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Thomas Paine

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Friday, February 24, 2012

24 February - Medical Mystery

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Erin Brockovich uncovers possible break in medical mystery on 'Dr. Drew'

“The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry did not get out to the spill sight until the 90s as did the EPA,” she said. “It took them 20 years to go out and investigate. So by the time they had gotten out there and investigated, this contamination was in the bedrock. They concluded … the concentrations are so heavy that this agency had to dilute those samples just to get a reading 

Conversion Disorder: Upstate NY High School Mystery Illness Called 'Mass Hysteria'

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That comment about 'autoimmune disorder' is where I'm heading too. You may have seen a YouTube video where a young woman suffered from an extremely odd dysfunction where should could walk backwards, run forwards...but could not walk forwards - a reaction to vaccination.  Without looking it up I would not be sure how remission was stimulated - but when it comes to cause I'd rather give you the file URL so you know I am not just coming at this on the basis of one article or video. oldephartte.livejournal.com/4649.html I collect news from odd quarters : just remember that conventional explanations have failed and give no contest to my speculation.

( I hadn't read the Brockovich story at the time I posted this note. But immune challenges piled one atop the other seem to me a better explanation yet. )

roughly half of the contaminated samples contained strains of the bacteria that were resistant to at least three antibiotics, such as penicillin and tetracycline. Some strains were resistant to a half dozen or more.
 
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Silvermaven
Wake up people. Don't you remember your lessons? We really believe when they slaughtered 200 million cattle in Europe to protect us from Protein disease that was the end of it? You are naive. Read about Secret Presidential Chemtrail Budget Uncovered, Congress Exceeds Billions To Spray Populous Like Roaches -LOL Just who OK'd spraying for bugs with these kinds of Manganese levels? Sorry folks we've been had once again...Stealth pathogens are loaded with Manganese which in this document is shown to be at over 500 part above toxic levels....The Manganese is what gives the stealth pathogen Borrelia its virulence factor...Manganese replaces copper in the cells to enable prions to become virulent. Yes people in the NE if your cattle die and your buffalo die are all the patients with "Syndromes" of unknown origin next? Isn't it time for the truth?
April 18, 2011 at 5:19 pm | 
  1. OrganicTrade
    Increasingly there have been concerns raised by researchers as well as legislators about the routine use of non-therapeutic levels of antibiotics by agriculture to foster growth of livestock. As a result, there has been growing interest in organic agriculture, which does not allow this practice.
    Choosing foods bearing the organic label is the only way consumers can be sure meats and dairy products they buy have been produced without the use of antibiotics.
    Organic practices recognize and respect the powerful nature of antibiotics. As a result, organic practices prohibit the use of antibiotics, synthetic hormones or other animal drugs in animal feed for the purpose of stimulating the growth or production of livestock.
    Respected organizations such as the American Medical Association and the World Health Organization have recommended against the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in agriculture in order to protect public health. Those organizations point out that such uses of antibiotics in agriculture contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.
    Most recently, the June 2009 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives included a focus article entitled “The Landscape of Antibiotic Resistance,” which referenced research showing that the practice of using antibiotics at sub-therapeutic levels in livestock feed and water has led to the persistence of these antibiotics in the environment and the possibility of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
    Up to 70 percent of all antibiotics produced in the United States are used for ‘non-therapeutic” purposes in industrial food animal production, according to The Union of Concerned Scientists, which defines ‘non-therapeutic’ as the use of antibiotics in the absence of diagnosed disease.
    Food animals on industrial farms often are routinely fed antibiotics in food and water to promote weight gain and feed efficiency, and to compensate for overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. This is not allowed in organic agriculture.
    Organic producers are required by the organic standards to provide living conditions and health care practices that help prevent illness and to promote health of the animals.
    In addition to prohibiting the use of antibiotics and synthetic growth hormones in organic livestock production, U.S. national organic standards require organic livestock to be fed 100 percent organic feed and given access to pasture and the outdoors. The standards prohibit the use of genetic engineering, toxic and persistent pesticides, and sewage sludge on fields. Organic operations are federally regulated, with third-party certification by a U.S. Department of Agriculture-accredited certifier.
    April 18, 2011 at 11:04 am |
  2. Jorge
    Bacteria and meat are not necessarily a problem in and of themselves, but U.S. CAFO meat is the worse toxic crap a meat lover could EVER put in his body. Outside the U.S. I always ate range-fed beef, chicken or pork from Argentina, Costa Rica or Brazil that was finished on sugarcane harvest by-products and slaughtered in grass-roots houses, the stuff was awesome and inexpensive, really lean yet tender when properly cooked and you could really feel it crank you up when you exercised, ever since coming back to the states all the greasy, marbled meat that I eat sits like a rock in my gut and gives me heartburn, it also builds up in my joints and makes them hurt, especially in cold weather; when I go veggie and fish, it stops.
    April 18, 2011 at 10:02 am | 
    Jennifer
    Since it's never a good idea to base your notion of facts on reader responses to stories, I encourage you all to do your own research and actually read the study this article was based on. For one thing, the article does not mention that the study found this type of staph is specific to animals and therefore not a result of human contamination (as some responders have indicated). Second, humans and animals have become more susceptible to these forms of staph as a result of the increased use of antibiotics in the animals slaughtered for meat. The antibiotics are used to treat the perpetual infections and sicknesses of animals raised on factory farms. Though many of the responders have mentioned the prevalence of staph on the mucous membranes of our own bodies, I think the aspect that is being overlooked is the existence of this new super-bug that developed as a result of the inhumane living conditions of the animals. Furthermore, staph is probably the least of the public's problems. Regardless of whether this article is meant as a "scare tactic" or not, one need only do a quick Google search to find that E. Coli, salmonella, and other bacterias contaminate the meat you eat – and are often still there after you've cooked it. It should be noted that the existence of E. Coli in your meat is the direct result of FECES being in your meat, an unfortunate aspect of the slaughtering process that few have yet to realize. There is poop in your meat... So, if you're cool with the risk of food poisoning, enjoy eating feces, and think the power of antibiotics to treat your infections and illnesses is overrated anyway, by all means... eat up!
    April 16, 2011 at 3:06 pm |
     
    PRACTICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY April 2006 by Virginia T. Sherr, MD Bell's palsy signifies paralysis of facial muscles related to inflammation of the associated seventh Cranial Nerve. Physicians may not realize that this syndrome is caused by the spirochetal agent of Lyme disease until proven otherwise. Whether it is a full or hemifacial paralysis, Bell's palsy is cosmetically disfiguring when fully ...
     
    preventdisease.com As the masses enjoy a steady awakening regarding the dangers and fraud that are vaccinations, the use of aerial vaccines and nano delivery systems are now being utilized and fully implemented by governments with little regard or consequence to human health. Geoengineering initiatives (commonly referred to as chemtrails) are no longer considered discreet military operations, ...
     
 
Anthony Wile
The elites practiced directed history in the 20th century, setting up wars and economic catastrophes designed to consolidate world government. But in the 21st century, with so many understanding and evaluating the mechanisms of the elites, this is a considerably harder trick to pull off. The elites actually have a limited playbook when it comes to influencing the larger society, though that is not intended to downplay its power. The elites use what we call dominant social themes – fear-based promotions – that are designed to frighten middle classes into giving up wealth and power to specially prepared globalist institutions like the UN, IMF, etc.
The other "tools" in the toolkit include war and a pervasive societal matrix of sociopolitical, economic, religious and military elements. The matrix itself was seamless in the late 20th century – for most Western citizens anyway – and allowed the power elite to advance its fear-based promotions without fear of contradiction.
Say, for instance, the elites wanted to promote global warming – in order to create a kind of "carbon currency" that they could control and trade at will. In order to do this, the elites would have to proclaim the threat, back it up with scientific studies and then legislate a response to the supposed threat.
This is something that actually took place. The Anglosphere elites used their control of the scientific establishment to proclaim a phony hypothesis and then planted specially placed "scientists" at critical choke points to further control the dialogue.
It turns out that it doesn't take very many people to control a given conversation or promote a certain campaign. In this case, by generating a cadre of global warming sycophants and putting them in charge of one of only a few "global warming" scientific journals, the elites could virtually create a scientific consensus where none existed.
Once the elites had manufactured a phony global warming meme via "peer approved" articles in complaisant journals, the elite-controlled media was turned loose to trumpet the supposed findings. And once the articles were written, elite-controlled UN agencies created white papers from them that could be used as calls-for-action.
These white papers were in turn picked up by elite-funded NGOs that began to foment full-fledged socio-political campaigns to "crack down" on global warming "polluters." Vast UN conferences filled by elite-proxies (hand-picked politicians) were organized as well to agitate for worldwide legislation to "control" global warming.
The entire process I've just described amounts to a vast echo chamber in which each element of the Anglosphere's controlled promotional mechanism plays a given part. There is a scientific consensus that then creates "news" for the media, which in turn galvanizes "action" on the part of specially selected politicians.
And gradually a "consensus" is reached, laws are written and public education textbooks promote the necessity of this directed history to a new generation of tots who have no idea of how manipulated they are – or their world.
When one probes history, even rudimentarily, the parallels between what is going on today and what took place after the invention of the Gutenberg Press could not be clearer.
Just yesterday, in an article entitled "Internet Piracy – Who Are the Thieves?," we pointed out that copyright laws were developed by royalty hundreds of years ago to counteract the spread of information (in books) after the invention of the Gutenberg Press.
The same tactics that applied then are being applied now. War, authoritarian legislation and copyright infringement are all tools of this particular elite that we have been saddled with.

 Know the Lies
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David Icke on Terrorism, 'Totalitarian Tiptoe' and the Coming Post-Industrial Technocracy

Exposed!... Bush, Fed, and European Banks Caught in $15 Trillion Fraud, All Documented


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Below is one of the strangest stories in financial history, one involving the US government lying about hundreds of thousands of tons of imaginary gold, illegal wire transfers and loans totalling $15 trillion. ~ Video - related article

Freedom Of Internet Threatened By U.N.


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On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end.
 
 

Monsanto, Bayer, Dow and Others Face Trial for Human Rights Violations

cases were brought by farmers, agricultural workers, Indigenous peoples, fisher folk, women, children and youth, scientists, consumers and activists. “Whether as individuals or as a community, the Complainants are victims and survivors of gross, widespread, and systematic human rights violations by agrochemical TNCs.” The trial will also hear evidence of the link between pesticide use and a decline in bees

Food and Drug Administration Comes Clean on Arsenic-laced Chickens

Growing Research Points to Health Risks of Microwave Ovens

( I replaced mine with an Inverter microwave a couple of months ago - though that was precipitated more by unease than research ) 

May 29, 2011 Pikeville thread
 
Silvermaven wrote:
What lying and cheating people out of their lives looks like when they could have and should have been treating long ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Wow...
Silvermaven
United States
Lies --- all lies. They know what we really face in what ticks are carrying and they work with INS. co.'s who don't want to pay---govt. that works for Big Pharma who don't want to lose profits. And the people suffer in what ever syndrome they decide that day to stick you with....

http://www.idsociety.org/lymedisease.htm#revi...

http://tinyurl.com/3uajv5k Now these guys say you are cured in less than 10 days....LOL
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21342072
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21411605 They want you to think its POST Syndrome and you can't do a thing about it...LOL They lie----if patients are given the proper care in less than a yr. of careful treatment they can be out of their wheelchair.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21097940 They say there is no scientific evidence...To the contrary there were over 10,000 pages of evidenc of persistance which was ignored. The guidelines did not change for the people to get the help they need. And they should all be in jail.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21612533
Rash is only seen in est. 30%. Our deer ticks here carry the stari strain for which has a characteristic atypical rash all its own. In fact it could be mistaken for poison ivy. So here they want you to think one size fits all as in vaccines. It does not. And to the best of my knowledge they have not been able to culture stari strains.

 

Just what is Huntingtons Disease? A syndrome or a disease? LOL

While they tell you your kids must get off the couch cos' they are getting fat and lazy do they offer an explaination? NO. Do they tell you why we have a global vitamin D. deficiency epidemic? NO Do they offer any treatment to cure other than more immmune suppression or expensive drugs like interferons being put on the market which are all long term use? NO Do they tell you that in 10-20 yrs. you may see worsening of symptoms that progress to Alzheimers/ALS/Parkinsons? NO

And why not? LOL

http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/o.o.i.s...

http://www.rxpgnews.com/huntingtonsdisease/Ma...

I guess we can all move to Sweden, India or China for a few yrs....Cos' they sure ain't gonna work on fixing it here. LOL 
May 29, 2011
 
Why do you think AIDS patients get all the antibiotics they now need, virus control, and immune boosters? LOL

AIDS is no more than mad cow in cognito. Now that they are using better technology, building new microscopes, other countries are telling us even Diabetes has a cure for the virus that is causing both types. Where that virus is coming from is another story....LOL God Science--PJ Langhoff. http://www.godsciencebook.com/

Get your timelines out and see the truth. Now they want to cite resistance for more profits in those who suffer by leaving them to suffer in their TB/Malaria/HIV/Lyme/etc. instead of treating for the truth so they can come up with some more hokus pocus majik serum as if we haven't had enough....

Our financial crisis caused by failures to act and protect the public is nothing compared to what they have done to the people's health.
Silvermaven
United States
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Should I tell you where Bovine Babesia came from and how most Lyme patients find if they treat it they get better? And that it too is a national epidemic being squashed because it hides in the proteins as well as others. Should I tell you that recent testing confirmed that even irradiation will not kill the hidden pathogens in it from cattle?
Naw---most people just want to go about their walkabout lives unless its one of yours. Or until it becomes one of yours.

Does your doctor care enough to get on board to really help the people by learning how to treat instead of just giving you some steroids and sending you on your way? Don't count on it...The few we do have are working 8 days a week now and the others think the medical societies and govt. know best....LOL
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dont you know wrote:
your child does not have to have them. You can elect not to have them.
You are correct our children, our choice! Ihave a child that received vaccinations at 3 months of age. I almost lost her from vaccination injury. Diagnoses by a pediatric neurologist was that of Vaccination Injury. She is exempted and even if I wanted to get her vaccines not a doctor or health department going to touch her. Why? Liability. To the person above this one who stated that vaccinations should be mandatory and parents should have to pay. Your tax dollars my dear and the money you pay for the vaccines to be given to your child is going to put 897,000 dollars in our pocket because of the vaccination injury my child had.(That is where your money is going when paying for vaccines. look up V.A.E.R.S. Also, my child recently had a rusty nail go into the top of her foot. No hospital, No health department would touch her with the Tetnus vaccine.(due to the liability and litagation). BTW She didn't get lockjaw and it was a very rusty nail.(Thank God) Are the vaccines doing more harm than good? I think so... My daughters 7 years old now and has Autism. Did the vaccine cause it... probably so! Just as it is more and more children being diagnosed everyday... ADD,ADHD, Autism.. We only use to have to worry about down syndrome and mental retardation. Now, everyone has a child on meds.. because of the vaccines.. Need to calm those ADHD and autistic children down.. give them more poisions in there systems.. I'd move countries if it became mandatory!
 

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Sunday, December 13, 2009

13 Dec - Articles of Note

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9 Unexpected Things in Drinking Water …By Dana Chivvis … 8 Dec 09 — Charles Duhigg of The New York Times today delivered the latest unsettling news about the nation’s water supply: It’s not as clean as you might think. An analysis of federal data from the last five years revealed that more than 20 percent of the nation’s water-treatment systems have broken provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the standards enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency. The result? As many as 19 million Americans are sickened each year. Over the years, the EPA has identified many substances in water supplies far and wide. Here are nine unexpected things that they’ve spotted.
Arsenic A naturally occurring element found in soil and minerals, arsenic is used as a pesticide and wood sealant. Ingesting high levels of arsenic, Madame Bovary can tell you, is deadly. At lower levels, over longer periods of time, it can darken skin and spur corns and warts. A carcinogen, arsenic can increase the risk of skin, liver, bladder and lung cancers.
The EPA has said that more than 3 million Americans have been exposed to water with illegal concentrations of arsenic since 2005.
Uranium The element Iran insists on enriching despite howls from the U.S. and other Western nations, it is also used in helicopters, airplanes, armor, fertilizer and household items like certain microwaves. After it’s mined and processed, some of it is released back into the environment in waste material, called mill tailings. Large amounts of uranium can lead to kidney disease and cancer, though naturally occurring uranium is much less radioactive.
The EPA says levels of uranium in drinking water are usually low and safe, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. However, the 3 million Americans exposed to illegal amounts of arsenic were also exposed to illegal amounts of radioactive substances.
Radium This radioactive metal has been used to treat cancer, for scientific research and in instrument calibration. Everyone is exposed to low levels of the substance, but higher levels are found near uranium mines, coal-burning industries and sometimes in drinking water that comes from wells. Radium can cause anemia and cataracts. At high levels, it is a carcinogen, causing increased bone, liver and breast cancer.
The EPA has reported that levels of radium were 2,000 times the legal limit in water flowing in some areas.
Tetrachloroethylene Used in dry cleaning and for metal degreasing, this chemical usually evaporates when it meets water, soil or air, but high exposure can cause headaches, dizziness, confusion, nausea and unconsciousness. Women who are exposed to high levels of tetrachloroethylene may have menstrual problems and even spontaneous abortions. It is also believed to be a carcinogen. The New York Times found that the drinking water in Ramsey, N.J., located 35 miles outside of New York City, has had illegal concentrations of tetrachloroethylene since 2004.
Lead Houses built before 1986 are more likely to have lead pipes than newer ones. Because hot water dissolves lead more easily, people who live with older plumbing should never drink hot water from the tap. Kids who drink lead-tainted water above the legal limits are at risk for physical and mental development problems. In adults, lead can lead to high blood pressure and kidney trouble.
The EPA’s threshold for lead is 0.015 parts per million. If you are concerned about the levels of lead in your water, you can have it tested at a certified laboratory.
Prozac, Birth Control, Makeup, Shampoo Along with deceased goldfish and incriminating evidence, it turns out Americans like to flush their drugs and personal care products down the toilet, too. These substances leave the toilet (or bathtub and shower) and end up in our waterways. In fact, most of the waterways the EPA tested had pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) in them. While there is evidence that ecological harm can come from PPCPs in the water, scientists are not yet sure of the threat to humans.
You can find reports on the drinking water in your area at the EPA Web site.
DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE . . . Oh, but not to worry as over the last 30 years EPA in close cooperation with our nations water purveyors (public & private) have determine (naturally, behind closed doors and without any input from you or me) what the SAFE levels are for these ingredients in the water they choose to provide to you and me.
And given the level of DISCLOSURE & TRANSPARENCY existing in Arizona “we” can be assured whatever is disclosed to us by our Governor and her Directors of Water Resources (ADWR) and Environmental Quality (ADEQ) is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth … yea, ha, ha
… In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act…George Orwell







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Leader of the Anglican Church Publicly Denounces Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill

n an interview* with the British Telegraph newspaper, the Head of the Anglican Church has publicly condemned Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill that would literally enable the Ugandan government to hound gay men and women to death if the penalty of "aggravated homosexuality" is not removed.

In the interview, Dr. Rowan Williams talks about the schism facing the Anglican Church, his relationship with the Vatican, and also comments on legislation tabled by Ugandan MP David Bahati that has been dubbed the "Kill the Gays Bill":



( It violates confidentiality of the Church : the oldest refuge available to fugitives of conscience )


Presiding Bishop of America's Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, also formally condemns the Bill, saying that all efforts to criminalize homosexual behavior are inconsistent with the tenets of the Church, while adding:






...We note that much of the current climate of fear, rejection, and antagonism toward gay and lesbian persons in African nations has been stirred by members and former members of our own Church.  We note further that attempts to export the culture wars of North America to another context represent the very worst of colonial behavior.  We deeply lament this reality, and repent of any way in which we have participated in this sin.
You can read the rest of the Bishop's statement here.







Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, talks to George Pitcher about schism, Rome, politics and conservation.




*Isn’t there something rather acquisitive and invasive about this Pope, who wants us to know that there is one universal voice of authority and it speaks from Rome? Dr Williams suddenly opens up: “Nothing entirely new about that of course. At the end of John Paul II’s pontificate you have that discussion of how papal authority is meant to be understood, how it might be received by others. I think that’s treading water at the moment. I’d like to see that revived and that’s part of what I was nudging at in Rome.





“Second thing is that in British Catholicism there’s a kind of resurgent – no – recurrent cycle of the 'second spring’, in Cardinal Newman’s imagery, and in the wave of distinguished converts in the interwar years, Evelyn Waugh and so on. There was just a hint of it when Cardinal Hume uncharacteristically talked about the reconversion of England – and I think he regretted that actually. And a few people in the last round. It’s a pattern, the sense that the Reformation wounds are going to be healed in favour of Rome. And it just keeps coming back – I think this has been the occasion for another little bit of that. It’s bits of the repertoire.”
The languid manner in which he delivers this leaves no doubt that he’s not holding his breath for a Roman second spring either. I wonder whether the Pope has, unwittingly and ironically, provided the kind of “third province” that Anglo-Catholics were demanding because they can’t accept women bishops, lesbian or otherwise. The Revision Committee for women bishops, after all, dropped proposals for legal protection for them in the wake of the Pope’s initiative.
“I would guess that the papal announcement had some impact on the way some people thought and voted on the committee,” concedes Dr Williams. “But actually I don’t think it is a solution. A great many Anglo-Catholics have good reason for not being Roman Catholics. They don’t believe the Pope is infallible. And that’s why they’re still pressing for a solution in Anglican terms, rather than what many of them see as a theologically rather eccentric option on the Roman side.”



Iranian scientist who vanished 'gave nuclear secrets' to UN inspectors sent to Qom site

An award-winning atomic physicist, Mr Amiri had worked at the heavily-guarded underground site at Qom. He was attached to a Tehran university named by the EU last year as part of the regime's nuclear-proliferation operations.But contrary to Iranian claims, Mr Amiri actually defected after an elaborate international cloak-and-dagger co-ordinated by the CIA, according to a well-connected French intelligence analysis website.





The vanishing act was reminiscent of Cold War days between the Soviet Union and the West when spies - often scientists and diplomats - were spirited away in plots just as outlandish as any John le Carré thriller.
Heads have rolled at Iran's nuclear counter-espionage agency since his loss, and the foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, raised his case in a private meeting with the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon.
The Islamic republic has now linked the fate of three American hikers detained in Iran since July with a list of Iranian citizens, including Mr Amiri, who Tehran alleges are being held by the US. It appears to be proposing some form of trade in talks with Swiss intermediaries.
Officially, the US says it has no information on Mr Amiri's whereabouts, but the scientist is now believed to be in Europe, protected by a Western intelligence agency, in a CIA-led operation. He will be debriefed intensively by experts - who will also want to ensure that he is not an Iranian plant.
Four months after Mr Amiri disappeared, President Barack Obama, flanked by Gordon Brown and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, disclosed that Iran had built the buried uranium enrichment plant near the holy city of Qom.
Western intelligence had developed information about the site over three years.
But Mr Amiri's intelligence about its inner workings - and especially security procedures - proved "extremely useful", a source close to France's overseas secret service, the DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), told The Sunday Telegraph.
"Amiri has first hand knowledge of the site and this would have been the main subject of discussion," the source said. "The meeting was so secret that the inspectors who met Amiri were unlikely to have even known his name, let alone his background. He was just presented as a bona fide contact in the know about how Qom works."
( Isn't it remarkable how these stories never touch upon the fact that these actions clearly violate treaty terms supporting Iran's agreement to transparency of their nuclear operations : and are continually posed as a threat by the holder of a phenomenally overdeveloped international weapons program for assault with Weapons of Mass Destruction anywhere on the Planet.
And of course, not only is the Third Pillar of the NPT violated, but I have been posting articles on how this is a planned disinformation program  from 1975 ... and even previous to that.
Deer Hunting with Jesus - Joe Bageant
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The Devil and Mr. Obama

Barack promised change -- and sure enough, things changed for the worse
Obama's public approval ratings are taking a beating. Millions of his former cult members have awakened with a splitting hangover to find their pockets turned inside out and eviction notices on the doors of their 4,000 square foot subprime mortgaged cardboard fuck boxes.
This frustrating ping pong game in which the margin of first time, disenchanted and undecided voters are batted back and forth has become the whole of American elections. That makes both the Republican and Democratic parties very happy, since it keeps the game down to fighting the enemy they know, each other, as opposed to being forced to deal with the real issues, or worse yet, an independent or third party candidate who might have a solution or two.
Thus, the game is limited to two players between two corporate parties. One is the Republican Party, which believes we should hand over our lives and resources directly to the local Chamber of Commerce, so the chamber can deliver them to the big corporations. The other, the Democratic Party, believes we should hand our lives and resources to a Democratic administration -- so it alone can deliver our asses to the big dogs who own the country. In the big picture it's always about who gets to deliver the money to the Wall Street hyena pack.
Americans may be starting to get the big picture about politics, money and corporate power. But I doubt it. Given that most still believe the war on terrorism is real, and that terrorists always just happen to be found near gas and oil deposits, there is plenty of room left to blow more smoke up their asses. Especially considering how we are conditioned to go into blind fits of patriotism at the sight of the flag, an eagle, or the mention of "our heroes," even if the heroes happen to be killing and maiming Muslim babies at the moment. Patriotism is a cataract that blinds us to all national discrepancies.
 The Nobel Committee awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to the very person who dropped the most bombs and killed the most poor people on the planet during that year. 
The same guy who started a new war in Pakistan, beefed up the ongoing war in Afghanistan, and continues to threaten Iran with attack unless Iran cops to phony US-Israeli charges of secret nuclear weapons facilities. It's weapons of mass destruction all over again. Somewhere in the whole fracas has been forgotten that Iran has been calling for a nuclear free zone in the Middle East since 1974. Iran has also been consistent in its position that "petroleum is a noble material, much too valuable to burn for electricity," and that nuclear energy makes much more sense, given that our food supply, whether we like it or not, is fundamentally dependent upon petrochemicals and will remain so until the earth's population is reduced to at least half of what it is now. The Iranian attitude has been to use the shrinking petroleum deposits as judiciously as possible.
To which oilman George Bush replied that "There will be consequences for Iran's attitude."
Then there are Obama's noble efforts to fight terrorism by beefing up troop "deployment" in Afghanistan. Deployment may be construed to mean an American style armed gangbang, in which everybody piles on some wretched flea bitten hamlets for all they are worth, with periodic breaks for pizza and video games.












Now if you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan, compared to NATO country forces there, you'll find them in a nice even line along what could easily be mistaken for an oil pipeline route. One that taps into the natural gas deposits in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan and, by the purest coincidence, just happens to bypass nearby Russia and Iran. But we all know that "It's about fighting terrorism over there so we won't have to fight it here!" That still plays in Peoria, so we're sticking with it.












"The Fed" is an offshore private banking cartel that decides just how much bogus currency can be printed and circulated profitably for bankers without wrecking their Ponzi schemes. And the chairman of that august body has announced that the recession is over. Well halleluja! We can quit rolling our own cigs and buy ready mades, and run recklessly through the Dollar Store scooping up dented canned goods and cheap Chinese tube socks.




















That makes us luckier than the three and a half million Americans, most of whom led normal lives a few of years ago, who are now homeless. That includes one million school children sleeping in tents, shelters and other makeshift arrangements, and trying to look presentable each morning at schools that have not even the mercy to let them use the school showers. By the administration's own calculation, the number of homeless and people out of work will continue to escalate at least into the next year. Home foreclosures, and therefore homelessness, "has not topped out yet," says Obama.





Economic systems are merely belief systems. I didn't say that. Keynes said that.







The U.S. Ministry of Truth has announced that our unemployment rate is at 10%. I've yet to meet an American who does not know the official unemployment rate is a complete fiction. 

Unemployment will in all likelihood go higher. And nobody on earth knows how to reduce it .





















The Federal Reserve has logically set a low interest rate policy. 





















Banks took the Fed's money, then raised the annual percentage rate (APR) on credit card purchases and cash advances and on balances that have a penalty rate because of late payment. Next they raised the late fee. What the hell? If Americans are on the ropes, struggling to make their payments on time, then the logical thing to do is to stick it to them. Bleed 'em for all they're worth. It's an American free market tradition. We the people do not complain. We expect no mercy. America is a business and the American concept of business is pure ruthlessness.









A Deutsche Bank analyst tells me a near term worst is yet to come. Bank failures and home foreclosures have not peaked. A commercial real estate bust is coming down the pike. He says that, while there will be some minor periodic upswings, the fraudulent value of the dollar is now evident as it falls against every other currency, even the Russian ruble (13%), except those unlucky enough to be pegged to the US dollar.

The saddest thing is that Americans are cultivated like mushrooms from birth to death, kept in the dark and fed horseshit. Consequently, they haven't the slightest idea that there is an alternative to the system in which they labor at the pleasure of corporate and financial elites who own both their government and their every waking hour. That alternative is democratic Socialism. Self governance for the broadest common good. Which the Ministry of Truth has defined for them as fascism.









Healthcare and environment? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha










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