This Mycologist Holds The Patent That Could DESTROY Monsanto

<div class="subtitle"> Paul Stamets has figured out how to use mother nature to safely control over 200,000 species of insects.</div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35708"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrAww;%20rel=" wp-att-35708=""><img class="wp-image-35708" credit:="" discovermagazine="" height="486" src="http://ift.tt/1L6C71D; alt=" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: DiscoverMagazine</div> </div> Monsanto, the biotech company <a a="" be="" by="" carcinogenic="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrC7C%20to%20be%20the%20most%20%3Cem%3Ehated%20organizations%3C/em%3E%20%3Cem%3Ein%20the%20world%3C/em%3E%3C/a%3E,%20is%20responsible%20for%20a%20number%20of%20dirty%20dealings%20that%20have%20earned%20it%20such%20a%20reputation.%20The%20creator%20of%20Agent%20Orange%20(a%20deadly%20herbicide%20responsible%20for%20thousands%20of%20disfigurements%20and%20birth%20defects%20in%20Vietnam),%20and%20glyphosate%20(recently%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" probably="" the="" to="" who="">), it’s for good reason individuals everywhere are banding together to boycott the giant company and its foul play. (<em>Don’t believe us?</em> Watch </a><a attachment_35709="" class="wp-caption aligncenter" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrAwy,%20Inc%3C/strong%3E.%3C/a%3E)%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EBut%20although%20awareness%20is%20being%20raised%20every%20day%20enlightening%20individuals%20on%20%3Cem%3Ewhy%3C/em%3E%20they%20should%20opt%20for%20organic%20seeds,%20local%20produce,%20and%20support%20bio-dynamic%20agricultural%20methods,%20few%20feel%20confident%20that%20their%20efforts%20will%20actually%20help%20put%20the%20agri-giant%20out%20of%20business.%20Based%20upon%20the%20following%20news,%20however,%20we%20believe%20there%E2%80%99s%20reason%20to%20be%20hopeful:%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EIn%202006,%20Paul%20Stamets,%20the%20world%E2%80%99s%20leading%20mycologist,%20was%20granted%20a%20patent%20%3Cem%3Ethat%20has%20potential%20to%20change%20the%20world.%3C/em%3E%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EStated%20by%20executives%20in%20the%20pesticide%20industry,%20the%20patent%20Stamets%20holds%20represents%20%3Cem%3E%E2%80%9Cthe%20most%20disruptive%20technology%20we%20have%20ever%20witnessed,%E2%80%9D%3C/em%3E%20and%20when%20they%20say%20disruptive,%20they%20mean%20%3Cstrong%3Eharmful%20to%20the%20chemical%20pesticide%20industry.%3C/strong%3E%3C/p%3E%20%3Cdiv%20id=" readability="32"></a><a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1L6C7P9;%20rel=" wp-att-35709=""><img class="wp-image-35709" credit:="" height="469" isaachernandez.com="" src="http://ift.tt/1HnrAwA; alt=" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: IsaacHernandez.com</div> <br /> It seems Paul has figured out how to use mother nature to keep insects from destroying crops, a finding that could make chemically-produced pest control completely obsolete. It is what is being called <strong>SMART pesticides.</strong><br /> SMART pesticides provide safe and nearly permanent solution for controlling over 200,000 species of insects – and all thanks to the magic offered by mushrooms.<br /> The Mycologist does this by taking entomopathogenic Fungi (fungi that destroys insects) and morphs it so it does not produce spores. In result, this actually attracts the insects who then eat and turn into fungi from the inside out!<br /> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35706"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1L6C71F;%20rel=" wp-att-35706=""><img class="wp-image-35706" credit:="" height="548" src="http://ift.tt/1HnrAwC; alt=" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: EWAO</div> </div> Wouldn’t a better world result if biotech companies has limited control over crops, seeds, and the way populations grow food? Monsanto is already blamed to <a attachment_35705="" class="wp-caption aligncenter" href="http://ift.tt/1L6C7Pc%20responsible%20for%20the%20bee%20and%20monarch%20die-off%3C/a%3E%20;%20who%20knows%20what%20other%20horrors%20could%20be%20prevented%20if%20its%20toxic%20chemical%20concoctions%20were%20no%20longer%20needed%20to%20grow%20crops.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cdiv%20id="></a><a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrC7I;%20rel=" wp-att-35705=""><img class="wp-image-35705" credit:="" height="548" src="http://ift.tt/1L6C7Pe; alt=" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: LoveClicks</div> <br /> Monsanto may have generated $16 billion dollars in 2014, but its sales have <a allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" embed="" frameborder="0" frpv58ty="" height="315" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrAMQ%20been%20decreasing%20thanks%20to%20consumer%20awareness%3C/a%3E%20and%20action%20taken%20by%20activists.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EBy%20%3Cstrong%3Esharing%3C/strong%3E%20this%20article,%20you%20are%20playing%20an%20important%20role%20in%20helping%20to%20raise%20awareness%20%20about%20an%20alternative%20pest%20control%20method%20that%20may%20potentially%20revolutionize%20the%20way%20humans%20grow%20crops.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EWant%20to%20learn%20more%20about%20Paul%20Stamets?%20Here%E2%80%99s%20a%20%3Cstrong%3ETED%20Talk%3C/strong%3E%20he%20gave%20in%202008:%3C/p%3E%20%3Ccenter%3E%3Ciframe%20src=" https:="" width="560" www.youtube.com="">[embedded content]</a><br /> Here are helpful links to understand more about the incredible patent Paul Stamets holds: <br /> <strong>Here is a link to the patent 7,122,176: </strong>http://ift.tt/1L6C71I; <br /> <strong>A list of all the patents Paul has applied for:</strong> http://ift.tt/1HnrAMS; <br /> <strong>Plenty of information about Paul Stamets:</strong> http://ift.tt/1L6C7hW; <br /> <strong>Wikipedia page about Paul Stamets:</strong> <a g="" hr="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrAMU;%20%3Cp%3E%3Cstrong%3EOriginal%20Source:%20%3C/strong%3E%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt=""></a><br /> <br /> <br />

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Brilliant Ad Depicts How ‘The More We Connect, The Less We Connect’

<div class="subtitle"> Does technology come between you and your loved ones?</div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35696"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1L6C71u;%20rel=" wp-att-35696=""><img class="wp-image-35696" credit:="" he="" height="464" shying="" src="http://ift.tt/1HnrAwl" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Shying he</div> </div> It’s easy to get distracted living in the modern world, with everything from advertisements to the latest game right at your fingertips. But when one chooses to tap into technological innovations rather than be present with family members and friends, it’s like constructing a wall that ‘shuts you off’ from communicating with those in your life. And <a a="" he="" href="http://ift.tt/1L6C7yI%20we%E2%80%99ve%20shared%20before%3C/a%3E,%20such%20behavior%20may%20inevitably%20take%20its%20toll%20psychologically.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EPerhaps%20no%20one%20has%20yet%20conveyed%20this%20better%20than%20designer%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" nrawn=""> who </a><a attachment_35695="" class="wp-caption aligncenter" href="http://ift.tt/1L6C7yK%20a%20series%20of%20ads%3C/a%3E%20for%20the%20%3Cem%3EShenyang%20Center%20for%20Psychological%20Research%3C/em%3E%20to%20highlight%20the%20detrimental%20effects%20smartphones%20can%20have%20on%20human%20relationships.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EEmployed%20by%20the%20advertising%20agency%20Ogilvy%20in%20Beijing,%20Shying%E2%80%99s%20work%20translates%20to%20most%20modern%20homes%20around%20the%20world.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EThe%20three%20ads%20convey%20typical%20home-life%20situations,%20with%20an%20oversized%20smartphone%20in%20the%20middle%20blocking%20any%20conversation%20between%20the%20two%20people%20in%20the%20image.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cdiv%20id="></a><a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrC7u;%20rel=" wp-att-35695=""><img class="wp-image-35695" credit:="" he="" height="465" shying="" src="http://ift.tt/1L6C71w; alt=" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Shying he</div> <br /> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35697"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrAwp;%20rel=" wp-att-35697=""><img class="wp-image-35697" credit:="" he="" height="470" shying="" src="http://ift.tt/1L6C71y; alt=" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Shying he</div> </div> This isn’t the first time True Activist has shared enlightening media to inspire you – and others – to be more present in your day-to-day activities. If you have not yet read <a a="" and="" day="" didn="" down="" for="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrAws%2030+%20Cartoons%20Illustrate%20How%20Smartphones%20Are%20The%20Death%20Of%20Conversation%E2%80%9D%3C/a%3E%20or%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" i="" ift.tt="" it="" my="" of="" phone="" pick="" put="" rest="" saw="" t="" the="" this="" up="">” we highly suggest it.</a><br /> The caption at the bottom of each image reads <em>“The More You Connect, The Less You Connect”</em> – <strong>do you agree?</strong><br /> <hr />

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New Study Concludes Fruit Helps Your Body Burn Stored Fat

<div class="subtitle"> 2-4 fresh servings of fruit per day can help your body convert 'bad' fat into 'good' fat.</div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35689"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrAg1;%20rel=" wp-att-35689=""><img class="wp-image-35689" fruit1="" height="548" src="http://ift.tt/1L6C6Lc; alt=" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: HealthMeUp.com</div> </div> Who can resist summer’s sweet berries and ripe, juicy fruit? Few people, that’s for sure. Except those concerned about eating too much sugar from natural fruits, due to hype promoting the belief that fruit sugar converts to fat in the liver, causing obesity. Shame for those people, as a new study published in the <em>International Journal of Obesity</em> proves opposite! <a a="" examines="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnrBRc%20to%20recent%20findings%3C/a%3E,%20a%20healthy%20amount%20(2-4%20servings)%20of%20%3Cstrong%3Efresh%20fruit%20can%20help%20your%20body%20burn%20stored%20fat.%3C/strong%3E%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" study="" ye=""> how a substance known as <strong>resveratrol</strong>, which is found in many fruits and is what allows an occasional glass of wine to be considered ‘healthy’, induces a <em>“brown-like adipocyte formation in white fat through activation of AMP-activated protein kinase or a1.” </em></a><br /> <em>In other words</em>, eating two or three servings of berries and grapes (as well as other fruits) every day can convert ‘bad’ fat stored in the body into ‘calorie-burning, good fat.’<br /> Though the study used female mice to conduct its research, the results are quite impressive:<br /> <blockquote readability="16"> <em>“Resveratrol significantly increased mRNA and/or protein expression of brown adipocyte markers, including uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1), PR domain-containing 16, cell death-inducing DFFA-like effector A, elongation of very long-chain fatty acids protein 3, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator 1α, cytochrome c and pyruvate dehydrogenase, in differentiated iWAT stromal vascular cells (SVCs), suggesting that resveratrol induced brown-like adipocyte formation in vitro.”</em></blockquote> This isn’t the only known benefit of resveratrol. Another published piece of research in <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"></a>

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Is a mini ICE AGE on the way? Scientists warn the sun will ‘go to sleep’ in 2020

<p class="mol-para-with-font">The Earth could be headed for a ‘mini ice age’ researchers have warned.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">A new study claims to have cracked predicting solar cycles – and says that between 2020 and 2030 solar cycles will cancel each other out.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">This, they say, will lead to a phenomenon known as the ‘Maunder minimum’ – which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715, even causing London’s River Thames to freeze over.</p> <div class="artSplitter"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic"> <p><img alt="A silent sun: In 2011 this image was captured showing an almost clear sun - which experts say could happen for almost a decade from 2030." class="blkBorder img-share" height="385" id="i-40e5ddf0659506b4" name="i-40e5ddf0659506b4" src="http://ift.tt/1HmUoW2" width="384" /></p> </div> </div> <p class="imageCaption">A silent sun: In 2011 this image was captured showing an almost clear sun – which experts say could happen for almost a decade from 2030.</p> </div> <div class="floatRHS art-ins sciencetech mol-factbox"> <h3 class="wocc">THE SOLAR CYCLE</h3> <div class="ins cleared xolcc bdrcc"> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Conventional wisdom holds that solar activity swings back and forth like a simple pendulum.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">At one end of the cycle, there is a quiet time with few sunspots and flares.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">At the other end, solar max brings high sunspot numbers and frequent solar storms.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">It’s a regular rhythm that repeats every 11 years.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Reality is more complicated.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Astronomers have been counting sunspots for centuries, and they have seen that the solar cycle is not perfectly regular.</p> </div> </div> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The new model of the Sun’s solar cycle is producing unprecedentedly accurate predictions of irregularities within the Sun’s 11-year heartbeat.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">It draws on dynamo effects in two layers of the Sun, one close to the surface and one deep within its convection zone.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Predictions from the model suggest that solar activity will fall by 60 per cent during the 2030s to conditions last seen during the ‘mini ice age’ that began in 1645, according to the results presented by Prof Valentina Zharkova at the National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The model predicts that the pair of waves become increasingly offset during Cycle 25, which peaks in 2022.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">During Cycle 26, which covers the decade from 2030-2040, the two waves will become exactly out of synch and this will cause a significant reduction in solar activity.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">‘In cycle 26, the two waves exactly mirror each other – peaking at the same time but in opposite hemispheres of the Sun,’ said Zharkova.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">‘Their interaction will be disruptive, or they will nearly cancel each other.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">‘We predict that this will lead to the properties of a ‘Maunder minimum”</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">‘Effectively, when the waves are approximately in phase, they can show strong interaction, or resonance, and we have strong solar activity.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">‘When they are out of phase, we have solar minimums.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">‘When there is full phase separation, we have the conditions last seen during the Maunder minimum, 370 years ago.’</p> <p><iframe id="molvideoplayer" title="MailOnline Embed Player" src="http://ift.tt/1JWmQlk" width="425" height="421" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" name="molvideoplayer"></iframe></p> <div class="item"> <div id="v-4348504992001"> <div class="videoplayer-large"> <div class="videoplayer-title">Solar cycle: The sun’s 11-year heartbeat explained</div> <div class="btnBg"></div> <center>THE MAUNDER MINIMUM</center> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cleared art-ins sciencetech mol-factbox"> <div class="ins cleared xolcc bdrcc"> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The Maunder Minimum (also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum) is the name used for the period starting in about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">It caused London’s River Thames to freeze over, and ‘frost fairs’ became popular.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">This period of solar inactivity also corresponds to a climatic period called the ‘Little Ice Age’ when rivers that are normally ice-free froze and snow fields remained year-round at lower altitudes.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">There is evidence that the Sun has had similar periods of inactivity in the more distant past, Nasa says.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">The connection between solar activity and terrestrial climate is an area of on-going research.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Some scientists hypothesize that the dense wood used in Stradivarius instruments was caused by slow tree growth during the cooler period.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">Instrument maker Antonio Stradivari was born a year before the start of the Maunder Minimum.</p> <div class="artSplitter mol-img-group"> <div class="mol-img"> <div class="image-wrap fff-pic"><img alt="Maunder Minimum (also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum) is the name used for the period starting in about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time" class="blkBorder img-share" height="209" id="i-1124e59df33850c4" name="i-1124e59df33850c4" src="http://ift.tt/1TrWBEZ" width="492" /></div> </div> <p class="imageCaption">Maunder Minimum (also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum) is the name used for the period starting in about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time</p> </div> </div> </div> <p class="mol-para-with-font">It is 172 years since a scientist first spotted that the Sun’s activity varies over a cycle lasting around 10 to 12 years.</p> <p class="mol-para-with-font">But every cycle is a little different and none of the models of causes to date have fully explained fluctuations.</p> <p>Read more:  <a href="http://ift.tt/1HmUmgN">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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This Airline Created Vending Machines That Offer Free Books

<div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_35666" readability="32"> <a 3="" height="259" href="http://ift.tt/1KXHj9s%20class=" size-medium="" src="http://ift.tt/1Ts0MR5; alt=" width="400" wp-image-35666=""></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Image: thekojonnamdishow.org</div> </div> We all know how important it is for kids to read. <a a="" href="http://ift.tt/1KXHj9w;%20suggests%20that%20children%20who%20read%20for%20enjoyment%20every%20day%20not%20only%20perform%20better%20in%20reading%20tests%20than%20those%20who%20don%E2%80%99t,%20but%20also%20develop%20a%20broader%20vocabulary,%20increased%20general%20knowledge%20and%20a%20better%20understanding%20of%20other%20cultures.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EJet%20Blue%20Airways%20launched%20a%20program%20in%20Southeast%20D.C.%20that%20is%20aiming%20to%20provide%20kids%20with%20free%20books.%20The%20project%20is%20called%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" reading="" s0mr7="" with="">, and they created three vending machines that are offering free books to kids visiting the airport.</a><br /> The Director of Corporate Social Responsibility for JetBlueAirways told <a 2="" class="aligncenter wp-image-35667" gkx="" height="484" href="http://ift.tt/1Ts0Pwq%20Kojo%20Nnamdi%20Show%20Blog%3C/a%3E%20that%20at%20the%20machines%20%3Cem%3E%E2%80%9Ca%20child%20can%20select%20their%20age%20and%20a%20topic%20and%20then%20get%20a%20book%20for%20free.%20They%20can%20come%20back%20as%20often%20as%20they%20like%20throughout%20the%20summer,%20and%20in%20addition%20to%20helping%20families%20start%20a%20library,%20we%20hope%20it%20shows%20retailers%20that%20there%E2%80%99s%20demand%20for%20access%20to%20age-appropriate%20reading%20material%20in%20the%20community.%E2%80%9D%3C/em%3E%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3E%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" src="http://ift.tt/1Ts0MR9; alt=" width="731"></a><br /> Alerts will also be text to parents when these vending machines have been restocked. Hopefully, this trial will prove that this initiative is successful so that it could be replicated elsewhere.<br /> What’s your thought on this idea? Do you think that that it has potential?<br /> <hr />

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Scientist Recommends Taking LSD For Breakfast. Yes, You Read That Correctly

<div class="subtitle"> Forget muesli, taking acid could be better for your health</div> <span class="cf_gab_video aligncenter"><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="420" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vFM6a9bSWFM?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&autohide=1" title="Scientist Recommends Taking LSD For Breakfast. Yes, You Read That Correctly" width="750">[embedded content]</iframe></span> <br /> It may sound like a headline from satirical site The Onion, but psychedelics expert Dr James Fadiman Ph.D is deadly serious. The respected scientist claims a small dose of LSD with your morning cereal can help you be more productive, effective, happier and creative, among other things.<br /> Fadiman started looking into LSD’s effects on <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLQUn;%20target=">creativity</a> back in the early Sixties, before the government made psychedelics illegal and <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZWVv;%20target=">stopped</a> funding for scientific research. He had a life-changing experience when his old Harvard professor Richard Alpert (now known as Ram <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLPzY;%20target=">Dass</a>) fed him <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZWVx;%20target=">magic</a> <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLPQe;%20target=">mushrooms</a> in a Paris cafe. Fadiman saw psychedelic research as his calling, and worked hard for the next few years to demonstrate how LSD could help with a wide range of issues: from psychotherapy and addiction treatment to artistic ability, happiness and spiritual evolution. Fadiman is co-founder of and teacher at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology and has taught at San Francisco State, Brandeis and Stanford.<br /> In 1966 Fadiman, like scientists across the States, received a letter from the government informing him that psychedelic research was now illegal. Devastated, Fadiman retreated from the public eye for many years. In 2011, he published <em>The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic And Sacred Journeys </em>and appeared at <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZZAE;%20target=">Horizons</a> psychedelics conference in New York, where he spoke about ‘micro-dosing’ among other things. Unlike <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLQUp;%20target=">Terence</a> <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZZAG;%20target=">McKenna</a>, who advocated ‘heroic doses’ of mushrooms (taken alone in silent darkness) to potential ‘psychonauts’, Fadiman has homed in on the idea of taking psychedelic compounds in such small amounts that nobody would ever notice you were tripping. He calls these ‘chakra-enhancers’.<br /> “Microdosing turns out to be a totally different world,” Fadiman said. “The rocks don’t glow, even a little bit. But what many people are reporting is that at the end of the day, they say: ‘That was a really good day’, that kind of day when things kind of work. You’re doing a task you normally couldn’t stand for two hours, but you do it for three or four. You eat properly. Maybe you do one more set of reps. Just a good day. That seems to be what we’re discovering.”<br /> LSD is non-toxic and non-addictive. No-one has ever died from consuming the compound, but many have reported wonderful things: a heightened sense of <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLQUr;%20target=">love</a> and <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZZQU;%20target=">compassion</a> for the world and other people, a focused concentration, a feeling of elation and deep contentment, an ability to forget past hurts and live in the moment, <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLPQi;%20target=">addiction</a> therapy, and more. Micro-dosing is a way of avoiding any negative side effects of high LSD doses (paranoia, disorientation, crazy visuals) while still giving you a <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZXbL;%20target=">happy</a> (and very safe) boost for the day.<br /> Former CNN journalist Amber Lyon, along with (of course) <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLPQk;%20target=">Bill</a> <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZXbN;%20target=">Hicks</a>, <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLPQm;%20target=">Joe</a> <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZZQW;%20target=">Rogan</a> and <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLRaN;%20target=">Terence</a> <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZXbP;%20target=">McKenna</a> all sing the praises of <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1gtLPQr;%20target=">psychedelic</a> drugs. As we reported <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZWVv;%20target=">here</a>, many other scientists agree with Fadiman and are pushing for funding for scientific research into their many benefits. Could 2016 see the end of a fifty-year ban on their use for medicinal purposes?<br /> The YouTube video from Psyched Substance is a short and useful introduction to <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1SeZXbR;%20target=">LSD</a>. Have you ever had a trip for breakfast? Let us know your experiences and any other comments on this story below.<br /> <hr />

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Easter Islanders Find Strange Buried Head With Almond Shaped Eyes

<div> <div><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9_092lIvaiw?wmode=transparent" width="495" height="371" frameborder="0"></iframe></div> <p>The archeologists and other workers on Easter Island have made another strange discovery. This time they have found an elongated head with almond shaped eyes. Why is there no mention of this in mainstream media? Or do we really know the answer to that?</p> <p><strong>From the article:</strong></p> <h3><em>Heads Up! An Exciting New Discovery!</em></h3> <p><em>“Among the many wonderful insights we have gained during our excavations in Rano Raraku Zone, Interior Quarry Region this new head is the most exciting!  Measuring 69cm tall, it is located in Square 6 at a depth of 420cm.  When we discovered it the head was standing upright, propped in place with stones, close to the right side of the moai (RR-001-156). The moai, in turn, is unfinished and standing in a basin cut with great skill and care into the bedrock. There was no intention of moving this moai out of the quarry.</em></p> <div><em>The rounded form of the head and its incised, almond-shaped eye is more in keeping with petroglyph styles that with the elongated, rectilinear style of themoai.  However, and as the new 3D imagery created by EISP team member Greg Downing of xRES Studio clearly shows, the head style is also very similar to that of Tukuturi (RR-002-030), the famous kneeling statue uncovered by the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition, 1954-55. This incredible new find means that we will now have to reconsider our ideas of moai style.</em></div> <div><em>Other finds during our 2014 seasons include a large shaped block of coral, an obsidian eye of a small carving, more pigments, basalt and obsidian tools, and a bone fishhook. To date, we have also recovered more than 6,000 stone tools (toki)!  The analysis of this incredible amount of material is a huge undertaking, and we are hard at work with colleagues on laboratory studies of obsidian, basalt, wood, and carbon.  We’ll keep you informed as we make, quite literally, new headway!”</em></div> <p>Link to the article: <a href="http://ift.tt/1SeKpVv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.eisp.org</a></p> </div> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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New “Smart” Motorcycle Helmet Gives Riders A View Of Their Surroundings

<![CDATA[<a alignleft="" bike="" height="251" href="http://ift.tt/1CtNUWm%20class=" size-medium="" src="http://ift.tt/1ScGdpk; alt=" width="400" wp-image-35643=""></a>Earlier this year, a new company set on designing a safer motorcycle helmet was able to raise <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CtNVcA;%20target=">$2,446,824 by 1,940 people in 2 months</a> on the crowd-funding website Indiegogo.<br /> Not soon after that, the company, SKULLY, was able to raise another $11 million, thanks to investors from Walden Riverwood Ventures and Intel Capital led the round, Formation 8, Techstars, and Western Technology Investments.<br /> The great idea that has everyone so excited is the SKULLY motorcycle helmet, which gives riders a view of their surroundings with screens placed inside the helmet. This saves the rider from looking down to their rear view mirrors and taking their eyes off the road.<br /> <em>“There are a lot of expenses involved in the manufacturing part of it. Funds from this round will help carry SKULLY through its manufacturing milestones and accelerate our technology roadmap</em>,” <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1ScGdpm;%20target=">SKULLY founder and CEO Marcus Weller told Tech Crunch.</a><br /> It has been reported that the price tag for this device will be anywhere between $1500 and $3000, but many riders are saying that the added safety is worth the cost.<br /> Similar technologies have already taken to the road, as we reported last month, <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CtNVcC;%20target=">Samsung recently announced</a> the creation of an innovative ‘Safety Truck’ that is designed with a giant video display on the back. The video display allows drivers to see what is going on in the area of the road surrounding the truck, so they can pass with caution and confidence, instead of going in blind and making a risky maneuver.<br /> <span class="embed-youtube"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="537" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pqZtcH1HZ10?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" type="text/html" width="900">[embedded content]</iframe></span><br /> <span class="embed-youtube"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="537" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OK7O31ViUB8?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" type="text/html" width="900">[embedded content]</iframe></span><br /> <hr /> <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1HNhKFA;%20target=">John Vibes</a> writes for True Activist and is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war.<br /> ]]> <br /> _{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}

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The Pentagon’s “Operation Jade Helm 15″: The Floodgate Towards Martial Law and World War III?

<p><em><img alt="" class="" height="270" src="http://ift.tt/1INTjJ2" width="480" /></em></p> <p><em>First we learned that Operation Jade Helm 15 is coming this summer from mid-July through mid-September to a Southwest neighborhood near you stretching from Texas to California. Per government sources and their mainstream media outlets like the <a href="http://ift.tt/1NAE2tv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Washington Post</a>, it’s nothing more than a benign massive military drill designed to test how effectively US Special Operations forces can covertly and as seamlessly as possible embed themselves into the civilian populace as a mere security training exercise to keep us all safe in the future. The Washington Post March 31^st headline – “Why Operation Jade Helm 15 is Freaking out the Internet and Why it Shouldn’t Be” – then goes on to list several alternative news sites like <a href="http://ift.tt/1yjfT3D" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">InfoWars</a> making the claim that martial law in America is coming soon.</em></p> <p>According to last August’s <a href="http://ift.tt/1msArAt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><em>CNN poll, </em>an all-time high of 87%</a> of Americans simply do not trust their own government nor mainstream media as truthful or credible. More and more Americans are turning to alternative news sources in an attempt to find out what’s really going on in their world.</p> <p>But the rash of “sky is falling” headlines from the internet news sources have created a media firestorm. Millions of Americans could hardly be consoled by the <em>Washington Post</em> article encouraging them not to worry that our government once again is up to no good. Instead those distrusting MSM believe Jade Helm 15 is a training exercise that will pave the way for US martial law similar to how the <a href="http://ift.tt/1JygMvB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Boston Marathon false flag</a> was a litmus test for martial law imposed on a major US metropolitan city. Except this time Jade Helm’s unprecedented size and scope covers a large expansive area taking up the southwestern quadrant of the United States.</p> <p>The US military has designated certain states like <a href="http://ift.tt/1NAE2tv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Texas, Utah and part of Southern California</a> during this operation as “hostile,” adding that “New Mexico isn’t much friendlier.” That the one time reputable DC newspaper that broke Watergate in the 70’s describes the Jade Helm operation in terms as if it were some kind of board game like Risk or Monopoly doesn’t help its already dubious credibility. Millions of Americans have realized their own oligarchic government has betrayed them and their interests and simply can no longer be trusted. So in the eyes of the feds, that would automatically make them “hostile.” The <em>Post</em> article also list several past covert military operations where states have been labeled as hostile territory for purposes of the training exercises. And of course that they went by unnoticed should give us solace the Jade’s outcome will be no different.</p> <p>Now that the fascist totalitarian oligarchy posing as our federal government has been busily expanding its military wars from the Middle East to American soil against its own law abiding citizens, the <em>Post</em> tells us we shouldn’t worry. George W Bush once infamously proclaimed “you’re either with us or against us.”</p> <p>The fact that police in America armed with the same heavy weaponry look identical to US combat troops fighting foreign wars are now murdering unarmed US citizens at an unprecedented rate, we shouldn’t worry? The number of Americans civilians since 9/11 killed by militant police is closing in on the number of American soldiers killed in action fighting in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (<a href="http://ift.tt/1guH7Pv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">as of a year ago 6802</a>). Though no actual records are conveniently kept of police killing Americans, a year and a half ago it was reported that estimates of <a href="http://ift.tt/1gDfNP5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">over 5000 Americans were killed by police since 9/11</a>. Tack on the mounting numbers of police killings that have increased exponentially in the last year and a half and it could well exceed the KIA’s from foreign wars by now. That tells us the same counterinsurgency wars the US has been brutally waging on foreign soil is now being fought against us in the streets of America. As such, we stand to lose our life <a href="http://ift.tt/1B3iCCG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">55 times greater from our own police</a> than any actual terrorists. And if you happen to be an African American male, that likelihood skyrockets.</p> <p>As of the <a href="http://ift.tt/1INTi7Y" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">2012 NDAA, military forces can enter our homes</a> without warrants or charges and lock us up indefinitely without trial or legal representation. And according to that <em>Washington Post</em> article, apparently we should have no concerns about Special Forces showing up at our doorstep or roaming through our neighborhoods for several months over the summer. Our friendly state propagandist <em>Washington Post</em> says that when the elite wing of Big Brother’s killing machine invades our local communities, we should actually feel safer. Military spokesman <a href="http://ift.tt/1NAE2tv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Army Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria’s e-mail</a> stated, “Training exercise Jade Helm is going to assist our Special Operations Soldiers and leadership in refining the skills needed against an ever changing foreign threat.” And we should all believe this because the military has such a great track record of always telling us the truth.</p> <p>From the <a href="http://ift.tt/1JygMvB" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Boston Marathon bombings</a> to <a href="http://ift.tt/NOIUTR" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sandy Hook</a>, the government has been executing false flags for purposes of imposing absolute NWO control over its citizens. Ever since the <a href="http://ift.tt/1symsxT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">neocons’ inside 9/11 job</a> the feds have used their “national security” card ad nauseam as their flimsy excuse to willfully <a href="http://ift.tt/WOp25u" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">betray our Constitution</a> that they all swore oaths to uphold. And in its place treasonous governments in the West have systematically enacted draconian Orwellian laws of tyranny and oppression to conveniently <a href="http://ift.tt/14srANp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">vilify citizens bold enough to demand their civil liberties</a> and privacy rights back. We dissidents who do not approve of our government’s obliteration of our constitutional rights have become <a href="http://ift.tt/1DZh93I" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the feds’ targeted enemy</a> and deemed potential homegrown terrorists. Even homecoming <a href="http://ift.tt/ktNHn6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">veterans from US foreign wars are perceived as threats</a>.</p> <p>The <a href="http://ift.tt/1CkwRnz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">international criminal cabal</a> beholding to the Western oligarchs has infiltrated and hijacked the governments of Israel and the United States as well as Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan. We have a crime syndicate that has protected the international <a href="http://ift.tt/1gVRf1a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">banksters who’ve been laundering drug money</a> for multiple decades in its international drug trade. There’s nothing new here as the <a href="http://ift.tt/1INTi83" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Bush crime family has been running drugs from South and Central America</a> since the 1970’s. For years the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the State Department, the CIA, the FBI, the US military and their paramilitary private contractors have <a href="http://ift.tt/KVPnLb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">been flooding America</a> and especially its inner cities with drugs – crack cocaine from Latin America and heroin from Afghanistan. High levels of the US government have partnered with drug cartels from Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Central America, and Dominican Republic to maintain their criminal activities. At the same time, ever since the late 1970’s high levels within these same US rogue crime agencies have also been <a href="http://ift.tt/1wBH9cN" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">partnering with al Qaeda/ISIS to create their invented “war on terror.”</a></p> <p>And now if you believe many of the independent media sources, as of this summer all these sinister elements appear to be converging to soon cause catastrophic upheaval in the US Southwest, likely to change America forever. According to <a href="http://ift.tt/1H3VXbR" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Judicial Watch</a><em> </em>earlier this week, the independent federal watchdog organization revealed that the US government is complicit with both the Mexican government and the Sinaloa drug cartel to be involved in joint training camp operations with ISIS a few miles from El Paso, Texas across the border in Mexico. Judicial Watch claims a Mexican military field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector are among its sources. The camp is said to be located just eight miles from the US border. Despite the US intelligence community being well aware of this claim that terrorists might be currently training a few miles from our border and apparently planning an alleged invasion of the United States, President Obama as commander-in-chief apparently is laying low with only the already announced plans of Jade Helm operations that neither include a false flag war involving ISIS nor World War III as much of the <a href="http://ift.tt/1INTioi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">internet media is all abuzz</a>.</p> <p>Between the <a href="http://ift.tt/1jHjenq" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">US State Department’s Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation</a> that was caught “inadvertently” arming drug cartels several years ago, and the feds’ funding and secret backing of <a href="http://ift.tt/1HG2bxc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ISIS as their proxy mercenary allies</a>, several independent media sites maintain that a <a href="http://ift.tt/1HgUtYR" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">covert operation involving ISIS’ hybrid terrorists</a> have been “slipping” across the border into the United States as provocateur forces designed to kill American citizens. Jade Helm and this latest ISIS piece converging on the states bordering Mexico are said to be the Obama excuse he’s been planning to implement martial law, illegally arresting American dissidents after a false flag event where Americans are murdered by the feds’ terrorist stooges.</p> <p>Even more alarming is <em>The Common Sense Show’s</em>  <a href="http://ift.tt/1Hjvt6l" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dave Hodges most recent post</a> including photos of surface to air missiles at a US Air Force base that literally appeared overnight near Lubbock, Texas. In the designated hostile state of Texas, Hodges believes more than just martial law will be initiated but an actual US invasion and World War III is planned.</p> <p>These days it is becoming increasingly more difficult to ferret out the truth, be it mainstream or independent media sources. A major strategy the federal government commonly uses to discredit alternative media is planting disinformation within its ranks. Government moles have infiltrated the so called independent online media, intentionally muddying the waters so murky as to obscure the facts. When alternative sites cry out that the sky is falling and then it doesn’t, it conditions consumers of independent media to no longer believe them either, thus rendering all independent news outlets “whacked out conspiracy theorists.” Through various PSYOPS the <a href="http://ift.tt/1iktYVv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">US intelligence community has targeted both social media</a> as well as alternative news media as viably effective outlets to spread further disinformation and propaganda lies. Of course this malicious agenda of the US government purposely keeping Americans uninformed in the dark, too dumbed down and confused, not knowing who or what to believe or trust as the actual truth, is exactly where the feds want us.</p> <p>After checking with their inside sources, Veterans Today editors <a href="http://ift.tt/1D0ha08" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Gordon Duff and Jim W. Dean</a> have drawn the conclusion that the neocon feds have purposely used Jade Helm 15 to deceive and discredit independent news sources that are running with the ISIS invasion story.</p> <p>This writer is uncertain of the coming events this summer. I’m unwilling to completely rule out the dire forecast of “an ISIS invasion” while simultaneously I’m unwilling to trust what the feds, the military or the <em>Washington Post</em> claim Jade Helm will bring as well. It bears in mind today to be skeptical in a healthy way toward any and all news outlets. Unfortunately it requires some vigilance and a willingness to do homework cross-checking sources to arrive at a more informed and accurate assessment of what may actually be transpiring in the world. By design the sub-standard educational system fails miserably in teaching discriminative, critical thinking amongst our population. Many people of course don’t have the luxury of time to invest in seeking out multiple sources to arrive at the truth in their fast paced, muddled, upside down world. Too many hidden agendas from both the right and the left carry misinformation and deception, whether intended or not. Ultimately the rule of thumb should minimally be to check the sources of whatever news information you utilize in order to draw your own conclusions.</p> <p><strong><em>Joachim Hagopian</em></strong><em> is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique military experience entitled </em><a href="http://ift.tt/1HgUrjU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><em>“Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.”</em></a><em> It examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership and national security issues. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field for more than a quarter century. He now concentrates on his writing and has a blog site at </em><a href="http://ift.tt/1INTion" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><em>http://empireexposed. blogspot. com/</em></a>. <em>He is also a regular contributor to </em><a href="http://ift.tt/14srC7O" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><em>Global Research</em></a><em> and a syndicated columnist at </em><a href="http://ift.tt/1INTiop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><em>Veterans Today</em></a>.</p> <div>Via<a href="http://ift.tt/1GaMmyC"> http://ift.tt/Lyia7c</a></div> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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12 Major Events Are Going To Happen By The End of September and Why You Need To Know About Them… (Eye-Opening Video)

<p>Twelve, that is the number of major events that have happened or are going to happen during or before the month of September.</p> <p> </p> <p>It seems a lot of people lately are having a gut feeling that something “Big” is about to unfold, but no one knows exactly what it is. Maybe people are feeling that way because of the events that are taking place around them. From signs in the heavens, to military stockpiling, to politically disturbing events. There seems to be a confluence of activity both in the political and spiritual realm culminating in 2015 causing peoples alarms to go off. Could it be that people are feeling this way because of the eerie events that are culminating in September?? I believe so…</p> <p> </p> <p>Here is a list of 12 major events that are happening or will happen by the end of September:</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7BwrK3k-rsU?wmode=transparent" width="493" height="287" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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Awesome ‘Origami’ Pots Grow With Your Plants

<div class="subtitle"> London-based designers have invented an 'origami' pot that grows with your plant!</div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35612"> <a alaskan="" credit:="" height="484" href="http://ift.tt/1LZkrqp%20class=" src="http://ift.tt/1HnuhuK; alt=" studio="" width="730" wp-image-35612=""></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Studio Alaskan</div> </div> Gardeners with green thumbs know that as a plant grows, it will at some point need to be transferred to a larger container. But thanks to London-based designers <a attachment_35613="" class="wp-caption aligncenter" href="http://ift.tt/1LZkq5F%20Alaskan%3C/a%3E,%20a%20solution%20to%20this%20inconvenience%20now%20exists:%20%3Cstrong%3Ean%20origami-based%20pot%20that%20evolves%20with%20the%20plant%20over%20time.%20%3C/strong%3E%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3ECalled%20%3Cem%3EGROWTH%3C/em%3E,%20the%20shape-shifting%20object%20is%20no%20doubt%20the%20perfect%20companion%20to%20a%20plant%20as%20it%20grows%20from%20seedling%20stage%20to%20full%20maturation.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cdiv%20id="></a><a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnujD1;%20rel=" wp-att-35613=""><img class="wp-image-35613" credit:="" height="524" src="http://ift.tt/1LZkq5H; alt=" studio="" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Studio</div> <br /> As shared on <a a="" ayaskan="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnujD4;,%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" kq5f=""> feels that nature’s self-sustaining qualities are often at odds with humans and our manufactured merchandise. Our race tends to be proud about producing things, using them until they’ve been exhausted, and later discarding them in favor of newer items. In nature, however, everything adapts, grows, dies, and is eventually reused to form new life.</a><br /> <blockquote readability="6"> <em>“Nothing stands still. Everything flows,”</em> the designers explain.</blockquote> In order to create the ‘origami’ pots, <em>GROWTH</em> uses a carefully calculated pattern to mimic what nature has mastered. As you can see in the photos, the pot transforms <em>with the plant</em>, something not usually witnessed in inanimate objects.<br /> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35614"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1LZkrqr;%20rel=" wp-att-35614=""><img alaskan="" class="wp-image-35614" credit:="" height="484" src="http://ift.tt/1HnuhuO; alt=" studio="" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Studio Alaskan</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35611"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1LZkrqt;%20rel=" wp-att-35611=""><img alaskan="" class="wp-image-35611" credit:="" height="447" src="http://ift.tt/1HnujTm; alt=" studio="" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Studio Alaskan</div> </div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35617"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1LZkrqv;%20rel=" wp-att-35617=""><img alaskan="" class="wp-image-35617" credit:="" height="440" src="http://ift.tt/1HnujTq; alt=" studio="" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Studio Alaskan</div> </div> <blockquote readability="24.086021505376"> <em>In nature, everything evolves, adapts, grows, blooms, degrades, dies, gets absorbed, reused,”</em> the designers, Bike and Begum Ayaskan, <a attachment_35616="" class="wp-caption aligncenter" href="http://ift.tt/1LZkq5J%20Contemporist%3C/a%3E.%20%3Cem%3E%E2%80%9CThe%20modern%20approach%20to%20building%20is%20the%20opposite.%20Here,%20things%20exist%20in%20stages:%20objects%20are%20produced,%20used,%20discarded%E2%80%A6%20Growth,%3C/em%3E%20through%20%3Cem%3Eit%E2%80%99s%20carefully%20calculated%20origami%20pattern,%20mimics%20nature%E2%80%99s%20ability%20to%20grow%20and%20transform%20by%20unfolding%20over%20time,%20bringing%20these%20qualities%20to%20the%20manufactured%20object.%E2%80%9D%3C/em%3E%3C/p%3E%20%3C/blockquote%3E%20%3Cdiv%20id="></a><a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnuhuS;%20rel=" wp-att-35616=""><img alaskan="" class="wp-image-35616" credit:="" height="955" src="http://ift.tt/1LZkrGJ; alt=" studio="" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Studio Alaskan</div> </blockquote> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35615"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnujTs;%20rel=" wp-att-35615=""><img alaskan="" class="wp-image-35615" credit:="" height="999" src="http://ift.tt/1LZkrGL; alt=" studio="" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Studio Alaskan</div> </div> Share your thoughts on this innovation in the comments section below.<br /> <hr />

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New Law Protects People Who Break Into Hot Cars To Save Pets

<div class="subtitle"> Most states have penalties for people who leave animals in hot cars, but Tennessee is the first to offer protection for people who come to their rescue.</div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35603" readability="32"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HnujCQ;%20rel=" wp-att-35603=""><img class="wp-image-35603" credit:="" height="516" src="http://ift.tt/1LZkrqj; alt=" width="730" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: http://ift.tt/1Hnuhet; </div> </div> <em>Good news!</em> In Tennessee, it’s now legal to break into a car – as long as you’re trying to save an animal.<br /> As of yesterday (July 8, 2015), <a a="" great="" href="http://ift.tt/1LZkrql%20new%20state%20law%20protects%20citizens%3C/a%3E%20from%20being%20sued%20if%20they%20are%20freeing%20a%20pet%20from%20a%20hot%20car.%20Although%2016%20other%20states%20have%20some%20sort%20of%20protection%20for%20animals%20left%20in%20parked,%20hot%20cars,%20Tennessee%20is%20the%20%3Cem%3Efirst%3C/em%3E%20to%20extend%20its%20%E2%80%9CGood%20Samaritan%20Law%E2%80%9D%20to%20protect%20people%20only%20aiming%20to%20help%20animals.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EThe%20law%20was%20passed%20after%20a%20Georgia%20man%20was%20arrested%20in%20Tennessee%20for%20breaking%20a%20car%20window%20to%20save%20a%20dog%20in%20distress.%20Shortly%20after%20the%20car%E2%80%99s%20owner%20dropped%20the%20charges%20against%20him.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EOne%20might%20hope%20the%20law%20persuades%20people%20to%20think%20twice%20before%20they%20leave%20their%20pets%20in%20hot%20cars%20while%20running%20errands.%20Even%20if%20an%20individual%20cracks%20their%20windows,%20an%2085-degree%20day%20can%20cause%20the%20temperature%20in%20a%20parked%20car%20to%20reach%20120%20degrees%20F%20within%20a%20half%20hour.%3C/p%3E%20%3Ccenter/%3E%20%3Cp%3EIf%20you%E2%80%99re%20interested%20in%20finding%20out%20which%20states%20have%20laws%20protecting%20animals%20left%20in%20parked%20vehicles,%20Michigan%20State%20University%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" list="" nujcu="" strong="">here</a><br /> <strong>.</strong> <br /> Share your thoughts on this news in the comments section below.<br /> <hr />

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End Of Aspartame: Study Links Diet Soda To Major Problems

<div class="subtitle"> In the largest study of its kind, researchers declare diet soda to contribute to a number of health problems.</div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35586" readability="32"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1D3ZxOu;%20rel=" wp-att-35586=""><img class="wp-image-35586" credit:="" height="410" http:="" ift.tt="" src="http://ift.tt/1HQL9AC; alt=" width="730" xow="" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: http://ift.tt/1HQLbZo; </div> </div> It’s nothing new to report that aspartame is an artificial sweetener <em>everyone</em> should aim to avoid. In the past, it has been <a 2014="" a="" bzq="" href="http://ift.tt/1D3Zy58%20to%20contribute%20to%20a%20list%20of%20ailments%3C/a%3E,%20including%20Diabetes,%20neurological%20concerns,%20weight%20gain,%20brain%20fog,%20and%20%3Cem%3Emore%3C/em%3E.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EBut%20in%20a%20study%20(%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" in="">) which took place over 10 years and involved 60,000 women, it was determined that <strong>women who drink two or more diet drinks a day have much higher cardiovascular disease rates and are more likely to die from the disease</strong>.</a><br /> In the <em>largest study of its kind</em>, The University of Iowa <a 38="" href="http://ift.tt/1HQLbZs%20the%20following%3C/a%3E:%3C/p%3E%20%3Cblockquote%20readability="> </a><br /> <a 38="" href="http://ift.tt/1HQLbZs%20the%20following%3C/a%3E:%3C/p%3E%20%3Cblockquote%20readability="><em>[C]ompared to women who never or only rarely consume diet drinks, those who consume two or more a day are 30 percent more likely to have a cardiovascular event [heart attack or stroke] and 50 percent more likely to die from related disease.</em></a><br /> <a 38="" href="http://ift.tt/1HQLbZs%20the%20following%3C/a%3E:%3C/p%3E%20%3Cblockquote%20readability="> <em>This is one of the largest studies on this topic, and our findings are consistent with some previous data, especially those linking diet drinks to the metabolic syndrome, says Dr. Ankur Vyas the lead investigator of the study.</em><br /> <em>The association persisted even after researchers adjusted the data to account for demographic characteristics and other cardiovascular risk factors, including body mass index, smoking, hormone therapy use, physical activity, energy intake, salt intake, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and sugar-sweetened beverage intake.</em><br /> <em>On average, women who consumed two or more diet drinks a day were younger, more likely to be smokers, and had a higher prevalence of diabetes, high blood pressure, and higher body mass index.</em><br /> </a><br /> <br /> But <a a="" href="http://ift.tt/1D3ZxOA%20finding%3C/a%3E%20comes%20with%20good%20news%20as%20well.%20%3Cem%3ETime%20Magazine%3C/em%3E%20has%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" in="" recent="" y5a="" years=""> a <em>huge</em> decline in diet soda beverages: </a><br /> <blockquote readability="9"> <a a="" href="http://ift.tt/1D3ZxOA%20finding%3C/a%3E%20comes%20with%20good%20news%20as%20well.%20%3Cem%3ETime%20Magazine%3C/em%3E%20has%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" in="" recent="" y5a="" years=""><em>One reason for the decline could be a growing awareness of the obesity epidemic in the US and growing health concerns surrounding sugar-sweetened beverages. According to Reuters, industry experts say the beverage industry is shrinking under the scrutiny. Even diet-branded drinks have suffered a loss of sales with concerns over artificial sweeteners.</em></a></blockquote> <a a="" href="http://ift.tt/1D3ZxOA%20finding%3C/a%3E%20comes%20with%20good%20news%20as%20well.%20%3Cem%3ETime%20Magazine%3C/em%3E%20has%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" in="" recent="" y5a="" years=""> It seems consumers are becoming aware of the importance their diet and lifestyle play in warding off modern-day diseases of affluence, and in effect are making more conscious choices.<br /> <center> <iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="410" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TB6L9S_jc5E" width="730">[embedded content]</iframe></center> <h2> Life can still be sweet…</h2> There are plenty of natural, healthy sweeteners one can indulge in from time to time. Some low-glycemic options (don’t raise blood sugar) are stevia, coconut nectar, yacon syrup, and xylitol. And other unrefined, wholesome sweeteners are whole, dried fruits (dates, raisins, apricots), raw honey, agave syrup, brown rice syrup, and cane sugar (unprocessed), among others.<br /> Overall, however, a switch to a predominantly plant-based, whole foods, low-glycemic, and unprocessed diet will lend great favor in one’s quest to get healthier and ward off diseases related to their diet, lifestyle, and thoughts.<br /> <em><strong>Share your thoughts on this finding below. </strong></em><br /> <hr /> </a>

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[Watch] Given A Choice Between A Chocolate Bar or Silver Worth $150, Americans Choose Chocolate

<div class="subtitle"> Mark Dice tests Americans’ concept of ‘real money’ by offering passer-by’s either a free Hershey’s chocolate bar or a silver bar worth $150.</div> <span class="cf_gab_video aligncenter"><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="420" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bYhTFz_SGw0?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&autohide=1" title="[Watch] Given A Choice Between A Chocolate Bar or Silver Worth $150, Americans Choose Chocolate" width="750">[embedded content]</iframe></span> <br /> <em>“Americans have been tricked into believing precious metals are not valuable,”</em> says <a a="" href="http://ift.tt/1HQL9Az%20Quale%20in%20response%3C/a%3E%20to%20the%20video%20above.%20And%20she%E2%80%99s%20right.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cp%3EIn%20the%20informative%20experiment,%20it%20is%20vividly%20shown%20how%20central%20bankers%20have%20created%20an%20%E2%80%9C%3Cem%3Euninformed,%20uninterested,%20ignorant,%20and%20pliable%20citizenry%20they%20can%20lead%20around%20by%20the%20nose.%E2%80%9D%3C/em%3E%20%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" states="" that="" xy7=""> they have <em>“essentially convinced the populace that gold and silver coins are ultimately impractical and just too old-fashioned.”</em> In effect, most citizens now firmly believe that promissory bank notes and certificates represent real money.</a><br /> But if the economy were to crash, as <a attachment_35574="" class="wp-caption aligncenter" href="http://ift.tt/1D3Zxy9%20experts%20have%20predicted%20is%20inevitable%3C/a%3E,%20paper%20notes%20will%20not%20secure%20a%20family;%20metals%20will%20be%20the%20sought%20after%20currency.%3C/p%3E%20%3Cdiv%20id="></a><a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1HQLbZh;%20rel=" wp-att-35574=""><img class="wp-image-35574" credit:="" height="377" src="http://ift.tt/1D3Zv9A; alt=" width="730" youtube="" /></a> <br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: YouTube</div> <br /> <em>“I’ll take the chocolate bar,”</em> says one woman as Dice tells her, <em>“who needs a 10-ounce bar of silver, right?”</em> as the woman physically recoils from it.<br /> Another man responds, “<em>Yeah, exactly!”</em> when Dice asks “<em>Who needs a 10-ounce bar of silver when you can have a good delicious bar of chocolate, right?”</em><br /> <em>“The Hershey bar, I can eat it, I can’t eat the silver bar,”</em> remarks another man as he chooses the chocolate over the bullion.<br /> This isn’t the first time Dice has tested Americans’ concept of ‘real money’. In a previous video (below), he attempted to <em>sell the</em> 10oz silver bar for as little as 99 cents, with no takers.<br /> <span class="embed-youtube"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="537" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RJm3cRRvPoM?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" type="text/html" width="900">[embedded content]</iframe></span><br /> Is it shocking everyone chose a temporary chocolate fix over a silver bar (which could have been exchanged for $150 just feet away)? <em><strong>Share your thoughts</strong></em> in the comments section below.<br /> <hr />

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Bermuda Triangle: Ship Reappears 90 Years After Going Missing

<p><img alt="Bermuda Triangle" class="" height="260" src="http://ift.tt/1HhHVTf" width="495" /></p> <p>The Cuban Coast Guard had announced, that they had intercepted an unmanned ship heading for the island, which is presumed to be the SS Cotopaxi, a tramp steamer which vanished in December 1925 and has since been connected to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle.</p> <p> </p> <p>The Cuban authorities spotted the ship for the first time on May 16, near a restricted military zone, west of Havana. They made many unsuccessful attempts to communicate with the crew, and finally mobilized three patrol boats to intercept it.</p> <p>When they reached it, they were surprised to find that the ship was actually a nearly 100-year old steamer identified as the Cotopaxi, a name famously associated with the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. There was no one on board and the ship seemed to have been abandoned for decades, suggesting that this could actually be the tramp freighter that disappeared in 1925.</p> <p>An exhaustive search of the ship led to the discovery of the captain’s logbook. It was, indeed, associated with the Clinchfield Navigation Company, the owners of the SS Cotopaxi, but hasn’t brought any clue concerning what happened to the ship over the last 90 years.</p> <p>On 29 November 1925, the SS Cotopaxi departed Charleston, South Carolina, and headed towards Havana, Cuba. The ship had a crew of 32 men, under the command of Captain W. J. Meyer, and was carrying a cargo of 2340 tons of coal. It was reported missing two days later, and was unheard of for almost 90 years.</p> <p>The Vice President of Council of Ministers, General Abelardo Colomé, announced that the Cuban authorities were going to conduct a thorough investigation to elucidate the mystery of the ship’s disappearance and reappearance.</p> <p>“It is very important for us to understand what happened” says General Colomé. “Such incidents could be really bad for our economy, so want to make sure that this kind of disappearance doesn’t happen again. The time has come to solve the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, once and for all.”</p> <p><img alt="Bermuda Triangle" class="aligncenter wp-image-3872" height="221" src="http://ift.tt/1KWXxOv" width="495" /></p> <p>Popular culture has attributed many of the disappearances to paranormal and <a href="http://ift.tt/1HhHVTh">supernatural phenomena</a>, or to the activity of extraterrestrial beings. One explanation, even pins the blame on leftover technology from the mythical lost continent of Atlantis.</p> <p>Despite the popularity of all these strange theories, most scientists don’t even recognize the existence of the Bermuda Triangle, and blame human mistakes and natural phenomena for the disappearances.</p> <p>The mysterious reappearance of the SS Cotopaxi has, however, already generated a lot of interest in the scientific community and could push some experts to change their mind on the subject.</p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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Greek Ex-Finance Minister Owns German Politician On Solution To Eurozone Crisis

<div class="subtitle"> Growth vs Austerity? It's a no-brainer for a logical guy like Varoufakis</div> <span class="cf_gab_video aligncenter"><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="420" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jH5Yv7iwfhs?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&autohide=1" title="Greek Ex-Finance Minister Owns German Politician On Solution To Eurozone Crisis" width="750">[embedded content]</iframe></span> <br /> It’s been a crazy few days for <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1Mh7o0y;%20target=">Greece</a>, with the people’s decision to reject further bailouts and austerity measures making history last Sunday (full story <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1dNnl2o;%20target=">here</a>). The hero of the hour is <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CqR1i3;%20target=">Greece</a>‘s ex-finance minister Yanis Yanoufakis, who was forced to resign after winning the referendum result he had been fighting for these past few months. His reason? Shady, un-named international creditors refuse to negotiate with <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1Mh7o0A;%20target=">Greek</a> Prime Minister Tsipras further unless Yanoufakis leaves the party. With his radical suggestions of debt re-structuring and his rejection of the idea that the poorest in society should pay a private debt, Yanoufakis was a thorn in the side of the establishment.<br /> In this RT video clip from a press conference last month, Yanoufakis shows why the people respect him so much. When verbally attacked by a <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CqR0uo;%20target=">German</a> politician who accuses him of being irresponsible for refusing more bailout cash (to pay back old bailout cash, and so on until infinity), Yanoufakis calmly, patiently and intelligently tells the man why he is absolutely wrong about everything.<br /> THIS is why no country’s citizens should accept bailout money without seriously considering the consequences. Yanoufakis, an economist, manages to explain the reality in a simple and persuasive way. He uses the German politician’s own logic against him and finishes with an emotional call to unite Europe and find a sustainable solution for the future:<br /> “We are Europeans, we should have an alliance based on logic: looking after <em>your</em> taxpayers, looking after <em>my</em> taxpayers. I want [the economy] to grow faster so as to be able to repay you, and that is a project that we should sit down and agree on together if you want your taxpayers to be paid. We are a proud people; we do not like having debts that we don’t repay. But we simply <em>cant find</em> the 312 billion euros that we owe. Help us grow so that we can repay. This is what a union is.”<br /> The audience at the press conference applaud loudly, and Yanoufakis finishes with a bright idea for Europe which until now is nothing more than a crazy left-wing pipe dream. But it makes sense. “You have this magnificent industry,” Yanoufakis tells the <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1Mh7ogQ;%20target=">German</a> minister. “And you should be proud of that. <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CqR1i5;%20target=">Germany</a> is always going to have a surplus [of trade]. Your surpluses could fund investment projects in Greece in <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1Mh7ntA;%20target=">Italy</a> or wherever, from which the Germans benefit, which are sustainable, and don’t create bubbles which then burst creating problems for <em>your</em> taxpayers, <em>my</em> taxpayers and the whole of Europe. We are a union of social values. we should be in this together.”<br /> There is very little to argue with there. This clip is a great one to share with people who just don’t get the <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CqR1i3;%20target=">Greek</a> government’s position: it’s not about running away from their debts, it’s about dealing with the debt in a way that causes the least amount of suffering and the optimum economic growth for the country. Like other maverick economists Paul <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CqR0uq;%20target=">Krugman</a> and Joseph <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1Mh7ogS;%20target=">Stiglitz</a>, Yanoufakis’s economic policies make perfect sense- unlike those of the <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1CqR0us;%20target=">crooks</a> and robbers running our global <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1IKPvZ6;%20target=">financial</a> <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1dNnl2q;%20target=">institutions</a>.<br /> Image: <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1Mh7ogU;%20target=">Jörg Rüger</a> – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons<br /> <hr />

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Obama Slips Up: “We’re Training ISIL”

<p><iframe width="500" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p2NkjNvwuaU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p>The White House.gov website has corrected an embarrasing mistake made by President Obama during his press briefing yesterday about the Islamic State when the President said that U.S. forces were “training ISIL.”</p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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Greece Meltdown: Is America Next?

<p><iframe width="500" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/89Ug4HY5RN4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p>Greek banks are preparing contingency plans for a possible “bail-in” of depositors amid fears the country is heading for financial collapse. Experts have repeatedly warned that a global financial collapse is imminent. Will the U.S. be prepared for so-called banking holidays in a cashless society?</p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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Anonymous targeted Wall Street in cryptic tweet on eve of NYSE shutdown

<p><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://ift.tt/iHJVCS" height="270" id="flashObj" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://ift.tt/ny84Tt" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /> <param name="flashVars" value="videoId=4344520339001&playerID=407451912001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAEA-5AE~,7pYsU79IKz1jyZLSY9Sb290m5ARebDo_&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /> <param name="base" value="http://ift.tt/lAgp1d" /> <param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /> <param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <embed src="http://ift.tt/ny84Tt" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=4344520339001&playerID=407451912001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAEA-5AE~,7pYsU79IKz1jyZLSY9Sb290m5ARebDo_&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://ift.tt/lAgp1d" name="flashObj" width="480" height="270" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" swliveconnect="true" pluginspage="http://ift.tt/iWdmSh" /></object></p> <p>International hacking group Anonymous wished Wall Street ill the night before the New York Stock Exchange temporarily suspended trading on all securities.</p> <p>The activist group tweeted late Tuesday:<br />  <br /> “Wonder if tomorrow is going to be bad for Wall Street…. we can only hope,”<br />  <br /> New York trading was suspended around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday due to a “technical issue,” the exchange said in a statement posted to Twitter.</p> <p> <br /> The Department of Homeland Security said there was no indication the NYSE had been hacked, according to Bloomberg and CNN. The exchange said the glitch could not be attribute to “a cyber breach.”<br />  <br /> “The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the result of a cyber breach,” it said in another statement. “We chose to suspend trading on NYSE to avoid problems arising from our technical issue. NYSE-listed securities continue to trade unaffected on other market centers.”<br />  <br /> The White House said President Obama had been briefed on the issue. Earlier in the day, United Airlines briefly grounded all of its flights due to a systemwide failure.<br />  <br /> Anonymous has previously targeted Wall Street and made headlines in 2011 when it threatened to “destroy” the New York Stock Exchange.<br /> The message could also be seen as an allusion to economic unrest in China and Greece, which has contributed to global market turmoil in recent days. U.S. stocks saw modest losses in the early hours of trading Wednesday.</p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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Greek Ex-Finance Minister: Media Is Guilty Of “Terrorism”, Elite Think Democracy Is Irrelevant

Growth vs Austerity?<br /> It's a no-brainer for a logical guy like Varoufakis<span class="cf_gab_video aligncenter"><iframe allowfullscreen="" height="420" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jH5Yv7iwfhs?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&autohide=1" title="Greek Ex-Finance Minister Owns German Politician On Solution To Eurozone Crisis" width="750">[embedded content]</iframe></span> <br /> It’s been a crazy few days for <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/decentralized-currencies-thriving-in-greece-during-euro-crisis/" target="_blank">Greece</a>, with the people’s decision to reject further bailouts and austerity measures making history last Sunday (full story <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/cause-for-celebration-greece-just-told-the-bankers-to-stick-their-loans-and-austerity/" target="_blank">here</a>). The hero of the hour is <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/greece-what-you-are-not-being-told-by-the-media/" target="_blank">Greece</a>‘s ex-finance minister Yanis Yanoufakis, who was forced to resign after winning the referendum result he had been fighting for these past few months. His reason? Shady, un-named international creditors refuse to negotiate with <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/economic-collapse-in-greece-is-finally-sinking-into-the-consciousness-of-its-citizens/" target="_blank">Greek</a> Prime Minister Tsipras further unless Yanoufakis leaves the party. With his radical suggestions of debt re-structuring and his rejection of the idea that the poorest in society should pay a private debt, Yanoufakis was a thorn in the side of the establishment.<br /> In this RT video clip from a press conference last month, Yanoufakis shows why the people respect him so much. When verbally attacked by a <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/in-germany-elder-residents-deliver-your-vegetables-on-bicycles/" target="_blank">German</a> politician who accuses him of being irresponsible for refusing more bailout cash (to pay back old bailout cash, and so on until infinity), Yanoufakis calmly, patiently and intelligently tells the man why he is absolutely wrong about everything.<br /> THIS is why no country’s citizens should accept bailout money without seriously considering the consequences. Yanoufakis, an economist, manages to explain the reality in a simple and persuasive way. He uses the German politician’s own logic against him and finishes with an emotional call to unite Europe and find a sustainable solution for the future:<br /> “We are Europeans, we should have an alliance based on logic: looking after <em>your</em> taxpayers, looking after <em>my</em> taxpayers. I want [the economy] to grow faster so as to be able to repay you, and that is a project that we should sit down and agree on together if you want your taxpayers to be paid. We are a proud people; we do not like having debts that we don’t repay. But we simply <em>cant find</em> the 312 billion euros that we owe. Help us grow so that we can repay. This is what a union is.”<br /> The audience at the press conference applaud loudly, and Yanoufakis finishes with a bright idea for Europe which until now is nothing more than a crazy left-wing pipe dream. But it makes sense. “You have this magnificent industry,” Yanoufakis tells the <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/germany-scraps-tuition-fees/" target="_blank">German</a> minister. “And you should be proud of that. <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/youll-find-no-plastic-or-packaging-at-this-zero-waste-grocery-store/" target="_blank">Germany</a> is always going to have a surplus [of trade]. Your surpluses could fund investment projects in Greece in <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/watch-italians-try-american-snacks-for-the-first-time-and-arent-impressed/" target="_blank">Italy</a> or wherever, from which the Germans benefit, which are sustainable, and don’t create bubbles which then burst creating problems for <em>your</em> taxpayers, <em>my</em> taxpayers and the whole of Europe. We are a union of social values. we should be in this together.”<br /> There is very little to argue with there. This clip is a great one to share with people who just don’t get the <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/greece-what-you-are-not-being-told-by-the-media/" target="_blank">Greek</a> government’s position: it’s not about running away from their debts, it’s about dealing with the debt in a way that causes the least amount of suffering and the optimum economic growth for the country. Like other maverick economists Paul <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/opinion/paul-krugman-ending-greeces-bleeding.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Krugman</a> and Joseph <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/the-end-of-poverty/" target="_blank">Stiglitz</a>, Yanoufakis’s economic policies make perfect sense- unlike those of the <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/banks-global-elite-confirmed-to-hold-32-trillion-in-offshore-accounts/" target="_blank">crooks</a> and robbers running our global <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/greek-prime-minister-says-imf-has-criminal-responsibility-for-countrys-debt-crisis/" target="_blank">financial</a> <a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/gab_gallery/the-world-bank-imf-and-intelligence-agencies-serve-big-corporations/" target="_blank">institutions</a>.<br /> Image: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yanis-Varoufakis-Berlin-2015-02-05.jpg#/media/File:Yanis-Varoufakis-Berlin-2015-02-05.jpg" target="_blank">Jörg Rüger</a> – Own work. 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Bosnia: March of Peace to honor Srebrenica genocide victims begins

<div class="post-content description" itemprop="articleBody" readability="75"> <br /> <aside class="mashsb-container"> </aside><br /> More than 9.000 people are participating in a traditional March of Peace in honor of the Srebrenica genocide victims that started today in the village of Nezuk, near Tuzla.<br /> <div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_34131" readability="1"> <a height="245" href="http://ift.tt/1dNj9zG%20class=" screenshot_2="" size-medium="" src="http://ift.tt/1dNj8fe; alt=" width="320" wp-image-34131=""></a><br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Nezuk – Srebrenica distance shown on the map</div> </div> </div>

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Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s Time to Panic

<p class="first-text" data-textannotation-id="4310f02c9175748c84817c74e0a55e0d"><img alt="Ladies and Gentlemen, It's Time to Panic" class="" height="277" src="http://ift.tt/1fnSN9m" width="492" />Have you noticed anything <em>odd</em> going on this morning? Oh yes. Let us be the first to tell you that the time to panic is upon us.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="f7727af143cedaf4d34d32539c5aa181"><strong>ITEM:</strong> The New York City subway system suffered an atrocious commute today, with some trains being inexplicably stranded in stations for long periods of time.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="bb599cef039a18380a1409d59f9f7193"><strong>ITEM:</strong> The website “The Dissolve” <a href="http://ift.tt/1IJ3zlD" target="_blank">folded</a> today.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="2225a3917fc4b63c553b6de176e27eea"><strong>ITEM:</strong> United Airlines was forced to <a href="http://ift.tt/1S8W9Jd" target="_blank">ground all of its flights</a> after its computer system mysteriously stopped working.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="dc1a41be9adf135392ac23e65f0b6549"><strong>ITEM:</strong> The New York Stock Exchange <a href="http://ift.tt/1fnKien">suspended trading</a> today after its computerized trading system mysteriously stopped working.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="a8af0068bc5cad0b606ce2b42c3c243e"><strong>ITEM:</strong> Immediately after, the <a href="http://www.wsj.com/" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal’s website</a> mysteriously stopped working.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="3e99d19aef273bc45a8778106f121ce2"><strong>ITEM:</strong> More than 2,500 people in Washington, DC mysteriously <a href="https://twitter.com/MrTimRegan/status/618812308874248192" target="_blank">lost power</a>.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="6603824d99bce5ac2377fa61634393e2">It seems our nation’s centers of powers are facing a mysterious and spreading collapse.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="01cbf956482866ce3429cfd4b1e5b57d">I choose to panic. If you choose to remain calm, good—I’ll get away ahead of you.</p> <p data-textannotation-id="b759b5cdd94d8bf943eb44e38a76384e">[<em>Pic <a href="http://ift.tt/1fnSOKu" target="_blank">via</a></em>]</p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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Gerald Celente: The Collapse Has Already Begun. Watch Out For China!

<h2><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://ift.tt/1KUTOkF" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Gerald Celente" class="aligncenter wp-image-4079" height="268" src="http://ift.tt/19WZ6hj" width="496" /></a></span></h2> <h4>GERALD CELENTE – The Collapse Has Already Begun. Watch Out For China!</h4> <p>Despite constant reassurances from federal overseers, Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the economy’s frail nature.</p> <p>While media pundits and analysts desperately push the failure of central planning and Keynesian economics, these five experts continue to be proven right on the dangers of reckless spending and debt.</p> <p>Here are five renowned experts who warned of the now-present, slow-motion financial collapse.</p> <p>With currencies being rapidly devalued by their respective governments, the global economy in a slow-down, and tensions over resources heating up around the world, it’s time to start considering the endgame.</p> <p>If we all talk about the end game and a scenario of total collapse, I can see the governments telling everybody that your money is now worthless and the bonds you own are now worthless. You all have to take a haircut.</p> <p>The controlled media tells us that it is a symptom of corporate greed and an accidental occurrence.</p> <p>The truth is that recently released central bank cartel documents show that the entire global financial melt-down in a purposefully engineered consolidation.</p> <p>The following is a transcript of an interview with award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast in which Palast blows the IMF World Bank program of slavery wide open.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>AJ: Burrow into NM Rothschild, you’ll find it all there. Go through these four points. You’ve got the documents.</p> <p>The IMF/World Bank implosion, four points, how they bring down a country and destroy the resources of the people.</p> <p>The US government has run up trillions of dollars in debt, and given the recent debates over the country’s debt ceiling, we can rest assured that neither Congress or the President will act to curtail spending and balance the budget.</p> <p>We will continue adding trillions of dollars to the national debt clock until such time that our creditors no longer lend us money.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://ift.tt/1KUTPoK" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Lindsey Williams prediction prepper total collapse coast to coast am sheep sheeple ghost town</a> hyperinflationary environment developing major collapses in the bond and stock markets and possible sudden deflation (primarily of assets), followed by dramatic inflation, if not hyperinflation (primarily of commodities), followed by a crash of several major currencies, particularly the euro and the US dollar.</p> <p>Travel Restrictions.</p> <p>This will begin with restrictions on foreign travel, including suspension/removal of passports Confiscation of wealth.</p> <p>The EU has instituted the confiscation of bank accounts, which can be expected to become an international form of governmental theft.</p> <p>Food Shortages Riots. These will likely happen spontaneously due to the above conditions, but if not, governments will create them to justify their desire for greater control of the masses.</p> <p>Martial Law. The US has already prepared for this, with the passing of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) long-term food supplies, barterable goods, monetary goods, <a href="http://ift.tt/1HilZUU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">self defense</a>armaments and having a well thought out preparedness plan.</p> <p>The United States and Germany are prepared to engineer a coup in Greece to keep the country operating as a strategic asset on NATO’s vulnerable southeast European flank.</p> <p>Greek Military is an Operation Gladio Asset The wild breakout in German yields is rocking global debt markets, and giving investors an early glimpse of the uneasy future for bonds in a world of higher interest rates.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ogFMfevhAyQ?wmode=transparent" width="484" height="333" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p> <h4>Gerald Celente: WORLD Economic Collapse U.S. & CHINA & RUSSIA To World War 3</h4> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BVY6QTmXV-A?wmode=transparent" width="483" height="332" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></p> <p>Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.</p> <p>This is a good motto to live by, despite how you think about things.</p> <p>Individuals can still hope for the best (that things can and will eventually work out), but what good is your prosperity going to do if you don’t have anything to eat or a safe place to hang out for an extended period of time?</p> <p><a href="http://ift.tt/1KUTPoM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Why not prepare while you still can </a>— when things are readily available and can still be purchased at cheap prices? The coming hyper-inflation will make any such purchases beforehand look very intelligent…</p> <p>To prepare for the worst, you need a plan. Why are most people so against doing basic preparations that could be the difference on how they survive — or whetherthey survive?</p> <p>History shows time and again that those <a href="http://ift.tt/1KUTPoM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">who prepare always fare better than those who did not</a>.</p> <p>Having a plan and being determined to act on that plan will always be the best way to handle any contingencies, should they occur.</p> <p>After disaster strikes, your mind is going to be racing around like a car on a race track. Preplanning and having a written set of measures to take will make someone’s life go much smoother when the SHTF.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://ift.tt/1HilZUW" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">SOURCE :http://ift.tt/1lBottj</a></p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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United Airlines resumes flights after ground-stop due to computer problem, officials say

<p><img alt="" class="" height="248" src="http://ift.tt/1KUTOky" width="441" /></p> <p>NBC News is reporting that United is beginning to restore service to their flights, which were grounded nationwide- flights are beginning to resume, but delays are still expected.</p> <p>According to the website FlightAware an estimated  260 flights were delayed and 7 flights were canceled.</p> <p>United told reporters it would re-book flights for affected passengers without charge.</p> <p>Passengers are reporting that many flights are delayed by 2 hours or more; one passenger. who was headed to New Orleans told reporters his flight, which was scheduled for noon, won’t depart until around 9 P.M. (EST) tonight.</p> <p>Those who booked a flight for today through United should <a href="http://ift.tt/1JLRbz2">contact</a>  United Airlines to see if there are any delays and <a href="http://ift.tt/1rZpwBz">check their site f</a>or updates before heading to the airport</p> <p>The Federal Aviation Administration had announced earlier that United Airlines had grounded all flights nationwide in the U.S. due to a glitch in their computer booking and reservation system.</p> <p>United, in a statement released soon afterwards confirmed this, saying: “”We experienced a network connectivity issue this morning [and] We are working to resolve this and apologize to our customers for any inconvenience.”</p> <p>At the time NBC News was reporting that anyone without a hard copy of their boarding pass was unable to check in.</p> <p>It seems many passes were being checked- in by hand when the problem occurred (see pic below from Twitter).</p> <p>Travelers in New York, Florida, Washington, D.C., Albuquerque, New Mexico and Connecticut fliers were complaining about long lines and wait times when the news broke.</p> <p>United’s regional flights were briefly affected by this grounding- they are now back up and running.</p> <p>This story is still unfolding so check back with <em>News For Shoppers</em>, as we will update as details become available.</p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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Bill Murray Stays After Grateful Dead Show To Help Stadium Clean Up Trash

<br /> <article class="entry post-35502 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-life category-news last_archivepost" readability="52"><a alignleft="" bill="" gd="" height="398" href="http://ift.tt/1Tmigyk%20class=" murray="" size-medium="" src="http://ift.tt/1IK4OkD; alt=" width="400" wp-image-35544=""></a>The Grateful Dead has been doing a series of high-profile concerts to celebrate their long musical career.<br /> The shows have been attended by thousands, including a number of celebrities. Sadly, like most concerts or large events, there was a massive pile of trash to clean up afterwards.<br /> As the fans moved on back to their homes after the concert, actor Bill Murray stuck around to help the clean up crew get rid of all the trash.<br /> The show took place at Chicago’s Soldier Field, where 70,000 fans gathered to witness the last Grateful Dead show ever, and <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1Tmigym;%20target=">Page Six reported</a> that Murray was the last fan standing, volunteering to help clean up the mess left behind by other attendees.<br /> Katy Perry, John Mayer, “Game of Thrones” writer George R.R. Martin, David Axelrod, Sen. Al Franken, Bill Walton, Perry Farrell and Chloë Sevigny were also in attendance, but it was not reported that any of them stuck around to help with the clean up.<br /> <!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http://quicksense.net/ --> Sadly, if everyone would just pick up after themselves, this type of volunteering would not be needed, but Murray has set a great example of how real hippies should carry themselves.</article>

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Scientists use lasers to project movie onto clouds

<p><img alt="Scientists use lasers to project movie onto clouds" src="http://ift.tt/1LWMird" /></p> <p>A green ghost rider appeared in the sky over the British city of Nottingham when scientists started testing a newly developed projecting device which allows the beaming of moving images directly onto clouds for the first time ever.</p> <p>The image of a galloping horse rider was projected onto the clouds from a distance of 50 meters by a special laser-based projection system mounted on an aircraft.</p> <p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FspFOdR9vjE" width="491" height="368" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p class="infuse">From the ground, the green and white lights hovering above the city of Nottingham probably resembled a distant storm, but from the window of a Cessna 172 aircraft, the shape of a man on horseback could clearly be seen galloping across the darkened troposphere.</p> <p class="infuse">This green night rider is the result of three years of hard graft by artist Dave Lynch, scientist Mike Nix and maker Aaron Nielsen, pushing the boundaries of art and science.</p> <p class="infuse">Together they pulled off a world first in June when they managed to project moving images directly onto clouds from an aircraft.</p> <p class="infuse">And while fighting the elements, failed kit and lack of cash in their quest to see the rider in the clouds – a work they call Project Nimbus – they’ve discovered the real importance of collaboration.</p> <div id="DfpVisibilityIdentifier_732225484680384" class="GoogleActiveViewClass"> <div id="inarticle"> <div id="inread1_26817"> <div id="inread_26817"> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr id="zd_tr_26817"> <td id="zd_td_26817"> <div id="mainFrame"><object data="http://ift.tt/1Hhd2v4" height="360" id="inReadMovie_26817" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480"></object> <div id="passbackWrapper"></div> </div> <div id="lastFrameWrapper"></div> <div id="playerBackupAdWrapper"></div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="infuse">Project Nimbus used a laser version of the zoopraxiscope, a device designed by pioneering 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge. So it was only right that they should also use his famous image a galloping horse, Horse in Motion, for the display.</p> <p class="infuse">“It was amazing,” said Lynch, who spent hours searching for the “right type of cloud” as he shot the video and Nix operated the zoopraxiscope. “After an hour of flying and almost giving up, we had come up above a cloud layer into peaks, swirls and canyons stretching out like an ocean, giving us the conditions we never thought we would see,” he says.</p> <h3 class="crosshead">Gods of war</h3> <p class="infuse">The journey started in 2007 when Lynch was studying for his master’s degree and came across a military paper entitled <a href="http://ift.tt/1LWMg2p"><i>Non-lethal Weapons: Terms and Reference by Robert Bunker</i></a> detailing work on weapons since the Vietnam War. One of them involved projecting an ancient god onto the clouds over an enemy city (whose public communications had been seized) in order to terrify the citizens.</p> <p class="infuse">Lynch was inspired by the idea, but soon found his early experiments in 2007 with a converted 16-millimetre cine projector with a laser light source impractical due to weight and power requirements.</p> <p class="infuse">After experimenting with projecting moving image loops of swimming dolphins from vehicles, he came across Muybridge’s work and ended up projecting the famous horse onto the streets of Leeds. By 2012, funding from the AND festival and the arts incubator Octopus Collective kickstarted three years of research into developing a modern zoopraxiscope.</p> <p class="infuse">In the 1870s, Muybridge was commissioned by a rich racehorse owner to study animal motion. He captured photographs of horses running on a track using multiple cameras and fast shutter speeds, and put them into discs to project from his zoopraxiscope. The iconic moving images that resulted, Sallie Gardner at a Gallop or The Horse in Motion, clearly demonstrated that the galloping horse takes all four hooves off the ground at the same time.</p> <p>Full story: <a class="yt-uix-redirect-link" dir="ltr" title="http://bit.ly/1IVNt45" href="http://bit.ly/1IVNt45" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/1IVNt45</a></p> <div style="display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important" id="wpsclp_locker_post_end_element"></div> <p>_{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}</p>

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Are Londoner’s Horrible? You May Be Surprised By This Experiment…

<br /> <article class="entry post-35462 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-activism category-life tag-activism tag-life last_archivepost" readability="43"><div class="subtitle"> In this new social experiment, Action Productions tests the kindness of Londoners. </div> <div class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_35493" readability="1"> <a attachment="" href="http://ift.tt/1KTkbaE;%20rel=" wp-att-35493=""><img action="" class="wp-image-35493" credit:="" height="456" productions="" src="http://ift.tt/1NOE6H3; alt=" width="730" /></a><br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> Credit: Action Productions</div> </div> </article>

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Baltimore Restaurant Shuts Down For 5 Days To Feed The Homeless Free Food

<br /> <article class="entry post-35435 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news category-poverty tag-homeless last_archivepost" readability="51"><a aligncenter="" height="410" href="http://ift.tt/1HNhN4m%20class=" resturant="" size-full="" src="http://ift.tt/1Hf5jO8; alt=" width="750" wp-image-35446=""></a><br /> <!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http://quicksense.net/ --> <br /> Each year, Baltimore restaurants look forward to “restaurant week”, a time where the city’s food is showcased and businesses are able to get a ton of free advertisement and new customers.<br /> Instead of cashing in like everyone else, Michael Tabrizi, owner of “Tabrizi’s” will be closing his business to the general public in order to feed the city’s homeless at no cost.<br /> <em>“I decided that, after all of the chaos earlier this year, it would be better to do something for the city to unite the people. It isn’t about revenue and money right now, we’ve done restaurant week before and we know the numbers, but right now it’s more important to promote the welfare of the city and its residents rather than to promote the business</em>,” <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1HNhN4o;%20target=">Tabrizi told Baltimore Magazine.</a><br /> <em>“These people don’t only suffer from hunger, but also from hopelessness, they feel that they don’t have any dignity anymore. We want them to come in and feel like they’re cared for,”</em> he added.<br /> To get the food for no cost, Tabrizi has teamed up with local homeless shelters who donate food and time to the cause.<br /> <em>“The main goal is just to show people that actions do matter. Baltimore has a long way to recover and we can’t just rely on other people to lead. It’s our city. My dad used to always say, ‘You can’t control what people do and say, but you can control how you act.’ My reaction is bringing people together and showing them that I care,</em>” Tabrizi said.<br /> The charity effort will be taking place between July 20th and 25th.<br /> <hr /> <a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1HNhKFA;%20target=">John Vibes</a> writes for True Activist and is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war.<br /> <em>This article (<a _blank="" href="http://ift.tt/1Hf5jOc;%20target=">Baltimore Restaurant Shuts Down For 5 Days To Feed The Homeless Free Food</a>) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a </em><a --="" end="" hnkf="" href="http://ift.tt/1Hf5jOe%20Commons%3C/em%3E%3C/a%3E%3Cem%3E%20license%20with%20attribution%20to%20the%20author%20and%20%3C/em%3E%3Ca%20href=" http:="" ift.tt="" navigation=""> .<!-- Facebook Comments Plugin for WordPress: http://ift.tt/1evouu1 --> </a></article> <br /> _{<i>-- Delivered by <a href="http://feed43.com/">Feed43</a> service</i>}

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