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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.
Archaeologists have
uncovered a rare stone
figurine of a woman dating
back 8,000 years at a dig in
Turkey's central province of
Konya that an expert says is
one of only handful of
statuettes of the era ever
found in one piece.
The National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration issued
an urgent call today for the
owners of certain older
Hondas and Acuras to stop
driving those cars
immediately because there is
a high risk the air bag
could rupture in a crash.
China's Purple Mountain
Laboratory discovered the
massive asteroid using
Asia's largest telescope,
determining the meteor was
passing our planet with a
range of 18.8 times the
distance between the Earth
and the moon -- aka, WAY too
close for comfort.
The asteroid, named
2009ES, is one of over 1,600
asteroids known as "minor
bodies" that are currently
heading towards Earth,
according to Chinese Academy
of Science.
In what appears to be an
unprecedented power grab,
the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC)
in the Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS)
just issued a proposed
amendment to its domestic
and foreign quarantine
regulations giving itself
the power to legally
apprehend, detain (isolate
or quarantine), and treat
(including vaccinate) anyone
simply for suspicion of
being infected by a
communicable agent.
As the U.S. distracts its
population with campaign
footage, China could take
the next step to overtake
the U.S. as the world
leader.
The non-U.S. International
Elites (with China leading
the charge) have been
pushing to get the yuan
addition to the Special
Drawing Rights (SDR) in
place as scheduled, before
the U.S. election. This is
no accident. China has been
keenly monitoring the events
leading up to Nov. 8. and is
eager to insulate the
Chinese economy from the
U.S. dollar, and its new
president.
Satellite images of the
crack in Antarctica’s Larsen
C ice shelf. If it breaks
off, it’ll make an ice
island in the Southern Ocean
as large as one of the
smallest U.S. states.
A U.S. District Court
in Washington D.C. has
ordered the company building
the Dakota Access oil
pipeline to stop
construction for 20 miles on
both sides of the Missouri
River at Lake Oahe while the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s
appeal of its denied motion
to do so is considered.
On the day of the equinox,
the center of the sun would
set about 12 hours after
rising – given a level
horizon, as at sea, and no
atmospheric refraction.
Native plant diversity in
forests of northern North
America is declining due to
an invasion by earthworms
introduced hundreds of years
ago from Europe.
Cars aren't the only form of
transport moving towards the
zero-local emissions
benefits of electric power.
Proterra has been working on
its pure electric buses for
some time and the latest
addition to its stable, the
Catalyst E2, has logged more
the 600 miles (966 km) on a
single charge under test
conditions at the Michelin
proving grounds in South
Carolina.
Back in March I told you
how a certain pair of
commonly prescribed meds —
anti-anxiety benzodiazepines
and pain-killing opioids —
are practically the same
mixture as drugs used to
execute prisoners on death
row.
Now, six months later,
the FDA has finally issued a
warning about it, too.
Crafty bacteria that mutate
and evade the forces of
current drugs are a real
concern to the global
community, with a recent
report predicting that these
superbugs could kill 10
million people a year by
2050, an average of one
death every three seconds.
Scientists have built a new
tool to study how the
microscopic killers operate,
taking the form of giant
Petri dish where they can be
seen evolving resistance to
rising concentrations of
antibiotics in a relatively
short space of time.
Market volatility is low,
U.S. census data shows
income gains have reached
the middle class, and
workers are clawing back a
larger share of national
income. For now, at least,
no international risk stands
out and inflation may even
be picking up.
Gold investors seem to
agree: Don’t fight the
Federal Reserve.
With the Fed’s next
policy meeting looming this
week, hedge funds are
exiting from gold.
Speculators cut their bets
on a bullion rally by the
most in more than three
months. Holdings in global
exchange-traded funds backed
by the metal are down from a
three-year high in
August. Aggregate open
interest in New York futures
is mired in the longest
slump since May.
Conventional,
chemical-heavy farming
practices deplete the
soil of minerals,
thereby decimating soil
microorganisms that are
critical for optimal
plant growth, yield and
natural pest control
To receive the same
amount of iron you used
to get from one apple in
1950, by 1998 you had to
eat 26 apples; today you
have to eat 36
Ionic mineral
extractions from ocean
water can be used to
very effectively
remineralize and
regenerate damaged
soils, thereby
increasing the nutrition
of foods grown in it
Thanks to a new
electro-hydraulic
valvetrain, integrated
exhaust manifold and
twin-scroll turbochargers
with ceramic ball bearings,
the new family should use up
15 percent less fuel than
the engines they replace,
all the while delivering up
to 25 percent more power
than before.
“The Court fully
recognizes the unlawful and
violent protestors arrested
to date constitute a very
small percentage of the
entire entourage,” Hovland
wrote. “The Court also
recognizes that many of the
troublesome ‘peaceful
protestors’ are from
out-of-state who have
political interests in the
pipeline protest and hidden
agendas vastly different and
far removed from the
legitimate interests of
Native Americans of the
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
who are actually impacted by
the pipeline project. But
for anyone to suggest the
protests have been entirely
peaceful and prayerful is
less than forthright and
ludicrous at best.”
To put it plainly, Manning
will be castrated so that he
can more fully live out
the delusion that he’s a
woman named Chelsea.
Liberals have celebrated the
news, declaring that it’s
“medically necessary” to
mutilate Manning’s genitals
because he’s “really a woman
inside,” and no woman should
be forced to keep the penis
that was assigned to her at
birth without her consent.
Oil prices rose 1 percent
on Monday after Venezuela
hinted that OPEC members and
other major oil producers
could agree to a deal to
freeze output, and as
clashes in Libya disrupted
attempts to restart crude
exports from key ports.
U.S. gasoline futures
fell on profit-taking from
last week's rally on the
outage of a key gasoline
pipeline due to a leak.
Pluto, everyone’s favorite
dwarf planet, is acting a
little strange and may once
again be challenging our
current understanding of the
solar system. Scientists
have noticed the tiny
trans-Neptunium object
emitting X-rays, which, if
it is confirmed, is both a
baffling and exciting
discovery.
Antibacterial soaps.
Caustic floor cleaners.
Toxic cleaners. Chemical
disinfectants. Most
Americans use household
cleaning products loaded
with chemicals that would be
quite at home in a hazardous
waste dumpsite.
Many commercial products
include ammonia,
formaldehyde, hydrochloric
acid, lye,
paradichlorobenzenes, butyl
cellosolve, ethanol, or
triclosan. All have been
linked to health problems,
including skin conditions,
irritation, reproductive
problems, and even cancer.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (20 Sep,
21 Sep, 22 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to minor storm levels on day
one (20 Sep), quiet to
active levels on day two (21
Sep) and quiet levels on day
three (22 Sep).
Watch out, Tesla — you’re
not the only one increasing
global battery production
with that gigafactory in
Nevada. Samsung SDI
announced that its own large
battery factory will be
built in Hungary, beginning
in the second half of 2018.
As you probably know, most
commercially available
pest-repellants are full of
harmful chemicals that you
wouldn’t want anywhere near
your house, children, or
pets, let alone near the
garden that you’re growing
your food in.
For every decade a woman
is obese, her odds of
developing breast,
endometrial, colon or
kidney cancer rises by
10 percent. For each
decade she’s overweight,
her risk rises by 7
percent
Excess body weight is
responsible for about 25
percent of the relative
contribution to cancer
incidence, second only
to smoking, and is a
contributing factor in
20 percent of all cancer
deaths in the U.S.
Lifestyle strategies
that can slash your risk
of cancer include
nutritional ketosis (a
diet high in healthy
fat, low in net carbs),
peak fasting and
exercise — all of which
boost your mitochondrial
health
Donald Trump is right: It
was the Hillary Clinton
campaign that spread the
rumor in 2008 that Obama was
not born in America and,
therefore, might not be
eligible to serve as
President.
Hillary
sent out her Chief Goon to
take care of this
high-priority matter.
The United States will
likely see terror strikes
"happen perhaps more and
more all over the country"
after the bomb that went off
in lower Manhattan on
Saturday, as "our country
has been weak" on fighting
back, GOP presidential
nominee Donald Trump said
Monday morning.
Another month passes and
another dataset gathered and
interpreted by NASA
scientists reinforce an
alarming trend. The agency's
latest monthly analysis of
global temperatures has
found August 2016 to be the
hottest August in 136 years
of record-keeping, marking
the 11th consecutive month
such a record has been
broken.
Scientists at NASA's
Goddard Institute for Space
Studies (GISS) in New York
carried out their analysis
by collating data from about
6,300 meteorological
stations around the world,
along with instruments that
track sea surface
temperatures and Antarctic
research stations.
In this day and age,
almost everything is done
using electricity. It has
become such a constant and
integral part in our lives
that we use it without a
second thought. But what if
one day something of
catastrophic proportions
happens that causes us
to lose power for good? How
would that affect each and
every one of us?
If you think life without
electricity is impossible,
then here are some few facts
to make you think
otherwise...
The overnight interbank yuan
rate surged the most since
January in Hong Kong amid
speculation China’s central
bank is intervening to fend
off bearish bets on the
currency.
The problem is not with
the sincerity, the courage,
the energy or the effort of
individual Americans.
The problem has been the
approach of a bipartisan
Washington political elite
that has squandered 15
years, thousands of lives,
many thousands wounded, and
trillions of dollars with no
coherent strategy, no honest
assessment of the challenge,
and no willingness to learn
from failure and develop new
strategies and new
institutions.
The U.S. Air Force is
changing the substance it
uses to fight fires amid
water-contamination scandals
across the country linked to
perfluorinated compounds
(PFCs).
“The Air Force said it
awarded a $6.2 million
contract [in August] to
replace the firefighting
foam,” CBS Denver reported.
The aim is to “reduce the
risk of possible
contamination of soil and
groundwater. The current
foam is used where
potentially catastrophic
fuel fires can occur, such
as in a plane crash, because
it can rapidly extinguish
the flames.”
A new University of
Washington study, with
funding and satellite data
from NASA and other
agencies, finds a trend
toward earlier sea ice melt
in the spring and later ice
growth in the fall across
all 19 polar bear
populations, which can
negatively impact the
feeding and breeding
capabilities of the bears.
More than $9 million
of Department of State money
has been funneled through
the Peace Corps to a
nonprofit foundation started
and run by Secretary of
State John Kerry’s daughter,
documents obtained by The
Daily Caller News Foundation
show.
The Department
of State funded a Peace
Corps program created by Dr.
Vanessa Kerry and officials
from both agencies, records
show. The Peace Corps then
awarded the money without
competition to a nonprofit
Kerry created for the
program.
Say you’re on the fence over
whether solar panels make
economic sense in your area,
the website
Renewables.ninja
calculates how many
kilowatt-hours of energy
they will generate if
installed on your roof,
making it easier to
determine whether or not the
investment is worthwhile.
Users specify the latitude
and longitude coordinates of
the desired location—or
click on the interactive
map—select a date range,
input the size and
orientation of a solar
panel, or the height and
type of wind turbine, then
learn how much power the
device can generate once
installed.
A fire overnight
heavily-damaged the Islamic
Center of Fort Pierce, a
mosque once-attended by the
Pulse nightclub killer and
another American terrorist.
Flood gates from a
reservoir were opened and
washed homes away in August
and, according to Indigenous
Ngabe protesters in Panama,
they were then harassed,
shot by police, and now
attack dogs have been used
at recent protests. Despite
these challenges, the
protestors are not backing
down from their 10-year
struggle to prevent a
massive hydroelectric dam on
their land.
Brazil, one of the
world's largest emitters of
heat-trapping gases, on
Monday ratified the Paris
agreement to fight global
warming, joining top
polluters United States and
China and bringing the deal
closer to implementation.
Brazil's President Michel
Temer signed the
ratification in Brasilia
following approval by both
houses of Congress. U.S. and
China had ratified the deal
on September 3.
Fuel cells have long held
promise as power sources,
but low efficiency has
created obstacles to
realizing that promise.
Researchers at the
University of Illinois and
collaborators have
identified the active form
of an iron-containing
catalyst for the trickiest
part of the process:
reducing oxygen gas, which
has two oxygen atoms, so
that it can break apart and
combine with ionized
hydrogen to make water. The
finding could help
researchers refine better
catalysts, making fuel cells
a more energy- and
cost-efficient option for
powering vehicles and other
applications.
lthough volumes are still
small, fully depleted
silicon-on-insulator could
grow rapidly in the wake of
Globalfoundries’ plans for a
12nm process. Whether
Samsung or a new fab coming
up in Shanghai will adopt
FD-SOI will be a big factor,
said veteran market watcher
Handel Jones of
International Business
Strategies.
Following the
Wikileaks-style initiative,
Hillary Clinton ally David
Brock has launched a new
site which announces cash
prizes in exchange for
information about Donald
Trump, according to
NBC News.
Justin Cooper, a former
Clinton Foundation employee,
testified Tuesday during a
House Oversight Committee
hearing that he had access
to Democratic presidential
nominee Hillary Clinton’s
private email server
although he had no security
clearance, according to the
Washington Examiner.
"I told her staff three
times not to try that
gambit. I had to throw a
mini tantrum at a Hamptons
party to get their
attention. She keeps
tripping into these
'character' minefields," he
wrote in a private email
hacked from his Gmail
account...
It sounds like something out
of a B-grade Hollywood plot
— a flash drive that you
plug into a computer and is
capable of destroying it
within seconds. Last year,
hacker Dark Purple disclosed
a USB flash drive designed
to fry a modern system as
soon as you plug it in. The
drive works by discharging
-220V through the USB port.
Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is
meeting with conservative
lawmakers in both chambers
to build support for a
showdown with the White
House over funding the
government and power over
the internet.
Cruz wants a stopgap
measure to fund the
government to include a
rider that would block the
administration from
relinquishing the special
oversight role the United
States has had over the
internet since its
inception.
Advocates of the US natural
gas pipeline industry
expressed concern Tuesday
over an Obama administration
decision to delay
construction of a
controversial crude oil
pipeline, fearing the move
could have negative
implications for natural gas
pipeline development.
he media saw the remarks
as a gaffe because our
elites overwhelmingly agree
with Hillary about the
“deplorables” in the rest of
America--and they believe
that in politics, as the
saying goes, a gaffe is when
someone inadvertently tells
the truth.
Hillary’s remarks were
clearly not a mistake,
however.
The “National Offshore Wind
Strategy: Facilitating the
Development of the Offshore
Wind Industry in the United
States,” states the U.S.
could develop 86 GW of
offshore wind by 2050. The
strategy details the current
state of U.S. offshore wind,
presents the actions and
innovations needed to reduce
deployment costs and
timelines, and provides a
roadmap to support the
growth and success of the
industry.
...a
thick layer of water works
just as well as a thinner
layer of lead. But your
protective layer of water
would have to be about 14
times as thick (lead is 11
times heavier than water,
and heavy elements are
slightly better than light
elements for absorbing gamma
rays, which are the most
penetrating).
Hillary Clinton’s collapse
over the weekend has sparked
renewed questions about the
Democratic presidential
nominee’s health, and now a
former Secret Service agent
who worked with the Clintons
is weighing in.
Niger's defense ministry
says at least five soldiers
and 30 Boko Haram militants
have been killed after an
ambush by the Nigeria-based
Islamic extremists led to
fighting.
Residents of Flint,
Michigan, on Wednesday asked
a federal judge to order
bottled water or filters be
provided to them to prevent
further lead exposure, 2-1/2
years after the city's water
supply was found to be
contaminated.
World population growth
is a bigger problem than
climate change, French
presidential candidate
Nicolas Sarkozy said on
Thursday, pouring more fuel
on a fire he ignited this
week when he appeared to
downplay man-made climate
change.
Sarkozy, acknowledging on
a late night TV talk show
that climate change was "a
very serious challenge" said
that: "the real challenge is
that of demographic change."
Germany's top utilities said
they were nearing a deal
with the government over
funding for storing
radioactive waste, denying a
media report that said the
cost to the firms of the
agreement had risen.
Research led by the National
Centre of Earth Observation
at the University of
Leicester is going to new
heights in the atmosphere to
get a better handle on
methane emitted from
wetlands in the Amazon.
Hacker Guccifer 2.0
released more Democratic
National Committee documents
in the latest leak Tuesday.
The 600-megabyte data
dump revealed at a London
cybersecurity conference
included spreadsheets that
appeared to show DNC donors'
personal information,
Politico reported.
Obesity is on the rise, so
are chronic and deadly
health problems like
diabetes, heart disease and
cancer — and each one is
closely linked with the rise
in processed food
consumption. Poverty plays a
large role in the foods
available to eat as
well; there’re entire inner
city neighborhoods where you
can’t find fresh produce to
save your life. To make
matters worse, junk food is
state subsidized —
heavily — making it
cheaper for manufacturers
and more readily available
to consumers.
Hillary's health now gives
Donald Trump a second chance
to make a good first
impression -- something as
rare in politics as it is in
life. Already polling is
suggesting that Trump is
surging in the wake of her
collapse at the 9/11
ceremony. The New York
Times/CBS has the race even
among all voters and gives
Trump a two point lead among
likely voters. Rasmussen
has The Donald two ahead.
Reuters has it tied. LA
Times/USC gives Trump a six
point lead.
Rates are not easy to
explain - neither to the
customer base nor to the
regulatory entities with
purview over rate approval.
Thus, framing messages so
that they convey the right
information, values and
emotions is the key to
public communication, and
ultimately approval of
proposed rates.
An organization of Alaska
Native leaders wants the
U.S./Canada International
Joint Commission, formed by
a 1909 treaty, to ensure
British Columbia mines use
best practices to prevent
contamination of rivers that
cross from Canada into
Southeast Alaska.
They also want Alaska
Native governments to be
consulted because their
territories, economies and
environmental health are at
stake.
The former State Department
computer specialist tasked
with setting up the private
email server Hillary Clinton
used while secretary of
state has refused a subpoena
to appear before a House
panel.
A Kentucky Democrat running
for Congress called on
Tuesday for Gov. Matt Bevin
(R) to be removed from
office after he suggested
that an armed insurrection
should take place if Hillary
Clinton wins the
presidential election.
A powerful Republican
lawmaker abruptly stopped a
hearing Monday on Capitol
Hill to serve a subpoena
demanding the FBI’s full
investigative file on the
Hillary Clinton email probe
to a top official, telling
the man “you are hereby
served.”
The dramatic moment came
as House Oversight Committee
Chairman Jason Chaffetz,
R-Utah, expressed
frustration that the FBI
would not guarantee to
provide the committee with
the full, unedited,
unredacted investigative
summaries of the federal
inquiry into Clinton’s
homebrewed server and the
Democratic presidential
nominee’s potential
mishandling of classified
information.
Another Day, Another Data
Breach! And this time, it's
worse than any recent data
breaches.
Why?
Because the data breach
has exposed plaintext
passwords, usernames, email
addresses, and a large trove
of other personal
information of more than 6.6
Million ClixSense users.
Pork
and dairy operations are
responsible for managing
substantial volumes of
high-strength organic
wastewater every year, but
they also must contend with
large amounts of animal
manure. According to the
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA),
livestock producers manage
more than a billion tons of
animal manure on an annual
basis. These nutrient-laden
wastes can be a major
contributor to nutrient
pollution in many U.S.
waterways and lakes, causing
algae growth and leading to
severe water quality
impacts.
Nemariq Alhinai, 35, was
walking in front of
Valentino’s department store
at 9 p.m. Saturday when she
felt a warm sensation on her
left arm, the sources said.
She looked down and noticed
her blouse was on fire.
She patted out the flames
and then saw an unknown man
standing next to her with a
lighter in hand. The man
walked away on East 54th
Street. Police are looking
for the suspect, law
enforcement sources said.
Flooding from heavy rain in
North Korea has killed 133
people in its northeast
while 395 are missing, with
many homes and critical
infrastructure destroyed, a
U.N. agency said on Monday.
The backstory is fairly
simple. Oil companies wanted
to build a pipeline to get
some of the crude that
they’ve been fracking out of
the Dakotas to market. The
pipeline originally was set
to cross the Missouri at
Bismarck, but people pointed
out that a spill there would
endanger water supplies for
the state capitol. So...
On Friday, as the Obama
administration temporarily
halted construction of the
Dakota Access pipeline due
to concerns of the Standing
Rock Sioux Tribe, another
water-related human tragedy
continued to unfold within
the Navajo Reservation in
New Mexico.
A year after the Gold
King Mine spill that turned
the San Juan River bright
orange with millions of
gallons of toxic chemicals,
Navajo families continue to
struggle against the
ongoing, catastrophic
effects on their water
supply that threaten both
their health and the
economic stability of an
already fragile community.
A possible causal link
between air pollution and
Alzheimer's disease has been
suggested by scientists
after they conducted
detailed studies of brain
tissue, in a joint
British-Mexican project.
US Senator Dianne Feinstein
of California said at an
appropriations subcommittee
hearing Wednesday that she
cannot continue to support
nuclear power if there is
"no strategy for the
long-term storage of the
waste."
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(16 Sep, 17 Sep, 18 Sep).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days one
and two (16 Sep, 17 Sep) and
quiet levels on day three
(18 Sep).
A prominent
Kremlin-appointed Russian TV
host said during a recent
broadcast that GOP
presidential candidate
Donald Trump will be killed
by the military-industrial
complex before he has the
opportunity to change U.S.
foreign policy.
People in dozens of cities
protested against the North
Dakota Access Pipeline on
Tuesday, including Sen.
Bernie Sanders. In North
Dakota, where the opposition
began, more protesters were
arrested.
Electronic cigarettes may
have helped about 18,000
people in England to give up
smoking last year and there
is no evidence of any
serious side effects
associated with their use
for up to two years,
according to studies
published on Tuesday.
Fifty-five Sikh men were
arrested in UK's
Warwickshire after a gang of
20-30 sword-wielding men
stormed a gurudwara to
protest against an
inter-faith marriage.
Late on Wednesday night, the
Missouri legislature voted
to overturn Gov. Jay Nixon's
veto of bill SB 656 and
allow Missourians to carry
concealed weapons without a
permit.
The U.S. installed more than
2,000 MW of solar
photovoltaic (PV) capacity
in the second quarter of
2016, according to a report
by GTM Research and the
Solar Energy Industries
Association (SEIA).
Everyone knows that reactors
can’t run forever, but many
plant operators and
utilities in the past three
years have made the decision
to end operations at nuclear
plants before their licenses
expire. ...more are expected
to be on this list in the
near future..
What to know as protesters
and the oil company continue
to clash
While the judge did not
grant the injunction, a
number of federal agencies,
including the Justice
Department, the Department
of the Army and the Interior
Department halted
construction on all lands of
significance to the Standing
Rock Sioux following the
decision.
Journalist and author Cokie
Roberts said Monday on NPR’s
“Morning Edition” that
Democratic insiders are
“nervously beginning to
whisper” about the
possibility of Clinton
stepping aside amid
lingering questions about
her health.
The use of marijuana for
medical purposes is now
legal in 25 states; two
additional states
(Arkansas and Florida)
have pending legislation
or ballot measures to
legalize medical
marijuana
Marijuana is a Schedule
1 controlled substance,
defined as drugs having
a "high potential for
abuse" and "no
acceptable medical use
in treatment." Research
shows marijuana meets
neither of these
criteria
Despite the evidence,
the U.S. Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA)
recently rejected the
petition to lower the
classification of
marijuana to a Schedule
2 drug — drugs that have
some accepted medicinal
use
A wildfire burning in the
Peruvian Amazon that has
charred some 20,000 hectares
(49,421 acres) of rainforest
and destroyed crops planted
by indigenous communities
was raging toward a national
park and another protected
area, authorities said on
Thursday.
The device was introduced
purely as a means for proof
of concept — something that
security researchers and
those who work on USB
standards should be aware
could be used by those
seeking to inflict damage on
computers and hardware.
Unfortunately, the
technology has proven quite
popular beyond this niche
audience, and so to profit
on the idea, the USB Kill
has been introduced to
market as a device anyone
can buy.
The world and the U.S.
changed forever on September
11th, 2001. Today, as we
reach the 15th anniversary
of 9/11, it is worth casting
our attention back to that
horrific event, and
continuing to shine light on
the utter nonsense that is
the official story of 9/11.
Although it is now 2016, 15
years later, there are some
promising signs that people
are awakening to the truth
of the biggest false flag
operation ever on U.S. soil,
and what it means for the
American people and the
world. So, on the
anniversary of 9/11, I have
13 key questions for the
U.S. Government about the
official narrative of
September 11th, 2001.
"We know lakes are important
in the global carbon cycle
-- absorbing and emitting
carbon -- and that's
critical to regulating
global air temperatures. But
we don't know how the role
of lakes will change as a
result of rising air
temperatures," said Rose.
"Right now, we can model
changes for an individual
lake -- using
characteristics like surface
area, depth, water clarity,
and temperature profile --
but to be useful as a
planning and research tool,
we need to work on a much
larger scale."
These memories of history
spanning 1,200 years may
help put the current
skirmishes with Islamic
supremacists in a broader
perspective. Perhaps we are
not so far removed from the
patterns and conflicts of
the past as we would like to
think.
A typical day in the life
of an American city.
Thirty-one shootings, nine
fatalities. Welcome to
Chicago.
It is not on the news
because it is a regular
occurrence throughout the
United States where more
than 30,000 people are
killed each year from
gunfire. Tens of thousands
more are wounded.
Dr. Bob Sears, the
Capistrano Beach
pediatrician who is an
outspoken critic of
mandatory vaccination laws,
faces possible state Medical
Board discipline after he
recommended that a
2-year-old patient forgo
immunizations, according to
legal documents made public
Thursday.
The board accuses Sears
of committing “gross
negligence” in 2014 when he
wrote a letter excusing the
toddler from future
vaccinations after the
child’s mother described an
adverse reaction as an
infant.
Federal officials took the
first step this week toward
a planned copy billion
cleanup of abandoned uranium
mines in and around the
Navajo Nation, seeking bids
to assess the problem and
begin planning the project.
BlackRock Inc., the
world's largest asset
manager, said all investors
should factor climate change
into their decision-making
and doing so would not mean
having to accept lower
returns.
Global moves to
coordinate a response to
climate change took a big
step forward recently when
both China and the United
States ratified a 2015 plan
to curb climate-warming
emissions, raising chances
it will enter into law this
year.
The federal government
stepped into the fight over
the Dakota Access oil
pipeline Friday, ordering
work to stop on one segment
of the project in North
Dakota and asking the
Texas-based company building
it to "voluntarily pause"
action. (Tom Stromme/The
Bismarck Tribune via
Associated Press)
Jill Stein allegedly was
part of a group protesting
the building of the Dakota
Access pipeline and spray
painted construction
equipment, Morton County
Sheriff’s Department said.
Protesters also attached
themselves to bulldozers and
broke a fence, the
department said.
Has religion really been
used to control humanity? I
definitely believe so, and I
think that it becomes self
evident if one looks at the
bulk of human history. There
was a time when religion was
indistinguishable from the
state — either you were part
of the church or you were
considered a heretic. Even
the work of scientists like
Galileo was completely
banned and disregarded for
years. The whole system of
religion was, and still is
(in some cases), based on
fear. If you don’t do this,
you’ll go to hell, or if you
don’t do that, God will not
be your friend and you will
suffer, if you don’t pay
taxes to the church,
you will be punished.
The scientists, led by
graduate student Sophie Chu,
in MIT's Department of
Earth, Atmospheric, and
Planetary Sciences, found
that most of the
anthropogenic carbon (carbon
arising from human activity)
in the northeast Pacific has
lingered in the upper
layers, changing the
chemistry of the ocean as a
result. In the past 10
years, the region's average
pH has dropped by 0.002 pH
units per year, leading to
more acidic waters. The
increased uptake in carbon
dioxide has also decreased
the availability of
aragonite -- an essential
mineral for many marine
species' shells.
Federal Judge Anna Brown
questioned jurors about
religion, media consumption,
social media exposure,
jurors relationships with
law enforcement officers and
gun rights, particularly
relating to the First and
Second Amendments.
Potential jurors range
from a wide swath of
professions and backgrounds,
including one who is
homeless. Jurors are from
all regions of the state,
some live as far away as
Ashland.
Shortly after federal
Judge James Boasberg denied
the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe’s request for an
injunction against the
Dakota Access oil pipeline,
the U.S. Department of the
Interior, Department of
Justice and Army Corps of
Engineers issued a joint
statement that, in effect,
temporarily halts all
construction bordering Lake
Oahe on the Missouri.
Earlier today, the
Libertarian ticket of
Gary Johnson
and William Weld achieved
ballot access in Rhode
Island. The feat is
important in that it marks
the first time since 1996
that any third-party ticket
will appear on all 50 state
ballots (plus the District
of Columbia).
Steven Jones is a former
full professor of physics at
Brigham Young University,
his major research interests
have been in the areas of
fusion, solar energy, and
archaeometry. He has
authored or co-authored a
number of papers documenting
evidence of extremely high
temperatures during the WTC
destruction and evidence of
unreacted nano-thermitic
material in the WTC dust.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares on days
one, two, and three (13 Sep,
14 Sep, 15 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days one
and two (13 Sep, 14 Sep) and
quiet levels on day three
(15 Sep).
MPR News reported that
the average surface water
temperature for the entire
lake hit 68.5 degrees
Fahrenheit.
University of
Minnesota-Duluth researchers
have found that summer
surface temperatures in Lake
Superior have increased by 5
degrees over the past 30
years.
Rambler.ru, also known as
Russia's Yahoo, suffered a
massive data breach in 2012
in which an unknown hacker
or a group of hackers
managed to steal nearly 100
Million user accounts,
including their unencrypted
plaintext passwords.
The Saudi Grand Mufti Abdul
Aziz Al Sheikh has fanned
the flames of a 1300-year
dispute between Shiites and
Sunnis when he announced on
Tuesday that the Iranians
are the descendants of the
Zoroastrians and of fire
worshippers. He spoke ahead
of the annual hajj, which
this year starts on
Saturday.
Most people would have used
the "five-second rule" to
justify rescuing some tasty
tidbit from the floor at
some point in their lives,
but is there any truth to
it? Researchers at Rutgers
University have tested the
rate that bacteria transfers
from various surfaces to
various foods, and their
findings may be hard to
stomach.
"Engines were not on and
there was no apparent heat
source."
According to video
footage of the incident, the
SpaceX rocket and an Israeli
communications satellite,
Amos-6, suddenly burst into
a massive fireball amid what
appeared to be a succession
of blasts.
Jon Don Ilone Reed, an Army
veteran and member of South
Dakota's Cheyenne River
Sioux Tribe, protested an
oil pipeline near the
Standing Rock Sioux
reservation in southern
North Dakota. Reed said he
fought in Iraq and is now
fighting "fighting for our
children and our water."
A new study from Lancaster
University has
discovered toxic
nanoparticles from air
pollution in large
quantities in human brains.
The researchers examined
brain tissue from 37 people
aged between 3 and 92 years
old in the U.K. and Mexico.
Magnetite, a type of iron
oxide, was found in massive
quantities in the samples –
millions of particles per
gram of brain tissue.
Fifteen years after the U.S.
declared drug-resistant
infections to be a grave
threat, the crisis is only
worsening, a Reuters
investigation finds, as
government agencies remain
unwilling or unable to
impose reporting
requirements on a healthcare
industry that often hides
the problem.
Don’t ever think she’s dumb.
The lady is extremely
intelligent – EXTREMELY
UNETHICAL AND SELF SERVING
AT EVERYONE ELSE’S EXPENSE –
but extremely intelligent.
To answer Tomi’s question
she is a lying sack of you
know what.
Journalists working for
outlets that Trump believed
had slighted him were
frequently barred from his
campaign events. Some
reporters were able to
attend as members of the
public but were not given
the access typically granted
to members of the media.
The US Congress has passed a
bill that would allow
families of 9/11 victims to
sue the government of Saudi
Arabia, although Obama has
vowed to veto it. The
measure comes ahead of the
15th anniversary of the
attacks.
The Obama administration
is acknowledging its
transfer of $1.7 billion to
Iran earlier this year was
made entirely in cash, using
non-U.S. currency, as
Republican critics of the
transaction continued to
denounce the payments.
Treasury Department
spokeswoman Dawn Selak said
in a statement late Tuesday
that the cash payments were
necessary because of the
“effectiveness of U.S. and
international sanctions,”
which isolated Iran from the
international finance
system.
“As a Naval flight officer,
I held a top-secret,
sensitive, compartmentalized
information clearance and
that provided me access to
materials and information
highly sensitive to our
war-fighting capabilities,”
the veteran told the
Democratic presidential
nominee. “Had I communicated
this information not
following prescribed
protocols, I would have been
prosecuted and imprisoned.”
We've been plodding around
the place for 200,000 years,
but in the last 25 old
planet Earth has really
borne the brunt of our
ever-growing presence. This
is the alarming picture
painted by a new study
taking stock of the planet's
intact landscapes, revealing
that since the early 1990's
almost one tenth of the
globe's wilderness areas
have been lost to human
development.
Today, on the 15 year
anniversary of 9/11, there
is so much evidence and
information available that
debunks the official
narrative of September 11,
2001, it is hard to
believe the U.S. people have
not yet revolted. From the
apparent implosion
of the World Trade Center
buildings to the lack of
airplane wreckage at the
Pentagon site, the official
story maintained by the U.S.
government simply doesn’t
hold water. And the
implications for the U.S.
people (and the
global community in general)
are staggering.
“The word judgment has been
used a lot around you,
Secretary Clinton, over the
last year and a half,” Lauer
said, “and in particular
concerning your use of your
personal email and server to
communicate while you were
secretary of state.”
Speaking at a literary
festival in Bhutan, the
Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh
recently predicted that
Himalayan regions, for no
fault of their own, will
face a catastrophe as
climate change takes hold.
So chilling was Ghosh that
the local paper reported –
only half in jest – that a
disturbed audience had to be
soothed by a subsequent talk
by Buddhist monks.
Perhaps the most startling
thing is that donors felt
their money entitled them to
access and accelerated
consideration. That’s a
window into the larger
problem of money in
politics.
Researchers develop
economic model that shows
how flexible treatment
processes may create water
supply that is affordable
and benefits crops
Recycled wastewater is
increasingly touted as part
of the solution to
California’s water woes,
particularly for
agricultural use, as the
state’s historic drought
continues. The cost of
treating wastewater to meet
state health standards for
reuse and to reduce salt
levels that damage crops
presents a new set of
challenges, however.
Anthony Holland, an
Associate Professor and
Director of Music Technology
at Skidmore College in New
York, U.S., and his fellow
researchers discovered that,
by creating custom digital
electronic signals, they can
destroy cancer cells and
Methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
(MSRA). In their laboratory
experiments, the team used
Oscillating Pulsed Electric
Fields (OPEF) to induce
sympathetic resonant
vibrations which in a short
amount of time
shattered targeted cells
from pancreatic cancer,
leukemia, ovarian cancer,
and the dangerous
antibiotic-resistant
bacterium MSRA.
Below is an image showing
the effect that the resonant
frequencies had on leukemia
cells.
“What has changed is that
people are looking at water
treatment and wastewater
treatment in a new way.
People are talking seriously
about energy neutral
wastewater treatment. To do
that you need to produce as
much energy on site as
possible but also reduce the
amount of energy used by
processes such as aeration.”
Costa Rica ran on 100
percent renewable energy for
76 straight days between
June and August this year,
according to a new report,
demonstrating that life
without fossil fuels is
possible - for small
countries, at least.
Atmospheric anomalies over
the tropical Pacific Ocean
largely indicated
ENSO-Neutral conditions. The
traditional Southern
Oscillation index and the
equatorial Southern
Oscillation index were
weakly positive during
August.
In what appears to be a
first-time discovery,
researchers found a
drug-resistant “superbug” in
the drinking water in a
developed country.
The discovery of
antibiotic-resistant E.
coli bacteria in water
samples from France
highlights “the presence of
expanding reservoirs of
these resistance genes,
including reservoirs in the
environment,..
As Americans, we can
mostly eat whatever we want,
whenever we want. Our
industrial food system makes
food relatively inexpensive
and there is little regard
for what foods are actually
in season in our local area.
But long-time gardeners
are passionate about growing
their own food. Here are
some reasons you should try
it, too.
Some remote villages along
the way are seeing dollar
signs, while
environmentalists are seeing
doom. They say the voyage
represents global warming
and man's destruction of the
Earth.
Former Secretary of State
Colin Powell told Hillary
Clinton, while she was
getting started as President
Barack Obama’s first
secretary of state, that he
used a personal computer to
circumvent government
servers while he worked at
the State Department,
according to emails released
by Democrats on the House
Oversight Committee on
Wednesday.
High-sugar diets are a
significant risk factor
for cardiovascular
disease in children, and
pose a significant risk
even far below current
levels of consumption
The American Heart
Association (AHA)
recommends limiting
added sugars for kids
between 2 and 18 to a
max of 6 teaspoons (25
grams); kids under 2
should have NO added
sugars
Life expectancy
decreases as weight
increases; moderate
obesity cuts life
expectancy by three
years while severe
obesity can reduce
lifespan by as much as
10 years
French merchants and
residents block the main
route into the Port of
Calais as they await the
arrival of a convoy of
trucks protesting a refugee
camp known as “the jungle.”
Toxic algae has become a
major concern in different
parts of the United States.
Coastal areas like Florida
have had many of the issues,
especially with algal blooms
affecting drinking water.
However, there has
emerged a reason for hope in
combating the algae problem.
Scientists are studying the
waters of Utah Lake and the
Great Salt Lake, with the
goal of determining how to
foresee algae outbreaks
before they take place.
In case
you missed it, the gist of
the story was this: Dairy
cows in Vermont eat a diet
of GMO corn sprayed with,
among other poisons,
atrazine—a chemical the EPA
says is unsafe at any
leve
Following the
destruction of Lakota burial
grounds and sacred sites by
Dakota Access pipeline
workers, more than 500 water
protectors gathered to pray.
More than 8,000 people
representing 180 tribes have
converged at the Oceti
Sakowin Camp at Standing
Rock to protect their water
and sacred sites.
It has to do with a molecule
called microRNA, and the
protein it triggers:
PLEKHA7. MicroRNA are
responsible for telling
cells to stop dividing, and
the protein PLEKHA7 does
their bidding and breaks
cell bonds — thereby
prohibiting the cells from
dividing continually and
turning cancerous.
While researchers don’t know
why the shingles shot may
cause keratitis, the
condition has been linked to
autoimmune disorders. The
connection between vaccines
and autoimmune disease has
been widely acknowledged...
Pregnant women with
relatively high levels
of certain PCBs had
children who were 80
percent more likely to
be diagnosed with autism
than children born to
women with lower levels
Children in the higher
PCB exposure groups also
had double the risk of
intellectual
disabilities (without
autism)
PCBs have previously
been shown to disrupt
brain development and
cause brain damage,
neurological
abnormalities, reduced
IQ and aggressiveness in
children
After years of low natural
gas prices and countless
projections for low-priced
gas for the foreseeable
future, the dominance of
natural gas in power
generation is becoming more
evident.
China is in the midst of
one of the biggest borrowing
binges in history, which is
eerily similar to that of
the United States before the
2008 financial crisis.
China’s pile of public
and private debt soared to
$26.6 trillion in 2015,
“about five times what it
was a decade ago, and more
than two and a half times
the size of the country’s
entire economy,” the
New York Times reported.
President Obama cancelled a
meeting with new Philippine
President Rodrigo Duterte,
after being called a "son of
a bitch" by the leader while
he spoke to reporters. In
language highly unusual for
any world leader — let alone
from a close ally like the
Philippines — Duterte told
reporters in Manila that
Obama should not use their
planned meeting to critique
the Philippine's war on
drugs.
President Barack Obama
nominated a Muslim lawyer to
serve as a U.S. District
Court judge, the
White House
announced Tuesday, which if
he is confirmed would make
him the first federal jurist
who practices the Islamic
faith.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a slight chance
for an M-class flare on days
one, two, and three (09 Sep,
10 Sep, 11 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days
one, two, and three (09 Sep,
10 Sep, 11 Sep).
The outlawing of kratom will
make it harder for
researchers to study whether
the plant is an effective
treatment for pain or opioid
addiction...
These researchers haven't
just been looking into
whether kratom is a
potential alternative to
drugs like Suboxone, used to
wean patients off opioids.
They're also trying to
determine whether kratom
might work as a less
dangerous painkiller than
drugs like OxyContin and
morphine, so that patients
could avoid opioids
altogether. And they worry
that this work will be
sharply curtailed.
The program (the acronym
representing Business
Research Entrepreneurship in
Wisconsin) has provided 20
fledgling water tech
innovators with funding and
mentorship since 2013 with
the goal of commercializing
their products.
Last year, ice cream
from Blue Bell Creamery
sickened 10 people with
listeria; three died as
a result. The price for
causing three deaths? A
mere $175,000 fine
Use of herbicides and
chemical fertilizers on
corn for cow feed on
Vermont dairy farms
nearly doubled between
2002 and 2012. These
chemicals pose a threat
to the environment,
water supplies and human
health
Up to 80 percent of
herbicides used on
Vermont dairy farms are
atrazine-based — a
chemical associated with
estrogen overproduction,
the feminizing of males,
reproductive problems,
several cancers and
birth defects
True surrender, then, is
feeling into, with total
acceptance...
How do you know then the
difference between this
authentic willpower as
opposed to simple attachment
to the outcome?..
The other essential test,
is you’ll feel a sense of
expansiveness with your
committed action. What
you’re doing is summoning
authentic, ray 1 warrior
energy, as an up-swelling
from deep within. Besides
surrender, this is another
core characteristic of the
soul.
Title X is a federal grant
program that provides funds
for family planning and
related preventive health
services. Some states have
chosen not to grant these
funds to Planned Parenthood.
“Grown up, we hope for a
re-creation of what it felt
like to be ministered to and
indulged [as infants and
children]. In a secret
corner of our mind, we
picture a lover who will
anticipate our needs, read
our hearts, act selflessly
and make everything better.
It sounds ‘romantic’; yet it
is a blueprint for
disaster.” ~ Alain de
Botton, “The Course of Love”
After a
decade of exposing and
demonizing Monsanto and
genetically engineered
foods, including an intense
four-year battle to force
mandatory labeling of GMOs
(a battle rudely terminated
in July when Congress rammed
through the outrageous DARK
Act), the U.S. food movement
stands at the crossroads.
On Saturday, Dakota
Access Pipeline and
Energy Transfer Partners
brazenly used bulldozers
to destroy our burial
sites, prayer sites and
culturally significant
artifacts," Tribal
Chairman David
Archambault II said.
"They did this on a
holiday weekend, one day
after we filed court
papers identifying these
sacred sites.
"They're keeping the rates
down so that everything else
doesn't go down," Trump said
in response to a reporter's
request to address a
potential rate hike by the
Federal Reserve in
September. "We have a very
false economy," he said.
Donald Trump said Wednesday
that he was "shocked" at
some of the things he
learned in the two
intelligence briefings he
has received — primarily
that "our leaders did not
follow what they were
recommending."
A second North Korean
nuclear test this year would
raise serious worries in
Washington because the
North's nuclear tests are
part of a push for a
nuclear-armed missile that
could one day reach the U.S.
mainland. A second nuclear
test this year would be a
defiant response to Western
pressure on Pyongyang to
halt its nuclear ambitions.
The country has previously
conducted tests every three
to four years.
“I don’t know about any of
that,” Ventura admitted,
“but you know how much
they’ve embraced capitalism
in Moscow? More than us. You
know how? Every store
there’s open 24/7. You can
go get fitted for a tuxedo
at three in the morning.
That’s competition in
capitalism.”
Most of what has been going
on in water is about
managing scarcity - and
there is not much available
fresh water. About 97% of
water on Earth is saline,
but about 70% of fresh water
use is for agriculture. So,
is there another agriculture
that might use saltwater? It
turns out there are 10,000
natural halophytes, plants
that grow quite well on
saline, and there is a huge
spectrum of these plants.
You can grow food, fodder,
biofuel; tubers, berries,
greens, and also oils.
Death – it comes to us all.
We all know this, but how
many of us have really
explored our deaths?
What I’m about to say may
shock you – but in many
ways, those who get some
advanced warning of their
deaths through terminal
prognosis – they are the
lucky ones!
The statistics are
staggering: nine years, 2.5
million tons of bombs,
580,000 bombing missions. It
all added up to one secret
war—a clandestine, CIA-led
attempt to cut off North
Vietnamese communist forces
by bombarding neighboring
Laos. The war may have been
covert, but its scars run
deep. And now, reports the
Associated Press, President
Obama has pledged $90
million to help clean up the
physical legacy of that
conflict.
Models warned 200
million Americans would
become infected with
Zika this summer, but
the two states with the
highest rates of Zika
infections, New York and
Florida, have only had
625 and 507 cases
respectively so far
Naled insecticide, which
is being aerially
sprayed in Florida and
elsewhere, can have
adverse effects on your
nervous system.
Organophosphates are
also linked with
shortened pregnancies,
lowered IQ and increased
risk of ADD
New York and California
are using pyrethroid
pesticides to combat
Zika-carrying
mosquitoes; ingredients
are known endocrine
disruptors with
neurotoxic and
potentially carcinogenic
properties, and may be
harmful to the fetal
brain
You simply cannot survive
without water. And while you
might very well be able to
purchase land for a
homestead that has county or
agricultural water, you
might also want to consider
self-reliant options for
water. You also might not be
able to buy land that is
already irrigated and on the
water grid, and either way,
considering grids can always
fail and if you’re
homesteading, you are most
likely intending to be as
off-grid and self-reliant as
possible, so alternative
sources of water are always
ideal. Here are a few of the
most common methods for
getting and keeping water on
a homestead.
“Make no mistake about
it – Enlightenment is a
destructive process. It has
nothing to do with becoming
better or becoming happier.
Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth.
It is seeing through the
façade of pretense. It is
the complete eradication of
everything we imagined to be
true.” ~ Adyashanti
By now, the candidates
should be well aware that
the United States has a
broken food system. When I
say “food system,” I mean
the policies pertaining to
how we grow food, how it
winds up on our tables and
all the steps in between.
“This demolition is
devastating. These grounds
are the resting places of
our ancestors. The ancient
cairns and stone prayer
rings cannot be replaced. In
one day, our sacred land has
been turned into hollow
ground.” -Dave
Archambault II, Standing
Rock Sioux Tribal Chairman
On the afternoon of
September 3, a procession of
prayerful water defenders,
consisting of men, women,
and children, walked on foot
up to the original protest
site where the first
demonstrations took place in
early August.
As the first human ancestors
walked the Earth, our
galaxy’s central black hole
might have been in the
process of blasting away
most of the galaxy’s normal
matter.
In response to
Saturday’s peaceful protest
that turned violent when
security workers for DAPL
unleashed pepper spray and
vicious attack dogs on a
crowd of water defenders. I
demand answers from North
Dakota’s governor and law
enforcement.
On Saturday September
3, water protectors from the
Red Warrior Camp near the
Standing Rock Sioux
Reservation went to a
construction site for the
Dakota Access oil pipeline.
There, they said, they were
confronted by guard dogs and
pepper spray, wielded by
private security guards
employed by Energy Transfer
Partners, the pipeline
builder’s parent company.
“We have no scientific
evidence that they are any
better than plain soap and
water,” said Dr. Janet
Woodcock, the Food and Drug
Administration’s drug center
director, in a statement.
The World Bank and the
International Water
Association declared their
intentions at World Water
Week today to establish a
global partnership to help
countries, especially the
poorest, improve management
of water that is pumped but
then lost or unaccounted
for.
In developing countries,
roughly 45 million cubic
meters of water are lost
daily with an economic value
of over US$3 billion per
year.
In an age where
pharmaceutical drug use is
off the charts, a thoughtful
group of physicians are
using a novel approach and
advising their patients to
“take a hike” — literally.
Park prescriptions have been
around since 2008, but the
idea is now spreading more
widely throughout the U.S. —
and around the world — as
obesity and mental health
disorders have continued to
climb. In a similar vein,
doctors are also writing
prescriptions for fruits,
vegetables and other
wholesome food, which
patients can “fill” at their
local market. The result of
these unconventional
interventions is nothing
short of inspiring.
“The path we take as a
global community, and how we
choose to walk down that
path in the next few years,
will define humanity’s
opportunities for
generations to come. These
decisions will also affect
the boundaries of those
opportunities,” said Zhang.
“As we all know, there are
limits to what our Earth can
provide, and it is up to us
to make the decisions today
that will ensure those
resources are still here
tomorrow.”
A report released at the
conference today indicates
that many of the world’s
gorillas may not be here
tomorrow.
“Gastrodiplomacy,” the
practice of sharing food
to improve relations, is
being modeled through
South Korea’s effort to
spread understanding
through sharing an
appreciation for its
ancient fermented
hallmark dish, kimchi
In ancient societies,
people preserved food by
fermenting it. By eating
it, their overall health
was improved, including
their intestinal health
Because 80 percent of
your immune system is in
your gut, fermenting
veggies, as well as
yogurt and kefir,
introduces beneficial
bacteria to balance and
enhance gut health. The
best news is, you can
ferment your own
Nutritional ketosis,
which involves eating a
high-quality, high-fat
diet that is low in net
carbs, may be one of the
most useful
interventions for many
chronic diseases,
including obesity and
type 2 diabetes
The key to success on a
high-fat diet is to eat
high-quality healthy
fats, not the fats most
commonly found in the
American diet (the
processed fats and
vegetable oils used in
processed foods and
fried restaurant meals)
A way to ease into a
ketogenic diet is to
begin with a 1-to-1
ratio of healthy fats to
net carbs plus protein.
This means your grams of
healthy fats will be
about equal to your
combined grams of
non-fiber carbs and
protein put together
Levels of a widely used
class of industrial
chemicals linked with liver
toxicity, developmental
problems, tumour growth and
hormonal disruptions exceed
federally recommended safety
levels in public
drinking-water supplies for
33 states in the U.S.
according to a new study led
by researchers at the
Harvard John A. Paulson
School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences (SEAS)
Wildlife conservationists
meeting in Honolulu for the
IUCN’s World Conservation
Congress are shocked and
saddened by the release of
the Great Elephant Census
showing that numbers of
African savanna elephants
have declined by 30 percent
– 144,000 elephants –
between 2007 and 2014.
A strong signal from a
sunlike star sparked
speculation this week that
we might – at last – have
heard from an alien
civilization. Now
astronomers say … no.
An old coal gob pile, a
major source of pollution
into the Clinch River, is
nearly gone, with a
half-million tons of it fed
into Dominion Power's
Virginia Hybrid Energy
Center in St. Paul to
produce electricity.
The 5.6 magnitude quake was
centered near Pawnee,
Oklahoma, a small town in
the north central part of
the Sooner State. The
trembler tied the record for
the largest earthquake ever
recorded in Oklahoma,
according to the U.S.
Geological Survey.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for C-class flares and a
slight chance for an M-class
flare on days one, two, and
three (06 Sep, 07 Sep, 08
Sep). The geomagnetic field
is expected to be at quiet
to active levels on day one
(06 Sep) and quiet to
unsettled levels on days two
and three (07 Sep, 08 Sep).
In the wake of the crisis in
Flint, MI, it is clearer
than ever that elevated lead
levels appear to be blot
many American water
supplies—and that poor
communities and people of
color — especially children
— are most at risk from
being exposed. What hasn’t
been clear is just how much
removing lead can help,
especially when it comes to
children’s academic
performance.
...the dead heaps signaled
the killer was less
mysterious, but no less
devastating. The pattern
matched acute pesticide
poisoning. By one estimate,
at a single apiary —
Flowertown Bee Farm and
Supply, in Summerville — 46
hives died on the spot,
totaling about 2.5 million
bees.
Modern medical science is
finally catching up to the
wisdom of our distant
ancestors. Spices, for
instance, were once traded
along ancient spice routes
throughout Asia, Northeast
Africa, and Europe, as
highly precious commodities;
some of them were so prized
for their life-saving
properties they were
literally worth their weight
in gold. Only in the past
few decades have the
traditional folkloric uses
of these powerful plant
extracts undergone
validation via pre-clinical
and clinical research. The
results are nothing short of
amazing, especially when it
comes to providing hope for
conditions that conventional
treatment not only does not
have anything to offer, but
may actually worsen.
A recent study set out to
determine what role familial
risk, social circumstances
and life events have on
mental health, using surveys
completed by nearly 33,000
people as their key form of
data.[3] They revealed that
the single biggest
determinant of chronic
anxiety and depression was
traumatic life events,
followed by to a lesser
extent, family history of
mental illness, income and
education levels,
relationship status and
other social factors
Before we begin, let’s look
at the actual terms being
used, shall we?
Specifically, the terms
“alternative” medicine and
“traditional” medicine.
Hmmm… the definition of
“traditional” is “something
that is long-established and
time-honored.” Since herbs,
foods, roots, and other
natural remedies have been
used as medicines
for millennia, I would
contend that natural
medicine should actually be
considered “traditional”
and drug-intensive medicine
(which has only been used
for a century or two) the
“alternative”.
The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
literally has overstepped
its authority in proposing
to grant itself powers that
obviously negate any rights
U.S. citizens thought they
had by issuing the Proposed
Rule “Control of
Communicable Diseases” on
August 15, 2016 wherein CDC
will self-invest itself with
the power to apprehend
healthy people en masse and
detain them indefinitely
with NO process of appeal!
The Nikola Semi has changed
powertrain: it'll now draw
on a hydrogen fuel-cell.
Earlier this year, Nikola
Motor Company outlined its
optimistic plans to bring a
hybrid electric semi to
market. It promised 2,000
all-electric horsepower, and
an impressive range from a
320 kWh battery and
proprietary range-extending
turbine, but the lack of
detail suggested this spec
wasn't exactly set in stone.
Today, the details changed
dramatically, with the
switch from range-extended
electric power to a hydrogen
fuel-cell powertrain.
In the relatively short time
we've been walking the
Earth, humans have left an
undeniable impact on the
planet. Now a scientific
body has unanimously agreed
that our actions have
altered the Earth's natural
processes enough to usher in
a new geological epoch.
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to the Anthropocene.
The State Department says
about 30 emails that may be
related to the 2012 attack
on U.S. compounds in
Benghazi, Libya, are among
the thousands of Hillary
Clinton emails recovered
during the FBI's recently
closed investigation into
her use of a private
server. .. The State
Department's lawyer said it
would need until the end of
September to review the
emails and redact
potentially classified
information before they are
released.
On August 14, 2003, 50
million North Americans were
plunged into darkness in the
largest electricity blackout
in history.
An estimated 10 million
Ontarians were impacted.
Traffic lights were out,
causing commuter chaos.
Senior citizen’s homes were
without air conditioning on
a sweltering summer day.
An email communication
involving Huma Abedin,
Hillary Clinton's top aide
and Clinton Foundation
officials shows she was
fully aware the private
email server and address her
boss was using was not
secure, and also shows the
close connection between the
State Department and the
charity, Citizens United
Chairman David Bossie said
Tuesday morning.
North Carolina environmental
regulators say Duke Energy
will pay for new water lines
or filtration systems for
1,000 households near coal
ash storage pits.
Their Apache ancestors
were chased, hunted and
herded into history. Shaped
by decades of war, Geronimo,
Cochise, Victorio, Lozen and
Mangas Coloradas (and those
they ran with) cultivated a
genius for survival so their
descendants could live on.
If Colorado water utilities
don't crack down on water
loss, the state is unlikely
to reach its goal of
conserving 130 billion
gallons of water a year by
2050.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals, which covers
nine Western states
including California,
Washington and Oregon, ruled
the federal ban is not in
violation of the Second
Amendment.
The states in
that region that have
legalized or effectively
decriminalized medical
marijuana include Alaska,
Arizona, California, Hawaii,
Montana, Nevada, Oregon and
Washington.
In the future, the breeding
of the climate-friendly cow
can be speeded up by using
genetic information. A
recent study identifies
areas in the cow's genotype
which are linked to the
amount of methane it
produces. Cows subjected to
study did not unnecessarily
chew their cuds when being
placed in glass cases.
The nation`s capital gets
most of renewable energy
from states as far flung as
Indiana because it can`t
produce much on its own,
according to the Energy
Department.
About half of the power
plants that can meet the
District of Columbia`s
renewable energy mandate are
in Illinois, Indiana and
Pennsylvania, the Energy
Information Administration,
the Energy Department`s
analysis arm, said Monday.
The jury that heard the case
presented on behalf of the
plaintiff by “America’s
Lawyer” Mike Papantonio
unanimously agreed that
DuPont demonstrated
“conscious disregard” for
human health by routinely
dumping C-8 into the Ohio
River during the manufacture
of Teflon pans — and we now
know that C-8 has since
circulated globally,
contaminating oceans, lakes,
and other waterways
throughout the world.
The Cuomo administration's
initiative to subsidize
three upstate nuclear plants
is a lifeline for their
owners, with almost $1
billion to keep them afloat
over the next two years and
more money to come.
If you’re scrutinizing over
your dull, dry winter skin
and fine lines and wrinkles,
you’re not alone. According
to a recent national survey
by Allergan, Inc.,
approximately 60 percent of
women 21- to 65-years-old
said they would rather have
a younger-looking face than
a younger-looking body. Yet
experts say it’s time to
forget the expensive creams
and procedures. The key to
aging gracefully is simple:
Eat healthy.
Ho's attorneys insist it is
a key fight because his
ability to help defend
himself against what they
say are bogus charges
depends on his freedom
pending trial. The
prosecutors insist it is a
key fight because Ho is a
"sophisticated" operative of
the Chinese government who
has both the financial means
and motive to hide away in
China.
The U.S. job market is
nearly at full strength and
the pace of interest rate
increases by the Federal
Reserve will depend on how
well the economy is doing,
Fed Vice Chairman Stanley
Fischer said on Tuesday.
In an interview with
Bloomberg TV, Fischer did
not comment on the timing of
the next Fed rate hike but
said "we choose the pace on
basis of data," and that
U.S. "employment is very
close to full employment."
Under the proposal, known as
Amendment 4, rooftop solar
systems, windmills and other
renewable energy equipment
on homes or businesses
cannot be considered by
property appraisers in
calculating a property's
assessed value for property
tax purposes, effective Jan.
1, 2018 through Dec. 31,
2037. The amendment also
exempts such equipment from
state tangible property
taxes.
Food price deflation has
consumers enjoying big
savings at the supermarket,
leading more to eat out less
often. Farmers, suppliers
and grocery chains also are
feeling the pinch. Above,
shoppers lined up at a 365
by Whole Foods Market store
in Los Angeles earlier this
year.
In what appears to be a
first-time discovery,
researchers found a
drug-resistant “superbug” in
the drinking water in a
developed country. The
discovery of
antibiotic-resistant E. coli
bacteria in water samples
from France highlights “the
presence of expanding
reservoirs of these
resistance genes, including
reservoirs in the
environment,”
according to a news
release.
HP involves the safe use of
either diluted and
potentized disease products
or materials from animal,
mineral, or vegetable
sources to elicit an immune
response in order to educate
the immune system before
encountering a disease. Due
to the ultra-high dilution,
the final product contains
no molecules of the original
source, rendering it
completely harmless. It is
energetic instead of
material and operates by way
of its frequency.
It was in George
Washington’s Farewell
Address that he warned
political parties would be
“potent engines, by which
cunning, ambitious, and
unprincipled men will be
enabled to subvert the power
of the people, and to usurp
for themselves the reins of
government.” This is exactly
what’s happened as both
parties serve moneyed
interests rather than the
will and the common good of
the American people.
Standing Rock Sioux
Chairman David Archambault
II welcomed a delegation of
eight Indian nations from
Washington State on Tuesday
August 30 who joined the
growing opposition to the
Dakota Access Pipeline that
threatens the tribe’s water
supply and sacred places on
Oceti Sakowin Treaty lands.
Iraq's crude oil exports
from its southern Persian
Gulf terminals inched up by
28,000 b/d to 3.230 million
b/d in August, provisional
data from the oil ministry
showed Thursday, but
continue to fall short of
previous record highs as
greater volumes are
allocated for domestic use.
The average August
export figure is up 4.9%
year on year.
A recent report
highlights many of the
problems in the
regulation of cosmetic
ingredients. The
industry is allowed to
largely regulate itself,
which has allowed many
hazardous ingredients to
be introduced
Harmful and potentially
toxic and/or
carcinogenic ingredients
commonly found in
toothpaste include:
fluoride, triclosan,
sodium lauryl sulfate,
parabens, carrageenan,
propylene glycol,
diethanolamine and
microbeads
Other questionable and
potentially hazardous
ingredients include
artificial colors,
flavors and sweeteners,
formaldehyde-releasing
preservatives and
GMO-derived ingredients
Her work, which
challenges the “colonial”
legacy of archaeology, is
considered revolutionary by
some, controversial by
others. Steeves believes
objections to inclusion of
“indigenous ways and
methods” in archaeology
comes from “a really strong,
and deep-rooted racism in
North American anthropology
against Native Americans.”
Firstly let me say I totally
agree with the concept of
being completely and utterly
in the moment — with
absolute commitment to it.
For only then, will it be
successful and fulfilling.
But maybe there’s more to
this moment than initially
meets the eye?
This past spring,
Monsanto released
Roundup Ready Xtend
cotton and soybean
seeds, designed to
tolerate both Roundup
and dicamba, an older
toxic herbicide known
for its tendency to
cause unintended crop
damage
The seeds were released
even though the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) had not yet
approved Monsanto’s “new
and improved” low-drift
glyphosate/dicamba
formulation to be used
on them
Faced with Roundup
resistant pigweed,
farmers illegally
sprayed older dicamba
products on their
Roundup Ready Xtend
plants, causing crop
decimation across 10
states from dicamba
drift
Records of temperature that
go back far further than
1800s suggest warming of
recent decades is out of
step with any period over
the past millennium
The planet is warming at a
pace not experienced within
the past 1,000 years, at
least, making it “very
unlikely” that the world
will stay within a crucial
temperature limit agreed by
nations just last year,
according to Nasa’s top
climate scientist.
Two recent studies have
given a beacon of hope,
perhaps to those who already
have the disease, but
especially for those who
live in fear of Alzheimer's,
and whose numbers are
projected to triple by 2050.
Both focus on increasing the
amount of a brain enzyme
called neprilysin.
Chemicals used in certain
pesticides and as insulating
material banned in the 1970s
may still be haunting us,
according to new research
that suggests links between
higher levels of exposure
during pregnancy and
significantly increased odds
of autism spectrum disorder
in children.
This is getting tedious.
Every day more evidence
appears showing that Hillary
Clinton lied or broke laws
and every time we are told:
“It can’t be proven.”
Perhaps, but some things
need no proof. Clinton has
admitted that she used a
private server to handle her
communications as secretary
of state.
Even as Rhode Island makes
history as the first U.S.
state with an offshore wind
farm, its people are not so
fond of wind turbines
sprouting up on land near
where they live.
So much wind sweeps through
Oklahoma's plains that the
state - while currently
ranked fourth in its
capacity to produce wind
energy - is on pace to
overtake No. 3 California in
installed capacity by the
end of the year.
A dose of the vaccine
against measles, mumps and
rubella is readied in a
pediatrician's office. The
American Academy of
Pediatrics is urging states
to stop letting parents seek
non-medical exemptions for
childhood immunizations.
For water treatment
operators and utility
officials, the summer months
don’t just mean sunshine,
pool parties, and barbecues.
The season also brings the
peak time for algal blooms,
the toxic clouds formed in
surface water thanks to
increased nutrient
contamination and rising
temperatures. With rising
instances of toxic algae
around the country and
increased regulations for
eliminating it, utilities
have had to keep pace.
There are currently a record
seven active unmanned
missions operating on or
around Mars, but the parade
has only just begun. The
next few years will be very
busy indeed as a new series
of international missions
head out to the Red Planet,
possibly culminating in the
first manned landing or even
colonization before 2030.
According to Politico, the
cash went toward purchasing
IT equipment — including
servers — at the Clinton
Foundation and also
supplementing the pay and
benefits of several staffers
who are now caught in the
middle of the scandals
involving Hillary Clinton’s
private email and supposed
pay-to-play tactics.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a slight chance
for an M-class flare on days
one, two, and three (02 Sep,
03 Sep, 04 Sep). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at unsettled
to active levels on day one
(02 Sep) and quiet to active
levels on days two and three
(03 Sep, 04 Sep).
The federal government is
making a $25 million bet on
hydrogen fuel cell
technology in Canton. As
part of that investment the
largest public transit
hydrogen pumping station
outside of California is
scheduled to open late next
month.
Polly Tommey of the
Vaxxed team handles the
interview. Nico LaHood lays
it all out. He rips away the
curtain and exposes the
truth. Vaccines cause
autism.
The University of Houston
did a study and found that
39% of shoes contained
bacteria C.diff, a public
health threat resistant to a
number of antibiotics that
can cause many health
issues, including diarrhea.
Coliforms,
on the other hand, which
are universally present in
faeces, were detected on the
bottoms of 96% of shoes.
From its very outset the
CFR, subversively promoting
New World Order as the U.S.
elite’s most public face,
has always maintained one
explicit purpose — to bring
about a one world
government. In 1950, James
Warburg, the son of one of
the Council on Foreign
Relations’ founders, David
Warburg, emphatically
decreed to the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee:
“We shall have
world government whether
or not you like it – by
conquest or consent.”
I’ve done some further
checking. The words “cure”
and “incurable” do not
appear in The Oxford Concise
Medical Dictionary, Ninth
Edition, 2015. They do not
appear in The Bantam Medical
Dictionary, Sixth Edition,
2009. “Cure” does not appear
in Barron’s Dictionary of
Medical Terms, Sixth
Edition, 2013, although
“incurable” is defined as “being
such that a cure is
impossible within the realm
of known medical practice”.
Medical Terminology for
Dummies, Second Edition,
does not contain the word
“cure”.*
Previous researchers have
certainly theorized the
existence of a ninth planet,
sometimes known as Planet X
or Planet 9, based on
computer models and the
observed behaviors of
objects in the Kuiper Belt –
a ring of rocky debris
beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Now, Scott Sheppard from the
Carnegie Institution for
Science and Chadwick
Trujillo of Northern Arizona
University believe they have
found even more proof of its
existence.
While US crude supply
continues to decline, the
amount of oil the US is
exporting continues to rise,
the US Energy Information
Administration said
Wednesday.
The US
exported an average of
698,000 b/d of crude in the
week that ended Friday, more
than 8% of the nearly 8.49
million b/d produced in the
US over that period. Exports
were up 3.1% from the
677,000 b/d average a week
earlier, when the US
produced nearly 8.55 million
b/d.
For each month this year,
renewable energy production
in the U.S. has exceeded the
same months in all previous
years, according to the U.S.
Energy Information
Administration. That
achievement is particularly
notable because it happened
in spite of below-average
hydroelectric output caused
by drought along the West
Coast.
While changing precipitation
patterns can have a
significant impact on stream
flows in the Sierra Nevada
mountains, a new study by UC
Santa Barbara researchers
indicates that shifts in
vegetation type resulting
from warming and other
factors may have an equal or
greater effect. Their
findings appear in the
journal PLOS One.
Phone scammers are calling
taxpayers and pretending to
be Internal Revenue Service
officials who need to verify
personal information such as
Social Security numbers and
banking details.
A quick online search
provides a plethora of such
“remarkable” happenings from
2005, but ironically it
takes a great deal more
digging to find mention of
one particular event that
made a huge global impact,
and, in fact, will forever
impact future generations.
I’m talking about the
launch of the United
Nation’s Water for Life
initiative — a decade
dedicated to the promotion
of international water
efforts and raising water’s
profile on the global
agenda. I was curious to see
what the U.N. was saying
about the decade as well as
what comes next.
Researchers from the
University of Tokyo have
uncovered a rarely detected
type of seismic wave deep
inside of the Earth stemming
from a "weather bomb," an
extratropical storm that is
small, fast-developing and
possesses central pressure
that rapidly increases in
intensity. The findings
could help scientists map
out the hidden, deeper
structure of the Earth.
Finally, Americans are
considering the value of
water. Though everyone
innately knows that water is
vital to life, U.S.
consumers have become so
accustomed to cheap,
plentiful, and clean water
that they stopped thinking
about how that
water gets to them.
Unfortunately, it has taken
prolonged drought, the
tragedy of Flint, and
numerous contamination
concerns — those around
PFOA/PFOS, algal toxins, and
frack water to name a few —
in order to get Americans'
attention.
Chinese investors this
year have put almost $13
billion into U.S. real
estate as confidence fades
in their local property
markets, according to a
report in The Wall Street
Journal.
That money is going into
some of the highest-profile
developments in New York,
Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles
and Miami.