Newfound genetic clue to HIV rate in blacks

by Sabin Rus­sell, Chron­i­cle Med­ical Writ­er­San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle
SAN FRANCISCO — An inter­na­tional team of AIDS sci­en­tists has dis­cov­ered that a gene vari­ant com­mon in blacks pro­tects against cer­tain types of malaria but increases sus­cep­ti­bil­ity to HIV infec­tion by 40 per­cent.
Researchers, keen to find some bio­log­i­cal clues to explain why peo­ple of African descent are bearing [...]

Dr. Mary’s Monkey

How the Unsolved Mur­der of a Doc­tor, a Secret Lab­o­ra­tory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Mon­key Viruses are Linked to Lee Har­vey Oswald, the JFK Assas­si­na­tion and Emerg­ing Global Epidemics.

Interview: Cindy Sheehan

by Liam Stack in CairoAl Jazeera
Cindy Shee­han, an Amer­i­can activist who was nick­named the “Peace Mom” by the media for her crit­i­cism of the Iraq War, retreated from her pub­lic cam­paigns in 2007.
The death of her son Casey, a US sol­dier, in a Bagh­dad bat­tle in 2005 had trans­formed Shee­han into a pub­lic fig­ure in the US.
But [...]

FTR #620 Interview with Paris Flammonde about the ‘Masques of New Orleans’

Recorded Novem­ber 25, 2007
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Fol­low­ing on the heels of FTR#619, this pro­gram fea­tures author and radio pro­ducer Paris Flammonde’s account of the New Orleans inves­ti­ga­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion. For­mer pro­ducer of the sem­i­nal late-night radio talk pro­gram The Long John Nebel Show, Flammonde’s 1969 book The Kennedy Con­spir­acy was one [...]

A Congressman for Jihad

by Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com

For­mer U.S. Con­gress­man Mark Deli Sil­jan­der (R-MI) was indicted Wednes­day for money laun­der­ing, con­spir­acy and obstruc­tion of jus­tice, in con­nec­tion with charges that a Mus­lim char­ity, the Islamic Amer­i­can Relief Agency (IARA), was involved in efforts to finance the Afghan jihad ter­ror­ist Gul­bud­din Hek­mat­yar. The IARA was named a [...]

Strategies of Attrition (III)

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II).]
LHASA/BEIJING/ULAAN BAATAR/BERLIN(Own report) — Last week­end, par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of the Ger­mano­phonic minor­ity in North­ern Italy (“South Tyrol”) vis­it­ing the head­quar­ters of the Tibetan “exile gov­ern­ment” in India, declared Tibet’s being part of the People’s Repub­lic of China to be “ille­gal” and called for the seces­sion of [...]

Strategies of Attrition (II)

GermanForeignPolicy.com
[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).]
BEIJING/LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) — Ger­man politi­cians have announced an esca­la­tion of the chancellor’s Tibet offen­sive. Accord­ing to com­ments made by the Prime Min­is­ter of Hesse, Roland Koch (CDU), Angela Merkel’s meet­ing with the Dalai Lama is only the begin­ning of large scale inter­fer­ence into China’s internal [...]

Blackwater Founder and West Michigan Native Funds Right-wing through Foundation

Medi­a­Mouse
Black­wa­ter USA founder and West Michi­gan native Erik Prince funds a vari­ety of rightwing and reli­gious causes accord­ing to a review of grants awarded by Prince’s Frei­heit Foun­da­tion. Prince, who’s Black­wa­ter has drawn con­sid­er­able atten­tion for its work in Iraq, post-Katrina New Orleans, and Colom­bia, also has strong ties to the eco­nomic and reli­gious right [...]

Looking for a Scapegoat The world again turns to Jews.

by Vic­tor Davis Han­sonTri­bune Media Ser­vices
Who recently said: “These Jews started 19 Cru­sades. The 19th was World War I. Why? Only to build Israel.”
Some holdover Nazi?
Hardly. It was for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Necmet­tin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews — whom he refers to as “bac­te­ria” — controlled [...]

FTR #606 Project Paperclip and AIDS

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NB: This descrip­tion con­tains a great deal of mate­r­ial added after the broad­cast was orig­i­nally made. Listeners/readers are emphat­i­cally encour­aged to pur­sue other pro­grams deal­ing with this sub­ject, espe­cially AFA #16.
Intro­duc­tion: For more than two decades, Dave Emory has pre­sented pro­grams indi­cat­ing that AIDS is a man-made dis­ease. Sup­ple­ment­ing that [...]