"Flim Flam" Biofuels Company Wants to Buy the Largest East Coast Oil Refinery
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-11
SG Preston is seeking to buy Philadelphia Energy Solutions, which has gone bankrupt and laid off its workers without severance pay or health care. It has never opened a facility, with a history of bilking those it owes money.
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Trump's explosive vape ban sees MAGA voters & liberals fume in rare moment of unity
rt.com | 2019-09-11
In a move guaranteed to anger both his opponents and his libertarian supporters, President Donald Trump announced plans to ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes. The MAGA crowd responded: come and take it. | Appearing in the Oval Office on Wednesday, flanked by First Lady Melania and a pair of HHS and FDA officials, Trump described vaping as a problem, and said "we're going to have to do something about it." Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar later revealed that a plan to "clear flavored e-cigarettes from the market" would be forthcoming. | A handful of Democrat-governed states have already moved to…
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People Should be Warned of the Adverse Health Effects of 5G Mobile Phone Microwave Radiation Technology
David Sullivan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-11
Read the Irish Independent article here. | *** | Dear Adrian, | I read with dismay your article in Saturdays Independent on the safety of 5G. I think you do a huge disservice to Ireland Inc but in particular to Irish Children …
globalresearch.ca/people-should-be-warned-of-the-adverse-health-effects-of-5g-mobile-phone-microwave-radiation-technology/5688815
Appeals Court to Hear ACLU Discrimination Case Against Dignity Health
ACLU of Northern California | indybay.org | 2019-09-11
SAN FRANCISCO–The ACLU is set to argue before the Court of Appeal in San Francisco Tuesday on behalf of Evan Minton, a man who was denied health care because he is transgender.
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Making the gun violence epidemic visible through art and activism
Carla Bell | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-11
Leslie Lee calls herself an "artivist." It's a word combining art and activism, rooted in community and Latinx art from the late 1990s, but Lee says she was doing this work before it had a name. "I have always been interested in metaphor and content that addressed various social issues," she says. A 71-year-old grandmother, …
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Why Are Legislatures Now Imposing "Vaccine Mandates"?
Dr. Meryl Nass | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-11
I am a veteran of the vaccine war in the US, and today I feel compelled to speak about what I saw in that war. Legislators were forced to change their votes to revoke vaccine exemptions and rescind the historic …
globalresearch.ca/why-legislatures-imposing-vaccine-mandates-now/5688812
Healthcare Ad Spending Exceeds $65 Million in 2019 as Insurance Industry Ramps Up Effort to Kill Medicare for All
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-09-11
"The insurance companies are working hard to shift the blame and stop the movement for Medicare for All." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Officials Ignore Pesticides and Blame Alcohol and Biscuits for Rising Rates of Disease
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-10
The information below and the quotes were taken from the 12-page report that accompanied Rosemary Mason's recent open letter to the Chief Medical Officer to England, Sally Davies. It can be accessed here. ***** Campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has written an open letter to the Chief Medical Officer of England, Sally Davies. In …
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Planned Parenthood Has an App for That
Alice Pettway | progressive.org | 2019-09-10
Health provider counters funding setbacks by expanding access to new technologies.
progressive.org/dispatches/planned-paren…
24 Million Children Living in Warzones Need Mental Health Help
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-10
About 24 million children living in armed conflict zones will be in an urgent need of mental health assistance, according to a report published Tuesday by the Save the Children Fund. | RELATED: | 'Can't Feel My Heart': Caged Migrant Children Face PTSD Report Warns | "420 million children, nearly one-fifth of children worldwide, are living in a conflict zone, and 142 million in high-…
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UN health agency spotlights stalled effort to close health divide across Europe, in new report
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-10
Progress on equal access to a healthy life for all, is at a standstill across Europe, a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) revealed on Tuesday, despite their being a clear path to close gaps in national care.
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As Biden Invokes Dead Family Members Against Medicare for All, Media Play Along
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2019-09-09
by Joshua Cho | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden last month released a new Iowa TV ad called " Personal," which recounts the former vice president's personal tragedy of losing his wife and daughter to a car crash, and the subsequent loss of his son Beau Biden from brain cancer. | Biden presented his story as a celebration of for-profit health insurance by saying that he "couldn't imagine" what it would've been like if their insurance didn't cover the healthcare required "immediately," and that…
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Nuclear testing has 'disastrous consequences' for people and planet, General Assembly told
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-09
Events commemorating the recent International Day against Nuclear Tests serve as an "important and stark reminder…of the disastrous consequences of nuclear testing on human health and the environment", a top UN official told the General Assembly on Monday.
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One person dies by suicide every 40 seconds: new UN health agency report
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-09
Despite progress in national prevention strategies, one person dies by suicide every 40 seconds, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Director-General lamented on Monday, highlighting key findings of the agency's latest report on global suicide estimates.
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Monday's Daily Brief: Suicide death every 40 seconds, rights chief on climate change link, Venezuela, Dorian updates, desertification summit latest
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-09
A recap of Monday's top stories: Someone dies by suicide every 40 seconds says new report; UN rights chief highlights climate change threat, and "devastating toll" on Venezuela; deputy chief Amina Mohammed says halting desertification is a key part of climate action; health agency pledges millions to Hurricane Dorian response.
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Restore land to save the planet, boost the economy, says head of UN body combating desertification
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-06
Investing in land restoration could not only help keep our planet healthy, but also be the starting point for resolving some of the biggest issues of our time, the head of the UN entity tackling desertification told journalists on Friday via video conference, from the ongoing global summit on the issue, underway in India's capital.
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Friday's Daily Brief: Desertification summit, Dorian death toll rising, UN project eases Mali tensions, Yemen funding crisis, hope for Cameroon
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-06
A recap of Friday's main stories: Desertification solutions can ease other world woes; Dorian death toll expected to rise; UN moves to ease communal tensions in Mali; Yemen funding crisis threatens reproductive health nationwide; special report on countering terror in Cameroon.
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NSW to mobilise for free, safe abortion
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-09-06
abortion decriminalisation Pip HinmanIssue 1236 Australia Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019 reproductive rightsSeptember 6, 2019Supporters of the r…
greenleft.org.au/content/nsw-mobilise-free-safe-abortion
Three Percent Security Force's Split Highlights Plague of Infighting
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-09-05
The incessant power struggles that plague militia groups prompted defections in the Three Percent Security Force, robbed its leader of control and delivered the well-known antigovernment militia to the man who defied his commander.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/09/06/three…
California health-care workers prepare to strike at Kaiser
Chakib Mouazoui | liberationnews.org | 2019-09-05
On Labor Day, Sept. 2, around 2,200 people, comprised of health-care workers, union organizers, and allies, gathered at Los Angeles City College to demonstrate their readiness to strike.
liberationnews.org/california-health-car…
Kennewick teachers' strike shows power of the union in Washington state
Mitch Malloy | liberationnews.org | 2019-09-01
Teachers win gains on important issues including pay and insurance.
liberationnews.org/kennewick-teachers-st…
Cuba: U.S. government earmarks millions to hinder Cuban medical cooperation
Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-31
Access to health is a human right and the United States commits a crime by denying it or obstructing it with political motives or aggression.
liberationnews.org/cuba-u-s-government-e…