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article thumbnail People Power Can Defeat the Money Power
Tuesday, 17 January 2012 | Andrew Schmookler

Sure, it’s true, as the newspapers like to point out, it's an uphill fight. Sure, my opponent will far outspend me. Sure, this is the most difficult district in Virginia in which to beat a...

 
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An Interview with Mike Scala PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 27 January 2012 18:10
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My Interview with Mike Scala who is running for Congress in the 6th District of New York

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cynthia-pooler/2012/01/27/an-interview-with-scala

 
No Fracking Way! Industry Says Word 'Frack' Has Been Co-Opted PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 27 January 2012 09:45

"It's Madison Avenue hell"

- Common Dreams staff

"Hydraulic fracturing" is more commonly known as "fracking."

During this week's State of the Union address, President Obama said:

"It was public research dollars, over the course of thirty years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock, reminding us that Government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground."

But he never said the F-word, no doubt pleasing industry lobbyists.

From the Associated Press:

“When you hear the word ‘fracking,’ what lights up your brain is the profanity,” says Deborah Mitchell, who teaches marketing at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Business. “Negative things come to mind.”

But the real profanity is fracking itself. Ellen Cantarow writing on Common Dreams Monday:

 
Supermarket Meat Comes from Sick Animals PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 27 January 2012 09:38

—By Tom Philpott

At Maverick Farms, we keep a flock of chickens for eggs. It seems axiomatic to me that the happier and healthier the birds are, the better the eggs will be. So if a salesperson showed up pitching a product that would, say, boost egg production by 5 percent, while making our birds sick, but just healthy enough to keep laying, I'd send him packing. Who wants to eat eggs from a sick chicken? And why would I intentionally harm the animals who provide my eggs?

The US meat industry has different ideas. Its main goals are to maximize production while minimizing costs; animal health matters only to the extent that the animals need to be well enough to scuttle down the slaughter line (or produce eggs, in the case of hens). Thus the industry routinely feeds livestock stuff that makes them sick.

Over at MSNBC, the excellent food-safety reporter Helena Bottemiller exposes one major example: the widespread use on factory-scale hog farms of ractopamine, a drug that boosts meat production but makes hogs miserable. The drug—fed to 60 percent to 80 percent of pigs, Bottemiller reports—"mimics stress hormones, making the heart beat faster and relaxing blood vessels." Its effects are pretty dire:

 
An Interview with Matthew Woodmancy PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 26 January 2012 17:29
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My interview with Matthew Woodmancy who is running for Congress in the 18th District of Illimois

 

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/cynthia-pooler/2012/01/26/an-interview-with-matthew-woodmancy

 
French Scientists: Childhood Leukemia Spikes Near Nuclear Reactors PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 26 January 2012 10:43

French researchers have confirmed that childhood leukemia rates are shockingly elevated among children living near nuclear power reactors

The “International Journal of Cancer” has published in January a scientific study establishing a clear correlation between the frequency of acute childhood leukemia and proximity to nuclear power stations. The paper is titled, “Childhood leukemia around French nuclear power plants – the Geocap study, 2002-2007.”

This devastating report promises to do for France what a set of 2008 reports did for Germany — which recently legislated a total phase-out of all its power reactors by 2022 (sooner if the Greens get their way).

The French epidemiology — conducted by a team from the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, or INSERM, the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, or IRSN, and the National Register of hematological diseases of children in Villejuif, outside Paris — demonstrates during the period from 2002-2007 in France the doubling of childhood leukemia incidence: the increase is up to 2.2 among children under age five.

The researchers note that they found no mechanistic proof of cause and effect, but could identify no other environmental factor that could produce the excess cancers.

 
Physicians in Congress Committing Malpractice on Millions PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 26 January 2012 10:34

What would you think if your physician told you, “Keep smoking because quitting would kill tobacco and health care jobs.” Or, “Don’t take your high blood pressure medicine, you can’t afford it.” And, “Don’t lose weight, no one has proven obesity is bad for you.”

That’s exactly the quality of medical advice we are getting from the 18 Republican physicians currently serving in Congress. Some of the most well known are the father and son team of Rep. Ron and Sen. Rand Paul and Sen.Tom Coburn. Almost all of these physician/Congressmen have been key soldiers in the Republican war on the EPA; calling it a “job killer,” pronouncing relevant health science “unproven,” claiming we “can’t afford” their regulations.

In the last ten years over 2,000 scientific studies published in the main stream medical literature have revealed that air pollution has much of the same physiologic and disease consequence as first and second hand cigarette smoke. Those studies show that just as there is no safe number of cigarettes a person can smoke, there is no safe level of air pollution a person can breathe. Even pollution at “background” levels still causes health consequences.

 
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