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Special Bilderberg Insert
Bilderbergers are nervous about their host for this year's
secret meeting near Ottawa, Canada.
But this is not the first time the new Conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, has been part of this elite group of secret world leaders. Harper was photographed at the 2003 meeting in Versailles, France.
The Kyoto Treaty to reduce air and water pollution is a Bilderberg baby and Canada signed off on it years ago. Former President Bill Clinton, a Bilderberger, dutifully embraced Kyoto. But test votes showed it would be rejected overwhelmingly by the Senate if submitted for ratification. So it remains in White House files, much to Bilderberg distress.
The new Canadian prime minister may also be ruffling feathers among Bilderbergers.
HARPER ASSAILED
At UN climate talks that ended May 26 in Bonn, Germany, Canada said it is unable to meet a legally binding target to cut emissions of heat-trapping gases by 2012 and that it will take part in an extension only if all nations agree.
"The Canadian government of Stephen Harper is trying to sabotage 15 years of international efforts to address climate change," the Climate Action Network said.
Negotiators from 163 nations that have signed onto the UN's Kyoto Treaty met in Bonn to discuss ways to extend it beyond 2012 to prevent climate changes they say cause heat waves, droughts and floods.
Canadian newspapers reported that Ottawa had instructed its Canadian negotiators, saying: "Canada will not support agreement on language in the work program that commits developed countries to more stringent targets in the future."
Poor nations signed on easily because they are required to do nothing and are exempt from limitations placed on "industrialized countries." For example, Mexico can build smokestack industries on its U.S. border. If the United States signed, even more U.S. industries would move to Mexico where they have no restraints and are not burdened with U.S. laws on ecology, minimum wages or required benefits, such as paid vacations.
But Kyoto was pushed by Bilderberg for the same reasons it wants a direct UN tax, favors NAFTA and the WTO and turned NATO into the UN's standing army, among other actions: it is a step on the road to creating world government.
When Bilderberg gathers behind armed guards at the Brook Street Resort near Ottawa June 8-11, Harper will greet the 120 leaders in international finance and politics for the second time in his life. But even as they politely applaud, Bilderbergers will eye Harper with suspicion.
AFP correspondent James P. Tucker Jr. is a veteran journalist who spent many years as a member of the "elite" media in Washington. Since1975 he has won widespread recognition, here and abroad, for his pursuit of on-the-scene stories reporting the intrigues of global power blocs such as the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission.
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President George W. Bush's proposal to send 6,000 Army National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexican border is a good start, but it will not be enough to prevent illegal aliens and drug smugglers from crossing, say critics, who claim it's an act to dupe Americans into thinking something is being done about national security.
Contrary to what many columnists in the mainstream media have been reporting, Bus does not need an act of Congress to place troops on the border. His constitutional duty is to protect America's borders, and that can include ordering troops to patrol it. The governors of the four states along the border - Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas - have all said they are facing a crisis with illegal immigration and drug smuggling. The president has the authority and the responsibility to stop it.
Reports circulating now call into question how effective the National Guard will be. The plan calls for placing troops not at the border but in rear observation areas. Even more shocking is the fact that they will not be armed.
Similar situations in the past with American peacekeeping troops stationed along Middle Eastern borders with either no weapons - or no live ammunition - have led to confroontation in which U.S. soldiers were at grave risk.
UP TO THE GOVERNORS
On a recent television evening talk show, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld found himself trying to skirt the issue of sending unarmed troops to the border to support U.S. Border Patrol agents.
"Will they be armed?" the host asked Rumsfeld, who tried to ignore the question.
Rumsfeld was pressed again for an answer.
Finally, he acknowledged that it would be "up to the governors."
The defense chief said that the troops are only going to be at the border in "a support role." They will nhot be there in "a law enforcement role."
An administration spokesman told AFP that troops will assist the Border Patrol in a support capacity, such as conducting administrative tasks, doing construction, maintaining communications and performing electronic monitoring.
National Guard troops will be used in two-week deployments. This, one critic remarked should give them "just about enough time to unpack their gear, before they are returned to civilian life.
On the talk show, Rumsfeld was asked what would happen if U.S. National Guard ran into a large number of illegal aliens or drug smugglers in an area suchy as Nuevo Laredo, a Mexican town just across the border from Laredo, Tex. Nuevo Laredo is widely reputed to be a headquarters for drug cartels and jumping-off point for heavily armed coyotes who smuggle illegals into the United States. Gunfights and violence are reportedly commonplace on the streets of Nuevo Laredo.
Rumsfeld repeated that they would not have a law enforcement role at the border, prompting the talkshow host to say that there should be 30,000 Guardsmen there "armed to the teeth."
The United States maintains 440,000 National Guardsmen. The border assignment amounts to about two percent of available troops. That's why those familiar with the border crisis find the 6,000-troop deployment a joke.
"They'll be sitting around doing absolutely nothing," Minuteman Civil Defense Corps President Chris Simcox told an Arizona newspaper, "It's smoke and mirrors, it's a joke. And anybody that buys it is the fool that the president thinks they are.."
The Bush administration maintains that the troops will only be there until the Border Patrol is able to train and deploy 6,000 new officers, which is expected to take two years.
As the administration and Congress ponder the issue, illegal
aliens are arriving in increased numbers, believing they will
be given amnesty under a program endorsed by Washington.
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Two-and-a-half decade policy of ignoring Iranians has not brought us closer to a solution.
In recent weeks the Bush administration has stated its willingness to use diplomacy in dealing with Iran, which is a welcome change from previous policy. Let's hope it's more than just a change in tone. With ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan costing more that $5 billion per week, record levels of federal spending and debt, and oil hovering around $70 per barrel, American taxpayers certainly cannot afford another war.
Iran, like Iraq, is a major source of global oil. For all our posturing, the truth is that worldwide crude prices would spike rapidly if we attacked Iran. With summer coming, demand will increase and gas prices at the pump will be over $3 for most of the nation. Airlines are raising ticket prices to compensate for jet fuel prices that have nearly doubled in a year. A strike on Iran in coming months would create serious trouble for an American economy that is already struggling with high energy prices.
It's time for a foreign policy based on reality, a foreign policy that serves the interests of ordinary Americans. The reality is that we will continue to use oil as a major source of energy in this country for the foreseeable future, and therefore the health of our economy will be affected by the price of oil. Lit it or not, some of that oil will continue to come from the Middle East even if we get serious about tapping domestic sources.
The United states has not used diplomacy with Iran for nearly 26 years, since the hostage crisis of the Carter era. But this "no negotiation" stance hasn't worked: Iran's defiant behavior continues, and its uranium enrichment program has not been dismantled.
Is Iran a nuclear threat? Not according to our own CIA, which says Iran is years away from developing nuclear weapons. This is not to say we should sit back as nuclear weapons proliferate in the Middle east. But we shouldn't allow war hawks to wildly overstate the threat posed by Iran, as they did with Iraq.
Since 2001 we have spent over $300 billion occupying Afghanistan and Iraq. We're poorer but certainly not safer for it. We removed the Taliban from power in Afghanistan - much to the delight of the Iranians, who consider the Taliban an arch enemy. Warlords now control the country, operating a larger drug trade than ever before.
Similarly in Iraq, our ouster of Saddam Hussein will allow the majority Shia to claim leadership title if Iraq's election actually leads to an organized government. This delights the Iranians, who are close allies of the Iraqi Shia.
Talk about unintended consequences. This war has produced chaos, civil war, death and destruction, and huge financial cost. It has eliminated two of Iran's best friends, Even this apparent failure of policy does nothing to restrain the current march toward a similar confrontation with Iran. What will it take for us to learn from our failures?
Government power in Iran is diveded, and President Ahmadinejad - the man responsible for hateful comments aabout Israel - does not control their nuclear policy. We should ignore him as a pariah, and deal instead with Ali Larijani, head of Iran's National Security Council, who has made several reasonable statements about the United states and shows a desire to have direct diplomatic talks.
OTTAWA, CANADA—As Bilderberg gathers at the posh Brook Street Resort, there was concern that Latin America will use oil as a weapon to block expansion of NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere and whether Bush could be talked out of an all-out invasion of Iran. Bilderberg is concerned that leftist governments in Latin America, led by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, will use manipulation of oil supplies and prices to form an economic union that would include Brazil, Cuba, Peru and Mexico. Such a union, by refusing to join NAFTA, would wreck Bilderberg's long-standing goal of expanding NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere and evolving it into an "American Union" patterned after the European Union. The dollar would become the common currency of the American Union. Reaction to Chavez's earlier announcement that he would exact new taxes on companies that extract oil from his country was angry.This directly affects Bilderberg, which has its own oil bloc, including Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and the Rothschild companies of Britain and Europe. Companies affected include Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp, Conoco-Phillips, Total, BP PLC and Norway's Statoil ASA. Chavez also irritated the striped-britches boys by offering oil at low prices to impoverished locations in the United States and Britain. His domestic oil is subsidized—Venezuelans pay 12 cents a gallon. There is a feeling expressed among Bilderberg luminaries that
Chavez is having fun with them. |
Look for a comprehensive insider’s report from AFP
reporter Jim Tucker |
But Bilderberg says its "policies" are turning the Chavez threat around. Chavez hosted the OPEC meeting in Caracas but his proposal for a cut in oil production to boost prices was rejected. OPEC has maintained its official output ceiling at 28 million barrels a day since July 2005.
It has been reported that Mexico's Felipe Calderon of the America-friendly National Action Party now leads in the polls over the populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in the July 2 presidential election. Although he is from the same party as President Vicente Fox, Calderon has cast himself as a rival who advocates improving Mexico's economy so there would be no incentive to illegally enter the United States.
In Peru, Ollanta Humala, who is friendly with Chavez, lost to former president Alan Garcia. While Bilderberg has celebrated America's "little wars," there has been opposition by the European wing to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan from the outset. With NATO taking on a larger role in Afghanistan, the controversy has calmed a bit.
But European Bilderbergers fear a United States attack on Iran, which would have a tremendous global impact.
The meeting is set to begin on Friday, June 9. AFP will be there covering the event over the course of the weekend. The Bilderberg group takes it name from the hotel in Holland where the group met in 1954, during the earliest period of its inception. Bilderbergers meet regularly, presumably on a once-a-year basis, at various locations around the world, always in extreme secrecy, often at resorts controlled by either the Rockefeller or Rothschild families. The Rothschild family is the leading European force within the Bilderberg group, sharing its power with the American-based Rockefeller empire.
Bilderberg maintains an extremely low profile and seldom, if ever, publishes reports or studies for the public, at least, under its own official aegis. Participants denied the group's very existence for decades until it was forced into the open by the glare of media publicity, generated largely by the now defunct Spotlight newspaper. It follows so-called "Chatham House rules," whereby attendees are forbidden to speak on the record about topics of discussion during the gathering.
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Earlier this year, the government let a $385 million contract from the federal Department of Homeland Security to build concentration camps, euphemistically called "temporary detention and processing capabilities." The contract was announced on Jan. 24 by KBR, an engineering and construction firm. KBR linked to Vice President Richard Cheney.
American Free Press first cited this news in a column by Paul Craig Roberts in the May 29 edition.
KBR's statement did not offer any details about where these facilities are to be build, or when. But it did say they are intended for "an emergency influx of immigrants, or to support the rapid development of new programs."
Some Americans today continue to refuse to believe such a thing could be happening, but plans for detention camps have a long history, going back to the 1970s. And patriots should bear in mind that an official FBI flier has identifies activists and other American nationalists as "terrorists."
Said Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst, who exposed the Pentagon's top-secret campaign in Vietnam: "Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9-11 for ...dissenters."
An executive order for "continuity of government" (COG) - essentially a parallel government - was drafted in 1982 by FEMA's head, Louis Gluffrida. The order called for "suspension of the Constitution" and a "declaration of martial law." And in 1985, President Ronald Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 188, one of a series of directives that authorized continued planning for COG.
James Bamford's A pretext for War revealed that this group. Operating in the 1980s outside normal government channels, included Rep. Dick Cheney (R-Wyo.) And the then-head of pharmaceutical firm G.D. Searle, Donald Rumsfeld.
Writing in the Feb. 8 issue of New America Media, Peter Dale Scott laid it out writing "In April 2002, Defense Dept officials implemented a plan for domestic U.S. military operations by creating a new U.S. Northern Command (CINC-NORTHCOM) for the continental United states. Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld called this ‘the most sweeping set of changes since the unified command system was set up in 1946.'
"The NORTHCOM commander, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
announced, is responsible for ‘homeland defense and also
serves as head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command
(NORAD)...He will command U.S. forces that operate within the
United States in support of civil authorities. The command will
provide civil support not only in response in attacks, but for
natural disasters.'"
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Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) Has introduced in the Senate legislation that would grant citizens the right to carry a concealed weapon in any state in the United States. The bill, which already has bipartisan support and 12 co-sponsors, is a companion bill to one introduced in the House of representatives by Reps. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) And Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.).
The Senate bill (S. 3275) would give a resident with a concealed weapon permit issued in one state the legal right to carry his gun in any state in the United States.
Other Virginia representatives, including Jo Ann Davis, Randy Forbes and Virgil H. Goode Jr. all Republicans, have signed on as co-sponsors of Boucher's House version (H.R. 4547).
Political analyst believe that Allen is almost certain to enter the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. This means that at least one presidential candidate will be pro-Second Amendment, guaranteeing the right to keep and bear arms.
The Allen and Boucher bills have been sought for years by powerful National rifle Association (NRA), which it is believed will back Allen's bid this year for a second six-year term as a U.S. senator from Virginia.
"The bill would simply require states to recognize each other ‘s concealed-carry permits and licenses." Allen explained in a statement in The Congressional Record. "The right-to-carry movement has enjoyed great success throughout our nation.."
The Virginia senator explained that there were 8.7 murders per 100,000 Virginia residents in 1994, a year before the passage of a concealed-carry permit bill he signed into law in 1995 when he served as Virginia's governor. Last year, he said, the murder rate in the state had dropped to 5.2 murders per 100,000 residents.
The 1995 Virginia law was written to make it easier for Virginians to carry concealed weapons. Advocates for firearms rights wanted it to block judges' discretion in awarding permits.
The legislation with strong NRA backing, is expected to gain widespread support among gun owners across the country.
Some states have reciprocal laws honoring each other's concealed weapons permits and licenses. For example, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina allow the holders of permits from any of these states to carry them within their states. But many do not.
The NRA reports that "Forty states, accounting for two-thirds of the U.S. population, have right to carry or RTC laws...Most RTC states have adopted their laws during the last decade."
In regard to the legislation, the NRA states: "In states that do not issue carry permits, a federal ‘bright-line' standard would permit carrying in places other than police stations; courthouses, public polling places; meetings of state, county, or municipal governing bodies, schools; passenger areas of airports; and certain other location."
The legislation, says the NRA, "would not create a federal
licensing system; it would require the states to recognize each
others' carry permits, just as they recognize drivers licenses
and carry permits held by armored car guards."
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Hollywood star and Scientologist Tom Cruise made national headlines when he launched a verbal assault on the field of psychiatry while appearing on a morning talk show in June 2005. Cruise called the field "pseudoscience" and criticized Addreall and Ritalin, the prescription drugs prescribed for attention deficit disorder and hyperactivey in children, and also called actress Brooke Shields's decision to medically treat depression "misinformed."
The world joined in the battle that ensued after the show: Cruise vs Shields, anti-psychiatry vs pro-psychiatry. In all the media flux and talking heads that put in their two cents, the central issue was lost: Is psychiatry a genuine field made up of doctors who are helping the mentally ill with safe drugs, or is it truly a "pseudoscience" that exist only to sell dangerous drugs to unsuspecting patients - all in the name of making money for the pharmaceutical industry?
The question may have been answered, thanks to the results of a University of Massachusetts and Tufts University study that was released on April 2006. According to an April 22 Reuters article, the study found that 56% of 170 psychiatric "experts" who helped work on the latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - considered the "bible" of the psychiatric field - had financial links to drug makers at some point from 1989 to 1994, when the most recent edition of the DSM was released.
Those "financial links" included ownership of drug company stock, travel expenses, research funding, consulting fees and payment for gifts. In addition, Reuters reports that all the "experts" who developed parts of the DSM that define mood disorders and psychotic disorders had these financial links.
"The connections are especially strong in those diagnostic areas where drugs are the first line of treatment for mental disorders." the study said.
Essentially, Big Pharms's seemingly bottomless pocketbook somehow contributed to 56% of the "experts" who worked on the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) widely used reference for defining mental illness.
The director of the APA's research division, Dr. Darrel Regier, countered the study's results by claiming the study was "and attempt to develop probably some guilt by association with the pharmaceutical industry." Regier said he didn't believe the DSM contributors' financial links to drug companies had influenced the manual were not involved with the pharmaceutical industry, "that would mean they were really out of step with the major advances in the treatment of mental illness.
Apparently Regier had forgotten the five class-action conspiracy lawsuits brought against the APA and Ritalin maker Movartis in September 2000. The lawsuits, which were filed in federal courts in New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico and California, charged that Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation and the APA had illegally conspired to boost sales of Ritalin by too broadly defining ADD and ADHD. Those suits were all dropped in 2002, after the plaintiffs did not produce enough evidence.
Richard Harding M.D., the former president of the APA, said after the final lawsuit was dropped: "The medical profession never stands taller than when it refuses to allow a court to modify or ban a proven medical intervention for a proven medical disorder."
One might wonder how the very agency that defines a disorder can truly call it - and its drug treatment - "proven," especially when those making the definitions have financial links with the company that stands to make financial links with the company that stands to make the most money from treating those so-called "proven medical disorders."
The issue at hand is bias. How can researchers and "experts" be completely honest in their recommendations when their pockets are being lined by Big Pharma - the primary recipient of profits made from treating the very disorders they are called on to define? Moreover, how does this relationship between the psychiatric industry and Big Pharma affect the safety of the drugs that are being prescribed as treatment?
New Changes in FDA Approval Process
Here's where the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) comes into play. The FDA - scorned lately by some media outlets for its lax drug approval processes - made a decision in October 2005 tht seemingly serves to bolster the bank accounts of psychiatric drug makers.
In a nutshell, an FDA panel voted to shorten the length of drug trials for psychiatric drugs can now be tested for as little as two weeks before the FDA deems them "safe" for much longer use. The reason behind this decision? Members of the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory committee, which handed down the unanimous decision to keep testing time short , said requiring longer trials would slow down the drug development process and timely approval for drugs to treat mental illnesses.
It's really a vicious cycle: The APA defines mental disorders in a manul used across the board by the psychiatric industry, all the while accepting money and gifts from the pharmaceutical companies that stand to make massive profits from the treatment of those disorders. The FDA shortens the duration of the drug trials for the very "treatments" recommended for the mental disorders defined by the APA "experts" watch their profits grow - but who gets the short end of the deal? As usual, the patient does.
The most disturbing element of this is that the APA asserts it has done nothing wrong. According the Regier's logic, Big Pharma's involvement in the decision-making processes in the psychiatric industry should be the norm- not the exception. Of course, this relationship is supported by the APA under the guise that monetary links with drug companies couldn't possibly influence the decision makers who write the DSM.
The study's authors openly disagree with such faulty logic. "Transparency is especially important when there are multiple and continuous financial relationships between panel members and the pharmaceutical industry, because of the greater likelihood that the drug industry may be exerting an undue influence."
The problem is clear. In order for psychiatry to conduct honest research and create safe and effective treatments for genuine mental illnesses - through drugs or other therapies - its decision makers cannot have any financial links to the pharmaceutical industry. The Solution is equally clear: The APA and the field of psychiatry must cut all ties with Big Pharma before it can lose its ‘pseudoscience" label, and the FDA must have a more thorough drug safety trial process for approving psychiatric drugs.
If you find yourself or a family member in need of help with a mental disorder consider two things: First, the advice and treatment recommendations you get from a psychiatrist may not be the best advice, as psychiatrists get much of their information from the DSM written by the APA. Second, consider the alternatives - mental disorders and illnesses can be treated safely and effectively using natural, safe alternatives to potentially dangerous prescription drugs.
Jessica Fraser writes for News Target, an alternative health
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In 2005, Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an eight-week trial study that recruited children as young as four years old to be drugged and monitored, including having their blood drawn, to see if their tiny four-year-old bodies would tolerate a powerful psychotropic drug, reports ClinicalTrials.gov, a web site operated by the National Institutes of Health, which provides information about "federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers."
Here's more from ClinicalTrials.gov:
This is an eight-week open-label study aimed at assessing the effectiveness and tolerability of Quetiapine, in the treatment of preschool children aged four to six years with bipolar and bipolar spectrum disorder. This is an exploratory, pilot study, seeking to determine whether Quetiapine is efficacious and well tolerated in the treatment of preschoolers with pediatric bipolar and bipolar spectrum disorder in this age group. Ages Eligible for Study: 4 Years to 6 Years. Genders Eligible for Study: Both. Subject must be able to participate in mandatory blood draws. Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States; Joseph Biederman, MD, Principal Investigator.
This exploitation of young children for drug testing amounts to nothing less than chemical child abuse. What possible medical justification could these doctors, hospital staff and drug pushers have for prescribing mind-altering drugs to four year olds? Even the "disease" being treated here is entirely fictional. So-called "bipolar disorder" was wholly invented by psychiatrists with strong financial ties to drug companies. The purpose of this disease is not to help children, but to sell drugs to everyone, including toddlers.
I often wonder when the rest of the country will wake up and notice that the mass-drugging of our nation's children has gone too far. Why isn't the mainstream media giving front-page coverage? Why aren't lawmakers demanding an end to the chemical abuse of our children? Why isn't the FDA halting these trials on toddlers out of plain decency?
You already know the answer: Because they're all making money from this chemical assault on our nation's children. The doctors, hospitals, drug companies, psychiatrists and mainstream media all profit handsomely from the sales of mind-altering drugs to children. Ethics will never get in the way of old fashioned greed, even when we're talking about the health and lives of four year olds.
Modern psychiatry and its incessant disease mongering amounts to quackery at its worst. This group both invents the diseases, then hawks the snake oil that "treats" those diseases. And underneath it all, there's absolutely no physiological evidence of any diseases at all. They can be diagnosed in children on a whim, based on a mere 60 seconds of casual observation combined with the biased opinion of a drug-pushing psychiatrist being bribed by Big Pharma.
This is not medicine, folks. And it's certainly not science. It's just plain medical fraud. Yet the whole of conventional medicine goes along with it, pretending that nothing is amiss. Doctors, hospitals, FDA bureaucrats, teachers and even many parents just pretend that all these mysterious brain chemistry diseases have spontaneously appeared in the world over the last ten year, suddenly afflicting tens of millions of children. And thank goodness the drug companies just happened to have invented all these treatment drugs at the exact same moment in history when these psychiatric diseases become to widespread! Imagine the odds.
Psychiatry believes there is no child too young to diagnose as having psychiatric disorders. It won't be long before psychiatrists will be hanging out in delivery rooms, declaring children to be mentally diseased at birth because they keep crying, obviously, and immediately the infant will be injected with powerful mind-altering drugs.
As long as society continues to give psychiatrist carte blanche
to invent fictitious diseases, there is no human behavior, emotion
or condition that's safe from being labeled a pathology. So-called
"adult ADHD screening tests" label a Whopping 80 percent
of participants with the disease. Behavioral disorder screenings
for children demonstrate similar numbers. And the things that
can get you labeled as "diseased" are all to mundane:
Feeling overwhelmed, feeling distracted by modern life, handling
too many projects as once, being afraid of public speaking, feeling
shy in social situations - gee, it there anyone who doesn't experience
these sooner or later?
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Attack of the "Killer Tomatoes? The concept is so cliched, this old sci-fi spoof has become a cult classic with aficionados vying to come up with the most absurd sequel titles. The tomato is a member of the nightshade family. Some species of solanum (nightshades) contain some very toxic alkaloids, so the tomato was once considered inedible and poisonous. Years of experience by millions of people, however, made the idea of killer tomatoes absurd.
But it is not the tomatoes that you have to worry about. It's the chemical treatment commercially grown tomatoes undergo that is the real danger to Americans' health.
For example tomatoes in florida were "marinated" in 5 million pounds of the toxic fumigant methyl bromide - a toxic nerve gas. Next the tomatoes were dunked in deadly stews of paraquat and diazonon.
It's not only tomatoes that were being turned into weapons of mass destruction against us.
In the past few years, however, new U.S. regulations call for scaling back the use of such chemicals as methyl bromide.
To get around rules protecting American-grown food from being poisoned wholesale, the globalists, more interested in quick profits than our health did an end-run by importing our food from third world lands which maintain absolutely no prohibitions against any toxic poisons or sanitation standards.
Worse still, because they are picked green these "foods" have none of the vital glycol-nutrients produced by photosynthesis and natural ripening. To make them look "natural," they may be waxed, gassed or nuked.
But if that's not enough, those more concerned with shelf life than our lives began creating "Frankenfoods" by mutating seed with radiation; and even worse genetically altering basic foods - tomatoes, potatoes, corn, soy etc. - into freakish monster veggies.
StarLink corn is genetically altered to contain Bt, the lethal bacteria, Bacillus thuringiensis. Genetically distorted StarLink genes express unnatural proteins that can cause severe allergic reactions. They have infiltrated into our food supply and lurk as a potentially deadly menace in the gene pool of all corn on Earth.
In 1989 a genetically engineered bacterium used to produce
L-tryptophan was linked to a deadly epidemic of Eosinophilia-Myalgia
Syndrome, which results in the painful inflammation of muscles
and joints. It caused reactions out of a horror movie before killing
many victims with horrific deaths.
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Think of sugar and you think of sugar cane or beets. Extraction of sugar from sugar cane spurred the colonization of the New World. Extraction of sugar from beets was developed during the time of Napoleon so that the French could have sugar in spite of the English trading blockade.
Nobody thinks of sugar when they see a field of corn. Most of us would be surprised to learn that the larger percentage of sweeteners used in processed food comes from corn, not sugar cane or beets.
The process for making the sweetener high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) out of corn was developed in the 1970s. Use of HFCS grew rapidly, from less than three million tons in 1980 to almost 8 million tons in 1995. During the late 1999s, use of sugar actually declined as it was eclipsed by HFCS. Today Americans consume more HFCS than sugar.
HFCS is produced by processing cornstarch to yield glucose, and then processing cornstarch to yield glucose, and then processing the glucose to produce a high percentage of fructose. It all sounds rather simple - white cornstarch is turned into crystal clear syrup. However, the process is actually very complicated. Three different enzymes are needed to break down cornstarch, which is composed of chains of glucose molecules of almost infinite length into the simple sugars glucose and fructose.
First, cornstarch is treated with alpha-amylase to produce shorter chains of sugars called polysaccharides. Alpha-amylase is industrially produced by a bacterium, usually Bacillus sp.
Next, an enzyme called glucoamylase breaks the sugar chains down even further to yield the simple sugar glucose. Unlike alpha-amylase, glucoamylase os produced by Aspergillus, a fungus, in a fermentation vat where one would likely see little balls of Aspergillus floating on the top.
The third enzyme, glucose isomerase, is expensive. It converts glucose to a mixture of about 42 percent fructose and 50-52 percent glucose with some other sugars mixed in. While alpha-amylase and glucoamylase are added directly to the slurry, glucose isomerase is packed onto columns and the sugar mixture is then passed over it. Inexpensive alpha-amylase and glucoamylase are used only once, glucose isomerase is reused until it loses most of its activity.
There are two more steps involved. First is a liquid chromatography step that takes the mixture to 90 percent fructose. Finally, this is back-blended with the original mixture to yield a final concentration of about 55 percent fructose - what the industry calls high fructose corn syrup.
HFCS has the same taste as an equal amount of sucrose from cane or beet sugar but it is obviously much more complicated to make, involving vats of murky fermenting liquid, fungus and chemical tweaking, all of which take place in one of 16 chemical plants located in the Corn Belt. Yet in spite of all the special enzymes required, HFCS is actually cheaper than sugar. It is also very easy to transport - it's just piped into tanker trucks. This translates into lower costs and higher profits for food producers.
There's a couple of other murky things that consumers should know about HFCS. According to a food technology expert, two of the enzymes used, alpha-amylase and glucose isomerase, are genetically modified to make them more stable. Enzymes are actually very large proteins and through genetic modification specific amino acids in the enzymes are changed or replaced so the enzyme's "backbone" won't break down or unfold. This allows the industry to get the enzymes to higher temperatures before they become unstable.
Consumers trying to avoid genetically modified foods should avoid HFCS. It is almost certainly made from genetically modified corn and then it is processed with genetically modified enzymes.
But there's another reason to avoid HFCS. Consumers may think that because it contains fructose - which they associate with fruit, which is a natural food - that it is healthier than sugar. A team of investigators at the USDA, led by Dr. Meita Field, has discovered that this just ain't so.
Sucrose is composed of glucose and fructose. When sugar is given to rats in high amounts, the rats develop multiple health problems, especially when the rats were deficient in certain nutrients, such as copper.
The researchers wanted to know whether it was the fructose or the glucose moiety that was causing the problems. So they repeated their studies with two groups of rats, one given high amounts of glucose and one given fructose.
"The medical profession thinks fructose is better for diabetics than sugar," said Field, ‘but every cell in the body can metabolize glucose. However, all fructose must be metabolized in the liver. The livers of the rats on the high fructose diet looked like the livers of alcoholics, plugged with fat and cirrhotic.
Linda Forristal is a member of the board of the Weston A.
Price Foundation and is the author of Ode to Sucanat and Bulgarian
Rhapsody. Visit her web site at www.motherlindas.com.
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Faced with the increasing popularity of natural and organic products, multinational food product corporations are playing word games with Americans and are stooping to new levels to breathe new life into their unhealthy, sugary-sweet wares.
You may have seen the recent commercials for Cadbury Scheppes' 7Up soda. Cans of the soft drink are being picked from fruit trees by happy farmers, dancing through a green, well-manicured orchard in the warn sunshine. The Narrator adds to the feel-good picture: "tastes better than ever because we stripped out all the artificial stuff leaving just five all natural ingredients.
However, the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) sees it another way and is accusing the maker of the "uncola" of telling an untruth in the new campaign that touts carbonated sugar water as "100% natural." The organization announced recently that it is filing a lawsuit against the multimillion-dollar purveyor of tooth decay in an effort to make it drop the claim.
It is true that the company dropped some chemicals from its soda formula. However, at least one remains: High fructose corn syrup.
According to CSPI, the new, "all natural" 7Up contains carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, unspecified "natural flavors" and potassium citrate.
High fructose corn syrup has about the same nutritional value as processed table sugar. Except unlike sugar from cane or beets, it is made in factories using a complex process by which the starch is extracted from corn before it is converted into glucose and fructose with acids or enzymes.
"Pretending that soda made with high fructose corn syrup is ‘all natural,' is just plain old deception," said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. "High fructose corn syrup isn't something you could cook up from a bushel of corn in your kitchen, unless you happen to be equipped with centrifuges, hydroclones and buckets of enzymes."
CSPI points out that the federal government has no standards on what constitutes "natural" for food products.
Earlier this year, the Sugar Association, which lobbies for
cane and beet sugar makers, approached the FDA asking it to define
"natural." The lobbyist organization asked that the
FDA adopt the USDA's standard, which already defines "natural"
meat and poultry products as those with minimal processing.
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President Bush's publicity stunt pretending to protect our borders is worse than a transparent ploy. Washington bureaucrats, backed by prominent think tanks, are now proposing the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), which will give you "a safer and more prosperous North America" with freedom, economic opportunity, and strong democratic institutions." That's what the neo-cons promised they'd do to Iraq.
The SPP "trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity" they have planned for us is even worse than what they've done for Iraq. Sponsored by the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), the SPP is the blueprint to drive the last nail into what once was a sovereign constitutional republic. It is NAFTA on steroids.
El Presidente Bush and his amigo Vicente Fox
are merging Social Security so that illegal fraudsters can loot
the trust fund. While the CFR stooges
in Washington export American jobs and our manufacturing foundation
to potential foes worldwide, Fox is exporting Mexico's problems
- poverty, crime, drugs and disease - to hiss colony north of the
border. Apparently unprotected borders aren't bringing in millions
of invaders fast enough for the globalists; they are putting NAFTA
on growth hormone by building Interstate 69, a planned 1,600 mile
international highway stabbing through America's heartland from
Mexico to Canada.
Bush and Fox are following globalist marching orders to erase the borders; eradicate the American middle class; abolish the Bill of rights and eliminate even the pretense of constitutional government; to steal what little wealth and security you have left by replacing worthless federal reserve notes with Ameros - that will be worth even less and to reducee the American people to serfs.
The "Amero," is the name of the new currency proposed by Robert Pastor, a vice chairman of the CFR task force that produced the report "Building a North American Union." It will replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso.
Last year, Pastor, the director of the Center for North American Studies at American University and author of the book, Toward a North American Community, testified before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in favor of limiting the power and sovereignty of the United States in deference to the CFT's desired super-regional entity.
Building a North American Union is the blueprint contrived by globalist groups like the CFT and Bilderberg. The North American Union is proposed to supplant the sovereign governments of the United states, Canada and Mexico with a "super-regional governance board."
Under the North American Union, Congress is to be superseded by a North American Parliamentary Group. As corrupt as congress is, an unelected "parliamentary group" would be infinitely worse.
As bad as many court rulings are, the North American Union's Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment would have supremacy over the U.S. supreme court, amassing entangling precedents and Laying the groundwork for North American business law. It would make Americans nostalgic for even the Warren court.
As ineffectual as "Homeland Security," FEMA, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement have been in securing our borders, do Americans really want them replaced by the North American Union's North American Customs and Immigration service, which would have authority over American immigration policy and trade issues?
Pastor want the trilateral SPP institutionalized in a new North
American Advisory Council (NAAC). NAAC would be composed of 15
distinguished individuals. Five from each nation, to prepare a
North American agenda for biannual summits and to supervise the
implementation of the integration of the United States and Canada
into Mex-America - Nuevo Supremo.
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Is the American medical establishment suppressing simple, inexpensive
treatments for cancer so huge profits can be secured for doctors
and hospitals? What really causes autism and Alzheimer's disease?
What is mercury doing to our health, especially the so-called
silver fillings dentists love to put in our teeth? Are we likely
to have a mega-epidemic with some sort of superbug? Is mankind
making a terrible mistake by transplanting wolves and grizzly
bears across the United States?
In the fascinating new book, Suppressed Science, author Jack Phillips tackles these questions and many more as he probes the truth behind the facade of disinformation and misinformation that is so much a part f what passes for modern science.
For example, some evidence indicates that the establishment theory that any dose of radiation causes cancer is wrong. Phillips, who studied chemical engineering at MIT and had a long career as a rocket scientist, explores this topic in one chapter in Suppressed Science. The key word in this area, says the maverick journalist, is "hormesis."
Hormesis is a controversial theory that argues there is actually a benefit to health, or decrease in biological damage, from radiation at low doses.
In a study in Japan, says Phillips, it was found that a group of patients with lymphoma had a 84 percent survival rate after 14 years, having been treated with low does of X-rays in addition to the standard chemotherapy. A control group who had only the regulation chemo had only 50 percent survival at the end of eight years. Unfortunately, the U.S. medical establishment has not seen fit to acknowledge this remarkable discovery.
Phillips also delves into reports in Germany and France of an unknown type of energy coming from the Earth, called geopathic energy, That some say can xause cancer, according to studies that have been covered up in the United States. Dowsers, according to Phillips, can sometimes detect this harmful energy. One naturally wonders if there could be a hormesis effect in Geopathic energy. However, since no ne has learned how to quantify this energy, it would be difficult to research this angle.
In another chapter, Phillips explores the art of dowsing - using divining rods to locate sources of underground water. Most mainstream scientists reject it. However, some progress has been made toward giving dowsing a scientific foundation, says Phillips. Dr. Elizabeth Jurka has found that the brains of dowsers, when dowsing, show four different types of brainwaves, as if the individuals were asleep and awake at the same time. And another scientist, Dr. Zajoj V. Harvalik, a former member of the von Braun team, concluded from his investigations that dowsing is based on a kind of magnetic perception that has its centers in the kidneys and pituitary gland. If these parts of the body are shielded against magnetism, he found, dowsers cannot effectively dowse.
This only scratches the surface of the suppressed science that Phillips writes about. Other topics include: Do we have global warming, or is that an establishment myth? Do we really have global cooling? Are we heading into the next ice age? Can hurricanes be accurately predicted? Can water come from solid rocks like in the Bible?
Phillips, who has spent a lifetime in science, has put together a truly remarkable book that even the layman can enjpy. In other words, you don't have to be a scientist yourself to follow his intriguing accounts. Suppressed Science opens up a whole new world for readers when compared to the ignorance and arragance that passes for establishment science today.
Suppressed Science (softcover, #1506, $16.95,
168 pages) by Jack Phillips, is available from First Amendment
books, 645 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suit 100, Washington, D.C.
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Bilderberg expects interest rates to rise and many Americans to lose their homes in the months ahead. Meanwhile, they hope they can pressure President Bush to refrain from an all-out invasion of Iran while maintaining oil prices at their current record-high levels of about $70 a barrel.
Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, predicted rising interest rates and difficulties for families that have obtained adjustable rate mortgages, or "variable" interest rates. Many are likely to lose their homes as rising home mortgage rates add hundreds of dollars to their monthly payments, he said. While most listened solemnly and some expressed concern, one was heard to say, "stupid Americans deserve their fate."
Many Americans, especially young families, have been buying expensive homes at low but "variable" interest rates. Others have been paying just the interest owed on their homes and not the principal. They are the most vulnerable, Geithner said. Some have paid little or nothing down. Some institutions "lend" buyers the down payment.
When home construction peaks and prices start downward, many
will find they owe more on their home than it is worth in the
marketplace. They will also find their mortgage—even "interest-only"
payments—are unaffordable.
The banks will get the homes back and sell them again.
Again, the term "stupid Americans" was heard among clucks of sympathy or silent indifference. According to one source, no concern was expressed by Allan Hubbard, assistant to President Bush for economic policy.
European Bilderbergers said they would have no part in an invasion of Iran, something Bush says is an "option on the table." Although NATO is helping by adding 9,000 troops in Afghanistan, expect no help if Iran is invaded, they said. "We will not help you fight a war for Israel," one said.
Several noted that Israel has had nuclear weapons since at least 1963 and has never signed on to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, so no international inspections are conducted. It was the late George Ball, a charter member of Bilderberg who was No. 2 man in the State Department under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, who first revealed that Israel has nuclear weapons.
"Is it not reasonable that Iran would need such a deterrence against Israel?" an unidentified Bilderberger was heard saying. "If you invade Iran, Israel is your only ally and good luck." One suggested that "surgical strikes"—but no land invasion—may be tolerated but others said they would be ineffective.
Listeners to this dialogue included Eival Gildy of Israel, head of "coordination and strategy in the office of the prime minister," and Ziad Abu Amr, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, president of the Palestinian Council on Foreign Relations and professor of political science at Birzeit University. Ahmad Chalabi, former deputy prime minister of Iraq and one of the key sources of disinformation about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, was also present.
William Luti, special assistant to Bush for defense policy, and Richard Perle, former high Defense Department official and still a close adviser to Bush, responded that the United States is simply trying to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and make the world "safe." But, said one European: "How ‘safe' do you think the world will be if you invade Iran and Iran responds by firing missiles on your ally, Israel? Israel will nuke Iran in response and you will have your ‘proliferation.'"
Robert Zoellick, deputy secretary of state, said it would be necessary to keep the invasion "option" to pressure Iran into agreeing to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
"You're wrong," the European answered. "Iran simply refuses to be bullied by the United States. Save us a lot of trouble and forget about invading Iran." The Americans remained silent.
Bilderberg's mood was described as "uneasy" when it came to the issue of oil, a discussion followed closely by such oil-rich participants as banker David Rockefeller, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Franco Bernabe, vice chairman of Rothschild Europe.
The "Latin American problem" mixed the issue of oil with Bilderberg's scheme to expand NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere and have it evolve into an "American Union" patterned after the European Union. Hugo Chavez, head of Venezuela, is not only raising taxes on the extraction of oil from his country, he is trying to establish a trade coalition with neighboring nations that would block the expansion of NAFTA by creating the Free Trade Area of the Americas.
Bilderberg's consensus seemed to be to not force higher oil prices at the moment, but be content with the immense profits enjoyed now.
Chavez's barrier to NAFTA expansion leaves them moody because establishing an "American Union" is a critical step toward Bilderberg's goal of establishing the United Nations as a world government.
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Honorary Chairman —Davignon, Etienne—Belgium
Abu-Amr, Ziad— PNA, Palestinian Legislative Council
Aguiar-Branco, Jose Pedro—Member of Parliament (PSD)
Aigrain, Jacques—CH, CEO, Swiss Re
Ajami, Fouad—USA, Director Middle East Studies, Johns Hopkins
Alogoskoufis, George—GR, Minister of Economy and Finance
Bagis, Egeman—TR, Member of Parliament
Balls, Edward—GB, Economic Secretary to the Treasury
Balsemao, Francisco Pinto—P, Former Prime Minister
Barnier, Michel—F, Former Minister for Foreign Affairs
Bartenstein, Martin—A, Minister of Economics and Labor
Bernabe, Franco—I, Vice Chairman, Rothschild Europe
Bildt, Carl—S, Former Prime Minister
Boyner, Umit N.—TR, Member of Executie Board, Boyer Holding
Bronner, Oscar—A, Publisher and Editor, Der Standard
Browne, John—GB, Group Chief Executive, British Petroleum
Burda, Hubert—B, Punlisher and CEO, Hubert Burda Media Holding
GmbH & Co. KG
Castries, Henri de—F, Chairman of the Management Board and
CEO, AXA
Cebrian, Juan Luis—E, CEO, PRISA
Chalabi, Ahmad—IRQ, Former Deputy Prime Minister
Clark, Edmund—CDN, President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
Clarke, Kenneth—GB, Member of Parliament
Collins, Timothy C.—USA, CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
Collomb, Bertrand—F, Chairman, Lafarge
Comper, Tony—CDN, President and CEO, BMO Financial Group
Crawley, Phillip—CDN, Publisher and CEO, the Globe and Mail
David, George A.—GR, Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C.S.A.
Dervis, Kemal—INT, Administrator, UNDP
Descoing, Richard—F, Director, Institut d'Etudes Politiques
Desmarais, Jr., Paul—CDN, CEO, Power Corporation
Devedjian, Patrick—F, Member of Parliament
Donilon, Thomas E.—USA, Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Dopfner, Mathias—D, Chairman of the Board of Management,
Axel Springer AG
Eldrup, Anders—DK, President, DONG A/S
Elkann, John—I, Vice Chairman, Fiat
Feldstein, Martin—USA, President and CEO, National Bureau
of Economic Research
Geithner, Timothy F.—USA, President and CEO, NY Federal Reserve
Bank
Gigot, Paul A.—USA, Editor of the Editorial Page, The Wall
Street Journal
Gilady, Eival—ISR, Head of Coordination and Strategy at the
Office of the Prime Minister
Gleeson, Dermot—IRL, Chairman, AIB Group
Goldschmidt, Pierre—B, Former Deputy Director General, IAEA
Gusenbauer, Alfred—A, Parliamentary Leader SPO
Halberstadt, Victor—NL, Profesor of Economics, Leiden University
Hansen, Jean-Pierre—B, CEO, Suez-Tractebel S.A.
Heinaluoma, Eero—FIN, Minister of Finance
Holbrooke, Richard C.—USA, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
Hubbard, Allan B.—USA, Assistant to the President for Economic
Policy
Jensen, Siv—N, Member of Parliament
Joffe, Josef—D, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit
Johnson, James A.—USA, Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
Jordan, Jr., Vernon E.—USA, Senior Managing Director, Lazard
Freres & Co. LLC
Kaletsky, Anatole—GB, Editor at Large, The Times
Kerdrel, Yves de—F, Editor, Le Figaro
Kerr of Kinlochard, John—GB, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch
Shell plc
Kimsey, James V.—USA, Founding CEO, America Online
Kissinger, Henry A.–USA, Chairman, Kissinger Associates
Kleisterlee, Gerard J.—NL, President and CEO, Royal Philips
Electronics
Koc, Mustafa V.—TR, Chairman, Koc Holding A.S.
Koprulu, Kemal—TR, Founding Chairman, ARI Movement
Korkman, Sixten—FIN, Managing Director, The Research Institute
of the Finnish Economy ETLA
Koru, Fehmi—TR, Senior Writer, Yeni Safak
Koss, Johann O.—CDN, President and CEO, Right To Play
Kravis, Henry R.—USA, Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
& Co.
Kravis, Marie-Josee—USA, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute,
Inc.
Kroes, Neelie—INT, Commissioner, European Commission
Kronenburg, Ed—INT, Director of the Private Office, NATO
Headquarters
Kudelski, Andre—CH, Chairman of the Board and CEO, Kudelski
Group
Lauvergeon, Anne—F, Chairman of the Executive Board, AREVA
Leon Gross, Bernardino—E, Secretary of State, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
Lipens, Maurice—B, Chairman, FORTIS
Lloyd, Ronald S.—CDN, Chairman and CEO, Credit Suisse First
Boston
Luti, William J.—USA, Special Assistant to the President
for Defense Policy and Strategy, National Security Council
Mathews, Jessica T.—USA, President, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
McKenna, Frank—CDN, Deputy chair, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial
Group
Medish, Mark C.—USA, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &
Feld LLP
Montbrial, Thierry de—F, President, French Institute for
International Relations
Monti, Mario—INT, President, Universita Commerciale Luigi
Bocconi
Mundie, Craig J.—USA, Chief Technical Officer Advanced Strategies
and Policy, Microsoft
Myklebust, Egil—N, Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS,
Norsk Hydro ASA
Nass, Maathias—D, Deputy Editor, Die Zeit
Netherlands, H.M. the Queen of The—NL
Nickerson, Ken—CDN,iBinary Corp
Nixon, Gordon—CDN, President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada
Norvik, Harald—N, Chairman & Partner, ECON Management
AS
O'Brien, Denis—IRL, Chairman, Communicorp Group Ltd.
Olechowski, Andrzej—PL, Leader Civic Platform
Ollila, Jorma—FIN, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
Osborne, George—GB, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Ozel, Soli—TR, Professor of International Relations and Political
Science, Istanbul Bilgi University
Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso—I, Minister of Finance
Pataki, George E.—USA, Governor of New York State
Pearlstine, Norman—USA, Senior Advisor, Time Warner Inc.
Pei, Minxin—USA, Director, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace
Perle, Richard—USA, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise
Institute
Pfluger, Friedbert—D, State Secretary of Defense
Piebalgs, Andris—INT, Commissioner, European Commission
Pinault, Francois-Henri—F, President, Artemis; Chairman and
CEO, PPR Group
Prichard, J. Robert S.—CDN, President, Torstar Corporation
Rattner, Steven—USA, Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group
LLC
Reinfeldt, Fredrik—S, Chairman Conservative Party
Reisman, Heather—CDN, Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music
Inc.
Rockefeller, David—USA, Former Member, JP Morgan International
Council
Rodriguez Inciarte, Matias—E, Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo
Santander, Ciudad Grupo Santander
Ross, Dennis—USA, Director, Washington Institute for Near
East Policy
Roy, Olivier—F, Senior Researcher, French National Center
for Scientific Research
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Inc.
Sadjapour, Karim—USA, Analyst, International Crisis Group
Sant, Roger—USA, Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES
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University of Iran
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Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
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Daimler Chrysler AG
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Steinberg, James B.—USA, Dean, University of Texas
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Tsoukalis, Loukas—GR, President Hellenic Foundation for European
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Wolfensohn, James D.—USA, Special Envoy for the Gaza Disengagement
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of State
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Strategy and Management Research
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Popular radio show host Alex Jones, who has often blasted Bilderberg
on his Genesis radio syndicate and Austin 
radio
show, was seized by Canadian authorities when his plane landed
at Ottawa Airport June 7, but he was rescued the next day by media
colleagues.
His cameras, computers, lights and personal effects were confiscated. Two assistants, Aaron Dykes and Ryan Schlickeisen, were held with Jones for four hours.
One officer told Jones: ‘I know who you are - I've seen some of your films. You're here for the Bilderberg conference."
Police booted up his computer, looking for pornography so he could be arrested. Jones told AFP in an nterview, where he displayed police documents listing the items seized. He checked into the same hotel as Jim Tucker after being held for four hours, but was ordered to return to the airport by 11 a.m. the following day.
Jones called Tucker early the next morning and the two talked in the courtyard. Tucker was scheduled to be interviewed by Jessica Brambo of CBC-TV in Ottawa at 10:30 a.m. She was to drive Tucker to the Brookstreet Resort where Bilderberg was meeting join a crowd of newspapermen and broadcasters at the sealed off entrance. While waiting for her arrival, Jones called Miss Brambo who was outraged at the news.
Jones and his associates had to leave for the airport as Miss Brambo and Tucker headed for Bilderberg. On hearing the news, others were outraged. Danny Estulin, a journalist from Spain who has been the AFP's Bilderberg photographer at the past two meetings, jumped on his cell phone to tell authorities that Jones must be released.
After returning Tucker to his hotel, Miss Brambo drove to the airport to interview Jones, who had surrendered to authorities hours earlier. She wanted the interview for its news value but also hoped it would prod authorities to release Jones and his two associates.
Canadian authorities said Jones was here illegally and was not a journalist because he had no interviews set up in advance. It is common for journalists to set up interviews after entering a country or plan none at all but to cover events. Jones said he was here to cover Bilderberg.
Under pressure from the media, Canadian authorities eventually yielded, released Jones and his associates and returned their property. They continued covering Bilderberg. This harassment backfired on Bilderberg. The intent was to suppress coverage.
The result was a lengthy story and photo describing the incident in the Canadian daily newspaper, Ottawa Citizen.
Bilderberg has been harassing reporters for years. At last year's Bilderberg meeting, Estulin was seized as he stepped off his plane en route to Rottach-Egern, Germany. He was held at length and his cameras, computers and personal effects examined.
This year, after the meeting ended, four unmarked Canadian police vehicles chased down Estulin as he was leaving. Again, everything was searched and some documents were seized.
In 2004, AFP's Jim Tucker was held by Italian national police for three hours the day he arrived in Stresa, Italy.
And in 2001, AFP's Christopher Bollyn was detained by Swedish
police while covering the Bilderberg gathering in stenungsbaden.
Bollyn was "given a ride." He was loaded into a police
van, driven miles outside of the town and unceremoniously dumped
in the countryside. Bollyn had to hike six miles back to the resort
to continue taking photographs for AFP.
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this reporter was just being another customer at the palatial lounge inside the Brookstreet Resort on the afternoon of June 6 when a middle-age man spoke softly: "Mr. Tucker, I know your mission. I have read Spotlight and now American Free Press for years. I will help you all I can." He did. I gave him the nickname "Pipeline."
Early every morning, before venturing to the Brookstreet Resort
to confront Bilderberg, I met with "Pipeline:" in the
courtyard fo the embassy West Hotel, where he was staying. Much
of what is reported in this issue of AFP is information provided
by him. Some comes from the pooling of information by reporters
who gathered each evening. Some comes from inside the meeting.
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Bilderberg does a lot of lying and harasses many reporters, all of which results in publicity they are trying to avoid. Bilderberg's futile attempts to keep its meetings totally secret - with zero publicity - is understandable. Good works are performed in the sunshine, evil in the dark of night. But this time it didn't work, as the Canadian press gave unprecedented media attention to the shadowy cabal of the world's most powerful politicians, power brokers, publishers, lawyers, bankers and speculators.
Canadian newspapers, unlike those in the United States, gave Bilderberg heavy, daily press, with lengthy stories and numerous photographs of Bilderbergers arriving at the scene of the Crime. American Free Press applauds the work of these journalists, some of whom helped out another investigative journalist who was detained by Canadian authorities and was nearly deported.
Bloggers and independent journalists on the Internet also deserve credit for keeping the secret group in the news, often doing better journalism than the majority of the multi-billion-dollar mainstream media outlets around the world. Tony Gosling's bilderberg.org merits special mention for his work exposing Bilderberg to the light of day. Gosling's efforts over the years have served as a clearing house for information about the cabal and its organizers. American Free Press has worked with Gosling for years, providing him with in-depth information on the meetings, including documents and photographs.
If Americans and Europeans knew the agenda Bilderberg is trying to have enacted - and the contempt its members hold for regular folks - they would be outraged. Bilderberg knows this, which accounts for tis dedication to secrecy. Perhaps the absence of U.S. lawmakers such as Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) reveals that attendees are afraid they will be exposed for attending the underground confabulations. We believe our efforts over the years have been key in putting the fear of God into the attendees that their machinations will be revealed.
To save our sovereignty and our nation, it is essential to educate Americans about our peril. This is difficult, because of most Americans are apathetic and slightly less than half read even one newspaper a day. But the effort must be made, so we will remain citizens of the United States and not the coming world government, which is at the heart of the group's secretive agenda.
If we lose our beloved country, it will not be while we are
at war. It will be while we are asleep. Wake Up, America before
it is too late. Your country is counting on you.
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New York Gov. George Pataki's (R) maiden appearance at Bilderberg means he is regarded as a potential president. Paul Wolfowitz, architect of the Afghan-Irag invasions as deputy defense secretary and now president of the world bank, was absent for the first time since George W. Bush became president. It means no fall from grace, however, because Wolfowitz had to be in Moscow for the Group of Eight's meeting of financial ministers. The president will join the G8's heads of state for a summit in St. Petersburg in July.
Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn, now "special envoy for the Gaza disengagement," did return.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave Bilderberg a thumb in the eye by refusing to attend." He doesn't like them," an aide told AFP. He had attended in 2003 when the cabal gathered in Versailles, France. The host headof state, except when Bilderberg meets in the United States, traditionally welcomes the group, as did the late PM Pierre Trudeau in `996 when Bilderberg met near Toronto.
Three members of the Canadian Parliament had planned to protest outside the Bilderberg gates but were intimidated, according to several local reporters. One MP, Pat Martin, denounced Bilderberg, saying "Who elected them?"
When a bilderberg apoligist questioned AFP's assertion that
Bilderberg is subsidized by taxpayers who pay members' travel
costs, another reporter said Canadians spent nearly $10,000 to
send their ambassador to the United States, Frank McKenna, to
last year's meeting in Germany.
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What's remarkable about this year's list of reporters and broadcasters who attend bilderberg on a promise of absolute secrecy is who is not listed: Robert Graham, publisher of the Washington Post and Jimmy Lee Hoagland, its associate editor. It is possible they attended but asked to remain off the "confidential, not-for-publication" list to reduce their fan mail.
Often, over the years, people have been positively identified entering Bilderberg by newsmen outside the gate who are left off the list. If they were absent, it is the first time in bilderberg history, dating back to 1954, that the Post has been absent. But here is the official list of Journalistic prostitutes:
Oscar Bronner of Austria, publisher of Der Standard
Phillip Crawley of Canada, publisher of The Globe and Mail
Paul Gigot, editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal
Josef Joffe of Germany, publisher of Die Zeit
Anatole Kaletsky, of Britain, editor of The Times
Yves de Kerdrel of France, editor of Le Figaro
Matthias Nass of Germany, deputy editor of Die Zeit
Toger Seidenfaden of Denmark, editor of Politiken
John Vinocur, senior correspondent of The International Herald
Tribune
Martin Wolf, associate editor of The Financial Times
Vendeline von Bredow and Adrian Wooldridge of Britain, correspondents
for The Economist
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