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ACTION ALERT

Please click here to send a message to von Eschenbach, Acting FDA Commissioner to NOT 'approve' silicone gel implants while Mentor's criminal investigation continues.

Click here for Petition reminding the FDA and other Government Officials that Mentor's data is NOT complete.

New electronic newsletter regarding upcoming meetings on Dow Bankruptcy 2.24.2006

Also important info from 1.6.2006

EBAY Auction - novel & brilliant way to learn about the true dangers of breast implants DON'T MISS!

MUST READ "Decisions in the Dark" ... Click here to open pdf file.

To read what Dr. Whalen told the FDA Panel just 2 short years ago, and his 180 degree spinaround, click here.

Click here for EBAY auctions of Beth's ... Brilliant way to get the information to the public on the dangers of breast implants.

Dr. Zuckerman's site on the science of breast implants

National Cancer Institute Spells Out Risks of Breast Implants Data Show Increased Risks Of Death From Cancers and Suicide

Read about Kim Hoffman's upcoming book on her Mentor breast implant experiences ... And more!

Meet Curry and read about her life after silicone gel breast implants.

Dr. Vasey's "Where There is Smoke There is Fire." Rheumatologist who has researched extensively the immune system and breast implants.

McDonough, formerly of The Waltons, now speaks out on her Lupus and Breast Implant Connection.

Founder of the Saline Support Group, Patty Faussett shares her story of healing.

Meet Lea and read about her life after silicone gel breast implants

Read Redbook article on the effects on children after implants from 1995. (opens pdf file)

Meet ey and her daughter , both affected from 's breast implants. is helping others with her "Small Hands, Big Hearts" hair drive. says people who wish to donate their hair have until February 14, 2006!

Shari Halverson interviewed on MTV about her saline implant problems

FDA Rupture Study #1

Our Jewell's story on a Scleroderma Forum

Canadian Study from 2003 on breast implants

Toxic Discovery Network -good links and information

Breast Augmentation: A Younger Generation Seeks Perfection

Colleen's Story ... She is also appearing on MTV

Meet Kacey Long and read her story after saline breast implants

Sally Kirkland ~ Nominated Actress, talks about her 5 sets of breast implants

Memoirs of a Junk Scientist by Dr. Bernard Patten

Breast Implants: America's Silent Epidemic by Ilena Rosenthal

Keeping Abreast of Parasitic Implants

LATEST UPDATE on Dow Bankruptcy from the Tort Claimaints Committee

LATEST UPDATE on Dow Bankruptcy from the Settlement facility

Command Trust Network

Human Adjuvant Disease Corporation

Great photos from the FDA Hearings by Kathy Nye ... Meet many of the wonderful people who gave testimony and support at the Hearings in April, 2005

Sherrill Sellman, author of Hormone Heresy, Interviews Ilena on breast implants

Fibromyalgia and Ruptured Silicone Gel Breast Implants

Silicone Cover Up and Political Manipulations by Ilena in 1996

Note from Ilena:

If you find any typos, busted links etc. And want to let me know ... I very much appreciate it! Our staff is only me, right now with all my heart and soul, wanting to keep our message in front of the public. It was 10 years last August, and I've seen so many support groups and activists in this issue die ... Or get too ill to fight Goliath anymore ... And these powerful women fade underground to protect their health and family life.

Corporate America and the Plastic Surgeon's Lobbies are no match for sick and dying women. The Their combined PR campaigns are legendary, orchestrated by the PR giant, Burson Marsteller.

One longtime support group leader, with no shortage of her own serious implant related health challenges put it this way to me:

"You on the other hand, just battling a world of multi-billion dollar corps, a world of murderously insane lunatics, and prepping for Court."

The Court she is referring to is the Supreme Court of California. Click here for the Quackbusters vs me.

The newsgroup I created in the Fall of 1995 is one medium that the Junk Science Campaign can not totally control as they have all others.

The Wild West of the Internet ... A visit there now will reveal a Corporate Lobbyist ( M. Langer) totally embedded with and leading a small, vocal group of those who call themselves "legitimate"support group leaders who have tried to push me out of their mutual way since Autumn, 2001.

They have worked hand in hand with my Plaintiffs above and Inamed's former President.. To create a Smear Campaign against me ... So vicious ... It appears they have no boundaries. Since I began the newsgroup, their twisted version of my personal life has been broadcast wide & far. That it bears no relationship to reality doesn't faze nor slow them now in their defamation against me.

Together in what they named the "SBIPrivateClub" ... this group and and former Inamed President O'leary (currently head of Eurosilicone in France) have hired a Private Investigator to hunt me down ... stalked friends of mine in their search, and attempted to access my bank accounts.

They are, in my opinion, the embodiment of the PR Plan describing the cover up of damning Dow Corning information ... and the creation of "networks."

These are typical tactics used for years by the "quackbusters" in their attempts to destroy chiropractors, holistic and alternative healers, naturopaths, fluoride activists, critics, radio show hosts, homeopaths and doctors working to uncover the mystery of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities -- to name but a few.

Check back for links and more details soon ... as this is being updated as their Campaign is spreading. Click here.

This is a very pivotal time in the Breast Implant Awareness cause ... and for women's rights to truly safe products.

Both US breast implant makers, Inamed and Mentor, have received "approvable" letters from the FDA for their silicone gel implants. We've been hearing from scores and scores of women already ill & injured from previous versions of new & improved breast implants.

If the FDA does approve them, they will be ignoring their own scientists and yielding once again to industry propaganda and pressure. The so-called 'conditions' that are required are expensive and totally unenforceable, such as MRI's to detect rupture costing up to $2,000.

Help us convince the FDA and Congress that they are making a fatal error in rushing through this approval.

Please click here to ask the FDA not to Approve Silicone Breast Implants While Mentor is Under a Criminal Investigation

It's still not too late.

With the sudden resignation {for Pharmaceutical Industry connections} of FDA chair Lester Crawford, we still have a chance for sanity to prevail. One of his last acts pre-resignation, was to declare silicone gel implants, with hundreds of thousands of FDA Med Watch Reports of complications, injuries, illnesses and death, 'approvable.'

Our greatest wish is that as we begin this new year, that our prayers are heard and sanity prevails ... on God's Green Earth & in the Breast Implant Awareness Cause ... more here

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it,

but for the sake of defending those that do." Blake

February 26, 2006:

Midland News article on ongoing Dow Bankruptcy Saga

NOTES FROM ILENA: After over 10 years in bankruptcy protection, Dow has paid less than a quarter of the claims, and these average under $10,000 each. In most cases, this does not even cover the cost of explantation ... borne for the most part out of the pockets of the women.

EXCERPTS:

Claims administrator Austern said the facility has paid around 57,000 claims, amounting to $565.5 million. This month, the facility began reprogramming its computer system, a job expected to be finished by April 15. The computer work, and testing it to make certain it does what it's supposed to do, won't stop claims payments "but it will absolutely slow them down," Austern said. more here ....

More news stories here ...

February 13, 2006:

MyDNA: Implants: Safe?

Please read Beth 's new website sharing her ordeal with implants.

Click here for our Daily Page with a history of recent news stories ... if you have more to add, please send email here.

Is breastfeeding with breast implants a real concern?

Breast Surgery Likely to Cause Breastfeeding Problems

New Studies Reveal High Platinum Levels in Children and Mothers with breast implants.

A New York Daily News article included a misquote from a"wee hours" interview given by Sally Kirkland.

In it she expressed her very deep and real concerns for women with breast implants who breastfeed their babies.

The real issue here ... are breast implants "safe" for women and their offspring?

For information on extremely high platinum levels being found in implanted women and their offspring, please click here.

Sally Kirkland and The Humantics Foundation firmly believe that it would be a travesty if the FDA declares Mentor {or Inamed} silicone gel implants "safe."

The Mentor "studies" done to date have removed the data from women who took their explants out. One "study" of theirs had only 5% follow-up.

Visit Sally's Website

National Enquirer on Sally's Explant

Sally Kirkland and McDonough In the Know.org

Sally interviewed in Soap Digest

Sally & Kathy Nye at Rally in front of Judge Pointer's Court in April, 1999 at SOBB Rally

Candid Interview on Sally in Moxie Magazine

Here is a photo of one of our beloved support group member's explanted "new & improved" silicone gel implants of the time. To read her story, click the photo.

Long time Dutch advocate, Marlou Boots

with a small part of her collection of "explants."

We are in the process of creating from Marlou's work of so many years, much information she compiled written in Dutch (Nederlands). Several wonderful people are working together to make this happen. Check back soon for these archives.

Breast Augmentation: A Younger Generation Seeks Perfection A Student interview with many perceptive insights.

Here is a photo of one of our beloved support group member's explanted "new & improved" silicone gel implants of the time. To read her story, click the photo.

Platinum concentrations high for women & their children with breast implants

New! For information on platinum testing, click here.

Teens Getting Breast Implants for Graduation ... our Foundation mentioned and our members interviewed for this Womensenews.org article.

Ilena Rosenthal, Director

We are dedicated to raising awareness to the true and serious risks of breast implants and other silicone products.

What began as a small research project for a friend with tumors and cysts around her 20 year old saline implants in August, 1995, has become an amazing adventure for me beyond anything I could have imagined.

Speaking out on the true dangers of a product so desirable and yet so potentially harmful, sharing the too real stories of women who made the fateful decision to have breast implants, almost immediately made me the target of an unrelenting and incredibly vicious 10 year Defamation Campaign which continues to date.

My belief is that it is quite related to these multi-billion dollar:

Inamed and Mentor wanting safety "approval" from the FDA for their very 'unsafe' silicone gel breast implants.

Dow Corning wanting to come out of their 10 year bankruptcy with a clean and benevolent "image."

The Junk Science Campaign ... an gargantuan network of industry funded and backed:

'think tanks,'

front groups

'Astroturf' Grassroots groups Corporate Lobbyists Vast All Medium Networks

(Dow's PR plan from 1991 included being a part of what evolved to the Junk Science / Quackwatch Propaganda Campaign / Webring) more on this soon

The manufacturers and Plastic Surgeon's PR campaigns are legendary ... funding groups like the ACSH and CEI etc. ... who use every medium to push their viewpoint ... including suing activists like myself. For details of their high profile, internet libel suit against me and several others ,visit here.

For wonderful articles explaining the Public Relations Wars against activists such as myself, click here.

For great links to studies and related websites, click here.

Dr. Melmed holding up a disintegrated breast implant at the FDA Silicone Gel Hearings in October, 2004.

Sherrill Sellman, author of Hormone Heresy, Interviews Ilena on breast implants.

In November, 1995, I created the only Usenet Newsgroup, alt.support.breast-implant, to provide a place for support and a way for women and their families to connect. I obviously got in the way of the Silicone and Plastic Surgery Industries and their Public Relations Machine well greased by silicone dollars. Nothing was too personal nor too untrue for Mine Enemies to post or email about me. Details of this are here.

In early 2001, just days after my new marriage, I was made aware that I was named in a high profile Cyber-Libel Suit by the ultra sue happy, so-called "Quackbusters." They accused me of being in conspiracy with people I had never even met, and libeling someone I didn't know existed.

In August, 2001, with thanks to the First Amendment which guarantees Freedom of Speech, and my wonderful attorney Mark Goldowitz, of the California Anti-Slapp Project, we were successful in our defense against them. The case was a classic SLAPP suit ... designed to bankrupt and silence critics and advocates and activists such as myself. The court documents, Judge Richmond's 27 page Opinion, and the press we've received are detailed here.

On Appeal, both plaintiffs, Barrett, head of the so-called "Quackwatch" and the" Healthfraud" groups, and attorney Grell, completely lost to me. Regarding plaintiff Terry Polevoy, there was one comment I re-posted about him, that the Appeals Court deemed "potentially libelous." Because re-posting material on the internet affects millions of users, upon our request, The Supreme Court of California is hearing our case. Details are here.

An enormous benefit of these high profile, enormously expensive and painful lawsuits, has been to expand the audience to my message ~ breast implants can and do cause serious injuries and illnesses to untold thousands of women. To visit related websites, medical, legal, and several created by survivors of their breast implant related problems, click here.

We respectfully dedicate this website to the untold thousands of women harmed by not only their breast implants, but further by the silicone manufacturers and their insidious Public Relations campaigns ... with includes embedding their lobbyists and PR staff amongst the support system.

We dedicate it also, to The First Amendment and Freedom of Speech for all.

Ilena Rosenthal

Director, Humantics Foundation

Breast Implant Awareness.org

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VIDEO CLIPS

Shari Halverson interviewed on Florida News about her saline implant problems

Dr. E. Melmed debates Dr. Rey during Hearings

CBS News ... "It makes me very uneasy. I don't feel secure about the safety."FDA adviser Dr. Amy Newburger

Implants: Safe?

Mon 13 Feb 2006 WASHINGTON DC (myDNA News)

(full article here)

Ilena Rosenthal, director of the San Diego-based Humantics Foundation for Women, the largest breast implant support group in the world, agreed.

"The so-called 'studies' that the silicone manufacturers and plastic surgeons rely on are too small, too short and include eliminating the data from the women who removed their implants for any reason. This is madness, such as removing anyone from a lung cancer study who coughed or showed any other symptoms," she said.

WEBMD: FDA Reviews Ban on Silicone Breast Implants

Excerpt:

Ilena Rosenthal, director of the Humantics Foundation, a group opposed to breast implants, says that "thousands" of women in her organization have serious health problems that they attribute to their breast implants and to silicone. The group is urging the FDA to keep silicone implants off the market for most women.

"These are not recallable items, at least without more surgery to get them out. It's not like taking Vioxx or Bextra off the shelves," Rosenthal says in an interview, referring to the two painkillers recently pulled from the market due to an elevated risk of heart attacks and strokes.

Humantics Foundation quoted in L.A. Times regarding Military and free Plastic Surgery articles.

You may have to register for site (or write me here and I'll send you the article).

We applaud your efforts," wrote the director of theHumantics Foundation, saying she has spent nine years warning womenabout the dangers of implants.

Chat Rooms

Implant Info Net Website & Chatroom

Silicone Holocaust Chatroom

Saline Support Group

SiliconeKids

Lany's Prayer & Information Group

Our silicone support group is filled with thousands of women ... now ill and scarred ... who got the earlier "new & improved" implants.

Women in Entertainment Rally Against FDA's Lifting of Restrictions on Sale of Silicone Gel Breast Implants

If you have not yet updated or ever sent in a Med-Watch form telling the FDA of your breast implant related illnesses or complications, please click here and let your voice be known.

By early 2001, 234,187 had filed serious adverse reactions with the FDA.

To give input to the FDA directly, here are their addresses.

Long time Dutch advocate, Marlou Boots

with a small part of her collection of "explants."

9/1 Safety measures on breast implants introduced in Britain

9/2 Propaganda to the max ... Junk Journalism Mike Fumento on Inamed's quest

To read Breast Implants: America's Silent Epidemic, from Total Health Magazine, click here.

To read an important exposé of the very real dangers of saline implants, read the November Glamour's excellent article, Breast Implant Horror Story, The Shocking Health Claims of Saline Implants.

2/4/2003 Happy Birthday, Parks! by Ilena on Womensenews.com

If you would like more information about The Humantics Foundation or would like to financially support the continuance of our work, please visit here. Without it, our message will be silenced.

In the midst of creating this website, the unthinkable and unbearable happened.

The World changed forever.

Rabbi Lerner eloquently wrote on this matter in a A World Out of Touch With Itself.

These beautiful websites are amongst my all time favorites:

Interview with God

&

In the beginning ...

With love from Ilena

Humantics FoundationBreast Implants: Recovery & Discovery

Ilena Rosenthal, Director 1380 Garnet E-444San Diego, CA 92109

858/926-5505 phone

To contribute to The Humantics Foundation thru the Amazon PayPage, click here.

Corporate Propaganda in Action

The Fake Persuaders by Monbiot, The Guardian

"Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet."

Corporate phantoms by Monbiot, The Guardian

The PR Secret War Against Activists by Stauber & Sheldon Rampton

This expose carefully details how the corporations (via their vast publicity teams of lobbyists and those paid to do "public outreach" etc. etc. etc. ) embed themselves into their 'marks' (in our case, the breast implant support system) and "educate" a type of activists by brainwashing them into believing it is for the good of the cause. In 1991, Dow Corning's PR Team admitted in a private memo that their "cover-up is going well" and spoke of setting up their "networks." I firmly believe that the Junk Science / ACSH / 'Quackbuster' enormous network is their proud culmination.

Viral Marketing: How to Infect the World by Flack Group Bivins

(Instructions to paid Disinfo Agents by paid Disinfo Agents)

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[Guest guest]

Ilena has been active in breast implant support for

many years! . . . If you haven't read her website,

please take the time to do so!

www.humanticsfoundation.com

She was the first support person I met online. Ilena

was one of our angels who never had breast implants,

but felt so strongly about the issue that she made it

her own. She has been terribly attacked by those who

would shut her up . . . But she persists! Whether

directly, or indirectly, many of you wouldn't know

about the problems associated with breast implants if

she wasn't there!

God Bless,

Rogene

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for posting our webpage ... and thank you Rogene for

your comments!

Are you in Tenerife now? I lived for 6 months in Marbella, Spain

many moons ago and had a really great time there. Even then, the

PS's were very aggressively marketing implants.

Ilena

www.BreastImplantAwareness.org

www.HumanticsFoundation.com

>

>

>

> -- Emailing: www.humanticsfoundation.com

>

>

> Humantics Foundation

> Breast Implants: Recovery & Discovery

>

>

>

> HOME SUPPORT GREATLINKS QUACKBUSTERS DEFAMATION PUBLIÇATIONS

DAILY NEWS

>

> LINKS

> ACTION ALERT

> Please click here to send a message to von Eschenbach,

Acting FDA

> Commissioner to NOT 'approve' silicone gel implants while Mentor's

criminal

> investigation continues.

> Click here for Petition reminding the FDA and other Government

Officials

> that Mentor's data is NOT complete.

> New electronic newsletter regarding upcoming meetings on Dow

Bankruptcy 2.24

> 2006

> Also important info from 1.6.2006

> EBAY Auction - novel & brilliant way to learn about the true

dangers of

> breast implants DON'T MISS!

> MUST READ " Decisions in the Dark " ... Click here to open pdf

file.

> To read what Dr. Whalen told the FDA Panel just 2 short years ago,

and his

> 180 degree spinaround, click here.

> Click here for EBAY auctions of Beth's ... Brilliant way to get the

> information to the public on the dangers of breast implants.

> Dr. Zuckerman's site on the science of breast implants

> National Cancer Institute Spells Out Risks of Breast

Implants

> Data Show Increased Risks Of Death From Cancers and Suicide

> Read about Kim Hoffman's upcoming book on her Mentor breast implant

> experiences ... And more!

> Meet Curry and read about her life after silicone gel breast

implants.

> Dr. Vasey's " Where There is Smoke There is Fire. "

Rheumatologist who has

> researched extensively the immune system and breast implants.

> McDonough, formerly of The Waltons, now speaks out on her

Lupus and

> Breast Implant Connection.

> Founder of the Saline Support Group, Patty Faussett shares her

story of

> healing.

> Meet Lea and read about her life after silicone gel breast

implants

> Read Redbook article on the effects on children after implants

from 1995.

> (opens pdf file)

> Meet ey and her daughter , both affected from

's

> breast implants. is helping others with her " Small Hands,

Big Hearts "

> hair drive. says people who wish to donate their hair have

until

> February 14, 2006!

> Shari Halverson interviewed on MTV about her saline implant

problems

> FDA Rupture Study #1

> Our Jewell's story on a Scleroderma Forum

> Canadian Study from 2003 on breast implants

> Toxic Discovery Network -good links and information

> Breast Augmentation: A Younger Generation Seeks Perfection

> Colleen's Story ... She is also appearing on MTV

> Meet Kacey Long and read her story after saline breast implants

> Sally Kirkland ~ Nominated Actress, talks about her 5 sets

of breast

> implants

> Memoirs of a Junk Scientist by Dr. Bernard Patten

> Breast Implants: America's Silent Epidemic by Ilena Rosenthal

> Keeping Abreast of Parasitic Implants

> LATEST UPDATE on Dow Bankruptcy from the Tort Claimaints Committee

> LATEST UPDATE on Dow Bankruptcy from the Settlement facility

> Command Trust Network

> Human Adjuvant Disease Corporation

> Great photos from the FDA Hearings by Kathy Nye ... Meet many of

the

> wonderful people who gave testimony and support at the Hearings in

April,

> 2005

> Sherrill Sellman, author of Hormone Heresy, Interviews Ilena on

breast

> implants

> Fibromyalgia and Ruptured Silicone Gel Breast Implants

> Silicone Cover Up and Political Manipulations by Ilena in 1996

>

> Note from Ilena:

> If you find any typos, busted links etc. And want to let me

know ... I very

> much appreciate it! Our staff is only me, right now with all my

heart and

> soul, wanting to keep our message in front of the public. It was

10 years

> last August, and I've seen so many support groups and activists in

this

> issue die ... Or get too ill to fight Goliath anymore ... And

these powerful

> women fade underground to protect their health and family life.

> Corporate America and the Plastic Surgeon's Lobbies are no match

for sick

> and dying women. The Their combined PR campaigns are legendary,

orchestrated

> by the PR giant, Burson Marsteller.

> One longtime support group leader, with no shortage of her own

serious

> implant related health challenges put it this way to me:

> " You on the other hand, just battling a world of multi-billion

dollar corps,

> a world of murderously insane lunatics, and prepping for Court. "

> The Court she is referring to is the Supreme Court of California.

Click here

> for the Quackbusters vs me.

>

> The newsgroup I created in the Fall of 1995 is one medium that the

Junk

> Science Campaign can not totally control as they have all others.

> The Wild West of the Internet ... A visit there now will reveal a

Corporate

> Lobbyist ( M. Langer) totally embedded with and leading a

small,

> vocal group of those who call themselves " legitimate " support group

leaders

> who have tried to push me out of their mutual way since Autumn,

2001.

> They have worked hand in hand with my Plaintiffs above and

Inamed's former

> President.. To create a Smear Campaign against me ... So

vicious ... It

> appears they have no boundaries. Since I began the newsgroup,

their twisted

> version of my personal life has been broadcast wide & far. That it

bears no

> relationship to reality doesn't faze nor slow them now in their

defamation

> against me.

> Together in what they named the " SBIPrivateClub " ... this group

and and

> former Inamed President O'leary (currently head of

Eurosilicone in

> France) have hired a Private Investigator to hunt me down ...

stalked

> friends of mine in their search, and attempted to access my bank

accounts.

> They are, in my opinion, the embodiment of the PR Plan describing

the cover

> up of damning Dow Corning information ... and the creation

of " networks. "

> These are typical tactics used for years by the " quackbusters " in

their

> attempts to destroy chiropractors, holistic and alternative

healers,

> naturopaths, fluoride activists, critics, radio show hosts,

homeopaths and

> doctors working to uncover the mystery of Multiple Chemical

Sensitivities --

> to name but a few.

> Check back for links and more details soon ... as this is being

updated as

> their Campaign is spreading. Click here.

> This is a very pivotal time in the Breast Implant Awareness

cause ... and

> for women's rights to truly safe products.

> Both US breast implant makers, Inamed and Mentor, have

received " approvable "

> letters from the FDA for their silicone gel implants. We've been

hearing

> from scores and scores of women already ill & injured from

previous versions

> of new & improved breast implants.

> If the FDA does approve them, they will be ignoring their own

scientists and

> yielding once again to industry propaganda and pressure. The so-

called

> conditions' that are required are expensive and totally

unenforceable, such

> as MRI's to detect rupture costing up to $2,000.

> Help us convince the FDA and Congress that they are making a fatal

error in

> rushing through this approval.

> Please click here to ask the FDA not to Approve Silicone Breast

Implants

> While Mentor is Under a Criminal Investigation

>

> It's still not too late.

> With the sudden resignation {for Pharmaceutical Industry

connections} of FDA

> chair Lester Crawford, we still have a chance for sanity to

prevail. One of

> his last acts pre-resignation, was to declare silicone gel

implants, with

> hundreds of thousands of FDA Med Watch Reports of complications,

injuries,

> illnesses and death, 'approvable.'

> Our greatest wish is that as we begin this new year, that our

prayers are

> heard and sanity prevails ... on God's Green Earth & in the Breast

Implant

> Awareness Cause ... more here

> " When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those

who do

> not know it,

> but for the sake of defending those that do. " Blake

> February 26, 2006:

> Midland News article on ongoing Dow Bankruptcy Saga

> NOTES FROM ILENA: After over 10 years in bankruptcy protection,

Dow has paid

> less than a quarter of the claims, and these average under $10,000

each. In

> most cases, this does not even cover the cost of explantation ...

borne for

> the most part out of the pockets of the women.

> EXCERPTS:

> Claims administrator Austern said the facility has paid

around 57,000

> claims, amounting to $565.5 million. This month, the facility began

> reprogramming its computer system, a job expected to be finished

by April 15

> The computer work, and testing it to make certain it does what

it's

> supposed to do, won't stop claims payments " but it will absolutely

slow them

> down, " Austern said. more here ....

>

> More news stories here ...

> February 13, 2006:

> MyDNA: Implants: Safe?

> Please read Beth 's new website sharing her ordeal with

implants.

> Click here for our Daily Page with a history of recent news

stories ... if

> you have more to add, please send email here.

>

> Is breastfeeding with breast implants a real concern?

> Breast Surgery Likely to Cause Breastfeeding Problems

> New Studies Reveal High Platinum Levels in Children and Mothers

with breast

> implants.

> A New York Daily News article included a misquote from a " wee

hours "

> interview given by Sally Kirkland.

> In it she expressed her very deep and real concerns for women with

breast

> implants who breastfeed their babies.

> The real issue here ... are breast implants " safe " for women and

their

> offspring?

> For information on extremely high platinum levels being found in

implanted

> women and their offspring, please click here.

>

> Sally Kirkland and The Humantics Foundation firmly believe that it

would be

> a travesty if the FDA declares Mentor {or Inamed} silicone gel

implants

> safe. "

> The Mentor " studies " done to date have removed the data from women

who took

> their explants out. One " study " of theirs had only 5% follow-up.

>

>

>

>

> Visit Sally's Website

> National Enquirer on Sally's Explant

> Sally Kirkland and McDonough In the Know.org

> Sally interviewed in Soap Digest

> Sally & Kathy Nye at Rally in front of Judge Pointer's Court in

April, 1999

> at SOBB Rally

> Candid Interview on Sally in Moxie Magazine

>

>

> Here is a photo of one of our beloved support group member's

explanted " new

> & improved " silicone gel implants of the time. To read her story,

click the

> photo.

>

>

> Long time Dutch advocate, Marlou Boots

> with a small part of her collection of " explants. "

> We are in the process of creating from Marlou's work of so many

years, much

> information she compiled written in Dutch (Nederlands). Several

wonderful

> people are working together to make this happen. Check back soon

for these

> archives.

> Breast Augmentation: A Younger Generation Seeks Perfection

> A Student interview with many perceptive insights.

> Here is a photo of one of our beloved support group member's

explanted " new

> & improved " silicone gel implants of the time. To read her story,

click the

> photo.

>

> Platinum concentrations high for women & their children with

breast implants

>

> New! For information on platinum testing, click here.

> Teens Getting Breast Implants for Graduation ... our Foundation

mentioned

> and our members interviewed for this Womensenews.org article.

>

> Ilena Rosenthal, Director

> We are dedicated to raising awareness to the true and serious

risks of

> breast implants and other silicone products.

> What began as a small research project for a friend with tumors

and cysts

> around her 20 year old saline implants in August, 1995, has become

an

> amazing adventure for me beyond anything I could have imagined.

> Speaking out on the true dangers of a product so desirable and yet

so

> potentially harmful, sharing the too real stories of women who

made the

> fateful decision to have breast implants, almost immediately made

me the

> target of an unrelenting and incredibly vicious 10 year Defamation

Campaign

> which continues to date.

> My belief is that it is quite related to these multi-billion

dollar:

> Inamed and Mentor wanting safety " approval " from the FDA for their

very

> unsafe' silicone gel breast implants.

>

> Dow Corning wanting to come out of their 10 year bankruptcy with a

clean and

> benevolent " image. "

>

> The Junk Science Campaign ... an gargantuan network of industry

funded and

> backed:

> 'think tanks,'

> front groups

> 'Astroturf' Grassroots groups

> Corporate Lobbyists

> Vast All Medium Networks

> (Dow's PR plan from 1991 included being a part of what evolved to

the Junk

> Science / Quackwatch Propaganda Campaign / Webring) more on this

soon

> The manufacturers and Plastic Surgeon's PR campaigns are

legendary ...

> funding groups like the ACSH and CEI etc. ... who use every medium

to push

> their viewpoint ... including suing activists like myself. For

details of

> their high profile, internet libel suit against me and several

others ,visit

> here.

> For wonderful articles explaining the Public Relations Wars against

> activists such as myself, click here.

> For great links to studies and related websites, click here.

>

> Dr. Melmed holding up a disintegrated breast implant at the

FDA

> Silicone Gel Hearings in October, 2004.

> Sherrill Sellman, author of Hormone Heresy, Interviews Ilena on

breast

> implants.

>

> In November, 1995, I created the only Usenet Newsgroup, alt.support

> breast-implant, to provide a place for support and a way for women

and their

> families to connect. I obviously got in the way of the Silicone

and Plastic

> Surgery Industries and their Public Relations Machine well greased

by

> silicone dollars. Nothing was too personal nor too untrue for Mine

Enemies

> to post or email about me. Details of this are here.

> In early 2001, just days after my new marriage, I was made aware

that I was

> named in a high profile Cyber-Libel Suit by the ultra sue happy,

so-called

> Quackbusters. " They accused me of being in conspiracy with people

I had

> never even met, and libeling someone I didn't know existed.

> In August, 2001, with thanks to the First Amendment which

guarantees Freedom

> of Speech, and my wonderful attorney Mark Goldowitz, of the

California

> Anti-Slapp Project, we were successful in our defense against

them. The case

> was a classic SLAPP suit ... designed to bankrupt and silence

critics and

> advocates and activists such as myself. The court documents, Judge

Richmond

> s 27 page Opinion, and the press we've received are detailed here.

> On Appeal, both plaintiffs, Barrett, head of the so-called

> Quackwatch " and the " Healthfraud " groups, and attorney

Grell,

> completely lost to me. Regarding plaintiff Terry Polevoy, there

was one

> comment I re-posted about him, that the Appeals Court

deemed " potentially

> libelous. " Because re-posting material on the internet affects

millions of

> users, upon our request, The Supreme Court of California is

hearing our case

> Details are here.

> An enormous benefit of these high profile, enormously expensive

and painful

> lawsuits, has been to expand the audience to my message ~ breast

implants

> can and do cause serious injuries and illnesses to untold

thousands of women

> To visit related websites, medical, legal, and several created by

survivors

> of their breast implant related problems, click here.

> We respectfully dedicate this website to the untold thousands of

women

> harmed by not only their breast implants, but further by the

silicone

> manufacturers and their insidious Public Relations campaigns ...

with

> includes embedding their lobbyists and PR staff amongst the

support system.

> We dedicate it also, to The First Amendment and Freedom of Speech

for all.

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> Ilena Rosenthal

> Director, Humantics Foundation

> Breast Implant Awareness.org

>

> ~~~~~

> VIDEO

> CLIPS

>

> Shari Halverson interviewed on Florida News about her saline

implant

> problems

>

> Dr. E. Melmed debates Dr. Rey during Hearings

> CBS News ...

> " It makes me very uneasy. I don't feel secure about the safety. "

> FDA adviser Dr. Amy Newburger

>

> Implants: Safe?

> Mon 13 Feb 2006

> WASHINGTON DC (myDNA News)

> (full article here)

> Ilena Rosenthal, director of the San Diego-based Humantics

Foundation for

> Women, the largest breast implant support group in the world,

agreed.

> " The so-called 'studies' that the silicone manufacturers and

plastic

> surgeons rely on are too small, too short and include eliminating

the data

> from the women who removed their implants for any reason. This is

madness,

> such as removing anyone from a lung cancer study who coughed or

showed any

> other symptoms, " she said.

> WEBMD: FDA Reviews Ban on Silicone Breast Implants

> Excerpt:

> Ilena Rosenthal, director of the Humantics Foundation, a group

opposed to

> breast implants, says that " thousands " of women in her

organization have

> serious health problems that they attribute to their breast

implants and to

> silicone. The group is urging the FDA to keep silicone implants

off the

> market for most women.

> " These are not recallable items, at least without more surgery to

get them

> out. It's not like taking Vioxx or Bextra off the shelves, "

Rosenthal says

> in an interview, referring to the two painkillers recently pulled

from the

> market due to an elevated risk of heart attacks and strokes.

> Humantics Foundation quoted in L.A. Times regarding Military and

free

> Plastic Surgery articles.

> You may have to register for site (or write me here and I'll send

you the

> article).

> We applaud your efforts, " wrote the director of the

> Humantics Foundation, saying she has spent nine years warning women

> about the dangers of implants.

>

>

>

> Chat Rooms

> Implant Info Net Website & Chatroom

> Silicone Holocaust Chatroom

> Saline Support Group

> SiliconeKids

> Lany's Prayer & Information Group

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> Our silicone support group is filled with thousands of women ...

now ill and

> scarred ... who got the earlier " new & improved " implants.

> Women in Entertainment Rally Against FDA's Lifting of Restrictions

on Sale

> of Silicone Gel Breast Implants

>

> If you have not yet updated or ever sent in a Med-Watch form

telling the FDA

> of your breast implant related illnesses or complications, please

click here

> and let your voice be known.

> By early 2001, 234,187 had filed serious adverse reactions with

the FDA.

>

>

>

> To give input to the FDA directly, here are their addresses.

>

> Long time Dutch advocate, Marlou Boots

> with a small part of her collection of " explants. "

> 9/1 Safety measures on breast implants introduced in Britain

> 9/2 Propaganda to the max ... Junk Journalism Mike Fumento on

Inamed's quest

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

> To read Breast Implants: America's Silent Epidemic, from Total

Health

> Magazine, click here.

> To read an important exposé of the very real dangers of saline

implants,

> read the November Glamour's excellent article, Breast Implant

Horror Story,

> The Shocking Health Claims of Saline Implants.

> 2/4/2003 Happy Birthday, Parks! by Ilena on Womensenews.com

> If you would like more information about The Humantics Foundation

or would

> like to financially support the continuance of our work, please

visit here.

> Without it, our message will be silenced.

> In the midst of creating this website, the unthinkable and

unbearable

> happened.

> The World changed forever.

> Rabbi Lerner eloquently wrote on this matter in a A World

Out of

> Touch With Itself.

> These beautiful websites are amongst my all time favorites:

> Interview with God

> &

> In the beginning ...

>

> With love from Ilena

>

>

>

>

> Humantics Foundation

> Breast Implants: Recovery & Discovery

> Ilena Rosenthal, Director

> 1380 Garnet E-444

> San Diego, CA 92109

> 858/926-5505 phone

>

> To contribute to The Humantics Foundation thru the Amazon PayPage,

click

> here.

> Corporate Propaganda in Action

> The Fake Persuaders by Monbiot, The Guardian

> " Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on

the

> internet. "

> Corporate phantoms by Monbiot, The Guardian

> The PR Secret War Against Activists by Stauber & Sheldon

Rampton

> This expose carefully details how the corporations (via their vast

publicity

> teams of lobbyists and those paid to do " public outreach " etc.

etc. etc. )

> embed themselves into their 'marks' (in our case, the breast

implant support

> system) and " educate " a type of activists by brainwashing them into

> believing it is for the good of the cause. In 1991, Dow Corning's

PR Team

> admitted in a private memo that their " cover-up is going well " and

spoke of

> setting up their " networks. " I firmly believe that the Junk

Science / ACSH /

> 'Quackbuster' enormous network is their proud culmination.

> Viral Marketing: How to Infect the World by Flack Group Bivins

> (Instructions to paid Disinfo Agents by paid Disinfo Agents)

>

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