Calls to make London the world’s first National Park City
A former geography teacher has launched a campaign to make London the world’s first National Park City
A former geography teacher has launched a campaign to make London the world’s first National Park City
Did you know that various food ingredients and foods found in the United States are actually banned in other countries? Indeed, some nations have found the following foods so bad for your health that they have made them illegal, yet the US Food and Drug Administration says to eat up!
Here are 6 foods you might want to avoid as other food watchdog agencies had enough sense to ban them:
It may ultimately lead to millions around the globe finally overcoming their chronic conditions: top doctors within the medical establishment are finally going public in big ways over what’s really causing disease in our modern society.
What’s more, the media is picking it up like wildfire. The best part? We’ve been telling you about it for years.
Throughout various cultures in the world there are daily practices which are considered indispensable in order to maintain optimal health. In American society, brushing the teeth first thing in the morning is considered one of those absolute “do not miss.” In the Orient, especially wherever Ayurveda is practiced, tongue scraping is considered equally important as teeth brushing.
Several Illinois youths considered ‘at risk’ could be looking at a new career in the medical marijuana industry due to a generous donation to the city of Bloomington by Curative Health, Inc. – a medical marijuana corporation based in New York.
In case you’re wondering here is what ‘at-risk’ youth means:
Detective Ellis Carver: What he means to say is that we are effective deterrent in the war on drugs when we are on the street. Detective Thomas Hauk (“Herc”): Fucking motherfuckers up. Carver: Indeed. Herc: Fuck the paperwork. Collect bodies, split heads. Carver: Split ‘em wide. Det. Hauk: The Western District way. Det. Carver: A’ight. […]
There are two different opinions about Binyamin Netanyahu. It is difficult to believe that they concern the same person. One is that Netanyahu is a shallow politician, devoid of ideas and convictions, who is led solely by his obsession to remain in power. This Netanyahu has a good voice and a talent for making shallow […]
The tragic irony of the recent rioting in Baltimore, after alleged police brutality on an African American man is that the violence is a legacy of the American Civil War, which had its first violent deaths in the same location 154 years before. Some of the rioting occurred near Camden Yards, which now is a […]
Why you should think twice before getting your next jab. May 5, 2015 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - One can easily see in the emerging information and cyber war that a nation having its own IT infrastructure, its own hardware, and its own versions of social media platforms is quickly becoming a matter of national security.
by Judith Curry
Some interesting follow-up questions from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology regarding my recent Congressional testimony.
Troops at the refinery in Baiji are begging for help. The refinery is again surrounded by Islamic State militants, and the men stationed there are running out of supplies. Some reinforcements did arrive on Monday. The refinery is of strategic importance to the militants and fighting has been intense there, on and off, for several months.
At least 106 were killed and 35 were wounded:
Might as well be mugshots: Reuters photog Eduardo Munoz snapped this shot of Dean and Mini-Dean, aka NYS Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his boy Adam, approaching FBI HQ this morning, before they were indicted on assorted federal corruption charges."It's like
As a student of real history, and not that complete and utter bullshit that we see from the Jew spew media and the lies in our so called "history" books, I have been working hard in exposing the real truths about our past, and especially exactly what has happened in the last century when it comes to the World Wars...
Post-Modern Slave Patrols By GARIKAI CHENGU | CounterPunch | May 4, 2015 Black people in America live in a police-state-within-a-state. The African American police state exercises its authority over the Black minority through an oppressive array of modern day lynchings by the police, increasing for-profit mass incarceration and the government sanctioned surveillance and assassination of […]
This post does require your commitment of just a bit of time, in order to go back and read some previously posted info- Hey, I never said being informed was passive. Nope, being informed is involved and requires time and energy- But, if I can do it, then you can too!Before you read the latest news story linked below-I want to remind readers that previously, in order to secure Turkish involvement in an attack on Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz visited Turkey & Turkey set down some conditions for involvement- This bit of history was mention in a two part post written late 2014:
I'm not good with remembering dates things happened in my life-- beyond my birthday and the day I stopped wanting to use drugs forever. But I do remember that, although the music business was on an unhealthy trajectory when I retired a year or two after Bush stole the 2000 election, non-superstar artists could still scrape together a living and aspire to a career within the bounds of the music business. Since then, struggling artists have struggled a lot more-- and it's getting worse...
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | May 1, 2015 According to Gridwatch, wind power averaged 1901GW during April, some 5.9% of UK total demand. Hardly awe inspiring, but the reality is really far, far worse, as this average hides huge variations within the month, as the chart below makes […]
32-year NSA veteran Kirk Wiebe tells us: limited reforms to Patriot Act will not limit spying on millions of innocent Americans….
--in “news analysis”, NY Times quotes anonymous official “This is hardly major change”
--NY Times editorial says new limits are “worthless” in protecting Americans
--Times public editor comments on article that named “secret” CIA officials, gets interesting admission from top editor Dean Baquet
--“Justice” Dept. offers vague plan to tell us more about Stingray and similar dragnet surveillance toys
By Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgThe free speech fest in Texas that resulted in the police shooting of two apparent terrorists at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland marks growing prominence and qualified support for the movement for free speech for anti-Muslim satire, led by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, a well-financed New York group. No similar type of organization in America dares to test free speech for anti-Auschwitz gas chamber-hoax satire, however.
We yearn for a locus of control. My politics and worldview have changed drastically over the years specifically in stages and increments. Changed, transformed, transmogrified and evolved. And there ain’t a label around that can explain them or it. I commend this podcast to you and dedicate it to the spirit of critical thinking and a return to the Enlightenment. And it may prove disconcerting to you that I endorse no candidate nor do I believe there’s anyone remotely able to handle the struggle and challenges that this country faces.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Operations
May 4, 2015
Exercise Lion Effort 2015 set to begin in the Czech Republic
Exercise Lion Effort 2015 gets underway later this month at 21st Tactical Air Force Base Čáslav in the Czech Republic. The event is organised by nations that use the Gripen.
STAR WARS DAY: May the 4th be with you…………….
File photo IMEMC By Yossi Gurvitz | Yesh Din | May 3, 2015 We see how seriously the prosecution takes its role when we realize it closed a file for lack of evidence — without so much as noticing the evidence. The location was Qusra, a village in the Shiloh Valley; the date, September 16, […]
Dr. Brian Anse Patrick is a professor of communication at the University of Toledo. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods, group communication, propaganda and persuasion. He is also a nationally recognized expert on American gun culture as well as the author of many scholarly papers and five books, including The Ten Commandments of Propaganda. In this discussion, we start by looking at the definition of propaganda and where it all began.
In this video, "Gap" is a proxy for the whole industry, including Nike. To learn about the problem with subcontractors, start watching at 10:30.by Gaius PubliusNike is ground zero for "made in Asia" shoe apparel. President Obama is ground zero for "let's send more jobs to Asia and claim the opposite." I'm not sure it benefits either to put the two together.
Pearse and Tom round off season 1 looking at the 2012 Oscar winning historical drama Argo, which is based on a real life exfiltration operation during the Iranian revolution. We discuss the CIA’s almost too-obvious involvement in the film, the background of how the story was declassified and turned into a movie including the shadowy figures of producer David Klawans and writer Chris Terrio. We stick the boot into Ben Affleck and his film, not just for its ‘Reel Bad Arabs’ racism but also its outrageous and possibly intentional historical inaccuracy. We analyse the weirdest Oscar
Garland shooting involved troupe of practiced war propagandists and patsies long on the FBI's watch list. May 4, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - ABC News confirms that one of the suspects of the Garland Texas shooting incident, featuring professional war propagandists of the so-called "American Freedom Defense Intitiative" (AFDI), has been under FBI surveillance and investigation since at least as early as 2007.Their report, "
I'm always on the look out for new information on EDC's but, it's hard to come by..Why post excerpts from and older Pediatric Research study? That's correct- Pediatric ResearchFor one thing the age of this research really caught my attention. It’s 9 years old.
Al-Manar | May 4, 2015 A protest in Tel Aviv over police mistreatment of Ethiopian Jews turned violent Sunday, resulting in 57 officers being injured, according to the Zionist police. Most of those injuries were minor, according to police, but one officer was described to be “moderately injured.” Police say 12 protestors were injured. The […]
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on Al Etejah to discuss US policy in Iraq. He explains that the US is attempting to exploit political divisions in the country in order to exert its influence and weaken Iranian influence. Draitser notes that the US is seeking to arm various factions as de facto partition of Iraq, with Washington and Tel Aviv continuing to maintain close ties with the Kurdish political and military establishment. He discusses these and other issues in this interview.
RenegadeEconomist | April 30, 2015 Why don’t we look at the root causes of the Baltimore riots…?
RT | May 4, 2015 Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski has signed a resolution approving the organization of a joint Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian brigade, whose creation has been in the works since 2007. When brought to full operation in 2017, the brigade is set to constitute 4,500 servicemen. They will operate separately from the three countries’ respective militaries, […]
By Jim Lobe and Charles Davis | LobeLog | May 1, 2015 In the 1976 docudrama about the Watergate affair and the fall of Richard Nixon, All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward’s source at the FBI, Deep Throat, tells him to “follow the money.” To the Washington Post editorial board in 2015, doing just that […]
Focus News Agency
May 4, 2015
Poland’s president signs law on establishing Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian military brigade
Warsaw. President of Poland Bronislaw Komorowski has signed a resolution on establishing the Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian military brigade, the Polish leader’s office reported on Monday, as quoted by TASS.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
May 3, 2015
900,000 Finnish army reservists sent letter on «crisis situation»
Helsinki: The Finnish Defence Forces have sent a letter to 900,000 reservists to explain what their role would be in a “crisis situation,” a news report revealed Sunday.
Eric Draitser of StopImperialism.org appears on RT (May 3, 2015) to provide his analysis of the breaking news from Texas of a shooting at an anti-Islam event. Draitser explains that such events are organized by racists with a political agenda to incite hatred in order to justify both their racism and the imperialist agenda of the US in the Middle East and around the world. He notes that the narrative of “Islam as the enemy” is central to polarizing American public opinion in order to exploit divisions and ignorance for political gain.
RT | May 4, 2015 Three sets of military exercises kicked off in Europe on Monday, involving thousands of servicemen from a variety of NATO nations and their allies, amid a wave of similar action across the area. Estonia is holding its largest-ever military drills. Named Siil-2015 (Hedgehog), the maneuvers involve about 13,000 personnel. The […]
Technically, the election for mayor of Philadelphia isn't until November 3. In a more practical sense, the city's Democratic voters will select the next mayor on May 19-- 2 weeks from tomorrow-- in the 6-way primary. You may be aware that Blue America has already endorsed the progressive in the race, Jim Kenney.
The Prize: Extinction By Bo Filter | Dissident Voice | May 4, 2015 Don’t expect the concept of extinction or omnicide to roll off the lips of nuclear warriors. Their brains focus on the win-ability of nuclear war to the exclusion of all other possibilities. Let’s take a minute to examine the myopic mindset of […]
The 2015 New York Emmy® Awards were held on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Lionel received the Emmy® for commentary and editorial writing.
Body Counts, Drones, and “Collateral Damage” (aka “Bug Splat”) By Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch | May 3, 2015 In the twenty-first-century world of drone warfare, one question with two aspects reigns supreme: Who counts? In Washington, the answers are the same: We don’t count and they don’t count. The Obama administration has adamantly refused to […]
Civil Georgia
May 1, 2015
New Defense Minister Meets Army Chief of Staff
Tbilisi: MP Tina Khidasheli, who has become Georgia’s first ever female defense minister, met chief of general staff of the armed forces Gen. Vakhtang Kapanadze.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Maritime Command
May 4, 2015
NATO Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercise Begins in Norway
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Francisco de Quevedo: The soldierly virtues of ardor, candor, honor and valor
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Francisco de Quevedo
From La hora de todos y la Fortuna con seso (1635)
Translated by Roger L’Estrange
If taxpayers are to fund corporations, why shouldn’t they demand that those businesses observe certain conditions of basic fairness? The publicly funded train operators should pay their staff living wages, provide decent pensions and sick pay. And all recipients of public money should be banned from using elaborate structures to avoid paying tax.
Some have said that India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, arrived at the nation’s pro-GMO position with the help of generous campaign funding from a GMO lobby, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of Indian farmers from demonstrating against Monsanto and their biotech cronies in a massive grassroots movement that shuns anti-farmer practices and genetically modified crop farming.
What if you could prove that Monsanto’s best selling herbicide Round Up is affecting you personally? Maybe you’ve thought of testing yourself, but didn’t know which lab to go to that would report the true results. An answer to your pleas has arrived. In an unprecedented move, a non-profit organization has set up an independent lab that all people can access in order to test for glyphosate.
Like so many ailments and diseases, medical science has ignored the true causes of arthritis for decades. Each of the major types of arthritis have been shown to have similar etiologies. It has also been postulated that Rheumatoid arthritis, Allergic arthritis, and Osteoarthritis can have similar triggers, specifically food triggers.
Since 2014, there has been much pressure from activists in Australia to legalize cannabis, at least for medicinal use. Fortunately, all their hard work is beginning to bear fruit, with New South Wales introducing a trial last year in order to treat drug-resistant epilepsy, relieve chronic pain, and treat some of the many chemo-induced side effects suffered by thousands of cancer patients.
Apologists for the National Security Agency (NSA) point to the arrest of David Coleman Headley as an example of how warrantless mass surveillance is necessary to catch terrorists. Headley played a major role in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack that killed 166 people. While few would argue that bringing someone like Headley to justice is […]