Injustice, by Earl, [nc]

Does anyone remember Detective Melvin Santiago? He was a Jersey City
police officer who was shot to death just a month ago, on July 13th. Santiago
was white. His killer, Lawrence Campbell, was black. Does anyone recall
Obama appearing before national television and calling for justice for
Officer Santiago’s family? Does anyone recall Eric Holder rushing to Jersey
City to see that justice was done?

How about Officer Jeffrey Westerfield. He was a Gary, Indiana police
officer who was shot to death last month on July 6th. Westerfield was white.
His killer, Carl LeEllis Blount, Jr. was black. Where was Obama? Where was
Holder?

Or Officer Perry Renn? He was an Indianapolis, Indiana police officer who
was shot to death just last month on July 5th, the day before Officer
Westerfield was killed. Officer Renn was white. His killer, Major Davis, was
black. I don’t recall any mention by Obama about the untimely death of
Officer Renn. And, I doubt that Eric Holder rushed to Indianapolis to make
sure justice was done. Or, maybe I just missed it.

Vermillion Parish Deputy Sheriff Allen Bares was gunned down by two men
just last June 23rd in Louisiana. Deputy Bares was white. His two killers,
Quintlan Richard and Baylon Taylor, were black. Was Obama outraged? Did
Eric Holder rush to Louisiana to make sure that the family of Deputy Bares
found justice?

Right here in our own state, Detective Charles Dinwiddie of the Killeen
Police Department was murdered by Marvin Lewis Guy, a black male. Officer
Dinwiddie was white. This happened on May 11th, just over two months ago. I
don’t even recall seeing anything about that on the news. Certainly,
the white citizens in Killeen didn’t take to the streets to loot and burn
businesses. Again, I don’t recall any mention by Obama or Holder.

Then, there is Officer Kevin Jordan of the Griffin, Georgia Police
Department. He was gunned down just two months ago on May 31st. Officer Jordan was black. His killer, Michael Bowman, was white. This was a white man murdering a black police officer. Where was Jesse Jackson? Where was “The Reverend” Al Sharpton? Was there looting and burning on the streets of
Griffin, Georgia? No. In fact, I don’t recall hearing about this one in the
news, as well. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.

Over the past 60 days, there have been five reported deaths of police
officers by gunshot in the US. Of those, four were white officers who were
murdered by black men. Blacks complain that white officers threaten black men more aggressively on the street.

You can draw your own conclusions on that one, as well.

​WAS IT MENTIONED THAT THE BLACK POPULATION OF THE USA IS 13%????​

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From the Technology Quarterly of The Economist: a cure for HIV/aids – My comments in []

Gene therapy
Ingenious
Fixing a body’s broken genes is becoming possible
Feb 8th 2014 | New York | From the print edition

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IT SOUNDS like science fiction, and for years it seemed as though it was just that: fiction. But the idea of gene therapy—introducing copies of healthy genes into people who lack them, to treat disease—is at last looking as if it may become science fact.

The field got off to a bad start, with the widely reported death of an American liver patient in 1999. In 2003 some French children who were being treated with it for an immune-system problem called SCID developed leukaemia. Since then, though, things have improved. Indeed one procedure, for lipoprotein lipase deficiency (which causes high levels of blood fats, with all the problems those can bring), has been approved, in Europe, for clinical use.
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The most recent success, announced last month in the Lancet, was of an experimental treatment for choroideremia, a type of blindness. This is caused by mutation of the gene for a protein called REP1. Without REP1, the eye’s light receptors degenerate. Robert MacLaren of Oxford University used a virus to deliver working versions of the REP1 gene to the most light-sensitive part of the retina. Five of the six participants in the trial duly experienced an improvement in their sensitivity to light. Two were so improved that they could read more letters than previously on a standard eye chart.

Dr MacLaren’s work complements that of Albert Maguire and Jean Bennett at the University of Pennsylvania, who use gene therapy to treat another eye disease, Leber’s congenital amaurosis. A defective version of a gene called RPE65 means that, in this condition, retinal cells are starved of vitamin A, which also causes blindness. Putting normal copies of RPE65 into the retina leads, as with REP1, to greater light sensitivity and—sometimes—clearer vision.

Drs MacLaren, Maguire and Bennett all use adeno-associated viruses (a type not known to cause illness, and which does not much provoke the immune system) to carry their genetic payloads to the target. Luigi Naldini of the San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, in Milan, employs a rather scarier vector—one derived from HIV, the virus that causes AIDS—because its life cycle involves it integrating its genes into its host cells’ nuclei.

Last year Dr Naldini and his colleagues reported that, using their safely neutered version of HIV, they had inserted working copies of genes into blood stem cells which lack them, in order to treat metachromatic leukodystrophy (which damages nerves) and Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (which harms the immune system and reduces blood’s ability to clot). In both cases—though in only a handful of patients, for the diseases are rare—Dr Naldini’s approach either prevented the disease or at least halted its progress.

The rarity of metachromatic leukodystrophy, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and many other diseases for which gene therapy might be appropriate means a lot of the applications of this approach are narrow. But a different one—constructing tailored genes and using them to guide the immune system—may have wider application, specifically against cancer.

Michel Sadelain, of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, in New York, is one of those at the forefront of a method that works this way. It employs chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) cells, which are engineered versions of T-cells, the part of the immune system that kills body cells, including tumorous ones, which have become threats.

Dr Sadelain’s trick is to take natural T-cells from patients (specifically, leukaemia and lymphoma patients) and add to them genes which turn those cells’ attention to the tumour in question, causing them to seek out its cells and destroy them. He then returns the modified cells to the patient, where they multiply and attack.

The CAR pool

The extra genes in CAR cells are derived in part from monoclonal-antibody genes. These have, in turn, been selected for their affinity to the target tumour. Because CAR cells multiply in the body this is, as Dr Sadelain puts it, like creating a living drug.

Last year Dr Sadelain’s team, and also another group led by Carl June at the University of Pennsylvania, published results showing the promise of CAR cells in treating people with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Dr Sadelain’s paper showed that they caused full remission in all five adult patients treated (though two subsequently died of complications, one set of which was unrelated to the treatment); Dr June’s, that they eradicated the cancer from two children. And, at a meeting of the American Society of Hematology held in December, both researchers reported further successes.

There is, moreover, one further technique that might bring gene therapy into the mainstream. Current approaches work by adding genes to affected cells. But it may be possible to modify those cells’ existing, broken genes, using a method called CRISPR-Cas9 editing, a process that takes advantage of a natural antiviral system which chops up genetic material.

CRISPR-Cas9 editing is specific to particular sequences of genetic letters, and can thus be tweaked to do a researcher’s bidding. In a recent edition of Cell, Sha Jiahao of Nanjing Medical University showed how to use it to execute the reverse of gene therapy—creating genetic problems, rather than solving them—in monkeys. His aim was to produce model organisms that might help understanding of diseases in human beings (though making such models out of monkeys is controversial). But the technique might eventually be employed to do running repairs on damaged DNA in people.

That, if it ever happens, is a long way off. In the meantime, the promise of gene therapy can be seen in the fact that it is attracting lawyers. The University of Pennsylvania has licensed its CAR technology to Novartis, a Swiss drugs firm. The pair of them are now fending off a lawsuit brought by competitors including Juno Therapeutics, the creation of three research centres of which Memorial Sloan-Kettering is one. For patients, that suggests gene therapy really is something worth fighting over.

From the print edition: Science and technology

[This is just one of many reasons that I subscribe to both The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. The Lancet is reporting, and The Economist re-reporting, that someone has figured out a cure for HIV/aids. Delivery is a few years away, but someone HAS figured out how to cure the disease. So, where are ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and FOX? My local NBC station, as recently as two weeks ago, ran a ‘story’ on how bad AIDS is and what its doing to us. They ran their story over two weeks AFTER The Economist printed this article citing the research published in The Lancet. What news media????

BTW, the article preceding this one, reports on how a 3D printer is getting closer to printing real human organs, and this without using stem cells!!!]

E.T. and Shoes

E. T. and Shoes
Posted: 9 Dec 13
     Okay, unlike most posts, this one needs an explanation on how I got here. There aren’t any references, this is primarily conjecture, but I’m posting it because of the end-point that it makes.
     I was minding my own business with a bit of insomnia. Genny was asleep, so I went into the living room, turned on the TV with sound so low that only Pipper and I could hear it, and started surfing through the channel guide of hundreds of channels. When I hit the history channel sequence, all of them, including the Military History Channel, had aliens as the historical subject. They ranged from Hitler’s secret alien treaties, through Meso-American alien subjugation, and how Egyptians had been enslaved by aliens and forced to mine for gold to be exported to wherever.
     Now, in order to understand most of my other posts, I have researched many things, across many cultural and chronological divides. Among the many things not mentioned in them, is an understanding of language, especially written languages. Some examples include that The Torah, the first 5 books of the Old Testament of the Judeo-Christian Bible, was originally an oral history. When it was scripted, it included most of the entire Old Testament, which included the different enslavements such as the Babylonian Exile. When it was translated into the Greek, it was slightly altered because of language, grammar, enunciation/ pronounciation symbols, and cultural nuances.
     Translated again into the Latin, then the King Henry VIII, then into the popular King James, and now you can get a Catholic version as well as a contemporary translation. These various nuance alterations, according to my research, have led to such anomalies as the original, ‘thou shall not commit murder,’ has been altered to, ‘thou shall not kill’. Thus, these present as two entirely different commands. Conceptual anomalies caused by cultural and chronological contextual dyspepsia causing misunderstandings are commonplace. Sorry, but it is true of almost all documentation not properly translated, or whose interpretations are being expressed by amateurs.
     Another, and this is key to my final supposition, is that there are three forms of written language: phonetic, syllabic, and glyph.
     A phonetic, written, language is when each uttered sound has a distinct symbol. What you are reading is phonetic. If you open the ‘symbols’ menu, you’ll see phonetics for Roman symbols which include such symbols as, ǟ, ǧ, ǰ, ȍ, the Cyrillic-/Copt alphabet, Ʃ, œ, æ, ɸ, and even Thai, Ԅ, Ԋ, Ԑ, ฿. Phonetic alphabets run from about 18 symbols to 98 symbols and more if you count each and every enunciation mark possible. Syllabic have between 350 symbols and near 900, while glyphs run into the thousands of symbols.
     A syllabic alphabet is one where each symbol represents a complete syllable. Words’ font set doesn’t include one, however, you’ve seen several of these as they are mostly Meso-American, e.g., Incan, Aztec, and Mayan. All of those symbols on the kiosks and obelisks at Machu Pichu are syllablic symbols which are rendered into sentences and extended sentences, which are not run-ons, but a form of quasi-paragraphs, but I’m ignorant and may have that part incorrect.
     A glyph script is Chinese or Egyptian. Each symbol is a complete word. If you need a larger explanation and are unsatisfied with that in a language dictionary, leave a comment and I’ll see what I can do to clear it up for you.
     Now, I surf through the different shows and note that all of the pro-alien intervention proofs have several same themes including the heavily relied upon one of symbols depicting spacemen.
     Most of these proofs are for syllabic languages. Meso-American syllabic languages are read in spirals. Enunciation marks in some of these languages are made by emphasizing a particular portion of the symbol. Various artists marked their works by being artistic, much as you and I do when we put a smiley face inside the letter O, or otherwise creating unique and personal symbols when we write. Thus, what may be a sentence saying, “In the 5th year of the reign of Motormouth … “ in a syllabic language, may look like a head in a space suit, not a depiction of an alien screaming in pain or enslaving the locals. Except for the possibility that the Bhagavad-Gita may actually deal with aliens instead of Hindu Gods, the interpretations that these are spacemen is false based on both the scripting of syllabic languages and the lack of contextual local history.
     Now, if I were to look to the probability of alien intervention, here’s where I’d look: evolutionary evidence of dissimilarities between Man and other land defined mammals.
    And, what I find, is that man may very well have been altered by E.T.’s!
     Shoes! Look at all other land mammals and you will find calloused pads or hooves at the end of all other land mammals’ feet! Chimps, gorillas, horses, dogs, cats, sheep, cattle, birds (avians in general, and, if you think about it, they are land defined as they spend less than 50% of their lives in flight), mice, rabbits, deer, &c.
     None require shoes!
     And, callouses, or the precursors of pads/ hooves, are a common aspect of all mammals. Look at the bottom of your own feet. Look at your hands, elbows, and knees. In fact, during the pre- and early industrial ages, miners had callouses so hard and permanent that they were called carbuncles. Look at the feet of all of those African Olympic runners who train without shoes and see those callouses.
     And so, under what circumstances did man develop shoes, when even today, we’d properly have callouses that should develop into pads or hooves. Hooves, as carbuncles indicate, we could easily develop material that hard, at the bottom of our feet. Consider how hard your nails are!
     Ok, so here’s where I really got lost: the only environmental circumstance that I could think of where shoes are an evolutionary necessity, is in zero gravity, which suggests space travel as a cultural/ commercial/ reality for an extended period of time.
     So, are shoes the missing proof of alien intervention in Man’s development?
     I got this far, and decided that the intellectual level of those programming all of those broadcast and entertainment channels, must be below that of my beagle, Pipper. It’s no wonder that infomercials have so many viewers. They, at the least, assume that their audience has the intellectual capacity to understand that the product being hawked may be of some use to them!

Dr. Plimer on “Climate Change”

I was vilified for my climate post, not being a Ph.D., so, here’s what someone who actually is a Ph.D., in the field, and who makes a living on knowing about climate change:

author’s credentials:

Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide, and the director of multiple mineral exploration and mining companies. He has published 130 scientific papers, six books and edited the Encyclopedia of Geology.

Born

12 February 1946 (age 67)

Residence

Australia

Nationality

Australian

Fields

Earth Science, Geology, Mining Engineering

Institutions

University of New England,University of Newcastle,University of Melbourne,University of Adelaide

Alma mater

University of New South Wales,Macquarie University

Thesis

The pipe deposits of tungsten-molybdenum-bismuth in eastern Australia (1976)

Notable awards

Eureka Prize (1995, 2002),Centenary Medal (2003), Clarke Medal (2004)

Where Does the Carbon Dioxide Really Come From?

Professor Ian Plimer could not have said it better!
If you’ve read his book you will agree, this is a good summary.

PLIMER: “Okay, here’s the bombshell. The volcanic eruption in Iceland . Since its first spewing of volcanic ash has, in just FOUR DAYS, NEGATED EVERY SINGLE EFFORT you have made in the past five years to control CO2 emissions on our planet – all of you.

Of course, you know about this evil carbon dioxide that we are trying to suppress – it’s that vital chemical compound that every plant requires to live and grow and to synthesize into oxygen for us humans and all animal life.

I know….it’s very disheartening to realize that all of the carbon emission savings you have accomplished while suffering the inconvenience and expense of driving Prius hybrids, buying fabric grocery bags, sitting up till midnight to finish your kids “The Green Revolution” science project, throwing out all of
Your non-green cleaning supplies, using only two squares of toilet paper, putting a brick in your toilet tank reservoir, selling your SUV and speedboat, vacationing at home instead of abroad,
Nearly getting hit every day on your bicycle, replacing all of your 50 cent light bulbs with $10.00 light bulbs…..well, all of those things you have done have all gone down the tubes in just four days.

The volcanic ash emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere in just four days – yes, FOUR DAYS – by that volcano in Iceland has totally erased every single effort you have made to reduce the evil beast, carbon. And there are around 200 active volcanoes on the planet spewing out this crud at any one time – EVERY DAY.

I don’t really want to rain on your parade too much, but I should mention that when the volcano Mt Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines in 1991, it spewed out more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than the entire human race had emitted in all its years on earth.

Yes, folks, Mt Pinatubo was active for over
One year – think about it.

Of course, I shouldn’t spoil this ‘touchy-feely tree-hugging’ moment and mention the effect of solar and cosmic activity and the well-recognized 800-year global heating and cooling cycle, which
Keeps happening despite our completely insignificant efforts to affect climate change.

And I do wish I had a silver lining to this volcanic ash cloud, but the fact of the matter is that the bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years. And it happens every year.

Just remember that your government just tried to impose a whopping carbon tax on you, on the basis of the bogus ‘human-caused’ climate-change scenario.

Hey, isn’t it interesting how they don’t mention ‘Global Warming’
Anymore, but just ‘Climate Change’ – you know why?

It’s because the planet has COOLED by 0.7 degrees in the past century and these global warming bull artists got caught with their pants down.

And, just keep in mind that you might yet have an Emissions Trading Scheme – that whopping new tax – imposed on you that will achieve absolutely nothing except make you poorer.

It won’t stop any volcanoes from erupting, that’s for sure.

But, hey, relax……give the world a hug and have a nice day!”

Trending: Secession

Back in 2006 I started research for a book on Public Sector Organizational Theory which resulted in The Heartland Plan; federal government by, for and of, the taxpayer. When Obama started running for prez in 2008, I started research on constitutional law and construction resulting in The Albany Plan Re-Visited, now available at http://www.bn.com/ebooks for download. The Albany Plan Re-Visited includes a complete section on nullification and an expanded one on secession with a complete outline for a new federal government, one responsive to the needs of THE TAXPAYER, and not various special interest groups. Below is what I forecast back in 2008.

Buy, read, and promote: The Albany Plan Re-Visited.

http://coloradoindependent.com/4448/one-in-five-americans-are-whistling-dixie-on-state-secession

 

One-in-five Americans are whistling Dixie on state secession

By Wendy Norris 
Monday, July 28, 2008 at 10:37 am

 

The People’s Republic of Colorado may not be a pipe dream after all for right-wing states’ rights zealots and left-wing peaceniks. 

 

A new Zobgy/Middlebury Institute poll reports that 22 percent of respondents believe that states have the right to peaceably secede from the United States. The figures go up considerably among liberals, Latinos, blacks, young people and Southern residents.

From the press release:

The level of support for the right of secession was consistent in every region in the country, though the percentage was slightly higher in the South (26%) and the East (24%).  The figures were also consistent for every age group, but backing was strongest among younger adults, as 40% among those age 18 to 24 and 24% among those age 25 to 34 agreed states and regions have secession rights.

Broken down by race, the highest percentage agreeing with the right to secede was among Hispanics (43%) and African-Americans (40%). Among white respondents, 17% said states or regions should have the right to peaceably secede.

Politically, liberal thinkers were much more likely to favor the right to secession for states and regions, as 32% of mainline liberals agreed with the concept. Among the very liberal the support was only slightly less enthusiastic – 28% said they favored such a right. Meanwhile, just 17% of mainline conservatives thought it should exist as an option for states or regions of the nation.

Asked whether they would support a secessionist movement in their own state, 18% said they would, with those in the South most likely to say they would back such an effort. In the South, 24% said they would support such an effort, while 15% in the West and Midwest said the same. Here, too, younger adults were more likely than older adults to be supportive – 35% of those under age 30 would support secession in their state, compared to just 17% of those over age 65. Among African Americans, 33% said they would support secession, compared to just 15% of white adults. The more education a respondent had, the less likely they were to support secession – as 38% of those with less than a high school diploma would support it, compared to just 10% of those with a college degree.

To gauge the extent to which support for secession comes from a sense that the nation’s current system is not working, a separate question was asked about agreement that “the United States’ system is broken and cannot be fixed by traditional two-party politics and elections.” Nearly half of respondents agreed with this statement, with 27% who somewhat agree and 18% who strongly agree. [Emphasis mine]

The telephone poll, conducted by Zogby International, included 1,209 American adult respondents. It was conducted July 9-13, 2008, and carries a margin of error of +/- 2.9 per cent.