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Monday, October 11, 2010

12 October - Perceptions of Danger

From Tuskegee to Guatemala Via Nuremberg
News broke last week that the U.S. government purposefully exposed hundreds of men in Guatemala to syphilis in ghoulish medical experiments conducted during the late 1940s.The revelations came about through research conducted by Wellesley College medical historian Susan Reverby on the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study. The two former U.S. government research projects, in Tuskegee, Ala., and Guatemala—equally noxious—are mirror images of each other. Both point to the extremes to which ethics can be disregarded in the pursuit of medical knowledge, and serve as essential reminders that medical research needs constant supervision and regulation.

Reverby is the author of the recently published book “Examining Tuskegee,” a comprehensive history of the Tuskegee syphilis study.

Tuskegee, Ala., is in the heart of the Deep South. From 1932 until it was exposed by the press in 1972, the U.S. government conducted a long-term study on the effects of syphilis when left untreated. Four hundred men with syphilis were told that they would be given a “special treatment” for their “bad blood.” Unbeknownst to them, the men were given useless placebos, not the promised cure, and their debilitation caused by the untreated syphilis was tracked over decades.
In Tuskegee, infected men were left untreated. In Guatemala, the opposite happened.

How Democracy Dies: Lessons From a Master 
The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes spent his life battling the assault on democracy by tyrants. It is disheartening to be reminded that he lost. But he understood that the hardest struggle for humankind is often stating and understanding the obvious.

Collapsing empire watch 
In 1999, the U.S. was ranked by the World Health Organization as 24th in life expectancy. It's now 49th. There are other similarly potent indicators. In 2009, the National Center for Health Statistics ranked the U.S. in 30th place in global infant mortality rates. Out of 20 "rich countries" measured by UNICEF, the U.S. ranks 19th in "child well-being." Out of 33 nations measured by the OECD, the U.S. ranks 27th for student math literacy and 22nd for student science literacy. In 2009, the World Economic Forum ranked 133 nations in terms of "soundness" of their banks, and the U.S. was ranked in 108th place, just behind Tanzania and just ahead of Venezuela.

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 Nuclear Energy and the Iran Affair 
( It's interesting how fast the 'danger' of a country working to rid the Middle East of nuclear weaponry acquiring some while using tech incompatible with weapons production sponsored by a country with no interest in creating a threat in its backyard is decried ;  while the greatest holder of said WMD....who have bragged about it for years... is not an evident problem while they perpetually cite the danger posed by those without said weapons.  )


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Saturday, June 5, 2010

5 June - Late Links

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A Sri Lankan re-education for Tamil child soldiers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8721974.stm
What happens to child soldiers when the army they are fighting for loses the war? In Sri Lanka, some teenagers who fought for the Tamil Tigers have gone back to school, to be rehabilitated by an officer from the victorious government forces. 

Poul Thorsen's Mutating Resume: Autism Vaccinegate
http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2988%3Apoul-thorsens-mutating-resume-autism-vaccinegate&catid=41%3Ahighlighted-news&Itemid=105〈=en
http://www.ageofautism.com/2010/03/poul-thorsens-mutating-resume.html
In bits and pieces, in Danish and English, from three universities in two hemispheres and the CDC in Atlanta, a picture has begun forming in the past few days that is already startling in its outline: Paul Thorsen, one of the key scientists involved in CDC-backed studies exonerating vaccines as a cause of autism, is under investigation for collecting millions of dollars in bogus “grant” money, misrepresenting himself to his employers and the world and possibly forging the documents that enabled the scam.

Even more astonishing, it appears the CDC and several other major autism research centers have known about this for months and stayed publicly silent, even as the debate over autism and vaccines has reached several decisive moments -- and a new decision is expected any day from U.S. vaccine court. The CDC in particular would have a hard time claiming ignorance about the suspected crime -- at least three of the forged documents were in the agency’s name, and it helped uncover the fraud last year.

In addition, several current CDC employees including Drs. Diana Schendel, Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp and Catherine Rice were affiliated with Thorsen’s now-defunct research group. Age of Autism has obtained Internet-archived pages from the Web site of the North Atlantic Neuro-Epidemiology Alliances (NANEA) that list the members of the “Atlanta autism team” including Schendel, Yeargin-Allsopp and Rice, all of whom have been in leadership positions in the CDC’s autism epidemiology projects. Schendel is described as NANEA’s “coordinator at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA.”

Nigeria - lead poisoning kills 100 children in northhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/10241647.stm
Dr Henry Akpan, the health ministry's chief epidemiologist, said: "[The victims] were digging for gold, but the areas also have large concentrations of lead."

Health authorities have set up two camps in the area to treat people who are suffering symptoms of lead poisoning.  

Burma 'trying to build nuclear weapon'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10236381.stm
( Pitiable headline hype ) 

Oren: Turkey has embraced the leaders of Iran and Hamas
http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=177577
Erdogan on Friday declared at a rally that Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a resistance movement, according to the Istanbul-based daily Hürriyet.

Erdogan said that Hamas, the legitimate winner of the Palestinian elections, was fighting for its land.

“You are always talking about democracy. You’ll never let Hamas rule. What kind of democracy is this?” he said, apparently addressing the Israeli leadership.

“I do not think that Hamas is a terrorist organization,” Erdogan was quoted as saying. “They are Palestinians in resistance, fighting for their own land.”

The Boreal Forest: part of a global warming fraud of gigantic proportions?
http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2968%3Athe-boreal-forest-part-of-a-global-warming-fraud-of-gigantic-proportions&catid=41%3Ahighlighted-news&Itemid=105〈=en
 In autumn 2007, the Canadian government withdrew 200 million hectares of managed forests from accounting under the Kyoto protocol for the 2008-2012 commitment period with no publicity in a move that strongly suggests the notion that a fraud of gigantic global proportions is being perpetrated by certain governments with the help of the UN.
http://www.thestar.com/article/282004
policy drive knowledge.

 The „elite“ use institutions, academic bodies and govenrment bodies to generate the „knowledge“ that they wish to disseminate through their controlled media and which allows them to shape public opinion in such a way that it favours their political and financial benefit.
In this way, the „elite“ persuade us we are facing problems that do not exist and that we must accept their policy frameworks.
The key political and economics issues that we are confronted are fictional. There is no man made global warming, no danger of a pandemic, no terrorist attack on 9/11, no oil shortage and no financial crisis.
The „elites“ maintain that global warming is a clear and present danger and the world must accept a mechanism for enforcing carbon emissions reductions administed by the UN.
But there is no need for such counting let alone enforcing a reduction in carbon emissions when it comes to Canada’s forests and the oil and tar sands, of course!

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

7 Mar - Late Surfing

The Bigger The Lie: Phony War on Terror Resurgent
http://www.opednews.com/populum/diarypage.php?did=15646
An immoral, ruthless and deranged ruling class must be propped up at all costs and the huge rise in media stories on al CIAda, phony terror alerts and rumors of war are prepping the sheep for the coming slaughters.

http://www.diabetes-2.info/type-2-diabetes-and-immune-system
people who are obese and suffer from the type 2 diabetes have an altered immune system. Type 2 diabetes per se doesn’t weaken the immunity system, even if the immunity is stronger there would be instances you still contract fungal, bacterial and viral infections and not overcome those parasitic infections.

With that being said, if the diabetes goes untreated, the cells become sugar concentrated making them paradise for all microorganisms. It can be better explained like this: The person’s immune system isn’t weakened, but dysregulated, because of the presence of high concentration of sugars.

High sugar implies abundant food reserves making conducive for yeast, bacteria and other parasites to multiply. A person acquires infections very soon as the immune system becomes dwarfed and cannot eliminate them totally.

It is for the same reason the diabetics have issues with multiple yeast and bacterial and also fungal infections. These infections also presumably take time longer time to heal when compared to healing in a non-diabetic person. 

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