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International Medical Veritas Association
February, 2006       

      “There is an enemy that lurks, a dangerous group of people that want to do harm to the American people,” said President Bush. Bush is ever vigilant against the “fight against brutal killers," but like all men of history he points the finger away from himself and others on ‘his team.’ The president is of course correct, there are very dangerous groups of people and they are brutal and cruel, even to the children. "The terrorists still want to hit us again," Mr. Bush said, and he is right again for crimes have been committed repeatedly against humanity that are “systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, brutal, indifferent, scornful and ruthless,” as Harold Pinter reminded us in his acceptance speech for the Noble Prize. Unfortunately he was talking about the United States being the cruel and heartless. At the center of the medical world is a plague, a nightmare of obscene proportions. 

Gutting lifeline services for the poor while they plough full
 steam ahead with abolishing all tax responsibility for the wealthy.

      Sounds like something true vampires would do. It should come as no surprise that a person does not have to have fanged teeth and suck on blood to qualify as a vampire. Much of the imagery and symbology we use in films really are a reflection of reality. The problem though is that we have created so much imagery on films and TV that we are confused and cannot identify real monsters when we see them - because we have created so many false ones. The problem is grave for no matter what is said and is happening we really are not going to do anything fundamental to change anything. Our directors and producers have made films about it for it makes thrilling watching of what can be done and is being done to humanity. Films like the Matrix and now the Island, and even The Time Machine by HG Wells shows clearly what some people are capable of doing to others.

The charge of unchecked power implies that he (Bush)
 is asserting a kind of dictatorial authority -- precisely
what Americans fought, and continue to fight, against in Iraq.[i]
                                                  Washington Post

    The president and his vice have made a joke of democracy, destroying whatever example it could have been for the rest of the world. Democracy in America is an image to hide atrocities behind and it has been used ruthlessly to sell out the public to corporate interests, especially in the area of medicine. Senator McCain says that Americans are "becoming disenfranchised from their own democratic process,” yet Mr. Bush has the audacity to say that Americans should insist on a debate "that brings credit to our democracy, not comfort to our adversaries."

    It seems like the president is the last person to preach democracy as we begin to hear the first cries for impeachment as President Bush and Vice President Cheney move closer to a serious confrontation with Congress over constitutional power. For the first time since their election in 2000, both face open rebuke in Congress. Georgia Democratic congressman John Lewis said Bush should be impeached if he broke the law in authorizing spying on Americans. "It's a very serious charge, but he violated the law," said Lewis. "The president should abide by the law. He deliberately, systematically violated the law. He is not king, he is president." [ii] A New York Times editorial says, “Dick Cheney has turned back the clock to the Nixon era, bringing back presidential excesses like wiretapping along with presidential power.”

Washington is the most corrupt capital in the world.
                                           Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
                                Former National Security Adviser

    West Virginia’s senior Democratic senator, Robert Byrd, recently set forth the case for impeachment: “The President claims that these powers (to spy on Americans without warrants) are within his role as Commander in Chief,” Byrd said in a December 19 statement. “Make no mistake, the powers granted to the Commander in Chief are specifically those as head of the Armed Forces. These warrantless searches are conducted not against a foreign power, but against unsuspecting and unknowing American citizens. They are conducted against individuals living on American soil, not in Iraq or Afghanistan. There is nothing within the powers granted in the Commander in Chief clause that grants the President the ability to conduct clandestine surveillance of American civilians. We must not allow such groundless, foolish claims to stand.” [iii]

It's scary to think that it may just be a matter of time before Googling
will invite an F.B.I. agent to tap your phone or interrogate you. [iv]
                                                              Ming-Wai Farrell

      It should come as no surprise how closely “a thriving democracy” like America borders on tyranny with the president claiming he can wiretap ordinary Americans without a warrant, insisting on his right to imprison without trial anyone he labels an "enemy combatant." President Bush said recently that he found it "amazing" to be accused of breaking the law by ordering a secret program to intercept international calls and e-mail messages. Amazing how far an American leader can travel away from the original spirit of America justifying it all with fingers pointed to some external enemy. Fascist leaders lie and go to war and get away with it as Bush has done.

     All of these political issues find their expression in medicine. Donald “Aspartame" Rumsfeld’s name is on top of the vampire list owning a company (manufacture of Tamiflu) which has killed people it is administered to. Not only is he responsible for the most complained about food additive in history, aspartame, which is recognized by the FDA to have 91 serious side effects including death, but now he has convinced the US government to spend billions on Tamiflu, which may not have any effect on the bird flu at all.

Tamiflu and similar antiviral drugs should not be broadly used
 during the flu season or to treat an epidemic of avian-flu because
they are simply not as effective as they have been represented to be. [v]
                          The British medical journal the Lancet
                                                January 19, 2006

      The primary drug promoted against a threatened pandemic of avian flu is in all likely useless and could make the pandemic worse, say scientists. This warning came recently after a study of 13 Vietnamese patients infected with avian flu and treated with the anti-viral drug Tamiflu found two developed a resistant virus which contributed to their deaths. Seven of the 13 patients died. The New England Journal of Medicine, which published the findings, describing them as "frightening."

      Governments are stockpiling Tamiflu to be used as the first line of defense against a pandemic. In a system of government or medicine based on truth all Tamiflu production would be suspended immediately and resources put behind safer and more reasonable medical protocols. In American democracy and in the American medical system the information will simply be ignored. And in fact it is already being ignored.  Instead they are looking to raise doses of Tamiflu, give it earlier on, and Roche is defending it’s efficacy by stating the recent study published in the Lancet is “irresponsible.” 

This shocking and horrific action by the American medical authorities
in allowing such a deadly drug to be used on their children stands in
sharp contrast to the mounting evidence of Tamiflu's dangers. [vi]
                                                   Sorcha Faal
                                                     Russian Reporter

      According to the FDA, Efficacy of Tamiflu for the prevention of influenza has not been established in immunocompromised patients. [vii] It is pathetic that modern allopathic medicine cannot come to terms with the fact that a huge segment of the population of the world today is immunocompromised for one reason or another and thus medications like Tamiflu and vaccines are contraindicated. Pediatricians, our revered baby doctors, were the first to cast caution and all medical logic aside and inject all the kids all the time without checking for compromised immune systems.

     “You can prevent or treat the Avian Flu easily, simply, cheaply, safely and naturally,” says Dr. Rima E. Laibow, Medical Director of Natural Solutions Foundation. [viii] “How does the Avian Flu do its damage? Birds (or humans if the virus mutates spontaneously - or is mutated in a lab) die because the H5N1 virus depletes Vitamin C stores so quickly that the cause of death is fulminate scurvy.” Though it would be difficult to find scientific evidence for this in PubMed several pathology studies have certainly discussed the hemorrhagic nature of the bird flu. 

    Dr. Laibow, following medical logic, says it makes sense to assume that this particular type of virus is using up Vitamin C stores so quickly that the blood vessels would lose their structural integrity and begin to leak. As more and more vessels erupted both animals and people would literally bleed to death. It is staggering to imagine the implication if this is true for it implies a cancer at the center of the medical world. When possible safe medical solutions are cast aside (or not even considered) in favor of toxic drugs (that don’t even work) we have direct evidence of the medicine cruelly corrupted by the machinations of politics and money.

    And let us not leave out Sen. Bill Frist from the lineup. A provision in the defense bill inserted by Sen. Bill Frist in December is troublesome in that the provision exempts from all liability (not just punitive damages) manufacturers of not only vaccines, but all drugs used to treat a pandemic, epidemic, or biological attack. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) said the final language in the bill provides "a basic blank check for the industry, not only on pandemic flu, but just about any other kind of, quote, epidemic that anyone can think of." Under the law, manufacturers would receive the protection from lawsuits when the Secretary of Health and Human Services declares a particular disease as an "epidemic." Already HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has used the word epidemic in relation to AIDS, obesity, diabetes and chronic diseases in general, potentially broadening the legal protections to many drugs now in existence or under development.

     When one does a Google search using "depression epidemic," you get 1,760,000 hits. So, if the Secretary of HHS decides that depression is an epidemic, then he could shield all antidepressant-makers from liability for drug-induced injuries. According to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.: "This liability shield can be granted to any product used to prevent or treat an epidemic or a pandemic, and the secretary gets to decide what that means. No court can review that decision."

    This is not the first time Frist has tried to use a military bill as a "cover" to give special protections to the drug industry. In 2002, he authored protections for Eli Lilly's vaccine additive Thimerosal (fifty percent mercury) that were inserted into the Homeland Security bill. It was only after a public backlash that Congress repealed the measure. Frist easily could qualify as public enemy number one of children everywhere with his insistence to inject every child in America with a highly neurotoxic mercury compound. Vampire truly is too good of term for a man like Frist.

Children’s advocacy and consumer watchdog organizations
are calling this provision an affront to democracy and civil rights.
                                               National Autism Association

      According to National Autism Association board chair Laura Bono, “Families of vaccine-injured children have witnessed the emotional, physical, and financial devastation caused by the pharmaceutical industry’s reckless disregard for safety standards. Now, the misplaced priorities of Senate leadership have sacrificed public health and basic civil rights to the greed of an industry willing to overlook safety concerns for the sake of profit.”

The current avian flu fright is sanctioned by military- medical-
 pharmaceutical-petrochemical industrialists operating above the law
 in many documented instances. Having testified before the U.S. Congress,
 I personally experienced how premiere pharmaceutical industrialists
 direct our political- economic representatives in government.
                                                          Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz

     Though medical and government officials seem hell bent on hurting children and their families there are many people like Laura Bono who care deeply about the children and who would do almost anything to protect them. At a recent convention of psychologists, Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams displayed on a giant projection screen photos from around the world of burned children, starving children, diseased children, some lying in their own filth. He called for a "last stand of loving care" to prevail over the misery in the world, its wars and "our fascistic government." In the first world the job is to protect the children from the people that Dr. Horowitz talks about.

     As we enter 2006 let us remember and identify with the good in our lives for there is so much bad that is coming our collective way to deal with. There is a kind of false optimism built into our species that seems to prefer to pretend everything is all right when its not. We enjoy living in our comfortable present rather than confront negative issues that can affect us and our loved ones in the future.  The possibility of something terribly wrong is going to happen, we seem to believe, is not going to happen to us and our children, not now, not ever.

     There is nothing new in this attitude. We have an almost willful blindness to what is happening to our civilization and to what our government and doctors are doing, but why worry after all, the sun still rises, we still brush our teeth every morning with fluoride poisoned toothpaste - why worry? Our willing blindness is going to haunt us and the generations yet to come. It is true that it is not pleasant and psychologically unhealthy to focus too much on the negative, but sometimes it is in our best interest to do so. Sometimes we do need to see what we are doing wrong, what needs changing inside of ourselves. And sometimes we have to take a long hard look at what is happening in the world and in our government and in our hospitals and medical clinics and stand up and shout!

     “The coming years, like those of the present and the past, will see the continued spewing of fictionalized propaganda designed to manipulate the fears, hatreds, xenophobia and nationalistic tendencies of the population. The level of control over the masses and power over the nation in the years after 9/11 by corporatists intent on hijacking the country became, to them, a rousing success, thanks to the intense levels of fear and hatred engendered by the horrific events of that day. In the span of a few infamous days the corporatists had unleashed massive psychological warfare upon us, its effects still lingering in the minds of millions,” writes Manuel Valenzuela.

      In a recent video Osama bin Laden promised the same treatment for Americans as they had given others, but he offered a truce so Iraq and Afghanistan could be rebuilt. Dick Chaney’s response, "We don't negotiate with terrorists." It is interesting that we cannot see that we have external enemies like bin Laden because we cannot clean up our own shop, because we cannot confront our own cruel terrorism that we take even to the shores of our own newborns as they arrive. Wars have been fought for all kinds of reasons but the one that should be fought is against the Fourth Reich, against the pharmaceutical companies and those in the political/medical world who are owned by them.[ix]

     In the western world terrorists are dressed in sharp suits and wear nice ties. They do not look like terrorists to the untrained eyes and they slip right through the myopic perception of the intelligence services. In the world of medicine they all wear white coats and we are easily fooled. Many whisper the words medical Gestapo when they think of the FDA and how they send in their Swat teams into alternative doctors offices and rip the IV lines out of patients as they wave their automatic rifles around. The clouds have been darkening for decades on the medical frontiers as millions have been mowed down. Only the fool does not see how all the above is connected, how politics, medicine, economics and even psychology converge and how we are all caught up in the middle of a strange nightmare we can only fully express in our dreams and the making of our movies.