of consumers, the environment and public health (see attached fact sheet). We believe Siddiqui’s nomination severely weakens the Obama Administration’s credibility in promoting healthier and more sustainable local food systems here at home. His appointment would also send an unfortunate signal to the rest of the world that the United States plans to continue down the failed path of high-input and energy-intensive industrial agriculture by promoting toxic pesticides, inappropriate seed biotechnologies and unfair trade agreements on nations that do not want and can least afford them.
The United States urgently needs a trade negotiator who understands that current trade agreements work neither for farmers nor the world’s hungry. With farmers here and abroad struggling to respond to water scarcity and increasingly volatile growing conditions, we need a resilient and restorative model of agriculture that adapts to and mitigates climate change and that moves us towards energy-efficient farming.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=RUS20100405&articleId=18499
By: Gary Ruskin, Global Research, contributed by Gypsy from Australia
Date: 04/05/2010
Today, President Obama announced that he will recess appoint Islam A. Siddiqui to the position of Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Siddiqui is a pesticide lobbyist and Vice President for Science and Regulatory Affairs at CropLife America, an agribusiness lobbying group that represents Monsanto.
Following is a letter sent by 98 organizations to U.S. Senators in opposition to Siddiqui's appointment, and a fact sheet about him.
Dear Senator:
The following 98 organizations are writing you to express our opposition to the nomination of Islam Siddiqui as Chief Agriculture Negotiator at the office of the United States Trade Representative. Our organizations— representing family farmers, farmworkers, fishers and sustainable agriculture, environmental, consumer, anti-hunger and other advocacy groups—urge you to reject Dr. Siddiqui’s appointment when it comes up for a floor vote, despite the Senate Finance Committee's favorable report of his nomination on December 23, 2009.
Siddiqui’s record at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and his role as a former registered lobbyist for CropLife America (whose members include Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont and Dow), has revealed him to consistently favor agribusinesses’ interests over the interests of consumers, the environment and public health (see attached fact sheet). We believe Siddiqui’s nomination severely weakens the Obama Administration’s credibility in promoting healthier and more sustainable local food systems here at home. His appointment would also send an unfortunate signal to the rest of the world that the United States plans to continue down the failed path of high-input and energy-intensive industrial agriculture by promoting toxic pesticides, inappropriate seed biotechnologies and unfair trade agreements on nations that do not want and can least afford them.
The United States urgently needs a trade negotiator who understands that current trade agreements work neither for farmers nor the world’s hungry. With farmers here and abroad struggling to respond to water scarcity and increasingly volatile growing conditions, we need a resilient and restorative model of agriculture that adapts to and mitigates climate change and that moves us towards energy-efficient farming.
Psychology Today Hit Piece Labels Conspiracy Thinking A Psychotic Illness - Part I Tavistock Series
Vatic Note: Shades of Nazi Germany, remember when Hitler began arresting dissidents and placing them in mental health facilities without a trial? Most everything we have seen in our current movement toward tyranny progresses in a systemic way. First the foundation is laid, then once its dormant for a while, we are desensitized, pumped with fear, then the hammer is used based on that foundation. This is a foundational piece by a MS publication in the field of psychology. The Author graduated from Princeton and is touted in all the neocon owned MSM publications such as the expert and given credibility by the washington post etc. Check out his biography and you can see the writing on the wall. Another east coast Ivy league school like Yale and Havard. These universities do research for the Tavistock Institute in Britian. Just my opinion but it appears his full time job is psychological hitman for the elite. http://johngartner.com/about/about.aspx. He calls himself "the roving psychologist", how convenient. Once you read this then check out the "implementation" of this new "control mechanism" for dissent beginning with the military using the mental illness arguement for an officer refusing to obey illegal orders, just like Hitler did in the 30's before he assume complete control of Germany. Here is the link: http://www.eutimes.net/2010/04/army-suggesting-brain-scan-on-decorated-physician-for-doubting-obamas-eligibility/print/ (published 4/5/2010, only 2 months after this piece below) Will we be seeing more of this coming down the pike? Remember no court trial for mental "illness" confinement.
Title: Psychology Today Hit Piece Labels Conspiracy Thinking A Psychotic Illness
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/02/psychology-today-hit-piece-labels-conspiracy-thinking-a-psychotic-illness/print/
By: EU times
Date: Feb 10, 2010
Psychologist Gartner fulfils the very criteria he levels at “conspiracy theorists” to claim their concerns are a product of mental instability
In an article entitled Dark Minds: When does incredulity become paranoia, Psychology Today writer John Gartner attempts to make the case that the concerns of “conspiracy theorists” are not based in reality but are a product of mental instability, while himself fulfilling every criteria for what he claims classifies such people as psychotics – ignoring evidence that contradicts his preconceptions while embracing the ludicrous “conspiracy theory” that powerful men and governments do not conspire to advance their power.
Probably somewhat upset about how our coverage of the dangers associated with the swine flu vaccine has contributed to a global revolt against mass vaccination programs being readied, Psychology Today’s gravy train of big pharma advertisers will no doubt be pleased to see the publication wastes no time in savagely attacking radio host and film maker Alex Jones, dispensing with any notion of fairness and zealously going after him as early as the second paragraph.
The nature of this vicious hit piece (PDF link) is confirmed when Gartner laments that Jones refused to provide him with phone numbers for friends he grew up with, presumably frustrated that he couldn’t dig up some dirt from an old girlfriend to throw into the mix of what is nothing more than a personal attack on Jones’ character, and a complete departure from any debate about the issues Jones covers on his radio show, which is the phony pretext that Gartner used in order to secure the interview in the first place.
Gartner has trouble believing that eugenicists occupy powerful positions, even in the aftermath of the John P. Holdren story when Obama’s top science advisor was exposed as having advocated forced abortion, sterilization and mass drugging of the public. Despite the fact that we sent Gartner dozens of pieces of evidence for his article, he cites a single national security memorandum and dismisses it as “a bland policy report”.
Title: Psychology Today Hit Piece Labels Conspiracy Thinking A Psychotic Illness
http://www.eutimes.net/2010/02/psychology-today-hit-piece-labels-conspiracy-thinking-a-psychotic-illness/print/
By: EU times
Date: Feb 10, 2010
Psychologist Gartner fulfils the very criteria he levels at “conspiracy theorists” to claim their concerns are a product of mental instability
In an article entitled Dark Minds: When does incredulity become paranoia, Psychology Today writer John Gartner attempts to make the case that the concerns of “conspiracy theorists” are not based in reality but are a product of mental instability, while himself fulfilling every criteria for what he claims classifies such people as psychotics – ignoring evidence that contradicts his preconceptions while embracing the ludicrous “conspiracy theory” that powerful men and governments do not conspire to advance their power.
Probably somewhat upset about how our coverage of the dangers associated with the swine flu vaccine has contributed to a global revolt against mass vaccination programs being readied, Psychology Today’s gravy train of big pharma advertisers will no doubt be pleased to see the publication wastes no time in savagely attacking radio host and film maker Alex Jones, dispensing with any notion of fairness and zealously going after him as early as the second paragraph.
The nature of this vicious hit piece (PDF link) is confirmed when Gartner laments that Jones refused to provide him with phone numbers for friends he grew up with, presumably frustrated that he couldn’t dig up some dirt from an old girlfriend to throw into the mix of what is nothing more than a personal attack on Jones’ character, and a complete departure from any debate about the issues Jones covers on his radio show, which is the phony pretext that Gartner used in order to secure the interview in the first place.
Gartner has trouble believing that eugenicists occupy powerful positions, even in the aftermath of the John P. Holdren story when Obama’s top science advisor was exposed as having advocated forced abortion, sterilization and mass drugging of the public. Despite the fact that we sent Gartner dozens of pieces of evidence for his article, he cites a single national security memorandum and dismisses it as “a bland policy report”.
Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych drugs can fly commercial airliners
Vatic Note: This along with the naked scanners, makes it appear as though they do not want us flying and setting it up for us to do so voluntarily. Looks like this is the drug industries presidency like Bush was the oil companies president. We need someone to rise up for us, the people. Soon too or else we are going to have to do it. Freedom of movement is becoming slowly more controlled. Remember, also, all of the lone gunman shooters were on psychotropic drugs and violent. Not a good combination.
Title: Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych drugs can fly commercial airliners
http://www.naturalnews.com/z028514_antidepressant_drugs_pilots.html
By: Mike Adams, Natural News Editor
Date: April 5 2010
(NaturalNews) What would happen if the Columbine high school rampage shooters who were psyched out on mind-altering antidepressant drugs had been piloting a jet airliner instead? On Friday, the FAA issued a new rule that says pilots taking psychiatric medications are now allowed to pilot passenger airliners while medicated!
This "permission to fly while medicated" decision by the FAA covers pilots taking the antidepressant psychiatric drugs Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa and Lexapro. Not coincidentally, these are the same drugs that, in the minds of many industry observers, are linked to acts of aggression, suicide and mass murder. People on these drugs may simply lose touch with reality and feel like they're playing out a video game rather than acting out in the real world.
It begs the question: Why is the FAA putting medicated pilots in control of jet airliners? What happens if a psych drug medicated pilot suddenly thinks he's in a video game and aims his Boeing 767 at a civilian target "just for the fun of it?" Or what if he goes raving mad, strangles the copilot and then crashes the jet airliner nose-first into the ground?
While this kind of scenario may seem remote, you have to remember: It only takes one such event to cost the lives of hundreds of air passengers (and perhaps thousands of people on the ground).
Today, air travel is remarkably safe in terms of the number of fatalities per miles traveled. It's far safer than traveling in your car, in fact, and a fair amount of the credit for that safety belongs with the FAA. So why is the FAA now making a decision that seems, on its surface, to endanger the lives of air passengers by allowing psychiatric patients to pilot airplanes?
According to the FAA, the answer is because modern psychiatric drugs have fewer side effects. That seems like a political statement, not a medical conclusion, because the side effects that are experienced by a very small number of psychiatric medication users can be so whacked out that they can pose a very real danger to the lives of those around them. The majority of U.S. school shootings that we've seen over the last 15 years have been carried out by shooters taking psychiatric medications.
Title: Medicated in the cockpit: FAA says pilots on psych drugs can fly commercial airliners
http://www.naturalnews.com/z028514_antidepressant_drugs_pilots.html
By: Mike Adams, Natural News Editor
Date: April 5 2010
(NaturalNews) What would happen if the Columbine high school rampage shooters who were psyched out on mind-altering antidepressant drugs had been piloting a jet airliner instead? On Friday, the FAA issued a new rule that says pilots taking psychiatric medications are now allowed to pilot passenger airliners while medicated!
This "permission to fly while medicated" decision by the FAA covers pilots taking the antidepressant psychiatric drugs Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa and Lexapro. Not coincidentally, these are the same drugs that, in the minds of many industry observers, are linked to acts of aggression, suicide and mass murder. People on these drugs may simply lose touch with reality and feel like they're playing out a video game rather than acting out in the real world.
It begs the question: Why is the FAA putting medicated pilots in control of jet airliners? What happens if a psych drug medicated pilot suddenly thinks he's in a video game and aims his Boeing 767 at a civilian target "just for the fun of it?" Or what if he goes raving mad, strangles the copilot and then crashes the jet airliner nose-first into the ground?
While this kind of scenario may seem remote, you have to remember: It only takes one such event to cost the lives of hundreds of air passengers (and perhaps thousands of people on the ground).
Today, air travel is remarkably safe in terms of the number of fatalities per miles traveled. It's far safer than traveling in your car, in fact, and a fair amount of the credit for that safety belongs with the FAA. So why is the FAA now making a decision that seems, on its surface, to endanger the lives of air passengers by allowing psychiatric patients to pilot airplanes?
According to the FAA, the answer is because modern psychiatric drugs have fewer side effects. That seems like a political statement, not a medical conclusion, because the side effects that are experienced by a very small number of psychiatric medication users can be so whacked out that they can pose a very real danger to the lives of those around them. The majority of U.S. school shootings that we've seen over the last 15 years have been carried out by shooters taking psychiatric medications.
2010-04-05
PYLE: Oil drilling head fake
Vatic Note: The issue on its face appears to be about drilling and opening up areas for drilling, and regardless if your on the right or left, or whether you believe alternative energy should be pursued, that is not what this article is highlighting. OBAMA LIED, and that is what is being highlighted here. Why? Also, why did he close fields that were productive and had plenty of reserves? Nothing to replace the lost available inventory, so what is the agenda here, WHY LIE. Is it to shore up prices by reducing inventory? It appears that could be the case; check this out from Miami Herald . More price gouging to get the remainder of what little wealth we still have. But did he have to lie about it. I guess its an oil co bail out.
Why say he not only was going to open all this up, but he said he DID open it all up. That hurts him with his base, so why pretend to do something that hurts you with your base and then bogus up drill heads to pretend they are operational??? Is this deception personified? I would say so. Moony sold the Times to someone else and now we are actually getting news from at least one MSM for a change.
Title: PYLE: Oil drilling head fake
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/05/oil-drilling-head-fake/print/
By: Thomas J. Pyle, article contributed by Michael Strachner
Date: April 5, 2010
Nearly 30 years ago, Congress imposed a moratorium on the safe and environmentally sound practice of offshore oil and natural-gas exploration. In the early 1990s, President George H.W. Bush imposed a similar ban in the form of an executive order. And while this ban was in place for decades, many in Congress and the public at large had no idea that the United States was the only country in the industrialized world purposely embargoing its own energy resources.
Why say he not only was going to open all this up, but he said he DID open it all up. That hurts him with his base, so why pretend to do something that hurts you with your base and then bogus up drill heads to pretend they are operational??? Is this deception personified? I would say so. Moony sold the Times to someone else and now we are actually getting news from at least one MSM for a change.
Title: PYLE: Oil drilling head fake
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/05/oil-drilling-head-fake/print/
By: Thomas J. Pyle, article contributed by Michael Strachner
Date: April 5, 2010
Nearly 30 years ago, Congress imposed a moratorium on the safe and environmentally sound practice of offshore oil and natural-gas exploration. In the early 1990s, President George H.W. Bush imposed a similar ban in the form of an executive order. And while this ban was in place for decades, many in Congress and the public at large had no idea that the United States was the only country in the industrialized world purposely embargoing its own energy resources.
Video allegedly shows US forces ‘firing indiscriminately,’ killing two reporters
Title: Video allegedly shows US forces ‘firing indiscriminately,’ killing two reporters
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0405/video-shows-forces-firing-killing-reporters/
(go to this link above to see wikileaks whistleblower video on the killings)
By: Daniel Tenser, Raw Story
Date: April 5, 2010
McChrystal: 'We've shot an amazing number of people ... none has proven to have been a real threat to the force'
US military personnel apparently mistook the cameras slung over the backs of two Reuters journalists for weapons when they opened fire on them and a group of people in a Baghdad suburb in 2007, recently released video footage purportedly shows.
The whistleblower Web site Wikileaks on Monday released a 17-minute video of footage from an Apache helicopter that was reportedly one of two helicopters involved in a fight against insurgents in the neighborhood of New Baghdad on July 12, 2007.
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0405/video-shows-forces-firing-killing-reporters/
(go to this link above to see wikileaks whistleblower video on the killings)
By: Daniel Tenser, Raw Story
Date: April 5, 2010
McChrystal: 'We've shot an amazing number of people ... none has proven to have been a real threat to the force'
US military personnel apparently mistook the cameras slung over the backs of two Reuters journalists for weapons when they opened fire on them and a group of people in a Baghdad suburb in 2007, recently released video footage purportedly shows.
The whistleblower Web site Wikileaks on Monday released a 17-minute video of footage from an Apache helicopter that was reportedly one of two helicopters involved in a fight against insurgents in the neighborhood of New Baghdad on July 12, 2007.
Iraqi medical doctors implicated in plundering body organs
Title: Iraqi medical doctors implicated in plundering body organs
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2010-04-04/kurd.htm
By: Jareer Mohammed, Azzaman.com , reported by CLG newsletter, Lori Price, editor
Date: April 4, 2010
Iraqi police have arrested several people among them three doctors on charges of plundering body organs in the restive northern city of Mosul.
The victims whose organs were plundered were first kidnapped and then brought to a government hospital where their kidneys were extracted under duress.
Hospital director Raad al-Wazan affirmed that nine people were brought to Mosul’s General Hospital where they were operated clandestinely and their kidneys removed.
“The surgical operations were not proper and accurate,” Wazan said.
Medical sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say many more abducted persons might have been subjected to such operations.
They did not say how the victims were brought to the hospital but affirmed that three doctors were involved in the operations.
Police say they learned about the operations after arresting a gang accused of abducting Iraqis for ransom and body organ plundering.
The extracted kidneys were given to patients in the same hospital for massive money, the police say.
Wazan admitted the death of an 11-year old boy in the hospital following an operation in which his kidney was removed.
“The boy suffered from bleeding which could not be stopped and died,” he said.
The police say several hospitals in the city might be involved and the number of victims could soar.
The article is reproduced in accordance with Section 107 of title 17 of the Copyright Law of the United States relating to fair-use and is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2010-04-04/kurd.htm
By: Jareer Mohammed, Azzaman.com , reported by CLG newsletter, Lori Price, editor
Date: April 4, 2010
Iraqi police have arrested several people among them three doctors on charges of plundering body organs in the restive northern city of Mosul.
The victims whose organs were plundered were first kidnapped and then brought to a government hospital where their kidneys were extracted under duress.
Hospital director Raad al-Wazan affirmed that nine people were brought to Mosul’s General Hospital where they were operated clandestinely and their kidneys removed.
“The surgical operations were not proper and accurate,” Wazan said.
Medical sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, say many more abducted persons might have been subjected to such operations.
They did not say how the victims were brought to the hospital but affirmed that three doctors were involved in the operations.
Police say they learned about the operations after arresting a gang accused of abducting Iraqis for ransom and body organ plundering.
The extracted kidneys were given to patients in the same hospital for massive money, the police say.
Wazan admitted the death of an 11-year old boy in the hospital following an operation in which his kidney was removed.
“The boy suffered from bleeding which could not be stopped and died,” he said.
The police say several hospitals in the city might be involved and the number of victims could soar.
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Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips
Vatic Note: The People-to-People initiative will be address this in their strategy and tactics so watch for them when they come out. There are many good ideas for avoiding the chip on your person, but more importantly how to either extract the chip from products or make them unuseable. These will be coming out a few at a time since its a horrific job but must be started now in preparation for hte Health care bill which is where the chips are reqiured by law to be implanted in everyone for "supposedly" medical records.
Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips
By: Patrick Redmond, April 13, 2008, contributed by Gypsy from Australia
http://dprogram.net/2009/07/12/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid-chips/
Date: 04/05/2010
What I’m going to do is give you an introduction to three technologies that are becoming more and more important. The first is RFID chips, the second genetic engineering, and the third synthetic biology. This will give you an understanding of what is happening and where science is going.
We will start with RFID chips:
So what are they? They are Radio Frequency Identification Devices. An RFID is a microchip with an attached antenna. The microchip contains stored information which can be transmitted to a reader and then to a computer.
RFID’s can be passive, semi-passive or active. Active RFID’s have an internal power source such as a battery. This allows the tag to send signals back to the reader, so if I have a RFID on me and it has a battery, I can just send a signal to a reader wherever it is. They can receive and store data, and be read at a further distance than the passive RFID’s. The batteries can only last a short while. But the current batteries in the RFID’s can last for over a hundred years, because of their self-generating power. Ultrawideband (UWB) allows the small battery operated RFID tag to be sensed over fairly wide areas. For instance, GE Aircraft Engines in Ohio has installed five readers in the factory and it covers over 30,000 square feet so they can track everything within that area with only the five readers. That gives you an idea of the distance that can be covered by an RFID tag that might be on you or on equipment.
An RFID held by a pair of tweezers
The readers can transmit over telephone or by internet to computers and they use satellites as well. For example, Digital Angel has signed contracts with satellite providers to transmit their data for military personnel location beacons (PLBs). These beacons use the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system. This system has some 400,000 digital beacons around the world and it’s rising to some 900,000. By the year 2009 they plan to have a GL stationary satellite system that will enable them to find the location and details of any beacon. You may sometimes see these at night; the GO stationary systemscan track any beacon. Skiers sometimes use them so that they can be identified, and sailors as well, if they become lost at sea they will be able to be tracked. Anything that has an RFID tag can be tracked by a reader or a computer.
An example of such transmission is a chip sold by Zarlink. This chip is implanted in a person; it tracks problems and if one is detected, it alerts the doctor who uses a two way RF link to interrogate and adjust the implanted device. Semi-passive RFIDs have an internal power source that let them monitor environmental conditions, such as temperature and shock, but they still require RF energy from the reader to respond.
Passive RFID’s do not have a power source but use a signal sent by the scanner to power the microchip circuit to transmit back their stored information. Passive RFID’s are getting very small. Hitachi a few years ago produced a chip (called the mu chip) that was the size of a pencil point; if you take a pencil and put it on a piece of paper you get a little dot. That’s how small they’re getting. In 2007 Hitachi came out with a chip that was even smaller, they call it RFID powder. They are just like the talcum powder you would put on a baby.
Somark Innovations in Jan 10, 2007 announced an invisible RFID ink. This can be applied to cattle, prime cuts of meat, military personnel and it can be read through hair.
I brought along a couple of the larger size chips, and this particular chip I got from Gillette fusion blades. I bought one of the blades and you can see that on one side what looks like a bar code and if you open it up you can see parts of a RFID chip on the back. This one here is from the Gap. One of my daughters went to the Gap; they put the tag directly on the clothing and the instructions just say to remove before washing and wearing. If you put it up to the light you will see the RFID chip inside it. These chips are quite small and can be put on the back of labels. They would not be noticeable in badges or ID cards; they could even be put in the eye of a person, they are that small.
In order for chips to be useful, they have to have a unique product number and because of this, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) started developing some standards. It’s called the AutoID Center. They then passed it on to the AutoID Group within the Uniform Clothes Council. It will assign codes and publish specifications, so if you have a company, government agency, or church you can contact these people and they will give you a set of numbers.
So let’s say there are three or five people in this room wearing the same white hat and each one of them has a chip on it with a different number. We could differentiate everything even if you’re all wearing the same clothes, it doesn’t really matter because everything has a unique number. MIT has the architecture of participation called EPC Global so if you go on Google and type in EPC Global and you will come up with the website they will give you instructions on how to apply and get chips. So if you want to chip yourself, your family, relatives, company or anything like that; you can do it.
It works with people who want to use this technology. One of many companies who sell the chip is called, Technic Imitations. If you have a company and you go to one of their presentations, they will give you books like this that tell you what the chips look like, how they work, the types that are sold, and what the readers look like. They will help you install chips in your company. It’s a very big business and it’s spreading very quickly.
Ex-IBM Employee reveals TV Abandoned Analog Band to Make Room for RFID Chips
By: Patrick Redmond, April 13, 2008, contributed by Gypsy from Australia
http://dprogram.net/2009/07/12/ex-ibm-employee-reveals-tv-abandoned-analog-band-to-make-room-for-rfid-chips/
Date: 04/05/2010
What I’m going to do is give you an introduction to three technologies that are becoming more and more important. The first is RFID chips, the second genetic engineering, and the third synthetic biology. This will give you an understanding of what is happening and where science is going.
We will start with RFID chips:
So what are they? They are Radio Frequency Identification Devices. An RFID is a microchip with an attached antenna. The microchip contains stored information which can be transmitted to a reader and then to a computer.
RFID’s can be passive, semi-passive or active. Active RFID’s have an internal power source such as a battery. This allows the tag to send signals back to the reader, so if I have a RFID on me and it has a battery, I can just send a signal to a reader wherever it is. They can receive and store data, and be read at a further distance than the passive RFID’s. The batteries can only last a short while. But the current batteries in the RFID’s can last for over a hundred years, because of their self-generating power. Ultrawideband (UWB) allows the small battery operated RFID tag to be sensed over fairly wide areas. For instance, GE Aircraft Engines in Ohio has installed five readers in the factory and it covers over 30,000 square feet so they can track everything within that area with only the five readers. That gives you an idea of the distance that can be covered by an RFID tag that might be on you or on equipment.
An RFID held by a pair of tweezers
The readers can transmit over telephone or by internet to computers and they use satellites as well. For example, Digital Angel has signed contracts with satellite providers to transmit their data for military personnel location beacons (PLBs). These beacons use the COSPAS-SARSAT satellite system. This system has some 400,000 digital beacons around the world and it’s rising to some 900,000. By the year 2009 they plan to have a GL stationary satellite system that will enable them to find the location and details of any beacon. You may sometimes see these at night; the GO stationary systemscan track any beacon. Skiers sometimes use them so that they can be identified, and sailors as well, if they become lost at sea they will be able to be tracked. Anything that has an RFID tag can be tracked by a reader or a computer.
An example of such transmission is a chip sold by Zarlink. This chip is implanted in a person; it tracks problems and if one is detected, it alerts the doctor who uses a two way RF link to interrogate and adjust the implanted device. Semi-passive RFIDs have an internal power source that let them monitor environmental conditions, such as temperature and shock, but they still require RF energy from the reader to respond.
Passive RFID’s do not have a power source but use a signal sent by the scanner to power the microchip circuit to transmit back their stored information. Passive RFID’s are getting very small. Hitachi a few years ago produced a chip (called the mu chip) that was the size of a pencil point; if you take a pencil and put it on a piece of paper you get a little dot. That’s how small they’re getting. In 2007 Hitachi came out with a chip that was even smaller, they call it RFID powder. They are just like the talcum powder you would put on a baby.
Somark Innovations in Jan 10, 2007 announced an invisible RFID ink. This can be applied to cattle, prime cuts of meat, military personnel and it can be read through hair.
I brought along a couple of the larger size chips, and this particular chip I got from Gillette fusion blades. I bought one of the blades and you can see that on one side what looks like a bar code and if you open it up you can see parts of a RFID chip on the back. This one here is from the Gap. One of my daughters went to the Gap; they put the tag directly on the clothing and the instructions just say to remove before washing and wearing. If you put it up to the light you will see the RFID chip inside it. These chips are quite small and can be put on the back of labels. They would not be noticeable in badges or ID cards; they could even be put in the eye of a person, they are that small.
In order for chips to be useful, they have to have a unique product number and because of this, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) started developing some standards. It’s called the AutoID Center. They then passed it on to the AutoID Group within the Uniform Clothes Council. It will assign codes and publish specifications, so if you have a company, government agency, or church you can contact these people and they will give you a set of numbers.
So let’s say there are three or five people in this room wearing the same white hat and each one of them has a chip on it with a different number. We could differentiate everything even if you’re all wearing the same clothes, it doesn’t really matter because everything has a unique number. MIT has the architecture of participation called EPC Global so if you go on Google and type in EPC Global and you will come up with the website they will give you instructions on how to apply and get chips. So if you want to chip yourself, your family, relatives, company or anything like that; you can do it.
It works with people who want to use this technology. One of many companies who sell the chip is called, Technic Imitations. If you have a company and you go to one of their presentations, they will give you books like this that tell you what the chips look like, how they work, the types that are sold, and what the readers look like. They will help you install chips in your company. It’s a very big business and it’s spreading very quickly.