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24 Nisan 2017 Pazartesi

Public service workers: tell us what you want in party manifestos

In the run-up to June’s general election, almost every aspect of our public services and social policy feels at breaking point: we’re in the midst of an NHS crisis, a social care crisis, a housing crisis, a local government funding crisis and a civil service staffing crisis, not to mention a collapse in public trust for charities.


The election will be dominated by Brexit, but domestic policies are equally vital – and must not be swept under the rug. It will be up to all those professionals working for and with the public to make that case. So we’d like to know what you want to see in the party manifestoes as top election priorities.


This is not just a matter of grand statements or pledging more money. What do the main political parties need to say that shows they really understand the issues?


Share your thoughts


Whether you work in healthcare, social care, housing, local government, central government, or any other part of public service – including the private sector or the voluntary sector – we want to hear from you. Tell us what you think are the biggest problems in your sector at the moment and what each of the political parties should be offering.


You can do so by filling in our encrypted form below – anonymously if you wish. We will do our best to ensure your responses are kept secure and confidential. A selection of contributions will be featured in our reporting.



Public service workers: tell us what you want in party manifestos

5 Ocak 2017 Perşembe

Democrats embracing Tea Party tactics? That won"t work without a new ideology | Jamie Peck

While Republican lawmakers were colluding with vice president-elect Mike Pence about how best to repeal — and probably not replace — the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, President Obama held a meeting of his own. Unlike many previous meetings of his, Republicans were not invited. He did not “reach across the aisle.”


Instead, the outgoing president laid out a strategy to oppose Republican efforts to repeal his signature healthcare legislation, a move that could kick up to 30 million Americans off health insurance. That strategy involves pushing the phrase “Make America Sick Again,” refusing to “rescue” Republicans by helping them pass bound-to-be-Randian replacement measures and referring to the resulting disaster as “Trumpcare,” as in: “I would have gotten my leg set by a doctor, but thanks to Trumpcare, I’m using Scotch tape.” The political fallout, he said, must solely hurt the Republicans. (Sounds like someone is finally jumping on the Bernie “time to admit you lied” Sanders train.)


Contrast this with remarks made back in April in which Obama warned his party against becoming too much like the Tea Party. Speaking to a group of law students in Chicago, he worried that Democrats would “stake out positions so extreme, they alienate the broad public.” He’s hardly become Eugene Debs, but it seems he’s come around to a more confrontational strategy. (Funny how your priorities change when you go from quelling a left-insurrection to trying to quell a right one.)


In instructing his party to openly vie for power and engage in the muck of actual politics rather than genteel tinkering, the president became the latest and most high-profile advocate of an idea that’s finally picking up steam in mainstream Democratic circles: copying the Tea Party, a faction which, for better or for worse, was and remains devastatingly effective at carrying out its program.


Beginning immediately after Obama’s 2008 election, a vocal, ideologically-driven minority of “activists” began storming town hall meetings, pressuring Republican representatives to resist Obama no matter what he tried to do and purging their party of anyone deemed insufficiently reactionary. Eight years later they enjoy a unified right-wing government and undisputed dominance of the Republican Party. Gone are the days when Congressional Republicans will let themselves be cucked by compromise. It’s high time the Democrats sunk to their level.


A 23-page Google document titled “Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda” has been spreading around Washington faster than John Podesta’s risotto recipe. Written by a group of Congressional staffers who witnessed the rise of the Tea Party firsthand, it lays out a number of practical ways progressive activists and lawmakers can defend the incremental gains of the Obama era using Tea Party tactics, minus the physical intimidation and rabid racism.


Operating on a local level, acting defensively and waging constituent phone call campaigns are all ideas that can easily be appropriated. Considering the razor-thin margins by which Republicans won in many states, it should not be hard to frighten Republican representatives with the prospect of getting voted out.


Activists can also empower (or pressure, as the case may be) Democratic lawmakers to stand up for progressive principles, and this means tugging the political spectrum back to the left. Republicans have long known it’s foolish to start negotiations in the middle. They stake out extreme positions — a six-week abortion ban, a complete gutting of the Office of Congressional Ethics — so they can bargain down to what they actually want — a 20-week abortion ban, a “bipartisan” gutting of the OCE.


In contrast, Democrats said they were open to replacing Obamacare before Congress was even in session, voted to authorize the Iraq War and competed throughout the 1990s to show they could put black people in prison and dismantle the welfare state with the best of them. They let the ACA’s public option fall to the threat of a filibuster from Joe Lieberman, which they could have easily withstood if they’d wanted to. Even now, they deride the Tea Party’s tactics as childish and crass, when the truly crass thing is that 45 million people are living in poverty in the richest country in the world.


Of course, what the Google doc and the president fail to mention is that this only works if the Democrats are progressive in the first place; there can be no left-Tea Party without an organizing ideology. Which brings me to another Tea Party tactic: the purge.


While some Democrats (Elizabeth Warren, logical left-Tea Party choice for DNC chair Keith Ellison) are already reasonably progressive and more can potentially be dragged left by political expediency, many are simply too committed to neoliberal ideology and/or beholden to monied interests to be rehabilitated. Which means some pink-slipping and primary-challenging is in order.


Time travelers from the New Deal era would be confused to learn the leftmost major party’s 2016 nominee for president ran her primary campaign against the $ 15/hour minimum wage, tuition-free college and single-payer healthcare, deriding these common sense reforms as pie-in-the-sky fancies on the level of Trump’s wall, and only begrudgingly adopting certain elements of them once it became clear the left wing of her party might revolt.


In the general election, Trump exploited establishment Democrats’ longstanding support of labor-opposed trade deals to stake out a leftward position that threw the Clinton campaign for a loop. Despite the benefit of hindsight, many in the party’s leadership still refuse to recognize the role these failures played in their 2016 defeat.


For all the New Democrats’ talk of pragmatism over ideology, it seems the truly practical thing would be to grow some sort of ideological backbone. Those who refuse to do so must be left in the woods.


The good news is that once this happens, progressive activists and lawmakers will be able to use Tea Party’s tactics better than the Tea Party itself, because the left has actual grassroots movements.


Black Lives Matter, Fight For $ 15 and Bernie Sanders’ remarkable campaign are all examples of regular people coming together to effect change that put the Tea Party’s “grassroots” theatrics to shame.


If these movements have already achieved some modest victories on their own, imagine what they’ll be able to do with the legislative and monetary powers of a newly invigorated Democratic Party at their disposal. What the party may lose in large donations, it will gain in small ones, votes and the ability to fix this mess.


And that’s worth spilling some tea along the way.



Democrats embracing Tea Party tactics? That won"t work without a new ideology | Jamie Peck

27 Eylül 2016 Salı

Labour is the only party that can save the NHS | Diane Abbot

In all of the abstract discussion about Labour values, it’s easy to forget that one of Labour’s real concrete values is to support and defend the NHS. If you cut the Labour party in half, it would have the letters NHS running through it.


The contrast with the Conservatives could not be greater, especially this Tory government. They are now embarked on their second major reorganisation of the NHS in just six years. Partly this is to clear up the structural mess created by Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Act, legislation that Theresa May and all the leading Tories supported. But their deeply damaging drive towards marketisation and privatisation continues, on top of what NHS Providers describes as “eye-watering” cuts.


This is leading to the deepest ever crisis in the NHS. Almost every target is being missed and waiting times are lengthening for ambulances, for A&E, for cancer referrals and for elective surgery beyond 18 weeks. Leaks have revealed that the new STPs – Sustainability and Transformation Plans – are really Secret Tory Plans to decimate the NHS. Beds, units, departments, and whole hospitals will be closed, even though the population is both growing and ageing.


No party that put patients first would do any of this. And no party which valued the contribution of NHS workers would treat them the way the Tories have. Their record is real pay cuts, cuts to pensions, an increase in unpaid hours and now the attempt to impose unsafe and unfunded new contracts on the junior doctors. This has culminated in the first ever all-out strikes in the NHS.


The “seven-day NHS” is a chimera. Acute services have always been available in the NHS. It is only under the Tories that ambulances have been queueing around the block because there are no beds to admit patients, and that this has been happening on weekdays. The campaign for a seven-day NHS is a device to impose new, worse contracts on junior doctors. There is no logic in singling them out, and consultants, nurses, paramedics and admin staff could all be in the firing line next.


None of this is necessary. The reorganisations themselves are causing huge waste and disruption as providers and commissioners are first told to compete in the “health economies” and then that they must collaborate geographically. The cost of private finance initiatives (PFI) continues to rise and will be over £2bn this year. Because of staff shortages the agency staffing bill has soared to £3.6bn. And Big Pharma continues to milk the NHS, which now even the government weakly recognises. Above all, the greater involvement of the private sector means that NHS has to pay for private profits with funds that could be used for public service.


Labour will aim to drive the private sector rip-off out of the NHS. We will establish a PFI Monitoring Unit to hold the contractors to account, ending excessive charges and payments for shoddy service.


We will be able to redirect these funds to frontline services. Investment will be directed where it is most effective. So, childhood and adolescent mental health services, where three-quarters of all mental health conditions begin will be a major priority. We will promote public health, which itself is a public good and it will save the NHS money.


It is time to end the attacks on NHS workers. Staff need discussion and negotiation, not threats of imposed contracts. They also need to be encouraged to work in the NHS. The terrible decision to abolish bursaries for student nurses, midwives and other professionals and burden them with debt risks exacerbating the staff shortages in the NHS in these key areas.


This abolition of bursaries will be reversed by an incoming Labour government. We will end the scandal that these professionals will incur debt just to work in the NHS.


The difference between Labour and Tory values is extremely stark in relation to the NHS. The Tories are dismantling it. The whole of Labour can unite in defending it.



Labour is the only party that can save the NHS | Diane Abbot

28 Ağustos 2016 Pazar

Medical professionals who back Owen Smith for the Labour party leadership | Letters

As healthcare professionals we welcome Owen Smith’s bid to lead the Labour party and his commitment to the NHS. The NHS is at a crossroads, and under continued Tory control its future as a world-class, universal healthcare provider, free at the point of use, is at risk.


Owen will invest £60bn more in the NHS than the Tories and is calling for an immediate halt to Tory privatisation and the reversal of their catastrophic reorganisation.


At a time when accident and emergency departments are closing, junior doctors are striking to protect their patients and waiting times are soaring, the need for a Labour government has never been so clear.


Despite savage Tory cuts to public services and the risk of a faltering economy post-Brexit, the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership is languishing behind the Conservatives in poll after poll. Owen leads Jeremy among the electorate, with 62% of people thinking he would make a better prime minister compared with Jeremy’s 38% in a recent BMG poll. It is Owen who can form a Labour government and deliver the leadership that the NHS and the country desperately needs.


It doesn’t matter how many thousands of supporters Jeremy addresses at rallies; if he cannot win over the millions of people who once saw Labour as their natural home, then the fate of our public services will be left to the Tories.


A Labour government is an essential step in providing the NHS with the resources and leadership it needs so we can deliver the world-class care that the people of the UK deserve.


Nothing less will do. That’s why we are backing Owen Smith.
Dr Sarah Clark CT2 Medicine, London & Holborn and St Pancras CLP women’s officer
Dr Martin Edobor National chair, Young Fabians
Prof Liz Lightstone Professor of Renal Medicine, London
Dr Daniel McGuinness ST5 Nephrology, London
Mr Keith Seymour Consultant surgeon, Northumberland
Dr Reena Aggarwal ST6 Obstetrics & Gynaecology, London
Dr Ratesh Bajaj ST4 Cardiology, London
Dr David Jones Consultant intensivist and anaesthetist, Merthyr Tydfil
Dr Thomas Oates NIHR clinical lecturer, London
Dr Zoe Kantor Neonatology SHO, London
Lindsay Gordon Community nurse, Reading
Dr Lucy Bradbeer GP ST1, London
Ruth Hodson Theatre scrub nurse, north Wales
Karen Cousins Retired specialist nurse practitioner, Northumberland
Dr Brian Morrissey ST1 Radiology, Aberdeen
Dr Nicola West CT2 Medicine, London
Stephen Naulls Medical student, London & Cleethorpes CLP Youth Officer
Dr Chloe Fairbairns FRCA, anaesthetic registrar, Leeds
Dr Alexander Scott Consultant in anaesthetics and intensive care, West Yorkshire
Jenny Davies Specialist podiatrist, Cardiff
David Davies Occupational therapist, Merthyr Tydfil
Julie Wintrup Occupational therapist, Newbury
Dr Sarah Dickson ST1 ACCS, London
Dr Thomas Halstead GP ST1, West Cambridgeshire
Andy Hill Nurse assessor, Birmingham
Dr John Mullany ST3 Clinical Radiology, Liverpool
Dr Neeraj Singh ST7 Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Eastbourne
Ivana Bartoletti NHS information professional, London
Maria Coleman Renal Nurse, Cardiff
Dr Thomas Fox ST6 Psychiatry, Bromley
Sam Charlton Student nurse, Preston
Dr Lynn Miller Consultant cardiologist, Fife
Dr Lucy Carter Clinical research fellow, Oxford
Nikki Williams Registered nurse, Cottingham
Bryan Neale Retired registered nurse
Alexandros Onoufriadis Research fellow, London
Vasanthi Prathapan Clinical trials manager and research nurse, London
Sharon Jones NIHR BioResource co-ordinator, London
Dr Marc Osterdahl CT2 Medicine, London
Dr Jeff Unsworth ST6 Acute Medicine, Liverpool
Julie Goldie Senior nurse, London
Anna Lynch Quality improvement nurse, London
Dr Michael Northend Haematology registrar, London
Dr Sophie Edwards Care of the elderly consultant, London
Dr Jane Roberts Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, London
Felicia Olney Psychotherapist, London
Dr Sebastian Kraemer Consultant psychiatrist, London
Dr Prathap Pillai Respiratory Medicine, London
Rhanya Chaâbane Clinical trials practitioner, London
Terry Baker Carer, UK
Bridget Langstaff Deputy regional manager, National Treatment Agency, PHE
Dr Justin Shute Psychiatry consultant, London
Paola Di Meglio Senior investigator scientist, Francis Crick Institute, London
Debbie Boyes Former registered nurse, Bridport
Dr Ben Caplin Senior clinical lecturer and honorary consultant, London
Lewis Atkinson Surgery services manager, Tyne & Wear
Monika Temple Retired nurse and DOH civil servant, London
Dr Iain McCullagh Consultant anaesthetist and intensivist, Newcastle
Joanne Barber Newly qualified nurse, Wigan, Wrightington & Leigh
Dr Rachel Stanbrook CT2 Medicine, Leicester
Curtis McLellan Student occupational therapist, Coventry
Gillian Black Retired nurse and former director of community nursing services, Lambeth
Dr David Owen Consultant physician, London
Dr Mike Mclaughlin A&E registrar, London
Dr Andrew Stein Consultant in renal medicine, Coventry & Rugby
Dr Harriet Nerva Core medical trainee, Croydon
Joseph Wright Senior IT manager, London Ambulance Service
Dr Sean Morris GP trainee, London
Laura Drake Health visitor, Bristol
Dr Tim Fallon Consultant ophthalmologist, London
Candida Coghlan Research nurse, International Centre for Circulatory Health, London
Dr Peter Dilworth Retired GP, Liverpool
Dr Harry Costello CT1 Psychiatry, London
Dr Sophie Nocton GP trainee, London
Dr Jane Young Consultant radiologist, London


• Join the debate – email guardian.letters@theguardian.com



Medical professionals who back Owen Smith for the Labour party leadership | Letters

30 Temmuz 2016 Cumartesi

Green party candidate Jill Stein accused of "anti-vaxxer" sympathies

The Green party’s presumptive nominee for president, Jill Stein, has claimed questions may remain about the oversight of vaccines, drawing accusations that she has associated herself with the discredited “anti-vaxxer” movement.


Related: Green party’s Jill Stein invites Bernie Sanders to take over ticket


Stein, a Harvard-educated physician, has both cited the proven importance of vaccines, noting that they save lives and have eliminated devastating diseases, and suggested that Americans cannot trust the people who recommend widespread vaccination. Responding to criticisms this week, she said her concerns were about the influence of corporations in government.


“As a medical doctor, of course I support vaccinations,” she tweeted. “I have a problem with the FDA [Food and Drug Administration] being controlled by drug companies.”


But in comments to the Washington Post on Friday and on an online forum earlier this summer, Stein echoed the concerns of anti-vaccination campaigners in her suggestion that unfit or influenced regulators could open the door for dangerous medicine.


“I think there’s no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases,” she told the Post, citing the efficacy of vaccination against smallpox, polio and other diseases. She then questioned regulators, and by extension the vaccines they approve, saying: “People do not trust a Food and Drug Administration, or even the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] for that matter, where corporate influence and the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of influence.”


Stein claimed corporations involved with genetically modified food have influenced government oversight of medicine.


“Monsanto lobbyists help run the day in those agencies,” she said, referring to the controversial corporation that also draws the ire of environmentalists. Research shows GM food is generally safe.


Eleven of the 15 sitting members of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee are medical doctors who work at hospitals and universities, not pharmaceutical companies. Only two committee members work at pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi Pasteur US. Both are doctors. The committee’s designated federal officer holds a PhD, and a management specialist also sits on the board. Two seats are vacant.


Stein, who has tried to court progressive voters disillusioned by the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s more center-left policies, made similar comments earlier this year in a Reddit AMA.


“Regulatory agencies are routinely packed with corporate lobbyists and CEOs,” she wrote. “So the foxes are guarding the chicken coop as usual in the US.”


Stein also advocated for more safe vaccinations, writing that dropping rates “can and must be fixed” but that the real issue was “widespread distrust of the medical-industrial complex”.


She added: “Vaccines should be treated like any medical procedure. Each one needs to be tested and regulated by parties that do not have a financial interest in them.”


Speaking to the Post on Friday, Stein claimed that she remembered, from her time practicing medicine, that “there were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination schedule meant, the toxic substances like mercury which used to be rampant in vaccines”.


Research has shown schedule-related concerns about vaccines to be unfounded, and that delays to vaccines actually put children at greater risk. Anti-vaxx campaigners often claim there are dangerous compounds in vaccines, though decades of safe vaccinations contradict the claim and no evidence shows that trace amounts that remain in some approved vaccines cause any harm to the body.


“We have a real compelling need for vaccinations,” Stein said, before insisting: “I think some of [the questions] at least have been addressed. I don’t know if all of them have been addressed.”


Many anti-vaccination fears stem from a paper published in 1998 and since retracted which helped lead to the barring of its author from medicine. Andrew Wakefield, a British doctor, insisted without credible evidence that vaccines could be linked to measles, mumps, rubella and autism. The completely discredited report continues to influence vaccination rates, which have fallen around the US in the last 20 years.


Stein seemed to echo such fears in her interview on Friday, though again as part of a broader argument about regulators.


“To assure the American public, whether it’s vaccinations, whether it’s administering estrogen to, you know, treat symptoms of menopause,” she said, “or at one point it was the solution to prevent Alzheimer’s and then it was discovered – oh, my goodness – it may actually contribute to Alzheimer’s – it’s really important that the American public have confidence in our regulatory boards so that all of our medical treatments and medications actually are approved by people who do not have a vested interest in their promotion.”


Related: Vaxxed: an expert view on controversial film about vaccines and autism


The Republican nominee, Donald Trump, has explicitly linked vaccines to autism. At a September debate, he claimed, without specifics or evidence: “People that work for me, just the other day, two years old, beautiful child went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later, got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.”


In contrast, Bernie Sanders, the progressive candidate whose voters Stein has tried to win since his defeat in the Democratic primary, has forcefully rejected anti-vaccination ideas.


“I think obviously vaccinations work,” he said last year. “The difficulty is if I have a kid who is suffering from an illness, who is subjected to a kid who walks into a room without vaccines, that could kill that child. And that’s wrong.”


Clinton, too, has been unequivocal, tweeting: “The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork. Let’s protect all our kids.”



Green party candidate Jill Stein accused of "anti-vaxxer" sympathies

26 Mart 2014 Çarşamba

Don"t spoil the party - my illness is my company

I’ve been poorly this year, very poorly…but not so poorly that I cannot nonetheless have a bucketful of fun. But there’s a difficulty in my social life.


They aren’t near pals, you’ve met them right here and there at other ‘dos’, passed the time of day at the checkout, witnessed them at the college gate, but all of a sudden you are the complete object of their fascination. They spot you across a room, mouth silently at their companions, “She’s the one particular …” and beeline in direction of you. You smile, but their encounter is puckered, as if a especially huge raw onion has been pushed up their bottom. They grab your arm, push close against you and whisper conspiratorially in really, quite precise words “How …are…you?”


“Fine, thanks.” They seem disappointed. “No, truly, how was it? You can tell me…almost everything.”


The encounter contorts a lot more as a red pepper is extra to the onion and they squeeze your arm tighter, their mouth against your ear breathing: “What remedy did they give you?”


Appear, you stupid prat, you really feel like saying. Will not you understand I have lived, breathed this sickness for the previous yr, it is the first issue I consider about in the morning and the last issue at evening. I just want to be typical, enjoy an evening out and overlook about it. Fears invade my thoughts consistently, the final ruddy issue I require at a get together when I am lastly beginning to unwind is a person I hardly know raking it all up. I do not want to sate your morbid curiosity or pander to your Mom Teresa delusions. If you are genuinely interested in me, ask me about what books I am reading, in which I’ve been lately, how my fantasy footie group is faring. Tell me about your holidays, even, ye gods, your kids’ examination results. Something but bloody effectively prodding at my even now sore wound. If, and when, I want to share information, I will be the particular person to make a decision that.


But, of course, I don’t say people things. When once more I am caught off guard, trapped by social conventions and thwarted great manners, to idiotically reveal to someone I know has a megaphone for a mouth details I will regret later on.


It need to be like this for so many people who have had a poor time: a divorce, a redundancy, or even worse the reduction of a kid. The final factor they need to have after they discover the courage to be sociable is to commit time with the Spanish inquisition of relative strangers. It infuriates me that I bottle it, that I never inform them to shut the F up. As an alternative, I get bullied into answering their concerns, inwardly fuming, realising the yr has left me significantly less robust than I considered, unable to stand up to them without bursting into tears. The celebration is spoilt as dark thoughts and recollections of the previous months’ trauma return and I just want to leave.


A nurse at the hospital tells me this is widespread and, of course, nothing at all to do with any real empathy but every little thing to do with these people’s own fears and egos. It bolsters their protection and sense of self and off the record. Do inform them to shut the F up, she says. You may get better faster.


I know of a amount of people who have been driven to move residence due to the fact of this intrusive questioning, and it’s certainly crossing my thoughts, but I guess that would just be working away. I suppose I ought to stand and fight.


So if you are one particular of these individuals: please, please don’t do it any longer, be sensitive adequate to know that if I want to talk about this kind of personalized things I’ll choose my personal time, individual and place.


Otherwise, I regret I can not be held responsible for my actions. I will be driven to serious GBH…. I feel you can do a whole lot of damage with a canape.





Don"t spoil the party - my illness is my company

6 Mart 2014 Perşembe

How the ‘Discoverer’ of ‘AIDS’ in five Gay Party Boys from 1981 Created the Largest Blunder in Background

Many people might not be aware that there is a group of people who question the official HIV/AIDS story that we have been familiar with for the past thirty years.  These people are called “denialists” by the AIDS establishment. Propagandists use this term as a means to discredit and dehumanize anyone who dares to question the orthodox perspective on HIV. Why would anyone have to question? Why would there be any doubt that HIV causes AIDS? Why are people who question the orthodoxy treated like heretics, targeted with character assassination, dehumanized, insulted or even blamed for the death of HIV+ people?


Most people around the globe are aware only of the orthodox theory on HIV and have no clue that there is another story to be heard and that this story depicts what some would call the greatest medical fraud in human history.  I would advise any person who still is capable of critical thinking to compare both sides, dissident and orthodox and later decide what makes more sense. Regardless of the never ending propaganda campaign pushed by the AIDS establishment to keep people on the HIV bandwagon, many people who have heard of the dissident perspective on HIV believe that there definitely is and has been something fishy going on for a long time.


For starters, the HIV tests are non specific as they do not detect the presence of HIV, but they detect proteins or antibodies which could be in the body for countless reasons. At the moment, the list of known cross reactions is 100 or more and include things such as pregnancy, the flu, antibodies created by vaccination, candida albicans antibodies, hepatitis, tuberculosis, rheumatoid arthritis etc. Follow the link below to read an old list containing 70 or so cross reactions. An updated list containing 100+ cross reactions is confidential and being used at the moment in court cases.


http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/cjtestfp.htm


The criteria for testing also varies from country to country. You may be positive in the US but the same test could be interpreted as negative in another area of the globe due to the way the western blot and elisa tests (confirmatory tests) are interpreted there.


The “infections” in the United States remain mostly confined to the original target groups; homosexuals, blacks, iv drug users etc while in countries such as Africa the majority of infections are from heterosexual transmission. How can a virus target people based on their race, sexual orientation or choice of lifestyle? Yes, the CDC and NIH tend to say that everyone is at risk for AIDS but yet nothing has changed since the start of the “epidemic”. How can it be possible that a person who tested positive in America no longer tests positive when moving to a different country? How can it be possible that there is a great number of infected virgin girls in Africa? What is this, immaculate infection going on?


Another thing to consider is that if a person chooses an alternative for their health instead of taking the highly toxic and black boxed antiretrovirals or HAART treatment, they are shunned and demonized at every turn. Most people are unaware of the HIV world thinking that perhaps it operates in the same fashion as the cancer industry. After all, your oncologist might be against you attempting a natural treatment instead of opting for chemo, radiation and surgery, but a cancer patient will never be called a cancer denialist by those who do not agree with his or her choice. In the AIDS world, this is all too common and people are controlled with fear and propaganda by the AIDS establishment in order to stay compliant and not even think of asking questions about “the other story” on HIV. I’ve seen it and it’s something straight out of the twilight zone.


There is much to discuss in regards to this issue but when it comes to it, I believe the time has come for a reappraisal of the original HIV/AIDS hypothesis done by researchers, scientists, doctors or whoever as long as a clear, non-biased and non-restricted investigation is done. Many medical professionals and scientists around the world are aware of the fallacies behind the original HIV theory but they are stonewalled every time they attempt to speak about or further their research into this. Why should the establishment have to silence and block these people? After all, if 30 years of AIDS research is no doubt correct and the HIV tests are specific and accurate, there should be no problem in proving this once and for all even to those who still remain skeptical.


My friend Cal Crilly wrote the following information. Give it a read and decide for yourself if we were lied to for 30 years or if big pharma, the CDC, FDA, NIH etc were telling the truth all along. Regardless, people should be allowed to choose which treatment plan, if any, they decide to follow. The answer to this issue in my opinion is not chemotherapy for life, the answer lies in natural healing. AIDS world is unique as there is no second opinion allowed, no other treatments other than what big pharma pushes on patients and you better follow what they say or they will call you a “denialist” and do everything in their power to discredit you and make you appear like a monster responsible for the death of other people.


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By Cal Crilly


It is not hard to see where AIDS researchers totally stuffed up, it was right at the beginning.
This is Gallo’s 1984 press conference where he declared HIV was the cause, this is so Hollywood.


Margaret Heckler & Robert Gallo – 1984 Press Conference


While this below is Michael Gottlieb’s first ever key study on gays with AIDS in 1981.


Gottlieb “noticed a pattern of unusual illnesses in homosexual men who’d had no contact with each other.”
Not sexually transmitted was it?
Instead Gottlieb claimed this was caused by a sexually transmitted mutant cytomegalovirus which depleted T-cells?


“The diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia was confirmed for all 5 patients ante-mortem by closed or open lung biopsy. The patients did not know each other and had no known common contacts or knowledge of sexual partners who had had similar illnesses. The 5 did not have comparable histories of sexually transmitted disease. Four had serologic evidence of past hepatitis B infection but had no evidence of current hepatitis B surface antigen. Two of the 5 reported having frequent homosexual contacts with various partners. All 5 reported using inhalant drugs, and 1 reported parenteral drug abuse. Three patients had profoundly depressed numbers of thymus-dependent lymphocyte cells and profoundly depressed in vitro proliferative responses to mitogens and antigens. Lymphocyte studies were not performed on the other 2 patients.”
Pneumocystis Pneumonia—Los Angeles 1981


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470612/


Michael Gottlieb either deliberately or stupidly completely ignored the fact that all the gay men had been nitrate inhalant users…
“All 5 reported using inhalant drugs, and 1 reported parenteral drug abuse.”


“In writing up the case later for the New England Journal of Medicine Gottlieb claimed that “A high level of exposure of male homosexuals to cytomegalovirus-infected secretions may account for the occurrence of this immune deficiency.”‘
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and mucosal candidiasis in previously healthy homosexual men: evidence of a new acquired cellular immunodeficiency.


http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198112103052401


This is the entire abstract, tell me if you can find any mention of poppers or nitrate inhalants after his first case study write up?


“Four previously healthy homosexual men contracted Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, extensive mucosal candidiasis, and multiple viral infections. In three of the patients these infections followed prolonged fevers of unknown origin. In all four cytomegalovirus was recovered from secretions. Kaposi’s sarcoma developed in one patient eight months after he presented with esophageal candidiasis. All patients were anergic and lymphopenic; they had no lymphocyte proliferative responses to soluble antigens, and their responses to phytohemagglutinin were markedly reduced. Monoclonal-antibody analysis of peripheral-blood T-cell subpopulations revealed virtual elimination of the Leu-3+ helper/inducer subset, an increased percentage of the Leu-2+ suppressor/cytotoxic subset, and an increased percentage of cells bearing the thymocyte-associated antigen T10. The inversion of the T helper to suppressor/cytotoxic ratio suggested that cytomegalovirus infection was an important factor in the pathogenesis of the immunodeficient state. A high level of exposure of male homosexuals to cytomegalovirus-infected secretions may account for the occurrence of this immune deficiency. (N Engl J Med. 1981; 305:1425–31.)
That got to the Journal by December of 1981.


In 1993 though Gottlieb said later said that blaming cytomegalovirus for immune failure was a mistake.


“Lastly, I focused on a possible viral etiology. As a longtime student of human immune disorders, I knew that only a virus could wreak this type of damage on an adult immune system. Because cytomegalovirus (CMV) was cultured from multiple sites, I proposed that it might be causal. This proved to be an error. CMV had been reactivated because of the immune deficiency.
However, I also suggested that a previously unrecognized toxin, microbe, or virus might be the culprit.”
AIDS: The Discovery.


http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1993/A1993LL19000001.pdf


The “unrecognized toxin” was completely forgotten.
If you look at the start of that admission we can see clearly Gottlieb was and still is a guy who thinks he’s brilliant and was always after the fame a virologist gets when they ‘discover’ a ‘new virus’.
I call it negligence.
It’s actually worse than negligence because this led to the widespread use of a banned cancer drug called AZT.
And this action had killed 300,000 men by 1993 when they decided at the Berlin AIDS Conference to lower the dose of AZT to ‘save lives’ and thus HAART was invented, less AZT, patients live longer, the numbers looked good.
Then it was sold to the Africans.
This has also led to appalling experiments on children, kidnappings and jail for women who even breastfed their children under the guise of ‘Child Protection’.


In reality since the Genome Project happened at the turn of this century we found HERV’s or our Human Endogenous Retroviruses were highest in our germ cells when those reproductive cells grow and that there are retroviruses all over the body even in T-cells.
Those HERV retroviruses also appear if any of our cells become cancer or reproductive tumours.
This means in men the germ cells are really only in the testes and the anti-retrovirals will be killing less cells in men than in women, but still men get shocking side effects from being tricked into taking AIDS drugs.
So anti-retrovirals that ‘work’ on a women’s retroviruses in her germ or reproductive cells are preventing growth of the breast tissue, the cervical tissue and the uterus and the placenta.
Women and children on these drugs in any long term are really stopping all their cells.
These are the cells that make you a woman and cells that help form the child’s organ’s and nervous system.


If you see Gottlieb’s account of the ‘discovery’ it’s clear any viral sequence would do for a journal write up,


“In the fall of 19801 collected several cases of what I thought was a new syndrome.
Thinking about publication, early in 1981,1 phoned Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). I spoke with assistant editor Joe Elia and presented a sketch of the new syndrome to him. He quickly put Relman on the phone. I told them I had a story that would be as significant as Legionnaire’s disease.
Although I was an unknown assistant professor of medicine from UCLA, Relman was both kind and responsive. He listened to my description of the patients and the T helper cell deficiency we had observed. Since it would take a minimum of three months from the time I submitted an article until it was published, he suggested that I publish a brief article in the Center for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). NEJM would not view that as “prepublication” and would still consider accepting a more detailed article.
He did not promise to publish my paper, but said he’d like to see it. My June 5, 1981, report in the MMWFT allowed me to alert public health officials and practicing physicians to the new disease and to stake a claim as the “discoverer” of AIDS.”
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and mucosal candidiasis in previously healthy homosexual men: evidence of a new acquired cellular immunodeficiency.
New Engl. J. Med. 305:1425-31, 1981. http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1993/A1993LL19000001.pdf


Well that report was so ‘brief’ no mention of popper use appeared in it at all, the media went into ‘viral panic’ mode and Gottlieb got his new ‘Syndrome’ in the journals so he was not merely an ‘unknown assistant professor of medicine from UCLA’


By also saying “However, I also suggested that a previously unrecognized toxin, microbe, or
virus might be the culprit.” Gottlieb in effect was passing over the fact that Nitrates had caused immune failure and passing on the ‘Virus that causes AIDS” theory and backing up Gallo with his criminal HIV test.
Gallo of course was a cancer virologist, today we now know that all cancers release retroviruses as our DNA is composed of 8% retroviruses.
We also know now in the 21st Century that retroviruses are needed for a successful pregnancy as the placenta is the organ with the most retroviruses in the body while the reproductive germ cells in people are also chock full or retroviruses.
Gallo didn’t know that in 1984.
He also didn’t know there are retroviruses in women’s breasts as they are germ cells and in children’s brains as they grow.
Robert Gallo also in 1984 had suggested using the p24 antigen test as a means of measuring “tumour size’ only 2 months before he made the claim that p24 was part of HIV at a press conference.
There was never any peer review of the HIV causes AIDS claim, that peer review was only first published in Nature in 2012 when Peter Duesberg was finally begrudgingly granted a peer review paper in a journal.
There were cries of “How can we allow duesberg rubbish to be printed when HIV has been ‘proven’ from all quarters.


Following Gottieb’s Journal claims in The New England Journal of Medicine there was a study in 1982 from Lancet that showed clearly that gay nitrate users with Kaposi’s and without Kaposi’s had low T-cell counts.
This was 2 years before Gallo claimed a retrovirus he named HTLV-III or HIV was causing the t-cell depletion?
Gallo also had not isolated HIV and was trying to prove HIV existed with antibodies, given the fact we now know that our genome comprises 8% retroviruses why did Gallo blame a retrovirus when it was clear all the patients were snorting drugs which cause thymus atrophy, blood poisoning and even blindness?
When the reality is that AIDS happened when a lot of gays were having fun until they got to the hospital.


“Both KS patients had regularly used amyl or butyl nitrite (AN); they had low helper/suppressor (H/S) T-lymphocyte ratios before chemotherapy”
Amyl nitrite may alter T lymphocytes in homosexual men. 1982


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6121088


“First, consider what may be the largest single money maker in the Gay world — the popper industry. Within the last fifteen years the use of poppers has exploded in the Gay male world, with a spillover lately among some Lesbians. Many Gay businesses, and not just bath houses, now routinely sell poppers, and their use has become as ubiquitous in bars, baths, and bookstores as their odor. A huge number of Gay men never have sex anymore without poppers. Many are unable even to masturbate without them.
The money rolls in. A study in 1978 estimated that the popper industry was grossing $ 50 million a year. Today that figure is probably much higher.”
POPPERS: an ugly side of gay business. Nov. 1981


http://paganpressbooks.com/jpl/EVANSPOP.HTM


“In the gay ghettos of the Seventies and early Eighties, poppers were always at the center of the action. On any given night at, say, the Anvil in Manhattan, a large percentage of the men on the dance floor would have poppers in hand, and many of the rest would be helping to pass the bottles around. Some disco clubs would even add to the general euphoria by occasionally spraying the dance floor with poppers fumes.
Michael Rumaker, in his classic book A day and a Night at the Baths, describes the tubs as “permeated with that particularly inert, greasy odor of poppers. Wherever you went, the musky chemical smell of it was constantly in your nostrils.” He found himself heading to the single, small window, in order to gasp a few breaths of “something other than the cold, kerosene smell of amyl.”
My own most vivid memory of poppers in action goes back to Fire Island, sometime in the Seventies – that legendary time. Yes, children, I was there, I remember it. I was vistiting friends in the Pines, and was spending a couple of hours at the disco one night. Across the room, I noticed an acquaintance of mine, the writer George Whitmore, dancing up a storm and inhaling liberally from a poppers bottle which he kept in the pocket of his jeans. Somehow in the course of the evening, the bottle broke, and the contents spilled all over George’s leg, giving him a terrible and very unsightly burn. It made me wonder what kind of damage inhaling the stuff must do.”
THE POPPERS STORY The Rise and Fall and Rise of ‘The Gay Drug’


http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/iypoppers.htm


So poppers were causing blood poisoning in the Journals back in the 70′s.


Methemoglobinemia from Sniffing Butyl Nitrite 1979


http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=693338


“Discusses the abuse and effects of inhalation of nitrites. Use of amyl nitrite by the gay population during homosexual activity; Clinical aspects of alkyl nitrite exposure; Efforts of government agencies to control the use of such compounds and minimize their hazards to users.
Blush Not with Nitrates 1980


http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/6986503/blush-not-nitrates


And poppers are still causing blood poisoning, heart attacks and blindness to this day.


“Both the popularity of and legal tolerance for poppers have led to the perception that these drugs are relatively innocuous.1 Here, we describe four patients who were seen within a few months of one another and who had prolonged visual loss as a result of damage to foveal photoreceptors shortly after inhaling poppers.
In January 2010, Patient 1, a 27-year-old woman, presented with an 11-day history of a reduction in bilateral vision and a “central bright dot” in both eyes. The night before the onset of symptoms, she had attended a party, at which both she and Patient 2 had inhaled poppers (brand name, Jungle Juice) and consumed approximately half a bottle of high-grade alcohol.”
Poppers-Associated Retinal Toxicity 2010


http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1005118


Pop goes the O2: a case of popper-induced methaemoglobinamia 2012


http://casereports.bmj.com/content/2012/bcr-2012-007176.full


The reality is that a lot of gay guys were having a disco to end all disco’s while the Reagan Christians surround them in a few ghetto’s and put the voodoo on them even more
The other logical ‘this poison could cause AIDS’ claim is that during the early 1980′s Hot Oil sexual lubricants were sold with Benzenes to gays in particular with levels that would cause immune failure and cancers.


Stephen Byrnes writing in 1997 provided an example of the Spanish oil incident where people just withered away and wasted from benzene poisoning.


“In short, the victims of TOS became ill from ingesting benzene-contaminated olive oil. The symptoms of this condition were virtually identical to American pellagra: immunosuppression, fever, chills, sweats, rashes, eosinophilia, muscle wasting, cough, dyspnea, muscle cramps, dry eyes and mouth, skin lesions, dementia, peripheral neuropathy, pneumonia, chronic hepatitis, lymph swelling, and opportunistic infections. Additionally, cellular and immunological abnormalities occurred: an inversion of CD4/CD8 cell ratios, production of autoantibodies to collagen DNA, and reduced T and B cellular responses to mitogens. It was proposed that the autoantibody production was the result of an increase in the CD4/CD8 T cell ratios.


While it is true that the first cases of AIDS, called GRID back then, were reported to the CDC in 1981 by Dr. Michael Gottlieb, the first cases of KS and AIDS were seen in the gay community beginning in 1978 and the mysterious new disease seemed to only strike two groups of people: bottoms (passive in anal intercourse), and “fistees” (those who liked to be fisted, or have someone’s fist and arm anally inserted into them). Exclusive tops were not affected, unless they were heavy drug users. Those with a preference for oral sex, giving or receiving, may have gotten other venereal ailments, but they did not catch the new disease. What was it that bottoms and fistees had in common, besides poppers to relax the smooth muscles of the anus? Lubricant and lots of it if they were promiscuous.
Were new lubricants introduced to the gay community in 1978? Previously, gay men had used KY jelly, Crisco, or baby oil for anal sex but in 1978 there were new lubricants introduced and heavily marketed to the gay community, viz., Lube and Performance, as advertisements in back issues of gay periodicals show. As a matter of fact, 1978 marked the dawn of “special” lubricants, both “hot” and regular, formulated for and used by gay men. They were all oil-based and contained very high amounts of acetone and benzoic acid in them. The oils were, like the bad olive oil in Madrid, “denatured.” Curiously, as these lubricants became available to gay men in other countries, via mail order, AIDS began to appear in those places.
Benzene, Lubricants and AIDS Explore! January 1997


http://educate-yourself.org/cn/benzeneandaids18jan02.shtml


http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/sblubejob.htm


And to this day FDA regulation of lubricants is questionable, I know one at my supermarket contains anti-freeze to get the ‘hot’ feel..


“Although most people will list only K-Y Jelly when asked to recall the names of personal lubricants, hundreds of the products are being used for sex across the globe. These sex aids are designed to make things easier. So it’s a little unsettling that experiments carried out in recent years have indicated that some of the products might be smoothing the way for disease transmission.
Used to reduce friction and increase pleasure during intercourse, lubricants are about a $ 219 million market in the U.S. alone, according to the Chicago-based market research firm SymphonyIRI Group.
But a handful of studies have called into question the safety of these sex aids, although none have shown cut-and-dried proof of risk. Some of the experiments have shown that personal lubricants can damage cells lining both the vagina and rectum, potentially making the body more vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections (STIs). And one epidemiological investigation, published early this year, reported that participants who consistently used personal lubricants for rectal intercourse had a higher prevalence of STIs, such as chlamydia, than inconsistent users (Sex. Transm. Dis., DOI: 10.1097/olq.0b013e318235502b).
Studies Raise Questions About Safety Of Personal Lubricants 2012


https://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i50/Studies-Raise-Questions-Safety-Personal.html


“Ingredients to avoid
Though this list isn’t by any means complete, some questionable ingredients include: parabens, petrochemicals, benzene derivatives such as sodium benzoate, methyl, ethyl and propylparaben, and benzoate of soda. Boric acid, salicylates and cinnamic aldehyde (an ingredient used in ‘hot’ lubricants) are also questionable.
11 Nasty Side Effects of Using the Wrong Lubrication


http://www.examiner.com/article/11-nasty-side-effects-of-using-the-wrong-lubrication


I could tell you my personal Benzene stories but won’t bore you with the carnage


Then there are still shocking amounts of hydroquinone being used by black women without anyone telling them?


“Attention is drawn to the widespread use of bleaching preparations by Black women. These products often contain hydroquinone. They act efficiently as bleaching agents, but chronic oversaturation of the skin with hydroquinone eventually produces ochronosis. This complication has reached epidemic proportions in the Transvaal. Although the assay of hydroquinone in cosmetic products has not yet been standardized, we present some provisional results. The clinical, social and industrial aspects are also significant.”
Chronic hydroquinone poisoning of the skin from skin-lightening cosmetics. A South African epidemic of ochronosis of the face in dark-skinned individuals.


http://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/7361208/reload=0;jsessionid=g0HmzrwpcN7b3mMue2U5.10


Hydroquinone is still on sale.


“Usually associated with use in skin lighteners, especially those products marketed to women of color, hydroquinone may also be a contaminant in other cosmetics ingredients. Linked to cancer and organ-system toxicity, it is one of the most toxic ingredients used in personal care products.”
Hydroquinone


http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=289


People will say “But what about Africa? Aren’t they all dying from HIV?”
Well not all of the Africans are dying from HIV.
But housing and the food situation is desperate in South Africa, the ‘AIDS country’ and it is no wonder people get sick.
I feel lucky.
In Australia of course there is no AIDS we are walking steaks from the night before, the burger at lunch, the bacon and eggs for breakfast, Chiko roll and Breaker at tea, no worries here.
It’s hardly appropriate to be saving up to give these people drugs like AZT and Nevirapine when they are starving and the more money spent on these toxic drugs the less there will be for any real hospital services.


Food Bank SA spokesman Keri Uys said yesterday: “South Africa is in dire straights. The entire country is affected. It is not just rural areas.
“Every day millions of people go to be bed hungry. There are children whose daily food is half a white-bread sandwich. How can you bring up a nation on this?”
“The implication is a death sentence.”
Twelve million going to bed hungry in SA


http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/01/30/twelve-million-going-to-bed-hungry-in-sa


South Africa is basically a mining dump with lots of pesticides from farming thrown everywhere too.


“Feeding schemes based on school garden produce have been proposed as an effective solution to food insecurity and hunger among learners in South Africa. However, few studies have looked at the potential contamination of school food gardens when situated near mine tailing dams.”


“Results. High levels of arsenic were found in the school soil samples, and elevated concentrations of lead and mercury in the school vegetables. Calculation of the estimated daily intake for a child of 30 kg, however, indicated that levels of lead, mercury and arsenic in vegetables were within acceptable limits. However, the levels of lead in the vegetable samples were high across all three sites.
Conclusion. Further investigation and research should be undertaken to assess the source/s and extent of public exposure to heavy metals in vegetables in South Africa.”
Heavy metal contamination in a school vegetable garden in Johannesburg 2012


http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/5184/4008


The miners who worked for years without gasmasks have silicosis and they get TB from the mines and going back home to the slums.


“Older in‐service gold miners in South Africa have a high prevalence of PTB, which is significantly associated with dust and silica exposure, even in the absence of silicosis. Limitations include a survivor workforce and the use of cumulative exposures based on current exposures. Dust control is an important component in control of the PTB epidemic in South African gold mines.”
Tuberculosis and silica exposure in South African gold miners


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2078150/


The people in Durban are downwind from the Engen refinery.


South African Environmental Justice struggles against “toxic” petrochemical industries in South Durban: The Engen Refinery Case


http://www.umich.edu/~snre492/brian.html


While the people in Johannesburg are sitting on a rising arsenic water supply, no one seems to be watching.


“Millions of litres of highly acidic mine water is rising up under Johannesburg and, if left unchecked, could spill out into its streets some 18 months from now, Parliament’s water affairs portfolio committee heard on Wednesday.
The acid water is currently about 600m below the city’s surface, but is rising at a rate of between 0.6 and 0,9m a day, water affairs deputy director water quality management Marius Keet told MPs.
“[It] can have catastrophic consequences for the Johannesburg central business district if not stopped in time. A new pumping station and upgrades to the high-density sludge treatment works are urgently required to stop disaster,” he warned.”
Johannesburg on acidic water time bomb 2010


http://mg.co.za/article/2010-07-21-johannesburg-on-acidic-water-time-bomb


I’m sure there are more problems like no jobs, no unemployment benefit, depression, crime, drug use, smoking, drinking, stress, I don’t live there but will statistics like these you don’t need HIV to do the job.
“It found that, in Johannesburg, 43% of the poor faced starvation and malnutrition. Researchers believe the figure could be higher.”


Anyway the end result of Gottlieb’s 1981 failure to mention Nitrates as a cause of AIDS was every virologist in town and media outlet went orgasmic over Gottlieb’s ‘New Virus’ and by the time Robert Gallo held his press conference about HIV causing AIDS in 1984 everyone was hypnotised by their voodoo magic which continues to caste it’s spell to this day….


“The first recognized cases of AIDS were reported in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on June 5, 1981. I recall this report vividly. A few months earlier, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had begun sending an advance copy of the MMWR text to state health departments. The advance text of the June 5 MMWR had a lead article on the sudden and unexplained finding of five apparently unrelated cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in five young gay men from Los Angeles. The MMWR text was received in my office just before our weekly Tuesday afternoon staff meeting was to start. I handed the text to Tom Ault, who was responsible for the state’s venereal disease field unit and asked him to have some of our federal- or state-assigned staff in Los Angeles assist in the investigation of these cases. I remember saying to him that it may not turn out to be much of anything, but it may be the start of something. I never imagined that that something would eventually develop into a worldwide epidemic of disease and death.
In the ensuing weeks and months, it became apparent that the mysterious illness reported from Los Angeles was also present among gay men in San Francisco.”
The AIDS Epidemic in San Francisco: The Medical Response, 1981-1984, Volume IV


http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt729005cr&&doc.view=entire_text


The dead might have something else to say about it??


“Those who have eyes to see are witnessing genocide-the genocide of gay men. Millions of dollars are now being spent on an international advertising campaign, “Living With HIV”, in which gay men and other members of “risk groups” are being told:
Get tested for antibodies to HIV [the alleged "AIDS virus"] — if you “test positive” you need “medical intervention” which could “put time on your side”. The “medical intervention” is AZT (also known as Retrovir and zidovudine), and the campaign is paid for, directly and indirectly, by Burroughs-Wellcome, the manufacturer of AZT.
The campaign consists of a phoney diagnosis followed by a lethal treatment. Already tens of thousands of objectively healthy gay men have been scared and bullied and bamboozled into taking AZT, allegedly in order to “slow the progression to AIDS”. Optimism regarding their prognosis would be foolish. Except for the lucky few who stop “treatment” in time, they will die. Death is the expected biochemical consequence of taking AZT, for the fundamental action of the drug is to terminate DNA synthesis, the very life process itself. As Joseph Sonnabend has stated, “AZT is incompatible with life”. Without a single benefit demonstrated by honest and competent research, AZT can do nothing but kill.”
HIV VOODOO FROM BURROUGHS-WELLCOME By John Lauritsen
New York Native 7 Jan. 1991 [revised 16 Jan. 1991]


http://www.virusmyth.com/aids/hiv/jlvoodoo.htm


Thank you John Lauritsen for blowing the whistle so hard I found the book The AIDS War” in the University of Queensland library in 1998 and “got curious??”
At least I know I’m not mad.



How the ‘Discoverer’ of ‘AIDS’ in five Gay Party Boys from 1981 Created the Largest Blunder in Background

21 Ocak 2014 Salı

How I misplaced bodyweight by pledging to give money to a political party I loathe

My existence so far in 2014 has been like an episode of the Most significant Loser. I will not have Michelle Bridges spurring me on, though. I have a Nobel Prize-winning professor emeritus of economics at Princeton University, Daniel Kahneman.


When I wished to drop fat this 12 months, I knew I did not require ordinary determination. I needed super-powered determination. Kahneman won his Nobel Prize for function that showed human beings dislike dropping cash more than we like receiving it. This is called reduction aversion. It is one particular of the massive findings of behavioural economics, and 1 of the approaches in which human behaviour violates the rationality anticipated of Homo Economicus.


So what I did was make a bet on myself. If I failed to get rid of 4 kilos in January, I would forfeit $ 500. I made this my public pledge, broadcast on my blog, for the entire world to see.


But to whom ought to the money go? I couldn’t just give it to a charity. Then I could justify consuming cheese, claiming I was doing very good in the world. I could just consider the funds and throw it in a bin, I thought. But then, that’s not a moral issue to do. I ultimately hit upon a determination even a lot more potent than that: providing the cash to the Australian Motoring Fans celebration.


The get together who surfed into a six-yr federal parliamentary term on the back of just .51% of 1st preference votes.


The Celebration whose platform’s initial genuine policy is this tortuosity:



We will not accept proposed legislation that spots the Australian family members Life-style at threat. This includes the regular Australian family’s proper to modify and restore cars based mostly on their own freedom of expression we do expect these restorations and modifications to be secure.



The party that went on to do a deal with the Palmer United get together, guaranteeing they will vote as a bloc.


The prospect of sending money to them helps make me shiver. 


Now, I am not a rev-head. Despite investing many Januarys in Canberra when SummerNats, Australia’s biggest horse electrical power celebration, is on, I have in no way been tempted to attend. In reality, I only got a driver’s license at age 25, when my career took me to our nation’s capital.


After I moved back to the civilised embrace of Melbourne, I quickly returned to riding the rails and riding the bike trails. All went effectively for a even though. But 2013 was a lot more rails than trails. Combine that with a regular office diet regime of peanut M&ampMs, Tim Tams and the usual tsunami of muffins, and I was altogether far more roly-poly than was sensible.


It was action time. Okay, it was not action time. I waited, gorging myself on almost everything in my path during the Christmas period. Then on the last day of 2013, I uploaded my bodyweight to the world wide web and created my public pledge: 4 kilos off in January.


People on social media gasped, doubted and supplied tips. ”Wow, a kilo a week is a massive inquire. Lots of luck,” explained one particular. Another was ready to conspire to keep cash out of the hands of the Motoring Lovers:



We can talk about how significantly you can safely dehydrate your self to maintain your integrity. It would be outside the spirit of the challenge but inside the principles. Some thing to have in your back pocket!



I did not minimize out any meals, but I centered on portion size and wrote down almost everything I ate. As it turns out, the determination has proved really solid. I have posted my weight online daily, and it has tumbled.


The execution has been haphazard, though. My estimates of the energy worth of home-cooked food items were at first a bit off, so I ate a whole lot of extremely tiny portions. That left me lying in bed at midnight, my mouth filling with the sour taste of saliva as my entire body refused to accept it had eaten its last meal for the day. I misplaced bodyweight really rapidly ahead of I received my kilojoule-counting eye in, and my important other reports I was “exceedingly cranky.” In the finish though, that early discomfort has led to comfort. I reached the 4 kilos objective by twenty January, leaving me ten days in which I hope to shed another kilo or so as a buffer.


But then, I see a risk. Soon after the Motoring Lovers end looming with each and every mouthful I take, what then? Will another, greater bet be essential to maintain me from the dreaded yo-yo? Will I have to reside my complete life beneath the yoke of reduction aversion? Will that tension drive me back to the peanut M&ampMs?



How I misplaced bodyweight by pledging to give money to a political party I loathe