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Stanford Prison Experiment video
Prison Experiment
A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment Conducted at Stanford UniversityWelcome to the Stanford Prison Experiment web site, which features an extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment, including parallels with the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.
How we went about testing these questions and what we found may astound you. Our planned two-week investigation into the psychology of prison life had to be ended prematurely after only six days because of what the situation was doing to the college students who participated. In only a few days, our guards became sadistic and our prisoners became depressed and showed signs of extreme stress. Please join me on a slide tour describing this experiment and uncovering what it tells us about the nature of human nature.
--Philip G. Zimbardo
Donor 45
Last week, news broke that antibodies discovered in a man known only as Donor 45 could, potentially, be used to create a vaccine to protect against HIV/AIDS.
Who is Donor 45? He's a 65-year-old gay, African-American man who has been living with HIV (but healthy) for 20 years. More importantly, he's part of a small group of people who are infected with HIV, but whose bodies have managed to naturally stave off symptoms of the illness. In some cases, these people, called long-term non-progressors, even end up with virus levels so low as to be nearly undetectable.
Fascinatingly, Donor 45 is NOT one of those patients. His viral load is similar to that of people who get sick. That's because his immune system doesn't destroy HIV. Instead, it produces antibodies that prevent HIV from invading his cells.
All people infected with HIV produce antibodies in response to the infection. What's different is that Donor 45's antibodies actually work. For reasons that aren't clearly understood, most antibodies against HIV either aren't effective at all, or are only effective against certain strains—not terribly useful with a virus that mutates as frequently as HIV does. Donor 45's are capable of controlling as much as 91% of HIV strains. So he stays healthy, even while the virus continues to live in his body. People like Donor 46 can still infect others, but they, themselves, might live entirely normal lifespans without significant illness.
Some good links to read more about non-progressors:
New York Times: AIDS and the secret of long-term survivors
PBS Frontline: How HIV works and why some people are "immune"
The Body: Compilation of several personal stories from long-term non-progressors as well as science and analysis about why some people survive
Two studies recruiting long-term non-progressors for further research
US Scientists isolate antibodies effective against 91 of HIV strains
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U.S. Scientists Isolate Antibodies Effective Against 91% of HIV Strains
Published 1, July 9, 2010 Science , Society , Torts 8 Comments
We have an extraordinary breakthrough in the fights against AIDS. U.S. scientists have reported that they have isolated three powerful antibodies for HIV — one of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains.
This could be the basis for an eventual vaccine for AIDS. The antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known only as “Donor 45.”
This is wonderful news and the scientists are going to start “blending” antibodies to see if they can knock out all strains.
What is interesting legally in these breakthrough moments is the the source for the antibodies is rarely given significant value for his unique antibodies. This has been an issue that has repeatedly been raised and courts have generally favored hospitals and researchers in blocking demands for compensation. This issue was raised in Moore v. Regents of the University of California, 51 Cal. 3d 120, 271 Cal. Rptr. 146, 793 P.2d 479 (1991). In that case, Moore was treated for hairy cell leukemia at UCLA Medical Center. His doctor, Dr. David W. Golde and others soon realized that Moore’s cells were promising for genetic research. Moore was never told that his cells were being used for research and was never told that blood and tissue samples were being taken specifically for such research. Indeed, he alleged that follow up visits were scheduled primarily to harvest such material.
Golde patented a cell line using Moore’s cells and he and his colleagues made a great deal of money. Moore argued conversion and lost. The court ruled that he had no expectation that such blood and tissue would be returned — even though he would have likely demanded compensation if he knew that he was being harvested for valuable genetic material. The most that the courts were willing to give Moore was a ruling that the hospital violated the duty of disclosure and the requirement of consent. However, damages for such torts are far less than what he would have received under a conversion claim.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Sandoz
Sandoz, Momenta get FDA approval to make generic version of blood thinner Lovenox
July 24, 2010|By Andrew Zajac, Tribune Washington Bureau
Reporting from Washington —
In a closely watched decision, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an application by German drug maker Sandoz and Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., to make the first generic version of the widely used blood thinner Lovenox.
The approval positions Momenta and Sandoz to offer a cheaper but still lucrative alternative to Lovenox, which had sales of $4.5 billion in 2009, making it the 15th-bestselling drug in the world.
Defendants; Dr. David W. Golde, Regents of the University of CA, Shirley G. Quan, Genetics Institute, Inc. and Sandoz Pharma Co.
II. Facts
. . . The plaintiff is John Moore (Moore), who underwent treatment for hairy-cell leukemia at the Medical Center of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA Medical Center). The five defendants are: (1) Dr. David W. Golde (Golde), a physician who attended Moore at UCLA Medical Center; (2) the Regents of the University of California (Regents), who own and operate the university; (3) Shirley G. Quan, a researcher employed by the Regents; (4) Genetics Institute, Inc. (Genetics Institute); and (5) Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation and related entities (collectively Sandoz).
Moore v. Regents of the University of California
EXCERPT:
Moore v. Regents of the University of California (51 Cal. 3d 120; 271 Cal. Rptr. 146; 793 P.2d 479) was a Supreme Court of California case settled on July 9, 1990. John Moore underwent treatment for hairy cell leukemia at the Medical Center of the University of California at Los Angeles under the supervision of Dr. David W. Golde. Moore's cancer was later developed into a cell line that was commercialized, and the court ruled that Moore had no right to profits from the commercialization of anything developed from his discarded body parts.
HeLa and HIV
HeLa-LAV, an epithelial cell line stably infected with HIV-1
References and further reading may be available for this article. To view references and further reading you must purchase this article.
Jörg Berg, a, Barbara Doeb, Kathelyn S. Steimerb and Matthias Wabla
aDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
bChiron Corporation, Emeryville, California, U.S.A.
Accepted 8 May 1991. Available online 12 November 2002.
Abstract
An HeLa-LAV cell line was established by infecting and subcloning previously described CD4-expressing HeLa cells with HIV-1. Cells of this line stably synthesize all major HIV proteins, release infectious particles of HIV-1, but do not die even after long term culture. More than 90% of the cells express the envelope protein gp120 on the surface. The cells can be easily and efficiently labeled with 51chromium, and exhibit a low spontaneous release. Because they are susceptible to killing by allogeneic cytotoxic T cells (CTL) when targeted to gp120, they ought to be a useful source of target cells in any kind of HIV-specific killing assays. The cells may also help studies on HIV replication in non-lymphatic/non-monocytic cells. The HeLa-LAV cell line will be freely available from the AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program.
Keywords: HeLa-LAV cell; HeLaT4+ cell; HIV-1 infection; 51Chromium release assay
Correspondence to: Jörg Berg, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0414, U.S.A.
Medical Apartheid Experimentation
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. This groundbreaking study documents that the infamous Tuskegee experiments, in which black syphilitic men were studied but not treated, was simply the most publicized in a long, and continuing, history of the American medical establishment using African-Americans as unwitting or unwilling human guinea pigs. Washington, a journalist and bioethicist who has worked at Harvard Medical School and Tuskegee University, has accumulated a wealth of documentation, beginning with Thomas Jefferson exposing hundreds of slaves to an untried smallpox vaccine before using it on whites, to the 1990s, when the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University ran drug experiments on African-American and black Dominican boys to determine a genetic predisposition for "disruptive behavior." Washington is a great storyteller, and in addition to giving us an abundance of information on "scientific racism," the book, even at its most distressing, is compulsively readable. It covers a wide range of topics—the history of hospitals not charging black patients so that, after death, their bodies could be used for anatomy classes; the exhaustive research done on black prisoners throughout the 20th century—and paints a powerful and disturbing portrait of medicine, race, sex and the abuse of power. (Dec. 26)
Sunday, July 25, 2010
US Scientists isolate antibodies effective against 91 of HIV strains
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U.S. Scientists Isolate Antibodies Effective Against 91% of HIV Strains
Published 1, July 9, 2010 Science , Society , Torts 8 Comments
We have an extraordinary breakthrough in the fights against AIDS. U.S. scientists have reported that they have isolated three powerful antibodies for HIV — one of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains.
This could be the basis for an eventual vaccine for AIDS. The antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known only as “Donor 45.”
This is wonderful news and the scientists are going to start “blending” antibodies to see if they can knock out all strains.
What is interesting legally in these breakthrough moments is the the source for the antibodies is rarely given significant value for his unique antibodies. This has been an issue that has repeatedly been raised and courts have generally favored hospitals and researchers in blocking demands for compensation. This issue was raised in Moore v. Regents of the University of California, 51 Cal. 3d 120, 271 Cal. Rptr. 146, 793 P.2d 479 (1991). In that case, Moore was treated for hairy cell leukemia at UCLA Medical Center. His doctor, Dr. David W. Golde and others soon realized that Moore’s cells were promising for genetic research. Moore was never told that his cells were being used for research and was never told that blood and tissue samples were being taken specifically for such research. Indeed, he alleged that follow up visits were scheduled primarily to harvest such material.
Golde patented a cell line using Moore’s cells and he and his colleagues made a great deal of money. Moore argued conversion and lost. The court ruled that he had no expectation that such blood and tissue would be returned — even though he would have likely demanded compensation if he knew that he was being harvested for valuable genetic material. The most that the courts were willing to give Moore was a ruling that the hospital violated the duty of disclosure and the requirement of consent. However, damages for such torts are far less than what he would have received under a conversion claim.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Sandoz
Sandoz, Momenta get FDA approval to make generic version of blood thinner Lovenox
July 24, 2010|By Andrew Zajac, Tribune Washington Bureau
Reporting from Washington —
In a closely watched decision, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an application by German drug maker Sandoz and Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., to make the first generic version of the widely used blood thinner Lovenox.
The approval positions Momenta and Sandoz to offer a cheaper but still lucrative alternative to Lovenox, which had sales of $4.5 billion in 2009, making it the 15th-bestselling drug in the world.
Defendants; Dr. David W. Golde, Regents of the University of CA, Shirley G. Quan, Genetics Institute, Inc. and Sandoz Pharma Co.
II. Facts
. . . The plaintiff is John Moore (Moore), who underwent treatment for hairy-cell leukemia at the Medical Center of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA Medical Center). The five defendants are: (1) Dr. David W. Golde (Golde), a physician who attended Moore at UCLA Medical Center; (2) the Regents of the University of California (Regents), who own and operate the university; (3) Shirley G. Quan, a researcher employed by the Regents; (4) Genetics Institute, Inc. (Genetics Institute); and (5) Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation and related entities (collectively Sandoz).
Moore v. Regents of the University of California
EXCERPT:
Moore v. Regents of the University of California (51 Cal. 3d 120; 271 Cal. Rptr. 146; 793 P.2d 479) was a Supreme Court of California case settled on July 9, 1990. John Moore underwent treatment for hairy cell leukemia at the Medical Center of the University of California at Los Angeles under the supervision of Dr. David W. Golde. Moore's cancer was later developed into a cell line that was commercialized, and the court ruled that Moore had no right to profits from the commercialization of anything developed from his discarded body parts.
HeLa and HIV
HeLa-LAV, an epithelial cell line stably infected with HIV-1
References and further reading may be available for this article. To view references and further reading you must purchase this article.
Jörg Berg, a, Barbara Doeb, Kathelyn S. Steimerb and Matthias Wabla
aDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
bChiron Corporation, Emeryville, California, U.S.A.
Accepted 8 May 1991. Available online 12 November 2002.
Abstract
An HeLa-LAV cell line was established by infecting and subcloning previously described CD4-expressing HeLa cells with HIV-1. Cells of this line stably synthesize all major HIV proteins, release infectious particles of HIV-1, but do not die even after long term culture. More than 90% of the cells express the envelope protein gp120 on the surface. The cells can be easily and efficiently labeled with 51chromium, and exhibit a low spontaneous release. Because they are susceptible to killing by allogeneic cytotoxic T cells (CTL) when targeted to gp120, they ought to be a useful source of target cells in any kind of HIV-specific killing assays. The cells may also help studies on HIV replication in non-lymphatic/non-monocytic cells. The HeLa-LAV cell line will be freely available from the AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program.
Keywords: HeLa-LAV cell; HeLaT4+ cell; HIV-1 infection; 51Chromium release assay
Correspondence to: Jörg Berg, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0414, U.S.A.
FULL ARTICLE
U.S. Scientists Isolate Antibodies Effective Against 91% of HIV Strains
Published 1, July 9, 2010 Science , Society , Torts 8 Comments
We have an extraordinary breakthrough in the fights against AIDS. U.S. scientists have reported that they have isolated three powerful antibodies for HIV — one of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains.
This could be the basis for an eventual vaccine for AIDS. The antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known only as “Donor 45.”
This is wonderful news and the scientists are going to start “blending” antibodies to see if they can knock out all strains.
What is interesting legally in these breakthrough moments is the the source for the antibodies is rarely given significant value for his unique antibodies. This has been an issue that has repeatedly been raised and courts have generally favored hospitals and researchers in blocking demands for compensation. This issue was raised in Moore v. Regents of the University of California, 51 Cal. 3d 120, 271 Cal. Rptr. 146, 793 P.2d 479 (1991). In that case, Moore was treated for hairy cell leukemia at UCLA Medical Center. His doctor, Dr. David W. Golde and others soon realized that Moore’s cells were promising for genetic research. Moore was never told that his cells were being used for research and was never told that blood and tissue samples were being taken specifically for such research. Indeed, he alleged that follow up visits were scheduled primarily to harvest such material.
Golde patented a cell line using Moore’s cells and he and his colleagues made a great deal of money. Moore argued conversion and lost. The court ruled that he had no expectation that such blood and tissue would be returned — even though he would have likely demanded compensation if he knew that he was being harvested for valuable genetic material. The most that the courts were willing to give Moore was a ruling that the hospital violated the duty of disclosure and the requirement of consent. However, damages for such torts are far less than what he would have received under a conversion claim.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Sandoz
Sandoz, Momenta get FDA approval to make generic version of blood thinner Lovenox
July 24, 2010|By Andrew Zajac, Tribune Washington Bureau
Reporting from Washington —
In a closely watched decision, the Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved an application by German drug maker Sandoz and Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., to make the first generic version of the widely used blood thinner Lovenox.
The approval positions Momenta and Sandoz to offer a cheaper but still lucrative alternative to Lovenox, which had sales of $4.5 billion in 2009, making it the 15th-bestselling drug in the world.
Defendants; Dr. David W. Golde, Regents of the University of CA, Shirley G. Quan, Genetics Institute, Inc. and Sandoz Pharma Co.
II. Facts
. . . The plaintiff is John Moore (Moore), who underwent treatment for hairy-cell leukemia at the Medical Center of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA Medical Center). The five defendants are: (1) Dr. David W. Golde (Golde), a physician who attended Moore at UCLA Medical Center; (2) the Regents of the University of California (Regents), who own and operate the university; (3) Shirley G. Quan, a researcher employed by the Regents; (4) Genetics Institute, Inc. (Genetics Institute); and (5) Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation and related entities (collectively Sandoz).
Moore v. Regents of the University of California
EXCERPT:
Moore v. Regents of the University of California (51 Cal. 3d 120; 271 Cal. Rptr. 146; 793 P.2d 479) was a Supreme Court of California case settled on July 9, 1990. John Moore underwent treatment for hairy cell leukemia at the Medical Center of the University of California at Los Angeles under the supervision of Dr. David W. Golde. Moore's cancer was later developed into a cell line that was commercialized, and the court ruled that Moore had no right to profits from the commercialization of anything developed from his discarded body parts.
HeLa and HIV
HeLa-LAV, an epithelial cell line stably infected with HIV-1
References and further reading may be available for this article. To view references and further reading you must purchase this article.
Jörg Berg, a, Barbara Doeb, Kathelyn S. Steimerb and Matthias Wabla
aDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
bChiron Corporation, Emeryville, California, U.S.A.
Accepted 8 May 1991. Available online 12 November 2002.
Abstract
An HeLa-LAV cell line was established by infecting and subcloning previously described CD4-expressing HeLa cells with HIV-1. Cells of this line stably synthesize all major HIV proteins, release infectious particles of HIV-1, but do not die even after long term culture. More than 90% of the cells express the envelope protein gp120 on the surface. The cells can be easily and efficiently labeled with 51chromium, and exhibit a low spontaneous release. Because they are susceptible to killing by allogeneic cytotoxic T cells (CTL) when targeted to gp120, they ought to be a useful source of target cells in any kind of HIV-specific killing assays. The cells may also help studies on HIV replication in non-lymphatic/non-monocytic cells. The HeLa-LAV cell line will be freely available from the AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program.
Keywords: HeLa-LAV cell; HeLaT4+ cell; HIV-1 infection; 51Chromium release assay
Correspondence to: Jörg Berg, Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-0414, U.S.A.
The commercial exploitation of Henrietta Lacks MK Ultra revision of human radiation experimentation history video too
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On February 1, 2010, I was surprised and happy to see Mrs. Henrietta Lacks open up the internet on the first day of Black History Month. But, I soon became disillusioned when I realized that her life had been rewritten, marginalized and commercialized by a romancer, while the perpetrators of crimes against her (humanity) had been veiled.
According to a romanced history of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skott, she entered Johns Hopkins University clinic suffering from bleeding from a cancerous cervical tumor. A doctor sliced a tissue culture from her tumor and it just so happened to grow on its own into the infamous and extremely profitable Immortal HeLa Cell Line. For the first time in recorded medical history, human tissue cells survived the death of its host. Henrietta Lacks had been some sort of remarkable freak of nature, and Johns Hopkins University had been an auspicious benevolent bystander of medical history.[1] Nothing could have been further from the truth.
I first discovered Henrietta Lacks in Dr. Alan Cantwell’s book, AIDS and the Doctors of Death.[2] I followed up and read about Mrs. Lacks in Michael Gold’s Conspiracy of Cells, One Woman’s Immortal Legacy and the Medical Scandal It Caused,[3] which is now out of print.
For Mrs. Lacks and ten-thousands of innocent unwitting victims, the 1950’s was a terrible time of this nation’s most horrific and callous human medical experimentation abuses. It was the time of covert cold-war human radiation experiments conducted under a veil of secrecy by some of the leading universities of the nation including Johns Hopkins University.
Dated April 17, 1947, an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) memorandum, stamped SECRET and addressed to the attention of a Dr. Fidler, at the AEC in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, reads in part as follows: “Subject: EXPERIMENTS ON HUMANS
“1. It is desired that no document be released which refers to experiments with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion or result in legal suits. Documents covering such work field should be classified `secret’.” [4]
Oak Ridge Associated Universities is a consortium of U.S. universities headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with an office in Washington, D.C. The organization was first established in 1946 as the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS) by a consortium of southern universities. Its original purpose was to advance science and technology education and research by providing its member institutions with access to the atomic energy research facilities and materials of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In 1949, Russia exploded its first atomic weapon. In response, President Harry Truman called for atomic testing of nuclear weapons in the continental United States in addition to testing in the Pacific. Some of the first studies of the effects of radium began on beagle dogs at the University of Utah and the University of California at Davis.
In 1950, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS) opened a hospital where it conducted clinical research for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on the use of radiation and radioactive materials in cancer treatment. The hospital treated patients until the mid-1970s. ORINS also conducted training courses in radioisotopes and established resident training programs in nuclear medicine.
In 1951, the first U.S. atomic test occurred in Nevada; five bombs were detonated on successive days. Also, the U.S. began some of first studies investigating the health of plutonium workers at Los Alamos began.
Johns Hopkins University was an ORINS Consortium University involved in classified human radiation experimentation for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In the 1980s, clinical research at ORINS consortium universities was the subject of investigation by the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
“We were taking care of them, and felt we had a right to get some return from them, since it wouldn’t be in professional fees and since our taxes were paying their hospital bills. -Dr. Paul Beeson-Yale University-1950’s Human Radiation Experimentation-
Not unlike thousands of others that were poor and powerless without the resources to pay for quality medical services, Henrietta Lacks entered into a pact with the devil with Johns Hopkins during her 5th pregnancy.
On February 1, 1951, 30-year-old Lacks was seen at a Jim Crow ORINS Consortium Johns Hopkins University clinic in Baltimore, MD for vaginal bleeding, which was not particularly unusual for benign cervical cancers. However, Mrs. Lacks’ tumor quickly developed into cervical sarcoma, a malignant tumor (Papillomavirus type 16) of the cervix. [5]
Six weeks prior, Johns Hopkins had delivered Mrs. Lacks’ 5th child, Joseph. For whatever reasons, doctors had particularly noted at that time during a post-natal examination that there was nothing out of the ordinary in the wall of her cervix. What were they looking for? Cancer.
Between 1945 and 1947, approximately 800 pregnant women were secretly given radioactive iron “cocktails” during their treatment at the Vanderbilt University Prenatal Clinic in Nashville to study iron metabolism during pregnancy. The Rockefeller Foundation funded the covert irradiation human guinea pig program. [6]
At the University of Tennessee Memphis during the late 1940′s, seven male infants (one white and six black) were secretly fed radioactive iodine. The covert program was funded by the U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION to check for hypothyroidism. [7]
At the State University of Iowa, seventeen newborn infants received intramuscular radioiodine to study thyroidal uptake. Eight newborns received oral radioiodine. This covert program was also funded by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. [8]
During the 1950’s, UC Berkeley had secretly injected radioisotope phosphorus-32 into pregnant women, before and after delivery. UC Berkeley had also conducted experimental total body X-ray irradiation of patients to determine occupational risk for workers on the WWII Manhattan Project.[9]
Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. exploded 67 atomic and hydrogen bombs at Bikini and Enewetok in the Marshall Islands. The Rongelap people of the islands were deliberated exposed to radiation fallout from the bombs, because the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s Advisory Committee on Biology and Medicine found it a “…opportunity for a useful genetic study of the effects on these people.” [10] In the Marshall Islands, cervical cancer mortality is 60 times greater than in the mainland United States.
As part her therapy for cervical cancer, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, Dr, Lawrence Wharton, Jr., stitched a tube containing 4800 mg-h of radium capsules to the wall of Mrs. Lacks’ cervix for twenty-four hours with 111500 Roentgen X-Ray therapies. The radium and x-ray therapies were presumed to slow down mitosis (splitting) of the cancerous cells. The radium was provided by the U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION USA, OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE. [11]
Radium is an alkaline earth metal that is found in trace amounts in uranium ores. It is extremely radioactive. Its most stable isotope, Ra, has a half-life of 1602 years and decays into radon gas. [12]
As the surgeon removed the radium capsules at that point he took a biopsy of Mrs. Lacks’ cancerous tumor and normal tissue. [13] On February 9, 1951, Dr. Wharton then sent the radium and Roentgen X-Ray laced tissues and the normal tissues for study to Johns Hopkins Tissue Culture Laboratory ran by German descendent Dr. George Otto Gey and his wife Margaret. For whatever reasons, the radium and x-ray therapies had the opposite effect it exploded mitosis of the cancerous cells at an atomic/nuclear rate which within months consumed Mrs. Lacks’ entire body and organs. The Gey’s said sarcastically that Mrs. Lacks’ tissue cells grew like “crabgrass.”
Contrary to Ms. Skott’s subtle attempt to rewrite Mrs. Lacks’ medical history and steer us clear of Mrs. Lacks’ radium tissue infectivity, Dr. Gey’s HeLa cell culture was the U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION USA, OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE radium tainted super charged tissue, and it continued to literally microscopically atomically explode in mitosis in the air in infinity.
On October 4, 1951, Mrs. Lacks’ life expired after great sadness and suffering. She passed away poor in a racially segregated ward of Johns Hopkins University Hospital. An autopsy was taken of Mrs. Lacks in the basement of the hospital. Dr. Ella Oppenheimer of Johns Hopkins preformed the autopsy instead of a local coroner. Dr. Oppenheimer was a prominent member of Baltimore’s aristocratic society. Dr. Oppenheimer was the chief of the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, Washington, D. C., Department of Public Health.
In 1948, Oppenheimer’s Child Bureau funded radium irradiation experiments on poor helpless hearing impaired children at a clinic in Hagerstown, MD by her Johns Hopkins colleague, Dr. Samuel J. Crowe. [14]
When Dr. Gey found that Mrs. Lacks had passed and the university planned an autopsy, he anxiously made his attendance at the autopsy to seize more of Mrs. Lacks’ tissues.
Dr. Gey had discovered that Mrs. Lacks’ tumor cells were the first human cells to live after the death of its host. It may have been one of the most monumental breakthroughs in modern medical science. It was the world’s first and only human cell line. It meant million for Johns Hopkins University and international fame, glory and riches for Dr. Gey; and the continued racist exploitation, poverty, and mourning for Mrs. Lacks’ young powerless and unknowing family.
According to Ms. Skott’s account, at the death of Mrs. Lacks on October 4, Dr. George Gey went on national television in a press conference to announce his revolutionary breakthrough discovery in cancer research. “He held up a vial of Lacks’ cells, calling them, for the first time, HeLa cells.” [15]
Dr. Gey said that the HeLa cell line was named after “Harriet Lane.“ [16] Most assume that Dr. Gey deliberately misnamed the cell tissue donor to preserve Mrs. Lacks’ anonymity. However, the motive behind Gey’s lie was far more self-serving, cynical and condescending. It was a sick inside joke. It was coded.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston was a widow of a Baltimore banker Henry Johnston. She left a sum of over $400,000 at her death in 1903 to establish the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children at Johns Hopkins as a memorial to two sons who had died in childhood. She was the niece of President James Buchanan and served as First Lady of the White House during her uncle’s term of office. [17]
At the time of the Dr. Gey’s press conference, the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children was a covert CIA-MK ULTRA human guinea pig ranch. Children were regularly taken from a Pediatric Clinical Research Unit at Harriet Lane to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington D.C. for CIA-MK ULTRA drug and mind control experiments.[18] Since the late 1940’s, Johns Hopkins had been a major covert CIA human guinea pig institution. [19]
Also during the time of Dr. Gey’s press conference, there were even more sinister covert human medical experimentations taking place at Johns Hopkins. From 1948-1954, Johns Hopkins University Hospital ran a covert Nasal Radium Irradiation human medical experiment on 291 elementary students from Baltimore City public schools. Each child was irradiated with radium for 12 minutes in each nostril, 50 milligrams per dose, on at least three separate occasions. The experiment was known as research project B-19. It was funded by the National Institutes of Health, then a division of the U.S. Public Health Service. Most of the poor children subjected to the radium experiment later suffered greatly from malignant cancerous tumors of the brain, neck, mouth and throat. Some of them, all of their teeth fell out. It was another hideous inhumane U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION project of Dr. Samuel J. Crowe. [20]
After I discovered Mrs. Lacks’ unique story in Dr. Cantwell’s book and Michael Gold’s Conspiracy of Cells in late 1993 or early 1994, I wrote to two well-known female authors and activists on the East Coast. In the letter, I explained how this unknown and uncelebrated poor Black woman’s cell tissue had revolutionized medical science. I asked them to inquire to find out if her family had been compensated. The royalties to the HeLa Cell Lines should have been worth millions. I also mailed them a copy of Dr. Cantwell’s book, “AIDS and the Doctors of Death.”
Either one of them respectfully responded. One evening, I was walking past De Lauer’s Newsstand in Downtown Oakland when instinct told me to look in the store’s window. I looked. There she was on the front cover, “Henrietta Lacks: An Unsung Hero”, Emerge Magazine, October 1994. One of the sisters had sold or gave the story to Harriet A. Washington, a house Negro Harvard journalist to control and spin for mass public consumption.
Ms. Washington is a medical ethicist and writer whose work focuses upon the intersection of biotechnology, ethics and the history of medicine. She has been housed at Harvard, DePaul; and Stanford University,[21] the handmaiden of the military-industrial-medical-congressional complex. The Harriet Lacks’ story opened a marketable career for her. She went on to author a best selling book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation with African Americans from the Colonial Era to the Present.
The book earned Ms. Washington many awards including a 2007 PEN Award, the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she was rewarded for her work with a Science Desk Award funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Her reward from Alfred P. Sloan screams, it is a major eugenics and CIA/MK ULTRA institution, “The Sloan Foundation (1) supported black educational initiatives consistent with COINTELPRO Black Nationalist Hate Campaign, (2) administered mass-media-public-persuasion experiments completely consistent with the CIA’s Project MK ULTRA-efforts to develop brainwashing technologies and drugs to affect large populations, (3) funded much of the earliest cancer research involving the genetic engineering of mutant viruses, (4) began major funding of the National Academy of Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (for “neuroscience” and molecular genetics research), the Salk Institute (for viral research), and the Scientists’ Institute for Public Information between 1968 and 1970, (5) funded population control studies by Planned Parenthood-World Population, New York, N.Y…” [22]
A friend and cousin of Ben Chavis, President of the NAACP, on the East Coast at that time told me that as result of the Emerge story the Lacks family had been compensated by special legislation of the State of Maryland. I had no way to determine if the story was true or not, it may have been deliberate misinformation. Was the Lacks Family compensated by Johns Hopkins for the seizure of her tissues without her informed consent? I don’t believe that they were. Was Mrs. Lacks a human radiation guinea pig? I believe so.
Mrs. Lacks was no freak of nature. She was a normal human being just like my own mother. She trusted her nation and it betrayed her; family and legacy. They intentionally turned her body into a cold-war radium test tube for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission like something out of Nazi Germany.
Henrietta’s son, Joseph, born six weeks before her diagnosis of cervical cancer had spinal bifida, a split in the backbone that causes paralysis. Spinal bifida, which is not usually considered a genetic disease. According to Zakaryiyya Rahman (Joseph) Lacks, he spent the first year of his life in a Johns Hopkins ward suffering from the birth defect. Spinal bifida is a side effect of Agent Orange;[23] and radiation contamination.[24] They killed her and continue to profit from their wrongdoing and crimes against humanity.
There was also a sinister side of HeLa. For the first time in medical history, military-industrial complex scientist had human cell lines that they could use as some sort of mixer to create new forms of mutant diseases like AIDS that the world has never seen before by coaxing animal and bird viruses into human cells for covert military genetic and biological warfare projects.
I have subsequently concluded that one of the sisters I first informed about Mrs. Lacks was working for the military-industrial complex. She was a senior psychiatrist at St. Elizabeth’s Mental Hospital in Washington DC. She was there all along with Dr. Winfred Overholser, the superintendent of St. Elizabeth.
As early as 1942, General William Donovan, chief of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, had created a covert psychological research program under the direction of Dr. Winfred Overholser at St. Elizabeth. Dr. Oversholser was at the heart of all of the Nazi inspired CIA projects using unsuspecting civilian guinea pigs — BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MIDNIGHT CLIMAX and others. [25]
St. Elizabeth’s Mental Hospital had been a covert MK ULTRA institution for decades. She had been at St. Elizabeth for decades and never mentioned Nazis, Oversholser, the CIA, mind control or MK ULTRA in any of her books or lectures. In fact, she retained the German surname of her long lost divorced German husband, and I had failed to suspect her of anything but having undying love of her people. For decades, I failed to see it because I had so much love and respect for the sister. I was blind. All along, she must have been one of them, Dr. Frances Chess-Welsing.
On January 15, 1994, President William Clinton established the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments to investigate questions of the record of the United States government with respect to human radiation experiments. The whitewash special committee was chaired by you know who, Ruth R. Faden, M.P.H., PhD of Johns Hopkins.[26] Johns Hopkins hideous B-19 Project-Radium Irradiation human medical experiment on 291 elementary students was tagged therapeutic treatment and buried on the back pages of its final report. [27]
The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation instituted as a result of the Nuremberg Nazi War Crimes Trials at the end of the Second World War. The Nuremberg Code includes such principles as informed consent and absence of coercion; properly formulated scientific experimentation; and beneficence towards experiment participants. [28]
The physicians, universities and hospitals that participated in secret MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ON HUMANS for the CIA and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission deliberately and knowingly retreated from the clear principles enunciated in the Nuremberg Code; the Declaration of Helsinki; the Declaration of Human Rights; and the Hippocratic Oath. As of this date, not one of them, individual or institution, has been prosecuted or charged with crimes against humanity. Not one of them has apologized for the thousandths of unwitting victims that they had deliberately disfigured, maimed, destroyed and murdered. In order to insure that unethical human experimentation does not happen again, all violations of the Code must be publicized, the violators punished, and the universality of the Nuremberg Code be upheld.
The romancers want to create an illusion that Mrs. Lacks is stereotypically dancing in the sky knowing that her tissue cells helped mankind. God’s children want her family compensated, and those that violated and tortured her held responsible for crimes against humanity.
For Black History Month, keep your eyes on the prize- Truth and Justice for Mrs. Henrietta Lacks, her Family and thousandths of unwitting American civilians deliberatively turned into radioactive human lab rats by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and MK ULTRA.
Immortal Henrietta Lacks youtube
Henrietta Lacks A Story That MUST BE TOLD
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Eternal Life
By LISA MARGONELLI
Published: February 5, 2010
From the very beginning there was something uncanny about the cancer cells on Henrietta Lacks’s cervix. Even before killing Lacks herself in 1951, they took on a life of their own. Removed during a biopsy and cultured without her permission, the HeLa cells (named from the first two letters of her first and last names) reproduced boisterously in a lab at Johns Hopkins — the first human cells ever to do so. HeLa became an instant biological celebrity, traveling to research labs all over the world. Meanwhile Lacks, a vivacious 31-year-old African-American who had once been a tobacco farmer, tended her five children and endured scarring radiation treatments in the hospital’s “colored” ward.
From “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
By Rebecca Skloot
Illustrated. 369 pp. Crown Publishers. $26
Excerpt: ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ (March 3, 2010)
Second Opinion: A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift (February 2, 2010)
Dwight Garner’s Review of ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ (February 3, 2010)After Henrietta Lacks’s death, HeLa went viral, so to speak, becoming the godmother of virology and then biotech, benefiting practically anyone who’s ever taken a pill stronger than aspirin.
Henrietta Lacks a story that must be told wikipedia
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Legacy
In the early 1970s, the family started getting calls from researchers who wanted blood samples from them to learn the family's genetics. The family wondered why and this is when they learned about the removal of Henrietta's cells. No one else in the family had the traits that made her cells unique.[1]
The cells from Henrietta's tumor were given to researcher George Gey, who "discovered that [Henrietta's] cells did something they'd never seen before: They could be kept alive and grow."[13] Gey named the sample "HeLa", after the initial letters of Henrietta Lacks' name. As the first human cells that could be grown in a lab and were "immortal" (did not die after a few cell divisions), they could then be used for conducting many experiments. This represented an enormous boon to medical and biological research.[1] According to reporter Michael Rogers, the growth of HeLa by a researcher at the hospital helped answer the demands of the 10,000 who marched for a cure to polio just shortly before Lacks' death. By 1954, HeLa was being used by Jonas Salk to develop a vaccine for polio.[1][11] To test Salk's new vaccine, the cells were quickly put into mass production in the first-ever cell production factory.[14] Demand for the HeLa cells quickly grew. Since they were put into mass production, Henrietta's cells have been mailed to scientists around the globe for "research into cancer, AIDS, the effects of radiation and toxic substances, gene mapping, and countless other scientific pursuits".[11] HeLa cells have been used to test human sensitivity to tape, glue, cosmetics, and many other products.[1] Scientists have grown some 20 tons of her cells.[1][15] Doctors still have not discovered the reason for HeLa cells' unique vigor. There are almost 11,000 patents involving HeLa cells.[1]
In 1996, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia and the mayor of Atlanta recognized the late Henrietta Lacks' family for her posthumous contributions.[16] Her life was commemorated annually by Turners Station residents for a few years after Morehouse's commemoration. A Congressional resolution in her honor was presented by Robert Ehrlich following soon after the first commemoration of her, her family, and her contributions to science in Turners Station.
In 1998, Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh, a one-hour BBC documentary on Lacks and HeLa directed by Adam Curtis, won the Best Science and Nature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Immediately following the film's airing in 1997, an article on HeLa cells, Lacks, and her family was published by reporter Jacques Kelly in the Baltimore Sun. In the 1990s the Dundalk Eagle published the first article on her in a newspaper in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, and it continues to announce upcoming local commemorative activities. The Lacks family was also honored at the Smithsonian Institution.[17] In 2001, it was announced that the National Foundation for Cancer Research would be honoring "the late Henrietta Lacks for the contributions made to cancer research and modern medicine" on September 14. Because of the events of September 11, 2001 the event was canceled.[18]
Events in the Turners Station's community have also commemorated the contributions of others including Mary Kubicek, the laboratory assistant who discovered that HeLa cells lived outside the body, as well as Dr. Gey and his nurse wife, Margaret Gey, who together after over 20 years of attempts were eventually able to grow human cells outside of the body.[1]
In her 2010 book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot documents the histories of both the HeLa cell line and the Lacks family. Henrietta's husband, David Lacks, was told little following her death. Suspicions fueled by racial issues prevalent in the South were compounded by issues of class and education. For their part, members of the Lacks family were kept in the dark about the existence of the tissue line, and when its existence was revealed, family members were confused about how Henrietta's cells could have been taken without consent and how they could still be alive 50 years after her death.[17]
Skloot also told the story of Henrietta Lacks on an episode of Radiolab,[19] in which she mentioned that despite the contributions of Henrietta Lacks' cells to medicine and science, Lacks' own family does not have health insurance to be able to benefit from the medical discoveries made with her cells. The episode features audio footage of Skloot and Deborah traveling together, as well as footage of Deborah Lacks talking about her mother's cells. In May 2010, The Virginian-Pilot published two articles on Lacks, HeLa, and her family,[1][20] which mentions that the Morehouse School of Medicine has donated the money for Henrietta's grave as well as her daughter Elsie, who died in 1955, to finally have headstones. Her grandchildren wrote her epitaph: "Henrietta Lacks August 01, 1920 - October 04, 1951 In loving memory of a phenomenal woman, wife and mother who touched the lives of many. Here lies Henrietta Lacks (HeLa). Her immortal cells will continue to help mankind forever. Eternal Love and Admiration, From Your Family"[1][20]
In May 2010, HBO announced that Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball would develop a film project based on Skloot's book.[20]
On May 17, 2010, NBC ran a fictionalized version of Lacks' story on Law & Order, titled "Immortal". An article in Slate called the episode "shockingly close to the true story."[21]
Ella Oppenheimer
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The foregoing brief account of the activities of the Department of Pathology in the years since 1930 is accurate but, in one important respect, it is incomplete (and understandably so).
There is no mention of the extraordinary contributions of Dr. Ella H. Oppenheimer throughout these years.
From the day that Dr. MacCallum assigned to "Miss Oppenheimer" the task of compiling the first diagnostic index of the Department's autopsy files, she quietly assumed more and more responsibility for maintaining this index, for keeping departmental records, for scheduling the course for undergraduate students, and for assembling and reviewing the teaching collections, both gross and microscopic.
There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the quiet, efficient, unselfish devotion of this remarkable lady to these supposedly mundane but actually essential tasks has been the major factor in the continuing excellence of this Department. Through the years, many members of the staff have come and gone, some to become internationally famous for their research and academic accomplishments. All are in her debt and, furthermore, all know it and admit it. Dr. Oppenheimer has remained, holding the Department on course, and giving it substance, dependability, and continuity.
Although she became Mrs. Henry S. Miller and took time off to give birth to two children, she remained "Miss Oppenheimer" to Dr. MacCallum. I daresay that her work in the Department was less disrupted by the birth of her children than it was, in later years, when grandchildren began to make their appearance!
A devoted teacher, she has spent countless hours with students and with residents. She was (and still is) always available to look at an interesting slide or to work off a case. She has found time to make many contributions to the literature, particularly in her special field of interest, pediatric pathology. Most of these (save a few, long ago) are not the results of laboratory experiments but are derived from careful analysis and correlation of case material, made possible by her superb index.
Many is a resident she has reminded - first gently and then, failing a response - somewhat more vigorously - that he is behind in his cases. It is a fair comparison to say that she mothered us all along the way by whatever means a mother must use to keep the young (or not so young) in line.
"Miss Oppenheimer" she remained to Dr. MacCallum, "Dr. Oppenheimer" to students and residents, but to her colleagues on the staff, she was just "Ella." How she spoiled them! They took her records and schedules for granted only to learn later and elsewhere that these are the products of time, trouble, and devoted interest.
On innumerable occasions during visits to other University departments of pathology, I have had occasion to learn that Dr. Oppenheimer is properly appreciated elsewhere, even if we take her for granted at home.
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On February 1, 2010, I was surprised and happy to see Mrs. Henrietta Lacks open up the internet on the first day of Black History Month. But, I soon became disillusioned when I realized that her life had been rewritten, marginalized and commercialized by a romancer, while the perpetrators of crimes against her (humanity) had been veiled.
According to a romanced history of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skott, she entered Johns Hopkins University clinic suffering from bleeding from a cancerous cervical tumor. A doctor sliced a tissue culture from her tumor and it just so happened to grow on its own into the infamous and extremely profitable Immortal HeLa Cell Line. For the first time in recorded medical history, human tissue cells survived the death of its host. Henrietta Lacks had been some sort of remarkable freak of nature, and Johns Hopkins University had been an auspicious benevolent bystander of medical history.[1] Nothing could have been further from the truth.
I first discovered Henrietta Lacks in Dr. Alan Cantwell’s book, AIDS and the Doctors of Death.[2] I followed up and read about Mrs. Lacks in Michael Gold’s Conspiracy of Cells, One Woman’s Immortal Legacy and the Medical Scandal It Caused,[3] which is now out of print.
For Mrs. Lacks and ten-thousands of innocent unwitting victims, the 1950’s was a terrible time of this nation’s most horrific and callous human medical experimentation abuses. It was the time of covert cold-war human radiation experiments conducted under a veil of secrecy by some of the leading universities of the nation including Johns Hopkins University.
Dated April 17, 1947, an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) memorandum, stamped SECRET and addressed to the attention of a Dr. Fidler, at the AEC in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, reads in part as follows: “Subject: EXPERIMENTS ON HUMANS
“1. It is desired that no document be released which refers to experiments with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion or result in legal suits. Documents covering such work field should be classified `secret’.” [4]
Oak Ridge Associated Universities is a consortium of U.S. universities headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with an office in Washington, D.C. The organization was first established in 1946 as the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS) by a consortium of southern universities. Its original purpose was to advance science and technology education and research by providing its member institutions with access to the atomic energy research facilities and materials of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In 1949, Russia exploded its first atomic weapon. In response, President Harry Truman called for atomic testing of nuclear weapons in the continental United States in addition to testing in the Pacific. Some of the first studies of the effects of radium began on beagle dogs at the University of Utah and the University of California at Davis.
In 1950, Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS) opened a hospital where it conducted clinical research for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission on the use of radiation and radioactive materials in cancer treatment. The hospital treated patients until the mid-1970s. ORINS also conducted training courses in radioisotopes and established resident training programs in nuclear medicine.
In 1951, the first U.S. atomic test occurred in Nevada; five bombs were detonated on successive days. Also, the U.S. began some of first studies investigating the health of plutonium workers at Los Alamos began.
Johns Hopkins University was an ORINS Consortium University involved in classified human radiation experimentation for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In the 1980s, clinical research at ORINS consortium universities was the subject of investigation by the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments.
“We were taking care of them, and felt we had a right to get some return from them, since it wouldn’t be in professional fees and since our taxes were paying their hospital bills. -Dr. Paul Beeson-Yale University-1950’s Human Radiation Experimentation-
Not unlike thousands of others that were poor and powerless without the resources to pay for quality medical services, Henrietta Lacks entered into a pact with the devil with Johns Hopkins during her 5th pregnancy.
On February 1, 1951, 30-year-old Lacks was seen at a Jim Crow ORINS Consortium Johns Hopkins University clinic in Baltimore, MD for vaginal bleeding, which was not particularly unusual for benign cervical cancers. However, Mrs. Lacks’ tumor quickly developed into cervical sarcoma, a malignant tumor (Papillomavirus type 16) of the cervix. [5]
Six weeks prior, Johns Hopkins had delivered Mrs. Lacks’ 5th child, Joseph. For whatever reasons, doctors had particularly noted at that time during a post-natal examination that there was nothing out of the ordinary in the wall of her cervix. What were they looking for? Cancer.
Between 1945 and 1947, approximately 800 pregnant women were secretly given radioactive iron “cocktails” during their treatment at the Vanderbilt University Prenatal Clinic in Nashville to study iron metabolism during pregnancy. The Rockefeller Foundation funded the covert irradiation human guinea pig program. [6]
At the University of Tennessee Memphis during the late 1940′s, seven male infants (one white and six black) were secretly fed radioactive iodine. The covert program was funded by the U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION to check for hypothyroidism. [7]
At the State University of Iowa, seventeen newborn infants received intramuscular radioiodine to study thyroidal uptake. Eight newborns received oral radioiodine. This covert program was also funded by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. [8]
During the 1950’s, UC Berkeley had secretly injected radioisotope phosphorus-32 into pregnant women, before and after delivery. UC Berkeley had also conducted experimental total body X-ray irradiation of patients to determine occupational risk for workers on the WWII Manhattan Project.[9]
Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. exploded 67 atomic and hydrogen bombs at Bikini and Enewetok in the Marshall Islands. The Rongelap people of the islands were deliberated exposed to radiation fallout from the bombs, because the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s Advisory Committee on Biology and Medicine found it a “…opportunity for a useful genetic study of the effects on these people.” [10] In the Marshall Islands, cervical cancer mortality is 60 times greater than in the mainland United States.
As part her therapy for cervical cancer, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, Dr, Lawrence Wharton, Jr., stitched a tube containing 4800 mg-h of radium capsules to the wall of Mrs. Lacks’ cervix for twenty-four hours with 111500 Roentgen X-Ray therapies. The radium and x-ray therapies were presumed to slow down mitosis (splitting) of the cancerous cells. The radium was provided by the U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION USA, OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE. [11]
Radium is an alkaline earth metal that is found in trace amounts in uranium ores. It is extremely radioactive. Its most stable isotope, Ra, has a half-life of 1602 years and decays into radon gas. [12]
As the surgeon removed the radium capsules at that point he took a biopsy of Mrs. Lacks’ cancerous tumor and normal tissue. [13] On February 9, 1951, Dr. Wharton then sent the radium and Roentgen X-Ray laced tissues and the normal tissues for study to Johns Hopkins Tissue Culture Laboratory ran by German descendent Dr. George Otto Gey and his wife Margaret. For whatever reasons, the radium and x-ray therapies had the opposite effect it exploded mitosis of the cancerous cells at an atomic/nuclear rate which within months consumed Mrs. Lacks’ entire body and organs. The Gey’s said sarcastically that Mrs. Lacks’ tissue cells grew like “crabgrass.”
Contrary to Ms. Skott’s subtle attempt to rewrite Mrs. Lacks’ medical history and steer us clear of Mrs. Lacks’ radium tissue infectivity, Dr. Gey’s HeLa cell culture was the U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION USA, OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE radium tainted super charged tissue, and it continued to literally microscopically atomically explode in mitosis in the air in infinity.
On October 4, 1951, Mrs. Lacks’ life expired after great sadness and suffering. She passed away poor in a racially segregated ward of Johns Hopkins University Hospital. An autopsy was taken of Mrs. Lacks in the basement of the hospital. Dr. Ella Oppenheimer of Johns Hopkins preformed the autopsy instead of a local coroner. Dr. Oppenheimer was a prominent member of Baltimore’s aristocratic society. Dr. Oppenheimer was the chief of the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, Washington, D. C., Department of Public Health.
In 1948, Oppenheimer’s Child Bureau funded radium irradiation experiments on poor helpless hearing impaired children at a clinic in Hagerstown, MD by her Johns Hopkins colleague, Dr. Samuel J. Crowe. [14]
When Dr. Gey found that Mrs. Lacks had passed and the university planned an autopsy, he anxiously made his attendance at the autopsy to seize more of Mrs. Lacks’ tissues.
Dr. Gey had discovered that Mrs. Lacks’ tumor cells were the first human cells to live after the death of its host. It may have been one of the most monumental breakthroughs in modern medical science. It was the world’s first and only human cell line. It meant million for Johns Hopkins University and international fame, glory and riches for Dr. Gey; and the continued racist exploitation, poverty, and mourning for Mrs. Lacks’ young powerless and unknowing family.
According to Ms. Skott’s account, at the death of Mrs. Lacks on October 4, Dr. George Gey went on national television in a press conference to announce his revolutionary breakthrough discovery in cancer research. “He held up a vial of Lacks’ cells, calling them, for the first time, HeLa cells.” [15]
Dr. Gey said that the HeLa cell line was named after “Harriet Lane.“ [16] Most assume that Dr. Gey deliberately misnamed the cell tissue donor to preserve Mrs. Lacks’ anonymity. However, the motive behind Gey’s lie was far more self-serving, cynical and condescending. It was a sick inside joke. It was coded.
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston was a widow of a Baltimore banker Henry Johnston. She left a sum of over $400,000 at her death in 1903 to establish the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children at Johns Hopkins as a memorial to two sons who had died in childhood. She was the niece of President James Buchanan and served as First Lady of the White House during her uncle’s term of office. [17]
At the time of the Dr. Gey’s press conference, the Harriet Lane Home for Invalid Children was a covert CIA-MK ULTRA human guinea pig ranch. Children were regularly taken from a Pediatric Clinical Research Unit at Harriet Lane to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington D.C. for CIA-MK ULTRA drug and mind control experiments.[18] Since the late 1940’s, Johns Hopkins had been a major covert CIA human guinea pig institution. [19]
Also during the time of Dr. Gey’s press conference, there were even more sinister covert human medical experimentations taking place at Johns Hopkins. From 1948-1954, Johns Hopkins University Hospital ran a covert Nasal Radium Irradiation human medical experiment on 291 elementary students from Baltimore City public schools. Each child was irradiated with radium for 12 minutes in each nostril, 50 milligrams per dose, on at least three separate occasions. The experiment was known as research project B-19. It was funded by the National Institutes of Health, then a division of the U.S. Public Health Service. Most of the poor children subjected to the radium experiment later suffered greatly from malignant cancerous tumors of the brain, neck, mouth and throat. Some of them, all of their teeth fell out. It was another hideous inhumane U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION project of Dr. Samuel J. Crowe. [20]
After I discovered Mrs. Lacks’ unique story in Dr. Cantwell’s book and Michael Gold’s Conspiracy of Cells in late 1993 or early 1994, I wrote to two well-known female authors and activists on the East Coast. In the letter, I explained how this unknown and uncelebrated poor Black woman’s cell tissue had revolutionized medical science. I asked them to inquire to find out if her family had been compensated. The royalties to the HeLa Cell Lines should have been worth millions. I also mailed them a copy of Dr. Cantwell’s book, “AIDS and the Doctors of Death.”
Either one of them respectfully responded. One evening, I was walking past De Lauer’s Newsstand in Downtown Oakland when instinct told me to look in the store’s window. I looked. There she was on the front cover, “Henrietta Lacks: An Unsung Hero”, Emerge Magazine, October 1994. One of the sisters had sold or gave the story to Harriet A. Washington, a house Negro Harvard journalist to control and spin for mass public consumption.
Ms. Washington is a medical ethicist and writer whose work focuses upon the intersection of biotechnology, ethics and the history of medicine. She has been housed at Harvard, DePaul; and Stanford University,[21] the handmaiden of the military-industrial-medical-congressional complex. The Harriet Lacks’ story opened a marketable career for her. She went on to author a best selling book, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation with African Americans from the Colonial Era to the Present.
The book earned Ms. Washington many awards including a 2007 PEN Award, the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she was rewarded for her work with a Science Desk Award funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Her reward from Alfred P. Sloan screams, it is a major eugenics and CIA/MK ULTRA institution, “The Sloan Foundation (1) supported black educational initiatives consistent with COINTELPRO Black Nationalist Hate Campaign, (2) administered mass-media-public-persuasion experiments completely consistent with the CIA’s Project MK ULTRA-efforts to develop brainwashing technologies and drugs to affect large populations, (3) funded much of the earliest cancer research involving the genetic engineering of mutant viruses, (4) began major funding of the National Academy of Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (for “neuroscience” and molecular genetics research), the Salk Institute (for viral research), and the Scientists’ Institute for Public Information between 1968 and 1970, (5) funded population control studies by Planned Parenthood-World Population, New York, N.Y…” [22]
A friend and cousin of Ben Chavis, President of the NAACP, on the East Coast at that time told me that as result of the Emerge story the Lacks family had been compensated by special legislation of the State of Maryland. I had no way to determine if the story was true or not, it may have been deliberate misinformation. Was the Lacks Family compensated by Johns Hopkins for the seizure of her tissues without her informed consent? I don’t believe that they were. Was Mrs. Lacks a human radiation guinea pig? I believe so.
Mrs. Lacks was no freak of nature. She was a normal human being just like my own mother. She trusted her nation and it betrayed her; family and legacy. They intentionally turned her body into a cold-war radium test tube for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission like something out of Nazi Germany.
Henrietta’s son, Joseph, born six weeks before her diagnosis of cervical cancer had spinal bifida, a split in the backbone that causes paralysis. Spinal bifida, which is not usually considered a genetic disease. According to Zakaryiyya Rahman (Joseph) Lacks, he spent the first year of his life in a Johns Hopkins ward suffering from the birth defect. Spinal bifida is a side effect of Agent Orange;[23] and radiation contamination.[24] They killed her and continue to profit from their wrongdoing and crimes against humanity.
There was also a sinister side of HeLa. For the first time in medical history, military-industrial complex scientist had human cell lines that they could use as some sort of mixer to create new forms of mutant diseases like AIDS that the world has never seen before by coaxing animal and bird viruses into human cells for covert military genetic and biological warfare projects.
I have subsequently concluded that one of the sisters I first informed about Mrs. Lacks was working for the military-industrial complex. She was a senior psychiatrist at St. Elizabeth’s Mental Hospital in Washington DC. She was there all along with Dr. Winfred Overholser, the superintendent of St. Elizabeth.
As early as 1942, General William Donovan, chief of the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA, had created a covert psychological research program under the direction of Dr. Winfred Overholser at St. Elizabeth. Dr. Oversholser was at the heart of all of the Nazi inspired CIA projects using unsuspecting civilian guinea pigs — BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MIDNIGHT CLIMAX and others. [25]
St. Elizabeth’s Mental Hospital had been a covert MK ULTRA institution for decades. She had been at St. Elizabeth for decades and never mentioned Nazis, Oversholser, the CIA, mind control or MK ULTRA in any of her books or lectures. In fact, she retained the German surname of her long lost divorced German husband, and I had failed to suspect her of anything but having undying love of her people. For decades, I failed to see it because I had so much love and respect for the sister. I was blind. All along, she must have been one of them, Dr. Frances Chess-Welsing.
On January 15, 1994, President William Clinton established the Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments to investigate questions of the record of the United States government with respect to human radiation experiments. The whitewash special committee was chaired by you know who, Ruth R. Faden, M.P.H., PhD of Johns Hopkins.[26] Johns Hopkins hideous B-19 Project-Radium Irradiation human medical experiment on 291 elementary students was tagged therapeutic treatment and buried on the back pages of its final report. [27]
The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation instituted as a result of the Nuremberg Nazi War Crimes Trials at the end of the Second World War. The Nuremberg Code includes such principles as informed consent and absence of coercion; properly formulated scientific experimentation; and beneficence towards experiment participants. [28]
The physicians, universities and hospitals that participated in secret MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS ON HUMANS for the CIA and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission deliberately and knowingly retreated from the clear principles enunciated in the Nuremberg Code; the Declaration of Helsinki; the Declaration of Human Rights; and the Hippocratic Oath. As of this date, not one of them, individual or institution, has been prosecuted or charged with crimes against humanity. Not one of them has apologized for the thousandths of unwitting victims that they had deliberately disfigured, maimed, destroyed and murdered. In order to insure that unethical human experimentation does not happen again, all violations of the Code must be publicized, the violators punished, and the universality of the Nuremberg Code be upheld.
The romancers want to create an illusion that Mrs. Lacks is stereotypically dancing in the sky knowing that her tissue cells helped mankind. God’s children want her family compensated, and those that violated and tortured her held responsible for crimes against humanity.
For Black History Month, keep your eyes on the prize- Truth and Justice for Mrs. Henrietta Lacks, her Family and thousandths of unwitting American civilians deliberatively turned into radioactive human lab rats by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and MK ULTRA.
Immortal Henrietta Lacks youtube
Henrietta Lacks A Story That MUST BE TOLD
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Eternal Life
By LISA MARGONELLI
Published: February 5, 2010
From the very beginning there was something uncanny about the cancer cells on Henrietta Lacks’s cervix. Even before killing Lacks herself in 1951, they took on a life of their own. Removed during a biopsy and cultured without her permission, the HeLa cells (named from the first two letters of her first and last names) reproduced boisterously in a lab at Johns Hopkins — the first human cells ever to do so. HeLa became an instant biological celebrity, traveling to research labs all over the world. Meanwhile Lacks, a vivacious 31-year-old African-American who had once been a tobacco farmer, tended her five children and endured scarring radiation treatments in the hospital’s “colored” ward.
From “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”
Henrietta and David Lacks, circa 1945.
THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS
By Rebecca Skloot
Illustrated. 369 pp. Crown Publishers. $26
Excerpt: ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ (March 3, 2010)
Second Opinion: A Lasting Gift to Medicine That Wasn’t Really a Gift (February 2, 2010)
Dwight Garner’s Review of ‘The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ (February 3, 2010)After Henrietta Lacks’s death, HeLa went viral, so to speak, becoming the godmother of virology and then biotech, benefiting practically anyone who’s ever taken a pill stronger than aspirin.
Henrietta Lacks a story that must be told wikipedia
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Legacy
In the early 1970s, the family started getting calls from researchers who wanted blood samples from them to learn the family's genetics. The family wondered why and this is when they learned about the removal of Henrietta's cells. No one else in the family had the traits that made her cells unique.[1]
The cells from Henrietta's tumor were given to researcher George Gey, who "discovered that [Henrietta's] cells did something they'd never seen before: They could be kept alive and grow."[13] Gey named the sample "HeLa", after the initial letters of Henrietta Lacks' name. As the first human cells that could be grown in a lab and were "immortal" (did not die after a few cell divisions), they could then be used for conducting many experiments. This represented an enormous boon to medical and biological research.[1] According to reporter Michael Rogers, the growth of HeLa by a researcher at the hospital helped answer the demands of the 10,000 who marched for a cure to polio just shortly before Lacks' death. By 1954, HeLa was being used by Jonas Salk to develop a vaccine for polio.[1][11] To test Salk's new vaccine, the cells were quickly put into mass production in the first-ever cell production factory.[14] Demand for the HeLa cells quickly grew. Since they were put into mass production, Henrietta's cells have been mailed to scientists around the globe for "research into cancer, AIDS, the effects of radiation and toxic substances, gene mapping, and countless other scientific pursuits".[11] HeLa cells have been used to test human sensitivity to tape, glue, cosmetics, and many other products.[1] Scientists have grown some 20 tons of her cells.[1][15] Doctors still have not discovered the reason for HeLa cells' unique vigor. There are almost 11,000 patents involving HeLa cells.[1]
In 1996, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia and the mayor of Atlanta recognized the late Henrietta Lacks' family for her posthumous contributions.[16] Her life was commemorated annually by Turners Station residents for a few years after Morehouse's commemoration. A Congressional resolution in her honor was presented by Robert Ehrlich following soon after the first commemoration of her, her family, and her contributions to science in Turners Station.
In 1998, Modern Times: The Way of All Flesh, a one-hour BBC documentary on Lacks and HeLa directed by Adam Curtis, won the Best Science and Nature Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Immediately following the film's airing in 1997, an article on HeLa cells, Lacks, and her family was published by reporter Jacques Kelly in the Baltimore Sun. In the 1990s the Dundalk Eagle published the first article on her in a newspaper in Baltimore City and Baltimore County, and it continues to announce upcoming local commemorative activities. The Lacks family was also honored at the Smithsonian Institution.[17] In 2001, it was announced that the National Foundation for Cancer Research would be honoring "the late Henrietta Lacks for the contributions made to cancer research and modern medicine" on September 14. Because of the events of September 11, 2001 the event was canceled.[18]
Events in the Turners Station's community have also commemorated the contributions of others including Mary Kubicek, the laboratory assistant who discovered that HeLa cells lived outside the body, as well as Dr. Gey and his nurse wife, Margaret Gey, who together after over 20 years of attempts were eventually able to grow human cells outside of the body.[1]
In her 2010 book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot documents the histories of both the HeLa cell line and the Lacks family. Henrietta's husband, David Lacks, was told little following her death. Suspicions fueled by racial issues prevalent in the South were compounded by issues of class and education. For their part, members of the Lacks family were kept in the dark about the existence of the tissue line, and when its existence was revealed, family members were confused about how Henrietta's cells could have been taken without consent and how they could still be alive 50 years after her death.[17]
Skloot also told the story of Henrietta Lacks on an episode of Radiolab,[19] in which she mentioned that despite the contributions of Henrietta Lacks' cells to medicine and science, Lacks' own family does not have health insurance to be able to benefit from the medical discoveries made with her cells. The episode features audio footage of Skloot and Deborah traveling together, as well as footage of Deborah Lacks talking about her mother's cells. In May 2010, The Virginian-Pilot published two articles on Lacks, HeLa, and her family,[1][20] which mentions that the Morehouse School of Medicine has donated the money for Henrietta's grave as well as her daughter Elsie, who died in 1955, to finally have headstones. Her grandchildren wrote her epitaph: "Henrietta Lacks August 01, 1920 - October 04, 1951 In loving memory of a phenomenal woman, wife and mother who touched the lives of many. Here lies Henrietta Lacks (HeLa). Her immortal cells will continue to help mankind forever. Eternal Love and Admiration, From Your Family"[1][20]
In May 2010, HBO announced that Oprah Winfrey and Alan Ball would develop a film project based on Skloot's book.[20]
On May 17, 2010, NBC ran a fictionalized version of Lacks' story on Law & Order, titled "Immortal". An article in Slate called the episode "shockingly close to the true story."[21]
Ella Oppenheimer
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The foregoing brief account of the activities of the Department of Pathology in the years since 1930 is accurate but, in one important respect, it is incomplete (and understandably so).
There is no mention of the extraordinary contributions of Dr. Ella H. Oppenheimer throughout these years.
From the day that Dr. MacCallum assigned to "Miss Oppenheimer" the task of compiling the first diagnostic index of the Department's autopsy files, she quietly assumed more and more responsibility for maintaining this index, for keeping departmental records, for scheduling the course for undergraduate students, and for assembling and reviewing the teaching collections, both gross and microscopic.
There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the quiet, efficient, unselfish devotion of this remarkable lady to these supposedly mundane but actually essential tasks has been the major factor in the continuing excellence of this Department. Through the years, many members of the staff have come and gone, some to become internationally famous for their research and academic accomplishments. All are in her debt and, furthermore, all know it and admit it. Dr. Oppenheimer has remained, holding the Department on course, and giving it substance, dependability, and continuity.
Although she became Mrs. Henry S. Miller and took time off to give birth to two children, she remained "Miss Oppenheimer" to Dr. MacCallum. I daresay that her work in the Department was less disrupted by the birth of her children than it was, in later years, when grandchildren began to make their appearance!
A devoted teacher, she has spent countless hours with students and with residents. She was (and still is) always available to look at an interesting slide or to work off a case. She has found time to make many contributions to the literature, particularly in her special field of interest, pediatric pathology. Most of these (save a few, long ago) are not the results of laboratory experiments but are derived from careful analysis and correlation of case material, made possible by her superb index.
Many is a resident she has reminded - first gently and then, failing a response - somewhat more vigorously - that he is behind in his cases. It is a fair comparison to say that she mothered us all along the way by whatever means a mother must use to keep the young (or not so young) in line.
"Miss Oppenheimer" she remained to Dr. MacCallum, "Dr. Oppenheimer" to students and residents, but to her colleagues on the staff, she was just "Ella." How she spoiled them! They took her records and schedules for granted only to learn later and elsewhere that these are the products of time, trouble, and devoted interest.
On innumerable occasions during visits to other University departments of pathology, I have had occasion to learn that Dr. Oppenheimer is properly appreciated elsewhere, even if we take her for granted at home.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Letter that reminds me of me
Jul 23
Letter from the Heart
Barb’s Note: The following letter is from someone who has found himself in a position that most of us who have done the research about the state our nation is in can relate to. Surrounded by people who think you are a crazed conspiracy theorist, and knowing the truth, but unable to convey that truth to those closest to you. Read the following letter and understand that no matter your circumstances, you are not alone.
By Barry Lane Tudor
Barbara, I know we don’t know each other much, but I sure do appreciate your activism. It has inspired me somewhat to become more active myself, although I am scared for a number of reasons, first being is I am still in the government system awaiting “retirement” in 6 years. I don’t think we’ll make it that far.
We are severely outnumbered, we are out-powered (media and military wise), we are slandered, ridiculed, and despised, they are taught to distrust us (the American people), to despise us. Even family members of mine think I am nuts for my “conspiracy” theories, which as you know are more related to true investigation and brutal honesty of my position in the military industrial complex.
Will we be able to turn this terrible tide? They have had so long, they are so far…it is very scary. And the money…I have seen in my job the money flow more than quintuple for nutty ideas – like the big mobile evac ambulance video for instance. I am beginning to lose faith that we sane few can turn this insane tide.
Please if you can, continue to encourage me…you and Marti and Alex Jones and a very scant few others online are my only grasp onto reality anymore other than my grips upon nature and spirituality, which help keep me sane.
I have very few people I can relate truth with due to my position in the gov. I am the enemy combatant they train against, and I haven’t got any violence left within me other than self protection and sustenance for family. But I do have spirit, a brain, and this poor body, what is left of it. My spirit is crying out urgently to get out of here, but I remain trapped in my circumstances of life and will face the future here as it comes with this body.
The future is foreboding to me, my spirit tells me darkness is ahead, but there is a bright ray in the far future of hope for mankind. I cannot fathom the lies I swallowed throughout my life, only to awaken in this hour, eyebrows raised, fists clenched, and mad as hell. How could they ruin this most beautiful, free, independent country, and point us headlong into ruin, selling us out along the way?
I am angry at my fathers generation, his fathers generation, for it was their generations who were misled, who were misguided, who were passive enough to allow this to happen, and then my generation. My generation, who was lied to, told how free we were, how this was a nation of opportunity, how we were the greatest nation. We tried voting democrat, trying to change the tide of Vietnam. We lost ourselves in hedonistic pleasures, entertainment, drugs, cars, cheap gas and electricity, unending wealth and desecration of the flesh during the “good times” of the 70s through 80s. When the soviet union fell, I voted for republican for first time. I became that for several years, subscribing to Rush Limbaugh in Sacramento, even before he went national. Remember the egg stained billboards?
After all those changes, those turbulent years, I was starting to become an independent, tired of the lies train of republicrats and lies of demlicans alike, I became a libertarian. I could no longer listen to Rush Limbaugh, and found a little old man named Ron Paul, who started me off into libertarian party.
It was 911 that brought everything into focus for me. In about 2003, I became totally aware of a great many things I was ignorant of before. In 2003 I also found Alex Jones website and show. I watched documentaries, did some slight investigative work on my own through my channels, and found truth at last. Now everything seemed to fit into a pattern I could recognize.
I found a great many other sites of like mind, including Farmwars, which is one of my favorites. You girls got it. I wish I knew people like you in my life to talk to, like minded. I seem to be surrounded by hardline republicans, military, who hate my kind of person with a prejudice a black man might understand, only because I dare to question authority, to investigate alternative news, to try to find out what is going on.
I think I have found out what is going on, but to my great consternation, I am a huge minority, and furthermore, talking about the forbidden subject has driven wedges in my familial relationships that I found very disconcerting. I have tried to talk seriously and deeply about the situations we are facing, but get denounced, called un-American, called traitor, am ridiculed. Some spout republican crap. Some spout democrat crap. They believe the lie like it was the truth, and will fight against the truth with all their might, like good ignorant fools do.
Sorry to spout like this, but I wanted to know if you have any similarity to this on your end? At times, Barbara, I wonder if my family is right…I must be crazy. But the truth I have found is, that it is the TRUTH that is crazy. Crazy people could not make up crazier stuff than the truth of where we are as a nation.
Thanks for being there, and FYI my middle son, 27, is joining the army. Against my wishes, but it is his life. He thinks I am insane…youth…
~Barry
Jul 23
Letter from the Heart
Barb’s Note: The following letter is from someone who has found himself in a position that most of us who have done the research about the state our nation is in can relate to. Surrounded by people who think you are a crazed conspiracy theorist, and knowing the truth, but unable to convey that truth to those closest to you. Read the following letter and understand that no matter your circumstances, you are not alone.
By Barry Lane Tudor
Barbara, I know we don’t know each other much, but I sure do appreciate your activism. It has inspired me somewhat to become more active myself, although I am scared for a number of reasons, first being is I am still in the government system awaiting “retirement” in 6 years. I don’t think we’ll make it that far.
We are severely outnumbered, we are out-powered (media and military wise), we are slandered, ridiculed, and despised, they are taught to distrust us (the American people), to despise us. Even family members of mine think I am nuts for my “conspiracy” theories, which as you know are more related to true investigation and brutal honesty of my position in the military industrial complex.
Will we be able to turn this terrible tide? They have had so long, they are so far…it is very scary. And the money…I have seen in my job the money flow more than quintuple for nutty ideas – like the big mobile evac ambulance video for instance. I am beginning to lose faith that we sane few can turn this insane tide.
Please if you can, continue to encourage me…you and Marti and Alex Jones and a very scant few others online are my only grasp onto reality anymore other than my grips upon nature and spirituality, which help keep me sane.
I have very few people I can relate truth with due to my position in the gov. I am the enemy combatant they train against, and I haven’t got any violence left within me other than self protection and sustenance for family. But I do have spirit, a brain, and this poor body, what is left of it. My spirit is crying out urgently to get out of here, but I remain trapped in my circumstances of life and will face the future here as it comes with this body.
The future is foreboding to me, my spirit tells me darkness is ahead, but there is a bright ray in the far future of hope for mankind. I cannot fathom the lies I swallowed throughout my life, only to awaken in this hour, eyebrows raised, fists clenched, and mad as hell. How could they ruin this most beautiful, free, independent country, and point us headlong into ruin, selling us out along the way?
I am angry at my fathers generation, his fathers generation, for it was their generations who were misled, who were misguided, who were passive enough to allow this to happen, and then my generation. My generation, who was lied to, told how free we were, how this was a nation of opportunity, how we were the greatest nation. We tried voting democrat, trying to change the tide of Vietnam. We lost ourselves in hedonistic pleasures, entertainment, drugs, cars, cheap gas and electricity, unending wealth and desecration of the flesh during the “good times” of the 70s through 80s. When the soviet union fell, I voted for republican for first time. I became that for several years, subscribing to Rush Limbaugh in Sacramento, even before he went national. Remember the egg stained billboards?
After all those changes, those turbulent years, I was starting to become an independent, tired of the lies train of republicrats and lies of demlicans alike, I became a libertarian. I could no longer listen to Rush Limbaugh, and found a little old man named Ron Paul, who started me off into libertarian party.
It was 911 that brought everything into focus for me. In about 2003, I became totally aware of a great many things I was ignorant of before. In 2003 I also found Alex Jones website and show. I watched documentaries, did some slight investigative work on my own through my channels, and found truth at last. Now everything seemed to fit into a pattern I could recognize.
I found a great many other sites of like mind, including Farmwars, which is one of my favorites. You girls got it. I wish I knew people like you in my life to talk to, like minded. I seem to be surrounded by hardline republicans, military, who hate my kind of person with a prejudice a black man might understand, only because I dare to question authority, to investigate alternative news, to try to find out what is going on.
I think I have found out what is going on, but to my great consternation, I am a huge minority, and furthermore, talking about the forbidden subject has driven wedges in my familial relationships that I found very disconcerting. I have tried to talk seriously and deeply about the situations we are facing, but get denounced, called un-American, called traitor, am ridiculed. Some spout republican crap. Some spout democrat crap. They believe the lie like it was the truth, and will fight against the truth with all their might, like good ignorant fools do.
Sorry to spout like this, but I wanted to know if you have any similarity to this on your end? At times, Barbara, I wonder if my family is right…I must be crazy. But the truth I have found is, that it is the TRUTH that is crazy. Crazy people could not make up crazier stuff than the truth of where we are as a nation.
Thanks for being there, and FYI my middle son, 27, is joining the army. Against my wishes, but it is his life. He thinks I am insane…youth…
~Barry
Sunday, July 11, 2010
MAFB cooks the books
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MacDill AFB is another "OUT of CONTROL" MIlitary Base violating their own AICUZ and NEPA responsibilities and this Fraud harms the public . MacDill Violates the Constitution they took an oath to defend and harm the citizens they claim to protect.
Air Installation Compatible Use Zone (AICUZ) Information
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The purpose of the AICUZ (Air Installation Compatible Use Zone) Program is to protect the health, safety and welfare from noise and hazards through compatible development in the airport environment. The program was instituted by the Department of Defense to address the problem of land development surrounding military air installations. It provides for the development and implementation of a plan to determine those land areas for which development should be significantly influenced by the operation of the airfield. These land areas are then designated as the AICUZ for that installation.
To provide for compatible development, the Navy acquired easements and fee simple ownership on certain lands in the noise and accident potential zones around NAS Oceana. While the specific terms of each easement varies, they generally prohibit all residential and people-intensive commercial development. In addition, the permitted industrial development cannot result in a high concentration of people. The 2003 adopted Comprehensive Plan's Technical Report states that the AICUZ Program for NAS Oceana has encumbered approximately 4,200 acres, of which approximately 3,600 acres are currently undeveloped. Land within the AICUZ program has been classified according to its potential impact from noise and accident potential.
MotherJones top ten toxic companies 1993
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Dupont
The largest chemical company in the United States has given the world nylon, Teflon, Freon, and leaded gasoline (which it still makes for markets overseas); is the country's number-one emitter of toxins, releasing poisons at the rate of just under a million pounds a day, according to the EPA's 1989 data; is the world's largest producer of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS); and leads all other companies in domestic deep-well injection of toxic wastes (254.9 million pounds in 1989). Recently, Du Pont was forced to pay $1.4 million in damages for concealing records showing that six employees had developed lung damage from asbestos exposure. Its operation of the government's Savannah River nuclear-weapons complex (1950-1989) polluted water sources for the area and has been connected to elevated levels of leukemia, lung cancer, and other diseases. The company's consumer products include Stainmaster carpets, Dacron, and Lycra.
Rockwell
The EPA has identified 166 separate hazardous-waste dumps at Rock- well's Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons facility outside Denver, including "Hillside 88l," thought to be the worst-polluted spot in the country and a threat to local drinking water. In 1992, Rockwell paid $18.5 million in fines for environmental violations (including five felonies) at Rocky Flats. Rockwell also is the second-largest emitter of airborne toxins in the heavily polluted Los Angeles Basin; it has admitted to ten accidental releases of radioactive materials there over the past twenty years, and has been identified by the state authorities as possibly responsible for high rates of bladder cancer.
General Motors
General Motors releases three times as much toxic pollution as its main U.S. competitor, Ford Motor Co.; paid the most in OSHA penalties of any U.S. company between 1977 and 1990; has been linked with 200 Superfund sites, including a landfill in New York that will take an estimated $100 million to clean up; and is the top producer of ozone- depleting chemicals in California. A GM plant in Saginaw, Michigan, pumped toxic material into the environment at the rate of more than a thousand pounds an hour in 1989.
General Electric
Even as General Electric was giving failing actor Ronald Reagan his big break as host of a 1950s TV series, it was neglecting to warn residents near its Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State about its regular releases of radioactive substances into the environment. GE plants also discharged 500,000 pounds of PCBs into the Hudson River over a thirty-year period. One of the three major manufacturers of nuclear-power plants, GE has been sued by several utility companies for supplying them with deficient nuclear- containment vessels. GE designed Mexico's only nuclear-power plant, which has dumped radioactive water into the Gulf of Mexico. GE markets appliances and lightbulbs.
Georgia Pacific
According to 1991 EPA data, Georgia Pacific has the worst air-permit compliance record in the forest-products industry, and has pulp and paper mills that were cited as out of compliance for a cumulative sixty-one quarters (fifteen-plus years!). It also has plants emitting dangerously high amounts of cancer-causing chloroform into the air of at least four states. Recently, G-P was fined $5 million for tax evasion in a scheme that would have allegedly damaged a wetlands area, and lost two court decisions concerning its release of the fiendishly toxic pollutant dioxin. As the largest U.S. importer of tropical timber, Georgia Pacific prompted the Rainforest Action Network to call for a boycott of its Coronet and Angel Soft brand paper products.
Cargill
Although Cargill is one of the world's largest grain traders, meat packers, flour millers, and seed companies, and also runs steel mills, this $49 billion company is able to operate in great secrecy because it is privately held. Nonetheless, Cargill has been cited for over 2,000 OSHA violations since 1987 spilled 40,000 gallons of toxic phosphoric solution into the Alafia River in Florida in 1988, causing a massive fish kill; since 1991 has had the worst air compliance record of any company in its industry: and scored second-lowest among its competitors on CEP's Greendex, which measures the environmental soundness of PAC contributions. It is also one of the top two emitters of toxics in its industry according to the EPA. In 1991, then-governor Bill Clinton criticized the company for releasing into Arkansas rivers animal waste comparable to the output of 21 million people, or about ten times the state's population. Cargill products include Honeysuckle White and Riverside turkeys, Excel pork and beef, and Fresh Cargo and Nautica shrimp.
Maxxam
Since acquiring the former Pacific Lumber Company in 1985, Maxxam has held the future of the Northwest's old-growth forests in its hands. The prospects are not good. In order to pay off the junk bonds used to finance the Pacific Lumber deal and other takeovers, Maxxam has been overharvesting virgin redwood forests. Furthermore, Maxxam has been linked to 19 Superfund sites; was cited for eight "willful" violations of OSHA violations in 1988; and scored poorly on CEP's Greendex. A Washington State facility has been cited repeatedly by the state for water- and air-pollution violations; its subsidiary Kaiser Aluminum (also taken over with junk bonds) released over 4.5 million pounds of toxic chemicals in 1989.
USX
Formerly United States Steel Corporation, USX operates a notorious steelworks in Gary, Indiana, which has been fined $34 million in penalties and cleanup costs for dumping toxin-laden wastewater, and $1.6 million more for violating the Clean Air Act. USX has also been repeatedly cited for violating air standards for toxic emissions in Pennsylvania at its Fairless and its Clairton works. Additionally, USX's Marathon subsidiary was responsible for a hydrofluoric-acid leak that led to the evacuation of 4,000 people in Texas City in 1987. USX owns Marathon and Speedway gas stations in the Midwest and Southeast.
Exxon
CEP's judges could not settle on an oil company because the entire industry had such an "egregious track record," reported CEP's Alice Tepper Marlin. But we have chosen here to list Exxon, the nation's largest energy company, which was responsible for one of the worst ecological disasters in history - the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 11.2 million gallons off Alaska in 1989. Exxon has been linked to 22 Superfund sites; three of its chemical plants alone emitted over 7.5 million pounds of toxics in 1988; and its mining subsidiary has one of the worst safety records in the country.
Ciba-Geigy
Due to a disturbing double standard whereby foreign-based multinational companies are not obliged to disclose as much information about their environmental impacts overseas as they do about their records in the U.S., CEP judges called for an international requirement that all corporations worldwide divulge comparable, detailed, and accurate environmental data wherever they operate, so that they may be properly evaluated in the future. We have chosen to list Ciba-Geigy, Ltd., a Swiss-based agrochemical and drug multinational, to represent this global problem. In behavior shockingby any standard, Ciba-Geigy tested herbicides on human subjects in the 1970s in Egypt and India. (Due to the lack ofavailable data, no grades can be given)
EXCERPT:
MacDill AFB is another "OUT of CONTROL" MIlitary Base violating their own AICUZ and NEPA responsibilities and this Fraud harms the public . MacDill Violates the Constitution they took an oath to defend and harm the citizens they claim to protect.
Air Installation Compatible Use Zone (AICUZ) Information
EXCERPT:
The purpose of the AICUZ (Air Installation Compatible Use Zone) Program is to protect the health, safety and welfare from noise and hazards through compatible development in the airport environment. The program was instituted by the Department of Defense to address the problem of land development surrounding military air installations. It provides for the development and implementation of a plan to determine those land areas for which development should be significantly influenced by the operation of the airfield. These land areas are then designated as the AICUZ for that installation.
To provide for compatible development, the Navy acquired easements and fee simple ownership on certain lands in the noise and accident potential zones around NAS Oceana. While the specific terms of each easement varies, they generally prohibit all residential and people-intensive commercial development. In addition, the permitted industrial development cannot result in a high concentration of people. The 2003 adopted Comprehensive Plan's Technical Report states that the AICUZ Program for NAS Oceana has encumbered approximately 4,200 acres, of which approximately 3,600 acres are currently undeveloped. Land within the AICUZ program has been classified according to its potential impact from noise and accident potential.
MotherJones top ten toxic companies 1993
EXCERPT:
Dupont
The largest chemical company in the United States has given the world nylon, Teflon, Freon, and leaded gasoline (which it still makes for markets overseas); is the country's number-one emitter of toxins, releasing poisons at the rate of just under a million pounds a day, according to the EPA's 1989 data; is the world's largest producer of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCS); and leads all other companies in domestic deep-well injection of toxic wastes (254.9 million pounds in 1989). Recently, Du Pont was forced to pay $1.4 million in damages for concealing records showing that six employees had developed lung damage from asbestos exposure. Its operation of the government's Savannah River nuclear-weapons complex (1950-1989) polluted water sources for the area and has been connected to elevated levels of leukemia, lung cancer, and other diseases. The company's consumer products include Stainmaster carpets, Dacron, and Lycra.
Rockwell
The EPA has identified 166 separate hazardous-waste dumps at Rock- well's Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons facility outside Denver, including "Hillside 88l," thought to be the worst-polluted spot in the country and a threat to local drinking water. In 1992, Rockwell paid $18.5 million in fines for environmental violations (including five felonies) at Rocky Flats. Rockwell also is the second-largest emitter of airborne toxins in the heavily polluted Los Angeles Basin; it has admitted to ten accidental releases of radioactive materials there over the past twenty years, and has been identified by the state authorities as possibly responsible for high rates of bladder cancer.
General Motors
General Motors releases three times as much toxic pollution as its main U.S. competitor, Ford Motor Co.; paid the most in OSHA penalties of any U.S. company between 1977 and 1990; has been linked with 200 Superfund sites, including a landfill in New York that will take an estimated $100 million to clean up; and is the top producer of ozone- depleting chemicals in California. A GM plant in Saginaw, Michigan, pumped toxic material into the environment at the rate of more than a thousand pounds an hour in 1989.
General Electric
Even as General Electric was giving failing actor Ronald Reagan his big break as host of a 1950s TV series, it was neglecting to warn residents near its Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State about its regular releases of radioactive substances into the environment. GE plants also discharged 500,000 pounds of PCBs into the Hudson River over a thirty-year period. One of the three major manufacturers of nuclear-power plants, GE has been sued by several utility companies for supplying them with deficient nuclear- containment vessels. GE designed Mexico's only nuclear-power plant, which has dumped radioactive water into the Gulf of Mexico. GE markets appliances and lightbulbs.
Georgia Pacific
According to 1991 EPA data, Georgia Pacific has the worst air-permit compliance record in the forest-products industry, and has pulp and paper mills that were cited as out of compliance for a cumulative sixty-one quarters (fifteen-plus years!). It also has plants emitting dangerously high amounts of cancer-causing chloroform into the air of at least four states. Recently, G-P was fined $5 million for tax evasion in a scheme that would have allegedly damaged a wetlands area, and lost two court decisions concerning its release of the fiendishly toxic pollutant dioxin. As the largest U.S. importer of tropical timber, Georgia Pacific prompted the Rainforest Action Network to call for a boycott of its Coronet and Angel Soft brand paper products.
Cargill
Although Cargill is one of the world's largest grain traders, meat packers, flour millers, and seed companies, and also runs steel mills, this $49 billion company is able to operate in great secrecy because it is privately held. Nonetheless, Cargill has been cited for over 2,000 OSHA violations since 1987 spilled 40,000 gallons of toxic phosphoric solution into the Alafia River in Florida in 1988, causing a massive fish kill; since 1991 has had the worst air compliance record of any company in its industry: and scored second-lowest among its competitors on CEP's Greendex, which measures the environmental soundness of PAC contributions. It is also one of the top two emitters of toxics in its industry according to the EPA. In 1991, then-governor Bill Clinton criticized the company for releasing into Arkansas rivers animal waste comparable to the output of 21 million people, or about ten times the state's population. Cargill products include Honeysuckle White and Riverside turkeys, Excel pork and beef, and Fresh Cargo and Nautica shrimp.
Maxxam
Since acquiring the former Pacific Lumber Company in 1985, Maxxam has held the future of the Northwest's old-growth forests in its hands. The prospects are not good. In order to pay off the junk bonds used to finance the Pacific Lumber deal and other takeovers, Maxxam has been overharvesting virgin redwood forests. Furthermore, Maxxam has been linked to 19 Superfund sites; was cited for eight "willful" violations of OSHA violations in 1988; and scored poorly on CEP's Greendex. A Washington State facility has been cited repeatedly by the state for water- and air-pollution violations; its subsidiary Kaiser Aluminum (also taken over with junk bonds) released over 4.5 million pounds of toxic chemicals in 1989.
USX
Formerly United States Steel Corporation, USX operates a notorious steelworks in Gary, Indiana, which has been fined $34 million in penalties and cleanup costs for dumping toxin-laden wastewater, and $1.6 million more for violating the Clean Air Act. USX has also been repeatedly cited for violating air standards for toxic emissions in Pennsylvania at its Fairless and its Clairton works. Additionally, USX's Marathon subsidiary was responsible for a hydrofluoric-acid leak that led to the evacuation of 4,000 people in Texas City in 1987. USX owns Marathon and Speedway gas stations in the Midwest and Southeast.
Exxon
CEP's judges could not settle on an oil company because the entire industry had such an "egregious track record," reported CEP's Alice Tepper Marlin. But we have chosen here to list Exxon, the nation's largest energy company, which was responsible for one of the worst ecological disasters in history - the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 11.2 million gallons off Alaska in 1989. Exxon has been linked to 22 Superfund sites; three of its chemical plants alone emitted over 7.5 million pounds of toxics in 1988; and its mining subsidiary has one of the worst safety records in the country.
Ciba-Geigy
Due to a disturbing double standard whereby foreign-based multinational companies are not obliged to disclose as much information about their environmental impacts overseas as they do about their records in the U.S., CEP judges called for an international requirement that all corporations worldwide divulge comparable, detailed, and accurate environmental data wherever they operate, so that they may be properly evaluated in the future. We have chosen to list Ciba-Geigy, Ltd., a Swiss-based agrochemical and drug multinational, to represent this global problem. In behavior shockingby any standard, Ciba-Geigy tested herbicides on human subjects in the 1970s in Egypt and India. (Due to the lack ofavailable data, no grades can be given)
Control Freaks Cargill
EXCERPT:
Cargill has sold its seed interests, outside North America in 1998 to Monsanto, and the North American business in September 2000 to Dow subsidiary Mycogen (although Cargill has kept InterMountain Canola, which has been developing GM varieties, Goertzen Seed Research and its West Canada seed distribution business). Cargill felt it did not have sufficient biotechnology expertise to compete in the seed market. In both deals, it lost money due to legal liabilities arising from misappropriated seed technology.
In June 2000, Cargill announced the sale of all of its coffee business to Ecom Agroindustrial Corp of Switzerland. It alsoplans to sell its rubber businesses. Both of these offer little opportunity either for vertical integration or for profit mark-up.
Undercover investigation 'Amazon' being destroyed by Cargil (soy)
EXCERPT:
Three major companies - ADM, Bunge and Cargill - account for 60 percent of the total financing of soy production in Brazil. By building soy silos and terminals at the rainforest edge and buying soy from illegally cleared and operated farms - including farms with a documented record of slave labor - these companies are both spurring and profiting from the soy plunder of the Amazon.
Cargill is the worst of the worst. It has constructed a massive and illegal port facility in the frontier city of Santarém. Cargill projects that two to three million tons of soy a year will be trucked into its Santarém plant once a highway is completed - a volume of exports that demands a huge increase in soy cultivation in the region. Cargill constructed the $20 million terminal over the objections of local people, without conducting the environmental impact assessments required by Brazilian law.
EXCERPT:
Cargill has sold its seed interests, outside North America in 1998 to Monsanto, and the North American business in September 2000 to Dow subsidiary Mycogen (although Cargill has kept InterMountain Canola, which has been developing GM varieties, Goertzen Seed Research and its West Canada seed distribution business). Cargill felt it did not have sufficient biotechnology expertise to compete in the seed market. In both deals, it lost money due to legal liabilities arising from misappropriated seed technology.
In June 2000, Cargill announced the sale of all of its coffee business to Ecom Agroindustrial Corp of Switzerland. It alsoplans to sell its rubber businesses. Both of these offer little opportunity either for vertical integration or for profit mark-up.
Undercover investigation 'Amazon' being destroyed by Cargil (soy)
EXCERPT:
Three major companies - ADM, Bunge and Cargill - account for 60 percent of the total financing of soy production in Brazil. By building soy silos and terminals at the rainforest edge and buying soy from illegally cleared and operated farms - including farms with a documented record of slave labor - these companies are both spurring and profiting from the soy plunder of the Amazon.
Cargill is the worst of the worst. It has constructed a massive and illegal port facility in the frontier city of Santarém. Cargill projects that two to three million tons of soy a year will be trucked into its Santarém plant once a highway is completed - a volume of exports that demands a huge increase in soy cultivation in the region. Cargill constructed the $20 million terminal over the objections of local people, without conducting the environmental impact assessments required by Brazilian law.
The Body and Sleep video
Sleep or lack of and depression
EXCERPT:
As a related aside, I've seen evidence recently that lack of sleep can change a child's personality. Overall, my five year old son is fairly easy-going, not aggressive and rarely hyper. Until I started working full-time in June, he went to bed at a relatively early hour and got at least ten or eleven hours sleep. Once I started coming home at 5:30, he was going to bed later and getting less than ten hours of sleep. After about two months of the later bedtime, his personality changed so much that he was getting daily time-outs at school due to shoving other children and calling them names (he also did some of this at home). In addition, despite having virtually no accidents since he was toilet trained, he started having frequent accidents at both home and school. Once I figured out what the problem was and got him to bed earlier, his personality went back to normal.
A little bit of sleep deprivation does a lot of harm
EXCERPT:
By Pippa Wysong
The Medical Post, June 4, 1996
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A little sleep deprivation can cheer up patients with unipolar depression.
The problem is after they go to sleep the next night, they wake up even more depressed.
Sticker shock what the financial crisis cost in lost wealth
EXCERPT:
Beyond dollars and cents, the financial crisis had substantial negative impacts on American families both at present and, likely, for decades to come as the hardships faced by children translate into changed lives into the future. The poverty rate, for example, increased from 9.8 percent in 2007 to 10.3 percent in 2008, meaning that an additional 395,000 families fell into poverty….
The financial crisis of 2007 to 2010 has had a massive impact on the United States. Millions of American families suffered losses of jobs, incomes, and homes — and the effects of these losses will play out on society for generations to come.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
EXCERPT:
NEW YORK | Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:55pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rich grew richer last year, even as the world endured the worst recession in decades.
A stock market rebound helped the world's ranks of millionaires climb 17 percent to 10 million, while their collective wealth surged 19 percent to $39 trillion, nearly recouping losses from the financial crisis, according to the latest Merrill Lynch-Capgemini world wealth report.
Stock values rose by half, while hedge funds recovered most of their 2008 losses, in a year marked by government stimulus spending and central bank easing.
I knew I loved you before I met you I think I dreamed you into my life
Sleep more to fight obesity
EXCERPT:
Sleep More to Fight Obesity
Obesity Tied to Lack of Sleep, Say Researchers
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health NewsNov. 16, 2004 -- Skimping on sleep may make you more vulnerable to obesity, according to a new study.
The finding is based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I (NHANES I). More than 9,000 people participated in the initial study, which was conducted from 1982-1984. They were initially weighed, and later, researchers obtained a self-reported weight for follow-up. More than 8,000 people took part in a 1987 follow-up study.
People who reported getting less than seven hours of sleep a night were more likely to be obese on initial evaluation. The study also showed that they were also more likely to develop obesity during follow-up.
Inadequate sleep linked to kids obesity
EXCERPT:
Study Shows Shorter Sleep Duration Could Be a Risk Factor for Childhood Obesity
By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Laura J. Martin, MDMay 4, 2010 -- Kids who don't get enough sleep are at increased risk of becoming overweight compared to those who slumber soundly, new research indicates. And this may be especially true for boys.
Researchers collected data on 723 young people with a mean age of 14.7, studying how long they slept on weeknights and weekends, how often they reported sleep problems, and the foods and beverages they consumed.
Sleep deprivation and depression
Acad Med. 2006 Jan;81(1):82-5.
Evolution of sleep quantity, sleep deprivation, mood disturbances, empathy, and burnout among interns.
Rosen IM, Gimotty PA, Shea JA, Bellini LM.
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Ilene.Rosen@uphs.upenn.edu
Abstract
PURPOSE: To explore the relationships between sleep deprivation and the evolution of mood disturbances, empathy, and burnout among a cohort of interns. METHOD: In 2002-03, 47 interns in the internal medicine resident program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine completed the following instruments at baseline and at year end: sleep quantities, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory-Short Form, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey. The prevalences of acute and chronic sleep deprivation, subjective sleepiness, burnout, empathy, and depression at the beginning of the year were compared to prevalences at the end of internship. Associations between sleep deprivation and mood, empathy, or burnout were explored. RESULTS: The prevalence of chronic sleep deprivation, depression, burnout, and empathy increased from baseline to year end. Specifically, the prevalence of "high" scores changed for chronic sleep deprivation (9% to 43%, p = .0001). The prevalence of moderate depression increased from 4.3% to 29.8% (p = .0002). Only 4.3% reported a high level of burnout initially compared with 55.3% at year end (p < .0001). Scores that were originally more favorable than general population norms (p < .001) approached norms at the end of the year for empathic concern (p = .15). There was an association between becoming chronically sleep deprived and becoming depressed (OR = 7, p = .014). CONCLUSIONS: Given the association between chronic sleep deprivation and mood disturbances during internship, outcome assessment is warranted to see if duty-hour reform will translate into more hours slept or fewer hours worked, coincident with improved mood. Just another study
Sleep or lack of and depression
EXCERPT:
As a related aside, I've seen evidence recently that lack of sleep can change a child's personality. Overall, my five year old son is fairly easy-going, not aggressive and rarely hyper. Until I started working full-time in June, he went to bed at a relatively early hour and got at least ten or eleven hours sleep. Once I started coming home at 5:30, he was going to bed later and getting less than ten hours of sleep. After about two months of the later bedtime, his personality changed so much that he was getting daily time-outs at school due to shoving other children and calling them names (he also did some of this at home). In addition, despite having virtually no accidents since he was toilet trained, he started having frequent accidents at both home and school. Once I figured out what the problem was and got him to bed earlier, his personality went back to normal.
A little bit of sleep deprivation does a lot of harm
EXCERPT:
By Pippa Wysong
The Medical Post, June 4, 1996
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A little sleep deprivation can cheer up patients with unipolar depression.
The problem is after they go to sleep the next night, they wake up even more depressed.
Sticker shock what the financial crisis cost in lost wealth
EXCERPT:
Beyond dollars and cents, the financial crisis had substantial negative impacts on American families both at present and, likely, for decades to come as the hardships faced by children translate into changed lives into the future. The poverty rate, for example, increased from 9.8 percent in 2007 to 10.3 percent in 2008, meaning that an additional 395,000 families fell into poverty….
The financial crisis of 2007 to 2010 has had a massive impact on the United States. Millions of American families suffered losses of jobs, incomes, and homes — and the effects of these losses will play out on society for generations to come.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer
EXCERPT:
NEW YORK | Tue Jun 22, 2010 2:55pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The rich grew richer last year, even as the world endured the worst recession in decades.
A stock market rebound helped the world's ranks of millionaires climb 17 percent to 10 million, while their collective wealth surged 19 percent to $39 trillion, nearly recouping losses from the financial crisis, according to the latest Merrill Lynch-Capgemini world wealth report.
Stock values rose by half, while hedge funds recovered most of their 2008 losses, in a year marked by government stimulus spending and central bank easing.
I knew I loved you before I met you I think I dreamed you into my life
Sleep more to fight obesity
EXCERPT:
Sleep More to Fight Obesity
Obesity Tied to Lack of Sleep, Say Researchers
By Miranda Hitti
WebMD Health NewsNov. 16, 2004 -- Skimping on sleep may make you more vulnerable to obesity, according to a new study.
The finding is based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I (NHANES I). More than 9,000 people participated in the initial study, which was conducted from 1982-1984. They were initially weighed, and later, researchers obtained a self-reported weight for follow-up. More than 8,000 people took part in a 1987 follow-up study.
People who reported getting less than seven hours of sleep a night were more likely to be obese on initial evaluation. The study also showed that they were also more likely to develop obesity during follow-up.
Inadequate sleep linked to kids obesity
EXCERPT:
Study Shows Shorter Sleep Duration Could Be a Risk Factor for Childhood Obesity
By Bill Hendrick
WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Laura J. Martin, MDMay 4, 2010 -- Kids who don't get enough sleep are at increased risk of becoming overweight compared to those who slumber soundly, new research indicates. And this may be especially true for boys.
Researchers collected data on 723 young people with a mean age of 14.7, studying how long they slept on weeknights and weekends, how often they reported sleep problems, and the foods and beverages they consumed.
Sleep deprivation and depression
Acad Med. 2006 Jan;81(1):82-5.
Evolution of sleep quantity, sleep deprivation, mood disturbances, empathy, and burnout among interns.
Rosen IM, Gimotty PA, Shea JA, Bellini LM.
Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Ilene.Rosen@uphs.upenn.edu
Abstract
PURPOSE: To explore the relationships between sleep deprivation and the evolution of mood disturbances, empathy, and burnout among a cohort of interns. METHOD: In 2002-03, 47 interns in the internal medicine resident program at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine completed the following instruments at baseline and at year end: sleep quantities, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory-Short Form, the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services Survey. The prevalences of acute and chronic sleep deprivation, subjective sleepiness, burnout, empathy, and depression at the beginning of the year were compared to prevalences at the end of internship. Associations between sleep deprivation and mood, empathy, or burnout were explored. RESULTS: The prevalence of chronic sleep deprivation, depression, burnout, and empathy increased from baseline to year end. Specifically, the prevalence of "high" scores changed for chronic sleep deprivation (9% to 43%, p = .0001). The prevalence of moderate depression increased from 4.3% to 29.8% (p = .0002). Only 4.3% reported a high level of burnout initially compared with 55.3% at year end (p < .0001). Scores that were originally more favorable than general population norms (p < .001) approached norms at the end of the year for empathic concern (p = .15). There was an association between becoming chronically sleep deprived and becoming depressed (OR = 7, p = .014). CONCLUSIONS: Given the association between chronic sleep deprivation and mood disturbances during internship, outcome assessment is warranted to see if duty-hour reform will translate into more hours slept or fewer hours worked, coincident with improved mood. Just another study
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Eat Humane
The first-of-its kind, free Eat Humane Food Guide app makes it easy for consumers to find products from humanely-raised animals at grocery stores and restaurants. Download the app today >>
Did you know that factory farming causes extreme animal suffering and has been linked to social and environmental problems? Learn more
There are alternatives. To help relieve the confusion over food labels, WSPA has ranked non-factory farmed humane claims, such as "cage free," "free range," "grass fed" and organic.
Eat humane food guide
EXCERPT:
§ Search by grocery store: Users can select a specific grocery store and the app will display all animal-friendly foods offered in that store. They can then tap through to each product, which is ranked by a humane food classification system – “Good,” “Better” or “Best ” – making it easier for users to understand labels while shopping and identify foods that come from humanely-raised animals. Links to product images are also provided for even faster decision-making while shopping.
§ Search by restaurant: Users can search by restaurant to see which places offer humane food options on the menu. The tool lists restaurants by city and links to pages that list each restaurant’s humane menu options, contact information and other relevant information.
The first-of-its kind, free Eat Humane Food Guide app makes it easy for consumers to find products from humanely-raised animals at grocery stores and restaurants. Download the app today >>
Did you know that factory farming causes extreme animal suffering and has been linked to social and environmental problems? Learn more
There are alternatives. To help relieve the confusion over food labels, WSPA has ranked non-factory farmed humane claims, such as "cage free," "free range," "grass fed" and organic.
Eat humane food guide
EXCERPT:
§ Search by grocery store: Users can select a specific grocery store and the app will display all animal-friendly foods offered in that store. They can then tap through to each product, which is ranked by a humane food classification system – “Good,” “Better” or “Best ” – making it easier for users to understand labels while shopping and identify foods that come from humanely-raised animals. Links to product images are also provided for even faster decision-making while shopping.
§ Search by restaurant: Users can search by restaurant to see which places offer humane food options on the menu. The tool lists restaurants by city and links to pages that list each restaurant’s humane menu options, contact information and other relevant information.
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