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Obama Decision On Embryonic Stem Cell Research


12:07 PM  March 9, 2009

This morning, President Obama signed an executive order reversing Bush Administration policy on embryonic stem cell research. The decision means we can expect a  huge increase in federal funding for research into the use of embryonic stem cells. These are cells that come from days-old fertilized eggs that fertility clinics would otherwise discard.

Advocates for stem cell research say today's decision means hope for millions of people who pray for cures to their diseases and conditions. According to the National Institutes of Health: "...stem cells offer the possibility of a renewable source of replacement cells and tissues to treat a myriad of diseases, conditions, and disabilities including Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, spinal cord injury, stroke, burns, heart disease, diabetes, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis."

"I cannot guarantee that we will find the treatments and cures we seek. No president can promise that," President Obama said. "But I can promise that we will seek them actively, responsibly, and with the urgency required to make up for lost ground."

But opponents say President Bush had it just right--authorizing funding to only the 21 stem cell lines that had been produced before the Bush policy went into effect in August of 2001. Opponents say destroying embryos to obtain stem cells is destroying human life.

As House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) put it, President Obama "rolled back important protections for innocent life, further dividing our nation at a time when we need greater unity to tackle the challenges before us."

What's your view on President Obama's decision on embryonic stem cell research?

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I'm glad something is being done. As I am on the brink of losing my husband to melanoma cancer that has come back, I hope and pray for a miracle and a medical cure. If not today, but for my children, grandchildren of everyone who has dealt with health problems. We waste money on wars and distruction, lets spends do something for the people of this planet.





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Greetings all members, I would just like to say hello and let you know that I'm happy to be a member - been a lurker long enough :) Hope to contribute some and gain some knowledge along the way....




Jared;
Here are some links I ran across looking what I was originally looking for.
http://www.drugresearcher.com/Emerging-targets/Scientists-reveal-sugar-s-role-in-cell-communication ; andhttp://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news/Sugar-may-help-cure-cancer-5675-1/ ; and
then I found it "Glyconutrients" thats it the Inventor or discoverer won a Nobel Prize in 1990 for this piece of research and "Invention". Here is a link but just google glyconutrients. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8890710715423297651
and/orhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6505688800287912918




Jared,
I'm not talking about refined sugars. About 16 natural sugars the cells use to communicate. I will look for a link.

Oil of oregano is good for treating Candida. Candida is thought by some to be a major cause of cancer and the acidic environment cancer requires to live in.




Forrest

Since you brought up salmonella.

I thought i's post this little bit about Oregano oil..

Researchers at the University of Ogden, Utah have found that oregano essential oil can effectively fight streptococcus, which can cause pneumonia and other infections of the upper respiratory system.
Studies have also revealed that Oil of Oregano can stop the growth of harmful bacteria such as E. Coli and salmonella. Some restaurants even put some drops of Oregano Oil in salad bars to protect them from dangerous bacteria settling into the food.

This amazing super herb can also destroy viruses and fungi, which is why it oregano oil is often used during anti Candida (fungi) cleanses.


wadada




Forrest

Refined processed Sugar is actually a food for many cancers and they thrive on it....

One of the differences between many natural remedies and what you get from Big Pharma/synthetic drugs is the side effects..

The Body rejects the synthetics and it show it by the side effects...


wadada




Jared,
Thanks for the links and the concern. I still must say the chemo and radiation does work as toxic as it is. There is even new science with sugars and the way they work with cell communication and the immune system.




here is the link to the pdf

http://www.enisenergen.com/images/scan.pdf




Forrest,

I wish i could post the images here...

I'll post online a link to a PDF of part this leacture when i get home. And I'll post the link to the file so you can see a tumor the size of a Soft Ball on the side of the individuals neck..

But anyway here is th text..

This is a story as related by D. Gary Young, ND given at the First International Symposium - Grosse, France - March 21-22, 1998

Integrated Aromatic Medicine


In December of 1984 a young man checked into my clinic with malignant melanoma. [Figure No. I] Even though he had
been operated on twice, the tumor had grown and had attached to his jugular vein, esophagus, and carotid artery, and was now
infiltrating the brain, lungs and spine. His situation was extremely grave and his doctors had given him only weeks to live.
At first, we prescribed a very strict vegetarian diet and juice fast, while we administered laetrile intravenously and an amino
acid solution with Vitamin C combined with herbal formulas.

However, for two weeks the tumor continued to grow.
On December the 28th, I began my first experiment using essential oils to treat cancer. The growth of the tumor slowed but
did not stop. I believed that the cancer would go into remission if we could get frankincense inside the tumor. It was risky because we could not inject essential oils directly in the blood stream. So I mixed a
solution of ringer's lactate with amino-methanol as a buffer, Procaine GH3 and glucose. I combined I ml of this solution with 6 mg of frankincense essential oil and injected it into the nonvascular tissues of the tumor
site. I followed with an herbal compress.

Within 24 hours the tumor stopped growing.
By January 5, 1985, David's tumor had started shrinking and pulling away from the neck and shoulder tissue. By February 2nd
the tumor had further reduced in size, and by February 20, the tumor had begun breaking away from surrounding tissues with
normal tissue starting to appear [Figure No.2]. In March, 1985, the outer mass of the tumor had disappeared,
but David still suffered some infiltration into the brain and was still not in complete remission. So we continued application of
essential oils. I also applied an herbal formula of chaparral, bloodroot, zinc oxide, and pine tar on the affected tissue. We
used this formula during the day. In the evening, we rinsed it off, sterilized the site, and covered the entire tumor mass with undiluted frankincense oil. I also injected the
diluted frankincense solution around the base of the tumor as well as into the tumor itself.

Eventually, the shoulder tissue underneath started to fill in and grow. Prior to treatment, David's neck and shoulder had been
severely restricted in motion. He now had regained the movement in his neck and shoulder. By May 1985, six months after this treatment,
David went home free of cancer. [Figure No.3]


wadada




Jared,
I am currently in remission from neck cancer. I had a very fast growing cancer. I was in stage 4 last March. I changed my diet, began taking supplements, enzymes, alternative to the max. I was seeing no sign of improvement. Maybe I waited to long. Well in May I began chemo and radiation together. Not something I would chose to do. Cisplaton (sp) yuk. I had a radical neck dissection following the chemo and rad and some three months to get strong enough. but I have no cancer now and I would have died for sure in sort order. the tumors would ave suffocated me. so what you wrote is not really correct and there are lots and lots of cured cancer cases out there both natural and due to the work of AMA doctors. It's not always because of "The Evil Doers" conspiring to hurt "Us".




Forrest,


CHEMOTHERAPY Thirteen drugs are used in chemotherapy and their consequent side effects (as listed in the drugs package inserts for physicians), which include: destruction of the immune system, leukopenia, hemorrhage, gonadal suppression, bone marrow depression, phlebosclerosis (hardening of the veins), severe cellulites, vesication(blistering), tissue necrosis(death), fever, chills, nausea, prolonged vomiting, partial or total hair loss, lethargy, disorientation, ataxis(inability to coordinate muscle movements), dysarthria( impaired speech), anorexia, entertitis, stomatitis, erythema, (morbid redness of the skin), anemia, liver failure, kidney failure, cancer, and death

For decades there has been a great deal of controversy within the medical community over what kind of medical treatment is most efficacious in treating cancer. Latest findings reveal all conventional medical treatment for cancer is not helpful. The late Dr. Hardin B. Jones, Professor of Medical Physics and Physiology at Berkeley, California, made a study lasting 25 years of the lifespan of cancer patients, and concluded that untreated patients do not die sooner than patients receiving orthodox treatment, (surgery, radiation and chemotherapy), and in many cases they lived longer. After almost 40 years as a cancer researcher, Dr. Jones found for example that survival in breast cancer is four times longer without conventional treatment. He stated, “People who refused treatment lived for an average of 12 and a half years. Those who accepted other kinds of treatment lived on an average of only 3 years.” It is important to note that no refutations of Dr. Jones work have appeared, while on the other hand, his studies have been supported by other researchers, as a search of the Science Citation Index reveals.

Even the Journal of the American Medical Association took note of the phenomenon when, in its diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer by Dr. Maurice Fox, a biologist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On the basis of studies carried out at the Harvard School of Public health, Dr. Fox found, among other things, that: Those who refused medical procedures had a lower mortality rate than those who submitted.


The University of Alberta in Canada has found a natural enzyme that cure 75% of the known Cancers you can read about it here..
http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/

They are trying to find funding but since the enzyme can't be patented No Big Pharma company will invest...

SO this show that Big Pharma aren't interested in curing people if that can't make money at it..

My father removed from his body of prostrate cancer with nothing more then a change in diet and using the essential oils of Frankincense, Myrrh and Helichrysum..

My Father had gone to the doctor and the doctors wanted my father to go into surgery but he said no, and said give me 1 month he was going to try something and if it didn't work he would go back for the surgery. In one month he want back to the doctor for a check up and there was NO cancer in his body after his taking natural remedies for only a month...

I see that you said something about the AMA a good book about the history of the AMA is written by Eustace Mullins the book "Murder By Injection"

You will find out that the AMA was originally founded by 2 Quacks from Ireland....

Interview of Eustace Mullins talking about his book here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6229689573281687331

wadada




Jared said: "It is no exaggeration whatsoever to say that if the entire drug industry shut down tomorrow, and all the doctors went on strike, and all the oncologists overdosed on chemotherapy and died, the health of the population would immediately improve."

Don't through out the baby with the bath water.
I have always been an advocate of healthy diet and homeopathic cures but without Chemo and Radiation right now I would be dead ...... thanks to the AMA with all their hypocrisy for my life.




Alan and Linda, in kind of touching on Alan's statement....does it bother you at all that the State of California voted rights for animals and voted to take away rights for a minority group of people?




Maybe people are just tired of the medical/perscription money machine...

Big Pharma CEO Fakes Cancer while Pill-Pushing Doctor Fakes Clinical Trial Results for Bextra, Effexor and Celebrex
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) The culture of deceit and fraud that permeates conventional medicine became even more apparent today with the announcement that Howard Richman, the former vice president of a pharmaceutical company named Biopure, faked his own cancer and even impersonated a doctor in order to convince a federal judge that he was dying from colon cancer.

This bizarre deceit was an effort by Richman to squirm out of an SEC lawsuit that accused Richman of misleading investors. According to the Associated Press, Richman misled investors about the potential for FDA approval of a blood replacement product called Hemopure, which is made from cow's blood. By faking his own cancer and forging a doctor's note, Richman was able to get a postponement of judgment in the SEC lawsuit, which effectively ended the legal action he would have otherwise faced.

It all makes you wonder just how low the integrity standards really are at drug companies these days. If a highly-paid executive can fake his own cancer in order to avoid a lawsuit brought against him because he lied to investors, what other sorts of fabrications and deceits might be going on at these companies?


Faking clinical trial data for Vioxx and Celebrex
Meanwhile, a researcher at Baystate Medical Center in Massachusetts, Dr. Scott Reuben, was found to have faked the data used in 21 "scientific" papers published in peer-reviewed medical journals from 1996 - 2008.

The Associated Press is reporting today that journals have begun retracting papers authored by Dr. Reuben. The journal Anesthesia & Analgesia has retracted 10 studies authored by Dr. Reuben, and the journal Anesthesiology has also started retracting studies.

But the damage has already been done: Dr. Reuben's work was reportedly relied on very heavily by pull-pushing doctors and medication advocates, who cited his studies to "prove" these drugs are safe and effective. In reality, though, it was all just made up!


The fictions of Big Pharma and clinical trials
This is actually the story on just about everything Big Pharma pushes these days: It's all just fiction shrouded in scientific-sounding language, led by dishonest, corrupt drug company CEOs and deceitful doctors who lie to the world in order to make more money pushing dangerous prescription medications.

Even when drug company executives aren't lying to their investors or lying to judges, they're still lying to the FDA and their own customers about the safety of their drugs. Through the cherry-picking of drug trials (and the burying of negative results), they lie to the entire scientific community about the real dangers of their chemical products.

Modern medicine is largely one big lie. It doesn't work. People aren't getting any healthier from drugs and surgery, but they sure are becoming increasingly bankrupt.

The "grand clinical trial" of medicating an entire nation and observing the results has proven quite conclusively that drugs and surgery do not produce a healthy nation. That's the one drug trial they will never report, of course: While people suffer from sky-high rates of degenerative disease, depression, obesity and chemical intoxication, the drug companies hilariously try to convince people they're somehow getting healthier by popping patented pills.

But the results speak for themselves: Big Pharma is a big lie, and the people pushing the Big Pharma agenda are, themselves, some of the most dishonest and despicable human beings to ever walk the planet.

It is no exaggeration whatsoever to say that if the entire drug industry shut down tomorrow, and all the doctors went on strike, and all the oncologists overdosed on chemotherapy and died, the health of the population would immediately improve.

Modern medicine has become the enemy of good health, and those who advocate drugs and surgery have become well-paid destroyers of lives. We would all be better off simply abandoning nearly all of modern medicine and advocating nutrition, exercise, sunlight and the avoidance of man-made synthetic chemicals.

Sources for this story include: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gSSGpOq9PM6kA-2JQ4kTstTk0G0QD96S346O0




The l.a.u.s.d. lay off of teachers should be the last group to be layed off. The first should be the school bus drivers and mechanics and sell all the buses and let the kids go to the schools in there own neighbor hood. I would bet there would be more of a savings .




I totally agree with Alan's comment, also find it interesting that the majority of the comments have nothing to do with stem cell research. I guess this shows that the majority of people don't know or are not aware what stem cell research really is all about.




hey frank who cares about obama lets talk about more pressing matters ,whats up with marks hair either his forehaed is getting larger or he stops the payments on the wig from one bald guy to another soon to be bald guy good job mark




I'd also like to see Old Man Buckley add in that report of conservative's hypocrisy the fact that Utah is the leader in PORN! How do they ever explain away that title????




Frank I too would like to hear your take on the break up of Alaska's First Family. How about the hypocrisy of the Republican Conservative Party. How about their judgement of all others when they can't even seem to run their own household conservatively and with their own moral values. Please Frank, we want to know what YOU think on this "Ol' Man Buckley" type subject!




Dan said:

"Boy Levis dodged a bullet this time, but he better watch his back. Word has it, Mama Barracuda is known for be vengeful!!!!"

You got that right Dan, he better leave the state before she shoots and mounts him as a trophy for her wall. LOL




OK Frank, who's going to be first to blog on the BIG BREAK UP??? I know I'm just besides myself waiting to comment on it. That's right!
Bristol Palin and Levis Johnston have broken up! Wow! How is it we were all blindsided by this one?!?!
Boy Levis dodged a bullet this time, but he better watch his back. Word has it, Mama Barracuda is known for be vengeful!!!!




Jozie said:

"HAHAHAHAHAHA.

No disrepect intended, Frank."

Glad you found that funny, we all need a good laugh now and again.




"Frank. The Ward Cleaver of KTLA"

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

No disrepect intended, Frank.




Dan said:

"They say it could even lead to a cure for HIV/AIDS, cancer, many neurological diseases...the possibilities are endless!"

I know Dan, now we have to play eight years of catch up. I think it may be too late for my brother, but there are others out there who would benefit from the research. Let's hope.




Oscar said:

"Nobody is going to think your GAY if you say a certain man is handsome
Get over it dahhhhh"

Oscar, you have to remember, Old Man Buckley is a old fashion kind of guy.
who grew up with a military dad.

You would never see Ward Cleaver saying how handsome a man is. And that's how I see Frank. The Ward Cleaver of KTLA.




Frank,

I read your blog again and had a very bizarre image fill my mind. When I re read "As House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) put it, President Obama "rolled back important protections for innocent life, further dividing our nation at a time when we need greater unity to tackle the challenges before us." I began to
envision the world as Mr Boehner must perceive it. A word where those that can afford the treatment are given eternal life through draining the life from yet unborn human children. I saw Dracula, Soilent Green, The Matrix ........ the Blog could have had the title "Obama sits on Ocum's Edge"
The ethical and moral issues surrounding this science and technology are difficult to resolve how do you judge which life is most important to protect and when life begins and what "life" "is". Are existing beings more deserving of having their lives protected or are the yet unborn most deserving and when does a being become yet unborn? This is a difficult metaphysical issue to tackle given the diversity of religious beliefs held by our citizens which collectively establish our "national morality".
I would not feel that I was a blood sucker a Dracula if I was to receive stem cell based therapy if or when needed to extend my conscious life experience. Is that morality of greed of a murderous baby killer I don't feel that. I do not believe there is consciousness present in a embryo of that stage. I can only base this belief on that "belief" itself. That is my belief. What is yours??




The funding for this research will be doled out to several research universities and afffiliated research institutes. The "government" will not be doing this in secret in some hidden bunker.

The research results will likely produce life-saving applications in many diseases and afflictions, plus it will add to the economy in that more Ph.D.s and assistants and administrative support will be needed - so new jobs will be created, more people paying taxes and buying food and clothing, etc. There is a large trickle-down effect that many folks perhaps don't consider.




Jozielee -

My thoughts....

I'm all for research that would be beneficial to finding cures.... However, do not use my tax dollars to experiment.

So do we agree? Probably not, but that's ok.
-m




For eight years, while the economy was good, big businesses such as pharmaceuticals and scientific research companies would have been all over research on embryonic stem cells if they thought it would be profitable to do so. They didn't because the research can be done on the current, established cell lines.

Now, even if they want to, they can't because they lack the R&D budget. Like Bill in San Diego says, "Our E-C-O-N-M-Y o is issue #1".
The feds should take a good look at California's situation and learn from it. Over-spending doesn't work and the middle class will inevitably pay for it just as in California.





Dan said " I think this is one of the BEST promises fulfilled so far from President Obama.

Paul said "Through science, mankind will advance. It's religion and closeminds that will retard us from reaching that goal. "

You both are soooo right.




Frank
"STOP" saying I'm a man how do I know if a man is HANDSOME
Are you blind????
You have eyes
Nobody is going to think your GAY if you say a certain man is handsome
Get over it dahhhhh




What do we do with embryos the parents won't use? Flush them down the drain.
Why destroy cells that can be used to advance modern science if the parents approve?

The best debate I have yet heard:
CHRIS MATTHEWS/REP.SMITH(R)/REP.DEJETTE(D)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqviuL1X5Ho




I think this is one of the BEST promises fulfilled so far from President Obama. Even Nancy Reagan has come out and applauded Obama for it. This could lead to cures of the century! Many diseases could find cures from this research. I join you PAUL - this is one thing that I don't mind MY TAX DOLLARS going to support. They say it could even lead to a cure for HIV/AIDS, cancer, many neurological diseases...the possibilities are endless!




Bill in San Diego said:

"We don't need Uncle Sam Investing TAX dollars into research. Look no farther than 1929 and Hitler."

Bill, you can't compare Stem Cell research to what the Nazi's did, they were just sick and evil. Our own government has tested biological weapons on it's own citizens in subways and other populated areas. They forced our solders to march toward an atomic mushroom cloud, that later many of these same men would succumb to many types of cancer. I have photos of naval personnel climbing onto the wreckage of the ships after the first Bikini Atoll test in 1946 wearing nothing but swim trunks. Do you think any of these men lived to reach retirement age? That was research for weapons and war. Stem Cell research is research for peach. Research that will help all of mankind, not just Americans. I would rather see my tax dollars use for something good than for making bigger and better ways to kill our fellow man. Their has been enough of that already. Through science, mankind will advance. It's religion and closeminds that will retard us from reaching that goal.




The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.

The US Constitution states that there should not be any Bills of Credit, yet every Federal Reserve Note in circulation is a Bill of Credit. It also states that only gold and silver coin shall be a tender in the payment of debts.

Why aren't "We the People" asking why is our government/public servants are allowing an unconstitutional currency in circulation?

Why does the nation have to borrow to provide for the nations money supply?

What has the US government given up that "We the People" aren't being told about to secure these loans...


There was a rumur that the Obama admin has let China be able to have Eminent Domain Rights to Secure our nations Debt ..




ECONOMY is the BUZZ word. Skip over all the distracting stuff. Our E-C-O-N-M-Y o is issue #1. Everything else is fodder, for talking heads.




We don't need Uncle Sam Investing TAX dollars into research. Look no farther than 1929 and Hitler. Let Private Business do the research. Let Private Money fund the research. NOT A SINGLE, TAX PAYER DOLLAR.




My father died of ALS--Lou Gehrig's Disease. This is the most miserable disease--the most awful way to die imaginable. I recently heard that they have made huge advances in ALS research using privately funded stem-cell research. If the Feds can advance this research and help even one person living through this nightmare, it is worth using these cells that would be destroyed anyway--these lifeless cells that will not be used for any other purpose. These are not unborn human beings--these are cells that left alone without implant will die. Let us help the living--God gave us this ability to use these cells as life-saving tools. Think of the possibilities--a cure for cancer, MLS--all the things that are killing our people now. This is not the 15th Century. We cannot turn our backs on knowledge.




These are embryos that are being destroyed! Why let them go to waste??




Frank,

I think it's about time. People are dying out there, my brother is one. He suffers from Parkinson's. It will end his life.

If this is a chance to find a cure, I'm all for it. We have lost eight years of research because of Bush and his close minded republicans. To hell with them. Obama needs to dismantle all of Bush's mandates and bring this country into the 21st century.




I don't follow statistics. I know Government investment in Scientific research, scares me.
It just smacks of, or reminds me of Hitler and the whole NAZI regime, their GOVERNMENT FUNDED research.




It saddens me that we protest experimenting on animals, but have no problem experimenting on unborn humans beings.



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