Top 10 Worst GMO Foods for Your GMO Foods List : Natural Society
Genetically modified foods (GMO foods) have been shown to cause harm to humans, animals, and the environment, and despite growing opposition, more and more foods continue to be genetically altered. It’s important to note that steering clear of these foods completely may be difficult, and you should merely try to find other sources than your big chain grocer. If produce is certified USDA-organic, it’s non-GMO (or supposed to be!) Also, seek out local farmers and booths at farmer’s markets where you can be ensured that the crops aren’t GMO. Even better, if you are so inclined: Start organic gardening and grow them yourself. Until then, here are the top 10 worst GMO foods for your “do not eat” GMO foods list.
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Chemical, used by Monsanto, found in urine of Europeans - study — RT News
Chemical, used by Monsanto, found in urine of Europeans - study — RT NewsResidents of 18 European states have been tested positively to traces of glyphosate, a globally used weed killer, the study says. It remains unclear how the chemical used on Monsanto GMO crops got in people’s bodies.
It turns out that 44 per cent of volunteers had it in their urine, but it is yet unclear how the herbicide got into their systems.
“These results suggest we are being exposed to glyphosate in our everyday lives,” Adrian Bebb, spokesperson of environmental group Friends of the Earth (FoE) said in a statement.
The study, carried out between March and May 2013, showed that proportions of positive samples varies between countries, with Malta (90 per cent) , Germany (70 per cent), UK (70 per cent) and Poland being “the most positive samples” and Macedonia and Switzerland – “the lowest”.
"Our testing highlights a serious lack of action by public authorities across Europe and indicates that this weed killer is being widely overused,” the group said.
Glyphosate is essentially used on plants including grasses, sedges, broad-leaved weeds and woody plants as well as great variety of genetically modified crops. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Monsanto's herbicide Roundup, which is sprayed in large amounts on genetically engineered, so-called "Roundup Ready," crops.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Federal officials leery of ‘increasingly warm’ coastal waters near Northeast U.S. | The Raw Story
Federal officials leery of ‘increasingly warm’ coastal waters near Northeast U.S. | The Raw Story
rom North Carolina to Maine, the waters have been unusually warm lately.
This is according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center, which issued an advisory today noting that sea surface temperatures in the Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem during the second half of 2012 were the highest recorded in 150 years.
According to the advisory, sea surface temperatures in this region, which extends from Cape Hatteras to the Gulf of Maineand outward to the boundary of the continental shelf, increased dramatically to reach a record 57.2 degrees Fahrenheit, beating a previous record high in 1951. The average temperature over the past three decades has been typically lower than 54.3 degrees Fahrenheit.
The temperatures were recorded via satellite and ship-board measurements. Historical measurements, based on ship-board thermometers, date back to 1854. According to NOAA, the warming was the greatest increase on record, and one of only five instances when the temperature has changed by more than 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. These drastic changes have not been noted elsewhere in the ocean basin, although in recent years global sea surface temperatures have been the highest on record.
The warmer ocean temperatures might be good news for beachgoers in the Northeast, but they could also disrupt ecosystems, along with the livelihoods that depend on them. The report notes that black sea bass, summer flounder, longfin squid, and butterfish have been migrating northeastward. Lobsters are migrating too, but at a slower rate.
The report quotes Michael Fogarty, who heads NOAA's the Ecosystem Assessment Program:
“What these latest findings mean for the Northeast Shelf ecosystem and its marine life is unknown,” Fogarty said. “What is known is that the ecosystem is changing, and we need to continue monitoring and adapting to these changes.”
This article, Waters off Northeast US coast unusually warm, says NOAA, is syndicated from The Christian Science Monitor and is posted here with permission.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
"Hubris": New Documentary Reexamines the Iraq War "Hoax" | Mother Jones
"Hubris": New Documentary Reexamines the Iraq War "Hoax" | Mother Jones
"Hubris": New Documentary Reexamines the Iraq War "Hoax"
An MSNBC film, hosted by Rachel Maddow and based on Michael Isikoff and David Corn's book, finds new evidence that Bush scammed the nation into war.
| Sat Feb. 16, 2013 5:11 AM PST
A decade ago, on March 19, 2003, President George W. Bush launched the invasion of Iraq that would lead to a nine-year war resulting in 4,486 dead American troops, 32,226 service members wounded, and over 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians. The tab for the war topped $3 trillion. Bush did succeed in removing Saddam Hussein, but it turned out there were no weapons of mass destruction and no significant operational ties between Saddam's regime and Al Qaeda.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Sanders: Carbon tax bill is ‘not political’ but ‘has everything to do with physics’ | The Raw Story
Sanders: Carbon tax bill is ‘not political’ but ‘has everything to do with physics’ | The Raw Story
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An aggressive new bill aiming to impose a tax on emissions that drive climate change is “not political,” according to co-sponsor Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), but it “has everything to do with physics.”
The proposal is part of a two-bill package introduced Thursday by Sanders and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who’ve scrapped the unpopular “cap and trade” scheme Boxer attempted to pass in 2008 in favor of a simpler system that would tax emissions and use the money to invest in renewable energy technology and hardened infrastructure, along with deficit reduction and rebates to American families who experience rising energy costs as a result.
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Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Global Warming's Terrifying New Math | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is
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Three simple numbers that add up to global catastrophe - and that make clear who the real enemy is
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Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Gangster Bankers: Too Big to Jail | Politics News | Rolling Stone
How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it
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How HSBC hooked up with drug traffickers and terrorists. And got away with it
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
Homophobia On LinkedIN? Did It Happen? | Addicting Info
Homophobia On LinkedIN? Did It Happen? | Addicting Info
Yes, sadly enough, it did. click on the link for details.
Yes, sadly enough, it did. click on the link for details.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/lindsey-graham-chuck-hagel_n_2657802.html
Lindsey Graham Plans To Block Chuck Hagel, John Brennan To Get Answers On Benghazi (VIDEO)
Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (right) said on CBS's "Face the Nation" that he intends to block the nomination of Chuck Hagel to President Obama's cabinet.
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) plans to block two of President Barack Obama's top national security nominees until he gets answers from the White House on the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.
Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Graham said he was not going to let Chuck Hagel go forward as Secretary of Defense nor let John Brennan move ahead as CIA director unless he gets more information on the president's involvement in the response to the consulate attack that resulted in the killing of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others.
"I don’t think we should allow Brennan to go forward for the CIA directorship, Hagel to be confirmed to Secretary of Defense until the White House gives us an accounting," said Graham. "Did the president ever pick up the phone and call anyone in the Libyan government to help these folks? What did the president do?"
"We know he talked to the Israeli Prime Minister from 8 to 9 on September the 11th [2012], about a dust-up of the Democratic platform, and the fact that he didn’t meet the Prime Minister of Israel when he came to New York to visit the U.N., but that’s not related to Libya," Graham added. "What did he do that night? That’s not unfair. The families need to know, the American people need to know."
"Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer pressed Graham on his plan, asking, "You are saying that you are going to block the nominations, you’re going to block them from coming to a vote, until you get an answer to this?"
"Yes," Graham replied.
It's not exactly clear how the South Carolina senator would block the nominations, since he insisted that he would not stage a filibuster. Graham recently said, "Filibustering is something I do very reluctantly."
Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Carl Levin (D-Mich.) delayed the vote on Hagel's confirmation last week, after 26 Republican senators demanded more information from the former Republican Nebraska senator. The request for information on Libya, however, is not directly related to Hagel's nomination.
In response to Graham's remarks on Sunday, Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), who also appeared on "Face the Nation," said it was "unprecedented and unwarranted to stop, or attempt to try and stop" the nominations of Hagel and Brennan.
"To try to find information, to ask legitimate questions, as Sen. Graham is doing, is completely appropriate," said Reed. "But then to turn around and say, 'I’m going to disrupt, essentially, the nomination of two key members of the president’s cabinet' -- I don’t think that’s appropriate, I don’t think it’s warranted. I think it is an overreaction that is not going to serve the best interest going forward of the national security of the United States."
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), one of Graham's closest friends in the Senate, has repeatedly insisted that it would be inappropriate to filibuster Hagel. He said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday" that he was still undecided on whether would vote for the president's defense secretary pick, but said he was leaning against it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/10/ellison-to-gop-rep-dont-whine-about-sequester-after-forcing-it-by-threat-of-default/
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Ellison to GOP rep.: Don’t whine about sequester after forcing it by threat of default
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) on Sunday called out Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) for complaining about drastic cuts in the so-called “sequester” after Republicans forced it by refusing to raise the debt ceiling and risking default for the first time in the nation’s history.
“This was a presidential suggestion back in 2011 — an idea — and, yet, the president himself hasn’t put out any alternative,” Cole said during a panel segment on ABC. “Republicans twice in the House have passed legislation to deal with it, once as early as last May, again after the election in December. The Senate has never picked up either of those bills, never offered their own thing.”
“Now, we’re three weeks out [from the sequester deadline] and folks are worried,” he continued. “They ought to be worried. On the other hand, these cuts are going to occur. The real choice here is do you want cuts to be redistributed in other ways, which is the sensible thing to do, or do you want to let this happen?”
Ellison, however, pointed out that Republicans couldn’t place all the blame on President Barack Obama after they voted for the sequester created by the Budget Control Act of 2011.
“Well, Tom, the problem with saying that this is the president’s idea is you voted for the Budget Control Act, I voted against it,” Ellison noted. “We wouldn’t ever have been talking about the Budget Control Act but for your party refused to negotiate on the debt ceiling, something that has been routinely increased as the country needed it.”
“You used that occasion in 2011 — August — to basically say, we’re going to default the country’s obligations or you’re going to give us dramatic spending cuts. That’s how we got to the Budget Control Act.”
The Minnesota Democrat added that the sequester was projected to increase both unemployment and the deficit.
“It’s going to do everything opposite to what your party says they want,” he told Cole. “It’s going to create uncertainty, it’s going to increase the deficit, it’s going to increase unemployment, it’s going to be a problem.”
“We don’t have a presidential proposal,” Cole opined. “I don’t think you speak for the president.”
Watch this video from ABC’s This Week, broadcast Feb. 10, 2013.
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1zBDn)Saturday, February 9, 2013
How Reagan Wrecked The American Middle Class, And Came Out Smelling Like A Rose
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“Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.” — Ronald Reagan
February 6th marked the would-be birthday of Ronald Reagan, the beloved Republican icon who passed away in 2004. He would have been 101 years old. The charismatic, two-term Republican president from 1981-1989 defined the modern conservative movement and became the benevolent face of a harsh philosophy. For those of you who either weren’t following politics or weren’t born yet, Reagan’s star rose as drugs, crime, and mass upheavals in the late 1960′s and 1970′s put liberalism in a bad light. When Reagan defeated incumbent President Jimmy Carter in 1980, our country was demoralized by the Vietnam War, Watergate, rising oil prices, rampant inflation, and the never-ending hostage crisis in Iran. Never mind that Richard Nixon, a Republican president, caused the Watergate scandal, and that conservatives from both parties (the GOP actually had liberals and moderates back then) supported Vietnam and the foreign policy positions that pissed people off in the Middle East. Everyone was blaming liberals for our woes, and here’s this cheerful, grandfatherly guy telling us it’s “morning in America.” Yeah, Good f*cking morning.
Reagan honed his political positions as California’s governor from 1967-1975. During his 1966 campaign, he promised to “send the welfare bums back to work” and “clean up the mess in Berkeley” (impose some law and order on those danged hippie protestors), and a resounding 57.65% of voters sent him to Sacramento. And “clean up the mess” Reagan certainly did on May 15th, 1969 — otherwise known as “Bloody Thursday” — when Reagan sent the California Highway Patrol and National Guard to quell the People’s Park protests in Berkeley. One dead student and blinded man later, Reagan snapped, “If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with. No more appeasement.” The abortion debate had also begun, and although a relatively new Governor Reagan signed a pro-abortion bill, he later said he regretted it and took a pro-life position. He also strongly supported capital punishment, but only got to perform one retroactive abortion due to a Supreme Court of California decision that invalidated all death sentences from before 1972. Reagan also famously joked about hoping for a botulism epidemic when a radical Berkeley group demanded a food distribution for the poor (the Symbionese Liberation Army later went on to kidnap Patty Hearst.
In 1980, Reagan launched a presidential campaign based on states rights (a dog whistle for thelynching murder of three activists who were registering African-Americans to vote Philadelphia, MS), a strong military, supply side economics, and his signature cheeriness. By then, he’d learned to cloak then he’d learned to cloak his mean philosophy with an easy-going demeanor and off-the-cuff witticisms. He famously won in a landslide (carrying 44 states and 50.8% of the popular vote), and became the United States’ 40th president. Even many liberals and former hippies-turned-yuppie — like this writer’s father and stepmother — pulled the lever for him. Yes, this writer still holds a grudge, and yes, voting booths still had levers back then.
We now have Reagan to thank for following legacies — many of which have caused our current woes — but he rarely gets blamed because he always was the “teflon president”:
REACHING FOR AN IPAD AFTER SEX IS OK???
Even as someone who has been at the receiving end of the "I can't believe you are reaching for your phone right now!" glare once or twice — in the last 24 hours alone — I still couldn't help but cringe when I heard that 74 percent of people find it acceptable to reach for their iPads right after, ahem, being intimate with someone.
Have our gadget addictions really gotten to this point?
The statistic comes from a survey commissioned by accessory maker Logitech. A firm called Wakefield Research conducted the survey, interviewing 2,000 single adults over the age of 18 in the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France.
The survey revealed that 43 percent of single U.S.-based respondents would be equally upset about breaking their iPads as they would be about breaking up with a significant other. (Compare that to 27 percent of the German respondents. Guess they're more romantic.) Hang on though! It gets even worse: Over a third of the U.S.-based respondents — 37 percent, if you want to be precise — said that they would rather spend the "morning after" a date with their iPads rather than, well, the prior night's date.
Of course, according to the same survey, 93 percent of the U.S.-based respondents use their tablets in bed, in general. And 27 percent even admit that they've managed to damage a tablet or smartphone while being naughty with a partner. We'll leave the rest of that detail to the imagination or file it in the "TMI" category for now.
http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2013/02/08/16900787-three-quarters-of-people-think-its-ok-to-reach-for-ipads-after-being-intimate?lite
Millennials are the most stressed-out generation, new survey finds
I’m stressed, you’re stressed, your partner is stressed, even our pets are stressed. But according a new survey from the American Psychological Association, the most stressed generation of adults in the nation is also the youngest.
So-called “Millennials,” defined here as American adults ages 18 to 34, reported higher stress levels than their parents’ and grandparents’ generations, and more Millennials said that their stress level had increased in the last year. And 52 percent of this age group even said stress had kept them up at night.
These new figures are from the APA’s annual report, Stress in America, which surveyed 2,020 American adults in a questionnaire conducted online by Harris Interactive in August 2012. The APA has commissioned the survey every year since 2007.
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http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/07/16889472-millennials-are-the-most-stressed-out-generation-new-survey-finds?lite
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