Up Close and Personal
An interview with Phillip Day
Is the EU muzzling the British press?

ECLUB: Can you give us a round-up of the week's events for the purposes of this bulletin?

PHILLIP DAY: It's been a busy week, as most of them are. I think one of the main issues starkly exposed this week concerns the EU's bid to gag the British press. As most know, Britain has a very - shall we say - predatory tabloid corps. Last week, the Mail on Sunday got its hooks into the German chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder….

ECLUB: What was that about?

PHILLIP DAY: Curiously, nothing of great importance… at least at first. Chancellor Schroeder, who has been married more times than a black widow spider on a Club Med holiday, was rumoured to be having an affair with German television presenter, Sandra Maischberger, allegedly putting his fourth marriage in jeopardy. This was the type of Sunday morning, tabloid feeding frenzy the British have become used to over the years… resigned to, if you like.

Most don't realise the German press has traditionally left the private lives of its politicians alone - a commendable trait, many would say. The British tabloids however, with their customary and often abused press freedom, begged to differ, and the Mail, with its anti-EU stance, thought the story spoke volumes about the real character of Schroeder, one of the EU's most powerful politicians. After all, the Mail on Sunday reasons, if Schroeder can lie and deceive his wife, can he do the same thing to his people?

ECLUB: For some time, the EU has been looking for ways to gag the freedom of the British press, that's for sure. Do you think Schroeder was wrong to make his move against the Mail?

PHILLIP DAY: My disgust with how the press routinely winds up the public with scare stories, public castigation and scandal is well known. However, tabloid journalism, while often reprehensible, is well known for rooting out wrongdoing and abuses the public otherwise wouldn't get to hear about. I think this aspect of British journalism is its saving grace and the reason most of us are still prepared to tolerate the other press abuses. Schroeder's mistake here was to react to the story at all, and then foolishly move with characteristic German efficiency to have the Mail censored under German law, which of course, can't be done… yet.

ECLUB: I imagine the Mail was ecstatic.

DAY: The Mail did the usual thing and cried foul. It got a petition together with thousands of signatures protesting abuses of press freedom and tried to hand it to the German Ambassador to Britain, Thomas Matussek, who refused to take it. "Sorry Schroeder," the paper defiantly declared, "You don't rule Britain - yet." The hamstrung German press watched with glee as other influential papers around the world came to the Mail's defence. The New York Times labelled Schroeder a bully who obviously "does not share the free-speech concerns of the West".

ECLUB: This is a politically sensitive time for Schroeder, isn't it?

PHILLIP DAY: He has some regional elections coming up in a few weeks which are being viewed as a barometer of the public's continued confidence or otherwise in his policies. Germany is suffering high unemployment and a terrible financial sector at this time, so credibility is especially important to Herr Schroeder these days. Simultaneously, he is celebrating a tremendous success of prestige within the European Union as one of two leading figures the continental public views as 'running the EU' - the other being the French premier, Jacques Chirac. Once again, we are seeing the Franco-German axis, which is the EU, asserting itself even more prominently this week, with all the talk of two EU presidents, and other such nonsense. The point is, Gerhard doesn't want to lose everything he has worked so hard for over the years simply over a piece of hanky panky dredged up by an anti-EU tabloid - and worse, a British one.

ECLUB: So what is the real significance of this story?

PHILLIP DAY: The consequences lie in what the EU itself is generally doing about press freedom and free speech to protect its politicians and bureaucrats from future scandal and public exposure. The one thing the EU hates is transparency and accountability in its dealings - we discussed this in the last bulletin, as well as the immunity legislation introduced to render all EU officers and representatives above the law and unaccountable to the public they are supposed to represent. No-one comfortably ensconced within the cocoon of endless EU bureaucracies and political structures wants to be hanged, drawn and quartered in the press over anything. Remember the damage the British press did over the EU corruption scandal in 1999, which forced the resignation of the entire Commission?

ECLUB: So you're saying the EU is taking measures to prevent any such stories like Schroeder's coming to light in the future?

PHILLIP DAY: EU bureaucrats are using the usual 'harmonising' strategy to state that they are looking to expand the current draconian German privacy laws across the Union to control what can and can't be reported. It's political correctness gone mad, effectively allowing 'victims' of press articles to sue newspapers and TV and radio stations for defaming them under the laws of the country in which they live - which laws, of course, are increasingly EU legislation as the new superstate comes on line.

ECLUB: This isn't really about Herr Schroeder's little dalliances with Fräulein Maischberger then, is it?

PHILLIP DAY: Let's put it this way. If these privacy directives become law, all newspapers, TV and radio stations will have to ratify their stories legally prior to broadcast for fear of falling foul of the authorities and suffering dire penalties. They are unlikely to do this willingly. However, if the consequences to a newspaper covering a juicy but forbidden story are heavy fines or bankruptcy, exposure of any EU wrongdoing might start to look a little less inviting. Seditious libel is insidious and has been banned as an offence in the UK because you cannot successfully define it without moving into Stalinist territory. What the EU proposes in the way of press censorship goes far beyond anything the British press corps has had to face to date. It's North Korea, but without the firing squads for now.

ECLUB: Do you think it will stick?

PHILLIP DAY: Once again, those of us who choose to ignore the slow-motion coup d'état of our country by the European powers do so at our peril. Over half the laws now governing Britain originate from Brussels. Many of these are just busybody, nanny regulations. But others represent a dire threat to traditional British liberties. Most of these threats won't become apparent to the rank and file until we start falling foul of them.

ECLUB: Can you give us an example?

PHILLIP DAY: Certainly. Take the new European Arrest Warrant. With effect from January 2004, a judge in any member state can have you arrested by either British police or Europol officers especially sent to detain you. You can then be extradited without any evidence being produced against you, or any British court being involved in your proceedings. You have no right to appeal in any British court. You can be taken and detained for up to nine months without any charges being brought against you in any prison in the European Union.

ECLUB: I imagine all this was put through to give law enforcement authorities the powers they apparently need to fight the ephemeral 'War on Terror'?

PHILLIP DAY: Correct. The warrant covers 32 offences, but also include those old chestnuts, 'racism' and 'xenophobia' (fear or dislike of foreigners), which is how the EU intends to take itself out of the crosshairs of the press. The implications for the press are appalling. In fact, publishing and broadcasting of any kind will be hit hard. No paper will be able to write a story on the problems Britain is having, for instance, with the EU or asylum seekers, for fear of falling foul of new racism laws.

I, for instance, as a confirmed opponent of the EU and all its works, can be extradited to face charges of xenophobia in Brussels, because of the work I have published, and will continue to publish in highlighting EU abuses to British civil rights.

ECLUB: And yet, under the Human Rights Act, also sourced from Brussels, you won't be able to have the charges thrown out?

PHILLIP DAY: No. It doesn't work that way. Now, if I were an Algerian terrorist being thrown out of Britain because I was cooking up ricin in my cellar and someone had pushed my mother over when they came to arrest me, that would be a different. Human rights to the EU are arbitrary and discretionary, depending on whether the Union itself is being threatened.

ECLUB: I can't see the British press doing anything other than attacking Brussels over this.

PHILLIP DAY: Once the reality of their predicament dawns on British newspaper editors, I would expect them to act in outrage. And that might just be one of the most dangerous miscalculations Brussels will make. The British press, while mostly viewed as a bunch of predatory, pugnacious harpies by the very citizens it serves, may yet vindicate itself when the right to exert its own salaciousness is finally fed into the EU shredder. Even America's prestigious Washington Post believes that "messing with the British tabloids may be a whole lot tougher than the Chancellor thought." In that respect, Sandra Maischberger may become the most important component in the German Chancellor's career over the coming months - the passionate fling Gerhard Schroeder - and the EU - could live to regret.

ECLUB COMMENT: Phillip Day's new book Ten Minutes to Midnight deals with an overview of the European Union and its danger to the future of Britain. Phillip also deals with the liberal-socialist revolution and how it came to have so much power over us. There is also a special chapter on the food supplements and herbal directives.

Ashley Mote's Vigilance is a more in-depth look at the EU and what we can do about it. Both books are required reading, in our opinion, for anyone who cares about the future of our country and the continuance of her freedoms.
To order, please visit www.credence.org

Brilliant Cure But We Lost the Patient
How psychiatry leveraged its influence
into the Rich and Famous

Quackery practised in psychiatry has been the target of many human rights groups over the years. Here Phillip Day highlights how psychiatric thought and practice absorbed themselves into the celebrity culture and were broadcast to millions.

Psychiatry's philosophies and treatments have wrought far-reaching effects in the areas of pop-culture, mass entertainment, media, religion and the family. Hollywood and the arts industry became rapidly infected and seduced with the new 'mental health' ethos, which brought with it its rebellion against law, order and religion. Language later found itself peppered with 'getting my head together', 'doing my head in', 'love and peace, dude', 'freaking out', 'far out, man' and 'chill'.

In the early decades of the 20th century, Los Angeles storefronts, Hollywood parlours and Santa Monica boardwalk shacks advertised psychoanalysis and tarot readings. Hollywood was getting spiritual, but quite what spirit it was getting was not to become immediately apparent.

The clever goal pursued by psychiatry was to increase its government funding and reputation with the public through positive portrayals of its 'philosophies' on the silver screen. In 1916, psychologist Hugo Münsterberg had penned The Photoplay: A Psychological Study, which clearly articulated psychiatry's newly discovered passion for the possibilities of the entertainment industry.

By 1940, the psychiatrist's many portrayals in movies had elevated the 'shrink' to a god-like status in the eyes of the public. Always the pipe-smoking benevolent 'father', bestowing wisdom and chemicals into the ears and mouths of his 'children', the psychiatrist was in his element. And the strategy was wildly successful. US National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants for psychiatric research alone in America rocketed from under $10 million in 1957 to around $50 million by 1963 - an increase of 580% in just six years. Between 1963 and 1995, the funding exploded almost 900% from $60 million to just under $1 billion.

MARILYN MONROE
In the movies, of course, the psychiatrist always won against the 'disease'. But the reality, especially to the rich and famous who were seduced by the psychiatrist's pharmacopoeia, was often altogether different.

A young Norma Jean, caught up in the web of drugs and film industry pressures, turned to psychiatry to alleviate her problems. One of Marilyn's psychiatrists was Dr Marianne Kris, who received Monroe five days a week for therapy. Kris later prescribed the actress the powerful barbiturates that would eventually kill her. After a particularly nasty session, Kris committed Marilyn Monroe to a mental institution, where she was locked in a padded cell for two days. Monroe pounded the door hysterically until her hands bled. After her release, she fired Kris.

Dr Ralph Greenson was Monroe's psychiatrist in the final years. Still ensuring the actress remained on her barbiturates, Greenson increasingly began to take over the starlet's life, severing her connections with friends, and even her husband, baseball star Joe DiMaggio. The pretext was that familiarity would cause set-backs and prejudice the actress's recovery from the schizophrenia Greenson was publicly diagnosing as the reason for the starlet's absences.

Towards the end, there is evidence Monroe had begun to realise the catastrophic effects the Svengalian Greenson was having on her life. She had made 23 films in the seven years prior to commencing therapy. Thereafter, she would complete a mere six films in the final seven years of her life. On 4th August 1962, after a six-hour therapy session with Dr Greenson, Marilyn Monroe was found by her housekeeper Eunice Murray, naked and sprawled across her silk sheets. Death had been delivered from Greenson's barbiturate bottle on her nightstand at the age of 36.

VIVIEN LEIGH
Hollywood actress Vivienne Leigh's hysterical outbursts were well known in the industry. After filming of Elephant Walk in Ceylon was constantly interrupted by Leigh's frequent losses of control, wanderings in the night and hallucinations (widely believed to be caused by a combination of her TB medication and heavy drinking), her husband, film legend Laurence Olivier, became concerned for her mental well-being, and repeatedly pleaded with the actress to 'seek help'.

Vivien was persuaded to be flown to England for 'treatment' at the Netheren psychiatric hospital. Her treatments included being packed in ice, a diet of raw eggs and repeated electroshocks. Olivier naturally noticed her change in personality. While being treated on location as an outpatient in Warsaw, she performed with a splitting headache. Burn marks from the electroshock were visible on her head.

Olivier finally divorced her in despair in 1960. Even though it was widely recognised that physical illness can produce psychiatric-like symptoms, Vivien Leigh's long-running tuberculosis was relegated in favour of her psychiatrists continuing to diagnose the Hollywood star with various mental disorders. On 7th July 1967, after her TB had spread untreated to both lungs, Leigh was found lying on the floor. Choking on her own liquid, she had drowned.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Believed to be another inevitably 'mentally tortured' genius, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway was given over 20 electroshocks by his psychiatrists to cure him of his 'mental illness'. After being released, Hemingway was traumatised and extremely bitter:

"What these shock doctors don't know is about writers and such…. They should make all psychiatrists take a course in creative writing so they know about writers.… Well, what is the sense of ruining my head and erasing my memory, which is my capital, and putting me out of business? It was a brilliant cure, but we lost the patient…."

In July 1961, just two days after leaving the famous Mayo psychiatric clinic, Papa Hemingway put a shotgun barrel to his head and pulled the trigger.

FRANCES FARMER
'Bad' Hollywood starlet Frances Farmer was always in trouble. High-spirited, rebellious, passionate and magnetically beautiful, Farmer was typical of many stars of that era who lived life in the fast lane. After her marriage to actor Leif Erickson failed, Farmer became increasingly unable to cope with her hectic schedule, turning to psychiatric amphetamines such as Benzedrine. Her constant drinking and fights soon landed her in court. After starring in the prophetically named No Escape in 1943, she was involved in a drunken brawl and arrested. Frances was placed into the custody of psychiatrist Thomas H Leonard, with whom she failed to co-operate. Leonard diagnosed her as "suffering from manic-depressive psychosis - probably the forerunner of a definite dementia praecox" - a diagnosis later described by doctors as 'pure gibberish'.

Farmer was transferred to the screen actor's sanitarium at La Crescenta, California, and subjected to a living nightmare under psychiatric care. The Hollywood starlet was given at least 90 insulin shocks, finally escaping from the institution in terror. Her mother later signed a complaint against her and she was re-committed into custodial care in March 1944. At West Washington State hospital in Steilacoom, her psychiatrists gave her repeated ice baths and electroshock sessions in an effort to break her will. Finally, the subdued starlet was declared 'cured' and discharged.

Returning home disoriented and terrified, Farmer repeatedly ran away, believing she was going to be re-institutionalised. Her psychiatrists, stung by the media coverage Frances' escapes and failed rehabilitation were generating, contacted Farmer's mother and the actress was once more returned to Steilacoom and re-committed. Mental watchdog The Citizen's Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) reports:

"Conditions [in Steilacoom] were barbaric. Both criminals and the mentally retarded were crowded together, their meals thrown on the floor to be fought over. Farmer was subjected to regular and continuous electroshock. In addition, she was prostituted to soldiers from the local military base and raped and abused by the orderlies. One of the most vivid recollections of some veterans of the institution would be the sight of Frances Farmer being held down by the orderlies and raped by drunken gangs of soldiers. She was also used as an experimental subject for drugs such as Thorazine, Stelazine, Mellaril and Proxilin."

One of the last psychiatrists to visit Farmer was Dr Walter Freeman. Farmer's biographer William Arnold describes what happened:

"The tormented actress was held before him. He put electrodes to her temples and gave her electroshock until she passed out. Then he lifted her left eyelid and plunged the icepick-shaped instrument under her eyeball and into her brain. [After doing a number of other patients, Freeman left. William Keller, the superintendent of the hospital, had walked out, sickened]. An hour later, Keller returned to the operating theatre and found everyone gone. He walked into the anteroom and looked at the post-operative patients resting on cots. One woman was silently weeping and several others were staring blankly at the ceiling. Near one end of the row of patients was Frances Farmer. She would no longer exhibit the restless, impatient mind and the erratic, creative impulses of a difficult and complex artist. She would no longer resist authority or provoke controversy. She would no longer be a threat to anyone."

The movie Frances was made of her life in 1982, starring another leading Hollywood actress, Jessica Lange. Frances Farmer died at the age of 57, broken, tortured and destitute.

LENA ZAVARONI
The famous British child star had been struggling with anorexia for 22 years. In September 1999, after years of psychotherapy, anti-depressants and electroshock treatment had failed, she was admitted to the University Hospital of Wales at Cardiff for a lobotomy. In spite of warnings that the discredited operation could destroy her intellect, erase parts of her memory and change her character, Lena and her family persuaded themselves that it was for the best. After all, Britain's most skilled 'brain surgeons' would be presiding. Bob Burrows, a spokesman for the hospital, pointed out to the London Times that the operation was performed using the latest cutting-edge technology:

"We are one of the UK's premier teaching hospitals and at the leading edge of research and medical technology. Miss Zavaroni came to Cardiff because we are one of the few centres in the world that carry out this operation."

Lena died of a chest infection two weeks after the operation. She weighed just 49 lbs.

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS
Many of the famous have owned up to needing drugs to get by. Singer Del Shannon (Charles Westover) thought the Prozac prescribed to him by his psychiatrist would "…help me over the hump I'm in." His wife LeAnne "…watched him turn into somebody who was agitated, pacing, had trembling hands, insomnia and couldn't function." On 8th February 1990, after taking Prozac for just 15 days, Charles Westover shot himself in the head with a .22 calibre rifle.

Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson both admitted using the 'liquid sunshine' drug, Prozac, Diana becoming the subject of huge media speculation over her drug use. Royal author Andrew Morton's controversial book, Diana: Her New Life, detailed her catastrophic mood-swings and alleged suicide attempt on board a royal flight, where she had attempted to slash her arms, smearing blood over the walls and seats before being restrained.

Lady Brocket, Libby Purves, Al Pacino, Roseanne Barr and Mariella Frostrup are a few among many who have been some-time users of Prozac. INXS pop-frontman Michael Hutchence died in November 1997 in an apparent hanging suicide. His song-writing partner, Andrew Farriss, attributed the death to Prozac and alcohol. The actor and comedian Chris Farley died aged 33 after a four-day alcohol and drug binge. Prozac was present in his blood. Don Simpson, co-producer of Hollywood blockbusters such as Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun and Crimson Tide, died in 1996 aged 52. Police searching Simpson's Bel Air estate in Los Angeles discovered thousands of tablets and pills lined up neatly in alphabetical order in his bedroom closet. They later discovered that Simpson had obtained over 15,000 psychiatric amphetamines, tranquillisers and sedatives from 15 doctors and 8 pharmacies. Steve Simmons, a senior investigator for the California Medical Board, stated:

"Everybody understands how lethal street drugs like heroin are, but it takes a prescription overdose by someone famous like Don Simpson to drive home the fact that pharmaceutical medications are just as deadly."

THE BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
But what of those fuelling the TV and film revolution? How many Hollywood actors and actresses bought into Freud's sex and drugs magick, and had their careers wrecked and lives destroyed as a result? Maybe Sunset Boulevard could be lined with its own memorial plaques as a tribute to the lives of those whose profligate careers helped to fuel the new hedonism by dynamiting the pillars of society's moral temperance. Studio chiefs, lawyers, financiers, and the bewildering list of ancillary workers in the film industry, from directors to best boys, from cameramen to make-up artists - so much creativity; so much desire to please the public and make the shows with the greatest talents in the world. But how many of these lives were wrecked and on the rocks after drugs, sex and rock 'n roll herded them into the sheep-pens of psychiatry, which believed it could control the 'creative insanity of the artist'?

This writer lived in Los Angeles for many years and saw firsthand, through his friends, contacts and work assignments, the drug tortures and emotional pressures many live with in the film industry. And always just in the background, or around the next palm-treed corner in Beverly Hills, Miracle Mile or West Hollywood, like barnacles attached to an ocean-going liner, the ever-present industry of 'mental health advisors' cling on, shiny plaques on doors, brows crinkled with the faint concern of the consummate professional. Their prey, would-be actors and actresses coming to town to make it big, folios stuffed full of bright celluloid and happy faces, end up working menial jobs and scraping together what living they can. More than a few end up drug and sex addicts in the pornographic industry centred in Northridge, twenty-five miles to the north-west of Los Angeles.

Wonderful human beings who make up Hollywood, giants of their time, like the lives we have examined, are still somebody's son, someone's daughter. Over the years they have been forced to witness the shattering of their own innocence, the bankruptcy of their dreams, the destruction of their special talents and the systematic breaking of their health. Many died. Today, the mental mill is working as smoothly as ever. Today, as you read this, how many more regrettable 'mental' diagnoses will be made? How many more prescriptions are being scrawled out? How many more lives will be betrayed today by the very professionals who have offered them 'help' and set them on the path which will assure their destruction?

ECUB COMMENT: For more information on psychiatry, mental illness, and the effects of the counter-culture revolution, please obtain a copy of The Mind Game by Phillip Day. www.credence.org

Cancer - The Survivor's Battleplan
by Phillip Day

As many of our readers know, the central premise behind my book Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth, is two-fold: firstly, to point out to readers that, in spite of the medical establishment's claims that solid headway is being made against cancer, the dismal survival statistics for traditional cancer treatments paint an entirely different picture; one where studies repeatedly show that toxic chemotherapy and radiation are not extending life in any of the major cancers.

The second premise of the book centres around a series of nutritional protocols that were developed during the 1960's and '70's by specialists who were identifying cancer as a chronic metabolic deficiency disease and then treating their patients' cancers in a suitable fashion. These medical researchers and doctors included Dr Harold Manner, Dr John A Richardson, Dr Elizabeth Stockert, Ernst T Krebs Jr., Dr Philip Binzel and Dr Kanematsu Sugiura, to name but a few. These men and women were contemplating some general facts that were becoming known about cancer:

That existing treatments were failing to address an underlying nutritional defect, which seemed to explain why cancers that had apparently been conquered returned years later to afflict the patient.

That cancer was a disease of toxicity and industrialisation, as evidenced by the fact that the cancer incidence rates rose in line with a nation's gross national product (GNP).

That there were certain cultures such as the Hunzas and Abkhasians who did not suffer from cancer (and still don't).

That cancer was a nutritional and toxicity problem featuring low levels of certain important enzymes in the body deficiency and secondly a deficiency in the dietary element Vitamin B17.

Professor John Beard began putting the pieces together at the turn of the 20th century, surmising that cancer was partly caused by a deficiency of the pancreatic enzymes trypsin and chymotrypsin. People on diets rich in animal meat were losing the preventative effects of these enzymes because the latter were being constantly employed to break down these animal proteins. These pancreatic enzymes were shown by Beard to strip down and digest the protein coating of cancer cells. It was this life-saving action that was described by the Edinburgh embryologist in his Unitarian or Trophoblastic Thesis of Cancer.

Later biochemist Ernst T Krebs and others would add further pieces to the cancer puzzle, reporting that while these pancreatic enzymes were doubtless the first line of defence against malignant attack, those people with a marked lack of hydrocyanic acid (Vitamin B17) in their diet were also prone to cancer. Krebs had determined that hydrocyanic acid's active principal, laevo-mandelonitrile ('laetrile'), reacted with cancer cells to produce hydrogen cyanide and benzaldehyde which were selectively released at the cancer site, killing the malignant cells. Krebs further found out that excess quantities of laetrile were broken down by the enzyme rhodanese, which was available in plentiful supply throughout the body, but not at cancer sites.

But it was Harold Manner who publicly put the picture together and developed what has come to be known as Vitamin B17 Metabolic Therapy. Manner showed with trials that it was a combination of dietary changes, involving raw, whole foods, B17, pancreatic enzymes, emulsified Vitamin A and full nutritional supplementation that proved most effective against cancer. In his trials, he was obtaining a 76%-plus regression rate with breast cancer and, more importantly, showing a high level of protection against primary cancers metastasising to the deadly secondary state.

Manner also recognised that our bodies are often damaged by environmental toxins and behavioural lifestyles that cause the body to initiate a healing process. Usually this healing is terminated upon completion of the task by those pancreatic enzymes. In the event though that there are insufficient levels of these agents, due to high animal protein diets or general malnutrition, that healing process may not terminate but go on to form a site-specific tumour.

Dr Philip Binzel, an Ohio physician, literally fought with the US medical establishment to win his right to treat his cancer patients with laetrile and nutrition. Binzel echoes the warning about high levels of animal proteins in the diet and the depletion they cause to the vital pancreatic enzymes. Binzel also puts great emphasis on a clean diet rich in raw, unfired fruits and vegetables, bowel cleansing, and supplementation with vitamins and minerals that are missing from the average western food supply.

Turning off the nutritional deficiency with good quality vitamins and minerals of high absorbability ensures that the body has the raw materials it needs to maintain or rebuild health. Often I have likened cancer to an overflowing sink. When we approach it, do we first reach for the mop or the faucet? Modern medicine is constantly mopping and tends not to seek an underlying nutritional cause to the metabolic problem of cancer because most doctors are not adequately trained in nutrition. Binzel himself remarks: "My biggest problem [at first] was understanding nutrition. In four years of medical school, one year of internship and one year of Family Practice residency, I had not even one lecture on nutrition." Binzel was later to discover for himself the vital roles nutrition and clean-living play in the battle against cancer.

And so must we. Turning the tap off means surrounding ourselves with less toxins that damage us - that create healing processes which potentially threaten our health if they do not terminate. This means turning to common household and personal care items that do not contain alien agents that will harm us. It means eating foods that are contamination- and organophosphate-free. It means brushing our teeth with paste that doesn't contain that mother-of-all bugaboos, sodium fluoride. It means cleaning up our act as far as is humanly possible. It means thinking Hunza.

At the same time, our bodies crave a proper, no-nonsense diet of living, whole foods containing adequate antioxidants, vitamins, enzymes, amino acids and most importantly, the building blocks of the human body - minerals. As these are no longer generally available in the foods we eat, due to commercial farming practices, supplementation of these vital factors is not some quaint health fad, it is quite literally a matter of life and death - yours and mine.

CTM RECOMMENDED READING:
Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth
Great News on Cancer in the 21st Century
B17 Metabolic Therapy - a technical manual
Food for Thought
Available from www.credence.org

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Vitamin B17
Apricot kernels
Pancreatic enzyme formulations
Vitamin A & E emulsion
Colon Cleanse (magnesium oxide powder)

BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
Report to the Congress of the United States

Lack of authority hampers attempts to increase cosmetic safety

The Congress should authorize the Food and Drug Administration to require cosmetics manufacturers to prove the safety of their products. Because the agency does not have enough authority to effectively regulate cosmetics, products are being marketed which may pose a hazard to consumers. About 125 ingredients available for use in cosmetics are suspected of causing cancer, and about 25 are suspected of causing birth defects although many of the reported adverse effects have not been verified. 30 of the ingredients are known to cause cancer in humans or animals or contain impurities known to cause cancer. The ability of these ingredients to cause toxic effects through cosmetic use has not been determined.

Manufacturers do not have to determine the safety of their products before selling them or tell the Food and Drug Administration what products they are selling and what ingredients are used in them. Many manufacturers have not voluntarily given such information to the agency. As a result, a hazardous cosmetic can be marketed until the Food and Drug Administration obtains information to prove that the product may be injurious to users.

US GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
HRD 78.139
August 8 1978

CTM RECOMMENDED READING:
Health Wars
Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth www.credence.org

Cleaning Out the Plumbing
Author Phillip Day examines how we can give
our innards that much-needed but simple pipe-cleaning

Digestion is the single most strenuous activity our bodies undergo, which is why, after one of our cultural 'heart-attack-on-a-plate' breakfasts, we feel like we are walking on the surface of Jupiter and beg God to take us from the knee down. Excessive cooked meat consumption, coupled with bad food combining of processed, devitalised proteins and starches, can be hauled into the dock and charged with man's mass murder. We're the only creature on Earth that takes decomposing animal carcasses out of the freezer, cremates them in the kitchen, buries the corpses in our body and then process the passing of the resultant putrefactive morass using medication (antacids). Other creatures do not cook, barbecue, fry or sauté their foods, neither do they mis-combine them. As Harvey Diamond, author of Fit For Life, wryly remarks, you almost never see a lion eating a zebra and having a baked potato with it.

But pick up any menu in a Western restaurant today, and you will see that the majority of items on offer in the starter and entrée sections consist mostly of improperly combined proteins and carbohydrates - and mostly cooked to destroy the enzyme content. Steak and fries, chicken and pasta, eggs on toast… the list of woes is as endless as the problems these combinations cause. Because the body produces acids to digest proteins and alkalis for carbohydrates, the two types of juices neutralise each other, eventually producing a rotting mass, parts of which in some cases can still be putrefying inside us up to 70 hours later. This digestive gridlock produces toxic by-products that get filed around the body and will stay in our systems until we detoxify - which again we almost never do as this is culturally not practised in our society today. On the other hand, proper food combining avoids this build-up and assists in detoxifying our systems from food abuse.

With only one-fifth of the hydrochloric stomach acid of a carnivore, a far longer digestive tract for squeezing and processing vegetation, and an inability properly to neutralise high levels of uric acid which excessive meat-eating produces, humans are having a terrible time with meat and milk, especially the processed kind. A man will be obstinate and not believe the extent to which the western diet is contributing to his early demise but, as Dr Dorothea Snook comments, his next of kin certainly will if they are allowed to view his autopsy.

The full science of Natural Hygiene is a fascinating and satisfying study for each of us to make. I wrote Health Wars to address the main points of it. For the purposes of our study on cancer however, we will see that it is vital for a cancer patient to modify their diet to avoid flesh foods, and indeed all cooked foods, in order to allow the body to clean itself through.

Getting in the raw
Raw fruits and veggies. Raw fruits and veggies.

Sounds restrictive, doesn't it? And yet, as I tour and stay in endless hotels, I sometimes wish I could have a crowd of you gathered around the breakfast and lunchtime spreads in some of these establishments, so I could show you how expansive and varied the choices can be if you only take a little time and trouble to prepare. Raw, unfired, natural whole foods were the foods people ate in the days when cancer was an extreme rarity. Yes, there was meat, milk and cooking too, but not to the extent we are seeing today.

Full of nature's goodness, raw fruits, vegetables, pulses, nuts and legumes provide a complete spectrum of nutrients, including carbohydrates, proteins and fats in their proper forms , which the body needs for continued sustenance. Remember, proteins are formed from amino acid chains, and what are these natural foods bursting with? Amino acids… and those enzymes too.

The body likes to clean itself out in the morning hours, although the process continues to a lesser extent throughout the day. Raw food is excellent to assist this, not only because of the enzymes and other nutrients it provides, but also because it is a superb source of that wall-scraping fibre that pipe-cleans your plumbing as it passes through.

It has been scientifically determined that the body's elimination (detoxification) cycle runs from approximately 4am to 12 noon in a normal, clock-adjusted body. This is the reason why we awaken with 'fur' on our tongues, bear's breath on the sheets and a desire to go to the bathroom that won't quit. This is our body's time for shedding unwanted weight, ridding the system of toxic by-products and getting the human re-booted for the coming day.

Fruit and vegetables, eaten in small but regular amounts, are an ideal way to detoxify the gunk in our systems during the morning elimination cycle. Ignore your fat grannies when they tell you not to eat too much fruit or the world will fall out of your tail-pipe. Your fat grannies are telling you this because their fat mommas told them the same thing. A fat person is simply someone who has not allowed his or her body to detoxify. Yes, overweight and obesity generally arise as a result of what we have put into our bodies, but our continued overweight and unhealthy condition exists because we are not allowing our system to take out the garbage because we jam up our bodies further with our cultural peccadilloes, like the big breakfast.

Ideally fruit should always be consumed ALONE ON AN EMPTY STOMACH. Ideally too, the only thing you should consume from the time you arise to lunch-time should be fruit. Try an experiment for ten days and toss out those big breakfasts and lunches in favour of eating nothing but pieces of fruit in the morning and raw veggies (salads), pulses, nuts and legumes for the rest of the day. Small meals, six times a day.

The panic clouding your features at this moment at the thought of having to go without the usual breakfast bulk will be off-set with the pleasurable knowledge that your hunger pangs will soon depart once your blood sugar levels regulate your cravings. If it helps, promise yourself the usual heart-attack-on-a-plate if you do not feel satisfied thirty minutes after eating all the fruit you wish to eat. Pineapple, grapes, peaches, oranges, apples, pears (of course, eat the seeds too where appropriate) are all the best kit to get into the kitchen for this great little experiment.

Then when you get to lunch, have lunch! But combine proteins with high water-content vegetables or salad, not with pasta, potatoes, or similar carbohydrates. There's nothing wrong with carbohydrates in their proper complex, whole-food forms, just don't combine them with proteins in the same meal. CUT WAY DOWN ON THE PROTEINS. Vegetables and salad should be enjoyed raw and unadulterated. Organic produce is best.

Three things will start to happen almost immediately you commence this regimen: firstly, the world will fall out of your tail-pipe. This is your body finally beginning to send the garbage packing. It's all a bit of a mess, but it's leaving - and that's the good news. Loose stools produced from this eating regimen are by no means unhealthy and should be encouraged with as much fruit (on an empty stomach in the morning) and high water-content raw veggies (later in the day) as you can manage. Secondly, you will begin to experience a satisfying return of energy and well-being. Thirdly, you will experience a rapid and steady weight-loss as you proceed with eating your food the way the body likes to process it.

Ten days of this and tell me you don't feel leaner, tauter and more energetic than you've felt for years! And if you like the way you feel, why not continue the regimen?

Intestinal transit time (ITT)
Most cancer patients are constipated, and so one of the first things to do is to get the elimination apparatus working properly, so the body can flush out the junk. If you are reading this and have cancer, review the regularity or otherwise of your stool-passing and ask yourself honestly whether you have a problem eliminating or not. What we're gunning for here is what is known as Intestinal Transit Time (ITT); in other words, how long does a meal take to go through you?

Just because you have one bowel movement a day, doesn't mean you are regular if what you are passing is the omelette and chips you ate last week. Studies of primitive cultures have determined that their ITT is between 12-24 hours, with two to three bowel movements a day, if their diets are predominantly vegetarian and high-fibre. In the West, ITT is generally double this, with some folks only having one bowel movement a week with an ITT in excess of 70 hours.

Once you eat your food, most nutrient extraction and absorption occurs within 12 hours, which of course means that the longer food waste remains in your system, the more the proteins rot, the fats go rancid and the carbohydrates ferment. Toxins that develop from prolonged processes such as these in the body can filter through the bowel membrane into the blood and then get taken anywhere throughout the body. You can now clearly see the problems a cancer patient will have with an oxygen-poor, bacteria-ridden, dehydrated, non-exercised, putrefaction-laden body that has been stuffed for years with garbage it cannot get rid of. In more than a few cases, this mess was the start of cancer in the first place.

So what's the first order of the day? Changing the diet, as we've already discussed, but also, as with all plumbing, everything will no doubt benefit from a bit of a blow-through first. And one of the most effective tools to accomplish this is magnesium oxide.

The benefits of magnesium oxide
Most diseases have their origins in the digestive tract. Dr Bernard Jensen, an American naturopath of some distinction, worked with over 350,000 patients over a 50-year period and found not one of them free from some kind of digestive disorder. By cleaning our sewer system through, wouldn't it follow that we will reap enormous benefits from getting everything on the move again? Many nagging health problems often disappear on their own after a cleanse. Overgrowths of candida albicans, a normally beneficial yeast found in our digestive system, almost always proliferate in a toxic, internal environment. The waste products of candida play havoc with cancer patients, causing the fuelling of the fermentation process upon which cancer depends.

Yet if the bowel is cleared of impacted detritus, old meals and other toxins, there is less chance of a bacterial imbalance in the gut, and, for the cancer patient, the chance to allow the body to rid itself of harmful toxins and restore itself to health. Magnesium oxide is often used to liquefy, cleanse and clear mucoid plaque deposits from the digestive tract in a simple program which is combined with a healthy intake of clean, fresh water and a change in diet. Magnesium oxide, when dissolved in juice or water, promotes rapid hydration in the gut and a bowel movement can be expected from 30 minutes to three hours after consumption. Unlike other laxatives, magnesium oxide is gentle and natural, and increases the percentage of stool water, stool volume and stool magnesium.

The results of the cleansing program can be, er, dramatic, but I recommend this great intestinal cleanse to anyone. Don't shrink from it. You've probably dedicated years to gumming yourself up on the inside, so resolve to fix the problem before it fixes you, and go for it. If you have cancer, it is best to do this program under guidance of a physician familiar with the nutritional protocols described in my books.

CTM COMMENT: Phillip Day's Health Wars is ideal for a fuller treatment on the great subject of Natural Hygiene. Health Wars also has a companion recipe book you can get called Food For Thought. These books come with a whole wealth of research and well-grounded common sense for detoxifying your system and getting back to eating basics. Books at www.credence.org.

For more information on magnesium oxide, e-mail Credence on info@credence.freeserve.co.uk

The Autism Epidemic and its
Possible Connection to Vaccines

Dan Burton speech before US Congress on 22nd Nov 2002
Chairman, Committee on Government Reform

Mr. Speaker, I am here today to clarify for my fellow legislators why I have objected so vigorously to the inclusion of certain provisions in the Homeland Security Act.

1 There is no one in Congress who more strongly supports the need to protect the United States and its people from terrorist attacks.

2 The fact remains that we weren't prepared to prevent what happened on September 11, 2001. And we weren't prepared to recover from a terrorist attack of that magnitude. We need to have these agencies working together in a coordinated way to prevent the next terrorist attack. By creating this new department, we're going to improve that coordination.

3 I am a strong supporter of the President, our men and women in uniform, and our law enforcement, first responder, and intelligence communities.

4 I also am a strong supporter of the legislative process. It is important to have a bipartisan process where every issue is handled in a fair and open way.

5 Last week, the legislative process was hijacked and we ended up with a fiasco of extreme proportions. That is what I am here to talk about today.

6 At the eleventh hour, several sections were added to the final version of the Homeland Security Act, which many members of Congress, including myself, were not aware of.

7 My remarks today will focus on Sections 1714 through 1717. These four sections were thrown in at the last minute - obviously so as they are the last four paragraphs of the 484 page document.

My Family's Experience

Mr. Speaker, I have only two grandchildren - Alex and Christian.

1 While the so-called experts tell us that vaccines are safe except in rare instances, both of my grandchildren suffered serious adverse events from vaccines.

2 My granddaughter stopped breathing the day she received her Hepatitis B vaccine and was hospitalized for three weeks. We thought she was fine for years, however, this year she was diagnosed with a seizure disorder and her doctor's tell us that she likely was suffering small seizures for years that went unnoticed.

3 My grandson Christian was absolutely normal as a baby. He developed on time and healthy. He talked, walked, he was outgoing. He made eye contact. He enjoyed being with people. We joked that because he was expected to be very tall, that be would take care of us in our retirement by being a professional basketball player.

4 My daughter took Christian to receive the vaccinations that our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say children are supposed to receive. And he got them all in one day - at least six shots for nine different diseases, all in one office visit. And in many of those shots was the mercury-containing preservative, thimerosal.

5 We totaled up the amount of mercury he may have been exposed to and it was over 40 times more than a safe exposure according to Environmental Protection Agency's guidelines for methyl mercury. (Which the Institute of Medicine validated as accurate)

6 Within days he lost all speech, he began banging his head, ran around flapping his hands, he withdrew into himself, and very soon after that was diagnosed with autism.

7 I want to specifically thank Dr. Cathy Pratt from the Indiana Autism Resource Center at Indiana University for helping us in those early days.

And Christian is not an isolated case. We have heard from thousands of families across the country that this same thing happened to their child.

What Is Autism?

1 Autism is a complex neurobiological disorder, resulting in developmental disability. It typically appears in the first three years of life.

2 Autism is a spectrum disorder. The symptoms and characteristics of autism can present themselves in a wide variety of combinations, from mild to severe

3 Although autism is defined by a certain set of behaviors, children and adults can exhibit any combination of the behaviors in any degree of severity. Two children, both with the same diagnosis, can act very differently from one another and have varying skills.

· People with autism process and respond to information in unique ways. In some cases, aggressive and/or self-injurious behavior may be present.
· Forty Percent of individuals with autism do not have speech.
· Persons with autism may be resistant to change. They may have difficulty expressing their needs, using gestures or pointing instead of words. They may laugh or cry, showing distress for no reason apparent to others.
· Persons with autism often prefer to be alone. They may throw tantrums.
· They often have difficulty interacting with others.
· Children with autism may not want to cuddle or be cuddled. Imagine having a child who does not want you to hug him. Imagine a child who never spontaneously tells you that he loves you.
· Persons with autism frequently make little or no eye contact.
· They will not respond to normal teaching methods, they may have odd play habits, and frequently spin objects.
· Many have sensory integration issues - over or under sensitivity to pain. They may not understand the need to fear danger. Imagine your child wandering away from school and walking out on a highway - this happened just last year in the Washington areas.
· Children with autism may often first appear to be deaf because they do not respond to verbal cues. In fact, the first diagnosis a child with autism first receives is a speech or language delay.

1 There are certainly children who are born with autism.

· They have what can be called "classical autism."
· There is, however, a growing number of children who are growing normally and then acquire autism. It is sometimes called "atypical autism" or "late-onset" autism.

2 There most probably is a genetic component to autism. But genetics is not the only issue.

· Many children seem to have severe food sensitivities, particularly to gluten and casein, ingredients in the most common foods, dairy and wheat.
· Many of these children show signs of autism shortly after receiving their immunizations.
· Some of these children suffer from heavy metal toxicities. When tested they have abnormally high amounts of aluminum and in particular mercury.

How did they get this overload of mercury in their body, except through their vaccines?

How Many People Are Affected?

1 In California the rates of the most serious form of autism have tripled in the last decade. And as the researcher who evaluated the California data stated, it is not because of a broadening of the definition of autism.

2 What is being seen in California is being seen across the country.

3 Once a rare condition, the National Institutes stated earlier this year that autism is now seen in 1 in 250 children in this country. It affects boys four times more often than girls. This means that one in 156 boys in this country have autism.

4 And in some places the rate is higher. For instance, in Brick Township, New Jersey the CDC determined that 1 in 150 children is autistic.

5 And these are cases of the most severe forms of autism, not the entire spectrum that would incorporate the less severely affected often called "high functioning" autism.

6 The Autism Society of America estimates that autism is increasing at a rate of 10 to 17 percent each year. This is faster than any other disease or disability.

What is the Potential Burden to Society and to the Taxpayer?

1 A study published in California several years ago indicated that it would cost the state at least $ 2 million for each child with autism for the first 18 years of life.

2 The Autism Society of America estimates that the total cost of autism is between $20 and 60 billion annually.

3 School districts are struggling to meet the needs of the huge number of new cases.

4 While many individuals with autism, especially high functioning autism may grow up and be able to work, a vast majority of those with the most severe forms of autism will not. Their families are faced with finding long-term care solutions. Much of the financial burden for the long-term care will fall to the Government.

4 What we can't measure in dollars is the cost to families. The divorce rate in autism is said to be about 85%. Siblings in families with an autistic child must make do with less attention from their parents. Many of the medical treatments for autism are not covered by insurance. Children often need one on one intensive speech and behavioral therapies. It is often a constant struggle for families to help their child and to stay financially solvent.

Research

1 In the sixty years since autism was first described, we have not yet figured out what causes it.

2 We do not know if classical autism and late-onset autism are the same conditions or two different conditions with similar symptoms.

3 We have come a long way in sixty years. Doctors no longer blame the condition on bad mothering.

4 But we have a lot more work to do before we can pat ourselves on the back for our accomplishments.

5 In the Committee, we looked at our investment in research on autism on a comparable level with other epidemics?

6 We asked these questions:

· Are the CDC and NIH funding studies that will help prevent or cure autism?
· Is their research adequately addressing the medical issues associated with autism such as food allergies, chemical sensitivities, and autistic entercolitis?
· Is the information about autism provided by our Government adequate and useful to families?

CDC
1 The CDC will told us they plan on spending 11.3 million dollars on autism this year and 10.2 million dollars next year.

2 We compared that to two other conditions that have been declared epidemics - diabetes and AIDS.

3 Both of these conditions can be devastating. Both deserve sufficient research dollars to develop treatments and look for cures.

4 The CDC is spending over 932 million dollars on the AIDS epidemic this fiscal year. AIDS deserves attention - don't get me wrong. And so does diabetes, which both Secretary Thompson and the former Surgeon General declared an epidemic.

5 CDC this year will spend just over 62 million dollars on diabetes.

6 The autism epidemic just like the diabetes and AIDS epidemics, is no less deserving.

7 Yet, CDC's spending for autism is almost 80 times less than that for AIDS.

8 And CDC's spending for autism is 5 times less than that of diabetes. CDC should be committing more research money to autism.

NIH
1 The National Institutes of Health has a total this year of 27 billion dollars.

2 The NIH told us their to researching autism has grown dramatically in the last few years.

3 In fiscal year 1997, the NIH investment in autism research was only 22 million dollars. Last year that number had grown to 56 million - in large part because of Congress.

4 Let's put that into perspective. At the same time the NIH is spending 56 million dollars on autism - a condition that affects 1 in 250 children in this country - they are investing over 2.2 billion dollars in AIDs research. The rates of diabetes increased by 49 percent between 1990 and 2000. Diabetes is a devastating condition in the Native American community and of increasing concern in the African American and pediatric populations. This year, the NIH investment for diabetes is 688 million.

5 I believe the numbers speak for themselves. Funding into basic and clinical research into autism needs to grow.

6 We have an epidemic on our hands and we in Congress need to make sure that the NIH and the CDC treat this condition like an epidemic and put their efforts into doing several things:
· Find out the cause(s) of the epidemic
· Determine how to stop the epidemic in its tracks
· Evaluate treatment options
· Look for a cure

Thimerosal - What is it?

1 Thimerosal is a preservative that has been used in some vaccines since the 1930's.

2 Thimerosal is about 50 percent mercury and 50 percent thiosalicylic acid.

3 In 1999, the FDA recognized that some children could be exposed to acumulative level of mercury over the first 6 months of life that exceed the federal guidelines on methyl mercury.

4 Methyl mercury is associated with neurotoxicity in high doses.

5 According to the FDA, a 6-month old baby that received all the vaccines on schedule would receive 75 micrograms of mercury from three doses of DTaP, 75 micrograms of mercury from three doses of Hib and 37.5 micrograms from three doses of hepatitis B vaccine. The total of 187.5 micrograms exceeds the suggested safe limits published by the EPA.

6 Some of you may say that the Federal Guidelines are for methyl mercury not ethyl mercury, however, there is no Federal Guideline on safe dosing of ethyl mercury.

7 In fact, what we learned when we investigated was that the Food and Drug Administration appeared to be asleep at the switch on making sure that all the ingredients being injected into our babies is safe. There appear never to have required a safe human exposure of thimerosal to be established.

8 In 1999, and after much debate they decided to ask the manufacturers to start switching to thimerosal-free vaccines for children.

9 Many of my colleagues have reported that thimerosal is no longer being used. This is not true.

· The flu vaccine given to children and to members of Congress has thimerosal.
· Many clinics and doctor's offices still have vaccines on the shelves that contain thimerosal. Parents need to ask their doctors for the package insert and look at the ingredient list to assure that there is no thimerosal. We have received reports where doctors were told by the pharmaceutical salesman that the vaccine was thimerosal free, and yet, when the parent looked at the package insert, they had been sold vaccine with thimerosal.
· Many adult vaccines still contain thimerosal. This could be problematic especially to new recruits in the military who get a large number of vaccines all at one time.
· Many of the vaccines that we ship to Third World Countries to be given to babies and young children still contain thimerosal.

An internal HHS document produced to the House Government Reform Committee during its investigation into vaccine safety described what it referred to as a "weak signal" in its data linking thimerosal to neurological disorders:

"Preliminary screening of ICD-9 codes for possible neurologic and renal conditions following exposures to vaccines containing thimerosal before 3 months of age showed a statistical association for the overall category of neurological developmental disorders and for two conditions within the category, speech delay and attention deficit disorder."

If there were no concerns that scientific research would demonstrate a connection between thimerosal and autism, Sections 1714-1717 would not have been tacked onto the Homeland Security Act in the eleventh hour with no debate.

The Institute of Medicine

Much has been said about the Institute of Medicine's review of thimerosal in vaccines. Many have said that the IOM concluded that there was no connection between thimerosal and autism. This is not exactly accurate.

1 In 2001, the Institute of Medicine concluded that a connection between thimerosal and autism, while unproven, is "biologically plausible."

2 The IOM called for further research, stating, "the evidence is inadequate to accept or reject a causal relationship between exposure to thimerosal from vaccines and neurological developmental disorders of autism, ADHD, and speech and language delays."

Dr. Marie McCormick, IOM Committee Chair made the following statement:

1 "Because mercury at high doses is known to pose risks, some parents and researchers are concerned that thimerosal in vaccines puts children at increased risk for developmental disorders such as autism. Preliminary data from a few studies have suggested that thimerosal-containing vaccines could possibly -- very minimally -- affect some measures of normal child development. But the data are inconclusive. Our committee has reviewed the limited body of toxicological, clinical, and epidemiological literature on ethylmercury and the more exposures are associated with neurological damage."

She also stated,

2 "There is also toxicological and epidemiological literature suggesting that methylmercury is a toxicant to the developing nervous system. Some children who received the maximum number of thimerosal-containing vaccines on the recommended childhood immunization schedule had exposures to ethylmercury that exceeded some safe exposure guidelines for methylmercury. In addition, some children could be particularly vulnerable or susceptible to mercury exposures because of genetic or other differences.

3 It was viewed as feasible as well as consistent with the public health goal of decreasing mercury exposures in general, as much as possible. Mathematical calculations also suggested that some infants received a total amount of mercury from vaccines that exceeded some federal agency guidelines for safe mercury exposure.

4 Based on information from these sources, our study has come to the following conclusion: The hypothesis that thimerosal exposure through the recommended childhood immunization schedule causes neurodevelopmental disorders is not supported by clinical or experimental evidence. Existing epidemiological evidence is inadequate to either accept or reject a causal relationship between exposure to thimerosal from vaccines and the neurodevelopmental disorders of autism, ADHD, and speech or language delay. However, there are some indirect associations concerning biological plausibility, which refers to a theoretical but unproven possibility. For example, high-dose thimerosal."

Vaccine Injury Research

1 It is important to remember that the absence of proof of a correlation between vaccines and autism is far different than no proof of a correlation. Each time the Institute of Medicine has evaluated vaccine safety issues, they conclude that there is inadequate research to reach firm conclusions.

2 We found that all too often the right research questions have not been asked. In fact, very little research has been done.

3 When Dr. Andrew Wakefield reported that in a small population of late-onset autism cases, in which there was chronic bowel disfunction, that he found measles in the guts of these children, the CDC's response was to fund epidemiological research to try to disprove his hypothesis.

4 In the four years since this first was made public, our health officials have yet to conduct one clinical study to replicate the Wakefield work. Instead, we get large-scale population based reviews of medical charts, rather than actual clinical research with children looking at their specific medical issues. This is the case for the Danish Study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

· While the news media reported that the case is now closed on a correlation between MMR and autism, nothing could be further from the truth. Comparing epidemiology with clinical research is like comparing apples and oranges.
· This study found that there was a five-fold increase in autism over the ten years they looked.
· This study in no way can be considered a conclusive study. Much more research needs to be done - and the research we need to do needs to be biomedical research that will result in understanding what is going on with each child and how best we can help them.

The Homeland Security Act

1 Section 1714-1717 affect the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Act.

2 They do not protect Americans from a terrorist threat, or affect the Department of Homeland Security.

3 Rather they protect large domestic pharmaceutical companies who manufacture the components of campaigns. They protect them from potential civil liability from vaccine injured children.

4 Amending the Vaccine Act through this legislation is inappropriate.

5 These sections were intentionally insert to protect the manufacturers of thimerosal.

6 If, as some Senators were told, the desire was to protect manufacturers of the components of any smallpox vaccine, the date of enactment would not have suspended the currently filed cases. None of the current cases are related to smallpox.

What Will This Mean for Families?

These provisions will some families have no legal recourse.

1 For instance, Scott Bono of Durham, North Carolina testified before our committee a few years ago. His son, Jackson Bono is one of those children who was adversely affected by thimerosal. He has autism, he has documented to have toxic levels of mercury in his body. He is now 13 years old. It is likely that the case his family has filed in the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program will be kicked out because of the short three-year statute of limitations. Unless his family can seek compensation through civil litigation, they will likely never be compensated for their child's vaccine injury.

2 There are hundreds of Jackson's out there who need Congress to keep their legal options available to them.

The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

History of the Program

1 The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was created in the late 1980's as a no-fault compensation program. The trust fund comes from an excise tax from the sale of vaccines.

2 The companies who make thimerosal and who will now be protected under the new law make no financial contribution to the trust fund. They are being given a free ride.

Sections 1714-1717 will have a devastating effect on the families of children who were injured from their thimerosal-containing vaccines and suffered damage to their central nervous system, resulting in diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, speech and language delays, or neurodevelopmental delays.

Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Investigation and Proposed Legislation

1 The Committee on Government Reform, over the last two years has conducted an extensive investigation into the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

2 After six months of negotiations, on February 13, Chairman Dan Burton and Ranking Minority Member Henry Waxman in collaboration with Congressman (and physician) Dave Weldon, and broad bipartisan group of Congressmen introduced, HR 3471, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Improvement Act of 2002.

This Bill would:

· Increase compensation for future lost earnings for injured children. Under current law, compensation is based on the average weekly earnings of full and part-time workers as determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This bill would specify that only full-time workers should be used in the calculation.
· Increase the level of compensation to a family after a vaccine-related death from $250,000 to $300,000. The death benefit has remained unchanged since the program's inception in 1986.
· Allow families of vaccine-injured children to be compensated for the costs of family counseling and creating and maintaining a guardianship to administer the funds.
· Allow for the payment of interim attorneys fees and legal costs while a petition is being adjudicated. The costs of assembling the necessary medical records and obtaining expert witnesses are substantial. Under current law, these costs, as will as attorney's fees, are not reimbursed until a case is fully resolved, which oftentimes takes years..
· Extend the statute of limitations for seeking compensation to six years from the date of injury. Under current law, families must file within two years of a child's death or three years of a child's injury.
· Provide a one-time, two-year period for families to file a petition if they were previously excluded from doing so because they missed the statute of limitations.

1 Other bills were also introduced.

2 However, the other bills also appear to protect industry, while whittling down families opportunities to receive compensation through the program.

3 These provisions include the ones inserted we have talked about here.

4 These bills also included a provision to Federalize a state ruling which found individuals who missed the statue of limitations in the Federal program would loose their ability to file in the state courts of New Jersey. This in essence prevents tolling for minors, and prevents cases from being filed for individuals who did not know about the program in time to file in the Federal program. While these Bills appear to have the Administration Support, they do not have the support of the vaccine injured.

Conclusion

1 We have a promise from both the Senate and House leadership that Sections 1714 through 1717 will be modified to allow for the existing thimerosal cases that would not fit within the vaccine program's statute of limitation to go forward in the civil court system.

2 This means that as soon as we come back in the 108th Congress, we must make this our first course of action. We owe this much to the families of the 1 in 250 children who are now autistic. And we especially owe this to those families whose children may be autistic as a result of thimerosal in their vaccines.

3 Yesterday, I sent a letter to the President urging him to host a White House conference on autism.

· I have asked him to begin a national effort to determine why autism has reached epidemic proportions in the United States.
· I believe we must try to determine what is causing this outbreak and how it can be stopped. President Bush is in a unique position to provide the leadership that this issue needs.
· He could bring together parents of autistic children and the best minds from the scientific community to chart a course of scientific research to uncover the underlying causes of this alarming epidemic.

Mr. Speaker I have provided three documents I would like put into the Congressional Record.

1 The first is an outline of what we know from the published literature about thimerosal's safety.

2 The second is a report submitted to the Committee that outlines through the scientific literature the similarities between mercury poisoning and the symptoms of autism.

3 And the third is testimony submitted to the Committee last April by the Autism Society of America which outlines the economic implications of autism and the research needs.

Drug Sales Bring Huge Profits,
and Scrutiny, to Cancer Doctors
by Reed Abelson,
New York Times, 26th Jan, 2003

Among cancer doctors, it is called the chemotherapy concession. At a time when overall spending on prescription drugs is soaring, cancer specialists are pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars each year by selling drugs to patients - a practice that almost no other doctors follow. The cancer specialists can make huge sums - often the majority of their practice revenue - from the difference between what they pay for the drugs and what they charge insurers and government programs. But some private health insurers are now studying ways to reduce these profits, and the issue is getting close attention in Congress.
Story at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/business/26CANC.html?tntemail1

CTM COMMENT: Within this story lie all the gross morality and ethics issues concerning the vested interests inherent in modern conventional cancer care. The fact that a) cancer doctors can buy the chemotherapy drugs themselves, "often at prices discounted by drug manufacturers trying to sell more of their products, and then administer them intravenously to patients in their offices," and b) that it "creates a potential conflict of interest for these doctors," should warrant a far more pointed critique from The New York Times than the above lame observations. For the full picture on 21st century conventional cancer treatments and non-conventional protocols for recovery, please refer to the Credence titles Cancer: Why Were Still Dying to Know The Truth and Great News on Cancer in the 21st Century.
www.credence.org

Drugs and Doctors may be
the Leading Cause of Death in U.S.
by Dr Joseph Mercola
www.mercola.com

At one time, the main title of my Web site read:

Doctors are the Third Leading Cause of Death.
This title stemmed from a JAMA article that was published over two years ago. This article, available on my home page, was widely circulated on the Internet and was one of the reasons why my Web site was initially popular.

However, JAMA actually published a study a year earlier that could support that doctors may be the leading cause of death in the United States. This finding is more of a speculation though, so below I have provided some other studies to support this assertion.

In 1994, an estimated 2,216,000 (1,721,000 to 2,711,000) hospitalized patients had serious adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and 106,000 (76,000 to 137,000) had fatal ADRs, making these reactions between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death.

Fatal ADRs accounted for 0.32 percent (95 percent confidence interval (CI), 0.23 percent to 0.41 percent) of hospitalized patients.
JAMA April 15, 1998;279(15):1200-5 -

Serious and Fatal Drug Reactions in US Hospitals
Drug-related morbidity and mortality have been estimated to cost more that $136 billion a year in United States. These estimates are higher than the total cost of cardiovascular care or diabetes care in the United States. A major component of these costs is adverse drug reactions (ADE).
Healthsentinel.com

The numbers of deaths reported in data sets varied 34-fold and were up to several 100-fold less than values based on extrapolations of surveillance programs.
Am J Med August 1 2000;109(2):122-30

About 0.05 percent of all hospital admissions were certainly or probably drug-related. Incidence figures based on death certificates only may seriously underestimate the true incidence of fatal adverse drug reactions.
Eur J Clin Pharmacol October 2002;58(7):479-82

In one study of 200 patients, ADRs may have contributed to the deaths of two (one percent) patients.
J Clin Pharm Ther October 2000;25(5):355-61

In a survey of over 28,000 patients, ADRs were considered to be the cause of 3.4 percent of hospital admissions. Of these, 187 ADRs were coded as severe. Gastrointestinal complaints (19 percent) represented the most common events, followed by metabolic and hemorrhagic complications (nine percent). The drugs most frequently responsible for these ADRs were diuretics, calcium channel blockers, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs and digoxin.
J Am Geriatr Soc Dec 2002;50(12):1962-8

GlaxoSmithKline Shares Fall by as Much as 40%

Glaxo CEO Mr Jean-Pierre Garnier is the third most highly paid executive in the UK. His precise pay is obscured by shrouds of highly technical bonuses and share options. But his current package, worth an estimated £7m, made him the third highest-paid FTSE-100 company boss in the recent Guardian/Inbucon executive pay survey. Garnier has presided over the disastrous merger of two giant British multinational drug companies: Glaxo Welcome and SmithKline Beecham. The share price has fallen by 40%, profits by 25%, and more serious still, the pipeline of new products is so poor that the company has shelved its regular update to investors on research and development. More at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,11381,845968,00.html

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Hormone Therapy Labels get Stronger Warnings
FDA's requirement comes after study of pills' health risks

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government announced new warnings Wednesday on the labels for hormone replacement therapies and advised millions of post-menopausal women to consult their doctors about whether to continue treatment.

Hormone replacement therapy products will now have to carry labels warning of the increased risk of heart attacks and breast cancer.

The Food and Drug Administration acted after reviewing data from a landmark study that found that the increased risk of heart disease and breast cancer from using therapies combining the hormones estrogen and progestin far outweighed any health benefits. The government abruptly halted that study last July.

The FDA approved new labels for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, maker of the best-selling hormone brands, that includes a new boxed warning highlighting the increased risk for heart disease, heart attacks, strokes and breast cancer. They also include a reference to the study findings.

The new labels also emphasize that these products are not approved for the prevention of heart disease. The aborted study was examining the effect of the combination estrogen-progestin hormone therapy on heart disease prevention, using
Wyeth's Prempro brand product.

The FDA also said it was asking all manufacturers of estrogen and estrogen-progestin products to add similar warnings and change the enclosed patient information leaflet because all hormone products are believed to carry similar health risks. The new labels also advise doctors to prescribe the lowest dose possible for the shortest period of time, since it isn't yet known what dose may reduce the risk of serious side effects.

Case-by-case basis
For women who rely on hormone replacement to cope with the uncomfortable side effects of menopause and are confused about whether to start or continue treatment, FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan said that decision is best made on an individual basis, in consultation with a doctor.

"There are risks and benefits that women need to consider in their individual circumstances," he said Wednesday. "Women should consult their physicians and find the therapy regimen that works best for them." In two instances, for treating vaginal dryness and irritation, and preventing the bone-weakening disease osteoporosis after menopause, the labels now suggest non-hormonal treatments.

The FDA advised women who decide to use hormone therapy after consulting their doctors to have yearly breast exams by a health professional, perform monthly breast self-exams, get periodic mammograms and discuss other ways to reduce the risk of heart disease and osteoporosis.

Some 10 million post-menopausal women in the United States use estrogen and estrogen-progestin products to cope with the hot flashes and vaginal dryness brought on by menopause, as well as to prevent osteoporosis, the FDA said.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, based in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania, said Wednesday it was sending revised prescription information to more than half a million doctors and other health care providers.
CNN News - Wednesday 8th January 2003

HRT Slump After Scare

BBC News - Friday 10 January 2003

Thousands of women in the US are shunning HRT after research linked its long-term use to an increased risk of heart disease.

HRT involving combinations of oestrogen and progestin were found to raise the risk of heart disease, blood clots and strokes.

In effect, the findings meant that for over 10,000 women on this type of HRT, you would expect seven more women to have heart attacks and eight more to suffer strokes and eight more to contract breast cancer.

A survey of more than 370,000 users of various types of HRT found that while 57% of women said they were continuing with combination HRT, the rest had either changed brands or stopped using HRT altogether.

The survey findings were released a day after the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) required that all HRT containing oestrogen had to be accompanied by warning labels.

Complete stop

More than a fifth of those questioned had stopped using any therapy containing oestrogen, and were not taking anything else to ward off brittle bone disease.

This is more than double the normal discontinuation rate found over the same period.

This is despite the fact that the study found no extra risks for women taking only oestrogen.

Similar figures for UK use in the wake of the research are not available - but as the results were widely publicised in this country, could well be similar.

Raulo Frear, from Express Scripts, which carried out the survey, said: "Now that the longer-term risk of using HRT combination products is better understood, large numbers of women and their physicians acted promptly to avoid HRT and reduce their risk."

Millions of users
HRT is taken by millions of UK women - and this type of combination HRT by an estimated 300,000 at the time of the US study. The therapy helps reduce menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, and reduce the risk of both osteoporosis and colon cancer.

Myth of Female Impotence 'Created'

The pharmaceutical industry has "created" a disease out of female sexual problems, it has been suggested.

An article in the British Medical Journal suggests drug manufacturers are defining the condition in order to have a new market for products. Since the launch of Viagra to treat male impotence in 1998, its manufacturers Pfizer has reported sales of $1.5bn.

Drug companies are now looking to recreate that kind of market with female sexual dysfunction, says the BMJ.

It says females sexual problems are being wrongly "medicalised", and the numbers affected exaggerated. It also suggests some researchers are too closely linked to drug companies who sponsor conferences and research.

Disinterest
In the article, researcher Ray Moynihan said: "A cohort of researchers with close ties to drug companies are working with colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry to develop and define a new category of human illness at meetings heavily sponsored by companies racing to develop new drugs."

Some doctors say coining the phrase "female sexual dysfunction" makes an illness out of normal changes in women's sexual feelings which may happen after childbirth or being with the same partner for many years.

Dr Sandra Leiblum, professor of psychiatry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School said: "I think there is dissatisfaction and perhaps disinterest among a lot of women, but that doesn't mean they have a disease."

And Dr John Bancroft, director of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University said: "The danger of portraying sexual difficulties as a dysfunction is that they are likely to encourage doctors to prescribe drugs to change sexual function when the attention should be paid to other aspects of a woman's life. It's also likely to make women think they have a malfunction when they do not."

Treatment
Dr John Dean, secretary of the British Society for Sexual and Impotence Research told BBC News Online there was a medical side to sexual dysfunction problems, but that psychological and socio-economic factors, plus relationships also had a significant impact.

He said: "I would caution against the over-medicalisation of female sexual disorders." Dr Dean added: "By putting a pathological definition on something people believe they have something that needs treatment." But he added: "Drugs do have a role as part of a mechanism for dealing with sexual disorders."

He said there was nothing wrong with drug companies having close links with researchers. However, he said: "You must avoid collusion and avoid the influence of the industry spinning the direction the research takes."

A spokeswoman for Pfizer denied it was "creating" disorders, adding that Viagra along with rival products from Eli Lilly/ICOS and Bayer/GlaxoSmithKline had not yet been approved for use in women.

She told Reuters: "I think this article is a tremendous disservice to the women who tell us they are suffering. We work on unmet medical needs. There were academics who were working on this long before they came to us to ask us for support."

The company said preliminary research had shown Viagra could help a proportion of women with female sexual dysfunction, but this was still at a very early stage and the drug was not licensed to treat the condition.
news.bbc.co.uk Friday, 3 January, 2003

UNC Study Confirms That Food Portion Sizes
Increased In US Over Two Decades

PIGGING OUT!
Americans are eating too much food. The shifts in where people are eating, as well as the types of food and how much, are critical. Portion sizes varied by food source, with the largest being consumed at fast-food establishments and the smallest at restaurants. Between 1977 and 1996, portion sizes increased for salty snacks, desserts, soft drinks, fruit drinks, French fries, hamburgers, cheeseburgers and Mexican food. Dietary patterns are rapidly shifting in the United States, and these changes are important contributors to the growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes facing American. Full story at
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/01/030122072329.htm

CTM COMMENT: Yet more proof that our ailing health is aided and abetted by self-gratification. The return of personal responsibility in healthcare would herald a healthy, new dawn!

British Soldiers Lining up for Anthrax Jab
New Scientist, 24th Jan, 2003

British troops on their way to the Gulf are rolling up their sleeves for the controversial anthrax vaccine. With the likelihood of a war with Iraq rising, the number of infantry soldiers opting for the voluntary vaccination has nearly doubled in the past few weeks, according to the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD). Only about half of infantry troops opted for the anthrax vaccine when the programme was revived in May 2002. But in the past few weeks those numbers have climbed to 80 or 90 per cent, says the MoD. Royal Navy sailors, in contrast, consider themselves safe offshore - uptake has remained at about 15 per cent.
Full story at http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993306

CTM COMMENT: Entirely missing from the story is the history of vaccination, or the techniques used by big business and big government to stoke fear into the populations for private gain. Anthrax is useless as a terrorist weapon, but former Chief of Staff White House buddy, Admiral William Crowe, has a 13% share in Bioport - the only vaccine company at present licensed to manufacture an anthrax vaccine.

Anthrax has been an innocuous disease for centuries. But you wouldn't think so, according to all the recent headlines. We are reminded of HL Mencken's quote "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence, clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins - all of them imaginary." For a full and frank account of how populations are being manipulated and how to break free from the fear of politically-manufactured 'disease', obtain a copy of Plague, Pestilence and the Pursuit of Power by Steven Ransom. www.credence.org

"A truly gripping read." Zac Goldsmith, Editor, The Ecologist

"Plague, Pestilence and the Pursuit of Power is the most significant book I have read to date. It contains information so vital in nature, that it immediately becomes our duty to alert as many people as possible to the absolute necessity to be vigilant, to think for ourselves and to wake up to the times in which we live. Once informed, we can then become potent agents of change." Robbie Briggs, Empower and Enrich

Ten Little Kingdoms
by Miss J E Clarke of Eynsham
A poem in Judy Magazine for Girls 28 August 1889

Plans for separation grew worse than those before,
Then they asked for two Parliaments,
now 'tis three or four.
Only just imagine if Home Rulers had their way,
And this is something like the tale
the world might hear one day.

'One United Kingdom they fancied wouldn't do.
To please some grumbling Irish
they split in two.
Two little kingdoms, but then the Scots, you see,
Claimed their ancient throne and rights,
and then there were three.

Three little Kingdoms, and after that one more,
For Welshmen claimed a Parliament,
and then there were four.
Four little Kingdoms wouldn't do at all!
One of them was far too big;
the others far too small.

All throughout Great Britain ancient hates revived.
Cornwall wants to rule herself,
and then there were five.
Five little Kingdoms, but London in a fix,
Raised the 'Southern English' flag,
and then there were six.

Six little Kingdoms, alas! The 'Home Rule' heaven,
Caused a rising in the West,
and then there were seven.
Seven little Kingdoms; Northmen wouldn't wait,
But started the Northumbrian new state,
and then there were eight.

And the towns that one may visit
by the Eastern Counties line,
Held their own East Anglian Parliament
and then there were nine.

Nine little Kingdoms; the Midlands people then
Called a Parliament themselves,
and then there were ten.

Ten little Kingdoms never could agree
How to work together, and so they went free.
Ten little Kingdoms with constitutions new,
Ten little Kingdoms always in a stew,
Ten little Kingdoms too weak to stand alone,
A foreign nation conquered them,
and now there were none.

The EU Regionalisation Plan
The 'Regional Policy' was again published as a method of breaking up Britain into 'squabbling' little assembly regions of insufficient stature, to ensure dependence on the centre. Each little region being in conflict and competition with its neighbour, leading to a loss of national identity and a need for subsidy from the centre.
Greg Lance-Watkins
www.SilentMajority.co.uk

Want to Get Active?
A message from Phillip Day

What can you do?
I am often asked what individually each of us can do about the worsening dangers o the EU to Britain. In my experience, educating others on the dangers of the European Union must be the first task of anyone who cares about the future of this country and those in the remainder of the EU. The Campaign for Truth is an educational unit that organises seminars all over the world and encourages members of the public to set up their own educational groups at the local level.

Why fragment?
I am also asked why the many organisations dedicated to getting Britain out of the European Union don't consolidate and present a unified front. This is a fair question and there's a good reason why they don't. It makes them harder to attack. As we see all day long in politics, a consolidated party and its leaders are always vulnerable to harassment by any hostile media. Far better that we have ten thousand independent splinter groups all over the land getting information into the public's hands until the time comes to unite our efforts and make a stand.

As the political situation changes, bulletins are sent out to CTE members. You may not wish to take direct action, but prefer instead to help educate others through your own efforts with a book, a video or audio tape. CTE has agents throughout the UK and abroad who do just this, whose educational efforts are spread exponentially through the power of CTE's media and Internet presence. My new book, Ten Minutes to Midnight, has been designed to be a quick and straightforward tool to educate others. Credence also sells Vigilance by Ashley Mote and Trevor Colman's excellent video on the dangers of Britain adopting the euro.

As I am always saying, our mission at CTE has nothing to do with party politics, and everything to do with helping others understand and avoid the tremendous dangers now facing us as a nation and culture.

Are you looking for a worthwhile project for 2003 and want to get active? If so, why not contact CTE's UK National Director, Susannah Acworth, on (01622) 832386 and find out how you can set up your own educational unit in your neighbourhood and help spread the word.

Above all, never be afraid to speak out and make your voice heard, as your conscience dictates. You still live in a country where free speech is prized and cherished above many things. I hope I have a chance to meet you at one of the conferences I am holding this year all over this great nation. Come along and lend your support and say 'hello'. Given the right attitude, motivation and a little bit of hard work, I know we can all help 'Fix Britain' together.

WELCOME MAT

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