- Whooping Cough Outbreaks & Vaccine Failures
UPDATE: CLICK HERE TO VIEW NVIC'S PERTUSSIS VACCINE & DISEASE PAGE by Barbara Loe Fisher Reports of whooping cough outbreaks in California1,2 and in other states this summer are nothing new. Every four to five years – no matter how high the vaccination rate is - there are reports of w ...
- Using Fear & Prejudice to Attack Vaccine Exemp ...
by Barbara Loe Fisher This summer, inaccurate and misleading information about B. pertussis whooping cough and the pertussis vaccine is being put out there by medical doctors, who should know better. Media campaigns designed to create fear about infectious disease are nothing new. This ...
- Amy Wallace & Yellow Journalism
by Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earl ...
- Forcing Flu Shots on Health Care Workers: Who ...
By Barbara Loe Fisher Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia are ordering all employees to get a flu shot every year or be sent home for two weeks without pay to “think about it.” Anyone, who still refuses to get a flu shot after that, is fired.1 60 percent of all U.S. health care p ...
- Doctors Denying Vaccine Risks: An American Tragedy
by Barbara Loe Fisher It is a short 15 second public service message on the CBS Jumbotron on Times Square in New York City that encourages everyone to make informed vaccine choices. The message is sponsored by the nonprofit charity, the
National Vaccine Information Center, and made possible ...
- Keith Olbermann's Countdown to Return on June 20th
San Jose Mercury News: "The voice will be silenced no more. Current TV has announced that its new show with Keith Olbermann will debut on June 20 at 8 p.m. The show, to be called 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann,' marks the return to the airwaves for Olbermann, one of journalism's most provocativ ...
- Was FBI Too Quick to Judge Anthrax Suspect the ...
The report begins: "Scouring the anthrax-laced mail that took five lives and terrorized the East Coast in 2001, laboratory scientists discovered a unique contaminant - a tiny scientific fingerprint that they hoped would help unmask the killer." FBI photographs of letters that contained anthra ...
- Guantanamo Files: Massive Leak Reveals Innocen ...
David Leigh, James Ball, Ian Cobain and Jason Burke report: "The US military dossiers, obtained by the New York Times and the Guardian, reveal how, alongside the so-called 'worst of the worst,' many prisoners were flown to the Guantanamo cages and held captive for years on the flimsiest grounds, ...
- Fox News Goes Full Birther
Intro: "Following Donald Trump's lead, Fox News figures have recently embraced or promoted aspects of the birther conspiracy theory by falsely claiming that President Obama has not produced his birth certificate, or by hosting birthers to hype their discredited theories unchallenged." Sarah P ...
- 'No Humanity Left' in Syria
Al Jazeera journalist Cal Perry begins: "Every other journalist is trying to get into Syria, but on Saturday I was trying to get out. The government had made it perfectly clear: My visa was expiring and unless I left on April 23, I would 'face the full force of the law.'" A man carries a chil ...
- The Broken Rifle in Kabul
The above photograph, of Scott Schaeffer-Duffy from the Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts standing beside street art made by local Afghan youth, was taken in Kabul by WRL National Committee and Organizing Task Force member Jim Haber when he was on a recent delegation with Voices for Cr ...
- WRL Organizers Hit the West Coast
From February 25th to March 7th,WRL organizing coordinator Kimber Heinz and field organizer Ali Issa began a three-stop trip on the West Coast where they met with WRL locals and affiliates, as well as allied organizations working on GI resistance, civilian support for anti-war veteran organizing ...
- Iraq/Wisconson Labor Solidarity: Two Statements
In the wake of the threat posed to what remain of labor rights in Wisconsin, and the public’s powerful response, two Iraqi labor leaders, Hassan Jum’a and Faleh Abood, penned solidarity statements in late February on behalf the 26,000 member strong Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions, and the 15,000 ...
- Stepping up the Resistance to U.S. Islamophobia
As Peter King, the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, steps up the U.S. government attack against Muslims living in the U.S., saying that he will “rely on Muslims to make his case that American Muslim leaders have failed to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the effo ...
- Mubarak Ousted! Two Down, Twenty To Go . . .
“The people have brought down the regime!” was a cry heard around the world when on Friday, February 11th, 18 days of unrelenting non-violent protest finally forced the end of Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year, US backed rule over Egypt. Ecstatic jubilation filled Cairo’s Midan al-Tahrir (Liberation Squar ...
- Study on Drug-Resistant Staph and Store-Bought ...
According to a recently published nationwide study of grocery store meats, the next time you handle a piece of meat or poultry bought at your local supermarket there is nearly a 50 percent chance that it will be carrying drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Staph). The Translational Genomics Re ...
- U.S. Dept. of the Interior among 2,000 Sodexo ...
The Meatless Monday campaign just gained America’s protector of natural resources and heritage as one of its latest supporters. The U.S. Department of the Interior is one of Sodexo’s more than 2,000 corporate and government clients, which the food service giant encouraged to adopt its Meatless M ...
- Corn Panic
By Dr. Dennis Keeney, Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future The USDA 2011 Prospective Plantings Report was one of the most anticipated planting reports in several years. It came on the heels of a shocking Grain Stocks Report issued last month, which showed that corn stocks ...
- Calling all Farmers: Baltimore Accepting Appl ...
This spring, something new is sprouting up in Baltimore. In the coming months, small-scale farm plots will be allocated to local farmers —an initiative aimed at filling vacant city-owned lots, encouraging community development, improving neighborhoods and increasing access to healthy food. La ...
- Will the U.S. Hog Industry Ever Kick Its Relia ...
The editors of Scientific American recently encouraged U.S. hog farmers to “follow Denmark and stop giving farm animals low-dose antibiotics.” Sixteen years ago, in order to reduce the threat of increased development of antibiotic resistant bacteria in their food system and the environment, Denm ...
- Stop NATO News: April 26, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Atlantic Club’s Passy: EU Must Become Collective Member Of NATO Middle East, North Africa: U.S. Risks War With China And Russia To Protect U.S. Interests, International Companies: 15,000 U.S. Troops, Thousands Of Contractors To Remain In Iraq Romania: U. ...
- NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardme ...
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 26 ==== Stop NATO April 26, 2011 NATO Observes Easter By Intensifying Bombardment Of Libya Rick Rozoff As it has done daily since it assumed control of the air war and naval blockade against Libya on March 31, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on April 25 p ...
- Updates on Libyan war: April 26
==== NATO’s African War: Nearly 4,000 Sorties, Over 1,600 Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable NATO Playing With Fire In Libya: Analyst NATO Intensifies Bombing Of Tripoli As Former Colonial Master Italy Enters War NATO Escalates Bombing Assault, Libyans Fear Protracted War Al ...
- Stop NATO News: April 25, 2011
==== Updates on Libyan war: April 25 ==== U.S. Marines Bring Iraqi And Afghan War Combat Experience To Gulf Of Guinea “Made In USA”: Yemen Targeted By Predator Drone Missile Strikes Economic War: NATO Invasion Of Libya Inevitable Resurgence Of French Imperialism New Georgian Military Adventurism ...
- Samuel Johnson on war
Samuel Johnson Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland’s Islands (1771) Excerpts [W]ar is not the whole business of life; it happens but seldom, and every man, either good or wise, wishes that its frequency were still less. That conduct which betrays designs of future hostility, if ...
- House Of Numbers: Dr Peter Duesberg, A Caution ...
NotForSale2NWO April 27th, 2011 Peters interview from the House of Numbers Deluxe Edition DVD. Most of the Big Pharma funded medical community has shunned Peter for speaking the truth. This clip documents the smear/slander campaign that has been waged against Mr. Duesberg. http://www.houseofnumb ...
- Air Readings In Texas WAY Off Charts, Official ...
NotForSale2NWO April 26th, 2011 TCEQ: Air monitor readings in Texas City were off the charts after power outages http://www.khou.com/news/BP-loses-power-issues-shelter-in-place-alert-120679184.html
- Bioaccumulation: Why Fukushima Matters
lucaswhitefieldhixson.com April 26th, 2011 What is Bioaccumulation? Simply Stated - All living organisms are connected to each other through a food chain. It takes more organisms in the beginning of a food chain to support a smaller number of organisms at the end of the chain. Where bioaccumulat ...
- Pregnant Teacher Harassed By TSA On Easter Sun ...
The Intel Hub April 26th, 2011 The Transportation Security Agency has a long history of harassing innocent, peaceful Americas. From 6 year girls to the elderly, the TSA, an agency that has never arrested a terrorist, has taken the American police state to a whole new level. When i received an em ...
- Press For Truth: Into The Fire – G20 Pol ...
Intel Hub Note: Citizens of Canada were literally beaten, strip searched and left naked for hours. Women were sexually assaulted, journalists were illegally detained, and police were given broad powers that turned out to be not even exist. This is the police state in FULL force. This is globalis ...
- Turkey: Five TKP/ML-TIKKO women guerillas kill ...
Press Bulletin/ April 2011 To the Press and the Public: 5 martyrs of TKP/ML-TIKKO died in Dersim The Press statement of the TKP/ML-TIKKO Dersim Region Comittee from April 20th 2011 states that on 2nd February 2011, 5 guerillas of TKP/ML-TIKKO have lost their lives as a result of an avalanche. A ...
- Egypt’s ElBaradei suggests war crimes pr ...
(AP) â 4 days ago NEW YORK (AP) â Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the “shame of a needless war” in Iraq. Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil ...
- Delhi students investigate the mass struggle a ...
Preliminary report of the DSU fact-finding visit to Narayanpatna, Odisha Democratic Students’ Union (DSU), Delhi PRESS RELEASE:Â A REPORT FROM GROUND ZERO A team of students from DU, JNU and IGNOU belonging to the Democratic Students’ Union (DSU) visited Narayanpatna Block in the Koraput distri ...
- The “Arab Spring” and How the Oppo ...
Jordan’s New Opposition and the Traps of Identity and Ambiguity by Hisham Bustani, Jadaliyya Apr 20 2011 Protesters took the streets of Amman, Jordan, on Friday, calling for governmental and constitutional reforms.There are two major tribulations in Jordan from which all other issues stem. The f ...
- Saudi counter-revolution cools Arab Spring
Fueled by fear of rising oil prices, US deference is helping Saudi Arabia implement its agenda in the Gulf. Jim Lobe, al Jazeera 24 Apr 2011 – As the so-called Arab Spring enters its sixth month, it appears to have run into seriously wintry headwinds. While some observers here have blamed Saudi ...
- NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE
On Thursday April 21st we shall make a human chain with the children of Gaza to spell out NO FLY ZONE OVER PALESTINE so as to tell the world that Israel’s bombings of Gaza must stop. We intend to remind the world how the children of Palestine are terrorized and murdered by Israeli air power [...]
- Samouni Family Responds to Goldstone Backtrack ...
During Operation Cast Lead Israel committed massive war crimes for all the world to see. Among these crimes the use of White Phosphorus in densely populated areas, use of Depleted Uranium, bombing civilian targets of all sorts without military necessity, destroying civilian infrastructure with ...
- Samouni Family Community Centre & Classroom
We are looking at sending at least one bus from the UK to Gaza, loaded with materials to set up the Samouni Family Community Centre/Classroom. We would like to do this in the next couple of weeks so we need many things to happen very fast if we are to meet such a deadline.
- Response to “An Open Letter to Ken OR ...
We in the West do not even take care of our own people, multi-billionaires and deep poverty side by side, house foreclosures in concert with trillions of dollars being handed to the banksters. These bastard banksters are the ultimate rape and pillage machine, and they are salivating over Libya.
- Tahrir4Gaza – Liberation for Gaza
As the Arab people continue to exercise unarmed yet mighty power, there is one place above all others that remains at the heart of the struggle, Palestine. Despite all the money, propaganda, weapons, false imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, torture and mass-murder wielded against them, they have e ...
- Because it's beautiful -- but fake
Stole this offa Facebook. It was posted on YouTube two years ago. I hope this young woman is having a fabulous life, but her catch -- sadly -- isn't real.�And thanks, Carole, for the head's up.
- But how will we know if they've arrived?
The alien-seeking telescopes have lost funding. You can read more here.
- A little more reading with Wednesday's column...
To read more about the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence's description of td411.org, go here. To take a relationship quiz, go here. For a list of warning signs, go here. To read Pres. Obama's proclamation that names February as teen dating violence prevention and awareness month, ...
- What makes a bad job, bad?
Well, according to this, a lack of union protection is a good place to start for a bad job. From there, things get complicated. Writes Michael Lind at Salon: ...it is much easier to reach a consensus on the definition of a bad job than to agree on what constitutes a good job. Reuters photo
- Hold on with that God particle thing
A leaked memo about scientists closing in on the Higgs boson ("God particle") is real, but the work is still fresh and unconfirmed, say officials at the Swiss collider where the work is being done. ("God particle" is a media construct. Turns out scientists prefer "the champagne bottle boson.") ...
- Conservatives Continue to Battle Abortion Acce ...
Thanks to new GOP majorities in the wake of the 2010 election, Republican governors in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Idaho, with the endorsement of conservative state legislatures, signed into law a series of restrictive measures this month.Contributor: T. Calvarese Published: Apr 22, 2011
- Obama Can't Ignore Discontent Among Core Suppo ...
The singing protest against President Obama showed creativity and flair. What does it signal about protests against the president?Contributor: Jeff Musall Published: Apr 22, 2011
- Electric Vehicles the Way of the Future for Au ...
As gas prices continue to rise, it's no wonder the fully electric Nissan Leaf was named the 2011 World Car of the Year.Contributor: Miranda Young Published: Apr 22, 2011
- Q&A: Andrew Breitbart on 'Righteous Indignatio ...
Andrew Breitbart is no stranger to controversy. With the release of his new book, he has been put back into the cross-hairs -- and he loves it.Contributor: Douglas Stewart Published: Apr 26, 2011
- Chernobyl Aftermath, By the Numbers
A look at the Chernobyl disaster and its aftermath 25 years later.Contributor: John Coon Published: Apr 26, 2011
- Amateur Photo Displays a Full Day's Worth of C ...
Photographer shoots and assembles an entire day of skies Amateur photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos created this continuous image of the sky over Sounio, Greece, a town near his home. Late last December, he recorded the sun’s path across the sky during the day and an 11-hour star trail at night. W ...
- In One Hour, For Less Than a Buck, a Sensor Ma ...
If there were a distinction one could earn for practicing smart medicine on a shoestring, a UT grad student would be high in the running. Using a aluminum foil, gelatin, milk protein, and a cheap LED light--items that collectively sell for under a buck--he’s created a fast, one-hour test for ac ...
- ARPA-E's PETRO Program Plans to Create Better ...
The Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (Advanced Research Projects Agency--Energy) has just doled out its fourth round of funding, and $30 million is going toward the ambitious goal of trimming the cost of biofuels by 50 percent. PETRO, or Plants Engineered to Replace Oil, looks to breed or genetica ...
- Things Fire Ants Behave Like: Gore-Tex, a Liqu ...
Fire ants might be infuriating little beasts, an invasive species we'd all be pleased to see banished to its native Brazil, but it turns out a fire ant colony has some pretty amazing properties. In groups, they knit together, more like a fabric than anything else, and are waterproof, totally fl ...
- Video: They Sure Don't Make Pyrex Like They Us ...
A change to heat-resistant glass has had explosive effects Most people probably don’t think of Corning as a crime fighting company, but when it sold its Pyrex brand to World Kitchen in 1998, the company accidentally made the illegal manufacture of crack cocaine more difficult—a fascinating exam ...
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