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By Matthew Day in Warsaw

Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus.

The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious virus.

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 Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan
By LOLITA C. BALDOR,
Associated Press Writer 

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time.

Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding
 
Just in case the revelation that American torturers took their cues from that model of moral clarity that was the Chinese Communist regime hasn't fully convinced you that the practice is unquestionably, incontrovertibly evil, Christopher Hitchens' column in the August 2008 Vanity Fair, "Believe Me, It's Torture," ought to drive the point home. That is, if the accompanying video, available online at Vanity Fair's website, doesn't do it first.

In the video, Christopher Hitchens is brought, hooded and bound, into an austere looking storage room, and placed on a board, slightly elevated at its foot. He is instructed by the similarly masked interrogators on how to call a halt to the procedure, either through a safe word - "red" - or by releasing the "dead man's handle" - a metal object placed in each hand. A towel is placed over his face and one of the interrogators begins pouring water on Hitchens' face from an ordinary-looking milk carton. The interrogators demonstrate no more aggression that one might when watering a houseplant. In fact, the process looks so unremarkable that you begin to wonder if they aren't simply "warming Hitchens up" for something worse.

Seventeen seconds pass, and then Hitchens drops the dead man's handle. When the hood is removed, it is jarring to see how panic-stricken Hitchens looks.

In the video, Hitchens describes the experience:

    They told me that when I activated the 'dead man's handle' - which is a simple process, you simply release something, let it go - I didn't do that. I practically, even though my hands were bound, I...as near as I could...I threw the thing out of my hand. I mean, I really wanted it to stop.

    I could swear I shouted the code word, but I hadn't.

    Everything completely goes on you when you're breathing water. You can't think about anything else.

    It would be bad enough if you did have something. Suppose if they wanted to know where a relative of yours was...or a lover. You feel, "Well, I'm going to betray them now. Because this has to come to an end. I can't take this anymore." But what if you didn't have anything? What if you'd got the wrong guy? Then you would be in danger of losing your mind very quickly.

That last paragraph, I believe, is critical, especially considering the torture practices of the Chinese Communists - who we are now emulating - were designed to elicit false confessions from those who were tortured.

Attention should be paid to the aftermath of the experience as well, which Hitchens relates thusly:

    As a result of this very brief experience, if I do anything that gets my heart rate up, and I'm breathing hard, panting, I have a slight panic sensation that I'm not going to be able to catch my breath again...lately I've been having this feeling of waking up feeling smothered, trying to push everything off my face.

It takes only seventeen seconds to impact the life of an innocent man.

[Visit the gallery here]

The Temple of Abzu Deck is a deck of cards created for people who want to work with Lovecraftian Occultism and related areas. Check it out in the gallery.

The deck is based on a gematria system applyed upon the works of Lovecraft and represents the values 1-99 in this system. Each card combines art and two phrases that in some way stands for the value, but the deck is constructed so that it leaves much interepretation to the 'user' of the cards ( sort in the spirit of the the Rorschach inkblot test ). Work with this deck has shown that the cards is connected with certain astral experiences and the cards might be used as gateways or links to this. The phrases in the cards does not list any Yog-Sothothery/'Cthulhu Mythos' entities by names and neither will you see places like 'Kadath' be mentioned in the phrases and the main reason for this is that I believe it would lock the interpretation too much. I think this has actually added to the strength of the deck, because the astral links that is connected with this isn't easily defined by any sort of bounderies. If you still want to check out what the value for an entity is thats easy to do just by following the provided link on this page to the online calculator. What you will notice if you decide to experiment with the deck is how closely connected to the underlying forces of  Yog-Sothothery( or 'Cthulhu Mythos' as Derleth refered to it) it is. Maybe the reason is the mapping against Lovecrafts work or maybe this is due to some other strange force.

One might ask why calling the deck the Temple of Abzu Deck? Abzu is an alternative old name for the Abyss. This might give some more answers:
 
http://www.blackalchemy.net/gematria/cards/

        "I have witnessed non-profits redirecting efforts of folks that are resisting at a grass roots level, the policies that help to create miserable social conditions. With the promise of some sort of pay-off, folks are re-directed to compliance with programs that do little to address causes.  These programs are oftened designed to treat symptoms, and are often in compliance with those policies that produce the social ills."

        "I had the blue tent and when I came back from the hospital Unity had taken it and all my belongings and put them in the garbage"
— Denise Martin, Homeless resident of Canal/ Claiborne overpass

Tell the NOPD and UNITY: Hands Off the Homeless

Press conference called by Homeless and Allies to Denounce-NOPD/UNITY sweeps to push out the Homeless from the Canal-Claiborne overpass

Also

Tell UNITY to Stop Destroying Peoples Tents and Dumping their belongings

Call UNITY Ex. Director Martha Kegel at (504)-821-4496 NOW!

Day and Time: Thursday, July 3rd at 4 PM
Where: Uptown Side of Canal and Claiborne overpass

         Contact: Jay Arena 504-520-9521

Homeless residents of the Canal/Claiborne overpass, and supporters, will hold a press conference at 4 PM on Thursday, July 3rd to denounce the illegal and immoral sweep of homeless people, and the merciless dumping of all their personal belongings, by the New Orleans Police Department and their accomplices, ‘UNITY’, New Orleans’ supposed homeless service and advocacy organization.

        I have no way to be certain, but it seems I have a chronic pinched nerve. Seems to me to be my sciatica nerve in my right leg.  When it gets inflamed, I am far more prone to calf cramping while I sleep. Makes me wonder of the nerve could have a build-up of oxalates, or is somehow connected to oxalate cramping in ways I do not understand.

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Yes indeed. Oxalate gets into neurons and causes nerve damage. Please
read below how they found the following:

axon loss
demyelination
oxalate crystals in axons

Susan

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April 25, 2008 -- CELIA Farber, the maverick journalist vilified by the AIDS establishment for her controversial reporting, will be honored by the Semmelweis Society on May 13 in Washington, DC, with its Clean Hands Award - "which is an amazing irony, considering I am always accused of having blood on my hands," she laughed. Farber - whose story in Harper's, "Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science," caused an uproar two years ago - will address Congress along with Berkeley professor Peter Duesberg, who claims the HIV virus doesn't cause AIDS. They'll sign books after a screening of "The Constant Gardener," about a pharmaceutical company making a killing off AIDS drugs in Africa.

NY POST
Hands Not So Bloody
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04252008/gossip/pagesix/hands_not_so_bloody_108001.htm

        Below from C_3 list.

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Today, Wednesday
6 PM
Where: Under bridge at Canal and Claiborne, where the Homeless are gathered

Quietly, the Cops on orders from Nagin, and silence from so-called advocates at Unity, have been pushing the homeless from under the bridge.  Their tents have been destroyed and personal belonging trashed by the cops

Those that are still there have asked for community support. Come out the meeting tonight to show solidarity and develop a defense plan

for more info call 504-520-9521

by scorpiorising
Wed Jul 02, 2008 at 04:19:38 PM PDT

On July 1st, in a speech given in Zanesville, Ohio, Obama promised the expansion of the Bush created Faith Based Initiative. In my view, this is yet another full tilt rightward, and promises to congeal the private enterprise's highjacking of social services, to the detriment of those served.

    "I am disappointed," said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, "that any presidential candidate would want to continue a failed policy of the Bush administration. The president's faith-based initiative has undermined civil rights and civil liberties and become deeply mired in partisan politics. It ought to be shut down, not continued."

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Faith based initiatives, yes, is money directed towards the "treatment" of social ills, but as far as addressing causes, can create real problems. It becomes a conflict of interest to address causes of social ills, when one's living is made off of its treatment, funds paid by the government (taxpayers), the very groups that ought to be addressing the problems. Instead what develops is dependence of groups, non-profits, on these monies for their administration expenses, and there is no incentive, therefore, to work to address and eliminate the ill by addressing the cause.

I have seen in New Orleans groups become treacherously competive with each other, vying for funds, and hearts and minds, whether programs are faith based or originating in grants.

I have witnessed non-profits redirecting efforts of folks that are resisting at a grass roots level, the policies that help to create miserable social conditions. With the promise of some sort of pay-off, folks are re-directed to compliance with programs that do little to address causes.  These programs are oftened designed to treat symptoms, and are often in compliance with those policies that produce the social ills.

I have seen mistrust and exclusionary policies develop within these faith-based, non-profit groups, mistrust with the very people they need to recruit to carry out their progams, and certainly, mistrust with other organizations that are more grass roots based, and choose to not depend on that type of funding. There is a natural antipathy then that develops between the groups that are grass roots based, and the non-profits.

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Regarding New Orleans, much of the government's anemic response to the catastrophe here has been "filtered" through the non-profits. Only a tax payer funded public works program would be sufficient to rebuild the extent of damage that the Gulf Coast has suffered. Our homeless population has exploded here, since Katrina, because of the huge hit our affordable housing took, as well as the HUD sponsored demolition of public housing in New Orleans. The state Road Home program has failed to address the needs of renters here, yet funds have been redirected into non-profit home ownership programs that have yet to make a dent in the need for affordable housing here.

The Fair Housing Action Center here, supposedly command central to address the needs of low income folks, received a huge grant not long ago from HUD, to investigate and expose discrimination in housing. They might have started with the HUD decision to demolish public housing, over 4000 units, that could have been reopened for low income folks desperate to return. The center, to my knowledge, never opposed the demolition of public housing here.

It is HUD's job to investigate discrimination in housing, but by funding the Fair Housing Action Center, they essentially abdicated to role to a non-profit, whose financial books are not open to public viewing, and whose policies are not subject to voter participation necessarily.

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To be given at Ekaterinburg, Russia for the Russian Parent Assembly,
May 29-30, 2008,
by Andrew Maniotis, PhD.

Abstract:

A likely explanation of the origin of “HIV’s” molecular signature comes instead not from racist notions, but from recent studies in genomic research that suggests that the so-called template for the protein molecular signatures of “HIV” may derive from endogenous DNA sequences (coming from cellular origin instead of viral origin). It is known that these cellular proteins are expressed under certain conditions by normal uninfected yeast, insects, dogs, rhesus monkeys, chimps, and humans. “HIV” is said to have 9150 base pairs, but this template has not been purified without contaminating cellular nucleic acids. “HIV’s” molecular signature could represent a HERV (Human Endogenous Retrovirus) nucleic acid sequence, or, what is called a ‘retroid’ of one kind or another. A retroid is a special kind of mobile gene associated with diseases such as multiple sclerosis, and with normal biological functions involving the placenta. That these endogenous human genetic elements exist and are important has been shown again and again to be likely from studies on HERV's such as "the Phoenix viruses," that can be produced by infecting cells with certain sequences of DNA, which then is replicated and packaged by the cells into virus-like particles. Any modern analysis of the human genome database will reveal more than 120, 000 full-length retroids containing reverse transcriptase transcripts. Although "HIV=AIDS" proponents are always saying the "HIV virus's" reverse transcriptase sequence is mutating when patients die on “life saving” anti-retroviral drugs that supposedly target this enzyme, genomic analyses show that reverse transcriptase is among the most stable transcripts that make up these retroids, and it is the sequence stability rather than the instability or mutability of the reverse transcriptase sequence itself that make these 128,000 retroid sequences possible to classify. What is also remarkable about new data regarding retroids and HERV’s is that reverse transcriptase was once thought by all working in AIDS research to be specific to retroviruses, and this is the enzyme they first measured, and indeed some labs continue to measure, as evidence of “HIV infection.” We are all made up partly of “retroviral” components, they are part of us. What they call “HIV” and what they have successfully branded as the most dangerous and infectious virus known to man, is (and can be evoked) in many of us, and what we have been mistaking for the “virus” are the technologies for detecting it, without any of the sober analysis of what those tests are actually detecting or what “HIV’s” molecular signature means for a human being. The probable "cause of "HIV" could be these retroids and/or endogenous HERV sequences, that can be evoked, under stress conditions, or which may become expressed in healthy persons as part of a relatively rare genetic polymorphism.

Why there is no animal model of AIDS.

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