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The Sleepy Sickness
Article • Written by Alan Bellows • Non-Fiction • July 2006
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Beginning as early as 1916, and continuing well into the 1920s, an unusual and disturbing illness devastated millions of people throughout the world. It arrived in the shadow of the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic—which killed an estimated fifty million people worldwide—so it has been largely overlooked by history despite the fact that it took the lives of over a million people, and left countless others frozen inside unresponsive bodies.
Young people, particularly women, were the most vulnerable to the disease, though it affected people of all ages. When an individual was stricken, the first signs were typically a sore throat and fever accompanied by a headache; but these discomforts soon developed into more alarming problems such as double-vision and severe weakness. Within hours, most of the victims were gripped by episodes of tremors, strange bodily movements, intense muscle pains, and delayed mental response. Symptoms rapidly increased in severity, and in spite of medical attention, most patients worsened dramatically. Behavioral changes often appeared—including psychosis and hallucinations—followed by steadily increasing drowsiness and lethargy. Many became comatose and completely unresponsive.
Medical science was baffled by the bizarre epidemic, which affected millions of people across the globe. The mysterious disease was given the name Encephalitis lethargica, which literally means "inflammation of the brain that makes you tired," but it was more commonly known as "sleepy sickness." Such a melancholy designation was appropriate, considering that hundreds of thousands of people died from the inexplicable ailment without ever regaining consciousness.
Among the survivors, victims tended to remain in a coma indefinitely, sometimes for months or years. Although full recoveries were not unheard of, they were a rarity. Many of those stricken with the disease experienced ill effects which lingered throughout the rest of their lives, including vision problems, difficulty swallowing, personality changes, and sometimes permanent psychosis.
One very common problem to befall people recovering from the sleepy sickness was Postencephalitic Parkinson's disease. This caused life-long symptoms such as slowness, tremors, speech problems, and abnormal muscle movement. In some cases, individuals retained their hearing, intelligence, and reasoning, but were left in a catatonic state, unable to respond to stimuli. This parkinsonism sometimes took up to a year to appear in recovered patients.
In 1928, as suddenly as it had appeared, the encephalitis lethargica epidemic was gone. Although new cases stopped being reported, thousands of those affected were housed in institutions for decades, alive but trapped within useless bodies. In 1969, over forty years after the strange disease disappeared, some catatonic victims were treated with a newly developed antiparkinson drug called Levodopa. A number of patients improved dramatically upon treatment—they stood up from their wheelchairs and became conscious, responsive, and aware of the world around them—but it was soon evident that their miraculous recovery was tragically short-lived. Most patients slipped back into a catatonic state within days or weeks, and repeated dosages were useless. The 1990 movie Awakenings is based on such experiences described in the memoirs of Dr. Oliver Sacks.
MRI of a somnolent patient showing inflammatory regions.
Cases of encephalitis lethargica since the original epidemic have been scarce, but in 1993 a twenty-three year old woman was hospitalized after suffering fever, tremors, hallucinations, and strange arm movements. Her brain was dangerously inflamed, and to the doctors' surprise, the cause was ultimately determined to be the sleepy sickness. The cause of the original 1916-1928 outbreak had never been determined in the intervening years, so a virologist named Professor John Oxford re-examined brains samples taken from victims of the original epidemic. Despite his advanced molecular probes, he found no evidence of viruses in the tissue.
As the young woman slowly recovered, Doctors Russell Dale and Andrew Church set to investigating the disease, and through the medical community they found twenty other patients with symptoms of encephalitis lethargica. After they analyzed the patients, they discovered a common thread which was also present in the historical cases: most patients complained of a sore throat before the disease struck. The men narrowed the common thread down to a particular strain of bacteria called diplococcus, known to cause sore throats. Though the evidence is insufficient to be certain, the findings of these researchers strongly suggests that the sleepy sickness epidemic was caused by the body's massive over-reaction to these bacteria. It seems that this excessive immune response caused the immune system to attack the nerve cells of the brain, resulting in significant damage. Further research has detected anti-brain antibodies present in those with the condition, further supporting the auto-immune theory.
Given the new evidence, some experts suggest that encephalitis lethargica may be much more common than we realize. It is likely that most cases are minor, and go undiagnosed. Oxford, Dale, and Church may very well have solved one of medicine's greatest mysteries, though some researchers still suspect that a virus is responsible for the disease. Research continues.
Note: A previous version of this article referred to the condition as "sleeping sickness," however current naming conventions prefer "sleepy sickness" for Encephalitis lethargica to differentiate it from African trypanosomiasis.
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But why did the patients revived in 1969 by Levodopa fall back into their catatonic state after only a week or so?
cutterjohn
That movie Awakenings is one of the saddest movies i've ever seen..
Robert said: "But why did the patients revived in 1969 by Levodopa fall back into their catatonic state after only a week or so?"
According to the movie, they developed a tolerance for it very rapidly, and the dosage had to be continually increased until it couldn't be raised anymore.
Asshe
Even though the human race has come so far in terms of knowledge and understanding of ourselves and our surroundings, somethimes it is scary when one realises how much we still don't know or can't explain.
just_dave
Can't say that I've ever heard of this variety of sleeping sickness. Guess it's different than the African variety, which is spread through the bite of a Tsetse fly. That one has been around a lot longer and is still a problem in much of Africa.
MJ Smith
I have a sore throat. Great. Freakin' great. :(
white_matter
Aside from the somewhat documented but generally unknown area of a coma, it doesn't seem like too bad away to go.
Well, maybe not, but if life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Maybe this whole message is calus and unthoughtful.
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Whoa damn!
binnyva
Posted 24 July 2006 at 12:18 am
I have sleeping sickness…
From 11 PM to 6:30 AM ;-)
Binny V A
Lennes
I wonder why women were particularily vunerable.
Vivendi
DI!!
Over-reaction to the bacteria doesn't explain at all why there was a sudden burst in the number of affected patients (or like Lennes said, why women are more vunerable). And the scientists saying that diplococcus causes the disease doesn't make any sense to me, because (I thought..) diplococcus was a general term that covered several different bacteria. So are they saying that several different bacterium types could cause this sickness?
binnyva said: "I have sleeping sickness…
As you can see, I don't have sleeping sickness because it's almost 3am here and I'm still awake :P
ForestGrump
Vivendi,
Probably a strain that would overinduce the immune system to attack. And then it died out after a while.
Kinda like how each year the flu is "different".
And as for my "sleeping sickness", its almost 5am here. Yea, I got issues.
ballaerina
MJ Smith said: "I have a sore throat. Great. Freakin' great. :("
Uh oh, me too. I also tend to have random tremors where I lash out and whap someone (usually my coworkers). If you stop seeing posts from me, be worried.
This is an amazing article. If it's true that it's actually an overreaction to a strain of bacteria, it shows that sometimes our bodies are our worst enemies, which is fascinating but very scary.
Sylph-DS
Not first
Anyways, Great article.
Kinda scary though, if this was ever to break out again…
Who knows what else these people had in common.
What makes this frightening is what we don't know about it; although, I see great potential for another DI conspiracy theory.
Block, Taxi, Wind, Parachute, Spider, Rice Bran, Donkey, Jerry Lewis, diplococcus (the blond bacterium)…………….They're all the same……right?
Brigs
Lennes said: "I wonder why women were particularily vunerable."
Because women overreact to everything.
…shoot, and here I thought those folks were just looking for pinholes in their eyelids!
Then again to prevent widespread hysteria…and as a public service, we need to take a proactive approach regarding this type of human threat…please post the following at your places of employment…
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The management regrets that it has come to their attention that employees sleeping on the job are failing to lie down. This practice my stop, as it becomes impossible to distinguish between sleeping and natural movement of the staff. Any employee found sleeping in an upright position will be dropped from the payroll immediately.
beanaroo
Sylph-DS said: "
Its less likely now. Remember that in the early 20's they didn't really have any good antibiotics. Penicillin wasn't fully discovered till 1928 and they didn't figure out how to mass produce it till the mid 40's. In our antibiotic happy society right now I am sure there is some drug that can knock this thing on its ass. That might even be why it is not more wide spread. People go to their doctor for a sore throat and are usually give a broad spectrum antibiotic, whether they need it or not.
ChickenHead
beanaroo said: "Its less likely now. Remember that in the early 20's they didn't really have any good antibiotics. Penicillin wasn't fully discovered till 1928 and they didn't figure out how to mass produce it till the mid 40's. In our antibiotic happy society right now I am sure there is some drug that can knock this thing on its ass. That might even be why it is not more wide spread. People go to their doctor for a sore throat and are usually give a broad spectrum antibiotic, whether they need it or not."
On the contrary – the very situation you describe is a problem the medical community is strugling with right now. Antibiotics are being *overused*. It creates a situation that ends up accelerating the mutation of bacteria into more virulent forms. Basically, we're setting the stage for our own downfall.
Inset silly Wikipedia link in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
cutterjohn said: "According to the movie, they developed a tolerance for it very rapidly, and the dosage had to be continually increased until it couldn't be raised anymore."
While I haven't seen the movie, I'd think that if the body's antibodies attacked neurotissue in the brain, then even if they were revived from their catatonic state, their brain function wouldn't be able to sustain them there. I'm amazed that they could regain consciousness for a short time in the first place.
AGG said: "While I haven't seen the movie, I'd think that if the body's antibodies attacked neurotissue in the brain, then even if they were revived from their catatonic state, their brain function wouldn't be able to sustain them there. I'm amazed that they could regain consciousness for a short time in the first place."
The theory that the movie "Awakenings" had Sacks put forth is that they were suffering from tremors speeded up to the point where muscle action did not occur because the signals canceled each other out.
There are several diseases where the immune system is thought to be attacking the nervous system, the one I am most familiar with is Multiple Sclerosis (my wife has it). I read an article last year where they were investigating a possible treatment for MS where they isolate the antibodies that are attacking the nerves and marking them, then reinjecting them into the patient. The immune system sees these marked antibodies as invaders and produces antibodies to wipe them out… I like that approach: use the immune system to counteract a problem with the immune system. I don't think the immune system will be able to mutate faster than the immune system can keep up with it.
Interesting how so many things these days are being linked to problems with the immune system… sleeping sickness, MS, and people are hypothesizing that asthma is the immune system freaking out because the overuse of antibiotics and antimicrobial cleaners are not giving it enough to do… with no everpresent enemies to work against, it starts seeing friendlies as targets. (please, don't respond to this with a political take-off, I'm begging you.)
whaaat
This may be bad but…
That girl in the picture is a cutie…we could get the sleeping sickness together ;-)
schuylercat
Hey whaaat: yes, that was bad. She is cute, though.
Very DI. Nothing more to say. Thanks, Alan.
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So everytime you have a sore throat; you have a minor case of this disease? Yet only if it develops then it becomes this "sleeping sickness?"
Ugh. Another thing to be paranoid about. Very interesting, though.
Floj
Interesting….. I read of a protein that our brains produce that allow us to learn, by creating new connections in the nerves. It is said to be a possible cure for alsiemers if they can supplement the protien to the brain. It would help reconstruct worn out connections, which allow the brain to retain it's function. They're supposed to begin clinical testes in 2010. The article I read is in the July issue of Pop Sci if y'all are interested. Perhaps, the same idea could be applied to the comatose patients to help repair brain damage. Of course pie could cure it much better. mmhmm
Kuz_Sam
Floj said: "Interesting….. I read of a protein that our brains produce that allow us to learn, by creating new connections in the nerves. It is said to be a possible cure for alsiemers if they can supplement the protien to the brain. It would help reconstruct worn out connections, which allow the brain to retain it's function. They're supposed to begin clinical testes in 2010. The article I read is in the July issue of Pop Sci if y'all are interested. Perhaps, the same idea could be applied to the comatose patients to help repair brain damage. Of course pie could cure it much better. mmhmm"
lol floj…you said clinical testes…HAHAHA…
you are only young once; you can be immature forever :-)
I can do with a bit of the sleeping sickness… but without all te effects.
sulkykid
Stead311 said: "So everytime you have a sore throat; you have a minor case of this disease? Yet only if it develops then it becomes this "sleeping sickness?""
There are different kinds of sore throats, but you may have other worries–I have heard that strep throat infections are suspected of causing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in children. Something along the lines of it affecting development of a certain area of the brain. The Sleeping Sickness Disorder affects females more than males, but the strep-induced OCD seems to affect males more often. (Although OCD generally affects more women than men.)
Fascinating. My aunt Genevieve had sleeping sickness from the time she was 12 until she died at age 37. I remember being led into her bedroom to meet her when I was three, shortly before she died. I thought she was Jesus.
Cannonstar
I read something about this in the beginnings of The Sandman (the graphic novels by Neil Gaiman). I never realized that this actually happened.
I gotta read through The Sandman again.
Amazing Squibbon
Yeah Cannonstar, I thought of the exact same thing when I read this article! In the first issue of Sandman, which begins in the closing days of World War I, Morpheous (the sandman) gets captured by a magician and imprisoned in a magical bubble. With the king of sleep incapacitated, various people around the world are stricken by a condition that is pretty much identical to what this DI article describes. I never knew that it had a historical basis, very interesting!
Sandra Thurston
In 1987, my little sister, only 6 then and my brother, 12, had the same symptoms among other 3 others kids from our street, all at the same week. Because of the weird arms moviments , all of them were diagnosed with epilepsy. Although, my sister was off the meds after a year, my brother got severe brain damage and has never been healthy ever since. I always thought that was really weird since there were 5 cases and they all played together and besides, epilepsy is not contageous. Now, I'm spooked!
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Sandra Thurston said: "In 1987, … , all of them were diagnosed with epilepsy. Although, my sister was off the meds after a year, my brother got severe brain damage and has never been healthy ever since. I always thought that was really weird since there were 5 cases and they all played together and besides, epilepsy is not contageous. Now, I'm spooked!"
Epilepsy itself isn't contagious, but there are multiple causes for it, not all of which have been defined completely. If your siblings and their friends contracted a disease that could possibly affect their brain that could be an explanation – enchephalitis and scarlet fever are good suspects. You may have had the same disease but escaped the ill effects on the brain. I contracted epilepsy through a severe head injury (a car ran over me – I landed 70 feet from where I was struck), and I once worked with someone who was an epileptic following surgery to remove a brain tumor. I have a cousin who happens to have the same type of seizures that I had (partial complex), where there is little or no change in physical movement – just a change in the level of conciousness (very difficult to diagnose because looking like you are not paying attention or just spacing out for 10-30 seconds is fairly common behavior.) She never had any injury to bring it on, and as far as I know hers is a result of one of the unknown causes.
I have also heard of (I really am hoping I have the phrasing right on this) "Juvenile Onset Epilepsy" which is kind of mysterious because it has a tendency to just disappear forever after a few years. With mine, I actually had to have a large chunk of my brain removed, both to control (end) the epilepsy and remove tissue that was killed during seizures.
I remember as a child of 6 or 7 being tented in bed in mosquito netting because a mosquito bite might lead to "Sleeping Sickness". This was in the 1940s, I was terrified of being bitten by a mosquito – I was told if bitten, I would never awaken.
Probably not the same desease as described in this article but I still think about it when I hear a mosquito buzzing.
Brigs said: "Because women overreact to everything."
HAH! First thought I had too!
I saw this thing in the newspaper about a woman who went into a coma in 1980 and came out of it in 2001. She knew what a CD was.
callcenterrefugee
I was in a coma from 9/3/01 till 4/5/02
I had the bright idea to take a ride on my moped with out a helmet, didnt notice a bike ramp @ the end of the hill (did i mention i forgot to wear my glasses as well ~_~) and pulled an evil kenevil and went apx 20 feet in the air, landed and fractured my skull, broke my right arm in 3 places both my legs and broke my collar bone.
When I woke up my best friend Joe was in the room (wonderful guy he visited me every chance he got) and he told me i had been in a coma for 7 months, i thought he was shitting me but (he had rung for the nurses) i asked a nurse and she said it was true, and let me tell you, it is an absolute mind **** to wake up and find out you pulled a RWV, i have a lot of sympathy towards these people, its devistating to find out you lost a huge portion of your life, not to mention i have lost the fun of napping, i hate going to sleep now, you always have the thought that it might just happen again. you might go to sleep and wake up and be 10-20 years older.
and it would eb even worse for the ones that never woke up at all, any hoo good read, im off to read some more
noway said: "HAH! First thought I had too!"
Excuse me for overreacting, but this kinda pissed me off.
lavonne said: "Excuse me for overreacting, but this kinda pissed me off."
I agree. I think this kind of thing can be kept to yourself.
Briggs, no pie for you or your friend, noway! Are you two trying to start something?
debbiebf
I thought that was kind of funny. But there could be other reasons:
"My husband had it, but he was in his chair watching football and no one noticed for 20 years."
"Women tend to keep pushing themselves when they get sick, whereas men tend to whine and go to bed and get over it. Apparently this one does better if you don't let it get you down."
"Maybe beer kills the sore throat germs."
"Women had larger families and less time saving conveniences. Maybe after actually sleeping a full night without interruptions, they just didn't WANT to wake up!"
Kuz_Sam said: "lol floj…you said clinical testes…HAHAHA…
Oops… but funny. No pie for me this time… ok, mabey just one slice.
frenchsnake said: "I agree. I think this kind of thing can be kept to yourself."
Come on now, it was a fairly good one liner, and jokes about the opposite sex are a fact of life. Maybe you two are overreacting just a little bit?
No, I am obviously not furious. A string of insults and expletives would be *overreacting*. Ha ha.
Floj said: "Oops… but funny. No pie for me this time… ok, mabey just one slice."
Ahh! I keep mispelling words!
Oh shit I have a Sore Throat and headache and I have been so tired I can not stay awake and whe nI try to I just passout from being to tired and I feel weak all the time and I dropped the T.V. today when I trid to move it and Iafter that I just had to lay down.And got up and just could not get out of bed because I was so weak and tired and my fever was high and I could not eat anything etheir.Now im paranoid.
Kind of late to clarify this now, but this immune reaction doesn't attack *all* neurotissue- only a very specific band of neurons in the midbrains called the 'substantia nigra'. This area reacts to the neurotransmitter dopamine to mediate motor functions and (more importantly in postencephalitic Parkinsonism) the brain's stimulus reward system. Relatively minor damage to the substantia nigra, as in normal Parkinson's disease, causes characteristic motor symptoms such as the inability to initiate movements and distortions of the time sense. With major damage, the brain ceases to react to outside stimuli and literally shuts down, while still being conscious- a state known as 'akinetic mutism.'
Incidentally, from my recollection of 'Awakenings', most postencephalitic patients treated with L-DOPA didn't exactly "slip back into a catatonic state within days or weeks"; rather, they began to exhibit life-threatening side effects (usually respiratory crises- also extreme mania, psychosis, and severe, constant ticcing sometimes reminiscent of grand mal seizures) and were removed from the medication by Sacks. These side effects are thought to be caused by indiscriminant activation of dopamine receptors in other portions of the brain, and are similar to the effects of amphetamine psychosis (amphetamines also increase dopamine levels in the brain.)
[/Quote]Cases of encephalitis lethargica since the original epidemic have been scarce, but in 1993 a twenty-three year old woman was hospitalized after suffering fever, tremors, hallucinations, and strange arm movements.[/endQuote]
I remember seeing a news show like 20/20, 48 hours, or Dateline several years ago about a woman like this. At the time they had no answers as to what kept her asleep all the time. Her mom had to awaken her to eat ,else she would have literaly starved to death in bed! Hum, DI!
me too. how unsensitive.
you guys are so wrong.
Random5 said: "Come on now, it was a fairly good one liner, and jokes about the opposite sex are a fact of life. Maybe you two are overreacting just a little bit?"
i dont think any of them are.
Tapion
I watched a show about how the 1918 Flu Pandemic and Encephalitis lethargica may be connected. It said the Encephalitis lethargica struck those that had the Spanish Flu but survived it. A huge Quarentine effort was put into effect in Sombolia and Encephalitis lethargica never showed up in that area but everywhere else it did. Also, it said the the Spanish Flu Pandemic rose hell on the same day in four different parts of the globe and vanished just as quick everywhere on the same day (in a different year of course). Pretty scary, almost seems like something out of this world. The reason they say Encephalitis lethargica is connected to the 1918 flu is because through time the virus would have made it's way to the brain damaging the movement part of the brain, which explains why it struck later in time after the 1918 pandemic. Which makes some since. If thats true than think of what would happen if the H5N1 (Avian Flu) Struck. Imagine what hell on earth would happen after it dissapears, with millions dead, then you get a second type of Encephalitis lethargica. One thats probably much worse. Also, add on the Encephalitis lethargica deaths to the total deaths of the 1918 pandemic. The new model says the the flu alone (not including Encephalitis lethargica) killed some 50-100 million people. Just as much as the black plauge. Aids has killed just as many people in 25 years as the Spanish Flu did in 25 weeks. A huge number.
There's nothing we can do if H5N1 Strikes. You have to get the virus first then turn it into a vacine which takes some 2-3 months if I remember correctly, 2-3 months is time we don't have. We think were strong, at the top of the food chain (above animals, with technology) and yet we are wiped out and destroyed by something only microscopes can see. I wonder what we'd do if the flu got out and took over major cities, quarentine the entire planet. It's waiting for the right time to strike, when humans are at their peak, secretly plotting it's revenge, like an assassin. One we can't see untill it's too late. Seems like some demonic enemy. One infection is all it takes, once it reaches schools, colleges, big cities, all hell breaks loose, by time we get a vacine it's too late, how will we distribute it, doctors and nurses first, older ones, those who need it most, riots and fights will break out, if it strikes armed forces, one by one they'll fall, where will we put the bodies. We'll be out of room, more deaths than the Spanish Flu and Black Death will be more than likely; considering how may humans live on this planet, A second type of Encephalitis lethargica stirkes those that survive. It's going to be one hell of party when it strikes. I feel bad for those that get killed by it, I hope i'm one of them, I won't have to live the aftermath. What if your patient 0, the one responsible for the millions of deaths, you passed it on to them, how would you feel. Knowing that your the one who killed millions of inocent lives. Well, it's only a matter of time untill it attacks, getting it's revenge on the survivors, we had a large population in 1918, many died, those that survived– repopulated and gave birth to more raising the number of lives. Ever noticed how when the number of humans is very large, disaster strikes; the black plauge killed 3/4 of Europe, 1918 pandemic killed just as may lives. The population is raising, when it's at it's peak the bar graph will drop. An ongoing patter, never ends untill all humans are dead. Sad thing is, if your within the ages of 0-40 and 65+ you'll be the first to go, those than are 16+ with active immune systems will most likely drown in your own blood. If you believe in god, some of us think why he does such things, after all he chooses who lives and dies and how. But then again he has his reasons. Look on bright side, the 1918 flu led to many great advances in technology and research.
SammieRockes
Where exactly did this epidemic take place? Was it in Spain? Or the US? I know there is one in Africa but which one is this!!!!!
Johh
SammieRockes said: "Where exactly did this epidemic take place? Was it in Spain? Or the US? I know there is one in Africa but which one is this!!!!!"
You might want to read the first sentence of the article, Sammie.
@Tapion:
Way to go taking an extreme worst-case szenario and taking it to this…
Maybe your look on life is not quite as jolly as it ought to be?
Seriously, if you were serious about what you wrote, you should seek help. A friend to talk to or if that doesn't help a professional.
BenKinsey
Cathryn said: "i dont think any of them are."
Cathryn said: "you guys are so wrong."
Cathryn said: "me too. how unsensitive."
Three comments=an overreaction haha lightn up woman then go make me dinner…just playin
Tapion said: "What if your patient 0, the one responsible for the millions of deaths, you passed it on to them, how would you feel. Knowing that your the one who killed millions of inocent lives."
Luckily you'd be dead already so you wouldn't know the devastation you caused.
I noticed that there haven't been many entries for a while, but I'm hoping that somebody may read this and help. I was diagnosed with encephalitis lethargica when I was 5 in 1978. My parents were told to start making arrangements for my funeral. I made it through, however I want to know if anybody knows of the different prognosis for this disease.
Jocelyn said: "I noticed that there haven't been many entries for a while, but I'm hoping that somebody may read this and help. I was diagnosed with encephalitis lethargica when I was 5 in 1978. My parents were told to start making arrangements for my funeral. I made it through, however I want to know if anybody knows of the different prognosis for this disease."
I'm not sure what you wish to know. The disease you suffered from as a child was basically swelling of your brain due to an infection from a virus or bacterium. Chances were that you had the Chicken Pox or a cold sore (herpes simplex) and the virus transverse the blood brain barrier infecting the cerebral tissue. This will cause swelling of the brain tissue within the tight confines of the skull.
At this point the brain's functions are impaired causing a variety of symptoms. The more common ones due to a minor infection would be fever, loss of energy, little or no appetite, and a general overall sick feeling.
In more sever cases you have high fever, extreme sensitivity to light, a form of motion sickness causing nausea & vomiting, extremely painful headaches, stiff neck, general confusion & forgetfulness, seizures, and lethargic (sleepiness and/or unconsciousness).
Not something to take mildly, the infected should be monitored. Understand that the disease itself is not contagious, only the virus or bacterium that caused it is. Plus you can only suffer the symptoms if the virus or bacterium is able to cross your brain blood barrier and infect the brain tissue, and that is rare.
Thus you could contract the disease the caused the Encephalitis in sick individual, but it is very doubtful that it will cause you to suffer Encephalitis.
Anyway the longer the brain is swelled, and the amount of swelling is causing damage to the sensitive tissues. Also a high fever is literally cooking the brain tissue. Both are capable of creating debilitating brain damage.
A person who survives a sever case could have speech problems, muscle coordination loss, blindness or decreased vision, learning disabilities, seizures, etc.
If you are suffering from some aftereffect, the only person who might be able to help with that would be a neurologist. Then again it depends of the type of brain damage and the severity.
The Don.
pikespeakdave
I have watched Awakenings a few different times, it is one of my favorites, because it is filled with so much detail.
I have been living with YOPD for 13 years, and the medicine the patients received in the clinic was L-dopa, a precuror to sinement that is considered a gold standard of PD treatment for many patients with this chronic condition. And the simarilities to the reaction of the patients is strikingly similiar. If you take to much Sinement (Carbidopa/Levodopa) you experience erratic body movements, and issue of mania and other side effects.
But, Flu Epidemic and sleeping Sickness followed right WWI, where many chemical agents were used as weopans in large nnumbers. And PD has a similiar distinction that it first discovered at the beginng of the Industrial age in 1817 by a london doctor named James Parkinsons who wrote an essay called Shaking Palsy.
In Baltimore and in Northern California a few men had developed a new derivative of heroin which caused instant paralys after using this drug. The Clinical drug is now called MPTP, which is now used to study ways to develop treatments for PD using animals to try new treatments.
Consudering PD is thought to be caused by the loss of the chemical Dopamine in the brain,
But. the movie starts out with some interresting clues about how this disease started in a young boy, He is described by jis mother as an avid reader and was a good student, but the mother and one of his teachers noticed that is writing became harder to read because of his writing necame smaller in print, and eventually succumbed to one morning his mother was unable to wake him. He was sent to hospital where he spent in a comatose state for many years.
The Doctor, Oliver Sacks was sent to this hospital that had many patients that suffered from this condition, and one morning he noticed one lady who could barely move caught her glasses in her hands before they hit the floor. So in some ways the brain is able to function, but the body is frozen in place.
The Young Man is given the first trial of L-dopa, and after increasing the dose to a sufficient level, he awakens and returns to almost normal state, but he still acts as a young teenager although he is in his late 40's or early 50's. They wventually get approval from the medical board to try to awaken the rest of these patients, Such a wild scene, one moment tou have many patients unable to move, and slowly the place is pure bedlam. All these patients think it is the year they were first struck with this condition, although in most cases many years has been lost.
Examples of touch, music, changing environment like the floor pattern, and dancing and other therapies made as much difference to these people's lives as well as the medicine.
But, more medicine was needed to keep these patients active, which caused many sad side effect that were in physical, and physcological in nature, and the young man was returned to comatose state, just like the rest of them.
The movie ends, but because of this doctor's observations, he made the biggest advance in PD treatment that in the field of medical field has not been repeated since then.
Do I think another repeat of sleeping sickness or an epidemic of increased cases of PD in the future, YES.
Just look what Crystal Meth does, or why in America, the fastest growing group of PD patients in America are the migrant workers that work in the fields of California picking our produce, And China isn't exactly have a stellar image on environmental issues. And the battlefield of Iraq may be another place.
But, I hope I am wrong, but Bush hasn't been very good advocate for medical research and he sure has no conscience on social issues either.
Davud W Walker
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I hope someone responds to this….but what has happened to the people treated with the L-Dopa since 1969?
My mother was diagnosed with what they called at that time Sleeping Sickness.
She was sleeping and in a coma state. She was just a young girl about 11 in Springfield, Mass. It was during the time when you could not get whiskey which was used for medicinal purposes. The doctor said if he only had some whiskey he could save many lives, including my mothers. My grandmother had stashed some away and my grandfather gave it to the doctor who gave my mother some in an eye dropper and the rest to help anyone that needed it.
The next day my mother sat up spitting up blood and the doctor said it was a good sign and she continued to get better. She was left with some brain damage but lived a full life and raised four children by herself. She has passed on but lived to be 90 years old.
Susan Simkin
I have an ASD 10 year old son, who is falling asleep on the job. He is now going to bed at 7 each night but not waking until 12 or 1 the next afternoon. He is only doing 1 to 2 hour's of school a day as he fall's asleep. He say's sometime's he is aware of everything going on around him but can't move or speak. Other time's he wakes up and know's nothing since he got ready for bed the night before. I'm being told by a doctor that he's having a mental brake-down. Is this true or is it something else?? Really love a reply…
another scary thing about this disease is that while sufferers are trapped in their catatonic states, (unlike in a coma) they are completely aware of it. they are human statues trapped in their own bodies.
also, while in the catatonic state, they suffer psychosis. seeing horrible hallucinations, as if they were in a nightmare. scientist believe that this is because, like in Normal sleep, if pressure is put on the body, the brain will think that the body is trapped or in danger, and will generate a horrifying image to wake us up.
unfortunately for the victims of sleepy sickness (gosh thats a horrible name)they cannot wake up. they are condemned to age while trapped in that nightmarish state
My husband had Influenza A in December of 2014. It had a very rapid onset (fine at 3 pm and in the hospital, unconscious with a temp of 103.9 by 7 pm.) While he was in the hospital he was very difficult to wake, and he would move his arms in a swimming like motion for hours at a time. He was also very disoriented. When he was released from the hospital 9 days later he was unable to walk and had expressive aphasia (speech issues). He was also extremely sleepy.
In mid-January of 2015 his neurologist diagnosed him with Encephalitis Lethargica and put him on Carbidopa/Levidopa (L-Dopa). He improved for a while but is currently in a decline. He went through several months of intense physical, occupational and speech therapy but even that was difficult as some days were close to normal and some days were really really bad.
He has left side weakness, confusion, poor short term memory, muscle aches and pains not related to injury, sore through, hiccups, upste stomach, super sensitive hearing and a host of other oddities.
Based on my husband's experience I would think that Influenza A and Encephalitis Lethargica are linked. We're lucky, he did not die and he is not catatonic but it has certainly changed how we live.
If anyone knows of current research for this please email me at andreajohnson916@gmail.com
My Auntie had 'Sleepy Sickness' in London in the early 1900's and as she was an Ice Skating Instructor and often had instructed soldiers from the WW1 it was thought it was a disease brought from the battlefield and she caught it from them. She was engaged to be married at the time but my Grandfather told her fiancé to break the engagement as she was very ill and not expected to live. Her 'beau' however stayed true to her and they married and she experienced somewhat of a remission and even had a child but in time she deteriorated again and died in her early 30's.
I of course never knew her as she stayed in London when her parents moved to Sydney and my Dad was much younger than her anyway. She was a lovely looking girl and my Dad said a "lovely person", and it broke my Grandmother's heart to leave her behind with her older sister when they had to leave. But my Grandfather was severely depressed after serving in the Boer War and WW1 and then returning to see the destruction of his Cabinet Making business with the bombing of London and London Drs told my Grandmother she had to take him away to Australia.
I have always wondered what this strange disease was that affected her so badly. My Grandmother also mentioned 'Elephantitis' perhaps that related to the swelling of the glands connected with 'Sleepy Sickness'?
I've become particularly interested in the Sleepy Sickness. I'm not exactly sure why, but it's just sooo fascinating. If it were to ever break out again…it'd be very scary ):
Also why did it appear in women so much? Just asking .-.
Désirée L. Röver, medical research journalist
Think vaccines…
Not joking.
I now wonder if I might have a low-level case of the disease. It would explain much.


Read a selection of performances and CD reviews published in newspapers, magazines, art blogs, and online music publications.
Laura Andel works in mostly composed pieces for large ensembles and so the opportunities to hear her work are rare. But following notable recordings and performances of her SomnabulisT and In::tension:. over the last few years, her new Doble Mano for nonet was a major statement from the young composer.
Buenos Aires born New York resident Andel is a composer and conductor, who assembles large ensemble of players from various disciplines to perform her music. Following on from similar work on 2004's SomnambulisT album, In::tension:. sees Andel overseeing her ensemble's deft mix of interpretation and improvisation, resulting in an extremely entertaining blend of avant rock, jazz and classical elements.
Argentinean-born, she's a woodwind player who first received a degree in tango performance in Buenos Aires, then studied jazz composition and film music in Boston, and has since written for large and small ensembles in Boston, New York, Germany and Venezuela. Cinematic, with swathes of jazz and South American rhythms and quirky orchestral instrumentation, Somnanbulist is a nine-part, 46-minute suite that tries to compress all her influences and studies into a definitive whole.
Vividly atmospheric, Doble Mano functions as an emotional scenography (a terrain implied by titles such as Salgán's Buenos Aires at Three in the Morning and Piazzolla's Tango: Zero Hour). Andel, however, only suggests tango; gamelan and motoric minimalism course just as readily through her work.
Beginning with the eerie drift of "Entering" and its ominous bass-line pulse, this minimalist orchestral project is one of the most impressive large ensemble recordings that I have heard in quite some time. Central to the project is the music of a remarkable new composer, Laura Andel, who also conducts this work.
Doble Mano, whose title reflects the twinning of different orchestral groupings, raises the ante further by interjecting into the performance characteristic sonic fragments from the South American bandoneon and Indonesian gamelan.


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Herbert Abrams was an emeritus professor of radiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, a senior research fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a prolific author of books and scholarly articles. He contributed greatly to the Stanford community through his interests in diagnostic radiology and nuclear weapons. In this three-part interview, Abrams discussed his youth in New York, his residency and teaching experience at Stanford's medical school, and how his interest shifted from radiology to nuclear weapons research and activism. Abrams described his childhood in Brooklyn, centering his discussion on his family and his high school years. His family's love of language seemingly influenced Abrams to pursue an English major and to work for a variety of newspapers and journals at Cornell University, ultimately taking a job after graduation as a newsreel media analyst for the government. Although his interest in Freudian literature prompted Abrams to apply to medical school, once enrolled at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, he quickly redirected his efforts from psychiatry to radiology. Abrams provided valuable details about Stanford's original medical school in San Francisco. From 1948 until 1959, Abrams served first as a resident and then as a professor at San Francisco General Hospital and Stanford Lane Hospital. Abrams found the experience both challenging and exciting because, due to the small-staff environment, faculty acted as both administrators and clinicians. Abrams also discussed the increasing importance of faculty research efforts after the medical school moved to the Stanford campus in 1959, highlighting developments in biplane imagery, catheter procedures, and radiation effect studies. Against the backdrop of his move from Stanford to Harvard, Abrams turned his attention to his longstanding interest in social activism and growing concern regarding nuclear weapons. Although he previously worked with the Physicians for Social Responsibility group, Abrams' efforts pivoted towards promoting a more international organization called the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. This group studied all matters related to nuclear weapons, worked to raise awareness, and educated Congress about the effects of nuclear war. Abrams went on to discuss his return to Stanford in 1985 and his continued shift from a focus on diagnostic radiology to nuclear weapons research and activism. Increasingly, Abrams spent time at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation studying the effects of nuclear weapons exposure and the intersection of weapons access and mental health. In conclusion, Abrams addressed the need to educate the public about present-day nuclear threats and discussed the various leisure interests he pursued in this post-retirement period.
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Posted on September 9, 2015 by RonMamita — 8 Comments
LOL, I really forgot what I wanted to share here.
[Life distracted me. OK, I'll share what I have at this moment….]
Are You Looking For Trouble Or Solutions
Ask "What Can I Do?" Then FIND YOUR ANSWER.
It really is up to you…
When you observe the world wide scheme, you see subjugation and domination.
You see mass deception and social programming alongside empires, nations, and a "International Monetary System".
You then see the connections to illnesses and diseases plaguing the world in a destructive and psychopathic fashion.
What is the World Dialogue
Awareness, Self governance, Self defense, water, food, shelter, money/goods/services exchange are major components of an enlightened dialogue that includes entertainment and joy for healing a ailing world.
These are grassroots efforts and we wish to see more free thinking People not relying on institutions.
"The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Create It." -Peter F. Drucker
Yes, we have discussions of both the institutional activities and our individual actions.
The real change is how the mass of People on Earth as individuals will respond.
With the activities of BRICS, EEU, SCO, and other nations dumping their reserves of USD, and treasuries the trend is obviously impacting the U.S. government's monetary policy, as well as the world commercial economy collectively.
Rather than remain ignorant of their geopolitical game (and escalation of world war), individuals are increasing their awareness and preparing for the destructive policies that are likely to be brutally forced on citizens…
Will significant segments of the population reject government's draconian policies?
Will citizens refuse military draft, or declaration of war, or tax hikes?
Will aware communities form protective neighborhood watches and militias?
Will community farming increase?
Will P2P innovations continue to rise?
Will Local Currencies continue to rise?
Institutional Crime Continues
"This is a Wiki definition of what a corporation is: "Despite not being human beings, corporations, as far as the law is concerned, are legal persons, and have many of the same rights and responsibilities as natural persons do. Corporations can exercise human rights against real individuals and the state, and they can themselves be responsible for human rights violations. However corporations are not considered living entities…" and yet we live in a world where lifeless corporations now run our world as "legal persons". Even the prefix of the word corporation, corp, will immediately bring to mind a lifeless body." –Crrow777
Video posted 24 Aug 2015
According to Bloomberg, in his last years as Florida governor, Jeb Bush facilitated massive investments of the pension funds of Florida cops, teachers and firefighters into soon-to-be worthless mortgage-backed securities issued by Lehman Brothers.
In 2007, when Bush left office, he got a job as a Lehman consultant at a salary of $1.3 million a year. In 2008, Lehman collapsed leaving the Florida pension funds facing up to $1 billion in losses.
After Lehman declared bankruptcy, Bush joined British banking giant Barclays as an advisor, a position he kept until late 2014, when he resigned to prepare for his presidential run.
According to Craig Holman, a governmental ethics expert with Public Citizen:
"This is a breathtaking conflict of interest. This cost Florida very dearly, and it enriched Jeb Bush."
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/is-chinas-military-prepared-for-armed-conflict/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/greek-news-ask-what-is-wrong-with-the-system/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/strange-facts-about-world-war-august-2015/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/share-the-links-to-community-currency-resources/
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Vote to Oust Boehner?
Video posted 07 Sep 2015
Good Morning, I'm still reporting on politics.
When Congress returns to work tomorrow, some conservatives will be trying – again – to oust the Speaker of the House, John Boehner.
Conservatives feel that Boehner is at the root of the Congressional vote buying scandal that is at the root of why the vast majority of Americans now feel Congress is out of their control.
The day before the House adjourned for its summer recess in July, North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows decided to do something about it. He filed a rarely-used motion to "vacate the chair", a move that could force Mr. Boehner's removal as Speaker.
The resolution stated that Boehner:
"…has endeavored to consolidate power and centralize decision-making, bypassing the majority of the 435 Members of Congress and the people they represent."
The resolution went on to say that Boehner's rule has caused Congress to atrophy, making it subservient to the executive and judicial branches.
Conservatives have long charged Boehner with facilitating the Obama agenda instead of the Republican agenda – much less the conservative agenda.
Boehner passed the bills fully funding ObamaCare.
He has fully funded Obama's illegal amnesty.
He has prevented the setting up of any select committees to investigate Obama, the IRS, or the Clinton email scandal.
He has fully funded Planned Parenthood.
He has supported the Obama Trade deals and the Iran deal.
Just 2 months ago, (SR 415) Boehner received $5.3 million from pro-Obama, pro-Fast-Track lobbyists for his vote. Subsequently he punished House leaders like Rep. Meadows, for voting against Fast-Track.
But Boehner has been on the take since early on in his Congressional career. In June 1995 Boehner distributed campaign checks from tobacco industry lobbyists on the floor of the House as members were debating tobacco subsidies.
According to a 1996 documentary by PBS called "The People and the Power Game", Boehner admitted:
"They asked me to give out a half dozen checks quickly … it's a practice that's gone on here for a long time that we're trying to stop and I know I'll never do it again."
Just 23 Republican House members supported Rep. Meadows attempt to ouster Boehner in January. He needs only 4 more Republicans to join him this coming week to force the issue to a vote.
Meadows urges every American to contact their members of the House starting tomorrow Tuesday and tell them early and often to vote for the "vacate the chair" motion.
The Real Truth About Jeb Bush, CIA Sociopath
In this video Luke Rudkowski gives you the lowdown on John Ellis Bush or Jeb Bush. We go through his sketchy business career, early schooling, and current policy.
Bill Cooper: BEHOLD A PALE HORSE*complete*
The Earth Dome is not our Home
Have you seen the Truman Show Movie?
"The Flat Earth Dome is not our Home" by Stargods
This slave planet confined to the Dome is not our home.
We are originally from the true heaven known as the Pleroma which is beyond the Dome.
Home Page http://stargods.org
Jim Willie: Updates the Petrodollar War, China, Iran, and QE…
Putin aide's advice: Default on foreign debt, put reserves into gold and BRICs bonds
http://gata.org/node/15712
Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2015-09-08 12:37. Section: Daily Dispatches
8:35a ET Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Russia's government long has understood gold's secret power over the international monetary system. In an address in June 2004 at the summer meeting of the London Bullion Market Association at the Kempinsky Hotel in Moscow, the Russian central bank's deputy chairman, Oleg Mozhaiskov, spoke only four words in English: "Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee":
http://www.gata.org/node/4235
As far as GATA itself knew at that time, it had never had any contact with anyone in Russia or anyone connected with the Russian government.
But Russia's expressions of interest in gold have multiplied since then and another one was reported today by the Moscow-based financial newspaper Kommersant ("The Businessman"), which described a plan to achieve Russia's economic sovereignty that is to be presented next week to Russia's Security Council by Sergei Glazyev, a politician and economist who is an assistant to President Vladimir Putin:
Glazyev is among the small number of Russian officials targeted specifically by U.S. economic sanctions, and according to Kommersant his plan includes a section about "neutralizing anti-Russian sanctions."
Kommersant's report is available only in Russian, but a Google translation of its 12th paragraph says Glazyev proposes authorizing Russian companies to "declare force majeure" against loans from countries that have imposed financial sanctions against Russia, "in effect the legalization of non-repayment of all private foreign debt"; converting the reserves of Russia's central bank and the government's Reserve Fund and National Welfare Fund into gold and obligations of the "BRICs" countries; and creating a system of international payments separate from the Western-controlled SWIFT system that would operate with China's UnionPay system.
Of course these aren't terribly original or insightful ideas. No country that uses another country's currency for its international commerce is fully sovereign, and only gold is a neutral international reserve currency. It is precisely to rope the world into the U.S. imperial system that the International Monetary Fund prohibits its members from formally linking their currencies to gold, though commodity-producing countries like Russia, South Africa, Mexico, and those in the rest of the developing world are particularly oppressed by such rules.
The question long has been whether any of them will ever have the nerve to do something about it. Glazyev's report may be an invitation.
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
CPowell@GATA.org
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Reblogged this on Finding Truth In an Illusory World.
A Self-Governing World
http://www.respublicaofearth.com/transition.html
The greatest fallacy of modern thinking is the notion we can "make" or write law. Those who attempt to do so show themselves to be either profoundly naive or at cross purposes with life itself. Natural law is observed, not written. Nature goes on with or without mankind. So in the most literal sense law is not, nor has ever been, subject to drafting or codification. On the other hand, the unique practices and traditions of a particular community are developed by the people and thrive as long as they are consistent with the laws of nature.
The Respublica of Earth "Articles of Confederation" were written only as a tool to assist humanity's return home to the ways of the earth. They should be utilized when establishing customs as we, a world community, remember who we are.
The following is an example of how such a world community could work. You will see that bands, tribes, confederations of tribes, and nations can work together without any sort of overarching governing body.
Let's start by realizing that state and county lines are fictitious. There are no such divisions in nature; rather, the central identifying element of a community is the people and the areas they occupy. So let's imagine what we once thought of as a neighborhood now as a band (usually fewer than 100 people). Several bands within a geographical "area" make up a tribe within a "region". A confederation of tribes make up a "territory".
Each band in an area reaches consensus (see the above section,"Getting from Here to There") on how to live together with regard to:
Public Atmosphere
Application of Technologies
Protection/Defense
Each band selects one spokesperson (one who speaks the consensus of the community) for each of the above nine areas for a total of nine spokespersons per band. Each Spokesperson is responsible for updating the band website with past, present and future developments or plans in their designated area. It is the responsibility of each band to stay up-to-date on what their neighboring bands post in order to determine how their band may or may not be affected. This same method applies to tribes, confederations of tribes and nations all relating with each other directly, all having access to one another via the web.
As developments or plans are projected to impact other bands or tribes, consensus meetings are held among potentially impacted communities in order to reach agreements and determine suitability. Each band, tribe, confederation and nation works with adjacent bands, tribes, confederations and nations to develop and maintain shared infrastructure.
(I am working on a graph to illustrate this and will post when completed.)
http://www.naturallawamerica.com/
11 Sept 2015 The Biggest Lie of All NASA lies
and the Flat Earth
Globalists' Rigged Game
DECEPTION BY MANY NAMES
You can call it alliance, strategy, secrecy, corporation, planning, geopolitics, governance, organization, or conspiracy.
I will be blunt, with the wish to reach eyes who have not become aware of this Age of Deception.
Please do not misinterpret this discussion for a excuse to not conduct your research. Please do your thorough institutional conspiracy research and look at all opposing points of views and contradictory evidence. The thoroughness of your research will reveal the deception and hidden agendas that are obscured by corporate news releases that seek the public Trust.
Institutional Think Tanks (such as the Council on Foreign Relations and others) have planned strategies and policies that become signed agreements and treaties at G-20, BRICS, and U.N. meetings.
If you are someone who will not do time consuming research, then at least it must be said that you were told about the world wide institutional system of fraud and deception that contradicts most of what is taught by educational institutions.
Then, if you choose to ignore and dismiss conspiracy research, then you must face yourself and the consequences of your choices.
Bullies and psychopaths play rigged games and if the game is not rigged then they will take it over in an attempt to rig it!
The game of chess is different in that it develops patience, strategy, and military forces into the game.
My personal experiences showed me some things about an elite class (they were self identified as socialites, debutantes, Aristocracy, etc.) in North, Central, and South America, Caribbean, and South Pacific. My travels did not reach Europe, Russia, Africa, and Asia (though I did enjoy a evening date with a royal Princess from one of those regions who spoke 6 languages).
I saw private yachts, members only clubs, social events, suites of highly rated hotels, private jets, banks and casinos…
The events always felt wrong and out of place. On occasion when I spoke of it we would share what we saw; for example: of how the cost was an insult as if it was too cheap to buy then it was not good enough for their tastes; and How they had a demand and need to be treated with "special" importance. Some would visit for a week having spent a million dollars or more before departing.
Back to the rigged games, such as risk or monopoly which is today the exchange markets and the international monetary system, which in fact manipulates most things people do.
Reportedly, U.S. government sold land and other assets to foreigners to finance the excesses of the U.S. government budget spending. A gargantuan $18 Trillion USD debt is the latest tally hanging around the USA neck.
Yes, indeed it is a worldwide rigged game that is endangering us all.
Perhaps a segment of the younger elites are more blatantly brutish and similar to the mafia?
Or perhaps secret agents from secret agencies have teams that are as brutal as the mafia ever claimed to be?
If so, then much of what we now observe could be explained by saying that at some point a segment of elite institutions will implement strategies to reform their unstable empire, even if they must plan for massive relocations of operation centers, sacrificial murder of some pawns, and fund military campaigns…
2,089 living Billionaires?
According to the independent.co.uk, the number of billionaires in the world has surpassed 2000 for the first time…
All the institutional investors (be bluntly honest: the markets are controlled by institutional investments, individuals who do not invest more than 9 digits worth of USD national currency are barely worth mentioning) are eagerly waiting on the Federal Reserve Board to announce rates (will they keep rates manipulated low or will they raise 'em?) this week.
That is institutional watch observation of the current state of the rigged "globalist" game.
Now back to strategy.
Managing a engineered crisis is like a chess player sacrificing a pawn as a ploy for a greater prize…
If higher rates will adversely impact emerging markets (Latin America, Asia, and Africa), then what do you expect those nations will do when this rate hike occurs and the too high U.S. interest rates makes emerging markets' debt too expensive to pay back?
Will the emerging markets want to continue to borrow from U.S. Dollar loan sharks?
A hangman's noose is being tightened around the necks of the emerging markets economies when the U.S. Fed rates increase.
Oh, but wait! The emerging markets, coincidentally, have a knight in shining armor suddenly arriving from BRICS and the AIIB to assist with new and better loans bypassing the powerfully destructive U.S. Dollar sharks.
Can we expect a (herded) stampede?
To survive, the nations in emerging markets need a platform to trade with their national currencies, and it is not a coincidence that the emerging AIIB and BRICS development banks are such a safety platform.
Can we see a polarization with one trading bloc on the USD and another bloc off the USD?
WHAT IF it was all planned?
The international monetary system is based on debt.
Nations are facing the debt crisis and their national currencies are threatened along with their ability to trade for goods and services.
Conspiracy research reveals that and much more.
– China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank president says membership will increase to 70 soon.
ANKARA – The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has invited the U.S. and Japan to join, Jin Liqun, the first president of AIIB, said on Tuesday.
"The door is always open for Japan and the U.S. to become members," Liquin said. "I think we will continue to have dialogue." –newsfultoncounty.com
To conclude this brief discussion, we expect this 2015 year to experience exchange market turmoil (to be clear markets have been experiencing turmoil already, but expect worse) devastating emerging markets and their sovereign debt.
This obviously would pave a path for turmoil in later years for the Western Bloc as well. In such a state of instability we are watchful for political assassinations, false flag and other covert operations that could influence markets and social unrest.
Be personally prepared for emergencies.
A Chinese clerk counts yuan banknotes at a bank in Nantong, east China's Jiangsu province, July 22, 2015.
ImagineChina
Nearly a month after China's devaluation rattled world markets, doubts about the country's currency policy remain unresolved.
On Aug. 11, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) caught investors off guard with a 1.83-percent devaluation of the yuan against the U.S. dollar, pushing the currency to its largest one-day drop since 1994.
The sudden policy shift upset foreign markets and sparked warnings of a global currency war, but it won praise from some economists who saw it as an attempt to loosen controls and give the market more scope in China's foreign exchange…
[Read more: rfa.org/english ]
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/how-to-herd-people-into-new-world-order-institutional-governance-by-crisis-management/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/cfr-article-the-west-to-blame-for-the-ukraine-must-rethink-its-policy-toward-the-russian-federation/
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/how-to-carve-up-the-world-by-the-corbett-report/


The EF1000iS is the lightest generator in its class at only 12.7kg and will run continuously for up to 12 hours without refuelling (at 1/4 load with Eco On).
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SOME DRIVE TIME FOR PALMER
JOHN ALTAVILLA; Courant Staff WriterTHE HARTFORD COURANT
It wasn't until after a 37-7 victory over the Cowboys on Sunday that Giants quarterback Jesse Palmer learned how significant, in a Trivial Pursuit kind of way, his first NFL appearance really was.
Drafted in the fourth round in 2001, Palmer was 30 games into his career before Jim Fassel asked him to replace Kerry Collins with 13:02 to play in the fourth quarter and the Giants leading, 30-0.
"I asked our strength coach what exactly it was that everyone did over here [on the sidelines]," Collins said.
It was a relevant question. Since Collins replaced Kent Graham on Nov. 21, 1999, no other Giants player had thrown a pass. And since Jason Garrett took a few harmless knees to kill time at the end of games in 2000, no quarterback other than Collins had even taken a snap.
The total was 1,852 passes by the time Fassel pulled him.
"I told Kerry I couldn't protect him anymore," Fassel said.
And so Palmer trotted out and four plays into his first series completed his first pass, 10 yards to fullback Charles Stackhouse. And with that, Collins' streak, the longest in the NFL, was over. No quarterback in league history had ever thrown each of his team's passes over two complete seasons (2000-01) as Collins had.
"I had no idea he had the streak going," said Palmer, who completed 3 of 4 for 30 yards and led the Giants on an 11-play, 54-yard touchdown drive in his only series.
An aberration in a league where quarterbacks fall with regularity, Collins attributed his success to luck and protection.
"A lot of it comes down to luck," Collins said. "You look at the big picture. The protection has been pretty good. I just haven't taken that big a hit yet. I haven't even been close to not playing or coming out of a game."
Palmer's apprenticeship is nothing compared to what Jeff Hostetler endured at the start of his Giants career. He joined the team in 1984 and blocked a punt before he threw his first pass in 1988.
"We got out on them so fast today," Palmer said. "We were up 21-0 at the end of the first quarter and I started to think that maybe I had a chance to get into the game. I was just happy to be out there and get a good drive going with the guys. It was incredible. Just great."
Kerry Collins


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Inspired by a pie event, this Chicken Pot Pie French Bread Pizza is a mash up two comfort foods. It's super quick and easy to make for any night of the week.
It's NATIONAL PIZZA MONTH!! Can I just say I knew I would be exited to take part in this event? Not only that, but I knew EXACTLY what I was going to make for this event. I think I had this in the works around the time of the pie event? I think? Don't quote me on that one. It's been a while. But, it was just one of those recipes I knew the hubs would give me the stink eye for.
And he did. So, yeah.
I, on the other hand, was completely excited to see how this idea would manifest into diner. But I'll get to that a little later.
I could eat pizza every week. EVERY week. Kid you not. I love the crust, the cheese, the PEPPERONI! the mushrooms and onions, and then there's the CHEESE! Oh, wait, I said that already. Oops.
When I was a wee little hoor growing up I was a picky eater. Consequently, I would ONLY eat pepperoni pizza. Pepperoni and cheese. That's it. In contract, rest of the fam were not picky and would have sausage and mushroom. I did NOT like mushrooms growing up and wouldn't even touch their pizza. I'm still not a HUGE fan of fresh button mushrooms. My favorite pizzas with mushrooms on them have canned mushrooms. There's something about the canned flavor and texture I like better on pizza than fresh. Sacrilege. I know.
You see? I lost my train of thought again.
Anyway, one day Dominos messed our pizzas up and put mushrooms on my pepperoni pizza. HOW DARE THEY!?!?!?!? Put those VILE things on my…wait. This is kind of good. I don't mind this combination. Yes. Yes we can have this again. And thus, was born my, hands down, favorite pizza. Straight up pepperoni with mushrooms, preferably canned.
Lately, though, I've been digging our local Paisano's combination pizza. They have canned mushrooms along with sausage, pepperoni, peppers, onions, and good crust. Why yes I AM a crust eater and am known to eat just the crust off a slice from time to time. Though I haven't done that lately since our standard order comes with free garlic knots. Garlic knots are just glorified pizza dough.
I haven't quite mastered the at home pizza dough.
Because of this, I make French bread pizzas. French bread pizzas are simple and quick. You can top them with almost anything and have a delicious dinner on the table in about 30 or so. Depending on how much chopping you have dinner can be on the table in under 40.
I've made some amazing French bread pizzas for dinner. I could eat a whole Cubano French bread pizza. Likewise, with the barbecue chicken one I made, too. Those were SO good!! The hubs, however, loved the Hawaiian pizza I made. While that one was good, I just can't get behind the sweet and savory. Not to mention how delicious my filet French bread pizza is.
I know, you're saying, "Christie, those sound somewhat normal. This Chicken Pot Pie French Bread Pizza is undoubtedly NOT normal. How in the world did you come up with such a weird pizza?" Well, to begin with, this started around the time a pie event was announced. I missed that one, but it did get me thinking about pies.
Next I thought about pot pie, which I LOVE and could also eat all the time, but haven't had one in probably a decade. Someone in the Facebook group asked about pizza pies and then it smacked me in the face like a gnat on a summer day. Chicken Pot Pie Pizza!! However, as previously mentioned, I haven't quite mastered the pizza dough at home. As much as I love a great dough, I just haven't quite found a recipe that I love. At least not the type of dough I'm craving in a pizza. So, I opted for the French bread as the base for this delicious pizza.
And it's a pretty darned good option.
It's a pretty darned good pizza, if I do say so myself. Of course, I did say that the hubs gave me the stink eye. I'm not sure he was as enthusiastic about eating it as I was. But, he didn't complain about it or say it was horrible. I can just imagine him suffering through the chicken, the veggies, the cheese, and the bread. It was a struggle, but he managed.
I made this one with some convenience foods. I purchased some roasted chicken from the deli section. If you have left over rotisserie chicken other chicken, you can use that. If you have canned veggies or fresh instead of frozen, you can certainly use that. Unfortunately, I'm hard pressed to find a sub for the soup. Some béchamel? A thickened chicken gravy? All in all, I just give the ideas. You run with it and make it your own. Honestly. My recipes are a blue print. You be the designer and decorate it how you see fit.
Yes. I have been watching a lot of HGTV lately, why do you ask??
I want to thank Colleen from The Red Headed Baker for hosting this event and Cricket from Crickets Confections for managing the event. It can be difficult to host these events. Sort of like herding cats sometimes. So, make sure to show them some blog love and comment on their posts. Now, you need to check out the remaining recipes from the #SundaySupper group this week. There are some AMAZING pizzas everyone is sharing today.
Inspired by a pie event, this Chicken Pot Pie French Bread Pizza is a mash up two comfort foods. It's super quick and easy to make for any night of the week.
Combine the soup with the cream. Put the vegetables in a mixing and stir to combine. Place the mozzarella and cheddar cheeses in a mixing bowl.
Spread half of the soup mixture on each French bread half. Sprinkle with the poultry seasoning.
Top each French bread half with 1/2 of the cheese mixture, a thin layer of vegetables, half of the chicken, more vegetables, and the rest of the cheese mixture.
Sprinkle the Parmesan cheese over each half before baking at 425 for 15 to 20 minutes or until the edges of bread are lightly browned and the cheese has melted. Allow to cool slightly before slicing and serving.
Thank you! For me, almost any cream soup does.
This is the best of both worlds. Pure comfort food.
Great idea Christie! All the good stuff is in there!
Wow – you combined two of my favorite things in one dish! How clever you are!!!!
Thanks! I thought it was pretty clever mashing two of my fave things together and hoped others would like it, too.
NEVER would have thought of this!
I've said that about a few recipes for this event! So many different types of pizzas to chose from.
My son is very much pepperoni pizza just now too but hopefully I can expand that in due course. Who knows this might be one he goes for!
I was SUCH a picky eater growing up. I'm sure it was frustrating. But, I'm sure I would eat this. Definitely NOT a typical pizza.
It sounds like we both had French Bread in mind for today's theme! I love french bread pizzas and I love your new creation! Genius.
They're so versatile and quick. Loved yours! So yummy.


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June 2.2015 – Story Behind "Mean" by Taylor Swift
Hear the story here http://robynnscorner.949starcountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/060215-SBTS-Taylor-Swift-Mean.mp3
This twangy track finds Taylor taking aim at her critics. Taylor told Entertainment News: "When you do what I do, which is you put yourself out there for a lot of people to say whatever they want, there's a million different opinions."
"I get that, no matter what, you're going to be criticized for something," she added. "But I also get that there are different kinds of ways to criticize someone. There's constructive criticism, there's professional criticism – and then there's just being mean. And there's a line that you cross when you just start to attack everything about a person."
The song alludes at least in part to Swift's off key performance of Fleetwood Mac's " Rhiannon" with Stevie Nicks at the 2010 Grammy Awards. A number of pundits laid into her saying she was badly off-key and couldn't sing, but the specific review that got her blood boiling came from Bob Lefsetz, who wrote in his Lefsetz Letter: "did Taylor Swift kill her career overnight? I'll argue she did. In one fell swoop, Taylor Swift consigned herself to the dustbin of teen phenoms… Taylor's too young and dumb to understand the mistake she made."
Faced with such stinging words, you can understand why towards the end of this song, Taylor sings: "And I can see you year from now in a bar talking over a football game/With that same big loud opinion, but no one's listening/Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things/Drunk and talking all about how I… can't… sing."
The music video broadens the song's message to make it relate to school kids who are bullied or mistreated for being different. We see a boy reading a fashion magazine among the football players in the locker room, and a girl wearing blue instead of pink.
Taylor admits that she has a thin skin and can't just brush off criticism. She wrote on her website: "No matter how old you are, no matter what your job is, no matter what your place is in life. There's always going to be someone who's just mean to you. Dealing with that is all you can control about that situation, how you handle it. 'Mean' is about how I handle it, and sort of my mind set about this whole situation."
Taylor discussed dealing with criticism of her voice in an interview with Parade Magazine: "Some days I'm fine and I can just brush it off and go about my day, but some days it absolutely levels me. All I can do is continue to try to work hard every single day and feel everything. I think it's important to feel things because I then write songs about that. The whole idea of being criticized and the fact that that entered my life made for a song that I'm very proud of on the record called 'Mean.'"
The song debuted at #11 on the Hot 100 dated November 6, 2010. This meant that Taylor became the first act to claim the chart's Hot Shot Debut, awarded to the list's highest new entry, in three successive weeks. Its premier arrival followed those of " Speak Now" (#8) and " Back to December" (#6).
Swift took home Grammys for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song for this cut. "Thank you to anyone who voted for this song," said Taylor as she accepted the latter award at the 2012 ceremony. "I want to thank [Big Machine Records President] Scott Borchetta for believing in this song. When we put it out as a single, people said, 'Really? You're gonna do it?' But my label stood by it, and country radio played it a lot. This is unbelievable!"
You, with your words like knives
And swords and weapons that you use against me
You have knocked me off my feet again
Got me feeling like I'm nothing
You, with your voice like nails on a chalkboard
Calling me out when I'm wounded
You picking on the weaker man
You can take me down with just one single blow
But you don't know, what you don't know…
Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city
And all you're ever gonna be is mean
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me
Why you gotta be so mean?
You, with your switching sides
And your wildfire lies and your humiliation
You have pointed out my flaws again
As if I don't already see them
I walk with my head down
Trying to block you out 'cause I'll never impress you
I just wanna feel okay again
I bet you got pushed around
Somebody made you cold
But the cycle ends right now
'Cause you can't lead me down that road
And you don't know, what you don't know…
And I can see you years from now in a bar
Talking over a football game
With that same big loud opinion
But nobody's listening
Washed up and ranting about the same old bitter things
Drunk and grumbling on about how I can't sing
But all you are is mean
All you are is mean
And a liar, and pathetic, and alone in life
And mean, and mean, and mean, and mean
But someday I'll be living in a big ol' city
And all you're ever gonna be is mean, yeah
Why you gotta be so?..
Someday I'll be living in a big ol' city (Why you gotta be so?..)
And all you're ever gonna be is mean (Why you gotta be so?..)
Someday I'll be big enough so you can't hit me (Why you gotta be so?..)
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Missing EMT sought in theft investigation
The family of Craig Whitham, missing since Feb. 22, said it's not like him to just vanish.
RISING SUN, Ind. -- A missing EMT is "a person of interest" in the theft from an emergency medical service, Aurora Police Chief Josh Daugherty said.
Craig Whitham, 42, has been missing since Monday morning. He is an emergency medical technician for Aurora Emergency Rescue, a private non-profit company in Aurora, Indiana that makes more than 1,000 runs each year. Whitham has worked there for 22 years, and also served as the company's treasurer for about a year.
The president of Aurora Emergency Rescue called police Monday to report discrepancies in the company's books. Sources said at least $50,000 was missing, and it could be as much as $100,000. The company has an annual budget of about $200,000 funded by riverboat gambling profits, insurance reimbursements and donations.
Whitham was questioned about the money shortly before he disappeared, Daugherty said.
A Dearborn County judge issued a subpoena to PNC Bank Wednesday, ordering them to turn over records for any accounts in Whitham's name.
Ed Opp, the president of Aurora Emergency Rescue, said Whitham was well-liked in the community and they were concerned about him.
"I'd like to tell him to come home," Opp said. "Everyone here would like to see him come home. We miss him. And, I hope he's safe."
Relatives of a southeastern Indiana first responder said they don't know why he would simply vanish, leaving behind his cell phone and wallet.
His cousin, Angel Adams, said Whitham lives with her parents in Rising Sun, Indiana.
"He is the most dependable, responsible person you can ever imagine," Adams said. "He's been an EMT for 20 years. He was in the Army. He has worked at the hospital. His whole life has been about helping people."
Whitham's friends started a Facebook page to spread the word. Lt. Brian Browning, with the Rising Sun Police Department, said Whitham may be driving a silver 2014 Dodge Journey.
Adams said family and friends have looked all around town and beyond, but now have no choice but to wait.
"It's just a whole range of emotions. One minute, it's 'We know he's OK, he's probably just somewhere taking some time and he's going to be OK,' and then we are sad," she said.
No major searches are planned. Browning said police don't have a lot of leads and need help locating Whitham.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact the Rising Sun Police Department at 812-438-3737.


Passing of a good friend Roger Richardson | Cook's Bay Fishing Board .
Suddenly passed away at Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Rodrique Richardson of Bradford at 50 years of age. Beloved husband of Stephanie. Loving father of Tyler and Jessica. Dear son of Gisele (Raymond) and late Aldemar. Dear brother of Anne (Claude), Marcel (Linda) and Diane (Rich). Cherished son-in-law of Len and Lyn Hayes. Dear brother-in-law of Phillip (Linda) and Kevin (Cheryl). Rodrique will be sadly missed by his nieces, nephews and their families. Friends may call at SKWARCHUK FUNERAL HOME, 30 Simcoe Rd., Bradford (1-800-209-4803) for visitation on Saturday, July 30, 2016 from 12 noon until the time of a funeral service at 1 p.m. followed by cremation. In Rodrique's memory, donations may be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation.
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