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more utter BS on plane crash

Feb 10

Posted by A. Peasant in Experts, France, Lebanon, Mind-fucking, Terrorism | No Comments

1. Ethiopian plane ‘exploded’

BEIRUT - AN ETHIOPIAN jet which crashed off Lebanon’s coast last month exploded after take-off, Lebanon’s health minister said on Tuesday in the first such official comment since the mysterious crash.

Remarks by Jawad Khalifeh could not be immediately confirmed by other officials in Beirut and came as Ethiopian Airlines said one of the plane’s black boxes has been sent to France for analysis.

‘The plane exploded during flight and the cabin, as well as the bodies of those on board were dispersed into the sea, in different locations,’ Mr Khalifeh said to explain why some corpses were found dismembered. ‘The first bodies which have been retrieved following the crash were intact but after that, we began to find body pieces or mutilated corpses,’ he told reporters.

Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi refused to comment on the reported explosion. ‘I have no information about this,’ he told AFP.

source: straits times

2. pilot error pilot error pilot error….based on info from the black box, which we just recovered and sent to France, and which will not reveal it’s secrets for months and months…. but trust us it was pilot error that caused the plane to explode.

A judicial committee at the ministerial level met Wednesday to discuss future strategy and progress made in the search for more victims of the Ethiopian plane crash as a source close to the investigation into the disaster said the jet crash was caused by a pilot error.

“The investigation team has reached an early conclusion that it was pilot error, based on information from the black box,” the source told Reuters.

The team made up of Lebanese, French and Ethiopian officials headed to France Monday with one of the two black boxes for analysis.

Lebanese army marine divers pulled the flight recorder from the plane crash site off the coastal town of Naameh on Sunday.

Information Minister Tareq Mitri said following Wednesday’s judicial meeting that Lebanon has not received any official information about contents of the black box.

Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed in a fireball minutes after takeoff from Beirut airport early in the morning of Jan. 25.

The Boeing 737-800 plane with 90 people on board plunged into the sea off Naameh south of the airport in stormy weather.

Lebanese officials had blamed the pilot for failing to follow instructions from the control tower.

Defense Minister Elias Murr had said that a command tower recording shows the tower told the pilot to turn to avoid the storm, but the plane went in the opposite direction.

“We do not know what happened or whether it was beyond the pilot’s control,” he added.

Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi had in turn said the control tower sent the pilot a second warning when he failed to heed the first one.

“The pilot, however, continued to fly the same route, then he made a sudden, strange turn before disappearing from the radar,” Aridi said on the day of the plane crash.

It was not clear why the pilot ignored the control tower or perhaps it was beyond his control. Being 737, like most other airliners, also is equipped with its own onboard weather radar which the pilot may have used to avoid flying into cumulonimbus, which is a rounded mass of cumulus cloud often appearing before a thunderstorm.

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“The only way to prove our concerns beyond a reasonable doubt is to have a lot of people die”

Jan 20

Posted by A. Peasant in Big Pharma, Corruption & Crime, Experts, Flu psyop, Vaccines | 4 Comments

1. IPCC officials admit mistake over melting Himalayan glaciers

The UN’s climate science body has admitted that a claim made in its 2007 report - that Himalayan glaciers could melt away by 2035 - was unfounded.

The admission today followed a New Scientist article last week that revealed the source of the claim made in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was not peer-reviewed scientific literature – but a media interview with a scientist conducted in 1999. Several senior scientists have now said the claim was unrealistic and that the large Himalayan glaciers could not melt in a few decades.

In a statement (pdf), the IPCC said the paragraph “refers to poorly substantiated estimates of rate of recession and date for the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers. In drafting the paragraph in question, the clear and well-established standards of evidence, required by the IPCC procedures, were not applied properly.”

It added: “The IPCC regrets the poor application of well-established IPCC procedures in this instance.” But the statement calls for no action beyond stating a need for absolute adherence to IPCC quality control processes. “We reaffirm our strong commitment to ensuring this level of performance,” the statement said.

more @ guardian

2. also — the decision to use adjuvanted H1N1 vaccines — that didn’t work out so well either — BIG PHARMA TRIES TO COVER ITS BIG PHARMA ASS

Analyst: Adjuvanted H1N1 vaccines helped stir Europe’s debate

Robert Roos News Editor

Jan 15, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – The use of adjuvanted vaccines, an unfamiliar technology, [????? SINCE WHEN ARE ADJUVANTS AN UNFAMILIAR TECHNOLOGY???? ONLY SINCE PEOPLE CAUGHT ON TO THE DANGER OF ADJUVANTS???? - ED.] helped spark mistrust that may have contributed to the recent allegations in Europe that pharmaceutical companies manipulated governments and international agencies by hyping the H1N1 pandemic threat, according to a British market analyst who follows infectious disease issues.

Some members of the 47-nation Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly have proposed a resolution charging that pharmaceutical companies, aiming to boost vaccine and drug sales, worked to “alarm” governments about the pandemic and prompt them to waste money on inefficient vaccine strategies and expose people to inadequately tested vaccines.

National and international health officials, along with the World Health Organization, have vigorously denied the allegations, which will come before the council on Jan 26.

Hedwig Kresse, MPhil, MSc, a London-based senior analyst on infectious diseases at the independent market analysis firm Datamonitor, said today the decision to use adjuvanted vaccines might have contributed to the controversy in Europe. She also said that when H1N1 emerged, it was the press and government officials, not pharamaceutical companies, that voiced alarm and pushed for a vaccine.

Off to a bad start
“I think in Europe the entire pandemic vaccine supply situation got off to a bad start because European regulators opted for adjuvanted vaccines, which resulted in a lot of negative publicity across Europe” and reduced the public’s interest in getting vaccinated, Kresse told CIDRAP News.

In the United States, she noted, authorities decided not to use adjuvants (which have never been used in US flu vaccines) and to stick with the standard technologies that have been used in seasonal flu vaccines for many years, she noted. (The US government bought a supply of adjuvants for possible emergency use but has not used them.)

“It wasn’t the same kind of debate as in Europe,” she said. “That led to a bigger acceptance of the vaccine.”

The pandemic H1N1 vaccines approved in Europe are GlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix, containing the adjuvant ASO3, and Novartis’s Focetria, which contains the company’s MF59 adjuvant. [SQUALENE - ED.] Also approved in Europe is Baxter’s Celvapan, which contains no adjuvant but is made in cell culture, a newer technology, rather than in eggs.

Kresse noted that one adjuvanted flu vaccine, Novartis’s Fluad, was approved in Europe back in 1997, but it is used only in the elderly.

Since most Europeans were unfamiliar with adjuvanted flu vaccines, “it was a new technology and there was no long-term record regarding reactogenicity,” Kresse said. “And since H1N1 has so far been a clinically mild pandemic, it just didn’t seem logical to a lot of people that you needed this new technology. So a lot of people saw it as an unnecessary risk to take.”

The safety record of the European vaccines has been good so far, Kresse said. She said they cause a slightly higher rate of local reactions, such as pain and itching, and possibly a higher rate of fever, than flu vaccines with no adjuvants. “I’m not aware of any major safety concerns in Europe,” she added.

H5N1 threat set stage for adjuvants
Kresse noted that pandemic vaccine efforts in Europe were predicated on the H5N1 avian flu virus. Vaccine versions of this virus have grown poorly in eggs and have been poorly immunogenic. As a result, she said, the general view has been that adjuvants are needed to make H5N1 vaccines work.

Manufacturers developed mockup vaccines based on H5N1, with adjuvants, with the understanding that when a pandemic emerged, the pandemic virus could replace the H5N1 and the vaccine could gain rapid regulatory approval.

Concerning the charge that vaccine manufacturers hyped the pandemic threat to boost their profits, Kresse said it doesn’t fit her perception of how things evolved.

“I think these questions have to be treated very, very carefully,” she said. “Without a doubt the pharmaceutical companies did benefit from the pandemic. But when I look back, it was more the government and the press” that talked a lot about the threat and pressed for a vaccine. “It was more the pharmaceutical companies being on the receiving end and being asked to deliver it as fast as they possibly could.”

She said it seems unlikely that the current controversy would make drug companies unwilling to produce pandemic vaccines in the future, but she wouldn’t rule out that type of outcome.

“If it really comes to a very nasty public discussion and results in a big loss of reputation for the pharmaceutical companies, then it’s another matter,” she commented. “Then as a company I might calculate very carefully what I’d gain and lose in terms of reputation.”

On the other hand, she said it’s unlikely that companies would completely withdraw from pandemic supply efforts: “There’s a very vital political interest in keeping the sector attractive for pandemic supplies.”

Tommy Thompson defends US vaccine efforts
Also today, former US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson added his voice to those defending the pandemic vaccine programs, saying it would be a terrible outcome if critics succeeded in scaring companies away from vaccine development. Thompson served as HHS secretary through President George W. Bush’s first term.

In a telephone interview, Thompson, now a senior partner in the Washington, DC, law firm Akin Gump, said the nation’s preparedness for disease outbreaks has improved and that the progress must be maintained.

“In the past we’ve not been prepared and we haven’t had companies that wanted to be in the vaccine business,” he said. “For the first time in our long history, we’ve got companies that are interested in preparing vaccines for flu. . . . The worst thing in the world would be to say this was contrived and therefore scare away vaccine companies from getting scientists to do research on infectious viruses.”

As for the assertion that the pandemic threat was exaggerated, Thompson said, “The only way to prove our concerns beyond a reasonable doubt is to have a lot of people die, and I don’t know anyone who’s advocating more lethality from flu viruses.”

“You’re always going to have critics, but people in the scientific community believe we’re doing the right thing and I certainly believe that,” he added. “I think it was the right thing to do, to get started down this path, and I’m glad that it continues to be expanded.”

He also commented that while the H1N1 virus is not as lethal as was feared, the pandemic may not be over and the virus could mutate into a more dangerous form.

SOURCE: CIDRAP

3. Glaxo offers free access to potential malaria cures

The chief executive of the world’s second biggest pharmaceutical company will today announce that he is putting into the public domain thousands of potential drugs that might cure malaria.

Andrew Witty, the British boss of Glaxo-SmithKline, will say in a major speech that multinational drug companies have to balance social responsibility alongside the need to make profits for their shareholders. There is, he will say, an “imperative to earn the trust of society, not just by meeting expectations but by exceeding them”.

…”I think they’re just nervous. I don’t think they have crossed … I crossed the bridge a year ago … that you can have a [different] approach to the way you think about intellectual property and openness in an area like neglected tropical diseases. There is no financial market stimulating discovery so we need to find ways to stimulate discovery. This is a way to do it.”

more @ guardian

4. HISTORY OF ADJUVANTS — an “UNFAMILIAR TECHNOLOGY,” — STARTS IN 1891

http://www.google.com/search?q=history+of+adjuvants&hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=JJx&sa=G&tbs=tl:1&tbo=u&ei=iBtXS9b-G8Th8QbgxN23Aw&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=11&ved=0CDsQ5wIwCg

big meeting in Haiti - with updates

Jan 18

Posted by A. Peasant in Central America, Children, Experts, Haiti, Human Trafficking, Military | No Comments

The disaster in Haiti compounds long-running disasters already in progress, and known to authorities.

If you’re a child born to poor parents in Haiti, chances are your career options are slave, slave, or slave. That’s because approximately 225,000 children in Haiti live in situations of modern-day slavery. That’s nearly a quarter million child slaves in one country. The existence of Haitian child slaves, often referred to as restaveks, has been documented for a long time. However, this is the first time the scope of the issue has truly been understood to be so large.Restaveks are usually children from extremely poor families who are sent away to work as domestic servants in wealthier homes. The children aren’t paid for their work, but provided shelter and a sometimes meager meal supply. In the best case scenarios, families will send their restavek children to school. But restaveks often work long days performing a variety of household tasks for nothing more that a meal or two a day. Two-thirds of restaveks are girls, and they are extremely vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse from the families who house and control them. The life of a restavek child in Haiti often varies between bleak and hopeless, and many children never successfully leave their slave conditions.

What happens to poor children, orphaned children, slave children when chaos strikes? Well, one would hope they get rescued but that’s not what happens. Because these problems are never meant to be resolved. People in authority don’t actually resolve problems, even when they know about them. They can’t, you see. They’re not supposed to.

In 2002 the BBC reported on a UN report about child trafficking in Haiti.

Thousands of Haitian children are being smuggled into the Dominican Republic each year and forced to beg or work as manual labourers, according to a United Nations report. About 2,500 minors, some as young as five-years-old, are brought into the country illegally, the report’s authors found. Traffickers on either side of the shared border smuggle the youngsters into the Dominican Republic to work as farm hands, construction workers and street peddlers.

A year ago The Guardian conducted an investigation and reported more disturbing details about trafficking in Trinidad and Tobago, not all so far away:

PORT OF SPAIN: Sunday December 21 2008, The Guardian newspaper of Trinidad published a disturbing report in which it alleges that human traffickers are on the prowl, looking to lure children and women to sell them for big money. The report states that “children, because they live longer, are sold for over $200,000. Adults can fetch as much as $100,000. They are mostly used as sex slaves and sometimes for slave labour. “Sometimes, they are used to make pay-offs in the drug trade — a well placed source informed the Sunday Guardian.” The report stated that men owing drug lords are being lured into capturing humans, who will be sold for payment of their debts. A source, pleading for anonymity for fear of his life, said victims were drugged almost immediately after capture and their cellphones switched off.

A Sunday Guardian investigation revealed that the lucrative human trafficking ring is operating in the Cascade/St Ann’s area, between Sangre Grande and Tunapuna, Diego Martin and in South. Women have mysteriously disappeared from the Cascade area without a trace during the past year and “several straying young boys have vanished from the streets of San Fernando“.

The report further stated that the clandestine local trade, which operates through a well organised network and is supported by several powerful agencies, is linked to an international human trafficking ring.

Even some policemen are convinced that there is a human trafficking ring in Trinidad and they suspect that a number of missing persons have been victims of the trade, but were reluctant to say more. According to the newspaper report, “fingers are pointing at a popular businessman, who has been described as the ‘big man’ in the human trade.” “He’s popular. He is also linked with other businessmen across the country.”

The information was unearthed by a local resident after a female relative went missing several months ago. The man said his family, desperate for answers, launched their own investigation with the support of a police officer and local private investigators.

The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago denied these reports, citing lack of evidence.

The Guardian newspaper reported that she said there is “no empirical evidence to show the existence of human trafficking… it must be noted, however, that T&T was part of a world which was shrinking in size through the effects of globalisation.”

Where does the evidence go? What is the evidence? People are evidence. If the people are being trafficked, then it stands to reason that to find the evidence, one must find the trafficked people. But where do they go?

This, of course, gets to the heart of the problem. Because obviously, if we have rich and powerful people feeding poor and powerless human beings into an organized international trafficking ring, the empirical evidence will always go missing. That’s the point! The people — the evidence — just “disappear,” to be used up and sacrificed in whatever evil manner suits those who purchase them. With the judicious application of money or blackmail in key spots — airport security, customs, judges, police, social services, etc. — the problem can go on forever and ever and ever. Nobody will ever be able to solve it, since the people/evidence disappear and are eventually discarded. And if anyone accuses the powerful people involved of human trafficking, he or she will never be believed, or else he or she might have an unfortunate accident.

One might also note the Jamaican al Qaeda terrorist al-Faisal, who has most conveniently appeared bar-hopping in Africa. Of course he has been linked to the underpants bomber, and is on an international list of suspected terrorists, but that doesn’t seem to slow him down much.

Born in St James, Jamaica, in 1963 under the name of Trevor William Forrest and raised as a Christian by parents who were very active in the Salvation Army, al-Faisal’s career as a terrorist couldn’t be more surprising. He is believed to have left for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia at the age of 16, where he obtained a degree in Islamic studies, after eight years, before returning to the United Kingdom.

Hahaha, no it “couldn’t be more surprising.” Good one. But the show is moving to The West, via the Caribbean. The Caribbean will link Africa, Europe, Asia, Russia, the Middle East, drugs, terrorism. Human trafficking we don’t discuss, that is taboo. All these other things will be discussed, in the context of dangers to The Good People of The West.

From a 2005 report:

Security threats emanating from the Caribbean Basin typically revolve around its position as a key trans-shipment point for South American narcotics to the United States and Europe, as well as illegal immigration, money laundering, and other forms of banking and document fraud. Indeed, organized criminal networks from as far away as Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Asia, in addition to U.S. and South American organizations, have a formidable presence in the region.

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, however, many observers began to look at the region’s potential as a base of operations for radical Islamist terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda to stage attacks against the U.S. and its interests in the Western Hemisphere. Upon cursory examination, the region’s geographic proximity to the U.S., porous borders, widespread poverty and endemic corruption, energy reserves, not to mention the tens of thousands of Americans and Europeans who vacation there at any given time of the year, make it an attractive target.

Unfortunately, a cursory examination is all that is ever required to weave a plausible narrative. In fact, the examination must remain cursory at all times. No digging around please. Cass Sunstein does not approve of conspiracy theories. It would be rude to notice that the best and the brightest know all about the links between international organized crime — drug trafficking, arms trafficking, people trafficking and money laundering — and they can get together and have important meetings to discuss coordinating policies and strengthen regional cooperation blah blah BLAH (and wink wink wink), and they have every resource imaginable at their disposal, but nothing ever gets solved. http://www.un.org/apps/news/storyAr.asp?NewsID=8906&Cr=human&Cr1=

17 November 2003 – Latin American and Caribbean countries will discuss how to combat the practice of trafficking in people later this week during a three-day conference organized by the United Nations.The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has arranged the summit, to be held in Bogotá from Wednesday, through its country offices in Colombia and Ecuador as it fights the disturbing rise in human trafficking in the region.

The conference is expected to focus on finding ways to strengthen regional collaboration and developing agreements for better international judicial and police cooperation, according to a statement issued today by the UN Information Service in Vienna.

UNODC says indicators show that international organized crime, especially drug trafficking, arms trafficking and money laundering, is closely linked to trafficking in people. The reasons for trafficking can vary from forced labour to sexual exploitation.

The summit will be attended by experts and government officials from across Latin America and the Caribbean, as well government officials from Sweden and the Czech Republic, UNODC officials from Africa and Asia, the International Organization for Migration and academics in the field.

And so, as they all rush down to Haiti, all these trusty experts from all over the world, and proceed to tell us to keep sending money and at the same time we hear how difficult it is for the aid to get delivered to the people in need. I’m sorry but are you fucking kidding me? Is it not the same in Every Single Disaster??? THE SAME???? All this rush of people and money to the desperate people in need, and somehow, the experts can never figure out how to make it all come together on the ground? It is as if they never learn anything, and each disaster is the first disaster, and they are surprised that the roads are blocked with debris and there are bottlenecks. But please send more money. And the people of course, reduced to survival mode, do what they need to do to survive, and then we hear about the looting and the rioting? Tsk tsk tsk. Yes, of course, chaos.

That’s the narrative. It’s all so unfortunate, but no one in authority is ever to blame.

One might find alternative explanations, but Cass Sunstein would not approve.

We see in Haiti a suitable environment to take advantage, to have meetings and coordinate policies and strengthen regional cooperation for the international crime syndicate.

UPDATE: Actual “big meeting” takes place, with stunning proposals like this:

Fernandez also proposed the rehabilitation of the maritime and aerial ports of Haiti handle the humanitarian aid.

Yeah. GOOD idea. Somebody should get on that right away.

Attending parties at the pre-summit include: Dominican Republic’s President Leonel Fernandez and the representatives of Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Dominica, Spain, Jamaica, United States, Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago, reps from the World Bank, the Inter American Development Bank, the Community of the Caribbean, the International Red Cross, the UN, the OAS and the European Union, and Haitian President Rene Preval. The actual summit will be January 25 in Montreal, “to evaluate the work plans drafted by the United Nations (UN) and Organization of American States (OAS) in Haiti.”

Proposals and evaluations.

UPDATE: Haiti quake creates thousands of new orphans. Officials can’t even venture a number and they sure as heck don’t know what to do with them all.

Tens of thousands of children have been orphaned by the earthquake, aid groups say - so many that officials won’t venture a number. With so many buildings destroyed and growing chaos in the capital, it is conceivable that many children are alone.

…In the meantime, U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said the United Nations is establishing a group whose mission on the ground in Haiti will be to protect children - orphans and non-orphans alike - against trafficking, kidnapping and sex abuse.

Oh geez, it’s too bad the UN didn’t know about all these problems sooner otherwise they could have some programs up and running already. Oh WAIT A SECOND….

UPDATE: Haiti takeover by “Uncle Sam”

Thousands of American soldiers have poured into Port-au-Prince airport since US President Barack Obama announced he was ordering a “swift and aggressive” campaign to help millions of Haitians left homeless by last week’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake. Six days after the quake, however, precious little aid is getting beyond the airport perimeters — largely because of security concerns — and aid agencies with long experience of operating in disaster zones have complained that their flights in are being blocked unnecessarily.

there’s only one word to describe this sort of thing

Jan 15

Posted by A. Peasant in Big Pharma, Corruption & Crime, Experts, Flu psyop, UK | No Comments

In the UK, over half of the scientists on SAGE have ties to drug companies. These scientists advise the UK government on the swine flu pandemic.

Many have declared interests in GlaxoSmithKline, the vaccine maker expected to be the biggest beneficiary of the pandemic….Official documents show some members are linked to vaccine manufacturer Baxter and to Roche, which makes Tamiflu….They were not obliged to declare the amounts they earned but they are thought to range from around £500 for a lecture or presentation to more than £100,000 for a directorship of GSK. Some will simply be heads of university research departments which received funding from companies.

Some months back I covered the circular reasoning used to defend one of these scientists, Sir Roy Anderson:

Considering that the Taxpayers’ Alliance makes the charge, it seems that the UK government definitely pays Sir Roy to serve on the Sage task force drawing up action plans for the virus. Even if it’s a token amount, the real lucre comes from driving the government contracts to GlaxoSmithKline.

The Department of Health and GSK denied there was a conflict and said Sir Roy did not attend Sage meetings where vaccines and drugs were discussed. Sir Roy was appointed to Sage to ‘provide cross-government scientific advice regarding the outbreak of swine flu’. He was one of the first UK experts to call the outbreak a pandemic.

So here we see that the Department of Health and GlaxoSmithKline band together to defend Sir Roy on that basis that he sits out the meetings where drugs are discussed. The conclusion the reader shall draw being, presumably, that he has no influence on those decisions. However, in the next breath we learn that he is exceedingly influential. That’s why he’s on the task force in the first place! And in fact, he was one of the first UK experts to promote the outbreak to a pandemic! Later on in the story we learn more of his amazing, deadly influence:

During the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, Sir Roy’s advice to Tony Blair led to the culling of more than 6 million animals.

Ahh, a powerful man indeed. Theoretically he could stop someone in the hallway after one of these meetings and “advise” them to choose a GSK drug… But listen, he is a man with both scrupulous ethics and impeccable timing!

A spokesman for GSK insisted there was no conflict of interest. ‘Professor Anderson stepped down from the government’s flu advisory group on appointment to GSK. ‘In May, he was asked to rejoin as a temporary member as the scale of the influenza pandemic became evident.

He stepped down from Sage after joining GSK but was asked to rejoin after the scale of the influenza pandemic became evident! And he, of course, as we already learned, was one of the first UK experts to call the outbreak a pandemic, a fact cited to prove his suitability for Sage, which resulting pandemic thereby facilitated his being asked to rejoin Sage. But since he very properly resigned first, it’s all good. See?

But all this logic appears to be very upsetting to the important people at the WHO. They take umbrage at charges that the vaccine manufacturers improperly influenced their decision making process or that they exaggerated the threat of the virus. People who make such scurrilous charges simply misunderstand the planning process.

Keiji Fukuda, MD, special adviser to the WHO director-general on pandemic flu, told reporters at a press briefing that the WHO welcomes constructive criticism, but said charges of a “false pandemic” by a group of European officials led by Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, a German physician who chairs the Council of Europe’s health committee, are “scientifically wrong and historically inaccurate.”

Wodarg and 13 others charged in a proposed resolution that pharmaceutical company pressure on the WHO and member countries have led governments to waste healthcare resources and expose their citizens to insufficiently tested vaccines. The action comes as several European countries are cutting back on their vaccine orders because of weak demand, ebbing flu activity, and the need for just one dose per person.

In a related development, the European Vaccine Manufacturers (EVM), a trade group that represents companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune, Novartis, and Sanofi, today in a statement rejected the Wodarg group’s allegations. “EVM believes that the assertions in this motion are unfounded and result from a misunderstanding of the pandemic planning process and the collaboration between public and private sector partners,” the group wrote.

…In its statement today, the EVM pointed out that governments have been working on pandemic preparedness plans for more than a decade and that other public health partners have been encouraged to respond to the risk of a pandemic.

The EVM said governments have asked the pharmaceutical industry to invest in vaccine research and development, conduct clinical studies, modify production facilities to make pandemic vaccine, and expand manufacturing capacity.

See? Governments ASKED them to do all this stuff. What were they going to do, say no? No we don’t want all this work. No thanks. ??? What are you nuts?

No, see, they collaborated. They were all in it together. Governments and big pharma. Together. One big happy family.

The pandemic declaration in the summer of 2009 called for clear action, the group wrote. “This demanded an unprecedented level of collaboration, involving WHO, national governments, health authorities, regulatory agencies, scientists, healthcare professionals, and private sector companies to facilitate a robust response and deliver the appropriate countermeasures.”

BUT!!! Having said that, there was never any conflict of interest, ok? Never. Anyway, from January 25-27 a lot of important people will be at the annual North American Vaccine Forum in Washington DC, where they can be a big happy family together and talk about all the ways to make money developing new vaccines!

Building on the resounding success of the last 7 North American Vaccine Forums, the 2010 event will once again provide a highly valuable meeting place for senior level industry and public sector figures driving the development of novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines.

The 3 day conference program will feature a mixture of business, regulatory and scientific topics, with speakers drawn from big pharma/biotech, the regulators and and vaccine developers themselves. Breakout sessions, workshops and panel discussions combine to make the event highly interactive.

In 2010, the Washington Vaccine Forum will once again run concurrently with Phacilitate’s annual Cell & Gene Therapy Forum. Participants will be able to select the conference agenda of greatest current value to themselves and their organization, with all networking opportunities shared between the two events. Breakfast and lunch buffets, extended refreshment breaks and evening receptions will all take place in the shared exhibition area.

“Excellent. The best”

Dr Michael Balady, Acting Deputy Director, Medical Countermeasures, Office of Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response (ASPR), US Department of Health & Human Services

A total of 500+ senior level attendees participated in 2009. For more information on how your company can raise it’s profile with both sets of attendees all under one roof and in just three days at the ‘10 event, please click here.

Again, there’s NO conflict of interest. It is NOT the case that these people get together to think up ways to make money off of vaccines. As a matter of fact, the CDC would like to speak to you about FRAUD and ABUSE regarding the H1N1 vaccines. That’s right. SOME PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SITUATION. http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/h1n1_fraud_abuse.htm

Charging for the 2009 H1N1 monovalent influenza vaccine
Note: 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine doses are provided at no cost to providers by the Federal government. Patients may not be charged for the vaccine or ancillary supplies. However, administration fees may be charged.
Requesting an out-of-pocket fee directly from the patient that is above the maximum regional Medicare allowable charge.
Selling 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine or ancillary supplies provided by the Federal government
Counterfeit vaccines
Adulteration of vaccine
Theft of vaccine
Consumer fraud
Marketing and advertising, often on websites or via the internet, including fraudulent product claims, bogus products, and implied endorsement by federal agencies (including use of federal government agency logos)
Diversion, which includes situations where legitimate prescription drugs/vaccines are:
1. Entered into illegal channels (i.e., black market, illegal Internet sales, sales without prescription, etc.) and/or
2. Acquired or obtained by an illegal method (cargo/wholesale/manufacturer/ distributor theft, smuggling into the USA, illegal sale to unauthorized party without prescription, etc.).

Despicable.

Cartoon Poster: Close-up of the short-tempered egotistical Duck known as Daffy.

airport security? oh let’s ask the experts.

Jan 5

Posted by A. Peasant in Africa, China, Experts, Israel, Nigeria | No Comments

Let’s talk about airport security. Back in November Middle East Online carried a story about Israel’s secret profiling at airports in South Africa and allegedly around the world:

South Africa deported an Israeli airline official last week following allegations that Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, had infiltrated Johannesburg international airport in an effort to gather information on South African citizens, particularly black and Muslim travellers.

The move by the South African government followed an investigation by local TV showing an undercover reporter being illegally interrogated by an official with El Al, Israel’s national carrier, in a public area of Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport.

The programme also featured testimony from Jonathan Garb, a former El Al guard, who claimed that the airline company had been a front for the Shin Bet in South Africa for many years.

Of the footage of the undercover reporter’s questioning, he commented: “Here is a secret service operating above the law in South Africa. We pull the wool over everyone’s eyes. We do exactly what we want. The local authorities do not know what we are doing.”

The Israeli foreign ministry is reported to have sent a team to South Africa to try to defuse the diplomatic crisis after the government in Johannesburg threatened to deport all of El Al’s security staff.

Mr Garb’s accusations have been supported by an investigation by the regulator for South Africa’s private security industries.

They have also been confirmed by human rights groups in Israel, which report that Israeli security staff are carrying out racial profiling at many airports around the world, apparently out of sight of local authorities.

So you can click through to read how they accomplish this profiling, and who they target.

Mr Garb commented on the show: “What we are trained is to look for the immediate threat – the Muslim guy. You can think he is a suicide bomber, he is collecting information. The crazy thing is that we are profiling people racially, ethnically and even on religious grounds … This is what we do.”

…The former staff also accuse El Al of smuggling weapons – licensed to the local Israeli embassy – into the airport for use by the secret agents.

Nooooooh.

Check here for connections between China, Nigeria and Israel. Perhaps Nigeria has been getting a little too cozy with China, since 2006, for some people’s comfort?

In 2008 Nigerian lawmakers debated the wisdom of accepting an offer from Mossad to “train the country’s security operations under a secret security pact.”

Also speaking to Daily Trust in a telephone interview, Senator Aliyu said the presence of Mossad in the country does not in any way pose threat to the internal security and sovereignty of Nigeria. He said “as one of the best intelligence agency in the world, Nigeria stands to benefit a lot from the training arrangement between the Mossad and her security agencies….On whether the training agreement has any link with insinuations by some foreign countries that terrorists groups exist in Nigeria, the Senator said, “I don’t think so. Really I want to say that there is no link between such intelligence report and what is going on now. They are only here to impact on our intelligence agents. There is no way it will affect our national security negatively.”

Yes of course. Famous last words.

Finger pointing has ensued over the glaring mistakes which allowed the crotch bomber to get past multiple layers of security, in multiple airports. Nigeria and Ghana have traded accusations.

On Friday, on the continent, Ghana and Nigeria also got locked in an argument over where the suspect began his journey to Amsterdam. As this evolved, a report monitored on British Broadcasting Corporation on Friday also said that the State Security Service and the National Intelligence Agency were also trading blame on the incident.

Could it be? After accepting Israel’s “help,” the Nigerian intelligence community has fallen into “disarray?” Just like the United States intelligence community?

The State Security Service has blamed the Nigerian Intellingence Agency for failing to share key information two months ago about Umar Abdulfarouk Abdulmutallab, the young man who allegedly tried to blow up a plane on Christmas day over the United States with nearly 300 people on board.

If the charge is confirmed, it could highlight the disarray within the Nigerian intelligence community which parallels the mistakes President Barack Obama said had been made by US officials, reports the BBC.
…The two senior DSS officials said the agency that Mr Abdulmutallab Snr. had briefed had been the NIA. The DSS officials went on to claim that although their agency was responsible for maintaining airport “watch-lists” of people under suspicion, the NIA had not shared the father’s information with them.

Yes, intelligence agencies in disarray. Not cooperating with each other. Too bad they didn’t have the Shin Bet there. They would have profiled him going through the airport. There’s no way he would have waltzed through in 27 minutes.

AbdulMutallab, according to an official statement from the Federal Government last night, came into the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos from Katoka International Airport Accra, Ghana, via a Virgin Nigeria flight on December 24 at 20.08 hours and immediately went to check in at the KLM counter by 20.35 hours.

…“Security screening at airports are carried out by airport authorities at the airports. In Accra, Ghana Airport Authority carried out the screening. In Nigeria, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) carried out the screening; the same with Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam,” Ayigbe said, adding that authorities in Amsterdam are not indicting KLM rather, the government of Netherlands has ordered for the more sophisticated machines for more comprehensive screening of passengers, especially those going to the US.

Well, actually, we know that an Israeli company, ITCS, handles security at the Amsterdam airport, among others, like all the airports involved on 911. So he wasn’t whisked through security there. See how good they are? No, in that case he had a personal escort.

watch al qaeda show up in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon next. the groundwork has been laid.

Jan 5

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1. Grenade attack on Fatah office in Lebanon

BEIRUT, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) — Unidentified assailants threw a hand grenade at the office of Fatah movement in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported Monday. Fatah commander in Lebanon Sultan Abul Aynein said that the grenade was found next to the headquarters of the Fatah movement in the Rashdiyeh refugee camp, near southern Lebanese city of Tyre. He added the assailants threw the bomb after a “family dispute”. On Sunday, Abul Aynein accused external parties of seeking to “export” al-Qaida fighters to refugee camps across Lebanon.

guilt, terror, mind control: oh hey it’s just global warming

Dec 14

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Extrapolate.

bringing home the bacon

Nov 28

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In January 2004, CIDRAP published an article explaining that the CDC decided to conduct research into “the worst fears” of infectious disease experts.

Jan 14, 2004 (CIDRAP News) – One of the worst fears of infectious disease experts is that the H5N1 avian influenza virus now circulating in parts of Asia will combine with a human-adapted flu virus to create a deadly new flu virus that could spread around the world.

That could happen, scientists predict, if someone who is already infected with an ordinary flu virus contracts the avian virus at the same time. The avian virus has already caused at least 48 confirmed human illness cases in Asia, of which 35 have been fatal. The virus has shown little ability to spread from person to person, but the fear is that a hybrid could combine the killing power of the avian virus with the transmissibility of human flu viruses.

Now, rather than waiting to see if nature spawns such a hybrid, US scientists are planning to try to breed one themselves—in the name of preparedness.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will soon launch experiments designed to combine the H5N1 virus and human flu viruses and then see how the resulting hybrids affect animals. The goal is to assess the chances that such a “reassortant” virus will emerge and how dangerous it might be.

CDC officials confirmed the plans for the research as described recently in media reports, particularly in a Canadian Press (CP) story.

Everytime I read that “now rather than waiting…” sentence, it blows my mind. As I wrote back in April:

Is that a Stupid Fucking Idea, or what? Let’s play with matches. Let’s run with scissors. Let’s pour lighter fluid on a blazing fire. Oh wait I know…let’s create in a laboratory a killer mutant virus that nature would probably never generate on its own.

So here we are. They made it and then they spread it, “accidentally” of course.

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I was looking around at CIDRAP the other day. They have a whole section on bioterrorism — anthrax, plague, smallpox, tularemia, VHF (Ebola-type stuff), and botulism.

Neither anthrax nor botulism make effective bioterrorism agents. But that doesn’t stop the spending or the fear mongering.

I don’t know about tularemia. It may be another hyped-up threat that sucks more money into the R&D machine, but the symptoms sound vaguely familiar:

Pneumonic Tularemia

Organisms enter the lungs either through inhalation of infectious aerosols or through hematogenous spread. The infectious dose by the respiratory route is 10 to 50 organisms (see References: Franz 1997, Saslow 1961).

Once in the lungs, the organisms rapidly enter pulmonary macrophages (within minutes) and begin replicating. The explosive replicative capacity of F tularensis appears to be an important factor in virulence associated with pulmonary infection (see References: Malik 2006). An intense accumulation of inflammatory cells, particularly neutrophils and macrophages, can be seen at sites of bacterial replication. The influx of neutrophils appears to play more of a destructive than protective role in the host response.

The following features have been noted for pneumonic tularemia (see References: Lillie 1937, Stuart 1945, Syrjala 1986):

Ulcerative bronchitis and bronchiolitis

Hemorrhagic edema with a nonspecific inflammatory response consisting of lymphocytes, plasma cells, and eosinophils (early in the clinical course)

Discrete nodules with acute suppurative necrosis of lung parenchyma

Alveolar exudates involving mononuclear cells, fibrin, and red blood cells

Nodular, segmental, or lobar consolidation

Caseous or cavitary lesions (later in the clinical course)

Granuloma formation (late in the clinical course)

Pleural fibrinous, fibrinocellular, or fibrinocaseous exudation

Hilar lymphadenopathy

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The fact is, these bioterrorist agents keep a lot of people busy. They are profitable. They are useful for manipulating people.

In October 2007, the US government awarded several contracts:

Oct 16, 2007 (CIDRAP News) – The US government recently awarded contracts totaling about $34 million to two companies for development of drugs to treat pneumonic plague, tularemia, and anthrax, three of the diseases terrorists are deemed most likely to try to exploit.

Nanotherapeutics, Inc., based in Alachua, Fla., announced it had received a $20 million contract to develop NanoGENT, an inhaled form of the injectable antibiotic gentamicin, for treating pneumonic plague and tularemia.

PharmAthene, Inc., based in Annapolis, Md., announced last month that it had been awarded a contract worth up to $13.9 million for further development of a human monoclonal antibody called Valortim to be used as an anthrax antitoxin.

The contracts were awarded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), both part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

More spending:

December 2009

Botulinum toxin may cause a neuroparalytic illness that may result in respiratory failure and require prolonged mechanical ventilation. As medical resources needed for supportive care of botulism in a bioterrorist event may quickly overwhelm the local healthcare systems, biodefense research efforts have been directed towards the development of a vaccine to prevent botulism. While human botulism has been caused only by toxin serotypes A, B, and E (rarely serotype F), all seven known immunologically distinct toxin serotypes (A - G) may potentially cause intoxication in humans from a bioterrorist event. A pentavalent (ABCDE) botulinum toxoid (PBT) has been administered as an investigation new drug (IND) to at-risk individuals for nearly 50 years. Due to declining immunogenicity of the PBT, research efforts have been directed at development of both improved (less local reactogenicity) botulinum toxoids and recombinant vaccines as potential vaccine candidates to replace the PBT.

Authors

Janice M. Rusnak

Clinical Research Management, Special Immunizations Program, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, MD

Leonard A. Smith

Division of Toxicology, USAMRIID, Fort Detrick, MD

Fear mongering: The “overwhelmed hospital” scenario has been duly noted (1) here, (2) here, and (3) here. The corporate media wants the public to worry about such things.

(1) Sun Sentinal 10/19/09: Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases.

(2) Washington Post 10/24/09: Instead, officials said the action provides greater flexibility for hospitals which may suddenly find themselves confronted with a surge of new patients as the virus sweeps through their communities.

(3) NYT 10/26/09: Federal officials say the possibility that America’s already crowded intensive care units would be overwhelmed in the coming weeks by flu patients is small but they remain vigilant.

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In the past, people who are paid to know things have claimed not to know them. Then “terrorists” struck. From their position of faux-ignorance, the authorities then expressed “regret.” They are only human, after all, and so they make mistakes. Anyway, who could have imagined blah blah blah…

But should a bioterrorism agent be dispersed, I am here to tell you, there’s no way the authorities can claim ignorance. There are so many authorities in on this you can’t even believe how many.

This is a list of people associated with Landes Bioscience Journals. These journals cover 30 different topics, each one with editorial boards. This list applies to the Human Vaccines journal, one of 30 journals.

Editor-in-Chief for Human Vaccines: Ronald W. Ellis
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
NasVax Ltd; Ness Ziona, Israel

Associate Editors:
Sujit K. Bhattacharya, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases; Kolkata, India
Sally Blower, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA; Los Angeles, California USA
Joel Bozue, United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Maryland USA
Robert S. Daum, University of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois USA
Heather Davis, Coley Pharmaceutical Group; Kanata, Ontario Canada
John Donnelly, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics; Siena, Italy
Robert Edelman, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Baltimore, Maryland USA
John Edmunds, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre; London, UK
Jean-Louis Excler, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative; Trelex, Switzerland
Ian Feavers, National Institute for Biological Standards and Control; Potters Bar, UK
Ricardo Galler, Instituto de Tecnologia em Imunobiologicos, BioManguinhos; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Nathalie Garcon, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals; Rixensart, Belgium
Gregory M. Glenn, Intercell USA Inc.; Gaithersburg, Maryland USA
Michael F. Good, Queensland Institute of Medical Research; Queensland, Australia
Carlos Guzman, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research; Braunschweig, Germany
Michael G. Hanna, Jr., Intracel; Frederick, Maryland USA
Leonard C. Harrison, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research; Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Luc Hessel, Sanofi Pasteur MSD; Lyon, France
Genevieve Inchauspe, Transgene; Lyon, France
Mark Kane, Consultant
Helena Kayhty, National Public Health Institute; Helsinki, Finland
Kevin Killeen, Matrivax Corporation; Boston, Massachusetts USA
Keith P. Klugman, Emory University; Atlanta, Georgia USA
Wayne C. Koff, International AIDS Vaccine Institute; New York, New York USA
Reiner Laus, BN ImmunoTherapeutics; Mountain View, California USA
Orin S. Levine, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Baltimore, Maryland USA
Philip O. Livington, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; New York, New York USA
Nils Lycke, Univeristy of Göteborg; Göteborg, Sweden
C. Russ Middaugh, University of Kansas; Lawrence, Kansas USA
Timothy F. Murphy, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Buffalo, New York USA
Mark J. Newman, PaxVax, Inc.; San Diego, California USA
Miguel O’Ryan, University of Chile; Santiago, Chile
Lawrence Paoletti, Harvard Medical School; Boston, Massachusetts USA
Michael Pichichero, University of Rochester Medical Center; Rochester, New York USA
Gerald B. Pier, Harvard Medical School; Boston, Massachusetts USA
Michael W. Russell, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Buffalo, New York USA
Jo Southern, Institute of Child Health; London, UK
Pramod K. Srivastava, Center for Immunotherapy, University of Connecticut; Farmington, Connecticut USA
James Tartaglia, Sanofi Pasteur; Toronto, ON, Canada
Jeffrey Ulmer, Novartis Vaccines; Cambridge, MA USA
Matthias von Herrath, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology; San Diego, California USA
Brian J. Ward, McGill University; Montreal, QC Canada
Michael Watson, Sanofi-Pasteur; Lyons, France
David B. Weiner, University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Bruce G. Weniger, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Atlanta, Georgia USA

Editorial Board:

Sudhir Agrawal, Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
Francis Andre, Atobis S.A.; Brussels, Belgium
Ruth Arnon, Weizmann Institute of Science; Rehovot, Israel
Stephen Black, Kaiser-Permanente; Oakland, California USA
Steven N. Chatfield, Health Protection Agency; London, UK
Robert Chen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Atlanta, Georgia USA
Ron Dagan, Ben-Gurion University; Beer-Sheva, Israel
Angus G. Dalgleish, St. George’s Hospital Medical School; London, UK
Anne De Groot, EpiVax, Inc.; Providence Rhode Island USA
R. Gordon Douglas, Consultant; Niantic, Connecticut USA
Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University; Nashville, Tennessee USA
José Esparza, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Seattle, Washington USA
Ian Frazer, University of Queensland; Queensland, Australia
Lance K. Gordon, ImmunoBiologics Corp.
Jaap Goudsmit, Crucell; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dan Granoff, Oakland Research Institute; Oakland, California USA
Brian Greenwood, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; London, UK
Marion F. Gruber, Food and Drug Administration; Rockville, Maryland USA
Ian Gust, University of Melbourne; Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Scott A. Halperin, Dalhousie University; Halifax, NS, Canada
Karl Erik Hellstrom, Harborview Medical Center; Seattle, Washington USA
David Kaslow, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, Pennsylvania USA
Myron M. Levine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Baltimore, Maryland USA
Alf Lindberg, Nobel Foundation; Stockholm, Sweden
Philip Minor, National Institute of Biological Standards and Control; Hertfordshire, UK
Thomas Monath, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Harvard, Maryland USA
Paul A. Offit, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA
Stanley A. Plotkin, Sanofi Pasteur; Doylestown, Pennsylvania USA
Regina Rabinovich, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Seattle, Washington USA
Philip K. Russell, Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute; Potomac, Maryland USA
David Salisbury, UK Department of Health; London, UK
Bing Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai, China
John Treanor, University of Rochester; Rochester, New York, USA
Howard L. Weiner, Harvard Medical School; Boston, Massachusetts USA

Look at them all! Do you feel reassured knowing that all these smart people are on the human vaccine bandwagon? I see pigs at a trough but that’s just me.

I will just call your attention to one name in particular, Ruth Arnon.

In 2004, BiondVax, an Israeli company, developed a “quantum leap in technology” for influenza vaccines. [link now defunct - ed.] The key players are Isaac Devash, Chairman, Ron Babecoff, Founder and CEO, and Ruth Arnon, Weizmann Institute of Science Professor.

“It’s a quantum leap in technology,” he told ISRAEL21c. “It’s a totally different concept from other vaccinations. What generally happens today is that there are 120 monitoring stations globally that look for new strains of virus around the world. Once it shows up, they identify the surface of the virus and develop a vaccine to combat it.”

“Professor Arnon said ‘I don’t want to play that game’. It’s tedious work identifying new strains of the virus and there are always new ones coming up. She said let’s look conceptually at the virus - beneath the surface - to see if there are particular elements that don’t change. And then let’s make a vaccine out of those parts which are universal in all viruses,” explained Devash.

Well it turns out BiondVax enjoyed tremendous success. The stock price went right through the roof this year.

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At the end of January, in Washington DC, many of these people will probably attend Phacilitate’s 8th annual North American Vaccine Forum.

Building on the resounding success of the last 7 North American Vaccine Forums, the 2010 event will once again provide a highly valuable meeting place for senior level industry and public sector figures driving the development of novel prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines.

The 3 day conference program will feature a mixture of business, regulatory and scientific topics, with speakers drawn from big pharma/biotech, the regulators and and vaccine developers themselves. Breakout sessions, workshops and panel discussions combine to make the event highly interactive.

In 2010, the Washington Vaccine Forum will once again run concurrently with Phacilitate’s annual Cell & Gene Therapy Forum. Participants will be able to select the conference agenda of greatest current value to themselves and their organization, with all networking opportunities shared between the two events. Breakfast and lunch buffets, extended refreshment breaks and evening receptions will all take place in the shared exhibition area.

“Excellent. The best”

Dr Michael Balady, Acting Deputy Director, Medical Countermeasures, Office of Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response (ASPR), US Department of Health & Human Services

A total of 500+ senior level attendees participated in 2009. For more information on how your company can raise it’s profile with both sets of attendees all under one roof and in just three days at the ‘10 event, please click here.

Here’s the advisory board:

The Advisory Board for the Phacilitate Vaccine Forum Washington 2010 is:

Professor Myron Levine, Professor & Director, Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Dr Seth Berkley, President & CEO, IAVI
Dr Kanwarjit Singh, Senior Program Officer, Policy & Finance, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr William Gruber, Vice President, Clinical Research, Wyeth Vaccines
Una S. Ryan, OBE, PhD, President & CEO, Diagnostics For All
Dr Rino Rappuoli, Global Head, Vaccines Research, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics
Dr Allan P. Jarvis, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, sanofi pasteur
Stephen M. Sammut, Senior Fellow, Wharton Health Care Systems & Venture Partner, Burrill & Company
Dr Ronald W. Ellis, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, NasVax Ltd, Israel & Vice President, R&D, Meytav Technology Incubator, Israel
Dr Heather L. Davis, Executive Director & Ottawa Site Head, Vaccines Research, Pfizer
Dr Steve Chatfield, Director, Centre for Emergency Preparedness & Response, Health Protection Agency

“I have decided to join Phacilitate’s Advisory Board in order to help foster the sharing of scientific, development and commercial information across the field of vaccines and biologics. If we are successful at accomplishing that, we can advance more products to the market in order to foster the improvement of human health. I seek to proceed advise on meeting agendas and invitees that will advance this cause.”
Dr Ronald W. Ellis, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, NasVax Ltd, Israel & Vice President, R&D, Meytav Technology Incubator, Israel

“I have joined Phacilitate’s Advisory Board in order to help provide a current international forum to discuss the major issues that face the development and commercialization of vaccines today and, wherever possible, to help move such discussions towards workable solutions that will benefit both current and future global immunization programs.”
Dr Allan P. Jarvis, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, sanofi pasteur

This is all about networking and making money. This entire industry exists to transfer public sector money over to the private sector.

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And we have our people in the public sector all too willing to help transfer your money while pretending to protect you from terrorists.

The GAO recently completed a report to congressional requesters: Homeland Defense: Planning, Resource and Training Issues Challenge DOD’s Response to Domestic, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and High-Yield Explosive Incidents. [pdf]

Bottom line: The DOD is not ready should something happen. Whatever money has been spent, whatever planning has been done, it’s not enough. Control and coordination must be tightened up between the DOD, FEMA, DHS, and local and state governments, or we could be looking at another Katrina-type response, and that would be “regrettable.”

GAO is making recommendations to DOD to improve the link between DOD and other federal plans, match capabilities with requirements, increase readiness, and improve oversight of CCMRF funding and resourcing. DOD agreed or partially agreed with the recommendations and cited ongoing or planned actions to implement them. (page 2)

…DHS is leading a governmentwide effort to develop an Integrated Planning System that would link the plans of all federal agencies involved in incident response, including DOD’s; however, this effort is not yet complete. While much in the way of federal guidance has been developed, to be most effective, policy documents must be operationalized by further detailing roles and responsibilities for each entity that may be involved in responding to high-risk or catastrophic incidents. (page 19)

Pages and pages of more things the DOD needs to do in order to effectively respond to an attack. Spend more money. If something went wrong tomorrow, based on this report, one would expect communications to break down somewhere along the chain, and that would lead to unnecessary civilian casualties no doubt. But in that event this report will be very useful for covering asses, because powerful people can shake their heads regrettably and say yes, we knew there were problems and we were trying to get them corrected, but we just ran out of time. We’re so sorry for your losses. Anyway who could have imagined blah blah blah….

So guess who requested this report?

The Honorable Joseph I. Lieberman Chairman
The Honorable Susan M. Collins Ranking Member Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate
The Honorable Adam Smith Chairman
The Honorable Jeff Miller Ranking Member Subcommittee on Terrorism and Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives
The Honorable Mac Thornberry House of Representatives

That loathesome creature.

Climategate: unprofessional scientists, professional bullshitters

Nov 24

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via aangirfan

Don’t you just wonder how many other things like this are kicking around?

expand your definition of organized crime

Oct 27

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Warning: this post contains some very disturbing details.

Let’s start here: Drew Peterson.

Drew Peterson was charged over the death of ex-wife Kathleen Savio, whose bloodied body was found in an empty bathtub in 2004. Her death was at first believed to be an accidental drowning. Ms Savio’s family has long voiced suspicions, saying she had feared Peterson and told relatives that if she died it would not be an accident. Their fears resurfaced after the October 2007 disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, then 23. Stacy, the mother of his two young children, is still missing.

A brash moustachioed Illinois sergeant with nearly 30 years’ service, Peterson courted publicity after the death and subsequent disappearance, and last year he was slapped with a felony gun charge. In December, the Harley-riding 55-year-old, who is still officially married to his missing fourth wife, announced he was getting engaged for a fifth time - to another 23-year-old woman.

Peterson’s arrest and first-degree murder charge on Thursday came after he was stopped for a traffic violation and was held on a $20m (£13.2m) bond. “I guess I should have returned those library books,” a handcuffed Peterson reportedly quipped as police led him into headquarters after his arrest.

Unlike Peterson, police aren’t joking. “We are very confident in our case,” Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow said. Meanwhile, one of Peterson’s lawyers said the indictment was not a surprise. “There was tremendous pressure for the government to do something in this case,” Andrew Abood said. But he added that one of Peterson’s teenage sons with dead ex-wife Savio has “provided a lock tight alibi” for his father, who faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.

So this guy got a lot of air time. Experts opined, which I wrote about here:

Drew Peterson’s behavior and words during interviews with TODAY and NBC News did not match up with what would be expected from someone whose wife had abandoned him and his children for another man, two analysts said Thursday. [Unless he is a psychopath, in which case his behavior is perfectly consistent. - ed.]

Body language expert Tonya Reiman and NBC analyst and former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt reviewed the tapes of Peterson talking exclusively to TODAY’s Matt Lauer on Wednesday and saw a man sitting back with legs spread wide in a position of arrogance. They said they also saw a man who showed no anger or frustration or concern for his children, who have been left without a mother since the Oct. 28 disappearance of his fourth wife, Stacy.

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It’s just so puzzling, isn’t it? What does it mean when a person shows indifference to the pain and suffering of his own family members and children, shows no expression or remorse unless talking about himself, and stalks his own wife? Do you think the FBI Profiler knows the answer to this question? I don’t suppose he could have done his job unless he knew how to recognize psychopaths, do you? Why doesn’t The TODAY Show let you know that Drew Peterson’s behavior is consistent with him being a psychopath, and that this condition affects about five out of one hundred people and not one in a thousand as you might be forgiven for concluding? Wouldn’t it be good for people to know that sort of thing? Maybe they could protect themselves.

Are the media and the FBI being inexplicably obtuse regarding psychopaths and their prevalence in the general population (6%)?

They have resources and experts, and yet they don’t tell people the truth about psychopaths. Instead, whenever a Drew Peterson or a Philip Markoff comes around, the media will drag the whole thing out laboriously pondering wondering scratching their foreheads about these curious evil people. My goodness gracious where do they come from we just don’t understand what might possess someone to commit such horrible crimes blah blah blah, “news” cycle after “news” cycle. You Learn Nothing Useful. Instead you receive lurid details and get a little more afraid because you don’t understand how seemingly normal people can go off and do these violent things. In fact these people are not normal, and to make matters worse, you definitely know some because they’re not all that rare, either.

That’s just the beginning. Psychopaths are predators, and they prey on human beings. And many psychopaths have lots of money, which they use to lure vulnerable human beings, poor women and children, into short brutal lives of horror and degradation.

This is graphic. This is reality.

Lolita is from Nigeria and at only 26 years of age her testimony seems almost unbelievable. Her story perfectly illustrates some of the hardships thousands of African women go through. Prostitution has reduced her to a drug addict and an alcoholic with aids pulling her into the doomed path of the grim reaper.

“If only I knew what was in store for me here, in this crazy place, this place that so many people admire, this place they all want to come to (…) a place where we, Africans, are considered as good for nothing, slaves who are made to eat human excrement and drink their urine. Some find it normal that sick people, perverts, rich people… use their money and influence to gravely abuse other humans.

They say that we are adults and therefore consenting, but this is not true because no one asked for my consent before throwing me into this hell hole. I was forced and threatened… and if we are adults, what about the kids who find themselves in this milieu? Those people pay a lot to abuse the youngest ones. Poor people do not pay such ludicrous amounts of money for such things, simply because all their money will still not be enough to buy these…

I am disgusted and no more afraid, and by the way, who cares? My days are numbered anyway. My aids is in its final stages. They have more respect for dogs than for us. I know that not all the girls go through what I have been through. But I know what goes on in this milieu and why the girls deny all those horrendous things so as not to fall victim to their anger. Their riches give them the right over our lives… If their drugs, their aids and alcohol had not brought me to my death bed, their filth and the filth of their dogs that I was made to swallow as well as their violence would have done it anyway.

I have prayed to God to forgive me and take me back. No human being can live with what I have in my head. I only have to close my eyes for a few seconds for all the horrors to come rushing back. Everyday and every night I go through the same torture. I need someone to help me end it all, I have no energy in me to even try it. My God! I want just a moment of silence to rest. I just want it over and done with and just go, go, go…

My troubles began in Lagos. I came across an internet announcement, which said that a businessman was looking for women who wanted to get married for his dating agency. There were photos and stories of happy and successful marriages. Apart from the internet announcement, I also answered to announcements posted in these magazines that we find everywhere now. It all went very fast. The man contacted me and we started communicating via the Internet. He promised me things that no woman would refuse. A dream. In a matter of three months, I had every single paper needed to leave for London. He also gave me the names of persons I had to meet and everything went well. I also had to go to Benin City (a city in Nigeria, ndlr) to collect a small parcel for him. I was a bit taken aback when I realized that the little parcel he was talking about were three young boys between the ages of eight and twelve. Their passports and visas were ready. Everything was ok. I went to see a guy called “wizard” for instructions.

Our trip took us through Ghana where someone provided us with Liberian passports with which we traveled to London. This was to help us obtain refugee status with ease. We left after spending three days in a shantytown in Accra where we were hidden to “avoid being spotted by jealous people who were not as lucky as us!” hmmm… The youngest boy was gripped by fear. He cried a lot, his whole body shook and could not utter a word. His only refuge were my arms and the only moment he left my arms was to allow me to go to the bathroom…

At the airport, my fiancé and the person who was to collect the children were waiting. The separation was very painful. A lot of force was needed to tear the little boy from me. I never heard of those children again. I followed this man whom I knew nothing about apart from the fact that he called himself “Bryan”. We barely got to his house when the nightmare began. First of all, he wanted us to do it right away. But I told him that I needed a some time as it is not too easy to open up to someone I did not know, just like that. But his violent grip made me give in immediately. My first hours on the English soil were marked with rape and violence on somebody’s living room floor. He took a rest, drank whiskey and came back to do those horrible and painful things that I didn’t even know existed, again and again. I thought I was going to die.

I was forced to do what he wanted, I knew only him and he had kept all my papers. After sexually abusing me, he asked me to watch films in which girls were having sex with animals. He said to study what the girls were doing because I was going to do the same soon. He said that my arrival had cost him a lot of money and I was going to have to pay him back. He also said that because he is a very nice man, he would find good business and film contracts and split the money between the two of us. He gave me a little something to give me courage, but not to worry because there was a lot of money to be made. Lots of money. That little something to give me courage was, in fact, drugs. This is how, three weeks after my arrival in England, I became a bestial porn star addicted to drugs and traveling through eruopean capitals; Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris and London, my residence.

Once or twice a week, I was sent to film sets or individual homes to tape these nasty pornographic videos. Sometimes the master and his dogs would join in. It gave me nausea. His wife would look on, amused, while mixing herself cocktails. I took drugs and drunk before doing those scenes, because without getting high on drugs, I just couldn’t do it. These animals in me, their slaver, their hairs, their bad breathe, the scratches from their claws, while obeying their masters who would order them to go slow or use violence with me under them, forced to obey. I cried, I screamed, I prayed for the good lord to take me away. What was I doing? My poor mother would die if she knew. To prevent her from asking too many questions, I sent her money along with carefully staged photographs Bryan and I made.

The worst moment came was when I was made to perform oral sex on these animals. Sex with the animals were unprotected and the man told me that I was not at risk since God had made sure that animals could not impregnate humans. For years I did only that. Litres of animal sperm in my stomach. My body is so filthy that not a single child could possibly be conceived in it. One day, to spice up the scenes, the producer’s wife went and fetched puppies to suck my breasts. It was very painful because they sucked violently as there was no milk. The professionals sell these films across the world while others watch them during parties.

I have to confess that I made a lot of money. I had a house built back home and my family lives well. I pay the school fees for the young ones and I am respected and adored. My family is very proud of me because they know nothing about what I do. Out of greed, I worked more to get more money, which also meant more drugs and alcohol. Sometimes Bryan rented me out to a friend of his in the south of France, because in summer, the arrival of a number of yachts and celebrities at the côte d’azur means a big market for prostitutes and drug dealers. There are all night long orgies and they pay a lot. It is a change from the usual work and brings in a lot of money.

I think that is where I was infected with aids… and because I did not have regular medical check ups the disease was discovered too late. I was abandoned on the beaches of Saint Tropez. Bryan disappeared and changed his address. A prostitute from Poland came to my aid but since she was not able to cater for my drug needs as well as all she was doing for me, she introduced me to an African girl who was also involved in the same line of work, who introduced me to an association that takes care of African women with aids…

My disease is in its terminal stage. I won’t live past thirty. My body is covered with leeches, I am a drug addict, anorexic, alcoholic… I still work as a prostitute, but I am careful not to put my clients, who know nothing about my situation, at risk. I do it to help me buy drugs and alcohol. I take those things to speed things up, you know, my death. The images torture me and it is like a poison killing me in small doses. It is the worst kind of death. I regret so much for coming to Europe. Back home, I would be healthy, married and by now a mother…”

Wealthy people in London and Europe, yachts and celebrities, degrading their human sex slaves for fun and profit. Ah, do you see the need for covering up? From the highest echelons of society to the lowest, connections of ritual abuse, inhuman exploitation.

And what of all those people in between? Well, this is where the organized part of organized crime really comes in handy. Here are just a few scattered excerpts from a long piece that you should read, all the way through, if you want to understand the situation. When I say organized crime, I mean from the top of society to the bottom, and everywhere in between. I’m not talking white collar crime. I’m talking human sacrifice, and this is international:

“A U.S. Navy psychologist, who claims that the Office of Naval Intelligence had taken convicted murderers from military prisons, used behavior modification techniques on them, and then relocated them in American embassies throughout the world … The Navy psychologist was Lt. Commander Thomas Narut of the U.S. Regional Medical Center in Naples, Italy. The information was divulged at an Oslo NATO conference of 120 psychologists from the eleven nation alliance … The Navy provided all the funding necessary, according To Narut.

“Dr. Narut, in a question and answer session with reporters from many nations, revealed how the Navy was secretly programming large numbers of assassins. He said that the men he had worked with for the Navy were being prepared for commando-type operations, as well as covert operations in U.S. embassies worldwide. He described the men who went through his program as ‘hit men and assassins’ who could kill on command.

“Careful screening of the subjects was accomplished by Navy psychologists through the military records … and many were convicted murderers serving military prison sentences.”

…This operation involved killers drawn from military prisons, though there is no reason not to suspect that parallel programs were being conducted in civilian prisons as well. Prisons have, after all, provided fertile ground for any number of MK-ULTRA sub projects for decades. As the Napa Valley Sentinel article noted: “Mind control experiments … permeate mental institutions and prisons.” This was particularly true in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The NATO conference at which Dr. Narut dropped his bombshell was held in July of 1975. Strangely enough, the very next month Henry would be released to begin his eight year reign of terror.

…For anyone who doubts that the CIA (or any other of the numerous interwoven intelligence agencies) would recruit such a man, it is important to remember that we are talking about the same agencies that recruited some of the most bloodthirsty butchers of the Third Reich - men such as Klaus Barbie, Joseph Mengele, Adolf Eichmann, Otto Skorzeny, and Reinhard Gehlen.

Henry’s depravity pales in the shadows of men such as these. Henry probably couldn’t even hold his own against some of the organized crime figures - such as Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Santos Trafficante who were likewise recruited by the CIA. Or against the numerous thugs that the spooks have propped up as dictators around the world, men such as Somoza, Pinochet, Duvalier and Pahlavi, to name just a few.

In the company of men such as these, Henry would be just one of the boys. No less valuable an asset than, say, Dan Mitrione, the CIA torture aficionado who was a boyhood friend of Jim Jones. This man, known for having homeless persons kidnapped for the purpose of giving torture demonstrations to South American security forces in his soundproof underground chamber of horrors, was hailed as a hero and martyr when he himself was tortured and killed. Hell, Frank Sinatra and Jerry Lewis flew into his home town and performed a benefit show to raise money for the widow of this great American. So in the world of spooks, Henry would be in good company. As would his partner, Ottis Toole, who wouldn’t even have the distinction of being the only cannibal recruited by the CIA.

…Even if Henry was literate, he would not have known the story that Maury Terry was to later tell in his book, The Ultimate Evil. Told therein is a tale that chillingly parallels that of Henry and Ottis. What Terry revealed was that the murders attributed to the Son of Sam, the Manson Family, and numerous other interconnected killings (including possibly the Zodiac murders) were not what they appeared to be.

While these killings appeared to be the random work of serial/mass murderers, they actually were contract hits carried out for specific purposes by an interlocking network of Satanic cults (this book has, by the way, recently been reprinted by Barnes & Noble - go figure - and is highly recommended to anyone who questions the plausibility of Henry’s story.) In other words, these were professional hits orchestrated and disguised to look like the work of yet another ‘lone nut’ serial killer. Which is, of course, exactly what Henry claimed his crimes to be, several years before investigative journalist Terry published his convincingly documented work.

So according to this expose, we’ve got the CIA and other intelligence agencies doing mind-control experiments and using hardened criminals as killing machines, feeding human beings into an organized, interlocking network of Satanic cults, with priests conducting rituals in some cases. And in order for this to work, the public must believe a certain narrative about serial killers. And in order for that narrative to hold together, various key people along the way — priests, judges, social workers, law enforcement, media, etc. — must cooperate. And, apparently, they do.

Most Americans are familiar with what is considered the classic serial killer ‘profile.’ This was a notion first put forth by the venerable FBI, which coined the term ’serial killer’ and pioneered the concept of ‘profiling,’ in an alleged attempt to understand the phenomenon of mass murder. In truth, as we shall see, the concept of the serial killer profile was put forth largely to disinform the public.

…In other ways as well, Henry Lee - the consummate serial killer - did not even come close to matching the profile of what he was supposed to be. Strangely though, perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Henry Lee Lucas story is that it is not actually remarkable at all. In reviewing the case histories of some two dozen other alleged serial killers, it becomes readily apparent that few - if any - fit the supposed profile.

OK, I think you have enough here to do some independent research if you are so inclined. It’s difficult reading but from this vantage point you can begin to see how it all ties together. And then when you come across a story like this, to give but one example, you can speculate about “the rest of the story” — from a more fully informed perspective of the possibilities — what the janitor may have found or seen or heard that might cause him to murder the priest, why the 911 call might have been mishandled, etc. Look at all the confusion over possible motive here: employment, a relationship between the men, illness. It’s very confusing, very mysterious. And by the way, this happened in a very nice neighborhood. Do we know what really happened? No we do not. And will we find out what really happened? I really kinda doubt it.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/police_investigate_911_call_ma.html

A priest’s last call for help and the possibility a 911 dispatcher may have been waved off by the killer himself were a focus of law enforcement efforts today in the brutal rectory slaying here. …The operator’s first attempt went straight to voicemail. The second call was answered by Feliciano, who said there was no emergency, Bianchi said in a statement. He also said no police services were sent. …The investigation into the handling of the cell phone call was just one of many lines of inquiry today into Hinds’ death. The Morris County prosecutor confirmed the priest and janitor may have been arguing over Feliciano’s employment at the church, though he cautioned there were still other possible motives to consider. Two law enforcement sources have said authorities are pursuing reports of a possible relationship between the two men….Kenneth Mullaney, a lawyer who represents the Paterson Diocese, said Hinds had an “impeccable reputation.” He said school officials were under the impression that Hinds was going to tell Feliciano he was going to be laid off because of the parish’s financial problems. He added church officials have no idea whether the conversation took place. …Charlie Spencer, a longtime parishioner at St. Patrick’s Church, said Feliciano has been sick in recent months. Although Spencer wasn’t sure of his illness, he said Feliciano has been “in and out of the hospital.” “I feel that when this happened, something snapped in his mind,” Spencer said at the church….”All the neighbors were trying to figure out what he’d done. He wasn’t a terrorist. He didn’t do drugs,” O’Brien said. “He was just a normal family man trying to make a living.”

As well, stories like this might ding a few new bells:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/24/teen.jane.doe/index.html

Authorities have identified a teenager believed to be suffering from amnesia who was found on the streets of New York two weeks ago. Police say a CNN viewer in Maryland identified the young woman, who mysteriously turned up in Manhattan two weeks ago, claiming to have no memory of her family, her home or even her own name….The girl was found in Midtown Manhattan around 12:30 a.m. October 9 outside the Covenant House youth shelter, although the organization said that she was not a resident at the time and did not appear as if she intended to seek refuge at the facility….According to its Web site, “Covenant House New York is the nation’s largest adolescent care agency serving homeless, runaway and at-risk youth.” Nearly 7,000 youths reportedly seek shelter there per year.

The mask has been dropping in 2008. I think that will continue, and I think as that process unfolds we’re going to see the connections between these various pieces. We’re going to see inside the machine, how it works, how it feeds on human beings, and who operates the knobs and dials and switches. And I predict that some people will be shocked, shocked to learn the truth. Because, you know, it’s horrible. It really is.

Additional research:

The Pedophocracy by Dave McGowan

Interview with Dave McGowan, author of There’s Something About Henry (linked above) as well as Programmed to Kill and The Pedophocracy.

Links to six chapters of Programmed to Kill at Penny for your thoughts - scroll down right hand side.

S.M.A.R.T. Ritual Abuse

The Story of the CIA’s “Finders” Abduction Operation

aangirfan: Baby Peter and a top child abuse network