Dr. Pushkar Kulkarni - email.

First of all, I would like to tell every one that bird flu is 

nothing but money generating gimmick of certain companies/

politicians. So far only 55 people have died of so-called bird flu 

(7000 died by lighting last year alone) so are we having a 

lighting epidemic, rubbish? These death were due to Respiratory 

sym, but not confirmed for H5N1. How many people handling birds 

have died because of diarrhea? Must be more than 55 in the last 

few years then we can say we are in a Salmonella epidemic???  

Next, who stand to gain by all this? Roche by selling Tamiflu. 

Who has the patent for Tamiflu: lesser known company Gilead. 

Who is the major shareholder of this company??? Can any one guess??

Donald H. Rumsfeld was chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences,

where he remained until early 2001 when he became defense 

secretary in Bush's Cabinet. The model suggests the paralll to the 

brazen corruption of Halliburton Corporation who's former CEO is 

Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney's company has so far gotten 

billions worth of US construction contracts in Iraq and elsewhere. 

Who else stands to benefit?

Bush campaign funders, Bilderberger spokesman Etienne F. Davignon 

and Reagan-Bush former secretary of state George P. Shultz, both

of who are also on the board of directors of Gilead. Another

member of the Bush circle is Lodewijk J.R. de Vink, who sits on 

the board of Hoffman-La Roche, Gilead's partner. In other words, 

bird flu will generate outrageous profits for insiders like 

Shultz, Rumsfled, Davignon and de Vink.  

By the way what is Tamiflu (Generic name: oseltamivir phosphate)?? 

It's a extract fro star aniseed (our very own Garam masala – 

curry powder) and each dose is $ 100 so even if 15% of the world 

have one dose then the total sale will be just $100 billion. 

Since last year media started this "Tamasha" by highlighting the 

news from other countries. Our Poultry Industry suffered losses 

due to those rumors during that year and now millions of farmers 

will loose their jobs & be bankrupt but only a few people will 

make money. I know it is going to be late & millions are going to 

loose their livelihood in India, Chicken is being sold at Rs 4/kg 

in some places. Think of the state of the Farmer & unlike other 

countries he is not going to be compensated (only farmers in 

Navapur, Nandurbar are being compensated). So, it my sincere 

request to all of you that spread this information to everyone, 

buy, cook and eat poultry products (chicken & egg) without 

hesitation and try to save the livelihood of millions of poultry 

farmers in India. Remember that anything cooked over 70degrees is 

safe.

IN CONTEXT: Because harvesting stem cells destroys the embryo, this medical research has become entangled in the abortion debate. Research opponents say it is wrong because it destroys human life. Supporters say the embryos were going to be destroyed anyway, and that research from their cells holds the potential to cure debilitating diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Creating embryos intended only for research raises new questions about the ethics of stem cell science.

Scientists in Virginia injected a new element into the debate over embryonic stem cell research by announcing they had created human embryos specifically for the purpose of extracting the stem cells. Until now, such research has been conducted on embryos left over from fertility treatments or from abortions.

Stem cells are "blank" cells that have the potential to develop into any type of cell in the body -- nerve cells, heart cells, kidney cells. Scientists are trying to harvest the cells before they have differentiated, then coax them into becoming certain types. If they could grow cardiac cells, for instance, scientists one day might be able to replace damaged heart tissue in someone who has had a heart attack. By growing nerve cells they might be able to repair brain cells damaged by Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, or replace injured spinal cord cells in a paraplegic.

Researchers say the field is promising, though no cures have been developed from stem cell research.

Currently, embryonic stem cell research in the United States is privately funded. The Clinton administration last year developed rules for funding stem cell research but they never were implemented, leaving the issue a decision for the Bush administration. In the 2000 campaign, Bush said he was against stem cell funding, but reconsidered the issue after taking office.

Stem cell researchers and advocates for people who hope to benefit from the research say federal funding could speed the development of therapies and keep the United States at the forefront of a medical field it pioneered. Anti-abortion groups say destroying an embryo to get the stem cells is an unacceptable use of taxpayer dollars.

In making his decision, the president faced conflicting views within his own party and went against his own promise made in the 2000 presidential campaign to ban funding for the research. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson has been a leading advocate of stem cell research. Republican Sens. Orrin Hatch of Utah and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, whose anti-abortion stances are well known, publicly supported federal funding of stem cell research, and a group of 38 House Republicans sent a letter supporting the funding as well. But prominent GOP leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi, House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Illinois and Minority Whip Tom DeLay of Texas, urged the president to issue a ban on federal funds. Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, an administration ally and the Senate's lone physician, advocated a limited approach to the issue.

Memory and other aspects of consciousness are said to be divided up among "alters" in the MPD. The number of "alters" identified by various therapists ranges from several to tens to hundreds. There are even some reports of several thousand identities dwelling in one person. There does not seem to be any consensus among therapists as to what an "alter" is. Yet, there is general agreement that the cause of MPD is repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. The evidence for this claim has been challenged, however, and there are very few reported cases of MPD afflicting children.

Psychologist Nicholas P. Spanos argues that repressed memories of childhood abuse and multiple personality disorder are "rule-governed social constructions established, legitimated, and maintained through social interaction." In short, Spanos argues that most cases of MPD have been created by therapists with the cooperation of their patients and the rest of society. The experts have created both the disease and the cure. This does not mean that MPD does not exist, but that its origin and development are often, if not most often, explicable without the model of separate but permeable ego-states or "alters" arising out of the ashes of a destroyed "original self."

A rather common view of MPD is given by philosopher Daniel Dennett.

...the evidence is now voluminous that there are not a handful or a hundred but thousands of cases of MPD diagnosed today, and it almost invariably owes its existence to prolonged early childhood abuse, usually sexual, and of sickening severity. Nicholas Humphrey and I investigated MPD several years ago ["Speaking for Our Selves: An Assessment of Multiple Personality Disorder," Raritan, 9, pp. 68-98] and found it to be a complex phenomenon that extends far beyond individual brains and the sufferers.

These children have often been kept in such extraordinary terrifying and confusing circumstances that I am more amazed that they survive psychologically at all than I am that they manage to preserve themselves by a desperate redrawing of their boundaries. What they do, when confronted with overwhelming conflict and pain, is this: They "leave." They create a boundary so that the horror doesn't happen to them; it either happens to no one, or to some other self, better able to sustain its organization under such an onslaught--at least that's what they say they did, as best they recall.

MORE than 9 years ago In Fact began publishing the suppressed news about debility and death due to the use of cigarettes and tobacco in all forms, pointing out that the free US press will not publish the news because tobacco firms spend about 50 million a year in advertising. The most important document was the report of Dr Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins showing that tobacco shortens life.

Up to now the Pearl report was available only in Facts & Fascism (by the editor of this weekly). Now Andrew Salter in "Conditional Reflex Therapy" (Creative Age) has used the documented facts. Salter writes:

"Consider the following:

Average Age at death

Nonsmokers 67.7 years

Moderate smokers 65.5 years

Heavy smokers 57.7 years

"Notice in the table that while moderate Smokers paid with 'only' 2.2 years of life, heavy smokers had 10 Years less of life than nonsmokers.

"Some computations also show:

"The moderate smoker pays with 12.7 minutes of life for each cigaret he smokes.

"The heavy smoker pays with 34.6 minutes of life for each cigaret he smokes.

The pack a day smoker pays with 111/2 hours of life for each pack of cigarets he smokes."

Credit for reviewing the book and quoting frightening facts goes to NYPost.

Within the past 5 years In Fact has reported numerous times on American Medical Society and medical convention reports on tobacco as the cause of increased lung cancer. About 90% of the US press, taking money from cigaret firms, suppressed this.

MORE than 9 years ago In Fact began publishing the suppressed news about debility and death due to the use of cigarettes and tobacco in all forms, pointing out that the free US press will not publish the news because tobacco firms spend about 50 million a year in advertising. The most important document was the report of Dr Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins showing that tobacco shortens life.

Up to now the Pearl report was available only in Facts & Fascism (by the editor of this weekly). Now Andrew Salter in "Conditional Reflex Therapy" (Creative Age) has used the documented facts. Salter writes:

"Consider the following:

Average Age at death

Nonsmokers 67.7 years

Moderate smokers 65.5 years

Heavy smokers 57.7 years

"Notice in the table that while moderate Smokers paid with 'only' 2.2 years of life, heavy smokers had 10 Years less of life than nonsmokers.

"Some computations also show:

"The moderate smoker pays with 12.7 minutes of life for each cigaret he smokes.

"The heavy smoker pays with 34.6 minutes of life for each cigaret he smokes.

The pack a day smoker pays with 111/2 hours of life for each pack of cigarets he smokes."

Credit for reviewing the book and quoting frightening facts goes to NYPost.

Within the past 5 years In Fact has reported numerous times on American Medical Society and medical convention reports on tobacco as the cause of increased lung cancer. About 90% of the US press, taking money from cigaret firms, suppressed this.

As a third year medical student, Susan Black was given a corpse to examine from top to toe. She was exhilarated by the experience of "knowing what we look like on the inside".

Now as a leading forensic anthropologist, she is providing some of the most damning evidence at the international trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the first head of state to be tried for crimes against humanity.

One of the medical team working in the war-ravaged landscapes of eastern Europe, Black's work involves dissecting human remains to the point where they can be identified or, as she describes it, "giving back a name to a nameless corpse". So far she has exhumed more than 1,000 victims, and been awarded the OBE for her untiring effort.

Susan Black was first asked to provide the police with assistance when she was an anthropology PhD student at St Thomas's in London. As well as becoming an increasingly respected forensic expert across London, she co-wrote with Dr Louise Scheuer the definitive textbook on the bones of young children.

But while her workshops have attracted students from across the world and she thrives on teaching, Black has shied away from the politics of academia. She has remained freelance and was the natural person to call on after the Serbian attacks of 1999 left the villages of Kosovo without their human identity.

Among the charred remains of the victims of ethnic cleansing, Black searches for unique human fragments. She hopes this will help families conduct proper burials, move on with their lives and that justice can somehow be served.

Forty years ago autism was a highly obscure disorder which was thought to affect only four to five children in every 10,000, but now some British teachers are claiming to see it in one in every 86 children. What's happened? Is there an epidemic of autism, and what's causing it? Is there any connection to MMR? Or is it that awareness has grown and the definition of autism changed over the 60 years since the term was first coined?

Filmmaker Saskia Baron has unique insights into autism. Her older brother, Timothy, is profoundly autistic. When he was diagnosed in 1961, his parents found that there was no education available for children with autism their fate was mental handicap hospitals and sedation.

Unwilling to accept such a prospect, Timothy's parents got together with other families with autistic children and started the National Autistic Society in 1962. Together, the parents established the first school in the world for autistic children in 1965. Using a recently rediscovered film of that school, the documentary explores how life turned out for the first generation of children to be diagnosed with autism in Britain. What hope do their life stories give the parents of autistic children today?

The documentary looks at the history of the condition, and current research into cause, treatment and prevalence. It includes interviews with some of the world's leading experts on autism, including Dr Lorna Wing, Professor Christopher Gillberg, Professor Fred Volkmar and Professor Anthony Bailey.

The film also explores the latest experimental research into the autistic brain in Finland, England and America which give new hope for greater understanding of this mysterious disability using cutting-edge technology .