28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima

Stephan:  This is the latest on Fukushima and the impact it is making on the U.S. West Coast. This directly affects me, as well as tens of millions of other Americans, and there doesn't seem to be a thing we can do about it. Click through to see the map referenced.

The map below comes from the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center. It shows that radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations all over the country are elevated. As you will notice, this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States. Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amouont of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain. Ultimately, all of this nuclear radiation will outlive all of us by a very wide margin. They are saying that it could take up to 40 years to clean up the Fukushima disaster, and meanwhile countless innocent people will develop cancer and other health problems as a result of exposure to high levels of nuclear radiation. We are talking about a nuclear disaster that is absolutely unprecedented, and it is constantly getting worse. The following are 28 signs that the west coast of North America is being absolutely fried with nuclear radiation from Fukushima

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The Number Of Homeless Students In The United States Hits A Record

Stephan:  We are metaphorically eating our young. This report about homeless students is the kind of thing one expects to read about a third world country.

More than 1.1 million students in the United States were homeless last year, a record high, according to new data released by the U.S. Department of Education.

During the 2011-12 school year, there were 1,168,354 homeless students enrolled in preschool or K-12, a 10 percent increase over the previous year. A total of 55.5 million students were enrolled in preschool or K-12 that year, meaning nearly 2 percent of all students were homeless.

According to First Focus, a children’s advocacy organization, ‘the number of homeless children in public schools has increased 72 percent since the beginning of the recession.

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Can You Guess the 10 Best Countries For Women? Hint: the U.S. Isn’t One of Them

Stephan:  For someone of my age who grew up at a time when America was viewed by the world as a society to be emulated, the last 30 years have been very painful. So painful, I think, that rather than face the truth we tell ourselves lies. Politicians, from the President on down engage in systematic lying about the truth of American society today. Here's some truth.

The World Economic Forum released its annual Global Gender Gap Reportfor 2013 measuring gender disparity between men and women around the world

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Billionaires’ Row and Welfare Lines

Stephan:  I have more and more readers writing me to tell me about poverty that they are observing or, sometimes, experiencing.

The stock market is hitting record highs.

Bank profits have reached their highest levels in years.

The market for luxury goods is rebounding.

Bloomberg News reported in August, ‘Sales of homes priced at more than $1 million jumped an average 37 percent in 2013’s first half from a year earlier to the highest level since 2007, according to DataQuick.

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Weight-loss Shocker: Diet Books Are Lying to You

Stephan:  For readers who are regular dieters this is something you need to know.

Weight-loss diet books continue to occupy the top of the bestseller lists. However, over the past decade there has been a shift in the way these diets are framed, and in the types of scientific claims underpinning the diets.

A key feature of many popular weight-loss diets since the 1970s has been the claim that the macronutrient ratio-proportion of fat, carbs and protein-is the major determinant of whether a food or dietary pattern promotes weight gain or weight loss. Low-fat, low-carb, high-fat, high-protein-some combination of some of these macronutrient prescriptions-have dominated the weight-loss scene in the late twentieth century.

In recent years, weight-loss diet books have continued to make reference to the ideal macronutrient profile for weight loss, but with a greater focus on the particular foods to consume or avoid: meat, wheat, grains or sugar. However, these diet books also place greater emphasis on how nutrients and foods affect specific bodily processes and functions related to weight gain and loss. Their focus has shifted down to the cellular and molecular level of our bodies, and onto hormones such as insulin, the control of blood sugar levels, the regulation of fat storage in cells, and brain-satiety signals. Diet book authors now offer […]

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