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NEWS ... GLOBAL NEWS ... CIA & DIA ACCUSED OF SECRET of Israel, Credit Suisse in Switzerland and _ of their staff vaccinated. ELECTRONIC HEIST ON the Dresdner Bank in Germany," said It was also not clear whether there would IRAQ'S CENTRAL BANK Story. be any compensation for staff needing time CIA & DIA ACCUSED OF SECRET of Israel, Credit Suisse in Switzerland and _ of their staff vaccinated. ELECTRONIC HEIST ON the Dresdner Bank in Germany," said It was also not clear whether there would IRAQ'S CENTRAL BANK Story. be any compensation for staff needing time he US CIA and DIA (Defense The Review also states: "The US __ off or medical care due to vaccine compli- Intelligence Agency) are accused by Department of Agriculture is used as apay- cations. Such compensation has been International Currency Review, a UK- master for certain DIA 'black operations’ approved in principle, but the details have based journal, of mounting a joint, ultra- because it has traditionally remained _ still not been published. secret operation to electronically remove an __unscrutinised." The second phase, in which the vaccine estimated US$10 billion out of the Iraq The Review says it has testimony from _ was to be offered to millions more health- Central Bank just hours before the start of whistleblowers that the operation was care workers and the public, was quietly Persian Gulf War II. The whereabouts of designed to "...purloin the Iraq Central — shelved by the CDC in June, after recently the money is not known. Bank's assets ahead of the arrival of US __ vaccinated soldiers and civilians developed "We believe it is in a secret CIA fund troops in Baghdad. This suggests that the complications. There were 52 cases of which will be used to mount further special operation was designed for a nefarious pur- _ pericardial or heart inflammation. There services operations," said the Review's pub- pose, rather than to help use it for the _ were also other heart problems, including lisher, Christopher Story. rebuilding of Iraq." eight heart attacks, three of them fatal, Story was a financial adviser to Lady After interviewing "a number of US _ though this was in the "normal" range. Thatcher when she was Britain's Prime _ intelligence operatives", Story confirmed (Source: New Scientist, 23 August 2003) Minister. In the past 10 years, he has testi- he received warnings to stop his investiga- fied before several congressional commit- tion. "I was told that '19 people are very BIOCIRCUIT BEHAVIOUR tees dealing with financial scandals. dead as a result of trying to cover what you lectronic circuits could soon be made The report published by the Review is are exposing’," Story wrote. from biological rather than inorganic titled "The Great Robbery of the Central (Source: Gordon Thomas, American Free materials. Researchers have found that Bank of Iraq". It has been sent to finance Press, August 28, 2003, http://globalre - molecules of guanosine, a building block of ministers of leading nations, the World _ search.ca/articles/THO308A.html) RNA, behave like tiny transistors. Bank, the Bank of England and heads of all Stefano D'Amico at the University of other major banks. HEALTHCARE WORKERS REFUSE Lecce in Italy chose guanosine because its The operation, claims the Review, was SMALLPOX VACCINATIONS molecules tend to line up in strings that act masterminded by the CIA/DIA out of a plan to vaccinate nearly half a million as diodes, allowing current through in one military facility, Redstone Arsenal, in healthcare workers in the USA against — direction but not the other. Alabama. smallpox in case of a bioterrorist attack has When he placed guanosine molecules "The money was laundered through a__ ground to a halt. Over 90% of the 420,000 _ between two gold electrodes, the molecules number of CIA-controlled accounts, — health workers have refused the jab. self-organised into strips to bridge the gap, including some held in the Discount Bank The vaccination program, announced by forming two diodes lying back to back—in President Bush last effect, a transistor (Microelectronics December, included Journal, DOI: 10.1016/S0026-2692(03) mandatory smallpox 00197-6). vaccinations for half Sure enough, the strips behaved like a a million military — transistor when current was switched on. personnel, and volun- (Source: New Scientist, 30 August 2003, tary vaccinations for — http:/Avww.newscientist.com) another half a million "first responders"— DNA REPAIR DELAY RAISES the healthcare work- X-RAY SAFETY FEARS ers needed to carry ssumptions about the safety of medical out emergency vacci- X-rays are being challenged by the nation and treat vic- finding that cells exposed to low doses of tims during an out- radiation don't bother to repair damaged break. DNA. That casts doubt on the validity of But doctors and _ current estimates of safe doses, which are nurses have stayed calculated from high-dose experiments. away in droves. A team at the University of Saarland in Major hospitals, such Homburg, Germany, exposed human lung as the Virginia cells to a range of X-ray doses. At higher Commonwealth doses of about 200 milligrays, cells University Health repaired 95% of their damage within a day. System and the But cells receiving around | milligray— Children's Hospital equivalent to a normal X-ray—did not per- of Philadelphia, have form any repairs for days (Proceedings of refused to have any — the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: "| fell below the minimum balance required on my cheque account for three consecutive bank statements. How about you?" of their staff vaccinated. It was also not clear whether there would be any compensation for staff needing time off or medical care due to vaccine compli- cations. Such compensation has been approved in principle, but the details have still not been published. The second phase, in which the vaccine was to be offered to millions more health- care workers and the public, was quietly shelved by the CDC in June, after recently vaccinated soldiers and civilians developed complications. There were 52 cases of pericardial or heart inflammation. There were also other heart problems, including eight heart attacks, three of them fatal, though this was in the "normal" range. (Source: New Scientist, 23 August 2003) DNA REPAIR DELAY RAISES X-RAY SAFETY FEARS ssumptions about the safety of medical X-rays are being challenged by the finding that cells exposed to low doses of radiation don't bother to repair damaged DNA. That casts doubt on the validity of current estimates of safe doses, which are calculated from high-dose experiments. A team at the University of Saarland in Homburg, Germany, exposed human lung cells to a range of X-ray doses. At higher doses of about 200 milligrays, cells repaired 95% of their damage within a day. But cells receiving around | milligray— equivalent to a normal X-ray—did not per- form any repairs for days (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: "| fell below the minimum balance required on my cheque account for three consecutive bank statements. How about you?" 8 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2003