Bee decline already having dramatic effect on pollination of plants
By Richard Alleyne A decline in bees and global warming are having a damaging effect on the pollination of plants, new research claims. Researchers have found that pollination levels of some plants have dropped by up to 50 per cent in the last two decades. The “pollination deficit” could see a dramatic reduction...
Chemtrails are Geoengineering the Planet to Save us All! More Head in the Clouds Pseudo Science
By Neil Foster One of hundreds of chemtrails pictures taken outside my home! For anyone who was up a little late on Sunday night and happened to chance upon an RTE programme call ‘Best Evidence’, you would have been treated to this 2007 Discovery Channel climate change propaganda piece so badly made it was almost comical,...
Fast-growing GM salmon ‘safe to be farmed and eaten’
By Murray Wardrop Genetically modified salmon which grow at twice the speed of their natural counterparts are safe to be farmed and eaten, US regulators have ruled. The decision by scientists from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) paves the way for the first GM animal to be sold as food. The fish, called AquAdvantage...
U.S. delays Web traffic rules by seeking more comment
(Reuters) – U.S. communications regulators on Wednesday put off a controversial decision on Internet traffic rules, giving industry and consumer groups a chance to forge a compromise while avoiding a politically sensitive issue ahead of the November elections. The Federal Communications Commission has been prodding phone,...
Google in talks with major studios to rent movies via YouTube
By Jon Stokes The Financial Times is reporting that Google is in talks with major Hollywood studios to bring streaming movie rentals from their catalogs to YouTube by the end of the year. Citing multiple sources with knowledge of the plans, the FT claims that the YouTube on-demand video service will probably launch first...
Pentagon may apply preemptive warfare policy to the Internet
By Stephen C. Webster Grappling with matters of law and policy governing the United States military’s cyber-warfare capabilities, Pentagon planners are eying ways of making preemptive strikes across the Internet part of America’s toolbox. In a piece for Foreign Affairs, the publication of globalist policy group...
Two-Tier Internet?
By Michael Snyder – BLN Contributing Writer The Internet as you know it is in serious, serious danger. Some of the most powerful communications companies in the world have been involved in negotiations and have been making agreements that would throw net neutrality out the window and would move us toward a two-tier...
Do-gooders get voted off island first: People don’t really like unselfish colleagues, psychologists find
ScienceDaily (Aug. 23, 2010) — You know those goody-two-shoes who volunteer for every task and thanklessly take on the annoying details nobody else wants to deal with? That’s right: Other people really can’t stand them. Four separate studies led by a Washington State University social psychologist have found that...
Intel CEO: U.S. faces looming tech decline
by Declan McCullagh Intel chief executive Paul Otellini offered a depressing set of observations about the economy and the Obama administration Monday evening, coupled with a dark commentary on the future of the technology industry if nothing changes. Otellini’s remarks during dinner at the Technology Policy Institute’s...
Nationwide meat recall announced
(CNN) — Zemco Industries in Buffalo, New York, has recalled approximately 380,000 pounds of deli meat that may be contaminated with bacteria that can cause a potentially fatal disease, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday. The products were distributed to Wal-Marts nationwide, according to the USDA’s...
Hemp drives green vehicle prototype
By Kim Guttormson, Calgary Herald Nathan Armstrong envisions a day when drivers will be rolling up to the curb in a car powered by an electric motor and covered with a body made from hemp. The green vehicle’s design will be unveiled next month at the Electric Mobility trade show in Vancouver, but the Kestrel is part of...
Feds found Pfizer too big to nail, so they looked the other way on massive fraud
by: David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) When the world’s largest pharmaceutical company was found to have engaged in a massive illegal marketing campaign, federal prosecutors decided the company was too big to punish — so they let it set up a shell corporation to take the blame. In 2001, the FDA approved Bextra for...
Telecom Lobbyists Hold Secret Net Neutrality Talks in D.C.
By SAM GUSTIN Washington, D.C., can get hot and muggy in August, which is why lawmakers leave for most of the month, and many staffers, lobbyists and other industry-types also clear out of town in search of cooler climes. But there is something odd going on right now in Washington. Representatives of some of the nation’s...
WHO calls for monitoring of new superbug
on Friday called on health authorities around the globe to monitor a multi-drug resistant superbug that surfaced in South Asia and spread to Britain. The WHO said research published in The Lancet medical journal on August 11 identified a new gene that enables some types of bacteria to be highly resistant to almost all antibiotics. “While...
Second Farm in Egg Recall Link to Salmonella
By EMILY FRIEDMAN A second Iowa egg farm has ordered a major recall of eggs today in an effort to stem the outbreak of salmonella. The voluntary recall was announced by Hillandale Farms. The company is located about 100 miles from the Wright County Eggs, based in Galt, Iowa, which has previously ordered a recall of 380 million...
Pregnant women should avoid ‘diet’ soft drinks: researchers
Research carried out on almost 60,000 pregnant women in Denmark found that those who drank artificially sweetened soft drinks, whether fizzy or still, were more likely to give birth early. It was found that those who drank one serving per day of artificially sweetened fizzy drink were 38 per cent more likely to give birth before...
My Way News – Egg recall tied to salmonella grows to 380 million
By MIKE STOBBE and MARY CLARE JALONICK ATLANTA (AP) – Hundreds of people have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to eggs in four states and possibly more, health officials said Wednesday as a company dramatically expanded a recall to 380 million eggs. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working...
Junk food-addicted rats chose to starve themselves rather than eat healthy food
by: David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) A diet including unlimited amounts of junk food can cause rats to become so addicted to the unhealthy diet that they will starve themselves rather than go back to eating healthy food, researchers have discovered. In a series of studies conducted over the course of three years and published...
Sugar Beets- Monsanto Wins Again
By Cassandra Anderson – BLN Contributing Writer Last Friday a federal judge imposed a nationwide ban on GMO sugar beets and it was overturned the next business day. Sugar beets comprise 50% of the sugar used in US food, and 95% of the sugar beets grown in the US are GMO. It is the jurisdiction of the US Department of...
