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  • Vietnamese AO victims garner more support at UN Human Rights Council
    31 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Paris (VNA) – Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin have garnered further support at the fourth session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Mar. 27.
    Speaking at the meeting, André Bouny, Chairman of the international committee in support for the Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims and the New York trial (CIS), recalled the period between 1961 and 1971 when the US military sprayed 84 million tonnes of defoliant over Viet Nam , and called upon the international (…)

  • Help needed for 12 yr old boy!
    30 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    caduceus Doctors Opposing Circumcision
    An Appeal for Misha caduceus AN URGENT APPEAL FOR YOUR HELP TO PROTECT A 12 YEAR-OLD BOY
    Those of you who are serious about protecting children from non-therapeutic circumcision have a unique opportunity to assist with a legal case in Oregon. An Oregon father, (an attorney), claims to be in the process of converting to Judaism and wants his now 12-year-old son, ‘Misha’, of whom he has custody, circumcised against both the child’s and the (…)

  • Rover is not on the menu, Wilbur is, and Mahmoud just starved to death: "Another bacon burger, anyone?" (video)
    27 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Miller
    “If my competitor were drowning, I’d stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.” Ray Kroc
    “….a funny, jowly, canny, barbarous guy who lives in a multimillion-dollar condo on Park Avenue in Manhattan and conveys himself about the planet in a corporate jet and a private yacht. At sixty-seven, he is unrepentant in the face of criticism. He describes himself as a "tough man in a tough business"….."The animal-rights people," he once said, "want to impose a vegetarian’s (…)

  • Bird flu drug probe after 18 teenage deaths in Japan
    3 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Justin Norrie in Tokyo March 1, 2007
    JAPANESE health authorities are investigating a flu medicine that is also available in Australia after a teenager jumped 11 storeys to his death after taking the drug. It was the 18th juvenile fatality linked to Tamiflu in 17 months.
    The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has asked the Japanese importer of Tamiflu, an anti-viral drug regarded as the most important shield against bird flu in humans, to collect information about the conditions of (…)

  • THE SCIENCE OF EVIL AND ITS USE FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES
    18 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Carolyn Baker
    EVIL:
    1 a: morally reprehensible : sinful, wicked "an evil impulse"
    b: arising from actual or imputed bad character or conduct "a person of evil reputation"
    2 a: archaic : inferior
    b: causing discomfort or repulsion : offensive "an evil odor"
    c: disagreeable "woke late and in an evil temper"
    3 a: causing harm : pernicious "the evil institution of slavery" b: marked by misfortune : unlucky Merriam-Webster Online]
    Canada’s Red Pill press has recently (…)

  • Official: H5N1 may be in human food chain
    11 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    James Sturcke and agencies Friday February 9, 2007 Guardian Unlimited
    The Food Standards Agency confirmed today that it was investigating the possibility that turkey meat contaminated by bird flu at a Bernard Matthews poultry farm has entered the human food chain.
    The government’s chief scientist, Sir David King, said the agency would be considering ordering supermarkets to remove packaged turkey from shelves after it emerged that Bernard Matthews had been transporting turkey meat from (…)

  • Bird Flu Remains A Global Threat
    7 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Oxford Analytica 02.07.07, 6:00 AM ET
    Authorities in the United Kingdom on Feb. 5 completed a cull of turkeys on a commercial poultry farm, following confirmation that H5N1 avian influenza had entered the flock. Recent research on the "rescued" 1918 strain of human influenza has revealed how it and H5N1 kill by irreparably damaging the lungs, and what parts of the virus structure are required to make it highly transmissible.
    The threat remains of a human pandemic arising from avian (…)

  • US terrorism stats - horrendous Amerikan abuse & killing of American, Arab, Muslim & Asian children
    11 January 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Authoritative statistics reveal huge child sexual abuse in America and horrendous avoidable infant deaths in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories. The connection between these two sets of phenomena is the psychopathy of power obsession. Thus we are told by psychiatric experts that rape is primarily about power - and racist imperialism is also about power.
    Power-obsessed Amerikans are raping American children at an appalling level (1 in 4 adult American Women and 1 in 6 (…)

  • Rare Germ Found in D.C., but No Terror Fears Rare Germ Found in D.C:Tularemia Is Highly Infectious
    22 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sept. 30, 2005 — A relatively rare biological agent has been detected in air filters serving Washington D.C., in recent weeks, ABC News has learned — but current evidence does not show any indication whatsoever of terrorism.
    The federal government found six air filters around the nation’s capital checked on Sept. 24 and 25 contained "trace amounts" of tularemia, a type of bacteria.
    The tests were conducted as part of routine homeland security procedures, in which selected air filters (…)

  • Health Officials Vigilant for Illness After Sensors Detect Bacteria on Mall
    22 December 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A week after six bioterrorism sensors detected the presence of a dangerous bacterium on the Mall, health officials said there are no reports that any of the thousands of people in the nation’s capital Sept. 24 have tularemia, the illness that results from exposure to the bacteria.
    Federal health officials are still testing the samples from air sensors on the Mall and in downtown Washington that collected a small amount of the tularemia agent, which can cause flulike symptoms and is usually (…)