The Botany of Desire is a new documentary that explores the history and evolution of some most common plants today: apple, potato, tulip and cannabis. Michael Pollan, the director, tells the story from the plant’s point of view and explores how we, humans, helped these plants to evolve and succeed. This exceptionally well done documentary presents some interesting facts from the plant’s history and science. The author connects these most popular plants with our drives and desires and assigns each one to a specific plant which managed to dominate it.    more »

Summer has started and, as usual, many people head out to the store to buy sunscreen lotions to "protect" their skin against harmful UV rays. It is known that the excess of sun can cause cancer, but what has not been known, or rather not talked about much, is that the chemicals in sunscreen lotions can cause cancer too and most of them offer no protection at all.   more »

My online friend Jeremy, who's been known for researching and producing videos as Alien Scientist, just added a new video on the most disturbing subject of the enormous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In his video titled "The Video BP & Big Oil Don't Want You to See" he explored the spider web of the oil industry, their related businesses and corruption in which they breed. No matter what your stand on the issue is, this video is definitely worth watching. It has received high ratings and 276 comments in the first 24 hours after it was posted.   more »

Billions of dollars spent, thousands of people put in prison for some 30 years all in the name of fighting drugs only to find that in the year 2010 the drugs have won and now drive the U.S. economy. According to the book, “The Truth about the Drug Companies”, one in every third American is on drugs and it is absolutely legal, prescribed by a doctor and sold at the neighborhood friendly drug store. The same book states that every drug-using American spends an average $300 a month on prescription drugs.   more »

Amidst budget cuts and lay offs, arts programs are usually the first ones to go, but not at South San Francisco High School. They managed to keep their Ballet Folklorico Alma de Mexico alive and thriving for almost 20 years, performing, educating, earning awards and engaging teens in the community with something more than fun.   more »

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.   more »

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.   more »

For those of you who do not like to read, I found a decent video about HAARP. This is by Tru.TV, Jesse Ventura’s conspiracy show. If you minus the over dramatizations and the word “conspiracy”, it is a good overview of what HAARP is. The video is 4 parts. Enjoy!   more »

San Francisco State University taps into the mystery of the H1N1 scare and vaccination. "This pandemic is really a commercial operation"... The article written by Golden Gate Xpress reporters includes the audio interview with Director of HHS Learning Center.   more »

Today October 20, 2009 Oksana mailed Medical Bill of Rights to US Congress. This bill is written by and for the people of the United States. It is designed to benefit the people, not the corporations. It is only 3 pages long and is written in simple, digestible terms.   more »

In the effort to prevent another bailout bill from passing and benefitting drug and health care businesses I wrote my own version, one that has the people's interest in mind, designed to drive the health care costs down. It will not be 1000-page-long and it will not cost $900 billion. And I'll write it for free. I will keep it up to 3 pages and write in simple digestible terms everyone can understand. Here it is.   more »

Bay Area doctors voice their concerns about swine flu and swine flu vaccine. The forum took place on Monday October 12, 2009 at San Francisco State University. San Francisco Public Health officials were invited too, but they decided not to show up at the last minute.   more »