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August 18, 2016
GMO ban expands in Russia as Putin halts all production and imports
Russia has adopted a new law that prohibits all GMO crop cultivation and GMO animal breeding in the Russian Federation, to prevent the release of GMOs into the environment. Furthermore, the new law allows the Russian government to restrict the import of GMO products that may pose a threat to human health or the environment.
In 2015, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Parliament that the country should become the world’s largest supplier of organic foods. Later that year, Russia enforced a law that required strict labeling of products that contain GMOs, while the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich announced that Russia would not use genetically modified organisms to increase productivity in agriculture.
“Russia has chosen a different path. We will not use these [GMO] technologies,” he said.
As a result, a bill for a full ban on the cultivation of GMO crops was sent to the State Duma, which has now been fully approved.
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Justice Dept Announces it Will End Use of For-Profit Prisons — Prison Stocks Plummet
Source: Claire Bernish
In a stunning turn of events, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it will no longer use private prisons to incarcerate federal prisoners, deeming the notorious for-profit facilities both less safe and less effective in providing correctional services than those operated by the government.
“They simply do not provide the same level of correctional services, programs, and resources; they do not save substantially on costs; and as noted in a recent report by the Department’s Office of Inspector General, they do not maintain the same level of safety and security,” Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates explained in today’s announcement.
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Big Insurers Bailing-Out On Obamacare’s Healthcare Exchanges
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Aetna withdraws from Obamacare to retaliate for Department of Justice anti-merger lawsuit. When you give big bloated health insurance companies too much power, they abuse it. Is anyone surprised?
Now we know the real reason Aetna bailed on Obamacare
Bob Bryan
Obamacare on Death Bed as Enrollment is Half the Expected Rate (the Unprofitable Half); Mispriced Insurance and Unstable Economics to Blame
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Too bad Obama rejected the Public Option – and the proposal to expand Medicare (which is cheap and efficient to run) to everyone.
Obamacare is facing the hard knocks of reality. Selling overpriced insurance to the healthy and underpriced insurance to the sick is not a good model for insurance companies.
Aetna is the latest insurer to say it has had enough. Aetna announced it withdraw from 11 of 15 states where it currently offers plans through the exchanges.
Pinal County Arizona, in the Phoenix area, may have no insurers offering plans.
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August 17, 2016
Koch Funded Group Seeks to Kill EVs
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Koch funded group seeks to kill electric cars – again.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week
A long-awaited campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling U.S. Forward made its public debut at the Red State Gathering 2016 on Saturday, where the organization’s President and CEOCharles Drevna gave attendees the inside scoop on the effort, and confirmed that the campaign is backed financially by Koch Industries.
Back in February, Peter Stone first reported in the Huffington Post that a $10 million-a-year effort was proposed by a Koch Industries board member, James Mahoney, and Mr. Drevna, aiming “to boost petroleum-based transportation fuels and attack government subsidies for electric vehicles.” In early August, the Fueling U.S. Forward website launched, and on Saturday, the first public comments were made about the campaign by Mr. Drevna, and they revealed a lot about how the Koch-backed initiative is working to re-frame fossil fuels.
“We need a sustainable energy to ensure the future of the country,” Mr. Drevna told the audience.
The source of that energy? That which…
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Report Finds Toxins/Carcinogens in Popular Brands of Toothpaste
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Baking soda works just as well for me as it did for my grandmother – and it’s also far cheaper. I know how it is though. The colorful packaging and corporate logos leap out at you from the supermarket shelves and it’s very hard not to be seduced. It’s a kind of addiction.
Cornucopia Institute | 16 August, 2016
CORNUCOPIA, WI – The latest report by The Cornucopia Institute, an organic industry watchdog, uncovers serious problems in cosmetics industry regulations. Regulatory weaknesses and loopholes allow for the use of questionable, even harmful ingredients in personal care products, such as toothpastes, that could negatively impact the health of the users.
Behind the Dazzling Smile: Toxic Ingredients in Your Toothpaste, describes how the quality of “natural” toothpastes varies significantly between brands and how these personal oral care products commonly include nonessential ingredients that may be harmful.
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If the Bees Die Off, We Go With Them
More Than Honey
Directed by Marcus Imhoof (2012)
Film Review
More Than Honey is a documentary investigating colony collapse disorder, the mysterious condition that threatens to wipe out the global honeybee population. As the great majority of our food crops rely on bees for pollination, this would also have dire consequences for humankind.
Scientists featured in the film report that colony collapse disorder has three main causes: insecticide (neonicotinoid*) poisoning, veroa mites and “stress.” They emphasize that the European honeybee (also the sole source of the US honeybee population) has been “domesticated,” just as larger farm animals have. This domestication reduces their stress tolerance: they can no longer tolerate two day trips across the US (in trucks) the way they once did.
More Than Honey includes some fabulous footage of bees doing their elaborate wangle** dance and struggling with mite infestation and after effects of pesticide spraying.
What I found most intriguing about this documentary was learning that Africanized honeybees may be the salvation of the domestic bee population. Commonly maligned as so-called “killer bees,” African bees are good pollinators and honey producers. They are also resistant to veroa mite.
* Since More than Honey was made in 2012, the EU has placed a total ban on neonicitinoid use.
**When bees return to the hive, bees perform a special wangle dance to communicate to other bees the location of a good nectar source.
August 16, 2016
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Supporters Block Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline
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Native American activists block construction of Bakken Pipeline.
Finding Truth In an Illusory World
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Derrick BrozeNative AmericansOil
August 13, 2016
Native activists and supporters have been facing off with authorities as they battle the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline Project in North Dakota.
On Wednesday and Thursday, protesters were arrested while attempting to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline Project near Cannonball, North Dakota. The protesters have come from all around the country in support of the Sacred Stone Camp,
which formed in response to the Army Corps of Engineers granting approval permits for construction.
The DAPL, alternatively known as the Bakken Pipeline, is owned by Houston, Texas based corporation Energy Transfer Partners, L.P., which created the subsidiary Dakota Access LLC. The pipeline will stretch 1,172 miles upon completion and transport crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois.
10 Aug
Unicorn Riot@UR_Ninja
Day One – Construction under Missouri slated to begin people demand honoring of treaties. #RezpectOurWater#
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Professor Noam Chomsky Lectures Leftists on Why They Should Vote for Neo-Liberal, Imperial War Hawk Hillary Clinton
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Leaves me wondering who paid Chomsky to write the article. Who exactly is he working for?
By Edward Curtin
Global Research, August 15, 2016
In an article worthy of the convoluted and deceptive logic of the New York Times that he is so fond of criticizing, Noam Chomsky, together with John Halle, has published a piece on his website shilling for the election of Hillary Clinton. “An Eight Point Brief for LEV (Lesser Evil Voting)” also comes with a most unusual addendum: “Note: Professor Chomsky requests that he not be contacted with responses to this piece.”
Since personal responses have been ruled out, I will respond in this public forum.
Chomsky begins by writing that “presidential elections continue to pose a dilemma for the left in that any form of participation or non-participation appears to impose a significant cost on our capacity to develop a serious opposition to the corporate agenda served by establishment politicians.” Meaning: there’s a price to pay for voting or not voting – at…
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Cell phone radiation causes brain cancer, says pediatric conference
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Researchers present studies linking cell phone radiation and brain cancer at Baltimore Pediatric Conference.
(NaturalHealth365) Researchers warn us about the dangers of cell phone radiation – especially for our kids. Find out why wireless technology is dangerous.
Source: Cell phone radiation causes brain cancer, says pediatric conference
by: Dena Schmidt, staff writer
August 15, 2016
Today, smartphones are everywhere – even our children use wireless technology. Yet, most caring parents don’t seem to be worried about the dangers of cell phones. Unfortunately, new studies are definitively linking cell phone radiation to health issues in children and the unborn babies carried by pregnant women.
A pediatric conference held at the Baltimore Convention Center provided a forum for health experts to discuss the findings. Yale and Harvard scientists and doctors were particularly vocal about potentially harmful cell phone radiation to the brain development of unborn children. A correlation was found between cell phone use during pregnancy and behavioral problems manifesting in the…
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