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NEWS ... GLOBAL NEWS ... BIOLOGIA clock LINK 80 years, doctors have injected patients vaccinated," Shaw said. "This totally with aluminium hydroxide—an adjuvant creeped us out. We weren't out there to 80 years, doctors have injected patients with aluminium hydroxide—an adjuvant that stimulates immune response. "This is suspicious. Either this [link] is known by industry and it was never made public, or industry was never made to do these studies by Health Canada. I'm not sure which is scarier." According to Shaw's paper, similar adjuvants are used in hepatitis A and B vaccines and in the Pentacel cocktail, which vaccinates against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio and a type of meningitis. To test the link theory, Shaw and his four-scientist team from UBC and Louisiana State University injected mice with the anthrax vaccine developed for the first Gulf War. As Shaw explained, because Gulf War syndrome looks a lot like ALS, the neuroscientists had a chance to isolate a possible cause. All deployed troops were vaccinated with an aluminium hydroxide compound. Vaccinated troops who were not deployed to the Gulf developed similar symptoms at a similar rate, according to Shaw. After 20 weeks of studying the mice, the team found statistically significant increases in anxiety (38%), memory deficits (41 times the errors as in the sample group), and an allergic skin reaction (20%). Tissue samples after the mice were "sacrificed" showed that neurological cells were dying. Inside the mice's brains, in a part that controls movement, 35% of the cells were destroying themselves. "No one in my lab wants to get vaccinated," Shaw said. "This totally creeped us out. We weren't out there to poke holes in vaccines. But all of a sudden, oh my God—we've got neuron death!" It's possible, he said, that there are 10,000 studies that show aluminium hydroxide is safe for injections. But he hasn't been able to find any that look beyond the first few weeks of injection. If anyone has a study that shows something different, he said, then "put it on the table". "That's how you do science." (Source: The Georgia Straight, 23 March 2006, http://www.straight.com/content. cfm?id=16717) artmouth Medical School geneticists have discovered that DNA damage resets the cellular circadian clock, suggesting links among circadian timing, the cycle of cell division and the propensity for cancer. Their work implies that the biological clock has a protective dimension, in addition to having pacemaker functions that play such a sweeping role in the rhythms and activities of life. One gene (period-4) was identified over 25 years ago by a mutation that affects two clock properties, shortening the circadian period and altering temperature compensation. For this study, the researchers cloned the gene, based on its position in the genome, and found it was an important cell cycle regulator. When they eliminated the gene from the genome, the clock was normal— indicating that the mutation interfered in some way with the clock, rather than supplying something that the clock normally needed to run. Biochemically, the mutation results in a premature modification of the well- understood clock protein frequency (FRQ). The investigators demonstrated that this was a direct result of action by an enzyme, in mammals called checkpoint kinase-2 (CHK2), whose normal role is exclusively in regulating the cell division cycle. CHK2 physically interacts with FRQ; the mutation makes this interaction much stronger. However, a mutant enzyme that has lost its activity has no effect on the clock. (Source: Dartmouth Medical School, 30 June 2006, http://www.sciencedaily.com/ releases/2006/06/060630100044.htm) CIA AND MI6 GAVE TRAINING CAMP TO OSAMA BIN LADEN lhe Wayne Madsen Report has obtained a confidential "France Only" report of the French intelligence service, Direction Générale de la Securité Extérieure (DGSE), that states that the CIA and Britain's MI6 maintained effective control of an important al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan as late as 1995—two years after the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, an attack that was launched with the help of Sudanese intelligence officers loyal to Osama bin Laden. The CIA and MI6 permitted control of training operations at Darunta—an "Arab Afghan" base located near the camp of Osama bin Laden and used to manufacture explosives and chemical weapons and train in their use—to pass to the control of Ibn Cheikh, a Libyan leader of al-Qaeda. Two significant items emerge from the COMMON VACCINE ADJUVANT KILLS BRAIN CELLS f two dozen once-jittery mice at the University of British Columbia (UBC) are telling the truth post mortem, the world's governments may soon be facing one hell of a lawsuit. New, so-far- unpublished, research led by Vancouver neuroscientist Chris Shaw shows a link between the aluminium hydroxide used in vaccines and symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) and Alzheimer's disease. Shaw is most surprised that the research for his paper hadn't been done before. For "I'm an astronomy tutor. I was giving a class on the Big Bang, when some guys in black uniforms smashed down the door and the next thing I remember is waking up here." NEXUS 7 AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2006 www.nexusmagazine.com