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Published at GNN, June 2008

- An orphan in New York City receiving Aids drugs - was he ever really infected?

The World Health Organization confesses that 25 years of international Aids projections and programs were based on fear, not evidence. But they still want you to believe them.

It is official: Aids is not explicable by sexual transmission. There is no heterosexual Aids pandemic, and further, there will be no heterosexual Aids pandemic.

“Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits”, The Independent announced on Sunday, June 8, 2008, mimicking what I have been reporting for years (and what some of my colleagues have been reporting for decades).

No, really. But take it from someone you trust, Dr. Kevin de Cock of the World Health Organization: “[T]here will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.”

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The mainstream medical community is beginning to understand the limits of the Aids venture into Africa. Persons who are serious about improving the lives of the poorest in the world are thinking twice about the monies spent on the Aids campaign.

There is a call for the permanent disbanding of the United Nations Aids division, in order to re-focus efforts on the myriad of problems that plague Africans: Lack of food, water, work, safety, and basic medical care for malaria, tuberculosis, and dysentery.

The writing is on the wall for UNAIDS

By Roger England, chairman, Health Systems Workshop, Grenada
The British Medical Journal

HIV exceptionalism is dead—and the writing is on the wall for UNAIDS. Why a UN agency for HIV and not for pneumonia or diabetes, which both kill more people? [….]

UNAIDS should be closed down rapidly, not because it has performed badly given its mandate, which it has not, but because its mandate is wrong and harmful. Its technical functions should be refitted into WHO, to be balanced with those for other diseases.

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A couple years ago, in the San Francisco branch of Whole Foods Market, off of steep and divisionary slope of Van Ness Blvd, I picked up a flat package containing a fistful of cold, cooked white rice, and a few pieces of bloody tuna thrown this way and that. I brought it to the help desk, and asked, “What is this?”

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Clinton tells the press, ‘Drop out? But the ‘hope’ man hasn’t been assassinated yet! Just give it a month!’:

“My husband [Nepotism-Monarchy Alert!] did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said.

- ‘Die, Black Man, Die,’ says Hilly, on the trail. Hope dies last, indeed!
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Hello, hello, Cedu survivors, escapees and graduates… and likewise, to all from similar, sister and satellite programs (the Benchmark, NWA, Tranquility Bay nexus).

I’m working on a documentary about the subject, in an effort to tell some stories and elucidate some hidden histories from our lives - the time we spent in strange isolation from the world, in one of these very odd schools, with their very odd, and then often invasive and abusive, philosophies.

This blog up for you to say hi, drop me notes, post links, ask questions, or fill me in on what you’re reading and discovering about the schools.

I’ll be posting video clips as editing continues. The basic premise is as follows: Make this work available to a wide audience, the widest audience, but especially, to those who will want to know about these schools: that is, parents who are considering sending their child away; or, a young person, who is being sold on the idea of going.

Don’t be shy, or strangers. Do check in, do post relevant links, do be friendly, and not afraid of making your experience or opinions known about the bizarrery we call Cedu.

“I really, really, really, really,” said Clinton, “reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreally”, she continued,
“REALLY REALLY WANT TO BE POPULAR!” She told a crowd gathered in front of a Wal*Mart in Louisville.

“I really really really WANT to be important! And if you’ll help me stay important,” she pledged, “I’ll say that I’ll do things that you want to hear somebody say!” She told the slightly dazed crowd, who were getting an early start on their weekend drinking.

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You’ve heard the news?

Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban. California [Here].

And I’ve heard the radio talk-show hounds tell me that it’s “Anti-Democratic! Against the Will of the People to have a Law Forced into Our Lives!”

(But we’ve heard that before….)
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And it’s so clear, straightforward and logical, that you’re gonna have a “Why isn’t that already a LAW!” moment, I guarantee.

Let’s call it….

The XXVIII Amendment:

No Children,

No Siblings,

And No Spouses.

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Can U Read Kant?, asks the Wall Street Journal, in its (laugh-and-cry-out) laudable review of…

[F]rom 1981 to 2003, the leisure reading of 15- to 17-year-olds fell to seven minutes a day from 18. But the real action has been in multitasking. By 2003, children were cramming an average of 8½ hours of media consumption a day into just 6½ hours – watching TV while surfing the Web, reading while listening to music, composing text messages while watching a movie.

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What are teen “tough-love” and “behavior modification” programs like, from the inside?

You can discover at least a little by reading “What it takes to Pull Me Through,”, by a writer named Dave Marcus.

Reading the book, I recognize all of the details - the forced labor, the bizarre, unregulated, unprofessional group ‘therapies’; the tactics of humiliation, isolation and coercion. I have to say, however, that while the author shows a good facility with chronology, he seems to have done little to no research on the effectiveness, ethical nature - or legality - of what he was witnessing. Read the rest of this entry »

An excerpt from our upcoming documentary on the perilous world of ‘therapeutic boarding schools’ for teens. Here Dr. Nicki Bush talks about A-START, (the Alliance for the Safe, Therapeutic and Appropriate use of Residential Treatment), and their recommendations for parents, and teens, who are considering boarding-school therapies as a solution to teen and family problems.

You can visit the A-START webpage Here, and download a color PDF of their guidelines yourself Here

More to come…

Funny question? Funny word. Not so funny meaning, to those who experienced it (though we laugh at the ridiculousness of it, at times)…

Who knows what a ‘Cedu’ is? And what do you want others to know about it?

And what do you want the future to know about places (whoops, it is a place, gave it away) like Cedu?

I await your responses….

Okay…Some hints for the curious Hint, Hint, Hint, Hint.

She said so! She’ll make it happen. She has a plan.

You see, when she was young and traveling in the Amazon (with her great-uncle, Sir Edmund Hillary, who she was named for), Read the rest of this entry »

It’s in the writing (acting, directing, and production):

The meta-machines that destroyed humanity (and its 12 zodiacal planets), drive us to discover our inner piece of Holy Spirit (while forcing us to reject our happy pantheon)…

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And should it be? Or, shouldn’t it at least be discouraged?

Shrillness - the inability to speak without shouting,

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