Author: Paul

Prevent Disease- by MARCO TORRES

The list of government recommendations on healthy and unhealthy foods over the last several decades have been as reliable as trying to pick the right numbers on a lottery ticket. There are numerous examples of foods we were told not to consume, but are now at the top of grocery lists thanks to a savvy public who are no longer fooled by irresponsible recommendations based on corporate greed. We have become more informed on the downfalls of short-sighted advice from old-school nutritionists, who really had very little understanding of nutrition at all. Here are the top 5 things we now know are great for our health, but didn’t used to based on limited perspectives on food education.    Continue reading “5 Things We Were Always Told Not To Consume, Yet Are Fantastic For Our Health”

The Truth Seeker

After Iraq and Afghanistan, both of which ended without a clear-cut American victory, the U.S. has little stomach for yet another war. As happened in Vietnam, U.S. forces may look impressive on paper but they have yet to prove themselves on the field.

However, while its conventional military capabilities and will to exercise them may be in doubt there is one area of military power in which the U.S. is still pre-eminent. America’s nuclear strike capability is unquestionable and theoretically it could wipe Tehran off the map.   Continue reading “US “Too Weak” to Attack Iran: IRGC Commander”

I guess this explains the problems they had.

CNBC – by  Herb Weisbaum

The Raw Story – by Reuters

Florida’s own health insurance marketplace, long touted by Republican lawmakers as a free-market solution to providing affordable health coverage, is expected to launch as early as next week.

Six years in the making, Florida Health Choices will open for business with an inventory of products that cannot legally be marketed using the words insurance, coverage, benefits or premiums, according to Chief Executive Officer Rose Naff.

The brainchild of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio while he was a state legislative leader in 2008, Florida Health Choices has been held up by advocates as a better alternative to President Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act.   Continue reading “Florida set to launch its own limited insurance marketplace”

All Gov

Many of China’s wealthy are fleeing their home country and settling in the United States, where better schools and other opportunities await.

The 2012 Annual Report of Chinese International Migration shows immigration from China is growing, with most heading to the U.S. Nearly 90,000 Chinese became permanent U.S. residents in 2011.

The migration includes a significant number of rich Chinese. At least 25% of those worth more than $16 million have fled the country, and nearly half of this group (47%) is thinking of leaving, according to the report.    Continue reading “Rich Chinese Flee to United States…and Bring Their Money with Them”

Descrier

A man has died after falling from JP Morgan’s European headquarters in Canary Wharf, London.

Emergency services were called to 25 Bank Street at 8am this morning after reports of a man plunging from the 150m tall building and landing on the ninth floor roof.

The man, believed to be in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene, and the area has been cordoned off.    Continue reading “Man dies after fall from JP Morgan offices in Canary Wharf”

Pando Daily – by MARK AMES

“Pike will pay for this, you wait and see—we’ll destroy him for this.” —Mitchell Rogovin, CIA special counsel, 1976

Last month, former Congressman Otis Pike died, and no one seemed to notice or care. That’s scary, because Pike led the House’s most intensive and threatening hearings into US intelligence community abuses, far more radical and revealing than the better-known Church Committee’s Senate hearings that took place at the same time. That Pike could die today in total obscurity, during the peak of the Snowden NSA scandal, is, as they say, a “teachable moment” —one probably not lost on today’s already spineless political class.     Continue reading “The first congressman to battle the NSA is dead. No-one noticed, no-one cares.”

The Daily Sheeple – by Secrets of the Fed

The world’s first genetically modified humans have been created,

The disclosure that 30 healthy babies were born after a series of experiments in the United States provoked another furious debate about ethics.

So far, two of the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three ‘parents’.   Continue reading “World’s First GM Babies Born”

Common Dreams – by Jon Queally

Last week, more than 550 groups, representing tens of millions of individual members, signed a letter to members of Congress urging them to vote against a push by President Obama for ‘fast track’ authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a so-called “free trade” now under negotation between the U.S. and eleven other Pacific rim nations.

The week before that, another 50 groups launched an energized online campaign called StopFastTrack.com in order to kill the TPP agreement—dubbed “NAFTA on steroids”—that they say “threatens everything you care about: democracy, jobs, the environment, and the Internet.” Continue reading “As TPP Opposition Soars, Corporate Media Blackout Deafening”

The Guardian

The world’s No 2 lorry-maker Volvo will increase its job cuts to 4,400, more than double its original plan, after currency effects and the cost of launching new models muted a rise in quarterly earnings.

But Sweden‘s biggest private sector employer also unveiled a stronger-than-expected order intake in the fourth quarter on growth in North America.   Continue reading “Volvo doubles job cuts to 4,400”