Just the title of this article starts to make my blood boil. A VETERAN SHOULD NEVER BE ON THEIR OWN!! IT IS THIS KIND OF MENTALITY THAT FORCED MANY VETERANS SUFFERING FROM PTSD TO COMMIT SUICIDE. Only after hundreds of un-needed deaths did the VA wake up and make a concerted effort to truly help…
Category: Health Warnings
Important Veterans Issues: “The Burn Pit” is Now Sickening and Killing U.S. Soldiers At Home
Heads Up: If you are a Veteran or Know a Veteran who served in OIF or OEF or any operation where Burn Pit’s were used regularly and are having symptoms related to Cancer, and have been denied service connected disability, I suggest you hire a lawyer NOW and start the process of fighting the VA…
Cold War Files: America’s Nuclear Cold War Casualties
Have any of you heard of a federal entity called “The Office of Legacy Management”? Unless you’ve traveled through the American Southwest, you probably haven’t. This is a federal agency that is ensconced in the Department of Energy and is in charge of remediating the old uranium mines and mills that the federal government left…
Health Warnings: Tens of Thousands of Cans of Bumble Bee Tuna Recalled Due to Bacteria
As recently as last year, we reported on the Bumblebee Tuna factory worker who was killed when he became trapped and cooked to death along with 12,000 pounds of tuna. KTLA has reported that possible food-spoilage is thought to be the culprit behind this new massive scandal for the company: The San-Diego based company initiated…
Health Warnings: A Mysterious Bacterial Disease Is Killing People in Wisconsin
SINCE NOVEMBER, 54 PEOPLE in Wisconsin have one by one fallen ill with an obscure kind of bacteria called Elizabethkingia. Fifteen have died from the infection. Elizabethkingia is common in the environment—in soil, in water—but it rarely gets people sick. Cases pop up in ones and twos, usually in people with weak immune systems, says Michael Bell, deputy…
Military History: Beating the “Bloody Flux” and How Sir John Pringle Waged War on Dysentery
“Sanitation standards in the 18th Century were almost non-existent. Soldiers were in the habit of relieving themselves wherever they wished, including outside their own tents, turning encampments into mucky breeding grounds for dysentery.” 18TH CENTURY MILITARY camps were hotbeds for communicable diseases. Often, more soldiers on campaign died from illness than were ever felled in battle. Interestingly enough, the…
“It’s in the Water”
As a person who has been prepping seriously for about 15 years I can tell you Water is probably one of the most overlooked and under-prepared for items in a household. So many folks stock up on ways to DISINFECT their water but not on actually storing the DRINKING water itself. This article recommends stocking…
8 Things You Should Know About the Zika Virus
The Zika Virus is fast becoming a serious health issue in the United States. Here in Texas the Dallas Morning News recently confirmed there are Six Known Cases of Zika. All of the cases are in people who had recently returned from international travel however, no LOCAL transmissions of the disease have been confirmed.-SF …
Public Heath Warning: The Zika Virus is Spreading Through the Americas
The World Health Organization has warned that the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which has been linked to abnormal births, is likely to spread to all countries in the Americas, except Canada and Chile. The warning comes amid evidence of a possible link between Zika and an increase in the number of babies born with abnormally…