Internet Access declared as basic Human Rights by United Nations

UN now considers internet access a basic human right that should be accessible and affordable for all. Can the Philippines comply?

The U.N. report  supports the Internet as a communication platform, a boon to all democratic societies, but it also warns how the Internet's unique architecture threatens power brokers in repressed, authoritarian states. 

The UN report outlined how several member states have already recognized Internet access as a right: “The parliament of Estonia passed legislation in 2000 declaring Internet access a basic human right. The constitutional council of France effectively declared Internet access a fundamental right in 2009, and the constitutional court of Costa Rica reached a similar decision in 2010. Going a step further, Finland passed a decree in 2009 stating that every Internet connection needs to have a speed of at least one Megabit per second (broadband level).”

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WHO Health Alert- Excessive Use of Cellphone- high risk of cancer

Babala ng World Health Organization, ang matagalang paggamit ng cellphone ay posibleng magpataas ng tsansa ng pagkakaroon ng isang uri ng cancer. Binago ng WHO ang nauna nitong pahayag na hindi nakaka-cancer ang cellphones, pero nilinaw din nilang kailangan pa ng karagdagang pag-aaral para matiyak ang direktang epekto sa kalusugan ng cellphones.

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Glutathione Injections Health Alert- What is Glutathione?

Health Warning for those using Glutathione to achieve whiter skin. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned the public against using glutathione injections, which they said can cause skin rashes, severe abdominal pains, kidney failure, and other health complications.

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What is Glutathione?Glutathione (GSH) is a tripeptide that contains an unusual peptide linkage between the amine group of cysteine and the carboxyl group of the glutamate side-chain. It is anantioxidant, preventing damage to important cellular components caused by reactive oxygen species such as free radicals and peroxides.


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Thiol groups are reducing agents, existing at a concentration of approximately 5 mM in animal cells. Glutathione reduces disulfide bonds formed within cytoplasmic proteins tocysteines by serving as an electron donor. In the process, glutathione is converted to its oxidized form glutathione disulfide (GSSG), also called L(-)-Glutathione.

Glutathione is found almost exclusively in its reduced form, since the enzyme that reverts it from its oxidized form, glutathione reductase, is constitutively active and inducible uponoxidative stress. In fact, the ratio of reduced glutathione to oxidized glutathione within cells is often used as a measure of cellular toxicity.

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Scares of Big Earthquake in Rome on May 11, 2011as predicted by Raffaele Bendandi

It was reported in Telegraph that people of Rome are having big panics and trying to leave Rome today over fears that a giant earthquake is coming following a seismologist's 1915 prediction that "the big one" will strike on May 11, 2011.

The panic has been fanned by Facebook, Twitter and text messages around a prediction by Raffaele Bendani, a seismologist who forecast in 1915 that a "big one" would hit Rome on Wednesday.

Who by the way is Raffaele Bendandi?

Raffaele Bendandi, an important astronomer, seismologer and scientist he predicted that "on May 11, 2011 provide that Rome will be shaken by an earthquake so powerful that the entire city will be shaved off the face of the earth."

Bendandi, who died in 1979, was an autodidact. Born in 1893, he predicted the earthquake of 13 January 1915, the Avenzzano, who had 11 degrees on the Mercalli scale that resulted in the deaths of 30,000 Italians. Then, at the May 6, 1976 in Friuli, which killed 1,000 people and left another 45,000 homeless. Bendandi gave almost accurate data about where disasters will occur, and about their day.