Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja
Martin Chulov, Guardian, Nov 13 2009
Doctors in Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants and a spike in early life cancers that may be linked to toxic materials left over from the fighting. The extraordinary rise in birth defects has crystallised over recent months as specialists working in Falluja’s over-stretched health system have started compiling detailed clinical records of all babies born. Neurologists and obstetricians in the city interviewed by the Guardian say the rise in birth defects, which include a baby born with two heads, babies with multiple tumours, and others with nervous system problems, are unprecedented and at present unexplainable. A group of Iraqi and British officials, including the former Iraqi minister for women’s affairs, Dr Nawal Majeed a-Sammarai, and the British doctors David Halpin and Chris Burns-Cox, have petitioned the UN general assembly to ask that an independent committee fully investigate the defects and help clean up toxic materials left over decades of war. Falluja general hospital’s director and senior specialist Dr Ayman Qais said:
We are seeing a very significant increase in central nervous system anomalies. Before 2003 I was seeing sporadic numbers of deformities in babies. Now the frequency of deformities has increased dramatically. The rise in frequency is from two admissions a fortnight a year ago to two a day now. Most are in the head and spinal cord, but there are also many deficiencies in lower limbs. There is also a very marked increase in the number of cases of less than two years with brain tumours. This is now a focus area of multiple tumours.
Previously all miscarried babies, including those with birth defects or infants who were not given ongoing care, were not listed as abnormal cases. Paediatrician Samira Abdul Ghani’s records over a three-week period reveal that 37 babies with anomalies, many of them neural tube defects, were born during that period at Falluja general hospital alone. Dr Bassam Allah, the head of the hospital’s children’s ward, this week urged international experts to take soil samples across Falluja and for scientists to mount an investigation into the causes of so many ailments, most of which he said had been “acquired” by mothers before or during pregnancy. Other health officials are also starting to focus on possible reasons, chief among them potential chemical or radiation poisonings. Abnormal clusters of infant tumours have also been repeatedly cited in Basra and Najaf, areas that have in the past also been intense battle zones where modern munitions have been heavily used.
The anomalies are evident all through Falluja’s newly opened general hospital and in centres for disabled people across the city. On Nov 2 alone, there were four cases of neuro-tube defects in the neo-natal ward and several more were in the intensive care ward and an outpatient clinic. Statistics on infant tumours are not considered as reliable as new data about nervous system anomalies, which are usually evident immediately after birth. Despite fully funding the construction of the new hospital, a well-equipped facility that opened in August, Iraq’s health ministry remains largely disfunctional and unable to co-ordinate a response to the city’s pressing needs. The government’s lack of capacity has led Falluja officials, who have historically been wary of foreign intervention, to ask for help from the international community. Dr Abdul Wahid Salah, a neurosurgeon, said:
With neuro-tube defects, their heads are often larger than normal, they can have deficiencies in hearts and eyes and their lower limbs are often listless. There has been no orderly registration here in the period after the war and we have suffered from that. But I can say with certainty that we have noticed a sharp rise in malignancy of the blood and this is not a congenital anomaly, it is an acquired disease. Even in the scientific field, there has been a reluctance to reach out to the exterior countries. But we have passed that point now. I am doing multiple surgeries every day. I have one assistant and I am obliged to do everything myself.
November 14, 2009 at 3:51 pm
it is a biblical plague, essentially undifferentiated from others be they locusts, h1n1 or wtc asbestos dust, torah punishing the offending embryos, which is entirely moral and mandated by jewish notion of righteousness.
just say no to antisemitism.
November 14, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I can – the Guardian apparently cannot.
I wrote the Guardian the following letter today:
Dear sir,
The siege of Falluja in April 2004 has been called one of the most extensive human rights violations of recent times (‘Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja’, 14.11.09). Not only were napalm and white phosphorous used in the attack but also large quantities of radioactive depleted uranium. The result has been babies born with gross deformities; two heads, no limbs; three eyes. Can the crimes of war go lower than atrocities against the unborn?
Depleted uranium is a bi-product of nuclear power stations and the production of weapons grade uranium and constitutes yet another argument in favour of benign and sustainable systems of energy production and the abandonment of nuclear arsenals.
November 14, 2009 at 4:24 pm
oh happy day,
Obama expected to name envoy to combat global anti-Semitism
i just can’t get over how despite relentless pressure from hollywood, media and our blessed and righteous politicians antisemitism continues unabated and in fact requires a tzar with a trillion dollar department of jew security to combat it … surely, stubborn antisemitism is a clear proof that goys are retarded and need a talmudic shepherd out of the wilderness of unreasoned, blind hate.
November 14, 2009 at 4:30 pm
The Israelis have also left tons of DU in Gaza, too…
November 14, 2009 at 4:33 pm
In light of the Goldstone report, and Israel’s making a fool of Obama with the settlements, you’d think the man could show a modicum of backbone.
That has to be the most pathetic thing I’ve read for some time…
November 14, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Lobro, the thing is, no one has managed to prove that the ruling class (or caste) of the USA is Jewish. The executive class maybe; the visible flak catchers of state. But no one knows who the real ruling class, the real owners as opposed to executives, really are. This is just as obscure now as it was in the 1960s, when Ginsberg and Cassady discussed it in that funny stoned dualogue which I put up somewhere here, if I can find it. Uh, voici:
http://niqnaq.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/ginsberg-cassady-at-city-lights/
November 14, 2009 at 4:33 pm
i think what is needed is a star wars program to launch a bunch of satellites into geostationary orbits to perpetually beam psych-rays of sweet, gooey noahide devotion at this benighted, antisemitic planet.
the star fleet of zion … trump that, jesus.
November 14, 2009 at 4:34 pm
I’m talking about lobro 4:24pm, if it’s not clear…
November 14, 2009 at 4:48 pm
well, rowan, what would you consider a definitive proof and any idea of how to go about proving it conclusively.
i can only consider it in statistical terms:
e.g., jews form 2% of society (some hypothetical society, maybe usa).
let’s say that the jugular(s) of any society are legislative, executive, financial, industrial, judiciary, academic and media components (and cross-breeds such a think-tanks and political action committees, lobbyists, pressure groups, etc.).
do you see one single category from the above list where the jews not only dominate but often dominate to the point of exclusivity?
and then, the notion is that somehow they are poor dupes manipulated by some secret antisemitic society, sacrificial goats and all that – poor israelis as a “nation” just want to be left in peace, living in a crime-free, orderly, hardworking society.
yet, the protocols of zion, for what’s it worth, seems to have intimated long ago that in fact all the so-called secret societies, freemasons and all those idiots capering around in tasseled shoes will in fact be run by zionists.
i am prepared to entertain your theory but flesh it out man, give me some proof however circumstantial.
nowhere in torah-talmud-kabbalah does it say that jew bends his knee to a higher power, including ethics/god, yet somehow, they are but helots.
their only sacred moment is kol-nidre, the eternal allegiance to lie, deception and prevarication.
not a good flunkey material, i will grant them that with all due respect.
November 14, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I would suggest you read “The Occult Technology of Power”. I have recommended this anonymous 1960s essay many times. Although it takes the view that the bankers run the show, it is very strong on the argument that the top level stay out of sight.
http://www.rexresearch.com/articles/ocultech.htm
I would also suggest that the owning class (or caste) are unlikely to even live in the USA. They more probably live in Switzerland, or the south of France; who wouldn’t?
November 14, 2009 at 5:52 pm
that is all fine but the “top level” are very unlikely to be of goy persuasion.
my point is that talmudic philosophy, if you wish to flatter it with this name, is absurdly elitist and nurtures utter contempt or even hate against all life forms outside its tent, and as such is in no way competitive with the notion of “top level”.
the hate is nurtured and sweetened to the point of sexual perversion, so whether you call it illuminati or i call it satanist or someone else calls it zionist, jewish tribe have bought wholesale into it, having shed all notions of god-fearing ethics or even rationality, which keeps the frightened goys out (for the most part, anyway, if the likes of woolsey, rumsfeld or cheney join, there are as many goy nasties as jews whose conscience overpowers their psychopathic upbringing – this too is statistics).
but i take your admonition about the occult technology and will read it at the first opportunity (maybe now, as i skip out for espresso or two).
November 14, 2009 at 6:12 pm
it’s well written, and it’s something of an underground classic. As I say, it dates from the 1960s, but its author has never been positively identified.
I often quote chapters 8 and 9:
8. Professor X. on Prestigious Associations and Secret Societies
9. Professor Y. on Covert Operations and Intelligence
Everything he says in Ch. 9 about ostensibly ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ groups could be applied pari passu to ostensibly pro-Jewish and anti-Jewish, or pro-Muslim and anti-Muslim groups. The general scheme is the same for any binary; it’s an abstract, formal scheme.
November 14, 2009 at 7:57 pm
so far, i cannot find much by way of ideological or philosophical deviation from the protocols.
it has much to say about banking, i.e., debt/slavery creation out of thin air, e.g., in the preamble: invincible chains of deceit, confusion, or coercion with which we finance capitalists enslave this chaotic world – does this sound very un-jewish?
now, it is true that intel agencies (and i believe that this is the core subject to you) like cia/m5/6/mossad are a lot more effective control tool than musty lodges but again, to suppose that some cohesive wasp elite holds the reins is a bit unrealistic to me, given the historical entropy of the feudal structure.
since the roman days or earlier, aristocracy was rent by inner jealousies and squabble more than held together, except under a strong monarchic enforcement.
rabbinical program was much more sophisticated in gluing the herd monolithically, by early brainwashing, including banishment of guilt, shame and fear of karmic retribution, central control and intimidation coupled with manufacture of outside threats.
therefore, i consider jews much more likely material for the dynastic perpetuity of “occult power”.
…
unwilling, yet enduring antisemite
November 14, 2009 at 8:02 pm
dostoevsky’s grand inquisitor puts it as succinctly as humanly possible … that essay-within-novel still blows me away.
November 14, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I shall read that. I’m not sure I ever have.
I wouldn’t say ‘WASP élite’. Many people have speculated on this. When David Bowie shows Rip Torn his new spacecraft in The Man Who Fell To Earth, Torn asks, “Are you… Lithuanian?” Bowie smiles gently and shakes his head.
Perhaps there is no owning class (or caste) any more. This is certainly what the corporatists would like us to believe: the preponderance of the capital is held by the funds; the super-rich do exist, but they are just spare wheels; the machine runs itself. Or perhaps the stock exchanges are owned by Djinn.
November 14, 2009 at 8:50 pm
mmm, yes, thank you, I just read it:
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/philosophy/existentialism/dostoevsky/grand.html
I hadn’t read it before. I have read The Idiot and The Possessed, but that’s all.
I’m afraid I think that not only his character of the Grand Inquisitor, but Dostoevsky himself, thought he knew more about reality than in fact he did. And does my saying that imply that I think I already know more about reality than Dostoevsky did? Yes, it does, and I still have a number of critically important things left to learn.
November 14, 2009 at 8:50 pm
man who fell to earth is a fine movie as everything directed by nick roegg.
November 14, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I think my ‘core subject’ could be described as mapping political theory and theology onto one another. This is a very formal approach, and allows me to narrow down the number of questions that actually need to be asked to relatively few. That’s why you see me going so hard after apparently arcane things like fallen angels; I think fallen angels in theology map onto bin-Laden-type false-flag operatives in counter-insurgency theory à la Kitson, and vice versa. That is to say, the fallen angel functions in religion the same way the false-flag operative functions in counter-insurgency. This is just an extension of the fairly conventional idea that the demons are God’s agents provocateurs.This is probably why Shaykh Abdalqadir used to keep comparing al Qaeda to the Assassins.
November 14, 2009 at 9:21 pm
certainly the transparently contrived inability to bag obl means that he is a willing or unwilling asset, more valuable under the bed than behind bars.
in all the pictures he looks as if someone is holding a flashlight under his chin, it is the fearless action heroes of homeland security against freddy kruger from islamofascist swamp in a world wrestling entertainment spectacular staged for the benefit of mentally and physically obese imbeciles shoving monsanto popcorn down their gullets.
November 14, 2009 at 9:30 pm
It’s almost always the same photo: the one of him with a cheerful grin on his face.
The mapping I’m talking about is really quite easy to do: that’s the advantage of theory, it allows you to predict methodically what you ought to find, and easily ascertain whether it’s there or not. And for example, the function of bin Laden, like the function of that good old fallen angel, is to guarantee that the US, like God, is the universal force for good against evil, and is always nearly omnipotent, but nevertheless has a mysteriously powerful enemy, who in fantasy is equal and opposite to it (i.e, he could, in a nightmare, actually win), but who in reality is an infinitesimal speck of illusion.
Also, predictably, the myth of origin: he came from ‘inside’. No one has ever denied that he was for a decade or more a major CIA sub-contractor. This is equivalent to having been one of the angels, before his ‘fall’. And now, of course, he’s among us, incognito — just like Satan. Tempting us, in our innermost hearts, urging us to rebel.
November 15, 2009 at 11:03 am
By the way, Lobro, returning to the Dostoevsky: the most important form of ignorance that I feel affects his work is this: he is unable to detach his concept of the divinity of Jesus from his concept of God in general. This shows, if I may say so, a complete ignorance — not an unwillingness to understand, but simply an ignorance — of the reality of other religions.
November 15, 2009 at 4:20 pm
it is a bit troublesome, i admit, but even as he fiercely and xenophobically promotes eastern orthodox christianity in form, there is also an underlying xenograft of qualities imported from buddhism and catholicism, notably tolerance and mercy.
both expressly despised and rejected by messianic judaism, i might add, which is why any attempt at dialogue with it is futile and insulting – as a catholic, i retch at saccharine obsequiousness of vatican to this desert filth.
btw, in diaries of a writer, dostoevsky talks at some length about asian philosophy and fairly knowledgeably, it seems to me.
he seems to have made up his mind not to be a universal prophet but a very russian one, i don’t quite understand why, alcoholism maybe? (don’t know much about his personal life but alkies tend to hang onto anchors like nationalism)
November 15, 2009 at 4:38 pm
wasn’t he epileptic? that’s what The Idiot is about.
November 15, 2009 at 8:51 pm
yes, it is possible, he has vivid descriptions of seizure-like states in just about all of his stories, a life changing rapture and nightmares in karamazovs, hallucinogenic trances in crime+punishment, bobok, nasty story, plumbs the pre-suicide psychosis in the devils/possessed … didn’t know he was epileptic but it doesn’t surprise me, the line between prophesy and seizures is kind of fuzzy.
i mean, one doesn’t banter with apparition of virgin mary while sipping beer at a sidewalk patio (i can attest to that as one who has had many of the latter and none of the former).
November 16, 2009 at 5:51 am
I think being epileptic must be rather like being heavily into acid but for some reason always having bad, or at least unsatisfactory, trips: i.e., deeply, agonisingly, spiritually disturbing. That in fact is how it was for me between about 1968 and 1975, during which seven-year period I reckon i got through about a hundred trips. I think I deserve the happy nickname ‘Captain Trips’, really, almost as much as Jerry Garcia did. After that, I just fell out of that environment altogether, and entered a gloomy period of several decades in which there was no escape route except alcohol.
November 16, 2009 at 2:29 pm
while sharing a similar launch in late sixties, early seventies, when i abruptly terminated acid in my life (started to feel unwholesome, dangerous and a dead end) i was lucky in not having required alcohol.
my disgust with acid made me ricochet in the opposite direction: craving for sleep and classical music, for example, as replacement for tripping at night, listening to crimson king, etc.
also discovered dostoevsky and cg jung, brief interlude of experimentation with tibetan buddhism as result of jung’s intro to evans’ tibetan book of the dead – even a trip to sikkim where i discovered that as much as i liked tibetans, i had neither the patience nor abiding interest in their philosophy.
November 16, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Well, what can I say? Christian Vander said it all, in 1973. In Kobaïan.
Magma: Da Zeuhl Wortz Mekanïk
from Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh (1973)
As with most of Magma’s albums, Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh is sung completely in their own fictional language, Kobaïan. It continues to describe Christian Vander’s visions of an Apocalyptic future of the Earth. In the case of this record the story is of the prophet Nebehr Güdahtt. He tells the people of the Earth that if they want to save themselves, they must work to cleanse themselves and sing the Zeuhl Wortz, the sacred Kobaïan music, in worship of Kreuhn Kohrmahn, the Kobaïan supreme being. The people of the Earth don’t believe this and start marching against him. Slowly some people begin to believe him and start marching with him instead of against him. The record is the third and last movement of the Theusz Hamtaahk Trilogie. Theusz Hamtaahk means, or so it is believed, Time Of Hatred, and narrates the story of the war between Kobaïa and Earth: apparently, a Kobaïan party was sent to Earth in order to bring the enlightenment achieved in Kobaïa to the rest of Humanity. The reaction to the Kobaïans’ message is mixed, and Earth authorities arrest the party, causing Kobaïa to declare war and threaten to make use of their ultimate weapon (which is Mekanïk Destruktïw Komandöh). The end of the trilogy is rather controversial: while some say it finishes when Earth joins Kobaïa and sings the Zeuhl Wortz, it is also believed Kobaïa destroys Earth. Christian Vander doesn’t seem to want to make it clearer. (Wikipedia)
November 16, 2009 at 3:42 pm
By the way, cliqification happens among Tibetan Buddhists, like every other religion. People cannot cope with being individuals; they want to belong to ’schools’. But each school has its own gurus and its own initiation rituals and so on. Some are very official and even pro-west politically, like the Dalai Lama’s (which is called the Gelugpas). Some are sort of wild and dark and untamed, like the Nyingmapas. Then there are people who work their way through all of these and get bored, so they form groups that practice Bon (the pre-Buddhist Tibetan religion), just to freak everybody else out and mystify them.
And this is all among expatriate Tibetans and their Western students. What it’s like for the Tibetans themselves (both those who might pass themselves off as gurus, in their own opinion, and the rest) can only be guessed at. The most amusing thing that happened in Tibetan Buddhism recently was when one of the protector deities (the converted pre-Buddhist gods), called Dorje Shugden, rebelled, and totally freaked the Dalai Lama out.