From vaccines to painkillers, the multi-national corporation Novartis had enjoyed making a fortune on our ills. In 2010 this Switzerland based drug company reported $50.6 billion profit, up 30% from last year. Most popular products? Flu vaccines and Excedrin. This week, the company issued a voluntary recall of many of their products as pills...
Bay Area’s popular web listing service www.craigslist.org has, once again, become a place for scammers. This time it is through “apartments for rent” section. The scheme is simple. The person posts low-priced listing for a 1 bedroom apartment, include the address of the property and only the email as a contact info. The person...
We have all seen feathers and suede-like theme in stores as the latest fashion trend. Well, somebody is getting very upset. Sasha Houston Brown from Dakota’s Santee Sioux Nation wrote an open letter to Urban Outfitters demanding an apology to all Indigenous peoples of North America for misrepresenting their culture in the store’s latest fashion line....
After reading a recent article published on Bloomberg.com “Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Children Make Us Sick: Amity Shlaes” I came to an uneasy conclusion. This article is paid by the Vaccine makers. So I decided to write a letter to the editor and the author of this article. Here is the copy of my...
Something that all perceive as a safe and responsible thing to do, vaccinations, with its seemingly "noble" history, once zoomed in on closer, is, actually, quite the opposite.
Let's start with history.
Since the 1950s, the polio vaccine has been among the first "noble" examples, saving lives. This remained as Polio...
Unlike popular belief spread by the media that vaccinations "protect" against diseases, they don't. They actually cause damage to the immune system, which makes us unable to fight basic infections such as those caused by staph bacteria. How do I know this? I read the box, especially the side effects section.
As more and more American doctors are speaking out against the swine flu scare, European Council has made public statements calling the pandemic false and the vaccine dangerous. Little by little, media outlets around the world continue to spread the word, including Fox News. Nevertheless the pressure to get vaccinated perpetuates.
Interesting article I read today: " WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, will pay a record $2.3 billion civil and criminal penalty over unlawful prescription drug promotions."
While observing media conglomerates collapsing under their own weight, reading the below minimum wage job ads for journalists and filtering through promotional articles, I couldn't help but wonder, what is going to happen to the journalism profession? My search for answers got me all the way to Harvard.
I was about to embark on another project with ICEA this late spring when the news of the swine flu virus broke out carried out by almost every major news outlet. The CDC was proclaiming yet different stage of the threat: pandemic, not pandemic yet, but close… Airports were empty, many people...
