CLINTON Blood Scandal Exposed In New Documentary.....

[jus_the_facts]

WASHINGTON – A documentary seven years in the making tying Bill Clinton to an Arkansas prison blood scandal that spread AIDS to thousands around the world is set to screen in Hollywood next week – renewing controversy about the long-forgotten story.

The film, which premieres at the prestigious American Film Institute film festival next Tuesday, reportedly uncovers fresh evidence about how thousands in Europe contracted AIDS and hepatitis through tainted blood deliberately shipped even after widespread problems were discovered in Canada where some 10,000 had already been infected.

Duda, who has worked with CNN, the Canadian Broadcasting Company and Associated Press Television in their coverage of the blood-scandal story, says he was followed, sued, burglarized and had his tires slashed while working on the documentary. He was also part of the team for Fuji-TV that produced "The Hepatitis C Epidemic: A 15-Year Government Cover-up." The program won a George Foster Peabody Award in 2003 and was watched by more than 12 million viewers in Japan.

"Kelly Duda's film screams to be known about," says William Gazecki, producer-director of "WACO: The Rules of Engagement." "The blatant abuse of power, the criminal subjugation of prison inmates, and the complete absence of government oversight and accountability make for a compelling, must-see story."


....MORE.... :eyes:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47128

[JaneQPublic]

1. Consider the source: worldnetdaily (nt)

[RedEarth]

Exactly my thoughts ... maybe Newsmax and Drudge will also pick it up..

...all tabloid trash.

[papau]

22. Real source is "conservativeusa.org" - some detail below

Factor 8(a clotting agent): The Arkansas Prison (AK's Cummins Penitentiary and jails in Louisiana refused in 83 to recall blood shipped to drug companies who exported it despite sale of such being stopped in the US) Blood Scandal , made by the US film-maker Kelly Duda

"In the early '80s, there was no testing for hepatitis C or AIDS. Those kind of testing methods came into being much later, so there was no way that the president could have known that the blood was tainted." The FDA says that it was perfectly legal to operate prison plasma centers and that for years no tests existed to screen for AIDS or hepatitis C, then known as non-A non-B hepatitis and a common indicator of HIV. But in 1982, the FDA ruled that prison plasma was too risky for domestic production of hemophilia products. Nevertheless, the plasma was still allowed to be exported to a Montreal broker, who in turn shipped the plasma throughout Canada and overseas. Pharmaceutical giant Cutter Laboratories (which had bought plasma from the Arkansas prisons for 20 years until 1982) illustrates the attitude of those involved in the blood trade at the time. "Take no extraordinary actions. There are no data to support the emotional arguments that prison plasma collected from adequately screened prisoners is 'bad.' To exclude such plasma from manufacturer of our coagulation product would only be a sop or gratuity to the Gay Rights and would presage further pressure to exclude plasma collected from the Mexican border and the paid donor."

Germany has also dealt with a blood scandal in recent years. In 1993, Health Minister Horst Seehofer recommended that anybody who had received blood products since 1982 undergo an HIV test.

Class action suits have been filed in the US against five drug companies, Alpha Thera peutic, Armour, Aventis, Baxter and Bayer

http://www.sundayherald.com/52592

Scandal of infected US blood (the plasma programme haemophiliacs)revealed in film exposé

By Liam McDougall, Home Affairs Editor

<snip>The documentary also reveals for the first time how senior figures in the prison system doctored prisoners’ medical records to make it look like they were not carrying the deadly diseases. Even after it was known there was a problem, the film reveals, blood products were allowed to be supplied to Europe, including to the UK, where thousands of patients were infected with HIV and the potentially fatal liver virus, hepatitis.

<snip>Many haemophiliacs believe that the UK government colluded with US authorities and giant pharma ceutical companies in the medical disaster. Investigations by the Sunday Herald have already revealed that the UK’s Department of Health knew in 1981 that haemophiliacs were at risk of hepatitis infection from imported blood products, but continued to use them.

<snip>
Gunn added: “It’s a murderous cover-up. They have effectively murdered thousands of haemophiliacs and got away with it.
<snip>

Duda said: “I’ve seen documents that officials in the UK were aware of the dangers. I think it’s unconscionable for there not to be a full public and criminal investigation into this.

The Department of Health has denied that there is need for an inquiry because it does not accept that “wrongful practices” were used.

30 October 2005

http://www.conservativeusa.org/blood.htm

[underpants]

2. "Long forgotten"? I wonder why?

I am just posting so I can find this later.

Whew boy David Brock said that Arkansas politics primarily consists of thinking up the most insane s**t you can imagine and telling everyone over and over and over.

WOW

[jus_the_facts]

7. Convenient to leave out Reagan's history in this matter.....

....WOW indeed. :wow:

[blm]

3. It's Poppy Bush who is neckdeep in the prison business. If Clinton

has any culpability, it's likely due to his irrational trust of Poppy Bush who used Arkansas and Clinton, wittingly or unwittingly, for his own coverups and covert actions.

IMO, Clinton has a huge NAIVETE when it comes to Poppy Bush.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. So is he going to do a film on George's scandals?

Eh? Any word on that film? :eyes:

[mntleo2]

5. Long Forgotten? More Like 'Just Fabricated', LOL n/t

[insane_cratic_gal]

6. Really? So Why isn't he going after BFEE

Plenty of corruption, conspiracy, and covers ups.

[NNN0LHI]

8. Have you checked to see what Newsmax has to say about this? n/t

[underpants]

14. HOW MANY CANADIANS DID CLINTON KILL? (full google search)

HOW MANY CANADIANS DID CLINTON KILL?
http://www.conservativeusa.org/blood.htm

OCTOBER 2005
CLINTON BLOOD SCANDAL ERUPTS IN SCOTLAND
http://prorev.com/blood.htm

Prison Blood Scandal
http://redstatepatriot.com/2005/10/prison_blood_scandal.php


This appears to be its own little cottage industry

[TahitiNut]

9. These 'stories' disappear every time they ...

... paint the toilet stalls in Arkansas restrooms, only to reappear when some delusional reichbot sits and relieves the pressure on his brain.

[dbeach]

10. hep C is fatal

VN Vets received hep vaccines before serving in VN.

Now VVA has said Hep C may have hit 15% of VN Vets

and VA is stating many have the problem and asking for EVERY VN Vet to be tested. NOT to be confused with
Agent Orange problems .

Govt which is composed of self serving syndicates
has covered up Anthrax vaccine and DU ,Depleted Uranium, exposure since 1990...

Govt has been corporaticized as Mussolinni defined it..

Dumsfeld has stock in some vaccine manufacturer and the BEAT goes on!

[JackBeck]

20. There is no vaccine for Hep C, FYI

I just wanted to clarify your post a bit (I'm a HIV/AIDS and Hep C treatment educator)

There are vaccines for A & B, but not C.

Also, Hep C can be fatal, but in most cases, you will die from something other than the side effects of the Hep C virus.

[dbeach]

27. thanx

the VN Vets received some type of hep shots before serving in VN
and rumors say it mutated in VN and now the virus is showing up 30 yrs later..in house mail me if ya have more info

VN Vets are getting it in very high numbers

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. They're really stretching in order to get the Clenis back in the news.

[madinmaryland]

12. I guess the Arkansas Project still lives on.

When are these asshats going to give up on trying to smear Clinton and move on.

:mad:

[July]

13. Why is this here?

Worldnut is not exactly a reliable source.

[jus_the_facts]

15. I know this already....s'why I posted this....

...MORE... :eyes:

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Most 'real' news sources disprove this about Canada...

"The class-action lawsuit claims that a Toronto pharmaceutical company, a Montreal blood broker and Health Canada were all negligent in allowing the importation of prison blood when its use was discontinued in the United States.

The lawsuit targets Connaught Laboratories Ltd., a venerable pharmaceutical company that manufactured blood products until 1987, Continental Pharma Cryosan Ltd., a blood broker that bought plasma from U.S. sources, including prisons, and the Bureau of Biologics of Health Canada, which was responsible for monitoring the safety of the blood supply.

Connaught sold blood products to the Canadian Red Cross Society, which in turn provided them to hemophiliacs. While most of the plasma used in the manufacture of the products came from volunteers, Connaught made up for shortfalls with regular purchases from Continental Pharma.

From 1981 to 1984 -- a time when the contamination of the blood supply with the AIDS virus and hepatitis C was at its peak -- some of that plasma was collected at prisons in Arkansas and Louisiana. This was despite the fact that the United States had stopped using prison blood in 1982 because inmates are far more likely to engage in high-risk sex and drug use.

In his final report, Judge Krever quoted the testimony of senior Connaught officials who said the system they set up to inspect and improve the places they bought blood from had failed.

His report also stressed that the distribution of contaminated products was largely avoidable, and that the only reason Connaught had to buy plasma on the open market was because the domestic supply was poorly managed.

When it was purchasing prison blood, Connaught was a wholly owned unit of CDC Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Canada Development Corp., which was in turn 47-per-cent owned by the federal government. Because the Ontario government was a big booster of Connaught, it insisted that its products be distributed in the province."

http://www.hepnet.com/hepc/news063099.html

"By 1982, your FDA decided that this prison plasma wasn't suitable for American domestic production of hemophilia product. Unbelievably, the FDA allowed this high-risk plasma to be exported to Canada to be put in the veins of innocent Canadians."

Who was president in 1982?

It looks like the RW news sources dropped the fact that the plasma came from other states as well and concentrated on Arkansas because Clinton had been governor there. Looks like the it was the FDA that screwed up to me.

[underpants]

19. So-- blood.... Arkansas .......Clinton

and we have ourselves a internet news story!!!!

WOW again.

[radwriter0555]

17. And you know, CLINTON did all of it. It was HIS idea. Yep.

*cough*

[underpants]

21. All knowing and all powerful

Sorta like Saddam and Zarqawi's missing leg

[radwriter0555]

25. And bin laden, the mastermind who perpetrated an entire TERRORIST ACT from

a cave then DISAPPEARED.

Yep.

Being republican removes all continuity of space and time and logic, thank goodness.

[William769]

18. The bigger story would be

Investigate what Reagan had to do with this epidemic to start with!

Uh oh, am I going to burn in hell now for using Reagan's name with this?

[The Flaming Red Head]

23. Next they'll blame the tsunami, Katrina, and bird flu on him, too.

Anything to distract from the Bushes, the Cheneys and the mess in Iraq.

[leetrisck]

24. Geez - this is very old "gossip" - when things are going

really bad for the "r's", they start digging up all the old Clinton "scandals" - which I might add were not scandals at all, they were the creation of the right wing.

[Norquist Nemesis]

26. I'm betting Melanie Morgan has a starring role in this

Is she narrating or producing?

[jus_the_facts]

28. .