-- the new generation -- says WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE!  ZEITGEIST The Globe and Mail, October 13, 1998  Please help support the effort to release David Pasquarelli and Michael Petrelis:San Francisco AIDS activists Michael Petrelis and David Pasquarelli have been imprisoned on felony charges, and a combined bail of $1 million, resulting from their alleged participation in a phone, fax and email zap to bring attention to AIDS corruption and oppose the dangerous quarantine plans contained in the Model States Emergency Health Powers Act. Currently The Direct Action Civil Liberties Fund are raising money to assist them. The following provides some background on the situation: Letter from David Rasnick Eternal Vigilance
Condom Con Job The dramatic decrease in the number of new AIDS cases and deaths since 1995 has worried AIDS service organizations (ASOs) - like the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT). They are concerned that if this trend continues their organizations will suffer as sources of funding dry up. The AIDS industry, growing desperate, has resorted to using false claims of rising HIV infection rates to drum up funding through fear mongering and accusing gay men of failing to practice safe sex. The whole situation is vile. AIDS deaths are down and HIV+ gay men are living longer, thus the HIV prevalence statistics (numbers representing the total number of those living with HIV) are on the rise. That should be celebrated during Pride week. Instead, to justify launching their new $400,000 HIV propaganda campaign "Condom Country" ACT reported these hopeful figures wrongly as indicating infection rates are on the rise. All the major news media picked up on ACT's bogus spin on the data and blasted us with fearful and homophobic messages in the first days of Pride week. As part of ACT's public awareness campaign, the back-page ad of this year's Official Pride Guide states, "Toronto has the highest new HIV infection rate in North America."
Inflammatory Reactions in HIV-1-Infected Persons after Initiation of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
Joseph A. DeSimone, MD; Roger J. Pomerantz, MD; and Timothy J. Babinchak, MD Ann Intern Med. 2000;133:447-454. "HAART may actually promote the clinical expression and development of [opportunistic] infections, as well as AIDS-related malignant conditions and other noninfectious diseases" In this review article with 95 references, the authors list opportunistic infections and malignancies usually known as AIDS defining conditions that afflicted patients only after initiation of HAART therapy lowered viral load and increased CD4 cell counts. HIV researchers have coined an ironic new name for this IATROGENIC AIDS: "Immune Restoration Syndrome".
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DURBAN DECLARATION DEBUNKED! "Just published in the journal Nature, it is a declaration that says, yes, HIV causes AIDS, written almost with the conviction of a creed... But why declare in writing what is supposed to be obvious?" - ABC News San Francisco DPH Cooked Up HIV Statistics Officials backpedal in wake of news stories: San Francisco health officials were working overtime feeding juicy quotes and leaking unpublished data to the media in advance of the media frenzy surrounding the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, just as Congress is poised to cut Ryan White CARE Act funding to San Francisco due to a dropped AIDS caseload. Sensational headlines circled the globe Friday, June 30. "S.F. HIV Rate Surges; alarming incidence of new infections raises fears of scourge to come" ... "New HIV infections soar in San Francisco"... "Fire the Liars" for the HIV Scare Activists stage sit-in at San Francisco AIDS Office; Crash meeting to deliver "pink slips" to DPH Director Mitch Katz and epidemiologist Willi McFarland. Dirty Tricks at Durban AIDS Conference The old school ACTUPs are now defunct as activist organizations and function as tools of the pharmaceutical companies.
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