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[Page 347 line 1] St Peggottyís most teaching-hospitals have an annual dinner for staff and past students, so all branches of the medical profession would be represented.
[Page 347 line 5] Keede he also appears in ìA Madonna of the Trenchesî and ìIn the Interests of the Bretherenî (Debits and Credits) together with ìFairy-kistî earlier in this volume.
[Page 347 lines 8 - 9] G. P.ës: whose faces Ö light cars the General Practitioners, backbone of the medical and surgical world, who would look somewhat weatherbeaten as they drove about their districts in open cars.
[Page 347 line 10] Sir James Belton ORG believes he is modelled on Sir John Bland-Sutton (1855-1936) His autobiography The Story of a Surgeon has a Preamble by Kipling. (Methuen, 1930) See "Some of Kipling's medical acquaintances" in this guide, and ìA Doctorís Workî, Kiplingís speech to the Middlesex Hospital in A Book of Words.
[Page 347 line 17] bacteriologist a specialist in the science and study of bacteria.
[Page 347 line 21] esoteric known only to a select few.
[Page 348 line 1] Pharmacopoeia Britannia the standard list of drugs and medicines then issued by the General Medical Council. A book consisting of a collection of formulae and methods of drug preparation that is recognised as a standard in Great Britain.
[Page 348 line 2] Galenical Physician Galen, born about 130 A. D. who studied medicine in Greece and Egypt,, was regarded as one of the greatest physicians of early times (see page 347 line 8 above). In this case it can mean a real pukka or official physician.
[Page 348 line 6-7] Howlieglass Ö walked the hospitals This nickname is believed by ORG to be derived from Tyll Eulenspiegel (Owl-glass) and to refer to the large horn-rimmed spectacles he wore; and also a character in Scottish Satirical Verses by Robert Sempill (fl.1567-1583). . 'Glass' was also used at one time for 'mirror'. 'Walking the hospitals' was an early term for medical students.
[Page 348 lines 15] diggingsÖ slang for lodgings;
[Page 348 line 16] Wimpole Street parallel with Harley Street, just north of Oxford Street in central London, and containing many professional consulting rooms and the Royal Society of Medicine.
[Page 348 line 16] the tray set with assorted drinks.
[Page 348 line 20] ëtripeí the lining of the stomach ñ he was a specialists in abdominal surgery.
[Page 348 line 21] Scree the heap of small rocks etc. at the foot of cliffs, or covering mountain slopes.
[Page 348 line 24] Matterhorn a mountain in the Alps between Switzerland and Italy. Horringe is a mountaineer, which explains his nickname.
[Page 348 line 26] knife-wallahs surgeons.
[Page 348 line 31] a sixpenny doctor at Lambeth a general practitioner working in Lambeth, then a poor area of sounth London, who charged sixpence for a consultation - inexpensive. (sixpence in pre-decimal currency was a fortieth of a £, 5p today).
[Page 349 line 7] barbers The Barber Surgeons, medical and surgical practitioner of medieval Europe, eventually split from the Barbers and in Britain formed the Company of Surgeons, receiving a Royal Charter in 1800. They later became the Royal College of Surgeons.
[Page 349 line 11] pew-opener an aged man or woman who opened the doors of the old box-pews in some churches ñ regarded as a very humble job.
[Page 349 line 18] Maldoni a family of Italian descent, but we have not found another reference. (Google has 'Astrophysics' but no other help).
[Page 349 line 25] bug-run slang for a bacteriorlogical laboratory.
[Page 350 line 11] agar-agar a jelly-like substance made from certain sea-weeds, used for growing bacteria and other micro-organisms in the laboratory.
[Page 350 line 13] The Lancet one of the oldest medical journals in the world, published weekly since 1823.
[Page 350 line 23] any other post-War assassin there are not enough surgeons to go round in wartime, and men like Keede would be put to emergency surgery. After the war some of them would try to set up as surgeons in civil practice without the proper qualifications or experience.. This is the implication of the paragraph following line 23.
[Page 351 line 7 onwards] Why on earth was Wilkie sent to the Front ? Surgery is regarded, by the lay public anyway, as the highest form of medical art and practice. Many medical men not doing surgery believe that, given the chance, they could have been brilliant surgeons. Wilkett's ìbleedin' vanityî (line 32 below) made him believe that because he was a good bacteriologist he could also be a good surgeon. How often have we met this type and how wrong they usually are, as was Wilkett who was a very good bacteriologist in the early days of the speciality. It was a waste sending him to the Front. There may not have been another bacteriologist, certainly not one as good, to replace him. He was a perfectionist and even if he had been an excellent surgeon, he would have been 'broken' from working at a C.C.S.
[Page 351 line 16 and line 25] the base ... Clearing Station In the 1914-18 War stretcher-bearers retrieved the wounded from where they had fallen and carried them to regimental first-aid posts which were close to the front line, often in shell-holes or dug-outs. Here each was labelled stating the injuries and the treatment given. From here they were taken to dressing-stations run by the divisional field ambulances, and from there by ambulance to the casualty clearing stations which were usually several miles behind the front line.
Having been treated here, the seriously wounded were taken by ambulance train to one of the big base hospitals like Boulogne, thirty or more miles from the front. Here they could have further or more specialised surgery before being sent to England by hospital ship. Wilkie had been working at one of the base hospitals, where he could probably have worked in a bacteriology department, or at least in a much calmer environment than that of a clearing station.
[Page 351 line 30] broke in this context, broken ñ see page 352, line 24 onwards and page 356 line 1 below.
[Page 352 line 1] Lambeth has spoken Keedeís remark 'Bleediní vanity' is an echo of the Cockney accents of his patients in Lambeth where he was a sixpenny doctor ñ see page 348 line 31 above and ìToby Dogî in Thy Servant a Dog, page 76 line 15.
[Page 352 line 13] hawk-headed Egyptian god perhaps Ra, the sun-god, or Horus.
[Page 352 line 17] dresser in this context an assistant to a surgeon.
[Page 353 line 28] C. C. S. Casualty Clearing Station: the nearest point to the front line where operations could be carried out after the casualty had been treated at a Regimental Aid Post, Advanced Dressing Station or Main Dressing Station. The procedures are vividly described in the following lines.
[Page 252 line 32] E.P. tents tents provided for European Privates ñ see Notes to ìThe Drums of the Fore and Aftî (Wee Willie Winkie, page 350, line 10).
[Page 352 line 33] tarpaulins that have ñ been in use large waterproof sheets that would be badly soiled with mud and blood - almost impossible to clean.
[Page 353 line 1] acetylene ethyne ñ a flammable gas then used for lighting away from main gas supplies.
[Page 353 line 3] dope and the pads probably ether put on a pad which was then held over the nose .
[Page 353 line 4] cutlery surgical instruments.
[Page 353 line 6] tagged and labelled as 'abdominal, fracture of bone', or whatever the nature of the wound: also the amount of morphia injected by the Regimental Medical Officer in the front line and the time it was given would ne noted, lest it should be repeated too soon at the C. C. S.
[Page 353 line 11] someone vomits This could slow things down if instruments have to be re-sterilized and new dressings put out.
[Page 353 line 16] shrapnel A shell filled with bullets which scatter in the air when the shell bursts, causing a large proportion of head wounds.
[Page 353 line 17] five-point-nines the calibre of the guns firing high-explosive shells (five and nine-tenth inches - 15 cm.) in which case the wounded were hit by shell-splinters.
[Page 353 line 19] abdominals....You have to explore examine all the intestine to find perforations.
[Page 353 line 23] Second Vermuizendaal one of the battles in Flanders during the offensive of 1916.
[Page 353 line 26] our tea-bucket there was no water laid on at a C. C. S. so one bucket-full was used over and over again and very quickly became filthy.
[Page 353 line 27] per capita Latin, per head or per person.
[Page 353 line 28] trephining This usually means cutting out a circular piece of bone from the skull. It is not a very lengthy procedure. Possibly, in this context, the operations being performed were craniotomies where a larger piece of bone is removed, the damage to the brain tissue examined, and any foreign bodies such as shrapnel removed, sometimes with the aid of an electro-magnet.
[Page 353 line 31] his own troupe the anaesthetist, assistant surgeon and nurses he usually worked with.
[Page 354 line 3] Amiens city on the River Somme and scene of much action during the war.
Villers Bretonneux some 12 miles (19 km) east of Amiens.
[Page 354 line 15] egg in this context a German shell.
[Page 354 line 18] waggling your foot a method of awaking a sleeper without being punched or shot - see ìIn the Interests of the Bretherenî Debits and Credits page 78.
Inquisition the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church, established in 1248 for the suppression of heresy.
[Page 354 line 20] warmed and slept off some of his shock This is the type of shock caused by severe trauma and/or massive haemorrhage. The circulation of the blood around the body is severely reduced. The injured patient may be semi-conscious, pale and sweaty with a feeble rapid pulse and a low blood pressure. They would probably die if operated on in this condition. Even warming him up would improve his circulation to some extent.
[Page 354 line 24] Mespot Mesopotamia , the Land between two rivers, Euphrates and Tigris, now part of Iraq. Scene of British operations against the Turks in the 1914-18 War.
[Page 354 line 25] stitch his diaphragm to his larynx the diaphragm is the muscular wall that divides the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity. Keede means he had not made some stupid mistake because of being exhausted.
[Page 354 line 32] duodenum the junction of stomach and small intestine. Perforating abdominal wounds would puncture the coils of intestine in as many as a dozen places, so much of it would have to be removed.
[Page 354 line 33] Plaxtol a village in Kent, in south-east England.
[Page 355 line 19] blown off their big toes the easiest wound to inflict on one-self so as to escape military duties. See also ìWith the Main Guardî in Soldiers Three page 56, line 28. To deliberately wound one-self was a serious offence in war-time', hence the fact that these men would be court-martialled as soon as they were fit enugh to stand trial.
[Page 355 line 21] send a tank up the pole The first battle involving tanks took place on the River Somme. on Friday 15 September 1916, when about thirty British Mark 1 tanks attacked German positions between the villages of Flers and Courcelette. 'up the pole' is slang for going mad.
[Page 355 line 23] Eleventh 11 November, 1918 when the Armistice came into force at 11 oíclock ñ the end of the Great War.
Gotha the earliest type of German aircraft used for long-range bombing.
[Page 356 line 1] he hung onto himself He kept himself under control despite a mental breakdown.
[Page 356 line 12] a doss slang for a sleep.
[Page 356 line 16] a long shot with a dogís-chance no chance at all !
[Page 356 line 22] a hair-trigger stomach very inclined to vomit like a firearm with a very sensitive 'pull' on the trigger.
[Page 356 line 24] He had ëem bad see line 1 above.
[Page 356 line 27] drums and horns This may be an echo of Joshua 6, in which the walls of Jericho are knocked down with with rams' horns. The noises Wilkett heard in his nightmares were certainly threatening.
[Page 357 line 7] ìTo whom much has been givenÖî An echo of Luke 12,48, and Kiplingís speech to the Canadian Club, Winnipeg in 1907 (A Book of Words, page 37.)
[Page 357 line 19] ìnervousî hospitals for the shell-shocked or those suffering from what is now known as 'battle fatigue'. See the verse ìThe Motherís Sonî which accompanies ìFairy- kistî earlier in this volume.
[Page 357 line 22] demobbed demobilised, discharged from the army and returned to civil life,
[Page 357 line 23] locum-tenens a physician who temporarily acts as a substitute for another physician; 'holding the place' in Latin. Commonly referred to as a 'locum'.
[Page 358 line 2] bug-runs laboratories
[Page 358 line 7] a gynaecologist ORG believes that those specialising in the diseases and functions of women acquire a very smooth manner when dealing with that sex. Probably quite right ! (G.S.)
[Page 358 line 31] bathing-machine a feature of the seaside until the 1930s or thereabouts. A small shed on wheels in which bathers could change; it would then be towed into the sea by a horse. (I remember using one at Bournemouth in 1929 or so; Ed.)
[Page 358 line 32] mental retina in his mind's eye.
[Page 359 line 10] sinus a track leading from the exterior to a deep-seated abscess.
[Page 359 line 12] medieval speculations Possibly he means that the sinus acted as a safety valve by letting the badness, in this case, pus, out of him.
[Page 359 line 25 - 27] grateful appendices ... foie-gras patients showed their appreciation for successful operations by Sir James Belton with gifts of champagne. General practitioners only received game and potted goose-liver.
[Page 359 line 29] kosher butcher one who kills and prepares meat in accordance with the tenets of the Jewish faith.
[Page 359 line 33] tuberculous many sinuses leading down to bone, as in this case, are due to tuberculous bone disease.
[Page 360 line 5] mania in delirious mania the patient's speech is incoherent, he is continually restless and eventually becomes exhausted. Keede is really pointing out how difficult it can be to decide if a person is just hysterical or completely insane.
[Page 360 line 14] homeopathic a system of medical practice in Leipzig dating from 1794, in which diseases are treated by the administration of drugs which would produce in a healthy person symptoms like those of the disease treated.
[Page 360 line 18] third glass third glass of champagne.
[Page 360 line 29] British Riviera usually taken to be the south coast of Devon and Cornwall.
[Page 361 line 25] Tweed a chauffeur.
[Page 361 line 32] paying-rooms private rooms in the hospital that the patients would have to pay for.
[Page 362 lines 3-11] a Syme operation Ö very comfily developed by Dr. James Syme - see an article on the Internet by R. I. Harris.
'The details in technique which are most essential to ensure a perfect Syme's stump are the provision of a broad area of support for the heel flap by transecting the tibia and fibula as low as possible; the maintaining intact of the specialised weight-bearing qualities of the heel flap; and the proper placement of the heel flap under the cut ends of the tibia and fibula. If these aims are achieved a good and useful stump is assured; if they are neglected the stump will be imperfect and may be unsatisfactory and no further operation can restore the qualities of the heel flap which are lacking.'[Page 362 line 4] Syme James Syme (1799-1870) a Scottish surgeon who first reported 14 cases of his new operation of amputation through the ankle joint in 1844. He was one of the first European surgeons to use ether anaesthesia.
[Page 362 line 7] Bob Sawyer the medical student in The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Bob Sawyer annoyed Mr Pickwick by talking about bodies and dissection at breakfast-time.
[Page 363 line14] register the medical register, the list of qualified medical doctors in the UK.
[Page 363 line 29] something scandalous ORG suggests it was a syphilitic infection. It might have been, but syphilitic disease of bone usually affects the diaphysis of long bones rather than the articular ends. The tibia is one of the bones commonly affected. Joints are seldom involved. Also with syphilitic disease, the affected bone becomes thickened due to the formation of new bone cells.
[Page 364 line 29] an operative mason, not a speculative one this remark confirms that the narrator, Keede and Scree are all Freemasons, as was Kipling.
[Page 365 lines 1 onwards] heíd been told to operateÖ. he would not amputate just because another doctor told tim to do so; he would establish the facts and make his own decision.
[Page 365 line 11] Gamaliel an echo of the Acts 22,3, where Paul addresses the men of Jerusalem: 'I am a man ... brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law...'
[Page 365 line 17] the tiny muscle that twitchesÖ. orbicularis oculi.
[Page 365 line 28] spirochetes Spirochetes of medical importance belong to the genera Treponema, Leptospira and Borrelia. Treponema pallidum causes syphilis. Leptospira are responsible for Leptospirosis icterohaemorrhagicae or Weil's Disease. Borrelia recurrentis and B.duttoni cause relapsing fever in Europe and West Africa respectively.
[Page 367 line 10] the taxi-cup a final drink before departure, 'one for the road'. A modern variation on the stirrup-cup drunk by foxhunters before the chase.
[Page 367 lines 16-17] We were playing forÖ etc the magazine version reads:
ìThanks, Iíll remember that the next time you call me inî, said Scree.[Page 367 line 31] solemnity the last word in the collected versions ñ the magazine version has another sentence:
'They both seemed to know all about it, but it was full time for me to go home.'
First published in Limits and Renewals (1932) where it precedes ìThe Tender Achillesî. Collected in the Sussex Edition volume 11 page 333, and volume 34 page 427, Inclusive Verse, Definitive Verse and The Works of Rudyard Kipling, (Wordsworth Poetry Library, 1994.)
Critical comments
Harry Ricketts (page 383) calls this:
One of the most memorable poems in Limits and Renewals ... This poem, interpreted confessionally, offered an appalling glimpse of the darker side of Kiplingís last years, celebrating the capacity of physical pain temporarily to blot out mental and spiritual anguish. He also refers to ìThe Hymn of Breaking Strainî which presented his final word on his deep conviction that life constantly tested one beyond oneís limits and that it was only by stocially accepting this condition that one could renew oneself.Angus Wilson (page 289) believes that: 'Any physical pain or malady, Kipling counts as bliss beside the agonies of despair'.
Kingsley Amis (page 104) comments:
One of the disease-and-madness group has prefixed to it a poem Ö that has attracted attention less for its merits - it is efficient but not outstanding as verse ñ than for the light it seems to throw on the authorís inner life. Pain is seen as a sort of goddess witrh the blessed power of obliterating grief, remorse and other spiritual discomforts. This is an extreme view, and the poem certainly seems to show first-hand knowledge of its subject.Norman Page (page 177) sees the resemblance to a hymn ("O God our help in ages past", No. 165 in some editions of Hymns Ancient and Modern):
this powerful and disturbing poem can serve as a gloss on the preoccupation with disease and suffering in Kiplingís later yearsThis is a belief echoed by Andrew Lycett (page 546). C A Bodelsen (page 22) believes that:
It is obvious that he was not a happy man, and that he needed all the fortitude and stoicism he could summon to meet the blows that fate dealt him. No-one but a profoundly unhappy man could have written ìThe Hymn to Physical Pain.îSee also Philip Mason (p. 233) for Kiplingís awareness that:
physical pain might be welcome as a cure for mental pain, but it is nowhere stated so explicitly as in ìThe Hymn to Physical Painî ÖÖ. To pain, remorse and loneliness, must be added a lifelong dread of nightmareÖ
Verse 2
The trusty worm Echoes of Mark 5, 44: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. and Rupert Brookeís poem ìHeaven.î
First published in Limits and Renewals (1932) where it follows ìThe Tender Achillesî. Collected in the Sussex Edition volume 11 page 355, and volume 34 page 429; Inclusive Verse (with the subhead ìA Song for Singingî), Definitive Verse (subhead ìThe Tender Achillesî), and The Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling, (Wordsworth Poetry Library, 1994).
Critical comments
The poet yearns for his first love, whom he discarded in the mistaken belief that he could do better. Whether this refers to the un-named girl in the laboratory who was in the plot to cure Wilkes and deliberately mixed up the samples is open to question, as we are never told he knew of her existence. On the other hand it may refer to the various girls that took the young Kiplingís fancy in India and elsewhere. Philip Mason's penetrating examination (p. 232) throws some light on the problem:
It is not easy to be sure what is meant by the Star of this poem. In relation to the story, it appears to stand for a manís particular bent, his own special art or skill or craft ... But it sounds to me as though it should also be read with an application to Kipling himself. If so it must stand for the vision of life which he renounced when he married and came to live with folk in housen on the hither side of Cold Iron. It ends grimly - I had loved myself, and I / Have not lived and dare not die !ÖÖ The anguish of wasted opportunity, of loss and remorse, was something of which he wrote often and felt deeply. ÖÖ In a Kipling love-story of any depth, either the pair are doomedÖ..the passion is one-sided.'Cold Iron' here refers to the story and verse of the same name in Rewards and Fairies, where iron symbolises the reality of earthly power. Living on the hither side of 'Cold Iron' is to be cut off from moving freely within the world of fantasy and imagination, the world of the 'People of the Hills'.
J M S Tompkins, however, puts her finger on it when she says (p. 107):
The allusions to the woman in the tale are very brief but perfectly clear. It is as if ìThe Penaltyî grew from some ìhonestly writtenî but later deleted part of Wilkettís story, for it falls perfectly into place in it.(Dr. Tompkins does not refer to ìMrs. Bathurstî (Traffics and Discoveries), but that story immediately comes to mind as another sufferer from over-revision; Ed.)
Verse 3
I Have not lived and dare not die ! perhaps an echo of ìEveningî by John Keeble (1796 ñ 1821):
Abide with me when night is nigh,(We have a feeling that Kipling uses this line elsewhere. Information will be appreciated; Ed.)
[G S / J H McG]
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When I was in Melbourne I was lucky enough to be taken to see an AFL (Australian Football League) game and watch the AB's favourite team - Hawthorn Hawks. This was also where I tried my first Four 'N' Twenty pie. I slathered my 'meat pie' in ketchup, and although it was warm and tasted great with my beer, none of those things could disguise the fact that I was eating low grade meat. My top tip if you're going to eat one is don't read the ingredients list and the more ketchup the better. You may be wondering where is the picture of this AFL staple, but it's not something I wanted to document and I tried far better qualities of pies during my trip to Oz, including a service station of all places.
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The Kremlin complex includes the club, the Union Street Bar and The Shoe Factory
Belfast's biggest and best-known gay nightclub complex has been sold to its tenants for around £3m.
The Kremlin Licensed Complex – which includes the Kremlin Club, Union Street Bar and The Shoe Factory Club – were sold to Anthea Wilson's Anthology NI, the company which had been leasing the buildings.
The actual sale price wasn't disclosed but it's thought the owners Seamus Sweeney and Andre Graham sealed the deal close to the £3m asking price.
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My school adventure went on at Boğaziçi University in İstanbul. I studied English Language and
Literature and gained my teaching Certificate .That was the turning point of my life , I will never
forget those days .If I had a chance to live those days again ,I would.
Life is so strange .Priorities change with time. Coming to Cyprus was very important those days but
now it's not like that anymore .This is a fact which is hard to accept . When I came back to
Cyprus ,I lost my dad and then my mum .Cyprus is full of memories for me .Luckily, I have
my husband and my two sons who are by me .
I worked at International American College , Levent College and State schools .Then I went
to England and stayed there for a while .In 2004 I began to work at the NEC as an English and
History teacher.I am very pleased to be a member of the NEC family .


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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
Kevin Rudd Announces his fix to the Health System
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New Cartoon. How is Kevin Rudd going to fix the Health System?
Kevin Rudd knew two years ago it needed fixing, it was an election issue. Kevin Rudd got a mandate. Eminent people have looked, talked and determined what needs to be done. Kevin Rudd wants to look and talk some more.
Is it dead? No, but it's not well.
Can it be saved? Yes.
Do we need another opinion? No.
Just do what we employed you to do Kevin Rudd.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Indigenous Housing - Are we headed for another failure?
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New Cartoon "The Rudd Government, their turn to have yet another Indigenous Housing Disaster".
This cartoon was published in "On Line Opinion" today, here's the link, have a look.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Reserve Bank says Australia OK, OK.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Peter Garrett Approves Uranium Mine, Peter Garrett does what?
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Kevin Rudd Likes Chinese
Friday, July 10, 2009
Kevin Rudd meets the Pope 2
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Malcolm Turnbull's Debt Truck
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Cigarette Tax Increase
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ANNOUNCING: #UnitedDayofWomen Strategy Call Speakers
Join us on Saturday, December 3rd to hear from movement leaders on a strategy kickoff call on the United Day of Women. We'll be discussing key issues like voting rights, racial justice and reproductive health with the women who are leading the charge on the front lines.
Taylor Barnes, Director of The United State of Women
The United State of Women worked in partnership with the White House to convene the inaugural United State of Women Summit. They continue to be the megaphone for the gender equality movement, including issues like equal pay and closing the women's wealth gap. The United State of Women focuses on promoting actionable solutions, highlighting movement leaders, and developing a campaign surrounding a public equal pay pledge. Previously, Taylor served in a variety of political arenas ranging from 2012 Democratic Convention and Presidential Campaign, to the National Women's Business Council. In 2014, Taylor stepped back from politics and into entrepreneurship when she started a craft brewery with several business partners. She currently serves as the Director of the United State of Women.
Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls
Valerie Jarrett is the Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls. She has worked throughout her tenure at the White House to mobilize elected officials, business and community leaders, and diverse groups of advocates behind efforts to strengthen and improve access to the middle class, to boost American businesses and our economy, and to champion equality and opportunity for all Americans. From ongoing campaigns to end sexual assault, raise the minimum wage, advocate workplace policies that empower working families, and promote entrepreneurship and early childhood education, Ms. Jarrett has helped the President develop a broad coalition of partners to execute a robust agenda.
Brittany Packnett, Co-Founder of Campaign Zero and Black Lives Matter Activist
Brittany Packnett's activism took off on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter movement in Ferguson, MI, and has dedicated her life to fighting for racial and social justice. As an educator, she is the vice president of national community alliances for Teach for America. As an activist, she is the co-founder of Campaign Zero, a comprehensive policy platform to end police violence in America, and a member of President Obama's 21st Century Policing Task Force.
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Founder and CEO of MomsRising
Kristin is the CEO and Founder of MomsRising and has been involved in public policy and grassroots engagement for more than two decades. MomsRising, an online and on-the-ground grassroots organization addresses critical issues affecting women, mothers, and families. The organization supports and promotes policies aimed at improving family economic security; helping families, children, and businesses thrive; and to ending discrimination against women and mothers.
Maria Teresa Kumar, President and CEO of Voto Latino
Maria Teresa Kumar serves as the President and CEO of Voto Latino a nonpartisan, civic media organization headquartered in Washington, DC. The organization deploys marketing campaigns that leverage new media and technology to encourage Latinos to participate in the political process. Under her leadership, Voto Latino has played a critical role in national elections, directly registering over 225,000 new voters and influencing millions more through viral, celebrity-driven campaigns.
Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
As president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Ms. Richards leads a movement that has worked for nearly 100 years to build a healthier and safer world for women and teens. Every year, approximately 650 Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers nationwide provide healthcare services to 2.5 million patients, and sex education and outreach to 1.5 million people. Planned Parenthood's website — plannedparenthood.org — receives 60 million visits a year from individuals seeking health care services and education in both English and Spanish.
Tina Tchen, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls
Tina Tchen serves as Assistant to the President, Chief of Staff to First Lady Michelle Obama, and Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls. Tchen advances the first lady's signature causes — fighting childhood obesity, supporting military families and showcasing the arts — while assisting her in high-profile social events.


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Watch Snootie Wild's new music video for the "Made Me (Remix)."
Snootie Wild continues to gain traction with his remix of "Made Me," which features K Camp, Jeremih and Boosie Badazz. Yo Gotti's protege returns today with his featured artists for an official video for the remix of "Made Me." The song first appearaed on the rapper's EP Go Mode, which is available on iTunes now.
The music video, directed by Mr. Boomtown, finds the rappers in an abandoned warehouse with walls covered in graffiti, and of course, a few video vixens thrown in for good measure. Yo Gotti isn't on the cut but he does make a cameo in the visuals. Take a look above.


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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Debunking Neurodiversity and Ari Ne'eman
Judy Singer, the woman who coined the term "Neurodiversity" now has a site called ASPAR that is dedicated to helping the children of people with Asperger's overcome the craziness that the kids had to put up with from their brain damaged parents. Singer recognized the insanity inherent to Neurodiversity and noted how they "must consider how we can contain anti-social behaviours that endanger others, while safeguarding civil liberties for all." This is the part of the autism spectrum that Neurodiversity tries to deny which enumerates the blatant dishonesty by which they pervert the truth about autism.
Before Singer's book was published, Harvey Blume stole the term "Neurodiversity" and connected it with a lesbian fraud named Laura Tisoncik who told us of her intent to defraud the public with statements like this: "The site gives geeks space to emerge from the neurological closet and declare themselves to be high-functioning autistic (HFA) as opposed to neurologically typical (NT)." We see that she was advocating for weirdos to mislabel themselves as "autistic" and incorporate this into the gay pride idiocy. If you check the link in this article to Tisoncik's ISNT site, it connects you to an X-rated site for lesbian pornography.
Tisoncik wrote this shortly before her alleged lesbian lover, Amanda Baggs, arranged the bogus diagnosis of autism for herself. We saw Baggs, with her plethora of dishonest videos, and abetted by Sanjay Gupta on CNN, become the spokesmodel for Neurodiversity where she achieved fame for herself by promoting a despicably dishonest portrayal of what autism was all about. We also had a video of Tisoncik that showed her to be clearly, nothing but an obese, lazy liar who had found a way to cheat the system with her own bogus diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder. The video has since been removed from Youtube sometime amidst Tisoncik's dishonest attempt to have this blog deleted for telling the truth about these two con artists.
There were other phonies who tried to cash in on this concept by writing bogus books about autism. These included Jim Sinclair, a pseudo-hermaphrodite who was assuredly messed up mentally from his inherent gender identity crisis and Donna Williams who had been abused as a child and became a mental mess. Neither of these people were autistic but they were so mentally deranged that nobody knew the difference, or cared. I don't believe they wrote with evil intentions to abuse autistic children but their books were hijacked by propaganda experts who used them as part of a plan to corrupt the truth about autism.
This process started in 1999, the same year we learned that thimerosal was the cause of the autism epidemic. There were some crazies and malcontents involved then along with the planners for what was to follow. In 2001, Frank Klein began to set the stage for the all out propaganda war that was let loose on the high functioning victims of mercury poisoning from vaccines. This was the planned brainwashing that kidnapped youths with minimally damaged brains and conned them into becoming advocates against themselves.
2004 was the onset of the mass blogging and infestation of the internet with the mind controlled victims who touted the nonsense that autism was just a different way of thinking. The minimally brain damaged teenagers who are now young adults embraced this "just a difference" propaganda because they had never experienced normalcy and had no reference point to help them comprehend the truth. The Aspies who had lived a life of solitude, by virtue of their condition whereby most of them could not form friendships, began to find acceptance on the internet amongst others with similar brain damage. They looked up to phony role models like Amanda Baggs who had fried her brain with LSD and other bogus "autistics" who had diagnosed themselves to give themselves credibility to "sell" their propaganda.
At this point, they had Frank Klein and his Autism Advocacy group as the root of the propaganda. Frank and his 159 IQ arranged a diagnosis of Asperger's for himself at age 30 and shortly had it switched to autism. This gave him the credibility he needed to corrupt public opinion about autism while obfuscating the difference between Asperger's and autism, a vital tool in this propaganda effort.
Frank was the man who started all of the nonsense that said curing autism was akin to killing the autistic person. He had started his AutAdvo Yahoo group in 2003. This was shortly after people began announcing that they had cured autistic children for the first time in history. Frank taught his rhetoric to a couple hundred mentally challenged people who joined his cult and gave them the tools they needed to sound legitimate to a public who was largely ignorant about autism.
In 2004, Kathleen Seidel started her Neuroinsanity site and was shortly followed by Kevin Leitch with his childish blog that failed at trying to defend thimerosal as the cause of autism and Autism Diva with her loopy logic that pretended to have a command of science. These were the first liars to go public after Frank had trained them in the art of deception.
During this training period for what is now a variation of the original concept of Neurodiversity, a group who was funded by the Pharmaceutical industry named Quackbusters dealt themselves into the fray. They were led by an incompetent doctor who couldn't pass his exams named Stephen Barrett and opposed the treatment that cured autism based on the lies from another incompetent doctor named Jim Laidler who was too inept to follow the proper procedure to cure his own autistic child.
This led to an association with a sadistic librarian who was linked to Quackbusters named Kathleen Seidel who wrote flowery rhetoric describing autism as the apparent next step in evolution whereby all genuises emerged. Following Seidel's logic would lead one to believe that every invention known to mankind must have come from an autistic genuis since no mere mortal had the brains to create anything useful. Seidel didn't bother to point out that most autistic people are too brain damaged to learn how to use a toilet, speak, read, write or dress themselves. She then embarked on a crusade of character assassination against anyone who played a role in curing autistic children, making incredible claims against scientists who discovered how to cure this nightmare. She also attacked parents who promoted this information to help cure disabled children and painted them as fools who had fallen prey to con artists. The cured children showed us that all of Seidel's carefully chosen words were lies.
A couple of other links to Quackbusters emerged amongst the Neurodiverse bloggers in one severely crazed old woman named Camille Clark who used the alias "Autism Diva" and a scientist named J Ken Wickiser who blogged under the name Bartholemew Cubbins. These two jackasses knew enough about slinging around scientific terms that they had some success in making the neurodiverse nonsense sound plausible. As with Seidel though, virtually every word they wrote was contrived to deny the truth of the matter about how thimerosal in vaccines had caused the autism epidemic. Nothing they said was true but it sounded good to the minimally brain damaged people with Asperger's who followed them and used their arguments to promote the dishonesty.
With the pseudoscientific words from the Quackbuster associates and other criminally insane doctors like David Gorski (Orac) to build scientific arguments on, Frank Klein set about the task of misconstruing all of the facts about autism and perverting them so that the insanity that came out of the mouths of high functioning people with Asperger's would be uttered as though they came from people who actually had autism. (Keep in mind that hardly anyone with autism can speak...or use a keyboard. That's why the thought of Facilitated Communication for autistic people had always been looked upon as being fraudulent. It was well known that many autistic people were mentally retarded and much worse off than anyone with Downs Syndrome.)
Frank wrote essays in which he referred to himself as autistic and talked about how much he loved his life and would reject a cure if it had been offered to him. He also blurred that distinction between low functioning autism and Asperger's Syndrome masterfully, fully demostrating his 159 IQ when it came to writing devious propaganda that would fool lots of people. His inane arguments analogizing skin color as being similar to the brain damage inherent to autism as reasons to avoid curing autism are widely used by the young Aspies who don't even know who Frank is. His words live on and, since the majority of the public is not college educated nor do they possess a 159 IQ, a lot of Frank's nonsense is believed.
Another site that sprung up in 2004 was Wrong Planet. The owner, Alex Plank, appears to have nothing wrong with himself but apparently has a diagnosis of Asperger's. Plank and his girlfriend, Katie Miller, both refer to themselves as "autistic" even though they have diagnoses of Asperger's and are firmly entrenched in the plot to oppose curing autism with their constant support of the lies by the CDC that claim thimerosal does not cause autism.
I tried to discuss methods that have proven to cure autism on Wrong Planet last year and was thrown off the site by Plank. This young deviant goes to great lengths to misrepresent the truth about autism to the detriment of actual autistic people who want to improve their conditions. He also throws autistic people off the site if they seek a cure for themselves. I sat in a chatroom last summer that was connected to an autism conference that barred some autistic people who sought cures. There I watched Plank and Ari Ne'eman discussing plans for how they would use the same tactics as gays had used to foist their disingenuous agenda on the general public to misrepresent the truth about autism.
Here is the letter that was sent to one autistic person who wanted to attend this conference:
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:25:30 -0400
> From: Jim Sinclair
> To: (Name removed)
> Subject: Re: , Autreat, Housing, Total Costs, Reqesting Original Concerns Be Addre
> CC: (name removed)
> (name removed),
> It is the decision of the Autreat Planning Committee that your
> attendance at Autreat would constitute an unacceptable threat to other
> attendees' peaceful enjoyment of Autreat. Therefore, I regret to have
> to inform you that you will not be permitted to register.
> This decision has nothing whatsoever to do with Amanda, or Kathleen,
> Kassiane, Camille, or any other person with whom you may be in
> conflict. I don't even know for sure if any of those people are going
> to attend Autreat this year. Even if we knew for sure that none of
> them would be there, we would still consider your attendance to
> present an unacceptable threat to the peaceful enjoyment of the event.
> This decision has been made on the basis of your extensive history of
> extremely disruptive and aggressive behavior which we were able to
> find on many public blog posts. Based on your own writings, we are
> concerned about the safety of other people at Autreat in the event you
> should attend and become angry with someone or something.
> This decision by the Autreat Planning Committee is final.
> Jim Sinclair
> Coordinator, Autism Network International
> Cc: Autreat Planning Committee
So, we see that Jim Sinclair, a phoney autistic, ran an autism conference that denied admission to a legitimately autistic person because she was opposed to the way autism was being misrepresented by the sadistic Seidel and Autism Diva (Camille)and two other frauds, Baggs and Kassiane Sibley. The five foot tall woman in her forties who this was addressed to could not be seriously taken as a threat to anyone so we see that Sinclair has no qualms at all with lying to support his dishonest agenda.
In January of 2006, when Ari Ne'eman was still a high school student, and shortly after Frank Klein's radio interview linked above, Ari was featured on Kathlen Seidel's Neurodiversity blog. Ne'eman was adept then at blurring the distinction between autism and Asperger's and calling a cure for autism "morally reprehensible". You can see Frank Klein's disingenuous philosophy throughout everything that a young Ne'eman had to say here, right down to the garbage about comparing struggles connected to autism with Civil Rights. Of course, autistic people have no clue what civil rights are all about because they can't read.
So, even as a high school kid, Ne'eman had been trained to say that curing autistics and giving them the ability to read was "morally reprehensible". How does this make any sense? It only makes sense when one can disingenuously merge that distinction between autism and Asperger's to make it appear that all people on the wildly variant autism spectrum are similar in capabilities. We know that this is completely false when we watch our autistic children smearing feces and biting themselves, the exact same behavior we observe in adult autistics who have been institutionalized. Yet, here we had a high school student who had been so well trained in presenting evil propaganda that he was writing dishonest rhetoric to deny the existemnce of these true autistics whose brains had been so horribly mangled by thimerosal. This blatant dishonesty is the glue that permeates Neurodiversity and is the basis for finding the lies in every word they write.
Here is a video of autism. Ari Ne'eman was never like this, not by any stretch of the imagination. Ne'eman does not want anyone to cure the boy in the video and that is why he misrepresents himself as the face of autism. To understand Neurodiversity, you have to ask yourself why anyone would not want that child to be cured. You have to keep in mind that Neurodiversity fully supports every vaccine known to mankind and favors injecting mercury and aluminum into fetuses and people.
Let's look at the catch phrases from Neurodiversity that are all based on this dishonesty:
1. Nothing about us without us.
This is used to mistakenly identify people with alleged high functioning Asperger's who have no evidence of any diminished mental capacity and pawn themselves off as being equally mentally disadvantaged as autistic people who can never learn to read. This is planned propaganda that, as we saw with Ne'eman, was taught to him at a very young age. No sane person can reach the conclusion that any low functioning person with autism is included in the word "us" as used by Ne'eman and other psychopaths.
2. Inclusion
This is the buzz word that is used to deny autistic children a useful education. Children who spin around in circles all day, smear feces and bash their heads through walls simply do not belong in a classroom with normal kids. There is no way anyone can be educated with kids like this in a classroom. They have to be separated.
When Neurodiversity pushes for inclusion of autistic kids, they are actually excluding autistic kids from any consideration. Including Aspies is a different matter but that problem is perverted by this obfuscatory language that promotes a better education for Aspies who are mistakenly identified as autistic. Thus, the kids who really have autism are excluded entirely since nobody who has ever met an autistic child would ever consider placing him in a class with normal kids.
So, this advocacy may help kids with Asperger's gain a better education but, by virtue of blurring that difference, it essentially asks to take funds away from children with true autism because this "advocacy" demands absolutely nothing for those children who need it the most. This "advocacy" denies their existence.
3. Differently Abled
This term is pure nonsense but with enough victims making these statements, it serves a useful purpose for the Neurodiversity propaganda machine. Since Neurodiversity has brainwashed the youths into believing that they are born with Asperger's, using them to promote this stupidity themselves convinces the unknowing public that they should accept that some people are just different. This is a key part of the plan to help Pharma deny that they caused the problem with thimerosal. They had to brainwash the children into thinking that it was some sort of insult to suggest that they were poisoned and suffered some brain damage. Nobody wants to think of themselves as brain damaged. The term has been a long used insult towards anyone who commits an act of stupidity and is frequently hurled about in a joking manner.
Now, it's no joke. We have thousands of these young people who suffer from a diminished mental capacity thanks to being injected with thimerosal as soon as they were born. They have been ostracized from peer groups their entire lives and eagerly jumped on the bandwagon that gave them this delusional appraisal of their condition. "Differently abled" indeed. Aspies have all sorts of problems socially and academically. They have been sold this bill of goods that tells them to celebrate being different, that people with Asperger's are generally much more intelligent then the rest of us. Yet, they can't accept the facts about how thimerosal kills brain cells and made them all social misfits. Who would accept those lies besides people who just didn't have the mental capacity to see through them? It's a sad state of affairs.
Normal people can't make these Aspies see the illogic in their arguments because Neurodiversity has played on their emotions to brainwash them. We can cure them a lot more easily than we can cure the severely autistic children who Ari Ne'eman denies exist but they cling to this deranged ideology of Frank Klein's that tells them to celebrate being "different", in other words...celebrate having brain damage. The con job was truly masterful. Great job, Frank.
4. Autism is not a disease.
True, it isn't. It's not contagious. It's not caused by some virus. Neurodiversity lies to us here by telling us the truth. They use the lie of omission for this one. Autism is a condition...the condition of mercury poisoning. Neurodiversity would have us believe it is genetic but they know that isn't true so they use a deceptive lie to sidestep the truth while not engaging in a direct lie. It's supposed to make them seem more honest. It's the same tactic they use in asking for inclusion with education where they deny that autism exists.
5. Autistic Pride
This is patently ridiculous. Frank Klein and Ari Ne'eman can take their high IQ's and education and be proud of themselves for what they have achieved...running an excellent con job on the general public and brainwashing less intelligent people with Asperger's Syndrome into assisting them with the scam. Autistic adults who reside in asylums and who can't speak or communicate in any manner certainly are not proud of living in a custodial care situation where they have to be bathed, fed and toileted by caretakers. Autistic children who bite themselves and bash their heads through walls are also not running around declaring that they take pride in their autism.
Does anyone wonder why these people with Asperger's don't arrange a day that is called Asperger's Pride Day? Wouldn't that make more sense? If they truly wanted to call attention to the "geek syndrome" type of Asperger's to oppose the bullying and cruel jokes that are played on "geeks", "nerds" or social incompetents, why would they corrupt the meaning of the term they allegedly want respect for by giving the false impression via the term "autism" that they are liable to reach into their diapers and smear feces on people in the office cubicle mext to them? It simply makes no sense for these people to demand acceptance and respect for a condition that they do not have.
The only valid conclusion that can be reached here is that all of this misrepresentation is intentional. All of the "joy of autism" nonsense, demands for respect, acceptance and inclusion are insane when one considers the mentally retarded people with autism who can't function on any level or in any manner resmbling human behavior.
What's worse is having the knowledge that an ever increasing number of those seemingly mentally retarded autistic people have now been cured and are functioning normally or close to it and denying that this miracle has been achieved.
6. Opposition to Electric Shock
Neurodiversity is violently opposed to the Judge Rottenberg Center where electric shocks are used to try to eliminate self abusive behaviors in the worst cases of autism. They offer no solution whatsoever for the people whose behavior is improved by the shocks as this fits in with their agenda to oppose all cures. Granted, using shocks on people who might not be able to comprehend why they are being shocked can rightfully be seen as cruel and abusive. However, when that opposition also refuses to call for supporting humane methods that do cure autism and are a valid argument for closing this place, Neurodiversity tacitly supports the JRC since there is no other place that will take these people in and treat them with anything besides drugging them into oblivion and restraining them forcefully.
So, the argument against JRC is just another disingenuous piece of propaganda that is supported by the misrepresentation of what autism is. When we see Ari Ne'eman and Amanda Baggs speaking intelligently whilst calling themselves autistic, it leads people to believe that shocking autistic people is certainly abusive if they believe that Baggs and Ne'eman are representative of the people who are being shocked. Since these two liars have absolutely nothing in common with those severely disabled people, one should be able to understand the problem they create when they mislabel themselves intentionally.
Since Neurodiversity offers no solution to this problem of shocking people, we can assume that they would pleased if they were all set free so they could wonder into traffic and die. That's Neurodiverse logic.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Thimerosal Protects People From H1N1 Flu
Since thimerosal is found naturally in flu vaccines, it seems like a useful ploy to tell people that thimerosal will protect them from this flu. If the FDA adheres to their statement, they should then seize all of the world's supply of thimerosal, making it unavailable to poison more babies into autism.
Also, since thimerosal is well known to kill viruses, it's a true statement when I say that it might offer some protection against this flu. So, there you have it FDA (Fucking Dumb Assholes), now go seize all the thimerosal!
Monday, June 15, 2009
American Psychiatric Association, Dishonest Child Abusers
Here's contact information for the APA phone: 703-907-7300 email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Just ask for the chief child abuser.
1) The Workgroup is considering a change in DSM-V that would replace the Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) category with the title "Autism Spectrum Disorders" (ASD). The change would utilize a SINGLE DIAGNOSIS for the disorders currently entitled: Autism, PDD-NOS and Asperger disorder. Several factors support making this change:
A single spectrum better reflects the pathology and symptoms.
Separation of ASD from typical development is reliable and valid, while separation of disorders within the spectrum is variable and inconsistent.
Individuals with autism, PDD-NOS or Asperger disorder often are diagnosed by severity, rather than unique, separate criteria defining the three diagnoses.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Why Was Andrew Moulden Invented?
Typhoid vaccine (parenteral)
Tuberculosis (BCG)
Yellow Fever
The first influenza vaccines (flu)
To believe "Dr" Moulden's assertion that all vaccines cause autism, we would expect to see autism starting in 1798 with the first smallpox vaccine. Moulden claims that vaccines can cause autism whether or not they have any thimerosal in them. If that were possible, we would certainly have records of autism existing before it was first recognized in 1943.
It simply is not possible that the bizarre behavior inherent to autism could have been missed for 145 years until it was first reported to Leo Kanner.
Here is a report of damage caused by vaccines surrounding the 1918 Spanish flu. Amongst all of the horror that this report attributes to vaccines before thimerosal was invented, there is no mention of autism. Vaccines for diptheria, tetanus and pertussis were first used in the 1920's but did not cause any autism. Verstraeten's report from 1999 focused on the DTP or DTaP as a combined vaccine that contained thimerosal. If "Dr" Moulden is to be believed, he should be able to find some people in their 80's and 90's who have autism from receiving the same vaccines separately in the 1920's. According to Moulden. he can spot autism within hours of someone being given a vaccine that results in his micro-vascular strokes.
Here's the opinion of the most knowledgeable person on Earth on the subject of autism regarding "Dr" Moulden's position. Why should we accept what Andy Cutler says as Gospel, one might ask? He designed the method by which people have cured autism. He charges nothing to provide this information and it is the only method that has ever cured anyone of autism. "Dr" Moulden has not cured anyone of autism but he does try to pick our pockets for $5 a head to hear him speak or $9 to watch videos of himself opposite Paul Offit. Moulden talks about telling us how to cure autism but that information has not been forthcoming and I think it's just part of a scam to grab some money while he obfuscates the truth.
Kirby's book came out the same year that Neurodiversity went public with their propaganda blogs. It happens to be the same year that JB Handley showed up and started Generation Rescue. He used his money and his aggressive leadership style to round up a lot of decent parents who want to help autistic kids and placed himself in the lead of this group of people. Handley said the right things for a couple of years, opposed the Neurodiverse, and then he began to change.
Jenny McCarthy was somehow recruited to switch from being an indigo mom to being a "Too many. too soon" crusader. Handley began chanting the same slogan which took the focus off thimerosal. David Kirby was ignoring the truth told to him by PhD's and was presenting knowingly false information to discredit himself and every parent of an autistic child in the process. Then, about a year ago, Moulden suddenly appeared with no apparent history of ever having existed aside from what was seen on his own website and a few comments he had made on blogs of Oprah's, Mike Stanton's and Michelle O'Neill's. It must have been in between those blog comments from the fall of 2007 and summer of 2008 that a bunch of screwy videos were made in which Moulden looked like a used car salesman trying to sell his information. Those videos have all been removed now and the websites that had stolen intellectual property from Dr Carley (who told me she was forcibly removed from speaking at a conference by Generation Rescue people) have been replaced with something that seems a little saner.
Now, Moulden has hooked himself up with chiropractors, and wack jobs like Gary Tunsky. I talked to Tunsky's wife a few months ago when she was unhappy with a comment I had made about Moulden and the first words out of her mouth asked me if I was a follower of Jesus Christ. After a few minutes of religious fanatacism, I was able to talk to April who assured me what a wonderful man "Dr" Moulden was so I asked her to pose a few questions to him since he was due to arrive at her home that evening and the answers would help establish Moulden's honesty or lack of same. April never got back to me with those answers. It was shortly after this that I learned April was part of this traveling medicine show with Moulden and Tunsky that earns them a quick buck.
Along with Moulden making himself look like a jackass, his nonsense about all vaccines causing autism helps to make anyone else who subscribes to that theory also look like jackasses. That would include everyone who has been duped by Handley, Kirby and McCarthy into jumping on the "Too many, too soon" bandwagon while continually ignoring the fact that thimerosal injected into pregnant women with the flu shot does a number on the brains of fetuses.
If vaccines never caused autism from 1798 until 1931 when thimerosal was added to them, how the hell can they cause autism now if the thimerosal is completely removed? First of all, thimerosal has not been removed. It caused autism in 1931 when very few vaccines were given and none of them were given on the first day of life as they were, and still are, with the HepB vaccine. Nobody knows the answer as to exactly how much thimerosal and at what age is needed to cause the brain damage known as autism. I did see someplace, although I can't recall where, that aluminum in vaccines increased as thimerosal was reduced so that may be part of the answer as to why autism has not decreased with the apparent lessening of thimerosal. Not acknowledging that element while blindly shouting about too many vaccines also deflects attention from where it should be, something I feel certain was the reason Kirby dealt himself into the autism controversy in the first place, just to discredit everyone who knew the truth.
After Kim Stagliano decided to allow Neurodiversity to do a character assassination on me, I had an exchange with JB Handley about it. Here's part of that exchange, with Handley trying to give me a direct order as though I was his subordinate:
"By the way, the last time I heard from you was when you were threatening to write some blog piece critical of Generation Rescue -- even after I explained to you that I'm not involved with the Age of Autism operations, nor have I ever been. I don't really appreciate that, and it almost kept me from replying to this email. Of all the people to piss off in the world, why choose me? Not only am I on the same fucking team as you, I'm often the guy leading the charge - so use some fucking judgment, mate, and pick on the other team!!Respectfully (and directly) yours,J.B. Handley"
It was at this point that I began to wonder what Handley was up to. Perhaps Handley was not involved in Age of Autism operations but he was certainly in a position to take issue with whoever was running this offshoot of the blog that was started as the Rescue Post when they began to allow the Neurodiverse to comment with blatant lies about Rescue Angels. Sorry JB, you're not on the same team as I am. I'm on the team that only advocates for the whole truth about how our kids were poisoned, not some bullshit story that includes crap like Andrew Moulden and respecting a bunch of psychopaths from Neurodiversity.
Saturday, June 06, 2009
"Dr" Moulden's Scam Stolen
Do they tell us how the blood becomes sludged? I don't think they know. They tell us healthy blood makes the brain work right. So, supplying a kid with healthy blood should make the brain start working right right away. Right? At least as long as the good blood lasts?
But, this doesn't jive with Moulden's contention that white blood cells clog up capillaries while attacking vaccines to cause strokes. Moulden also claimed that mercury had little to do with autism and that chelation wouldn't help much in spite of the fact that many kids had already been cured by removing mercury.
When I first talked to Moulden, he told me he had some machine that did video microscopy spectral imaging. Now he says he just looks at pictures to look for crooked eyes and mouths.
Here's my first email exchanges with "Dr" Moulden from last October. I have to wonder why Moulden doesn't renew his alleged medical license and treat autistic children for profit rather than traipsing from town to town like somebody selling magic elixir to listen to him speak for $5.
from Oct, 2008
Hi John;
Thank-you for your advice. We are implementing some of these right now.
In time, we hope, to be able to provide all that we can and have for free. I set up the real estate affinity program across 40 countries with Century 21 to do exactly that.
Basicaly, any IMAM-12 member who sells and buys a home, through Century 21 (we will open this up to all other realtors once they "get on-line" will save 1% of the real etsate commission ffes - 70% of this savings goes directly back to the member, 25% to us (so we can help more people), and 5% to Century 21 as a processing fee.
We need to find ways by which the "rich" can save money and force industry to give up some of its profits so we can generate funds to help all the children and families we are now in apoistion to help.
We expect a battle with Big Pharma - no worries, they can argue al they want, the bottom line is this: we can now see what they have done (retrospectively) and are doing (in the here and now) with these vaccines - the realty is heartbreaking - one vascilates between tears, anger, frustration, rage, despair, and a sense of being galvanized to stop this at all costs and all obstacles - and there have been many; they already came at me in 2004; this time we have them, as we have the proof causation, the methods to establish this in coiurt, the micrbviology and tissuee pathology locked down, and the mechanism of injury both explained and, in many respects, reversible for many.
Bra9inGuard is simply our neurodiagnostics imaging - essentially, we have crteated a non-invasive functional brain scan based on contsraining the neurological exam and the facila features pre-post vaccination to neuranatomy, the creanial nerves, and the pathophsyiological process we now know is going on.
Essentially, we invented the the equivalent of the Hubble Space telesope for the neurological exam and we can offer this now via on-line video upolods to our serverss and we can provide the neuroimaging across the world once we have the video and photos on our secure servers - whihc jjust came on-line tonight - we are as bug as, if not bigger, than utiuvbe for handling video uplods ;-)... we have a portable, internet based, real-time, "MRI" for brain function ;-) the product of 21 yeaes of brain studies..I am pleased I have somethng to offer the world besides my mother always complaining "when are you going to stop studying and get a real job?"
The intervioew today on BBS radio (on the JustGetUsIn.com website now...interview starts 15 intes into the forst section with myself and our Washnton based Lawyer, Michaell Ruggio..who will start suing these cBig Pharm folk and others..once we amass enmough for each class action suit - there are muliple categories."
Yes, mercury increased the problem; However, so to does everythng else. Here is the problem: The neurological injury M.A.S.S. response process always existed in human pathology (see MASS disorders on BrainGuardMD.com). This was an active process in polio, smallpox, spanish flu, and ALL infectious diseases - always has been, always will be;
this is the non-specific immune system response to disease..all disease; but more specifically, this
is the non-specific immune response to ANYTHING foreign in our bodies.
Mercury, formaledhyde, antigens from bugs, etc.... The mercury, or any other concurrent
non-specific immune system triggers, will be additive andf summative to cause
the MASS response (whihc clogs off small blood vessels...and prevents oxygen delivery and toxin removal in the small blood vessels of the body..all organs),
Chelating mercury is helpful simply becauise you are removing one of the triggers that enhances the non-specific immune system response; this, however, is not the end all beeat all problem. once the immune system has become iontolerant (a kind of allergy or serum sickness state) to particular foreign antigen (for example gluten or casein or peanit butter or pniucillin) etc... teh MASS response causes the wwhite blood cells to do some
"different" thinsg that causes the body to react in wasy that are activating healing by first intention (but this is actually causing harm in the intolerant state). Get rid of the triggers, by diet, chelation, or non-expsoure, and you decrease the load on the non-specific immuen system, and esentially yiu "clrean up the microvsssel highways) and thinsg can improve.
Our solution, surprisngly, is targeted to teh liver (whihc has also "stroked) but thankfully, the liver can regenerate..fix the liver, the bone marrow fixxes, and the immune system fixes, and the body starts healing itslef... we are humbled.
I cannot state where we can move your son to as I do not know whwre he is at within the neurodeevlopmental spectrum of "recovery." Bottom line is thgs though: His liver is still impaired (as is all of our liovers) and thus his bloodwork parameters, although normal by contermporary medical standrds, likley are not relative to how we now look at this across the entire physiological index of metabolic functions - inlcuding C Reactive Protein.
The allergies and intolerances we can handle no problem; the neuropcognitive impairment can improve (we have gotten alzhiemer's patients out of institution=alization and diapers and back into the community; we have only begun helping the autistic children - the solution is looking multi-pronged: 1) fix the liver and immune system; 2) we this remove the on-goiung "spark" that is impairing recovery, 2) then the hyperoxygenation will work: BY example: we have to get rid o9f the spark that started the fire before we attempt to "re-build the house" ion the foundation that was burned to the ground.
We must establish the MASS response using our video micrscopy spectral imaging (there are soem features specific to the MASS response and to vaccination whihyc we now detect). Incidentally, our imaging also shows that this MASS response was causing a similar brain damage in the pre--vaccine era in people who succumbed to congenital rubella syndrome, polio, tetanus, and a bevy of other ailmenst - these infectious diseases had a two stage hit - one, specific to the bug (the antibody response) and the other, a non-specific response (to any immune challenge) - we have essnetially heightened the non-specifc response by design wiith these bloody vaccineS - MERCURY ONLY MADE THINGS WORSE; ..but the damnage is a generic process rather than a resposne to any specific pathogen or toxin -it is the state of the immune system and the "toxin/pathogen" cumulative load that is important rather than any specific foerign substance in the body.
If youlisten to teh varied radio braodctss (on genesis network with Bill Deagle, Dr Carley, and this Oct 7th at 7 am EST on Power Hours radio on the net, and the BBS show we just posted to justgetusin.com today - you will understand better what I am talking about.
I can help anyone throughout the US now - New Hampshire or otherwisel we have 600,000 full page add distribution throughout Connecticurt area happening tomorrow.... then we start.
GlaxoSmith Kile just came across our evidence submitted to teh vaccine injury courts 4 weeks ago - we have explained it all )all vaccine injrues for everyone, the evidence in damning - needless to say, like the OJ trial, they are now doing theor utmost to prevent the evidence from getting to court - if we did not have them over a barrel, they would not be trying to exclude the evidnce and the 116 page report - the glove fits, and no one will acquit - but lawyers are for hire to protect tehor clients - so regardless what happens on the medcial legfal fronbt at this point - we are simply going ahead and fixing and blocking the problems they say theya re not causing ;-)
..we could use help spreading teh word. The way to stop these people is to keep hammering them in court - I need the BrainGuard imaging to keep hammering away on mulipel fronts in the legal arena... we can help...right now we are swamped with the varuied cancers we are treating ;-)....on stop shop to helping the body fix itself ..we will eventaully slow down and write the book "its the liver stupid" ;-)
spread the word John - people simply need to be a meber, sell a preoperty save themselves oodles of money, and we receive funds from real estate to start curing the world ; and start figthing back the Big Pharmaide interests that have harmed too many lives and dreams for too long -I fully inetend on bankrupting them on behalf opf families such as your own..just watch...and what we extarct from them willgo direct to you and yours.... Robin hood I guess, but with a Noerther Ontario country boy mentality of "you can knock me off my horse, stick a stellato through my temple, but if I am still breathing, I am getting back on that bhorse and coming at it again"..Thick, bright, and stipuid..a damgerous thorn for thge Pharma interests, and a humble fruiend of teh autism community.
Andrew J. Moulden M.D., Ph.D.
The core essence of "Greater Things" is that there is always a better way to do things -- anything -- whether it be religion, politics, science, academia -- anything. To the extent that we get institutionalized and codified in a set belief system, is the extent that we inhibit the ability to grow and learn new and better ways.
--- On Sun, 10/5/08, email@example.com
From: email@example.com
I listened to your interview with Rebecca Carley with fascination. I'm
curious why you made no mention of mercury. Do you find that it plays no role
in autism?
My son is now 12, born normal and showed no signs of problems until 9 or 10
months old. When he lost eye contact shortly after that, he showed zero
progression until he was almost 8 when we began chelation. The first thing to
disappear was about 5 years of painful constipation. At the same time, after 2
months of chelating, he stopped dragging one leg and began to walk normally.
Then some eye contact came back and progression began. Four years later,
he's much better but still has a long way to go.
We used minimal supplements, vitamin C, E, Supernuthera for two years, some
zinc and magnesium, fish oil and something for liver support. Used DMSA and ALA
for a year or so and then ALA only.
Would any of this have helped if mercury was not part of the problem that
caused the autism? Might BrainGuard help him at this point?
John Best
uxneey has sent you a message on YouTube:
Dr. Mulden
Hi foresam,
Dr. Moulden got back to me. He said the problems accessing the AMass website
was because they were doing a bunch of IT upgrades to it.
He also told me to ask you to contact him directly at the email address I gave
you previously
Here is Dr. Moulden's email to me. I thought you might find it interesting:
Please have the parent of the vaccine injured child correspond with me directly
(via this email) or simply access BrainGuardMD.com - which will be open to the
public tomorrow.
First we must establish that the MASS response utilizing our video microscopy
tools and techniques.
We are on Power Hour radio on the Net October 7th - and will be discussing what
has happened to the Gulf War vets "Gulf War Syndrome" which, as it
turns out, is the microbiological and physiological equivalent of what has
happened to the infants/children from vaccination.... this M.A.S.S. response is
generic, and is the same process that caused paralysis from polio, lockjaw from
tetanus, death from measles and smallpox, and loss of language of motor function
from Spansih flu - the sad reality is that we never realized that these
"bugs" and foreign sybstances/invaders in our bodies, had a
"two-step approach to causing disease and damages to our tissue.
We have rid ourselves oif these serious ailmenst from the antibody response
specific to the "bug" via vaccination; however, ALL we have really
achieved is diluting one part of teh problme and changed relatively serious
diseases and disorders into a silent epidemic - you see, it is the non-specific
(white blood cell) response that has ALWAYS been active to foreign substances in
our bodies, be that bugs or vaccine adjuvants, that has caiused disease,
neurological damages, and disorders.
The answers, for all, have been fpound in the liver - kind of a
"one-stop-shop" for mamalian physiology in disease. Fic teh liver, you
fix the bine marrow and immune system, you fix the microvascularizaton, yuo
remove the biomechanical contsraints, and the body starts healing itself - from
varied chronic illnesses, some brain damage (it is the white matter tarcts that
reform and re-connect that helps recover lost finctions...we cannot re-store
gray matter - the thinking parts of the brain..we can re-store teh bodies
ability to heal itself though...re: listen to radio interview on BBS from
yesetrday..we posted it to the JustGetUsIn.com site...the first 15 mintes of the
intervoew is the hosts diatribe..mine follows).
We simply have to establish the MASS response has caused the damages to the
alleged vaccine injured individual (our BrainGuardMD technologies). With this
poarameter established and locked, we can now quantify and monitor the
self-repair once we comemnce our intervention - targeting the liver, and all
natural, and tailored specific to the individuals physiology - based on blood
work we must follow). The older the child, the slower the process; we cannot
bring indivudauls back to 100% of who they ere or were destined to be..but we do
bring back functions and we can show you, in the bloodwork, and in the imaging,
that we are achieving this goal..coincident with the parent observng the
behavioral changes.
We have every intent on suing Big Pharma on behalf of everyone harmed that we
demonstarte causastion. These families need support and services. These children
deserve the best healthcare can buy. I am a physician, not a profiteer. There is
an entire planet to heal and an on-going battle to stop those that profit off of
making us sick.
Andrew J. Moulden M.D., Ph.D.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Blood Sludging in Autism
This whole idea hinges on autism being a result of unhealthy blood. According to Whole Health Network, you still have to detoxify and fix the whole body so the blood will eventually be normal. At least, I think that's the idea.
Age of Autism showed how one partially recovered child had much more healthy blood than unrecovered kids. It claimed that a kid who was about 70% recovered had 15% of his red blood cells healthy compared to 1% or 2% in other kids.
Instead of going through a long and expensive process to wind up with 15% of your blood being healthy, why not just take a couple of pints out and replace them with healthy blood to start? That would give you 20% healthy blood right away and would only take about an hour. If Whole Health Network is right and healthy blood is the key to resolving the autism, couldn't any doctor order this blood test, have it covered by insurance and introduce some better blood into autistic kids first in the process of healing everything?


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