Tag: United States

  • Ravi Shankar to hold live event on Facebook today

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    Art of Living founder Sri Ravi Shankar would hold a live event titled “Face2Face” on Facebook which would be a unique initiative of converting Facebook into a tool for meaningful dialogue for transformation. The event would take place between 7:30pm and 9pm on June 23. Participants would “Like” the page across the globe, as a…

  • Science vs. World Leaders

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    In Medical Daily, Anoopa Singh documents a study that links GMO food toxins to anemia and other blood disorders: “…in a new study where mice were fed endotoxin, researchers found that even the smallest, and once deemed safe, doses of the toxin appeared to cause harmful immune reactions. Researchers looked at immune reactions in the exposed mice…

  • Monopolies Make Spying Easier

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    TIM WU explains why monoplies make spying easier in The New Yorker magazine: These days, America has one dominant search engine, one dominant social-networking site, and four phone companies. The structure of the information industry often goes unnoticed, but it has an enormous effect on the ease with which the government spies on citizens. The remarkable…

  • It Never Stays “Over There”

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    Ryan Gallagher summarizes the latest revelations from Snowden and Greenwald: The documents confirm beyond all doubt that the NSA can and does incidentally sweep up domestic communications while targeting foreigners, and it has the authority to retain such communications for up to five years. The NSA has to destroy communications concerning “U.S. persons,” except for cases in which the communication…

  • Etymology of the word idiot – care of Jim Hightower

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    Recounting his speech earlier this month to the Denison (Texas) High School Class of 2013, Hightower recently wrote: “Idiotes were not people with low-watt brains, but individuals who cared only about themselves, refusing to participate in public efforts to benefit the larger community – the common good. The Greeks, I told the students, considered such…

  • Enlighten Me

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    From a section called The Legends Behind the Folklore of Wine in wine-searcher, this extract from “The Curious World of Wine” by Richard Vine (no kidding), emeritus professor of enology at Purdue University enlightens us on how vinous folklore still makes up some of our every day clichés… To Your Health! Surviving wisdom indicates that a toast…

  • The Conservation Fund And Its Branches

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    The Conservation Fund has been working with communities, government and business partners to save millions of acres of land and water across the United States.   In the nearly 30 years of their existence, they’ve protected 7 million acres of land and water in all 50 states. In 2001 they founded the Natural Capital Investment…

  • GMO and Monsanto Roundup: Glyphosate Weedkiller in our Food and Water?

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    This article by Colin Todhunter, in Global Research, is so alarming, I’m posting it in its entirety.  It encapsulates everything that is wrong with GM crops – from their impact on the environment to the lack of independent research to the pressure this industry exerts on governments and the scientific community. “Historians may look back…

  • Bloomberg still trying to create the nanny state – in a good way.

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    If the endeavor gets off the ground, all 8 million residents of the most populated city in the United States will have to start putting aside food waste and other organic materials, such as houseplants and eggshells, then package them separately to be picked up by specialized trash collectors. Compostable waste will have to be…

  • The Case for No GMO Patents

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    Friday, 14 June 2013 11:49By Tony Pereira, Truthout | Op-Ed (Photo: CT Senate Democrats / Flickr)The June 13, 2013 Supreme Court decision that human genes are not patentable should logically be the first step in reversing three decades of decisions that flouted the previously general understanding that Section 101 of Title 35 U.S.C. prohibited patenting of living organisms. In…