With more than 70 percent of Jakarta and its surrounding areas affected by the flooding earlier this month, which forced over 300,000 people from their homes and claimed the lives of at least 80, a Scientology Disaster Relief Team of the Churches of Scientology of Australia and locally trained volunteers formed up and deployed to the area three weeks ago to help residents recover.

It was one thing to read about devastation in the news, but the volunteers were hardly prepared for what they saw when they arrived. There were stretches of the city where water levels had risen as high as 4 meters (over 12 feet), bridges had simply been washed away by the torrents, and many thousands were living without electricity, with no way to cook food or boil water to make it safe to drink.

Prompted by psychiatrists with their own vested interests in pharmaceutical sales, the media has spun the blame for the rise in the suicide rate for children on the “black box” warning labels placed on antidepressants.

This comes from a study that was conducted by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)—one of the components of the Department of Health and Human Services, which prevents and controls infectious and chronic diseases.

When citing statistics for the causes of death for children, the study, “Annual Summary of Vital Statistics: 2005,” published in the February issue of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, claimed that, “A significant increase was registered only for suicide (18.2%).” The population of people the study was referring to are children aged 1-19 for the years 2003-2004. The study was on vital statistics, such as birth rates and infant mortality. It was not a psychiatric study and the researchers and scientists do not have a connection with mental health issues. (full story >)