From: http://www.ashlandcurrent.com/article/12/03/30/state-headlines-wisconsin-public-radio-march-31
Ron Paul Addresses Packed UW-Madison Student Union
By Shawn Johnson, Wisconsin Public Radio
A fired up crowd of thousands packed the Memorial Union Terrace on the UW-Madison campus Thursday night to hear from Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul.
Paul was greeted early in his remarks by chants of "End the Fed," a reference to his book by the same name about the Federal Reserve, "Just think, you know, it's been around for 100 years and this is the first time we've had a serious debate about whether it even should exist."
Paul said he would also end the war in Afghanistan. He pledged to reduce the role of government, promising to cut a trillion dollars from the budget in the process, "People say, to get over this we have to sacrifice. If I return your liberty to you and give you a chance to work hard and keep what you earn and get the government out of your life, out of your wallet, out of your bedroom and leave you alone, that's not a sacrifice!"
Paul also said the government had no business regulating what people put into their bodies--and gave his message a local twist, "See, I'm so convinced this is a good idea, I would even allow you to drink raw milk if you wanted to."
Paul said he sometimes gets asked why his message resonates with young voters, "And I said, well, there's a couple reasons. One is they're getting a bad deal. You're inheriting a mess."
Some in the crowd ran after Paul's motorcade and cheered as he left the Union. He faces Republicans Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in next Tuesday's presidential primary.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Rumors of Ron Paul campaign demise greatly exaggerated
From: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/reawakening-liberty/2012/mar/31/rumors-ron-paul-campaign-demise-greatly-exaggerate/
Rumors of Ron Paul campaign demise greatly exaggerated
Saturday, March 31, 2012 - Reawakening Liberty by Thomas Mullen
Thomas Mullen
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2012 – In their mad dash to create the long awaited general election narrative, media outlets have pronounced Ron Paul’s campaign dead.
They now speculate about what his supporters may do when he drops out. The Associated Press reports that Romney has over ten times the delegates that Ron Paul has secured. Reuters reports that Paul is far behind in Wisconsin and that his supporters have finally conceded that he can’t win the nomination.
None of this is true. Romney has not secured 568 delegates. Hundreds of those delegates won’t be determined until Republican state conventions, many of which haven’t happened yet.
As I’ve reported before, there is very credible evidence that Ron Paul will emerge from those conventions with the majority of delegates in many states. Texas, New York and California haven’t even held their primaries yet. Those three states alone control over four hundred delegates.
In many states, there is no cause-effect relationship between the popular vote and the delegates awarded to each candidate. Delegates are awarded via a completely separate process that doesn’t utilize the popular vote totals in any way. The purpose of the popular vote is to inform the eventual delegates of the preferences of voters in their states. That’s why many of those states allow Democrats and independents to vote. They want the delegates to know who those voters prefer. That tells them who has the best chance to win in the general election.
In most years, the media can get away with reporting on the nomination contest as they are now. They can assume that the candidates will receive roughly the same percentage of delegates from each state as the percentage they received in the popular vote. That isn’t accurate reporting, but it usually comes out in the wash, especially as far as the winner is concerned. However, there are many things different in this year’s race and there is a good chance that much of the media are going to look silly come August.
First, Mitt Romney is probably the weakest Republican “frontrunner” in several decades. Remember, Republicans weren’t exactly energized by John McCain and he soundly defeated Romney four years ago.
Romney’s campaign has been able to get supporters to take fifteen minutes to stop at a polling place and pull a lever, but it’s much more difficult to get them to participate in a delegate process that takes months to complete.
Ron Paul’s supporters are completely the opposite. While he has not pulled off a “beauty contest” win, his supporters are willing to walk through fire to see him become president. They have learned Robert’s Rules of Order, stayed behind after caucus popular votes, and taken over the delegations in many counties in caucus states.
The Iowa Republican Party has confirmed that Paul and Santorum are in a dead heat for the state’s delegates and that Paul may win the majority. That bears no resemblance to the popular vote in Iowa’s caucus, where Santorum narrowly defeated Romney and Paul came in third.
The devotion of Paul’s supporters isn’t only a factor in the caucus states. In those states where the popular vote does bind the delegates to the winner, there is still an important question. Who are those delegates? Do they truly support the winner of the primary vote? Or are they Paul supporters?
There is no reason to believe that Paul is not well represented among delegates in those states as well. Their delegates are obligated to vote for the winner of the primary during the first round of voting at the RNC. However, if no candidate gets 1,144 votes, even they are now unbound and can vote for any candidate on the second ballot.
If it becomes necessary, that vote could be very interesting.
The media started this election cycle by completely ignoring Ron Paul’s campaign. As his poll numbers rose and the crowds at his rallies grew into the thousands, they began giving him grudging respect. Now, they want to pronounce his campaign over and even go so far as to speak for his supporters.
There’s only one problem. Paul and his supporters aren’t going anywhere and this race is far from over. The Paul campaign’s senior advisor Doug Wead documents many examples of Ron Paul’s delegate strategy yielding much better results than the media are reporting. Assuming he’s right, Romney is unlikely to clinch the nomination during the first vote at the national convention. If he doesn’t, Paul’s understated army of delegates could mean big surprises in Tampa.
Tom Mullen is the author of A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America.
Rumors of Ron Paul campaign demise greatly exaggerated
Saturday, March 31, 2012 - Reawakening Liberty by Thomas Mullen
Thomas Mullen
WASHINGTON, March 31, 2012 – In their mad dash to create the long awaited general election narrative, media outlets have pronounced Ron Paul’s campaign dead.
They now speculate about what his supporters may do when he drops out. The Associated Press reports that Romney has over ten times the delegates that Ron Paul has secured. Reuters reports that Paul is far behind in Wisconsin and that his supporters have finally conceded that he can’t win the nomination.
None of this is true. Romney has not secured 568 delegates. Hundreds of those delegates won’t be determined until Republican state conventions, many of which haven’t happened yet.
As I’ve reported before, there is very credible evidence that Ron Paul will emerge from those conventions with the majority of delegates in many states. Texas, New York and California haven’t even held their primaries yet. Those three states alone control over four hundred delegates.
In many states, there is no cause-effect relationship between the popular vote and the delegates awarded to each candidate. Delegates are awarded via a completely separate process that doesn’t utilize the popular vote totals in any way. The purpose of the popular vote is to inform the eventual delegates of the preferences of voters in their states. That’s why many of those states allow Democrats and independents to vote. They want the delegates to know who those voters prefer. That tells them who has the best chance to win in the general election.
In most years, the media can get away with reporting on the nomination contest as they are now. They can assume that the candidates will receive roughly the same percentage of delegates from each state as the percentage they received in the popular vote. That isn’t accurate reporting, but it usually comes out in the wash, especially as far as the winner is concerned. However, there are many things different in this year’s race and there is a good chance that much of the media are going to look silly come August.
First, Mitt Romney is probably the weakest Republican “frontrunner” in several decades. Remember, Republicans weren’t exactly energized by John McCain and he soundly defeated Romney four years ago.
Romney’s campaign has been able to get supporters to take fifteen minutes to stop at a polling place and pull a lever, but it’s much more difficult to get them to participate in a delegate process that takes months to complete.
Ron Paul’s supporters are completely the opposite. While he has not pulled off a “beauty contest” win, his supporters are willing to walk through fire to see him become president. They have learned Robert’s Rules of Order, stayed behind after caucus popular votes, and taken over the delegations in many counties in caucus states.
The Iowa Republican Party has confirmed that Paul and Santorum are in a dead heat for the state’s delegates and that Paul may win the majority. That bears no resemblance to the popular vote in Iowa’s caucus, where Santorum narrowly defeated Romney and Paul came in third.
The devotion of Paul’s supporters isn’t only a factor in the caucus states. In those states where the popular vote does bind the delegates to the winner, there is still an important question. Who are those delegates? Do they truly support the winner of the primary vote? Or are they Paul supporters?
There is no reason to believe that Paul is not well represented among delegates in those states as well. Their delegates are obligated to vote for the winner of the primary during the first round of voting at the RNC. However, if no candidate gets 1,144 votes, even they are now unbound and can vote for any candidate on the second ballot.
If it becomes necessary, that vote could be very interesting.
The media started this election cycle by completely ignoring Ron Paul’s campaign. As his poll numbers rose and the crowds at his rallies grew into the thousands, they began giving him grudging respect. Now, they want to pronounce his campaign over and even go so far as to speak for his supporters.
There’s only one problem. Paul and his supporters aren’t going anywhere and this race is far from over. The Paul campaign’s senior advisor Doug Wead documents many examples of Ron Paul’s delegate strategy yielding much better results than the media are reporting. Assuming he’s right, Romney is unlikely to clinch the nomination during the first vote at the national convention. If he doesn’t, Paul’s understated army of delegates could mean big surprises in Tampa.
Tom Mullen is the author of A Return to Common Sense: Reawakening Liberty in the Inhabitants of America.
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School kids sent to "alternate locations" during terror drills
From: http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/the-war-on-terror-is-a-fraud/school-kids-sent-to-alternate-locations-during-terror-drills.html
Related article...
Kids All Over America Are Being Put On Buses And Sent To Alternate Locations During School Terror Drills
The American Dream
All over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to "alternate locations" during terror drills. These exercises are often called "evacuation drills" or "relocation drills" and they are more than a little disturbing. Sometimes parents are notified in advance where the kids are being taken and sometimes they are only told that the children are being taken to an "undisclosed location". In the years since 9/11 and the Columbine school shootings, there has been a concerted effort to make school emergency drills much more "realistic" and much more intense. Unfortunately, the fact that many of these drills are deeply traumatizing many children does not seem to bother too many people. Do we really need to have "active shooter" drills where men point guns at our kids and fire blanks at them? Do we really need to have "relocation drills" where kids are rapidly herded on to buses and told that they must surrender their cell phones because they will not be allowed to call anyone? Our schools more closely resemble prison camps every single day, and it is our children that are suffering because of it.
It is also important to keep in mind that much of the time these drills are not the fault of local school administrators. Often, these drills are being mandated at the state level. Our politicians have become obsessed with "school safety" in recent years, and apparently their idea of "school safety" involves deeply traumatizing our kids.
Earlier today I was doing some research and I came across a forum where a parent was describing a relocation drill that would soon be happening at a school in Oklahoma. Well, I went to public schools all my life and nothing like this ever happened when I was growing up, so I wanted to do a little digging to see if this was actually happening around the country or if it was just an Internet rumor.
Unfortunately, what I found out was quite disturbing.
It turns out that "relocation drills" are being conducted at schools from coast to coast.
For example, the following is an excerpt from a letter to parents about a relocation drill that took place in Woodhaven, Michigan....
Our school district continues to focus on the safety of staff, students, and our community. We have a detailed emergency plan so we can respond effectively to major catastrophes. We work closely with the fire and police departments from the City of Woodhaven and Brownstown Township to implement this plan. As part of these efforts, we are conducting a practice emergency drill on May 19th. It will begin at about 9:20 a.m. and conclude by 11:30 a.m. This practice drill will simulate a boiler explosion at Patrick Henry Middle School. We will evacuate all staff and students from PHMS, Erving Elementary School, and the Administration Building.
The Woodhaven and Brownstown Township Police and Fire Departments, DTE Energy, and staff from Wayne County RESA will help secure the buildings and monitor this practice drill. Erving Elementary staff and students will be evacuated by bus to Bates Elementary School, and PHMS students and staff will be evacuated by bus to Woodhaven High School.
But just putting kids on buses and taking them to other schools was not enough. During the drill, some students and school staff were instructed to pretend to be injured. In addition, parents were instructed not to call the school during the drill and children were instructed not to call their parents....
As part of the drill, we will pretend that some students and staff are injured. Pretend victims will be assessed and transported to nearby triage centers. Please be aware that Hall Road and Van Horn Road may be closed to traffic for all or part of this drill. There will be a number of emergency vehicles at PHMS and Erving Elementary School during the drill. Your cooperation is necessary for this practice drill to be successful. During drills and emergencies like the one we are planning:
Please do not telephone the school. Telephone lines are needed for drill emergency communications.
Impress upon your children the need to follow directions and take drills seriously.
During an evacuation drill or a real emergency, students will be kept at their school or will be evacuated to another site. They will be released only to adults listed on their emergency contact form. Any adult picking up a student (reunification) will be required to show picture identification.
Students and parents should not communicate by cell phones during the drill or emergency situation. Students need to be attentive to the instructions from school and safety personnel.
But at least in that drill parents knew where their children would be taken.
That was not the case during a recent relocation drill in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho....
Students at Lakeside School District walked out of their schools this morning to prepare for the worst case scenario. They were transferred by bus to an off-site location in less than a hour. But it was only a drill.
Their Bus Evacuation Drill started at 9 a.m. and students were transferred to their undisclosed emergency location and returned back to school.
As you might expect, student safety is our first priority and security is tight even during a practice, Karyn Stockdale, district clerk, said.
It was later revealed they were bussed to Benewah Wellness Center as their acting evacuation shelter.
It was "later revealed" where the "undisclosed emergency location" was?
I am sure a whole bunch of parents were thrilled when they heard about that.
What purpose is served by herding kids on to a bus and taking them to an undisclosed location?
Read entire article here
Related article...
Kids All Over America Are Being Put On Buses And Sent To Alternate Locations During School Terror Drills
The American Dream
All over the United States, school children are being taken out of their classrooms, put on buses and sent to "alternate locations" during terror drills. These exercises are often called "evacuation drills" or "relocation drills" and they are more than a little disturbing. Sometimes parents are notified in advance where the kids are being taken and sometimes they are only told that the children are being taken to an "undisclosed location". In the years since 9/11 and the Columbine school shootings, there has been a concerted effort to make school emergency drills much more "realistic" and much more intense. Unfortunately, the fact that many of these drills are deeply traumatizing many children does not seem to bother too many people. Do we really need to have "active shooter" drills where men point guns at our kids and fire blanks at them? Do we really need to have "relocation drills" where kids are rapidly herded on to buses and told that they must surrender their cell phones because they will not be allowed to call anyone? Our schools more closely resemble prison camps every single day, and it is our children that are suffering because of it.
It is also important to keep in mind that much of the time these drills are not the fault of local school administrators. Often, these drills are being mandated at the state level. Our politicians have become obsessed with "school safety" in recent years, and apparently their idea of "school safety" involves deeply traumatizing our kids.
Earlier today I was doing some research and I came across a forum where a parent was describing a relocation drill that would soon be happening at a school in Oklahoma. Well, I went to public schools all my life and nothing like this ever happened when I was growing up, so I wanted to do a little digging to see if this was actually happening around the country or if it was just an Internet rumor.
Unfortunately, what I found out was quite disturbing.
It turns out that "relocation drills" are being conducted at schools from coast to coast.
For example, the following is an excerpt from a letter to parents about a relocation drill that took place in Woodhaven, Michigan....
Our school district continues to focus on the safety of staff, students, and our community. We have a detailed emergency plan so we can respond effectively to major catastrophes. We work closely with the fire and police departments from the City of Woodhaven and Brownstown Township to implement this plan. As part of these efforts, we are conducting a practice emergency drill on May 19th. It will begin at about 9:20 a.m. and conclude by 11:30 a.m. This practice drill will simulate a boiler explosion at Patrick Henry Middle School. We will evacuate all staff and students from PHMS, Erving Elementary School, and the Administration Building.
The Woodhaven and Brownstown Township Police and Fire Departments, DTE Energy, and staff from Wayne County RESA will help secure the buildings and monitor this practice drill. Erving Elementary staff and students will be evacuated by bus to Bates Elementary School, and PHMS students and staff will be evacuated by bus to Woodhaven High School.
But just putting kids on buses and taking them to other schools was not enough. During the drill, some students and school staff were instructed to pretend to be injured. In addition, parents were instructed not to call the school during the drill and children were instructed not to call their parents....
As part of the drill, we will pretend that some students and staff are injured. Pretend victims will be assessed and transported to nearby triage centers. Please be aware that Hall Road and Van Horn Road may be closed to traffic for all or part of this drill. There will be a number of emergency vehicles at PHMS and Erving Elementary School during the drill. Your cooperation is necessary for this practice drill to be successful. During drills and emergencies like the one we are planning:
Please do not telephone the school. Telephone lines are needed for drill emergency communications.
Impress upon your children the need to follow directions and take drills seriously.
During an evacuation drill or a real emergency, students will be kept at their school or will be evacuated to another site. They will be released only to adults listed on their emergency contact form. Any adult picking up a student (reunification) will be required to show picture identification.
Students and parents should not communicate by cell phones during the drill or emergency situation. Students need to be attentive to the instructions from school and safety personnel.
But at least in that drill parents knew where their children would be taken.
That was not the case during a recent relocation drill in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho....
Students at Lakeside School District walked out of their schools this morning to prepare for the worst case scenario. They were transferred by bus to an off-site location in less than a hour. But it was only a drill.
Their Bus Evacuation Drill started at 9 a.m. and students were transferred to their undisclosed emergency location and returned back to school.
As you might expect, student safety is our first priority and security is tight even during a practice, Karyn Stockdale, district clerk, said.
It was later revealed they were bussed to Benewah Wellness Center as their acting evacuation shelter.
It was "later revealed" where the "undisclosed emergency location" was?
I am sure a whole bunch of parents were thrilled when they heard about that.
What purpose is served by herding kids on to a bus and taking them to an undisclosed location?
Read entire article here
Single Drug Shows Promise Against Cancer
This is fantastic news!!!
As long as the pharmaceutical industry doesn't step in and put a stop to Irving Weissman, of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
So lets wait and see if the News reports are censored (stopped from reporting this breakthrough) and if this lab is nut shut down and made to stop all future testing on CD47 (the new drug) or the school will lose all financing!
I don't mean to burst anyone bubble that has a loved one or that they them self have cancer and I apologize to you for that! and yes I know, it's very pessimistic of me but how many times before have you heard of a cure for something and then it just disappears from the news and can no longer be found anywhere (news reports don't show up anymore) and I'm sorry but I just don't trust the government or the pharmaceutical industry (to much money involved to let a cure be found) ... well,,, I don't trust anyone that falls into the Rich/Elite big business category and I think you all understand why I feel this way!
Anyway I hope this is true!!!
Time will tell!
Ray
-------------------------------------
From: http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=131002RU6HGT&page=1
Single Drug Shows Promise Against Cancer
March 29, 2012 1:04PM
A promising new cancer drug will likely head to human clinical trials. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a "do not eat" signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells. Studies show that this antibody may have a wide impact, affecting many types of cancer, from leukemia to breast cancer.
A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found.
The treatment, an antibody that blocks a "do not eat" signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells.
A decade ago, biologist Irving Weissman, of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., discovered that leukemia cells produce higher levels of a protein called CD47 than do healthy cells. CD47, he and other scientists found, is also displayed on healthy blood cells; it's a marker that blocks the immune system from destroying the cells as they circulate.
Cancers take advantage of this flag to trick the immune system into ignoring them. In the past few years, Weissman's lab showed that blocking CD47 with an antibody cured some cases of lymphomas and leukemias in mice by stimulating the immune system to recognize the cancer cells as invaders.
Now, he and colleagues have shown that the CD47-blocking antibody may have a far wider impact than just blood cancers.
"What we've shown is that CD47 isn't just important on leukemias and lymphomas," says Weissman. "It's on every single human primary tumor that we tested."
Moreover, Weissman's lab found that cancer cells always had higher levels of CD47 than did healthy cells. How much CD47 a tumor made could predict the survival odds of a patient.
To determine whether blocking CD47 was beneficial, the scientists exposed tumor cells to macrophages, a type of immune cell, and anti- CD47 molecules in petri dishes. Without the drug, the macrophages ignored the cancerous cells. But when the CD47 was present, the macrophages engulfed and destroyed cancer cells from all tumor types.
Next, the team transplanted human tumors into the feet of mice, where tumors can be easily monitored. When they treated the rodents with anti-CD47, the tumors shrank and did not spread to the rest of the body.
In mice given human bladder cancer tumors, for example, 10 of 10 untreated mice had cancer that spread to their lymph nodes. Only one of 10 mice treated with anti-CD47 had a lymph node with signs of cancer. Moreover, the implanted tumor often got smaller after treatment -- colon cancers transplanted into the mice shrank to less than one-third of their original size, on average.
And in five mice with breast cancer tumors, anti-CD47 eliminated all signs of the cancer cells, and the animals remained cancer-free four months after the treatment stopped.
"We showed that even after the tumor has taken hold, the antibody can either cure the tumor or slow its growth and prevent metastasis," says Weissman.
Although macrophages also attacked blood cells expressing CD47 when mice were given the antibody, the researchers found that the decrease in blood cells was short-lived; the animals turned up production of new blood cells to replace those they lost from the treatment, the team reported online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cancer researcher Tyler Jacks, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that although the new study is promising, more research is needed to see whether the results hold true in humans.
"The microenvironment of a real tumor is quite a bit more complicated than the microenvironment of a transplanted tumor," he notes, "and it's possible that a real tumor has additional immune suppressing effects."
Weissman's team has received a $20 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to move the findings from mouse studies to human safety tests.
"We have enough data already," says Weissman, "that I can say I'm confident that this will move to phase I human trials."
Another important question, Jacks says, is how CD47 antibodies would complement existing treatments.
"In what ways might they work together and in what ways might they be antagonistic?"
Using anti-CD47 in addition to chemotherapy, for example, could be counterproductive if the stress from chemotherapy causes normal cells to produce more CD47 than usual.
As long as the pharmaceutical industry doesn't step in and put a stop to Irving Weissman, of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
So lets wait and see if the News reports are censored (stopped from reporting this breakthrough) and if this lab is nut shut down and made to stop all future testing on CD47 (the new drug) or the school will lose all financing!
I don't mean to burst anyone bubble that has a loved one or that they them self have cancer and I apologize to you for that! and yes I know, it's very pessimistic of me but how many times before have you heard of a cure for something and then it just disappears from the news and can no longer be found anywhere (news reports don't show up anymore) and I'm sorry but I just don't trust the government or the pharmaceutical industry (to much money involved to let a cure be found) ... well,,, I don't trust anyone that falls into the Rich/Elite big business category and I think you all understand why I feel this way!
Anyway I hope this is true!!!
Time will tell!
Ray
-------------------------------------
From: http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=131002RU6HGT&page=1
Single Drug Shows Promise Against Cancer
March 29, 2012 1:04PM
A promising new cancer drug will likely head to human clinical trials. The treatment, an antibody that blocks a "do not eat" signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells. Studies show that this antibody may have a wide impact, affecting many types of cancer, from leukemia to breast cancer.
A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice, researchers have found.
The treatment, an antibody that blocks a "do not eat" signal normally displayed on tumor cells, coaxes the immune system to destroy the cancer cells.
A decade ago, biologist Irving Weissman, of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, Calif., discovered that leukemia cells produce higher levels of a protein called CD47 than do healthy cells. CD47, he and other scientists found, is also displayed on healthy blood cells; it's a marker that blocks the immune system from destroying the cells as they circulate.
Cancers take advantage of this flag to trick the immune system into ignoring them. In the past few years, Weissman's lab showed that blocking CD47 with an antibody cured some cases of lymphomas and leukemias in mice by stimulating the immune system to recognize the cancer cells as invaders.
Now, he and colleagues have shown that the CD47-blocking antibody may have a far wider impact than just blood cancers.
"What we've shown is that CD47 isn't just important on leukemias and lymphomas," says Weissman. "It's on every single human primary tumor that we tested."
Moreover, Weissman's lab found that cancer cells always had higher levels of CD47 than did healthy cells. How much CD47 a tumor made could predict the survival odds of a patient.
To determine whether blocking CD47 was beneficial, the scientists exposed tumor cells to macrophages, a type of immune cell, and anti- CD47 molecules in petri dishes. Without the drug, the macrophages ignored the cancerous cells. But when the CD47 was present, the macrophages engulfed and destroyed cancer cells from all tumor types.
Next, the team transplanted human tumors into the feet of mice, where tumors can be easily monitored. When they treated the rodents with anti-CD47, the tumors shrank and did not spread to the rest of the body.
In mice given human bladder cancer tumors, for example, 10 of 10 untreated mice had cancer that spread to their lymph nodes. Only one of 10 mice treated with anti-CD47 had a lymph node with signs of cancer. Moreover, the implanted tumor often got smaller after treatment -- colon cancers transplanted into the mice shrank to less than one-third of their original size, on average.
And in five mice with breast cancer tumors, anti-CD47 eliminated all signs of the cancer cells, and the animals remained cancer-free four months after the treatment stopped.
"We showed that even after the tumor has taken hold, the antibody can either cure the tumor or slow its growth and prevent metastasis," says Weissman.
Although macrophages also attacked blood cells expressing CD47 when mice were given the antibody, the researchers found that the decrease in blood cells was short-lived; the animals turned up production of new blood cells to replace those they lost from the treatment, the team reported online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Cancer researcher Tyler Jacks, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that although the new study is promising, more research is needed to see whether the results hold true in humans.
"The microenvironment of a real tumor is quite a bit more complicated than the microenvironment of a transplanted tumor," he notes, "and it's possible that a real tumor has additional immune suppressing effects."
Weissman's team has received a $20 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to move the findings from mouse studies to human safety tests.
"We have enough data already," says Weissman, "that I can say I'm confident that this will move to phase I human trials."
Another important question, Jacks says, is how CD47 antibodies would complement existing treatments.
"In what ways might they work together and in what ways might they be antagonistic?"
Using anti-CD47 in addition to chemotherapy, for example, could be counterproductive if the stress from chemotherapy causes normal cells to produce more CD47 than usual.
Obama Makes the Case For His Own Defeat
"Many Americans are correctly concerned" As they damn well should be! "If he’s willing to go this far when he faces the scrutiny of the voters, how far will he go when he no longer does?"
Well I'll tell you how far he will go, He will go as far as it takes to give him self full control over the United States of America up to and including declaring marshal law so that he can keep the Presidency! But only until the threat to the American people is gone. (and how long do you figure that will be Vern? until he's 90, 100 years old?)
That's how far he will go!
The only question is, How many of you will have turned up missing in the middle of the night, never to be seen again!!!!
Sound familiar? NO?
Think Hitler, Stalin!
Oh ya that's right Dictatorship!!!!
You have been warned!!!
Ray
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From: http://townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/2012/03/31/obama_makes_the_case_for_his_own_defeat/page/full/
Obama Makes the Case For His Own Defeat
Steve Deace
Barack Obama may have just had his “etch-a-sketch” moment.
Last week, the Romney campaign was rightfully chastised after a top advisor essentially said when they’re done pandering to conservatives to win the Republican presidential nomination, they’ll just shake things up like one would an etch-a-sketch and come up with a whole new batch of folks to pander to in the general.
That comment is sure to become very familiar to the American people if indeed Romney is the GOP nominee, sort of like when John Kerry – aka Romney’s alter ego – was branded as the guy who “was for it before he was against it” in 2004.
Not to be outdone, however, President Obama has also now stepped in it—and provided his Republican opponent plenty of ammunition in the process.
According to CNN: In a private conversation about the planned U.S.-led NATO missile defense system in Europe, President Barack Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for space on the issue. "This is my last election," Obama told Medvedev. "After my election I have more flexibility."
"I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir," Medvedev said, referring to incoming President Vladimir Putin.
Translation: Obama is essentially saying as soon as he’s no longer tied down by that pesky will of the people thing, he’ll just do what he wants to do when the will of the people can’t touch him.
Obama is fortunate he committed this gaffe – defined as when a politician or one of his top aides opens his mouth and speaks the unvarnished truth for a change – at a time the GOP does not have a nominee going one-on-one with him to make use of this, as well as the fact the media is largely distracted this week by the Obamneycare hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court. Otherwise this could be just as damaging as the “etch-a-sketch” comment was to the Romney campaign.
The “etch-a-sketch” comment reinforces the very valid criticism the malleable Romney is a RINO of no real conviction, so he will say anything to anyone to get elected. Similarly, Obama’s comments about having “more flexibility” after the election reinforces a narrative of his candidacy his campaign would rather not see perpetuated.
Many Americans are correctly concerned about the hard left direction Obama has already taken the country over their objections. They are thinking that if this is what Obama is like when he faces re-election, what will he be like after he doesn’t? If he’s willing to go this far when he faces the scrutiny of the voters, how far will he go when he no longer does?
To these voters, (and there are lots of them if you were paying attention to the last midterm election), Obama’s flippant off-mic gaffe with the Russian figurehead is a chilling reminder that no matter how likeable the president seems to be, he is still the hard left ideologue they tried to send a message to in 2010. And this gaffe gives them the impression either that message wasn’t received, or was just ignored entirely.
This is the sort of comment that can really help a candidate like Romney in a general election. It takes the focus off the fact that lots of voters (including lots of Republicans) have serious misgivings about Romney, and it puts the focus back on Obama.
For example, if I were running Romney’s general election campaign (and I shudder even just typing those words), I would base my entire campaign strategy on the premise of this Obama gaffe. I would first go back to my skeptical conservative base and tell them this:
“You may not like me. You may not want me. But look how far left this guy has governed when he had to worry about re-election. Imagine what he and his minions will do when they don’t. Imagine agencies like the EPA, and appointments like Eric Holder running even more roughshod over your liberties without the fear of facing the voters ever again?”
Even for a Romney critic like me that is a potent argument.
To independents that have doubts about Obama, I would make a similar case but tether the message to their tastes:
“I’m not a right-winger. I’m a businessman who simply believes you do what works. This president, unlike Bill Clinton when he had a Republican Congress, has been unrelenting in advancing his ultra-liberal agenda, even to the point of ignoring your concerns. And he’s already making plans for how much further he’ll go if you give him another four years. Are you willing to take that chance?”
Frankly, this may be the only valid basis for a person of sincere moral conviction to justify voting for Romney that I can come up with. Furthermore, since incumbent presidents of have won 69% of the re-election campaigns in American history, this is probably Romney’s only shot to win a general election barring the United States becoming Greece in the next eight months—and the president played right into it. He’s lucky it’s only March and most of America has yet to pay attention.
Given the lack of voter enthusiasm for either Romney or Obama, and their combined resources, a battle between the two this fall could easily be the most expensive negative campaign in American history. Many media outlets have lost a lot of their advertising revenue in the recession, so a battle between two unpopular politicians with a war chest at their disposal to tear down one another is a media buyer’s dream.
With that war chest, you can trust Romney to exploit these sorts of gaffes by Obama in ways John McCain was too sanctimonious to do so four years ago. Romney doesn’t fancy himself some larger than life maverick that is above the partisan fray. Unlike McCain, he suffers from no delusions of grandeur in that department. He knows he’s a pandering, hack opportunist politician who will lie every lie and flip any flop to win—and he’s made his peace with it. He will put the boot to Obama’s throat if he has to, not man-hug him like McCain. Romney has no legacy to protect, only power to acquire.
Romney will do whatever it takes to win, as will Obama.
Boy, howdy! Won’t that be an inspiring campaign between two desperate candidates the majority of Americans don’t want, no real substantive differences between the two philosophically, and each with enough money to remind us of that in 30-and-60-second increments every commercial break.
Steve Deace Steve Deace is nationally distributed each weeknight from 9-Midnight EST by the Salem Radio Network. His radio program has been featured in major media such as Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, The Weekly Standard, and National Review among others. He has been a columnist for World Net Daily and the Washington Times, and is now a contributor for Town Hall.com.
Well I'll tell you how far he will go, He will go as far as it takes to give him self full control over the United States of America up to and including declaring marshal law so that he can keep the Presidency! But only until the threat to the American people is gone. (and how long do you figure that will be Vern? until he's 90, 100 years old?)
That's how far he will go!
The only question is, How many of you will have turned up missing in the middle of the night, never to be seen again!!!!
Sound familiar? NO?
Think Hitler, Stalin!
Oh ya that's right Dictatorship!!!!
You have been warned!!!
Ray
From: http://townhall.com/columnists/stevedeace/2012/03/31/obama_makes_the_case_for_his_own_defeat/page/full/
Obama Makes the Case For His Own Defeat
Steve Deace
Barack Obama may have just had his “etch-a-sketch” moment.
Last week, the Romney campaign was rightfully chastised after a top advisor essentially said when they’re done pandering to conservatives to win the Republican presidential nomination, they’ll just shake things up like one would an etch-a-sketch and come up with a whole new batch of folks to pander to in the general.
That comment is sure to become very familiar to the American people if indeed Romney is the GOP nominee, sort of like when John Kerry – aka Romney’s alter ego – was branded as the guy who “was for it before he was against it” in 2004.
Not to be outdone, however, President Obama has also now stepped in it—and provided his Republican opponent plenty of ammunition in the process.
According to CNN: In a private conversation about the planned U.S.-led NATO missile defense system in Europe, President Barack Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev for space on the issue. "This is my last election," Obama told Medvedev. "After my election I have more flexibility."
"I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir," Medvedev said, referring to incoming President Vladimir Putin.
Translation: Obama is essentially saying as soon as he’s no longer tied down by that pesky will of the people thing, he’ll just do what he wants to do when the will of the people can’t touch him.
Obama is fortunate he committed this gaffe – defined as when a politician or one of his top aides opens his mouth and speaks the unvarnished truth for a change – at a time the GOP does not have a nominee going one-on-one with him to make use of this, as well as the fact the media is largely distracted this week by the Obamneycare hearing at the U.S. Supreme Court. Otherwise this could be just as damaging as the “etch-a-sketch” comment was to the Romney campaign.
The “etch-a-sketch” comment reinforces the very valid criticism the malleable Romney is a RINO of no real conviction, so he will say anything to anyone to get elected. Similarly, Obama’s comments about having “more flexibility” after the election reinforces a narrative of his candidacy his campaign would rather not see perpetuated.
Many Americans are correctly concerned about the hard left direction Obama has already taken the country over their objections. They are thinking that if this is what Obama is like when he faces re-election, what will he be like after he doesn’t? If he’s willing to go this far when he faces the scrutiny of the voters, how far will he go when he no longer does?
To these voters, (and there are lots of them if you were paying attention to the last midterm election), Obama’s flippant off-mic gaffe with the Russian figurehead is a chilling reminder that no matter how likeable the president seems to be, he is still the hard left ideologue they tried to send a message to in 2010. And this gaffe gives them the impression either that message wasn’t received, or was just ignored entirely.
This is the sort of comment that can really help a candidate like Romney in a general election. It takes the focus off the fact that lots of voters (including lots of Republicans) have serious misgivings about Romney, and it puts the focus back on Obama.
For example, if I were running Romney’s general election campaign (and I shudder even just typing those words), I would base my entire campaign strategy on the premise of this Obama gaffe. I would first go back to my skeptical conservative base and tell them this:
“You may not like me. You may not want me. But look how far left this guy has governed when he had to worry about re-election. Imagine what he and his minions will do when they don’t. Imagine agencies like the EPA, and appointments like Eric Holder running even more roughshod over your liberties without the fear of facing the voters ever again?”
Even for a Romney critic like me that is a potent argument.
To independents that have doubts about Obama, I would make a similar case but tether the message to their tastes:
“I’m not a right-winger. I’m a businessman who simply believes you do what works. This president, unlike Bill Clinton when he had a Republican Congress, has been unrelenting in advancing his ultra-liberal agenda, even to the point of ignoring your concerns. And he’s already making plans for how much further he’ll go if you give him another four years. Are you willing to take that chance?”
Frankly, this may be the only valid basis for a person of sincere moral conviction to justify voting for Romney that I can come up with. Furthermore, since incumbent presidents of have won 69% of the re-election campaigns in American history, this is probably Romney’s only shot to win a general election barring the United States becoming Greece in the next eight months—and the president played right into it. He’s lucky it’s only March and most of America has yet to pay attention.
Given the lack of voter enthusiasm for either Romney or Obama, and their combined resources, a battle between the two this fall could easily be the most expensive negative campaign in American history. Many media outlets have lost a lot of their advertising revenue in the recession, so a battle between two unpopular politicians with a war chest at their disposal to tear down one another is a media buyer’s dream.
With that war chest, you can trust Romney to exploit these sorts of gaffes by Obama in ways John McCain was too sanctimonious to do so four years ago. Romney doesn’t fancy himself some larger than life maverick that is above the partisan fray. Unlike McCain, he suffers from no delusions of grandeur in that department. He knows he’s a pandering, hack opportunist politician who will lie every lie and flip any flop to win—and he’s made his peace with it. He will put the boot to Obama’s throat if he has to, not man-hug him like McCain. Romney has no legacy to protect, only power to acquire.
Romney will do whatever it takes to win, as will Obama.
Boy, howdy! Won’t that be an inspiring campaign between two desperate candidates the majority of Americans don’t want, no real substantive differences between the two philosophically, and each with enough money to remind us of that in 30-and-60-second increments every commercial break.
Steve Deace Steve Deace is nationally distributed each weeknight from 9-Midnight EST by the Salem Radio Network. His radio program has been featured in major media such as Fox News, CBS News, ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, The Weekly Standard, and National Review among others. He has been a columnist for World Net Daily and the Washington Times, and is now a contributor for Town Hall.com.
The Radical Left’s Race Baiting in Trayvon Martin Case
From: http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2012/03/31/the-radical-lefts-race-baiting-in-trayvon-martin-case/
The Radical Left’s Race Baiting in Trayvon Martin Case
THE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN/TRAYVON MARTIN CASE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE
If George Zimmerman is found not guilty, there will be riots, and race baiting activists, Representatives, and the left controlled media MSNBC and CNN will be the ones to blame.Trayvon Martin’s family should be upset at these people who are pretending to care about them, but really are doing nothing but carrying out a radical left agenda. An agenda that is nothing new, and was recently exposed by Andrew Breitbart, who died mysteriously the night before releasing his information.
03/27/2012
Psychologist Dr. Keith Ablow on why the President’s comments on Trayvon Martin were divisive.
03/29/2012
Brooke Baldwin addresses controversy surrounding her interview with Rep. Corrine Brown on the Trayvon Martin shooting.
03/30/2012
Piers Morgan vs. Race Baiter Touré
03/30/2012
Brent Bozell: Network outright advanced ‘falsehood’ on national television
RELATED LINK: REVEALED: Why Obama & MSM are Pushing Trayvon Martin Case
The Radical Left’s Race Baiting in Trayvon Martin Case
THE GEORGE ZIMMERMAN/TRAYVON MARTIN CASE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE
If George Zimmerman is found not guilty, there will be riots, and race baiting activists, Representatives, and the left controlled media MSNBC and CNN will be the ones to blame.Trayvon Martin’s family should be upset at these people who are pretending to care about them, but really are doing nothing but carrying out a radical left agenda. An agenda that is nothing new, and was recently exposed by Andrew Breitbart, who died mysteriously the night before releasing his information.
03/27/2012
Psychologist Dr. Keith Ablow on why the President’s comments on Trayvon Martin were divisive.
03/29/2012
Brooke Baldwin addresses controversy surrounding her interview with Rep. Corrine Brown on the Trayvon Martin shooting.
03/30/2012
Piers Morgan vs. Race Baiter Touré
03/30/2012
Brent Bozell: Network outright advanced ‘falsehood’ on national television
RELATED LINK: REVEALED: Why Obama & MSM are Pushing Trayvon Martin Case
The Case For The 21 Hour Work Week
From: http://www.nextworldtv.com/videos/new-economy/the-case-for-the-21-hour-work-week.html
Virtues Of The 21 Hour Work Week
The British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay in 1913 in which he predicted that by this time, we'd work an average of about 15 hours a week and we'd be 4 to 5 times richer.
That famously did not happen. We are working more, earning less, and the whole culture is greedier, more exhausted, and much more damaging to the environment.
We are spinning our wheels more than ever, despite technologicaladvances.
Meet some people who say that 21 hours is the ideal work week, that can reintroduce balance, sanity, health, ecological benefits, employment for all, and yes even increased prosperity into the equation.
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The Harder We Work The More We ... Lose, Waste, and Pollute
The British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay in 1913 in which he predicted that by this time, we'd work an average of about 15 hours a week and we'd be 4 to 5 times richer.
That famously did not happen. Several factors, like monetary policy and resulting inflation just to name two, contribute to the fact that the exact opposite happened. We are working more, earning less, and the whole culture is greedier, more exhausted, more damaging to the environment - just spinning our wheels more than ever.
The harder we work the more we...lose. We are losing quality time, and quality of life. The hidden costs are undermining us from within.
What we are focused on here is looking at what can be gained from working less. The NEF, New Economic Foundation is an independent "Think and Do Tank" in the UK that inspires and demonstrates real economic well being. They put together a report spotlighted in this video that claims the ideal work week would be 21 hours.
Juliet Schor is a Professor of sociology at Boston College. She studies trends in working time and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic justice. In this video we hear her explain: "Reduced working hours are a powerful lever for making transformational change. Improving working hours provides us with what we call in economics a triple dividend possibility: 1. Improving the employment picture, improving ecological outcomes, and improving quality of life."
She also makes the point that countries who are on a path of reduced working hours have lower ecological footprints.
Those who have a little more time can be better parents, better community members, can take care of their health, drive less, grow food, make more things instead of buy them, in short: consume less and have more.
--Bibi Farber
For more info on the NEF see www.neweconomics.org
This video was produced by Feedback Films
Virtues Of The 21 Hour Work Week
The British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay in 1913 in which he predicted that by this time, we'd work an average of about 15 hours a week and we'd be 4 to 5 times richer.
That famously did not happen. We are working more, earning less, and the whole culture is greedier, more exhausted, and much more damaging to the environment.
We are spinning our wheels more than ever, despite technologicaladvances.
Meet some people who say that 21 hours is the ideal work week, that can reintroduce balance, sanity, health, ecological benefits, employment for all, and yes even increased prosperity into the equation.
Share: www.facebook.com/nextworldtv
Bibi Farber Nextworldtv
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The Harder We Work The More We ... Lose, Waste, and Pollute
The British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote an essay in 1913 in which he predicted that by this time, we'd work an average of about 15 hours a week and we'd be 4 to 5 times richer.
That famously did not happen. Several factors, like monetary policy and resulting inflation just to name two, contribute to the fact that the exact opposite happened. We are working more, earning less, and the whole culture is greedier, more exhausted, more damaging to the environment - just spinning our wheels more than ever.
The harder we work the more we...lose. We are losing quality time, and quality of life. The hidden costs are undermining us from within.
What we are focused on here is looking at what can be gained from working less. The NEF, New Economic Foundation is an independent "Think and Do Tank" in the UK that inspires and demonstrates real economic well being. They put together a report spotlighted in this video that claims the ideal work week would be 21 hours.
Juliet Schor is a Professor of sociology at Boston College. She studies trends in working time and leisure, consumerism, the relationship between work and family, women's issues and economic justice. In this video we hear her explain: "Reduced working hours are a powerful lever for making transformational change. Improving working hours provides us with what we call in economics a triple dividend possibility: 1. Improving the employment picture, improving ecological outcomes, and improving quality of life."
She also makes the point that countries who are on a path of reduced working hours have lower ecological footprints.
Those who have a little more time can be better parents, better community members, can take care of their health, drive less, grow food, make more things instead of buy them, in short: consume less and have more.
--Bibi Farber
For more info on the NEF see www.neweconomics.org
This video was produced by Feedback Films
Has Israel been given access to Azerbaijan bases near Iran border
From: Brasscheck http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-is-a-racket/has-israel-been-given-access-to-azerbaijan-bases-near-iran-border.html
Foreign Policy magazine says that Israel has a secret deal to use Azerbaijan military bases from which to launch an attack on Iran, CNN says it's all speculation, and FOX News says that it's all a plan by the Obama Administration to stab Israel in the back by revealing their secrets.
I don't have a lot of trust in ANY of these outlets, so personally, I have no idea what to make of it all.
Though clearly, there's some maneuvering going on here and it's all just bad.
Bad bad bad...
Goodman Green - Brasscheck
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Et tu Obama? Was U.S. Government behind attempt to sabotage Israel?
By Melanie Phillips
Daily Mail
Is the Obama administration using either leaks or black propaganda to sabotage Israels defence against the threat of genocide?
Americas former ambassador to the UN John Bolton certainly thinks so and he is not a man given to rash speculation.
An article on the website of Foreign Policy magazine last Wednesday, written by former unofficial Yasser Arafat adviser and established Israel-basher Mark Perry, quoted four unnamed senior diplomats and intelligence officers saying that Israel had been granted access to air bases in Azerbaijan on Irans northern border.
The article suggested that this meant Israel planned to use Azerbaijan either for a strike at Iran or for other support for such an attack.
An Azeri official has subsequently said the claim that Azerbaijan has granted Israel access to its air bases for an attack is absurd and groundless. That denial, however, is clearly limited. And several observers have concluded that whether this is a genuine leak or disinformation, the story is an attempt to harm Israel by its principal western ally. Indeed, assuming it is not a total fabrication but is based on actual briefings, it is hard to conclude anything else.
On Fox News, Bolton said: I think this leak today is part of the administrations campaign against an Israeli attack. Bolton, a Fox News contributor, noted that a strike launched from Azerbaijan would be much easier for the Israelis than a strike launched from their own country - jets could stay over their targets longer and worry less about refueling. But he said tipping the Israelis hand by revealing 'very sensitive, very important information' could frustrate such a plan.
'Clearly, this is an administration-orchestrated leak,' Bolton told FoxNews.com. 'This is not a rogue CIA guy saying I think Ill leak this out. Its just unprecedented to reveal this kind of information about one of your own allies.'
Read more here
Foreign Policy magazine says that Israel has a secret deal to use Azerbaijan military bases from which to launch an attack on Iran, CNN says it's all speculation, and FOX News says that it's all a plan by the Obama Administration to stab Israel in the back by revealing their secrets.
I don't have a lot of trust in ANY of these outlets, so personally, I have no idea what to make of it all.
Though clearly, there's some maneuvering going on here and it's all just bad.
Bad bad bad...
Goodman Green - Brasscheck
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Et tu Obama? Was U.S. Government behind attempt to sabotage Israel?
By Melanie Phillips
Daily Mail
Is the Obama administration using either leaks or black propaganda to sabotage Israels defence against the threat of genocide?
Americas former ambassador to the UN John Bolton certainly thinks so and he is not a man given to rash speculation.
An article on the website of Foreign Policy magazine last Wednesday, written by former unofficial Yasser Arafat adviser and established Israel-basher Mark Perry, quoted four unnamed senior diplomats and intelligence officers saying that Israel had been granted access to air bases in Azerbaijan on Irans northern border.
The article suggested that this meant Israel planned to use Azerbaijan either for a strike at Iran or for other support for such an attack.
An Azeri official has subsequently said the claim that Azerbaijan has granted Israel access to its air bases for an attack is absurd and groundless. That denial, however, is clearly limited. And several observers have concluded that whether this is a genuine leak or disinformation, the story is an attempt to harm Israel by its principal western ally. Indeed, assuming it is not a total fabrication but is based on actual briefings, it is hard to conclude anything else.
On Fox News, Bolton said: I think this leak today is part of the administrations campaign against an Israeli attack. Bolton, a Fox News contributor, noted that a strike launched from Azerbaijan would be much easier for the Israelis than a strike launched from their own country - jets could stay over their targets longer and worry less about refueling. But he said tipping the Israelis hand by revealing 'very sensitive, very important information' could frustrate such a plan.
'Clearly, this is an administration-orchestrated leak,' Bolton told FoxNews.com. 'This is not a rogue CIA guy saying I think Ill leak this out. Its just unprecedented to reveal this kind of information about one of your own allies.'
Read more here
Friday, March 30, 2012
Trayvon Martin Family Attorney on Mounting Evidence Against Killer & the Attacks on Trayvon’s Memory
From: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/30/trayvon_martin_family_attorney_on_mounting
You know that station where you get the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
Well from them and RT tv
Two out of how many 50, 60, sad really really sad!
Ray
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Over a month after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot dead in Sanford, Florida, his gunman George Zimmerman remains a free man despite growing questions over Zimmerman’s claim that he acted in self-defense. A new witness has spoken out saying Zimmerman did not show any signs of injuries after he shot Martin, while another has reportedly alleged police pressured him to change his testimony to match Zimmerman’s story. Meanwhile, Zimmerman’s family has launched a public effort to defend him, while a white supremacist has apparently hacked into Trayvon Martin’s email and Facebook accounts in an effort to tarnish his image. We speak to Natalie Jackson, an attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family. "Clearly, they are trying to protect their family member," Jackson says of interviews Zimmerman’s relatives have given to the media. "I guess they have a right to do that. But the problem is, they don’t have a right to destroy Trayvon’s memory in the process
Walking While Black: Killing of Trayvon Martin Evokes Memories of Civil Rights Martyr Emmett Till
The killing of Trayvon Martin has drawn comparisons to that of civil rights martyr Emmett Till, who was slain at the age of 14 in Mississippi in 1955. We’re joined by Cynthia Dagnal-Myron, a writer who was taught by Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley. Dagnal-Myron is a former reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and Arizona Daily Star who has also spent over 20 years as a teacher and administrator. Her most recent article for Salon.com is "For Trayvon and Emmett: My 'Walking While Black' Stories." Comparing the Jim Crow era to today, Dagnal-Myron says, "I don’t know how much progress has been made. ... [In] your day-to-day life, if you’re an African-American woman or man, you still feel the things that my parents felt. ... You’re still treated the way that my parents were afraid that I would be treated. It’s just an everyday thing for me. So, for those who think that it’s over, they’re not walking in our shoes."
"Trayvon Martin Was Ours"–Author Alice Walker on How Killing is Symptom of Unaddressed Racism
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet and activist Alice Walker joins us talk about the death of Trayvon Martin. "It’s a symptom of our illness," Walker says. "We are a very sick country. And our racism is a manifestation of our illness and the ways that we don’t delve into our own wrecks. ... As a country, we are a wreck. And part of it is that we have never looked to see where we went off the trail. ... [Trayvon Martin] was ours. And I don’t mean just ours, black people, but all of ours. I mean, these children, they are our future, and they have to be protected.
You know that station where you get the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
Well from them and RT tv
Two out of how many 50, 60, sad really really sad!
Ray
------------------------------
Over a month after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot dead in Sanford, Florida, his gunman George Zimmerman remains a free man despite growing questions over Zimmerman’s claim that he acted in self-defense. A new witness has spoken out saying Zimmerman did not show any signs of injuries after he shot Martin, while another has reportedly alleged police pressured him to change his testimony to match Zimmerman’s story. Meanwhile, Zimmerman’s family has launched a public effort to defend him, while a white supremacist has apparently hacked into Trayvon Martin’s email and Facebook accounts in an effort to tarnish his image. We speak to Natalie Jackson, an attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family. "Clearly, they are trying to protect their family member," Jackson says of interviews Zimmerman’s relatives have given to the media. "I guess they have a right to do that. But the problem is, they don’t have a right to destroy Trayvon’s memory in the process
Walking While Black: Killing of Trayvon Martin Evokes Memories of Civil Rights Martyr Emmett Till
The killing of Trayvon Martin has drawn comparisons to that of civil rights martyr Emmett Till, who was slain at the age of 14 in Mississippi in 1955. We’re joined by Cynthia Dagnal-Myron, a writer who was taught by Till’s mother, Mamie Till Mobley. Dagnal-Myron is a former reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and Arizona Daily Star who has also spent over 20 years as a teacher and administrator. Her most recent article for Salon.com is "For Trayvon and Emmett: My 'Walking While Black' Stories." Comparing the Jim Crow era to today, Dagnal-Myron says, "I don’t know how much progress has been made. ... [In] your day-to-day life, if you’re an African-American woman or man, you still feel the things that my parents felt. ... You’re still treated the way that my parents were afraid that I would be treated. It’s just an everyday thing for me. So, for those who think that it’s over, they’re not walking in our shoes."
"Trayvon Martin Was Ours"–Author Alice Walker on How Killing is Symptom of Unaddressed Racism
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet and activist Alice Walker joins us talk about the death of Trayvon Martin. "It’s a symptom of our illness," Walker says. "We are a very sick country. And our racism is a manifestation of our illness and the ways that we don’t delve into our own wrecks. ... As a country, we are a wreck. And part of it is that we have never looked to see where we went off the trail. ... [Trayvon Martin] was ours. And I don’t mean just ours, black people, but all of ours. I mean, these children, they are our future, and they have to be protected.
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