Tuesday, November 24:
Don Lieber:
Depleted Uranium, The Emerging Radiation Crisis in Iraq and US Students: Vermont Takes Lead with Divestment
The University of Vermont voted to divest from companies which produce Depleted Uranium weapons, as reports from Iraq are beginning to detail an emering radiation crisis. The U of V appears to be the first US Universityh to take this action.
Monday, November 23:
Public option at center of debate
What Democrats lack in consensus they make up for in determination to pass a bill. Not for years has the Senate seen legislation as big as the health-care measure -- weighing in at more than 2,000 pages -- move forward at such a steady, if plodding, pace.
MC Kean:
*If a Tree Falls: If a Patient is Assaulted Under Anesthesia
This is the first chapter of a book being written to educate and effect change in practices, attitudes, and policies within the health care industry by educating you the public and empowering you to act for change. Access and Cost are issues that need to be addressed and can be addressed with a Single Payer, Universal Access for all system. But what about quality and patient rights? Learn, be empowered and act.
Sunday, November 22:
Kennedy says RI bishop banned him from Communion
Where is the separation of Church and State? When Catholic Bishops threaten Public officials with their faith, who is running the country?
The Cornucopia Institute:
Food Manufacturers and Organic Industry Lobbyists Circle the Wagons
Two powerful lobby groups in the food industry, The Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Organic Trade Association, recently intervened as friends of the court in a federal consumer class-action lawsuit accusing the nation's largest supplier of private-label organic milk of consumer fraud.
Saturday, November 21:
NEWS ALERT: Senate Votes to Open Health Care Debate
The 60-to-39 vote, along party lines, clears the way for weeks of rowdy floor proceedings that will begin after Thanksgiving and last through much of December. But even as the Democrats succeeded in uniting their caucus by winning over the last two holdouts, big disagreements remained, making final approval of the bill far from certain.
Suicides in US Army At Record Levels (1 comments)
The number of suicides in the U.S. Army is reaching record levels. As of November 16th, the Pentagon said 140 soldiers on active duty and 71 not on active duty took their own lives so far this year.
Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly Television
PBS mainstay Bill Moyers said he was retiring from weekly television and would end his Friday night public affairs show, “Bill Moyers Journal,” on April 30, 2010. That date will also be the last for “Now on PBS,” which has been canceled.
The War on Soy: Why the 'Miracle Food' May Be a Health Risk and Environmental Nightmare (1 comments)
It's not that all soy is bad; in fact, eating it in small doses can be quite healthy, if it's fermented. But when it's not, that's where the problems begin. Soy is a legume, which contains high amounts of phytic acid. Phytic acid binds to minerals (like calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc), interfering with the body's ability to absorb them (which is usually a bad thing). Soy is also known to contain "antinutrients,"
Friday, November 20:
BBC News - 'Fat for cosmetics' murder suspects arrested in Peru
What do they do with all that fat that gets liposuctioned out of your body? Did you know there was a use for that? If crooks are willing to kill you for your fat, is it possible your doctor could be selling your fat to cosmetic companies. Yuk! Hey, where's my discount?
Sen. Nelson will vote for motion to push health bill forward in Senate
Nelson's declaration eliminates one of the question marks facing Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.) leading up to the vote, set for Saturday night. Democratic Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.) and Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) have not yet stated their positions but both have hinted in recent days they are leaning toward supporting the vote.
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Maggie Mahar, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much
It’s an overwhelming story & through it all we read of physicians torn between the traditional ethics of their profession & incentives & temptations of the money-driven system that surrounds them.Mahar shows the best of them struggling to create islands of ethical sanity,to collaborate & share information (using IT reforms,evidence-based medicine)in a hospital & drug industry that would rather withhold information because
Religious Leaders Unite Against Abortion and Same-Sex Unions
Christian leaders say they will not obey any law that tries to force them to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other antilife act; nor bend to any rule purporting to force them to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent.
Thursday, November 19:
Michael Pollan: Help Protect Our Farmers From Assaults By Monsanto - The True Food Network (1 comments)
Here's an activist group that is taking on Monsanto and agribusiness. I'm not advocating that you give them money; I just am pleased to see an activist organization taking on the big guys (Monsanto, Cargill, others) that so effectively lobby congress and exploit the law and the courts. Maybe you are too.
(Disclaimer: I have no connection with the organization or its principals. I'm not recommending it as a charity.)
VIDEO: US protest by 9/11 responders
Hundreds of emergency workers who responded to the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States have been protesting in the capital, Washington, DC. They say they are angry that it has taken eight years for the US Congress to discuss healthcare needed for those who have fallen ill as a result of working in the skyscrapers' ruins.
Joe Lieberman slams public option, brushes off critics (4 comments)
Sen. Joe Lieberman's threat to filibuster any health care bill with a public option could kill health reform this year — and embolden Democratic challengers who'd like to send him packing in 2012.
White House backs off cancer test guidelines
"The task force has presented some new evidence for consideration but our policies remain unchanged," Sebelius said. "Indeed, I would be very surprised if any private insurance company changed its mammography coverage decisions as a result of this action."
Tim Alexander, Earl of Stirling:
BIOTERRORISM IN THE UKRAINE? (7 comments)
An article by Tim Alexander, Earl of Stirling, detailing the latest facts about the Ukraine Pandemic which very much looks like pneumonic plague.
