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Malia Zimmerman
Watchdog.org 2015-01-09 22:50:00
Comment: While the majority of the American public struggles to pay their bills, the Obamas have no problem living it up at the taxpayer's expense. Clearly this is a president who's comfortable enjoying the fruits of the empire while the masses live in constant struggle. President Barack Obama and his family just spent their Christmas and New Year's holidays in Kailua. Now it's time for taxpayers to pick up the tab. While the Obamas and friends who accompany them pay for their own private vacation home rentals on or near Kailua Beach, taxpayers foot a multimillion dollar tab for everything from a stand-by ambulance to the fuel for Air Force One. Local taxpayers pick up the bill for Honolulu Police Department escorts who guard Obama, first lady Michelle and daughters Malia and Sasha around the clock. Figures just released by HPD spokeswoman Michelle Yu show HPD spent $277,000 on overtime costs this year during the president's 16-day vacation. That's $16,000 less than in 2013, but $60,000 more than in 2012. The Emergency Management Services department also dispatches an ambulance to be on call for the president, which annually costs the city about $15,890. The U.S. Secret Service doesn't disclose information about the expense for its agents to travel to and stay in Hawaii or guard the first family. Dozens of Secret Service agents were spotted at Ala Moana Hotel checking in the day before Obama arrived. A spokeswoman for the hotel said she couldn't release details on the number of agents who stayed there, but hotel staff told Watchdog the government rate would be about $200 a night, including taxes. Secret Service agents, Navy SEALs and Coast Guard officials also rent private homes along the canal near the president in Kailua at a cost of $250 per room per night, according to several residents renting their homes. | |
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Sputnik News
2015-01-09 20:34:00
A radical Muslim cleric who preaches in Britain has said in the wake of the deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine that Muslims are obliged to defend the honor of the Prophet Muhammed, and do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression. "Contrary to popular misconception, Islam does not mean peace but rather means submission to the commands of Allah alone," Anjem Choudary wrote in a piece published by USAToday on Thursday. "Therefore, Muslims do not believe in the concept of freedom of expression, as their speech and actions are determined by divine revelation and not based on people's desires," he said. Comment: Anjem Choudary always seems to get the limelight in order to spread memes and hatred for Muslims. As if there isn't enough hatred following the Paris shootings. France is now seeing the bombing of mosques and the murder of 3 suspects who can never be convicted of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in a court of law. Of course they don't need to be, because public opinion has dropped so low to be convinced that, since they were Muslims, they were guilty and did not deserve a trial. This is very convenient for individuals who might not like an investigation. Choudary has also tweeted since the killings with criticism of the Western concept of freedom of expression, arguing that in the West itself, freedom of expression is limited is certain cases. In Thursday's article, he wrote, "The truth is that Western governments are content to sacrifice liberties and freedoms when being complicit to torture and rendition - or when restricting the freedom of movement of Muslims, under the guise of protecting national security." | |
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Sputnik News
2015-01-09 20:09:00
The Islamist Boko Haram group has attacked the town of Baga in northeastern Nigeria for the second time in a week, the BBC reported Friday citing local officials. According to the officials, the raids on the civilian population began late on Tuesday and continued through Wednesday. Musa Alhaji Bukar, a senior government official in the area, told the BBC that the town had been burnt down. He also said that the fleeing residents had been unable to bury the dead, and corpses littered the town's streets. According to the official, more than 2,000 people were killed in the raids but other reports put the number in the hundreds. On January 4, Boko Haram seized the town of Baga and the local military base. The group is already controlling 16 neighboring towns, Mr Bukar said. Nigerian lawmaker Maina Maaji Lawan told BBC that Boko Haram controlled 70% of the Borno State. | |
Comment: NATO's secret armies are a disgrace to humanity:
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RT
2015-01-08 20:21:00
Undercover police in an elite unit tasked with infiltrating left-wing groups stole a dead newborn child's identity, the Metropolitan Police Service has confirmed. The baby is among a number of children whose identities were stolen by the Met's covert Special Demonstration Squad. Other children aged one, four, 14, 16 and 17 were also harvested for their details to provide police covers. Only the ages of the children have been released to ensure the identities of the officers are not compromised. Liberal Democrat MP for Chippenham, Duncan Hames, who procured the information following repeated Freedom of Information (FoI) requests, hoped to console a constituent who feared his 15-year-old daughter's identity might have been stolen. While no 15-year-olds were identified, it has taken Hames nearly two years since February 2013 to obtain the children's ages. | |
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Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story 2015-01-09 19:47:00
Two men suspected of murder 12 people in Paris during an attack on the satirical weeklyCharlie Hebdo have been killed, according to the AFP. The brothers, Cherif and Said Kouachi, were holed up at a small printing business in Dammartin-en-Goele, a small French town near Paris, and had taken an employee hostage. The suspects "came out firing on security forces" after being surrounded, the AFP reported. The hostage was reportedly freed and safe. Police also killed a gunman who opened fire on a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris and then took at least five hostages. Two people were killed in the initial attack. It is unclear if any other hostages were harmed. Watch live coverage below:
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Comment: How convenient. What is still unclear is why these two guys were apparently successfully identified (assuming that is even the case!), while the third suspect clearly had nothing to do with the attacks. With the men now dead, we'll probably never know the whole story.
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RT
2015-01-09 19:34:00
The two suspects behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris have been on a US No Fly List 'for years,' a US official said. According to different revelations, one of the suspects trained with Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Yemen. Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his older brother Said Kouachi, 34, French-born sons of Algerian parents, were both logged in the US government's Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) system, a database on known or suspected international terrorists, US counterterrorism sources said on condition of anonymity. TIDE contains over one million names. The sources added that the brothers were considered to be dangerous enough for their names to be sent to the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center, which put them on a No Fly List, the most restrictive of the lists. | |
Comment: True to form, these guys were known to French intelligence and had a history of involvement with shady 'terror' groups (i.e., NATO proxy groups). Not very creative. Not very credible. And conveniently, and also true to form, they are now dead.
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Garikai Chengu
Wednesday marked the anniversary of the first democratic election in America, held in 1789.Press TV 2015-01-07 19:27:00
Over the past half century, America has descended from a popular democracy into an inverted fascist democracy. An inverted fascist democracy is the new American system, because its self-proclaimed ideologies directly oppose its actual policies. The United States' government may claim liberty and justice for all; however, in practice, it exhibits all four major characteristics of a fascist state: a one party government, extravagant economic inequality, a totalitarian police state at home and militarism abroad, and a strong reliance on propaganda. Political philosopher, Sheldon Wolin, has provided a devastating critique on how America is increasingly becoming a totalitarian state. The U.S. operates via the impression of a multi-party state. Nobody should have any illusions. The United States essentially has a one-party system; and the ruling party is the corporate party. Elections present the population with two variants of a pre-designed policy: free-market, neoliberal capitalism. This benefits the elite at the expense of the majority by promoting privatization of public services, frozen wages, job losses, and reduced social benefits. America's inverted fascist system has evolved without the need for traditional hard power tactics, such as ballot-rigging, coercion and force; it is based on soft power policies and the illusion of choice. The nation requires its citizens to make a choice between personalities, rather than genuine political alternatives. For instance, the top three candidates for President have all inherited their political status through family: Jeb Bush, Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton. The Bush-Clinton families may potentially occupy the White House for a staggering 28 out of 36 years. The narrowing ideological gap between the policies of major political parties reflects the decay of the nation's democratic system. | |
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RT
2015-01-09 02:35:00
Eastern Ukraine is nearing a humanitarian catastrophe, as residents struggle to get food and medicine, rights group Amnesty International told Reuters. The UN refugee watchdog added that the elderly in the region could be severely hit by Kiev's policies. People in the southeastern Lugansk and Donetsk regions are struggling financially and are barely scraping by, according to the deputy director of Europe and Central Asia at Amnesty International, Denis Krivosheev. "While it may be too early to call this a humanitarian catastrophe, it's clearly progressing in that direction," Krivosheev said, adding that pensioners are the most vulnerable part of the population. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) also expressed major concern for the elderly, pointing to Kiev's dangerous decision to transfer payouts of social benefits and pensions to government-controlled areas.
UNHCR spokesman William Spindler said that not everyone is able to pick up and leave their homes in southeastern Ukraine. So, the most vulnerable are neglected as they fail to receive needed financial support. According to UN figures, around 5.2 million people in Ukraine are living in conflict zones. Of that number, 1.4 million are in very vulnerable conditions and require assistance as they struggle with the cold winter, money problems, and lack of services. Moreover, Krivosheev stressed that aid sent to southeastern Ukraine from Russia and other countries - such as food and medicine - is often stifled by pro-Kiev private armies that are preventing it from reaching those in need, with the goal of starving the population there. | ||
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Haaretz
2015-01-07 16:01:00
United States Senator Rand Paul has introduced a Congressional bill that would cut off assistance to the Palestinian Authority so long as it seeks admission to the International Criminal Court. The so-called "Defend Israel by Defunding Palestinian Foreign Aid Act of 2015" was the second anti-Palestinian bill introduced by Paul in as many years, according to the National Journal. Last year, he introduced the "Stand with Israel Act," which would have terminated U.S. aid until the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire and recognized the state of Israel. The PA submitted the necessary documentation to become a member of the world's permanent war crimes tribunal last week. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday its the member ship would become official on April 1. As a member of the court, the PA will be able to pursue war crimes charges against Israel. Hours before introducing the bill, Rand met with a group leading Jewish donors to the Republican Party, including casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the Journal reported. Paul's bill would eliminate all U.S. foreign assistance, loan guarantees, and general aid to the Palestine Authority so long as it seeks to join the international court, according to an aide to the senator. Interviewed by Fox News, Paul argued that it "hardly seems to me a good idea to give American taxpayer money to a country or an entity that is now saying that an ally of ours - that their soldiers need to be investigated for war crimes." Comment: Israel is guilty of war crimes. What a scumbag! | |
Comment: Anyone who would side with Israel and deny the suffering and genocide of the Palestinians has to be a complete slimeball Israeli puppet.
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Ulson Gunnar
New Eastern Outlook 2015-01-08 00:00:00
The loss of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 served as a cornerstone of Western propaganda targeting Moscow and its allies in eastern Ukraine. In the initial whirlwind of baseless rhetoric launched before any sort of investigation began, Russia was squarely accused of gunning the civilian airliner from the skies of Ukraine in a cold, callus display of inexplicable evil. Despite the otherwise illogical nature of this narrative, it was hoped that it would serve as the first of many strikes against Russia's credibility and standing globally. MH17 would continue to serve as a point of contention for weeks and months to follow. A stacked investigative committee was formed comprising of NATO members, NATO allies, and potential culprits in MH17's downing, the regime in Kiev itself. Excluded, bizarrely, was Malaysia, to whom the aircraft was registered to, and the nation which lost the second largest number of nationals in the disaster. After much protest, Malaysia was finally admitted to the investigation, and with its inclusion, MH17 has predictably dropped from the headlines, and piecemeal, biased "conclusions" based on tenuous or non-existent evidence have all but ceased. This is in part because of the finite nature of Western propaganda and its impact upon an increasingly well-informed global public. It is also in part because Malaysia is not a willing accomplice in skewing MH17's investigation, obstructing NATO's agenda to spin any investigation's conclusion into implicating Russia as part of its greater agenda against Moscow. | |
Comment: If the recent shootings in Paris are any indication, then it seems clear that Mossad, NATO, the CIA, MI5 and other agencies have not slowed down and will continue to do the only thing they know how: inflict terror and carnage wherever and whenever they want to send a message - or to distract from even larger transgressions ie. attacking Gaza.
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Guy Faulconbridge
Reuters 2015-01-08 15:25:00
Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday. Speaking after gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on a French satirical newspaper, MI5 boss Andrew Parker warned a strike on the United Kingdom was highly likely. "A group of core al Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the West," Director General Parker said in a rare public speech at MI5 headquarters in London. His last public speech was in October 2013. In the speech, planned before the killings in Paris, Parker said seasoned al Qaeda militants in Syria aimed to "cause large-scale loss of life, often by attacking transport systems or iconic targets" in the West. | |
Comment: Yup, be very afraid and give up your freedoms so the government can protect you from the situation it created in the first place.
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The Vigilant Citizen
The reputed magazine The Economist published an issue named "The World in 2015″. On the cover are odd images : A mushroom cloud, the Federal Reserve in a game called "Panic" and much more.2015-01-09 04:38:00
I wouldn't normally dedicate an entire article analyzing the cover of a publication, but this isn't any publication. It is The Economist and it is directly related to the world elite. It is partly owned by theRothschild banking family of England and its editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait, attended several times to the Bilderberg Conference - the secretive meeting where the world's most powerful figures from the world of politics, finance business and media discuss global policies. The outcome of those meetings is totally secret. It is therefore safe to say that the people at The Economist know things that most people don't. For this reason, its "2015 prediction" cover is rather puzzling. The bleak and sinister cover features a political figures, fictional characters and pop culture icons that will surely make the news in 2015. However, most importantly, it also includes several additions that are extremely symbolic and allude to important concepts and world events. Here's the cover : | |
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Jonathan Cook
al-Araby 2015-01-07 23:50:00
The Palestinian application to the ICC has set in motion a series of events with potentially dramatic consequences for both Israel and the Palestinians. At the weekend, Fatah posted an image on its Facebook page of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu next to a hangman's noose, alongside the words 'coming soon' and the scales-of-justice logo of the International Criminal Court in the Hague. This is certainly how many Palestinians would like to view Netanyahu's fate over the coming months. Comment: They're not the only ones! Last week, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, reluctantly signed on to the Rome Statute, paving the way for ICC membership, after he failed to win a vote at the UN Security Council on a resolution to end the occupation by 2017. | |
Comment: How can anyone believe the lie that Israel wants peace? At every turn, they threaten, punish, and kill the Palestinians for pursuing what is their 'God-given' right: justice. Israel wants nothing less than for Palestinians to utterly debase themselves and fully accept what Israel wants, no matter what. Anything less is unacceptable to the psychopaths in Tel Aviv. See also: UN confirms Palestine will become ICC member starting April 1
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Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook 2015-01-07 23:39:00
US-funded opposition leader and right-wing extremist Alexei Navalny, who regularly masquerades as an "anti-corruption activist," was himself sentenced to a suspended jail term for fraud. His brother, implicated in the same case, was imprisoned. The Guardian would report in its article, "Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny gets suspended sentence but brother jailed," that: A Russian court gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a suspended sentence on Tuesday for embezzling money but jailed his brother for three and a half years in a case seen as part of a campaign to stifle dissent.While the Guardian elects to report what is "seen" by supporters of the embattled opposition figure, it fails to mention what is documented fact - Navalny's ties to Wall Street and Washington's global network of political subversion, specifically his ties to the US State Department's National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Alexey Navalny was a Yale World Fellow, and in his profile it states (emphasis added): Navalny spearheads legal challenges on behalf of minority shareholders in large Russian companies, including Gazprom, Bank VTB, Sberbank, Rosneft, Transneft, and Surgutneftegaz, through the Union of Minority Shareholders. He has successfully forced companies to disclose more information to their shareholders and has sued individual managers at several major corporations for allegedly corrupt practices.Navalny is also co-founder of the Democratic Alternative movement and was vice-chairman of the Moscow branch of the political party YABLOKO. In 2010, he launched RosPil, a public project funded by unprecedented fundraising in Russia. In 2011, Navalny started RosYama, which combats fraud in the road construction sector. | |
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The Telegraph
2015-01-09 22:59:00
Comment: Normally, it would be mortifying to be embroiled in the allegations that Cosby is involved in. Most people would find it incredibly difficult to see anything funny about it. Yet, Cosby seems content to make a joke, about rape nonetheless. It is disturbingly similar to how psychopaths act when they are guilty. Bill Cosby jokingly warned a woman in the audience during a show in Canada on Thursday night to be careful drinking around him. Cosby made the remark at his second performance in a row after a string of cancellations that followed sexual assault allegations from more than 15 women. Some of the women accused Cosby of drugging them by slipping something in their drinks before he assaulted them. A woman who got up from one of the front rows and walked past the stage was asked by Cosby where she was going. When she answered that she was going to the lobby to grab a drink, Cosby responded: "You have to be careful about drinking around me." The remark was met with loud applause. A few minutes later a heckler yelled at Cosby that he was a rapist. Cosby stood up as the crowd started to boo the man and asked them not to respond. "No, no, stop," he said, waving his hands. The man was removed from the theatre by a police officer while one member of the audience yelled "we love you" to Cosby. | |
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RT
2015-01-09 10:23:00
Arrests and ticket violations in New York City are dropping over the New York Police Department's purported political protest against the mayor, but investigative journalist Matt Taibbi says the slowdown is exposing weaknesses in normal police policy. The number of arrests across the city last week plunged to just over 2,000 - compared to over 5,000 during the same time one year ago - with parking- and driving-related tickets down more than 90 percent, according to NYPD data. There has also been a drop in new inmates, with only 618 entering the system compared to over 1,000 a year ago. | |
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librarisingnsf
DailyKos 2015-01-09 19:20:00
Sometimes the (nasty) truth surfaces, even on Fox News. They sometimes use code words to express their discriminatory views, but sometimes the truth just slips out. It looks like it did on Wednesday. Fox News host, Shannon Bream, wants to know how (on earth) are we suppose to spot the "bad guys" if we cannot see the "tone of their skin"?! From the New Civil Rights Movement:
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Daily Mail, UK
2015-01-07 06:00:00
A crowd of some 100 people discovered the four allegedly robbing electronics at a home in the town of Tehuacan, in the state of Puebla. The residents seized the four - two men, a male teenager one woman said to be pregnant - and stripped them. Then they beat them with sticks and metal pipes before tying them to trees. The woman, who said she was pregnant, was 'struck in the face' while the teenager was tied by his hands and feet and beat up, local reports say. He suffered wounds to his abdomen, legs, back and head. 'We warned them of what would happen if they returned to rob from us,' local neighbors, who said they were tired of thieves after a recent string of robberies, told local newspaper Excelsior. The four alleged thieves included a woman (red pants) who was 'beaten in the face because she said she was pregnant' and teenage boy Local cops tried to stop the brutal beatings but were pushed back by the crowd. State police had to intervene to bring the situation under control. One of the four suspects died of his injuries. |
Comment: A sign of times to come?
The images are pretty graphic. If you can stomach it, they can be viewed in the original article byDaily Mail. |
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Damien Gayle
The Daily Mail, UK 2015-01-09 05:58:00
A guru who ordered 400 of his followers to undergo castrations he said would bring them closer to God is under investigation by police in India. The country's top crime fighting agency registered a case against Gurmeet Ram Rahim - known as the 'guru in bling' for his penchant for garish clothes and jewellery - over the operations at his ashram. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said Rahim is being investigated for criminal intimidation and causing grievous bodily hurt after an alleged 400 castrations were carried out. The guru, who heads the Dera Sacha Sauda organisation based in Haryana state, is already facing trial for conspiracy over the murder of a journalist in 2002, as well as with claims of sexually exploiting female followers. | |
Comment: It's disgusting to see this type of religious activity. Psychopaths are attracted to this power and wealth handed to them and exploit that power over people in unconscionable ways.
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Jackson Marciana
Counter Current 2015-01-08 22:23:00
A police officer was recently found to have acted "inappropriately" after he pulled over an intoxicated Native American woman, and then drove her to his house to have a "personal relationship" with her. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer was disciplined, and given seven days off off work without pay. The Canadian CBC News reported that adjudication documents said that "RCMP Const. Kevin Theriault took an intoxicated woman he had arrested out of a cell and drove her to his northern Manitoba home to pursue a personal relationship." Theriault and another officer had arrested the woman at a party back in 2011 according to the report. They placed her in a cell "to sober up" but six hours later Theriault came back, out of uniform, and requested that the woman be released into his custody. The RCMP report says that he drove the woman to his house in his personal car, while officers taunted him via text message to find out "how far he would go" with his prisoner. One of these officers even "jokingly made a comment about having a threesome," according to the report. One officer said that all of this "wasn't right." But he eventually even conceded: "You arrested her, you can do whatever the f*ck you want to do." | |
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Benjamin Simon
The Inquisitr 2015-01-08 04:16:00
Clint Eastwood's newest film, American Sniper, has been heavily criticized for altering the true history of the source material to make the movie more suitable for American audiences. American Sniper is based on the memoir of Chris Kyle, a former U.S. Navy Seal from Texas, who was deployed to Iraq in 2003. Kyle admits in his own memoir that he enjoyed the act of killing people, which he claims to have done 255 times. Meanwhile, the movie adaptation American Sniper reportedly portrays Kyle as a much more human character. Some say American Sniper even depicts him as a hero. Raw Story discussed the discrepancies between the complex reality of Kyle's memoir and American Sniper's Hollywood makeover, accusing American Sniper of simplifying a "hate-filled killer" to appeal to American patriots. Variety claims American Sniper established a dilemma for Bradley Cooper's character, wherein he had to adopt a sense of us-versus-them to justify killing 255 people on the battlefield.
Meanwhile, Chris Kyle's memoir reveals that the sniper found killing "fun" and described it as something he "loved" to do. In fact, Kyle even wrote that he "couldn't give a flying f*** about the Iraqis" he was killing. While many of Cooper's words were written into the script, American Snipercontorts Kyle into a more sympathetic character. Seemingly aware that viewers wouldn't be interested in watching American Sniper if the protagonist was depicted as a sociopath, Eastwood decided to make American Sniper hint at a struggle within Cooper's moral compass. | |
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Trish Kahle
Dissent Magazine 2014-07-09 03:15:00
It's not clear what shocked people most about the report in Fortune that Whole Foods Market sells goat cheese and tilapia prepared with prison labor - the horrendous exploitation of prisoners for a base rate less than one-tenth of Whole Foods' starting wage, or the fact that even after paying prisoner-workers sixty cents an hour, that tiny wheel of goat cheese still costs upward of seven dollars. Whichever reason it was, for many the story disturbed the experience that Whole Foods carefully cultivates for its customers. Walk into any Whole Foods Market and the messaging is clear. Colorful panels above neatly displayed quarts of organic chicken broth boast that Whole Foods pays the highest minimum wage in the grocery business ($10 an hour, which is still a poverty wage for most workers). Pamphlets outside the meat cases detail the company's animal welfare rating system and explain why it doesn't sell shark meat and other seafood that can't be fished sustainably. Workers in a seemingly casual but carefully tailored uniform set out "Whole Trade" bananas while smiling and making small talk with customers. Along the walls, posters introduce you to different vendors whose products the store stocks. When you check out, a cashier may ask you to donate to the Whole Planet Foundation - a program to give microloans to women entrepreneurs in developing countries. The stores are designed, from the crates used to display produce to the boat-deck-style overalls worn in the seafood department, to give you the impression of a highly compressed supply chain, carefully monitored for quality and decentralized to produce "win-win" relationships with vendors. Whole Foods portrays this experience as the natural state of affairs in a bastion of so-called conscious capitalism - a strategy that has contributed in no small part to the company's incredible success. It pioneered a new model for grocery stores that based its marketing not only on the products it sold but on its image as an "activist" company that "revolutionized" the way the grocery business was run. The real secret of Whole Foods' success, however, is far less novel or glamorous:it has essentially profited from scamming its customer base. | |
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RT
2015-01-09 02:34:00
Police tackled and restrained the teenage sister of 12-year-old Tamir Rice when she rushed to her dying brother after a Cleveland, Ohio cop fatally shot the boy in November, according to newly released video footage of the now notorious incident. The Cleveland Police Department shared the 30-minute recording on Wednesday night, lending credence to claims made by the Rice family about how law enforcement acted in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. This comes in the midst of a wave of similar tragic officer-involved incidents that have unfolded across the United States in recent months. "This has to be the cruelest thing I've ever seen," Akron-based attorney Walter Madison, a representative of the Rice family, told the Northeast Ohio Media Group when he viewed the video footage. On November 22, 2014, the Cleveland Police Department received reports concerning a male with a gun at an area playground, and a cruiser, with Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, arrived on the scene shortly after. Police said Loehmann engaged when Rice reached into his waistband, and that officers didn't learn until after the fact that the boy only had a non-lethal airsoft pistol. An abbreviated, 2.5-minute video clip, taken from a nearby surveillance camera and released by the police days after the incident, showed previously that Loehmann, 26, fired two shots at Rice in just as many seconds. This happened as soon as the officer got out of his vehicle, fatally wounding the boy. According to the new footage made available this week, roughly one minute after Rice was shot by Officer Timothy Loehmann, the victim's 14-year-old sister sped to his aid but was intercepted by another cop, forced to the ground and eventually detained in a nearby patrol car only a few feet from her dying brother. | |
Comment: A young girl realizes her 12-year old brother was just shot and is lying alone, bleeding. She attempts to help him and is thrown to the ground and 'detained' for doing so. What a sick, heartless, fascist machine the modern police force has become. This is America - the grim reality of a police state.
The path to tyranny: The Nazi Gestapo and the US police state | |
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Melissa Melton
The Daily Sheeple 2015-01-08 13:11:00
How can any American living here in the supposed "land of the free" honestly believe we still are? The Connecticut Supreme Court has now ruled that yes, the government has the power to force a minor to undergo chemotherapy treatments even if she doesn't want to. That's right. The court has unanimously determined that a 17-year-old patient cannot refuse chemotherapy treatment, even if her mother agrees they want to seek alternative treatment, for her Hodgkin's lymphoma. We aren't just a fascist oligarchy and a police state, but we absolutely a medical tyranny. Let's just try to overlook the fact (even though it's huge and deserving of its own article) that we even live in a society where the number children getting cancer these days is skyrocketing. | |
Comment: Hopefully, Cassandra will turn 18 soon and she can legally escape this state-sanctioned attempted murder.
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Lara Turner
WhoWhatWhy 2015-01-06 11:38:00
Were accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev imprisoned in another country and barred from speaking to the outside world, he'd doubtlessly be described as "being held incommunicado." Yet since he's an accused terrorist being held in the United States, the Justice Department-ordered gag on him has barely been noticed. And were anyone to ask why he's forcibly been kept silent, they'd be told he's been subjected to "Special Administrative Measures." Don't be fooled by the innocuous sound of that. The phrase refers to a law that allows the government to restrict a prisoner's communications in ways that: "may include housing the inmate in administrative detention and/or limiting certain privileges, including, but not limited to, correspondence, visiting, interviews with representatives of the news media, and use of the telephone, as is reasonably necessary to protect persons against the risk of acts of violence or terrorism." The law was established to prevent presumably dangerous inmates - those accused of terrorism, espionage, mob or gang activity - from communicating to the outside plans that could result in death or bodily harm. | |
Comment: For more on why the FBI would want to keep Tsarnaev silent see:
Tsarnaev brothers were 9/11 Truthers - and obviously innocent! The Boston Bombing web of lies 17 Unanswered questions about the Boston Marathon bombing the media is afraid to ask | |
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abc15.com
2015-01-08 01:14:00
A Florida man driving toward a bridge over Tampa Bay pulled his car over early Thursday, took his 5-year-old daughter from the back seat, pressed her head to his chest, and tossed her over the rail, according to police in St. Petersburg. John Nicholas Jonchuck, 25, faces first-degree murder charges. His daughter, Phoebe, fell about 60 feet over the Sunshine Skyway bridge into the bay just after midnight, St. Petersburg police Chief Anthony Holloway said at a news conference An officer heading home after his shift saw Jonchuck's vehicle speed past at nearly 100 mph, Holloway said. The officer prepared to pull the PT Cruiser over, but by the time he caught up with it, Jonchuck had pulled over on the side of the road. Holloway said Jonchuck got out and started toward the officer, who pulled his weapon. But Jonchuck went around to the passenger side of the car and got the child out. The officer "thought he heard the child scream, but he wasn't sure," Holloway said. The officer then saw the man throw the child over, into the strong bay current. Her body was recovered about a mile from the bridge and hour and a half later. Rescue crews tried to revive her, but she was pronounced dead at 2:44 a.m. | |
Comment: Just what is wrong with someone for them to murder their own child?
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Kristina Rus
Fort Russ 2015-01-08 23:34:00
Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack once again showed the world that the Western mainstream media can be vigilant ... when it is in the Western interests. A rightful uproar over the deaths of journalists in Paris makes MSM's silence, ignorance and quiet approval of Kiev's atrocities in Donbass all the more apparent. We learn once again that killings by radical Muslims are not OK, but killings by governments are just collateral damage, as long as that government is willing to open up its country to the plunder of Western banks and corporations. Democracy is only about hearing pro-Western voices, other voices are not to be heard, and should be silenced by bombs. Armed mobs of radical nationalists are only no good when they threaten a pro-Western governmentand raise the uncomfortable questions about its American supporters. They are perfectly acceptable, as long as their anger, fury and vengeance is directed towards the citizens of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine for not wanting to cut ties with their historic motherland and abandon their culture. | |
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Dennis Overbye
In a galaxy far, far away, a pair of supermassive black holes appear to be spiraling together toward a cosmic collision of unimaginable scale, astronomers said on Wednesday.The New York Times 2015-01-07 03:41:00 The final act of this mating dance, perhaps a mere million years from now, could release as much energy as 100 million of the violent supernova explosions in which stars end their lives, and wreck the galaxy it is in, said S. George Djorgovski of the California Institute of Technology. Most of that energy would go into gravitational waves, the violent ripples of space-time that are predicted but not yet directly detected by Einstein's theory of general relativity, Dr. Djorgovski said. And there could be electromagnetic fireworks as well.
According to theory, he explained in an email, the interactions of the black holes would drive nearby stars away, like shingles in a tornado. "However," he added, "I think that the nature is never so neat." Dr. Djorgovski, one of the authors of a paper published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, will discuss the research at a meeting in Seattle. The lead author is Matthew Graham, a computational scientist at Caltech's Center for Data-Driven Discovery. The merging black holes manifested as a regular flicker in a quasar - a mass of light and energy - in a remote galaxy known as PG 1302-102. The most logical explanation, Dr. Graham and his colleagues wrote, is a pair of black holes circling each other less than a light-year apart. | |
Comment: The Electric Universe theory gives an interesting alternative to mainstream science's view of black holes.
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The Weather Network
2015-01-07 18:37:00
The Middle East looked more like central Canada Wednesday as a rare winter storm covered an area from Turkey to Israel with snow and falling temperatures. But for residents in the affected areas, the past few winters have brought snow, despite previously going decades without seeing it at all. Snow in the Middle East. Lebanon for sure -- perhaps on Sinai peninsula.pic.twitter.com/opXMsrOiT4However, the area is not typically prepared for winter weather, and the result travel and transportation in the region has been brought to a crawl. | |
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Daily Mail, UK
2015-01-09 10:06:00
Time to stop remarking about how unearthly cold it is outside because on Thursday, Mars was actually warmer than many parts of the U.S. The daytime high in the red planet's Gale Crater, as recorded by NASA's Curiosity Rover, was 17.6 degrees F - a whopping 11 degrees warmer than the 6-degree high in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Temperatures in fourteen states from Washington to Maine reported temperatures colder than Mars, as a brutal blast of Arctic air sweeps the country. Mars just recently passed its closest orbit to the sun, which partially explains why the temperature was relatively balmy. The Gale Crater is also located in one of the warmest parts of the planet, near the equator. It's officially colder than Mars: NASA recorded a daytime high of 17.6 F on Mars today, which was warmer than many parts of the Midwest and Northeast. Above, a postal service worker braves the cold in Rockford, Illinois where the high was 18 F. | |
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See also: A Different Kind of Catastrophe - Something Wicked This Way Comes
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George Will
Japan Times 2015-01-09 13:49:00
We know, because they often say so, that those who think catastrophic global warming is probable and perhaps imminent are exemplary empiricists. They say those who disagree with them are "climate change deniers" disrespectful of science. Actually, however, something about which everyone can agree is that of course the climate is changing - it always is. And if climate Cassandras are as conscientious as they claim to be about weighing evidence, how do they accommodate historical evidence of enormously consequential episodes of climate change not produced by human activity? Before wagering vast wealth and curtailments of liberty on correcting the climate, two recent books should be considered. In "The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century," William Rosen explains how Europe's "most widespread and destructive famine" was the result of "an almost incomprehensibly complicated mixture of climate, commerce, and conflict, four centuries in gestation." Early in that century, 10 percent of the population from the Atlantic to the Urals died, partly because of the effect of climate change on "the incredible amalgam of molecules that comprises a few inches of soil that produces the world's food." | |
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Erin Hanekom
Southlands Sun 2015-01-09 20:29:00
A local snake wrangler rescued a dog from a pool with bush snakes in it. Trapped in a pool with snakes, a frightened dog was rescued on the Bluff Friday, morning, 9 January by local snake wrangler, Shaun Venter. Venter, whose main focus is the retrieval of snakes, was alerted to a dog in distress in Brighton Road. The dog was trapped in a pool, with shallow water and bush snakes. With the assistance of a neighbour and friend, Debbie Andre, Venter approached the stricken animal. "We could see she was very aggressive, but that was all due to being frightened because of her ordeal. With snakes swimming around in the pool and the neighbour trying to keep them away from this girl, only one thing was important - getting her out," said Venter. | |
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Gareth Roberts
Daily Mirror, UK 2015-01-09 19:52:00
Driver Li Hung had to quickly open his door and scramble to safety as the lorry was dragged back into the cavernous expanse This is the incredible moment a yawning hole opened up and swallowed a truck. Chinese driver Li Hung lived up to his name when he found himself hanging over the edge of a huge sinkhole that had opened up behind his lorry. Li, 35, had been driving back to work in Nanning City, China, when he started to feel his vehicle slipping backwards. He said: "It almost felt as if I hadn't put the brake on and I had started to roll downhill, but I had my foot on the brake and I realise that I was tipping back not because I was moving, but because of the sinking." He told local TV he opened the door and jumped out just as the lorry disappeared into the huge hole. | |
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Helen Davidson
The Guardian 2015-01-09 18:44:00
South Australian towns have been told to expect up to 15 times their monthly rainfall in the coming days, and there are severe weather warnings in place for several states and territories. In Alice Springs, Northern Territory emergency services have found a body after a search for a 24-year-old man who was swept away while tubing in the swollen Todd River on Thursday. Police told Guardian Australia they have not confirmed the identity of the man found or spoken with next of kin yet. The Todd began flowing on Thursday for the first time since April after heavy rains dumped more than 100mm in its catchment area. The shallow river bed is generally dry for most, if not all, of the year.
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Wendy Frew
BBC 2015-01-07 17:05:00
Hundreds of animals are believed to have been killed in South Australia since bushfires began burning out of control in the Adelaide Hills last Friday. Vets and animal rescue teams have gained access to parts of the devastated areas to treat pets, livestock and native animals. However, many animals have not survived or have been put down, according to animal welfare groups. The fires have been raging across some 12,500 hectares (30,888 acres) of land about 30 minutes drive south east of Adelaide.
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Lorraine Swanson
Lake View Patch 2015-01-08 11:30:00
A Chicago man arrived home from work on Tuesday evening only to discover three bowling ball-size chunks of ice in his living room and a freaked out cat. John "Sinatra" Connors, an information technology specialist and occasional lounge crooner, said that whatever crashed through the roof of his Ravenswood Manor apartment building landed with such velocity that it shattered the ceiling beams. "When I walked into my apartment the chair that is normally against the wall was pushed into the middle of the living room," he said. "There was ice everywhere. I could see the sky through the hole in my ceiling." Connors found one chunk of ice in his bedroom, a good 15 to 20 feet away from the crash's epicenter. He says he was in was in too much shock to notice the frigid, arctic wind whipping through the gaping hole in his ceiling.
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Comment: Here are other occurrences and information about megacrymeteors in the news in recent years:
Icy 'Window Fallers' or Frozen Harbingers of Change? The Peculiar Phenomenon of Megacryometeors Megacryometeor? Giant ice meteor slams to Earth near kids playing in Tennessee Giant ice meteors fall from clear skies Car-destroying chunk may be icy meteor | ||
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Auslan Cramb
The Telegraph, UK 2015-01-09 11:55:00
Rail services suspended and ferries cancelled in Scotland after winds reach 113mph overnight in worst storm of winter Hurricane-force winds gusting to over 100mph left a swathe of damage across the north of Britain overnight, bringing down trees and power lines and damaging buildings and road signs. There was widespread disruption to road, air and ferry travel and all domestic train services were suspended in Scotland before 8am, causing chaos for commuters. Around 75,000 homes were left without power in the Highlands and Islands in the worst storm of the winter. A wind speed of 113mph was recorded in Stornoway in the Western Isles overnight, the strongest gust recorded in the town since records began in 1970. Elsewhere, there were gusts up to 110mph at Loch Glascarnoch, and 97mph Altnaharra. A wind speed of 140mph was recorded on the summit of Cairngorm mountain. Stornoway coastguard went to the aid of a vulnerable 80-year-old woman after the windows of her house in the village of Point, on Lewis, were blown in during the night. | |
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Oliver Milman
The Guardian 2015-01-07 10:14:00
Unexpected arrival of the snake, from between the lifesaving flags at Forster beach, causes visitors to flee and lifeguards to warn people away Visitors to a beach on the mid-north coast of New South Wales made a hasty retreat on Tuesday after spotting an eastern brown snake, one of the most venomous snakes in the world, emerge from the surf and glide along the sand. The unusual incident occurred at One Mile beach at Forster. The unexpected arrival of the snake, which emerged right between the lifesaving flags, caused visitors to flee as lifeguards warned people away. Beachgoer Olivia Moffatt said that visitors were initially afraid it was a shark when lifeguards blew their whistles. "The snake travelled out of the water and remained on the shore for a while until waves washed up against it," she told the Great Lakes Advocate. "Raising its head, it headed for shade towards the lifeguard trailer and happily sat there until again moving up along the beach to the bush." | |
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Emily Hill
AL.com 2015-01-08 13:56:00
Thursday morning Mobile was at 17 degrees, beating the 1886 record of 18 degrees, however the freezing temperatures should rebound by mid-morning according to the National Weather Service. The area will have a hard freeze warning until 10 a.m., as many areas are in the upper teens to low 20s along the coast, according to Eric Esbensen with the National Weather Service Mobile. The wind chill Thursday morning put most areas at single-digit temperatures. Officials at Hutchens Elementary School in west Mobile sent out an alert asking parents to pick up their children Thursday morning because of a broken water line. Esbensen said Mobile can expect highs today in the lower to mid 40s near the coast and upper 30s, possibly hitting 40 inland. | |
Comment: Check out the latest SOTT video summary for December:
SOTT Summary Video - December 2014: Extreme Weather, Earth Changes, Fireballs, High Strangeness | |
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| Health & Wellness |
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Sonya Lunder
Environmental Working Group 2015-01-08 22:52:00
The federal Food and Drug Administration has quietly reaffirmed its position that Americans are not being harmed by bisphenol A, a synthetic estrogen that is an essential ingredient of the epoxy coating that lines the insides of most food cans made in the U.S. American can makers' trade groups trumpeted the FDA's stance, posted on the agency website December 5, 2014. No wonder. Without the agency's green light, canners would be forced to re-engineer the assembly lines that turned out some $126.3 billion aluminum and steel cans last year, according to the Can Manufacturers Institute. The financial stakes were not enumerated but are surely enormous. Some companies have spent money to change to non-BPA materials in order to assure the public that their products are safe. In 2009, under pressure from health advocates and action by state officials, baby products manufacturers stopped using BPA to make plastic baby bottles. They found substitutes for BPA in infant formula packaging. Sports water bottle makers such as Nalgene switched from polycarbonate, which contains BPA, to other plastics. | |
Comment: Read The Facts About Bisphenol A, in addition to the negative health effects associated with this endocrine disruptor:
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For 37 years - since 1977 - breaded and fried white mushrooms have been a favorite in the food court at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Between that and other mushroom goodies, including cream of mushroom soup and marinated mushroom salad, visitors annually eat 3.5 tons of mushrooms at the show, which will run Jan. 10 to 17 at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. This year, things will be a little different. The cooks in the mushroom area will be using a new oil that proponents say tastes better than other oils, lasts longer (meaning fewer cooking stoppages for clean-outs), and is more healthful. Nearby, the state potato growers will be cooking French fries in the new oil. The Dairymen's Association will fry its cheese cubes in it. Also in the oil: deep-fried veggies, chicken breasts, nuggets, and wings. | |
Comment: Plenish directly benefits consumers? Linked below are just some of the 'consumer benefits' of GMO soy!
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Liz Szabo
USA Today 2015-01-09 22:30:00
Flu is now widespread in 46 states and has killed 26 children, health officials said today. "This year is shaping up to be a bad one, particularly for people 65 and older," says Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children younger than 5 are also at high risk of hospitalization, particularly babies under 6 months, who are too young to be vaccinated. Flu is hitting the USA especially hard this year for two reasons. First, the dominant flu strain in circulation is H3N2, a type that tends to cause twice as many hospitalizations and deaths as other strains of flu, Frieden says. Hospitalization rates have risen to 92 per 100,000 people, compared with 52 hospitalizations per 100,000 in a typical year. "H3N2 is a nastier flu virus than other flu viruses," Frieden says. "Hospitalization rates in the over-65 age group are rising." Second, the H3N2 viruses used to make this year's influenza vaccines aren't a good match to those spreading throughout the country, the CDC says. That's because about two-thirds of the H3N2 viruses in circulation have mutated significantly since vaccine production began last spring. Drugmakers tend to start making flu vaccines in the spring, in order to produce enough for the fall flu season. "Even in a good year, the flu vaccine is not as effective as our other vaccines," Frieden says, noting that flu efficacy rates are about 60% to 65%. Frieden says there are several ways for people to protect themselves. | |
Comment: Good hygiene is about the only worthy piece of advice in this article. The reader may wish to consider changing to a higher fat, low carb diet along with a daily intake of bone broth. Many individuals have reported a far lower level of sickness on a properly introduced high fat diet.
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Colorado is being hit with a rise in cases of upper respiratory illness this year, and doctors are warning that without treatment, patients could suffer for weeks once they've contracted the virus. Dr. John Torres, Medical contributor for KUSA in Denver, says that hospitals in Colorado are seeing a higher than normal number of cases of a virulent flu that starts out like a common cold but lingers for weeks once taking hold. "After a few weeks, in some people, it can turn into more of a bacterial infection because their immune system has been suppressed a little bit, which is when we will move in with some antibiotics," Torres told Channel 9 News. "But for the most part, it's just the common cold virus that floats around this time of year, but it lingers for a long time." Doctors say that if the flu continues for longer than a week, sufferers should get to a doctor because a round of antibiotics may be necessary. To avoid the flu, doctors suggest that people keep their hands clean, avoid touching their faces after being around others, and keep workspaces sanitized. Colorado isn't alone. The Centers for Disease Control already reported that this flu season has become "severe" and has exceeded the national baseline, hitting the epidemic threshold of 6.8 percent. "Though we cannot predict what will happen the rest of this flu season, it's possible we may have a season that's more severe than most," director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Dr. Tom Frieden said during a press conference in December. | |
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NBC New York
2015-01-09 22:17:00
City health officials are warning New Yorkers about an increase in cases of Legionnaire's disease, a potentially deadly form of pneumonia, in the Bronx. Eleven cases of the disease were reported in the Bronx in December, compared with two in December 2013 and three in December 2012. The 11 cases reported last month represent nearly 20 percent of the total of 61 cases the borough had in all of 2014. Most cases were in the northeast Bronx. Legionnaire's disease is caused by exposure to the bacteria Legionella, an aquatic organism that grow in warm environments. People are exposed to it by inhaling contaminated aerosols from cooling towers, whirlpool spas, showers and faucets or drinking water contaminated with the bacteria. The Health Department is looking into whether the cases are due to a common source. | |
Comment: It definitely would behoove NYC residents to avoid drinking city tap water and to be engaging in cold adaptation to help ward off bacteria.
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Sometimes you may feel helpless when facing Crohn's disease. But changes in your diet and lifestyle may help control your symptoms and lengthen the time between flare-ups. There's no firm evidence that what you eat actually causes inflammatory bowel disease. But certain foods and beverages can aggravate your signs and symptoms, especially during a flare-up.
It can be helpful to keep a food diary to keep track of what you're eating, as well as how you feel. If you discover some foods are causing your symptoms to flare, you can try eliminating them. Here are some suggestions that may help: Foods to avoid
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Comment: A simple and effective approach to relaxation and breathing exercises is Éiriú Eolas.
Each of us is a unique combination of environment, genetics, and personality. Food that causes problems for one patient, has little effect on another. Stress triggers and responses might differ considerably among individuals. You may be unique, and yet, you are not alone. There are people in line in front of you, and those in line behind you. Those in front of you have been where you are and managed to work though it. They are your hope. Those behind you are where you have been, you are their hope. Connect with others, reach out and find a local support group or visit our forum . | ||
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RT
2015-01-08 23:20:00
Researchers may have found a new antibiotic that bacteria will not become resistant to for decades, according to a new study. The discovery came not in a lab, but in soil from Maine, using a little-known device that's "generating excitement." Dr. Kim Lewis, director of Northeastern University's Antimicrobial Discovery Center, sought to find a new source of antibiotics other than synthesizing them in a lab. So he and Slava Epstein, a biology professor at the same Boston, Massachusetts school, headed into "a grassy field in Maine," Lewis told reporters during a Tuesday conference call. They took a soil sample, which yielded teixobactin, the previously undiscovered antibiotic. The journal Nature published their research on Wednesday. Lewis then tested the compound for resistance development and did not find mutant MSRA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) or Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to teixobactin, which was found to block several different targets in the cell wall synthesis pathway. The antibiotic was effective against the deadly ‒ and difficult to treat ‒ staph infection in mice as well. Teixobactin is thought to attack microbes by binding to fatty lipids that make up the bacterial cell wall, and it is difficult for a bacterium to alter such fundamental building blocks of the cell,Nature reported. By comparison, most antibiotics target proteins and it can be relatively easy for a microbe to become resistant to those drugs by accumulating mutations that alter the target protein's shape. "Our impression is that nature produced a compound that evolved to be free of resistance," Lewis said to news@Northeastern. "This challenges the dogma that we've operated under that bacteria will always develop resistance. Well, maybe not in this case." The antibiotic could be a huge weapon in the fight against drug resistance, a "serious threat" to world health. In the United States alone, at least two million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics each year, and at least 23,000 people die annually as a direct result of these infections, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). | |
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Dr. Vandana Shiva
Mercola.com 2015-01-06 22:54:00
Michael Specter's story in The New Yorker about Dr. Vandana Shiva's work to protect public health from the effects of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) skewed the facts and fell short of the magazine's usually high standards for fairness. In the piece published in the August 20th issue (and in a subsequent podcast on The New Yorker's website), Specter makes it clear that he does not approach the topic simply as a journalist, but also as a strong believer in GMOs. He makes no secret of the fact that he considers opposition to GMOs to be unfounded. But Specter makes his case by ignoring a great deal of evidence that directly contradicts his opinions. By ignoring important facts and questions - scientific, economic and legal - he allows his personal biases to undermine journalistic balance. The end product is a story that mirrors the false myths perpetuated by Monsanto Company on its website and does a true disservice to New Yorkerreaders. | |
Comment: Additional articles carried on SOTT.NET about Michael Specter's story in The New Yorker:
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Dr. Jeremy Dean
PsyBlog 2015-01-07 20:47:00
High IQ could protect against schizophrenia amongst those at genetic risk from developing the condition, a new study finds. The findings are in stark contrast to the conventional wisdom that those with high intelligence are at increased risk of developing schizophrenia. The largest study of its kind to date found that intelligence actually had a protective effect. The study's lead author, Dr. Kenneth S. Kendler, said: "If you're really smart, your genes for schizophrenia don't have much of a chance of acting."Published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, the study was conducted by researchers at Lund University in Sweden and Virginia Commonwealth University (Kendler et al., 2014). | |
Comment: For more on schizophrenia, see:
Smarts may help, but so can leaving the SAD (standard American diet) behind and going keto! |
