Year: 2015

Natural Society – by Robert Harrington

Everyone knows that there is a big difference between edible mushrooms and the poisonous kind. Toxic mushrooms are certainly out there in the fields, but they have been identified over the years so that there is little chance of them being harvested by trained and experienced pickers. There are certainly ways anyone can tell which mushrooms are poisonous and which are safe to eat – read on to find out how.   Continue reading “How to Know Which Mushrooms Are Safe to Eat and Which Are Toxic”

SOTT – by PSY Blog

“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”

The quote above comes from the philosopher Bertrand Russell. Psychological research has now shown he was right.    Continue reading “Why The Incompetent Don’t Know They’re Incompetent”

Truth Dig – by Kasia Anderson

California’s water-challenged residents know what it’s like to deal with ecological trouble in their own backyards, so it was only fitting that the Golden State’s Gov. Jerry Brown did a little preaching Tuesday at the Vatican’s climate-focused meeting of mayors from around the world.

Brown got downright biblical in his remarks before an audience of some 60 concerned officials from such cities as Stockholm and San Francisco, as well as one eco-conscious Pope Francis, warning of dire consequences that are scripturally guaranteed if a global reform effort isn’t launched soon. Brown’s office later published his remarks:   Continue reading “California Gov. Jerry Brown at Vatican’s Climate Summit: ‘God Is Not Mocked’”

Sustainable Pulse

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the Russian Federation Code of Administrative Offences into law, including a new article establishing liability for the violation of mandatory requirements for the labeling of food products that contain GMOs.

Putin signed the new bill on the last day of 2014 TASS news agency reported.

The bill which was submitted by the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare (Rospotrebnadzor) imposes fines for vague or unclear labeling on food products containing genetically modified ingredients.   Continue reading “Russian President Putin Signs GMO Labeling Liability Law”

The New American – by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

The United Nations is waging a multi-pronged attack on the right to keep and bear arms and the forces of disarmament are marching to America.

Recently, a board of “government experts” approved a report on the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) to implement the group’s “Programme of Action on Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects (PoA).”   Continue reading “UN Aims to Trace the Transfer of All Guns and Ammo”

Cop Block – by  ERIC MCCOWAN

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Imagine that you just received the news that a loved one was hit and killed by a drunk driver. It’s probably the worst news that anyone could receive, unless of course the murderer is married to a sheriff’s deputy and will walk free.   When officers arrived at the scene of the deadly crash of June 17, they were quick to notice that the driver, Holly Gonyeau, smelled of booze and that her eyes were bloodshot and watery. During a sobriety test, it was revealed that her blood alcohol level was .087 and she admitted to taking Xanax.   Continue reading “Drunk Police SGT’s Wife Will Not Be Charged In Cyclist’s Death – Police Blame Cyclist Instead”

Keep Talking Greece

President of Greek Banks Association Louka Katseli appealed at the citiznes to return their money to the banks. “Banks are absolutely trustworthy,” Katseli told Mega TV “as guaranteed by the ECB and the Bank Association, but they would have been even more powerful if 40 billion euros had not been withdrawn in the last months.

Katseli, a former PASOK Minister, appealed to citizens to return their deposits  to the banks “now that the banks are open” after a three-week holiday and capital controls.   Continue reading “Banks Union appeals to Greeks to return their money to banks”

IB Times – by Cole Strangler

Truck drivers at the nation’s busiest port complex walked off their jobs Tuesday morning. The workers accused their bosses at Pacific 9 Transportation — one of several companies that haul cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, to shipping warehouses and major retail distribution centers — of misclassifying them as independent contractors instead of employees, thereby depriving them of benefits and higher pay.   Continue reading “Truckers At Ports Of Los Angeles, Long Beach Strike Again, Oppose Classification As Independent Contractors”

BATR – by James Hall

With the approval vote in the United Nation Security Council of the P5 + 1 Iranian agreement, a smorgasbord of eager trading partners claw themselves out of the woodwork. The liquid black gold rush is on. With the rescinding of sanctions put into motion, over time the wheels of commerce will be put back on track. No matter what the U.S. Congress does, the flood from international trade will start making deals with Iran.   Continue reading “Who benefits from the lifting of Iranian sanctions?”

Fox News

WASHINGTON –  A U.S. airstrike in Syria has killed a key figure in a dangerous al-Qaida offshoot, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Muhsin al-Fadhli was killed in a July 8 air attack while traveling in a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria, Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said in a statement. Davis did not further elaborate on the nature of the air strike, such as whether al-Fadhli was killed by a drone or a piloted aircraft.

Al-Fadhli was a leader of the Khorasan Group, a cadre of al-Qaida operatives who were sent from Pakistan to Syria to plot attacks on the West. Officials say the Khorasan Group is embedded in the al Nusra front, Syria’s al-Qaida affiliate.   Continue reading “Senior al Qaida figure, Muhsin al-Fadhli, killed in US airstrike in Syria, officials say”

Rock Creek Press – by WAYNE MADSEN/WAYNE MADSEN REPORT

The Navy released John McCain’s military record after a Freedom of Information Act request from the Associated Press. The record is packed with information on McCain’s medals and commendations but little else. The one thing that the McCain campaign does not want to see released is the record of McCain’s antics on board the USS Forestal in 1967. McCain was personally responsible for the deadliest fire in the history of the US Navy. That catastrophe, with 27 dead and over 100 wounded trumps McCain’s record as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.   Continue reading “Navy Releases McCain’s Records”

WND – by Sydney H. Schanberg

The Nation – John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.   Continue reading “McCain and POW Cover-Up”

KTVB – by Marco della Cava, USA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO — Don’t send your old clunker of a retro-mobile to the automotive junk yard just yet. It may be the safest machine on the road.In an article published Tuesday, Wired magazine reports on how it engaged two hackers to see if they could take control of a Jeep Cherokee from the comfort of their living room while writer Andy Greenberg sat nervously at the wheel while the SUV cruised the highway at 70 mph.   Continue reading “Hack of connected car raises alarm over driver safety”

Indian Country – by Gale Courey Toensing

Legislation to save an Apache sacred site from destruction by an international mining company got a helping hand recently when the National Trust for Historic Preservation included the land on its 2015 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Almost all of the places that make it onto the list are preserved.   Continue reading “Grijalva’s Save Oak Flat Bill Boosted by Historic Preservation Listing”

The Hill – by Stephen Boyd

The Apache are coming to Washington. They are coming to protect a public campground in Arizona known as Oak Flat, called in Apache, Chi’chil Bildagoteel. They come to repair the damage that was done back in December of the last Congress, when at the 11 ½ hour (literally, 11:30 at night before a vote the next day) a land exchange amendment was attached to a must pass National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which Congress enacted into law. This amendment (Section 3003 of the National Defense Authorization Act) would give Oak Flat to two huge multi-national mining companies (Rio Tinto of the UK and BHP Billiton of Australia). The law has devastating effects on the Apache and, by extension, on all other Native tribes and nations in the country.   Continue reading “The Apache are coming to DC”

Indian Country

Special trucks were hard at work vacuuming up an oil-emulsion spill the size of three football fields on July 19 as Nexen Energy apologized for the pipeline rupture that sent 1.3 million gallons of mixed sand, bitumen and water into the muskeg.

The spill, discovered on July 15 by a contractor, did not register on what the company had thought was a “fail-safe” high-tech detection system. Nor did the state-of-the-art construction—the brand-new pipeline was installed only last year—stand up to whatever caused it to burst and let loose the volume of two Olympic-sized swimming pools of muck.   Continue reading “‘Grossly Misinformed’: First Nations Want Answers to 1.3 Million Gallon Spill in Alberta”