A House bill to reinstate the draft
finally made its way to the Armed Services Committee where a vote
is expected only after President Bush decides whether he is for
or against conscription.June 6, 2005
June 13 &20
Whole Body Health
June 27, 2005
Momentum for serious border control is growing as a congressional report recommends deploying the National Guard and another shows how to reduce the number of illegal aliens already here to virtually zero. The report by the staff of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus stated the obvious: As demonstrated by the Minutemen, it said, troops stationed on the border will virtually eliminate illegal entry.
The deployment of 36,000 National Guard or state militia troops could "dramatically reduce if not virtually eliminate" illegal border crossings, the report said. It said the Minutemen, who shut down a 23-mile stretch of the Arizona border in April, served as a model for a government effort to reclaim the southern border of the United States.
"The tide of illegal crossings on the borders of the United States is beyond unsatisfactory; it is catastrophic," the report said. "It does not ebb and flow - it only grows. It is rising without measure and eroding the very fiber of our safety, life and culture.
"As we wage the war on terror in foreign lands, we have all our doors and windows open at home. . . . The insanity of such a policy, or silent toleration of such a policy is almost criminal in itself," it said. "The Minuteman Project demonstrated that illegal immigration on America's southern border can be dramatically reduced to manageable levels," said the report, released May 24.
The Border Patrol failed "through no fault of its rank-and-file enforcement officers" to protect the United States from the flood of illegal aliens, the report said.
The agency's uniformed leadership should be pointed in a "new direction" because it is in "total denial of the magnitude of the disaster" and - as currently organized, staffed and supported - "cannot be relied upon" to remedy the situation soon.
"The Border Patrol needs new direction from the Department
of Homeland Security if it is to shake off the lethargy from years
of undermanned frustration," the report said. "The patrol
needs to empower its outstanding field officers to act as necessary
to accomplish the patrol's mission
. . . to energize its leadership to think outside the box."
Congress and the states should sustain the success of the Minuteman Project - whose members were lightly armed, had no arrest powers, were not paid and traveled to Arizona at their own expense - with the deployment of National Guard or state militia troops in coordination with the Border Patrol, the report said. Sufficient reinforcements exist in current National Guard units and could be put on the border by governors and the secretary of defense within a month, if the political will exists, it said.
On the same day the congressional report was issued, the Center for Immigration Studies issued a report on how to reduce the current level of illegal aliens to virtually zero.
Said Mark Krikorian, the center's executive director:
"By deterring the settlement of new illegals, by increasing deportations to the extent possible, and, most importantly, by increasing the number of illegals already here who give up and deport themselves, the United States can bring about an annual decrease in the illegal-alien population, rather than allowing it to continually increase."
The result, he said, would be a shrinking of the illegal population to a "manageable nuisance." The decrease would come in large part by sealing off the border to new illegal aliens, he said.
"From 1995 to 1999, an average of 165,000 a year went back home on their own after residing here for at least a year; the same number got some kind of legal status, about 50,000 were deported and 25,000 died, for a total of more than 400,000 people each year subtracted from the resident illegal population," he said.
But "the average annual inflow of new illegal aliens over that same period was nearly 800,000, swamping the outflow and creating an average annual increase of close to 400,000," he said. He called for "a strategy of attrition."
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As President George W. Bush "jet-sets around the world, promoting the neo-conservatives own brand of democracy, there is one overseas meeting in June he will avoid like the plague.
In late May, bush and England's Prime Minister Tony Blair received personal invitations to attend a session of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) in Istanbul from June 23-27.
A White House spokesman told AFP he was unaware of the meeting or any such group.
The WTI made up of thousands of people worldwide including many preeminent scholars and dignitaries, seeks to reclaim justice regarding the Iraqi invasion. The group was formed two years ago with the intent to document the war crimes orchestrated by bush and Blair and eventually bring both heads of state to justice because of what group leaders say is "an arrogant flaunting of world opinion and established law."
WTI media spokesman Hilal Kuey said many countries around the world are not as kind toward the two leaders as the West, viewing the Iraqi invasion as an overt act of aggression.
"Since the U.S. administration and the UK government have used their power to avoid being prosecuted for an illegal and illegitimate war, the citizens of the world have undertaken an initiative to reclaim justice." said Kuey from her office in Turkey. "The world is calling for Bush and Blair to be held accountable for the crimes committed in Iraq."
DESTRUCTION OF IRAQ
The Istanbul conference is a culmination of two years of investigating and documenting the occupation and destruction of Iraq, and numerous sessions have been held in many foreign capitals around the world.
The Istanbul conference marks the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion.
The formal letter sent to Bush is highly critical of the U.S.-led war in Iraq and asks Bush to defend his position to the world, something WTI leaders say he has avoided for three years.
"We on behalf of the peoples of the world who believe in justice, start from the conviction that you have been acting in violation of common values of humanity, international treaties and international law, the WTI has spread to almost every capital in the world in an attempt to fight what it calls "a war of aggression launched despite the opposition of people and governments all over the world."
"There is no court or authority that will judge the acts of the United States and its allies. If the official authorities fail, then authority derived from universal moral and human rights principles can speak for the world," said Kuey, the WTI spokesman.
"Our legitimacy derives from the failure of official international institutions to hold accountable those who committed grave international crimes and constitute a continued menace to world peace. We have a duty to take action against wars of aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other breaches in international law.
"The WTI will not end in Istanbul as it is to be considered a continuing process. The investigation of what happened in Iraq is of prime importance to restore truth and preserve collective memory against the constant rewriting of history. We are challenging the silence of international institutions and seeking to put them under pressure to fulfill their obligations under international law."
GROWING CLAMOR
Besides the Iraq war, the WTI is also investigation the growing clamor f what has been called America's effort to create a "new world order" to dominate the world.
"The WTI initiative seeks to be part of a broader movement to stop the establishment of the new imperial world order as a permanent ‘state of exception' with constant wars as one of its main tools," added Kuey. "We hope to bring a moral, political and judicial judgement that contributes to building a world of peace and justice.
The WTI has been indorsed and signed by such notable worldwide
figures as Richard Falk, professor of international law and the
University of California at Santa Barbara; Ken Coates, chairman
of the Bertrant Russell Peace Foundation; Baskin Oran, former
European member of parliament and professor of international relations
at the University of Ankara and Denis J Halliday, former assistant
UN secretary general from 1994 to 1998.
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The Senate Intelligence Committee is holding hearings on a bill to renew and expand the Patriot Act, parts of which expire Dec. 31, 2005. The measure, written by chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), would give the FBI new power to issue administrative subpoenas, which are not reviewed by a judge or grand jury, aides, said.
With such self-administered instant subpoenas, agents could quickly obtain records, electronic data or other evidence in investigations would have to report to congress twice a year on how it is using the new power. The administration has sought this power for two years but so far has been rebuffed by Congress.
New provisions would also allow federal agents to monitor your mail but not read its contents. They would know if you get a letter from Aunt Bertha or da a subscription to a controversial newspaper.
It is uncertain whether congress will give the administration everything it wants.
Eight expiring sections of the Patriot Act that deal with foreign intelligence investigations would become permanent. This includes a provision that allows wiretapping of suspected terrorists who operate without clear ties to a particular terrorist network.
These expanded powers are certain to be resisted by a broad spectrum of Americans who are concerned about the erosions of constitutional liberties under the original legislation. This includes Patriots to Restore checks and Balances, headed by Bob Barr, known as a "right winger" while serving as a Republican congressman from Georgia, the ACLU and groups in between.
Barr responded to "conservatives" who said that only the "extreme left" opposes parts of the Patriot Act by saying his group includes the American Conservative Union, Gun Owners of America "and many other leading conservative organizations."
Sone of the provisions "undermine our constitutional freedoms and Forth Amendment rights" said Barr, now a columnist for United Press International.
"Through the ongoing oversight hearings congress is holding, we have learned more about the government's increasing use of secret search powers not only in terrorism cases but in run-of-the-mill criminal cases," Barr said.
The "sneak and peek" provision "allows law enforcement agents to secretly search our homes and offices, take whatever they wish, and yet not notify us for weeks.
"This legislation would maintain those Patriot Act provisions that are truly necessary to keep Americans safe, while placing important checks on those expanded authorities that are out of line with the Constitution," Barr said. "Primary sponsors of the SAFE Act include Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) - a solid conservative and fellow NRA board member, hardly a ‘flaming liberal' and certainly as staunch an anti-terrorist as you'll find in the Congress."
James Dempsey, head of the Center for Democracy and Technology,
said in a conference call with reporters that the bill would give
the FBI new powers that have been "long sought, and rejected"
by Congress because of civil liberties concerns.
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A House bill to reinstate the draft
finally made its way to the Armed Services Committee where a vote
is expected only after President Bush decides whether he is for
or against conscription.
Bush has failed to make clear how he plans to restock the Army in light of dwindling recruiting numbers. Meanwhile, Congress is reluctant to make a decision due to the draft's unpopularity with voters.
A White House spokesman said Bush has "always firmly opposed the draft." But many insiders believe Bush will have to reassess the issue in light of the Army's failed recruiting efforts.
Emile Milne, a spokesman for Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), who sponsored the controversial draft bill, said this is the type of bill "no one likes to touch" without a consensus of all branches of government.
"The draft is especially unpopular now because of the mounting death toll in Iraq," said Milne. "Rep. Rangel is, of course, opposed to the war, but believes if we are going to have to fight it, then the military should have enough soldiers to do the job properly."
Rangel, originally in favor of the draft in order that "rich and poor equally share the burden of the war," now feels the draft may also become a necessity due to the Army's difficulty in meeting recruiting goals.
Since the war has become less popular with the American people and the death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq has risen to over 1,680, the Army is now reporting recruiting levels down as much as 50 percent.
The issue of "enough boots on the ground" is further complicated by the added strain put on the National Guard troops, many having to serve two or three tours of duty in Iraq.
"There is no doubt that the military is undermanned," said Milne. "Rep. Rangel feels if the war is going to continue, the only way to solve the problem is to bring back the draft."
Although Rangel's bill mounted very little support when it was first introduced last session during an election year, critics claim now that the election is over and the military is crying for more warm bodies that a reinstatement of the draft is "inevitable and only a mater of time."
"No one likes to hear it, but if things keep going the way they are with less recruits and re-enlistment numbers down, the draft may be the only way to solve the problem," said Milne.
POLITICAL LIMBO
Whether the draft becomes a reality is still in political limbo. However, no one would argue that Bush's aggressive foreign military policy dictates the need for more troops.
In a recent Los Angeles Times article, former security advisors Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski were quoted as saying the U.S. requires at least 500,000 more troops to sustain the war in Iraq and reinstatement of the draft may be unpopular but necessary.
"At best, Rangel's bill merely plays into Bush's hands," said Bill Galvin, head of an anti-war group called the Center of Conscience and War. "At worst, it's a stealth measure intended to supply progressive political cover for pro-draft Democrats."
Galvin said he also fears Bush is just waiting for the right moment "to spring the draft back on the American people" since he no longer has to worry about getting re-elected.
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What's the FBI hiding as it grudgingly,
under court orders. Provides documents in the 1995 Oklahoma City
bombing while blacking out crucial names and information? Do they
implicate the FBI and Morris Dees in an attempt to make the killing
of 169 people a so-called "hate crime" to discredit
political dissidents?
That's what lawyer Jesse C. Trentadue of Salt Lake City is trying to find out in a lawsuit against the FBI filed in U.S. district court in Utah.
Trentadue has asked the court to compel the FBI to provide "unredacted" documents instead of the ones reluctantly yielded but with heavy black markings crossing out names and other information.
Complete, unredacted documents will show, he argues, that the Southerm Poverty Law Center (SPLC), operated by Morris Dees, FBI agents and others may have had foreknowledge of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. They may have allowed the bombing to happen, he argues, so the atrocity could be attributed to political dissidents generally called "patriots."
"Dees even admitted that within minutes following the Murrah building bombing he telephoned the FBI to say that members of the ‘patriot movement' and not Middle Easterners were responsible" Trentadue said.
"FBI defendants refuse to even search for records related to morris Dee's involvement with the Southern Poverty Law Center's informant in Elohim City," Trentadue said in court papers.
The most important document, Trentadue argued, "is the SPLE-OKBOMB Memorandum, which concerns an informant working for the SPLC and/or FBI who had infiltrated the white supremacist, paramilitary training center at Elohim City, Okla."
The informant "was most likely Andreas Carl Strassmeir," a German national in the country illegally who returned to Germany in January 1996, he said. Strassmeir had been designated as a "terrorist" by the State Department and was the weapons and explosives expert for Timothy McVeigh and others who carried out the attack, he said.
"If Strassmeir was the informant, then FBI defendants and/or the SPLC not only had prior knowledge of the Murrah Building attack but they may also be, directly or indirectly, responsible for the greatest act of domestic terrorism in the history of this country, Trentadue said.
"Needless to say, FBI defendants don't want to reveal the identity of this informant, which is why they seek to withhold the informant's name and all other information about him under the ‘confidential witness' exemption of FOIA [Freedom of Information Act]," he said.
Trentadue said the exemption does not apply because another informant was identified in the document.
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
If the SPLC and FBI agents had prior knowledge of the attack and deliberately allowed it to happen by remaining silent so "racists" could be blamed, they are accessories before the fact, lawyers say.
The SPLC-OKBOMB Memorandum said information had been received from the Dees group that Strassmeir had received a phone call from McVeigh about April 17, two days before the attack "Strassmeir, per a source of the SPLC, was in the white supremacist compound at Elohim City, Okla."
"In this document, FBI defendants have acknowledged for the first time that there was a direct link between McVeigh and Elohim City, but what FBI defendants wish to forever keep secret is the link between McVeigh and Strassmeir, who was the explosives instructor apparently under the direction and control of FBI defendants and/or the SPLC," Trentadue said.
"This court should not allow that to happen because the public's right to know about the FBI and SPLC's obvious involvement with an informant at Elohim City and possible involvement in the Murrah Building bombing clearly out weighs any privacy rights FBI defendants are asserting," Trentadue said.
"In this case, the substantial public interest in disclosure of the FBI-SPLC's prior knowledge of and possible complicity in the murders of 169 people, as well as their failure to prevent that tragedy or to prosecute all those involved would clearly override any privacy rights asserted by the FBI on behalf of Dees," Trentadue said.
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In May, the Bush economy eked out a paltry 73,000 private sector jobs: 20,000 jobs in construction, primarily for Mexican immigrants, 21,000 jobs in wholesale and retail trade, and 32,500 jobs in health care and social assistance. Local government added 5,000 for a grand total of 78,500.
Not a single one of these jobs produces an exportable good or service. With Americans increasingly divorced from the production of the goods and services that they consume, Americans have no way to pay for their consumption except by handing over to foreigners more of their accumulated stock of wealth. The country continues to eat its seed corn.
Only 10 million Americans are classified as "production workers" in the Bureau of Labor Statistics non-farm payroll tables. Think about that. The United States, with a population approaching 300 million, has only 10 million production workers. That means Americans are consuming the products of other countries' labor.
In the 21st century, the U.S. economy has been unable to create jobs in export and import-competitive industries. U.S. job growth is confined to nontradable domestic services.
This movement of the American labor force toward Third World occupations in domestic services has dire implications both for the U.S. living standards and for America's status as a superpower.
Economists and policymakers are in denial while the U.S. economy implodes in front of their noses. The U.S.-China commission is making a great effort to bring reality to policymakers by holding a series of hearings to explore the depths of American decline.
The commissioners got an earful at the May 19 hearings in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ralph Gomory explained that America's naive belief that offshore outsourcing and globalism are working for America is based on a 200-year-old trade theory, the premises of which do not reflect the modern world.
Clyde Prestowitz, author of the just published Three Billion New capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East, explained that America's prosperity is an illusion. Americans feel prosperous because they are consuming $700 billion annually more than they are producing. Foreigners, principally Asians, are financing U.S. over-consumption, because we are paying them by handing over our markets, our jobs and our wealth.
Toward the end of the 20th century, three developments came together that are rapidly moving high productivity, high value-added jobs that pay well away from the United States to Asia: the collapse of world socialism, which vastly increased the supply of labor available to U.S. capital; the rise of the high-speed Internet; and the extraordinary international mobility of U.S. capital and technology.
The reason economic development in China and some Indian cities is so rapid is because it is fueled by the offshore location of First World corporations. Prestowitz is correct that the form that globalism has taken is shifting income and wealth from the First World to the Third World. The rise of Asia is coming at the expense of the American worker.
Global competition could have developed differently. U.S. capital and technology could have remained at home, protecting U.S. incomes with high productivity. Asia would have had to raise itself up without the inside track of First World offshore producers.
Asia's economic development would have been slow and laborious and would have been characterized by a gradual rise of Asian incomes toward U.S. incomes, not by a jarring loss of American jobs and incomes to Asians.
The Dollar is receiving a short-term respite as a result of the rejection of the European Constitution by France and Holland. The fate of the euro, which rose so rapidly in value against the dollar in recent years, is uncertain, thus possibly cutting off one avenue of escape from the over-produced U.S. dollar.
However, nothing is in the works to halt America's decline and put the economy on a path to true prosperity.
Offshore outsourcing is dismantling the ladders of America's
fabled upward mobility. The U.S. labor force already has one foot
in the Third World. By 2024, the United States will be a has-been
country.
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Codex Alimentarius is Latin for ‘food code' The UN gave this title to a group that functions within the World Health Organization (WHO). The UN food code would eliminate the freedom of access Americans now have to purchase vitamins, herbs, minerals, amino acids and other nutritional supplements and homeopathic remedies.
It all goes back to 1962, the year the Codex Alimentarius Commission was established jointly between the WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.
Its stated purpose was noble sounding: "To protect the health of consumers, and ensure fair practices in food trade."
Over the years, the commission has held many meetings, but the U.S. delegations to the conference have done little to defend the freedom of Americans.
For decades representatives of foods and related industries have pressed their views upon the official U.S. Codex delegations and the official delegates have been sensitive to multinational commercial interests in the development of international food standards.
America is represented at Codex meetings by an unelected bureaucrat from the FDA. Meetings are run in a way that goes against every tenet of representative government on which we supposedly base our laws.
WHO, along with the German, French and Canadian governments, views herbs as drugs - meaning prescriptions are required to get them.
The Natural Solutions Foundation has petitioned the U.S. Codex Office to adopt as the policy of the U.S. Codex delegation, and of the U.S. government, a policy regarding support for "international harmonization" through Codex Alimentarius or otherwise, only as it conforms to U.S. law and practice.
This should be adopted on an emergency basis, before the 28th General session of the Codex Commission, scheduled for July 4-9 in Rome.
Freedom-loving Americans should urge the U.S. delegation to
reject the UN/foreign position on how dietary supplements, including
herbs, would be regulated. They should also urge that the U.S.
delegation reject any scheme for establishing maximum potencies
for dietary supplements tied to artificial reference values, which
many in the wholistic health community regard as dubious at best
and against the best interest of consumers.
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Codex is a danger to all people. The best way you can fight Codex is to change your shopping habits. Simultaneously you will gain a major improvement in your health. Codex is a false front for the drug companies. It is a regulatory group consisting of drug and chemical company officials.
They are using their financial powers to attempt to take control of natural medicine. The people behind this are vicious and have only one agenda total financial control. If Americans fail to resist this they will loose their rights to free choice.
Codex is known as Codex Alimentarius. It is a shill organization for the drug and chemical cartels. It has no truly legal basis. It is an attempt to hold a monopoly against the public's interest. The people behind Codex have only one agenda: control of the public health industry. They seek to crush all competition, particularly from natural medicines.
Beware: One technique they use is to infiltrate any natural medicine movement by disseminating propaganda to make it appear that they have no ill will. For instance, the claim for regulating vitamins and minerals is to protect the general public.
There is no reason to regulate vitamins and minerals, since there are essentially no fatalities due to typical health food store supplements. Not, in contrast to relatively unregulated substances, which Codex fails to address, such as genetically engineered foods, aspartame, secondhand smoke and alcohol, is there any risk for severe organ damage.
FINANCIAL POWER
Thus, Codex is for only one purpose: to maintain the financial power of the drug, chemical and vaccine industries, which are threatened by the general public's growing use of natural medicines.
Codex supports genetic engineering, drug therapy and vaccines. It has no interest in natural medicine, in fact, it wishes to destroy this movement. It is a joint operative for pharmaceutical control in order to overpower natural, safe therapies. It serves no useful function. Codex is not a food safety board. It is a board consisting of drug company officials.
HOW YOU CAN FIGHT BACK
Refuse to invest in or buy anything which supports this cartel. Limit your purchases of the following items:
• Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, insecticides;
• Synthetic fertilizers;
• Prescription drugs;
• Over-the-counter drugs.
Note the above are responsible for much of this planet's biological destruction. Pesticides alone have caused the extinction of a number of animal species.
Refuse to buy any food made with genetically engineered components. The worst of these foods, that is, the most contaminated, are:
• Canola oil ( this is the least healthy of all food oils,
what's more, this is a semi-synthetic oil);
• Corn, including corn starch and corn syrup;
• Soybeans, including Soy burgers and milk;
• Papaya (if from Hawaii);
• Commercial beef, pork and chicken (may be fed genetically
engineered soya and /or corn);
• Some varieties of squash (yellow crookneck squash is GM);
• Cottonseed oil;
• Soybean oil;
• Commercial milk products ( the genetically engineered hormone,
BST, has been associated with causing cancer. This hormone will
eventually be rejected due to an increase in cancer in children
and adolescents, who consume commercial milk products.
Virtually all baked, coated, and breaded foods are contaminated, because these foods contain ingredients such as corn, corn starch, soybean/cottonseed oils, milk components, and soy derivatives.
The aforementioned may contain animal genes, including material
from vermin (such as mice and rats), sewage, bacterial genes and
viruses. Severe allergic reactions to the foreign components of
genetically engineered food are possible. Deaths have been reported
due to the consumption of genetically engineered foods. Cancer
has been tied to genetically engineered drugs.
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The good news is three states - Iowa, Missouri and California - have banned the vaccine preservative known as thimerosal, and other states are preparing to join them. But, the bad news is a U.S. Senate bill could prevent states from banning the mercury-based additive in vaccines. Alan Clark, a 30-year emergency room physician and his wife Lujene Clark, a former nurse, believed the government and drug companies' propaganda and gave their son Devon a vaccine with the "safe" mercury agent thimerosal. They say this caused their son's autism.
His symptoms started with his fidgeting, then his continually lining up toys and other objects. At times, he had emotional outbursts far beyond what would be normal for the circumstances. He developed allergies, eczema and asthma.
Then, after a flu shot late in 2002, all of those problems accelerated.
"It all hit warp speed, just like in ‘Star Trek'," said Mrs. Clark. "Everything just became so dramatic, including his behavior."
Clark and his nurse wife didn't recognize the symptoms in their eight-year-old son, Devon. They were shocked when the formerly active, bright-eyed child was diagnosed with a form of autism, and again when they leared what they believe is the cause.
The Clarks became advocates of banning thimerosal from vaccines, and have shown the way that concerned citizens can take our government back.
There are many physicians serving in the Missouri legislature that understand the science and put the people's health first ahead of special interests.
Roy Holand, a physician and former legislator from Springfield, sponsored a thimerosal-banning bill last session that was approved in the Missouri House by a vote of 152-4. The measure was unanimously endorsed by a Senate committee, but failed to reach a Senate vote after it fell victim to a filibuster on the last day of the session.
Rep. Robert Schaaf (R-St. Joseph), also a physician, helped sponsor the state legislation this year.
Mrs. Clark praised the bipartisan support in the Senate, where bills were introduced by Sen. Norma Champion (R-Springfield) and Sen. Jason Crowell (R-Cape Girardeau). Sen charles Wheeler (a Kansas City Democrat and a physician) also supported the bill.
The clarks have been lobbying for legislation banning thimerosal since they found what they say is a growing amount of research that links mercury in vaccines to disorders including attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder, Asperger syndrome and autism.
The Clark's son, Devon, now 9, was diagnosed in 2001 with ADHD and in 2003 with Asperger syndrome, often described as high-functioning autism. The couple, who met with researchers and underwent training for parents of children with autism, say Devon's problems started and accelerated as he received routine childhood vaccinations. His problems worsened dramatically after he received a flu shot, administered because of an asthma condition.
For about the past year. Devon has been undergoing treatments to remove mercury from his system. His performance at school has improved, he no longer takes medicine for Asperger syndrome or asthma, and he rarely has to use an inhaler.
In addition to the Missouri bill, the couple are working on or helping other parents with similar legislation in Nebraska, Maryland, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington State.
Mrs. Clark also hosts a weekly program on Autism One, an Internet radio operation.
Ralph Forbes is a health activist and writer based in Arkansas.
He is quickly emerging as a major contributor to Whole Body Health.Contact
Forbes at justice@ipa.net.
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The U.S. government has denied the link between autism and mercury poisoning. This, in the face of a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention, which showed that three-month-old babies exposed to just 63 micrograms of mercury - less than half of a pinhead - were two-and-a-half times more likely to develop autism.
The CDC study was stamped "Confidential" and "Do not Copy or Release."
Before the age of two, the average American child receives vaccines containing thimerosal with more than 200 micrograms of mercury, which would fit on the head of a pin. According to the EPA, if you dropped that pinhead of mercury into 23 gallons of water you would make it unsafe for human consumption.
"Think of the idea of injecting your own child with levels of mercury that are 30 to 40 times what considered safe for an adult," says Dallas attorney, Andy Waters. "I think if any human being thinks about that for very long, they recognize that this is for something that never should have happened."
Waters & Kraus is the lead law firm in a consortium of lawsuits which have been filed against vaccine makers for using the mercury-based preservative thimerosal in drugs given to children. The foundation for their claim is that thimerosal causes neurological damage and results in autism in children.
According to Waters & Kraus, as early as the 1930's Ili Lilly, was apparently aware of the harmful nature of thimerosal in vaccines. However, the Centers for Disease Control withheld critical evidence from the Institute of Medicine, which prevented this watchdog group from concluding that thimerosal was dangerous in vaccines.
They say they also have evidence that vaccine manufacturers gave sizable contributions to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Waters & Kraus believe that as early as 1972 Lilly knew Merthiolate (the trade name of thimerosal) in vaccines caused at least six deaths.
They argue that the drug maker was also aware that The British Medical Journal reported skin burns resulting from the chemical interaction of thimerosal and aluminum: "Mercury is known to act as a catalyst and to cause aluminum to oxidize rapidly, with the production of heat. The manufacturers who supply us with thimerosal have been informed."
Nevertheless thimerosal has been used in vaccines which also contain aluminum.
On jan. 5, 1982, the FDA warned in an advance notice of proposed rule making regarding thimerosal: {"At the cellular level, thimerosal has been found to be more toxic for human epithelial cells in vitro than mercuric chloride, mercuric nitrate, and Merbromin (mercurichrome)....It was found to be 35.3 times more toxic for embryonic chick heart tissue than for staphylococcus aureus....A 1950 study showed that thimerosal was no better than water in protecting mice from potential fatal streptococcal infection."
By 1991 Lilly ceased the manufacture and sale of thimerosal. However it continues to reap profits from the product per a licensing agreements until at least 2010.
Waters & Kraus says that Eli Lilly's own "Material Safety Data Sheets" regarding thimerosal reeals these damning gems:
"Primary Physical & Reproduction Effects:
Nervous System and reproduction Effects;" "Effects of exposure include fetal changes;" "Mercury poisoning may occur," "Exposure in children may cause mild to severe mental retardation...." "Hypersensitivity to mercury is a medical condition aggravated by exposure."
Studying Lilly's internal documents produced by litigation, Dr. Joseph Mercola concluded: "Eli Lilly made every effort to corrupt the medical and scientific literature."
After his own son became autistic after receiving 21 vaccinations before 16 months of age, Courtney L. Zietzke investigated the facts and put them in his book, Mercury: The Winged Messenger, to inform people about the intentional addition of a deadly chemical to vaccines and the subsequent cover-up of this problem by officials.
Zietzke contends the government forced those vaccines, exposing children to dangerous levels of toxic mercury that has caused debilitating autism with the government's full knowledge.
The chemical additive thimerosal was added to vaccinations intentionally in order to maximize pharmaceutical profits from multi-dose vaccine bottle. About 50 percent of the thimerosal is mercury, a chemical the U.S. government has known is toxic since 1930.
Zietzke explains that, despite clear warning signs and a sharp
increase in sudden child autism, the government protects the drug
companies and their profits.
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The following stories of success in treating the symptoms of autism were compiled from multiple first-hand accounts on the Internet.
Dr. Amy Holmes is a physician-mother of an autistic child. Along with Dr. Stephanie Cave, she is co-author of the book What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations. She has been exploring the testing and treatment for mercury poisoning in autistic spectrum children for several years in her Baton rouge, La., clinic.
Dr. Holmes was a leading practitioner of oral chelation for children who showed evidence of brain mercury and one of a group of physicians who pioneered a new direction in medical detoxification of children based on careful attention to testing and nutrient and mineral supplementation.
Her autistic son, who was non-verbal at four years of age, is totally off the spectrum and normal in most ways after two years of chelation.
For more on this see Dr. Homes's web site at healing-arts.org/children/amyholmes.htm .
Dr. Amy L. Lansky received her Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1983. After many years working as a research computer scientist, she made an unusual career move: she became a student, writer, promoter and, most recently, practitioner of homeopathic medicine.
This was prompted by the miraculous cure of her son's autism with homeopathy. She tells about it in her son's autism with homeopathy. She tells about it in her book, Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy. Amy is a board member of both the California Health Freedom Coalition and the National Center for Homeopathy in Alexandria, Va.
Dr. And Mrs. Bryon strain's only daughter Britni was diagnosed with autism in 1999. After visiting many specialists who repeatedly told them that Britni would never recover. Dr. Strain, a medical doctor, and his wife Danise decided to devote their lives to searching for successful treatments. The Strains sought treatments that would free Britni from a lifetime locked in the grip of autism.
Through many sleepless nights and disappointments they finally discovered treatments that put Britni on the path to recovery. The Strains are co-authors of Autism/PDD Recovery IS Possible! They have also established The Britni Foundation, a non-profit institution that provides information and financial assistance to other families seeking successful treatments for their autistic children.
During this past year the Strains have made even more discoveries and continue to be elated about the fact that autism recovery is indeed possible.
Dr. F. Edward Yazbak, M.D. FAAP is the author of such reports as "Autism 99: A National Emergency," "Autism, 2000: A Tragedy," "Autism Cases Nearly Double In Four Years," and "Autism: Is There a Vaccine Connection?"
Dr. Rashid A. Buttar, a toxicologist who treated his son with a chelating medication, testified before a congressional subcommittee chaired by Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.). Buttar told the committee that 19 of the 31 patients in his North Carolina clinic using the medication, called TDDMPS, for more than a year had a complete loss of their autistic symptoms.
For more on this, visit the web site, co-brass.com/vaccinations.htm.
Lujene Clark is a native of Atlanta, Ga. Mrs Clark attended Tift College, a part of the Mercer University System, where she majored in business administration and minored in accounting. Prior to completing her degree in business, Mrs. Clark's interest shifted to medicine. She completed training as a CMA before launching her career in medicine as a office manager and nurse in family practice and Ob-Gyn.
Mrs. Clark served as vice president of southeast Medical Resources in the 1980s and moved to southwest Missouri with her husband in 1993. She became active in local politics and served two terms on her local city council. She earned a reputation of holding government accountable for its fiscal policies and was named Woman of the Year in 2002.
As the mother of a child who was born in the mid-1990s damaged by mercury in vaccines, Mrs. Clark has become a vanguard for the establishment of safe vaccines, making numerous trips to state and national legislative bodies to help educate policymakers on the danger of mercury as a vaccine preservative.
Mrs. Clark and her husband, Alan Clark, M.D., are co-founders of www.NoMercury.org web site.
Mary Romaniec is the mother of Theresa, 6 and Daniel, 5. Mrs. Romaniec writes and speaks frequently on dietary and biomedical issues and is a frequent radio guest on the subject of autism.
After her son was declared "recovered" from autism
Mary decided to apply her knowledge in a drive to educate other
families with autistic children. Her efforts focus on mentoring
parents personally as they navigate the steps toward recovery
for their children. She also volunteers as a special education
advocate to families throughout the United States.
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More than four years ago, James Jeffrey Bradstreet, M.D., the
director of research at the International 
Autism
Research Center, testified before Congress about the cause of
his son Matthew's disability and his miraculous recovery.
The following are excerpts from his statement before the Government Reform Committee on April 25, 2001:
"My interest in this field of research and treatment went from zero in 1994, when my son Matthew was born, to 100 percent of my efforts by 1998, when local efforts to help my son's autism proved unsuccessful.
"Matthew was a happy, normally developing child until a few weeks following his 15 month MMR and Varivax injections. Within days of his vaccines Matthew started crying all day long. He was awakened at night with terrors that sometimes took hours to calm down. He became detached, withdrawn and wild. He stopped responding to pain and could not tell when he hurt himself.
By 18 months, he was obsessed with spinning tires on toy trucks and wold not respond to his name. Neither did he respond to pain in any way. A normal fall on the driveway, which should case a typical child to go crying to mommy. Didn't seem to be noticed by Matthew. He also developed chronic diarrhea, which persisted until his first infusion of secretin in Baltimore, Maryland. He went from sleeping through the night to screaming and having tantrums often without rest for any of us.
"After consultation with immunologists at several medical schools, Matthew began a course of high-dose human immunoglobulin therapy every four weeks. This was not compensated by his insurance plan, because it was felt to be experimental. The annual cost of Matthew's medical, behavioral and other therapies exceeds $50,000. Less than $5,000 is covered by insurance. Because of intensive biomedical and behavioral therapies, Matthew now has recovered much of what he lost. Despite what now appears to be overwhelming evidence of an association between Matthew's autoimmunity and the MMR vaccine and mercury exposure, his mother and I have purposefully refrained from filing an action for damages under vaccine injury compensation fund, so that our desire to help other children might be clearly seen.
"His treatment has been complex: intense behavioral therapy, a gluten and casein free diet, IVIG, secretin, vitamins, allergy neutralization, sphingolin, auditory integration therapy, sensory integration, ear tubes for chronic otitis media, physical therapy, occupational therapy, vision therapy, speech therapy, Tenex, amino acid therapy, and lots of love and prayers. I believe he needed every bit of it. Each treatment contributed some part of his progress and we are thankful to have been able to provide it for him.
Bradstreet recommended the web site 909shot.com for more information about vaccines and parents' rights.
Ralph Forbes is a health activist and writer
based in Arkansas. He is quickly emerging as a major contributor
to Whole Body Health. Contact Forbes at justrite@ipa.net.
His research findings into the link between the "autism epidemic"
and vaccinations have ruffled some feathers among the medical
establishment. If you have additional information abut the link,
please send an email to Mr. Forbes at the above email address.
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Backed by the police state and its lapdog, the FDA, the medical monopoly makes billions and kills millions. The players are big. Their profits are protected. The American people are the pawns. Here's the plan. The pharmaceutical companies manufacture drugs, call them medicines, and propagandize the doctors to prescribe them, believing that they are "practicing medicine." The people get painkillers and palliatives and the game keeps rolling along.
Patent protection applies only to drugs that are extracted from natural substances. Patents mean profits. The medical monopoly has no interest in natural remedies that cannot be patented. No claims of cure are allowed for any unpatented herb or vitamin.
The cruel hoax of the charade is that drugs are chemicals that pollute the human body and shorten life. The patented drug system, coupled with enforced silence about the efficacy of natural remedies, effectively denies the public responsibility for their own health.
Public health is a patented monopoly in America. Public health is pharmaceutical wealth.
At least 250,000 people die directly from prescription drugs each year, mostly the elderly. If we could follow the trail of the serpent, this would translate into millions who die because they developed terminal illness from the drugs accumulated in their bodies as toxic poisons destroying their immune response.
Our health would be significantly better if we had no drugs at all and were willing to take responsibility for our own health. Demand the manufacturer's inserts with the drugs you buy. Read them and you will be shocked!
Dr. Benjamin Rush, surgeon general of George Washington's armies,
and signer of the Declaration of Independence, 
stated
in 1787: "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution,
the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover
dictatorship, to restrict the art of healing to one class of men,
and deny equal privileges to others...All such laws are despotic
and un-American, and have no place in a republic."
I propose that we submit a proposal for a new constitutional amendment, namely: ‘No legal source in Americal may license medical doctors, medical services, versions of health and medical services, or products intended for health and medical purposes. The American people will have total freedom to use whatever versions of health systems or medical treatments they judge are best for themselves."
A new constitutional amendment is necessary as the federal and state governments have illegitimately suppressed natural cures. Instead, government has become complicit with the wealthy who have set up health and medical monopolies for themselves and allies.
We will not have honest government in America until we have honest money, honest medicine and honest law, which have not been bought and paid for by wealthy elements in a criminal conspiracy against the American people. And we need to raise up a truly free and honest press in America to replace the majority of our national news services, which are dedicated to propaganda.
At present is there any branch of the federal government that is not dishonest and corrupt toward the American people? Our government has been bought and paid for by corrupt interests who wanted pseudo-laws and policies to replace our real national law - the constitution and Bill of Rights.
This report appeared in a recent issue of The
Health Crusader magazine. For more information contact Crusador
Enterprises, 731 Kirkman Road, Orlando, Fla. 32811, 407-290-1932
or toll free 1-800-593-6273. Visit them on the web at www.healthliesexposed.com . Martin Hunter
can be reached at the National Institute for Inventors at P.O.
Box 1456, Seneca, S.C. 29679
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A former chief economist in the Labor Department during President Bush's first term now believes the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus," saying it is likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the twin towers and adjacent building No. 7.
"If demolition destroyed three steel skyscrapers at the World Trade Center on 9-11, then the case for an ‘inside job' and a government attack on America would be compelling," said Morgan Reynolds, Ph.D., a former member of the Bush team who also served as director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis, headquartered in Dallas.
Reynolds, now a professor emeritus at Texas A&M University, also believes it's "next to impossible" that 19 Arab terrorists alone outfoxed the mighty U.S. military, adding the scientific conclusions about the WTC collapse may hold the key to the entire mysterious plot behind 9-11.
"It is hard to exaggerate the importance of a scientific debate over the cause(s) of the collapse of the twin towers and Building 7," said Reynolds from his offices at Texas A&M. "If the official wisdom on the collapses is wrong, as I believe it is, then policy based on such erroneous engineering analysis is not likely to be correct either. The government's collapse theory is highly vulnerable on its own terms. Only professional demolition appears to account for the full range of facts associated with the collapse of the three buildings.
"More importantly, momentous political and social consequences would follow if impartial observers concluded that professionals imploded the WTC. Meanwhile, the job of scientists, engineers and impartial researchers everywhere is to get the scientific and engineering analysis of 9-11 right."
However, Reynolds said "getting it right in today's security state" remains challenging because he claims explosives and structural experts have been intimidated in their analyses of the collapses of 9-11.
HASTILY REMOVED
From the beginning, the Bush administration claimed that burning jet fuel caused the collapse of the towers. Although many independent investigators have disagreed, they have been hard pressed to disprove the government theory since most of the evidence was hastily removed by the federal government prior to independent investigation. Critics claim the Bush administration has tried to cover up the evidence. The recent 9-11 commission has failed to address the major evidence contradicting the official version of 9-11.
Some facts demonstrating the flaws in the government jet fuel theory include:
• Photos showing people walking around in the hole in the North Tower where 10,000 gallons of jet fuel supposedly was burning.
• When the South Tower was hit, most of the North Tower's flames had already vanished, burning for only 16 minutes, making it relatively easy to contain and control without a total collapse.
• The fire did not grow over time, probably because it quickly ran out of fuel and was suffocating, indicating without added explosive devices the fires could have been easily controlled.
• FDNY firefighters still remain under a tight government gag order to not discuss the explosions they heard, felt and saw. FAA personnel are also under a similar 9-11 gag order.
• Even the flawed 9-11 commission report acknowledges that "none of the fire chiefs present believed that a total collapse of either tower was possible."
• Fire had never before caused steel-frame buildings to collapse, nor has fire collapsed any steel high rise since 9-11.
• The fires, especially in the South Tower and WTC-7, were relatively small.
• WTC-7 was unharmed by any airplane and had only minor fires on the seventh and 12th floors of this 47-story steel building, yet it collapsed in less than 10 seconds.
• WTC-5 and WTC-6 had raging fires but did not collapse despite much thinner steel beams.
• It's difficult if not impossible for hydrocarbon fires like those fed by jet fuel to raise the temperature of steel close to melting.
NUMEROUS HOLES
Despite the numerous holes in the government story, the Bush administration has ignored all critics. Mainstream experts, speaking for the administration, offer a theory essentially arguing that an airplane impact weakened each structure and an intense fire thermally weakened structural components, causing buckling failures while allowing the upper floors to pancake onto the floors below.
Hard evidence is lacking due to FEMA's quick removal of the structural steel before it could be analyzed. The criminal code requires that crime scene evidence be kept for forensic analysis, but FEMA had it destroyed or shipped overseas before a serious investigation could take place.
And even more doubt is cast over why FEMA acted so swiftly since coincidentally officials had arrived the day before the 9-11 attacks at New York's Pier 29 to conduct a war game exercise, named "Tripod II."
Besides FEMA's quick removal of the debris, authorities considered the steel quite valuable as New York City officials had every debris truck tracked on GPS and even fired one truck driver who took an unauthorized lunch break.
"The government has failed to produce significant wreckage from any of the four alleged airliners that fateful day," said Reynolds. "The familiar photo of the Flight 93 crash site in Pennsylvania shows no fuselage, engine or anything recognizable as a plane, just a smoking hole in the ground. Photographers reportedly were not allowed near the hole. Neither the FBI nor the National Transportation Safety Board have investigated or produced any report on the alleged airliner crashes."
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The Senate Select Committee on Terrorism met behind closed doors and voted to give the FBI new subpoena powers without prior approval by a court. By an 11-4 vote, the panel voted to extend the provisions that expire on Dec. 31 and allow the attorney genera to issue subpoenas for business records - including medical, financial gun, hotel and education documents - without a judge's permission. The order could be challenged in court, but only after it has been executed.
Meanwhile, the House voted 238 to 187 on June 15 to remove the controversial provisions from the Patriot Act. Thirty-eight Republicans joined 199 Democrats to support an amendment sponsored by Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that excises the questionable measures.
Following the vote, some supporters of the Patriot Act in congress said they were concerned that Sanders's amendment will make America's libraries a "safe haven" for terrorists.
Rep. Bob barr, a former republican congressman from Georgia who is leading the fight to curb the Patriot Act's infringements on constitutional rights, said the bill provides "fishing expedition powers to snoop."
"This is taking us from bad to worse," said Barr, chairman of Patriots to Restore Checks and Balances, a coalition of existing organizations that want to reform the act, including the ACLU.
Sen. John Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) supported the expansion but said they should be used only in emergencies. He said he will fight to add such a clause on the Senate floor.
Few businesses will even know that they can contest the request or pay the legal fees, Barr responded.
"When the FBI serves them, they don't say ‘here's a subpoena, and by the way, you don't have to comply with it, you can fight it in court,'" Barr said. "The challenge doesn't go to the person who has equity at stake. It's no skin off the businesses' teeth, and they want to maintain good relations with the FBI."
The Senate Intelligence Committee shares oversight of the Patriot
Act's provisions with the Judiciary committee.
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Ridiculed and abused by the controlled press, independent 9-11 researchers have found a powerful ally in Morgan O. Reynolds, a former official in the Bush administration. Since Reynolds, professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and former chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor (2001-2002), published his article on June 9 entitled "Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers Collapse?" the evidence that the twin towers ans WTC 7 were demolished by explosives can no longer be ignored by the mainstream media.
John Daly of United Press International (UPI) broached the controversial subject on June 13 when he reported that Reynolds said the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the three buildings.
Daly's article, published on The Washington Times web site, did not appear in the newspaper.
As former director of the Criminal Justice Center at the National Center for Policy Analysis, Reynolds's comments carry substantial weight. As Reynolds told American Free Press, which has challenged the official version from the beginning "Credentials matter."
While AFP has encouraged academics and engineers to examine the evidence from 9-11 and speak out, very few are willing to criticize the government's version.
Reynolds, whose articles are published on Lew-Rockwell.com, has written several articles critical of the official version since early 2004, but it is his latest article (in which he supports the theory that the WTC towers were demolished by explosives) that has had the greatest effect.
"One fact is irrefutable," Reynolds told AFP. "Those building were blown up."
Reynolds told AFP that he wrote his June 9 article after reading an article in The American Professional Constructor, the journal of the Alexandria, Va.-based American Institute of Constructors, which supported the official version that a "fire-induced gravity collapse" brought down the three WTC towers.
The article, which suports the official theory that the fires in the towers caused a "pancake collapse" to occur was originally written in the spring of 2003 by April Pruett, an undergraduate student of construction management at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
Pruett's paper was subsequently edited and submitted for publication in the fall of 2004 by Mag Malek, an Egyptian-born assistant professor she studied under. Pruett was unaware that her paper had been published.
In response to the controversial article from a professor emeritus. Dr. Robert M. Gates president of Texas A&M University, issued a statement on June 15: "The American people know what they saw with their own eyes on Sept. 11, 2001. To suggest any king of government conspiracy in the events of that day goes beyond the pale."
Gates is no ordinary university president; he is a 27-year veteran at the CIA who served as director of central intelligence from Nov. 6, 1991 until Jan., 20, 1993, having been appointed by President George H.W. Bush.
Gates had previously served as deputy director of central intelligence from 1986 until 1989, and as assistant to the president [Bush senior] and deputy national security adviser at the White House from Jan. 20, 1989 to Nov. 6, 1991.
Since shortly after 9-11, AFP and this writer have reported extensively on the evidence of explosions at the WTC. Having reported on the flaws in the official version and the evidence of explosions at the WTC. Having reported on the flaws in the official version and the evidence that contradicts that version, we were unduly criticized, most notably by the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) and others tied to Israel.
Today, nearly four years after 9-11, there can be no doubt that the mainstream media and the official versions censored eyewitness accounts of explosions before the collapses at the WTC. Numerous journalists, firefighters and eyewitnesses at the scene reported hearing and feeling a series of explosions before the buildings collapsed, but their reports were suppressed and never repeated in the controlled press.
William Rodriguez, a janitor at the WTC, even testified to the 9-11 commission that he had felt an explosion in the lower basement levels of the North Tower seconds before the plane struck the building but none of his testimony appeared in the final report.
"They violated all the norms of how you should proceed on a criminal investigation," Reynolds told AFP. "We've had zero convictions."
"No, I am a citizen," he said, "and a thinker.'
But above all, Reynolds is a highly credentialed former official
from the Bush administration who is willing to challenge the seriously
flawed official version.
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