Posted on 05/11/2005 3:54:45 AM PDT by MississippiMasterpiece
Ah, I see your point, thanks for pointing that out.
>>...and much of the liberal world wonders why these "civilizations" are stuck in a circular time warp with essentially no social or industrial progress whatsoever.
No they don't.
They are certain it is because of Colonialism, modern corporate greed, and racism. There is no way it could be because of the beliefs and actions of the people.
Guys, please don't bounce off the walls in this forum.
A word about lip disks and hoods...The only place I've seen lip disks were on white guys at vegetarian and reggae gatherins I go to. Not sure what the connection is to black people. Also, biblewonk where do you live? I live in an area that has a bad reputation, most of it unfounded and the really ghetto area is pretty confined. If you are really trying to live in the hood with your children then a better attitude would help. You should NOT have to leave where you are but if you really do feel your life is threatened then you should reconsider.
Have you ever the blue balls line? I started laughing hysterically when someone actually dared to use that one on me. Save me! Save me from exploding testes *LOL*
My friend here says they really hurt. He's laughing when he says it so I'm not sure if he's kidding or not.
A good comeback would be to hand them a mirror and a kleenex! :)
LOL! I did say that he should ask his wife to help him :-)
ok.
No I don't feel that my life is threatened or that of my kids. But the feeling of being hated for being white is very real. The single biggest problem in my hood on the SE side of Cedar Rapids IA, is the kids with less than two functional parents. They destroy the playgrounds, the schools, the sidewalks, even the grocery store where my oldest son works. If I had done everything in the world to make him think all behavior was equal in all races, that would have been blown out of the water on his forst day of work.
Well okay. I honestly can't tell you how to deal with your situation, and I have to take your word about where you live. I remember meeting some kids from Iowa in college and they had some really odd opinions about black people. I just attributed it to not living around black people at all or maybe they lived in Cedar Rapids. They were really nice kids and glad they didn't say the things they said to some of my black friends who would have been less than errrr.. understanding. Other people's behavior does not dictate my own beliefs and although I've had some real anti-white hate thrown at me, I don't think less of black people. I have wonderful christian people in my own social circle and those are the people I associate with. You don't have to move from where you are, but if you haven't done anything but point fingers at people nothing is going to improve. I am not all that PC when coming to deal with the young boys around here, and am infinately more respected on the street than snotty liberals.
"Abstinence and sexual fidelity have played virtually no role"
washingtonpost.com
Uganda's AIDS Decline Attributed to Deaths
By David Brown
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 24, 2005; Page A02
BOSTON, Feb. 23 -- Abstinence and sexual fidelity have played virtually no role in the much-heralded decline of AIDS rates in the most closely
studied region of Uganda, two researchers told a gathering of AIDS scientists here.
It is the deaths of previously infected people, not dramatic change in human behavior, that is the main engine behind the ebbing of the overall rate,
or prevalence, of AIDS in southern Uganda over the last decade, they reported.
The findings, not yet published, contradict earlier evidence that attributed Uganda's success in AIDS prevention largely to campaigns promoting
abstinence and faithfulness to sex partners. Much of the prevention work in the Bush administration's $15 billion global AIDS plan is built around those two themes, and Uganda is frequently cited as evidence that the strategy
works.
If the report here stands up to scrutiny -- and, more important, is borne out by surveys elsewhere in Uganda -- it will deflate one of the few supposed triumphs to come out of AIDS-battered Africa in the last decade.
The success of Uganda's ABC strategy -- the letters stand for "abstinence," "be faithful" and "(use) condoms" -- has been widely touted and is on the verge of being exported to neighboring countries with the help of American money.
"There is an urgent need to assess abstinence and monogamy in other parts of Uganda," said Maria J. Wawer, a physician at Columbia University's Mailman
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Sex And HIV: Behaviour-Change Trial Shows No Link
The East African (Nairobi)
March 17, 2003
Posted to the web March 19, 2003
By Paul Redfern, Special Correspondent Nairobi
A UK funded trial aimed at reducing the spread of Aids in Uganda by modifying sexual behaviour appears to have had little discernible effect.
The trial, carried out on around 15,000 people in the Masaka region, involved distributing condoms, treating around 12,000 victims of sexually transmitted diseases and counselling.
However, while the trial led to a marked change in sexual behavioural patterns, with the proportion reporting causal sexual partners falling from around 35 per cent to 15 per cent, there was no noticeable fall in the number of new cases of HIV infection, although there was a significant reduction in sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis and gonorrhoea.
The trial results, which were reported in the British medical journal The Lancet, have already aroused some controversy.
The team leader of the trial, Dr Anatoli Kamalai, acknowledged that there was "no measurable reduction" in HIV incidence with "no hint of even a small effect."
http://allafrica.com/stories/200303190482.html
http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200303190482.html
THE GREAT HIV / AIDS HOAX
The multi-billion dollar AIDS/HIV fraud is based on two fabrications: that AIDS is a single disease and that it is caused by the HI virus or the "HIV virus" as some medical/media masterminds call it - perhaps they think the V in HIV stands for volcano.
In Japan "AIDS" is virtually unknown : yet, in random tests, 25% of people were found to be "HIV-positive".
HIV-positive response means nothing of any relevance to health: it can be triggered by vaccination, malnutrition, M.S., measles, influenza,
papilloma virus wart, Epstein Barr virus, leprosy, glandular fever, hepatitis, syphillis ... : over sixty different conditions.
Dr Robert E. Willner, inoculated himself with the blood of Pedro Tocino, a HIV-positive haemophiliac, on live Spanish television: an event which was not picked up the pharma-beholden British or US media.
The great HIV/AIDS lie was created by Robert Gallo who was found guilty of "scientific misconduct". "...instead of trying to prove his insane theories about AIDS to his peers...he went public. Then, with the help of
Margaret Heckler, former head of Health and Human Services, who was under great political pressure to come up with an answer to AIDS, the infamous
world press announcement of the discovery of the so-called AIDS virus came about.
This great fraud is now responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands... It was no accident that Gallo just happened to patent the test for HIV the day after the announcement...Gallo is now a multi-millionaire because of AIDS and his fraudulent AIDS test." Dr.
Willner.
By grouping together 25-plus different diseases and other allied factors -
pneumonia, herpes, candidiasis, salmonella, various cancers, infections, vaccine and antibiotic damage, amyl nitrate damage, malnutrition etc.and,
particularly in Africa, TB, malaria, dysentery leprosy and "slim disease" - and calling the whole thing an "AIDS epidemic", a multi-billion dollar/pound "AIDS research and treatment" racket has been created.
The mythical "HIV-induced AIDS plague" in the Third World generates huge sums of cash from Western relief organisations whilst smokescreening the
vaccine/drug boys, responsible for the carnage.
Every death of someone "HIV-positive" is recorded as an "AIDS death".
Periodically, the BBC/ITV/Press visit
Africa/Yugoslavia/Russia etc to
report on the "HIV/AIDS victims" and how they cannot afford the "life-saving AZT." Glaxo Wellcome's lethal drug, AZT, in combination with the diagnosis of
HIV-positive and the prediction, stated or implied, that - "You will die of AIDS" is one of the great pieces of Medical Black Magic - Voodoo Medicine at its most impressive: people have committed suicide on the
basis of the ludicrous diagnosis.
Pregnant women who are HIV-positive have been told to stop breast-feeding, dosed with AZT, have had abortions or have been sterilised. HIV-positive
babies who become ill -from vaccination or whatever - are automatically diagnosed as "suffering from AIDS".
"Considering that there is little scientific proof of the exact linkage of HIV and AIDS, is it ethical to prescribe AZT, a toxic chain terminator of DNA...to 150,000 Americans - among them pregnant women and newborn babies..? Rep.G Gutknecht US House of Representatives.
New Labour "Health" have now announced that all pregnant women in the UK will be "offered" a HIV test. Those who fall for the scam and who are diagnosed as "HIV positive" will be given the chance to have themselves and their unborn child permanently damaged by AZT etc. Pregnancy, itself, can cause a positive diagnosis.
AZT began as a "cancer drug" but was withdrawn for being too toxic: like being thrown out of the Gestapo for cruelty. Its effects include - cancer, hepatitis, dementia, seizures, anxiety, impotence, leukopaenia, , severe
nausea, ataxia, etc. and the termination of DNA synthesis. i.e. AIDS/death by prescription. AZT eventually kills all those who continue to take it.
"WARNING : Retrovir (AZT)...has been associated with symptomatic myopathy, similar to that produced by Human Immunodeficiency Virus..." Glaxo
Wellcome literature!
None of which stops the medical trade from pushing it on every trusting sap who is not ill to start with but is labelled with the "HIV-positive" nonsense and then destroyed by AZT; with "AIDS" getting the blame - and
more billions pouring in for the drug boys, vivisectors, animal breeders and the rest. The latest stunt is to give a "cocktail" of drugs - including AZT, of course, and at £12,000 per head, per year - to all homosexual men who are "HIV-positive".
A particularly good scam is to haul into court someone "guilty of deliberately infecting the victim with the 'HIV-Virus which causes AIDS' " which then develops into "full-blown AIDS" - no mention of vaccine,
antibiotic damage etc or full-blown AZT. Over 2000 - and rising, of the world's scientists are now disputing the HIV hoax, their efforts being continually suppressed by the AIDS establishment, the pharmaceutical/vivisection syndicate and their political and media lackeys
Is the African "AIDS Pandemic" An Infectious Misconception?
UNAIDS image of Africa: "Almost 30 million Africans now have HIV/AIDS."
afrol News - A growing number of researchers question the "official" inflated numbers of HIV/AIDS prevalence in African countries such as Botswana, South Africa and Lesotho. Poor testing, a special diagnosis of AIDS in Africa and erroneous computer-generated estimates by the UN had led to "misleading" numbers, they hold. The history of AIDS in Uganda serves as proof.
The Austrian specialist of reproductive medicine, Christian Fiala, leads the growing group of researchers questioning the extent of the AIDS disaster in Africa. He holds that - while there indeed is a worrying prevalence of HIV on the continent - the numbers presented by the UN agency UNAIDS and national health authorities are highly inflated.
Mr Fiala, in a recent reader's letter to the prestigious 'British Medical Journals', calls for "sense, not hysteria" regarding the AIDS epidemic in Africa. The claimed high numbers of victims to the epidemic were only "based on estimates and certain assumptions," he holds. Fellow researchers hold that the Austrian researcher and the British journal are "courageous" just for publishing the critique.
Already in 1994, a study published in the 'Journal of Infectious Diseases' had concluded that the HIV tests used were "possibly not sufficient for the diagnosis of HIV infection in Central Africa." This unreliability of HIV tests, according to Mr Fiala, had later been "confirmed" in several newer medical research studies.
In Africa in particular, writes Mr Fiala, "people have a high number of antibodies against infectious diseases or against foreign proteins after receiving blood or dirty injections. Some of these antibodies may lead to a false positive HIV test."
But among the millions of Africans given the diagnosis AIDS, only very few have actually been tested by these "unreliable tests". AIDS diagnosis on the continent with the highest prevalence is done by other standards than elsewhere, something that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had decided on in 1985, given the high costs of testing.
According to the WHO's Africa definition, "AIDS is diagnosed on the basis of non-specific clinical symptoms and without an HIV test," Mr Fiala says. Even today, "people with for example continuous diarrhoea, weight loss and itching are declared to be suffering from AIDS. But also the typical symptoms for tuberculosis - fever, weight loss and coughing - are officially considered to be AIDS, even without an HIV test," holds the Austrian specialist.
In order to get a total estimate of AIDS cases, WHO at it's headquarters in Geneva adds the registered AIDS sufferers to a high number of unreported cases, which WHO presumes to have occurred, explains Mr Fiala. "Thus in November 1997, the WHO announced that since its previous report in July 1996, there had been a further 4.5 million AIDS cases in Africa. In this period, however, only 120,000 AIDS sufferers were actually registered."
Further proof for what the critics of the 'AIDS pandemic' call "misleading" prevalence numbers was given by the case of Uganda. Ten years ago, Uganda was internationally recognised as the country worst struck by the disease, with local prevalence rates reaching 30 percent. Now, the Kampala government celebrates itself as an example of how to fight AIDS, claiming that its energetic campaigns had turned the tide.
Mr Fiala considers the Ugandan success story a bluff, assuming that AIDS prevalence never could have been as high as originally claimed. Poor testing methods and failed statistics had inflated the numbers.
He finds proof in Uganda's newest population census and household surveys. During the last decade, the assumed high AIDS prevalence of the early 1990s should have led to increased mortality in Uganda. This is not the case. The country's mortality rate has in fact declined, especially due to lower infant and childhood mortality rates. Uganda's population now grows at an average annual rate of 3.4 percent - the highest ever.
Further, he contradicts Ugandan government claims that the numerous campaigns against AIDS could have led to a change in sexual behaviour and thus to a fall in HIV infections. The national household survey of 2002 shows that Ugandan girls have the same sexual behaviour as they had ten and thirty years ago. Further, protection against AIDS has not improved - only 2 percent of Ugandan women regularly use a condom.
The South African writer Rian Malan in a recent article in the UK-based 'Spectator' makes similar conclusions regarding the AIDS pandemic in Southern Africa. In his article "Africa Isn't Dying of AIDS," Mr Malan reacts to UNAIDS claims that almost 30 million Africans now have HIV/AIDS.
But, says Mr Malan, "the figures are computer-generated estimates and they appear grotesquely exaggerated when set against population statistics." In Botswana, the country with the world's highest AIDS prevalence, several reports had suggested that population had dropped from 1.4 million in 1993 to under a million currently, due to the AIDS pandemic.
Not true, says Mr Malan. "Botswana has just concluded a census that shows population growing at about 2.7 percent a year, in spite of what is usually described as the worst AIDS problem on the planet. Total population has risen to 1.7 million in just a decade. If anything, Botswana is experiencing a minor population explosion," the South African writer concludes.
He continues slaughtering UN and national statistics on South African AIDS deaths. UNAIDS is using a computer simulator called Epimodel to estimate AIDS related deaths, which had produced estimations of 250,000 AIDS deaths in South Africa in 1999 alone.
South Africa however, unlike all other African countries, has reliable mortality reporting. Pretoria data showed that total deaths - of all kind of causes - in South Africa had been 375,000 in 1999 - "far too few to accommodate the UN's claims on behalf of the HIV virus," Mr Malan notes.
A South African study based on local mortality data thus reduced the number of estimated lethal victims of AIDS to 143,000 - still representing 40 percent of all deaths in 1999. Later studies resulted in two more downwards regulations of the assumed AIDS deaths in South Africa in 1999. Current estimates are of an AIDS death toll somewhere around 65,000 for that year - "a far cry indeed from the 250,000 initially put forth by UNAIDS," Mr Malan comments.
Local South African studies, where population segments have been HIV tested, according to Mr Malan show a far lower prevalence than official estimates. At a university in KwaZulu-Natal, HIV prevalence was only one ninth of the expected number and bank employees had one forth of the expected HIV prevalence. Mr Malan believes that the picture is equal in other African countries, where UNAIDS estimations are used.
Paul Bennell, a health policy analyst at Sussex University's Institute for Development Studies (UK), agrees. After the BBC in November 2002 had reported that "one in seven" of Malawian teachers would die of AIDS in that year alone, Mr Bennell looked at the available mortality evidence from Malawi.
His 2003 study 'Teacher mortality at primary and secondary schools in Malawi 1997-2002' found actual teacher mortality to be "much lower than expected". In Malawi, for instance, the all-causes death rate among schoolteachers was under 3 percent, not over 14 percent as the UN's computer-generated estimates had suggested.
Further, teachers' mortality in Malawi appeared to "have peaked in 1999 and 2000," Mr Bennell found. "The epidemic is not growing in most countries," insists the British scientist. "HIV prevalence is not increasing as is usually stated or implied," he concludes.
Mr Bennell regrets that "there is virtually no population-based survey data in most of the high-prevalence countries, including Botswana, Ethiopia, Malawi, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland."
In Lesotho, for example, UNAIDS' computer-generated estimates have shown dramatic increases in HIV prevalence without testing of the population. While UNAIDS estimates put HIV prevalence at 8.4 percent in Lesotho in 1997, this boomed to 23.6 percent in 1999 and 32 percent in 2001. The numbers have never been tested in real life, however.
For the growing number of sceptical scientists, the allegedly "misleading" UNAIDS numbers come at a high price for Africans. Mr Fiala regrets the "fatal consequences" of these numbers. "Thus for example, UNAIDS 1999 recommended Finance Ministers in the African countries cut their budgets for social security, education, health, infrastructure and rural development in order to have more funds available for the fight against AIDS," he notes.
Also Mr Malan fears the consequences of this "error". It gives the false impression "AIDS is the only problem in Africa, and the only solution is to continue the agitprop until free access to AIDS drugs is defined as a 'basic human right' for everyone."
Meanwhile, he holds, a far greater number of Africans are dying from diseases that are cured at a much lower cost, such as malaria and tuberculosis (TB) and research on these diseases is suffering. "Two million get TB, but last time I checked, spending on AIDS research exceeded spending on TB by a crushing factor of 90 to one," he notes. He now urges to "start questioning some of the claims made by the AIDS lobby."
© afrol News, 2004.
By Rainer Chr. Hennig, afrol News editor.
© afrol News
They have those same rules in West Virginny.
The men behind the myth
Pharma Salaries. The high cost of research
Source: AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch
Henry A. McKinnell
Chairman and CEO
Pfizer Inc.
In 2004, Henry A. McKinnell raked in $28,925,241 in totalcompensation including stock option grants from Pfizer Inc..
And
Henry A. McKinnell has another $15,096,811 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
John C. Martin
President and CEO
Gilead Sciences
In 2004, John C. Martin raked in $18,223,931 in total compensationincluding stock option grants from Gilead Sciences. From previous
years' stock option grants, the Gilead Sciences executive cashed out $13,213,769 in stock option exercises. And John C. Martin has another
$113,984,508 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Henri A. Termeer
CEO
Genzyme Corp.
In 2003, Henri A. Termeer raked in $17,154,464 in total compensation including stock option grants from Genzyme Corp. From previous years'
stock option grants, the Genzyme Corp. executive cashed out $16,202,363 in stock option exercises. And Henri A. Termeer has another $58,964,049 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Sidney Taurel
Chairman President and CEO
Lilly (Eli) & Co.
In 2004, Sidney Taurel raked in $15,511,784 in total compensation including stock option grants from Lilly (Eli) & Co. From previous
years' stock option grants, the Lilly (Eli) & Co. executive cashed out $4,091,400 in stock option exercises. And Sidney Taurel has
another $13,119,533 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
David M. Mott
Vice Chairman President and CEO
MedImmune Inc.
In 2003, David M. Mott raked in $15,330,493 in total compensation including stock option grants from MedImmune Inc. And David M. Mott
has another $10,936,529 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Robert Essner
Chairman President and CEO
Wyeth
In 2004, Robert Essner raked in $11,764,945 in total compensation including stock option grants from Wyeth. And Robert Essner has another $4,278,990 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Miles D. White
Chairman and CEO
Abbott Labs
In 2004, Miles D. White raked in $11,298,642 in total compensation including stock option grants from Abbott Labs. And Miles D. White has
another $21,450,196 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Kevin W. Sharer
Chairman CEO and President
Amgen
In 2004, Kevin W. Sharer raked in $11,031,845 in total compensation including stock option grants from Amgen. From previous years' stock
option grants, the Amgen executive cashed out $140,757 in stock option exercises. And Kevin W. Sharer has another $14,392,208 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Raymond V. Gilmartin
Chairman President and CEO
Merck & Co.
In 2004, Raymond V. Gilmartin raked in $10,568,702 in total
compensation including stock option grants from Merck & Co. From previous years' stock option grants, the Merck & Co. executive cashed
out $34,802,748 in stock option exercises. And Raymond V. Gilmartin has another $4,982,632 in unexercised stock options from previous
years.
Robert J. Coury
Vice Chairman and CEO
Mylan Laboratories
In 2004, Robert J. Coury raked in $9,277,603 in total compensation including stock option grants from Mylan Laboratories. And Robert J. Coury has another $11,984,966 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Howard Solomon
Chairman and CEO
Forest Laboratories
In 2004, Howard Solomon raked in $8,996,921 in total compensation
including stock option grants from Forest Laboratories. From previous years' stock option grants, the Forest Laboratories executive cashed
out $90,546,050 in stock option exercises. And Howard Solomon has another $318,459,960 in unexercised stock options from previous
years.
P R. Dolan
Chairman and CEO
Bristol-Myers Squibb
In 2004, P R. Dolan raked in $8,796,679 in total compensation including stock option grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb. And P R. Dolan has another $1,471,145 in unexercised stock options from previous years
Robert L. Parkinson
Chairman and CEO
Baxter International Inc.
In 2004, Robert L. Parkinson raked in $8,757,902 in total compensation including stock option grants from Baxter International Inc. And Robert L. Parkinson has another $1,833,000 in unexercised stock options from previous years.
Jonathan W. Ayers
President and CEO
IDEXX Laboratories
In 2004, Jonathan W. Ayers raked in $8,094,317 in total compensation including stock option grants from IDEXX Laboratories. From previous
years' stock option grants, the IDEXX Laboratories executive cashed out $102,771 in stock option exercises. And Jonathan W. Ayers has
another $14,719,211 in unexercised
stock options from previous years
AIDS = AID$
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