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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:44 pm
Post subject: Nuclear Power and Government
It makes sense to look at the appropriate role of government in the light of the news today (Kageyama and Pritchard) that "...the people running Jaman's ... power plant dismissed important scientific evidence and all but disregarded 3.000 years of geological history..." The critical question is what is the maximum probably earthquake event that should be the design standard for protecting the public from risks associated with the development of nuclear power generating facilities.
There are two separate questions that both pose challenges for simplistic thinking about the role of government. First, should the government have a role in establishing what we mean by safe? Second, what role should the government have in paying the bill if things go wrong?
For the first question, geologists can tell a lot about both earthquakes and tsunamis if they examine the geological records. Trenches into soils across suspected fault lines show the magnitude of displacement, and can be dated to show the age, and thus expected return interval of earthquakes. I have seen numerous examples where industries involved in proposing all kinds of facilities have suggested smaller forces as a design basis than what we've seen in the historical record. Fortunately, in the United States we have a Geological Service which has sufficient independence, and funding, to provide important information about the expected forces to guide design. Without regulators willing to impose those higher standards, many facilities in California, from housing tracts to bridges to power plants, would have been built to a lower standard. Something to think about when people argue that we are over-regulated.
Several of the USGS scientists in their Palo Alto office are also world experts in Tsunamis. This recent tsunami will undoubtedly increase our understanding of both generation and transmission of tsunami energy. But not everyone knows that tsunamis leave a clear record in alluvial soils. The initial wave has substantial force that scours the alluvium, and then deposits a debris layer. Because different materials settle at different rates, the signature of an historic tsunami is very clear in sediments that haven't been highly altered. In Japan, TEPCO employees argued that "Records that appear unreliable should be excluded." The result? The design standard was one fourth of what occurred. Regulated too much?
Now the economic issue. As pointed out in the March 28 New Yorker, in the early days of nuclear power in this country, private companies "were willing to insure nuclear plants only up to sixty-five million dollars, which was estimated to be just a tenth of what a major accident, in 1956 dollars, would cost, and utility companies weren't interested in building plants without coverage." The response was that the government took over the higher liability under the Price-Anderson Act of 1957. So whether we know it or not, like it or not, or what the objectives of small government folks might be, the Federal government owns most of the risk of a nuclear accident.
Leaving these decisions in the hands of corporations, whatever the laws about corruption might be, generally results in a systematic transfer of the risks to the public. It has played out in the development industry, where fire risks and flooding risks are often transferred to government without having an actuarial base. The Federal Emergency Management Agency only collects about 1/4 of the amount paid out in damages for flooding. California is a high-risk fire zone, and many of the new developments that surround urban areas--like the small lots in the Malibu hills that were the subject of a previously cited lawsuit between the County and the property owner--don't pay taxes sufficient to cover providing the lots with fire protection or flood protection. Citizen initiatives like Proposition 13--there are also two others--compound this difficulty.
We hear much about how pensions threaten government funding, but not much about these others. We also hear much about how we should reduce regulation, but not much about how many lives it saves.
For nuclear power, the fiscal issues are even higher.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:37 pm
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As a structural engineer, I am constantly reminded how "over-designed" my projects are. I respond by blaming the "code", although I generally agree with most of it's requirements.
Notable failures aside, buildings are generally much safer than they were a generation ago; particularly in seismic capacity and fire resistance. This has been the result of a cooperative effort between professional organizations, governmental organizations and the building supply industry. For much of this development time, not much input was heard from the general public.
Now, the private property advocates are fighting the adoption of recent codes, development standards and adequate code reinforcement. I see the development of additional building safety regulations slowing down and potentially slipping back rather than advancing as a result of this public pressure.
Development occurs in areas of higher geologic, flood and fire areas, even though there are higher standards and more knowledge of the risks in building in these locations. Insurers went along for the ride, and have not assigned, until recently, premiums that reflect the true costs of the potential damage.
In Colorado, we currently design most buildings to withstand seismic, snow and wind events based on a 100 year frequency. This may not be long enough when you consider the potential widespread catastophic effects of a large seismic event in a highly populated area such as Southern California.
At some point, economic viability and and risk have to meet. Drawing this line is where the crux occurs. The determination of this "line" is the responsibilty of our government. Governmental and professional oversight verifies that designs meet the constraints and structures are constructed to meet the standard. IMO, the general public (ie the taxpayer) is responsible for the damages that occur when events occur outside of this line.
As a society, we are partially responsible for the dangers in the production of our energy, food sources and public infrastructure. However, we are not responsible for wanton disregard of mother nature by private individuals.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:41 pm
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Very interesting comments mac. With Republicans pushing hard for relief from, or removal of regulations on a broad base of business and private interests, it's pretty obvious to me that few citizens have the knowledge or experience to understand what's at stake and the potential risks involved. That's really a big problem in my mind, and it's very troubling that the chorus of voices to lessen or remove regulations persists from the right in light of what happened in the financial crisis, the BP oil spill and most recently with the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, just to name a few.
As difficult as things can get because of regulations and elevated standards, it would still be a big mistake to ignore the important reasons why they're in place, or why regulations might need to be more robust to protect our economy and safety.
Now, with corporations able to spend unlimited sums of money influencing elections, I'm fully convinced that the truth will be sacrificed for the power and greed of a few. And sadly, when the next big tragedy occurs, the recovery and its cost will ultimately be placed on the back of government and tax paying citizens.
I can only hope that Republicans and tea party activists get a lot smarter about what's going on around us. Unfortunately, I'm not too optimistic about that.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:11 pm
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There are thousands of these nuclear plants worldwide. We have very few (132) out of 500. China is building 30 right now with hundreds more in the pipeline.
This China thing is an ecological disaster in the making, but we can't stop it. If we don't build more we could lose our economic and military edge. They will have cheap power, cheap labor, control all the worlds resources, and control our debt. Are you kidding me?
If you believe we cause global warming, then nuclear is the easy solution to all our problems....but it's alot like kiting. A quick fast fix with alot of dangerous implications to bystanders.
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Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:34 pm
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China is slamming on the brakes, uranium crashed today as a result. We still have the most nuclear power plants in the world. Stevie, i wouldnt worry about China too much, they need us more than we need them. If we can ween our people off Wal-Mart, and Toys-R-Us, we can find buyers for the debt(Brazil, Australia, others), and we'll be fine.
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:25 pm
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Once China creates their own synergy, we become a very small component on the world stage. Granted I believe this to be 10-15 years away, but still a substanial possibility down the road because of these socialist policies.
China is drilling and mining on every continent. We aren't growing nearly enough. What are we going to sell? Porn?
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:32 pm
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Hey Bard, you could be more positive overall, and promote what you're doing with your money and investments. That would tell us more about what you think is really important in our lives. Hopefully, with an upbeat tempo.
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:56 am
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swchandler wrote:
Hey Bard, you could be more positive overall, and promote what you're doing with your money and investments. That would tell us more about what you think is really important in our lives. Hopefully, with an upbeat tempo.
I've been telling you guys for a few years now to continue to buy oil, food, comodities, and gold. This all may be getting a little long in the tooth, but I think you stick with it for a little while longer.
I also think the stock market is a pretty good place to be for the time being, but when the Bernanke decides to end QE2 I think everyone should run for the hills.
I think Real Estate could continue it's decline, especially if interest rates go up. That is a no brainer.
Maybe Boggs can come up with some better ideas. How about some free advice?
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Dont eat yellow snow.
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Dont eat yellow snow.
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CLEVELAND -- There was a sense of deja-vu for the Blue Jays bullpen during the ninth inning of Friday night's game, but instead of following the same script as before, Sergio Santos was able to write a new ending.
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Indie developer Freebird Games' latest title is a quirky adventure game called To the Moon, which tells the story of two scientists hired to manipulate a dying man's memories in a way that enable him to fulfill one of his life's unrealized wishes. Players take on the roles of scientists--Dr. Eva Rosalene and Dr. Neil Watts--and must delve deep into their bed-ridden subject Johnny's mind to first discover the meaning of his last wish, and then make it come true.
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If you are interested, I can generate some *.SlackBuild (for cairo, dbus, glitz, dbus-glib, hal and PolicyKit) scripts so that you can try the stable release of dbus (which is 1.0.2), but you are going to spend more time. :-\
I'm very enthusiastic.I even try to compile dbus dbus-glib and hal,but it failed through Policykit.
And , the hal of linuxpackages.net is disabled Policykit.
Oh! I still have a little problem with thunar mountting auto:
First time,thunar open *one* window for usb-disk,when I put in the usb-disk.Next time,thunar will open double windows. And the next ,next ,,, time , thunar will open several windows!!
That make me have to rm ~/.config to avoid!
Do you have a good idea for that?
Thunar is not using dbus, therefore several instances are running in the background and they all receive the 'oe a device is plugged, open a new window' signal.
I will post the SlackBuild scripts after a get home this night. Now that kernel 2.6.20 is out, and after all news about it, I will give it a try so will be of a little more help.
Oh, forgot to say, to install PolicyKit you will need to install pam too, as it is not integrated on Slackware by default I may spend a little bit more time adjusting the scripts.
OK, it will not be easy, but will not be that hard too.
First you will need to integrate pam on slackware. I suggest you download the scripts from the dropline project ("http://wiki.droplinegnome.org/index.php … ild_System"). Don't run the main script straight, just what is needed to build the pam package. Also, keep in mind that you must be carefull when you install pam and not reboot until you are sure you can login in the system. Open a console terminal and test if you can, case not, undo and try again.
Very good slackware SlackBuild scripts to build vte, dbus and dbus-lib can be found on "http://rlworkman.net/slackbuilds/SBo" (also for a lot of other libraries and applications). Is a very good place to look into. Browse the site, it has even a script to build xfce on slackware.
For PolicyKit, you first need to download it from its git repository. Do the following:
* grab the source tree - `git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/PolicyKit`;
* go to PolicyKit dir and generate configure and Makefile.in - `./autogen.sh`.
* Now you have configure and Makefile.in. Proceed as usual. You will need to create a goup/user account polkit:polkit;
Now is just hal. Well, it is straightforward and you already know the steps.
You can find a lot of information about how to compile and configure packages on "http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Main_Page". It is a "must check" if you can't wait until your distro make it available (what is the preferred way). But if you get addict to package "source download/unpack/configure/make/make install" cycle, I recommend you take a look on checkinstall "http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/".
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I don't know if this is the way you sell trucks, but from a graphic arts perspective, I love it. In the realm of automotive advertising, I doubt you'd ever see a daring campaign like this today.
For those of you born in the the years A.A.I. (After Adobe Illustrator) let me asure you, these were done by hand by actual human illustrators working at drafting tables with ink, technical pens, rulers and illustration board.
I know; amazing, right?
At that time there was so much demand for this type of work - so many full-time jobs for Technical Illustrators - that when I attended art college in the early 1980s, we actually had Technical Illustration as one of the areas of study you could choose to specialize in.
Little did we know all those rulers, tech pens and Linetek illustration board (and all those technical illustration jobs) would be gone just a decade later.
All that remains to remind us of what once was is the evidence you see right here.
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It's especially nice to have both the physical and the digital tools at your disposal. Nothing makes you appreciate good digital design more than knowing how things used to get done.ReplyDelete
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Greetings! As I publish this week's blog, I am in Quebec City, Canada participating in a Symposium on the Eucharist in anticipation of next week's Eucharistic Congress.
Before I speak of my experiences of the week and share some highlights with you, I'd like to make note of an exciting upcoming event. I am very pleased to say that in a couple of weeks we will have our Catholic Family Conference here in the Archdiocese of Boston on June 29 from 1-8 p.m. Our first such event was held in 2005, and this year we will be having another day set aside for families in our archdiocese.
The 2008 conference will be held at St. Mary Parish in Waltham and all men, women and children are invited to come. The Holy Father has dedicated this year to St. Paul, so we will be celebrating the opening of that at the conference.
The day includes workshops for adults with separate teen and children's programs. There will also be adoration, veneration of a relic of St. Paul, a family cookout and a Mass that I will celebrate. Anyone interested in coming should register by visiting www.schoolofnazareth.org or calling 617-435-5018.
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Last Thursday evening, I attended a dinner for senior priests organized by the Order of Malta. The event took place at the Boston College Club in Downtown Boston. It is an annual event and this year they had over 60 retired priests attend. Of course, many members of the Order of Malta were also there.
They had wonderful entertainment at the event. They brought in a fantastic group of bagpipers who performed beautifully.
There was also a singing group called the Treasury Notes who sang traditional Irish music. They were very, very funny. They even played the washboard!
Then, there was Dick Flavin, who performed a revised version of the famous poem "Casey at Bat," called "Ted Williams at Bat." It was very funny and well acted out. The priests enjoyed it very, very much.
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On Saturday I traveled to New York where I presided over three presbyteral and two diaconal ordinations of Capuchin friars. All of the ordinations were done in the same Mass.
A number of Boston people went down because these friars have worked in parishes in our archdiocese. Father Paul Soper and Father Matt Williams came, as well as a number of parishioners from St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Roxbury, Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Dorchester, Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Jamaica Plain and St. Mary Parish in Dedham.
One of the seminarians who was ordained a deacon, Brother Marvin Bearis, is from Guam. People from Guam are called "Chamorros," and as part of their custom, his parents brought a wreath that they put on my neck afterwards.
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We had about 70 confirmations of Brazilians at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Somerville which is a parish run by the Scalabrinian fathers. As you may recall, two weeks ago I had another Brazilian confirmation at St. Tarcisius Parish in Framingham, which is also a Scalabrinian parish. The celebration at St. Anthony's was very beautiful and animated. The pastor, Father Moacir Balen and Sister Elisete are doing a wonderful job at that parish.
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On Monday, we had the Mass of candidacy for seminarian Eric Bennett. Eric will be going to the North American College in Rome to study theology in the fall. Before seminarians leave to study abroad, they usually receive candidacy.
We had a celebration at the Cathedral's chapel with his family and some of his fellow seminarians as well as faculty from St. John's Seminary in Brighton.
Afterwards, we had a little reception.
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This past Tuesday the City of Somerville honored Marshall and Barbara Sloane and their family at the dedication of the new Sloane Family Field House at Trum Field. Because of my travels I was unable to attend, but I wanted to tell you a little about it and share some of the photos with you.
Marshall and Barbara Sloane on the deck of the new field house,
overlooking Trum Field.
The event was attended by many people who the Sloanes hold important in their lives, including Dr. John Silber, President Emeritus of Boston University, and was a tribute to Marshall and Barbara's commitment to the local community.
Marshall surrounded by his family at the ribbon cutting
In his remarks, Marshall shared that as a young boy growing up in Somerville he often played ball at Trum field, and how pleased he is that the current generation and those following will have the opportunity to continue that tradition with the help of the new field house.
The plaque commemorating the Sloane Family's gift of the field house to the people of Somerville
Our communities are blessed by the Sloanes generosity and goodness, I am privileged to know them as good friends.
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Next week is the Eucharistic Congress in Quebec, and in preparation for that Cardinal Marc Ouellet organized a theological symposium on the Eucharist, entitled "The Eucharist: Gift of God for the Life of the World."
It is an international symposium that is being held at Universite Laval.
Laval is the name of the first bishop of Quebec who was just beatified a couple of years ago and is now Blessed François Montmorency de Laval.
This year Quebec is celebrating its 400th anniversary as a city. The diocese was founded as an Apostolic Vicariate in 1658, 450 years ago. That puts things in perspective as we are celebrating 200 years as a diocese in Boston. In fact, the Archdiocese of Quebec is the oldest American diocese north of Mexico.
Quebec is a beautiful and very picturesque city, and right now it is filled with tourists.
This little Church is Église Notre-Dame-des-Victoires in Place Royal. Costructed in 1688 at the request of Bishop de Laval, this little stone church was erected on the site of "the king's armoury" which was a part of Champlain's dwelling. The church is the oldest in Quebec City. A commemorative miniature replica of the Brézé, a ship that arrived in Canada in 1664, is suspended in the nave
The symposium is three days of conferences and workshops on different theological themes. Wednesday the theme was "The Eucharist, an Eschatological Gift to the World History." On that day the conferences were given by Cardinal Angelo Scola, the patriarch of Venice, and a Greek Orthodox Archimandrite Job Getcha from the Institut de Theologie Orthodoxe in Saint-Serge, Paris. Then, there were workshops in the afternoon, and we ended with a Mass, held at one of the local churches.
The theme on Thursday was "The Eucharist, a Constitutive Gift to the Church in the World." That day, Cardinal Walter Kasper from Germany gave the first conference, and I gave the second on "The Eucharist and Evangelical Life." You can read it here.
Bishop Lionel Gendron, of the Institut de formation théologique de Montréal, Canada, was the respondent to my talk
Today is the last day of the symposium with the theme "The Eucharist: a Gift for Mission." Bishop Thomas Dabre from India gave the first conference, and the second was given by Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo of Medellin, Colombia. Then, there were workshops this afternoon, and the conclusion is tonight.
Until my next post.
In Christ
Cardinal Seán


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Archaeologists on Tuesday began to excavate an ancient tomb,
suspected to belong to Qin Hui, the most infamous traitor in
China's history.
The tomb in Nanjing, capital of eastern Jiangsu province, has
drawn national attention as Qin Hui (1090-1155) is remembered as a
traitor and often appears in traditional Chinese operas as a
treacherous court official.
An archaeologist with Nanjing Museum said they were only sure
the tomb belonged to the family of Qin Hui.
"It is highly possible the tomb is Qin Hui's, but it can also
belong to a member of Qin Hui's family. We will find out soon from
relics in the tomb," said the archaeologist, who declined to be
The archaeologists have found a coin of the Song Dynasty
(960-1279) above one of the three coffin chambers.
Qin Hui led a peace party that opposed continued prosecution of
a war to regain former Chinese territory in the north.
He maintained external security by signing a peace treaty with
the nomads in the north and internal security by undermining the
power of leading generals, notably Yue Fei, who had argued for war
with the Juchen and whom Qin Hui had executed.
For their part in the execution of the patriotic general, iron
statues of Qin Hui and his wife Lady Wang were made to kneel before
Yue's tomb beside the West Lake in Zhejiang Province.
These statues have been cursed, spat and urinated upon by young
and old. But now, they are protected as historical relics.
However, some historians believe the emperor, under pressure
from the invading nomads and worrying about Yue Fei's role in the
selection of royal heir, was the mastermind of the general's
(Xinhua News Agency December 27, 2006)


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John Galt
Activist Post
Each year seems to hit a new level of hype surrounding the seasonal flu. The pharmaceutical-media complex is drooling over the latest "outbreak," which has resulted in Boston declaring a "Health Emergency" as highlighted in the video below and New York reaching epidemic proportions. Additionally, nurses are being denied the right to refuse flu vaccinations, even on religious grounds, and are being fired for any resistance.
However, fine details are normally not the strong suit of corporate media, so that is where we must look before we decide to go into full-blown panic mode and start lining up to get jabbed with the latest vaccine concoction. For instance, people are still getting sick and are dying even after getting the flu shot.
As even the Associated Press was forced to highlight:
Recent studies have shown that the flu vaccine as a whole is only about 59 percent effective at preventing the illness. NRP pointed out that the vaccine appears to be less effective for the elderly, which is a population often highly encouraged to receive the shot in the first place. (Source)
Perhaps one reason for the ineffectiveness of this year's vaccine is that the most virulent strain of H3N2v is not included in the vaccine.
The increasing hype over a flu season that turns into a possible pandemic has terrorized a significant part of the population. This is important to keep in mind, as the CDC often reports the increased numbers of visits to doctors and hospitals based on "flu-like symptoms." People who are on edge about contracting a life-threatening virus are likely to interpret every ache, pain, and sniffle into the most dreaded of possibilities after being bombarded by an onslaught of media reports.
Major media continues to support the flu shot, because, as CNN's Sanjay Gupta states, "It's better than nothing." Sounds like a fine slogan for any product. The fact is that the Centers for Disease Control only has estimates of the numbers of deaths that occur each year from the flu. Their reasoning for not having exact figures is stated as follows:
CDC does not know exactly how many people die from seasonal flu each year. There are several reasons for this. First, states are not required to report individual seasonal flu cases or deaths of people older than 18 years of age to CDC. Second, seasonal influenza is infrequently listed on death certificates of people who die from flu-related complications. Third, many seasonal flu-related deaths occur one or two weeks after a person's initial infection, either because the person may develop a secondary bacterial co-infection (such as bacterial pneumonia) or because seasonal influenza can aggravate an existing chronic illness (such as congestive heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). Also, most people who die from seasonal flu-related complications are not tested for flu, or they seek medical care later in their illness when seasonal influenza can no longer be detected from respiratory samples. (Source)
The range of flu deaths as provided by the CDC over a roughly 30-year period has been 3,000-49,000 annually. We must also keep in mind that these are categorized as "flu-related deaths" which include those who had other serious or life-threatening illnesses and might have been pushed over the edge by contracting the seasonal flu.
Naturally the corporate media has been reporting that this year looks to be the worst ever. However, the CDC itself has said that this year looks to be within the normal range.
A greater concern for the health of Americans should be declining nutritional values, as well as an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, coupled with every imaginable food and environmental toxin; these elements contribute to far more sickness and death.
In fact, a recent study found that the average child is now chronically sick, and that vaccines themselves appear to be a contributing factor.
As reported by Gaia Health:
Overall, the study reported that 43% of children suffer from at least one of the 20 conditions considered—when obesity and developmental delays are not included. That is is over 32 million children whose health is damaged! (emphasis added)
Furthermore, the conditions include autism, asthma, diabetes, allergies and neurological disorders. Health writer, Heidi Stevenson, points out some additional facts:
- The fact that vaccinations have been clearly tied to diabetes is deniable only to those whose incomes depend on Big Pharma and their lackeys.
- The fact that vaccinations cause autoimmune disorders is now documented, along with the mechanism of how they do it.
- The fact that aluminum adjuvants in vaccines trigger autism is now well studied.
- The fact that countries that vaccinate more have higher rates of infant mortality is well documented.
- There is no credible explanation for sudden infant death syndrome other than vaccinations.
So rather than look for the latest pill or jab, perhaps we should look to nature for some answers.
Please don't miss this key article by Daisy Luther outlining strategies for how and why to avoid the pharmacy and ways to return to natural flu prevention and treatment.
And if you want to go down the rabbit hole about a possible over-arching agenda for the peddling of vaccines, please have a look at Catherine J. Frompovich's article about vaccine taxes funding the U.S. deficit.
With so many corporate and governmental interests riding the wave of flu hysteria, it pays to keep a very healthy skepticism.
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text: NGP's holiday season release the best way we know how: by hunting down yet more information about it. Andrew House, the man in charge of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, has delivered the latest tidbit in an interview with MCV, where he states unequivocally that every game on the next PlayStation Portable will be available to buy as a download. Notably, he also expresses Sony's desire to have simultaneous distribution in both digital and physical channels, but that sounds a lot less concrete than his promise that every game will be downloadable. Digital-only games also figure prominently in Andrew's vision of the NGP's future, as he expects them to diversify choice for consumers alongside the big time titles like Uncharted. To learn more about Sony's replacement of UMDs with flash memory and the reasoning behind the PlayStation Suite, follow the source link below for the full interview.


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Chaz Bono has won another "Dancing" reprieve.
The transgender activist escaped elimination on "Dancing with the Stars" Tuesday despite having landed at the bottom of the leaderboard for the second week in a row.
Former "Hills" starlet Kristin Cavallari and pro partner Mark Ballas were sent packing instead, one night after having earned their highest scores of the season.
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"I'm a little surprised to be honest," Cavallari said after learning her fate. "It is what it is."
Judge Len Goodman said moments earlier that it was "truly crazy" Cavallari or U.S. soccer star Hope Solo were singled out for possible elimination. He said he considered both to be contenders for the finals.
Others returning to ABC's dancing competition next week are: leaderboard leader Ricki Lake, veteran turned soap star J.R. Martinez, Rob Kardashian, HLN host Nancy Grace, singer Chynna Phillips, "Queer Eye's" Carson Kressley and David Arquette.
Cher is also likely to make a special appearance to the ballroom. The pop star tweeted Monday that should her son Chaz make it though to the next round she'd cheer him on while seated in the "Dancing" audience.