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The reckless depredations of corporate power and neo-Malthusian enthusiasts within the elite threaten our environment and our very survival. EM radiation,disappearing bees and pollinators, heavy metal toxicity, GM crops and soil depletion are amongst the most immediate dangers we face.

French Health Agency says reduce RF exposure to vulnerable members of the public

Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2013

IN A MAJOR PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT ON 15 OCTOBER 2013, THE FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD, ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH WARNED THE PUBLIC TO REDUCE THEIR EXPOSURE TO MOBILE PHONE RADIATION

EMFields

!6th October, 2013

The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health, ANSES, announced today the results of a two-year review by an expert Working Group of the scientific research on the risks related to exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation.

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‘No Monsanto!’: World marches against GMO food

Posted by seumasach on October 13, 2013

RT

12th October, 2013

Thousands took to streets across the world’s cities on Saturday to protest the use of GMO products, with Giant Monsanto being the main target. Over 50 countries have been taking part in the march for world food day, and across 47 different US states.

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Global warming in a climate of ignorance

Posted by seumasach on October 5, 2013

Wal Thornhill

Holoscience

15th February, 2007

Global warming has been deemed a fact. However, the inconvenient truth is that humans are not causing it. Al Gore has been given poor advice. Like Darwin’s theory of evolution and Big Bang cosmology, global warming by greenhouse gas emissions has undergone that curious social process in which a scientific theory is promoted to a secular myth. When in fact, science is ignorant about the source of the heat — the Sun.

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Russia considers GM ban

Posted by seumasach on October 2, 2013

Total GMO Ban To Be Considered By Russia Within Weeks

Waking Times

30th September, 2013

As one of the few nations in the world with a GMO-free platform, Russia does not allow any cultivation of GMOs for commercial purposes. Their regulatory agencies recently suspended the import and use of an American GM corn following a study suggesting a link to breast cancer and organ damage. The Russian Prime Minister has now ordered the same agencies to consider a possible ban on all GMO imports into Russia.

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“How to protect ourselves- and growing children-from electromagnetic fields

Posted by seumasach on September 10, 2013

Electromagnetic Health

Conference at New York Open Center, 7-10 pm, 15th November, 2013

The NY Open Center, the largest urban holistic learning center in the United States, will host an expert panel on risks from cell phones, wireless devices and wireless infrastructure—and what you can do about it—on Friday, November 15, 2013 from 7-10 p.m.  The program will heavily emphasize risks to children, fetuses and fertility, the very foundation of society’s future, and practical skills of remediation to reduce or eliminate exposures to electromagnetic fields.

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EM radiation and the survival of the bees

Posted by seumasach on August 26, 2013

La multiplication des réseaux d’ondes électromagnétiques peut-elle avoir une incidence sur la survie des abeilles?

Sosthene Berger

Mieux Prevenir

23rd August

Cela paraît impensable, mais des études scientifiques au protocole strict ont démontré que ce réseautage avait des effet néfastes. Des champs électromagnétiques externes provoquent une contraction des petits cristaux de magnétite (Fe3O4) que les hyménoptères utilisent pour s’orienter.

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Japan’s nuclear crisis deepens

Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2013

China expresses ‘shock’

Yahoo

21st August, 2013

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s nuclear crisis escalated to its worst level since a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima plant more than two years ago, with the country’s nuclear watchdog saying it feared more storage tanks were leaking contaminated water.

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Fukushima: Pump and prey

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2013

Pump and prey: Tepco might have to pour water on Fukushima wreckage forever

Professor Chris Busby

RT

7rth August, 2013

Fukushima is a nightmare disaster area, and no one has the slightest idea what to do. The game is to prevent the crippled nuclear plant from turning into an “open-air super reactor spectacular” which would result in a hazardous, melted catastrophe.

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Fracking ‘silence’ for life

Posted by seumasach on August 10, 2013

Asia Times

9th August, 2013

WASHINGTON – New signs have emerged in recent days which indicate extreme measures are being taken in order to suppress evidence of the pernicious effects of the energy extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”.

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Fracking: Study on groundwater contamination

Posted by seumasach on August 9, 2013

New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites

Theodoric Meyer

ProPublica

A recently published study by researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington found elevated levels of arsenic and other heavy metals in groundwater near natural gas fracking sites in Texas’ Barnett Shale.

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The fracked-up USA shale gas bubble

Posted by seumasach on August 5, 2013

F.William Engdahl

Global Research

13th March, 2013

At a time when much of the world is looking with a mix of envy and excitement at the recent boom in USA unconventional gas from shale rock, when countries from China to Poland to France to the UK are beginning to launch their own ventures into unconventional shale gas extraction, hoping it is the cure for their energy woes, the US shale boom is revealing itself to have been a gigantic hyped confidence bubble that is already beginning to deflate. Carpe diem!

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