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·         FW: Take_the_survey_-_help_develop_Ohio’s _Every_Student_Succeeds_Act_State_Plan

·         FW: The Surgeon General is calling on us to lead

·         FW: Help Louisiana flood victims

·         FW: GOPs harness Zika for bio-political warfare

·         FW: Career with Wesley International School

·         FW: Table tennis using head

·         FW: History of American Wars & New School & A World at War

·         FW: Today's Headlines: Graduate Students Clear Hurdle in Effort to Form Union

·         FW: Union Victory for Student Employees

·         FW: Reining in big pharma's greed

·         FW: NAACP HOUSTON RESPONDS TO WLM PROTEST

·         FW: [DaytoniansAgainstWarNow] USLAW HEADLINE NEWS BULLETIN

·         FW: 29, 000 defense contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Afghanistan 3-to-1 - report

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From: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar
Subject: Take_the_survey_-_help_develop_Ohio’s _Every_Student_Succeeds_Act_State_Plan

Take This Survey & Share!

The Ohio Department of Education is actively engaging with stakeholders, school leaders, teachers and parents as the department works to develop the state’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan. In an effort to reach out to more Ohioans about these important issues, the department created a survey to get feedback on several focus areas within ESSA.

 

The survey can be found here.

“With several hundred Ohioans participating in webinars each week, we’re excited by the feedback and constructive comments we’ve received thus far,” said Paolo DeMaria, superintendent of public instruction. “Along with the upcoming regional meetings, this survey provides even more opportunities for Ohioans to give us their insight and help develop our state plan.”

The survey covers several focus areas within ESSA, including accountability measures, school improvement, educator quality and student supports.

Under ESSA, Ohio will create a plan for how local, state and federal programs are aligned to help all students be successful. The Ohio Department of Education is committed to comprehensive and collaborative community engagement leading to the development of the state plan. The department also is seeking Ohioans’ involvement through a series of webinars and meetings throughout the state.

Please visit this website for the latest information on ESSA, including details about additional webinars and regional meetings.

 

 

From: Don Mathis; DFA Board Member & Lisha Barré, MD; Physical Medicine, Rehab, and Addiction Medicine Specialist
Subject: The Surgeon General is calling on us to lead

Today, the U.S. Surgeon General is taking historic action by sending a personal letter to more than 2.3 million health care practitioners and public health leaders. He is seeking our help to address the prescription opioid crisis. I want to make sure you see his letter, a copy of which I have included below. Please take a moment to read it. Then, as we told you about last week, go to www.TurnTheTideRx.org/join to join with clinicians from across the country in a simple but powerful movement to end this epidemic.

Read the letter. Take the pledge. And spread the word.

Together, we can save countless lives. We can lead the way. We can #TurnTheTide.
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Don also serves on the board of the Addiction Connections Resource, Coalition on Human Needs and the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health
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UNITED STATES SURGEON GENERAL
Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A.
August 2016

I am asking for your help to solve an urgent health crisis facing America: the opioid epidemic. Everywhere I travel, I see communities devastated by opioid overdoses. I meet families too ashamed to seek treatment for addiction. And I will never forget my own patient whose opioid use disorder began with a course of morphine after a routine procedure.

It is important to recognize that we arrived at this place on a path paved with good intentions. Nearly two decades ago, we were encouraged to be more aggressive about treating pain, often without enough training and support to do so safely. This coincided with heavy marketing of opioids to doctors.

Many of us were even taught – incorrectly – that opioids are not addictive when prescribed for legitimate pain.

The results have been devastating. Since 1999, opioid overdose deaths have quadrupled and opioid prescriptions have increased markedly – almost enough for every adult in America to have a bottle of pills. Yet the amount of pain reported by Americans has not changed. Now, nearly 2 million people in America have a prescription opioid use disorder, contributing to increased heroin use and the spread of HIV and hepatitis C.

I know solving this problem will not be easy. We often struggle to balance reducing our patients’ pain with increasing their risk of opioid addiction. But, as clinicians, we have the unique power to help end this epidemic. As cynical as times may seem, the public still looks to our profession for hope during difficult moments. This is one of those times.

That is why I am asking you to pledge your commitment to turn the tide on the opioid crisis. Please take the pledge.. Together, we will build a national movement of clinicians to do three things:

First, we will educate ourselves to treat pain safely and effectively. A good place to start is this pocket guide with the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline. Second, we will screen our patients for opioid use disorder and provide or connect them with evidence-based treatment. Third, we can shape how the rest of the country sees addiction by talking about and treating it as a chronic illness, not a moral failing.

Years from now, I want us to look back and know that, in the face of a crisis that threatened our nation, it was our profession that stepped up and led the way. I know we can succeed because health care is more than an occupation to us. It is a calling rooted in empathy, science, and service to humanity. These values unite us. They remain our greatest strength.

Thank you for your leadership.

 

 

From: Alex Lawson, Social Security Works
Subject: Help Louisiana flood victims

Over the last week, torrential rainfall in Louisiana has caused historic flooding, damaging more than 40,000 homes and affecting more than 100,000 people. According to the Red Cross, these floods are the worst natural disaster in the US since Hurricane Sandy.

Please join Social Security Works in supporting relief efforts on the ground in Louisiana.

Click here to donate to the Red Cross to provide supplies and medical assistance to flood victims.

Or click here to donate to the Baton Rouge Area Foundation – a local organization supporting non-profit efforts on the ground in flood affected areas.

Our hearts go out to the many thousands affected by the flooding in Louisiana. Please join us to lend our support in this dire time of need.

 

 

From: Andrew Tierman

Subject: GOPs harness Zika for bio-political warfare

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's war on Planned Parenthood opens the door for a Zika emergency

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2016/08/05/1557094/-Florida-Gov-Rick-Scott-s-war-on-Planned-Parenthood-opens-the-door-for-a-Zika-emergency?detail=emailLL&link_id=5&can_id=24989ee355898a85b705fe378a0186ce&source=email-race-racism-and-sports-history&email_referrer=race-racism-and-sports-history___98417&email_subject=the-black-and-brown-firewall-blocking-trump

 

 

From: Seeyong Lee
Subject: Career with Wesley International School

 

From: Sang Kang
Subject: FW: Table tennis using head

This should be part of Olympic games. Should be better by well means than synchronized swimming, well almost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH6Oba774sA

 

 

From: James Lucas
Subject: History of American Wars & New School & A World at War

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM THE RHETORIC AND THE REALITY

BY S. BRIAN WILLSON (on December 19, 2013)
http://www.brianwillson.com/americn-exceptionalism-the-rhetoric-and-the-reality/

Virtually all of us born and raised in US America have been, or were, inculcated in the myth that the United States is the greatest country in the history of the world endowed by our creator to bring prosperity to the impoverished and Christianity to the heathen. Indeed, we are exceptional – unusual, extraordinary – but not in the ways we were led to believe.

This article was originally published in the winter issue of War Crimes Times, p. 14 (since renamed Peace in Our Times), published by Veterans for Peace.

Bolivia Builds Anti-Imperialist School to Counter US Hegemony

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/08/19/bolivia-builds-anti-imperialist-school-counter-us-hegemony  

Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales opened an anti-imperialist military training center this week, describing it as a socialist and anti-colonial counterpoint to the United States' political and military influence on Latin America.

A World at War

https://newrepublic.com/article/135684/declare-war-climate-change-mobilize-wwii
Date: August 18, 2016

 

 

From: NYTimes.com
Subject: Today's Headlines: Graduate Students Clear Hurdle in Effort to Form Union

Today's Headlines

Graduate Students Clear Hurdle in Effort to Form Union
By NOAM SCHEIBER

A ruling by the National Labor Relations Board involving students at Columbia opens the door for teaching assistants at private universities to organize.

Trump's Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties
By SUSANNE CRAIG

A review of the Republican presidential nominee's holdings uncovered more debt than what is apparent on his federal election filing, and partnerships with even more liabilities.

 

 

From: Michael Phelan; Social Security Works
Subject: Reining in big pharma's greed

For the tens of millions of Americans who suffer from asthma or life threatening allergies, EpiPens are an essential source of security. In an emergency, they can mean the difference between life and death. The American taxpayer funded the creation of the EpiPen, which was developed for the armed forces as the "ComboPen."

But for Mylan, a giant pharmaceutical corporation, EpiPens are a source of cash — and their #1 goal is to take as much money from hardworking Americans as possible and get it into the pockets of their top executives. Since Mylan bought the rights to EpiPen in 2007, they've increased the cost by 400 percent— while their CEO's pay went up by 671 percent. All of this while dodging taxes in America, after the company used the insidious "inversion" loophole.

It's time to demand that our government fight back to protect our health. President Obama has the power to rein in big pharma's greed and lower the prices of EpiPens and other lifesaving medications. With the stroke of a pen, he can instruct the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to strip Mylan of its monopoly over EpiPen and allow other companies to produce it at a lower cost.

Join us in calling on President Obama and the FDA to take action now to end abusive monopolies and rein in the skyrocketing prices of lifesaving medications like EpiPens.

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents all overwhelmingly agree that prescription drug prices are far too high. These costs have risen by double digits in recent years—10% last year and 12% in 2014. Since seniors aren't getting double digit cost of living increases to keep up, that amounts to a de-facto Social Security cut.

In many cases, including EpiPens, significant taxpayer resources were involved in the original creation of the medications big pharma is now using to line their pockets. This shameless price gouging must end!

Tell President Obama and the FDA: It's time to change the rules of a system that's rigged against the American people, and end abusive monopolies.

 

 

From: Aaron Nisenson;  AAUP Senior Counsel

Subject: Union Victory for Student Employees

In a victory for student employees and unions who represent them, the National Labor Relations Board found today in the case Columbia University that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act. The 3–1 decision overrules a 2004 decision in Brown University, which had found that graduate assistants were not employees and therefore did not have statutory rights to unionize.

The case was brought by the Graduate Workers of Columbia-GWC, which in 2014 had filed an election petition seeking to represent both graduate and undergraduate teaching assistants, along with graduate and departmental research assistants at the university.

The AAUP filed an amicus brief with the National Labor Relations Board arguing that graduate assistants at private sector institutions should be considered employees with collective bargaining rights, and that collective bargaining promotes academic freedom. The brief further argued that rather than harming faculty-student mentoring relationships, graduate employee unionization can bring clarity to the employer-employee relationship.

In reversing Brown, the majority said that the earlier decision “deprived an entire category of workers of the protections of the Act without a convincing justification.” The board also agreed that granting collective bargaining rights to student employees would not infringe on First Amendment academic freedom, nor would it harm the student faculty relationship.

The National Labor Relations Board exercises jurisdiction over private sector employers, including private, nonprofit universities such as Columbia, and federal courts have made clear that the authority to define the term “employee” rests primarily with the board absent an exception enumerated within the National Labor Relations Act. Since the act does not specifically exclude student assistants from its coverage, the majority found no compelling reason to exclude student assistants from the protections of the Act.

The AAUP has long been committed to organizing graduate employees and currently represents graduate employees at a number of public sector institutions, where the graduate employees represented by the AAUP have seen significant gains as a result of bargaining.  This decision will allow student employees in the private sector to organize and seek similar improvements.

The AAUP-CBC supports unionization as the most effective means for academic employees to protect shared governance and academic freedom, to uphold professional standards and values, and to promote higher education as an investment in our common future.

 

 

From: Dr. Jerome L. Reide; Regional Field Director, NAACP Midwest Region III
Subject: Fw: NAACP HOUSTON RESPONDS TO WLM PROTEST

NAACP HOUSTON RESPONDS TO WLM PROTEST

http://naacphouston.org/category/local-news/
Posted on August 23, 2016 by NAACP

“White Lives Matter” held a protest in front of our NAACP Houston Branch Headquarters.  The NAACP is the oldest civil rights organization in the country; as such, we have advocated and demanded that all citizens in the United States be afforded all of their constitutional rights, especially their right to Freedom of Speech.  And while we support their right to express themselves, we adamantly disagree with their position which is based on white privilege and lack of information that is totally flawed.  While they criticize the NAACP for not denouncing a movement that has been productive in bringing awareness to the racial disparity in this country; they themselves espouse a totally racist positions.

The signs that the protesters held quoted “14 Words”, which was coined by white supremacist David Lane who led a terror group known as the Order whose mandate was “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”  Aren’t we all working toward the same end – a secure existence of people and a future for all children?

Where is the disconnect?

 

 

From: DAWN On Behalf Of Logan Martinez
Subject: [DaytoniansAgainstWarNow] USLAW HEADLINE NEWS BULLETIN

U.S. Labor Against the War
USLAW HEADLINE NEWS BULLETIN - 2016 #26 - August 25, 2016

EXTRA EDITION with Featured Articles
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As Kerry Plans to Visit Saudi Arabia, Activists & NGOs Demand U.S. Stop Funding War Crimes in Yemen

Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Saudi Arabia as the Obama administration is facing increasing pressure for its support of the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Over the past two weeks, the U.S.-backed Saudi coalition has bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing 19 people, and bombed two schools in northern Yemen, killing at least 14 children. Doctors Without Borders has since announced it will withdraw staff from six hospitals in the north of the country. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interview Kristine Beckerle, a fellow at Human Rights Watch, who just returned from Yemen. [View video]

"This is Our War & It is Shameful:" Journalist Andrew Cockburn on the U.S. Role in the War in Yemen

Even before the Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen began more than a year ago, Yemen was ranked as one of the poorest countries in the world. But now, a year and a half into the war, Yemen’s health system has broken down, and the population is facing the threat of starvation. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interviews Andrew Cockburn, the Washington editor for Harper’s magazine, about U.S. involvement in the Saudi-led war against the Houthis in Yemen. [View video]

The One Trillion Dollar War with Absolutely Nothing to Show for it.

Joseph Clifford laments, "We have become so accustomed to war we don't even bother to discuss it anymore." The war in Afghanistan has dragged on for almost 15 years, and it is no longer mentioned or discussed on corporate news. The candidates have not been asked about it, and neither has spoken about it. It is the silent war that appears to be never ending, but just because it is not discussed does not mean you are not paying for it. So far the tab is one trillion dollars and rising every day. To most of us a "trillion" dollars is a meaningless figure but consider this. One trillion dollars spread out flat on the ground would cover 4 thousand square miles. If you stacked one trillion dollars in a pile, the pile would be 68,000 miles high. [More]

In Afghanistan, Defense Contractors Outnumber U.S. Troops 3 to 1

President Barack Obama announced last month that he plans to further delay the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, leaving at least 8,400 forces in the country after January instead of honoring his most recent pledge to cut numbers to 5,500. But now, a new report compiled by the Congressional Research Service reveals that the number of U.S. service members in Afghanistan is dwarfed by the nearly 29,000 Department of Defense private contractors in the country, outnumbering American troops three to one. [More]

Scientists Say Expect More 1,000-Year Events Like Louisiana Flood

Parts of Louisiana's disastrous, ongoing flooding has been upgraded by meteorologists to once-in-1,000-years rainfall, with other areas classified as 500-year and 100-year events, nola.com reported Monday, as scientists warn that such storms are growing more and more frequent as the planet heats up. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is set to classify the Louisiana disaster as the eighth flood considered to be a once-in-every-500-years event to have taken place in the U.S. in little over 12 months. The Louisiana flooding has been so exceptional that some places in the state experienced storm conditions considered once-every-1,000-year events. [More]

In Massive Shift, Lutherans Vote To Halt US Aid To Israel

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has become the latest US denomination to take economic action against the Israeli occupation. At its triennial assembly last week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the four million-member church, one of the largest in the US, voted on two separate resolutions targeting Israel’s occupation and human rights abuses, passing each by a landslide. The first resolution calls for the end of US aid to Israel until it ceases violations of international human rights norms, specifically the ongoing construction of settlements on occupied Palestinian land. [More]

Army made trillions in improper accounting adjustments: audit

The U.S. Army made trillions of dollars worth of improper accounting adjustments to cover budget problems, Reuters reported Friday. In a June report, the Inspector General of the Defense Department said that the Army made approximately $6.5 trillion of improper adjustments in 2015 alone. The report called the Army's financial statements "materially misstated" and unreliable. The audit’s findings echo previous accounting issues in the Defense Department. [More]

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From: CLG_News
Subject: 29, 000 defense contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Afghanistan 3-to-1 - report

News Updates from CLG on 24 August 2016

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29,000 defense contractors outnumber U.S. troops in Afghanistan 3-to-1 - report | 17 Aug 2016 | Defense [sic] Department contractors in Afghanistan still outnumber U.S. troops by a 3-to-1 margin according to new research released this week, raising questions again about the role those workers play in the ongoing wars overseas and the oversight they receive. The data, compiled by the Congressional Research Service and first reported by Politico, shows contractor numbers in both Iraq and Afghanistan dating back to fiscal 2007. Combined, the Defense Department spent more than $220 billion on contractors in both war zones for a variety of services and support...The latest figures available, for the first few months of 2016, show nearly 29,000 defense contractors still in Afghanistan, with fewer than 9,000 U.S. troops stationed there.

 

Yemen's ex-president says could work with Russia to 'fight terrorism' | 21 Aug 2016 | A newly-formed governing council in Yemen could work with Russia to "fight terrorism" by allowing Moscow use of the war-torn country's military bases, Yemen's former president said on Sunday. Ali Abdullah Saleh, a former counter-terrorism ally of the U.S. who was toppled by mass protests in 2011, told state-owned channel Russia 24 that Yemen was ready to grant Moscow access to air and naval bases. "In the fight against terrorism we reach out and offer all facilities. Our airports, our ports...We are ready to provide this to the Russian Federation," Saleh said in an interview in Sanaa.

 

Pentagon: US ready to down Syrian, Russian jets | 23 Aug 2016 | The warning came after US fighter jets had tried to engage Syrian Arab Air Force aircraft in Syria last week, but the showdown was avoided as government planes left before the Americans arrived. The Pentagon has announced that the USA is ready to down Syrian and Russian planes that they claim threaten American advisers who by international law are illegally operating in northern Syria. On Friday, Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis claimed that US jets attempted to intercept Syrian planes to protect the American advisers operating illegally with Kurdish forces in Syria after Syrian government jets bombed areas of Hasakah when Kurdish police began an aggression against the National Defense Force.

 

Western media's latest propaganda campaign | 20 Aug 2016 | Western media has received video and photos of propaganda from alleged "activists in Aleppo". And Western media is spreading this propaganda like wildfire. Fact: The Obama administration wants Bashar al-Assad out so that the current democratic system of government will be replaced with an Islamic one. These photos and video are faked and are propaganda...they are meant to trick you. This propaganda is designed to make you think "government forces" or "Russian air strikes" have hit civilians. This is a lie...At one point, you see a person in the background wearing a White Helmet. And there you have it - the final d-mning evidence that this is yet another staged propaganda video created by the notorious White Helmets. Who are the White Helmets? The White Helmets were created by a collaboration of Islamists inside the US and the UK in 2013. The White Helmet "rescue" workers shown in their propaganda photos have been filmed socializing with opposition, participating in civilian executions, waving al-Qaeda [al-CIAduh], al-Nusra and other "opposition" flags.

 

Germany to require citizens to stockpile supplies in case of catastrophe - report | 21 Aug 2016 | A civil defense plan to be debated by the cabinet would require citizens to stockpile supplies in case of a catastrophe. The plan says people should prepare for an unlikely event that "could threaten our existence."  For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government plans to encourage its citizens to prepare for a catastrophe or armed attack by stockpiling food, water and other supplies, the FAS reported on Sunday. Citing the government's "Concept for Civil Defense" paper to be discussed by the cabinet on Wednesday, the government will require people to stock 10 days worth of food and five days of worth of drinking water.

 

Judge orders FBI to turn over terrorism task force documents | 18 Aug 2016 | A federal judge has ordered the Boston office of the FBI to disclose information about its Joint Terrorism Task Force in Massachusetts, including the number of agents assigned to the task force, the resources it uses, and the number of open cases it had as of 2014. The order was in response to a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which first requested the information nearly three years ago in a public records request under the Freedom of Information Act. US District Judge Allison D. Burroughs rejected the FBI's argument that the documents are exempt from public records laws because they would disclose law enforcement techniques and procedures.

 

Bombing at wedding in southern Turkey kills at least 30 | 21 Aug 2016 | At least 30 people were killed when a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosives among people dancing on the street at a wedding party in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday, security and hospital sources said. President Tayyip Erdogan said it was likely that Islamic State militants had carried out the late-night attack, one of the deadliest this year in Turkey, which faces threats from militants at home and across the border with neighboring Syria.

 

Assassination attempt? Panic for Julian Assange as intruder scales Ecuadorian embassy wall --An attempted break-in at the Ecuadorian embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is living was foiled this morning. | 22 Aug 2016 | Security was scrambled at the London building sparking international concern Assange was the target of the intruder. A statement was put out by WikiLeaks this morning. It stated: "16 mins ago at 2:47am a 'cat burgler' [sic] scaled the side wall+window of the Ecuadorian embassy in London; fled after being caught by security." Mr Assange has been living inside the embassy for more than four years and has been granted political asylum by Ecuador.

 

14 arrested for smuggling Fukushima-irradiated seafood in Shandong | 23 Aug 2016 | Customs authorities in Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, detained 14 people for smuggling frozen seafood from Japan, including irradiated high-end seafood from waters near Fukushima prefecture, China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Monday. The group has smuggled over 5,000 tons of frozen seafood - including shrimp and king crab - valued at 34.5 million - into China over the past two years, according to an announcement by the Qingdao Customs District (QCD) posted on its official website on Monday. Some of the high-end products were from Fukushima, one of 12 Japanese prefectures from which China has banned any seafood imports due to the contamination of their waters after the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011, according to CCTV.

 

At least 8 dead after 6.2 earthquake in central Italy, reports say | 24 Aug 2016 | At least eight people were killed Wednesday after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck central Italy, according to local news reports. Several people were reported dead after the earthquake struck near Norcia, roughly 105 miles from Rome, and a series of aftershocks hit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Two people were killed in Pescara del Tronto, a small town in the Ascoli Piceno province, and a family of four was killed in Accumoli La Repubblica reported.

 

Shallow 6.2 quake strikes Italy, strongly felt in Rome | 24 Aug 2016 | A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked central Italy some 76 kilometers southeast of the city of Perugia at 1:36 a.m. GMT. Social media has been flooded with reports of strong tremors felt in the country's capital, Rome. The town of Norcia, home to some 5,000 residents, lies just 10km southeast of the quake’s epicenter, according to US Geological Survey (USGS)...The earthquake hit 126km north of Rome, the largest and most populous city of the region with 2.6 million people.

 

Zika panic DEET chemical part of brain-damaging binary weapon being carpet bombed across America's cities | 21 Aug 2016 | With every ignorant news organization across America now pushing Americans to slather their skin with DEET chemicals as a defense against Zika mosquitoes, there's something every American needs to know: DEET is one chemical component of a binary chemical weapon system currently being carpet bombed onto U.S. civilian populations...In this article, I'm going to lay out the science for you that proves all this, citing published scientific studies, government research papers, historical accounts of military actions and molecular citations from the world's most authoritative sources on chemistry. As far as my own science background goes, I am the lab science director of CWC Labs, an internationally accredited, ISO-17025 accredited forensic food analysis laboratory. I personally run mass spec (LC/MS-TOF) systems with a special focus on pesticides, herbicides and chemical toxicology.

 

Florida announces Zika case hundreds of miles from Miami | 23 Aug 2016 | Florida officials on Tuesday announced the first case of Zika transmitted by mosquitoes in Pinellas County, located some 265 miles (425 km) from Miami, where the first locally transmitted U.S. cases were reported. Steve Huard, acting spokesman for Florida Department of Health in Pinellas County, said the case involves a woman without a significant travel history, indicating the virus was contracted locally. He did not know the timeline on the case, only that it had been confirmed within the past day.

 

Number of Zika Cases in US Military Rises to 55 | 19 Aug 2016 | The number of Zika virus cases among military personnel has continued to rise, with 14 more cases reported in recent weeks to increase the total number from 41 to 55, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday. In addition, 12 military dependents have been diagnosed with Zika, an increase of five cases over the seven among military dependents reported earlier this month...Earlier this month, government-funded human trials began on a possible Zika virus vaccine. [Yeah, the same bioterrorists who created the Zika virus (and dengue fever, etc.) are going to develop a vaccine to 'prevent' it. No thank you. --LRP]

 

Zika spreads to Miami Beach, U.S. expands travel warning | 20 Aug 2016 | Federal health officials on Friday warned pregnant women not to travel to trendy Miami Beach after Florida confirmed that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was active in the popular tourist destination. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also suggested that pregnant women who are especially worried about exposure to Zika...might consider avoiding all of Miami-Dade County...The new warnings heighten concerns over Zika's spread in the continental United States.

 

Obama Readies Big September Push for TPP Corporate Takeover | 21 Aug 2016 | President Obama is readying one final push for approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest regional trade agreement corporate takeover ever, between the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations. And though the odds may be long, a presidency defined by partisan stalemate may yet secure one last legacy -- only because of Mr. Obama's delicate alliance with the Republicans [Obama's fellow corporatists] who control Congress... Although the administration's push will begin in September, no vote on the accord will occur before the election. [Right, Obama, Paul Ryan and the other scum-bags are going to try to ram the TPP through in a lame-duck session of Congress.]

 

Judge orders State Department to review 14,900 Clinton emails | 22 Aug 2016 | A judge ordered the U.S. State Department on Monday to review for possible release 14,900 of Hillary Clinton's emails and attachments that the FBI found when investigating her use of a private email server as secretary of state. The judge also scheduled a Sept. 23 hearing on when to release the emails, a deadline that raises the possibility some will become public before the Nov. 8 presidential election between Democrat Clinton and her Republican rival, Donald Trump.

 

Every CLGer, please sign: YouTube: Take down horrifying video of hunter slaughtering bear with a spear --Bowmar also glorifies his use of a spear, which animal experts say can leave a bear suffering for up to 20 hours while it escapes and slowly bleeds to death. | 20 Aug 2016 | American hunter sociopath Josh Bowmar is featured in a horrifying 13-minute video just released on YouTube showing him killing a black bear with a homemade spear...He cheers with joy. He lifts the bear up to show its organs spilling out. This is not a video of a hunt. It's a disturbing celebration of animal cruelty. YouTube should immediately take it down and suspend Bowmar's account. Any video showing animal slaughter is disturbing, but Bowmar's video goes beyond celebrating a "sport". Even hunters are calling the video disgusting and lacks any respect for the life he takes.

 

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