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Scientists Warn: Common Cleaning Chemical Linked to 500% Increased Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

A common and widely used chemical may be fueling the rise of the world’s fastest-growing brain condition – Parkinson’s disease. For the past 100 years, trichloroethylene (TCE) has been used to decaffeinate coffee, degrease metal, and dry clean clothes. It contaminates the Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune, 15 toxic Superfund sites in Silicon Valley, and up to one-third of groundwater in the U.S. TCE causes cancer, is linked to miscarriages and congenital heart disease, and is associated with a 500% increased risk of Parkinson’s disease.

Source: Scientists Warn: Common Cleaning Chemical Linked to 500% Increased Risk of Parkinson’s Disease

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New Tennessee bill would allow officers to handcuff special education students | WZTV (GOP supports cruel treatment toward disables students as means to “control/punish” them)

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A new Tennessee bill would allow law enforcement officers to use mechanical restraints, such as belts and handcuffs, on students with disabilities.

SB 141/HB 127 says that school resource officers, school security officers, and any other law enforcement officers who are certified to do so, can apply “mechanical restraint” to special education students.

The bill does not set limits on the extent of which officers can restrain students, or add restrictions to ensure the student is safe. No documentation to parents is outlined in the bill.

Lawmakers write that this use of mechanical restraint is only allowed in emergency situations. What constitutes as an emergency is not defined.

 

Source: New Tennessee bill would allow officers to handcuff special education students | WZTV

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My Dad died of Covid because the UK took vaccines from poorer countries | openDemocracy

It’s estimated that a more equitable vaccine rollout could have saved at least 1.3 million lives globally in the first year alone of the pandemic – that’s one preventable death every 24 seconds. My father’s was one such life.

Source: My Dad died of Covid because the UK took vaccines from poorer countries | openDemocracy

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Se empeñan en desnudar al arte, en colocarle atuendos de bufón, en arrancarle su encanto,

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Las manos y los tentáculos de las costumbres, los modelos y las tendencias actuales, convertidos en garras despiadadas, se empeñan en desnudar a las letras, a los textos, y despojarlos de la belleza de sus acentos, de su puntuación, de sus signos y hasta de su sentido, para colocarles atuendos de bufones y dar gusto a la muchedumbre ansiosa de presenciar la agonía, en los anfiteatros y en los patíbulos, de las obras literarias. La estulticia habla sin recato, exhibe su barbarie y su pequeñez, no calla, acaso por su afán de aturdir y envolver al arte, a las palabras que escriben los artistas cuando se inspiran. Se oyen gritos, risotadas, que aquí y allá intentan confundir y desviar a los caminantes, a los lectores, a otros rumbos, a destinos superficiales que nada enseñan ni ofrecen. Persisten la necedad…

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