Fukushima Radiation in Your Sushi, but No Worries MSM Says
Fukushima radiation seen in tuna off California
Reuters
By Deborah Zabarenko | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Low levels of nuclear radiation from the tsunami-damaged Fukushima power plant have turned up in bluefin tuna off the California coast, suggesting that these fish carried radioactive compounds…
I love the way all of these mainstream media outlets are reporting (downplaying) that they found a group of bluefin tuna off the coast of California that are contaminated with cesium-137 and cesium-134 which can be traced back to the damaged Daiichi Nuclear Power Plan in Fukushima, Japan. All these media outlets are quick to assure us all that this is fine and should pose no health threat. Also, these fish were found in AUGUST 2011 and they are just now getting around to reporting on it NINE MONTHS LATER.
Sure. That’s fine. A little bio-accumulating ionizing nuclear radiation in your tuna with a half-life of 30 YEARS (for cesium-137) is just fine.
And it’s just a little bit in this fish and a little bit in that kelp and a little bit in those vegetables and a little bit in milk across the country and a little bit in some pollen and a little bit on the trade winds and a little bit in some fruit and a little bit and a little bit and a little bit more…
No big deal. Nothing to see here. Eat up.
SNARK of the WEEK | Memorial Day 2012 | News You Could Lose!
Welcome to a Memorial Day military-themed Snark… Considering last Saturday’s was unusually long, I decided to maybe start doing a couple a week and breaking it all down into smaller bits. This one seems to fit with the theme of the day.
The gamut: who cares about Posse Comitatus, the new and not improved big brother spy grid straight to you from the dystopian nightmares of George Orwell where everything down to using the word “snow” online might get you spied on, the unlawfulness and unconstitutionality of preventative/preemptive war, taxpayers pour a bajillion dollars into the runaway war machine, Hillary’s Yemeni propaganda campaign goes live, al-CIA-duh, Kentucky Fried Bilderbergers…and I’m sure there is something else but I can’t remember now.
Occupy Bilderberg Info
Info Vid: http://youtu.be/1HdCvCqVGpA
Main site: http://occupybilderberg.org/
Orgs that will be there:
Infowars: http://www.infowars.com/expose-bilderberg-2012-itinerary/
We Are Change: http://wearechange.org/donationdrive/
The Intel Hub: http://theintelhub.com/bilderberg-2012/
Press for Truth: http://pressfortruth.tv/
Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/events/353805951347304
Ah…the news…good times. It’s like a train wreck: you don’t want to witness the horror but you can’t look away. It’s worse than that one time your dad got drunk, dressed up in your mom’s swimsuit, and positioned a spotlight on himself in your driveway while he did his best rendition of Cher’s “Believe” for the whole neighborhood…something like that.
SNARK of the WEEK | Sat. May 26, 2012 | News You Could Lose! #2
I’m baaaaaaaack. Round two. I had a really hard time choosing what to leave out this time because the news this week was MESSED UP.
The gamut: US favorable on giving Turkey armed drones, “birthers” are back, Illinois hates real food, loves Monsanto, Monsanto loves unleashing mutations, the UN wants to save the planet (just not the people living on it), buying our cheap trash from China, Merck sucks, flu shots help pregnant women if you are a eugenicist, World Health Org says Fukushima radiation is awesome, TSA wants to grope you — hires pedo bears to do it — and is training said pedos to detect bombs in our crotches, Eric Holder might get held in contempt (of humanity? already is) and the Dept. of Justice on obstructing justice, love the drones because the gov loves you, meet the felon who took 40% of the vote from Obama in WV (question remaining: why did 60% vote Obama???), coal plant closures cost Americans big in electricity bills, climate change and WWII are compared for the lose (not even making that up, and if you say I am, you are a denier!), don’t worry — Jamie Dimon Fed appt. is more “advisory” — too bad he took his own advice and lost billions…and I’m sure there is something else but I can’t remember now.
Ah…the news…good times. It’s like a train wreck: you don’t want to see the horror but you can’t look away. It’s worse than a bad soap opera written in a language you don’t know but there aren’t any other channels on your TV so you watch out of sheer boredom…something like that.
Random Weird Thing I Did Not Mention, But This Made Me Scared Simply Because It Exists: http://data.massivehealth.com/ People download an app and take pictures of what they eat and send them in to this massive database throughout the day from all over the world. Big brother much? The data is compiled in this international health initiative that keeps track of where healthy eating is happening with green (good), yellow (caution), and red (bad). It says, “Other apps tell you about your food. We tell you about yourself.” Creeeeeeeeeepy.
My New Vid Series: SNARK of the WEEK | Sat. May 19, 2012 | News You Could Lose!
Ugh. I have a bit of an allergy thing, sorry about that. Anyway, so this is a new idea I had: I plan to start doing a weekly news wrap up to go over all the things I come across in a week that I just have to tell someone else about. I’m going to call it “Snark of the Week.” I plan to have a new installment up every Saturday, hopefully by the afternoon…didn’t quite happen this time, but it’s a noob so hopefully the next one will go smoother. (⊙_⊙’)
The gamut: NATO protesters are domestic terrorists who can be disappeared for any reason, US propaganda machine may be legalized (welcome to 1984!), ridiculous new dem laws and race-baiting training (if you don’t support Obama, you sir/ma’am are a RACIST! Just so you know…), vaccine irony and Obama admin. debating whether or not to test anthrax vaccine on our kids, the only guy in the WH with any CISPA sense left (no, really he quit), robot overlords might take over the world, oops on some bomb dropping, a sheriff who didn’t know his department owned drones, CPS protecting the services more than the child, TSA failing for the quadrillionth time, a quadrillion in derivatives and I’m sure there is something else but I can’t remember now.
Obama Admin: Surveillance, Censorship (in Iran or Syria) Constitute Human Rights Abuses...But Here? Not So Much.
So the Obama administration has come forward to say that online censorship and surveillance for Syrians and Iranians by their governments constitutes “human rights abuses” and he has even signed an executive order to stop it. How he can even keep a straight face while doing that, I’m not sure. Here in America we had SOPA, the house is getting ready to vote on CISPA, and of course the wonderful NDAA. Drones have been approved to patrol our skies, the TSA is now doing random bag checks on public buses, the NSA is building a $2 Billion dollar data farm in Utah to house, well, we aren’t exactly sure because they won’t even tell Congress at inquiry, so why would they tell the American people?
We are clearly living in a police state, but hey, none of these things are human rights abuses…in America.
Right.
~Mel
GMO: Why Don’t They Want You to Know?
Melissa Melton
April 22, 2012
Vermont bill H. 722, aka The Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, would require genetically modified hybrid foods otherwise known as genetically modified organisms (GMO) to be labeled. Genetically modified food giant Monsanto has gone on the record threatening to slap Vermont with a lawsuit if the state goes through with this. Now the bill voting is stalled. Will Vermont bow to big corporation greed and ignore the will of its people?
GMO makes up at least 70% of the processed food in America, and many people have no clue. If you are eating something from the middle aisles of your average grocery store, there’s a good chance it has GMO in it. America grows two thirds of the world’s genetically modified crops. Monsanto has made lots of products using recombinant DNA technology that splices organisms together with the traits of other organisms. I even read about how they tried to splice a potato with fish traits, but they had to abandon the project after people with allergies to fish were getting sick from it. Here’s just a smattering of some of the GMO science experiments that have been attempted in recent years from NonGMOshoppingguide.com:
- Spider genes were inserted into goat DNA, in hopes that the goat milk would contain spider web protein for use in bulletproof vests.
- Cow genes turned pigskins into cowhides.
- Jellyfish genes lit up pigs’ noses in the dark.
- Artic fish genes gave tomatoes and strawberries tolerance to frost.
- Potatoes that glowed in the dark when they needed watering.
- Human genes were inserted into corn to produce spermicide.
- Corn engineered with human genes (Dow)
- Sugarcane engineered with human genes (Hawaii Agriculture Research Center)
- Corn engineered with jellyfish genes (Stanford University)
- Tobacco engineered with lettuce genes (University of Hawaii)
- Rice engineered with human genes (Applied Phytologics)
- Corn engineered with hepatitis virus genes (Prodigene)
The production of GMO is to take living, natural things and put them in the hands of mad scientists to tweak and mutate as they see fit. This stuff then gets marketed, sold, and fed to you and your family without your knowledge. Why? Because they are making MONEY. Does it even matter that it took nature three billion years to create these things? Apparently not to companies like Monsanto because it believes it can make nature “better” than nature can.
As Phil Angell, Monsanto’s director of corporate communications explained in 1998: “Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is FDA’s job.”
Unfortunately, it isn’t making nature better. Do a web search on this issue and you’ll return a ton of information on how genetically modified organisms are threatening our natural world by tainting and pushing out real nature…the list goes on and on. Research also recently came back that an EPA-approved GMO insecticide is killing off honeybees. Bees everywhere are being afflicted with colony collapse disorder. Bees are dying off in droves all over the world. Do people even realize the full ramifications of this? Honeybees are our pollinators! Without bees, at least third of our world’s food supply will disappear! The evidence is so clear, scientists are now calling for a global ban on these pesticides.
Looking into this even further, Monsanto has already sued Vermont once before AND WON when the state pushed to require milk producers to label their products if they contained synthetic bovine growth hormones (hormones which have shown in studies to be directly linked to cancer). Who benefits here? Vermont is just trying to do what is best for its people as the people have asked. Monsanto on the other hand? It’s all about the bottom line. One of their biggest sellers is a corn that creates its own pesticide. Logic dictates if you are eating a corn that creates its own pesticide, YOU ARE EATING PESTICIDE. I guess that doesn’t look so good on a food label, does it. (That was rhetorical.) Poland is even trying to completely ban the mutant pesticide corn, and Poland’s minister has said be believes the pollen from this mutant pesticide corn is devastating their bees. So if it isn’t the GMO insecticide killing bees, it’s the GMO pollen! Or both! Fifteen hundred beekeepers even marched in the streets of Warsaw to protest GMO a couple months ago.
Do we really even know the long-term effects of GMO on humans? Research is calling these toxins for what they really are. Studies in animals have shown all kinds of awful adverse effects on organ systems including the blood cells, heart, adrenal glands, liver, and kidneys. Fetal development is impacted. Argentinian farmers are currently suing Monsanto in regards to birth defects caused by Monsanto herbicides and pesticides. Side effects in a prison in 2009 where GMO soy meat was substituted for real meat included prisoners complaining of constipation, diarrhea, stomach issues, hyperthyroidism, heart palpitations, brain fog, and depression among others. You know, I’m sure many prisoners had to already be depressed just because they were in prison, so to get even more depressed after eating GMO is pretty sad. (I won’t even get into the stories about how farmers are killing themselves in India over GMO to the tune of a farmer suicide averaged every thirty minutes otherwise known as “The GM Genocide”…that’s a whole other evil spectrum of how bad this really is which would require several more articles to even cover.)
If Monsanto is so proud of its genetically modified products, why don’t they label them? Why don’t they want you to know you are eating them? Polls have consistently shown that the majority of Americans want GMO labeled. Why shouldn’t we be allowed to protect ourselves or at least know what we are putting into our bodies? We want to know if we’re eating this stuff! THIS IS WRONG!
Why don’t they want you to know? The bottom line here is, secrecy isn’t reserved for good, legitimate things. Secrecy is reserved for bad things lurking in the shadows. And GMO? It’s a bad, bad thing.
Impeach Obama 2012! Join the National Campaign!
http://www.infowars.com/obama-impeachment-2012/
Obama Impeachment 2012
Kurt Nimmo
Film director, producer, actor and writer Sean Stone has thrown his weight behind a resolution introduced in the House last month by North Carolina Republican Walter Jones. Resolution 107 states that should the president use offensive military force without the authorization of Congress that such an act would be “an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor.”
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution reserves exclusively for Congress the power to declare war. Both Thomas Jefferson and James Madison argued that the power to declare war must reside in the legislative branch of government and the president will only act as the commander-in-chief and direct the war after it is declared by Congress.
“The constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the legislature,” Madison wrote.
In the video, Stone notes Obama’s unconstitutional war on Libya was waged “despite the fact that the United States was neither attacked, nor threatened for attack by the nation of Libya.”
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said during questioning by Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama that the Obama administration does not believe Congress has the exclusive right to declare war and that the Pentagon answers to the United Nations, not the people of the United States.
The Obama administration “does not believe that the Congress has the exclusive power to declare war,” Stone notes, and “accordingly the president should be impeached.”
Stone also mentions Obama’s facilitation of the banker engineered 2008 “bailout” as an additiojnal reason he should be tried for High Crimes and Misdemeanors and impeached. Obama’s efforts worked in favor of the “consolidation of private banks, many of them in Europe.”
“There was no investment of any meaningful type in the physical economy, there was no protection of the American people,” Sean explains. “Rather, an illegal commitment made on behalf of private banking interests, to commit the American people to paying a debt that the American people did not accrue.”
He rightly notes that Obama’s actions “represent the most clear violation of the principal of the general welfare of the people in the preamble of the Constitution of the United States.”
In addition to setting the stage for the economic rape of the American people and waging illegal and unconstitutional wars, Obama has committed a number of other egregious violations of the Constitution.
Specifically, Obama violated the Constitution’s Takings and Due Process Clauses when he bullied the secured creditors of automaker Chrysler into accepting 30 cents on the dollar while political connected labor unions and preferential others better deals.
In addition, the Dodd-Frank financial “reform” bill created the so-called Financial Protection Bureau and Financial Stability Oversight Council, bureaucratic monstrosities that are now engaged in unchecked and unconstitutional economic action without consulting Congress. The Dodd-Frank bill also further empowers the bankster’s preferred cartel, the Federal Reserve (which has engaged in unconstitutional activity for nearly a hundred years).
“No list of President Obama’s constitutional violations would be complete without including the requirement that every American purchase health insurance, on penalty of civil fine. The individual mandate is unprecedented and exceeds Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce. If it is allowed to stand, Congress will be able to impose any kind of economic mandate as part of any kind of national regulatory scheme. Fortunately, the Supreme Court has a chance to strike this down during its current term,” writes Ilya Shapiro, a Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.
Obama signed into law the NDAA with a provision allowing the military to indefinitely detain American citizens. “He will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law,” said the executive director of the ACLU, Anthony Romero.
Finally, Obama may be tried and impeached for signing a large number of executive orders. Article II of the Constitution provides the president with three options when presented with legislation — do nothing, sign the bill, or veto it in its entirety.
“Obama’s use of signing statements has clearly shown his willingness to continue the George W. Bush legacy — not only of torture and illegal detainment, but in the dangerous trend of de facto rule by ‘executive fiat.’ Worse, such signing statements put in place a precedent for future presidents to follow — or expand upon,” writes Aaron Dykes.
(Source: smell-the-revolution)
Mom of 5 arrested in Indiana for practicing midwifery
When a car pulled up to her house a little after 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 31st, Ireena Keeslar was still in her pajamas.
Ireena and her husband, who keep the Sabbath from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday, were just finishing up a late breakfast.
They weren’t expecting any visitors. They certainly weren’t expecting the police.
But Keeslar, who is 49 years old and lives in Howe, Indiana, was put into handcuffs and taken to jail.
She was arrested for practicing midwifery as well.
Certified practical midwifery, as well as direct-entry midwifery, is illegal in Indiana.
Though certified nurse midwives may practice in a hospital setting, professional midwives, regardless of their training or experience, may not deliver babies at home or in the hospital.
But since LaGrange County, where Keeslar lives, has a large Amish community, demands for homebirth midwifery services are high.
Just over the border in Michigan, where she delivers most of her babies, homebirth midwifery is unregulated, being legal by default.
She couldn’t stop crying on the way to the county jail, Keeslar told me today when I spoke to her on the phone. A diabetic and a mother of five, Keeslar explains that her own mother died this past October and her only brother died last year of cancer, and that being arrested was completely demoralizing.
Keeslar was a nurse and worked in obstetrics before deciding to become a midwife.
She has participated in over 1,700 births, about 400 of which have been babies born at home.
Homebirth midwives in Michiana, the area of northwest Indiana and south central Michigan, charge between $900 and $3,500 per birth, which includes prenatal care.
Nationally, the average hospital birth costs between $5,000 (for an uncomplicated hospital birth) to $20,000 (for a C-section with complications). This does not include the price of prenatal care.
Keeslar’s arrest was not associated with any bad outcome. But she is the second professional midwife to be arrested in the past two months.
This is what happens when government thinks it knows best. There is absolutely no reason for a mom of five, nonviolent offender to be handcuffed and hauled to jail for doing something that doesn’t even interfere with anyone else’s rights. There is absolutely no reason for midwifery to be illegal other than to protect the interests of doctors and hospitals. Despite its illegality, midwifery remains in high demand in Indiana because women want choices when it comes to the delivery of their babies.
“It just seems unbelievable to me that in the 21st century people can’t have a baby without somebody telling them how to do it.”The article goes on to say that while in jail, Ireena was not given food appropriate for a diabetic and was denied access to her insulin.
Obama administration diverts $500M to IRS to implement healthcare reform law
“The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law.”
So he’s doing it anyway? Wasn’t there, oh yeah, that whole other body of government called the Judicial Branch he has to wait for? I could have sworn we had a system of checks and balances in this country. Are we no longer a Constitutional Republic? Or are we just a full-fledged dictatorship now… (that last part was, sadly, rhetorical).
~Mel
Federal Government Celebrates 40th Consecutive Month Operating at a Deficit
The federal government ran a $777 billion deficit for the first six months of fiscal year 2012, the Congressional Budget Office estimated on Friday, including a $196 billion hole in March, marking the 40th straight month of deficits.
That streak goes back to the financial collapse under President George W. Bush, and means the government has never run a surplus in any month during President Obama’s tenure. The longest previous deficit streak on record was 11 months.
At $777 billion, this year’s deficit is an improvement compared to 2011 at this point, with tax revenues rising $46 billion and spending falling by $7 billion — due in part to the expiration of some stimulus programs in education and Medicaid.
But we need to keep spending to ward of unemployment guys. There’s no such thing as the crowing out effect or the broken window fallacy. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
Wow, what a box of fail.
