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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

27 November - News Notes

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WikiLeaks wins major journalism award in Australia

Another Raw Milk Dairy E. coli Outbreak in Washington and a bad month for Raw Milk
Over Thanksgiving week, Cozy Vale Creamery’s raw milk products were recalled because they were linked to three E. coli O157:H7 illnesses and after environmental swabbing at the facility discovered that locations in the milking parlor and processing areas were contaminated with the E. coli O157:H7 bacteria.  At least two of those cases were children who developed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome.  Cozy Vale Creamery’s whole and skim milk and cream were distributed through...
Source: Marler Blog
Published: 2011-11-27 20:58:01 GMT
( Tracking disease instead of immune dysfunction. Time was e coli tests were used to track sanitation shortfall rather than actual cause of illness...as they are normal in the gut  ) 

Welcome to my Yurt
millennia after the Greek historian Herodotus described the Scythians camping out in them, the yurt’s time has come in the West, where they’re now big business. 
It’s no surprise that a portable home you can throw up and pull down in hours, and which is cheap—a year-round yurt doesn’t have to cost much more than $15,000—has an anti-establishment following. Many municipalities don’t even regard them as permanent dwellings, meaning they fly beneath the requirements of building codes even while some house families full-time. If regulation does exist, some just don’t care: “They just throw their yurt up and say, ‘It’s my land, this is a tent—that’s it, that’s all,’

 

Low vitamin D linked to heart disease, death

"We expected to see that there was a relationship between heart disease and vitamin D deficiency; we were surprised at how strong it was," Dr. James L. Vacek, a professor of cardiology at the University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center, told Reuters Health.
"It was so much more profound than we expected."
Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to a range of illnesses, but few studies have demonstrated the reverse -- that supplements could prevent those outcomes.

The demise of quality content on the web

In which it is discovered SEO kills worthwhile content


Michael Rose  


Thai monsoon devastation revealed


Why it pays big to support small business

A 'More Dangerous' Tear Gas Emerges in Tahrir Square
www.readersupportednews.org
Egyptian security forces are believed to be using a powerful incapacitating gas against civilian protesters in Tahrir Square following multiple cases of unconsciousness and epileptic-like convulsions among those exposed.' Peter Beaumont, John Domokos, Guardian UK
 
Charge your electric car on the move
a set of resonant coils and discs could transfer about 10 kilowatts with a 97 per cent efficiency within 7 microseconds - fast enough for the highway. The system, which the group has yet to build, should be safe because power can only be transferred between two objects whose resonance is very closely attuned.
 

1 in 4 women cannot possibly need mental health drugs

 
One Bad-Ass Eskimo, Part 2
www.readersupportednews.org
In Part 1, journalist Greg Palast meets Etok, 'the unofficial and at times the official sovereign of this polar territory,' of Northern Alaska, who's waging battle against brutal multinational corporate forces. Part II starts off with Palast flying off to 'Dead Horse' - land taken over by the oil in...
Institute for Responsible Technology
If you live in California and would like to be a part of getting GMOs labeled in the United States and making history - please get trained to gather signatures! Check out the No. and So. CA events list for all of the trainings.
Southern California List
www.labelgmos.org
Help ensure the safety of food for California families and children. Let's get labeling of genetically modified foods on the Ballot for 2012.

The Canadian National Newspaper: Colorado city bans growing of GMO Crops
www.agoracosmopolitan.com
‎(Mercola.com) -- Two advisory committees creating management plans for cropland owned by Boulder County have voted to phase out the use of genetically modified crops on open space. The policy calls for the county to create a plan for transitioning away from genetically modified organisms in an econo...
 
Institute for Responsible Technology
Powerful image about the GE threat in our food. -Michelle
GMO's: It's Hard To Find Real Food
www.visualnews.com
You've seen it in films like Food Inc., King Corn and The World According to Monsanto: an estimated 70% of food sold in the supermarket contains geneti
 
http://www.pressherald.com/life/maine-farmer-heads-group-challenging-genetics-giant_2011-11-09.html
Maine farmer heads group challenging genetics giant | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Teleg
www.pressherald.com
A fight to maintain consumer choice and farm independence has landed Maine farmer Jim Gerritsen on Utne Reader's list of
 
Urban Coffee Tribe ‎15 years of world wide chemtrailing has poisoned the soil and our trees are now dying, but lo and behold, the biotech industry is there to genetically modify trees. They envision a forest where there are no insects, no birds, no animals, no life....a silent forest of GMO trees that are made to grow fast and produce extra cellulose to put in your food.November 16 at 11:22am · · 1
 
Pambazuka - On seeds: Controlling the first link in the food-chain
pambazuka.org
Through the voices of the peoples of Africa and the global South, Pambazuka Press and Pambazuka News disseminate analysis and debate on the struggle for freedom and justice.
 
MPS query Biosafety and Biotechnology Bill
www.newvision.co.ug
A Government plan to pass the Bio-safety and Bio-technology Bill without farmers input will hurt the incomes of farmers, Members of Parliament and Civil Society Organisations disclosed.
 
Mohamed Saad Katatni: 'Not a religious party'

 Muslim Brotherhood Egypt
 
 
Quinnipiac Poll Poses Factually Inaccurate Questions Assuming Iran Has A Nuke Weapons Program
thinkprogress.org
The press release for Quinnipiac University’s National Poll leads with the findings that “American voters say Iran sanctions aren’t working. … 50 percent say bomb Iran if sanctions don’t work.” But an examination of the polling questions reveals some surprising bias and outright misstatement of fact...
 
The FBI Announces Gangs Have Infiltrated Every Branch of the... - Care2 News Network
John posted a comment in the Care2 News Network.
""The abuses happen in these countries the US are deployed too" It would be as accurate to say the deployments are associated with abuses. You should recognize that for all the fine talk about 'polic..."
 
The Gulf Oil Spill: the Other Shoe Dropping - Care2 News Network
John posted a comment in the Care2 News Network.
"Not to argue Obama isn't a liar....why would you put this just on him ? Deepwater drilling resource depletion taxes were chopped under Bush/Cheney. The incentive to take ridiculous risks is still ther..."
 
John Farnham commented on GlobalPost.
‎"undermining or manipulating of the enemy's ability to gather information."
'Enemy' pretty well defines U.S. outlook on the world. When all you see are self-chosen 'enemies' you have to wonder at the presumption of saying that you are 'working towards peace.' Rather....you don't satisfy the preconditions for attaining it.
CIA spies caught in Iran, Lebanon: report
www.globalpost.com
CIA spies were reportedly caught in Iran and Lebanon.
 
 
 Fordham Law Students for Reproductive Justice
 
 
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Friday, September 9, 2011

9 September - Evidence of Bias

An aerial view of the UBC campus.Image via Wikipedia

Psychology: "Why Can't Men Love Like Women?"

"I was having one of "he can't connect emotionally" conversations. A friend was telling me about her relationship angst over his inability to understand her needs and to talk about his. Even though I'm in research and not therapy, as a psychologist, I get that a lot. As I listened, a question occurred to me: is she confusing love with the expression of love? In so doing, was she subjecting her perfectly warm and loving significant other to a test he was bound to fail?

Maybe... men just love differently. 

Chet Raymo, “Is Economics a Science?”

I have been reading Naomi Klein's explosive critique of global economics, The Shock Doctrine. What I know about economics I could write on the back of a postage stamp, but I know greed when I see it, and whatever the merits of her arguments, greed is on full display.

"What Exxon's Deal With Russia Really Means" 

Exploration will be performed under complicated ice conditions, with temperatures as low as minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The ice pack and icebergs threaten drilling rigs and crews, and if an oil spill occurred in the winter, any cleanup efforts would take place in the dark. Even under better conditions, "cleanup" is a misnomer, since there is no reliable way to clean up oil. The most recent test of oil spill cleanup capability in the Alaskan Arctic was in 2000 and was described as a failure by NOAA since oil skimmers and booms in icy conditions simply don't work. 

Novel method for increasing antibiotic yields

....controlled and stable amplification of antibiotic gene clusters might be possible, and that if it was, it would be a valuable tool for engineering high yielding commercial strains of bacteria

In research to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Prof Bibb and colleagues Dr Takeshi Murakami and Prof Charles Thompson, working at the University of British Columbia, together with the same Japanese pharmaceutical laboratory, describe a system for the targeted amplification of gene clusters. The researchers were able to engineer these components into genetic 'cassettes' and then insert these into another strain of Streptomyces. They successfully used the system to make Streptomyces coelicolor overproduce actinorhodin, a blue-pigmented antibiotic. They believe the system will work equally as well for many other Streptomyces strains and antibiotics, and have also shown that it functions in an unrelated bacterium, Escherichia coli. 

Native Lands Ruling Opens Up New Questions

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice in mid-August ruled that the province, which has offered companies logging and mining rights in the past, cannot infringe on the traditional hunting and fishing privileges of the Grassy Narrows First Nation promised under an 1873 federal treaty. 


Alliance for Natural Health

A New Federal Vaccine Plan—and a Bad State Bill

The US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has unveiled a new roadmap for increased vaccination and immunization for the 21st century, the National Vaccine Plan or NVP. It calls for new vaccines, at a time when children already get far too many vaccinations, especially when given all at once and at too young an age.

Why are the vaccines piled on top of each other in one doctor visit? Because the medical establishment is afraid to ask parents to bring their children back over and over again. So for reasons of “compliance” and “convenience” the child’s immune system  is assaulted all at once.

As we have pointed out, HHS would have more credibility if the government had not entered the vaccine business itself as a partner of major drug companies. Much of the funding for new vaccine facilities as well as new vaccines  is coming from the government itself; the government then legally requires parents to “consume” more and more of these products for their children.

This is a bailout for the drug industry, which is  financially ailing at the moment. It is crony capitalism at its worst, and it directly affects the most vulnerable population of all, our children.
Despite the claim that vaccines are “generally safe,” even the IOM found convincing evidence of fainting, fever-triggered seizures, anaphylactic shock, a rare form of brain inflammation, shingles, pneumonia, hepatitis, meningitis, or, in the case of the chicken pox vaccine, chicken pox! There is no mention in the report of mercury in the flu vaccines, even in children’s shots or nasal inoculations, or the evidence that some vaccines do more harm than good. 

 

Readers’ Corner: Should We Really Want Supplement Oversight Out of FDA?

Would creating a new federal agency just for supplements make things better or worse?
Click here to learn more »

Details on Our September 8 Call-In Lobbying Day

We need to convince Congress to review the FDA’s absurd claims and stand against the draft NDI (supplement) guidance. Please join us in this nationwide campaign!
Click here to learn more »

Crony Capitalist Pediatricians?

Maybe they’re so caught up in the system that they just can’t imagine the best remedies sometimes only cost pennies.
Click here to learn more »

Organic Versus Genetically Engineered Crops: Some Rays of Light

Recent court decisions may help. Plus, new research shows how dangerous Monsanto’s GMOs really are.
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The Underreported Story: The debt supercommittee's lobbying ties

Perry, Bachmann and spiritual war

dominionism takes the view that it is an obligation for Christians to rule and reclaim the world for Christ, not just in the realm of the church but in the realm of the state, as well, in a system based on Biblical law. Unlike traditional evangelicalism, which places the emphasis on salvation through individual conversion, dominionism emphasizes the creation of a state governed by Christian law and pits believers against non-believers in a struggle for control of society

( Aspiring to Theocracy...which is what had Jesus killed ) 

The Department of Education vs. Matt Damon

In July, actor Matt Damon spoke at the "Save Our Schools" rally, criticizing education policy and defending teachers. He also got into an exchange with a reporter that quickly went viral online.

The "Save Our Schools" Million Teacher March that took place in July was a response by teachers to the No Child Left Behind era of education policy.

The brainchild of the Bush administration, NCLB focuses education policy on standardized test scores. All schools are required to meet proficient standards by the 2013-2014 school year and also must demonstrate adequate yearly progress or face consequences, up to closing the school or turning it over to private management.

The emphasis on test scores has had a number of unintended consequences. The curriculum has narrowed, with schools cutting time spent on history, art, languages, music and other subjects not covered by the tests and putting pressure on teachers to teach to the test. Teachers in high-poverty schools or who teach disadvantaged populations face consequence for low test scores, despite facing daunting challenges.

Those in favor of NCLB and similar reforms view it as a concrete way of measuring educational progress, with one set of standards that schools and teachers must meet to be considered acceptable. They also point to performance-based evaluation as a motivating factor. The argument goes something like this: If teacher pay isn't based on performance, there's no reason for teachers to work harder. Proponents also argue that teacher pay isn't as low as it seems, citing the hours of the school day and the length of the school year for students, while glossing over the additional, unpaid hours that teachers spend preparing lessons, grading, and providing additional support to students.

While standardized test scores can provide a useful bit of data when evaluating school performance, there are also limitations to what they can measure.

Plausible sounding speculation of motive which alleges inability of planners to foresee results...rather like 'foreign policy'  apologies ...or stories about 'stupidity' or 'weakness' in politics. I call bull.
  
Interpol adds Gaddafi to most wanted list
( Yet Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld walk free - not to mention ex Attorneys General...or Congress ) 
Legal double standards: Itamar and Awarta
US detention policy: Exposing the dark side
9/11 and its great transformations  
After 9/11 we lost our way, but buried beneath many wrong turns is a character that has been redeemed in the past. 
Tony_42 1 day ago
The terrorists have won. The US has become a "security state" and is bankrupting itself because of it. Democracy has turned to corporate fascism. Ironically, Afghanistan is the straw that broke the back of yet another empire. Sadly, my once great country Canada, a country that stood for peace, has been dragged down the same path with a Conservative government, the jails, jets and Jesus party, that uses fear and paranoia to manipulate our population into serving corporate interests above all else.

 Suppression of one's own crimes is virtually ubiquitous among powerful states, at least those that are not defeated.
On May 1, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a team of elite US commandos, Navy SEALs, after he was captured, unarmed and undefended, in Operation Geronimo.


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Erdogan: Turkish navy to protect Gaza aid
 

The US media has been downplaying a radical Christian theology that is increasingly influential in the Republican Party.
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

7 July - Morning News Picks

Model of successive binary fission in E. coliImage via Wikipedia

Concealed Weapons Against the Environment

Hat Tip  PEW

House Republicans embarked last week on a broad assault on the nation’s environmental laws, using as their weapon the 2012 spending bill for the Interior Department and the Environmental Protection Agency. When debate began Monday, the bill included an astonishing 39 anti-environmental riders — so called because they ride along on appropriations bills even though they have nothing to do with spending and are designed to change policy, in this case disastrously.

ALEC Exposed: Warming Up to Climate Change

polluting industries and the politicians that serve them want to convince you that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is actually a good thing.

( which should go to show that co2 rise is too weak a hook to act on - at the same time that an international tax on the use of fire is too strong; especially as an enticement to fraud and globalization )

Why Is The Monterey Bay Aquarium Greenwashing Sewage Sludge?

Back view of Monterey Bay Aquarium.Image via Wikipedia
Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Cooking for Solutions, which those who attend say is spectacular, has a new sponsor this year: Kellogg Garden Products. Yes, that Kellogg Garden Products. The very same company that has contaminated “organic” school gardens in Los Angeles with sewage sludge. The company’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Kathy Kellogg Johnson, has a knack for befriending “green” organizations and using them to promote her toxic, misleadingly labeled products to unsuspecting gardeners. In this case, she’s listed as a “Silver Sponsor.” How much did her company pay to give her such a nice platform, sitting on a panel with Grist’s sustainable food writer Tom Philpott and telling an all-media audience about the sustainability of Kellogg Garden Products

 Marler Blog

Louisiana 'Eat Safe' program goes online Monday

Matthew Sigur of the Alexandria Louisiana Towntalk and I spoke a few weeks ago about the article “Louisiana to post results of restaurant inspections,” that goes live Monday, along with online inspections.

 ( Think that will be more credible than 'disappeared' oil and Corexit in the Gulf ? The problem is more complex than 'bad sanitation practices'. 

They can 'inspect' product until they are blue in the face - and wrong design parameters will continue to make a mockery of a 'system'  designed to poison its way to health. Right from Square One, industrial sponsored laws work against organic and natural practices to give large operations market monopoly. Fear of germs is the meme used to excuse lack of nutrition while generating whole new kinds of challenges to immune response inhibited people.
It's a 'two- fer.'
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/07/corporate-farming.html
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2010/12/real-winner-in-iraq-is-monsanto.html
http://oldephartte.livejournal.com/4649.html ( vaccines ) 

*Chemtrail Health Effects on Humans and Environment

*This is fairly new to me - and the title is liable to scare many off. Yet it is more comprehensive an overview than anything else I have yet to see. Dr. John v. Kampen was 'stunned' that he hadn't heard of the speaker.

 
It's hard to understand how absolutely wrong headed our perceptions are - 'educated' to ignorance.  )

36 Million Pounds of Cargill Turkey Recalled as Budget Cuts Weaken Oversight of Food Safety

The Salmonella outbreak involves a strain of the bacteria known as Salmonella Heidelberg, which is resistant to many commonly prescribed antibiotics

MRSA infections are common among people who have weak immune systems and are in hospitals, nursing homes, and other heath care centers.  

    20 most impressive science fair projects of all time

    Nuclear Fusion Reactor — Thiago Olsen

    Diesel Hybrid Car — West Philadelphia High School

    Chemical-Sniffing LEGO Robot — Anna Simpson 

    Reducing CO2 Emissions — Jun Bing and Alec Wang
     Plastic-Eating Microbe — Daniel Burd
    Space Exploration Balloon — IES La Bisbal School
    Cancer And Chicken Marinades — Lauren Hodge
    Image-Based Search Engine — David Liu  

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    Saturday, July 2, 2011

    2 July - Blogs I'm Following II

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