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Depending on the anatomy of the individual, there are many different options available in male genital piercing. Some genital piercings are mainly for decorative purposes, while others can enhance the sexual pleasure of the wearer and/or his partner. Your piercer can help you determine which piercings are anatomically possible for your body. Due to the sensitivity, number of veins, and amount of blood flow to the area, it is essential that you only receive genital piercings from a licensed professional body piercer.



When you are healing a genital piercing, it is extremely important to use a condom during sex, including oral sex, to minimize the risk of infection. Here you will find brief descriptions of the most common male genital piercings. The minimum safe size for all of the following piercings is 12 gauge, regardless of the type of jewelry (such as a barbell or a captive bead ring), or the length, that is appropriate for the individual piercing. For most of these piercings, the wearer can choose a thicker gauge of jewelry if he wishes.

One of the most popular genital piercings is the frenum piercing; a barbell inserted horizontally through the loose skin on the underside of the penis shaft. Many men wear more than one frenum piercing, and the combination of two or more is often called a frenum ladder. The piercing can be located anywhere along the shaft, and in many cases it increases the sexual partner’s pleasure. Frenum piercings can also be done near the base of the shaft, and this piercing is sometimes called a lower frenum or lorum. After the piercing is healed (typically in 2 to 3 months), a captive bead ring can be worn instead of a barbell. Return to your piercer if you would like to wear a ring; s/he can determine the appropriate diameter.

The best-known male genital piercing is the Prince Albert or PA piercing, which is a ring or bent barbell that enters the penis through the urethra and exits at the base of the glans. It is normal for this piercing to bleed intermittently for one to three days after it is performed. Many men find that it is difficult to control the direction of their urine while the piercing is healing, so some prefer to sit down to urinate for the first few weeks. Since an individual’s urine is sterile to his or her own body, the risk of infection with a PA piercing is low, and the healing time is usually only 4 to 6 weeks.

An apadravya piercing is a barbell inserted through the head of the penis from top to bottom; wearing large balls on the barbell (5mm or larger) can increase the sexual pleasure of the wearer’s partner. The horizontal equivalent of the apadravya is the ampallang, a barbell inserted horizontally through the head of the penis. Usually the ampallang piercing is placed above the urethra, whereas the apadravya usually intersects with the urethra. Each of these piercings usually takes 4 to 6 months to heal.

Dydoe piercings are short barbells worn vertically through the edges of the glans of a circumcised penis, usually in a pair with one piercing on each side. This piercing is only appropriate for men with a well-developed glans; dydoe piercings performed through a flat glans or on an uncircumcised man could easily migrate or reject. Foreskin piercings are the equivalent of dydoes for uncircumcised men; they are also usually worn in pairs, though a captive bead ring is a more common and comfortable choice than a barbell for a foreskin piercing. Dydoe piercings tend to take 2 to 3 months to heal. Foreskin piercings may take longer to heal and have a high rate of migration or rejection. Dydoe and foreskin piercings are largely decorative but may be sexually pleasurable for the wearer.

There are several options in male genital piercing that do not involve the penis. The hafada piercing is a ring worn through the edge of the scrotum, near the base of the penis; these are also usually worn in pairs, one on each side. It is important that any scrotum piercing be superficial, penetrating only the skin of the scrotum, because a deep scrotum piercing would be dangerous and would not heal correctly. A hafada or scrotum piercing generally heals in 2 to 3 months; however, these piercings also have a high rate of migration or rejection from the body.

A guiche piercing is a ring worn through the perineum (the ridge of skin between the scrotum and anus). Because wearing pants or underwear can irritate the piercing, a guiche piercing can take up to 6 months to heal. It is very important to clean this piercing exactly as instructed by your piercer; due to the piercing’s location, it is easy to contract an infection through improper hygiene.

Pictures of male genital piercing:

Prince Albert (PA) & Reverse PA:


Frenums:



Ampallangs:



Guiche:



Hafada:



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Kawasaki Disease - Jett Travolta

let's break for a while, i need to put this info to know more
about Jett Travolta - 16 years old, John Travolta's son, who died
on his bathtube in Bahamas, predicted that he suffered from Kawasaki Syndrome, which caused him to have seizures. But Joey Travolta (john's brother) believes that Jett suffered from autism, which has been associated with seizures as well as epilepsy.
ok i included these term of kawasaki disease and also autism disease in here
to know more about this, let's check out:



"Kawasaki disease is an illness that involves the skin, mouth, and lymph nodes, and most often affects kids under age 5. The cause is unknown, but if the symptoms are recognized early, kids with Kawasaki disease can fully recover within a few days. Untreated, it can lead to serious complications that can affect the heart. Kawasaki disease occurs in 19 out of every 100,000 kids in the United States. It is most common among children of Japanese and Korean descent, but can affect all ethnic groups"

Signs and Symptoms
Kawasaki disease can't be prevented, but usually has telltale symptoms and signs that appear in phases. The first phase, which can last for up to 2 weeks, usually involves a persistent fever higher than 104° Fahrenheit (39° Celsius) and lasts for at least 5 days.

Other symptoms that typically develop include:

severe redness in the eyes
a rash on the stomach, chest, and genitals
red, dry, cracked lips
swollen tongue with a white coating and big red bumps
sore, irritated throat
swollen palms of the hands and soles of the feet with a purple-red color
swollen lymph nodes

During the second phase, which usually begins within 2 weeks of when the fever started, the skin on the hands and feet may begin to peel in large pieces. The child also may experience joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, or abdominal pain. If your child shows any of these symptoms, call your doctor.

Complications
Doctors can manage the symptoms of Kawasaki disease if they catch it early. Symptoms often disappear within just 2 days of the start of treatment. If Kawasaki disease is treated within 10 days of the onset of symptoms, heart problems usually do not develop.

Cases that go untreated can lead to more serious complications, such as vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels. This can be particularly dangerous because it can affect the coronary arteries, which supply blood to the heart.

In addition to the coronary arteries, the heart muscle, lining, valves, and the outer membrane that surrounds the heart can become inflamed. Arrhythmias (changes in the normal pattern of the heartbeat) or abnormal functioning of some heart valves also can occur.

Diagnosis
No single test can detect Kawasaki disease, so doctors usually diagnose it by evaluating the symptoms and ruling out other conditions. Most kids diagnosed with Kawasaki disease will have a fever lasting 5 or more days and
at least four of these symptoms:

redness in both eyes
changes around the lips, tongue, or mouth
changes in the fingers and toes, such as swelling, discoloration, or peeling
a rash in the trunk or genital area
a large swollen lymph node in the neck
red, swollen palms of hands and soles of feet

If Kawasaki disease is suspected, the doctor may order tests to monitor heart function (such as an echocardiogram) and might take blood and urine samples to rule out other conditions, such as scarlet fever, measles, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, or an allergic drug reaction.

Treatment
Treatment should begin as soon as possible, ideally within 10 days of when the fever begins. Usually, a child is treated with intravenous doses of gamma globulin (purified antibodies), an ingredient of blood that helps the body fight infection. The child also might be given a high dose of aspirin to reduce the risk of heart problems.

Reviewed by: Joel Klein, MD
Date reviewed: October 2008

and here is the definition about Autism:



briefly: a mental condition characterized by great difficulty in communicating with others and in using language and abstract concepts
[a mental disorder (=problem) that makes people unable to communicate properly, or to form relationships]



Also Epilepsy:

ep‧i‧lep‧sy [uncountable-noun]
1. a disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions.
2. a medical condition affecting your brain, that can make you suddenly become unconscious or unable to control your movements for a short time
DERIVATIVES epileptic adjective & noun.
ORIGIN Greek epilepsia, from epilambanein ‘seize, attack’.



* Muscle spasm: an involuntary muscular contraction
[done contrary to or without choice]
** Neuron: a grayish or reddish granular cell with specialized processes
that is the fundamental functional unit of nervous tissue
*** Neurotransmitter: a substance (as norepinephrine or acetylcholine)
that transmits nerve impulses across a synapse
**** Norepinephrine: a monoamine C8H11NO3 that is a neurotransmitter
in postganglionic neurons of the sympathetic nervous system and in some parts of the central nervous system, is a vasopressor hormone of the adrenal medulla, and is a precursor of epinephrine in its major biosynthetic pathway
***** Acetylcholine: a neurotransmitter C7H17NO3 released at autonomic synapses and neuromuscular junctions and formed enzymatically in the tissues from choline

the matter is, is that true if jett's death has something to do with these syndromes?
so many people included here in indonesia who live with epilepsy or autism
and they are not died becoz of these.
what i believe is something more than these Kawasaki, Autism and Epilepsy thing.
but anyway, i really feel so sorry for this incident.
if i were john, i will be so sad. hope John is hardy, calm down and withstand to this situation until he have the precise and accurate information about the cause of his son's death. hope Jett is rest in peace. amen

Struggle to against the Proposition 8

Gay couple won't let Proposition 8 steal their dream



"Two men who moved from Ohio to California
to marry continue to protest the measure's passage"
By Alexandra Zavis (L.A.Times)
December 21, 2008


Fearing taunts and disapproval, they kept their love hidden for nearly two years. But with the Nov. 4 election looming, Christopher Lewis and Cody Horton resolved to take a leap of faith.

Following in the footsteps of generations of adventurers and romantics, the shy young couple from Ohio announced they were heading west to marry and begin a new life in California. They put on dark suits and exchanged vows on an unseasonably balmy afternoon in late October, before family, friends and the wide Pacific Ocean.

Wanting to give back to the state that recognized his union, Lewis took a job as a physician's assistant at a community health center in Tehachapi, southeast of Bakersfield, caring for migrant farm workers. But by the time they had packed up their apartment in Ohio and returned to California, voters had approved a change to the state Constitution that put their marriage in doubt.

Before they moved here, the self-effacing couple had never even seen a demonstration, much less protested themselves. But two days after the election, they drove two hours into Los Angeles and nervously joined the throngs marching in protest against Proposition 8. The next night, they were back on the streets in Long Beach. The night after, in Silver Lake, then Westwood and downtown L.A.

"It just hurt so bad; it's all we could think of doing," Lewis said. "It's all we have left."

They are pessimistic that the California Supreme Court will overturn the ban, despite the high-profile appeals by top politicians, including state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown.

"I did send a wedding picture to the chief justice and wrote a note on the back of it asking him to share it," Lewis said. "Hopefully, if they see enough faces, they will realize that their decisions make a huge difference."

Lewis, 24, and Horton, 20, found each other online during one lonely Christmas vacation in 2006. Horton was in his last year of high school in Middletown, Ohio. Lewis was studying to become a physician's assistant at Kettering College of Medical Arts, a Seventh-day Adventist school in nearby Dayton.

"It was awful," Lewis said. "We had to take religion classes, and they teach being gay is wrong."

He started searching MySpace pages for anyone listing themselves as gay in the Dayton area. A song posted on Horton's page (Say Anything's "Slowly, Through a Vector") caught Lewis' attention, and he left Horton a message. They chatted online, then agreed to meet at a club. Later, they went to the home of Horton's grandmother, who was out of town. They put on a movie, and Horton put his head on Lewis' shoulder.

It felt right, Lewis said. "We felt like we fit in each other's arms."

At first they met in hotel rooms. "Where else could we go to hug or hold hands?" Lewis said.

After Horton graduated from high school, they found jobs so they could afford an apartment together. But they continued to hide their relationship from most people. More than once, passing motorists shouted abusive comments as they walked down the street together. Some real estate agents refused to show them single-bedroom apartments.

Earlier this year, Lewis bought the nicest ring he could afford -- white gold with three tiny diamonds -- drove Horton to a park and proposed. They hugged and cried. But they could not make the union official.

The only state at the time that performed same-sex marriages was Massachusetts, which requires a couple's home state to recognize such unions. But in May, the California Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to ban same-sex marriage, a decision that did not have the same limits as Massachusetts' law.

Lewis and Horton, thinking there was no rush, began considering a California wedding. In September, realizing that Proposition 8 might pass, they went online to book a Long Beach restaurant and find an officiant.

Horton's father did not realize his son was gay until the invitation arrived. Horton's stepmother tried to persuade him to attend the ceremony; she said he walked away and wouldn't look at the card. He later apologized to Horton for missing the big day and awkwardly wished his son well.

Lewis has been estranged from his father for years and did not bother to invite him. But both mothers and Horton's grandmother flew to California for the Oct. 26 wedding.

The day itself passed in a blur. But leading up to it, the thought of standing on a public beach, in front of people they had lied to for years, filled them with dread. For days, they had practiced the perfect wedding kiss: long enough for photos, but not too sloppy. In the end, they managed only a quick peck. Yet for all the awkwardness, it was a day they treasure.

"In a lifetime we both spent with no support for any of our relationships . . . it is so great to stand up in front of your friends and family, the state of California and the Pacific Ocean, and have somebody recognize it, appreciate it and celebrate it," Lewis said. "That's a huge deal for people like us."

Back in Ohio they packed up and began the drive west. The first four days were like a honeymoon. But Nov. 4 found them at a hotel in Flagstaff, Ariz., watching election returns. Lewis slept fitfully, waking up twice to check on Proposition 8. By 7 a.m., it was clear it had passed. "It was the end of our last hope," Lewis said.

Horton was asleep, so Lewis slipped into the bathroom to cry. He then called his mother from the car.

"They just took away my marriage," he wept. His mother's advice was to fight.

They abandoned plans to visit the Grand Canyon and drove straight to Tehachapi, a rural community known for its apple orchards, wind turbines and maximum security prison. They pulled into a bleak apartment complex and collected their keys.

The magnitude of what they had done fully set in only when they got their Internet connected and looked up how their neighbors in Kern County had voted. Just over 75% voted in favor of Proposition 8.

"It is not an accepting environment," Lewis said.

They spent the night under a comforter on the oatmeal-colored carpet. The next day, they spread sheets of yellow cardboard on the floor and started writing: "Marriage license: $70. Wedding ceremony: $1,000. Plane tickets for family and friends: $2,700. Our wedding: priceless."

"It's liberating to take everything you feel every day and put it on a poster," Horton said, "and hold it up and say, 'I don't care who sees it.' "

Unthinkable even a few months ago, Lewis now has organized a protest himself.

When he found out that the American Academy of Physician Assistants, a professional association to which he belongs, planned to hold its annual conference at San Diego hotels owned by the Manchester Financial Group -- which donated $125,000 to help pass Proposition 8 -- he sent letters to senior officials at the academy, asking them to reconsider, and posted messages on Internet forums, urging colleagues to do the same.

All he could think of was how much money the conference would bring the hotels.

"It just kind of pushed me over the edge," he said. "Somebody has to put their neck on the line, and I was willing to do it, I guess, this time."

religious case for gay marriage

Newsweek’s provocative cover story this week explores what the Bible really says about gay people, gay marriage, even gay sex. Religion editor Lisa Miller talked to scholars who say neither Jesus or the Bible ever explicitly define marriage as between one man and one woman.

"The Bible’s view of marriage is nothing like the way we view marriage today," Miller told 365gay News. “There are all kinds of ways to interpret it because the Bible was written three or 4,000 years ago, for a world that looks completely unlike our own.”

Newsweek editor Jon Meacham predicted the predictable backlash in his column,
and Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention soon followed up.

Here’s how Newsweek laid out the religious case for gay marriage:



“There are four or so verses that are quoted over and over and over by the religious right against homosexuality,” Miller told 365gay News.

“Two of them are in Leviticus, two of them are in Paul, and there’s a verse in Genesis. I went to those verses and I talked to scholars about them, progressive scholars, and I said, is there another way to interpret this, besides just condemning homosexuality as an abomination?”

“The argument I’ve been getting the most is the Adam and Eve argument. Marriage is between a man and a woman,” Miller said.

“There’s a verse in Genesis that says when a man leaves his family he should cleave to his wife and they should become one. The problem with that verse is that it was written in a universe where men were polygamists, and as one Bible scholar I talked to said, you know he should cleave to his wife but how many wives?”

As for Leviticus, where passages refer to sex between men as “an abomination,” Miller said that’s part of a book of rules for a world very different from today.

“This was a very particular world and there are all kinds of rules in there about blood sacrifices and the best way to kill an animal. You have to say, look these rules just don’t apply themselves anymore. We don’t do weird haircuts, we don’t do blood sacrifices…. why do we have to take these two verses about human sexuality so seriously when three pages later there’s instructions on the best price to pay for a slave whether it’s a man, woman, child or old person? Let’s be real about how useful this book is to us.”

Miller pointed out that while there is no passage in the Bible that refers to sex between women, she thinks the discomfort with gay marriage is grounded in discomfort over gay sex.



“The scholars I talked to especially about the verses in Paul say that the condemnation of gay sex in Paul is really a condemnation of the worst kind of craven, licentious, debauched behavior that in fact Paul was talking about the behavior of the Roman emperors Caligula and Nero, who everybody in the first century would have known were just bad, bad people. His condemnation of it is a condemnation of a sort of general wickedness and promiscuity, and that in fact what Paul argued for, is family stability.”

“Get married, don’t get divorced. That was a big thing for Paul, stay together. It’s actually a socially conservative argument. Get married, stay married, it’s good for society, it’s good for kids, it’s good for families. Love and the experiment of trying to stay loving even through difficult times is a very Christian endeavor. Let’s try to give that to everybody.”

Miller said she was most moved by what she learned about the Bible’s true message of inclusion and love.



“The message of Jesus is to reach out to everybody. God loves everybody. A priest quoted to me Psalm 139 which is, ‘I am wonderfully and fearfully made.’ It’s a Psalm about how God sees inside you, your most secret self, even the parts of you that you don’t show to the world. And it’s a wonderful argument for gay marriage. It’s like, God loves all of us, in all of our beauty, in all of our imperfection. Why would he discern between us based on something like sexual orientation? He wouldn’t. I found that a very moving argument and it was inspiring to me.”

By Barbara Simon

Pope's sins

The United States, by ruling of the Supreme Court,
did not decriminalize homosexuality until 2003.

"American Idol" has been on the television longer than
consensual same-sex sex has been legal in some U.S. states.

This month, perhaps this week, France will introduce to the United Nations General Assembly a statement about human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, including torture, arbitrary arrest, killings, political, social and economic discrimination and the criminalization of same-sex love.

Scott Long of Human Rights Watch called the statement, “One of the most comprehensive affirmations of human rights relating to sexual orientation and gender identity that any international body has seen in recent years.”

The statement, building on the UN’s record of promoting LGBT rights, is neither a resolution nor a declaration. It will not be binding. It will not have the force of law in the member states. It will not even be voted upon.

But it hopefully will have symbolic impact and it will send a message to the 86 countries that criminalize same-sex sexual activity. The penalty for such activity is imprisonment in some nations and death in at least seven nations — Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Sudan, Mauritania and parts of Nigeria and Pakistan.

All the European Union members, as well as a number of non-EU countries and Latin American nations, have signed on to the statement to decriminalize homosexuality.

The United States, however, has not signed on to the document.

To anyone’s surprise?

And the Vatican has taken a stand against the statement.

To anyone’s surprise?

In defense of the Vatican’s opposition, Archbishop Celestino Migliore said a statement to decriminalize homosexuality would lead to bias against those who discriminate against gays and lesbians.

“If adopted, they would create new and implacable discriminations,” Migliore told Reuters. “For example, states which do not recognize same-sex unions as ‘matrimony’ will be pilloried and made an object of pressure.”

The French government and some GLBT rights groups responded by calling Migliore’s reasoning wrong or misguided and emphasizing that this statement is intended to discourage nations from sentencing gays to prison or death, an argument that should but doesn’t sway the Vatican. Apparently the Catholic Church’s abhorrence of the death penalty is not as great as its abhorrence of homosexuality.

Because I’m a columnist and not the French secretary of human rights or the spokesperson for the French Foreign Ministry, I don’t need to be political. I can confide: I think it would be great if the statement was used to put pressure on nations that promote discrimination, disrespect human dignity and violate human rights.

I can also say that the GLBT community has long maintained that decriminalization has far-reaching impact in regards to employment, marriage, benefits and raising children.

In pushing for decriminalization in the United States, activists and attorneys argued that laws criminalizing consensual sodomy were used to justify denying gays and lesbians jobs and promotions and custody of their children.

My old reporter’s notes quote a director at the American Civil Liberties Union, following the release of the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws, as saying, “For years, whenever we have sought equality, we’ve been answered both in courts of law and in the court of public opinion with the claim that we are not entitled to equality because our love makes us criminals. That argument — which has been a serious block to progress — is now a dead letter.”

The Court itself said that the U.S. Constitution protects the right of gays to form intimate relationships and “retain their dignity as free persons.”

Gays, the Court said, have the same right as heterosexuals to “define one’s concept of existence, of meaning, or the universe, and of the mystery of human life.”

The statement soon to be read at the United Nations will not have the influence in any nation that the U.S. Supreme ruling had in this country.

But the statement will affirm, as the Court did, gays rights to form intimate relationships, to live with dignity and to seek equality. And, if this is what the Vatican fears, we should say, “Watch out.”
By Lisa Neff

Good news from Yahoo health

AIDS
BERLIN - An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said.

"German hematologists Eckhard Thiel and Gero Huetter of Berlin's Charite Medical University attend a news conference about a successful treatment of a HIV infected patient in Berlin, on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008."

While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.

Dr. Gero Huetter said Wedneday his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus.

"We waited every day for a bad reading," Huetter said.

It has not come. Researchers at Berlin's Charite hospital and medical school say tests on his bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues have all been clean.

However, Dr. Andrew Badley, director of the HIV and immunology research lab at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said those tests have probably not been extensive enough.

"A lot more scrutiny from a lot of different biological samples would be required to say it's not present," Badley said.

This isn't the first time marrow transplants have been attempted for treating AIDS or HIV infection. In 1999, an article in the journal Medical Hypotheses reviewed the results of 32 attempts reported between 1982 and 1996. In two cases, HIV was apparently eradicated, the review reported.

Huetter's patient was under treatment at Charite for both AIDS and leukemia, which developed unrelated to HIV.

As Huetter — who is a hematologist, not an HIV specialist — prepared to treat the patient's leukemia with a bone marrow transplant, he recalled that some people carry a genetic mutation that seems to make them resistant to HIV infection. If the mutation, called Delta 32, is inherited from both parents, it prevents HIV from attaching itself to cells by blocking CCR5, a receptor that acts as a kind of gateway.

"I read it in 1996, coincidentally," Huetter told reporters at the medical school. "I remembered it and thought it might work."

Roughly one in 1,000 Europeans and Americans have inherited the mutation from both parents, and Huetter set out to find one such person among donors that matched the patient's marrow type. Out of a pool of 80 suitable donors, the 61st person tested carried the proper mutation.

Before the transplant, the patient endured powerful drugs and radiation to kill off his own infected bone marrow cells and disable his immune system — a treatment fatal to between 20 and 30 percent of recipients.

He was also taken off the potent drugs used to treat his AIDS. Huetter's team feared that the drugs might interfere with the new marrow cells' survival. They risked lowering his defenses in the hopes that the new, mutated cells would reject the virus on their own.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases in the U.S., said the procedure was too costly and too dangerous to employ as a firstline cure. But he said it could inspire researchers to pursue gene therapy as a means to block or suppress HIV.

"It helps prove the concept that if somehow you can block the expression of CCR5, maybe by gene therapy, you might be able to inhibit the ability of the virus to replicate," Fauci said.

David Roth, a professor of epidemiology and international public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said gene therapy as cheap and effective as current drug treatments is in very early stages of development.

"That's a long way down the line because there may be other negative things that go with that mutation that we don't know about."

Even for the patient in Berlin, the lack of a clear understanding of exactly why his AIDS has disappeared means his future is far from certain.

"The virus is wily," Huetter said. "There could always be a resurgence."
(This version CORRECTS spelling of doctor's name to Huetter throughout.)

Gay Pride 2008 - Mexico D.F.

Marcha del Orgullo
"Ciudad de México"



Well over a million people come out in support of Mexico City Gay Pride,
which takes place over several days in late June (June 26 to June 30 in 2008).
Mexico's high-altitude capital city has a huge and active gay population,



although generally the gay scene is a bit more discreet and underground
than in other major North American metropolises.



The increasingly popular Mexico City Gay Pride,
however, is helping to heighten the LGBT community's visibility.

A good way to experience the Gay Pride festivities in Mexico City is to book
a Gay Pride tour through the reputable gay tour company, Arco Iris Tours.
If you're attending the Pride celebration on your own,



keep in mind that the Mexico City Gay Pride Parade takes place on June 28 at noon,
with the procession leading along Paseo de la Reforma and ending with a rally at Main Square (Zocalo).



Numerous gay clubs, hotels, pubs, and restaurants will also be holding events and offering special promotions during Mexico City's Gay Pride.

ok here are some pictures of gay pride 2008 Mexico:













watch on what they're doin there:

USC brings impressive streak into Arizona game

By JOHN NADEL, AP Sports Writer Oct 21, 7:16 pm EDT
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LOS ANGELES (AP)—On the heels of a stunning loss at Oregon State last month, Southern California fell behind Oregon 10-3 the next week, making it seem that all the hype about USC might have been overdone.

Since falling behind the Ducks, however, the Trojans have been every bit as good as advertised.

USC enters Saturday night’s crucial Pac-10 game at Arizona having outscored the opposition 138-0 since early in the second quarter of the Oregon game.

“We’re aware of that,” defensive end Kyle Moore said Tuesday. “It’s a big deal in some people’s eyes. We’re capable of doing that every week. We can keep doing it if we do everything right.”

The sixth-ranked Trojans came back from their early deficit to beat Oregon 44-10 before blanking Arizona State 28-0 and Washington State 69-0, giving them back-to-back shutouts for the first time since 1971 and thrusting them back into the national championship picture.

“I’m sure it’s happened,” USC coach Pete Carroll said of the scoring streak. “It’s been a good run for the defense now, and we’ve had some great challenges in there and really big-time field position challenges, which shows the mettle of the team and their attitude and progress.

“It’s fun for the kids and fun for the coaches, and it’s a source of pride when you can put a little string like that together.”

The Trojans (5-1, 3-1 Pac-10) lead the country in scoring defense, having allowed 7.8 points per game. Oregon State had three of the six touchdowns and 27 of the 47 points USC gave up in its first six games.

“They’re big, fast and physical,” Arizona coach Mike Stoops said of USC’s defense. “That’s the first thing you realize. Everywhere you look, they have quality players. They make you earn it on the field. They’re going to make you execute, we certainly understand that. We’re going to have to be creative in trying to move the football.”

It would be pretty shocking if the Trojans pitch a third straight shutout, since the Wildcats (5-2, 3-1) are averaging 40.4 points per game this season to rank second in the Pac-10 behind USC, and 44.8 points in their last six home games—all victories.

“This is going to check us out and it’s going to be very hard to hold them down at all,” Carroll said. “They have scored a ton of points already on most everybody they have played.

“This is really an exciting week to prepare. This is a championship matchup, for sure, and we are going to try to take the momentum that we’re building here out of the first half of the season and take it to Tucson and see if we can get ourselves a win.”

A sellout crowd of 57,400 is expected at Arizona Stadium, where the Wildcats beat then-No. 25 California 42-27 last weekend.

“They were down 24-14 at halftime and came roaring back and commanded a great win, and the place went crazy,” Carroll said. “Really, they have got to be flying.”

The Trojans were certainly flying early in the season, earning a near-unanimous No. 1 ranking after routing Virginia 52-7 and No. 10 Ohio State 35-3. The talk at that point didn’t revolve around whether they’d make it to the BCS title game in January, rather who they’d be playing.

Then came the 27-21 loss to 25-point underdog Oregon State on Sept. 25.

“The Oregon State game was a bad game we had as a team, both sides of the ball,” Moore said. “We’ve made sure that hasn’t happened again.”

USC, listed Tuesday as a 15-point favorite, holds a 25-6 lead in the series and has won six straight over Arizona since a 31-15 loss in 2000—the year before Carroll became the Trojans’ coach.

“I don’t know this, but I would think it’s one of the biggest games since Mike Stoops has been there, to put themselves and position themselves in a great spot in the Pac-10,” Carroll said. “Mike’s done a great job with these guys and I think this is the best team he’s had.”

Stoops, in his fifth year at Arizona, said consistency has been the key this year.

“Any time you play USC, it’s a big game,” he said. “This has a lot of significant meaning for us in the Pac-10. I’m happy for our players and coaches that we’re able to play in a big game. I think our kids will handle it well. I don’t think many people expect us to win. That takes a little pressure off.”

Boy is kidnapped

Cole Puffinburger

This is a sad story i ought to say. why they?
why children must be a victim of this? why children have to be
involved to such thing? i mean if the burglar wants money just take it.
but not to take family member especially children.

they are innocent!!!!
if it is occured in my country, the kidnapper must face
the ultimatum.
people are going to hit that person to death.
or burn him alive.

this is for whom they do any devil things such pedofilia and kidnapper.
and they're deserve to have this punishment.
so that, criminal must think twice in doin their action for the 2nd time.
coz it's been happening here that so many criminal are died in scene where
the crime or delinguency are occuring.

u should help this family who lost this child
namely Cole Puffinburger [if you see him]

tienes que ayudar a este familia y este chico, por favor!

ok let's see l.a.times coverage:
" police say
An Amber Alert is issued nationwide.
From Associated Press . October 17, 2008
LAS VEGAS -- Two men posing as police officers kidnapped a 6-year-old boy in a drug dispute after entering his family's home and tying up his mother and her boyfriend, police said Thursday.An Amber Alert was expanded nationwide as police searched for Cole Puffinburger, who was taken Wednesday, police said.
There is a definite "drug nexus," Las Vegas Police Capt. Vincent Cannito said at a news conference Thursday. "Significant money and drugs" were involved, he said, but would not provide more details."This child was ripped from the home," he said.Cannito would not say whether the family had been contacted about paying a ransom.
The boy is described as 3 feet 11 and 48 pounds, with blond hair, blue eyes and silver-framed glasses.He was last seen wearing blue jeans, tennis shoes, a black shirt, and a black zip-up sweat shirt with white, black and blue stars.Police asked witnesses to contact them."

Gay people missing in Proposition 8 ads

Marcos Bretón:
Gay people missing in Prop. 8 ads



mbreton@sacbee.com , Published Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008

In the public relations battle over legalizing same-sex marriage, it appears gay people have been relegated to the background.
They are invisible in television ads arguing for and against Proposition 8 – the initiative that would eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Though many gays and lesbians see Prop. 8 as a civil rights issue, the campaign against it has been framed only by heterosexuals speaking in reassuring tones about gay people getting married. And from the proposition's supporters, a commercial features San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom – the guy who was once caught up in a public affair with the wife of a close friend.

You've probably seen it: Footage of Newsom gloating that gay marriage is here "whether you like it or not."That single ad is part of a recent change in momentum. What was shaping up as an easy win for gay marriage has become a political dogfight.It is also ingenious political advertising. It pushes hot buttons against gay marriage without belittling images.

As in anti-Prop. 8 ads, gay people are silent and in the background of the Newsom commercial. The desire of gays to legally marry is merely implied.The commercial supporting Prop. 8 was conceived in Sacramento by political consultant Frank Schubert, whose office overlooks the state Capitol park.Schubert was a veteran of successful campaigns you've barely heard of before his Catholic beliefs and personal opposition to gay marriage led him to this role as chief strategist in the Yes on Prop. 8 campaign.

Schubert's opponent on the other side is also based in Sacramento – Steve Smith, a former high-ranking Gray Davis official who has never lost when his goal was getting voters to vote "no" on a statewide proposition. In their ads, both have avoided popular images of gays and overt proclamations for or against a gay lifestyle.

Both campaigns seem to want to make their cases without upsetting people who might vote for them.It's as if they don't want their campaigns about gay people to be sidetracked by gay people. For Schubert, Prop. 8 isn't about tolerance. People like him are tolerant, he says. To them, it's about preventing marriage from being used as a social experiment. "How gay marriage will be taught in the public schools is emerging as the biggest issue in the campaign," Schubert said Friday.

Smith bristles at this suggestion. "If this campaign is about eliminating marriage as a right, (Schubert) loses." That's why "he has to change the subject," Smith said.

Schubert's suggestion does smack of scare tactic, while Smith will continue to argue gay marriage is a fundamental right – one that shouldn't be argued anymore.
It's like having the right to be who you are in public – to be equal under the sun with anyone else.

It's a worthwhile goal, but on TV it's being debated by heterosexuals.

The World biggest Penis

Jonah Falcon

e may not be so impressive as other species with our physical abilities:
powerful muscles or weaponry like fangs, claws, horns and so on.
But we have evolved to excel in one issue: sex.

Not regarding sexual activity - as it has been shown that the bonobo
(which is also wrongly named "dwarf chimpanzee") has more sex and
much varied than the human being - but penis size.

Man is the ape, the monkey and the primate with the biggest penis!
Gorilla males, which could be seen as dwarf humans in body size,
have minute penises compared to ours, no thicker and longer than a pencil.
Other apes do not reach even this size.

In some African countries, 'hanging like a gorilla' is considered an insult.
So, in the end, who is the owner of the largest penis in the world?
A 2006 UK Channel 4 documentary called 'The World's Biggest Penis'
solved the mystery: it appears to be the New Yorker

"Jonah Cardeli Falcon (born July 29, 1970)"

His willy is 9.5 in (24.13 cm) flaccid,
13.5 in (34.29 cm) erect! The average human penis is
6 in (15 cm) long...
Jonah is not a nameless person:

he is an American actor and talk-show host, which
appeared in some sitcoms, British television shows and Hollywood movies.
He was born in Brooklyn and identifies himself as bisexual.

But the huge penis is not a blessing.
It rather condemns him to loneliness: there's no match babe.
He lives with his mom and his whale penis, without a girlfriend for 12 years.
"When I meet people they find it hard to look me in the eye,
they just see what’s in my trousers. It’s become a real problem.
When I was younger I went out in tight pants and
would sleep with a different person every night,
but I became burned out and disillusioned.

My last relationship ended in 1996.
Now I just want to find a steady girlfriend who doesn’t
think I’m a freak show", Jonah told "The Sun" two years ago.


Falcon gained media attention after appearing in the 1999
HBO's documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed,
in which men were interviewed in the nude about their penises.

He also gained additional coverage after Rolling Stone
did a feature story on him in June 2003.
Falcon was reported as claiming in the article that
his father was legendary porn star John Holmes,

but "family members scoff at this suggestion" and Falcon himself retracted it.
He said that he had mentioned a rumor to the writer of the article,
which the writer attributed to fact.

In early 2006, he appeared in a documentary by UK Channel 4 called
'The World's Biggest Penis', and appeared in a Closer magazine shoot
with model Jodie Marsh. His large size also led him to
several appearances on the Howard Stern radio program.


Jonah Falcon's penis is 9.5 inches (24.13 cm) flaccid,
13.5 inches (34.29 cm) erect

Kanada, Belgia dan Belanda

Canada, Belgium and Netherland


these countries are allowing the gay and lesbian marriage.
and da, you would be get the bless of your marriage if you are
the native of those country.
but there is any differences privilige of each country about
this gay or lesbian marriage.

Natherland which allows homo marriage but has some conditions.
among those conditions is one of the couple must native or local people (netherlander) or at least permanent resident.
but if you both couple from other country, you won't get the wedding approval
from government of Holland.

this gay marriage constitution of Holland happened on 31 March 2001.
and there are 3 kind of legal relation that professedly by Holland government:
1. marriage
2. Registered Partnership
3. Living together Contract.

the 1# and 2nd has the similiar rights and privilege,
but Living together Contract is different, they just made their own deals.
so when they are aparted/broke up, so they bear their own right/privilege,
including means apportionment(i mean money)
the validity or legalism of the LIVING TOGETHER CONTRACT
will be terminate if both couple are not live in the same roof and address.

However, in Canada, the conditions such in Netherland are not necessarily.
like William E. Woods (Conceptualized and initiated the Hawaii Same Sex Marriage lawsuit) said in Honolulu:
whosoever, from any country, can come to Canada and get marriage legally.
thousands of gay couple had their own gay marriage there since the legal approbation announced at Ontario, Canada

and the bishopric Anglican Church in Vancouver, Canada has approved to bless
same sex union. although has occured the split up
inside the bishopric organitation, coz some of them are pro and contra
and has their or argument or dissent about this gay marriage.

hahahha even in such more liberal country than Indonesia, but still
could pro and contra that influenced by Religion group.

and about Belgium:
Belgia has approved its constitution that allows gay and lesbian community
legally to get marriage there. that decision makes Belgium is the second country
in Europe allows homo wedding and give the same privilege as the hetero's.

but in Belgium, homo marriage (Gay and lesbian) are not allowed to adopt children.

the P. Minister of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt said when the constitution was approved:
"Mentality has changed. there no more reason to prevent same sex marriage"

"this law will terminate what queer said as Discrimination and could embattle the homophobic" member of Belgium senate, Josy Dubie said to AFP.

(This article i translate it into english that may be are not exactly same in the english, but at least similiar meaning)

Middle East and Gay life

Gay Iraq and Arab Culture


With a world on the brink of war, OutUK's Adrian Gillan talks to gay Arabs and Iraqis about being gay in an Arab state and what it's like for our lads in Baghdad. Is Saddam serious about killing queers and is his regime any worse than other Arab governments?

" I've always been discreet," 28 year old gay Iraqi Zoo from Baghdad tells OutUK nervously, against a backdrop of war-mongering and in the wake of Amnesty's recent reports of Saddam's death threat against queers.

" Being gay is not acceptable anywhere in the Arab world, not just Iraq. Arabs are still very conservative and that'll take decades to change - if ever."
" However," he continues, "there is little official reaction to homosexuality in Iraq so far as I know and I was unaware of any law pertaining to anything gay. If Saddam has indeed threatened death for homosexual behaviour, then I do not think it will be enforced."

" To be honest, I haven't witnessed or even heard about much overt gay abuse in Iraq," explains Zoo of a complex, repressive social landscape where people turn blind eyes or are more likely to use such homophobic edicts as a weapon against political opponents, rather than to target queers.

So though it's hardly a homo haven and no one wants a death threat hanging over them, Iraq probably isn't the all-out homo hell some might like to paint, and is certainly no where near as fearful as many other Arab states like Saudi Arabia.

" In fact, there is even a place I know of in the heart of Baghdad," says Zoo, though keen not to disclose too much and put others at risk. "You can't really call it a cruising ground. It's just a very public area where you find all kinds of hotels and businesses. If you walk around and look, chances are someone will soon look back."

No need to drop a bomb on Saddam then?
" I don't like Saddam and neither do most Iraqis," claims Zoo, "but I think any attack on any country is an outright disaster because the only victims of war are the ordinary people. And this view has nothing to do with my sexuality. Nobody can predict whether or how the regime will change but even if it does, Iraq won't turn into a paradise overnight - not for anyone."

" Actually," agrees Sahib who runs global online community GayArab, "I would certainly say Iraq is no worse than other Arab countries. Since the Gulf War, the Iraqi civilian population is rarely allowed internet access but of the few gay Iraqis I've encountered, none have mentioned anything about abuse."

" There are though surely no 'gay human rights' in the Arab World," he continues. "Gays are treated from good to bad depending on the situation and what country they are in at the time. Some Arab states are more lenient than others with less chance of social abuse, or punishment by law, if found out."


So what is it to be Arab? And how grounded is Arab homophobia in fundamentalist Islam?

" The 'Arab World' can be described in many different ways," explains Sahib. "Most Arabic speaking cultures - including the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia - consider themselves Arabs. But some purists would only count those from the Arabian Gulf." He continues: "The Arab World is not only the geographical and historical birthplace of Islam, but also of Christianity and Judaism. Indeed, just as most Christians and Jews now live outside the Arab World in the Americas and Europe, so do most Muslims - in Asia."

" And since the fall of the Ottoman Empire," Sahib expands, "we have seen more secularisation in what were once traditionally Muslim Arab countries. The rule in Iraq is now mostly secular with Islamic law being enforced when it is in agreement with the current regime."

" Many Arab countries have laws which prohibit homosexual behaviour," he continues. "Some of these are Islamic, others based on social or cultural morals. And I suspect Saddam's recent death threat is secular and will probably be enforced as it suits the regime - whether the accused is gay or not."

" From an Islamic point of view," he says, "there are at least two traditional death sentences for homosexual behaviour: hurling the people involved from a high place or collapsing a heavy wall on them. I know of a recent incident where several men accused of homosexual acts were beheaded in Saudi Arabia and some individuals in Afghanistan had a wall pushed over on them."

" From a more secular point of view," Sahib continues, "look at Egypt. It has no specific laws against homosexual behaviour but arrested over fifty gays recently and charged them with crimes against morality and such. Some were eventually freed but others are still incarcerated. And of those found at the party in question, only Egyptian citizens were arrested: Non-Egyptian Arabs and people from other parts of the world were not. So you can see how discriminately these laws are applied in such cases."

So how can queer Arabs express their sexuality these days?
" I must say the internet has been a godsend to the gay Arab population worldwide," says online mogul Sahib. "Over the years, I have talked to many people on the verge of suicide who were simply overjoyed to find sites like ours. They had no idea there were any other gay Arabs out there at all."

" And yes" - he concurs with Zoo - "just like anywhere else in the world, there are many known places to cruise for other men. And in practice Arab publics and police often turn a blind eye: it would not be surprising to find these same authorities enjoying cruising grounds or known bath houses themselves."

" There is even a historic gay Arab tradition," says Sahib. "For instance Iraq was once known as Mesopotamia and Baghdad was a cultural hub where poet Abu Nuwas (760-815 AD) wrote odes to wine and boys. Today it is not unusual to hear of gay Arabs who are accepted, protected and even celebrated for their talents - a famous hairdresser in Beirut, a singer in Saudi Arabia or an actor in Egypt."

" And many gays in Arab countries have no desire to leave their homelands," he continues. "Indeed, seeking asylum explicitly on sexual grounds would carry a very high cost - never being able to return to your homeland or see your family again. And those who happen to be gay and want to leave their country often do so to avoid marriage rather than to escape abuse or live a more open lifestyle."

So is it, for instance, any easier being gay in London's Iraqi community than it is back in Baghdad?
" From a community and family view I would say it is just as hard," says Sahib. "The morals are virtually the same. On the other hand, there are obviously more venues and outlets for gays in places like London than back home so that makes things a bit better, but they'd still feel the need to be discreet."


A double life: better than none.

And Sahib is actually keen to praise certain aspects of Arab culture in general: "Many of the morals in which the West claims superiority are mere hot air. In the Arab World, people are judged more by their actions and intentions, not by their words or appearance. Also gay Arabs themselves tend to act more like human beings who happen to be gay - not vice versa!"

And that's not the only pluses for a gay Arab these days. Admits Sahib with a glint: "At least a quarter of those visiting our site are non-Arabs. Some have this Arabian Nights fantasy: a few Americans actually think we still live in tents and ride camels! Others just know what they like - or are simply curious."

More Info : www.GayArab.org - a website for gay Arabs, their friend and admirers.

Amnesty International has published a report outlining Saddam Hussein's edict making homosexuality an offence technically punishable by death.
Peter Tatchell's website has a graphic account of fundamentalist Islamic, though not necessarily Arab, gay human rights abuses.

World's worst places to live if you're gay

U.S. allies listed among
gay human rights abusers
By ELIZABETH WEILL-GREENBERG
MAR. 17, 2006

The latest U.S. State Department human rights report has some gay activists calling on the government to heed its own advice and impose sanctions on countries that target gay citizens with abuse.

Each year, the State Department issues a human rights report detailing abuse committed by foreign governments, including abuse motivated by victims’ sexual orientation and gender identity.

Gay rights advocates applauded the 2005 report, released last week, for its detailing of anti-gay abuses committed in a range of countries, including Iran, Poland, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.

"I was glad to see [the report] talked about issues of discrimination," said Scott Long, director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Rights program at Human Rights Watch.

Past reports, he said, "were willing to address egregious persecution but not everyday life."

Murder and discrimination

The violations detailed in the report range from criminalizing homosexuality in Nigeria to banning gay rights parades in Warsaw, Poland, to the murders of gay rights and AIDS activists in Jamaica.

The report also criticized Nigeria for health care and employment discrimination against HIV-positive people. The public, the report stated, believes HIV is "a result of immoral behavior."

The United Arab Emirates, recently in the news because of the attempted takeover of some U.S. port operations by the UAE-owned company Dubai Ports World, criminalizes homosexuality. The UAE was cited in the State Department report for arresting 26 gay men and reportedly giving them hormone treatments to change their sexual orientation.

While homosexuality is not illegal in Nepal, the report states, police still harass and abuse gays.

It is unclear what criterion is used to define abuse, as some human rights violations-—-like criminalizing sodomy-—-were the law of the land in a dozen U.S. states until a Supreme Court decision in 2003.

The State Department declined comment on the report.

The report’s inclusiveness of gay-related abuse can help asylum seekers who must prove persecution based on sexual orientation or gender identity in their home country, said Chris Nugent, a D.C. attorney who specializes in gay asylum cases.

The report "is a vital source of information concerning treatment," said Nugent. "It’s relied on by immigration adjudicators as evidence of human rights conditions abroad."

While the report may help asylum seekers, it is less clear what it will mean for U.S. domestic policy and relationships with other countries. The State Department is required by law to issue the reports, which are supposed to help determine funding granted to foreign countries, said Elisa Massimino, D.C. director of Human Rights First, a human rights advocacy group.

Countries with egregious records of human rights violations are not supposed to receive certain types of aid, she said.

"The consequences are what the U.S. government makes of them," said Human Rights Watch’s Long, who claimed his group helped compile some of the anti-gay abuses chronicled in the report.

‘Turning a blind eye’

The report’s inclusiveness of gay rights, Long said, "stands in conspicuous contrast to the vote at the U.N."

The U.S. recently sided with Iran and Cameroon to block two gay rights groups from having consultative status at the U.N., which allows involvement in discussions with member countries. Nearly 3,000 groups have consultative status, according to Human Rights Watch.

The report "doesn’t seem to conform with the administration’s own record," agreed Paula Ettelbrick, executive director of the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

While the report acknowledges the egregiousness of anti-gay abuses, Ettelbrick said, "the bad news is [the U.S.] doesn’t seem to be applying that standard to the U.S. government."

"The State Department report is enlightening but it won’t be effective if the U.S. government keeps siding with abusers like Iran in supporting silencing human rights watchers," HRC President Joe Solmonese said in a statement.

"Countries like the U.A.E. are abusing men and women and the best the U.S. government can do is give them a multimillion dollar contract to manage our ports," he said. "We should be demanding accountability for human rights violations, not simply turning a blind eye toward the problem."

Where does U.S. rank?

There also is the problem of credibility because of the United States’ own human rights record, which is absent from the report, several activists noted.

In the past year there has been international outcry over U.S. policies to torture and indefinitely detain suspects, as well as the policy of "rendition," or sending a foreign suspect to a third country for interrogation. Critics have alleged that some terrorism suspects are sent abroad to be tortured.

These charges are missing from the country reports, even for those countries where suspects were sent, noted Massimino of Human Rights First.

Human Rights First conducted critiques of the State Department reports from 1978 until 1996 and then in 2003, when it saw that the State Department instructed embassies not to report actions requested by the U.S., she said.

Despite this instruction, the report remained thorough, unlike earlier years that were influenced by U.S. foreign policy, she said.

But the United States’ own record should not deter the government from condemning human rights violations abroad, Long said.

"The U.S.’ moral authority was progressively eroded by things like the images of Abu Ghraib," he said. "But the erosion of authority doesn’t detract from their authority to speak out."

Other countries will use U.S. human rights violations to justify their own, Scott said. For instance, he said, both Uganda and Nigeria passed anti-gay marriage laws in the past year.

"Uganda is one of the largest recipients of [U.S.] AIDS funding," he said. "They are very attentive to policies at home. If [the U.S.] throws the principle of equality out the window, it resonates everywhere."

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