Saturday, November 30th, 2013
Stephan: You can see it with the Pope, you will see it in the next story, as well as this account. There is something very important happening in Christianity. In response to the Theocratic Right, and its psychoses, the greater Christian community is producing from within itself a compassionate life-affirming response.
Pastor Jeremiah Steepek transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning.
He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service, only 3 people out of the 7-10,000 people said hello to him.
He asked people for change to buy food – no one in the church gave him change.
He went into the sanctuary to sit down in the front of the church and was asked by the ushers if he would please sit in the back.
He greeted people to be greeted back with stares and dirty looks, with people looking down on him and judging him.
As he sat in the back of the church, he listened to the church announcements and such.
When all that was done, the elders went up and were excited to introduce the new pastor of the church to the congregation.
‘We would like to introduce to you Pastor Jeremiah Steepek.
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
JOANNA M. FOSTER, - Climate Progress
Stephan: As the effects of climate change increase American corporate media, witness this story on The New York Times, seems less and less interested in the story. Unbelievable. Yet it seems to be the national trend. SR's readership falls off whenever I run climate change stories.
2013 was a big year for climate news. In May, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide passed the 400 parts per million threshold for the first time in millions of years. In June, President Obama announced his Climate Action Plan, and in November, the monster typhoon, Haiyan slammed into the Philippines.
2013 was also the year that the New York Times decided to close its environment desk and conclude coverage of energy and environment issues on its Green Blog. The seven reporters and two editors dedicated to environment coverage were assigned elsewhere, and a dozen Green Blog contributors were bid farewell.
The decision was met with disbelief and consternation by many, although readers were promised that The Times’s environmental coverage would be as aggressive as ever, and that the decision was purely structural.
In the Columbia Journalism Review, Curtis Brainard wrote that ‘They’ve made a horrible decision that ensures the deterioration of The Times’s environmental coverage at a time when debates about climate change, energy, natural resources and sustainability have never been more important to public welfare.
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
Stephan: I had never heard of this until the other day when a friend, who has an elderly dog that was in constant pain with hip problems, told me that on the advice of her vet she used a particular strain of Marijuana in dog biscuits and it had given her beloved animal companion a new lease on life. I came home to and explored the subject and found this.
NEW YORK — When it comes to sick pets many owners will go to great lengths to help them feel better.
Now, some have started to take matters into their own hands and have turned to a remedy that isn’t even legal in some states, CBS 2
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
MORGAN BRENNAN, Staff Writer - Forbes
Stephan: The rich are getting paranoid, which is utterly predictable. It happens whenever wealth inequity becomes blatantly unfair. It happened in late Rome. I saw it in Bogata. You see it in Moscow with the armed Russian 'samurai' in their black suits standing around the owner's Mercedes as the owner has dinner in a $200 a meal restaurant. We started to see things like this in the U.S. with increasing frequency starting about 30 years ago, exactly correlated to the rise of vampire capitalism
Al Corbi’s residence in the Hollywood Hills has the requisite white walls covered in artwork and picture windows offering breathtaking views of downtown Los Angeles, but it has more in common with NSA headquarters than with the other contemporary homes on the block. The Corbi family doesn’t need keys (thanks to biometric recognition software), doesn’t fear earthquakes (thanks to steel-reinforced concrete caissons that burrow 30 feet into the private hilltop) and sleeps easily inside a 2,500-square-foot home within a home: a ballistics-proof panic suite that Corbi refers to as a ‘safe core.
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
TODD NEALE, Senior Staff Writer - MedPage Today
Stephan: Chelation has been controversial for years. I volunteered to participate in this TACT chelation study about eight years ago. I didn't know whether I was a 'control' or a 'treated' but whenever I mentioned it to medical friends, they would shake their heads, and were astonished the study was being done at major medical centers. Now the results are out, and here they are. You might discuss this with your physician.
Patients with diabetes — but not their nondiabetic counterparts — had lower event rates following chelation therapy. Also, antidotes for the new oral anticoagulants may be on the way.
Chelation Has Benefits in Patients With Diabetes
Chelation reduced major cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes, but not in those without diabetes, a subgroup analysis of the TACT trial showed.
The overall trial results, reported at the American Heart Association meeting last year, showed a significant benefit from chelation therapy using disodium ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid (EDTA) versus placebo in patients 50 and older who had had a prior myocardial infarction.
But the new analysis — which was presented at this year’s AHA meeting and published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes — suggests that the benefit is confined to the patients with diabetes, who made up 37% of the trial population. In that subgroup, the risk of any cardiovascular event — including death, reinfarction, stroke, coronary revascularization, or hospitalization for angina — over 5 years was reduced by 41% with chelation (25% versus 38%; HR 0.59, 95% CI 0.44-0.79). The number needed to treat was 6.5.
‘These findings support efforts to replicate these findings and define the mechanisms of benefit,’ Gervasio Lamas, MD, of Mount […]
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