Monday, March 31, 2008
Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation
Young people are at particular risk from exposure to radiation
By Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
Sunday, 30 March 2008
Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.
It draws on growing evidence - exclusively reported in the IoS in October - that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.
Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.
Professor Khurana - a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers - reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, and a paper based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.
He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours". He believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade.
Noting that malignant brain tumours represent "a life-ending diagnosis", he adds: "We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation." He fears that "unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps", the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.
"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke. Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.
Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Fitna, the Movie. Now Available...
Definitely a moving documentary, highly recommended. Spread the word. Islam declared war against the West a long time ago. Here, you see the evidence in their own words, from the Koran, and from the mouths of its self-appointed representatives. It is past time to recognize this.
English version
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103
Dutch version
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ee4_1206625795
Related
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/27/fitna-has-arrived/
It should be noted, the images in Fitna are no worse than what has already been given in several excellent documentary DVDs about Islam, notably Obsession. See the book and DVD list here:
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
FDA Goons Attacking Natural Raw Milk Dairys...
Time to dust-off my 1993 article, and update it. The White-Coats and pill-pushers are on the offensive once again.
Anti-Constitutional Activities and Abuse of Police Power by the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other Federal Agencies
by James DeMeo, Ph.D.
by James DeMeo, Ph.D.
I remember in Florida in the 1970s, there were dairys selling raw milk, and the FDA tried to banish them. Unable to do it all at once, because these dairys were not involved in "interstate commerce" (the FDA's jurisdiction), they did manage to have the word "Milk" removed from the cartons of raw milk being sold in the stores. So the raw milk sellers had to label their milk "Artificial Milk", because the term "Milk" was preserved for the homogenized, pasturized, chemical-injected, devitalized, skimmed, etc. stuff. Such is the Orwellian nature of the FDA, our "Ministry of Health".
We also have numerous books on this subject in our on-line bookstore:
J.D.
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Dear Members,
Please circulate this press release to your email lists and local media outlets.
Thank you!
Sally Fallon, President
The Weston A. Price Foundation
FDA HARASSES DAIRY COMPANY EMPLOYEES
Grand Jury Investigation is Latest Government Tactic against Raw Milk
March 24, 2008: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Special FDA agents and investigators from the US Food and Drug Administration aggressively interrogated two young female employees of Organic Pastures Dairy Company, the nation's largest raw milk producer, with questions focusing on the dairy's interstate sales of raw colostrum and raw milk for pet food.
The surprise interrogations took place after work in their private homes on the evening of March 19, just hours after Judge Tobias of the Hollister Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order against the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The state court ruling blocked enforcement of California's anti-raw milk AB 1735, which mandates unnecessarily stringent standards for beneficial coliform bacteria in raw milk. The temporary restraining order represents an important legal victory for raw milk producers and consumers in California and throughout the nation.
The federal agents threatened one employee with arrest if questions were not fully and truthfully answered about Organic Pastures' order fulfillment practices. Her answers reflected information that is readily available at the company's website, www.organicpastures.com. The other employee was told FDA would "make it worth her while" to "wear a wire" and record conversations with Organic Pastures president Mark McAfee. The employee refused the offer. "We are like a family, I would never do that to a family member," she said, reflecting her close relationship with the McAfee family.
Both employees were served subpoenas to appear April 3 for a secret grand jury investigation. In 2003, Organic Pastures received a confirmation letter from Larry Childers of the FDA, which clearly stated that interstate sales of raw colostrum are not regulated because colostrum is not milk. The FDA website notes that "pet food" requires no pre-market approval and is unregulated by the FDA.
The Bronx Zoo in New York and other zoos regularly order raw colostrum and raw dairy products from Organic Pastures to save babies of endangered species and keep other animals healthy. Orders stipulate that the milk and colostrum must be raw because pasteurized versions make them ill. Many veterinarians recommend raw milk for cats and dogs.
"FDA has gone on the record as 'hating raw milk' in any form," says Mark McAfee, founder and president of Organic Pastures. "The harassment of our employees and grand jury investigation is just the latest round in the government vendetta against Nature's perfect food. If Organic Pastures is doing something illegal, all FDA needs to do is come and tell us and we will make the necessary changes to our labels and procedures."
Organic Pastures will be represented in this action by the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund. Membership in the Fund helps support the defense of raw milk and direct farm-to-consumer sales. For further information visit www.ftcldf.org.
CONTACT:
Mark McAfee, President, Organic Pastures Dairy Corporation, (55) 846-9742, cell (559) 351-2453, mark@organicpastures.com.
Taaron Meikle, President, the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, (703) 964-7421, tgmeikle@aol.com.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Happy Birthday, Wilhelm Reich!
Wilhelm Reich was born on 24 March 1897. While he lived only 60 years, expiring in a prison cell on 3 November 1957 -- into which he was engineered by the American COMINTERN working in conspiracy with pharmaceutical and psychiatric interests -- his contributions to science, healing and philosophy continue to predict, but also remain well in advance of, the course of mainstream discovery and theory in many disciplines.
One of the greatest social and scientific pioneers of the 20th Century, but who probably won't be fully appreciated until the 22nd.
Wilhelm, we stand in the night sky,
Observing the planets and galaxy,
and raise a glass in remembrance
and comradeship.
Thanks and adieu!
Hizbollah.com is down, but so is Fitna
Thanks to all who wrote letters of protest to Network Solutions, pointing out the hypocrisy on their web-hosting (since 1998!) one of the world's biggest terror groups -- hizbollah.org -- while censoring a basically empty website carrying only the words "Fitna the Movie, Coming Soon". So far as I know, OBRL-News was one of the few groups to raise Hell with Network Solutions about that aspect.
But the Fitna website is still down while Network Solutions debates whether the First Amendment of the US Constitution is suitably "fit" for our modern multicultural universe. Can't upset the Muslims, you know. Poor little things. They might just melt into a puddle if you dare to translate their sermons into English so other people will know what they are saying. Forget about all that blowing-up stuff, shooting thousands of bomb-rockets and starting international wars, the daily "death to America" and "death to Jews" fist-shaking exercise classes, the mullahs waving big swords, etc., and all of which they are quite proud about -- but we simply mussnt translate their words into infidel languages, as that would really make them angry, and then who knows what they would do!
So you might wish to contact Network Solutions again, and say thanks for removing the terror group, but asking them to show a bit of spine and behave as if they really were Americans and living in the 21st Century, and not some paid-off lickspittles for the Iranian Mullahs. Reference the prior OBRL-News for their contact information -- Network Solutions, that is.
J.D.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Network Solutions Censors Wilders, but Hosts Hezbollah Terrorist Site
If you tried to go to the UK website I recommended recently for the Wilder's Fitna movie, you will notice it has been hacked. Firstly it was censored by Network Solutions, then a mirror website was set up in the UK, then that was hacked and hijacked to a Muslim jihad website, then modified to make it look like the whole movie was a spoof. But now comes more steam-pressure into the impending social explosion, about a short film that so far nobody has seen. Network Solutions, we learn, hosts the website of the terror-group Hizbollah!
I just confirmed, the website hizbollah.org (English version at english.hizbollah.org, but I won't link to them) is web-hosted and sponsored by the same Network Solutions which censored the Wilders film. You can confirm it for yourself by checking the Geek Tools "whois" website:
So for Network Solutions, an American company, it is perfectly acceptable to host a website put up by one of the most bloody terror organizations on the planet, which has launched wars and massacred American, European and Israeli civilians over decades, and advocates violent murder, misogynistic crushing down of women and non-Muslims, and a totalitarian Islam, but totally unacceptable if you dare to criticize any of that. It doesn't get any more irrational, self-destructive or hypocritical.
While Geert Wilders continues to be identified as a "right-winger" in the newspapers, that does not appear to be the case. Whatever his politics, I am confident the Wilders film cannot be anything more dramatic than has already appeared in the film Obsession.
Obsession was ignored, treated with silence by contrast, but it did have a powerful influence, as for the first time many people got to see mainstream Islamic hate-preachers which make the Rev. Wright of Trinity Church look like a timid peace-nik Quaker. That kind of thing is common in the Muslim world, not a minority attitude at all. The Islamo-fanatic mullahs would wave swords from their pulpits and scream "kill the jews" to the response of a roaring, jumping-up-and-down fist-shaking, dead-faced mob in the mosque. Such is the ugly situation of Islam which the mostly-liberal and Islam-loving MSM does not want people to see. While they accuse Wilders and the conservatives of being "Hitlerites" and such, factually we see the sword-waving, murder-rhetoric and now bald-faced censorship, flowing overwhelmingly from Islam and it's left-wing supporters. The Muslims certainly do ACT upon that rhetoric, in their state-sponsored terrorism and misogyny, which is exported internationally via the mullah-mosque system, and through foreign policy. And they are getting full support from the craven internet companies, who would sell us all into slavery if it would allow them to cuddle even closer with the totalitarians of the world, and boost their quarterly earnings report. Little Men all.
The Wilders film, which nobody has seen, is "smoking out" every fascist freedom-hater and Islamofascist terror supporter on the planet.
Now, Google is censoring Fitna. Try a search for "fitna the movie". It will yield various links attacking or discussing the film, including various pretender sites which are dedicated to attacking Wilders ... but the original Wilders websites don't come up. Now, there are also calls emerging for a similar banishment and censoring of Hirsi Ali's film Submission from internet.
Where will it end?
Here's the original website in the USA, censored out of existence by Network Solutions:
And here's the hacked one in the UK -- still has the spoof message. Or, it could be this whole website was a spoof:
http://www.fitnathemovie.co.uk
One of the torrents websites has claimed to have the Fitna movie up, but -- beware -- you might be getting some Islamo-virus, made to "Punish Those Who Listen To Insulters of Islam". So I won't provide any links to that.
Again, if any of this bothers you, register a protest with Network Solutions. Here is some updated info on their contacts:
Network Solutions
Abuse coordinator: dwhetzel@networksolutions.com abuse@networksolutions.com
Additional: difm@networksolutions.com webmaster@networksolutions.com customerservice@networksolutions.com
Telephones: 1-800-333-7680, 1-800-361-5712, and 1-888-642-9675
outside the US 1.570.708.8788
Question form - leave comments - it will require that you leave a domain name -- suggest to use the hizbollah.org name.
http://www.networksolutions.com/help/ecommerce-service-request.jsp
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Wilders "Fitna" Back on Track - 23 March
So much for the efforts of Darth Muhammad and the Dark Side of the Force, to stop the "pitiful band of renegades" in the Rebel Alliance! The Fitna film, banished to the outer planets by the Cowardly Network Solutions, working in conspiracy with the Evil Petroleum Alliance, has found safe haven in the tiny island community of Britannia.
Hail Britannia, we shall never ever ever be slaves!
Play it loud. http://eden.rutgers.edu/~wcuk/blog/grand_march.mp3
Global Cooling Continues...
Record snows in upper Midwest, USA
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Climate facts to warm to
Christopher Pearson | March 22, 2008
CATASTROPHIC predictions of global warming usually conjure with the notion of a tipping point, a point of no return.
Last Monday - on ABC Radio National, of all places - there was a tipping point of a different kind in the debate on climate change. It was a remarkable interview involving the co-host of Counterpoint, Michael Duffy and Jennifer Marohasy, a biologist and senior fellow of Melbourne-based think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Anyone in public life who takes a position on the greenhouse gas hypothesis will ignore it at their peril.
Duffy asked Marohasy: "Is the Earth stillwarming?"
She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."
She replied: "No, actually, there has been cooling, if you take 1998 as your point of reference. If you take 2002 as your point of reference, then temperatures have plateaued. This is certainly not what you'd expect if carbon dioxide is driving temperature because carbon dioxide levels have been increasing but temperatures have actually been coming down over the last 10 years."
Duffy: "Is this a matter of any controversy?"
Marohasy: "Actually, no. The head of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has actually acknowledged it. He talks about the apparent plateau in temperatures so far this century. So he recognises that in this century, over the past eight years, temperatures have plateaued ... This is not what you'd expect, as I said, because if carbon dioxide is driving temperature then you'd expect that, given carbon dioxide levels have been continuing to increase, temperatures should be going up ... So (it's) very unexpected, not something that's being discussed. It should be being discussed, though, because it's very significant."
Duffy: "It's not only that it's not discussed. We never hear it, do we? Whenever there's any sort of weather event that can be linked into the global warming orthodoxy, it's put on the front page. But a fact like that, which is that global warming stopped a decade ago, is virtually never reported, which is extraordinary."
Duffy then turned to the question of how the proponents of the greenhouse gas hypothesis deal with data that doesn't support their case. "People like Kevin Rudd and Ross Garnaut are speaking as though the Earth is still warming at an alarming rate, but what is the argument from the other side? What would people associated with the IPCC say to explain the (temperature) dip?"
Marohasy: "Well, the head of the IPCC has suggested natural factors are compensating for the increasing carbon dioxide levels and I guess, to some extent, that's what sceptics have been saying for some time: that, yes, carbon dioxide will give you some warming but there are a whole lot of other factors that may compensate or that may augment the warming from elevated levels of carbon dioxide.
"There's been a lot of talk about the impact of the sun and that maybe we're going to go through or are entering a period of less intense solar activity and this could be contributing to the current cooling."
"There's been a lot of talk about the impact of the sun and that maybe we're going to go through or are entering a period of less intense solar activity and this could be contributing to the current cooling."
Duffy: "Can you tell us about NASA's Aqua satellite, because I understand some of the data we're now getting is quite important in our understanding of how climate works?"
Marohasy: "That's right. The satellite was only launched in 2002 and it enabled the collection of data, not just on temperature but also on cloud formation and water vapour. What all the climate models suggest is that, when you've got warming from additional carbon dioxide, this will result in increased water vapour, so you're going to get a positive feedback. That's what the models have been indicating. What this great data from the NASA Aqua satellite ... (is) actually showing is just the opposite, that with a little bit of warming, weather processes are compensating, so they're actually limiting the greenhouse effect and you're getting a negative rather than a positive feedback."
Duffy: "The climate is actually, in one way anyway, more robust than was assumed in the climate models?"
Marohasy: "That's right ... These findings actually aren't being disputed by the meteorological community. They're having trouble digesting the findings, they're acknowledging the findings, they're acknowledging that the data from NASA's Aqua satellite is not how the models predict, and I think they're about to recognise that the models really do need to be overhauled and that when they are overhauled they will probably show greatly reduced future warming projected as a consequence of carbon dioxide."
Duffy: "From what you're saying, it sounds like the implications of this could beconsiderable ..."
Marohasy: "That's right, very much so. The policy implications are enormous. The meteorological community at the moment is really just coming to terms with the output from this NASA Aqua satellite and (climate scientist) Roy Spencer's interpretation of them. His work is published, his work is accepted, but I think people are still in shock at this point."
If Marohasy is anywhere near right about the impending collapse of the global warming paradigm, life will suddenly become a whole lot more interesting.
A great many founts of authority, from the Royal Society to the UN, most heads of government along with countless captains of industry, learned professors, commentators and journalists will be profoundly embarrassed. Let us hope it is a prolonged and chastening experience.
With catastrophe off the agenda, for most people the fog of millennial gloom will lift, at least until attention turns to the prospect of the next ice age. Among the better educated, the sceptical cast of mind that is the basis of empiricism will once again be back in fashion. The delusion that by recycling and catching public transport we can help save the planet will quickly come to be seen for the childish nonsense it was all along.
The poorest Indians and Chinese will be left in peace to work their way towards prosperity, without being badgered about the size of their carbon footprint, a concept that for most of us will soon be one with Nineveh and Tyre, clean forgotten in six months.
The scores of town planners in Australia building empires out of regulating what can and can't be built on low-lying shorelines will have to come to terms with the fact inundation no longer impends and find something more plausible to do. The same is true of the bureaucrats planning to accommodate "climate refugees".
Penny Wong's climate mega-portfolio will suddenly be as ephemeral as the ministries for the year 2000 that state governments used to entrust to junior ministers. Malcolm Turnbull will have to reinvent himself at vast speed as a climate change sceptic and the Prime Minister will have to kiss goodbye what he likes to call the great moral issue and policy challenge of our times.
It will all be vastly entertaining to watch.
THE Age published an essay with an environmental theme by Ian McEwan on March 8 and its stablemate, The Sydney Morning Herald, also carried a slightly longer version of the same piece.
The Australian's Cut & Paste column two days later reproduced a telling paragraph from the Herald's version, which suggested that McEwan was a climate change sceptic and which The Age had excised. He was expanding on the proposition that "we need not only reliable data but their expression in the rigorous use of statistics".
What The Age decided to spare its readers was the following: "Well-meaning intellectual movements, from communism to post-structuralism, have a poor history of absorbing inconvenient fact or challenges to fundamental precepts. We should not ignore or suppress good indicators on the environment, though they have become extremely rare now. It is tempting to the layman to embrace with enthusiasm the latest bleak scenario because it fits the darkness of our soul, the prevailing cultural pessimism. The imagination, as Wallace Stevens once said, is always at the end of an era. But we should be asking, or expecting others to ask, for the provenance of the data, the assumptions fed into the computer model, the response of the peer review community, and so on. Pessimism is intellectually delicious, even thrilling, but the matter before us is too serious for mere self-pleasuring. It would be self-defeating if the environmental movement degenerated into a religion of gloomy faith. (Faith, ungrounded certainty, is no virtue.)"
The missing sentences do not appear anywhere else in The Age's version of the essay. The attribution reads: "Copyright Ian McEwan 2008" and there is no acknowledgment of editing by The Age.
Why did the paper decide to offer its readers McEwan lite? Was he, I wonder, consulted on the matter? And isn't there a nice irony that The Age chose to delete the line about ideologues not being very good at "absorbing inconvenient fact"?
Unseen Wilder's Film Causes Global Hysteria
It's almost as bad as if someone on Wall Street yelled "HIV/AIDS is transmissible by paper money, AAAaaaa!" and everyone began running around in wretched agony.
Geert Wilder's 10-minute film "Fitna" has created a nearly identical hysteria, but globally. A film nobody has seen, which nobody can comment about, except that Wilders says it will quote from the Koran, and show the real-world consequences when people believe in those quotes and act upon them. Like, Koran quotes of Muhammed demanding the deaths of infidels, followed by real-world scenes of infidels being killed by angry Muslims. Or Muhammed approving of little girls being married to old bearded men, followed by real images of frightened little girls being married to old bearded men. Or Big Mo declaring "smite them at their necks" followed by you-know-what. Apparently this kind of "reality TV" is really "too much" for the mainstream media, which prides itself on showing just about every kind of twisted lie and perversion-as-heath, to validate their allegiance to the First Amendment. But some Truth About Islam? Come on. "That's old fashioned"! "Instead, let's take these American and Israeli dolls and stick those long pins into them."
Consequently no EU TV or cable station will show it. You Tube has banned it. Governments are prepared to step in and stop it, maybe to arrest Wilders for daring to say he will show such a film, even though he hasn't. It is already a "thought crime" of the highest magnitude. You can distribute and post "kill the Jews" rants from Hamas and Hezbollah, show beheading videos and Osama Bin Ladin's Favorite Fatwas, circulate them on DVD and YouTube and show them in mosques, swap them on Blueberry's and cell phones in the schools, and that's A-OK. But a ten minute film which matches Koran quotes with Muslim behavior... why, you must be mad! That's outrageous and unacceptable! A matter for the United Nations! Quick, throw the provocateur into prison!
Wilder's continues to get death-threats from all the Islamo-bomb-heads, jail-threats from his political foes, and the moderate Muslims are totally smugly silent. So, Wilders created a website with plans to make his film available as a free download, here:
I've checked that website several times over the last week, and it merely showed a colorful image of the Koran, with beautiful calligraphy Arabic script ("there is no god but Allah," etc.) with the sentence "Fitna, the Movie, coming soon". So periodically, people with interests in Wilder's film have checked that one-page website, in anticipation...
But if you missed it.... Too Late!
Take a look at that website today, as it has been blocked by Network Solutions, the webhost.
This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site's content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy. Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation. For more information about Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy visit the following URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/legal/aup.jsp
Apparently, all the Islamofascists and their leftist friends have been barraging Network Solutions to halt this truth-telling film. Network Solutions will therefore go the way of Google in Communist China, except in this case, it will be censoring truth-fact content aimed at Western audiences, even as jihad-terror websites, porno-websites, and piracy-copyright websites continue to be available without so much as a problem. So much for the First Amendment, up for sale to the highest Islamic bidders, and negotiable to complaints by all the left-wing advocates of PC.
Michelle Malkin has an item on it, which might provide updates.
Will any American company host "Fitna?"
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/22/will-any-american-company-host-fitna/
And in case you are wondering where all of this is leading...
"Scholars" demand laws criminalizing "insults" to Islam
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/02/scholars-demand-laws-criminalizing-insults-to-islam/
If this situation bothers you, you can register your complaint with Network Solutions directly, against internet censorship, and urge the ending of the forbiddance of the Wilder's film, here:
difm@networksolutions.com
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Global Warming Errors - PDF document
"Gore's 10 Errors
Old and New
Old and New
Scientific mistakes and exaggerations"
Well worth a look. Thanks to Peter Nasselstein for the alert.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Report Details Saddam's Terrorist Ties
A revealing if not only half-way report on the subject. More definitive work on "the connection" between Saddam, 9-11 and OBL/al-Qaeda was given in several older reports, posted to OBRL-News and summarized in various books, such as by Stephen Hayes, Laurie Mylroie, Gina Davis, and others. History, which plods along and takes its time, is vindicating "The Connection" and not the wishful thinking of the critics of that connection. J.D.
"This is the beginning of the process of exposing Saddam's involvement in Islamic terror. But it is only the beginning. Time and declassification I'm sure will reveal yet more... (it) is damning to those who doubted Saddam Hussein's involvement with Jihadist terrorist groups. It devastates one of the central myths plaguing our government prior to 9-11, that a Jihadist group would not cooperate with a secular regime and vice versa."
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http://www.nysun.com/article/72906
Report Details Saddam's Terrorist Ties
By ELI LAKE
Staff Reporter of the Sun
March 14, 2008
WASHINGTON - A Pentagon review of about 600,000 documents captured in the Iraq war attests to Saddam Hussein's willingness to use terrorism to target Americans and work closely with jihadist organizations throughout the Middle East.
The report, released this week by the Institute for Defense Analyses, says it found no "smoking gun" linking Iraq operationally to Al Qaeda. But it does say Saddam collaborated with known Al Qaeda affiliates and a wider constellation of Islamist terror groups.
The report, titled "Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents," finds that:
* The Iraqi Intelligence Service in a 1993 memo to Saddam agreed on a plan to train commandos from Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the group that assassinated Anwar Sadat and was founded by Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.* In the same year, Saddam ordered his intelligence service to "form a group to start hunting Americans present on Arab soil; especially Somalia." At the time, Al Qaeda was working with warlords against American forces there.
* Saddam's intelligence services maintained extensive support networks for a wide range of Palestinian Arab terrorist organizations, including but not limited to Hamas. Among the other Palestinian groups Saddam supported at the time was Force 17, the private army loyal to Yasser Arafat.
* Beginning in 1999, Iraq's intelligence service began providing "financial and moral support" for a small radical Islamist Kurdish sect the report does not name. A Kurdish Islamist group called Ansar al Islam in 2002 would try to assassinate the regional prime minister in the eastern Kurdish region, Barham Salih.
* In 2001, Saddam's intelligence service drafted a manual titled "Lessons in Secret Organization and Jihad Work-How to Organize and Overthrow the Saudi Royal Family." In the same year, his intelligence service submitted names of 10 volunteer "martyrs" for operations inside the Kingdom.
* In 2000, Iraq sent a suicide bomber through Northern Iraq who intended to travel to London to assassinate Ahmad Chalabi, at the time an Iraqi opposition leader who would later go on to be an Iraqi deputy prime minister. The mission was aborted after the bomber could not obtain a visa to enter the United Kingdom. The report finds that Abdul Rahman Yasin, who is wanted by the FBI for mixing the chemicals for the 1993 World Center Attack, was a prisoner, and not a guest, in Iraq. An audio file of Saddam cited by the report indicates that the Iraqi dictator did not trust him and at one point said that he thought his testimony was too "organized." Saddam said on an audio file cited by the report that he suspected that the first attack could be the work of either Israel or American intelligence, or perhaps a Saudi or Egyptian faction.
The report also undercuts the claim made by many on the left and many at the CIA that Saddam, as a national socialist, was incapable of supporting or collaborating with the Islamist al Qaeda. The report concludes that instead Iraq's relationship with Osama bin Laden's organization was similar to the relationship between the rival Colombian cocaine cartels in the 1990s. Both were rivals in some sense for market share, but also allies when it came to expanding the size of the overall market.
The Pentagon study finds, "Recognizing Iraq as a second, or parallel, 'terror cartel' that was simultaneously threatened by and somewhat aligned with its rival helps to explain the evidence emerging from the detritus of Saddam's regime."
A long time skeptic of the connection between al Qaeda and Iraq and a former CIA senior Iraq analyst, Judith Yaphe yesterday said, "I think the report indicates that Saddam was willing to work with almost any group be it nationalist or Islamic, that was willing to work for his objectives. But in the long term he did not trust many of the Islamist groups, especially those linked to Saudi Arabia or Iran." She added, "He really did want to get anti-American operations going. The fact that they had little success shows in part their incompetence and unwilling surrogates."
A former Bush administration official who was a member of the counter-terrorism evaluation group that analyzed terror networks and links between terrorists and states, David Wurmser, said he felt the report began to vindicate his point of view.
"This is the beginning of the process of exposing Saddam's involvement in Islamic terror. But it is only the beginning. Time and declassification I'm sure will reveal yet more," he said. "Even so, this report is damning to those who doubted Saddam Hussein's involvement with Jihadist terrorist groups. It devastates one of the central myths plaguing our government prior to 9-11, that a Jihadist group would not cooperate with a secular regime and vice versa."
The report concludes that Saddam until the final months of his regime was willing to attack America. Its conclusion asks "Is there anything in the captured archives to indicate that Saddam had the will to use his terrorist capabilities directly against the United States?" It goes on, "Judging from Saddam's statements before the 1991 Gulf War with the United States, the answer is yes." As for after the Gulf War, the report states, "The rise of Islamist fundamentalism in the region gave Saddam the opportunity to make terrorism, one of the few tools remaining in Saddam's 'coercion' tool box." It goes on, "Evidence that was uncovered and analyzed attests to the existence of a terrorist capability and a willingness to use it until the day Saddam was forced to flee Baghdad by Coalition forces." The report does note that it is unclear whether Saddam would have authorized terrorism against American targets in the final months of his regime before Operation Iraqi Freedom five years ago. "The answer to the question of Saddam's will in the final months in power remains elusive," it says.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
More Pat Condell, on More Demands From Islam
Pat Condell's always worth a look and a small humor on a really bad problem.
Hat tip to Dr. von Hilsheimer for sending this.
Offshoots of Orgonomy #1, now available as PDF download
Orgonomy, the 1980s magazine edited by Wilhelm Reich's secretary,
Lois Wyvell. Some years ago, in agreement with Ms. Wyvell, the old
issues were rescued from a basement and put into clean storage,
reorganized, and offered for sale via Natural Energy Works. They are
a time-capsule expressing much of the spirit and flavor of Reich's
later years, along with articles and essays by many of Reich's
associates (most of whom have passed on since) as well as the
struggles of various patients in orgone therapy, losing their
armoring but still confronting the emotionally armored world. In any
case, they are now available at a reduced price, of $2.50 each or $30
for the full set of remaining issues, so long as the copies last. We
anticipate they will become collector's items at some point.
Issues #1 and #2 went out of print some time back, but we have made
#1 available as a free PDF download. We will do this also with issue
#2 when we get around to it. The download link is on the Offshoots
page.
See here:
http://www.naturalenergyworks.net
11th item down on the left-hand side.
Also don't forget the new DVD version of John Ott's movie "Exploring
the Spectrum" also available via the same website -- 12th item down
on the left side.
"Dutch" Muslims Threaten Mass Killings, Politicians Back Muslims!
It is starting.... Muslim "SA browshirts", taking orders from the older men and mullahs in the mosques, to go out and threaten and beat-up, and demand obedience and dhimmitude from the local infidel population. THEY are the Neue Übermensch, Islam Über Alles and all of non-Muslim Europe will be subdued. Civil war is brewing, as the politicans continue to play violins and kiss the feet of the aggressors, who demand even more foot-kissing, and loads of money. This will spread, and spread even faster with more appeasement.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3090
"People Who Vote Wilders Must Die"
From the desk of Thomas Landen on Fri, 2008-03-14 09:53
A Moroccan youth group from Delft in the Netherlands, calling themselves "Scheme 015 Delftse Samenzwering Shit," [samenzwering means conspiracy] has posted a video clip threatening to kill voters and sympathizers of Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/45891/7ba9e370/mocro_s_schoppen_kaalkopjes.html
The clip shows a group of Moroccans youths provoking two Dutch lads on a crowded public train. The hooded Moroccans ask the lads, who are dressed in black, what the badges on their clothes mean. At first the lads do not react. When the Moroccans start pulling at the lads' clothes the latter ask to be left alone. At this the Moroccans grab them from their seats and beat them up.
The clip ends with the warning: Fuck al die Wilders aanhangers want denk na: boontje komt voor ze loontje!!!! [F**k all those who support Wilders because you had better realize: one will reap the consequences of one's actions!!!!"]
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But not to worry, as Dutch politicians will take care of the problem, by prosecuting Geert Wilders for his unshown 10 minute film which nobody has seen as yet. No Muslims will be prosecuted, however, either for making threats of violence, or actually carrying out violent attacks. It is all "the fault of the victims, who have it coming!" As noted below, this same attitude turned Holland into a bastion of meek surrender to the Nazis only a few generations ago, willfully handing over Jews to the Gestapo, as did the Vichy French and other Euro-appeasers. This is like prosecuting a Jew in Holland of 1939, who dared to republish the anti-Semitic, war-mongering speeches of Hitler. How Dare He! Provocating the Bully-Boys! The children inherit the character structures of the parents and grandparents.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3084
Dutch Establishment Threatens to Prosecute Wilders and Claim Damages
From the desk of Thomas Landen on Wed, 2008-03-12 18:07
Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who is making a 10-minute movie about Islam entitled Fitna (Arabic for "ordeal"), has felt compelled to cancel the March 28 press conference where he intended to show his film. The Nieuwspoort press center in The Hague, which is run by a board of journalists, publishers and government press officers, demanded that Wilders pay 400,000 euros for extra safety measures. "Apparently, you have to be a millionaire to organize such an event," Mr Wilders said. "Even if I had the money I am not going to spend it on a press conference."
No Dutch broadcaster, public or private, has been willing to show the film. There are indications that Fitna will also be banned on Youtube, which removed a clip featuring Mr Wilders two week ago, on so-called "ethical grounds".
Dutch international companies, fearing a boycott of their products by Muslims, have announced that they intend to hold Mr Wilders responsible for a loss of profits and markets in the event of a boycott. They have asked Gerard Spong, one of the top lawyers in the Netherlands, to see whether a court case claiming damages from Wilders will be possible. Mr Spong and several other lawyers have already lodged some fifty formal complaints against the politician for "incitement to racial hatred and discrimination of Muslims" because Mr Wilders expressed the opinion that the Koran is "a fascist book which should be banned in the Netherlands."
Last November, when Wilders announced he was going to make a movie expressing his view on Islam and the Koran, Doekle Terpstra, a member of the board of directors of the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, told the Dutch media that "Geert Wilders is evil, and evil has to be stopped." The Unilever director, anticipating a worldwide Muslim boycott of Unilever products (brands such as Axe, Ben and Jerry's, Best Foods, Brooke Bond, Colman's, Cif, Dove, Glidat Strauss, Heartbrand, Hellmann's, Imperial Margarine, Knorr, Lipton, Pepsodent, Sunsilk, Unox, Vaseline, etc.), called upon the Dutch to "rise in order to stop Wilders from preaching his evil message."
Mr Wilders, a member of the Dutch parliament, has been living under police protection for almost four years. Muslim fanatics have threatened to assassinate him for his outspoken criticism of Islam. The politician has no fixed residence and has to live in army barracks or other heavily secured premises.
Radical Muslims have threatened to indiscriminately kill Dutch citizens or retaliate against the Netherlands with a terror attack if Mr Wilders' movie is released. This week, Dutch people with the surname "Wilders" received death threats. Though not related to the politician, three Wilderses received anonymous letters ordering them to prevent their namesake from releasing his movie. If they fail, the letter states, "the first deadly victim will be you, one of your children or grandchildren."
Last week Henk Hofland, the nestor of Dutch journalism, proposed on Dutch television that the Dutch authorities lift Geert Wilders' police protection. "Let him feel what it is like for those whose lives he endangers," Hofland, the former editor of NRC Handelsblad, the leading newspaper in the Netherlands, opined. Mr Hofland, who was given the title "Dutch journalist of the century" by his colleagues in 1999, asserted that, if Dutch citizens get murdered in retaliation for Wilders' opinions on Islam, not the assassins are to be blamed, but the politician. Apparently, to Hofland and his ilk being critical of Islam is worse than slaughtering innocent people in the name of Islam.
Hofland's declaration did not lead to widespread indignation, which indicates that Mr Hofland is not the only Dutchman willing to deliver Mr Wilders and other critics of Islam to those who want to murder them. All this could have been predicted. In fact, it was. Last month I questioned the wisdom of Geert Wilders here, asking whether he was on a suicide mission:
If the Wilders movie results in (fatal) attacks on Dutch citizens and Dutch interests abroad, it might lead to an anti-Wilders backlash. The Dutch are not Danes. [] Like the Spanish after the Madrid bombings they might paint their hands white and surrender. Rather than banning the Koran, they might ban every criticism of Islam. In 1940, the Dutch surrendered to the Nazis after barely five days when Hitler bombed Rotterdam. The British never surrendered, despite the blitz. Perhaps Geert Wilders thinks that his compatriots are braver today than they were 68 years ago.
Given the predictable Dutch reaction of turning against those who endanger their cosy, hedonistic existence, perhaps Mr Wilders does not think his compatriots braver today than before. Perhaps he is on a suicide mission, and fully realizes it. In an interview last week, Wilders, who is married but has no children, said that he is prepared to die for his opinions. He is not endangering the lives of others, as Mr Hofland implies; it are his Islamist enemies who are threatening others with death.
Go to the original item for the rest of the posting.
Here's another item, from Associated (with terrorists) Press. If free nations will not yet recognize their New Islamic Masters, if violence or threat of violence, and outright bribery of political leaders won't do the job, there's always the method of abusing the legal system to the max.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j6U5q_hiH5jJyiibo0SubbGpq3nAD8VDFOJO2
Muslims Nations: Defame Islam, Get Sued?
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI - 8 hours ago
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - The Muslim world has created a battle plan to defend its religion from political cartoonists and bigots. [sic: yes, this is what the AP calls people who critize Islam. "bigots".]
Concerned about what they see as a rise in the defamation of Islam, leaders of the world's Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols. It was a key issue during a two-day summit that ended Friday in this western Africa capital.
The Muslim leaders are attempting to demand redress from nations like Denmark, which allowed the publication of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad in 2006 and again last month, to the fury of the Muslim world.
Though the legal measures being considered have not been spelled out, the idea pits many Muslims against principles of freedom of speech enshrined in the constitutions of numerous Western governments.
"I don't think freedom of expression should mean freedom from blasphemy," said Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, the chairman of the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference. "There can be no freedom without limits."
Go to the original item for the rest of the posting.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Hypocritical Islamic Barbarian Propagandists
I suppose there will be many dhimmified people in the West who will read the article below and agree with Muslims, and see no problem with setting up draconian new laws with "human rights commissions" to suppress "hate speech" -- meaning, Star Chambers to Silence Free Speech and Political Dissent. But in fact such liberal-fascistic legislation, as already exists in Canada and much of Europe, is only used to go after people who offend the barbarian fanatics of Islam. It is a push by left-wing fascists, the "Liberal Fascists" so well described in the new book of the same title by Jonah Goldberg, to crush down any dissenting opinion which could block their own path to power and the Socialist Heaven. The organizational effort and push is now expanding into the United Nations, to get their ideology codified into international law, by which nobody will be allowed to say or do anything which Muslim peoples or radical leftists could possibly object to. Meanwhile, in their mosques and radio and TV, there will be a continued stream of really authentic and violent hate-speech, incitement to murder, misogynistic filth, and actual organized violence in the neighborhoods of the radical mosques (and 80% are so), with infidels assaulted, women attacked for not wearing the veil, honor murders, spreading polygamy, etc. -- with virtually nothing being done by the secular civil authorities to oppose the organized institutional expressions. Such is the manner in which democracies succumb to fascism, by ignoring the most obvious expressions of it right in their midst.
The "kernel of truth" in the Muslim complaint is, that by dissenting against or making ridicule of Muslim violence, it is a "threat to security" in that they will become even more violent! This quote is revealing: "Islamic leaders have long warned that perceptions linking Muslims to terrorism, especially since the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, would make Muslims more radical." In other words, if you dare to accuse us of being violent terrorists, we will become even more violent and terroristic!
So the alternative is, to bow down to Islam and kiss the feet of the bully-boys (and prepare for the slavery and increased butchery which goes along with it), or to stand up to them across the board, use clear language to denounce what they are doing globally, and to deny Islam-fanatics any place to stand and organize their fascism within the liberal democracies.
Also, the claim of a "rise" in attacks against Muslims is utterly false. The FBI released statistics last year showing that Jews and Blacks continue to be the main targets of racist attacks, with Muslims a very distant 7th-place. Here's a summary from JihadWatch http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018849.php, taken from a list at the FBI website:
Anti-Black 3,136
Anti-Jewish 1,027
Anti-White 1,008
Anti-Male Homosexual 881
Anti-Hispanic 770
Anti-Female Homosexual 192
Anti-Jewish 1,027
Anti-White 1,008
Anti-Male Homosexual 881
Anti-Hispanic 770
Anti-Female Homosexual 192
Anti-Islamic 191
If these figures were population-adjusted, Jews would come on the top of the list of hate-crimes victims, given their smaller numbers in the population. And in fact, the ones doing most of the hate-crimes against Jews have been Muslims! So please, no more crocodile tears for the "poor suppressed Muslims"... that is utter hogwash. However, we might wish to see a statistic for the percentages of Muslim WOMEN who are being beaten-up and assaulted by their male relatives. On that statistic, of Muslim-on-Muslim crime, they might come out "on tops".
By contrast, the website http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ continues to document Muslim slaughtering of other people on a massive scale, as of 13 March 2007 with 10,712 separate Islamic terror attacks globally since 9-11 alone. Each one of those attacks claimed from one to hundreds of lives. And in many cases, as in Iraq and Afghanistan today, Muslims are often the victims of Muslim violence. Islam IS the problem, and there is no such thing as "Islamo-phobia". It is again, a modern-day expression of the intensively high levels of sex-repression and child-abuse found within the Islamc Saharasian regions, which drives the adults towards their fanaticism, hatreds, and murderousness, to extremes rarely found among other world cultures.
One hopes the political leaders will get this message before they start passing new laws, to make us more enslaved to Islamic dominance (beyond what has come about from our addiction to Persian Gulf petroleum), but I am not hopeful.
James DeMeo
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http://rawstory.com/news/afp/_Islamophobia_a_threat_to_world_sec_03122008.html
'Islamophobia' a threat to world security, say Muslim states
Published: Wednesday March 12, 2008
The world's Muslim countries warned Wednesday that an "alarming" rise in anti-Islamic insults and attacks in the West has become a threat to international security.
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) called on Europe and America to take stronger measures against 'Islamophobia' in a report prepared for a summit of the group's 57 members in Dakar on Thursday and Friday.
The report by a special OIC monitoring group said the organisation was struggling to get the West to understand that Islamophobia "has dangerous implications on global peace and security" and to convince western powers to do more.
Islamic leaders have long warned that perceptions linking Muslims to terrorism, especially since the September 11, 2001 Al-Qaeda attacks on the United States, would make Muslims more radical.
The West must understand that "the war against terror cannot be successful without the support of Muslim countries," said the report.
OIC leaders have expressed renewed concern following events such as the publication in Denmark of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammed and a plan by the Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders to release a film calling the Koran "fascist".
The OIC said Islam had faced constant attacks since it was created "but in recent years the phenomenon has assumed alarming proportions and has become a major cause of concern for the Muslim world."
The monitoring group called on Europe and North America to do more, through laws and social action, to protect Muslims from threats and discrimination and prevent insults against Islam's religious symbols.
"Many Muslim countries are themselves victims of terror and active partners of the international community in combating terror and extremism."
The report added that Muslims in many parts of the world, in the West in particular, are being stereotyped, profiled and subjected to various forms of discriminatory treatment.
"The most sacred symbols of Islam, in particular the sacred image of of the Prophet Mohammed is being defiled and denigrated in the most insulting, offensive and contemptuous manner to incite hatred and unrest in society."
In a veiled reference to the Danish cartoons and Wilders' film, the OIC said: "The Islamophobes remain free to carry on their assaults due to the absence of legal measures necessary against the misusing or abusing (of) the right to freedom of expression."
It called on OIC member states to "step up their counter-measures by keeping the pressure on the international community at multilateral and bilateral forums."
The OIC said the Muslim world must launch a campaign to show that it is a "moderate, peaceful and tolerant" religion, closely monitor and the raise the alert over anti-Islamic incidents and organise more inter-faith initiatives.
"Victims of Islamophobia must be encouraged and given necessary help to file complaints," said the report.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Islamic Nations Seek World Slavery to Islam
One wonders where the "humanists" have been all these years? Better late than never, I suppose. This report from Al-Reuters tries to soft-pedal the Cairo Declaration, which basically says "if you say or do something Muslims don't like, or if you are a Jew or uppity woman who doesn't want to wear a schmata, we have the right to cut your head off".
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080312/wl_nm/un_rights_islamic_dc_2
Islamic states seek world freedom curbs: humanists
By Robert Evans
GENEVA (Reuters) - Islamic states are bidding to use the United Nations to limit freedom of expression and belief around the world, the global humanist body IHEU told the U.N.'s Human Rights Council on Wednesday.
In a statement submitted to the 48-nation Council, the IHEU said the 57 members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) were also aiming to undermine the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"The Islamic states see human rights exclusively in Islamic terms, and by sheer weight of numbers this view is becoming dominant within the U.N. system. The implications for the universality of human rights are ominous," it said.
The statement from the IHEU, the International Humanist and Ethical Union, was issued as the U.N.'s special investigator on freedom of opinion and expression argued in a report that religions had no special protection under human rights law.
Ambeyi Ligabo, a Kenyan jurist, said in a report to the Council limitations on freedom of expression in international rights pacts "are not designed to protect belief systems from external or internal criticism."
MOUNTING SUCCESS
But this argument is rejected by Islamic states, who say outright criticism -- and especially lampooning -- of religion violates the rights of believers to enjoy respect.
The IHEU statement and Ligabo's report came against the background of mounting success by the OIC, currently holding a summit in Dakar, in achieving passage of U.N. resolutions against "defamation of religions."
Although several such resolutions have been adopted by the two-year-old Council and its predecessor since 1999, in December the U.N.'s General Assembly easily passed a similar one for the first time over mainly Western and Latin American opposition.
The OIC -- backed by allies in Africa and by Russia and Cuba -- has been pushing for stronger resolutions on "defamation" since a global controversy arose two years ago over cartoons in a Danish newspaper which Muslims say insult their religion.
The "defamation" issue has become especially sensitive this year as the U.N. prepares to celebrate in the autumn the 50th anniversary of the 1948 Universal Declaration, long seen as the bedrock of international human rights law and practice.
The OIC has been actively promoting its own 1990 Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, which it argues is complementary to the Universal Declaration but which critics like the IHEU say negate it in many areas.
Humanists, who include believers of many faiths supporting separation of religion and state as well as atheists and agnostics, say the "defamation" drive is part of an effort to extend the Cairo declaration to the international sphere.
The IHEU statement argued the December General Assembly resolution means states "may now legislate against any show of disrespect for religion, however they may choose to define 'disrespect'."
Raw Milk Wars - Excellent!
Emotional Plague in government, or the HIG as Reich noted -- "Hooligans in Government". Another case of healthy foods and independent farmers being squashed by Agri-Biz, with help from gun-pointing FDA agents. Suggest also to visit the Westin-Price Foundation's website http://www.westonaprice.org/ for more info on the Raw Milk issues, including links to where you might find it in your local area. See the "Real Milk" link on the left side. Thanks to Prof. Joe Heckman for bringing this item to our attention. For those who have not read Wilhelm Reich's book, "The Cancer Biopathy", be reminded of his early experiments showing that raw unpasturized milk had a much higher orgonotic potency, or orgone energy charge, than other milk products, such as skim or pasturized. J.D.
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080317/gumpert
Milk Wars
DAVID E. GUMPERT
For the past sixty years, there hasn't been much good news for America's small dairies. Thanks to rising land costs and intensifying price pressures, the bucolic sight of cows grazing in the countryside has become ever less common. Since 1970 alone, the number of dairies has plunged an astounding 88 percent, to 75,000, according to the US Department of Agriculture. The consolidation means that factory-style dairies with between 1,000 and 5,000 cows have become increasingly common.
The one bit of encouraging news for small dairies has been the growing market among health-conscious consumers for unpasteurized milk and dairy products like yogurt, butter and cream. There may be a half-million or more raw-milk drinkers in the United States, with the number growing "exponentially," says Sally Fallon, co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, which encourages consumption of raw milk for its healthful enzymes, bacteria and proteins.
Small dairies have rushed to meet this need via a completely new business model. Instead of selling milk in bulk to processors who offer take-it-or-leave-it prices of $1.50 to $2 a gallon, some small dairies sell directly to consumers at whatever price the market will bear, typically from $5 a gallon to as much as $10 a gallon. At those prices, dairy farmers actually begin thinking in terms of a long-forgotten word: profit.
In New York state, which regulates direct sales of raw milk to consumers by issuing permits to dairies, the number of raw-milk dairies with permits has doubled to twenty from ten in 2005. The same sort of minirevival has occurred in other states that allow raw-milk sales direct from the farm, like Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. In California--one of the few states that allow sales of raw milk via Whole Foods Market and other retail outlets--the largest raw-milk dairy, the 350-cow Organic Pastures Dairy Company, has seen its annual sales climb by 25 percent annually, to more than $5 million.
Arguing that raw milk isn't safe and that consumers must be protected from its dangers, some government regulators and legislators are targeting small raw-milk dairies for tough enforcement actions, focusing most intensively on dairies in New York and California.
State regulators have supplemented inspections by obtaining search warrants, pushing restrictive legislation and even threatening to throw dairy farmers into jail. They've been encouraged by the US Food and Drug Administration, which in a sixty-four-slide PowerPoint presentation posted on its website last March, exhorted "everyone charged with protecting the public health to prevent the sale of raw milk to consumers...."
Barb and Steve Smith see New York's ever-harsher tactics against their tiny Meadowsweet Farm as closely related to the rising demand for raw milk. They obtained a raw-milk permit in 1997 because they were desperate to extricate themselves and their nine children from the commodity bondage that dominated their lives from the time they purchased the farm in 1995. "We figured by selling milk to the processor we were getting about $1 an hour for our work," says Steve.
The raw-milk option was slow going until 2005 and 2006, when demand began rising sharply. Anywhere from twenty to thirty customers would regularly visit their lonely outpost near Lodi, most of them from Ithaca, the home of Cornell University, which is about forty-five minutes away.
"But our customers always wanted more things raw--butter, kefir, cream," says Barb. New York's Department of Agriculture and Markets prohibits the sale of any raw dairy products except milk and cheese that has been aged at least sixty days.
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Go to the given website for the rest of the article. The article references an FDA "PowerPoint" presentation on internet, attempting to destroy the Raw Milk producers. There is an excellent rebuttal PowerPoint program on the Weston-Price Foundation's website, here:
http://www.realmilk.com/documents/SheehanPowerPointResponse.pdf
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Toy Cell-Telephones for Tots
Why wait?! Give your child a fashionable brain tumor and neurological disorder, right now!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/07/business/mobile08.php
Growing concern over safety of cellphones for children
By Doreen Carvajal
Published: March 7, 2008
PARIS: The MO1 beginner mobile phone is not as cuddly as a teddy bear, but manufacturers of the curvy, crimson and blue cellphone for 6-year-olds promise a similarly warm and fuzzy relationship. They boast about socialization, emotional health and the comforts of "peace of mind."
But the shiny child-size phones are stirring some parental and government unease, particularly at a time when the mobile telephone industry is reaching deeper into saturated markets to tap customers with chubby hands capable of cradling both dolls and phones.
Already, the demographic of young mobile customers - tweens and teens - is driving subscriber growth in the United States, according to International Data Corp., a technology research firm in Massachusetts, which projects that 31 million new young users will join the market from 2005 to 2010.
The year 2006 marked the turning point when the industry started focusing not just on teenagers and adults but also on tweens - those aged 8 to 12 - and even children as young as five. And with that attention, bright new "kiddy" telephones began appearing on the market that can speed dial grandma and grandpa with a click of a button.
The MO1 - developed by Imaginarium, a toy company, and Telefónica in Spain - prompted some parent groups in Europe to demand a government ban on marketing to children.
Here in France, the health minister recently issued a warning against excessive mobile phone use by young children.
The objections are driven in part by a lack of knowledge about the long-term health effects of mobile phone use. But they also appear to reflect an instinctive worry about whether parents should be giving young children cellphones at all.
Jóvenes Verdes, an environmental advocacy group for young people in Spain, says that "the mobile telephone industry is acting like the tobacco industry by designing products that addict the very young."
While there is no specific evidence that mobile telephones pose a health threat to young users, researchers worry that there is still only scant scientific information about the long-term impact of the radio-frequency electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile telephones on the developing brains and tissues of children.
The French health minister, Roselyne Bachelot, has taken such concerns public, issuing an alert in January urging parents to limit use, and reduce children's telephone calls to no more than six minutes. Her announcement followed a similar warning by the Health and Radio Frequencies Foundation, a research group backed by the French government that was created two years ago to study the impact of radio frequency fields on humans.
"I believe in the principle of precaution," Bachelot said during an interview. "If there is a risk, then children with developing nervous systems would be affected. I've alerted parents about the use of mobile telephones because it's absurd for young children to have them."
The French foundation is moving now to organize a broad international research projects to study the potential risks for children.
More studies are developing in other countries. The Mobile Telecommunication and Health Research Program in Britain, which is financed by the state and local telecommunications industry, is in the early stage of organizing a children's study.
Another project, called Cefalo, is under way in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland to explore whether mobile telephone use increases the risk of brain tumors for children.
In January, the National Research Council in the United States also delivered a report - commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration - that reviewed existing scientific studies around the world and urged further research on the impact of mobile phone use on children and pregnant women.
"This clearly is a population that is going to grow up with a great deal of larger exposure than anybody else because the kids use the phones all the time," said Frank Barnes, a professor of engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, who led the study. "And you've got growing bodies and brains, so if there is going to be an impact, that's likely to be a more sensitive population."
Every year, the average age of novice mobile phone users is dropping, reaching the age of 10 last year, according to Scott Ellison, an analyst at International Data Corp. He forecasts that the 9-and-under market will increase to nine million users in the United States and $1.6 billion in revenue by 2010.
Telephone use is also getting more precocious in Europe, according to a Eurobarometer survey of almost 1,000 children in 29 countries, most of whom had telephones after age 9.
(go to original for parts 2 and 3)
Monday, March 10, 2008
Another Nasty Anti-Reich Smear Needing Your Comments
Forbes Magazine Online recently ran an article containing the usual lies and contempt against Reich. It is drafted as a kind of "sitting on the fence" which both softly scolds the FDA for its overly-aggressive behavior, but is much harder on the victims of the FDA attacks, almost to say "they were so crazy, or dangerous, they had it coming"! Anyone who has studied the American medical system, however, knows the really "crazy and dangerous" health care practices are found right in the hospitals, being pushed by the MDs, often at the point of a policeman's gun. The FDA is only part of this kind of problem.
The Thought Police
William Baldwin
If you are able, please leave comments on the Forbes website -- again, polite and to the point, but don't pull punches either. This is factually an element of authentic fascism within the American body politic, and it needs to be pulled out by the roots!
Thanks to Philip Bennett for bring this to our attention.
James DeMeo
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Another Spot-On TV Essay from Pat Condell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dXGJ2rYdA
Appeasing Islam,
Pat Condell
No word yet on the Gert Wilders film, except that the usual TV media in Europe is running away from the opportunity to show it, like scared rabbits. Muslims are, meanwhile, sharpening their knives for the next round of "we are offended" riots and murder in Europe. Already, some of this has taken place in the mere anticipation of the Wilders film.
Thanks to Peter Nasselstein of Germany, for the alert on this recent Pat Condell item. J.D.
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