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  • The Cannabis Man comes forth
    13 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    They do say that appearances can be deceptive. Perhaps whoever coined the phrase had the foresight to have the Cannabis Man in mind.
    Here is a man who works seven days a week, works out five times a week and has been growing his precious plants for thirteen years whenever time allowed.
    Not once in thirteen years has he sold so much as a leaf. All he has done in that time is learn everything there is to know about the weed; experimenting on himself; examining health benefits; testing (…)

  • Climate Change and Human Health
    8 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Paul R. Epstein
    In 1998, Hurricane Mitch dropped six feet of rain on Central America in three days. In its wake, the incidence of malaria, dengue fever, cholera, and leptospirosis soared. In 2000, rain and three cyclones inundated Mozambique for six weeks, and the incidence of malaria rose fivefold. In 2003, a summer heat wave in Europe killed tens of thousands of people, wilted crops, set forests ablaze, and melted 10 percent of the Alpine glacial mass.
    This summer’s blistering heat (…)

  • Bird flu used as an excuse to scrap Posse Comitatus and impose martial law? Cui bono? Who benefits?
    6 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tularemia (Rabbit fever) bacteria detected on Washington Mall during recent anti-war protest
    October 5, 2005 — Bush, Bird Flu, and Martial Law. At a White House Rose Garden press conference yesterday, George W. Bush responded to a question about the danger of a bird flu pandemic by stating he wants the authority to use the military to enforce mandatory quarantine zones in areas infected by the virus. Bush wants Congress to overturn the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, originally enacted to (…)

  • Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What do we make of the Saturday, October 1 Washington Post headline “Poison Found in Air During Anti-War Protest”?
    Washington D.C. Public Health Director Greg A. Pane posed the right question in the Post article, “Why that day? That’s what is not explained.” Pane pointed that it was “just this 24-hour period and none since.”
    The Post noted that Pane found “. . . it was puzzling that the finding was from a day when the mall was packed with people.”
    Puzzling? Indeed. Biohazard sensors (…)

  • New Avian Flu Coordinator Grossly Overstates Possible Death Toll First Day In Office
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WHO Backs Away From 150 Million Flu Deaths The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday 2-7.4 million deaths was a reasonable working forecast for a global influenza pandemic — distancing itself from a top UN official’s figure of up to 150 million.
    Dr. David Nabarro, named on Thursday as the UN coordinator for global readiness against an outbreak, had said that the world response would determine whether a flu virus ends up killing 5 million or as many as 150 million.
    "There is (…)

  • Bush uses failure during Katrina,overstated avian flu death tolls to push for end to Posse Comitatus
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    publisher’s note: This is the worst US president ever, responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 innocents, a moral zero, incompetent idiot who is a threat to the world. We have to stop him now or God help us all.
    Bush Would Use Military to Quarantine Avian Flu Pandemic
    In the event of a bird flu pandemic that spreads among humans in the United States, President George W. Bush is considering using the military to impose a quarantine on the affected areas. Currently state governors (…)

  • Rare Germ Found in Washington D.C. during protest
    1 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sept. 30, 2005 — A relatively rare biological agent has been detected in air filters serving Washington D.C. in recent weeks, ABC News has learned - but current evidence does not show any indication whatsoever of terrorism.
    The federal government found six air filters around the nation’s capital checked on Sept. 24 and 25 contained "trace amounts" of tularemia, a type of bacteria.
    The tests were conducted as part of routine homeland security procedures, in which selected air filters from (…)

  • Union leader accuses Mbeki of betrayal over Aids
    29 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Basildon Peta, in Johannesburg
    South Africa’s senior labour leader has launched a scathing attack on President Thabo Mbeki, accusing him of "a failure of leadership" in dealing with the HIV/Aids pandemic which is wreaking havoc in Africa’s richest country.
    South Africa has the world’s biggest number of people who have HIV/Aids, with more than five million of its 45 million citizens affected. Mr Mbeki’s remarks five years ago that poverty, not HIV, was the real cause of Aids earned him (…)

  • Bush Drinking Again
    23 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pressures of Office and falling polls knock President off the wagon
    by OfficialWire NewsDesk
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — (OfficialWire) — 09/23/05 — According to the National Enquirer George W. Bush is sneaking shots behind his wife’s back, while many of his staff know he’s drinking again.
    Enquirer reporters, Jennifer Luce and Don Gentile, quoting ’family sources’ detail how the 59-year-old president was caught by First Lady Laura downing a shot of booze at their family ranch in Crawford, (…)

  • Cuba Maintains Offer of Medical Help to the US, says Fidel
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Havana, (AIN) Cuba maintains the offer of medical aid to the victims of hurricaneKatrina, repeated Cuban President Fidel Castro.
    Fidel explained that Cuba was not offering money, but saving lives, and even though the American authorities have not answered Cuba’s action of solidarity, the Cuban doctors are ready to help the people of that country and any other country that needs it.
    The Cuban president attended, Monday, the national graduation of 1,905 doctors from medical (…)