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Rep Mo Brooks, a Republican
from the 5th Congressional
District in Alabama, has
filed a bill simply titled
the “Obamacare Repeal Act,”
and it contains just one
sentence
A 13-year-old boy who was
one in only five people in
the world with an extremely
rare cancer that meant
he had only two weeks left
to live managed to make a
miracle recovery – thanks to
cannabis.
City commissioner offered to
pay for pipeline repair that
cost tribe more than $1
million in lost water
The Big Pine Paiute Tribe
won an important battle last
week in its five-year
struggle with the Los
Angeles Department of Water
and Power (LADWP) to repair
a broken pipeline that has
cost the tribe half its
irrigation water during a
deep drought. Failure to
repair the pipeline resulted
in losses of more than $1.26
million in irrigation water
in 2015 and 2016, according
to data supplied by LADWP.
For decades it was believed
that brain regeneration was
not possible. But an
accumulating body of
research now reveals that
common foods such as
broccoli contain compounds
capable of stimulating the
repair and renewal of neural
tissue.
The act of switching to
daylight savings every year
also seems to harm some
people’s health. Studies
have found an annual spike
in heart attacks in Michigan
in the US and strokes in
Finland the day after the
clocks go forward in spring.
Many of these deaths are
likely to have been in
frail, elderly people who
are at the mercy of care
staff schedules.
Chemists have found a way
to use sunlight to purify
wastewater rapidly and
cheaply, and to make
self-cleaning materials for
buildings.
The technology uses
modified titanium dioxide as
a photocatalyst that works
with sunlight, unlike other
leading water purification
products on the market that
need ultraviolet light.
China inaugurated its
first facility that uses
electron beams to treat
industrial wastewater
yesterday, ushering in a new
era for radiation technology
in the world's leading
textile producer.
Textile dyeing accounts
for a fifth of all
industrial wastewater
pollution generated
worldwide. While several
industrial countries have
used radiation to treat some
of the effluent from textile
dyeing plants, with the
relocation of much of the
industry to developing
countries in Asia in recent
years, a lot of the
wastewater goes untreated.
No prizes for guessing why
this Springfield,
Missouri-based project is
named Cloud House. Designed
by artist Matthew Mazzotta,
it's aimed at relaxing
visitors and highlighting
the importance of natural
processes like rainfall in
allowing us to grow the food
we eat.
The rapid growth of solar
arrays and wind farms might
sound like a win for the
environment, but storing
renewable sources of energy
efficiently on the grid
remains a challenge for
energy providers. EU
scientists are turning to a
cheap and plentiful natural
resource for the answer:
air.
Transhumanist Rich Lee
currently has five implants
in his body meant to enhance
the way he experiences and
interacts with the world.
While they may have added to
his life, they may now also
be taking something away:
his kids. We talked with the
body modifier to find out
more.
Six environmental groups
today sued the Trump
Administration for what they
allege is “illegally
approving a cross-border
permit” for TransCanada’s
proposed Keystone XL tar
sands pipeline. On Monday, a
tribal coalition and a
U.S.-Canada environmental
coalition filed suit to
block the permit.
Federal officials are
urging water utilities to
pay more attention to the
rising threat of
cyberattacks.
“This will become a
greater issue in the future,
as more water systems try to
cut costs by moving toward
full automation,” BNA
Bloomberg reported, citing
federal aides.
High school junior Kerby
Martin of Cypress, Texas,
recently decided to do an
experiment involving just
how intolerant the third
wave feminist movement can
be, and the feminists were
only more than happy to
prove her correct.
Dr Steve Faulkner, a
researcher at Loughborough
University, says that having
a hot, relaxing bath may
have similar health benefits
to exercising and can help
prevent type 2 diabetes.
Friday's decision to pull
the House Republican health
reform bill was not the end
of health reform. In fact,
it may have been the best
step toward actually
achieving real health care
reform – if congressional
leaders learn from the
experience.
The President's executive
order calls for EPA
Administrator Scott Pruitt
to initiate a new rulemaking
process that would allow
interested parties to file
comments regarding the Trump
administration's intent to
unwind the CPP. The process
could take several years to
be completed, and new
litigation is certain to be
filed by parties that are
supportive of efforts to
reduce CO2
emissions attributable to
electric generation.
Taking advantage of
processes going on inside
cells, researchers have
taken the first steps
towards developing a liquid
that could defy gravity
and "pump" itself
U.N. talks
aimed at banning nuclear
weapons began Monday,
but the United States,
Russia, China and other
nuclear-armed nations
are sitting out a
discussion they see as
impractical.
Supporters
of the potential pact
say it's time to push
harder toward
eliminating atomic
weapons than nations
have been doing through
the nearly 50-year-old
Nuclear
Non-Proliferation
Treaty.
The California Department of
Water Resources is in the
midst of work to reduce the
level of water in Lake
Oroville behind Oroville Dam
to provide sufficient
storage for additional rain
or snowmelt.
“The chinese spoke of Yin
and Yang, the idea again of
the importance of contrast,
the importance of the
creative tension that comes
from opposites, and exactly
the same way that men need a
feminine woman in their
lives, women need
a masculine man in their
lives,” Lapin said.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a chance
for a C-class flares and a
slight chance for an M-class
flare on days one, two, and
three (31 Mar, 01 Apr, 02
Apr). The geomagnetic
field is expected to be
at unsettled to active
levels on days one, two, and
three (31 Mar, 01 Apr, 02
Apr).
anking Democrat member of
the House Intelligence
Committee Adam Schiff
(D-Ca.) said that the
committee was investigating
whether the Trump campaign
coordinated with the
Russians to spread “fake
news” via trolls and “bots”
online and sway the
election.
U.S. Border Patrol agents
arrested an illegal
immigrant suspected of
attempting to kidnap a woman
who gave him food and water
behind her home for three
days...
Then on March 22, the man
suddenly grabbed her, the
woman said, tied up her feet
and hands and forced her
into her car. When he tried
starting the car, officials
said the woman was able to
escape.
Of the 24,520 suspect
chemicals found to be
present in bottled water,
the one that showed
consistent results and
illustrated anti-androgenic
and anti-estrogenic activity
is di(2-ethylhexyl) fumarate
(DEHF). Endocrine disruptors
are chemicals that can
interfere with the hormone
system. They can cause
cancerous tumors, birth
defects, cardiovascular
disorders, metabolic
disorders, and as mentioned
earlier, other
developmental disorders.
British authorities recently
revealed that the
Westminster Bridge attacker,
who killed four people and
injured scores of others,
may have sent or received
messages through the
encrypted WhatsApp service
minutes before launching the
horrific attack. The
revelation has rekindled the
controversial debate over
whether tech companies
should implement backdoors
that allow governments
access to encrypted
information on digital
devices.
At the super-small level of
all things quantum, most
bets are off in terms of the
rules of normal physics.
Still, there are some
behaviors in this arena that
researchers felt they could
count on – such as the way
entangled photons operate.
But new research out of the
University of East Anglia
(UEA) in the UK has now
shown that even those tiny
particles of light don't
behave as we previously
thought.
“We observed the UFOs were
very much interested in the
facilities (nuclear weapons
manufacturing facilities)
that were visiting…A couple
of nuclear weapons that were
sent out into space were
destroyed by the
extraterrestrials.”
A few months after spotting
a jet stream of molten iron
in the Earth's outer core,
the European Space Agency's
(ESA) Swarm satellites have
found a similar system at
work in the upper
atmosphere. There, the
electrical fields created
through solar winds
interacting with the
planet's magnetic field have
been found to drive
supersonic plasma jets,
which can heat the
ionosphere to temperatures
as high as 10,000º C
(18,032º F).
We're super passionate about
helping people live their
best, most healthy,
conscious and vibrant lives.
We want the entire world to
live in this way. For that
reason, we know it's
important to talk about
health issues that affect
the future of our society.
What is exactly is
geoengineering? It’s the
deliberate and large-scale
intervention into the
Earth’s climatic system.
It’s done through various
means, one of which is
spraying chemicals into the
atmosphere via planes or
balloons.
For years, climate change
and other environmental
problems have been labelled
as a “national security”
issue, a phrase that’s now
used to keep information
from the public. The CIA and
other federal agencies
control these programs,
which means that if they are
already spraying substances
into the atmosphere, we
would never hear about it.
Does California need
another seawater
desalination plant?
Despite a seeming
endorsement from the Trump
administration, the proposal
for a desalination facility
in Huntington Beach, CA, is
running up against the
criticism that it is
unnecessary and that the
water it would provide would
be wasteful.
U.S. power companies expect
to retire or convert from
coal to gas more than 8,000
megawatts of coal-fired
plants in 2017 after
shutting almost 13,000 MW in
2016, according to U.S.
Energy Information
Administration (EIA) and
Thomson Reuters data.
The controversy over people
using restrooms that don’t
match their biological
sex has been raging for
quite some time now.
People against the change
cite men who will take
advantage to gain access to
women’s restrooms. Those on
the “pro” side respond
by labeling people as bigots
if you have reservations on
the issue. Monday on “Pure
Opelka,” Mike Opelka shared
a story of a liberal mother
and influential blogger
whose position on
transgender bathrooms
changed dramatically when a
burly man walked into the
ladies’ room at Disneyland.
Total US coal carload
volumes have showed some
recovery after declining in
consecutive weeks, railroad
and Association of American
Railroads data showed
Wednesday.
For the
week ending March 25, the
AAR reported 79,422 coal
carloads traveled US
railways, up 3% from the
previous week and up 19.8%
from the year-ago week.
Counts had dropped about
8,000 carloads, or 9.5%, in
the two weeks before the
gain.
There’s a huge shift right
now occurring within the
medical industry. More and
more people are starting to
learn that modern medicine
and the pharmaceutical
industry have become more
concerned with profit than
they are with people.
A total of 501 juveniles
have been reported missing
in D.C. since the beginning
of the year. This startling
number has forced the hands
of several officials who’ve
written a letter to call on
special help from the
Justice Department in
investigating the matter.
U.S. shale producers are
drilling at the highest rate
in 18 months but have left a
record number of wells
unfinished in the largest
oilfield in the country – a
sign that output may not
rise as swiftly as drilling
activity would indicate.
The science of a metal used
in industries from airplane
manufacturing to food
packaging may sound tedious,
but this three-day Keele
meeting (named for Keele
University in the United
Kingdom where it originated)
produces a treasure trove of
valuable information about
the health impact of
aluminum exposure. It’s a
conference of the latest
science that the $186
billion aluminum industry
denies and public health
agencies pretend does not
exist.
The Chinese officials
warned a US military
aircraft flying near South
Korea on Sunday during
routine operations in
international airspace.
CNN reported citing a US
defense official as saying
that the Chinese side told
the pilots that they were
illegally operating in
Chinese airspace and ordered
the American plane to leave.
There may be a new way of
keeping orange and
grapefruit peels out of our
landfills – besides
composting them, that is.
Researchers have devised a
method of using the peels to
remove heavy metals from
wastewater.
resident Donald Trump in the
coming days will sign a new
executive order that
unravels his predecessor's
sweeping plan to curb global
warming, the head of the
Environmental Protection
Agency said Sunday.
Denis Voronenkov, 45, was
killed Thursday at 11:40
a.m. near the Premier Palace
hotel in the center of
Ukraine’s capital, local
police said. His bodyguard
shot the assailant, who died
later in the
hospital. Ukraine blamed the
killing on Russia, linking
it to testimony
by Voronenkov against Viktor
Yanukovych, the
Kremlin-backed Ukrainian
leader who was ousted three
years ago in street
protests.
Between 1941 and 1943, an
exceedingly peculiar series
of transmissions reached
radio sets in Germany. The
broadcaster called himself
Der Chef, or the
chief, and his Berliner
accent and prodigious
knowledge of military
affairs suggested he was a
high-ranking German of the
old guard, probably an army
officer.
Indigenous Peoples are
confronted often with losses
of land, in part because
Indian lands are often
relatively powerless to
successfully oppose building
of dams, pipelines, oil
drilling and other projects.
The administration argues
that thousands of good
construction jobs will be
created, but that is not
necessarily true.
A new Wikileaks release
called DarkMatter was
released today, affirming
that the Central
Intelligence Agency has long
targeted Apple Macs,
creating malware designed to
evade the tech giant's
security mechanisms. The
leak also revealed the CIA
had been targeting the
iPhone since 2008, a year
after the landmark device
was released.
Chinese Hackers have taken
Smishing attack to the next
level, using rogue cell
phone towers to distribute
Android banking malware via
spoofed SMS messages.
Sadness can be truly
debilitating sometimes,
leaving us feeling
withdrawn, lifeless and
flat. So how, when we’re
feeling like this, do we
take that sadness and
channel it into something
beautifully creative? How do
we transcend the sadness and
move forward?
We all feel sad sometimes.
Perhaps you’re mourning the
loss of a loved one, perhaps
it’s sadness over some of
the tragedies that are
happening around the world,
perhaps you feel stuck and
don’t know how to move
forward. Or, perhaps you
just feel sad for no reason
other than it’s a sad day.
Tens of thousands of people
rallied, and hundreds were
detained Sunday in Russian
cities during massive,
mostly unsanctioned rallies
organized by anti-corruption
whistleblower and opposition
leader Alexei Navalny.
It is the view of the
International Indian Treaty
Council (IITC) that the
January 24 Executive Order
and the Presidential
Memoranda deny Indigenous
Peoples’ right to due
process, violate federal
law, federal trust
responsibility, and
disregard international
human rights norms,
principles and standards and
to which the U.S. is
obligated. They also display
a flagrant disregard for
federal legal process.
Iran denied on Saturday
U.S. accusations that its
fast-attack boats were
"harassing" warships at the
mouth of the Gulf, and said
Washington would be
responsible for any clashes
in the key oil shipping
route.
U.S. Navy commanders
earlier accused Iran of
jeopardizing international
navigation by "harassing"
warships passing through the
Strait of Hormuz and said
future incidents could
result in miscalculation and
lead to an armed clash.
Environmental groups,
Nebraskans gear up legal
challenges to the
administration's swift
approval of the
once-defeated pipeline...
President Donald Trump made
reviving the 1,200-mile
pipeline, which will
transport heavy crude oil
from tar sands mines in
Canada to refineries on the
Gulf Coast, a key plank of
his fossil fuel-focused
energy plan. He promised in
January to reverse President
Barack Obama's rejection of
the TransCanada project, one
of Obama's signature
environmental decisions,
within 60 days. The
president just beat the
deadline.
This bill is sponsored by
Rep. Foxx, Virginia
[R-NC-5]. It is attempting
to coerce employees into
employer disease prevention
wellness programs. Section 3
(a) 2 refers to “workplace
wellness programs and
programs of health promotion
or disease prevention
offered by an employer.” The
words disease prevention are
concerning since not
everyone agrees with the use
of vaccines to prevent
disease.
Whether you call it a “gut
feeling,” an “inner voice”
or a “sixth sense,”
intuition is something we
all possess. We’ve come to
understand it as a tool for
helping us to avoid
conflict, to make better
decisions, and to judge
character, but what if it
could become more than just
a feeling? What if it could
become an actual skill that
helped us do things more
efficiently?
An initial review of
airstrikes over the past
days indicates that the
U.S.-led coalition has
struck fighters and
equipment of the Islamic
State group west of the
northern city of Mosul at
the request of Iraqi
security forces, where there
were allegations of civilian
casualties, the Pentagon
said Saturday.
Republican congressional
investigators expect a
potential “smoking gun”
establishing that the Obama
administration spied on the
Trump transition team, and
possibly the president-elect
himself, will be produced to
the House Intelligence
Committee this week, a
source told Fox News.
China plans to increase
the size of its marine corps
five-fold, from 20,000
personnel to 100,000, the
South China Morning Post
reports.
The
move is intended to protect
China's territorial waters
as well as it's interests
throughout the world, the
news site said. China has
come under criticism from
its Asian neighbors and from
the United States for the
construction of man-made
islands in disputed waters
that it claims as its own.
Satellite images have shown
what experts believe to be
military activity on the
islands.
C5 event observed.
Solar activity is likely to
be low with a slight chance
for an M-class flare on days
one and two (28 Mar, 29 Mar)
and expected to be very low
with a chance for a C-class
flares and a slight chance
for an M-class flare on day
three (30 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at active to
major storm levels on day
one (28 Mar),
unsettled to major storm
levels on day two
(29 Mar) and unsettled to
minor storm levels on day
three (30 Mar).
A Russian man accused of
developing and distributing
the Citadel Banking
Trojan, which infected
nearly 11 Million computers
globally and caused over
$500 Million in losses, has
finally pleaded guilty to
charges of computer fraud.
The debate concerning
the safety of chemical
pesticides used on food
crops for humans and animals
alike rages on. Some believe
the risk is negligible, and
simply washing your produce
mitigates any potentially
risks these chemical pose,
while others argue that
plants grown in pesticides
absorb the chemicals into
their flesh, which means
washing the outer skin
offers little protection.
Many people buy organic
produce to avoid this, but
others believe the organic
label to be little more than
a money making ploy.
The Texas survey data works
out to about 1 in 7
undergraduate women in
Austin. Nationwide, about 1
in 4 college women reported
unwanted sexual contact in a
2015 survey by the
Association of American
Universities.
The US Department of State
has approved a permit
allowing TransCanada's
stalled Keystone XL oil
pipeline to cross the
US-Canada border, the first
step in a still-lengthy
process to build the
Alberta-to-Nebraska project.
Venezuela is now
occupying Colombian
territory, officials
confirmed, following the
arrival of soldiers that
crossed the border to the
department of Arauca and set
up camp.
The 60 Venezuelan
soldiers entered the eastern
region of Colombia and
raised the country’s flag
while settling in Bocas de
Juju, which is part of the
Arauquita municipality.
On this, World Water Day,
a water-scarce world is
looking to treated
wastewater to help ease
increasingly severe water
shortages. In many of the
regions projected to be hit
hardest, a water crisis is
already happening.
If nothing is done, by
2040, one in four children
worldwide, almost 600
million children, will live
in areas with extremely
limited water resources, the
UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF,
said today.
n the second Monday of
October each year, Native
Americans cringe at the
thought of honoring
Christopher Columbus, a man
who committed atrocities
against Indigenous Peoples.
Columbus Day was
conceived by the Knights of
Columbus, a Catholic
Fraternal organization, in
the 1930s because they
wanted a Catholic hero.
After President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the day
into law as a federal
holiday in 1937, the rest
has been history.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and
his team recently
launched The World Mercury
Project,whose
mission is to raise public
awareness of the sources and
dangers of mercury, help
treat those who have been
personally affected by
mercury exposure, and push
for safe and responsible
removal of mercury in all
consumer projects and
industrial processes.
The group highlights the
fact that mercury is the
second most toxic element on
Earth and can cause
inflammation in brain
tissue. That inflammation
has been connected to
autism, Alzheimer’s disease,
multiple sclerosis, and
other ailments.
Despite gun sales having
reached lofty heights over
the past two years, the NSC
says in its “injury report”
that in 2015 accidental
deaths by guns was down to
an all time low of 489. As
the Washington Examiner
points out, that’s 0.3% of
all deaths, making it the
lowest it’s been since 1903
when this record keeping
began.
British Prime Minister
Theresa May will trigger
Article 50 on March 29,
starting official Brexit
negotiations between the UK
and the European Union, her
spokesman has confirmed.
Over the last
seventy-five years, men have
seen a sharp reduction in
reproductive capacity, and
evidence suggests that
commonly found chemicals are
to blame.
If that news isn’t stark
enough for the future of
humankind, these chemicals
are also making us
dumber.
CNN released another
explosive accusation, citing
U.S. officials, saying that
they have obtained
information that suggests
Trump campaign associates
were coordinating with
Russian authorities on
hacked information that
damaged Democratic
presidential nominee Hillary
Clinton in the election.
Shipping containers full
of foreign coal ash are
coming into the United
States through the Port of
Virginia.
That irritates some
lawmakers, since Virginia is
among many states struggling
to dispose of this
industrial waste from
coal-fired power plants.
Critics call it a missed
opportunity, because coal
ash is used in everything
from roads to concrete to
wallboard.
Language in discharge
permits is landing some
companies in court in a
trend some attorneys
describe as rising
uncertainty around Clean
Water Act compliance.
“A West Virginia coal
company learned the hard way
that it’s not enough to do
everything it was required
to do under its Clean Water
Act permit. It also has to
ensure that the water into
which it discharges meets
water quality standards,..
The Department of Homeland
Security made good Monday on
a Trump administration
promise to publicly shame
cities and counties that
don't cooperate with federal
immigration authorities.
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement released its
first weekly list of local
jails and jurisdictions that
haven't honored so-called
immigrant detainer requests.
Senators are highly
concerned about how Gorsuch
might vote on key social
issues such as a potential
future challenge to
pro-choice laws. In the
background but perhaps more
likely are cases which will
deal with U.S. environmental
rules on energy producers
such as coal-fired electric
generation and renewable
standards.
In fact, some animals are
known to be able to perceive
death and understand what
that means on a grander
scale. Some animals grieve
and mourn their dead
companions, while others
avoid their bones, and some
even perform “death
rituals,” similar to
how we’d hold a wake or
funeral.
In
the summer of 2014 I was
spending most of my time
sitting in a recliner due to
a back injury. The boredom
was as bad as the pain. But
my new neighbor was a solar
contractor, and I went to
one of her presentations at
the local environmental
center on how to install a
solar power system. My
creative juices began to
flow.
Researchers in Sweden have
demonstrated efficient solar
energy storage in a chemical
liquid. The stored energy
can be transported and then
released as heat whenever
needed while the storage
medium is fully recovered –
a so-called molecular solar
thermal system.
Researchers
at the National
University of
Singapore have
developed a
nanofiber material
that can make air
filters that are
transparent, efficient
and let air
circulate better(Credit:
National
University of
Singapore)
When
a smog alert is
declared,
citizens are
often told to
stay indoors,
but that dirty
air is still
going to get in.
However, people
in affected
cities could
soon breath
easier thanks to
a new nanofiber
solution
developed at the
National
University of
Singapore (NUS).
..
Once largely confined to the
sunny Southwest,
utility-scale solar power
plants are now being built
everywhere from Minnesota to
Alabama to Maine. Aided by
plunging costs and improving
technologies, these
facilities are expected to
provide a big boost to U.S.
solar energy production.
North Korea has likely
mastered the technology to
power the different stages
of an intercontinental
ballistic missile (ICBM) and
may show it off soon,
analysts say, but it is
likely still a long way from
being able to hit the
mainland United States.
Rep. Devin Nunes has
reportedly apologized to his
colleagues on the House
Intelligence Committee for
telling President Donald
Trump and the public about
alleged surveillance claims
before he informed the
committee itself.
According to CNN,
the California Republican
who chairs the panel
addressed the committee
Thursday morning. On
Wednesday, he traveled from
the Capitol to the White
House and told the president
that communications of Trump
transition officials, and
perhaps even Trump's
communications, may have
been "monitored" after
last November's presidential
election.
Fluoride continues to be
a strongly-debated issue
across the country. Last
month, opponents of the
chemical filed a petition to
stop community water systems
from adding the substance to
drinking water.
The U.S. EPA denied the
petition, the second time in
four years that officials
from the agency have looked
over and rejected petitions
to stop water fluoridation.
Within the past decade or
two, the solar industry has
experienced a great deal of
evolution and expansion. In
the U.S., one of the largest
shakeups was in 2010 when PV
panel prices dropped. The
inverter market has also
been subjected to changes,
especially in terms of new
topologies and increased
functionalities.
The U.S. EPA stepped in
last month to treat
radioactive wastewater at a
shuttered factory in
Mississippi.
The federal takeover
followed bankruptcy by the
Mississippi Phosphates
Corporation. Around $12
million was set aside to
treat the wastewater at the
shuttered factory site, but
when that money dried up,
the wastewater became the
federal government’s
problem, according to
The Birmingham News.
The factory used phosphate
rocks to produce fertilizer
and sulfuric acid.
There’s roughly 32 billion
gallons of municipal
wastewater produced every
day in the U.S., but
according to a 2012 water
reuse report by the U.S.
EPA, less than 10 percent of
that water is recycled.
While drought and population
growth is pushing water
resources to their natural
limits, cities around the
world are seeking out
sustainable alternatives to
meet their future water
needs. As global fears of
water scarcity escalate,
IBISWorld expects a rise in
the development of water
recycling programs. As a
result, demand for water
treatment-related goods and
services will increase and
push their corresponding
prices up, which could raise
budgetary concerns later on.
Considering both poles in
February 2017, Earth
essentially lost the
equivalent of a chunk of sea
ice larger than Mexico, in
contrast to the average
global minimum for
1981-2010.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low with a slight
chance for a C-class flare
on days one, two, and three
(24 Mar, 25 Mar, 26 Mar).
The geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
minor storm levels on day
one (24 Mar) and quiet to
unsettled levels on days two
and three (25 Mar, 26 Mar).
House Republican leaders
released a package of
amendments Monday
evening to modify the
GOP bill to repeal and
replace Obamacare -- the
culmination of days of
negotiations and
closed-door meetings to
win over critics and
skeptics of the
proposal.
The amendments mark
efforts by GOP leaders
and the White House to
appease both
conservatives and
moderates who have
expressed reservations
about the bill.
* Saudi-Iran tension may be
sticking point in deal talks
* Iran unlikely to agree to
any cuts, experts say *
Iran production currently
near maximum capacity
Even when properly shaped,
today’s sperm is often
pathetic swimmers, veering
like drunks or paddling
crazily in circles. Sperm
counts also appear to have
dropped sharply in the last
75 years, in ways that
affect our ability to
reproduce.
“There’s been a decrease not
only in sperm numbers but
also in their quality and
swimming capacity, their
ability to deliver the
goods,”..
Chemists in Australia
claim to have found an
alternative to ultraviolet
(UV) light disinfection
technologies which they
claim is 15 times more
efficient.
The research group from
Australian National
University (ANU) have
developed a system that uses
modified titanium dioxide as
a photocatalyst that works
with sunlight.
Stephen Hawking has been
studying, theorizing,
pondering, and writing about
the universe and everything
that makes it tick for
decades upon decades, and
now he’ll finally get his
chance to head into the
great unknown for himself.
Hawking just revealed that
he’s booked a flight on
Richard Branson’s Virgin
Galactic, thanks to
the latter’s offer to help
the renowned physicist and
cosmologist make his dream
of spaceflight a reality.
Worldwide changes have
prompted a big drop in the
development of coal-fired
power plants, a new study
from several environmental
groups has found. Shifts in
policy and economic
conditions in China and
India are central to the
decline, says the report,
which describes a 48-percent
drop in overall
pre-construction activity.
Nitrogen and
phosphorus are essential
nutrients — yet too much of
a good thing is not always a
good thing. Scientists are
investigating nutrient
pollution down the
Mississippi River.
In the “Land of 10,000
Lakes,” Minnesota relies on
clean water for recreation,
drinking water, abundant
fish and wildlife habitat,
and productive agriculture.
To say that Indigenous
peoples have been cast out
is an understatement — not
just in the U.S., but around
the world. According to
the UN:
Indigenous
peoples
continue
to be
over-represented
among
the
poor,
the
illiterate,
and the
unemployed.
Indigenous
peoples
number
about
370
million.
While
they
constitute
approximately
5 per
cent of
the
world’s
population,
indigenous
peoples
make up
15 per
cent of
the
world’s
poor.
They
also
make up
about
one-third
of the
world’s
900
million
extremely
poor
rural
people.
President Donald Trump
signed a bill into law
Tuesday that updates NASA’s
mission to add exploration
of Mars and authorizes $19.5
billion in spending for the
U.S. space agency for the
current budget year.
U.S. intelligence
agencies picked up
communications involving
members of the Trump
transition team late last
year and reports of the
conversations were
circulated within the
government, the chairman of
the House Intelligence
Committee said Wednesday.
"I recently confirmed
that on numerous occasions,
the intelligence community
collected information on
U.S. individuals involved in
the Trump transition," Rep.
Devin Nunes (R-Tulare) told
reporters.
Our bodies still hold plenty
of secrets, and scientists
have just uncovered a doozy:
the lungs play a key role in
producing blood. Until now,
this task was ascribed
solely to bone marrow, but
studies on mice at the
University of California San
Francisco (UCSF) have found
that, surprisingly, the
majority of the body's
platelets are produced in
the lungs, as is a backup
reservoir of blood stem
cells that can step in when
those in the bone marrow run
dry.
The definitive report on
U.S. infrastructure, issued
this week for the first time
in four years, put a
spotlight on the deep
challenges the nation faces
in upgrading its water and
wastewater systems.
The U.S. received an
overall grade of “D+” on the
infrastructure report card
issued by the American
Society of Civil Engineers
(ASCE). Wastewater and
drinking water
infrastructure scored a “D+”
and a “D,” respectively.
When Donald Trump became
president, it was clear that
his administration would
provide an about face in
almost every way from what
the country had grown used
to in the last eight years.
Health insurance, the tax
code, the military, nearly
every facet of how the
country is run became poised
for change. Naturally, this
did not exclude the domestic
oil and gas industry, which
promises to see an uptick in
production
Oftentimes, the places that
require water purification
the most – such as
developing nations or
disaster sites – have the
least in the way of
infrastructure. This means
that electrically-powered
systems can't be used, while
technology utilizing
materials such as silver may
be too costly. Help could be
on the way, however, in the
form of water filters made
from wood.
On this, World Water Day,
a water-scarce world is
looking to treated
wastewater to help ease
increasingly severe water
shortages. In many of the
regions projected to be hit
hardest, a water crisis is
already happening.
If nothing is done, by
2040, one in four children
worldwide, almost 600
million children, will live
in areas with extremely
limited water resources, the
UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF,
said today.
Since 1993 with a
declaration by the United
Nations, World Water Day has
been marked internationally
on March 22 each year to
acknowledge the many water
crises around the world.
Across Turtle Island, it
portends the annual Mother
Earth Water Walk that was
founded by Ojibwe
conservationist Josephine
Mandamin.
Saudi Arabia wields less
power on world energy
markets as cuts in oil
drilling help rival
producers like Iran, Russia
and the U.S.
The country’s crude
exports to the U.S. for the
week ended March 10 fell by
426,000 barrels a day from
the previous week, the
sharpest weekly drop since
November...
Our blessed Native elders
certainly deserve our
respect. Though traditions
and ways of life vary from
tribe to tribe, showing
respect to our Native elders
is a way to remember
tradition, pay homage to our
ancestry, and to carry our
beliefs forward to our
upcoming generations of new
leaders.
Google’s Android operating
system, used in 85 percent
of the world’s smart phones,
including Samsung and Sony,
was found to have 24 ‘zero
days’ – the code name used
by the CIA to identify and
exploit vulnerabilities for
the purpose of secretly
collecting data on
individuals.
At the University of
Vermont, Burlington, a big
dormitory is going up with
room enough for 700 students
next fall, and it’s designed
with the health-conscious in
mind.
The clean-living residence
hall has zero-tolerance for
drugs and alcohol, meaning
one mistake and you’re out.
But students who live here
have access to fitness and
nutrition coaches at the
in-house gym, free violin
lessons, yoga, and
mindfulness training.
Depending on the philosophy
or religion cited, “Akasha”
generally has the same core
meaning. It’s Sanskrit
(primary sacred language of
Hinduism) for “aether,” in
both the elemental and
metaphysical sense. The
existence of this
‘substance,’ for lack of a
better term, has been
postulated by scientists and
philosophers from ancient
cultures, traditions, and
faiths which date back
thousands of years. The
theme has been present
from Eastern
mysticism/philosophy all the
way into the West and
esoteric philosophy.
You can’t steal something
that has no owner, and this
obvious fact was the moral
cover for virtually all of
the real estate in the
Americas—the so-called New
World—becoming owned by
European colonists. The
Spanish and Portuguese
colonists still recognized
the moral and temporal
authority of the Pope, and
they had the assurance that
God was on their side.
It you think your sex life
isn’t what it once was,
you’re not alone. People in
the U.S. are having less sex
today than they did
generations ago, and a new
study suggests that marriage
may be part of the problem.
Married people typically
had sex 73 times a year in
1990, researchers report in
the Archives of Sexual
Behavior. But by 2014
married couples were having
sex just 55 times a year,
trailing single people who
had sex 59 times a year.
In 2008, a group of
thieves stole $700,000 from
Russia’s central bank the
old-fashioned way: they
infiltrated a processing
center, handcuffed a guard,
and made off with the cash.
These days, the criminal
attacks on the Bank of
Russia are far less
labor-intensive -- and far
more lucrative. Over the
course of last year, hackers
looted up to $21
million from accounts opened
with the Bank of Russia.
An appeals court on
Saturday refused a request
from two American Indian
tribes for an "emergency"
order that would prevent oil
from flowing through Dakota
Access pipeline.
The decision by the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit
means the $3.8 billion
pipeline to move North
Dakota oil to a distribution
point in Illinois could be
operating as early as
Monday, even as the tribes'
lawsuit challenging the
project moves forward.
Anyone who's been unlucky
enough to spend some time
watching late
night-television will have
seen ads for gadgets like
the Power Plate, a vibrating
platform designed to speed
up fat burning during a
workout. But what happens if
you drop the exercise, and
just rely on the vibrations?
A team at the Augusta
University has looked into
the science behind
whole-body vibration, and
discovered the technique
could mimic the effects of
regular exercise.
Life on Earth is used to
gravity. So what happens to
our cells and tissues in
space?..
Scientists observed that
returning astronauts had
grown taller and had
substantially reduced bone
and muscle mass. Intrigued,
researchers started
comparing blood and tissue
samples from animals and
astronauts before and after
space travel to assess the
impact of gravity on
physiology.
Astronaut-scientists in the
largely gravity-free
environment of the
International Space Station
began to investigate how
cells grow while in space.
Canada's border authorities
detained more Mexicans in
the first 67 days of 2017
than they did annually in
any of the three previous
years, according to
statistics obtained by
Reuters.
The spike comes
immediately after Canada's
federal government lifted
its visa requirement for
Mexican citizens in
December.
For some years now, very low
interest rates have been
reducing the earnings of
retirement investors as well
as the lifestyles of many of
those already retired. To
understand why this has been
happening – and why it may
continue for a very long
time – one must recognize
that there is a direct
relationship between the
interest rates that are paid
to savers, and the interest
payments made by a heavily
indebted federal government.
Spanish auto maker
SEAT and water management
company Aquila are teaming
up to develop
treatment plants that can
create sustainable biofuels
from wastewater
Her name is Elizabeth
McDonough. A graduate of
ultra-liberal Vermont Law
School, Senator Harry Reid
tapped her to be the Senate
Parliamentarian in 2013.
Now, as long as the Senate
Republicans allow it, she
can decide the fate of the
efforts to repeal and
replace ObamaCare.
Her job right now is to
determine which elements of
the Republican ObamaCare
replacement bill are
budgetary and which are
normal legislation. ..
India is working to finalize
a $3 billion deal with Iran
on the 18.75 Tcf Farzad B
gas field development in the
Persian Gulf by September
2017, sources at the oil
ministry said Thursday.
The confirmation from
India came after Iranian oil
ministry news service on
Monday quoted the managing
director of Pars Oil and
Gas, Mohammed Fam, as saying
the company had put Farzad
B's development high on its
agenda.
In 2015, Lockheed Martin
took the wraps off a 30-kW
mobile laser weapon that was
powerful enough to take out
a truck. Now the company
will deliver a new 60-kW
weapon to the US Army that
earlier this month set a new
record by generating a
single 58-kW beam. With all
phases from demonstration to
development completed,
Lockheed will ship the
combined fiber laser to the
US Army Space and Missile
Defense Command...
President Donald Trump
unveiled a budget today
that's in line with his
stated priorities of
restoring America's
military, securing our
border, and draining the
swamp. And liberals are
absolutely losing their
mind.
Malik Obama, half-brother of
44th President Barack
Hussein Obama and
self-designated head of the
Obama family, has recently
tweeted a controversial
picture:
Objects that take up space
and have mass are considered
matter, which means that
everything around you is
made up of matter, including
yourself and the sandwich in
your hand.
Sound like the beginning of
a lecture from your
childhood science textbook?
That’s because we’ve been
taught that matter as we
know it is as fundamental
and broad as this.
But new research reveals
that maybe “matter” isn’t so
set in stone.
History doesn’t repeat
itself, but it definitely
rhymes. Every time the
economy hits the skids, the
government steps in to try
and keep the status quo
going. Long-time students of
history know that you’d have
to go back nearly a century,
to the 1921 recession in the
United States, to find the
last time the government
didn’t step in.
Laissez-faire attitudes
about government
interference in the economy
were already on shaky ground
then. Only today, government
interference is the norm,
and anything else seems
ridiculous.
George Orwell once said that
“in a time of universal
deceit, telling the truth is
a revolutionary act.” Since
he offered those words
decades ago, we have seen
deceit become a pervasive
and global problem, where
the general public really
has no clue what is
happening around the world.
The truth is, we live in a
world of secrecy, and many
prominent figures throughout
history have been trying to
tell us this for years. Even
President Theodore Roosevelt
warned us of the secret
government, revealing that “behind
the ostensible government
sits enthroned an invisible
government, owing no allegiance
and acknowledging no
responsibility to the
people.”
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (21 Mar, 22
Mar, 23 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on day one
(21 Mar), quiet to active
levels on day two (22 Mar)
and unsettled to minor storm
levels on day three (23
Mar).
Britain's top intelligence
agency says the United
States has agreed to drop
its claim that the United
Kingdom helped President
Barack Obama wiretap Donald
Trump – an allegation made
by White House Press
Secretary Sean Spicer...
Republicans intent on
scrapping Barack Obama's
Affordable Care Act have a
budget problem.
As it turns out,
repealing and replacing the
law they hate so much won't
save nearly as much money as
getting rid of it entirely,
the goal they've been
campaigning on for seven
years. That means trouble
for the federal deficit and
for Congress' fiscal
conservatives who repeatedly
warn about leaving their
children and grandchildren
worse off financially.
In a new study,
researchers from Yale and
Penn State found that the
onset of certain
neuropsychiatric
disorders—obsessive-compulsive
disorder, anorexia, tic
disorders, attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD), depression, and
bipolar disorder—appears to
be related to childhood
vaccination.
Absurdly—and flying in
the face of their own
findings—the researchers who
did the study still
encourage parents to adhere
to the CDC’s vaccination
schedule!
Russian Federal Treasury
released figures have
confirmed that the nation’s
defense budget has been cut
by 25.5% for 2017, falling
from RUB3.8 trillion
(USD65.4 billion) to RUB2.8
trillion.
The reduction is drastic
cut in military expenditure
of the country since the
early 1990s. The reduction
move follows an extended
period of increases to
Russian defence spending
with growth having achieved
an average rate of 19.8% a
year since 2011 in nominal
terms.
Another study has emerged
linking Ibuprofen, the
popular over-the counter
pain-killer, to harmful and
life-threatening health
effects in those with
cardiac conditions. This
time it’s from researchers
in Denmark, who found that
taking the over-the-counter
drug caused a 31% increased
risk of cardiac arrest,
among other things.
The U.S. Secret Service said
on Friday a laptop was
stolen from an agent's car
in New York City but that
such agency-issued computers
contain multiple layers of
security and are not
permitted to contain
classified information
Sirens blared and
loudspeakers broadcast
warnings in Japan's first
civilian missile evacuation
drill on Friday, conducted
in a fishing town by
officials wary about the
threat of North Korean
missiles.
The exercise
comes more than a week after
North Korea launched four
ballistic missiles into the
sea off Japan's northwest
coast, with one rocket
landing about 200 km (124
miles)from the town of Oga.
Maybe you’ve never
thought of all this, and
even may be in shock.
But it’s happening.
Silently, people are
being woken up and are
realizing how crazy it
is to live in this
society. So take a
moment: Look at all
these new actions, and
ask yourself if
everything we have been
taught so far is normal.
I don’t think it is.
Thankfully, there is
something extraordinary
happening.
Iskigamizigan time begins at
the first signs of spring,
when daytime temperatures
rise above 32 degrees,
allowing trees to generate
the flow of sap. Maday and
his family drill small holes
about two inches deep into
the trees and attach taps
that allow the sap to flow
into bags placed underneath.
The sap is then boiled for
several hours into syrup.
According to Melvin, its
takes about 50 gallons of
sap to make one gallon of
maple syrup.
An unearthly blue glow
off the northwestern coast
of Tasmania is enchanting
locals and photographers,
but may signal hungry days
ahead for fish.
Hordes of tiny algae are
lighting up the Tasmanian
coast with a phenomenon
commonly known as “sea
sparkle.” Long observed in
the waters around Sydney,
the bioluminescent critters
are creeping south thanks to
warmer oceans and shifting
food patterns, worrying
local fish farmers and
ecologists who suspect the
invaders might disrupt the
food chain.
The national debt is over
$19 trillion and is expected
to surpass $23 trillion by
2021. Will Washington learn
to control spending or will
they attempt to raise taxes?
Is there an economic
collapse at the end of this
road? To find answers to
these questions, we must
consider three pivotal
moments in our nation’s
history. In this writing, we
will discuss the first,
which is the moment the
federal government began to
assume the role of nanny. We
will examine the other two
periods in a follow up. If
you understand each, you
will understand why the
public debt is so high and
why it will continue to
rise. Is there a crisis
around the bend? The answer
is “Yes” if we fail to make
meaningful changes to our
system.
The short film could be
about most reservations
across the country. It
focuses on the generations
of gangs and the resulting
impacts on the Indian
community. To say it is
darkly haunting and more
than a bit depressing is an
understatement. Doesn’t
sound like much of a thumbs
up review, but I did like
it. I liked that it made me
look at an issue that is
confronting many Native
communities around the
country without a filter of
“everything will work out in
the end.” It succeeds as a
challenge to smashing the
crap outta the drugs and
their distributors that are
deviling our people.
The world's top
economic powers dropped a
pledge to oppose trade
protectionism amid pushback
from the Trump
administration, which wants
trade to more clearly
benefit American companies
and workers.
Finance
ministers from the Group of
20 countries meeting in the
southern German town of
Baden-Baden issued a
statement Saturday that said
only that countries "are
working to strengthen the
contribution of trade" to
their economies.
President Donald Trump’s
first budget outline was
released today, covering
Fiscal Year 2018. The
“Budget Blueprint” cuts deep
into agencies that protect
the environment, help rural
people, the poor and
international relations, but
hands a big boost to defense
spending and homeland
security.
President Trump’s proposed
budget takes a big step
towards draining the swamp
in Washington. This is the
first time since the Reagan
era that a president has
sought a wholesale
demolition of boondoggles.
On the other hand, Trump’s
defense and homeland
security spending increases
will squander bounties that
should be reserved for
taxpayers, not bureaucrats
and bombs.
In addition to reducing
spending from several large
government entities such as
the Environmental Protection
Agency and the State
Department, President Donald
Trump's proposed first
budget calls to eliminate
federal funding for 19
federal agencies, for a
total of $3 billion in cuts.
One of the CBP contract
requests calls for a solid
concrete wall, while the
other asks for proposals for
a see-through structure.
Both require the wall to
sunk at least six feet into
the ground and include 25-
and 50-foot automated gates
for pedestrians and
vehicles. The proposed wall
must also be built in a such
a way that it would take at
least an hour to cut through
it with a "sledgehammer, car
jack, pick axe, chisel,
battery operated impact
tools, battery operated
cutting tools, Oxy/acetylene
torch or other similar
hand-held tools."
Currently, people who are
hurt by pharmaceuticals are
in a legal catch-22 because
victims of pharmaceuticals
can’t sue drug companies for
hurting them, they can only
sue for failure to warn. So,
if a pharmaceutical drug
gives you cancer, you can’t
sue the company that made
the drug for the fact that
it gave you cancer, you can
only sue them for failing to
warn you IF the warning
label doesn’t contain
information about the drug
causing cancer.
Surprising new observations
of distant galaxies suggest
that dark matter was less
influential in the early
universe than it is today.
Dark matter – shown in red –
may have been less
concentrated in the early
universe (right) than in the
present-day universe (left),
according to new
observations
Opinions on smartphone use
fall on both sides of the
fence. Some opine that being
glued to our phones is
unraveling the very fabric
of the social contract,
while others say they
connect us better than ever.
But it's more constructive
to put aside snap judgments
and examine the mechanics
and implications of
smartphone use instead. Why
can't we put our phones
down? How do our technology
habits affect our
relationships? We need to
understand what's going on
in order to make
well-informed decisions
about our own mobile
technology use.
Vault 7 has been the subject
of a curious and cryptic set
of tweets from Wikileaks
over the course of the past
month or so. Now we know
why. In bombshell news, a
total of 8,761 CIA documents
have been released in a
series that has been dubbed
Vault 7, which,
even for seasoned conspiracy
researchers, are fascinating
and horrible at the same
time.
With the Federal Reserve
having raised its benchmark
interest rate Wednesday and
signaled the likelihood of
additional rate hikes later
this year, consumers and
businesses will feel it —
maybe not immediately, but
over time.
The Fed's thinking is
that the economy is a lot
stronger now than it was
during the first few years
after the Great Recession
ended in 2009, when
ultra-low rates were needed
to sustain growth. With the
job market in particular
looking robust, the economy
is seen as sturdy enough to
withstand modestly higher
loan rates in the coming
months and perhaps years.
We believe the US
intelligence agencies have
access to much bigger
technical resources and
cyber capabilities than the
leak exposed in the leak.
The dump so far just shows
that the agency gathered and
purchased tools to target
devices, but nothing in the
leak specifies that was
actually spying on people.
Also, the nature of those
tools suggests that they're
designed for targeted
operations, rather than mass
surveillance.
By collecting and analyzing
the contrails created by
planes running on a biofuel
mix, a NASA study has found
that biofuels can cut
particle emissions by as
much as 70 percent. The
benefits come not just from
reducing carbon emitted
directly into the atmosphere
but by also cutting down the
chance of contrails forming,
which can have an even
bigger impact on the Earth's
atmosphere.
The U.S. Border Patrol
will not lower hiring
standards to satisfy
President Donald Trump's
order to add 5,000 agents
and will need several years
to hit its target,
administration officials
said Wednesday.
A precise timeline has
not been set, but one
official said the goal was
to hire as many agents as
possible in four or five
years. Another official said
it wouldn't happen
overnight.
In the US Model Penal Code,
a suspect's state of mind
while committing a crime can
drastically affect the
punishment they receive.
Specifically, someone who
knew that what they were
doing was wrong will face
harsher penalties than
someone who was acting
recklessly or negligently.
The problem is that it can
be hard to know for sure
where that line is. In a
move that could help clear
things up, neuroscientists
from Virginia Tech have
found that brain imaging
techniques can tell the
difference, which may help
inform future law.
Since the dawn of humanity,
people around the world have
used “nature’s pharmacy” to
heal themselves — botanical
treatments, healing
tinctures and medicinal
remedies from the herbs,
flowers and flora that
surrounded them. But, over
time, we’ve lost touch with
our ancient biological and
spiritual connection to
nature, and the healing
power that comes with it.
It’s time we get back in
touch with natural medicines
and the deep healing
potential they provide.
The history of life on Earth
is shrouded in shadow, but
we're slowly shedding more
light on where we came from.
Now, newly-discovered
fossils of what look like
red algae discovered in
Chitrakoot, India, suggest
that multicellular life
arose several hundred
million years earlier than
previously believed.
After two years, a delicate
conflict between Russia and
the European Union could
soon be over. The European
Union Commission wants to
stop the a antitrust-suit
against Gazprom after the
Russian state has made
concessions. However, before
the procedure is actually
terminated, interested
parties should have the
opportunity to comment, said
Competition Commissioner
Margrethe Vestager.
The overall index is now at
100, up 20 points since
November and up 33 points
from one year ago. This
represents the largest
quarterly increase in three
years, Gallup
reported.
Back in 2015, Google
launched a clever venture
called Project Sunroof that
used Google Maps data to
assess the solar potential
of individual roofs, giving
homeowners a better idea of
whether or not they should
take the plunge. From humble
beginnings in a few select
cities the project has now
expanded to cover every US
State, and the data
collected in the process
makes a compelling case for
solar indeed.
Authors of a cover story in
journal Nature this week
called for immediate global
action to reduce the
magnitude of climate warming
in order to secure a future
for coral reefs.
The key to producing good
intelligence lies in asking
the right question, rather
than in just poring over
what’s been randomly
collected in hopes that
somewhere in the pile of
reports and intercepts on
your desk you’ll spot
something important.
Entrepreneurs are the backbone of our economy. They are our most
important innovators and job
creators.
The
Growth Entrepreneurship
Index estimates that the Rate of Startup Growth in 2015 was 58.5%,
representing a jump of 11.6
percentage points. That
means newer companies
contributed approximately
200,000 more jobs to the
economy than in the previous
year.
Japan plans to dispatch its
largest warship on a
three-month tour through the
South China Sea beginning in
May, three sources said, in
its biggest show of naval
force in the region since
World War Two.
China claims almost all the
disputed waters and its
growing military presence
has fueled concern in Japan
and the West, with the
United States holding
regular air and naval
patrols to ensure freedom of
navigation.
A federal judge in Hawaii
has placed a nationwide
block on President Trump’s
revised travel order,
delivering a major blow to
the president's policy just
hours before it was set to
go into effect.
It appears as though the
Keystone XL pipeline will be
exempted from the
presidential directive that
all American pipeline
systems be built with
American steel.
White House spokesperson
Sarah Huckabee Sanders said
last week that it would be
difficult to use only US
products as the pipeline is
already under construction.
..
And why have all of these
“practicing Christians” come
down on this side of the
question? They certainly
didn’t arrive at it from
consulting the Bible or
thousands of years of
Christian tradition, both of
which are unmistakably
clear. Let’s do a quick
review:
Employees of Monsanto
ghostwrote scientific
reports that U.S. regulators
relied on to determine that
a chemical in its Roundup
weed killer does not cause
cancer, farmers and others
suing the company claimed in
court filings.
The documents, which were
made public on Tuesday, are
part of a mass litigation in
federal court in San
Francisco claiming Monsanto
failed to warn that exposure
to Roundup could cause
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a
type of cancer.
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers spent $1.1 million
and utilized 835 dumpsters
in cleaning up after the
Dakota Access Pipeline
protesters. After President
Donald Trump signed an
executive order in January
to move the project forward,
the protesters finally
cleared out, leaving
mountains of waste behind.
Last month, when
protesters were told to
leave by Feb. 22 or face
arrest, they responded by
lighting their campsite,
waste and plastic on fire.
Officials in the U.S. and
Mexico are investigating a
massive sewage spill that
polluted the shores of
Southern California.
The spill “from Mexico's
Tijuana River that polluted
miles of coastland in
Southern California and
northern Mexico has prompted
an investigation, with U.S.
officials calling it
deliberate and Mexican
authorities saying it was an
accident caused by heavy
rain,” Reuters reported.
One official said the
spill “polluted 20 miles of
coastland from the areas of
Rosarito in Mexico to
Coronado in California,”
according to Reuters.
Fox News senior judicial
analyst Andrew Napolitano
believes former President
Barack Obama might have gone
“outside the chain of
command” in order to spy on
then-candidate Donald Trump
during the 2016 presidential
election.
The military personnel are
accused of taking bribes
from Singapore-based defense
contractor Leonard Glenn
Francis of Glenn Defense
Marine Asia, which came in
the form of lavish gifts,
prostitutes and luxury hotel
stays, according to the
indictment. Francis has
already pleaded guilty to
defrauding the Navy of tens
of millions of dollars.
A new study shows that a
majority of Americans are on
board with women being
pastors and priests, though
evangelicals remain largely
uncomfortable with the idea.
Oil advanced after a
government report showed
U.S. crude stockpiles
unexpectedly declined last
week.
Futures rose 2.4 percent
in New York, the biggest
gain since January. U.S.
crude inventories fell by
237,000 barrels last week,
according to an Energy
Information Administration
report on Wednesday.
The traditional process
anticipates and accounts for
red tape and typical
procurement policies. So any
proposed budget based on the
bureaucratic system will
inevitably be far more
expensive than a budget
driven by President Trump's
entrepreneurial drive and
frugality.
When the movie was filmed in
1980, the crew had to cope
with subzero temperatures
and freezing winds. However,
nearly forty years later,
the real-life Hoth is
disappearing. According to a
recent paper by Henning
Akesson et al., published
January 27, 2017 in The
Cryosphere, the ice cap
is extremely sensitive to
small changes in
temperature, and therefore
vulnerable to climate change
as global temperatures
continue to increase.
The city of Seattle has a
newly adopted first-come,
first-served policy for
residents looking to rent a
house, and Seattle landlords
are not happy about it.
Removal of Emerging
Contaminants from water via
Granular Activated Carbon
columns. Breakthrough
curves obtained for each
contaminant and adsorption
models applied. The
system removed endocrine
disrupters more efficiently
than pharmaceuticals.
The Modified dose–response
model gave the best results
among the models examined.
Microbiological growth
observed, indicating
biodegradation as a removal
mechanism
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (17 Mar, 18
Mar, 19 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days one
and two (17 Mar, 18 Mar) and
quiet levels on day three
(19 Mar).
Russia appears to have
deployed special forces to
an airbase in western Egypt
near the border with Libya
in recent days, U.S.,
Egyptian and diplomatic
sources say, a move that
would add to U.S. concerns
about Moscow's deepening
role in Libya.
The U.S. and
diplomatic officials said
any such Russian deployment
might be part of a bid to
support Libyan military
commander Khalifa Haftar,
who suffered a setback with
an attack on March 3 by the
Benghazi Defence Brigades
(BDB) on oil ports
controlled by his forces.
A Seattle federal judge on
Tuesday recommended that his
court hear the case of a
Mexican immigrant with a
work permit who is
challenging his arrest by
U.S. immigration authorities
in February.
In a report
filed in district court,
U.S. Magistrate Judge James
Donohue recommended denying
the U.S. government's motion
to dismiss the case brought
by Daniel Ramirez Medina, a
so-called Dreamer who came
to the United States
illegally with his parents
when he was about 10 years
old.
The humble leaf, which
collects sunlight and uses
that energy to turn carbon
dioxide into fuel for the
plant, has inspired
scientists to create various
systems that could turn the
greenhouse gas into fuels,
using bacteria, engineered
microorganisms, chemical
reactors or a catalyst of
copper and carbon. Now,
researchers at Indiana
University (IU) have
developed a molecule that
uses sunlight to convert the
problematic carbon dioxide
into carbon monoxide, which
can then be stored as a fuel
source.
A $900,000 home in
Farmington Hills,
Mich., must be bulldozed, at
the owners' expense, because
it sits on top of a leaking
sewer pipe that could cause
a sinkhole and disrupt sewer
service to thousands of
homes and businesses,
according to a lawsuit filed
in Oakland County Circuit
Court.
Not so fast, say the
homeowners, who note the
house and its sewer
connections were inspected
and approved by both the
City of Farmington Hills and
the Oakland County Water
Resources Commissioner's
Office.
Hydrogen is often touted as
a clean fuel source, as its
use in cars only produces
water vapor as a byproduct.
The truth is though, that
producing hydrogen in the
first place can often be a
process that relies on
natural gas or other
polluting chemicals that can
damage the environment.
Finding a way to produce
hydrogen simply and cleanly
would go a long way toward
eventual use of the gas as a
fuel source. And that's
exactly what researchers at
the University of Cambridge
(UC) have done, adding to a
host of other green
possibilities that have been
proposed for creating the
gas.
On October 25, 2016, the
Russian state-sponsored news
service TASS ran a story on
the country's new SS-X-30
missile, also known as the
RS-28, "Sarmat," or, by its
NATO name, the Satan-2. The
media soon combined this
with claims that it could
erase a land mass the size
of Texas and the result was
a picture of a superweapon
of terrifying dimensions.
Trump is proposing a 10
percent increase in defense
spending, equivalent to $54
billion, and a 6 percent
increase in funding for
homeland security, the
source said.
To fund those increases,
he is seeking deep
reductions in programs such
as public broadcasting,
funding for the arts and
science, and heating
subsidies. Those programs
have been targeted by
Republican politicians
before, but in many cases
the proposed cuts have
failed to make it through
Congress.
President Donald Trump
unveiled Thursday a budget
proposal for fiscal 2018
Thursday that would provide
the US Department of Energy
$120 million for the
management of utility spent
nuclear fuel, including
restarting DOE's licensing
activities associated with
the high-level nuclear waste
repository proposed for
Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Our brains are basically
electrochemical computers,
so using electricity to
manipulate their function is
a well-proven technique.
From deep-brain stimulation
that controls the symptoms
of depression to zapping our
grey matter to improve our
vision, electrical current
applied to our brains holds
a lot of promise. Now
researchers at Imperial
College London have shown
that a low-voltage stream of
electricity can be used to
bring different brain
regions in sync with each
other, leading to improved
memory ability and the hope
of treating neurological
disorders.
Though it’s been publicized
that humanity requires
pesticides to avoid world
hunger, a new report by
United Nations food and
pollution experts says this
is actually a myth.
The report calls out
corporations that
manufacture pesticides,
accusing them of “systematic
denial of harms,”
“aggressive, unethical
marketing,” and swaying
governments to stop reforms
and global pesticide
restrictions from passing.
According to the report,
pesticides
have “catastrophic impacts
on the environment, human
health and society as a
whole.” And despite all
their harm, pesticides do
nothing to help world
hunger.
After spending more than
40 years and $5 billion on
an unfinished nuclear power
plant in northeastern
Alabama, the nation's
largest federal utility is
preparing to sell the
property at a fraction of
its cost.
The Tennessee Valley
Authority has set a minimum
bid of $36.4 million for its
Bellefonte Nuclear Plant and
the 1,600 surrounding acres
of waterfront property on
the Tennessee River.
It was a big announcement
and one that caused people
to ask…will it really
happen? Maybe so!
Even Democrats want to see
infrastructure reform.
In fact, Senate Democrats
have released a $1 trillion
infrastructure plan of their
own and are pledging to hold
President Trump to his
promise. It appears that
infrastructure reform is one
issue that both parties
agree on — and that is more
than encouraging.
The Trump administration
has put together a list of
50 emergency and national
security infrastructure
projects throughout the U.S.
The list carries a price tag
of $137.5 billion.
Say the word ‘Obamacare’ and
emotional response is
visceral. For some, I can
feel your blood pressure
rise. For others, there’s
relief, a first chance at
health insurance. People
always had healthcare, no
one in America is turned
away. And the poor have
Medicaid. But has ACA
benefited those above that
threshold? Personally, I’ve
met no one who’s happy, not
patients, nurses, doctors,
or facilities.
U.S. Sens. Jeff Flake
(R-Ariz.), John McCain
(R-Ariz.), and Ron Johnson
(R-Wis.), chairman of the
Senate Homeland Security and
Governmental Affairs
Committee, introduced the
Boots on the Border Act. The
legislation would help
address hiring shortfalls at
Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) by waiving
onerous and duplicative CBP
polygraph hiring
requirements for applicants
with qualifying law
enforcement or military
experience.
Battery research is at a
tipping point, and it’s
never been more important
The world is waiting on a
battery breakthrough. Nearly
every sector of the
electronics industry,
everything that runs on a
battery, is limited by the
power output and energy life
of the batteries that run
it.
“The progress or the
advancement of batteries is
much slower than in other
fields, and this is an
intrinsic limitation of
batteries,” says Stefano
Passerini, editor-in-chief
of the Journal of Power
Sources. “You cannot
expect a battery that can
supply energy to a cell
phone for a week or a month.
At the very end, the maximum
amount of energy you can
store in a battery is fixed
by the available elements.”
Those of us who believe that
the Constitution means what
it says have been arguing
since the late 1970s that
congressional efforts to
strengthen national security
by weakening personal
liberty are
unconstitutional,
un-American and ineffective.
The Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act, which
Congress passed in the
aftermath of President
Richard Nixon’s use of the
CIA and the FBI to spy on
his political opponents, has
unleashed demons that now
seem beyond the government’s
control and are more
pervasive than anything
Nixon could have dreamed of.
Former Health and Human
Services Secretary Kathleen
Sebelius, who served under
former President Barack
Obama and played a major
role in crafting the
legislation that eventually
became Obamacare, was asked
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the
Press” whether former
President Bill Clinton “had
a point” when he referred to
part of Obamacare as “the
craziest thing in the
world.”
A survey conducted by
international anti-graft
rights group Transparency
International revealed India
had the dubious distinction
of having the highest
bribery rate in the Asia
Pacific region.
Some 69 percent in India
said they had paid a bribe,
followed by 65 percent in
Vietnam - nearly two thirds
of respondents said they had
to pay a bribe to access
basic services like public
education and healthcare.
Pakistan was at 40
percent and China was much
lower at 26 percent.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff
Sessions has asked the
remaining 46 chief federal
prosecutors appointed by
President Barack Obama who
have not already resigned to
do so "in order to ensure a
uniform transition," the
Justice Department said on
Friday.
The nation's political
parties are "disintegrating
before our very eyes," Ohio
Gov. John Kasich said
Sunday, but that doesn't
mean he's planning to turn
into a Democrat.
"I think more and more
people across this country
see no purpose for political
parties," Kasich, a GOP
presidential candidate who
held on until nearly the end
of the primary races, told
NBC "Meet the Press"
anchor Chuck
Todd."You talk to people and
they're more and more
Independents because of the
squabbling."
There is too much
"consumption" about who
gains what politically on
issues, and Kasich said that
kind of focus turns is
dangerous.
Colorado's top legislative
leaders reached a bipartisan
compromise on a measure that
would ask voters for a state
sales tax hike and a bond
issue to fund billions of
dollars in transportation
needs.
But they acknowledged
Thursday that it's going to
be a hard sell — and not
just at the ballot box in
November.
The hidden toll that
subsidies for electricity,
fossil fuels, and transport
have on social welfare,
economic growth and
technological innovation
needs to be exposed through
better research says a new
paper in Ecological
Economics by Benjamin K
Sovacool.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (14 Mar, 15
Mar, 16 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet
levels on days one, two, and
three (14 Mar, 15 Mar, 16
Mar).
Scottish First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon is open to
holding a second
independence referendum as
early as 2018.
Sturgeon said a vote is
“common sense” considering
the United Kingdom’s
decision to leave the
European Union within the
next few years. Scots
overwhelmingly voted to
remain in the EU during the
Brexit referendum last June.
Astronomers have found
evidence for a star that
whips around a black hole
about twice an hour. This
may be the tightest orbital
dance ever witnessed for a
black hole and a companion
star.
Hillary Clinton’s
team members met with the
Russian ambassador during
the election as well as
Donald Trump’s, the Kremlin
spokesman has alleged, as he
set out to dismiss the
“hysteria” surrounding Mr
Trump’s links to Russia.
The house intelligence
committee will hold its
first session on Russia on
March 20, with the heads of
the FBI, national security
agency and CIA expected to
appear, plus previous
intelligence chiefs.
U.S. Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson has recused
himself from issues related
to TransCanada Corp's
application for a permit for
the Keystone XL pipeline,
the State Department said in
a letter on Thursday to the
environmental group
Greenpeace.
"He has not worked on
that matter at the
Department of State, and
will play no role in the
deliberations or ultimate
resolution of TransCanada's
application," said the
letter from Katherine
McManus, the State
Department's deputy legal
adviser.
...“It is going to cut off
our people, our members that
come [from Mexico] and use
our services. Not only that
we have ceremonies in Mexico
that many of our members
attend. Members also make
pilgrimages to Mexico and a
border wall would cut that
off as well.”
Marines attached to the 11th
Marine Expeditionary Unit
quietly moved into Syria
weeks ago to establish an
artillery base, defense
officials confirmed to
Military.com on Wednesday.
The move comes as
American-backed forces
intensify their assault on
Raqqa, the Islamic State's
capital city.
A unsecured backup drive
has exposed thousands of US
Air Force documents,
including highly sensitive
personnel files on senior
and high-ranking officers.
Security researchers
found that the gigabytes of
files were accessible to
anyone because the
internet-connected backup
drive was not password
protected.
Bluefish Caves
directly challenged
mainstream scientific
thinking. Evidence had long
suggested that humans first
reached the Americas around
13,000 years ago, when Asian
hunters crossed a now
submerged landmass known as
Beringia, which joined
Siberia to Alaska and Yukon
during the last ice age.
From there, the migrants
seemed to have hurried
southward along the edges of
melting ice sheets to warmer
lands in what is now the
United States, where they
and their descendants
thrived. Researchers called
these southern hunters the
Clovis people, after a
distinctive type of spear
point they carried. And the
story of their arrival in
the New World became known
as the Clovis first model.
Nearly 70% of all
antibiotics manufactured and
sold in the U.S. are used in
animal agriculture — a
staggering amount, by any
reckoning. Not only do
these antibiotics end up in
the meat we consume, but
their necessity, and in such
volume, leads to the obvious
conclusion that the animals
providing our meat are being
raised in
deplorable conditions.
WikiLeaks will allow tech
companies access to much
more detailed information
about CIA hacking techniques
so they can "develop fixes"
before the information is
widely published, WikiLeaks
founder Julian Assange said
Thursday.
Several tech giants have
said they are examining a
trove of documents leaked
earlier this week that
purport to show the CIA's
ability to hack into phones,
computers, and smart TVs.
Repealing and replacing
Obamacare and implementing
President Trump’s plan to
build $1 trillion-worth of
infrastructure are massively
important for the
president’s bold vision to
make America great again,
but the key to President
Trump’s success is tax
reform.
Hydrogen typically exists
as attached pairs of atoms –
molecular hydrogen or H2.
On an typical and
ordinary nickel sample, H2
can be attracted to the
surface (adsorption) and
dissociate slowly and
inefficiently into atomic
hydrogen (H1) to then
penetrate the surface
(absorption). Once inside,
it can diffuse farther
inwards through the lattice
and at high loading ratios
stress the lattice to
produce
defects/bubbles/cavities. If
the nickel surface is
optimized (cleaned of nickel
oxide, adsorbed oxygen atoms
removed, atomically
roughened by one of many
processes) the dissociation
of molecular hydrogen to
atomic hydrogen can be
accelerated.
Several compounds,
including caffeine, help
boost the production of an
enzyme that has been shown
to protect the brain against
multiple degenerative
neurological disorder
For years we have seen
studies noting observational
connections between
consumption of coffee and
reduced risk of dementia,
but it's only been recently
that scientists have started
to drill down into the
neurological reasons
underpinning these
observations. A new study by
Indiana University
researchers has revealed how
several compounds, including
caffeine, help boost the
production of an enzyme that
has been shown to protect
the brain against several
degenerative neurological
disorders.
An earthquake fault running
from San Diego Bay to Los
Angeles is capable of
producing a magnitude-7.4
earthquake that could affect
some of the region's most
densely populated areas,
according to a study
released Tuesday.
The study looked at the
Newport-Inglewood and Rose
Canyon systems — previously
thought to be separate — and
concluded they actually form
a continuous fault that runs
underwater from San Diego
Bay to Seal Beach in Orange
County and on land through
the Los Angeles basin.
The fault poses a
significant hazard to
coastal Southern California
and Tijuana, Mexico,
according to the study.
To some observers, the
fact that North Korea is
trying to become a
full-fledged nuclear power
is evidence enough of its
aggressive intentions.
Failing to somehow block
Pyongyang’s path to the
bomb, they argue, risks
nuclear war with an
unstable, irrational,
paranoid totalitarian state.
But scholarship counsels
that we keep a cool head.
While electric cars
are catching on, their
relatively short capacities
are holding them back from
wide acceptance...
Despite being responsible
for one of the most
revolutionary inventions in
modern history – the
lithium-cobalt-oxide
cathode, the key
breakthrough that made it
possible for the lithium-ion
battery to become as
ubiquitous as it is today –
batteries have never left
Goodenough's mind. On his
to-do list: Invent a battery
that will end our dependence
on fossil fuels.
Chicago—a city well known
for its windy and snowy
winters—is experiencing some
unusually warm weather. For
the first time in 146 years,
there was no documented snow
on the ground in January and
February, according to the
local National Weather
Service.
Recently, the CIA lost
control of the majority of
its hacking arsenal
including malware, viruses,
trojans, weaponized "zero
day" exploits, malware
remote control systems and
associated documentation.
This extraordinary
collection, which amounts to
more than several hundred
million lines of code, gives
its possessor the entire
hacking capacity of the CIA.
The archive appears to have
been circulated among former
U.S. government hackers and
contractors in an
unauthorized manner, one of
whom has provided WikiLeaks
with portions of the
archive.
On a day when civil
liberties groups were
expressing alarm at the
tools the CIA has apparently
developed for using
electronic devices to spy,
the FBI director was warning
that its capacity to gather
evidence in the cyberworld
is shrinking.
Every bit of evidence that
points to great
civilizations in the
Americas contradicts a
fundamental justification
for European claims to the
new lands, terra nullius,
or “nobody’s land.” You
can’t steal property that
has no owner...
The settlers multiplied on
the lands they claimed were
empty. Wealthy Europeans
considered wheat bread and
beef to be the food of the
well-to-do and, as they
became prosperous, settlers
in the urban areas of the
Americas created a rising
demand for wheat and beef.
In North America, the demand
was met when iron plows
broke the soil of the Great
Plains.
The threat of cyber security
breaches has emerged as a
growing risk for water
utilities. Earlier this year
hackers linked to Syria
breached the security of an
American water utility and
tampered with critical
systems to control water
flow. What practical steps
can utilities take to
safeguard facilities and
customer details from cyber
security risks?
At present, our culture is
overly obsessive about
germs, cleanliness, and
hygiene. Parents are
constantly washing their
children’s hands, using
antibacterial soap, alcohol
tinged wipes or changing
them the second they have
dirt on their clothes.
I don’t know about you, but
when I was a child I liked
to make mud pies, walk
around barefoot and climb
any tree I could find.
Instinctively I craved to
immerse myself in the
natural environment.
Imagine if President
Trump, who has pledged to
rebuild America’s military,
announced tomorrow that the
United States is
reinstituting the military
draft. Think there would be
any opposition? That is just
what another country has
done: Sweden is introducing
universal military
conscription, and so far, no
one is complaining.
The decision to require
all 18-year-olds – men and
women alike – to register
for the military draft
beginning next year is a
direct result of Sweden’s
increasing nervousness about
Russia’s aggressive behavior
in Ukraine, and lately, in
and around the Baltic states
La Niña conditions are no
longer present, with
slightly below-average sea
surface temperatures (SSTs)
observed across the central
equatorial Pacific and
above-average SSTs
increasing in the eastern
Pacific...
ikiLeaks' release of
documents that provide
details of alleged CIA
hacking operations will be
investigated by federal
authorities, CNN
reports.
Citing several U.S.
officials, CNN claims the
FBI and the CIA will
coordinate their reviews of
how WikiLeaks acquired the
documents, which officials
said are in CNN's words
"largely genuine," and if
more will follow. The
officials have yet to
determine how much of the
release is accurate or if
any have been altered before
being released.
When the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant in Japan
suffered a triple meltdown
in 2011, people around the
world were understandably in
a panic about the
environmental and health
impact of the crisis.
Throughout the following
year, consistent reports of
the disaster spread across
newswires, shocking the
public with the extent of
the damage and ongoing
radioactive contamination.
Even so, the situation
gradually began to fade into
the background as years
passed and other news took
center stage. But the
problem of Fukushima hasn’t
gone away. In fact, it’s
become much more serious. In
early February of this year,
extremely high radiation
levels recorded within the
plant have brought us
face-to-face with the
reality that Fukushima
continues to be a
radioactive nightmare that
threatens our environment,
ecology and health for
generations to come.
Sales of guns and ammunition
in the United States have
dropped precipitously since
Election Day, according to
FBI statistics, trade
groups, gun shop owners and
corporate reports, what many
say is the result of
electing a president who has
vowed to protect gun rights.
Now, according to the recent
news, login credentials and
other personal data linked
to more than one Million
Yahoo and Gmail accounts are
reportedly being offered for
sale on the dark web
marketplace.
The
online accounts listed for
sale on the Dark Web
allegedly contain usernames,
emails, and plaintext
passwords. The accounts are
not from a single data
breach; instead, several
major cyber-attacks believed
to have been behind it.
I think it’s safe to say
that most teenagers have
tried and/or abused alcohol
or illegal drugs, yet teen
substance abuse rarely gets
the attention it
needs. Drugs and alcohol
have a more detrimental
effect on the underdeveloped
brain, particularly since
teens lack the ability to
adequately assess risk,
making them more likely to
overindulge in substances.
It’s this same lack that
explains why people tend to
be braver and more open to
trying new experiences as
teens than as adults. But
this courage comes at a
cost, as teens cannot
adequately assess the risks
of the substances they are
taking. And schools aren’t
doing nearly enough to
educate them.
Larry Kudlow, a top
economics adviser to the
presidential campaign of
Republican Donald Trump,
said the White House is now
leaning toward putting a
levy on imported goods.
President Trump in the past
wavered on the idea.
Public and local
authorities, as well as
owners and occupiers of
public buildings, have a
Duty of Care to ensure that
the water is safe to drink
and free from contamination
with lead leached from their
pipework.
Native women have always
been on the front lines when
it comes to defending our
world
Native women are in and have
always been on the front
lines, defending the
children, land, water,
animals and plants, which
are our traditional
relatives and medicines, and
all part of our economic and
cultural freedoms.
According to the World
Health Organization, snakes
bite an estimated 5 million
people each year, killing
more than 100,000 of those
victims and permanently
injuring hundreds of
thousands more. Current
antivenoms might not be
saving lives as efficiently
as they could be, given that
they're difficult and
expensive to produce,
distribute and administer.
Now, researchers at the
University of California,
Irvine (UCI) have developed
a synthetic alternative with
a long shelf-life that can
neutralize the venom from
several species of snakes.
New Orleans officials can
begin the process of
removing the statue of
Confederate Gen. Robert E.
Lee at Lee Circle and three
other monuments at the
center of a long-running,
city-led effort, a federal
appeals court ruled Monday
(March 6).
The surge in
crude inventories to a
record high slammed energy
stocks, leading much of Wall
Street lower, and stoked
concerns a global oil glut
may persist even as the
Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting
Countries tries to prop up
prices with output curbs.
U.S. energy
stocks .SPNY slumped 2.5
percent in their biggest
decline since mid-September.
Oroville Dam's
power plant has been
switched back on again and
has resumed releasing water
from the reservoir.
The power plant, which is
considered vital to the
state
Department of Water
Resources'
efforts to navigate the
troubled dam through a wet
spring, was turned back on
Sunday evening after a
hiatus of about 32 hours.
Water levels inside
Lake Oroville
rose about 4 feet during the
shutdown but are still well
below the top of the dam.
During her appearance on
“CBS This Morning,” the
Democratic lawmaker slammed
President Donald Trump for
his allegation that former
President Barack Obama
ordered wiretapping against
him during the presidential
campaign.
However, it was
Pelosi’s false assertion
that FBI Director James
Comey had “spoken out”
publicly against Trump’s
claim — and the CBS anchors’
decision not to correct her
— that was most curious.
Is it wrong
to hack back
in order to
counter
hacking
attack when
you have
become a
victim? —
this has
been a long
time debate.
While many countries,
including the United States,
consider hacking back
practices as illegal, many
security firms and experts
believe it as "a terrible
idea" and officially
"cautions" victims against
it, even if they use it as a
part of an active defense
strategy
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (10 Mar, 11
Mar, 12 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
unsettled levels on days
one, two, and three (10 Mar,
11 Mar, 12 Mar).
There have been many
attempts to modify this
stubborn little enzyme. But
none have succeeded, until
now. With new findings from
Chalmers the enzyme FAS has
started to produce
sustainable chemicals for
biofuels.
We are in great need of
sustainable and clean
alternatives to oil-derived
products. One of the choices
at hand is to produce
chemicals and biofuels from
sustainable biomass.
Minority Leader Chuck
Schumer and the Democrats
continue to snub President
Trump by slowing down Senate
confirmation of his Cabinet
appointments. Their
underlying goal is to allow
remaining Obama-appointed
bureaucrats to do as much
damage to the Trump
administration as they can
before leaving
Imagine this: the
government, for reasons you
don't know, thinks you're a
spy. You go on vacation and,
while you're away,
government agents secretly
enter your home, search it,
make copies of all your
electronic devices, and
leave. Those agents then
turn those devices upside
down, looking through
decades worth of your files,
photos, and online activity
saved on your devices. They
don't find any evidence that
you're a spy, but they find
something else—evidence of
another, totally unrelated
crime. You're arrested,
charged, and ultimately
convicted, yet you're never
allowed to see what prompted
the agents to think you were
a spy in the first place.
The resolution targeting the
contractor regulation,
dubbed the “blacklisting
rule” by critics, is a part
of a larger Republican
effort to use the CRA to
rollback a swath of federal
regulations finalized in the
last seven months of the
Obama administration.
Jeff Sessions, the U.S.
Attorney General, said he is
open to appointing an
outside counsel to probe
President Barack Obama's
Justice Department or those
who worked at the Internal
Revenue Service during his
tenu
Saudi, Russian
ministers try to assuage
worry about US shale
growth
US output estimated
to grow as much as
600,000 b/d this year
Global supply crunch
looms amid decline in
investments
While the mood this week
at CERAWeek by IHS Markit in
Houston seemed distinctly
more bullish than last year
when global oil prices
hovered just above $30/b,
there was also an
undercurrent of anxiety that
the stability in the market
of the past two months would
be short-lived.
For those who don't pay much
attention to the wizardry
going on inside their
computer, hard disk drives
store data magnetically, as
a series of tiny magnetic
dots on a sheet of metal.
Each dot represents one bit
of data: a demagnetized dot
represents a zero, and if
it's magnetized, it's a one.
Although they're already
pretty small, IBM's new
research could shrink these
data-storing units down from
about 100,000 atoms each to
just one.
A typical automobile tire is
composed of about 30 percent
carbon black, which is a
filler that adds durability
to the rubber. Carbon black
is petroleum-based, however,
meaning that it isn't
entirely eco-friendly to
manufacture. That's why Ohio
State University scientists
led by Katrina Cornish have
been experimenting with a
"greener" and more
readily-available
alternative – namely egg
shells and tomato skins.
But what must we do
“first” and “second”? From a
physician’s perspective,
“first” is to make the
diagnosis. “Second” is to
remove the cause of the
ailment if possible. And
that means to drain the
swamp.
Unfortunately, Trump’s
“first” is to “ensure
that Americans with
pre-existing conditions have
access to coverage” and
“second” to “help Americans
purchase their own coverage,
through the use of tax
credits….”
Plants are blooming early
across the country as a
result of this winter’s
ongoing record warmth, which
many connect to climate
change. And some fear that
an impending freeze could
destroy countless fruit
flowers and wreak havoc on
the industry.
It certainly seems like
America’s farmers can’t get
a break. Over the last few
years they endured
a record-breaking drought in
the largest agricultural
region, California’s central
valley. Now, California is
wet (though still in
drought), but another
potential threat looms after
the recent warm spell across
the Midwest and East Coast.
Utilities added more than
27 GW of generating capacity
to the U.S. power grid in
2016, which is the largest
jump in new capacity since
2012.
The study from the U.S.
Energy Information
Administration said the
additions more than doubled
the retirement of nearly 12
GW of capacity. The
resulting 15 GW capacity
gain is the largest change
since 2011, and follows a
net decrease of 4GW in 2015.
A U.S. judge on Tuesday
ruled against Native
American tribes seeking to
stop the Dakota Access
Pipeline as their legal
options narrow weeks before
oil is set to flow on the
project.
Judge James
Boasberg of the U.S.
District Court for the
District of Columbia
rejected the tribes' request
for an injunction to
withdraw permission issued
by the Army Corps for the
last link of the oil
pipeline under Lake Oahe in
North Dakota.
Energy Transfer
Partners LP (ETP.N)
is building the $3.8 billion
pipeline to move crude from
the Northern Plains to the
Midwest and then on to the
Gulf of Mexico.
Iowa,
South Dakota,
Kansas, Oklahoma
and
North Dakota all
sourced more than 20 percent
of their electricity
generation from wind power
during 2016, according to
new data from the U.S.
Energy Information
Administration
(EIA). It shows wind
supplied over 5.5 percent of
electricity nationwide, up
from 4.7 percent in 2015.
A warming climate is
exposing the Arctic to the
possibility of radical
changes that could affect
the rest of the planet,
scientists say
If the world fails to slow
the pace of climate change
very soon by cutting
emissions of the greenhouse
gases that are heating the
planet, Arctic tipping
points threaten to overwhelm
the region, new research
reveals.
So-called safe drinking
water supplies coming out of
our household taps are now
proven to contain industrial
chemicals and
pharmaceuticals linked to
toxicity, developmental
problems, tumour growth and
hormonal disruptions. One
glass of tap water now
contains hundreds of
contaminants that are not
filtered through federally
approved guidelines which
monitor safety standards
servicing millions of
people.
Excreted and flushed through
our sewage works and
waterways, drug molecules
are all around us. A recent
analysis of freshwater
streams in the United States
detected an entire pharmacy
of drugs: diabetic meds,
muscle relaxants, opioids,
antibiotics, antidepressants
and more. Drugs have even
been found in crops
irrigated by treated waste
water.
A record 16 out of 100
Navy women are reassigned
from ships to shore duty due
to pregnancy, according to
data obtained under the
Freedom of Information Act
by The Daily Caller News
Foundation’s Investigative
Group.
That number is up 2
percent from 2015,
representing hundreds more
who have to cut their
deployments short, taxing
both their unit’s manpower,
military budgets and combat
readiness. Further, such
increases cast a shadow over
the lofty gender integration
goals set by former
President Barack Obama.
A former volunteer for
Hillary Clinton and Barack
Obama is in a lot of hot
water after tweeting a very
dismissive and insulting
tweet about Carryn Owens,
the widow of U.S. Navy SEAL
William “Ryan” Owens, who
was applauded at President
Trump’s address Tuesday.
The emotional moment was
praised on all sides as one
of the most remarkable in
recent political history,
but Dan Grilo believed it
was a good idea to snipe at
the widow and do it publicly
on his social media account.
A significant, years-long
oil supply crunch may be
approaching due to
insufficient investment in
exploration and production,
Hess CEO John Hess said
Monday at IHS CERAWeek.
"As an industry we're
not investing enough for
supply growth to keep up
with demand growth," Hess
said.
One of the five main islands
in the South Pacific that
make up American Samoa, Ta’u
is very isolated, boasting
just under 600 residents.
The island has historically
shipped in everything they
can’t grow, including the
fuel that powers their
electricity system.
Global oil demand is "not
peaking" and will grow by
7.3 million b/d through
2022, Fatih Birol, executive
director of the
International Energy Agency,
said Monday.
During a
news conference at IHS
CERAWeek, Birol said that
China and India represent
roughly half of that growing
demand, but said without a
20% increase in global
upstream investment the
world market will
dramatically tighten before
the end of the decade.
An illegal immigrant in
Jackson, Mississippi, who
had just delivered a speech
at a news conference
Wednesday to voice her fears
about deportation, was
detained by U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement only
moments later.
As millions of Americans
file their income tax
returns, their chances of
getting audited by the IRS
have rarely been so low.
The number of people
audited by the IRS in 2016
year dropped for the sixth
straight year, to just over
1 million. The last time so
few people were audited was
2004. Since then, the U.S.
has added about 30 million
people.
Mexico opened
legal aid centers at its 50
consulates across the United
States on Saturday to defend
its citizens, the Mexican
government said, amid
worries of a crackdown on
illegal immigration under
U.S. President Donald Trump.
Foreign Minister
Luis Videgaray exhorted the
U.S. government to respect
the rights of Mexicans and
called for the United States
to allow a path to legality
for undocumented migrants.
"President Trump's claim
that his predecessor bugged
Trump Tower during the
election has sent the media
into fits, wondering where
on earth he could've gotten
such an idea," an editorial
in the Post said. "But it's
all-too-obvious why Trump
would be suspicious."
And the newspaper added:
"Officials (likely Obama-era
holdovers) have broken the
law and leaked what they
hoped would be damaging
info. Groups tied to Obama
have stirred up angry
protests against Trump and
other Republicans."
A Wisconsin family had no
idea that when they
decided to sell a small
piece of land in 2004 that
they would find themselves
battling the federal
government more than a
decade later over the right
to sell their own property.
A 74-year-old Vietnam-era
U.S. Army veteran could face
federal criminal charges for
displaying American flags
and taking pictures outside
a veterans park.
While Sessions and Lynch’s
circumstances might seem
virtually the same in terms
of possible conflicts of
interest, Pelosi insisted
Thursday that “there
couldn’t be a starker
difference between the two.
Solar activity is expected
to be very low on days one,
two, and three (07 Mar, 08
Mar, 09 Mar). The
geomagnetic field is
expected to be at quiet to
active levels on day one (07
Mar) and quiet to unsettled
levels on days two and three
(08 Mar, 09 Mar).
Oilfield costs that are set
to rise in the energy
industry are a test for
upstream company managers as
they seek to remain
profitable at crude prices
that persist at relatively
low levels, chief executives
of two top international oil
companies said Monday.
Russian hackers are
targeting U.S. progressive
groups in a new wave of
attacks, scouring the
organizations’ emails for
embarrassing details and
attempting to extract hush
money, according to two
people familiar with probes
being conducted by the FBI
and private security firms.
wo engineers from the
University of Colorado have
developed a new roof or wall
cooling material that
resembles a shrink wrap and
does not need power or
water.
Liberal actress Sarah
Silverman riled up social
media users on Monday when
she said that she decided
not to have children because
she chose to “live her
fullest life” instead. When
she received sharp criticism
for implying that motherhood
prevented women from being
able to live their “fullest
lives,” she doubled down and
offered an explanation for
why she believed that was
exactly the case.
...Apollo
missions might indeed have
been faked or even
“refurbished.” Many
insiders have also accused
NASA of doing things like
this, but, based on the
information we have from
sources like these, and many
others, it seems the problem
is not that we didn’t get to
the moon, but rather what we
found — and concealed from
the public — when we got
there.
Work to varying degrees has
always been a necessity for
humans to varying degrees,
depending on the times.
Before and until the
Industrial Revolution
(1760-1830), human toil was
needed to produce food,
shelter and clothing. The
need for and quantity of
work was driven by the
desire for a more
comfortable life. The
comfortable life benchmark
was determined by a
combination of both societal
and individual expectations.
The announcement was made on
FedBizOpps.gov, a US
government website reserved
for posting governmental
business opportunities
available to the private
sector. The pre-announcement
of the bidding process was
posted on February 24.
Astronomers in the UK have
found new evidence that
black holes tear stars apart
100 times more often than
previously thought. These
stellar-swallowing
smorgasbords, scientifically
known as tidal disruption
events (TDEs), were thought
to happen only every 10,000
to 100,000 years, but a
recent discovery has
researchers from the
University of Sheffield
rethinking that rate of
occurrence.
As Korea speeds along with
the deployment of the
U.S.-led Terminal High
Altitude Area Defense
(Thaad) system by sealing a
land deal with Lotte Group
to acquire a golf course in
Seongju County, North
Gyeongsang, Beijing is
threatening diplomatic,
economic and possibly
military retaliation.
One of its
stamps lasts forever, but
the future of the U.S.
Postal Service? Less clear.
The "Forever"
stamp turns 10 years old in
March. That's about how long
the postal service has faced
declining mail volumes and a
growing mountain of debt.
Mail volume is now at a
29-year low, and for the
past 10 years, USPS recorded
annual losses as high as
$15.9 billion. Last year, it
tallied a $5.6 billion loss.
The popularity of this
content and resulting change
in public opinion show we
are in a very unique time,
one where mainstream media
can’t simply bully their way
into everyone’s minds like
they once could...
[We believe that is exactly
what we've beem doing
here...since 2004]
ArizonaEnergy Editor
Scientists have discovered
what they say could be
fossils of some of the
earliest living organisms on
Earth.
They are represented by
tiny filaments, knobs and
tubes in Canadian rocks
dated to be up to 4.28
billion years old.
That is a time not long
after the planet's formation
and hundreds of millions of
years before what is
currently accepted as
evidence for the most
ancient life yet found on
Earth.
To begin with all data
analytics processes start
with a basic truism –
garbage in, garbage out. If
the data being analyzed is
not accurate and
representative of the world,
then it’s not useful. This
concept seems simple, but it
is often forgotten.
When you put your bare
feet on the ground, you
absorb large amounts of
negative electrons
through the soles of
your feet
These free electrons act
as antioxidants in your
body and help to reduce
chronic inflammation,
the root of many chronic
diseases
Through the simple act
of walking barefoot on
the Earth and making a
point to stay grounded
when you’re indoors, it
may be possible to
thwart chronic diseases
and even slow aging
The widespread availability
of drones has always carried
the increased risk of them
falling into the wrong
hands. And forces battling
Islamic State terrorists are
now seeing this play out in
very real and dangerous
ways. As more reports emerge
of the group using
weaponized consumer drones
to strike allied forces, one
unnamed Middle Eastern
government is bringing in a
high-tech solution, the
long-range Dronegun that can
ground unmanned aircraft
from kilometers away.
The city that endangered
residents by serving up
lead-contaminated water will
soon resume a controversial
practice designed to compel
delinquent customers to pay
up: water shutoffs.
G1 (Minor) geomagnetic storm
levels are likely for 01-02
March due to effects from a
recurrent, negative polarity
coronal hole high speed
stream. Check back here for
updated information.
One of the most
beneficial wavelengths
of light is the
near-infrared (810 to
830 nm), which
penetrates deep into
your body and has many
biological effects.
Far-infrared is absorbed
by water, which is why
it cannot penetrate as
deeply
Far-infrared exerts
biological effects
primarily by altering
protein structures,
mediated by
nanostructured water
Near-infrared primarily
targets the cytochrome c
oxidase in the
mitochondria, causing
dissociation of nitric
oxide and increasing
electron transport and
ATP synthesis
Governors and state
legislators say they are
running out of money again,
and many are demanding tax
hikes to close budget gaps.
Here we go again. The cycle
in state capitals from
Albany to Sacramento is
always the same: spend when
times are good, tax when
times are bad, and repeat.
More than half the states
are facing big deficits this
year, and they are mostly
blue states like California,
Connecticut, Delaware,
Illinois, New York, and
Oregon. Wait. These are the
highest tax states with some
of the deepest pools of red
ink. There’s got to be a
message here.
U.S. home prices rose in
December from a year earlier
at the fastest pace in 11
months, as prospective
buyers bid against each
other for a limited supply
of available property.
When it comes to animal
welfare, vegan leather is a
big win, but its
environmental impact has
been heavily questioned,
with many wondering which is
worse for the planet — real
or faux leather. Though
every manufactured product
comes with an environmental
cost, there are many aspects
involved in every phase of
the production of both
leather and faux leather
that must be considered.
More than 700 of the 4,000
native bee species in North
America and Hawaii are
believed to be inching
toward extinction due to
increased pesticide use
leading to habitat loss, a
scientific study showed on
Wednesday.
At a time of drastic
political change, one thing
seems unhappily consistent.
The country’s drinking water
keeps running into problems.
And the two have seemed
to go hand-in-hand at
times...
In what either amounts to
a sign that things must now
change, a mere payment of
lip-service to the country’s
concerns, or something in
between, the U.S. EPA
released a “national call to
action” imploring regulators
and utilities to redouble
their efforts to improve the
safety of drinking water.
Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani and Turkey's
President Tayyip Erdogan
agreed on Wednesday to
improve ties, including in
the fight against terrorism,
Iran's state news agency
IRNA said, following some
angry exchanges between the
regional rivals.
Tehran and
Ankara support opposite
sides in the conflict in
Syria. Largely Shi’ite
Muslim Iran backs the
government of President
Bashar al-Assad, while
Turkey, which is majority
Sunni, has backed elements
of the Syrian opposition.
You may have heard that
mammograms, the tests that
are commonly used to detect
breast cancer, can actually
increase the risk cancer.
Well, you’re not wrong! Yet,
these breast screenings are
considered to be the most
effective form of detecting
breast cancer, at least
according to the Center For
Disease Control (CDC).
But cameras captured top
Democrat Reps. Keith Ellison
(D-Minn.), Nancy Pelosi
(D-Calif.), and Debbie
Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.)
staying firmly seated,
seemingly emotionless, and
refusing to clap for Owens.
In the mid-1970s,
government entities
started requiring
manufacturers to treat
certain household items
with flame-retardant
chemicals called
organophosphates, but
these were found to be
carcinogenic
Two commonly used
organophosphates, TDCIPP
and TPHP, have shown up
in Americans’ urine, and
the former was 17 times
higher in adults in 2015
than it was in 2002
Fertility problems,
hormonal changes,
problems with thyroid
regulation and
neurological disorders
are serious problems
caused by
flame-retardant
exposure, and children
are among those at
greatest risk
In a rush to get
medications to market,
the FDA approves drugs
that haven’t
demonstrated
effectiveness,
increasing
pharmaceutical profits
and sparking a unique
marketing ploy for a
cancer tool
Consuming a ketogenic
diet has demonstrated
scientific effectiveness
in prevention and
treatment of cancer,
reduction of
hypertension, improved
cognition and treatment
of diabetes
Raising your vitamin D
serum levels to 40 ng/ml
may reduce your risk of
all invasive cancers by
as much as 67 percent.
Vitamin D influences
virtually every cell in
your body and is crucial
to reduce your risk of
cancer
The National Parks Service
has predicted when
everyone’s favorite trees
will reach peak bloom
For a fleeting period
each year, D.C.’s beloved
cherry blossom trees sprout
arresting cascades of
fluffy, pink flowers. The
average date for the trees’
peak bloom is April 1, but
this year’s blooming period
may be just around the
corner. The National Parks
Service has predicted that
D.C.’s cherry blossoms will
reach peak bloom between
March 14-17.
Although good science should
always be reviewed, using
this label as a form of
credibility can be
dangerous, causing people to
dismiss new information and
research instantaneously if
it doesn’t have it,
particularly when that
information counters
long-held beliefs ingrained
into human consciousness via
mass marketing, education,
and more.
A group of 63 police chiefs
and sheriffs from around the
country, who formed a Law
Enforcement Immigration Task
Force in 2015, has issued a
letter saying they do not
want their officers acting
as federal immigration
officers and they do not
want to lose federal funding
if their cities and counties
are defined as immigrant
“sanctuaries.”
President Donald Trump’s
address to the Joint Session
of Congress last night
perfectly expressed his
vision of American
greatness. The speech was
dignified, unifying,
nonpartisan, and clear.
It was simply the best
speech Trump has given
either as a candidate or
as president
Residents in a Minneapolis
neighborhood are fighting
back against a “historic
neighborhood” designation
that prevents them from
making necessary repairs to
their homes.
In the fall of 2007 more
than one quarter of the st
ate of Georgia found itself
experiencing a D4, or
exceptional, drought – the
highest level on the drought
scale. As conditions
worsened in the northern
third of the state,
including the Atlanta metro
area, water levels dipped
dangerously low in Lake
Lanier, the main water
source for more than three
million people in the
region.
When it comes to SpaceX
sending people into space
within the near future, we
generally think of the
company's Crew Dragon
spacecraft taking astronauts
to the International Space
Station (ISS). In an
announcement made this
Monday, however, it was
revealed that SpaceX plans
to fly a couple of paying
customers around the moon
late next year.
Seth Jones, who is Te-Moak
Western Shoshone, doesn’t
just make stone blade
knives, he uses them. He
also likes to know that
people who acquire them will
put them into service. “I
don’t want to think of my
knives sitting on a shelf,”
he said. The items are
practical, with blades that
can be sharpened or
replaced. If he needs a
knife and happens not to
have one with him, he makes
one.
Much like its predecessor –
the T6.140 Methane Power –
the latest New Holland
tractor is just a prototype,
designed to raise awareness
about the potential of
alternative fuel for
farmers. At the moment,
that vehicle is touring
farms in Brazil, where the
company is subjecting it to
a set of tests exploring how
effective bio-methane could
be compared to diesel.
On the very day President
Donald Trump’s
incentive-based tax and
regulatory policies are put
in place, Barack Obama’s war
on business will have
officially come to an end.
No longer will American
companies be punished by
uncompetitive rates of
taxation and unnecessary
rules and regulations.
The anti-fascist group at
Clemson University has been
openly promoting violence
and destruction on campus
against what they are
calling “fascists,” and
“Nazis,” causing many
students to worry for their
own safety.
According to Campus
Reform, an Antifa group
calling itself “Upstate
Antifa” had posted Clemson
University campus in South
Carolina with fliers bearing
a picture of a fist punching
a swastika, with the message
“Fighting fascism is a
social duty, not an
anti-social crime.”
A new
report in Venezuela details
the government’s plan to
increase censorship of the
media through various
tactics, including the use
of the Bolivarian National
Armed Forces
Prager U, the
conservative/libertarian
educational video makers
have once again hit it out
of the ballpark with a new
video discussing the rights
of Americans to own
firearms.