• Defects in newborns 11 times higher than normal • ‘War contaminants’ from 2004 attack could be cause By Martin Chulov at the Guardian White phosphorous smoke screens are fired by the US army as part of an early morning patrol in November 2004 on the outskirts of Falluja, Iraq, in preparation for an offensive…
From an exclusive interview with the WSJ: BAGHDAD—Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ruled out the presence of any U.S. troops in Iraq after the end of 2011, saying his new government and the country’s security forces were capable of confronting any remaining threats to Iraq’s security, sovereignty and unity. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sat down for…
From Bryan Bender at the Globe: Former officers and specialists say the defense industry’s political might is getting a new boost from an accelerating flow of retired generals and admirals. The Department of Defense… runs an exclusive job service to teach soon-to-retire generals how to land jobs in the defense industry. And military firms routinely…
From Carol D. Leonnig and T.W. Farnam at the Washington Post: Numerous times this year, members of Congress have held fundraisers and collected big checks while they are taking critical steps to write new laws, despite warnings that such actions could create ethics problems. The campaign donations often came from contributors with major stakes riding…
Bill Quigley (Loyola University Law Professor) and Vince Warren (both associated with the Center for Constitutional Rights) discuss Obama’s newest Executive Order: one designed to uproot the 5th Amendment’s requirement for due process and the 6th Amendment’s rights of the accused, including the right to a speedy trial. Here is their report on Huffington Post:…
The Washington Post team of Dana Priest and William Arkin have again pushed the envelope on what the mainstream media report on US government surveillance of citizens. I expect that, as happened congruent to Priest and Arkin’s stories on “Top Secret America” published last July, the Post will build a site with a linked set…
Reuters makes big news of a study showing that Glaxo’s swine flu vaccine (which contains ASO3 adjuvant) induced a stronger immune response than an unadjuvanted Baxter vaccine. This is nothing to crow about. Everyone agrees that adjuvants boost the immune response; the question is how much increased autoimmune illness or other adverse events occur as…
Surge seen only in Sweden and Finland (Helsingen Sanomet) Forty one children and young people in Finland who were vaccinated for the H1N1, or swine flu virus last winter have been diagnosed with narcolepsy. In addition, there have been a few cases of the disease in which there was no record of a swine…
Coleen Rowley, retired special agent and legal counsel for the Minneapolis field office of the FBI, and Bogdan Dzakovic, former special agent for the FAA’s security division, wrote this interesting piece: Frustrated investigators might have chosen to leak information that their superiors bottled up, perhaps averting the terrorism attacks. If WikiLeaks had been around in…
Today, the Daily Mail publishes for the first time the legal document which could trigger a full coroner’s inquest into the death of Dr David Kelly. The document, formally known as a memorial was written by group of campaigning doctors who have been trying to secure an inquest since 2004. It lists the sequence of…
As I told the audience at the Anthrax Letters Seminar on November 29, Please remember that the FBI “owns” the narrative of this case. It has released piecemeal findings, contradictory facts, and withheld a large amount of information from the public record… Most important, the facts of this case (as opposed to what the FBI…
Calls for an inquest are made anew as lack of fingerprints on the two items supposedly used to commit suicide, (3 packs of ten Co-proxamol [Darvon plus Tylenol] tablets and a pruning knife) becomes public knowledge. Note that blood levels of Darvon and Tylenol were therapeutic, and did not support any overdose. Why Kelly would…
A 2010 update to Cochrane’s 2007 metaanalysis of the published clinical trial literature on influenza vaccinations found not a lot to recommend the vaccines. Cochrane pointed out, “Healthy adults are presently targeted mainly in North America.” The implication is that Europe, where most reviewers reside, is too smart to push mass flu shots on its…
The manufacturer of the only licensed anthrax vaccine (Emergent Biosolutions, a.k.a. Bioport) purchased the company from the state of Michigan in September 1998 immediately after the Army promised to indemnify the company (provide a free insurance policy) against claims for side effects, lack of efficacy and other potential problems. The language in the contract was…
This was my presentation to the University of California Institute on Global Conflicts and Cooperation seminar on the anthrax letters, Nov. 29, 2010 in Washington, D.C. DVDs with the full video recording of the anthrax seminar can be purchased at cost ($12) from www.scientiapress.com. THE FBI’S ANTHRAX LETTERS INVESTIGATION: POINTS TO CONSIDER MERYL NASS, MD…
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