Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Simon Black's "Best Of 2010": Explains Why Planting "Mutiple Flags" Is Crucial For Our Insolvent Age

Simon Black, who for the past few months was frolicking in middle earth has reemerged again, this time from Buenos Aires, and shares a "Best of 2010" compilation with readers. "

Date: December 28, 2010
Reporting From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

As we're quickly approaching the end of December, I thought it would be appropriate to republish a few letters from earlier this year. 2010 brought substantial growth for this community-- our numbers swelled, and I know that many readers probably missed some important letters from earlier days.

Today I want to repost a letter that I originally sent to you in early January, just after the 2009 holidays. In it, I defined what planting multiple flags is, and why everyone should be thinking about it. As the events of 2010 have unfolded, I think those reasons have only become stronger.

From January 4, 2010 in Malaga, Spain:
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Welcome back; I hope you had a relaxing holiday.

I spent 10-days with my family combing through the Italian countryside and drinking some unbelievable wine from a local grape called "Primitivo." It's a distant cousin of the California Zinfandel, and is only found in this region. A bottle from the best vineyard will set you back about 9 euro.

For New Year's Eve, I saw a fireworks show that was simultaneously the most disorganized and explosive I have ever witnessed... so literally for me, the new year began with a bang.

I'm optimistic about 2010. I know a lot of people in the financial community who think that 'this is it,' that 2010 shall bear the worst economic cataclysm in history, causing widespread doom and agony.

Sure the conditions are ripe for stock/bond market crashes, a currency crisis, and multiple sovereign debt defaults. But these are a far cry from a gloomy end of human civilization.

It's not that I have tremendous faith in world 'leaders' (as ridiculous a moniker as that is to use); last month's debacle in Copenhagen only further underscored how perverse and ineffective the existing political process is, and everyone is really starting to see it.

The Social Contract is deteriorating rapidly, and in the end, the one thing that you can count on is that people will ultimately do what they perceive to be in their self-interest. This is what drives markets and trends.

As the protracted effects of government stupidity become more apparent, one such trend that I see emerging this year is the rise of the sovereign individual-- the rebirth of the multiple flags approach.

I've talked about this before and I wanted to start off the year with a quick primer since it is a recurring theme of this letter. To be more specific, I absolutely implore you to plant multiple flags as part of your New Year resolutions.

The idea, originally conceived by international finance guru Harry Schultz, suggests diversifying different aspects of your identity across multiple 'flags,' or geographic jurisdictions.

As an example, Schultz coined the term 'three-flags' in the 1960s, suggesting that an individual should have citizenship in one country, residence in another, and businesses in another.

Later authors expanded on this idea by adding other 'flags,' including places to bank, places to 'play,' places to house electronic assets, etc.

Many writers today talk about 'five flags' or 'six flags,' but frankly I don't see a limit on the number of things we can diversify geographically: email, citizenship, residence, banking, brokerages, gold/silver deposits, business registration, e-commerce, customer base, phone/fax, postal mail, etc.

So what's the point? Why should you do this?

Diversifying geographically increases your freedom, your privacy, your sovereignty, and potentially reduces your tax burden. It protects you against bank failures, market changes, litigation, divorce, overzealous governments, and "NGC's" (non-government criminals).

Perhaps even more importantly, planting multiple flags expands your existing contact base and opens a lot of doors to new opportunities.

Think of it like a life insurance policy-- even if the worst never happens, it gives you great peace of mind and in many cases can rank as a significant asset.

While everyone recognizes these benefits of life insurance, no one actually expects to die anytime soon... so they put shopping for a policy on the back burner, sometimes until it's too late.

In this case, the time to start diversifying internationally and planting multiple flags is now... before it's too late-- before currency controls are imposed, before tax codes change, before the last remaining foreign banks close their doors to foreigners.

I could cite you examples all day long, but I will list just a few hypothetical cases--

Imagine getting sued, losing the case, and having your financial assets commandeered by the court. Now imagine if your assets were safely offshore in another country.

Imagine being investigated by the government and having your email archives turned over to the authorities. Now imagine if your email server were in another country.

Imagine being robbed (taxed) by the government because your business is structured within its jurisdiction. Now imagine if your business were registered in another country.

Imagine having everything in your home country taken from theft, coercion, and litigation. Now imagine having cash and gold locked away in a secure, private vault overseas.

Imagine the social decay in your city getting so bad that riots and violent crime are a common occurrence. Now imagine having property overseas.

I'm sure you get the idea. Putting your assets, your business, your citizenship, your residency, your family's livelihood under one flag, one government, is putting all of your eggs in one very frail, weak basket.

Technology makes it incredibly easy to diversify, and I see more and more people waking up to that reality each day. It takes only moments to set up an offshore email account, a few minutes to lease a private vault, and just a couple of hours to set up a company in Singapore.

The possibilities are truly endless, you just need to find the right tools and the right flags that work for you. Yes, even if you are a US citizen who is taxed on worldwide income, there are still several options available to live a multiple flags lifestyle.

I will be discussing the options in future letters, as well as individual case studies.

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FULFORD: Christopher Story murdered, other journalists targeted in new fascist campaign

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Prominent veteran financial journalist Edward Harle (working under the pen name Christopher Story) wrote before his recent death that George Bush Senior, Barak Obama and other members of the criminal Washington D.C. establishment had ordered him killed. Story was poisoned during a March, 2010 visit to the US with a virus created by the Fort Meade biological warfare facility, according to close associates of Story who spoke to him the day before his July 14th death. Although there exists an antidote for this virus, Story was unaware he was poisoned with it until recently by which point his liver damage had progressed too far for treatment, according to the sources.
Although Story is now dead, his sources will continue to provide the public with vital information about the secret financial war that is now raging towards its conclusion. The murder of Story will not go un-avenged, according to several sources inside the U.S. and UK military-industrial complex.
The murder of Story is part of a broader, but doomed campaign to silence journalists. Jane Burgermeister, who did much to expose the pharmaceutical industry’s involvement in the creation of the H1N1 virus, contacted this writer today saying she feared for her life. She is the victim of systematic harassment by Austrian security service thugs and their corporate/government bosses.
This writer has also been the target of multiple murder attempts. The same cabal that killed my colleague Paul Klebnikov (the former Forbes Moscow Bureau Chief) and killed Daniel Pearle of the Wall Street Journal, has been systematically murdering journalists around the world as a part of their effort keep in power and fool the public with their fake “war on terror.”
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• LIENHOLDERS HAVE SEIZED CONTROL OF BANK OF AMERICA, CHARLOTTE, NC., AND OF DEUTSCHE BANK, FRANKFURT AND HAVE CLEANED OUT THE SABOTEURS: SEE BELOW
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NEW REPORT STARTS HERE:
• KEY POINTS:
• The Lienholders exercised a foreclosure and management takeover on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd July 2010 of Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany and of Bank of America, Charlotte, NC. They took this action due to ongoing sabotage by the US official keptocracy.
• They immediately removed people in both banks working for the saboteurs and opponents of the necessary resolutions and cleared derivatives (toxic debt) off the balance sheets.
• This took Deutsche Bank out of the control of Bush Sr.’s agent [see earlier reports: Archive], Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the saboteurs in Germany.
• Likewise they took the CIA’s compromised Bank of America out of the control of the corrupt bankers and CIA saboteurs in the United States.
• Her Majesty The Queen signed the necessary authorities for the Refunding Programme, the Loan Facility and other necessary papers during her visit to New York, as expected.
• As a result of the above the necessary funds were available for distribution
on Tuesday 6th July 2010.
• As usual, George Bush Sr. interfered, as a consequence of which the Chinese parties had a ‘talk’ with the corrupt, demonic Godfather Bush Sr.
• By 7th July (Wednesday) a full meeting of Compliance Officers had taken place and the parties were again said to be prepared to initiate the transfers.
• Whereupon the corrupt Leon Panetta, Director of Central Intelligence (CIA), pathetically following ‘instructions’ issued by a private citizen named George H. W. Bush and issued to his poodle in the White House, the gutless Barack Hussein Obama, issued instructions to banking authorities the ‘placate but do not pay’ (accounting for the immediate lies summarised below), thus ‘preventing’ the feckless and terrified banking authorities from making any transfers.
• Bush Sr.’s poodle, Barack Hussein Obama, is too weak and lacking in backbone to grasp that Bush Sr.’s threats [see below] are BLUFF. He lacks the spine to stand up to this crook and face him down, which is the only way to deal with these possessed ‘Black’ US Nazi operatives, as we have amply demonstrated on this website
• On 7th July, the Chinese authorities then had another talk’ with Bush Sr., as a consequence of which the payout procedures were put back in place on that date, to start up at 3:00pm EDT..
• Having thus lied as usual to the Chinese parties, private citizen Bush Sr. contacted Barack Hussein Obama and INSTRUCTED HIM not to allow the release of the funds.
• In that telephone call to the White House, Bush Sr. also threatened that if Obama authorised release of the funds, Bush Sr. would go to the Supreme Court and have Obama’s Presidency terminated’ [see earlier reports, notably the Biden comment on this score].
• As a consequence, the terrified and gutless Obama obeyed the private citizen George H. W. Bush and the agreed-upon payout of the Settlement funds has not taken place.
• Michael C. Cottrell, BA, M.S., was duly advised on Tuesday 6th July that the preliminary payment due to him would be satisfied on that date and that the Loan Facility would be in place on Thursday 8th July 2010.
• On Friday 9th July ‘the word went out’ that Mr Cottrell was not to be paid, the opposite of what had been categorically stated earlier.
• The payments agreed to and set out in the Basel List have not been affected as a direct consequence of this sabotage.
• Given the above, Gold Badges, US Law Enforcement, the corrupted US military under the former CIA Director Robert Gates, et al., are all in continuing dereliction of their duty in failing to arrest and lock up the Financial Terrorist George H. W. Bush Sr., either because they, like Joseph Biden, are all blackmailed and compromised, or because they fear that Mr Bush Sr.’s thuggists will murder them, and because they lack the intelligence to understand that Bush Sr.’s behaviour amounts to nothing more than the familiar childish, weak Psy-Ops BLUFF and bullying overfamiliar to students of the Mafiosi Godfathers, of which this criminal is the most ruthless and dangerous operative alive today.
• US law enforcement, Gold badges, feckless CIA operatives, cloth-eared, arrogant and corrupt US military cadres have accordingly dragged the reputation of the United States below sewer level in the eyes of all in the know at highest levels worldwide, with their gutless behaviour.
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The Right Honorable George Osborne, MP
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Re: U.S. Dollar Refunding Project
Dear Honorable George Osborne:
I write to you once more in furtherance of matters raised in my prior correspondence of June 25, 2010; I understand that you have received instructions regarding my approach, and the various points raised in my earlier messages. Your assistance is most urgently required in addressing these matters, and the apparent disavowal of earlier agreements made and reaffirmed at previous G-8 meetings concerning the U.S. Dollar Refunding Project. I write on behalf of my clients Michael C. Cottrell, B.A., M.S., of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA, and his corporations: Pennsylvania Investments, Inc., registered in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and Cottrell Securities Limited, registered in England and Wales.
The events of the past week are difficult to understand, and impossible to tolerate. I am advised and understand that the Lienholders executed a foreclosure and management takeover Fri-Sat 2-3 July of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, and of Bank of America in Charlotte, NC.
They “cleaned out” both banks of people working for the opponents and cleared toxic debt [including derivatives] off the bank balance sheets. Accordingly, they took DB out of the control of Angela Merkel and opponents in Germany, and they took BOA out of all possible control by the opponents in this country. As a result of these actions, it was expected that the World Global Settlement funds could be distributed this week.
These funds were available for distribution on Tuesday, July 6. Because George Bush Sr. was initiating interference, the Chinese authorities then had a “talk” with Bush Sr. By Wednesday afternoon a full Compliance Officer meeting had been conducted, and the appropriate parties were again prepared to initiate the transfers when Mr. Leon Panetta, pursuant to instructions from President Obama and George Bush Sr. issued instructions to the banking authorities to “placate but do not pay”; this prevented the authorities from making any such transfers. I am advised that the Chinese authorities then had another “talk” with Bush Sr., and all was ready again on today, July 7, and set to commence @ 3:00 PM EDT.
At approximately 3:00 PM EDT, I am told by several sources, George Bush Sr. apparently contacted President Obama and instructed him not to allow release of the funds. Bush Sr. then advised the President that if the funds were released, Bush would “go to the Supreme Court and have Obama’s Presidency terminated”. In accord with these instructions, the payout of the World Global Settlement funds has not proceeded.
THE PAYMENTS PREVIOUSLY AGREED TO AND SET FORTH ON THE BASEL LIST HAVE NOT BEEN MADE AS A DIRECT RESULT OF THESE CONTINUED DELAYS. Direct intervention through your good offices on behalf of the Royal Monarchal Power, is absolutely required to bring this matter to conclusion. To secure release of these Settlement funds, it is imperative that your power as one of the U.S. Treasury Lienholders, be exercised with such force as may be required to effect completion.
I respectfully plead that you utilize the inherent Royal Monarchal Power at the earliest possible moment to ensure completion of this funding. Thank you in advance for your assistance; please contact me directly if I can provide any additional information or help.
Sincerely,
HODGES AND ASSOCIATES
A. CLIFTON HODGES
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THE FOLLOWING DATA HAS BEEN PUBLISHED AT THE FOOT
OF MOST OF THESE REPORTS FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS++:
• COMPILED BY U.S. SECURITIES EXPERT MICHAEL C. COTTRELL, B.A., M.S..
LIST OF U.S. STATUTES, SECURITIES REGULATIONS AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF WHICH THE CRIMINALISTS AND ALL THE MAIN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS REMAIN IN BREACH:
LEGAL TUTORIAL: The Steps of Common Fraud:
Step 1: Fraud in the Inducement: “… is intended to and which does cause one to execute an instrument, or make an agreement… The misrepresentation involved does not mislead one as the paper he signs but rather misleads as to the true facts of a situation, and the false impression it causes is a basis of a decision to sign or render a judgment”.
Source: Steven H. Gifis, ‘Law Dictionary’, 5th Edition, Hauppauge:
Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: ‘Fraud’.
Step 2: Fraud in Fact by Deceit (Obfuscation and Denial) and Theft:
• “ACTUAL FRAUD. Deceit. Concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent [scanter] when it causes injury to another…”. Source: Steven H. Gifis, ‘Law Dictionary’, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: ‘Fraud’.
• “THE TORT OF FRAUDULENT DECEIT… The elements of actionable deceit are: A false representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth, and with intent to induce reliance thereon, on which plaintiff justifiably relies on his injury…”. Source: Steven H. Gifis, ‘Law Dictionary’, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: ‘Deceit’.
Step 3: Theft by Deception and Fraudulent Conveyance:
THEFT BY DECEPTION:
• “FRAUDULENT CONCEALMENT… The hiding or suppression of a material fact or circumstance which the party is legally or morally bound to disclose…”.
• “The test of whether failure to disclose material facts constitutes fraud is the existence of a duty, legal or equitable, arising from the relation of the parties: failure to disclose a material fact with intent to mislead or defraud under such circumstances being equivalent to an actual ‘fraudulent concealment’…”.
• To suspend running of limitations, it means the employment of artifice, planned to prevent inquiry or escape investigation and mislead or hinder acquirement of information disclosing a right of action, and acts relied on must be of an affirmative character and fraudulent…”.
Source: Black, Henry Campbell, M.A., ‘Black’s Law Dictionary’, Revised 4th Edition, St Paul: West Publishing Company, 1968, s.v. ‘Fraudulent Concealment’.
FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE:
• “FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE… A conveyance or transfer of property, the object of which is to defraud a creditor, or hinder or delay him, or to put such property beyond his reach…”.
• “Conveyance made with intent to avoid some duty or debt due by or incumbent or person (entity) making transfer…”.
Source: Black, Henry Campbell, M.A., ‘Black’s Law Dictionary’, Revised 4th Edition, St Paul: West Publishing Company, 1968, s.v. ‘Fraudulent Conveyance’.
U.S. SECURITIES REGULATIONS OF WHICH INSTITUTIONS
HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE IN BREACH [SEE REPORTS]:
• NASD Rule 3120, et al.
• NASD Rule 2330, et al
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and 3040
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and IM-2110-1
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and SEC Rule 15c3-1
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and 3110
• SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and Procedural Rule 8210
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and 2330 and IM-2330
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and IM-2110-5
• NASD Systems and Programme Rules 6950 through 6957
• 97-13 Bank Secrecy Act, Recordkeeping Rule for funds transfers and transmittals of funds, et al.
U.S. LAWS ROUTINELY BREACHED BY THE CRIMINAL OPERATIVES AND INSTITUTIONS:
• Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act
• Anti-Drug Abuse Act
• Applicable international money laundering restrictions
• Bank Secrecy Act
• Crimes, General Provisions, Accessory After the Fact [Title 18, USC]
• Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act
• Economic Espionage Act
• Hobbs Act
• Imparting or Conveying False Information [Title 18, USC]
• Maloney Act
• Misprision of Felony [Title 18, USC] (1)
• Money-Laundering Control Act
• Money-Laundering Suppression Act
• Organized Crime Control Act of 1970
• Perpetration of repeated egregious felonies by State and Federal public employees and their Departments and agencies, which are co-responsible with the said employees for ONGOING illegal and criminal actions, to sustain fraudulent operations and crimes in order to cover up criminalist activities and High Crimes and Misdemeanours by present and former holders of high office under the United States
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• Provisions prohibiting the bribing of foreign officials [F.I.S.A.]
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act [R.I.C.O.]
• Securities Act 1933
• Securities Act 1934
• Terrorism Prevention Act
• Treason legislation, especially in time of war.
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The Austrian government’s and Big Pharma’s ludicrous agenda to frame Jane Burgermeister and get her jailed has now reached a new level.
Anyone who thought that judges and prosecutors in Austria are not capable of the most blatant mafia methods to set up critics of the swine flu vaccination campaign for arrest needs to think again.
The state prosecutor for corruption Mag Katja Wallenchewski sent me a letter yesterday as part of a blatant attempt to switch the criminal charges I filed on July 23 with documented evidence of file manipulation and corruption of Austrian judges and replace them with a completely different set of charges I never filed and which belong to a total stranger.
According to Wallenschewski’s letter dated July 27th, the criminal charges of complete strangers – two people called Christine Cote and Heiner Lohmann -- are listed under my name and under my file number.
You have to read the small print on page 2 to find out that the letter informing me that the prosecutors office has dropped the criminal charges against the Judge Michaela Lauer actually refers to completely different criminal charges altogether – namely to the charges of someone called Christine Cote filed on July 5th as well as of a Heiner Lohmann filed on 15 July.
http://wakenews.net/Brief_Seite_1.JPG
http://wakenews.net/Brief_Seite_2.JPG
http://wakenews.net/JMBurgermeisterStaatsanwalt100730.pdf
So why am I getting the letter? What have their charges got to do with me and my file number?
It can be assumed that these criminal charges by total strangers are now filed under my name while my own criminal charges have been switched over to their file or another file.
To send me a letter informing me that the criminal charges of totally unknown people have been dropped is in itself a serious error at best because a third party should never be informed about the status of the charges filed by others.
Googling around, I found out that Christine Cote appears to have run an eccentric swine flu vaccine site that has also been critical of me. I tried to email her at Christine.cote@aon.at yesterday but the email bounced. No one answers a number listed under that name in Vienna or replies to messages left on the answerphone.
My bet is that these criminal charges by Christine Cote and Heiner Lohmann against Judge Michaela Lauer are full of violent threats and hysteria and so will offer the perfect excuse for the Austrian police to arrest me any time. Certainly, this pair of "swine flu activists" have never ever contacted me.
My own set of charges with the stamp of the prosecutors office confirming I handed them in on July 23rd are very factual: every single allegation of corruption and file manipulation is well documented as anyone can read at this link:
http://wakenews.net/anzeige-jb.pdf
I also filed appeals in civil courts in Vienna on July 5th and July 9th documenting the evidence of systematic corruption by Judge Lauer in connection with the inheritance of my father and the court custody of my aunt as can be seen under the link:
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father_1.pdf
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father_2.pdf
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father_3.pdf
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father_4.pdf
http://wakenews.net/Appeal_Father5.pdf
http://wakenews.net/html/burgermeister-rekurs-dok_.html
I am happy to send anyone pdf copies myself if the above links don’t work.
The systematic corruption is so well documented by me, in fact, that the Austrian judges are obviously getting very worried and having to resort to this blatant frame up and maneuver to get me jailed or under custody.
As soon as a criminal charges with threats against a judge are put into my file, even if it is a blatant error by the prosecutor, the police can be sent to arrest me and at literally any moment.
I have not seen Christine Cote’s and Heiner Lohmann’s charges against Judge Lauer but they probably confirm every cliché about conspiracy swine flu theorists as lunatics.
In fact, the claims I made from the beginning about the swine flu pandemic being hyped by the pharmaceutical companies have been substantiated by bodies such as the widely publicized report by UK MP Paul Flynn at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly at the beginning of June -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10396382 -- as well as the prestigious British Medical Journal.
Deborah Cohen (BMJ features editor) and Philip Carter document in a June 3rd report how scientists who convinced the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare swine a global pandemic level 6 emergency have close financial ties to the drug companies that profited from the sale of those vaccines .
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/340/jun03_4/c2912
Even the corporate mainstream media that played an instrumental role in hyping the virus has printed reports saying that the pandemic was exaggerated. Der Spiegel published a report called the “Chronology of a hysteria” in March 2010.
http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-69407395.html
Der Spiegel also reported on the Bilderberg meeting in Spain in June 2010.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,698844,00.html
Far from being a crazy conspiracy theorist, I have thoroughly documented the claims I have made thanks to my background as a science journalist who has been working for years for publications such as Nature:
http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0708/full/climate.2007.35.html
http://www.nature.com/bioent/bioenews/122004/full/bioent841.html
http://www.nature.com/bioent/2004/040901/full/bioent827.html
http://www.nature.com/bioent/bioenews/102004/full/bioent833.html
the British Medical Journal. See, for example,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC214077/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC214066/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1125282/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC261767/
Reuters
http://www.reutershealth.com/en/index.html
The Scientist
http://www.the-scientist.com/search/search_results.jsp?cx=003264466409666250718%3Aqrpes37jcpu&cof=FORID%3A11&q=jane+burgermeister&sa=Search&siteurl=www.the-scientist.com%2F#926
As well as the Guardian, the European Voice and American Prospect and many other publications.
But before the next mass vaccination campaigns or pandemics are launched, effective investigative journalists who document the corruption of WHO and national governments have to be removed and the internet censured.
They have to be framed by an elaborate process involving judges and state prosecutors interacting with “swine flu” activists”.
Ever since I filed charges against Baxter at the beginning of April 2008, presenting evidence that the contamination of 72 kilos of seasonal flu with the bird flu virus – supplied by WHO – had been deliberate given the fact the laboratories have to follow strict biosafety level 3 regulations, I have been hounded by the government.
I have also been ridiculed by much of the corporate mainstream Austrian media. But then again, every journalist in Austria working for Austrian media still needs a government license!
The same media were largely silent about the Baxter incident and also about that the fact the Vienna state prosecutor had ordered an investigation into Baxter’s contamination of the vaccine material, although the charges were dropped in September 2009 just in time for Baxter to get its approval for its swine flu jab.
I soon felt the wrath of the government after filing charges on the Baxter incident in April 2009. I had to take legal action in May 2009 against the same Judge Lauer at the court in Hietzing for the way she tried to smear me and exclude me from the court guardianship of my father, who ended up dying on October 23,2009 in a hospital in Hietzing in which the Rothschild family through a foundation still play an active role .
I stated in my criminal charges Lauer might be working for the shadowy Bilderberg network and Big Pharma and asked for an investigation. But the very same Mag Wallenschewski who is now trying to frame me as a crazy swine flu conspiracy theorist also played a key role in stopping an investigation back then. I never even got to see the files.
More than one year later, the evidence is even stronger that Judge Lauer is under orders from higher ups who work for Big Pharma and the Bilderberg network in Austria -- and that the orders are coming in from high up to do everything to strip me of my assets and my civil liberties and bend every law to do it.
The Chancellor Werner Faynmann went to the 2008 Bilderberg meeting of the world’s shadowy elite.
The banking family Rothschilds – considered by many to be at the core of the Bildeberg group together with the Rockefellers -- are even active in the hospital in Hietzing (Krankenhaus Hietzing mit Neurologischem Zentrum Rosenhügel) where my aunt and Dad had so many problems.
http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20021024_OTS0037/wiener-kav-krankenhaus-wird-umbenannt
On another flank Johan Niklasson, the webmaster, has hijacked www.theflucase.com website as well as the www.janeburgermeister.org website.
At the beginning of June. I moved back to my old birdflu666 blog because I realized Johan Niklasson was working to sabotage the site and my work.
At the end of June, just as Lauer was starting to try to get me under court custody on the grounds I am a conspiracy theorist, Niklasson posted a report advocating mindless violence which conveniently got the website classified as a terrorist site.
He also blocked my log. I immediately had to put a disclaimer on my birdflu666 blog to make it clear this report had nothing to do with me.
We can see how the whole shadowy network pulls different strands together to implement a long term plan to destroy an investigative journalist’s work and even life.
But the Bilderberg minions must realize. I was born a free person and I will die a free person and I will never go under the court custody of Austrian judges, whose corruption has been so well documented it borders on a black comedy. That is like surrendering to the mafia.
I recognize I will highly likely never come out of any court custody alive anyway for what incentive is there for these people have for allowing me, a whistleblower documenting their crimes, to live?
I refuse to be held as a prisoner or slave by the minions of the Bilderberg international corporate crime syndicate which has its tentacles so deep into governments in the EU and USA that they ordered 100s of millions of inadequately tested and toxic jabs for their populations for a mild virus, and who have crashed the entire economy for the profits of the banks.
It is clearly better to commit suicide than to be murdered or abused after an illegal court guardianship process or arrest. I have no fear of death. My conscience is clear. I will not spend one minute alive under the court custody.
I was born of an Irish mother who was fearless as her own parents were fearless and I owe them nothing less than that I too stand fearlessly against the ludicrous frame up of the Bilderberg and Big Pharma minions in Austria – and if necessary to die fearlessly.
I remember my mother telling me how the IRA shot bullets at the feet of my grandparents when they walked down the mainstreet of Sligo, Ireland, after getting engaged and how they never flinched but kept on walking arm in arm without even looking at the people who could have killed them any moment. My grandmother, an O Hara, supported the IRA while my grandfather, McGoldrick, was an Irish army officer who supported the partition of Ireland. The IRA did not like it that my grandmother got engaged to him.
So God give me strength, I too will never flinch as my grandparents never flinched.

http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/new_world_order/news.php?q=1280762705

Scientists Show that They Can Change People's Moral Judgments

Scientists have shown they can alter your moral judgments just by disrupting a specific area of your brain with magnetic pulses.

A region of your brain just above and behind your right ear appears to control morality -- a bundle of nerve cells known as the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ).

When the researchers used magnetic pulses to block cell activity in that region, they impaired volunteers' notion of right and wrong.

BBC News reports:

"In one scenario participants were asked how acceptable it was for a man to let his girlfriend walk across a bridge he knew to be unsafe. After receiving a 500-millisecond magnetic pulse to the scalp, the volunteers delivered verdicts based on outcome rather than moral principle. If the girlfriend made it across the bridge safely, her boyfriend was not seen as having done anything wrong."

Sources:



Could a quick magnetic pulse to your brain suddenly alter your moral scruples, leaving you unable to identify the difference between right and wrong?

It turns out that this high-level thought process of moral reasoning, which is often equated with our very identities as human begins, appears to be entirely malleable.

When researchers administered even a super fast 500-millisecond magnetic pulse to the right temporo-parietal junction (RTPJ) of the brain, it rendered participants unable to make moral judgments.

Instead, the volunteers judged actions on whether or not they resulted in harm, so situations that had positive outcomes were deemed acceptable even if they involved morally corrupt judgments.

Interestingly, this region of the brain does not fully develop until late adolescence and into your 20s, which suggests that your moral faculties are not fully developed until after your teenage years.

How Does Magnetic Stimulation Alter Your Brain?

The researchers used a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which creates weak electric currents that stop brain cells from working normally on a temporary basis.

TMS has been around for about 20 years and is used in a relatively new field known as neuroengineering, which involves the use of engineering techniques to alter your brain.

TMS is approved to treat depression in Canada and Israel, and is available as a research procedure in the United States. It is typically used to treat depression but also has been used for conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder.

How does it work?

Your brain consists of about 100 billion neurons, which are able to communicate even though they are not physically connected. This communication happens across a tiny empty space called a synapse, and it is largely the patterns of formation and fading of these synapse connections that form your ability to learn and function.

There are anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 synapses for each of your 100 billion neurons, to give you an idea of just how complex and amazing a communication system is currently at work in your brain.

If you are able to change the pattern of your brain's synapses, you can alter your very mind, and this is what neuroengineers attempt to do, often using artificial devices like TMS.

Your Brain Under the Control of Neuroengineering

Another type of neuroengineering is deep-brain stimulation, which has become a routine treatment for Parkinson's disease.

The procedure involves a thin electrode surgically implanted into your brain, stimulating neurons in areas affected by disease. Experiments on rats have found that this type of electrical stimulation of the brain seems to drive the production of new memories and new brain cells, and it's even being considered as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

Scientists are also testing it as a way to treat a growing number of other disorders, including epilepsy, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

But neuroengineering techniques like TMS are not only being considered for health conditions -- they're also being considered to provoke changes in mood, such as improving creativity or concentration.

Like a device from a science-fiction movie, neuroengineers are already envisioning "affordable, wearable units that could go into much wider use in regular therapy offices, or even at home" … units that you could use to stimulate your brain for a mood or confidence boost.

Is This Really a Good Idea?

Manipulating your brain cells with TMS or deep-brain stimulation is a foray into a world of the unknown.

The side effects of TMS have so far been mild, such as headache, lightheadedness or tingling in facial muscles, though in rare cases seizure, mania, and hearing problems have also been reported. With deep-brain stimulation, more serious risks have occurred, including bleeding in the brain, delirium, unwanted mood changes, seizure, infection and movement and speech disorders.

Not to mention, the long-term implications of interfering with the workings of your brain are completely unknown, and even in the short term there is the issue of being exposed to strong electromagnetic fields.

This is indeed an area of medicine to keep an eye on, especially for the treatment of currently incurable conditions like Alzheimer's, as it will undoubtedly progress in the coming years.

But in terms of using TMS to alter your mood or morals … unless you favor the idea of walking around hooked up to electrical devices that control your innermost emotions and thoughts, you're better off sticking with natural mood boosters and your own innate principles of morality instead.

Another Subtle Form of Electrical Altering

Many people are not aware of galvanic currents that are created by dissimilar metals in your body.

You are probably wondering which metals I am referring to. Well, it is the rare adult in the US who has not had some type of dental work done, and unfortunately most of that involves using metals.

If only one metal alloy were used there would be no problem, as in any battery you need two dissimilar metals to cause a current to flow. Unfortunately, that is precisely what happens in most dental work as mercury amalgams are composed of mercury and silver.

Other restoration metals are used for crowns and bridges and posts for implants. All of these contribute to galvanic electric currents that frequently exceed the current in your brain.

That is why it is best to seek metal-free dentistry from a qualified biologic dentist whenever you can.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/12/29/scientists-show-that-they-can-change-peoples-moral-judgments.aspx

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

How to do something about procrastination

Why do now what you can put off until after you check Facebook, watch YouTube, text friends and catch a movie?

Procrastination is epidemic. Humans have always been drawn to short-term pleasure over long-term reward, but now we face a superabundance of temptations, says Piers Steel, psychology professor at the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary.

Steel, 43, author of The Procrastination Equation, has analyzed why we habitually put things off, and he’s researched ways we can train ourselves to choose today over mañana.

Steel spoke to the Star about motivational oomph — like Victor Hugo getting naked — and how to keep your New Year’s resolutions.

What’s the difference between laziness and procrastination?

The two often get confused. For procrastination, you honestly intended to do the work. Not caring about the work in the first place, that’s laziness.

Modern life, you say, has created a pandemic of procrastinating. How so? What are the worst temptations?

We’ve always tended to go for the short-term pleasure instead of something more rewarding but longer term. So we do a lot of things like Facebook or video snacking at the cost of long-term and larger goals. What predicts procrastination is not just who you are, but also your environment — the amount of temptation around you. We now live in a world supersaturated with powerful short-term temptations. Our environment has become motivationally toxic.

Around the world, the biggest temptation is still television. But then there’s also the Internet with its capacity to subsume all TV programming. By contrast, in 1911 there was talk of the lure of the hammock.

Are we hard-wired to put things off?

We are hard-wired to value the short-term more than the long-term. Inordinately so. It fit perfectly in a hunter-gatherer society where food rots in a day or so. The short-term was all you could control. Today, on a societal level, we have such environmental and financial problems, but they are difficult to address because they are long-term. As a species we don’t do long-term well. Some people, of course, are less impulsive than others. But we all tend to be more impulsive than we need to be, considering the world we live in.

I’m more creative under pressure. What do you say to that?

It’s a common myth. It’s a procrastinator trying to justify doing less work on a project. A lot of creativity requires an incubation period. That means you do the task, take it as far as you can, then put it away for awhile. When you come back to it, you see new connections.

At 3 a.m., the night before a project is due, no one is at their peak creativity. Dozens of studies have confirmed this.

Psychologically, why do we procrastinate?

There are three pieces to it. First, your confidence in your ability to finish the task. The less confident you are, the harder it is to get motivated. Second, whether the task feels rewarding. If it’s boring, your mind slides right off it. Third, when the rewards aren’t experienced until the task is finished. Do you like writing or having written? Having written is rewarding, not writing.

Do you have tips on how to kick the habit? Let’s say low confidence is the reason you’re putting something off.

All three reasons could be operating at the same time, or just one or two. If it’s low confidence, we take our cues about what’s possible by seeing what others do. Inspiration and confidence tend to be contagious. If you hang out with people who are positive and doing things, it’s easier to be infected.

What if you hate the task, or you see no value in it? Just grin and bear it?

You can artificially pack some rewards for yourself at the end for completing the work. Or you can mentally reframe it. You don’t like cleaning your house, but you like socializing with friends. So you reframe it: I want an inviting place for my friends. You add extra motivational oomph from seeing the task from a better angle.

What if you procrastinate for the third reason, that the rewards are long-term, not immediate?

There are two fun approaches. First, precommitment: You do something now to prevent yourself from doing otherwise later. For instance, Victor Hugo stripped naked and gave all his clothes to his valet to make himself write. The valet would return with the clothes only at an appointed hour.

Some people like Clocky, an alarm clock on wheels, which prevents you from turning off the alarm or hitting the snooze button. As soon as the alarm goes off, Clocky scoots off the table, runs around the room and tries to hide under the bed, with the alarm still ringing.

The idea is to prevent temptations. Turn off and put away the cellphones and other electronics.

The other approach is to imagine the very worst outcome. You put off doing the report until the last minute. But you fall sick and can’t do it. At the office, you are whisked in front of a podium to present your report. Everyone in the packed room is waiting for your findings. The company president is there. You have nothing. You look like a buffoon. On his cellphone, a colleague makes a video of you and posts it on YouTube.

The idea is that bad things can happen from delay. Every time we procrastinate, we’re rolling the dice.

New Year’s — all those nagging resolutions. Any advice for how procrastinators can stay true to their promises?

Expect setbacks and have a contingency plan. Your resolution is to go to the gym more often. What do you do when you stop going? What’s the rip chord you pull to get yourself back to the gym?

Also break the resolution down into something concrete, not abstract. Instead of “I want to eat healthy,” you resolve: “I want to eat salads for meals five times a week.” The more real and concrete it is, the more likely you are to follow through.

Are you a procrastinator? What’s your weakness?

I was a procrastinator and it caused me a lot of frustrations. I feel like an infomercial saying this. For me, it was video games. I liked the real-time feedback and sense of accomplishment.

I was doing good work, but not consistently good. Then I found something I loved, the topic of procrastination. It was natural to apply different attempts and techniques to my own life. A lot of people call research “me search” — that was the case here.

How late were you with this book?

I was on time. Strictly speaking, they gave me a year to write it and I took two.

Sounds like procrastination.

Okay – you write your first book that fast. Not all delays are procrastination. Some are purposeful.

http://www.thestar.com/living/article/912670--how-to-do-something-about-procrastination

Monday, December 27, 2010

Hopi & Other Indian Prophecies


"The Hopi Indians, which means good, peaceful, or wise, come from a group of Southwestern people called Pueblo, but their language is different. They live in northeast Arizona at the southern end of the Black Mesa. A mesa is the name given to a small isolated flat-topped hill with three steep sides called the 1st Mesa, 2nd Mesa, and the 3rd Mesa. On the mesa tops are the Hopi villages called pueblos. The pueblo of Oraibi on the 3rd Mesa started in 1050, and is the oldest in North America that was lived in continuously. They live in pueblos that are made of stone and mud and stand several stories high.

The Kivas are an underground chamber in the pueblo home that they used to talk and have religious ceremonies in. They used the kivas for 100 years. The center of the floor had a fire pit. You had to climb down a ladder to get to the south end where a bench was placed for spectators. At the north end was a small hole in the floor as a reminder of sipapu." (Source)


"One of the most fascinating set of prophecies comes out of the Hopi nation located in the Southwestern United States. Many prophecies foretold by the Hopi appear to have come true. Some of these are:

"The Fourth World shall end soon, and the Fifth World will begin. This the elders everywhere know. The Signs over many years have been fulfilled, and so few are left.

"This is the First Sign: We are told of the coming of the white-skinned men, like Pahana, but not living like Pahana men who took the land that was not theirs. And men who struck their enemies with thunder. (PD: Guns)

"This is the Second Sign: Our lands will see the coming of spinning wheels filled with voices. In his youth, my father saw this prophecy come true with his eyes -- the white men bringing their families in wagons across the prairies."

"This is the Third Sign: A strange beast like a buffalo but with great long horns, will overrun the land in large numbers. These White Feather saw with his eyes -- the coming of the white men's cattle." (PD: Longhorn Cattle)

"This is the Fourth Sign: The land will be crossed by snakes of iron." (Railroad tracks)

"This is the Fifth Sign: The land shall be criss-crossed by a giant spider's web." ( Telephone/Telegraph lines)

"This is the Sixth sign: The land shall be criss-crossed with rivers of stone that make pictures in the sun." (Highways-Mirages)

"This is the Seventh Sign: You will hear of the sea turning black, and many living things dying because of it." (Gulf Oil Spill)

"This is the Eight Sign: You will see many youth, who wear their hair long like my people, come and join the tribal nations, to learn their ways and wisdom. (Hippies?)

"And this is the Ninth and Last Sign: You will hear of a dwelling-place in the heavens, above the earth, that shall fall with a great crash. It will appear as a blue star. Very soon after this, the ceremonies of my people will cease. (Skylab?)

"These are the Signs that great destruction is coming. The world shall rock to and fro. The white man will battle against other people in other lands -- with those who possessed the first light of wisdom. There will be many columns of smoke and fire such as White Feather has seen the white man make in the deserts not far from here. Only those which come will cause disease and a great dying.

Overall, the theme of Hopi prophecy is that the Earth is going to soon go through a great purification and that humanity can make the decision as to how extreme this purification will be. Their belief is that the world goes through a period of destruction and renewal and that we are about to enter into a new age, the 5th world (or 6th depending upon the source)." (Source)


Other Indian Prophecies:

"When Deganawidah was leaving the Indians in the Bay of Quinte in Ontario, he told the Indian people that they would face a time of great suffering. They would distrust their leaders and the principles of peace of the League, and a great white serpent was to come upon the Iroquois, and that for a time it would intermingle with the Indian serpent as a friend.

This serpent would in time become so powerful that it would attempt to destroy the Indian, and the serpent is described as choking the life's blood out of the Indian people. Deganawidah told the Indians that they would be in such a terrible state at this point that all hope would seem to be lost, and he told them that when things looked their darkest a red serpent would come from the north and approach the white serpent, which would be terrified, and upon seeing the red serpent he would release the Indian, who would fall to the ground almost like a helpless child, and the white serpent would turn all its attention to the red serpent. The bewilderment would cause the white serpent to accept the red one momentarily...

The white serpent would be stunned and take part of the red serpent and accept him. Then there is a heated argument and a fight. And then the Indian revives and crawls toward the land of the hilly country, and then he would assemble his people together, and they would renew their faith and the principles of peace that Deganawidah had established. (More)"


My Vision of the Indians:

I saw that the Indians had grown extremely angry with America's leadership and blamed them for poisoning their people with alcohol, gambling and other vices. I saw the Russians and Chinese meeting secretly with some of the Indian Tribes and provide them with the most modern and advanced weaponry. I saw the Indians waging war and destroying many white Americans. Once their work of death was completed and their vengeance exacted, I saw them have a mighty change of heart and accept a new Spiritual Leader and the purest form of Christianity.

Many were sorry for their murders and swore to never raise the sword again. These buried their weapons of war. I saw that they gathered to the center of the land to hear the words of someone they called the "Great Teacher", who taught them the truth about Jesus Christ.

I saw them build a great city that was beautiful beyond description, and there teach the true principals of science, agriculture, and the elements. They were extremely gifted in the knowledge of all things physical and helped transform this entire earth into a Garden of Eden.

I learned that the Indian Race were the true stewards of this earth and that if the earth were to be restored to its previous unblemished state, it would be through them.

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame

They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America's doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America's arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame.

A medical brigade of 1,200 Cubans is operating all over earthquake-torn and cholera-infected Haiti, as part of Fidel Castro's international medical mission which has won the socialist state many friends, but little international recognition.

Observers of the Haiti earthquake could be forgiven for thinking international aid agencies were alone in tackling the devastation that killed 250,000 people and left nearly 1.5 million homeless. In fact, Cuban healthcare workers have been in Haiti since 1998, so when the earthquake struck the 350-strong team jumped into action. And amid the fanfare and publicity surrounding the arrival of help from the US and the UK, hundreds more Cuban doctors, nurses and therapists arrived with barely a mention. Most countries were gone within two months, again leaving the Cubans and Médecins Sans Frontières as the principal healthcare providers for the impoverished Caribbean island.

Figures released last week show that Cuban medical personnel, working in 40 centres across Haiti, have treated more than 30,000 cholera patients since October. They are the largest foreign contingent, treating around 40 per cent of all cholera patients. Another batch of medics from the Cuban Henry Reeve Brigade, a disaster and emergency specialist team, arrived recently as it became clear that Haiti was struggling to cope with the epidemic that has already killed hundreds.

Since 1998, Cuba has trained 550 Haitian doctors for free at the Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina en Cuba (Elam), one of the country's most radical medical ventures. Another 400 are currently being trained at the school, which offers free education – including free books and a little spending money – to anyone sufficiently qualified who cannot afford to study medicine in their own country.

John Kirk is a professor of Latin American studies at Dalhousie University in Canada who researches Cuba's international medical teams. He said: "Cuba's contribution in Haiti is like the world's greatest secret. They are barely mentioned, even though they are doing much of the heavy lifting."

This tradition can be traced back to 1960, when Cuba sent a handful of doctors to Chile, hit by a powerful earthquake, followed by a team of 50 to Algeria in 1963. This was four years after the revolution, which saw nearly half the country's 7,000 doctors voting with their feet and leaving for the US.

The travelling doctors have served as an extremely useful arm of the government's foreign and economic policy, winning them friends and favours across the globe. The best-known programme is Operation Miracle, which began with ophthalmologists treating cataract sufferers in impoverished Venezuelan villages in exchange for oil. This initiative has restored the eyesight of 1.8 million people in 35 countries, including that of Mario Teran, the Bolivian sergeant who killed Che Guevara in 1967.

The Henry Reeve Brigade, rebuffed by the Americans after Hurricane Katrina, was the first team to arrive in Pakistan after the 2005 earthquake, and the last to leave six months later.

Cuba's constitution lays out an obligation to help the worst-off countries when possible, but international solidarity isn't the only reason, according to Professor Kirk. "It allows Cuban doctors, who are frightfully underpaid, to earn extra money abroad and learn about diseases and conditions they have only read about. It is also an obsession of Fidel's and it wins him votes in the UN."

A third of Cuba's 75,000 doctors, along with 10,000 other health workers, are currently working in 77 poor countries, including El Salvador, Mali and East Timor. This still leaves one doctor for every 220 people at home, one of the highest ratios in the world, compared with one for every 370 in England.

Wherever they are invited, Cubans implement their prevention-focused holistic model, visiting families at home, proactively monitoring maternal and child health. This has produced "stunning results" in parts of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, lowering infant and maternal mortality rates, reducing infectious diseases and leaving behind better trained local health workers, according to Professor Kirk's research.

Medical training in Cuba lasts six years – a year longer than in the UK – after which every graduate works as a family doctor for three years minimum. Working alongside a nurse, the family doctor looks after 150 to 200 families in the community in which they live.

This model has helped Cuba to achieve some of the world's most enviable health improvements, despite spending only $400 (£260) per person last year compared with $3,000 (£1,950) in the UK and $7,500 (£4,900) in the US, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development figures.

Infant mortality rates, one of the most reliable measures of a nation's healthcare, are 4.8 per 1,000 live births – comparable with Britain and lower than the US. Only 5 per cent of babies are born with a low birth weight, a crucial factor in long-term health, and maternal mortality is the lowest in Latin America, World Health Organisation figures show. Cuba's polyclinics, open 24 hours a day for emergencies and specialist care, are a step up from the family doctors. Each provides for 15,000 to 35,000 patients via a group of full-time consultants as well as visiting doctors, ensuring that most medical care is provided in the community.

Imti Choonara, a paediatrician from Derby, leads a delegation of international health professionals at annual workshops in Cuba's third city, Camaguey. "Healthcare in Cuba is phenomenal, and the key is the family doctor, who is much more proactive, and whose focus is on prevention ... The irony is that Cubans came to the UK after the revolution to see how the NHS worked. They took back what they saw, refined it and developed it further; meanwhile we are moving towards the US model," Professor Choonara said.

Politics, inevitably, penetrates many aspects of Cuban healthcare. Every year hospitals produce a list of drugs and equipment they have been unable to access because of the American embargo which prevents many US companies from trading with Cuba, and persuades other countries to follow suit. The 2009/10 report includes drugs for childhood cancers, HIV and arthritis, some anaesthetics, as well as chemicals needed to diagnose infections and store organs. Pharmacies in Cuba are characterised by long queues and sparsely stacked shelves, though in part this is because they stock only generic brands.

Antonio Fernandez, from the Ministry of Public Health, said: "We make 80 per cent of the drugs we use. The rest we import from China, former Soviet countries, Europe – anyone who will sell to us – but this makes it very expensive because of the distances."

On the whole, Cubans are immensely proud and supportive of their contribution in Haiti and other poor countries, delighted to be punching above their weight on the international scene. However, some people complain of longer waits to see their doctor because so many are working abroad. And, like all commodities in Cuba, medicines are available on the black market for those willing to risk large fines if caught buying or selling.

International travel is beyond the reach of most Cubans, but qualified nurses and doctors are among those forbidden from leaving the country for five years after graduation, unless as part of an official medical team.

Like everyone else, health professionals earn paltry salaries of around $20 (£13) a month. So, contrary to official accounts, bribery exists in the hospital system, which means some doctors, and even hospitals, are off-limits unless patients can offer a little something, maybe lunch or a few pesos, for preferential treatment.

Cuba's international ventures in healthcare are becoming increasingly strategic. Last month, officials held talks with Brazil about developing Haiti's public health system, which Brazil and Venezuela have both agreed to help finance.

Medical training is another example. There are currently 8,281 students from more than 30 countries enrolled at Elam, which last month celebrated its 11th anniversary. The government hopes to inculcate a sense of social responsibly into the students in the hope that they will work within their own poor communities for at least five years.

Damien Joel Suarez, 27, a second year from New Jersey, is one of 171 American students; 47 have already graduated. He dismisses allegations that Elam is part of the Cuban propaganda machine. "Of course, Che is a hero here but he isn't forced down your neck."

Another 49,000 students are enrolled in the El Nuevo Programa de Formacion de Medicos Latinoamericanos, the brainchild of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, who pledged in 2005 to train 100,000 doctors for the continent. The course is much more hands-on, and critics question the quality of the training.

Professor Kirk disagrees: "The hi-tech approach to health needed in London and Toronto is irrelevant for millions of people in the Third World who are living in poverty. It is easy to stand on the sidelines and criticise the quality, but if you were living somewhere with no doctors, then you'd be happy to get anyone."

There are nine million Haitians who would probably agree.

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