
The so-called "debate" over health care is a sham!
As always, the health fascists have falsely framed the issue to
distract the public. They pretend that the only issue is "public versus
private healthcare." The real outrage that these filthy criminals are
shoving down our throats - without
so much as a peep of protest from the phony "opposition" - is a
gigantic bureaucracy to dictate the details of our personal lives,
which is
based on the the delusional ideology of unadulterated NAZIS! SH-216 and
its monozygotic twin in the House are no less than blueprints for the
FOURTH REICH! The buzzwords of "Prevention and Wellness" are a mere
trojan horse to destroy consumer choice, sanctify fraud, and mandate
waste. This isn't about health care, it's about TYRANNY!
Title XXXI, "Affordable Health Choices For All Americans,"
"Assistance to States to Establish American Health Benefit Gateways,"
pages
57-58, "Rewarding Quality Through Market Based Incentives" is Orwellian
doublespeak for a taxpayer subsidy to states for "the implementation of
wellness and health promotion activities," which ALWAYS include
anti-smoking and other fraud-based intrusions into our personal lives.
Page 103, it compels participation in insurance under the Orwellian
rubric of "Individual Responsibility," which has heretofore been
understood to mean, "paying one's bills for medical services rendered."
In flagrant disregard of the facts that 1) the federal tax break for employer-based
health insurance is America's costliest tax subsidy, and 2) that
participants in these health plans enjoy enormous price discounts that
were negotiated with providers while the uninsured pay many times these
rates, the health insurance companies have systematically spread the
Big Lie that THEY have been forced to subsidize the uninsured.
Title III, "Improving the Health of the American People" [SIC!],
page 346, the "National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public
Health Council" is to be composed of the heads of every government
agency, regardless of their lack of expertise on health issues, to
create a centralized monolithic power structure under der Fuhrer
[Obama, who is nothing but an unprincipled puppet of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]. And
this council of powerful incompetents, "after obtaining input from
relevant stakeholders" [meaning, solely and exclusively from the
corrupt charlatans who deliberately commit scientific fraud by using
defective studies to falsely blame smoking and lifestyle], are to use
their
respective agencies to shove the charlatans' will down the peoples'
throats; and "provide recommendations to the President and Congress
concerning the most pressing health issues confronting the United
States and changes in Federal policy to achieve national wellness,
health promotion, and public health goals, including the reduction of
tobacco use, sedentary behavior, and poor nutrition." They get a $10
billion annual slush
fund for this.
Page 382, Subtitle C - "Creating Healthier Communities," includes
"Community Transformation Grants" to shove health fascism down
everyone's throats. Page 399, "Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu
Items at Chain
Restaurants and of Articles of Food Sold From Vending Machines," is
just another vehicle for these criminals to brainwash the public with
their charlatan health ideology. They know the STUPID PEOPLE always
believe in whatever lie they are constantly exposed to, and their
accomplices in the media always censor the intelligent ones.
Title XXXIII, "Data Collection, Analysis, and Quality," page 417, CDC and "Employer-Based Wellness Program," sets up the machinery for "Workplace Wellness" brainwashing campaigns of Nazi charlatanism, as chosen by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who is Bloomberg's Nazi, Thomas Frieden., "in coordination with relevant worksite health promotion organizations, State and local health departments, and academic institutions."
http://help.senate.gov/BAI09A84_xml.pdfThis is a deluded government which lavished $625 million of our tax dollars on a the largest dietary intervention trial ever conducted, the Women’s Health Initiative, and then ignored the results because the trial showed no health benefits. Furthermore, during the 8-year course of this study, both the intervention and control groups experienced a 30% decline in major heart disease, for which their dogmatic beliefs about lifestyle can offer no explanation. Other studies show that this decline occurred across the entire U.S. population at the same time, and that it was as great among men as among women, and among smokers as among non-smokers. But the facts don't matter to these megalomaniacs. They and their media puppets just spew forth more propaganda to brainwash the public with lies!
As always, there was not a single word of legitimate science in these despicable proceedings. Nobody who disagreed was invited to the party. Any dissent was purely inconsequential. Also as always, the star of the circus was the buffoon with the most ludicrously ridiculous claims. Steve Burd of Safeway raved that 80% of heart disease was completely preventable with nothing lifestyle interventions, and that 80% of diabetes was not only preventable but reversible the same charlatan means - a claim that is unsubstantiated by any scientific evidence whatever. (Panel 1, Hearing on Healthcare Reform. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Jun. 11, 2009.)
Hearing on Healthcare Reform / US SenateWho owns Safeway: A number of the usual suspects, namely AXA
Financial, Inc. (which acquired The Equitable
Life Assurance Society) 8.4%, JPMorgan
Chase & Co. 7.5%, and
Brandes Investment Partners, LP 5.0%. Burd, who is also a director of
Kohl’s Corporation (formerly owned by U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl and family,
and by the British American Tobacco Co.), is the largest individual
stockholder, 1.2%. Safeway's board of directors also includes Paul
Hazen, former chairman of Wells Fargo and now chairman of Kohlberg
Kravis Roberts & Co.; Robert I. MacDonnell, retired partner
(1982-2002) of KKR (which took over R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco); Raymond G. Viault, retired Vice Chairman of General Mills
Inc. from 1996 to 2004, who was with Kraft General Foods for 20 years
before this (when it was owned by Philip Morris).
According to its Form 10-K, it had approximately $5.5 billion in total
consolidated debt.
Under the auspices of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-MA, "Since last
fall, many of the leading figures in the nation’s long-running health
care debate have been meeting secretly in a Senate hearing room. The 20 people
who regularly attend the meetings on Capitol Hill include lobbyists for
AARP, Aetna, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the American Cancer Society, the
American Medical Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, the
Business Roundtable, Easter Seals, the National Federation of
Independent Business, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of
America, and the United States Chamber of Commerce." The goal of most of the
participants is to force Americans to have health insurance; and by
this device, to impose absolute tyranny over our personal lives. "While President Obama is not
directly represented in the talks, the White House has been kept
informed and is encouraging the Senate effort as a way to get the ball
rolling on health legislation." [However, RWJF lobbyist William V. Corr
and RWJF board member Nancy Anne deParle have been members of the Obama
transition team.] "The proposal for an individual mandate was one of
the few policy disagreements between Mr. Obama and Hillary Rodham
Clinton in their fight for the Democratic presidential nomination. She
wanted to require everyone to have and maintain insurance. He said he
wanted to 'ensure affordable coverage for all,' but would initially
apply the mandate only to children." (Health Care Industry in Talks to
Shape Policy. By Robert Pear. New York Times, Feb. 20, 2009.)
And, SINCE WHEN has it
ever been the constitutionally legitimate function of the United States
Government to tyrannize over the private details of its citizens' lives
in the first place? SINCE NEVER! These usurpers have imposed, on
the strength of nothing but their mere whim, their deluded ideology
that the government is entitled to do anything to its citizens that it
pleases, unless specifically forbidden (such as by special privileges
legislated at the behest of the ruling elite on behalf of their pet
minorities, which are not enjoyed by everyone in general).
America has invented a new crime against humanity: the deliberate use of scientific fraud to wage a war of cultural genocide against its citizens.
Remember: The federal health establishment was founded in the 1930s - the heyday of fascism and Nazism - by wealthy, politically connected, covert NAZIS, including the American Cancer Society and the Harvard School of Public Health, whose real goal was to turn America into a totalitarian dictatorship. To achieve their goal, they imposed a regime of systematic scientific fraud, based on lifestyle questionnaire studies, whose objective is to exploit the circumstance that poorer people are more likely have been exposed to infection, in order to falsely blame smoking and lifestyle and wage a war of cultural genocide against the people of the world!And remember: All of this
has happened because the rotten-to-the-core,
Nazi-controlled mass media lied and lied and lied and lied lied and
lied and lied and lied lied and lied and lied and lied lied and lied
and lied and lied lied and lied and lied and lied - including these
Hitler Big Lies by the Associated Press, claiming that "the changes
could cut into the 400,000 deaths every year caused by smoking and
reduce the $100 billion in annual health care costs linked to
tobacco." (Historic anti-smoking vote would give regulators more
say over nicotine content, cigarette ads. By Jim Abrams, Associated
Press Writer. Jun. 11, 2009.) The smoking deaths claim is deliberate,
systematic scientific fraud, and the smoking cost
claim is based on pretending that costs paid by smokers were paid by
non-smokers, and that non-smokers' costs don't exist at all. In fact, smokers are subsidizing
non-smokers! ADOLPH HITLER MUST BE GLOATING IN TRIUMPH!
"WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court on Friday agreed with the
major elements of a 2006 landmark ruling that found the nation's top
tobacco companies guilty of racketeering and fraud for deceiving the
public about the dangers of smoking." (Cigarette makers lose appeal in
landmark case. By Nedra Pickler. AP, May 22, 2009.)
This is a total outrage, because the anti-smokers deliberately commit
scientific fraud to falsely blame smoking for diseases that are really
caused by smoking. THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT AND ITS ANTI-SMOKER PUPPET MASTERS ARE THE ONLY ONES WHO
HAVE LIED TO THE PUBLIC!
More than 50 studies have implicated human papillomaviruses as the
cause of at least 24.5% of non-small cell lung cancers. This equals
over
30,000 cases, which is over ten times more lung cancers than the
anti-smokers pretend are caused by secondhand smoke. Passive smokers
are more likely to have been exposed to this virus, so the
anti-smokers' studies, because they are all based on nothing but
lifestyle questionnaires, are cynically DESIGNED to falsely blame
passive smoking for all those extra lung cancers that are really caused
by HPV. A significant proportion of lung cancers blamed on active
smoking are actually caused by HPV as well. Obviously, there is a
corrupt, politically-motivated coverup of a far larger cause of lung
cancer than radon or secondhand smoke! As for racketeering, their
accomplices in the mass media have systematically censored scientific
criticism, and cynically deceived the public by falsely framing the
issue as "freedom versus public health." Furthermore, the tobacco
companies always let them get away with it! This is presumptive
evidence of conspiracy and collusion!
The stock
pretension of the morally depraved anti-smoker spin-meisters (who
self-righteously spew unadulterated Nazi pseudo-science in our faces)
is to pretend that big-money investments by pension funds are a moral
issue of profiting from tobacco. In fact, their financial control gives
them voting control, and that is how the anti-smokers elect traitors
and appoint stooges who let the anti-smokers get away with their
scientific frauds to lie the public about the risks of tobacco, support
cowardly sell-out politicians, and throw lawsuits so that smokers will
be forced to pay outrageous and unjust "damages."
"At the same time Ottawa is trying to get Canadians to stop smoking
through ads, high taxes, age restrictions and dire health warnings on
every cigarette pack, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB),
the federal Crown corporation that manages the assets of the Canada
Pension Plan, is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into tobacco
stocks. As of March 31, 2008, its tobacco holdings had a market value
of more than $490-million. Virtually every salary-earner in Canada over
the age of 18 must pay into the Canada Pension Plan. It's the law. And
like it or not, part of your premiums have been used to buy huge stakes
in some of the world's biggest tobacco companies. These holdings
include $165-million stake in Philip Morris International and a
$72-million investment in Altria, which controls half the U. S.
cigarette market. Your CPP contributions have also been used to buy
$38-million worth of British American Tobacco, the world's #2 tobacco
firm (behind Altria Group) and a company that sells nearly 855 billion
cigarettes in more than 190 countries annually. Other sizable holdings
include Japan Tobacco ($42-million), Imperial Tobacco
($25-million),Carolina Group ($24-million), Korea Tobacco
($21-million), Reynolds American ($12-million) and Canada's largest
tobacco company, Rothman's ($57-million)." The CPP has increased its
tobacco holdings by over 390% in the last three years. Meanwhile, the
Canadian government is spending $180 million over three years to
persecute smokers. (The CPP should butt out. By Gordon Keast. National
Post, July 29, 2008 link died; Gordon Keast: Why is the Canada Pension
Plan Investing in one of Canada's Biggest Killers? National Post Blogs,
Jul. 29, 2008.)
In fact, the anti-smoking conspiracy began over a century ago. Skull & Bones ring-led the creation of the
American Tobacco Trust, to gather all the
companies under anti-smoker control. But they knew that they couldn't
just take over the tobacco companies and shut them down, because others
would simply enter the field. So, they created and built up enemies to
persecute tobacco, particlarly the American Cancer
Society, the Harvard School of Public Health,
and the American Heart Association, and used
these as proxies to create and control the federal health establishment
(the National Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute, et
al.) to manufacture fraudulent pseudo-science to deceive the public at
taxpayer expense. The anti-smoker-controlled tobacco companies merely
put up a phony pretense of fighting the anti-smoker-controlled "health"
lobbies, and purposely throw lawsuits (that is, to those brought by the
"right" plaintiffs) in order to financially intimidate potential
entrants into the tobacco industry. And, Philip
Morris/Altria has been a particular flagrant example of
conspiratorial control. The anti-smokers used it to scoop up the
remaining companies that hadn't been sucked into the Tobacco Trust, and
they built it up to serve as the lead Judas Goat to betray the rest. J. Russell Forgan, who
later wrote the act creating the Central Intelligence Agency, began
investing Marshall Field 3d's
money in the tobacco industy in the late 1920s, and he led the
financing of Philip Morris's expansion from the 1940s to 1960s, when he
specifically recruited insitutional investors. From 1960 to 1981, the
stepson of the head of the American Cancer Society was on its board of
directors!
The Nazi slime at the World Health Organization,
just got another $125 million dollars from Microsoft billionaire Bill
Gates. Like a snake in the grass, Bill Gates has been funding research
on [acute] infections in order to deceive people about his real
intentions. Now we know conclusively what side he's really on - the
side of lies, ignorance, and tyranny! He's on the side of filthy
criminals, who deliberately use defective studies based on nothing but
lifestyle questionnaires in order to falsely blame smoking for diseases
that are really caused by infection! "It will urge governments to
sharply raise tobacco taxes [to suck our blood while we are
disenfranchised by anti-smoker corruption!], prohibit smoking in public
places [based on naked Nazi pseudo-science that deliberately falsely
blames passive smoking for lung cancer caused by HPV], outlaw
advertising to children and cigarette giveaways [while they brainwash
children with lies!], start antismoking advertising campaigns
[Nazi-style campaigns of abuse and defamations!] and offer people
nicotine patches or other help quitting [a handout for Big Pharma, not
a favor to us!].
The sniveling, crawling little bootlickers at British American Tobacco, who have never uttered so much as a peep of protest about the anti-smokers' Nazi pseudo-science and Nazi bullying, simpered, "We have no problem with government organizations educating people on the risks of tobacco." Well, WE have a LOT of problems with filthy government puke lying in our faces and waging a war of cultural genocide against us, funded by our own stolen money! (Billionaires Back Antismoking Effort. By Donald G. McNeil. New York Times, July 24, 2008 - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/health/24tobacco.html ) And remember - ALL of this has been facilitated by their lying whores in the media, who censor all criticism of this Nazi pseudo-science, to deceive the public and shove THEIR totalitarian political agenda down the world's throats.
"Supporters of the legislation, which has broad bipartisan support,
mobilized lobbyists — 400 from the American Cancer Society alone — and
began advertising to win the votes needed to override a veto threatened
by Mr. Bush."
The financial arguments against funding government programs with a tax that is formulated to eradicate their revenue source only serve to demonstrate that the wellbeing of those programs is not the true goal. Therefore, to point out the obvious is to miss the point that the true purpose of those taxes is social oppression, not the good of children; furthermore, the tax supporters are pleased that it hits the poor more than the rich, because they're the demographic target. So much for the "caring" Democrat Party!
And isn't it touching how they fawn on the homosexual vote, while
ignoring ten times more smokers. See how they pretend that gays are
"oppressed," while pandering to them from a forum, LOGO, that the
corporate fascists created to serve the gays - while we smokers have
nothing of the kind. In addition, nobody ever got so much money, so
fast, as the gays did for AIDS research, and they don't have to
subsidize the eradication of their own lifestyle, either. Meanwhile,
the health fascists loot and plunder smokers' money and use it to
further persecute us (including buying off other people in the name of
"the children"), and no smoker has ever been allowed a voice in these
matters.
Then, see how the Dems nurture, encourage and reward the illegal
aliens, who theoretically aren't even allowed to vote. Look how they
pass smoking bans to eradicate smokers' culturally-friendly business
establishments, while Spanish-language signs, etc., proliferate. (There
are local radio stations dedicated to them, while all smokers get is
more forums for anti-smokers to spew their lies and bash smokers, with
no informed smokers' advocates allowed.) See the Dems encourage
self-righteous marches for the illegal aliens, while pouring abuse on
us!
Someone needs to point out the obvious to those deluded psychopaths: That the real oppressed minority is the people who are being systematically persecuted by THEMSELVES!
And the putrid filth pretend it's all "for the children": "Daniel E.
Smith, vice president of the American Cancer Society, said: 'The choice
is simple: Are you for kids? Are you for tobacco companies? Mr.
President and Congress, we hope you side with the kids.'" (Congress Set
for Veto Fight on Child Health Care. By Robert Pear and Carl Hulse. New
York Times, Sep. 25, 2007.)
"People who smoke with children present in the confined space of a car or truck might as well be deliberately trying to kill those children, said City Councilor Patricia Blanchette, who is a smoker." "An amendment that was added Monday to the original proposal makes the violation a primary offense, rather than a secondary offense. That means police can pull over vehicles if they see somebody smoking with anybody under 18 in the vehicle; if it were a secondary offense, police would have to stop the vehicle for some other reason, such as speeding." Sniveling, cowardly, weenie "Aaron Prill of Bangor told the council that the ordinance was a "feel-good option" that was not intended to protect children but rather to "moralize" against smokers. Most smokers have enough common sense not to smoke around children, he said." (Bangor Makes It Illegal to Smoke in Cars. AP, Jan. 9, 2007.) No, Patricia Blanchette is a dirty, brainless whore of the anti-smokers! The filthy lie-spewing scum got their precious EPA ETS report written via illegal pass-through contracts to handpicked anti-smoking activists - with a crony of George W. Bush and a bigshot Democrap on the board of directors of the crooked company! And it's flagrantly fraudulent because the dirty, lying charlatans pretend that infections don't exist so that they can falsely blame secondhand smoke! And ever since the dirty vermins' anti-smoking campaign began, the death rates from asthma more than doubled! AND THE LIE-SPEWING FILTH IN THE MEDIA HAVE COVERED IT ALL UP IN ORDER THE RAPE US!
The DOJ's accusations are a travesty concocted by malice-ridden, subhuman baboons, who believe in magic and think it's science, and think they are entitled to persecute infidels and suppress science in its own name.
Anti-smokers in California, Massachusetts and Washington received millions of dollars in subsidies from the National Cancer Institute and from state government to force their agenda down the public's throat. (Memorandum. Samuel D. Chilcote to Thomas C. Griscom and Ellen Merlo. Nov. 30, 1992.)
Chilcote Memo, Nov. 30, 1992 / tobacco documentThe health fascist power elite controls BOTH SIDES! They keep
smokers ignorant and oppressed by only allowing their carefully vetted
patsies to have access to the mass media, where they are guaranteed
never to make a serious criticism or depart from subsidiary issues. You
can always tell the anti-smokers' patsies because they accept the
anti-smokers' scientific fraud of ignoring the role of infection and
using studies based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires to falsely
blame tobacco. They never mention the role of HPV in lung cancer, etc.
- only about air quality.
They help the anti-smokers pretend that our only defense is a few
studies cherry-picked from the anti-smokers' own junk pile. Instead of
attacking the scientific fraud, they
want smokers' to be an
unpaid lobby on behalf of the hospitality industry and help to prop up
their businesses, while they refuse to file a RICO
lawsuit against the
anti-smokers that would put an end to the persecution. They
actively peddle the anti-smokers' propaganda
about
"magic foods" that supposedly protect people from cancer. They parrot
the health fascists' hysteria about "scary chemicals" vague
generalizations about genes, and where these explanations fail to
suffice, they undercut our movement by ignoring the evidence
implicating infections and pretending that "nobody knows"
what causes cancer and other chronic diseases. They ignore the lengthy
history of anti-smoking activism by Wall Street banksters, their
Harvard and Yale accomplices, and the Lasker Lobby, and distract
attention away from them by blaming pharmaceutical companies (on the
grounds that one of them funds a foundation created by its founders'
heirs which is dedicated to health fascist activism). And, THEY BAN INFORMED
SMOKERS' ADVOCATES FROM THEIR FORUMS AND DELETE POSTS ABOUT INFECTION
AND CANCER, TO HELP KEEP SMOKERS IGNORANT!
FORCES, Smokers' Club, Smokescreen, etc. - they are all nothing but
anti-smoker-approved fake opponents, despicable traitors who've done
nothing but help our enemies win!
Big Drugs: FORCES's denunications of Philip Morris are just blowing smoke. FORCES collaborates with the anti-smokers by peddling their health fascist ideology of infection-denial, misdirecting blame away from the Lasker Syndicate onto the pharmaceutical companies, and helping them suppress dissent by applauding drivel. And all their "heroes" are nothing but relics from Philip Morris.
Blaming Big Drugs to Protect the Lasker SyndicateBig Drivel: Joseph L. Bast,
Michael DeBow, Michael Fumento, Pierre Lemieux,
Robert Levy, Jacob Sullum, and W. Kip Viscusi are the so-called
"experts" the media trot out to supposedly speak for us smokers! Their
job is to be patsies for the establishment, by helping them pretend
that their insubstantial opposition is the best that our side can
present. All of the above are affiliated with The Heartland Institute,
an operation with a $2 million budget and a board of directors that
includes representatives of General Motors and Philip Morris.
Christopher Taylor Buckley, Skull & Bones 1975, purveys the
Establishment's junk science and stereotypes about tobacco industry PR.
The Harvard School of Public
Health created health fascism
The American Heart Association's Bones Connections
The American Heart AssociationIn the 1930s, there was scientific debate over the respective roles
of
infection versus lifestyle and chemical carcinogens in heart disease
and cancer. The health fascist advocates of the latter proceeded to
"settle" the debate by taking over the government, using our tax
dollars to fund their propaganda machine while suppressing research on
infection.
According to a blurb on their website attributed to the Wall Street Journal, "The driving force behind the huge 15% increase in the NIH budget was an umbrella organization called Research!America." Politicians hang around them like flies around a garbage dumpster because their media accomplices will look the other way while they dispense favors.
Research!America - J. Morton Davis; Paul G. Rogers; Charles A. Sanders; John Whitehead; Mary Woolley; James B. Wyngaarden Pages; Thomas Langfitt linkIn 1997, the American Health Foundation got $11 million from the NIH; The RAND Corporation got $11 million; Johns Hopkins University got $292 million; the University of California at San Francisco got $215 million; Harvard University got $180 million.
The NIH Fat Cat List; NIH Brown Books 1992-97The RAND Corporation has had close ties to the Lasker Foundation since at least 1965, when Newton Minow joined its board of trustees. In 1966, they voted to expand into social engineering.
The RAND Gang / Frank C. Carlucci; Newton Minow; John S. Reed; Carla A. Hills Pages"[I]t was the media that did the most to turn smokers into social
pariahs, now forced to stand like prostitutes shivering in doorways to
get their nicotine fix." New York Times Personal Health Columnist Jane
E. Brody.
Mary W. Lasker, Former FCC Commissioner Newton Minow, and cronies with ties to the Ford Foundation stacked the Federal Communications Commission. (And, if front group FORCES was a real smokers' rights group, they'd be eagerly exposing Banzhaf's mentors, instead of protecting them behind a wall of silence!)
The Fairy Tale of John Banzhaf and the "Fairness Doctrine"The Lasker Syndicate has a six-decade history of staging theatrical performances to manipulate Congress, with their media lackeys as publicists. The state tobacco lawsuits are their tour de force, a vast racketeering scheme, hatched in the Lasker Foundation, to loot smokers while making a mockery of justice.
The State Tobacco Lawsuits; former Texas AG Morales in Jail; The "Public Pretenders" and the Blair-Stevenson-Minow-Wirtz links to PM law firm Arnold & Porter; USDOJ Page; Securitizing the Tobacco Settlement; The CTR Was a Lasker Loot-A-Thon; Freddy Homburger; Jonathan M. Samet and Daniel C. Tosteson Pages; Anti-Trust Challenge to tobacco settlementThe vaunted battle of "David versus Goliath" was really an
anti-smoker Goliath pretending to fight a Philip Morris hand puppet.
The tobacco industry's so-called "fight" has been a sham. If they were
serious, they would have filed suit against the anti-smoking
organizations for conspiracy, fraud, and racketeering under the RICO
statutes. (And the same goes for the leaders of the hospitality
industry, who deliberately set themselves up to lose by arguing their
case as "Our profits versus public health" - and who trick ban
opponents into supporting more smoking bans under the pretext of a
"level playing field.")
Like in the tobacco lawsuits, the scheme is to put up a phony fight and then roll over and settle - to fill the pockets of the health fascists and their trial lawyer accomplices, at the expense of consumers. McDonald's Corporation's board of directors is infested with the McCormick Blair gang of Chicago. That's why they flopped on their bellies and shoveled $8.5 million into the pockets of the scientific fraud-perpetrating American Heart Association.
The Fast Food Lawsuits / The Illinois Interlock (McDonalds; William Blair & Co.; Aon Corp.)Here's the so-called "freedom" our soldiers are supposed to die for. The lie-spewing fascist media propagandize us to quit smoking, by using an ignorant, craven piece of crap, who licks the vermins' boots and thanks them for locking him up in a SMOKE-FREE JAIL! "Thank you, master, for relieving me of the burden of my freedom" is what Anti-Smoker Occupied Amerika really stands for. This is how the bloodsuckers convince themselves that the whole world is just longing to be invaded, looted, plundered, and raped by themselves. This is why the bloodsuckers are so astonished when the patriotic people of Iraq hate their guts and resist them! (How Prison Helped Me Kick My Smoking Habit. Diane Martin. Pacific News Service, Sep. 28, 2004.) Forget your "War on Terror," because Anti-Smoker Amerika is the fascist dictatorship that should be annihilated from the face of the earth!
Martin / Smokers' ClubThe American Cancer Society is a corrupt,
fascist, POLITICAL
organization, which deliberately uses defective studies to falsely
blame smoking (and other "lifestyle" targets) for diseases that are
actually caused by infection. Its
roots are in the World War II political machine that created the O.S.S.
and C.I.A.
M. David Low of the Lasker Syndicate's "Medicine and Public Health Initiative" is also a founding member of the Communitarian movement.
The M. David Low PageIn addition to the massive lobbying efforts of the Lasker Syndicate phalanges in every state legislature (e.g., the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, and the American Public Health Association, et al.), the health fascists coordinate their activities through the National Conference of State Legislatures. See how they parrot every one of the Syndicate's vicious lies about tobacco.
Tobacco / National Conference of State LegislaturesJeffrey Skilling's boss was a Trustee of the American Health Foundation
The Enron Page: Charles A. LeMaistre; John Mendelsohn; Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur; Robert A. BelferAnother tale of deceived investors and insider trading involving persons close to the Lasker Syndicate.
The John Mendelsohn PageFor over 50 years, the health establishment has suppressed research on infection in chronic diseases, and purposely used defective statistical analyses to falsely blame smoking for diseases actually caused by infection. The American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, and American Lung Association all deliberately commit this fraud. Do not donate money to these criminals!
PS: The health fascists' blow-off that healthy lifestyles prevent infection is automatically a lie, because in the absence of appropriate research (taking exposure into account, not merely lifestyle questionnaires!), such a claim cannot legitimately be made.
FURTHERMORE - Every time those bloodsuckers gloat that "THERE IS NO DISSENT," they really mean that "No public dissent is ALLOWED" in the mass media. These psychotic fascists truly believe that they can destroy truth by suppressing it, and they have been systematically raping the peoples' minds for six decades! They are the enemies of humanity, and their destruction is the most noble cause on earth!
This misinformation from the supposed smokers' rights group NYC CLASH perpetrates the absolutely crucial frauds that our health fascist enemies need to trick their suckers. All the rest of its verbiage is just a smokescreen of distractions. It claims that "Infection itself is just a fraction of the game; its how you _handle_ that exposure." This is a dirty, stinking lie. For example, in the case of cervical cancer, WITHOUT EXPOSURE TO HPV, THERE IS NO "GAME!" Furthermore, without adequate quantification of exposure, confounding cannot be eliminated, and the role, if any, of other ostensible factors cannot be determined. And it is the specious results of confounded studies that are the main basis of these charlatans' claim that diseases are "multifactorial," and of their desire to pretend that it is all nothing but a "game of math" with speculation about causal pathways as a window-dressing. This is how the health fascist deceivers who have infiltrated our movement trick smokers into wasting their efforts with irrelevant criticisms and nit-picking over trivia, while letting the anti-smokers get away with their gigantic Orwellian lie of omission. And, the supposed example of confounding in this article is merely an example of the post hoc fallacy (after this, therefore because of this), not confounding at all. (How To Read A Study, by Linda Stewart. NYC CLASH, 2003.)
How to Read a Study / NYC CLASHThe mechanisms by which certain infections cause cancer are KNOWN --
in stark contrast to the health establishment's speculations about
chemical carcinogens, where a mechanism of tobacco carcinogenesis has
still not been definitively identified after more than 50 years. Yet
the anti-smokers simply ignore infection! This is deliberate and
eggregious scientific fraud.
The
Conspiracy of Silence About HPV and Lung Cancer - the
anti-smokers' defective studies
Jonathan Samet's
Global Empire of Anti-Smoking Lies, Persecution
and Corruption - Bloomberg's tool at JHU stacked the ASHRAE report
Cronies of Charles P. Taft,
S&B 1918, created the EPA, lobbied for it to proclaim that
secondhand smoke causes cancer, and lined up the main author of the
"EPA" report on passive smoking.
"'Powerful people in this field think that amyloid causes Alzheimer's and won't consider research that questions the amyloid hypiothesis,' says one of the Harvard scientists." (Is Alzheimer's field blocking R&D into other causes? By Sharon Begley, The Wall Street Journal. April 9, 2004.) A CONTINUING SERIES.
Begley, Wall Street Journal 2004 / SF GateA New Germ Theory. Judith Hooper. The Atlantic Monthly, February 1999; and Letters re: A New Germ Theory. The Atlantic Monthly, May 1999 (now by subscription only).
Hooper / The Atlantic Monthly 1999Do Germs Cause Cancer? Philip E. Ross, Forbes Global, 11-15-99. "The nagging question is why it took so long for doctors to accept Marshall's discovery. For years the medical establishment laughed off Marshall's theory, even after he demonstrated it by drinking H. pylori and giving himself ulcers and even after other labs replicated his experimental results. Although that had happened by 1986, 'They didn't start treating H. pylori for another nine years,' Marshall says, still amazed by it all. 'Hundreds, even thousands of people must have died from ulcers who wouldn't have.'"
Ross / Forbes Global 1999Are all diseases infectious? Another look. B Lorber. Annals of Internal Medicine 1999 Dec 21;131(12):989-990. "Three years ago, I pointed out that a quiet revolution was taking place in our understanding of disease. Emerging evidence suggested that transmissible agents caused or contributed to many illnesses that were previously thought to be degenerative, inflammatory, or neoplastic in origin, and I lamented the lack of attention to this important new model for disease, During the past three years, more illnesses have been linked to infections, and evolutionary biologists as well as the popular media are paying attention." The term "paradigm shift" is not too strong to describe this new way of thinking about disease etiology.
Lorber / Ann Intern Med 1999In this discussion between Paul Ewald and leading researchers, it has been discovered that antibiotic treatment of ulcers began as early as 1940, and they puzzle over how this knowledge came to be lost. But at the root of it all will be found the Lasker Syndicate takeover of the health establishment, and their control of government money to serve their ideological ends.
Discussion / Praxis 2000Consilience across evolving dysplasias affecting myeloid, cervical, esophageal, gastric and liver cells: common themes and emerging patterns. A Raza. Leuk Res 2000 Jan;24(1):63-72. "It appears that there is an initial transforming event which in all dysplasias except that affecting the marrow has been found to be infectious."
Raza - Leuk Res 2000 abstract / PubMedChronic sequelae of foodborne disease. JA Lindsay. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1997 Oct-Dec;3(4):443-452. "...except in rare circumstances, chronic complications are unlikely to be identified or epidemiologically linked to a foodborne cause because these data are not systematically collected."
Lindsay / EID 1997 full articleDetection and identification of previously unrecognized microbial pathogens. DA Relman. Emerging Infectious Diseases 1998 Jul-Sep;4(3).
Relman / EID 1998 full articleViral carcinogenesis: revelation of molecular mechanisms and etiology of human disease. JS Butel. Carcinogenesis 2000 Mar;21(3):405-426. Review.
Butel / Carcinogenesis 2000 full articleEmerging Infectious Determinants of Chronic Diseases. SM O'Connor,
CE Taylor, JM Hughes. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet] 2006
Jul;12(7):06-0037.htm.
'Unbiased high-throughput
sequencing' identifies new pathogens
"In our cluster, a new arenavirus was first detected through
unbiased high-throughput sequencing. Thereafter, the infection was
confirmed by means of culture, electron microscopy, and specific
immunohistochemical and serologic tests. As in the other two reported
clusters of transplant-associated transmission, we detected no viral
nucleic acids in the donor and found no history of acute infectious
disease; however, the presence of IgG and IgM antibodies confirmed
recent infection.... Although we have not fulfilled Koch's postulates,
evidence implicating this new virus in the outbreak of infection among
patients who received transplants is compelling. All three recipients
received organs from the same donor and died within days of one another
after febrile illness. Identical viral sequences were obtained from all
the recipients. The virus is new and was not detected in 100 organ
recipients who were not linked to this cluster. The results of
serologic analysis of specimens obtained from the donor were consistent
with recent infection, and seroconversion was observed in one
recipient... This technique may prove useful as a new tool in the
identification and surveillance of pathogens in chronic as well as
acute disease." (A New Arenavirus in a Cluster of Fatal
Transplant-Associated Diseases. G Palacios, J Druce, L Du, T Tran, C
Birch, T Briese, S Conlan, P-L Quan, J Hui, J Marshall, JF
Simons, M Egholm, CD Paddock, W-J Shieh, CS Goldsmith, SR Zaki, M
Catton, WI Lipkin. Published Feb. 6, 2008 in NEJM.) "Currently,
the majority of surveillance and discovery efforts use methods based on
sequences of known agents — namely, competitive polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) and microarrays. Such efforts fail, however, when the
agents in question are truly novel or sufficiently distant in sequence
from related agents that they confound hybridization. High-throughput
pyrosequencing has been used primarily to sequence large genomes; to my
knowledge, it has not previously been applied to pathogen discovery.
However, when Palacios et al. found that the classic application of
typical diagnostic assays, including viral culture, electron
microscopy, PCR, and panmicrobial microarrays, failed to identify an
infectious agent, they turned to pyrosequencing. Although derived
sequences at the nucleic acid level were not informative, bioinformatic
analyses at the protein level revealed footprints of a potential
causative agent. Using these sequences as a foundation for developing
specific molecular reagents, the investigators cloned the remainder of
the viral genome by means of PCR, propagated it in cell culture,
defined its morphologic characteristics by means of electron
microscopy, and created molecular and serologic assays for detection of
infection." (The New Age of Molecular Diagnostics for Microbial Agents.
[Editorial Re Palacios et al.] R Whitley. Published Feb. 6, 2008 in
NEJM.
Beginning in the 1940s, the Lasker gang systematically suppressed research on infection, and used our tax dollars to churn out their propaganda blaming lifestyle for cardiovascular disease.
How the Public Was Brainwashed About Heart DiseaseSimilarities in mortality patterns from influenza in the first half of the 20th century and the rise and fall of ischemic heart disease in the United States: a new hypothesis concerning the coronary heart disease epidemic. Maria Ines Reinert Azambuja and Bruce B. Duncan. Cadernos de Saude Publica 2002 May-Jun;18(3):557-566.
Azambuja / Cad Saude Publica 2002 full articleSpanish flu and early 20th-century expansion of a coronary heart
disease-prone subpopulation. MI Azambuja. Tex Heart Inst J
2004;31(1):14-21. "Age-related influenza and pneumonia mortality during
the 1918–1919 pandemic predicts the relative distribution of CHD deaths
across the correspondent birth cohorts, separately in men and women.
The burden of H1N1 influenza activity after 1930, measured by influenza
and pneumonia death rates, shows a strong association with delayed
declines in CHD mortality rates across geographic divisions." Fig. 1,
heart disease death rates 1900-1996, shows that rates have fallen below
the level of the year 1900; average serum cholesterol has been
declining since 1960, before dietary changes; while the prevalence
of overweight has steadily increased.
1918 Influenza: the Mother of All Pandemics. JK Taubenberger, DM
Morens. Special Issue: Influenza. Emerging Infectious Diseases 2006
Jan;12(1):05-0979.
NHLBI Director Claude Lenfant's budget request to the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Labor-HHS-Education, April 8, 2003. Lenfant fails to admit that infection causes heart disease. He also promotes the worthless DASH diet for blood presuure reduction, which lowered systolic bp by an average of a mere 4.3mm.
Lenfant, Apr. 8, 2003 / NHLBIInflammation modifies the effects of a reduced-fat low-cholesterol diet on lipids: results from the DASH-sodium trial. TP Erlinger, ER Miller 3rd, J Charleston, LJ Appel. Circulation 2003 Jul 15;108(2):150-154. "In this study, the presence of increased CRP was associated with less total and LDL cholesterol reduction and a greater increase in triglycerides from a reduced-fat/low cholesterol diet." In other words, there was less potential benefit among those at greatest risk.
Erlinger, Circulation 2003 abstract / PubMedLenfant was NHLBI director from 1982 until August 30, 2003. Thank goodness this troglodyte has finally retired! AND, LET THE NEXT ONE BE A SUPPORTER OF THE INFECTION HYPOTHESIS, WHO HAS THE INTELLIGENCE TO UNDERSTAND HOW CONFOUNDING OCCURS WITHOUT IT.
Association of Graves' disease and prevalence of circulating
IFN-gamma-producing CD28(-) T cells. Z Sun, W Zhong, X Lu, B Shi, Y
Zhu, L Chen, G Zhang, X Zhang. J Clin Immunol 2008 Sep;28(5):464-72.
Graves' disease patients had significantly higher percentages of
CD4(+)CD28(-) and CD8(+)CD28(-) T cells than healthy donors.
"Retrospective analysis showed that the increased levels of
CD4(+)CD28(-) T cells and their IFN-gamma-producing subgroups were
positively correlated to the serum anti-thyrotropin receptor (TSHR)
autoantibodies (TRAb)." Cells of this type are specific for CMV infection.
Antibodies to CPn are associated with expansion; clinical trial of
doxycycline shows benefit
Periodontal pathogens and C. Pneumoniae play a role
Association between Sezary T cell-activating factor, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and cutaneous T cell lymphoma. JT Abrams, BJ Balin, EC Vonderheid. Ann NY Acad Sci 2001 Sep;941:69-85.
Abrams - Ann NY Acad Sci 2001 abstract / PubMedCharacterization of antiapoptotic activities of Chlamydia pneumoniae in human cells. SF Fischer, C Schwarz, J Vier, G Hacker. Infect Immun 2001 Nov;69(11):7121-7129.
Fischer - Infect Immun 2001 abstract / PubMedEpithelial cells infected with Chlamydophila pneumoniae (Chlamydia pneumoniae) are resistant to apoptosis. K Rajalingam, H Al-Younes, A Muller, TF Meyer, AJ Szczepek, T Rudel. Infect Immun 2001 Dec;69(12):7880-7888.
Rajalingam - Infect Immun 2001 abstract / PubMedChlamydia pneumoniae inhibits apoptosis in human epithelial and monocyte cell lines. S Airenne, HM Surcel, J Tuukkanen, M Leinonen, P Saikku. Scand J Immunol 2002 Apr;55(4):390-398.
Airenne - Scand J Immunol 2002 abstract / PubMedParachlamydiaceae: Potential emerging pathogens. G Greub, D Raoult. Emerg Infect Dis 2002 Jun;8(6):625-630. "Intra-amoebal gowth may increase the pathogenicity of some intracellular bacteria, prompting concern that other intracellular bacteria recovered from amoeba, such as the Parachlamydiaceae, could be pathogenic. Indeed, a bacterium able to survive exposure to the lytic enzymes of amoebal phagolysosomes would probably also survive the lytic activity of macrophages."
Greub / Emerg Infect Dis 2002The EPA's Sorry Status Report on Children and Asthma; The Death
Rates From Asthma, 1960-1995; Asthma Death Rates Are Lower in States
With Higher Rates of Smoking; EPA ETS Report author recants; Chlamydia
trachomatis and asthma; Hyperventilation Causes Asthma and Heart
Symptoms; Ear Infections Have Also Increased
Chlamydia pneumoniae and Mycoplasma studies
Infections Cause AsthmaCMV and Leukemia; CMV and Immunity
NCI admits that "HPVs are now recognized as the major cause of cervical cancer." But they fudge that studies merely "suggest" that HPVs "may play a role" in "some cancers of the oropharynx." And they still try to blame smoking. (Human Papillomaviruses and Cancer: Questions and Answers. Cancer Information Service, National Cancer Institute. Old page - Date reviewed: 12/01/04; Editorial changes made: 5/17/2005; new page - Reviewed: 06/08/2006.)
Human Papillomaviruses and Cancer / National Cancer InstitutePapillomaviruses causing cancer: evasion from host-cell control in early events in carcinogenesis. H zur Hausen. J Natl Cancer Inst 2000 May 3;92(9):690-698. Review. "In addition to cancer of the cervix, a major proportion of anal, perianal, vulvar, and penile cancers appear to be linked to the same HPV infections. In addition, close to 20% of oropharyngeal cancers contain DNA from the same types of HPV. Recent evidence also points to a possible role of other HPV infections in squamous cell carcinomas of the skin."
zur Hausen - JNCI 2000 abstract / PubMed"A stronger inverse association was observed in analyses restricted to non-small cell lung cancer (adjusted odds ratio, 0.39, 95% confidence interval 0.16-0.96)." (Aspirin and lung cancer in women. A Akhmedkhanov, P Toniolo, A Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, KL Koenig, RE Shore. Br J Cancer 2002 Jul 1;87(1):49-53.) After the billions of dollars the health establishment has gotten from taxpayers, shouldn't they have more to show than just "take an aspirin?"
Akhmedkhanov - Br J Cancer 2002 abstract / PubMedFunctional analysis of Antigen 43 in uropathogenic Escherichia coli
reveals a role in long term persistence in the urinary tract.GC Ulett,
J Valle, C Beloin, O Sherlock, JM Ghigo, MA Schembri. Infection and
Immunity 2007 July;75(7):3233-3244. "The sequenced genome of prototype
UPEC strain CFT073 contains two variant Ag43-encoding genes located on
pathogenicity islands.... Ag43a produced a strong aggregation phenotype
and promoted significant biofilm growth."
The anti-smokers lie to children by obtaining pig lungs from meatpacking plants, soaking them in chemicals, and then claiming that this is what tobacco smoke does to them.
The Pig Lung Scam, Again and AgainInvestigation of adenovirus occurrence in pediatric tumor entities. K Kosulin, C Haberler, J Hainfellner, G Amann, S Lang, T Lion. Journal of Virology 2007 July;81(14):7629-7635. "Adenoviruses (AdVs) contain genes coding for proteins with transforming potential, and certain AdV serotypes have been shown to induce tumors in rodents. However, data on the possible oncogenicity of AdVs in humans are scarce. We have therefore employed a real-time quantitative PCR (RQ-PCR) assay permitting highly sensitive detection of all 51 currently known human AdV serotypes to screen more than 500 tumor specimens derived from 17 different childhood cancer entities including leukemias, lymphomas, and solid tumors. Most tumor entities analyzed showed no evidence for the presence of AdV sequences, but AdV DNA was detected by RQ-PCR in different brain tumors including 25/30 glioblastomas, 22/30 oligodendrogliomas, and 20/30 ependymomas. Nonmalignant counterparts of AdV-positive brain tumors, including specimens of ependymal cells, plexus choroideus, and periventricular white matter, were screened for control purposes and revealed the presence of AdV DNA in most specimens tested. Identification of the AdV types present in positive malignant and nonmalignant brain tissue specimens revealed predominantly representatives of species B and D and, less commonly, C. To exclude contamination as a possible cause of false-positive results, specimens with AdV sequences detectable by PCR were subsequently analyzed by in situ hybridization, which confirmed the PCR findings in all instances. The central nervous system appears to represent a common site of AdV infection with virus persistence, thus providing the first evidence for the possible contribution of AdVs to the multistep process of tumor pathogenesis in brain tissue."
Kosulin / J Virol 2007 full articleHerpes viruses and periodontopathic bacteria in early-onset periodontitis. JJ Kamma, A Contreras, J Slots. J Clin Periodontol 2001 Sep;28(9):879-885. "HCMV, EBV-1, HSV and herpesvirus co-infection, as well as P gingivalis, D pneumosintes and P gingivalis-D pneumosintes co-infection were statistically associated with active periodontitis. Herpesviruses are immunosuppressive and may set the stage for overgrowth of subgingival P gingivalis, D pneumosintes and other periodontopathic bacteria."
Kamma - J Clin Periodontol 2001 abstract / PubMedBecause of this vicious lie, an anti-smoker shot a pregnant woman. And the criminals in the media who incited this hate crimes should be forced to take responsibility for their actions as well. Meanwhile, despite the anti-smoking persecution, the percentage of babies born prematurely in the US has risen for two decades.
Chorioamnionitis Causes Perinatal Illnesses Blamed on Smoking - new links on Group B StreptococcusPneumocystis carinii (Pneumocystis jirovecii) and Escherichia coli
curlin protein have been implicated.
New Directions in the Management of IBD. The Evolving Role of Antibiotics. Panelists: MC Dubinsky, A Kornbluth, GR Lichtenstein, DT Rubin, EJ Scherl. Moderator: PL Salgo. CME Certified Activity. Medical Crossfire, 2005 Jul;6(13). "Although it was traditionally believed that IBD is an autoimmune disorder, current research and clinical evidence suggest that IBD may be caused by a reaction of the body to bacteria in the intestinal tract.... 'The first evidence came from clinical observations,' answered Dr. Scherl. She recalled her days as a resident at The Mount Sinai Medical Center where Daniel H. Present, MD, noted that patients being treated for bronchitis with antibiotics reported that their bowels had improved."
New Directions in the Management of IBD, 2005 / Medical Crossfire (pdf, 23 pp)Infectious causes of hearing loss beyond otitis media. B Estrada. Infect Med 1997;14(3):239-244. Abundant opportunities for the anti-smokers to exploit confounding by infection to falsely blame smoking.
Estrada / Medscape 1997Toll-like receptor 2-dependent NF{kappa}B activation is involved in
nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae-induced MCP-1 up-regulation in the
spiral ligament fibrocytes of the inner ear. SK Moon, JI Woo, HY Lee, R
Park, J Shimada, H Pan, R Gellibolian, DJ Lim. Infection and Immunity
2007 Jul;75(7):3361-3372.
Detection of JC virus DNA sequences and expression of viral T-antigen and agnoprotein in esophageal carcinoma. L Del Valle, MK White, S Enam, SP Oviedo, MQ Bromer, RM Thomas, HP Parkman, K Khalili. Cancer 2005 Feb 1;103(3):516-527. "JC viral DNA was isolated from 11 of 13 normal esophageal biopsy specimens (85%) and from 5 of 5 esophageal carcinomas." Viral proteins were expressed in carcinoma samples, but not in samples from normal tissue.
Del Valle - Cancer 2005 / PubMedIdentification of a novel polyomavirus from patients with acute
respiratory tract infections. AM Gaynor, MD Nissen, DM Whiley, IM
Mackay, SB Lambert, G Wu, DC Brennan, GA Storch, TP Sloots, D Wan. PLoS
Pathogens, epub May 4, 2007. The virus was found in 43 / 2,135
patients with acute respiratory disease, including pneumonia. 86% were
under 3 years old. "Much of the interest in polyomaviruses and SV40 in
particular derives from the transforming properties carried by the
early transcriptional region of the viral genome that encodes for the
small T antigen (STAg) and and large T antigen (LTAg). T antigen is
capable of binding both p53 and Rb proteins and interfering with their
tumor suppressor functions. The early region alone is sufficient to
transform established primary rodent cell lines and in concert with
telomerase and ras transforms primary human cells... Since the T
antigen of WU is predicted to have transforming properties by analogy
to other polyomavirus T antigens, one question currently under
investigation is whether a subset of human tumors may be associated
with WU."
Identification of a third human polyomavirus. T Allander, K
Andreasson, S Gupta, A Bjerkner, G Bogdanovic, MA Persson, T Dalianis,
T Ramqvist, B Andersson. J Virol 2007 Apr;81(8):4130-4136. " The virus
was found by PCR in 6 (1%) of 637 nasopharyngeal aspirates and in 1
(0.5%) of 192 fecal samples but was not detected in sets of urine and
blood samples. Since polyomaviruses have oncogenic potential and may
produce severe disease in immunosuppressed individuals, continued
searching for the virus in different medical contexts is important."
"There are putative binding sites for p53, as well as the Rb family of
tumor suppressor proteins, in the LT antigen of KIPyV, which indicates
that a role for this virus in tumorigenesis cannot be excluded."
Clonal integration of a polyomavirus in human Merkel cell carcinoma.
H Feng, M Shuda, Y Chang, PS Moore. Science 2008 Feb
22;319(5866):1096-1100. "MCV sequences were detected in 8 of 10 (80%)
MCC tumors but only 5 of 59 (8%) control tissues from various body
sites and 4 of 25 (16%) control skin tissues. In six of eight
MCV-positive MCCs, viral DNA was integrated within the tumor genome in
a clonal pattern, suggesting that MCV infection and integration
preceded clonal expansion of the tumor cells."
First Identification and Molecular Characterization of Lymphotropic
Polyomavirus in Peripheral Blood from Patients with
Leukoencephalopathies. S Delbue, S Tremolada, E Branchetti, F Elia, E
Gualco. J Clin Microbiol 2008 July; 46(7): 2461–2462. 1 / 10 patients
with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML), 2 / 10 with not
determined JCV-negative leukoencephalopathy (NDLE), 0 /10 with other
neurological diseases (OND), 0 / 10 with no neurological disorders, and
0 / 10 healthy controls were LPV-positive.
Merkel cell polyomavirus is more frequently present in North
American than Australian Merkel cell carcinoma tumors. KM Garneski, AH
Warcola, Q Feng, N Kiviat, JH Leonard, P Nghiem. J Invest Dermatol 2009
January; 129(1): 246–248 (Author manuscript). Overall, 16 of 37 Merkel
cell carcinoma tumor tissues were positive for Merkel cell polyomavirus
DNA (43%). MCPyV was not detected in any of the [15] normal skin DNA,
but was present in 2 of 15 SCC tumors (13%).
Seroepidemiology of Human Polyomaviruses. JM Kean, S Rao, M Wang, RL
Garcea. PLoS Pathogens 2009 Mar;5(3). Seroprevalence in 1501 healthy
adult blood donors was SV40 (9%), BKV (82%), JCV (39%), LPV (15%), KIV
(55%), WUV (69%), MCV strain 350 (25%), and MCV strain 339 (42%).
Seroprevalence in 721 pediatric patients (<21 y) was similar.
AAV Infection During Pregancy Causes Spontaneous Abortions and Trophoblastic Disease
What diseases do adeno-associated viruses cause?News re Naser at American Society for Microbiology 101st Annual Meeting, Orlando FL. 1) "Shocker: 'Villain' nicotine slays TB. R Suriano. Orlando Sentinel 2001 May 22. With PC drivel. 2) Nicotine shows activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Medscape - Reuters Health 2001 May 22. "'We found that this compound not only inhibits Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth, it kills it completely', explained lead researcher Dr. Saleh Naser of the University of Central Florida in Orlando... he believes nicotine may be effective against other bacteria as well. 'TB is a very tough bacterium. If you kill that one,' Dr. Naser said, 'you are on the right track.'"
Tuberculosis can spread from jail to surrounding community. (News) Medscape - Reuters Health 2001 Oct 26; Medline 2001 Oct 29.
Schaffer / Medline Plus 2001"The History of the Conspiracy Against Tobacco" joined the Web on August 1, 2000.
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