Month: March 2015

The Economic Collapse – by Michael Snyder

The average American spends more than 10 hours a day using an electronic device.  And most of that activity is not even interactive.  The vast majority of the time we are just passively absorbing content that someone else has created.  This very much reminds me of the movie “the Matrix”, but with a twist.  Instead of humans being forcefully connected to “the Matrix”, we are all willingly connecting ourselves to it.  There is a giant system that defines our reality for us, and the length of time that the average American spends connected to it just continues to keep growing.  In fact, there are millions upon millions of us that simply do not “feel right” unless there is at least something on in the background.   Continue reading “How Much Time Do Americans Spend Plugged Into The Matrix Every Day?”

Look Within – by Russ Curran

A few months ago, I spoke with a traditional oncologist about laetrile (aka vitamin B17 and amygdalin), which is found in the pits of peaches and apricots, apple seeds, and many other plants and grasses. Despite the fact that the oncologist is really an “outside the box” type thinker, he still believed that the studies have shown laetrile to be ineffective at treating cancer, citing specifically the “California Report” of 1953. Nothing could be further from the truth.   Continue reading “Natural Cures For Cancer From An Apricot Seed?”

RT

DNA from antibiotic-resistant bacteria is spreading from cattle feedlots across the US through the air, a new study has found. The report indicates that so-called superbugs threatening humans could be traced to the use of antibiotics in cattle feed.

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial DNA is known to be transferable to humans if ingested via water or meat. The authors of the study sought to determine the extent to which antibiotics, antibiotic-resistance genes and microbes associated with ruminants like cattle are dispersed into the air via particulate matter derived from large scale beef cattle feedyards, they wrote in their abstract. The paper is set to be published in April.   Continue reading “Use of antibiotics in cattle feed leads to airborne antibiotic-resistant bacteria – study”

CBC

Canadian fighter jets will soon be launching airstrikes in Syria now that the House of Commons has approved the federal government’s plan to expand and extend its military mission in Iraq.​

Federal MPs voted 142-129 in favour of a motion extending the mission for up to a full year and authorizing bombing runs in Syria against targets belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.   Continue reading “ISIS mission: Canadian airstrikes on Syria could come within days”

Breitbart – by  William Bigelow

The U.S. Supreme Court, prompted by the May 5, 2010 incident at Live Oak High School near San Jose where several students were punished after they wore shirts emblazoned with the American flag on Cinco de Mayo, may institute new standards for free speech.

On Cinco de Mayo 2009, Mexican-American students at the school raised a Mexican flag and marched around the campus, some white students responded by chanting, “USA! USA!” The white students answered one year later with the shirts adorned by American flags; the Mexican-American students then called them racists and protested to Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez.   Continue reading “Supreme Court May Hear Case on Banning US flag on Cinco de Mayo”

Breitbart

NEW YORK (AP) — A mentally ill British man pleaded guilty Monday to U.S. charges he plotted to set up an al-Qaida training camp on a ranch in a remote part of Oregon that was likened to Afghanistan.

Haroon Aswat admitted he traveled to Bly, Oregon, in 1999 at the direction of Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, a double-amputee and radical cleric based in London. His orders were to help train recruits “who wanted to participate in jihad on behalf of a terrorist organization,” he said in a barely audible voice at the sentencing in federal court in Manhattan.   Continue reading “Briton Pleads Guilty to Plans for Jihadist Training Camp in Rural Oregon”

Forbes – by Richard Eisenberg

The AARP Public Policy Institute just released a survey of 2,492 people ages 45 to 70 who’d been unemployed at some point during the past five years. Its chief finding: Many are now back at work, but about half of them (48%) are earning less than they did in their former jobs.

“A lot of them are in their pre-retirement years, when their earnings are supposed to be the highest in their lives,” Lori Trawinski, Director of Banking and Finance at the AARP Public Policy Institute and one of the report’s authors, said at the American Society on Aging’s annual conference I attended in Chicago last week.   Continue reading “Older Job Seekers: You’re Hired (For Less)”

Denver Post – by Yesenia Robles

Colorado policies around teaching non-English speakers should include teacher preparation requirements and funding for pre-school aged English learners, according to a report released Tuesday by the Education Commission of the States.

The report, the ECS and National Experts Examine: State-level English language learner policies, outlined recommendations for state and federal policies.   Continue reading “New report suggests more teacher preparation for English learners”

Washington Examiner – by Sean Higgins

The federal government has signed agreements with three foreign countries — Mexico, Ecuador and the Philippines — to establish outreach programs to teach immigrants their rights to engage in labor organizing in the U.S.

The agreements do not distinguish between those who entered legally or illegally. They are part of a broader effort by the National Labor Relations Board to get immigrants involved in union activism.   Continue reading “U.S. signed agreement with Mexico to teach immigrants to unionize”

The Telegraph – by Con Coughlin and Ben Farmer

Continue reading “Intelligence agencies in ‘technology arms race’”

KMJ NOW – by Aaron Abeytia

FRESNO, Calif. (KMJ) — 12 California public officials have acknowledged using personal e-mail accounts, to conduct government business.

That’s according to the AP, who surveyed 4 legislative leaders, and 8 top officials.   Continue reading “CA Officials Use Personal E-Mail for Government Business”

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The Atlantic – by James Hamblin

Thirty-one million IQ points. That’s what Dr. David Bellinger determined Americans have collectively forfeited as a result of exposure to lead, mercury, and organophosphate pesticides. In a 2012 paper published by the National Institutes of Health, Bellinger, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, compared intelligence quotients among children whose mothers had been exposed to these neurotoxins while pregnant to those who had not. Bellinger calculates a total loss of 16.9 million IQ points due to exposure to organophosphates, the most common pesticides used in agriculture.   Continue reading “The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains”

Reuters

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a U.S. television interview that Islamic State, which has seized swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq, has been gaining recruits since the start of U.S.-led air strikes against the militant group.

Asked how much benefit he was getting from the strikes in Syria that began last September, Assad told CBS’ “60 Minutes: “Sometimes you could have local benefit but in general if you want to talk in terms of ISIS, actually ISIS has expanded since the beginning of the strikes.”   Continue reading “Syria’s Assad says Islamic State has expanded since start of U.S. air strikes”

Common Dreams – by Sarah Lazare

How do you calculate the human costs of the U.S.-led War on Terror?

On the 12th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, groups of physicians attempted to arrive at a partial answer to this question by counting the dead.   Continue reading “Body Count Report Reveals At Least 1.3 Million Lives Lost To US-Led War On Terror”