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what caught my eye today
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16 Jul 2008 Wed 06:17 am |
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Quoting Roswitha: How To Avoid Dioxin
We now know that dioxin exhibits serious health effects when it reaches as little as a few parts per trillion in your body fat. Dioxin is a powerful hormone disrupting chemical. By binding to a cell's hormone receptor, it literally modifies the functioning and genetic mechanism of the cell, causing a wide range of effects, from cancer to reduced immunity to nervous system disorders to miscarriages and birth deformity. Because it literally changes the functioning of your cells, the effects can be very obvious or very subtle. Because it changes gene functions, it can cause so-called genetic diseases to appear, and can interfere with child development. There is no "threshold" dose - the tiniest amount can cause damage, and our bodies have no defense against it.
http://www.cqs.com/edioxin.htm
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polychlorinated dibenzo dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzo furans (PCDD/PCDF) may be the most toxic substances known to man. The biggest threat exposure to PCDD and PCDF's is from the incineration of plastics. Those who live closest to municipal waste and biological waste incinerators are most at risk. Also, open garbage burning and plastics on campfires is another way PCDD/PCDF's are created.
Best way to avoid exposure is to avoid open burning.
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16 Jul 2008 Wed 11:19 am |
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Roswitha, KeithL - I forbid you to revive my secondary school nightmares - you're like my biology and chemistry teachers combined! I'm beginning to have a trauma again!  
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16 Jul 2008 Wed 09:22 pm |
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Quoting Daydreamer: Roswitha, KeithL - I forbid you to revive my secondary school nightmares - you're like my biology and chemistry teachers combined! I'm beginning to have a trauma again! |
Poor Daydreamer....maybe they should have posted these in the translation forum...I think it says, "exposure to chemicals is BAD!" 
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17 Jul 2008 Thu 04:17 pm |
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Not that I agree how some of these prisoners are treated. But I also don't believe cable tv and three meals a day are warranted either. These are prisoners my god..terrorists who wouldn't think twice about killing you or your family. I'm so tired of hearing how terrible these prisoners are treated. They should feel lucky to be alive. But I highly doubt they feel this way, since they have no appreciation for life to begin with.
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17 Jul 2008 Thu 10:09 pm |
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Quoting teaschip:
Not that I agree how some of these prisoners are treated. But I also don't believe cable tv and three meals a day are warranted either. These are prisoners my god..terrorists who wouldn't think twice about killing you or your family. I'm so tired of hearing how terrible these prisoners are treated. They should feel lucky to be alive. But I highly doubt they feel this way, since they have no appreciation for life to begin with. |
But dont you think you /Americans have breached very basic (almost all of them actually) human rights which you claim to be the base of your country, with Guantanamo?
You turtured people, held them without a trail, detained the childeren!!
Freedom and human rights are for you, Americans ONLY..
is that it?
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18 Jul 2008 Fri 02:10 am |
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Quoting teaschip:
Not that I agree how some of these prisoners are treated. But I also don't believe cable tv and three meals a day are warranted either. These are prisoners my god..terrorists who wouldn't think twice about killing you or your family. I'm so tired of hearing how terrible these prisoners are treated. They should feel lucky to be alive. But I highly doubt they feel this way, since they have no appreciation for life to begin with. |
Lucky to be alive!!!!
There is a very large gap between what happened and cable TV! You know sometimes people would rather not be alive under these conditions.....and we know all too well the results of that.
Geneva Conventions
were created for a reason. What has been done to the 'prisoners' or what ever they are is a disgrace, and in the opinion of many knowledgable people, a war crime.
In my opinion this is a betrayal to the US citizens as well.
Torture Team
Remember your words in 20 years or more, and then remember how Americans asked what happened to the Germans during the Nazi period.
Feith in the System
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18 Jul 2008 Fri 03:35 am |
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Quoting thehandsom: Freedom and human rights are for you, Americans ONLY..
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That is true to a certain extent. Human rights of non-Americans are violated because the US can get away with it. When they can get away with violating human rights and democracy at home, they do that too. One blatant example are the stolen elections in 2004.
All the foreign conquests are only benefiting a tiny minority of rich Americans - owners of corporations. 90% of people are living in increasingly worse conditions, with less rights, in more poverty, less healthcare every day (a while ago bush didn't sign some document which resulted in taking away some important healthcare benefits for children, recently the government cut 10% of medicare payments to doctors)..
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18 Jul 2008 Fri 04:08 am |
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Six wounded in Jordan bus attack
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080717/wl_mideast_afp/jordanattackstourism_080717112417
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18 Jul 2008 Fri 06:24 am |
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Quoting thehandsom:
But dont you think you /Americans have breached very basic (almost all of them actually) human rights which you claim to be the base of your country, with Guantanamo?
You turtured people, held them without a trail, detained the childeren!!
Freedom and human rights are for you, Americans ONLY..
is that it?
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You hit it right on the head handsom. The US treatment of prisoners held at Guantanamo is abhorrent. Our government would be screamning at the top of their lungs if another country was doing the same to American citizens. 
I can only hope that we elect a new President that will end the insanity and do the right thing. It's time to prove the charges or let these people go!!!
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