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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 03:50 PM
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ABC Bosses Tell ABC News Kill The Interviews With Robert Kennedy Jr. …
ABC corporate executives at the network's highest levels ordered
three interviews with Robert Kennedy Jr. pulled from ABC News
programming.

The interviews all centered around Mr. Kennedy's investigation of
thimerosal, a mercury based preservative, used in vaccines given to
children and believed to be responsible for increasing cases of
neurological diseases including autism.

Mr. Kennedy's interviews were slated for prime shows ABC World News
Tonight, 20/20, and Good Morning America. Salon.com and Rolling Stone Magazine have exclusive rights to Mr. Kennedy’s article and they embargoed his story on other networks because of his arrangement with ABC.

Mr. Kennedy’s article was published today only in Rolling Stone and on Salon.com. The article links the CDC, FDA and Bill Frist to major drug companies, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth, and Aventis Pasteur that continued to include thimerosal in their vaccines despite studies showing the damage – and death – it caused in humans. In the 1990s the CDC and FDA recommended three additional children's vaccines laced with thimerosal, totaling twenty two federally recommended immunizations.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/06/abc-bosses-tell-abc-news-.html
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MadAsHellNewYorker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 03:51 PM
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1. cant let the truth get out
can they?
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leftchick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 03:52 PM
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2. and let us not forget....
~snip`

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 from
pharmaceutical companies, tacked on the "Eli Lilly Protection Act" as
a rider to a 2002 homeland security bill. The protection act was later repealed by Congress after a public outcry.

Senator Frist is making another attempt to harbor big pharmaceuticals from families with infected children. He is appropriating the war on terror again by attaching a provision to the "Protecting America in the War On Terror" bill introduced to Congress this past January.

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evolvenow Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:47 AM
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45. "reworked data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism" B*st*ards!!
But instead of taking immediate steps to alert the public and rid the vaccine supply of thimerosal, the officials and executives at Simpsonwood spent most of the next two days discussing how to cover up the damaging data. According to transcripts obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, many at the meeting were concerned about how the damaging revelations about thimerosal would affect the vaccine industry's bottom line.



"We are in a bad position from the standpoint of defending any lawsuits," said Dr. Robert Brent, a pediatrician at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Delaware. "This will be a resource to our very busy plaintiff attorneys in this country." Dr. Bob Chen, head of vaccine safety for the CDC, expressed relief that "given the sensitivity of the information, we have been able to keep it out of the hands of, let's say, less responsible hands." Dr. John Clements, vaccines advisor at the World Health Organization, declared flatly that the study "should not have been done at all" and warned that the results "will be taken by others and will be used in ways beyond the control of this group. The research results have to be handled."



In fact, the government has proved to be far more adept at handling the damage than at protecting children's health. The CDC paid the Institute of Medicine to conduct a new study to whitewash the risks of thimerosal, ordering researchers to "rule out" the chemical's link to autism. It withheld Verstraeten's findings, even though they had been slated for immediate publication, and told other scientists that his original data had been "lost" and could not be replicated. And to thwart the Freedom of Information Act, it handed its giant database of vaccine records over to a private company, declaring it off-limits to researchers. By the time Verstraeten finally published his study in 2003, he had gone to work for GlaxoSmithKline and reworked his data to bury the link between thimerosal and autism.



Vaccine manufacturers had already begun to phase thimerosal out of injections given to American infants -- but they continued to sell off their mercury-based supplies of vaccines until last year. The CDC and FDA gave them a hand, buying up the tainted vaccines for export to developing countries and allowing drug companies to continue using the preservative in some American vaccines -- including several pediatric flu shots as well as tetanus boosters routinely given to 11-year-olds.

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/16/thimerosal/

(sniP
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 03:53 PM
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3. Did the Mouse get the exclusive just so they could kill it?
And prevent other networks from interviewing him? Hmmm ...
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 03:53 PM
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4. Well, I'm sure this has nothing to do with all the ads the companies buy
Because as we all know, the news divisions of the networks are totally insulated from advertising and revenue. That's why you can see all those hard-hitting exposes on the News Hour about Archer Daniels Midland's corporate perfidies.
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 03:54 PM
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5. Of Course Not!
Biggie oily companies would never pull their ads off ABC and every affiliate, radio station and billboard across the country.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 03:54 PM
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6. Thus making themselves even less relevant, if that's possible. nt
Edited on Thu Jun-16-05 03:55 PM by glitch
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:02 PM
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10. It isn't!
I am a news junkie and I don't deal with MSM anymore. Disclaimer: Actually I read the letters to the editor in several local papers every day. You have hammer it, they are irrelevant to real news.

Perhaps they should be renamed "Spin"papers and evening propaganda hours. All the news we think you should know.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:45 PM
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23. I don't see them ever getting their credibility back.
Certainly not until they start trying. But assuming they do start reporting the news at some point, it will take years to rebuild what they have thrown away.
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deutsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 03:55 PM
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7. That damn liberal media at it again
:eyes:
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 01:47 PM
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71. i was just thinking the same thing. "damn you, liberal media!"
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:01 PM
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8. Emailing
I read that you canceled an interview with Mr. Kennedy regarding thimerosal, vaccines, and their possible link to autism. Mr. Kennedy is one of my heroes, and as a school teacher who deals both with autistic children, and with parents who sometimes have objections to getting vaccines, this was a high interest topic for me.

What was the reason for canceling it? Will it be rescheduled?


2020@abc.com

NETAUDR@abc.com (Good Morning America & World News Tonight)

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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:44 PM
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32. good letter
I may borrow your idea if you don't mind.
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 06:28 PM
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38. please, email!
That's why I added the links, there.
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AuntiBush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:01 PM
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9. We know "here" at DU! ABC is WORSE then FOX NEWS!
That's pretty bad. ABC rating must be down badly. I know of NO ONE that watches them anymore, rather most watch CBS and CSPAN.

When the * Empire topples, whom will ABC appeal to then, I ask? Hmmm.
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gatorboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:06 PM
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11. I'm recommending this topic for one of the greats
I have a friend who has been fighting the drug companies over this. His son, who was completly normal before his vaccination, quickly took on autistic symptoms afterwards.
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evolvenow Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:25 AM
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44. I do not know firsthand if this might help your friends son, but might
suggest looking into it. it seems to be a non-toxic way of getting the mercury out of the tissues. The woman who promotes it was very ill from healvy metals/mercury poisoning and cured herself.

Again, I cannot vouch for the site, but it looks like something that could help.

Be sure that if they feel this is right for their child, to work with a good health practioneer, that is familiar with alternative, safe, natural treatments.


http://www.evenbetternow.com/autism.html
A couple of years ago I had the good fortune to discover a heavy metal and chemical detoxification product that is inexpensive, works quickly, is extremely safe even for children, has no side effects, is an all natural product, and is easy to use. I used it with my Asperger's son, and it is called LL’s Magnetic Clay .





What is LL’s Magnetic Clay?

LL's Magnetic Clay is a very unique bentonite clay (a very fine volcanic clay) that, when used as a bath, actually draws toxic chemicals and metals through the pores of the skin. It can remove years of toxic environmental pollutants that have been accumulating – out of your body and into the bathtub, in a single bath! The main ingredients in this clay are calcium, magnesium, potassium, manganese, and sodium in their natural state.

LL's Magnetic Clay is more effective than chelation therapy in that it removes 60 – 90 per cent of the toxins, compared to chelation therapies which remove 40 per cent of the toxins. It is quicker, less expensive and less time- consuming than chelation as well, and does not require a medical prescription or visits to a health care practitioners office. Most importantly, it is safe for young children and babies, and since most children love to take baths, very easy to administer!


LL’s Magnetic Clay Bath Kits Can Help with Autism Spectrum Disorders and ADD

Although LL’s Magnetic Clays were developed to facilitate the removal of heavy metal and chemical toxins from the body, and not developed to assist in any specific health disorders, their effectiveness with disorders such as autism and chronic fatigue syndrome are a wonderful and unexpected side effect. Parents of autistic children have found the clays to have incredible healing effects in the cases where heavy metals or toxins contribute to the autistic condition. We have had a report of a child talking for the very first time after taking just one bath, and other reports of autistic children no longer exhibiting any symptoms of autism. The following is a letter written to Lau'ana Lei, the founder and owner of LL's Magnetic Clay, from the parent of one such child:

Parent Statements

"My family and I wanted to take this opportunity in thanking you for all that you have done to make it possible and available for us and everyone to experience the benefits of your clay baths.
My son Jakob, who will be turning 3 September 10th, and who is on a program of several therapies almost daily and in the care of a holistic doctor, started to talk after only ONE of your clay baths. We could not believe how much these baths changed our lives! Needless to say we all use your clay baths for different reasons. We are all doing better and we are so much healthier because of them. Thank you again!"
(Sarasota FL)


kick for good health and the end of dangerous medicines
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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 01:02 PM
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70. Quackery
The use of chelation therapy to treat autistic children is completely bogus. Three successful lawsuits have been filed by parents who believe they were victimized in this way.

http://www.quackwatch.org/03HealthPromotion/immu/thimerosal.html
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evolvenow Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 05:46 PM
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77. Read more carefully,your link claims that mercury isn't toxic,that's a lie
Edited on Fri Jun-17-05 05:48 PM by evolvenow
I was referring to a case where the child developed symptoms directly related to a vaccination.

In that case, making an effort, to detox the mercury from the tissues, using a series of specific clay baths have been shown to help children that have been WRONGLY injected with the SECOND MOST TOXIC SUBSTANCE ON THE PLANET, after Radioactivity.
So just because a web site, or even a clincal report/study, or doctors say anything that poisionous is NOT TOXIC, does not mean that it is true. Injecting anyone, but particularily an infant, or child with mercury has detrimental effects to the brain and other tissues and organs, combine that with all of the other toxins that any living beings is now bombarded with and you have a wide variety of negative outcomes.

I know people who have had improvements with autism in their children and they were not traditional western treatments.


What is your reason for believing an industry that routinely releases and continues to release and make enormous profits from drugs that poison and in fact KILL people?
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:09 PM
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12. I frickin' HATE the media.
I don't know how much more of this shit I can take. :grr:
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:09 PM
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13. Is thimerosal still used in eye wetting solution?
For contact lenses? It used to be . . .
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truth2power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 11:43 AM
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62. I think thimerosol has been removed from all
contact solutions.

Years ago I tried to wear contacts, but was allergic to the thimerosol used as a preservative in all the contact lens disinfecting solutions at the time.

I now wear contacts without any problem, partly b/c the soft lenses are better, but mostly because there's no thimersol.

I use Renew, which is contains polyaminopropyl biguanide as a preservative. Any chemists here who can comment on that?

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RussBLib Donating Member (292 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:10 PM
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14. Tune in to KPFT-FM on the net tonight 7p Central
It's a talk by RFK, Jr. during his visit to Houston this past Monday, June 13. He doesn't mention thimerosal, but talks a lot about mercury. I couldn't hear him live but a friend did and said it was awesome.

http://www.kpft.org

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cire4 Donating Member (580 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:17 PM
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15. It's stories like these which make me certain.....
that America is truly a country run by corporate executives.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:18 PM
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16. How much more proof do we need?
This is the most blatant I can remember in a while.

I'm tempted to say, "there really ought to be a law..." This is such an outrage it nearly has me in tears.
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:44 PM
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31. email and calls to ABC --- BOYCOTT DISNEY products
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stickdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:20 PM
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17. Pathetic on all counts (nt)
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Julius Civitatus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:20 PM
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18. ABC/Disney is the most SERVILE network to the Bush admin.
Edited on Thu Jun-16-05 04:25 PM by Julius Civitatus
The bastards just seem to follow direct orders from the Bushies. Remember they tried to kill Fahrenheit 9-11?

Remember how they piled on Dan Rather, instead of sticking to their professional peer?

Remember how they went far and beyond when the FCC called for networks to censor themselves after the Janet Jackson "scandal"?

Remember ABC has rejected TV commercials from liberal organizations and religious groups left-of-center, yet never objected to airing conservative and Xtian Coalition ads?

I remember!
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:22 PM
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19. Anyone STILL need more proof the media is COMPLICIT in the fascist agenda
of BushInc?

When you control most of the media and most of the voting machines you can get away with ANYTHING.
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BrightKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:26 PM
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20. The MSM loves to feed on the MSM.
Media blast the censorship story.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:30 PM
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21. They can't anger their sponsors
Edited on Thu Jun-16-05 04:31 PM by depakid
You can thank that bastard Clinton for this- he sold all of us out by permitting the FDA to change the rules (that are in place in EVERY OTHER WESTERN COUNTRY) so that the PhRMA could push it's drugs on TV (and provide misleading information in the process).

Now that they're in- and considering how much they contribute to the corporate media's bottom line- you aren't going to see many exposes about their corrupt activities.

People need to understand that it's NOT just the Republicans who are behind shit like this- Clinton and the DLC also share a good deal of the responsibility for all of the media abuses we see today.
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:39 PM
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22. I sent to our news room
but it's useless, they'll never do any news like this, or about the DSM, or about how many troops have been killed; Just dogs, KDOG.
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RalphReedsWreckedEm Donating Member (142 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:45 PM
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24. Possible side effects may include knowing the truth
If you experience a sudden understanding that pharmaceutical companies are destroying our lives with their poisons and paying out millions in bribes to your lawmakers to sustain an artificial monopoly, see your doctor immediately for an injection that will make you docile and compliant.
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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:14 PM
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28. lol!
:thumbsup:
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 04:57 PM
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25. There's only one way to get back at the drug companies.
Don't buy their products unless it's an absolute necessity. The past few years they've tried to convince us we need EVERYTHING to live to a ripe, old age. We don't. It's bullshit. Tell 'em to go to hell.
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Digit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 09:02 PM
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39. Already did
Stopped two pharmaceuticals recently.
I had enough!
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:09 PM
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26. WHERE THE FUCK IS THE MEDIA????
That assbags like Frist can actually tie protections for the corporations that support him into ANTI-TERROR bills make me physically ill.. Where the fuck are the family values people? Or those that think the whole Anti-Terror thing is real? Don't they care that it's a sham? Don't they care that people like Frist are using money and resources that are supposed to keep us safe instead for harming children and enriching his benefactors??

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE MEDIA???????????????????? The assholes in suits running the corporation news organizations are no more journalists than Jeff Gannon was. We must loosen the right handed grip on our FREE PRESS!!!!!

I have long believed that THIS is the most important issue facing us all.. because lack of a free press allows all the other atrocities to occur unnoticed, unrecorded, and uninvestigated. The incurios greedy fucks in charge of mainstream media must go. Now. Children are being harmed, our environment is being strangled, and our troops are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan. We need to take back the media!
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:12 PM
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27. ask the CIA when they "infested the media"... that will open you eyes
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:51 PM
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35. Operation Mockingbird, was it?
;-)
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evolvenow Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:05 AM
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42. Yep.Mockingbird. MSM=CIA direct takeover of major news since 1940's
MSM=CIA direct takeover of major news since 1940's-THAT'S WHY!!

Please keep kicked, and tell everyone, everywhere.

MOCKINGBIRD

The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA

As terrible as it is to live in a nation where the press in known to be controlled by the government, at least one has the advantage of knowing the bias is present, and to adjust for it. In the United States of America, we are taught from birth that our press is free from such government meddling. This is an insideous lie about the very nature of the news institution in this country.
One that allows the government to lie to us while denying the very fact of the lie itself.

 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK /...

The Alex Constantine Article
Tales from the Crypt

The Depraved Spies and Moguls

of the CIA's Operation MOCKINGBIRD

by Alex Constantine

Who Controls the Media?

Soulless corporations do, of course. Corporations with grinning,
double-breasted executives, interlocking directorates, labor squabbles
and flying capital. Dow. General Electric. Coca-Cola. Disney.
Newspapers should have mastheads that mirror the world: The
Westinghouse Evening Scimitar, The Atlantic-Richfield Intelligentser .
It is beginning to dawn on a growing number of armchair ombudsmen that
the public print reports news from a parallel universe - one that has
never heard of politically-motivated assassinations, CIA-Mafia banking
thefts, mind control, death squads or even federal agencies with
secret budgets fattened by cocaine sales - a place overrun by lone
gunmen, where the CIA and Mafia are usually on their best behavior. In
this idyllic land, the most serious infraction an official can commit
__is a the employment of a domestic servant with (shudder) no
residency status.

This unlikely land of enchantment is the creation of MOCKINGBIRD.

It was conceived in the late 1940s, the most frigid period of the cold
war, when the CIA began a systematic infiltration of the corporate
media, a process that often included direct takeover of major news
outlets.

(snip)

Please Keep this kicked until everyone in America understands WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE MSM! It is on purpose. Educate yourself and others, this is key.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 09:01 AM
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56. Frist is involved according to RFK jr.




.....Mr. Kennedy’s article was published today only in Rolling Stone and on Salon.com. The article links the CDC, FDA and Bill Frist to major drug companies, including GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Wyeth, and Aventis Pasteur that continued to include thimerosal in their vaccines despite studies showing the damage – and death – it caused in humans. In the 1990s the CDC and FDA recommended three additional children's vaccines laced with thimerosal, totaling twenty two federally recommended immunizations.
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Tigress DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:35 PM
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29. Fight BACK - WRITE ON !!
http://abcnews.go.com/Reference/story?id=54216

With same basic letter to 20/20 & World News tonight

NETAUDR@abc.com

GOOD MORNING AMERICA

Good Morning America Staff,

After all the talk of how the media is caving into pressure to not cover important topics, how can ABC cancel its interview with Robert Kennedy Jr about children's vaccines laced with thimerosal?

Don't you people have any conscience? Don't you care that children might die from these drugs? You tell people not to eat too much fish because of mercury levels, but you would turn your back on the smallest among us and let them die so drug companies can prosper?

THIS is what is wrong with the media in America. You bow to the almighty buck or the powerful - take your pick.

As Martin Luther King once said, "All it takes for evil to prevail is for good people to remain silent."

Shame on you all.


Concerned citizen
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smoogatz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:37 PM
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30. Read Kennedy's article at Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/16/thimerosal/index.html

It's incredibly damning. No surprise ABC dropped him like a hot rock. Thimerosal is going to be the biggest medical scandal in US history.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:47 PM
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34. Horrifying...what they did to our children.
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evolvenow Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:12 AM
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43. Yes, Mercury, Vaccines, Fillings, Depleted Uranium , MAJOR POISONS..Be ver
Edited on Fri Jun-17-05 03:13 AM by evolvenow
very, very careful about taking ANY DRUG. The PHARMA industry is DEADLY, and very much based on $$$, not your safety or well being, if you are well you will not buy more drugs. There are certain medicines that are helpful, but if you do not really need it, life or death, I would really look into alternatives.

Didn't they force vaccines on all of the TROOPS? So many people will fall ill from these types of drugs plus the exposure to DU. But then that is just my opinion, and my father is a doctor.

kick and thank goddess for intelligent, amazing individuals like Kennedy for telling the TRUTH!
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dchill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:46 PM
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33. Media have long buried Bush - drug co. connections
Edited on Thu Jun-16-05 05:47 PM by dchill
George H. W. Bush (41) had lots of connections to drug companies, since the '70's.

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/binladenprofits.html

Don't look for this stuff on ABC - or NBC or CBS, for that matter. This "kill order" came straight from the top. The real, secret "top."

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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:52 PM
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36. Why aren't I surprised at this disgusting, stomach-turning revelatation?
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wallwriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 11:00 AM
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60. Connections may be hidden, but the
Medicare (?) drug giveaway and the ban on competitive bidding for drug prices were gigantic hints...
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dchill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 04:00 PM
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74. Gigantic hints to those who already knew.
Media coverage of the Medicare drug bill was just like the coverage of any other Bush story - Minimize Truth, Maximize Spin.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 05:58 PM
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37. Here is the thread on the original article by RFK Jr at salon.com
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 07:59 AM
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53. everyone must read this
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-16-05 09:04 PM
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40. This proves the Christian Scientists are right on with not
getting their children vaccinated!!!
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 05:58 AM
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46. No it doesn't
It proves you have to be careful what you put in your vaccines. The practice of vaccination has saved millions of lives. If we all behaved like the Christian Scientists, we'd be burying our children.
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Nothing Without Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 01:49 AM
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41. Sickening. And look at this 120 billion Bush cartel payoff to Big Tobacco
which is also killing people. We need to collect these non-DSM incidents of bribery and corruption for documented articles of impeachment.

Here's the Big Tobacco payoff - don't miss this hard-hitting NYT article:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3871928
Thread title: {b]NYT: Bush pal overrode Justice Dept lawyers in huge tobacco industry break
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 07:28 AM
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48. hmmmm...who benefits by not "examing the facts"..... follow the $$$
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Nothing Without Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 09:31 AM
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57. Exactly. We need a list of documentable reasons for impeachment
The DSMs may not be enough, but we can add bribery and corruption. I will be reposting that thread on the Big Tobzcco payoff this (Fri) afternoon, hoping that we can collect documents and good links for the history of tobacco connections with the Bush/Cheney cartel and also other bribery/corruption cases. I'll post a link in the current Big TObacco payoff thread when I start the new one. I hope it draws more interest than it has so far.

The DSMs are very helpful, but I'm not at all sure that average Americans will "get" them - especially with the suppressed and distorted coverage. Bribery and corruption are more familiar, easily understood and - potentially - provable.
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BooScout Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 07:26 AM
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47. Totally sickening,
I have very little hope for this country left. The MSM is just total shit.
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 08:08 AM
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54. they care more about corporations them your children (it's all about $$$)
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converted_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 07:32 AM
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49. Anyone have the email address to ABC handy? I'd like to send a couple
emails. I realize it will do no good, but I'd like to send it for my own piece of mind.
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Robworld Donating Member (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 07:32 AM
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50. Has anyone seen the movie the corporation?
This reminds me of the seen where FOX news tell local reporters to kill a story on a hormone pumped into cows that caused to become infected.

The Corporate media has the American people's well being at heart...Bullshit

http://www.myspace.com/dumdumgoestothecircus
http://www.dumdumgoestothecircus.com/
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 07:44 AM
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51. After all the MSM's job #1 is to suppress the truth so the cabal can
operate below the radar.
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1932 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 07:53 AM
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52. Yesterday, I used RFK Jr as example of guy FOX would never hire.
Timely.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 08:54 AM
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55. ABC Flips: To Now Air 'Killed' Robert Kennedy Jr. Interview. ABC Responds

This is the story that came up now when I clicked on the link in the initial post.


ABC Flips: To Now Air 'Killed' Robert Kennedy Jr. Interview. ABC Responds ...

Huffington Post


ABC News will now air the 'killed' Robert Kennedy Jr. interview after all.

ABC statement: “Had anyone called us abut your unsourced posting I would have been glad to tell you that ABC News is hard at work on that report. We will air when and if we deem it ready, as our audience would expect. As for the rest of the post, at least as it pertains to ABC and ABC News, there isn't a shred of truth. I think your source is using you to try and influence us. That's ineffective, not to mention, dishonest.”

HuffPost responds: 1) Our post is based only on people involved first hand. 2) We stand behind our original story.

Previously, ABC corporate executives at the network's highest levels ordered three interviews with Robert Kennedy Jr. pulled from ABC News programming.

The interviews all centered around Mr. Kennedy's investigation of thimerosal, a mercury based preservative, used in vaccines given to children and believed to be responsible for increasing cases of neurological diseases including autism.


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Tuesday_Morning Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 11:42 AM
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61. "...we will air it when and if we deem it ready..."
Translation: Our lawyers are busy trying to neuter the story. If they're successful, we'll let you know.
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Glenda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 09:32 AM
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58. Didn't thimerosal used to be in contact lens solutions? n/t
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 10:57 AM
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59. Truthout has the article now...
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PA Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 11:49 AM
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63. I am sitting here with my daughter who has autism and I am sick
I just got off the phone with Frist's office and told his staffer that I was physically ill to think that Frist had accepted money from big pharma to hide the truth and to protect them over the dangers of thimerosal. I informed them that I am sending a copy of the article to every family I know who has a child with autism, and I know HUNDREDS, and he should expect to receive thousands of phone calls from irate parents, family members and friends demanding accountability.

Nice to finally find out who slipped the Eli Lilly protection rider into the Homeland Security bill. Figures it was the stinking whore Frist.
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FreeStateDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 12:07 PM
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64. Thanks for having the character and motivation to take action. If there
were another million like you who firmly fought back at these outrages against humanity, these soulless bastards would all be locked up. There should be no mercy for any person in a position of power and trust who harms unsuspecting defenseless children. This includes all those responsible for the hell we have created in Iraq for innocent children.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 12:10 PM
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65. I work with the mother of an autistic child...
this news is so devastating that she will have to absorb it in stages...and she was following the issue.

I have an 11 yr old who got the vaccines and, as far as I know, shows no symptoms - and I'm still pissed purple.
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 12:45 PM
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66. Kick
:kick:
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 03:41 PM
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73. .
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Junkdrawer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 05:11 PM
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75. .
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m0nkeyneck Donating Member (274 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 12:53 PM
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67. ouch
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 12:59 PM
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68. the sons of bitches drug companies and FDA
I have been anti-vaccine ever since a few of my cats got deathly ill from the useless vaccines. In my view, the less vaccines the better for people and animals
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dusty64 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 01:00 PM
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69. Wish I could say I'm
surprised, but i'm not. They ought to be ashamed of themselves, this NEEDS to be exposed. The corporate media is sinking to new lows and irrelevance, disgusting. :puke:
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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 02:00 PM
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72. Here's my e-mail to 20/20 and the news department
Oh how the mighty have fallen. I used to think that ABC was a company which valued its viewers and the dissemination of news and information. Obviously I've been living in the past.

Your decision to cancel the interview with Robert Kennedy Jr regarding the link between autism and mercury poisoning from childhood vaccinations has obviously been made because of the fact that your major source of advertising revenue comes from the big pharmaceutical companies.

Shame on you, that you would put your bottom line over the public knowing about this danger to the health of their children.

I have given up on ABC. I don't bother watching your so-called "World News Tonight" anyway, because it's no longer news but infotainment. Thank God for PBS and the BBC.

Sue xxxxxxxxx.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-17-05 05:41 PM
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76. OMFG! I am LIVID!
Edited on Fri Jun-17-05 06:00 PM by TheGoldenRule
So ABC is going to sweep it under the carpet?!

How much are the Pharma Giants paying them to do so???!!!

Unf*ckingbelievable!!!

Time to boycott ABC-FOREVER!!!

:rant:
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 12:56 PM
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78. Thanks for posting this.
:(
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Nothing Without Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:05 AM
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79. TWO RELATED THREADS - this is horrifying, both the finding and the
suppression. I worked in a biotech firm and the rule came down long ago that thimerosol was no longer allowed to be put into any of our products or used in our labs - health reasons. And yet it is STILL used in vaccines???

Here are the two related threads:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3894117
Thread title: "All: PLEASE read RFK Jr's article on autism & vaccines"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3902152#3910101
Thread title: “Why aren't Dem. Leaders "helping Robert Kennedy Jr" - CDC Cover -up !”
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-21-05 11:25 AM
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80. Corporate Media: Enablers of Bush
I hold the Corporate Media to be just as guilty of the war crimes and other malfeasance of Bush and his cronies. The assisted and abetted this criminal regime.

They all have blood on their hands and deserve to rot in Hell!
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