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NEWS ... GLOBAL NEWS ... EURO NOTES CASH IN TO BEWARE OF GARDASIL, THE CERVICAL CANCER VACCINE OVERTAKE US DOLLAR Ge is the new vaccine being intensively marketed to the parents of girls from the he value of euro notes in circulation age of nine. The vaccine is said to protect against two strains of the human papilloma exceeds the value of circulating US- | virus (HPV), which it is believed cause about 70 per cent of cervical cancers. But HPV is dollar notes, according to calculations by | very common and can be found in about 80 per cent of both men and women. Most of the Financial Times. Converted at recent _| us at one time or another have had the HPV virus, but most of us do not suffer or die from exchange rates, the euro took the lead in _| cervical cancer. In fact, only one per cent of women develop cervical cancer. The year October 2006. 2000 figures on the mortality rates for cervical cancer were 3.3 women per 100,000 The figures highlight the remarkable —_| population in the USA and four women per 100,000 in Australia. growth in euro notes since their launch on The US National Cancer Institute says that direct causation has not been proven. Ina 1 January 2002, three years after the start | controlled study of age-matched women, 67 per cent of those with cervical cancer and 43 of Europe's monetary union. per cent of those without were found to be HPV positive. These cancers are observed on Although the European Central Bank _ | average only 20 to 50 years after infection. So what is going on? Does this virus cause (ECB) does not deliberately promote the _ | cervical cancer? international use of the euro, it has become Nicholas Regush wrote in Vaccine Madness: “Back in 1992, however, a question was popular in official foreign exchange raised about the dominant and increasingly entrenched theory that HPV causes cervical reserves—even if it is far from challenging | cancer. It came from Peter Duesberg and Jody Schwartz, molecular biologists at the the dollar's lead as the most popular reserve University of California at Berkeley. Among the various issues they raised about the currency. acceptance of HPV as the cause of cervical cancer was their fundamental concern that Fast growth in the highest denomination there was a lack of consisten HPV DNA sequences and consistent HPV gene expression notes, especially the 500-euro note, has _ | in tumours hat were HPV positive. They instead suggested that 'rare spontaneous or chemically induced chromosome abnormalities which are consistently observed in HPV among criminals, although the ECB plays _ | DNA-negative and -positive cervical cancers induce cervical cancer’.” In short, Duesberg down this factor. and Schwartz were pointing to the possibility that "carcinogens may be primary inducers (Source: The Financial Times, UK, 27 of abnormal cell proliferation rather than HPV". Here's the key point: "Since proliferating raised suspicions that they are popular December 2006) cells [cancer cells dividing wildly] would be more susceptible to infection than resting cells, the viruses would just be indicators rather than causes of abnormal proliferation.” How, then, have we come to the conclusion that the human papilloma virus causes EVIDENS FOE OBS IN cervical cancer? Scientists estimate that about 80 per cent of all cancers are related to the irre use of tobacco products, to what we eat and drink, or, to a lesser extent, to exposure to W ere the pyramids of Giza in Egypt | radiation or cancer-causing agents in the environment and the workplace.’ Maybe the truth Y partly built of concrete? A debate on | is that carcinogens, not viruses, cause the abnormal cell proliferation. the idea that has smouldered for over 20 One would hope and expect that the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil has been well years has been re-ignited by Michel | tested and is safe to inject into girls and possibly boys. But according to the Alliance for Barsoum of Drexel University in | Hyman Research Protection (AHRP), this is nor the case. AHRP says that the vaccine has Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and two _ | ,.4¢been proven safe and effective in clinical trials. The fact is that the US Food and Drug colleagues who analysed three stone | Administration allowed Merck to use a potentially reactive aluminium-containing placebo samples from the Great Pyramid of Khufu. | ag a control for most trial participants, rather than a non-reactive saline solution placebo. _ The team found that two samples _ | This aluminium placebo is used because it can artificially increase the appearance of safety included amorphous silicon-containing _| of an experimental drug or vaccine in a clinical trial. Furthermore, the Gardasil vaccine material, which they say is a concrete __ | contains 225 mcg of aluminium, and we know that aluminium adjuvants in vaccines can "glue" that holds the pyramid's stone | allow aluminium to enter the brain as well as cause inflammation at the injection site, blocks together (Journal of the American _ | \eading to chronic joint and muscle pain and fatigue. Around 60 per cent of those who Ceramic Society, vol. 89, p. 3788). were given Gardasil or the aluminium placebo suffered side effects such as headache, "If there is any rock in the world like __| fever, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, diarrhoea and myalgia, but the Gardasil recipients had this, it hasn't been reported in any literature | more serious adverse events such as headache, gastroenteritis, appendicitis, pelvic I'm familiar with," Barsoum says. He _ | inflammatory disease, asthma, bronchospasm and arthritis.* believes that up to 20 per cent of the So with cervical cancer causing about one per cent of all cancer deaths in women and edifices may have been built using this _ | with the causation in doubt, not to mention the lack of safety displayed in the vaccine trials, material. we need to ask why parents are being urged to get their young daughters vaccinated with The idea that the Egyptians used | Gardasil. The obvious answer is that there is much hanging on the success of Gardasil. It concrete to build the pyramids was first | is predicted that Gardasil could be Merck's most important money eamer, with expected proposed by Joseph Davidovits in 1986. sales of at least US$2 billion. This is revenue that Merck badly needs after the Vioxx Barsoum is now recreating the primitive | scandals. To achieve this success, Gardasil will be required for school admission.* concrete in his lab. He claims that using | Endnotes only limestone, diatomaceous earth, lime _| 4. http://(www.virusmyth.net/aids/data/pdlatvir3.htm; and water—all readily available to ancient | 2. http:/vww.redflagsweekly.com/ second_opinion/2002_nov25.html; Egyptians—he has made a compound that _| 3. http:/www.medicinenet.com/cancer_causes/page2.htm; rivals the strongest modern concrete. 4. http:/Avww.ahrp.org/cms/content/view/263/28/; (Source: New Scientist, issue no. 2581, 1] | 5. http/Avww.honesthuman.com December 2006, p. 6) (Source: by Helen Lobato, hlobato@dodo.com.au; http:/www.informyourself.com.au) lhe value of euro notes in circulation exceeds the value of circulating US- dollar notes, according to calculations by the Financial Times. Converted at recent exchange rates, the euro took the lead in October 2006. The figures highlight the remarkable growth in euro notes since their launch on 1 January 2002, three years after the start of Europe's monetary union. Although the European Central Bank (ECB) does not deliberately promote the international use of the euro, it has become popular in official foreign exchange reserves—even if it is far from challenging the dollar's lead as the most popular reserve currency. Fast growth in the highest denomination notes, especially the 500-euro note, has raised suspicions that they are popular among criminals, although the ECB plays down this factor. (Source: The Financial Times, UK, 27 December 2006) EVIDENCE OF CONCRETE IN GIZA'S PYRAMIDS WwW the pyramids of Giza in Egypt partly built of concrete? A debate on the idea that has smouldered for over 20 years has been re-ignited by Michel Barsoum of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and two colleagues who analysed three stone samples from the Great Pyramid of Khufu. The team found that two samples included amorphous silicon-containing material, which they say is a concrete "glue" that holds the pyramid's stone blocks together (Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 89, p. 3788). "If there is any rock in the world like this, it hasn't been reported in any literature I'm familiar with," Barsoum says. He believes that up to 20 per cent of the edifices may have been built using this material. The idea that the Egyptians used concrete to build the pyramids was first proposed by Joseph Davidovits in 1986. Barsoum is now recreating the primitive concrete in his lab. He claims that using only limestone, diatomaceous earth, lime and water—all readily available to ancient Egyptians—he has made a compound that rivals the strongest modern concrete. (Source: New Scientist, issue no. 258], 11 December 2006, p. 6) NEXUS +9 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2007 www.nexusmagazine.com