Harvesting Organs Before Death.

I don't think it gets any creepier than this: ripping out body parts before the patient dies.

That's right. The New York Organ Donor Network is accused of pressuring doctors to declare patients dead before they die in order to harvest their organs.

"New York hospitals are routinely "harvesting" body parts from patients before they're even dead, a lawsuit is claiming.

The suit claims that transplant non-profit, The New York Organ Donor Network, of bullying hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead when they are still alive so to take their organs. New York hospitals are routinely "harvesting" body parts from patients before they're even dead, a lawsuit is claiming. The suit claims that transplant non-profit, The New York Organ Donor Network, of bullying hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead when they are still alive so to take their organs. The suit accuses the transplant non-profit, The New York Organ Donor Network, of bullying hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead when they are still alive in order to take their organs.

Plaintiff Patrick McMahon, 50, an Air Force combat veteran, is a former transplant coordinator who claims he was fired just four months into the job for protesting about the practice and estimates that one in five patients is still showing signs of brain activity when surgeons declare them dead and start ripping out their body parts.

"They're playing God," McMahon told New York Post. The lawsuits, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday, cited four examples of improper organ harvesting.

One of the examples cited details of a 19-year-old man injured in a car crash who was still struggling to breath and showed signs of brain activity when doctors at Nassau University Medical Center declared him brain dead under pressure from the donor-network officials, including Director Michael Goldstein, who allegedly said during a conference call: "This kid is dead, you got that?" the suit claims.

McMahon said that the teenager could have easily recovered.

"I have been in Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan in combat," he told New York Post. "I worked on massive brain injuries, trauma, gunshot wounds, IEDs. I have seen worse cases than this and the victims recover."

The three other examples of patients who were still clinging to life when doctors declared them brain dead included a female patient admitted to St. Barnabas Hospital, a man admitted to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn and a woman admitted to Staten Island University Hospital after a drug overdose who was given "a paralyzing anesthetic" because her body was still jerking, according to the Post.

McMahon said when he flagged up the injection, another network employee told hospital personnel McMahon was "an untrained troublemaker with a history of raising frivolous issues and questions," the suit charged. "I had a reputation for raising a red flag," he said.

McMahon accuses the federally-funded network of having a "quota" system and hiring "coaches" to teach staff how to be more persuasive in getting family members to give consent to organ donation. McMahon claims that on November 4, he told the network's CEO and president, Helen Irving, that "one in five patients declared brain dead show signs of brain activity at the time the Note is issued."

However, according to the suit, Irving replied: "This is how things are done.

There’s a lot of money at stake here.  To be sure, when quota systems are in place, and they are, the pressure is on medical professionals to either look the other way, or declare death prematurely.  

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9/11: Indifference to What's Real and the Murder of Reality.

I distinctly remember the weather on Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001: beautiful crystal clear skies as far as the eye could see. No one could've predicted what was to come...well, none of us regular people, anyway. However, things aren't always as they appear. In the background, on that beautiful morning, a category three Hurricane -Hurricane Erin- was headed toward New York City! At a whopping 500 miles in diameter, with more cyclonic energy than Hurricane Katrina! One would think the "hype every storm to the empth degree" mainstream media would've, at the very least, mentioned it. But, not a peep.

Now, as it happened, this huge hurricane spared Manhattan, by making a sharp right hand turn out toward sea. But did the national weather service know this would occur? No, not really. According to Dr. Judy Wood, author of "Where did the Towers Go", Erin was a high pressure system moving from the west, so, yes, it was predicted that it would turn; however, considering the system had already carved its path for four days without reversing position, it was clear that meteorologists didn't know when this would occur. And if the system did not turn exactly when it did, it would've "caused all sorts of storm surges" that would've undoubtedly caused flooding, as Manhattan is at sea level. Dr. Wood also said, "there were air craft carriers and other ships that were docked around Newark, and they took those out to sea because you don't want those docked when horrendous storms are hitting land."  

Here's the thing: the conditions inside the hurricane held constant for 24 hours. The air pressure, wind speed, and distance remained the same. This is an anomaly.  There are no hurricanes in recorded history that have held constant air conditions for 24 hours.

The disconnect between what really happened that day and what people believe to be true, is astonishing. In June, I blogged about the 1975 World Trade Center Fire that Burned for 3 Hours. One would think that the television talking heads who droned on and on, day after day about 9/11 would've mentioned this fire. Asked the question, why didn't the towers fall back then? After all, they are the very first skyscrapers that have disintegrated collapsed due to fire.

Questions:

Why were all the recordings of the building's demise so quiet?

It should've sounded like, as Dr. Wood said, "like it was raining dump trucks".

Where was the what should've been 210 stories of rubble?

Why did the Earth’s magnetic field dip at 8:46 a.m.?

From a set of magnetometers monitored by the University of Alaska, several instruments showed significant deviations from normal readings as the events of 9/11 were unfolding.
Where's the flood? Both towers are built into a "bathtub" on bedrock that plunges 70 feet below the water table.
Where was the seismic signal that would've reflected two 500,000 ton buildings crashing to the ground? The seismic signal was equivalent to the bottom 20 stories of Tower 1 and the bottom 16 stories of Tower 2.

Why did the ground shake for only 8 seconds once the north tower "fell", when dropping a bowling bowl from the top of one of the buildings would've shook the ground for 9.5 seconds?

Why were there no traces of toilets, filing cabinets, yet, office paper was flying everywhere? Hello? Uh..doesn't paper burn up before porcelin and steel?

What's with the bizarre toasting (totaled, not necessarily cooked) and flipping (it was the upside down cars that were in good shape, and the cars that were right side up were toasted) of 1,400 vehichles, often times in close proximity to trees, where not one leaf was disturbed? Windshields, engines, and door handles completely disappeared, leaving the shell of the car in tact.

Why do we have falling debris hitting other buildings only up to the eighteenth floor, when there were 110 stories?

Why was there instant rusting of nearby steel? That is evidence of molecular disassociation and transmutation.

Why, when the dust fell, was it coarse, and then, once, it landed, began breaking down further, becoming so fine that it started wafting up?

What caused the presence of uranium, tritium, and the presence of deuterium in the air that Dr. Thomas Cahill found after monitoring the air for 5 months after 911 at the WTC - which began after Oct. 5?
Where was the heat?  From most reports, the dust clouds were cool. No one claimed they were hot or that they were burned. Yes, things glowed, but not everything that glows is hot.
We finally saw the demise of WTC #7, but what happened to WTC buildings #3 and #6? Building #3 nano-particalized, while in WTC #6, half the building nano-particalized from the inside out!

Finally, what can transform two quarter mile tall buildings into nano-particles(invisible and permanently suspended in the atmosphere)?

Former Governor Jesse Ventura used the example of microwaving chicken on a paper plate. The chicken cooks, while the paper plate doesn't. That's the effect seen all around the WTC towers on 9/11.

Thermite?

Thermite is powdered aluminum and powdered iron rust. The buildings were steel (composed of over 98% iron) structures with aluminum cladding. If the buildings were reduced to nano particles (molecular dissociation), obviously, one would find particles of iron rust, and aluminum. Thermite cannot transform buildings into dust. So, where is the proof of thermite?

The so-called "truth" movement does not address any of these issues, yet, Dr. Wood is the only person who has conducted a thorough forensic investigation...the only one!

Mel Fabregas, the host of Veritas, quoted Vicent Bugliosi, regarding the division between what's real and what we perceive:

"We're talking about people who see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see, not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition."

This quote sums it up. This disconnect is not a matter of intelligence. Not at all. Some of the most intelligent people in the world disregard the facts in order to maintain the comfortable illusion that substitutes for reality. The vanishing point of reality (horizon) is vanishing altogether, as the silhouettes on the walls of the cave that Plato referred to in his allegory of the cave are increasingly being forced down our throats...24/7. When everything is bestowed upon us to see, what is left to be seen?

Source: Veritas with Mel Fabregas interview with Dr. Judy Wood



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Why Are Europeans Growing Taller and Americans Are Not.

A historical view of how the height of people in different countries at different times in history can give us an overall picture of health.

Even though America is still a wealthy country, the growing disparity between rich and poor, and the lack of health care insurance is affecting our population's ability to care for the health of all of it's citizens.

The average height of Americans has not increased for the last few decades, as it has in most other industrialized countries.

Americans used to stand tall as the people with the highest average height in the world. However, since the middle of this century, several Scandinavian countries have moved ahead and now have taller citizens on average than the United States.

America's drop from the top is important for more than just bragging rights, said Richard Steckel, a professor of economics and anthropology at Ohio State University.

Average stature is an important indicator of a country's health care, nutrition and standard of living, said Steckel, who since 1975 has studied the height of people around the world.

"One of the keys to understanding why America is falling behind other countries in terms of stature has to do with access to health care, particularly for children," he said.

"I suspect there are pockets of poverty in the United States where the lack of medical programs and nutritional programs may be factors in poor health, and the reason some people aren't

growing as tall as they might."

In studies by various researchers of men born about 1950, the Norwegians and Dutch are the tallest in the world, with an average height of 178 centimeters(about 5 feet 10 inches), followed by Swedes at 177 centimeters. Americans are next at 175 centimeters (about 5 feet 9 inches).

Preliminary government research suggests that not much has changed recently, according to Steckel. "The average height of Americans has been pretty much stagnant for 25 years," he said.

But American men born in 1850 were tallest in the world, averaging 171 centimeters, compared to 169 centimeters for Norwegians, 168 for Swedes and 164 for the Dutch.

"I think the countries that have surpassed the United States have done well in reaching nearly everyone with complete health and nutrition services," said Steckel. "The success of the Scandinavian countries in health care shows up in many measures, not just height, such as mortality rates and life expectancy."

Immigration to the United States by people with shorter average heights -- such as Asians -- can't explain why other countries have moved ahead in average stature, according to Steckel. "In the past half century, the change in ethnic composition hasn't been enough to make a significant difference in the country's average height."

And while genes play an important role in determining how tall individual people grow, that doesn't negate the results of this international research. "Overall, genetic differences cancel each other out when you compare averages across most populations. So, in general, average height is accurate in assessing a nation's health status," Steckel said.

Steckel said he first began investigating stature as an alternative way to measure the standard of living -- a traditional area of research for economists.

Most economists have used measures of national income, such as Gross National Product, to examine living standards.

Research has shown that average height is significantly associated with a country's per capita income. But studying height has some advantages, Steckel said. For example, researchers have records of average height that go further back in history than do records of national income. Height also tells a slightly different story about the standard of living because it measures consumption of basic necessities, rather than output. Moreover, because growth occurs mostly in childhood, it allows researchers to look at how resources are allocated within families.

"Studying height captures some things about the standard of living that income leaves out," Steckel said. "Economists need to take a multiple approach to studying the standard of living."

Steckel summarized research by himself and others on stature and standard of living in a recent issue of the Journal of Economic Literature.

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Digitized US Foreign Policy Decisions.

The University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. They provide quality digital resources from its academic libraries to UW faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state, and scholars at large. The series is produced by the State Department’s Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office.

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Spitzer has Support on Gay Marriage

Eliot Spitzer's plan to introduce a gay marriage bill in New York state is favored by almost two-thirds of the 1,022 respondents to a recent Crain's online poll.

About 63% of voters said they support a gay marriage law. If New York adopted the new legislation, it would become only the second state behind Massachusetts to legalize same-sex marriage.

"If two people love each other, who are we to say it [whether it can or can't be] with the same sex," said Alexandra Akira. "It's very simple."

Supporters also say same-sex couples should be afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples.

"Why should gay and lesbian couples pay taxes if they are not treated equally?" said Paul. Slee. "Right now the unavailability of gay marriage to gay couples is a matter of gross inequality, injustice and taxation without representation."

About 19% of those polled said they support civil unions as an alternative while 18% said that marriage is strictly between a man and a woman.

"Marriage has always been defined as being between a man and a woman," said Joe Wright. "A union between men or women simply should be called something else."

Mr. Spitzer has said the bill would have a very tough time actually gaining legislative approval. Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno has expressed strong opposition to legalizing gay marriage.

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