Dear Ministers Kent and Aglukkaq, Canada’s Chief Dental Officer Dr. Peter Cooney appears to be in a serious conflict of interest by not only representing the Canadian government at the United Nations environmental treaty on mercury conference, but by also simultaneously representing the European-based World Dental Federation or Fédération Dentaire Internationale (FDI), a private trade […]
For the “Top Ten Reasons”, click on: www.toxicteeth.org (also copied below) Consumers for Dental Choice Top Ten Reasons to Support Mercury-Free Dentistry 1. Amalgam pollutes our environment Amalgam pollutes 1) water via dental clinic releases and human waste; 2) air via cremation, dental clinic emissions, sludge incineration, and respiration; and 3) land via landfills, burials, […]
http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Earth+march+fills+Montreal+streets+with+video/6500400/story.html By Susan Semenak, The Gazette http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Earth+march+fills+Montreal+streets+with+video/6500400/story.html#ixzz1t7XbSo3R MONTREAL – A crowd of 250,000 people or more inched its way through downtown and onto Mount Royal Sunday afternoon in what was Quebec’s largest-ever Earth Day march. This time it wasn’t students wearing red squares, waving red flags and clashing with police. Capping a week of raucous […]
3 min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Yn_qnITyo
Sorry – I am behind on getting important information to you! I think what you see below is that the nuclear/uranium industry no longer controls the information feed. Which makes it possible for people to see the gulf between what their local media is reporting about Fukishima, for example, and what is actually happening in […]
Obama threatening to use Presidential veto. He needs to! See the bolded text below. /S Friends, This is HUGE: President Obama just threatened to veto CISPA if it makes its way through Congress. Please click here to urge Obama to stand strong, and to let your lawmakers know that you support Obama’s veto threat. CISPA is […]
Input – thanks: http://podcast.yorku.ca:8080/itc/2011/EVENTS/Commercialization_of_the_University_Fou305_April25_2012.mp4 and the link to the group that put the conference together. They have a lot of good materials: http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/the-university-is-ours/ This link may be useful, too. I’ve been thinking that we should have a meeting dedicated to this: http://www.countercartographies.org/
Listen George Orwell was prescient in so many ways. This week, Michael discusses how an essay the author wrote in 1946 has much to say about political discourse in 2012. Language gurus train politicians in the fine art of never-ending conversation that is devoid of substance and truth. You can see it most clearly in […]
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/04/24/pol-election-calls-poll.html Group fighting results in 7 ridings, says poll shows calls targeted at non-Conservatives By Laura Payton, CBC News Posted: Apr 24, 2012 5:12 PM ET Last Updated: Apr 24, 2012 6:56 PM ET Read 139 comments139 A group supporting a Federal Court challenge of the election results in seven ridings says a new poll […]
This from the movement to reform the electoral system, Fair Vote Canada: Friends Matt Gurney has quickly and cleverly connected the dots. It appears that many Liberal and NDP supporters in Alberta felt it necessary to vote PC to prevent the impending victory of an ultra-Conservative Wild Rose party. It’s negative voting, the opposite of sincere […]