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POPSChina Bans US Chicken Feet? It is always about the money, it is always about the money, it is always about the money. People, health, environment, and combating disease or job loss? Way down the list. Plus, what kind of great minds do we have in Congress? Avian influenza and cooked chicken - no connection. Food poisoning from E coli, you bet but not avian influenza.
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POPSSlaughtering the Amazon and the Earth When you lace up your favorite pair of shoes, you could unknowingly be unraveling the Amazon rainforest. It turns out leather coming from the Amazon rainforest is being used to make a number of consumer products, perhaps even the Nike, Adidas, Timberland, or Reebok shoes you're wearing right now. Take Action NOW >> Tell Adidas, Nike and others that every step counts when it comes to saving the Amazon, so itβs time they step up.
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POPSLatest Version of Bird Flu May Be Pandemic Starter This paradox β emerging from Egypt, the most recent epicentre of the disease β threatens to increase the disease's ability to spread from person to person by helping it achieve the crucial mutation in the virus which could turn it into the greatest plague to hit Britain since the Black Death. Last year the Government identified the bird-flu virus, codenamed H5N1, as the biggest threat facing the country β with the potential to kill up to 750,000 Britons.
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POPSJapanese Raccons found with Bird Flu What this shows is that the h5n1 virus is present in many different species. It breaks out in a form that is deadly to both animals and people when the host animal is gathered together in large numbers. When chickens, ducks, or geese are factory farmed (thousands raised at same time and housed for egg laying or held for delivery to live markets), the natural system "thinks" the species's population is too large and is exhibitig stress that calls for a "system" response to bring the flock back into balance. The system response to re-create balance is influenza which kills weaker or stressed birds and reestablishes balance. Repeated human intervention causes greater system responses until it may reach pandemic levels.
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POPSProfit, status and stupidity still rules science! "There is nothing that can be produced through radiation induced mutation that is not within the spectrum of possibilities of what nature can bring out in that crop, given sufficient space and time. All radiation induced mutation is doing is to facilitate a naturally occurring phenomenon." And there is no residual radiation left in a plant after the mutation induction, he says. " Why is it that scientist's become simpering idiots and unscientific when they enter the promotion game of their favored technical solution for the planet? No danger from residual radiation - true. Danger from unforeseen circumstances due lack of diversity in agriculture - lots! If latest whiz bang, nuked wheat or rice becomes the one crop fits all and nature says, "yummie, let me create a new bacteria or predator for this new over-abundant species," then poof! whole crops are wiped out and new food hunger is created!
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POPSAnd On and On It Goes - Bird Flu - we have it again Nations all over the globe who have been struck by avian flu, note they have it, kill thousands of birds, then proclaim they are bird flu free and then later on, of course, a new outbreak is reported because the methods being used do not work - that's why a new pandemic is just a matter of time - unless leaders get out of their boxes
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POPSDon't Flush Your Outdate Drugs Down the Toilet! If you were thinking about going to Red Lobster for some lighter fare after that big turkey feast - forget it1 If the lead, mercury, and who knows what else from seafood imported from China doesn't make you sick, you might get high or low on fish out of drug laden US waters.
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POPSQuestion is - is bailout a shell game for two of big three? Chrysler knows it needs to sell cars and trucks to stay in business. GM and Ford have been and may continue to play the stock market and sub-prime loan type games to make money instead of making cars and trucks people want to buy and to make them with North American workers!
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POPSMake Those Chicken Nuggets Extra Well Done! Greed and corruption may facilitate the spread of the next flu pandemic that could kill millions. Does KFC or your local Thai restaurant use chicken nuggets from Thailand - make 'em extra crispy to be sure the flu is dead. Danger from cooked birds is slight actually but it illustrates how hard it is for governments to protect against the worst that pandemics can bring us.
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POPSHate Crimes are Driven by Fear The results of overblown fear of immigrants are hate crimes such as the one reported here. Be, Just, Love Mercy and Walk Humbly with God - then things might start improving.
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POPSBird Flu - Thailand - Illustrates Why It goes On and On It's about money honey - always about money. So if you come a culling chickens, I'll be trying to hide mine! That phenomena goes on and on and on. Other methods must be considered to control the spread of bird flu; which could become the next pandemic spring board.
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POPSToo Close for Comfort? Hide Them from View! Ironic that the new "Cold War" wall is not between US and Russia but US and that Super Power Threat to the US - Mexico. Or maybe it is more like the Great Wall of China that did not succeed in keeping foreigners out either.
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POPS2 Nuns Listed as Terrorists by Baltimore Cops Who would have thought that efforts to legitimately protect ourselves result in return of enemies lists and labeling anyone who you disagree with as a "red and a commie", oops, I mean "terrorist. Guess that's what made and still does make the Bill of Rights an important part of US Democracy.
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POPSFast for Human Rights of Immigrants The fear mongering against Latinos and Muslims is reaching new heights as some try to hijack all of or rights in the upcoming election. Act now for our future!
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POPSConfusing - This Economic Crises - Isn't It? I f documented and undocumented migrant workers in US send less money back to their families and relatives at home, then their relatives can't buy exported US goods and the American economic crisis gets worse. So, we need a bailout plan or economic stimulus plan to get more money into migrant workers' hands so they can send more money home, so they can buy US exports? And all this time, fright mongers were telling us that migrant workers were costing us? See it's confusing and not as simple as the simple minded have been telling us - eh?
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POPSImmigrants Being Locked Up - Indefinitely? Out of Spite? Interesting that the world has many defenders of free trade or fair trade but fewer and fewer support free movement of people. I guess it's just the money that those folks favor the free movement of and keep the poor, the oppressed, and the different away from my door!
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POPSFast for Human RIghts! No time like the present to help nation focus on solving its inhumanity to migrant workers than when ICE is stepping up its raids to make Republicans look good before the election.
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