Hillary Clinton is almost universally despised.
Sure there are people who pretend to love her. Those few sick people running on muscle-memory of what they believe Clinton represents.
But far more have awakened to Clinton's treachery, as well as that of her party. And thankfully, we have a president who remains relentless in pursuit of the truth. Therefore, Clinton and the rest of the political establishment finds itself spiraling in the vortex of a draining swamp.
You know things are not good when Leftists begin attacking each other, even in jest. And the latest to attack Hillary Clinton is Vanity Fair.
Each of the editors suggests alternative things for Clinton to do based on her talents showcased during the campaign and interviews. The six people hold champagne glasses as they toast to the "new" occupation for Hillary Clinton in the form of New Year's resolutions.
Social media erupted, as a few Clintonistas came to Clinton's aid. However, the sentiment that Clinton should be gone is nothing new.
And aside from St. Onge there were a few others, mostly feminists, who tried to pull the "woman" card. However, for the most part Democrats just want Hillary Clinton to just go away.
In fact, the Democrats want to make sure that shenanigans pulled by Debbie Wasserman Schultz can no longer occur.
The Democratic Party's Unity Reform Commission is recommending cutting the number of superdelegates by about 400, equal to a 60 percent reduction. Many of the remaining superdelegates would see their vote tied to the results in their state.
The commission is also suggesting that absentee voting be required as an option for presidential caucus participants. It is calling for automatic voter registration and same-day voter registration. And it wants to mandate public reporting of raw vote totals from caucus states.
The recommendations will now go to the Democratic National Committee's rules and bylaws committee, and then likely to the full 447-member Democratic National Committee for consideration sometime next year, where it will need two-thirds support to pass.
"It's not going to be about 447 people, it's going to be about millions of people and how they pick up this challenge and this path," said Larry Cohen, the former president of the Communication Workers of America who was appointed to this commission by 2016 candidate Bernie Sanders.
And as we reported, no potential candidates have approached Clinton for advice or support.
The two-time loser announced no one has approached her about Election 2020. Apparently no one expects the third time to be the charm.
Unfortunately, the worst book tour in history is still making the rounds. On the latest stop, Hillary sat down with Hugh Hewitt in an effort to sell a few more copies. Sadly, Hewitt gushed over the book, complimenting Clinton on her candid remarks. However, Hewitt never addressed the fundamental truth of the book. Hillary Clinton is a presidential failure of epic proportions.
Somehow, Hillary believes her failures give her the right to further advise the Democratic Party. And why not. She called the shots to derail Bernie Sanders by controlling the DNC. Then she fabricated the current controversies against Donald Trump.
Why shouldn't Clinton continue to feel relevant, even if only until authorities whisk her away to prison.
It's clear that Clinton doesn't want to relinquish the reigns. Nevertheless, her fellow Leftists are no longer willing to invest in Clinton. As she pointed out that no one has been to see her about the next election.
She went on to say that she'd be happy to have those conversations.
That no one has approached her for 2020 advice is not surprising.
First, as Clinton herself said, it's 2017. The short-list of possible 2020 candidates isn't just short, it's practically non-existent.
Second, even if there were a list of likely 2020 candidates, why would anyone seek campaign advice from the woman who lost to a reality show host? Why would anyone want the advice of a person who lost despite the fact she enjoyed nearly every conceivable election advantage going into 2016?
The Era of the Clintons ended. As did the Era of Obama.
2017 ushered in a new America, which was simply a return to the old America. That America represented a self-healing republic. The benchmark of civilization now and forevermore.
Conservatives now rebuild America to the land that God intended.


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Fiorentina coach Montella extols Egypt's Salah after first goal
Mahmoud Elassal , Sunday 15 Feb 2015
Salah shines at Italian side Fiorentina, scoring the opener and creating the second goal in Serie A game Saturday
Fiorentina's Mohamed Salah celebrates after scoring during the Serie A soccer match between Sassuolo and Fiorentina in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Feb. 14, 2015 (Photo: AP)
After scoring his first goal with Fiorentina and creating the second during the 3-1 win over Sassuolo in the 23rd matchday of the Italy Serie A, Egypt winger Mohamed Salah has been extolled by the team's manager Vincenzo Montella.
The 22-year-old attacker joined Serie A side Fiorentina on loan from English Premier League giants Chelsea during the winter transfer window until the end on the ongoing season after failing to book a regular place in the Blues' squad this season under the helm of coach Jose Mourinho.
"Salah can play well as a support striker, maybe even better than in his usual wide role, as long as he has the chance to move along the line." Montella told the post-game press conference.
"I had asked the team to not make it easy for me to choose the line-up and that's what they have done," the Fiorentina coach said.
"They are all important for me and I will try to ensure they are all involved this season. This was a very mature performance against tough opponents who like to play in your half."
Fiorentina are fourth in Italy Serie A teams' table with 38 points after 23 games in the league this season. They are scheduled to face Tottenham in the Europa League on Thursday.
(For more sports news and updates, follow Ahram Online Sports on Twitter at @AO_Sports and on Facebook at AhramOnlineSports.)
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text: Christopher F. Palombo, MA, MSHM, FACHE is the Chief Executive Officer for the Dispensary of Hope. With a strong belief that community-wide collaboration is vital for achieving the outcome of improved population health, Chris's career has been invested into integrating safety net healthcare resources for the sake of uninsured Americans. Before serving at the Dispensary of Hope, Chris worked as an independent healthcare consultant and as an internal program development consultant with Ascension Health, the nation's largest non-profit and largest Catholic health system. Chris is also the former Executive Director of the Medical Care Access Coalition in Marquette, Michigan, a regional health planning and delivery coalition featured by the Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Primary Health Care as a replicable example of rural safety net healthcare integration. Chris is a licensed minister with the General Council of the Assemblies of God, with a life calling to serve the healthcare needs of low income, uninsured populations. Chris is a fellow with the American College of Healthcare Executives. He earned his Master of Healthcare Management from Lindenwood University (St. Charles, MO) and a Master of Arts from Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL). In October 2009, Chris was presented with an Emerging Leader in Healthcare Transformation Award from Communities Joined in Action.


Fresh from a fractious end to his three-year spell at Tottenham, sporting director Damien Comolli is back at struggling French club Saint-Etienne and straight into another tense relegation scrap.
When Comolli was fired last month, Tottenham was in last place in the Premier League with just two points from eight matches.
Saint-Etienne, a 10-time French champion, is in 18th place and has lost the last five league games heading into Saturday's match at Lille.
'I am delighted to come back to a club which holds a place in my heart,' Comolli said.
'When I was contacted, I did not think about it for long. I have come to a club which has progressed over the past four years, despite the current crisis.
Comolli was blamed by Tottenham fans for poor recruitment of players, but the 37-year-old law graduate has yet to express any ill-feeling about his time in England.
'I will make the most of the extraordinary experience I gained in three years at Tottenham,' Comolli said on Wednesday, the same day that Alain Perrin signed on as coach after Laurent Roussey was fired.
"I know we can do some great things to develop this club," Comolli added. "We're not starting from scratch but there are adjustments to make. That will be my role."
Perrin was Comolli's preferred choice to take Roussey's place, even though he has been fired from Lyon, Portsmouth and Marseille.
"Alain was our No. 1 choice. He was the right person," Comolli said. "He is a very experienced and competent coach."
Comolli was Saint-Etienne's technical director from 2004-05, after having spent the previous seven years as Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger's chief European scout.
At Tottenham, however, Comolli developed a reputation for buying young talent and selling them for a higher price.
That may alert clubs to Saint-Etienne's plethora of young prospects, like 21-year-old midfielder Blaise Matuidi, 21-year-old striker Dimitri Payet and forward Bafetimbi Gomis.
With the club battling relegation, however, none of them would seem likely to leave in the January transfer window.
Perrin, meanwhile, will also be looking at the Jan. 31 match against Lyon, the team that fired him despite having led the club to its first ever league and cup double last season.
Lyon leads the French league with 30 points from 13 games, four points ahead of Marseille and six in front of Bordeaux. The defending champions, who lost to second-division Metz on Tuesday in the League Cup, host Bordeaux on Sunday, while Marseille hosts Lorient on Saturday.
Marseille can take over first place on goal difference if it beats Lorient and Lyon slips up against Bordeaux.
Bordeaux has been hit by injuries to starting goalkeeper Ulrich Rame (groin) and backup Matthieu Valverde, who was taken to the hospital unconscious after a clash of heads last weekend.
Bordeaux will also be missing veteran defender Franck Jurietti. Sports daily L'Equipe reported Thursday that Jurietti had left a message with the club Tuesday that he would be gone for 48 hours and did not report for Tuesday's match against Guingamp, despite being on the team sheet.
Police found Jurietti's car parked by a lake, and the player alone in a hotel room. He has yet to report back to the club.


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The recent victory of the conservative Law and Justice party in Poland confirms a recent trend in Europe: the rise of illiberal state capitalism, led by populist right-wing authoritarians. Failure to act decisively now will lead to the eventual failure of the EU and the rise of dystopian nationalist regimes.
TOKYO – The recent victory of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party in Poland confirms a recent trend in Europe: the rise of illiberal state capitalism, led by populist right-wing authoritarians. Call it Putinomics in Russia, Órbanomics in Hungary, Erdoğanomics in Turkey, or a decade of Berlusconomics from which Italy is still recovering. Soon we will no doubt be seeing Kaczyńskinomics in Poland.
All are variations on the same discordant theme: a nationalist leader comes to power when economic malaise gives way to chronic and secular stagnation. This elected authoritarian then starts to reduce political freedoms through tight-fisted control of the media, especially television. Then, he (so far, it has always been a man, though France's Marine Le Pen would fit the pattern should she ever come to power) pursues an agenda opposing the European Union (when the country is a member) or other institutions of supra-national governance.
He will also oppose free trade, globalization, immigration, and foreign direct investment, while favoring domestic workers and firms, particularly state-owned enterprises and private business and financial groups with ties to those in power. In some cases, outright nativist, racist parties support such government or provide an even deeper authoritarian and anti-democratic streak.
Sorry, while the trends are real the implications are not. Hyperinflation and reparations brought Hitler to power. What western Europe and US needs is liberal nationalism. The world will not come to an end, nor the global economy, if we restrict immigration and tax imports from low-wage countries like China. Will give us time to solve problems at home.
Why even Roubini claiming himself global economist is so much narsistic about his Europeanism, his conclusion identifying the integrated globalised supra national EU institution as if the global institution?
Does he mean globalism,globalisation,global governing institutions as equal to supranational body EU political institutions? Does he mean that UN an appendage to EU? Does he mean that global commodity prices as well as prices of goods and services and trade and finance is determined by market forces in EU not by truely global forces ?
I feel that economists have lost track some where or being psychologically coerced from acting dispassionately free from prejudice?
Though Roubini is right that nationalism is positively correlated to global economic crisis situations as happened in history,the same argument does not hold good for political or other governing institutions and therefore it is neither logical or economically congruent and in fact conflicting with electro magnetic type globalisation forces.
Globalised economies however imperfect in quantity has now appears to have reached a qualitatively different stage requiring the taming of its unbridled private and public actors on global scale to prevent disorder and disequilibrating actions private and public actors for global peace and progress and more so the climatic issues.
which political power is capable of regulating the unbridled global economic and national political forces? Will Roubini's EU INSTITUTIONS or for that matter any political block of nations say western or eastern nations military blocks formed on racial or other considerations displaying the military muscle will equal the power required for the purpose? This is the question now to be faced and answered by political economists and global leaders for good states man ship.
Who wrecked the league of nations and why? Who subverted the truly global political UN and made it to an imbecile institution after the 2nd world war against the cry of greatest visionery scientists and intellectuals? Now it is imperative by economic and political necessity to strengthen the UN as the truly federal democratic sovereign United nations government for peace and progress of humanity on planet earth.
As if the Syrian refugee flow triggered by external intervention into a sovereign country's internal affairs has predictable consequences.
Putin and his administration never opposed immigration, especially from former USSR Asian countries such as Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan or Kazakhstan. Moreover, Putin's policy favors the immigration from 3-rd world countries since the immigrants offer cheap labor force, drug traffic and political support for increasingly unpopular Putin and his administration.
"pursues an agenda opposing the European Union (when the country is a member) or other institutions of supra-national governance. " - For the last 10 years or so Putin has been trying to create a form of Eurasian economic and political union between former USSR republics. Besides, Putin hardly ever used or uses nationalist sentiment preferring the policy of multiculturalism.
N. Roubini is right to be interested in the rise of the populist parties in Europe, but he is wrong to see a resurgence of 1930's, and it is because he is himself steeped in the ideology of globalization, which did not exist in the 1930's, nor obviously globalization at the stage reached today, and still more tomorrow.
There have been losers of globalization in the European countries, at least losers of the economic development such as it has been taking place for a few decades, with in particular massive transfers of employment through relocations and offshoring, and increased competitive pressures. N. Roubini evades for example that at the current advanced stage of globalization, some companies organize competitions on a worldwide scale to feed their activity and that the new shapes of labour organisation rely on a greater precariousness.
It is not necessary to have envisaged the financial crisis of 2007/2008 to understand that in stagnant economies, immigrants indeed divert jobs from the natives or that the new immigrants do not contribute to the growth of the GDP per capita if unemployment is high - also among very skilled staffs, also necessarily victims of discriminations.
Like K. Rogoff and J. Delpla, N. Roubini reverses the logic which would consist in curbing immigration in a period of economic stagnation, and calls for reforms to integrate them, which has no sense (see the Colombo's comments attached to these articles: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-immigration-inequality-by-kenneth-rogoff-2015-05 , and http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/french-model-inclusive-capitalism-by-kenneth-rogoff-2015-10 ).
And if N. Roubini has the taste for a little more subtlety on such complex questions, he may read "Looking for the French identity", http://archives.lesechos.fr/archives/cercle/2009/11/06/cercle_29903.htm , and also "The hidden rationale of the Sabeg report" concerning integration policies, http://archives.lesechos.fr/archives/cercle/2009/05/15/cercle_29895.htm .
More over, one can wonder whether N. Roubini has really understood M. Houellebecq's fears.
sacrifice the unique blend of cultures that has been Europe for one giant homogenized, bureaucratized and of course consumerized horde for the sole purpose of a efficiently participating in a globalized economy-for what end; the profits of transnational crony capitalist elites? Destroy the nation state, destroy the cultures, the uniqueness, the vibrancy of western civilization in order to enjoy what?
And you have it wrong. It is the destruction of community, of cultural and social cohesion that assure the dystopian tyranny's you mention--Brave New World and 1984 were written by Fabian Socialists, the goals of which are now being fulfilled in Europe and America . Destroy the nation, destroy the family, religion (first Christianity and them Islam, which is only being used as a tool to be sacrificed in a bloodbath sure to come), destroy community and social cohesion and the masses will be helpless to collectively rebell against the dictatorship of fascist capitalism and the tyrannical bureaucracies that serve it.
Dear Mr. ROUBINI, it is obvious that the Neo liberalism as well practised in the EU is not performing properly to Stearns enough business and prompt & maintain a increasing middle class - the ongoing Globalization and rising Productivity are not used properly by the ongoing trickle-down Capitalism but prompting stagnations and deflation, indeed! Therefore, the far right or left is taking over meaning to Stearns economic improvements.
What would "acting decisively now" against popular movements rising to power through elections entail? A coup?
Employment and wages will not rise soon because to a large extent this malaise is the product of globalization and supranational governance -both of which you defend.
It might a more careful differentiation between right-wing and populist trends to draw such far-arching conclusions. Also not sure at all why Kaczynski or others would be termed "illiberal capitalists". PiS is all about liberal market forces and reducing state intervention.
it seems to me quite illogical to call "right" a regime which increased a degree of government intervention, while everyone - including the author, - knows that it's a characteristic of the "left".
all mentioned in the article European political parties represent the left-wing.
another moment: you need two for tango. EU could be peaceful and inclusive, but if the other party would be aggressive and full of hate and not willing to tolerate different points of view, the author's proposal is a demonstration of wishful thinking.
The downside of globalisation threatening labor legislation and demanding solutions for a lot of issues that the ordinary tax payer feel is not his/her concern does for sure lay the foundation for these extreme political parties. We need passionate AND knowledgeable leaders with an ability to deliver sustainabile solutions NOW! Not in a future where todays workers/tax payers are no longer around.
Not a supporter of these parties but somewhat aware of the reason behind their ability to find followers I recommend you direct your words to the leaders of the remaining political parties in thess countries. Those who appear to always wake up just a bit too late and find emergency band aid solutions to their countries' important welfare issues and on a supra nstional level to the refugee situation.
Sounds like Roubini missed the whole political aspect of the situation. Politically the EU has been on an anti-democratic trajectory for several years, and while the economic issues may be fueling the issue, the nationalism is really a function of people seeing that they have democratic checks and balances at the national level that are not available at the EU level. The more the EU proves itself to be an anti-democratic bureaucracy the more it will fuel democratic nationalism. The dear 'center-left' and 'center-right' parties that most media types swoon over so far have refused to face the democratic shortcomings of the EU, which leaves it to parties of the hard right/left to carry the banner. The initial description of all the cases as "xxxxxxx-nomics" betrays this narrow economically focused view.
Agreed. He missed many aspects of the individual countries he is talking about. You can't explain everything by economics Prof Roubini and you cannot control nations by a monetary union- the Eurozone failure is proof of concept but unfortunately a bunch of theoretical economists still do not get it. And anyway, leave the EU alone- why don't you look at your house? Maybe what you are referring to is more applicable to Mr Donald Trump.
"But, to ensure this, macro and structural economic policies that boost aggregate demand, job creation and growth, reduce income and wealth inequality, provide economic opportunity to the young, and integrate rather than reject refugees and economic migrants will be needed."
It was the wealthiest 1% and the banks that they control that are responsible for building massive war machines. Why? For these financial elites war is there most profitable enterprise. This is why they financed Hitler, Mussolini as well as the war-hawks in Japan. Without the financing no war in the 20th. century would have been possible - and this trend continues today. Nationalistic leaders are precursors to some of the most profitable episodes of war ever - profits captured by ultra elite bankers and extracted as taxes on all workers.
While building war machines is likely the most profitable business it is unsustainable as more and more wealth is captured by the wealthiest bankers and their minions. Hitler et al created huge benefits for top bankers and the 1% and the cost was borne by taxpayers such that consumer demand in the USA and Britain never recovered enough to push their economies out of depression/recession until at the earliest 1960 with an asterisk for a few years mid to end of WW2 as economic military demand went up and millions of soldiers were absent from labour pools during this brief period, artificially creating demand in the labour force.
Your prescription for economic growth "boost aggregate demand, job creation and growth, reduce income and wealth inequality, provide economic opportunity to the young, and integrate rather than reject refugees and economic migrants will be needed." is entirely impossible without more war, after all that's what worked in the 20th. century!
Any system which demeans democratic governance through unnecessary debt giving sovereign power over to undemocratic corporate forces and elite created totally undemocratic alphabet soup elitist organizations like the IMF, World Bank, the BIS etc., is totally devoid and incapable of moral action or insight or benefits for the 90% - only the 1% and their cronies & henchmen.
It is astounding that even in 2015, we still see people talking how we should "integrate rather than reject refugees and economic migrants". Europe has tried this for decades and failed. Of course, the failure isn't Europe's. All too many of the (so-called) refugees bring minimal skills, hostile cultures, and values that assure failure (save as criminals and welfare recipients). A few years ago, Thilo Sarrazin wrote a book ("Germany abolishes itself") showing that integration hasn't work and isn't likely to work anytime soon.
It's a combination of economic ignorance and wilful distortion by the EU with its destructive austerity policies and demographic circumstances, an ageing baby boomer generation, that is causing stagnation and deflation in Europe,and elsewhere. The wealthy boomers are spending less on projects and more on travel, and retirement needs. The saviour, if it ever comes will be when the millenials and similar cohorts reach their peak spending years and that is a decade away.
Meantime the ruling austerity mantra just exacerbates the problem, cutting the ground from under the millennial's prospects with [in the USA] student debt burden, lack or forward planning and budget surplus idiocy. Their future, being compromised in such ways is not a good sign of a future recovery.
What it means is deflation, even recession is here to stay unless a radical rethink of macroeconomics takes hold, such as explained by modern monetary Theory, MMT.
The current problems started in USA in 2008, and there were treated with a continuous money printing by the FED, as a cure. Recently the ECB is doing the same, but it will not work. The EU is structured in a way where the politicians in the emerging countries are seeing the infrastructure, built from the EU funds, which is a development engine, and at same time they are not able to explain to their voters what is their own real "genius" behind it. In Poland the previous government, the Civic Platform, on January 2015 had its own President, with the 70% of the approval rate, and the majority government which was doing whatever he wanted. And the Civic Platform brought itself down, in such an easy and stupid way, that it is even difficult to comprehend. It was a long list of the PR, Marketing, Political basic negligences - and it had noting to do with the Nationalism and Nativist populism. The Poles do not care about it, surrounded by a fast developing economy, and the opportunities for the money making. It is all about insulting their intelligence by the previous government. Basically speaking Professor Roubini do not understand a difference between a political logic, and the voters emotions, which are not same, or he doesn't have enough in-depth research done, to write this type of articles. Although, he is right in saying that the consequences of the same misunderstanding by the politicians may be severe.
The establishment continues to embrace policies that have demonstrably failed. "Free trade" has produced massive trade deficits, economic "hollowing out", deindustrialization, etc. Uncontrolled immigration has produced crime waves, banlieues, tournantes, massive welfare spending, unemployment, etc. The Euro has been a disaster of staggering proportions.
The status quo has lost its legitimacy. Europe abandoned any pretense of legitimacy when the French and Danish rejections of the European constitution were ignored. Europe abandoned any pretense of legitimacy when it adopted the Euro without any democratic mandate or plan to make it work. Europe abandoned any pretense of legitimacy when it abandoned its borders and allowed massive invasions of economic migrants and welfare shoppers.
The globalization that Roubini is so enamored enriches the economic elite and rewards the illusions of moral superiority that the cosmopolitans are so fond of. It produces "Dans l'enfer des tournantes" for everyone else.
Time to tear it down.
The actual EU is a Dystopia: a non democratic entity aimed to the distruction of national european democracies. And the euro monster is its armed wing.
This is becoming everyday more and more apparent.
You gotta love it: the desire to maintain national sovereignty and liberty equals "illiberal state capitalism, led by populist right-wing authoritarians."
"Failure to act decisively now will lead to the eventual failure of the peaceful, integrated, globalized, supra-national state that is the EU, and the rise of dystopian nationalist regimes."
It is obvious that the Union itself is causing the rise in Fascism, not helping to prevent it. To think otherwise shows complete ignorance or financial support directly from pro-EU forces.
And populism, if that is what you prefer to call it, is a far-left phenomenon, not far right. Populism, Fascism, are manifestations of Socialism, not classical liberalism. The solution is for government to get their hands out of peoples pockets and leave them alone, not more taxes theough dirct or inflationary means and forced internment in the EU death camp, which based on current trajectory is where this is headed.
Nouriel Roubini is extremely worried about the spread of "illiberal state capitalism", whose economic policies are said to be adopted by "populist right-wing authoritarians". He says lingos like Putinomics, Órbanomics, Erdoğanomics, or Berlusconomics, and perhaps Kaczyńskinomics all share the "same discordant theme" - an "economic malaise" that prompts those, who "oppose free trade, globalization, immigration" etc. to look to leaders of "outright nativist, racist parties" who address their concerns, and who also exhibit "authoritarian and anti-democratic streak."
The rise of right wing populism has been a direct result of the failure of the left and centre parties to reach out to the disgruntled, who fall prey to polarised debates. These populists also want to send the signal to the establishment that neoliberalism - a theory that favours free trade, privatization, minimal government intervention in business, reduced public expenditure on social services, is past its sell-by date.
There is little difference between corporatism and "illiiberal state capitalism". Adherents of the latter oversee the modification of their countries' economic system from private capitalism to a varying degree of state ownership and control, claiming economic nationalism would create jobs and boost growth. They hold that a nation's economy should be run for the benefit of its own citizens - guided by the idea of protecting domestic consumption, labour and manufacturing, "particularly state-owned enterprises and private business and financial groups with ties to those in power."
They favour the imposition of tariffs and other restrictions on the movement of labour, goods and capital and are the avid opponents of the freetrade agreement, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the European equivalent of the Trans Pacific Partnership. If their countries are EU members, they pursue "an agenda opposing the European Union... or other institutions of supra-national governance."
Roubini says "this rising tide of illiberalism makes avoiding a break-up of the eurozone or the EU ever more vital." He points out that in the 1930s "economic stagnation and depression led to the rise of Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy, and Franco in Spain (among other authoritarians)." The Great Depression helped midwife "authoritarian regimes in Europe and even Asia, eventually leading to World War II."
It's unlikely that history would repeat itself, even though today's "illiberal leaders pursue the same "economic corporatism and autocratic style" as their "predecessors" in the 1930s. They are "nowhere close to inciting a war," because "center-right and center-left governments" are still strong, and they are "committed to liberal democracy" and welfare. This "toxic brew of populism" may just be dystopian. In a decade or so, we will all see it differently through the prism of history.
Wrong on all counts, not even informed let alone researched. Roubini doesn't seem to understand that PiS is socially ultraconservative while economically neoliberal. Nor does has he realised that Italy's five star party is everything but left wing. Btw, Nouriel, Berlusconi's governance was as "anti-market" (whatever that means) as current candidates for GOP nomination. So please do some reading before writing (it is possible even in a crammed airport lounge) and, more importantly, understand that neoliberal capitalism doesn't necessarily entail democracy.
"... the eventual failure of the peaceful, integrated, globalized, supra-national state that is the EU, and the rise of dystopian nationalist regimes ..."
Your "peaceful, integrated, globalized, supra-national state" paves the way for the Orwellian dystopia. Rightwing authoritarians are the answer to over a century of leftist/progressive promises of what The State would provide. Obama paved the way for Trump. This is the type of leader that always emerges in bankrupt, collapsing welfare states - as Italy and Germany were in the 1920 and 30s. Hayek's Road to Serfdom laid out the process.
But the institutions of the EU (e.g.) demean the individual as nothing more than part of "masses" that don't even rise to client status in their determinations.
Whilst capitalist stagnation is indeed the problem, the solution to emerging nationalisms and/or illiberal democracies would not be keeping alive a supra-national state, like the EU, led by conservatives bent on enforcing austerity, too large and too unresponsive to the needs of Europeans. In truth, the EU is closer to implosion than one might think and with every day that passes its leadership's policies resemble, to a very large extent, those of the Soviet Union before its demise.
It need not be like that, and growth in investment opportunities could be resumed, if only - as I have suggested since this summer - a two-union Europe resulting from a controlled break-up of the Eurozone would replace the current superstate. This solution to the problem has been advocated by German economist Alfred Steinherr and it entails an exit by Germany from the euro as a first step, and the formation of a northern European deutschemark zone, while the south could still keep a devalued euro as its currency. In the absence of a controlled break-up of the union into 2 smaller entities, a Soviet-style implosion of the EU could lead exactly to the scenario described in this article.
Roubini is spot on. We are going back to the discussions Friedman, Hayek and Popper started directly after WWII, in their choice for free and open societies against societies built on totalitarianism and/or state-interventionism. We again see the dangerous threats to freedom in two camps fighting against deep recession. Today either a nationalistic/socialistic/conservative solution (Roubini calls it 'illiberal state capitalism') or a government-led/keynesian/entrepreneurial-state solution.
We are back to having to fight for our freedom. Freedom from states that are increasingly claiming Big Brother rights to 'protect' us, but then arbitrarily use such powers. Freedom from (democratically elected) rulers that use their given powers to undermine or eliminate true democracy. Freedom from massive government/business-elite powers that 'know what is good for us'.
Contrary to what Roubini is saying Europe at this point in time cannot be the solution. Europe is itself a collection of semi-totalitarian institutions, without proper democratic control. Thus a partial break-up of the Eurozone at this point in time could actually be a blessing, allowing the periphary to recover and restoring the political and economic balance in the EU. Fundamental democratic politics at this point in time can truely only be made at the national level. The EU would have to mostly limit itself to support such national democracy and move forward only on issues broadly supported by the EU-population, such as common border control, a move to common defence and a host of smaller initiatives (roaming, car emissions, etc). The EU could also selectively show its positive power going against vested interests to protect the large majority of people, by not signing a TTIP at this point in time, by protecting individual rights against Big Brother USA data-hunger, by the successes of the EU Court.
This would be a necessary time-out for the EU. To come up with a fundamental redesign of Europe. To come up with a ground-breakingly democratic idea. To restore the essence of one person one vote. To combine traditional representation with use of the possibilities for deepened democratic processes offered by modern technology. Each population of each country that would want to join such a deeply democratic Europe could do so by voting for the new European Constitution. So that we can leave behind this patchwork of clumsy compromises and government-by-treaty we totay call the "European Union".
Roubini has vividly described the ongoing nationalist trends threatening the supranational is Euro institutions with growing secular stagnation and it's similarity with 1930 political trends.Every one must note this and take steps to avoid repetitive catastrophic events.
Mr Roubini would have done a great service if he would have gone a step further and suggested for supra national sovereign democratic federal world government in Reformed UN.It was the cry of great phisicist Einstein and others who have foreseen the challenges and opportunities of new dicoveries in science and technology including the atomic energy that nationalist threat against globalisation in cases of economic crisis situation or national egostic like Hitler ism.
I Wish that Roubini will forward the idea as renowned political economist.
Merci pour cette analyse que tout européen devrait lire et méditer. Nouriel Roubini s'oppose à cette loi de l'histoire qui défend aux contemporains de reconnaître dès leurs premiers commencements les grands mouvements qui déterminent leur époque. Sur l'Europe et son devenir avec la montée des extrêmes, il me vient cette phrase de Shakespeare : " So foul a sky clears not without a storm". ( Un ciel si sombre ne s'éclaircit pas sans une tempête).
If I think of great literature like the mentioned George Orwell's 1984 or Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the US comes to my mind much more than Europe, the EU comes to my mind much more than individual European countries.


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"When I look at animals held captive by circuses, I think of slavery. Animals in circuses represent the domination and oppression we have fought against for so long. They wear the same chains and shackles."
Is there actually much difference between circus elephants being paraded through the streets, kept in line by bullhooks and exploited by their handlers and how the masses of the world's population are treated by the so called elite?
There are always meetings where the richest of the rich talk about how to implement their control and see just how much of the fiat currency they manipulate can be taken back from us all in the guise of saving us. The latest is the World Economic Forum at Davos. The theme is "Resilient Dynamism" which may be how the push for global government is increasingly being resisted, and what the WEF should do about it:
"Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled." Christine Lagarde, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Huh...Derek Jeter goes to Davos and following a private lunch thrown by Pepsi says about 'climate change,' "Regardless of how you feel about it, it's something that needs to be addressed because we're seeing more and more natural disasters each year . . . Something has to be causing it."
That was brilliant Derek. Who would have thought a baseball player would understand cause and effect beyond hit the ball and it goes? Taxing CO2 must be the answer. How was that jet flight half way around the world Derek? Bought some carbon credits from Al Gore lately?
JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon is also there to tell us that regulations on banker's criminal activities are not the answer and banking is not something the peons can understand and so what if some investors lost $6 billion in JP's scams, his bank still made a profit.
"Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either."
I wonder why Bono skipped this Davos fest? Charlize Theron is there though to get an award for her AIDS work. I don't think she has ever entertained the idea that AIDS is a man-made bio-engineered depopulation technique. She should ask the Davos crowd what else they are working on.
The undead Henry Kissinger makes a Davos appearance and as usual he's all about more war.
He said nuclear proliferation in the region triggered by an armed Iran would increase the chances of an atomic war - "a turning point in human history".
I think he wants to see World War III before he leaves this world and knows that if it doesn't happen soon he will miss it.
In other news from the 'top dogs,' Bill Gates channels Lloyd Blankfein.
In a recent interview with the London Telegraph, Bill Gates has now claimed that his Foundation's massive push for vaccination is not just an exercise in philanthropy but that it is, in fact, "God's work."
After all, it was Bill Gates himself who stated as much publicly when he said, "The world today has 6.8 billion people... that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent."
Yes, of course, God works in strange genocidal ways.
Obama needs a new chief of staff and picks Denis McDonough. Surprisingly he doesn't appear to be of the tribe as the last two chief of staffs were. He was the Deputy National Security Advisor and had a front row seat in the famous White House photo op during the Bin Laden killing psyops. 'Nuff said.
McDonough, seated, third from right in blue shirt, in the Situation Room during the 'Bin Laden' raid.
*** The title of this post is a quote by Dick Gregory.
Excellent, Kenny! That was a tonic.
captivating...
The President of the Ohio State Board of Education has come under fire for comparing policies of Zionist Porch Monkey Obama to those of Hitler....
The Anti Defamation League condemned the remarks, urging Terhar to immediately retract the comparison and apologize.....or else
http://www.boldfacenews.com/jewish-hatred-to-the-fore/
"Whatever one's position on the gun control issue, analogies – whether direct or implied -- to Hitler and the Holocaust have absolutely no place in the debate over gun control," said Martin H. Belsky, ADL Cleveland Board Chair, and Nina Sundell, ADL Regional Director. "While one can disagree with the Obama Administration's position on gun control, comparisons of his proposals to Hitler's trivialize the memory of the six million Jews and the millions of other who perished in the Holocaust and are deeply offensive to Holocaust survivors.
"Clearly Ms. Terhar needs an education about the history of the Holocaust," added Belsky and Sundell. "As a public figure she should know better. We hope that Ms. Terhar will retract the comparison and apologize. She should make clear that Holocaust comparisons are inappropriate and a terrible distortion of the history of World War II."
really captivating....with a B'Man accent
Porch monkey. Real classy. And helpful. Is that you ADL tool Davy/Negentropic?
kenny January 25, 2013 at 9:02 PM
It's 'Davy.' Still around, still the same. All of his attempts to get a comment in here lately were even worse.
I cant tell if Davy is a "professional" or if hes just a useful idiot. Either way hes only helpful to the ADL/SPLC set. By design?
preacher January 25, 2013 at 4:10 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WQtRI7A064
When I see this small picture from in the Situation Room during the 'Bin Laden' raid, it's even more obvious it's photoshopped...
I always thought it may be. It's hard to get the perfect official event photo without some enhancements.
One of the media 'scares of the day'..."Superbug"
Norovirus..."Well Designed" says Dr. Richard Besser of ABC World News.
http://tinyurl.com/arjdm79
Someone please tell Jeter climate change is caused by deforestation to create baseball bats.
No please no. He might lobby for aluminum bats.
EV January 26, 2013 at 7:40 AM
HIV-AIDS ARGUMENTS
Since the 1980s, scientists and doctors have questioned the accuracy of the current theory that HIV causes AIDS. One of the most prominent leaders in this investigation has been Dr. Peter Duesberg, a world-renowned virologist, and the first scientist to isolate a cancer gene. In addition, Duesberg, who is a professor at the University of California-Berkeley, has published hundreds of scholarly articles, been funded for decades, including by the National Institute of Health (earning their Distinguished Investigator Award), and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA at a very young age. During the course of his research, he has found overwhelming evidence that the HIV hypothesis may be flawed, and has suggested that environmental factors play a larger role in the development of AIDS than the HIV virus. He published his arguments against the HIV hypothesis in several peer-reviewed journal articles as well as in his book "Inventing the AIDS Virus," published in 1996. The following arguments were largely taken from his book, but also from a documentary film produced in 1996 ('HIV=AIDS: fact or fraud'), as well as some more recently published information.
The following are some important reasons why HIV may not be the cause of AIDS:
1. HIV (like all other viruses) is harmless after antibody immunity.
There is a fatal flaw in using HIV tests to predict disease susceptibility: HIV tests check for the presence of antibodies to the virus. Normally, when antibodies appear, it means that the person has been previously exposed to and successfully fought off the virus; it does not mean that one is currently infected with the virus. The presence of antibodies also means that immunity has been built against the virus, and one is no longer going to get the disease. However, the HIV-AIDS hypothesis defies this standard, and one is said to have the virus if antibodies are found (not be immune), and one is considered to be in a "latency period," until the disease, AIDS, manifests itself. No known microbe reemerges to cause disease only after antibodies have formed. This is the rationale for vaccines, which introduce a small amount of the microbe to stimulate the body to create antibodies to it. Therefore, an AIDS vaccine would be redundant (and will always be 'years away' in development).
2. HIV does not kill the T cells it infects.
The HIV-AIDS hypothesis, put forth by Dr. Robert Gallo, is that HIV kills T cells; when enough T cells are dead, the result is AIDS. There are a number of reasons why this hypothesis is not only unproven but implausible. HIV appears to be one of the many viruses found in humans and animals that is harmless and does not lead to disease. Specifically, HIV is a retrovirus; retroviruses never attack their own (host) cells. HIV does infect T cells (as a means of replicating itself) but does not kill T cells. In fact, even in Dr. Gallo's lab, T cells are commonly used to grow HIV, as HIV and T cells live compatibly with each other.
3. HIV does not infect enough T cells to cause AIDS.
HIV can be found in 1 out of 1,000 T cells – and sometimes in as few as 1 in 100,000 T cells. After antibodies have formed, HIV begins to deteriorate, die off, and disappear. In contrast, T cells replicate at a rate of 5% per day. HIV simply cannot infect enough T cells to cause them to die off (even if it did kill them) to cause AIDS.
Even Gallo's own data did not demonstrate sufficiently high levels of virus particles to cause AIDS. There is no virus in AIDS patients – only antibodies to HIV can be found, and then not in all AIDS cases. To die from a virus that kills T cells, the virus would have to kill off at least half of them.
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4. HIV has no AIDS-causing genes.
HIV, like all other retroviruses, has a very simple, three-gene structure. Retrovirus genes are just complex enough to replicate but not complex enough to kill T cells. The hundreds of other retroviruses in the body act similarly, and do not cause AIDS.
5. There is no such thing as a slow virus.
The theory that HIV has a long latency period before causing AIDS appears highly suspect, as no other virus has a latency period extending beyond six weeks. In contrast, most viruses (the flu, colds, herpes) usually produce their effects days or sometimes weeks after the original infection. However, it is hypothesized that HIV can have a latency period of many years before causing AIDS. The latency period begin (in 1984) as one year. By 1996, the latency period was extended to 10-12 years. In fact, less than 6% of the 18 million individuals who tested positive for HIV developed AIDS from 1986 to 1996, when Duesberg's book was published. Since his book came out, it has been discovered that individuals diagnosed with HIV have been living, sometimes totally symptom free, for 20 to 25 years. These individuals are called "long-term survivors."
6. HIV is not a new virus, so it could not cause a "new" epidemic.
Epidemiological studies demonstrate that HIV is very old; it has maintained a constant presence in this country (about 1 million infected) since testing began in 1985, despite a peak in AIDS cases in 1993. If this infectious agent were new, like a constantly mutating flu virus, then one would see a dramatic spike in the number of people infected, followed by a spike in incidence of the disease the virus causes. HIV, like all retroviruses, is transmitted from mother to child perinatally (i.e., during pregnancy, childbirth, or lactation). So a minority of individuals has already been infected with HIV in the absence of any so-called risk factors.
7. HIV fails Koch's postulates.
Over a hundred years ago, Robert Koch formalized three rules (called Koch's Postulates) for establishing that a microbe causes a particular disease. The first rule is that one must find high concentrations of the virus in all infected individuals. Usually, in just a few drops of blood, one can find millions of virus particles in those infected with the flu or herpes. However, in individuals diagnosed with AIDS, no virus particles can be found anywhere throughout the body.
The second rule for demonstrating that a virus is the cause of a disease is that one must be able to isolate the virus from its host and grow it in a culture. Scientists have never been able to demonstrate this without having to take millions of white blood cells from an HIV positive individual and reactivate them by shocking the cells awake in the dormant HIV. Even after doing this, the reactivated HIV does not always infect the remaining cells in the culture.
The third rule for scientifically showing that a virus is responsible for causing a disease is that one must demonstrate that the isolated virus cause disease in another (healthy) host. This is typically done with animals. However, numerous attempts at trying to infect chimpanzees with the HIV virus has failed to produce AIDS, even up to ten years later. Furthermore, in a ten-year span, there have not been any cases of HIV positive individuals accidentally passing the virus onto their healthcare workers. [This cannot be accurate; likely it it the case that accidentally infected healthcare workers do not go on to contract AIDS without certain other risk factors in place, namely, chronic recreational drug use or use of prescription AIDS drugs.]
Here are other diseases that failed Koch's postulates (and failed to be infectious as originally thought):
• Scurvy
• Beri-beri
• Pelegra
• SMON (Japan)
• Virus-cancer
8. AIDS has remained in its original risk groups.
Infectious epidemics start in small clusters and then spread quickly throughout the entire population. If a disease does not spread, then it is not contagious. All other known viruses affect individuals of different genders and demographics equally, however, the highest percentage of AIDS cases are found among male homosexuals with a history of drug abuse, intravenous drug users, chronic users of drug that are not injected, babies of women with heavy drug use, and hemophiliacs.
AIDS in Risk Groups: %:
Homosexual males 62%
IV drug users 32%
Hemophiliacs 1%
Transfusion patients 2%
Total: 97%
(Source, CDC, 1992)
The remaining 3% fall into a category called "AIDS risks not related." Such persons appear to have immunodeficiency at random and the person just happens to test HIV positive.
These relative percentages of AIDS sufferers have not changed appreciably in the time since HIV was identified as the "cause" of AIDS. When that CDC data was available, fully 90% of AIDS cases were males; today, that figure is closer to 75% males. This skewed gender proportion is surprising given that HIV is evenly spread between males and females. That is, males and females are equally likely to test positive for HIV, yet males are overwhelmingly more likely to contract AIDS (at least in the US). Not coincidentally, in the US, males use more than 80% of all hard (IV) psychoactive drugs. Among women with AIDS, 62% use hard drugs. These figures are similar in Western Europe, which shows a similarly skewed gender distribution for AIDS cases. If AIDS were infectious, the hundreds of healthcare workers and lab technicians accidentally infected with HIV would have gone on to contract AIDS. Only a handful have done so, and these instances are not unambiguously due to HIV alone (i.e., in the absence of risk factors). AIDS appears instead more related to environmental factors and specific medical risks than to HIV infection. AIDS has certainly not become the worldwide pandemic that was predicted.
In fact, AIDS does not behave like a sexually transmitted disease, as most people believe it to be. As mentioned, a disproportionate number individuals in the US with AIDS are male. If AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease, one would expect it to infect males and females at an equal rate, as all other sexually transmitted diseases do. Statistically, it takes an average of over 1,000 instances of sexual intercourse with an HIV positive individual in order to transmit the disease just once. The rate of female-to-male transmission is about 1 in 10,000 instances of sexual intercourse. Most other sexually transmitted diseases are transmitted at a rate of 1 in every 2 sexual encounters.
Additionally, people in different risk groups contract different diseases, all under the AIDS umbrella. Intravenous drug users tend to get tuberculosis and wasting syndrome, whereas homosexual males taking nitrate inhalants tend to get Kaposi's Sarcoma and cytomegalovirus. Why should they suffer from different diseases? These same diseases are found in HIV negative men from the same risk groups.
9. The international profile of AIDS patients is inconsistent.
AIDS statistics differ dramatically in US/Western Europe vs. Africa. In Africa, the ratio of male to female AIDS cases is evenly split, 50-50, with no risk groups. Also, in Africa 90% of the cases of AIDS are microbial in nature, versus 62% in the US. AIDS is said to have originated in Tanzania, Africa, yet their rates of AIDS are much lower than in the US, which doesn't make sense from an infectious disease model perspective. Comparisons of HIV infection rates show that, as of 1996, Africa had 14 million HIV positive people, whereas the US had 1 million. Yet rates of AIDS are nearly identical, and people in the US develop AIDS at a rate that is 10-20 times faster than in Africa. Why would the AIDS epidemic behave differently in one country than another? Certainly the use of hard drugs differs dramatically between the US/Western Europe and Africa. African AIDS appear caused by malnutrition, parasitic infections, and poor sanitation.
Additionally, due to the high cost of HIV tests in Africa, the tests are not generally used, and "AIDS" is defined (by World Health Organization standards) if three of the following symptoms are observed: weight loss of greater than 10% in the last two months, fever, diarrhea, persistent cough, itchy rash. These symptoms also correspond to local diseases -- such as tuberculosis and malaria -- that are a common result of poor nutrition, poor sanitation, and unsafe drinking water. Therefore, these diseases often mistaken for AIDS dramatically raise the number of individuals infected in Africa. Paradoxically, Africans are dying in no greater numbers than they ever were since the outbreak of "AIDS" in Africa.
10. AIDS occurs without HIV infection and most people with HIV never develop AIDS.
Evidence in support of the HIV-AIDS hypothesis is based solely on correlation. The virus is found in most AIDS patients so it was assumed that HIV causes AIDS. If instead HIV is a harmless passenger virus, then we should see 1) people with AIDS not infected with HIV and 2) people with HIV who are healthy and do not get AIDS. Both groups exist. Currently, 95% of people who were diagnoses as HIV positive do not have AIDS. As of 1993 (current data are unavailable), there were nearly 5,000 cases of individuals diagnosed with AIDS who were HIV negative. That figure is bound to be an underestimate, because the current way to diagnose some with AIDS depends first on them being HIV positive, which artificially inflates the correlation between HIV and AIDS. The list of AIDS diseases (now 30) is large and growing, and none are unique to HIV. But if you have herpes (or cervical cancer, dementia, yeast infections, Kaposi's Sarcoma, toxoplasmosis, cytomegalovirus, pneumonia, etc.) but are HIV negative, then you simply have herpes. If you have herpes and are HIV positive, then by definition, you have AIDS. Interestingly, despite the name, "acquired immune deficiency," the AIDS diseases are not all immune related illnesses; some, like Kaposi's Sarcoma, are cancers.
Incidentally, increasing the list of diseases that indicate AIDS infection may also be why the number of those diagnosed with AIDS has been skyrocketing since 1985, while numbers of HIV infections have remained steady since 1985. This tactic gives the illusion that more individuals are dying from AIDS while the numbers actually may have remained steady throughout the years. The addition of cervical cancer, a female-only disease, as well as the condition of having low T cell counts, has inflated the number of females with AIDS, making it look as if AIDS is spreading to the rest of the population.
11. AIDS appears to be due to environmental toxins and/or malnutrition.
Instead of infectious agents, AIDS appears to be caused by toxins (chronic use of hard drugs or prescription AIDS drugs) or malnutrition, but manifests differently depending on the type of environmental agent. Drug use has been found to correlate just as well to AIDS as HIV does. For example, just as smokers tend to develop lung cancer, people who abuse cocaine tend to develop pneumonia; people who abuse methamphetamines or heroin tend to develop tuberculosis or wasting disease; people who use amyl nitrates ('poppers') tend to develop Kaposi's sarcoma.
All other known viruses affect individuals of different genders and demographics equally, however, the highest percentage of AIDS cases are found among male homosexuals with a history of drug abuse, intravenous drug users, chronic users of drug that are not injected, babies of women with heavy drug use, and hemophiliacs.
In the 1980s it was recognized that a vast majority of those with AIDS were long-term drug users. Furthermore, long-term drug use produces many of the symptoms similar to AIDS, such as decreased white blood cell counts, which can be detrimental to one's immune system. Long-term drug users also experience swelling of the lymph nodes, fever, substantial weight loss, deficits in brain functioning, dementia, and are much more susceptible to infections. It appears that chronic drug users may develop AIDS due to an already weakened immune system caused by their drug use, not because of the HIV virus.
Long-term drug users who are HIV negative, such as those who abuse heroin, often die from the same disorders that individuals diagnosed with AIDS die from, most notably tuberculosis, pneumonias, and wasting syndrome. Not only do HIV positive and HIV negative drug users die from the same disorders, they also have very similar life expectancies. The average age of death for a HIV negative drug user is 29.6 years, and the average age of death for a HIV positive drug user is 31.5 years.
Incidentally, once the immune system is undermined, HIV will often appear, as a so-called "passenger virus," along for the ride, but not causing any trouble. As good scientists know, it is a grave mistake to confuse correlation with causation. Dr. Luc Montaigner, one of the two co-discoverers of HIV, has now admitted that the virus is likely benign. (The other, Dr. Robert Gallo, has flatly refused to address challenges to the HIV-AIDS hypothesis.)
Finally, the use of hard drugs (cocaine and heroin) skyrocketed in the US during the time when AIDS cases also went through the roof. The first several cases of AIDS were reported at the start of a massive drug epidemic in the United States in 1981. In the 1980s cocaine use increased by 200 times, heroin related hospital visits doubled, millions of nitrate dosages were sold, and the use of amphetamines had increased one hundred-fold from the early to the late 1980's. Therefore, this drug epidemic parallels the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic, and may be a more logical explanation for its cause. At the very least, the drugs-AIDS correlation bears further scrutiny to examine evidence for and against environmental causes of AIDS.
12. HIV tests are not necessarily valid and reliable indicators of HIV status.
Even if HIV were culpable, HIV testing is often invalid and/or unreliable: The HIV test often gives false-positive results. Current infections that weaken the immune system at the time of testing could generate positive results for HIV when in fact the person may be HIV free. Common conditions that can affect the outcome of the test include having the flu at the time of testing, recently receiving a flu shot, being pregnant, or having an autoimmune disorder. Also, some individuals, such as those of African descent, are more likely to test positive than others (i.e., Caucasians). These results are of grave concern considering 1) the lack of evidence that HIV causes AIDS, and 2) the psychological stigma of being HIV positive, and 3) the potential for medical coercion to take harmful AIDS "therapy" in the form of prescription drugs. Such therapies have been forced on pregnant women who test positive for HIV, for example. Drugs targeting fast-killing cells are not what babies should encounter.
13. AIDS drugs do not prolong life and in fact appear to shorten it.
The very drugs used to treat individuals with HIV, called antiviral drugs, are so toxic that they may be the cause of a weakened immune system as in advanced stages of AIDS. AZT ('Azidothymidine' but sometimes called 'Zidovudine' or 'Retrovir') was first used for the treatment of cancer because it kills quickly multiplying cells, however, killing cells in people with AIDS causes their condition to worsen, due to their already low blood cell count.
The efficacy of AZT has never been studied rigorously. In order for the FDA to approve a drug for public use, double-blind, placebo group studies must be conducted. However, due to the excitement of a possible drug to treat this newly found, life threatening disease, participants in the study demanded that they know which group they were in and if it was them who were receiving the AZT. Participants also talked to each other about their side effects, indicating which group they were in, and even switched medications. Thus, a true double-blind, placebo group study was never rigorously performed on this new drug.
In one trial for AZT, one third of the trial group actually experienced a worsening of their AIDS symptoms. Nine months into the study, one out of five participants died. Further trials have shown similar results. In one study, half of the participants had to discontinue taking AZT due to such severe reactions. Another study found the death rate in those taking AZT to be 25% higher than those not taking AZT. Later researchers have found that AZT is carcinogenic, mutagenic, brain damaging, and toxic to all cells in the human body, especially immune system cells. AZT can cause severe mitochondrial disorders, tumors, blood cancers, anemia, severe birth defects and other disorders.
The new class of AIDS drugs, called "HAART" (highly active antiretroviral therapy or sometimes ART for short) appear less harsh than AZT, because patients are less likely to die after taking them. One new class of drugs prescribed is called "protease inhibitors," which were designed to prevent HIV from replicating. If HIV causes AIDS, then eliminating HIV should halt or reverse the progression of AIDS. Curiously, although protease inhibitors do indeed stop HIV, they fail to stop AIDS.
Although AIDS patients on the new drugs are living longer (as of 2007 published data, median time frame is 30+ years), they are more likely to suffer the following non-AIDS-defining illnesses: atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, liver disease, end-stage renal disease, and non-AIDS–defining malignancies. These supposedly HIV-related metabolic diseases are likely side effects of the new medications. Ironically, some researchers are citing the presence of these new disorders as indicative of the need to start ART even sooner than normal; so instead of starting drug therapy when CD4 counts fall below 200, patients may be urged to begin taking ART when CD4 counts fall below 350 or even 500.
Sorry for publishing such a lengthy set of comments - but I'm so sick of people not knowing the truth about hiv-aids. I don't like the gov't any better than you do, but i'd prefer to have the truth in any case.
The bottom line is - don't mess up your immune system and you'll be okay. you can handle ebola if you have a good immune system. Take large doses of vit c (4-10 grams per day in divided doses) and d (enough to keep blood levels above 70), sleep, de-stress, etc., and you'll be fine.
p.s. I think that zoo and circus animals are slaves - it's a travesty against nature.
kenny January 26, 2013 at 8:29 AM
Lots of good information EV. Much to absorb. I've never looked deeply into the subject beyond the idea that HIV may have been man-made and perhaps, in places, spread through vaccines. I certainly agree that a good immune system is our best defense against everything.
I like your attitude, Kenny.
Anaughty Mouser January 26, 2013 at 1:53 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzXTgslFNE
Uploaded four days ago; Belgian MP Laurent Louis tells the truth about Mali, Syria, Libya, Tunesia and the Rothschild puppet dictators in Western countries waging war under the hypocrisy of protecting human rights as they neo-colonialize natural resources.
Press 'translate' when you watch.
Outstanding speach in the Belgian house of representatives.
P.S. He never uses the words Rothschild or zionism or one world order.
http://newsjunkiepost.com/2013/01/14/mali-frances-neo-colonial-war-for-uranium/
Belgian MP Laurent Louis is cited in the above article.
MALI: Neo-colonialism by USrael/NATO at its very best! The inhabitant's lives in Mali are of little or no concern to the aggressors.
Anaughty:
Thanks for sharing that video - refreshing to hear a pol actually stating a string of truthful sentences together. That is perhaps the single greatest speech on the floor of a governing body I've witnessed.
I'm not big on cloning but jeez - why is it that we can have 535 blowhards in the US Congress and not even 1 of them has the sense or willpower to give a speech like Mr. Louis's?
kenny January 27, 2013 at 11:28 AM
Yes, perhaps the greatest speech by a western statesman this century.
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My favorite time of the year March has arrived
By ohtadmin | on March 03, 2016
Keith Warvie
kwarvie@mihomepaper.com
The calendar has changed and the month of March is here. This is without question my favorite month of the year.
This is the month where more pretenders are separated from contenders than at any other time of year.
From men's and women's college basketball, to boys and girls state tournament hoops, the cream will rise to the top. But there is always room for a Cinderella or two to make things interesting.
Here at home the girls' basketball and boys' hockey tournaments are starting. The best girls team we have in the area is Lapeer.
The Lightning have overcome an early knee injury to point guard Lexi Fisher and finished the season strong. They have to be considered the favorite in their district. Lapeer's win over Saginaw Monday night put it in the district semifinals against Kearsley. The rest of the teams left in the district don't match up well with the Lightning.
Lapeer has a power game inside with Sam Thick and an outside game with Ashleigh Garcia, Lisa West and Tori Tripp. The Lightning are difficult to stop anywhere on the floor.
They should have no trouble advancing to the regionals next week. But that's when Lapeer will face its first real competition.
The Lightning could face any number of teams that could put an end to their season. Flushing (18-2), Carman-Ainsworth (15- 5) and St. John's (17-3) make up just one of the three districts that will join the Lightning in the regionals.
Saginaw Heritage (19-1) or Midland Dow (17- 3) will come out of the district at Mt. Pleasant. Marquette, who is 18-2 overall, is the favorite in the other district at Petoskey.
If Lapeer can survive and advance against this competition, it can compete with any in the state. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Switching over to the frozen pond, the Alliance is the area's best hope in hockey. It has been playing well all season.
The Alliance's first line of Adam Green, Zach Kippe and Logan Hendrickson is as good as advertised. But as the season has worn on, others have stepped up their game.
Players like Donovan Dumoulin, Tim Ratliff, Hunter Gajda, Kurtis Winget and Trevor Turton have been contributing more every game. And let's not forget the play of goaltender Max Hubbell.
The Alliance enter tournament play with a sparkling 23-1 mark. It is the odds-on favorite to win the regional in Flint.
The Alliance's only true test could come from the Swartz Creek/Clio/Flushing co-op. But it should have no trouble moving on to the quarterfinals.
That's when things get interesting. If the Alliance makes it all the way to the Elite Eight, it will more than likely face No. 1-ranked Detroit Catholic Central.
The Shamrocks have lost seven games this season and are still the top team in the state. The first seven minutes could very well determine the outcome of this one.
There is no doubt CC will come out and apply plenty of pressure early. If the Alliance can survive this expected, early onslaught, it could stay in the game.
But even if that happens, the Alliance will have to score like they have all season to have a chance to win. Beating CC would be monumental, eight days from now we'll know if it actually happened.
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In three close games with the Celts last season, their tactics were characterised by patient, possession football. On Sunday, however they found it more profitable to smash the ball the length of the pitch and wait for the combination of the bright autumn sun in the PASALB defenders' eyes and their irritatingly rapid striker to wreak havoc. This approach put them 3-0 up after about 15 minutes, before the striker, having completed his hat-trick, mercifully limped off injured. Langworth and Ranki vociferously disputed the legitimacy of the first goal, but it should be noted that this was not the first occasion on which either player has found fault with our match officials.
With the sun and slope in their favour, Celtic continued to dominate but were thwarted by a series of superlative saves from Langworth. Had the game been remotely close it might have been heralded as one of the great PASALB performances of the age, instead it prevented a regulation defeat from becoming an absolute thrashing.
Most of our good work came through Watkins at centre-forward who headed narrowly over and was thwarted by a last ditch tackle, before being felled in the penalty area on the stroke of half-time. Willacy whipped the penalty into the bottom corner to give us an improbable lifeline.
For the first 15 minutes of the half we pounded the Celtic goal like a prizewinning Hereford Bull unleashed on the female herd after a winter confined to the barnyard, but couldn't find the finish that would have made a game of it. Watkins came closest, firing over from close range after a goalmouth scramble.
Celtic re-jigged their team to put an extra man in midfield, with the result that the pipeline to the strikeforce of Watkins and Noble was cut off – an experience unfamiliar to customers of RHP Pipeline Services Ltd, the sponsors of our magnificent kit, who presumably ensure that all serviced pipelines maintain a state of constant functionality.
Taking the positives, just being outside playing football on such a glorious autumn day on Hackney Marshes made one glad to be alive. As the PASALB players drifted into the misty night, Instagram was soon humming with the artful and well-judged shots that they had been unable to deliver on the pitch.


What types of Honours degrees are available?
The University offers three models of honours programs.
End-on Honours: students enter a one year AQF Level 8 Bachelor Honours Degree after graduating from an AQF Level 7 Bachelor degree in the same discipline.
Embedded Honours: students enter into an AQF Level 7 Bachelor Degree and (at some point during that degree) they apply to change programs and transfer to an AQF Level 8 Bachelor Honours Degree.
Concurrent Honours: students enter a four-year (or more) AQF Level 8 Bachelor Honours Degree, and all students graduate with honours.
You can find further information in the BachelorDegree (AQF Level 7) policy (307KB) and Bachelor Honours Degree (AQF Level 8) policy (256KB).
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What do the AQF levels mean?
What are the differences between an honours degree and a PhD?
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Oracle last week shipped its fourth new smartphone app for its JD Edwards EntepriseOne customers. Mobile Expense Management, which runs on iOS, Android, and Blackberry phones, makes it easier for employees to submit their expenses to management for payment.
Mobile Expense Management enables workers to enter, submit, review, and approve expense reports in real time via their smart phones. "By enabling mobile workers to manage expense reports on their mobile devices, Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Mobile Expense Management can reduce time to payment and increase employee satisfaction," Lyle Ekdahl, Oracle's group vice president general manager for JD Edwards, says in a press release.
Oracle delivered its first batch of three smartphone apps–including Mobile Requisition Self Service Approval, Mobile Purchase Order Approval, and Mobile Sales Inquiry–last month. The new EnterpriseOne mobile apps run on Oracle's Application Developer Framework and requires Oracle's WebLogic server. That means that EnterpriseOne shops who run the ERP software on IBM i cannot use the new EnterpriseOne mobile apps.