Friday
- October 30, 2015 -
Today in History:
1735 - John Adams, the second President of the United States, was born
in Braintree, MA. His son became the sixth President of the U.S.
1831 - Escaped slave Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County,
VA, several weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in American
history.
1875 - The constitution of Missouri was ratified by popular vote.
1893 - The U.S. Senate gave final approval to repeal the Sherman Silver
Purchase Act of 1890.
1938 - Orson Welles' "The War of the Worlds" aired on CBS radio. The
belief that the realistic radio dramatization was a live news event
about a Martian invasion caused panic among listeners.
1943 - In Moscow, a declaration was signed by the Governments of the
Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and China called for
an early establishment of an international organization to maintain
peace and security. The goal was supported on December 1, 1943, at a
meeting in Teheran.
1945 - The U.S. government announced the end of shoe rationing.
1961 - The Soviet Union tested a hydrogen bomb with a force of
approximately 58 megatons.
1961 - The Soviet Party Congress unanimously approved an order to remove
Joseph Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb.
1972 - U.S. President Richard Nixon approved legislation to increase
Social Security spending by $5.3 billion.
1982 - Portugal's constitution was revised for the first time since it
was ratified on April 25, 1976.
1989 - Mitsubishi Estate Company announced it would buy 51 percent of
Rockefeller Group Inc. of New York.
1993 - The United Nations deadline concerning ousted Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide passed with country's military still in control.
1995 - Federalist prevailed over separatists in Quebec in a referendum
concerning secession from the federation of Canada.
1998 - The terrorist who hijacked a Turkish Airlines plane and the 39
people on board was killed when anti-terrorist squads raided the plane.
2001 - In NYC, U.S. President George W. Bush threw out the first pitch
at Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the
Arizona Diamondbacks.
China warns US it could spark war with 'provocative acts' in
South China Sea
The Guardian - China has warned the US that its “dangerous and
provocative acts” in the South China Sea could lead to “a minor
incident that sparks war”. China’s naval commander, Admiral Wu
Shengli, issued the warning to his American counterpart Admiral
John Richardson during video conference talks on Thursday aimed
at defusing tension in the region, according to a Chinese naval
statement. “If the United States continues with these kinds of
dangerous, provocative acts, there could well be a seriously
pressing situation between frontline forces from both sides on
the sea and in the air, or even a minor incident that sparks
war,” the statement paraphrased Wu as saying. “I hope the US
side cherishes the good situation between the Chinese and US
navies that has not come easily and avoids these kinds of
incidents from happening again,” Wu said.
US cites ‘press reports’ & secret ‘operational data’ as proof of
Russia striking Syrian hospitals
RT - The US maintains that Russian airstrikes hit hospitals and
caused collateral damage in Syria. However, when asked to
provide supporting evidence, Washington said that it bases its
allegations on “press reporting” and unconfirmed accounts from
“civil society groups.” “We have seen some press reporting to
that end. We have seen some Syrian civil society groups says
that,” US State Department spokesperson John Kirby said. He did
not name any specific organization or news outlet. Instead,
Kirby stressed that the US also has some “intelligence and
operational information” but he firmly refused to share it.
Warning: GMO-containing foods would be labeled like tobacco
under new Russian bill
RT - Two Russian lawmakers propose to amend the Law on
Consumers’ Rights. It would demand food producers attach large
and readable warnings on all GMO-containing products as well as
detailed explanations of artificial additives in foodstuffs.
According to the draft, information about genetically-modified
organisms in food products must be printed in a large black font
on a white background and the warning must cover at least 15
percent of the overall surface of the retail packaging. It must
also be similar to the one used on tobacco products in Russia
and in many other countries. The draft’s authors also want
producers to put detailed descriptions of all artificial
additives on food packaging. Currently, preserving agents,
colorings and other additives are only mentioned using
abbreviated names.
No firsthand info on alleged Russian 'airstrike' on hospital in
Syria – Red Cross top executive
RT - Red Cross personnel on the ground in Syria have not
reported any 'airstrikes' allegedly delivered by Russian jets on
civilian targets including hospitals, the medical charity’s top
executive told RT. Since Moscow started its air campaign in
Syria on September 30, Western media have been publishing
reports that Russian jets are targeting civilians. Last week,
Russia was accused of bombing a number of hospitals in Syria, an
allegation flatly denied by the Russian Defense Ministry.
Dominik Stillhart, director of operations at the International
Committee of the Red Cross, which has people on the ground in
Syria, told RT he is unaware of any such incidents.
Muslim Migrants Invited to Take Over German Church; Altar,
Cross, Pulpit Removed
Paul Joseph Watson - A Protestant church in Oberhausen, Germany
is set to remove Christian crosses, altars and pulpits in order
to accommodate 50 Muslim migrants who were invited to stay in
the building. “The parish had offered that to the city,”
Oberhausen city spokesperson Rainer Suhr told media outlets...
Sanitary facilities with washing machines will be installed next
to the church, while free lunches will also be delivered to the
migrants..... Migrants are also being provided with
accommodation at luxury ski resorts and hotels while Europeans
living in social housing are being given eviction notices to
make way for the “refugees”.
Venezuela Sells Billions In Gold To Repay Its Debt
Zero Hedge - Venezuela has two immediate bond payments due this
and next week amounting to $3.5 billion. Where did the
near-insolvent country obtain the funds needed to make these
debt payments? The answer: it has been dumping its gold, which
its former ruler Chavez worked hard in 2011 to repatriate from
London, and which its current president Maduro, just four short
years later, is busy sending back to its creditors.
First They Jailed the Bankers, Now Every Icelander to Get Paid
in Bank Sale
(Anti Media) - If Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has his
way — and he likely will — Icelanders will be paid kr 30,000
after the government takes over ownership of the bank.
Íslandsbanki would be second of the three largest banks under
State proprietorship. “I am saying that the government take some
decided portion, 5%, and simply hand it over to the people of
this country,” he stated. Because Icelanders took control of
their government, they effectively own the banks. Benediktsson
believes this will bring foreign capital into the country and
ultimately fuel the economy — which, incidentally, remains the
only European nation to recover fully from the 2008 crisis.
Iceland even managed to pay its outstanding debt to the IMF in
full — in advance of the due date.
Edward Snowden: EU parliament votes to 'drop any criminal
charges' against whistle-blower
The Independent - The European parliament voted to lift criminal
charges against American whistle-blower Edward Snowden on
Thursday. In an incredibly close vote, EU MEPs said he should be
granted protection as a “human rights defender” in a move that
was celebrated as a “chance to move forward” by Mr Snowden from
Russia.... A EU parliamentary statement recorded the vote was
carried by just four politicians, with 285 voting to drop
criminal charges against Mr Snowden and 281 voting against.
Although significant, the decision will not have any immediate
effect on Mr Snowden’s inability to leave Russia, where he
currently lives in an undisclosed location.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Lawsuits Against Hospitals Begin for Loss of Employment due to
Mandatory Flu Shots
Health Impact News - A Michigan nurse has filed a $100 million
class action lawsuit against the hospital that fired her for
refusing a flu vaccine as a requirement for employment. After
some research it was found out that there are lawsuits around
the country currently in litigation from healthcare workers who
have lost their jobs as a result of refusing the seasonal flu
vaccine. Here are some that are being reported
US On Road To Third World
Paul Craig Roberts - On January 6, 2004, Senator Charles Schumer
and I challenged the erroneous idea that jobs offshoring was
free trade in a New York Times op-ed. Our article so astounded
economists that within a few days Schumer and I were summoned to
a Brookings Institution conference in Washington, DC, to explain
our heresy. In the nationally televised conference, I declared
that the consequence of jobs offshoring would be that the US
would be a Third World country in 20 years. That was 11 years
ago, and the US is on course to descend to Third World status
before the remaining nine years of my prediction have expired.
Senate backs budget and debt deal, sends measure to Obama days
before default deadline
(AP) - Congress early Friday sent President Barack Obama an
ambitious budget and debt measure that averts a catastrophic
national default and sets spending priorities for the next two
years. The Senate voted 64-35 to approve the bill just after 3
a.m. EDT, with Democrats and Republican defense hawks uniting to
overcome opposition from GOP presidential candidates Rand Paul
of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas, both members of the body.
Pentagon confirms massive Army surveillance blimp was actually
shot down
The Hill - The massive Army blimp that broke free from its
mooring and drifted from Maryland to Pennsylvania is "actually
still deflating," a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. Another
Pentagon spokesman confirmed reports that the 240-foot blimp was
shot down, but did not know how close to the ground the blimp
was when it happened. It is not clear who shot down the blimp.
The blimp, formally known as an aerostat, was part of a
three-year research project for the JLENS program, which stands
for Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted
Sensor System.
Student Accused of Promoting Gang Culture for Wearing American
Flag Shirt
Mikael Thalen - A 12-year-old student in California was forced
to turn his American flag t-shirt inside-out last week after
administrators claimed it was “gang related.” Dustin Cole, an
honors student at Yuba Gardens Intermediate school, says he was
approached by school staff who argued that the t-shirt, which
features items from both the American and California flag,
violated the district’s dress code. According to Marysville
Joint Unified School District Assistant Superintendent Ramiro
Carreon, the shirt was flagged for containing colors and designs
known to the local gang task force.
Twin Peaks Biker Shootout Video: Waco PD Denies Releasing Video
and Crime Scene Photos
Breitbart - Video footage and crime scene photos of the Twin
Peaks biker shootout in May that killed nine men and injured 20
others was released on Thursday. The Waco Police Department
issued a strong statement that the department did not release
the video, and suggested that defense lawyers may have done so.
CNN reported [video link] they have been obtained two thousand
documents and crime scene photos, as well as surveillance video.
A sample of the videos CNN obtained is included in their video
news report.
Documentary: The Clinton Chronicles
Oath Keepers - This video was published in the early 1990s. It
has been circulating ever since, yet the Clintons remain
undaunted as the world ignores their criminality. Two Bushes,
one Clinton, and one Obama have just about put the final nail in
America’s coffin, and now Hillary Clinton is actually being
allowed by one of the two major political parties to run for the
White House, proving overtly and on the public record that crime
pays….
Rand Paul Begins Filibuster to Stop Debt Deal
Kit Daniels - Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has started a filibuster
against a debt extension to the White House. The junior senator
from Kentucky took the Senate floor at around 2:45pm EST to
blast the new budget deal. Paul said he’ll try to delay the debt
extension as long as he can to expose its flaws. “This is the
No. 1 threat to us: we’re accumulating debt at $1 million every
minute,” he said. “Someone’s got to stand up and do something
about it.” “I will continue this filibuster as long as there are
enough votes here to allow it to continue.”... His fellow
presidential candidates Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio
(R-Fla.) also oppose the debt deal.
The 'Bernwashing' Of America
Zero Hedge - Bernie Sanders supporters seem to be everywhere.
49% of Democrats now have a favorable view towards socialism.
This is scary. And sad. No matter how it is wrapped, socialism
is still the belief that we can raise people out of poverty by
taking money out of the hands of those who have learned how to
produce. And it has never worked. Socialism always fails because
at some point people realize they don’t have to work as hard to
get the same amount of stuff. It takes all the incentive away to
really succeed.
CNBC’s Republican Debate Notches 14 Million Viewers
Variety - CNBC said its Wednesday-night telecast of a debate
among Republican candidates for U.S. President lured an average
of 14 million viewers, making it the most-watched broadcast on
the NBCUniversal-owned cable outlet in its history. CNBC’s
audience for the telecast was significantly lower than the
crowds lured by Fox News Channel and CNN for similar events. A
Republican debate broadcast in August by Fox News attracted an
average of 24 million viewers, while a Republican debate
broadcast in September by CNN won an average of 23.1 million
viewers. For CNBC, however, the numbers were meaningful.
Television News Network Lobbyists Are Fundraising for Hillary
Clinton
The Intercept - Over the last two presidential debates, both
Democratic and Republican candidates have asserted that the
television news media is biased and has done a poor job
informing voters of the most pressing issues in the election.
And while their focus is on things like the type of questions
asked by debate moderators, they are overlooking much clearer
signs of potential conflicts of interest. Fundraising
disclosures released this month and in July reveal that
lobbyists for media companies are raising big money for
establishment presidential candidates, particularly Hillary
Clinton. The giant media companies that shape much of the
coverage of the presidential campaign have a vested stake in the
outcome. From campaign finance laws that govern how money is
spent on advertising to the regulators who oversee consolidation
rules, the media industry has a distinct policy agenda, and with
it, a political team to influence the result.
A final tribute': Teens serve as pallbearers for homeless
military veterans
Terri Peters - A group of high school students are volunteering
to serve as pallbearers for fallen military members who
otherwise would have been buried alone. "This was an opportunity
to give something to somebody who finished their life on the
fringe of society," said Tom Lennon, 17, a senior at the
University of Detroit Jesuit School. "These veterans were men I
have never met, but they helped make the country I live in safer
and stronger. No matter who they were or what they did on earth,
every person deserves a proper burial." The funerals earlier
this month were the first in a new initiative of the school's
student service team, led by faculty member Todd Wilson. Wilson
said more than 50 students participated in the first training,
and additional students have signed up for the next training in
November.
Top 100 CEO Retirement Savings Equals 41% of U.S. Families
Bloomberg - The retirement savings accumulated by just 100 chief
executives are equal to the entire retirement accounts of 41
percent of U.S. families -- or more than 116 million people, a
new study finds. In a report scheduled for release today, the
Center for Effective Government and Institute for Policy Studies
found that the 100 largest chief executive retirement funds are
worth an average of about $49.3 million per executive, or a
combined $4.9 billion. David C. Novak, the recently departed
chief executive officer of Yum! Brands Inc., is at the top of
the list, with total retirement savings of $234.2 million.
“Boehnerland” Lobbyists Win Right to Bombard Student Borrowers
With Robocalls
The Intercept - Deep inside the 114-page budget deal that passed
the House Wednesday, legislative leaders tucked in a provision
that will free debt collectors to bombard student loan borrowers
with unlimited robocall and automated text messages where it
hurts most — on their mobile devices — even when they are asked
to stop. The change is a major victory for the debt collections
industry, which has retained a small army of lawyers and
lobbyists for years to weaken the Telephone Consumer Protection
Act, the law that protects people from unwanted robocalls and
pre-recorded messages.
These stores are refusing to open up on Thanksgiving Day
Fortune - A victory for family time. To compete with other
retailers, many stores have been making themselves available to
Black Friday junkies earlier and earlier, spilling over into
Thanksgiving Day celebrations. The holiday has become less about
giving thanks, and more about shoving people out of your way to
snag a television set for 75% off. While many encourage it by
participating in the events, it has outraged others and even
sparked some to pass around petitions pleading retail stores to
stay closed on the holiday. REI has recently become a hero to
those petitioners. Not only is the brand closing its doors on
Thanksgiving, but it will not open on Black Friday either
(though workers will still get paid.)
A Ban On Heating Your Home With Wood? It’s Happening
Off the Grid News - Starting next fall it will be illegal to
install wood-burning heaters and stoves in new homes in at least
one major American city: San Francisco. Even wood stoves
certified as low emission by the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) will be banned... Wood-burning heaters will still be
allowed in existing homes, the Contra Costa Times reported,
although sellers must give buyers a form explaining the “health
risks” of burning smoke. A ban on traditional fireplaces already
was in place in the region. The board also voted to end all
automatic exemptions to its existing wood-burning ban, including
one that exempts people who live in areas with no natural gas
lines.
NOAA Refuses to Hand Over Climate Change Documents to Congress
Activist Post - ...Congressman Lamar Smith has asked NOAA for
the data and internal communications that were related to the
study, but they have refused to hand them over. On October 13th,
Smith filed a subpoena for the documents. The Congressman has
long been skeptical of climate change, and has accused NOAA of
fabricating temperature data. Smith told The Examiner that
Congress cannot do its job when agencies openly defy Congress
and refuse to turn over information…When an agency decides to
alter the way it has analyzed historical temperature data for
the past few decades, it’s crucial to understand on what basis
those decisions were made. This action has broad national and
policy implications.
Video: The Real Nuclear Family Revealed
Lee Ann McAdoo - Nuclear leak coinciding with disease pandemic
and other illnesses in St. Louis. Infowars reporter Lee Ann
McAdoo talks to a victim of the radiation in St. Louis who has
lost family members from the nuclear waste stored throughout the
city.
Senate Passes CISA, The Surveillance Bill Masquerading As A
Cybersecurity Bill; Here's Who Sold Out Your Privacy
Techdirt - After rejecting all the good privacy amendments to
CISA, the Senate has now officially passed the legislation by a
74 to 21 vote. About the only "good" news is that the vote is
lower than the 83 Senators who voted for cloture on it last
week. Either way, the Senate basically just passed a bill that
will almost certainly be used mainly for warrantless domestic
surveillance, rather than any actual cybersecurity concern. If
you'd like to know which Senators voted for greater domestic
surveillance, here's your list...
Forget X-rays, now you can see through walls using WI-FI: Device
captures silhouettes and can even identify people when they're
stood behind CONCRETE
Daily Mail - Using a wireless transmitter fitted behind a wall,
computer scientists have developed a device that can map a
nearby room in 3D while scanning for human bodies. Using the
signals that bounce and reflect off these people, the device
creates an accurate silhouette and can even use this silhouette
to identify who that person is. The device is called RF Capture
and it was developed by researchers at MIT's Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL).... As part of its
latest research, the team has shown that these technologies can
detect gestures and body movements as subtle as the rise and
fall of a person's chest from the other side of a house.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
FDA Confiscates Several Thousand Chickens From KFC Farms As
Mutations Worsen
Now8News - KFC’s largest chicken supplier in Springdale,
Arkansas was reportedly raided by the FDA on Monday due to
suspicions of mass mutations taking place in their chickens. It
has been no secret that KFC plumps up their chickens with the
use of steroids and hormones in order to create a bigger yield
to supply their restaurants around the world. However, the
accusations of mutated chickens has been streaming across the
Internet for years commonly referred to as a “conspiracy
theory.”
Cannabis Oil Cures 3 Year Old Boy Of Cancer After Doctors Gave
Him 48 Hours To Live
Counter Current News - A young boy named Landon Riddle was
diagnosed with Leukemia, and was told by his doctors that he
only had an 8-10% chance of living for more than a day or two.
“His whole chest was full of leukemia tumors, which is why he
couldn’t breathe. They started him on chemo, but told us that he
probably wasn’t going to make it,” his mother, Sierra Riddle
said. After two months of Chemotherapy, Landon became sick and
would refuse to eat. According to his mother, he would vomit up
to 50 times a day, and the doctors eventually lost hope, seeing
no other solution than Chemotherapy. Then one day, Landon’s
grandmother suggested that they look into cannabis oil
treatment.
Thyroid disease Perhaps the Worst, Most Prevalent Hormone
Imbalance There Is
Dr. Mercola - Feeling tired? Got joint pain? Depressed or
gaining weight... but don't know why? Then this may be
out-of-whack. But be careful about taking the standard test to
identify it, because it misdiagnoses many.... It's important to
realize that thyroid dysfunction is a complex issue with many
variables and many potential underlying causes, including the
following. If your thyroid dysfunction is caused by factors such
as these, detoxification and changing your lifestyle to avoid
hormone disrupting chemicals may be key components of successful
intervention....
Research Takes On Vitamin B Link To More Vivid, Colorful and
Even Lucid Dreams
Mae Chan - Taking Vitamin B may not only give people more vivid
dreams but also help in remembering them the next morning. A
University of Adelaide researcher is calling for participants to
assist in a large national study establishing how vitamin B
enhances dreaming. While we supposedly all have 4-6 dreams a
night it is often hard to recall them, especially in their
entirety. When researching the signs and symptoms of vitamin B6
and zinc deficiency Dr Carl Pfeiffer, from the Brain Bio Center
in New Jersey, found that an alarming proportion of deficient
people couldn't recall their dreams. After supplementing with B6
and zinc, often in doses as high as 1,000 mg of B6 and 100 mg of
zinc, dream recall would return.
Pepsi Admits That Its Aquafina Bottled Water Is Just Tap Water,
Coca-Cola’s Dasani Is Next
Natural Blaze - On Friday, the Pepsi corporation admitted that
its Aquafina bottled water is not purified water or spring
water, but simply plain old tap water. The company will now be
forced to change the labeling of the brand to reflect that it is
just tap water. Many informed customers choose bottled water
because they are concerned about the quality of tap water, which
is many times riddled with fluoride and pharmaceuticals. Sadly,
we are now learning that in many cases, bottled water is
actually not any better than tap water.
Don't Let This Family's Heartbreak Happen to You - Know What to Do About
Rabies
Dr. Becker - The story of the unnecessary killing of a 10-year-old
family dog prompted veterinary researchers to study the current practice
of long-term quarantine or euthanasia for certain pets exposed to rabid
animals. The researchers concluded that dogs and cats with lapsed rabies
vaccinations who are exposed to the virus can safely receive an
immediate rabies booster followed by 45 days of observation at home. The
study results also point to the long-term immunity achieved in most
animals who receive an initial rabies vaccination
Thursday
- October 29, 2015 -
Today in History:
1863 - The International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.
1901 - Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President McKinley, was
electrocuted.
1923 - Turkey formally became a republic after the dissolution of the
Ottoman Empire. The first president was Mustafa Kemal, later known as
Kemal Ataturk.
1929 - America's Great Depression began with the crash of the Wall
Street stock market.
1940 - The first peacetime military draft began in the U.S.
1956 - Israel invaded Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during the Suez Canal
Crisis.
1956 - "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" premiered on NBC. The show replaced
"The Camel News Caravan."
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded.
1969 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered an immediate end to all school
segregation.
1974 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a new law forbidding
discrimination in credit applications on the basis of sex or marital
status
1985 - It was announced that Maj. Gen. Samuel K. Doe had won the first
multiparty election in Liberia.
1990 - The U.N. Security Council voted to hold Saddam Hussein's regime
liable for human rights abuses and war damages during its occupation of
Kuwait.
1991 - Trade sanctions were imposed on Haiti by the U.S. to pressure the
new leaders to restore the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to
power.
1992 - Depo Provera, a contraceptive, was approved by the Food and Drug
Administration.
1998 - South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission condemned both
apartheid and violence committed by the African National Congress.
1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with John Glenn on board.
Glenn was 77 years old. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit
the Earth.
2001 - KTLA broadcasted the first coast to coast HDTV network telecast.
Iraq ‘didn’t ask’ for US ground operations against ISIS
RT - The Iraqi government never asked for and does not need any
US involvement in ground operations against Islamic State
terrorists. The eye-opening statement came only a day after the
Pentagon promised its partner more ground support if it was
required. “This is an Iraqi affair and the government did not
ask the US Department of Defense to be involved in direct
operations,” spokesman Sa'ad al-Hadithi told NBC News. “We have
enough soldiers on the ground.” Hadithi made it clear that any
involvement of US forces that stretches beyond their “train and
advise” mission must be cleared with Baghdad – as mandated under
international law. Thus far Iraq has only cleared a US air
campaign over its territory against Islamic State (IS, formerly
ISIS/ISIL). For now, Hadithi stressed, Iraq only needs US
support in “arming and training [Iraqi] forces.” Around 3,300 US
troops are involved in the mission in Iraq.
Turkey threatens ‘whatever necessary’ to combat Kurdish autonomy
‘mindset’ in Syria
RT - Threatening continued assaults on the Kurdish militia in
Syria, the Turkish president has warned he will not request
anyone’s permission to do whatever is necessary to prevent the
spread of support for Kurdish autonomy, even if it requires
bombing US-allied rebels. In a clear message to dissuade Kurds
from supporting the self-declared autonomous town of Tel Abyad
near the Turkish border, President Tayyip Erdogan said that he
will “do what is necessary,” including using force, to eradicate
the potential source of separatism along its borders.... The
Turkish President also accused Washington of double standards
and claimed that the PYD allegedly carried out ethnic cleansing
of Arabs and Turkmen in Northern Syria, equating US support for
the Kurdish militias to aiding terrorism.
As Death Toll Rises in Yemen, White House Questions Its Support
for Saudis
Sputnik News - US-backed Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes in Yemen,
which have reportedly cost the lives of at least 1,500 civilians
so far, have divided the Obama administration, as many fear
being blamed for abetting war crimes that could empower Islamic
militants. Sources in the White House admit they are having a
rough time supporting the role of close ally Saudi Arabia in
Yemen, as a Saudi-Iran proxy war rages in the Arab nation.
IMF May Continue Funding Ukraine if It Refuses Russia Repayment
Sputnik News - The IMF may change its internal lending rules for
the first time since the Greek bailout to continue its program
to lend money to Ukraine if the country refuses to repay its
debt to Russia in December, according to some sources. The IMF
may continue to lend Ukraine money despite its likely default on
the debt it owes Russia if new lending laws are passed, the Wall
Street Journal reported. Ukraine owes Russia $3 billion. The
debt, which is due in late December, will stall the IMF's deal
with the country to lend it money if it refuses to pay.
Japanese police drag away elderly protesters as work starts on
controversial US airbase (VIDEO)
RT - Protests have erupted in Okinawa after the Japanese
government resumed work on a controversial US airbase, even
though construction had been blocked by the local governor.
Police dragged away elderly demonstrators while they shouted
“What are you doing?” Around 300 mostly elderly protesters
gathered on Thursday to block the main gate at Camp Schwab in
the city of Nago. However, local police ruthlessly dealt with
the demonstrators, the Asahi Shimbun reports. One elderly woman
with a cane yelled "Put me down!" as she was hauled off, as
cited by Reuters. "What are you doing?" another white-haired
woman shouted at police. "Aren't you supposed to be protecting
citizens?"
“Boots on the Ground” Inside Syria? The Pentagon Comes to the
Rescue of the “Islamic State” (ISIS)
Global Research - On October 27, US Defense Secretary Ashton
Carter announced that the Pentagon is contemplating “direct
action on the ground” in both Iraq and Syria, “in an effort to
combat the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group.”
(Sputnik, October 27, 2015). The not so hidden agenda, however,
is not “to combat” but rather “to protect and come to the
rescue” of the Islamic State terrorist group. What’s new? Are we
witnessing a process of military escalation? The US and its
allies already have boots on ground inside Syria. It’s not
official, it’s a so-called “covert operation” which everybody
knows about.
Russia’s “No-Fly Zone” Prevents US, Israel, UK From Bombing
Syria
Brandon Turbeville - It appears that, after a few weeks of
Russian bombing in Syria, a new kind of “no-fly zone” seems to
have been established. However, this “no-fly zone” is not
focused on preventing Syrian planes and military forces from
operating inside the country. Instead, it functions as a barrier
to Israeli and American air forces seeking to enter Syria
through the Mediterranean Sea in order to support terrorists and
jihadists against the secular government of Bashar al-Assad.
This is because of Russia’s Naval presence in the port of Tartus
and its new presence just off the coast of Latakia, particularly
with ships like the guided missile cruiser Moscow. The ship left
Crimea on September 24 and is part of what Russian media is
referring to as training exercises.
Saudi Arabia Bombs Second Doctors Without Borders Hospital
Activist Post - For the second time in a month, a health center
run by Doctors Without Borders was bombed as part of the
military effort led by Saudi Arabia. The hospital was operating
in the northern province of Saada, an area which has been
heavily bombed since the Saudi-led military effort against
Houthi rebels began in April. Doctors Without Borders said the
center was bombed twice, forcing the evacuation of staff members
and critically wounded patients and resulting in the collapse of
the building. Hassan Boucenine, a Doctors Without Borders
spokesman in Yemen, told the NY Times the organization had given
the health center’s coordinates to the military coalition six
months ago and reconfirmed the coordinates on a monthly basis.
Now Austria Plans To Build A Fence To Thwart Europe’s March Of
Muslim Migrants
Breitbart - Austria will build a fence along its border with
European Union (EU) neighbour Slovenia to help stem the migrant
invasion now flooding Europe, Interior Minister Johanna
Mikl-Leitner said today. Both countries are part of the
passport-free Schengen zone and remain key transit countries for
hundreds of thousands of mostly young, Muslim men trying to
reach northern Europe via the Balkans. Slovenia, the main entry
point into Austria, also said it was ready to build a fence,
meaning the two countries will follow Hungary in trying to seal
their frontiers, thus threatening to block the land route used
by migrants from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa now
invading Europe.
'We are deeply disturbed': 343 British academics vow to boycott
Israeli universities
RT - Over 300 scholars from UK institutions have signed a letter
vowing to boycott Israeli universities, citing Tel Aviv's
“illegal occupation” of Palestinian land and “human rights
violations.” The move has drawn criticism from Jewish
organizations and diplomats. The letter, signed by 343
academics, appeared as a full-page ad in Tuesday's Guardian
newspaper. “As scholars associated with British universities, we
are deeply disturbed by Israel’s illegal occupation of
Palestinian land, the intolerable human rights violations that
it inflicts on all sections of the Palestinian people, and its
apparent determination to resist any feasible settlement," it
reads.
Italian mayor offers 'gun bonus' to citizens
The Local - A mayor in northern Italy has announced plans to set
up a fund to help his town's citizens buy guns. Gianluca
Buonanno, the Northern League mayor of Borgosesia in Piedmont,
has promised to pay citizens who wish to buy a firearm €250
towards their purchase – a sum which is around 30 percent of the
price of a small pistol in Italy, La Repubblica reported.
Buonanno announced his decision on Facebook, writing that the
measure was aimed at allowing citizens “to defend themselves
from delinquents, who the government is privileging with its
jail-emptying laws instead of protecting honest Italians.”
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Former US military personnel urge drone pilots to walk away from
controls
The Guardian - Forty-five former US military personnel,
including a retired army colonel, have issued a joint appeal to
the pilots of aerial drones operating in Afghanistan, Iraq,
Pakistan, Syria and elsewhere, calling on them to refuse to
carry out the deadly missions.
‘Mentally Unstable’ Obama Looking To Start A War With China?
Economic Collapse - This week, Barack Obama sent a guided
missile destroyer into disputed waters in the South China Sea to
see if the Chinese would start shooting at it. Yes, this is what
he actually did. Fortunately for us, the Chinese backed down and
did not follow through on their threats to take military action.
Instead, the Chinese have chosen to respond with very angry
words. The Chinese ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai,
says that what Obama did was “a very serious provocation,
politically and militarily.” And as you will see below, a
state-run newspaper stated that China “is not frightened to
fight a war with the US in the region”. So why in the world
would Obama provoke the Chinese like this? Yes, the Chinese
claims in the South China Sea are questionable. But there are
other ways to resolve things like this.
Seventh Grade Assignment Asks Students to Deny God Exists, Or
Fail
Adan Salazar - Teacher said bible was written by people “trying
to get attention.” Parents of students at a middle school in
Texas are upset after a classroom assignment forced children to
deny the existence of God or take a failing grade. Jordan Wooley,
a 7th grade student at West Memorial Junior High School near
Houston, bravely spoke before the Katy Independent School
District (ISD) school board Tuesday about the assignment handed
out by her reading teacher which she says made her question her
faith. The exercise asked students to note whether a series of
statements were either factual claims, commonplace assertions,
or opinions.
18 Reasons Why I Don’t Celebrate Halloween
Michael Snyder - This year, 64 percent of all Americans will
celebrate Halloween, but I will not be one of them. For me, it
is a wretched, horrible holiday that celebrates the darkest side
of humanity, and it is deeply rooted in ancient pagan traditions
that would get people thrown in prison if they attempted to
duplicate them today. With each passing year, the sexually
suggestive costumes being marketed to our young girls become
even skankier, the horror movies become darker and even more
demonic, and the number of Americans that participate in occult
ceremonies just continues to grow. In fact, it has been
estimated that the number of self-identified witches in the
United States is doubling every 30 months. Those that are deeply
into the occult take this holiday very seriously, and the dark
forces that they are dealing with are very real. So no, I don’t
want anything to do with this festival of death. In no
particular order, the following are 18 reasons why I don’t
celebrate Halloween…
GOP Nominates Ryan for Speaker–with < 218 Votes Needed for
Tomorrow
Breitbart - Rep. Paul Ryan won the first round of votes for the
job of House Speaker, but 45 Republican legislators voted
against him. Those 45 members are enough to block him from
getting the Speakership during the partisan floor vote on
Thursday — if the 45 GOP legislators maintain their opposition,
and if Ryan is not aided by a last-minute bloc of Democratic
votes. During the closed-door conference, Ryan won just 200
votes for the nomination.... The failure on Ryan’s part to win
218 votes—the threshold for anyone to win the Speakership on the
House floor assuming every member of the House is present and
voting for a person—is a major embarrassment on his part. The
question now becomes whether Ryan will be able to get at 18 of
the 45 Republican votes he lost to get behind him on the floor
on Thursday. If he can’t succeed by the first ballot, the
election could go to a second ballot on the floor—which would
likely lead to Ryan’s demise.
F-16 Fighter Jets Scrambled to Track Military Blimp Drifting
Over Pennsylvania
NBC News - An unmanned Army surveillance blimp that tore loose
from its ground tether in Maryland and drifted north Wednesday
is on the ground in Pennsylvania, authorities said.... Two F-16
fighter jets were scrambled from Atlantic City, New Jersey, and
tracked the blimp's course. The blimp was holding at around
16,000 feet over Wilmington, Pennsylvania, NORAD said in a
statement at around 2 p.m.... The dragging tether caused power
outages as it drifted over Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf's office
said in a statement. Power company PPL Electric reported that
30,000 people lost power due to the drifting balloon, and by
Wednesday afternoon 15,000 remained without electricity.
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SPLC Calls Parents Against Common Core “Conspiracy Theorists”
Kit Daniels - The Southern Poverty Law Center blasted the
thousands of parents with legitimate concerns over Common Core
as “conspiracy theorists,” even though most criticism against
Common Core is directed at its poor teaching methodologies. The
controversial group claimed criticism of the federal public
school program is based on “outlandish conspiracy theories” and
“wildly untrue claims,” but parents are generally upset with
Common Core because it penalizes students for correctly
answering questions. “The latest and most virulent example of
[Common Core criticism] is the rapidly spreading idea that the
Common Core State Standards, an ambitious effort to lift student
achievement across the country, is actually a dangerous
conspiracy to indoctrinate young people into ‘the homosexual
lifestyle,’ communism and globalist ideology, all the while
collecting detailed and highly personal information about
millions of citizens,” the SPLC asserted.
VIDEO: Cruz BLASTS Media, Crowd Goes Wild
Truth Revolt - At CNBC's "Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican
Presidential Debate" tonight, Ted Cruz took and early and
commanding lead with the total destruction of the moderators and
the media in general. Newsbusters tweeted the above clip, which
immediately went viral and continues to rack up more retweets by
the second. Bashing the media always gets applause from
conservatives. Effectively bashing them, with devastating
accuracy, gets more than applause. It becomes the stuff of
legend. Cruz's answer will quickly become one of those videos
that everyone watches over and over. .
Kurtz: Debate ‘Absolute Trainwreck for CNBC,’ ‘Disaster For All
Of Us In the News Business’
Breitbart - Kurtz said, “Megyn, this was an absolute trainwreck
for CNBC. Many of the moderators’ questions seemed to me to be
snide, hostile, condescending, borderline insulting. And, let me
just make clear, I’m totally in favor of tough and provocative
questions. … But a lot of these questions were not drilling down
on facts, or record, or policy. When John Harwood says Trump,
comic book campaign, or does he have the moral authority to be
president? When Carl Quintanilla asked Sen. Marco Rubio, who had
a good night by the way, are you a young man in a hurry?
shouldn’t you have waited a few years to run for president? It
just validated what a lot of people think about the mainstream
media, and this channel’s that’s affiliated of course with NBC
News that they cannot be fair to Republicans. It was a disaster
for all of us in the news business.”
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Trump leads by 34 points in Massachusetts poll
The Hill - The poll, released on Wednesday, found that 47.8
percent support Trump becoming the Republican presidential
nominee next year. Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson ranks second
with 13.9 percent, while Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) earns 11.8
percent. No other GOP White House hopeful receives double-digit
voter support in Massachusetts. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush
places fourth with 6.5 percent. He is trailed by former
Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina at 6.5 percent and Sen. Ted
Cruz (R-Texas) at 5.1 percent.... Wednesday’s poll also found
that 43.1 percent of GOP voters surveyed plan on voting in their
state’s presidential primary in March.
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Ben Carson Wants To Police Speech On College Campuses
Huffington Post - Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson
said Wednesday he would use the U.S. Department of Education to
police speech on college campuses. During an interview, Glenn
Beck asked Carson if he would shut down the Education Department
as president. "I actually have something I would use the
Department of Education to do," Carson responded. "It would be
to monitor our institutions of higher education for extreme
political bias and deny federal funding if it exists."... It's
interesting to hear Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, suggest the
federal government should monitor what sort of political views
are shared on campuses, considering how many times he has railed
against "political correctness" that censors Americans'
viewpoints.
White House: House Budget Plan ‘Meets the President’s Vision’
Breitbart - President Obama has endorsed the budget plan
proposed by Speaker Rep. John Boehner... “We believe this a
budget framework that meets the president’s vision,” White House
Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz told reporters aboard Air
Force One yesterday when asked about the House budget proposal.
The plan is Boehner’s final surrender to Obama’s budget demands,
because it sets top-level spending limits for the government
until March 2017, after the president leaves office. It
increases planned spending by $50 billion in 2016, and $30
billion in 2017. The details of the deal angered conservative
critics of Boehner, particularly after he rammed through
legislation reauthorizing the Export-Import bank using secretive
tactics and capitulated to Obama’s spending demands....
Boehner’s budget-plan allocated funding for defense, education,
job training while avoiding a government shutdown and removing
sequester spending caps, which Obama demanded early on in the
discussions.
Budget Deal Robs $1.5 Billion from Crime Victims
Breitbart - The two-year budget deal announced late Monday
includes small-print language that yanks $1.5 billion away from
crime victims. The funding is used to compensate victims of
crime. A statement from the National Association of VOCA
Assistance Administrators opposes the cuts and describes how the
money is collected and used: “Some 3.5 million crime victims
every year depend on the thousands of domestic violence
shelters, rape crisis centers, child abuse treatment programs,
child advocacy centers, prosecutor- and law-enforcement victim
service programs, support groups for survivors of homicide
victims, drunken driving crashes and all the other programs that
receive VOCA funding. These funds come from the Crime Victims
Fund which comes not from U.S. taxpayers but from fines and
monetary penalties paid by criminals convicted of federal
crimes.”
10 Taxpayer Handouts to the Super Rich That Will Make Your Blood
Boil
Tom Cahill - The next time you hear someone complain about how
the poor get “all this free stuff,” show them this.
Video: Radioactive Landfill Leak Caught on Camera
Infowars - 10,000 gallon leak fuels concerns of unstable hot
spot. Infowars reporter Lee Ann McAdoo returns to the site of
the potentially dangerous spill at a nuclear waste site in St.
Louis. According to sources on the ground, the radioactive West
Lake landfill is currently experiencing a 10 to 11 thousand
gallon leachate leak after a break in a force main. Leachate is
very toxic,” says Dawn Chapman, a local environmental activist.
Residents that live near and around the area say benzene is also
emitting from the site, a known carcinogen.
Residents in St Louis dying in record numbers from World War II
radioactive waste
Matt Young - IN 2011, residents across an American community in
St Louis began to notice a chain of inexplicably high incidents
of cancer and disease across its population. For decades, both
former and current residents from approximately 90
municipalities in the Missouri city were diagnosed with a long
list of life-threatening illnesses, including leukaemia, lupus,
brain tumours, appendix cancer, multiple sclerosis, birth
defects and many more. People died. Babies died. And they’re
still dying to this day, dubbed “the poison children of
Coldwater Creek.” But no one ever connected the dots as to what
was really making these innocent people sick.
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No Bank Card Required: Citigroup Testing Eye-Scanning ATM
NBC News - No card reader, no PIN pad, no touch-screen display —
how you bank at your ATM could drastically change in the
not-so-distant future. Citigroup is testing an automated teller
machine made by Canton, Ohio-based Diebold that relies on your
smartphone and perhaps an eye scan to dispense your cash.
Diebold’s so-called “Irving” system works like this: Let’s say
you want to get $100 from your ATM. Instead of taking your bank
card with you, you schedule your withdrawal ahead of time on
your phone via your bank’s mobile app. When you walk up to the
screenless machine, it identifies you in one of several ways:
Near Field Communication (NFC, the same type of technology used
in Apple Pay’s mobile payment service), QR Code (for Quick
Response Code, a machine-readable bar code that’s been used
extensively in Japan) or biometrics (scanning your iris, a
technique that’s considered far more fail-safe than fingerprints
as a form of ID). The machine then spits out the cash and you go
on your merry way.
Liver Disease Linked to Gut Bacteria and Leaky Gut
Green Med Info - Much speculation has revolved around the causes
for nonalcoholic liver disease and cirrhosis over the years. New
findings provide surprising links between our gut bacteria,
leaky gut and the liver's health.
Raw Honey Contains Probiotic that Boosts Immunity
Green Med Info - We can now add yet another benefit of raw
honey: The presence of a particular probiotic bacteria that bees
harvest from the flower along with the nectar. Turns out this
probiotic also boosts immunity.
Simple And Effective Home Test Can Assess If You Have Diabetes
April McCarthy - Your Doctor can readily assess your glucose
levels by blood-analysis, however there are also many diagnostic
tests which can be carried out in your home which are very
effective in finding out the degree of onset for diabetes. Type
2, or adult onset diabetes, is a metabolic disorder that results
when the body cannot make enough or properly use insulin, a
hormone that converts food to energy. This differs from type 1
diabetes, in which people must take daily insulin shots because
their bodies don't produce any insulin, and is most commonly
diagnosed in children and young adults. According to the
American Diabetes Association, type 2 diabetes accounts for 90
to 95 percent of diabetes cases.
Wednesday
- October 28, 2015 -
Today in History:
1776 - The Battle of White Plains took place during the American
Revolutionary War.
1793 - Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his cotton gin.
1886 - The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by U.S.
President Cleveland. The statue weighs 225 tons and is 152 feet tall. It
was originally known as "Liberty Enlightening the World."
1919 - The U.S. Congress enacted the Volstead Act, also known as the
National Prohibition Act. Prohibition was repealed in 1933 with the
passing of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
1922 - Benito Mussolini took control of the Italian government and
introduced fascism to Italy.
1936 - The Statue of Liberty was rededicated by U.S. President Roosevelt
on its 50th anniversary.
1940 - During World War II, Italy invaded Greece.
1962 - Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev informed the U.S. that he had
ordered the dismantling of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
1965 - The Gateway Arch along the waterfront in St. Louis, MO, was
completed.
1976 - John D. Erlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon,
entered a federal prison camp in Safford, AZ, to begin serving his
sentence for Watergate-related convictions.
1982 - Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev condemned the U.S. for arms
buildup.
1983 - The U.S. vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution "deeply
deploring" the ongoing U.S.-led invasion of Grenada.
1985 - John A. Walker Jr. and his son, Michael Lance Walker, pled guilty
to charges of spying for the Soviet Union.
1986 - The centennial of the Statue of Liberty was celebrated in New
York.
1990 - Iraq announced that it was halting gasoline rationing.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton visited Kuwait and implied that all the
troops there would be home by Christmas.
1996 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained a record 337.17 points
(or 5%). The day before the Dow had dropped 554.26 points (or 7%).
US ground ops in Syria ‘illegal’, may lead to ‘unpredictable’
consequences
RT - The consequences of potential US ground operations in Syria
would be unpredictable, the head of Russia’s parliamentary
committee on foreign affairs told RT. He added that claims
Russian airstrikes have targeted civilians are part of ongoing
information war.... Commenting on the potential involvement of
US ground troops against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Kosachev once
again highlighted that, when it comes to Syria, the US-led
anti-ISIS campaign is already violating international law.
Potential troops on the ground, Kosachev believes, will further
violate international regulations.
US Will Revise Its Iraq Presence if Russia Helps Baghdad to
Fight ISIL
Sputnik News - If Russia launches airstrikes against Islamic
State (ISIL) targets in Iraq, the US military will rethink its
presence in the country, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Joseph Dunford told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"I tried to explain to [Iraqi leaders] that our continued
support really would be problematic were they to invite the
Russians in to conduct strikes," Dunford was quoted as saying by
Defense One. "I was assured that they had not extended that
invitation and that they did not intend to extend an invitation
to do that." Dunford said he discussed the issue with Iraqi
prime minister and defense minister during his visit to Baghdad
last week.
Putin wants to ax dollar from Russian trade
RT - Russian President Vladimir Putin blasted the government for
turning a blind eye on US dollar payments in the domestic oil
trade. "I would like to mention one crucial issue in the
development of the energy industry, and the economy as a whole.
It is a question of finally stopping the use of foreign currency
in internal trade,” said Putin at the fuel and energy
presidential commission on Tuesday.
Austrian Women Buying Up Guns As Migrant Rapists Invade Country
Kit Daniels - Private gun sales are exploding in Austria as
women prepare to defend themselves against migrant rapists. “All
long guns are currently completely sold out,” a Czech TV station
reported. “Those arming themselves are primarily women.” “The
huge demand has its roots in fears generated by social changes.”
The news outlet also said “more potential customers are entering
the market than ever before” and that prior to the current
migrant crisis, most gun purchasers were “sport shooters or
rangers.” “But the most common customers now are people who are
worried about their personal safety, yet who had never had any
involvement with weapons prior to this,” the TV station added.
South China Sea tensions: US declares right to fly, sail
anywhere intl law allows
RT - The US has shrugged off China’s criticism over its warship
patrol in the South China Sea saying that the operation had been
conducted within the limits of international law and had not
required any special permission. “The US has conducted naval
operations in the South China Sea in recent days and will
conduct similar operations in the future,” Defense Secretary
Ashton Carter said. "Our freedom of navigation operations do not
assert any specific US rights," White House Eric Schultz said
when asked about the details of a US Navy destroyer sailing past
China’s artificial islands, adding that the United States will
fly and sail anywhere international law allows. He did not
comment further.
Moscow Invites Tehran to Join International Talks on Syria for
First Time Ever
Sputnik News - Iran was invited to take part for the first time
ever in international talks aimed at ending the civil war in
Syria, US officials said Tuesday. ran has yet to respond to the
invitation, which was extended by Russia. The next round of
talks will take place Thursday in Vienna.
Hundreds of Refugees Vanish Without a Trace in Germany
Sputnik News - Roughly seven hundred of 4,000 asylum-seekers who
had been initially accommodated in the German state of Lower
Saxony have mysteriously disappeared, and because of
administrative breakdowns, local authorities are clueless about
who and where they are. The staggering figures were revealed by
local officials in the northwest German state by a survey
conducted by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ) newspaper.
Because many of the refugees hadn’t been registered yet, nothing
is known about who they are or where they might have gone.
Global bishops call for 'complete decarbonisation' by 2050
AFP - Bishops launched a global appeal Monday for a
break-through at upcoming Paris climate talks, including a
"complete decarbonisation" of the world's economy and more help
for poor countries battling the effects of climate change. The
bishops said any agreement "should limit global temperature
increases to avoid catastrophic climatic impacts, especially on
the most vulnerable communities". From across five continents
they called "not only for 'drastic reduction in the emission of
carbon dioxide and other toxic gasses', but also for ending the
fossil fuel era".... The November 30-December 11 conference in
Paris will be the culmination of six years of work since the
ill-fated 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, which failed to lock
down significant agreements.
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House Republicans begin impeachment against IRS chief John
Koskinen
Washington Examiner - House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and 18 other
Republicans on the committee introduced a resolution on Tuesday
to start impeachment proceedings against IRS Commissioner John
Koskinen. Chaffetz said the impeachment effort is a response to
Koskinen's failure to comply with a subpoena demanding records
relating to Lois Lerner's role in the IRS targeting scandal.
Republicans say the IRS erased 422 backup tapes that included
thousands of Lerner's missing emails. He also said Koskinen
offered false testimony to Congress, when he said Lerner's
emails were unrecoverable, and failed to tell Congress that some
evidence was missing.
Families of Victims Murdered By Illegal Aliens To House
Republicans: ‘No Paul Ryan’
Breitbart - American moms and dads whose children were
murdered—even tortured—by illegal aliens have a last-ditch
message for House Republicans: “No Rep. Paul Ryan as Speaker.”
Following his endorsement by Rep. Mick Mulvaney, founder of the
House Freedom Caucus, Ryan is effectively ensured the
Speakership. That will put him in an even more powerful position
than the Vice Presidency, potentially able to complete his
widely-documented two-decade push for amnesty and unlimited
migration.
5+5+5=15 is Wrong, According to Common Core
Mikael Thalen - A Common Core math assignment posted online last
week is causing outrage among parents who say their child was
penalized for correctly answering a question. A photo of the
math quiz, uploaded to Imgur, shows how an unknown third-grade
student received negative marks after allegedly failing to
properly articulate how he correctly solved the question 5×3.
“The first question asks the student to use repeated addition to
solve the question 5×3. The student answers 5+5+5=15, but is
marked incorrect,” notes the Daily Mail. “Instead, the teacher
writes that the correct answer should have been 3+3+3+3+3=15.”
The assignment’s second question, which similarly asks the
student to use “repeated addition” to solve 4×6, is also marked
wrong despite being correct.
'We won’t hold back' from ground raids against ISIS - Carter
RT - The US is prepared to use “direct action on the ground”
against Islamic State targets, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told
lawmakers. He also promised ramped-up airstrikes and support for
Iraqi forces besieging Ramadi. "We won't hold back from
supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against
ISIL, or conducting such missions directly whether by strikes
from the air or direct action on the ground," Carter told the
Senate Armed Services committee. Carter’s announcement comes
following the news that Sergeant Joshua Wheeler of the Delta
Force was killed during a hostage rescue raid in northern Iraq
last week. A number of Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS or
ISIL) militants were killed in the operation, which recovered 69
captives the Pentagon says were in danger of imminent execution.
The U.S. Government Is Spending 400,000 Dollars On A Single
Helmet
Economic Collapse - Would you pay $400,000 for a single helmet?
Of course you wouldn’t – but that is precisely what the U.S.
government is doing. Just the helmet for the pilot of the new
F-35 Lightning II is going to cost taxpayers nearly half a
million dollars. And since we are going to need 2,400 of those
helmets, the total bill is going to end up approaching a billion
dollars.
Americans Renouncing US Citizenship Soars To Yet Another Record
High
Zero Hedge - 1,426. That’s the number of Americans who renounced
their US citizenship last quarter according to the US
government’s report just released this morning. That’s a record
high for a single quarter, easily beating the last record high
set earlier this year, which beat the previous record high set
in 2013. This is clearly a trend on the rise, and it certainly
raises the question: why? What is it about the United States
that drives so many citizens to leave? Two main reasons...
Planned Parenthood TX Doc: Harvesting Intact Fetal Heads “Will
Give Me Something to Strive For” (Video)
CMP - The eleventh video release from The Center for Medical
Progress in the ongoing Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal
shows the abortion doctor for Planned Parenthood in Austin, TX,
Dr. Amna Dermish, describing a partial-birth abortion procedure
to terminate living, late-term fetuses which she hopes will
yield intact fetal heads for brain harvesting. Dr. Dermish
admits she was trained by the Senior Director of Medical
Services at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Dr.
Deborah Nucatola. Nucatola described a partial-birth abortion
technique to harvest fetal organs in the first Planned
Parenthood video released July 14 by CMP.
Restaurant Offers Discount to Concealed Carry Patrons Following
Robbery
Adan Salazar - “MY BUSINESS. I can give discounts to whomever I
please,” restaurant owner tells critics. A restaurant owner in
Indiana is offering a discount to customers who bring concealed
firearms into his establishment after a robbery that occurred
Saturday. Papa Roux owner Art Bouvier announced on Facebook
Saturday night that an armed robber had walked in, threatened
his employees and stolen money. “I have a gun; I’m gonna need
all the money out of your registers,” the robber said, according
to Bouvier. After the thief had made off with the money, Bouvier
took to Facebook to announce that “until further notice, your
concealed carry license earns you 25% off your meal when you
dine in.”
Students In California School District Now Guaranteed ‘C’ Grades
For DOING NOTHING
Daily Caller - Officials in a public school district about 50
miles north of San Francisco have found a new and exciting way
to coddle kids. Under a new policy, students will be able to
earn passing grades with scores of just 20 percent — and a solid
C for doing absolutely nothing at all.... The Cotati-Rohnert
Park grade scale deviates from the traditional, well-established
A-through-F scale by distributing grades in 20-percent
increments from 0 to 100 percent, and by only giving grades of F
for students with scores below 20 percent. Thus, students who
receive a score of 80 will be awarded an A-. In fact, any grade
from 80 to 100 will be either an A or A-. By way of comparison,
most students in America who score between 80 and 85 in a given
class are sent home with either a B- or a B.
Teenage Girl BRUTALLY Slammed to the Ground by Violent Cop While
Sitting In Her Desk
Counter Current News - The following video was just sent to us
by students at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina.
Those students witnessed a Richland County sheriff’s deputy
violently attacking a young female student. School officials
have told us that the incident happened on Monday. But that was
about all they would relay. Sheriff Leon Lott, has seen the
video and defended the school resource officer, saying he “was
acting in response to a student who was refusing to leave
class.” Apparently that means using unbridled violence against
an unarmed, unaggressive, non-violent student is perfectly
acceptable.
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Debate: RNC Gives Donald Trump Presidential Suite, Rand Paul
Gets Bathroom
Breitbart - The RNC divided up workspaces for each of the GOP
presidential campaign staffs during Wednesday night’s GOP
primary debate hosted by CNBC in Colorado—but the workspace for
each campaign wasn’t quite equal, according to one Republican
political consultant. Chris LaCivita, a senior aide for Sen.
Rand Paul, took to Twitter to expose the varied spaces for
different campaigns with “#thanksRNC” at the end of his posts.
He posted a photo of the workspace for Donald Trump’s campaign
versus the area assigned to Paul’s staff. It appears Paul has a
restroom with a small dressing room, but Trump has a
presidential suite. LaCivita also posted on Twitter Carly
Fiorina’s workspace, which allegedly has a jacuzzi.
Rand Paul on Socialism: ‘If You Don’t Listen … They Exterminate
You’(Video)
CNS News - “The problem though is Bernie complains about crony
capitalism. He kind of gets it right, but he equates it with all
of capitalism, and he actually promotes something called
democratic socialism, and I’ve been trying to point out, because
I’m on a lot of college campuses – we have a big following in
college campuses – that there’s nothing sexy, and there’s
nothing cool about socialism,” said Paul. “What there is, is the
implied force that goes along with taking away your choice. They
tell you, you cannot make reindeer. You cannot make cars. You
cannot sell water. Only the state tells you what you can do.
It’s the most anti-choice economic system,” he said. “If you
don’t listen, they fine you. If you don’t pay the fine, they
imprison you. If you will not listen, ultimately what has
happened in history – and people get mad when I say this – but
they exterminate you, and that’s what happened under Stalin,”
Paul added.
Chemical Industry Self-Policing Called into Question, Government
Oversight Lax
AllGov - “Every two days, there is a reportable leak or
explosion at a U.S. chemical plant,” said McFate. “But the
chemical industry keeps telling us companies can regulate
themselves and no new oversight is needed.” The investigation
found that only 42% of active facilities manufacturing chemicals
were inspected in the last three to five years, of which 25% had
serious violations. Also, the EPA required testing of only 250
of the 84,000 chemicals registered for commercial use in the
U.S. today.
Senate passes controversial cybersecurity-cyberspying bill 74-21
Ars Technica - The Senate overwhelming approved the so-called
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) on Tuesday. The
measure would allow companies to share consumers' data with the
US government in the event of security breaches or cyber
attacks—all in the name of cybersecurity. Edward Snowden, the
NSA whistleblower, had declared the measure—which now goes to a
conference committee between the House and Senate—a
"surveillance bill." In essence, the measure provides corporate
America with legal immunity when sharing data about hacks and
digital breaches with the Department of Homeland Security. The
DHS can then funnel that information to other agencies,
including the NSA and FBI.
* Related:
EFF Disappointed as CISA Passes Senate
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
First Senate Agricultural Committee Meeting in 10 Years Cheers
GMOs, Ignores Dangers
The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry held a biotechnology hearing for the first time in 10
years last week to discuss the future of food technology as the
industry responds to increased demand, production challenges,
and consumers’ calls for a safe and transparent food supply. But
the meeting came up short on transparency and carried on more
like a Monsanto share-holders meeting than an unbiased inquiry
into the pros and cons of biotechnology where it concerns the
food supply.... The senate hearing was scheduled shortly after
the US House of Representatives passed the “Safe and Accurate
Food Labeling Act of 2015,” otherwise known as the DARK Act
(Deny Americans the Right to Know) by a vote of 275-150.... As
Natural Society previously reported, here is an extensive list
of who’s been paid off by Monsanto...
GcMAF: Another Suppressed Cancer Treatment?
Natural Society - Reports have been circulating of a compound
known as Gc-protein derived macrophage activating factor, or
GcMAF, and its remarkable effects on cancer.... In human
patients, however, GcMAF is not administered alone. In this
study, GcMAF is described as being complexed with oleic acid
(OA), which is found in olive oil. Additionally, the OA-GcMAF is
prescribed alongside a low carbohydrate, high protein diet;
vitamin D3, omega-3 fatty acids, low dose aspirin, and fermented
dairy products containing naturally-occurring GcMAF. Although
these patients all suffered from advanced cancers, within a few
weeks, their tumor volume had decreased by an average of 25%.
While some clinical results were compared to chemo in
tumor-shrinking power, OA- complexed GcMAF, along with some
other types of OA- complexed proteins, destroys cancer cells
without any ill effects on healthy cells.
Health Benefits of Hemp
Dr. Mercola - One of the under-appreciated benefits of hemp, at
least in the US, is as a food source. Hemp seeds, which are
technically a nut and are also known as "hemp hearts," are rich
in healthy fats, protein, and minerals. Hemp seeds are usually
consumed after the hard outer shell is removed, leaving just the
soft, creamy "heart" behind. The seeds have a slight nutty
flavor, making them incredibly versatile for use in cooking,
baking, or for adding to smoothies and salads. Some of their
primary health benefits include...
How to Cook with Coconut Flour
Dr. Mercola - Coconut milk, coconut oil, and coconut water are
recognized as beneficial, functional foods in the US, but few
are availing themselves of one of coconuts’ best uses of all –
coconut flour. Coconut flour can be used to replace wheat flour
and other types of grain-based flours in baked goods and other
recipes. For people with celiac disease, which is an autoimmune
disorder that causes your immune system to attack your small
intestine, this is essential. ...according to Dr. Alessio Fasano
at Massachusetts General Hospital, virtually all of us are
affected to some degree. This is because we all create a
substance called zonulin in our intestine in response to gluten.
Glutinous proteins, found in wheat, barley, and rye, can make
your gut more permeable, which allows partially digested
proteins to enter your bloodstream, sensitizing your immune
system, and promoting inflammation.
Daylight Savings Ends Nov. 1: Fall Back (And Give Your Dog Some Extra
Love)
Dogington Post - If you’re anything like me, this one hour time change
takes weeks to adjust to. I’m hungry when I shouldn’t be, I can’t seem
to wake up in the mornings, too wired to sleep at night… This got me
wondering – Does daylight savings time affect our dogs? In fact, it
does! Dogs have circadian rhythms (our body’s biological system of
timekeeping, so to speak), just like humans, that regulate sleep,
hunger, and activity levels throughout each 24-hour period. In nature,
these rhythms are triggered by natural sunlight. But, in our artificial
environments, where morning starts with the blaring of an alarm clock
and the flip of a lightswitch, our circadian rhythms (and our dogs’) are
largely self-driven.
Tuesday
- October 27, 2015 -
Today in History:
1787 - The first of the Federalist Papers were published in the New York
Independent. The series of 85 essays, written by Alexander Hamilton,
James Madison and John Jay, were published under the pen name "Publius."
1795 - The United States and Spain signed the Treaty of San Lorenzo. The
treaty is also known as "Pinckney's Treaty."
1858 - Roland Macy opened Macy's Department Store in New York City. It
was Macy's eighth business adventure, the other seven failed.
1878 - The Manhattan Savings Bank in New York City was robbed of over
$3,000,000. The robbery was credited to George "Western" Leslie even
though there was not enough evidence to convict him, only two of his
associates were convicted.
1904 - The New York subway system officially opened. It was the first
rapid-transit subway system in America.
1962 - The Soviet Union adds to the Cuban Missile Crisis by calling for
the dismantling of U.S. missile basis in Turkey. U.S. President Kennedy
agreed to the new aspect of the agreement.
1994 - The U.S. Justice Department announced that the U.S. prison
population had exceeded one million for the first time in American
history.
1997 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 554.26 points. The stock
market was shut down for the first time since the 1981 assassination
attempt on U.S. President Reagan.
2002 - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected president of Brazil in a
runoff. He was the country's first elected leftist leader.
2003 - Bank of America Corp. announced it had agreed to buy FleetBoston
Financial Corp. The deal created the second largest banking company in
the U.S.
China furious after US Navy destroyer passes disputed islands in
S. China Sea
RT - China has slammed the US for ignoring repeated warnings and
allowing one of its destroyers to sail close to artificial
islands created by Beijing in the South China Sea. It said the
USS Lassen’s actions “damage peace and stability in the region.”
"These actions of the US warship are a threat to the sovereignty
and security of China, and safety of people living on the
islands; they damage peace and stability in the region. In this
regard, the Chinese side expresses extreme dissatisfaction and
strongly protests," the statement posted on China's Foreign
Ministry website says, according to Interfax.
It's On: Obama Sends Destroyer To Chinese Islands, China Vows
Military Response
Zero Hedge - For weeks, the US was rumored to have been planning
a freedom of navigation exercise in the Spratlys which, as we’ve
pointed out several times this month, amounts to sailing by the
islands just to see if China will shoot. Now, according to CNN,
Obama has given the green light and the ships may sail within 24
hours… It's also worth noting that should the US manage to get
away with this without sparking a shooting war with the Chinese,
it now looks as though Washington is leaning toward making this
a regular patrol.
US, China Relations Reach Point of No Return?
Sputnik News - “For China, because of its history, territorial
sovereignty issues implicate regime survival in a way that
transcends all other quarrels and disagreements. The United
States, on the other hand, views China’s territorial claims and
actions to bolster those claims as Chinese expansionism,
aggression against American allies and strategic partners,” The
National Interest wrote. [Ryan] Pikrella further said that this
may be a game of muscle, but even in this case, the clash of
interests between Beijing and Washington in the South China Sea
is like a “zero-sum game that increases the likelihood of
conflict. For China the potential sphere of influence is at
stake, whereas for the United States it is a liberal order and
American hegemony,” the analyst said.
Iran to join BRICS New Development Bank – report
RT - Tehran intends to participate in the BRICS New Development
Bank, the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, citing
an Iranian official.... BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and
South Africa - comprise about 30 percent of world's GDP in PPP
terms and are projected to increase to as much as 45 percent by
2030. The bloc already accounts for 17 percent of world trade.
Last week, Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak visited Iran
where he negotiated a Russia-Iran bank to boost joint projects.
The report of Iran joining BRICS bank appears to be linked to
Novak’s visit.
Migrant Hordes Overwhelm Slovenia, As Prime Minister Warns
Crisis Will Be The End Of The EU
Breitbart - The tiny nation of Slovenia has received 60,000
Middle Eastern and North African migrants in the past week.
Thousands remain stranded near the Austrian border, as the prime
minister warned the crisis could be “the end of the [European
Union] EU.”... The migrants have been diverted through Slovenia
since Hungary closed its border at the beginning of September.
Viktor Orbán’s government built a razor wire fence and made
illegal crossings a criminal offence.
TTIP Food Rules Secretly Enforced in EU; Agenda 21-Style
Sustainability in New Draft
The New American - It seems that Agenda 21 is lurking in the
latest version of the agreement. On October 17, The Guardian
reported: EU negotiators will resume controversial trade talks
with the US on Monday amid claims that multinational companies
have jumped the gun in advance of any agreement to import goods
that are currently banned — including genetically modified crops
and chemically washed beef — into European markets. A campaign
group says that a report in a US journal concerning the
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks show
that Europe is already capitulating to huge pressure from the US
to allow imports of previously banned goods before an agreement
is reached.
Mystery deaths in Sierra Leone spread fear of Ebola relapses
(Reuters) - ADoctors and health officials in Sierra Leone told Reuters
that a handful of mystery deaths among discharged patients may also be
types of Ebola relapses, stirring fear that the deadly virus may last
far longer than previously thought in the body, causing other
potentially lethal complications. Diagnoses have not been made, partly
because of a lack of relevant medical training and insufficient
equipment for detecting a virus that can hide in inaccessible corners of
the body - such as the spinal fluid or eyeball. In Cafferkey's case, the
virus in her brain caused meningitis.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
US Dismisses General Responsible for Unsuccessful Syria Rebel
Training
Sputnik News - After the US’ Syrian rebel training program
failed and produced only a few dozen fighters instead of the
original 15,000 planned, the US is now dismissing US Maj. Gen.
Michael K. Nagata who was responsible for the implementation of
the program, media reported… After the failure of the plan,
Nagata is expected to be appointed to a senior position in a
counterterrorism unit.
Wikileaks' 3d strike: New batch of documents from CIA's chief
e-mails
RT - Two more documents from CIA Director John Brennan’s private
email account have been released by Wikileaks. Among the
documents in Monday’s release is a list of 22 people that belong
to what Wikileaks referred to as “a current unidentified group.”
The list includes contact phone numbers, email addresses, places
of employment, security clearance information and social
security numbers. One of the prominent names on the list is the
current Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson.
IRS possessed Stingray cellphone surveillance gear, documents
reveal
The Guardian - The Internal Revenue Service is the latest in a
growing list of US federal agencies known to have possessed the
sophisticated cellphone dragnet equipment known as Stingray,
according to documents obtained by the Guardian. Invoices
obtained following a request under the Freedom of Information
Act show purchases made in 2009 and 2012 by the federal tax
agency with Harris Corporation, one of a number of companies
that manufacture the devices. Privacy advocates said the
revelation “shows the wide proliferation of this very invasive
surveillance technology”… It remains unclear how the IRS used
the Stingray devices. A spokesman for the agency did not respond
to a request for comment.
Gun homicides steady after decline in '90s; suicide rate edges
up
Pew Research Center - Although most Americans think the number
of gun crimes has risen, the U.S. gun homicide rate has actually
stabilized somewhat in recent years, according to a Pew Research
Center analysis of death certificate data collected by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 1993 and
2000, the gun homicide rate dropped by nearly half, from 7.0
homicides to 3.8 homicides per 100,000 people. Since then, the
gun homicide rate has remained relatively flat. From 2010 to
2013, the most recent year data are available, the number of gun
homicides has hovered between 11,000 and 12,000 per year. By
contrast, a significantly higher – and growing – number of gun
deaths were by suicide than by homicide, and this has been true
throughout the past two decades.
CNBC Limits Livestream of the Third GOP Debate to Cable
Subscribers; CNN Didn’t
Observer - CNBC is showing the third Republican Presidential
debate on Wednesday night at 8PM EST, for two hours, from the
University of Colorado at Boulder. A 6 PM EST debate will match
up the the Republican candidates polling between one and three
percent.... Without a cable subscription, however, voters will
be blocked from tuning in online... CNBC will show the debate on
cable and stream it on its site only to users who can
authenticate as cable or CNBC Pro subscribers... CNBC Pro costs
$29.99 per month, but it comes with a seven-day free trial. That
appears to be the only online option without a cable
subscription. Just be sure to set a reminder to unsubscribe
before the week is up (and don’t be surprised if it isn’t easy).
Trump Vows To Veto Gun Regulations
Steve Watson - In a town hall meeting in New Hampshire this
morning GOP frontrunner Donald Trump accused his rivals of being
“weak on the Second Amendment,” and said that there are already
enough gun restrictions. We have tremendous regulations already,
a lot of people don’t even realize,” the Republican presidential
candidate told the crowd at the event hosted by NBC’s Today
show. When asked how he would solve the problem of gun violence
in America, Trump said “You’ve got to enforce what
[restrictions] we’ve got right now, and there’re plenty right
now.” “People aren’t abiding by them, government does a terrible
job of enforcing them, but we already have tremendous
regulations.” Trump added.... Trump repeated a previous
assertion that mass shootings in the US are the result of
untreated mental illness, rather than lax gun control laws.
* Related:
Donald Trump Town Hall New Hampshire (Full interview)
What Recovery? Record Number Of Americans Become Blood Plasma
"Sellers" To Make Ends Meet
Zero Hedge - With 9.4 million more Americans below the poverty
line than before the crisis, as The LA Times reports, it's
disturbing to see so many people so destitute - even if they're
working - that they've resorted to selling body fluids to make
ends meet. The going rate for plasma donation, which can take a
couple of hours, is about $25 or $30. But Octapharma is offering
$50 for the first five visits, "when you get that $50, you feel
good," one plasma 'seller' said, "I paid my gas bill."
Government Implements Illegal “Gag Order” On National Weather
Service And NOAA Employees
Geoengineering Watch - The power structure is beginning to panic
as the public wakes up to the criminal climate engineering
insanity. The growing police state is completely out of control
and becoming unimaginably blatant with their actions. In recent
weeks Washington has placed "gag orders" on the following agency
employees, "The National Weather Service", the "National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration", and the "US Department of
Commerce". This is a massive red flag that should trigger alarm
bells everywhere.
Why Is This Happening? Unprecedented Flooding Has Hit The U.S.
Within The Last 30 Days
Economic Collapse - Over the past 30 days, major floods have hit
the east coast, the west coast and now the middle part of the
country. So why is this happening? Why is the U.S. being hit by
so many catastrophic weather events all of a sudden? During the
past month flooding has caused billions of dollars in damage,
and in many areas the clean up is going to take well into next
year. Some pundits are blaming El Nino, but others are pointing
to other potential reasons for why this may be happening.
Mysterious artificial space object heading towards Earth
RT - A mysterious chunk of space debris will hit Earth off the
coast of Sri Lanka on November 13. Scientists have no clear idea
what it is, other than that it is likely artificial in origin,
and have dubbed the object WT1190F. “It’s a lost piece of space
history that’s come back to haunt us,” Jonathan McDowell, an
astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics, told Nature. Detected by the Catalina Sky Survey,
an observation lab at the University of Tucson, the alleged
piece of space debris initially puzzled observers. But
astronomers then went back through the lab’s past images from
telescopes, and noticed that it had been present at least since
2012.
The Apollo Archives Hit Flickr, Total Awesomeness Ensues
WIRED - Kipp Teague of the Project Apollo Archive uploaded more
than 8,400 high-res photos of NASA’s lunar missions to Flickr,
and they are of course totally awesome. No less awesome is what
people are doing with all those photos. The images, made by
Apollo astronauts using mostly Hasselblads, are wonderfully
imperfect—they aren’t always in focus, and the exposure and
framing often is off—but as with family snapshots, it’s the
content that matters. They remind us that anything is possible.
All these years later, they still inspire. Link to NASA Project
Apollo Archive
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
30 Uses For Wood Ashes You Never Thought About
Humble Lore - 1. Make lye water out of ash. You can boil 2-3
spoons of ash (clean white/grey fluffy ash) with water and then
filter it with a coffee filter. Lye water is a great cleaning
agent and sanitizer for clothes, floors, windows, silverware,
plates, and even rust in marble...
Vitamin C protects against liver injury caused by MSG
(NaturalHealth365) There are many reasons to avoid consuming
monosodium glutamate (MSG). This “flavor-enhancing” food
additive MSG is a known neurotoxin, yet is liberally added to a
slew of processed foods, meats and restaurant meals. From
headache to chest pain, there is a long list of MSG side
effects. But one of the most serious health risks linked to
consumption of MSG is damage to the liver. Now research suggests
that vitamin C could help protect against liver injury caused by
MSG.
* Related:
Names of ingredients that contain processed free glutamic acid
(MSG)
Foods That Fight the Common Cold
Dr. Mercola - The key to preventing colds and recovering from
them quickly is to maintain a strong immune system, which
includes: optimizing your diet, avoiding sugar, optimizing your
vitamin D level, getting enough sleep and exercise, managing
your stress, and practicing good hand washing technique. Just
being exposed to a cold virus does not automatically mean you’ll
catch a cold. If your immune system is operating at its peak,
your body will be able to fend off the virus without ever
getting sick, even if you’re exposed to it. A number of foods,
herbs, and supplements can be particularly helpful for promoting
strong immune function...
Human DNA found in hot dogs... 10% of veggie dogs made with
meat... but private genomics lab censors brand names to appease
food industry
(NaturalNews) A private food testing lab called Clear Food is
ramping up with a project it says will publicly post scores for
foods based on whether the food composition matches the label.
Sadly, this lab wants to be a "friend" of the food industry and
won't be testing for GMOs, pesticides or anything not listed on
the label. They're not even releasing the brand names of the hot
dogs contaminated with human DNA! In its first big announcement,
the lab tested hundreds of hot dogs and veggie dogs and found
some very disturbing things.
* Related:
The Hot Dog Report
Bacon To Be Classified As Dangerous As Cigarettes By World
Health Organization
Truth in Media - WHO will target processed meats such as bacon,
ham and sausages as causes of cancer and will say red meat is
also hazardous to health in a decision to be released Monday.
The findings resulted from a meeting of scientists from 10
countries. The Daily Mail reports WHO’s International Agency for
Research on Cancer will conclude that a host of processed meats
should be placed in the highest of five possible rankings as
“carcinogenic to humans.” The ranking will put burgers and bacon
alongside asbestos, arsenic, cigarettes and alcohol. The
justification behind the decision, according to the Daily Mail,
is that when meat is being preserved through processes like
smoking carcinogens can be added.
The Hidden Cause of Dog Poisoning Hardly Anyone Knows About
Dr. Becker - A veterinarian in Oregon is leading the charge to bring
awareness about the potentially fatal threat of xylitol poisoning in
dogs. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol-derived sweetener that is being added
to a rapidly expanding list of consumer products... Dr. Jason Nicholas
of Portland has compiled a list of products containing xylitol, and has
posted links to two online petitions, one to the manufacturers of
products containing xylitol, and one to the US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).... When it comes to medications and dietary
supplements, US regulations do not require manufacturers to list xylitol
by name on package labels. This is because the sweetener is often
categorized as an "inactive" or "other" ingredient... Dr. Nicholas
offers a list of common marketing buzzwords that signal there could be
xylitol in a product. These include...
* Related:
Warning: C.E.T. AquaDent Pet Oral Health Product Contains Deadly Xylitol
Is Your Favorite Animal Breaking Any of These Hilarious Laws?
Dr. Becker - There are a lot of nutty laws on the books, but some of the
most bizarre city ordinances and state statutes ever written concern
animal behavior or human behavior toward animals.
Monday
- October 26, 2015 -
Today in History:
1774 - The First Continental Congress of the U.S. adjourned in
Philadelphia.
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal
connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
1881 - The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday and the
Ike Clanton Gang.
1942 - The U.S. ship Hornet was sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz during
World War II.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ended. It was won
by American forces and brought the end of the Pacific phase of WW II into sight.
1949 - U.S. President Harry Truman raised the minimum wage from 40 to 75
cents an hour.
1958 - Pan American Airways flew its first Boeing 707 jetliner from New
York City to Paris.
1962 - The Soviet Union made an offer to end the Cuban Missile Crisis by
taking their missile bases out of Cuba if the U.S. agreed to not invade
Cuba and would remove Jupiter missiles in Turkey.
1972 - U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace
is at hand" in Vietnam.
1975 - Anwar Sadat became the first Egyptian president to officially
visit to the United States.
1984 - "Baby Fae" was given the heart of baboon after being born with a
severe heart defect. She lived for 21 days with the animal heart.
1985 - Approximately 110,000 people marched past the U.S. and Soviet
embassies in London to pressure the two countries to end their arms
race.
1990 - The U.S. State Department issued a warning that terrorists could
be planning an attack on a passenger ship or aircraft.
1996 - Federal prosecutors cleared Richard Jewell as a suspect in the
Olympic park bombing.
1998 - A French lab found a nerve agent on an Iraqi missile warhead.
2001 - It was announced that Fort Worth's Lockheed Martin won a defense
contract for $200 billion over 40 years. The contract, for the "joint
strike fighter," was the largest defense contract in history.
2002 - Russian authorities pumped a gas into a theater where separatist
rebels held over 800 hostages. The gas killed 116 hostages and all 50
hostage-takers were killed by the gas or gunshot wounds.
HRW accusations against Russia ‘bogus’ – Kremlin spokesman
RT - The claims of civilian deaths from Russian airstrikes in
Syria, which the Human Rights Watch said amounted to violation
of international law, are bogus, said the spokesman for the
Russian President. We know about the large number of reports,
hoaxes and deliberate lies about the consequences or the bombing
operation that the Russian troops are conducting. We heard
plenty of them in the past few weeks. This, I believe, is one of
them,” Dmitry Peskov told journalists when asked to comment on
the HRW accusations. He added that Russia has the goal of not
harming civilians as one of its priorities in Syria.
* Related:
Russian Airstrikes Hit NINE Hospitals In Syria
At least 12 killed, dozens injured as 7.5 quake hits
Afghanistan, Pakistan, India
RT - More than a dozen people have been killed after a
7.5-magnitude earthquake struck northern Pakistan, Afghanistan
and northern India, local media reported, citing local
officials. Massive tremors have been reported in New Delhi,
Islamabad and several other major cities.
Baghdad Allows Russia to Bomb ISIL Terrorists Running From Syria
Into Iraq
Sputnik News - ISIL militants aren't going to find a safe haven
from Russian airstrikes in Iraq after the country's parliament
gave Russia the green light to conduct airstrikes against ISIL
targets in Iraq… The approval comes amid security coordination
between the governments of Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria — all of
which seek to destroy ISIL. The four nations launched the
Baghdad Information Center to coordinate their military actions
against the terrorists both in Syria and Iraq… Immediately
following Russia's airstrike campaign in Syria, Russian and
Iraqi officials left open the possibility of expanding Russia's
anti-terrorist airstrikes from Syria into Iraq. Earlier this
month, Iraq Prime Minister Haider Abadi said he would welcome
Russian airstrikes against ISIL positions in his country if the
Russian military succeeded in Syria.
U.S., Saudi Arabia to bolster support for moderate Syrian
opposition
Reuters - The United States and Saudi Arabia agreed to increase
support to Syria's moderate opposition while seeking a political
resolution of the four-year conflict, the U.S. State Department
said after Secretary of State John Kerry met King Salman on
Saturday... "They pledged to continue and intensify support to
the moderate Syrian opposition while the political track is
being pursued," the State Department statement said after
Kerry's meetings in Saudi Arabia. It did not spell out what kind
of support would be offered. Rebels have appealed for more
military support from foreign backers, including Saudi Arabia,
to confront major Syrian army offensives. Those offensives are
backed by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian fighters and Russian
air strikes.
Lockheed Martin, Boeing Rally Around Saudi Arabia, Wave Off
Humanitarian Concerns
The Intercept - Representatives from two major defense
contractors whose advanced weaponry is being used in the Saudi
Arabia-led bombing campaign that has killed scores of civilians
in Yemen were quick to defend the human rights record of the
Persian Gulf kingdom in a panel discussion held last week in
Washington, D.C… The increased attention to the human rights
record of Saudi Arabia is due to several factors. The absolute
monarchy has dramatically ramped up executions as well as
repressive police actions against minority groups, including
Shiite Saudis. Many of the executions are in connection with
trivial offenses, such as adultery and acts considered as
“sorcery.”.. For both defense contracting giants, the Middle
East is still a growing market. The Congressional Research
Service notes that between October 2010 and October 2014, the
U.S. signed off on more than $90 billion in weapons deals to the
Saudi government.
Blair acknowledges ISIS stemmed from Iraq invasion, refuses to
apologize for toppling Saddam
Rt - The former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has
acknowledged there are “elements of truth” in statements saying
the rise of Islamic State was a direct consequence of the US-led
invasion of Iraq, but refused to apologize for attacking the
country. "I find it hard to apologize for removing Saddam. I
think, even from today in 2015, it is better that he's not there
than that he is there," Blair told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. The
full interview is to be aired later on Sunday. Saddam Hussein
was a dictatorial ruler of Iraq, who had dragged the country
into wars with neighboring Iran and Kuwait and used chemical
weapons to quash down the rebellious Kurdish minority.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
DEA agents caught in Colombian prostitution scandal punished
with. bonuses
Hot Air - Federal drug enforcement agents got bonuses worth
thousands of dollars while they were investigated and
disciplined for allegedly attending sex parties with prostitutes
in Columbia, according to a new probe into the scandal. In a
report issued Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General
Michael Horowitz found that the bonus issued by the Drug
Enforcement Administration violated an agency policy prohibiting
employees from receiving promotions, awards or other favorable
personnel actions for three years after discipline for
significant misconduct, or while misconduct is investigated. The
awards ranged from $1,500 to $32,000, with the high end going to
senior executives disciplined for their role in the scandal.
New Study: Cops With College Degrees Are Less Likely to Use
Force Against Citizens
The Free Thought Project - A new study out of Michigan State
University proposes an eye-opening correlation between college
educated police officers and their actions as cops. The study
suggests that college-educated police experience higher rates of
job dissatisfaction. The study also suggests that police
officers with college degrees are more likely to have adverse
views of their supervisors and don’t necessarily favor community
policing.
Justice Dept Ends IRS Investigations, Won't Charge Lerner
Townhall - After a two-year investigation into whether the IRS
knowingly targeted conservative groups, the Justice Department
will not bring charges against IRS official Lois Lerner and the
larger agency. Although officials found rampant 'mismanagement'
within the IRS, that does mean it is guilty of criminal
activity, the DOJ concluded. "We found no evidence that any IRS
official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt, or
other inappropriate motives that would support a criminal
prosecution," Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik said in
the letter. "We also found no evidence that any official
involved in the handling of tax-exempt applications or IRS
leadership attempted to obstruct justice. Based on the evidence
developed in this investigation and the recommendation of
experienced career prosecutors and supervising attorneys at the
department, we are closing our investigation and will not seek
any criminal charges."
Sitting on a Million Disability Claims, SSA Says 450-Day Wait
Might Be Cut to 270 Days.by 2020
AllGov - The Social Security Administration is still trying to
reduce its worst-ever backlog of claims, which went from
approaching a million one year ago to actually hitting 1 million
cases in 2015. The agency is struggling to process the claims
fast enough, causing the wait time to balloon to 450 days for a
decision. But a senior SSA official has developed a plan for
reducing the wait time to “only” 270 days by 2020, which Office
of Disability Adjudication and Review chief Terrie Gruber says
would eliminate the backlog… The backlog is the product of
several factors, according to the Post: The number of requests
for hearings has increased, the federal judges who hear appeals
have become less productive, there are fewer attorneys on staff
who could decide cases without going through the lengthy hearing
process and fewer judges overall.
Majority Of U.S. College Students Now Support "Regulating" Free
Speech
Zero Hedge - … The William F. Buckley Jr. Program at Yale
recently commissioned a survey from McLaughlin & Associates
about attitudes towards free speech on campus. Some 800 students
at a variety of colleges across the country were surveyed. The
results, though not surprising, are nevertheless alarming. By a
margin of 51 percent to 36 percent, students favor their school
having speech codes to regulate speech for students and faculty.
Sixty-three percent favor requiring professors to employ
“trigger warnings” to alert students to material that might be
discomfiting. One-third of the students polled could not
identify the First Amendment as the part of the Constitution
that dealt with free speech. Thirty-five percent said that the
First Amendment does not protect “hate speech,” while 30 percent
of self-identified liberal students say the First Amendment is
outdated.
California Sheriffs Sue To Stop ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban
Breitbart - Thirty sheriffs across the state of California are
joining with the California Rifle and Pistol Association in a
suit claiming Los Angeles’s recently instituted “high capacity”
magazine ban “violates state regulations.” Gun owners in Los
Angeles have until November 18 to surrender all “high capacity”
magazines to police or otherwise dispose of them.... According
to the Los Angeles Daily News, Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko
is involved in the suit and is worried about the legality of
police driving through the city with “high capacity” magazines
on their belts and in their guns. He suggests the law creates
confusion because “other parts of the state allow high-capacity
magazines,” thus sheriff’s will have to figure out whether to
lessen the number of rounds they are willing to carry or avoid
being in the city when possible.
Hillary Clinton: GOP Wants Veterans Affairs Department to Fail
Breitbart - On Friday, Hillary Clinton, denying reality once
again, claimed that the Veterans Affairs scandals plaguing the
Department of Veterans Affairs have been blown out of proportion
by Republicans who want the department to fail. Clinton,
appearing on the Rachel Maddow Show, admitted that the problem
has “not been as widespread as it has been made out to be,”
adding, “Now nobody would believe that from the coverage you
see, and the constant berating of the VA that comes from the
Republicans, in – in part in pursuit of this ideological agenda
that they have. They try to create a downward spiral, don’t fund
it to the extent that it needs to be funded, because they want
it to fail, so then we can argue for privatization.”
'Pathetic,' Not 'Coming Clean': Presidential Candidates React to
Hillary's Hearing Performance
Townhall - The Republican presidential candidates have clashed
over policy and personality, but one thing they all seem to
agree on is that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
offered few real answers into the failed security measures in
Benghazi, Libya in 2012 that resulted in four American diplomat
deaths. Her appearance at Thursday’s hearing on Capitol Hill was
her first time facing the Select Benghazi Committee. She
claimed, among other news-to-us items, that she did not perform
the bulk of her work on emails, hence why there are so few
correspondences relating to Benghazi, and that she did not say
the Benghazi attacks were ever related to a YouTube video. A
quick fact check proves the latter claim is blatantly false.
CBS Poll: Ben Carson Ties Donald Trump in Iowa; Billionaire
Soars over Field in NH, SC
Breitbart - GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson moved up
in Iowa to tie GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, but Trump remains
the top pick among GOP voters in New Hampshire and South
Carolina, according to a new CBS News poll.... In Iowa, Trump
and Carson tied with 27 percent. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) came in
third in Iowa with 12 percent, while Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
came in fourth with 9 percent. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took
the last stop in the top five in Iowa with 6 percent.... Trump
held a slight lead over Carson in Iowa last month, but CBS News
reports that Carson has gained ground with more support from
white evangelicals. Carson also does better with female voters
in Iowa, but Trump has more support among male voters.
Poll: Republicans view Donald Trump as strongest presidential
candidate
PBS - Republican voters view Donald Trump as their strongest
general election candidate, according to an Associated Press-GfK
poll that highlights the sharp contrast between the party’s
voters and its top professionals regarding the billionaire
businessman’s ultimate political strength. Seven in 10
Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters say Trump
could win in November 2016 if he is nominated, and that’s the
most who say so of any candidate. By comparison, 6 in 10 say the
same for retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who, like Trump, has
tapped into the powerful wave of antiestablishment anger
defining the early phases of the 2016 contest.
Ben Carson: Intensify the Drug War
Kurt Nimmo - Presidential candidate Ben Carson told Glenn Beck
that if elected he will intensify the war on drugs. He also said
he opposes the legalization of marijuana. “Absolutely,” the
retired neurosurgeon said when asked by Beck if he intends to
continue the war on drugs. “I intend to fight.”... Alaska,
Colorado, Washington and Oregon and the District of Columbia
have legalized marijuana for recreational use while twenty-three
states have legalized the use of medical marijuana. Despite
public support for marijuana legalization, as president Carson
would work to keep drugs illegal. He would spend more federal
money and dedicate more law enforcement resources to enforcing
drug laws and imprisoning offenders. “I don’t think this is
something we really want for our society,” Carson told Greta Van
Susteren of Fox News in 2014 after Colorado legalized
recreational marijuana.
Analyst John Kaiser Warns Of Turbulence: ‘Geopolitical
Dislocations Could Result In Key Resource Supplies Disappearing’
Mac Slavo - In a candid interview with Future Money Trends
Kaiser explains just how political dislocations could result in
supply lines to critical commodities like food, copper, zinc and
gold being cut – even without a major war – should the United
States, Russia and China continue to bump heads.... As we know,
much of our critical supply chain is dependent on China.
Likewise, Russia supplies necessary industrial metals. One
misstep here, whether in the South China Sea, Ukraine or the
middle east and we could very well see massive price spikes for
commodity resources across the board. This instability, as John
Kaiser notes, could lead to a collective rush of risk capital
into safe haven assets, including gold:
24 States Sue Federal Government to Halt EPA ‘Illegal’ Power
Plan
Breitbart - Texas, West Virginia, and 22 other states have filed
a lawsuit to challenge an Obama Administration rule that
opponents say radically restructures the way electricity is
produced and consumed in the United States.The Plaintiff states
say that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule will
result in higher electricity bills and less reliable service.
The EPA is seeking to reduce carbon emissions from
electric-generating plants by 32 percent by 2030. The reduction
is based on levels that existed in 2005. Besides Texas and West
Virgina, other states that have joined as plaintiffs in the
lawsuit include: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida,
Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
$1 Billion ‘Toilet to Tap’ Wastewater Recycling Plants Proposed
in Southern CA
Natural Society - The Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California is discussing the plan with county sanitation
districts in the hopes that it could free up more resources to a
state with a rapidly-expanding population suffering from a
punishing drought. The agency is looking to build what would be
the world’s largest plants to recycle sewage into drinking water
closer to home. For more than 80 years, it has imported water
from hundreds of miles away.
EPA Shuts Off Faulty Sensors Used to Detect Radiation
Nationwide: WSJ
Newsmax -The agency said that 99 of 135 beta-radiation sensors
in its RadNet system are not able to check for levels in real
time and have been turned off, The Wall Street Journal
reports.... EPA officials attributed the problem to
electromagnetic interference from cellular telephone towers —
and efforts to resolve the problem have failed, the Journal
reports. They discovered the beta-detection difficulty in 2006
after installing the real-time monitors. "If real-time beta
measurements were unnecessary, why did the government spend
money installing the capability in the first place?" Daniel
Hirsch, who lectures on nuclear policy at the University of
California, Santa Cruz, asked the Journal.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
CRISPR tweak may help gene-edited crops bypass biosafety
regulation
Nature - A twist on a revolutionary gene-editing technique may
make it possible to modify plant genomes while sidestepping
national biosafety regulations, South Korean researchers say.
Plant scientists have been quick to experiment with the popular
CRISPR/Cas9 technique, which uses an enzyme called Cas9, guided
by two RNA strands, to precisely cut segments of DNA in a
genome. By disabling specific genes in wheat and rice, for
example, researchers hope to make disease-resistant strains of
the crops. But the process can introduce bits of foreign DNA
into plant genomes. And some jurisdictions, such as the European
Union, could decide to classify such plants as genetically
modified organisms (GMOs) — making their acceptance by
regulatory bodies contentious, says geneticist Jin-Soo Kim of
Seoul National University.
Lymphatic Drainage: How To Detoxify Lymph Nodes? Here Are 7
Simple Ways!
Natural News Blogs - The lymphatic system, or lymph system as it
is also called, is a system made up of glands, lymph nodes, the
spleen, thymus gland and tonsils. Lymphatic system is vital for
both tissue repair and controlling inflammation in most organs
of the human body. The improper drainage of the lymphatic
system, results in an impaired immune system, or even tumors in
the lymph nodes. Detoxing your body is easy as long as you know
ways to tap into your lymphatic system. A healthy glow comes
from the inside out. Even the fluid in the eyes is lymphatic
fluid. The cleaner your are inside, the brighter and clearer
your eyes will be.
Amish girl who fled United States to escape forced chemotherapy
is now cancer-free
(NaturalNews) Some might call it a "miracle," but alternative
and holistic medicine healers aren't really surprised to learn
that a 12-year old Amish girl is now cancer-free — after her
doctors testified in court just six months ago that she would be
dead by now if her family were permitted to refuse her
chemotherapy. As reported by the Medina Gazette, of Medina
County, Ohio, Maurice Thompson, head of the libertarian
non-profit group 1852 Center for Constitutional Law, said young
Sarah Hershberger now shows no signs of being stricken with
cancer at all and appears to be healthy.
Tampons, sterile cotton, sanitary pads contaminated with
glyphosate - study
RT - The vast majority ‒ 85 percent ‒ of tampons, cotton and
sanitary products tested in a new Argentinian study contained
glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide,
ruled a likely carcinogen by the World Health Organization.
Meanwhile, 62 percent of the samples tested positive for AMPA,
glyphosate's metabolite, according to the study, which was
conducted by researchers at the Socio-Environmental Interaction
Space (EMISA) of the University of La Plata in Argentina. All of
the raw and sterile cotton gauze analyzed in the study showed
evidence of glyphosate, said Dr. Damian Marino, the study's head
researcher.,,, “The result of this research is very serious,
when you use cotton or gauze to heal wounds or for personal
hygiene uses, thinking they are sterilized products, and the
results show that they are contaminated with a probably
carcinogenic substance,” said Dr. Medardo Avila Vazquez,
president of the congress.
10 Unexpected Ways You Are Making Your Vegetables Less
Nutritious
Natural News Blogs - “Eat your vegetables”, a phrase we probably
all heard dozens of times when we were kids. And although your
mom was absolutely right to make you eat your greens, some of
our little sneaky habits are making eating vegetables less
healthy than we may think. Here are 10 ways you may be making
your vegetables less nutritious or healthy.
First Gene-Edited Dogs Reported in China
MIT News - An extra-muscular beagle has been created through genome
engineering. Are we on our way to customizing the DNA of our pets?
Scientists in China say they are the first to use gene editing to
produce customized dogs. They created a beagle with double the amount of
muscle mass by deleting a gene called myostatin.... Lai and 28
colleagues reported their results last week in the Journal of Molecular
Cell Biology, saying they intend to create dogs with other DNA
mutations, including ones that mimic human diseases such as Parkinson’s
and muscular dystrophy. “The goal of the research is to explore an
approach to the generation of new disease dog models for biomedical
research,” says Lai. “Dogs are very close to humans in terms of
metabolic, physiological, and anatomical characteristics.”... Genome
editing refers to newly developed techniques that let scientists easily
disable genes or rearrange their DNA letters. The method used to change
the beagles, known as CRISPR-Cas9, is particularly inexpensive and
precise.
Friday
- October 23, 2015 -
Today in History:
1864 - During the U.S. Civil War, Union forces led by Gen. Samuel R.
Curtis defeated the Confederate forces in Missouri that were under Gen.
Stirling Price.
1915 - Approximately 25,000 women demanded the right to vote with a
march in New York City, NY.
1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting
the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.
1942 - During World War II, the British began a major offensive against
Axis forces at El Alamein, Egypt.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1946 - The United Nations General Assembly convened in New York for the
first time.
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. naval "quarantine" of
Cuba was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States
(OAS).
1962 - The U.S. Navy reconnaissance squadron VFP-62 began overflights of
Cuba under the code name "Blue Moon."
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat
Communist China.
1973 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the
subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.
1978 - China and Japan formally ended four decades of hostility when
they exchanged treaty ratifications.
1985 - U.S. President Reagan arrived in New York to address the U.N.
General Assembly.
1989 - Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet
rule.
1992 - Japanese Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese emperor to
stand on Chinese soil.
1995 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton
agree to a joint peacekeeping effort in the war-torn Bosnia.
1998 - Japan nationalized its first bank since World War II.
2001 - NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft began orbiting Mars. In 2010, it
became the longest-operating spacecraft ever sent to Mars.
Iceland jails 26 bankers for a combined 74 years in prison
Hang The Bankers - In a move that would make many capitalists’
head explode if it ever happened here, Iceland just sentenced
their 26th banker to prison for their part in the 2008 financial
collapse. In two separate Icelandic Supreme Court and Reykjavik
District Court rulings, five top bankers from Landsbankinn and
Kaupping — the two largest banks in the country — were found
guilty of market manipulation, embezzlement, and breach of
fiduciary duties. Most of those convicted have been sentenced to
prison for two to five years. The maximum penalty for financial
crimes in Iceland is six years, although their Supreme Court is
currently hearing arguments to consider expanding sentences
beyond the six year maximum.
Putin: No need to distinguish between ‘moderate’ & other
terrorists
RT - There can be no "moderate" terrorists, President Putin
said, speaking about the situation in the Middle East at the
Valdai discussion forum. "Why play with words dividing
terrorists into moderate and not moderate. What's the
difference?" Putin told the forum. A whole "snarl" of terrorist
groups act in the region, who fight also against each other for
"sources of income" and not for ideology, Putin said, adding
that the weapons provided to "moderate" opposition in the region
had ended up in the hands of terrorists. Some countries are
playing a double game, the Russian president said, adding that
while they fight against terrorism they also "place figures on
the board" in their own interests.
Qatar Threatens Military Intervention in Syria, Damascus Warns
of “Harsh Response”
Kurt Nimmo - Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah said on
Wednesday his nation is considering direct military intervention
in Syria to help jihadi mercenaries overthrow the government of
Bashar al-Assad. “If a military intervention will protect the
Syrian people from the brutality of the regime, we will do it,”
Attiyah said. “If Qatar carries out its threat to militarily
intervene in Syria, then we will consider this a direct
aggression … Our response will be very harsh,” Syrian Deputy
Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad said in response to Attiyah’s
remark. Qatar has played a major role in arming and supporting
the Wahhabist mercenaries.
GM Cow Trials in New Zealand Show Disastrous Results
Sustainable Pulse - GE Free NZ ‘s report on “GE Animals in New
Zealand: the first fifteen years, 2000 – 2015”, documents the
world’s first field trials of genetically modified cows, bred to
express one of six transgenic protein traits in milk for use as
bio-pharmaceutical products.... Using AgResearch’s own records,
the report catalogues a sad and profoundly disturbing story that
has characterized the genetic engineering (GE) trials. The
surrogate and transgenic cows suffer from chronic illness,
reproductive losses, sudden unexplained deaths, and severe
deformities.
GM Crops Now Banned in 36 Countries Worldwide
Sustainable Pulse - Thirty six (36) countries worldwide have
officially banned the cultivation of GM crops and only 28
actually grow GM crops. The picture painted by the Biotech
industry and the U.S. government that GM crops have been
accepted by the majority of countries worldwide is therefore
quite obviously wrong. In fact many countries have recently
started to put in place regulations to protect their population
and environment from the environmental and health damage caused
by GM crops.... Official GM crop cultivation bans...
Idaho Quietly Seeks ‘Ebola Coordinator’
Adan Salazar - The State of Idaho is seeking a person with healthcare
system experience to head up their Ebola division, following reports
that a nurse suffered a relapse of the deadly virus in London. A job
post appearing on the state’s site 7 days ago, according to Google,
details the “Ebola Coordinator” job opening, a position whose candidate
would be responsible for organizing with federal authorities.... One of
the “responsibilities” the candidate should be prepared for is assisting
“in development of statewide transport and referral plans for an Idaho
Ebola patient to be transported to the Region 10 treatment center.” It’s
curious exactly why the CDC has chosen Idaho for the position,
especially since it is not one of the states that has experienced an
outbreak, according to their own information.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Obama vetoes defense bill, sends it back to Congress
Reuters - President Barack Obama vetoed a sweeping $612 billion
defense policy bill on Thursday, returning the measure to the
Republican-controlled Congress because of the way it uses money
meant for war spending to avoid automatic budget cuts to
military programs. "I'm going to be sending it back to Congress
and my message to them is very simple: 'Let's do this right,'"
Obama told reporters. "We're in the midst of budget discussions.
Let's have a budget that properly funds our national security as
well as economic security," he said. Obama also said he
disagreed with provisions in the National Defense Authorization
Act (NDAA) that would have limited his ability to close the
Guantanamo Bay detention center before he leaves office in
January 2017.
Hillary Clinton’s 5 Biggest Lies in Her Benghazi Testimony
Breitbart - Vice President Joe Biden’s announcement on Wednesday
that he would not run for president of the United States made it
a foregone conclusion that the media would worship at the shrine
of Hillary Clinton during her Benghazi testimony on Thursday....
Already the narrative has been set: Hillary Clinton was a victim
of a political Benghazi committee dedicated to her destruction.
Every Congressional committee in history has entailed some
political motivation—would anyone argue that the Watergate
investigations were completely apolitical?—but the media
myopically focused on the idiotic comments of Rep. Kevin
McCarthy (R-CA) before Hillary’s testimony, crafting the story
of her victimization before it had even taken place.
* Related:
Full text: Clinton testifies before House committee on Benghazi
Paul Ryan Officially Running for Speaker of the House
Breitbart - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Rep.
Paul Ryan officially entered the race for Speaker of the House
Thursday evening. Politico reported, “Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan
said he is ‘eager’ to be the Speaker of the House, and he
believes the House Republican Conference is ‘ready to move
forward as one, united team.'”
'Confidential' Planned Parenthood video leaked
Politico - Complete raw footage from the Planned Parenthood
videos surfaced Thursday on the conservative website Got News?,
whose editor said he had gotten it from a House staffer despite
lawmakers’ pledge to keep it confidential. Editor Charles
Johnson released the full footage Thursday even after the
National Abortion Federation got a temporary restraining order a
day earlier prohibiting any dissemination. Johnson vowed to
"contest any unconstitutional prior restraint of speech." The
abortion providers group had gone to court after Johnson’s
website put part of the video online earlier this week.
* Related:
Got News?: Here Are All The Unreleased Planned Parenthood Tapes
Texas Inspector General Officials Raid Planned Parenthood
Clinics
Breitbart - Agents from the Texas Office of the Inspector
General arrived Thursday morning unannounced at Planned
Parenthood clinics in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio, seeking
documents related to allegations of Medicaid fraud.... Planned
Parenthood said the raid was “politically motivated,” says the
report, and that the Texas agents demanded that thousands of
pages of documents stored in their clinics throughout the state
be delivered within 24 hours.
Former Ron Paul Aide Acquitted in Federal Trial
Kit Daniels - Jesse Benton, a longtime advisor to both former
congressman Ron Paul and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), was acquitted
Thursday in a federal trial of which Ron Paul said was intended
to undermine his son Rand Paul’s current presidential
campaign.... The court had previously dismissed four of the five
counts against Benton on Oct. 9, stating that the prosecution
had blatantly violated agreements between Benton and the
government, but Benton remained under indictment for a single
count of lying to the FBI until his acquittal on Thursday.
Clinton Testimony: Ranking Republican Claims Dems Deliberately
Hindered Benghazi Investigation
Steve Watson - After months of calling the Benghazi
investigation a partisan attempt to bring down her presidential
campaign, Hillary Clinton today arrived on Capitol Hill, and was
immediately subjected to a dressing down from the leading
Republican on the investigative committee, Rep. Trey Gowdy.
Gowdy ripped into Clinton, after an opening speech in which she
again took the high ground and stated “We need leadership at
home to match our leadership abroad… leadership that puts
national security ahead of ideology.”
* Related:
Hillary Testifies Before Benghazi Committee
WikiLeaks publishes second batch of docs from CIA chief's
personal email
RT - The whistleblower organization WikiLeaks has published a
second set of documents obtained from CIA Director John
Brennan’s personal email account. The first set of documents
published on Wednesday contained reports on Afghanistan and
torture, and ideas for US policy towards Iran. The new release
contains Brennan's address book and a full version of 'Executive
summary of key findings and recommendations on Afghanistan and
Pakistan’, some pages of which were published on Wednesday by
Anonymous.
PC Police Label Thomas Jefferson Statue Racist, Sexist
Kit Daniels - Leftist activists are calling for the removal of a
Thomas Jefferson statue because they claim it’s “racist” and
“sexist.” Feminists and #BlackLivesMatter protestors had
previously defaced the statue at the University of Missouri
using post-it notes with the phrases “Racist,” “Rapist,” and
“Slave Owner.” Now they’re lashing out at students who hosted a
“Stand With Jefferson” rally in support of the statue.
Police ticket citizens for good behavior while businesses profit
(Video)
MassPrivateI - Chapel Hill, North Carolina police were set to
ticket citizens under the "GOOD TICKET" initiative which
allegedly rewarded citizens who obey the law(s).... Pedestrians
using crosswalk signals and bicyclists following roadway signs
would qualify for "GOOD TICKETS". The tickets would include a
coupon and brief information on safety laws. The initiative will
create business opportunities for local stores and
restaurants... According to the DailyTarHeel article, Noodles
and Company and Franklin Street Yoga have both agreed to give
out coupons for the initiative. Businesses are openly
collaborating with police to make a PROFIT! This is not the
first police department to collaborate with businesses.. Sept,
2015, Michigan police stopped teenage motorists who obey the law
and gave them McDonalds, Taco Bell or Subway coupons.
Report: Adviser Told Biden – Clinton War Machine Will “Destroy
You”
Paul Joseph Watson - Joe Biden’s decision to stay out of the
2016 presidential race was reportedly made after a conversation
with a high ranking adviser who told him the Clinton war machine
was prepared to destroy the Vice President’s reputation if he
dared challenge Hillary. The reason cited behind Biden’s
announcement yesterday that he would not run for the Democratic
nomination was the fact that his family is still in mourning
after the loss of Biden’s son Beau to brain cancer. However,
according to DC Whispers another factor could have swayed the
decision – a warning that the Clintons were “fully prepared and
willing” to utterly destroy Joe Biden’s “past, present, and
future.”
John McCain Leads the Charge to Cut Soldier Benefits; Money for
Terrorists But Not For Troops
Brandon Turbeville - ...Congressional Defense leaders on Tuesday
announced that they are looking to enact more “entitlement and
personnel reforms” in 2016. The bill being submitted and debated
by Congress would provide a much lower than anticipated pay
raise for U.S. troops beginning in January 2016. It includes
cuts in the growth of military housing stipends, an introduction
of new co-pays for some military drug prescriptions and a
scale-down of the commissary benefit. The bill also includes
changes to the traditional military retirement system and an
overhaul of military healthcare offerings like Tricare.
Texas, Kansas, and Louisiana Sue Federal Government Obamacare
Tax
Breitbart - The states of Texas, Kansas, and Louisiana filed a
lawsuit today against the federal government over the
unconstitutional tax that funds Obamacare. The Plaintiffs
complain of the federal government’s actions in implementing the
portions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act known
as the Health Insurance Providers Fee. The Plaintiff States ask
for declartory and injunctive relief. The Plaintiff States also
seek monetary relief against the United States in the form of a
return of the Health Insurance Providers Fees previously made.
Sec. State Kerry: Disqualify Climate Change Skeptics from High
Public Office
Kurt Nimmo - During the Climate and Clean Energy Investment
Forum held in Washington on Wednesday, Secretary of State John
Kerry said those who question climate change should be
disqualified from seeking public office.
Fluoridation Company Fined $2 Billion
Dr. Mercola - Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC is one of the world's
largest phosphate mining and fertilizer companies. In October
2015, the company agreed to a $2 billion settlement with the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Louisiana Department
of Environmental Quality, and the Florida Department of
Environmental Protection over a 10-year battle over hazardous
waste disposal. The EPA accused Mosaic of improper storage and
disposal of waste from the production of phosphoric and sulfuric
acids, key components of fertilizers, at the company's
facilities in Louisiana and Florida. It is ironic that the EPA
acknowledges the threat posed to groundwater by Mosaic's
hazardous waste disposal because one of the chemicals classified
as hazardous waste is fluorosilicic acid, another waste product
of their fertilizer production. Mosaic is one of the largest
sellers of fluorosilicic acid, which is widely used by public
drinking water systems across the US to fluoridate water
supplies. More than 200 million Americans drink these wastes
every day, according to the Fluoride Action Network (FAN).
Superyacht Getaway Subs And Luxury Bomb Shelters: The Elite Are
The Most Paranoid Preppers Of All
Economic Collapse - When it comes to “prepping”, many among the
elite take things to an entirely different level. As you will
see below, the elite are willing to pay big money for cutting
edge home security measures, luxury bomb shelters and superyacht
getaway submarines. Some of the things that the elite are
demanding for their own protection go beyond even what we would
see in a James Bond film, and serving the prepping needs of the
elite has become a multi-billion dollar business. Meanwhile, the
media outlets that the elite own continue to mock the rest of us
for getting prepared. All the time we see headlines like this
one that appeared in a major American news source: “Preppers:
Meet the paranoid Americans awaiting the apocalypse“. Well, if
we are paranoid for setting aside some extra food and supplies
for the future, what does that make the people that you will
read about in this article?
E. Coli in Two Meningococcal Vaccines!
Catherine Frompovich - A huge hat tip goes to Sallie O Elkordy,
who asked if anyone has contradicting information about E. coli
being an ingredient in two meningococcal vaccines, for bringing
this to my attention. As readers can see from the below CDC
Pinkbook of vaccine excipients and media, the two 2015
Meningococcal B vaccines Bexsero and Trumenba contain E. coli,
so what can be expected from that ingredient being injected into
the human bloodstream?... Readers are encouraged to do your
research and homework regarding every vaccine’s ingredients/excipients.
Here’s the link for all vaccine package inserts. Please study
them carefully!
Olive Oil Superior to Mammography In Preventing Cancer
Green Med Info - Adding just 4 tablespoons of olive oil a day to
a Mediterranean diet cuts the risk of invasive breast cancer by
68%.... A growing body of research exists showing that dietary
components have potent anti-breast cancer activity. Also, plenty
of studies now suggest the Mediterranean diet might make a
difference. Population studies show that, historically, breast
cancer rates are lower in Mediterranean countries than in the
U.S. or Northern and Central Europe. The Mediterranean diet
diverges from the typical Western diet (a "lethal disease
vector" itself) by emphasizing eating fish, nuts, legumes,
fruits, vegetables, and olive oil. But until now, no
intervention studies had tested the effect of the Mediterranean
diet on breast cancer.
“Miracle” Golden Rice Could Cause Birth Defects, Warns Indian
Scientist
Natural Society - Scientists in Bangladesh are preparing to
conduct field tests of Golden Rice, the world’s first
genetically engineered, vitamin A-enriched rice, before putting
into production. The crop is being touted as one answer to the
problem of micronutrient deficiencies around the world, but an
Indian scientist (among others) is warning that Golden Rice
poses a serious threat to human health.... While vitamin A is
important in pregnancy, an overabundance of the nutrient can
cause teratogensis, the production of birth defects in a
developing embryo. Too much vitamin A or an excess of retinoids
in pregnant women can result in malformations to fetuses’
skulls, faces, limbs, eyes, and central nervous systems.
Easy Ways to Boost Your Ability to Recall Now - and Later
Dr. Mercola - Your brain is actually a very moldable organ with
the remarkable ability to reorganize pathways, create new
connections and, in some cases, even create new neurons
throughout your entire lifetime. Much of this ability comes from
lifestyle choices, like the foods you eat, your daily activity
and exercise. However, some of it is driven by your mental
activities (like learning and socializing). You can even boost
your ability to recall information, both now and later, using
these simple tricks compiled by TIME...
Thursday
- October 22, 2015 -
Today in History:
1746 - The College of New Jersey was officially chartered. It later
became known as Princeton University.
1836 - Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first constitutionally elected
president of the Republic of Texas.
1844 - This day is recognized as "The Great Disappointment" among those
who practiced Millerism. The world was expected to come to an end
according to the followers of William Miller.
1907 - The Panic of 1907 began when depositors began withdrawing money
from many New York banks.
1939 - The first televised pro football game was telecast from New York.
Brooklyn defeated Philadelphia 23-14.
1954 - The Federal Republic of Germany was invited to join the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the
U.S. about his order to send U.S. forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade
was in response to the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.
1968 - Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft had
orbited the Earth 163 times.
1975 - Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich was discharged
after publicly declaring his homosexuality. His tombstone reads "A gay
Vietnam Veteran. When I was in the military they gave me a medal for
killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
1979 - The ousted Shah of Iran, Mohammad Riza Pahlavi was allowed into
the U.S. for medical treatment.
1981 - The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization was
decertified by the federal government for its strike the previous
August.
1986 - U.S. President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law.
1995 - The 50th anniversary of the United Nations was marked by a record
number of world leaders gathering.
1998 - The United Nations announced that over 2 million children had
been killed in war as innocent victims since 1987.
1998 - Pakistan's carpet weaving industry announced that they would
begin to phase out child labor.
1999 - China ended its first-ever human rights conference in which it
defied Western definitions of civil liberties.
1999 - The U.N. Security Council voted to send 6,000 troops to Sierra
Leone to oversee a peace plan that had been signed in July.
2010 - The International Space Station set the record (3641 days) for
the longest continuous human occupation of space. It had been
continuously inhabited since November 2, 2000.
US, Turkey angered by Assad’s ‘red carpet’ visit to Moscow
RT - The US and Turkey, two of the Syrian President Bashar
Assad’s key opponents, have not cheered his visit to Moscow,
with the White House slamming it as a “red carpet welcome.”
Russian and Syrian leaders were meeting for crisis consultations
and planning. The White House criticized the way the Syrian
leader was received, saying it resembled a “red carpet welcome.”
In that same statement, the US also accused Assad of using
chemical weapons against his own people and questioned Russia’s
interests in a political transition of power in Syria. “We view
the red carpet welcome for Assad, who has used chemical weapons
against his own people, at odds with the stated goal by the
Russians for a political transition in Syria,” White House
spokesman Eric Schultz said. Assad has stressed on multiple
occasions in the past that Western claims that his government
had used chemical weapons against the Syrian population are “an
insult to common sense” and “nonsense.”
‘London refuses to share ISIS target information with Moscow’ –
Russia’s envoy to UK
RT - The UK has refused to assist Russia with data on ISIS
targets in Syria, Russia’s ambassador to Britain has said.
London follows Washington in its decision not to share
intelligence data with Russia, despite the US’s signing of an
agreement on airstrikes.
US Army intelligence system said down during hospital attack
Phys.org - The U.S. Army's $5 billion intelligence network,
which is designed to give commanders battlefield awareness but
has been criticized for years as a boondoggle, was not working
in Afghanistan during the recent American air attack on a
hospital, according to a member of Congress who has been in
touch with military whistleblowers. Significant elements of the
Distributed Common Ground System, a network of computers and
sensors designed to knit together disparate strands of
intelligence, were off line in Afghanistan when U.S. commanders
approved an air strike Oct. 3 that killed 22 staff, patients and
others at a Doctors without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Rep.
Duncan Hunter wrote Tuesday to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
Germany to Bibi: No, We Were Responsible for the Holocaust, Not
Palestinians
Sputnik News - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
attempt to blame the Holocaust on a Palestinian religious leader
has drawn condemnation from Palestinians, politicians, and
historians. To that list of critics, now add Germany. On Tuesday
evening, Prime Minister Netanyahu made comments during a Zionist
Congress meeting which raised a few eyebrows. "Hitler didn’t
want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the
Jews," he said. "And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and
said, 'If you expel them, they’ll all come here.' 'So what
should I do with them?' he asked. He said, 'Burn them.'"
Russia and Iran consider bank to finance joint projects
RT - Russian Energy Minister Aleksandr Novak is in Iran to
discuss energy cooperation. Among the proposals is setting up of
a bank to boost joint projects. "One of the most important
issues that have a negative impact on the development of our
trade relations [with Iran] is the financial issue. Today, we
paid attention to this, and also discussed a number of proposals
to ensure that our joint projects will be financed properly,"
said Novak, adding the bank was among the proposals. "Iran is an
important and large trading partner, we are now at a new stage,
a new level of development of our relations,” he added.
Migrants Stay at 4 Star Hotel While Poor Germans Lose Their
Homes
Paul Joseph Watson - The sheer number of asylum seekers making
their way to the Saxony-Anhalt region has resulted in an
accommodation crisis, with the Maritim Hotel in Halle now being
used to house at least 80 migrants who began arriving last week.
The 4 star hotel boasts an indoor swimming pool, sauna and
fitness room and is located just a 10 minute walk from Halle’s
historic old town. According to one report, the relief agency
behind the relocation of the migrants is concerned that some of
the refugees are simply leaving the hotel and not returning,
while others are complaining about the lack of activities, with
games evenings and film screenings not being sufficient to keep
them entertained.
Finnish Police Banned From Identifying Migrants as Criminal
Suspects
Paul Joseph Watson - Finnish cops have been ordered by the
country’s national police board not to publicly identify
migrants as criminal suspects over concerns that doing so would
encourage a ‘racist’ backlash against the wave of asylum seekers
entering Scandinavia. The new guidance, reported on by Finnish
news outlet Iltalehti.fl, is designed to prevent “negative”
attitudes being attached to asylum seekers, as well as
maintaining “law and order and a sense of security” by not
radicalizing local populations who are opposed to migrants
entering the country. By keeping the migrant status of the
suspect confidential, the police board hopes that crimes
committed by asylum seekers will not “stir up anger.”
GCHQ handed new smartphone-hacking legal powers
RT - Spy agencies in Britain will be given the explicit right to
hack into smartphones and computers as part of a new law being
introduced by the Conservative government. Security services
MI5, MI6 and GCHQ can already access electronic devices by
exploiting software security vulnerabilities, but the legal
foundation for the practice is under scrutiny. New powers laid
out in the Investigatory Powers Bill, due to be introduced in
Parliament next month, will give spies a solid legal basis for
hacking into computer systems, according to the Times. The
revelation has sparked criticism from human rights group
Liberty, which accuses the government of giving spy agencies
“unlimited potential” to act against citizens.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Obama Unveils Roadmap To 'Bailout' Puerto Rico: "New" Bankruptcy
Rules & Federal Fiscal Oversight
Zero Hedge - Obama is pressing for Congress to give Puerto Rico
(PR) sweeping powers to reduce its $73 billion debt burden
through a form of bankruptcy protection not now available to
American territories and will also ask lawmakers to establish an
independent body to monitor the island’s fiscal affairs (a la
Troika). While the proposals likely face an uphill battle in
Congress, as NYTimes reports, both Democrats and Republicans are
under pressure to respond because Puerto Ricans are flooding the
US, particularly in central Florida, and are becoming an
increasingly important voting block in the 2016 presidential
race.
Leaked documents from CIA director’s email reveal thoughts on
torture, Iran, Afghanistan
RT - WikiLeaks has come into possession of the contents of CIA
chief John Brennan's email account. Among the documents, from
the period when Brennan worked in the private sector, are
reports on Afghanistan and torture, and ideas for US policy
towards Iran.... The leaked papers include alleged drafts
containing discussions about “challenges for the US Intelligence
Community in a post cold-war and post-9/11 world,” as well as
proposals regarding “torture methods.” Among the documents
harvested from Brennan’s personal emails is a May 2008 letter
from Christopher Bond, vice-chairman of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence, proposing a way to ban torture while
continuing to interrogate “high-value detainees.”
At Least 75 Percent Opposed: Freedom Caucus Likely To Nix Paul
Ryan’s Speakership Bid
Breitbart - The House Freedom Caucus is almost certainly going
to organize against a nascent potential House Speakership bid
from House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan
after he began “running his mouth” on Tuesday evening, several
senior House GOP aides close to the process told Breitbart
News.... “He had a shot before he started running his mouth,”
one senior GOP aide to a senior House Freedom Caucus member said
when reached by phone early Wednesday. The aide said he expects
that “at least 75 percent of the members are going to oppose
Ryan” after what Ryan demanded from Republicans in Tuesday
evening remarks and in written demands for a potential
Speakership bid.
Air Force Confiscates Private Property Near Area 51
Activist Post - Last month, a family living near Area 51 reached
out to the media, and revealed that not only has the US
government harassed them for decades, but they’ve tried to
confiscate the land which has been in their family since the
19th century. Now the Sheahan family’s struggle is coming to an
end, as the government finalizes the transfer of their property
to the US Air Force.
Biden won't run in 2016, boosting Clinton's White House hopes
Reuters - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he
would not run for president in 2016, ending months of indecision
and removing one of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton's
biggest potential obstacles to the party's nomination.... Biden
had been wrestling with doubts about whether he and his family
were ready for a grueling campaign while still mourning his son
Beau, who died of brain cancer in May. His son had urged him to
run.
* Related:
Trump: Biden Made ‘Correct Decision,’ Bring On Hillary’s ‘Bad
Record’
Expert That Correctly Predicted Market Moves In July, August And
September Says Stocks Will Crash In November
Economic Collapse - Over the past few days, I have seen a number
of references to the remarkable forecasts of Bo Polny of Gold
2020 Forecast. In recent months he has correctly predicted that
U.S. stocks would begin to drop in July, that there would be a
huge plunge in August and that that the month of September would
be rather uneventful. Now he is saying that he expects “November
to be a complete meltdown on the U.S. and world markets”. Just
because he has been right in the past does not guarantee that he
will be correct this time around, but lots of people (like me)
are starting to pay attention.
Goodbye Middle Class: 51 Percent of All American Workers Make
Less than 30,000 Dollars a Year
Daily Sheeple - According to brand new numbers that were just
released by the Social Security Administration, 51 percent of
all workers in the United States make less than $30,000 a year.
Let that number sink in for a moment. You can’t support a middle
class family in America today on just $2,500 a month –
especially after taxes are taken out. And yet more than half of
all workers in this country make less than that each month. In
order to have a thriving middle class, you have got to have an
economy that produces lots of middle class jobs, and that simply
is not happening in America today.... The following are some of
the numbers that really stood out for me…
Sunscreen Lotion Kills Off Coral Reefs Around the World
Sputnik News - There have long been concerns about the safety of
sunscreen. In particular, the 3,500 brands which contain a
UV-filtering chemical compound called oxybenzone. But while the
Environmental Working Group previously claimed that the chemical
could potentially penetrate the skin and cause hormonal and
cellular changes, the American Academy of Dermatology insists
there no evidence that it causes harm to humans.... A study
released on Tuesday by the Archives of Environmental
Contamination and Toxicology shows that oxybenzone is toxic to
coral and can be fatal in high concentrations. According to the
report, the compound modifies coral's DNA, makes it less
resistant to bleaching, and acts as an endocrine disruptor,
forcing baby coral to enshrine itself in its own skeleton and
die. Researchers say that even low concentrations of oxybenzone
can do harm. The equivalent of a single drop of water in six and
a half Olympic-sized swimming pools can significantly damage
coral.
NASA Gives 99-Percent Probability Of 5.0 Earthquake In LA
CBSLA - If scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena are correct, a moderately-sized earthquake is expected
within the next two-and-a-half years. JPL experts predict a
possible 5.0 magnitude quake in Los Angeles, but say it very
well could be stronger. JPL geophysicist Dr. Andrea Donnellan,
along with seven other scientists, has been using radar and GPS
to measure Southern California’s chances for a sizable
earthquake, and has made a sobering hypothesis about another big
one.
‘No customer oversight’: Dreaded cybersecurity bill CISA is back
RT - After a delay, cybersecurity legislation dreaded by privacy
advocates and relentlessly pursued by national security
officials, known as CISA, will get a vote on the Senate floor
“in a couple of days,”... Under the bill, private companies
would have increased liability protection with respect to
collecting American’s personal data that could potentially be
related to security threats. It would also make it easier for
them to share such data with the government, including
departments like the National Security Agency.
Warning: RoboDeer On The Prowl to Catch Poachers
Tech Swarm - Well, what can be said here? We live in a world
where there are RoboBees being proposed as pollinators,
insect-sized drone swarms being proposed for surveillance that
can be hidden in plain sight, and studies are being done to
develop the best personality for future RoboCops. So why not a
RoboDeer to roam the forest and help catch the off-season
hunter? - Apparently the fake mule deer will be more like a
high-tech decoy as opposed to a true robot that would be
equipped with a full array of surveillance tools. The RoboDeer
will still need to operate in the presence of an arresting
officer.... Funnily enough, Arizona is actually a bit behind the
times. Other states have been employing RoboDeer for years.
Nasa predicts near-miss with asteroid on Halloween
The Telegraph - This Halloween, an asteroid is going to be
flying closer to Earth than any has since 2006, according to
Nasa. The asteroid was spotted by Nasa a fortnight ago and is
set to fly past the Earth on Halloween at over 78,000mph. It
will cross by Earth at the closest it's been since 2006.... The
space agency has described the asteroid as 'hazardous' as it
falls well within 4,600,000 mile threshold of proximity to
Earth. The orbit is also erratic, so we can't exactly tell where
it will go. However, despite this, Nasa is confident that it
will not hit us. This probably won't spell the end of the world,
but it is quite interesting.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Monsanto Asks California to Pull Plan to List Herbicide as
Cancer Cause
Reuters - A plan by California environmental officials to list a
commonly used herbicide as cancer-causing should be withdrawn,
Monsanto Co told state regulators on Tuesday, saying
California’s actions could be considered illegal because they
are not considering valid scientific evidence. The formal
comments were filed by Monsanto with the state’s Office of
Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), part of
California’s environmental regulatory office, on the final day
the state accepted public comments about its intention to list
glyphosate as a cause of cancer. Glyphosate is the main
ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide as well as many other
herbicides.
8 Prepper Mistakes That Could Get You Killed
Off the Grid News - There are about 319 million people living in
the United States, and approximately 3 million of them are
survivalists, preppers, or whatever the parlance is of our times
(I prefer to call them realists). What does that mean? Well,
it’s simple math: Only one person in 100 is truly prepared for a
failing economy, natural disaster, regional war or pandemic –
not to mention a simple job loss. Yes, we’re talking here about
the top 1 percent, but in terms of situational awareness, not
money. If you’re among that group, your goal should be
maximizing efficiency and reducing costs. That said, let’s look
at the top eight prepping mistakes, in no particular order.
U.S. Citizens March on CDC Headquarters in Atlanta to Protest
Vaccine Science Corruption
Health Impact News - On October 23-25th, a gathering will be
held to demand the end of unsound political decisions based on
fraudulent science. Attendees of this rally will be taking their
message directly to the Atlanta headquarters of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The hopes for this CDC
rally demanding truth, transparency, and freedom will be to
create awareness around the dangers of vaccines and to spotlight
the “cesspool of corruption” within the agency as Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. recently described it. The CDC rally aims to
continue shattering the veil of silence and force the
conversation around runaway drug company monopolies that have
declared humanity’s health secondary to their bottom line. The
rally also demands answers from the CDC concerning the 2014
whistle blowing by their senior scientist Dr. William Thompson
who publicly admitted research fraud while at the agency doing
MMR vaccine studies.
10 Things Considered Healthy But Are Not
Natural Blaze - Whether it’s through marketing deception,
misunderstanding, bad education, bad science, misguidance or old
wives’ tales… when it comes to health there are a number of
reasons to believe that what we’ve been told is true is in
actual fact false.
17 Lemon Water Benefits That Will Change your Life
The Way U Think - Lemons are very inexpensive and they are
wonderful way to dress up the foods you are cooking so that they
are delicious. They even are an excellent way to add flavour to
what ever it is you are drinking, which is exactly why you may
want to consider using this fruit in your water. The two main
types of lemons are Eureka and Lisbon. There are also numerous
lemon water benefits that you may find useful by doing this. We
have listed 17 of them below.
Celery Juice- Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, Dissolves Calculus
And Natural Aphrodisiac
Natural News Blogs - Celery is one of the most nutritious foods
you could ever consume, but in order to get the benefits of its
nutrients, it should not be cooked. Raw celery is extremely high
in fiber and fluids, making it ideal for hydrating the body,
prevent Alzheimer’s disease, dissolves calculus, natural
aphrodisiac, aiding in digestion, and even helping with chronic
illnesses and diseases. Celery are high in Vitamin A, and its
stem are excellent source of Vitamins B1, B2, B6, and C. Celery
nutrition also includes potassium, calcium, folic acid,
phosphorous, and essential amino acids. It contains many other
active compounds that promote health and well-being. he Luteolin
in celery juice has also been shown in studies to be helpful in
combating dementia.
Do Not Allow Your Dog Even Casual Exposure to This Deadly Toxin
Dr. Becker - It seems every summer we learn of at least one much-loved
family dog that has tragically died after exposure to toxic blue-green
algae. According to a 2013 study, between 2007 and 2011, 13 states
(Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oregon,
Virginia, Wisconsin, California, Kansas, Montana, and Texas) reported 67
suspected or confirmed cases of dogs being poisoned through exposure to
harmful algae blooms.... Not all blue-green algae are toxic, but since
there’s no way to know whether a plant is poisonous without testing,
experts advise that all blooms floating on natural bodies of water
should be considered potentially toxic. Even minor exposure – like a dog
drinking a few mouthfuls of contaminated water – can be lethal....
Symptoms of blue-green algae toxicity include...
Wednesday
- October 21, 2015 -
Today in History:
1797 - "Old Ironsides," the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, was launched
in Boston's harbor.
1805 - The Battle of Trafalgar occurred off the coast of Spain. The
British defeated the French and Spanish fleet.
1879 - Thomas Edison invented the electric incandescent lamp. It would
last 13 1/2 hours before it would burn out.
1917 - The first U.S. soldiers entered combat during World War I near
Nancy, France.
1925 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it had fined 29,620
people for prohibition (of alcohol) violations.
1927 - In New York City, construction began on the George Washington
Bridge.
1944 - During World War II, the German city of Aachen was captured by
U.S. troops.
1945 - Women in France were allowed to vote for the first time.
1967 - Thousands of demonstrators marched in Washington, DC, in
opposition to the Vietnam War.
1983 - The Pentagon reported that 2,000 Marines were headed to Grenada
to protect and evacuate Americans living there.
1986 - The U.S. ordered 55 Soviet diplomats to leave. The action was in
reaction to the Soviet Union expelling five American diplomats.
1991 - Jesse Turner, an American hostage in Lebanon, was released after
nearly five years of being imprisoned.
1994 - North Korea and the U.S. signed an agreement requiring North
Korea to halt its nuclear program and agree to inspections.
1998 - Cancer specialist Dr. Jane Henney became the FDA's first female
commissioner.
2003 - The U.S. Senate voted to ban what was known as partial birth
abortions.
2003 - North Korea rejected U.S. President George W. Bush's offer of a
written pledge not to attack in exchange for the communist nation
agreeing to end its nuclear weapons program.
Assad to Putin at Moscow talks: Terrorists would seize larger
areas if Russia did not act
RT - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syrian President
Bashar Assad held talks in Moscow on Tuesday. The Syrian leader
said Russia’s actions have prevented the terrorists from seizing
larger areas in his country.... The two leaders conducted
lengthy negotiations, which then continued in the presence of
Russia’s top policymakers. Vladimir Putin said that the Syrian
people have been confronting terrorists “practically
single-handedly” for years, withstanding considerable
casualties. Lately, they have achieved serious and positive
results in this fight, he added.
Russia looks to corner global platinum market
RT - The world's second biggest platinum producer Russia is
actively developing platinum deposits in Zimbabwe, OilPrice.com
reports. Moscow's stake in the third biggest player could lead
to Russian dominance of the global platinum market. According to
the US Geological Survey, Russia produced 25,000 kilograms of
platinum in 2014. Zimbabwe produced 11,000 kilos last year,
outpacing the combined production of the US and Canada. The
global leader is South Africa with 110,000 kg. Russia controls
about 30 percent of global platinum and palladium output,
according to OilPrice. Platinum is not Russia’s only interest in
Zimbabwe, according to the report; Moscow is also interested in
gold and diamonds and Gazprom is considering the development of
coal-seam natural gas in the country. Platinum is a precious
metal used in the auto industry, energy sector and jewelry. The
most common use of platinum is in automobile catalytic
converters.
Russia, US sign cooperation deal on Syria airstrikes
RT - Russia and the US have signed an agreement regulating the
operations of the two countries' air forces in Syria. The deal
is aimed at preventing incidents and providing for the smooth
operation of the two nations' aircraft, and for mutual aid in
critical situations. The agreement, whose full name is "The
Memorandum of Mutual Understanding between the Defense
Ministries of Russia and the United States on preventing
incidents and providing for aviation flights during operations
in Syria" is hailed as a 'positive step', the Russian Defense
Ministry said in a press release. The document "has important
practical value. It regulates the actions of manned and unmanned
aircraft in the airspace above Syria. The Memorandum contains a
set of rules and limitations aimed at preventing incidents
between the air forces of Russia and the US," the Defense
Ministry says.
Canada to end airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, new prime minister
Trudeau says
The Guardian - Canadian Liberal prime minister designate Justin
Trudeau has confirmed that Canada will withdraw its fighter jets
from the US-led mission against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
In his first news conference following the sweeping majority
Liberal victory in Canada’s federal election, the visibly
fatigued leader said he had spoken with US president Barack
Obama in a phone call during which he discussed his intention to
pull Canada’s fighter jets out of the anti-Isis campaign.... He
did not set out a timeline for the withdrawal. Canada currently
has six CF-18 fighter jets taking part in the US-led bombing
campaign. They were due to remain in the region until March
2016.
Tear gas used as Palestinians, IDF clash in West Bank amid
spiking violence (VIDEO)
RT - The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has deployed tear gas
against Palestinian demonstrators who had been throwing stones
in the West Bank city of Ramallah. This month has seen about 10
Israelis and over 40 Palestinians killed in amid escalating
tensions. RT correspondent Paula Slier and her crew filmed a
group of Palestinian stone-throwers who were forced to retreat
by IDF soldiers in Ramallah. Slier had to don a gas mask as the
Israeli troops used tear gas against the Palestinians.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
5 Team Clinton on offense ahead of Benghazi committee hearing
Fox News - Hillary Clinton and her supporters are blistering the
Benghazi committee ahead of her much-anticipated testimony
Thursday, repeatedly questioning the GOP-led investigative
panel’s “credibility” as the former secretary of state gears up
for a potentially confrontational appearance. On Wednesday, a
super PAC supporting Clinton’s Democratic presidential campaign,
Priorities USA, will begin running TV ads aimed at bolstering
her image ahead of her appearance before the House Select
Committee on Benghazi.
Paul Ryan Will Run for Speaker–if Conservative Colleagues Stop
Being a ‘Problem’
Breitbart - After meeting with House Republicans this evening,
Rep. Paul Ryan admitted during a press conference that he was
willing to run for Speaker of the House–but only if they met a
list of demands of what it would take to get him to run. “We as
a conference should unify now and not after a divisive Speaker
election,” Ryan said, calling for Republicans to gather as a
team and “move from an opposition party to being a proposition
party.” Ryan’s list of demands appeared to highlight party unity
but also party loyalty, as he criticized the chaos in the
Republican caucus, leading to Boehner’s resignation.
* Related:
Paul Ryan: Job of U.S. Lawmaker Is to Put Yourself in Shoes of
Foreign Citizens
Chicago is going to pay gun owners $100 each to turn in their
guns
Business Insider - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a new
$250,000 effort to take guns off the city's streets. Under the
new program, churches and neighborhood community organizations
can apply to hold their own buyback events (with police help),
as opposed to previous buybacks which were single, city-run
events. "We're going to try everything we can to bring a level
of security and safety throughout the city of Chicago so that
our families and our children have the opportunity to grow up
free from violence," Emanuel said, according to CBS Chicago.
ACLU Files New Appeal in Drone Lawsuit
The Intercept - The Central Intelligence Agency is under renewed
legal pressure to release “thousands” of records pertaining to
its international drone war, following an appeal filed Monday by
the American Civil Liberties in Washington, D.C. The motion
comes just days after The Intercept published an eight-part
series based on cache of secret documents detailing the U.S.
military’s parallel reliance on unmanned airstrikes in the war
on terror. While The Intercept’s series, The Drone Papers,
offered new insights into the Pentagon’s drone missions in
Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan, the CIA’s covert drone war has
largely remained an official black hole.
Executive Order: DHS to Incentivize Hiring Foreigners
Breitbart - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is
proposing an expansion to a program that allows foreign students
with science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM)
degrees to work in the U.S. The changes were first announced in
conjunction with President Obama’s executive actions on
immigration reform in November and aims to increase the amount
of time under the Optional Practical Training program that
foreign students may work in the U.S. The OPT program allows
foreign students in certain fields to extend their stay in the
U.S. by working to attain “practical training.” The rule up for
consideration, would allow hundreds of thousands of foreigners
in the STEM fields to work in the U.S. via the OPT program for
three years, expanding the program from the current 29 months to
36 months.
Senate Dems block anti-sanctuary city bill (Video)
Fox News - Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a
Republican-backed bill that would crack down on so-called
sanctuary cities by threatening to withhold funds to local
governments that don't cooperate with federal immigration
officials. The bill failed on a 54-45 vote. It needed 60 to
advance. The Stop Sanctuary Cities Act became a lightning rod
issue ahead of the vote, as GOP sponsors tried to peel off just
a few Democrats to support it while Democratic leaders blasted
the legislation as counterproductive. The White House issued a
formal veto threat Tuesday morning, while the chamber's top
Democrat tried to discredit the measure by calling it "The
Donald Trump Act.”
Wapo Op-Ed Cheers: Mass Immigration Will Destroy NRA, Second
Amendment
Breitbart - Mass immigration from the Third World would destroy
the NRA and ultimately the Second Amendment, a Washington Post
op-ed declares, as foreigners with no cultural connection to
America continue to pour into the nation at an unprecedented
rate. “Support for, and opposition to, gun control is closely
associated with several demographic characteristics, including
race, level of education and whether one lives in a city. Nearly
all are trending forcefully against the NRA,” author and UCLA
professor Adam Winkler writes. “The core of the NRA’s support
comes from white, rural and relatively less educated voters.
This demographic is currently influential in politics but
clearly on the wane. While the decline of white, rural, less
educated Americans is generally well known, less often
recognized is what this means for gun legislation.”
Black Pastors Rising in Support of Guns in Church
Breitbart - On October 20 The Daily Beast (TDB) reported that
the idea of guns behind the pulpit has been gaining momentum in
black churches for years and that momentum increased
exponentially following the June attack on Emanuel African
Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June. The TDB report
comes just two days after a black Detroit pastor used a handgun
to kill an alleged attacker during a church service. Local 4
reported that the shooting occurred after “the [suspect] stormed
into the church during a service wielding a brick.” The pastor
fatally wounded the alleged attacker by firing “four or five
shots” from the Glock he carries to defend himself and his
congregation. As it turns out, the pastor at City of God is not
alone in his determination to be armed for such circumstances.
Trump Doubles Down on Bush 9/11 Remarks: ‘They Did Know It Was
Coming’
Breitbart - On Tuesday’s “New Day” on CNN, Republican
presidential front-runner defended his response aimed at his GOP
opponent former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), who had claimed in a
debate earlier this month that the country was kept safe under
former President George W. Bush. rump in an interview with
Bloomberg Television last week pointed out that the Sept. 11,
2001 terrorist attacks happened under the George W. Bush
presidency, which he said refutes his younger brother’s claim
the country was kept safe under George W. Bush’s watch. Trump
doubled down on that claim on CNN and claimed they knew the 9/11
attacks were coming and “didn’t really work on it.”
DC Media Fail: Carson Beats Hillary, Leaps 7 Points Into 2nd
Place In GOP Field
Breitbart - Two weeks ago the DC media launched a coordinated 10
day racist hate campaign against Dr. Ben Carson. A new CNN poll
shows that this campaign backfired spectacularly. A new polls
shows that Carson’s support leapt +7 points to 22%. He is now in
second place behind Donald Trump, who is up +3 at 27%. In the
general election, Carson also beats Hillary 48% – 47%.
5 Corporations Sucking California Dry During The Drought
Zero Hedge - As most people in the country know by now,
California is currently suffering from a severe, record-breaking
drought. In fact, it’s the worst drought in 1,200 years. While
Governor Jerry Brown recently issued a mandate for people to
start conserving water, large corporations use up and waste
vastly more water than individuals and small businesses, often
in ways that are detrimental to the environment. Let’s take a
look at five of the most massive corporations in California that
are the worst culprits when it comes to wasting water...
“They’re Looking For The Voice of God” – Tom Horn Explains The
Dangers Of CERN Particle Experiments (Video)
Mac Slavo - There are some unprecedented scientific experiments
taking place at the European Organization for Nuclear Research,
more commonly known as the CERN hadron collider. Some say it is
merely research into quantum physics and the inner workings of
our universe, while others have argued that the experiments are
dangerous and could well threaten humanity’s existence. What has
many observers concerned are experiments aimed at creating
multi-dimensional portals, or passageways, that would allow
scientists to actually send particles (or other information)
from earth to some far-off world which may exist on a completely
different dimensional plane than we do. But that’s not the scary
part. What has until now remained in the realm of science
fiction may soon become reality, because when a passageway like
the one CERN scientists are trying to build is opened, we may
also be able to receive information back from that other
dimension.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
34000 Pesticides and 600 Chemicals Later: Our Food Supply is No
Better for It
Natural Society - More than 34,000 pesticides derived from about
600 basic ingredients are currently registered for use in the
United States by the EPA. Industrial agriculture (meaning about
75% of all land used in the U.S. to grow food or raise animals)
relies on these chemicals to grow food. Where, exactly has this
gotten us? Billions of pounds of pesticides and herbicides used
has resulted in...
20 Reasons Why All The People That Quit Prepping After September
Are Dead Wrong
Economic Collapse - Millions of Americans were gearing up for
some huge event to happen in September, but the world didn’t end
and now many of them have given up entirely on prepping. Of
course the truth is that some absolutely earth-shattering events
did take place last month, but because September did not play
out exactly as some were anticipating, a lot of people feel very
let down. My contacts in the emergency food industry tell me
that sales have dropped off dramatically, and yesterday I was
told by someone that I trust that the same is true for those
that sell precious metals.
HHS Says Supplements Send 23,000 People to the Hospital ER! Each
Year!
Alliance for Natural Health - Balderdash. The agency’s own CDC
data shows that supplements are overwhelmingly safe. The
mainstream media is using a new study funded by the US
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), released last
week, to renew the false charges that supplements are
unregulated, unsafe, and require more federal oversight. Even a
cursory examination of the data provided in the study, however,
demonstrates once again that the alarmist headlines and the
calls for tighter regulations are completely unsupported by the
evidence. First, over 20% of the cases analyzed were the result
of unsupervised children swallowing pills. 40% of cases among
those 65 and older were caused by choking. Many other cases were
heart palpitations from ingesting too many diet pills, sexual
enhancement pills, and energy drinks.
Flu Shot Remains Most Dangerous Vaccine Based on Injuries and
Deaths Compensated by Government
Health Impact News - The Department of Justice issues a report
on vaccine injuries and deaths every quarter to the Advisory
Commission on Childhood Vaccines. There are 211 cases for
vaccine injuries and deaths for the period 5/16/2015 through
8/15/2015. 86 of the settlements were listed in this report,
giving the name of the vaccines, the injury, and the amount of
time the case was pending before settlement. Three of those
settlements were for deaths linked to vaccines, with two deaths
related to the flu shot, and one death for the HPV shot. 65 of
the 86 settlements were for injuries and deaths due to the flu
shot, and the majority of flu shot injuries were for
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). These quarterly reports on
vaccine injuries and death settlements from the U.S. vaccine
court are seldom, if ever, reported in the mainstream media. We
report them here at Health Impact News. Here is the latest
report from September 3rd, 2015.
CA Governor: No Experimental Drugs for Terminal Patients
Alliance for Natural Health - California Gov. Jerry Brown
recently vetoed the state’s Right to Try Act, which passed both
the state assembly and the senate with bipartisan support. In
his veto message, the governor wrote, “Patients with
life-threatening conditions should be able to try experimental
drugs, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s compassionate
use program allows this to happen.” If only this were true! Our
previous coverage of this issue has shown the governor’s
statement to be patently incorrect. As it stands now, the FDA
throws numerous roadblocks and hurdles into the paths of
terminally patients seeking access to experimental drugs through
the FDA’s compassionate use program. The FDA can even revoke
permission after it is granted.
McDonald’s to Kids: Eat Fast Food Everyday to Lose Weight
Brandon Turbeville - If ever a massive food corporation had no
shame – truly it would be McDonald’s. In addition to paying
their workers slave wages, doing everything in their power to
milk their employees for time and money, selling some of the
world’s worst quality food, and aggressive and shameless
marketing strategies (amongst many other negative qualities),
McDonald’s is now announcing yet another marketing ploy designed
to deflect any responsibility for the quality of its food and
for staggering rates of obesity.
Tuesday
- October 20, 2015 -
Today in History:
1774 - The new Continental Congress, the governing body of America’s
colonies, passed an order proclaiming that all citizens of the colonies
"discountenance and discourage all horse racing and all kinds of gaming,
cock fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays and other expensive
diversions and entertainment."
1803 - The U.S. Senate approved the Louisiana Purchase.
1818 - The U.S. and Great Britain established the boundary between the
U.S. and Canada to be the 49th parallel.
1892 - The city of Chicago dedicated the World's Columbian Exposition.
1903 - A joint commission ruled in favor of the U.S. concerning a
dispute over the boundary between Canada and the District of Alaska.
1910 - A baseball with a cork center was used in a World Series game for
the first time.
1944 - Allied forces invaded the Philippines.
1952 - The Mau Mau uprising against white settlers began in Kenya.
1968 - Jackie Lee Bouvier Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis.
1979 - The John F. Kennedy Library in Boston was dedicated.
1984 - The U.S. State Department reduced the number of Americans
assigned to the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
1994 - The website WhiteHouse.gov was launched.
1995 - Britain, France and the U.S. announced a treaty that banned
atomic blasts in the South Pacific.
2003 - A 40-year-old man went over Niagara Falls without safety devices
and survived. He was charged with illegally performing a stunt.
2009 - European astronomers discover 32 exoplanets.
Russian airstrikes in Syria 'redrawing battlefield lines',
sending ISIS fleeing
RT - Russian bombers and assault planes have attacked 49
terrorist targets, making a total of 33 sorties over the last 24
hours. All the planes have successfully returned to the Khmeimim
air base in Latakia, Russia’s Defense Ministry reports. The
airstrikes hit targets in the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus,
Hama, Idlib and Latakia. Russian aircraft bombed two command
headquarters, three arms depots, two underground bunkers, 32
firing positions in mountainous areas, nine fortified
battlefield positions and a workshop producing missile launchers
and rockets for Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
US Borrows Hardware From Allies in Europe to 'Deter Russia'
Sputnik News - It has now been almost three years since the last
American tanks were brought back to home soil, but now they US
Army is planning on either bringing back these deadly machines
to the region temporarily or borrowing hardware from allies in
Europe in order to carry out planned exercises, The New York
Times wrote. According to the Army's commanding general in
Europe Ben Hodges, there are not enough troops and equipment in
the region, which poses a problem for NATO. The paper stated
that despite the cuts US commanders still face the task of
responding to some mysterious "Russian threat" alongside the
rising havoc in the Middle East.
US cuts millions in Mexico cartel-fighting aid amid human rights
concerns
The Guardian - The State Department confirmed the decrease in
funding on Monday – a 15% reduction that experts said is a
symbolic slap on the wrist given the US’s previous unwillingness
to criticize its partner despite widespread evidence that the
country’s police and army have been involved in abuses. The
Washington Post first reported on the reduction in assistance to
the Merida Initiative, an agreement under which the US has
allocated $2.3bn to Mexico as part of a broader effort to fight
organized crime and threats pertaining to drug trafficking.
Russians Threaten to Shoot Down Israeli Aircraft
Kurt Nimmo - An Arab language news network in Iran reports
Russian fighter jets intercepted Israeli aircraft on an
espionage mission near the Syrian border on Sunday. Alalam
quotes the Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth daily as saying the Russians
forced the Israeli aircraft to change course after they were
detected with radar. The Russians blocked the Israeli aircraft
while flying over the Akkar region of northern Lebanon and sent
a warning they would open fire if they violated Syrian airspace.
According to the Iranian HispanTV website the Israeli mission
was to spy in Russian ships docked at Tartus where Russia
maintains a naval facility.
NATO nations to keep presence in Afghanistan, officials say
Reuters - Germany, Turkey and Italy are set to keep their
deployments in Afghanistan at current levels, senior NATO
officials said on Monday after the U.S. government decided to
prolong its 14-year-old military presence there. The Taliban's
brief takeover of a provincial capital has raised concern about
the strength of Afghan state forces and both the United States
and its NATO allies now say events, rather than timetables, must
dictate gradual troop reductions. Gen. Philip Breedlove, NATO's
top commander in Europe, said he had assurances that NATO
countries will continue alongside the nearly 10,000 U.S. troops
in Afghanistan. While discussions of exact numbers are still
continuing, the biggest national deployments are not in doubt,
he said.
Swiss Voters Reject Mass Migration of Muslims
Kurt Nimmo - Swiss voters on Sunday sent a message to the
European Union that it will not tolerate the mass migration of
Muslims from the Middle East. The central issue during the
election was the massive influx or largely illegal immigrants.
“The vote was clear,” said SVP leader Toni Brunner. “The people
are worried about mass migration to Europe.” The SVP election
victory comes nearly two years after the Swiss people voted in
favor of a referendum limiting the number of foreigners living
in the country. Socialists lamented the victory and their losses
during the election. The Christian Democrats and the Green
Liberals also lost seats in the Parliament. Meanwhile, in the
German city of Dresden, a rally Monday is expected to draw
10,000 people. The event marks the first anniversary of the
founding of PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans Against the
Islamization of the Occident.
* Related:
Germany Needs A Whopping 40,000 Government Workers To Deal With
Migrant Influx
Global Trade Is Collapsing As The Worldwide Economic Recession
Deepens
Economic Collapse - When the global economy is doing well, the
amount of stuff that is imported and exported around the world
goes up, and when the global economy is in recession, the amount
of stuff that is imported and exported around the world goes
down. It is just basic economics. Governments around the world
have become very adept at manipulating other measures of
economic activity such as GDP, but the trade numbers are more
difficult to fudge. Today, China accounts for more global trade
than anyone else on the entire planet, and we have just learned
that Chinese exports and Chinese imports are both collapsing
right now.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
NYPD using military-grade x-ray vans, bombarding unknown targets
with radiation to spy on them
The Atlantic - In New York City, the police now maintain an
unknown number of military-grade vans outfitted with X-ray
radiation, enabling cops to look through the walls of buildings
or the sides of trucks. The technology was used in Afghanistan
before being loosed on U.S. streets. Each X-ray van costs an
estimated $729,000 to $825,000. The NYPD will not reveal when,
where, or how often they are used. “I will not talk about
anything at all about this,” New York Police Commissioner Bill
Bratton told a journalist for the New York Post who pressed for
details on the vans. “It falls into the range of security and
counter-terrorism activity that we engage in.” He added that
“they’re not used to scan people for weapons.” Here are some
specific questions that New York City refuses to answer...
White House Turns to Threats as ObamaCare Enrollments Stall
Breitbart - Now that ObamaCare is failing in the exact way its
critics predicted more than 5 years ago, the White House is
preparing to use threats to increase ObamaCare enrollment
numbers next year. The threat, of course, is the ObamaCare tax.
Next year the annual fine for not buying President Obama’s
overpriced health insurance will jump to $695 or 2.5% of your
income, whichever is greater. The White House intends to use the
hefty fines as leverage in the upcoming 2016 enrollment period,
which starts in November... So far only 9.1 million people have
enrolled in ObamaCare. The Department of Health and Human
services is predicting that only 1 million more will enroll up
next year. That is well below — more than 50% below — the
Congressional Budget Office predictions that claimed there would
be upwards of 21 million enrollees by the end of 2016.
Death of a Patriot - Irwin A. Schiff
Peter Schiff - My father Irwin A. Schiff was born Feb. 23rd
1928, the 8th child and only son of Jewish immigrants, who had
crossed the Atlantic twenty years earlier in search of freedom.
As a result of their hope and courage my father was fortunate to
have been born into the freest nation in the history of the
world. But when he passed away on Oct. 16th, 2015 at the age of
87, a political prisoner of that same nation, legally blind and
shackled to a hospital bed in a guarded room in intensive care,
the free nation he was born into had itself died years earlier.
Most Victims of U.S. Drone Targeted Killing Program Aren’t the
Targets
AllGov - The Intercept’s investigation, “The Drone Papers,”
reported that over the course of one 13-month period, U.S. drone
strikes in northeastern Afghanistan killed more than 200
people—but only 35 of them were the intended targets. It also
was revealed that during a five-month period, nearly 90% of the
people killed were not the intended targets. “These eye-opening
disclosures make a mockery of U.S. government claims that its
lethal force operations are based on reliable intelligence and
limited to lawful targets,” Hina Shamsi, director of the
American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project, said
in a statement, according to Politico. “In fact, the government
often claims successes that are really tragic losses. The Obama
administration’s lethal program desperately needs transparency
and accountability because it is undermining the right to life
and national security.”
US government to create national registry of drones
RT - The Obama administration is planning to create a national
registry of civilian-owned unmanned aerial vehicles in the name
of airline safety. Small toy drones are not considered threats
to safety, so they are likely to be exempt, according to AP....
Despite the FAA having rules already in place that restrict the
use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) near airports, pilots
sighted more than 600 drones in just the first seven months of
2015, WWMT reported. This number is quadruple the average number
seen in previous years, according to FAA figures.... The FAA
hopes to get registration rules in place before Christmas, but
some think that this is an unrealistic goal. The Consumer
Electronics Association forecasts that 700,000 drones will be
sold this holiday season, AP reported.
Planned Parent's next battleground: Texas
Reuters - Texas barred Planned Parenthood from receiving state
Medicaid money, the latest setback for the women's healthcare
provider since it became embroiled in controversy over
undercover videos about its handling of fetal tissue. Hours
earlier in neighboring Louisiana, a federal judge blocked that
state's efforts to cut the group's funding. In a letter to
Planned Parenthood clinics statewide, Texas health officials
said all funding from Medicaid, the government healthcare
program for the poor, was being cut because of what it
characterized as program violations captured on the videos.
VIDEO: Hawaii declares state of emergency for homeless
Washington Examiner - Hawaii has declared a state of emergency
for its homelessness problem. On Friday, Gov. David Ige,
D-Hawaii, signed an emergency proclamation to address
homelessness statewide. he proclamation unlocks funds to
construct temporary shelters for the homeless, helps to extend
contracts for homeless shelters and boosts funding for housing
programs. The governor cited more than $1.3 million in
government funds to be reserved for homeless services....
According to the 2015 State of Homelessness in America,
conducted by the National Alliance to End Homelessness, there
were 6,918 homeless in Hawaii in 2014, a 9.2 percent bump from
the previous year. An Associated Press report put the latest
count at 7,260 homeless people, the highest rate of homelessness
per-capita of any state in the nation.
Sacramento's homeless invited to attend $35K treat after fiancé
calls off wedding
RT - The bride's mother, Kari Duane, said she couldn't believe
her ears when her 27-year-old daughter Quinn called her to say
that the wedding just wasn’t going to happen because her fiancé
had called it off. But the deposits for the reception were
already paid, and instead of calling it off, the local homeless
were invited for a weekend meal at one of the city's finest
venues, the Citizen Hotel. An elderly woman who lives in a
shelter, unable to afford rent, was the first to arrive, half an
hour early. “I was thinking at that moment, if she’s the only
person that comes tonight, this was worth it,” the bride's
mother told KCRA-TV. But then more homeless people started to
turn in – individuals, as well as families with grandparents and
even newborns.
Ed Klein: Obama Urging Biden to Make White House Run, Rejecting
Meetings with Clinton
Breitbart - President Barack Obama is refusing to meet with
Hillary Clinton while he and his allies are urging Vice
President Joe Biden to challenge Hillary Clinton for the
Democratic nomination, according to author Ed Klein. On
Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, Klein
told guest-host and Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow
that Obama and his allies—Michelle Obama and Valerie
Jarrett—have “been searching for months for an alternative to
Hillary.” According to Klein, they first approached Sen.
Elizabeth Warren to challenge Clinton. When she declined, they
approached former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and realized
that “he didn’t have the stuff.”
School Bans 21 Gun Salute Honoring Veterans Claiming it
“Promotes Gun Violence”
Adan Salazar - A school in Iowa is banning a time-honored
tradition memorializing veterans who served the country with
their lives. Administrators at Belle Plaine High School in Belle
Plaine say the facility will no longer hold their annual
Veteran’s Day assembly on school grounds, claiming the event’s
traditional 21 gun salute “promotes gun violence,” according to
NBC affiliate KWWL. Veterans and residents of the small town
were understandably upset following the announcement, “as
veterans firing blank rifles at the school assembly has been a
fun and safe tradition for as long as some students can
remember,” reports Hillary Maglin. A member of the American
Legion, a veterans organization, offered up their property near
the school so the assembly could continue, but they are
disappointed over the school’s decision and fear it could
reverberate to other parts of the state.
Lawsuits could force VW to buy back diesels
CNBC News - Volkswagen almost inevitably will have to compensate
owners of diesel cars equipped with emissions-rigging software.
Some legal experts say the automaker could be forced to buy back
the cars altogether. Many of the more than 200 lawsuits filed in
the past few weeks allege that for seven years VW marketed
four-cylinder diesel Golfs, Jettas, Beetles and Passats as clean
alternatives to gas engines, knowing all along that the cars
were spewing pollution that far exceeded legal limits.
VIDEO: Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 10/19/15: Debt Ceiling
Debate: Don’t Mention Warfare/Welfare State!
Ron Paul - The US Treasury’s recent announcement that the
government will reach the debt ceiling on November 3 means
Congress will soon be debating raising the government’s
borrowing limit again. Any delay in, or opposition to, raising
the debt ceiling will inevitably be met with hand-wringing over
Congress’ alleged irresponsibility. But the real irresponsible
act would be for Congress to raise the debt ceiling. Cutting up
its credit card is the only way to make Congress reduce
spending. Anyone who doubts this should listen to the bipartisan
whining over how sequestration has so drastically reduced
spending that there is literally nothing left to cut. But,
according to the Heritage Foundation, sequestration has only
reduced spending from $3.6 trillion to $3.5 trillion. Only in DC
would a less than one percent spending reduction be considered a
draconian cut....
Morgan Stanley’s profit plunges 42%
Hang The Bankers - Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley’s profit
slumped for the second straight quarter as investors fled the
bond, currency and commodity markets amid uncertainty about the
timing of a U.S. interest rate hike and concerns about China’s
cooling economy. Morgan Stanley, the last of the big U.S. banks
to release third-quarter earnings, said on Monday its trading
revenue fell 17.2 percent to $2.03 billion in the period,
contributing to a 42.4 percent drop in profit attributable to
shareholders. The bank’s shares were down 5.8 percent in
premarket trade. Morgan Stanley joins arch rival Goldman Sachs
Group Inc as well as Citigroup Inc, Bank of America Corp and
JPMorgan Chase & Co in reporting grim results from trading, a
business many of them are trying to back away from.
Scientists: Jerry Brown Wrong to Link Fires, Climate Change
Breitbart - Brown blamed climate change for the Rocky fire in
August, and specifically challenged Republican presidential
candidates to tackle climate change in the context of “Longer
fire seasons, extreme weather and severe droughts.” He told the
media: “This is a wake-up call. We have to start coming to our
senses. This is not a game of politics. We need to limit our
carbon pollution. These are real lives and real people. This
problem cannot be solved year by year….This is not the way these
fires usually behave. If it continues year after year,
California can literally burn up.” But scientists who study
climate change and fire behavior say their work does not show a
link between this year’s wildfires and global warming, or
support Brown’s assertion that fires are now unpredictable and
unprecedented. There is not enough evidence, they say.
Hacker releases new purported personal data for top CIA, DHS
officials
Ars Technica - The person who claims to have hacked an AOL
e-mail account belonging to John Brennan, the director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, has now released a small
spreadsheet with alleged personal information for a number of
former and current government officials. The sample includes
phone numbers, social security numbers, e-mail addresses, and
level of security clearance and employment status in some cases.
Ars has contacted several of the people on the list by phone,
text, and e-mail, including Brennan and the former deputy
director of intelligence at the CIA, Jami Miscik. A male voice
responded to the number listed for Miscik, and when Ars asked
for her, the voice said it was the wrong number and hung up. No
others immediately responded.
This Careless Hospital Procedure Kills Twice as Many People as
Car Wrecks
Dr. Mercola - Millions of central line catheters are inserted
each year. Because they run straight to the heart, central lines
are the fastest, most effective method of delivering some
medications, but they’re not without serious risks. If bacteria
manage to get into a central line, such as when a nurse changes
a dressing or injects a medication, they can easily create a
bloodstream infection.... Central line-associated bloodstream
infections (CLABSI) are the most common cause of health
care-associated infections of the bloodstream. A single incident
of CLABSI can add $56,000 to your hospital tab.... Between 12
and 25 percent of patients who acquire CLABSI never make it out
of the hospital. Each year 250,000 central lines become
infected, accounting for an estimated 62,000 hospital deaths in
the US.
Study: People Drinking More Fizzy Drinks Have a Greater Risk of
Cardiac Arrest
Natural Society - A major study involving nearly 800,000
Japanese individuals shows that consuming fizzy drinks can
“significantly” increase your risk of heart disease and stroke.
The study found that the more people spent on fizzy beverages,
the more likely they are to suffer cardiac arrest outside of the
hospital.... According to the study’s lead author, Keijiro Saku,
professor of cardiology at Fukuoka University in Japan, the
acids found in sodas may play a major role in raising cardiac
arrest risk.
Beetroot Juice Can Benefit Your Muscles
Dr. Mercola - Beetroots, also known simply as beets or table
beets in the US, are a sweet, surprisingly concentrated source
of nutrition. The first clue they’re loaded with nutrition is
their bright red color, which indicates the presence of powerful
phytonutrients called betalains. Betalains include
reddish-purple betacyanin pigments and yellowish betaxanthin
pigments. Many of the betalain pigments in beets have been shown
to provide antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and detoxifying
effects. Newer research suggests that, in addition, compounds in
beets may improve muscle performance, offering allure not only
for athletes but also for maintaining muscle function as you
age.
Monday
- October 19, 2015 -
Today in History:
1765 - In the U.S., The Stamp Act Congress met and drew up a declaration
of rights and liberties.
1781 - British General Charles Lord Cornwallis surrendered to U.S.
General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. It was to be the last
major battle of the American Revolutionary War.
1812 - Napoleon Bonaparte's French forces began their retreat out of
Russia after a month of chasing the retreating Russian army.
1814 - In Baltimore, MD, the first documented performance of "The
Defence of Fort McHenry" with music took place at the Holliday Street
Theatre. The work was later published under the title "The Star-Spangled
Banner."
1914 - In the U.S., government owned vehicles were first used to pick up
mail in Washington, DC.
1915 - The U.S. recognized General Venustiano Carranza as the president
of Mexico. The U.S. imposed embargo to all parts of Mexico except where
Carranza was in control.
1943 - The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began in Russia during
World War II. Delegates from the U.S.S.R., Great Britain, the U.S., and
China met to discuss war aims and cooperation between the nations.
1951 - U.S. President Truman singed an act officially ending the state
of war with Germany.
1960 - The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering
all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products.
1969 - U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War
protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1983 - The U.S. Senate approved a bill establishing a national holiday
in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 - Four U.S. employees of the CIA were killed in El Salvador when
their plane crashed.
1987 - The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 508 points. It was the
worst one-day percentage decline, 22.6%, in history.
1989 - The U.S. Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that
barred the desecration of the American flag.
1998 - In Washington, DC, Microsoft went on trial to defend against an
antitrust case.
2003 - In London, magician David Blaine emerged from a clear plastic box
that had been suspended by a crane over the banks of the Thames River.
He survived only on water for 44 days. Blaine had entered the box on
September 5.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day at 12,011.73. It
was the first close above 12,000.
‘US strike on Afghan hospital no mistake’ – Doctors Without
Borders
RT - The head of an international medical charity, whose
hospital in northern Afghanistan was razed to the ground by a
United States airstrike earlier this month, has claimed it may
have been deliberate rather than accidental. "The hospital was
repeatedly hit both at the front and the rear and extensively
destroyed and damaged, even though we have provided all the
coordinates and all the right information to all the parties in
the conflict," Christopher Stokes, general director of Doctors
Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF) told AP. "The
extensive, quite precise destruction of this hospital ...
doesn't indicate a mistake. The hospital was repeatedly hit," he
pointed out. The attack, in which the American Lockheed AC-130
gunship repeatedly bombed the hospital, lasted for over an hour
despite calls to Afghan, US and NATO to stop it, MSF earlier
said.
Germany’s police chief calls for border fence to cope with
refugee crisis – report
RT - Germany should build a fence along its border with Austria
to stem the influx of asylum seekers, the German police union
chief said, according to Welt am Sonntag. He added that other EU
countries will follow Berlin’s example.... It is highly unlikely
that the police union chief's proposal will materialize as the
Merkel government has strongly criticized the erection of a
similar 3.5 meter fence in Hungary, along its 175 kilometer
border with Serbia . Hungarian officials meanwhile announced
that no migrants have breached the second fence erected along
the Croatian border, since the border was closed on Saturday.
Syrian civilians helping Russian airstrikes target ISIS -
Defense Ministry
RT - Russian warplanes have bombed a training camp in Syria
where foreign instructors trained potential suicide bombers, the
Russian defense ministry said. It was one of 49 terrorist
targets hit by the Russian Air Forces over the day. [Maj. Gen.
Igor] Konashenkov said the civilian population in the areas
under terrorist group’s control are aiding the Russian
airstrikes by providing intelligence about IS to the Syrian
government.
Syrian jihadists feud & bomb each other over funds as Russian
jets destroy supply lines
RT - Russian attack jets have hit 51 Islamic State targets in
Syria in the past 24 hours, including four command posts, six
arms depots, a mortar battery, two underground bunkers, 32 field
camps and six outposts. The strikes took place in the Latakia,
Aleppo, Hama and Damascus provinces.
Smoking gun emails reveal 'deal in blood' George Bush and Tony
Blair made as they secretly plotted the Iraq War behind closed
doors a YEAR before the invasion had even started
Daily Mail - The damning memo, from secretary of state Colin
Powell to president George Bush, was written on March 28, 2002,
a week before Bush’s famous summit with Blair at his Crawford
ranch in Texas… In it, Powell tells Bush that Blair ‘will be
with us’ on military action. Powell assures the president: ‘The
UK will follow our lead’. The classified document also discloses
that Blair agreed to act as a glorified spin doctor for the
president by presenting ‘public affairs lines’ to convince a
skeptical public that Saddam had Weapons of Mass Destruction -
when none existed. In return, the president would flatter
Blair’s ego and give the impression that Britain was not
America’s poodle but an equal partner in the ‘special
relationship’… The documents, obtained by The Mail on Sunday,
are part of a batch of secret emails held on the private server
of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton which U.S.
courts have forced her to reveal.
With US Warships En Route To Islands, China Asks: "What On Earth
Makes Them Think We Will Tolerate This?"
Zero Hedge - "The United States' provocative attempts to
infringe on China's South China Sea sovereignty are sabotaging
regional peace and stability and militarizing the waters.What on
earth makes the United States think China should and will
tolerate it when U.S. surface ships trespass on Chinese
territory in the South China Sea?"... Via Xinhua: The United
States' provocative attempts to infringe on China's South China
Sea sovereignty are sabotaging regional peace and stability and
militarizing the waters. The U.S. Navy is reportedly preparing
to conduct "freedom of navigation" operations, sending warships
within 12 nautical miles of Chinese islands in the South China
Sea. The U.S. operations may take place within days, according
to reports.
After 6 Years Of Austerity, 36% Of Greeks In Poverty
Zero Hedge - Thousands of austerity measures, dramatic cuts in
incomes, incredible hikes in taxes. Five and a half years in
deep recession. Three bailout agreements. And where do Greeks
stand now? On top of the Eurozone when it comes to poverty. More
than one out of three Greeks, that is “36% of the Greek
population is at risk of poverty and social exclusion,” the
EUROSTAT found out - the highest rate within the Euro Zone.
Blackmail? Germany Considers Bailout “Concessions” If Greece
Keeps More Refugees
Zero Hedge - The European Commission will release €2 billion to
Greece in the coming days to help the country manage the current
migration crisis, a top Commission source told MNI Friday, but
as German daily Wirtschaftswoche reports, the German Government
is considering ‘helping’ Greece more financially – but only if
Athens is more involved in the refugee crisis. The European
Commission will release €2 billion to Greece in the coming days
to help the country manage the current migration crisis and the
upgrade its public administration system, a top Commission
source told MNI Friday. The €2 billion will be the first
disbursement of the so-called Juncker package worth €35 billion
which aims to help Greece recover from 8 years of recession,
boost investment opportunities and combat unemployment which is
amongst the highest in Europe.
The lingering symptoms of Ebola survivors
Tech Insider - As doctors are poignantly learning, saying a patient is
"cured" of the virus doesn't necessarily mean it is completely
eradicated from the body. Ebola survivors like Cafferkey are
experiencing lingering symptoms such as vision and hearing loss,
seizures, insomnia, and body aches that have persisted for months
following infection… "There is an emerging problem in Ebola survivors,"
Crozier said in the video interview with CNN. "It will be a varied
spectrum — some will be mild, but there will be patients who develop
severe complications and who are going blind.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Man who interrogates Clinton on Benghazi is veteran prosecutor
McClatchy -The South Carolina prosecutor looked straight at the
camera, relishing his role on an episode of the show “Forensic
Files” as he discussed fingerprints, DNA testing and other
evidence pointing to a murder suspect. “You just don’t burn cars
because they won’t start,” he said. “Unless you have something
you want to hide.”... This Thursday, he will lead the
high-stakes interrogation of Hillary Clinton over her role in
the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans.
And Clinton won’t be the only one on the hot seat. Gowdy, the
51-year-old chairman of the House committee investigating the
attacks, finds himself defending the panel against charges that
it’s only a partisan Republican effort to derail Clinton’s
presidential campaign.
Illegal Aliens Lose Battle in Birth Certificate Lawsuit AGAINST
TEXAS
Breitbart - A federal judge signed an order on Friday that
denied a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit filed by citizens
of Mexico and several Central American nations claiming
entitlement to birth certificates for their children born in the
United States. They sued the Vital Statistics Unit of the Texas
Department of State Health Services saying the agency denied
them the certificates because they did not possess the required
identification.... The illegal immigrants filed a lawsuit in
U.S. District Court in Austin in June stating that the birth
certificates were being denied because of their immigration
status. The plaintiff illegal immigrants argued that, “Such
refusal is de facto based upon the immigrant status of the
Plaintiff parents.”
Obama’s New Appointee to Head the FDA Is a Big Pharma
Mega-Lobbyist
Natural Blaze - President Obama’s recent nominee to chair the
Food and Drug Administration has drawn harsh criticism for his
ties to the pharmaceutical industry. The disapproval grew more
justified this week as it was revealed that until this year,
nominee Dr. Robert Califf was a board member and consultant for
a company whose sole purpose is to help pharmaceutical companies
evade and manipulate FDA regulations. He currently serves as the
FDA’s deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco and
awaits Senate confirmation to become Deputy Commissioner of the
agency.
Sign of Things to Come? Maine Now Allows Concealed Carry Without
Permit
Activist Post - Beginning this week, you will become the 8th
state or territory to allow some form of unrestricted concealed
carry in public places. All residents aged 21 or over will no
longer need a permit to carry a pistol or revolver on their
person, when traveling on foot or in their vehicles. There are a
few exceptions such as courthouses, schools, federal buildings,
state parks, etc. But for the most part, so long as you’re
legally allowed to own a firearm, you’re good to go in the State
of Maine.... So why should gun owners across the nation be
ecstatic about this development? Because Maine is a somewhat
liberal state, and the only liberal state to allow
constitutional carry other than Vermont. When you start to see
developments like these show up in left-leaning states, it means
that pro-gun activists are winning the debate across the board.
Virginia Governor Tightens Gun Control Rules With Executive
Order
Opposing Views - On Oct. 15, Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe of
Virginia signed executive orders that tightened gun control
measures, including the creation of a gun crimes task force....
In addition to the task force, the executive order also
establishes a tip line for illegal gun activity, and it
authorizes the Attorney General to "coordinate and bring
criminal cases against firearms law offenders." The order also
calls for state police to request a trace of every gun involved
in a crime and prohibits the open carry of guns in some
state-owned buildings. In signing the order, the governor cited
both the 2007 Virginia Tech mass shooting and the recent on-air
killings of two Roanoke TV news employees.
Hillary Clinton: Nationwide Gun Ban, Repeal of Second Amendment
“Worth Considering”
Kit Daniels - The presidential candidate attacked the Second
Amendment during an Oct. 16 town hall meeting in which she was
asked if it were feasible for the U.S. to confiscate millions of
firearms in a year. Hillary said: You know, Australia’s a good
example, Canada’s a good example, the UK’s a good example. Why?
Because each of them had mass killings, Australia had a huge
mass killing about 20 or 25 years ago. Canada did as well, so
did the UK. In reaction, they passed much stricter gun laws....
Clinton also mentioned that several U.S. cities have done gun
buyback programs and it would be “worth considering on a
national level.” But she failed to mention that she supported
shipping guns to Syrian rebels, the majority of whom are either
ISIS militants or affiliated with the Islamic State.
Secret Service to Protect Trump, Carson as Threats Grow
Newsmax - The Secret Service will give agent protection to
Donald Trump and Ben Carson while heavily upgrading Hillary
Clinton's existing detail, a Washington source close to the
agency's plans confirmed to Newsmax. The deployment of agents
around Republican candidates Trump and Carson is set to begin as
early as next week. Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, has
had Secret Service protection since leaving the White House as
first lady in 2001, but her detail will be heavily upgraded by
the agency's move. The agency's decision was primarily triggered
by a significant number of threats to Carson, including death
threats and terrorist chatter, the source said.
Donald Trump received nearly $4 million in unsolicited campaign
donations
Washington Post - Although Donald Trump boasts he is
self-financing his presidential campaign, he hasn't turned away
donations from supporters -- and those contributions added up to
nearly $4 million in three months. Between July 1 and Sept. 30,
Trump's campaign says it received 73,942 unsolicited donations,
pumping $3.8 million into his campaign coffers. The average
contribution was about $50, and 71 percent of the money came
from donors giving less than $200.
Sanders Would Raise Payroll Taxes on Everyone to Fund Paid
Family Leave
Breitbart - Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Democratic presidential
candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said his tax increases would “hit
everybody” because he would raise the payroll tax to pay for
paid family and medical leave. Sanders said, “I think if you are
looking about guaranteeing paid family and medical leave, which
every other major country has so that when a mom gives birth she
doesn’t have to go back to work in two weeks. Dad or mom can
stay home with the kids. That will require a small increase in
the payroll tax.” Stephanopoulos said, “That’s going to hit
everybody.”
Prominent Veterans Group Just Called On US Public To Say No To
War
Anti Media - A group of former U.S. service members called the
Veterans For Peace issued a letter to the American public and
President Obama today. In it, they outline reasons for the
United States to immediately end the war in Afghanistan, among
others, and call on the public to step in to ensure it
happens.... “President Obama’s decision to prolong the U.S. led
war in Afghanistan only ensures U.S. responsibility for more
death and destruction. Veterans For Peace condemns the decision
and calls on the U.S. public to say no to more war.
War on Cash: Megabanks Refusing Corporate Deposits
The Wall Street Journal - U.S. banks are going to new lengths to
ward off a surprising threat to their financial health: big cash
deposits. State Street Corp., the Boston bank that manages
assets for institutional investors, for the first time has begun
charging some customers for large dollar deposits, people
familiar with the matter said. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the
nation’s largest bank by assets, has cut unwanted deposits by
more than $150 billion this year, in part by charging fees. The
developments underscore a deepening conflict over cash. Many
businesses have large sums on hand and opportunities to
profitably invest it appear scarce. But banks don’t want certain
kinds of cash either, judging it costly to keep, and some are
imposing fees after jawboning customers to move it.
These 16 Companies Control Almost Everything You Buy
WorldTruth.Tv - Powerful companies create brands and products
that we might not know are theirs. Companies’ signature brands
add to their annual revenues and provide an edge to competition.
To determine how powerful each company is, we factored together
fiscal 2014 revenue, the number of employees, and press mentions
on Google News over the past year. Here is a list of retail
companies that own brands and products that we use every day.
Largest health insurer on Colorado exchange collapses
Reporter Herald - Colorado's biggest nonprofit health insurer
announced its closure Friday, forcing nearly 83,000 Coloradans
to find a new insurer for 2016. Colorado HealthOP announced
Friday that the state Division of Insurance has said it can't
keep selling health insurance. That's because the cooperative
relied on federal support, and federal authorities announced
last month they wouldn't be able to pay most of what they owed
to a program designed to help health insurance co-ops get
established. The Colorado announcement makes the co-op the
seventh in the nation to collapse. Similar nonprofit insurers
have already failed in Kentucky, Louisiana, Iowa/Nebraska,
Nevada, New York and Tennessee.... "Taxpayers are on the hook
for millions of dollars in loans given out to the CO-OP, money
that will likely never be repaid," U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said
in a statement after the announcement.
McDonald’s Franchise Owners Confirm: Fast Food Giant “Facing Its
Final Days”
Anti Media - Embattled fast food giant McDonald’s is making
headlines yet again. The company has just launched its much
advertised all-day breakfast program, but as that campaign rolls
out, franchise owners are voicing their concerns over what may
be the company’s dying days.... “We are in the throes of a deep
depression, and nothing is changing,” a franchise owner wrote in
response to a financial survey by Nomura Group. “Probably 30% of
operators are insolvent.” One owner went as far as to speculate
that McDonald’s is literally “facing its final days.”
Franchisees have also been complaining about the erratic nature
of McDonald’s corporate decision-making process.
Amazon to sue more than 1,000 fake reviewers
Daily Mail - Amazon is suing more than 1,000 people suspected of
providing 'fake reviews' on its website. It emerged last week
that products were being pushed to the top of bestseller lists
by bogus reviewers who stole identities to leave five-star
feedback. The retail giant has since launched a lawsuit to
unmask the fake reviewers and force them to pay damages for the
'manipulation and deception' of its customers, according to
court papers filed in the United States on Friday.
Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’
DNA
When companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe first invited
people to send in their DNA for genealogy tracing and medical
diagnostic tests, privacy advocates warned about the creation of
giant genetic databases that might one day be used against
participants by law enforcement. DNA, after all, can be a key to
solving crimes.... Both Ancestry.com and 23andMe stipulate in
their privacy policies that they will turn information over to
law enforcement if served with a court order. 23andMe says it’s
received a couple of requests from both state law enforcement
and the FBI, but that it has “successfully resisted them.”...
Ancestry.com would not say specifically how many requests it’s
gotten from law enforcement.
* Related:
Your Relative’s DNA Could Turn You Into a Suspect
Turmeric's "Weight Loss Secret": It Turns Bad Fat Good
Green Med Info - A groundbreaking new study published in Journal
of Nutritional Biochemistry reveals that curcumin, a golden-hued
compound in turmeric, may provide a unique solution for
overweight individuals by altering the composition of fat cells
in their bodies in favor of the calorie-burning type.
Hidden Truth About Coconut Oil: 10 Facts You Need To Know
Natural News Blogs - Coconut oil is one of the few foods that
can be classified as a “superfood.” Its unique combination of
fatty acids can have profound positive effects on health. This
includes fat loss, better brain function and various other
amazing benefits.
Study Finds Stress at Work is Just as Bad for Your Health as
Second-Hand Smoke
Natural Society - Being stressed out at work is just as bad as
regularly being exposed to second-hand smoke, a new at Harvard
Business School and Stanford University finds. Using data from
228 other studies that assessed the effects of 10 workplace
stressors on employee physical and mental health, morbidity, and
mortality, researchers concluded that workers who faced a great
deal of stress on the job were 35% more likely to be diagnosed
with an illness by a doctor. People who worked long hours were
found to have a 20% increased chance of early death. Potential
stressors included work-family conflict, job insecurity, high
job demands, no health insurance, long work hours, and low
organizational control. But the fear of losing your job proved
to have the biggest impact on health: the fear increased the
odds of having poor health by 50%.
Medical Doctor Sells Practice, Opens Up “Farmacy” Using Food as
Medicine
Natural Blaze - Robert Weiss believes that a change is coming
about in the way we approach health and medicine, or rather a
reconnection with knowledge that was shunned with the onset of
big pharma. He sold his practice in New York and built the first
farm-based medical practice on a 348-acre farm in Long Valley,
New Jersey. It can be called a “farmacy,” a place that explores
and utilizes plant-based “food as medicine.” “Plant-based whole
foods are the most powerful disease-modifying tools available to
practitioners — more powerful than any drugs or surgeries,” said
Weiss, a doctor of 25 years in Hudson County.
Friday
- October 16, 2015 -
Today in History:
1701 - The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school
moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College.
1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded
after being convicted of treason.
1829 - In Boston, MA, the first modern hotel in America opened. The
Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four
meals.
1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now
located in West Virginia).
1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor
plumbing.
1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians
entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.
1943 - Chicago's new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon
cutting ceremony.
1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases
in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.
1964 - China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world's fifth
nuclear power.
1967 - NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.
1982 - China announced that it had successfully fired a ballistic
missile from a submarine.
1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she
had fallen into in Midland, TX. The was trapped for 58 hours.
1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget
reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.
1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of U.S.
warships to enforce a blockade on Haiti to increase pressure on the
controlling military leaders.
1995 - The "Million Man March" took place in Washington, DC.
1997 - Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Schulz announced that they would
give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed
in Virginia.
2000 - It was announced Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for
$35 billion. Combined company was called Chevron Texaco Corp. and became
the 4th largest oil company in the world.
2002 - It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a
secret nuclear weapons program in violation of an 1994 agreement with
the U.S.
2002 - The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years
probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of
the energy company Enron.
Putin: 7,000 people from ex-Soviet republics estimated to fight
alongside ISIS
RT - There are 7,000 foreign terrorists in Syria who went there
from Russia and several other former Soviet nations to join
Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), Russian President Vladimir
Putin told the heads of those states in Kazakhstan. “There are
an estimated 5,000 to 7,000 fighters from Russia and other CIS
member states fighting for ISIL,” Putin said referring to IS by
its former name. “We certainly cannot allow them to use the
experience they are getting in Syria on home soil.” Putin was
speaking to leaders of the CIS, a regional union of a dozen
former Soviet republics. He reported details of the Russian
bombing campaign in Syria targeting the jihadists and assured
that there was significant progress in defeating IS.
US tank enters ruined Afghan hospital putting 'war crime'
evidence at risk
The Guardian - A US tank has forced its way into the shell of
the Afghanistan hospital destroyed in an airstrike 11 days ago,
prompting warnings that the US military may have destroyed
evidence in a potential war crimes investigation.... In a
statement on Thursday, the medical charity, also known as
Doctors Without Borders, said they were informed after
Thursday’s “intrusion” that the tank was carrying investigators
from a US-Nato-Afghan team which is investigating the attack.
“Their unannounced and forced entry damaged property, destroyed
potential evidence and caused stress and fear,” MSF said.
U.S. Boots on the Ground in Africa
Kurt Nimmo - 300 soldiers will be sent to the West African
nation to conduct airborne intelligence, surveillance, and
reconnaissance operations in the region, according to the BBC.
Obama said the troops will deploy to Cameroon to help fight Boko
Haram, the Islamic group aligned with al-Qaeda and the Islamic
State, and will stay until “no longer needed.” The effort will
expand the mission of Africom, the Pentagon’s African Command,
and would be “part of a broader regional effort to stop the
spread of Boko Haram and other violent extremist organizations
in West Africa,” according to White House spokesman Josh
Earnest.
‘TTIP is death:’ Over 100 arrested in Brussels at US-EU trade
deal protest (VIDEO)
RT - At least 100 people have been arrested in Brussels, where
hundreds more protested against TTIP, an impending free trade
deal between the US and the EU, as the next round of TTIP talks
approaches. Roads were paralyzed in the Belgian capital as a
force of more than 600 activists descended on EU headquarters,
blocking traffic and the venue of the EU leaders summit in
protest against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP). People carried signs and chanted slogans
such as “Stop TTIP, stop austerity” and "Sorry for the
inconvenience. We're trying to save the world," at the march in
Brussels on Thursday. "TTIP is death" another sign read. One
group of protesters displayed a balloon ‘Trojan Horse’ as an
allegory for the deal.
Ship laden with nuclear waste heading to Australia despite
safety concerns
The Guardian - A ship laden with nuclear waste is heading to
Australia from France, despite concerns raised over its safety
record. The BBC Shanghai, flagged to Antigua and Barbuda, is on
its way to Port Kembla in New South Wales from the French port
of Cherbourg with a cargo of reprocessed nuclear waste. The 25
tonnes of waste was originally generated by the Australian
Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and sent to France
in 2001 for reprocessing. Environmental groups have raised
concerns over the safety of the BBC Shanghai, pointing out it
has been blacklisted by the US due to its record... But
following an inspection, the vessel was sent on its way and is
set to arrive in Australia on 27 November.
ISIS retreating in Syria, missile system destroyed, 33 targets
hit - Russian military
RT - Russian warplanes have destroyed a surface-to-air missile
launcher that the Islamic State terrorist group previously
captured from the Syrian Army, the Russian Defense Ministry
reports. The bombing campaign in Syria is forcing the jihadists
to flee.
US forces in Afghanistan knew Kunduz site was hospital - report
RT - New information suggests the US deliberately targeted the
Kunduz hospital, killing 22 patients and staff, despite knowing
it was a protected medical site. US special operations analysts
investigated the hospital for days prior to the deadly October 3
attack, describing the hospital as a base of operations for a
Pakistani agent coordinating Taliban activities, AP has learned
from a former intelligence official familiar with the documents.
Ukraine's $1 trillion demand from Russia shrinks to $46 billion
RT - Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk's demand that
Moscow pay one trillion compensation for the loss of Crimea and
alleged Russian activities in Donbass caused confusion on
Thursday. Yatsenyuk’s ambiguity led the media to conclude he was
talking in dollars.
Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey's rapid decline after being 'cured' leaves
experts staggered
The Independent - A British nurse who was apparently cured of Ebola
earlier this year is now in a critical condition, doctors have said,
with experts expressing astonishment at the deterioration of her
condition. Pauline Cafferkey was admitted to the specialist treatment
isolation unit at Royal Free Hospital in London on 9 October. She had
been treated for Ebola at the same hospital earlier this year, and was
discharged in good health in January. Doctors have said she is suffering
an “unusual late complication” of her previous infection…. However,
medical understanding of the disease’s after-effect is limited due to
the relatively low number of historic cases.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Oath Keepers to Form College Chapters and Train Students to
Fight Back
Oath Keepers - In the wake of Umpqua Community College shooting,
Oath Keepers to form college student groups on college campuses
across the U.S. (starting here in Oregon) to teach the students
to fight back. As part of its new S.T.O.P (Students Taking Over
Protection) program, Oath Keepers military, police, and
first-responder instructors will teach the students to fight
back with empty hands, improvised weapons, knives, and firearms,
and will teach them effective combat mindset and awareness
techniques and strategies so the students can be their own
“first-responders” and take out an active shooter. Just as post
9-11, where people no longer submit and cooperate in their own
murders on planes, the obvious answer to school shootings on
college and high school campuses is that the students must stop
submitting and cooperating in their own murders.
Leaked: 'New Snowden' releases Obama's drone program papers
RT - A cache of classified documents has revealed the inner
workings of US drone operations in Somalia, Yemen and
Afghanistan, including the mechanism of targeting suspects
slated for assassination. The documents, slides, visuals and
analysis have been posted by The Intercept on Thursday as "The
Drone Papers" [See this link to read the documents]. The cache
contains two sets of slides detailing the US military's drone
operations in Somalia and Yemen between 2011 and 2013, by the
secret Task Force 48-4. The documents were provided to The
Intercept by a source within the US intelligence community who
wished to remain anonymous because of the government's
aggressive prosecution of whistleblowers. He says the American
public has the right to know about the process by which people
are placed on kill lists and assassinated on orders from US
government officials.
DOJ Creates “Domestic Terrorism” Division, Previously Labeled
Libertarians, Conservatives “Domestic Extremists”
Kit Daniels - The Justice Department has created a “domestic
terrorism” division after previously labeling libertarians and
conservatives as “domestic extremists.” The DOJ announced it
will appoint a “domestic terrorism counsel” to focus on who the
Obama administration and the controversial Southern Poverty Law
Center considers “extremists.” “Looking back over the past few
years, it is clear that domestic terrorists and homegrown
violent extremists remain a real and present danger to the
United States,” the DOJ’s John Carlin said on Wednesday.
Newson Wants Background Checks for Ammo Purchases
Breitbart - According to The Sacramento Bee, the ballot
proposition would also make it illegal for anyone other than a
Federal Firearm License (FFL) holder to sell ammunition, thus
guaranteeing that ammunition background checks would be done on
every sale and enable the state government to know where every
round was going. The initiative is also designed to put in place
a system for confiscating guns from those “prohibited from
owning them” and would force citizens to report lost or stolen
firearms to law enforcement.
In Court, Ron Paul Accuses Feds Of Targeting Rand’s Campaign
Truth in Media - On Wednesday, retired Congressman and
presidential contender Ron Paul came to a Des Moines’ federal
courthouse to testify for the prosecution against two of his
former top campaign staffers, Jesse Benton, who is married to
Paul’s granddaughter, and Dimitri Kesari. With force, Paul told
jurors that the timing of the indictments against Benton and
Kesari were carefully planned in order to pose a threat against
his son, United States Senator Rand Paul... In an opening
statement Tuesday, U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor Richard
Pilger portrayed Paul as a victim of Benton and Kesari’s plot to
keep him in the dark about hidden campaign payments. However,
Paul didn’t seem happy about being called on behalf of the
prosecution against the two staffers.
Rand: ‘I Don’t Think We Need to Be In Afghanistan,’ Would Pull
Out Immediately
Breitbart - Republican presidential candidate Kentucky Senator
Rand Paul argued the US should get out of Afghanistan
immediately on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf.” Rand said
of President Obama’s decision to delay the scheduled withdrawal
from Afghanistan, “I think it’s a mistake. It’s also not what
our founding fathers intended. our founding fathers intended
that when we were to go to war, that congress would debate this,
and this would be approved or disapproved by Congress. i don’t
know what our mission is. i would have voted for the original
mission, to go Bin Laden and those who attacked us on 9/11. We
have bin laden. we have the people who attacked us on 9/11. What
is our mission? To build a nation? Well, frankly, we’re not very
good at building nations, and I’m not for having our military
stay indefinitely in Afghanistan to build a nation.”
Donald Trump, Ben Carson Warn Boycott if CNBC Debate Lasts More
than Two Hours
Breitbart - The two frontrunners of the Republican presidential
race are threatening to boycott the upcoming CNBC presidential
debate if the network doesn’t limit the time for the candidates
to be on stage. In a joint letter to CNBC, Donald Trump and Ben
Carson indicated that they would only agree to a 120 minute
debate (including commercials) with time for opening and closing
statements. “To be clear, neither of our campaigns agreed to
either the length you propose or your ban on opening and closing
statements,” the letter read. “In fact, neither of our campaigns
were even consulted.” “Neither of those conditions are
acceptable. Neither Mr. Trump or Dr. Carson will participate in
your debate if it is longer than 120 minutes including
commercials and does not include opening and closing
statements,” the signed letter, published by NBC, read.
Jeb Bush Campaign Cuts Back on Spending
Breitbart - Ahead of its required disclosure of third quarter
fundraising, the Jeb Bush campaign says it is cutting back and
being more frugal in its campaign spending.... It is the latest
sign that things haven’t gone according to script for the Bush
campaign. Once a frontrunner for the GOP nomination, Bush has
fallen to the back of the pack in recent surveys. Even in New
Hampshire, a state seen as critical to his nomination fight and
where his campaign has spent almost $5 million in paid
advertising, Bush is mired in sixth place.
3 Out of 4 U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan Occurred Under
Obama…
Breitbart - An estimated 75 percent of the all U.S. military
deaths and about 90 percent of the injuries linked to the
ongoing war in Afghanistan have occurred under President Obama’s
watch... President Obama, citing a “fragile” security situation
at risk of deteriorating, announced today that he will be
extending the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan for an
undetermined amount of time, handing over the conflict to his
successor. In making the announcement, the President appeared
clueless as to how many Americans were killed in Afghanistan in
2014 and this year.
Lew to Congress: Debt limit now exhausted Tuesday, November 3
CNBC News - Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Thursday the U.S. debt
limit will be exhausted Nov. 3, two days before previously estimated.
"At that point, we expect Treasury would be left with less than $30
billion to meet all of the nation's commitments — an amount far short of
net expenditures on certain days, which can be as high as $60 billion,"
Lew said in a letter. "Operating the United States government with no
borrowing authority, and with only the cash on hand on a given day,
would be profoundly irresponsible. As I wrote previously, we anticipate
that a remaining cash balance of less than $30 billion would be depleted
quickly," he said.
Parasitic Fly Turns Honeybees into Flying “Zombies”
Natural Society - Researchers have announced that zombie bees
have been spotted in Western and Eastern states, said to be
caused by a parasitic fly.... When the parasitic Apocephalus
borealis fly encounters certain types of bees, it aggressively
stalks them and lays its eggs inside of them. As the larvae
grow, they consume much of the muscle and nervous system of the
host bee, destroying the bees’ brains.... The flying zombies
were first spotted on the West Coast, but volunteers helping to
track the bees’ movements have spotted them now on the East
Coast. Just last week, a report came in about a zombified bee in
New York for the first time.
How the NSA can break trillions of encrypted Web and VPN
connections
Ars Technica - Researchers show how mass decryption is well
within the NSA's $11 billion budget. For years, privacy
advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private
network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the
Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange as a defense against
surveillance from the US National Security Agency and other
state-sponsored spies. Now, researchers are renewing their
warning that a serious flaw in the way the key exchange is
implemented is allowing the NSA to break and eavesdrop on
trillions of encrypted connections.
Rise of the Nanobots - The World of Molecular Machines
Tech Swarm - One of the more controversial concepts in the area
of nanotech is what has come to be known as The Singularity.
Essentially, it is the mission to transcend biology. There are
many ways The Singularity could ultimately come about, but one
of them is molecular control via nanobots. Ray Kurzweil has
written about nanobot medicine in terms of imagining Human Body
2.0, which will be a continuously modified and upgraded internal
system that will optimize nutrition, repair damage and,
ultimately, lead perhaps to immortality.... The following video
from the American Chemical Society and the University of
Nebraska posits a decidedly upbeat future where not only the
human body is modified, but nearly everything we would interact
with.... Are you ready to be reengineered?
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
How to Make Fermented Cinnamon Apples (Recipe)
Raw fruits are, of course, a wonderful food all on their own.
So, why ferment them? Well, a few benefits can be added through
fermentation, not the least of which is the boost in beneficial
bacteria. Fermentation also creates a complex flavor through its
lactic acid tang which compliments many dishes. Not to mention
the fact that you can add one more fermented food to your day’s
meals and both old and young are particularly fond of sweet,
tart fruit ferments.
The 9 Best Essential Oils for Your Survival Kit
Natural Blaze - There are many factors that have gone into my
choices, including an oil’s versatility and its ability to
resolve multiple woes. I have also taken into consideration
price and shelf life. More about that in bit; but first, here is
my own list of the nine best essential oils for the long-term
survival kit along with my top 4 uses for each of them.
Why Most People Will Die in a Food Collapse: “6 Months to Make a
Chicken Sandwich From Scratch”
Daniel Barker - Self-reliant living is not as easy as some
people might imagine. Generally, preppers are getting ready for
the worst outcome because they understand how fragile the system
is, and how rapidly things will come undone. Most Americans have
only 3 days of food (or less) in their pantries. If any number
of crises hit this nation, and disrupted the food supply, the
grocery store shelves would be empty in a matter of hours, and
everyone left empty-handed would starve, or become absolutely
and completely dependent upon the government from their spot in
the local FEMA camps.
8 Year Old Dead After Taking Polio Vaccine
Vaxxter - An 8 year old boy in Laos is now dead after taking a polio
oral vaccine. The child immediately suffered paralysis after the
vaccination and ended up dying 5 days following. The WHO has stated that
the virus was derived from the vaccination. According to The Washington
Post. WHO officials said that genetic sequence showed that the virus was
derived from an oral vaccine and that it may have been circulating in
Laos’ Bolikhamxay Province for more than two years. The oral polio
vaccine contains a weakened virus, and when a child is immunized the
virus replicates in the intestine and is excreted by the individual. In
places where there are sanitation issues, this virus can infect others
in the community before dying out.
Vaccine Injuries to Spike During Aggressive Flu Season Push
Health Impact News - October is deemed the start of the flu season. This
year, the rhetoric and methods to push flu vaccines are beginning to
take on an authoritarian flavor. Medical consent and medical choice
appear to have taken a backseat to government mandates and strong arm
tactics by local pharmacies, medical practitioners, and employers.
Government oversight bodies and medical professionals are omitting the
risks and informed consent when it comes to the flu shot. To understand
this year’s flu vaccination push, here are some points to put things
into focus.
5 Sure-Fire Ways to Beat the Flu
Green Med Info - With flu season rapidly approaching, many are looking
to vaccination as a "preventive" approach. Those who abstain are often
accused of being uneducated or even socially irresponsible, but nothing
could be further from the truth. Vaccination cannot replace natural
immunity. Vaccines derail your natural immunological processes, along
with exposing you to wide-ranging adverse effects.
Cancer Detection and Treatment Leads To The Spread of The Disease Itself
Natural Blaze - Cancer is a deadly disease, but it is also a wonderful
revenue generation tool for multi-national conglomerates. Not only
pharmaceutical companies, but hospitals, oncologists, cancer
specialists, diagnostic facilities, and many other distinct entities
that comprise a 125 billion dollar cancer industry. Cancer awareness
propaganda and detection revolves around funneling patients through
various levels of diagnoses and treatment to maximize profits at the
expense of human health... The question of whether or not cancer
treatment really extends life can probably no longer be answered
effectively by even the cancer industry itself. In clinical studies the
manufacturers always compare their new drugs with older cellular
poisons. There are no control groups that are given no treatment at all.
Today, the most effective method of being cancer-free is to prevent it
by using dietary strategies, high-nutrient foods, lifestyle and behavior
modification.... 5 Ways You Can Decrease Yours Odds of Getting Cancer...
The Many Reasons Why You Need Sleep
Dr. Mercola - Robert Stickgold, director of the Center for Sleep and
Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, discusses some of the
lesser known reasons for why we need to sleep. Sleep is actually
essential not just for cementing events into long-term memory, but also
for making sense of your life. According to Stickgold, during sleep your
brain "extracts the gist of what happened" to you during the day, and
fosters insight into the workings of your life. Essentially, during
sleep, your brain pulls together and extracts meaning, while discarding
unimportant details. In fact, sleep increases your ability to gain
insights that would otherwise remain elusive by about 250 percent!
Need Help With Vet Bills or Pet Food? There ARE Resources...
Dogington Post - Because our pets are a life-long commitment, it’s not
unheard of for a dog or cat mom or dad to face financial hardship at
some point in the life of their fur-children. We can all agree that
before bringing an animal into your heart and home, it’s important to be
prepared for the financial responsibilities – veterinary care, quality
food and treats, preventative measures, etc. – that come along with pet
parenthood. However, over the course of that 15-20+ year commitment,
things happen. Jobs are lost, injuries or accidents make it impossible
to work, economies take a hit. Fortunately, there IS help available!
Below is a list of national and state-specific organizations that assist
pet parents in need of financial assistance. These organizations
understand that the very best place for a pet is with the family that
loves them.
Dangerous Mycotoxins Confirmed in 2015 Grains
Susan Thixton - Neogen – a company that sells testing equipment to
animal feed/pet food manufacturers to detect levels of mycotoxins,
released a report on October 5, 2015 stating many states have confirmed
high levels of dangerous mycotoxins.... These confirmed reports of
mycotoxins in 2015 grains is a concern for pet food. FDA allows the
animal feed industry to mix highly contaminated grains with clean grains
in an effort to lower the total mycotoxin exposure – allowing farmers a
means to sell highly contaminated grains.... Pets consuming a food or
treat containing those mycotoxin contaminated grains will get sick. The
severity can range from (low levels over time) “liver and kidney
fibrosis, infections resulting from immonosuppression and cancer” to
death if large amounts of mycotoxins are consumed.... If your pet’s food
or treat contains corn, wheat or barley – contact the manufacturer and
ask what their mycotoxin testing procedure is.
Thursday
- October 15, 2015 -
Today in History:
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte began his exile on the remote island of St.
Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.
1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential
candidate Abraham Lincoln. It stated that Lincoln would look
better if he would grow a beard.
1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act
of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate
based on race.
1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western
Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the
Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.
1939 - New York Municipal Airport was dedicated. The name was later
changed to La Guardia Airport.
1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed
for treason.
1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the
Department of Transportation.
1966 - In Illinois, Cahokia Mounds was added to the U.S. National
Register of Historic Places.
1966 - The First Bank of the United States was listed on the National
Register of Historic Places.
1983 - U.S. Marines killed five snipers who had pinned them down in
Beirut International Airport.
1984 - The Freedom of Information Act was passed.
1989 - South African officials released eight prominent political
prisoners.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent warships to enforce trade sanctions
that had been imposed on Haitian military rulers.
1997 - British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green broke the land-speed
record by driving a jet-powered car faster than the speed of sound.
1998 - The U.N. condemned the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba for the
seventh year in a row.
2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passed within 112 miles of Jupiter's
moon Io.
2011 - Legoland Florida opened in Winter Haven, Florida.
Ukraine demands $1 trillion from Russia over Crimea & Donbass -
Yatsenyuk
Kiev will demand $1 trillion from Moscow as compensation for the
loss of Crimea and its alleged activities in Donbass, according
to Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk. Ukraine has also
offered Russia until October 29 to accept a debt-restructuring
deal over its $3 billion debt or go to the courts. We are ready
for judicial proceedings," said Yatsenyuk. The Kremlin was
surprised by Ukraine's intention to demand $1 trillion from
Russia.
"Crimea is the territory of the Russian Federation. Donbass is
the territory of Ukraine. How did they get that $1 trillion? It
is not clear," Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry
Peskov told TASS. He added that if Ukraine doesn't repay the
debt in full, Moscow will declare it in default
China Is Willing to Start WW III Over the Trans Pacific
Partnership
Dave Hodges - After publishing yesterday’s article, I felt I had
provided the readers with a lot of information to consider with
regard to the growing South China Sea controversy. It is a
controversy that will soon see American warships entering into
the region. A few hours after publishing the previous article, I
had an epiphany. I was mentally replaying the geographic area of
contention in my mind and in my “Ah ha” moment, I began to
wonder if the aggressiveness on display by the Chinese might
have something to do with unhinging the Trans Pacific
Partnership (TPP). While appearing as a guest on the Hagmann and
Hagmann Report last night, at the end of the interview, I
speculated as to whether China’s building of militarized,
artificial Islands could possibly have anything to do with
disrupting the TPP in favor of the newer BRICS hegemony? In the
paragraphs below lies the analysis of this hypothesis.
Combat report: Russian jets make 41 sorties against ISIS in
Syria, cut off its arms supplies
RT - Islamic State terrorists in Aleppo province have been cut
off from their arms supply sources, the Russian Defense Ministry
has stated. Over the past 24 hours, Russian jets made 41 sorties
and carried out 40 attacks against the terrorist group in five
Syrian provinces. Russian warplanes attacked dozens of Islamic
State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) strongholds in Aleppo, Hama, Idlib,
Latakia and Deir ez-Zor provinces.
Russia rejects Dutch report on MH17, but agrees Ukraine should
have closed airspace – regulator
RT - Russia disagrees with the Dutch Safety Board’s report on
MH17 crash findings, the Federal Air Transport Agency said. The
Dutch party’s answers to Russian comments on the crash are
“unsubstantiated and biased,” the regulator said. The authors of
the Dutch report slanted the documents towards their version of
events beforehand, and the quality of the probe has been
unsatisfactory, Rosavitsya’s head Oleg Storchevoy said in the
official statement Wednesday.
BUK manufacturer says Russian-made air defenses ‘absolutely’ not
involved in MH17 crash
RT - The damage caused by shrapnel to the aircraft involved in
flight MH17 could not have been caused by a modern Russian BUK
missile, the manufacturers of the weapon Almaz-Antey have
stated. The manufacturer staged two real-life tests involving
decommissioned aircrafts and BUK anti-aircraft missiles to see
whether missile complexes currently deployed by Russian troops
could have been involved in the downing of the Malaysian
Airlines aircraft on July 17, 2014.
The MH-17 ‘Report’
Paul Craig Roberts - When I read that the report on the downing
of the Malaysian airliner over Ukraine was being put in the
hands of the Dutch, I knew that there would be no investigation
and no attention to the facts. And there wasn’t. I did not
intend to write about the report, because Washington’s
propaganda has already succeeded, at least in the Western world,
in its purpose of laying the blame on Russia. However, the
misrepresentation of the Dutch report by Western media, such as
NPR, is so outrageous as to make the media the story and not the
report.
Putin teases IMF to repay Ukraine’s $3bn Russian debt
The International Monetary Fund should give Kiev $3 billion to
pay off its debt to Russia, suggested Russian President Vladimir
Putin. Allowing Ukraine to skip the repayment due in December
and default will undermine the IMF, according to Putin. Moscow
continues to insist that the debt Kiev owes is not private, but
a state and official one. The current policy of the IMF only
allows member states to miss payments to private investors.
Ukraine’s failure to fulfill its debt obligations to Russia
means that there is a risk it won’t get a $17.5 billion loan
from the IMF.
New Airline to Fly ‘Migrants’ Directly Into Sweden
Paul Joseph Watson - A commercial airliner that normally caters
for tourists will fly ‘migrants’ directly from the Middle East
to Sweden in the latest example of how the European welfare
haven is rolling out the red carpet for refugees, the vast
majority of whom aren’t even from Syria.... A commercial
airliner that normally caters for tourists will fly ‘migrants’
directly from the Middle East to Sweden in the latest example of
how the European welfare haven is rolling out the red carpet for
refugees, the vast majority of whom aren’t even from Syria. A
commercial airliner that normally caters for tourists will fly
‘migrants’ directly from the Middle East to Sweden in the latest
example of how the European welfare haven is rolling out the red
carpet for refugees, the vast majority of whom aren’t even from
Syria.
* Related:
Migrants Ferried Hundreds Of Miles In £50,000 Luxury Hummer Limo
To Their New Homes In The North Of England
EU Diplomat: My Government ‘Believes Obama Is Quite Mentally
Unwell’
Steve Watson - A former NSA intelligence analyst has claimed
that a senior European diplomat told him that the entire
government of a European country considers president Obama to be
literally mentally unwell. John Schindler, a security expert and
whistleblower who now writes for The Daily Beast, has claimed
that a senior EU official from an undisclosed country also
inquired about impeachment proceedings, saying that the nation
believes Obama is not fit for office.
EU Committee Opposes Draft Law Enabling EU Countries to Ban GMO
Food and Feed
Sustainable Pulse - A draft EU law that would enable any member
state to restrict or prohibit the sale and use of EU-approved
GMO food or feed on its territory was opposed by Environment
Committee MEPs on Tuesday. The European Parliament news service
reported that Members are concerned that the proposal might
prove unworkable and lead to the reintroduction of border
controls between pro and anti-GMO countries. The recommendation
will be put to a vote by Parliament as a whole at the 26-29
October plenary session in Strasbourg.
Plague of Insects Ravages Monsanto GMO Cotton – 15 More Farmer
Suicides in India
Natural Blaze - According to this article from The Times of
India, a massive swarm of whiteflies recently destroyed large
amounts of cotton crops in Punjab, a state in northwest India.
In total about 2/3 of the state’s entire cotton crop was
destroyed, and 15 farmers committed suicide in the wake of the
infestation. Naresh Kuma Lehri, a seed and pesticide dealer,
described the scene to the Times. “It was just like the Japanese
air strike in the film, Pearl Harbor,” he said. “They appeared
out of nowhere and left a trail of destruction.” According to
the article, the chemical-free, non-GMO cotton was not harmed as
much as the genetically modified varieties by the pests.
* Related:
GM eggplants send Bangladesh farmers into poverty as they fail
for second year in a row
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Iranians, Cubans and CIA-backed rebels: US media jumps on
muddled Syria reports
RT - Citing activists and anonymous government sources, US media
outlets claim that Russian airstrikes are deliberately targeting
the US-backed rebels, as Iranian and even Cuban troops are
streaming into Syria. The Associated Press reported that Iranian
Revolutionary Guards began arriving to Syria two weeks ago,
after Russia launched an air campaign against the Islamic State
(IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL). Citing a “regional official”
with “deep knowledge of operational details in Syria,” AP
estimated the number of Iranian troops at 1,500....
Obama Pushes Back Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal, Official Says
(Bloomberg) - The U.S. will keep about 5,500 troops in
Afghanistan into 2017, slowing the administration’s withdrawal
timetable and ensuring that America’s longest war will endure
beyond President Barack Obama’s term in office. The White House
will announce Thursday that the current 9,800 troops in the
country will remain through most of 2016, and that the number
would be reduced by the following year, according to an
administration official who spoke to reporters on condition of
anonymity. It marks the second time Obama has had to alter his
schedule to wind down U.S. military operations following
persistent Taliban attacks and setbacks in building up Afghan
government forces.
FBI Director: Islamic State Recruiting ’24 Hours a Day’ in All
50 States
Breitbart - FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday the
recruitment of potential homegrown terrorists by the Islamic
State group is widespread and goes on “24 hours a day” across
the United States. Hundreds of people are “consuming” social
media efforts to either draw them overseas to join the
extremists “or if you can’t come, kill where you are,” Comey
said. “And that is a two-pronged siren song that goes out
through social media.”
Huma Abedin to appear before Benghazi Committee Friday
CNN - Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin will be interviewed
Friday by the House Benghazi Committee in a closed session in
the Capitol, according to a GOP source familiar with the
committee's activities. The appearance comes six days before her
boss, the former secretary of state and current Democratic
presidential candidate, delivers much-anticipated public
testimony before the committee.
America #1? 36 Facts That Prove That The United States Is An
‘Exceptional’ Nation
Michael Snyder - Is the United States an “exceptional” nation?
Well, the facts show that we are, but not for the reasons that
you may think. Now that it is election season, we have all sorts
of politicians running around proclaiming that America is the
greatest nation on the entire planet. And just this week, Warren
Buffett stated that “America’s great now — it’s never been
greater“. But is it actually true? Is the United States still a
great nation? I would submit that the numbers suggest otherwise.
I love America, and in my opinion there is not much hope for us
until we are willing to admit to ourselves just how far we have
fallen. The following are 36 facts that prove that the United
States is an “exceptional” nation…
Indiana Sheriff to Obama: I Will Disregard Executive Order
Calling for Gun Confiscation (Video)
Adan Salazar - An Indiana sheriff says he would ignore orders
issued by President Obama calling for gun confiscation. Elkhart
County Sheriff Brad Rogers made his stance on the Second
Amendment clear during an interview on a local PBS broadcast, in
which he supported the right of Americans to possess firearms
free of additional infringements. “We’ve always had this
conversation that we need more reasonable gun control put in
place,” Rogers said during a panel discussion on WNIT’s
Politically Speaking. “Well we have what is reasonable, in my
opinion, and in fact it’s probably overdone.” The sheriff went
on to discuss how he advises his county’s residents not to
register their firearms, and hinted at how registration can lead
to confiscation.
Planned Parenthood Won’t Accept Money for Fetal Tissue
NY Times - Trying to quell the controversy over its use of fetal
tissue, Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday that it would no
longer accept reimbursement for the costs of providing the
tissue for medical research.... But there was little sign that
the decision would do much to cool the intense heat on the
Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its president...
“Significant questions still remain about Planned Parenthood’s
finances,” Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican
who is chairman of the House committee that questioned Ms.
Richards, said in a statement.... The Center for Medical
Progress also questioned the decision. “If the money Planned
Parenthood has been receiving for baby body parts were truly
legitimate ‘reimbursement,’ why cancel it?” the group said in a
statement. “This proves what C.M.P. has been saying all along —
Planned Parenthood incurs no actual costs, and the payments for
harvested fetal parts have always been an extra profit margin.
Ratings: CNN Dem Debate Down -42% Over GOP Debate
Breitbart - During what will almost certainly be a change
election year, the ratings from CNN’s Tuesday night debate show
that the 2016 energy, passion and interest resides primarily on
the Republican side. A total of just 15.3 million viewers tuned
into last night’s Democrat debate compared to the 24 million who
tuned into the first Republican debate that aired on Fox News in
August. That’s a -42% drop.
Democrat Calls Out Politicians with Armed Guards, Defends Second
Amendment at Debate
Mikael Thalen - Presidential candidate Jim Webb defended the
Second Amendment rights of Americans during the Democratic
Debate Tuesday evening, noting that many government officials
are afforded round-the-clock armed protection. After being
confronted by CNN moderator Anderson Cooper on his previous “A”
rating from the National Rifle Association, Webb, a former
Virginia senator, began by noting that the majority of shootings
in the country involve criminal street gangs and the mentally
incapacitated.... In his closing comments on the topic, Webb
stunned his fellow candidates by alluding to the hypocrisy of
government officials who demand strict gun control while being
defended by armed body guards. “There are people at high levels
in this government who have body guards 24 hour a day, 7 days a
week,” Webb added. “The average American does not have that and
deserves the right to be able to protect their family.”
The Numbers Say That A Major Global Recession Has Already Begun
Economic Collapse - The biggest bank in the western world has
just come out and declared that the global economy is “already
in a recession”. According to British banking giant HSBC, global
trade is down 8.4 percent so far this year, and global GDP
expressed in U.S. dollars is down 3.4 percent. So those that are
waiting for the next worldwide economic recession to begin can
stop waiting. It is officially here. As you will see below,
money is fleeing emerging markets at a blistering pace, major
global banks are stuck with huge loans that will never be
repaid, and it looks like a very significant worldwide credit
crunch has begun. Just a few days ago, I explained that the IMF,
the UN, the BIS And Citibank were all warning that a major
economic crisis could be imminent.
WalMart Carnage: Stock Plummets Most In 17 Years After Slashing
Earnings Guidance, Blames Wage Hikes
Zero Hedge - ...the company just slashed its 2017 earnings
forecast by up to a whopping 12%: the reason - the recent
increase in wages. So did the American worker win for once?
Alas, no... Not even the company announcing a just as surprising
$20 billion stock buyback is helping it. Oh and speaking of
"happy workers", now that WMT has just become an activist
target, and eliminate any growth CapEx for the next 4 years,
expect the company to proceed with the logical next step after
it hikes wages: massive layoffs. Congratulations American
workers: you lose again!
Illinois To Delay Pension Payments Amid Budget Woes: "For All
Intents And Purposes, We Are Out Of Money Now"
Zero Hedge - Back in May, after the State Supreme Court struck
down a pension reform bid, Moody's move to downgrade the city of
Chicago thrust the state's financial woes into the national
spotlight. Since then, the situation hasn't gotten any better
and despite hiring an "all star" budget guru (for $30,000 a
month no less), Bruce Rauner was unable to pass a budget in a
timely fashion leading directly to all types of absurdities
including everything from the possibility of shortened school
years to lottery winners being paid in IOUs. Now, as Bloomberg
reports, pension payments are set to be delayed. Bond payments,
apparently, will still be made.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Fight Over Feds’ Organic Rules Change Tossed
Natural Blaze - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming
the U.S. government illegally changed its process for reviewing
substances approved for use in organic farming. However, the
groups challenging the rule will get a second chance to file a
new complaint against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The
Center for Food Safety and 13 organic food groups sued the USDA
in April, claiming the government changed a key provision of the
Organic Foods Production Act without sufficient notice or public
input. The law previously required synthetic materials be
removed from the list of approved organic farming substances
every five years, absent a 2/3 majority vote by the National
Organic Standards Board. In 2013, the sunset provision was
changed allowing nonorganic materials to remain on the list
indefinitely, unless the board specifically votes them off.
Wasabi: Why invest in 'the hardest plant to grow'?
BBC News - For nearly 30 years, Brian Oates has, in his words,
"pig-headedly" devoted himself to a single pursuit: setting up
the first commercial wasabi farm in North America.... The reason
is simple: wasabi is deemed by most experts to be the most
difficult plant in the world to grow commercially. So what
drives Mr Oates, and his business Pacific Coast Wasabi (PCW),
other than his stated stubbornness? Fetching nearly $160 (£98)
per kilogram at wholesale, in addition to being hard to nurture,
wasabi is also one of the most lucrative plants on the planet.
The first thing to know about wasabi - or Wasabia japonica, as
it's officially known - is that you have probably never tried
the real thing. That light green paste nestled next to the pink
ginger in your box of sushi? It is most likely a mix of mustard,
European horseradish, and food coloring.
Spicy Condiment Fights Deadly Pancreatic Cancer with Accuracy
Natural Society - Otherwise known as Japanese horseradish,
wasabi has been shown to kill human pancreatic cancer cells with
accuracy. Specifically, the active compounds of wasabi....
Instead of a sad prognosis for a shortened life, a little
Japanese horseradish offers incredible hope for those who have
been given a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. The spice turmeric has
also been shown to effectively target pancreatic cancer cells.
Tips to improve a detox protocol
(NaturalNews) If you're starting a detoxification protocol
there's a lot you can do to improve the results. Many of these
tips can also be used indefinitely to help your body detoxify
all day, every day, without being on a detox protocol.
How Dogs Forge a Bond with Rio’s Homeless That Is Life-Saving for Both
The Intercept - Homelessness in Rio is, in many ways, virtually
identical to how it manifests in other large cities: it entails
unimaginable material and emotional deprivation, hopelessness, societal
invisibility, and utter isolation. But one aspect of Rio’s homeless
population stands out: a huge number of them have dogs that were
previously living as desperate, unwanted strays on the street. Many have
lived on the street with their dogs for years. They care for them as
well as, and in many cases better than, the average middle-class family
with a pet. The profound bond that forms between them is like nothing
else one will find, and is thus deeply revealing.
Wednesday
- October 14, 2015 -
Today in History:
1879 - Thomas Edison signed an agreement with Jose D. Husbands for the
sale of Edison telephones in Chile.
1887 - Thomas Edison and George E. Gouraud reached an agreement for the
international marketing rights for the phonograph.
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt was shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, WI.
Roosevelt's wound in the chest was not serious and he continued with his
planned speech. William Schrenk was captured at the scene of the
shooting.
1928 - The first televised wedding took place in Des Plains, IL. James
Fowlkes and Cora Dennison were married in a radio studio.
1933 - Nazi Germany announced that it was withdrawing from the League of
Nations.
1934 - "Lux Radio Theater" began airing on the NBC Blue radio network.
1936 - The first Social Security Board office opened in Austin, TX. From
this point, the Board's local office took over the assigning of Social
Security Numbers.
1943 - The Radio Corporation of America finalized the sale of the NBC
Blue radio network. Edward J. Noble paid $8 million for the network that
was renamed American Broadcasting Company.
1960 - U.S. presidential candidate John F. Kennedy first suggested the
idea of a Peace Corps.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S.
intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range
missile sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy
announced that he had ordered the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
his non-violent resistance to racial prejudice in America. He was the
youngest person to receive the award.
1968 - The first live telecast to come from a manned U.S. spacecraft was
transmitted from Apollo 7.
1970 - Anwar el-Sadat became president of Egypt following the death of
President Nasser.
1986 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev charged that the U.S. wanted
to "bleed the Soviet Union economically" with the arms race in space.
1987 - Jessica McClure, 18 months old, fell down an abandoned well in
Midland, TX. The rescue took 58 hours.
2002 - Britain stripped power from the Catholic and Protestant
politicians of Northern Ireland. Britain resumed sole responsibility for
running Northern Ireland.
US refuses to receive PM Medvedev’s delegation to coordinate
anti-terrorist actions in Syria
RT - Washington has refused to receive a Russian military
delegation, headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, to discuss
coordinated action on the fight against terrorism in Syria,
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. “We have proposed to
Americans what President Vladimir Putin informed the public
about yesterday, namely, to send a delegation of military
experts to Moscow to agree on a whole number of joint steps,
afterwards we would be ready to send a high delegation led by
Prime Minister Medvedev to Washington,” Lavrov told the Russian
Parliament on Thursday. "Today we were told that they will not
be able to send a delegation to Moscow. At the same time, they
are unable to receive our delegation in Washington," he added.
German parents outraged after schoolchildren asked to make beds,
cook for refugees
RT - A school in Lübeck, Germany, included “practical work
experience” at a local asylum center into a week activities. The
plan angered parents opposed the idea of their children changing
linen on refugees’ beds, helping to cook food and sorting
clothes. An extract from a letter was posted in Facebook by a
mother who obtained it from a friend whose son received it at
school. Initially, the text sparked a mixture of bewilderment
and disbelief in social media, but after a local newspaper got
in touch with Schleswig-Holstein authorities, they confirmed the
document was real. "I am definitely not a hater, I am super
tolerant, but this is taking the matter a bit too far. Is there
a new discipline at school which is called servitude?" the angry
post reads.
1000s of Iranian Troops Enter Syria for Offensive Backed by
Russian Strikes
Sputnik News - With Russian airstrikes dealing heavy losses to
the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group, reports have
surfaced that Iranian troops will soon launch a ground offensive
alongside the Syrian army to retake Aleppo. Last week, IS
fighters managed to seize a large swathe of Aleppo, in Syria’s
north. While Syrian forces have already reclaimed part of that
territory, a ground offensive will be launched in the coming
days to purge the terrorist group from the area. According to
two senior regional officials, speaking to Reuters on condition
of anonymity, the offensive will include a coalition including
Syrian and Iranian troops, protected by Russian air support.
As Russia Bombs ISIS, US Bombs Syrian Civilian Power Stations
Brandon Turbeville - In yet another telling episode, the United
States has again demonstrated its true position in regards to
ISIS and the Russian bombing of the terrorist organization. As
Russian forces drop bombs and missiles on top of ISIS fighters
all across Syria, lobbing cruise missiles from the Caspian,
regular sortie missions, and combat helicopter attacks against
ISIS and other “relatively moderate” cannibals and terrorists,
the United States launched a bombing mission of its own against
two power plants in Aleppo [on October 10th]. The power plants
were located in al-Rudwaniya east of Aleppo and resulted in
power outages affecting the Syrian people, adding to the
American tradition of bombing civilian infrastructure instead of
ISIS and other terrorist targets in Syria.... It should also be
noted that the US bombing campaign is a violation of
international law, unlike the Russian campaign where Russian
forces were invited in to the country by the legitimate
government.
MH17 shot with BUK missile, Ukraine failed to close airspace
RT - The Dutch Safety Board says a BUK missile with a 3N314M
warhead was responsible for downing MH17. It also noted that
Ukrainian aviation regulators admitted that arms were being in
the east of Ukraine which were capable of striking passenger
aircraft. In the months before the crash, at least 16 military
airplanes and helicopters were shot down in the eastern part of
Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities were aware of this. They stated
that, occasionally, weapon systems were used that could reach
the cruising altitude of civil airliners. Yet, despite of all
this, Ukraine did not close its airspace," said Tjibbe Joustra,
the Dutch Safety Board chairman. The announcement at an airbase
in Gilze Rijen in the Netherlands mentioned that civil aviation
aircraft should not have been allowed to fly over the east of
Ukraine, due to the risk of a plane being struck.
* Related:
8 things we learned through Dutch report, BUK arms maker on MH17
crash in Ukraine
Okinawa governor withdraws permission to relocate US military
base
RT - Okinawa governor Takeshi Onaga has revoked permission
granted for the construction of a new US military base designed
to shelter the US Marine Corps after relocation. The Japanese
government opposes the decision, insisting on resuming
construction works. “I have sent notice that I am revoking
permission,” Takeshi Onaga said at a news conference on Tuesday
in the Okinawan capital of Naha, as cited by The New York Times.
His statement was met with applause from about 200 protesters
opposing the construction of the base. “I will continue to do
everything in my power to fulfill my campaign pledge of not
allowing the construction of a new base at Henoko,” he added,
the Asahi Shimbun reports.
Khairuddin and Matthias not charged under SOSMA' - AG
Astro Awani - Attorney-General Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali
confirmed that the charges made against former UMNO Batu Kawan
division deputy chief Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan and his
lawyer Mathias Chang was not under the Security Offences
(Special Measures) Act 2012 (SOSMA). Both were instead charged
under Section 124L of the Penal Code.... "This is to clarify all
questions raised by the media yesterday which alleged misuse of
power by the government of using SOSMA to detain Khairuddin and
Matthias," he told reporters here today.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Women Will Likely Have to Register for the Draft, Army Secretary
Says
Military.com - Women will eventually have to register for the
draft if "true and pure equality" is to be realized in the U.S.
military, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday. "If your
objective is true and pure equality then you have to look at all
aspects" of the roles of women in the military, McHugh said, and
registration for the draft "will be one of those things. That
will have to be considered."
In Chattanooga’s Wake, DHS Wants to Revive Terrorism Alert
System
Defense One - The U.S. has never used the National Terrorism
Alert System, a two-level system that replaced the oft-derided
color-coded terrorism alerts installed after 9/11 to spread the
word about potential attacks from abroad. But after a “homegrown
violent extremist” killed five service members in Chattanooga,
Tenn. — and amid the expectation of more terrorist-inspired
attacks — the Department of Homeland Security wants to revise
and jumpstart the system.
Confederate flag supporters indicted under Georgia terrorism law
Fox News - A Georgia grand jury formally charged 15 members of a
group supporting the Confederate flag on terror charges
following a July confrontation with a black family who was
celebrating a child’s birthday, according to an indictment
released Monday. Douglas County District Attorney Brian Fortner
said members of the “Respect the Flag” group violated the
state’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act and made
terroristic threats when their caravan of vehicles bearing the
rebel flag drove past a neighborhood party. “We do want to say
that we respect the rights of all citizens to exercise their
First Amendment right, but we’re going to require them when
they’re doing that to respect the right of all of the citizens
to feel safe,” Fortner said at a news conference attended by
FOX5.
Texas Rancher Fights Back Against BLM Land Grab
Adan Salazar - A Northern Texas rancher says property that’s
been in his family for over half a century is now suddenly being
targeted for confiscation by the Bureau of Land Management. Ken
Aderholt runs cattle on his roughly 1,250 acres in Harrold,
Texas, along the Red River, which forms the border between the
Lone Star State and Oklahoma. Aderholt’s family has had a deed
to the land since 1941, and he had hoped to pass the property
and the family business on to his sons.... But according to the
Bureau of Land Management, the same federal government agency
that confronted Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in 2014, some of
that land belongs to the feds, and they want the Aderholts off
it. Furthermore, the BLM claims the deed that proves Aderholt’s
ownership of the land, given to his parents by the State of
Texas, is worthless.
VIDEO: BUSTED.. Oregon “reporting” Caught Using Sandy Hook
Footage
Anthony Antonello - Why is video from the Sandy Hook incident
showing up in a “news” report for the Oregon incident? [Footage
begins at the 1:31 minute mark]
‘Thank God for Abortion Providers;’ Episcopal and Methodist
Clergy Bless Abortion Clinic
Breitbart - Some ordained ministers are throwing their support
behind abortion providers. Last week, for example, clergy for
Episcopal and Methodist churches were among religious leaders
who gathered in Cleveland to bless an abortion clinic. ’m here
today standing alongside my fellow clergymen and clergywomen to
say: thank God for abortion providers,” said Rev. Harry Knox,
president and CEO of Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
(RCRC) which supports abortion rights and what it refers to as
“abortion care.” Knox, who is in a same-sex marriage, was the
founding director of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion and
Faith Program, the first program director at Freedom to Marry,
and executive director of Georgia Equality.
Campbell’s Soup Comes Out of the Closet: Ad Features Gay Dads
Feeding Child
Adan Salazar - Activist groups are irate over what they perceive
as the latest attack on the family emanating from a recent ad
for Campbell’s Soup of all places. In a TV ad campaign
showcasing their Star Wars themed line of soups, the company
featured two real life gay dads feeding their real life son. The
ad shows a man feeding a toddler while quoting the famous line
from Star Wars, “I am your father.” “No, no, no, I am your
father,” another man stepping into frame says. According to a
press release, the ad is meant as a reflection of “the modern
American family.” “This campaign holds a mirror up to the modern
American family, because we know that people respond to brands
that understand them and show life how it is, in all its
glorious and joyous imperfections,” Campbell’s Marketing
Activation Vice President Yin Woon Rani said.
Drudge Poll: Who Won The First Democrat Debate 2016?
And the Winner Is… Not on Stage! Time: Trump ‘Won Twitter’… The
Donald Blasts Dems for Promising Free Goodies to Illegals,
Nothing for Veterans
Breitbart - While Tuesday night’s CNN political debate was
intended as an opportunity for one of the Democrat Party
presidential hopefuls to separate him or herself from the rest
of the pack, the best line of the night came from a man who was
not even in the room with the debaters nor in the same party....
To be fair, some of the presidential hopefuls talked about
giving away free stuff more than others–those would be Sanders,
Clinton, and O’Malley. And former Senator Jim Webb (and, as
Mediaite points out, Sanders) did talk about what he had done in
the past with the post-9/11 G.I. Bill–but what would be done in
the future is a completely different subject. So Trump tweeted:
“Notice that illegal immigrants will be given ObamaCare and free
college tuition but nothing has been mentioned about our
VETERANS #DemDebate” It was the best line of the night by far.
Time declared that Trump “won Twitter” during the debate, based
on data saying he picked up 60,000 new followers–about 4 times
as many as Clinton.
Hillary: I Would Open Obamacare Exchanges to Immigrants, Open to
Giving Subsidies To Illegal Immigrants
Breitbart - Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton stated, “I want to open up the
opportunity for immigrants to be able to buy in to the exchanges
under the Affordable Care Act” and that she would be open to
illegal immigrants getting the same subsidies during Tuesday’s
Democratic presidential debate.
Sanders would 'absolutely' end NSA spying
The Hill - Sen. Bernie Sanders would “absolutely” end sweeping
surveillance powers at the National Security Agency, he said
during the first Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday.
Without going into detail about his intentions for the agency,
the Vermont Independent, who identifies as a democratic
socialist, trumpeted his status as one of the few congressional
opponents of the Patriot Act in the wake of the 9/11. “I'd shut
down what exists right now — is that virtually every telephone
call in this country ends up in a file at the NSA,” Sanders
said. “That is unacceptable to me.”
Sanders backs Clinton over email scandal, says time to move
Reuters - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton won
unexpected support from chief rival Bernie Sanders on Tuesday
for her use of a private email server as U.S. secretary of
state, helping to defuse an issue that has overshadowed her
campaign. Echoing comments she has made before, Clinton said her
decision to not use a government email address was a mistake,
but she emphasized that she wanted to focus her energy on policy
issues that were more important to voters. Sanders unexpectedly
came to her aid. "Let me say something that may not be great
politics, but I think the secretary is right," he said. "The
American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn
emails."
BUSTED: Jeb Bush Staffer Planted In Audience to Frame Donald
Trump
Infowars - During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman “No Labels”
event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played
the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump.
However, Ms. Batchelder is not just an average audience member.
She’s a paid political operative of the GOP and a paid staff
member of Team Jeb Bush: Within minutes of her scripted
performance at the event, the producers of CNN were quickly
editing soundbites and framing a narrative. That story was
pushed into the media stream within hours. CNN’s Jeanne Moos was
the delivery vehicle for the a hit piece. Here’s the CNN
narrative as presented yesterday...
The Fed Just “Discovered” Another $2.7 TRILLION In Debt:
“Quietly Boosted Total Credit”
Mac Slavo - The people of the United States, misled by its
politicians, and plundered by its financial institutions, are
swimming in so much debt that no one will probably ever grasp
the truly staggering amount — if indeed it can ever be fully
calculated.... Officially, the U.S. was already $59 trillion in
debt in 2015, but now the number is significantly higher. When
the Fed changed its method of tracking and reporting debt
numbers, and replaced a single Credit Market Instruments chart
with two separate charts for “debt securities” and “loans,” it
suddenly reported an additional $2.7 trillion.
'Vampire' Drones ICARUS: Pentagon to Create UAVs That Vanish in
Sun
Sputnik News - A new project, financed by The Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is believed to construct drones
that can "fully vanish within four hours of payload delivery or
within 30 minutes of morning civil twilight (assuming a night
drop), whichever is earlier."... The idea is to develop an
aircraft capable of saving time by delivering packages to remote
areas, operations that often require secrecy. DefenseOne
reported that the goal of making such advanced drones that can
vanish in a smoke cloud is boosted by another similar project in
the agency called Vanishing Programmable Resources (Vapr) which
is working to make gas out of polymers from a solid form. When
the drone disappears, its wreckage must all dissolve as well and
not exceed a grain of sand, DARPA says.
NASA Takes Chemtrail Spraying Program to Outer Space (Video)
Waking Times - Last week the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) successfully completed an experiment with
a suborbital, or sounding, rocket aimed at testing out new
technologies before integrating them into other projects. The
suborbital flight on October 7th was launched from the Wallops
Flight Facility in Virginia on the Eastern seaboard of the
United States, testing a ‘modified Black Brant sounding rocket
motor, launch vehicle and spacecraft systems and sub-payload
ejection technologies.’ Interesting enough, but during the test
they released a number of vapor clouds into the atmosphere,
releasing a mixture of chemicals that are well-known to those
who are closely examining the growing problem of geoengineering
and chemtrails. The skies over this area were alight in strange
celestial clouds colorized by high-altitude discharges of barium
and strontium. From NASA...
The 10 Personality Traits of Successful Survivalists
Natural Blaze - Have you ever noticed that most preppers have a
lot in common? There are certain personality traits that seem to
be present in nearly every single prepper and survivalist I have
met, and the more prevalent these traits, the more successful
they are at prepping and survival.
FDA Fires Its First Shot at Laboratory Developed Tests
Alliance for Natural Health - How can a simple blood test
magically become “an unapproved medical device”? Last week, the
FDA sent a letter to Pathway Genomics stating that the company’s
non-invasive cancer screening test is a medical device being
marketed without FDA approval. The FDA also contended that the
“device” lacked sufficient clinical support. The FDA claims that
the cancer test meets the definition of a medical device because
the company ships blood collection tubes—medical devices—for use
with the test. As a medical device, the test is supposedly
subject to FDA scrutiny. Pathway Genomics responded in a
statement that the test in question is a laboratory developed
test, not a medical device, and therefore falls under the
jurisdiction of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS), not the FDA.
Feds Taking Kombucha Off Shelves?
Alliance for Natural Health - The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and
Trade Bureau, a division of the US Treasury Department, recently
sent letters to several producers of kombucha, warning them that
since their beverages supposedly exceeded the allowable alcohol
limit, they must be labeled as alcoholic beverages and be
subject to alcohol regulation or face hefty fines and legal
action. Kombucha is a fermented tea drink brewed with yeast and
bacteria. The drink contains trace amounts of alcohol, but it
typically falls below the federal limit of 0.5% alcohol by
volume.... The government is using the same alcohol test for
kombucha that it uses for wine, beer, and spirits. But the
organic acids and natural sedimentation in kombucha can be read
as ethanol, which throws off the results of the test.
Tai Chi and Other Low-Impact Exercises May Be Ideal for Elderly
People with Chronic Health Problems
Dr. Mercola - The 2,000-year-old Chinese practice of Tai Chi is
a branch of Qigong – exercises that harness qi (life energy).
Often described as "meditation in motion" or "moving
meditation," the activity takes your body through a specific set
of slow, gentle, and graceful movements. Your body is constantly
in motion and each movement flows right into the next. It's very
low impact, making it easy on the body, yet it provides many
well-documented health benefits. Studies have shown that Tai Chi
stimulates your central nervous system, lowers blood pressure,
relieves stress, tones muscles, and helps with digestion and
waste elimination. Plus, according to traditional Chinese
medicine Tai Chi helps to channel chi, or intrinsic energy,
through your body's energy meridians, helping you maintain good
health. According to the National Center for Complementary and
Integrative Health, health benefits associated with Tai Chi
include...
Reaction to Quest/Equest wormer
Lynn Cowgill Cochran - Quest has gotten more than just "bad press" in my
opinion, and that opinion is based on searching the FDA's adverse event
reporting database.m There's no question it's the riskiest dewormer out
there in terms of adverse reactions. Most years, the number of adverse
reaction reports for Quest exceeds all other equine drugs combined. In
it's first year of use it was only on the market for a few months
m(1997) and there were 176 adverse reaction reports. There continue to
be 300 to almost 500 reports filed every year, and remember that very
few vets actually file adverse drug reaction reports. This compares to
*one* adverse reaction report for fenbendazole for all of 1997, and a
grand total of 12 reports for 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 combined. The two
most frequently reported adverse reactions to moxidectin are
neurological and abdominal, but laminitis appears on the list too.
Tuesday
- October 13, 2015 -
Today in History:
1775 - The U.S. Continental Congress ordered the construction of a naval
fleet.
1792 - The cornerstone of the Executive Mansion was laid in Washington,
DC. The building became known as the White House in 1818.
1812 - American forces were defeated at the Battle of Queenstown
Heights. The British victory effectively ended an further U.S. invasion
of Canada.
1854 - The state of Texas ratified a state constitution.
1943 - During World War II, Italy signed an armistice with the Allies
and declared war on Germany.
1944 - American troops entered Aachen, Germany, during World War II.
1944 - During World War II, British and Greek advance units landed at
Piraeus.
1957 - Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra introduced the Ford Edsel on an
hour long special.
1981 - Egyptian voters elected Vice President Hosni Mubarak as the new
president one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.
1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush called for an overthrow of the
Panamanian ruler Manuel Antonio Noriega.
1992 - A commercial flight record was set by an Air France supersonic
jetliner for circling the Earth in 33 hours and one minute.
1999 - The U.S. Senate rejected the ratification of the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2010 - Near Copiapó, Chile, 33 miners were trapped underground in San
José Mine. The miners were rescued after 69 days underground.
Russia's Lavrov Says Attack on Embassy in Damascus Was Terrorist
Act
Sputnik News - An eye-witness at the scene told the news agency
that several shells hit close to the site of a peace rally in
support of Russia’s air campaign in Syria. "The rounds struck
the location where a peace demonstration was underway in support
of Russian action in Syria. One shell landed outside a sports
club in al-Barada, the other in the al-Adawi [districts].
Several people were injured. The site of the blasts has been
cordoned off," the witness said.
Afghanistan Unable to Handle Security Situation With ISIL
Without Outside Help
Sputnik News - Afghanistan’s security forces are incapable of
handling the situation inside the country without outside help
since 4,000 Islamic State (ISIL) militants have entered the
country, Russia’s permanent envoy to NATO said Tuesday. He said
that thousands of Islamic State militants have slipped into
Afghanistan. “We see not only a strengthening in the Taliban
movement, but what is particularly alarming is that ISIL is
slipping into Afghanistan. According to preliminary figures,
approximately 4,000 ISIL militants are already in Afghanistan
and their ranks are growing,” Grushko added.
VIDEO: BUK producer detonates missiles next to pilot’s cockpit
in full-scale MH17 experiment
RT - Almaz-Antey carried out two experiments simulating
explosions near MH17. They determined the missile was an older
BUK model 9M38 fired from an area under Ukrainian forces’
control, contesting the preliminary findings of the Dutch-led
investigation.
* Related:
Live updates: MH17 report from maker of BUK missile system
Tepco Expects to Begin Freezing Fukushima Ice Wall by Year End
Bloomberg - Tokyo Electric Power Co. expects to begin freezing a
soil barrier by the end of the year to stop a torrent of water
entering the wrecked Fukushima nuclear facility, moving a step
closer to fulfilling a promise the Japanese government made to
the international community more than two years ago.... Solving
the water management problems would be a major milestone, but
Tokyo Electric is still faced with a number of challenges at the
site. The company must still remove highly radioactive debris
from inside three wrecked reactors, a task for which no
applicable technology exists. The entire facility must
eventually be dismantled.
US Paradrops 50 Tons Of Ammo To Syrian Rebels
Zero Hedge - Because the "train and euip" program was such a
public embarrassment, the Pentagon had to come up with a new
idea to assist Syria’s “freedom fighters” now that they are
fleeing under bombardment by the Russian air force only to be
cut down by Hezbollah. The newest plan: helicopter ammo. No,
really. The US has now resorted to dropping "tons" of ammo into
the middle of nowhere and hoping the “right” people find it.
Combat report: Russian jets strike 53 ISIS targets in last 24
hours (VIDEOS)
RT - The Russian Air Force has carried out 55 sorties in the
last 24 hours, hitting 53 Islamic State targets in four Syrian
provinces and destroying command posts, terrorist training camps
and a transfer point, among others.... The airstrikes destroyed
seven command points, six training camps, six arms depots and a
stronghold near the village of Salma in Latakia province.
Russian aircraft have also attacked 24 of the terrorists’
fortified strongpoints, along with weapons and vehicles stored
there. “Over the last day, Russian warplanes have also
eliminated a convoy of terrorist vehicles, a mobile mortar
gunnery team and three underground bunker systems," Konashenkov
reported.
Turkish officials claim 'concrete evidence' of Isis link to
bombings
The Guardian - Turkish officials said they had firm evidence
linking Islamic State to the twin suicide bombings that killed
scores of people at a peace rally in the country’s deadliest
ever terrorist attack. Officials also hit back at accusations
that the state was responsible for the massacre, saying 2,000
security personnel had been deployed to protect the peace rally,
and rejected accusations that the ruling party sought to exploit
the violence to bolster its chances at snap elections due next
month. Turkish government sources told the Guardian there was
“concrete evidence” linking Isis to the bombing, and that they
had established links to a July bombing in the southern border
city of Suruç that had also been blamed on the militant group.
* Related:
Protests Erupt In Turkey As Government Accused Of False Flag In
Weekend Suicide Blast
Khairuddin, Matthias Chang charged with sabotaging Malaysian
banking, financial services
Astro Awani - The Magistrate's Court today charged former UMNO
Batu Kawan deputy chief Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan and his
lawyer, Matthias Chang with sabotaging the country's banking and
financial services. They were charged under Section 124(L) for
actions deemed detrimental to the country's banking and
financial services. No plea was recorded. The court also granted
two weeks for the prosecution to gather evidence to sanction the
case of the duo who are currently being held under the Security
Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012, or SOSMA.
*Related Video:
High Court declines Khairuddin and Chang's plea
Plane wreckage 'containing many skeletons and painted with the
Malaysian flag is found on remote Philippine island'... but
could it REALLY be Flight MH370?
Daily Mail - Police confirmed they had received reports of the
discovery in thick jungle on the remote island of Sugbai in
Tawi-Tawi province. An audio technician, Jamil Omar, contacted
police in Malaysia to say his aunt, Siti Kayam, had stumbled
upon the wreckage while she and others were hunting for birds.
Police commissioner Jalaludin Abdul Rahman, based in
neighbouring Borneo, said the woman claimed she climbed into the
smashed fuselage and saw skeletons.... According to a local
media reportL 'There was a skeleton still in the pilot's seat.
The pilot had his safety belt on and the communication gear
attached to his head and ears.'
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
A Decisive Shift In The Power Balance Has Occurred
Paul Craig Roberts - The world is beginning to realize that a
seachange in world affairs occurred on September 28 when
President Putin of Russia stated in his UN speech that Russia
can no longer tolerate Washington’s vicious, stupid, and failed
policies that have unleashed chaos, which is engulfing the
Middle East and now Europe. Two days later, Russia took over the
military situation in Syria and began the destruction of the
Islamic State forces. Perhaps among Obama’s advisors there are a
few who are not drowning in hubris and can understand this
seachange. Sputnik news reports that some high-level security
advisors to Obama have advised him to withdraw US military
forces from Syria and give up his plan to overthrow Assad. They
advised Obama to cooperate with Russia in order to stop the
refugee flow that is overwhelming Washington’s vassals in
Europe. The influx of unwanted peoples is making Europeans aware
of the high cost of enabling US foreign policy. Advisors have
told Obama that the idiocy of the neoconservatives’ policies
threaten Washington’s empire in Europe.
Local Cops Want Ability to Draw Citizens’ Blood Year-round
Adan Salazar - The Austin Texas Police Department is in the
process of seeking funding for the unconstitutional scheme, an
initiative Chief Art Acevedo claims will reduce traffic
fatalities and collisions. During a “no refusal” traffic stop,
police can forcibly extract blood or breath samples against a
person’s will after that person refuses sobriety tests. APD
officers overcome constitutional objections by obtaining
warrants, attempting to give the invasive procedures an air of
legitimacy. Attorney Jamie Balagia, who specializes in DWI
cases, says he’s never seen a judge deny a “no refusal” warrant,
and that “no refusal” essentially amounts to police telling the
public, “We’re going to take your blood no matter what you do.”
In Controversial Effort to Stop Violence, Ohio Tries School
Barricades
Al Jazeera - Across the country, some students have returned to
school to find their classroom doors and, in some cases, windows
look a little more intimidating. In the face of alarm over the
threat of mass school shootings, the barricades have gone up,
literally. Some of the more popular products stop school door
movement at the bottom by using an anchor pin drilled into the
floor. Others employ a bar that barricades the door in the
center, while still more use a sleeve on the door’s closer arm
at the top of most classroom doors. They all work by reinforcing
the door, making it virtually impossible for an intruder to
break through. But the trend toward classroom barricades has
many building code experts and school security specialists
concerned and has spurred accusations of putting politics over
safety. The issue has boiled over in Ohio, where an obscure
state agency is butting up against the powerful legislature in a
debate over the safety of such devices.
The Mystery of ISIS' Toyota Army Solved
Tony Cartalucci - The US Treasury has recently opened an inquiry
about the so-called “Islamic State’s” (ISIS/ISIL) use of large
numbers of brand-new Toyota trucks. The issue has arisen in the
wake of Russia’s air operations over Syria and growing global
suspicion that the US itself has played a key role in arming,
funding, and intentionally perpetuating the terrorist army
across Syria and Iraq.
Millions Spent on Military Equipment for the EPA
Conservative Firing Line - Open the Books, a government watchdog
organization, has put out a ,report that says the EPA spends
millions on buying military equipment, including guns, body
armor, camouflage equipment, unmanned aircraft, amphibious
assault ships, radar and night-vision gear.... Adam Andrzejewski,
founder of Open the Books, commented: “Protecting the
environment just got real. With millions of dollars spent on
military style weaponry, the EPA is now literally ensconced with
all institutional force.” “Our report discovered that when the
EPA comes knocking they are armed with a thousand lawyers,
arrest/criminal data, credit, business and property histories,
plus a ‘Special Agent’ with the latest in weaponry and
technology.”
Kamala Harris: Autopsy Photos of Sandy Hook Victims Should’ve
Been Used to Secure Gun Control
Breitbart - According to the Los Angeles Times, Harris was asked
how familiar she is with guns–whether “she has shot a gun before
or if she hunts.” Harris reportedly struggled to answer the
question before finally saying she has shot a pistol and is “a
good marksman.” She refused to answer further questions
regarding her familiarity with firearms. In lamenting Washington
DC’s failure to pass gun control in April 2013, Harris suggested
the autopsy photos of Sandy Hook schoolchildren should have been
used to shame lawmakers into supporting gun control. She said,
“They should have closed the chambers of Congress, on the House
and the Senate side, and said all you members go in there, only
you, and spread out the autopsy photos of those babies and
require them to look at those photographs. And then vote your
conscience.”
Gov. Jerry Brown Bans Concealed Carry on CA Campuses
Truth Revolt - In the wake of the shooting of nine people at an
Oregon community college a week ago, California Gov. Jerry Brown
signed into law Saturday a bill that will ban the carrying of
concealed guns on school and university campuses in California,
reports the Los Angeles Times. Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis)
introduced SB 707 several months ago to close a loophole that
allows people with a concealed carry license to carry firearms
onto school grounds. This bill will prohibit that except in
instances in which school officials grant permission or the
carrier is retired from law enforcement. “California’s college
campuses and K-12 schools should be sanctuaries for learning,
free from the fear of gun violence,” said Peggy McCrum,
president of the California Chapters of the Brady Campaign to
Prevent Gun Violence. This new law, she claims, “will make
schools safer and decrease students’ risk of being injured or
killed.”
Must Watch: “Maybe It’s Not the Guns… Maybe It’s the People
Holding the Guns”
Mac Slavo - If the only gun violence statistics you see are
disseminated by the mainstream media or left-wing anti-Second
Amendment groups, then in all likelihood you are horrified by
America’s murder culture. But what if what we’re being sold as
truth is merely a means to achieve an agenda focused on seeing
the American people totally disarmed? In the following must-see
video report from Truth Revolt, host Bill Whittle shows the
reality of America’s per capita murder rates.
School Suspends Student Over Pro-Veteran Shirt
Kit Daniels - An Oregon middle school suspended an eighth-grader
for wearing a pro-veteran shirt with the phrase “standing for
those who stood for us.” School officials at Dexter McCarty
Middle School in Gresham, Ore., demanded Alan Holmes change his
shirt which also featured a battlefield cross consisting of a
soldier’s rifle stuck into a pair of boots with a helmet on top
to show respect for soldiers killed in action. “They won’t let
me wear a shirt that supports the people that keep us free, I’m
not going to support them,” Holmes told Fox 12. “I was nervous
and kind of heartbroken because I feel like I should be able to
support the troops that have died for us.” The 13-year-old also
said he wore the shirt to show support for his older brother who
served in Iraq with the Marines.
The Dismal Democrat Debate
Kurt Nimmo - CNN claims Tuesday’s Democrat debate in Las Vegas
will draw few viewers because of playoff games between the Los
Angeles Dodgers, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs.
However, according to Andrew Tyndall, television analyst and
author of the Tyndall Report, the primary reason has more to do
with the “Trump Effect” than “minor complications of the start
of the fall TV season and the baseball playoffs.” The Republican
debate drew an estimated 23 million viewers and “had elements of
a reality TV elimination contest,” Tyndall writes. The Democrat
debate, on the other hand, “holds little interest for reality TV
viewers, since it promises little ad hominem drama and few
prospects of outrageous behavior. Therefore both elements of the
Trump Effect will be absent.” In addition to showmanship, the
so-called “Trump Effect” can be attributed to widespread
mistrust and disapproval of establishment politics as usual.
CNN won't pit Dems against each other in Tuesday's debate
Washington Examiner - CNN's Anderson Cooper will moderate the
first Democratic presidential debate this week, and unlike the
previous Republican debate hosted by CNN, Cooper said he won't
be encouraging confrontations between the candidates. "I'm
always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in
order to kind of promote some sort of a face off," Cooper said
Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources." "Look, these are all serious
people. This is a serious debate. They want to talk about the
issues and I want to give them an opportunity to do that."
Cooper's suggested style is a departure from the GOP debate
hosted by CNN and moderated by Jake Tapper in September.
Jerry Brown Signs Bill That Could Let Illegal Aliens Vote
Breitbart - On Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed
Assembly Bill 1461, the New Motor Voter Act, which will
automatically register people to vote through the DMV, and could
result in illegal aliens voting. Any person who renewed or
secured a driver’s license through the DMV may now register to
vote, or choose to opt out of doing so. Because illegal
immigrants are now eligible for obtaining driver’s licenses,
they could be allowed to vote in elections if the Secretary of
State’s office fails to verify their eligibility properly. Brown
and the California Democratic party know exactly what they are
doing; as a Public Policy Institute survey showed, among
unregistered adults, 49% lean toward the Democratic Party and
22% toward the Republican Party. Any bill permitting illegal
immigrants to vote would cement the Democratic Party’s hold on
California.
Bernie Sanders: Gun Manufacturers May Need to be Held Liable for
Gun Crime
Breitbart - During the October 11 airing of Meet the Press, host
Chuck Todd asked Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie
Sanders where he stands on allowing shooting victims to sue gun
manufacturers. Sanders made it clear that he is opposed to
holding gun store owners liable, but he believes there is room
to hold manufacturers liable to some degree.
Donald Trump: "I feel much better being armed" (Video)
CBS News - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is one
of the more than 12 million Americans who has a concealed
weapons permit, of which he said: "I feel much better being
armed." He told "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson he got the
permit "years ago" because "I like to have myself protected." He
said only "sometimes" carries a gun. Trump called himself "a big
Second Amendment person" and argued that if someone had been
carrying a gun during the shooting at Umpqua Community College
in Roseburg, Oregon earlier this month, " the result would've
been better."
Lower Gas Prices Means No Social Security Increase Next Year
NBC News - For just the third time in 40 years, millions of
Social Security recipients, disabled veterans and federal
retirees can expect no increase in benefits next year, unwelcome
news for more than one-fifth of the nation's population. They
can blame low gas prices. By law, the annual cost-of-living
adjustment, or COLA, is based on a government measure of
inflation, which is being dragged down by lower prices at the
pump. The government is scheduled to announce the COLA — or lack
of one — on Thursday, when it releases the Consumer Price Index
for September. Inflation has been so low this year that
economists say there is little chance the September numbers will
produce a benefit increase for next year.
They Did It Again: EPA Causes 2nd Toxic Spill in Colorado
Truth Revolt - [Last] Tuesday, the Environmental Protection
Agency caused its second toxic spill from a mine in Colorado in
just over two months. This time in Crested Butte, though on a
much smaller scale than the one in Silverton in August that
turned multiple river systems into a bright orange sludge pool.
As an EPA crew worked at the Standard Mine attempting to open a
collapsed portal, at least 2,000 gallons of wastewater spilled
into a creek that just so happens to lead to a nearby town's
water supply... The EPA is assuring that this "minor" spill will
have "minimal" effects on the environment they are sworn to
protect. Of course, time will tell of the full impact of this
disaster.... As an added bonus, the EPA did not disclose the
accident for two whole days.
Potential “Nuclear Fallout” Imminent As Radioactive Waste Sets
to Burn in Missouri
Activist Post - According to an emergency plan recently
distributed by St. Louis County officials, a fire at the
Bridgeton Landfill is now within 1,000 feet of a nuclear waste
dump. The landfill fire has actually been burning for over 5
years, and they have been unable to contain it thus far....
Although the fire has been burning for over 5 years and the city
began making evacuation plans last year, they didn’t tell the
public until this past week, when they leaked the emergency
plans to local news station KMOX. According to the emergency
plan, if the fire reaches the nuclear waste site, “there is a
potential for radioactive fallout to be released in the smoke
plume and spread throughout the region. This event will most
likely occur with little or no warning,” the plan notes, listing
the municipalities directly affected as Bridgeton, Hazelwood,
Maryland Heights, the Village of Champ and the City of St.
Charles.”
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
California adopts strictest limits on livestock antibiotics
Miami Herald - Calling the overuse of antibiotics “an urgent
public health problem,” Gov. Jerry Brown announced Saturday he
signed the legislation. The bill, SB 27, will curb the overuse
of antibiotics in livestock, which limits the effectiveness of
the medicines in both animals and people and contributes to the
spread of dangerous, drug-resistant superbugs.... Opponents
argued that the California legislation does not go far enough to
restrict preventive or routine use of antimicrobial drugs....
The law, which takes effect in 2018, also eliminates the
availability of livestock antibiotics for over-the-counter
sales.
5 Edible Perennials You Can Plant This Fall — And Enjoy For
Decades
Off the Grid News - While it may not seem like the best time to
plant, fall is a really good season to get in some perennial
flowers, herbs and yes … delicious and nutritious vegetables....
You may be familiar with the old-time favorites including
asparagus, rhubarb and artichokes, but what you might not know
is that there are many more veggies to consider as we wave
goodbye to the summer season and welcome fall.
California Officials Increase Mercury-laced Vaccines for
Children and Pregnant Women
Health Impact News - In California in 2004, AB 2943 was
introduced by the California Assembly and passed, going into
effect in 2006. Considered a precautionary measure, it
prohibited injections to children under three and pregnant women
with vaccines containing 0.5 micrograms of mercury per 0.5
milliliter of vaccine dose in multiple vaccine packages as the
DTaP three in one vaccines, DT vaccine, Hib, and Meningococcal
vaccines. The FDA changed the rules so vaccine manufacturers do
not have to include thimerosal on the label as an ingredient
unless it is used as a preservative. According to the FDA, if
thimerosal is used in the manufacturing process but it is not
used as a preservative, the vaccine can be labeled
“thimerosal-free” when that is not the case.
Bacteria Test Kits May Be Able To Soon Assess Cancer Risk
Dr. Marianna Pochelli - Microbes are major actors in biological
environments and play critical roles in both the prevention and
advancement of disease. Cancer diagnosticians may soon be able
to predict key genetic mutations with simple test kits which
analyze specific gut bacteria linked to different types of
cancers. Beneficial bacteria in the gut are known to attack
pathogens, manufacture vitamins and even act as anti-cancer
agents. Recent research has strengthened the scientific
understanding that microbes that live in your gut may affect
what goes on in your body and an expanding body of evidence now
supports a role for gut microbes in the etiology of cancer.
Coconut oil ketogenic cleanse for cancer
(NaturalNews) Growing evidence is reporting that cancer is a
metabolic disease characterized by cellular mitochondrial
respiratory insufficiency. Cancer cells can only survive and
thrive off of glucose and amino acid fermentation. A ketogenic
cleanse has been proposed as a means of starving off cancer cell
development. The ideal fuel source for the ketogenic cleanse is
extra-virgin coconut oil with its powerful immune boosting
properties.
Exciting News About a Vaccine to Treat Cancer in Pets (Video)
Dr. Becker - Dr. Lawman is the CEO of Morphogenesis, Inc., which is a
cell and gene therapy company located in Tampa, Florida. The company was
founded by a brilliant group of scientists from around the world who
have a vision of what cell and gene therapy can do for the face of
medicine.... Morphogenesis, Inc. is a research and development company
that has grown into a clinical stage company about to launch its first
human trial. Dr. Lawman and her team have developed a protein-tagged
cancer vaccine for companion animals as well as humans called ImmuneFx....
A very encouraging benefit of ImmuneFx is its apparent lack of side
effects. Veterinarians have delivered over 1,200 doses to various breeds
of cats, dogs, and horses, and have seen no adverse side effects.
10 Human Behaviors That Stress Dogs Out
Dr. Becker - You may do this as a loving gesture, but it can be
confusing to your pet. And when you tell your pooch these two calming
words, his stress level likely shoots through the roof. Most people
think nothing about doing this to a snoozing pet... do you?
Monday
- October 12, 2015 -
Today in History:
1492 - Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island
in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to
find a Western ocean route to India. The same day he claimed the land
for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain.
1792 - The first monument honoring Christopher Columbus was dedicated in
Baltimore, MD.
1892 - In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Columbus landing
the original version of the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited in
public schools.
1915 - Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt criticized U.S. citizens
who identified themselves by dual nationalities.
1920 - Construction of the Holland Tunnel began. It opened on November
13, 1927. The tunnel links Jersey City, NJ and New York City, NY.
1933 - The U.S. Department of Justice acquired Alcatraz Island from the
U.S. Army.
1942 - During World War II, Attorney General Francis Biddle announced
that Italian nationals in the U.S. would no longer be considered enemy
aliens.
1945 - Private First Class Desmond T. Doss was presented with the
Congressional Medal of Honor for outstanding bravery as a medical
corpsman. He was the first conscientious objector in American history to
win the award.
1960 - Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounded a shoe on his desk
during a dispute at a U.N. General Assembly.
1961 - The first video memoirs by a U.S. president were made. Walter
Cronkite interviewed Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1964 - The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into orbit around the Earth.
It was the first space flight to have a multi-person crew and the first
flight to be performed without space suits.
1972 - During the Vietnam War, a racial brawl broke out aboard the U.S.
aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. Nearly 50 sailors were injured.
1989 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a statutory federal
ban on the destruction of the American flag.
1997 - The St. Francis Basilica and 15th-century bell tower above
Foligno city hall in Italy were damaged by 3 earthquakes.
1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Online Copyright
Bill.
2001 - A special episode of America's Most Wanted was aired that focused
on 22 wanted terrorists. The show was specifically requested by U.S.
President George W. Bush.
Putin: Russia has no intention of mounting Syria ground
operation, wants to see political compromise
RT - Using ground troops in Syria is out of the question, the
Russian president said in an interview with Rossiya 1 TV.
Russia’s air operation has been thoroughly prepared and is aimed
merely at aiding the Syrian Army’s offensive, he said. “Whatever
happens, we’re not going to do this [ground operation] and our
Syrian friends are well aware of it,” President Vladimir Putin
said in an interview with Russian TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov.
The primary task of the Russian operation in Syria is
“stabilizing the legitimate authority in this country and
creating conditions to look for political compromise,” President
Putin said.
Caught On Video: Bomb Attacks At Turkey Peace Rally Leave 86
Dead, 186 Injured
Zero Hedge - Turkey’s capital Ankara, was rocked by two blasts
which according to NBC killed over 52 demonstrators, who had
gathered for a peace march, as the country grapples with
mounting security threats just three weeks before snap
elections. The explosions also wounded more than 120 people, the
Turkish Interior Ministry said. The cause of the blasts was
unclear, the ministry said, adding that it had launched an
investigation.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's convoy 'hit in military air strikes' -
but Isis denies leader's death
The Independent - The Iraqi air force claims to have
successfully targeted the convoy of the Isis leader, Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi. In a statement, the military said it had hit the
convoy in an air raid, adding that his fate remains unknown… A
Twitter site which publishes statements from Islamic State said
"rumours" that an air strike had targeted Baghdadi were false.
Hospital officials and local residents later told the Reuters
news agency that at least eight senior figures from Isis were
killed in the air strikes on the meeting, which struck two
houses in the Anbar province of Iraq.
"The Biggest Protest This Country Has Seen In Years" - Quarter
Million Germans Protest Obama "Free Trade" Deal
Zero Hedge - 250,000 Germans marched in Berlin today in protest
against the planned "free trade" deal between Europe and the
United States which they say is anti-democratic and will lower
food safety, labor and environmental standards. "This is the
biggest protest that this country has seen for many, many
years," Christoph Bautz, director of citizens' movement Campact
told protesters in a speech.
US to make ‘condolence payments’ to compensate Kunduz hospital
bombing victims’ families – Pentagon
RT - The US Department of Defense will work on compensating the
families of the victims killed in a deadly American airstrike on
a Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF)
hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The strike “mistakenly” killed
22 people. On Saturday, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said in a
statement that it is “important to address the consequences of
the tragic incident at the Doctors Without Borders hospital in
Kunduz, Afghanistan.” “US Forces-Afghanistan has the authority
to make condolence payments and payments toward repair of the
hospital. USFOR-A will work with those affected to determine
appropriate payments. If necessary and appropriate, the
administration will seek additional authority from the
Congress,” Cook said.
Radioactive wreckage: inside Fukushima's nuclear exclusion zone
- in pictures
The Guardian - Supermarket aisles strewn with packets. A school
blackboard covered with notes for an unfinished lesson. Cars
tangled with weeds in an unending traffic jam. These are eerie
pictures from inside the 20km exclusion zone around Fukushima
nuclear plant, which went into meltdown after a tsunami and
earthquake struck Japan in March 2011. Photographer Arkadiusz
Podniesinski donned protective gear to visit the "terrifying"
ghost towns of Futaba, Namie and Tomioka last month and this is
what he found.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
TPP to Kill Thousands by Expanding Monopoly Power of Drug
Companies
Kit Daniels - The Trans-Pacific Partnership will increase
healthcare costs by pressuring countries to grant monopolies to
drug companies if existing drugs are found to be effective
against other diseases. The near-finalized version of the TPP
Chapter on Intellectual Property Rights gives signatory
countries the ability to grant pharmaceuticals three years of
“market exclusivity” for new uses of old medicines, preventing
cheaper, genetic drugs from competing. For example, the drug
Zidovudine was first discovered as an effective cancer treatment
in 1964 and years later, in 1987, it was also found to be
effective against HIV, and under the TPP it would be illegal for
generic drug makers to compete with the decades-old Zidovudine
in the HIV market for at least three years.... And this will
lead to the deaths of thousands of patients who can’t afford the
monopoly price.
WikiLeaks release of TPP deal text stokes 'freedom of
expression' fears
The Guardian - Intellectual property rights chapter appears to
give Trans-Pacific Partnership countries' countries greater
power to stop information from going public. WikiLeaks has
released what it claims is the full intellectual property
chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the
controversial agreement between 12 countries that was signed off
on Monday. TPP was negotiated in secret and details have yet to
be published. One chapter appears to give the signatory
countries (referred to as "parties") greater power to stop
embarrassing information going public. The treaty would give
signatories the ability to curtail legal proceedings if the
theft of information is "detrimental to a party's economic
interests, international relations, or national defense or
national security" – in other words, presumably, if a trial
would cause the information to spread...Obama has pledged to
make the TPP public but only after the legislation has passed.
Clinton Exposed Name of Top CIA Source Via Unprotected Email
Breitbart - The title given to Michael Isikoff’s piece is
“Benghazi Committee, Under Fire, Releases More Clinton Emails,”
but the big news is right up front, in the first few paragraphs:
Hillary Clinton carelessly exposed a top CIA human intelligence
asset in Libya, in an email sent through her unsecure private
mail server.... “She is exposing the name of a guy who has a
clandestine relationship with the CIA on her private,
unprotected server,” explained former CIA officer John Maguire,
who said a “crimes report” should have been sent from the CIA to
the Justice Department over this security breach.
Over 1,000 Protesters Showed up to Confront Obama in Oregon
Activist Post - There’s a very good reason why Obama didn’t make
any public appearances in Roseburg, Oregon yesterday. This rural
community was not interested in hearing him politicize the
tragic Umpqua Community College shooting. In the run up to his
planned visit with the families of the shooting victims, they
made it very clear that he wasn’t welcome in their town, and
they made good on their promise to protest his visit.
NBC News Fail: Pro-Hillary Campaign Results In -10 Point Poll
Drop
Breitbart - All of NBC’s shills and all of NBC’s lies couldn’t
makes Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers rise. In fact, in the week
after NBC turned its entire news and entertainment divisions
over to the Hillary Clinton campaign, a new Reuters poll shows
that her “support tumble[d] from 51 percent of Democratic
support to just 41 percent.”
Rand Paul Wins Republican Liberty Caucus Straw Poll
Breitbart - Paul was the favored choice of more than 700 voters
at the libertarian-leaning RLC’s national convention in Nashua,
New Hampshire, slightly edging out Republican opponent Sen. Ted
Cruz. “The Republican Liberty Caucus is pleased to announce Rand
Paul as the winner of our straw poll with 57.1% of the vote. Ted
Cruz came in second with 51.2% of the vote. 777 Liberty
activists voted at our convention where Rand Paul and Ted Cruz
were featured speakers,” the RLC wrote on Facebook Saturday
evening. Paul’s win in the straw poll is a solid feather in his
cap as he looks to rebound from sluggish poll numbers and
relatively unimpressive debate performances early in the
campaign.
Riding High in Polls, above 30 Percent, Donald Trump Storms the
American South to Overflow Crowds in Georgia
Breitbart - GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who recently hit more
than 30 percent support in a New Hampshire poll, headed South to
a packed campaign rally in Norcross, Georgia at the North
Atlanta Trade Center on Saturday with between five to 10,000
supporters.... Herman Cain introduced the billionaire to the
crowd, and it’s reported that Trump will meet privately with
Cain and African American pastors. Trump set a record for
attendance at a GOP presidential candidate event in August with
roughly 30,000 people in Mobile, Alabama.
*Related:
C-SPAN: Trump and a supporter from Colombia at the Las Vegas
campaign rally [Funny]
How Much Longer Can Our Unaffordable Housing Prices Last? (Spolier
Alert: Not Much)
Zero Hedge - This globalization of regional housing markets is pricing
the middle class out of housing in areas that also happen to be strong
job markets. Many commentators are concerned that a nation of homeowners
is being transformed into a nation of renters, as housing is snapped up
by hedge funds and wealthy elites fleeing China and the emerging
markets. But will current conditions continue unchanged going forward?
This "Unlivable $350,000 Shack" Is The Cheapest Home In San Francisco
Zero Hedge - According to the broker, it's the cheapest home on the
market in San Francisco, and it's an unlivable shack. As Fortune
reports, it is a worn-down, decomposing wooden shack that was built in
1906, and the interior is unlivable in its current condition. The San
Francisco house is also selling for $350,000. According to Zillow,
$350,000 would comfortably fetch a 1,500-square-foot, three-bedroom home
in many smaller cities in the U.S., including Cincinnati, Ohio. Realtor
Alexander Han, would definitely advise against moving in too soon....
Porous Material Holds Promise for Prosthetics, Artificial
Organs, Soft Robots
Tech Swarm - Cornell researchers have developed a new
lightweight and stretchable material with the consistency of
memory foam that has potential for use in prosthetic body parts,
artificial organs and soft robotics. The foam is unique because
it can be formed and has connected pores that allow fluids to be
pumped through it.
Beyond the 'Breast Cancer" Gene (BRCA): Why Food Is Your
Medicine
Green Med Info - There is so much fear and misinformation
surrounding the so-called 'Breast Cancer Associated' genes,
BRCA1 and BRCA2, that it should help to dispel some prevailing
myths by looking at the crucial role that epigenetic factors
play in their expression. Literally 'above' (epi) or 'beyond'
the control of the genes, these factors include environmental
chemical exposures, nutrition and stress, which profoundly
affect cancer risk within us all, regardless of what variant
('mutated' or 'wild')* that we happen to carry within our
genomes.
GMOs Making You Sick? You Can File a Complaint with the FDA
Natural Society - Are you sick of unlabeled GMOs in our food?
Let the FDA know. You can file a formal complaint. Let’s send
them so many that their servers bust! FDA scientists once said
that genetically modified ingredients were possibly unsafe. The
agency ignored their own experts, and have since been acting
like a dog on a chain, bowing to the whims of the biotech
industry without any concern for public health. The FDA’s own
internal documents even reveal the truth about GMOs – showing
that the agency’s own scientists expressed doubts about the GM
food labeling policy when it was being established, while
raising questions about GM food safety. But the Food and Drug
Administration has given Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Syngenta,
Cargill, etc. the keys to our cities, and the ability to plant
genetically modified organisms at will.
5 Whole-Body Pumpkin Health Benefits
Natural Society - If you’re craving the taste of this
fall-favorite, skip the pumpkin-flavored coffee creamer. Most of
those products are filled with sugar and trans fats (among other
questionable ingredients). Instead, reach for the real thing,
because real pumpkin tastes good – and is good for you! Here are
5 pumpkin health benefits.
This Life-Changing Action Will Make You a Hero to These Animals
Dr. Becker - October is the American Humane Association’s Adopt-A-Dog
Month, to raise awareness about the millions of animals waiting in
shelters to find their forever homes. This annual event was established
in 1981 to encourage pet lovers to consider adopting a dog from a
shelter or rescue group.... If you have your heart set on a specific
breed and can’t find one in a local shelter, contact a breed-specific
rescue group near you.... 10 Reasons to Add a Shelter Dog to Your
Life...
If This Feline Risk Is in Your Home, Put It Under Lock and Key
Dr. Becker - Cats have a very unique physiology that makes them
exceptionally sensitive to a number of substances that don’t cause
problems for other animals. This is because there is a significant
difference in the liver metabolism of felines as compared to other
animals. It is this difference that causes foreign chemical substances
that are (relatively) safe in other species to be deadly in cats, and
typically at much lower doses.
Friday
- October 9, 2015 -
Today in History:
1776 - A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San
Francisco, CA.
1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took
place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington,
defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.
1812 - During the War of 1812 American forces captured two British
brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia.
1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St.
Louis, MO, began.
1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the
delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became
Montgomery Wards.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest
telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.
1888 - The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first
time.
1914 - During World War I, German forces captured Antwerp, Belgium.
1930 - Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale, CA, to complete the
first solo transcontinental flight across the U.S. by a woman.
1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity
to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.
1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed by the Nazis. The dome
was unharmed in the bombing.
1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA.
1986 - U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne became the fifth federal
official to be removed from office through impeachment. The U.S. Senate
convicted Claiborne of "high crimes and misdemeanors."
1994 - The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response
to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks
toward the Kuwaiti border.
1995 - Saboteurs tinkered with a stretch of railroad track in Arizona.
An Amtrak train derailed killing one and injuring a hundred.
2009 - NASA launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite
(LCROSS). On November 13, it was announced that water had been
discovered in the planned impact plume on the moon.
NATO Threatens To Send In Troops After Russia Stations Ground
"Battalion" In Syria
Zero Hedge - "The force that they have deployed down there is
actually quite impressive for a rapid deployment of a week or
so. It is all arms, combined arms, attack aircraft, it is the
attack helicopters and artillery, rocket artillery. NATO is
ready and able to defend all allies, including Turkey against
any threats."
U.S. Spent Nearly $100 Billion On Foreigners To Fight Terrorists
Zero Hedge - To combat Islamic militants the White House says
threaten national interests, the U.S. has spent nearly $100
billion to arm and train foreign militaries across the Middle
East, North Africa and South Asia, an analysis by Vocativ shows.
And nearly all of them are reeling from setbacks that threaten
to undermine what’s become a core component of American foreign
policy in these regions. As a former military commander and
United States ambassador in Afghanistan recently noted, "our
track record at building security forces over the past 15 years
is miserable."
Wikileaks Offers $50K Bounty for Footage of Kunduz Hospital
Bombing
Mikael Thalen - “According to military procedure, this footage
should have been retained along with the cockpit audio.” A
crowdfunding campaign initiated by Wikileaks Thursday is
attempting to raise $50,000 for anyone with footage of last
week’s U.S. airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan....
As noted by Wikileaks, the AC-310 aircraft responsible for the
strike use high-resolution cameras to both record and store
video footage of military engagements. “The AC-130 records its
attacks with high resolution gun cameras,” Wikileaks stated.
“According to military procedure, this footage should have been
retained along with the cockpit audio.”
Will China join forces against TPP?
RT - The newly-signed controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership
sounds like a big win for the US and its allies, but leaving out
China. This snub may leave Beijing with no other option but to
form its own bloc with other countries left out. The
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is headed by the US and includes
Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New
Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. It's unlikely that China
was not invited to join TPP by mistake. “When more than 95
percent of our potential customers live outside our borders, we
can’t let countries like China write the rules of the global
economy,” said US President Barack Obama in a statement.
Day After Deutsche Bank Admits Not All Is Well, Swiss Giant
Credit Suisse Also Admits It Needs More Cash
Zero Hedge - The official narrative is well-known: the bank does
not need the funds, it is simply a precaution ahead of new, more
stringent capital requirements: The capital is likely to be used
to absorb losses triggered by a faster restructuring of the
Swiss group, the people said. But Credit Suisse will also need
higher capital ratios to comply with toughening demands from
regulators. The real reason, of course, has nothing to do with
this, and everything to do with the collapse of manipulation
cartels involving Liebor, FX, commodities, bonds, equities,
gold, and so on, because when banks can no longer collude with
each other to push markets in any given direction, that's when
they start losing money. That and, of course, the fact that
central bank intervention in capital markets has made it
virtually impossible to trade any more. Or as they call it,
"miss capital ratios." Expect many more such announcements in
the coming weeks.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Pentagon funding bill on Obama’s desk: $600 mln to Syrian
rebels, $300 mln to Kiev
RT - The defense funding bill for 2016 includes some lavish
support to rebels in Syria and lethal aid to the current
Ukrainian government. Although President Barack Obama is at
loggerheads with lawmakers over some of the provisions, they are
likely to remain. Obama has threatened to veto the $612 billion
National Defense Authorization Act – also known as House
Resolution 1735, or the NDAA – because it contains provisions
blocking the plans to shut down the detention camp at the US
base in Guantanamo Bay, and because it avoids a cap on defense
spending by padding a special account reserved for bankrolling
wars. The Senate passed the NDAA on Wednesday with a veto-proof
majority. While the White House and the lawmakers are in dispute
over the details, they appear to be in agreement on continuing
to send military aid to the regime in Ukraine and the elusive
“moderate rebels” in Syria.
Spencer Stone: France train terror hero stabbed in US
CBS News - Stone, 23, was stabbed repeatedly in the upper body
while out with a group of friends and was taken to UC Davis
Medical Center, authorities said. In a statement, the hospital
said he was in serious condition. Sources told CBS News that
Stone was stabbed four times. Sacramento Police Deputy Chief Ken
Bernard told reporters that Stone was stabbed more than once and
suffered "significant injuries." Police said the two assailants,
who Bernard described as male Asian adults, fled in a car. No
immediate arrests were made.
* Related:
Videos show moment French train hero Spencer Stone stabbed
during melee
Alek Skarlatos: France train hero was supposed to be at Oregon
college
USA Today - One of three Americans who tackled a terror suspect
on a train from Amsterdam to Paris in August was planning to
attend an Oregon community college this fall and would have been
on campus Thursday during a shooting that left 10 dead. Instead,
he was in Los Angeles on Dancing with the Stars, he said during
an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Skarlatos said he was
supposed to be in the building where Thursday's shooting took
place. "I had classes in Snyder Hall," said Skarlatos...."
Number of sanctuary cities grows to 340; thousands of illegals
released to commit new crimes
Washington Times - The list of sanctuary cities has grown to
more than 340, and they shielded an average of 1,000 immigrants
a month from deportation last year — and more than 2,000 of
those released have already been arrested for yet more crimes,
according to a report being released Thursday by the Center for
Immigration Studies. Among those released are illegal immigrants
accused of murders and brutal assaults, said Jessica Vaughan,
the author of the report, which comes just as the Senate is
poised to begin debating legislation to try to crack down on
sanctuary jurisdictions. Santa Clara County Jail in California
alone released some 1,349 immigrants that U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had asked be held for pickup,
the new report says. Los Angeles released 572.
Cubans Have FLOCKED To The US Since Obama Renewed Relations
Daily Caller - The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 makes Cuban
citizens subject to more relaxed immigration laws compared to
other nationalities. As long as they pass a background check at
the point of entry, Cubans are free to stay in the U.S. and may
pursue legal permanent residence after just one year.... Pew
reports that the number of Cubans caught at sea and returned to
Cuba have surged as well. This way of entering the country is
still illegal and the U.S. Coast Guard has apprehended almost
3,000 Cubans thus far in 2015.
Breaking: John Boehner has agreed to stay on as Speaker
Fox News - Having Talked to several senior aides on Capitol Hill
(along with Chris Stirewalt and his sources on the Hill tied to
the leadership) here is the picture that is beginning to form.
Speaker John Boehner has agreed to stay on as Speaker--not just
until the Caucus nominates someone --but, until that person can
confirm 218 votes on the House floor (needed to take the
Speaker’s gavel). Short of that – Boehner will stay on for the
rest of this Congress and steer legislation that is pending.
What does this mean? Moderates and leadership types are cheering
and saying Boehner is the only one they will support.
Conservatives will go ballistic since they know this signals
that Boehner will make ALL kinds of deals to get big ticket
legislation through the House even if it means using Democrats
votes to do it.
McCarthy withdraws from speaker race, vote postponed
Fox News - House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the
front-runner to replace John Boehner, stunned his Republican
colleagues on Thursday by withdrawing from the race -- a
decision that will postpone the vote for speaker. Fox News is
told McCarthy simply said it was not his time. McCarthy faced
opposition from some conservative members and groups, but was
thought to have more than enough support to win the party's
nomination in the vote initially set for Thursday. It's unclear
what specifically made McCarthy change his mind and drop out.
Rand Paul: Let Armed Schools Flaunt Their Second Amendment
Rights
Steve Watson - Senator Rand Paul weighed in on the Oregon
shooting Wednesday, saying that schools should be armed and
should place signs warning potential attackers that they will be
shot on sight. Speaking with Iowa radio host Jan Mickelson, Paul
said that it’s “sad” how President Obama has attempted to
politicize the Oregon shooting. The president “doesn’t
understand,” Paul said, that “the problem is mental illness and
not necessarily gun registration or gun ownership.” Paul added
that “people are going to places where guns are prohibited.”
“When you have a gun-free zone at a school, it’s like an
invitation, if you are crazy and want to shoot people, that’s
where you go.” Paul stated. “I would do the opposite,” the
Senator urged. “I would have and encourage every school in
America to put stickers on every window going into the school
saying, ‘We are armed. Come in at your own peril. We have
concealed carry for teachers who have it and we also have armed
security and you will be shot.’”
Why Are The IMF, The UN, The BIS And Citibank All Warning That
An Economic Crisis Could Be Imminent?
Economic Collapse - The warnings are getting louder. Is anybody
listening? For months, I have been documenting on my website how
the global financial system is absolutely primed for a crisis,
and now some of the most important financial institutions in the
entire world are warning about the exact same thing. For
example, this week I was stunned to see that the Telegraph had
published an article with the following ominous headline: “$3
trillion corporate credit crunch looms as debtors face day of
reckoning, says IMF“. And actually what we are heading for would
more accurately be described as a “credit freeze” or a “credit
panic”, but a “credit crunch” will definitely work for now. The
IMF is warning that the “dangerous over-leveraging” that we have
been witnessing “threatens to unleash a wave of defaults” all
across the globe…
When You Spot What Makes This Picture So Awesome, You’ll Applaud
Natural Blaze - Have you been around people lately? Whether on
the subway or in a coffee shop, it’s rare true connection is
made with another human being, for most people use their
cellphones as a means to escape reality and those around them.
Sadly, though technology has only advanced to this level in the
past couple of decades, it’s nearly everyone who is guilty of
living through their phones rather than being present. And the
picture captured by John Blanding at the Black Mass movie
premiere in Brookline, Massachusetts perfectly shows this. A
crowd of fans is seen greeting movie stars with their
smartphones held high, but only one woman is truly present and
appreciating the experience. Can you spot her?
Is Google rotting your BRAIN?
Daily Mail - There are fears impatience is triggering ‘digital
amnesia,’ which means we rely on the internet for answers but
easily forget the information we quickly look up online. A new
study suggests that when faced with a question, over a third of
people automatically Google the answer quickly, without trying
to come up with the answer themselves. It also warns that a
quarter of people immediately forget the information they have
googled – a process which can mean the dissolution of memories
and useful information.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
JetBlue To Test Farm-To-Tray-Table Concept At JFK Airport
Natural Blaze - The first airline to do something so epic,
JetBlue seeks to improve the food offered to travelers by
opening its own “farm” at JFK. As ABC News reports, a 24,000
square-foot (less than half the size of a football field) plot
of land will be farmed outside of JFK’s Terminal 5. Most of the
food grown will be utilized in restaurants in the airport, and
the rest will be donated to food banks in the city. The aim of
the farm is two-fold: to help people become more educated on
farming, and to improve the exterior appearance of the terminal.
Win-win!
How To Grow Pineapple (Even In Cold-Weather Climates)
Off the Grid News - Pineapple is attractive and tasty, as well
as easy to grow in pots. Thank goodness, as it’s hard to grow
pineapples in temperatures in the low 20s. Pineapple plants will
be damaged at -28 Fahrenheit (or -2 Celsius). You can grow
pineapples from the ones you get in stores if you aren’t able to
get your own plant. The tops can still be planted, even in pots.
Pineapples take a while to grow, so you will need some patience.
Once established, though, you can harvest at any time.
Is Your Unborn Baby Part of a Vaccine Experiment?
Health Impact News - According to CDC paperwork, both the Tdap
and the Dtap are vaccinations offered to pregnant women during
pregnancy, supposedly to protect their newborn infant from
contracting pertussis (whooping cough) in the first few weeks of
life. However, despite recommending these vaccinations to all
pregnant women, the CDC readily admits in their own
documentation that neither vaccine has ever been tested during
pregnancy for vaccine safety and that they have no idea whether
the vaccines could harm a growing fetus. In other words, by
recommending these vaccinations to pregnant women, the CDC is
fully prepared to use unborn babies as part of a massive vaccine
experiment.
Rare Diseases like Chagas and Leprosy are Becoming more
Commonplace in the U.S.
Natural Society - They might be called kissing bugs, but you
don’t want a kiss from the triatomine bug. The ugly, winged
creatures carry Chagas disease, and it’s spreading so quickly
through the southern U.S. that researchers are calling it the
new AIDS in the Americas.... In the U.S., as many as 300,000
people are thought to carry Chagas, according to CDC estimates.
Only 28 cases have been acquired here, with the rest believed to
have been imported from Latin America.... Leprosy has also made
an appearance in Florida this year, where 9 people were
diagnosed with the skin disease. One carrier of the illness is
the armadillo, which have become commonplace in the south,
though scientists aren’t certain how the 9 Floridians became
infected.
Why The Apple Is One Of The World's Most Healing Superfoods
Green Med Info - This commonly overlooked superfood protects the
body from nuclear fallout, kills a wide range of cancers, and
keeps the arteries unclogged -- to name but a few,
experimentally confirmed ways in which the apple awakens your
inner physician. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away.... While
some might take this opening aphorism as mere folk medicine
fantasy, the reality is that the medicinal properties of apple
are well-documented within the biomedical literature. or
instance, apple consumption has been the subject of quite a few
studies on colorectal cancer risk reduction. Other cancers that
apple constituents have been studied to kill in pre-clinical
research include...
Your Older Pet's Special Needs and How to Meet Them
Dr. Becker - As a proactive wellness practitioner, I'm all about
preventing disease whenever possible, and helping people help their
beloved furry family members live long, active, and healthy lives.
Ideally, I like to see my healthy patients twice a year, and those with
chronic conditions more often. Other patients I want to see 2 or even 3
times a year are senior and geriatric pets. After the age of 8 (younger
for some large and all giant breed dogs), your dog's or cat's wellness
and nutritional needs can require fine-tuning every 4 to 6 months. In
older pets especially, it's important to review weight, muscle tone,
joint range of motion, diet, supplement protocol, and exercise habits at
least semi-annually.
Thursday
- October 8, 2015 -
Today in History:
1869 - Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States, died in
Concord, N.H., at age 64.
1915 - During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.
1918 - U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25
German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York
had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector.
After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
1938 - The cover of "The Saturday Evening Post" portrayed Norman
Rockwell.
1945 - U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada
would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.
1950 - U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.
1952 - "The Complete Book of Etiquette" was published for the first
time.
1966 - The U.S. Government declared that LSD was dangerous and an
illegal substance.
1991 - A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower
Manhattan. The "Negro Burial Ground" had been closed in 1790. Over a
dozen skeletons were found.
1993 - The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any
wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian
compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.
1998 - Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that
three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced
to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.
2001 - Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as
director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.
2001 - Rush Limbaugh announced to his listeners that he was totally deaf
in his left ear and had only partial hearing in his right ear.
2001 - Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted
outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.
2003 - Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that
would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since
the end of the Vietnam War.
2004 - The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in
Afghanistan.
2004 - Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart reported to prison to begin serving
a sentence for lying about a stock sale.
Russian gangs trying to sell radioactive material to Isil
terrorists in Moldova
The Telegraph - Moldovan police working with the FBI have
disrupted a string of attempts by gangs in the former Soviet
Republic to sell radioactive materials to Islamic extremists,
including a putative deal to supply Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (Isil) terrorists with enough caesium to contaminate
several city blocks. No less than four such attempts by groups
with suspected Russian connections have been interrupted in the
past few years, the sellers repeatedly seeking out buyers who
would use the radioactive products to target the United States.
The alarming findings, made in an Associated Press (AP)
investigation based on documents provided by Moldovan police,
raises fresh concerns about unaccounted for materials taken from
vast stockpiles of radioactive substances when the Soviet Union
collapsed 24 years ago.
Syria Launches a Large-Scale Operation Against the Islamic State
Sputnik News - Syrian Armed Forces launched a large-scale
operation agains the Islamic State (ISIL) to retake occupied
areas from the terrorists, Syrian General Staff Lt.-Gen. Ali
Abdullah Ayyoub said Thursday. “Today, the Syrian Armed Forces
began a large-scale defensive with the goal of destroying
terrorist groups and freeing regions and populated areas that
have suffered from terror and crimes,” Ayyoub told journalists
in the Mediterranean coast city of Jableh.
ISIL Instructors Training Russia-Born Militants in Afghanistan
Sputnik News - The Islamic State is training Russia-born
militants in Afghanistan, some of its instructors possessing US
and UK passports, a top Russian diplomat said Thursday at a
security conference in Moscow. He went on to say that the
instructors include Arabs, Pakistanis, as well as UK and US
nationals. According to the Russian General Staff, the number of
ISIL militants in Afghanistan has been growing and is now around
two or three thousand. Over the past nine months, terrorists
have killed more than 3,500 people, which is 25% more than
during the same period a year ago.
Taliban Islamic Movement Controls Up to 70% of Afghanistan
Sputnik News - The Taliban Islamic movement currently controls
most of Afghanistan, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s
General Staff’s intelligence department said Thursday.... He
stressed that there are “more than 10,000 militants and other
extremist and criminal groups” in Afghanistan. The Islamic State
is gradually increasing its numbers in Afghanistan, especially
in the country’s east and north, Col.-Gen. Igor Sergun added.
4 Russian warships launch 26 missiles against ISIS from Caspian
Sea
RT - Four Russian Navy warships have fired a total of 26
missiles at the position of the terrorist group Islamic State in
Syria, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced. The
missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea. “Four missile ships
launched 26 cruise missiles at 11 targets. According to
objective control data, all the targets were destroyed. No
civilian objects sustained damage,” Shoigu said. The missile
attacks came from Russia’s fleet in the Caspian Sea, which
borders Russia, Iran and three other littoral countries. The
precision weapons hit all intended targets. The attacks required
cooperation from Iran and Iraq, as the missiles had to travel
through their airspace to reach Syria. The Russian Defense
Ministry said it had worked with its partners to plan the flight
path so that the missiles traveled only over desolate areas and
didn’t pose any danger to civilians.
Russian jets 'intercept' US predator drones over Syria,
officials say
Fox News - Russian fighter jets shadowed U.S. predator drones on
at least three separate occasions high above Syria since the
start of Russia’s air campaign last week, according to two U.S.
officials briefed on this latest intelligence from the region.
Meanwhile, U.S. Navy Captain Jeff Davis told reporters a U.S.
aircraft flying over Syria had to be rerouted to avoid a Russian
fighter jet at least once. “We have taken action to maintain
safe separation,” Davis said, adding that the U.S. aircraft
"changed path a little bit." He did not disclose which type of
U.S. aircraft was involved. U.S. officials tell Fox News the
drone encounters took place over ISIS-controlled Syria,
including its de facto headquarters in Raqqa, as well as along
the Turkish-Syrian border near Korbani. Another occurred in the
northwest, near the highly contested city of Aleppo.
France’s Hollande: Muslim Rift Threatens “Total War”
Kurt Nimmo - French president Francois Hollande, appearing
before the European Parliament in Strasbourg with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, said Europe faces “total
war.” “If we let the recent religious confrontations between
Shiites and Sunnites get worse then don’t think that we won’t be
affected. It will be a total war, a war that will also affect
our territories and we must act,” he warned. Hollande also said
the political solution for Syria and Europe’s illegal
immigration crisis is the overthrow of Syrian president Bashar
al-Assad. “What’s happening in Syria concerns Europe because
what is going on there will determine the balances of power in
the region for a long time,” he said. Middle East experts agree
the situation has the potential to develop into a full-scale
war.
The First Crack: Deutsche Bank Preannounces Massive Loss, May
Cut Dividend
Zero Hedge - Deutsche Bank warned it expects to record a
third-quarter loss of $7 billion, tied to a huge write-down in
its corporate-banking-and-securities segment. The bank said the
charges are driven by the impact of expected higher regulatory
capital requirements and its disposal of Postbank. It also said
it will consider reducing or eliminating its common dividend for
fiscal 2015.
As A Shocking $100 Billion In Glencore Debt Emerges, The Next
Lehman Has Arrived
Zero Hedge - And now the real shocker: there is over US$100bn in
gross financial exposure to Glencore. From BofA: "We estimate
the financial system's exposure to Glencore at over US$100bn,
and believe a significant majority is unsecured. The group's
strong reputation meant that the buildup of these exposures went
largely without comment. However, the recent widening in GLEN
debt spreads indicates the exposure is now coming into investor
focus."
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Republicans Defeat Efforts by Democrats to Dismantle Benghazi
Committee
New American - On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House
blocked a Democratic effort to abolish the Select Committee on
Benghazi, which has been conducting an investigation into the
2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya, during
Hillary Clinton’s reign as Secretary of State. While the
Democrats fully expected the resolution to fail, it served as a
procedural effort to force House Republicans to publicly support
maintaining the Benghazi Committee.... Representative Louise
Slaughter (D-N.Y.) moved forward on Wednesday with a “privileged
resolution” to disband the Benghazi panel just one day after
another effort to dismantle the panel failed in the House Rules
Committee. Slaughter’s resolution specifically referenced
comments made by Representative Kevin McCarthy regarding the
committee’s effect on Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers. Last week,
Representative McCarthy committed a major blunder during an
appearance on Fox News by implying that the Benghazi committee
was politically motivated.
Emails show Qaddafi son offered talks – but Clinton ordered top
general to 'not take the call,' source says
Fox News - New emails obtained by Fox News show that in March
2011, at the height of the Arab Spring revolution inside Libya,
dictator Muammar Qaddafi’s son Saif was willing to talk peace
from the ground in Libya – but a source told Fox News the offer
was rejected by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton... One
key email describing the offer of talks was dated March 18, 2011
and sent at 7:27 a.m. EST to three members of The Joint Staff.
It states, "Our contact will arrange a face-to-face meeting with
Saif [Qaddafi], or a Skype/video-telecon [teleconference] to
open communications if time does not permit ... A peaceful
resolution is still possible that keeps Saif on our side without
bloodshed in Benghazi."
“Not Welcome”: Large Turnout Set to Protest Obama’s Roseburg
Visit on Friday
Paul Joseph Watson - Over four and a half thousand people have
indicated they will attend the protest, although the majority of
those are likely just expressing support for the cause rather
than their intention to physically be there. Still, with media
coverage of the demonstration accelerating, the sight of
potentially hundreds if not thousands of Americans – many of
them Oregonians – vocally opposing Obama’s gun control agenda
threatens to present a PR nightmare for the White House. The
fact that some of those protesters will be exercising their open
carry rights is also likely to cause a security headache for the
Secret Service. Some protesters have vowed to turn their backs
on the President.
September Sees Record Gun Sales
Free Beacon - Some see Democrats’ calls for executive action to
restrict guns as cause. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
processed a record number of background checks in the month of
September, indicating that gun sales were at an all time high
for the month. The FBI’s National Instant Background Check
System processed 1,795,102 applications to buy a firearm in
September. That represents a new record: 335,739 more checks
than the previous September high set in 2012, or a 23 percent
increase.
FBI Examining Online ‘Cloud’ Backups of Hillary Clinton’s Email
Breitbart - Hillary Clinton’s lawyers have agreed to hand over
online backups of her emails made through an Internet “cloud”
storage system to the FBI, and the Senate Homeland Security
committee has also asked to see these files.
Matt Drudge Blisters Corporate Media, Hillary Clinton, and
‘Sick’ Americans in Rare Interview
Breitbart - Matt Drudge, the pioneering editor of the Drudge
Report, warned Tuesday that the American public is “sick” and
easily exploited by homogeneous corporate media–which could
allow Hillary Clinton to win the White House, no matter her age
or health. In a rare and wide-ranging interview with Alex Jones
of InfoWars, Drudge kept away from Jones’ cameras but got behind
a live microphone to share his thoughts on the state of the
Internet, the political world, and the culture at large. The
following is a partial transcript of Drudge’s appearance....
Biden supports trade deal despite opposition from unions
CBS News - Labor groups have a warning for Vice President Joe
Biden as he lobbies for a major trade pact with Asia: We won't
forget this if you run for president. A longtime darling of
unions, Biden has been skeptical of previous sweeping free trade
deals, warning of risks to U.S. jobs. Yet he's firmly supporting
the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), putting him at odds with
most Democratic presidential candidates and jeopardizing his
support from unions if he enters the race.... The vice president
"supports the TPP agreement and will help pass it on the Hill,"
his office said. Biden also serves as the Senate's president,
and could be called upon to cast a tie-breaking vote. Biden, who
is considering running for president, would be the only major
Democratic candidate backing TPP.
Hillary Clinton Flip-Flops, Will Oppose Obamatrade
Breitbart - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is
flip-flopping on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal.
Clinton came out Wednesday against the “Obamatrade” agreement,
despite previously supporting the measure 45 times. Clinton’s
campaign has had a rough few months with labor unions, who are
strongly opposing the deal on protectionist grounds. Outsourcing
of jobs became a significant issue in the Midwest during the
Republican-dominated 2014 midterm elections. AFL-CIO boss
Richard Trumka threatened to sit out the election if Clinton did
not end up opposing Obama’s trade deal. Vice President Joe Biden
– who is courting Big Labor support in his potential run – would
now have to publicly repudiate his own White House if he decides
to oppose the deal.
Trump, Bernie And Big Labor All HATE Obama’s Pacific Trade Deal
Daily Caller - Republican president hopeful Donald Trump found
common policy ground Monday with Democratic rival Bernie Sanders
and labor unions – opposition to President Barack Obama’s trade
deal.... His opposition to the trade deal is not new for Trump.
Back in May he argued the trade deal would be used by other
countries to take advantage of the U.S. Unions and Sanders have
noted concern that the deal will end up benefiting corporations
as the expense of workers and the environment.... Besides Trump,
the only other major Republican candidate to oppose the trade
deal is Mike Huckabee. Republicans Rick Santorum, Marco Rubio,
Jeb Bush, have expressed support for it. Rand Paul and Carly
Fiorina have said they are open to supporting TPP but would like
to see the fine print. John Kasich has not opposed or supported
the bill arguing he is open to trade but it must include
protections for Americans. Ted Cruz and Bobby Jindal have
opposed fast-track but not explicitly the trade deal.
Researchers: We Can ID Which US Soldiers Are Likely to Commit
Violent Crime
Sputnik News - Researchers pulled from the military records of
nearly one million US soldiers to develop an algorithm they hope
can help prevent violent crimes by identifying those most likely
to commit the offenses. The ones most likely to perpetrate the
crime would be given counseling or other interventions aimed at
heading off violence, the LA Times reports. Of the 975,057
soldiers who served between 2004 and 2009, 5,771 soldiers
committed murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, robbery or other
violent felonies. (Domestic violence and sex crimes were
excluded because they follow risk patterns distinct from other
offenses.)... For men – who accounted for the vast majority of
both soldiers and offenders – those most at risk were young,
poor minorities with low ranks, disciplinary trouble, a suicide
attempt and a recent demotion, according to a report published
Tuesday in the journal Psychological Medicine.
Monsanto Slashes Jobs as Confidence in Future of Company is
Shaken
Sustainable Pulse - Monsanto, the world’s largest producer of
genetically-modified (GM) crops and their associated pesticides,
including the probable carcinogen Roundup, has announced that it
will shed 2600 jobs worldwide in an attempt to save the
collapsing company. In a full portfolio report on Wednesday
Monsanto released figures that shook its share price, leading to
a 4% fall in morning trading.... Monsanto said its loss widened
to $1.06 a share for the fourth quarter ended on August 31 from
a loss of 31 cents a year earlier. Sales of corn seeds and
traits, Monsanto’s key products, fell to $598 million from $630
million. And sales at the company’s agricultural productivity
unit, which includes Roundup herbicide, dropped to $1.1 billion
from $1.25 billion in the quarter.
Toys ‘R’ Us Forces U.S. College Grads To Train Their H-1B
Foreign Replacements
Breitbart - Toys “R” Us is the latest in a string of U.S.
companies that has been caught forcing their American employees
to train foreign college-grads to take the Americans’ jobs, via
a process known as “knowledge transfer.” An expose by the New
York Times revealed in detail how the renowned children’s
toy-chain brought in eight workers from the global outsourcing
company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). The Indians shadowed
employees, mainly in accounting, and produced intricate manuals
for TCS workers in India to take over these jobs. By late June,
the jobs had been transferred overseas and 67 employees had been
laid off from Toys “R” Us, many of whom had reportedly been at
the company for over a decade.
Best Buy Introduces Robot Sales Force
Tech Swarm - A new report from Fox5NY recounts how a recent trip
to Best Buy on West 23rd St. and Avenue of the Americas resulted
in a full service experience by Chloe the robot, from search to
sale of a desired CD.... This is the first location to test
Chloe's skills and judge customers' reactions according to a
company spokesperson. In addition to providing accurate service,
Chloe - unlike your typical human employee - is available 24
hour per day, presumably never sick, and probably not prone to
distraction. It is just the type of scenario that has some
experts concerned that humans could eventually be completely
outsourced to robots.
DuPont Found Guilty in Teflon Chemical Cancer Trial
Newsmax - A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded a cancer patient $1.6
million after finding DuPont was liable for leaking a toxic
chemical used to make Teflon into drinking water near one of its
plants. Following a three-week trial, jurors in Columbus, Ohio,
found in favor of plaintiff Carla Marie Bartlett, who is the
first to go to trial among approximately 3,500 plaintiffs who
say they contracted one of six diseases linked to
perfluorooctanoic acid, known as PFOA or C-8. Jurors declined to
award punitive damages, finding DuPont had not acted
maliciously.... The lawsuits center on DuPont's Washington Works
plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where the company used C-8
as a processing aid to make products including Teflon nonstick
cookware. Plaintiffs said DuPont used C-8 at the plant since the
1950s and continued even after learning it was potentially toxic
and had been found in nearby drinking water.
Most of $20.8 Billion BP Penalty Is Tax Deductible as a Cost of
Doing Business
AllGov - The Obama administration made a big deal Monday about
the settlement with BP for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that
calls for the company to pay $20.8 billion in penalties and
mitigation. But what officials at the Department of Justice
didn’t draw attention to is how much of the settlement BP can
write off come tax time. Of the $20.8 billion, about $15 billion
is tax deductible. Of the total, $5.5 billion can’t be deducted
because it is categorized as a civil penalty. That portion of
the deal was said to be the largest such penalty in the history
of environmental law. But the remainder includes $7.1 billion in
payments of natural resources damages claims under the Oil
Pollution Act, and $5.9 billion on economic damages claims
payable to the five Gulf of Mexico states and to local
governments. Advocacy group US PIRG said not only can BP deduct
more than $15 billion from its income, it can expect a tax
windfall of $5.35 billion from it.
Fracking Pollutes Air Hundreds of Miles Away from Drilling Sites
Natural News Blogs - A 2014 study in Pennsylvania found that
methane water pollution in residential wells located one mile
from fracking sites was six times higher than in wells located
further away from fracking sites. Groundwater contamination from
fracking has been found in several states, and at least one
study has linked proximity to fracking wells with a number of
health complaints, including upper respiratory problems, skin
rashes, and birth defects. Fracking wells in Pennsylvania are
releasing huge amounts of methane and ethane, greenhouse gases
that contaminate both the air and water around fracking sites.
But air pollution from fracking doesn’t just affect those who
live near fracking wells. New evidence suggests that pollution
travels hundreds of miles on the wind, to wreak havoc on the
health of city dwellers going about their business in other
states.
U.S. Gov't Spends Half Million Dollars on Robots That Read to
Children
Tech Swarm - The National Science Foundation is spending
$440,885 on a new project that will put storytelling robots in
the classroom.... According to the study’s grant, Early language
ability, including vocabulary skills and oral language knowledge
during preschool, is an important predictor of children’s
academic success in subsequent school years. Social robots that
can engage children as personalized learning companions hold
great promise in augmenting the learning experience of children
with parents and teachers.... It is not yet clear what motivated
the government to spend such a large amount of money on
something that can easily be done by a human. Could teachers be
entirely replaced with robots someday? How would you feel about
your children being taught by a robot in public schools?
2,000 Reasons It Is Unethical That Turmeric Is Not FDA Approved
Green Med Info - There are over 2,000 studies on the
GreenMedInfo database demonstrating the power of turmeric to
heal, but this time-tested, safe, and affordable healing
substance still has not received FDA approval to "prevent,
treat, or cure" disease despite the fact that it is capable of
doing exactly that.... Our regular followers know we report
extensively on the evidence indicating that turmeric, and
particularly the golden-hued polyphenol known as curcumin it
contains, is superior to a wide range of pharmaceuticals both in
safety and effectiveness.... Sadly, the FDA requires
prohibitively expensive clinical trials to be conducted in order
to grant the legal right for the populace to be treated by
medicinal substances of any kind. In fact, the average
FDA-approved drug on the market today required between four to
eleven billion dollars in capital to be invested on the
front-end.
Shock study: Chemotherapy can backfire, make cancer worse by
triggering tumor growth
NY Daily News - Researchers in the United States made the
"completely unexpected" finding while seeking to explain why
cancer cells are so resilient inside the human body when they
are easy to kill in the lab.... The scientists found that
healthy cells damaged by chemotherapy secreted more of a protein
called WNT16B which boosts cancer cell survival. "The increase
in WNT16B was completely unexpected," study co-author Peter
Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle
told AFP. The protein was taken up by tumor cells neighboring
the damaged cells. "WNT16B, when secreted, would interact with
nearby tumor cells and cause them to grow, invade, and
importantly, resist subsequent therapy," said Nelson. In cancer
treatment, tumors often respond well initially, followed by
rapid re-growth and then resistance to further chemotherapy.
Rates of tumor cell reproduction have been shown to accelerate
between treatments.
Wednesday
- October 7, 2015 -
Today in History:
1765 - Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York
City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the "Declaration
of Rights and Grievances."
1777 - During the American Revolution the second Battle of Saratoga
began.
1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.
1950 - The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered
North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by
sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North
Korea.
1956 - A U.S. House subcommittee began investigations of allegedly
rigged TV quiz shows.
1963 - U.S. President Kennedy signed a nuclear test ban treaty with
Britain and the Soviet Union.
1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent more troops, heavy armor, and naval
firepower to Somalia.
1994 - U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the
Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The
U.S. Army was also put on alert.
1998 - The U.S. government filed an antitrust suit that alleged Visa and
MasterCard inhibit competition by preventing banks from offering other
cards.
1999 - American Home Products Corp. paid up to $4.83 billion to
settle claims that the fen-phen diet drug caused dangerous problems with
heart valves.
2001 - The U.S. and Great Britain began air strikes in Afghanistan in
response to that state's support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The
act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist
attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2003 - In California, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor in the
recall election of Governor Gray Davis.
2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had chronicled Russian
military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, was found shot to death
in Moscow.
2008 - The Federal Reserve announced a radical plan to buy massive
amounts of short-term debt, known as commercial paper, to get credit
markets moving again.
Iraq may soon request Russian airstrikes against ISIS on its
soil – defense committee chairman
RT - Baghdad, Russia’s ally in its fight against ISIS, wants
Russia to have a bigger role in the anti-terrorism campaign in
Iraq itself and may soon officially request Russian airstrikes
on its soil, the chairman of Iraq’s parliamentary defense
committee said. "We might be forced to ask Russia to launch
airstrikes in Iraq soon. I think in the upcoming few days or
weeks Iraq will be forced to ask Russia to launch airstrikes and
that depends on their success in Syria," said Hakim al-Zamili,
Reuters reported. "We are seeking to see Russia having a bigger
role in Iraq... Yes, definitely a bigger role than the
Americans," Zamili said.
Russia Deploys Mi-24 Helicopter Gunships Near Afghan Border
Sputnik News - Russia's Defense Ministry will strengthen its
grouping in Tajikistan with attack and military transport
helicopters, the official representative of Russia's Central
Military District Yaroslav Roschupkin told journalists on
Wednesday. The unit now includes Mi-24P attack and Mi-8MTV
transport and combat helicopters. The helicopters will be
stationed at the 201st military base, in the former Soviet
republic of Tajikistan, which borders Afghanistan. Violence on
the Afghan side of the border escalated in recent weeks after
Taliban militants seized the city of Kunduz, prompting a
response from US and Afghan forces.
US Media Laments Turkey's Feathers Not Ruffled by Russia
Sputnik News - In an attempt to analyze who could lend the US a
helping hand in its efforts to topple the legitimate president
of Syria, The New York Times had to admit that one more of
Damascus's neighbors had to be struck from the list: Turkey, it
says, will “do its utmost to avoid any type of confrontation
with the Russians.”
Israel Discovers Enormous Oil Deposit in Occupied Golan Heights
Sputnik News - Israeli oil prospectors discovered a large oil
deposit which could make the country self-sufficient in energy,
Israeli business daily Globes reported. The oil deposit lies in
the Golan Heights, which is internationally recognized as Syrian
territory but has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 war
between Israel and Arab states. Israel is unable to import oil
from nearby Arab oil-exporting countries, which do not recognize
Israel and have no diplomatic relations with the country. "We
are talking about a strata which is 350 meters thick and what is
important is the thickness and the porosity. On average in the
world strata are 20-30 meters thick, so this is ten times as
large as that, so we are talking about significant quantities,"
geologist Yuval Bartov of Afek Oil and Gas told Israeli
television.
* Related:
Flashback: Israel Granted First Golan Heights Oil Drilling
License To Dick Cheney-Linked Company
Chinese Yuan Overtakes Japanese Yen as Number 4 World Payment
Currency
Sputnik News - Chinese currency yuan has entered the top four of
most-used world payment currencies for cross-border payments in
August 2015, overtaking the Japanese Yen by value, a report by
SWIFT, a network for financial information exchange, revealed.
Overall, global yuan payments increased in value by 9.13 percent
in August 2015, accounting for 2.79 percent of global payments
in terms of value, while the growth for payments across all
currencies decreased in value by 8.3 percent, according to the
report published Tuesday. The top three countries using yuan in
August 2015 were China, Hong Kong and Singapore.
New Saudi Rules Could Mean Execution for Internet
'Rumor-Mongers'
Sputnik News - In a shocking decision, Saudi Arabia has
reportedly warned social media users that spreading rumors about
the government could face an Internet ban – or execution.
Already heavily criticized for its human rights record, Saudi
Arabia is now taking things even further. With a law aimed at
“rumor-mongers” who “cause confusion in societies,” the Kingdom
could begin punishing people for comments made on Facebook and
Twitter.
Russian jets hit 12 ISIS targets in Syria, cause panic among
extremists – Defense Ministry
RT - Russian jets hit 12 Islamic State targets in the course of
nearly 20 combat flights carried out in Syria on Tuesday, the
Defense Ministry said. Command centers and training camps were
destroyed in the attacks which threw the extremists into
panic.... The Russian jets destroyed an Islamic State army
munitions plant outside Damascus as well as two command centers
in Deir ez-Zor, according to the ministry’s statement. In the
Idlib Governorate, a training camp for IS militants was
eliminated, while several IS strongholds came under attack where
ammunition depots were blown up.
ISIS in Syria using mosques as shelters, civilians as shields –
Russian Defense Ministry
RT - Islamic State militants are hiding in mosques and using
locals as human shields because they know that Russian jets
would never target civilian areas, the Russian Defense Ministry
revealed at two briefings on Tuesday. Islamic State (formerly
ISIS/ISIL) forces are sheltering in mosques and trying to hide
their vehicles around them, Russian Deputy Defense Minister
Anatoly Antonov told reporters Tuesday, citing video evidence.
“Knowing our careful, respectful attitude to mosques they
understand that we would never - under any circumstances – carry
out airstrikes against civilian facilities,” he said, following
a meeting with Defense press attachés from several countries,
with a US representative among them. Later in the day, Igor
Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, also
warned that terrorists may be preparing provocations such as
bombing mosques to accuse the Russian Air Force of committing
war crimes.
* Related:
Russian drone films ISIS militants hiding weapons, munitions
near Syrian mosques
Doctors Without Borders airstrike: US alters story for fourth
time in four days
The Guardian - Shifting the US account of the Saturday morning
airstrike for the fourth time in as many days, [General John
Campbell] reiterated that Afghan forces had requested US air
cover after being engaged in a “tenacious fight” to retake the
northern city of Kunduz from the Taliban. But, modifying the
account he gave at a press conference on Monday, Campbell said
those Afghan forces had not directly communicated with the US
pilots of an AC-130 gunship overhead.... On Tuesday, MSF
denounced Campbell’s press conference as an attempt to shift
blame to the Afghans.
Top U.S. commander in Afghanistan suggests fight will take
longer
Military Times - Lingering problems with local security forces
and the resurgence of Taliban fighters may force U.S. troops to
stay longer in Afghanistan than previously planned, the top
American military commander in the region suggested on Tuesday.
In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Army
Gen. John Campbell -- head of U.S. Forces Afghanistan -- said
that local security forces "cannot handle the fight alone"
without assistance from foreign allies and gaining that
capability will take "well beyond this year." As a result,
Campbell said he has already offered adjustments to public plans
to remove all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by 2017, with the
exception of an embassy security contingent.
Hamburg to seize commercial property to house migrants
BBC - Hamburg has become the first German city to pass a law
allowing the seizure of empty commercial properties in order to
house migrants.... Hamburg's new law is described as a
temporary, emergency measure. Owners of empty commercial
properties will be compensated. The law does not include
residential properties. But the conservative opposition in the
city, in the north of Germany, condemned the move. The
authorities in Bremen, a city just west of Hamburg, are
considering passing a similar law. Germany expects to host at
least 800,000 asylum seekers this year - about four times the
number it had last year.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Permanently Locking In The Obama
Agenda For 40% Of The Global Economy
Zero Hedge - We have just witnessed one of the most significant
steps toward a one world economic system that we have ever seen.
Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership have been
completed, and if approved it will create the largest trading
bloc on the planet. In this treaty, Barack Obama has thrown in
all sorts of things that he never would have been able to get
through Congress otherwise. And once this treaty is approved, it
will be exceedingly difficult to ever make changes to it. So
essentially what is happening is that the Obama agenda is being
permanently locked in for 40 percent of the global economy. The
United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Brunei, Chile,
Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam all intend to
sign on to this insidious plan. Collectively, these nations have
a total population of about 800 million people and a combined
GDP of approximately 28 trillion dollars. Of course Barack Obama
is assuring all of us that this treaty is going to be wonderful
for everyone…
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
McCain Claims to Be in Touch With Syrian Rebels
Sputnik News - US Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain
told Sputnik that he stays in contact with members of Syria
opposition allegedly targeted by Russian airstrikes. "I am
personally in communication with them [the Syrian moderates],
and they are being attacked," McCain stated on Tuesday.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, all the airstrikes
against the Islamic State terrorist group were launched with
advance air surveillance and careful verification of data
provided by the Syrian military. McCain asserted, however, that
"the majority of the Russian attacks are against the Free Syrian
Army, the moderates." Asked what sources he bases his
conclusions on, McCain stated, "There is open source
information, of course. It has been reported widely in every
major newspaper in America."
F-35 deathtrap: Pentagon jet’s ejection seat could snap pilot’s
neck
RT - Tests on the Pentagon’s troubled F-35 fighter jet have
exposed a potentially life-threatening blunder as its ejection
seat could snap a slender pilot’s neck when attempting to save
his life, Defense News reports, citing a source close to the
program. Ejection tests performed in slow flying speed mode in
August revealed that the pilot’s US16E seat constructed by
contractor Martin-Baker has an excessive forward rotating
momentum, which – combined with the force of the ejected seat
shot out of the aircraft – snapped a lightweight dummy’s neck.
The US Air Force has already barred pilots weighing less than 61
kilograms from flying 5G aircraft until the problem is fixed,
Defense News reports.
“Lithium Love”: Was Oregon Gunman on Psychiatric Meds Linked to
Violence?
Paul Joseph Watson - As the Oregonian reports, “There are a
number of indications that Harper-Mercer had mental health or
behavioral issues. His screen name on some social media sites
was “lithium love.” Lithium is used as a psychiatric
medication.” Lithium is used to enhance the effect of SSRI
drugs, a number of which, “have also been linked to increase
risk for violent, even homicidal behavior,” reports Time. On one
of his Facebook posts, Mercer also made reference to a number of
different prescription drugs he was taking. “I have a pill
bottle with like five types of pills mixed in. I don’t know
which ones are the sleep aids, so I just took four of each,”
wrote Mercer. The gunman was also struggling with his inability
to find a girlfriend, which was one of the factors that
contributed to Mercer’s mental health issues, according to his
mother. Ms. Harper also, “Expressed having expertise in autism,
saying that both she and her son — whom she never identified by
name — had Asperger’s syndrome,” reports the New York Times. She
also revealed how Mercer was placed in a psychiatric hospital
when he refused to take his medication.
Obama Arms ISIS-Linked Militants, Pushes Gun Control On Very
Same Day
Kit Daniels - Obama authorizes resupplying “Syrian opposition”
on same day he demanded gun control. Even more shocking, Obama
did the very same thing after the 2013 D.C. Navy Yard shooting.
The president approved the re-arming of the Syrian opposition,
which predominantly consists of ISIS and its affiliates, on Oct.
1, the same day Obama suggested the U.S. should start banning
guns after the Umpqua Community College shooting. “The approval
came at a National Security Council meeting on Thursday,” CNN
reported. “…The President also emphasized to his team that the
U.S. would continue to support the Syrian opposition as Russia
enters the war-torn country.”
This Has Become Routine — Paul Craig Roberts
Paul Craig Roberts - In his comment on the mass shootings at the
Oregon community college, President Obama said: “This has become
routine.” So have police shootings of unarmed and unresisting
Americans. So have numerous other undesirable and deplorable
happenings, such as the foreclosure on the homes of millions of
Americans, while the “banks too big to fail” are bailed out with
trillions of dollars, and such as foreign policy lies that have
destroyed seven countries, bringing the US and Europe millions
of refugees. Also routine is Washington’s obliteration of
weddings, funerals, and medical centers with bombs and
drones.... For Washington, these mass murders are only
“collateral damage,” nothing warranting a presidential statement
displaying despair, anger, and frustration.
Obama Paints Border Patrol with Rainbow Colors
Breitbart - Border Patrol agents and others operating under the
umbrella of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) must now
consider not only the sex of the criminal they are detaining,
but the “gender identity” of the individual and how they feel
and identify. The terms “illegal alien” or even “illegal
immigrant” do not appear at all in a new 31-page instruction
document. The new rules were published by CBP and according to
the agency, “includes language on gender identity, which was not
previously included in the individual component policies.
U.S. to Release 6,000 Inmates Under New Sentencing Guidelines
NY Times - The Justice Department is preparing to release
roughly 6,000 inmates from federal prison as part of an effort
to ease overcrowding and roll back the harsh penalties given to
nonviolent drug dealers in the 1980s and ’90s, according to
federal law enforcement officials. The release is scheduled to
occur from Oct. 30 to Nov. 2, and will be one of the largest
one-time discharges of inmates from federal prisons in American
history, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity because they did not want to be identified discussing
matters that had not been publicly announced by the Justice
Department. The Bureau of Prisons is arranging for many of the
inmates to initially move into halfway houses, one official
said.
Hillary Clinton Pledges Gun Control By Executive Action
Breitbart - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is
making it clear she won’t wait for Congress to consider gun
control measures. Instead, she’s pledging to pursue gun control
by executive action if she’s elected president. Her proposals
include extending the instant background checks indefinitely by
changing the amount of time the FBI has on extended checks. She
also wants to place new regulations on sales at gun shows and
for guns sold online, and she wants to expand the definition of
domestic violence to include dating relationships, then use that
expanded definition to ban individuals from owning guns.
Breitbart News previously reported that Clinton also wants to
change our nation’s laws to allow shooting victims and their
families to sue gun manufacturers after a criminal steals and
misuses a gun–harming people in the process–or after a criminal
brings a gun into a gun free zone in order to attack innocent
victims who can’t fight back, the way Chris Harper Mercer did at
Umpqua Community College.
Marco Rubio Wants US to Risk War with Russia Over Syria
Gateway Pundit - Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco
Rubio of Florida gave an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood on
Monday in which Rubio called for the United States to risk war
with Russia to enforce a proposed no-fly zone over Syria. Rubio
said going to war with Russia would be better than the current
state of affairs in Syria, citing the migration crisis, the
growth of terrorist groups including ISIS and ‘Jabhat al Nusra’
and having Russian President Vladimir Putin as the “most
influential geopolitical broker in the region.”
Silver Coin Premiums Soar Above 50%
Zero Hedge - Courtesy of Sharelynx' Nick Laird who tracks
precious metal premium by vendor, we continue our recent series
showing the discrepancy between paper and physical metals, in
this case silver. As Nick notes, APMEX price premiums are a lot
higher than the Monex. And as can be seen in the charts below,
premiums rose above 50% for 1-19 coins & above 40% for 500 plus
coins.
TPP Will Restrict Internet, Punish Whistleblowers
Kurt Nimmo - In addition to consolidating corporate power over
40% of the world’s economy, the recently agreed upon
Trans-Pacific Partnership deal will target internet-based
investigative journalism and make it a crime to expose corporate
crime. The Independent reported on Monday: One particularly
controversial part of the provisions make it a crime to reveal
corporate wrongdoing “through a computer system”. Experts have
pointed out that the wording is very vague, and could lead to
whistleblowers being penalized for sharing important
information, and lead to journalists stopping reporting on
them.... Leaked drafts revealed it would police, censor and make
the internet more expensive. In addition to intimidating
journalists and limited access, the agreement contains
provisions that require social media and online content
providers such as Facebook and YouTube to remove content after
one complaint.... The agreement also allows countries to seize
computers of individuals allegedly involved in copyright
infringement, which is broadly expanded under the deal.
DNA ‘vaccine’ Sterilizes Mice, Could Lead to One-shot Birth
Control
Science Mag - “This looks incredibly promising,” says William
Swanson, director of animal research at the Cincinnati Zoo and
Botanical Garden in Ohio. “We’re all very excited about this
approach; that it’s going to be the one that really works.” For
decades, the go-to methods for controlling animal reproduction
have been spay or neuter surgeries. But the surgeries, which
require animals to be anesthetized, can be expensive—one reason
so many dogs and cats remain unfixed and feral animal
populations continue to grow. Nearly 2.7 million dogs and cats
were euthanized in U.S. shelters last year. A cheaper, faster
method of sterilization is considered a holy grail for animal
population control.
Victory: County Backs Down, Won't Chase Off-Gridders From Land
Off the Grid News - Proposed changes to the county’s zoning
regulations would have effectively prevented many residents from
building homes on off-grid properties they purchased in Costilla
County, Colorado Public Radio and Off The Grid News previously
reported. Dozens of off-grid residents may have been forced out
of the county, simply because they couldn’t meet the
requirements. Some, for example, are using composting toilets.
The proposed changes made national news last week when a story
about a dispute between long-time county residents and
off-the-grid residents was picked up by news outlets as far away
as San Francisco. A shouting match outside a county
commissioners’ meeting on the issue had led to the arrest of
some protesters. But the county shelved the proposed land-use
code changes on Oct. 1, Colorado Public Radio (CPR) reported. No
reason was given, but the action followed a number of media
stories.
Almost 70 patients tested for HIV and hepatitis after nurse is
caught REUSING a syringe while giving flu shots at New Jersey
clinic
Daily Mail - Dozens of co-workers are being screened for HIV and
hepatitis after a nurse was found reusing a syringe to
administer flu shots. Employees at Otsuka Pharmaceutical, who
received the vaccination at their offices in Princeton, New
Jersey on September 30, have been warned they may have been
exposed to 'infected blood.' Healthcare [sic] provider
TotalWellness confirmed that the nurse contracted to carry out
the flu shots had 'failed to follow proper medical procedures
and safeguards. Officials have not yet revealed whether
disciplinary action will be taken against the nurse. The New
Jersey Department of Health sent out letters to the 67
pharmaceutical co-workers two days after the vaccinations to
warn them that the syringe 'was reused multiple times', NBC 10
reported.
Iodine-Rich Foods Fight Breast Cancer
Green Med Info - Real breast cancer prevention starts with
attention to diet, exercise, stress reduction, and environmental
toxins. And when it comes to diet, one of the best nutrients to
help ward off breast cancer is iodine. If you think about it at
all, you probably associate iodine with your thyroid.... But
iodine also plays a crucial role in women's breast health. In
fact, a woman stores more iodine in her breasts than in her
thyroid.... When iodine levels are low, the ovaries produce more
estrogen. Higher circulating levels of estrogen raise the risk
of reproductive cancers like prostate, endometrial, ovarian, and
breast cancers. In addition, low iodine increases the
sensitivity of estrogen receptors in breast tissue. The breast
starts taking up even more estrogen. That spikes breast cancer
risk even more.... But your body can't make iodine. You have to
get it from food or supplements. Good food sources of iodine
are...
Supreme Court Says Mandatory Vaccinations Don’t Violate
Children’s Constitutional Rights
Natural Blaze - The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a
case challenging the state of New York’s public school
vaccination requirement, which requires all children to be
vaccinated prior to attendance at public school. The SCOTUS’s
failure to hear the case effectively states that mandatory
vaccination of all public school children, doesn’t violate their
constitutional rights. A lower court had ruled that the school
vaccination requirement, which three parents had legally
challenged after their unvaccinated children were prohibited
from attending school, did not violate the constitutional rights
of the children. The appeals court also upheld a decision that
children exempted from vaccinations due to religious reasons
could be prohibited from school attendance in the event of a
disease outbreak that is vaccine preventable.
The New Beauty Trend Among Women: Microwaving Your Armpits
Natural Society - Women fed up with deodorant and shaving their
armpits are going to the extreme measure of microwaving their
armpits to get rid of the stink and hair. No, women aren’t
literally sticking their arms in the microwave. Here’s how it
actually works: the microwave energy is embedded into the
underarms via a new treatment known as miraSmooth. The process
supposedly eliminates sweating and armpit hair by targeting the
interface between fat and skin where the sweat gland and hair
follicles are located under the arm. The intense heat basically
fries the glands and follicles entirely, so they never come
back.... Following the treatment, there may be significant pain
and swelling that could last from one week to a few weeks –
anywhere from minor swelling to a grapefruit-size mass under the
arm. The body could also try to compensate in other areas for
the loss of sweating as it tries to regulate body temperature.
Tuesday
- October 6, 2015 -
Today in History:
1847 - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.
1848 - The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San
Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28,
1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.
1866 - The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near
Seymour, IN. The got away with $10,000.
1884 - The Naval War College was established in Newport, RI.
1890 - Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
1928 - War-torn China was reunited under the Nationalist leader Chiang
Kai-Shek.
1949 - President Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance
Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO
countries.
1961 - President John F. Kennedy advised American families to build
or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange
with the Soviet Union.
1973 - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back
territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for
Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including
the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks.
1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White
House.
1992 - Ross Perot appeared in his first paid broadcast on CBS-TV after
entering the U.S. presidential race.
2004 - The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported
finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass
destruction after 1991.
2008 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the
first time since 2004.
Accidental Turkish airspace incursion 'used to involve NATO in
info war against Russia over Syria'
RT - The incident with the Russian jet, which accidentally
violated Turkey's airspace, has been used to include NATO in the
media war against Moscow's anti-terror op in Syria, said
Aleksandr Grushko, Russia’s envoy to the Western military
alliance.... According to Grushko, NATO has ignored
clarifications from Russia about the plane incident. All
attempts to explain the reasons behind the incident fell on deaf
ears, however, with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
describing the situation as "unacceptable violations of Turkish
airspace."... On Monday, Russia admitted making a mistake after
its warplane violated Turkey’s airspace. The Russian Defense
Ministry has explained that bad weather caused the incident.
Ankara has accepted the explanation, saying there is no ill
feeling between the two countries. NATO has slammed Moscow for
what it deemed “irresponsible behavior,” however.
3,000 terrorists leave Syria following Russian airstrikes –
military source
RT - An estimated 3,000 Islamic State fighters as well as
militants from other extremist groups have fled Syria for Jordan
fearing a renewed offensive by the Syrian army in addition to
Russian airstrikes, a military official has told RIA news
agency. At least 3,000 militants from Islamic State (IS,
formerly ISIS/ISIL), al-Nusra and Jaish al-Yarmouk have fled to
Jordan. They are afraid of the Syrian army having stepped up
activities on all fronts and of Russian airstrikes,” the RIA
source said.
Russia Escalates Syria Proxy War: Threatens Full Naval Blockade
Of Syria
Zero Hedge - Russia's Black Sea Fleet may be used in Syria to
blockade the Syrian coastline and deliver armaments, as well as
possibly deliver artillery strikes, the head of Russian State
Duma's defense committee and former Black Sea Fleet commander
Vladimir Komoyedov said. "Regarding the large-scale use of the
Black Sea Fleet in this operation, I don't think it will happen,
but in terms of a coastal blockade, I think that it's quite
[possible]… Komoyedov added that the size of the naval grouping
used in the operation will depend on the intensity of the
fighting. He noted that currently, the navy's Mediterranean
flotilla is currently sufficient for actions in the given area.
Komoyedov also said that auxiliary vessels will certainly be
used in the operation against ISIL to deliver armaments as well
as military and technical equipment.
Syria Ground War Imminent? U.S. Accuses Russia Of Launching
Syrian Land Campaign
Zero Hedge - …according to the latest U.S. assessment of
Moscow's activity in western Syria, "Russia has moved several
ground combat weapons and troops into the area to potentially
back up Syrian forces in the field planning to attack
anti-regime forces, according to two U.S. defense officials."
The U.S. views the move as Russia "stepping up its ground
activity" in Syria to attack those forces, rather than ISIS
elements, according to one of the officials. It's believed the
Russians are positioning the weapons to be able to support a
Syrian ground offensive, the officials said… The U.S. originally
had thought that might be for defense of the port, but the
latest move is an indication of potential ground attacks in the
coming days, the official said.
US Government Accused Of "War Crime" By Doctors Without Borders
In Bombing That Killed 22
Zero Hedge - … DwB [Doctors Without Borders] once again lashes
out at the US government with the following statement: "Today
the US government has admitted that it was their airstrike that
hit our hospital in Kunduz and killed 22 patients and MSF staff.
Their description of the attack keeps changing—from collateral
damage, to a tragic incident, to now attempting to pass
responsibility to the Afghanistan government. The reality is the
US dropped those bombs. The US hit a huge hospital full of
wounded patients and MSF staff. The US military remains
responsible for the targets it hits, even though it is part of a
coalition. There can be no justification for this horrible
attack. With such constant discrepancies in the US and Afghan
accounts of what happened, the need for a full transparent
independent investigation is ever more critical."
Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal Struck As "Corporate Secrecy"
Wins Again
Zero Hedge - As WSJ reports, the U.S., Japan and 10 countries
around the Pacific reached a historic accord Monday to lower
trade barriers to goods and services and set commercial rules of
the road for two-fifths of the global economy, officials said…
The deal announced on Monday by trade ministers from the 12
countries still must be signed formally by the countries’
leaders and ratified by their parliaments. In the US Mr Obama is
likely to face a tough fight to get the deal through Congress
next year, especially as presidential candidates like Republican
frontrunner Donald Trump have argued against the TPP. Only a
handful of Democrats support Mr. Obama’s trade policy, and
Republican support is unpredictable in the 2016 election year,
depending on the stance of presidential candidates and new
leadership in the House. As it is, the deal can’t go to a vote
before Congress until early next year.
Lesbian Swedish Bishop Wants Christian Crosses Removed From
Church to Please Muslims
Paul Joseph Watson - With hundreds of thousands more migrants
set to pour into Sweden, a Bishop in Stockholm has proposed
removing crosses from a Christian church and replacing them with
Islamic symbols in order to cater for Muslims.... It’s also
ironic to consider that while Brunne is insistent on being so
welcoming to Muslims, she would be executed for being a lesbian
in some Islamic countries.... If you think this story sounds too
bizarre to be true, then you haven’t acquainted yourself with
the progressive “utopia” that is Sweden. This is a country in
which some politicians have called for giving free housing, jobs
and welfare to returning ISIS jihadists – all at taxpayer
expense.... has politicians telling its citizens that they may
need to give up their garages in order to house third world
immigrants. Sweden is also a country that hires
ISIS-sympathizers to run its immigration boards. The country’s
taxpayer-funded “expert” on Islamophobia, Michael Nikolai Skråmo,
also went on to join ISIS.
PC Police Want to Ban Ham Sandwiches Because Muslims Find Them
‘Offensive’
Kit Daniels - The guidelines published by CoExist House, a US
and UK-based interfaith group, recommend an outright ban of pork
products from office kitchens to avoid “offending” employees of
the Muslim and Jewish faiths. “It would be good etiquette to
avoid heating up foods that might be prohibited for people of
other faiths,” said Andy Dinham, a University of London
professor who wrote the guidelines for CoExist House. “We also
say, ‘Don’t put kosher or halal and other… special foods next to
another [food] or, God forbid, on the same plate.” The
guidelines come as both the U.S. and the U.K. open their borders
to a record number of Muslim migrants.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Liberal Media Attacks Pro-Second Amendment Sheriff, All But
Blames Him for College Shooting
Adan Salazar - Numerous leftist media outlets and gun control
groups are demonizing and not-so-indirectly blaming an Oregon
sheriff for last week’s college shooting, all because of his
refusal to push authoritarian anti-gun legislation and his
alleged personal beliefs on Sandy Hook. Douglas County Sheriff
John Hanlin is overseeing the investigation into the Umpqua
Community College shooting, in which a mentally disturbed lone
gunman killed 10 people on a gun-free campus for religious
reasons. But surprisingly the sheriff’s investigation isn’t the
focus of progressive liberal news reports’ ire; his support of
the Second Amendment and possible belief in so-called
“conspiracy theories” are. Now the sheriff is also inexplicably
being targeted by the Brady Campaign and gun control freaks for
something even more trivial, a post he’s accused of making on
Facebook.
New York Daily News: State Dept Must Designate the NRA a
Terrorist Organization
Breitbart - On October 3–two days after a gunman killed 10 at
the gun free facilities on the Umpqua Community College
campus–the New York Daily News called for the U.S. State
Department to designate the National Rifle Association (NRA) a
“terrorist organization.” They based this request on their
belief that national security faces a greater threat from armed
citizens than from “foreign terrorists,” and they singled out
the NRA as the bulwark preserving citizens’ right to keep and
bear arms. They suggested, “The NRA should take its rightful
place on the State Department list of terrorist organizations,
because its influence is more of an immediate threat to the
lives of our citizens than foreign terrorists.”
Of 170 held after Waco biker shooting, all are now out of jail,
with none charged in killings
Dallas Morning News - Only a few of the people arrested in the
May biker shooting outside a Waco restaurant remain under ankle
monitoring, and none are still in jail. Of the 135 people
originally ordered to wear GPS ankle monitors, all but 22 have
been allowed to remove them, the Waco Tribune-Herald reported
Sunday. Their lawyers have reached agreements with prosecutors
to modify the conditions of their pre-trial release. After
initially locking up more than 170 people in connection with the
May 17 incident outside Twin Peaks restaurant, McLennan County
prosecutors have not charged anyone with the shooting deaths of
nine people. At least 20 others were hurt.
School Bans ‘Offensive’ America Day Celebration
Mikael Thalen - School administrators in Wyoming announced the
cancellation of a 2015 “America Day” celebration last week after
the event was deemed “offensive” and unsafe. According to the
Jackson Hole News & Guide, the homecoming tradition was banned
after Jackson Hole High School Activities Director Mike Hansen
alleged that multiple students “could have” felt targeted and
singled out. “Many different students could have felt singled
out,” Hansen said. “Maybe they moved here last week. Maybe they
moved here last month.” Local news speculated that the decision
may have been linked to the school’s large Latino population,
although no specifics were given by administrators.
Carly Fiorina's first political campaign had a surprising
problem: Money
Washington Post - Famed California pollster Joe Shumate was
found dead in his home one month before Election Day 2010,
surrounded by sheets of polling data he labored over for the
flailing Senate bid of Carly Fiorina. Upon his death, Fiorina
praised Shumate as "the heart and soul" of her team. She issued
a news release praising him as a person who believed in
"investing in those he worked with" and offering her "sincerest
condolences" to his widow. But records show there was something
that Fiorina did not offer his widow: Shumate's last paycheck,
for at least $30,000. It was one of more than 30 invoices,
totaling about $500,000, that the multimillionaire didn't settle
-- even as Fiorina reimbursed herself nearly $1.3 million she
lent the campaign. She finally cleared most of the balance in
January, a few months before announcing her run for president.
Donald Trump: Middle East Would Be Better Off If Saddam, Gaddafi
Were Still in Power
CNS News - GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump told NBC’s
“Meet the Press” on Sunday that if the late Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein and former Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi were
still in power, the Middle East would be better off than it is
today. “Of course it would be. You wouldn't have had your
Benghazi situation, which is one thing which was just a terrible
situation, but of course, it would. Libya is-- is not even--
nobody even knows what's goin' on over there. It's not even a
country anymore,” Trump said...
* Related:
Donald trump Meet The Press FULL Interview 10/4/2015
Big U.S. firms hold $2.1 trillion overseas to avoid taxes: study
Reuters - The 500 largest American companies hold more than $2.1
trillion in accumulated profits offshore to avoid U.S. taxes and
would collectively owe an estimated $620 billion in U.S. taxes
if they repatriated the funds, according to a study released on
Tuesday. The study, by two left-leaning non-profit groups, found
that nearly three-quarters of the firms on the Fortune 500 list
of biggest American companies by gross revenue operate tax haven
subsidiaries in countries like Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and
the Netherlands.... Technology firm Apple was holding $181.1
billion offshore, more than any other U.S. company, and would
owe an estimated $59.2 billion in U.S. taxes if it tried to
bring the money back to the United States from its three
overseas tax havens... The conglomerate General Electric has
booked $119 billion offshore in 18 tax havens, software firm
Microsoft is holding $108.3 billion in five tax haven
subsidiaries and drug company Pfizer is holding $74 billion in
151 subsidiaries, the study said.
Stock Market Crash October 2015? 9 Of The 16 Largest Crashes In
History Have Come This Month
Economic Collapse - The worst stock market crashes in U.S.
history have come during the month of October. There is just
something about this time of the year that seems to be conducive
to financial panic. For example, on October 28th, 1929 the
biggest stock market crash in U.S. history up until that time
helped usher in the Great Depression of the 1930s. And the
largest percentage crash in the history of the Dow Jones
Industrial Average by a very wide margin happened on October
19th, 1987. Overall, 9 of the 16 largest single day percentage
crashes that we have ever seen happened during the month of
October. Of course that does not mean that something will happen
this October, but after what we just witnessed in September we
should all be on alert.
Punishing Cash: US ATM Withdrawal Fees Soar To All Time High
Economic Policy Journal - With the world's central planners (and
their status quo hugging cronies) calling for cash bans, the
soaring costs of getting one's own money appears to be a quiet
form of capital control creeping up on the distracted American
public, notes Tyler Durden. WSJ reports: The average cost for
using an automated teller machine that isn’t tied to a
customer’s bank rose to a record $4.52 per transaction over the
past year, according to a survey from data provider Bankrate
Inc. that will be released Monday. In Atlanta and New York, the
average “out-of-network” cost tops $5 and can rise to as much as
$8 in some places under certain circumstances, Bankrate said.
The new average rate reflects an increase of 21% over the past
five years.
CPSC: 129,000 Dishwashers Recalled Over Power Cords That May
Burst Into Flames
The Consumerist - Because washing dishes shouldn’t result in a
fiery inferno, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is
recalling 129,000 dishwashers in the U.S., after reports that
power cords used for multiple brands can overheat and burst into
flame. The dishwashers were sold under the labels Bosch,
Gaggenau, Kenmore Elite and Thermador according to the CPSC, at
a variety of appliance and specialty retailers, department
stores, authorized builder distributors, home improvement stores
nationwide and online between January 2009 and May 2014 for
between $850 and $2600. An additional 45,000 washers sold in
Canada are also included in the recall. So far, 10 reports of
fires have been linked to the dishwashers, causing property
damage in five of those blazes — but no injuries have been
reported.
Canadian City To Dump 8 Billion Liters Of Sewage Into River
Shared With US
Natural Blaze - The city of Montreal plans to dump 8 billion
liters of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River on October 18
so they can begin a construction project on the sewer that is
currently holding the waste.... Environmental experts in the
area have suggested that there must be another solution, like
perhaps pumping the sewage into another container or pipeline
while the construction project is being completed.... “US
lawmakers in New York have raised concerns that the dumping
project could actually contaminate US waterways. New York
senator Patty Ritchie recently published a letter on her
website, calling for an investigation of the planned waste dump.
Hundreds of angry customers pull ‘smart’ meters (video)
Take Back Your Power - We commend Dominicans for such unified,
inspiring action, and we commend their military and police for
doing the right thing and supporting the people. Video
Translation: “Hundreds of meters were removed and put in front
of the electricity company offices of the north (in the city of
Peidro Blanca, Provinice of Monseñor Nouel).” “The reason was
high rates combined with frequent electrical outages in the
region. The outages became prolonged and the electricity bills
arrived at nearly double that of the month before.
Reawakened Ancient Retrovirus in DNA may be Behind ALS Cases
Natural Blaze - Researchers say the HERV-K virus became a
permanent part of the human genome some 2-5 million years ago.
HERV-K is a human endogenous retrovirus that injects its own
genetic material into cells, where they sometimes stay forever.
These retroviruses get passed on from generation to generation,
just like the genetic traits that determine our eye or hair
color. According to scientists, about 8% of the human genome is
made up of viruses. Sometimes the viruses cause cancer or other
diseases, but they normally just sit there, undetected. (Though
a new test claims to detect virtually any virus.) HERV-K is
believed to be one cause of breast cancer. Scientists believe
HERV-K could be “reawakening” in patients, causing ALS, a
disease that robs patients of the ability to walk, talk, eat,
and eventually breathe. There is no accepted cure for ALS, also
known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Flashback: 23 Seniors Died After Receiving Flu Shot Sold by
Pharmacies
Health Impact News Sept.15, 2013 - The high-dose Fluzone vaccine
being marketed this flu season to seniors, which has four times
the amount of antigens that the regular flu shot has, as well as
the non-high dose version, had 23 seniors die during drug
trials. The package insert for the high-dose Fluzone flu vaccine
is found here.
United States Tracks Children to Push Gardasil Vaccine – Rest of
the World Becoming Skeptical
Health Impact News - The United States continues to carelessly
move forward with the HPV vaccine Gardasil. Meanwhile, due to
its endless damage, the shot is the center of criminal lawsuits
in Spain, India, France, Japan and many other countries. In the
UK, the HPV vaccination push has 8,228 official reports of
side-effects, almost more than all other vaccine reports
combined. Dr. Dalbergue, a former pharmaceutical industry
physician with Gardasil manufacturer Merck gave a 2014 interview
stating that: “Gardasil is useless and costs a fortune” as well
as predicting “Gardasil will become the greatest medical scandal
of all times…” Ignoring data and worldwide protest, Departments
of Health within the U.S. are now sending letters to parents
advising them to submit their children to HPV vaccinations. With
no prior announcement, parental consent given, or notice, the
states of New York and Indiana have tracked HPV vaccine
non-compliers and are now hassling them with physical letters.
Covering Up The Causes of Breast Cancer Since 1985:
AstraZeneca's BCAM
Green Med Info - Did you know that AstraZeneca, manufacturer of
two blockbuster breast cancer drugs (one of which is classified
as a known human carcinogen), is behind Breast Cancer Awareness
Month?... Truth be told, BCAM should be renamed Breast Cancer
Un-Awareness Month, as it has nothing to do with generating
awareness about the true causes and solutions for the breast
cancer epidemic and everything to do with making the public
focus on a presumably not-yet-existent "cure" to be produced
through the pharmaceutical pipeline somewhere off in the future
only after enough money is raised.
Goldenrod: The Roadside Fall Medicinal ‘Weed’ You (Wrongly)
Thought Was An Allergen
Off the Grid News - You may think goldenrod is good for nothing
more than causing allergy flare-ups and looking pretty. But what
is simply an annoying weed to many actually has a long history
of being a healthy, medicinal plant. In fact, goldenrod tea was
popular in colonial times and replaced the tea from England
after the Boston Tea Party. They called it “Liberty Tea.”...
Goldenrod smells a lot like licorice when it is ground up or
crushed. There are many types of goldenrod, but if you use it
for teas, use the type that smells like anise. You can gather
the leaves at any time, but if you want the flowers, pick them
in late summer or autumn.
VIDEO: This Amazing Dog Detected Cancer When Doctors & Imaging Could Not
Dogington Post - Max, a Collie-mix, began acting strangely toward his
owner. Concerned that her dog, almost 10-years old at the time, was
nearing the end of his life, Maureen Burns began preparing herself to
say goodbye to her beloved best friend. “He just wasn’t happy. Wouldn’t
come with me, wouldn’t sit by me, wouldn’t sit on my lap. He would come
up and touch my breast with his nose and back off, so desperately
unhappy.” Although Maureen had a lump in her breast, mammograms had come
back clear, indicating that the lump was nothing to worry about. But,
because of Max’s odd behavior, Maureen insisted doctor’s perform a
biopsy to evaluate the lump after additional scans and testing revealed
nothing. Because of Max, and Maureen’s trust in his instincts, doctor’s
were finally able to discover and remove the cancer growing within
Maureen’s breast. The change in Max’s behavior after the lump was
removed was instant.
Monday
- October 5, 2015 -
Today in History:
1813 - Chief Tecumseh of the Shawnee Indians was killed at the Battle of
Thames when American forced defeated the British and the allied Indian
warriors.
1877 - Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the U.S.
Army after a 1,000-mile retreat towards the Canadian border.
1930 - Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a transcontinental
airplane flight.
1937 - U.S. President Roosevelt called for a "quarantine" of aggressor
nations.
1947 - President Harry Truman held the first televised presidential
address from the White House. The subject was the current international
food crisis.
1969 - A Cuban defector landed a Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air
Force Base in Florida. The plane entered U.S. air space and landed
without being detected.
1970 - Anwar Sadat took office as President of Egypt replacing Gamal
Abdel Nassar. Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
1988 - In a debate between candidates for vice president of the U.S.,
Democratic Lloyd Bentsen told Republican Dan Quayle, "You're no Jack
Kennedy."
1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that his country
would cut its nuclear arsenal in response to the arms reduction that was
initiated by U.S. President George Bush.
1993 - China set off an underground nuclear explosion.
1995 - A 60-day cease-fire was agreed upon by Bonsian combatants. The
civil war had lasted 3 1/2.
1998 - The U.S. paid $60 million for Russia's research time on the
international space station to keep the cash-strapped Russian space
agency afloat.
2006 - Walmart rolled out its $4 generic drug program to the entire
state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area.
Pentagon Weighs Military Options to Protect US-Trained Rebels in
Syria
Military.com - Russia's launch of airstrikes in Syria is
prompting discussions within the Pentagon about whether the U.S.
should use military force to protect U.S.-trained and equipped
Syrian rebels if they come under fire by the Russians. U.S.
officials said Thursday that senior military leaders and defense
officials are working through the thorny legal and foreign
policy issues and are weighing the risks of using force in
response to a Russian attack. Defense Secretary Ash Carter
declined to discuss the problem when asked about it this week.
But U.S. officials acknowledged that this is one of the
questions being asked as they debate the broader dilemma of how
the administration should respond to what White House press
secretary Josh Earnest described as Russia's "indiscriminate
military operations against the Syrian opposition."
Israeli jets strike Gaza after rocket fire pinned on Hamas
RT - Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on targets in Gaza
overnight in retaliation to rocket fire directed at Israeli
territory earlier in the day. Although an ISIS-affiliated group
claimed responsibility for the attack, Israel holds Hamas
responsible. Witnesses reported at least four airstrikes in the
Gaza strip early Monday, conducted by Israeli F-16 jets while
drones were seen circling the airspace.
Germany fears up to 1.5mn refugees to arrive in 2015, calls for
limits on influx to EU
RT - The number of refugees and migrants expected to arrive in
Germany by the end of 2015 has soared to 1.5mn, according to
Bild newspaper, citing a government report. Meanwhile German
politicians say that the EU must take immediate measures to
limit numbers. Germany’s abilities to accept and handle refugees
and migrants are not infinite and the country’s capacity is now
strained to the limit, German Finance Minister Wolfgang
Schaeuble said in interview with ZDF on Sunday.
Japanese worried about privacy as My Number ID program becomes
law
RT - A controversial new Japanese personal identification system
came into effect on Monday. My Number IDs will unite personal
tax information, social security and disaster relief benefits,
but critics worry about possible leaks and invasions of privacy.
The new legislation will see every Japanese citizen and foreign
residents given a 12 digit number, which is expected to reach an
estimated 55 million households. The aim is to make
administration more efficient for services such as taxation and
social welfare benefits, while also helping to cut down on tax
evasion and benefit fraud. However, the government eventually
intends to extend the system to bank accounts in order to keep
track of the assets people have for taxation purposes. This will
at first be voluntary from 2018, although the government could
make it mandatory by 2021.
Russian Air Force hit 10 ISIS targets in Syria in last 24 hours
– Defense Ministry (VIDEOS)
RT - Russian fighter jets have attacked 10 Islamic State targets
in Syria in their latest airstrikes, destroying arms depots,
training centers and infrastructure, Defense Ministry says. In
the last 24 hours, Russian military aircraft have performed 20
sorties.... According to the estimates of Russia’s General Staff
of Armed Forces, the airstrikes inflicted on Islamic State
installations in Syria have disrupted the command system,
inventory and logistics of the terrorist organization. The
infrastructure used to stage terror attacks in Syria and Iraq
has also been severely damaged.
* Related:
Nobody can clearly define what 'moderate opposition' in Syria is
- Kremlin spokesman
One Day After Warning Russia of Civilian Casualties, the U.S.
Bombs a Hospital in Afghanistan
The Intercept - Yesterday afternoon, U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations Samantha Power marched to Twitter to proclaim:
“we call on Russia to immediately cease attacks on Syrian
oppo[sition and] civilians.” Along with that decree, she posted
a statement from the U.S. and several of its closest
authoritarian allies – including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UK
– warning Russia that civilian casualties “will only fuel more
extremism and radicalization.” Early this morning, in the Afghan
city of Kunduz, the U.S. dropped bombs on a hospital run by
Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)). The
airstrike killed at least 9 of the hospital’s medical staff, and
seriously injured dozens of patients. “Among the dead was the
Afghan head of the hospital, Abdul Sattar,” reported The New
York Times… He [Jason Cone, MSF’s Executive Director] added that
“all parties [to the] conflict, including in Kabul & Washington,
were clearly informed of precise GPS Coordinates of MSF
facilities in Kunduz,” and that the “precise location of MSF
Kunduz hospital [was] communicated to all parties on multiple
occasions over past months, including on 9/29.”
Death toll rises in suspected US airstrike on Afghan hospital
(Video)
The Guardian - A US airstrike appears to have hit a hospital run
by Médecins Sans Frontières in the Afghan city of Kunduz,
killing nine staff members and injuring up to 37 people. The
charity claimed it had circulated the coordinates of the site to
all sides engaged in fighting in the country, adding that the
bombing continued for 30 minutes after it had raised the alarm
with Afghan and US authorities. At the time of the bombing, 105
patients and its carers, and more than 80 MSF international and
national staff were in the hospital, the charity said. Some
members of staff were still unaccounted for on Saturday, and
there are fears the death toll will rise considerably. Up to 10
international aid workers who were based in the hospital are
believed to have survived the attack.
* Related:
‘Patients were burning in their beds’: Witnesses recall horrific
Kunduz hospital airstrike
MSF demands independent probe into hospital airstrike in
Afghanistan
RT - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has demanded an independent
international body investigate the suspected US airstrike that
killed 22 people at a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. The
charity’s official said MSF cannot trust the US military probe.
Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed,
MSF demands that a full and transparent investigation into the
event be conducted by an independent international body," MSF
General Director Christopher Stokes said in a statement on
Sunday. Relying only on an internal investigation by a party to
the conflict would be wholly insufficient," he added. The US
military launched a probe into the incident on Saturday.
World's Largest Shipowners To Abandon Greece Ahead Of Major Tax
Hike
Zero Hedge - With Greece controlling 20% of the world's shipping
fleet, the 'quadriga' of Greek creditors' demands to raise taxes
(because debt restructuring is out of the question) on such an
'easy target' as the world's largest shipping industry appears
likely to backfire as an entire industry's revenues move out of
reach of government taxers… Many in the Greek shipping world say
any increase in taxes on shipping operations would prompt a mass
exodus of the country’s shipowners. Relatively low-tax global
shipping centers such as Cyprus, London, Singapore and
Vancouver, Canada, are positioning themselves to benefit.
Fukushima police send nuclear contamination case against TEPCO
execs to prosecutors
RT - Fukushima police have finally reacted to a criminal
complaint filed against TEPCO and 32 of its top officials two
years ago over the contamination caused by the 2011 nuclear
disaster. They have referred the case to prosecutors. The
Fukushima District Prosecutors’ Office will now determine
whether to pursue criminal charges against the Tokyo Electric
Power Company (TEPCO) and its top management over the leaks of
highly radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant
into the sea. The criminal complaint alleges that the company
and its executives failed to manage storage tanks of
contaminated water or build underground walls to block the flow
of radioactive material into the sea at the Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant. Notable people on the list include TEPCO’s
President Naomi Hirose, former Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and
former President Masataka Shimizu.
Bulgaria Slams GM Crops Again with Strong Total Ban
Sustainable Pulse - The Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and
Food has confirmed that Bulgaria will keep its clean and green
image through extending its ban on GM crops under new EU
regulations, the press office of the Ministry reported on
Thursday. Bulgaria is one of the strongest opponents of GM crops
and this is shown with the latest GM crops ban, which includes
more GM varieties than any other country in the EU: eight GM
maize varieties, one GM soy variety, and one GM carnation
variety.... Recent Bulgarian opinion polls show that the
Bulgarian population is strongly against GMOs in food and the
cultivation of GM crops with 97% of the population stating that
they are opposed to the harmful nature of GMOs.
* Related:
Nineteen EU countries seek GMO opt-out
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
4 Students Arrested in Northern California, Suspected of
Plotting Killings in High School
NY Times - California high school students have been arrested in
connection with what law enforcement officials called a highly
detailed plan to shoot and kill fellow students and teachers,
just days after a mass shooting on a community college campus in
rural Oregon. The four, all students at Summerville High School
in Tuolumne, Calif., "were going to come on campus and shoot and
kill as many people as possible at the campus," Sheriff James W.
Mele of Tuolumne County said at a news conference on Saturday.
Investigators have found no clear motive for the planned attack,
Sheriff Mele said, but he said that "the suspects' plans were
very detailed in nature and included names of would-be victims,
locations and methods in which the plan was to be carried out."
Oregon Shooting: 13 Troubling Signs Of Potentially Yet Another
False Flag
Activist Post - When you practice something all the time you
eventually get very good at it. The one thing many awakened and
vigilant Americans have become good at over the past few years
is sniffing out government false flags because they have so much
practice at it. You may find that the events surrounding the
recent Umpqua Community College shooting in southern Oregon may
ring a few familiar false flag bells after you consider what the
mainstream media is saying about the shooting. It is at least
extremely reasonable to suspect that this is yet another gun
control shooting false flag event since it has many of the
characteristics of it.
Oregon Shooter’s Father Absolves Son: Guns, Not His Parenting to
Blame
Breitbart - The father of the Oregon shooter who ruthlessly
murdered 9 people at a community college in Umpqua, Oregon,
insists that his son isn’t to blame for shooting innocent
victims, but rather, ‘guns’ are to blame. The man absolving his
son of responsibility is Ian Mercer and he made the statements
during a CNN interview. A report in the Daily Beast claims that
Mr. Mercer abandoned his son at birth–a factor that the father
did not mention during his anti-gun rant on television.
CNN Alters Photo of Umpqua Killer Chris Harper-Mercer to Make
Him Look White
Gateway Pundit - CNN photoshops the photo of Oregon killer Chris
Harper-Mercer to make him look white. Chris was the son of Ian
Mercer from Great Britain and Laurel Margaret Harper. Chris
lived with his mother Laurel. He posted this selfie online. But,
according to Conservative Treehouse, CNN altered the image to
make Harper-Mercer look white. Via Conservative Treehouse: On
the left is the selfie Christopher Mercer uploaded to his social
media. On the right is how CNN presented the same selfie in
broadcast stories about him. Why did CNN need to change the
complexion (color) of their broadcast? Why is no-one showing
pictures of mom, Laurel Margaret Harper. His online profiles
have been erased since the shooting.
Obama Not Welcome In Roseburg, Says Local Newspaper Publisher
Breitbart - David Jaques, the publisher of the conservative
newspaper the Roseburg Beacon, says he believes that President
Obama would not be welcome to the town after making remarks
politicizing the shooting that left nine dead and nine injured
at Umpqua Community College on October 1. Jaques told Breitbart
News that he believes officials of Douglas County would also not
welcome the President using the tragedy to score political
points for a gun control agenda. Any visit by President would be
“a campaign stop for agenda to take away American citizen’s
right to own firearms” said Jaques in an exclusive interview.
Jaques said the region is proud of Sheriff John Hanlin, who he
said “put the administration on notice that if you pass any
laws, edicts or executive actions that are either
unconstitutional or extra-constitutional, they will not be
enforced in Douglas County.” Hanlin been savaged by the liberal
national press after his letter to Vice President Joe Biden
opposing gun control came to light.
Army vet lunged at UCC shooter, survived 5 shots on son's 6th
birthday
RT - Umpqua Community College student and Army veteran Chris
Mintz is receiving praise a day after lunging at a gunman on the
school's campus amid a rampage that left nine dead. Mintz was
shot several times, but is listed in stable condition. On his
fourth day of classes this semester at Umpqua Community College
(UCC) in Roseburg, Oregon, Mintz reportedly attempted to halt
the shooting rampage. The shooting took place on Mintz's son's
sixth birthday. Mintz, 30, was shot five times, according to a
Facebook post by his cousin and fellow Army vet Derek Bourgeois.
Mintz received bullet wounds to his upper back, left hand,
abdomen, and both legs, his family told the Winston-Salem
Journal. None of his vital organs were hit, though both legs
were broken. He is expected to survive, but will have to relearn
to walk, his family said.
* Related:
GoFundMe Page For Oregon Hero Chris Mintz Tops 1/2 Million
Dollars In 24 Hours
Congress fails to renew 9/11 responders’ medical care
RT - The healthcare program for 9/11 first responders expired at
midnight on Wednesday after Congress failed to act. More than
72,000 people were registered under the program for yearly
check-ups on 9/11-related illnesses and 33,000 were receiving
treatment. With the expiration, the program will cover first
responders until the end of the year but they will start facing
challenges by February 2016. If it is not renewed, the program
will have to start shutting down by next summer. First
responders and advocates want to make the law permanent before
it runs out of money early next year.
Pouring Drain Cleaner in Your Eyes: The Next Trendy Social
Justice Movement?
Paul Joseph Watson - When Jewel Shuping had a psychologist pour
drain cleaner in her eyes to blind her, the reason she gave was
precisely the same justification given by transgender people who
have their genitals surgically removed. “I really feel this is
the way I was supposed to be born, that I should have been blind
from birth,” the 30-year-old says. Shuping, a sufferer of Body
Integrity Disorder, remembers that she fantasized about being
blind from the age of 6, acquired a white cane in her teens and
had learned Braile by the time she was 20. In 2006, Shuping
finally found someone to help her realize her dream, which is
when the psychologist poured drain cleaner in her eyes.
Hillary Clinton to Propose Tighter Gun Regulations on Monday
Sputnik News - US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton is set to announce on Monday her plans to enact tighter
regulations on sales at gun shows if she is elected the US
president, local media reported. According to The Wall Street
Journal, Clinton is expected to vow to reduce the number of arms
dealers at gun shows. Clinton has announced her willingness to
launch a "national movement" against the US National Rifle
Association (NRA), which protects the right of citizens to keep
and carry firearms, after a shootout at a college in the state
of Oregon last week, which left at least 9 people dead and
several other injured.
Donald Trump Storms Tennessee to Push Second Amendment
Protection Plan After Oregon Shooting
Breitbart - GOP frontrunner Donald Trump offered a ringing
defense of gun rights and the Second Amendment to an
enthusiastic standing-room-only crowd of 3,000 Tennesseans on
Saturday. An overflowing audience of an additional 1,000 stood
outside The Factory in Franklin, Tennessee in the drizzling rain
as they listened to the rally on speakers. It was a huge turnout
for Trump, whose campaign team announced the event less than 72
hours earlier.... “Protecting our Second Amendment rights will
make America great again,” Trump began, reading the title of his
policy paper to the receptive crowd. “The Second Amendment to
our Constitution is clear.” Then, in true Trump style, he
ad-libbed. “Now this is in light of what happened in Oregon. Now
every time something happens like this… They don’t blame mental
illness, that our mental health care is out of whack, and all
the other problems,” he said. “And by the way,” he continued,
“it was a gun-free zone.”...
* Related:
Donald Trump Fires Up The Crowd at Franklin, TN Rally (FULL
Speech) 10-3-15
Hillary Clinton Has Dropped 30 Points in Iowa Since Spring
Breitbart - In just 8 months, Hillary Clinton has given up more
than 30 points of support to Sanders and Biden. This collapse
has come while she was the prohibitive favorite for the
nomination and amassed a large campaign war chest and an
enormous campaign organization.
Yes, This Is A Financial Crisis – 11 TRILLION Dollars In Stock Market
Wealth Was Wiped Out In The 3rd Quarter
Economic Collapse - Over the past three months, the stock markets of all
major global economies have been crashing simultaneously, and 11
trillion dollars of “paper wealth” has now completely vanished. The
following comes from Fortune… Global equity markets suffered a bruising
third quarter, shedding $11 trillion worth of global shares over three
months, according to Bloomberg. It was the market’s worst quarter since
2011. The prolonged slump was due to low prices for commodities such as
oil, instability in China’s markets, and the anticipation that the U.S.
Federal Reserve will soon raise interest rates.
Right Now There Are 102.6 Million Working Age Americans That Do Not Have
Jobs
Economic Collapse - The federal government uses very carefully
manipulated numbers to cover up the crushing economic depression that is
going on in this nation. For the month of September, the federal
government told us that 142,000 jobs were added to the economy. If that
was actually true, that would barely be enough to keep up with
population growth. Sadly, the truth is that the real numbers were
actually far worse than that. The unadjusted numbers show that the U.S.
economy actually lost 248,000 jobs in September and the government added
more than a million Americans to the “not in the labor force” category.
Nebraskans
'feeling betrayed' by ConAgra, to which it fed millions in subsidies
Nebraska Watchdog - The company responsible for spurring Nebraska into
giving out business incentives, ConAgra Foods, is now moving its
headquarters to Chicago, where it will also receive tax freebies.
ConAgra announced Thursday plans to move to Chicago to increase profits
and consolidate operations, resulting in some 1,000 lost jobs in Omaha.
State tax incentives in Illinois helped convince the company to uproot
part of its Omaha operation and head east… In 1986, ConAgra CEO Charles
“Mike” Harper played hardball, threatening to move to Tennessee if
Nebraska didn’t give the company tax breaks. State lawmakers, backs to
the wall, agreed to enact sweeping incentives in 1987, and since then,
about $2.5 billion in subsidies have been doled out to all kinds of
companies. According to the nonprofit research center Good Jobs First,
Nebraska has given ConAgra $160 million in incentives and tax
concessions since then.
There are laws making it illegal to collect data on open land
Ars Technica - The two-part legislative package, signed by Gov.
Matt Mead earlier this year, is the subject of a constitutional
legal challenge from environmentalists, animal rights advocates,
and the media. The legislation is so onerous that it disallows
regulators from even acting upon evidence of wrongdoing if the
data was gathered without a landowners' permission, even if the
data was gathered on public land…They impose up to a year in
prison, a $1,000 fine, and civil trespassing liability for
people who enter open lands without permission (PDF) to collect
"resource data." The suit (PDF) describes "resource data" as
"pictures of noxious weeds, samples of polluted water, videos of
injured animals, or even notes on the landscape—and then
communicate that data to a federal or state government agency."
'We were paying to poison our kids': lead in Michigan city's
water hits children
The Guardian - A spate of kids are experiencing elevated
blood-lead levels in Flint, and some drinking water lead levels
are so high they are defined as hazardous waste, according to
several local studies… After months of resisting complaints
about the water, and even a press conference by local doctors
warning of potential effects, officials relented this week,
declaring a public health emergency… Conducted by a pediatrician
with Hurley Medical Center, the newest study examined the lead
levels of hundreds of children, comparing blood tests taken
before and after April 2014, when Flint stopped using Detroit
water and started drawing water from the Flint River as a
temporary cost-saving measure. Ever since the switch, according
to the Hurley study, the number of children in the city with
elevated blood levels increased from 2.1% to 4%. In some areas,
the number increased as high as 6.3%.
Small town mayor relinquishes electronics and passwords to
agents at SFO
Ars Technica - At the San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
this week, agents with the Department of Homeland Security
detained [Mayor] Silva and confiscated his personal cell phone
among other electronics. According to comments from the mayor,
that may not even be the most alarming part. “Unfortunately,
they were not willing or able to produce a search warrant or any
court documents suggesting they had a legal right to take my
property," Silva told SFGate… The mayor's attorney, Mark Reichel,
told SFGate that Silva was not allowed to leave the airport
without forfeiting his passwords… The mayor was told he had “no
right for a lawyer to be present” and that being a US citizen
did not “entitle me to rights that I probably thought,”
according to the paper.
Gardening, Farming & Homesteading |
Organics Board to Review GMO Vaccines for Animals, Pesticides
Allowed in Food
Alliance for Natural Health - The semi-annual meeting of the
NOSB will take place October 26–29 in Vermont. Because NOSB
makes decisions that, in large part, determine the future of
organic foods... After reviewing the agenda, we noted two items
of concern. The NOSB continues to avoid directly addressing the
issue of keeping genetically engineered vaccines away from
organic livestock.... In our coverage of last year’s Fall NOSB
meeting, participants identified a need for methods to
distinguish between GMO vaccine and non-GMO vaccines—but they
did not take any concrete action. Under current regulation, GMO
vaccines are not allowed in organic production unless
specifically approved by NOP. The core of the difficulty in
keeping GMO vaccines out of organic food, however, seems to be
vague definitions contained in NOSB regulations.
"Camping" on Your Own Land is Now Illegal - Gov't Waging War on
Off-Grid Living
Activist Post - Tensions boiled over during a county
commissioners’ meeting in San Louis, Colorado, devolving into a
shouting match between homesteaders and police. One of the major
points of contention is the county’s attempt to ban camping on
your own property, in an effort to force the off-grid
homesteaders back onto the grid… The county, which requires
residents to have a camping permit to live in an RV, “small
house” or other camp style home, has started to simply refuse
the renewal of these permits. This is obviously a major problem
for homesteaders, who often live in such accommodations while
building their permanent residents… County land use
administrator Matt Valdez disputes the claims that the county is
trying to regulate people’s lifestyles out of existence. He says
that his office has discretion to deny camping permits under
existing code and claims that too many new residents were
habitually renewing permits meant to be temporary.
New Evidence that Antidepressants Are Causing an Epidemic of Violence
Alliance for Natural Health - An article in the current British Medical
Journal explains why the link is stronger than previously thought....
Many antidepressants carry a black box warning of an increased risk of
suicidal thoughts and behavior. Dr. Robert Whitaker notes that there is
also a shocking risk of increased violence to others, which is not
highlighted in the black box. Important research has shown major drugs
like Paxil and Prozac to be linked with violence at a substantially
higher rate than other drugs—users of Paxil are 10.3 times more likely
to do violence to themselves or others, while users of Prozac are 10.9
times more likely to commit acts of violence. Other evidence shows that
people who have exhibited no propensity for violence or aggression can
develop violent behavior soon after beginning antidepressants. ... About
10% of Americans—30 million people—are on antidepressants, which
includes 25% of women in their 40s and 50s. Antidepressant use has
increased an astounding 400% in recent years.
CDC Spends $1 Million to Increase Adult Flu Vaccination Rates – Flu Shot
to be Mandatory?
Health Impact News - The American College of Physicians (ACP) has
recently been awarded with a $1,002,884 Cooperative Agreement by the CDC
to focus on increasing vaccination rates in adults. According to the
press release: The [ACP’s] initiate will aim to reach the federal
government’s 2020 immunization goals, which includes reaching an 80% to
90% rate of seasonal influenza vaccination among adults (the current rate
is 42%).... According to Wayne J. Riley, ACP president: ACP supports
eliminating existing exemptions, except for medical reasons, from
immunization laws. This funding comes a year after the ACP publicly
announced in 2014 they were collaborating with Pfizer and CECity to
again, increase adult immunization rates. Pfizer and ACP’s stated agenda
at that time was to: call on all health care providers to assess vaccine
status at each visit, strongly recommend vaccinations to patients,
administer or refer for immunization, and document vaccination. CECity
was brought on board to implement the cloud-based Adult Immunization
Registry called for in the federal government’s 2020 immunization goals.
Study: Red Wines in U.S. Found to Contain ‘High Levels of Arsenic’
Natural Society - Arsenic has been found in a lot of the foods we eat.
Apple juice, rice, seafood, and cereal bars all contain high levels of
the poison. Now, researchers are warning that many red wines also
contain arsenic, and that aficionados should limit their intake.
Researchers tested 65 U.S. wines made in California, Washington, New
York, and Oregon. They found that the alcoholic beverage contained 24
parts per billion (ppb) of arsenic, with some containing as much as 76
ppb. Wines containing the lowest levels of arsenic were produced in
Oregon, with 13 ppb. In all, 98% of the wines investigators tested
contained high levels of arsenic. Wine from Washington contained the
most arsenic – 28 ppb. All samples contained inorganic arsenic. The
Environmental Protection Agency permits tap water to contain no more
arsenic than 10 ppb. But having a few glasses of wine won’t kill you;
you need only be concerned if you drink a lot of wine, and a lot of
other arsenic-containing foods.
Friday
- October 2, 2015 -
Today in History:
1780 - British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was
carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.
1835 - The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the
Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.
1836 - Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring
knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He
used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he
unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of
Natural Selection.
1876 - The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened. It was
the state's first venture into public higher education. The school was
formally dedicated 2 days later by Texas Gov. Richard Coke.
1889 - The first international Conference of American States began in
Washington, DC.
1924 - The Geneva Protocol adopted the League of Nations.
1941 - Operation Typhoon was launched by Nazi Germany. The plan was an
all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.
1962 - U.S. ports were closed to nations that allowed their ships to
carry arms to Cuba, ships that had docked in a socialist country were
prohibited from docking in the United States during that voyage, and the
transport of U.S. goods was banned on ships owned by companies that
traded with Cuba.
1993 - Opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin fought police and
set up burning barricades.
1998 - Hawaii sued petroleum companies, claiming state drivers were
overcharged by about $73 million a year in price-fixing.
1998 - About 10,000 Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq and
attacked Kurdish rebels.
2001 - The U.S. Postmaster unveiled the "Tribute to America" stamp. The
stamp was planned for release the next month.
2001 - NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated
that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in
response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United
States.
Russia carries out new round of air strikes in Syria, hitting 12
targets
(Reuters) - Russia said on Friday it had carried out new rounds
of air strikes in Syria, hitting 12 Islamic State targets.
Sukhoi-34, Sukhoi-24M and Sukhoi-25 warplanes had flown 18
sorties, hitting a command post and a communications center in
the province of Aleppo as well as a militant field camp in Idlib,
a Defence Ministry statement said. A command post in the
province of Hama was also completely destroyed, it said. A
command post in the province of Hama was also completely
destroyed, it said.
Russian Air Force Destroys ISIL Command Center, Training Camp in
Syria
Sputnik News - The Russian Air Force’s Su-34 Fullback strike
fighters have destroyed an Islamic State command center and
training camp, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Gen.-Maj. Igor
Konashenkov said Friday. “On October 1, Su-34s conducted strikes
on an Islamic State training camp near the populated region of
Mahdan-Jadid as well as against a covert command center near
Qasert-Faraj to the southwest of Raqqa,” Konashenkov told
journalists.
From Syria To Asia To Russia – Terror Network Organized By NATO
and Turkey
Brandon Turbeville - Uyghur Terror Networks Span Continents,
Have Root In Turkey and NATO. With the possible entrance of
China into the Syrian crisis, a spate of recent articles has
appeared in various media outlets discussing the importance of
Uyghur terrorism in China and the effect those acts may have on
its decision whether or not to truly commit troops or other
means of assistance to the Syrian government. These discussions,
however, have typically been superfluous and tangential, rarely
attributing the importance of the connections between the Syrian
crisis and the Xinjang Uyghur separatist movement. While many
might suspect at first glance that the two crises are unrelated,
the fact is that the same powers that control the savages raping
and beheading their way across Syria also control the Uyghur
“separatists” wreaking havoc in Xinjang China.
Putin: Claims Russian jets killed civilians in Syria emerged
before airstrikes started
RT - Reports of alleged casualties among civilians caused by
Russian airstrikes in Syria emerged even before Russian
warplanes were launched for their first combat mission,
President Vladimir Putin said, branding such reports
'information attacks.' “Other nations have been bombing Syrian
territory for over a year,” Putin told the Russian human rights
council on Thursday, stressing that the US-led coalition invades
the Syrian airspace with no UN mandate or invitation from
Damascus. “We have such an invitation and we intend to fight
against terrorist organizations and them only,” Putin added.
Russian air strikes in Syria: Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson
admits groups other than Isis being targeted
Independent - A second day of bombing on Thursday has reportedly
hit areas held by other Islamist groups. Vladimir Putin’s
official spokesperson said that “well known” militant groups
were in its sights but did not name individual organisations.
“These organisations (on the target list) are well-known and the
targets are chosen in coordination with the armed forces of
Syria,” Dmitry Peskov said.
ALL OUT WAR: Iranian Troops To Conduct Ground Attacks In Syria
Steve Watson - Iran has dispatched hundreds of ground troops to
syria to fight alongside the forces loyal to President Bashar
al-Assad. A full scale war is unfolding in Syria, with a ground
offensive being planned to coincide with Russian air strikes,
according to Lebanese sources. “The (Russian) air strikes will
in the near future be accompanied by ground advances by the
Syrian army and its allies,” one of the sources told Reuters.
“It is possible that the coming land operations will be focused
in the Idlib and Hama countryside,” the source added. Lebanese
Hezbollah troops will also join the Iranian forces, the sources
note, as well as Iraqis.
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
Reports: UCC Shooter Asked Victims Their Religion, Then Killed
The Christians
Truth Revolt - Douglas County’s News Review newspaper reports
that the gunman in todays mass shooting in Oregon was asking
people their religion before shooting them. According to at
least one unconfirmed account, the shooter then targeted those
who had answered Christian by shooting them in the head,
shooting those who answered otherwise in the legs. From the News
Review report: Kortney Moore, 18, from Rogue River, was in her
Writing 115 class in Snyder Hall when one shot came through a
window. She saw her teacher get shot in the head. The shooter
was inside at that point, and he told people to get on the
ground. The shooter was asking people to stand up and state
their religion and then started firing away, Moore said. Moore
was lying there with people who had been shot. From Twitter, one
person claims her grandmother was on scene and witnessed the
same, adding the detail about the targeting of Christians.
ATF Officer Snaps at Son’s Football Game, Assaults Man Pulls Gun
On Bystanders
The Free Thought Project - ATF Agent Marc Delpit is now facing
an aggravated assault charge after he beat up a man at his son’s
football game and pulled a gun on a crowd of bystanders during
the struggle. Delpit claimed that the man and the crowd had
threatened him and that he was defending himself, but obviously
the crowd of parents saw things differently. According to
Houston Police spokesman Kese Smith, a number of witnesses who
saw the incident say that it was Delpit who started the fight,
punching the other man and knocking him to the ground before the
scuffle began. Both of the men are reportedly fathers of
football players at St. Thomas High School and witnesses say
they became belligerent with each other around halftime.
McCain: Arm Syrian Rebels to Shoot Down Russian Planes
Paul Joseph Watson - Senator John McCain reacted to Russia’s
announcement that it had begun launching air strikes targeting
ISIS militants in Syria by calling on the White House to arm
Syrian rebels with weapons to shoot down Russian planes.McCain
initially responded to Fox News host Neil Cavuto’s question
about whether he would shoot down Russian planes by saying no,
but then went on to assert that he would arm Syrian rebels to
carry out that very same task.
“I might do what we did in Afghanistan many years ago, to give
those guys the ability to shoot down those planes, that
equipment is available,” said McCain, adding that the Free
Syrian Army would shoot down the planes, “just like the Afghans
shot down Russian planes after Russia invaded Afghanistan.”
Media Caught Distorting President Putin’s Speech (Video)
Infowars - Russia has proceeded to launch air strikes on ISIS in
Syria. But at the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, the country’s
leader, Vladimir Putin, highlighted how the US and western
allies have knowingly perpetuated the existence of Islamic
radicals, all while purporting to fight global terrorism.
Infowars analyzes the translation of Putin’s speech as it aired
live on networks to see if crucial information was left out
which might have affected the narrative. Last year, on October
24, Russian President Vladimir Putin also flatly expressed
before an assembly at the Valdai International Discussion Club,
in Sochi, Russia, that the Obama administration was responsible
for arming the Syrians fighting against Syrian President Bashar
Al-Assad’s forces and responsible for creating the political
climate that facilitated the region’s destabilization...
13 Killed in Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College
NBC News - Thirteen people were dead and more than about 20
others were injured after a gunman opened fire Thursday morning
on the campus of Umpqua Community College in southwest Oregon,
authorities told NBC News. It wasn't immediately known whether
the gunman was among the dead after the shooting near Roseburg,
which was called in at 10:38 a.m. (1:38 p.m. ET), officials
said. State Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum told NBC News
simply that he had been "neutralized." Mercy Medical Center in
Roseburg said it was treating nine patients, with three more
expected. Sacred Heart General Hospital in Eugene, a major
trauma center, told NBC News it was expecting three patients by
helicopter. Students and faculty were being bused to the Douglas
County Fairgrounds.
* Related:
Ten federal agents and a therapy dog are already en route to
Oregon mass-shooting site; Sandy Hook invoked
As Many As 80 Conservatives To Meet With, Vet Candidates For
Speaker Of The House
Breitbart - From 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. next Tuesday evening, the
Conservative Opportunity Society, House Freedom Caucus, House
Tea Party Caucus, and House Liberty Caucus will join forces to
hold a members-only meeting after votes to vet the two different
candidates for Speaker of the House. The two candidates for
Speaker are current House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy
(R-CA) and Rep. Daniel Webster (R-FL) , a reformer who served as
Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and ran, nearly
successfully, against outgoing House Speaker Rep. John Boehner
(R-OH) at the beginning of this Congress.
Valerie Jarrett Throws Hillary Under the Bus on Email Scandal
Breitbart - Obama White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett
threw Hillary Clinton under the bus Wednesday at the Washington
Ideas Forum, where she told interviewer Andrea Mitchell that the
White House gave Clinton guidance forbidding her from using
private email. “Yes, there were. Yeah, absolutely,” Jarrett said
when asked if the White House sent guidance to Cabinet
secretaries about not using private email. “Obviously we want to
make sure that we preserve all government records, and so there
was guidance given that government business should be done on
government emails and that if you did use a private email that
it should be turned over.”
House Votes To Defund Planned Parenthood
Steve Watson - The House of Representatives has voted to defund
abortion giant Planned Parenthood for the second time in a
month. Representatives voted 241 to 185 for legislation that
would see the organization defunded, while the investigation
into the purported sale of aborted tissue and organs continues.
All in all, 238 Republicans and 3 Democrats voted for the bill,
which states that Planned Parenthood will be defunded should it
continue to carry out abortions.... The legislation also
outlines that funds will be diverted to other women’s health
clinics that do not carry out abortions.
Pelosi Stumped When Asked Whether Babies are Humans
Adan Salazar - Minority House leader Nancy Pelosi’s latest shill
for Planned Parenthood’s abortion industry, in the face of
illegal baby organ harvesting and trafficking allegations, came
suddenly when asked by a reporter if she regards a baby with a
liver and a heart as a “human being.” “In reference to funding
for Planned Parenthood: Is an unborn baby with a human heart and
a human liver a human being?” a reporter for CNS News asked
Pelosi at a press conference today. After squirming, the
Democrat leader, who was apparently unfamiliar with the
reporter, answers she would not be taking “ideological
questions,” and states the fact that she has five children meant
she somehow “know[s] more about this subject than you.” From CNS
News...
Fiorina: US Should Secure No-Fly Zone Around US Backed
Anti-Assad Rebels, ‘Be Prepared’ To Use Force (Video)
Breitbart - Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina
argued the US should “secure a no-fly zone around anti-Assad
rebel forces that we’re supporting” and “be prepared” to use
force against Russia if need be on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the
Fox News Channel.... "...Here’s what we need to do immediately,
I believe. First, not only can we not withdraw our air support,
but I believe we must tell the Russians that we will conduct —
we will secure a no-fly zone around anti-Assad rebel forces that
we’re supporting. This is a tricky maneuver, it’s a dangerous
maneuver, but it’s a maneuver that we must undertake, because we
must make it crystal clear to Russia that they do not get to
move into the Middle East, and become the dominant outside
power, which is clearly their intention.” When asked if these
means the US might use force against Russian aircraft, Fiorina
answered, “Well, hopefully not. hopefully, if we are signaling
clearly to the Russians our intention, it will not come to that.
But if it does come to that, I think we must be prepared.
Marco Rubio Fails To Support Single GOP Immigration Enforcement
Bill
Breitbart - The United States is being deluged with illegal
immigrants, spurred on by the hope of amnesty. In response,
conservative lawmakers have introduced a wide array of
legislative proposals to clamp down on illegal immigration.
...despite Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign rhetoric, the
presidential hopeful hasn’t cosponsored a single one of these
immigration enforcement proposals, nor introduced any of his own
in the two years since he was the very public face of the Gang
of Eight in the Senate.... Instead, while the Senator has left
his conservative colleagues’ enforcement proposals out to dry —
helping give space to Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell Rubio
has introduced and sponsored measures designed to expand
immigration into the United States.
Poll: Donald Trump Still Leads Presidential Field, Rubio Rises
to Second
A new YouGov/Economist poll of Republican voters shows that
Donald Trump is leading the presidential field, but that Sen.
Marco Rubio has jumped up into second place, followed closely by
Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson.... Here is how each candidate
fared in the recent poll...
CNN Alters Democratic Debate Criteria to Expand Stage, Allow
Last-Minute Biden...
Truth in Media - CNN has finalized the criteria for its October
13 Democratic presidential debate, allowing all three announced
low-polling candidates to face off against Hillary Clinton and
Bernie Sanders. The rules have also been adjusted in such a way
that potential candidate Joe Biden would qualify for the debate
even if he waited until the day of the event to announce his
candidacy.
"There Are Five Times More Claims On Dollars As Dollars In
Existence" - Why This Matters
Zero Hedge - According to the Fed, there is about $60 trillion
of US Dollar credit or claims for US dollars. Also according to
the Fed, there are about $12 trillion US dollars. So, the data
show plainly there are five times as many claims for US dollars
as US dollars in existence.... Not only is there not enough
money to repay outstanding debt; the widening gap between credit
and money is making it more difficult to service the debt and
more difficult for nominal US GDP to grow through further credit
extension and debt assumption... Principal and interest payments
cannot be made with widgets or labor, only dollars. This means
that future demand and output growth generated through more
credit issuance and debt assumption is self-defeating. In fact,
it adds to the problem.
If You Work Here, Quit Before You Are Fired: The 20 Largest US
Layoff Announcements Of 2015
Zero Hedge - For those eager to push aside the endless
government propaganda and concerned about the rapidly
deteriorating economy, here is a list of the Top 20 biggest
private-sector job cut announcements of 2015. Our advice: for
anyone who is still employed at any of the following
corporations, if you can find a job elsewhere (because the
"recovery" and all), do it before you too become a
seasonally-adjusted pink-slip.
No fracking way: Judge blocks Obama admin’s new energy
regulations
RT - The preliminary injunction was issued by Judge Scott
Skavdahl of the US District Court of Wyoming, who ruled that the
department responsible for the new fracking regulations, the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM), does not actually have the
authority to implement them. Congress has not authorized or
delegated to the BLM authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing
and, under our constitutional structure, it is only through
congressional action that the BLM can acquire this authority,”
the judge wrote in a 54-page decision. The BLM rules were
intended to govern fracking operations on federal land in order
to ensure that the oil and gas exploration process does not
contaminate water sources. They also required energy companies
to inform the public about what kind of chemicals they used
during their fracking operations.
Vets outraged: Hillary says it DISHONORS military to hold her
accountable for Benghazi
BizPac Review - Democratic presidential contender Hillary
Clinton took offense to remarks by House Majority Leader Kevin
McCarthy that the ongoing House select committee investigation
into the Benghazi attacks is hurting her campaign, and used
members of the U.S. military as political pawns in disparaging
the probe. Clinton appeared Wednesday on MSNBC’s
“PoliticsNation” and told host Al Sharpton that McCarthy’s
comment “demonstrates unequivocally that this was always meant
to be a partisan political exercise.” She then claimed the
pursuit for answers to why four Americans died in the attack is
somehow an affront not only to those who lost their lives, but
to all members of the military. “I feel like it does a grave
disservice and dishonors not just the memory of the four that we
lost, but of everybody who has served our country,” Clinton
said. But veterans weren’t buying the political spin that it’s
disrespectful to expect Clinton to answer for her role in
Benghazi.
Google exec: With robots in our brains, we'll be godlike
CNET - Futurist and Google exec Ray Kurzweil thinks that once we
have robotic implants, we'll be funnier, sexier and more loving.
Because that's what artificial intelligence can do for you....
He's predicted that humans will be hybrid robots by 2030....
Kurzweil has a truly, madly, deeply optimistic view of who we
will be when nanobots are implanted into our brains so we can
expand our intelligence by directly tapping into the
Internet.... Kurzweil insists, though, that this is the next
natural phase of our existence. "Evolution creates structures
and patterns that over time are more complicated, more
knowledgeable, more intelligent, more creative, more capable of
expressing higher sentiments like being loving," he said. "So
it's moving in the direction that God has been described as
having -- these qualities without limit."
Russian scientists make progress on secret of eternal life
The Siberian Times - Living bacteria found in permafrost - '3.5
million years old' - is 'scientific sensation' which allows
'mice grannies' to reproduce. Scientists have decoded the DNA of
a bacteria found thriving in ancient permafrost, and are now
seeking to understand the genes which provide its extraordinary
longevity. Work is also underway to study a so far unexplained
positive impact on living organisms, notably human blood cells,
mice, fruit flies, and crops. Professor Sergey Petrov, chief
researcher of Tyumen Scientific Centre, said: 'In all these
experiments, Bacillus F stimulated the growth and also
strengthened the immune system. ... 'Now we are focused on
experiments with the crops. The bacteria stimulates the growth
of crops, increases productivity.... 'In the laboratory we got
very good results. The bacteria not only stimulates growth, but
increases frost resistance. The seeds sprouted at a temperature
5C. It is very important in our Siberian harsh conditions, when
a sudden frost can come in May and even June.'
* Related:
Russian scientist admits injecting himself with 3.5 million year
old 'eternal life' bacteria
Green Tea Purchased from China Blamed for Teen Girl’s Hepatitis
Natural Society - A new report in the BMJ details the case of a
16-year-old young woman who purchased green tea from a Chinese
website in a bid to lose weight. Instead of just losing a few
pounds, though, the teen also temporarily lost her health.
...the doctors diagnosed her with hepatitis, a swelling or
inflammation of the liver. The disease can be caused by a virus,
or exposure to harmful substances, such as alcohol. The girl, a
native of Yemen, denied using alcohol, over-the-counter
medications, or illegal drugs.... When the doctors questioned
her again, she admitted she had purchased two boxes of green tea
online, each containing about 100 tea bags. She had been
drinking about 3 cups of the tea for a few months. Since most of
the ingredients were listed in Chinese, she had no idea what she
was drinking.... An ingredient in the tea, Camellia sinensis,
was determined to be the cause of the girl’s hepatitis.
Top 10 Toxic Fake Food Items Produced In China
Natural Blaze - Some Chinese websites have come out with
instructional videos on how to make $70 a day by producing and
selling fake eggs. The chemicals that are required are “Alginic
Acid, Potassium Alum, Gelatin, Calcium Chloride, water and
artificial color.” The eggshells are made from Calcium
Carbonate. Eating these eggs may cause memory-loss and
dementia....
The most overlooked cause of cancer in holistic medicine
(NaturalHealth365) Do you know that 80% of disease symptoms are
triggered by problems in the mouth? The vast majority of the
population has some form of gum disease, infected root
canal-treated teeth or other (undiagnosed) dangerous pathogens
inside the mouth – which cause chronic inflammation, heart
attacks and even cancer.... Several scientific studies clearly
suggest that gum disease increases the risk of heart disease and
stroke because of the high levels of bacteria found in infected
areas of the mouth. They actually find those same bacteria
logged around the heart. In addition, gingivitis increases the
risk of diabetes, kidney disease and premature births.... Dr.
Thomas Rau, medical director of the Paracelsus Klinik in
Switzerland, has stated that “98% of all women (in his clinic)
with breast cancer had a root canal on the meridian (or tooth)
that was related to the same side of the offending tumor.”
Take This 2-Ingredient Sleep Recipe To Never Wake Up Groggy
Again
Natural Blaze - We all know how important it is to get a good
night’s sleep, but in recent years, the average amount of sleep
we get has been steadily decreasing. In both men and women, the
average amount of sleep has dropped from 7-8 hours a night to
6-7 hours. While this might not seem like a big difference to
some, it makes a huge difference to your body. During the day,
your body is working hard to keep up with your day and it
requires the appropriate amount of time to rest, recover, and
recharge to do it all over again.
Chia Chunks Pet Treat Recipe : Craveable Superfood for Your Cat and Dog
Dr. Becker - Chia seeds are high in protein and contain an impressive
amount of plant-based omega-3 fats, or alpha-linolenic acid (ALA; chia
seeds are up to 40 percent oil, with 60 percent comprised of
omega-3).... Chia seeds are also rich in valuable amino acids,
antioxidants, fiber, and flavonoids, along with nutrients such as
calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, and niacin. Further, they're
a rich source of the phytochemicals myricetin, quercetin, and kaempferol,
which are known for their antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and
anti-cancer properties.... So even the sprinkling of seeds found in
these Chia Chunks treats will add meaningful nutrition to your pet's
diet. One caveat to be aware of… chia seeds take on a gelatinous texture
when they're mixed with water. This isn't an issue for this particular
recipe, since the seeds are kept dry and baked. However, if you mix chia
seeds with water or a wet pet food, be mindful when feeding it to your
pet (an overabundance of the seeds could potentially lead to choking).
Thursday
- October 1, 2015 -
Today in History:
1800 - Spain ceded the territory of Louisiana back to France. Later the
property would be purchased by the U.S. effectively doubling its size.
1885 - Special delivery mail service began in the United States. The
first routes were in West Virginia.
1890 - The U.S. Congress passed the McKinley Tariff Act. The act raised
tariffs to a record level.
1896 - Rural Free Delivery was established by the U.S. Post Office.
1908 - The Model T automobile was introduced by Henry Ford. The purchase
price of the car was $850.
1940 - The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened as the first toll superhighway
in the United States.
1943 - Naples was captured by the Allied forces during World War II.
1946 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg sentenced 12
Nazi officials to death. 7 others were sentenced to prison terms and
3 were acquitted.
1964 - The Free Speech Movement was started at the University of
California at Berkeley.
1972 - The Chinese government approved friendly relations with the
United States.
1979 - The United States handed control of the Canal Zone over to
Panama.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the Soviet presidency.
1989 - 7,000 East Germans were welcomed into West Germany after they
were allowed to leave by the communist government.
1990 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush addressed the U.N. General
Assembly and once again condemned Iraq's takeover of Kuwait.
1991 - U.S. President Bush condemned the military coup in Haiti that
removed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from power. U.S. economic and
military aid was suspended.
1992 - The Strategic Arm Reduction Treaty was approved by the U.S.
Senate.
1995 - Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine other defendants were convicted
in New York of conspiring to attack the U.S. through bombings,
kidnappings and assassinations.
1998 - The U.S. government posted a $2.2 million reward for the capture
of Augustin Vasquez Mendoza. He is accused of killing an undercover U.S.
agent during a drug purchase in 1994.
2001 - San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban
Internet filters designed to keep pornography away from children at city
libraries. The board left the decision up to the Library Commission to
decide whether to install filtering software in children's areas. A
federal law in the U.S. mandated the use of the filters.
2009 - In the United Arab Emirates, the exterior construction of the
Burj Khalifa skyscraper was completed.
Putin Says Russian Engagement in Syria ‘Temporary’
Sputnik News - Speaking at a meeting with cabinet members the
Russian president said the only way to fight international
terrorism in Syria was acting pre-emptively, destroying
terrorists in the areas they have already occupied. Russia’s
engagement in the Syrian military conflict is “temporary”,
president Vladimir Putin said Wednesday during a meeting with
cabinet members. “Russia is not planning to go headfirst into
the Syrian conflict”, he said. The only way to battle terrorism
is through pre-emption and by targeting occupied territories, he
is quoted as saying.”The only true way to combat international
terrorism — and those fighting in Syria and its neighboring
countries are just that, international terrorists — is through
pre-emption, and fighting and destroying insurgents in
territories that are already occupied, instead of waiting for
them to come to our house,” Putin said at a meeting with
government officials. The president noted that Russia believes
the fight against terrorism must be carried out in line with an
international plan.
8 ISIS targets hit during 20 combat flights in Syria –
Russian military
RT - Russia has struck eight Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) targets
in Syria, the country’s Defense Ministry said, adding that
"civilian infrastructure" was avoided during the operations.
“Today, Russian aerospace force jets delivered pinpoint strikes
on eight ISIS terror group targets in Syria. In total, 20
flights were made,” spokesperson for the Russian Defense
Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said. “As a result, arms and fuel
depots and military equipment were hit. ISIS coordination
centers in the mountains were totally destroyed,” he added.
Konashenkov said that all the flights took place after air
surveillance and careful verification of the data provided by
the Syrian military. He stressed that Russian jets did not
target any civilian infrastructure and avoided these
territories. “Russian jets did not use weapons on civilian
infrastructure or in its vicinity,” he said.
* Related:
Combat cam footage shows Russian planes hitting ISIS
targets
Russian anti-terror op in Syria Live updates
RT - The Russian military has launched airstrikes against
Islamic State militant targets in Syria. The move was approved
after a request from President Bashar Assad to Vladimir Putin,
who has also expressed concern about the number of Russian
extremists in the country.
Propaganda War Begins: Russia's Syria Strikes Targeted US-Backed
"Moderate" Rebels, West Says
Zero Hedge - With the US having officially lost control of the
narrative in Syria now that The Kremlin has called Washington’s
bluff on the battle to eradicate ISIS and eliminate the Sunni
extremist elements that threaten to wrest control of Syria from
President Bashar al-Assad, the only remaining question after
Russian lawmakers officially cleared the way for airstrikes was
how long it would be before the Western media began shouting
about Russian warplanes bombing targets that aren’t affiliated
with ISIS. As we reported earlier today, Moscow wasted no time
in launching its first round of air raids. In turn, the West
wasted no time in contending that Russia is targeting areas that
aren’t known to be strategically significant for ISIS. Here’s a
look at two headlines which do a nice job of summarizing all of
the rhetoric which you’re about to hear emanating ceaselessly
from every corner of the Western world in the coming days and
weeks...
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama "Ended
Two Wars"
The Intercept - Whatever else one wants to say about Iraq and
Afghanistan, one cannot honestly say that Obama ended the wars
in those countries. The U.S. continues to drop bombs on both,
deploys soldiers in both, kills civilians in both, and engages
in a wide range of overt and covert force, all without a shred
of Congressional approval.
‘Day of hope’: Abbas calls for full UN membership as Palestine
flag flies at HQ for 1st time (VIDEO)
RT - The flag of Palestine has been raised at the UN
headquarters, joining those of member states and marking a
“proud day” for all Palestinian people, according to President
Mahmoud Abbas, who addressed the General Assembly with a request
for a full membership. The Palestinian flag was raised at the
United Nations headquarters in New York in a symbolic gesture,
which the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called an “important”
one.... Hundreds of the world’s top politicians, diplomats and
journalists attended the ceremony, agreed upon by the UN General
Assembly earlier in September. However, the move was not
welcomed by Israel and the US, who voted against the resolution.
China Bought Gold With Proceeds From Record Sale Of US Treasurys
Zero Hedge - Overnight we got a second confirmation of China's
golden appetite, when the PBOC announced that China's official
gold holdings had risen again in August, increasing by 520,000
troy ounces, or 16.2 tons (which is more than 3 times the entire
registered gold inventory in the Comex vault system), and
bringing the new total to 54.5 million ounces, or 1,694 tons of
gold. In dollar terms, Chinese gold holdings rose from $59.2
billion at the end of July to $61.8 billion. The punchline: in a
month in which China sold a record $107 billion notional in
Treasurys, it had no qualms about rotating the sale proceeds
into gold. ... even as China is "buying" gold, it is still doing
so at half the pace of neighbor Russia, which as reported
several days ago added 1,000,000 ounces or about 31 tons in the
same month, bringing its total to 42.4 million ounces, or 78% of
China's holdings.
Slovenia and Serbia Give Green Light to GM Crop Bans
Sustainable Pulse - The Slovenian Government Committee for
Economic Affairs has allowed the country to send an official
request to the European Commission for the banning of GM crops.
The Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food will
now send an official request to ban the cultivation of eight GM
varieties to the European Commission before the deadline of 3
October 2015. Slovenian Agriculture Minister Dejan Zidan stated;
“…the government adopted the decision for a request for the
exclusion of the entire geographical territory of Slovenia for
GM maize to the EU, including the already registered variety MON
810 and seven other varieties which are in the process of
registration with the European Commission. This allows me to
formally to send the request as the Ministry of Agriculture in
accordance with the law for the exclusion of Slovenia with the
regards to the cultivation of GM maize.”
U.S. News, Politics & Government |
US Military Faces $38Bln Shortfall Covering Operational Costs
Sputnik News - The continuing financing of all US military
operations by continuing resolution and not through a proper
budget is generating a $38 billion deficit, US Defense Secretary
Ashton Carter said in a press briefing on Wednesday. President
Barack Obama has made clear he is prepared to veto the 2016
National Defense Authorization Act, a course of action Carter
said he supported, and that he had a recommended to the
president. "Making these kinds of cuts is dangerous for our
strategy and frankly its embarrassing in the eyes of the world.
The world has not stood still. Russia and China have enhanced
their capabilities." The US Department of Defense has had to
function under seven years off financing by continuing
resolutions, "eventually resulting in a $38 billion deficit," he
warned.
Invincible Saudi Prince: Kidnapped, Beat, Raped 3 Women in
Beverly Hills Compound, US Lets Him Go. Won't even release his
picture
BlackListed News - On the 23rd of September, a servant employed
at a Beverly Hills mansion compound saw a woman screaming for
help while desperately trying to climb the tall wall surrounding
the $37 million estate. She was bleeding and had just been raped
by 28 year old Saudi prince; Majed Abdulaziz al-Saud, the Times
reported. She was only the latest of his several victims, who
have now come forward. The servant who came to the brutalized
woman’s rescue lived and worked within the compound. The police
were called and the prince, who had been renting the mansion,
was arrested. The accused prince, a lower-ranking member of the
House of Saud, does not have diplomatic immunity and can thus be
legally tried for his crimes. He was set to appear in court on
October 19th. Yet, despite his status as a non-national and
being the very definition of a high flight risk, he was quickly
released by the Beverly Hills, California police on a $300,000
bail; a paltry sum for a prince. He has apparently now fled and
hasn’t been seen or heard from since.
Pentagon's Top Russian Military Official Resigns
Sputnik News - Evelyn Farkas, deputy assistant secretary of
defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, is leaving her post
after five years with the Defense Department, a senior defense
official confirmed to Politico. "She has advised three
secretaries of defense on Russia policy, providing steady
counsel on how the US should respond to Russia's aggressive
actions and has been deeply involved in securing $244 million in
support for Ukraine," the senior official said.... Farkas'
resignation comes at a time when President Barack Obama's
national security team is divided over how to respond to
Ukraine's requests for lethal aid in response to what Washington
believes is Russian aggression.
Kerry to Explain Syria Strategy to US Senate Foreign Relations
Committee
Sputnik News - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will
conduct a series of hearings over the next several weeks on the
US role and strategy in the Middle East, the statement noted.
"The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has requested Secretary
of State John Kerry testify next week to explain the
administration’s Syria strategy to Congress and the American
people," Corker, who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee,
stated on Wednesday. Corker claimed the failure to respond
effectively to the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II
caused by the conflict in Syria was blight on the United States
and the European Union member states.
Obama authorizes $20mn in 'non-lethal' military aid and training
for Ukraine regime
RT - One day after Ukraine announced that US instructors would
start training the country's special forces, President Obama has
authorized the provision of up to $20 million to Ukraine via the
State Department to fund training and other similar activities.
The announcement of additional funds allocated for the training
of Ukrainian troops follows a statement by President [sic] Petro
Poroshenko, who said that American instructors will start
training Ukrainian special-operations troops [war criminals]
this November. "We have agreed that the best US instructors will
finally start training the Ukrainian special forces, our
special-operations troops, starting from November," Poroshenko
said in New York after meeting representatives of the Ukrainian
diaspora living in the US.
New Patch for U.S. Troops Fighting ISIS… Looks Like ISIS Logo
Mac Slavo - Believe it or not, American soldiers fighting
against ISIS in Syria and Iraq will actually be wearing the
emblem of ISIS – the infamous crossed-swords logo. Well, almost.
Controversy has stirred because many think the patch looks too
much like our boys are fighting for the enemy… just another sign
of confusion about the counterproductive Obama-led war against
the notorious and shamefully exploitative jihadist army. The
Military Times noted that: “A combat patch worn by U.S. soldiers
who served in Iraq on the mission against Islamic State is
drawing flak from service members and veterans who say the patch
— with its palm wreath, stars and crossed scimitars — looks like
something the enemy would wear."
House Benghazi Committee Sets Record as Longest-Lasting Special
Congressional Investigation
AllGov - “The [Benghazi] committee has squandered the last 16
months and more than 4.5 million taxpayer dollars dredging up
political attacks to impact the 2016 presidential election—a
severe misuse of taxpayer funds..." said the committee's top
Democrat, Rep, Elijah Cummings. "The committee has turned into a
political punchline. Sadly, that comes at the expense of being
taken seriously and being able to take effective, bipartisan
actions to improve the security of our diplomats abroad.”
Planned Parenthood Pres: ‘We Do Not Have Mammogram Machines At
Our Health Centers’
Breitbart - Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards stated
“we do not have mammogram machines at our health centers” and
“if you need a mammogram, you’re referred to a radiological
clinic, and that’s what we do at Planned Parenthood” during
testimony before Congress on Tuesday.
VIDEO: Congress Passes Spending Plan Hours Before Shutdown
Deadline
Bloomberg - Congress passed a stopgap U.S. government spending
bill hours before a shutdown deadline Wednesday, a temporary win
that provides no road map for how deeply divided lawmakers will
handle their next must-do priorities. The 277-151 House vote,
after Senate passage earlier in the day, sends the measure to
President Barack Obama before current funding was due to expire
at midnight. Democrats helped House Republicans quash an effort
by conservative Republicans to remove funding for Planned
Parenthood from the bill... The spending measure provides only a
temporary solution by funding the government through Dec. 11,
when conservatives will another opportunity to try to defund
Planned Parenthood, the women’s reproductive health-care
service. Before then, Congress also must replenish federal
highway funding and raise the debt limit.
80% Of All New Home Buyers In Irvine Are
Chinese
Zero Hedge - "We are seeing more globalization as Southern California
has become a destination for international buyers," said Mark Hughes,
chief operating officer with First Team Real Estate, covering the
Southern California market. "Eighty percent of new construction in
Irvine last year was sold to Chinese buyers. International buyers are
driving home prices up and sometimes out of reach for many local
residents."
Obama’s EPA Warns Sunlight Dangerous to Plants
Mikael Thalen - The US Environmental Protection Agency warned against
the danger posed to plant life by “sunny days” Tuesday in a highly
criticized post on Twitter. As the Obama administration prepares to
finalize strict new rules regarding ground-level ozone this week, the
EPA has taken to social media to point out the scourge of sunlight on
foliage and trees.
“Think sunny days are good for plants? Not always,” the agency tweeted.
“Sunlight causes ozone to form, which harms foliage, weakens trees.” A
link sent out with the tweet, likely aimed at explaining the harmful
effects of sunlight on plant life, redirects users to a dead page on the
EPA website. Twitter users, noticing the absurdity in the EPA
highlighting the alleged danger of sunlight as the world faces numerous
legitimate environmental issues, mercilessly mocked the agency in
response.
Fairbanks, Alaska Sees Record September Daily Snow; Thousands Without
Power, Trees Downed
Weather.com - For the second time in less than a week, Fairbanks,
Alaska, was blanketed with heavy snow. This time, it was a
record-breaker. Officially, 11.2 inches of snow blanketed Fairbanks
International Airport Tuesday, setting an all-time September daily snow
record, previously 7.8 inches on Sep. 13, 1992. This also topped the
previous record for any 24-hour September snowfall of 9 inches in 1992,
according to Rick Thoman from the National Weather Service in Fairbanks.
Records in Fairbanks date to 1904. Golden Valley Electric Agency
reported an estimated 7,000-9,000 customers without power as of early
Wednesday morning in Fairbanks and in nearby areas. This was down from a
peak of about 13,000 customers Tuesday evening, or roughly 30 percent of
their total customers.... NWS-Fairbanks reported up to 17 inches of snow
had accumulated in the Fairbanks area as of early Wednesday morning,
with numerous reports of fallen trees.
Man builds house, then finds out cable Internet will cost
$117,000
Ars Technica - When Cole Marshall decided to buy an empty lot
and build a house, one of his top priorities was getting fast
and reliable Internet service. Marshall says he received
assurances from Charter, the local cable company, that he could
get Internet access to his home in Wisconsin. There was also a
promise of relatively fast DSL, with telco Frontier
Communications telling him it could provide 24Mbps download
speeds, he told Ars. As it turned out, neither company could
deliver. Once the house was built, Charter would only offer
service if he paid $117,000 to cover the cost of extending its
network to his new home. Frontier does provide DSL Internet, but
only at slower speeds of up to 3Mbps downstream and 1Mbps
upstream. Marshall, who works at home as a Web developer,
subscribed to Frontier and struggles with his Internet
connection daily.
Scientists to bypass brain damage by re-encoding memories
Science Daily - Researchers are testing a prosthesis that
translates short-term memories into longer-term ones, with the
potential to bypass damaged portions of the brain. Researchers
at USC and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have developed a
brain prosthesis that is designed to help individuals suffering
from memory loss. The prosthesis, which includes a small array
of electrodes implanted into the brain, has performed well in
laboratory testing in animals and is currently being evaluated
in human patients.
10 Smart Survival Strategies for the Woman Living Alone
Natural Blaze - Most preparedness information out there seems to
assume that everyone is part of a family with a mom, a dad,
three kids, and a dog. Or, if not that, an extended family that
includes brothers, uncles, and a grand-pappy. Somehow, the
picture presented always includes a man. The truth is, that is
not always the case; there are a lot of women alone out there
who are also preparing, and it often seems like they are left
out of the equations.
Attorney Suggests Suing U.S. Federal Government and Big
Pharma Regarding Vaccinations
Natural Blaze - James Robert Deal, JD, a Washington state
attorney, has considered horrendous vaccine damages caused and
suffered, the lack of informed consent, and that No entity under
the sun has the right or lawful authority to arrogate
[claim/appropriate/misappropriate] power unto itself to harm or
injure, sicken or infect, paralyze or kill the people of this
nation. Not only is such conduct by the state a serious breach
of the social contract, it represents a profound violation of
the public trust. Vaccination programs therefore break the
inviolable bond between the citizenry and the government.... In
Deal’s report he states: It is lazy language to say that
vaccines are “safe and effective”, because that implies that all
vaccines are safe and effective for all people. In fact, some
vaccines have done great harm. If you doubt this, read the
findings of the Vaccine Court, which has paid out around $3.0
billion to children for adverse reactions which admits were
caused by vaccines.
* Related:
Two-year-old Girl Is Found Dead 2 Days After
Vaccinations
Cuba Developed a $1 Lung Cancer Vaccine but We Can’t Have It
Natural Blaze - The vaccine works by limiting a patient’s
ability to produce a hormone called EGF. This hormone has been
shown to play a pivotal role in cell division and the growth of
malignant cells. As cancer is the result of cells dividing again
and again to create tumors, the vaccine reduces this growth by
halting EGF production, thereby stopping the tumor’s growth.
CimaVax EGF has been proven to work in at least two clinical
trials in Cuba, and the results have shown that the vaccine
improves survival rates in those who are suffering from the
later, usually terminal, stages of lung cancer.... Furthermore,
reported side-effects of the vaccine are mild, but nothing like
painful and debilitating conventional treatments such as
chemotherapy and radiation, which can kill the patient.
Incredibly, the vaccine only costs $1 to produce, and Cuba has
made it available for free to patients since 2011, despite the
fact that the island nation is a much poorer country than the
U.S. and the affluent West.
Most Americans Will Be Misdiagnosed at Least Once
Dr. Mercola - In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported
that up to 98,000 people die each year due to hospital mistakes.
A health advisory committee with IOM has built on this knowledge
in a new, yet equally concerning, report released in September
2015. Most people will suffer from at least one wrong or delayed
medical diagnosis during their lifetime, according to the latest
data. Americans experience about 12 million diagnostic errors a
year, the IOM report revealed. Conservatively, the report found
that 5 percent of US adults who seek outpatient care will
experience a diagnostic error. Further, such errors are thought
to contribute to 10 percent of patient deaths and 17 percent of
adverse events in hospitals. They're also the leading type of
paid medical malpractice claims and are nearly twice as likely
to have resulted in the patient's death compared to other
claims.... The National Patient Safety Foundation and the
Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine have a checklist you
can use to help ensure you get the correct diagnosis. It
includes recommendations such as...
31 Foods with Surprisingly More Sugar Than Doughnuts
Dr. Mercola - The American Heart Association and the World
Health Organization (WHO) recommend limiting your daily added
sugar intake to nine teaspoons (38 grams) for men and six
teaspoons (25 grams) for women. I strongly recommend limiting
your daily fructose intake to 25 grams or less from all sources,
including natural sources such as fruit — regardless of whether
you’re male or female. That equates to just over six teaspoons
of total sugar a day. The average American, however, consumes
around 20 teaspoons of added sugar a day, which is more than
three times my recommended amount.
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