09/2015 - BARAHONA ALERT ! PLEASE READ !

[ROVER]

There is an interesting phenomena in Barahona called Magno polo.

The claim is in a particular area due to a magnetic disturbance a car placed in neutral on a hill will roll up the hill not down against the pull of gravity due to a unseen inverted magnetic force.

There are YouTube videos giving demonstrations of this phenomena some showing bottles, cans, and even cars rolling seemingly uphill by an unseen force.

Here is one such video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmy7RNR824c

Magno Polo has been disputed by some to be an optical illusion. I made a mental note that if I was ever in close proximity I would swing by to check out this curiosity.

I still plan on doing so but I now plan on making my excursion a short one as there seems to be another phenomena in Barahona just as mysterious and unlike Magna Polo seems to be undisputed.

However this other phenomena is something I do not wish to experience


From Dominican Today


World media abuzz with 'penis at twelve' disorder in Dominican SW



http://www.dominicantoday.com/image/article/33/209x400/0/34EA9991-0EFB-42A4-B199-D5FA443533E4.jpeg
Daniel, like two others of his four brothers, is a hermaphrodite.
Photo elmundo.es


Santo Domingo.- The manifestation of a rare genetic disorder in children in southwestern Dominican Republic has the global media abuzz Monday, which according to syracuse.com, “boys are born female and become male at puberty.”

The phenomena aren’t new: Dominican physicians had been aware of the anomaly for over a decade, and concluded that the genetic disorder was the result of extensive gypsum mining near the village Salinas, Barahona, in the rugged sothwest

Citing a report by The Telegraph, the outlet says the village of Salinas sees girls turning into boys so often that it is no longer "abnormal."

In fact event the term the villagers use to describe youngsters with the anomaly, ´guevedoce,” can be loosely translated as meaning “penis at twelve.”

The term hermaphrodite had also been used to describe the boys, who were born with no apparent penis.
“The genetic disorder happens due to a missing enzyme which prevents the production of a specific form of the male sex hormone — dihydro-testosterone — in the womb. Some male babies are missing the enzyme that triggers hormones, so they appear to be born female with no testes and what appears to be a vagina,” syracuse.com said.

In October, 2002, outlet mundo.es published “Both sexes, one body,” a report about “the village of hermaphrodites.”

“The children of Teresa haven’t been sexually defined for years. They have vulva and testicles. This is so common in the south of the Dominican Republic that merited research.”

[tgunz]

There is an interesting phenomena in Barahona called Magno polo.

The claim is in a particular area due to a magnetic disturbance a car placed in neutral on a hill will roll up the hill not down against the pull of gravity due to a unseen inverted magnetic force.

There are YouTube videos giving demonstrations of this phenomena some showing bottles, cans, and even cars rolling seemingly uphill by an unseen force.

Here is one such video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmy7RNR824c

Magno Polo has been disputed by some to be an optical illusion. I made a mental note that if I was ever in close proximity I would swing by to check out this curiosity.

I still plan on doing so but I now plan on making my excursion a short one as there seems to be another phenomena in Barahona just as mysterious and unlike Magna Polo seems to be undisputed.

However this other phenomena is something I do not wish to experience


From Dominican Today


World media abuzz with 'penis at twelve' disorder in Dominican SW



Click to see pic (http://www.dominicantoday.com/image/article/33/209x400/0/34EA9991-0EFB-42A4-B199-D5FA443533E4.jpeg)
Daniel, like two others of his four brothers, is a hermaphrodite.
Photo elmundo.es


Santo Domingo.- The manifestation of a rare genetic disorder in children in southwestern Dominican Republic has the global media abuzz Monday, which according to syracuse.com, “boys are born female and become male at puberty.”

The phenomena aren’t new: Dominican physicians had been aware of the anomaly for over a decade, and concluded that the genetic disorder was the result of extensive gypsum mining near the village Salinas, Barahona, in the rugged sothwest

Citing a report by The Telegraph, the outlet says the village of Salinas sees girls turning into boys so often that it is no longer "abnormal."

In fact event the term the villagers use to describe youngsters with the anomaly, ´guevedoce,” can be loosely translated as meaning “penis at twelve.”

The term hermaphrodite had also been used to describe the boys, who were born with no apparent penis.
“The genetic disorder happens due to a missing enzyme which prevents the production of a specific form of the male sex hormone — dihydro-testosterone — in the womb. Some male babies are missing the enzyme that triggers hormones, so they appear to be born female with no testes and what appears to be a vagina,” syracuse.com said.

In October, 2002, outlet mundo.es published “Both sexes, one body,” a report about “the village of hermaphrodites.”

“The children of Teresa haven’t been sexually defined for years. They have vulva and testicles. This is so common in the south of the Dominican Republic that merited research.”

WTF??!!

[weyland]

Three centuries of incest and inbreeding will do that.

[whynotme]

Three centuries of incest and inbreeding will do that.

now we know what the royal blood line can look forward to eh:wink:

[WickedWillie]

Oh shit.....I'm going to Barahona this coming weekend. :confused::confused::confused:

[deezl]

There is an interesting phenomena in Barahona called Magno polo.

The claim is in a particular area due to a magnetic disturbance a car placed in neutral on a hill will roll up the hill not down against the pull of gravity due to a unseen inverted magnetic force.

There are YouTube videos giving demonstrations of this phenomena some showing bottles, cans, and even cars rolling seemingly uphill by an unseen force.

Here is one such video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmy7RNR824c

Magno Polo has been disputed by some to be an optical illusion. I made a mental note that if I was ever in close proximity I would swing by to check out this curiosity.

I still plan on doing so but I now plan on making my excursion a short one as there seems to be another phenomena in Barahona just as mysterious and unlike Magna Polo seems to be undisputed.



it's a freaking optical illusion, cars don't roll uphill. if it was a magnetic force (especially one powerful enough to pull the weight of a car uphill) then every damn thing made of magnetic attractive metal would be flying towards that spot and every repellent material would be pushed away. there would be a damn mountain of metal at the spot, it'd be pretty hard to miss. :lol:

[j_d66]

yep he is right

gotta love google

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polo,_Barahona

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravity_hills


Like they say if it sounds to good to be true than it must be.

Plus if it was real the Dominicans would blame it on Haitian Voodoo. :devil:

[ROVER]

Here is some follow up that makes for some interesting reading.

From The Romano Law Group website

http://www.romanolawgroup.com/blog/the-origin-of-propecia-it-all-began-with-a-village-of-pseudo-hermaphrodites-authored-by-dustin-herman


THE ORIGIN OF PROPECIA: IT ALL BEGAN WITH A VILLAGE OF PSEUDO-HERMAPHRODITES (authored by Dustin Herman)

Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Florida


Posted: April 7, 2014

In 1974, the endocrinologist, Julianne L. Imperato-McGinley, heard about a large group of pseudo-hermaphrodites that were found living in a remote mountain village in the Dominican Republic. These pseudo-hermaphrodites had ambiguous genitalia with “labial-like scrotums” and “blind vaginal pouches,” and were thought to be girls at birth by the other villagers. Upon puberty, however, their clitorises enlarged to resemble small (micro) penises, their testes descended, muscles developed, and their voices grew deep. But, their sexual organs remained severely undeveloped. Also noted was that these individuals had very low levels of the most potent male hormone, dihydrotestosterone (“DHT”), unusually small prostate glands, and – full heads of hair.

Imperato-McGinley traced the condition to an inheritable genetic mutation which caused a deficiency in the 5-alpha reductase type-II enzyme. The 5AR enzyme is what converts testosterone into DHT (it also converts several other hormones into neurohormones in the brain). She concluded that DHT is crucial in the development of the male sex organs and that the absence of DHT (via a 5AR deficiency) is what caused the horrific mutations and disfigurements in the villagers.

Despite knowing that a 5AR deficiency led to these horrific birth defects, Merck saw an opportunity in this discovery. Merck knew it could make a fortune off a drug that could prevent both hair loss and prostate enlargement, so Merck started researching ways to artificially create a 5AR deficiency in adult males in order to replicate the full heads of hair and small prostate glands exhibited by the pseudo-hermaphrodites. Merck succeeded – and in 1984 filed for a patent on finasteride (the generic name for Propecia).

When Merck began selling Propecia as drug to treat male pattern hair loss in 1997, it hired a big New York City advertising firm to launch the drug and branded Propecia as a scientific cure for hair loss. Merck spent millions of dollars promoting the drug and what it could do, but what it didn’t tell men was that Propecia is literally hormone therapy – and it surely didn’t tell men that Propecia was designed to replicate a hormone deficiency that causes pseudo-hermaphroditism.

Not surprisingly, many men that took Propecia are now suffering from serious sexual dysfunction. Men are reporting erectile dysfunction, penile shrinkage/atrophy, penile numbness, painful ejaculation, testicular pain, malformed penises, low levels of testosterone, high levels of estrogen, breast enlargement, decreased libido, memory loss, and problems concentrating. Even worse is that many of these symptoms have persisted long after men stopped taking the drug.

Complaints about permanent erectile dysfunction and total loss of libido from Propecia appeared on the internet a few years after Propecia was put on the market. In 2003, affected men even started an internet Yahoo group where they could share stories and discuss possible solutions to the problems they were experiencing. After an investigation in 2007 by the Swedish Medical Agency, Merck added a warning about persistent sexual side-effects to the Propecia label in various European countries; but this warning was not provided to American consumers until April 11, 2012, when the FDA finally ordered Merck to put such a warning on the label of its $450,000,000/yr. drug.

Now, maybe it was a big shock to Merck that its “miracle” drug could cause these serious sexual, physical, and mental side effects. Or maybe the huge profits were just too tempting for Merck. But regardless, considering the origin of Propecia, it’s pretty obvious that Merck should have known from the start that treating hair loss with hormone therapy was just not a good idea.


Anybody planning on an ISOC invasion to Salinas make sure to write a trip report ....:rofl:

[camaro1257]

Here is some follow up that makes for some interesting reading.

From The Romano Law Group website

http://www.romanolawgroup.com/blog/the-origin-of-propecia-it-all-began-with-a-village-of-pseudo-hermaphrodites-authored-by-dustin-herman


THE ORIGIN OF PROPECIA: IT ALL BEGAN WITH A VILLAGE OF PSEUDO-HERMAPHRODITES (authored by Dustin Herman)

Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Florida


Posted: April 7, 2014

In 1974, the endocrinologist, Julianne L. Imperato-McGinley, heard about a large group of pseudo-hermaphrodites that were found living in a remote mountain village in the Dominican Republic. These pseudo-hermaphrodites had ambiguous genitalia with “labial-like scrotums” and “blind vaginal pouches,” and were thought to be girls at birth by the other villagers. Upon puberty, however, their clitorises enlarged to resemble small (micro) penises, their testes descended, muscles developed, and their voices grew deep. But, their sexual organs remained severely undeveloped. Also noted was that these individuals had very low levels of the most potent male hormone, dihydrotestosterone (“DHT”), unusually small prostate glands, and – full heads of hair.

Imperato-McGinley traced the condition to an inheritable genetic mutation which caused a deficiency in the 5-alpha reductase type-II enzyme. The 5AR enzyme is what converts testosterone into DHT (it also converts several other hormones into neurohormones in the brain). She concluded that DHT is crucial in the development of the male sex organs and that the absence of DHT (via a 5AR deficiency) is what caused the horrific mutations and disfigurements in the villagers.

Despite knowing that a 5AR deficiency led to these horrific birth defects, Merck saw an opportunity in this discovery. Merck knew it could make a fortune off a drug that could prevent both hair loss and prostate enlargement, so Merck started researching ways to artificially create a 5AR deficiency in adult males in order to replicate the full heads of hair and small prostate glands exhibited by the pseudo-hermaphrodites. Merck succeeded – and in 1984 filed for a patent on finasteride (the generic name for Propecia).

When Merck began selling Propecia as drug to treat male pattern hair loss in 1997, it hired a big New York City advertising firm to launch the drug and branded Propecia as a scientific cure for hair loss. Merck spent millions of dollars promoting the drug and what it could do, but what it didn’t tell men was that Propecia is literally hormone therapy – and it surely didn’t tell men that Propecia was designed to replicate a hormone deficiency that causes pseudo-hermaphroditism.

Not surprisingly, many men that took Propecia are now suffering from serious sexual dysfunction. Men are reporting erectile dysfunction, penile shrinkage/atrophy, penile numbness, painful ejaculation, testicular pain, malformed penises, low levels of testosterone, high levels of estrogen, breast enlargement, decreased libido, memory loss, and problems concentrating. Even worse is that many of these symptoms have persisted long after men stopped taking the drug.

Complaints about permanent erectile dysfunction and total loss of libido from Propecia appeared on the internet a few years after Propecia was put on the market. In 2003, affected men even started an internet Yahoo group where they could share stories and discuss possible solutions to the problems they were experiencing. After an investigation in 2007 by the Swedish Medical Agency, Merck added a warning about persistent sexual side-effects to the Propecia label in various European countries; but this warning was not provided to American consumers until April 11, 2012, when the FDA finally ordered Merck to put such a warning on the label of its $450,000,000/yr. drug.

Now, maybe it was a big shock to Merck that its “miracle” drug could cause these serious sexual, physical, and mental side effects. Or maybe the huge profits were just too tempting for Merck. But regardless, considering the origin of Propecia, it’s pretty obvious that Merck should have known from the start that treating hair loss with hormone therapy was just not a good idea.


Anybody planning on an ISOC invasion to Salinas make sure to write a trip report ....:rofl:

Rover you have earned the title of being our investigative reporter...:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Hanzo]

I have some pictures from there I was in Barahona last year, zero tourist infrastructure but lovely place.

[WickedWillie]

Ended up not going last weekend as our pilot had to work, one of my crew drove down with his chica and said that Saturday night on the malecon has a spectacular chica stroll.

We will be going to investigate shortly.

[camaro1257]

Ended up not going last weekend as our pilot had to work, one of my crew drove down with his chica and said that Saturday night on the malecon has a spectacular chica stroll.

We will be going to investigate shortly.

I will eagerly await your SYNOPSIS report sir...thank you very much!...:wink: