~ Health News Clips - Pesticide Pusher in Charge of Agricultural Trade Relations

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_Obama Puts Pesticide Pusher in Charge of Agricultural Trade Relations_

(http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2010/siddiqui-03-28-201

0.html)

Sidestepping a stalled Senate confirmation vote, yesterday President Obama

recess-appointed Islam Siddiqui to be chief agricultural negotiator in the

office of the U.S. trade representative. Dr. Siddiqui’s nomination was

held up in the Senate and was opposed by the _Center for Biological Diversity_

(http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2010/siddiqui-03-28-

2010.htmlhttp://www.biologicaldiversity.org/) and more than 80 other

environmental, small-farm, and consumer groups. More than 90,000 concerned

citizens contacted the White House and Senate to oppose the nomination.

Siddiqui is a former pesticide lobbyist and is currently vice president of

science

and regulatory affairs at CropLife America, a biotech and pesticide trade

group that lobbies to weaken environmental laws.

 

( From _http://www.legitgov.org_ (http://www.legitgov.org/) )

 

 

 

 

 

_Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food_

(http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/03/25/doctors-warn-avoi\

d-genetically-modified-

food.aspx)

 

 

 

_Aspartame has been renamed and is now being marketed as a natural

sweetener_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/z028151_aspartame_sweeteners.html)

Rebranded version of aspartame is called " AminoSweet " .

 

 

 

 

_Drug firm investigated FDA officials_

(http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/35212.html)

Private investigators working for a drug company gathered information on a

high-ranking official at the Food and Drug Administration - unearthing

details about her husband, two daughters, and in-laws, and re-tracing her

steps on a business trip she took to Thailand. The drug company, Amphastar

Pharmaceuticals Inc., paid more than $100,000 to Kroll, the New York-based

private investigative firm, to uncover the information about Janet Woodcock,

director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who oversees

the agency’s new-drug approvals.

( From _http://www.legitgov.org_ (http://www.legitgov.org/) )

 

 

 

 

 

Discharged soldiers sue for millions over Anthrax experiment

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(http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3869416,00.html) >

--As part of the lawsuit the IDF soldiers are demanding that

the state reveal the ingredients of the serum that was

given to them during Anthrax vaccine experiments in

the early 1990s. The experiments, which were meant to

determine the efficacy of an Anthrax vaccine, were carried

out in light of what was then defined at the time as the

" strategic threat of a surprise biological attack facing Israel. "

( From _http://www.legitgov.org_ (http://www.legitgov.org/) )

 

 

 

How Many Vets Have Been " Wounded " in Iraq and Afghanistan?

According to Department of Defense statistics cited in press reports,

36,904 U.S. soldiers have been " wounded " in Iraq and Afghanistan. But according

to information obtained by Veterans for Common Sense from the VA under

FOIA, 508,152 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have been patients at the VA, and

there have been 442,412 disability claims.

_http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/532_

(http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/532)

 

 

 

 

 

" More of our young soldiers are now killing themselves than are being

killed in our wars in the Middle East. "

The military " broke me down into a not-good person, wearing a huge mask. "

 

" The Surge " in self-inflicted deaths continues, with our military reporting

350 suicides of active duty personnel in 2009. And for every death, at

least five serving personnel are hospitalized for attempting to take their

life.

The Veteran's Administration estimates that 6,400 veterans take their own

lives each year.

_http://www.truthout.org/carrying-a-backpack-sorrow-soldiers-edge-suicide58208_

(http://www.truthout.org/carrying-a-backpack-sorrow-soldiers-edge-suicide58208)

 

 

 

 

 

 

_Free Press Haven: Iceland May Soon Become Utopia for Journalists and

Publishers_

(http://www.truthout.org/free-press-haven-iceland-may-soon-become-utopia-journal\

ists-and-publishers58022)

" Icelandic members of parliament have plans to transform their

crisis-ridden North-Atlantic nation into a sanctuary for publishers, production

companies and information technology firms from around the world. 'It would

free

the press from fear,' says Thor Saari, one of the members of parliament

spearheading the proposal, which is known as the Icelandic Modern Media

Initiative (IMMI). Organizers are hoping that IMMI will give journalists the

world over the legal confidence they need to publish investigations without

being threatened by lawyers and politicians.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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