Science and Technology

Dr. Wasfi: "For Iraqis, it's 9/11 every day."

bobnichols — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:32:25 -0500

(San Francisco) - "The shortages and conditions in Iraq include: lack of electricity, potable [drinkable] water, tanks rolling through the streets night and day, gunfire and explosions. Iraqi health care is in shambles and 200 bodies turn up daily in the Baghdad morgue," Dr Wasfi testified to a Congressional Forum April 27, 2006. The testimony is about 6 minutes. http://tinyurl.com/yx5rsb

She continued "For Iraqis, it's 9/11 every day. This is life in Iraq under the US occupation."

In the following video Dr. Dahlia Wasfi is introduced and speaks to a progressive group on conditions in Iraq. The video runs about 16 minutes. http://tinyurl.com/2yrqbn

Dr. Wasfi concluded her prepared remarks with this question: " Since 1958, Iraqis have hoped that each regime change might bring a better life. Have they hit rock bottom now?"

Dangerous Lead Levels in Seemingly Innocent Garden Hoses

bobnichols — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:15:37 -0500

Urgent Action Required
Dated: July 16, 2007
8:53pm CST

(Urgent: July 16, 2007, USA) - Some people seem to be missing the point. If the argument is: "I drank out of garden hoses, and ain't nothin' wrong with me or mine": If you are over 35, you never drank out of (as a child) a pvc garden hose.

If your argument is: your water comes to your house, and is distributed throughout your house by PVC pipes; again, you are right. However; we spent three decades, eliminating copper pipes from homes, because the lead solder on those pipes would, indeed, leach lead into homes, and the familial drinking supply, and affect children as a neurotoxin, causing neurological disorders.

Cowboy Mentality Dominates Bison Slaughter

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:29:21 -0500

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano, speaking in 1873: "I would not seriously regret the total disappearance of the buffalo from our western plains, in its effect upon the Indians. I would regard it rather as a means of hastening their sense of dependence upon the products of the soil and their own labors."