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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS US HOMELAND SECURITY ACT PROTECTS VACCINE-MAKERS sue the United States over their 'cre- ation’, ‘production’ and 'proliferation' of HIV/AIDS through the secret federal virus development program, the US Special [AIDS] Virus program (1948-1978)," said Graves. "The yearly progress reports of the secret program provide the irrefutable narrative proof of the linkage of experi- ment to the flowchart 'research logic’ of the African Holocaust. This best explains how Black people account for 13% of the population and 50% of all new AIDS cases." Graves, a civil rights lawyer and deco- rated US Navy veteran, filed a similar complaint with Ohio's Federal Court in 1998, resulting in a 33-month legal bat- tle and an appeal in 2001 to the US Supreme Court. His lawsuit prompted Congress to request an investigation into the missing appropriations of the secret federal virus development program, Special Virus, through the US General Accounting Office. The US government's official report was made public following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and was highly criticised as being a "total white- wash" by many independent investiga- tors, including Professor Robert Lee and Dr Leonard G. Horowitz (author of Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola - Nature, Accident or Intentional?). Graves and his supporters say they are confident the evidence of the laboratory birth of AIDS is irrefutable. "We can show through the progress reports of the secret program that the original name of HIV was ESP-1 virus, developed in accordance with the phases of the flowchart," Graves said. "The United States purposefully and intentionally complemented the 'small- pox' vaccine that went to Africa and the ‘hepatitis B' vaccine that was given to homosexuals that the United States recruited for that purpose." Graves said he is hopeful people sup- port his efforts by downloading the 1971 flowchart document from his website, http://www.boydgraves.com, and by writing to elected and appointed health officials. "We have found the wellspring of the genesis of AIDS," said Graves. "It is our nation state; it is us." (Source: Boyd Graves news release, November 29, 2002, http://www.boyd - graves.com/news/112802.html) order that documents on hundreds of cases of autism allegedly caused by childhood vaccines be kept from the public. Attorneys for the families of hundreds of autistic children charged that the gov- ernment was trying to keep the informa- tion out of civil courts, where juries might be convinced to award large judg- ments against vaccine manufacturers. More significantly, this last-minute slipping-in of hidden provisions raises other issues. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), said: "The ability of a special interest group to secretly insert provisions into law for its own narrow benefit and to the detriment of the public interest raises fundamental questions about the integrity of our government." (Sources: Reuters, November 26, 2002; CBS Worldwide, December 17, 2002) t had been a mystery in Washington for weeks. Just before US President George W. Bush signed the Homeland Security Bill into law, an unknown member of Congress inserted a provision into the legislation that blocks lawsuits against the maker of a controversial vac- cine preservative called thimerosal, used in vaccines that are given to children. Drug giant Eli Lilly and Co. makes thimerosal. It's the mercury in the preservative that thousands of parents say has caused autism in their children. But nobody in Congress would admit to adding the provision, until House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas) told CBS News that he did it to keep vaccine-makers from going out of busi- ness under the weight of mounting law- suits. "I did it, and I'm proud of it," he said. "It's a matter of national security. We need their vaccines if the country is attacked with germ weapons." Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind) isn't buying it. The grandfather of an autistic child, Burton says Armey slipped the provision in at the last minute, too late for debate. Critics say the Bush family and the current administration have too many ties to Eli Lilly: there's President Bush's father, who sat on the company's board in the 1970s; White House budget direc- tor Mitch Daniels, once an Eli Lilly executive; and Eli Lilly CEO Sidney Taurel, who serves on the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council. In November, attorneys for the Bush administration asked a federal court to program PHYSICIST BLOWS WHISTLE ON US MISSILE DEFENCE he credibility of President Bush's multibillion-dollar missile defence plans are being questioned by leading scientists after claims that the results of key tests were falsified. The criticism is led by Theodore Postol, a physicist and persistent missile defence critic at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has said that the institute is sitting on what is potentially "the most serious fraud that we've seen at a great American university". After months of demanding an inquiry into the affair, Ed Crawley, Chairman of MIT's Aeronautics and Astronautics Of NEXUS +7 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com