May 2011
40 posts
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"With No Labeling, Few Realize They Are Eating...
There is a whole lot that the public doesn’t realize. That’s the way they want it.
Amplify’d from www.sott.net
When a team of activists wearing white hazmat suits showed up at a Chicago grocery store to protest the sale of genetically modified foods, they picked an unlikely target: Whole Foods Market. Organic foods, by definition, can’t knowingly contain genetically modified...
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"Peru: Indigenous People want to preserve their...
Amplify’d from intercontinentalcry.org The fourth most important crop in the world, Potato was first domesticated in Peru about 10,000 years ago. And while western households may take them for granted, they are now inextricably tied to Quechua identity, much like corn to the Maya or Reindeer to the Saami, as the 13-minute documentary “The Potato Park / Parque de la Papa” shows.
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"Frack Study's Safety Findings Exaggerated, Bush...
Amplify’d from www.nytimes.com
The U.S. EPA official who oversaw the George W. Bush administration’s 2004 study of hydraulic fracturing says its conclusions about safety have been exaggerated for years.
The study found that in certain circumstances, fracturing presented “little or no threat” to drinking water. But Ben Grumbles, who ran EPA’s Office of Water, says the...
“Toxins implanted into GM food crops to kill pests are reaching the bloodstreams of women and unborn babies, alarming research has revealed.
A landmark study found 93 per cent of blood samples taken from pregnant women and 80 per cent from umbilical cords tested positive for traces of the chemicals.
Millions of acres in North and South America are planted with GM corn containing the...
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"The strange case of solar flares and radioactive...
Amplify’d from news.stanford.edu
It’s a mystery that presented itself unexpectedly: The radioactive decay of some elements sitting quietly in laboratories on Earth seemed to be influenced by activities inside the sun, 93 million miles away.
Is this possible?
Researchers from Stanford and Purdue University believe it is. But their explanation of how it happens opens the door to yet...
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"TSA Backscatter Radiation Safety Tests Were...
What a surprise. The government lies again.
Amplify’d from www.informationliberation.com
As evidenced by recent events in Washington, we now live in an age where the federal government simply fakes whatever documents, news or evidence it wants people to believe, then releases that information as if it were fact. This is the modus operandi of the Department of Homeland Security, which must...
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"What Will Fracking Do to Your Food Supply?"
Amplify’d from www.gilttaste.com
here’s a stunning moment in the Academy Award-nominated documentary Gasland, where a man touches a match to his running faucet—to have it explode in a ball of fire. This is what hydraulic fracturing, a process of drilling for natural gas known as “fracking,” is doing to many drinking water supplies across the country. But the other side of...
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"Forced Pooling: When Landowners Can’t Say No to...
Amplify’d from www.propublica.org
As the shale gas boom sweeps across the United States, drillers are turning to a controversial legal tool called forced pooling to gain access to minerals beneath private property—in many cases, without the landowners’ permission.
Forced pooling is common in many established oil and gas states, but its use has grown more contentious as concerns...
WTF?
Amplify isn’t posting to tumblr or tumblr ain’t taking my posts.
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"Support Killing People Or Lose Your Job"
Amplify’d from www.opednews.com PBS (the P stands for “Pure” I think) is concerned that if the U.S. government stops funding the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. economy will crash:
“An executive at a small defense contractor recently
joked to me, ‘Afghanistan is our business plan.’ I asked him what he
would do if the war ended. He stared at me for a moment and...
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"Unchecked Executive War Power Could Slip Through...
Are you going to watch?
Amplify’d from www.aclu.org
Tucked inside the National Defense Authorization Act, being marked up by the House Armed Services Committee this week, is a hugely important provision that hasn’t been getting a lot of attention — a brand new authorization for a worldwide war.
This stealth provision was added to the bill by the committee’s chairman, Rep....
“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing...”
– Timothy Leary (via cwnl)
What is Consciousness? →
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Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into...
You are not free anymore.Amplify’d from www.nwitimes.com INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the
English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled
Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police
entry into their homes.
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court
said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any...
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"Tepco admits nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant"
Amplify’d from wireupdate.com TOKYO (BNO NEWS) — The Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), which operates the troubled Fukushima nuclear plant, on Thursday admitted that a nuclear meltdown occurred at the plant.
With the nuclear meltdown, Tepco said the nuclear fuel rods in the reactor are completely exposed, as large amounts of radiation is being released. The water level at the plant’s...
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"The coming collapse of civilization: It's not...
Amplify’d from davidrothscum.blogspot.com
But what then, are those changes that threaten human civilization as a whole? These are the types of changes that we can not or are not preparing for. The ones we have no control over. An example would be a Coronal mass ejection, commonly known as a solar storm.[Link] A Coronal mass ejection has the potential to disrupt our power supply. In 1989, a mild...
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War on Humanity Declared
Scary how close we are to this.
Amplify’d from dissidentvoice.org
Following up on the murder of Osama Bin Laden, the Obama administration today announced the formation of a joint Military/Domestic Police Force (MDPF) to carry out a War on Humanity. Recognizing that the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the War on Poverty, the War on Crime, and the War on Illegal Immigration were all dismal...
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Albuquerque Police Idiots
See who picks it up?
Amplify’d from www.courthousenews.com
ALBUQUERQUE (CN) - A good Samaritan claims Albuquerque police filed a bogus felony charge against him in a harebrained sting they set up by planting a backpack with beer, cigarettes and a computer outside a high school. He says he picked up the backpack so children wouldn’t drink the beer or smoke the cigarettes - for which he was...
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Fracking Study Panel Stacked
So, let’s put those who want to make money by fracking in charge of determining if fracking is safe for people and the environment.
Civilized Politics at work.Amplify’d from www.ewg.org The Obama administration panel named May 5 to study hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique that injects thousands of gallons of chemical-laced water into the ground, is dominated by oil and...
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Feds pull back on radiation monitoring
Civilization can’t let you know how civilization poisons you.
Amplify’d from californiawatch.org
An environmental watchdog group is criticizing the federal government for scaling back its radiation monitoring, while simultaneously planning to raise allowable levels of radiation releases in food, water and soil after a nuclear incident.
The group, Public Employees for Environmental...
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Methane in Wells From Drilling
And of course the industry disputes the findings, and of course more data is needed, and of course “more work needs to be done”. What about the poor sods with their wells fucked up? That’s civilization for you.
Amplify’d from www.philly.com
A Duke University study has found that methane levels in private water wells are, on average, 17 times higher when within 1,000 feet of a...
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Foxconn and Your iPhone
“Foxconn workers forced to sign promise not to commit suicide due to working conditions” This is another one for the “Ain’t capitalism grand!” file.
Amplify’d from www.boingboing.net
The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom) have published a research report documenting the terrible...
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Ishinomaki Permanantly Sank 4 Feet
Amplify’d from www.chron.com ISHINOMAKI, Japan
— When water begins to trickle down the streets of her coastal neighborhood, Yoshiko Takahashi knows it is time to hurry home.
Twice a day, the flow steadily increases until it is knee-deep, carrying fish and debris by her front door and trapping people in their homes. Those still on the streets slosh through the sea water in rubber boots or...
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Fannie Mae seeks $8.5 billion more
But everything will be ok. Go back to sleep.
Amplify’d from hosted.ap.org
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fannie Mae asked the government Friday for an additional $8.5 billion in aid after declining home prices caused more defaults on loans guaranteed by the mortgage giant.
The company said it lost $8.7 billion in the first three months of the year. Those losses led Fannie to request more than...
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Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
Good video if you want to think.
Amplify’d from www.ted.com
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Practice Makes Perfect
Do you think that this level of force was necessary? Do you think that perhaps they wanted to get in a little practice? What are they practicing for? Why is there such a need to make sure that those in authority can control the people? Who works for who?
Amplify’d from www.shtfplan.com
All those billions of dollars spent to prepare law enforcement and the US military for civil unrest are...
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Are You Gullible?
Are you asking questions?
Amplify’d from www.naturalnews.com
How to stop being a Gullible Mind
Interestingly, most of the people who are intelligent, skeptical thinkers today used to be Gullible Mind people at one time or another. There was a point where they simply “awakened” and began to consciously question the world around them. Intelligent, informed skeptics are the people asking...
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More Vaccines equals more dead babies
Science is needed to figure out that science (western medicine in this case) created the problem. Do we need a science adjustment?
Amplify’d from www.naturalnews.com
(NaturalNews) A new study, published in Human and Experimental Toxicology (http://het.sagepub.com/content/earl…), a peer-reviewed journal indexed by the National Library of Medicine, found that nations with higher (worse)...
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Know Your Workplace?
Number 4 of “10 Workplace Rights You Think You Have — But Don’t”Amplify’d from jobs.aol.com4. “I’m working in a hostile environment.”
It’s pretty much your boss’s job to create a hostile work environment. A hostile environment is not illegal. Workplace harassment is not illegal. Bullying is not illegal in any state. Only hostile environment...
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Oil and Gas
Oil and gas and gas and oil. You pay so they can play.
Amplify’d from checksandbalancesproject.org
According to Public Campaign, the Political Action Committees for BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil donated $285,500 to elected officials and political parties in the first quarter of 2011.
“These profit reports show Big Oil is making big bucks from high gas prices at the pump,” said...
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12 year-old Suicide Bomber
Who can make a case that civilization created the conditions that caused this to come to pass?
Amplify’d from news.yahoo.com
A 12-year-old suicide bomber killed four people and wounded a dozen in east Afghanistan on Sunday, while rebel clashes with police and NATO-led troops left five civilians and two police dead, officials said.Read more at news.yahoo.com
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George Bush says:
“No matter how long it takes, justice will be done.” I hope he and others who exercise control over the real people of the world remembers this. http://bit.ly/jObsPz
Bin Laden is still dead. http://bit.ly/lPL3qJ
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Toxic Element Alerts
Interesting.
Amplify’d from lucaswhitefieldhixson.com
We recently pulled updated information from the EPA RADnet Database…
Of the 665 total alerts monitored…
Iodine-131 309 Alerts in 22 cities Cesium-137 59 Alerts in 19 cities Uranium & Strontium 90 12 hits in 10 cities Beryllium-7 - half-life 53 days 123 hits in 22 cities Bismuth-212 & Thallium-208 55 Alerts in 18 Cities...
