Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with safety-tips www.salem-news.com 2010 They pitch the battle as environment vs. jobs, it is a phony argument using economic recovery through ecological laxity as the key to our nation’s fiscal woes. This type of “Zero Sum Game,” is a winner-take-all scenario that will create more jobs---More jobs in the remediation and restoration career sectors after we’ve destroyed our country’s ecologies. http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/environmental-siege-rb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february102012/environmental-siege-rb.php Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:10:00 PST Credit or debit? Choosing the right option at the right time can help protect from unwanted charges and skimming scams. When charged, debit cards automatically withdraw money directly from checking accounts; whereas credit cards extract funds from credit accounts. Most credit issuers carry zero liability policies so card users can dispute unauthorized charges from fraud and undelivered products or services. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/debit-danger.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/debit-danger.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:49:00 PST There are few crimes more despicable then stealing your neighbour’s water.and polluting what’s left, then watching him and his children suffer thirst, disease and ruin. Most of us would want nothing to do with the perpetrators of such evil. http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/water-thieves-sl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february092012/water-thieves-sl.php Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:45:00 PST Homs is now the physical and political frontline of the unrest engulfing Syria. Heavy fighting continues for the fifth straight day in the rebel stronghold city. The rebel opposition is imploring the international community to intervene and displace President Assad, despite his commitment to engage the opposition in talks to resolve the conflict. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/hons-conflict-rt.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/hons-conflict-rt.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:05:00 PST Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted marine for nearly 25 years. As a drill instructor in the Marine Corps, he was responsible for training thousands of new recruits. But when Jerry’s nine-year-old daughter Janey passed away from a rare type of leukemia, his structured world began to collapse around him. http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/semper-fi.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february082012/semper-fi.php Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:37:00 PST Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley wrote to President Barack Obama to express his strong support of the announcement of an accelerated transition in Afghanistan. The letter came on the heels of comments by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that the United States will complete its transition from major combat operations in Afghanistan to a “training, advice and assist role” by mid-to-late 2013. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/merkley-afghanistan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/merkley-afghanistan.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:42:00 PST Jesus Navarro could die without a kidney transplant. His wife is a match, and he has health insurance. But because Jesus is undocumented, a state medical center is refusing to perform surgery, essentially leaving Jesus to die. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/transplant-denial.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/transplant-denial.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:10:00 PST The San Onofre nuclear plant had a potential radiation leak in one of the unit's steam generator tubes Tuesday. Southern California Edison said, "The potential leak poses no imminent danger to the public or plant workers. There has been no release to the atmosphere." http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/san-onofre.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february052012/san-onofre.php Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:35:00 PST After a few hours of following the current debates between the Republican candidates for the presidency in America, I couldn't resist the thought that "democracy" had become much less than promoted. The U.S. is touted as having a great democracy. Everything good--either real or imagined—is supposedly due to their principles of democracy. http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/democracy-utopia-pb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february042012/democracy-utopia-pb.php Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:43:00 PST I am writing from Indonesia, the country who got GMO soy first... I'm curious to share what I am seeing. In 2008 Bumi Sehat Bali's 573 babies saw an increase in retained placentas, and an increase in velamentous cord insertion. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/gmo-babies.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/gmo-babies.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:30:00 PST New research shows one in four newly circumcised men resuming sexual activity before their wounds have healed. Most reporting the early resumption of sexual activity engaged in unprotected sex, often with multiple partners. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/zambia-aids.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/zambia-aids.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:20:00 PST Over 77 million litres of herbicide were dispensed over southern Viet Nam by the US military through the code-named ‘Operation Ranch Hand’. The Vietnamese reported early in operation that human health was being adversely affected by widespread dispersal of defoliants. Agent Orange. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/ao-controversy-wd.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/ao-controversy-wd.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:13:00 PST This tragedy of Marine Colonel Michael Ross Stahlman's ultimately fatal shooting in Iraq, was immediately assumed a suicide by military investigators. Therefore, a proper investigation was not performed. Although this is a natural occurrence for grieving family members, Kimberly Stahlman had solid reasons to doubt the assumption of suicide... http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/marine-widow.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/marine-widow.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:34:00 PST When mad men and women run the world, to be sane is dangerous. An American psychologist Dr. Harvey Cleckley, professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Medical College of Georgia, wrote ‘The Mask of Sanity’ published in 1941. In this book Dr. Cleckley talks of psychopathic personalities, humans that are without conscience. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/india-nukes-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/india-nukes-as.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:43:00 PST Villagers in this contested region of India have been cordoned off by the Police. Entry and exit into the villages are controlled and restricted. Three prominent leaders remain behind bars for opposing the forcible occupation of their lands by POSCO, nominally Korean but largely an American and European banksters controlled firm. http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/poco-update-as.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/poco-update-as.php Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:00 PST A question advocating marijuana legalization from a retired LAPD deputy chief of police won twice as many votes as any other video question in the White House's "Your Interview with the President" competition on YouTube this weekend. President Obama is slated to answer some of the top-voted questions on Monday. http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/obama-marijuana.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january292012/obama-marijuana.php Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:38:00 PST This last weekend brought with it some vile manifestations of Jewish politics in its most horrific forms. In the USA, the owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu should consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran. http://salem-news.com/articles/january262012/imperial-jewish-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262012/imperial-jewish-ga.php Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:41:00 PST In the U.S., radiation-related "safety" decisions over commercial nuclear power plants are handled very undemocratically. They are considered to be strictly the purview of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Courts, utility and state energy commissions, EPA, DOE, and everyone else whose regulatory authority touches on nuclear power will insist that you cannot talk to them about "safety." You must go to the NRC. http://salem-news.com/articles/january262012/nuclear-power-ah.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january262012/nuclear-power-ah.php Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:04:00 PST The story of the proposed redevelopment of the old El Toro Marine base in Irvine, California is beginning to match our predictions from more than three years ago. The effort was bogus from day one; the base is packed with toxic chemicals and their residue and no sensible person would consider living even close to it, let alone 'on' the old wreck of a base. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/el-toro-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/el-toro-tk.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:32:00 PST In this week in history: the Filastin newspaper was closed by the Ottoman authorities after Zionist complained in 1914. Bylaws of the "Muslim-Christian Association" were approved in Jerusalem in 1919, and the first Palestinian Arab Congress opened in Jerusalem in 1919, and over 100 peaceful demonstrators were gunned down by British forces in Baghdad- 1948. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/mazin.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/mazin.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:10:00 PST The amount of radioactive materials released from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has risen this month compared with December, Tepco said. The amount so far has come to 70 million becquerels per hour, compared with 60 million becquerels in December, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Monday. http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/fukushima-radioactive.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january252012/fukushima-radioactive.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:01:00 PST Welcome to post post-modern timesWhere loves comes with a turn and a twistNothing is ever straightforwardYou're thinking of the age of innocenceEverything is on offer, with a discount if you insistTry a bit of that, a touch of thisYou don't even have to be sincereAnd sex may precede any meaningful kiss... http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/modern-times-ma.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/modern-times-ma.php Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:28:00 PST The University of California at Berkeley detected cesium levels in San Francisco area milk above over EPA limits … and even higher than they were 6 months ago. Finnish public television says that cesium from Fukushima has been detected in lichens, fungi and elk and reindeer meat in Finland. http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/fukushima-disaster.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january242012/fukushima-disaster.php Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:05:00 PST Stan and Hannah Cooper are friends of mine from college days. Both are Jewish, but they have diametrically opposed views about Israel, and their differences have become so bitter that they've decided to divorce. As the three of us talked about this, it became clear that their dispute is a microcosm of the conflict that is tearing the Jewish community apart and also destroying lives in an increasingly large part of the world. http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/israel-difference-wh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/israel-difference-wh.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:28:00 PST A collective of students in Gaza has formed the Palestinian Students' Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (PSCABI). These students are seeking to expand their collaboration and participation in events and activities with solidarity activists at international universities. http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/israel-boycott-jc.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/israel-boycott-jc.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:11:00 PST Historic Turner, Oregon has been flooded to the gills with recent rains. Families there need assistance and their city administrator has issued a special plea for help to get this Oregon city back on track. The city will match the first $10,000 in cash donations. http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/turner-assistance.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/turner-assistance.php Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:24:00 PST The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued, in blatant violation of human rights, their violent attacks on peaceful weekly marches organized in West Bank villages against settlement activities and the segregation wall. Two young Palestinian men and one paramedic were wounded Friday in a barrage of rubber bullets and tear gas grenades at the anti-wall march in Nabi Saleh; many others suffered suffocation. http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/israeli-attacks.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/israeli-attacks.php Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:43:00 PST Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: Francis Clark-Lowes, an academic, former Chair of the National PSC and former chairman of the Brighton branch for Palestinian Solidarity, appealed today to the PSC AGM against his recent expulsion from the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign. Clark-Lowes has been maintaining, for a while. that the opposition to the Jewish State and Zionism, should attempt to grasp the true nature of the Jewish State and Jewish ideology. http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/clark-lowes-ga.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/clark-lowes-ga.php Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:20:00 PST Newt Gingrich is the current holder of the Republican crown. Saturday night, NBC projected Gingrich as the winner in the South Carolina Republican primary over his closet rival, Mitt Romney. With 94% of the votes counted, Gingrich was winning by a 40% to 27% margin over Romney, much larger than advance polls has predicted. http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/carolina-republicans-jw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/carolina-republicans-jw.php Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:33:00 PST Monsanto officers and shareholders will vote Tuesday on a shareholder proposal to create a study of "material financial risks or operational impacts" tied to its chemical products and GMO foods. The proposal represents one of the strongest signals to date that the biotech food conglomerate is facing growing consumer, legal, and regulatory uncertainties. http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/monsanto-shareholders.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january222012/monsanto-shareholders.php Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:56:00 PST