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Sunday, 19 October 2014

Vaccination Nation: Interview with Barbara Loe Fisher

On this edition of James speaks with Barbara Loe Fisher, president and co-founder of the National Vaccine Information Center, a non-profit charity established in 1982. For the past three decades, she has led a national, grassroots movement and public information campaign to institute vaccine safety reforms and informed consent protections in the public health system.Loe Fisher has researched, analyzed and publicly articulated the major issues involving...

Stress: A new trigger of Alzheimer's?

The connections between stress and physical and mental health are undeniable. Studies have found links between acute and/or chronic stress and a wide variety of health issues.This includes reduced immune function, increased inflammation, high blood pressure, and alterations in your brain chemistry, blood sugar levels and hormonal balance, just to name a few.According to recent research, stress also appears to be related to onset of Alzheimer's...

5-year-old Palestinian girl hit by settler car succumbs to wounds

© MaanImages/al-Quds Ramalla-- A young Palestinian girl who was struck by an Israeli settler vehicle earlier Sunday has succumbed to her wounds, medics told Ma'an.Einas Khalil, five, died after being hit by a car driven by an Israeli settler near the central West Bank town of Sinjil, medical sources at Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah said.The girl and young Nilin Asfour were walking on the main road near the village when they were hit, and...

Vaccine Injury: The critical role of Microflora

There are gaping holes in vaccine science, especially the critical role of microflora in mediating vaccine effects, including adverse ones.The purpose of these articles is to call attention to gaping holes in vaccine science, issues never before studied: How childhood vaccines may affect flora balance and colonization, and How existing flora (microbial predisposition) may affect vaccine response leading to injury. In Part 1, we explored microbes...

Nine creepy Orwellian technologies that will soon be inside you...

Given the frenzy of interest following the announcement of the Apple Watch, you might think wearables will be the next really important shift in technology.Not so.Wearables will have their moment in the sun, but they're simply a transition technology.Technology will move from existing outside our bodies to residing inside us.That's the next big frontier.Here are nine signs that implantable tech is here now, growing rapidly, and that it will be part...

UFOs in West Virginia: 10 witnesses, 4 low-flying UFOs, 3 big as football fields

© on.aol.comUnidentified Flying Objects have been spotted throughout history around the world. Widely defined as any airborne object that cannot be identified, most associate appearances of UFOs with aliens. Is the truth really out there? A UFO sighting in southern West Virginia has been reported that not only presents multiple witnesses of the objects in question but also the witnessing of multiple unidentified flying objects during the sighting....

Australian government's anti-immigrant poster shocks planet

© Irish Central.comAdvance Australia Fair - or retreat Australia unfair? Don't come to Australia, you'll drown.That's the hard hitting message being sent out by the current Australian government to asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants, in the hope it will discourage more of them from ever setting out for its shores.The controversial new government approved poster - which has already been printed in 17 languages - reads: "No way. You will not...

Donetsk People's Republic hoisted 30-meter flag in central Donetsk

© AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky A thirty-meter black-blue-red flag of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) was hoisted on Sunday in central Donetsk on the occasion of one of the first national holidays, the Flag Day."Regrettably, we have too few holidays now, but this holiday we will remember for years to come. Each of the occupied cities - Slavyansk, Mariupol, Kramatorsk, and others - will host our flag sooner or later," DPR Prime Minister...

Corrupted and psychopathic 'art': Paris's giant 'butt plug' installation vandalised

A controversial artwork in the centre of Paris said to resemble a giant green sex toy was apparently vandalised overnight Friday, after critics decried the 80-foot installation as a "humiliation" for the French capital.Called "Tree", the piece by US artist Paul McCarthy was erected in Paris's upmarket Place Vendôme on Thursday as part of the FIAC international art festival which begins next week. © @Flosh (Twitter)Paul McCarthy's 'Tree' artwork...

Improve your mood by changing the way you walk

Change in walking style can influence your mood It's well-known that when we're in a good mood, our style of walking tends to reflect how we feel: we bounce along, shoulders back, swinging our arms in style.Sometimes, just from our gait, it's more obvious to other people how we feel than to ourselves.Now, a new study finds that it also works the other way around: people who imitate a happy style of walking, even without realising it, find themselves...

Mysterious military X-37B space plane lands after nearly two years in orbit

© BoeingRecovery crew members process the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle at Vandenberg Air Force Base after completing 674 days in space. A total of three X-37B missions have been completed, totaling 1,367 days on orbit. The US Air Force's unmanned, X-37B military space plane made an autonomous runway landing on Friday, Oct. 17, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., concluding an orbital test flight nearly two years in duration on a record breaking...

Brazil, India and China taking steps to reduce income inequality, tackle poverty

© AP Photo/ Altaf QadriAn Indian squatter smokes as others sleep on rented cots at a public park near Jama Masjid, or the Grand Mosque, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. There are still too many people living in poverty, but the world is making progress in tackling the problem, largely thanks to such countries as Brazil, India and China, Professor David Hulme, Director of the Brooks World Poverty Institute, told RIA Novosti Friday."There...

Bloodthirsty rabbit joins the long list of critters currently attacking humans!

LAURA KNIGHT-JADCZYK AND JOE QUINNSince the 9/11 attacks, no book has provided a satisfactory answer as to WHY the attacks occurred and who was ultimately responsible for carrying them out - .BUY IT NOW! ANDREW M. LOBACZEWSKIScientists living under an oppressive regime decide to clinically study the founders and supporters of evil regimes to determine what common factor is at play in the rise and propagation of man's inhumanity to man.GET A COPY!...

Canada's Revenue Agency bullies birdwatchers for political activity

A small group of nature lovers in southern Ontario enjoy spending weekends watching birds and other wildlife, but lately they're the ones under watch - by the Canada Revenue Agency.The Kitchener-Waterloo Field Naturalists, a registered charity, is apparently at risk of breaking tax agency rules that limit so-called political or partisan activities.Earlier this year, tax auditors sent a letter to the 300-member group, warning about political material...

Evolutionary trait in pathogen cryptococcus gattii allows it to bypass strong immune responses

New research into a rare pathogen has shown how a unique evolutionary trait allows it to infect even the healthiest of hosts through a smart solution to the body's immune response against it.Scientists at the University of Birmingham have explained how a particular strain of a fungus, , responds to the human immune response and triggers a 'division of labour' in its invading cells, which can lead to life-threatening infections.Once inhaled, the...

'Space Bubbles' may have downed key Afghan rescue mission

© news.agu.orgSoldiers walk to the ramp of the CH-47 Chinook helicopter that will return them to Kandahar Army Air Field. New models will help predict the impact of plasma bubbles on future missions. Twelve years ago, a U.S. military rescue mission in Afghanistan went horribly wrong. A Chinook helicopter carrying U.S. troops failed to receive a crucial radio message and was shot down over the snow-covered peak of Takur Ghar.But the radio failure...
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