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April 4, 2001. China! Why a Nation That Repeatedly Threatens to Destroy You is NOT Your Friend The History of the "Man" Is Written in War & Blood Men are natural born killers. At a tender age of 2 and 3 they begin picking up sticks and rocks and pretend to batter and kill. Our closest genetic relatives, the chimpanzees, are highly territorial, they form gangs, they attack and kill their neighbors, and will even murder and drink the blood of their former friends. .... There is a moral here: Don't enrich nations that threaten to destroy you. If your neighbor theatens to kill you, don't provide him with the funds that will enable him to make good on his threat. The history of the world is written in blood and gore. China has repeatedly threatened to attack America. It is time to take China at it word, and to cut off all trade and to financially strangle this war mongering country, before China becomes strong enough to make good on its often repeated threats.

March 30, 2001. Genetic Pollution Genetically Altered Crops Pose Threat of Genetic Contamination It is now well demonstrated that genes can make copies of themselves, exit the cell, insert themselves into a second cell, exchange copies, and then exit the organism only to insert themselves into the genomes of alien species. When genes are experimentally inserted into crops, bacteria, insects, and other organisms, the tendency of genes to escape from the host is greatly enhanced. In one famous case, a gene inserted into the genomes of oil seed rape, inserted themselves into the genomes of nearby weeds. There is a name for this: Genetic pollution. Some scientists have cloned the genes that make spider venom and have inserted these into plants--the purpose? So if an insect, or animal, child, etc., touches the plant, it will be "stung." What if that gene exits these plants? They probably already have. Genetic pollution is epidemic. Almost everything you eat has been contaminated...and some of these altered genes may insert themselves into the human genome, only to later be expressed in future generations: Children may someday contain spider venom genes and mothers will be "stung" if they try to hug their babies! Sounds like science fiction? Its not. The Europeans have wised up to genetic pollution and have barred most "Frankenfoods" But not the good 'ol USA. Farmers will in fact sharply boost their plantings of genetically engineered crops this year. For example 150 million acres will be now be contaminated with genetically engineered crops, 68% of soybeans, 66% of cotton, and 24% of corn will be genetically altered, and over 100 million acres of farm land will be planted with genetically altered foods, exposing humans and other living things to the unknown and likely horrible future consequences of genetic pollution.

March 24, 2001. Mir Crashes to Earth: Oceans Contaminated With Extra-Terrestrial Viruses & Bacteria The seeds of life swarm througout the cosmos. The universe may well be awash with life, and much of that may consist of microbes. The universe is crawling with bacteria, some of which may hitchhike through space in clouds of dust and in meteorites and comets. Bacteria was found in a camera that had bee on the moon for years, and that bacteria came back to life when returned to Earth. Microbes have been discovered living in clouds, and floating 10 miles above the planet. The surface of the Mir space craft was probably crawling with extra-terrestrial microbes including alien viral particles. In this regard, it was absolute lunacy to crash the Mir into the Pacific ocean, as its cargo of alien bacteria and viral organisms, has now been provided a direct foothold on the Earth, and has contaminated the oceans and thus the entire planet. Will alien plagues follow? Indeed, the 143-ton wreck may be floating just below the water's surface and may soon wash up on a populated Pacific island, exposing not just ocean dwelling, but land dwelling creatures to whatever disease carrying microorganisms that had attached themselves to the outer surface of the Mir during its 15 years swirling in outer space.

March 10, 2001. Murder & Santana High: Males Are Violent & Agressive Shed Man's Blood, by Man Thy Blood Be Shed In the days since gunfire erupted at Santana High School, the news media has been saturating the public with the opinions of numerous self-appointed "experts" and other crackpots who have "explained" this tragedy by blaming guns, parents, society, and so on. The simple truth is that males are violent and human males commonly attack one another. War is never ceasing, men are always killing one another, world wide tens of thousands are murdered in "wars" and regional conflicts every year. The males of almost all animals species are violent and engage in conflict. Human males demonstrate signs of aggression and violence and a fascination for violence as early as age 3. Even little boys raised by radical feminists or those intent on treating them no different from little girls, and who have no opportunity to play with guns, will pick up sticks and try to beat, stab, or shoot someone. Whereas little girls the same age are already playing "mommy" boys are playing at killing. In the weeks before the shooting at Santana high school, President Bush was ordering the shooting of missils at Iraqi targets and killing Iraqi citizens. Israeli troops were shooting and killing Palestinians. Irish Catholics were battling Irish Protestants. Albanians were killing Serbs. The history of the world is written in blood. The history of the world is a history of mass murder. Indeed, males have been killing one another since the Paleolithic. Even our closest genetic relatives, male chimpanzees, murder one another. Why did some punk shoot his fellow students at Santana high school? Because males are killers and love murder, mayhem and violence. Should we blame society? Teachers? Parents? No. Blame testosterone, and the Y chromosome. Males are natural born killers.

March 1, 2001. Alcohol Damages Right Frontal Lobe I'd Rather Have a Bottle In Front of Me than a Frontal Lobotomy? It has long been suspected that the frontal lobes are the first part of the brain knocked out by alcohol. As the frontal lobes inhibit the rest of the brain, including the limbic system, if the frontal lobes are deactivated by alcohol (a central nervous system depressant) then the individual will begin to act on their impulses, saying and doing things they might regret later, or having sex with people who they might normally not even talk to. Patients with frontal lobe damage, particularly right frontal lobe damage, or those who have undergone frontal lobotomy display similar symptoms, hence the saying: I'd Rather Have a Bottle In Front of Me than a Frontal Lobotomy. Now, new evidence indicates that excessive alcohol intake damages the right frontal lobe and the frontal parietal lobe. In a fMRI Study of young adult, female alcoholics Dr. Susan F. Tapert found that young women 18- to 25-years-old with a history of alcohol abuse since adolescence demonstrated significant memory deficits and significant abnormalities in the right frontal lobe and right parietal lobe. According to Dr. Tapert, "during memory tasks, the women with a drinking history had less oxygenated blood in the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain. These are areas needed for a variety of everyday tasks, such as finding our way around or handling all the information that bombards us on a daily basis." Although not mentioned by Dr. Tapert, the right frontal lobe exerts bilateral inhibitory control over the brain. Hence, if the right frontal lobe is deactivated, the entire brain is free of inhibitory control. As per female alcoholics, memory loss and loss of inhibition, this may also explain the old adage: Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

February 19, 2001. The Universe Consists of Multiple Dimensions, Including Those Smaller than 0.2 Millimeters "String" Theory Suggests there are at least 10 Dimensions Are there more than 3 dimensions? Perhaps five dimensions? 10? A thousand? "String" theory requires the existence of at least 10 dimensions, seven of which are believed to be curled up in regions of space so tiny that they have not yet been detected. It is the proposed existence of these additional dimensions which may account for the weakness of gravity, which is believed to leak off into at least one of these "extra" dimensions. Gravity is amazingly weak, at least as compared with all other natural forces. Consider: A small magnet can easily overcome the downward gravitational pull of the entire planet and pick up a nail. According to University of Washington scientists, Heckel and Adelberger, based on an analysis of gravity, some of these "additional" (theoretical) dimensions must occupy a space smaller than 0.2 millimeters. Specifically, these scientists used gravity in order to detect the presence of extra dimensions. "Gravity is the only way to see these extra dimensions but the very weakness of gravity has meant that there was no way to test the theory," said Adelberger. "No one had ever detected that gravity even existed at distances less than a millimeter," said Heckel. Hence, according to Adelberger, "if the extra dimensions exist, they have to be smaller than two-tenths of a millimeter."

February 17, 2001. Emotion is Represented in Both Halves of the Female but not the Male Brain It has been well demonstrated that in contrast to males, human females have language represented in both the right and left half of the brain, and the same appears to be true of emotion. Hence, females are superior to males at perceiving and expressing social and emotional nuances. By contrast, visual spatial skills appears to be more bilaterally represented in the male brain thus conferring a male advantage in regard to perceiving and analyzing spatial relationships. Recent research conducted by Dr. Dawn Bower at the University of Florida, have also shown the female face is more emotionally expressive, whereas men display most of their joy, disgust or other sentiments in the lower left quadrant of their face. Women show their emotions across their entire face, which further demonstrates bilateral emotional representation in the female brain, whereas emotion is more concentrated in the right half of the male brain. Compared to females, males are somewhat emotionally retarded, which is also why females are much more adept at hiding or disguizing their emotions and using their emotions to manipulate men. However, because females are more emotional they are also more likely to suffer from emotional disturbances especially depression and hysteria, whereas males are more likely to just kill someone.

February 14, 2001. Personality Determines Recovery From Stroke Strokes and Brain Damage Can Also Alter Personality It has been quipped: "I would rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy," the meaning of which is that frontal lobe damage can significantly alter personality, giving rise to the "frontal lobe personality" which may include childishness, disinhibition, impulsiveness, and manic excitement --especially with right frontal injuries. By contrast, left frontal injuries are associated with depression. It has also been demonstrated, that patients are less likely to recover from stroke and brain damage if the right half of the brain has been injured. In addition, however, a person's pre-stroke personality can also impact recovery following stroke and brain damage. According to Lynn M. Grattan, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and as reported at the American Stroke Association1s 26th International Stroke Conference "two people with the exact same stroke-related deficits can have very different results. One person might return to work and social and leisure activities, while the other may end up on permanent disability" which suggests that "in many cases, personality has a greater influence than the brain injury itself.2 Specifically, she found that people whose families described them as highly self-conscious or as 3deep thinkers2 were most vulnerable to post-stroke depression. 3After the stroke, these people became more self-conscious, moody, withdrawn and socially isolated,2 says Grattan. 3Their subsequent depression made it very difficult for them to participate in and benefit from rehabilitation as they lacked the energy or interest to succeed.2 In contrast, those who were more energetic, outgoing, flexible and self-confident were much better at dealing with the stroke-related deficits and subsequent disability. Thus, a person's pre-existing personality is exceedingly important in determining how an individual not only deals with their stroke, but in determining their degree of recovery.

February 5, 2001. Love & Abuse: Why Some Women Choose to Mate with "Losers." You go to a nightclub and there she is, an incredibly beautiful woman sitting at a table with her girlfriends. And as you ponder your next move, you watch as several handsome, well dressed men approach this sweet sexy doll only to be turned down cold. She shakes her pretty head "no," her girlfriends laugh, and yet another man walks away with that embarrassed, twisted smile... And then this total "loser" approaches her table, a guy who appears to make minimal wage and is probably unemployed. He talks to her, she laughs, he pulls up a chair, they talk, she touches his sleeve, they dance, he scores! You've seen it a thousand times. Beautiful women hanging on the arms of creeps, punks, and assorted losers, and happily fucking and pulling down their panties for these worthless scum. Why do some women chose to mate with losers who more often than not mistrat or brutalize them, and make them miserable? There is a saying: I want to marry a man just like the man, who married dear old mom. However, if "dad" was an asshole, then she is going to seek out an "asshole" who will provide her with the familiar of the long ago. She will attach herself to a man who treats her in a way she has grown accustomed, who will provide her with the abuse that she is comfortable with; because what is not familiar, makes her uncomfortable. If parents are mutually abusive, if the child is made to feel badly, then abuse and feeling badly become "normal" and the yardstick against which all future mates are measured. And, if he doesn't provide the abuse, she will provoke him, or leave him for someone who will. Men and women are shaped by their childhoods and they often model the behavior of their parents. And if they were treated bady and made to feel badly, then when they grow up, they will attach themselves to men and women who can recreate the comfortable familiarity of the long ago. Neurologically, the anatomy of love and abuse can be localized to the limbic system, the amygdala in particular. The amygdala is not only implicated in generating feelings of love, sexuality, and aggression, but will release enkephalins (natural opiates) when traumatized. In consequence, love can be associated with trauma, and trauma can be rewarding, not only because of the recreation of the familiar, but the release of enkephalins... which is why some women seek out and stay with losers who make them miserable... ah love...

February 2, 2001. Hair Dye Associated With Bladder Cancer Women who Dye Their Hair Also Have More Sex As detailed in the book, Female Sexuality, by R. Joseph, women who dye their hair engage in more sexual activity and have more sex partners than those who don't; presumably because women who dye their hair are mimicking the colorful signs of sexual receptivity associated with estrus. Likewise, it can be predicted that women who have more sex partners are more likely to contract sexual diseases, including those that might attack the bladder. Now, new evidence reported in this month's International Journal of Cancer, indicates that women who regularly dye their hair are at greater risk for developing bladder cancer. However, this may not be due to increased sexual activity per se, for researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California found an increase in bladder cancer risk in women who work with hair dyes, i.e. hairdressers. Moreover, the increased cancer risk was found only with those exposed to permanent hair dyes, and not semi-permanent or temporary hair dyes--those that may rinse out with shampoo. It is estimated that 33% of women and 10% of men over the age of 18 color their hair

February 1, 2001. "Cellular Membranes" Manufactured in Laboratory Astrobiologist Claim Creation of Primitive Cells Under Conditions Similar to Interstellar Space "The Myth of the Organic Soup" is one of the more unrealistic ideas embraced by the scientific establishment. There is no evidence to support the theory that life was manufactured on Earth. By contrast, there is evidence to suggest that the universe is awash with life and that some of those living creatures have fallen to Earth. As posited in the text, Astrobiology... it is argued that perhaps 100s of billions of years ago the stuff of life, including cellular membranes may have been manufactured in cosmic, stellar clouds. New evidence reported by astrobiologists at NASA's Ames Research Center, is entirely consistent with that view. By creating conditions they believe to be similar to the harsh conditions of interstellar space, NASA scientists have created primitive membranous-like structures. Unfortunately, because NASA is wedded to the belief in miracles, these results have been interpreted as supporting the organic soup theory-- even though these results cannot account for the creation of DNA or life. Nevertheless, these results are further support for the theory that the seeds of life swarm throughout the cosmos, and that the universe may be awash with life due to the presence of chemical compounds necessary for the establishment of life that exist in space. However, according to NASA scientists, rather than life falling to earth, which is the position of Dr. Joseph, they believe that these membranes somehow "kick-started" life on Earth which again is a rather unrealistic and wholly unsubstantiated idea, for without DNA, there can be no explanation as to how these membranes came to life. Specifically what NASA, SETI, and UC Santa Cruz scientists found was that when chemicals and simple ices in a cold vacuum were expposed to ultraviolet radiation they were able to create simple materials which, when exposed to water, created bubble-like membranes.

January 25, 2001. Taliban Threaten to Cut Off Heads For Cutting Hair Bizarre Religious Beliefs Have a Neurological Origin Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have jailed dozens of barbers for giving men haircuts which do not conform to what they believe to be Islamic religious doctrine. The Taliban find it particularly offensive if hair falls across the forehead. According to the Taliban this offensive hair might interfere with the ability to say prayers while bowing toward Mecca. Dozens of men have also reportedly been arrested. The Taliban also believe it is offensive to shave or to trim beards. Compared to the treatment of Afghani women, however, the men have it easy. The Taliban believe it is permissible to attack and beat women to death if they are not guarded at all times by male relatives and if they are not covered from head to foot and if they allow even a single hair or a patch of bare skin to show. Eeek! An Elbow!! As has now been established, and as detailed in the March 2001 issue of "Zygon: The Journal of Science & Religion" and in R. Joseph's book, The Transmitter to God, religious and spiritual emotional states are mediated by the amygdala-hippocampal-inferior temporal lobe, the same structures associated with sexuality, rage reactions, violence, and psychotic states. Therefore, just as a person tends to wave their hands when they speak, due to the spreading of activity from Broca's expressive speech area to the immediately adjacent "hand are," religious feelings may also activate adjoining brain structures. In consequence, the aggression and sexual areas of the amygdala may also become activated during religious feeling states. Hence, not uncommonly highly religious people, or religious groups, have bizarre sexual practices or beliefs, or behave in a murderous and violent fashion; behaviors which they believe are condoned or encouraged by god, when in fact their brain is just misfiring.

January 25, 2001. Hippocampal Learning/Memory Centers Activated During Dreaming In a monograph published in 1982, it was proposed by Dr.R. Joseph, that the same neural networks activated during learning are also activated during dreaming, which explains why the residue of the day's previous experiences, as well as long term memories, become incorporated into one's dreams. In 1990 and 1992, Dr. Joseph proposed that learing-related activity migrated from the anterior to posterior hippocampus, and that during dreaming, the same neural networks become activated. Further confirmation for this theory was published in this week's issue of the journal "Neuron." Researchers found that the same pattern of activity which develops in the rodent hippocampus during the learning of a complex maze, was repeated during REM sleep which is associated with dreaming. Although not discussed in this report, it has been known for 20 years that specific cells in the hippocampus, "place cells," become activated and show different patterns of activity as an animal moves about in the environment. Presumably, these same cells become activated when dreaming about that environment. According to the theory first proposed by R. Joseph, both the amygdala and hippocampus interact during dreaming, the amygdala providing the emotional memories and imagery and the hippocampus the more cognitive aspects to the content of the dream.

January 18, 2001. Violent Behavior & Viewing of Violent TV Shows Linked Further Confirmation of Findings by Albert Bandura Over 25 years ago, Stanford psychologist, Albert Bandura, demonstrated that children will mimic and act out violent behavior as depicted on film. Although Hollywood and the television media have argued otherwise, numerous studies have confirmed these findings. In a new study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, it is reported that children who spend the fewest hours in front of a TV are significantly less violent and less hostile than those addicted to television programs. Stanford researchers found a decrease in violent behavior in children who cut down on the amount of time they watched TV. Specifically, it was found that boys are much more aggressive than girls (which is well known) and that those who watched TV, engaged in hitting, punching, kicking and other aggressive behaviors every two minutes, compared to similar aggression in females every five minutes. These researchers found a 50% to 40% reduction in violent behavior among those who reduced the amount of time watching TV. Although humans and closely related primate species such as Chimpanzees are violent by nature, the obvious conclusion is that television and violent imagery contributes to and exaggerates these violent tendencies, and that humans are more likely to be victimized by those who watch violent TV programming; which makes Hollywood and the TV industry partly responsible for this carnage. Indeed, given that Hollywood and the TV industry have been dumping filth and violence into the living rooms of America for the last 50 years, perhaps it is time to make them pay for cleaning up the garbage.

January 18, 2001. The Reverend Jesse Jackson Commits Adultry: Fathers Love Child Jesse Jackson admitted today, that he had cheated on his wife and has fathered a daughter who is now 20 months old. "No doubt, many close friends and supporters will be disappointed in me," Jackson said. When informed of the news, Bill Clinton had this to say: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman!" Jesse Jackson, of course, loves to talk about morality and especially loves to condemn others for their failings. Jackson, however, is little different from innumerable other men of the cloth, and quite a few famous preachers have been caught with their pants down. Jim Bakker lost a 300 million dollar ministry, when among other things, he and another pastor were accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a young female member of their flock. And more recently, the dean of Harvard Divinity School was forced to resign "for conduct unbecoming" after it was discovered that he had downloaded thousands of "explicit" pornographic images on his Harvard-owned computer in his Harvard-owned home. The Reverend Jimmy Swaggart whose sermons were filled with fire and brimstone, and who regularly assailed Catholics, Jews (who "are going to Hell") pornography and prostitution, temporarily gave up a $150 million dollar a year world wide television ministry in 1988, when his fondness for prostitutes and pornography was exposed and he was caught with a prostitute. Moreover, the attorney who exposed Swaggart also claimed the minister was a pedophile. Swaggart has since returned to the ministry. During his sermons he yells, collapses to the floor, recounts conversations with god, repeatedly breaks into tears, and again rails against Catholics and Jews (who "are going to Hell"), and against pornography, prostitution, as well as hypocrisy. And, as is well known, pedophilia is so commonplace in the Catholic priesthood that by edict, priests are no longer alowed to be alone with altar boys. Jesse Jackson is no different from any other religious hypocrite.

January 17, 2001. Mad Cow Disease found in Beef Supplied to McDonalds As previously reported here, it is not uncommon for beef cattle to be fed chicken shit and the ground up remains of dead animals, including the carcasses of cows which died of cancer and other diseases. Mad Cow disease is believed to be a direct consequence of these practices. Humans infected with "Mad Cow Disease" develop what could be called "Swiss Cheese Brain." Now, scientists have found a case of mad cow disease in a slaughter house belonging to the Cremonini group, that supplies beef to McDonalds. The Cremonini group is the exclusive supplier of beef to the fast food giant. Mmmm mmmm mmmm. Did somone say: McDonalds?

January 13, 2001. The Origin of AIDS: Contaminated Polio Vacine? In the late 1980s, after conducting extensive research, Louis Pascal came to a startling conclusion: ground zero for the initial onset of the AIDs epidemic and ground zero for the greatest concentration of cases at that time, was in Central Africa, the same regions in which an experimental oral polio vacine had been administered to Africans. His research was ignored, and journals such as Nature and Science (as is their custom) refused to publish his work. In 1992, Tom Curtis wrote an article which appeared in Rolling Stone, and more recently a book by Edward Hooper, "The Dark River" have both added fuel to the fire: The evidence indicates that a Jewish scientist, Hilary Koprowski, in growing his experimental polio vacine, had used monkey kidney tissue infected with an AIDs-related virus, SV40. And, the vacine was administered to over 300,000 Africans living in Central Africa, an area which, as noted, appears to be ground zero for the epidemic as the earliest caes of the virus are traced to to this region. It is estimated that over 22 million people have died from AIDs and that 57 million people have become infected with the AIDs virus.

January 6, 2001. Severed Spinal Cord Axons Regenerated by "Switching On" Genes Spinal cord injuries are extremely difficult to treat due to the buildup of scar tissue which prevents the regeneration of severed axons. Now, new research published in this week's Nature Neuroscience, indicates that damaged axons can undergo considerable regeneration following the activation of two critical genes. Specifically, it was reported that genes responsible for regulatory proteins GAP-43 and CAP-23 can trigger axon growth, and that each gene, when activated and inserted in isolation, can induce very specific, albeit highly branching growth of the severed axons, thus enhancing the establishment of synaptic connnections between neurons. Unfortunately, these genes cannot induce regrowth over long distances. Specifically, the proteins produced by these genes, GAP-43 and CAP-23, are generated and reside in the tip of the axon, i.e. the growth cone. Hence, they appear to induce growth through protein formation. These genes are active during spinal cord development, but are turned off during adulthood.

January 3, 2001. Universe Much Older Than Previously Believed Further Confirmation for the Theories of Dr. R. Joseph In the text, Astrobiology.... Dr. Rhawn Joseph argued that current estimates as to the age of the universe are based on junk science, and that there may be stars which died so long ago, or which are so far away, they have not yet been detected. Of course, the mainstream scientific community dismissed these arguments as heresy. In research released today, astronomers relying on data provided by the CSIRO's Australia Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that Joseph was correct: the universe is much older than previously thought. According Professor Ray Norris, leader of the Australia Telescope observing team, the newest data pushes back the origin of the universe "by a long way." Specifically, they detected stars that were previously so far away, they had not yet been detected. Moreover, they discovered that these most distant galaxies are more numerous than those already identified. "For astronomers, this is like pushing back the date at which life started on Earth," comments Dr Brian Boyle, Director of the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The reasoning is as follows: The further the star is away from the earth, the older it is. However, according to Dr Norris. "Even the world's largest telescope, the Very Large Telescope in Chile, can't collect enough light from this object to really pin down its distance. That will probably have to wait for optical telescopes now on the drawing board - ones with mirrors 30 m across or even bigger." In other words, just as Dr. Joseph predicted, there are stars so distant, they have not yet been detected. The age of the universe is unknown. Those who claim otherwise, such as NASA and the scientific establishment, are simply promoting junk science.

January 1, 2001. AIDs/HIV: How a "Gay" Disease Became a Heterosexual Epidemic Drugs Designed to Treat AIDs/HIV Promote Contagion The original source for the AIDs/HIV epidemic is unknown, and it may be that the virus had been lying dormant within the genome for hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of years; though recent evidence suggests otherwise, i.e. a contaminated oral polio vacine developed by Hilary Koprowski and administered to Africans living in Central Africa during the years 1957 through 1960; an area and time period that appears to be "ground zero" for the epidemic. Yet, when it first entered the public consciousenss, AIDs/HIV was clearly a "Gay" disease; hence the cruel joke: "GAY" means "Got Aids Yet?" Although the homosexual community and the incredible number of homosexuals (and their allies) in the media have presented the public with a sanitized and imaginary image of homosexuality, drug abuse, indiscriminant sexual promiscuity, and prostitution are common features of the "homosexual experience" with 30% of the "gay" population regularly engaging in these practices. Homosexual prostitutes infected with AIDs, however, dress as women, and give blow jobs or engage in anal sex with heterosexual men, who in turn become (and became) infected and then passed on the virus to their girlfriends and wives (who in turn might have sex with other men). Homosexual men also prey upon drug users, who will trade sex for money which they use to buy drugs, thus spreading the virus through shared needles. Drug abusing female prostitutes also became infected, and would also pass on the virus to heterosexual men who passed it on to wives and girlfriends. And, in the 1980s, there were numerous reports of homosexuals purposefully infecting women or the patients in their care, and of HIV positive "gay" men donating blood so as to infect the blood supply. And then there were (and are) the "chickenhawk tours" in which homosexual men (and heterosexual pedophiles) could travel abroad in order to purchase sex with children and young men. Hence, what was a "Gay" disease quickly became a heterosexual epidemic. Yet two other major factors have contributed to the epidemic: 1) A purposeful misinformation campaign orchestrated by homosexuals and their allies in the news media, in politics, and in the medical profession. For example, although the public was repeatedly informed that AIDs/HIV could only be contracted through sexual contact, AIDs-related viruses can be easily spread through kissing and possibly from mouth-hand to hand-mouth. High concentrations of an AIDs-related virus have been found in the saliva of those infected, which means that the virus can spread from mouth to mouth, or from one's mouth to their hand (if the hand comes in contact with saliva) and then from that hand to another hand which may then touch lips, nasal passages, etc. 2) However, perhaps the major factor in the AIDS/HIV epidemic are the drugs used to treat the infection. The fact is, by prolonging the life of an individual with a highly contagious and deadly disease enables that individual to live longer and to repeatedly and continuously spread the disease by having sex with other potential victims. Although it is "cruel" to point out the obvious, the obvious is that, if those with the disease quickly die, they are less likely to infect others. Drugs designed to prolong the life of infected individuals promote the spread of the disease, which in turn provides an even larger market for drug manufacturers. There is more money to be made by prolonging the life of an infected individual than by curing the disease, and it's in the best interests of AIDs/HIV drug treatment companies to promote the spread of the disease, thus creating an ever increasing demand for their product.

January 1, 2001. Where's the Beef? Your Juicy Steak is Really Chicken Shit Did someone say: McDonalds? Next time you dig into that big juicy steak, you should know that what you are really eating is chicken shit and the remains of dead animals that have been ground up and fed to the cow you're chewing on. Thanks to genetic engineering, cows have been fed bacteria which have been modified so as to break down and make possible the digestion of chicken shit and dead dogs, cats, and other animals that have been ground up into bite sized bits. Its cheaper than feeding cows corn and grain, and simultaneously rids the earth of hundreds of tons of shit, and if humans contract diseases, such as "mad cow disease"... well "shit happens," which should be the new motto of the beef industry. In Europe, however, they are beginning to refuse to eat this predigested "shit" and the European Union is considering ordering the destruction of all "suspect" cattle due to the possibility that the dead animals and the "shit" fed to these cows may be contaminated and infectious. Mmmm mmmm mmmm. Did someone say: "McDonalds"?

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