It eventually lead to a better selection of advertisers for CNN.
Let’s take a look at Earth’s imbalance today:
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Vortex Flow east of Hudson Bay is still reaching into the center of the Continent with notable dense clouds accumulating there.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/maps/satradloop.htm?USA&Rgoes&8
Click on center animation key if you like.
THIS IS HUMAN INDUCED GLOBAL WARMING
There is the Arctic Oscillation monster in the North Pacific:
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_vis_west_loop-12.html
Water Vapor – this one is unusual as well as the jet stream appears to come together from a split. It’s a strange vapor pattern.
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_west_loop-12.html
There is the twin vortex in the North Atlantic known as the North Atlantic Oscillation:
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_vis_east_loop-12.html
Water Vapor – this is still a rather disturbing picture. The jet stream is still very ‘north’ over the Arctic Ocean and more or less incorporated into the North Atlantic Vortex
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.html
The Asian Pacific Area is getting the worst of the storm weather from Global Warming due to several factors. Primarily it is the Western boundary of the Pacific Ocean and receives the ‘hot circulation’ from the Equator. There is always a heat source for this mess at the Gobi desert in the middle of the Asian continent within China. That helps fuel the North Asian Vortex which usually centers itself over the
Friday, July 2, 2004
The Civil Rights Promotion by NewsNight
It was hideous. They actually celebrated Tuskegee and ridiculed African Americans for NOT participating in medical research.
It was some of the worse bigotry I have ever heard. Tuskegee was a human rights violation and that is why Bill Clinton apologized for it. The program showcased to bring minorities to research. It made no sense to bring up 40 years of pain to promote participation in minority research. Tuskegee was long closed and not a modern day issue. 'von Zwieten' and the Bush White House USED the Tuskegee as an issue to put the ownership of a segregated society on The Black minority of the country. Many of the studies that determine medical research are done at high profile universities without RECRUITING to minority participants. They never tried recruiting minorities. They never even identified the deficit in the studies they published.
The government should have REQUIRED a proportional minority representation across the board whenever a medical study was done that would ultimately impact on all races in the country. The 'short fall' of responsibility belongs/belonged to the USA government and NOT the minority populous.
Honestly.
July 1, 2004
BROWN: At the White House today, President Bush marked tomorrow's 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. In 1964, the landmark law began to move the country down the path toward equal rights. It did not, however, stop injustice overnight. Consider this. On the very day -- the very day -- that law was signed, one of the most shameful undertakings in the history of medicine was still unfolding. The victims of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment were poor African-American men in the rural South. What happened to them would shatter the trust for generations of African-Americans. In Alabama this week, an effort made to rebuild the trust.
Here's CNN's Elizabeth Cohen.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It seems unbelievable when you hear about it now, that, for decades, government doctors recruited illiterate black sharecroppers with syphilis by telling them they'd take care of them, but, instead, deliberately never gave them penicillin, the cure for the disease.
HERMAN SHAW, TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY SURVIVOR: They didn't even tell us anything, just go on treating us just like dumb pigs, or guinea pigs.
COHEN: The U.S. Public Health Service, along with local doctors and nurses, intentionally allowed these men to suffer the ravages of syphilis just so they could study the natural course of the disease. As is common when the disease goes untreated, some of the men went blind. For some of them, the disease attacked the brain and the heart and many of them died. While the government never told the men they had syphilis, many others knew what was going on. Doctors frequently published study results in medical journals and discussed them at conferences. The experiment went on for 40 years. The studies continued even after the Nuremberg Code was written, a set of regulations for preventing abuse of human study subjects that grew out of the Nazi medical experiments. Then, in 1972, a whistle-blower from within the Public Health Service leaked the story to the press. Outraged followed. And because of Tuskegee, for the first time, the U.S. adopted strict rules for medical research and clinical trials. But trust had already been shattered by decades of betrayal. How to overcome the legacy of Tuskegee is now the challenge. Many leaders in the African- American community say much time has already been lost. It took 25 years for a president to apologize.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: What the United States government did was shameful, and I am sorry.
COHEN: This week, 32 years after the experiment ended, as part of an effort to rebuild that trust, the government has come back to Tuskegee.
CLAUDE ALLEN, DEPUTY HHS SECRETARY: How do we go about getting more and better health care to communities of color, but also getting participation from communities of color in our research activities?
COHEN: Some say this week's conference is a start, but still not nearly enough minorities join medical studies. For example, just 5 percent of the study subjects in cancer clinical trials are African- American, even though they make up 12 percent of the population. Lack of participation means drugs sometimes are developed without being fully tested on minorities.
BILL JENKINS, MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: All too often, we produce a medication by studying a very narrow group like white males, only to find out that that medication may not only be unhelpful to other populations; it may actually be dangerous to other populations.
COHEN: According to the Food and Drug Administration, studies have shown that African-Americans respond differently than others to certain medicines, such as those for high-blood pressure and hepatitis.
FRED GRAY, ATTORNEY: The circle in the middle represents the memorial tile.
COHEN: Fred Gray, a lawyer for the men who survived the study, says he hopes this memorial, still in the planning stages, will help heal wounds by bearing witness to the men who were duped into thinking they were getting care when, in fact, they were just being used as guinea pigs. Elizabeth Cohen, Tuskegee, Alabama.
It was some of the worse bigotry I have ever heard. Tuskegee was a human rights violation and that is why Bill Clinton apologized for it. The program showcased to bring minorities to research. It made no sense to bring up 40 years of pain to promote participation in minority research. Tuskegee was long closed and not a modern day issue. 'von Zwieten' and the Bush White House USED the Tuskegee as an issue to put the ownership of a segregated society on The Black minority of the country. Many of the studies that determine medical research are done at high profile universities without RECRUITING to minority participants. They never tried recruiting minorities. They never even identified the deficit in the studies they published.
The government should have REQUIRED a proportional minority representation across the board whenever a medical study was done that would ultimately impact on all races in the country. The 'short fall' of responsibility belongs/belonged to the USA government and NOT the minority populous.
Honestly.
July 1, 2004
BROWN: At the White House today, President Bush marked tomorrow's 40th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. In 1964, the landmark law began to move the country down the path toward equal rights. It did not, however, stop injustice overnight. Consider this. On the very day -- the very day -- that law was signed, one of the most shameful undertakings in the history of medicine was still unfolding. The victims of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment were poor African-American men in the rural South. What happened to them would shatter the trust for generations of African-Americans. In Alabama this week, an effort made to rebuild the trust.
Here's CNN's Elizabeth Cohen.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It seems unbelievable when you hear about it now, that, for decades, government doctors recruited illiterate black sharecroppers with syphilis by telling them they'd take care of them, but, instead, deliberately never gave them penicillin, the cure for the disease.
HERMAN SHAW, TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY SURVIVOR: They didn't even tell us anything, just go on treating us just like dumb pigs, or guinea pigs.
COHEN: The U.S. Public Health Service, along with local doctors and nurses, intentionally allowed these men to suffer the ravages of syphilis just so they could study the natural course of the disease. As is common when the disease goes untreated, some of the men went blind. For some of them, the disease attacked the brain and the heart and many of them died. While the government never told the men they had syphilis, many others knew what was going on. Doctors frequently published study results in medical journals and discussed them at conferences. The experiment went on for 40 years. The studies continued even after the Nuremberg Code was written, a set of regulations for preventing abuse of human study subjects that grew out of the Nazi medical experiments. Then, in 1972, a whistle-blower from within the Public Health Service leaked the story to the press. Outraged followed. And because of Tuskegee, for the first time, the U.S. adopted strict rules for medical research and clinical trials. But trust had already been shattered by decades of betrayal. How to overcome the legacy of Tuskegee is now the challenge. Many leaders in the African- American community say much time has already been lost. It took 25 years for a president to apologize.
WILLIAM J. CLINTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: What the United States government did was shameful, and I am sorry.
COHEN: This week, 32 years after the experiment ended, as part of an effort to rebuild that trust, the government has come back to Tuskegee.
CLAUDE ALLEN, DEPUTY HHS SECRETARY: How do we go about getting more and better health care to communities of color, but also getting participation from communities of color in our research activities?
COHEN: Some say this week's conference is a start, but still not nearly enough minorities join medical studies. For example, just 5 percent of the study subjects in cancer clinical trials are African- American, even though they make up 12 percent of the population. Lack of participation means drugs sometimes are developed without being fully tested on minorities.
BILL JENKINS, MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: All too often, we produce a medication by studying a very narrow group like white males, only to find out that that medication may not only be unhelpful to other populations; it may actually be dangerous to other populations.
COHEN: According to the Food and Drug Administration, studies have shown that African-Americans respond differently than others to certain medicines, such as those for high-blood pressure and hepatitis.
FRED GRAY, ATTORNEY: The circle in the middle represents the memorial tile.
COHEN: Fred Gray, a lawyer for the men who survived the study, says he hopes this memorial, still in the planning stages, will help heal wounds by bearing witness to the men who were duped into thinking they were getting care when, in fact, they were just being used as guinea pigs. Elizabeth Cohen, Tuskegee, Alabama.
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