Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor -
Stephan: I knew this Monsanto list was going to be trouble. I hate using lists if I cannot get them from the primary source, like Pew, Gallup, or Centers for Disease Control. But the Monsanto list like the Koch brothers list is in a gray area. I used the best one I could find, or that was sent to me, the food company list, and I got it from a usually reliable secondary source, but I can tell from the comments it has problems. So my apologies; I cannot speak for the list's accuracy, and I don't have time to do the research myself, and nobody else seems to either.
If anyone has a version of either list that has the primary source I would be interested in seeing it.
-- Stephan
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BEC CREW , - Science alert
Stephan: Excellent News. The research described in this report holds the promise of real progress with Alzheimers. The team says they’re planning on starting trials with higher animal models, such as sheep, and hope to get their human trials underway in 2017.
CITATION: Gerhard Leinenga and Jürgen Götz. Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β and restores memory in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse mode. Science Translational Medicine 11 Mar 2015: Vol. 7, Issue 278, pp. 278ra33 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2512
Neurofibrillary tangles
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Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques – structures that are responsible for memory loss and a decline in cognitive function in Alzheimer’s patients.
If a person has Alzheimer’s disease, it’s usually the result of a build-up of two types of lesions – amyloid plaques, and neurofibrillary tangles. Amyloid plaques sit between the neurons and end up as dense clusters of beta-amyloid molecules, a sticky type of protein that clumps together and forms plaques.
Neurofibrillary tangles are found inside the neurons of the brain, and they’re caused by defective tau proteins that clump up into a thick, insoluble mass. This causes tiny filaments called microtubules to get all twisted, which disrupts the transportation of essential materials such as nutrients and organelles along them, just like when you twist up the vacuum cleaner tube.
As we don’t have any kind of vaccine or preventative measure for Alzheimer’s – a disease that affects 343,000 people in Australia, and […]
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Walter Mayr, - Der Spiegel (Germany)
Stephan: The wholesale transfer of large populations of Muslims into Europe is creating enormous stress in those countries. How could it not, tens or hundreds of thousands of people of a completely different culture, often not speaking or reading the local language, or not well, not understanding the mores, particularly the relationship between men and women, and with radically different views on religion and its place, pouring in over a very short span of time. The assimilation of the immigrants is going to require extraordinary levels of tolerance on both sides. And now, as this report describes, it is shifting to North Africa. The next several generations are going to be very complicated in Europe; this is a huge meta-trend.
Italian gym turned into a refugee dorm
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Hundreds of thousands of Africans are preparing to test their luck on the voyage across the Mediterranean to Europe. As the weather begins improving, the number of arrivals will rise — as will the number of deaths.
Abdul Kadir Mohamed Moalim has seen hell. Originally from Somalia, a country ravaged by civil war, he traveled via a refugee camp in Yemen and then to Libya. From there, he crossed the Mediterranean to Europe.
On April 16, an overloaded wooden vessel capsized on the high seas and only a few people on board managed to survive. Moalim was one of them. Now, he is in Kalamata, the Greek city that rescuers brought him to. In an interview conducted there by the BBC, he was asked if he had a message for those still in Africa who are waiting for their opportunity to flee to Europe. His answer: “It’s so dangerous,” he said. “You have to believe in your country and … […]
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Ellen Brown, - truthouot/The Web of Debt Blog
Stephan: Here is a proven banking model that would transform and improve the economy and, in the process, would result in breakup of the "too-big-to-fail" Wall Street banks. North Dakota proves viability of the model.
In November 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Bank of North Dakota (BND), the nation’s only state-owned depository bank, was more profitable even than J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. The author attributed this remarkable performance to the state’s oil boom; but the boom has now become an oil bust, yet the BND’s profits continue to climb. Its 2015 Annual Report, published on April 20th, boasted its most profitable year ever.
The BND has had record profits for the last 12 years, each year outperforming the last. In 2015 it reported $130.7 million in earnings, total assets of $7.4 billion, capital of $749 million, and a return on investment of a whopping 18.1 percent. Its lending portfolio grew by $486 million, a 12.7 percent increase, with growth in all four of its areas of concentration: agriculture, business, residential, and student loans.
By increasing its lending into a collapsing economy, the BND has helped prop the economy up. In 2015, it introduced new infrastructure programs to improve access to medical facilities, remodel or construct new schools, and build new road and water infrastructure. The Farm Financial Stability Loan was introduced to assist farmers affected by low commodity prices […]
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David Crouch, - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: Following up on the Der Spiegel piece here as some specifics about the Nordic nations. This is a really serious problem; and it is going to fundamentally alter Europe. In what ways is not yet clear; choices are still being made.
Sweden is to reject up to 80,000 people who applied for asylum in the country last year, as many as half of whom will be forced to leave against their will, according to official estimates.
The interior ministry has called on police and migration authorities to prepare for a sharp increase in deportations, and to arrange charter flights to expel refused asylum seekers to their country of origin. Sweden is also approaching other EU countries, including Germany, to discuss cooperation to increase efficiency and make sure flights are filled to capacity, it said.
On Thursday Finland’s interior minister said Helsinki also intended to expel about 20,000 of the 32,000 asylum seekers it received in 2015. “In principle we speak of about two-thirds, meaning approximately 65 percent of the 32,000 will get a negative decision (to their asylum application),” Paivi Nerg, the ministry’s administrative director, told Agence France-Presse.
Sweden received more than 160,000 asylum applications last year – by far the biggest influx in the EU as a proportion of the population. Between 60,000 and 80,000 of them will be rejected, the interior minister, Anders Ygeman, told Swedish media on Thursday.
The revelation that a […]
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