This article from Maria Minno brings to mind many warnings about the push to vaccinate against the flu from our correspondent Ted LaCombe:
The finger is being pointed directly at the World Health Organisation, which stands accused of announcing ‘a false pandemic’; in June last year.
Critics now claim that the drug companies manipulated the WHO into [...]
Here is a fine example of the impact of corporate interests on public opinion. The people interviewed here soon reveal that they really very little knowledge about politics and the policies that shape the nation. All they can do is repeat the soundbites they’ve heard. Watch: New Left Media
As Vermont seethes with radioactive contamination and the Democratic Party crumbles, Barack Obama has plunged into the atomic abyss.
In the face of fierce green opposition and withering scorn from both liberal and conservative budget hawks, Obama has done what George W. Bush could not—pledge billions of taxpayer dollars for a relapse of [...]
Count me among those who are gravely disappointed in Obama’s support for nuclear power: It is too costly, producing $1 million in profit for plant owners EACH DAY (and we should subsidize this?); nuclear power plants consistently leak radiation; we have no way to safely dispose of radioactive waste produced in the power cycle; and [...]
Within days the public learned that radioactive contamination of Vermont Yankee test wells were at 70,000 picocuries — more than three times the official “safe” level.
Elizabeth Courtney, executive director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council, said last week: “The contamination has rapidly increased. And the underground plume appears to be spreading. This is [...]
Envisioning a Nuclear Future—Funded by Taxpayer Dollars
By Roger Witherspoon/E, The Environmental Magazine
Congress and the Obama administration are on a course to provide the nation’s nuclear industry an unprecedented financial package—one that could dwarf the combined expenditures of last year’s bailout programs. And the legislative package comes with restrictions that would block the Nuclear Regulatory Commission [...]
MoveOn.org took the pulse of 10,000 members as they watched Obama’s State of the Union address:
“The most definitive drop in enthusiasm is when President Obama talked about nuclear power and offshore drilling,” says Ilyse Hogue, MoveOn’s director of political advocacy. “They’re looking for clean energy sources that prioritize wind and solar.”
Greenpeace, an environmental group, [...]
Maya Lin – Unchopping a Tree from What is Missing? Foundation on Vimeo.
“An article in the NY Times begins, “In the digital age, filing income tax returns should be a snap. Important data from employers and financial institutions has already been sent to government computers. Yet taxpayers are still required to perform the chore of preparing a return from scratch, in many cases paying a software company [...]
Like Murkowski and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Lincoln is demonstrating a shocking disregard for her state’s interests, the health of her constituents, and a misunderstanding of why America has been losing jobs to China and India. Her support for the Dirty Air Act is an act of allegiance to polluters…
Lincoln has taken nearly a million [...]
