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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:09:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>the updated capitalist pyramid scheme</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below is a link to a must-see political graphic from &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;adayinthelife&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://adayinthelife.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://adayinthelife.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;adayinthelife&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://adayinthelife.livejournal.com/790078.html&quot;&gt;http://adayinthelife.livejournal.com/790078.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:27:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below from &lt;span class=&apos;ljuser&apos; lj:user=&apos;ericmonster&apos; style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://ericmonster.livejournal.com/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif&apos; alt=&apos;[info]&apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;http://ericmonster.livejournal.com/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ericmonster&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. URL at end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=======================&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;By Matthew Day&lt;/em&gt; in Warsaw&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Authorities claim that the alleged victims received £1-2 to be tested with what they thought was a conventional flu vaccine but, according to investigators, was actually an anti bird-flu drug.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The director of a Grudziadz homeless centre, Mieczyslaw Waclawski, told a Polish newspaper that last year, 21 people from his centre died, a figure well above the average of about eight.&lt;br /&gt;Article continues&lt;br /&gt;advertisement&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although authorities have yet to prove a direct link between the deaths and the activities of the medical staff, Poland&apos;s health minister, Ewa Kopacz, has said that the doctors and nurses involved should not return to their profession.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;It is in the interests of all doctors that those who are responsible for this are punished,&quot; the minister added.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Investigators are also probing the possibility that the medical staff may have also have deceived the pharmaceutical companies that commissioned the trials.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The suspects said that the all those involved knew that the trial involved an anti-H5N1 drug and willingly participated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The news of the investigation will come as another blow to the reputation of Poland&apos;s beleaguered and poverty-stricken national health service. In 2002, a number of ambulance medics were found guilty of killing their patients for commissions from funeral companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bid-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html&quot;&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bid-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:19:16 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The Few, the Proud, the Expendable!</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below from Ward on C_3 list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I say, bring the marines home and replace them with Congress, right wing news commentators, &amp;nbsp;and their&amp;nbsp;kinfolk.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;==========================&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Pentagon extends tour of Marines in Afghanistan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;By LOLITA C. BALDOR&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;br /&gt;Associated Press Writer&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has extended the tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan, after insisting for months the unit would come home on time.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is doing combat operations in the volatile south, will stay an extra 30 days and come home in early November rather than October, Marine Col. David Lapan confirmed Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Military leaders as recently as Wednesday stressed the need for additional troops in Afghanistan. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has repeatedly praised the work of the 24th MEU in fighting Taliban militants in Helmand Province.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Defense Secretary Robert Gates, however, has repeatedly said he did not intend to extend or replace the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, calling their deployment there an extraordinary, one-time effort to help tamp down the increasing violence in the south.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asked about the possibility of an extension in early May, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he would &quot;be loathe to do that.&quot; He added that &quot;no one has suggested even the possibility of extending that rotation.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lapan said Thursday that commanders in Afghanistan asked that the Marines stay longer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Pentagon announced in January that the MEU was being ordered to Afghanistan, largely because efforts to press other NATO nations to increase their troop levels at the time had failed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Commanders faced with increasing violence have said they need at least 7,500 more troops in Afghanistan. And President Bush and defense officials have said they hope to identify additional units by the end of the year that could go to Afghanistan early next year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Taliban and their supporters have, without question, grown more effective and more aggressive in recent weeks ... as the casualty figures clearly demonstrate,&quot; Mullen told a Pentagon press conference Wednesday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He added, &quot;It&apos;s a very complex problem, and it&apos;s tied to the drug trade, a faltering economy and, as I&apos;ve said many times, the porous border region with Pakistan. There&apos;s no easy solution, and there will be no quick fix.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:41:11 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>&quot;Believe Me, It&apos;s Torture&quot;</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Even right wing idiots are starting to come to their senses.&amp;nbsp; Go to URL at end to access hotlinks in the story below.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I wish I could force every right wing talk show host and politician to be waterboarded to see if they changed their mind about waterboarding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=================================&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vanity Fair&apos;s Christopher Hitchens Undergoes Waterboarding&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Just in case the revelation that American torturers took their cues from that model of moral clarity that was the Chinese Communist regime hasn&apos;t fully convinced you that the practice is unquestionably, incontrovertibly evil, Christopher Hitchens&apos; column in the August 2008 Vanity Fair, &quot;Believe Me, It&apos;s Torture,&quot; ought to drive the point home. That is, if the accompanying video, available online at Vanity Fair&apos;s website, doesn&apos;t do it first.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 - &quot;red&quot; - or by releasing the &quot;dead man&apos;s handle&quot; - a metal object placed in each hand. A towel is placed over his face and one of the interrogators begins pouring water on Hitchens&apos; 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&apos;t simply &quot;warming Hitchens up&quot; for something worse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Seventeen seconds pass, and then Hitchens drops the dead man&apos;s handle. When the hood is removed, it is jarring to see how panic-stricken Hitchens looks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the video, Hitchens describes the experience:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They told me that when I activated the &apos;dead man&apos;s handle&apos; - which is a simple process, you simply release something, let it go - I didn&apos;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I could swear I shouted the code word, but I hadn&apos;t.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Everything completely goes on you when you&apos;re breathing water. You can&apos;t think about anything else.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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, &quot;Well, I&apos;m going to betray them now. Because this has to come to an end. I can&apos;t take this anymore.&quot; But what if you didn&apos;t have anything? What if you&apos;d got the wrong guy? Then you would be in danger of losing your mind very quickly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Attention should be paid to the aftermath of the experience as well, which Hitchens relates thusly:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; As a result of this very brief experience, if I do anything that gets my heart rate up, and I&apos;m breathing hard, panting, I have a slight panic sensation that I&apos;m not going to be able to catch my breath again...lately I&apos;ve been having this feeling of waking up feeling smothered, trying to push everything off my face. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It takes only seventeen seconds to impact the life of an innocent man.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;PREVIOUSLY, ON THE HUFFINGTON POST: Former U.S. Navy Seal Kaj Larsen experienced waterboarding firsthand, and recounted the ordeal for the Huffington Post (and on CurrentTV) in a piece titled: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kaj-larson/a-lesson-for-mukasey-why_b_70651.html&quot;&gt;&quot;A Lesson For Mukasey: Why I Had Myself Water-Boarded&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/02/ivanity-fairis-christophe_n_110444.html&quot;&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/02/ivanity-fairis-christophe_n_110444.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:06:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>leg update</title>
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  <description>&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2869466.html&quot;&gt;When I made my recent post on my experiences with Oil of Tranquility&lt;/a&gt;, I neglected to talk about my leg.&amp;nbsp; The real reason I began using Oil of Tranquility was to see if I could heal my leg.&amp;nbsp; I have been mucking with my leg now for about 3-1/4 years.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The leg has been pretty much healed for quite some time, but it is purple, tender to the touch, ugly looking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; See a list of posts dealing with various procedures for healing my leg.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1136413.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1136413.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1180049.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1180049.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1184361.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1184361.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1220221.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1220221.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1229660.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1229660.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1249044.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1249044.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1387178.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1387178.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1409877.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1409877.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1425714.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1425714.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1429304.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1429304.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1432508.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1432508.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1432598.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1432598.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1441572.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1441572.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1447947.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1447947.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1665561.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1665561.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1829599.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1829599.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When I started using Oil of Tranquility on my leg a month ago, the leg became far less tender.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Some of the purple blotches began to lighten.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; However, there has been little change in my leg since then.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It feels useful to apply Oil of Tranquility to my leg, but it does not appear to be an amazing oil for healing old woulds and scars.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:19:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>unearthed magickal PDF files</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; One of the really neat things about being a messy disorganized person is that I keep stumbling upon things I thought I had lost.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Just today I came upon some PDF files I had put together earlier this century which had originated in workings done over the past 20+ years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miskalex.org/PDF/Childe.PDF&quot;&gt;http://www.miskalex.org/PDF/Childe.PDF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miskalex.org/PDF/Invocation.PDF&quot;&gt;http://www.miskalex.org/PDF/Invocation.PDF&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miskalex.org/PDF/On%20Dreaming%20the%20Dream.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.miskalex.org/PDF/On%20Dreaming%20the%20Dream.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.miskalex.org/PDF/On%20Dreaming%20the%20Dream%20II.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.miskalex.org/PDF/On%20Dreaming%20the%20Dream%20II.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:58:24 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The Temple of Abzu Deck</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I nipped the link below from the Horus Maat e-list.&amp;nbsp; Makes me wish I had a functional printer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=================================&lt;p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blackalchemy.net/gematria/cards/gallery/index.html&quot;&gt;Visit the gallery here&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Temple of Abzu Deck is a deck of cards created for people who want to work with Lovecraftian Occultism and related areas. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blackalchemy.net/gematria/cards/gallery/index.html&quot;&gt;Check it out in the gallery&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 &apos;user&apos; 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/&apos;Cthulhu Mythos&apos; entities by names and neither will you see places like &apos;Kadath&apos; 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&apos;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&amp;nbsp; Yog-Sothothery( or &apos;Cthulhu Mythos&apos; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blackalchemy.net/gematria/cards/&quot;&gt;http://www.blackalchemy.net/gematria/cards/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:38:30 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Stop NOPD/UNITY attacks on the Homeless </title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below from Jay on C_3 list.&amp;nbsp; After reading how the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unitygno.org/&quot;&gt;UNITY organization&lt;/a&gt; is actively harming the homeless, even though they claim to be helping them, I was reminded of this quote by scorpiorising in an earlier post I made today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2870790.html&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&quot;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.&amp;nbsp; These programs are oftened designed to treat symptoms, and are often in compliance with those policies that produce the social ills.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;========================================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN-RIGHT: 30px&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;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&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;— Denise Martin, Homeless resident of Canal/ Claiborne overpass&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tell the NOPD and UNITY: Hands Off the Homeless&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Press conference called by Homeless and Allies to Denounce-NOPD/UNITY sweeps to push out the Homeless from the Canal-Claiborne overpass&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tell UNITY to Stop Destroying Peoples Tents and Dumping their belongings&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Call UNITY Ex. Director Martha Kegel at (504)-821-4496 NOW!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Day and Time: Thursday, July 3rd at 4 PM&lt;br /&gt;Where: Uptown Side of Canal and Claiborne overpass&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Contact: Jay Arena 504-520-9521&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As we celebrate the 232nd anniversary of the American revolution, fought for liberty and democratic rights, we have some of the most vulnerable members of the New Orleans’ community having their most basic civil rights trampled on.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Unconscionably, these violations of civil liberties are being committed not only by the New Orleans Police Department--a force notorious the world over for its brutality—but by UNITY, a group that claims to help the homeless.&amp;nbsp; Homeless people have denounced UNITY for their role in throwing away peoples belonging--many who were away at work when this happened--and helping facilitate the NOPD driving them from their homes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those gathered will demand that these attacks stop, and that real, permanent housing – not shelters where families are broken up—are provided. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:15:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Pinched Nerve and Oxalates</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below is a post I made to oxalate list, followed by Susan (the list owner&apos;s) reply.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So it seems that Oil of Tranquility is helpful for oxalate build-up.&amp;nbsp; Very interesting!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=================================&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; 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.&amp;nbsp; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes indeed. Oxalate gets into neurons and causes nerve damage. Please&lt;br /&gt;read below how they found the following:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;axon loss&lt;br /&gt;demyelination&lt;br /&gt;oxalate crystals in axons&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Susan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;2: Brain Pathol. 1998 Apr;8(2):247-51.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Neuropathy associated with hyperoxaluria: improvement after combined renal and liver transplantations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Galloway G, Giuliani MJ, Burns DK, Lacomis D.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Department of Neurology, Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Little is known about oxaluria-associated neuropathy, and no effective treatments have been described. We report two patients with clinically severe and progressive sensorimotor polyneuropathy associated with oxaluria. Electrodiagnostic testing and sural nerve histopathology revealed evidence of severe axon loss and demyelination. In addition, birefringent crystalline deposits were identified within endoneurial and perineurial blood vessel walls, axon cylinders, and perimysial blood vessel walls. Electron probe microscopy confirmed that calcium (consistent with calcium oxalate) was a major constituent of the crystals. Both patients had substantial improvement in neuropathic signs and symptoms after kidney and liver transplantations despite no prior improvement with hemodialysis. Our results confirm previous reports of a mixed axonal and demyelinating neuropathy with calcium oxalate deposition in association with oxaluria. In addition, our findings suggest that renal and liver transplantation may be potential treatments for the associated neuropathy. &lt;br /&gt;Publication Types:&lt;br /&gt;Case Reports&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PMID: 9546283 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4: J Neurol Sci. 1976 Oct;29(2-4):343-9.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peripheral neuropathy complicating primary hyperoxaluria.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hall BM, Walsh JC, Horvath JS, Lytton DG.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A patient with chronic renal disease due to primary hyperoxaluria developed a rapidly progressing motor neuropathy with marked impairment of nerve conduction.&lt;br /&gt;Pathological studies demonstrated the presence of both axonal degeneration and segmental demyelination, together with the presence of oxalate crystals within axons. It is suggested that the development of peripheral neuropathy complicating hyperoxaluria is a consequence of the increased life-span mad possible by haemodialysis.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Publication Types:&lt;br /&gt;Case Reports&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PMID: 185338 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1: J Feline Med Surg. 2005 Dec;7(6):357-61.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Comment in:&lt;br /&gt;J Feline Med Surg. 2006 Aug;8(4):290.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Primary hyperoxaluria (L-glyceric aciduria) in a cat.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;De Lorenzi D, Bernardini M, Pumarola M.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clinica Veterinaria S. Marco, Via Sorio, 144/c 35141 Padua, Italy.&lt;br /&gt;ddeloren@...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A 7-month-old, male European cat was examined because of weakness and inappetence. The cat was dehydrated, polypnoeic and severely weak. Severe, generalised muscle atrophy was present. Spinal reflexes were all decreased to absent. Blood analysis and urinalysis showed several abnormalities, including intermittent hyperoxaluria. The L-gliceric acid concentration was remarkably increased. Electrodiagnostic tests of the peripheral nervous system were abnormal. At necropsy, generalised muscle atrophy was observed. Microscopically, both kidneys showed intraluminal birefringent oxalate crystals. Motor neuron degeneration and accumulation of neurofilaments were observed in the axons of the spinal motor neurons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Publication Types:&lt;br /&gt;Case Reports&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PMID: 15914058 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3: Science. 1978 Dec 22;202(4374):1300-3.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Endoplasmic reticulum sequesters calcium in the squid giant axon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Henkart MP, Reese TS, Brinley FJ Jr.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Axons were loaded with calcium, rapidly frozen, and freeze-substituted. The endoplasmic reticulum, in addition to mitochondria, contained calcium deposits, as indicated by electron probe x-ray microanalysis. Oxalate injected into living axons helped to preserve calcium-containing deposits during preparation for microscopy. It is concluded that the endoplasmic reticulum is a calcium-sequestering compartment in the squid giant axon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Publication Types:&lt;br /&gt;Research Support, U.S. Gov&apos;t, Non-P.H.S.&lt;br /&gt;Research Support, U.S. Gov&apos;t, P.H.S.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PMID: 725607 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Peter Duesburg and Celia Farber Receive Clean Hands Award for Exposing AIDS Fraud!</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below from Great Debate of HIV and AIDS. &lt;p&gt;===================================&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;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 - &quot;which is an amazing irony, considering I am always accused of having blood on my hands,&quot; she laughed. Farber - whose story in Harper&apos;s, &quot;Out of Control: AIDS and the Corruption of Medical Science,&quot; caused an uproar two years ago - will address Congress along with Berkeley professor Peter Duesberg, who claims the HIV virus doesn&apos;t cause AIDS. They&apos;ll sign books after a screening of &quot;The Constant Gardener,&quot; about a pharmaceutical company making a killing off AIDS drugs in Africa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NY POST&lt;br /&gt;Hands Not So Bloody&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nypost.com/seven/04252008/gossip/pagesix/hands_not_so_bloody_108001.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.nypost.com/seven/04252008/gossip/pagesix/hands_not_so_bloody_108001.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:37:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Emergency Meeting Today to Defend Homeless</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If you or I were to take the law into our own hands and destroy the homes and property of people we did not like, we would be hauled off to jail and tried on felony charges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; However, when the major and cops take the law into their own hands and commit felonies, they are not brought to justice.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I am fucking pissed at the pigs who feel they are above the law.&amp;nbsp; The pigs and politicians all need to be sent to prison as violent criminals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below from C_3 list.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=======================================&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Today, Wednesday&lt;br /&gt;6 PM&lt;br /&gt;Where: Under bridge at Canal and Claiborne, where the Homeless are gathered&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quietly, the Cops on orders from Nagin, and silence from so-called advocates at Unity, have been pushing the homeless from under the bridge.&amp;nbsp; Their tents have been destroyed and personal belonging trashed by the cops&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Those that are still there have asked for community support. Come out the meeting tonight to show solidarity and develop a defense plan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;for more info call 504-520-9521&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:15:14 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>From New Orleans: Some notes on Obama&apos;s Endorsement of Faith Based Initiatives</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below from C_3 list.&amp;nbsp; URL at end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;======================================&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;by scorpiorising&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;Wed Jul 02, 2008 at 04:19:38 PM PDT&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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&apos;s highjacking of social services, to the detriment of those served.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;I am disappointed,&quot; said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, &quot;that any presidential candidate would want to continue a failed policy of the Bush administration. The president&apos;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.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; * scorpiorising&apos;s diary :: ::&lt;br /&gt;*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Non-profits are not transparent, not nearly to the extent that government programs, run by government employees, are supposed to be. This is inherently the problem, in my view, with Faith Based Initiatives. This initiative enlarges the non-profit, grant industry that has, in my view, served to encourage compliance with government policies that create the very social ills that non-profits are designed to &quot;treat&quot;. Whether funds given to small congregations, as Obama has promised, or larger groups, , these types of programs, as I have witnessed here in New Orleans, have encouraged the recruitment, and/or silencing of individuals and groups who potentially might have become active, or were active, in grass roots movements that are addressing the causes of our social ills.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Faith based initiatives, yes, is money directed towards the &quot;treatment&quot; 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&apos;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&amp;nbsp; These programs are oftened designed to treat symptoms, and are often in compliance with those policies that produce the social ills.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;George Bush was no idiot when he developed the faith based initiative, as cynically, I belive, he saw it as a way to pay-off his supporters, and recruit new ones through the program. It is also a way to pay lip service to social services, as these initiatives are far from adequate in addressing the social ills of New Orleans, for example. The program also serves, I believe, to split people, to pit them against each other in the competition for these funds. Grass roots organizing and movements, on the otherhand, serve to unite folks for common goals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Regarding New Orleans, much of the government&apos;s anemic response to the catastrophe here has been &quot;filtered&quot; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is HUD&apos;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid3&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I would love to hear your thoughts on the issue of Obama&apos;s support of Faith Based Initiatives. In my view, it is a sign that he has no intention of seriously addressing the social ills whose symptoms the Faith Based Initiatives are designed to &quot;treat&quot;. It also enables the government to at least pay lip service to the &quot;treatment&quot; of social ills, without proposing or making wholesale changes in public policy that would address the root causes of social ills.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/2/175510/3656/536/545603&quot;&gt;http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/7/2/175510/3656/536/545603&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:47:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>HIV/AIDS Re-Thinkers Head to Russia!!!</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; More from AIDS Debate site.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2869590.html&quot;&gt;URL at end is only useful for those who have joined&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;============================&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To be given at Ekaterinburg, Russia for the Russian Parent Assembly, &lt;br /&gt;May 29-30, 2008, &lt;br /&gt;by Andrew Maniotis, PhD.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abstract:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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&apos;s such as &quot;the Phoenix viruses,&quot; 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 &quot;HIV=AIDS&quot; proponents are always saying the &quot;HIV virus&apos;s&quot; 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 &quot;cause of &quot;HIV&quot; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why there is no animal model of AIDS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;--150 chimps were inoculated with AIDS -patient sera 24 years ago and now live in 27 million dollar retirement homes, without one of them ever acquiring AIDS or any immune suppression as measured by lab tests.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is why &quot;simian immune difficiency virus or &quot;SIV,&quot; a different &quot;virus&quot; than &quot;HIV&quot; has always been a better model of &quot;HIV&quot; than &quot;HIV.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--Wild African Green monkeys that are infected throughout their lives with HIV-like simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) never get sick.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--Studies by Sodora et al. (Journal of Immunology, pp. 3026-3034, 2008) provided evidence, using the sooty mangabey &quot;SIV&quot; natural host, that CD4 T-cell depletion, by itself, is not sufficient to induce AIDS in a natural host.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;When we first observed the dramatic CD4 depletion in all the tissues we examined in these monkeys, we were concerned that they might begin to exhibit clinical signs of AIDS,&quot; said Jeffrey Milush, Ph.D., lead author on the paper. &quot;But after more than six years, we are sure that CD4 depletion by itself does not necessarily result in progression to AIDS&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is no surprise. As early as 1985, the co-discoverer of &quot;HIV,&quot; Dr. Robert Gallo wrote:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The association of Kaposi&apos;s sarcoma with AIDS deserves special mention. This otherwise extremely rare malignancy occurs predominantly in a restricted group, that is, the homosexuals, and can occur in the absence of any T-cell defect in the patients. ” (Flosie Wong-Staal Robert C. Gallo, Nature Vol 317, 3 Oct 1985).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also regarding animal models: --Strandstrom et al., found that 50% of dog sera contain antibodies which recognize human immunodeficiency virus structural proteins, but dogs don&apos;t develop AIDS (Cancer Res 1990 Sep 1;50 17 Suppl :5628S-5630S) .&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Fifty percent of dogs exhibited “HIV” structural proteins but did not develop &quot;AIDS.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--In 1992, it was reported that “HIV gene sequences” exist in the DNA of &quot;unifected&quot; humans, chimpanzees, and rhesus monkeys (Horwitz MS, Boyce-Jacino MT, Faras AJ. Novel human endogenous sequences related to human immunodeficiency virus type 1. J Virol. 66 (4):2170-9, 1992.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--Reverse transcriptase (RT) was once thought to be a specific enzyme that indicated the presence of &quot;HIV.&quot; However, if RT were unique and specific marker for &quot;HIV,&quot; then why is reverse transcriptase found in the uninfected cells of bacteria, spirochetes, yeasts, insects and mammals (Varmus H, 1987. Reverse transcription Sci. Am. 257:48-54)?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, RT is not specific for retroviruses. More recently, other investigators have claimed RT is important for telomere replication at the tips of normal chromosomes, and that telomere replication requires endogenous (cell manufactured rather than and virally encoded) RT (Ghori A. et al., Colorectal Disease,, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 106-112, 2000).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-- The Center For Biologics Evaluation and Research Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Related Biological Products stated in November, 1998, in a chapter regarding the Update On Reverse Transcriptase Activity In Chicken Cell Derived Vaccines, by Dr. Arifa Khan (pages 13-15), that:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Initially Boni et al. (1996) published that low level reverse transcriptase activity was detected in ALL chicken cell derived vaccines using a highly sensitive PCR-based reverse transcriptase assay called PERT, which can detect one to ten virions which was reported to the WHO, and then additional studies were done by several laboratories in Europe, as well as the U.S., including the NIBSC, the CDC, as well as labs in the FDA to confirm this initial finding.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--Sheep, goat, and cow milk induce the p24 antigen (&quot;HIV&apos;s supposed capsid protein) and yet those that test positive do not develop any AIDS-defining syndromes (Willman et al., Heterophile Antibodies to Bovine and Caprine Proteins Causing False-Positive Human Immuno- deficiency Virus Type 1 and Other Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Results. Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, p. 615-616, Vol. 6, No. 4, July 1999).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why there is no culture model of AIDS or &quot;HIV&quot; infection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--Extracts thought to contain &quot;HIV,&quot; when cultured with lymphocytes or&lt;br /&gt;cancer cells:&lt;br /&gt;A. Kills the cells.&lt;br /&gt;B. Doesn&apos;t kill the cells.&lt;br /&gt;C. Fuses cells together.&lt;br /&gt;D. Doesn&apos;t fuse cells together.&lt;br /&gt;E. Can&apos;t &quot;infect&quot; cells without toxic chemicals being added.&lt;br /&gt;F. Is affected by mycoplasma removal agent.&lt;br /&gt;G. Kills cells before virus production is maximal, although all viruses require cells for their propagation.&lt;br /&gt;H. In 1997, The DAIDS official “HIV” culturing manual was published presenting a series of standard protocols for culturing “HIV.” from the Reporting Results Section (section VII), a rationale was presented to unequivocally identify &quot;non-HIV-infected&quot; cells as truly “HIV-negative” by “HIV” cell culturing labs if the &quot;HIV&quot; capsid protein, p24, is measured at values less than 30 pg/ml (picagrams/millilit er), and truly positive at readings of more than 30pg/ml.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although Dr. Robert Gallo and others have claimed that in a stadium full of &quot;HIV-negative&quot; people, not one molecule of &quot;HIV&quot; will be present, the DAIDS (Division of AIDS) culturing manual shown described above says that if &quot;HIV-infected&quot; cells from human blood express more than 30 units of “HIV-specific” p24 protein on 2 or 3 separate tests (30 pg/ml), one is considered “HIV-positive,” and if one sleeps with somebody without telling them they have these 30 or more units, one can be tried and convicted for attempted murder, one can’t obtain health insurance, one might be fired from his or her job, one might be driven to commit suicide. If pregnant one may be frightened into aborting her baby. If your cells express less than 30 units of this protein 2 or 3 separate times (30 pg/ml), then one is considered non-&quot;HIV-infected&quot; and is home free-one can donate blood, sleep with anyone he or she wants, without telling them his or her “less than 30 status,” etc. How could this be possible if there isn&apos;t one molecule of &quot;HIV&quot; in a stadium full of &quot;HIV-negative&quot; people? Its an arbitrary measurement of a molecular signature that may have nothing to do with a virus or immune suppression that is arbitrarily being measured at more than 30 units for an &quot;infected&quot; person, and less than 30 units for a non-infected person.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;P24 itself, which supposedly is an essential &quot;HIV&quot; protein, is also found in the thymus gland cells of non-infected “HIV-negative” children Dura WT; Wozniewicz BM; Expression of antigens homologous to human retrovirus molecules in normal and severely atrophic thymus. Thymus. 1994; 22(4):245-54:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abstract: An immunopathologic study of normal and severely atrophic thymuses (STA) was undertaken in order to evaluate the expression of human retrovirus (envelope and core) molecules in thymic epithelial cells (TEC) in HIV negative children. Both normal and STE thymuses disclosed p19, p24, p39, p45 and p55 viral core proteins as well as gp46, gp63 glicoprotein of envelope origin. No evidence of gp160, gp120 and gp41 molecules were observed in TEC which suggested endogenous lack of receptor molecules for HIV. The results are discussed in the context of possible thymus oriented autoimmune reaction in HIV and non-HIV bearing patients and in consequence, severe injury of TEC forming microenvironment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 1997, two teams of investigators, one consisting of a French-German collaboration, and another whose investigators were involved in the AIDS Vaccine Program, SAIC, National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Maryland, reported that PHA (phytohemagglutinin ) and IL2 (interleukin- 2) stimulated healthy cells to produce Human Immunodeficiency “viral like particles” and the molecular signatures of “HIV” only when stimulated with oxidizing agents that are toxic to cells like PHA and IL-2. They also claimed that microvesicles were a source of contaminating cellular proteins found in &quot;purified HIV-1 preparations. &quot; As their titles of their papers suggest, even the &quot;HIV&quot; experts have published that &quot;effective purification systems for {HIV} viruses free of host components are lacking:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gluschankof P, Mondor I, Gelderblom HR, Sattentau QJ. Cell membrane vesicles are a major contaminant of gradient-enriched human immunodeficiency virus type-1 preparations. Virology 230(1):125-33, 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bess JW Jr, Gorelick RJ, Bosche WJ, Henderson LE, Arthur LO. Microvesicles are a source of contaminating cellular proteins found in purified HIV-1 preparations. Virology, 230(1):134-44, 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Others have reported the same result:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Cellular proteins bound to immunodeficiency viruses: implications for pathogenesis and vaccines.&quot; [Arthur et al., Science 258: 1935-38,1992] .&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If the cell&apos;s cytoskeletal proteins, actin, exrin, and other proteins are located INSIDE or on the virions as these and other authors have claimed, how can one tell if p24, for instance, or other molecules thought to represent the specific molecules of “HIV,” aren’t also proteins of cellular origin?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why there are no human examples of exogenous &quot;HIV&quot; transmission or seroconversion.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--When they did studies on human sexual couples, one of which was positive and the other one was negative for “HIV’s” molecular signature -- a famous study known as the Padian study -- they found zero conversions out of 175 pairs of so-called “discordant couples.&quot; These discordant couples all had varying degrees and frequencies of sex, one assumes, and among many couples, it was not “protected” sex either [Padian, et al. Heterosexual Transmission of HIV in Northern California: Results from a Ten-Year Study.” American Journal of Epidemiology. August, 1997].&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--There have been numerous other similar non-transmission studies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--The wives of hemophiliacs don&apos;t acquire &quot;HIV&quot; or AIDS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--There have been no documented AIDS cases in hundreds of thousands of health care workers who have directly cared for AIDS patients.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;-Condom crusades, smearing microbicides on the genitals of Africans, and breast feeding dissuasion campaigns have increased the incidence of &quot;HIV infection&quot; in highly publicized &quot;HIV-transmission&quot; studies instead of decreased the incidences.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The most damning evidence, however, for non-transmission of &quot;HIV&quot; has been from more than 60 failed &quot;HIV-vaccine trials. According to what was believed two decades ago about the human immune system, it was assumed that a vaccinated individual would develop antibodies against molecules that are foreign to the human body. This would mean, in the case of an “HIV/AIDS” vaccine, that if vaccinated with components of “HIV,” the vaccinated would need to carry around a letter to prove their “HIV-positive status” was caused by a vaccine, rather than from &quot;risky&quot; behavior, or from being in an &quot;at risk&quot; group (from sex, dirty needles, exposure at the time of birth, breast-feeding, transfusions, being of African decent, being gay, being a drug addict, being pregnant, from having an autoimmune disease, or for dozens of other reasons).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But after more than as many 30 vaccine up until 1995, and perhaps as many as 60 &quot;HIV&quot; vaccine trials to date, letters as proof of &quot;HIV&quot; vaccination have not been needed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although the tiny fraction of those who have exhibited an “HIV-positive” test result after vaccination that registered negative before vaccination have been told their “HIV-positive” status was due to their own recent &quot;risky&quot; activities (sex), the failure to produce an appropriate immune response in most of the vaccinated (conversion from a negative to a positive &quot;HIV&quot; test result) or the failure to acquire protection from immune suppressive illnesses after so many &quot;HIV&quot; vaccine trials strongly suggests some measure of urgency or alarm is in order regarding the belief that &quot;HIV&quot; molecules are foreign molecules in the vaccinated.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Failure to seroconvert to a positive “HIV” test result after vaccination means that the principles underlying immunology, biochemistry, genetics, epidemiology, virology, cell biology, pharmacology, neonatology, and cancer biology don’t apply to “HIV/AIDS.” Or it means that the hypothesized &quot;HIV” causation of “AIDS,” and the imagined molecular biological causal basis of AIDS AND several other &quot;molecular diseases&quot; have generated catastrophic disasters that require our immediate attention.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All that would be needed to prove that what I am saying is wrong, is to show us the virus in the blood of someone with a &quot;viral load&quot; of 1,000,000 as measured by PCR. But the AIDS establishment won&apos;t do that after 25 years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Merck HIV vaccine fails, trials halted.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Trials of the most promising HIV vaccine to date have been halted following news that the vaccine did not protect against HIV infection, according to a press release issued on Friday by developer Merck.The STEP study (HVTN 502, Merck V520 Protocol 023) was a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase II test-of-concept clinical trial. The trial enrolled 3,000 HIV-negative volunteers from diverse backgrounds between 18 and 45 years of age at high risk of HIV infection.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“The vaccine did not prevent infection: in volunteers who received at least one dose of the three-dose vaccine series, 24 cases of HIV infection were observed in the 741 volunteers who received vaccine and 21 cases of HIV infection were observed in the 762 participants in the placebo group.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“In the subgroup who had received at least two vaccinations and who were HIV negative for at least the first 12 weeks of the trial, 19 cases of HIV infection were observed in the 672 volunteers who received vaccine and 11 cases were observed in the 691 volunteers who received placebo.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also in the context of &quot;HIV vaccine&quot;-making, in 2004, AIDSVAX&apos;s CEO, former head of the CDC Donald Francis&apos;s 120 million dollar attempt to produce an &quot;HIV&quot; vaccine with his company VAXGEN, failed to generate antibodies against &quot;HIV,&quot; or prevent a single case of &quot;AIDS,&quot; casting doubt on claims that a virus, &quot;HIV,&quot; has been isolated to Pasteur&apos;s standards developed for rabies, cholera, or anthrax more than 130 years ago. After this failure was announced, the U.S. Government rescued Francis&apos;s company by providing them with an 870 million dollar contract to make anthrax vaccine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why there is nothing specific or foreign to the human body (exogenous) regarding &quot;HIV&apos;s&quot; molecular signature.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--Simonsen L, Buffington J, Shapiro CN, et al. published that &quot;Multiple false reactions in viral antibody screening assays [are detected] after influenza vaccination. [Am J Epidemiol 141:1089-1096, 1995].&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How could flu virus antigens stimulate an &quot;HIV&quot; reaction if there were anything specific about &quot;HIV&quot; or the molecules from the flu virus?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--It is also known that hepatitis B vaccines induce a positive &quot;HIV&quot; test, as do tetanus vaccines. Perhaps there are others?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How can flu virus molecules, hepatitis B molecules, or tetanus molecules share molecular similarity with the molecules of &quot;HIV?&quot; This would be like saying someone was vaccinated against yellow fever, and then generated antibodies against rabies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;--In 2006, it was announced that “viral load is only able to predict progression to disease in 4% to 6% of HIV-positives studied, challenging much of the basis for current AIDS science and treatment policy” for any individual who tests &quot;HIV&quot; positive. Rodriquez B, Sethi AK, Cheruvu VK, et al. Predictive value of plasma HIV RNA level on rate of CD4 T-cell decline in untreated HIV infection. JAMA 296(12):1498- 506, 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So the question becomes, how could some 33 million people in the world be said to be &quot;infected&quot; and walking around with specific molecules of “HIV” in their bodies, or with molecules generated by the body’s response to “HIV,” while only a tiny fraction of those vaccinated individuals in 60 vaccine trails seroconvert to “HIV’s molecular signature, even after injecting these same molecules twice directly into their bodies by route of a vaccine? For that matter, how could less placebo-vaccinated individuals consistently seroconvert than &quot;HIV-vaccinated individuals? This is non-sense.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This paradox suggests that perhaps the injected components of &quot;HIV,&quot; or the antibody responses to these components have nothing to do with an “HIV” virus that is foreign to the human body or that has anything to do with immune suppression, and that these are mere testing artifacts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why no test to date can detect &quot;HIV.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even from the beginning of “HIV” testing, it has been known that none of the tests detect “HIV” virus particles directly, and that a positive antibody test may occur for 70 reasons that have nothing to do with “HIV” or “AIDS. The first ELISA tests showed for instance, that out of 1.2 million applicants for military service (the Burke study), there were 10,000 out of 12,000 false positives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The “viral load tests” are based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of supposedly specific “HIV” gene sequences, but PCR tests are known to sometimes generate false-positive signals between 40-100% of the time, which is absurd if you consider what this really implies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Someone with a high “viral load” should have their blood teaming with viral particles, and not be in need of any PCR amplification at all to detect this exponentially high quantity of viral gene sequences. Perhaps this is one reason why the inventor of the PCR technique, the Nobelist, Kary Mullis, once said there is no evidence that “HIV” is the cause of AIDS years ago. A patient with high “HIV” viral load should be able to walk into a physician&apos;s office, have their blood drawn, the doctor should be able to send that blood to a lab, and it should be loaded with hundreds of thousands or millions of &quot;HIV&quot; virus particles. But this has not been the case with “HIV.” This is the reason why PCR amplification of “assumed” &quot;HIV&quot; viral gene sequences is measured biochemically rather than directly. Chemical amplification of “HIV” gene sequences has to be employed using PCR precisely because there are no detectable viral particles in the blood or tissues, nor have there ever been, in someone who is said to harbor the molecular signature(s) of “HIV” genomic sequences.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The plausibility of false positive readings in the STEP trial participants in the vaccine trial described above accounting for the few who were accused of becoming “HIV-infected” because of their behavior after vaccination is supported by a study conducted in 1992, in which a seroservey of out of 20.2 million &quot;HIV&quot; tests done in Russia, only 112 were confirmed and about 20,000 were false positives (Voevodin A. Lancet. 339:1548, 1992).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;112 “confirmed” “HIV” molecular signatures out of 20 million negative ones doesn’t constitute the kind of numbers that signal a major AIDS pandemic in Russia. The numbers could represent statistical artifact, or, in the several who seroconverted and showed a positive test result may represent the presence of some kind of auto-immune condition, like psoriasis, arthritis, or warts, or physiological stress, or a genetic polymorphism (human genetic variability) .&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2004, the American Red Cross reported that even after repeated “HIV” testing using different test kit types, that “low-risk” populations, such as blood donors (or military recruits or nuns) will typically yield 12 (PCR) positive or 2 (ELISA) positive results out of 37,000,000 million units of blood, which means that 10 out of 12 were false positives. In a follow-up analysis of this Red Cross study, it was then claimed that 6 of the 12 PCR-positive subjects tests seroconverted within several months, thereby obtaining a &quot;HIV&quot; molecular signature in 8/12 cases, out of 37 million negatives. Again, these numbers could represent statistical artifact, or, the several who seroconverted may represent the detection of some kind of auto-immune condition in those who test positive, like psoriasis, arthritis, warts, or physiological stress, or a genetic polymorphism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abbott Laboratory&apos;s ELISA test kit package insert says:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;ELISA testing alone cannot be used to diagnose AIDS.&quot; (Abbott 1997).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Epitope&apos;s (the maker for one of the Western Blot kits) package insert says:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;Do not use this kit as the sole basis for HIV infection.&quot; (Epitope 1997).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Roche&apos;s &quot;Amplicor test kit&apos;s insert states:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The amplicor HIV-1 monitor test is not intended to be used as a screening test for HIV, nor as a diagnostic test to confirm the presence of HIV infection.&quot; (Roche 1996).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then what in God&apos;s name are these tests used for? Perhaps as lie detectors?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Presumably, as grave as an &quot;HIV&quot; or &quot;AIDS&quot; diagnosis is, one might expect there should be awareness generated about the lack of a gold standard (virus isolation) disclosed to the public. Or one might minimally expect, if the test kits predict progression to an &quot;AIDS-defining illness,&quot; at least one test kit type or brand available of the 33 or more on the market, that by itself, can serve as a gold standard to identify individuals who carry specific antibodies against the &quot;HIV&quot; virus, or components of the &quot;HIV&quot; virus itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But this is not the case Assuming that these conditional statements on the &quot;HIV&quot; test kits aren&apos;t typos, and are stated as they are by the manufacturers for a reason (if they were typos Abbott&apos;s should say &quot;Elisa testing can be used alone to diagnose AIDS,&quot; Epitope&apos;s should read, &quot;Use this kit as the sole basis for HIV infection,&quot; and Roche&apos;s should read, Amplicor HIV-1 monitor test can be used as a screening test for HIV, and as a diagnostic test to confirm the presence of HIV infection&quot;), we must assume there is yet no gold standard for virus identification.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some other test kits have the following qualifications:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NucliSens(R) HIV-1 QT -- HIV QT Nov. 13, 2001 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fda/&quot;&gt;http://www.fda&lt;/a&gt;. gov/cber/ pmalabel/ P0100010LB. pdf:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The NucliSens(R) HIV-1 QT assay is not intended to be used as a screening test for HIV-1 nor is it to be used as a diagnostic test to confirm the presence of HIV-1 infection.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;COBAS AmpliScreen HIV-1 Test, version 1.5 Approval Date: 12/19/2003 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fda/&quot;&gt;http://www.fda&lt;/a&gt;. gov/cber/ label/hiv1roc121 903LB.pdf:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;This test is not intended for use as an aid in diagnosis.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Procleix(R) HIV-1/HCV Assay -- IN0076-01, Rev. A Approval Date: 6/4/2004 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fda/&quot;&gt;http://www.fda&lt;/a&gt;. gov/cber/ label/hivhcvgen0 60404LB.pdf:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The Procleix HIV-1 Discriminatory Assay may be used as an aid in the diagnosis of HIV-1 infection.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;GENETIC SYSTEMS (TM) rLAV EIA &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fda/&quot;&gt;http://www.fda&lt;/a&gt;. gov/cber/ sba/hiv1gen06299 8S.pdf:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;The rLAV EIA is intended to be used as a screening test for donated blood or plasma and as an aid in the diagnosis of infection with HIV-1.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;VIRONOSTIKAT( R) HIV-1 PLUS O MICROELISA SYSTEM &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fda/&quot;&gt;http://www.fda&lt;/a&gt;. gov/cber/ pmalabel/ P020066LB. pdf:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;System is intended for use as an aid in diagnosis of infection with HIV-1. It is not intended for use in screening blood.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Defer et al. in a paper entitled, &quot;Multicentre quality control of polymerase chain reaction [viral load] for detection of HIV DNA&quot; (AIDS 6: 659-663, 1992), reported that:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;False-positive and false-negative results were observed in all laboratories (concordance with serology ranged from 40 to 100%&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Busch et al., in a paper entitled, &quot;Poor sensitivity, specificity, and reproducibility of detection of HIV-1 DNA in serum by polymerase chain reaction. (The Transfusion Safety Study Group. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr; 5 (9):872, , pages 874-875 1992), reported that:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PCR-DNA tests on 151 ELISA-negative people found that 18.5% (28 people) had positive PCRs. Furthurmore, only 25.5% of people diagnosed HIV-positive had positive PCR&apos;s.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What are the successes of the &quot;HIV equals AIDS&quot; hypothesis?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead of mutation, in biology the nature of life suggests that genetic invariance (non-change of genetic identity) governs the characteristics of a species, a bacterial strain, or, a viral strain. The stability of the genetic code, largely because of the strong molecular material it is made out of, assures a continuance of distinctiveness of form and function in cells, organisms, and viruses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Genetically, for “HIV’s” protein coat to change rapidly and often means that &quot;HIV&quot; is capable of continuously reshuffling its tiny sinister genome like a card deck, to produce proteins that are perpetually novel and unrecognizable to the immune system, but which paradoxically have remained unchanged and diagnostic on the “HIV” tests of millions of people for two decades in more than 33 million “infected” folks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It has been said that &quot;HIV&apos;s&quot; genome is more complex than most retroviruses because it has more than just the typical number of gag, pol, and env genes to facilitate its supernatural ability to mutate every time it is analyzed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, this juxtaposition of what is known as genetic invariance (non-change) in one context (two decades of &quot;HIV&quot; testing) and &quot;HIV&apos;s&quot; imagined ability to constantly mutate its genetic sequence in another context (in vaccine recipients, patients treated with HAART and who fail the &quot;life-saving AIDS drugs&quot; like nevirapine), violates what is known about the ability of the structure and chemistry of genetic material to maintain non-change over the geological time periods of hundreds of millions of years. During similar time frames, non-living things such as mountain ranges, or even continents, come and go. Therefore, it is without scientific basis to imagine that &quot;HIV&apos;s&quot; molecular signature has remained detectable with the same molecular probes on the more than 33 test kits in 33 million people for over a period of two decades, while at the same time, it mutates in almost each and every anti-retroviral drugged patient who dies. It is like a bad science fiction movie when we are told that “HIV” mutates in 41.7% of 875,000 black women who were told to imbibe a single dose of nevirapine, or when we are told that its genetic structure can change in the time it takes the vaccine maker to make and ship off the vaccine in a truck until it arrives in your doctor&apos;s office, during which time, the clever &quot;HIV&quot; &quot;mutates.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In support of &quot;HIV&apos;s&quot; molecular sequence or signature being a stable phenomenon, among the human population, there has been no measured change in sequence or structure of supposedly specific and diagnostic “HIV” molecules such as p24 that are detected today, and the p24 molecules the test kits supposedly detected at the beginning of the AIDS era.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Reverse transcriptase, another supposedly imported &quot;HIV&quot; gene, is known for its stability (and its stable and important long history within the genomes of organisms throughout Nature), not its mutability [1]. A person that would test positive for p24 protein in 1984, would test positive for the same p24 molecules today.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Therefore, it is unlikely that an unstable process such as mutation is the reason for “HIV’s” touted ability to evade the immune system after vaccination.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nor can mutation account for how “HIV” can evade drugs like AZT, HAART, or nevirapine by allowing “HIV” to form what has imaginatively been called “escape mutants.” Chicken pox, small pox, and rabies supposedly have the same or very similar genomes and proteins today as they did centuries ago, and they cause the same collection of symptoms as they have in the past.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A person bitten by a rabid dog in Pasteur’s day 150 years ago who acquired rabies would have the same symptoms as a person bitten last year in North Carolina who acquired rabies from a rabid dog. If the virus were analyzable during Pasteur’s day, it would likely have had the same genes, and proteins.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The distinctiveness of the leper’s lesions described during in antiquity would likely exhibit the same appearance as they do today, and are associated with the same Mycobacteria. Like gives rise to like, and if doesn’t because of mutation, then it becomes something else that usually doesn’t work. This is the overwhelming lesson that genetics teaches regarding mutation, and genetic invariance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That the vaccine failures, breast feeding dissuasion disasters, and anti-retroviral induction of escape mutants, don&apos;t represent simply carefully selected pieces of “cherry picked” evidence in favor any particular viewpoint, other failures of the hypothesis that have become evident only recently, also serve to undermine the &quot;HIV equals AIDS&quot; hypothesis, and demonstrate how this molecular hypothesis of disease has been stretched beyond the limits of genetics or the germ theory, and now constitutes a quasi-religious series of heart-felt beliefs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of these failures not only include the failure of “HIV” vaccines, but also the failure to isolate “HIV” and explain or predict the confusing molecular signatures that are detected in healthy drug-naïve persons.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The failure to consistently sequence the “HIV” genome or identify specific proteins that are not also found in normal, non-infected contexts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The failure to block transmission of “HIV” or AIDS in mother to child transmission studies (MTCT), which show increased rates of nevirapine in 20 to 69% of women and 33 to 87% of infants after exposure to a single, peripartum dose of the black box label drug nevirapine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The failure of ARV’s (anti-retrovirals) to prevent &quot;AIDS syndromes&quot; while silencing “HIV’s” molecular signature.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The failure to observe predictable changes in “HIV” and “AIDS” prevalence and incidence statistics, which according to epidemiologists have been manufactured from The WHO&apos;s “best guess estimates,” or biased because numbers are based on STD clinics or perinatal clinics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &quot;HIV=AIDS&quot; hypothesis has also failed to explain how latency makes sense from a biochemical point of view.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It has failed to explain why there are no consistent in vitro models to detect “HIV” infection.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It has failed to explain why an “HIV/AIDS” animal model cannot be developed or found in Nature.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It can’t explain why prostitutes and sex workers don’t acquire “HIV’s” molecular signatures or develop “AIDS” unless they are also chronic drug abusers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It cannot account for why human transmission studies have failed to show “HIV” or “AIDS” transmission between serodiscordant couples, or among health care workers accidentally inoculated with “HIV-tainted” blood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It cannot explain why the spouses of “HIV-positive” hemophiliacs and “HIV-negative” partners have failed to seroconvert or develop “AIDS” after numerous exposures to their “HIV” positive spouses.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It offers no explanation why on February 14th, 2008, in San Diego, California, the local county health department made quite a big press release because all sexually transmitted diseases in their local gay community have risen by an astounding 800 percent since 2003, including syphilis, gonorrhea, and Chlamydia, except for &quot;HIV infection rates, which have miraculously dropped since 2003 in the very same gay community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It cannot account for why there are large numbers of so-called “Long-Term Non-Progressors,” or “Elite Controllers” who never acquire any illness, although they may test positive for “HIV’s” molecular signature for more than two decades.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why some AIDS patients test negative for “HIV” but are thought to have “AIDS.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How decreases or increases in various T-cell subsets don’t indicate and cannot predict any effect of a viral presence or infection in drug-naïve patients.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why viral load has been aggressively monitored by doctors despite the fact that no virus has ever been observed in the blood of a so-called “HIV-positive individual harboring high “viral load” as measured by PCR (polymerase chain reaction).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And, why none of the more than 33 “HIV” test kits claim they can detect “HIV,” and continue to state on their package inserts that the significance of “HIV’s” molecular signature is not known.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;THE MEANING OF “HIV’S” MOLECULAR SIGNATURE&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Because the components of a retrovirus that is supposed to cause immune suppression haven’t been isolated, because they can’t induce seroconversion in significant numbers of the vaccinated, or been shown to cause immune suppression in humans or animals, it can be stated at this point that the meaning of the molecular signature of &quot;HIV&quot; has not been found.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When they tried injecting chimpanzees with sera from AIDS patients or what they believed was purified “HIV,” chimps didn&apos;t get sick, nor could viremia be demonstrated in the so-called organs that the virus was supposed to attack, or the blood, where there are supposed to be millions of copies, but no photographs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are so many different types of examples why the “HIV=AIDS” hypothesis fails to explain anything about transmission, immune suppression, or disease, or why all these vaccine trials have failed, that it cannot possibly be cherry picking of data to criticize the “HIV=AIDS” paradigm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When they launched the anti- breast-feeding programs and they warned all these African women not to breast-feed because they might pass on the AIDS virus through their breast milk, they found out -- just this year -- that the women who were dissuaded from breast-feeding their infants, had a twenty times greater rate of death among their babies than infants of mothers that breast fed, because the infants were not achieving the proper protective immunity or nutrition that goes along with normal breast-feeding in these extremely poverty-stricken places where human experiments are typically tried out first, before they are implemented in the countries whose inhabitants matter in the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If infants have higher infant mortality rates following the wisdom of The AIDS Establishment not to breast feed, even in regions of the world that are supposed to have high rates of “HIV,” then how could it be even considered a possibility that vaccine makers could inject some component(s) of “HIV” directly into a human vein and induce protection from immune suppression, or, in the case of the failed Merck trial mentioned before, evoke “HIV’s” molecular signature in any significant number of vaccine recipients? Most or all of the vaccinated should have at least shown seroconversion if “HIV’s” components had been isolated and are immunogenic in human beings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These kinds of data that do not support an &quot;HIV=AIDS&quot; hypothesis, should be compared to 15 other hypotheses that have claimed they found a potential and compelling cause of AIDS. For example, in 1989-1990, a series of articles published by Shyh-Ching Lo of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, who presented evidence that a microbe called Mycoplasma incognitus was found in the thymus, liver, spleen, lymph node, or brain of 22 of 34 persons who had died of AIDS. The patients who were selected for this autopsy study had all had evidence of organ failures. In another study, mycoplasma was found in seven of ten persons with AIDS.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An incredible book has just been published, in French, by Luc Montagnier, the co-discoverer of &quot;HIV&quot;, under the title of &quot;Les Combats de la vie&quot;, JC Lattès,editor, 2008, Paris, readily available via Amazon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The book says that &quot;HIV&quot; is not the only cause, and that mycoplasma should be looked at. Montagnier was co-discoverer of &quot;HIV.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“HIV’S” MOLECULAR SIGNATURE IS REAL, AND ORIGINATED FROM THE HUMAN GENOME, NOT FROM TOYS, FOOD, OR BIZARRE AFRICAN SEXUAL PRACTICES.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There have been many theories regarding the origins of “HIV’s” molecular signatures. Most are based on racist ideas of a virus jumping from either monkeys or apes to black people who lived in Africa. How transmission took place has been fraught with equally racist notions. Supposedly poor Africans don’t have enough food (so they are now given toxic chemotherapy drugs instead of food and clean water), but there is no basis for the belief that “HIV” can be transmitted through “eating the dead carcasses of monkeys hunted for their meet” by starving Africans, or because Africans can’t afford toys for their children, so their parents give them dead carcasses of &quot;HIV&quot; infected monkeys. More egregious were notions put forth involving African sexual practices (From Rosalind Harrison-Chirimuuta and Richard Chirimuuta (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.virusmyt/&quot;&gt;http://www.virusmyt&lt;/a&gt; h.net/aids/ data/rcafrica. htm):&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Researchers had originally proposed that AIDS was an &quot;old disease of Africa&quot; that had reached the West via recent intercontinental travel, a rather curious notion given the enforced intercontinental travel of up to 100 million Africans in previous centuries (32). As this hypothesis become increasingly untenable attention was diverted to the possibility of a monkey origin of the virus. Such ideas cohabit easily with racist notions that Africans are evolutionary closer to sub-human primates. Dr. Robert Gallo and his co-workers were among the pioneers of this line of research, both for HTLV-I and HTLV-III (later renamed HIV).(5,33,34) Two of Gallo&apos;s colleagues, Kanki and Essex, reported the isolation of a virus similar to HTLV-III in macaque monkeys who were suffering from an AIDS-like illness, and labeled it simian T-lymphotropic virus type III (STLV-III) of macaques.(35) For those who were arguing an African origin of the AIDS virus, an Asian monkey like the macaque was not a suitable source, but less than six months later the same researchers reported finding the virus in &quot;wild-caught&quot; African green monkeys from Kenya and Ethiopia.(36) This research, like most other research on AIDS in Africa, was motivated only by a desire to prove an African origin of the disease, and was greeted with enthusiasm by the Western scientific community. Discussion quickly moved on to the question of how the virus crossed the species barrier, and two AIDS &quot;experts&quot; from St Mary&apos;s Hospital in London even offered this explanation:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Monkeys are often hunted for food in Africa. It may be that a hunting accident of some sort, or an accident in preparation for cooking, brought people in contact with infected blood. Once caught, monkeys are often kept in huts for some time before they are eaten. Dead monkeys are sometimes used as toys by African children.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“Are we seriously to believe that African parents are so desperate for toys for their children that they give them putrefying carcasses of dead animals? More fantastic suggestions were published in The Lancet:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sir: The isolation from monkeys of retroviruses closely related to HIV strongly suggests a simian origin for this virus... Several unlikely hypotheses have been put forward... In his book on the sexual life of people of the Great Lakes area of Africa Kashamura writes: “to stimulate a man or a woman and induce them to intense sexual activity, monkey blood [for a man] or she-monkey blood [for a woman] was directly inoculated in the pubic area and also the thighs and back.” These magic practices would therefore constitute an efficient experimental transmission model and could be responsible for the emergence of AIDS in man.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A more 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 again, 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 [3]. That these endogenous human genetic elements exist and are important has been shown again and again to be likely from studies on HERV&apos;s such as &quot;the Phoenix viruses,&quot; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, any modern analysis of the human genome database will reveal more than 120, 000 full-length retroids containing reverse transcriptase transcripts [1]. Although &quot;HIV=AIDS&quot; proponents are always saying the &quot;HIV virus&apos;s&quot; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;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 &quot;cause of &quot;HIV&quot; 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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet there still persists after decades of data to the contrary, many researchers who still advocate the tacit assumption and arrogance that we know all there is to know about the human genome, or that the circumstances in which the genome may express novel but perhaps steryotypic gene sequences have all been discovered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There may indeed be a relationship between “HIV’s” molecular signature and immune disorder in some individuals, but the hundreds of billion dollar question science has not been permitted to ask about these individuals is: which comes first? Which is cause and which is effect, and what is the meaning of the molecular signature of “HIV” in a healthy person who tests “HIV-positive?”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other so-called “HIV-specific” sequences, such as those that give rise to the so-called GAG, PR, RT, ENV molecules are also found in the normal human genome database. In gene bank searches, one can find 16 samples of spuma virus transcripts, 6 examples of snakehead virus, 16 samples of FIV (feline immune deficiency virus), 60 examples of detecting one or more HBV (hepatitis B virus) genes, and at least 11 cases of “HIV” sequences that are said to be scattered throughout the normal human genome, according to the analyses of McClure and other modern human Genome Database analyses [1].&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The confusing thing may be that some of these endogenous cellular DNA or RNA sequences are only expressed rarely, or in response to physiological stresses: they aren’t infectious, and they may represent as much a 17% of the normal human genome according to some scientists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;“HIV’s” molecular signature may have nothing to do with a specific virus: the molecular signature thought to be a virus may in fact be generated also in response to previously latent real viruses that at some point of physiological stress provokes a new and complex immune response, which is read as “HIV’s” molecular signature. The immune system of a person so infected by multiple or numerous latent real viral infections could be perpetually generating new immunogens, which is read by AIDS scientists as an ever changing and mutating “HIV.” In theory, such an immune chain reaction caused by multiple real viral or bacterial or fungal infections would be progressively more debilitating for the stability and effectiveness of immune function, and, a vaccine against any specific virus or other pathogen would be ineffective against the development of AIDS. If this hypothesis is correct, then an experimental animal model of AIDS should be induced in laboratory animals by infecting them at a low multiplicity with a very large number of diverse viruses, as was suggested one by Nobelist, and PCR-inventor, Kary Mullis, in a Genetica paper he wrote in 1995.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, the nature and plasticity of potentially steryotypic signals of especially the immune cell’s or cancer cell’s genomes under various stressful and even normal states are not yet known. Despite &quot;AIDS establishment&quot; claims that the whole human genome has been sequenced and is known, and that “HIV’s” molecular signature isn’t found in the normal human genome, or in stadiums full of &quot;HIV-negative&quot; people, the nature of some immune cells is their unique ability to re-arrange their genomes to produce antibodies to new agents. Therefore, all possible or even steryotypic re-arrangements of the genomes of immune cells is not yet sequenced, because, the antigens (foreign molecules from outside the organism) that would evoke new antibodies have not yet plagued Mankind yet, or, such novel sequences may only be assembled or evoked in immune cells when certain stresses are placed on the individual. The human genome project didn&apos;t sequence all human genomes, or even genomes from different &quot;representative individuals. &quot; We have no idea regarding what most of these so-called genes do, or how they function.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet recently, the U.S. government acting through the directives of the Bush Administration is pressing for legislation requiring mandatory &quot;HIV&quot; testing for Americans between the ages of 3 and 80. This proposal is the biggest mistake that the U.S. could make -- the most costly mistake and the most damaging mistake for the largest number of people possible. When you test populations of people that are considered to be what the &quot;AIDS establishment&quot; says are “low risk,” you are going to get a huge number of false-positive test results, which is essentially going to ruin the lives of tens of thousands or perhaps as many as hundreds of thousands of people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many studies indicate, in addition, that you are going to get a number of people who really are not sick in any way, shape or form, to &quot;test positive.&quot; And they won&apos;t be able to get health insurance. They may be fired from their jobs. The stigma of having AIDS causes suicide, as it did with David Acer, the dentist whom the CDC later exonerated (after his suicide), because the CDC could find no evidence after he committed suicide that the dentist&apos;s 5 “HIV-positive” patients contracted their “HIV” signatures from him. There is evidence that countless others who have been given the diagnosis of an “HIV infection,” in addition to Dr. Acer, have chosen to end their lives upon getting an “HIV-positive” test result.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since expanding the AIDS definition in 1993 to include &quot;HIV positives&quot; with no clinical symptoms of disease, the majority of all new AIDS cases in America are diagnosed in healthy people with none of the opportunistic infections or Kaposi&apos;s sarcoma previously used to define AIDS. Epidemiology reports from around the US reveal that for the past 14 years, non-illness is the leading reason for an AIDS diagnosis in America, and depending on the region, 45% to 75% of all AIDS cases reported since 1981 were counted in clinically healthy HIV positives. Across the border in Canada where the AIDS definition still requires actual illness, AIDS cases per capita are 18 times lower than in the US.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is concluded that global health strategies for AIDS, like any other public health activities, should be based on evidence instead of racist notions regarding sexual behavior. Many of the basic assumptions regarding the probability that &quot;HIV&quot; leads to &quot;AIDS&quot; are clearly wrong, contradictory, and defy common sense, to the extent that the &quot;HIV/AIDS&quot; hypothesis should be retracted, and a full examination of where we went wrong, conducted, so we can learn from &quot;mistakes.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Consider the following example:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although six health care workers in Libya were recently about to be executed due to the mistaken belief they transmitted &quot;HIV&quot; to 426 children, they were freed because Montagnier said the 426 children they supposedly infected were infected instead by &quot;sub-Saharan health care workers&quot; (read Black people) working in and around the Libyan hospital. Perhaps the individuals in leadership roles in our own government who press release these kinds of distortions and propaganda, or who direct these trials and distort data, who must be held legally, and criminally responsible?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;REFERENCES&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Marie Dewannieux, Francis Harper, Aurelien Richaud, Claire Letzelter, David Ribet, Gerard Pierron, and Thierry Heidmann. Identification of an infectious progenitor for the multiple-copy HERV-K human endogenous retroelements. Genome Res. Oct. 31, 2006.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. Bannert N, Kurth R. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Oct 5;101 Retroelements and the human genome: new perspectives on an old relation. Suppl 2:14572-9. Epub 2004 Aug 13.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. McClure MA, Richardson HS, Clinton RA, Hepp CM, Crowther BA, Donaldson EF. Automated characterization of potentially active retroid agents in the human genome. Genomics. 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  <title>Adverse Events From Anti-Retrovirals</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below from AIDS debate site &lt;a href=&quot;http://Adverse Events From Anti-RetroviralsAuthor: Ian R. McNicholl, PharmD, University of California San FranciscoSource: AETC National Resource Center and UCSF Center for HIV InformationNovember 2007IntroductionThe following tables summarize the most common and most serious adverse events associated with antiretroviral medications used to treat HIV infection. For drug-drug interactions, see the Database of Antiretroviral Drug Interactions .http://aidsetc.org/aidsetc?page=et-03-00-03&quot;&gt;I mentioned earlier&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;===============================&lt;p&gt;Author: Ian R. McNicholl, PharmD, University of California San Francisco&lt;br /&gt;Source: AETC National Resource Center and UCSF Center for HIV Information&lt;br /&gt;November 2007&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Introduction&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The following tables summarize the most common and most serious adverse events associated with antiretroviral medications used to treat HIV infection. For drug-drug interactions, see the Database of Antiretroviral Drug Interactions .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://aidsetc.org/aidsetc?page=et-03-00-03&quot;&gt;http://aidsetc.org/aidsetc?page=et-03-00-03&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <title>African Countries Sue over AIDS Drug Trial Toxicities</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Below from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://African Countries Sue over AIDS Drug Trial ToxicitiesSouth Africa to tighten control on drug trials after five deathsPat Sidley , JohannesburgSouth Africa&amp;#39;s HIV/AIDS drug trials industry has been thrown into confusion after the government had to intervene and stop a trial in which five patients died. About 11% of patients in the trial showed signs of severe liver toxicity, and serious allegations were levelled against the trial organisers that women involved in one site of the trial had not given fully informed consent.This problem has arisen amid serious soul searching among medicines&amp;#39; regulators, research ethics committees, drug companies, and doctors after research procedures had to be questioned when Werner Bezwoda falsified research results into treatments for breast cancer (12 February, p 398; 18 March, p 732).The drug trial in question was known as the FTC 302 trial and was being conducted in adults. According to Dr Helen Rees, who chairs the regulatory authority, the Medicines Control Council, the aim of the trial was to document the safety and efficacy of different combinations of antiretroviral drugs, including a new unregistered drug called emtricitabine.It also included the new drug nevirapine, manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim and being tested in South Africa for its use in the prevention of vertical transmission of HIV. Some 16 sites were being used around the country.The applicant was a US pharmaceutical company, Triangle, which was told to stop recruiting patients for the trial and was then told to stop the trial.It was initially believed that the health minister, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, had stopped all drug trials relating to HIV and AIDS, particularly those using nevirapine and to prevent all vertical transmission. There remains considerable confusion in the industry.The Medicines Control Council has been reviewing its control of drug trials, as have various ethics committees. The ethics committee that was supposed to have had been involved in the FTC 302 trial has emerged from the problem with its reputation seriously damaged.The number of drug trials in South Africa have risen rapidly recently, and there seems to be widespread consensus that the system is in urgent need of an overhaul. Dr Rees of the Medicines Control Council said that the council, the health department, and various ethics committees had been involved in restructuring the way clinical trials are dealt with.The council has had a ministerially appointed clinical trials committee to help advise it on these issues. Despite this, questions remain over the methods used in the wake of the Bezwoda affair and this latest development.http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7241/1028&quot;&gt;AIDS Debate Networking site I mentioned earlier&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;===============================================&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;South Africa to tighten control on drug trials after five deaths&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pat Sidley&lt;/em&gt;, Johannesburg&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;South Africa&apos;s HIV/AIDS drug trials industry has been thrown into confusion after the government had to intervene and stop a trial in which five patients died. About 11% of patients in the trial showed signs of severe liver toxicity, and serious allegations were levelled against the trial organisers that women involved in one site of the trial had not given fully informed consent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This problem has arisen amid serious soul searching among medicines&apos; regulators, research ethics committees, drug companies, and doctors after research procedures had to be questioned when Werner Bezwoda falsified research results into treatments for breast cancer (12 February, p 398; 18 March, p 732).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The drug trial in question was known as the FTC 302 trial and was being conducted in adults. According to Dr Helen Rees, who chairs the regulatory authority, the Medicines Control Council, the aim of the trial was to document the safety and efficacy of different combinations of antiretroviral drugs, including a new unregistered drug called emtricitabine.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It also included the new drug nevirapine, manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim and being tested in South Africa for its use in the prevention of vertical transmission of HIV. Some 16 sites were being used around the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The applicant was a US pharmaceutical company, Triangle, which was told to stop recruiting patients for the trial and was then told to stop the trial.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was initially believed that the health minister, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, had stopped all drug trials relating to HIV and AIDS, particularly those using nevirapine and to prevent all vertical transmission. There remains considerable confusion in the industry.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Medicines Control Council has been reviewing its control of drug trials, as have various ethics committees. The ethics committee that was supposed to have had been involved in the FTC 302 trial has emerged from the problem with its reputation seriously damaged.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The number of drug trials in South Africa have risen rapidly recently, and there seems to be widespread consensus that the system is in urgent need of an overhaul. Dr Rees of the Medicines Control Council said that the council, the health department, and various ethics committees had been involved in restructuring the way clinical trials are dealt with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The council has had a ministerially appointed clinical trials committee to help advise it on these issues. Despite this, questions remain over the methods used in the wake of the Bezwoda affair and this latest development.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7241/1028&quot;&gt;http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/320/7241/1028&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:05:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Amazing Idiot</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Here is a scary story for you. I had a Tarot client who had relationship problems with her boyfriend. She has one child by him. In an effort to make him want to marry her, she got herself pregnant with a second child by him.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Were this an isolated instance, it would be sad. But it is far more common down here than I would have believed possible a decade ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:58:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Join the Great Debate</title>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:18:37 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Miracle Cure?&amp;nbsp; Or Placebo?</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;http://alobar.icons.ljtoys.org.uk/mi/dot.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;justify&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;BordeauxMedium&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I have been experimenting with Oil of Tranquility for about a month now.&amp;nbsp; To be frank, I am perplexed.&amp;nbsp; I am getting all sorts of seemingly positive effects from using this oil, on many different aspects of my health.&amp;nbsp; My results seem more like the miracle claims on a bottle of snake oil than any real substance.&amp;nbsp; However, placebo or miracle oil, I am still getting some very good results.&amp;nbsp; And my cost is vastly less than had I been buying Acne healing oil at $15 a dram.&amp;nbsp; In the past month, I have used over a quart of Oil of Tranquility.&amp;nbsp; There is no fucking way I could have afforded to buy hundreds of dollars worth of Acne Healing oil every month..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; First, let me give some links to previous posts pertaining to my research and experiments:&amp;nbsp; &lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Herbs in Rheumatology&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Jim Duke, PhD&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boswellia aka Indian Frankincense (Boswellia serrata):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;d not be afraid to try the resin from Boswellia serrata, used for centuries in Asia in the treatment of arthritic conditions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boswellic- acid extracts from the gum show anti-arthritic activity in experimental animals, retarding inflammation, maintaining glycosaminoglycan synthesis, and improving circulation to the joints. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Reddy et al, 1989) Alpha, beta-boswellic-acid completely inhibits the complement pathway at only 0.1 Ammon et al (1993) found that boswellic acids specifically inhibit 5-LO in vitro (IC50=1.5-7.5 without inhibiting 12-LO or CO. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This important mechanism allows boswellic acids to act as anti-inflammatory agents without the attendant side effects of broad spectrum NSAIDs which block the cyclooxygenase reaction, or glucocorticosteroids which interfere with the phospholipase-A2 reaction.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/546021.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/546021.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Seven Ways to Protect Your Heart With Anti-Inflammatory Alternatives&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Boswellia:&lt;br /&gt;Also known as boswellin or &quot;Indian frankincense,&quot; this herb contains specific active anti-inflammatory ingredients, referred to as boswellic acids that animal studies have shown significantly reduce inflammation. This is one of my personal favorites as I have seen it work well with many of my rheumatoid arthritis patients&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And in another study of 175 patients with rheumatic disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, 122 participants had reduced stiffness and inflammation just two to four weeks after starting on boswellia. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1817445.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/1817445.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interesting Looking Healing Oil&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The oil seems quite expensive to me.&amp;nbsp; So I am in no rush to order any.&amp;nbsp; Maybe I will try my hand at making some.&amp;nbsp; I have a big bottle of sesame oil in the kitchen which I rarely use.&amp;nbsp; I probably have frankincense around here someplace.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If not, I can get some within a few block walk.&amp;nbsp; Supposed to be good for eczema, which has been coming and going on my face for over a decade.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;What is getting dubbed as an acne product is in fact the ultimate in a healing oil.&amp;nbsp; It is made up of simple Frankincense infused into natural sesame oil.&amp;nbsp; PERIOD.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My fascination began with it when I witnessed it&apos;s deep healing power over cuts and burns.&amp;nbsp; I am not the most graceful of people and once when squatting down in the kitchen and raising to bring up a glass plate (not realizing it was broken with a sharp edge), I inadvertently gave myself an intensely deep cut up my calf.&amp;nbsp; My first thoughts were panic that I had to get traditional allopathic care.&amp;nbsp; After a few deep breaths I caught myself and went to my bottle of this oil.&amp;nbsp; I filled the gaping wound with the oil every ½ hr to an hr for the rest of the day.&amp;nbsp; The next morning upon waking, this3 inch and very deep cut had completely closed! Then at another time, as a massage therapist I had a client that I was giving a massage to and when I got to his feet they were bright cherry red. I asked what had happened and he said it was scaring from when his helicopter went down during the Vietnam war. I gave him a bottle of this oil and when he saw me the following week for his next visit- the cherry red scar had shifted to a light brown tea colored stain. Considering the war had been over for decades, I was completely taken back by how this very old scar shifted so radically, so quickly.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2754673.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2754673.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Burning Incense Is Psychoactive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;In spite of information stemming from ancient texts, constituents of Bosweilla had not been investigated for psychoactivity,&quot; said Raphael Mechoulam, one of the research study&apos;s co-authors. &quot;We found that incensole acetate, a Boswellia resin constituent, when tested in mice lowers anxiety and causes antidepressive-like behavior. Apparently, most present day worshipers assume that incense burning has only a symbolic meaning.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2827645.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2827645.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Acne Healing oil smells nice, more like an ethnic cooking spice than an oil used for healing.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It felt nice on my shin, which has been sore now since 2005.&amp;nbsp; However, after using 2 drams, I saw no real improvement.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I sure can&apos;t afford to use Acne Healing oil every day because of the high cost.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So I scored a pound of frankincense from Wilderness Family Naturals, powdered about 3/4 pound of the frankincense tears with the dry grinding head on my blender stick, put it into a glass jar, then added about a pint of cold pressed Sesame oil.&amp;nbsp; I stirred it all up, put on the tight fitting screw top, then shook up the jar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; After a day, I shook it up again, added another 1/2 cup of Sesame oil,&amp;nbsp; shook some more, and let it sit on a high warm shelf in my kitchen (about 90F).&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2833935.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2833935.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Because I used a lot more of the Healing oil last night than I had been experimenting with using the Acne Healing oil, I found myself trancing out like I just had a bong of really good Hawaiian Sensi&amp;nbsp; bud.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Once I determined that the oil was not irritating my tender leg, I applied more oil on facial eczema just before bed.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I had not gotten this stoned in over a decade!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; And Oil of Tranquility is even legal!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; When I awoke today, I was still very very mellow. The smell permeated my awareness.&amp;nbsp; Tonight when I arrived at work, the combo of hot weather (over 80F after sundown) and exertion made me far more aware of residual oil on my face.&amp;nbsp; Simply Inhaling blissed me out.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2834467.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2834467.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; My sleep is much sounder after using Oil of Tranquility at bedtime.&amp;nbsp; Less tossing and turning.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Because the weekend was excellent, I worked harder and got less sleep.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Normally, getting less than 8-1/2 to 9 hours sleep will raise my fasting blood sugar readings.&amp;nbsp; I was able to function better on less sleep for past several days.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; About a year ago, I cut way back on my Boswellia supplement because I suspected it might be high oxalate.&amp;nbsp; I noted that it caused an increase in my fasting blood sugar.&amp;nbsp; Boswellia is supposed to be for joint pain, not blood sugar regulation. Now that I am using boswellia in&amp;nbsp; the oil of tranquility, I also noted a decrease in blood sugar levels.&amp;nbsp; Coincidence?&amp;nbsp; Or does frankincense aid in blood sugar regulation?&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2837007.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2837007.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Japanese Kadoya Sesame oil&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Our sesame oil is not only a great tasting condiment, they are known to have extra benefits and usages. It&apos;s not unusual to encounter fantastic claims attributed to a single food.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sesame oil rubbed on the skin may soothe a minor burn or sunburn as well as help in the healing process.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sesame seed oil is said to remove wrinkles when applied to the skin in a facial massage. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2849116.html&quot;&gt;http://alobar.livejournal.com/2849116.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Hard to know where to begin.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Let&apos;s start with my eyebrows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; My ancestors on my father&apos;s side of the family came to the US from Eastern Europe.&amp;nbsp; So I have bushy eyebrows.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; As a kid, the barber used to trim them when I got my hair cut.&amp;nbsp; When I stopped going to barbers in 1967, I trimmed my own hair.&amp;nbsp; My bushy eyebrows began to grow.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I trimmed then back some, out of convenience.&amp;nbsp; But then I realized that trimming my eyebrows was a lot like black people straightening their hair.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Eastern Europeans looked like Russian communists, so they trimmed their eyebrows so as not to stand out during the cold war.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; So I (more or less) stopped trimming my eyebrows.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I did snip of long hairs which tended to poke me in the eye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Over the past decade, I stopped pruning the longer hairs.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I learned to rub my fingers thru my eyebrows many times a day to keep hairs out of my eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Recently (about the time I started using Oil of Tranquility on the eczema in my eyebrows) my eyebrow hairs have lengthened significantly.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The other night I was stoking my eyebrows while standing in front of the bathroom mirror.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I noticed one particularly long hair.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I gently tugged on it to straighten it out.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The hair reached all the way to my ear!&amp;nbsp; And that hair was not at the extreme outer edge of my eyebrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I have no idea why frankincense extracted into sesame oil would promote eyebrow hair growth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I get lots of prickly heat in summer.&amp;nbsp; Red irritated blotches along forearms, in armpits.&amp;nbsp; Swollen tender lumps from clogged sweat glands.&amp;nbsp; Once I get a breakout of prickly heat, it stays with me for months, no matter what I do.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a name=&quot;cutid3&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Last summer I used epsom salt bath soaks (as well as nigari bath soaks) to reduce the swollen lumps, calm the irritated itchiness, and make me feel better.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It seems that part of the problem arises from my sensitivity to dietary oxalates.&amp;nbsp; The residual oxalates flush out of the sweat glands.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I have been on a low oxalate diet for several 