Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
AMANDA MARCOTTE, - The Raw Story
Stephan: It always surprises me that the conservative base doesn't realize the contempt their leaders have for them. It is so clearly demonstrated again and again. This report is just one example.
I was completely unsurprised to find out that Scott Brown was letting Newsmax use his mailing list to blast people with a bunch of quackery. For those who don’t know the story, Huffington Post has a good summary:
“Those who opened an email from former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) on Wednesday expecting an announcement that he is running for Senate in New Hampshire received a surprise instead: a message from a doctor and noted vaccination opponent claiming that vaccines, and even too much exercise, lead to Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease.
‘Dear Patriot,” wrote Brown. ‘I thought you might be interested in the offer below from our sponsor Newsmax Health,” the medical advice affiliate of the popular conservative news website. The email includes a video titled ‘5 Signs You’ll Get Alzheimer’s,” which touts the claims of ‘renowned neurosurgeon and nutritionist Dr. Russell Blaylock.”
In it, Blaylock warns people not to drink fluoridated water or use toothpaste to avoid the ‘dramatic destruction of cells” seen in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease. The video also touts research showing that those who get a flu vaccine yearly for 3-5 years increase their risk for Alzheimer’s ‘ten-fold,” a claim that has been repeatedly debunked. In fact, a 2001 study […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2014
PETER HECHT, - The Sacramento Bee
Stephan: This report spells out very clearly what Marijuana Prohibition is really about: It is essential to justify the budgets of law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, and a vast array of corporate interests, all of whom live on the money that comes from the insanity of the War on Drugs.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 2010, as Colorado lawmakers were creating America’s first state-licensed and regulated medical marijuana industry, fellow police officers at a Colorado Drug Investigators Association conference jeered a state law enforcement official assigned to draft the legislation.
Some of the sharpest barbs came from visiting narcotics officers from California.
“I was told that we hadn’t learned anything from California — that you can’t do anything to regulate marijuana,” said Matt Cook, a retired Colorado Springs police officer who became the first director of Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division, a policing agency that now regulates state-licensed marijuana workers, pot stores and commercial cannabis producers.
While Colorado moved forward with pot industry oversight, the narcotics officers who berated Cook were right — at least about California, where trying to regulate America’s largest marijuana economy has become a perennial political loser. A key factor has been intense law enforcement opposition itself.
In California, police have forcefully opposed any legislation seen as legitimizing a marijuana industry. Their opposition reflects a belief by many police officers that medical marijuana businesses are profiteering shams that were never authorized by California voters.
Training seminars offered for police by the California Narcotic Officers’ Association suggest there is no such thing as medical […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2014
Stephan: Here is yet another food nightmare. Pay close attention to the coding at the end of this short piece; it will help you identify this corrupted food. Once again I counsel you to eat only organic food, locally sourced if possible. And don't ever eat in a fastfood restaurants. Much of what they serve is food by only he loosest interpretation.
A California company is recalling 8.7 million lbs (3.95 million kg) of beef parts because it used “diseased and unsound animals” and lacked proper federal inspections, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Saturday.
Rancho Feeding Corp of Petaluma, California, produced the beef between January 1 and January 7 and shipped the meat to distribution centers and stores in California, Florida, Illinois and Texas, the department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a statement.
No one answered the phone number listed for Rancho Feeding Corporation on Saturday.
The products are unfit for human food and must be removed, the department said. There have been no reports of illness, but consumers are advised to contact a healthcare provider if concerned, the USDA said.
The USDA listed 18 categories of beef parts that are subject to recall, such as feet, lips, cheeks, hearts and tongues. They are in boxes of up to 60 lbs (27 kg).
Some beef carcasses for sale are also in the recall.
Beef carcasses and boxes bear the establishment number “EST.
527” inside the USDA mark of inspection and have a case code number ending in 3 or 4.
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Monday, February 10th, 2014
Stephan: Here is some more good news. This is the latest on Low Energy Nuclear Reaction technology (LENR) which, I continue to believe, is going to be a game changer. Industrial Heat LLC, mentioned in this report, is backed by Cherokee Investment Partners, the vehicle of billionaire investor and CEO Thomas Darden, who is interested in deploying the cold fusion technology commercially in both China and the US. In the next five years I think this is going to become a big deal.
RESEARCH TRIANGLE, N.C. — Industrial Heat, LLC announced today that it has acquired the rights to Andrea Rossi’s Italian low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) technology, the Energy Catalyzer (E-Cat). A primary goal of the company is to make the technology widely available, because of its potential impact on air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels and biomass.
“The world needs a new, clean and efficient energy source. Such a technology would raise the standard of living in developing countries and reduce the environmental impact of producing energy,” said JT Vaughn speaking on behalf of Industrial Heat (IH).
Mr. Vaughn confirmed IH acquired the intellectual property and licensing rights to Rossi’s LENR device after an independent committee of European scientists conducted two multi-day tests at Rossi’s facilities in Italy.
The published report by the European committee concluded, “Even by the most conservative assumptions as to the errors in the measurements, the result is still one order of magnitude greater than conventional energy sources” [referring to energy output per unit of mass]. The report is available online at http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913. In addition, performance validation tests were conducted in the presence of IH personnel and certified by an independent expert.
Since […]
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Monday, February 10th, 2014
The Thom Hartmann Show, - AlterNet (U.S.)
Stephan: Here is some good news. In the U.S., where the internet was created, by the standards of the developed world we have mediocre internet speeds. If you live in Singapore, or South Korea, or Japan for instance and you come to the U.S. the poor internet speeds available are a constant irritant. Because we have been brainwashed to believe we have the biggest and best of everything, most Americans have no idea how second rate our electronic infrastructure actually is.
But it does not have to be that way, as this report spells out.
It’s time for high-speed internet access for all!
This morning, President Obama spoke to a crowd at a middle school in Adelphi, Maryland about the importance of high-speed internet access for America’s students.
But while high-speed internet access may still seem out-of-reach for many Americans, down in Chattanooga, Tennessee it’s been a reality for a long time.
That’s because Chattanooga is home to ‘The Gig,” a taxpayer-owned, high-speed fiber-optic network.
According to The New York Times [3], back in 2009, Chattanooga received a $111 million stimulus grant from the federal government, which allowed that city to get ‘The Gig” up and running.
Maintained and operated by Chattanooga’s publicly-owned utility company EPB, ‘The Gig” allows Chattanooga’s residents to surf the web at lightning-fast speeds.
For less than $70 per month, residents browse the World Wide Web on a high-speed fiber-optic connection that shoots data back and forth at one gigabit per second – that’s 1000 megabytes per second. Where I live in Washington, D.C., you have to pay a lot just to get a 20 megabit-per-second connection.
As The New York Times points out, one gigabit-per-second is 50 times faster than the average internet speed for homes in the rest of the US, and is just as fast […]
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