Jim Traficant

Congressman Jim Traficant - A Tractor Fell on Him.

"My plan would repudiate all debt owed to the Federal Reserve bankers except that amount owed to other countries or individuals. The Fed’s interest rate constitutes usury, and it would be prohibited from printing money.

America would create a national governmental, not private, bank. This bank would have credit offices in all American cities and counties and would be totally transparent. It would print and issue money to our citizens and our companies without interest.

The National U.S. Bank would print and issue money on the basis of the goods and services that our nation produces. Our money will be backed by the value possessed by our nation through tangible assets and the strength of our service and productive sectors."

"When federal judges removed God from the Pledge of Allegiance, federal judges welcomed Satan." ~ James Traficant

"The National Retail Sales Tax Program (NRSTP) I have offered up as a solution to our country’s economic troubles would replace the current income tax scheme with a flat 25% national retail sales tax on all new goods and services. There would be no tax on used goods under my plan, and all tax withholding would stop."

~ Jim Traficant

"Workers would be paid their full wage, minus only state and local taxes. Once again, the American people would decide how to use and spend their own money.

This factor alone would be a major step toward true freedom and independence.

My plan would abolish the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and repeal the16th Amendment to the United States Constitution. It also eliminates the Federal Reserve System (Fed).

My NRSTP plan would abolish all taxes on savings, investments, inheritances, capital gains and corporations, as well as taxes on Social Security and Medicare.

Without the oppressive tax code, our businesses and industries would begin to expand and prosper, thus creating jobs. American companies and factories that have moved overseas would begin to come home to a more hospitable commercial environment.

Everybody would pay the tax. No exceptions.

Think about it. A drug dealer (who often qualifies for Social Security disability) would even be paying taxes. Visitors from other countries whovisit Broadway or Vegas would pay the retail sales tax. Even welfare recipients would pay the tax.

How can people afford this tax? A study performed by Harvard economist Dr. Dale W. Jorgenson showed there would be little, if any, increase in existing prices. Thus, a welfare recipient would not be affected by an increased cost of living. There would be no harm in paying this totally inclusive participatory tax.

Be advised that only 53% of eligible taxpayers pay income tax under our current, failing system.

The politicians in D.C. keep preaching how every American must participate in order for us to succeed, yet 47% of eligible taxpayers pay no income tax. Half of America is dependent on the other half. Does this make sense? Of course it doesn’t.

As Jorgenson concluded: When we throw out the tax code, we reduce production costs in America by 25%. Companies will reduce prices to garner market share.

This phenomenon will allow the new 25% retail tax to be included in current pricing without additional cost burden to Americans, thus making it affordable to all.

Even illegal immigrants will pay this tax.

There will be no more receipts, keeping of “books and records,” tax courts, accountants, attorneys, deadlines, penalties, late fees, tax judges, audits or IRS in our lives. There will be no more levies, liens or garnishments.

Investors will speculate with their money under favorable capital gains terms. Yes, we want their money circulating in America, where it will create jobs, without the government having to “stimulate” while piling more debt on our backs.

I have conferred with multiple financial experts, who have contributed to my plan to eliminate the Fed and remove the international bankers’ hands, which have been in our pockets for too long.

My plan would repudiate all debt owed to the Federal Reserve bankers except that amount owed to other countries or individuals. The Fed’s interest rate constitutes usury, and it would be prohibited from printing money.

America would create a national governmental, not private, bank. This bank would have credit offices in all American cities and counties and would be totally transparent. It would print and issue money to our citizens and our companies without interest.

The National U.S. Bank would print and issue money on the basis of the goods and services that our nation produces. Our money will be backed by the value possessed by our nation through tangible assets and the strength of our service and productive sectors.

When a family buys a car for $20K, their loan would be interest free. They would only pay closing costs. And when a family buys a house for $150K, their mortgages would be interest free.

You may laugh at first, but this program will not only save America, it will produce budget surpluses instead of deficits.

Imagine our nation with a balanced budget and surpluses. Under my plan, that surplus will be returned to the people in the form of a national dividend, to be determined at the end of each fiscal year.

Why would we do this? Are we not the owners and stockholders in our great nation? In the event of a $200B surplus, 100M U.S. households would each receive a $2K dividend check.

You may ask, what if we have a $200B deficit? Our bank would print the money necessary, just like the Fed does now. The only difference would be that we would pay no interest on it. After all, no one loans money to himself.

Think about it. Cleaning up this mess we face in Washington is not rocket science. The current scheme must be thrown out.

Send me your suggestions and please get back at me!

 

Jim Traficant - October 23, 2012 - posted at AmericanFreePress

 

James A. (Jim) Traficant Jr.* was born in Youngstown, Ohio on May 8, 1941. He received BS and MS degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. He also received an MS from Youngstown State University in 1976.

From 1981-1985 he served as sheriff of Mahoning County, prior to his election to the U.S. Congress in 1984. He was reelected by overwhelming margins every year up until 2002 when, following his conviction on trumped up corruption charges, he was expelled from the House of Representatives.

* Target: TRAFICANT

The outrageous never-before-told inside story of how the Justice Department, the Israeli lobby and the mass media conspired to set up and take down Ohio’s outspoken Congressman Jim Traficant...

... From the pen of AFP correspondent Michael Collins Piper—the only journalist Jim Traficant agreed to speak to from prison after being convicted on trumped-up corruption charges. Traficant wouldn’t even speak to The New York Times!

In Target: TRAFICANT, veteran author Piper—whom Jim Traficant has said was the only journalist to tell his story truthfully and correctly from the beginning—has assembled this eye-opening and disturbing overview of the campaign by high-level forces to set up and take down the no-nonsense populist congressman.

If you have ever had any doubts about Traficant’s integrity—doubts instilled by a long-standing media cacophony attacking Traficant—you’ll soon realize that the Traficant case represents one of the most outrageous and thoroughly illegal hit-and-run operations ever orchestrated in our “democracy.”

It is perhaps all too representative of the high-level corruption for which the “Justice” Department has been found responsible time and time again.

Piper dissects the intrigues of the DoJ and the FBI (as well as the maneuvers by the federal judge who oversaw the Traficant trial) and demonstrates, beyond any doubt, that Traficant was absolutely innocent of all of the charges on which he was convicted...

Softcover, 163 page

Mind War in the UK

Mind War in the UK from Spike EP on Vimeo.

"The root cause of this terrorist threat is a poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism. This is nothing to do with Islam, which is a peaceful religion which inspires countless acts of generosity every day. Islamist extremism on the other hand believes in using the most brutal forms of terrorism to force people to accept a warped world view and to live in a quasi-mediaeval state.

To defeat ISIL – and organisations like it - we must defeat this ideology in all its forms.

As evidence emerges about the backgrounds of those convicted of terrorist offences, it is clear that many of them were initially influenced by preachers who claim not to encourage violence, but whose world view can be used as a justification for it. We know this world view.

The peddling of lies: that 9/11 was a Jewish plot or that the 7/7 London attacks were staged. The idea that Muslims are persecuted all over the world as a deliberate act of Western policy. The concept of an inevitable clash of civilisations.

We must be clear: to defeat the ideology of extremism we need to deal with all forms of extremism – not just violent extremism."

Madam President, this year we face extraordinary tests of our values and our resolve. In responding to the aggression against one of our member states, Ukraine; in seeking peace in the Middle East; in dealing with the terrifying spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa.

And in overcoming what I want to focus on today – which is the mortal threat we all face from the rise of ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) in Syria and Iraq.

Deir al-Zor is a province in Eastern Syria. Home to the al-Sheitaat tribe, it was captured by ISIL last month. 700 tribesmen were executed, many were beheaded.

The vast majority were civilians - Muslims - who refused to take an oath of allegiance to ISIL’s sick extremist world view – and who paid for this with their lives.

They are not alone.

Across Syria and Northern Iraq thousands have suffered the same fate. Muslims – both Sunni and Shia. Christians, Yazidis, people of every faith and none. ISIL is not a problem restricted to just one region.

It has murderous plans to expand its borders well beyond Iraq and Syria, and to carry out terrorist atrocities right across the world.

It is recruiting new fighters from all over the world. 500 have gone there from my country Britain, and one of them almost certainly brutally murdered two American journalists and a British aid worker.

This is a problem that affects us all. And we must tackle it together.

Now there is not one person in this hall who will view this challenge without reference to the past. Whether in Iraq. Whether in Afghanistan.

Now of course it is absolutely right that we should learn the lessons of the past, especially of what happened in Iraq a decade ago.

But we have to learn the right lessons. Yes to careful preparation; no to rushing to join a conflict without a clear plan. But we must not be so frozen with fear that we don’t do anything at all.

Isolation and withdrawing from a problem like ISIL will only make matters worse. We must not allow past mistakes to become an excuse for indifference or inaction.

The right lesson is that we should act – but act differently. We should be:

comprehensive – defeating the ideology of extremism that is the root cause of this terrorism - so that we win the battle of ideas, not just the battle of military might

intelligent – supporting representative and accountable governments and working with them at their requests, not going in over their heads

inclusive – working with partners in the region who are prepared to be part of the solution, potentially including Iran.

uncompromising – using all the means at our disposal – including military force – to hunt down these extremists

Let me take each of these in turn.

Defeating the ideology of extremism

The root cause of this terrorist threat is a poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism. This is nothing to do with Islam, which is a peaceful religion which inspires countless acts of generosity every day. Islamist extremism on the other hand believes in using the most brutal forms of terrorism to force people to accept a warped world view and to live in a quasi-mediaeval state.

To defeat ISIL – and organisations like it - we must defeat this ideology in all its forms.

As evidence emerges about the backgrounds of those convicted of terrorist offences, it is clear that many of them were initially influenced by preachers who claim not to encourage violence, but whose world view can be used as a justification for it. We know this world view.

The peddling of lies: that 9/11 was a Jewish plot or that the 7/7 London attacks were staged. The idea that Muslims are persecuted all over the world as a deliberate act of Western policy. The concept of an inevitable clash of civilisations.

We must be clear: to defeat the ideology of extremism we need to deal with all forms of extremism – not just violent extremism.

For governments, there are some obvious ways we can do this. We must ban preachers of hate from coming to our countries. We must proscribe organisations that incite terrorism against people at home and abroad. We must work together to take down illegal online material like the recent videos of ISIL murdering hostages. And we must stop the so called non-violent extremists from inciting hatred and intolerance in our schools, our universities and yes, even our prisons.

Of course there are some who will argue that this is not compatible with free speech and intellectual inquiry.

But I say: would we sit back and allow right-wing extremists, Nazis or Klu Klux Klansmen to recruit on our university campuses? No.

So we shouldn’t stand by and just allow any form of non-violent extremism. We need to argue that prophecies of a global war of religion pitting Muslims against the rest of the world. These things are nonsense. We need Muslims and their governments around the world to reclaim their religion from these sick terrorists as so many are doing and quite rightly doing today. We all need to help them with programmes that channel young people away from these poisonous ideologues. And we need the strongest possible international focus on tackling this ideology - which is why here at the United Nations, the United Kingdom is calling for a new Special Representative on extremism.

Working with representative and accountable governments

But fighting extremism will never be enough.

Communism wasn’t defeated simply by pointing out its flaws – but by showing that the alternative of economic freedoms, democracy and the rule of law, these things could build a better society and a better world. Young people need to see the power of a different, better, more open, more democratic path. The twentieth century taught us the vital role of representative and accountable governments in offering their people opportunity, hope and dignity.

Of course we should not be naive: not every country can move at the same speed or even reach the same destination. And we should respect different cultures and traditions and histories. But, let’s be clear: the failure to meet people’s aspirations can create a breeding ground where extremist and even terrorist insurgency can take root.

Governments that only govern for some of their people cause deep resentment. In Iraq the failure of the al-Maliki government to represent all of the people has driven some of them into the arms of the extremists. Too often people have been faced with a false choice between an autocratic and unrepresentative government on the one hand - or a brutal insurgency, with religion misused as its rallying call on the other. To combat this we must support the building blocks of free and open societies.

In Iraq this means supporting the creation of a new and genuinely inclusive government capable of uniting all Iraqis – Sunni, Shia and Kurds, Christians and others.

In Syria, it must mean a political transition and an end to Assad’s brutality.

Now I know there are some who think that we should do a deal with Assad in order to defeat ISIL.

But I think this view is dangerously misguided. Our enemies’ enemy is not our friend. It is another enemy. Doing a deal with Assad will not defeat ISIL - because the bias and the brutality of the Assad regime was and is one of the most powerful recruiting tools for the extremists. Syria needs what Iraq needs: an inclusive, representative, democratic government that can look after the interests of all its people.

So to those who have backed Assad or have stood on the sidelines, I would say this: we are ready to join with you in a new political effort to secure a representative and accountable government in Damascus that can take the fight to ISIL. But it is simply not credible for Assad to lead such a government. Although we are prepared to look at every practical option to find a way forward.

Taking an inclusive approach

Third, we must be inclusive, engaging the widest possible coalition of countries in this international effort. ISIL is a threat to us all. But the greatest threat is to the region. It is very welcome that a number of Arab countries have already taken part in the action to degrade ISIL. They have shown courage and leadership.

Iran should also be given the chance to show it can be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Earlier today I met with President Rouhani. We have severe disagreements. Iran’s support for terrorist organisations, its nuclear programme, its treatment of its people. All these need to change.

But Iran’s leaders could help in defeating the threat from ISIL. They could help secure a more stable, inclusive Iraq; and a more stable and inclusive Syria. And if they are prepared to do this, then we should welcome their engagement.

Taking an uncompromising approach

Finally, when the safety and security of our people is at stake, we must be uncompromising in our response. That starts at home.

For our part, in the United Kingdom, we are introducing new powers.

To strengthen our ability to seize passports and stop suspects travelling.

To allow us to strip British identity from dual nationals and temporarily prevent some British nationals getting back into our country.

To ensure that airlines comply with our no fly lists and security screening requirements.

And to enable our police and our security services to apply for stronger locational constraints on those in the UK who pose a risk.

Here at the United Nations we have led a Security Council Resolution to disrupt the flows of finance to ISIL - to sanction those who are seeking to recruit to ISIL and to encourage countries to do all they can to prevent foreign fighters joining the extremist cause.

But what about the role of our military?

I don’t believe this threat of Islamist extremism will best be solved by Western ground troops directly trying to pacify or reconstruct Middle Eastern or African countries. But pursing an intelligent and comprehensive approach should include a place for our military.

Our military can support the enormous humanitarian efforts that are necessary - as our Royal Air Force did helping the millions of people who have fled from ISIL. And we should – together – do more to build the capability of the legitimate authorities fighting the extremists.

This can mean training, equipping and advising. Providing technology and the other assets necessary for success. Whether it is supporting action against Boko Haram in Nigeria; against Al-Shabaab in Somalia; against Ansar Al-Sharia in Libya or against Al Qaeda in Yemen - it is right to help those on the frontline who are fighting for their societies and their countries and their freedom.

Along with our European partners we have already been supplying equipment directly to Kurdish forces. We are strengthening the resilience of military forces in neighbouring Lebanon and Jordan. And British Tornado and surveillance aircraft have already been helping with intelligence gathering and logistics to help support those taking on ISIL in Iraq.

We now have a substantial international coalition in place, including Arab nations, committed to confronting and defeating ISIL. We have a comprehensive strategy to do that – with the political, diplomatic, humanitarian and military components that it needs to succeed over time.

The UN Security Council has now received a clear request from the Iraqi government to support it in its military action against ISIL. So we have a clear basis in international law for action. And we have a need to act in our own national interest to protect our people and our society.

So it is right that Britain should now move to a new phase of action. I am therefore recalling the British Parliament on Friday to secure approval for the United Kingdom to take part in international air strikes against ISIL in Iraq.

My message today is simple. We are facing an evil against which the whole of the world should unite. And, as ever in the cause of freedom, democracy and justice, Britain will play its part.

The Throwdown Switch : The Way That You Kill Hitler

Now you don't see it...

"We switched the dental records on the way out of the bunker, prior to the final breakout."

Hugo Blaschke

Hitler's Personal Dentist

...and now you do.

James Brady was NOT shot with a .38 - his whole skull would be in pieces.

Certainly if it was loaded with illegal "devastator" bullets which explode when they hit things

He was shot with a .22 - a pop-gun by comparison.

Here we see James Brady and James Brady's head injury, right next to the gun that didn't cause them, along with the Secret Service agent that just put it there...

The DC policeman with the long coat is the one who picked up the .22 and took it away from Hinkley.

Flatterers

Machiavelli's The Prince (1513)

Chapter XXIII: How Flatterers should be Avoided

I do not wish to leave out an important branch of this subject, for it is a danger from which princes are with difficulty preserved, unless they are very careful and discriminating. It is that of flatterers, of whom courts are full, because men are so self-complacent in their own affairs, and in a way so deceived in them, that they are preserved with difficulty from this pest, and if they wish to defend themselves they run the danger of falling into contempt. Because there is no other way of guarding oneself from flatterers except letting men understand that to tell you the truth does not offend you; but when every one may tell you the truth, respect for you abates.

Therefore a wise prince ought to hold a third course by choosing the wise men in his state, and giving to them only the liberty of speaking the truth to him, and then only of those things of which he inquires, and of none others; but he ought to question them upon everything, and listen to their opinions, and afterwards form his own conclusions. With these councillors, separately and collectively, he ought to carry himself in such a way that each of them should know that, the more freely he shall speak, the more he shall be preferred; outside of these, he should listen to no one, pursue the thing resolved on, and be steadfast in his resolutions. He who does otherwise is either overthrown by flatterers, or is so often changed by varying opinions that he falls into contempt.

I wish on this subject to adduce a modern example. Fra Luca, the man of affairs to Maximilian,[*] the present emperor, speaking of his majesty, said: He consulted with no one, yet never got his own way in anything. This arose because of his following a practice the opposite to the above; for the emperor is a secretive man--he does not communicate his designs to any one, nor does he receive opinions on them. But as in carrying them into effect they become revealed and known, they are at once obstructed by those men whom he has around him, and he, being pliant, is diverted from them. Hence it follows that those things he does one day he undoes the next, and no one ever understands what he wishes or intends to do, and no one can rely on his resolutions.

[*] Maximilian I, born in 1459, died 1519, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Charles the Bold; after her death, Bianca Sforza; and thus became involved in Italian politics.

A prince, therefore, ought always to take counsel, but only when he wishes and not when others wish; he ought rather to discourage every one from offering advice unless he asks it; but, however, he ought to be a constant inquirer, and afterwards a patient listener concerning the things of which he inquired; also, on learning that nay one, on any consideration, has not told him the truth, he should let his anger be felt.

And if there are some who think that a prince who conveys an impression of his wisdom is not so through his own ability, but through the good advisers that he has around him, beyond doubt they are deceived, because this is an axiom which never fails: that a prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice, unless by chance he has yielded his affairs entirely to one person who happens to be a very prudent man. In this case indeed he may be well governed, but it would not be for long, because such a governor would in a short time take away his state from him.

But if a prince who is not inexperienced should take counsel from more than one he will never get united counsels, nor will he know how to unite them. Each of the counsellors will think of his own interests, and the prince will not know how to control them or to see through them. And they are not to found otherwise, because men will always prove untrue to you unless they are kept honest by constraint. Therefore it must be inferred that good counsels, whencesoever they come, are born of the wisdom of the prince, and not the wisdom of the prince from good counsels.

HIV in Libya

"HIV is the first disease in history where if you're immune to it, you're gonna die from it"

- Dr Robert Wilner

Correspondence

Nature 448, 992 (30 August 2007) | doi:10.1038/448992a; 
Published online 29 August 2007

Libya should stop denying scientific evidence on HIV

Vittorio Colizzi¹, Tulio de Oliveira² & Richard J. Roberts³

1. University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Rome, Italy
2. South African National Bioinformatics Institute, University of Western Cape, Private Bag X17, Bellville 7535, South Africa
3. New England Biolabs, 240 County Road, Ipswich, Massachusetts 01938-2723, USA

Sir

We welcome Libya's recent decision to commute to life imprisonment the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian medic. All six were imprisoned for eight years on false charges of deliberately infecting children with HIV in the hospital where they worked. We also applaud the subsequent decision by Bulgaria's president to pardon and release the six immediately upon their extradition to Sofia.

We cannot accept, however, the Libyan government's continued denial of the scientific evidence in this case. That denial constitutes a barrier to establishing normal relations with the international medical and scientific community, from which assistance is urgently needed to upgrade Libya's health-care system.

The 17 July announcement that Libya's Higher Judicial Council had commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment should have been accompanied by an explicit acknowledgement that the real cause of the outbreak was an accident stemming from insufficient infection controls and hospital safety precautions.

Indeed, the statements from Libya's prime minister and foreign minister, condemning the recent pardon, reiterating the original conspiracy charges and calling for the health workers to be re-imprisoned, shows that the final judicial and political decision-making process had little to do with the accumulated scientific evidence.

Despite pleas from more than 100 Nobel laureates (R. J. Roberts et al.Nature 444, 146; doi:10.1038/444146a 2006), the judiciary refused to allow independent scientific evidence to be heard during the trial.

In particular, the judiciary failed to take into account convincing findings that the HIV infection was present in the hospital before the arrival of the health-care workers (T. de Oliveira et al. Nature 444, 836–837; 2006). Similarly ignored was the concurrent outbreak of hepatitis C among the same population of children — a strong signal that they were picking up other blood-borne infections from the hospital.

Opportunities for contamination of medical materials are frequent in many hospitals in developing countries, and there is an urgent need to redress this situation by improving health-care policies and practices. The Libyan government wants to upgrade the standards of hygiene and care in its hospitals. With the cooperation of the international scientific and medical community, it could make Libyan hospitals a model for health care in the region and in the African continent.

Removing the obstacle of Libya's intransigence on the science in this case is essential to allow such cooperation to move forward. We call on the Libyan authorities to put this affair behind them, and to exonerate the six health-care workers.

This letter was also signed by:
Massimo Amicosante University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Thomas Lehner Guy's Hospital, London, UK
Luc Montagnier World AIDS Foundation for Research and Prevention, Paris, France
David Pauza University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
Luc Perrin University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Giovanni Rezza Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

British Medical Journal

Feb 3, 2001; 322(7281): 260.

PMCID: PMC1119524

Doctors face murder charges in Libya

Carl Kovac and Radko Khandjiev

Sixteen doctors, nurses, and managers at the Al-Fateh Hospital in Benghazi, Libya, are standing trial in Tripoli. All are charged with subverting the country's healthcare system, and seven are charged with murder. The trial, which has been adjourned several times, is scheduled to resume next week.

According to an 11 count indictment issued by the People's Claim Bureau, seven of the defendants are charged with murdering 393 children at the Al-Fateh hospital in 1998 by injecting them with HIV. Twenty three of the children had died by 30 October 1999, the indictment says.

The seven accused of murder—a Bulgarian doctor, five Bulgarian nurses, and a Palestinian doctor, all working under contract at the hospital—face the death penalty if convicted.

The Palestinian doctor and three of the nurses are also accused of having sexual relations “outside marriage.” One of the nurses is also charged with providing the Palestinian doctor with liquor, which “made him dependent and put him under her will in order to continue the crime.” The Bulgarian doctor and four of the nurses are also accused of drinking alcohol in violation of Libyan law.

The indictment also charges the Palestinian doctor and one of the nurses with violating Libya's foreign exchange laws through illegal transactions on the black market and illegal exports and imports.

Nine Libyans, including the director of the Al-Fateh Hospital and the undersecretary of Benghazi's Department of Health, are charged with exposing 19 of the mothers of the infected children to HIV. They “hid the fact that the children were already infected” and failed to take prophylactic measures to protect the mothers.

“In their capacity as government employees, they have committed malpractice to achieve illegal material benefit for themselves by concealing the results of laboratory analyses of the infected children,” the indictment says. The hospital director and the health department's undersecretary are specifically charged with having “abused their positions for personal benefit.”

Ironically, according to a UNAIDS report, Libya has not supplied any information on AIDS cases in that country for 1998-2000. Suleiman Al-Gamary, the former head of Libya's health service, has reportedly expressed concern over the deterioration of the country's health services and the shortage of medicines and hospital supplies as a result of the former UN sanctions against Libya.

According to Libyan authorities, the accused staff have been in custody since their arrest on 9 February 1999 after an investigation.

The LIDA Machine

Associated Press (Exact date not shown on copy but tests took place 1982/83) Loma Linda (Veterans Hospital research unit)

San Bernardino County

An old medical, Russian-made device that transmits pulses of 40 MHz radio signal at pulse rates designed to match relaxed and sleeping states originally.

The machine, known as the LIDA, is on loan to the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Hospital through a medical exchangeprogram between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Hospital researchers have found in changes behavior in animals.

"It looks as though instead of taking a valium when you want to relax yourself it would be possible to achieve a similar result, probably in a safer way, by the use of a radio field that will relax you" said Dr. Ross Adey, chief of research at the hospital.  [Dr. Adey is now deceased.]

[Missing one line on the photocopy] ... manual shows it being used on a human in a clinical setting, Adey said. The manual says it is a "distant pulse treating apparatus" for psychological problems, including sleeplessness, hyper-tension and neurotic disturbances.

The device has not been approved for use with humans in this country, although the Russians have done so since at least 1960, Adey Said.

Low frequency radio waves simulate the brain's own electromagnetic current and produce a trance-like state.

Adey said he put a cat in a box and turned on the LIDA.

"Within a matter of two or three minutes it is sitting there very quietly ... it stays almost as though it were transfixed" he said.

Tho hospital's experiment with the machine has been underway for three months and should be completed within a year, Adey said.

Eleanor White's comments (Dr. Byrd's statement follows):

1.  Heavy "fatigue attacks" are a very common experience among

involuntary neuro-electromagnetic experimentees.  The LIDA device could, right out of the box, be used as a fatigue attack weapon,  FROM HIDING, thru non- or semi-conductive walls.

2.  If the LIDA machine is tuned for tranquilizing effect, then 

it might also be tuned for "force awake" and other effects too.

This device is an electronic harassment weapon, AS IS.  A TV

documentary stated the Russian medical establishment considers

this 1950s device obsolete.  (Wonder what has taken it's place?)

Below is a statement from Dr. Eldon Byrd, U.S. psychotronic researcher who funded Dr. Adey's work with the LIDA machine:

"The LIDA machine was made in the 1950's by the Soviets.  The CIA purchased one through a Canadian front for Dr. Ross Adey, but didn't give him any funds to evaluate it.

"I provided those funds from my project in 1981, and he determined that the LIDA would put rabbits into a stupor at a distance and make cats go into REM.

"The Soviets included a picture with the device that showed an

entire auditorium full of people asleep with the LIDA on the

podium.  The LIDA put out an electric field, a magnetic field,

light, heat, and sound (of course light and heat are electromagnetic waves, but at a much higher frequency than the low frequencies of the electric and magnetic fields mentioned above).

"The purported purpose of the LIDA was for medical treatments;

however, the North Koreans used it as a brain washing device

during the Korean War.  The big question is:  what did they do

with the technology?  It could have been improved and/or made

smaller.  It is unlikely that they abandoned something that

worked.

"Direct communication with Ross Adey:  While he was testing the

LIDA 4, an electrician was walking by and asked him where he got

the "North Korean brain washing machine".  Ross told him that is

was a Russian medical device.

"The guy said he had been brain-washed by a device like that when

he was in a POW camp. They placed the vertical plates alongside

his head and read questions and answers to him.  He said he felt

like he was in a dream.  Later when the Red Cross came and asked

questions, he responded with what had been read to him while under the influence of the device.  He said he seemed to have no control over the answers.

"The LIDA is PATENTED IN THE US.  Why?  They are not sold in the US--the only one I know that exists is the one that was at Loma Linda Medical Center where Adey used to work.  Eldon"

Involuntary neuro-experimentation activist Cheryl Welsh, Davis CA, sent in this clipping from an article by Dr. Ross Adey but without complete bibliographic references:

"Soviet investigators have also developed a therapeutic device

utilizing low frequency square wave modulation of a radiofrequency field.  This instrument known as the Lida was developed by L.Rabichev and his colleagues in Soviet Armenia, and is designed  for "the treatment of neuropsychic and somatic disorders, such as neuroses, psychoses, insomnia, hypertension, stammering, bronchia asthma, and asthenic and reactive disturbances".

It is covered by U.S. Patent # 3,773,049.  In addition to the pulsed RF field, the device also delivers pulsed light, pulsed sound, and pulsed heat.  Each stimulus train can be independently adjusted in intensity and frequency.

The radiofrequency field has a nominal carrier frequency of 40 MHz and a maximum output of approximately 40 Watts.  The E- field is applied to the patient on the sides of the neck through two disc electrodes approximately 10 cm in diameter.  The electrodes are located at a distance of 2-4 cm from the skin.

[Eleanor White's comment:  The fact that Dr. Ross Adey mentioned

an "audience" being put to sleep by the LIDA suggests that the

"E-field" electrodes may not play an essential role.  The radio

signal appears to be the primary cause of the sleep/trance effect.]

Optimal repetition frequencies are said to lie in the range from 40

to 80 pulses per minute.  Pulse duration is typically 0.2 sec.  In

an 8 year trial period, the instrument was tested on 740 patients,

including adults and children.  Postivive therapeutic effects were

claimed in more..."

George Robertson

Dunblane Secret Documents Contain Letters by Tory and Labour MinistersNeil Mackay - The Sunday Herald, News, 2 March 2003

LETTERS between Labour and Tory ministers and correspondence relating to Thomas Hamilton's alleged involvement with Freemasonry are part of a batch of more than 100 documents about the Dunblane mass murder which have been sealed from public sight for 100 years.

The documents include a letter connected to Hamilton, which was sent by George Robertson, currently head of Nato, to Michael Forsyth, who was then Secretary of State for Scotland.

Until now it was thought that a 100-year public secrecy order had only been placed on one police report into Hamilton which allegedly named high-profile politicians and legal figures. However, a Sunday Herald investigation has uncovered that 106 documents, which were submitted to the Dunblane inquiry in 1996, were also placed under the 100-year rule.

The Scottish Executive has claimed the 100-year secrecy order was placed on the Central Police report, which was drafted in 1991 five years before the murders, to protect the identities of children named in the report. Hamilton had allegedly abused a number of children prior to his 1996 gun attack on Dunblane primary school in which 16 primary one children and a teacher died before Hamilton turned his gun on himself.

However, only a handful of the documents, which the Sunday Herald has discovered to be also subject to the 100-year rule, relate to children or name alleged abuse victims.

The most intriguing document is listed as: 'Copy of letter from Thomas Hamilton to Dunblane parents regarding boys' club, and flyer advertising Dunblane Boys' Sports Club. Both sent to Rt Hon Michael Forsyth, MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, by George Robertson MP.' Also closed under the 100-year rule is a 'submission to Lord James Douglas Hamilton, MP, Minister of State at the Scottish Office, concerning government evidence to the Inquiry'.

Another document relates to correspondence between the clerk of the Dunblane inquiry, which was presided over by Lord Cullen, and a member of the public regarding 'possible affiliations of Thomas Hamilton with Freemasonry ... and copy letters from Thomas Hamilton'.

SNP deputy justice minister, Michael Matheson, said: 'The explanation to date about the 100 -year rule was that it was put in place to protect the interests of children named in the Central Police report. How can that explanation stand when children aren't named? The 100-year rule needs to be re-examined with respect to all documents.'

Matheson has written to the Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, asking why the 100-year rule applies and how it can be revoked. He has so far had no response. He also asked First Minister Jack McConnell to explain the reasons for the 100-year order but received 'no substantial answer'. Matheson is to write to Colin Boyd a second time, in the light of the discovery that more than 100 other documents are also sealed, asking him to account for the decision.

A spokeswoman for the Crown Office said: 'In consultation with the Crown Office and the Scottish Office, Lord Cullen agreed that in line with the age of some of the individuals involved and named in the inquiry, the closure period would be 100 years. The Lord Advocate is considering issuing a redacted copy of the productions, which would blank out identifying details of children and their families. A decision on this has yet to be made.'

Other sealed key reports on Dunblane include: 

· A 'comparative analysis of Thomas Hamilton' by Central Scotland Police 

· Information about Hamilton's 'use and possession of firearms' 

· Pathology reports, Hamilton's autopsy report, and analysis by Glasgow University's forensic science lab on blood, urine and liver samples from Hamilton's body 

· Details on firearms licensing policies 

· A review by Alfred Vannet, regional procurator fiscal of Grampian, Highland and Islands, of 'reports and information in respect of Thomas Hamilton submitted to the procurator fiscals of Dumbarton and Stirling by Strathclyde Police and Central Police' 

· A psychological report on Hamilton 

· Guidance from the British Medical Association on granting firearms licences 

· 'Transcript of and correspondence relating to answering-machine tape which accidentally recorded conversation between police officers at the scene of the Dunblane incident' 

· Correspondence and witness statements 'relating to allegations of sexual abuse made against Hamilton' 

See Blair's Protection of Elite Paedophile Rings Spells the End For His Career
www.propagandamatrix.com/blair_protection.html 

Robertson considers action over web allegation 

ANDREW DENHOLM 

adenholm@scotsman.com 

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/robertson_considers_action_over_web_allegation.htm

GEORGE Robertson, the NATO secretary general, is considering legal action against the owners of the Sunday Herald, over internet allegations about his connection to Thomas Hamilton, the Dunblane killer. 

The move by Lord Robertson, which could force Scottish Media Group to pay out hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation, follows claims posted on the newspaper’s discussion page by a member of the public. 

Last night, lawyers warned that the scale of the payout could even force the Sunday Herald out of business, given worldwide awareness of the Dunblane massacre. 

There was also concern that the case could have serious implications for anyone who operates a website encouraging views from members of the public. 

Andrew Jaspan, the editor of the Glasgow-based Sunday Herald, admitted the website was not "policed", although he insisted the offending material had been removed half an hour after the paper was contacted by Lord Robertson’s representatives. 

However, last night, a legal source said the information posted on the Sunday Herald forum had been there for four weeks and could have badly damaged Lord Robertson’s reputation. 

He said: "We are talking about a well-known public figure on the international stage being linked through these allegations to an atrocity which is known throughout the world. 

"We are talking about hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation and even an amount which could close the newspaper. 

"Authors already have a responsibility not to publish defamatory statements. If they do, and they do put them on the web, then there is no reason why they shouldn’t be liable worldwide." 

Another Scottish legal expert said online defamation typified by the case involving Lord Robertson was an area of increasing concern for businesses. 

Traditionally, defamation has been considered a national matter, with little scope for conflict between laws of different countries, but the internet has muddied the waters by emphasising the cross-border access to websites which is possible for users. 

Gillian Davies, a solicitor with Edinburgh-based Shepherd & Wedderburn, who specialise in intellectual property and information technology law, said: "Documents published and uploaded in one country can be viewed and downloaded all over the world, exposing newspapers and other publishers to the libel laws of potentially any nation which provides internet access to its citizens. 

"The lack of a uniform approach at an international level to such issues prevents any kind of legal certainty." 

Internet speculation about Lord Robertson grew following the revelation that 106 documents were closed to the public after the inquiry into the shootings at Dunblane Primary School in 1996. 

Lord Robertson told Lord Cullen’s public inquiry he became increasingly concerned about Hamilton’s militaristic camps after his own son attended Dunblane Rovers, run by Hamilton in 1983. After speaking of his fears to Michael Forsyth, then a newly elected MP for Stirling, Lord Robertson kept him informed of publicity relating to Hamilton’s clubs. 

Yesterday, the Mail on Sunday claimed the letters between the two politicians drew a detailed picture of Hamilton’s perverted behaviour towards young boys in his care as well as his firearms obsession. 

The paper states that letters from Mr Forsyth "campaigned on behalf" of Hamilton from 1983 onwards, but that he also passed to police parental concerns about Hamilton’s personality. After receiving letters from Hamilton complaining about a police investigation into his 1988 summer camp, Mr Forsyth raised the issue with Central Scotland Police. 

A year later, Hamilton met the force’s deputy chief constable and, the Mail says, shortly afterwards the killer wrote to Mr Forsyth "thanking him for his assistance".