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Support Needed : Eryn Wise – Navajo Nation Needs Assistance / This week there was a mining waste spill that occurred near Durango, CO. This week there was a mining… | Facebook
Hi everyone – This week there was a mining waste spill that occurred near Durango, CO. Three million gallons of toxic waste was released into the Animas River which directly impacts water supplies being funneled into Arizona and Utah. Currently, the people seeing the most impact live in remote locations on the Navajo Reservation and […]
Timeline Photos – Shut Down Australia | Facebook
Timeline Photos – Shut Down Australia | Facebook. Asking all people to take strike action for 60 minutes between 10:30am to 11:30am the 1st of June 2015. Please read this message from Lavene Ngatokorua from Davenport Aboriginal Community in Port Augusta South AustraliaPlease read and strike with Lavene on the … 1st of June 2015 from […]
Company at Center of “Debtors’ Prison” Case Accused of Racketeering | Mother Jones
The suit also goes after the current contract between Clanton and JCS, alleging that their relationship violates Alabama law, which forbids city courts from charging individuals extra money for being on probation. Since 2009, Clanton has contracted with JCS to manage its pay-only probationers (individuals who are only on probation because they can’t pay their […]
Canada’s First Nations are paying a high price for our dirty tar sands fix
The migrating birds died, as have many thousands of others before them. The Alberta Energy Regulator reported 122 deaths last week, a total that made headlines across Canada—not because it was particularly shocking, but because it’s a reminder that despite years of concern and millions of dollars in fines, the tar sands mining companies are […]
More than 600 US troops say they were exposed to chemical agents in Iraq | US news | The Guardian
Defence secretary Chuck Hagel ordered an internal review of military records after the Times reported in October that US troops encountered degraded chemical weapons from the 1980s that had been hidden or used in makeshift bombs.The initial newspaper report disclosed that 17 service members had been injured by sarin or sulphur mustard agent, and several […]
Researchers claim increase in infant deaths due to oil drilling in Utah basin — Society’s Child — Sott.net
To complicate things, there was a large explosion at a business that handles fracking equipment last year that scattered debris over a half-mile area.Nagel said that she takes the possible connection to infant mortality so seriously that she has begun studying the effects of fracking chemicals on pregnant mice.”Mechanistically, from what we know about endocrine-disrupting […]
Growing human GI cells may lead to personalized treatments
Reporting online recently in the journal Gut, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis said they have made cell lines from individual patients in as little as two weeks. They have created more than 65 such cell lines using tissue from 47 patients who had routine endoscopic screening procedures, such as colonoscopies. […]
Ebola: 1 out of 15 airport contacts down with Ebola Virus Disease – Vanguard News
According to a member of the Joint Federal and State Team on Ebola outbreak who preferred anonymity; one of the persons who accompanied late Patrick Sawyer is already showing signs of Ebola.The reliable source confirmed receipt of a short message service, SMS, text that the person who assisted late Patrick Sawyer to move out of […]
Atlanta’s Emory University Hospital to receive patient infected with Ebola | Society | theguardian.com
“Emory University Hospital has a specially built isolation unit set up in collaboration with the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] to treat patients who are exposed to certain serious infectious diseases. It is physically separate from other patient areas and has unique equipment and infrastructure that provide an extraordinarily high level of clinical isolation,” […]
U.S. suffers from lifespan inequality, says Stanford researcher
Lifespan inequality measures uncertainty in the age at death, Tuljapurkar said. For example, when life expectancy is 80 years, then an uncertainty of 15 years in age at death means a person will likely die between the ages of 65 80 years minus 15 and 95 80 years plus 15. Lifespan inequality is the age […]
Ebola deaths surge in Sierra Leone and Liberia; 44 new cases, 21 deaths — Health & Wellness — Sott.net
Just one confirmed new case had been reported during the past week in Guinea, where the WHO said it was closely monitoring the situation. There has been resistance among some communities to measures recommended to control the outbreak, such as precautions during traditional burial ceremonies.Ebola causes vomiting and diarrhea, impairs kidney and liver function and […]
CDC chief to testify on anthrax exposure scare | TheHill
“A potential live anthrax exposure raises serious questions about CDC’s adherence to safety protocol measures and the agency’s ability to ensure its scientists and the public are safe,” said subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy R-Pa..The CDC’s investigation is still ongoing but the agency has said it will take disciplinary actions against those who mishandled the live […]
Controversial scientist recreates H1N1 flu virus that killed 500,000 people… but his version in RESISTANT to vaccine | Mail Online
Dr Yoshihiro Kawaoka, professor of virology at University of Wisconsin at Madison, has reportedly tweaked the 2009 strain of pandemic influenza responsible for some 500,000 deaths worldwide to make it resistant the human immune system’s antibodies.Kawaoka’s many critics have said that his latest provocative experiment has essentially rendered the world’s population defenseless against the virus.According […]
Chikungunya Virus Spreads to Mexico from the Caribbean | Repeating Islands
In December 2013, a local infection of the chikungunya virus was detected for the first time in the Americas with the confirmation of two cases on the island of St. Martin.The chikungunya virus was originally reported in the 1950s when an outbreak occurred in a village in southeastern Africa.Chikungunya is a virus transmitted to man […]
Arizona prisoners and activists call for DOJ Investigation into rape and gang violence in AZ DOC.
If you are unfamiliar with the case, Marcia was doing 27 months for a $20 blow job she agreed to give an undercover Phoenix cop one fateful day, and died in a cage in the Arizona sun in May of 2009, at ASPC-Perryville. That was after an extended “suicide watch” in the 107 degree heat, […]
Prescott S. Bush as Treasurer of Planned Parenthood First National Fundrasing Drive—1947
Prescott S. Bush as Treasurer of Planned Parenthood First National Fundrasing Drive—1947 Planned Parenthood fundraising letter of January 8, 1947, lists Prescott S. Bush as treasurer of Margaret Sanger‘s first national fundraising drive. At that time, contraception was against the law in Connecticut, and the state had a large Catholic constituency. In 1950, during Prescott’s […]
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