BBC News - Israeli forces fire on protesters at border crossings

BBC News - Israeli forces fire on protesters at border crossings

Its long past time that the Palestinians be given back the land stolen from them in 1948 by European Guilt and US geopolitical strategy. Though to be fair Syria is pushing this to distract from the uprisings in their own country seeking a more democratic government. The fires of tunisia burn bright and will hopefully continue to spread across not just the middle east but the world. We are only as free as the least free.

Experimental AIDS vaccine showing promise in monkeys | The Raw Story

Experimental AIDS vaccine showing promise in monkeys | The Raw Story

Amazing news, "Dr. Louis Picker of the Oregon National Primate Research Center, whose study appear in the journal Nature, said he thinks it will be possible to have a vaccine ready to test in people within three years." While there have been many claims in the past about being able to hold HIV/AIDS at bay with a cocktail of drugs this is the first time an experimental vaccine has shown these kinds of results. With further tests and refinement over the next three years I expect that before 2020 we will have a fully functioning AIDS vaccine something that would truly change the world. AIDS has killed some 25 million people and infects some 33 million a viable vaccine is clearly more desirable than a cocktail of drugs one must take everyday. "Picker and colleagues use a relatively harmless virus called cytomegalovirus (CMV) as a transport system to take the experimental vaccine into the body." This is yet another example of using nature to fight against the worst pathogens, by using a virus already common amongst the human population this lowers the risk of secondary infections, the building up of tolerance o the drugs, and also hopefully will prevent HIV/AIDS from becoming resistant to it. "The breakthrough here is in using a viral-delivered vaccine that persists -- essentially using an engineered virus to thwart a pathogenic virus," said Robin Shattock, a professor of mucosal infection and immunity at Britain's Imperial College, who was not involved in the research."

Seriously?

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/14/136278740/cash-strapped-cities-put-the-squeeze-on-nonprofits?ft=1&f=1002&sc=igg2

So in Boston they are asking non-profit Universities and hospitals to pay taxes, not churches though, not the ever wealthy Catholic church, and most certainly not the corporate tax dodgers that keep our elected officials in office. The best government money can by comes to mind, the fact that we are going after schools and hospitals for cash absolutely blows me away, especially as blow hards like Boehner and phaux liberals like Obama argue back and forth over social-issues like abortion, gay marriage, and basketball brackets.

THE END OF THE WORLD

LOL Gotta love the religious crazy fucks, everyone get ready to make fun of Family radio.com and anyone who believes this bullshit!

Left Facebook for good

I hope that this will not be a place where I talk to myself like 98% of all blogs.

The myth of Meritocracy

Great article here, http://www.ncsociology.org/sociationtoday/v21/merit.htm, Well worth the read.

A possibility on God.

No God before the big bang - Is it not possible that what we could and would perceive as a God was not created before the beginning of the universe but was merely the first thing created. This in no way solves the anthropogenic problem or the prime mover problem but it does allow for a god like figure without an endless regressive loop, and at least for religious folks, of which you know I am not, it allows for a God like figure without having to throw out modern physics.