শুক্রবার, ১২ জুলাই, ২০১৩

President Obama vs. George Zimmerman: America Loses

(BREAKING: Judicial Watch has obtained documents disclosing that the Department of Justice actually helped organize demonstrations and protests against George Zimmerman.)

As the Zimmerman prosecution falls apart, the country faces the threat of race riots.? A case that lacked any evidence of malicious murder was wrongfully brought to court under political pressure.? And our president, who instigated this mess, is floating above it all, having moved on to other things.? Will Obama speak out to avert the racial violence he set in motion?? Unless he sees some political advantage, the answer is no.

The Zimmerman case began with the media making up a racist story: a black kid carrying candy is shot in cold blood by a white man in a gated community.? It was a story that sent fear and anger through black people across the country.? President Obama was in a low point in his re-election campaign, trying to gin up the black vote.? Zimmerman, as a scapegoat, was used as a chance for Obama to bond with fellow blacks.? So, making history, the president of the United States intervened in a criminal justice matter to foment race-hatred and fear.? President Obama himself made it an issue of skin color: "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin."

Once the president of the United States weighed in, Zimmerman had a target on his back.? An ounce of election advantage to our privileged, Ivy League president versus the ruination of a Hispanic man's life -- it was an easy choice for Obama.? Obama's great appeal to voters in 2008 was his self-presentation as a black man without animus or grievance, eager to move the country beyond divisions of all sorts -- black and white, red and blue.? In reality, Obama is obsessed with divisions -- race, class, gender -- and is expert at fueling war between us, to his political advantage.?

Obama has used accusations of racism before, to rally his troops and attack his political opponents.? Opposition to ObamaCare?? Racist.? Opposition to big government?? Racist. ?His core liberal supporters like this stuff, and the other voters give him a pass on this, as on everything.? The election analysts were predicting that even black turnout could dip in 2012.? Obama moved from racial slurs on opposition groups to attacking a particular individual citizen.? Zimmerman was sacrificed.

The Sanford police had concluded, based on a careful gathering of evidence, that they had no case for murder or even manslaughter.? Being caught up in a tragedy is not a crime.? Zimmerman had a right to self-defense.? After Obama's intervention, the police were overruled, and a case of malicious, racist murder was taken to court.?

The liberal media piled on.? American blacks were purposefully stirred up, angered, heartbroken, then mollified.? Obama underlined his racial identification with their grief and outrage, capitalizing on the poignant childhood photo of Martin, his imaginary son.?

Zimmerman didn't get to be the president's imaginary son.? Wrong color.? Zimmerman got to be the enemy.

Of all Americans, blacks should believe in their hearts that a man is innocent until proven guilty, no matter the color of his skin.? Instead, too many black Americans have allowed themselves to be manipulated by the liberal media and self-serving politicians to become a lynch mob, threatening violence if the trial doesn't convict.? Evidence that things are not as bad as they thought only makes them angrier.

Jonah Goldberg writes at RealClearPolitics:

The Washington Post reported this week that civil-rights activists in Florida are dismayed that the George Zimmerman murder trial in Florida isn't racially divisive enough. "It makes you feel kind of angry and kind of bad that race is not a part of this," the Rev. Harrold C. Daniels, told the Post. "It's a missed opportunity."

The "problem," as even the Martin family's attorney concedes, is that there's just not much evidence that Zimmerman was motivated by racial animus. You'd think that would be good news. But it's not because so many people invested in the idea that "Trayvon Martin is Emmett Till!" in the words of one demagogic radio host, and countless other commentators.?

Teenage blacks aren't gunned down by racist whites in America anymore -- if they were, we would all be reading headlines on that case.? But Democrats rely on angry, scared blacks to be their loyal base.? So the media and the president had to make do with Martin and Zimmerman.? So far, the trial has, witness by witness, destroyed the prosecution's case, but the liberal community has not let go of its narrative -- a white man in a gated community killing a kid with candy because he was black.?

Nothing in their story proved true.

It wasn't a white man; it was a Hispanic.?

George Zimmerman is not a racist.? He is an outstandingly race-blind man who was raised with two black children his mother was a nanny for, who were beloved by his family and remain close to this day.

The prosecution cannot make a case for racism, because they would have to allow the following as evidence:

Zimmerman conducted a one-man crusade to get justice for a black homeless man beaten by a policeman's son.

In late 2010, a homeless African American man, Sherman Ware, was knocked unconscious for no reason whatsoever by the son of a Sanford City police officer, George was upset that the son was not arrested and that no one seemed to care about the homeless man. George produced and distributed a notice of what had happened and rallied support for the homeless gentleman. George put this notice on vehicles and passed it out at churches as services ended. Eventually, largely due to George's efforts, the police officer's son was charged with the assault.

Zimmerman and his wife mentored two black children, and helped their mother with home repairs.

Although George was working full-time and going to school, he made it a priority in his life to do as much for these children as possible. When I met these two young children I did not know who they were, I asked where they knew George from. They replied 'he's our mentor'. I was unsure what these two young people meant by the word 'mentor' so I asked them what that was. Their reply was that "George takes us places, helps us with things, and teaches us to do the right things. We really love George". George also assisted their mother as much as possible with any repairs or help that may be needed around their house. Unfortunately, the mentoring program ended. However, George and Shellie continued their activities on their own. When George's mother asks why he had to travel to such a dangerous area to mentor children, George's reply was 'Mom, I really love these kids and if I don't go, they won't have anyone".

It was not a privileged white gated community, but an interracial place peopled by upwardly mobile working- and middle-class families trying to remain safe in a high-crime neighborhood. ?Zimmerman got along well with his black neighbors.

Prior to George's arrest, the media asked two African American neighbors of George if he was a racist. One said that she knew George very well, nothing about George portrayed in the media was accurate, and that to this day she would trust George Zimmerman with her life. The other commented that George Zimmerman was the only individual, black or white, that had introduced himself when she was moving in. He gave her his phone number and said if there was anything she needed at any time, please call him or his wife. She is totally convinced that the individual portrayed in the media is certainly not the George Zimmerman that she knows well.

Nor do they know much about Trayvon Martin's downward spiral after this father's second divorce, when he was forced to leave the stepmother he grew up with most of his life.? They believe in the cultivated image of a kid "carrying candy" and "iced tea," and they resent speaking ill of the dead.?

The truth is different.? Martin had gone to the 7-11 to buy a cigar under the counter, which he and his friends used to fill with marijuana, called a "blunt." ?He bought Skittles and Arizona Watermelon Fruit Juice Cocktail to lace with codeine from cough syrup to get high with, a druggy concoction called "Lean." ?We know all this from his online chat with friends about blunts and Lean, testimony from his cousin to the police, and the store video camera.

Martin was not the small sweet-faced boy shown in the media photos, but a big, angry 17-year-old.? He was recently suspended from school when they found that his backpack held burglary tools and 12 pieces of stolen women's jewelry and a watch.? It is not unlikely that he was out on that rainy night casing houses to burgle.

Jack Cashill spells out "What the Media Choose Not to Know about Trayvon":

In the past year or so, his social media sites showed a growing interest in drugs, in mixed martial arts-style street fighting, in a profoundly vulgar exploitation of "bitches."??

Trayvon posed for one photo with raised middle fingers, another with wads of cash held in an out-stretched arm.? One YouTube video shows him refereeing a fight club-style street fight.? A cousin had recently tweeted him, "Yu ain't tell me yu swung on a bus driver," meaning, if true, that Trayvon had punched out a bus driver.

Zimmerman never saw the cute little boy that the TV audience did.? He saw a full-grown man, a druggy, a wannabe street fighter, the tattooed, gold-grilled, self-dubbed "No_Limit_Nigga."?

There is no evidence that Martin was chased and cold-bloodedly gunned down.? That's another fabrication.? Zimmerman was on the phone with the dispatcher almost the entire time.? He says Martin jumped on him from the shadows and began beating him as he headed back to his truck.? Their location in the housing development, not far from Zimmerman's truck, supports Zimmerman's account, not the imaginary chase scene.? There is an eyewitness to the beating, who saw Martin on top, beating Zimmerman "mixed martial arts-style."

Each mother claims that it is her son's voice calling for help on the 911 tape.? But the wounds were on Martin's fist and on Zimmerman's face and skull. ?The eyewitness saw Martin on top of Zimmerman, raining blows on him.? Martin's own father and brother initially told police they did not think it was Martin's voice yelling for help.? The one witness told police at the scene that it was Zimmerman calling for help.

The defense asked Good to confirm what he told Serine immediately after the shooting: "So I open my door. ?It was a black man with a black hoodie on top of the other, either a white guy or now I found out I think it was a Hispanic guy with a red sweatshirt on the ground yelling out, 'Help!'["]

Yet the liberal lynch mob acts as if their initial made-up story is still the true version.? The black community is disappointed that the prosecution didn't present evidence of malicious racism and murderous intent, needed for the second-degree murder charge to stick.?

The prosecution had no such case to be made, but Democrats know who is guilty -- the man the liberal media and press fingered.? Evidence and lack of evidence in a court of law do not impress them.

So they ignore all the details, since the details don't support their rush to judgment.

Here is Juan Williams, hardly a race-baiter:

So, if a black guy shot a white kid, and they said, 'Oh, the kid was carrying Skittles and iced tea, but you know what these punks get away with it all the time.' People would say forget who was on top of who and who was punching who. Why was a guy with a gun deciding that he had to act violently with a teen with an iced tea?

Juan is acting like we don't know the answer to that question: the guy with the gun was on the ground having his head bashed into a cement sidewalk by a teenager bigger and stronger and meaner than he was, when "the teen" reached for the guy's gun and said, "You're going to die tonight."? That's why the guy shot the teen.? Wouldn't you defend your life, Juan?? Why does iced tea enter in?? Why does race enter into this?? There is no reason to think George Zimmerman would make it all up so he could shoot a black kid.

What is going on here is a tragedy for the whole country, a tragedy of many black lives blighted.

Thomas Sowell, in a superb column entitled "Who Is Racist?," writes:

Is this what so many Americans, both black and white, struggled for, over the decades and generations, to try to put the curse of racism behind us ...

What went wrong? ... black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. After the success of the civil rights insurgency, the latter have come into their own, gaining money, power and fame by promoting racial attitudes and actions that are counterproductive to the interests of those they lead.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having racial or ethnic leaders. While most Americans can easily name a number of black leaders, current or past, how many can name Asian American ethnic leaders or Jewish ethnic leaders?

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.?

The Civil Rights Movement had aims so lofty they seemed impossible.? Then we accomplished them.? Martin Luther King and his supporters united to fight not just segregation, but the evil of racism that lay behind it.? It took most of the country working together, black and white, Republican and Democrat, Christian and Jew.? We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.? Discrimination was ended in America.? Within a generation, racism became rare and socially unacceptable.? According to the world map of racism compiled by the World Values Survey, only 3.8% of Americans are reluctant to have a neighbor of another race.? Within two generations, we elected a black president.

Yet despite all the practical gains by blacks, defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory.? The Zimmerman trial reveals how black racial pain is kept alive.? Liberal carpetbaggers foment black racial fears and resentments for their own political and media power and financial gain.?

Black children who are told that that the game is rigged against them, who live close to the boil of churning racial anger, are cheated of Martin Luther King's success.? They have been handed over to the Jesse Jackson race-hustlers and the Al Sharpton race-baiters and the Barack Obama manipulators.? Perpetual victimhood, and the accompanying fear, pain, anger, resentment, and self-pity, are not emotions that promote success in life. ?The doors of opportunity may be open, but too many black children, especially boys, are hobbled and don't develop what it takes to walk through.

Trayvon Martin was one of their victims.? So is George Zimmerman.? Thanks to President Obama, so is the whole country.

Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/07/president_obama_vs_george_zimmerman_america_loses.html

masters winner instagram facebook chicago cubs split pea soup recipe the client list yahoo.com/mail baylor

KENNEY, Kathryn ?Doreen? formerly of the Goodness Retirement ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]KENNEY, Kathryn ?Doreen? formerly of the Goodness Retirement Home, St. Thomas passed away peacefully with her loving family at her side at the St. Thomas-Elgin General Hospital on Tuesday July 9th, 2013 in her 86th ...

Source: http://thestthomasblog.com/information-for-life-2/obit/kenney-kathryn-doreen-formerly-of-the-goodness-retirement-home-st-thomas/

michael oher superbowl score ray lewis alicia keys Harbaugh brothers superbowl commercials randy moss

রবিবার, ৭ জুলাই, ২০১৩

Official: Asiana flight flew too slow before crash

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Pilots of Asiana Flight 214 were flying too slowly as they approached San Francisco airport, triggering a warning that the jetliner could stall, and then tried to abort the landing seconds before crashing, according to federal safety officials.

The Boeing 777 was traveling at speeds well below the target landing speed of 137 knots per hour, or 157 mph, said National Transportation Safety Board chief Deborah Hersman at a briefing Sunday on the crash.

"We're not talking about a few knots," she said.

Hersman said the aircraft's stick shaker ? a piece of safety equipment that warns pilots of an impending stall ? went off moments before the crash. The normal response to a stall warning is to increase speed to recover control.

There was an increase several seconds before the crash, she said, basing her comments on an evaluation of the cockpit voice and flight data recorders that contain hundreds of different types of information on what happened to the plane.

And at 1.5 seconds before impact, there was a call for an aborted landing, she said. The crash at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday killed two 16-year-old girls from China and injured dozens of others.

The new details helped shed light on the final moments of the airliner as the crew tried desperately to climb back into the sky, and confirmed what survivors and other witnesses said they saw: a slow-moving airliner.

Pilots normally try to land at the target speed, in this case 137 knots, plus an additional five more knots, said Bob Coffman, an American Airlines captain who has flown 777s. He said the briefing raises an important question: "Why was the plane going so slow?"

The plane's Pratt & Whitney engines were on idle, Hersman said. The normal procedure in the Boeing 777, a wide-body jet, would be to use the autopilot and the throttle to provide power to the engine all the way through to landing, Coffman said.

There was no indication in the discussions between the pilots and the air traffic controllers that there were problems with the aircraft.

Among the questions investigators are trying to answer was what, if any, role the deactivation of a ground-based landing guidance system played in the crash. Such systems help pilots land, especially at airports like San Francisco where fog can make landing challenging.

Altogether, 305 of the 307 people aboard made it out alive in what survivors and rescuers described as nothing less than astonishing after a frightful scene of fire burning inside the fuselage, pieces of the aircraft scattered across the runway and people fleeing for their lives.

The flight originated in Shanghai, China, stopped over in Seoul, South Korea, before making the nearly 11-hour trip to San Francisco. The South Korea-based airline said four South Korean pilots were on board, three of whom were described as "skilled."

Among the travelers were citizens of China, South Korean, the United States, Canada, India, Japan, Vietnam and France. There were at least 70 Chinese students and teachers heading to summer camps, according to Chinese authorities.

As the plane approached the runway under clear skies ? a luxury at an airport and city known for intense fog ? people in nearby communities could see the aircraft was flying low and swaying erratically from side to side.

On board, Fei Xiong, from China, was traveling to California so she could take her 8-year-old son to Disneyland. The pair was sitting in the back half of the plane. Xiong said her son sensed something was wrong.

"My son told me: 'The plane will fall down, it's too close to the sea,'" she said. "I told him: 'Baby, it's OK, we'll be fine.'"

On audio recordings from the air traffic tower, controllers told all pilots in other planes to stay put after the crash. "All runways are closed. Airport is closed. San Francisco tower," said one controller.

At one point, the pilot of a United Airlines plane radioed.

"We see people ... that need immediate attention," the pilot said. "They are alive and walking around."

"Think you said people are just walking outside the airplane right now?" the controller replied.

"Yes," answered the pilot of United Flight 885. "Some people, it looks like, are struggling."

When the plane hit the ground, oxygen masks dropped down, said Xu Da, a product manager at an Internet company in Hangzhou, China, who was sitting with his wife and teenage son near the back of the plane.

When he stood up, he said he could see sparking ? perhaps from exposed electrical wires.

He turned and could see the tail where the galley was torn away, leaving a gaping hole through which they could see the runway. Once on the tarmac, they watched the plane catch fire, and firefighters hose it down.

"I just feel lucky," said Xu, whose family suffered some cuts and have neck and back pain.

In the chaotic moments after the landing, when baggage was tumbling from the overhead bins onto passengers and people all around her were screaming, Wen Zhang grabbed her 4-year-old son, who hit the seat in front of him and broke his leg.

Spotting a hole at the back of the jumbo jet where the bathroom had been, she carried her boy to safety.

"I had no time to be scared," she said.

At the wreckage, police officers were throwing utility knives up to crew members inside the burning wreckage so they could cut away passengers' seat belts. Passengers jumped down emergency slides, escaping from billowing smoke that rose high above the bay.

Nearby, people who escaped were dousing themselves with water from the bay, possibly to cool burn injuries, authorities said.

By the time the flames were out, much of the top of the fuselage had burned away. Inside The tail section was gone, with pieces of it scattered across the beginning of the runway. One engine was gone, and the other was no longer on the wing.

San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White said the two 16-year-old girls from China who died were found on either side of the plane. Investigators are trying to determine whether they were alive or dead when rescuers reached the scene.

"What we saw yesterday, most people will never see in their career," Hayes-White said.

___

Lowy reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press writers Terry Collins, Terry Chea and Sudhin Thanawala in San Francisco, David Koenig in Dallas and Louise Watt in Beijing contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/official-asiana-flight-flew-too-slow-crash-231127089.html

joseph kony 2012 arian foster dennis kucinich apple ipad kony kony 2012 jim irsay

মঙ্গলবার, ২ জুলাই, ২০১৩

Indexes edge up as Fed slowdown fears ebb

NEW YORK (AP) ? Stocks are ending slightly higher after a report of tepid U.S. economic growth raised expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue its stimulus program.

The government lowered its estimate for growth in the first three months of the year to 2.4 percent from 2.5 percent.

Stocks slid last week on concerns that the Fed might slow its bond purchases.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 21 points to 15,324 Thursday, or 0.1 percent. The Dow was up 95 points in the afternoon, then faded in the last hour.

The Standard & Poor?s 500 rose six to 1,654, or 0.4 percent. The Nasdaq rose 23 points to 3,491.

Three stocks rose for every two that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was average at 3.5 billion shares.

Source: http://feeds.salon.com/salon/index

Bosses Day Cabin Fever 2 Alexis Wright Zumba binder full of women Microsoft Surface Candy Crowley binders of women

সোমবার, ১ জুলাই, ২০১৩

Israeli who murdered parents used tips he found online

8 hours ago

Computer keys

Getty Images

JERUSALEM ? An Israeli who stabbed his mother and father to death was convicted of murder on Monday partly because he searched online for tips including "how to kill your parents and get away with it."

Daniel Maoz, 29, wanted money from his inheritance in order to pay heavy gambling debts, the Jerusalem District Court found. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2011 murders.

The case presented an unusual challenge to the prosecution: DNA evidence linking Maoz to the killings was found at the murder scene, his parents' apartment, and he tried to explain that away by accusing his identical twin brother of the crime.

In its decision, the court cited other physical evidence and an examination of the defendant's computer to refute that.

The incriminating Internet searches also included "can soap clean DNA from a knife?" and "murder for inheritance," a transcript of the ruling showed.

Maoz said he made the searches out of "academic curiosity."

Copyright 2013 Thomson Reuters.

Source: http://feeds.nbcnews.com/c/35002/f/663301/s/2e0d750e/l/0L0Snbcnews0N0Ctechnology0Cisraeli0Ewho0Emurdered0Eparents0Eused0Etips0Ehe0Efound0Eonline0E6C10A488687/story01.htm

illuminati ricin Google Fiber Boston Strong Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev Boston Bombing Suspect obama

Settlement reached in sex abuse of Haitian boys (Providence Journal)

Share With Friends: Share on FacebookTweet ThisPost to Google-BuzzSend on GmailPost to Linked-InSubscribe to This Feed | Rss To Twitter | Politics - Top Stories News, RSS and RSS Feed via Feedzilla.

Source: http://news.feedzilla.com/en_us/stories/politics/top-stories/316385311?client_source=feed&format=rss

texas chainsaw massacre nfl playoffs crystal harris Texas A Texas A&m cotton bowl Fiscal cliff deal

WHO: Treat people with HIV early to stop spread

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo a patient, right, is attended to at the U.S. sponsored Themba Lethu, HIV/AIDS Clinic at the Helen Joseph hospital in Johannesburg. To give people with HIV their best shot at survival and to stop the virus from spreading, patients should be treated much earlier than has previously been the case in developing countries, according to new guidelines issued Sunday, June 30, 2013, at an AIDS meeting in Malaysia by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo a patient, right, is attended to at the U.S. sponsored Themba Lethu, HIV/AIDS Clinic at the Helen Joseph hospital in Johannesburg. To give people with HIV their best shot at survival and to stop the virus from spreading, patients should be treated much earlier than has previously been the case in developing countries, according to new guidelines issued Sunday, June 30, 2013, at an AIDS meeting in Malaysia by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo, Christinah Motsoahae has blood taken for testing at the U.S. sponsored "Right to Care", Themba Lethu, HIV/AIDS Clinic, at the Helen Joseph hospital, in Johannesburg. To give people with HIV their best shot at survival and to stop the virus from spreading, patients should be treated much earlier than has previously been the case in developing countries, according to new guidelines issued Sunday June 30, 2013 at an AIDS meeting in Malaysia by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2012 file photo a newly mechanized pharmaceutical machine that helps pharmacists dispense medicine is loaded with ARV medication, at the U.S. sponsored Themba Lethu, HIV/AIDS Clinic, at the Helen Joseph hospital, in Johannesburg. To give people with HIV their best shot at survival and to stop the virus from spreading, patients should be treated much earlier than has previously been the case in developing countries, according to new guidelines issued Sunday June 30, 2013 at an AIDS meeting in Malaysia by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell, File)

(AP) ? Young children and certain other people with the AIDS virus should be started on medicines as soon as they are diagnosed, the World Health Organization says in new guidelines that also recommend earlier treatment for adults.

The advice will have the most impact in Africa, where nearly 70 percent of people with HIV live. Many rich countries already advocate early treatment. WHO's new guidelines were released Sunday at the International AIDS Society meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

About 34 million people worldwide have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. HIV attacks key infection-fighting cells of the immune system known as T-cells. When that count drops to 200, people are considered to have AIDS. In the past, WHO recommended countries start treating people with HIV when their T-cell count fell to 350; a normal count is between 500 and 1,600.

The new recommendations say to treat earlier, when the T-cell count hits 500.

In addition to children younger than 5, WHO says several other groups should also get AIDS drugs as soon as they're diagnosed with HIV: pregnant and breast-feeding women, people whose partners are uninfected and those who also have tuberculosis or hepatitis B.

The guidelines mean an additional 9 million people in developing countries will now be eligible for treatment. At the moment, only about 60 percent of people who need the life-saving drugs are getting them.

"WHO has recognized that time is the most important commodity when it comes to battling the HIV epidemic," said Sharonann Lynch, HIV policy adviser at Doctors Without Borders, which contributed to the new guidelines.

She said that while the costs for rolling out this treatment might be expensive, the strategy would ultimately result in fewer HIV infections and deaths in the future.

"It's pay now or pay later," she said.

The guidelines also mean the total global spending on AIDS ? about $23 billion a year ? will rise by about 10 percent, according to Gottfried Hirnschall, director of WHO's HIV department. It's unclear how willing donors will be to pitch in for even more AIDS treatments.

Hirnschall said the cheapest course of the drugs costs $127 per person every year under programs that have negotiated prices for poor countries, but the price can be much higher elsewhere. WHO's recommended treatment is a single pill that combines three powerful drugs taken once daily.

In the U.S., officials recommend that everyone who has HIV should be on treatment but say there is only "moderate" evidence for starting therapy when the immune system is still working normally.

WHO's new guidelines are based largely on recent studies suggesting people with HIV who start treatment before their immune systems weaken live longer. The case of a U.S. baby girl with HIV who was treated aggressively within 30 hours of being born suggests very early treatment could prevent the virus from ever getting a foothold. Earlier this year, doctors announced the little girl from Mississippi was apparently cured after stopping medication for about a year with no signs of infection.

Several studies have also hinted that starting therapy early dramatically cuts the chances an infected person will pass the virus to a sexual partner.

If all countries start treating people with HIV in line with the new recommendations, WHO estimates 3 million lives could be saved and 3.5 million new infections could be avoided in the next decade.

But convincing people to take a lifelong regimen of drugs that come with side effects including liver problems and severe skin reactions, will be challenging.

"These drugs are not like sweeties," said Dr. Sarah Fidler, an HIV expert at Imperial College London who is leading a trial in Africa studying issues including the effectiveness of immediate treatment for people with HIV. She had no role in the WHO guidelines.

Studies in Africa have shown varying compliance rates from 50 percent to more than 90 percent, similar to elsewhere in the world. If patients aren't taking their medicines at least 70 percent of the time, that could also lead to drug resistance.

Fidler said that while the WHO guidelines are a step in the right direction, implementing them would not be easy.

"For people struggling with other issues like poverty, taking pills for a disease that isn't making them sick yet might not seem like the most important thing in the world," she said. "This is not going to be as simple as just giving drugs to everybody."

___

Online:

WHO: www.who.int/hiv/en

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/bbd825583c8542898e6fa7d440b9febc/Article_2013-06-30-EU-MED-New-AIDS-Advice/id-755e0e79b18e493cb5d858ff87a6f85e

spartacus spartacus Jonathan Winters Justin Bieber Anne Frank will ferrell coachella zack greinke