Drospirenone is just one of the causes attributed to the barrage of Yaz side effects reported regularly in America. Drospirenone is an ingredient allegedly unlike other progestins in the United States and was not used in America before it made an appearance in Yasmin, Yaz and Ocella. Add in the fact that the Food & Drug Administration released warning letter to the makers of Ocella, Yasmin and Yaz for using low-quality batches of drospirenone from Germany and you have the makings of a cautionary tale involving Big Pharma and its disregard for the individuals utilizing its pills.
Eyebrows were raised when women in their 20s and 30s were suddenly falling victim to ischemic stroke and heart attack after being put on Ocella. Vibrant twenty-somethings who were on this brand of birth control for as little as a few months were exhibiting symptoms of major side effects and serious health risks. Cardiovascular injury, organ failure, and blood clots are just some of the serious Yaz side effects allegedly experienced by women put on this birth control pill.
It is imperative that women become their own advocates and take charge of the decisions being made about their health and their bodies. As a whole, the American public relies too heavily on doctors and medications to give them answers in a bottle. In the internet age, it is up to you to do your own inquiry and become knowledgeable. Drug recalls and corporate lawsuits have become all too commonplace in America. At some point, the masses have to stop looking to the government and big business to have their best interests in mind. It is time for the public to ultimately take the first step and not be so quick to accept anything given to them in pill form.
Mesothelioma is a scarce cancer of the tissue that lines people’s inner organs. About two thousand brand new instances are diagnosed every year in the whole United States. Of this group, aboutthree out of four of occurrences affect the sac around the lungs, referred to as the pleura. This type of cancer is called pleural mesothelioma. In almost 10 to 20 percent of occurrences, mesothelioma could involve the tissue that envelopes visceral organs, called the peritoneal membrane, causing what is then known as peritoneal mesothelioma.
Being introduced to asbestos is positively the overwhelming cause for this rare cancer. After exposure to asbestos, the time period to development of the mesothelioma disease might be 20 to 40 years. Due to job related exposure, cancer of the mesothelium is almost three times more likely in males, than in females. Due to the amount of cases rises with your age, there are around 10 times more cases in the males over age 64 than in the males in their midlife.
Being diagnosed with Mesothelioma is a grave disease, that, at the moment, has a very low percentage of long-term endurance. On the other hand, if it is pinpointed early on, treatments are then available that might considerably prolong the patient’s life. New approaches continue to be and are being developed through the use of clinical trials.
Andrew Carnegie, a businessman who amassed his fortune in the steel industry, wrote in an essay entitled The Gospel of Wealth that the rich have an ethical responsibility to participate in philanthropy. The Gospel of Wealth also states that personal wealth gained beyond what is needed for one family to survive should be dispensed to society.
Carnegie’s past as a member of a family living in poverty has deeply influenced his generous personality. But, it was his mother Margaret who deeply influenced Carnegie’s character and inculcated in him the importance of frugality, a value that was evident in Carnegie’s career as an employer.
After his success in the corporate industry, Andrew Carnegie and his family focused their attention and wealth in philanthropic efforts. Carnegie founded several institutions bearing the Carnegie family name. Most of these institutions support higher education and have also delved into other fields including medical science and international relations.
There are 23 Carnegie Foundations established all over the world and these have funded the constructions of libraries, scientific research, and educational grants. Carnegie resources were also committed for the construction and maintenance of the Carnegie Peace Palace in Hague, which is considered by many as the international seat of law.
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As we approach a new generation of technology, and in our fight to reduce climate changes, we’ll see what the future is holding for us, but for the time being it’s good to understand about solar power for homes. It is still uncertain how many homeowners will actually switch to solar power, but solar power for homes is the way to go, as every household can take full advantage from it and possibly in the near term, solar power will replace for good the more traditional forms of energy. It would be a great improvement if new residencies were built with solar power panels, to ensure a faster spreading of the technology.
Although not really a brand new discovery, home solar power has become more accepted recently, as people became more interested in all the different kinds of ways to energize their homes, often resulting in a complete access to energy for free. Solar power for homes indeed can virtually power up every item used in the house, including providing hot water. For people owning big properties, it is possible to find the installing investment a much better deal, than having to pay monthly bills. More and more homeowners are switching from conventional sources of energy to solar power for homes, helping creating a better environment for everybody to live in.
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About two weeks ago ago a 250-strong army of police officers, all armed to the teeth and sporting hysteria-inducing fashion accessories such as “chemical” suits and gas masks - and with the world’s media in tow - invaded a nondescript street in the normally-peaceful Forest Gate neighbourhood of east London, knocked down the front door and windows of the family home of two young brothers and shot and nearly killed one of them.
A very helpful British media later informed us that this “major anti-terrorist operation” was launched after “specific intelligence” from the Special Branch and the spooks of MI5, the so-called “intelligence” service. Even though no weapons - or weapons of mass destruction - were found in the premises, you could sense a desperate news media willing with all their telekinetic abilities for “at least something” to be found.
“It will only be a matter of time”, we were told: They are going to pull down that house brick by brick. They will come up with the goods; the police know what they are doing; they would not have mounted such a massive operation based on nothing; there was ’specific intelligence’ of the brothers’ involvement in a sinister plot to deliver a chemical device, and on and on and on.
Keystone Kops
My immediate reaction? This is surely a rerun, déj vu, here we go again, Britain’s keystone cops have topped themselves again - call it kneejerkism, scepticism or whatever, but I knew deep in my bones that there was something not-quite-right here. The whole thing stunk to high heaven but, being a responsible, “straight kind of guy”, I decided to keep my powder dry until all the facts of the case came to light.
During this period I had occasion to go to south London. On my way back I took a detour through Stockwell station, the site where the young Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes, was executed by police one rush-hour morning last July as he was going to work. It was my first ever visit to the make-shift shrine that supporters and campaigners had erected to the slain man’s memory. It is located right next to the station’s entrance.
I am not sure why I went there. To convince myself of my solidarity, my humanity, my disgust at what is increasingly becoming a police state? To make up in some way for not having been before? It may be that I was in the vicinity and had the time.
The shrine comprises a casing made of wood measuring about 6 by 4 feet. Sentimental messages and poems and angry denunciations of “the pigs” are pasted, nailed or stapled to it. A taster: “Welcome to the Policeman’s Balls-up.” There are pictures of Menezes himself and of his distraught family, of banner-carrying demonstrators; on the floor are vases and bottles with flowers - and the flowers are fresh! (Would it not be a good idea if we erected a permanent memorial on that very spot? Its cost should be docked from police pay.)
You may already know this, but there is no harm in hearing it again. This is how Jean Charles was killed: One officer rushed him and pinned him down in his seat on the train, while two others pumped his brain full of seven dumdum bullets at zero range. Textbook gangland-style execution, cold blooded murder if ever there was one. We’ve heard of the West’s use of shock and awe tactics in the killing fields of Iraq; the murder of Jean Charles was its application in a London setting.
Just as was the dawn raid just over a week ago at Forest Gate. It has been claimed that the operation was “intelligence led”. It could have been, but I don’t believe it. Only the production of this so-called intelligence will get these state-sanctioned executioners off the hook. Abdul Kahar, 23, and Abul Koyair, 20, were two hardworking brothers who just happened to be “swarthy”, Muslim and bearded.
One of the brothers was shot in the shoulder during the raid by trigger-happy police who claim that he was going for a weapon. They even leaked to the media that one of the brothers had shot the other in the confusion. Remember the misinformation about Jean Charles after his killing? This held that he was acting suspiciously, was wearing a heavy jacket which could have concealed a “device” and that he jumped the ticket barrier at Stockwell station - every one of which turned out to be a lie.
Needless to say, both men have now been released without charge and they plan to sue the boys in blue for damages. A neighbouring family assaulted in the raid plan to do the same. As we wait on the securitariat to come up with the mysterious intelligence, allow me to share my theory as to how and why there had to be a Forest Gate: Shock and Awe.
Repressive instruments
Ever since the bombings in London on 7/7, the security establishment have been under intense pressure to detect and prevent any such attacks; not just closing the stable doors after the horse has bolted. At the legislative level, they requested for and were given all the repressive instruments needed to pave the way for them to ride roughshod over hard-won, democratic rights of citizens and non-citizens alike.
But the securitariat have failed to come up with the goods. It is not rocket science - especially after foiled terrorist plots in other countries - to deduce that at anyone time in Blair’s Britain someone somewhere is spending a lot of time and energy either thinking of or actively planning a “spectacular” to rival, or even surpass 7/7. That is a given. So, what do you do if you can’t catch them? Simple: you scare the shit out of them, so they won’t even think about it. As we have seen in Forest Gate, you don’t even need intelligence (in any sense of the word).
All you do is pick a target out of the bag, preferably from the “suspect” community, then you assemble overwhelming, disproportionate firepower (the more the merrier), invite sundry media organisations to the party (maximum publicity is absolutely vital here) - and then hit the bastards with everything you’ve got. The resulting hullabaloo will ensure the intended message goes out very loud and clear to any bad guys lurking out there: “We will kill you if we get you, so just be a good boy and behave yourself.”
I agree, it’s a crude way to run a security apparatus, but it’s the best these boys could come up with. And it may be working, who knows! So what if a few immigrant communities kick up a lot of bother and bleeding-heart liberals mouth their chorus of “damage to community relations”. All that matters is that the job gets done.
It is possible, I hear you say, that this may just explain the case of the Forest Gate Two, but certainly not the case of Menezes, where it was clearly a case of mistaken identity. That is true, but it does not invalidate my theory. All it establishes is that on that occasion they had credible intelligence - after the bombing attempts of 21 July 2005, remember. And when they caught up with the man they thought was their man, they used shock-and-awe.
If there was really some real, hard intelligence about the brothers, the raid would have netted something; also, there would have been simultaneous raids on other locations to net the brothers’ accomplices. So, since there were no other related raids, we should assume that they were working alone. And, if they were working alone and there was intelligence to substantiate it, why have they been released without charge?
Method in the madness
For the sake of argument, let’s say the “intelligence” services were right and the brothers are terrorists. Let’s also assume they were not working alone. Then this raid has alerted their partners that the authorities are on to them. They would have flown their nests by now, thus making their capture and the prevention of any “outrage” that much more difficult, if not impossible.
Some may interprete my shock-and-awe theory as specious and “irresponsible”. What other explanation can there be? Trust me, this is the best gloss one can put on both the killing of Menezes and what could have easily been the murders of the Forest Gate Two. At the very least it shows that there is some method in the madness, that they are not out of their depth. That they have a handle on things. Otherwise, one would have to go with the view that the securitariat are a bunch of bungling, overpaid clowns whose only relationship with the word “intelligence” should be prefixed with the word “sub”.
Either way, heads should roll. Whose? Have a guess. They are the Laurel and Hardy, the Abbott and Costello of today’s Britain. Not there yet? Yes, you’ve got it, my friend: Prime Minister Tony B-Liar and name sake Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair.
If you are anything like me, the smallest decisions can quickly become material for the greatest debates of your life. You can turn the tiniest molehill of an issue into a huge mountain of a decision just by sitting down and analyzing too much.
Sound familiar? Have you ever gotten weighed down in trying to make small decisions of little consequence and had trouble keeping perspective? I definitely have. It is so easy to take a minor decision like ‘what should I eat for breakfast?’ and turn it into a two-sided debate that can last long beyond normal breakfast hours. You begin to debate whether you should have a healthy, balanced breakfast of wholegrain toast and fruit or if you can indulge (just this once) in a less-healthy meal of packaged pastries and a latte. Did you eat healthy enough the day before to reward yourself witha sugar-filled breakfast? Are you planning to eat better food for the rest of the day? These questions and more can add unnecessary stress and debate to your choice.
Those of us who are analytical by nature have an even tougher time not turning everything into a debate in our head. Take shopping for example. You find a great sweater on sale for ten dollars, but there is an even cuter sweater that you are sure you’d wear more. The cuter sweater, however, is forty dollars. What do you do? People like me start making mental lists of the pros and cons on each side of what has become a great debate during your day. Do you save the money but forfeit the better looking sweater? Or do you splurge and take some dollars away from another item you really needed to buy? What a task it can be to make choices like these when we let ourselves make big issues out of small ones.
Is there anything we can do to stop making ourselves debate each decision we make each day? I for one am tired of living this way. It is one thing to be intentional about the choices you make, but it is another thing entirely to overwork your brain with debates over breakfasts or new sweaters.
I guess I only have one piece of tested and tried advice to give people whose biggest opponent in any debate is themself: stop it. When you feel a silly debate about to be had in your head, just stop it. Take a moment to settle down your thoughts and to really consider how important this decision is. The chances are that it is not anywhere worth near the time and energy you will spend analyzing the choice. You will find, as I am beginning to, that ninety percent of the things I let become a great debate in my head are really not worth having a debate about at all. Have the unhealthy breakfast, buy the expensive sweater. Do what you want. Just stop being so indecisive about what that means.
Triston Huntsmin has become an expert in making debate-free decisions and in helping other people to remove unnecessary stress from their lives. Check out www.alldebate.info for more.