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Episode 112: Bobby Russell Receives ‘Credible’ Threats as Lawsuit Dismissal Appeal Drags on
Episode 112: Bobby Russell Receives 'Credible' Threats as Lawsuit Dismissal Appeal Drags on [ 45 min 09 s | 20.67 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (792)The local police are taking this seriously, and we are, too. On June 25, 2016, Bobby Russell, a legal plaintiff claiming a false-positive “HIV test,” received four or five threatening calls to his mobile phone. He says that the caller(s), while not explicitly threatening to kill him, made reference to “what you are doing.”
“How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth (Beth) Ely thought it best to report this event, to help ensure Bobby’s safety. read more »
NEWS UPDATE: We’ve Seen This Movie Before – September 10 Protest in London Planned as Portobello Nixes ‘Positive Hell’ Screening
September 8, 2016–A veteran BBC journalist and medical documentary filmmaker is calling for protests this Saturday night in London after BuzzFeed News reported yesterday that the Portobello Film Festival pulled this weekend’s screening of her film “Positive Hell.” This award-winning documentary tells the stories of five long-term survivors of an “HIV-positive” diagnosis living in Spain.
Producer and narrator Joan Shenton asks the protesters to meet outside the film festival at 8:30 p.m., half an hour before the original screening time, at the The KPH, 139 Ladbroke Grove, London. read more »
NEWS UPDATE: London Film Fest Drops AIDS Doc ‘Positive Hell,’ as ‘Vaxxed’ Backlash Hits Houston, L.A. Screenings Sell Out, NYC Gets Second Week
April 10, 2016–Telling people not to see an alarming public-health documentary may not be the best strategy to kill it. Perhaps emboldened by recent American censorships of Vaxxed: From Coverup to Catastrophe, the London International Film Festival has pulled AIDS documentary Positive Hell, according to veteran journalist, author and filmmaker Joan Shenton. (We reported on the film in Episodes 72 and 96, and posted a link to a discussion on “The Progressive Film Hour.“) The festival organizer admitted he acted under pressure from LGBT student groups at the university where he teaches.
UPDATE, April 11, 2016–DANGEROUS, ILLICIT, NAUGHTY, FREE viewing: Watch Positive Hell (28 minutes) anyway. (No, don’t. Please, you’ll feel better if you don’t. . . . it’ll hurt others’ feelings . . . don’t even think about it . . . you’re not thinking about it, are you? Mind Police! Open up!) UPDATE, September 8, 2016–It happened again. Another London film festival pulled Positive Hell from its lineup, this time the Portobello. Read our update HERE and “How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely’s essay at “The Truth Barrier,” and watch Shenton’s passionate defense of her film on “London Live” HERE.
Meanwhile, former “How Positive Are You” co-host Celia Farber is posting fascinating daily updates on the rapidly failing attempt to censor Vaxxed, so click on over to The Truth Barrier. UPDATE, April 11, 2016–Shenton gets her day in the media at “The Truth Barrier,” and she is devastating to this pretense of an “independent” film festival. How, indeed, do LGBT “activists” benefit from silencing positive stories of HIV survival? (Answer: They collect money.)
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Episode 108: Waking Up to the Truth, with New AIDS Rethinker George Borrelli
When confronted with new facts, why do we take so long to change our minds? George Borrelli never imagined a different view of “AIDS” science existed until he stumbled on it while researching alternative cancer theories and treatments.
“This really rocked a belief that I thought was so solid that it could not possibly be wrong,” says the retired engineer. “It was such a fundamental belief. I really didn’t want to accept the possibility that what everyone is saying could possibly be false.” read more »
EDITORIAL: A Special Warning About False-Positive “HIV Testing” Results
October 2015–Accurate diagnosis matters. We at “How Positive Are You” are extremely concerned about the life-changing diagnoses of “HIV positive” and “AIDS” that people are receiving, based on tests for surrogate markers including antibodies and genetic sequences. Because of our concern, we will post later today an interview with Dr. David Rasnick of the biotechnology firm Viral Forensics. Viral Forensics will offer our listeners and others a way to check their “viral load” tests against findings of “particles resembling HIV” under an electron microscope, as interpreted by a licensed pathologist. (To obtain a blood analysis by Viral Forensics, see the bottom of this editorial.)
The commercially available tests for “HIV positivity” or “viral load” have never been validated to the presence of live, infectious virus in human blood. read more »
Episode 100: The Best of ‘How Positive Are You,’ on its 100th Episode
Tragic stories and grateful rants, long-time nonprogressors, the death of artist Keith Haring, words from two-time heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison, defending orphans and babies, the end of “HIV criminalization,” whether to go on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), deconstructing how “HIV testing” actually works, provocative science, pharmaceutical corruption, a confrontation with a TV episode’s medical advisor, feedback from our audience both grateful and hostile, debunking the entire Ebola epidemic from the lab to the streets of West Africa, and remembering our dear friend and co-founder Christine Maggiore – whew! – you’ve heard it all on “How Positive Are You.” If you haven’t, catch up with our library on our Program Index page. Or you can save some time with this helpful retrospective of the first seven years of our groundbreaking Podcast.
Write us at info@howpositiveareyou with your own memories and reflections. We’d love to hear from you. read more »
Episode 99: Down the Rabbit Hole with J. Todd DeShong of ‘HIV Innocence Group Truth,’ Supporting Bobby Russell’s Lawsuit but ‘Deconstructing’ his Investigator
Curiouser and curiouser . . . “HIV Innocence Group Truth” blogger J. Todd DeShong says he supports Bobby Russell’s lawsuit against his University of Kentucky doctors for the careless practices that led to his false-positive “HIV” diagnosis, but he is not so sure about Clark Baker and the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice (OMSJ), the investigative agency that made that lawsuit possible. It’s not an attack; it’s a “deconstruction.” And we’re not talking about those tests and how misleading they are, even though DeShong is a lab professional who runs diagnostic tests for hospitals and says he is working toward a master’s degree in molecular diagnostics. The tests are “off topic,” he says.
Listen as the distinctions here get finer and finer, more than “How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely can comprehend. Isn’t this how sociopaths work? read more »
Episode 92: Terry Michael Traces Anthony Fauci’s 30 Years at NIAID as the ‘J. Edgar Hoover of Public Health’
Episode 92: Terry Michael Traces Anthony Fauci's 30 Years at NIAID as the 'J. Edgar Hoover of Public Health' [ 1 h 03 min 02 s | 28.86 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1412)As director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci controls the direction of AIDS research, the bestowing of funds, and the propaganda of fear and “scientific opportunity” (profit). And he’s been there 30 years this month. Washington, D.C., journalist and former “How Positive Are You” co-host Terry Michael returns to survey the accountability-free “Cult of Tony” and its far-reaching influence on AIDS research and treatment. “If there is one great threat to public health in the world, I’ll have to lay that at the doorstep of Tony Fauci,” he says. read more »
Episode 91: Dr. David Rasnick Finds No Evidence That Ebola Has Ever Been Isolated in a Human Being — Does This Sound Familiar?
Episode 91: Dr. David Rasnick Finds No Evidence that Ebola Has Ever Been Isolated in a Human Being -- Does This Sound Familiar? [ 54 min 12 s | 24.81 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2700)“There is no objective, reliable or authentic evidence that Ebola has ever been isolated from a human being,” says biochemist David Rasnick, Ph.D. Should you believe this scientist or the well-known picture of the yarn-like virus said to be decimating West Africans — literally as we speak in November 2014? When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control warns of a “Zombie Apocalypse,” it may be time to question who is defining your reality. . . . read more »
Episode 87: Journalist Terry Michael on What Every Gay Man Should Know About Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
Is there a pill to prevent “HIV”? Is Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) the answer we’ve been looking for, all these years? Your intrepid team here at “How Positive Are You” is on the case, with Washington, D.C., journalist Terry Michael. Unlike other gay pundits and “leaders,” Michael has read the studies, done the math — and documented the corruption [report updated November 22, 2014] at the highest levels of U.S. corporations and government. So, after hitting the books, he told HPAY co-hosts David Crowe and Elizabeth Ely what he found. You decide.
Episode 81: Mark Skanda Channels the ‘Tantric Tiger’ Wisdom of Sex and Ignites the Next (Gay) Revolution
Mark Skanda describes himself as a professional masseur, change agent, pleasure activist, life coach, selective and sacred sex educator, and even sometimes a sex worker, currently working and playing in New York City. He talks here with “How Positive Are You” co-hosts David Crowe and Elizabeth Ely about what it means to explore the “Tantric Tiger” in all of us. We invite you to listen in on this fascinating, challenging and playful discussion that shifts the conversation from “safe sex” to the health benefits of feeling safe in the arms of a lover. . . . Let’s get it on. read more »
Episode 77: Dr. Christian Fiala on ‘HIV 2.0’ – HPV, Cervical Cancer and the ‘Sacrifice of the Virgins’
Episode 77: Dr. Christian Fiala on 'HIV 2.0' -- HPV, Cervical Cancer and the 'Sacrifice of the Virgins' [ 1 h 04 min 00 s | 29.3 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (664)Lack of scientific rigor, a business model based on rushing a vaccine to the market without long-term safety testing, hysterical risk/benefit assumptions around an emotionally charged and highly dangerous disease — does this sound familiar? Did we forget to mention, enormous profits? A campaign is well underway, to declare the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) a leading cause of cervical cancer and promote the Gardasil vaccine against it. It’s “HIV 2.0,” as noted Viennese gynecologist and Rethinking AIDS board member Dr. Christian Fiala calls it.
Rest in Peace Gos Blank
We at How Positive Are You were saddened to hear that on October 13, 2013, Gos Blank (Charles Rich) passed away. You can hear about his long-standing health challenges and learn about his positive outlook on life and his HIV status by listening to Episode 45 from February 2012 when he was in fine form. You can also view comments on his life, and add your own, at his memorial page on facebook.
Episode 70: Dissidents Who Have Died – Requiem for a Heavyweight (Part 2) – Trisha Harding Morrison on Tommy Morrison – Was Tommy Ever ‘HIV Positive’?
Boxer Tommy Morrison didn’t die of “AIDS”! In this Part 2 of the historic “Requiem for a Heavyweight” series, “How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely goes another 10 rounds (well, maybe five, for one hour) with Trisha Harding Morrison on her husband’s recent death at age 44, this time to discuss the recent report of an eminent, HIV-experienced electron microscope lab on blood taken from her husband moments before he died: “The Duke” was carrying no particles resembling “HIV.” We look at the full evidence that her husband was not “HIV positive” and that others likely are not, too. read more »
Episode 69: Dissidents Who Have Died – Requiem for a Heavyweight (Part 1), Trisha Harding Morrison on Tommy Morrison – What, or Who, KO’d ‘The Duke’?
Episode 43: Marian Tompson
Marian Tompson is one of the world’s leading advocates of breastfeeding, including by HIV-positive women. She was a founder of La Leche League in 1956 and entered the AIDS debate in the late 1990s with the founding of AnotherLook.org.
Episode 42: Jennifer Wolfe, “This Child of Mine”
Jennifer Wolfe made the recent film, “This Child of Mine” that documents the conflict between the AIDS establishment and three families, Valerie Emerson’s, the Tysons, and Christine Maggiore.
Episode 39: Brian’s 25 Years in the Shadow of HIV
“Brian” (not his real name) was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1987 along with many other hemophiliacs. Unlike most of the others, however, Brian did not start on AZT. Unlike almost all who did, he is still alive and well today…