Archive for the 'Health' Category
Canadians’ Mental Health Records Shared with U.S. Government
September 11th, 2011Via: CBC: More than a dozen Canadians have told the Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office in Toronto within the past year that they were blocked from entering the United States after their records of mental illness were shared with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
More Restaurants Are Targeting Customers Who Use Food Stamps
September 7th, 2011State sponsored transfats, sawdust, sugar, salt and high fructose corn syrup. The Way It Could Be: Urban Farming Guys Via: USA Today: The number of businesses approved to accept food stamps grew by a third from 2005 to 2010, U.S. Department of Agriculture records show, as vendors from convenience and dollar discount stores to gas […]
Man Dies from Tooth Infection, Couldn’t Afford Medication
September 3rd, 2011Via: ABC News: A 24-year-old Cincinnati father died from a tooth infection this week because he couldn’t afford his medication, offering a sobering reminder of the importance of oral health and the number of people without access to dental or health care. According to NBC affiliate WLWT, Kyle Willis’ wisdom tooth started hurting two weeks […]
The Urban Farming Guys
September 3rd, 2011Via: The Urban Farming Guys: We took the seeds in our pockets and every square foot we owned and went about like mad scientists testing out innovative ideas from all around world and making them work in one of the most blighted neighborhoods in the US. Everything from urban fish farming to alternate energy. Now […]
Biological ‘Computer’ Destroys Cancer Cells: Diagnostic Network Incorporated Into Human Cells
September 3rd, 2011This is interesting, especially if you liked the film, I Am Legend. Via: Science Daily: Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological “computer” network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells using logic combinations of five cancer-specific molecular factors, triggering cancer cells […]
And Now… Monsanto Corn Falls to Illinois Bugs
September 3rd, 2011Horror movie or silly video game? Nope, just more innovation from Monsanto. Via: Bloomberg: Monsanto Co. (MON)’s insect-killing corn is toppling over in northwestern Illinois fields, a sign that rootworms outside of Iowa may have developed resistance to the genetically modified crop, according to one scientist. Michael Gray, an agricultural entomologist at the University of […]
Documents Reveal New Details About DHS Development of Mobile Body Scanners; Not Certified “People Scanners”
September 1st, 2011Too much radiation. No consent. Via: EPIC: EPIC has obtained more than one hundred fifty pages of documents detailing the Department of Homeland Security’s development of mobile body scanners and other crowd surveillance technology. The documents were obtained as a result of a Freedom Information Act lawsuit brought by EPIC against the federal agency. According […]
Guatemalans Deliberately Infected with Syphilis by U.S. Researchers
August 30th, 2011This is definitely not news to anyone who has looked into medical atrocities, but I like to note these stories as they recur in mainstream sources. See Columbia University Brain Imaging Center Routinely Injected Mental Patients with Drugs that Contained Potentially Dangerous Impurities for several references on atrocities related to human medical experimentation. Via: Global […]
Scientists Sequence Black Death Bacteria DNA
August 30th, 2011Via: Ars Technica: The bacteria behind the Black Death has a very unusual history. Its ancestor is an unassuming soil bacterium and the current strains of Yersinia pestis still infects thousands of people annually, but no longer cause the suite of horrifying symptoms associated with the medieval plagues. The radical differences between the two versions, […]
Monsanto ‘Technology’ Breeding Superweeds and Pesticide Resistant Root Worms
August 30th, 2011This week is Environmental Terrorist Organizations. Via: Mother Jones: Over the past decade and a half, as Monsanto built up its globe-spanning, multi-billion-dollar genetically modified seed empire, it made two major pitches to farmers. The first involved weeds. Leave the weed management to us, Monsanto insisted. We’ve engineered plants that can survive our very own […]
