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Crackdown Begins On Illegals Who Abuse Public Benefits

Phoenix (AP) – Pastor Antonio Velasquez says that before the Trump administration announced a crackdown on immigrants using government social services, people lined up before sunrise outside a state office in a largely Latino Phoenix neighborhood to sign up for food stamps and Medicaid . No more. "You had to arrive at 3 in the morning, and it might take you until the end of the day," he said, pointing behind the office in the Maryvale neighborhood...

They Won’t Be Going To Jimmy John’s Again

Saint Louis University students go to Jimmy John’s, get something that was NOT on the menu February 21, 2020 Food Safety News – As many as 14 students from Saint Louis University (SLU) have reported suffering from food poisoning after eating at a local Jimmy John’s, as reported by The University News, an SLU student publication. The Jimmy John’s, located within walking distance of the SLU campus, was closed by the St. Louis City Health Department on...

Coronavirus May Spread Via Feces, According To Science

"The scientists ... believe the virus can be 'transmitted through the potential fecal-oral route' if the hands, food, or water are contaminated." Newsweek – COVID-19, the new coronavirus which has killed more than 2,000 people, may spread through feces, scientists believe. As the virus is thought to have only come to the attention of health officials late last year, when workers at a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province, fell ill, experts are...

New Bug May Render Chemo Useless

"Four in 10 said they had seen a rise in patients developing drug-resistant infections in the last year." Feb 18, 2020 Newsweek – Cancer doctors fear superbugs which can't be treated with antibiotics will soon remove chemotherapy as a treatment option for their patients, a survey has revealed. Cancer patients are more vulnerable to infections because the disease and its treatments can stop the immune system from working correctly. Of the 100 oncologists in the...

Authorities On High Alert For Coronavirus At Texas Border

US has spent over $1 bil. to prevent spread of coronavirus; border authorities on high alert Feb 21, 2020 | Mission, TX | Border Report — The deadly coronavirus has cost the federal government over $1 billion already, and immigration officials are using extreme caution as they screen incoming travelers and migrants crossing the Southwest border, a South Texas lawmaker said. U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar said during a news conference Wednesday that these costs so far include over...

Airlines “Lose” Scores Of Donated Organs

“Any organ that’s wasted, in my opinion, is a loss to the patient and to the community.” – Paul Conway, American Association of Kidney Patients How Lifesaving Organs For Transplant Go Missing In Transit JoNel Aleccia February 10, 2020 Kaiser Health News – When a human heart was left behind by mistake on a Southwest Airlines plane in 2018, transplant officials downplayed the incident. They emphasized that the organ was used for valves and tissues, not to save the...

Cash-Strapped States Have Plenty Of Money For Planned Parenthood

States step up funding for Planned Parenthood | Hartford, CT (AP) – Several states have begun picking up the tab for family planning services at clinics run by Planned Parenthood, which last year quit a $260 million federal funding program over a Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from referring women for abortions. States including New Jersey, Massachusetts and Hawaii already are providing new funding, and Democratic governors in Connecticut and Pennsylvania have proposed carving out money...

Substance Abuse, Psychosis, Suicide: The True Cost of Legal Pot

"Cannabis legalization has led to significant health consequences, particularly to patients in emergency departments and hospitals in Colorado. The most concerning include psychosis, suicide, and other substance abuse." Feb 18, 2020 CNN Business – Colorado cannabis shops notched sales of nearly $1.75 billion during 2019, setting a new annual sales record for the state home to the nation's longest-established recreational cannabis industry. The new high water mark for sales netted more than $302 million in tax...

Lower Risk Of Cardiovascular Disease 81%

Muscle Mass: Can Preserving Muscles Help Prevent Heart Disease as You Age? Yale School of Medicine – A study published in the January 2020 issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health found that measures of skeletal muscle mass can provide a valuable predictor of cardiovascular disease risk among people at least 45-years-old without pre-existing heart conditions. Specifically, preserving muscle mass may contribute to preventing cardiovascular disease. Below, please find a Q&A regarding the study on...

It’s Not ‘Quality’ Sausage If Illegals Make It: Whistleblower

How is this 'Quality' Texas sausage made? Illegally, says whistleblower By Headline Wealth, Feb 19, 2020 (IRLI) Last Friday, the Immigration Reform Law Institute filed a friend-of-the-court brief in a Texas federal district court in support of a former employee of Quality Sausage Company, LLC, a meat-processing company. The employee, Lam Nguyen, was fired from his job after he complained that Quality Sausage employed illegal aliens in the plant where he worked. Now he is suing the company for retaliation...

Why Do New Disease Outbreaks Always Seem to Start in China?

"There's lots of livestock farming, particularly poultry and pigs, with limited sanitation and lax oversight." Feb 18, 2020 Real Clear Science – The Asian Flu in 1956 killed between one and four million people worldwide. SARS in 2002 infected 8,098 and killed 774 in seventeen counties. H7N9 emerged ten years later to strike at least 1,223 people and kill four out of every ten of them. Now, the milder, yet more infectious COVID-19 has sickened more than 70,000...

Did CIA LSD Trial Make Whitey Bulger A Killer?

"That's just horrifying, in my opinion. It opens up the question of whether he was responsible for the murders he committed." – Whitey Bulger juror | Feb 18, 2020 After learning of LSD tests, Whitey Bulger juror has regrets EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) — One of the jurors who convicted notorious crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger says she regrets her decision after learning that he was an unwitting participant in a covert CIA experiment with LSD. Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s...

How Women Are Reigniting Desire

Feb 14, 2020 NPR – How can more women allow themselves to experience sexual pleasure? That's one of the central questions in The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution, a book published this month by public health researcher and journalist Katherine Rowland. Rowland explores why American women aren't happy with their sex lives — and what they can do about it. A landmark study from 1999 found that over 40% of women surveyed experienced sexual...

State Rep With Spouse Abuse Record Seeks Forced Men’s Sterilization

In retort to abortion ban, lawmaker calls for mass vasectomies | Montgomery AL (AP) – An Alabama lawmaker fed up with her colleagues' attempts to outlaw abortion has filed legislation to require all men over 50 to get vasectomies. Democratic Rep. Rolanda Hollis said Friday that she introduced the bill to send "the message that men should not be legislating what women do with their bodies." Alabama lawmakers last year approved a ban on abortion unless the...

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