Los refugiados Iraquies presentan un alto riesgo de lesiones cerebrales.

Iraqi Refugees at High Risk of Brain and Nervous System Disorders
by American Academy of Neurology

La Academia Americana de Neurología ha comprobado la significativa presencia de enfermedades del sistema nervioso central, como consecuencia de los hechos y condiciones de la guerra en Irak. En muchos casos el haber padecido algún tipo de tortura ha desencadenado dolencias nerviosas. Entre las manifestaciones patológicas mayormente observadas se encuentran la epilepsia, migraña y dolores de espalda. Las guerras no sólo producen muertos y heridos. También dejan enfermedades incurables y duraderas.

A new research suggests that a high number of Iraqi refugees are affected by brain and nervous system disorders, including those who are victims of torture and the disabled. The late-breaking research will be presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, April 9 – 16, 2011, in Honolulu.
The United Nations estimates that there are several thousand Iraqi refugees living in the United States and the number is rising yearly.
“There are an estimated 40 million displaced refugees worldwide and the number of Iraqi refugees continues to grow due to conflicts in the Middle East,” said Farrah Mateen, MD, with the Departments of Neurology and International Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. “Our study presents the first results of a large national pilot project by the United Nations to monitor neurological disease in displaced people.”
In Jordan in 2010, the United Nations (UN) reported that there were 36,953 registered Iraqi refugees and asylum seekers with 7,621 of those receiving health assistance.

For the study, researchers used a UN database in Jordan.
A total of 1,295 refugees were reported to have a brain or nervous system disorder, or four percent of all registered Iraqi refugees. Of those, 10 percent were disabled.
The study found that five percent of refugees with brain or nervous system disorders reported a history of torture compared to 3.1 percent of those without a diagnosed brain or nervous system disorder. The most common diagnoses were epilepsy (30 percent), back pain (27 percent) and headache (nearly 12 percent).
Neurologists were involved in 14 percent, or 179, of these cases and health education was available to about 11 percent of refugees with brain disorders.
“Our study highlights the great need for neurological health services, health education regarding neurological disorders and long-term disease management for refugees from war-torn countries,” said Mateen.
The study was supported by the 2010 American Academy of Neurology Foundation Practice Research Training Fellowship grant.
The American Academy of Neurology, an association of more than 22,500 neurologists and neuroscience professionals, is dedicated to promoting the highest quality patient-centered neurologic care.
A neurologist is a doctor with specialized training in diagnosing, treating and managing disorders of the brain and nervous system such as Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, migraine, multiple sclerosis, brain injury, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. For more information about the American Academy of Neurology and its upcoming Annual Meeting, visit http://www.aan.com.

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Lucha contra el narcotráfico en el Caribe.

Lucha contra el narcotráfico en las fronteras de Cuba

Artículo original de Maylin Guerrero Ocaña


La isla de Cuba, la mayor de las Antillas se encuentra en una posición estratégica respecto al corredor geográfico de trafico de drogas y estupefacientes. Por encima del territorio cubano, y en muchas ocasiones violando el espacio aéreo cubano, circulan aviones que transportan drogas desde el hemisferio sur hacia el norte. En la mayoría de los casos se trata de operaciones que pretende alcanzar el "mercado" norteamericano. De la misma manera, en no pocas ocasiones los traficantes, miembros de organizaciones muy bien provistas de todo tipo de recursos tecnológicos aprovechan los numerosos islotes del Archipiélago cubano para sus fechorías. Estos verdaderos "piratas" del Caribe corren el riego de toparse con las Tropas Guardafronteras (TG).

Aún bajo los aires de la operación Aché, que comenzó en 1999 y atraviesa su tercera etapa, las Tropas Guardafronteras (TGF) de Cuba y sus fuerzas colaboradoras, despliegan una efectiva estrategia antinarcóticos que ha influido en la disminución de las cifras de drogas incautadas y en la cantidad de hechos detectados.
Las unidades navales apoyan la lucha de las Tropas Guardafronteras contra la actividad del narcotráfico internacional.

Los datos muestran que en el 2010 el país aseguró nacionalmente 3 023 kilogramos, ligeramente inferior a los 3 186 kilogramos del 2009. En esta cifra inciden, fundamentalmente, los 2 422 kilogramos de drogas provenientes de los 108 recalos asegurados en las costas.

Distintas zonas de la geografía costera evidencian el impacto del enfrentamiento y la entrega de los guardafronteras cubanos. De esto fue testigo nuestro diario al visitar distintos puestos fronterizos de las provincias de Granma y Camagüey.

Guerra avisada no mata soldado en Granma
Leandro Fonseca lleva un año recorriendo el intrincado y hostil paraje que envuelve al puesto de TGF El Real, al sur de la provincia de Granma.
"Al encontrar un paquete, revisamos 100 ó 150 metros alrededor del lugar, por si hay más, se le informa al jefe del puesto y preservamos la zona hasta la llegada de la guardia operativa para esclarecer el hecho y asegurar el recalo", dice.
Los conocimientos de Leandro y los demás soldados del puesto sobre cómo actuar ante el hallazgo de drogas son fruto de las enseñanzas del primer teniente Leonel Reyes, segundo jefe del Puesto Fronterizo. "Primero les impartimos la teoría, y al suceder los hechos de recalo, presencian y observan cómo se procede. Los guiamos también en el patrullaje y la revisión de los casi 20 kilómetros que tenemos bajo nuestra responsabilidad".
La zona costera del sur del territorio granmense tiene otras unidades guardafronteras similares a El Real, con igual misión de detectar e impedir la entrada al país de los paquetes de drogas.

Los camagüeyanos tampoco bajan sus armas
El destacamento de TGF de Camagüey tiene un sector más abarcador, pues incluye todas las costas de la provincia y sus cayos adyacentes. Además, el canal Viejo de Bahamas es lugar propicio para el movimiento de distintos tipos de embarcaciones, entre ellas las lanchas rápidas que participan en acciones de narcotráfico internacional.
El trabajo que realizan los guardafronteras y sus colaboradores en los cayos cercanos es muy intenso. En ocasiones algunos paquetes quedan enganchados en el mangle y se requiere una búsqueda minuciosa para asegurarlos.
El corredor aéreo cercano también requiere mantener una vigilancia permanente, pues a veces avionetas sospechosas de estar vinculadas a actividades de narcotráfico atraviesan rápidamente el territorio nacional, y aun cuando sean detectadas y se registre su actuar, deben observarse detenidamente posibles acciones de bombardeos de drogas en puntos próximos a estas costas.
"Pese a estas condiciones, que pudieran favorecer la actividad del narcotráfico en la zona, la misma se comportó con índices inferiores a años pasados", afirma la teniente Amelia Mayedo, de las TGF de esa provincia.
Para proteger la frontera y enfrentar el movimiento de los narcotraficantes, y también de los traficantes de personas por vía marítima, principales objetivos de las TGF del territorio, el destacamento cuenta con unidades terrestres y navales, y capitanías del puerto preparadas para afrontar cualquier situación que se presente en la frontera.
Igualmente, dispone de unidades de la técnica canina, cuyo empleo resulta de mucha eficacia en la detección de los recalos, añade el capitán de ese destacamento Yoanis Díaz Marrero.
Así, la lucha contra el narcotráfico constituye hoy una fortaleza más de nuestro país, para protegerlo de ese gran flagelo de la humanidad que es la droga.

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Las verdaderas consecuencias del Fukushima

Una conferencia de la doctora Helen Caldicott pone en perspectiva el accidente (o mejor dichos, los eventos) que siguen teniendo lugar en la zona contaminada de Fukushima. Se compara esta catástrofe con la mayor de la que se cuenta con datos mínimamente fiables:(sin contar el accidente de Three Miles en USA) la rotura de la vasija de uno de los reactores de Tchernobil. El actual "sarcófago" que aisla la zona caliente de Tchernobil, necesita ser reforzado. Nadie sabe cuanto aguantará. Tchernobil fue una dura lección y ayudó a mejorar la tecnología nuclear. Pero el coste en vidas humanas, y las consecuencias a largo plazo: aumento de la incidencia de varios tipos de cáncer, malformaciones congénitas, y otras de las que no se tiene aún datos, ponen de manifiesto la necesidad de nuevos avances tecnológicos en seguridad nuclear.

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster in Perspective
by Dr. Helen Caldicott
Dr. Helen Caldicott's March 18th press conference in Montreal, sponsored by the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)
Our thanks to Felton Davis for the transcription from the GRTV Video recording and for the annotations.

This press conference organized by Global Research was held in the context of Helen Caldicott's public lecture to Montreal on March 18, 2011.

First I want to present this report, produced by the New York Academy of Sciences, a report on Chernobyl. It can be downloaded.(2) They translated 5,000 articles from Russian for the first time into English. It seems that nearly a million people have already died as a result of Chernobyl, despite what the WH0(3) says and the IAEA.(4) This is one of the most monstrous cover-ups in the history of medicine. Because everybody should know about this.
Then we extrapolate through to Japan. Japan is by orders of magnitude many times worse than Chernobyl. Never in my life did I think that six nuclear reactors would be at risk.(5) I knew that three GE engineers who helped design these Mark I GE reactors, resigned because they knew they were dangerous.(6)
So Japan built them on an earthquake fault. The reactors partially withstood the earthquake, but the external electricity supply was cut off, and the electricity supplies the cooling water, a million gallons a minute, to each of those six reactors. Without the cooling water, the water [level] falls, and the rods are so hot they melt, like at Three Mile Island, and at Chernobyl.
So the emergency diesel generators, which are as large as a house, got destroyed by the tsunami, so there is no way to keep the water circulating in the reactors.(7) Also, on the roofs of the reactors, not within the containment vessel, are cooling pools. Every year they remove about thirty tons of the most radioactive rods that you can possibly imagine.(8) Each one is twelve feet long and half an inch thick. It gives out so much radiation, that if you stand next to it for a couple of minutes, you'll die. Not drop dead. Remember Litvinenko, the Russian, who got poisoned by polonium?(9) You'll die like that, with your hair falling out, and bleeding with massive infection, like AIDS patients die.
And [the spent fuel rods] are thermally hot, so they have to be put in a big pool, and continually cooled. The pool has really no roof.
There have been three hydrogen explosions, blowing off the roof of the building, not the containment vessel of the core, but the roof. And exposing the cooling pool.(10) Two of the cooling pools are dry. They have no water in them. Meaning that the nuclear fuel rods are covered with a material called zirconium. When zirconium is exposed to air, it burns, it ignites. Two of the cooling pools at this moment are burning. In the cooling pools are many times, like 10 to 20 times more radiation than in each reactor core. In each reactor core is as much long-lived radiation as would be produced by a thousand Hiroshima-sized bombs. We are dealing with diabolical energy.

E=MC2 is the energy that blows up nuclear bombs. Einstein said nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water.(11) Because that is all nuclear power is used for, to boil water through the massive heat, turn it into steam, and turn a turbine which generates electricity.

Now when you fission uranium, 200 new elements are formed, all of which are much more poisonous to the body than the original uranium.(12) Although uranium is pretty poisonous. America used it in Fallujah, and in Baghdad. And in Fallujah, 80 per cent of the babies being born are grossly deformed.(13) They're being born without brains, single eyes, no arms... The doctors have told the women to stop having babies. The incidence of childhood cancer has gone up about twelve times. This is genocide -- it's a nuclear war being conducted in Iraq. The uranium that they're using lasts more than 4.5 billion years. So we're contaminating the cradle of civilization. "The coalition of the willing!"

In the nuclear power plants, however, there is a huge amount of radiation: two hundred elements. Some last seconds, some last millions of years. Radioactive iodine lasts six weeks, causes thyroid cancer. That's why people are saying, "Better take potassium iodide," because that blocks the thyroid uptake of radioactive iodine, which later can cause thyroid cancer.

In Chernobyl, over 20,000 people have developed thyroid cancer.(14) They have their thyroids out, and they will die unless they take thyroid replacement every day, like a diabetic has to take insulin.
Strontium-90 will get out, it lasts for 600 years. It goes to the bone, where it causes bone cancer or leukemia. Cesium lasts for 600 years -- it's all over Europe. 40 per cent of Europe is still radioactive. Turkish food is extremely radioactive. Do not buy Turkish dried apricots, or Turkish hazelnuts. The Turks were so cross with the Russians, they sent all their radioactive tea over to Russia after Chernobyl.(15)

Forty per cent of Europe is still radioactive. Farms in Britain, their lambs are so full of cesium they can't sell them. Don’t eat European food.

But that's nothing compared to what's happening now. One of the most deadly [nuclear byproducts] is plutonium, named after Pluto, god of the underworld. One millionth of a gram, if you inhale it, would give you cancer. Hypothetically, one pound of plutonium if evenly distributed could give everyone on earth cancer. Each reactor has 250 kilograms of plutonium in it. You only need 2.5 kilograms to make an atomic bomb, because plutonium is what they make bombs with.

So any country that has a reactor, works with your uranium. You [Canada] are the biggest exporter of uranium in the world.(16) Canada sells two things: it sells wheat for life, and uranium for death. Plutonium is going to get out and spread all over the northern hemisphere. It's already heading towards North America now.

Radioactive iodine, plus strontium, plus cesium, plus tritium, and I could go on and* on and on. When it rains, downs come fallout, and it concentrates in food. If it gets into the sea, the algae concentrate it, hundreds of times. And the crustaceans concentrate it, hundreds of times. And then the little fish, then the big fish, then us.(17)

Because we stand on the apex of the food chain. You can't taste these radioactive food elements, you can't see them, you can't smell them. They're silent. When you get them inside your body, you don't suddenly drop dead of cancer, it takes five to sixty years to get your cancer, and when you feel a lump in your breast, it doesn't say, "I was made by some strontium-90 in a piece of fish you ate twenty years ago."

All radiation is damaging. It's cumulative -- each dose you get adds to your risk of getting cancer. The americium is more dangerous than plutonium -- I could go on and on. Depends if it rains if you're going to get it or not. If it rains and the radiation comes down, don't grow food, and don't eat the food, and I mean don't eat it for 600 years.

Radioactive waste from nuclear power is going to be buried, I hear, next to Lake Ontario. It's going to leak, last for millions of years, it's going to get into the water, and into the food chains. Radioactive waste will induce epidemics of cancer, leukemia, and genetic disease for the rest of time. This is the greatest public health hazard the world has ever witnessed, apart from the threat every day of nuclear war.

Einstein said "the splitting of the atom changed everything, save man's mode of thinking" -- very profound -- "and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe." We are arrogant, we have a lot of hubris, and I think the reptilian mid-brain of some men's brains is pathological.(18)

We are in a situation where we have harnessed the energy of the sun. It is totally out of control. And there's simply nothing we can do about it.

NOTES
[These notes are not part of Dr. Caldicott's presentation. They were added by Felton Davis]

1) Helen Caldicott is the founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, and is the author of "The New Nuclear Danger" (The New Press, 2002).

2) "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe For the People and the Environment," Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
http://www.nyas.org/publications/annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3bd16-51ba-4d7b-a086-753f44b3bfc1

3) "Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident," World Health Organization. http://www-ns.iaea.org/appraisals/chernobyl.asp

4) "Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident," International Atomic Energy Agency. http://www-ns.iaea.org/appraisals/chernobyl.asp

5) For a general description of the complex, including cross-sections of the six reactors, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_I_nuclear_accidents

6) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Three
Excerpt: On February 2, 1976, Gregory C. Minor, Richard B. Hubbard, and Dale G. Bridenbaugh "blew the whistle" on safety problems at nuclear power plants. The three engineers gained the attention of journalists and their disclosures about the threats of nuclear power had a significant impact. They timed their statements to coincide with their resignations from responsible positions in General Electric's nuclear energy division, and later established themselves as consultants on the nuclear power industry for state governments, federal agencies, and overseas governments.

7) "Japanese Scramble to Avert Meltdowns as Nuclear Crisis Deepens After Quake," New York Times, March 12, 2011, By HIROKO TABUCHI and MATTHEW L. WALD

8) The design manual for General Electric boiling water reactors was posted as a PDF document on the "What Really Happened" website, and can be downloaded at: http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/ge-manual-bwr6-reactor-design-and-operation

9) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinenko
Excerpt: Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB and KGB, who escaped prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the United Kingdom. He wrote two books, "Blowing up Russia: Terror from within" and "Lubyanka Criminal Group", where he accused the Russian secret services of staging Russian apartment bombings and other terrorism acts to bring Vladimir Putin to power. On 1 November 2006, Litvinenko suddenly fell ill and was hospitalized. He died three weeks later, becoming the first confirmed victim of lethal polonium-210-induced acute radiation syndrome. According to doctors, "Litvinenko's murder represents an ominous landmark: the beginning of an era of nuclear terrorism". Litvinenko's allegations about the misdeeds of the FSB and his public deathbed accusations that Russian president Vladimir Putin were behind his unusual malady resulted in worldwide media coverage.

10) "Greater Danger Lies in Spent Fuel Than in Reactors," Keith Bradsher & Hiroko Tabuchi, NY Times, March 17, 2011
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/world/asia/18spent.html

"Radiation Spread Seen; Frantic Repairs Go On," David Sanger & William J. Broad, NY Times, March 17, 2011
www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/world/asia/18intel.html

"U.S. Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant," James Glanz & William J. Broad, NY Times, April 6, 2011
www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/world/asia/06nuclear.html

"Focus on preventing explosions at Japan nuke plant," Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press, April 6, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110406/ap_on_bi_ge/as_japan_earthquake_654

11) http://wisequotes.org/nuclear-power-is-one-hell-of-a-way-to-boil-water

12) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_product

13) "US Accused of Using Poison Gases in Fallujah," Democracy Now, Monday, November 29th, 2004
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/29/u_s_accused_of_using_poison

"Evidence of Extensive War Crimes, Unprecedented in the annals of legal history," Niloufer Bhagwat, Global Research, December 11, 2004
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/BHA412A.html

"Depleted Uranium Weapons: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke," by Dave Lindorff, Global Research, October 20, 2009
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15744

"The consequences of a US war crime: Cancer rate in Fallujah worse than Hiroshima," Tom Eley, World Socialist, July 23, 2010
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jul2010/fall-j23.shtml

"Research Links Rise in Fallujah Birth Defects and Cancers to US Assault," Martin Chulov, The Guardian/UK, December 31, 2010
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/12/31

14) "Chernobyl's Continuing Thyroid Impact,"By Mary Shomon, December 15, 2003
http://thyroid.about.com/cs/nuclearexposure/a/chernob.htm

15) "Authorities lied on impact of Chernobyl in Turkey,"Greenpeace Report
http://www.blackraiser.com/cherno.htm

16) WISE Report on the Worldwide Uranium Market http://www.wise-uranium.org/umkt.html

"Why is Uranium Important to Canada?" Canadian Nuclear Association,
http://www.cna.ca/english/pdf/nuclearfacts/04-NuclearFacts-uranium.pdf

17) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioaccumulation

18) http://www.crystalinks.com/reptilianbrain.html

19) http://www.codondesastre.blogspot.com


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AK-47

Niet goriachiei vodui.

Skolka styoit nomer v sutki?

Ya nie ponimaiu

Adinatsat (11/04)

El FMI la caga en NY

La verdad es que me importa un bledo si el respetable representante del FMI tuvo un calentón y se le abalanzó a la camarera de habitación.

Si se propasó con una trabajadora del hotel, pues que lo pague.

Se especula que el sujeto salió de la ducha desnudo, lo cual a sus 60 y algo años no ha de ser algo muy agradable de observar. Pero nunca se sabe. Porque conozco un artista cubano glorioso a sus largos 70. Bueno.

Lo cierto es que el tipo salió por piernas. Y que iba despendolado es cierto porque se dejó el teléfono. Que ahora, con la acumulación de datos es como dejarse el alma.

Si llegó a eyacular lo pillan por el ADN. Y el presunto calentón ha tenido lugar en un sitio donde esos asuntos se toman muy en serio.

El presunto ha pasado de una habitación de bastantes dólares a un espacio reducido y espartano.

Desde luego que la ha cagado o más bien la ha presuntamente eyaculado.

Si sí o si no haya eyaculado el asunto es como de verguenza ajena.

Nueva York no es el mejor lugar para franceses alebrestados. Sorry boy.

Siempre tendremos París.

El bloqueo de EEUU contra Cuba afecta la atención sanitaria.

He leido rápido algunos de los trabajos presentados en el Congreso de Anestesiolgía celebrado recientemente en La Habana (Cuba).

Como era de esperar, se analizó el uso de anestésicos de última generación.

Especialmente importantes son aquellos que se pueden aplicar en niños.

También son cruciales en intervenciones en pacientes con antecedentes de arritmias.

Desgraciadamente los hospitales de Cuba no pueden contar con los fármacos más avanzados en éste campo que pueden marcar la vida o muerte de un paciente.

Una compañía europea se mostró interesada con hacer el negocio con el Ministerio de Salud cubano.

Luego dió marcha atrás debido a que la patente es estadounidense. En eso consiste el "bloqueo", "embargo" (o abuso criminal).

Que cada cual piense lo que quiera.

Los médicos cubanos trabajan con gran dedicación y resuelven, incluso en condiciones muy desventajosas.