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For the first time this
year, the concentration of
carbon dioxide (CO2) in
Earth’s atmosphere is
projected to reach the
milestone of 400 parts per
million on a global average
basis for an entire year,
according to the World
Meteorological Organization.
The WMO’s annual “Greenhouse
Gas Bulletin” issued Tuesday
says that CO2 levels had
previously reached the 400
ppm mark for certain months
of the year 2015 and in
certain locations but never
before on a global average
basis for a whole year.
“I am seeking a
Justice Department
investigation because I am
concerned about the safety
of the people,” Archambault
said in a statement. “Too
often these kinds of
investigations take place
only after some use of
excessive force by the
police creates a tragedy. I
hope and pray that the
Department will see the
wisdom of acting now to
prevent such an outcome.”
"We consider the
possibility, predicted in a
previous published paper,
that the signals are caused
by light pulses generated by
Extraterrestrial
Intelligence to makes us
aware of their existence,"
they wrote on arXiv.org. "We
find that the detected
signals have exactly the
shape of an ETI signal
predicted in the previous
publication and are
therefore in agreement with
this hypothesis. The fact
that they are only found in
a very small fraction of
stars within a narrow
spectral range centered near
the spectral type of the sun
is also in agreement with
the ETI hypothesis.
The researchers, led by
professors Yuehe Lin and
Scott Beckman in the School
of Mechanical and Materials
Engineering, have developed
a catalyst from low cost
materials. It performs as
well as or better than
catalysts made from precious
metals that are used for the
process.
Energy conversion is a
key to the clean energy
economy. Because solar and
wind sources produce power
only intermittently, there
is a critical need for ways
to store and save the
electricity they create.
One of the most promising
ideas for storing renewable
energy is to use the excess
electricity generated from
renewables to split water
into oxygen and hydrogen;
the hydrogen can then be fed
into fuel-cell vehicles.
Pain can spread among
mice by way of smell,
suggesting physical pain
can develop as a result
of social cues alone.
The discovery has
significant implications
for scientists working
on addiction withdrawal
and pain reducing drugs
Among humans, happiness
spreads like a
contagion. Having a
happy next-door neighbor
or living within a mile
of a happy friend
increases your chances
of being happy by 34 and
25 percent respectively
Gratitude and having
strong, loving
relationships tend to
generate the most
happiness. A person’s
capacity for loving
relationships was the
only factor that could
predict life
satisfaction in older
men
Clearly, the government’s
agency hopes to get ahead of
potential attacks on
vehicles, well before
cybersecurity blows up in
the face of connected cars.
There is fear among
regulators that a
cybersecurity failure could
irreparably damage the
future of highly automated
vehicles. But never mind the
fed’s concerns. As it turns
out, some of the best minds
in the automotive industry
don’t believe hackers are
interested in cars.
Don’t worry about the
more than 85,000 untested
and unlabeled industrial
chemicals, pesticides,
herbicides, fungicides,
plasticizers, flame
retardants, artificial
hormones, growth promotors,
antibiotics, animal drugs,
artificial colors,
preservatives, flavors, and
genetically modified
organisms, in our food and
environment.
The “experts” tell us
that the thousands of toxic
chemicals and animal drugs
used in GMO and
chemical-intensive
agriculture and consumer
products are “generally
regarded as safe” (GRAS)
Immigration will take
center stage tomorrow night
at the final Donald Trump —
Hillary Clinton debate.
Clinton dreams of “open
borders.”
Count on her to yank on
your heart strings.
But workers who are
losing their jobs to
newcomers from other
countries should be
skeptical. Trump’s challenge
will be to convince voters
that looking out for
American workers first is
not racist or xenophobic.
It’s simple economics.
Hillary’s “dream” of open
borders is a nightmare for
wage earners.
It turns out safari-going
bros worried about their
masculinity aren’t the only
ones who collect animal skin
rugs. New research finds
that our ancestors may also
have had a propensity for
advertising their hunting
prowess by preserving the
furs of their kills.
Their prize trophy,
however, was no meager lion
but a creature called a
"cave lion." These
formidable predators once
roamed the forests from
Europe to the Canadian
Yukon, hunting
reindeer, goats and (now
extinct) wild cattle. At
more than 11 feet long and
weighing around 700 pounds,
they made today’s African
lions look like half-grown
kittens. And, at least to
some Upper
Paleolithic people, they
sure must have looked good
as rugs.
The International Energy
Agency (IEA) has increased
its 5-year growth forecasts
for renewables. Between 2015
and 2021, the agency
predicts clean energy will
grow 13 % more than
anticipated last year,
thanks to strong policy
support in major markets and
decreasing costs. By 2021,
28 % of electricity
generated worldwide is
expected to come from
renewables.
A large police action is
under way near Highway 1806
about three miles from the
Cannonball River, where
water protectors from the
three camps near Standing
Rock Sioux Reservation have
claimed treaty territory as
a fourth camp.
This camp, known as the
Treaty Camp (in reference to
the 1851 Treaty of Fort
Laramie, which designated
the land as belonging to the
Great Sioux Nation), sits
squarely across the highway
in the path of the Dakota
Access oil pipeline (DAPL).
Pipeline construction has
encroached approximately 17
miles into the 20-mile
voluntary exclusion zone
designated by federal
agencies during an attempt
at resolving the dispute
over the pipeline route.
Warning that time has run
out for repairing
Louisiana’s eroding
coastline, Governor John Bel
Edwards, a Democrat, this
week challenged coastal
leaders to restore 20,000
acres of wetlands by 2020.
Tuesday in Baton Rouge
Governor Edwards opened the
second of two leadership
roundtables hosted by the
America’s Wetland Foundation
and the state’s Coastal
Protection and Restoration
Authority, with a focus on
financing the state’s Master
Plan for coastal restoration
and protection.
Plants are adapting to
increasing atmospheric
carbon dioxide according to
a new study from the
University of Southampton
The research, published
in the journal Global Change
Biology, provides insight
into the long-term impacts
of rising CO2 and the
implications for global food
security and nature
conservation.
The gearbox will connect the
turbine at the back of the
engine with the fans at the
front. Although fitting
bigger fans to aircraft
engines is one way to
generate more power, bigger
fans need to be driven by
bigger turbines, and there
comes a point where the size
of the turbines becomes
prohibitive. UltraFan is
designed to avoid this
problem, using a gearbox to
keep the turbine and fans
spinning at optimum speeds
during all stages of a
flight to yield more power
and efficiency.
Whether they're hand soap,
shampoo, dish-washing liquid
or laundry detergent, the
majority of commonly-used
soaps contain
petroleum-based cleansing
agents. Obtaining that
petroleum isn't exactly an
eco-friendly process, plus
it becomes a source of
pollution once it goes down
the drain. While there are
petroleum-free soaps out
there, they often don't
perform that well. Now,
however, scientists have
developed one that is
claimed to actually work
better than mainstream
products.
The $3.6 million tab,
according to The Daily
Caller, does not include the
salaries of military and
civilian workers who
accompany the president
wherever he goes. Some
classified expenses were
also not included in the
total.
Oil futures fell Wednesday
even though Energy
Information Administration
data showed across-the-board
inventory draws, as doubts
over an OPEC-led production
agreement pressured prices.
“These solar systems have
transformed the area,” says
Gerry Darosa, director of
energy innovations at
Arizona State. “You’ll see
people singing, talking,
eating — it’s become a
vibrant social gathering
place.”
Made by biopharmaceutical
company DBV Technologies,
the Viaskin Peanut patch is
applied to the arm or
between the shoulder blades.
It gradually delivers small
amounts of peanut protein
through the skin, allowing
the wearer's body to build
up a tolerance for it.
Standard measures of the
U.S. labor market look
pretty good. The
unemployment rate is low,
and job growth has been
steady. But one indicator is
flashing signs of fragility.
It's an important one, too:
The Federal Reserve's Labor
Market Conditions Index.
After falling just three
times from 2012 to 2015, the
index has fallen every month
of 2016 except for one,
July. And in July the annual
change in the LMCI, from
July 2015, turned negative.
The UK is losing its appeal
for investors in renewable
energy as the decisions to
quit the EU, approve the 3.2
GW Hinkley Point C nuclear
plant and dismantle the
Department of Energy and
Climate Change has thrown
the industry into further
uncertainty, consultancy EY
said Wednesday.
Half
a million solar panels
were installed around the
world every day in 2015
The shift away from fossil
fuels towards a low-carbon
world is more a very gradual
steering correction than a
simple u-turn, but the
latest report from the
International Energy Agency
(IEA) suggests we are
changing direction faster
than expected. Renewables
have now overtaken coal as
the world's largest source
of installed power capacity,
and the agency's projections
over the next five or so
years paint a pretty
promising picture for the
industry indeed.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(28 Oct, 29 Oct, 30 Oct).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to minor storm levels on day
one (28 Oct) and quiet to
active levels on days two
and three (29 Oct, 30 Oct).
[Editors Note: We do
our best to notify you of
EMP's and CMA's in-coming.
But do know that some CMA's
can arrive in as little as
16 hours!]
The fruits and vegetables
you feed your family may
have been grown in
re-purposed sewage filled
with pharmaceuticals, heavy
metals, and other
contaminants...
Hundreds of thousands of
tons of sewage sludge are
spread each year on
America’s forests and
agricultural lands. This is
commonly done with great
secrecy. If you want to know
where it has been dumped, in
at least one state, you have
to drive to the state
capitol and ask for files.
You can only view the files;
they can’t be photocopied.
Somebody is working very
hard to prevent the public
from knowing which farms or
forests contain this sludge.
Have you ever felt like you
ended up in the wrong
family? Did you grow up
feeling that you were so
incredibly different from
your parents and siblings,
that there must have been
some sort of mistake for you
to end up with those people?
I’m not talking about
feeling out of place in the
insanity of the current era
of human society, I’m
talking about something much
deeper — a sense that your
very parents are not who you
were meant to be born to.
Edible bugs might sound
unappetizing to many
Westerners, but they’ve long
been included in traditional
diets in other regions of
the world, which are now
home to more than 2 billion
people, according a report
by the U.N. Food and
Agriculture Organization.
The report also notes that
about 1,900 insect species
have been documented as a
food source globally. That
they’re a source of protein
is well established, but if
the world is to turn to bugs
to replace meat, the
critters will need to offer
more than protein. Iron is a
particularly important
nutrient that is often
missing in non-meat diets,
causing iron-deficiency
anemia, which can lead to
lower cognition, immunity,
poor pregnancy outcomes and
other problems. In light of
these concerns, Yemisi
Latunde-Dada and colleagues
wanted to find out whether
commonly eaten insects could
contribute to a well-rounded
meal.
Our subconscious is in
charge at least 90% of the
time. It keeps our bodies
working: our hearts pump
without us having to think
“beat, beat, beat, beat”, we
can walk without thinking
about moving our muscles,
and when a virus attacks our
system, our subconscious
fights the virus
automatically. It does lots
of things to keep you safe
and well internally, but
it’s also looking after you
externally; it is
looking out for things, and
patterns, that are going to
cause you harm that are
outside your body and kicks
off a protective response
when it “thinks” something
is going to hurt you.
The problem is: we are
working on outdated survival
instincts that come from the
caveman days...
Until now, the world has not
had a definitive answer to
these questions. But in
recent months, researchers
believe they have finally
begun to crack the problem —
and the results are
surprising. The amount
of methane in the atmosphere
has more than doubled in the
past 250 years. It has been
responsible for about a
fifth of global warming. But
it has a confusing recent
history. The steady rise of
emissions stopped in the
1990s. Emissions were stable
for almost a decade until
2007, but then abruptly
resumed their rise.
Scientists have found that
some crustaceans have just
the trick for hiding from
predators...
Animals living in the
midwater habitat of the
ocean adapt different
camouflage methods to
deal with light coming from
different directions. Light
from the sun becomes dimmer
and changes color as it
penetrates deeper water. To
deal with this, fish and
other sea creatures hide
from predators stalking them
from above by adapting dark
colors on the top parts of
their bodies as a
disguise to blend in with
the dark depths below.
Scientists have detected
high levels of a toxin
produced by freshwater algae
in mussels from San
Francisco Bay. Although
shellfish harvested from
California's coastal waters
are monitored for toxins
produced by marine algae,
they are not routinely
tested for this freshwater
toxin, called microcystin.
The toxin, which causes
liver damage, is produced by
a type of cyanobacteria
(also known as blue-green
algae) that thrives in warm,
nutrient-rich water
conditions. It has been
found in many lakes and
rivers in California,
including the Sacramento and
San Joaquin Rivers, which
flow into the San Francisco
Bay Delta, and in several
Bay Area lakes
Scientists have discovered
one of the earliest examples
of handedness in an ancient
human
From sports to cutting
paper—handedness always
comes into play. And the
discovery of a nearly
two-million-year-old jaw
with cut marks on the teeth
may suggest that handedness
is no new trend.
The vast majority of
modern humans are right
handed—roughly 90
percent—with only a small
fraction of the population
rocking the south paw.
Obamacare is becoming a
nightmare. Health insurance
premiums will jump an
average of 22 percent in
2017, and federal spending
to assist moderate income
families is spinning out of
control.
For Democrats, the
answers are simple—raise
taxes on the wealthy to
further subsidize a failing
system—or force a single
payer system—which can
dictate prices to service
providers and compel their
participation—onto reluctant
Americans.
For conservative
Republicans, the issue is
more vexing. Merely
repealing the law is not
enough, because that would
hardly return America to a
free market.
The Russian military
announced Thursday it
was conducting drills
involving state-of-the
art missiles near the
nation's western border,
one day after NATO
warned Vladimir Putin's
regime had launched its
largest naval deployment
since the Cold War.
The purchase means a lot of
things, and none of them
good for consumers. For one,
it strengthens the
monopolization of the
world’s food supply. It also
means more genetically
modified organisms (GMOs)
and chemicals to be doused
on them.
Now, some are predicting
the merge could also mean
the takeover of the
marijuana industry. Monsanto
has an intimate business
relationship with Scotts
Miracle-Gro, “a convicted
corporate criminal– and
Scott’s Miracle-Gro is
trying to take over the
marijuana industry,”
according to Big Buds Mag.
In Buenos Aires,
thousands of women dressed
in black to protest the
brutal murder of Lucía
Pérez. (La Nación)
The call for protests was
made by the collective Ni
Una Menos (not one more),
along with 50 other
organizations across Latin
America. They protested
Wednesday against gender
violence in Chile, Uruguay,
Mexico, Paraguay, Guatemala,
Spain and France, among
others.
Thomas Frieden, director of
the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
blocked a request by
attorneys from Morgan &
Morgan law firm to allow
whistleblower, William
Thompson, PhD, to testify in
a court case in
Tennessee. The case involves
a 16-year old boy who
alleges his autism was
caused by CDC recommended
vaccines.
A common insecticide used
in urban and agricultural
areas, bifenthrin, is
harmful to aquatic
ecosystems at levels that
were previously considered
safe, according to a new
study by the U.S. Geological
Survey. The insecticide was
measured in several streams
in the Midwest at levels
that caused harm to
artificial aquatic
ecosystems.
Bifenthrin is used to
combat common household
pests like ants and
termites, to control
mosquitos that could spread
diseases like West Nile and
Zika and on crops to kill
aphids and other
agricultural pests. About
1.2 million pounds of
bifenthrin was used in the
United States in 2013.
If you think getting your
child vaccinated against
measles is a responsible
step to ensure the safety of
your child’s health, you may
be shocked to find that the
vaccine is actually more
dangerous than the disease
itself.
Everyone knows that the 2008
Global Economic Collapse was
caused primarily by banks’
unregulated casino-style
gambling. Instead of
blackjack and slots, the
banks bet massively on
financial derivatives known
as a “credit default swaps,”
which Warren Buffett
famously called “weapons of
financial mass destruction.”
The water protectors
taking a stand against the
Dakota Access pipeline
(DAPL) invoked 1851 Treaty
rights on Sunday October 23
over unceded territory as
authorities intensified
their militarized crackdown
and arrested 127 people.
“Today, the Oceti Sakowin
has enacted eminent domain
on DAPL lands, claiming 1851
treaty rights,” said Mekasi
Camp-Horinek, an Oceti
Sakowin camp coordinator, in
a statement. “This is
unceded land. Highway 1806
as of this point is
blockaded. We will be
occupying this land and
staying here until this
pipeline is permanently
stopped. We need bodies, and
we need people who are
trained in nonviolent direct
action. We are still staying
nonviolent, and we are still
staying peaceful.”
Amendment 1 is written in
pro-solar language, but it
is backed by the state's
utilities and opponents say
it will crush the growth of
solar in the Sunshine State.
Colorado voters are being
asked to make it harder to
amend the state
constitution...
Critics point out that the
initiative would
dramatically change the
petition process in
Colorado, limiting access to
the ballot, thereby
softening the voice of the
people.
The Gallup poll released
Wednesday finds support for
regulating and taxing
cannabis hit an all-time
high of 60 percent, up from
58 percent last year and 50
percent in 2011.
Hillary
Clinton gave a
disputable description
of the location of
Mosul, the largest city
held by the Islamic
State group, during
Wednesday’s final
major-party presidential
debate, but pundits and
the press did not
pounce.
In contrast
to the intense news
coverage of Libertarian
candidate Gary Johnson’s
moment of confusion
about Aleppo, Syria,
during an MSNBC
interview last month,
Clinton’s arguable
misstatement about the
major Iraqi city
attracted just a handful
of tweets.
Glyphosate, the main
ingredient in Monsanto’s
Roundup herbicide, is
recognized as the world’s
most widely used weed
killer. What is not so well
known is that farmers also
use glyphosate on crops such
as wheat, oats, edible beans
and other crops right before
harvest, raising concerns
that the herbicide could get
into food products.
In one of the most
remarkable turnarounds ever
achieved in the face of a
natural resource crisis,
Israel has overcome a
looming fresh water shortage
in less than a decade. The
country now has such a large
water surplus that it can
sell significant amounts to
its parched neighboring
countries. The reversal was
made possible by the
construction of the world’s
largest desalination plants,
which convert seawater from
the Mediterranean into
potable water for both
domestic use and agriculture
Joaquin 'El
Chapo' Guzman is
currently awaiting
extradition behind bars. In
the midst, of his custody
status, it is being reported
that the judge that presided
over his high-profile case
has been murdered.
According to the
Huffington Post, Judge
Vicente BermudezZacarias was found
fatally shot in the head
outside his home on Monday.
He appears to have been shot
while he was jogging near
his home in Metepec, just
outside of Mexico City. He
died later in the hospital.
Is a hypothetical large
planet – far beyond Neptune
– causing a tilt in the sun?
Plus, evidence for a 9th
planet based on “extreme
Kuiper Belt objects.”
Flooring can be made from
any number of sustainable
materials, making it,
generally, an eco-friendly
feature in homes and
businesses alike.
Now, however, flooring
could be even more “green,”
thanks to an inexpensive,
simple method developed by
University of
Wisconsin–Madison materials
engineers that allows them
to convert footsteps into
usable electricity.
A new multiyear study from
scientists at the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution
(WHOI) has shown for the
first time how changes in
ocean temperature affect a
key species of
phytoplankton. The study,
published in the October 21
issue of the
journal Science, tracked
levels of Synechococcus—a
tiny bacterium common in
marine ecosystems—near the
coast of Massachusetts over
a 13-year period. As ocean
temperatures increased
during that time, annual
blooms
of Synechococcus occurred up
to four weeks earlier than
usual because cells divided
faster in warmer conditions,
the study found.
Hydrogen (H2) is an
extremely simple molecule
and yet a valuable raw
material which as a result
of the development of
sophisticated catalysts is
becoming more and more
important. In industry and
commerce, applications range
from food and fertilizer
manufacture to crude oil
cracking to utilization as
an energy source in fuel
cells
Unanimous ruling against
seizing private land for gas
storage has potential
implications for at least
one major proposed
fracking-related pipeline
across the state.
Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte declared Thursday
that he’s breaking from the
United States, saying that
he is strengthening ties
with China and that America
“lost.
Most of us are running
around, barely spending any
time outside of our own
selves, much less outside
our cars. Our new
cars visiting new
store openings and racing
back to our new
modern homes to read up on
the newest
celebrity. Are new-fangled
things all we have become?
Is this all we admire? Is
this our mode of education?
Although this article is
written for anyone
experiencing religious
repression, it is not
intended to point fingers or
judge spiritual beliefs.
Rather, the intention is to
identify the serious
repercussions of repression,
while also enlightening a
path to freedom. The first
step is recognizing the
dynamics of organizational
repression and how it
seamlessly operates through
a system of disempowerment.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(25 Oct, 26 Oct, 27 Oct).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at active to
major storm levels on days
one and two (25 Oct, 26 Oct)
and unsettled to minor storm
levels on day three (27
Oct).
...With a little creativity,
you don’t necessarily need
to seek out a pricey jungle
healing center or track down
a traveling shaman in order
to heal using these methods.
Below is one of the
fundamental strategies that
the shamans used in our
film. Don’t be deceived by
how simple it is!
Hillary Clinton was
responsible for coordinating
a $12 million donation from
King Mohammed VI of Morocco
to the Clinton Foundation
ahead of a May 2015 speech,
a Wikileaks release showed.
The latest hack of
Clinton aide John Podesta’s
emails showed one from
Clinton’s closest aide, Huma
Abedin, which said that it
was “HRC’s idea” to speak at
a Clinton Global Initiative
meeting in Morocco in May
2015 as a condition of the
$12 million donation, Fox
News reported.
Using a brand of laptop
that’s been banned by the
federal government since
2006 because of the
creator’s ties to the
Chinese government, one of
Hillary Clinton’s lawyers
perused through the former
secretary of state’s private
email server.
That decision, according
to House Judiciary Committee
chairman Bob Goodlatte
(R-Va.), may have given
hackers the opportunity to
access sensitive information
on the server the Democratic
presidential nominee used
during her time at the State
Department.
A pipeline owned by the same
company behind Dakota Access
leaked 55,000 gallons of
gasoline into a major river,
endangering the drinking
water of six million people.
A promising new study
published in the journal ‘Neurology
Research International’, entitled
“The Potential of Curcumin
In Treatment of Spinal Cord
Injury”, suggests that the
ancient
Indian spice turmeric,
and its primary polyphenol
curcumin, may provide
victims of spinal cord
injury (SCI) a safer and
more effective approach than
conventional treatment which
relies primarily on surgery
and corticosteroids, a class
of anti-inflammatory drugs
notorious for adverse health
effects.
A buzz word used by many
presidential candidates is
“change”...
The problem is that our urge
for change is genuine, yet
undefined “change” can be
bad or good, and without
specific information about
what changes a candidate is
proposing — not just the
idea or sentiment
of change — then we really
have no idea what we are
actually voting for.
Nigeria’s government is
negotiating the release of
another 83 of the Chibok
schoolgirls taken in a mass
abduction two-and-a-half
years ago, but more than 100
others appear unwilling to
leave their Boko Haram
Islamic extremist captors, a
community leader said
Tuesday.
A team of researchers from
Madrid is developing a
thermal energy storage
system that uses molten
silicon to store up to 10
times more energy than
existing thermal storage
options. The hope is to
develop the technology into
a new generation of low-cost
solar thermal stations to
store solar energy in urban
centers.
Acupuncture
downregulates (or turns
off) pro-inflammatory
cells known as M1
macrophages
Acupuncture also
upregulates (or
activates)
anti-inflammatory M2
macrophages, thereby
reducing pain and
swelling
M2 macrophages are a
source of
anti-inflammatory
interleukin-10 (IL-10);
by upregulating M2
macrophages, acupuncture
leads to an increase in
IL-10, which
subsequently helps
relieve pain and
inflammation
If you're a fan of inspiring
films that take healing to
the next level, We've got a
big treat for you. We just
received word that there is
a FREE online screening
event scheduled for the new
film "The Sacred Science"
that starts on October 20th
and runs until October 30th.
What happens when we flush
the toilet is not normally
high on the list of dinner
table topics, but a few
forward thinking individuals
are taking the subject
seriously. Since water
security, ecology and
health are all top concerns
facing us today, technology
that addresses our wasteful
bathroom and household
practices is nothing to be
scorned. In fact, our poo
and pee can be environmental
champions, if given half a
chance.
It was a gorgeous late
summer afternoon in a field
filled with horses, tipis
and headdresses. Tribal
leaders from across the
West—Navajo from Arizona,
Yakama and Swinomish from
Washington State—were
addressing a crowd of
hundreds who had gathered
around the camp’s main fire.
They had come to support the
Standing Rock Sioux tribe
whose reservation was
uncomfortably close to the
pipeline’s path and who had
started this protest months
earlier. They drew a flood
of support from other tribes
across the country.
Epidemic levels of opioid
addiction and overdose in
the United States have
gained widespread attention,
and Big Pharma has
rightfully been implicated
in the problem. But another
health crisis is sweeping
not just America, but the
world — and drug companies’
role in the latest crisis is
equally significant.
Superbugs have garnered
countless headlines lately —
and for good reason. As
Bloomberg reported this
week, superbugs, bacteria
that have grown resistant to
antibiotics, are estimated
to claim the lives of
700,000 worldwide every year
data on cases in the United
States and government
agencies are complicit
About a decade ago, a New
York Times article said that
it would cost $10 billion
annually to provide clean,
safe water to everyone in
the world. This number was
likely arrived at without
considering free and
low-cost energy which could
help to desalinate or filter
water, or the latest
sustainable technologies
which pull water right out
of thin air.
According to data
pulled from Pew Charitable
Trusts, the pharmaceutical
industry spends enough money
on the face-to-face
promotion of their drugs, to
provide clean water to the
entire planet – $15 billion,
to be exact, with an extra
$12 billion and change spent
on additional drug marketing
schemes.
About 50 percent of the
nation’s residents source
their fresh water supply
from groundwater wells,
which have deteriorated
throughout the U.S. over the
past decade. For shallow
wells, severe drought
conditions have gradually
depleted groundwater levels.
However, for medium and deep
wells, water levels have
plummeted much more as a
result of increased
hydraulic fracturing. As the
rate of usage of medium and
deep wells has increased,
the recharge potential has
decreased, and a number of
them have dried up.
Likewise, a 2015 U.S. EPA
study found that industrial
firms engaged in hydraulic
fracturing have also
contributed to the erosion
of groundwater quality, as
wastewater discharge is
polluting groundwater soil
with chemicals and metals.
China’s economic growth
remained stable in the third
quarter, all but ensuring
the government’s full-year
growth target is met and
opening a window for policy
makers to deliver on vows to
rein in excessive credit and
surging property prices.
Residents living in the
Fountain, Security, and
Widefield, CO, areas were
informed earlier this year
that toxic chemicals have
been entering their drinking
water for decades.
Three class action
lawsuits have been filed
over the contaminaion so
far, according to the
Colorado Springs Independent:
two by Denver-based Hannon
Law Firm and one by
Springs-based McDivitt Law
Firm in partnership with New
York-based Napoli Shkolnik
PLLC. Both are against a
number of chemical
manufacturers.
Construction equipment
for Dakota Access LLC's
controversial $3.7 billion
oil pipeline suffered about
$2 million in damage in an
intentionally set fire over
the weekend in Iowa,
authorities said on Monday.
The Jasper
County Sheriff's office said
the fire occurred late
Saturday near the town of
Reasnor, Iowa, near where
other equipment was set
ablaze in August along the
pipeline route, which is
planned to carry oil from
North Dakota to the U.S.
Gulf Coast. State and
federal authorities are
investigating.
Ecuador noted it wasn't
revoking asylum it granted
the WikiLeaks founder in
2012...
"The Government of Ecuador
respects the principle of
non-intervention in the
internal affairs of other
states. It does not
interfere in external
electoral processes, nor
does it favor any particular
candidate," the government
said in a statement.
“There’s enormous risk in
public markets because
that’s the one that central
banks have distorted to the
greatest extent,” said
El-Erian, chief economic
adviser at Allianz SE and a
Bloomberg View columnist.
“It’s very hard to say I’m
going to buy a basket of
public equities and go to
sleep for the next five to
10 years and feel good about
the returns. Similarly with
bonds.”
Biomass grown in beer
wastewater provides a
low-cost means of converting
biomass into battery
electrodes...
Engineers from the
University of Colorado
Boulder have created a new
energy cell fabrication
technique that mutually
benefits beer makers and
fuel cell technologies,
reducing the costly
wastewater treatment for
brewers while also
establishing a
cost-effective method of
building renewable,
naturally-derived fuel cell
technologies.
Atrazine is the second
most commonly used
herbicide in the U.S.,
with more than 73
million pounds being
applied to golf courses,
lawns and food crops
each year
Testing reveals 85
percent of male
smallmouth bass in
American wildlife
refuges now carry eggs.
The lowest incidence of
feminization or intersex
was 60 percent; the
highest was 100
Atrazine is the one most
commonly found pesticide
in U.S. drinking water,
and studies have linked
atrazine exposure to
impaired sexual
development, some
cancers, birth defects,
insulin resistance and
infertility
A U.S. EPA staffer will
not be prosecuted for a
wastewater spill that
contaminated water in three
states.
The U.S. Attorney's
Office in Colorado declined
to prosecute the employee
for the devastating Animas
River wastewater spill, Fox
News reported. The spill
contaminated waterways in
Colorado, New Mexico, and
Utah with toxic heavy
metals, including arsenic.
In a letter dated
October 17, the Department
of the Interior notified
Nooksack Tribal Chairman Bob
Kelly it does not recognize
any of the Nooksack
council's actions after
March 24. On that date the
council fell below quorum
when several council
members' terms were up and
no new elections had been
held to replace them.
A dangerous toxin from
blue-green algae made its
way into treated drinking
water in New York state for
the first time ever.
“Cayuga County officials
health and municipal
officials reported [last
month] that a dangerous
toxin released by an algal
bloom in Owasco Lake in the
Finger Lakes region, had
survived the treatment
process in two different
plants, and made it into the
supplies being distributed
to homes and businesses.
Combined, the two systems
serve more than 50,000
customers in Cayuga County,”
the Democrat and
Chronicle reported.
A former vice chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff
has pleaded guilty to making
false statements during an
investigation into a leak of
classified information about
a covert cyberattack on
Iran's nuclear facilities.
Germany is now offering
to pay Middle Eastern and
North African countries to
take back migrants who have
fled the war-ravaged and
poverty-stricken regions.
“We had to find ways to
stop illegal migration,”
German Chancellor Angela
Merkel said during a recent
trip to Ethiopia, the
Washington Post reported.
The plan allays fears that
the utility would simply cap
6 million tons of ash in
place. Instead, the material
will be dug out of the
ground and recycled into an
ingredient of concrete. Once
excavation is complete, this
should remove the threat of
coal ash contaminating local
groundwater and the
Yadkin River.
“The limits of
my language are the limits
of my world.”~
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Human beings perceive
everything within their
realities through the five
basic senses of taste,
touch, hearing, sight, and
smell (we will limit this
article to five when in
reality there are upwards of
20). By experiencing the
sensations of the reality
around us, we create a
subjective understanding of
what reality is and how we
perceive it to be
constructed. According to
the generally accepted
evolutionary framework for
the human race, language did
not arise until very
recently.
This year
the pharmaceutical, alcohol
and prison food industries
have all weighed in to
oppose marijuana
legalization initiatives
across the country. This
comes as little surprise:
These industries all have
financial interests in
keeping marijuana illegal.
By funding anti-legalization
efforts, they’re simply
admitting it.
undreds
of thousands of pieces of
space junk are tracked as
they orbit the Earth.
More than 500,000 debris
remains are tracked as they
orbit the Earth at speeds up
to 17,500 mph, a speed fast
enough for a small piece to
damage a satellite or
spacecraft. The growing
amount of space debris
increases the danger of all
space vehicles, more
specifically the
International Space Station,
space shuttles, and other
spacecraft with humans
aboard.
Fears of a bond-market
crash, a breakdown in
globalization, a new crisis
in the euro area?
There were a bevy of
reasons for fund managers
to push their cash balances
to 5.8 percent of their
portfolios in October, up
from 5.5 percent last month,
matching levels not seen
since the aftermath of the
Brexit vote. The share of
cash hasn't been higher than
that since November 2001,
shortly after the terrorist
attacks in the U.S.
According to TakePart, the
Iowa Environmental Council
(IEC) found in a review of
previous research that
consumption of drinking
water containing high levels
of nitrate has been “linked
to a number of human health
effects.” These include
birth defects relating to
brain and spinal development
as well as bladder and
thyroid cancers.
Taking “fake” pills can
ease pain – even if the
patient knows they don’t
contain actual medicine, a
new study finds.
It’s long been thought
that the reason so-called
“fake” pills, or placebos,
work is because patients
believe they will. This is
known as the "placebo
effect." But this new
research calls that belief
into question.
If you should come across
something that looks like a
mussel but that has a
blinking green LED in it,
just leave it alone … it's a
robomussel. Glued into
existing mussel beds in 71
locations worldwide, the
miniature sensors were
developed by Northeastern
University's Prof. Brian
Helmuth, and they're part
of an ongoing effort to
track the effects of climate
change on the marine
environment.
Hillary Clinton might
have perjured herself when
she answered interrogatories
from conservative watchdog
group Judicial Watch filed
in a federal court just last
week, according to newly
released documents.
Earlier this year, a
federal district court judge
required the Democratic
presidential nominee to
answer a series of questions
from Judicial Watch as part
of a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit. Because those
answers were written under
oath, the individual behind
them is subject to perjury
charges if the claims are
false.
Do you pay attention to the
‘Nutrition Facts’ label when
you buy food? You should.
It’s not perfect, but it is
an excellent resource for
ensuring your body gets the
right nutrients in the right
amounts. The Nutrition Facts
label should be one of the
first things you check
whenever you shop for food.
The letter says that the
minimum import price (MIP),
anti-dumping and
anti-subsidy measures on
cells and modules from China
have had “unforeseen
consequences” and “should be
removed immediately.”
The highlight of Overland
Expo East was the large
motor vehicles and trailers,
but the show also had some
interesting tech in smaller
packages. Perhaps the
smallest of all, the Roving
Blue O-Pen supports
off-roaders and world
travelers by keeping
drinking water clean and
fresh. In contrast to more
common purification means,
like UV rays and iodine,
this pen-sized,
battery-powered purification
device kills bacteria,
protozoa and viruses with
the stuff that blocks those
UV rays in the atmosphere:
ozone.
With the help of state
driver's license data, U.S.
law enforcement agencies
have created a huge a
face-recognition database of
more than 117 Million
American adults that are
regularly scanned in the
course of police
investigations.
What's even worse? Most
of those people who are
scanned by police without
prior knowledge are
law-abiding citizens.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(21 Oct, 22 Oct, 23 Oct).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on day one (21 Oct),
quiet to minor storm levels
on day two (22 Oct) and
unsettled to minor storm
levels on day three (23
Oct).
In one of the thousands
of emails illegally hacked
and then made public by
WikiLeaks, a Politico
reporter secretly asked
Hillary Clinton campaign
chairman John Podesta to
fact-check an article.
The reporter, Politico
chief political
correspondent Glenn Thrush,
asked Podesta in an email
dated April 30, 2015:
Young Americans are so
dissatisfied with their
choices in this presidential
election that nearly one in
four told an opinion poll
they would rather have a
giant meteor destroy the
Earth than see Donald Trump
or Hillary Clinton in the
White House.
The United States expects
Islamic State to use crude
chemical weapons as it tries
to repel an Iraqi-led
offensive on the city of
Mosul, U.S. officials say,
although adding that the
group's technical ability to
develop such weapons is
highly limited. U.S.
forces have begun to
regularly collect shell
fragments to test for
possible chemical agents,
given Islamic State's use of
mustard agent in the months
before Monday's launch of
the Mosul offensive, one
official said.
Natural gasoline on the US
Gulf Coast climbed to a
15-month high Wednesday as
crude futures ended the day
almost 3% higher on a
surprise US crude stocks
draw.
Market sources
said a slight uptick in
demand -- for gasoline
exports and diluent for
Latin America -- are also
supporting prices.
Quiet pressure from the
U.S. government played a
role in Ecuador's decision
to block WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange from using
the internet at Ecuador's
London embassy, U.S.
officials told NBC News.
"It was a bit of an
eviction notice," said a
senior intelligence
official.
The United States and South
Korea agreed on Wednesday to
step up military and
diplomatic efforts to
counter North Korea's
nuclear and missile
programs, saying they posed
a "grave" security threat
following repeated tests
this year.
They may not get it this
year, but boosters of energy
storage technologies want
their sector to get the same
tax credits that the federal
government extends to the
wind and solar industries.
Hillary Clinton
and
Donald Trump
have very different ways to
achieve it. How energy is
produced and where it comes
from affect jobs, the
economy and the environment.
Phthalates are pervasive
chemicals, found in
everything from your
cosmetics and shower
curtain, to your food
and household cleaners
Researchers now
demonstrate an increased
potential for ingestion
of phthalates when you
eat at fast food
restaurants, including
pizza and sandwich shops
Phthalates are linked to
low vitamin D levels,
potentially affecting
many health conditions
including depression,
migraines and declining
cognitive function in
the elderly
A new study in the journal
Cell Reports has
established that antibiotics
strong enough to kill off
gut bacteria also halt the
growth of new brain cells
located in the hippocampus —
the region of the brain
responsible for memory. “We
found prolonged antibiotic
treatment might impact brain
function,” says senior
author Susanne Asu Wolf of
the Max-Delbrueck-Center for
Molecular Medicine in
Berlin, Germany. And the
researchers think they know
why — in short, a unique
white blood cell that
functions as a go-between
for the brain, immune system
and gut. The good news is
the team also discovered two
remedies which can reverse
the damage.
Archaeologists in China
recently discovered evidence
indicating humans have been
using cannabis as medicine
and employing it in
spiritual rituals for over
2,400 years.
Since that case, the federal
courts have uniformly
followed the Pentagon Papers
rule. Hence, much to the
chagrin of the Obama
administration, the media
was free to publish Edward
Snowden's revelations about
the ubiquitous and
unconstitutional nature of
government spying on
Americans by the National
Security Agency. The same is
true for Trump's tax returns
and Clinton's emails.
Former Democratic
presidential candidate
Bernie Sanders and four
other senators on Thursday
called on President Barack
Obama to order a
comprehensive environmental
review of a pipeline project
that has stirred widespread
opposition from Native
Americans and environmental
activists.
“The Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe is not backing
down from this fight,” said
Archambault in a statement
after the decision came down
at 4 p.m. “We are guided by
prayer, and we will continue
to fight for our people. We
will not rest until our
lands, people, waters and
sacred places are
permanently protected from
this destructive pipeline.”
In examining honey samples
from various locations in
the United States, the FDA
has found fresh evidence
that residues of the weed
killer called glyphosate can
be pervasive – found even in
a food that is not produced
with the use of glyphosate.
All of the samples the FDA
tested in a recent
examination contained
glyphosate residues, and
some of the honey showed
residue levels double the
limit allowed in the
European Union, according to
documents obtained through a
Freedom of Information Act
request. There is no legal
tolerance level for
glyphosate in honey in the
United States.
In March 1995, members of
a Japanese cult released the
deadly nerve agent sarin
into the Tokyo subway
system, killing a dozen
people and injuring a
thousand more.
This leads to the
question: What if a U.S.
transportation hub was
contaminated with a chemical
agent? The hub might be shut
down for weeks, which could
have a substantial economic
impact. Craig Tenney, a
chemical engineer at Sandia
National Laboratories, is
looking for better ways to
clean contaminated concrete
to reduce that impact.
“We can’t just rip out
and replace the affected
concrete...
Climate change is expected
to wreak all kinds of havoc
on future weather systems,
with experts predicting
greater and more frequent
storms, hurricanes, droughts
and floods. But even the
darkest clouds have some
silver lining, and a new
study closely examining its
effects on Ethiopia's Blue
Nile Basin has uncovered
exactly that in the form of
projected increases in
rainfall, which could spur
greater crop yields and
large-scale hydro-power
projects in the region.
The internet exploded in
September when America’s
Drug Enforcement
Agency announced it would
outlaw kratom—a mildly
popular plant native to
Southeast Asia. The DEA
claimed the plant should be
a Schedule I substance and
join the ranks of heroin,
Ecstasy and marijuana as a
chemical with “no currently
accepted medical use and a
high potential for abuse.”
The decision at the FBI to
not prosecute Hillary
Clinton over her mishandling
of classified information
was solely from the top
down, a source told Fox
News.
“No trial level
attorney agreed, no agent
working the case agreed,
with the decision not to
prosecute — it was a
top-down decision,” said the
source who is described as
an official close to the
Clinton case.
An energy company plans a
project that would destroy
land Native people hold as
sacred. Despite Native
protests, neither state nor
federal agencies intervene
to protect those cultural
sites. The project proceeds.
The land is forever altered.
Hundreds of Native people
and their supporters
converge on the site to
protest and to grieve their
loss.
Given recent news, not to
mention the choice of photo
at the top of this story,
you could be forgiven for
assuming I’m describing
current events at the
Standing Rock reservation in
North Dakota. That’s where
the company Energy Transfer
Partners is trying to push
the new Dakota Access
Pipeline through burial
grounds and medicine wheels
sacred to the Standing Rock
Sioux Tribe.
..
But I’m actually
describing a gathering four
years ago in the
southernmost parts of the
California desert. There,
near the little desert town
of Ocotillo,
China’s currency outflows
may be bigger than they
look, with Goldman Sachs
Group Inc warning that a
rising amount of capital is
exiting the country in yuan
rather than in dollars.
While the nation’s
foreign-exchange reserves
have stabilized and lenders’
net foreign-exchange
purchases for clients have
fallen close to a one-year
low, official data show that
$27.7 billion in yuan
payments left China in
August. That’s compared with
a monthly average of $4.4
billion in the five years
through 2014.
Greenland's government urged
the United States and
Denmark on Monday to clean
up 30 rusting Cold War-era
U.S. military installations
there, saying it was losing
patience over risks of
radioactive and chemical
waste.
“The elders knew
peace would not come on the
Earth until the circle of
humanity is complete; until
all four colors sat in the
circle and shared their
teachings.”
The sacred medicine wheel of
the four directions is for
all extents and purposes a
mandala, a visual depiction
of the universe, our Earth
and our inner universe. It’s
symbolism is simple and
primal, and through these
qualities it is powerful and
meaningful.
“I know that inside the FBI
there is a revolt,” Joseph
diGenova tells The American
Spectator. “There is a
revolt against the director.
The people inside the bureau
believe the director is a
dirty cop. They believe that
he threw the [Hillary
Clinton email] case. They do
not know what he was
promised in return. But the
people inside the bureau who
were involved in the case
and who knew about the case
are talking to former FBI
people expressing their
disgust at the conduct of
the director.”
We finally know why Hillary
Clinton refused to release
the transcripts of her paid
speeches to bankers and
special interests: When her
staff assembled a list of
the most damaging comments
in those transcripts, they
must have seen immediately
that they could not afford
for the material ever to be
made public.
It’s difficult, almost
impossible, to imagine a
situation in which Obamacare
could get any worse: 16
healthcare co-ops went
belly-up, the Tennessee
Health Commissioner is
saying the state’s Obamacare
exchanges are “very near
collapse,” and analysts
cannot fathom a positive
future for the system in
either the short or
long-term.
The House
amicus brief, in addition to
explaining why the insurance
companies should be barred
from receiving bailout
funds, also discusses why
the Obama administration’s
move to settle other cases
with billions of taxpayer
dollars is both unlawful and
unconstitutional.
The Islamic Republic also
aims to increase its exports
to 2.4 million b/d, from 2.2
million b/d currently, NIOC
managing director Ali Kardor
told journalists on the
sidelines of a conference in
Tehran.
An ex-Teaneck firefighter
with a law degree decided
that if the feds weren’t
going to take Chris Christie
to court over Bridgegate —
he’d do it himself.
And on Thursday, a
Hackensack municipal judge
allowed his complaint to
proceed — meaning the New
Jersey governor could face
criminal charges over the
four-day closure of lanes
feeding the George
Washington Bridge from Fort
Lee in 2013.
Three members of a Kansas
militia group were charged
Friday with plotting to bomb
an apartment building filled
with Somali immigrants in
the western Kansas
meatpacking town of Garden
City.
Acting U.S. Attorney Tom
Beall said Curtis Wayne
Allen, 49; Patrick Eugene
Stein, 47; and Gavin Wayne
Wright, 49, are members of a
small group that calls
itself “the Crusaders.”
Police said on Sunday that a
bottle of flammable liquid
was thrown through the front
window of the office and
that the words "Nazi
Republicans get out of town
or else" were spray painted
on a nearby building.
The universe isn’t spinning
or stretched in any
particular direction,
according to stringent tests
from scientists in London.
For many decades, it’s been
a premise of cosmology – the
science of the universe as a
whole – that our universe is
the same in all directions.
It may look clumpy on small
scales, for example, the
scale of our solar system or
Milky Way galaxy or even
Local Group of galaxies. But
on the largest possible
scales, the scale of the
whole universe, all is
expected to be uniform. This
assumption fuels the vast
majority of calculations
made about our universe. ..
It is not the “scary
clown” epidemic that
makes Americans afraid,
but more mundane fears,
such as corrupt
government. Unfair
officials terrify people
more than terrorism or
economic collapse,
according to a new
survey.
Over 60 percent of
adult Americans have
confessed that they are
“very afraid”
of corrupt government
officials. That fear is
holding its leading
position for the second
year in the row and is
followed by terrorism
and money-related
concerns.
Whether your homestead is
off-grid, you don’t have
enough room in your freezer,
or you want meat that could
last when power is
interrupted, salting is a
great time-tested option.
In this article, we will
discuss dry salting. The
process works by using the
salt to draw out the
moisture from the meat and
any potentially harmful
bacteria until microbial
growth is prohibited. It is
basically chemically induced
dehydration. There is
always a risk of food
poisoning when one is
consuming meat that is
moths, or even a year old,
get properly prepared and
use caution when salting
your meat so that you can
benefit from a method of
food preservation that has
helped keep people alive for
thousands of years.
The
solar panels people are most
familiar with are the dark,
photovoltaic (PV) cells
often seen on roofs, but
strides have been made in
the last few years to
develop transparent versions
that could eventually be
fitted into windows and
other glass surfaces. Known
as luminescent solar
concentrators (LSC), these
devices so far haven't
proven as efficient or
scalable as regular panels,
but now a team at Los Alamos
National Laboratory has
demonstrated a new technique
that could make for larger,
more practical solar
energy-harvesting windows.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (18 Oct,
19 Oct, 20 Oct). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (18
Oct), quiet to unsettled
levels on day two (19 Oct)
and quiet levels on day
three (20 Oct).
Donald Trump did win the
battle for the nomination —
a fact of life.
Donald Trump was
not my first choice, as a
Republican, to be our next
president.
Even after I
endorsed him when he had won
the primaries, I was fully
aware of the potential
turmoil that lie ahead in
the general election. But
Donald Trump did win the
battle for the nomination —
a fact of life.
If party leaders
thumb their nose at
Republican voters whose
candidate won the primaries,
they will destroy the
Republican Party, not Trump.
The danger of the
ever-increasing levels of
carbon dioxide (CO2) in
Earth's atmosphere has
become one of the most
pressing issues of our age.
As such, much research has
been conducted to find ways
not only to reduce it, but
also in ways to remove it.
This has led to many schemes
that simply sequester CO2
underground, or store it in
volcanic rocks. More
ambitious schemes even aim
to not only remove this gas,
but to usefully employ it to
create usable products, such
as plastics and foam, or
even to produce hydrocarbon
fuels. Now scientists from
the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL) claim to
have produced one of the
most usable of all chemicals
– ethanol – in a process
that is not only cheap,
efficient, and scalable, but
also conducted at room
temperature.
South African protesters
demanding free university
education broke windows,
forced open doors and threw
human excrement in an effort
to disrupt the resumption of
classes, according to a
university statement.
Scientists have discovered
that the jumping spider,
among other species, can
detect sounds over long
distances
Gone are the days when you
can gossip freely about your
friends in the arachnid
world. They don't have ears
and were thought to mostly
interpret the world around
them through sight and
touch, but scientists have
now discovered that spiders
possess the ability to hear
over relatively long
distances, a sense that
appears finely tuned to
recognizing the sounds of
incoming enemies.
A senior State Department
official asked for the FBI's
help last year to change the
classification level of an
email from Hillary Clinton's
private server in a proposed
bargain described as a "quid
pro quo" that would have
allowed the FBI to deploy
more agents in foreign
countries, according to
bureau records released
Monday.
The FBI ultimately
rejected the request, which
would have allowed the State
Department to archive the
message related to the 2012
attacks on the U.S.
diplomatic compound in
Benghazi, Libya, in the
basement of its Washington
headquarters "never to be
seen again," according to
the FBI files.
Fasting is the oldest
dietary intervention in
the world. Modern
science confirms it can
have a profoundly
beneficial influence on
your health, including
efficient weight loss,
reversal of type 2
diabetes and more
Fasting and starvation
are not the same.
Fasting is voluntary and
you can start or stop at
any time while
starvation is forced
with no alternatives
Contrary to popular
belief, water fasting is
safe for most people.
Groups that should NOT
fast include those who
are underweight or
malnourished, children
and pregnant or
breastfeeding women
While the horrific and
historic bleaching of the
Great Barrier Reef this past
May caused global concern
and worry over the fate of
the planet’s largest living
structure, many of those who
reported on the issue said
that most of the reef was
expected to mostly recover.
Sadly, five months later,
that doesn’t seem to be the
case. The world’s largest
reef system, spanning an
impressive 1,400 miles off
of Eastern Australia,
experienced severe coral
bleaching in 95% of its
individual reefs and large
swaths of the Northern
section of the reef were
died completely.
An international team of
researchers has carried out
an extremely precise survey
of the observable universe,
and estimated that there are
around 10 times as many
galaxies populating the
cosmos than had previously
been believed.
This clear path to success
suggests that encouraging
and supporting strong
families should be a central
focus of social policy. This
week, Donald Trump gave an
important speech with a plan
to do just that by making
child care more
affordable--both for working
parents and for those who
choose to do the hard work
of raising their kids at
home.
While there is a lot
of attention on
non-fossil-fuel sources
these days such as solar
and hydrogen, the true
Holy Grail of
alternative energy is
nuclear fusion, which
theoretically could
produce an endless
source of clean power.
Because scientists would
have to basically
reproduce the conditions
at the core of the sun
to bring this
atom-mashing technology
to fruition though, it's
been a bit slow to
evolve. Researchers at
MIT however, have just
passed an important
milestone on the long
path to a fusion future,
placing plasma under
what they say is the
most pressure ever
created in a fusion
device.
In nuclear fusion,
the nuclei of atoms are
basically forced to join
together despite their
natural repellency. When
they fuse, they release
a tremendous amount of
energy. How much? Well,
it's the process that
keeps our sun churning,
where molecules of
hydrogen are fused
together in its core to
create helium.
Now we have the spectacle of
a president threatening war
to keep secret emails sent
by his own Secretary of
State on an illegal private
server. He does so, not in
the interest of national
security, but to stop
Republicans from winning the
election. Not since Henry
Kissinger urged South
Vietnam to reject Lyndon
Johnson's peace offer so
Nixon could win in 1968, has
there been so blatant an
attempt to manipulate
questions of war and peace
to influence an election.
The problem with all this
identifying is that none of
the people so adamant about
doing it seem to identify as
individual selves. They’re
all picking a team. I could
wear a lot of different
labels if I chose, but I
identify simply as me. These
days, that makes me a
weirdo.
Many types of trees shed
their leaves as a strategy
to survive harsh weather
conditions. In temperate
forests across the Northern
Hemisphere, trees shed their
leaves during autumn as cold
weather approaches. In
tropical and subtropical
forests, trees shed their
leaves at the onset of the
dry season. Trees that lose
all of their leaves for part
of the year are known as
deciduous trees. Those
that don’t are called
evergreen trees.
WikiLeaks said Monday that
the internet link of its
founder, Julian Assange, was
“intentionally severed by a
state party” and that they
have activated “appropriate
contingency plans” in
response.
Hillary Clinton generally
avoided direct criticism of
Wall Street as she examined
the causes and responses to
the financial meltdown
during a series of paid
speeches to Goldman Sachs,
according to transcripts
disclosed Saturday by
WikiLeaks.
Three transcripts
released as part of the hack
of her campaign chairman’s
emails did not contain any
new bombshells showing she
was unduly influenced by
contributions from the
banking industry, as her
primary rival Bernie Sanders
had suggested.
“We at some point, probably
within the next 18 months,
are likely to go into a
recession, especially —
frankly — if you have
Hillary Clinton elected and
she increases taxes. But
with or without that, we
have a great risk of going
into a recession,” Ross told
Bloomberg
Television.
The good news is, even
though it’s highly
addictive, when consumed in
moderation, in good form,
and in balance with other
foods and healthy habits,
caffeine isn’t always bad
for you
“U.Va. Engineering does not
condone actions that
undermine our values,
dedication to diversity and
educational mission. Our
faculty and staff are
responsible for upholding
our values and demonstrating
them to students and the
community.”
It's a weapon that
justifies the use of the
word "awesome" to describe
its power. The Massive
Ordnance Penetrator — or MOP
— weighs in at 30,000
pounds, is almost 20 feet
long and is designed to
burrow through 200 feet of
earth and 60 feet of
concrete before detonating.
It's the king of the
so-called "bunker busters"
and is the largest
non-nuclear weapon in the
world.
The anchor responded by
saying she hasn’t heard that
kind of degrading talk
before and knows of other
people who haven’t heard it
either. Carson then stated,
“Maybe that’s the problem.
Maybe that’s the problem,”
leaving Keilar visibly taken
aback.
As Donald Trump detailed
the consequences of former
President Bill Clinton’s
sexual scandals, a
television camera caught
Bill Clinton’s facial
expression from the audience
during Sunday night’s
debate.
You might say the former
commander in chief wasn’t
too happy:
Loaded with power, massive
storms may be another
conduit for renewable energy
In terms of energy
stored and released,
hurricanes pack a huge
punch. Your “average”
tropical cyclone might
release the equivalent of
600 terawatts of energy,
with a quarter of a percent
of that as wind; the vast
majority of the energy in a
hurricane is in the form of
heat stored and released as
water vapor condenses into
rain.
The garment industry has
an enormous impact on
your health and the
environment, from
pesticide and heavy
water usage to toxic
dyes and the carbon
footprint of shipping
Many laundry detergents
contain toxic chemicals
that contribute to water
pollution. Microfibers
are also released from
your clothes during
washing, contributing to
declining water quality
and destruction of
wildlife
Fabric softeners and
dryer sheets are also
loaded with hazardous
ingredients that are
best avoided to protect
indoor air quality and
prevent environmental
pollution
In the exchange, Halpin
criticized 21st Century Fox
Chairman Rupert Murdoch, and
NewsCorp Chairman Robert
Thomson for raising their
children Catholic, while
charging that some in the
church were involved in an
"amazing bastardization of
the faith."
"They must be attracted
to the systemic thought and
severely backward gender
relations," Halpin wrote,
per FNI. While Podesta, who
is Catholic, did not
directly respond, Palmieri
did.
While the zika virus might
be grabbing all the
headlines these days,
malaria continues to hold
the dubious honor of being
the most deadly vector-borne
disease, claiming the lives
of more than 400,000 people
each year. No cure has been
found yet, though scientists
have been attempting
everything from altering the
mosquitoes' sense of smell
to rendering them infertile.
That said, a recent study by
researchers at Johns Hopkins
University School of
Medicine has identified a
new approach: changing how
humans smell and taste.
Hacked emails reveal bitter
infighting about how to deal
with a Clinton-linked
consulting firm's business.
Chelsea Clinton flagged
“serious concerns” about her
father’s closest aides
trying to cash in by using
the former president’s name
to gain access to government
officials on behalf of
paying clients, according to
hacked emails released this
week.
Chile's environmental
regulator on Thursday drew
up various charges against
the Los Pelambres copper
mine for mismanaging water
resources and nearby flora,
charges which could lead to
stiff fines or even closure.
"In all, nine charges
have been brought for
detected non-compliance
relating to its RCA
(environmental permit)," the
regulatory body SMA said in
a statement.
The Democratic presidential
nominee’s tax plan, which
includes proposals to raise
taxes on multimillionaires
and impose a “financial risk
fee” on banks, would change
economic behavior enough to
reduce U.S. gross domestic
product by 2.6 percent over
the long run, according to a
study prepared by the
Washington-based Tax
Foundation. In that slightly
smaller economy, wages would
be 2.1 percent lower, the
report said.
Pipeline sabotage by
environmental activists that
shook the North American
energy industry this week
had its roots in a 2013
protest off Massachusetts,
when two men in a 32-foot
lobster boat blocked a
40,000-ton coal shipment to
a power station.
Three years on, Jay
O'Hara and Ken Ward, the
activists involved in the
"Lobster Boat Blockade",
helped mastermind Tuesday's
audacious attempt to shut
five major cross-border
pipelines which can carry
millions of barrels of crude
from Canada's oil sands
region to the United States.
"I think it's going to be so
contentious in the House
because [Paul] Ryan has
moved to protect his House
majority, that it's very
likely that investigations
will begin immediately," the
Newsmax Finance Insider told
CNBC. "And within any kind
of excuse, they will try to
impeach Hillary Clinton
barely after she gets in
office," he said.
Delta Air Lines, the US'
second largest airline,
expects fourth-quarter 2016
fuel costs to rise to
$1.60-$1.65/gal, which will
contribute to higher fares
in the future, a company
executive said Thursday.
Tesla has “gotten $2
billion from the taxpayer,
has not made a penny yet in
cash flow,” Murray said on
CNBC’s Squawk Box, calling
Musk’s company “a
fraud.” “Here again: it’s
subsidies,” Murray
continued.
Musk — whose company
doesn’t actually receive
direct government subsidies
but instead receives “carbon
credits” that it sells to
other companies that don’t
meet carbon emission
standards — took the bait
and upped the ante.
The “real fraud going on
is denial of climate
science,” Musk wrote on
Twitter. “As for
‘subsidies’, Tesla gets
pennies on dollar vs coal.
How about we both go to
zero?”
Newly released emails show
Hillary Clinton’s State
Department and her family’s
Clinton Foundation seemingly
coordinated with so-called
“friends” of former
President Bill Clinton
following the 2010
earthquake that rocked
Haiti.
...German
prosecutors have created an
advanced VR simulation of
the German concentration
camp Auschwitz, in an effort
to model exactly where
specific Nazi war criminals
were and what they saw.
If there’s anything
scientists and the public
seem to agree on, it’s how
baffling the hunt has been
for dark matter. Since we
just can’t seem to find dark
matter using our current
methods, what’s next? How do
we put some data behind this
hypothesis? Or at least put
it to bed in favor of
something we can
substantiate?
What scientists are
calling a "game changer" for
society has been discovered
deep in Tanzania's Rift
Valley: a massive helium gas
field with enough of the
precious commodity to fill
more than 1.2 million MRI
scanners, Phys.org reports.
Besides the sheer amount
of gas, the discovery is
notable because it appears
to be the first time that
stores of helium have been
purposely found (they're
usually stumbled upon during
oil and gas drilling).
Oil prices were down
slightly on Thursday as the
market braced for U.S.
government data likely to
show the first crude
inventory build in six
weeks, with record Chinese
imports of crude limiting
losses.
Also weighing on
the market was data from
Wednesday showing OPEC
output at record highs
despite the producer group's
pledges to cut production
soon to rein in a global
crude glut.
OPEC's two largest oil
producers Saudi Arabia and
Iraq told the oil producer
group that their production
continued to be at elevated
levels, helping the
organization's output to
rise sharply in September,
according to OPEC's monthly
oil market report Wednesday.
Two weeks ago OPEC
surprised the market by
provisionally agreeing to
rein in production to
between 32.5 million and 33
million b/d with the aim of
reversing the fall in oil
prices.
"One spot of unity in an
otherwise divided
environmental policy
landscape is that the vast
majority of Americans
support the concept of
expanding both solar and
wind power," the think tank
said in a blog post. "The
public is more closely
divided when it comes to
expanding fossil fuel
energies such as coal
mining, offshore oil and gas
drilling, and hydraulic
fracturing for oil and
natural gas."
The Philippines' environment
minister said she wanted to
ban new mines and would
suspend the environmental
permit of a nickel mine that
is sandwiched between two
protected areas.
On any given day in the
United States, at least
137,000 people sit behind
bars on simple
drug-possession charges,
according to a report
released Wednesday by the
American Civil Liberties
Union and Human Rights
Watch.
Nearly two-thirds of them
are in local jails. The
report says that most of
these jailed inmates have
not been convicted of any
crime: They're sitting in a
cell, awaiting a day in
court, an appearance that
may be months or even years
off, because they can't
afford to post bail.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one and two (14 Oct, 15 Oct)
and expected to be very low
with a slight chance for a
C-class flare on day three
(16 Oct). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to severe storm levels on
day one (14 Oct), unsettle
to minor storm levels on day
two (15 Oct) and unsettled
levels on day three (16
Oct).
Russia is looking to expand
its military presence and
has its eye on Cuba and
other Latin American
countries. Defense Minister
Sergei Shoigu said Russia
has come up with a list of
countries where it’s
considering opening military
bases. They include Cuba,
Nicaragua, Venezuela and
Vietnam, according to
Russia’s state-owned RIA
Novosti news agency.
The Arctic’s wintertime ice
hit a record low this year,
and its air is warming,
according to NASA. Previous
research has shown that
pollutants, including
gaseous nitrogen oxides and
ozone, have at times been
recorded at levels similar
to those one would see in
more populated areas.
Nitrogen oxides are air
pollutants that, in
sunlight, lead to the
formation of ozone, the main
component in smog normally
associated with cities. The
gases can be processed in
the atmosphere and be
deposited on Earth as
nitrates, which can get
trapped in snow. In
sunlight, snow can act as a
reactor in which nitrates
may be transformed back to
nitrogen oxide gases. In the
Arctic, sea ice and snow
contain salt and other
impurities that can possibly
alter the efficiency of this
process. James Donaldson,
Karen Morenz and colleagues
took a closer look at how
salt and nitrate content in
snow could affect the levels
of nitrogen oxides in the
air during sunny conditions
Called 2014 UZ224,
this dwarf planet is pretty
tiny cosmically speaking. At
about 330 miles across, it’s
roughly half the size of
Pluto but orbits our sun
twice as far away, well
outside the ring of
asteroids and debris known
as the Kuiper Belt, Joe
Palca reports for
NPR. At about 8.5 billion
miles from the sun, it takes
about 1,100 Earth years to
make a single orbit.
Danish scientists are
developing a grass that will
cut down how often cows burp
and pass gas — reducing the
amount of methane, a potent
greenhouse gas, they release
into the atmosphere.
Collaborating with
international seed company
DLF, the scientists are
working to create a “super
grass” that is easier for
cows to digest, thereby
reducing the amount of gas
that builds up in their
stomachs,..
Silkworms mostly survive on
the sustenance provided by
mulberry leaves, but there
may soon be a new ingredient
in the mix. Scientists in
China have discovered that
by feeding graphene and
carbon nanotubes to the
creatures, the silk they
produced was much stronger
and could take on the
ability to conduct
electricity, something that
may find its way into
stronger clothes with
embedded electronics.
South Africa will
experience water rationing
if consumers do not heed
calls to cut consumption to
avoid a collapse of the
water system as dam levels
fall after a drought, an
official in the country's
water department said on
Thursday.
Concerns over water
supply in Africa's most
industrialized country have
risen after an El Nino
weather pattern brought
drought conditions to much
of southern Africa, hurting
agriculture output.
A new study chronicles
how central Asia dried out
over the last 23 million
years into one of the most
arid regions on the planet.
The findings illustrate the
dramatic climatic shifts
wrought by the ponderous
rise of new mountain ranges
over geologic time.
Researchers have long
cited the uplift of the
Tibetan Plateau and the
Himalayan Mountains around
50 million years ago for
blocking rain clouds’ entry
into central Asia from the
south, killing off much of
the region’s plant life.
To have life, you first need
organic molecules, but where
did these come from? It's a
big question that isn't easy
to answer, but data from
ESA's Herschel Space
Observatory indicates that
ultraviolet light from stars
may be a key factor in
turning interstellar gases
into complex molecules.
According to the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
in Pasadena, California,
infrared observations of the
Orion Nebula show that
starlight could be what
drives the formation of
precursor chemicals that
become the building blocks
of life.
World stocks stumbled to
their lowest level in a
month on Thursday and the
dollar and benchmark bond
yields slipped, after a
sharp decline in Chinese
exports revived concerns
about the health of the
world's second-biggest
economy.
Riskier assets
have had a difficult few
weeks, undermined by
concerns about a potential
rise in U.S. interest rates,
the outcome of U.S.
elections, Britain's
departure from the EU and
the health of German and
Italian banks.
Obamacare urges people to
avoid getting a full-time
job because they’ll take
home more money by working
less, according to a study.
The broader effect of the
Affordable Care Act will be
to reduce America’s work
force by 4 million people,
or 3 percent, the Mercatus
Center, a libertarian think
tank at George Mason
University, says in the
report.
ater is a resource that has
been taken for granted for
decades but is now a
critical focal point for
many companies, communities
and governments as the earth
faces a water crisis.
Only 2.5 percent
of the world's water is
fresh water, and of that,
only 1 percent is accessible
as much is trapped in
glaciers and snowfields. As
a result, only a tiny
fraction of the planet's
water is available for
everyday use. By one
estimate, global fresh water
demand will exceed supply by
a staggering 40 percent in
2030 if current trends
continue.
Treason deals with a traitor
from within the U.S.
government. But in fact, the
real treachery is the
willful blindness that
prevents us from dealing
with radical Islamic
terrorism for what it is.
“We are — there’s a lot of
us out there saying that
when we go to vote, we’re
gonna wear red,” she told
Pence. “Our lives depend on
this election. Our kids’
futures depend on this
election. And I will tell
you, just for me, and I
don’t want this to happen,
but I will tell you, for me
personally, if Hillary
Clinton gets in, I, myself,
I’m ready for a revolution
because we can’t have her
in.”
A planned U.S.-backed
operation to drive Islamic
State from the Iraqi city of
Mosul could cause "blood and
fire" in the region if not
carefully handled, Turkey
warned on Wednesday, saying
it would keep troops nearby
despite Baghdad's
opposition.
President Tayyip
Erdogan said Turkey, locked
in an escalating row with
Iraq over who should take
part in the planned Mosul
assault, would do all it
could to prevent the
operation from deepening
sectarian conflict on its
borders.
Embracing a clean energy
agenda can help Republicans
win in close races by
attracting key voters like
millennials and women, and
help broaden the Republican
base, James Dozier, CRES
executive director, told
Reuters.
Yes, America cleaned up
at the Olympics this summer,
but how does the U.S. fare
on the world stage when it
comes to water resiliency,
efficiency, and quality?
These three criteria, and
how cities are positioned to
harness water for long-term
success, were considered for
the 2016 Sustainable Cities
Water Index released by
Arcadis in August. Fifty
global cities were studied,
including nine from the U.S.
In order of finish, the U.S.
cities were Washington D.C.,
New York, Houston, Boston,
Philadelphia, Dallas,
Chicago, San Francisco, and
Los Angeles.
A joint natural gas
pipeline, announced Monday,
would help Turkey become an
energy hub and give Russia a
way to cut out Ukraine from
gas exports to the EU.
The Washington Post has
given four “Pinocchios” to
President Barack Obama’s
claim that his
administration has fired
many of the people running
various VA facilities that
were at the heart of
wait-time scandals regarding
the poor treatment of
American veterans — meaning
the commander in chief’s
statement was completely
untrue.
John Stumpf, who led Wells
Fargo & Co. through the
financial crisis and built
it into the world’s most
valuable bank, stepped down
as chief executive officer
and chairman, bowing to
public outcry over legions
of accounts opened by his
employees for customers who
didn’t request them.
The research published
Wednesday in the journal
Nature found that although
previous methane emissions
from fossil fuel production,
which includes coal, oil and
gas, were significantly
underestimated, the overall
atmospheric increases in
methane is not due to oil
and gas production. NOAA,
which has been measuring
methane in the atmosphere
since 1984, says the global
increase in methane could be
coming from microbial
sources including wetlands,
rice paddies and
agricultural livestock like
cows.
The Food and Drug
Administration, trusted with
regulating the safety of
foods, openly admits that it
cannot determine what
“healthy” means on product
labels. As its shallow
surface requirements for
food labels come under
increasing scrutiny, the
agency is turning to the
public for answers. It seems
the agency is unable to
differentiate between
something as simple as good
and bad fats.
Amazon.com Inc. is
planning to build
convenience stores and
develop curbside pickup
locations for food shoppers
in its latest move to expand
into groceries, The Wall
Street Journal reported.
Amazon’s stores will sell
perishable goods including
milk and meats, the
newspaper said, citing
unnamed sources. Customers
in the stores can also order
other items with longer
shelf lives for same-day
delivery, the
Journal said.
• Top U.S. military
officials say future
conflict would be “extremely
lethal and fast” •
Increasing technological
advancement of China, Russia
could lead to war • U.S.
conducting hypersonic
missile research, which
could antagonise China,
Russia
As increasing numbers of
young people turn to
so-called “smart drugs” to
boost academic performance,
the UK Medicines and
Healthcare Products
Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has
issued a warning to students
about the dangers of this
practice, which include not
only dependency, but also
heart problems and even
psychosis.
Bankruptcy filings by
U.S. businesses soared 38
percent in September from a
year earlier in an ominous
sign of a weakening economy,
says Wolf Richter, editor of
the Wolf Street blog.
Last month’s bankruptcies
reached 3,072 to bring the
year-to-date total to 28,789
and marked the eleventh
straight month of increases
from 2015, according to data
from the American Bankruptcy
Institute.
It’s one of the strongest
opioids in circulation, so
deadly an amount smaller
than a poppy seed can kill a
person. Until July, when
reports of carfentanil
overdoses began to surface
in the U.S., the substance
was best known for knocking
out moose and elephants — or
as a chemical weapon.
Despite the dangers, Chinese
vendors offer to sell
carfentanil openly online,
for worldwide export, no
questions asked, an
Associated Press
investigation has found. The
AP identified 12 Chinese
businesses that said they
would export carfentanil to
the United States, Canada,
the United Kingdom, France,
Germany, Belgium and
Australia for as little as
$2,750 a kilogram.
According to a report from
WTNH-TV, Todd Kennedy, of
Durham, Connecticut, stepped
in when he heard there was
bullying taking place on his
watch, and he wanted to make
it clear that such behavior
would not be tolerated.
Depression is
increasingly recognized
as a problem rooted in
chronic inflammation.
Cytokines and
inflammatory messengers
such as CRP, IL-1, IL-6
and TNF-alpha are
predictive of and
correlate to depression
Approximately one-third
of depressed patients
have high levels of
inflammation.
Anti-inflammatory drugs
have been shown to
favorably alter
neuro-chemical pathways
involved in depression
Nutritional ketosis
drives down inflammation
in your body far more
effectively than drugs.
Animal-based omega-3 and
vitamin D are also
important
anti-inflammatory
strategies
Forty-four Afghan troops
visiting the United States
for military training have
gone missing in less than
two years, presumably in an
effort to live and work
illegally in America,
Pentagon officials said.
But I have two questions
for the mainstream media and
the holier-than-thou
politicians:
1. Why do you let
Hillary Clinton off the hook
when I’ve reported in my new
bestselling book, Guilty As
Sin, that Hillary swears
like a drunken sailor and
uses far worse language than
Donald?
2. Why do
you let Bill Clinton off the
hook when I’ve reported in
Guilty As Sin that Bill gets
foot massages from
twenty-something female
interns at the William
Jefferson Clinton
Presidential Library?
Perish the thought that
the media and the political
establishment apply a double
standard to Trump and the
Clintons.
There is something very
primal about using the
elements to cleanse our
energetic bodies. Given we
are made from the same
matter as Mother Earth,
utilising the four physical
elements is a way of
connecting us back to our
roots. And one does not have
to be in the middle of a
forest to utilize the power
of the elements… for someone
like myself who lives in a
city, utilizing the four
elements for cleansing the
energetic body helps
maintain a connection with
and grounding to Gaia.
Cleansing of the energetic
body should be a daily
ritual. Our interaction with
others and with locations
and objects holding
energetic fields means that
the purity and balance of
our energetic bodies are
constantly compromised, so a
regular practice of
cleansing is needed for
optimum spiritual, mental
and physical health.
A new report from the
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency indicated
power plant emissions fell
6.2 percent from 2015 to
2014.
The annual Greenhouse Gas
Reporting Program report
noted that power plants
still remain the
single-largest source of
carbon emissions, with
nearly 1,500 facilities
emitting two billion metric
tons of carbon dioxide per
year. That total is roughly
30 percent of all carbon
emissions in 2015.
Astronomers have found
another possible rogue black
hole, with about 100,000
times our sun’s mass. It may
have come from a small
galaxy falling into a larger
one.
Astronomers think that
supermassive black holes,
with some 100,000 to 10
billion times the mass of
our sun, are located in the
centers of most galaxies.
There’s also evidence for
the existence of so-called
intermediate mass black
holes, which have lower
masses ranging between about
100 and 100,000 times that
of the sun.
And whistleblowers aside,
there have been hundreds of
thousands of pages of
documents released
pertaining to supposed
UFO/extraterrestrial
encounters.
While the previous article
on Bergrun discussed UFOs
within the rings of
Saturn that are
“proliferating,” this one
will explore how NASA hides
images from the public.
Fury over Comey's
'unprecedented,' 'cowardly'
handling of Clinton
investigation
Veteran FBI agents say
FBI Director James Comey has
permanently damaged the
bureau’s reputation for
uncompromising
investigations with his
“cowardly” whitewash of
former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s
mishandling of classified
information using an
unauthorized private email
server.
Former Federal Reserve Chair
Alan Greenspan said the U.S.
central bank and their
global colleagues have done
as much as they can with
easy money policies and
keeping rates at record
lows. The only viable option
now, especially for America,
is entitlement reform.
Lab tests have shown
Manuka honey to be a
powerful inhibitor of
bacteria that develop on
medical devices such as
catheters, of which 100
million are sold
worldwide every year
Up to 90 percent of
urinary tract infections
(UTIs) are caused by
Escherichia coli (E.
coli) bacteria, but
other infections also
leave patients open to
life-threatening health
problems
Manuka honey has proven
to be powerful against
E. coli, even when
diluted to 3.3 percent.
Unlike other
“therapeutic” compounds
doctors may prescribe,
bacteria have not yet
developed a resistance
to Manuka honey
In the Western Province
of Kenya, 90 percent of
the population have no
easy access to drinking
water. In order to make
the available water safe
to drink, they must
first collect firewood
and then boil the water
Firewood is a scarce
commodity, and illegal
firewood collection
contributes to
deforestation. Boiling
water also creates large
amounts of health
problems from smoke
inhalation
So far, more than 4
million individuals have
been given easy access
to clean water through
these water filters
An estimated 1.6 million
Americans struggle with
inflammatory bowel
diseases (IBD) such as
Crohn’s disease and
ulcerative colitis;
70,000 new cases of IBD
are diagnosed in the
U.S. each year
A number of gut bacteria
and fungi have been
identified as playing a
role in IBD. Gut
bacteria also influence
your immune responses
and play a role in
celiac disease, food
allergies and food
sensitivities
IBD is associated with
malabsorption and
malnutrition, which can
result in bone fractures
and bone diseases such
as osteopenia and
osteoporosis. Gut
inflammation appears to
be an important
contributor to bone loss
An HSBC Holdings Plc.
executive and a former
employee have been barred
from the banking industry by
the Federal Reserve as they
face U.S. criminal charges
that they committed fraud in
conducting foreign-exchange
trades.
The Fed’s move follows
the August indictments of
Mark Johnson, who was HSBC’s
head of foreign exchange
cash trading, and Stuart
Scott, the bank’s former
head of currency trading in
Europe. The men, both
British citizens, are
accused of using insider
knowledge to front-run a
$3.5 billion currency deal
in 2011 that made the bank
$8 million in profits.
Since its 2008-2011
financial crisis, Iceland
has received global
recognition for its strategy
of prosecuting executives,
letting banks go bust, and
focusing on social welfare.
Now Iceland, which became a
gold standard for corporate
accountability in the wake
of the crisis, has found
nine bankers guilty for
market manipulation in one
of the biggest cases of its
kind in the country’s
history.
Recently, the University
of Michigan announced a new
policy allowing students to
choose their own gender and
“designated personal
pronoun.”
The school’s
webpage gives students
several examples of pronouns
they might use, but it makes
sure to stipulate that a
person should not be limited
to those options. There
are ”an infinite number of
pronouns,”..
Sandia Peak in Bernalillo
County is just east of
Albuquerque, New Mexico, and
sits 10,000 feet above sea
level. The mountains are
home to an “antenna farm”
beaming TV and radio
programming across the
region from dozens of
transmitters and broadcast
towers.
Sunday night, a pair of
engineers stumbled into a
man lighting a Molotov
cocktail by a transmitter in
what one local television
station described as “an
attempted act of domestic
terrorism” on the massive
broadcast facility.
NOAA's National Hurricane
Center (NHC) said the "eye
is moving toward the
northwest near 14 mph (22
kph) between Andros Island
and Nassau in the Bahamas.
This general motion is
expected to continue today
with a turn toward the
north-northwest tonight or
early Friday. On the
forecast track, Matthew
should cross the
northwestern Bahamas later
today and move close to or
over the east coast of the
Florida peninsula through
Friday night.
The repercussions
of Nestlé’s controversial
decisions continue to
surface. Most recently the
bottled water giant outbid a
small town in Canada pushing
to secure long-term water
supply through a local well.
The outcome caused a
national boycott of Nestlé
as a result.
New York City Mayor Bill de
Blasio (D) took to Twitter
Wednesday evening to demand
that Fox News’ Jesse Watters
be kept off TV after a
recent “Watters’ World”
segment on “The O’Reilly
Factor” was characterized as
racist by critics.
President
Obama on
Thursday
commuted the
sentences of
102 inmates,
the White
House
announced.
Obama has commuted the
sentences of 744
individuals, more than
the past 11 presidents
combined, according to
the White House.
Thursday’s announcement
brings the total number
granted this year alone
to 590, more than any
single year in U.S.
history.
Saudi energy minister Khalid
al-Falih said Monday an
agreement among OPEC members
outlined last month should
not shock the market and a
"very gentle hand on the
wheel" was needed as global
supply and demand was
already converging.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (11 Oct,
12 Oct, 13 Oct). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days one
and two (11 Oct, 12 Oct) and
quiet to minor storm levels
on day three (13 Oct).
The doctor who linked
vaccines to autism has been
found dead floating in a
river. Dr. Jeff Bradstreet,
an enthusiastic vaccine
researcher and the anti-
vaccine opponent was found
dead with a gunshot wound to
the chest. The police
claimed the death was
suicide.
The United Kingdom will
begin harnessing energy from
kites flying 450 meters
above ground as early as
next year. Developed by
UK-based Kite Power
Solutions, the system is
composed of two 40-meter
wide kites that rise and
fall in tandem, spooling a
tether line to turn a
turbine.
The global shipping
industry is bracing for a
key regulatory decision that
could mark a milestone in
reducing maritime pollution,
but which could nearly
double fuel costs in a
sector already reeling from
its worst downturn in
decades.
The shipping industry is
by far the world's biggest
emitter of sulfur, with the
SOx content in heavy fuel
oil up to 3,500 times higher
than the latest European
diesel standards for
vehicles.
The holiday has been
controversial practically
since its inception.
Today, support for Columbus
Day is waning, as
recognition of the horrors
of Columbus’ actions upon
arrival to the Americas
increases. Why celebrate
such plundering and
pillaging?
According to pollster
Frank Luntz and his Fox News
focus group, Republican
Donald Trump’s latest
scandal isn’t good, but
Democratic nominee Hillary
Clinton’s pressing email
scandal is much worse.
Luntz, who live-tweeted
his focus group’s reactions
throughout Sunday’s debate,
said his group cared much
more about Clinton’s scandal
than Trump’s “locker room
talk.”
The group cares more
about Hillary's emails than
Trump's "locker room talk
A defiant Donald Trump on
Sunday attacked former
President Bill Clinton for
his treatment of women and
vowed, if he won the White
House, to put Hillary
Clinton in jail for
operating a private email
server while U.S. secretary
of state.
In a contentious
town-hall debate, Trump, the
Republican presidential
candidate, said he would
appoint a special prosecutor
to look into his Democratic
rival's email use because
she had endangered national
security during her tenure
as President Barack Obama's
chief diplomat from
2009-2013.
The U.S. on Friday blamed
the Russian government for
the hacking of political
sites and accused Moscow of
trying to interfere with the
upcoming presidential
election.
Pressure has been
mounting on the Obama
administration to call out
Russia for the hacking of
U.S. political sites and
email accounts. The hacking
claim Friday was another
setback in already strained
U.S.-Russia relations.
The US oil rig count
continued to creep northward
last week, gaining three
rigs to land at 428 on
Friday, according to Baker
Hughes, while WTI crude hit
a landmark $50/b during the
week amid encouraging signs
that a slumbering industry
has begun to awaken.
And even though the Permian
Basin in West Texas and New
Mexico lost an oil rig in
the week ended September 30,
which set the count back to
203, the US' most active
basin is still poised to hit
a home run longer term,
according to one investment
bank
I think the movie is
something that people should
see. There was a backlash
which I haven’t fully
explored, and I will, but I
didn’t want it to start
affecting the festival in
ways that I couldn’t see.
But definitely there’s
something to that movie and
there’s another movie called
Trace Amounts. There’s a lot
of information about things
that are happening with the
CDC, the pharmaceutical
companies, there’s a lot of
things that are not said. I
as a parent of a child who
has autism, I’m concerned,
and I want to know the
truth, and I’m not
anti-vaccine — I want safe
vaccines. . . .
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
plans to slow its new store
openings and pour more money
into its online efforts,
technology and store
remodels, the company said
Thursday. The world's
largest retailer completed
its more than $3 billion
buyout of the fast-growing
online retailer Jet.com last
month, showing how heavily
it's willing to invest to
boost online sales that
totaled $13.7 billion last
year — still just a fraction
of its annual revenue.
The vision of artificial
intelligence is becoming a
reality in a different and
more nuanced way than
technologists once
imagined...
At least for today, it turns
out those intelligent agents
people talked about are the
products of a handful of
companies that own giant
collections of data centers.
They include Apple, Amazon,
Facebook, Google — and the
world’s largest governments.
Whistleblowing group
Wikileaks is at it again,
releasing more than 2,000
emails involving the Hillary
Clinton campaign chairman
John Podesta, which is part
of what the group claims is
a total of 50,000 emails
that it intends to share
with the public. This
initial exposure comes the
very day the State
Department published 350
emails that were previously
deleted from Clinton’s
private server.
Marc Turi had been charged
with selling weapons to
Libyan rebels, and federal
prosecutors had to turn over
discovery documents to his
the legal team by Wednesday
for the case that was set to
start Nov. 8 — Election Day,
Fox News said. But the feds
dropped the case late
Tuesday, and Fox News added
that the move may prevent
the release of “potentially
explosive documents.”
The European Parliament
approved the Paris accord to
fight climate change on
Tuesday, tipping it over the
threshold needed for the
global deal to enter into
force, in what U.N. chief
Ban Ki-moon hailed as an
historic vote.
The Paris Agreement
reached by nearly 200
nations nearly one year ago
will help guide a radical
shift of the world economy
away from fossil fuels in
order to limit heat waves,
floods, droughts and rising
sea levels
Researchers have disclosed a
critical zero-day
vulnerability in the JPEG
2000 image file format
parser implemented in
OpenJPEG library, which
could allow an attacker to
remotely execute arbitrary
code on the affected
systems.
A recent spate of violence
between police officers and
citizens in the United
States has raised many
questions about what happens
when an organization meant
to protect its populace
harms it instead. As with so
many quandaries these days,
technology is often at the
center of the debate –
namely, regarding the use of
body-mounted cameras and the
public release of the
footage they capture. While
body cams can often prove
police misconduct, they can
also exonerate officers who
act appropriately given
difficult situations. The
simple tech can also,
apparently, reduce
complaints against cops, as
shown in a recent University
of Cambridge study.
Each year in late September,
Cherokee Nation citizen Mark
Dunham and his father Tad
check chinkapin trees, which
were once plentiful in the
area, for prickly, green
burs that hold nuts.
Facebook has finished
rolling out a "Secret
Conversations" feature in
its Messenger app. The new
mode ensures only the two
people involved in a chat
can see the text.
In fact, even the
government or Facebook
itself won't have access to
conversations in secret
mode, according to the
social network.
A sinkhole opened up beneath
a storage pond in Mulberry,
FL late last month and more
than 200 million gallons of
contaminated wastewater from
a fertilizer plant leaked
into one of the state’s main
sources for drinking water.
The city of Fresno, CA, and
private contractors there
have been accused by
residents of allowing
dangerous levels of lead and
other harmful substances to
enter the water supply.
Army Chief of Staff Gen.
Mark Milley delivered a
stunning warning to
America's potential enemies
– including Russia, China
and North Korea – declaring
"we will beat you harder
than you have ever been
beaten before," Military.com
reported.
Poet John Donne said, "no
man is an island," and that
is even more true for
robots. While we humans can
share our experiences and
expertise through language
and demonstration, robots
have the potential to
instantly share all the
skills they've learned with
other robots simply by
transmitting the information
over a network. It is this
"cloud robotics" that Google
researchers are looking to
take advantage of to help
robots gain skills more
quickly.
The U.S. spends more
than $51 billion
annually on the war on
drugs. In 2014, more
than 1.5 million arrests
for drug-related
violations were made, 83
percent of which were
for possession only
No real effort is put
into minimizing the
availability of opioids.
Perhaps worst of all, no
consideration is given
to alternatives that are
FAR safer and just as
effective; marijuana
being one of them
The DEA recently
announced its intent to
move the herb kratom
into a Schedule I
controlled substance.
Many use the herb to
wean off opioids and
relieve pain in lieu of
these potent and
addictive drugs
Your face looks fine.
Trust me. But if you zoom in
and take a time-lapse,
you'll see a landscape in
motion: zits erupting,
pore-craters forming, ridges
of skin stretching apart and
squashing together as you
smile and frown. Similarly,
the Earth outside your
window might appear quiet.
But that’s because you’re
looking at a tiny slice in
time and space. Expand your
view and you’ll see plates
shift, earthquakes ripple
and volcanoes erupt along
tectonic boundaries. The
world snaps, crackles and
tears asunder. Nothing stays
the same.
Secretary of Agriculture
Tom Vilsack recently
said Americans should be
grateful for industrial
farming because, by
keeping food prices low,
you can afford other
necessities and luxuries
The industrial farming
model has an array of
hidden costs, taking a
toll on farmworkers,
wildlife, soil, air,
water supplies and
consumers; and depleting
natural resources and
dumping toxins into what
remains
Americans have the
lowest health rating in
the developed world
thanks to our
industrial, processed
diet. We also have the
most expensive health
care system in the
world, even though it
ranks 37th in terms of
quality
If you were alive in
1957, then you witnessed
history in the making. That
year, Russia successfully
launched Sputnik I, the
first artificial satellite,
about the size of a beach
ball, to orbit Earth.
Almost 60 years later,
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight
Center lists 2,271
satellites currently in
orbit. Russia has the most
satellites, with 1,324,
followed by the United
States with 658.
Probably the primary
appeal of having a family
cow is the delicious,
nutritious and plentiful
milk you can get from her.
Raw milk, meaning fresh,
unpasteurized milk, has many
more beneficial enzymes and
bacteria than store-bought
milk.
But it is important to
handle it safely to maintain
optimum freshness and
sanitation. This is
particularly important if
you plan on selling your raw
milk. If you want to sell
your milk, make sure to
check your local laws. In
some states it is highly
illegal to sell raw milk. In
other places, there may be
certain restrictions. But
even if you just want to
share with friends and
family or just keep it
yourself, it’s always best
to use safe, clean practices
to maintain the quality,
nutritional content and
longevity of the milk.
A collaboration of aircraft
makers, fuel cell developers
and university engineers
have come a step closer to
zero emission passenger
flights with the first
flight of a hydrogen fuel
cell four-seater electric
aircraft. The twin-cabin,
(relatively) low-noise HY4
took off at 11:15 am (local)
today for a quick zip around
Stuttgart Airport.
Between April and
September, the solar output
was 6,964 GWh, equivalent to
5.2% of UK electricity
demand, while coal generated
6,342 GWh, or 4.7% of
demand.
This breakthrough was the
result of two major
transformations in the
energy system. The first is
the significant increase of
solar capacity, which
reached 12GW in 2015, nearly
doubling the amount of the
previous year. This was
partly due to a rush to
complete projects before the
early closure of support
schemes.
Remember that scene in "The
Force Awakens" where the
dark side warrior Kylo Ren
stops a laser blast in
mid-air? In a Canberra
laboratory, physicists have
managed a feat almost as
magical: they froze the
movement of light in a cloud
of ultracold atoms. This
discovery could help bring
optical quantum computers
from the realms of sci-fi to
reality.
Financial bubbles are
built on the notion that a
speculator can buy an asset
now and find “a greater
fool” who will be willing to
pay more for it later.
Central banks like the
Federal Reserve are nursing
this idea with asset
purchases that have created
the third major bubble in
the past 16 years, John
Hussman, president of
Hussman Investment Trust,
says in a weekly commentary
that discusses the limits of
monetary policy on markets.
Scientists were astonished
to discover tiny bits of
plastic inside the bodies of
animals in the deep ocean.
Microplastics are tiny
particles of plastic, under
5 millimeters (.2 inches) in
length, that come from the
disposal and breakdown of
consumer products –
including clothes and
cosmetics – and industrial
waste.
A Georgia homeowner took
matters into his own hands
Tuesday night after hearing
someone break into his home
around 11:30 p.m.
Police say the
unidentified homeowner
grabbed a shotgun after
hearing the intruder inside
his Atlanta home. The
homeowner then approached
the suspect, who was not
armed, firing one round at
him
President Vladimir Putin on
Monday suspended a deal with
the United States on the
disposal of weapons-grade
plutonium, once a symbol of
U.S.-Russian rapprochement
that has fallen apart amid
tensions over Ukraine, Syria
and other disputes.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (04 Oct,
05 Oct, 06 Oct). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (04
Oct), quiet to unsettled
levels on day two (05 Oct)
and quiet levels on day
three (06 Oct).
In fact, children today
receive a staggering 17
shots that contain aluminum
– a huge increase over the
four they would have
received in the 1970’s and
mid-1980’s.
Why are they poisoning
our children with a
known neurotoxic agent?
The
Russian military said
Tuesday it had beefed up its
forces in Syria with
state-of-the-art air defense
missiles, an announcement
that follows Washington's
move to suspend contacts
with Russia over Syria.
The
deployment immediately
raised questions in the
Pentagon, which wondered
about its purpose.
Senomyx’s ingredient
products help food and
beverage companies make
their products more
palatable — especially
low-calorie versions.
The company’s product
Sweetmyx, for example, is
used to boost the sweet
taste of products so that
companies can reduce added
sugar without sacrificing on
the flavor
Researchers at the
University of California,
Irvine (UCI) have discovered
a way to design a battery so
it doesn’t lose its charge
after years of use. The team
found that by using a gold
nanowire in electrolyte gel
rather than lithium, a
battery could withstand
200,000 charging cycles and
only lose 5% of its
capacity.
The Large Hadron Collider
(LHC) has run into an
unanticipated problem — it’s
running out of disk space.
“This year the LHC is stable
and reliable,” says Jorg
Wenninger, head of
operations at the LHC. “It
is working like clockwork.
We don’t have much
downtime.” That’s actually
the problem.
The London-based PR agency
was brought into Iraq soon
after the US invasion. In
March 2004 it was tasked by
the country’s temporary
administration with the
“promotion of democratic
elections” – a “high-profile
activity” which it trumpeted
in its annual report.
"Birds must have been under
strong evolutionary pressure
to establish basic rules and
strategies to minimize the
risk of collision in
advance," said Professor
Mandyam Srinivasan, who led
the study. "But no previous
studies have ever examined
what happens when two birds
fly towards each other. Our
modeling has shown that
birds always veer right -
and sometimes they change
their altitude as well,
according to some pre-set
preference.
Operators
have
accelerated
decommissioning
plans
following
early plant
closures and
proposed
changes to
licensing
rules are
raising
project
risks,
leading
utility
executives
said at the
2016 Nuclear
Decommissioning
& Used Fuel
Strategy
Summit on
October 3.
There are
currently 18
U.S. nuclear
power plants
being
decommissioned
and this
will soon
increase
following a
recent spate
of plant
closure
announcements
due to
sustained
low power
prices.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture said on Tuesday
it will pay farmers more
than $7 billion this fall to
keep them afloat in the face
of low crop prices.
The payments have started
going out to growers of
corn, soybeans and other
crops, who had enrolled in
U.S. safety-net programs to
protect themselves from
market downturns covering
harvests last year, the USDA
said in a statement.
They will account for
about 10 percent of what the
agency has projected for
U.S. net farm income for
2016.
Walmart plans to
radically change the way its
customers grocery shop as
the big-box giant
aggressively expands its
online pickup services
around the country.
While tech and e-commerce
companies like Google and
Amazon are considering
grocery-delivery models,
Walmart's advantage is
having a network of 4,600
stores as a starting point,
according to The
Washington Post.
Yahoo reportedly scanned
hundreds of millions of
email accounts at the behest
of U.S. intelligence or law
enforcement. The scans,
reported by Reuters,
allegedly selected incoming
messages that contained a
string of unknown
characters.
As you may recall, the Zika
virus made big headlines
back in January and February
when the Brazilian
government blamed
Zika-carrying mosquitoes for
an uptick in reports of
microcephaly, [1],[2] a
condition in which babies
are born with unusually
small heads.
Like many other nations, the
U.S. overreacted to the news
by increasing states’
mosquito eradication
efforts. [3] Some
early models estimated that
200 million Americans, about
60 percent of the U.S.
population, would become
infected with Zika this
summer [4] —
estimates that were clearly
vastly overblown
The AGs from Texas,
Arizona, Oklahoma and Nevada
asked a judge late Wednesday
to step in and stop the
transition to an
international oversight
body, after GOP lawmakers
failed to stall the move as
part of a short-term
spending bill.
“Trusting authoritarian
regimes to ensure the
continued freedom of the
internet is lunacy,” Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton
said in a statement. “The
president does not have the
authority to simply give
away America’s pioneering
role in ensuring that the
internet remains a place
where free expression can
flourish.”
New
finding might mean cancer
has no place to hide
When a malignant tumor
invades the body, immune
cells rush to the site to
begin to fight it. When that
same tumor spreads
throughout the body,
however, the cancer cells
become invisible to our
immune systems and can
metastasize unencumbered by
our natural defenses...
“The focal point of
our gathering was to have
family members of General
Harney have an opportunity
to apologize to members of
the Little Thunder family,”
said Basil Brave Heart,
Oglala Lakota, an organizer
of the event. Brave Heart
initiated and led the effort
to change the name of this
highest peak east of the
Rocky Mountains from Harney
Peak to Black Elk Peak.
In this exposé covering
multiple facets of CIA
intelligence and secrecy,
former CIA officer Shipp
gives detailed accounts of
what is happening behind the
curtain of government
secrecy, including the
executive branch’s abuse of
the little known State
Secrets Privilege, to “shut
down whistleblower claims,
[and] prevent other branches
of government from
conducting investigations…”
It’s a first for bees in
the nation, seven bee
species native to Hawaii
are now protected under
the Endangered Species
Act.
The US Fish and Wildlife
Service said it added
the yellow-faced bee
species to the federal
list of endangered
species Friday night
after years of research
concluded they are under
threat.
Cheese has long been
demonized for its
saturated fat content,
but research shows it
has many benefits,
including improved
cardiovascular health
and a lower risk for
obesity and diabetes
Eating high-fat cheese
can help improve your
health by raising your
high-density lipoprotein
(HDL) cholesterol,
thought to be protective
against metabolic
diseases and heart
disease
Other types of full-fat
dairy products, such as
milk and yogurt, also
have far greater health
benefits than their
low-fat counterparts,
including a lower risk
for obesity and diabetes
Global warming is on
track to breach a 2 degrees
Celsius threshold by 2050
unless governments at least
double their efforts to
limit greenhouse gas
emissions, scientists said
on Thursday.
Plans by almost 200
governments to cut
greenhouse gases are far too
weak to match targets set in
a Paris Agreement on climate
change last December for a
drastic shift from fossil
fuels towards greener
energies, they said.
Nearly 60 percent of the
groundwater in the
Indo-Gangetic Basin
contains unsafe levels
of arsenic. The water is
not even usable for
irrigation due to
contamination levels and
excess salinity
Pollution levels in
rivers and lakes now put
more than 320 million
people in Asia, Africa
and Latin America at
risk for cholera and
typhoid. Newer pathogens
linked to neurological
problems in children are
also emerging
In the US, 12 to 18
million cases of
water-borne diseases
occur annually; 16.5
million Americans have
detectable levels of
PFAS in their water; 16
million have perchlorate
in their water, and lead
contamination is on the
rise
The American public is
largely unaware that there
is a vaccine court known as
the National Vaccine
Injury Compensation Program
(NVICP). This program was
started as a result of a law
passed in 1986 that gave
pharmaceutical companies
total legal immunity from
being sued due to injuries
and deaths resulting from
vaccines.
If you or a family member is
injured or dies from
vaccines, you must now sue
the federal government in
this special vaccine court.
Many cases are litigated for
years before a settlement is
reached.
Because pets aren’t human,
it’s easy to feel that our
grief isn’t respected when
we love a pet. But having
lost several animals in my
life, I know that the pain
can be just as great as when
we lose a person we love.
“The off-duty police officer
went to talk to the other
driver in his vehicle and he
said, ‘Are you alright? That
was way too fast,’ and (the
driver) said ‘I did it on
purpose. It was in the name
of Allah.’” Alcala told
KMPH.
In the face of a corrupt and
broken system that churns
out tyrants and maintains
the status quo, it’s clear
that we need a new system
and a new consciousness, not
a new president. Direct
democracy is an
empowering social and
political solution that we
need to seriously consider.
Mainstream media in the
United States is
consolidated to such a point
that there are now just 6
mega-corporations
controlling 90% of American
TV, print and radio media
stations. The consumer is
fed the illusion of choice,
but in reality, there are a
small handful of elite
individuals now dictating
what you see, hear, read
and, ultimately, think. This
mainstream media
consolidation places a
stranglehold on information
flow in our society, and is
threatening our ability to
know the truth.
Below are the 6 mainstream
media mega-corporations, and
the affiliated companies and
brands they own.
As Heat Street‘s
Politics Editor Jillian
Melchior reported this
week, a new policy at the
University of
Michigan allows students to
choose their preferred
pronouns — including the
gender-neutral “they” and
“ze” — to appear on class
rosters.
With that in mind, one
conservative student, Grant
Strobl, who is also chairman
of the Young Americans for
Freedom board of governors,
decided to troll the
university administration by
officially requesting his
pronoun to be changed to
“His Majesty.”
The treaty is the latest
sign of growing American
Indian activism tied to
tribal rights and the
environment, and just the
third such cross-border
agreement in 150 years,
tribal members involved
said.
The U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service said
earlier this year that
Yellowstone-area grizzlies
had come back from the brink
of extinction and it
proposed stripping U.S.
Endangered Species Act
protections from the
population of about 700
bears.
Minnesota will let the
health insurers in its
Obamacare market raise rates
by at least 50 percent next
year, after the individual
market there came to the
brink of collapse, the
state’s commerce
commissioner said Friday...
“It’s in an emergency
situation -- we worked hard
and avoided a collapse.”
Rothman said in a telephone
interview. “It’s a stopgap
for 2017.”
U.S. flooding patterns have
shown some regional changes
but no countrywide shift
despite heavier rains
spawned by global warming, a
study by U.S. and Austrian
researchers said on
Wednesday.
In what Navajo
Nation tribal leaders lauded
as an historic agreement
with the Bureau of Indian
Education and the Department
of the Interior, the Obama
Administration has approved
the first phase of the
Navajo Nation’s request to
implement an alternative
system of accountability for
schools.
In addition to
giving control to the Navajo
Nation as to how they teach
their Navajo youth, the
Obama Administration also is
issuing two new rounds of
federal grants totaling
nearly $25 million to
support native youth and
educators.
Amid Donald Trump's
unprecedented assertion that
the general election "is
going to be rigged," many
Americans who are drawn to
the Republican nominee's
campaign have major doubts
about the accuracy of the
vote count.
Only about a third of
Republicans say they have a
great deal or quite a bit of
confidence that votes in
this year's election will be
counted fairly..
Just 10 years ago, it
wouldn’t have been possible
to bring leading physicians,
scientists and advocates
together in a consensus on
toxic chemicals and
neurological disorders in
children, says Maureen
Swanson. But with the
science increasing
“exponentially,” she said
the time was ripe for a
concerted call to action.
Russian Deputy Minister of
Foreign Affairs Sergey
Ryabkov reacted angrily to
U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry's threat Wednesday to
end discussions between the
two countries if Russia did
not end its current
operations in Aleppo and
uphold the ceasefire.
Breaking down the
renewable share reveals
Spain to have developed a
strong mix of renewable
generating capacity: wind
power (21.8 percent),
hydroelectric (17.8
percent), solar PV (3.4
percent), solar thermal (2.4
percent), other (1.8
percent). (See Figure 1.)
The remaining 52.8
percent of the generation
mix was made up by a variety
of non-renewables,
including: nuclear power
(23.2 percent) and coal
(10.5 percent).
In a nutshell, here’s the
argument the utilities want
to prove: Solar customers,
by consuming their own
energy, are avoiding paying
for upkeep on the grid,
which (in this argument)
means those costs shift to
non-solar ratepayers.
Frankly, it’s a
compelling sell. If I didn’t
know better, I’d probably
resent solar customers, too.
After all, why should solar
customers get the grid for
“free” while I’m paying for
its upkeep?
The European gasoline market
largely disappointed most
gasoline bulls who were
awaiting a repetition of the
record-high strength
observed in the summer of
2015. Despite signs of
healthy demand in the US,
arbitrages from the net-long
European gasoline market
have suffered, as stocks
levels in the US -- whose
summer driving season is
typically expected to
provide bullish support to
the global gasoline complex
-- remained high.
As
one gasoline trading source
said, "This year it is a big
disappointment for gasoline
-- demand is there, but
stocks are just too high,"
adding that the market had
become "difficult to
follow," due to the
non-seasonal behavior of
gasoline fundamentals in the
summer of 2016.
We may think
we’re independent, capable
individuals, calling the
shots in our lives from a
place of personal freedom,
but a new breed of research
offers a somewhat terrifying
counter argument to this
belief. Incredibly, microbes
can have a profound effect
on our personalities and
behavior — and even cause us
to be more accident prone.
While quite a bit of focus
has been on the gut
microbiome — and how it
shapes our overall cognitive
and mental health —
recent discoveries have led
scientists to believe this
influence extends to viruses
and parasites as well. Which
brings us to the question:
are these microscopic
creatures controlling our
behavior without us knowing
about it?
Humanity is the midst of a
great ascension event and in
fact, a massive
trans-dimensional shift is
underway across all of
creation. This shift is
being experienced on Earth
as heightened levels of
consciousness, expanded
perceptual abilities, and
quickened manifestation. And
this shift is but one small
aspect of the overall
Ascension process that the
entire Universe is
undergoing on a constant
basis.
US oil rigs rose by three to
204 in the Permian Basin
last week, as analysts
watched all corners of
industry for signs of an
activity pickup next year.
The 204 rigs now working
in the West Texas/New Mexico
basin represents the highest
number since last December,
Baker Hughes said in its
weekly rig count Friday.
Total US oil rigs increased
by seven to 425.
The U.S. Department of
Justice and the
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) alleged that
Chemoil Corp exported at
least 48.5 million gallons
of biodiesel from the United
States from 2011 to 2013 but
failed to retire the
associated renewable
identification numbers
generated for the exported
fuel.
The U.S. government will
open the doors next week to
a new agency, with stronger
data protections, meant to
shorten by many weeks the
time it takes to vet
government workers seeking
"secret" and "top secret"
security clearances.
The National Background
Investigations Bureau will
be headed by Charles Phalen,
who has worked as a security
executive at the CIA, the
FBI and defense contractor
Northrop Grumma
Twenty-one water
protectors who answered the
call to pray on Wednesday
September 28 were arrested
as they attempted to leave a
Dakota Access pipeline
construction site.
According to the Morton
County Sheriff's office, as
reported by local Fox News
station KFYR TV, protectors
were charged with resisting
arrest, criminal trespass on
private property and
possession of stolen
property. Morton County
officials did not respond to
phone calls seeking
additional information.
The Israel-Palestine
conflict has resulted in 90%
of the water in Gaza being
rendered undrinkable. An
obvious travesty, one man
decided to develop a DIY
solar desalination system
capable of turning
undrinkable water into
purified H20 – and
succeeded!
Some 3 million deaths a year
are linked to exposure to
outdoor air pollution.
Indoor air pollution can be
just as deadly. In 2012, an
estimated 6.5 million deaths
(11.6% of all global deaths)
were associated with indoor
and outdoor air pollution
together.
The Saudis and Clinton were
no strangers. The Kingdom
originally donated between
$10-25 million to the
Clinton Foundation. And,
over the years, the ruling
family and leading Saudi
billionaires added another
$24-40 million. So, the
total is a staggering $34-65
million. And another $1.2
million paid to Clinton
personally for speeches.
Anxiety disorders —
which include
generalized anxiety
disorder, social anxiety
and panic disorder —
affect an estimated 40
million Americans, or
about 18 percent of the
U.S. population over the
age of 18
Genetics, brain
chemistry, personality,
life events and stress
play a role in anxiety
disorders. Anxiety is a
normal response to
stress but, in some, the
anxiety becomes
overwhelming and
difficult to cope with
Other factors that can
contribute to anxiety
and panic attacks
include cell phone use,
food additives and
artificial sweeteners,
gut dysfunction,
nutritional
deficiencies, excessive
sugar, improper
breathing and toxic
exposures such as mold
The notorious "Erin
Brockovich" carcinogen
contaminates the tap water
of two-thirds of Americans
at levels above what
scientists say is safe,
according to a new
EWG analysis of federal
water testing data.
The impact of
ever-miniaturizing
electronics can be felt
right across the spectrum of
technological advancement,
but as we are beginning to
see, one place where it can
have a truly profound impact
is in the human body. The
latest example of this is a
tiny camera no bigger than a
grain of salt, which can be
fixed to the end of a
catheter and fed into
arteries to provide surgeons
tasked with removing plaque
a live view from within.
The scientist was reinstated
to chief of his lab in July
after he filed a
whistleblower retaliation
claim, according to
documents made public
Tuesday by the Office of
Special Counsel, an
independent federal watchdog
agency that handles
whistleblower complaints.
Not since the Patriot Act of
2001 or the Canadian Bill
C-15 of 2016 have we seen a
proposal for the expansion
of state powers that so
violates civil liberties.
The American people have
demanded action and
accountability from
Washington.
Yet Congress is preparing
to negotiate a big,
unaccountable spending
package during President
Barack Obama’s lame duck —
while we ignore our $600
billion deficit.
Congress on Wednesday voted
overwhelmingly to override
President Obama’s veto of
legislation that would
allow 9/11 victims’ families
to sue the Saudi Arabian
government over its alleged
support for the terrorists
who carried out the attacks.
China's Air Force sent more
than 40 aircraft to the West
Pacific near the Japanese
island of Okinawa on Sunday,
for what state-media called
routine drills.
Japan scrambled fighter jets
Sunday after China flew a
fleet of aircraft near
contested islands in the
East China Sea.
Each and every organism on
Earth is exposed to the
influence of various
environmental conditions and
of other living organisms.
These factors can trigger
stress and make the living
organism more vulnerable to
external influences.
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz,
the United Nations Special
Rapporteur on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples, says
that despite the importance
of protected areas and the
recognition of indigenous
territories to preserve the
Earth, Indigenous Peoples
are still fighting for their
rights and to maintain their
way of living. “There is an
uncontrolled expansion of
agriculture, big industries,
dams, mining and oil
companies affecting even the
most sensitive ecosystems in
the world,” she said
recently at the
International Union for The
Conservation of Nation World
Conservation Congress in
Honolulu, Hawaii.
Chemists at The University
of Texas at Arlington have
been the first to
demonstrate that an organic
semiconductor polymer called
polyaniline is a promising
photocathode material for
the conversion of carbon
dioxide into alcohol fuels
without the need for a
co-catalyst.
Throughout the U.S., trees
are dying at an astonishing
rate. The reasons for the
die-off vary from location
to location — drought,
disease, insects
and wildfires – but the root
cause in many of these cases
is the same: climate change.
"Despite arm-twisting and
vocal opposition from
nuclear powers like the
United States, six
non-nuclear countries urged
the U.N. General Assembly
Wednesday to work toward a
'legally-binding' accord to
ban nuclear weapons in hopes
of ridding them from the
planet altogether one day.
Phone, cable and utility
companies in New York may no
longer charge early
termination fees when
service has been
discontinued due to the
death of a customer.
Oil futures climbed
Wednesday after OPEC members
appeared to find common
ground Wednesday on efforts
to limit production, lifting
prices off lows seen after
US inventory data showed a
surprise build in gasoline
stocks.
"OPEC nations reached a
preliminary agreement
Wednesday to curb oil
production for the first
time since the global
financial crisis eight years
ago, pushing up prices that
had sunk over the past two
years and weakened the
economies of oil-producing
nations
People buy organic eggs
for a number of reasons,
including not wanting to
support factory farms that
mistreat chickens, pollute
the environment and produce
eggs that are nutritionally
inferior.
You already know that.
But here’s something you may
not know. Most retail
grocery chains that sell
"organic" eggs under their
own label ...
The Paris Agreement on
Climate Change is set to
become law this year after a
ceremony at the United
Nations in New York today
saw 60 countries worth 47.5
percent of global emissions
complete their formal
accession to it and 14
others commit to doing so
before year’s end.
One of the two thresholds
for entry into force has now
been met.
Out of all the pressures we
face in our everyday lives,
there’s no denying that the
nature of time has the most
profound effect. As our
days, weeks, months, and
years go by, time moves from
past to present to future,
and never the other way
around. But according to the
physics that govern our
Universe, the same things
will occur regardless of
what direction time is
travelling in. And now
physicists suggest that
gravity isn’t strong enough
to force every object in the
Universe into a
forward-moving direction
anyway.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(30 Sep, 01 Oct, 02 Oct).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to major storm levels on day
one (30 Sep), unsettled to
minor storm levels on day
two (01 Oct) and unsettled
to active levels on day
three (02 Oct).
The Senate Tuesday stumbled
over a must-do bill to
prevent the government from
shutting down this weekend
and to fund the fight
against the Zika virus.
Democrats, demanding money
so that Flint, Michigan can
address its man-made water
crisis, overwhelmingly
opposed the measure, as did
a host of the chamber’s most
conservative members.
The blackout of the
country's fifth most
populous state, with 1.7
million people, prompted
calls on Thursday for an
inquiry into the power
sector and questions over
whether the state's reliance
on renewable energy
exacerbated the situation.
Summertime sea ice in the
Arctic reached a minimum on
September 10 (unless it goes
lower still). It’s now tied
for the second-lowest
minimum in the satellite
era.
Measuring 1,640 feet across,
the massive device will
scour the skies for signs of
life and new galaxies...
Named the Five-hundred-meter
Aperture Spherical Telescope
(FAST), the parabolic dish
is nestled in a natural
depression in Pingtang
County, a mountainous region
of Guizhou Province in south
central China, which
naturally protects against
radio interference. The
device cost $180 million
and more than 8,000 people
in eight villages within a
three-mile radius of the
facility had to be
relocated, adding up to
another $269 million.
A 1,100-mile pipeline,
dubbed Dakota Access and
estimated to cost $3.7
billion, is nearly halfway
complete. It would carry
more than 400 000 barrels of
crude oil per day to the
Bakken region in western
North Dakota across South
Dakota and Iowa and
ultimately connecting with
an existing pipeline in
Illinois.
Pipeline advocates laud
the economic benefits the
carrier would bring to the
region. Its detractors,
particularly the native
American Sioux Indians,
maintain the pipeline
threatens to disrupt their
ancestral homeland and
pollute the water recources.
The data, as reported by IMS
Health, the largest and most
credible source of
prescribing data in the
United States, is
staggering: 274,804 babies,
370,778 toddlers and 500,948
preschoolers have been
prescribed psychiatric drugs
so powerful that they carry
386 international drug
regulatory warnings. In
total, the number of 0-5
year olds prescribed
dangerous and
life-threatening drugs
psychiatric drugs is
1,080,168, all before most
have ever entered
kindergarten.
In the waters off the
coast of Hawaii, a tall buoy
bobs and sways in the water,
using the rise and fall of
the waves to generate
electricity.
The current travels
through an undersea cable
for a mile to a military
base, where it is fed into
Oahu's power grid – the
first wave-produced
electricity to go online in
the U.S.
In
a new study, kids who were
fed food that contained
peanuts when they were 4 to
11 months old were less
likely to develop a peanut
allergy than were those who
were introduced to peanuts
later.
New documents released by
the FBI Friday in another
late-week document dump
revealed that an IT aide to
former secretary of state
Hillary Clinton once
referred to the operation to
begin automatically deleting
her emails as the “Hillary
cover-up operation.”
The employee worked for
the Platte River Network,
which was the company tasked
with handling Clinton’s
emails after she left the
State Department in February
2013.
Today, an ultra-hot column
of partial molten rock lies
beneath Iceland and feeds
the country's dramatic
volcanic landscape, but it
wasn't always this way. Due
to the slow-shifting of
Earth's crust in the region,
this same hotspot sat
beneath Greenland millions
of years ago. And when it
did, a new study has found,
it softened the mantle rock
in a way that has recently
come to fool scientists
trying to gauge ice loss in
the area. So much so, that
it has been losing around 20
gigatons per year more than
we previously thought.
The fuel cell onboard the
train mixes hydrogen with
oxygen to produce
electricity, which is stored
in a lithium-ion battery
that also draws on
regenerative braking. A
"smart power and energy
management system" then
selectively distributes
power to parts of the trains
as required, affording it a
range of 600 to 800 km
(370-500 mi) per tank of
fuel.
A prominent Jordanian writer
was shot dead Sunday on the
steps of a court where he
was facing charges for
sharing an anti-Islam
cartoon on Facebook. Nahed
Hattar was struck by three
bullets before the alleged
assassin was arrested at the
scene of the shooting in
Amman's central Abdali
district, said the official
Petra news agency.
If you are a
hacker, you
might have
enjoyed the
NSA's
private
zero-day
exploits,
malware and
hacking
tools that
were leaked
last month.
But the question is:
How these hacking
tools ended up into
the hands of
hackers?
It has been found
that the NSA itself
was not directly
hacked, but a former
NSA employee
carelessly left
those hacking tools
on a remote server
three years ago
after an operation
and a group of
Russian hackers
found them, sources
close to the
investigation told
Reuters.
A man charged with plotting
to help the Islamic State
group pleaded guilty on
Thursday to conspiracy
charges, including a plot to
behead conservative
blogger Pamela Geller.
“Sea ice really is their
platform for life. They are
capable of existing on land
for part of the year, but
the sea ice is where they
obtain their main prey.”
If you’re a little
confused about what’s going
on in Charlotte, North
Carolina, allow me to
explain: a black cop shot
and killed an armed black
man, so a bunch of black
rioters decided to burn down
a black neighborhood and
loot black-owned businesses
in order to protest
racism against black people.
Make sense now?
Many factors contributed
to this politicization of
climate change, including –
and perhaps especially –
strategic disinformation
campaigns funded by the
fossil fuel industry (akin
to the strategic
disinformation campaigns
perpetrated on Americans for
so many decades by the
tobacco industry).
When Pagliano
didn’t show, Republicans
immediately adjourned the
hearing and held a business
meeting to vote on the
contempt of Congress
resolution.
“Subpoenas are
not optional,” Chairman
Jason Chaffetz
(R-Utah) said Thursday. “Mr.
Pagliano is a crucial fact
witness in this committee’s
investigation of former
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton’s use
of a private server to
conduct government
business.”
The top U.S. military
officer confirmed
Thursday that Islamic State
militants
targeted a military base in
Iraq where U.S. troops were
stationed with a potentially
deadly chemical weapon this
week.
“We assess it to be a
sulfur-mustard blister
agent,” Marine Gen.
Joseph Dunford,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, told the Senate
Armed Services Committee.
In the wake of violent and
deadly protests around the
United States over
police-involved shootings,
David Limbaugh is asking why
cities have surrendered the
rule of law to tolerate
assault on its citizens,
vandalism and worse.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (27 Sep,
28 Sep, 29 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (27
Sep) and active to minor
storm levels on days two and
three (28 Sep, 29 Sep).
...Concealing your identity
– whether you’re hiding your
unhappiness in your
marriage, your
dissatisfaction at work,
your frustration with how
creatively thwarted you feel
while raising three kids, or
your sexual frustration in a
partnership where you’re not
getting any – can compromise
your ability to heal.
Repression of your true
feelings is bad for your
health. Unfettered
expression of who you are
ramps up your inherent
physiological self-healing
mechanisms.
Solar power, which now
supplies less than 1 percent
of energy production, could
meet 100 percent of global
energy demand by 2041, a
business consultant said in
a keynote address Tuesday at
the Hauppauge offices of
satellite services provider
Globecomm.
wiss voters have approved a
new surveillance law, after
the government argued that
security services needed
enhanced powers in an
increasingly volatile world.
The state is aggressively
pushing for more electricity
to be generated from solar
and other renewable sources.
The Cuomo administration has
set a mandate for the state
to get half of its
electricity from renewable
sources by 2030, with the
state offering its own
incentives in addition to
federal subsidies to
encourage the installation
of solar panels across the
state.
Laughter is a
spontaneous reaction
that occurs 30 times
more often in social
situations than when
you’re alone
A good laugh can boost
your immune system, rev
up your circulation so
your blood vessels work
better, raise your
endorphin levels and
trigger a surge of
dopamine, the
“feel-good” hormone, to
your brain
Studies show that
laughter helps both
children and adults
learn better, and
developing a better
sense of humor can also
be learned
Security researcher and
blogger Bruce Schneier has a
new essay up, arguing that
there’s a single body out
there carrying out a
systematic attempt to test
the defenses of the
internet’s fundamental
infrastructure, presumably
with the intention of one
day breaking those defenses.
While the sources for the
article are anonymous, they
hardly need naming since
Schneier makes it clear that
his research has collected
insight from virtually all
major internet companies,
from large service providers
like AT&T all the way to
organizing bodies like
Verisign or potentially even
ICANN itself. Somebody is
searching for weaknesses in
the sorts of places that
many assume you’d only
attack for one reason:
crashing all or a large
portion of the internet.
The criminal case that sees
Anthony Murgio – a Florida
man charged with operating
an illegal (unlicensed)
bitcoin exchange – saw the
presiding US federal judge
reject a bid from Murgio’s
defense that bitcoin did not
classify as “funds”, which
would deem it exempt from
applicable federal laws.
Back in 1945, government
officials began including
fluoride in our tap water to
improve our dental health.
Found in many name brand
toothpastes, it’s thought to
help prevent tooth decay.
But recent studies have
revealed that the chemical
can actually do more harm
than good, like causing
fluorosis — permanent
deformation of the teeth.
British citizen and alleged
hacker Lauri Love
will be extradited to the
United States to face
allegations of hacking into
United States government
computer systems, a UK judge
ruled on Friday.
Love, 31, is currently
facing up to 99 years in
prison for allegedly hacking
into the FBI, the US Army,
the US Missile Defence
Agency, the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), and
New York's Federal Reserve
Bank during 2012 and 2013.
Charlotte officials say
they are preparing for more
protests today following a
night of violence over a
police officer’s fatal
shooting of an
African-American man Tuesday
in the University City area.
The dead man was identified
as Keith Lamont Scott, 43.
Sixteen police officers
were injured overnight in a
series of clashes, and there
were reports early Wednesday
of motorists on Interstate
85 being hurt and their
vehicles damaged when
protesters threw rocks,
bottles and traffic cones
off interstate overpasses
onto traffic below.
Vandals ransacked a
wastewater plant in the
small city of Attleboro, MA,
this month, leaving a mess
of oil contamination in
their wake.
“The city is stuck with a
$35,000 cleanup bill after
apparent copper thieves cut
down a utility pole and
broke open three electrical
transformers, causing oil to
contaminate a small section
of ground at the old
wastewater treatment plant
...
According to newly uncovered
documents, in the 1960s the
sugar industry began funding
research to cast doubt on
sugar’s role in heart
disease, mainly by pointing
the finger at fat instead.
The Fed held its key
interest rate steady
Wednesday at 0.4% It said
the case for a hike “has
strengthened.” Most
officials expect an increase
later in 2016 Fed
policymakers last raised the
rate in December Before
that, it had been 9 years
since the last rate hike.
A frustrated federal
judge ordered the State
Department to begin
producing within five days
hundreds of documents on
whether required or
recommended security
training, briefings or
courses were completed by
former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and her top
aides.
A report published last
week found glyphosate in a
number of childhood
vaccines. Now more study is
needed to learn more about
the presence of other
weedkiller ingredients in
both our vaccines and our
food.
Keep in mind that
absolutely no studies have
been done on the toxicity of
weedkiller when injected
into children.
A couple of weeks ago,
Hillary was yukking it up
with Jimmy Kimmel over the
absurdity of rumors that she
was hiding something about
her health. "Look, she can
open a pickle jar!"
After a former IT aide to
Hillary Clinton failed to
show up for two
congressional hearings in
the last week, the House
Oversight Committee voted to
hold him in contempt of
congress Thursday.
Bryan Pagliano set up and
helped maintain Clinton's
private email server during
her time as secretary of
state. He payed a crucial
role in the matter, and was
even paid by the
Clinton family for
his work — separate from his
paycheck as a Department of
State IT worker.
With so many day-to-day
concerns, from consistent
lack of funding to steadily
failing infrastructure,
cybersecurity threats
probably do not rank very
highly in the minds of
treatment plant operators
and utility managers.
Indeed, cybersecurity
threats were only the
eleventh highest concern
among the utility,
municipal, and commercial
stakeholders polled for
Black and Veatch’s “2016
Strategic Directions”
report. Yet there may be
reason for the threat of
computer hacking to rank a
little higher.
A Minnesota restaurant
owner is responding to
backlash against a sign he
posted outside his business,
Treats Family Restaurant in
Lonsdale, near St. Cloud,
that reads, “Muslims get
out.”
“It’s time that people
started standing up, not
worrying about the PC crowd
and do what is right,...
The U.S. government has
mistakenly granted
citizenship to at least 858
immigrants from countries of
concern to national security
or with high rates of
immigration fraud who had
pending deportation orders,
according to an internal
Homeland Security audit
released Monday.
More than a dozen U.S.
nuclear power plants have
either closed, are in the
process of closing or are at
high risk of closing. What's
more, about half of the
nation's nuclear plants are
no longer profitable.
The $1.9 trillion
shortfall in U.S. state and
local pension funds is
poised to grow as near
record-low bond yields and
global stock-market turmoil
reduce investment gains,
increasing pressure on
governments to put more
money into the retirement
systems.
With the Federal Reserve
holding interest rates
steady at its meeting
Wednesday, the funds will
continue to be squeezed by
rock-bottom payouts on
fixed-income securities just
as stocks fall overseas and
post only modest U.S. gains.
As a result, pensions in
Illinois, Missouri and
Hawaii this year have moved
to roll back the assumed
rate of return on their
investments, joining the
dozens that have taken that
step over the past two
years.
"By withholding critical
details and stonewalling
congressional inquiries,
President Obama seems to be
hiding whether or not he and
others broke U.S. law by
sending $1.7 billion in cash
to Iran," Pompeo told the
Free Beacon.
"But Americans can
plainly see that the Obama
administration laundered
this money in order to
circumvent U.S. law and
appease the Islamic Republic
of Iran."
C5 event observed .
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (23 Sep,
24 Sep, 25 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on days one and two
(23 Sep, 24 Sep) and quiet
to unsettled levels on day
three (25 Sep).
While solar cells and wind
turbines are the devices
many people will think of
for off-grid electricity
production, the development
of practical artificial
photosynthesis for the
creation of hydrogen via
solar-powered water
splitting could radically
alter the way we produce
energy locally. As part of
the on-going pursuit of this
goal, researchers from
Forschungszentrum Jülich
claim to have created a
working, compact,
self-contained artificial
photosynthesis system that
could form the basis for
practical commercial
devices.
Soil’s potential to soak up
planet-warning carbon
dioxide has been
overestimated by as much as
40%, say scientists.
Scientists have found that a
large amount of the
greenhouse gas that it was
previously thought could be
stored in the soil will
actually stay in the
atmosphere.
Dr. Andrew Wakefield is
largely known for the
firestorm created by his
1998 Lancet paper, which
found evidence of a possible
association between the MMR
(measles, mumps and rubella)
vaccine, inflammatory bowel
disease and autism. Critics
of Dr. Wakefield are quick
to point out the paper was
ultimately retracted by the
journal and that he was
stripped of his medical
license by the General
Medical Council (GMC). Some
classify him as a fraud and
unethical researcher, who
has put countless children
in danger because parents
now question the safety of
vaccines. And yet, others
believe “he is a brilliant
and courageous scientist, a
compassionate physician
beloved by his patients, and
a champion for families with
autism and vaccine injury.”
Minnesota is home to about
100 wind power projects and
ranks No. 7 in net wind
power production in the U.S.
That means Minnesota power
producers must have reliable
backup power to fill the
sudden gaps created by
growing supplies of
intermittent wind power. The
$30 million Fairmont plant
is well suited for the job,
capable of reaching full
capacity in just eight
minutes. That's
significantly faster than
power plants using the
latest gas turbine
technology.
The dewatering facility will
remove moisture from bottom
ash, which are particles of
ash that are too large to be
captured in the air and are
instead collected at the
bottom of the steam furnace.
Currently, water is used to
move the ash into ponds for
storage, but TVA is moving
to a dry storage system at
all of its fossil sites,
including the Shawnee plant.
“Then on Sept. 2, Gulfport
dumped close to another
900,000 gallons of sewage.
More than 45 birds have been
found dead and some
environmental activists
worry it could be because of
the raw sewage in the
water,” the report said.
S. 2848 not only authorizes
critical U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers projects that
drive investment in
navigation, flood
management, and ecosystem
restoration, it provides
critical investment to help
communities reduce public
health risks posed by lead,
targets aid to rural
drinking water systems,
bolsters funding for water
technology innovation,
jumpstarts an innovative
financing program for water
infrastructure projects, and
makes common sense reforms
to the Clean Water Act (CWA)
to ensure clean water
investments remain
affordable to lower-income
ratepayers.
According to the FDA’s legal
definition, a drug is
anything that “diagnoses,
cures, mitigates, treats, or
prevents a disease.” The
problem with this definition
is that there are numerous
substances, as readily
available and benign as
found on our spice racks,
which have been proven by
countless millennia of
human experience to
mitigate, prevent and in
some cases cure
disease, and which
cannot be called drugs
according to the FDA.
How can this be? Well, the
FDA has assumed for itself
Godlike power, requiring
that its official approval
be obtained before any
substance can legally be
used in the prevention and
treatment of disease. The
FDA’s legal-regulatory
control therefore is
totalitarian and Napoleonic
in construct; what it does
not explicitly permit as a
medicine is implicitly
forbidden.
Yahoo on Thursday
confirmed a massive data
breach, in which it said a
"state-sponsored" hacker
broke into the internet
company's systems and stole
personal information on at
least 500 million users —
the biggest such theft of
user data from a single
entity to date.
The user-account
information may have
included names, email
addresses, telephone
numbers, dates of birth,
hashed passwords and in some
cases encrypted or
unencrypted security
questions and answers,
according to Yahoo. The data
was stolen from the
company's network in late
2014, Yahoo said. It didn't
identify the country it
believed was behind the
attack.
Almost all parents want
their children to be exposed
to good role models as well
as be good examples
themselves. In a Democratic
Republic such as we in
America have, we want our
leaders to epitomize the
characteristics of greatness
such as, integrity,
determination, intelligence,
compassion, accomplishment,
stamina, etc.
It is a great disservice
to our children when we
overlook gigantic character
flaws in political
candidates for the sake of
party loyalty. We are in
essence telling our children
that once they achieve a
certain societal position,
the rules that apply to
ordinary citizens don’t
apply to them.