Edition 2 (15th March 2008)

Yes there are things happening in the world other than Britney Spears and Football. Some interesting articles from the mainstream media over the last week (plus a little added sarcasm)

Health:
Growing concern over safety of cellphones for children
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/07/business/mobile08.php
Maybe it isn't actually good to talk afterall?

Fluride dangerous for your health
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hGsoyElv4ZL879LW6z2aZS0Pix7AD8VA14500
So muich for simple old H2O. If only the green movement concentrated its efforts on what we drink as opposed to the gas that we all exhale

City Lawmakers Find 'Alarming' Report of Drugs in Water
http://www.nysun.com/article/72602
The only problem is that it will be happening to your water supply too.

Gulf War illness 'chemical link'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7288902.stm
Hey ho that was 17 years ago. The latest Gulf War troops will have this plus the short term effects of depleted uranium exposure that we have left for the Iraqis to live with for the next 10,000 years.

One Woman's Astonishing Experiment With Aspartame
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/3/11/one-woman-s-astonishing-experiment-with-aspartame.aspx
Have you ever wondered why fat people whoi drink diet coke keep getting fatter? Now you know. Probably best to stick with the sugar flavoured battery acid version of Coke.

Interesting fact of the week:
The Chairman of the company that first developed Aspartame was our old friend Donald "Purveyor of Chemical Weapons to Sadaam" Rumsfeld! What a small world it is.

Prison for parents who don't vaccinate
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080312/ap_on_he_me/polio_vaccine_prison
Moral dilema of the week. Does the state have the right to imprison parents who don't want they children to be injected with drugs laced with mercury (a great preservative...not so great for the human body)?

The Great HPV Vaccine Hoax Exposed
http://www.naturalnews.com/Report_HPV_Vaccine_0.html
Oops that kind of news will do profits no good at all. Remember the good old days when you only had a handful of vaccinations before adulthood?

Autism payout reignites vaccine controversy
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19726464.100
Ditto


Science:
Autism payout reignites vaccine controversy
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9143913
The Pole Shift Data Collection Project
http://data4science.net/index.php?project=poleshift
One theory is that simply North will become South when it happens. The more radical theory is that the earth will start spinning in the opposite direction. You might want to be up a very tall mountain or have a surf board that day!

Honey bees whiped out in 10 years
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/09/animalbehaviour
No bees = no plants being pollinated = big problems (unless those lovely people at Monsanto come up with a "solution")


Education:
Embarrassingly Stupid Americans -- One in Five Believes Sun Revolves Around Earth
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/3/11/embarrassingly-stupid-americans-one-in-five-believes-sun-revolves-around-earth.aspx
Well the Roman's had it understood 2 millenia ago. Give the masses Bread & Circuses and keep them uneducated and they'll do as you wish and won't cause any problems. Nowadays it is Supermarkets and Reality TV. Boy we've learnt so much.

The War on Terror
Yemeni describes CIA secret jails
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7292974.stm
Look if Jack Bauer gets results from torture in 24 then it must work mustn't it?

Pentagon Report on Saddam's Iraq Censored?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/rapidreport/2008/03/pentagon-report.html
Now ain't that embarressing? Wasn't this wonderful war to get back the chemical weapons that we'd sold him (which we'd already taken back), and because he was friends with nasty old Al'Q?

Iraq war price tag reaches three trillion US dollars
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilEtW7a6pYkT6R-xulJOrIlw4VEg
Now I'm no accountant but three trillion dollars seems a tad poor investment of money simply to steal anothers country's oil and kill a few hundred thousand of its people (sorry I mean collateral damage not people)


The next war ......
Pentagon denies Iran policy shift
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7291174.stm
How damn inconsiderate not wanting to start WW3 before the end of Dubya's term in office - smart money is on August, during the Olympics.