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International Court Hears Georgian Case
By MARLISE SIMONS

PARIS ? Georgia and Russia carried their dispute over the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to the International Court of Justice on Monday, as three days of hearings began over Georgia?s request for an injunction ordering Russia to stop ?terrorizing? ethnic Georgians and to allow refugees to return to their homes.

Russia Agrees to Limited Georgia Troop Pull-Out (September 9, 2008) Georgia?s first deputy minister of Justice, Tina Bujaliani, said her country was urgently turning to the court ? the United Nations? highest ? ?at a time of great distress in its history, a time when hundreds of thousands of its nationals are persecuted and displaced from their homes only because they are Georgians.?

3 guilty in London plot that caused airline chaos
By DAVID STRINGER and PAISLEY DODDS

LONDON (AP) ? Three men were convicted Monday of conspiracy to murder in a terrorist bombing campaign, but the jury could not reach a verdict on allegations they plotted to use liquid explosives to down trans-Atlantic airliners.

The jury failed to reach any verdict at all for four defendants, and one man was acquitted in a case that caused travel chaos in 2006 at the height of the summer vacation season. Prosecutors said they were considering a retrial.

Prosecutors said a group of British Muslims led by Abdulla Ahmed Ali planned to use explosive hydrogen peroxide disguised as a soft drink and considered national infrastructure targets including gas terminals, oil refineries and Heathrow Airport.

Prosecutors said during the trial that the men, all Britons with ties to Pakistan, planned to attack United Airlines, American Airlines and Air Canada flights.

Israeli Police Suggest Indicting Olmert
By ISABEL KERSHNER

JERUSALEM ? The Israeli police on Sunday recommended indicting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on charges including bribe-taking, fraud and breach of trust.

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Times Topics: Ehud OlmertThe recommendation, which followed a corruption investigation that unfolded over several months, has no legal weight of its own. The decision whether to charge the prime minister lies with the attorney general, Menachem Mazuz. It is likely to come in a few weeks, after Mr. Olmert has been granted a hearing. Mr. Olmert?s lawyers immediately issued a statement that the police recommendation had ?no meaning.?

Mr. Olmert has repeatedly denied wrongdoing. Under intense public and political pressure, however, he pledged in July to resign as soon as his centrist Kadima Party chose a new leader. The party election is scheduled for next week, and a runoff, if required, would be on Sept. 25.

The police recommendation underscored Mr. Olmert?s standing as a lame duck and cast a thicker pall over the country?s political future and its diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinians and with Syria. Ofer Shelah of Maariv, a daily newspaper, wrote that it ?will repeatedly remind us that in the weeks and maybe months ahead, Israel is without a government.?

Blasts kill 9 in Pakistan militant stronghold
By STEPHEN GRAHAM

Blasts kill 9 in Pakistan militant stronghold
By STEPHEN GRAHAM ? 1 hour ago

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) ? Missiles fired from U.S. drone aircraft hit a seminary and houses associated with a Taliban commander, killing at least nine people, including both militants and civilians, officials and witnesses say.

With violence spiraling in Afghanistan, Washington is becoming more aggressive about insurgent havens abutting the Afghan border, despite the strain it places on relations with Pakistan just as its new president takes office.

Monday's incident occurred in a village in North Waziristan, a militant stronghold in Pakistan's tribal belt and a possible hiding place for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri.

Residents told of seeing two Predator drones in the sky shortly before multiple explosions hit a seminary and several nearby houses in the village of Dande Darba Khel.

A Pakistani intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of his job, said three suspected foreign militants and two children were among the dead.

Russia says to send nuclear warship to Caribbean

By Conor Sweeney

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it would send a heavily-armed nuclear-powered cruiser to the Caribbean for a joint naval exercise with Venezuela, its first major maneuvers on the United States' doorstep since the Cold War.

Russian officials denied the mission was linked to a naval standoff with U.S warships in the Black Sea, but it will take place at a time of high tension between Washington and Moscow over the conflict in Georgia.

Washington has played down the significance of the exercise.

Russia has criticized the United States for sending a command ship and two other naval vessels to Georgia, on its southern border, to deliver aid and show support for President Mikheil Saakashvili after Moscow sent troops into Georgia.

U.S. Takeover of Mortgage Giants Lifts Stock Markets

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM and DAVID JOLLY
Published: September 8, 2008
Investors around the world breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after the federal government took over and backed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, assuring a continued flow of credit through America?s wounded mortgage system.

Freddie Mac

The move marked an end to a period of extended uncertainty about the fate of the giant mortgage buyers, which play a critical role in the American financial structure, and Wall Street responded with its biggest rally in months.

The Dow Jones industrial average jumped more than 340 points within minutes of the opening bell, but by noon the blue-chip index had settled back and was up about 154 points in afternoon trading. The Standard & Poor?s 500-stock index rose about 0.88 percent.

On the New York Mercantile Exchange, oil prices fell 33 cents to $105.90 in late morning trading.

Oil falls as traders eye the dollar, Gulf storm, OPEC
Oil output down 80% in Gulf as Ike approaches; OPEC gathers in Vienna
By Myra P. Saefong & Polya Lesova

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude futures retreated from a high near $110 per barrel Monday, as the rally in the U.S. stock market and strength in the dollar drew investors away from the oil market, but energy traders remained wary of Hurricane Ike's potential to disrupt oil production in the Gulf of Mexico.
The U.S. stock market and dollar strengthened following the government's takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Hurricane Ike and its projected path into the Gulf of Mexico provided some support for oil, "yet the macro picture with the Fannie and Freddie bailout seems to be trumping the storm as the dollar rallies and money flows to equities," said Phil Flynn, a vice president at Alaron Trading.
Crude oil for October delivery fell by $1.13 to $105.10 a barrel in electronic trading on Globex. It traded as high as $109.89 earlier.
October crude was down 88 cents at $105.35 on the New York Mercantile Exchange after dropping 8% last week.
Traders are watching Ike and it should be an interesting week "as it isn't projected to make landfall until next weekend after strengthening once it gets into the Gulf," said Darin Newsom, a senior analyst at DTN.

OPEC Faces "Demand Destruction"

OPEC meets tomorrow and the betting is that it will do little to alter the cartel's output. With prices falling, the group, which provides about 40 percent of the world's petroleum, sees little need to boost production. Yet prices are still so high that it would be politically difficult for OPEC's mightiest member, Saudi Arabia, to heed the calls of the group's price hawks to cut production much to keep prices comfortably over $100 a barrel.

There is a surreal aspect to the entire debate. Less than two years ago, OPEC cut production by 1.5 million barrels a day to keep prices from slipping below $55 a barrel. Now Venezuela and Iran want the group to keep prices from dropping below $100 a barrel. They have tasted what $145-a-barrel oil tastes like just in July, and they thought it was good.

But the fact of the matter is that it's hard to imagine that the world can afford these prices for a protracted period of time. In the first seven months of the year, OPEC countries have received more revenues than they did all of last year. As many economists in the United States have noted, this is inflating the U.S. trade deficit, undercutting the U.S. dollar and sapping the economy of money that would otherwise have eased spending burdens of households or gone into badly needed savings and investment.

Saudi Arabia is the key player at OPEC meetings. It has the most latitude to increase, or cut, production. It raised output in recent months, pumping an extra half million barrels a day or so. Many Saudi policy makers have long fretted that high prices could force consuming countries to find alternatives ranging from biofuels to electric cars. In OPEC meetings, this is called "demand destruction." Or as one-time Saudi oil minister Zaki Yamani famously said, the stone age didn't end because the world ran out of stones, a reference to the possibility that people might stop using oil even if oil were still around. More recently, the Saudi King Abdullah said he would like to see prices come down under $100 a barrel. They aren't far off now, closing Friday at $106, down almost 30 percent from the $147 high in early July.

Yet perspectives have changed in OPEC and the gap between pricing doves and hawks has narrowed. Even Saudi oil officials see burgeoning demand in places like China and India as helping set a floor to world demand, and they too have seen that the world can tolerate much higher oil prices than anyone thought sustainable just a couple of years, or a few months ago.

4 Ways to Avoid MRSA Infections in Kids

Parents have good reason to be freaked out about MRSA, a microbe that causes nasty skin infections and is resistant to some antibiotics.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ginned up new guidelines aimed at helping parents prevent MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) in kids, but good luck finding the practical advice on the CDC's website. We've boiled it down to spare other parents from needless clicking.

Here are four actions you can take:

1. If your child has a booboo, put a bandage on it. MRSA is usually spread by skin-to-skin contact. Bandages protect broken skin from MRSA and also reduce the risk of spreading MRSA to family members and friends if a wound already is infected.

2. Wash your hands with soap and water, and don't be timid about nagging kids to wash their hands, too. Boring, but it works.

3. Discourage sharing of towels, razors, and other hygiene items, which are often implicated in MRSA outbreaks. That's one reason MRSA outbreaks have been more common in school athletic teams. This could be the best way ever to scare boys off towel-snapping! Also, tell kids not to share clothes or other personal items.

4. Call the doctor ASAP if a family member has a skin infection and also a fever. Most staph infections look like a bump or infected area that is red, swollen, painful, and warm to the touch. Rapid treatment with the right antibiotics makes it easier to get rid of the bug.

For more on MRSA infections in students, see "A Nasty Bug Breaks Out."'

What You Need to Know About Mapping the Cancer Genome
Three new studies examine genes linked to brain and pancreatic tumors
By Katherine Hobson

Two of the most feared cancer diagnoses are glioblastoma, the most aggressive kind of brain tumor, and pancreatic cancer. Both kill the average patient within months, not years, of diagnosis, so there's special interest in finding the Achilles' heel of those cancers. Scientists are now reporting that they've gotten an up-close-and-personal look at the genetic mutations linked to those two cancers, which may?eventually?lead to better matching of appropriate treatments to individual patients, new diagnostic tests, and possibly even entirely new drugs.


Human Chromosomes
(Courtesy of TCGA)

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Beyond the implications for those specific cancers, there's a great deal of interest in the way the two groups of researchers approached their work: Both analyzed huge quantities of genetic information from different tumor samples in an attempt to essentially catalog the many different permutations of cancer. You're going to hear more about this approach in the future; one group, the government-funded consortium known as the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network, is hoping to map even more cancers in coming years. And other researchers in the public and private sectors also are focusing on the cancer genome. Here's what you need to know:

What is the cancer genome, anyway?
Cancer, by definition, is caused by genes going haywire?mutating in ways that are not part of the normal blueprint for the body's form and function. Even among tumors of a single type, those genes can go haywire in many different ways. So describing the entire cancer genome involves characterizing all the different abnormalities that are linked to each of the 50 major types of cancer. That daunting task would involve churning through 12,500 times as much information as scientists processed in their recently completed effort to map the entire human genome.

What's the Cancer Genome Atlas project?
TCGA, as it's called, is a government-funded consortium charged with chipping away at this task. Now in a three-year pilot, it is focusing on just a few forms of cancer, including glioblastoma. (It just published a study in the journal Nature. That was one of three reports on the subject that appeared this week.) If those efforts prove promising, the full project, costing a proposed $1.5 billion and lasting many years, could get the green light. But technology has not yet made it practical to characterize every single gene in every tumor, so the TCGA's approach is to focus on the genes already known to be active in tumors. Those genes still contain about 100 times as much genetic material as was mapped in the human genome project.

Are other researchers doing the same thing?
Yes. A separate group published two papers in Science, one describing glioblastoma and the other characterizing pancreatic cancer. The two groups' aims are the same, but their approaches are slightly different. The TCGA team looked at more than 200 tumor samples but analyzed only genes already identified as active in cancer, says Steve Elledge, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School. The group publishing in Science, by contrast, looked at fewer samples but cast a broader net: It studied all the genes in those samples, not just the ones previously known to be associated with cancer. And it linked a new gene to glioblastoma.

So when will new gene-based cancer treatments be on the market?
Not soon. This is all very preliminary. The unifying conclusion of the new research is that there are many different mutations in a given type of tumor. That will make it difficult to come up with drugs targeted at every mutation. "The conclusion has subtly shifted," says Jeff Boyd, chief scientific officer of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, who wasn't part of either research group. Now, he says, researchers are more likely to take aim at molecular "pathways" in a cancer cell. A pathway, in this case, is a sequence of molecular events in a cell that lead to a single end result but that may be sparked by several different types of mutations.

Think of it this way: Multiple cars might be taking their own routes to a given garage, but they're all planning to end up in the same place. Instead of trying to stop each car on the road, you could put up one roadblock in front of the garage. That promising approach to stopping cancer is attracting a lot of research attention and dollars, but there are as yet no drugs on the market targeting pathways, says Boyd. It's possible, but it would take years.

Study Warns about Threatening Levels of Fire Retardants in Kids? Blood
By Anna Boyd

A study of chemical fire retardants in parents and their children conducted by the Environmental Working Group revealed that toddlers and preschoolers had three times more the neurotoxic pollutants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in their blood than their mothers.


For the study, the EWG scientists tested the blood of 20 US children ages 1 to 4 and their mothers and compared the samples for PBDEs. What they found was shocking.


More exactly, the average of PBDEs in the blood of children were about 62 parts per billion (PPB), compared to 25 ppb in their mothers. These figures are worrisome considering the fact that early studies showed children in Span and Norway had levels 6 to 13 times lower. Moreover, one child had six times the level of the chemical that was detected in her mother.


"These findings raise concern about the effect of PBDEs on children's brain development. These levels are uncomfortably close to doses found harmful in laboratory animals,? Sonya Lunder, MPH, a senior analyst at EWG and a co-author of the report, said.

Report: cells ?from space? have unusual makeup

A line?age of odd mi?crobes that may have crashed in?to Earth aboard a me?te?or in 2001 seem to con?tain mo?le?cules not found in Earthly cells, two sci?en?tists are re?port?ing.

Al?though many re?main skep?ti?cal over the re?mark?a?ble claim of mi?nus?cule ex?tra?ter?res?tri?al vis?i?tors, God?frey Lou?is, head of the phys?ics de?part?met at Co?chin Uni?ver?s?ity of Sci?ence and Tech?nol?o?gy in In?dia, pre?sented the find?ings at a sci?en?tif?ic con?fer?ence in San Die?go on Aug. 12.

The mys?ter?ious orbs give off a blue fluor?es?cence un?der ul?tra?vio?let light, ac?cord?ing to re?search?ers. (Courtesy G. Louis & A. S. Kumar)

The meet?ing was or?gan?ized by SPIE, the In?terna?t?ional So?ci?e?ty for Op?ti?cal En?gi?neer?ing. The ac?ro?nym re?flects its form?er name as So?ci?e?ty of Photo-Op?ti?cal In?stru?menta?t?ion En?gi?neers.

The mi?crobes give off un?sual sorts of flu?o?res?cence un?der spe?cif?ic light?ing con?di?tions, which fol?low pat?terns nev?er seen in nor?mal cells, ac?cord?ing to Lou?is and San?thosh Ku?mar of Ma?hat?ma Gan?dhi Uni?ver?s?ity in In?dia, co-authors of the re?port. The likely ex?plana?t?ion, they added, is that the par?t?i?cles con?tain mo?le?cules not found in Earthly or?gan?isms.

Long, grueling immigration fight over for Abramov

"I'm so happy that after 14 years the immigration judge believed me and granted me political asylum," Abramov said Friday in a telephone interview from Havre, where he lives temporarily while doing road construction work.

Abramov essentially won asylum earlier this summer when a U.S. immigration attorney declined to file a second appeal of a ruling by U.S. Immigration Judge Michael Bennett that favored Abramov, said Keith Tokerud, the Great Falls attorney who has provided Abramov with hundreds of hours of free legal counsel since 1994.

Bennett again ruled, as he had after a 2005 hearing, that conditions had not improved enough in Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, that Abramov could be spared persecution by local officials with long memories if he was deported to his native country.

On Friday, Abramov said that Russia's controversial recent invasion of its former state of Georgia demonstrated that political conditions are still grim in the former Soviet Union.

Are cows to blame for global warming?

BEEF farmers have launched a stinging attack on a climate change expert who will tonight urge consumers to abandon meat diets in favour of vegetarianism.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is calling on individuals to cut their carbon footprints by transforming their diets at a lecture hosted by Compassion in World Farming lecture in London.

He will claim that current global animal production is responsible for 18% of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions - and the figure is set to double by 2050.

Dr Pachauri said that although people are cutting car and air journeys, insulating their homes and recycling, they are yet to fully realise the impact of livestock production on climate change.

Militarism and a Uni-polar World
by Lenora Foerstel

The Trilateral Commission was founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller as an off-shoot of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR). David Rockefeller was chairman of the CFR in 1970 and subsequently became the founding chairman of the Trilateral Commission. Soon the membership of the Commission had grown to 300 members, including prominent political figures like Zbigniew Brzezinski. Most members of the Trilateral Commission are bankers, media moguls, or corporate CEOs, primarily from North America, Europe and Japan, while all members of the CFR are U.S. Citizens.

The Commission seeks to extend its influence abroad and is careful to avoid the scrutiny of congressional investigations. The CFR on the other hand, focuses on the control of American media.

When American media discuss globalism, they rarely mention that the Trilateral Commission sets most global economic goals, primary among them being the creation of a one-world system of trade. It is basically a form of fascism in which global corporations and their elite CEOs determine the policies and direction of world governments. The creation of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank after World War II was intended to encourage Third World countries to borrow money from wealthy nations, so long as they agreed to the imposition of a wide range of ?structural adjustment policies.? Any nation borrowing money from either organization would not be allowed to nationalize its natural resources and would be unable to prevent foreign corporations from buying or controlling those resources.

"Blood Money" vs. 9/11 Truth
Brian F. Sullivan, FAA Spec Agent (Ret)

When the Victims' Compensation Fund was established, participants had to agree not to sue the airlines or their security surrogates. 95 families refused the offer of public money and chose to pursue legal redress for wrongful death and/or personal injury.

Throughout the legal process, in which 90 of the suits settled, the plaintiffs' lawyers insisted that their clients were seeking a fair and open trial and a better understanding of the security breakdowns that allowed the 9/11 tragedy to occur.

Unfortunately, each settlement came with a confidentiality agreement which, in effect, amounted to a gag order preventing the plaintiffs from revealing what had been uncovered in discovery.

After four Pentagon ground cases were settled last Fall, the 9/11 families were criticized for their "silent" settlements and questions were raised as to whether the plaintiffs motives were more about "blood money" than 9/11 truth.

Breaking the Spell with 9-11 Truth
by Carol Wolman

Here we are, 7 long years later, and they?re still getting away with it. There has been no real investigation of 9-11, and 9-11 truth advocates are still labelled ?fringe?, ?paranoid?, ?conspiracy theorists?. The country has bought the lie. We are under a spell.

Someone asked my opponent in the coming election, Rep. Mike Thompson (Dem CA-1) whether he thought 9-11 might be an inside job. His response: ?70% of the country thinks that Elvis is still alive?.


I attended a 9-11 truth rally yesterday.

Richard Gage, an architect who is organizing Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth www.ae911truth.org/ (460 members so far), spoke about the obvious lies in the official coverup report. The three towers could only have been brought down so quickly by thousands of thermite or thermate ?cutters? strategically planted ahead of time in all three building. Gage pointed out the fact that all the concrete was pulverized into fine dust, the steel framework was shattered or melted, molten rivers of metal flowed on the site for weeks afterwards. This was a highly sophisticated operation that could not have been planned from a cave in Afghanistan.

A New York cop, whose beat included the World Trade Center, talked about the powerdown in the North Tower two weeks before the attack, while the new security company, Marvin Bush?s company, did something with heavy equipment and lots of wires.

A letter was read from Captain Philip Marshall who just published False Flag 911: How Bush, Cheney and the Saudis Created the Post-911 World

He writes: Our investigation had also brought us to the training of the hijackers because the expert levels of airmanship displayed in the attacks raised red flags of suspicion. ?The 911 Commission Report maintained that these pilots were flying Boeing 757s and 767s for the first time. They concluded that in the very first minute in an actual 767 cockpit, one hijacker was able to fly the plane from a cruise altitude of 31,000 feet into a sustained power dive, level out, find his target and hit the south tower of the World Trade Center at an indicated airspeed of 465 knots. The Pentagon plane was even more suspicious in that the 90 foot building was hit at around the same phenomenal airspeed of 460 knots following an absolute perfect 330 degree steep turn at 2,500 feet while in a sustained descent. Any experienced airline pilot knows that this expert level of airmanship is impossible without repeated and intense training. According to the 911 Commission, these were the first flights and the first time that the pilot/hijackers had touched (flown) these highly sophisticated airliners or any airplane larger than single-engine propeller airplanes. Impossible!

These are just a few examples of the outrageous inconsistencies in the official 9-11 story. Yet most of the country continues to buy it. The speakers yesterday talked about how jolting and upsetting it was to realize, several years later, that we are being lied to over and over, and how it took them several days to readjust their thinking.

President Bush told the Republican Convention last Tuesday night that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are still reverberating around the world, and voters must elect John McCain as president ?to protect America.?

This shows how central 9-11 still is to the whole Republican agenda. It provides the excuse for fascist legislation, for invading other nations illegally, for executive abuses of power of all sorts.

If it could be proven that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, perhaps Rice, Guiliani and a few others, expedited 9-11, they could be tried for treason, because they attacked the American people directly. Treason cannot be pardoned.

The Lies and Crimes of 911:
A Canadian View of the War on Terror's Origins
by Prof. Anthony J. Hall

Framing the Issues

During this, the season of the seventh anniversary of 911, we must continue to increase the effectiveness of our transnational peace lobby aimed at extending the Nuremberg process towards an international investigation into the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the name of the War on Terror. Such an investigation must begin by asking some foundational questions about the underlying crime that gave rise to the War on Terror. Were the events of 911 orchestrated by a very different cast of characters and for very different motives than those identified in the trial by media that began with unseemly haste on the very day of the Great Shock?[i] Is the War on Terror a War on Truth? Did the official conspiracy theory originate in a web of lies, distortions and cover-ups expressed to this day in the dense shroud of public mythology surrounding the events of 911? We must empower a credible international tribunal of esteemed jurists with sufficient independence to asses on its own merits the growing body of evidence to indicate that the destruction of the Twin Towers and World Trade Centre 7, together with the hit on the Pentagon, were caused by something considerably more elaborate than the actions of nineteen young Saudis equipped with nothing but box cutters, flight training and jihadist zeal.

Too much state terror and too much state criminality has occurred since 911 not to revisit the scene of the crime that created the springboard for such systemic and unrelenting abuses of authority and sacred trusts vested in our governments. Was the whole 911 operation really planned and instigated by a band of Islamic extremists acting alone? Was the whole undertaking really planned and coordinated in distant Eurasian caves, ones conveniently located on planned pipeline routes meant to tap the last large reserves of unexploited Middle Eastern oil? Was the role of Wall Street in the events of 911 confined to that of victim? Or are some central figures in America?s commercial capital more implicated in the crime?s planning, execution and outcomes than our governments and the commercial media would have us believe? Who benefited most from the events of 911? Who had the motives and who had the means? Wouldn?t any truly independent inquiry into what actually transpired on 911 begin by addressing such fundamental questions and then work from there?

Linking autism, vaccinations

In response to the article, "Autism's Cause Remains a Mystery," by Dr. R. Douglas Schultz, I would like to pose a few questions for readers:

1. If autism's cause remains a mystery, then why is it that more and more autistic children are no longer considered autistic after having the heavy metals (mercury, aluminum, etc.) removed from their bodies through chelation?

2. If autism's cause remains a mystery, then why is it that large organizations such Autism07 and USAutism Austin 08 have provided and are currently providing information on heavy metal toxicity at their annual conventions including speakers certified in cellular and molecular immunology, environmental medicine, dentistry, research, investigative reporting, and pediatric toxicity?

3. If vaccines are safe, then why is it that not one medical doctor or pharmaceutical company CEO has come forward to publicly drink a mixture of standard vaccine additive ingredients in the same amount as a six-year-old child is recommended to receive, even when the offer to do so has increased from $20,000 in 2001 to $155,000 today?

4. If vaccines are safe, then why won't the Centers for Disease Control conduct a large-scale, private, non-biased study as did the organization Generation Rescue, which showed that there is a clear connection between neurological disorders in children and vaccines?

The CDC has only conducted studies financed by the pharmaceutical companies and government agencies.

5. If vaccines are safe, then why have there been over 5,000 adverse reactions reported from the Gardasil vaccine including 18 deaths of young girls, paralysis, Guillaine Barre Syndrome, etc.?

It's not only autism that should be in the discussion. There are affected kids around every corner. It is time to "Green the Vaccines" - take out the neurotoxins mercury, aluminum, formaldehyde, antifreeze, etc.

There are safer alternatives available such as homeopathic vaccines, but then no money would be made by the pharmaceutical companies. And it would be costly for them to change to non-toxic ingredients.

What a decision to make: Let's see, the normal life of a child or profit from toxic vaccines? The choice is clear to me. No price is too high in exchange for a child's life.


Marcia Staggs Abbott

Speech/Language

Pathologist

San Angelo

Think tank: Ireland, a hub for GM meds?
?Pharming? could become big in Ireland

The science of ?pharming? involves production of medicines from genetically altered plants. It?s an emerging area, and Ireland has a lot to gain by supporting this research, which offers a cheap, safe, reliable method of producing drugs in a controlled way.

At the moment, there are tight restrictions on anyone growing genetically modified plants in Ireland. When people think of GM crops, they usually think of crops that are grown for food, such as the sugar beet that was given permission by the Environmental Protection Agency in the late 1990s.

But there is another side to the GM story ? the growing of crops for medicines. These are altered in order to become little factories that can produce a whole range of drugs, antibodies, vaccines and desirable proteins. The big difference between the growing of GM food crops and GM medicine crops is that scientists believe the latter is a safer and more profitable enterprise. The medicine crops would not be grown in the open, where the risk of cross-contamination with other non-GM crops is a factor. They would be grown in highly controlled conditions in a glasshouse. Medicine crops do not need a large amount of area ? a lot can be achieved with a small number of plants.

This is going to become an increasingly important way of producing medicines in the future, but for the moment Irish researchers involved in this area do not consider it worthwhile to apply for a licence. The overall antipathy towards GM prompts them to seek collaborators overseas, where restrictions are less stringent.

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