Shock and Awe 2.0: US Warfare State Set to Launch ‘Iraq, The Sequel,’ in Syria August 27-2013 If you liked the run up to the US attack on Iraq, with the lurid fictional tales of mobile chemical weapons labs and Saddam’s nukes, you will love “Iraq, The Sequel”, currently unfolding in Syria. It is everything the interventionists […]
Fukushima Radiation: Your Days of Eating Pacific Ocean Fish Are Over, Or Worse…. August 27-2013 The heart-breaking news from Fukushima just keeps getting worse…a LOT worse…it is, quite simply, an out-of-control flow of death and destruction. TEPCO is finally admitting that radiation has been leaking to the Pacific Ocean all along. and it’s NOT over…. […]
What The Meat Industry Doesn’t Want You To Know August 26-2013 It’s a familiar story. When corporate titans want to stifle consumer rights, they turn to government to implement laws that restrict the public’s access to information. And the rare times when government enacts a law expanding consumer rights, these same corporations will use their […]
How Gardening Will Phase Out The Welfare State August 26-2013 A recent study was conducted, state by state, of the monetary value of welfare benefits for a mother with two children. They found that in New York benefits would be around $38,000, the seventh highest in the nation. The study explains the comparison of such […]
The 1 Week Organic Fertilizer August 26-2013 “Fermented Organic Matter” is the English translation from its Japanese counterpart. It is commonly called as “Bokashi” or the “1 week organic fertilizer”. Bokashi refers to a fermented mixture of different kinds of organic matter with high Carbon and Nitrogen content incorporated with EM, molasses and water then […]
Effective Microorganism Activated Solution (EMAS) August 26-2013 Having convinced to try out EM-1 (concentrate), and you want to maximize its potential, considering that EM-1 in the Philippines is still quite pricey. The solution is to EXTEND the EM-1. Extending is the term that we use to describe the multiplication that we do in the present […]
Turning Your Rice Wash into Fertilizer – EMRW August 26-2013 Filipinos looove to eat rice. We eat rice 3 times a day, 7 times a week. It is the staple food in the Philippines, and right now, you’ll probably have an idea how much rice wash we produce. Rice wash is basically water that is […]
South Africa: We Will Support Your Businesses to Create Jobs – Deputy Minister Thabethe Augsut 24-2013 The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Ms Elizabeth Thabethe urged residents of Mandeni in KwaZulu-Natal to establish enterprises, particularly cooperatives in order to create employment for themselves and eradicate poverty. Thabethe was speaking at an enterprise development and […]
Uganda: Women Businesses Find Hope in Coca-Cola August 24-2013 Twenty-seven-year old Dorothy Namuwonge walks fast, but chooses carefully where to place her walking stick. Namuwonge is lame. But that has not hampered her work. Beneath that disability lies a budding entrepreneur. With a small livestock farm and a sewing machine near her rented single-roomed house […]
How second-hand clothes kill business for Malawi’s tailors August 24-2013 About 10 tailors with old, noisy sewing machines stitch fabrics under the canopy of the shops in the old town of Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, occasionally look up to reveal forlorn faces. Osman Kabere says he has been making suits since 1978, but gone are the […]
Namibia: Drought Severe On Agriculture August 24-2013 THE severe drought the country is experiencing currently will slow down the growth in the agriculture sector, an economic outlook report, released yesterday by the Bank of Namibia (BoN), revealed. “Drought conditions being experienced in the country could also impair longer lasting depressed conditions in the primary industries […]
Itching to Plant Something? 6 Fast-Growing Vegetables For The Restless Gardener August 24-2013 Late summer is a transition time in the vegetable garden for northern hemisphere growers. Many spring-planted crops have petered out or maybe they are sulking in the heat, waiting for a bit of cool autumn weather to start producing again. If you’ve […]
Monsanto’s BT-corn: Invincible corn? August 24-2013 Monsanto’s BT-corn was supposed to be the “invincible corn”. This is the product of mixing the genes of BT or (Bacillus thuringiensis) into the genes of corn thus, resulting in the GMO that is commonly called as “BT-corn”. BT (Bacillus thuringiensis) is a bacteria that has an insecticidal property and once an […]
The Cole Crops: Delicious, Nutritious, Beautiful Staples of the Cool-Season Garden August 23-2013 Vegetable Seed Production Contracted Vegetable Seed Multiply There’s something great about planting broccoli and kale out in the garden. Perhaps because they are harbingers of cool weather, thriving in that 60 to 70 degrees Farenheit range that we humans find so comfortable. […]
Soda Linked to Aggression, Attention Problems, and Social Withdrawal in Young Children August 23-2013 Soda has already been blamed for making kids obese. New research blames the sugary drinks for behavioral problems in children too. Analyzing data from 2,929 families, researchers linked soda consumption to aggression, attention problems and social withdrawal in 5-year-olds. They published […]
Why I Stopped Buying Juice Boxes (The picture will gross you out…) August 23-2013 Inquire for Lower Prices in China Contact Quality Manufacturers Now A patient came to my ER after noticing green slime coming up the straw from her Juicy Juice box. Her mom cut open the box – and brought her straight to […]
Study Finds Link Between Herbicide Exposure and Depression August 23-2013 Knowing that herbicides are poisoning ecosystems and degrading human health is enough to get you down. Hold on, though. Recent research has found a significant link between herbicide exposure and depression. Findings were reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
APGMJA demands removal of ban on gold import August 23-2013 All Pakistan Gems Merchants and Jewellers Association (APGMJA) threatened to observe strike if the government did not lift ban from gold import. The gold and gems traders demanded of the government to review its decision to remove the restriction it recently imposed on import of […]
EPA’s ‘Ingenious’ Plan to Protect Bees from Pesticides: Print Some Stickers August 22-2013 In a ground breaking new move this month the EPA has figured out the ‘bee’ all end all solution to neonicotinoid pesticides and its deadly effects on bee populations. No they didn’t ban them or limit their use. Instead the EPA has […]
Confirmed India’s Polio Eradication Campaign Caused 47,500 Cases of Vaccine-Induced Polio Paralysis August 22-2013 If you listen to mainstream media news, you’ll be told that polio has now been eradicated in India – an accomplishment the Polio Global Eradication Initiative (PGEI), founded in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, UNICEF, and the […]