(NaturalNews) Scotts Miracle-Gro, a popular household name in gardening and lawn care products, is the subject of a new class-action lawsuit that is seeking damages for the company's willful distribution and sale of bird seed products contaminated with toxic, unapproved insecticides. Courthouse News Service (CNS) reports that plaintiffs from Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Arkansas, Kentucky, and New Mexico have jointly filed the new suit, which follows an earlier suit in which Scotts Miracle-Gro pleaded guilty to knowingly selling poisoned bird seed to customers for over two years.
Scotts Miracle-Gro apparently started using the two chemicals as bird seed coating to prevent insects from ravaging the product in storehouses prior to shipment and use. But neither Storcide II nor Actellic 5E are approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for use in bird feed, and the EPA specifically recognizes Storcide II as being extremely toxic to birds, fish, and other wildlife, which means it clearly has no place being used in food given to birds.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Georgia Tech Automated Pavement Crack Detector/Filler
Sealing cracks in roadways ensures a road’s structural integrity and extends the time between major repaving projects, but conventional manual crack sealing operations expose workers to dangerous traffic and cover a limited amount of roadway each day.
To address these challenges, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) developed a prototype automated pavement crack detection and sealing system with funding from the Georgia Department of Transportation. In road tests, the system was able to detect cracks smaller than one-eighth-inch wide and efficiently fill cracks from a vehicle moving at a speed of three miles per hour.
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To address these challenges, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) developed a prototype automated pavement crack detection and sealing system with funding from the Georgia Department of Transportation. In road tests, the system was able to detect cracks smaller than one-eighth-inch wide and efficiently fill cracks from a vehicle moving at a speed of three miles per hour.
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Security increases around Pennsylvania nuclear disposal site
Security around a nuclear waste site in western Pennsylvania has been upgraded, with DHS armed security guards replacing private guards around the site; the reason for the elevated security is the finding, by the Army Corps of Engineers, of more “complex” nuclear materials on the site; it was originally believed that the site contains only low-level nuclear material[.]
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
US Claims on Russian/Syrian Arms Deals: Pot, Kettle, Black
by M. Murry
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accused Russia of supplying attack helicopters to the Syrian government in support of its defense against violent attacks from foreign-backed insurgents.
Interestingly, one of the models of helicopters which the Syrian government has in its fleet is the Mi-17, which is also the same type as the 21 machines sold by Russia to US forces in Afghanistan just over a year ago, not long after the US lifted sanctions on Rosoboronexport, the Russian arms export corporation, in 2010. The US is also currently set to sub-contract Rosoboronexport for ammunition supplies.
In addition to the Mi-17, Syria also possesses several dozen Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters, which are still under repair and modernization contracts with Russia. The Obama administration has not clearly identified weapons supplied in violation of these contracts, much less any violations of sovereign or international law in its recent press releases.
Several US Senators have voiced opposition to the Pentagon's continued contractual dealings with Rosoboronexport in recent weeks because of the previous sale as well as the possible purchase of an additional 12 helicopters, and the recent reports of the Russian arms exporter supplying Iran with rocket equipment and technology (much like in 2005/06, right before imposing sanctions).
The US position of playing both sides of the fence on arms exportation and supply while leveling accusations of misconduct against the Russians is the pot calling the kettle black. At the very least, the US government contracting with the very same corporation that the US government routinely condemns for atrocities and violations of international law and democracy sends a mixed message to the people of the nation and the world.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accused Russia of supplying attack helicopters to the Syrian government in support of its defense against violent attacks from foreign-backed insurgents.
Interestingly, one of the models of helicopters which the Syrian government has in its fleet is the Mi-17, which is also the same type as the 21 machines sold by Russia to US forces in Afghanistan just over a year ago, not long after the US lifted sanctions on Rosoboronexport, the Russian arms export corporation, in 2010. The US is also currently set to sub-contract Rosoboronexport for ammunition supplies.
In addition to the Mi-17, Syria also possesses several dozen Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters, which are still under repair and modernization contracts with Russia. The Obama administration has not clearly identified weapons supplied in violation of these contracts, much less any violations of sovereign or international law in its recent press releases.
Several US Senators have voiced opposition to the Pentagon's continued contractual dealings with Rosoboronexport in recent weeks because of the previous sale as well as the possible purchase of an additional 12 helicopters, and the recent reports of the Russian arms exporter supplying Iran with rocket equipment and technology (much like in 2005/06, right before imposing sanctions).
The US position of playing both sides of the fence on arms exportation and supply while leveling accusations of misconduct against the Russians is the pot calling the kettle black. At the very least, the US government contracting with the very same corporation that the US government routinely condemns for atrocities and violations of international law and democracy sends a mixed message to the people of the nation and the world.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
The Economy Comes Unglued
Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and Quantitative Easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt every year via its budget deficits? Not long ago the Fed announced that it was going to continue this policy for another 2 or 3 years. Indeed, the Fed is locked into the policy. Without the artificially low interest rates, the debt service on the national debt would be so large that it would raise questions about the US Treasury’s credit rating and the viability of the dollar, and the trillions of dollars in Interest Rate Swaps and other derivatives would come unglued.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America
When it comes to the birth of America, most of us are working from a stew of elementary school history lessons, Westerns and vague Thanksgiving mythology. And while it's not surprising those sources might biff a couple details, what's shocking is how much less interesting the version we learned was. It turns out our teachers, Hollywood and whoever we got our Thanksgiving mythology from (Big Turkey?) all made America's origin story far more boring than it actually was for some very disturbing reasons. For instance ...
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CAUTION: "language"
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Gun Owner Stops Man on Knife Rampage
SALT LAKE CITY — A man stabbed two people at the Smith's Marketplace grocery store in downtown Salt Lake City before being subdued by a bystander.
Police say a bystander with a concealed carry permit witnessed the attack and stepped in to keep it from escalating.
"This was a really volatile situation that could have gotten even worse," [Lt.]Purvis said. "(The bystander) was definitely in the right place at the right time."
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Police say a bystander with a concealed carry permit witnessed the attack and stepped in to keep it from escalating.
"This was a really volatile situation that could have gotten even worse," [Lt.]Purvis said. "(The bystander) was definitely in the right place at the right time."
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Friday, May 4, 2012
The 10 things they really don't tell you at graduation
3) When you hit a certain point in your 20s, everyone around you starts to get married, for no apparent reason and without any warning. This is first cute, then alarming, like Justin Bieber.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
97% Owned [HD]
This is a film about UK monetary policy, but US policy is the same. The state of Europe over the past few years is a true indicator of the accelerating consequences of modern imaginary computer money. The main reason Americans don't have a clue is because of the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency. Once countries decide to pay with and accept other currencies, what has been comfortably and conveniently on the other side of the world will be in their faces.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds
This turdstorm of pointless click-bait filler is a problem for anyone who wants to be an informed voter. To learn anything useful, you need to be able to sort through all of the garbage to find the actual information and insight. So let me just tell you right now that you can safely ignore any story if ...
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Saturday, April 21, 2012
TSA Unzips More Than Your Pants; X-rays Unzip Your DNA
[Technology Review] The evidence that terahertz radiation damages biological systems is mixed. "Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none," say Boian Alexandrov at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and a few buddies. Now these guys think they know why.
Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they've found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication. That's a jaw dropping conclusion.
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Alexandrov and co have created a model to investigate how THz fields interact with double-stranded DNA and what they've found is remarkable. They say that although the forces generated are tiny, resonant effects allow THz waves to unzip double-stranded DNA, creating bubbles in the double strand that could significantly interfere with processes such as gene expression and DNA replication. That's a jaw dropping conclusion.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
First Ever Video of Solar Tornado; 5x the Size of Earth
[Wired] Discovered using NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory satellite, this colossal twisting mass is made up of superheated gas at a temperature of between 90,000 and 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit.
Over the course of three hours, this behemoth reached up from the sun’s surface to a height of 125,000 miles, or roughly half the distance between the Earth and the moon. The hot gases were whipped up to nearly 186,000 miles per hour.
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http://users.aber.ac.uk/xxl/tornado.htm
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/meetings/nam2012/pressreleases/nam14.html
Over the course of three hours, this behemoth reached up from the sun’s surface to a height of 125,000 miles, or roughly half the distance between the Earth and the moon. The hot gases were whipped up to nearly 186,000 miles per hour.
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http://users.aber.ac.uk/xxl/tornado.htm
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/meetings/nam2012/pressreleases/nam14.html
Witness the Power of an Idea: Ron Paul Massive Rallies 2012
Apparently tens of thousands of people haven't received the Ron Paul Can't Win memo.
Monday, April 9, 2012
Mike Wallace Interviews Eugenicist and Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger
September 21, 1957
[22:25]
Wallace: Do you believe in sin?
Sanger: Well I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world...that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically...delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things; just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin that people can commit.
p.s. the Philip Morris schtick is even more hilarious the 2nd time
[22:25]
Wallace: Do you believe in sin?
Sanger: Well I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world...that have disease from their parents, that have no chance in the world to be a human being practically...delinquents, prisoners, all sorts of things; just marked when they're born. That to me is the greatest sin that people can commit.
p.s. the Philip Morris schtick is even more hilarious the 2nd time
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Sy Hersh: US Funded and Trained Iranian Group on State Dept. Terror List
Seymour Hersh, the venerable investigative journalist, dropped another bombshell this morning in the New Yorker: the US military trained members of an Iranian terrorist group in Nevada in 2005.
What’s more, American intelligence continues to be transferred to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) for use in operations that include the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
What’s more, American intelligence continues to be transferred to the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) for use in operations that include the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
The General's Son
[YouTube] Miko Peled is a peace activist who dares to say in public what others still choose to deny. Born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family, his grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. His Father, Matti Peled, was a young officer in the war of 1948 and a general in the war of 1967 when Israel conquered the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and Sinai.
Miko's unlikely opinions reflect his father's legacy. General Peled was a war hero turned peacemaker.
Miko grew up in Jerusalem, a multi-ethnic city, but had to leave Israel before he made his first Palestinian friend, the result of his participation in a dialogue group in California. He was 39.
On September 4, 1997 the beloved Smadar, 13, the daughter of Miko's sister Nurit and her husband Rami Elhanan was killed in a suicide attack.
Peled insists that Israel/Palestine is one state—the separation wall notwithstanding, massive investment in infrastructure, towns and highways that bisect and connect settlements on the West Bank, have destroyed the possibility for a viable Palestinian state. The result, Peled says is that Israelis and Palestinians are governed by the same government but live under different sets of laws.
At the heart of Peled's conclusion lies the realization that Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace as equals in their shared homeland.
Rick Steves: Reflections on Israel and Palestine
I've been duped.
Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive?
Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive?
Friday, April 6, 2012
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