Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Sacramento Girl Needed Amputations After 5-Hour Wait at Emergency Room
January 1st, 2011Via: Sacramento Bee: As his tiny daughter’s skin turned blotchy and her body went limp during a lengthy wait at Methodist Hospital’s emergency room, Ryan Jeffers panicked. “This wasn’t a simple flu,” he said. “My daughter needed help.” Little did he know that the girl was near death from a common infection that had invaded […]
Ivory Coast on the ‘Brink of Genocide’
January 1st, 2011A few terms that don’t appear in the story below: Oil, diamonds, cobalt, gold, iron, manganese and nickel. Cocoa, however, is mentioned. Via: Guardian: Ivory Coast is on the “brink of genocide” and the world must take urgent action, the country’s new ambassador to the UN has warned. Youssoufou Bamba also claimed that some houses […]
The TSA’s State-Mandated Molestation
December 31st, 2010Via: Guardian: The ACLU maintains an ever-growing database of these indignities, many so graphic they’re illegal to broadcast over public airwaves. Actions that violate FCC standards are embraced by the TSA. “Mary in Texas” reported: The TSA agent used her hands to feel under and between my breasts. She then rammed her hand up into […]
Europe to Ban Hundreds of Herbal Remedies
December 30th, 2010Via: Independent: Hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a “discriminatory and disproportionate” European law. With four months to go before the EU-wide ban is implemented, thousands of patients face the loss of herbal remedies that have been used in the UK for […]
80% OF ANTIBIOTICS SOLD IN U.S. USED FOR LIVESTOCK AND POULTRY
December 29th, 2010Via: Center for a Livable Future: Antibiotics, one of the world’s greatest medical discoveries, are slowly losing their effectiveness in fighting bacterial infections and the massive use of the drugs in food animals may be the biggest culprit. The growing threat of antibiotic resistance is largely due to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in […]
More Than 25% of Kids and Teens in the U.S. Take Prescription Drugs on a Regular Basis
December 28th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: These days, the medicine cabinet is truly a family affair. More than a quarter of U.S. kids and teens are taking a medication on a chronic basis, according to Medco Health Solutions Inc., the biggest U.S. pharmacy-benefit manager with around 65 million members. Nearly 7% are on two or more such […]
Companies That Made And Maintained Blow Out Preventer Have Had Hands-On Access To It
December 24th, 2010Via: AP: A federal board allowed to monitor testing of a key piece of Gulf oil spill evidence — the blowout preventer — demanded Thursday that the analysis stop, saying representatives of the companies that made and maintained the 300-ton device have been getting preferential and sometimes hands-on access to it. The U.S. Chemical Safety […]
Fluoride in Water Linked to Lower IQ in Children
December 22nd, 2010Via: Press Release – Fluoride Action Network: Fluoride is added to 70% of U.S. public drinking water supplies. According to Paul Connett, Ph.D., director of the Fluoride Action Network, “This is the 24th study that has found this association, but this study is stronger than the rest because the authors have controlled for key confounding […]
Japan: ‘One Day We Found a Mouse That Was Singing Like a Bird’
December 22nd, 2010Innovation. Via: AFP: Japanese scientists said Tuesday they had produced a mouse that tweets like a bird in a genetically engineered “evolution” which they hope will shed light on the origins of human language. A team of researchers at the University of Osaka created the animal in their “Evolved Mouse Project”, in which they use […]
Probable Carcinogen Hexavalent Chromium Found in Drinking Water of 31 U.S. Cities
December 20th, 2010Add it to the list: Can You Do This With Your Tap Water? Hundreds of Millions of Pounds of Pharmaceuticals LEGALLY Released Into Waterways That Provide Drinking Water Illegal Concentrations of Arsenic, Radioactive Substances like Uranium, Dangerous Bacteria Often Found in Sewage Via: Washington Post: An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 […]
