Dear Friends,

History has been made. After 7 years of pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the risk posed to the developing brain by the practice of water fluoridation, the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has just ruled on behalf of the Fluoride Action Network and the plaintiffs in our precedent-setting court case. A U.S. federal court has now deemed fluoridation an “unreasonable risk” to the health of children, and the EPA will be forced to regulate it as such. The decision is written very strongly in our favor, and we will share it in its entirety tomorrow. Below is an excerpt from the introduction of the ruling:

Federal Court Rules That Fluoridation Chemicals Pose An “Unreasonable Risk” To Health

Organic snack bars are full of processed ingredients

September 24, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Walk down the grocery aisle with me and let’s check out the organic snack bars. Will any of them be made with real ingredients that you’d find in your own kitchen? Or will they be filled with added “flavors”, emulsifiers, and processed sweeteners?

Organic snack bars are full of processed ingredients (Is there a healthy snack bar brand?)

Sole US Navy Oiler – USNS Big Horn – in the Middle East Damaged | September 23, 2024

September 24, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

What’s Going On With Shipping

by John Konrad – gCaptain has received multiple reports that the US Navy oiler USNS Big Horn ran aground yesterday and partially flooded off the coast of Oman, leaving the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group without its primary fuel source.

US Navy Oiler Runs Aground, Forcing Carrier Strike Group to Scramble for Fuel

The US Navy Needs Tankers: A Crisis In Capability

US sending more troops to Middle East as violence rises in the region

OCLC Says ‘What Is Known Must Be Shared,’ But Is Suing Anna’s Archive For Sharing Knowledge

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How do you think I get most of my Ebooks?! 😉

Back in March, Walled Culture wrote about the terrible job that academic publishers are doing in terms of creating backups of the articles they publish. We also mentioned there two large-scale archives that are trying to help, Sci-Hub and Anna’s Archive. Legal action by publishers against the former seems to have led to a halt to new items being added to its collection. This has resulted in the rise of Anna’s Archive as the main large-scale archive of academic papers and other material. It has also led to a lawsuit against the site, as TorrentFreak reports. The legal move is by the non-profit OCLC, which was originally the Ohio College Library Center, then became the Online Computer Library Center, and is now simply OCLC. It describes itself as follows:

OCLC Says ‘What Is Known Must Be Shared,’ But Is Suing Anna’s Archive For Sharing Knowledge

Related:

Anna’s Archive

Alternative site 1

Alternative site 2

Note: I’m not a fan of copyright. Any information inside my documents is free to use. If it’s an article or a blog post that I’ve written, please ask for my permission before using it.

Former Rockford Illinois National Guard Armory

September 24, 2024September 24, 2024 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

This isn’t far from where I grew up. I couldn’t find any videos of it, on YouTube while it was still functional. I found it interesting that concerts were held there. One of the many bands that performed there, Cheap Trick, was founded in Rockford, Illinois. I went to high school with one of their stepsisters. I just found out that I currently live where one of the band members was born.