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  • EU warns of heroin crisis in Britain
    8 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Source : "The Dawn"
    By Our Special Correspondent
    LONDON, Nov 7: A glut of opium on the world market, fuelled by a record Afghan harvest, threatens a new heroin crisis in Britain, the European Union’s drug agency has warned.
    According to a report in The Guardian on Friday (Record opium harvest in Afghanistan threatens new heroin crisis in Britain) the agency’s annual report also confirms that the UK remains at the top of the European league table of 27 countries for cocaine abuse for (…)

  • Too Few Aware Of World Orphan Week.
    11 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Brian McAfee
    October 11 marked the end of World Orphan Week. With 133 million orphans in the world today, most in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and 15 million of them orphaned due to HIV/AIDS (according to SOS Children) we have a moral responsibility to ensure the basic needs orphans around the World. These needs include health, education and welfare. Addressing poverty issues in the various regions particularly populated with high levels of orphaned or abandoned children is being (…)

  • Global Nuclear Cover Up (video, 2 h)
    6 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leuren Moret is a whistle blower from the Livermore Lab. In her presentations she exposes shocking and highly suppressed facts about our government poisoning us with radiation right at this very moment.
    Leuren documents every statement she makes with research documents, many of which use actual government data to draw their conclusions. Did you know that diabetes, autism and other forms of mental illness are caused by exposure to radiation?..
    Produced by Gypsy Taub more at (…)

  • Why the United States has a drug problem and how to solve America’s drug problem
    15 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The reason that the United States of America has a drug problem is because it has been caught in a perpetual lie. The denial by Americans that cannabis is not a Schedule I substance has only benefited large conglomerates, and a small minority of people who profit from criminalizing the majority.
    Our children are not stupid, but they are inquisitive. When they consumes cannabis for the first time they realizes almost immediately that they have been lied to. Once this lie is exposed then (…)

  • Government and Medical Industry Deciding Who Dies in the Event of Pandemic
    10 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The task force members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services. The proposed guidelines are designed to be a blueprint for hospitals "so that everybody will be thinking in the same way" when pandemic flu or another widespread health care disaster hits, said Dr. Asha Devereaux. She is a critical care (…)

  • Brave New World : ush signs Bill to Take all Newborns’ DNA
    3 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Steve Watson
    President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database.
    Described as a "national contingency plan" the justification for the new law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of "public health (…)

  • Vietnam : The victims of Agent Orange and other chemical weapons
    10 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The victims of Agent Orange and other chemical weapons that were dropped on people.
    Video (21’):
    http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-18604226.html

  • Mobile phones ’more dangerous than smoking’, expert warns
    8 April 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Geoffrey Lean
    Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation
    Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
    The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment (…)

  • Are We Really That Ill ?
    27 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Are We Really That Ill?
    By CHRISTOPHER LANE | March 26, 2008
    CHICAGO - America has reached a point where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens - 67.5 million - have taken antidepressants. These statistics have sparked a widespread, sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders. Studies indicate (…)

  • Toxic Textiles - Pesticides drench most cotton products (video, 26’)
    7 March 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Deutsche Welle TV 25 mn 54 s - 5 févr. 2006
    Toxic Textiles - Pesticides drench most cotton products, including many we eat.
    Toxic Textiles? Are the sales personnel of Germany’s clothing retailers at risk of being poisoned? The textiles they sell are contaminated with highly toxic chemicals. The chemical PCP (Pentachlorophenol), which is prohibited in Germany, is applied to garments to protect them during transport to Europe. Other hazardous pesticides used in the cultivation of cotton in (…)