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Millions of deaths (mostly women and children) Illness (billions sickened), and poverty (over a trillion dollars in lost GDP, and counting). Who is responsible for this decades-long catastrophe, and will the perpetrators be held responsible? Last week’s announcement that the World Health Organization lifted its nearly 30-year ban on the insecticide DDT is perhaps the most promising development in global public health since… well, 1943 when DDT was first used to combat insect-borne diseases like typhus and malaria….. Rachel Carson kicked-off DDT hysteria with her pseudo-scientific 1962 book, “Silent Spring.” Carson materially misrepresented DDT science in order to advance her...

WASHINGTON - The House ethics committee has concluded that Republican leaders did not break any rules in handling ex-Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s improper advances to former male pages but were negligent in protecting the teenagers, a congressional aide said Friday. The committee was releasing its findings Friday. The aide, who was not authorized to be quoted by name, was made aware of the committee's findings. "The Republicans did not break rules but were negligent in protecting the pages," the aide said.

Suit says state at fault in grizzly mauling... The widow of a hunter mauled by a grizzly bear while he was gutting an elk has filed an appeal with the Montana Supreme Court after a district judge here dismissed her lawsuit against the state. Mary Ann Hilston contends negligent management practices led to the death of her husband...in the fall of 2001. She filed a lawsuit in federal court in September 2004, claiming the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks knew there was an aggressive grizzly bear with two cubs prowling the...

A Massachusetts court has recently had to resolve the question, as a matter of tort law, what duty of care a pair of non-married adults owe to each other for injuries resulting from consensual sex between them. I'll leave the details of the case for those with strong stomachs who are willing to read the opinion found in the preceding link. In summary, however, the plaintiff (male) was injured when the defendant (female) changed her position during the middle of intercourse. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant, finding that, as a matter of law, there...

Documents supporting "Complaint for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, violation of California’s Unfair Business Practices, unjust enrichment and civil conspiracy." And, Peter Paul's letter to Hillary Clinton. STOP HILLARY NOW!

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- An attorney for the widow of a middle school teacher gunned down by a student argued before an appellate court Tuesday that the gun distributor was negligent in selling the cheap weapon and should be held liable.Attorney Edna Caruso said federal officials told Valor Corp. for years that its .25-caliber Raven handgun was frequently used in crimes and that the company had a legal responsibility to make the weapons safer."Here we have a distributor that is known to distribute crime guns. It's been warned for years and years and years," Caruso said. "It says, 'I...

Columbine victim's kin settle suit By The Denver Post Article Published: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 A civil lawsuit brought by the family of a Columbine High School shooting victim against a former Arapahoe County sheriff's deputy has been settled out of court. Sue Petrone and Brian Rohrbough, the parents of slain student Daniel Rohrbough, have dropped their suit against James Taylor. After the April 20, 1999, shootings, Taylor told the 15-year-old's family he was present when Daniel Rohrbough was shot. Taylor told the family he heard machine-gun fire, saw a Denver police officer in the area and watched Rohrbough go...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Reviewing documents covering 36 years, the State Department concluded Monday that Israel's attack on the U.S. spy ship Liberty during the 1967 Six Day War was an act of Israeli negligence. The United States also was negligent, a State Department official said, for failing to notify Israel that the electronic intelligence-gathering ship was cruising international waters off the Egyptian coast and for failing to withdraw the Liberty from the war zone. A daylong conference that studied fresh documents as well as the established record failed to produce a consensus for any of three views voiced most often:...

HERE'S WHAT VT DEPT OF ED WANTS PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS TO USE FOR TEACHING SEXUAL HEALTH TO CHILDREN: The following is taken - word for word - from the website of the Vermont State Department of Education, Safe & Healthy Schools, Health Education Resource Centres, under "Sexual Health" approved resources for teachers to use in public schools: THE NAKED BOOK: (book) By Kathy Stinson. Audience: elementary. Celebrates the joy of being bare naked to young children. 1986. CONDOMS IN THE SCHOOLS: (book) By Kaiser Forums. Audience: high, adult. Addresses the condom debate on whether condoms should be distributed in the...

I. FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL, News Headline Retrieved: "Physician's Consortium-Sexual Messages in Govenment-Promoted Progrqams" Story: The Centres for Disease Control (CDC) is using taxpayer dollare to promote explicit and graphic "comprehensive sex education" curriculum for teenage consumption, according to a Physician's Consortium report released April 10. "Sexual Messages in GOvernment-Promoted Programs" describes the kind of messages and activities included in CDC-sponsored programs, some of which are promoted as "abstinence-plus." The Consortium's findings were egregious enough that researchers preparing the report for publication found it necessary to warn readers sardonically that "the content of the enclosed report is intended for teens and...