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Sticks and Stones

There’s a lot of truth to the saying, “Never wrestle with a pig — you get dirty and the pig likes it.”  So when Jeffrey “JT” DeShong (JTD) called Nancy Banks a bigot, he deserved no attention.  After all, why would anyone care what an unaccomplished sociopath blogs from his aging mother’s White Settlement rental?

Nancy Turner Banks, MD

This time, JTD’s target was Nancy Banks M.D., who spent 25 years as a general obstetrician/gynecologist (OBGYN) attending patients at North General, Nyack Hospital, Columbia Presbyterian and Mt. Sinai Hospital and Medical Center.  Dr. Banks has cared for thousands of women who trusted her as their primary physician, obstetrician and surgeon.  Despite her busy practice, the former director of outpatient gynecology at the North General Hospital (Harlem, New York) found time to earn her MBA and write the book AIDS, Opium, Diamonds and Empire, which chronicles of the history and corruption of HIV and AIDS research and policy. (audio)

Pharmaceutical Handlers

As for JTD, no one would have heard of him if not for Cornell University Prof. John P. Moore PhD and University of Connecticut Prof. Seth Kalichman PhD, who first encouraged him to help them celebrate Christine Maggiore’s death in 2008.  Although millions of people die each year from adverse drug reactions (ADRs), Moore and Kalichman used their academic positions to falsely claim that Maggiore had died from AIDS – months before her pathology report was released.

Like Celia Farber, Peter Duesberg PhD and others, Christine Maggiore was both hated and feared by the drug industry for questioning the rationale of delivering deadly psychotropic carcinogens to pregnant mothers based upon tests that manufacturers admit are unreliable. Despite test inaccuracies, millions of healthy people (especially black women and homosexuals) are routinely misdiagnosed and prescribed drugs that suppress immunity, cause anemia and melt skin.  If tracked like heart disease and cancer, ADRs would represent the sixth leading cause of US mortality - far above the non-existent AIDS pandemic..

For Moore and Kalichman’s handiwork, the NIH pays their employers (Weill and U. Conn) millions of dollars, of which Moore ($34 million) and Kalichman ($17 million) are compensated for writing belligerent emails (2), blogging and managing unhinged activists like JTD.  Baylor also profits, but pays JTD something closer to minimum wage.

NIH and National Security

Although infectious diseases (including AIDS .0076%) has remained statistically irrelevant since 1955, President Clinton declared AIDS to be a national security threat the same year that South African President Thabo Mbeki questioned its relevance.

While US officials parroted hyper-inflated UN estimates, South Africa’s actual numbers remained insignificant as recently as 2007.  But because mine-related lung diseases and lawsuits threatened to collapse the international mining industry and global economy during the 1990s, the US government suddenly needed the harmless retrovirus as much as junk scientists and promiscuous homosexuals needed it during the 1980s.

The Politics of HIV

With the creation of organizations like Rethinking AIDS, HEAL London, The Perth Group and thousands of ethical scientists and researchers finally speaking out, pharmaceutical shills like Moore and Kalichman need people like JTD more than ever.  So when Dr. Banks published her book, they framed JTD’s objection with tired allegations of bigotry.

No one would care if JTD was just another meth addict.  But because he self-identifies as homosexual, he assails those who question his pharmaceutical faith as bigots – as if his sexual preference somehow excuses his self-destructive behaviors. When police arrested JTD in 2009, he was convicted of drunk driving - NOT being gay.

Jeffrey "JT" DeShong

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While Dr. Banks carefully identifies co-factors like drug abuse, promiscuous behavior, anal intercourse, rectal injuries, infections, parasites and venereal disease, JTD (Moore & Kalichman)  twists her analysis as if she considers homosexuality itself a “lifestyle choice.”  Although Banks agrees that millions of responsible homosexuals do not engage in self-destructive behavior, ignoring the large minority of homosexuals who do would be – from an honest researcher’s perspective – irresponsible.

For example, Ghaziani and Cook (2005) described circuit parties as:

(W)eekend-long, erotically charged, drug prevalent dance events attended by up to 25 000 self-identified gay and bisexual men who socialize and dance nonstop, sometimes for 24 hours or longer.  Although these parties started originally as part of the gay community’s response to raise HIV/AIDS awareness and to build community and cultural identity, they may have become a site for transmitting (disease) across geographical regions and socioeconomic groups of gay and bisexual men.

According to their report:

The men dance to bass-pounding electronic rhythms amid multicolored lights and laser shows, often with exotic entertainers performing on stage, sometimes erotically…  (and) engage in… unprotected anal intercourse (UAI)… The parties themselves serve as “gay celebratory . . . events . . . important to many men,” who cite as a major reason for attending the “feeling of community” they find there… “a symbol of freedom for the gay community” that “brings all aspects of the community together, people from all walks of life” so that circuit parties embody “our family, our gay family…  67% of attendees reporting that they had anal or oral sex during a party weekend, and 49% reporting that they had only anal sex…  Most men reported seeing that condoms were available at the party, but few reported taking them. The incidence of UAI increased with the number of partners and of drugs (cocaine, heroin, poppers and meth) are used.

John P. Moore, PhD

Even today, thousands of message boards and websites (i.e. Just Circuit, Party List, and Circuit Party Guide) show that circuit parties are as popular as ever.  JTD’s feigned outrage stems not from Dr. Banks’ alleged bigotry, but that her book attributes the disease to behavioral decisions.

In countries like Botswana and Zimbabwe, Americans would rather believe that Africans are dying from AIDS rather than from environments polluted by international mining companies that keep the global economy afloat.

While JTD’s handlers want the world to believe that HIV threatens responsible people (homo- and heterosexual), their own peers admit that HIV was unethically promoted as a heterosexual disease to generate profits.   Even the discoverer of HIV admits that HIV can be cured without drugs within weeks but that the drug industry (and NIAID Director Anthony Fauci) cannot profit by selling clean water and good nutrition.

To sell their propaganda, drug companies rely on an army of gay activists who promote AIDS in theological terms.  Believers need not see scientific evidence but should accept what they’re being told.  To them, the greatest sin is to deny what activists are willing to die for.

Judas Horses

For hundreds of years, cowboys have trained horses to lead wild herds into captivity.  Like the helicopter-cowboys that terrorize roaming herds, the drug industry uses the media and Judas horses to drive gullible Americans toward their dangerous drugs and meaningless tests.

Seth Kalichman, PhD

Arguably, the industry’s most famous pony is basketball great Earvin “Magic” Johnson, whose early retirement created an unprecedented explosion of calls to AIDS hotlines and clinics.  Although reportedly cured by 1997, Magic has earned millions by pushing HIV tests and drugs in black communities.  In 2006, Magic received $60 million from Abbott Labs alone.

While Magic pushes pills in black communities, Peter Staley remains the industry’s undisputed prima donna in the gay community.  Shortly after researchers suggested that junkies (1988) and homosexuals (1992) could be used to educate the public about AIDS, the NIH, CDC and drug companies found in Staley a former bond trader who was not only a gay meth addict, but also had the skills to pitch deadly drugs (It was like being drunk or high.  Actually, I kind of liked it) while organizing a homosexual army that the drug industry could use to push drugs under the pretext of human rights.

This wasn’t a new tactic.

Drug Sales as a Human Right

Larry Kramer

Six years after the first group of promiscuous gay men began to appear in hospitals in 1981, Reagan Administration officials were still grappling with unanswered questions about HIV.  At the same time, playwright Larry Kramer and 300 other gay activists (including Staley) descended upon the FDA to demand relaxed regulations, low pricing and AZT (Retrovir).

When President Reagan asked about the controversy, then-HHS Secretary Otis Bowen MD warned that AZT “is very toxic and destroys blood cells and organs.”  Ten weeks later, NIH virologist Samuel Broder declared that AZT “reduces the occurrence of life-threatening opportunistic infections”.  After weeks of withering accusations that homophobes were withholding lifesaving drugs from dying gay men, the White House relented, which led to the small spike (.00015%) in mortality.  Coincidentally, mortality tapered in 1996 when they lowered the dosage.

Staley’s Army

Gay activism has been tied to HIV from the beginning.  When the AIDS hysteria of 1983 fizzled to mortality levels of .0076% in 1986, CDC officials began to worry that taxpayers wouldn’t fund treatment for a small number of sick men.  Drug makers needed activists to push drugs while the CDC needed sick men.  To make that happen, drug companies sponsored dance parties where thousands of men were recruited in baptisms of depravity:

The NIH reported:

In addition to smoking and snorting (meth)… some administer the drug anally.  This type of administration of the drug along with unprotected “marathon sex” with numerous partners can damage the rectal lining and increase the likelihood of HIV and other STI transmission.

Peter Staley

The NIH funds (directly and indirectly) propaganda sources like POZ, The Body and organizations like TAG and websites like AIDSMeds – both of which were founded by charismatic gay meth-addict Peter Staley.  Staley’s handlers also used him to establish gay activist groups like TAG, AFFA and Act Up.  In 2009, Staley asked for 100,000 more activists to join his army.

More to Come

As implausible as this might sound, a small contingent (HCGHAC) interrupted President Obama’s Harvard speech two weeks ago in an effort to extort more funding above the absurd levels already wasted.  HCGHAC is an umbrella group for pharmaceutically-funded activist/marketing groups that push deadly drugs like Sustiva in countries like Ghana, where children smoke it like crack cocaine.

Despite the spread of disease and ADRs in these venues, mortality has remained statistically insignificant in the US, Europe (2), Australia and South Africa (2007).  Nevertheless, the NIH continues to pay doctors to poison healthy patients – even children.  Last week, a toddler who probably won’t get sick from a few needle pricks was prescribed HIV drugs that will probably kill her.

It’s hard to say why people like Moore, Kalichman and others exploit JTD sell their credibility to an industry that has paid $8 billion to settle thousands of criminal and civil complaints since 2004.  But when they attack someone as respected as Dr. Banks as a bigot, at least we know why.

An Evening with Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Author of the memoir Infidel and the new Nomad. Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses her life since losing her Dutch citizenship and her attempt to reconcile her Islamic past with her passionate adherence to democracy and Western values. I was honored to meet her in 2007.  This is a fascinating interview... she is truly incandescent.

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Barbara Boxer - Call Me Madam!

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Vote for Hope & Change in 2010!

The San Fernando Valley Republican Club has come out with their voter guide for November.  Unless you're still invested in "Hope & Change," you'll likely find this guide as helpful as I did.

Before you vote, check it out!

LA Times Silent on Judicial Corruption

During the past 30 years, judicial and journalistic corruption have become part of the fabric of Los Angeles.  Like a landfill, the stench is hardly noticeable after a few years.

But for those who sought relief in the Los Angeles Superior Courts between 1988-2010, the idea that judges accepted annual payments of $57,000 from LA County while hearing cases that involved LA County suggests something akin to tyranny.  For former US prosecutor Richard Fine, tyranny came in the form of 18 months in solitary confinement in LA County Jail.  His crime?  Dr. Fine dared to remind the court of the unconstitutional nature of the kickbacks.

This is one more reminder of why I retired from the LAPD after only 20 years.  The idea of arresting burglars and robbers in a city infested by union-owned judges and politicians didn’t seem quite right.

The message is clear - If you’re concerned about issues like eminent domain and corruption, don’t look for relief in the Superior Court.  And by endorsing judicial candidates, Angelenos now know who not to re-elect.

Full story and videos at Full Disclosure.

What is Islam?

Whereas democracy is defined as the rule of the people, by the people, for the people, Islam is defined as the rule of Allah, by Allah and his emissaries, for the pleasure of Allah. And when people, out of concern for political correctness or ignorance, describe Islam as a religion of peace, they are, at the very least, guilty of misrepresenting it.  (Full story at Amil Imani)

Researcher Unearths NIH Roots

Last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized for virologists who deliberately infected hundreds of men and women with syphilis and gonorrhea during Tuskegee-like experiments conducted in Guatemala between 1946-1948. 

The revelations are based upon Prof. Susan Reverby’s investigation into the NIH-funded experiments by virologists John C. Cutler and George Shattuck.  Their assumptions about race and venereal disease followed them from Tuskegee to Guatemala, where they conducted secret experiments in military barracks, mental hospitals and an orphanage without the consent of their victims or families.

To obtain cooperation, Cutler’s team delivered drugs, a refrigerator, movie projector and kitchen utensils to local officials.   Virologists then convinced their victims to cooperate, plying them with cigarettes before administering infectious inoculations, blood draws, spinal taps and applying syphilitic puss into abraded penises and cervixes.  Researchers also hired prostitutes who, if not already sick, were deliberately infected before sex with targeted inmates.

Like Tuskegee, Dr. Cutler’s team told trusting patients that their infectious syphilis injections were actually a drug treatment designed to improve their health.

Prof. Reverby writes that the virologists “knew that secrecy, and even law-breaking was sometimes necessary to further research,” quoting thefather of virology who later explained:

(I)t’s against the law to do many things, but the law winks when a reputable man wants to do a scientific experiment.  For example, the criminal code of the City of New York holds that is a felony to inject a person with infectious material. Well, I tested out live yellow fever vaccine right on my ward in the Rockefeller Hospital. It was no secret, and I assure you that the people in the New York City Department of Health knew it was being done.  Unless the law winks occasionally, you have no progress in medicine.

Unfortunately, her revelations are not as important as what her report ignores.  These unnecessary acts did not occur in a vacuum.  Dozens – if not hundreds of peer-researchers, supervisors and administrators participated, acquiesced or covered up crimes that occurred in what Reverby describes as the prevailing “culture of research.”

Earlier this year, UMKC professor William Black describes the criminogenic culture this way:

The leading textbook in corporate law… says that rules against fraud (are) neither necessary nor particularly important.  We don’t need laws.  We don’t need an FBI.  We don’t need a Justice Department.  We don’t even need rules like the SEC.  The markets “cleanse themselves” automatically and prevent all frauds…  There is an enormous ideological content and it fits with class and it fits with… political contributions.  Do you want to look at seemingly responsible institutions, which are your leading political contributors, as crooks?
We now have the entitlement generation as CEOs. They just plain feel entitled to being as wealthy as Croesus with no responsibility, no accountability. They have become literal sociopaths… (B)usiness schools, which right now are fraud factories at the senior levels… create the new monsters that take control and destroy massive enterprises…

Honest investigators understand that criminal organizations don’t reform themselves.  Left unchanged, they metastasize (i.e. Bernie Madoff, Enron, Big Tobacco, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, etc.) until a “transformational event” like discovery, indictments and fines interrupt the operations and destroy the enterprise.

Despite 29 pages and 69 references, Reverby gives no indication that anyone was ever held accountable or whether the agencies and management were purged of those who permitted it to happen; which may be why more recent scandals of experimentation and deadly treatments are still not widely reported by the media.  Prof. Reverby’s detached analysis of America’s prurient horror over the “‘bad old days’ of medical research” fails to ask important questions:

• When did researchers of the “bad old days” surrender their jobs and offices for ethical researchers who were willing to identify, hold accountable or dismiss the corrosive influence of psychopaths and corruption?  If this never occurred;
• Why do taxpayers continue to spend billions of dollars on agencies like HHS, CDC and NIH when infectious disease became statistically irrelevant by 1955?

Left unanswered, we have a better idea of why the NIH wastes billions of dollars on virologists like John P. Moore PhD and Daniel Kuritzkes MDwho libel and threaten critics (2) and encourage journalists to destroy the careers of ethical researchers and journalists while promoting carcinogens that compromise immune function as products that enhance immune function and save lives.  It also explains why the pharmaceutical industry has spent more than $8 billion to settle thousands of criminal and civil complaints since 2004 on behalf of thousands of Americans who are injured or killed by these drugs every year.

In the context of these facts, Guatemala and Tuskegee merely provided the template, rationale and foundation for the deadly quackery of modern virology today.