imageNatural News – by Long Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq.

Notwithstanding the best efforts of the Biotech Industry to stop GMO labeling at the state level, the GMO label movement in support of the peoples’ right to know what is in our food is rapidly growing across the country.  Monsanto and company have to date, successfully expended millions of dollars to fight against GMO labeling on a state by state basis.  However, even a blind man can see that the “tide has changed” and GMO labeling is virtually inevitable.   Continue reading “Federal Law Proposed To Override States From Passing GMO Label Laws”

The Lyrid meteor shower peak dates for 2014. (Photo courtesy NASA.)East Cobb Patch – by Todd Richissin

Winter was long and tough enough with so much cold and snow, but for star-gazers it was even longer with the absence of much significant activity in the sky.

Now, though, comes the Lyrid meteor shower 2014 peak dates, April 21 and 22, with a sneak preview already underway.   Continue reading “Lyrid Meteor Shower 2014 Peak Dates: Look! Up In The Sky!”

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - APRIL 1: Traffic on Highway 101 slows down in a heavy rainstorm near the Golden Gate Bridge on April 1, 2014, in San Francisco, California. San Francisco continues to be a major global tourist destination and has experienced a real estate and high-tech boom in recent years. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)Accuweather

A potent area of low pressure moving into the West will dictate the weather from Washington to Texas heading into the new week.

The biggest impacts will be felt on Tuesday and Wednesday as the system delivers rain, snow, howling winds and severe thunderstorms to different portions of the West.

Folks in the Northwest and the Rockies will want to keep their umbrellas handy both days as the slow-moving system spreads rain across the regions with some showers even dipping down into central California.   Continue reading “Wind, Rain, Storms to Impact West This Week”

FOX LOGOHuffington Post – by FRAZIER MOORE

NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran Fox executive who used her company email account to plan aid for loved ones of the missing Malaysian airplane’s passengers has been fired.

Darlene Tipton, who was vice president of standards and practices for the Fox Cable Networks Group, said Saturday she had wanted to arrange swift financial aid to families and other loved ones, sparing them lengthy court fights. She said she began by emailing Sarah Bajc, an American whose boyfriend, Philip Wood, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and who has made frequent TV appearances since the plane’s March 8 disappearance.   Continue reading “Fox Executive Darlene Tipton Fired Over Flight 370 Charity Email”

Wild Horses Tension G_Cala.jpgFox News

The Bureau of Land Management rounded up a horse herd that had roamed for decades on federal land in northwest Wyoming and handed the horses over to Wyoming officials.

They, in turn, sold the herd to the highest bidder, a Canadian slaughterhouse.

Wild horse advocates are incensed, saying they should have had a chance to intercede in the March roundup and auction. But the BLM says that the horses were abandoned, not wild, and that it publicized the sale beforehand.   Continue reading “Feds draw criticism for selling Wyoming horses for slaughter”

ASTEROIDThe Huffington Post – by Benjamin Hart

Bad news, earthlings. A former NASA scientist says it’s mere happenstance that anArmageddon-style asteroid hasn’t hit a densely populated area in the last few years.

On Tuesday, the B612 Foundation, which is devoted to preventing the next deep impact, will present data from a nuclear-weapons test warning satellite showing that far more asteroids have hit earth in the past few years than previously thought, the organization announced on its website.    Continue reading “Far More Asteroids Have Hit The Earth Than We Thought, Astronauts Say”

Two people were charged after police making a drug bust in Paterson found bloodstained walls and starving dogs.North Jersey – by Joe Malinconico and Abbott Koloff

Their target was drugs. What police also found was an unexpected horror of animal cruelty that included dead fighting dogs stuffed into garbage bags, starving puppies crammed into crates, and blood-splashed walls.

Paterson police arrested two people on Friday afternoon, saying they found evidence of a large dog-fighting ring being run out of a city home where pit bulls, most less than a year old, were being trained to fight. They said they rescued 21 pit bulls, 18 of them puppies and three maimed adults, and found the bodies of four dead canines along with what they originally expected: a large cache of drugs.    Continue reading “Large dog-fighting ring found during Paterson drug bust, authorities say”

The Mojave Desert covers large portions of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Credit: viscountsin / FlickrInfowars – Kristin Moulton, Salt Lake Tribune

It’s time for Western states to take control of federal lands within their borders, lawmakers and county commissioners from Western states said at Utah’s Capitol on Friday.

More than 50 political leaders from nine states convened for the first time to talk about their joint goal: wresting control of oil-, timber -and mineral-rich lands away from the feds.   Continue reading “Western lawmakers talk federal land takeover”

Tony; New York Daily News – by LARRY MCSHANE 

Rubin (Hurricane) Carter, the middleweight contender-turned-murder suspect-turned-cause célèbre when his triple homicide conviction was exposed as a sham, died Sunday. He was 76.

Carter — wrongly jailed for nearly two decades — lost a battle with prostate cancer that dropped the former fighter’s weight to a mere 90 pounds.   Continue reading “Boxer Rubin (Hurricane) Carter dies at 76”

A cow stands in her pen at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in CastelarDaily Mail – by ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD

On Friday, the Obama administration stated that it would make a multi-pronged attack on cow flatulence, in an attempt to cut methane emissions.

As a result, windy cows have come under renewed scrutiny by scientists, who plan to capture their harmful emissions and convert them into ‘green’ energy.    Continue reading “Now THAT’S wind power! Cows wear BACKPACKS to capture their ‘emissions’ and become miniature power stations”