Month: January 2015

Natural News – by Jennifer Lilley

In an effort to help consumers make smart food decisions and not be strong armed into choosing edibles produced by a select few shady mega-corporations like Monsanto, No Patents on Seeds! has made significant strides. The coalition made tremendous headway when they, along with Nunhems/Bayer CropScience, filed petitions against Monsanto regarding the GMO giant’s tomato patent. Ultimately, Monsanto’s patent was revoked by the European Patent Office (EPO) — not because the EPO initiated it, but because they agreed to Monsanto’s request to do so.⁽¹⁾

The reason for the patent not going through is, unfortunately, not much of a surprise. Continue reading “Monsanto’s fraudulent tomato patent revoked by patent office”

Natural Society – by Barbara Minton

The fabulous taste of bacon is more popular than ever. But if you are eating conventionally-produced bacon or other pork products, chances are great that you are consuming ractopamine, a livestock growth altering drug so dangerous that 160 countries around the world have banned its use.

Not the U.S. though, where this chemical additive has been given the green light by the FDA, in spite of the fact that it endangers livestock and farm workers as well as consumers.   Continue reading “Banned In 160 Nations, Why Is This Growth Hormone In U.S. Meat?”

Natural News – by Mike Adams

Never forget that treating disease in America is a high-profit business. Health care is one of the few situations in which the for-profit business providing services to a customer doesn’t need the customer (the patient) to agree to the price being charged. Instead, hospitals bill the federal government for services rendered to the patient, and the government sends the hospital a hefty check for each service rendered. The patient, meanwhile, never even knows how much was billed to the government.

This is half the reason doctors and hospitals now routinely order a battery of useless blood labs and medical tests on patients. It has nothing to do with medical need and everything to do with padding the Medicare bills.   Continue reading “US hospital kidnaps disabled teen patient for profit”

CBC

Police in Indiana have charged a couple after finding cellphone videos showing the woman’s 12-month-old daughter putting a handgun in her mouth.

Police in Evansville said they discovered the videos after a man, 19, was arrested for trying to sell a handgun to an undercover officer.

Police say the man and the girl’s mother, 22, can be heard encouraging the toddler to say “pow,” and that no one tried to stop her as she put the gun in her mouth.   Continue reading “Indiana couple charged after video shows tot putting gun in mouth”

The Guardian

American-led forces launched 19 air strikes against Islamic State (Isis) militants in Syria and Iraq, the US military said on Sunday.

Of the 10 air strikes in Syria, nine hit Isis targets near the town of Kobani on the Turkish border, a statement said. The other Syria strike hit an Isis position near Albu Kamal, close to Iraq.

The nine air strikes inside Iraq hit Isis forces near Arbil, Mosul, Sinjar and al Asad, the statement said. All the air strikes took place between Saturday morning and Sunday morning.   Continue reading “US-led forces launch air strikes against Isis targets in Syria and Iraq”

RT

About 20 protesters made their way onto the property of the former vice president’s Virginia home, where they protested the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

Activists from the anti-war group CODEPINK and Witness Against Torture, many of them wearing military-issued orange jumpsuits, broke through an iron gate surrounding the former vice president’s sprawling property in McLean, Virginia, and demonstrated on his front porch.   Continue reading “Anti-torture activists protest on Dick Cheney’s front porch, 2 arrested”

Mail.com

Investigators are probing the background of a suspect in a shooting spree in Moscow, Idaho, that left three people dead and another critically wounded.

A gunman opened fire Saturday at three separate locations in the western Idaho city, killing a victim at each site. John Lee, 29, the suspected attacker, was captured in the afternoon following a high-speed chase in nearby Washington state.   Continue reading “Suspect arrested after 3 killed in Idaho shooting spree”

Mail.com

TOMBALL, Texas (AP) — The father of a patient at a southeast Texas hospital who became distraught over his son’s condition surrendered without incident after about a four-hour standoff Saturday night in his son’s hospital room, authorities said.

Officials feared the man, whose name was not immediately disclosed, might be armed but officers did not find a weapon when he surrendered shortly before 11 p.m. CST, Harris County Sheriff’s Lt. Joe Ambriz said.    Continue reading “Sheriff’s office: Man at Texas hospital has surrendered”

Free North Carolina

In early 1850 Northern Ultras like Wendell Phillips trumpeted that “we are disunionists,” and Horace Mann admitted that Northern intransigence would produce a Southern rebellion against outrage and oppression. Daniel Webster could only produce useless Union speeches which had little effect upon Northern radicals who wanted revolution.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com   Continue reading “Revolution And The Law Of Necessity”

Zero Hedge

Submitted by Ron Paul via The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,

If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize and resist this development, freedom and prosperity for all Americans will continue to deteriorate. All liberties in America today are under siege.

It didn’t happen overnight. It took many years of neglect for our liberties to be given away so casually for a promise of security from the politicians. The tragic part is that the more security was promised — physical and economic — the less liberty was protected.   Continue reading “Ron Paul: “Reality Is Now Setting In For America… It Was All Based On Lies & Ignorance””

KMJ Now

The American Farm Bureau Federation – along with more than 30 other agricultural organizations, including the American Soybean Association and National Corn Growers Association, announced the formation of the U.S. Agriculture Coalition for Cuba.

This coalition would work with Congress and President Obama to bring full normalization of trade relations between the two nations so American business would have the same access to Cuban markets as many other countries.   Continue reading “Ag Organizations Join Together, Create Coalition for Cuba”

ProPublica – by Michael Grabell

A state judge has ordered the New York City Police Department to release records on a secretive program that uses unmarked vans equipped with X-ray machines to detect bombs.

The ruling follows a nearly three-year legal battle by ProPublica, which had requested police reports, training materials, contracts and any health and safety tests on the vans under the state’s Freedom of Information Law.    Continue reading “Judge Orders NYPD to Release Records on X-ray Vans”

Raw Story – by TOM BOGGIONI

A father  described as “distraught” is in a stand-off with police a hospital near Houston, reports KHOU.

Earlier Harris County Sheriff’s Office reported it believed the man was holding at least two people hostage inside the Tomball Regional Medical Center.

According to  Detective Jimmy Harral of the Tomball Police Department, there are no hostages and that the man has not made any threats or demands.   Continue reading “‘Distraught’ father in stand-off with police at Houston-area hospital”