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  • More than 200,000 US casualties from Gulf War 1
    29 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    During Gulf War 1 more than 300 tons of depleted Uranium were discharged.
    During Gulf War 2 more than 1000 tons of depleted Uranium were discharged.
    Norman Schwarzkopf asked Rokke to oversee the environmental clean up and medical care of soldiers injured in friendly fire incidents involving DU weapons. Rokke later wrote the DU safety rules adopted by the Army, but was relieved of subsequent duties after he criticized commanders for not following those rules and not treating exposed (…)

  • EPA Nominee Advocates Human Guinea Pigs
    23 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    EPA Nominee Advocates Human Guinea Pigs Stephen Johnson, Bush’s Nominee To Run The EPA, Advocates The Testing Of Pesticides On Humans - Even Children - For The Benefit Of Large Chemical Companies Gene C. Gerard March 19, 2005 President Bush recently nominated Stephen L. Johnson, a 24 year veteran of the Environmental Protection Agency, to be the agency’s new administrator. Mr. Johnson has been the acting administrator since January, and prior to that oversaw the EPA office handling (…)

  • Agent Orange lawsuit: an unjust, immoral verdict
    14 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anh Hieu
    US Judge Jack B. Weinstein’s dismissal on Thursday of the compensation lawsuit by Vietnamese Agent Orange victims was unjust, immoral and an irresponsible denial of the US’s war crimes in Viet Nam.
    And, it signals a new uphill battle for justice for Viet Nam despite the solid body of evidence against the toxin’s devastating effects on the land and generation-after-generation of Vietnamese people.
    Judge Weinstein claimed the documents presented in the New York Court were not (…)

  • Each day about 13,500 people worldwide die from smoking-related diseases.
    28 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Smoking gets own ’Kyoto treaty’
    By Nick Triggle
    By 2020 the mortality rate will have doubled - the equivalent of 10 million a year.
    To tackle the rise, which is expected to be felt hardest in developing countries, the World Health Organization’s tobacco control treaty comes into force on Sunday.
    It is regarded as smoking’s answer to the Kyoto agreement - only with teeth.
    Ratified by 57 countries, including the UK, the document sets out a programme to reduce the number of people (…)

  • Money is NOT the measure of all things
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Was just reading about Canada Health taking an ADHD med off the market. Was reading in E.F. Schumacher’s "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered" that we have GOT to geta grip on the economic "matrix" where growers can’t afford to GROW organically but they are happy if they can BUY organic. What’s up with that?
    This whole business paradigm we’ve been forced to live under HAS GOT TO CHANGE! Money/profit is NOT the measure of all things and we’d better start taking LIFE (…)

  • Soldiers with Flu-Like symptoms Dying ’Mysteriously’
    19 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The mysterious death of a third soldier with North Carolina ties is raising questions. All three died from flu-like symptoms after returning from overseas deployments, according to a report by affiliate station WRAL.
    Sgt. Clay Garton was a flight medic at Fort Bragg. He spent 16 months in Iraq and returned home in July. Then, he got sick.
    His family said he had symptoms like the flu. He fought it for three weeks, but his fever soared to 106 degrees. The day after Christmas, he died. (…)

  • Health Canada Pulls ADHD Drug Off The Market
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Health Canada Pulls ADHD Drug Off The Market CTV.ca News Staff February 11, 2005
    Health Canada has ordered a drug for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder be taken off the shelves after learning it has been linked to 20 sudden deaths and 12 strokes in the U.S.
    The drug in question is Adderall XR. It’s made by Shire Biochem Inc. and was approved for sale in Canada just over a year ago. Prescriptions have been issued for about 11,000 Canadians since then.
    Shire maintains the drug is (…)

  • US Grabs 81-Year-Old’s Lipitor Sent Via Canada
    14 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US Grabs 81-Year-Old’s Lipitor Sent Via Canada The Capital Times Monday, February 07, 2005 Milwaukee(AP) - Charles Netzow is upset that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has confiscated a drug that was being mailed to him from a pharmacy in Canada to help keep his cholesterol under control. "I’m angry because it’s nonsense," the 81-year-old suburban Fox Point man told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel after receiving a notice from the FDA indicating that his 90 tablets of Lipitor were (…)

  • Bush Administration - Money, Politics & Drugs
    13 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A new plan by the Bush administration to test thenation’s public school population for mental disorders and treat them with controversial drugs has raised an alarm among some medical science watchdogs and members of the mental health community, according to the June 27, 2004, New Standard.
    Bush wants to launch a mental health and disability initiative that recommends the screening and treatment for students K-12 in public schools. The plan is based on a Texas program known as the "Texas (…)

  • George Bush - Top Lobbyist For Pharmaceutical
    30 January 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    George Bush - Top Lobbyist For Pharmaceutical Evelyn Pringle January 28, 2005 As the debate over importation of cheaper drugs from other countries heats up, keep an eye on the politicians listed below. In the year leading up to the passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, the drug company PACs, employees, and their families gave more than $3 million in political contributions to these eleven elected officials, largely credited with negotiating the bill, and also responsible for (…)