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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

17 April - Late Links

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U.S. and allies seek a refuge for Qaddafi


To Turn Schools Into Profitable Warehouses, Corporations First Need To Destroy Teachers Unions

I think it's been pretty well established by now that right-wing education "reformer" Michelle Rhee is just a discredited huckster for the corporate push to take over and profitize the school system, she's just the latest tool that corporate America has loosed on the public school system (not unlike, in her own way, Scott Walker, Rick Scott, John Kasich, Rick Snyder, Jan Brewer, etc). Corporate behemoths will never be able to take over the public education system without first destroying the teachers' unions. And that has long been one of the primary goals of the for-profit-charter-school movement.


THIS KINDA SAYS IT ALL...



Disability and Social Care

councils in England are already slashing adult social care services due to a lack of funding resulting from the Government's cuts.

How Singapore is making sure it doesn't run out of water





Vaccines and autism: a new scientific review

For all those who've declared the autism-vaccine debate over - a new scientific review begs to differ. It considers a host of peer-reviewed, published theories that show possible connections between vaccines and autism.
The article in the Journal of Immunotoxicology is entitled "Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes--A review." The author is Helen Ratajczak, surprisingly herself a former senior scientist at a pharmaceutical firm. Ratajczak did what nobody else apparently has bothered to do: she reviewed the body of published science since autism was first described in 1943. Not just one theory suggested by research such as the role of MMR shots, or the mercury preservative thimerosal; but all of them.
Ratajczak's article states, in part, that "Documented causes of autism include genetic mutations and/or deletions, viral infections, and encephalitis [brain damage] following vaccination [emphasis added]. Therefore, autism is the result of genetic defects and/or inflammation of the brain."
The article goes on to discuss many potential vaccine-related culprits, including the increasing number of vaccines given in a short period of time. "What I have published is highly concentrated on hypersensitivity, Ratajczak told us in an interview, "the body's immune system being thrown out of balance."
University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Brian Strom, who has served on Institute of Medicine panels advising the government on vaccine safety says the prevailing medical opinion is that vaccines are scientifically linked to encephalopathy (brain damage), but not scientifically linked to autism. As for Ratajczak's review, he told us he doesn't find it remarkable. "This is a review of theories. Science is based on facts. To draw conclusions on effects of an exposure on people, you need data on people. The data on people do not support that there is a relationship. As such, any speculation about an explanation for a (non-existing) relationship is irrelevant."

Helen Ratajczak, author "Theoretical aspects of autism: Causes--A review."
Ratajczak also looks at a factor that hasn't been widely discussed: human DNA contained in vaccines. That's right, human DNA. Ratajczak reports that about the same time vaccine makers took most thimerosal out of most vaccines (with the exception of flu shots which still widely contain thimerosal), they began making some vaccines using human tissue. Ratajczak says human tissue is currently used in 23 vaccines. She discusses the increase in autism incidences corresponding with the introduction of human DNA to MMR vaccine, and suggests the two could be linked. Ratajczak also says an additional increased spike in autism occurred in 1995 when chicken pox vaccine was grown in human fetal tissue.
Why could human DNA potentially cause brain damage? The way Ratajczak explained it to me: "Because it's human DNA and recipients are humans, there's homologous recombinaltion tiniker. That DNA is incorporated into the host DNA. Now it's changed, altered self and body kills it. Where is this most expressed? The neurons of the brain. Now you have body killing the brain cells and it's an ongoing inflammation. It doesn't stop, it continues through the life of that individual."

USC Researchers Say Pollution May Be Harming Our Brains





Air samples were taken from the 110 Freeway near USC and exposed to mice over a 10 week exposure period, over about 150 hours. The results showed brain damage — keeping neurons from developing — which could eventually lead to memory loss, even developmental disorders in children. According to researchers there is suggestive evidence, it could happen to us too.

OFFSHORE TAX HAVENS SUCK THE LIFE BLOOD OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY


Effect of Prairie floods ripples into grocery aisles of world
The flood of 2011 is having disparate effects on urban and rural Manitoba, as cities and towns remain largely dry while agricultural producers are bracing for another year of losses.
But these two solitudes are more connected than many city dwellers realize. The fate of farms in southern Manitoba, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions, has implications far beyond the province's borders.
Not only can a major flood affect the price of such staples as bread and cooking oil in Canada, it can exacerbate food-security concerns for people already struggling to feed themselves halfway around the world.


Read more: http://www.globalwinnipeg.com/world/Effect+Prairie+floods+ripples+into+grocery+aisles+world/4627534/story.html#ixzz1Jkz3IK9n


Manitoba flooding unprecedented

The province's latest hydrological projection calls for the Red River to crest in Winnipeg within three weeks at 20.1 to 22.8 feet above normal winter ice level.

The top end of that range is 1.3 feet lower than a previous worst-case scenario of 24.1 feet — only 0.2 feet above the crest of the 2009 spring flood, which peaked at 22.6 feet.

The 2009 flood was the second-worst in recent memory. Steve Ashton, the province's transportation and infrastructure minister, warned Manitobans not to get complacent.

"At times it may appear the severity of the flood is significantly less,'' Ashton said Wednesday. "I want to stress this is a very serious flood.''

Ashton said the 2011 flood is "unprecedented on a geographic scale'' because of the widespread distribution of saturated soils and heavy snowpacks across the province, which have led to river and overland flooding in a majority of Manitoba's 197 municipalities.


Read more: http://www.globalwinnipeg.com/Manitoba+flooding+unprecedented/4613841/story.html#ixzz1Jl0AFZG9

Success in the sky: U.S. military claims 'most challenging' missile intercept test yet

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377322/U-S-military-Flight-Test-Standard-Missile-15-Aegis-missile-intercept-test.html#ixzz1Jl0UehRN

Obama administration unveils online ID system (but insists it's not a Big Brother plan to snoop on Internet users

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377479/Obama-administration-unveils-national-online-ID-system.html#ixzz1Jl12gVNC

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