Mysterious Bee Deaths Solved

Bees are pollinators that are necessary for plants to produce food. Widespread bee deaths the past few years have caused considerable concern about the potential for reduced food production. We now learn the EPA knew why the bees have been dying - the EPA approved a chemical that kills the bees.

Is the EPA working to protect the environment and the people or is the EPA working for the big corporations?

EPA Document Shows It Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Honey Bees

The document, which was leaked to a Colorado beekeeper, shows that the EPA has ignored warnings about the use of clothianidin, a pesticide produced by Bayer that mainly is used to pre-treat corn seeds. The pesticide scooped up $262 million in sales in 2009 by farmers, who also use the substance on canola, soy, sugar beets, sunflowers, and wheat, according to Grist.

Suspicions about clothianidin aren't new; the EPA's Environmental Fate and Effects Division (EFAD) first expressed concern when the pesticide was introduced, in 2003, about the "possibility of toxic exposure to nontarget pollinators [e.g., honeybees] through the translocation of clothianidin residues that result from seed treatment."

Clothianidin has already been banned by Germany, France, Italy, and Slovenia for its toxic effects.

Freedom From Wrongful Conviction

These bad convictions show that we morally should end the death penalty and go to life in prison. In this case, a new prosecutor worked with the appeals team to use DNA evidence to prove innocence.

Texan declared innocent after 30 years in prison
A Texas man declared innocent Tuesday after 30 years in prison could have cut short his prison stint twice and made parole — if only he would admit he was a sex offender.

But Cornelius Dupree Jr. refused to do so, doggedly maintaining his innocence in a 1979 rape and robbery, in the process serving more time for a crime he didn't commit than any other Texas inmate exonerated by DNA evidence.

Cancer Treatment Kills

Unsafe levels of radiation are killing those suffering with cancer. If planes were falling out of the skies due to design errors or software errors there would be outrage. Design errors and software errors in the burn/cut/poison cancer industry are largely ignored.

A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing

Two other patients were overdosed before the hospital realized that the device, a linear accelerator, had inexplicably allowed radiation to spill outside a heavy metal cone attachment that was supposed to channel the beam to a specific spot in the brain. One month later, the same accident happened at another hospital.

In Missouri, for example, 76 patients were overradiated because a medical physicist did not realize that the smaller radiation beam used in radiosurgery had to be calibrated differently than the larger beam used for more traditional radiation therapy.

NY Workers Hold Up Snow Plowing

The New York City workers responsible for plowing snow appear to have purposefully not performed their duties because they were upset with recent department cutbacks. At least they have a job.

Investigators in New York said Sunday they are looking into a report that four sanitation supervisors assigned to clean up after last week's monster blizzard instead bought beer and sat in their car.

Selfish Sanitation Department bosses from the snow-slammed outer boroughs ordered their drivers to snarl the blizzard cleanup to protest budget cuts -- a disastrous move that turned streets into a minefield for emergency-services vehicles, The Post has learned.