The study followed over 100,000 children which had been randomized in a large clinical trial to receive 1 or 4 doses of the hemophilus vaccine and over 100,000 unvaccinated children.

After 7 years the group receiving 4 doses of the vaccine had an statistically significant 26% elevated rate of diabetes, or an extra 54 cases/100,000 children, compared to children who did not receive the vaccine. By contrast immunization against hemophilus is expected to prevent only 7 deaths and 7 to 26 cases of permanent disability per 100,000 children immunized. The study showed that almost all of the extra cases of diabetes caused by the vaccine occurred between 3-4 years after vaccination. Furthermore the paper provides new data proving the vaccine causes diabetes in mice and reviews data from 3 smaller human studies, which all had similar results to the current study, but were too small to reach statistical significance.

"Our results conclusively prove there is a causal relationship between immunization schedules and diabetes. We believe immunization schedules can be made safer" stated Dr. Bart Classen.

The Classens' research is already becoming widely accepted. An independent group of researchers working at a prestigious Swedish medical center recently published a paper (Ann. N.Y. Acad Sci. 958: 293-296, 2002) supporting their findings. Last year doctors attending an conference of the American College for Advancement in Medicine overwhelmingly agreed that vaccines can cause chronic diseases such as diabetes. For the latest information on the effects of vaccines on insulin dependent diabetes and other autoimmune diseases visit the Vaccine Safety Web site



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According to two sources who have dealt directly with Casseday, the accused sex criminal has played a central role in stonewalling internal investigations into the racist and sexually predatory behavior of Times managing editor Fran Coombs, and did so on orders from Joo and Pruden.

"Whatever Joo, Pruden and Coombs wanted, Casseday did," a senior staffer in the Times newsroom told me today. "Casseday literally was their hatchet man, the hit man for Pruden, Coombs and Joo. Now the whole story is exploding that they had a ticking time bomb all these years and they did nothing. There was no background check or anything."

And while it acknowledges the continued involvement of individual IRA members in crime, the Commission highlighted the resolute line of the IRA leadership in discouraging criminal activity.

However, the report stops short of making a definitive judgment on whether IRA members were responsible for the murder of Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson in the Irish Republic in April.


The IMC's findings are seen as crucial in the run-up to next week's talks to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland.

Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern hope the report will provide the right mood music for the negotiations in St Andrew's in Scotland and will help build unionist confidence in Sinn Fein's credentials as a future partner in a devolved government.

The Commission, whose report will also focus on the activities of loyalist paramilitaries and dissident republicans, is expected to show that the IRA has stopped recruiting members, directing those who want to join towards Sinn Fein.

It will also show that intelligence-gathering on security force members has stopped, training and the procurement of weapons has ended, and the organisation has resisted approaches from the community for it to punish anti-social elements.

The four-member panel will acknowledge the efforts of those in the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defence Association to steer their loyalist organisations away from crime.

However, while it will encourage those efforts, the report will insist that loyalists have a considerable distance to travel before they emulate what the Provisional IRA has achieved in transforming its organisation.

The report will also claim that despite its efforts to wind down criminal and paramilitary activity, the UVF leadership sanctioned the murder attempt on leading loyalist Mark Haddock in a gun attack in May.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain today that claimed people would see when the report was finally published at lunchtime today that the Provisional IRA had undergone an historic, seismic, irreversible change and was no longer a terrorist threat.

"What I do think now is an imperative for all the (Northern Ireland) parties is for them to recognise that the paramilitary situation, in particular the situation of the IRA, has changed absolutely fundamentally and radically," he said.

"The IMC is the judge of that - not me, not anybody else.

"You cannot second-guess the IMC. You have to take what it says on face value as it relies on a process based on absolute integrity."

Mr Hain said it was a matter for Northern Ireland's parties to reach their own judgments on the IMC report.

However, he warned them of the implications if they disputed the report's findings.

"On other parties and individuals making their judgment on the IMC, I think people are going to have to say that they really do not trust the IMC and they do not accept the integrity of their members and do not agree with the independence of its members if they dispute its conclusion," the minister told BBC Radio Ulster.

"I think that is a very serious development indeed."

Speaking later on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Mr Hain said he believed the IRA was now "absolutely locked in" to a move away from violence to democracy.

"People will judge for themselves from the IMC report, but I believe that trend is absolutely locked in and I think the DUP and Dr Paisley will want to recognise that that is the case."

He added: "People need to make their minds up.

"Has Northern Ireland changed fundamentally? The answer's yes. Is there now a security threat from the IRA? The answer's no.

"Is Northern Ireland now on the path to increasing prosperity and security? Yes.

"However, the politics is still paralysed.

"People will want to know in Northern Ireland, because there's a growing impatience with the politicians, whether they are up to discharging their responsibilities and doing their jobs or not.

"I do not believe anybody thinks that the IRA can come back as a war machine. That is over for them, they have chosen a different, democratic, path.

"The change in the IRA has been fundamental but we need to be certain that this is locked in and the parties will make their own judgment when the IMC report is published around midday of what it says."

Comment: Denis Donaldson was an MI5 informer of some 20 years while he was a member of Sinn Fein (the political arm of the IRA). In December 2005 he was exposed and expelled from the party and in the immediate aftermath took refuge in a run-down farmhouse in a rural area in the Northwest of Ireland. From January 2006, Irish police had informed Donaldson that his life may be in danger. On March 19th 2006, Donaldson's whereabouts where publicly exposed by a local newspaper reporter who travelled with a former MI5 agent to Donaldson's cottage to interview and secretly videotape him. At the time, Donaldson claimed that he was writing a book on his experiences as an informer for British intelligence. Sometime on the morning of April 4th 2006, Donaldson was murdered by way of a shotgun blast to the chest.

Using the time-honored method of "who benefits" the very obvious conclusion is that Donaldson was murdered by his MI5 handlers (or a paid hitman) who feared that he would use his long experience in their pay to expose one of the modus-operandi of such state intelligence groups i.e. demonisation of alleged "terrorist" groups by way of false flag terrorist attacks. One such example being the Omagh bombing of 1998.

Donaldson was exposed two weeks before his murder by the former MI5 agent and the reporter in order to provide cover for the MI5 hit by way of the claim (which was later made) that, since his whereabouts was publicly known, anyone with a grudge against Donaldson could have carried out the killing.

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