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It’s no news that there has
been an epidemic of poor
health in industrialized
societies over the past 100
years. Since the peak of the
industrial revolution we
have seen a steady incline
in chronic disease. The
three most common ways for a
human to perish in our
society include heart
disease, cancer, and
diabetes.
According to Politifact,
falling unemployment,
consistent job growth, and
rising per-capita
gross domestic product
fail to offset a
host of less-rosy metrics
indicating that the economy
is actively deteriorating on
many fronts, such as
historically low labor force
participation and high
long-term unemployment
rates.
Not surprisingly, 57% of
respondents in a
2014 NBC News-Wall Street
Journal poll
falsely believed that the
United States remained in
recession. Turns out
Americans are deeply
skeptical of the Obama
economy.
About 11% of US Gulf of
Mexico oil production has
been shut-in as operators
evacuate platforms in the
possible path of a tropical
depression expected to pass
through the Central-Eastern
and Eastern Gulf of Mexico,
the US Bureau of Safety and
Environmental Enforcement
(BSEE) said Monday.
Currently the planet is
going through an epic
energetic shift in global
consciousness and frequency
upgrades, unlike anything we
have seen before, and it is
happening rapidly. People
are quickly awakening and
gaining access to their own
light, their own power,
their own information, their
own truth.
With this level of change,
comes great challenges
(opportunities for learning
and growth) and disruptions
that may rock you to your
core, as you release the old
and make room for the new
emerging energies to come
into form...
In this story out of the
U.K., a 13 year old girl
accomplishes something her
doctors could not do, and
that was diagnose her own
life-threatening disease by
researching all of the
possibilities, without
excluding vaccine injuries,
something that apparently
handicapped her doctors. She
discovered that she suffered
from an autoimmune disease
after receiving the HPV
vaccine.
In a field in Central Texas,
Aaron Mandell and his crew
are running pumping
equipment to bring a former
oil and gas well back to
life. But they’re not trying
to extract black gold.
Instead, they are developing
a way to turn abandoned oil
and gas wells into vaults
for storing electricity.
The calm in China's
currency is making some
investors uneasy.
Twice in
the past year, sudden drops
in the value of the yuan
have rattled global markets,
sparking concerns that a
deeper decline was at hand
as officials struggle to
orchestrate an economic
"soft landing" following
years of debt-fueled growth.
This means any journalist
who records nursing homes
abusing elderly patients
would be thrown in jail,
right alongside the parents
who are now being
criminalized by the vaccine
mandate SB 277
Seven months after a
federal judge ordered the
State Department to begin
releasing monthly batches of
the detailed daily schedules
showing meetings by Hillary
Clinton during her time as
secretary of state, the
government told The
Associated Press it won’t
finish the job before
Election Day.
The department has so far
released about half of the
schedules. Its lawyers said
in a phone conference with
the AP’s lawyers that the
department now expects to
release the last of the
detailed schedules around
Dec. 30, weeks before the
next president is
inaugurated.
The Earth has gained
coastal land equivalent to
the size of Jamaica in the
past 30 years with man-made
construction outpacing
erosion caused by rising sea
levels, mapping data showed
on Thursday.
Expansion of ports off
China, construction of
luxury resorts off Dubai or
land reclamation in the
Netherlands were among
causes of coastal expansion,
according to a study by
Dutch research group
Deltares.
Settlement of the western
U.S. was a government
project, subsidized every
step of the way, starting
with the military part of
the Indian Wars. In addition
to suppressing Indian
opposition, the government
funded the transcontinental
railroad, and the Homestead
Act of 1862 promised “free”
land (only lightly used by
the Indians recently
evicted) to settlers who
lived on it for five years
and produced crops.
It is more than ironic,
then, when beneficiaries of
those settlement policies
now see the very same
government as intrusive and
tyrannical.
ERCOT, the not-for-profit
organization operating the
Texas electricity grid,
wants to require some energy
developers to notify the
Department of Defense of
upcoming projects before
connecting to the power
grid, according to testimony
given in a legislative
committee hearing in
Wednesday.
One thing many of us agree
on, is life after death, but
now scientists confirm that
once your heart has stopped
beating, your consciousness
continues!
Over 2,000 people were
studied by British
scientists who say thought
persists after death, and
they have also found
evidence that out-of-body
experiences are in fact real
in those who are declared
dead and then revived.
The FDA have announced that
the mere “prescribing” of
healthy fruit and vegetables
as a means to prevent
obesity or treat ill health
is officially “illegal” The
FDA say that the act
of prescribing fruit and
vegetables to treat obesity
is akin to prescribing an
“unapproved drug”, which is
currently illegal in the
U.S.
A federal judge on Tuesday
ruled against the owner of a
coal-fired energy plant in
Edwards, saying its owners
allowed too much soot to be
emitted from the smoke
stacks there.
Areas of grant eligibility
include: protection of
water, protection of sacred
places and endangered
landscapes, preservation of
languages and sustainable,
community-based agriculture.
The president also spoke of
Liberland’s upcoming
constitutional convention
where a small group will
combine the best parts of
the American Constitution
with the Swiss Constitution
and create a founding
document.
Although rechargeable
batteries in smartphones,
cars and tablets can be
charged again and again,
they don’t last forever. Old
batteries often wind up in
landfills or incinerators,
potentially harming the
environment. And valuable
materials remain locked
inside. Now, a team of
researchers is turning to
naturally occurring fungi to
drive an environmentally
friendly recycling process
to extract cobalt and
lithium from tons of waste
batteries.
Asteroid 2016 QA2 was twice
as big as the space rock
that entered over Russia in
2013, breaking windows in 6
Russian cities. It passed
safely Saturday night.
Iceland raised the alarm
after its largest volcano
was hit by the biggest
tremors since 1977.
Two quakes larger than 4
in magnitude early Monday
rocked the crater of Katla,
the country’s Met Office
said in a statement. That
was followed by at least 10
more tremors at the volcano,
which rises 1,450 meters
(4,757 feet) into the air on
the North Atlantic island’s
southern coast.
Iraq's oil ministry is
revisiting a program
announced four years ago to
build four new refineries,
while dropping a number of
previously planned schemes.
After years of stalling
on its downstream projects,
Iraq's new oil minister
Jabbar al-Luaibi has invited
international oil companies
to invest in the
construction of a raft of
new refineries across the
country.
Activists resisting a
controversial oil pipeline
in a growing protest camp in
Cannon Ball, N.D. hoped to
hear a federal judge side
with them Wednesday by
issuing an injunction
stopping its construction.
Instead, they learned they
may have to wait up to two
weeks to hear the judge's
decision.
The new theoretical study
comes from scientists from
Oxford and Harvard and
suggests that life on Earth
may have arrived early
cosmically speaking, so the
advanced civilization we're
always combing the galaxy
for might actually be us.
NASA has taken two of its
research aircraft and a
bunch of scientists to the
coast of Africa to study
minute particles suspended
in the atmosphere known as
aerosols. The aim of the
ORACLES (Observations of
Aerosols Above Clouds and
their Interactions) project
is to provide a better
understanding of how
aerosols interact with
clouds, and how cloud
behavior is directly or
indirectly changed
These foods supply
important nutrients that
are often low in
diabetics and pre
diabetics, and linked to
conditions like stroke,
heart disease,
hypertension,
gastrointestinal
ailments and obesity
About half of all
American adults are
either pre-diabetic or
diabetic. Even one-third
of normal-weight adults
may also be pre-diabetic
without knowing it
Diabetes is rooted in
insulin resistance and
malfunctioning leptin
signaling, caused by
chronically elevated
insulin and leptin
levels. This is why
treating type 2 diabetes
with insulin does not
resolve the problem
Dietary recommendations
for diabetics include a
diet high in healthy
fats, moderate protein
and low in net carbs.
Nine specific superfoods
for diabetics are also
reviewed
UWE Bristol scientists
are currently working on
smart bricks that are said
to be capable of harnessing
electricity from the sun,
recycling wastewater,
sensing the environment and
monitoring ambient air.
The bricks adopt algae
and microbial fuel cells
(MFCs) that clean water,
produce energy by breaking
down organic waste, and give
rise to detergents,
phosphates and fertilizers.
MFCs act on their
surroundings and can also
contribute to improving air
quality.
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) has
awarded $427,022 to the New
Mexico Environment
Department (NMED) for
programs that oversee the
handling of solid and
hazardous wastes. Under
EPA’s Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act (RCRA),
this grant will help NMED
develop programs to protect
public health and the
environment from facilities
which contain or contained
hazardous waste.
The third-largest region of
ice on the planet is located
on the Tibetan Plateau and
Himalaya-Hindu Kush
mountains, also known as the
Third Pole. As the polar
regions, the glaciers in
this third region are
shrinking. The difference is
that the Third Pole is
especially vulnerable to
pollution due to its close
proximity to densely
populated and industrialized
regions. New research is
shedding light on these
effects and potential ways
to mitigate the
disappearance of glacial
ice.
Many at the encampment speak
of two prophecies, dating
back to the 1890s. A leader
called Black Elk foretold
that in seven generations,
the Native American nations
will unite to save the
Earth; another legend
predicted that a zuzeca
snake – a black snake –
would threaten the world.
For many of the protesters
here, the pipeline is that
black snake. They are the
seventh generation: their
moment of destiny has come.
Yesterday media mogul
Ted Turner officially
transfered ownership of his
43,000-acre Bluestem Ranch
to the Osage Nation. The
tribe's $74 million purchase
restores a portion of the
roughly 1.2 million acres
that the tribe owned until
1906, when the reservation
was allotted to individual
tribal members, according to
Chief Geoffrey M. Standing
Bear. The Osage Reservation
once covered the entirety of
Osage Count
C2 event observed.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (30 Aug,
31 Aug, 01 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
minor storm levels on day
one (30 Aug) and unsettled
to active levels on days two
and three (31 Aug, 01 Sep).
Following American Chemical
Society research, three
strains of fungus were found
to extract up to 85 percent
of the lithium and up to 48
percent of the cobalt from
old batteries. If
successful, this research
could have a great impact on
our environment—reducing the
amount of e-waste which
rapidly fills up the Earth
While no tilling methods
of agriculture are
gaining popularity and
producing good results,
there are many
circumstances where deep
tilling in combination
with adding essential
compost and microbiology
is needed to detoxify
contamination of poor
soils
If you grow your own
food, learn to read your
weeds. Weeds are
nature’s way of breaking
open hardened soil and
adding specific
nutrients. Each weed is
therefore a sign of a
particular soil issue
that needs to be amended
for optimal plant
growth.
Humic acid plays a key
role in the
proliferation of
beneficial microbes in
soil and can be used
both in soil restoration
and in agriculture to
increase plant
production and
nutrition. There are
sources of “living”
humate and carbon that
are highly recommended
because they contain
many microorganisms and
a wide range of minerals
Senator Martin Heinrich
(D-NM) introduced S. 3159 to
make energy storage eligible
for an investment tax credit
(ITC) under section 48. The
bill introduced last month
would make energy storage
systems with a capacity of
at least five kilowatt
hours, regardless of whether
it was supplied by a
renewable resource,
investment tax credit
eligible. For instance, a
stand-alone storage project
that drew power from the
grid would be ITC eligible
under this bill.
The conflict shows that
sewage has become a
“valuable commodity,”
according to the report,
since treated wastewater is
increasingly reused.
Indirect potable reuse
programs are already popular
in California, and water
regulators took steps in
June to cut red tape around
this practice.
Eastern Pennsylvania, like
much of the eastern United
States, has seen some soggy
weather—and it’s probably
not over. Consistent, heavy
rain can present challenges
in keeping our water healthy
and contaminant-free.
Marshall Services, a leading
HVAC, plumbing, electric and
heating oil company serving
Montgomery County,
Pennsylvania since 1945, has
been keeping water safe for
decades.
Going with the flow might
appear easier than sticking
up for yourself when
confronted with
near-unanimous disagreement.
But as uncomfortable as it
may be to walk as the lone
dissenter, it not only
reinforces core values, it
also creates a ripple effect
where others take notice.
Our happiness, and
ultimately our lives, are
defined by the choices we
make. When we allow other
people to tell us how to
feel, they are making those
choices for us, and we are
giving away our truth.
The level of
perfluoroalkyl substances
(PFASs) in drinking water
sources exceeds federal
safety limits in supplies
serving millions of U.S.
residents.
A study published this
week in the journal
Environmental Science &
Technology Letters
examined the level of PFASs
in public water supplies. It
noted that the chemicals
tend to be found near
industrial sites that
manufacture the compounds,
near military fire training
areas, and near wastewater
treatment plants.
A number of ancient health
practices are proving to be
effective in multiple ways.
We recently posted an
article about meditation,
and how neuroscience can now
explain what happens to the
brain when we meditate. Now,
scientists have discovered
the first evidence of a
natural intervention
triggering stem cell-based
regeneration of an organ or
system. The study was
published in the June 5
issue of Cell Stem Cell by
researchers from the
University of Southern
California. The research
shows that cycles of
prolonged fasting protect
against immune system damage
and induce immune system
regeneration. They concluded
that fasting shifts stem
cells from a dormant state
to a state of self-renewal.
“No other food has
sustained the human race to
such an extent as the
acorn,” says
biologist/herbalist John
Slattery, author of
Southwest Foraging. “If
you took a gigantic table
and laid out all the foods
humans have eaten across the
globe and over time, making
an individual pile for each
foodstuff, acorns would be,
by far, the largest pile on
the table.”
We’re witnessing the
transformation of
electricity generation,
storage and usage of
electricity in buildings.
The “home of the future”
will have an appliance that
combines an inverter,
rooftop solar, battery
storage and an EV charger —
linked together with
easy-to-use management
software.
It’s certainly not easy to
forgive. If someone has
wronged you – inflicted
pain, humiliated you, abused
or exploited you – it’s
entirely natural to feel
bitterness and resentment.
That’s surely what they
deserve. Surely what they
don’t deserve is
our empathy and
understanding, and certainly
not our charity. Surely to
forgive them just “lets them
off the hook” and gives them
licence to mistreat others.
From the start of
colonial intrusion, the free
and original peoples of this
hemisphere “have been
treated as enemies and dealt
with more harshly than any
other enemy in any other
war.”
While this in itself is
not news, the source of this
statement is. This quote
comes not from an activist,
a historian or a researcher
squirreled away in an
obscure academic corner, but
from a high-profile
commentator speaking on
MSNBC.
According to their paper in
the journal Food Chemistry,
spent coffee grounds from
industrial instant coffee
are a promising natural
source of antioxidant
insoluble dietary fiber,
proteins, essential amino
acids and low glycaemic
sugars, which could be used
in bakery products in the
future.
The United States on Monday
criticised clashes between
Turkish forces and some
opposition groups in
northern Syria as
"unacceptable" and called on
all armed actors in the
fighting to stand down and
focus on the fight against
Islamic State.
While a real-life
Jurassic Park may not
be opening any time soon,
bringing back more
recently-extinct species,
like the woolly mammoth or
the dodo, is a distinct
possibility. But while
scientists in the movie
"were so preoccupied with
whether or not they could,
they didn't stop to think if
they should," real-world
scientists are now
considering the latter.
Vaccinations have a strong
history of causing damage to
health. The very first
vaccination for smallpox
caused tremendous health
damage, while also
increasing the incidence of
small pox. The damage caused
by polio vaccinations
continued this trend. Newer
vaccinations continue to
destroy health and even kill
their recipients.
Cupping is an ancient
medical treatment; its
Chinese roots date back
to 300 or 400 A.D.
Egyptian and Middle
Eastern cultures also
have ancient records of
the practice
In cupping, suction cups
of varying sizes are
attached to the body.
The suction draws
stagnant blood to the
surface of the skin and
improves blood
circulation through the
tissues, which can speed
healing
Research has found
cupping may benefit
conditions such as
chronic neck and
shoulder pain, arthritis
of the knee, herpes
zoster, facial paralysis
and cervical spondylosis
Vaccines are taking a big
hit on the refusal side from
more and more people doing
their due diligence and
becoming more fully engaged
in knowing what supposedly
‘safe’ vaccines really are
about: Fraud and deceit on
the part of the U.S. CDC and
FDA, plus vested-interest
‘tobacco science’ from Big
Pharma and vaccine
manufacturers publishing
falsified research and data,
who ‘export’ their brand of
pseudoscience. Nothing
confirms that more than the
documentary movie
VAXXED currently making the
rounds in local movie
theaters and on the
Internet.
The state legislature
asked the question, “Who
owns the wind?”
Without much debate, the
Wyoming legislature quickly
determined that the state
does.
Unlike any other resource
derived from the use of
private property, which the
property owner maintains
from surface ownership, the
state of Wyoming claims wind
is different.
Growing in number and
spirit, the Standing Rock
Sioux protest against the
Dakota Access Pipeline is
swiftly gaining strength
ahead of a federal hearing
on the controversial
project. Support has spread
across the country, and
thousands have descended on
the peaceful “prayer camps”
in recent days, prompting
state officials on Monday to
remove the demonstrators’
drinking water supply.
After battling Social
Security for years, the
80-year-old woman who was
homeless until a week ago
got one of the biggest
I-told-you-so’s that a
person can hope for.
“Ready?” asked the
SunTrust bank teller, before
spinning his monitor around
to show Witter the new
amount in her account on
Tuesday morning.
She’d been checking with
him almost daily (she won’t
use an ATM machine), to see
if she’d finally received
the money owed to her.
More than half the people
outside the government who
met with Hillary Clinton
while she was secretary of
state gave money — either
personally or through
companies or groups — to the
Clinton Foundation. It's an
extraordinary proportion
indicating her possible
ethics challenges if elected
president.
California lawmakers
voted to extend the state's
climate change fighting
efforts out to 2030 on
Wednesday, giving a new
lease on life to the most
ambitious greenhouse gas
reduction program in the
country.
The state Senate voted
25-13 in support of a bill
that sets a target of
cutting the state's output
of heat-trapping emissions
40 percent below 1990 levels
by 2030.
The Clinton Health Access
Initiative may keep
accepting corporate and
foreign donations, unlike
the Clinton Foundation
itself, the Journal said. A
spokeswoman for the Clinton
health program said
Wednesday that the group,
which has its own board of
directors, will convene soon
and decide its next steps.
The historically low Federal
funds rate, the central
bank's still-large balance
sheet, and the U.S.
economy's failure to fully
recover from the last crisis
all potentially dent the
firepower of conventional
monetary policy tools should
a recession hit the U.S.
economy in the coming years.
Gregory Hand, Ph.D., the
former dean of the West
Virginia School of
Public Health, was
forced out as dean
because of his
involvements with
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola reportedly
gave Hand more than half
a million dollars to
start a nonprofit group
tasked with spreading
the word that lack of
exercise, and not sugary
beverages, is
responsible for obesity.
The beverage giant also
gave Hand $806,500 to
conduct an “energy flux”
study in 2011
Michael Pratt, senior
adviser for Global
Health in the National
Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and
Health Promotion at the
CDC, has also promoted
and led research for
Coca-Cola
Retirees who are
receiving Social Security
benefits and are enrolled in
Medicare may stand to lose
more than $14 a month under
a very specific and looming
financial scenario, warns
Dan McGrath, co-founder of
Jester Financial
Technologies.
The latest report
from the Medicare Board of
Trustees is calling for
Medicare Part premiums to
inflate by 22.3 percent,
increasing the Part B
premium to $149 per month
from $121.80 per month in
2016, McGrath wrote for
CNBC.com.
Pharmaceutical and illicit
drugs are present in streams
in Baltimore, Maryland. At
some sites, amphetamine
concentrations are high
enough to alter the base of
the aquatic food web. So
reports a new study released
today in the
journal Environmental
Science & Technology, which
is one of the first to
explore the ecological
consequences of stimulant
pollution in urban streams.
Allianz SE’s Mohamed
El-Erian said that Federal
Reserve officials need to
consider the costs of
keeping interest rates low,
even as the U.S. economy is
pressured by diminished
worker productivity.
“There is also the risk
of financial instability
down the road” because of
extraordinary monetary
policy, El-Erian, Allianz’s
chief economic adviser, said
in an interview on Bloomberg
Radio. “And that, I think,
is the strongest argument
for trying to slowly
normalize rates, because
otherwise you contribute to
excessive risk taking.”
Mubin Shaikh was a
radicalized Canadian Muslim,
but after 9/11, he says he
had a dramatic change of
heart and became an
undercover agent, dedicating
his life to the fight
against terrorism.
It may seem
counter-intuitive to judge
tap water based on how it
tastes. After all, most
consumers prefer that their
water remains flavorless and
consider any tang a reason
for concern.
Flavored tap water can
indicate contamination in
the supply, disorder at the
treatment plant, or worse.
But sometimes, the flavor of
tap water indicates the hard
work and success of the
utility that’s providing it.
In recent years, there has
been an increased focus on
the human influence over
climate change, with
research pointing to our
activity as the cause of
global warming. Although the
data might seem to suggest
the human connection to
climate change as a
relatively recent occurrence
– with a global temperature
spike of 0.8° C (1.4° F)
over the last 100 years – a
new study by researchers
from the Australian National
University reveals that we
have been behind the warming
of the Earth for 180 years,
suggesting that it's not
simply a 20th-century
phenomenon.
Failing to keep up with
the advances in
dentistry, insurance
companies use
bait-and-switch tactics
to strong-arm consumers
into getting amalgam
About half of U.S.
dentists are
mercury-free, but
insurance companies
cheat you by claiming
that composite materials
are merely “cosmetic”
instead of dentists’
material of choice
Consumers for Dental
Choice now launches its
grassroots “Demand your
Choice” campaign to
bring dental insurance
into the 21st century
and end discrimination
against consumers who
want mercury-free dental
fillings
We now celebrate
Mercury-Free Dentistry
Week. Through August 28,
I will match every
donation (up to $100,000
total) to Consumers for
Dental Choice, which
champions the cause of
mercury-free dentistry —
and makes every dollar
count
The death toll from a
devastating earthquake in
central Italy climbed to 250
on Thursday as rescue teams
scoured mounds of rubble for
a second day in towns and
villages flattened by the
natural disaster. The 6.2
magnitude quake struck a
cluster of mountain
communities 140 km (85
miles) east of Rome early on
Wednesday as people slept,
destroying hundreds of
homes.
The Good Samaritans who
rescued hundreds, maybe
thousands of people during
the "Great Flood of 2016"
say they're not happy after
a state lawmaker announced
that he wants government to
regulate future actions by
citizen heroes.
A loosely organized group
called the "Cajun
Navy," took it upon
themselves to save
strangers, hundreds upon
hundreds of them, by boat
even when their own property
was flooding.
Libertarian presidential
candidate Gary Johnson says
he represents the Republican
party rank-and-file better
than GOP nominee Donald
Trump and argues that the
country will realize it if
he participates in the first
presidential debate next
month.
Colonization
tragically forced many
indigenous people to forget
and forsake our innate
connection to Earth. But
many of us today are
beginning to remember. What
is taking place in Standing
Rock is awakening what once
lied dormant in so many of
our people: the Earth is our
Mother, and Water is Life.
The center of the fight for
our planet’s future shifts.
But this week it’s on the
Standing Rock Sioux
Reservation straddling the
border between North Dakota
and South Dakota. There,
tribal members have been,
well, standing like a rock
in the way of the planned
Dakota Access Pipeline, a
huge hose for collecting oil
out of the Bakken shale and
carrying it off to the
Midwest and the Gulf where
it can be made into
gasoline.
Monsanto must now consult
with indigenous communities
throughout the Yucatán
peninsula before they will
be granted any future
permits for GMO soy farming,
as of a court decision in
early November 2015.
Monsanto planned to farm
genetically modified soybean
in over 250,000 hectares of
the Yucatán region, yet a
Mexican court has suspended
the Biotech giant’s permit.
The judgement was based on
constitutional law that
requires the consideration
of indigenous communities
affected by development
projects.
This year’s melt season in
the Arctic Ocean and
surrounding seas started
with a bang, with a record
low maximum extent in March
and relatively rapid ice
loss through May. The melt
slowed down in June,
however, making it highly
unlikely that this year’s
summertime sea ice minimum
extent will set a new
record.
The blunt billboard, signed
by “#ActualMuslims,” was
erected last week in the
Living Spaces parking lot
near Interstate 10 and 67th
Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona,
according to The Republic.
The sign also references
Quran 5:32, which states if
a person kills another, it’s
“as if he had slain mankind
entirely.”
Today, three non profit
organizations filed a
lawsuit against General
Mills for misleading the
public by labeling their
Nature Valley brand granola
bars “Made with 100% NATURAL
whole grain OATS.” It was
recently discovered that the
herbicide chemical
glyphosate, an ingredient in
Roundup and hundreds of
other glyphosate-based
herbicides, is present in
the Nature Valley granola
bars, which consumers expect
to be natural and free of
toxins.
The launch comes during
an annual drill between the
United States and South
Korea that involves 25,000
U.S. troops, CNN reported.
North Korea has called the
exercises preparation for
invasion and has threatened
retaliation, according to
Reuters.
The missile traveled more
than 300 miles toward Japan
and
U.S. Pacific Command
tracked it into the
Sea of Japan, CNN
reported.
If Yale researcher Jun
Korenaga is correct, then
habitable planets may be
rarer than previously
thought. According to a
recently published paper,
the ability of Earthlike
planets to self-regulate
their temperatures may not
be as simple as once
believed and that a new
"Goldilocks zone" may need
to be considered when
looking for worlds beyond
the Solar System where life
could exist.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(26 Aug, 27 Aug, 28 Aug).
Geophysical Activity
Forecast: The geomagnetic
field is expected to be at
quiet to unsettled levels on
days one and three (26 Aug,
28 Aug) and quiet levels on
day two (27 Aug).
The first hamburger cooked
with labmade meat didn’t get
rave reviews for taste. But
the test tube burger, rolled
out to the press in 2013,
has helped put a spotlight
on the question of how the
U.S. government will
regulate the emerging field
of cellular agriculture,
which uses biotechnology
instead of animals to make
products such as meat, milk,
and egg whites.
The dissonance of reports
showing a surge in American
new home sales and a
slowdown in manufacturing
brought into question the
hawkish tone of recent
comments from Fed officials,
keeping the relative sense
of calm across asset
classes. The S&P 500 Index
briefly topped its record
closing high, while Treasury
10-year notes were stuck in
the tightest monthly trading
range since 2006. Oil
rallied on speculation that
Iran may be more willing to
cooperate with other
producers seeking to freeze
output.
An Earth-like planet has
been discovered orbiting the
star closest to our sun. The
planet is only a bit bigger
than Earth and, like Earth,
is rocky, and it's the right
distance from its star to
support liquid on the
surface
“So they had a huge amount
of legal bills when they
left the White House, and
leaving the White House, I
point out, the Clintons even
stole the furniture, they
stole the silverware,”...And
yet, a few years after
leaving the White House,
each Clinton ended up with a
net worth of at least $100
million...
“So it’s clear the money was
diverted from the Clinton
Foundation to pay for the
Clintons’ lifestyle, and to
end up in their bank
accounts in schemes designed
to bypass the IRS, in
schemes designed to make
this not easily detectable
in the financial records of
the foundation,” Corsi
surmised.
...scientists at the
Australian National
University (ANU) have
managed a new record of 97
percent efficiency for
converting sunlight into
steam.
Unlike photovoltaic solar
panels, which absorb
sunlight and directly
convert it into electricity,
concentrating solar power
(CSP) systems reflect
sunlight from a wide area
and focus it in on a small
receiver. As that receiver
heats up, water inside turns
into steam, which drives a
turbine to generate
electricity. Rather than
storing that power in
potentially costly
batteries, the thermal
energy is stored in molten
salts, so that water can be
added to create steam (and
subsequently electricity)
long after the sun's gone
down.
Besides Tyson’s
well-documented animal abuse
record, its callous
disregard for the safety of
its employees, and its role
as one of this country’s
worst polluters, Tyson is
also actively lobbying to
prevent Congress from
passing legislation that
would provide basic
protections for the farmers
who raise the animals, under
contract, destined for
Tyson’s processing plants.
PFASs — used to create
non-stick,
stain-resistant and
water-repellant surfaces
— are toxic and highly
persistent, both in your
body and in the
environment and likely
affecting your health
16.5 million Americans
have detectable levels
of at least one kind of
polyfluoroalkyl or
perfluoroalkyl chemical
(PFASs) in their
drinking water
PFOA was an essential
ingredient in DuPont’s
Teflon cookware for
decades. It’s also used
in hundreds of other
non-stick and
stain-resistant products
President Tayyip Erdogan,
who wants stronger
consumption-led growth, has
made repeated calls for
cheaper credit. He told
commercial lenders this
month they should not be
charging high interest rates
in the aftermath of a failed
coup and promised action
against those who "go the
wrong way".
A
column of at least nine
Turkish tanks crossed into
Syria with the group of
largely Arab and Turkmen
rebels to drive Islamic
State out of Jarablus and
surrounding villages. A
Reuters reporter at the
border witnessed intense
bombardments, with palls of
black smoke rising around
the town. President
Tayyip Erdogan said the
operation was targeting both
Islamic State and the
Kurdish YPG militia, whose
gains in northern Syria have
alarmed Turkey. Ankara views
the YPG as an extension of
Kurdish militants fighting
an insurgency on its own
soil, putting it at odds
with Washington, which sees
the group as an ally in the
fight against Islamic State.
Multiple studies outside the
U.S. continue to demonstrate
unvaccinated children are
healthier than vaccinated
children. According to a
resurrected study from the
1990s, vaccinated children
were more likely to suffer
from asthma, eczema, ear
infections, hyperactivity
and many other chronic
conditions than unvaccinated
children.
U.S. regulators on Monday
denied a request by major
automakers to extend the
comment period on
environmental analysis to
determine whether government
fuel efficiency requirements
are feasible through 2025.
From pollution to coffee,
there are a number of
factors believed that raise
– or reduce – a person’s
risk of developing dementia.
Now scientists have
developed a chart to show
which are the most important
steps to take.
The series, titled “We Are
The Not Dead,”is
meant to expose how war
changes a person, both
psychologically and
physically, the trauma
literally written on their
faces.
Employees who oppose
vaccinations for
philosophical or religious
reasons often feel they are
forced to choose between
their employment and health.
Out of fear of losing their
jobs, many succumb to the
pressure to vaccinate,
hoping they will not become
vaccine-injured.
Authorities have killed nine
bears in three days in a
western Canadian city, a
conservation officer said on
Monday, warning that the
death toll will rise if
unsecured trash continues to
draw the animals into
residential areas.
The statement made no
mention of what sort of
conflict the exercise was
intended as a response to,
prospective foes or why the
Sea of Japan was chosen as
the location of the drills.
However, China has grown
increasingly assertive over
its claim to a chain of
uninhabited islands
controlled by Japan,
recently dispatching more
than a dozen coast guard
vessels as Chinese fishing
vessels swarmed the
surrounding waters.
S.764, known by its
opponents as the DARK (Deny
Americans the Right to Know)
Act, preempts Vermont’s
mandatory GMO labeling law
and substitutes in its place
a federal bill that, no
matter how Obama and his
Congress try to spin it, is
not mandatory and
does not require
labels—at least not labels
that anyone can read. Not to
mention that most GMO
ingredients will be exempt
under this fake "law."
When his family decided the
healthy, active 13-year-old
should get the HPV vaccine
on Feb. 1, they had no idea
what would be in store for
their poor boy. Within a few
weeks, he became
incapacitated and paralyzed
from the neck down. He
entered the hospital on Feb.
17, where he remained for 88
days in intensive care.
Vaccines are a decision that
families should be able to
make for themselves after
they have been given all the
information possible. Learn
the risks. Do your research.
America’s massive, growing
landfills are the result of
many decades of bad policies
and decisions. And it will
take a concerted,
society-wide effort to solve
this problem. Let’s dive
deeper into just how big our
landfill waste problem is
and how we can begin to
shift toward a circular
economy.
Halting tree-felling and
land clearance is not enough
to save tropical rainforests
without programmes of forest
restoration in degraded
areas, scientists say.
Germany will introduce
its first civil defense
strategy since the end of
the Cold War, calling on the
population to stockpile
enough food and water for
several days, according to a
report Sunday.
The plan, which makes
civilian backing of troops a
priority while boosting the
resilience of buildings and
increasing capacity in the
healthcare system, is due to
be adopted by the government
Wednesday, according to the
Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung (FAZ) daily.
Researchers discovered that
when 1-6 day old babies were
exposed to the same pain
stimulus as adults, their
brains “lit up” in almost
exactly the same manner.
More specifically, infant
and adult pain responses
were indistinguishable in 18
of the 20 regions observed
through fMRI imaging. The
only two brain regions that
pain did not show activation
in the infants were
the amygdala and
the orbitofrontal cortex:
two regions believed to help
with the interpretation
of pain stimuli.
Aircraft-based sensors were
used to identify oil, gas
and coal operations that are
leaking methane across the
Four Corners region of the
American Southwest.
U.S. District Court Judge
Emmet G. Sullivan issued the
order as part of a
long-running public records
lawsuit filed by Judicial
Watch. The judge's decision
is only a partial victory
for the group, which had
sought to question the
Democratic presidential
nominee in person and under
oath.
In a batch of leaked ISIS
documents, ISIS recruits
were exposed as people who
have so little knowledge
about Islam that some
of them ordered “Koran for
Dummies” and “Islam for
Dummies”. The leak was
another crushing blow to the
Islamic terrorism
and ISIS themes
maintained in the
mainstream, and provides yet
more evidence that ISIS is
not the
fanatically-religious group
we have been led to believe.
It is, rather, an
entertaining CIA-MI6-Mossad
cover story whose usefulness
may be running out. (This is
not to say ISIS doesn’t
exist or doesn’t really kill
people, but rather that the
whole operation is
controlled by a hidden
hand.)
Jeff Young and Jonathan Cohn
of the Huffington Post
published a letter in which
Aetna told the Justice
Department that it would
reduce its exchange
participation unless Justice
allowed the merger with
Humana to go through. This
has naturally triggered a
firestorm of accusations
about “extortion” and
renewed calls for a public
option that can protect
people against the threat of
insurance-less insurance
exchanges.
The drastic move, announced
on Friday, was aimed at
preventing the parasite’s
spread to other waters in a
state where fly fishing is a
cherished pastime for
residents and a key draw for
visiting anglers who spend
millions of dollars in
pursuit of elusive trout in
pristine waters.
Scientists believe that many
millions of years ago, our
aquatic ancestors made the
leap from inhabiting the
oceans to living on dry
land, marking the evolution
of the first four-limbed
vertebrates known as
tetrapods. Although the
tetrapods that inhabit the
Earth today – including
humans – possess fragments
of this aquatic past deep in
the genetics that make up
their bodies, researchers
are still struggling to
determine how fish developed
limbs in the first place.
Now, a new study by
University of Chicago
researchers furthers our
understanding of this
evolution by shedding light
on the relationship between
fish fins and fingers.
The FBI has uncovered
nearly 15,000 previously
undisclosed emailed
documents sent directly to
or from Hillary Clinton, the
State Department said
Monday.
The shocking admission to
almost 50 percent more than
the 30,000 work-related
documents Clinton's lawyers
turned over to the State
Department in 2014 was
tweeted out by conservative
watchdog Judicial Watch
president Tom Fitton before
a court hearing where State
Department officials
announced the discovery.
One of the most common herbs
found growing in North
America, plantain can be
found growing out of the
cracks of sidewalks and
roads and is found on most
lawns, even in places which
receive little sun. But it’s
not a nuisance weed. An old
saying maintains that plants
grow where they are needed
most, and in the case of the
plantain, this definitely
holds true.
With global temperatures
reaching new record highs,
it's as important as ever
for individuals to mind the
sun and heat. A San
Francisco-based startup has
launched a Kickstarter
campaign for a portable air
conditioner that packs more
than just a rotary
compressor. The Zero Breeze
is designed to illuminate,
play music over Bluetooth,
power devices, and last up
to five hours on its
rechargeable battery.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (23 Aug,
24 Aug, 25 Aug). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(23 Aug) and quiet to active
levels on days two and three
(24 Aug, 25 Aug).
The FDA is supposed to be a
trusted organization, but
many people who have even
the remotest inkling of
basic nutrition are
scratching their heads over
the agency’s official
definition of “healthy.” You
don’t need an advanced
science degree to wonder how
a highly processed cereal
made in a factory could be
considered healthier than a
fruit plucked directly from
a tree, but that’s exactly
what the FDA would have you
believe. That’s right:
according to the FDA,
Frosted Flakes are healthier
than avocados!
A University of Alaska
Fairbanks-led research
project has provided the
first modern evidence of a
landscape-level permafrost
carbon feedback, in which
thawing permafrost releases
ancient carbon as
climate-warming greenhouse
gases.
“We need people to stand up
because that’s the only way
the government is going to
listen to us. That’s the
only way they are going to
revoke these permits.” “The
Missouri River gives
drinking water to 10 million
people. We are protecting
everyone. We are standing
for everyone.” -Waniya
Locke, Standing Rock Sioux
A few months ago, we looked
at the work of material
scientists who had managed
to make a block of linden
wood see-through. Altering
the molecular makeup to turn
timber transparent is an
impressive bit of science to
be sure, but what kind of
benefits could this new
material offer over its
comparably opaque
counterpart? The same
scientists are now finding
some conclusive answers to
this question, using their
transparent wood as a window
for a model home and finding
that not only does it let in
a similar amount of light to
glass, but it is much better
at keeping the interior
cool.
"The shock injected –
meaning it pushed –
electrons from outer regions
of the magnetosphere deep
inside the belt, and in that
process, the electrons
gained energy," said Shri
Kanekal, leading author of
the paper and deputy mission
scientist for the Van Allen
Probes at NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center in
Greenbelt, Maryland.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis
have taken part in a
demonstration in the centre
of the capital Sanaa to show
support for the Houthi-led
bloc as the head of the
group's new governing
council vowed to form a full
government in the coming
days.
A child
suicide bomber killed at
least 51 people and wounded
nearly 70 others at a
Kurdish wedding party near
Turkey's border with Syria,
President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan said Sunday,
decrying the attack as an
apparent attempt by Islamic
State extremists to
destabilize the nation by
exploiting ethnic and
religious tensions.
As the world forever hurtles
toward Armageddon, the
Fukushima nuclear disaster
has largely faded from the
front pages. But the issue
is far from resolved.
Radiation from nuclear
accidents is not easily
dispelled with estimates of
clean-up time at Fukushima
ranging from 40 to 500
years, and nearly six years
have already passed. Even
safely stored nuclear
material is dangerous for
100,000 years.
The issue in the court was
that the DOJ argued the
previous law did not impede
their prosecution of those
involved with medical
marijuana. They argued they
could still go after individual patients,
growers, and dispensaries
because “scattered
prosecutions would not block
the state from implementing
its medical marijuana laws
more broadly”. Meaning, as
the DOJ didn’t take legal
action against the
state it could
still prosecute individuals
and be in compliance. Wow,
they DO NOT want people
benefiting from marijuana
The move means the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority,
which is responsible for
interpreting numerical
addresses on the Web to a
readable language, will move
from U.S. control to the
Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers,
a multistakeholder body
based in Los Angeles that
includes countries such as
China and Russia.
As climate change
warms the Earth, melting ice
is uncovering troves of
cultural treasures and
dangers once thought to be
lost forever—from mummified
bodies and ancient coins to
anthrax-infected reindeer
carcasses. Now, scientists
have identified what might
just be the most surreal
thing to emerge from the
ice: the remnants of a
covert U.S. Army base
teeming with radioactive
waste, abandoned decades ago
in northwestern Greenland.
You probably know the Kepler
spacecraft as the famous
planet-hunter that’s
discovered more than half of
all known exoplanets. But
Kepler is in an extended
mission now, called K2. NASA
just announced a study
(August 12, 2016) in which
the craft was used for a
wholly different purpose: to
capture rotation or spin
rates of stars in the
Pleiades star cluster, also
known as the Seven Sisters.
Erin Brockovich, the
consumer advocate made
famous in a 2000 Julia
Roberts movie, cited North
Carolina's dispute over coal
ash Tuesday to urge federal
regulators to set new
drinking-water limits for
hexavalent chromium.
The cancer-causing form
of chromium can occur
naturally but is most often
released by industries,
including in coal ash. It's
the most worrisome
contaminant found in nearly
400 private wells near Duke
Energy power plants,
although Duke says its ash
isn't the source.
“As the chairman of the
chief investigative body in
the House, it is significant
I can’t even read these
documents in their
entirety,” Rep. Jason
Chaffetz of Utah told Fox
News. “This shows how
dangerous it was to have
this intelligence, highly
classified to this day, on
the former secretary’s
unsecured personal server
where it was vulnerable.”
With a range of up to 1,150
miles – or more than the
distance between Los Angeles
and Amarillo, Texas, the
Reaper is primarily an
attack drone used for
offensive measures. Adding
the Reaper drones to the Air
Force is a part of the US
effort to expand the usage
of drones compounded by the
Air Force doubling its class
of Remotely Piloted Aircraft
(RPA) pilots.
...new evidence has
made that timeline hazy over
the last decade. Research
shows that humans were
living south of the ice
sheets before the ice-free
corridor opened up. A
settlement in Monte Verde,
Chile, shows people had made
it all the way down South
America 15,000 years ago and
a more recent discovery
indicates that humans hunted
mammoth in Florida 14,500
years ago.
A stretch of hot weather
has again affected
operations at Pilgrim
Nuclear Power Station,
marking the third summer out
of the last four that the
plant has been forced by
excessive water temperatures
to power down.
Temperatures of the Cape
Cod Bay seawater used to
cool the reactor and turbine
exceeded the maximum allowed
under federal standards
Monday afternoon.
Take one look in your
kitchen, and you might find
a plethora of herbs and
spices on a rack waiting for
you to add a dash of them to
your food for flavour. But
have you ever thought they
offer benefits beyond simply
adding excitement to bland
foods?
More than 20 studies
have linked the use of
talcum powder around the
genital area to ovarian
cancer in women.
Cornstarch is a safe
substitute that can do
the job of absorbing
moisture
In February 2016, a jury
found Johnson &
Johnson’s talcum powder
contributed to a 62-year
old woman’s ovarian
cancer, awarding her $72
million in damages
In May 2016, another
woman was awarded $55
million in damages after
talc embedded in her
ovaries was found to
have contributed to her
cancer
Tackling climate change is
the challenge of the
century. But when it comes
to endangered wildlife,
scientists are arguing that
we’ve got more pressing
matters to worry about. A
new comment just out today
in the journal Nature
contends that practices
like hunting, fishing and
agriculture are still the
biggest threats to
biodiversity on Earth — and
we need to be careful not to
let our concern about
climate change overshadow
our efforts to address them.
Truck shipments carrying
high-level liquid nuclear
waste over the Peace Bridge
and across Western New
York's highways en route to
a South Carolina processing
facility could start as
early as September.
A lawsuit that seven
environmental organizations
filed this week against the
U.S. Department of Energy in
federal court in Washington,
D.C., aims to stop these
"mobile Chernobyls on
steroids."
An unknown
hacker or a
group of
hackers just
claimed to
have hacked
into
"Equation
Group" -- a
cyber-attack
group
allegedly
associated
with the
United
States
intelligence
organization
NSA -- and
dumped a
bunch of its
hacking
tools
(malware,
private
exploits,
and hacking
tools)
online.
I know, it
is really
hard to
believe, but
some
cybersecurity
experts who
have been
examining
the leak
data,
exploits and
hacking
tools,
believe it
to be
legitimate.
The amount of sea level
rise in the Pacific Ocean
can be used to estimate
future global surface
temperatures, according to a
new report led by University
of Arizona geoscientists.
Based on the Pacific
Ocean's sea level in 2015,
the team estimates by the
end of 2016 the world's
average surface temperature
will increase up to 0.5 F
(0.28 C) more than in 2014.
Theoretical physicists speak
of four fundamental forces
of nature. They are gravity,
electromagnetism, and the
strong and weak nuclear
forces that rule the inner
workings of atoms. In recent
months, the physics
community has been buzzing
with word of evidence for a
possible 5th fundamental
force. On August 14, 2016,
physicists at University of
California, Irvine announced
they have confirmed evidence
for this force on
theoretical grounds, using
experimental data acquired
by Hungarian scientists in
2015. The journal
Physical Review Letters
has published the Irvine
scientists’ study.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(19 Aug, 20 Aug, 21 Aug).
Geophysical Activity
Forecast: The geomagnetic
field is expected to be at
quiet to active levels on
days one and two (19 Aug, 20
Aug) and quiet to unsettled
levels on day three (21
Aug).
A recent anthrax outbreak in
the far north of Russia left
a child dead, 23 people
infected and the government
scrambling to deploy
hundreds of rescue workers
and soldiers to stop any
further spread. The source,
scientists say, seems likely
to have been the long-buried
corpses of reindeers on
Yamal peninsula uncovered as
Russia's permafrost melts --
and then been passed on to
grazing herds.
“This process is being
referred to as
“disinsection,” a word that
seems to have been made up
by the TSA or airline
industry. Disinsection, or
the spraying of an
insecticide or pesticides on
planes, is now permitted
under international law. The
Department of Transportation
says that the supposed
intent is to protect public
health, crops and
agriculture, and the
environment.”
Of the serious diseases
transmitted by the mosquito,
malaria is one of the most
common and dangerous,
killing hundreds of
thousands of people each
year. Now, scientists have
developed a synthetic
protein which not only
completely cures malaria in
mice, but also prevents the
disease from recurring down
the track.
In a poor African American
neighborhood with few job
opportunities and even less
hope, a young black male was
killed by police. Locals,
joined by professional
agitators, began to riot,
causing even more violence,
bloodshed, and destruction
of the neighborhood.
Louisiana has been hit with
massive amounts of flooding
over the past week as over
thirty inches of rain have
pelted down onto the state.
Over 20,000 people have been
rescued from the rising
waters, 12,000 are being
held in shelters. 200 roads
are completely submerged
under water, and 1,400
bridges are closed and
waiting to be inspected.
Governor John Bel Edwards
has claimed that this has
been a historic level of
flooding for the state.
Two years after a Nevada
cattle rancher and his
allies took up arms in
protest of
U.S. government
grazing fees, Republican Party
activists are asking that
the feds return certain
lands to the states. The
proposal was included this
July in the 2016
GOP platform — essentially a
wish-list of legislation, a
vision for the next
president and Congress.
That’s a big deal in the
West, where nearly half of
the land is owned by the
federal government...
For nearly nine decades,
science’s favorite
explanation for the origin
of life has been the
“primordial soup”. This is
the idea that life began
from a series of chemical
reactions in a warm pond on
Earth’s surface, triggered
by an external energy source
such as lightning strike or
ultraviolet (UV) light. But
recent research adds weight
to an alternative idea, that
life arose deep in the ocean
within warm, rocky
structures called
hydrothermal vents.
Experts say the
sewage-powered car market
has potential in the U.S.
“In the U.S., most
hydrogen is produced from
natural gas. But a 2014
study by the U.S. Department
of Energy’s National
Renewable Energy Laboratory
found that biogas from
wastewater treatment plants,
landfills, animal manure and
industrial facilities could
be used as a major source of
hydrogen — enough to support
11 million fuel cell
vehicles per year,” the
Los Angeles Times
recently reported.
The UK Secretary of State
for Energy has given
approval for what will be
the biggest offshore
windfarm in the world.
Hornsea Project Two is the
second site of the Hornsea
offshore project in the UK,
and will comprise up to 300
turbines with a total
capacity of up to 1.8 GW.
While there is some evidence
suggesting Zika virus may be
linked to the birth defect
microcephaly, and the virus
has been spreading
throughout Brazil, rates of
the condition have only
risen to very high rates in
the northeast section of
Brazil. Since the virus has
spread throughout Brazil,
but extremely high rates of
microcephaly have not,
officials are now being
forced to admit that
something else is likely at
play.
The State Department is
trying hard to avoid
answering questions over the
44 newly released emails
that reveal Hillary Clinton
and her office communicated
with Clinton Foundation
staffers, calling into
question whether Clinton may
have used her position at
the agency to return favors
for those who donated to the
foundation.
Asked about the ongoing
controversy on Wednesday,
State Department spokeswoman
Elizabeth Trudeau dodged the
same question multiple
times.
According to computer
modelling, the planet Venus
could have once been
habitable, hosting a
shallow-water ocean, and
surface temperatures
hospitable to life. The
simulations are based on
present-day observations of
Venus, paired with data
harvested by previous NASA
missions that visited the
enigmatic planet.
Sadly, if these great
artists were alive today,
they would most likely be
coerced into taking
pharmaceutical drugs to
“temper” their moods.
Unfortunately, this scenario
doesn’t require any great
stretch of the imagination,
considering almost
seventy-nine million
Americans take some form of
psychiatric drug — including
over a million children
under the age of five.
But at what cost?
Loeb and his team set out to
determine the likelihood of
"life as we know it"
evolving between two time
periods – approximately 30
million years after the Big
Bang, when life first became
possible thanks to the first
stars seeding the cosmos
with elements such as carbon
and oxygen, and 10 trillion
years from now, when
scientists believe the last
stars will flicker away and
life will die.
ICTMN caught up with
Basil Brave Heart, Oglala
Lakota ceremonial leader,
the day after news broke
that the U.S. Geographical
Commission for Names had
voted 12 to 0 (with one
abstension) to rename the
Black Hills’ highest peak
from Harney Peak to Black
Elk Peak. Two years ago,
Brave Heart began his quest
to honor the revered Oglala
Lakota Medicine Man. After
several twist and turns, he
learned yesterday’s ruling.
As it turns out, 96 percent
of the Clintons’ 2015
charitable donations went to
the Clinton Family
Foundation, a tax-exempt
charity owned by the
Clintons but separate from
the well-known Clinton
Foundation. According to the
tax release, the Clintons
donated $42,000 to Desert
Classic Charities and $1
million to the Clinton
Family Foundation.
California appears poised
to join the growing number
of states that have
legalized marijuana, even as
the federal government is
reaffirming its 46-year-old
stance that pot is a
top-tier illicit narcotic on
par with heroin and LSD.
The Drug Enforcement
Administration announced
Thursday that marijuana will
remain classified as a
Schedule I controlled
substance – a designation
reserved for highly
addictive drugs with no
proven medical use.
Nutritional ketosis,
which involves eating a
high-quality, high-fat
diet that is low in net
carbs, may be one of the
most useful
interventions for many
chronic diseases,
including cancer
If your mitochondria are
functioning well, they
will efficiently
metabolize fat. When
they don’t, it suggests
you’re primarily burning
carbohydrates as a
primary fuel, which
promotes disease
The key to success on a
high-fat diet is to eat
high-quality healthy
fats, not the fats most
commonly found in the
American diet. MCT oil
is particularly
beneficial, but need to
be implemented with some
care
Sen. Claire McCaskill
says she’s “not sure” the
appointment of a top Clinton
Foundation donor to a cushy
State Department job was a
good idea.
The Missouri Democrat,
who supports Hillary
Clinton, was asked by Fox
News Sunday host Chris
Wallace about recent reports
of “pay to play” allegations
within then Secretary
Clinton’s State Department.
What we are dealing with
here is whether the
supplement industry is
allowed to innovate and
create new supplements. The
FDA, working as usual on
behalf of the drug industry,
says no
First Scotland and Germany
booted GMOs from their
countries, citing fear of
GMO crops
contaminating their food
supplies and concern over
putting their food and
beverage industries in
jeopardy. Now, Greece and
Latvia are telling Monsanto
exactly what they can do
with their genetically
modified crops. The tide is
turning. A tipping point
just became evident through
the actions of two
additional European
countries who have had
enough of the Biotech strong
arm.
Future increases in
precipitation in the Upper
Colorado River Basin may
increase groundwater
recharge, offsetting
reductions that would result
from increased temperatures,
according to a recent study
by the U.S. Geological
Survey and Bureau of
Reclamation.
While most of us may
just associate mistletoe
with Christmas parties,
the fact is that it can
be a nuisance in the
wild. It's a parasitic
plant (a group of
plants, actually) that
grows in trees or
shrubs, penetrating
their branches to absorb
water and nutrients. In
sufficient numbers,
mistletoe plants can
actually kill their
host. That's why
scientists are taking
the offensive, with a
system that shoots
herbicide up into trees'
high branches.
"There's enormous evidence
about how this information
from talented career
professionals inside the
analytic arm at CENTCOM did
their job and accurately
depicted what was going on
on the ground,” he added.
“But when it got to very
senior levels, that
information was changed.”
A recent judge's decision
that overturned Obama
administration rules on
hydraulic fracturing on
federal and Indian lands
ignores more than a century
of regulatory precedent, an
attorney appealing that
decision said Monday.
Doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting
different results, when in
fact the results never
change, is one definition of
insanity. That definition
works for economic insanity,
too.
Over the past
seven-and-a-half years,
President Barack Obama has
maintained a steady course
of burdensome new
regulations, significant tax
increases, and massive
federal spending on
so-called infrastructure. He
has unconstitutionally
ordered executive actions,
favored labor over business,
attacked banks, insulted
successful corporate
leaders, and backed
federal-government mandates
on business.
The frequency of a cell
phone’s waves falls between
those emitted by FM radios
and those from microwave
ovens, all of which are
considered “non-ionizing”
forms of radiation.
When you make a call,
text, or use data on your
cell phone, here’s what
happens:
Cannabis is not the only
plant that contains
medically beneficial
cannabinoids, although it
has driven the research to
understand the powerful
therapeutic properties of
these plant compounds. In
actuality, there are several
plants that are also rich in
cannabinoids and benefit the
body’s endocannabinoid
system, which is responsible
for helping the body
maintain internal balance,
or homeostasis, which is
needed for attaining optimum
health.
Could the heart and brain
actually work together in
producing emotions?..
Your heart actually contains
neurons, similar to those in
your brain, and your heart
and brain are closely
connected, creating a
symbiotic emotional whole
The availability of credit
in the U.S. was a major
catalyst in the economic
boom of the twentieth
century. However, too much
of a good thing can also be
a problem. Is the U.S. too
reliant on debt? Is the
federal government
mortgaging the future
earnings of an entire
generation? In this article,
we’ll explore these and
other issues as we take a
look at the debt cycle in
America.
Today’s Native
photographers utilize
technology, technique and
identity to help fulfill
their visions. In a new 516
Arts photography exhibit in
Albuquerque, New Mexico
entitled As We See It,
Contemporary Native American
Photographers, seven Native
photographers from around
the country are doing just
that.
Oil flows through the
Kurdistan Regional
Government's export system
fell sharply in early August
due to pipeline outages and
production declines
following recent attacks on
an oilfield in northern
Iraqi, a number of sources
have confirmed.
The media is filled with
speculation that your
campaign is sinking. But I
believe that inherent in
Hillary's rise are the seeds
of her own destruction and
of your eventual election.
Mefenamic acid reversed
memory loss in transgenic
lab mice
Mefenamic acid is a
non-steroidal
anti-inflammatory drug,
commonly used to relieve
period pain. Thanks to
research being conducted at
The University of
Manchester, however, it may
eventually have another use
– the treatment of
Alzheimer's disease. In lab
trials, it has reversed
memory loss and brain
inflammation in transgenic
mice.
The American people should
move on from Democratic
presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton's use
of a private email server
while Secretary of State and
focus on more important
issues, Leon Panetta said
Sunday.
Perceived age also
correlates with age related
phenotypes such as physical
and cognitive functioning
and leucocyte telomere
length.
And that’s not the only
thing that studies show us
on telomeres. Research also
shows that every part of
your body is affected by
telomere shortening. It
becomes more difficult to do
their work for the heart,
brain, kidneys, lungs,
pancreas and other organs,
when your telomeres shorten.
Less than a week after the
Ontario Government's
decision to prioritize and
designate Wataynikaneyap
Power to connect remote
First Nation communities
that currently rely on
diesel power to the
province's electricity grid,
another historic milestone
has been reached.
The Pennsylvania Public
Utility Commission on
Thursday approved a $5.3
million settlement with
Respond Power L.L.C. to
resolve complaints that the
retail electricity supplier
engaged in deceptive and
misleading practices during
the 2014 polar vortex.
C1 event observed.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (16 Aug,
17 Aug, 18 Aug). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
minor storm levels on day
one (16 Aug) and quiet to
unsettled levels on days two
and three (17 Aug, 18 Aug).
This fruit contains natural
substances that have started
killing cancer cells almost
immediately when they are
studied in the laboratory.
An injection of the drug
under the name of the EBC
46, directly into the
melanoma models in
laboratory as well as in
cancer of the head, neck and
colon in animals, tumors are
destroyed in the long run
more than 70% of the cases.
Long-lasting white trails
left behind by aircraft are
caused by well-understood
physical and chemical
processes, not a secret,
large-scale atmospheric
spraying program, concludes
new research from Carnegie
Science, University of
California-Irvine, and the
nonprofit Near Zero.
Some groups and
individuals allege that the
white marks aircraft make
across the sky are
“chemtrails,” chemicals
sprayed secretly either by
the government and or by
industry and linked to
negative impacts on human
health and the environment.
SpaceX has made a comeback
by nailing another seabarge
landing of a first stage of
its Falcon 9 rocket.
Returning from the
successful launch of a
Japanese communications
satellite, the Falcon 9
booster set down on the "Of
Course I Still Love You"
droneship located in the
Atlantic downrange from the
launch site in Florida late
Saturday.
The problem
is that many people today go
about activism in the
totally wrong way, spinning
the wheels, but going
nowhere fast. The three most
common tactics include
constantly complaining about
other people’s actions,
protesting the actions of
others by occupying
space/holding signs, and
lobbying middlemen
politicians to enact new
laws to fix the problems and
“protect” the people. Though
these tactics might work to
some small degree (obviously
not working very well at the
moment), they are all
missing one fundamental
element at the heart of real
change — and that is direct
individual action.
Two new studies have
now, finally, put an end to
the long-held theory that
the Americas were populated
by ancient peoples who
walked across the Bering
Strait land-bridge from Asia
approximately 15,000 years
ago. Because much of Canada
was then under a sheet of
ice, it had long been
hypothesised that an
“ice-free corridor” might
have allowed small groups
through from Beringia, some
of which was ice-free. One
study published in the
journal Nature,
entitled “Postglacial
Viability and Colonization
in North America’s Ice-Free
Corridor” found that the
corridor was incapable of
sustaining human life until
about 12,600 years ago, or
well after the continent had
already been settled.
This natural treatment has
been used for generations
for treating diseases of the
respiratory tract. It is so
powerful that it can remove
most of the mucus out of
your lungs in only one
night! Honey is known to
have a high biological
activity, and with the help
of these other ingredients,
a honey wrap will help you
remove the phlegm out of
your lungs.
Public drinking water
supplies for six million
people in 33 states have
tested higher than federal
safety levels for a class of
industrial chemicals linked
to cancer and other health
problems – polyfluoroalkyl
and perfluoroalkyl
substances – known in short
as PFASs.
Forget variable length
intakes and variable valve
timing, Infiniti is going
all the way and introducing
variable cylinder
compression ratios. The new
VC-T turbo engine
automatically adjusts
between a high-powered 8:1
and a hugely efficient 14:1
ratio as you drive. As
environmental protection
measures continue to tighten
the screws, combustion
engine manufacturers are
getting more and more
creative in their efforts to
squeeze more out of
gasoline.
TVA is closing and
capping 10 coal ash ponds at
power plants in Tennessee
and Alabama, against the
urging of environmentalists
who want the ash dug up and
removed.
TVA issued its decision
July 30, affirming plans to
keep the coal ash at six
fossil plants where the ash
was dumped over the past
half century. TVA said the
best, fastest and cheapest
method of cleaning up the
ponds is to close them and
put a cap on the wastes to
prevent leakage.
In modern day police
state, USA, exchanging goods
and services is a crime
unless the state gets their
cut. So, even though a
Carrollton mother was
“stunned” to find a warrant
issued for her arrest for
selling tamales to her
neighbors — it was to be
expected.
This week, Dennise Cruz
was shocked to receive a
yellow postcard from the
City of Carrollton stating
that if she doesn’t
immediately submit to their
extortion demands, then she
would be kidnapped and
locked in a cage.
Preliminary findings
reveal that trans fat is
linked to a higher risk
of memory impairment
Trans fats may act as a
pro-oxidant,
contributing to
oxidative stress that
causes cellular damage
Vegetable oils oxidize
when heated, and when
oxidized cholesterol and
trans fat enter into
your LDL particles, they
become destructive,
contributing to arterial
plaque buildup in your
brain
The sheer volume of medical
findings that have been
published during the recent
decades is absolutely
staggering. As such, it is
difficult, if not impossible
to test each and every one
of them independently. Many
contain errors, or even flat
out lies.
There are too many
sacred places across Turtle
Island to count. In this
series we will take a look
at some beautiful sacred
place imagery. Here are five
images of sacred places you
have to see to believe.
Bathing in chlorinated water
may be worse for you than
drinking it because it
bypasses your liver, say
scientists. Chlorine is the
most widely used
disinfectant in public water
systems in the United States
and around the world. It is
also a toxic gas that has
been used as a chemical
weapon because it
effectively attacks all
living cells. Chlorine not
only kills the bad bacteria
in water, it also kills the
good bacteria in our bodies
and on our skin.
An acidifying ocean
absorbing too much carbon
dioxide from the atmosphere
could have a major impact on
phytoplankton – the staple
diet of krill – with serious
repercussions for the entire
Antarctic ecosystem,
scientists from the
Australian Antarctic
Division have found.
Krill are tiny
crustaceans. They are the
keystone species of the
Antarctic ecosystem and the
staple diet of many animals,
including seals, whales,
fish, squid, penguins and
flying seabirds.
Brazil’s National Space
Research Institute, INPE,
registered over 53,000
forest fires in the country
up to Friday, and warns that
the hot, dry weather may
make things worse, if law
enforcement efforts are not
increased.
This warning indicates
that many of the fires are
the result of human
activities, such as slash
and burn agriculture.
The late journalist Sam
Francis once dubbed the
Republican Party “the stupid
party” and the Democratic
Party “the evil party.”
Recent events seem to
confirm this assessment.
The evident effort at job
placement may add to
criticism that the State
Department was too close to
the foundation during
Clinton’s tenure as
secretary of state from 2009
to 2013, despite her pledge
not to take actions
benefiting her family’s
charitable organization. The
Republican Party has said
that Clinton, the Democratic
presidential nominee, sought
to help contributors to the
foundation in a
"pay-for-play" scheme.
The investigation, based on
CNN’s reporting, was shot
down because the Department
of Justice could not find
sufficient evidence to open
such an investigation into
Hillary and Bill Clinton’s
charitable organization.
This revelation comes amid a
new release of Hillary
Clinton’s emails by watchdog
group Judicial Watch and
raises even more questions
about the objectivity of
Attorney General Loretta
Lynch’s Justice Department.
“A strange green foam
bubbling out of a sewer may
seem like a scene out of
‘Ghostbusters,’ but it
really happened on 3200 West
in Bluffdale,” Fox 13 Now
reported. As the Daily Mail
put it: “Who you gonna call?
Mysterious green slime
bubbles up from sewers in
Utah town.”
Though the government claims
the timing of the secret
$400 million payment to Iran
and the release of four
American hostages was merely
coincidental, many critics
aren’t buying it.
The global energy storage
market is expected to
double, from 1.4 gigawatt
hour (GWh) added in 2015 to
2.9 GWh this year, offering
unique growth prospects for
many energy companies as
global energy markets
continue to cool. Global
grid-connected energy
storage capacity will surge
to 21 GWh by 2025, according
to IHS Markit. Over the next
decade, Lithium-ion
batteries will become the
mainstream energy-storage
technology, and more than 80
percent of global energy
storage installations will
include the technology by
2025.
Home foreclosures have
tumbled to record lows as
fewer borrowers fell behind
on their home loan payments,
but Americans are still
struggling to pay off their
school loans.
A new supercar can hit 100
km/h (62 mph) from a
standstill in under four
seconds and reach top speed
of 210 km/h (130 mph). When
stacked up against supercar
competition from the likes
of McLaren and Hennessey,
you'd be right to be
unimpressed. But the Forze
VII runs on hydrogen and
produces no harmful tailpipe
emissions, making it pretty
super after all.
The International Energy
Agency said Thursday it
foresaw a "sustained
tightening" in crude markets
and a reduction in global
product stocks, despite
recent price weakness.
In its monthly oil
market report, the agency
attributed current price
weakness to low refinery
throughputs in the second
quarter and anticipated
refinery maintenance coming
up in the fourth quarter,
and also noted an uptick in
non-OPEC output. Its demand
growth estimate for this
year remained unchanged at
1.4 million b/d.
The
overall outlook for the
second half of this year is
for a broadly balanced oil
market, it said.
Over the last month three
anti-Clinton officials have
been found dead under
suspicious circumstances,
amid a widespread media
blackout. DNC staffer, Seth
Rich, who had blown the
whistle on widespread
election fraud within the
Democratic Party was found
murdered near his home
earlier in July. Victor
Thorn, a prominent writer
and vocal critic of the
Clinton’s, was shot to death
at the beginning of August.
And Shawn Lucas, an official
who served the DNC with
election fraud papers, was
found dead on August 2nd
To date, most assessments of
cannabis potency have
focused on increasing levels
of tetrahydrocannabinol
(THC). But this doesn’t
provide the full story.
Cannabis contains hundreds
of compounds, some of which
interact with each other.
For example, THC helps the
user get high, but another
compound, cannabidiol (CBD),
can counter this by reducing
unpleasant feelings such as
anxiety. So it is the
balance between THC and CBD
over time that is important.
Jimmy Carter has asked
Bill Gates, one of the
principal holders of waste
disposal company Republic
Services, to help halt the
company's plan to dump
millions of tons of coal ash
at a Wayne County landfill.
Carter handwrote a note
to the Microsoft founder in
late June at the behest of
Dink NeSmith, a Jesup native
and president of Community
Newspapers Inc. NeSmith said
he just recently received
permission from Carter to
publish his note to Gates,
and he provided it to the
Times-Union.
Scientists working at the
University of Cambridge have
used a form of liquid light
to create a semiconductor
switch that is so small that
it not only blurs the
distinction between light
and electricity, but could
also enable the development
of much faster and smaller
electronic components well
into the future.
USGS scientists found that
living organisms can take up
uranium into their tissues
under a broad variety of
water quality conditions.
This knowledge may help
regulators better safeguard
the environment for
conservation and resource
extraction purposes.
We are living “batteries”
and the energy our minds and
bodies generate allows us to
create and take action
toward those creations.
While we do continually
generate new energy, at any
one moment in time, we have
a limited amount of energy
to use to create, take
action toward our creations
or to give to others. After
a long day, we feel
“drained” and need to sleep
to regenerate our energy.
The 2016 election is very
much in the public eye after
the Republican and
Democratic national
conventions of the past two
weeks. But Donald Trump
won’t be the only casino
mogul with a lot on the line
on November 8. In Nevada,
the outcome of two statewide
ballot measures will have a
profound effect on the
future of clean energy in
the state, and possibly on
the increasingly
front-and-center concept of
energy choice throughout the
country.
Judicial Watch, a
conservative watchdog group,
released 296 pages of emails
from the Democratic
presidential nominee,
including 44 that Judicial
Watch says were not
previously handed over to
the State Department by
Clinton. The emails, many of
which are heavily redacted,
raise questions about the
Clinton Foundation's
influence on the State
Department and its relations
during her tenure.
Nissan Motor Co has
revealed the world's first
solid oxide fuel cell
(SOFC)-powered prototype
vehicle in Brazil that runs
on bio-ethanol electric
power.
The breakthrough model,
an all-new light-commercial
vehicle, can rely on
multiple fuels, including
ethanol and natural gas, to
produce high-efficiency
electricity as a power
source.
Oil futures rallied Thursday
after the International
Energy Agency reported
global crude demand was
outpacing supply and Saudi
Arabia's energy minister
said his country was
prepared to help the market
rebalance.
Pesticides have been
linked to lower IQs in
children, attention
deficit disorder and
cancer from exposure in
your food, yard,
schools, parks and golf
courses
Although labeled a
probable carcinogen,
glyphosate continues to
be used on crops,
poisoning your produce,
meat and dairy
Neonicotinoids, reported
less poisonous than
organophosphates, may be
responsible for the
failing honeybee
population
"Unlike in many of the other
places, the contamination in
Fountain and in two nearby
communities, Widefield and
Security, is not believed to
be related to
manufacturing," the
Times reported. "Rather,
the authorities suspect that
it was caused by Aqueous
Film Forming Foam, a
firefighting substance used
on military bases
nationwide."
According to a new study
accepted for publication in
the journal Space
Weather, the US was
taken to the brink of war
with the Soviet Union in
1967, when a powerful solar
storm wreaked havoc with
early warning systems
designed to detect incoming
Intercontinental Ballistic
Missiles. The drama unfolded
with a backdrop of extreme
Cold War tensions, and a
proliferation of nuclear
weapons brought about by the
doctrine of mutually assured
destruction.
For water treatment
operators and utility
officials, the summer months
don’t just mean sunshine,
pool parties, and barbecues.
The season also brings the
peak time for algal blooms,
the toxic clouds formed in
surface water thanks to
increased nutrient
contamination and rising
temperatures. With rising
instances of toxic algae
around the country and
increased regulations for
eliminating it, utilities
have had to keep pace.
Most Americans are familiar
with the high profile
hacking incidents of recent
years—the public exposure of
Sony Pictures’ private
email, for instance, or the
theft of credit card
information belonging to 56
million Home Depot
customers. But the damage
from those breaches may pale
in comparison to what
cybersecurity experts
believe is sure to come: a
penetrating attack on the
power grid.
C2 event observed.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (12 Aug,
13 Aug, 14 Aug). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(12 Aug) and quiet levels on
days two and three (13 Aug,
14 Aug).
The inspector general for
the intelligence community
determined last year that
classified data in emails on
Hillary Clinton private
server might have been
"compromised" and shared
with "a foreign power or an
agent of a foreign power,"
according to two secret
letters the FBI sent to the
State Department.
The FBI letters revealed
for the first time that the
agency's investigation into
Clinton's private email use
resulted from a "Section
811" referral from the
inspector general, Vice News
reports.
Saudi Arabia, has told OPEC
it pumped a record high of
10.673 million b/d of crude
oil in July, up by 123,000
b/d from the previous month,
the oil producer group's
monthly oil market report
showed Wednesday.
The seemingly bleak
future for the U.S. nuclear
industry was a key focus
Tuesday at the Intermountain
Energy Summit.
Experts noted older
nuclear plants closing
prematurely, and new ones
facing expensive
regulations. They lamented
lingering public fears about
safety, and the industry's
inability to shift the
conversation toward
nuclear's benefits.
When a pipeline break in
North Dakota spilled salty,
toxic drilling wastewater
into a tributary of the
Missouri River last year, it
was national news.
But it was only one of more
than 640 oil and gas spills
that affected groundwater or
surface water in some way in
2015, according to a review
of state and federal records
by EnergyWire. Such
spills can contaminate water
with oil, salt, metals and
even radiation.
The United States has
approved the possible sale
to Saudi Arabia of up to 153
tanks, hundreds of machine
guns and other military gear
in a deal worth $1.15
billion, the Pentagon said
Tuesday.
The announcement
coincided with news that
Saudi-led coalition
warplanes had resumed air
strikes on Yemen’s capital
for the first time in three
months, killing 14 people
and shutting the airport
after UN-brokered talks were
suspended
“I have always
respectfully supported
positions of tribal
government, and most have
been my personal kholas
(‘friends’),” Arvol Looking
Horse, the
nineteenth-generation keeper
of the White Buffalo Calf
Pipe, told ICTMN. “But I
have no choice but to stand
up in this serious time that
is upon us and remind others
about our sacred teachings,
and the importance of
standing together as the Pte
Oyate – the Buffalo Nation.”
Wikileaks announced their
reward offering Tuesday
morning on Twitter, and were
instantly inundated with
responses demanding that
Rich’s death was related to
Democratic candidate Hillary
Clinton.
A lot of people think that
living the homesteader
lifestyle means giving up on
modern amenities, like
mosquito repellent. While
you might not be buying
chemical-heavy sprays like
others, though, you don’t
actually have to just sit
back and let mosquitoes and
other bugs take over your
life. In fact, there are a
lot of highly effective
natural ways to keep those
bugs away from you, your
home, and your garden.
Brazil's environmental
regulator Ibama decided on
Thursday to shelve the
environmental license
request for a hydroelectric
dam on the Tapajos River in
the Amazon, a project that
had been opposed by
indigenous tribes and
conservation groups.
The American people
are at some all-time lows in
terms of trust and
confidence in their own
government and even question
whether it is “their”
government anymore. A
majority of people in the
country, borne out by
various polls, show single
digit satisfaction in
Congress, and confidence in
either of the dominating
political parties is in the
low to middle 20% range.
Apple can start reaping
the fruits of its $850
million Monterey County
solar power investment.
Federal energy regulators
Thursday approved the firm's
application to start selling
electricity at market rates.
Apple's solar power
investments can generate 20
megawatts of electricity in
Nevada, 50 megawatts in
Arizona and 130 megawatts in
California. The latter
output -- enough to power
tens of thousands of homes
-- will come from Apple's
$850 million partnership
with sun-farm company First
Solar, at the California
Flats solar project in
southeast Monterey County.
Have you ever had a sense
that life isn’t real,
reality is an illusion, or
you are just dreaming?
Believe it or not, most
people have had at least a
fleeting sense that
something is just not
right about our
reality. But why would
so many of us have this odd
thought or feeling if it
weren’t true? What if
it is true and we are
really living in a
simulated reality?
Not so long ago, excitement
rose to a fevered pitch with
the announcement of a budget
Tesla car slated to hit the
streets in 2017. The cars
are gorgeous, seemingly easy
on the environment and in a
price range the average Joe
can afford. But over the
last few years, there have
been disgruntled murmurings
about how electric vehicles
aren’t that environmentally
sound. Some feel they can
actually be worse for the
planet than combustion
engines, since they often
rely on conventional
electricity sources to
recharge. So while the idea
is appealing in theory, the
reality isn’t so rosy when
we look at their actual
impact. The same can be said
for other technologies like
hydrogen fuel cell and
hybrid cars.
There is one advancement,
however, that could be a
genuine game changer in the
realm of eco-friendly cars:
saltwater powered
vehicles.
Battery storage currently is
too expensive to be
practical, but with Tesla
building the world's biggest
battery factory in Nevada,
both companies are betting
that prices will drop fast
enough to make batteries a
standard part of all rooftop
solar arrays within three to
five years.
“The economy, absent
consumer spending, is
basically in a recession,”
the 72-year-old billionaire
bond-fund manager said in an
interview Friday on
Bloomberg Television. While
employers are hiring
“there’s a dearth of
investment spending,” he
said.
Payrolls surged, climbing
by 255,000 last month, a
sign of renewed vigor in the
U.S. labor market. Even as
the Federal Reserve has kept
interest rates low to spur
growth “it’s a deflationary
world” in which monetary
policy is “weak and dying,”
said Gross, who runs the
$1.5 billion Janus Global
Unconstrained Bond Fund.
That means investors will
need to adjust their
expectation for returns.
If you drink more water,
you’re less likely to
drink other sugary
beverages such as soda,
fruit juices and energy
drinks. This is likely
the most significant
factor that produces
weight loss
Researchers found that
adults who were
chronically
under-hydrated had
higher body mass index
(BMI) and were more
likely to be obese
compared to
well-hydrated adults
Other studies have found
that drinking 500
milliliter of water
prior to meals resulted
in the loss of an
additional 4 to 9 pounds
of weight over three
months compared to not
preloading with water
Despite the myths we’ve
heard throughout our lives
about cannabis killing brain
cells, a growing number of
studies indicate that
cannabis actually has
neuroprotective properties.
Cannabis has been found to
have an incredible ability
to regulate emotional
behavior, and may be the
most reliable medicinal
plant available as a
therapeutic target for the
treatment of anxiety and
depressive disorders.
Wikipedia defines contrails
as “condensation trails
or vapor trails, which are
line-shaped clouds sometimes
produced by aircraft engine
exhaust…composed mainly of
water, in the form of ice
crystals.” Apparently
the exhaust contains small
impurities left hanging in
the air that leads to the
trails lasting longer than
usual, but this doesn’t
quite explain the
double-volcano-smokestacks
seen spewing from behind low
flying planes.
Chevron Corp persuaded a
federal appeals court on
Monday to block enforcement
in the United States of an
$8.65 billion Ecuadorean
pollution judgment that it
said, and which the court
agreed, was obtained through
bribery and fraud.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals in
Manhattan upheld a lower
court ruling against the
American lawyer Steven
Donziger, who has spent more
than two decades battling
Chevron to hold it
responsible for pollution in
the Ecuadorean rain forest.
A massive security breach
just happened in the FBI
that could cost lives of the
American people. An
electronics technician who
had top security clearance
levels at the FBI just
pleaded guilty to acting as
an agent for the Chinese
government. He now faces up
to 10 years in prison.
A Chinese lawyer was
sentenced to seven years in
prison Thursday in the third
in a series of subversion
trials demonstrating the
ruling Communist Party's
determination to silence
independent human rights
activists and government
critics.
The sentence given to
Zhou Shifeng results from
his role as director of
Beijing's Fengrui Law Firm,
which took on sensitive
cases and represented people
who dared challenge the
party.
Since the Permanent Court of
Arbitration at The Hague
ruled against China's
nine-dash line in the South
China Sea, there has been a
marked increase in rumblings
of the unimaginable: War in
the Pacific between China,
it's neighbors, and their
ally, the US.
Environmental groups in
Colorado on Monday said they
collected enough signatures
to add proposed
anti-fracking initiatives to
a state ballot in November,
as long as their petitions
make it through a validation
review by the Secretary of
State's office.
A small town in Colorado
warned residents not to
drink or bathe with tap
water last week because
authorities suspected THC,
the psychoactive compound in
marijuana, might be
contaminating the water
supply...
“It is believed that there
never was THC in the water
system,” the Lincoln County
Sheriff’s Office tweeted on
Saturday. The water advisory
was cancelled.
A
federal appeals court
Thursday said prosecutors
cannot force U.S. companies
like Microsoft to turn over
customer emails and other
data stored on servers
overseas — a ruling the
government suggested could
hamper national security
investigations.
Oil futures were higher
Monday as NYMEX crude built
a solid cushion above $40/b
on short-covering and
speculation that OPEC
members were lobbying for
the implementation of a
production freeze.
NYMEX September crude
settled $1.22 higher at
$43.02/b. ICE October Brent
settled up $1.12 at
$45.39/b.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover
completed the fourth year of
its original two-year
mission today and is looking
forward to another two-year
extension beginning in
October. When the US$2.5
billion unmanned explorer
landed on the Red Planet on
August 6, 2012, it was the
most complex lander to have
visited any world. In its
brief career it has provided
mankind with a new
understanding of Mars and
the chances that life may
have once or could still
exist there. Let's retrace
its history making tracks.
Using molecules derived
from vitamin B2 for the
cathode, University of
Toronto researchers claim to
have created a much more
eco-friendly Li-ion battery
that also promises to be
cheaper and easier to
produce
The CDC has begun an
aggressive campaign to
persuade the elderly to take
a new Pneumonia vaccine that
they say will help reduce
the chances of catching the
infection.
As dire as things currently
look around the world, noted
investor and author Jim
Rogers is warning that
things are going to get a
lot worse in the coming
years.
Fannie Mae reported net
income of $2.9 billion from
April through June, down
from a year earlier as low
interest rates brought
losses for the mortgage
giant on its investments...
Fannie received $116 billion
from taxpayers when the
financial crisis struck in
September 2008. The
government rescued Fannie
and smaller sibling Freddie
Mac after they suffered huge
losses from risky mortgages
in housing market bust.
Greenland’s ice sheet
insulates its own bottom
layer, which is warmed from
below by Earth’s heat. Which
bottom layers are now
thawed, and which are still
frozen?
Global warming is slowly
thawing out a once
top-secret subterranean U.S.
nuclear base in northern
Greenland, potentially
exposing the environment to
radioactive coolant, PCBs,
and raw sewage that the
military originally believed
would stay entombed for
millennia.
Hardly a day goes without
headlines about any
significant data breach. In
the past few months, over 1
Billion account credentials
from popular social network
sites, including LinkedIn,
Tumblr, MySpace and VK.com
were exposed on the
Internet.
The National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious
Diseases has injected two
human volunteers with an
experimental DNA-based Zika
vaccine, Director Anthony
Fauci announced today, a
month ahead of its projected
schedule for vaccine
development. “If it’s a home
run, we’ll know pretty
quickly,” Fauci said, adding
that if it is successful,
phase 2 trials could begin
as early as January.
Officials at the largest
police union in the U.S. are
“shocked” by a perceived
snub by Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton as her campaign
declined to seek its
endorsement.
Japan says China has sailed
a fleet of 230 vessels near
Japanese-controlled waters
in the East China Sea.
The fleet included
fishing boats and coastguard
ships, Japan says, and three
vessels appeared to be
armed. Officials have
protested to Chinese
diplomats.
Louisiana has run out of
money to fund the state's
solar tax credit program,
leaving some residents with
thousands of dollars in
bills to pay for solar
panels,..
Confronting the Doctor with
Undeniable Evidence...
They coerce us under the
guise that vaccines are
safe, but in my experience,
I’ve found that most
pediatricians have never
read a vaccine package
insert and don’t know how to
recognize an adverse
reaction to vaccines.
From the viewpoint of a
high-soaring California
condor, it’s easy to
overlook small dietary
problems. But researchers on
the ground have found that
the accumulation of
chemicals in the marine
mammals the scavengers feed
on in central California
could be having devastating
effects on their eggs.
“It turns out that marine
mammals are filled with all
kinds of contaminants that
are passed onto the
bird,”...
Monsanto Sold Soybean
Farmers A Weed-Beating Tool
They Couldn’t Legally Use.
There’s tension brewing
among U.S. soybean farmers
after Monsanto started
selling a new
herbicide-resistant seed —
without EPA approval.
Mindfulness-based teachings
have shown benefits in
everything from inflammatory
disorders to central nervous
system dysfunction and even
cancer. Now, researchers are
studying how cognitive
therapy utilizing
mindfulness techniques can
serve as a natural
alternative to
pharmaceuticals for people
with anxiety disorders.
Harnessing the power of fire
has served humanity well for
thousands of years, but fire
tornadoes are harder to
tame. Now a team at the
University of Maryland has
discovered a new type of
fire tornado they've dubbed
"blue whirls", which produce
a cleaner burn and could be
harnessed to reduce carbon
emissions and burn away oil
spills with fewer airborne
pollutants.
House and Senate negotiators
approved a state energy bill
late Sunday that establishes
a panel comprising state
energy experts, legislators,
local officials and area
citizens who will offer
input on the decommissioning
of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power
Station, which is scheduled
to shut down in June 2019.
A Canadian team has
developed a new diagnostic
tool that identifies
features of the brain tied
to Alzheimer’s disease that
could allow doctors to
detect a person’s likelihood
of developing the
debilitating condition years
before such symptoms as
memory loss appear.
The advance, unveiled at the
world's largest Alzheimer's
conference this week, was
detailed in two new studies
reported by University of
Waterloo researchers
President Obama issued a
record-breaking amount of
commutations by reducing the
sentences of 214 federal
inmates. Obama has commuted
the sentences of more men
and women than the past 9
presidents combined.
The pair were taken to
United Regional and then
flown to Dallas Parkland
Hospital, newstalk1290.com
reported. Daniel Nix,
utilities operations
manager, told Times
Record News that the
workers were conducting
routine maintenance on a
pump when they were exposed
to hydrogen sulfide gas.
Pope Francis
has lamented that children are
being taught at school that
gender can be a choice,
adding that his predecessor,
Benedict XVI has labeled
current times “the epoch of
sin against God the
Creator.”
The
pound turned sharply lower
Thursday after the Bank of
England cut interest rates
for the first time in seven
years and announced a fresh
round of stimulus measures
intended to mitigate the
effect of the U.K's decision
to leave the European Union.
Sterling
traded at $1.3112 late
Thursday in New York, down
from $1.3325 late Wednesday.
Against the dollar, sterling
marked its sharpest decline
since July 5, in the days
following the U.K. vote to
exit the EU, which roiled
global markets and sent the
pound spiraling lower.
M1 event observed.
C5 event observed.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a slight chance
for an M-class flare on days
one, two, and three (09 Aug,
10 Aug, 11 Aug). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
to active levels on days one
and two (09 Aug, 10 Aug) and
quiet to unsettled levels on
day three (11 Aug).
The FES retains energy
kinetically in a levitated
floating mass. The rotor,
which can be made from
composites such as carbon
fibre, is permanently
levitated as opposed to
electromagnetically, not
requiring additional control
mechanisms and so does not
need maintenance or user
input. A smart telemetry set
(monitoring equipment) would
be included.
It is known as the DARK Act.
D-A-R-K standing for Denying
Americans the Right to Know.
It was signed by President
Obama last Friday in the
afterglow of the Democratic
National Convention, without
fanfare or major media
coverage. The bill’s moniker
is apt. With a few strokes
of his pen Obama scratched
out the laws of Vermont,
Connecticut and Maine that
required the labeling of
genetically engineered (GE)
foods.
Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan has told a
vast rally in Istanbul that
he would approve the return
of the death penalty if it
was backed by parliament and
the public.
He was speaking to a
crowd of at least a million
who had gathered in Turkey's
biggest city.
The rally followed last
month's failed military
coup.
Mr Erdogan also said the
state would be cleansed of
all supporters of the
US-based cleric Fethullah
Gulen.
With the number of Zika
infections on the rise and
real concerns of the virus
spreading, governments are
on the lookout for inventive
ways to ramp up the
response. These have
included trials of
experimental vaccines,
trapping the bugs in junked
tires and perhaps the most
radical of all, using
genetic engineering to kill
off local mosquito
populations. This strategy
is beginning to gather some
steam in the US, with
federal regulators approving
a field trial that would let
engineered mosquitoes go to
work in the state of
Florida.
A cargo plane with $400
million in foreign
currencies was secretly
sent to Iran on the same
day four Americans were
released from Tehran,
according to a WSJ
report citing EU and US
officials. Washington
insists the timing of
the two events is
coincidence.
Wooden pallets
stacked with hard cash
in euro, Swiss francs
and other valuable
currencies were flown
into Iran on January 17
– exactly the same day
the US exchanged seven
Iranians for four
Americans, said the Wall
Street Journal, citing
US and European
officials and
congressional sources.
Empresas Polar, the
largest “surviving”
enterprise in Venezuela —
which produces food,
beverages, sauces and
spreads — has claimed the
government arbitrarily
seized 14,000 kilos of its
inventory.
The incident allegedly
took place during an
inspection that interrupted
entry and exit of trucks to
a storage facility for more
than 12 hours.
California-It was only
two years ago that Elroy
Holtmann spent about $20,000
on a home solar array to
help cover the costs of
charging his new electric
car. With the savings on his
monthly electric bills, he
figured the investment would
pay for itself in about a
dozen years.
But then the utilities
regulators changed the
equation.
[Editor:
So build where you don't
have a government or utility
involved.]
The universe is far more
welcoming to life today than
it was when microbes on
Earth arose—and will only
grow more so
The conditions that
make life possible are
exquisitely rare. Yet
researchers are finding that
the universe today is far
more welcoming to life than
it was when microbes first
emerged on Earth—a fact that
makes our existence all the
more remarkable. Plus, it
will only grow even more
habitable in the future.
After recent hot weather
and with more on the way,
air conditioners and fans
are taxing Wisconsin's
electrical grid. It's a good
thing the state is slowly
but surely moving toward
renewable energy, despite
resistance from top elected
officials.
More than half of
Wisconsin's electricity
comes from coal, and a big
share of the rest is natural
gas. When we ramp up
consumption, we spew more
greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere, contributing to
climate change. That will
mean hotter days in the
future.
Most disease is rooted
in poor nutrition and
lack of physical
movement. Drugs neither
support nor nourish your
body’s innate healing
capabilities. Food
combined with proper
rest and movement do
One of the simplest
health directives you
could ever come across
is to just EAT REAL
FOOD, as this
automatically eliminates
a number of
health-harming
ingredients from your
diet
Exercise is another
critical component of
health; studies have
shown exercise to be as
effective a treatment as
many drugs, including
antidepressants and
medications for
prediabetes and heart
disease
Look around. The great shift
in the consciousness of
humanity has hit critical
mass and passed the point of
no return. It’s been
building slowly but surely,
and now it’s about to kick
into high gear. The next
decade or so will be a
period of enormous change
and perhaps more than a
little turbulence. Think of
this as the process of
humanity going into labor as
it begins to birth a new
earth reality.
A California mother had her
newborn child kidnapped in
Los Angeles earlier this
month (July 2016). Lori
Ibrahim had her 2-day old
infant seized from her right
after giving birth at Kaiser
Permanente South Bay Medical
Center. Apparently, Los
Angeles County Department of
Children and Family Services
(DCFS) and doctors at Kaiser
determined that this mother,
who already was parenting a
five year old son that she
was awarded sole custody in
a divorce case, was a danger
to her newborn son, and
removed him from her care
while she was trying to
breast-feed him.
New research has found
methylmercury – a potent
neurotoxin – in sea ice in
the Southern Ocean.
Published today in the
journal Nature
Microbiology, the
results are the first to
show that sea-ice bacteria
can change mercury into
methylmercury, a more toxic
form that can contaminate
the marine environment,
including fish and birds.
If ingested,
methylmercury can travel to
the brain, causing
developmental and physical
problems in foetuses,
infants and children.
Earlier this week,
prosecutors dropped all
remaining charges against
officers in connection with
the April 2015 death of
Baltimore man Freddie Gray,
bringing the trial to a
close with no convictions.
Charges were dropped
Wednesday against the three
remaining Baltimore police
officers to be tried. The
prosecutor who lost the
case, Baltimore State’s
Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby
was livid, citing the case
as evidence of a crooked
criminal justice system.
In a presentation sent to
major banks and seen by the
Guardian, 6,000 hectares of
“idle” land in Chernobyl’s
1,000 square km exclusion
zone, which is considered
too dangerous for people to
live in or farm, could be
turned to solar, biogas and
heat and power generation.
* June gasoline
exports more than double on
year * Platts Analytics
expects July exports to hit
1.3 mil mt * Blended
gasoline adding to
oversupply
China's gasoline exports
more than doubled on the
year in June to surpass 1
million mt for the first
time ever, highlighting
growing oversupply due to
faltering domestic demand, a
trend that is likely to
continue in coming months.
Federal investigators
said on Monday they have
opened a criminal probe into
the 2015 spill of some 3
million gallons (11 million
liters) of toxic wastewater
from a defunct Colorado gold
mine that was triggered by a
contractor with the
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
At the urging of
congressional leaders, the
EPA's Office of Inspector
General is investigating the
rupture from the Gold King
Mine above Silverton,
Colorado, that fouled
waterways in three states
and Native American lands,
the agency said in a
statement.
Industry scrutiny over the
fallout from massive oil
sector spending cuts on the
global oil supply curve
appeared to return this week
as market watchers pick over
the winners and losers in
the ongoing battle with low
prices.
According to
a new study by Bank of
America Merrill Lynch
Wednesday, Saudi Arabia,
Iran and Iraq will need to
fill a global oil supply gap
in the coming years as
non-OPEC oil producers
increasingly struggle to
maintain output levels as a
result of huge spending
cuts.
The mainstream media in the
US has become a universal
joke. Even those who
regularly watch a given
mainstream news channel will
openly admit that
every channel has obvious
bias, and then justify their
viewing it by saying, “but
that is why I watch both
channels; to hear both
sides.”
Say hello to Ötzi, the mummy
who has inspired a lot of
wonder in the 5,300 years
since his death. Ötzi, who
was discovered by a pair of
hikers in the Ötztal Alps
along the Austrian-Italian
border in 1991, is one of
the most studied
archeological finds in
history — and for good
reason.
Ötzi was
amazingly well preserved
when he was unearthed, and
as a result, an insightful
view of prehistoric life has
emerged in the wake of his
discovery. Here are some of
the most incredible things
that we've learned so far
from the famous iceman.
Safe storage of radioactive
waste and timely, safe
removal of the waste to a
remote location were
concerns expressed Wednesday
about a plan to dismantle
the retired San Onofre
Nuclear Generating Station.
“… I can remember
everything: From horses and
cart days right up until
today; jet planes and
computers. When I was a boy
there weren’t even any
fences … all just open
prairie. The world has
changed so quickly … It’s so
short a time … I’ve had a
long life, but it seems like
yesterday…”
On Aug. 4, the Pennsylvania
Department of Health will
distribute free potassium
iodide tablets for residents
who live or work within 10
miles of the Peach Bottom
and Three Mile Island
nuclear plants.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (02 Aug, 03
Aug, 04 Aug). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to major storm levels on day
one (02 Aug), quiet to minor
storm levels on day two (03
Aug) and unsettled to active
levels on day three (04
Aug).
Turmeric is one the most
thoroughly researched plants
in existence today. Its
medicinal properties and
components (primarily
curcumin) have been the
subject of over 5600
peer-reviewed and published
biomedical studies. In fact,
our five-year long research
project on this sacred plant
has revealed over 600
potential preventive and
therapeutic applications, as
well as 175 distinct
beneficial physiological
effects
Researchers are
developing "smart
bricks" that will
produce power, water
and other resources
thanks to microbial
fuel cells...
A lot of things are
becoming "smart" these
days, but bricks might
not be something you'd
expect to be added to
the list. On the way to
buildings that act like
"large-scale living
organisms," scientists
at the University of the
West of England (UWE
Bristol) are developing
smart bricks that would
make use of microbes to
recycle wastewater,
generate electricity and
produce oxygen.
Some fish may cope with
the changing chemistry of
the oceans linked to global
warming by permanently
setting their body defenses
to night-time levels, the
time of day when they find
sea water least hospitable,
a study said on Monday.
Man-made carbon dioxide,
released into the air by
burning fossil fuels, forms
a weak acid when mixed with
water that can harm marine
life in what is likely to be
a worsening effect of global
warming this century.
Perlin currently works from
the Physics department at UC
Santa Barbara. In a Green
Technology interview, he
describes the path he took
to unearth a forgotten
history.
Readings from NASA's Chandra
X-Ray Observatory are
causing astronomers to
question our understanding
of exactly how the magnetic
fields of stars are
generated. The researchers
discovered
lower-than-expected X-ray
emissions from low-mass
stars, indicating that
convection plays a slightly
different role in magnetic
field generation than
previously thought.
US crude exports jumped to
their highest level on
record in May, coming in at
662,000 b/d, monthly data
from the US Energy
Information Administration
showed Friday.
Exports are up from 591,000
b/d in April and have been
up steadily from the 392,000
b/d exported in December,
when the US lifted all
restrictions on the export
of crude oil.
It is rare when a mainstream
media source covers the
story of a vaccine injury or
death. When it does happen,
it is usually a local news
station reporting about
someone in their community.
New research on vitamin D
has found that low levels of
the vitamin are associated
with an increased risk of
cognitive decline in Chinese
seniors.
Vitamin D is already
known to have many health
benefits, including improved
bone health, lower blood
pressure, reduced risk of
heart attack, stroke, and
heart failure, lower risk of
multiple sclerosis, and
better chances of surviving
cancer.
The Washington Post
fact-checked Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton’s interview with
“Fox News Sunday” this
weekend and granted a
statement she made “Four
Pinocchios” — a score they
reserve for “whoppers.”
A La Nina event, which
affects rainfall and
temperatures in the tropics,
may develop in the third
quarter of the year but it
is likely to be weak and far
less intense that El Nino
that ended in May, the
United Nations weather
agency said on Thursday.
La Nina cools the sea
surface temperatures in the
tropical eastern and central
parts of the Pacific Ocean,
whereas its opposite
phenomenon, El Nino, warms
them.
The use of KW or MW is quite
deceptive when discussing
energy storage. For
example, California's
mandate of 1,325 MW in
operation by 2024. What
does that really mean? Is a
1 MW flywheel that provides
energy for a few seconds the
same as a 1 MW battery that
provides power for an hour.
Politicians may be sleazy
and spineless, but they’re
not stupid. They see that
the way to win is by first
telling people everything
that is wrong with the
world, and then painting a
vision of the life they want
– a Utopian vision that
they’ll create right here on
earth, one where no one is
ever sick or hungry, jobless
or homeless. All we have to
do is surrender our freedom
and someone else’s wallet
and they’ll make it happen.
And so they continue to lie,
and we continue to believe
them, and they keep winning
elections.
Temperatures reached 108
degrees up and down
California’s San Joaquin
Valley, far above the
average high temperatures in
recent years. California
requires employers to
provide shade and water to
farmworkers, but workers
lose money if they spend
time cooling off in the
shade. They are usually paid
by the amount they
pick rather than by the
hour. And sometimes the
water and shade stations are
on the far side of large
fields.
[Editor: I am going to
the mountaintop this next
Friday. There will be
no publication that day.
We'll publish again next
Tuesday!. ]