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The Great Pakistani Deluge Never Happened
Don’t Tune In, It’s Not Important
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/content/tomgram-juan-cole-media-security-threat-america
HONORING THE FALLEN: US Military KIA, Iraq & Afghanistan/Pakistan - August 2010
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/content/honoring-fallen-us-military-kia-iraq-afghanistanpakistan-august-2010
Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes as anti-war protester attempts citizen's arrest during publicity trail for controversial memoir
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308938/Tony-Blairs-security-tight-begins-publicity-trail-memoirs.html
Welcome to WarCriminalsWatch.org
http://warcriminalswatch.org
Wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture of detainees are clearly defined as war crimes by the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the Geneva Conventions, the Convention against Torture and other treaties to which the United States is a signatory. Under the cover of "national security," other countries in the region are being drawn into the on-going wars.
The Principles of International Law, recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal, provide no defense for war crimes. Similarly, the Convention Against Torture, which defines torture as a war crime, provides that no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat or war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture.
The prohibition on war crimes is absolute, not relative, meaning that there is no justification for war crimes despite the particular circumstances in their respective countries.
Evidence-based vaccinations: A scientific look at the missing science behind flu season vaccines
Mike Adams
As someone with a good deal of education in scientific thinking and the scientific method, I have put considerable effort into attempting to find any real scientific evidence backing the widespread use of influenza vaccines (flu season shots). Before learning about nutrition and holistic health, I was a computer software entrepreneur, and I have a considerable scientific background in areas such as astronomy, physics, human physiology, microbiology, genetics, anthropology and human psychology. One of my most-admired thought leaders is, in fact, the late physicist Richard Feynman.
I don't speak from a "scientific" point of view on NaturalNews very often because it's often a dry, boring presentation style. But I do know the difference between real science and junk science, and I find examples of junk science in both the "scientific" side of things as well as the "alternative" side of things.
flu season vaccines are mainstream medicine's version of psychic surgery: It's all just "medical sleight of hand" based on nothing more than clever distractions and the obfuscation of scientific facts. Flu season shots, you see, simply don't work on 99 out of 100 people (and that's being generous to the vaccine industry, as you'll see below).
A year ago, I offered a $10,000 reward to any person who could find scientific proof that H1N1 vaccines were safe and effective (http://www.naturalnews.com/027985_H...). No one even made a claim to collect that reward because no such evidence exists.
Conventional medicine, they say, is really "Evidence-Based Medicine" (EBM). That is, everything promoted by conventional medicine is supposed to be based on "rigorous scientific scrutiny." It's all supposed to be statistically validated and proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that it works as advertised. And in the case of flu vaccines, they are advertised as providing some sort of absolute protection against influenza. "Don't miss work this flu season. Get a flu shot!" The idea, of course, is that getting a flu shot offers 100% protection from the flu. If you get a shot, they say, you won't miss work from sickness.
This implication is wildly inaccurate. In fact, it's just flat-out false. As you'll see below, it's false advertising wrapped around junk science.
You see, there was never an independent, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study proving either the safety or effectiveness of the H1N1 swine flu vaccines that were heavily pushed last year (and are in fact in this year's flu shot cocktail). No such study has ever been done. As a result, there is no rigorous scientific basis from which to sell such vaccines in the first place.
( As a teenager, my father decided to inspire me with a copy of 'The Microbe Hunters', which outlined the development of vaccination. It's been a resource which kept a kid who only read encyclopedias and that instead of taking biology from feeling completely 'at sea'...and appropriately disrespectful of the 'science' of vaccination...natural parameters being rather thorny constraints on medical ambition.
BTW How many recall Jane Burgermeister's websites lambasting lab work on vaccines as not just incompetent or inept...but bacterial warfare ? That doesn't sound quite as strange to someone familiar with what's been done to food, water and farming as it might otherwise. )
Amino acid L-arginine vital for fighting, preventing infections
http://www.naturalnews.com/029670_L-arginine_infections.html
Richard Lamb and post doctoral fellow Virginie Mieulet, found that L-arginine, an amino acid present in protein-rich foods, is necessary for the immune system to properly detect and eliminate invading bacteria.
Published in the journal Science Signalling, the discovery has massive implications in understanding the role of proper nutrition -- particularly essential and non-essential amino acids -- in maintaining good health and preventing disease.
Talented Bacteria Make Food Poisoning Unpredictable
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100905231235.htm
Professor Colin Hill, who is presenting his work at the Society for General Microbiology's autumn meeting in Nottingham, describes how bacteria use different tricks to aid their survival inside the body, helping to explain why food poisoning can be so unpredictable.
Our studies show that consuming Listeria in one food may be quite safe, while eating the same amount in another food might be lethal. By understanding the role of the food matrix we may be able to identify and eliminate high-risk foods from the diet of susceptible people.
Breaking Up Phosphorus With Ultraviolet Light May Offer a Safer, Simpler Way to Build Many Industrial and Household Chemicals
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100903140907.htm
MIT chemistry professor Christopher Cummins and one of his graduate students, Daniel Tofan, have developed a new way to attach phosphorus to organic compounds by first splitting the phosphorus with ultraviolet light. Their method, described in the Aug. 26 online edition of Angewandte Chemie, eliminates the need for chlorine, which is usually required for such reactions and poses health risks to workers handling the chemicals.
Guy Bertrand, chemistry professor at the University of California at Riverside, says the beauty of the discovery is its simplicity. "It is amazing to realize that nobody thought earlier about such a simple approach to incorporate phosphorus into organic molecules," he says. "Such a synthetic approach to organophosphorus compounds is indeed urgent, since the old (chlorine)-based phosphorus chemistry has a lot of undesirable consequences on our environment."
While the new reaction cannot produce the quantities needed for large-scale production of phosphorus compounds, it opens the door to a new field of research that could lead to such industrial applications, says Bertrand, who was not involved in the research.
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