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Possible Cancer Cure Revealed

by metatron in

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geron stock took an enormous leap today as a study was revealed that their anti- cancer vaccine.

could be a cure for any cancer.. http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030318/1205000867_1.html.

if that doesn't work, go to yahoo, finance and read the news on geron stock.. .

You bet. Here is another substance...I use it and it has 100% reversed my Crohn's disease in 6 weeks--symptom free!...that is being studied for its beneficial cell-duplication inhibition properties vs. cancer...It's expensive, but it works for me...I would try it for lots of ailments...Here is some more info...

(12) Liu G, Bode A, Ma WY, Sang S, Ho CT, Dong Z. Two novel glycosides from the fruits of Morinda citrifolia (noni) inhibit AP-1 transactivation and cell transformation in the mouse epidermal JB6 cell line. Cancer Res 2001; 61(15):5749-5756.
Abstract: The fruit juice of Morinda citrifolia (noni), a plant originally grown in the Hawaiian and Tahitian islands, has long been used by islanders to treat diseases, including cancer. Two novel glycosides, 6-O-(beta-D-glucopyranosyl)-1-O-octanoyl-beta-D-glucopyranose and asperulosidic acid, extracted from the juice of noni fruits, were used to examine their effects on 12-O-tedtradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA)- and epidermal growth factor (EGF)-induced AP-1 transactivation and cell transformation in mouse epidermal JB6 cells. The results indicated that both compounds were effective in suppressing TPA- or EGF-induced cell transformation and associated AP-1 activity. TPA- or EGF-induced phosphorylation of c-Jun, but not extracellular signal-regulated kinases or p38 kinases, was also blocked by the compounds, indicating that c-Jun N-terminal kinases were critical in mediating TPA- or EGF-induced AP-1 activity and subsequent cell transformation in JB6 cells

http://www.cancerdecisions.com/Townsend/June2001.html
Inhibiting Telomerase
At the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, Li Mao, MD is studying telomerase activity in the lung tissues of heavy smokers. Telomerase is an enzyme that conveys Methuselah-like longevity to cells that would otherwise have normal lifespans. It makes these cells virtually immortal and is an important part of the cancer process.
So how can one suppress telomerase? Retinoids, vitamin A-like compounds, significantly decreases the activity of telomerase. In a placebo-controlled trial, heavy smokers with no evidence of cancer were given a synthetic retinoid (called 4-HPR) to see if this would decrease telomerase activity. Such treatment significantly reduced expression of a biomarker for telomerase by more than 20 percent, indicating a reduced risk of lung cancer.
"This is the first data to provide promising evidence that a molecular biomarker may sensitively measure the efficacy of a chemopreventive agent in the lung," said the Houston scientist. It also inadvertently strengthens the rationale for using carrot juice as part of a holistic approach to cancer, an approach pioneered in the 1930s by the controversial Dr. Max Gerson. What goes around, comes around….
Novel Antitumor Agents
The poster sessions are to me the most fascinating part of AACR. They are a huge and changing bazaar of findings, where you also get to see the faces behind the research. The most interesting ones this year were devoted to novel antitumor agents, including:
MGN-3, an anticancer agent made from rice bran and mushrooms
SPES and PC SPES, two Chinese herbal mixtures used for pancreatic cancer
EGCG, from green tea, used to treat pancreatic cancer cells
Curcumin, derived from the spice turmeric, and resveratrol, derived from red wine
Japanese butterfly alkaloids as a cytotoxic agent
Butyric acid, derived from butter, used against leukemia cells
Squalene, from shark liver oil, to protect bone marrow during chemotherapy
Ascorbic acid and copper as a treatment for advanced breast cancer
Anvirzel, extract of the oleander bush (Nerium oleander), as anticancer agent
Morinda citrifolia (noni) against breast and colon cancer cells
Researchers also gathered four and five deep around posters devoted to dendritic cell vaccines…43 posters on a topic that is creating excitement in all parts of the cancer world. Yet none of the researchers I spoke to was familiar with the way that dendritic cell vaccines are currently being used at various unconventional clinics.
The fields of conventional research and CAM practice are groping towards each other but only connect at rare moments. Some conventional researchers scour the health food stores for new treatment ideas, but seem in the dark about how their research relates to the current practice of non-conventional medicine. As one example, the AACR researcher working on SPES and PC SPES had no idea what was in those two Chinese herbal mixtures! Conversely, alternative practitioners may consult the orthodox literature, but few of them thought it important to attend this meeting.
The challenge of the years ahead will be to knit together the best of conventional and alternative approaches into a new field, which has been called integrative oncology
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Why do some of you get so worked up over this, JW's control relies on lack

by Its so simple in

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personal growth.

most people are angry at themselves for not seeing it sooner and they just blame the wtbs.

if it was not them there would be something else that 'filled their need' and would have ensnared them.

reporter

as if red highlighting everything you say makes you greater and more credible than your average newbie

It's annoying. You can speak normal, you know. It's quite simple.

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Jehovah's Witness Elder ordered to repay $4.7 million to fleeced flock

by Rado Vleugel in

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a jehovah's witnesss elder was ordered by a federal judge to pay more than $4.7 million in restitution to almost 50 victims of a ponzi-like con game many of them elderly members of his own congregation.

read the whole story on http://www.watchtowerinformationservice.org/.

rado vleugel

reporter

Metatron!

You look the other way, you cover things up, you quietly encourage deception and "Theocratic warfare"

The Mossad's Motto:

By way of deception, thou shalt do war

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Israel framed Al Queda Who do you trust?

by Iron Eagle in

that got your attention.

so who do you trust?

do you really think that al queda are responsible for attacking america on 9/11 ?

reporter

Rumour has it only 11% turned up for work that day.

Let's dispense with rumor, and get some facts in here.

The actual number of Israeli dead at the WTC itself was ZERO!

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/memorial/index.html

Only one Isreli was killed aboard each of the flights that crashed into WTC.

Who were anonymously informed of the impending attacks by instant message? (Gee, wish you guys could instant message me of impending doom, or the Big A!)

http://www.rense.com/general18/im.htm as Reprinted from Washington Post.

Just the facts, ma'am, please. Also an alternate link.

Who do I trust? In God I trust, all others pay cash.

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Bush just wants the oil!!!

by dubla in

i posted this on another thread, but i thought a new thread might help get the ball rolling: .

i have a simple question for all those that believe this war is solely about oil: .

what exactly do you believe bush is going to do with the oil fields after the war?.

reporter

Nice. ThiChi posts the DoD propaganda. Ok fair is fair...

A debate in the UK Parliament has begun on a motion from Blair to support military action against Iraq. In the opening speech Blair said that Iraqi oil revenues will be administered for the Iraqi people BY A UN TRUST.
So is this what the war is all about? The UN wants the oil, but doesn't want to be seen to going in there and taking it by supporting military action, so the anglo-americans, whose idea the UN is, do it for them?
This slip from Blair shows that the war is NOT about discrediting the UN, but is actually about strengthening it. The London Times reported that the UN would administer Iraq three months after the Saddam regime has been removed, and now Blair has confirmed that the UN will decide how Iraq will spend the proceeds of oil sales. From the speeches from our great leaders you could be forgiven in thinking that Iraqi oil would be extracted, refined, and marketed by Iraqi oil companies for Iraqi people. It now appears as though it will be Anglo-American companies extracting, refining and marketing the oil, and the revenues managed by the UN.

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George Bush's excuse is good enough for me !

by searchfothetruth in

i am really excited by george bush's latest reason for bombing iraq: he's running out of patience.

for some time now i've been really pi##ed off with mr johnson, who lives a couple of doors down the street.

well, him and mr patel, who runs the health food shop.they both give me queer looks, and i'm sure mr johnson is planning something nasty for me, but so far i haven't been able to discover what.. i've been round to his place a few times to see what he's up to, but he's got everything well hidden.

reporter

WHO has WMD?

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Weapons of Mass Destruction Not in Iraq, but Anniston, Ala.

The cache of chemical weapons includes 873,020 pounds of sarin, 1,657,480 pounds of VX nerve agent and 1,976,760 pounds of mustard agent - enough to kill or incapacitate millions.

By CHUCK MURPHY, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published March 16, 2003

ANNISTON, Ala. -- They told William Hutchings he would have his building by now.

But when Hutchings and the 550 students, teachers and staff in his school practice what to do if there is an explosion at the Army depot 5 miles away, they pile into a converted music room, not a state-of-the-art shelter.

Exhaust from the incinerator travels through the pollution abatement system before going out the stack.

If there is an accident, the veteran principal declares, "everyone here would die. Everybody'd die."

As Hutchings talks, he paces in the lot where his shelter is supposed to be, behind C.E. Hanna school in Hobson City, just southwest of Anniston.

On the other side of the hill, the Army has stored enough nerve agent and mustard to kill or incapacitate millions. The rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds are pointed toward the sky, awaiting destruction.

It has been that way for 40 years. But as the United States prepares to attack Iraq, partly over Saddam Hussein's failure to rid his nation of chemical weapons, Anniston is a vivid reminder that the weapons of mass destruction from the 20th century were a lot easier to make than they are to destroy.

Though the United States is required by international treaty to be rid of chemical weapons by 2007, nearly 75 percent of the nation's now-banned arms still exist. It amounts to a nationwide stockpile of 23,415 tons of liquid sarin nerve agent, blister-causing mustard agent, a deadly nerve liquid called VX and variants.

That's 46,830,000 pounds of chemicals. A teaspoon of any of them is enough to kill or maim.

Most of it is stored at eight sites around the country, still in the munitions into which it was loaded at the factory in the 1940s and '50s. It was never used in battle, only in practice. There are hundreds of other "nonstockpile" sites, as the Army refers to them, around the country. Several are in Florida, including the Tampa Bay area.

[Times photos: Chris Zuppa]
A truck waits on Anniston's East 10th Street, which is the Immediate Response Zone's border, where people would be at greater risk in a weapons stockpile accident.

In Anniston, the more than 600,000 munitions that arrived in trains and trucks in the 1960s have long been the subject of whispers in the town of 24,276 in a county of 112,249. But as the date for their incineration approached last month, the whispers turned to debate.

Today, the residents of Calhoun County agree they want the weapons gone. But they divide sharply over how -- and how quickly -- the destruction should occur.

On one side are those who want the weapons to go away fast -- at least as soon as the Army prepares schools and homes just in case of an accident at the new incinerator at the depot.

On the other are those who have been fighting incineration for a decade. They hope the Army will be forced to scrap its burning plans in favor of what they believe is a safer process of chemical "neutralization" followed by disposal.

'A certain number of casualties'

Brenda Lindell, left, prays with her husband, Alan, right, and son Ryan, 16, in their Anniston home. Brenda Lindell and others protested the building of Anniston's incinerator.

Brenda Lindell needs pecans for her fruit salad. Once she gets them from her garage she returns to a topic she is passionate about: organophosphates.

"Even the CDC said they didn't know anything about the effects of low-dose, long-term exposure," Lindell said. "Well, if they don't know, then don't make us the guinea pigs!"

Lindell, 50, hardly matches the stereotype of a tree-hugging environmentalist. She is first and foremost a self-described homemaker who first heard about plans to burn the chemical weapons in 1991.

Even then, she fought the urge to battle the Army, preferring to move from Anniston rather than fight.

But she, her husband and their three kids stayed put. And over time, the Army's plans to burn Anniston's 2,254 tons of chemical agent in a big incinerator near town have become her passion.

"When the Army is given a mission, a certain number of casualties is acceptable to them, and they put on blinders and just go," Lindell said. "That's acceptable on a battlefield in war. But this is not a battlefield, and we're not supposed to be at war with our own government."

Over the protest of Lindell and other groups locally and across the country, Westinghouse Anniston (the Army's contractor) built the incinerator and got a permit to operate it.

It's the same technology that has been used in Tooele, Utah, and on Johnston Atoll in the Pacific. The Army said the destruction of 9,634 tons of chemicals in those two incinerators went relatively smoothly, with no fatal accidents and only minor glitches.

But those incinerators are, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere, not in the midst of more than 100,000 people like the one in Anniston.

And as Lindell and others are quick to point out, it's too soon to tell whether there will be any long-term damage to people or animals from trace amounts of the organophosphates -- the killers in the nerve agents -- that may have been released during those burns.

The Army is required to insure that incineration produces an exhaust that is 99.9999 percent free of harmful chemicals.

But the other 0.0001 could contain small amounts of toxic dioxins, maybe some heavy metals and, if you believe the dissenters, a little occasional nerve agent.

The Army points to a study from test burns at the Johnston Atoll. It showed that the maximum possible public exposure from cancer-causing agents coming out of the smokestack would be the equivalent of smoking 1.7 to 17 cigarettes per year.

"When you look at the working population on Johnston Island, we have not found any instances of workers having long-term health effects," said Army spokesman Mike Abrams.

The opponents don't buy it.

Craig Williams is one of those opponents. Williams, who heads a consortium of incineration opponent organizations called the Chemical Weapons Working Group, complains that the test burn data doesn't take into account the potential burps and hiccups that occur when an incinerator is really up and running. The data also doesn't take into account the long-term exposure to even low doses of those chemicals if incineration goes on for eight to 12 years.

The Johnston Island incineration lasted 10 years, but was usually conducted so that the plume from the incinerator blew out over the ocean, not toward the island's housing.

And finally, Williams charges, the Army hasn't accounted for Anniston's uniquely polluted population. The town is already among the most troubled in America. An abandoned factory on one side of town is awash in PCBs, and some residents already test positive for exposure to the cancer-causing agent.

"If you know that you've got a community already overburdened with toxic chemicals, it is unconscionable to look at that (data) in a vacuum and declare that these are safe levels," Williams said.

Eli and the gorilla

A decade ago, James "Eli" Henderson believed in the Army.

He spent 25 years working as a civilian at the Anniston depot. For 10 of those years, he checked the chemical weapons every day for "leakers."

But after initially supporting the idea of a quick incineration of the depot's chemical munitions, Henderson had a change of heart.

"We discovered that the VX (nerve agent) is 10 times more deadly than they told us and that the GB (sarin) is five times more deadly," Henderson said. "And we couldn't get any help."

Commissioner Eli Henderson originally supported the Chemical Agent Disposal Facility.

Henderson is a plain-spoken Democrat who was first elected to the Calhoun County Commission in 1994 (one of his bumper stickers read: Eli. 'Nuff Said). And he turned that ability to rally the public against the Army, the Federal Emergency Management Authority and just about anyone else in government who was pushing the incineration plan.

"I just began to raise hell," Henderson said.

It's not that he opposes incineration, though he says Lindell and her supporters "just might be right." Instead, he wants to make sure the county's residents are protected just in case the Army's safeguards fail.

But in January, with the February start of burning looming on the calendar, little of the promised protection had arrived, with the exception of a few "Shelter In Place" kits (a roll of duct tape, a pair of scissors and plastic sheeting to keep the chemicals out of your house).

So Henderson and others on the commission turned to their senior U.S. senator, Richard Shelby.

After hearings last year, Shelby wrote to Army Secretary Thomas White to complain about "the obvious safety shortfalls."

C.E. Hanna Elementary students Michael Roberts, left, Sierra Worthan, Carley Herren, Miranda Luker and Paige McCord, all 11, play recorders. Hanna is about 5 miles from the disposal facility.

Shelby, a Republican, got immediate attention.

"He was our 800-pound gorilla," Henderson said.

Though the Army maintains that it is nearly impossible for a plume of nerve or mustard gas to travel off the confines of the depot, Army officials declared that they would not begin burning until after Shelby and the County Commission were satisfied that safety plans were in place.

Almost immediately, FEMA gave the county $14-million to buy 20,000 chemical protection hoods for adults and another 2,000 for children and 750 for babies (all at $225 each) living in the "pink zone" closest to the incinerator.

Another 40,000 shelter-in-place kits were purchased at $22.34 each, despite complaints that duct tape and plastic would be no match for sarin or VX if a cloud moves off base. Residents in the pink zone also will get $365 recirculating air filters to put in one room of their homes, where they would wait out the crisis if it comes.

All of it will be distributed soon. And Shelby might not be done yet.

On Friday, Shelby's spokesperson said he was considering asking the Army to perform a study of the cost and benefits of switching the incinerator over to neutralization technology. That would allow the chemicals to be mixed, like baking soda with vinegar, to make the poison inert. It could then be diluted and disposed of. The Army is planning to use that technology at four other stockpile sites.

The Army's new director of the chemical demilitarization program told the Anniston Star recently that the agency would be willing to consider alternatives if they furthered the goal of safely disposing of the stockpile.

Still waiting at C.E. Hanna

In the meantime, FEMA has finished paying for a new state-of-the-art Calhoun County emergency management bunker in Jacksonville, 12 miles north of Anniston. There are 106 special sirens scattered around the county to blast a warning if the chemicals start to drift.

FEMA also has put special pressurization engines in the schools closest to the incinerator, so the air pressure in a large room at each school could be increased in the event of a chemical release so that no agent could get inside.

But while those schools are protected, Hutchings is still waiting.

On Thursday, Janet Shelby of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said that C.E. Hanna School is still slated to get a new metal building with a pressurization engine.

"It will be done by October," Shelby said.

That's when the Army is hoping to start the burning 5 miles away. And that's when Army workers will reach into the "igloos" where the weapons are stored and begin withdrawing pallets of rockets and shells stacked together for 40 years.

In the worst case, one of the 77,000 M-55 rockets filled with sarin or VX would tip over, hit the ground and launch back into the igloo, igniting several thousand others and sending a cloud of deadly sarin toward the sky and out past the fence.

The sirens would go off and the fourth- and fifth-graders at C.E. Hanna would run to their new shelter before Hutchings, 63, turned on the pressurization machine.

But, first, he needs his building. And he is tired of waiting.

"You've got some people fighting over money like blind dogs in a meat house," Hutchings said. "But they're not doing anything for the common people."

Anniston provides home shelter kits to residents.

Shelter in Place

The home shelter kits provided to protect Anniston, Ala. residents from exposure to chemical nerve agents contain items that could be found at most hardware stores

1. A 10' X 25' roll of plastic sheeting

2. A roll of duct tape

3. A pair of scissors

4. A video explaining how to trim the plastic to fit windows and doors

The "Shelter in Place" kit also contains written instructions residents are to follow if they hear the chemical warning siren. Here they are:

1. Move inside immediately

2. Close all windows and doors

3. Turn off all ventilation systems

4. Go into and seal a room

5. Turn on the radio

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OK, What to do with Iraq? Later?

by LB in

so we are a few weeks down the road.

american and british troops are pissing in the palace.

it's all but over and plans for a new government are being put in place.. what would you do?

reporter

Iraq was pretty damn prosperous before the first Gulf war tore them to shit.

Now I hear that the UN (with the careful supervision of the U.S. troops I suspect) has a plan in place to monitor the furtherance of the oil-for-food program post-war.

Uhhh, just whose oil is it?

I mean, with the second largest proven reserve in the world, and today's whacky oil prices, is there any excuse why they aren't RICH?

If Iraqis controlled Iraqi oil, and sold it and refined it and freely traded it as a sovereign nation, without silly dehumanising "sanctions", there wouldn't be a "problem".

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Why was the old mag called the "ZION'S" Watchtower?

by reporter in

i've been doing some reading on the zionists lately and there seem to be some interesting connections...needless to say, some of the stuff is politically controversial, but considering probable links between russell and freemasonry and the occult, pyramids and the sundisk, etc., i'm sure some here have further readings and insights into the role that zionism had to play in the wts' early years.

based on the posts i searched for here containing the word "illuminati", i've come to the conclusion that there is probably no links to this secret society vs. the wts.

david icke sneaks a point here or there but mostly he's out to lunch.

reporter

Interesting...thanks you 3, for your posts.

Right off the bat, to avoid the jjrizo fiasco last year on this board, one would want to make a distinction between "Zionists" and the Jews/Semites. Most critical of the Zionists, in fact, are many Jews themselves! Also, one would have to consider Ariel Sharon's government policies, and their roots. "Anti-Semitism" is a quick label used to discredit many who even discuss these topics, so one would tread carefully, yet it would be disingenuous to suggest that some Jews are not involved; it would be like discussing the Italian mafia without mentioning Italians involved. The Zionism I'm talking about is an extreme form, of which its members are barbaric, and many Jews themselves are disgusted and rightly critical of their actions.

With the early WTS, it's quite interesting that the belief was in the restoration of a physical Israel. It's funny, but didn't Jesus reject the physical Israel and propose a New Jerusalem? When modern day "Israel" was granted their homeland in 1948, at the expense of the Palestinians already living there, it seems to have caused problems to no end. Not to mention Guest 77's pointing to the Khazars, a people whose rulers converted to Judaism sometime during the 800's AD. The irony of the "law of return" is that many of today's Jews have no direct ancestral link to the Jews of the OT. Many, if not most, Jews are people descended from the Khazars. Radical Zionists are capable of killing even fellow Jews in order to advance their cause! Similarly, even Witnesses today will spiritually kill and ostracise a fellow member, if it promotes the "clean utensils of Jehovah" doctrine. And Israel's "intelligence" organisation, the "Mossad"'s motto is: "By way of deception thou shalt do war." Does that sound a tad familiar? Like theocratic warfare, for instance? Already, we can see streaks of character similarities between Zionism and the Zionist mafia, and the WTS foundations under Russell. As this thread progresses, it is my intention to bring to light more of the characteristics of Zionism, how it developed through the late 1800's to today, and why they are dangerous, and deceptive, and how this compares to WTS' traits.

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Breaking News on HEMOSOL - Stock down 65%!!!

by reporter in

hemosol shares close down 65% after trials in key blood product halted .

at 17:00 on march 14, 2003, est.. .

printable version send to a friend

reporter

Yup, I agree -- only blood is the closest thing to blood.

The thing that angers me most re: the Society's policy on blood as of late is the untimely flip-flop they did in issuing blood card directives which would have at least allowed the patient's OWN BLOOD be stored and used in surgery. At the very least, this would help in elective situations where you would have time to prepare, and since it's one's own blood, other risk factors would be eliminated or reduced...But, the policy barons at the GB did THIS instead! See below from Rado Vluegel's site! The difference, as you will see below, is in that keyword "allogenic"...with much thanks to Lee Elder...

Where is the WTS headed with their blood policy?

By Lee Elder
senior AJWRB member

Recently Jehovah's Witnesses learned that there would be no pocket size advance directives (blood cards) issued this year [2002] and naturally, this has created some speculation as to the reason.

If you are carrying or possess the most recent "released" version of the card which was published in March 1999, you will find it interesting to note that a new version was in fact prepared for this year and published in June 2001. The cards were shipped to some congregations and probably a few were actually distributed to members who were baptized over the summer and fall in congregations that ran out of the older version.

About a month ago, congregations were informed not to distribute these new cards, but rather destroy them. The difference is one line where the older March - 1999 card states "I direct that no blood transfusion [see image 1] (whole blood, red cells, white cells, platelets or blood plasma) be given to me...," the June - 2001 version reads "I direct that no allogeneic blood transfusion [see image 2] (whole blood, red cells, white cells, platelets or blood plasma) be given to me..." So the difference in the cards is the use of the word allogeneic in the June 2001 version.

06/2001 Blood Card (not distributed) -image 2
The word "allogeneic" refers to intraspecies genetic variations. Therefore, an "allogeneic" transfusion is one derived from the blood of a different person. The implication here is clear. The Watchtower Society stood at the threshold of permitting autologous whole blood transfusions and for some reason, presently unknown, suddenly shifted and stepped back.

It seems evident there is a great struggle within the WTS leadership as to how best deal with the WTS disastrous policy on blood. Any who are still convinced that the WTS stands solidly behind this policy and are prepared to die defending the policy (or even worse - permit their children to die) have cause to soberly reflect on their support.

In our view, this may be one of those situations where the governing body voted to permit Jehovah's Witnesses to use their own blood and put the wheels in motion to change the policy - only to have one member of the body change their mind at the last second and call for a re-vote.

We believe that the WTS blood policy will change again and change dramatically from a historical perspective - the question is when. The foundation necessary for the change is in place. Even now Jehovah's Witnesses who write for permission to withdraw and store their blood for the use of WTS approved blood fractions are told they may do so. At present huge quantities of blood are donated by non-JWs, stored and processed to provide all of the blood products permitted by the Watchtower Society.

Soon Jehovah's Witnesses will have access to hemoglobin based blood substitutes like HemoPure and PolyHeme. The WTS will be inundated with tough questions and a whole series of articles will have to follow. This will probably lead to further erosion of the Watchtower's once firm stand:

" Is it wrong to sustain life by infusions of blood or plasma or red cells or the various blood fractions? Yes!.regardless of whether it is whole blood taken from one's own body or that taken from someone else, whether it is administrated as a transfusion or an injection, the divine law applies.Whether whole or fractional, one's own or someone else's, transfused or injected, it is wrong." - The Watchtower 09/15/1961 p. 557-559

To members of the governing body of Jehovah's Witnesses, the collective members of AJWRB ask: "If we are permitted to use all of these blood products, why do we withhold one of the tiniest - platelets - when permitting it would save the lives of so many Jehovah's Witness children and adults who are forced to discontinue their chemotherapy?"

Platelets account for only 0.17% of blood volume. If you look at blood like a dollar bill, platelets would be less than 1/5 of one penny. While a permitted blood product like hemoglobin accounts for nearly 15% of blood volume. There is no justification for Watchtower leaders to maintain a policy that sends all of these people to an early grave. At some point, they must find the courage to right this terrible wrong. When they do, AJWRB will have served its purpose but until then we will continue our mission of educating other Jehovah's Witnesses and the medical community regarding the Watchtower's irrational policy on the use of blood.

Even now work goes ahead on important articles soon to be published in American Medical Journals that will inform physicians about these discrepancies and what they can do to minimize morbidity and mortality within the Jehovah's Witness community.

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Paradise Earth

by kingdomseeker in

i'm new here (not a baptized jw) and was just wondering about those in here who are against the jws.

does it mean you no longer wish to live in the kingdom that jesus christ preached about -- the paradise earth conditions before adam and eve sinned?.

... does it mean you all now believe what christendom teaches about the future -- heaven & hell?

reporter

KingdomSeeker: Welcome, and answer me this...Is Jehovah's word subject to revision and update? I mean, is it the truth or is it the troof? BTW, the Proclaimers book is the greatest piece of revisionist history probably ever written on the planet, with the 9/11 "official version" of events a close second...

I encourage you to explore the real roots and history of Jehovah's so-called organization or "channel" for yourself. Do some searches here for Russell, Freemasonry, Occult, Pyramids, etc. etc. I challenge you to pick and read a copy of Raymond Franz' two books, Crisis of Conscience and In Search Of Christian Freedom. Not only was Ray a member of the GB for 9 years, as far as I'm concerned, he's the best Bible scholar and researcher the Society ever had, (not that the Society had any honest "scholarship", a topic for another day) as he was responsible for the "Aid to Bible Understanding" concordance, of which to this day many facts are still there, and transferred to the Insight volumes. Find out for yourself, for example, how the Governing Body comes to important life-and-death policy decisions with a two-thirds majority vote, and how, if this is theocracy, can you justify to yourself that Jehovah is using these men in these capacities of grave responsibility.

Personally, I've taken the remote control and changed my "channel." Or, actually, pressed the off button. We don't need an organisation. Jesus said only through HIM will we find salvation. All of Jesus' teachings were plain and simple. Other people, like Paul, were imperfect men who muddied them up, and unfortunately, many religions take what these men said as Gospel too, but only Jesus had the truth, 100% of the time.