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Skip to comments.Benghazi Investigator Slams America and Islamophobes
Posted on 11/02/2012 8:59:35 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
America is a seething hotbed of Islamophobia, filled with ignorant racist rubes who irrationally fear the benign Muslim religion, according to the Obama administrations lead investigator into the Benghazi atrocities.
So said former Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering in more polished, diplomatic language during an Oct. 23 panel discussion at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The talk was on what role the faith community can play in fighting Islamophobia, a make-believe mental illness that Islamists would love to have listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Radical Islams stateside defenders frequently accuse anti-terrorism hawks of McCarthyism, hurling the epithet Islamophobe the same way American leftists use the word racist to shut down debate.
Pickerings pontifications came two and a half weeks after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named him to head a State Department Accountability Review Board tasked with examining the circumstances surrounding the deaths on Sept. 11, 2012, the 11th anniversary of 9/11, of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith, and security personnel Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
At last weeks panel discussion, Pickering piously but incorrectly invoked the Holocaust to argue that American Muslims were somehow in danger.
Im not great at quotations, he said, foreshadowing a misattribution to come.
Perhaps it was [German theologian and dissident] Dietrich Bonhoeffer who said of the Nazis, when they came for the Jews, I didnt speak up. I was not a Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I didnt speak up, I was not a Catholic. When they came for us, no one spoke up. There was no one left to do so, Pickering said, paraphrasing famous, poignant verses actually spoken by Third Reich-era German pastor Martin Niemoller.
Pickering said that Americans lack of familiarity with Islam and not Islamic terrorist attacks on Americans fuels hostility toward Muslims.
Data shows that those Americans who do not know Muslims, who do not know much about Islam, are the ones who harbor the greatest feelings of prejudice, he said.
There is a strong, continuing, and perhaps, in an unfortunate way in some areas, growing, prejudice against Muslims and Islam, he said.
However, he added that veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have so far avoided embracing this anti-Islamic bigotry. Many of the soldiers are still serving and I think that also is helpful because they understand that as loyal Americans that kind of prejudice is not to be expressed.
Pickering urged what might amount to a zero-tolerance policy against so-called Islamophobes in American society. There are strong efforts as well that we must make to deal with opinion leaders who harbor these prejudices, who espouse them and spread them, he said.
Although the former envoy did not elaborate on what those strong efforts might consist of, his statement is worrisome. The Obama administration is openly hostile to the First Amendment.
After the Benghazi debacle, President Obama went before the United Nations General Assembly and apologized for Americas free speech protections. Pushing the false cover story that the attacks on U.S. missions this past Sept. 11 were prompted by an anti-Islam video virtually no one saw, the president said that the future does not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. Weeks before that, Department of Justice official Thomas Perez pointedly refused during a congressional hearing to rule out supporting Saudi-style anti-blasphemy laws.
Pickering wasnt the only panelist last week to describe ordinary Americans as a threat to Muslim inhabitants of the United States.
In a particularly revealing soliloquy, Arab American Institute president James J. Zogby, whose younger brother is renowned pollster John Zogby, passionately inveighed against his fellow Americans, and particularly Tea Party supporters, labeling them dangerous racist Islamophobes:
I think that theres a direct correlation between the president of the United States and Islamophobia. As we do our polling, we find that it is not the universal phenomenon. This hatred toward Muslims is largely concentrated with middle class, middle age, white people, and then it overlaps almost identically with the Tea Party. It is not a Republican thing. Its a generational thing.
And it is a phenomenon born of a simple set of conditions, collapse of home mortgages, foreclosures increasing, pensions in collapse when the stock market went down, unemployment doubling, the decline of the American dream. In our polling we always used, when wed say, are your children going to be better off than you, thats the American dream question, wed get two thirds saying yes. We now get two thirds saying no.
And in the midst of all of that this group of white middle aged, middle class men looked around and saw a young African-American, educated at Harvard with a middle name Hussein, and didnt like the president of the United States of America. It fueled this phenomenon and it opened the door for the wedge issue to operate and its operating simply among that demographic. Its not a universal phenomenon. Its not found among African-Americans or Asians or Latinos. Its not found among young white kids. Its not found among college educated professional women. Its found in that one narrow demographic. Thats where the bad numbers come from.
He continued: And I think that, if, we had, I have a lot of gripes with George Bush, but if he were president, he would be doing what he did, which is put his foot down and say stop. I think we would not be seeing the phenomenon growing as we see it growing. But the problem is is that if Barack Obama says stop they say, youre just the damn problem to begin with, youre not one of us anyway, Zogby said, affecting an accent that might be characterized as redneck or country.
There is an overlay between the racism and the Islamophobia that is being used as a wedge issue against President Obama, he said. Zogby also described controversial Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), a Muslim and an extreme left-winger, as a gift to America and Congress, an extraordinary person who could not be better than he is.
It should be noted that Zogbys views are unremarkable in leftist circles. They are within the mainstream of the Democratic Party. He is a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1984 Zogby was a senior advisor to the Rev. Jesse Jacksons presidential campaign.
Pickering said he agreed with Zogbys critique. Let me just go further, he said. Jim, I agree with what you say about both domestic politics and the wedge issue and the effect on the attitude towards the president. Im deeply concerned.
The fact that the U.S. has fought two long, difficult, and fruitless, in my view, wars against countries which are Islamic and in which that particular set of issues contribute to stereotyping, to phobia, to basically loose talk, jokes, and all the things that go to tend to make up bigotry and in a sense authorize it because we were at war, is, in my view, part and parcel of the phenomenon that we see now, he said.
Pickering also praised his fellow panelists American Association for Muslim Advancement executive director Daisy Khan, and her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, chairman of the Cordoba Initiative, as wonderful people whose hopes and aspirations we all, I believe, widely share.
Khan and Rauf are prime movers behind the proposal to build a victory mosque near Ground Zero in lower Manhattan. Khan becomes apoplectic when discussing those who question the wisdom of building a Muslim holy site so close to the place where nearly 3,000 Americans were killed in an Islamist attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Asked in 2010 if America was Islamophobic, Khan replied that Its not even Islamophobia, its beyond Islamophobia its hate of Muslims.
Critics say Pickering is unfit to head any probe of what happened in Benghazi because he harbors sympathy for Islamism and is suspiciously cozy with Iran, the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism. The former envoy has ties to the pro-Iran Islamist front group known as the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). NIAC recently lost an important defamation case in federal court in which it unsuccessfully argued the group was not a tool of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
NIAC is one of several Jihadist entities hostile to American interests, according to an influential report by Clare M. Lopez of the Center for Security Policy. NIAC is involved in a de facto partnership with its notorious Islamist ally the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other organizations serving as mouthpieces for the mullahs party line. CAIR is an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood and was named by the Department of Justice as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 and 2008 Holy Land Foundation trials.
Pickering counsels against attacking Iran, arguing war with that country would be madness, and catastrophic for U.S. interests. He wants the U.S. to resume diplomatic relations with Iran, which were severed in 1980 after Iranian revolutionaries seized the U.S. Embassy and 52 Americans.
Pickering opposes proposed legislation that would make it illegal for any American diplomat to have any contact with an Iranian official. He supports a plan for a multinational uranium enrichment consortium in Iran, which is thought to be developing nuclear weapons.
The U.S. has had a trade embargo in effect against oil-rich Iran since 1995. Pickering desperately wants trade sanctions relaxed.
Composing an op-ed from a parallel universe in which Iran doesnt put homosexuals and religious dissenters to death, finance Islamofascist terrorism, or aspire to vaporize Israel, three months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Pickering argued that Iran was bursting with big opportunities for the United States.
Iran could become a stabilizing influence in a congenitally unstable region, he wrote Dec. 28, 2001, in the Washington Post.
Iran has attributes unique to the region: rudimentary but real politics based on free elections; a legitimate government; a history and culture all its own; and uncontested borders fixed by that experience, rather than imposed by other governments, Pickering opined. Iran has had its revolution and never come close to imploding. Support for the hard-line Islamist clerics who came to power in that revolution has dwindled. Iran is a largely moderate and pro-American society.
Meanwhile, the Obama administrations cover-up of its catastrophic failures in Benghazi continues to flounder.
On Oct. 31 Catherine Herridge of Fox News reported that Stevens personally begged for adequate security for the consulate in a classified cable sent to Secretary Clintons office on Aug. 16. There can be no doubt that this is really a cry for help from the people on the ground, Herridge said, referring to the cable as the smoking gun warning.
If you couple this with the fact that we were coming up with the 9/11 anniversary and if you couple this with the statements that a videotape was somehow responsible, what you see is that is completely undercut. This cable says that, The militias and al-Qaeda are here, we essentially think that we are next. So to take this attack and to suggest for such a long period of time that it was [an anti-Islam] video when you have a classified cable and the intelligence, it just doesnt match up, she said.
I cant think of anything that would be more specific than if these [terrorist] groups had emailed the State Department and said, Heres the time, heres the place, and heres the method of the attack, she said.
I think its important that the people who lost their lives have themselves honored with the facts and I think were starting to get the facts, Herridge said.
With Ambassador Pickering steering the official State Department investigation, those facts seem likely to be sacrificed to political expediency
Is this mule related to Geraldo
Stop Jihad Now!
As if the Benghazi attack, WH handling and later cover up do not get your blood boiling.
This is %&**($*!$^&* ....... How much money was wasted on top of that 'investigation'?
It's not benign and it's not a religion. It's a violent world-domination political movement cleverly disguised as a religion, practiced by angry hate-filled middle ages savages who drink camel urine.
"With Ambassador Pickering steering the official State Department investigation, those facts seem likely to be sacrificed to political expediency"
FBI is on the scene though. Just as they were during Filegate and Waco.
Islam is all about xenophobia, hate, ignorance and violent solutions to quell its fears, and the Obama jackasses criticize people who don't approve of it.
Benign? What an asinine remark.
Islam is not a religion. It's comparable to Scientology in one important respect. Even though they are completely different entities they need to present themselves as religions in order to hide their true agendas. Scientology, in the guise of a religion is nothing more than an elaborate scam thought up by L Ron Hubbard, a 4th-rate sci-fi writer and low level con artist whose primary objective was to separate the rich and famous from as much of their $$$ as possible. Islam, in the guise of a religion is a tyrannical, xenophobic, intolerant dictatorial, mysogynist social order devised by mohammed, a hashish abusing child molester whose primary objectives were to rule the world and get laid.
As an agnostic, I have been told by Christians that they wish I would convert to their religion. On very rare occasions, I have been threatened with damnation if I don't convert; not much of a threat, as I have no belief in Hell, or even that I have a soul to be damned in the first place.
On the other hand, on the somewhat rarer occasions that I've discussed the subject with Muslims, they without exception told me that as an unbeliever I would go to Hell (shrug...), and that my public profession of unbelief should be illegal. When pressed, some of them said my unbelief should be punished by death.
Christianity doesn't threaten my well-being. Islam does.
Islam is not a religion. It's comparable to Scientology in one important respect. Even though they are completely different entities they need to present themselves as religions in order to hide their true agendas. Scientology, in the guise of a religion is nothing more than an elaborate scam thought up by L Ron Hubbard, a 4th-rate sci-fi writer and low level con artist whose primary objective was to separate the rich and famous from as much of their $$$ as possible. Islam, in the guise of a religion is a tyrannical, xenophobic, intolerant dictatorial, mysogynist social order devised by mohammed, a hashish abusing child molester whose primary objectives were to rule the world and get laid.
The State Department is pro-Jihad, just like it was once pro-Communist. It needs a purging - the Stalinist "stand them against the wall and shoot them" type purging.
WE MUST HAVE AN EXERCISM THIS VERY MOMENT: Carrie Underwood.& Vince Gill
Islam, in the guise of a religion is a tyrannical, xenophobic, intolerant dictatorial, misogynist social order devised by Mohammad, a hashish abusing child molester whose primary objectives were to rule the world and get laid."
************************************************************ America's leadership is inviting those that have hate for America into our important offices, functions, positions ... that are internal and opens America to repercussions, having the covert enemy within our government, while we ignore the truth of it.!!!
God bless America. Allow not evil to have preeminence, forgive America's people from turning away from Thee Father, help us turn to thee in Jesus name we pray.
They can wait. "Journalists" first.
When is someone going to address the problem of infidelphobia? People actually die from that.
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Oligodendroglia in cortical multiple sclerosis lesions decrease with disease progression, but regenerate after repeated experimental demyelination
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Cerebral cortex shows a high endogenous propensity for remyelination. Yet, widespread subpial cortical demyelination (SCD) is a common feature in progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) and can already be found in early MS. In the present study, we compared oligodendroglial loss in SCD in early and chronic MS. Furthermore, we addressed in an experimental model whether repeated episodes of inflammatory SCD could alter oligodendroglial repopulation and subsequently lead to persistently demyelinated cortical lesions. NogoA+ mature oligodendrocytes and Olig2+ oligodendrocyte precursor cells were examined in SCD in patients with early and chronic MS, normal-appearing MS cortex, and control cortex as well as in the rat model of repeated targeted cortical experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). NogoA+ and Olig2+ cells were significantly reduced in SCD in patients with chronic, but not early MS. Repeated induction of SCD in rats resulted only in a transient loss of NogoA+, but not Olig2+ cells during the demyelination phase. This phase was followed by complete oligodendroglial repopulation and remyelination, even after four episodes of demyelination. Our data indicate efficient oligodendroglial repopulation in subpial cortical lesions in rats after repeated SCD that was similar to early, but not chronic MS cases. Accordingly, four cycles of experimental de- and remyelination were not sufficient to induce sustained remyelination failure as found in chronic cortical MS lesions. This suggests that alternative mechanisms contribute to oligodendrocyte depletion in chronic cortical demyelination in MS.
KeywordsMultiple sclerosis Cortical demyelination Oligodendrocytes Oligodendrocyte precursors Targeted cortical EAE
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is characterized by multifocal inflammatory demyelinating lesions in white and gray matter of the central nervous system (CNS) [31]. Neocortical demyelination in particular is a frequent phenomenon found in 90 % of patients with chronic MS [30, 50], but can already be present in patients with early MS [34]. Despite early description of neocortical lesions in MS [6], these lesions have mostly been overlooked until recently since they are difficult to detect with traditional staining techniques [41] or conventional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) [17, 27]. The use of new MRI sequences has shown that cortical lesions in MS are more common than previously thought [8, 17, 26] and are supposed to contribute to cognitive impairment [7, 44] and epilepsy [9] in MS. Therefore, cortical involvement may represent an important pathophysiological substrate for disease manifestation, progression and therapy in MS [12, 18, 30].
On average, between 10 and 25 % of cortical gray matter (GM) is demyelinated in patients with chronic MS, but individual patients may even reach values of over 70 % [5, 19, 30]. During the progressive stage of the disease, the extent of GM demyelination can even exceed that of white matter (WM) demyelination [19, 30]. Histopathologically, three main types of cortical lesions have been described according to their topographic distribution within the cerebral cortex: leukocortical (type I) lesions extending through WM and GM, purely intracortical (type II) lesions and subpial (type III) lesions [41]. Subpial cortical demyelination (SCD), the most frequent lesion type in chronic MS, accounts for the majority of demyelinated cortex and seems to occur independent of WM demyelination [3, 30]. Compared to WM lesions, cortical demyelination presents with less lymphocyte infiltration and reduced microglia activation [4, 41, 48]. However, the extent of meningeal inflammation was shown to correlate with the extent of cortical demyelination and rate of progression in patients with secondary progressive MS [24, 35, 36]. Similarly, meningeal and intracortical infiltrates were topographically associated with cortical lesions in early-stage MS, which supports the concept that inflammatory processes underlie cortical demyelination [34].
Despite the observation that GM lesions have a higher remyelination propensity than WM lesions [2, 12], chronic cortical demyelinated lesions accumulate over time and are most widespread in progressive MS [30]. It has been postulated that the depletion of oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) [10] and oligodendroglial differentiation block [15, 29] could account for remyelination failure in WM lesions. Previous experimental studies furthermore suggested that repeated rounds of de- and remyelination lead to less efficient remyelination in WM [25].
In the present study, we analyzed cortical oligodendrocytes (OLs) and OPCs in early- and late-stage MS. Our findings reveal that both mature OLs and their precursors are significantly reduced in demyelinated cerebral cortex in late-stage, but not in early MS. To address whether repeated cycles of cortical de- and remyelination could account for the depletion of OLs and lack of remyelination, we used a rat model of targeted cortical experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) which recreates key histopathological features of cortical MS lesions [38]. Here, we induced up to four consecutive cortical EAE lesions within the same cortical area and investigated the impact on repopulation of OLs and remyelination. We found that the differentiation of OPCs into mature OLs was not sustainably impaired even after repeated cortical de- and remyelination. Our study thus suggests that cortical remyelination failure in MS is not necessarily due to repeated waves of de- and remyelination. Further studies are required to unravel the mechanisms underlying cortical remyelination failure in progressive MS.
Materials and methods
Clinical data and human tissue
Clinical findings of MS autopsy cases
MS autopsy case
Disease duration (years)
Disease course
Secondary progressive
Primary progressive
Secondary progressive
Secondary progressive
Clinical findings of MS biopsy cases
MS biopsy case
Disease duration (months)
Disease course
Presenting symptom(s)
Brain MRI
Vision loss, disturbed balance, depression, beginning dementia
Multiple intracerebral WM lesions, partly contrast enhancing in periventricular and subcortical areas
Minor weakness of the left hand, focal motor seizures
Several intracerebral WM lesions: three focal subcortical lesions measuring up to 3 cm in diameter, partly ring enhancing; two brain stem lesions
Slight apraxia and unsteady gait
Multiple intracerebral WM lesions in the subcortical and periventricular areas
Blurred vision of the left eye
Multiple intracerebral WM lesions, partly contrast enhancing in the juxtacortical areas and brain stem
Histology and immunohistochemistry on human tissue
Bielschowsky silver staining and immunohistochemistry were carried out according to standard procedures. The following primary antibodies were used: rabbit anti-MBP (1:1,000, Dako, Denmark), mouse anti-MBP peptide70–89 (SMI94; 1:3,000, Covance, Princeton, New Jersey, USA), mouse anti-KiM1P (1:5,000) [43], rabbit anti-Olig2 (1:100, IBL, Spring Lake Park, Minnesota, USA), mouse anti-NogoA (1:10,000, mAb 11C7, a generous gift from M.E. Schwab, Brain Research Institute, ETH and University of Zurich, Switzerland) and mouse anti-Ki67 (1:50, clone Mib-1, Dako, Denmark). To identify Olig2+ or NogoA+ cells in control non-MS, normal-appearing MS and demyelinated MS neocortex, we performed double-immunolabeling combining either rabbit anti-Olig2 with mouse anti-MBP70–89 (SMI94) or mouse anti-NogoA with rabbit anti-MBP.
Double-labeling immunohistochemistry was performed combining DAB (first primary antibody) and Fast Blue (second primary antibody with APAAP; Dako). For fluorescence double-labeling, Cy3- or Cy2-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG and goat anti-rabbit IgG (both from Jackson ImmunoResearch Europe Ltd.) were used.
Morphometry and statistics on human tissue
The density of KiM1P+, NogoA+ and Olig2 strongly positive (Olig2+) cells was determined as ≥20,000 μm2. KiM1P+ mononuclear cells of both macrophage and microglia phenotype were counted in SCD in layers I/II and in layer III and given as cells/mm2. The mean number of Olig2+ and NogoA+ cells was quantified in layers I/II and in layer III in control non-MS neocortex, normal-appearing MS neocortex (NAGM) as well as chronic and early SCD.
The density of axons (layer III) was assessed on Bielschowsky silver-stained sections (1000×) in control non-MS neocortex, MS NAGM as well as chronic SCD within at least four visual fields using a 10 × 10 counting grid. Axonal density was given in percent of control non-MS neocortex as a reference (set to 100 %).
Animals and groups
A total number of 101 adult female Lewis rats (195 g ± 15, Harlan, Horst, Netherlands) were included in this study. The animals were kept in groups (maximum 8 animals per cage) on a 12:12 h light/dark cycle with food and water provided ad libitum. All experiments were approved by the Bezirksregierung Braunschweig, Germany.
Sensitization procedure
Recombinant rat myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (rMOG) was produced as described previously [1]. For subclinical immunization, anaesthetized rats (n = 68) were injected subcutaneously (s.c.) with rMOG (50 μg) emulsified in incomplete Freund's adjuvant (IFA; Sigma-Aldrich Chemie GmbH, Steinheim, Germany) as described previously [38]. For control experiments, rats (n = 27) were injected s.c. with PBS emulsified in IFA. A subset of animals (n = 6) received no injection (naive controls).
Intracerebral stereotactic injection
Stereotactic injections were performed according to a modified protocol as described previously [38]. Briefly, anaesthetized IFA- or rMOG-sensitized rats received a first stereotactic injection into the cortex (1 mm caudal to the bregma, 2 mm lateral to the sagittal suture, 1.7 mm depth) 19–21 days after immunization. 1 μl of a cytokine mixture [250 ng of recombinant rat tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α; R&D Systems, Abingdon, UK; 150 U of recombinant rat interferon-γ (IFN-γ; PeproTech, London, UK)] dissolved in PBS was injected together with a trace of Monastral blue (Fluka, Germany). Stereotactic cytokine injection at the same anatomical location was repeated up to four times at intervals of 21 days.
5-Bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU) injection
BrdU labeling was performed in a subset of IFA- or rMOG-sensitized animals (n = 6 per group). Animals were injected twice daily intraperitoneally with 1.5 ml 0.9 % NaCl solution containing 100 mg/kg bodyweight BrdU (Sigma) for 5 days starting on day 2 after cytokine injection. At 21 days after cytokine injection, the animals were killed for histology.
Histopathology and immunohistochemistry of rat tissue
Animals were anaesthetized by injecting an overdose of 14 % chloral hydrate (Merck). After transcardial perfusion with 4 % paraformaldehyde, brains were dissected and paraffin embedded. Serial brain sections (2 μm) were collected from the injection site. Immunohistochemistry was performed as described above. Additional antibodies used were: mouse anti-proteolipid protein (PLP, clone Plpc1, 1:2,500, Biozol), mouse anti-BrdU (1:400 in 10 % FCS, Chemicon) and mouse anti-ED1 (activated macrophages/microglia, 1:1,000, Serotec).
Morphometric analysis of focal cortical EAE lesions
Images were captured using light and fluorescence microscopes equipped with a digital camera (Color View II and DP71, Olympus, Germany). NogoA+ and Olig2+ cell populations were determined on NogoA/MBP and Olig2/MBP double-stained sections. The density of both cell populations was assessed in cortical layers I and II (400×) using a 10 × 10 counting grid and expressed as cells per mm2. The size of the demyelinated area was quantified on MBP-immunostained sections using Analysis® software (Analysis, Soft Imaging System, Germany).
Axonal density was quantified on Bielschowsky silver-impregnated sections as described above and given in percent of untreated controls. The fraction of myelinated axons was determined in cortical layer III within four visual fields (1000×) using a counting grid (10 × 10 squares). The numbers of MBP+ myelin sheaths and Bielschowsky-impregnated axons intersecting with the crosses of the counting grid were determined. The ratio of MBP+ fibers and Bielschowsky-impregnated axons was calculated (expressed in % of axons).
To quantify proliferated OPCs, Olig2 and BrdU double-positive cells were assessed on fluorescence images (200×) of cortical layers I/II (3 optical fields per animal). The quantification applied a custom-made script based on Cognition Network Language (Definiens Cognition Network Technology; Definiens Developer XD software) and resembled previously described scripts [28, 37]. Briefly, cells showing (a) an overlapping signal in the BrdU and Olig2 channel and (b) a signal for DAPI staining (nuclei) were counted and expressed as cells per mm2.
Statistical analysis
Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS (Version 12, SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) or GraphPad Prism (GraphPad Prism Software, Ink, San Diego, California, USA). Normality of distribution was tested by Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests. Statistical calculations included one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) if three or more groups were compared, followed by post hoc least significance difference (LSD) test as indicated in the figure legends. For comparisons between two groups, unpaired t tests were performed.
The subanalysis within MS autopsy cases used paired t tests to compare the cell and axonal densities in demyelinated MS neocortical layers versus adjacent MS NAGM. To test for altered cell densities in SCD between chronic (autopsies) and early (biopsies) MS cases, Mann–Whitney tests were performed. A probability value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. All data are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM) and shown in graphs as mean + SEM.
Subpial cortical demyelination in early and chronic MS
Marked reduction of oligodendrocytes in chronic, but not early subpial MS lesions
To investigate whether oligodendroglial densities in SCD are affected by disease duration, we quantified the density of NogoA+ OLs in SCD in patients with a short (early MS) or a long (chronic MS) disease duration.
We further quantified NogoA+ OLs in layer III in MS and control autopsy cases. MS NAGM displayed similar densities of NogoA+ cells (33.1 ± 4.8 cells/mm2) as control cortex (24.2 ± 5 cells/mm2) in layer III (Fig. 3f, g). In progressive MS patients, NogoA+ OLs were significantly reduced in demyelinated layer III (3.6 ± 1.1 cells/mm2, Fig. 3h) compared to adjacent normal-appearing layer III (p < 0.01, Fig. 3g, j). In contrast, patients with early MS showed similar oligodendroglial numbers in demyelinated layer III (23.7 ± 7.8 cells/mm2, Fig. 3i) as control and MS NAGM (Fig. 3j). Significantly more NogoA+ OLs were detected in demyelinated layer III in patients with early disease than in patients with chronic MS (p < 0.05).
Reduced density of oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) in chronic, but not early MS lesions
To address whether the density of OPCs in subpial cortical lesions is affected by disease duration, we quantified OPCs in SCD in early versus late MS. Olig2 is strongly expressed in OPCs and weakly in mature OLs in the adult human CNS [29]. Thus, we only counted the number of Olig2 strong+ cells (referred to as Olig2+ cells).
We also assessed Olig2+ progenitors in the outer pyramidal layer III. The control (17.3 ± 1.5 cells/mm2, Fig. 4f) and MS NAGM (20.2 ± 2.9 cells/mm2, Fig. 4g) displayed similar densities of Olig2+ OPCs in layer III. In chronic MS cases, there was a significant reduction of Olig2+ cells in demyelinated layer III (7.1 ± 1.8 cells/mm2, Fig. 4h) compared to adjacent normal-appearing layer III (p < 0.05, Fig. 4g, j). In contrast, early SCD showed no reduction of Olig2+ cells in layer III (35.9 ± 9.4 cells/mm2, Fig. 4i) compared to control (Fig. 4f) and MS NAGM (Fig. 4g, j). The density of Olig2+ cells in layer III was significantly reduced in chronic compared to early SCD (p < 0.05, Fig. 4j). Furthermore, the quantification of axonal densities in layer III of chronic SCD did not reveal any significant reduction compared to controls or NAGM (Suppl. Fig. 1). Taken together, these results suggest that OLs and their precursors are not reduced in SCD in early MS, but show a marked decline in progressive disease.
Efficient oligodendroglial regeneration after recurrent demyelinating episodes in rats with targeted cortical EAE lesions
To examine OPC proliferation after lesion induction, Olig2 and BrdU double-positive cells were quantified in the cortex in animals pretreated with the proliferation marker BrdU. Three weeks after single lesion induction, the density of Olig2/BrdU double-positive cells was significantly increased in previously demyelinated cortex as compared to the non-demyelinated control group (Suppl. Fig. 2).
Following the second and fourth demyelinating episode, the Olig2+ cell density was already increased on day 3 after the last injection in rMOG-immunized rats (2nd injection 54.1 ± 3.1 cells/mm2, p < 0.05; 4th injection 59.9 ± 5.2 cells/mm2) compared to repeatedly injected controls (Fig. 8a, b). Furthermore, 3 weeks after the second and fourth injection, the numbers of Olig2+ cells were unaltered in rMOG-immunized rats compared to controls. These findings therefore indicate that OPC numbers were not reduced within SCD even after repeated lesion induction.
Efficient remyelination after transient acute demyelination in rats with repeated focal lesioning
To compare cortical de- and remyelination after repeated lesioning, animals were evaluated on day 3 for demyelination and on day 21 for remyelination after final lesion induction following one, two and four stereotactic cytokine injections.
To assess the proportion of remyelinated axons, we quantified axons and myelin fibers after repeated lesioning. Axonal morphology appeared normal, adjacent to the injection site (Suppl. Fig. 3), and axonal densities in layer III resembled untreated control levels after one, two and four stereotactic cytokine injections (Suppl. Fig. 3). To examine whether the density of remyelinated fibers remained stable following recurrent cortical demyelination, we calculated the ratio between the density of myelinated fibers and axons in cortical layer III at different time points (Fig. 10c). In controls the fraction of myelinated cortical axons was 40.5 ± 6.4 %. At the demyelination time point (day 3 after the last injection) the proportion of myelinated axons was markedly decreased (1st injection 1.3 ± 0.6 %, 2nd injection 2.7 ± 1.1 %, 4th injection 0.5 ± 0.3 %) in rMOG-immunized rats. Three weeks after the last lesion induction, rMOG-immunized rats displayed a significantly higher proportion of myelinated axons than at the previous demyelination time point (p < 0.01 for 1st, 2nd and 4th injection). Furthermore, a similar fraction of myelinated axons was detected at the remyelination time point after one (16.2 ± 3.0 %), two (22.0 ± 3.8 %) and four (16.6 ± 3.0 %) stereotactic injections (Fig. 10c). Taken together, these data suggest that the rat cerebral cortex shows a high degree of endogenous oligodendroglial regeneration and remyelination capacity which does not seem to diminish even after four cycles of de- and remyelination in the targeted EAE model.
Cortical demyelinated lesions in chronic MS patients were recently shown to be widespread and even to exceed WM lesions with regard to lesion volume [19, 30]. Here, we investigated whether the densities of OLs and OPCs were altered in cortical lesions of early and late-stage MS. Furthermore, we examined the efficacy of OPC and OL recruitment in cortical demyelinated lesions in a rat model of MS. Our data indicate that NogoA+ OLs as well as Olig2+ OPCs are substantially reduced in chronic, but not early cortical MS lesions. In our animal model, NogoA+ cell density was only transiently reduced in the affected cerebral cortex, but rapidly recovered to control levels even after four demyelinating episodes.
Remyelination is considered to be an important mechanism for long-term axonal protection and is thus of enormous therapeutic interest. Accordingly, numerous studies have investigated the factors promoting remyelination in WM MS lesions [15]. Interestingly, the vast majority of early WM lesions harbor abundant NogoA+ and Olig2+ oligodendroglia and even contain newly formed myelin sheaths that enwrap previously demyelinated axons [33]. Although there is evidence for a variable degree of remyelination in around 40 % of chronic WM lesions, complete remyelination is rare [21]. Furthermore, chronic late-stage WM lesions contain hardly any mature OLs and also only few OPCs. Cortical lesions show evidence for more extensive remyelination at the lesion border compared to chronic WM lesions [2, 12]. Nevertheless, persistent cortical demyelination is an important feature of progressive MS, indicating that cortical remyelination fails at a certain disease stage. It remains unclear which factors contribute to OL demise and the failure of oligodendroglial differentiation in chronic cortical MS lesions. Our findings of relatively preserved axonal densities within chronic SCD argue against marked axonal loss as the decisive factor for cortical remyelination failure. Even though we cannot rule out the possibility that subtle axonal changes and degeneration may still occur in MS GM, such alterations are unlikely to result in OPC loss and the complete lack of remyelination observed in chronic SCD. It seems likely that other factors such as loss of local signals required for OPC survival and migration [39, 49, 51] contribute to remyelination failure. Furthermore, microglial, astrocytic and neuronal changes might contribute to reduced myelin regeneration in MS cortex.
One hypothesis investigated in the present study was that multiple demyelinating events may lead to failure of remyelination. This is mainly supported by experimental models of the disease [32]. Repeated or sustained episodes of demyelination might finally exhaust the ability of OPCs to divide and differentiate into myelinating OLs. Alternatively, OPCs might be depleted from repeatedly demyelinated lesions and be unable to repopulate lesions from the periphery. In addition, multiple demyelinating episodes might furthermore change the tissue microenvironment and the susceptibility of axons to myelination.
In the present study we investigated if multiple cortical demyelinating events lead to the reduction of mature OLs and OPCs, thus limiting the extent of cortical remyelination. We employed a targeted EAE model based on subclinical immunization with rMOG [38]. This model reproduces SCD found in MS patients and allows for precise lesion localization and timing. Our data indicate that repeated induction of cortical demyelination does not substantially affect the recruitment of OPCs, the generation of mature OLs or remyelination in rats. It should be noted, however, that a temporary reduction in mature OLs was observed after four cytokine injections, but OL density recovered at later time points, indicating a slight delay in recruitment.
Our findings are in line with previous experimental work that relied on non-immunological mechanisms of demyelination. Efficient remyelination was observed after three repeated injections of ethidium bromide into the cerebellar peduncle [40]. Similarly, unaltered remyelination capacity was also observed in mice after two episodes of toxic cuprizone-induced demyelination [25]. These results in rodent models of CNS demyelination with good preservation of axons, driven by inflammation or by gliotoxic substances, highlight that endogenous remyelination capacity is not substantially impaired even after repeated episodes of demyelination.
In contrast to these experimental findings, patients with long-standing MS showed oligodendroglial depletion in chronic SCD as evidenced by reduced NogoA+ OLs and Olig2+ OPCs. The reduction of OPCs in chronic SCD suggests that failure of cortical remyelination cannot simply be attributed to differentiation failure of OPCs, as it was suggested for WM MS lesions [11, 29, 42]. Furthermore, the strong reduction in OLs and OPCs observed in long-standing human cortical MS lesions cannot be mimicked by recurrent demyelinating events in our experimental model. One might speculate that four courses of demyelination are not sufficient to exhaust the remyelinating capacity in the rat cortex. It is also conceivable that our model, which is based on anti-MOG antibody-mediated myelin destruction, may not fully mimic the pathogenesis of MS, where the target(s) of the immune reaction and the contribution of anti-myelin antibodies have not yet been determined. In addition, it is well known that remyelination in the rodent brain is a very robust phenomenon. As such, the loss of OLs and OPCs seen in chronic MS may represent a phenomenon that is specific to the disease process in humans. Our model thus is suited to study early lesion formation, but does not lead to the late-stage oligodendroglial deficiency and inability to remyelinate as found in chronic MS lesions.
In early MS biopsies, NogoA+ mature OLs did not show any reduction in demyelinated cortical lesions, whereas a transient decrease was observed in the animal setting. However, it is important to note that the lesion stage of SCD is likely to differ between early human biopsy cases and rats with induced SCD. The animal model allows immediate investigations within 3 days after lesion induction, whereas this is not possible in patients who had already undergone a set of diagnostic investigations prior to biopsy. Given these temporal differences, it may not be surprising that proliferating OPCs were only observed in rat, but not in human early SCD. Whether mature OLs observed in early MS lesions represent preserved or already repopulated OLs cannot be distinguished based on these single time point biopsies. Interestingly, we noted a trend toward higher OPC numbers in cortical layer I/II in MS biopsies which might indicate previous OPC proliferation.
One important factor associated with altered remyelination capacity and disease progression is aging [14]. In the current study we used up to 4- to 5-month-old rats with a follow-up period of up to 4 months. In contrast, human MS autopsy cases in this study had an average age of 54 years and showed a progressive disease course for at least 10 years. Therefore, experiments in older animals might be required to test whether repeated induction of SCD would finally result in impaired cortical remyelination. Previous experimental studies showed reduced recruitment of OPCs into the lesion area and impaired oligodendroglial differentiation in older animals [46, 47]. Furthermore, increased axonal vulnerability and decreased remyelination efficiency were recently reported in aged rats after targeted demyelination in the spinal WM [22]. Similarly, remyelination is less efficient in aged animals after lysolecithin [20] or cuprizone [45] induced demyelination. Mechanisms contributing to such age-related effects may involve intrinsic determinants such as age-dependent epigenetic control of gene expression of OPCs [45] and extrinsic factors acting on OPCs in the lesion microenvironment [23, 52].
A recent study investigated the presence of NG2+ polydendrocytes in cortical demyelinated MS lesions and found similar densities in cortical demyelinated lesions, normal-appearing and control cortex [12]. Genetic fate mapping indicates that NG2+ polydendrocytes can generate both OLs and astrocytes in GM [53]. Interestingly, constitutive deletion of Olig2 in NG2+ cells leads to their conversion into astrocytes in the neocortex and corpus callosum [54]. These findings suggest that Olig2 is crucial for the differentiation of NG2+ polydendrocytes into OLs in the cerebral cortex. Thus, NG2+ polydendrocytes lacking Olig2 expression in chronic SCD may have lost their capacity to differentiate into myelin-forming OLs.
The precise pathogenetic mechanisms leading to SCD are still not known. However, chronic T- and B-lymphocytic inflammation in the meninges was associated with shorter time to progression and more severe clinical disease in secondary progressive MS [36]. Meningeal inflammation and cortical demyelination were also recently identified as important features of primary progressive MS, which strongly suggests that inflammation and "neurodegeneration" are closely linked phenomena in MS [13]. Recent experimental findings indicate that the subarachnoid injection of proinflammatory cytokines is sufficient to induce cortical demyelination in MOG-immunized animals [16]. Consequently, chronically elevated cytokine levels may impede the proliferation, differentiation and survival of cortical OLs, and finally lead to persistent demyelination.
In conclusion, we show that oligodendroglial cells are present in early cortical MS lesions, but substantially decreased in chronic SCD. The latter could not be modeled in our experimental studies in which recruitment of OLs and remyelination were not impaired even after repeated cortical demyelination. This suggests that failure of cortical remyelination in chronic MS may not simply result from repeated episodes of cortical demyelination affecting mature OLs, but may also require other factors damaging OPCs at an early differentiation stage. Further studies are needed to unravel the factors involved and mechanisms responsible for the cortical remyelination failure observed in progressive MS.
We acknowledge the excellent technical support by Mariann Vorm, Jasmin Reichl and Brigitte Maruschak, and thank Cynthia Bunker for help with editing the manuscript. C.S. and W.B. were supported by the DFG (TR-SFB43 "The brain as a target of inflammatory processes"). D.M. holds a stipendiary professorship of the Swiss National Science Foundation (No. PP00P3_128372) and is supported by the Gemeinnützige Hertie Stiftung and the Swiss MS Society. D.M. and W.B. are supported by the Klaus-Tschira Stiftung GmbH. C.W. and W.B. were supported by research funding from Novartis Pharma GmbH. We thank Sven Müller for outstanding administrative help. We are indebted to our patients and their relatives.
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No, it's not satire – an American institute actually allowed this professor to give a lecture linking Islamophobia to climate change.
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While the Empire State Building won't be lit up in the blue and white colors of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity, there are many other ways that Mother Teresa's 100th birthday – August 26 - is being honored worldwide.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, who originally asked for the Empire State Building to be lighted, instead will hold a rally outside the Empire State Building on behalf of Mother Teresa on August 26.
Meanwhile, the Peace Bridge, on the Niagara River in New York, and the Hutchinson Metro Center's two office buildings in the Bronx will be lit blue and white.
Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. is not only lighting several campus buildings in blue, but is also naming its new nursing program building in honor of Mother Teresa. The grand opening of the Mother Teresa Center for Nursing and Health Education will take place on Aug. 26 at 12:15 p.m. Several campus buildings, including St. Benedict's Abbey Church tower and St. Scholastica Hall tower, will be lit from Aug. 25 to Sept. 5 (the day of her death). The campus is launching its "Do Something Beautiful for God" college ministry program, will host a block party for students in honor of Mother Teresa's birthday, and is installing an original oil painting of Blessed Teresa in the Mother Teresa Center. The college will also say a prayer for the canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa at the first home football game.
Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif. will mark the day with a memorial Mass at 11:30 a.m. and by publishing videos from her visit and Commencement Address at the school in 1982. The videos will remain online through Blessed Teresa's Feast Day, Sept. 5.
"We will long remember the honor of Bl. Mother Teresa's visit to Thomas Aquinas College," says President Michael F. McLean, who noted that the saintly foundress of the Missionaries of Charity visited only three colleges during her 1982 trip to the United States. "We join the faithful everywhere in thanking God for her example of humble service to 'the poorest of the poor,' in whom she saw Christ in 'His most distressing disguise.'"
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And, the Mother Teresa International Film Festival is being held Aug. 26-29 in Kolkata, India.
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In Rome, Cardinal Angelo Comastri, archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica, is presiding over a Mass in the Basilica of St. Lawrence in Damascus. The celebration will be preceded by the opening of an exhibition of photographs, titled Blessed Teresa of Calcutta: Life, Works, Message.
Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation of Peoples, is marking her liturgical feast with a vigil of prayer on Saturday, Sept. 4, and a Eucharistic celebration on Sunday, Sept. 5.
An extensive list of celebrations and initiatives can be found online at the Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center.
"Her life and work continue to be an inspiration for young and old, rich and poor from all walks of life, religions and nations," said Sr. M. Prema M.C., Superior General.
Thanks for the prayer! That's nice of you! Nevertheless, I feel that pray without action can be a meaningless empty gesture.
If Mother Teresa knew, should have known, or was intimidated by church officials into silent "prayer" about about clergy sex crimes in the church, do you think she would now want to "expose" and "stamp out abuse", or "cover it up", as her superiors did and still do to this day?
Don't go postal on me now (postage stamp).
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Pray for Mary Grant!
The world is a safer place when someone can say NO to the Catholic Church.
At least a lawsuit shedded light (lit up) on Mother Theresa's close spiritual adviser, one of the Catholic church's' most notorious convicted pedophile priests.
Are church officials and Donahue grateful for that? Or does Donahue and church officials prefer darkness and cover-ups on child sex crimes in the Catholic Church?
Wonder what Mother Teresa would say about that…Stamp out Abuse, protect the children?
How blessed we are to have shared time and space with this beautiful saint of God. She was a genuine witness to the grace of God in action, as she brought His love to everyone, in particular to the poorest of the poor. Her love for the Church was such an inspiration to me. It is obvious that her love for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, Holy Mass, the Mother of God, her rosary and Her priest sons, was the driving force of her faith and actions. Now, since some have refused to honor her, God is allowing a far greater outpouring of love from people of all races and creeds, around the world, to thank Him for giving such a beautiful person Mother Teresa, to the world. Mother Teresa, Pray for us.
While I think I know what you mean, and I share your love of Mother Teresa,
your theology is a little off.
Yes, God is everywhere! It's explained in the Catechism as Omnipresence.(And, isn't that a comforting thought?)
I would put your thought a different way. I would say that God's light shined forth brightly in the life of Mother Teresa.
God Bless!
she is really a living GOD. God can't be everywhere so in some forms there presence will be felt.one such a person is MOTHERTERESA.
Tim – Thank you for this splendid piece.
Blessed Teresa changed me with her words – Jesus does not ask us to be Successful, but to be Faithful.
I realized that Love of God is more important than the admiration of men.
Strangely enough, in my life, the more I did of the 1st, the more I achieved of the 2nd.
I am feel Blessed that I share a Birthday with Someone like Blessed Mother Teresa. She was a remarkable Nun, the world my never know anyone like her again. SHE WAS A LIVING SAINT TO ME.
Thank you so much for this article! I was so disappointed about the empire state building ordeal. Now, I am so glad that so many are celebrating the life of this wonderful, selfless, saint!
How lovely a mother….............God bless her soul.
Such a loving mother…........may her beloved soul rest in perect peace.
love mother teresa owez she still in our mem0ry even i nvr meet her but wf all her kindnest mother teresa mke everybody knw @ love her coz full of loving mother like mother mary.
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Although he is one of Nottingham Forest's biggest fans, it is Ben Saxton's dedication to grassroots football and his coaching skills that have led to him being picked by The Nottingham as their second Unsung Football Hero.
Now 19-year-old Ben, of Holmesfield Drive, Heanor in Derbyshire, has won the use of the executive box at Nottingham Forest, along with three friends, a football signed by the Nottingham Forest first team squad and an invitation to a special end of season event.
Ben is the second winner of The Nottingham's campaign, which runs throughout the 2015-16 football season to find ten people involved in local football whose dedication and commitment to the game is exemplary.
Nominated by his mum, Sherrie. Ben played football between the ages of seven and 15 before deciding he would like to use his skills to coach youngsters at his local club, Shipley Park Rangers FC.
Ben is now the Assistant Manager and Head of Coaching for the under 11s team and was until recently also coaching the under 15s there too. Since the under 15s team has folded he is now also managing the under 18s team at Eastwood Athletic FC.
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The Euros up in smoke
The Eurozone chess game has entered its third and final stage. Germany wins in three moves - Euro, deflation and purchase of public debt by the ECB (QE) and in the last few years it has found a way to maximise its profits and reduce to zero its risks as Europes creditor.
Germanys risks
Lets try analysing the problems of the Eurozone as they really are: problems of conflicting interests of creditors and debtors regulated by demand and supply. If you agree to make a loan to your neighbour, you open yourself up to three risks:
that hell pay you back in a different currency that has perhaps been devalued unless you had a prior agreement about the repayment currency (currency risk);
that with the amount you get back, you can buy fewer goods or property (inflation risk);
that you dont even have either of the first two problems because your neighbour simply goes bust and thus you lose everything (capital risk).
How Germany gains
Germany is the Eurozones only big creditor with about 600 billion Euro loaned to various countries, most of which are on the periphery of the Eurozone, including Italy. The Euro has given it this enviable status. If you produce lots and you consume and invest very little and you keep domestic wages and prices low, then youll always have cheap unconsumed goods to sell to your neighbours. And you might also be able to make money by providing credit that they will probably ask you for so that they can buy your goods that are so cheap and so good. This is Germanys situation. It has always had this approach to the market economy in European affairs ever since 1870 with its roots in Calvinism. Thus to sell and lend to the countries on the periphery of Europe was always Germanys preferred economic activity when everything was going well, before the crisis in 2008. Since then its only objective has been to get that credit returned and to protect its purchasing power.
Germanys checkmate
Basically, QE will give Germany the time needed to achieve the final objective needed to get checkmate: to get rid of the national jurisdiction over as much of the debt as possible and thus to reduce its own capital risk as much as possible. Only the debt issued under Italian jurisdiction can be redefined in a new currency and thus could impose losses on foreign creditors, mainly German, via devaluation of the new currency. Today that proportion stands at about 93%. So only 7%, not more than 150 billion of public debt, cannot be redefined and has to be paid by in Euro, in accordance with the contract. Assuming that therell be devaluation of 30%, implies that the cost of a Euroexit for Italy in relation to its public debt, would have been no greater than about 50 billion euro before QE. With the de facto QE, this number has gone up to about 80 billion given that if theres a collapse, the cost of a haircut of lets say 30% on 100 billion government bonds (BTP) that would be bought by the Bank of Italy, would be a cost borne by all of us. In the eyes of a German creditor, restructuring our debt or an exit with the devaluation of the new currency, in fact present the same capital risk.
So, from now on, the only thing that counts for us Italians in the game of creditor v debtor is not to lose jurisdiction over our debt, so that we maintain the right to redefine it. This means we get the benefit if we do exit. Germanys objective is exactly the opposite: remove our jurisdiction over our debt and thus increase the cost of an exit for us and give the advantage to them, thus continuing to protect the interests of the creditors, which is something its really good at.
If we wait too long before leaving the Euro, then Germany will get checkmate and after cashing in all the benefits of our entry into the Euro, it will also cash in on the benefits of our exit.
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