Image via Wikipediahttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/world/asia/19iraq.html
A new generation of Iraqi artists, one molded by bloodshed and occupation, is finding its voice in a place reshaped by eight years of war.
Pakistan 'blocking supplies to US base'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8580192/Pakistan-blocking-supplies-to-US-base.html
{ The comments from Dawn might as well have been from VoA : another case of seeming truthful by using sources you yourself control )
Fatal floods hit China forcing over 500,000 to flee
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13807166
China has raised the disaster alert to the highest level, as flooding spreads across central and southern provinces
Days of torrential rain have forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in central and southern China.
The government has described flooding in some areas as the worst since 1955 and has mobilised troops to evacuate some 555,000 people.
More than 100 people are known to have died so far this month.
Area 51: the plane truth
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8579490/Area-51-the-plane-truth.html
West of the base’s main living quarters, on a piece of ground slightly above the lake bed, a waste dump had been constructed. Vehicles with California license plates would head up to the dump to unload cargoes of waste too secret to dispose of normally.
While a lot of waste material put into the pits was generated on-site, there were also the contents of those trucks that hauled up every week from California. Inside the locked and sealed containers there might be classified paperwork, sometimes shredded – and often there’d be 55-gallon chemical drums, containing remnants of the secret stealth paint. Every time a new part of the aircraft’s skin had to be manufactured, the coating would be applied, and if a whole barrel wasn’t used quickly, the rest of it was rendered useless and had to be disposed of.
By about 3pm on a Wednesday, the pit would be full, and the base security staff would supervise as a tanker from the on-site fuel depot squirted gallons of diesel into the pit. Then someone from the base’s fire department came up and threw a flare into the trench to start that week’s incineration of top-secret waste.
The burn, which lasted 24 hours, took place at least weekly; twice a week, Dunham says, for three years in the mid-Eighties. It was during this period that he first noticed something was wrong.
“I never smoked in my life, but I started coughing a lot,” he recalls. “It’s what they call a bronchial spastic cough – where you cough so much your vision would collapse. One time – my wife laughs at this – but I was sitting on the toilet at home and started coughing; I opened my eyes after having passed out, and all I could see was white. I’d fallen headfirst into the bathtub.”
Dunham began asking around. “Guys I worked with would tell me, ‘Oh, did you know what’s-his-name?’ Yes. ‘Oh, he’s dead.’ ‘Did you know this other guy?’ Yes. ‘He’s dead.’ Or, ‘He’s had a stroke – he’s almost dead.’” Altogether, it was rumoured that more than 20 people had been affected.
Dunham connected the dots between his health, his dead friends and the weekly burn, and set out to see if he could get some compensation for what he and his doctor now believed was a work-related illness.
The case sought to obtain compensation for the sick and bereaved, as well as to allow them access to information about the materials they had been exposed to, to aid their ongoing treatments.
“The burning of hazardous waste in an open pit has long been a crime in the United States,” Turley explains. “It has to be burned in a facility that is usually five to six stories high, and costs hundreds of millions of dollars to build and operate. The burning of these types of waste in an open trench is virtually prehistoric from an environmental law standpoint. The government did it at Area 51 because they believed that Area 51 was a legal nonentity.
“[The base] lived in flagrant violation of a dozen different laws. What was troubling is that we had evidence that military officials were fully aware that what they were doing was criminal. This issue had been raised with officials at the base, and they simply dismissed those objections, because they believed they were immune from any federal law.”
And in an environment effectively exempt from legal scrutiny and oversight, who knows how many other people’s lives might have been put at risk?
For Dunham, the pride he used to feel as a result of his work guarding one of America’s most prized military secrets has all but disappeared.
“I wish I’d never worked up there,” he says. “My doctor told me this has cut 20 years off my life. We could have been participating in genocide, for all anybody knew. But when it came down to it, we were the ones being exterminated.”
Galouye Daniel F Simulacron 3
http://rapidlibrary.com/download_file_i.php?file=13141773&desc=Galouye++Daniel+F+-+Simulacron-3+.pdfVaccines: The real issues in vaccine safety PDF
Vaccines face a tougher safety standard than most pharmaceutical products because they are given to healthy people, often children. What they stave off is unseen, and many of the diseases are now rare, with their effects forgotten. So only the risks of vaccines, low as they may be, loom in the public imagination. A backlash against vaccination, spurred by the likes of Andrew Wakefield — a UK surgeon who was struck off the medical register after making unfounded claims about the safety of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine — and a litany of celebrities and activists, has sometimes overshadowed scientific work to uncover real vaccine side effects.
( I was not kind in comments, citing everything from the Vaccines article in the Topical Index to the August 2009 articles on pharming and the poisoning of our water supply. )
Power Plant: One Small Leaf Could Electrify an Entire Home
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Power-Plant-One-Small-Leaf-Could-Electrify%20an-Entire-Home-72156.html
Reversing course, US Senate votes to kill corn ethanol subsidies - June 16, 2011
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/06/reversing_course_us_senate_vot.html
Canadian Energy Strategy( from candidate for Alberta P.C. leadership )
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