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911 They knew, but did nothing
at Sun Mar 09, 2008 17:32:04 by Sydney Morning Herald
March 8, 2008 In this exclusive extract from his new book, Philip Shenon uncovers how the White House tried to hide the truth of its ineptitude leading up to the September 11 terrorist attacks. . In the American summer of 2001, the nation's news organisations, especially the television networks, were riveted by the story of one man. It wasn't George Bush. And it certainly wasn't Osama bin Laden.

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Honeybees may be wiped out in 10 years
at Sun Jan 20, 2008 21:57:56 by London Telegraph
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Honeybees may be wiped out in 10 years

Jasper Copping
London Telegraph
Sunday January 20, 2008

Honeybees will die out in Britain within a decade as virulent diseases and parasites spread through the nation's hives, experts have warned.

Whole colonies of bees are already being wiped out, with current methods of pest control unable to stop the problem.

The British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) said that if the crisis continued, honeybees would disappear completely from Britain by 2018, causing "calamitous" economic and environmental problems.

It called on the Government to restart shelved research programmes and to fund new ones to try to save the insects.

Tim Lovett, the association's president, said: "The situation has become insupportable and the Government is unwilling to take steps to avoid disaster.

"We're increasingly unable to cope with threats as they arise. No bees means a huge cost to agriculture, without touching on the ecological and environmental issues. We're facing calamitous results."

Last year, more than 11 per cent of all beehives inspected were wiped out, although losses were higher in some areas.

In London, about 4,000 hives - two-thirds of the bee colonies in the capital - were estimated to have died over last winter. Of the eight colonies inspected so far this year, all have been wiped out.

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FATAL MOTORCYCLE COLLISION - CROSSOVER
at Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:19:51 by Gippsland News FATAL MOTORCYCLE COLLISION - CROSSOVER 5 January 2008
FATAL MOTORCYCLE COLLISION - CROSSOVER A motorcyclist was involved in a collision in the Baw Baw area yesterday afternoon and died in hospital last night. The female rider had been travelling south on Bloomfield Road at Crossover about 160m south of Old Telegraph Road East when she was struck by a utility around 6.45pm. The 51-year-old woman from Gladysdale was airlifted to the Alfred Hospital where she died shortly after 11pm. No other details are available at this stage. Road Toll for Victoria 2008 4 2007 4 Christmas Road Toll: 17

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Climinal Elite Depopulation Agenda Gains Ground
at Thu Jan 03, 2008 18:51:26 by Climinal Elite
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Ban on junk food ads introduced
at Thu Jan 03, 2008 17:13:40 by BBc
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The rules says adverts should not encourage excessive consumption
A ban on adverts for junk food during television programmes aimed at children under 16 has come into force.

Regulator Ofcom has outlawed adverts for foods high in fat, salt and sugar in an effort to tackle rising childhood obesity levels.

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Mystery ‘arrowhead’ UFO spotted
at Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:44:04 by expressandstar.com
 
Mystery ‘arrowhead’ UFO spotted
A mysterious “flying Dorito-shaped” object which was seen by dozens of people just before Christmas has been spotted again – this time in the skies above Lower Gornal. The mystery UFO

The strange unexplained flying object was seen by residents in Wallows Wood, off The Straits, at around 6.15pm on Tuesday.

Householders described the object as looking like an “arrowhead” with three orange lights arranged in the shape of an isosceles triangle.

Residents watched it move slowly across the sky before it disappeared from view in the direction of Wolverhampton.

It is the second time the triangular object has been spotted flying over the Black Country in recent weeks.

Scores of people contacted the Express & Star after seeing a UFO in the skies above Wednesfield and Dudley in December and Stourbridge-based UFO Research Midlands was deluged with calls and emails from onlookers who witnessed the object.

Lower Gornal resident Peter Wasdell, aged 57, said he could not believe his eyes when he saw the object.

“The dog started barking and when my wife went outside to find out what was going on she saw the object in the sky and called me out to have a look,” he said.

“There were three orangey lights in a triangle formation. They weren’t shaped like an equilateral triangle, more like an isosceles triangle, and shaped like an old fashioned arrow head. I don’t think it was a plane because we didn’t hear any noise.

“My daughter and her boyfriend and the next door neighbours all saw them and we watched them for about 15 minutes before they disappeared behind the trees.”

Paranormal enthusiast Craig Lowe, who is a member of the Birmingham UFO group, said the area was a “hotspot” for unexplained activity. Mr Lowe, who captured December’s sighting on videotape, said he believed the object could be some sort of military aircraft.

Birmingham International Airport spokesman John Morris said the airport took all reports of UFOs seriously. “We had a couple of inquiries before Christmas following the first sightings over Halesowen,” he revealed.

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FATAL MOTORCYCLE COLLISION - ICY CREEK
at Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:05:48 by Gippsland News ICY CREEK 4 January 2008
4 January 2008 0100 hours FATAL MOTORCYCLE COLLISION - ICY CREEK A motorcyclist died at Icy Creek in the Baw Baw area yesterday afternoon. It is believed the rider had been travelling south on Willowgrove Road about 1.4km north of Ferguson Road when he lost control and struck a tree just before 1pm. The rider was a 48-year-old man. No other details are available at this stage. Road Toll for Victoria 2008 3 2007 4 Christmas Road Toll: 16

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Second Thoughts about Fluoride
at Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:52:35 by Scientific American
'Second Thoughts about Fluoride, Reports Scientific American'. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=second-thoughts-on-fluoride http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS108377+02-Jan-2008+PRN20080102 " Recent studies suggest that over-consumption of fluoride can raise the risks of disorders affecting teeth,bones, the brain and the thyroid gland," reports Scientific America editors (January 2008). "Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift," writes author Dan Fagin. "Fluoride, the most consumed drug in the USA, is deliberately added to 2/3 of public water supplies theoretically to reduce tooth decay, but with no scientifically-valid evidence proving safety or effectiveness," says lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. Fagin, award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, writes, "There is no universally accepted optimal level for daily intake of fluoride". Some researchers even wonder whether the 1 mg/L added into drinking water is too much, reports Fagin. After 3 years of scrutinizing hundreds of studies, a National Research Council (NRC) committee "concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid -- the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism," reports Fagin. Fagin quotes John Doull, professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, who chaired the NRC committee thusly, "The thyroid changes do worry me." Fluoride in foods, beverages, medicines and dental products can result in fluoride over-consumption, visible in young children as dental fluorosis -- white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth. We can't normally see fluoride's effects to the rest of the body. Reports Fagin, "a series of epidemiological studies in China have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ." "(E)pidemiological studies and tests on lab animals suggest that high fluoride exposure increases the risk of bone fracture, especially in vulnerable populations such as the elderly and diabetics," writes Fagin. Fagin interviewed Steven Levy, director of the Iowa Fluoride Study which tracked about 700 Iowa children for sixteen years. Nine-year-old "Iowa children who lived in communities where the water was fluoridated were 50 percent more likely to have mild fluorosis... than [nine-year-old] children living in nonfluoridated areas of the state," writes Fagin. Levy will study fluoride's effects on their bones. Over 1200 professionals urge Congress to cease water fluoridation and conduct Congressional hearings because scientific evidence indicates fluoridation is ineffective and has serious health risks. Support them; write your representative here: salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2477/t/2782/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21960

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Nonfat, Low-Fat Milk Linked to Cancer
at Thu Jan 03, 2008 07:31:33 by Reuters
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Nonfat, Low-Fat Milk Linked to Cancer

 
 
Reuters
Posted: 2008-01-02 21:46:27
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NEW YORK (Jan. 2) - The amount of calcium and vitamin D in the diet appears to have little or no impact on the risk of prostate cancer, but the consumption of low-fat or nonfat milk may increase the risk of the malignancy, according to the results of two studies published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Dietary calcium and dairy products have been thought to increase the risk of prostate cancer by affecting vitamin D metabolism. Data from several prospective studies have supported an association, but many other studies have failed to establish a link.
 
Milk being poured
Charles Krupa, AP

It has long been thought that dairy products can interfere with the cancer-fighting properties of vitamin D, but the consumption of low-fat or nonfat milks appears to increase the risk that the tumors become malignant.

 

 
To explore this topic further, Dr. Song-Yi Park, from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, and colleagues, analyzed data from subjects enrolled in the Multiethnic Cohort Study. This study, conducted between 1993 and 2002, included adults between 45 and 75 years old, were primarily from five different ethnic or racial groups, and lived in California or Hawaii.

A total of 82,483 men from the study completed a quantitative food frequency questionnaire and various factors, such as weight, smoking status, and education levels were also noted, Park's group said.
 
During an average follow-up period of 8 years, 4,404 men developed prostate cancer. There was no evidence that calcium or vitamin D from any source increased the risk of prostate cancer. This held true across all racial and ethnic groups.

In an overall analysis of food groups, the consumption of dairy products and milk were not associated with prostate cancer risk, the authors found. Further analysis, however, suggested that low-fat or nonfat milk did increase the risk of localized tumors or non-aggressive tumors, while whole milk decreased this risk.

In a similar analysis, Dr. Yikyung Park, from the National Cancer Institute at National Institutes (NIH) of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues investigated the relationship of calcium and vitamin D and prostate cancer in 293,888 men enrolled in the NIH-American Association of Retired Persons Diet and Health Study, conducted between 1995 and 2001. The average follow-up period was 6 years.

No link between total or supplemental dietary calcium and the total number of non-advanced prostate cancer cases was noted. Total calcium intake was tied to advanced and fatal disease, but both associations fell short of statistical significance.

Similar to the first study's findings, skim milk was linked with advanced prostate cancer. Calcium from non-dairy food, by contrast, was tied to a reduced risk of non-advanced prostate cancer.

"Our findings do not provide strong support for the hypothesis that calcium and dairy foods increase the risk of prostate cancer. The results from other large...studies, with adequate numbers of advanced and fatal prostate cancers, may shed further light on this question," Park's team concludes.

SOURCE: American Journal of Epidemiology, December 1, 2008.

 
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