Jan 24, 2009
Sophia Stewart: Mother of the Matrix
Ms. Sophia Stewart an African-american woman is the true author of The Matrix
THE FACTS YOU DON’T KNOW
• Did you know that Sophia Stewart owns the original copyrights (1981, 1983 and 1984) for The Third Eye, the manuscript from which The Terminator and The Matrix franchises were produced?
• Did you know that Sophia Stewart’s book entitled “ The Third Eye “ was with Fox Studios for five years (1981 –1985)?
• Did you know that Fox Studios released Stewart’s work (The Third Eye) in 1984 as The Terminator and it was not until the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) notified her in 2001 that she learned about the theft?
• Did you know that in 1986, Sophia Stewart submitted The Third Eye to the Wachoski brothers and they never replied?
• Did you know that the 1994-copyrighted script titled The Matrix, owned by the Wachoski brothers, bears no resemblance to the 1999 movie release?
• Did you know that this same ’94 copyright was hidden from the State judge during Larry Wachowski divorce proceedings in 2003 and was never entered in the Federal court of Sophia Stewart’s case.
• Did you know that in July 2003 in an unrelated case Lawrence Wachoski said that he and his brother wrote The Matrix in 1993 and later on in that same case said it was not true?
• Did you know that the FBI investigated Stewart’s case because criminal copyright infringement is a federal crime?
• Did you know that the FBI found that The Terminator and The Matrix were based upon Sophia Stewart’s Epic The Third Eye?
• Did you know that there have been several revisions to the original Matrix movie released in 1999?
• Did you know that direct quotes were taken from Sophia Stewart’s work, The Third Eye?
• Did you know that an introduction was taken out of Sophia Stewart’s Epic “ The Third Eye “ and was used in verbatim for the opening of the original Matrix movie?
• Did you know that in 1999 Warner Brothers tried to settle the case with Sophia Stewart and negotiations broke down when she was advised not to settle by a studio insider?
• Did you know that in 2003, after waiting for the FBI to take action, Sophia Stewart went to court to fight for her rights as copyright owner?
• Did you know that the defendants hired the first judge’s son to defend them after the case was filed and that Judge Terry Hatter had to recuse himself from the case?
• Did you know that the lawyers representing the defendants admitted “ willful intent “ by claiming that the statue of limitations had run out for the Terminator?
• Did you know that Sophia Stewart was represented by four of the most reputable law firms in the country; yet, they have not subpoenaed records & evidence, which are vital to winning her case?
• Did you know that Sophia’s case was written in the Law Review September 16, 2004, has received international attention, and is being monitored by lawyers and legal organizations around the country?
• Did you know that because of the possible indictments for criminal activities related to this case including copyright infringement, obstruction of justice, collusion, duplicity, and fraud, it is in the best interest of the defendants to settle the civil case to avoid criminal prosecution?
• Did you know that The Matrix won four Oscars, one of which was for the special effects which Sophia Stewart created and submitted with her original manuscript?
• Did you know that by 2006, The Matrix and The Terminator film franchises have earned over $2.5 billion dollars and to date Sophia Stewart, The Mother of The Matrix, has not received one dime for her work?
• Did you know that James Cameron never wrote the Terminator and his name is only part of the title in the ’84 copyright?
• Did you know that Gale Ann Hurd’s own Production Company called Pacific Western hired her as an employee to write the Terminator and that Hemdale Film is claiming to be the owner on the copyright?
• Did you know while in Federal Court Fox denied distributing the ’84 Terminator yet, they did distribute the film in Germany?
• Did you know that the March 31, 1999 nationwide release of the Matrix movie was not registered until April 16, 1999 raising questions on ownership and why a film would be published and released the same day?
• Did you know that Warner Brothers’ claim is there is no “ source work “ for the Matrix movie?
• Did you that Warner Brothers has stated the Matrix film is based on an original screenplay, and contains an original story?
• Did you know that Sophia Stewart has several letters of access from Fox and certified return receipts?
• Did you know that Carrie-Ann Moss (Trinity) starred in a 1993 Canadian television series called Matrix?
• Did you know that the Wachowski Brothers in an interview with Steve Hockensmith admitted they never wrote the first Matrix film instead they hired comic-book artist to draw the entire movie?
• Did you know after Sophia Stewart contacted the Wachowski Brothers they signed a contract with Warner Brothers to never do any interviews on the Matrix movie?
• Did you know in a May 13, 2004 letter to Sophia Stewart that Fox admitted to distributing “ Terminator 1 “ in the home video market in foreign territories and claim that they had limited involvement with “ Terminator1 “?
• Did you know that the Wachowski brothers had already defaulted by more than 30 days in the federal courts before Warner Brother lawyers decided to defend them?
• Did you know that an African American woman named Sophia Stewart created the matrix movie?
• Did you know that the same law firm defended all eight of the defendants in the Matrix case?
• Did you know that Sophia Stewarts own lawyers prevented her from going to trial because they failed to answer the admissions, failed to put in the evidence and they did not defend the opposition to block Sophia Stewart from speaking?
• Did you know that Sophia Stewart got a letter of access dated May 19 1999 from Warner Brothers comparing her original draft of The Third Eye with the Matrix Movie?
• Did you know that all of the characters and some of the special effects in the Matrix I film were created by Sophia Stewart?
• Did you know that Sophia Stewart has been in the federal court system since April 24, 2003, for over three years?
• Did you know that the quote “Ill be back” made world famous by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was created by Sophia Stewart, and is a direct quote from Sophia Stewarts Epic The Third Eye?
• Did you know that Sophia Stewart has already made history because her Matrix case is recorded in the courts and has been heard and read about around the entire world?
• Did you know why Sophia Stewart was prevented from going to trial and why going to trial would have sent the defendants to jail?
• Did you know that the FBI violated Sophia Stewart’s Civil & Constitutional Rights because she did not get due process of the law, and the government failed to protect her copyrights?
• Did you know that the Oracle in the Matrix movie was based on the real life of Sophia Stewart?
• Did you know that Sophia Stewart has been using the Matrix and Terminator for years and no countersuits have ever been filed?
• Did you know the defendants have never denied that Sophia Stewart wrote the Matrix or Terminator?
Jan 22, 2009
Ras Kass
Album: Soul On Ice
Song: Nature of the Threat
Typed by: Kedar_abhyankar@hotmail.com, OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash
Let freedom ring with a buckshot, but not just yet
First we need to truly understand the nature of the threat
And a pale man walks in the threshold of darkness
Roughly 20,000 years ago the first humans evolved
with the phenotypical trait, genetic recessive
Blue eyes, blonde hair and white skin
Albinism apparently was a sin to the original man, Africans
So the mutants traveled North of the equator
Called Europeans later, the first race haters
So here's the Devil's alpha to the beta
Cause history's best qualified to teach one
Quoting German philosopher Schopenhauer
"Every white man is a faded or a bleached one"
Migration created further mutation
Genetic drifts, evolution through recombination
Adaptation to the climate
As the Caucus Mountain man reverted to that of a primate
Savage Neanderthals, until the late Paleolithic age
That's when the Black Grimaldi man came
With the symbol of the dragon, fire and art
Check cave paintings in France and Spain to the Venus of Willendorf
Around 2000 B.C. Southern Russians migrate in small units
Those who travel West populated Europe
Those who went East settled in Iran, known as Aryans
1500 B.C. some crossed the Khyber Pass into India and
created Hinduism, the first caste system, the origins of racism
A white dot on the forehead meant elite
The black dot - defeat; untrustable, untouchables
They wrote the holy Vedas in Sanskrit
That's the language that created Greek, German, Latin and English
Now the Minoans around 2000 B.C.
Starts on the island of Crete, in the Agean Sea
The Greek culture begins Western Civilization
But "Western Civilization" means "White Domination"
Myceneans learned from Kemet, called Egypt in Greek
It existed since at least 3000 B.C.
Creatin geometry and astronomy
This knowledge influenced Plato, Socrates and Hippocrates
Cause Imhotep, the real real father of medicine
Was worshiped in Greece and Rome in the form of a Black African
The word Africa comes from the Greek "Aphrike"
meaning "without cold"; the word philosophy means "love of knowledge"
Stole from first man, Greek power expands
The first Greek fraternities band
The word gymnasium is Greek for "naked"
This was the place where adolescent boys were educated, and molested
This was accepted because Greek culture was homosexual
For example, Sappho trained girls on the island of Lesbos
Hence, the word lesbian (Ay let these dumb motherfuckers know)
December 25th, the birth of Saturn
A homosexual god, now check the historical pattern
December 25, now thought the birth of Christ
Was Saturnalia, when men got drunk,
fucked each other then beat their wife
Fact is, it was still practiced, til they called it Christmas
So put a gerbil on your Christmas list
The Hellenistic Era, Alexander the Great
Conquers all the way to India leavin four successor states
By the Fifth century B.C., R.O.M.E.
succeeds to be the conqueror of Egypt and Greece
But had the threat of the Black Phoenicians in Sicily
The Punic Wars began 264 B.C.
The Black general Hannibal and Carthaginian Peace
In 146 B.C. Carthage fell after a six-month siege
Rome sold every citizen to slavery
The first genocide of history
And more bisexuality in sight; Julius Caesar was known as
"every woman's husband and every man's wife" (BEOTCH!)
Spartacus Revolt, a slave rebellion that lost
Where 6,000 slaves was nailed on a cross
Cross? Aw, shit! Jesus Christ! Time for some-act-right
Christians get your facts right
Cause Christ was not his name
That's Greek for "One who is anointed"
Yoshua Ben Yosef was his name, do Christians know this?
So who do you praise, do you know his name?
Or do you do this in vain?
Accepting the religion they gave slaves to behave
Peep the description of historian Josephus
"Short, dark, with an underdeveloped beard was Jesus"
He had the Romans fearing revolution
The solution was to take him to court and falsely accuse him
After being murdered by Pilate how can it be
these same white Romans established Christianity
Constantine would later see the cross in a dream
In his vision, it read "En Hawk Signo Wonka":
"In this sign we conquer" - Manifest Destiny
In 325 he convened the Nicean Creed
And separated god into three
Decided Jesus was born on December 25th
and raised then on the third day is a myth
Plus to deceive us
Commissioned Michelangelo to paint white pictures of Jesus
He used his aunt, uncle, and nephew
Subconsciously that affects you
It makes you put white people closer to God
(Yo, 'The Man' got game like a motherfucker!)
True indeed, fuck it, Jihad
In the eight century Muslims conquered
Spain, Portugal and France and controlled it for 700 years
They never mention this in history class
cause o'fays are threatened when you get the real lesson
Moors from Baghdad, Turkey threatened European Christians
Meaning, the white way of life; hence the Crusades for Christ
On November 25th, 1491
Santiago defeats the last Muslim stronghold, Grenada
King Ferdinand gave thanks to God for victory
And the Pope of Rome and declared this date to forever be
A day of "Thanksgiving" for all European Christians
.. Now listen, when you celebrate "Thanksgiving"
What you are actually celebratin
is the proclamation of the Pope of Rome
Who later, in league with Queen Isabella
sent Cardinal Ximenos to Spain
to murder any blacks that resisted Christianity
These Moors, these black men and women
were from Baghdad, Turkey
And today, you eat the turkey, for your "Thanksgiving" day
as the European Powers destroyed the Turkeys
Who were the forefathers of your mothers and fathers
Now fight the power, you bitch-ass niggaz!
Now around this time, Whites started callings us Negroes
That's Spanish for black object meaning we're not really people
but profit, and the triangle trade begins - they seize us
Queen Elizabeth sends the first slaves on a ship named Jesus
Stealin land from the indigenous natives
Gave them alcohol to keep the Red Man intoxicated
Whites claim they had to civilize these pagan animals
But up until 1848 there's documented cases
of whites bein the savage cannibals, eatin Indians
In 1992, it's Jeffery Dahmer
They slaughtered a whole race with guns
Drugs, priests and nuns
1763, the first demonic tactic of biological warfare
As tokens of peace, Sir Jeffery Amherst
passed out clothin and blankets to the Indian community
Infested with small pox, knowin they had no immunity
Today it's AIDS, you best believe it's man made
Cause ain't a damn thing changed.. let me explain
Now since people of color are genetically dominant
and Caucasoids are genetically recessive
and Whites expect to be predominant, meaning survive as a race then
they simply must, take precautions
That's why they're worried about their future now
Cuz by 2050, almost all the Earth's population
will be brown, then black, so understandin that, whites counterreact
(I'm sayin.. man.. them fools
ain't nothin but a teaspoon of milk in the world color majority)
So they created a system
to force blacks into an unnatural position
That re-enforces the position of natural inferiority
In addition, created guns and developed the ethnocentric view
that God justifies every fuckin thing they do
Condition people to perceive whites' culture as civilized
and every other culture considered primitive - not true!
Racism is the system of racial subjugation against nonwhites
in every areas of human relation
Entertainment, education, labor, politics
Law, religion, sex, war and economics
See blacks were 3/5ths of a man with tax purposes intended
You think you're Afro-American?
You're a 14th amendment and a good nigga
Jews don't salute the fuckin swastika
but niggaz pledge allegiance to the flag that accosted ya
They never teach about the break of islands like Jamaica
But before slaves came here whites would take a
pregnant women, hang her from a tree by her toes
Slice her stomach with a knife
and let the unborn baby fall to the flo'
And stop an unborn child in front of all the slaves
to inbreed fear, so they'd be scared and behave
and not rebel more
Understand all whites must be perceived as potential predators
I paraphrase historian Ishakamusa Barashango
"Understand that regardless of the lofty ideas ingraved on paper
in such documents as the Constitution or Declaration
the basic nature.. of the European American white man
remains virtually unchanged".. so check
This is the nature of the threat
Jan 20, 2009
Sheeple???
Sheeple is a term of disparagement, a portmanteau created by combining the words "sheep" and "people."
It is often used to denote persons who voluntarily acquiesce to a perceived authority, or suggestion without sufficient research to fully understand the scope of the ramifications involved in that decision, and thus undermine their own human individuality or in other cases give up certain rights. The implication of sheeple is that as a collective, people believe whatever they are told, especially if told so by a perceived authority figure believed to be trustworthy, without processing it or doing adequate research to be sure that it is an accurate representation of the real world around them.
Jan 17, 2009
Digg Benaeth the Surface
Shocking, isn't it! It started with Septimus Severus and ended with the
Moors. To summarize: * Black rulership of the Roman Empier begain in
193 A.D. with African born, Roman Emperor Septimus Severus, a full
blooded African. There were four other Black emperors after the Severus
dynasty. * Often called the father of military strategy, Hannibal,
another full blooded African, performed the astounding feat of crossing
the Alps on elephants in 218 B.C. With only 26,000 of his original force
of 82,000 troops remaining, Hannibal defeated Rome, the mightiest
military power of the age, who had a million men, in every battle for the
next fifteen years. His tactics are still taught in leading military
academies of the U.S., Europe & other lands. * Black rulership was
widespread in Europe during the "Dark" & Middle Ages! * The orignal
"knights" were Black! -including the knights of King Arthur's Round
Table! That's why they were called "knights" after the night or darkness
of their skin. * An African king named Gormund, ruled Ireland during the
Anglo-Saxon period in England, reports the medieval historian, Geoffrey
of Monmouth. * Halfdan the Black, who was Africoid, was the first king
to unite Norway. * When the British Isles were invaded by the Vikings
some of these Norse raiders were Africoid. In fact different varieties
of 'Viking' Africans lived in Scandinavia during the Middle ages and are
frequently mentioned in Viking sagas. * There were Black Huns! The
dictionary describes the Huns as "a fierce barbaric race of Asiatic
nomads who, led by Attila, ravaged Europe i the 4th and 5th centuries
A.D." The Gothic writer Jordannes described their infamous leader,
Attila the Hun as having "a flat nose and swarthy complextion." He
describes the types od Huns he had seen as "of dark complexion, almost
black... broad sholder, flat noses and small eyres." * The African Moors
dominated southwest Europe during the Middle Ages for 700 years: 711-1492
A.D. (se page 6)
Europe's royal familes descended from Black/mulatto rulers!
This makes sense when you know that African's ruled Europe for 1400
years. Africans introduced the concept of royalty to the European whe
were initially uncivilized barbarians. African ancestry in the Europeans
is well documented in Nature Knows No Color Line by J.A. Rogers. To list
a few: the Black Queen Charlotte Sophie - the grand daughter of Queen
Victoria - who was also the consort of George III & the great, great
grandmother of Louis XVI. Jean Baptiste Bemadotte who founded the present
day royal Swedish family. The Medicis, the Gonzagas, the Duchess of
Alafoes, St.Hilaire - son of Louis XV ... this is why some of Europe's
oldest royal/noble families are called the "Black Nobility" though they
are "white"?
There are no "pure whites". Race purity is a big myth.
Europeans and their "white Americans" descendants have much African blood
from centuries of miscegenation with Africans: * That's why Spaniards,
Greeks and Italians are so dark. * African Moors ruling southwest Europe
centuries, darkened whites in this area, especially Portal, which was
"the first example of a Negrito (African) republic in Europe." Moors
ruling Scotland in the 10th century mixed with whites until they
disappeared. * Black Celts (Silures) & Black Vikings vixed with the
Scandinavia people. * The black blood type is common even in Nordic
Europe where intermixing has been happening since antiquity. * Even
Hitler's family had some Black blood, reports the New York Times 7/1/40.
The Huns inclued Black Mongolians who mixed heavily with the 'Aryan
Germans.' * Black slavery lasted in England for about 400 years
(1440-1834), during which time much intermixing occured. For details on
Europe's Aficna history / ancestry in whites: Ivan Van Sertima: African
Presence in Early Europe, J.A. Rogers: Nature Know No Color Line and Sex
and Race (all volumes), Edward Scobie Black Britannia, and David
MacRitchie: Ancient & Modern Britons.Yes Beethoven was Black. So were five U.S. presidents!.
*Beethoven was a dark Moorish mulatto called "The Black Spaniard." His
teacher, the immortal Joseph Hayden, was also a mulatto! (Khamit-Kush:
What They Never Told You In History Class) In The Five Negro Presidents,
J.A. Rogers documents the mulatto indentity of five American presidents!
(Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Warren Harding, Andrew Jackson &
Abraham Lincoln)
No Aids in Afrika By Akosua
This is a fact filled message to all brothers and sisters out there whom have allowed their psyches to be defeated by the hype that our native African family is dying by the thousands, hundreds, or even daily of the HIV/AIDS virus. This is serious! All over CNN, USA today and any other Western and western minded news media available you will find the statistics on AIDS show an over whelming population of native Africans infected with the virus or dead from it. Let me tell you this is shearly an attack on our mental-it's called self defeatism. Africans in America should now plenty about self-defeatism. We've been attacked with it by so many diffrent angles I can't even count anymore but just to remind you of a few, i.e. 'black is ugly,' the heavy importation of drugs in our communities (which was later admitted by the CIA) the Willy Lynch "breaking of a slave' project. You get it?
However, when our brothers/sisters in Africa face the same types of attacks we read the statistics then decide to take our vacation in Europe. Let me tell how I know about this.
First and foremost, I read a book titled "Black Men, Single, Obselete, or Dangerous." I can't recall the author, sorry. But inside the book in chapter 19 written by the late Kwame Ture, then known as Stokely Carmichael, is a wealth of information about the HIV/AIDS virus and how it was actually a concoction of the World Health Organization(WHO). A mixture of Small Pox and various other diseases (not specifically stated in the chapter) compose the ingredients for the deadly virus. When I read this I was stunned. No longer did I believe any of the so called facts about AIDS given in our local and national news mediums. Ture went on to prove that the WHO took their newly developed disease to 7 different countries in Africa, also Haiti, Gautemala and a few other South American countries, on one of their 'let's go save the savages in third world countries' missionary health ventures.
So WHO set up camp with the propaganda that 'we are here to offer you medicine' and the unsuspecting Africans participated and recieved what they believed to be vacinations. They were injected with HIV/AIDS. Ture explains that this was only reported in one newspaper in London, UK for one day and never reported again anywhere. He happened to find that one publication. I read that in 1991. Anyway, a few years later, I graduated from college and became a news reporter myself. In 1994 I worked as education reporter for the Afro-American Newspapers in Baltimore. I met and talked with one of the founding members of WHO whom is also a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. (JHU is one of our major stat sources of the AIDs in Africa campaign). As a growing revolutionary, I asked the very old man who helped found WHO if his organization had any involvement with the spread of the AIDS virus in Africa. He became very flustered and blatantly refused to respond to what he called "my ridiculous question." I could tell he was guilty-actions speak louder than words.
To add to my unattempted discoveries about this human devastation, I recently travelled to Ghana West Africa and stayed for almost a year. I worked as a journalist at a newspaper, radio station and in a school of journalism. All the news mediums in Ghana pull their news from BBC, CNN and other popular western news sources, so as you can magine their news reports were full of scares about how many of their fellow citizens are dying daily of AIDS. Commercials on Ghana channels i.e. TV3 report that 200 Ghanaians alone die of AIDS every day. However, I witnessed very healthy, strong, hard-working Ghanaians who never appeared to show signs of decay from a illness as deadly as AIDS. The news reports say their are no treatment facilities for AIDS patients, that's why they die in such large numbers. However, I witnessed a hospital system that didn't have the resources or staff to even determine who had HIV/AIDS. No research companies were coming in the country to take stats to gather their info on who had AIDS or not.
Futhermore, most Ghanaians would never rely on their hospital systems for care anyway. The costs for medical attention is too high and with no money you receive no care. The overwhelming majority of people relied on the bush. Natural medicine taken straight ftom their tropical environment. I received treatment for Malaria from their natuarl herbs and it took me from near death to health and vibrancy in a week. Most communities have a natural healer who services them according to their financial means and most people eat an etremely healthy diet, especially those living in the villages. Thay are the strongest, purest Africans in the African countries. They maintain more traditonal African ways of eating, working and living, as opposed to those in the cities. But it is the village Africans that our news mediums really attack with this AIDS scare. They are least likely, their immune systems are incredibly strong due to an accurate diet and daily work. Plus it is impossible to find and count them to determine if any have AIDS or not. Plenty conscious, revolutionary Ghanaians are enraged when they see and hear the news propaganda saying lies about how they are dying daily of this concocted virus.
Obviously, the Africans who were victims of the WHO health mission back in the late 70's and early 80's either died or were imuune to the disease, (which is possible, even recent news reports say the best way to cure AIDS is a strong immune system).
I returned to America only two months ago with a Ghanain husband who is healthy and strong and the intent to inform Blacks that the stats on AIDS in Africa are lies. Think about it. No one, i.e. JHU or WHO is there researching, treating, or testing any African who can't afford to go for testing anyway to determine whether the virus exists there or not, so how do we get all the stats? Ask questions, people, and never believe the hype. My advice is to schedule you next vacation in West Africa, it's paradise and the brothers are sisters are amazingly just like you.
Peace out.
Jan 15, 2009
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Jan 11, 2009
House Slave versus Field Slave
Plantation Politics: House Slave versus Field Slave
May 1, 2008 by the uppity negro
Well it seems to me that there is a parallel that is emerging called plantation politics: the politics of the slaves in the field were often different from the politics of the slave who got to sleep in the Big House–I mean White House. You see the slaves on larger plantations who worked in the field would often direct their angst toward the big house where their master lived. So it posed a dichotomy of loyalty when the master would artfully pick a slave to work in the big house. This slave who once was from the field, was now working in the place where their anger had once been directed, and the ultimate question is where do their loyalties lie.
It’s not a hard stretch of the imagination to believe what a quandry the slaves in the house were facing. Realize now that often times they received better food, and a better place to sleep, even better clothing, they were no longer toiling in the hot sun doing back-breaking work during the summer months, and they were protected from the elements during the winter months. The house Negro had to deal with where their loyalties lie.
But the field Negroes–ohhhh, the field Negroes–they knew where their loyalties lay. They were beholden to God and to themselves and each other. They knew where to direct their anger, it was usually at the white man who would stand on the veranda and look out over the plantation, over the legalized and systemitized economy that kept them in bondage. Whether or not their master was a fair one (and fair by what standards) or not, the master was still overseeing and actively participating in what was keeping them in bondage.
It seems to me that Jeremiah Wright was and is speaking about the politics of, shall we say, the field Negroes (and yes, in this case I’m substituting this n-word for another n-word). So, you mean to tell me that Wright’s stance on AIDS, and on 9/11 and governmental involvement has not been uttered in barbershops and beautyshops nationwide with addresses that include Martin Luther King Street or Drive? The place where conspiracy theories are birthed and thrive are in these establishments. Granted many of them have faulty logic and are outright outlandish at times, I’m just shocked at how quickly blacks have been ready to throw Wright and his proclamations overboard just to see a black man in the Big House?
Playing God
British scientists will be allowed to research diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using human-animal hybrid embryos, after the House of Commons rejected a ban recently. Advocates of human-animal embryo research say that scientists need every available means possible to research devastating diseases. Critics, on the other hand, say that scientists are promoting a frightening and irreversible future.The main kinds of mixed embryo permitted by the Bill are “cytoplasmic hybrids” or “cybrids”, which are made by moving a human nucleus into an empty animal egg. These are genetically 99.9 per cent human. It allows true hybrids, chimeras that combine human and animal cells, and transgenic human embryos that include animal DNA.
Edward Leigh, British Member of Parliament for Gainsborough, who supported the amendment to ban all human-animal embryos, said that mingling animal and human DNA crossed an “ultimate boundary”. He says exaggerated claims give patients false hope while the dangers of the research are not being considered.
“In many ways we are like children playing with landmines without any concept of the dangers of the technology we are handling,” Leigh said.
At this point, it is legal to culture admixed embryos up to 14 days, but illegal to transfer them to a human or animal womb. But many scientists around the globe want permission to keep embryos alive longer, perhaps even to full term through implantation. Cornell scientists Nikica Zaninovic, who helped create the worlds first genetically modified human embryo says that in order to be sure that a new gene had been inserted and the embryo had been genetically modified, scientists would ideally want to keep growing the embryo and carry out further tests.
But ethicists worry that by approving human-animal embryos, lawmakers are opening the door to a future of “enhanced” or “mutant” humans that have animal traits. It is even thought possible to so drastically alter human genomes that a type of superhuman species could emerge.
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