January 8, 2012
Poor in the US bartering for healthcare Video is available at http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/01/20121845011800689.html Maine clinic allows those on low-incomes to do yard work or other labour in exchange for time with a doctor. A clinic in the US state of Maine has introduced a novel system in order to support those who cannot afford costly [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Barter, Congenital disorder, Due diligence, Fallujah, Government, Gulf War, Internal Revenue Service, Iraq, Maine, Money, United State, United States
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August 6, 2011
Lucy Flores, whose husband spent four years in Pelican Bay, at a rally in support of inmates on hunger strike [REUTERS] “People walked by and asked: ‘How are you doing?’ I answered: ‘How am I supposed to be doing? That’s the craziest question I ever heard.’ The mental health people asked: ‘Are you having any [...]
Tags: Belleville News-Democrat, Brian Nelson, Hunger strike, Jo Reynolds, Pelican Bay State Prison, Prison, Solitary confinement, Supermax
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July 7, 2011
In a health system with no facilities to deal with kidney failure or cancer – 80 per cent of surgeries are linked to lifestyle related diseases, notably, obesity. Six out of every 10 Tongans are obese. On average, Tongans’ eat four times the amount of food recommended by the country’s health department. Tonga is now [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Fiji, Frank Bainimarama, Health economics, Nukuʻalofa, Obesity, Oceania, Tevita Mara, Tonga
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July 4, 2011
Years of violence in Iraq has left a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and the most basic medicines. Areas outside Baghdad particularly suffer from the frail state of the country’s healthcare system. And, as Al Jazeera’s Jane Arraf reports, children are often the most vulnerable There is a video available at the [...]
Tags: Al Jazeera, Australia, Australian Labor Party, Baghdad, Iraq, Jane Arraf, Julia Gillard, middle east, Saddam Hussein, United States, United States Armed Forces
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June 29, 2011
Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages & We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska By Harvey Wasserman http://warisacrime.org/node/58321 Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two things for certain: worse is yet to come, and those in charge are lying about [...]
Tags: China Syndrome, Entergy, Government of Japan, Harvey Wasserman, Japan, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Tokyo Electric Power Company, United States
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June 28, 2011
Steel producer ArcelorMittal tops the list of firms with surplus of emissions trading permits, according to thinktank Sandbag. Photograph AP Some of Europe‘s largest industrial companies gained billions of euros from the carbon emission rules they lobbied fiercely against, new analysis reveals today. Ten steel and cement companies have amassed 240m carbon pollutionpermits from generous allocations, according [...]
Tags: ArcelorMittal, Emissions trading, European commission, European Union, European Union Emission Trading Scheme, Sandbag, Tata Steel, Tata Steel Europe
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June 26, 2011
Diabetes epidemic affecting 350m – and western fast food is to blame Two employees stand behind the counter of the first McDonald’s fast-food restaurant in New Delhi, India. Photograph: Agence France Presse/Getty Images More than 350 million people in the world now have diabetes, an international study has revealed. The analysis, published online by the [...]
Tags: Blood sugar, Diabetes mellitus, Imperial College London, Lancet, Pancreas, United States, World Health Organisation, World Health Organization
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June 26, 2011
Treasury urges British banks to take big losses to help Greece avoid meltdown Effort to persuade banks to take hit comes despite David Cameron’s assurance that UK taxpayers will not foot the bill Share121 reddit this Comments (244) Heather Stewart and Toby Helm guardian.co.uk, Saturday 25 June 2011 19.48 BST Article history Demonstrators protest in front [...]
Tags: Angela Merkel, Athens, European Union, Greece, Hellenic Parliament, International Monetary Fund, List of banks in the United Kingdom, Politics of Greece
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June 26, 2011
An injured protester and his family at a hospital after clashing with police during protests in Juliaca [Reuters] Thousands of protesters opposed to mining and energy projects in southern Peru have taken over a commercial airport as the government struggled to restore calm a day after five died in a clash with police. Officials said [...]
Tags: Alan García, British Columbia, Juliaca, Ollanta Humala, Peru, Protest, Puno, Santa Ana California
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June 26, 2011
The number of adults who have been diagnosed with diabetes worldwide has more than doubled since 1980 to 347 million, a far larger number than previously thought, a new study has found. An international team of researchers working with the World Health Organisation has found that the rates of diabetes have either risen or, at [...]
Tags: American Diabetes Association, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Dapagliflozin, Harvard School of Public Health, Lancet, Novo Nordisk, United States, World Health Organization
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June 22, 2011
Are Londoners ready to die for their air quality? Poor air quality causes more than 4,000 deaths in London each year. Join our ‘die-in’ and get Boris Johnson‘s attention London roads could be responsible for up to 30% of all new cases of asthma in children. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian On the [...]
Tags: Boris Johnson, European Union, Great Smog, London, Mayor, Mayor of London, Pollution, Traffic congestion
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June 22, 2011
World’s oldest person dies aged 114 Brazilian Maria Gomes Valentim put her longevity down to coffee, bread rolls, milk – and minding her own business Maria Gomes Valentim’s husband died in 1946. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images A Brazilian woman officially recognised as the world’s oldest person has died just weeks from her 115th birthday. The [...]
Tags: Besse Cooper, Brazil, Carangola, Guinness World Records, Minas Gerais, Monroe Georgia, Oldest people, United States
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June 16, 2011
This is an article by Chip Ward. There are other articles by Ward on this site. They are usually very informative, althought they deal with US environmental issues, the matters discussed clearly have a planetary implication. There is a brief foreaord from Tom Engelhardt as well. Tomgram: Chip Ward, Fire’s Manifest Destiny Posted by Chip [...]
Tags: Adam Hochschild, Arizona, Bruce Babbitt, iPod, New Mexico, Okefenokee Swamp, Tom Engelhardt, United States
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June 13, 2011
Lewis Lapham, Eating Money Posted by Lewis Lapham at 5:11pm, June 12, 2011. Could there have been a pickier eater in 1950s America than me? I doubt it. Among the many things I wouldn’t eat was spaghetti and meatballs. (Gross!) Or at least I refused until one summer on return from camp, I told my [...]
Tags: Ashnan, Eating, Lewis H. Lapham, Lewis Lapham, Michael Pollan, TomDispatch.com, United States, World War II
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June 10, 2011
E coli outbreak: German organic farm officially identified Eat cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce again, say German health authorities, but avoid bean sprouts Share162 Ian Sample, science correspondent guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 June 2011 18.26 BST Article history The cause of the E coli outbreak has been officially linked in Germany to the consumption of bean sprouts. [...]
Tags: Cucumber, Escherichia coli, Germany, Lower Saxony, Organic farming, Robert Koch Institute, United States, World Health Organization
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June 5, 2011
Climate Denialese: A Phrasebook By Sarah Burnside Tags: sarah burnside martin ferguson green religion george lakoff framing emissions trading climate scepticism Framing those who push for zero emissions as misanthropes addled by ‘green faith’ is a stock tactic of climate change deniers, writes Sarah Burnside During a recent Question Time session in the Federal [...]
Tags: Barnaby Joyce, Climate change, environment, George Lakoff, Julia Gillard, Martin Ferguson, Nathan Rees, United States
Posted in Capital, Capital Project, Capitalism, Carbon Tax, Climate, Climate change, Climate denial, debate and discussion, Democracy, Dirty Energy, disaster, Dissent, economic measures, Economics, Economy, Education, Elites, Environment, Fossil fuel, Health, Imperial Project, Imperialism, oil, oil and gas resources | No Comments »
June 5, 2011
E coli source hunted as growers fear sales slump Complex market for salad makes origin of E coli outbreak harder to pinpoint, say scientists Share15 Robin McKie guardian.co.uk, Saturday 4 June 2011 21.26 BST Article history A laboratory assistant prepares a pepper to test it for E Coli in Brno, Czech Republic. The number [...]
Tags: BBC, Escherichia coli, Germany, Hemolytic-uremic syndrome, Liverpool University, National Farmers Union, Salad, United States
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June 2, 2011
The obviously failed war on drugs is as much about the need for drugs in the imperial project’s dealings with other countries as the need by some to continue to profit. George Ikners ikners.com Global war on drugs ‘a failure’ High-level panel declares international anti-drug measures a failure and suggests legalising cannabis and other drugs. [...]
Tags: César Gaviria, Ernesto Zedillo, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Kofi Annan, Paul Volcker, Ruth Dreifuss, United States, War on Drugs
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June 2, 2011
E coli outbreak: WHO says bacterium is a new strain World Health Organisation says fatal E coli is a mutant blend of two different varieties and has never been seen before Share701 Maev Kennedy and agencies guardian.co.uk, Thursday 2 June 2011 12.22 BST Article history German doctors confirm World Health Organisation’s report that there has [...]
Tags: Associated Press, Escherichia coli, European Union, Food Standards Agency, Gennadiy Onishchenko, Germany, Health Protection Agency, Hemolytic-uremic syndrome, Maev Kennedy, World Health Organization
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May 17, 2011
As usual Monbiot strikes out, But his war involves no killing of any creatures. George Ikners ikners.com a WordPress site A Death Foretold Posted: 16 May 2011 11:40 AM PDT Why have successive governments been waging war on one of the world’s best health systems? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 17th May [...]
Tags: Colin Leys, David Cameron, George Monbiot, Health care, John Major, Julian Le Grand, Labour, National Health Service, Tony Blair
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May 10, 2011
Vandana & Mira Shiva on Corporate Malpractice in India and its Devastating Impact on Health Share150 On Earth Day, Democracy Now! revisits a 2010 conversation with world-renowned environmentalist Vandana Shiva and her sister, Dr. Mira Shiva, about multinational malpractice in India, from the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal to Monsanto GMOs that are destroying biodiversity. AMY [...]
Tags: AMY GOODMAN, Bhopal disaster, India, Shiva, Union Carbide, Union Carbide India Limited, United States, Vandana Shiva
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