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These 'Morgellon worms? all 'popped out' between yesterday and Today. This Morgellons has become 'systemic' affecting my skin, diegestive track (they cover the inside of d-track causing digestive dysfuntion), going into and covering my lungs (damage functiioning of villi and aveoli), fatigue, cognitive issues (it is in skull), eye sight problems, sore (+ 'worms shown above', they actualy 'pop' up to 2-3 feet and you here them hit the ground), joint ploblems, both major joints and minor including pain in fingers. It, Morgellons, "CIRCULATES" and causing muscle deterioration, with "Morgellons Jell" creating resiviors in legs, calves and thighs and arms...)
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Joel (who i went to youth group @ age 17, as his father, John, was Our Pastor) Osteen on "Money", "wealth" and "No Church Salery". His father, John, who originally preached in India, before moving to Houston, ALWAYS emphasize the TV program was "an Outreach", and they would NEVER ask for money (though there is a bookstore for tapes and literature).
Dr. Jill Stein is a mother, housewife, physician, longtime teacher of internal medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate.
She is the co-author of two widely-praised reports, In Harm's Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development, published in 2000, andEnvironmental Threats to Healthy Aging, published in 2009. The first of these has been translated into four languages and is used worldwide. The reports promote green local economies, sustainable agriculture, clean power, and freedom from toxic threats.
Her "Healthy People, Healthy Planet" teaching program reveals the links between human health, climate security, and green economic revitalization. This body of work has been presented at government, public health and medical conferences, and has been used to improve public policy.
Jill began to advocate for the environment as a human health issue in 1998 when she realized that politicians were simply not acting to protect children from the toxic threats emerging from current science. She offered her services to parents, teachers, community groups and a native Americans group seeking to protect their communities from toxic exposure.
Jill has testified before numerous legislative panels as well as local and state governmental bodies. She played a key role in the effort to get the Massachusetts fish advisories updated to better protect women and children from mercury contamination, which can contribute to learning disabilities and attention deficits in children. She also helped lead the successful campaign to clean up the "Filthy Five" coal plants in Massachusetts, an effort that resulted in getting coal plant regulations signed into law that were the most protective around at that time. Her testimony on the effects of mercury and dioxin contamination from the burning of waste helped preserve the Massachusetts moratorium on new trash incinerator construction in the state.
Jill has appeared as an environmental health expert on the Today Show, 20/20, Fox News, and other programs. She was also a member of the national and Massachusetts boards of directors of the Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her efforts to protect public health has won her several awards including: Clean Water Action's "Not in Anyone's Backyard" Award, the Children's Health Hero" Award, and the Toxic Action Center's Citizen Award.
Having witnessed the ability of big money to stop health protective policies on Beacon Hill, Jill became an advocate for campaign finance reform, and worked to help pass the Clean Election Law. This law was approved by the voters by a 2-1 margin, but was later repealed by the Massachusetts Legislature on an unrecorded voice vote.
In 2002 ADD activists in the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party approached Dr. Stein and asked her to run for Governor of Massachusetts. Dr. Stein accepted, and began her first foray into electoral politics. She was widely credited with being the best informed and most credible candidate in the race.
She has twice been elected to town meeting in Lexington, Massachusetts. She is the founder and past co-chair of a local recycling committee appointed by the Lexington Board of Selectmen.
In 2003, Jill co-founded the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, a non-profit organization that addresses a variety of issues that are important to the health and well-being of Massachusetts communities, including health care, local green economies, and grassroots democracy.
Jill represented the Green-Rainbow Party in two additional races – one for State Representative in 2004 and one for Secretary of State in 2006. In 2006 she won the votes of over 350,000 Massachusetts citizens – which represented the greatest vote total ever for a Green-Rainbow candidate.
In 2008, Jill helped formulate a "Secure Green Future" ballot initiative that called upon legislators to accelerate efforts to move the Massachusetts economy to renewable energy and make development of green jobs a priority. The measure won over 81 per cent of the vote in the 11 districts in which it was on the ballot.
Jill was born in Chicago and raised in suburban Highland Park, Illinois. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1973, and from Harvard Medical School in 1979. Jill enjoys writing and performing music, and enjoys long walks with her Great Dane, Bandita. Dr. Stein lives in Lexington with her husband, Richard Rohrer, also a physician. She has two sons, Ben and Noah, who have graduated from college in the past few years.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein might not have a good chance against Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney, but she has one edge they don’t: her campaign has qualified for federal matching funds.
On July 1, Stein, a physician, became the first Green Party presidential candidate to quality for federal matching funds. Stein joins Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, another third-party candidate who has also qualified for federal matching funds.
Johnson has already received $230,059 in federal matching dollars. Reform Party candidate Buddy Roemer, who has suspended his campaign, received a total of $351,961. As soon as possible, Stein intends to submit her qualifying papers to the Federal Elections Commission, which has 15 days to vet her donations and approve her application.
The matching funds come from a $3 donations that taxpayers can make on their annual tax return. To become eligible for the match, a presidential candidate must be nominated by a political party and raise at least $5,000 in each of at least 20 states. The federal government then matches up to $250 of a donor’s total contributions.
Neither Obama nor Romney receive matching funds because their campaigns plan to raise and spend more than the matching fund limits allow. However, the elections commission has approved about $418 million each for the Republican and Democratic conventions.
“It is a big deal,” said Ben Manski, campaign manager for Stein. Achieving matching-fund status will build the Green Party’s credibility and visibility, Stein said. “I think what it shows is that the Green Party continues to matter and has staying power.”
Florida is among 22 states where Stein raised enough money to qualify for matching funds. She has not yet filed campaign finance reports naming her Florida donors. However, her website reports that as of July 1 she collected $187,412 in contributions, including $5,839 in Florida.
Although various incarnations of the Green Party of the United States have been around since 1996, the party’s most notable presidential candidate was Ralph Nader, who earned the party’s nomination in 1996, 2000 and 2004. In August 2011, actress/comedian Roseanne Barr announced her candidacy on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, declaring that she would not run as a Democrat or a Republican, “because they both suck and they’re both a bunch of criminals.”
Stein, 60, a Lexington, Mass. woman who once ran against Romney for governor, secured a majority of Green Party delegates after the California primary on June 5 and she is expected to officially accept the party’s nomination at its convention, which begins today in Baltimore.
Stein’s platform, called the Green New Deal, includes: creating private and public sector jobs programs; wiping out student loan debt and providing tuition-free education through college; breaking-up Wall Street’s big banks and nationalizing the private-bank dominated Federal Reserve Bank; abolishing the Electoral College and requiring voter-marked paper ballots; cutting military spending in half; promoting green technologies and businesses; and overturning the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizen’s United case, which paved the way for unlimited spending by corporations and labor unions in elections for Congress and the president, as long as the dollars are independent of the campaigns they are intended to help.
After speculation that Stein might name Barr as her running mate, Stein announced on Wednesday that Cheri Honkala, an advocate for the homeless, was her choice for vice president. Honkala is the national coordinator for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign. She grabbed headlines in 2011 when she unsuccessfully ran for sheriff of Philadelphia and vowed to end evictions if elected. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/green-party-presidential-candidate-jill-stein-qual/nPrMX/
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Internationally Renowned Environmentalist Launches Run For U.S. Congress Citing
Need For Massive Reorganization Of Government And Business To Deal With World
Crises
(Distributed by the Green Party of the United Sates, http://www.gp.org)
A New York City author whose
book and documentary film No Impact Man helped bring climate change into popular
consciousness today announces his candidacy for the United States House of
Representatives. Colin Beavan PhD will run on the Green Party ticket in New
York's 8th Congressional District, following the vacancy left by the retirement
of Representative Edolphus Towns.
Beavan rose to prominence as a
spokesman for the international environmental movement after worldwide press and
media interest followed the release of his film and book. His campaign, citing
"growing world crises" in climate, environment, economics, and energy
production, calls for a complete change in priorities including an end to
consumption-based economics, massive decentralization of government and
business, and huge investment in local communities.
"The economic system
is supposed to make people safer and happier, but it can no longer do that
because it wasn't designed to deal with our new planetary crises," says Beavan.
"The tired old Democratic/Republican debate over taxation isn't going to fix it.
We need to create a new, more stable system based on investment in people and
local communities instead of shareholders and corporations. We have to face up
to climate change, the end of oil, and the failure of consumption to make people
happy. Robust local economies help solve all these problems."
Government
investment in local businesses creates ten times more jobs than investment at
the national level. Local economies have lower reliance on foreign oil and
create less climate pollution. Creating conditions to allow people, talent and
profits to stay within their communities lowers crime, increases access to
education and provides support to at-risk populations like children and the
elderly.
"We have a crazy system where our communities' human and
financial capital are siphoned away by far-away corporations and government.
Then, we beg the same institutions to send us jobs and services. What if we
strengthened our communities and didn't have to send our wealth away in the
first place? We'd have healthier communities, happy and safer people, much less
crime and a greater quality of life for all."
Colin Beavan's campaign
organization is an all-volunteer group of citizens who have decided to leave
their previous party affiliations out of disillusionment with the lack of
solution-based conversation in American politics. Beavan's campaign will issue a
series of policy positions in the coming weeks, all of which will be based on
strengthening community health, happiness and security in the 8th Congressional
District. The campaign will launch a series of listening meetings, to solicit
the views of the community in two weeks.
Meanwhile, basic campaign
policies, based on strengthening local community include:
Corporate money out of politics
A constitutional amendment making the right to vote inalienable
Massive voter registration and civic engagement promotion
Keeping youth out of prison (treatment not incarceration)
An end to stop and frisk
Food stamps for use at farmer's markets
Tax breaks for sole proprietorships
Massive shift of military spending towards education
U.S. leadership on climate change mitigation and adaptation
Community-based assisted living programs for the elderly
Encouragement of service rather than product-based economies
Prioritizing human connection before goods
consumption
The non-electoral goals of Beavan's
campaign include:
Instigating conversation about emergent world issues effectively ignored by
Democrats and Republicans
Modeling civility and cooperation in politics
Massive voter registration
By running a volunteer campaign organization, modeling renewed civic
participation to community, nation, and world
Promoting community self-determination
All the relevant
documentation has been filed with Federal Elections Commission to make Beavan's
candidacy official. He is uncontested in his congressional district's Green
Party primary and will go straight to general election in November. The Green
Party's ballot status in New York State means his name will appear on the
ballot.
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Colin Beavan rose to prominence as a
spokesperson on environmental and quality of life issues after his year-long
experiment in extreme environmental living, No Impact Man, exploded in the
international media. He is the founder and executive director of No Impact
Project, an international non-profit that empowers citizens to make choices that
support the planet, their communities, and help them live a happier, healthier
life.
A long-time activist, he sits on the board of directors of New York
City's Transportation Alternatives, and is on the advisory councils of Just Food
and 350.org , a global organization dedicated to solving the climate crisis.
Prior to becoming a champion of the environment, Colin earned his PhD at the
University of Liverpool, spent a decade helping social housing providers, drug
treatment agencies and hospitals get funding, and wrote books.
Green Party to Democratic apologists: The message of the Wall Street protests is
not 'Vote Democrat'
GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES http://www.gp.org
For Immediate
Release:
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Contacts:
Scott
McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, cell 202-904-7614, mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator,
916-995-3805, starlene@gp.org
WASHINGTON,
DC -- Green Party leaders sharply criticized Democratic Party supporters online
and in the media who have tried to turn the ongoing Occupy Wall Street, Occupy
America, and October 2011 demonstrations across America into an appeal to vote
Democrat and reelect President Obama in 2012.
Many of the protesters have
expressed their disgust with two-party politics (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wall-street-protesters-disgusted-parties-14687840)
and the influence of corporate money. Organizers have rejected attempts to
shoehorn the movement into any party and assert that the protesters come from
diverse political persuasions.
The Green Party offers a platform
for peace, economic security for working people, millions of new green jobs in
conservation and clean energy development, an end to fossil fuel addiction, real
steps for curbing global climate change and restoring the health of the planet,
universal health care (Medicare For All), and reforms that would limit the power
of corporations and restore the promise of participatory democracy and fair
elections. Green candidates do not accept corporate money.
Mark
Dunlea, co-founder of the Green Party of New York State: "The Democratic
Party does not speak for the Occupy Wall Street, Occupy America, and October
2011 protesters. No political party speaks for the protesters, not even the
Green Party. The protesters speak for themselves. The Green Party has endorsed
and joined the demos because we share the same frustration and anger as the
other protesters. Greens are there because we bring alternative ideas like the
Green New Deal. And we're there because we encourage the 99 percent -- We The
People -- to organize, end pro-corporate two-party rule, and replace the
politicians in public office who enabled Wall Street's theft of America's
future. This can only happen through an independent alliance with the same
diversity we're seeing at the protests: labor activists, Greens, progressives,
anarchists, libertarians, nonvoters, disappointed Democrats and Republicans, and
all others who want real change."
Sanda Everette, co-coordinator
of the Coordinating Committee of the Green Party of California: "If pro-Democrat
web sites and the media believe that the message of the protests is 'Vote
Democrat' and 'Reelect Obama' in 2012, they've missed the point. The current
demonstrations became necessary after Election Day 2008, when too many liberal,
progressive, and antiwar Democrats declared 'Mission Accomplished' with Barack
Obama's election victory. The Democratic Party has proved itself as dedicated to
Wall Street as the GOP. We look forward to more protests and direct action as
the election season unfolds, especially during the 2012 Democratic and
Republican conventions."
Farheen Hakeem, Green candidate for the
Minnesota State Senate in District 61 (http://www.farheenhakeem.org) and co-chair of the Green Party
of the United States: "Say no to the parties of war and corporate money! That's
our message to all Americans who are worried about the dangerous direction that
the two Titanic Parties have steered our country. If the field of presidential
candidates is limited to incumbent Obama and the Republican nominee after the
primaries, then everything the Wall Street protesters are talking about will be
erased from the election season debate and from the media. Hopes for a
progressive challenge in the Democratic primaries are unrealistic. The
challenger will inevitably be defeated by the Obama campaign juggernaut, which
is already loaded with corporate campaign checks, and the challenger's
supporters will find themselves muzzled, with the expectation that they'll vote
Democrat."
Terry Baum, Green candidate for Mayor of San Francisco
(http://terryjoanbaum.com):
"Barack Obama received more Wall Street money than any other candidate in US
history. Instead of change, the Obama Administration gave us Phase 2 of the
Bush-Cheney agenda: more Wall Street bailouts, more endless war, more offshore
oil drilling and the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline, more mountaintop detonation
mining. Instead of financial security for Americans, we got plans to slash
Social Security and Medicare. We got minimal assistance for people facing home
foreclosures and more crushing debt for college students. We got silence about
the racist death penalty and record-high mass incarceration of young black,
brown, and poor people in a greedy private prison system. We got a health care
bill with mandates that are a direct public subsidy for the insurance industry
(originally a Republican proposal), but no universal health care or controls for
skyrocketing medical costs. We got impunity for Bush officials who authorized
torture and other war crimes -- and more extraordinary rendition, more
warrantless surveillance of US citizens, more erosion of due process, more
persecution of whistleblowers, and even a secret presidential hit list of
Americans targeted for assassination."
Cheri Honkala, Green
candidate for Sheriff of Philadelphia (http://www.cherihonkala.com) running on an anti-foreclosure
platform, speaking at Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC on October 6: "What I'm
doing is not symbolic. It's concrete and Bill and Aida and Glenn who's here with
me today, like millions of people across this country are gonna lose their
homes... unless you take this seriously and not just march about it, pray about
it, and sing about it but help me fill every damn poll in Philadelphia where
there's a birthplace of revolution and change... We can do this again in this
country and take our country back!"
See also:
"Green
Party of the US endorses, joins 'October 2011' protest against the Afghanistan
and Iraq wars and 2012 austerity budget"
Green Party media advisory,
September 27, 2011 http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=450
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George Carlin on 'Big Picture' & Ignorance of Large Issues ny distractions of Propaganda w/out "Critical Thougt"...
"Citisens capable of Critical Thought"
........ B E K I N D & W A L K A W A R E
http://www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/morgellons/vision.cfm
i have mogellons and Hope to be traveling to Tulsa, OK, to meet with the Health Science Department and Dr Wymore. We have to get the Property for sale by Century 21 before i go to Tulsa & OK State University. Here is the 18 acres and house for sale. We have been "God/Allah/Spirit of the Universe, /the Almighty One" tending this property with Love and Care for 7 years Now. >>>... but, "When the Lord says you gotta move, you better Move"!
The video below the Picassa Pictures is Dr Wymore followed by video on the City halfway, 40 miles each, Jackson, MS, the State Capital and Hattieburg South twords the Coast & Home of "Southern Misss" (University)
(pictures that are for the 18 acres and for Sale, but also to turn over the Care of it to "Some One(s)" that emerses in the Beauty of this Place called "HOME" (New 'caretakers'), and of this Community of Magee, with its , Clean Air and Peaceful Rural Natural Beauty!
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305 5th Ave, 39111
305 5th Ave NE, Magee 39111 -
Jul 6, 2012
by William and Lynn McLean
18 acres (17.9) deer, turkey, fox, hawk + water cranes, beavor, fox, rabbits ... Nature & Life ... Beautiful Sunsets and change of Seasons! Fruit Trees, 45 Blueberry bushes, Garden area and Pecan Tree Field.
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
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Morgellons – A Response from Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D.
May 12, 2009 ( update:http://www.healthsciences.okstate.edu/morgellons/docs/Wymore-position-statement-2-19-07.pdf )
From Here : http://www.morgellons-uk.net/
Some of what I do know (or at least what I think if a philosopher argues with the word “know):
Morgellons is a physical pathology. It is not a simple subset of a psychiatric disorder Multiple forensic tests (FTIR, mass-spec, etc) at multiple locations have confirmed that the Morgellons fibers are not identifiable as a known compound. The fibers are a fairly pure organic compound containing: carbon (single & double bonds), hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, at least one methyl group, maybe a sulfur group and a few unclear FTIR peaks. They are quite heat resistant and not dissolvable in lab-type solvents or detergents. The red & blue colors of the analyzed fibers are neither dyes nor pigments in any conventional sense.
Attempts to use fixatives for EM analysis have been ongoing for months ( have not been trivial lab exercises) and will hopefully yield results in the near future. Thanks to a large donation outside commercial labs will be doing analyses that we cannot do “inhouse” as soon as non-trivial details can be worked out. We are looking at a possible connection with Agro-bacterium. Multiple physicians are participating in this.
Morgellons is not a skin disease. It is a systemic condition affecting multiple organs. It does not seem to be highly contagious. People who “fight Morgellons” seem to do better than those who isolate themselves and resign themselves to a downward spiral. This is true of most chronic conditions. Just an observation.
Cure is a word I am hesitant to use, but I have met one person who has been symptom free for about 3 years after discontinuing treatment. That person reported that they did a long-term course of high-dose antibiotic, anti-fungal and anti-helmenthic meds. Several people have claimed to be cured, but this is the only one I have personally met that has remained symptom-free for multiple years after discontinuing all treatments. I am not a physician and can give no recommendations for treatment. This person was not seen or treated by any physicians at OSU-CHS. I am merely passing this information on as a personal observation. I will keep working to try to identify the cause of Morgellons. At the moment I have no research-based, front-runners for the cause.
With respect,
RSW
Randy S. Wymore, Ph.D.
Director,
OSU-CHS Center for the Investigation of Morgellons Disease
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Oklahoma State University
Center for Health Sciences
( 2012 Updated : http://www.thecehf.org/morgellons-learning-center.html )
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This Land Is Your Land Words and Music by Woody Guthrie
This land is your land This land is my land From California to the New York island; From the red wood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and Me.
As I was walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above me that endless skyway: I saw below me that golden valley: This land was made for you and me.
I've roamed and rambled and I followed my footsteps To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts; And all around me a voice was sounding: This land was made for you and me.
When the sun came shining, and I was strolling, And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling, As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting: This land was made for you and me.
As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me.
In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people, By the relief office I seen my people; As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me, As I go walking that freedom highway; Nobody living can ever make me turn back This land was made for you and me.
The Case for Increased Funding for Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections
This article is published in partnership with the National Coalition of STD Directors (NCSD) as part of our joint series on STD Awareness.
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major epidemic in the United States. Each year, there are approximately 19 million new cases of STDs, approximately half of which go undiagnosed and untreated , giving the United States the highest STD rate in the industrialized world. STDs cost the U.S. health care system $17 billion every year — and that number doesn’t even take into account the costs to individuals of STDs, the short-term and long-term consequences, including infertility, increased risk of acquiring HIV, and certain cancers.
And it is because of this, I am here to make the case for increased funding for the Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Now I am not an advocate who lives under a rock. I know these are fiscally-challenging times, to put it mildly. I know that when a congressional staffer says (as I did when I worked for a Member of Congress), “Flat funding is the new increase” that he or she speaks the truth.
Yet, these statements chafe me. It is not the factual basis of this statement that I take issue with, but the idea that this is something we should all accept. Investments in our country’s public health are investments in our country’s healthy future. These investments are crucial not only for maintaining healthy individuals, but these are the investments in the infrastructure that we rely on when there is an outbreak or an unforeseen disaster. And I refuse to believe that we live in a county where it’s okay to let people fall through the cracks. Because in 2009, African Americans had 20 times the reported gonorrhea rates than whites. And that is just one alarming statistic. I could list many, many more that highlight the sexual health disparities in this country.
Funding for the Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP) is important because DSTDP guides national efforts to prevent and control STDs and invests most of its resources in state, territorial, and large city health departments. Additional federal resources are necessary to reverse the alarming and costly trends of STDs. And I make this case for two main reasons: STD prevention is also HIV prevention, and the increasing likelihood of an STD “superbug.” [HIV is an infection that is often sexually-transmitted.] STD Prevention is ALSO HIV Prevention
Research indicates that there is a strong link between HIV and other sexually-transmitted infections. Having one or more STDs increases the likelihood of contracting HIV, and in turn, having HIV also increases the likelihood of contracting and spreading STDs. Investments in STD prevention and treatment furthers the National HIV/AIDS Strategy’s goal of reducing new infections.
Individuals who are infected with STDs are at least two to five times more likely than uninfected individuals to acquire HIV infection if they are exposed to the virus through sexual contact. In addition, if an HIV-infected individual is also infected with another STD, that person is more likely to transmit HIV through sexual contact than other HIV-infected persons. Co-infection of those with STDs and HIV is frequent; according to 2010 CDC STD surveillance data, between 25-54 percent of those with primary or secondary syphilis were also HIV positive.
For many communities, HIV and other STDs are syndemic — overlapping epidemics. STDs and HIV affect the same communities disproportionately — communities of color and men who have sex with men (MSM). Data released by the CDC indicates that the overall number of new HIV infections has remained fairly stable over the last five years, however that is not true among MSM -- the only population in which new HIV infections have been increasing steadily since the nineties.
The MSM community is also a community of particular concern for STDs, partly because their screening needs for STDs are not being met. For those in this community, testing needs to be done not only in genital sites and through urine, but also in the throat or the rectum, referred to as “extra-genital sites.” Studies have found that more than 60 percent of gonorrhea infections and more than 50 percent of chlamydia infections are extra- genital, serving as reservoirs of infection and increasing the likelihood of further transmission.
And certain types of STD infections increase the likelihood of HIV infection — further underscoring the connection between HIV and other STDs: having a rectal chlamydia or gonorrhea infection was associated with a two times greater risk of becoming newly HIV-infected in the following two years. In addition, MSM infected with rectal chlamydia or gonorrhea with a history of two prior infections have an eight-fold increased risk of HIV infection. Increasing STD Drug Resistance
The incidence of antibiotic-resistance has been rapidly increasing. This is a pattern the public health system is seeing in many areas, and STDs are no exception. We are on the verge of a highly untreatable gonorrhea epidemic. A case exhibiting high resistance to this last line of defense was reported in Hawaii last year; increasing resistance is being reported throughout the country. Gonorrhea has developed resistance to every class of antibiotics; we are now on our last line of defense to treat this disease that is a major cause of pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, and infertility and can facilitate HIV transmission.
To directly quote the CDC report from last summer that outlined gonorrhea’s growing resistance to antibiotics:
In light of the past inability to prevent emergence of resistance and of diminished resources available to STD control programs, the eventual emergence of …resistance appears inevitable. Actions undertaken now could delay the spread of…resistant strains and mitigate the public health consequences.
While the CDC is currently collaborating with NIH on a clinical trial investigating the efficacy of two different antimicrobial combinations, the fact is that if gonorrhea develops resistance to this last class of antibiotics, there is nothing in the immediate pipeline for patients to turn to when diagnosed with gonorrhea. We will have no definitive treatment options for gonorrhea. Should this occur, we will be facing a gonorrhea “superbug” that could never be cleared.
Beyond the scary “always-infectious” reality, untreated gonorrhea is a disaster for public health and HIV prevention. According to the CDC, seven years after the onset of antimicrobial resistance, there would be almost six million new cases of gonorrhea which would add an estimated $780 million dollars to our health care system.
Increased resources are needed for surveillance to get a handle on where the resistance is occurring. The Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP) is a national sentinel surveillance system that monitors trends in antimicrobial resistance in the United States. GISP is supported by the Division of STD Prevention — increases in DSTDP funding can help monitor growing gonococcal resistance. We need increased resources now for surveillance and testing so we can catch resistant strains quickly and they are not spread through the population.
NCSD is working with a number of coalition partners to ensure that these points are made to decision makers that hold the federal purse strings in both Congress and the Administration. These investments are cost-effective and the correct role of our government. While we do know that any funding increase in this environment is a heavy lift, these are not concerns we can just ignore and hope they will go away. We have the tools to make changes—let’s just hope we can find the will as well.
Click here to view NCSD’s two-page fact sheet on the need for increased STD prevention funding in FY13.
American King James Version
By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.
American Standard Version
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Douay-Rheims Bible
By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.
Darby Bible Translation
By this shall all know that ye are disciples of mine, if ye have love amongst yourselves.
English Revised Version
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Webster's Bible Translation
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
Weymouth New Testament
It is by this that every one will know that you are my disciples--if you love one another."
World English Bible
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
Young's Literal Translation
in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
By this shall all men ... - That is, your love for each other shall be so decisive evidence that you are like the Saviour, that all people shall see and know it. It shall be the thing by which you shall be known among all men. You shall not be known by special rites or habits; not by a special form of dress or manner of speech; not by special austerities and unusual customs, like the Pharisees, the Essenes, or the scribes, but by deep, genuine, and tender affection. And it is well known it was this which eminently distinguished the first Christians, and was the subject of remark by the surrounding pagans. "See," said the pagan, "see how they love one another! They are ready to lay down their lives for each other." Alas! how changed is the spirit of the Christian world since then! Perhaps, of all the commands of Jesus, the observance of this is that which is least apparent to a surrounding world. It is not so much that they are divided into different sects, for this may be consistent with love for each other; but it is the want of deep-felt, genuine love toward Christians even of our own denomination; the absence of genuine self-denial; the pride of rank and wealth; and the fact that professed Christians are often known by anything else rather than by true attachment to those who bear the same Christian name and image. The true Christian loves religion wherever it is found equally in a prince or in a slave, in the mansion of wealth or in the cottage of poverty, on the throne or in the hut of want. He overlooks the distinction of sect, of color, and of nations; and wherever he finds a man who bears the Christian name and manifests the Christian spirit, he loves him. And this, more and more as the millennium draws near, will be the special badge of the professed children of God. Christians will love their own denominations less than they love the spirit and temper of the Christian, wherever it may be found.
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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible
By this shall all men know, etc. - From this time forward, this mutual and disinterested love shall become the essential and distinctive mark of all my disciples. When they love one another with pure hearts, fervently, even unto death, then shall it fully appear that they are disciples of that person who laid down his life for his sheep, and who became, by dying, a ransom for all.
The disciples of different teachers were known by their habits, or some particular creed or rite, or point of austerity, which they had adopted; but the disciples of Christ were known by this love which they bore to each other. The primitive Christians were particularly known by this among the Gentiles. Tertullian, in his Apology, gives us their very words: Vide, inquiunt, ut se diligunt; et pro alterutro mori parati sunt. "See, said they, how they love one another, and are ready to lay down their lives for each other."
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Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
By this shall all men know,.... Not only by this you yourselves will know that ye have passed from death to life, that the true work of grace is begun upon your hearts; nor only by this will you know one another to be Christians; but by this all men, even the men of the world will know,
that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another: and own and acknowledge it, as Tertullian (n) says the very Heathens did in his time; who would say, when they saw the Christians pass along the streets, and meet and express their affection to each other, "see how they love one another": would to God the same was as observable now. The distinguishing badge and character of a disciple of Christ, is not any outward garb, or any austerities of life, by which the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were known; nor were the ordinary nor extraordinary gifts of the Spirit, bestowed upon the disciples of Christ, what distinguished them as such; since those who were not truly his disciples, had these bestowed on them; but love to one another, brotherly love was the distinguishing character, and this is another reason or argument enforcing a regard unto it.
(n) Apolog. c. 39.
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Vincent's Word Studies
Shall - know (γνώσονται)
Perceive, or come to know.
My disciples (ἐμοὶ μαθηταί)
See on Matthew 12:49. Literally, disciples unto me. Compare John 15:8.
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Geneva Study Bible
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
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People's New Testament
13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples. The love and self-sacrifice of Christians has done more to extend the name of Christ than argument. In the early ages, heathen were wont to say: See how these Christians love one another.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples-the disciples of Him who laid down His life for those He loved.
if ye have love one to another-for My sake, and as one in Me; for to such love men outside the circle of believers know right well they are entire strangers. Alas, how little of it there is even within this circle!
Iraq, Wave of Coordinated Bombings Kills at Least 70, Wounds 200
You that never done nothin'
But build to destroy
You play with my world
Like it's your little toy
You put a gun in my hand
And you hide from my eyes
And you turn and run farther
When the fast bullets fly.
Like Judas of old
You lie and deceive
A world war can be won
You want me to believe
But I see through your eyes
And I see through your brain
Like I see through the water
That runs down my drain.
You've thrown the worst fear
That can ever be hurled
Fear to bring children
Into the world
For threatening my baby
Unborn and unnamed
You ain't worth the blood
That runs in your veins.
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand over your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead.
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OAKLAND, CA (AP) - Left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore addressed hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters in front of Oakland's City Hall, saying the events there over the past week have helped change the national discussion about the movement.
Moore, who flew in from New York on Friday, said the Occupy demonstrations are "a movement of equals," and that everyone had something to offer.
The director of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine" said the movement will not tolerate violence against demonstrators, referring to Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen, who was badly injured during a clash between protesters and police.
Moore urged the protesters, many of whom are demonstrating against what they see as a growing disparity between rich and poor, to continue their movement until they run the country.
World keeps spinning >>>2012 http://www.linktv.org/globalspirit/Oneness
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George Carlin On Drugs And Marijuana