A review of news reports about Merck, the giant pharmaceutical company headquartered in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, reveals the company and government overseers are fervently involved in rescuing the $23 billion drug manufacturer from the doldrums of lawsuits, recalls, and drug patent expirations.

Government accused of NHS 'privatisation by stealth'

U.S. signs deal to stockpile anti-bird-flu drug
July 1, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle

Health Supreme Update: Pharmaceutical Economics - The Patent Protected Health Racket 2006.06.30
    As an economist, Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for
    Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has cottoned on to the fact
    that the patenting of pharmaceutical drugs leads to costs of
    drugs so high they are just about bankrupting the countries
    that pay them. His recent article in Truthout, Prescription
    Drug Scams, raps the industry for corrupt practices such as
    paying doctors to prescribe their wares and buying political
    influence with campaign contributions. "To economists, the
    corruption in the pharmaceutical and medical supply industry
    should not be surprising. In most industries, competition
    drives prices down close to the cost of production, but in
    these sectors, government-granted patent monopolies keep
    prices...
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/06/30/pharmaceutical_economics_the_patent_protected_health_racket.htm

Drug trial victim's 'hell' months Tuesday, 27 June 2006 A young trainee plumber left critically ill when a drug trial went dramatically wrong has told the BBC of the "four months of hell" he has endured (with pictures) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5121824.stm

Drug maker files for insolvency 4 July 2006
The German firm that produced a drug at the heart of a disastrous
clinical trial that left six men seriously ill has declared itself
insolvent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/health/5146692.stm

'Re-used medical equipment widespread in NHS'
By JENNY HOPE, Daily Mail 3rd July 2006

Patient Protect is an organisation dedicated to the prevention of neglect and incompetence in our National Health Service, and to the elimination of the secrecy which allows these problems to flourish. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant"¹
http://www.patientprotect.org/

Cholesterol and Saturated Fats - The Myths Exposed!
For the first time in Australia - world famous cholesterol expert, Dr Uffe Ravnskov!

Widely published research scientist, physician, founder of THINCS, and author of The Cholesterol Myths, Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, is coming to Australia and will be giving a public lecture on Saturday, August 5. This is a rare opportunity to hear this world authority speak about the misguided war on cholesterol! When: Saturday 5th August 2pm
Where: Guthrie Theatre, UTS, 702 Harris St, Ultimo Cost: $20
Bookings: Call 02 9557 6200 or email info@otacnet.com.au http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm

BYRON RICHARDS is a stunning exposé into the secret world of the FDA, Wall Street, and drug companies. At stake is the health and well-being of all Americans. Adverse reactions, even deaths, are hidden while dangerous drugs are pushed on Americans, especially children—simply for profit. The FDA is actively attacking health freedom and seeking to eliminate natural health options. Arm yourself with invaluable information that will help you take charge of your health: http://www.truthinwellness.com/book.htm

Secret witch-hunt syndrome

The Informed Parent are calling for an end to the constant flow of scaremongering statements from so-called 'health' professionals. The latest threat of a measles epidemic appears to be yet another attempt to increase the MMR uptake. Measles has been on a major decline since the mid 1850s and this has absolutely nothing to do with any measles or MMR vaccination. The most dramatic decline in cases and deaths occured BEFORE vaccination.

Interestingly, in a 1959 edition of the British Medical Journal, when there had been 51,000 measles cases in the UK that year, measles was described as 'the commonest disease in the world and normally a mild disease, complications are rare.' This was of course 9 years before the single measles vaccine was introduced when there was no incentive to frighten the public! Additionally when the single vaccine was introduced in 1968 there was less than 30% uptake of the vaccine for the first 4 years of use, and still the number of cases declined. So why are we now being told that unless we have a high uptake there will be epidemics? Why weren't there epidemics when we had low uptake? Why, because vaccination plays no role in the decline in disease.

A reasonably healthy child will sail through measles, and this will help prime and mature their immune systems as well as act as a de-tox in childhood. Acute illnesses in childhood, like measles, eliminate a build-up of toxins within the child, and it is important not to suppress this action by the body as it may lead to complications or chronic disease later in life. Deaths and complications do not happen randomly there will be underlying factors, so when individual cases are used to scare parents about measles it is important to have all the facts about these cases.

A growing number of parents worldwide are choosing not to vaccinate at all, and it is not because they can't get the single jabs, it is because they don't see vaccination as playing any kind of role in promoting the health of their children. Injecting a cocktail of microbes, animal and bird tissue, heavy metals, formaldehyde and other chemicals by an unnatural route deep into a child's system has nothing to do with health or immunity. Germs are not the cause of disease, even Pasteur admitted that, in which case why is there a constant attempt to come up with yet another vaccine? As one doctor commented to me recently 'I am sure in a 100 years time doctors will look back in horror as regards to vaccination' - personally I hope it is a lot sooner!

Senate Committee Passes Bill to Require Adverse Event Reporting for Supplements By Michael S. Evers July 1, 2006

By Julie Davidow
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (another version of the same story)

Mother held in kidnapping to be released

By Carol M. Ostrom

When he died, Zane R. Kime MD, had been practising Environmental Medicine and had become the target of a governmental prosecution against this specialty. This lawsuit threatened the vested interests of the chemical industry and the outcome looked hopeful for a decision in his favor. However, with his death, the case was dismissed and some say, the threat eliminated. When Faun’s mother hired a private investigator to explore the matter further, the other climber threatened to sue…and then disappeared.
http://www.rabble-rouser.com/about.html

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Virtually All Modern Disease Is Caused By "Metabolic Disruptors" Found In Everyday Foods And Groceries...
Learn how to avoid these specific ingredients and halt heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, depression, obesity and more...
http://www.truthpublishing.com/GroceryWarning.html

Sounding the alarm on a toxic `synergy'

Free Energy—The Race to Zero Point, provides a thorough, professional examination of the leading theories and practical inventions that tap into zero point energy—now acknowledged by quantum physicists to exist in all space as a potential source of infinite and accessible electromagnetic energy. Respected engineers and scientists explain in understandable terms how amazing new energy technologies and inventions can go beyond alternative energy to solve the energy crisis on our planet. Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8943205214784769158

Engineers Create Vehicle that Travels from Vancouver to Halifax on a Gallon of Gas
June 20, 2006, PHYSORG.COM A team of engineering students from The University of British Columbia has built a vehicle so efficient that it could travel from Vancouver to Halifax on a gallon of gasoline. The futuristic-looking, single-occupancy vehicle won top prize at a recent international competition, marking the UBC team’s fourth win in as many years. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Supermileage Competition took place June 9 in Marshall, Michigan. Forty teams from Canada, the U.S. and India competed in designing and building the most fuel-efficient vehicle. “We achieved this level of efficiency by optimizing many aspects of the vehicle design, including: aerodynamics, light-weight construction, a small displacement engine (54 cc), and conservative driving habits,” says Team Captain Kevin Li. The UBC design...achieved 3,145 miles per US gallon. Supermileage...is an annual student competition that challenges students to design, build, and drive a single person vehicle (powered solely by a gasoline engine) to achieve the best fuel mileage possible. The vehicle must be powered by only an internal combustion engine, with no assistance from electric motors or human propulsion. Note: Why don't we see articles like this in the mainstream media? Even if this vehicle is ultra lightweight and has a top speed of only 30 mph, why can't we design heavier, faster cars which get just 10% of what this car got? For answers to this question, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/050711carmileageaveragempg http://www.physorg.com/news70040977.html

10,000 EPA Scientists Protest Library Closures
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Thursday 29 June 2006

EPA and Pesticide Industry Pressuring Scientists to Allow Continued Use of Toxic Pesticides Government scientists are blowing the whistle on the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to allow the continued use of 20 highly controversial organophosphate pesticides without conducting adequate safety testing. http://organicconsumers.org/epa7.htm

EARTH HAS A FEVER?

http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=89944

FILM: Global Warming - An Inconvenient Truth

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2006/07/02/global_warming_an_inconvenient_truth.htm

Tsunami conspiracies and Hollow Moons.(PSYCHIC VIBRATIONS)

Skeptical Inquirer 5/1/2005 Sheaffer, Robert

(When you get past the skeptical writer, this is a very interesting article!...Zeus) http://www.highbeam.com/library/docFree.asp?DOCID=1G1:132190060

UFO research: Findings vs. facts
June 23, 2006, CNN News/SPACE.com For decades now, eyes and sky have met to witness the buzzing of our world by Unidentified Flying Objects, termed UFOs or simply flying saucers. Extraterrestrials have come a long way to purportedly share the friendly skies with us. UFOs remain a riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Why so? For one, the field is fraught with hucksterism. It's also replete with blurry photos and awful video. But then there are also well-intentioned and puzzled witnesses. There have been advances in the field of UFO research, said Ted Roe, Executive Director of the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP), based in Vallejo, California. "Physics is leading to new and potentially paradigm shifting understandings about the nature of our universe and its physical properties," Roe said. "These understandings may point the way towards an acceptance of the probability of interstellar travel and communication by spacefaring races." Why is there precious little to show the world of science that UFOs merit attention? "Obviously there is not a simple answer, but part of it is reluctance of the scientific community to support such research," explained Bruce Maccabee, regarded as a meticulous researcher and an optical physicist using those talents to study photographs and video of unexplained phenomena. http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/06/23/ufo.research/

Note: This article also includes commentary from several skeptics. Yet for those who have an open mind, don't miss the amazingly solid UFO material available at http://www.WantToKnow.info/ufoinformation

Seeing isn't believing

A year on from 7/7, wild rumours are circulating about who planted the bombs and why. Some people even claim this picture of the four bombers was faked. Mark Honigsbaum, who accidentally triggered at least one of the conspiracy theories, investigates
Tuesday June 27, 2006
The Guardian

Blair laid bare: the article that may get you arrested

Henry Porter – The Independent July 29, 2006

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4723

Israel and Palestine Special Report (Channel 4 News UK)

http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/israel_and_palestine.html

Israel's Appalling Bombing in Gaza Starving in the Dark By VIRGINIA TILLEY June 30, 2006 http://www.counterpunch.org/tilley06302006.html

EU members urged to admit to CIA renditions June 29, 2006 http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/archives/2006/06/eu_members_urge.html

The Bush War On Liberty Intensifies
By Chris Floyd
Empire Burlesque
6-28-6 http://rense.com/general72/lieb.htm

Bush Ignores Laws He Inks, Vexing Congress
June 27, 2006, ABC News/Associated Press

A bill becomes the rule of the land when Congress passes it and the president signs it into law, right? Not necessarily, according to the White House. A law is not binding when a president issues a separate statement saying he reserves the right to revise, interpret or disregard it on national security and constitutional grounds.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2122700

WOULD JEFFERSON GET ARRESTED FOR TERRORISM TALK TODAY?
The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In Congress, July 4, 1776
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13846.htm

Lawmaker Wants Feds to Probe N.Y. Times
June 26, 2006, CBS News/Associated Press The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists. Rep. Peter King cited The New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records. "We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous," King told The Associated Press. When the paper chose to publish the story, it quoted the executive editor, Bill Keller, as saying editors had listened closely to the government's arguments for withholding the information, but "remain convinced that the administration's extraordinary access to this vast repository of international financial data...is a matter of public interest." After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Treasury officials obtained access to a vast database [which] handles financial message traffic from thousands of financial institutions in more than 200 countries. Gonzales said last month that he believes journalists can be prosecuted for publishing classified information, citing an obligation to national security. He also said the government would not hesitate to track telephone calls made by reporters as part of a criminal leak investigation. He said the First Amendment right of a free press should not be absolute when it comes to national security. Note: The top secret Pentagon Papers released by the New York Times in 1971 were pivotal in exposing the manipulations of the military-industrial complex with regards to the Vietnam War. National security was invoked to try to stop their publication. National security is being used and abused now to keep these same manipulations from being exposed. For a powerful two-page summary written by a highly decorated U.S. general on abuse of national security, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/warcoverup

AT&T revises privacy policy, says owns customer data
June 22, 2006, ABC News/Reuters AT&T Inc. said on Wednesday it was revising its privacy policy, explaining to customers that it owns their phone records and can hand them over to law enforcers if necessary. The changes...come at a time when AT&T and other phone companies face lawsuits claiming they aided a U.S. government domestic spying program by giving the National Security Agency call records of millions of customers without their permission. The new policy, unlike the old one, spells out the fact that AT&T...customer information constitutes "business records that are owned by AT&T. As such, AT&T may disclose such records to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process." The earlier policy had simply said that...the company could share customer information to "respond to subpoenas, court orders or other legal process, to the extent required and/or permitted by law." Under the new policy...the company also said that it would track viewing information for customers of a television service it is developing in order to help it make recommendations to customers based on their viewing habits. It also said that before customers use its services they must agree to the policy, an element that was not in its previous guidelines. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2105967

CEOs earn 262 times pay of average worker
June 21, 2006, ABC News/Reuters Chief executive officers in the United States earned 262 times the pay of an average worker in 2005. In fact, a CEO earned more in one workday than an average worker earned in 52 weeks, said the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. The typical worker's compensation averaged just under $42,000 for the year, while the average CEO brought home almost $11 million. In 1965, U.S. CEOs at major companies earned 24 times a worker's pay. In recent years, compensation has been a hot issue with shareholders who have been bombarded with news stories about chief executives who are given multimillion dollar bonus and pay packages even if shares have declined. The chief executives of 11 of the largest companies were awarded a total of $865 million in pay in the last two years, even as they presided over a total loss of $640 billion in shareholder value, a recent study from governance firm the Corporate Library, found. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2104151

Wis. lawmaker wants lecturer fired for 9-11 conspiracy views
June 29, 2006, CBS News Chicago, Associated Press

FOUR STARS (Highest Rating)The scariest film you'll see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed and trembling. Makes Fahrenheit 9/11 look like Bambi. After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about what it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered. Producer/director Aaron Russo and the folks at Cinema Libre Studio deserve to be heralded as heroes of a post-modern New American Revolution. This is shocking stuff. You'll be angry, you'll be disgusted, but you may actually break out in a cold sweat and feel a sickness deep in your gut; I would advise movie theatre managers to hand out vomit bags. You may end up needing one.

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