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December 2009

7 Diseases That Big, Juicy Steaks Could Give You

By Sara Novak, Planet Green
Posted on November 5, 2009, Printed on November 10, 2009
http://www.alternet.org/story/143691/
More and more people are passing on meat for a wide variety of reasons. For starters, it reduces your impact on the planet. Some simply can’t bare the despicable factory farming industry in this country. And the third weighing issue on the minds of the more than 2.8 percent of the U.S. population that considers themselves vegetarian, arehealth issues. And studies show that there are plenty of them.

Copenhagen Has Given Us the Chance to Face Climate Change With Honesty

Published on Sunday, December 27, 2009 by The Observer/UK
by James Hansen
Last weekend’s minimalist Copenhagen global climate accord provides a great opportunity. The old deceitful, ineffectual approach is severely wounded and must die. Now there is a chance for the world to get on to an honest, effective path to an agreement.
The centrepiece of the old approach was a “cap-and-trade” scheme, festooned with offsets and bribes

Vaccination: An Analysis of the Health Risks

By Gary Null Ph.D.


For more than a hundred years, two basic assumptions have been put forth by public health officials. One is that vaccines are safe. The second is that vaccines are effective for the conditions for which they’re given. The public and our legislators have, by and large, accepted these assumptions as true, and as a result it is now compulsory in many states that children have as many as 33 separate inoculations before entering school. Some of these are given as early as the first few weeks of life.

Pentagon’s Role in Global Catastrophe: Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes

By Sara Flounders
Global Research, December 19, 2009
International Action Center – 2009-12-18
In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets — it is important to ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on the planet is not a focus of any conference discussion or proposed restrictions?