Profound Quotes

"Neither is it that US foreign policy is cruel because American leaders are cruel. It's that our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment; it might as well be written into the job description. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers - (let alone American soldiers - do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to." From 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower' by William Blum

From "9-11, Six Years Later": "If one looks at the credentials of skeptics compared to the credentials of defenders of the official line, it is impossible to dismiss skeptics as kooks. There are many people with strong imaginations on the Internet, but serious skeptics stick to known facts, known violations of standard procedures and the laws of physics. The vast majority of the people who call skeptics "kooks" are themselves ignorant of physics and have little comprehension of the improbability that such an attack could succeed without either the complicity or complete failure of government agencies. " Paul Craig Roberts

"Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular? But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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ANOTHER CHILD WAITING TO DIE IN GAZA « Desertpeace

Gaza, May 15, (Pal Telegraph) – Yasser Ahmed Al Swasi is a 12 year old child living in the Gaza Strip where the ongoing siege still suffocates 1.5 million Gazans. Gazans are not permitted to leave the strip, even for medical care denials are frequent. Yasser hasn’t left his own bed for two years, as [...]

Pilates exercise: a research-based review | Journal of Dance Medicine & Science | Find Articles at BNET

Journal of Dance Medicine & Science ,  July-Oct, 2006 by Mariana Shedden, [...]

MIDEAST: Families Down to a Meal a Day

MIDEAST: Families Down to a Meal a Day
By Erin Cunningham
GAZA CITY, May 13 (IPS) - Um Abdullah cannot remember the last time she was able to feed meat to her eight children. She does know that for the past week the single meal she cooked for them each day consisted only of lentils. And that [...]

Say NO to GMO! Super Human Radio Show | Farm Wars

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The effects of GMO experiments on unwilling human subjects is discussed, and how drug companies profit from illnesses in both humans and animals, which are directly related to GMO feed consumption. The circle of death.
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Cancer Patients Challenge the Patenting of a Gene - NYTimes.com

Ms. Girard took a genetic test to see if her genes also put her at increased risk for ovarian cancer, which might require the removal of her ovaries. The test came back positive, so she wanted a second opinion from another test. But there can be no second opinion. A decision by the government more [...]

Sustainable Food - Change.org: 4 Reasons Why ‘Modern’ Agriculture Is Bad For You

The agribusiness and crop chemical companies are enamored of the word “sustainability” these days because, I guess, they think it’s a magic word that can wipe the slate clean.
I just don’t think anything can be considered sustainable that has such obviously bad effects on our health, and the health of the world around us. Swine [...]

World Environment News - Argentine Herbicide Lawsuit Alarms Soy Farmers - Planet Ark

UENOS AIRES - An environmental group’s push to temporarily ban a widely used herbicide in Argentina, citing a scientist’s preliminary study, has sparked concern in the country’s huge soy industry and generated disagreement within the government.
An environmental group filed suit in April before the Supreme Court, seeking a ban on glyphosate, a weed killer used [...]

OpEdNews » Interview with Dr. Margaret Flowers, Arrested Tuesday at Senate Roundtable on Health Care

I have with me Dr. Margaret Flowers, co-chair of the Maryland branch of the 16,000-member Physicians for a National Health Program. She is a pediatrician, and mother of three teenagers, who left the practice of medicine about two years ago to work on health care reform full time. She spends a lot of [...]

OpEdNews » Unless We Stand Up and Demand Safe Meat Production, Next Time We WILL Have a Plague

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May 4, 2009
Unless We Stand Up and Demand Safe Meat Production, Next Time We WILL Have a Plague
By George Washington
McClatchy points out that 6 0f the 8 genetic segments in the current swine flu come from a 1990’s outbreak on a large North Carolina pig farm:
The new H1N1 influenza virus that [...]

First genetic analysis of swine flu reveals potency - health - 01 May 2009 - New Scientist

This could be good news. In epidemiological theory, at least, the lower the R0, the easier it may be to snuff the virus out by further hindering its spread.
But it may be too early for celebrations. The 1918 flu pandemic, caused by another H1N1 virus, started with a mild, early wave in spring and early [...]