While mainstream press have been hailing the alliance between al Qaeda, the Syrian Free Army and the West in opposing Assad in Syria, they've also been caught once again "faking the war" to play up sympathy for an all out invasion.
Austria's largest daily paper, Kronen Zeitung, with some 3 million readers daily, published this sympathetic photo, seemingly portraying a man carrying a baby and a woman in burka fleeing from some war-torn corner of Syria. However, it was later exposed to be a Photoshop forgery, juxtaposing the people walking on a normal looking corner with that of a blown out city block, ravaged with heavy damage.
The revealing side by side comparison was first posted to Reddit.com.
President Obama's message to entrepreneurs that "you didn't build that" prompted one Georgia business owner to respond with a not-so-subtle retort.
"I built this business without gov't help. Obama can Kiss my ass," reads the sign outside Gaster Lumber & Hardware in Savannah, Ga. Owner Ray Gaster posted that and two similar ones at all three of his company's locations in response to Obama's comments during a speech to supporters in Virignia, which struck a nerve with small business owners around the nation.
"If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help," the president said at a campaign stop last month in Roanoke, Va.. "There was a great teacher somewhere in your life," he continued. "Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
An acidic pH can occur from, an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload, and/or immune reactions or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients. The body will try to compensate for acidic pH by using alkaline minerals. If the diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of acids in the cells will occur.
An acidic balance will: decrease the body's ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients, decrease the energy production in the cells, decrease it's ability to repair damaged cells, decrease it's ability to detoxify heavy metals, make tumor cells thrive, and make it more susceptible to fatigue and illness.
The reason acidosis is more common in our society is mostly due to the typical American diet, which is far too high in acid producing animal products like meat, eggs and dairy, and far too low in alkaline producing foods like fresh vegetables. Additionally, we eat acid producing processed foods like white flour and sugar and drink acid producing overly acid body beverages like coffee and soft drinks. One of the best things we can do to correct a low pH is to clean up the diet and lifestyle...this includes our additudes and how we treat others.
(Reuters) - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and state officials are pushing initiatives aimed at encouraging new mothers to breastfeed their babies, drawing criticism from some parents who say officials are interfering with their health choices.
State health commissioners announced on Tuesday that letters highlighting the importance of breastfeeding were being sent to hospitals, reminding them of regulations limiting unnecessary formula feedings for breastfed newborns.
The state initiative coincides with Bloomberg's call for hospitals to lock away their baby formula and have nurses encourage new mothers to breastfeed.
AUSTIN -- The first confirmed death in Travis County from the West Nile virus has been reported by local health officials.
The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department conducted the investigation. Officials say the victim was over 50 years old. This is the first death in Austin from the West Nile virus since 2003 when two people died.
The Epidemiology and Health Statistics Unit says it is currently investigating three cases of West Nile virus in the Austin area. One patient was hospitalized and is now recovering.
WASHINGTON - A young man talking on a cellphone meanders along the edge of a lonely train platform at night. Suddenly he stumbles, loses his balance and pitches over the side, landing head first on the tracks.
Fortunately there were no trains approaching the Philadelphia-area station at that moment, because it took the man several minutes to recover enough to climb out of danger. But the incident, captured last year by a security camera and provided to The Associated Press, underscores the risks of what government officials and safety experts say is a growing problem: distracted walking.
ELKINS, W. Va. - Norman Alderman, a former Pocahontas County commissioner and now a political blogger, claims the county raided his house and seized his computer equipment because he asked a commissioner if he lived in the district he represented, in a pro se federal complaint.
(CN) - The 3rd Circuit blazed a possible path to the Supreme Court with its ruling that pharmaceutical companies' payments to keep generic drugs off the market should be treated as "evidence of an unreasonable restraint of trade."
The ruling is at odds with decisions from the 2nd Circuit, the 11th Circuit and the D.C. Circuit, which have upheld the so-called "pay-to-delay" settlements between brand-name and generic drug makers.
The agreements stem from the 1984 Hatch-Waxman Act, meant to lower drug costs by streamlining the process of obtaining Food and Drug Administration approval for generic drugs.
SAN DIEGO (CN) - A former Homeland Security employee was sentenced Friday to 115 days in jail for defrauding people of $240,000, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Dario Tomas, 53, of Oceanside, pleaded guilty to wire fraud, prosecutors said in a statement. He admitted that while he worked for DHS in Korea he defrauded investors of $240,000, claiming he would use the money to open a computer training school in the Philippines.
It's no secret that there's a global plan to try to get people off of meat. Vegetarians and vegans have been pushing the trend for decades now and in terms of health, it would likely have a positive impact on western populations. However, shouldn't we have the choice? Shouldn't this come from within and be a desire for the love and care of animals rather than some dictatorial control mechanism by the scientific elite? Genetically engineered ticks may be causing severe, life-threatening allergic reactions to meat that may soon start to spread throughout the entire world.
Genetically modified insects have been released into the wild for some time now. Disease-carrying mosquitoes and crop-munching caterpillars have already been designed with "living pesticides" and scientists say their approach works with just about any animal - from fish to frogs and rats to humans.
Oxitec and the Mosquito Research and Control Unit of Grand Cayman (MRCU) publicly announced at a American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that their release of genetically modified sterile mosquitoes into the wild went live years ago after years of laboratory experiments and hypothetical calculations.
(Reuters Health) - Supplements containing a compound in curry spice may help prevent diabetes in people at high risk, a small clinical trial suggests.
Researchers found that over nine months, a daily dose of curcumin seemed to prevent new cases of diabetes among people with so-called prediabetes - abnormally high blood sugar levels that may progress to full-blown type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity.
Curcumin is a compound in turmeric spice, and lab research has suggested it can fight inflammation and so-called oxidative damage to body cells. Those two processes are thought to feed a range of diseases, including type 2 diabetes.
Whether you like it or not, chances are Monsanto contaminated the food you ate today with chemicals and GMOs. Monsanto controls much of the world's food supply at the expense of food democracy worldwide. The following site is dedicated to empowering citizens of the world to take action against Monsanto during the week of September 17th, 2012.
ScienceDaily (July 25, 2012) - Studies have shown that the offspring of mothers on a low-protein diet are more likely to develop hypertension as adults. Now, Drs. Gao, Yallampalli, and Yallampalli of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston report that in rats, the high maternal testosterone levels associated with a low-protein diet are caused by reduced activity of an enzyme that inactivates testosterone, allowing more testosterone to reach the fetus and increase the offspring's susceptibility to adulthood hypertension.
Fetal programming is a term used to describe the impact of maternal stress on an unborn child's physical characteristics at birth, as well as its long-term health. The placenta is thought to be a major contributor to fetal programming due to its critical roles in hormone production and nutrient transport, as well as its susceptibility to environmental disruptions.
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca's sales tumbled 21 percent in the second quarter, punished by generic competition to its best-selling antipsychotic medicine Seroquel and pressure on health spending in Europe.
Continued supply chain disruptions triggered by problems with a new IT system at a plant in Sweden added to the group's woes and the shares fell 1.8 percent by 04.30 a.m. EDT in a flat market for European drug stocks.
With patent losses rapidly eroding revenue and few new drugs to replace them, Britain's second-biggest drugmaker is throwing itself into deal-making to bolster the pipeline, following the early exit of its chief executive at the end of May.
(Reuters Health) - Women who have depression symptoms during pregnancy may be more likely to deliver early, a new study suggests.
Researchers found that of more than 14,000 pregnant women, those who screened positive for possible clinical depression had an increased chance of preterm birth: 14 percent delivered before the 37th week of pregnancy, versus 10 percent of other women.
The findings, reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, do not prove that depression directly leads to preterm birth.
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - After a two-year federal investigation, the New Orleans Police Department on Tuesday agreed to a consent degree with the Department of Justice, meant to reduce discrimination, officer misconduct, use of force and other "systemic deficiencies."
The police must meet some benchmarks as soon as 90 days from now.
The 124-page consent decree requires more police department transparency, encourages greater civilian oversight and increases community interaction and partnerships.
CHICAGO (CN) - Abbott Laboratories' blockbuster arthritis drug Humira gave a woman cancer, she claims in Cook County Court.
Carolyn and Eric Shaw sued Abbott Laboratories for product liability, product defects, failure to warn, misrepresentation, negligence, breach of warranty and loss of consortium.
"Plaintiff Carolyn Shaw was prescribed Abbott's blockbuster arthritis drug 'Humira' and received bi-monthly injections from October 2008 to August 2010 when she was diagnosed with B-cell non-Hodgkin's follicular lymphoma. She underwent surgery and chemotherapy treatment, and luckily her cancer went into remission. Unfortunately, she will have to undergo treatments every five months for the rest of her life to ensure the cancer will not return," the complaint states.
