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  • Tamiflu linked to deaths of 2 teens, side effects: impaired consciousness, hallucinations
    18 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    TOKYO - Two teenage boys who took the antiviral drug Tamiflu exhibited abnormal behavior that led to their deaths, with one jumping in front of an oncoming truck last year and the other falling from the ninth floor of a building earlier this year, health ministry and other sources said Saturday.
    The drug in Japan carries a note listing impaired consciousness, abnormal behaviors, hallucination and other psychological and neurological symptoms as possible serious side effects. The ministry (…)

  • Report Details F.D.A. Rejection of Next-Day Pill
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By GARDINER HARRIS
    WASHINGTON - Top federal drug officials decided to reject an application to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill months before a government scientific review of the application was completed, according to accounts given to Congressional investigators.
    The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, concluded in a report released Monday that the Food and Drug Administration’s May 2004 rejection of the morning-after (…)

  • Leave The Whining To Us
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    Remember the good old days when liberals were the victims? Today, one has to wear a raincoat not to get splashed by the cascade of crocodile tears cried by whiney conservatives plaintively screaming how they have been wronged. Has there ever been a wimpier group in the history of politics?
    This week, a dozen AIDS activists reportedly wearing body condoms were arrested after storming the Family Research Council’s Washington headquarters to protest the group’s deadly (…)

  • A Foul Tragedy. Democrats fled in the face of danger
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Garrison Keillor
    We Democrats are at our worst when we try to emulate Republicans as we did in signing onto the “war” on drugs that has ruined so many young lives.
    The cruelty of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is stark indeed, as are the sentencing guidelines that impose mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug possession-guidelines in the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act that sailed through Congress without benefit of public hearings, drafted before an election by Democrats afraid to be (…)

  • The Cannabis Man - Not Guilty.
    11 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Following the results of an internet poll the Cannabis Man is happy to report that 86% of respondents found him Not Guilty of any crime.
    Such a result has encouraged him further to outline his vision. The following is a transcript of a few of his ideas.
    “As the Cannabis Man I firmly believe that what I do is right (In fact, after discussing my work and hopes with others, I can find no dissenting voice). As is already known - I do not make any money from my work with cannabis. My desire (…)

  • ’Bird Flu’: From psyOP and population control to "WW4"
    10 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’Bird Flu’: From psyOP and population control to "WW4" Notes compiled by ewing2001 October 22, 2005
    During 2004, on my old blog at 911skeptics.blogspot.com and in many online e-mail correspondences, i pointed out on the possibility, how to stage the easiest bogus pretext for "WW4" (WW4 is a definition labelled by neocons Eliot Cohen, Norman Podhoretz and James Woolsey. They personally skipped "WW3", which was in their mind already the Cold War):
    ...A fake Al-Quaeda terror cell in taiwan (…)

  • International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons
    6 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    International Petition to Ban Uranium Weapons
    Uranium weapons, often called ’depleted’ uranium (DU) weapons, are manufactured from radioactive waste materials produced during the nuclear fuel chain and the production of nuclear weapons. They cause widespread and long lasting radioactive contamination of the environment. These weapon systems are radiologically and chemically toxic.
    Many people - innocent civilians especially children, military veterans, industry workers - have illnesses (…)

  • Bird flu panic spreads-among the beneficiaries: Donald Rumsfeld.
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A year ago Tamiflu was known, if at all, as an obscure remedy for influenza, which doctors typically treat with bed rest and chicken soup. Today, with panic mounting over a potential bird flu pandemic, it’s the most sought-after drug in the world, as everyone from suburban soccer moms in the U.S. to health officials in London and Taipei scramble to stockpile the pill. At the moment, it seems, virtually the entire world is on sick-chicken alert.
    "One dead parrot in the U.K. and four dead (…)

  • Experts dismiss scare over bird flu
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DIANE CHUN
    At a time when headlines trumpet the potential dangers of "bird flu," Gary Butcher is the man of the hour.
    Butcher has been an extension veterinarian at the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine since 1988. He was trained as a veterinarian specializing in avian diseases, and has a Ph.D. in poultry virology.
    As the only poultry veterinarian in the state, Butcher fields phone calls and e-mails about avian flu every day.
    Lately, he’s been traveling the (…)

  • Feathering his nest?
    3 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    October 31, 2005: 10:55 AM EST
    NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it’s proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that’s now the most-sought after drug in the world.
    Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)’s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush (…)