NEWS UPDATE 5.29.13-30
CONTENTS OF THIS UPDATE:
EARTHQUAKE IN Santa Barbara, CA
The Truth About Grassfed Beef
Japan suspends wheat imports from Pacific Northwest after modified wheat discovered in Oregon
New Effective Ways to Fight MRSA – Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
IRS ATTACKS POT DISPENSORIES WHILE CITIZENS FAVOR LEGALIZATION
Cicada cam gives users frightening glimpse of ‘swarmageddon’
JON RAPPOPORT RANTS AGAINST COLLECTIVISM, E.G., SOME EXERPTS
RELIGION IN ENGLAND
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SEE BELOW FOR FURTHER DETAILS
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PRELIMINARY EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS
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* MAGNITUDE 5.3
* ORIGIN TIME 0638 AKDT MAY 29 2013
0738 PDT MAY 29 2013
1438 UTC MAY 29 2013
* COORDINATES 34.4 NORTH 119.9 WEST
* DEPTH 6 MILES
* LOCATION 85 MILES SW OF BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIA
100 MILES NW OF LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
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The Truth About Grassfed Beef
Published December 19, 2012 | By John Robbins
http://www.foodrevolution.org/blog/the-truth-about-grassfed-beef/
If you read on, you’ll see why I’ve concluded that grassfed is indeed better. But then, almost anything would be. Putting beef cattle in feedlots and feeding them grain may actually be one of the dumbest ideas in the history of western civilization.
Cattle (like sheep, deer and other grazing animals) are endowed with the ability to convert grasses, which we humans cannot digest, into flesh that we are able to digest. They can do this because unlike humans, who possess only one stomach, they are ruminants, which is to say that they possess a rumen, a 45 or so gallon fermentation tank in which resident bacteria convert cellulose into protein and fats.
It’s not widely known, but E. coli 0157:H7 has only recently appeared on the scene. It was first identified in the 1980s, but now this pathogen can be found in the intestines of almost all feedlot cattle in the U.S. Even less widely recognized is that the practice of feeding corn and other grains to cattle has created the perfect conditions for forms of E. Coli and other microbes to come into being that can, and do, kill us.
Grassfed or organic?
It’s important to remember that organic is not the same as grassfed. Natural food stores often sell organic beef and dairy products that are hormone- and antibiotic- free. These products come from animals who were fed organically grown grain, but who typically still spent most of their lives (or in the case of dairy cows perhaps their whole lives) in feedlots. The sad reality is that almost all the organic beef and organic dairy products sold in the U.S. today comes from feedlots.
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Japan suspends wheat imports from Pacific Northwest after modified wheat discovered in Oregon
By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, M 3:19 PM
WASHINGTON — Japan has suspended some imports of U.S. wheat after genetically engineered wheat was found on an Oregon farm.
The Agriculture Department announced the discovery of the modified wheat on Wednesday. No genetically engineered wheat has been approved for U.S. farming.
Many countries around the world will not accept imports of genetically modified foods, and the United States exports about half of its wheat crop.
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New Effective Ways to Fight MRSA – Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
MRSA study: simple steps slash deadly infections in sickest hospital patients
Bloodstream infections cut by more than 40 percent in study of more than 74,000 patients
A new study on antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals shows that using germ-killing soap and ointment on all intensive-care unit (ICU) patients can reduce bloodstream infections by up to 44 percent and significantly reduce the presence of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Patients who have MRSA present on their bodies are at increased risk of developing a MRSA infection and can spread the germ to other patients.
Researchers evaluated the effectiveness of three MRSA prevention practices: routine care, providing germ-killing soap and ointment only to patients with MRSA , and providing germ-killing soap and ointment to all ICU patients. The study found:
- · Routine care did not significantly reduce MRSA or bloodstream infections.
- · Providing germ-killing soap and ointment only to patients with MRSA reduced bloodstream infections by any germ by 23 percent.
- · Providing germ-killing soap and ointment to all ICU patients reduced MRSA by 37 percent and bloodstream infections by any germ by 44 percent.
The study, REDUCE MRSA trial, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine
http://www.cdc.gov/media/DPK/2013/dpk-MRSA-study.html
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IRS ATTACKS POT DISPENSORIES WHILE CITIZENS FAVOR LEGALIZATION
The tea party has company. For the past several years, the Internal Revenue Service has been systematically targeting medical marijuana establishments, relying on an obscure statute that gives the taxing agency unintended power. The IRS has been functioning as an arm of justice, employing the U.S. tax code as a weapon in the federal government’s ongoing war against legal cannabis.
The majority of Americans favor legalization of marijuana, while 18 states and the District of Columbia have already legalized medical marijuana. But pot businesses in those states are vulnerable to the federal government’s strategic application of IRS Code Section 280E, a law enacted in 1982 after a drug dealer claimed his yacht and weapons purchases as legitimate business expenses — and long before medical marijuana was first legalized in California in 1996.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/irs-medical-marijuana_n_3346801.html?icid=hp_front_top_art
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Cicada cam gives users frightening glimpse of ‘swarmageddon’
Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News May 29, 2013The Sideshow
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The cicada cam (Discovery.com)
The great cicada invasion of 2013 has begun in earnest on the East Coast, with hundreds of thousands of the noisy, sex-crazed insects popping up from Georgia to Connecticut. Discovery.com is looking to capitalize on the peculiar craze with a cicada cam, providing live, streaming video of the Brood II cicadas covering a replica of the U.S. Capitol.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/cicada-cam-live-video-171123032.html
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The rebel against the controlled world
JON RAPPOPORT RANTS AGAINST COLLECTIVISM, E.G., SOME EXERPTS:
The psychiatric State operates hand-in-glove with sociology, in the sense that it promotes some 300 officially certified mental disorders that are the same in all people. Psychiatry is a collectivism of the mind. I’ve established, in many articles, that psychiatric diagnosis is a complete fraud. There are no physical tests of any kind for any so-called disorder.
The 20th century saw the rise of systems-thinkers, who applied their ideas to society The Globalist program was (and is) all about central planning and distribution of goods and services, under the cynical rubric of “greatest good for the greatest number.” This is collectivism, plain and simple. It camouflages a leading prow of brute force, Soviet style, with more subtle forms of brutality.
Like any fairy tale, myth, legend, story, collectivism began as the idea in the He sold it to his friends as a way they could control the mass, the populace, the audience. He said, “Do you see how this works? We can subscribe to the most wonderful sentiments, we can appear to be servants of the Good, we can hide behind all that while we destroy freedom. It’s a winner.” Collectivism isn’t a mass outpouring of share and care. It’s coming down from the top of the ladder. The rebel understands these things. He knows someone, somewhere, cooked up the whole idea and promoted it, like flatware or recliner chairs or rhinestones.
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RELIGION IN ENGLAND
Set aside the fact that our Queen is the Defender of the Christian Faith. Ignore the 26 Church of England bishops who sit in the House of Lords.
Pay no attention to the 2011 Census that told us 33.2 million people in England and Wales describe themselves as Christians.
For if you want a more telling insight into religion in the United Kingdom today, just look at these photographs. The story they tell is more revealing than any survey.
The photo on the left shows St Mary’s Church in Cable Street while the photo on the right shows worshippers gathered for Friday midday prayers outside a nearby mosque in Spitalfields, both in East London
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2332998/One-country-religions-telling-pictures-The-pews-churches-just-yards-overcrowded-mosque.html#ixzz2UprX4T9B
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