Tainted poultry litter causing widespread arsenic contamination

by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has pinpointed a major source of arsenic contamination in the environment -- poultry litter. Commercial poultry producers often supplement chicken feed with roxarsone, an arsenic-based food additive, in order to bulk them up and prevent parasites from forming in their systems. But this toxin ends up contaminating local water supplies and crop fields.

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Vaccines destroy the lives of children in China

by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

(NaturalNews) More than 70 children in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi have suffered severe side effects from defective vaccines in the past several years, the China Economic Times has reported.

According to the state-run media, vaccines including those against hepatitis B and rabies were exposed to excessive heat through improper storage between 2006 and 2008. According to the World Health Organization, this can cause vaccines to denature and become dangerous, but the Times reports that the vaccines were not properly destroyed and were administered to children instead. More than 70 children suffered serious side effects, and four died.

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The Internet Belongs to Us -- Tell the FCC to Stop the Dangerous Google/Verizon Deal

Center for Media Justice / By Amalia Deloney and Joshua Breitbart

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski seems to see his role as a broker among corporate interests, not as their regulator. This has to change.

On August 19, the Federal Communications Commission will be in Minneapolis for a public hearing on the future of the Internet. The big question now looming over this hearing is whether the fate of the Internet has already been decided behind closed doors before the FCC has even heard what the public has to say.

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Scientists discover that radiation causes breast cancer (gee, really?)

by: David Gutierrez, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Girls who undergo chest radiation as a cancer treatment are significantly more likely to develop breast cancer as little as eight years later, according to a study conducted by researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

"Risk in women treated before puberty is not lower than that in those treated during adolescence, as suggested by some early studies," they wrote.

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New study: 85% of Big Pharma's new drugs are "lemons" and pose health risks to users

by: S. L. Baker, features writer

(NaturalNews) For years, natural health proponents have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of new drugs being pushed on consumers. But is that a one-sided, inaccurate view? Not at all. In fact, new research now shows the problems with Big Pharma's hugely hyped medications are far worse than most people have even dreamed. Independent reviewers found that about 85 percent of new drugs offer few if any new benefits -- but they carry the risk of causing serious harm to users.

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Cancer -- The Number One Killer -- And Its Environmental Causes

Karl Grossman

Investigative reporter

The World Health Organization projects that this year cancer will become the world's leading cause of death. Why the epidemic of cancer? Death certificates in the United States show cancer as being the eighth leading cause of death in 1900.

Why has it skyrocketed to now surpass heart disease as number one?

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As The Banks Settle Fraud Complaints, What Has Really Been Settled In the Conflict With the Banksters?

By Danny Schechter
Author of The Crime of Our Time

Host of The News Dissector

Thursdays at 10 am EST

Another day, another bank in the news -- with the settlement blues.

Now, Barclays is coughing up $298 million for violating a US Trade law. A Judge is still deliberating on a settlement that may cost Citi $70-$100 million for misleading investors about $40 billion in sleazy subprime holdings.

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10 Young Right-Wingers Being Prepped to Take Over the Conservative Movement

AlterNet / By Elon Green

What happens when the Old Guard moves on? Who will replace them? We take a look at 10 promising candidates.

Given their constant claim to be the “party of ideas,” Republicans don't offer much beyond the hopelessly impractical. Among them: deregulate anything that isn’t tied down; deficits don’t matter, until a Democrat's in office and they suddenly do; low-income “lucky duckies” need to be taxed, the top 2 percent does not. What happens when the Old Guard of conservatism moves on? Who will replace them as dependable propagandists for the right's most monstrous ideas? Readers, what follows is a comprehensive roundup of the guys and gals who will for the next half-century wield an increasing level of influence within the conservative movement and/or the Grand Old Party (assuming the latter isn’t reduced to a regional coffee klatch after the imminent desertion of Hispanic voters). This is the lovechild of The Breakfast Club and the Laffer curve.

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HIV & AIDS Treatment Efficacy

I think zidovudine [AZT] was never really evaluated properly and that its efficacy has never been proved, but its toxicity certainly is important. And I think it has killed a lot of people. Especially at the high doses. I personally think it not worth using alone or in combination at all. Continuum Oct. 2000 Dr. Andrew Herxheimer, MD, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, UK Cochrane Centre, Oxford; edited Drug & Therapeutics Bulletin in the UK for 30 years and also helped to found the International Society of Drug Bulletins

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Gay Associations - AIDS

“Since the publication of my book, AIDS Inc, in 1988, I have spoken in front of many groups about the AIDS fraud(s). Gay men have never objected to what I have to say, because I get to the point: do gay men want to pin AIDS on a ‘neutral virus’ that causes nothing, in order to avoid social and political blame, or do they want to find out what AIDS really is and live instead of dying?” — Jon Rappoport, Investigative reporter, author, AIDS, Inc. The Scandal of the Century

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