Yakkers Corner: Bill Duke Continues His Efforts in “Edutainment” re HIV/Aids
November 30th, 2009

With a wide range of credits to his name in almost every film discipline, including directing, producing, acting and writing, Bill Duke has founded Duke Media, formerly Yagya Productions, which has been in existence for approximately twenty years. For three years, Mr. Duke served as the Time Warner Endowed Chair in the Department of Radio Television and Film at Howard University in Washington, DC. He was then appointed to the National Endowment of the Humanities by former president Bill Clinton. Mr. Duke has also been appointed to the California State Film Commission Board by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Mr. Duke now serves on the Board of Trustees at the American Film Institute.

His education/entertainment package includes a new film Faces of HIV, as well as Cover, and an album populated by Dionne Warwick, Patti LaBelle, Maya Angelou… he would like to spread this information contained in the package around the world to show in depth how HIV Aids is ravaging the black communities in the United States.  He also supports the education of youth “Educating Young Minds”

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Muriella’s Corner has been actively involved in blogging about drinking water…This seeming obsession is a result of almost 30 years working the international development in helping communities in developing countries have access to the liberating and health effects of a clean drinking water supply. A search on Muriella’s Corner blogs for water will reveal many entries on the condition of water in the United States.

The observation was made that in development countries, emphasis in the dialogue on water is availability, accessibility, quantity, much less on quality; however in the developed world emphasis is much more on quality, a conversation that is becoming more and more pronounced as we become aware of what really constitutes bottled water and what goes into the ground thus affecting the water we drink.

The chemicals ubiquitously available in our drinking water can lead to water-related diseases which ultimately affect our health, viz the most recent article in the New York Times on Toxic WatersMore than 23 million of us are walking toxic sieves, full of ingested chemicals from our food and our water and our air…Being aware of the impact of chemicals on our lives is extremely important as our health depends on this. The more aware of these, the more one takes action on asssuring the ingestion of non-chemicalized water, food and the breathing of fresher air (in the home as that is the only environment we can totally control), health care issues can be addressed working with a better prepared population who would know where to take its acvitist energies.

The Times article highlights vividly some experiences of some people living in areas where coal sludge/slurry might be leaking into the ground water. Here in her own words is Jennifer from West Virginia talking about why she no longer drinks water from the tap…”In fact, her entire family tries to avoid any contact with the water. Her youngest son has scabs on his arms, legs and chest where the bathwater — polluted with lead, nickel and other heavy metals — caused painful rashes. Many of his brother’s teeth were capped to replace enamel that was eaten away.

See the chemicalization of the American Breakfast and the effects of cosmetics in our water supply

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Water Polluters Near You
Across the nation, the system that Congress created to protect the nation’s waters under the Clean Water Act of 1972 today often fails to prevent pollution. The New York Times has compiled data on more than 200,000 facilities that have permits to discharge pollutants and collected responses from states regarding compliance. Information about facilities contained in this database comes from two sources: the Environmental Protection Agency and the California State Water Resources Control Board. The database does not contain information submitted by the states. READ MORE HERE…

In the news recently, the dialogue (or is it a monologue) continues re cell phones and radiation, cause and effect.
There are now over 270 million cell phones nationwide in the USA, not counting the world, emitting non-ionizing radiation (less than radiation in X-Rays. Big question is, do low doses add up? and if they do are they already causing harm, especially to young brains as so many of our children and youth are addicted to the cell phone.

As with all other ills, any addictive behaviour can be detrimental to our health and that of our families. When will we know, or rather be told what is going on with the use of cell phones and of any consequential harm to public health.

Check out the websites below
Dr Ben Kim
Muriella’s Corner
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Environmental Working Group