Archive for July, 2012
Milk Wars: The Latest Battlefront In Food Freedom
Posted by EndlessMemories in FDA, Health, News, War On Food & Supplements on July 31, 2012
via: CorbettReport
July 31, 2012
Recent research and data are challenging long held beliefs about the benefits of pasteurization, and a vigorous debate is currently underway in the medical profession over the safety and benefits of raw, organic dairy products.
Whatever side of this argument any individual comes down on in the scientific debate, the policy and law that comes out of that debate has to be seen in the larger societal and historical context. If farmers have enjoyed the freedom to grow and process their foods as they see fit for centuries, and customers likewise have enjoyed the freedom to purchase those foods from those producers they personally trust, how and why did the FDA gain the authority to interfere in that process? By what jurisdiction does a federal regulator have the authority to legislate what foods people are allowed to put into their own bodies?
As truth about Fukushima radiation emerges, Japanese authorities struggle to maintain cover-up
Posted by EndlessMemories in Health, Natural Environment & Weather, News on July 31, 2012
via: NaturalNews
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
By: Jonathan Benson
[NaturalNews] The cat is out of the bag, as more evidence continues to emerge proving that clean-up workers at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility in Japan deliberately covered up high radiation readings at the order of their superiors. And as more people become aware of this disturbing fact, Japanese authorities are trying to maintain the facade that the cover-up was an isolated incident, and that there was not a larger conspiracy to hide legitimate radiation readings from the public.
The Japanese news source Asahi Shimbun (AS) reports that a senior official working for Build-Up, a subcontractor hired during the Fukushima clean-up efforts, has admitted to instructing his workers to wear lead coverings over their dosimeters in order to shield accurate radiation readings. Dosimeters measure an individual’s exposure to radiation, and indicate when it is no longer safe to be in the presence of a radiation source.
Recordings uncovered from a December 2 conversation between the official and his employees reveals that he coaxed them to use the lead coverings by claiming that he had used them many times before without issue. He also apparently told them that they would have to use them in future clean-up efforts as well, and implied that they should get used to using them now.
According to AS, the senior official also came up with an alibi that the workers could use to explain the coverings, should anyone inquire about the unusual presence of tape on their torn radiation protection suits. All the bases were covered, in other words, which was enough to convince four of the workers to go along with the plan.
Senior official’s confession makes no sense, appears to be even more cover-up
But now that the media has blown the lid off the story, the senior official in question is now claiming that the incident was isolated, and that he came up with it himself on the fly in order to protect him and his team from radiation. What? Even though this explanation makes absolutely no sense, as dosimeters cover up radiation readings, not the radiation itself, this is the story he is now telling, and the mainstream media appears to be buying it.
When asked about this obviously contradictory statement, the senior official followed up his answer with another nonsensical one about how his workers were new at the job, and how he thought that telling them to wear lead coverings over the only thing that would have alerted them to dangerous levels of radiation would somehow quell their fears. Again, this explanation makes no sense, and appears to point to a cover-up as to who really instructed him and his team to wear the lead coverings.
So a senior official takes the hit for a cover-up intended to deceive the public into thinking that radiation levels were lower than they really were at the Fukushima plant. When asked to explain what he was thinking when he made this decision, he offers up senseless explanations that make no sense, and insists that he was the only one involved, for some unknown reason. Suspicious? You be the judge.
Sources for this article include:
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201207230087
http://www.naturalnews.com/036571_Fukushima_radiation_West_Coast.html
BANKSTER DEATH PENALTY – Iran Sentences Four Bankers To Hang For $2.6 Billion Fraud
Posted by EndlessMemories in Big Oil, Economy, Finance, News on July 31, 2012
via: DailyBail
July 31, 2012
Hang the bankers… ? Bernanke, Paulson, Geithner, Rubin, Corzine, Dimon and Blankfein aresafe for now, but perhaps if we moved Wall Street to downtown Tehran.
We have an entire class of people and financial corporations who do little more than use their money (via lobbying) and power to extract (e.g., legally steal) billions of dollars from both taxpayers and shareholders, and they are heralded as ‘job creators’ and ‘captains of industry.’ When caught doing something that is actually illegal (Libor manipulation, for example), they blame rogue traders and call upon political connections with Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer via the Covington & Burling infested Department of Justice.
Scoundrels, every last one of them.
Meanwhile, those who steal from grocery stores generally go to jail.
It is not fair. It is not just. It is not right. And it is why, according to a new Gallup Poll,‘Reducing Corruption in Government’ has become the second most important issue to American voters, with a whopping 87% of all votes.
Now, onto to Iran, where banksters get punished.
Ecuadorian Court Orders Chevron to Pay $19 Billion for Environmental Damages
Posted by EndlessMemories in Big Oil, Natural Environment & Weather, News on July 31, 2012
via: NaturalSociety
by: Lisa Garber
July 31, 2012
An Ecuadorian court recently demanded Chevron to pay $19 billion in environmental damages. This includes $900 million for the Amazon Defense Front—a coalition of plaintiffs in this decade-long legal battle—and an additional $8.6 billion because Chevron refused to apologize. Ouch!
The Amazon’s Chernobyl
Instead of paying up, Chevron is putting up its usual dirty fight. Its lawyers plan to appeal, and called the region’s legal system “illegitimate” and the reparations “unenforceable in any court that observes the rule of law.”
Those are strong words from a company that, between 1964 and 1990, had such poor waste management practices that 1,400 locals died. Needless to say, it’s not called “the Amazon’s Chernobyl” for nothing.
During those years, Chevron dumped billions of gallons of waste oil and water into open pits, thereby polluting fishing grounds, devastating crops, killing farm animals, and raising the rate of cancer among residents. Texaco (later bought by California-based Chevron) acknowledged the damage enough to promise $40 million to clean up after themselves, but they don’t seem happy about the updated number, $19 billion.
Fraud and Misconduct
“Rather than accept responsibility, Chevron has launched a campaign of warfare against the Ecuadorean courts and the impoverished victims of its unfortunate practices,” said Pablo Fajardo, now celebrated lawyer and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2008 for his dedication to the case.
Chevron boasted $19 billion in earnings in 2010 and is predictably reluctant to let a cent of it go. In 2011, they claimed to have undercover investigators with evidence of improper association between the judges and plaintiffs. “We intend to see that the perpetrators of this fraud are held accountable for their misconduct,” they said in February 2011.
The plaintiffs—and activists worldwide—hope the same justice is meted out to Big Oil, and the justice better come soon.
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Flash Mob Crimes And Organized Looting Have Become A Normal Part Of Life In America
Posted by EndlessMemories in News on July 31, 2012
via: EconomicCollapseBlog
July 31, 2012
Once upon a time, most Americans had never even heard of “flash mob robberies” or “organized looting”. Now they are considered to be a part of normal life in America. On Saturday, more than 20 teens stormed into a trendy clothing store in Chicago and stole more than $3,000worth of jeans, but it barely made a blip on the national news because this kind of thing has become so common. After all, we just saw the exact same kind of thing happen in Jacksonville, Detroit, Baltimore and a whole bunch of other places. Flash mob crimes have become so common in Chicago that they take public opinion polls about them. But when I first started writing about this phenomenon a couple of years ago, hardly anyone knew what “mob robberies” were. In fact, I had to explain what these “flash mobs” were doing to a couple of radio hosts because they had never heard of such a thing. But now everybody knows about the flash mobs. Another disturbing trend that we are seeing all over America is “organized looting”. Groups of desperate criminals are going into empty or abandoned buildings and stripping out copper wire, copper pipes and anything else that they can sell for money. At one time these kinds of thefts made the news, but now they have also become so common that they don’t get much notice anymore.
The sad truth is that the streets of America are changing. They are becoming a lot more hostile and a lot more dangerous.
Young people in America today do not have respect for authority, they do not have respect for those that are older than them and they do not even have respect for themselves.
Posted below is surveillance camera footage of the mob robbery mentioned above during which thousands of dollars worth of jeans were stolen. These kids obviously plotted to commit this crime well in advance. These kids have so little respect for themselves that they are willing to potentially jeopardize their futures over a few pairs of lousy jeans….
Silver Needs Gold’s Coat Tails To Rise Further
Posted by EndlessMemories in Economy, Finance, News, Silver & Gold on July 31, 2012
via: MineWeb
by: Geoff Candy
July 31, 2012
According to David Morgan, while silver prices are likely to move higher over the rest of 2012, a move up in gold will be needed as a catalyst.
The bottom for silver prices looks to have been reached recently says, David Morgan, but, in order for prices to start moving upwards, gold is going to have to lead the way.
Speaking to Mineweb.com’s Metals Weekly podcast, the author of The Morgan Report and a silver specialist, Morgan explained that the current consolidation phase is likely to continue for a while longer but added, “the sentiment right now is for safe haven status and gold holds a much higher place in investors mind than silver does, so to get silver moving again I think gold is going to have to lead us up out of this basic pattern in a rather significant way and I think then silver will probably follow it up.”
While he admits this is not always the case, Morgan told Mineweb this time around silver is going to need to move significantly before new investment money comes into silver.
Almost one in ten employers to drop health insurance coverage under Obamacare
Posted by EndlessMemories in Health, News on July 31, 2012
via: NaturalNews
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
By: J. D. Heyes
[NaturalNews] One of the elements of Obamacare critics have been most vocal about is the so-called government-sponsored “insurance pools” the law creates. Now that it’s largely been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, these pools will soon become a reality.
So what? That’s the basis of the law, to provide insurance for everyone, correct?
Yes, but not necessarily the type of insurance you want. Or that you have now, say, through your employer.
One of the law’s selling points uttered by everyone in the administration paid to defend it, especially the president himself, promised Americans they could keep their current health insurance.
In his Weekly Address on August 15, 2009, Obama said of his health care proposal, “First, no matter what you’ve heard, if you like your doctor or healthcare plan, you can keep it.”
That was then. By July 2012, the administration was singing a different tune, admitting that, “as a practical matter, a majority of group health plans will lose their grandfather status by 2013.”
That includes, of course, that employer plan you love so much.
670 Million People In India Lose Power Amid Massive Black Out
Posted by EndlessMemories in Abolishing The Blue Pill Matrix - TRPG Original Content, News, Prepping & Off The Grid Living on July 31, 2012
TheRedPillGuide
July 31, 2012
A dilemma of such monumental proportions such as 670 Million People in India loosing power is something that strikes close to home.
Growing up in Puerto Rico, there were many power outages due to a large amount of tropical storms and hurricanes. Sometimes we could go weeks without power if not longer. Prepping 101 doesn’t get much more realistic than that.
Power outages are one of the many reasons why people should have a buffer of food & water of at minimum three months in order to be able to tackle such problems outright, and not risk being in a highly unstable and dangerous situation.
Hopefully this issue does not last long and the country can recover relatively quickly. Either way, it serves as a great warning to those that carry a nonchalant ‘nothing could ever happen here’ type of an attitude.
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