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Parepin is the brand name for a man-made [[Drugs in Year Zero|drug]] that is also sometimes referred to by its generic name, zeridine. Developed in a groundbreaking partnership between a major pharmaceutical company and the National Institute of Health, Parepin is a complex drug that bootstraps the immune system. Parepin is a revolutionary drug made possible by the advances in medical technology from the study of AIDS and other immune diseases. While antibiotics target bacteria and antiviral drugs target viruses, Parepin is not designed to combat a specific disease or set of diseases. Instead, it makes the body better able to combat all disease.
In the [[World of Year Zero]], Parepin is being has been introduced into water sources all over America. The government claims it is to increase our the citizens' immune system and protect ourselves them from biological terrorism. Apparently the drug may do a lot more than just boost our the immune system. Apparent side effects are: an alteration of dopamine and serotonin levels (Drugs like Cocaine, Meth, and [[Opal]] do this, while no immune system booster, anti-biotic, or anti-viral does), muscle spasms, inability to reach orgasm, complacency, dulling of emotions, to name a few..However, studies showed that it made no difference in combatting diseases and providing protection in the event of a terror attack, leading some to conclude that the real reason it was added to the nation's water supply was to keep the populace complacent with their environments.
In the English language, to pull one up by one's bootstraps means to assist oneself by one's own means, without outside help or intervention. Bootstrapping, likewise, means to help oneself without outside intervention; Parepin, then, may be promoted as an item that helps the human immune system to assist itself rather than requiring the intervention or help of modern medicine.
Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra") is the name given to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century. Teodoro Moscoso is referred to as the architect of Operation Bootstrap. Under this program, which began in 1948, the island became increasingly industrialized. Envisioning that a densely populated island like Puerto Rico with now over 1000 persons per square mile, could not subsist on an agrarian system, the government Departamento de Fomento encouraged the establishment of factories. Puerto Rico enticed US companies by providing labor at costs below those on the mainland, access to US markets without import duties, and profits that could enter the country free from federal taxation. Fomento invited investment of external capital, importing the raw materials, and exporting the finished products to the U.S. market. To entice participation, tax exemptions and differential rental rates were offered for industrial facilities. As a result, Puerto Rico's economy shifted labor from agriculture to manufacturing and tourism. The manufacturing sector has shifted from the original labor-intensive industries, such as the manufacturing of food, tobacco, leather, and apparel products, to more capital-intensive industries, such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, machinery, and electronics.
===Bootstrapping (law)===
The bootstrapping rule in the rules of evidence dealt with admissibility as non-hearsay of statements of conspiracy in United States federal courts. The rule was that, in a criminal prosecution for conspiracy, the court, in deciding whether to allow the jury to consider a statement of conspiracy, cannot hear the statement itself, and that the allegation should be supported by independent evidence. If the independent evidence convinced the court that a conspiracy probably existed, only then could such a statement be introduced into trial and heard by the jury. Allowing such statements of conspiracy to prove the existence of conspiracy was considered similar to bootstrapping. In the United States, the bootstrapping rule has been eliminated from the Federal Rules of Evidence, as decided by the Supreme Court in the Bourjaily case.
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* [http://www.iamtryingtobelieve.com/ Parepin Information You Need To Know]
* [http://www.iamtryingtobelieve.com/whatis.htm What is Parepin?]
* [http://www.iamtryingtobelieve.com/howdoes.htm How Does Parepin Affect You?]
* [http://www.iamtryingtobelieve.com/purpose.htm What Is Parepin's Purpose?]
* [http://www.anotherversionofthetruth.com/forum.htm Another Version of the Truth Forum]
* After the 2009 attacks on Los Angeles and Anaheim (another city in California), the Government issued [[Parepin]] into the drinking water of Orlando, Florida. It was meant to protect against biological attacks by bootstrapping the immune system. But information on [[I_am_trying_to_believe|iamtryingtobelieve.com]] has stated that parepin is meant to change seritonin and dopamine levels to keep people sedated and easy to manipulate. Source: [http://iamtryingtobelieve.com/whatis.htm here]
* Parepin is said to reduce sexual potency, causing a decline in birth rates. Source: [http://iamtryingtobelieve.com/howdoes.htm here]
* Parepin also goes by the name: Zeridine Source: [http://iamtryingtobelieve.com/whatis.htm here]
* Parepin as well as other drugs are manufactured by [[Cedocore]] Source: [http://www.cedocore.com/ here]
* [http://www.infoshop.org/sf/Drug_References_in_Science_Fiction Drug References in Science Fiction]
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