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Doctors accuse US of 'unethical practices' at
Guantanamo Bay September 7, 2007, Independent
(One
of the U.K.'s leading newspapers)http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2938962.ece
More
than
260 doctors from around the world have launched an unprecedented attack
on
the American medical establishment for its failure to condemn unethical
practices by medical practitioners at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in
Cuba. In a letter to
The Lancet, the doctors from 16 countries,
including Britain and America, say the failure of the US regulatory
authorities to act is "damaging the reputation of US military medicine".
They compare the actions of the military doctors, whom they
accuse
of being involved in the force-feeding of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and
of turning a blind eye to evidence of torture in Iraq and elsewhere, to
those of the South African security police involved in the death of the
anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko 30 years ago. The group
highlighted the force-feeding of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay last year
and
suggested the physicians involved should be referred to their
professional
bodies for breaching internationally accepted ethical guidelines. The
doctors wrote: "No healthcare worker in the War on Terror has been
charged
or convicted of any significant offence despite numerous instances
documented including fraudulent record-keeping on detainees who have died
as a result of failed interrogations ... The attitude of the US military
establishment appears to be one of 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no
evil'." The US introduced the policy of force-feeding, in which prisoners
are strapped to a chair and a tube is forced down the throat into the
stomach, after more than 100 prisoners went on hunger strike in 2005.
"Fundamental to doctors' responsibilities in attending a hunger striker
is
the recognition that prisoners have a right to refuse treatment," the
doctors wrote.
Chip implants linked to animal
tumorsSeptember 9, 2007, Associated
Presshttp://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hYssebw3_FRuof2bdR1YdCo8OgXA
When the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved implanting microchips in
humans, the manufacturer said it would save lives, letting doctors scan
the tiny transponders to access patients' medical records almost
instantly. The FDA found "reasonable assurance" the device was safe, and
a
sub-agency even called it one of 2005's top "innovative technologies."
But
neither the company nor the regulators publicly mentioned this:
A
series of veterinary and toxicology studies, dating to the mid-1990s,
stated that chip implants had "induced" malignant tumors in some lab mice
and rats. "The transponders were the cause of the tumors," said Keith
Johnson, a retired toxicologic pathologist, explaining ... the
findings of a 1996 study he led at the Dow Chemical Co. Leading cancer
specialists reviewed the research for The Associated Press and ... said
the findings troubled them. Some said they would not allow family members
to receive implants, and all urged further research before the
glass-encased transponders are widely implanted in people. To date, about
2,000 of the so-called radio frequency identification, or RFID, devices
have been implanted in humans worldwide. Did the agency know of the tumor
findings before approving the chip implants? The FDA declined repeated AP
requests to specify what studies it reviewed. The FDA is overseen by the
Department of Health and Human Services, which, at the time of VeriChip's
approval, was headed by Tommy Thompson. Two weeks after the device's
approval took effect on Jan. 10, 2005, Thompson left his Cabinet post,
and
within five months was a board member of VeriChip Corp. and Applied
Digital
Solutions. He was compensated in cash and stock options.
Note:For more reliable information about the use and dangers of microchips, click
here.
Investigative Report: U.S. ships unsafe
productsSeptember 9, 2007, Sacramento Bee
(leading newspaper of California's capital)http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/368866.html
Ten days
ago, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced another in a series
of well-publicized recalls of Chinese-made goods: children's art sets
containing crayons, markers, pastels, pencils, water colors -- and lead
--
distributed by Toys "R" Us. "Consumers should immediately take the
products
away from children," warned a news release from the federal government's
watchdog for thousands of household items. "The CPSC is committed to
protecting consumers and families." But 13 months earlier, in July 2006,
the CPSC ... authorized a Los Angeles company to export to Venezuela
16,520 art sets that violated the same CPSC standard protecting children
from dangerous art supplies. The following month, the agency authorized a
Miami company to export to Jamaica 5,184 sets of wax crayons that also
violated the standard. For decades the federal agency has allowed
American-based companies to export products deemed unsafe here. Those
products can present an even greater danger in a country that has only a
handful of government employees devoted to consumer protection, said R.
David Pittle, a former acting CPSC chairman who spent 22 years as a
senior
vice president for Consumers
Union. "If the United States doesn't have very many inspectors, how
many do you think there are in Honduras or Jamaica or Trinidad or
Bulgaria?" Pittle asked. Using the CPSC's database of exports of
non-approved products and hundreds of pages of documents obtained through
the federal Freedom of Information Act,
The Bee found that
between October 1993 and September 2006, the CPSC received 1,031 requests
from companies to export products the agency had found unsafe for
American
consumers. The CPSC approved 991 of those requests, or 96
percent.It's all Friedman's doingSeptember 9, 2007, Toronto Star
(Toronto's leading newspaper)http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/254550
[Naomi
Klein in her new book
The
Shock Doctrine] argues persuasively that over the last 40 years,
no single thinker has shaped the economic and political policies of
corporate CEOs, military dictators, presidents, prime ministers and
bankers more than [Milton] Friedman. His thesis was simple: The job of
governments is to facilitate the free flow of capital across national
borders by removing any impediments to trade [and establishing] a drastic
regimen of market deregulation, free trade treaties, spending cuts to
social programs, the breaking of labour unions and mass privatization of
publicly owned resources and industries ... chiefly through the careful
manipulation of collective crises such as wars, military coups, natural
disasters and economic recessions and depressions. For Friedman's ideas
to
be implemented, a nation's existing economy and civic society must first
be
reduced to a state of tabula rasa before being rebuilt according to the
[Chicago School] model. [Klein contends] that this capitalist doctrine
also has its roots in a series of mind-control experiments performed on
often unwilling patients by psychiatrist Ewan Cameron, working out of
McGill University in the late 1950s. He imposed a sustained regimen of
sensory deprivation, isolation, enforced sleep and a cocktail of LSD,
PCP,
insulin and barbiturates [and] a barrage of electroshock therapy.
The CIA, which paid for Cameron's experiments, modified these
techniques for use in prisoner-interrogation sessions. The results were
so
good that the CIA taught the methods to the Latin American security
forces
in charge of reprogramming anyone who dared resist the devastating free
market "reforms" that swept through South and Central America
after Augusto Pinochet's successful, Chicago-School inspired (and
CIA-sponsored) coup of populist leader Salvador Allende in 1973.
The shock doctrineSeptember 8, 2007, Guardian (One
of
the U.K.'s leading newspapers)http://business.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2165023,00.html
[A]t the
big Red Cross shelter in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ... the news ... was that
the Republican Congressman Richard Baker had told a group of lobbyists,
"We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it,
but God did." Joseph Canizaro, one of New Orleans' wealthiest developers,
had just expressed a similar sentiment: "I think we have a clean sheet to
start again. And with that clean sheet we have some very big
opportunities." All that week Baton Rouge had been crawling with
corporate
lobbyists helping to lock in those big opportunities: lower taxes, fewer
regulations, cheaper workers and a "smaller, safer city" - which in
practice meant plans to level the public housing projects. One of those
who saw opportunity in the floodwaters of New Orleans was the late Milton
Friedman, grand guru of unfettered capitalism and credited with writing
the rulebook for the contemporary, hyper-mobile global economy. "Most New
Orleans schools are in ruins," Friedman observed, "as are the homes of
the
children who have attended them. The children are now scattered all over
the country. This is a tragedy. It is also an opportunity." Friedman's
radical idea was that instead of spending a portion of the billions of
dollars in reconstruction money on rebuilding and improving New Orleans'
existing public school system, the government should provide families
with
vouchers, which they could spend at private institutions. In sharp
contrast
to the glacial pace with which the levees were repaired and the
electricity
grid brought back online,
the auctioning-off of New Orleans'
school
system took place with military speed and precision. Within 19 months,
with
most of the city's poor residents still in exile, New Orleans' public
school system had been almost completely replaced by privately run
charter
schools.
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