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Big Pharma to market its vaccines with contrived emotional appeal that utterly ignores facts
2015-04-26 10:07:24| Beverages - Topix.net
At the behest of the World Health Organization , the so-called "SAGE [Strategic Advisory Group of Experts] Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy" has put together a report for the United Nations arm outlining new strategies to convince more people to get vaccinated. And in this report, recommendations are made that the vaccine industry market its vaccines in the same way that fast food corporations market junk food products to children -- by appealing to emotion, telling fairy tales and ultimately deceiving consumers.
LIRR: SUV hit by train at railroad crossing after driver ignores warning lights and bells
2015-03-03 04:05:42| Railroads - Topix.net
Metropolitan Transportation Authority police and Nassau EMS crews at the scene at the LIRR train crossing on Rocklyn Avenue in East Rockaway after a train hit a vehicle on Monday, March 2, 2015. Photo Credit: Bill Bennett Metropolitan Transportation Authority police and Nassau EMS crews at the scene at the LIRR train crossing on Rocklyn Avenue in East Rockaway after a train hit a vehicle on Monday, March 2, 2015.
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Obama ignores Obama on climate change
2015-01-30 05:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: President Obama is once again contradicting himself on climate change. His new push for offshore oil and gas drilling is just the latest instance. Last week, in his State of the Union address, Obama reiterated at length the urgent threat climate change presents and the importance of taking decisive action to address it. The Pentagon says that climate change poses immediate risks to our national security, he said. We should act like it. But Obama himself isnt acting like it. This week,...
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Hillary Clinton Open to Fracking, Ignores Keystone XL
2014-12-02 16:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Hillary Clinton, widely assumed to be planning another presidential run in 2016, spoke at a League on Conservation Voters (LCV) fundraiser in New York yesterday evening, displaying her usual cautious positioning and avoidance of anything that might be perceived as a leftwing pet projectsuch as the Keystone XL pipeline, which she failed to mention. Despite ongoing pressure from environmental groups, Clinton has consistently refused to address Keystone XL, saying she cant comment while the pipeline...
Texas official ignores voters ban on fracking
2014-11-10 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: As predicted, mere hours after the first-ever fracking ban passed in Texas, industry reps took to the courts. By 9:09 a.m. on Nov. 5, both the Texas Oil and Gas Association and the Texas General Land Office had filed lawsuits that aim to prevent the city of Denton from enacting its ordinance on Dec. 2 - and Texas legislators are already drawing up plans to make future fracking bans like this one illegal. The blowback here, of course, is because Denton is sitting on top of the Barnett Shale - one...
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