Subject: (Ferguson) Blood scandal (fwd)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 102138 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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........The message from Jim Ferguson! Simply great!! Thanks Jim.....
(By all means!! We need more of this kind of public attack upon our
politicians who are failing to serve the public interest because
they are so "entangled" with the special interests......)
This IS the EMF story too!!!!!!
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
rbeavers@llion.org................
...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness...
.................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............
........DO YOU KNOW OF OTHERS WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST..............
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 07:52:49 -0800
From: Jim Ferguson
To: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: Blood scandal
Roy - as a Canadian I don't like to comment on US politics or politicians
but thought you might be interested in the following article.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news.asp?s2=national&f=990224/2308073.html...
If this is successful then it raises the bar in terms of political
accountability/culpability. If the politicians (and their minions) can be
found to have had a part in this then it could be used as a model for future
consequential health litigation such as the erection of cell towers. If
anyone is appearing before council or city administrators who are in support
of the erection of cell towers - don't be shy about the possibility of
including them (the lawmakers) in any future court cases that include
recovery of health related costs and let them (the lawmakers) know that they
will be included.
Wednesday, February 24, 1999
Tainted-blood victims plan to call
Clinton to testify about imported plasma
Mark Kennedy
Ottawa Citizen
Victims of Canada's tainted-blood scandal are planning to call Bill Clinton,
the president of the United States, to testify about his role in
contaminated plasma from inmates at an Arkansas prison that was being
shipped to Canada in the 1980s.
The victims will announce their plans at a Washington news conference today.
If Mr. Clinton's deposition proves incriminating, they say, they will likely
include him in a lawsuit expected to target the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, Arkansas and Louisiana, and the private companies that ran
the prison-blood programs.
Victims will also demand the U.S. Justice Department launch an
investigation -- either through the FBI or the appointment of a special
investigator -- to establish the facts on how they got the prison plasma
believed to be tainted with HIV and hepatitis C.
The victims' actions follow revelations a U.S. firm with links to Mr.
Clinton collected tainted blood from Arkansas prison inmates and sold it
abroad. Mr. Clinton was governor of Arkansas at the time.
Yesterday, a White House official said: "We're not aware of any credible
allegation that the president, as governor, had any involvement in the
matter."
An Arkansas firm, Health Management Associates, was also permitted to
collect inmates' blood at a prison in Grady, Ark., and sell it elsewhere.
The prisoners were paid $7 (US) for each unit of blood. Each unit of plasma
was sold by HMA for about $50 (US), and half of that was handed over to the
Arkansas Department of Corrections. HMA's president in the mid-1980s was
Leonard Dunn, a personal friend and political ally of Mr. Clinton.
Toronto lawyer David Harvey, who represents the tainted-blood victims, said
yesterday they will launch a lawsuit but have made no final decisions on who
will be named as defendants.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy L. Beavers [mailto:rbeavers@llion.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 6:27 AM
> To: emfguru
> Subject: U.S., Australia, Canada "thumb noses" at the world......
>
>
>
> .........This one reveals the extent to which our Western
> "democracies" are under the influence of _global_ agriculture industry.
> Could not have happened without the concurrence of the William Jefferson
> Clinton (environmental hypocrite) White House......He has "favors"
> to repay -- soft $$$$$$$$.......
>
> .......How does it feel, citizens of the world, to become a human
> guinea pig???? Or as Deb Carney put it so well: lab rats.......
>
> Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
> rbeavers@llion.org................
> ...It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness...
> .................PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN PROFITS...............
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> 06:28 PM ET 02/24/99
>
> U.S., Others Sink Biogenetics Talks
>
> U.S., Others Sink Biogenetics Talks
> By FRANK BAJAK=
> Associated Press Writer=
> CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) _ Opposing an accord approved by more
> than 125 nations, the United States and five other countries
> scuttled efforts Wednesday to forge an environmental protection
> treaty on trade in genetically modified plants and animals.
> Washington said it was protecting the world's food trade from
> potentially crippling regulatory burdens. But critics said it was
> doing the bidding of multinational businesses, whose
> laboratory-produced crops could one day sow ecological catastrophe.
> The breakdown after 10 days of talks marked the first time in
> more than 20 years that a major international environmental
> negotiation has concluded in disarray, said Michael Williams,
> spokesman for the U.N. Environmental Program. The negotiations are
> to resume within 16 months at an undetermined time and place.
> The European Union and more than 110 other nations at the
> U.N.-initiated talks agreed late Tuesday to forge a so-called
> Biosafety Protocol, an outgrowth of the 1992 Earth Summit in
> Brazil.
> But the United States, Australia, Canada, Uruguay,
> Argentina and
> Chile blocked the proposed compromise, which would have permitted
> nations to restrict imports not only of experimental organisms but
> also of genetically altered crops such as soy, corn, cotton and
> potatoes.
> ``The United States has dominated these negotiations
> and they've
> now sabotaged them. They're obviously trying to force genetically
> modified food down the throats of consumers,'' charged Louise Gale,
> a spokeswoman for the environmental group Greenpeace.
> The United States, the world's main biotech exporter, wanted a
> narrowly focused treaty that ``protected the environment and yet
> avoided unduly restraining international trade'' in a rapidly
> growing mutibillion-dollar industry, said U.S. delegation chief
> Melinda Kimble.
> Biotech products such as insect-resistant crops and vaccines
> born of gepotential biogenetic disaster. They want biotech
> companies legally liable for any damage to biodiversity or human
> health _ another provision opposed by the United States.
> Many Europeans also distrust genetically engineered products.
> Although genetic engineering experimentation began two decades
> ago, development of biotech foods, vaccines and byproducts has only
> recently taken off. Worldwide, more than 67 million acres of
> genetically altered crops were sown in 1998, up from about 2
> million in 1996.
> In the United States, between 25 percent and 45 percent of some
> major crops are already genetically modified. Industry officials
> expect some 90 percent of U.S. agricultural exports to be
> biogenetic within a decade.
>
>
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