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Study could help battle against superbugs
The toxin SElX is made by 95 per cent of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, including MRSA strains linked with hospital-acquired infections.When it is released it triggers an over multiplication of immune cells, which can lead to high fever, toxic shock and potentially fatal lung infections.
The study, published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, will help research to find drugs that could target SElX and prevent damage to healthy cells.
( Makes you wonder about hospital toxic 'sanitation' protocols killing the wrong kinds of wildlife and upsetting balances to the detriment of habitat...while adding known sickening agents to environment ! I don't hear much about Florence Nightingale's mainstays : fresh air and sunshine. BTW ... cleaning is about dirt removal ... not assassinating suspect residual life as a potential problem instead of noting a potential ally against unwanted infestation.
Shortly before his death from liver damage subsequent to multiple chemical sensitivities incurred while working at a natural gas cracking plant as janitor, a friend had me accompany him to hospital as he foresaw problems. Immediately he was taken to a room which had been just 'prepped' he signed to me for us to leave and pointed to his throat. He could not breathe nor talk until back out in the hall for a few minutes.
Yet public places like churches - and hospitals ! - discourage people from wearing scent because of known reactions. Apparently the matter of known biological agents affecting people is too subtle for some. )
Nasal congestion: More than physical obstruction
Scientists from the Monell Center report that the annoying feeling of nasal obstruction is related to the temperature and humidity of inhaled air. The findings suggest that sensory feedback from nasal airflow contributes to the sensation of congestion. This knowledge may help researchers design and test more effective treatments for this familiar symptom of nasal sinus disease. Nasal sinus disease, usually caused by infection or allergy, is one of the most common medical conditions in the United States, afflicting approximately 33 million people and accounting for over $5.8 billion in healthcare costs annually. Nasal congestion and the associated feeling of obstruction is the symptom that typically causes individuals to seek medical assistance.
However, symptoms of nasal congestion have been difficult to treat effectively because, as many physicians have found, patient reports of congestion often have little relationship to the actual physical obstruction of nasal airflow."By establishing that feelings of nasal congestion can be sensory-related, we open doors for more targeted treatment," said study lead author Kai Zhao, Ph.D., a bioengineer at Monell. "For example, effective treatments may need to include a focus on restoring optimal humidity and temperature in the patient's nasal airflow."
( And yes, in winter dry air from the furnace can dry protective mucus in the nose...making it worthless as a barrier against infection. One little gadget that is almost repulsive to use is a Neti pot for nasal irrigation with saline/soda solution...but I keep one around. )
Experiments with the HAARP Ionospheric Heater
Repatriation Tax Holiday Push Shows Congress Turning Deaf Ear To Occupy Wall Street
"Vertically Integrated Grassroots Strategy"
( Yes, that is an oxymoron indicating a managed phenomenon )
Here's the Koch Brothers' Americans for Prosperity answer to Occupy Wall Street:
Writers in Support of the Occupy Movement
The plight of Palestinians in Israeli prisons
( Palestine is an Israeli prison. Interestingly, that link to Palestinian rants against the Separation Wall is Red flagged by Web of Trust. I'm afraid there are times I don't 'trust' it, either. Or are people being harassed by politically motivated hacking ? )
related - see first comment
House Passes Incinerator Bill That The EPA Warns Will Kill Thousands
It's just the latest in an ongoing assault on the EPA that as of last week had prompted 159 anti-environmental regulation votes on the House floor this year. The House passed a measure last week to relax proposed regulations on cement kilns, which the EPA says will lead to 12,500 premature deaths.Environmental groups and Democrats were livid over the 272 to 142 vote, which they said will allow smaller incinerators -- often in urban settings -- to burn tires, solvents, plastics, oil sludge and other toxic-laden substances for profit without any oversight or reporting requirements.
"By taking away pollution control requirements for industrial boilers and incinerators, H.R. 2250 would literally kill and sicken thousands of Americans," said Earthjustice attorney Jim Pew. "And what is simply appalling is that the industry lobbyists who pushed for this bill and the members of Congress who voted for it know these facts."
Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) argued that the GOP is ignoring all the costs born by society, which will have to foot the bill for higher rates of asthma and heart attack, among other health problems.
“Americans need more jobs not more toxic air pollution," Becerra said in a statement. "The Republican plan to sacrifice the air we breathe is hazardous to our health and imposes a cleanup tax on our kids in the future. It is past time for this Congress to start focusing its energy on restoring a cutting-edge economy that puts America ahead of the competition, jumpstarts new industries and rebuilds our roads and bridges."
The measures are unlikely to pass the Senate, and President Obama has vowed to veto them. Still, environmental advocates worry that the measures could wind up added to must-pass legislation as Congress struggles to control the deficit.
Iraq Toxic Burn Pit Fumes Detrimental to National Guard Troops ...
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8 Feb 2011 – Black smoke billowing from 10 acres of burning tires, batteries, asbestos, and amputated human body parts is a daily ritual at Camp Taji, a U.S. ...VA Watchdog dot Org -- Iraq War Toxins Page -- Information about ...
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HOUSE VOTES TO LIMIT IRAQ BURN PITS (06-26-09) "We should not continue to recklessly use burn pits to dispose of hazardous waste across Iraq and ...Iraq & Afghanistan Burn Pit Chemical Exposure ... - Jon Gelman, LLC
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6 Sep 2011 – Iraq & Afghanistan Burn Pit Chemical Exposure Cancer & Disease Claims. Breathing dust, fumes, and other toxic substances from burn pits, ...Libya Live Blog
National Transitional Council [NTC] forces pulled back under ferocious fire from Muammar Gaddafi loyalists in the fugitive leader's hometown Sirte on Thursday, an AFP correspondent reported.
The NTC forces, which had been hoping to mop up the last pockets of resistance in two residential neighbourhoods in the northwest of the city, withdrew at least two kilometres to the central police headquarters they captured on Tuesday, the correspondent said.
"We have been told to retreat to the police HQ and will be using artillery cannon to hit Gaddafi's forces," fighter Hamid Neji of the Martys of Free Libya Brigade told AFP on the new front line.
Thai capital prepares for floodwaters
The country's Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department has said 269 people have died, mostly from drowning, since tropical storms began hitting Thailand at the end of July.
It said 8.2 million people in 60 of the country's 77 provinces have been affected by floods and mudslides, and 30 provinces are currently inundated.
The government planned to use 1.5 million sandbags to build the barriers but still lacked more than 100,000 as of Monday.
The fast and furious plot to occupy Iran
imaginations all across the spectrum - piercing the noxious revolving door between government and casino capitalism - Washington brought us all down to earth, sensationally advertising an Iranian cum Mexican cartel terror plot straight out of The Fast and the Furious movie franchise. The potential victim: Adel al-Jubeir, the ambassador in the US of that lovely counter-revolutionary Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
FBI Director Robert Mueller insisted the Iran-masterminded terror plot "reads like the pages of a Hollywood script". It does. And quite a sloppy script at that. Fast and Furious duo Paul Walker/Vin Diesel wouldn't be caught dead near it.
The good guys in this Washington production are the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). In the words of Attorney General Eric Holder, they uncovered "a deadly plot directed by factions of the Iranian government to assassinate a foreign Ambassador on US soil with explosives".
Holder added that the bombing of the Saudi embassy in Washington was also part of the plan. Subsequent spinning amplified that to planned bombings of the Israeli embassy in Washington, as well as the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires.
The Justice Department has peddled quite a murky story - Operation Red Coalition (no, you can’t make that stuff up) - centred on one Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old holding both Iranian and US passports and an Iran-based co-conspirator, Gholam Shakuri, an alleged member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps's (IRGC) Quds Force.
Arbabsiar allegedly had a series of encounters in Mexico with a DEA mole posing as a Mexican drug cartel heavy weight. The Iranian-American seems to have been convinced that the mole was a member of the hardcore Zetas Mexican cartel, and reportedly bragged he was being "directed by high-ranking members of the Iranian government", including a cousin who was "a member of the Iranian army but did not wear a uniform".
Predictably, the proverbial torrent of US "officials" came out with guns blazing, spinning everything in sight. An alarmed Pentagon will be increasing surveillance over the Quds Force and "Iran’s actions" in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf. Former US ambassadors stated that, "it's an attack on the United States to attack this ambassador". Washington is about to impose even more sanctions against Iran; and Washington is urgently taking the matter to the UN Security Council.
BusinessWeek - 21 hours ago The US designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1984 and says Iran ... Guard Corps responsible for covert and special operations outside Iran, ... |
Iranian Terror Plot: Fake, Fake, Fake by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar ...
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2 days ago – This has been the general pattern of our “anti-terrorist” operations in the ... send all kinds of traceable money wires from Iran to the US, and not ...The Bush Administration's operations in Iran : The New Yorker
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh
7 Jul 2008 – Clandestine operations against Iran are not new. United States Special Operations Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from ...Jundallah
It is believed to have 1,000 fighters, and claims to have killed 400 Iranian soldiers[14] and many more civilians.[15][16] It is a part of the Baloch insurgency in Pakistan and in Iran's Sistan and Baluchistan Province.[citation needed] The group started under the name of Jundallah and later renamed itself as the People's Resistance Movement of Iran. The group has been designated a terrorist organization by Iran, and has been linked to and taken credit for numerous acts of terror, kidnapping and smuggling narcotics.[17] Many observers believe the group is linked to al-Qaeda.[18][19][20] Iran has long alleged that the U.S. government is supporting Jundallah. Several other sources such as the ABC News, Daily Telegraph, and journalist Seymour Hersh have also reported that Jundullah has received support from the United States against the government of Iran,[21][22][23][24] although the US denies any involvement.[21]
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People's Mujahedin of Iran
militant organization that advocates the overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Founded in 1965 by a group of leftist Iranian college students as an Islamic and Marxist political mass movement[3] MEK was originally devoted to armed struggle against the Shah of Iran, capitalism, and 'Western imperialism'.[4
Government sources claim that over 17,000 Iranians were killed by the MKO.[9]The group claims to have renounced violence in 2001[10] and today it is the main component organization of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an "umbrella coalition" calling itself the "parliament-in-exile dedicated to a democratic, secular and coalition government in Iran. The group has had thousands of its members for many years in bases in Iraq, but according to the British Broadcasting Corporation "they were disarmed in the wake of the US-led invasion and are said to have adhered to a ceasefire."[11]
The United States, Canada, Iraq and Iran have designated the PMOI a terrorist organization.[12][13] On January 26, 2009, following what the group called a “seven-year-long legal and political battle”, the Council of the European Union removed the PMOI from the EU list of organisations it designates as terrorist.[14][15][16][17]
The PMOI and the NCRI claim to have provided the United States with intelligence on Iran's nuclear program in 2002 and 2008.[18][19
( Here we go again. Iran's 'nuclear program' being code for fearing that people who publicly fight the proliferation of WMD in their back yard are going to be the ones to develop it out of unrelated technology supplied in part by another neighbour with a history of fighting deployment of nuclear weapons in its backyard. But...that's not the way the Russian retaliation for nukes on Turkish NATO missile silos sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis is dealt with by Western Mind Control. Meanwhile the function of the NPT is defused entirely. )
Why Google Search can be useless...and the proliferation of identical stories
'US drone raids' kill fighters in Pakistan
06/10/11 | AMERICAN NMD AND THE «GREATER ROMANIA» PROJECT
Oddities of the officially presented meaning of the U.S. NMD system may be discussed for a long time. So, the intercepting missiles, launched from Romania are to bring the hypothetical Iranian rockets down in over Turkey. In Turkey itself it is planned to station merely AWACS radar. According to the logic of the missile strikes, the latter one should be attack in the first place, because after that the attack at Europe and the USA can be waged with a much greater success. If we draw all the bases and radar of American NMD system as the points of a circle, it is the Russian Federation rather than Iran that happens to be in the center of it.Lucifer the Light Bearer
Mon, 10/10/2011 - 02:12 — james This poem came to me thinking about Israel's infatuation with fire and death and our western govt's wholehearted support of that after reading at A. Peasant's Twelfth Bough and various articles and poems at Richard Edmondson's excellent Left Wing Christian.net.They hate us for our freedom
to light up their ever shrinking sky
For the unquenchable fire
that destroys their children as they cry.
They stare uncomprehending
at the dreadful loss for us
As our humanity is cremated
in the hail of white phosphorus
Statement from Occupy Wall St
Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:02 — newjesustimes I received this in my email this morning from a mailing list I'm on called NationofChange. I endorse this message
Dear Readers, What follows is the first official, collective statement of the protesters in Zuccotti Park:
| As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known. * They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage. * They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses. * They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one's skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation. * They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization. * They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices. * They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions. * They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right. * They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers' healthcare and pay. * They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility. * They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance. * They have sold our privacy as a commodity. * They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. * They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit. * They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce. * They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them. * They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil. * They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people's lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit. * They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit. * They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media. * They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt. * They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. * They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas. * They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.* To the people of the world, We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power. Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone. To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal. Join us and make your voices heard! |
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The "Fast And Furious" Used Car Salesman "Threat" Falls Apart
"The mandate to 'Support the Troops' is a red herring: it is an orchestrated propaganda campaign to de-legitimize dissent."The Obama administration insists that it has proof of Iranian government involvement in the assassination plot. Some anonymous officials though are already walking back that claim. It seems that they have no proof at all, just a hunch.Every Iran expert interviewed thinks the story as presented is nonsense: Alireza Nader from Rand Corp, Kenneth Katzman of the Congressional Research Service, former CIA agent Robert Baer, Carter era NSC official Gary Sicks, Bush 2 NSC official Hillary Mann Leverett (also here), Muhammad Sahimi of PBS/Tehran Bureau and Iran scholar Hamid Serri.
To me the indictment reads as if a nutty Mansour J. Arbabsiar attempted a drug deal which was then turned into an terrorism entrapment by and through the paid criminal Drug Enforcement Administration informant.
Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
The Chronical – Computer networks proved their organizing power during the recent uprisings in the Middle East, in which Facebook pages amplified street protests that toppled dictators. But those same networks showed their weaknesses as well, such as when the Egyptian government walled off most of its citizens from the Internet in an attempt to silence protesters. Read Article05/10/11 | AXIOMS OF GEOPOLITICAL EXPERIENCE. Part I. Russia, Turkey and the geopolitical retrospection
On the 2nd of August, 1914 Enver Pasha, military officer and actual ruler of Turkey offered Russia to align a military bloc against Germany and Austria-Hungary, once Russia guaranteed eternal Turkish possession of the Straits. Yet, it was exactly the thing that St. Petersburg politicians were unwilling to do, giving Turkey a final push towards the embrace of the Central states. Not multiplying the number of its allies was of vital importance for Russia at the moment and cutting off the Straits Turkey, thus, interrupted the most important channel of Russian communications with its Western allies.01/10/11 | WILL ALGERIA BE THE NEXT TARGET? Interests of the USA, France and Al-Qaida have tied into a single knot
Algerian militants are tightly bound to the Special Services of certain Gulf States, pursuing their own goals. Time of peace for Algerian is at an end. Talkative Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi has indirectly confirmed it, announcing his intention to replace the Algerian gas with Libyan one soon enough. Mind that Algeria as a supplier has never left a handle for reproaches.30/09/11 | WAR AT THE HOLY LAND MAY BE THE END OF THE ARAB SPRING. PART II
The age when Israel featured the unreserved U.S. support is a thing of past now. Today, when the world is reformatted according to the scenarios of Soros and Brzezinski, the global layout of powers is utterly different. The USA tries to stake at the new revolutionary movements — in the Islamic world first of all. According to the architects of the new world order, regimes that came to power in the second half of the 20th century and on the surge of secular pan-Arabism are to be brought down everywhere.( 'Documents' in the Topical Index has War Game | Desert Crossing 'Post-Saddam Iraq' [NSA Secret ?] and related State links on the reasons why the stabilizing force of Saddam Hussein no longer matched policy objectives...though he had fought a U.S.- supplied proxy war against Iran for 9 years ! )
 | 28/09/11 | LESSONS OF SIRTE AND BANI WALID. Are London and France going to occupy Libya?Answering the Channel 2 question, whether new authorities will get stuck in an unforgivable conflict with the Warfalla tribe because of the Sirte and Bani Walid assault, TNC executive bureau leader Mahmoud Jibril remained calm. «Yes, this is serious and they will try to revenge but French and Englishmen are much stronger and we’ll ask them to stay for as long as necessary». Frankly said, no unequivocal interpretations are possible. Leader of rebels perceives Libyan future to be the stand against his own citizens and his only hope is the former colonial powers, which are «much stronger» than his own compatriots. |
 | 23/09/11 | EXPROPRIATION OF «SAFETY CUSHIONS». Norwegian and Libyan waysTheoretically Libya has $100 billion, but in fact new leadership of the Libyan central bank had to sell 29 tons of gold — which makes up 20% of an entire golden reserve — in order to supply people with salaries. At that, the matter of lifting off the suspending status of merely 15 billion out of 80 depends upon the negotiations between the TNC and the contact group — they are to discuss the fair distribution of concessions in favor of the companies from «liberating countries».
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