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Modern wheat a "perfect, chronic poison," doctor says - Video
Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505269_162-57505149/modern-wheat-a-perfect-chronic-poison-doctor-says/
(CBS News) Modern wheat is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world's most popular grain.
PermalinkPledge to Resist Fracking: Writer-Biologist Sandra Steingraber Issues a Call for Action and a Warning to the Gas Industry
I choose to belong to a vision of an unfractured New York that turns its back on 19th century thinking and death-dealing fossil fuels and leads the world in the creation of a clean energy economy.
Brazil orders Nestlé to label GM products
A court in Brazil has ordered Nestlé to impose mandatory labelling for all its products in the country highlighting more than 1% genetically modified (GM) ingredients.
Uncorking the Lid on the Preparedness Test
Link: http://www.backdoorsurvival.com/index.php/2012/08/25/uncorking-the-lid-on-the-preparedness-test/
8. Do you know where the main gas shut-off valve to your house is located?
IF AN EMERGENCY LASTED FOR THREE DAYS ( 72 HOURS) BEFORE HELP WAS AVAILABLE TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY:
17. Would you have sufficient food?
18. Would you have the means to cook food without gas and electricity?
19. Would you have sufficient water for drinking, cooking, and sanitary needs?
25. Do you have emergency cash on hand? (During emergencies banks and ATMs are closed)
28. Do you have a plan for toilet facilities if there is an extended water shortage?
Survey shows continuing hunger across US as Congress prepares to cut food stamps
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/food-a25.shtml
A Gallup poll released this past week shows the tens of millions of American families continue to face the threat of hunger. The “food hardship” statistics are based on surveys conducted with more than 177,000 US adults during the first six months of 2012, as part of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
Serious Vision Problems and Eye Disease Climbing Rapidly in U.S.
Link: http://naturalsociety.com/vision-problems-eye-diseases-scary-rise-us/
Interestingly, these eye diseases have something in common: a dietary link. In other words, these vision problems and conditions are largely preventable, especially diabetic retinopathy, which stems from a complication of the lifestyle disease diabetes. Proper diabetes management or even reversal through diet could completely prevent this frequent cause of loss of vision.
Monsanto’s Top 7 Lies About GMO Labeling and Proposition 37
Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/08/monsantos-top-7-lies-about-gmo-labeling.html
Due to the near future voting on November 6, 2012 for California’s Proposition 37, there has been a lot of heat going back and forth concerning GMO foods. Up until now, 10′s of million of dollars have been funneled into the opposing side of the bill, with biotechnology giant Monsanto dishing out a whopping $4.2 million alone. Monsanto has even recently published a page on their site titled ”Taking a Stand: Proposition 37, The California Labeling Proposal,” where the GMO giant attempts to logically explain why it is against GMO labeling.
A Single Piece of Radioactive Food Is Comparable to ‘Hundreds of X-Rays’
Link: http://naturalsociety.com/radioactive-food-hundreds-x-rays/
A Single Piece of Radioactive Food Is Comparable to Hundreds of X RaysAs you likely are aware, x-ray imaging scans have increasingly been linked in peer-reviewed scientific literature to an increased risk of cancer — particularly in children. Dental x-rays, for example, have actually been linked to a twofold increase in brain cancer. It is therefore quite shocking to consider a new report which states that radioactive food (food contaminated with radiation from Fukushima or others sources) consumption is comparable to receiving hundreds of x-rays.
US keeps importing fishery food from Japan even after 311
Link: http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/us-keeps-importing-fishery-food-from-japan-even-after-311/
Some of the east Asian countries are rejecting Japanese products to import, such as fishery products or dairy products. (cf. JP exports of dairy products dropped half since 311, HK Gov to conduct medical check for infants) However, US is still importing fishery products from Japan as before. In May, they measured cesium even from their local bluefin tuna. It seems like fish is easier to enter America than human beings. (cf. Cesium from tuna fished in west coast of America)
Synthetic artificial butter flavoring chemical promotes development of Alzheimer's disease
Link: http://www.naturalnews.com/036784_artificial_butter_flavor_Alzheimers_popcorn.html
We are exposed to dangerous chemical compounds every day from a variety of household and environmental sources as well as from most processed foods. Extensive research has shown that these synthetic compounds promote the development and progression of diseases such as cancer, heart disease and dementia.
Biologist on Mutated Butterflies: Study is overwhelming in its implications for humans
Japan Researcher: Insects were believed to be very resistant to radiation — Irregularly developed eyes, malformed antennae, much smaller wings (PHOTO)
Chemical Apocalypse Causes Genetic Damage To Children
Link: http://www.wakingtimes.com/2012/08/06/chemical-apocalypse-causes-genetic-damage-to-children/
“Red alert for humanity: Chemical damage can be inherited by offspring through unlimited generations”[1]
Romney will fight medical marijuana ‘tooth and nail’ - Video
Link: http://www.infowars.com/romney-will-fight-medical-marijuana-tooth-and-nail/
Romney just told patients who use medical marijuana who to vote for. In an appearance at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, Romney made it clear that if he is elected president he will not legalize medical marijuana, despite the fact that people rely on the medicine each day for wellness and to alleviate chronic illness.
Hundreds of Medical Marijuana Supporters Protest Obama in Oakland as Feds Escalate War on Pot
Hundreds of supporters of President Obama turned out to see him at Oakland’s Fox Theater on Monday afternoon. They lined up for blocks along Telegraph Avenue for the opportunity to see President Obama as he traveled from one fundraising event to another. Before the First Motorcade passed them, a march of several hundred people instructed them variously to “Smoke weed every day,” “Stop the madness, spark a spliff,” and demand that their candidate keep his promise.
Doctors’ Warning: American Academy of Environmental Medicine Recommends Patients Avoid Smart Meter Radiation
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM), an “international association of physicians and other professionals interested in the clinical aspects of humans and their environment,” today released recommendations for patients with a broad array of illnesses and symptoms to avoid exposure to digital smart meters now being deployed internationally by governments and utilities.
Obama Attempts to Seize Property of Largest Medical Cannabis Dispensary
Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/07/obama-attacks-largest-medical-cannabis.html
Cannabis is becoming widely recognized for its diverse medical uses, and the trend toward marijuana legalization is clearly on the rise. But someone forgot to tell the Obama administration.
Superbugs found in chicken causing antibiotic-resistant bladder infections linked to EIGHT MILLION women
The roughly eight million women developing bladder infections in the United States every year may be getting a form of the illness resistant to antibiotics from the chicken they buy at the grocery store.
Will Congress Let Monsanto Write Its Own Rules?
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kimbrell/will-congress-let-monsant_b_1663890.html
The agricultural biotech industry -- well, let's call it what it really is: the chemical industry -- has gone on the offensive as never before with a set of slippery policy riders to the House Farm Bill. It's a new low even for an industry that has spent years and tens of millions of lobbying dollars trying to dismantle the basic safeguards that stand between a regulated, healthy food supply and the profit margins chemical industry executives pine for. If passed, these riders would undermine the few laws that are currently in place to protect farmers' rights, our health and our environment from the many adverse impacts of genetically engineered (GE) crops.
They Want To Sterilize American Women: Sterilization Won't Cost Women A Penny Under Obamacare
Did you know that sterilization will not cost women a penny under Obamacare? A new regulation that goes into effect on August 1st requires that health plans cover sterilization for all women with "reproductive capacity". That includes teenage girls. According to the new regulation, women must have access to sterilization "without having to pay a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible." So women will not have to pay a single penny out of pocket if they want to get sterilized.
Hope is for the Lazy: The Challenge of Our Dead World
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/07/10-5
our world is not broken, it is dead. We are alive, if we chose to be, but the hierarchical systems of exploitation that structure the world in which we live -- patriarchy, capitalism, nationalism, white supremacy, and the industrial model -- all are dead. It’s not just that they cannot be reformed, but that they cannot, and should not, be revived. The death-worship at the heart of those ideologies is exhausting us and the world, and the systems are running down.
Monsanto’s Cloned Growth Hormone rBST Still Contaminates US Milk
Link: http://naturalsociety.com/monsantos-growth-hormone-rbst-us-milk/
Monsantos Cloned Growth Hormone rBST Still Contaminates US MilkBreast-feeding mothers are often cautioned against eating and drinking certain things; it’s because some of these things can find their way into their breast milk and then their baby. Wouldn’t it make sense, then, that some of the hormones and antibiotics given to dairy cattle would make their way into your milk carton? One hormone, recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST, is given to about 20% of dairy cattle in the United States, having unknown effects on individuals
Factory-Fed Fish: Monsanto and Cargill's Plan for the Ocean
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/02-2
Industrial food model and soy-based aquaculture a disaster for fish, environment.
Once grown, the soy feed continues its adverse effects. Not being the natural food for fish, the farmed fish excrete more waste, which pollutes the open waters. In addition, some of these soy-fed fish will escape and breed with wild fish, affecting natural populations. Excess feed will escape as well, causing unknown damage to wild populations.
Message from Rio: Unite and Survive
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/30-4
“The problem goes beyond parties and politicians. It’s the system . . . . All our politicians are in the pocket of elites who own, lobby, litigate, bully and bribe their way into every element of our lives. Even single cell organisms unite and fight for survival when their species is threatened.”
WTO Not So COOL: Rules Against Popular U.S. Meat Labeling Law
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/30-5
The World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a final ruling today against the U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. This popular pro-consumer policy, which informs shoppers where meat and other foods were raised or grown, enjoys the support of 93% of Americans, according to a 2010 Consumers Union poll. Now Congress must gut or change the law to avoid the application of punitive trade sanctions.
89,000 Children in Pennsylvania Lose Medicaid
Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/06/30-3
Since August 2011, 89,000 children in Pennsylvania have lost their Medicaid coverage, including many with life-threatening illnesses who were mistakenly deemed ineligible. The state currently hasn’t a clue whether many of these children have any healthcare coverage at all.
US Supreme Court upholds Obama’s health care law
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/supr-j29.shtml
In a 5-4 US Supreme Court decision released on Thursday, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined with the nominally liberal wing of the high court to uphold key provisions of the Obama administration-backed health care legislation. The decision maintains the pro-corporate provisions of the bill, including the “individual mandate” to purchase insurance from private insurers. At the same time, the court undermined the key constitutional arguments used to support corporate regulations. It also ruled that the federal government cannot withdraw existing Medicaid funding from states that decide not to participate in an expansion of eligibility for the program.
13 Reasons Why The Revolution Might Start with Obamacare.
Has any of the Supreme Court Justices read the Constitution lately? I can say five of the justices will have to be held accountable for how they ruled. There is no reason why Obama care should be ruled Constitutional. Many Americans read the Constitution and know with no doubt what is said in simple terms. The Constitution was meant to be understood by the common person. It is not complicated to understand. It does not take a Harvard Law Degree to understand with clarity what the Constitution says about Obamacare. Only lawyers can screw it up with their own twisted thinking and word manipulation to stretch the meaning beyond the intent.
Gundersen: “I’ve heard numbers as high as 2 million may die of cancer” because of Fukushima - Video
Link: http://enenews.com/gundersen-ive-heard-numbers-high-2-million-die-cancer-because-fukushima-video
Included in this presentation and PowerPoint is a discussion of how nuclear power plants work, how to cool a reactor during an accident, the effect of hot particles when inhaled, and concerns involving the long-term storage of nuclear waste. This presentation took place at the Nuclear Power Conference held at the University of Vermont July 23, 2011.
Can Blood Tests Detect Cancer? Vitamin D Tests can Long Before Tumor Development
Link: http://naturalsociety.com/can-blood-tests-detect-cancer-vitamin-d-tests/#ixzz1yxSJj5Ta
Can Blood Tests Detect Cancer? Vitamin D Tests can Long Before Tumor DevelopmentCan blood tests detect cancer? Dr. Cedric Garland of the University of California- San Diego has been working on the relationship between Vitamin D deficiency and cancer for years. What he has found, but what’s remained quiet among mainstream medicine, could revolutionize cancer detection, prevention and treatment.
How Monsanto Is Sabotaging Efforts to Label Genetically Modified Food
Lobbyists from the biotech industry are ardently opposing GMO labeling. As the 2012 Farm Bill continues to take shape in the halls of the United States Congress, the immense influence of corporate interests is on display. On June 21 the United States Senate voted overwhelmingly against the Sanders Amendment that would have allowed states to pass legislation that required food and beverage products to label whether or not they contain genetically engineered ingredients.
German court rules religious circumcision on boys an assault
BERLIN — Circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, a German court ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision that the Jewish community said trampled on parents' religious rights. The regional court in Cologne, western Germany, ruled that the "fundamental right of the child to bodily integrity outweighed the fundamental rights of the parents", a judgement that is expected to set a legal precedent.
Cyanide in biotech grass blamed for mass cattle death
Link: http://now.msn.com/now/0623-cows-dying-cyanide-GMO.aspx
Hippies and whole food advocates may be experiencing a moment of vindication because experts are blaming a mass cattle death on genetically modified grass. The herd began bellowing, convulsing and dropping dead en masse about three weeks ago at a ranch in Texas, and a preliminary report said the genetically modified form of Bermuda grass called Tifton 85 had suddenly begun producing cyanide gas that poisoned the cattle. Hippies?
Japan’s nuclear restart
Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2012/jun2012/pers-j23.shtml
The Japanese government’s rush to reactivate the country’s nuclear reactors underscores the threat posed by the capitalist profit system to the safety, health and lives of the world’s population. Just a little more than a year since the March 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster—the second worst in world history—Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s administration has ordered the re-opening of two reactors at Oi, on Japan’s western shore. The decision was clearly driven by the demands of big business, including the energy conglomerates, overriding public opposition and basic safety concerns.
6 Easily Avoidable Health Hazards in Your Home
Link: http://naturalsociety.com/6-easily-avoided-health-hazards-in-your-home/
6 Easily Avoidable Health Hazards in Your HomeIt seems as if everything these days needs to come with a warning label. But many of the things we know to be bad for us are marketed as perfectly safe. When you take your health and safety into your own hands, you have to dedicate some serious time to researching the relevant topics and taking meaningful steps towards better health by avoiding health hazards.
The 2012 Dirty Dozen Plus and the Clean 15: When Buying Organic Does (and Doesn't) Make Sense
Link: http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/2012-dirty-dozen-plus-clean-15-buying-organic-000700620.html
[Apples are one fruit you should buy organic whenever possible, according to an environmental group.] Apples are one fruit you should buy organic whenever possible, according to an environmental group.Worried about pesticides and produce? Wondering if it's worth it to go organic? The Environmental Working Group has released its 2012 guide to the most- and least-contaminated crops out there -- its "Dirty Dozen" and "Clean 15" lists -- and this year there are a few new items to watch out for, including certain types of baby food.
Water in blockaded Gaza ‘not fit for human consumption’
Link: http://www.rt.com/news/water-dangerous-contaminated-gaza-909/
The water in Gaza is too dangerous to drink as it is contaminated with fertilizers and sewage, says a new report. Several charitable organizations have called on Israel to immediately lift its blockade to allow crucial sanitation equipment in.
U.S. targets landlords in fight against medical pot
Link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/14/us-usa-marijuana-landlords-idUSBRE85D0JA20120614
Federal prosecutors are targeting medical marijuana shops in California, seeking forfeiture of the properties in which they do business.
Sen. Sanders: Consumers should know if food is genetically modified
Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Thursday introduced an amendment to the farm bill that would give states the power to label genetically modified food. “I personally believe, and I think most Americans believe, that when a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is feeding her child,” he said on the Senate floor.
Financial Incentives: Radiation Exposure ‘Soaring’ As Medical Imaging Tests Overused
Just after it was released that CT scan radiation actually triples the risk of brain tumor development in children, new research is now ousting the fact that average radiation exposure from such medical imaging tests has skyrocketed over the past decade. And the result of this admittedly ‘excessive radiation’ is an increased risk of not only cancer, but other significant health conditions.
Nuclear Engineer Identifies Mechanism for Potential Catastrophic Drain Down of Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool
Nuclear engineer identifies ‘weakest link’ at Unit No. 4 — “Potential catastrophic drain down” of fuel pool. During a review of events concerning the status of Fukushima Unit 4, nuclear engineer Chris Harris identified the “weakest link” which may initiate a spent fuel pool draindown event. A major portion of the water in the Fukushima Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool remains over the Fuel because of the, “Refueling Bulkhead and Bellows” Seal (see drawing above).
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