This revelation follows months during which the management evaded, ignored and refused to meet demands by rank-and-file workers for the release of this information. https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/nintchdbpict000005203320.jpg?w=620 In a statement on April 23, the World Socialist Web Site’s International Amazon Workers Voice urged workers to form rank-and-file committees to demand the release of infection statistics at Amazon as a question of basic safety, pointing out that the company “systematically refuses to provide information to workers as to the number of cases” of workers who have gotten sick. In the intervening months, workers…
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Trump Nominates Conservative Judge Amy Coney Barrett to Fill RBG’s Seat
September 28, 2020 President Trump announced that he will nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barrett is a staunch conservative with opposite views of Justice Ginsburg’s. Judge Barrett is a member of the religious group People of Praise, which “preaches women’s subordination to men and until recently called female advisers to other women ‘handmaids.’” The group is known for its belief that women should submit to their husbands. In her confirmation hearing in 2017 to the Seventh…
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Nutr J. 2010 Jan 22;9:3. (Just a big page; didn’t display fully) The total antioxidant content of more than 3100 foods, beverages, spices, herbs and supplements used worldwide. Carlsen MH, Halvorsen BL, Holte K, Bøhn SK, Dragland S, Sampson L, Willey C, Senoo H, Umezono Y, Sanada C, Barikmo I, Berhe N, Willett WC, Phillips KM, Jacobs DR Jr, Blomhoff R. SourceDepartment of Nutrition, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Abstract BACKGROUND: A plant-based diet protects against chronic oxidative stress-related diseases. Dietary plants contain variable chemical…
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UKSecond wave in the UK could see more than 85,000 Covid-19 deaths over winter(Leaked SAGE report)Britain could experience more than 85,000 Covid-19-related deaths during a second wave over winter in a “reasonable worst-case scenario”, the government has predicted.The potential for a high death count from Covid-19 was put forward by the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, or Sage, in a report late last month.UK excess deaths involving Covid-19 in 2020(28 December 2019 to 14 August 2020) Source: ONS
Read MorePrevention, diagnosis and treatment of EMF-related health problems
Current state of the scientific and political debate about EMF-related health problems from a medical perspective Introduction The Environmental Burden of Disease Project assessed the influence of nine environmental stressors (benzene, dioxins including furans and dioxin-like PCBs, secondhand smoke, formaldehyde, lead, noise, ozone, particulate matter and radon) on the health of the population of six countries (Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands). Those nine environmental stressors caused 3%–7% of the annual burden of disease in the six European countries (1).
Read MorePhony intel on Iraq WMD haunting U.S. claims of Syria threat
The ghost of “Curveball” is haunting the Obama administration and undermining its efforts to marshal strong foreign and domestic support for military strikes on Syria. Curveball was the code name given Iraqi defector Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who claimed in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had deployed mobile biological weapons labs to evade international detection of his manufacture of weapons of mass destruction. His testimony, even though viewed as dubious, was used by the George W. Bush administration to justify the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Read MoreCan Vitamin C Protect You from COVID-19?
Though high dose IV vitamin C is currently being tested to see if it can improve lung function in people with COVID-19, no evidence suggests that high doses of oral vitamin C supplements can help with the disease. In fact, they can cause complications like diarrhea.
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It emerged today that Sir Patrick Vallance, who took over as Chief Scientific Adviser to the government following a six-year tenure at the helm of multinational pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has shares valued at £600 in GSK, who is contracted to the government to develop a Covid vaccine.
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3/9/20 UN says new polio outbreak in Sudan caused by oral vaccine >The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the U.N. health agency declared the African continent free of the wild poliovirus. In a statement this week, WHO said two children in Sudan – one from South Darfur state and the other from Gedarif state, close to the border with Ethiopia and Eritrea – were paralyzed in March and April. Both had been…
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