FDA Finally Reviewing Controversial Ingredient In Soap After 40 Years Of Procrastination

In 1972, Congress passed a law requiring the U.S. Food and Drug Administration set guidelines for anti-bacterial chemicals commonly used in soap. In a tentative draft published in 1978, the FDA identified one such chemical, triclosan, as potentially dangerous.

John Farnham · Top Commenter · Rothesay Collegiate School

The whole concept of washing oneself in toxins as a health promotion measure is crazy on the face of it. Any poison operates on the premise it kills target specie faster than you. It also violates a prime consideration of sanitation : it is contraindicated in a contaminated environment as it kills friendly bacteria and leaves the field clear for toxic ( often anaerobic ) strains.

From uranium mining to nuclear weapons and disused reactors

NUCLEAR INFORMATION
This site will build items on various topics concerning the nuclear cycle, from uranium mining to nuclear weapons, to the “decommissioning” of old nuclear reactors. We add informational news items as they arrive.
We will also include older news items – that should not be forgotten.

Uranium Dust
http://www.netvibes.com/opit#Tools_%26_technology

Why buy Organic ?

Orthorexia – The Condescending Label Being Slapped on Those Who Want to Avoid GMOs

In 1997, a doctor by the name of Steven Bratman coined the term “Orthorexia Nervosa”. While Orthorexia does not appear in the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), this supposed condition is characterized by “an extreme fixation on eating healthy food, which can result in obsessive compulsive behaviors and malnutrition.”

What would he think about The Lies They Tell About Diabetes

Clean Technica

Naming the Dead
Covert Drone War, PROJECTS

A young Yemeni writer on the impact and morality of drone-bombing his country

HT 99News

The Art of Deception

The Art of Deception is an explanation of how a documentary is constructed to communicate truth, brainwash the audience and push an agenda.
The Art of Deception explains the way the media has become a puppet for certain people. The US government used Kony 2012, or the invisible children, as a puppet to invade Uganda after they discovered huge amounts of untapped oil. This is explained in great detail in the documentary.
The Illuminati used Zeitgeist as a puppet to destroy religion and to scare the population about their own existence.

PATRIOT LINK NEWS

Australia Are Hoarding Asylum Seekers on Prison Islands

( One would be tempted to feature this as a headline where the writer doesn't know the difference between singular and plural )

DISCOURSE as quilting

Two online pieces jump out at me in a way that may seem unrelated at first:

“Do We Dare Write for Readers?” by William Germano at The Chronicle Review (about which I will write more below)
“No Rich Child Left” Behind by Sean F. Reardon in the Opinionator section of The New York Times

For me, the pieces speak to the Brave New World of scholarship that has swept over and past academia, while most academics weren’t paying any attention.
The online world, often marginalized as “social media,” of blogs and Twitter has sprung up, evolved, and become relevant—even influential—without the blessings of the powers that be within academia—the faculty status committee and all the trappings [1] associated with tenure and promotion, that nefarious [2] world called “scholarship.”