HuffPost Butcher William Von Schneidau at Pike Place Market. This is what they meant by pot-bellied pig! We're getting high on the hog of BB Ranch butcher William von Schneidau, who feeds marijuana to his pigs and sells them at Seattle's Pike Place Market. SeattleMet reports that Schneidau adds "weed to the feed" -- yes, the stems, stalks and seeds -- to give his meat a more savory flavor. The "pot pigs" are partly a celebration of Washington voters passing a pot-legalization initiative late last year, MSN reports. But they're also a real culinary experiment. Schneidau says the pot plants add fiber to the pigs' diets, which makes ...
OffTheGridNews Solar flare activity has increased significantly in recent days. There have been a total of four X Class solar flares since Mother’s Day last Sunday. While none of the coronal mass ejections (CME) were Earth-directed, NOAA now expects the active region to be facing Earth by this weekend. The first X Class solar flares of 2013 went largely unnoticed by the mainstream media. If just one of the CMEs had been directed at Earth, the power grid would likely have gone down, ended life as we know it, and resembled a scene from Rob Underhill’s award-winning The Carrington Event series. The solar flare which occurred on May ...
Current marijuana users have 16 percent lower fasting insulin levels compared to non-users, according to the American Journal of Medicine Activist Post Regular marijuana use is associated with favorable indices related to diabetic control, say investigators. They found that current marijuana users had significantly lower fasting insulin and were less likely to be insulin resistant, even after excluding patients with a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus. Their findings are reported in the current issue of The American Journal of Medicine. Marijuana (Cannabis sativa) has been used for centuries to relieve pain, improve mood, and increase appetite. Outlawed in the United States in 1937, its ...
TheEconomicCollapse Is it right for Barack Obama to use IRS audits to punish his political enemies? As crazy as that sounds, there is a mounting body of evidence that indicates that this is actually happening. And if this can be proven, it is a much, much larger scandal than the IRS giving "extra scrutiny" to the applications of conservative non-profit groups. Let me be clear - if Barack Obama has been using IRS audits to punish his political enemies, that is an impeachable offense. Of all of the other scandals that are out there right now, this is the one that could actually ...
Forbes Buycott shows you a product's corporate family tree while you shop. In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burnerpitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former Microsoft MSFT +0.94%programmer and congressional candidate proposed a smartphone app allowing shoppers to swipe barcodes to check whether conservativebillionaire industrialists Charles and David Kochwere behind a product on the shelves. Burner figured the average supermarket shopper had no idea that buying Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper or Dixie cups meant contributing cash to Koch Industriesthrough its subsidiary Georgia-Pacific. Similarly, purchasing a pair of yoga pants containing Lycra ...
Amanda Fleming/ConsciousLifeNews Check out these thirteen ways to access your essential self and express it in the world. They are presented in no particular order… Pay some attention to your interiorlife – This is where your intrinsic life guidance arises. How much attention you ‘pay’ depends on your needs. It might sound odd but if you pay attention you will know how muchattention to pay at any given time. Paying attention to your interior life grows Awareness. Lack of Awareness leads to a wasting of energy, chasing superficial goals and fleeting pleasures. The principle to apply is “Inner first – outer follows”. When facing an apparent ‘problem’ try viewing it ...
OffTheGridNews Buying hydroponics equipment in Kansas is apparently justification for a search and seizure warrant. The Harte family’s desire to live a more sustainable existence resulted in a gun-toting raid on their home recently. Robert Harte’s “crime” was the purchase of growing equipment to raise melons and tomatoes in his basement. Harte stated during interviews with local media outlets that the raid was like a scene from the Zero Dark Thirty movie when soldiers stormed the compound. Police dogs entered the Leawood, Kansas home, followed by armed agents. The law enforcement officers then reportedly accused theRobert and Adlynn Harte’s 13-year-old son of growing pot in the basement. Adylnn ...
Ralph Blumenthal/Vanity Fair COURTESY OF ANNE RAMSEY CUVELIER (HOUSE), COURTESY OF JPL-CALTECH/UCLA/NASA (COSMOS), COURTESY OF THE FAMILY OF JOHN E. MACK (MACK). Anne Ramsey Cuvelier’s Victorian mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, where, once a year, alien experiencers gather and exchange stories. Inset, John Edward Mack at Harvard University, where he earned his medical degree in 1955. If you’re abducted by alien beings, are you physically absent? This happens to be an important issue for the media-shy people gathered one afternoon last July on the porch of Anne Ramsey Cuvelier’s blue Victorian inn on Narragansett Bay, in Rhode Island, once called “the most elegantly finished house ever ...
Cell phones have become prolific data engines MyScienceacademy Cell phones are so many things now–computer, map, clock, calculator, camera, shopping device, concierge, and occasionally, a phone. But more than anything, that little device that never leaves your person is one amazingly prolific data engine. Which is why last October, Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S, carrier with almost 100 million customers, launched a new division called Precision Market Insights. And why, at about the same time, Madrid-based Telefonica, one of the world’s largest mobile network providers, opened its own new business unit, Telefonica Dynamic Insights. The point of these ventures is to mine, reconstitute and sell the ...
Shepard Ambellas & Avalon /Intellihub.com MODIS Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov Geoengineering (aka Chemtrails) has now been defined as: “the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change.” – The Royal Society 2009[3][4] Recently, the question has been asked, What In the World Are They Spraying?[5]The documentary with the same name answers many of those questions about Chemtrails aka Geoengineering. The question the world is now asking is “Who in the World Is Spraying Us?” As an introduction to this article, we will first cover information to familiarize the uninformed readers as to the core facts and information so that a more complete understanding is possible, given this complex issue. A recent report[7] by CBS ...
Anna Hunt/Waking Times No longer do the Eastern practices of yoga, tai chi and meditation remain esoteric mysteries to us Westerners. Eccentric gurus living in secluded ashrams and mountain-side dojos have passed on their secrets to worldly students. Ancient texts have been translated into multiple languages, analyzed and explained. Students have become teachers and now eagerly share the elements of theory and physical practice with anyone willing to listen. The proliferation of yoga, tai chi and meditation in the Western world has been quite rapid, with organic growth driven by the beneficial effects inherent to these practices. It is only recently that ...
Waking Times Hemp has long been known to be a clean, renewable resource. It can be grown with little to no fertilizer and pesticides; in fact, it has natural pesticides. It enriches and heals the soil it is grown in, cleans the air, and reduces pollution. It has some of the longest, strongest natural fibers known to man. Around 50,000 products can me made from hemp. With landfills taking up more space, there are many who are turning to green/recyclable options. In some cities recycling is mandatory. Paper made from wood pulp can be recycled. However, it can be recycled maximum of 3 times. ...
CollectiveEvolution From humanities ancient history to the present day, symbolism has played a large role through out all stages and ages of human development. It must be considered another form of language and communication. From “secret societies” like the Masons, Illuminati and major multinational corporations, governmental organizations and financial institutions, intriguing symbolism has always been used. You can find it within the military industrial complex, the energy industry, the health industry and all other major unhealthy products that surround human beings on a daily basses. Corporate logos, military symbolism and more have allowed more people around the world to wake up, ...
TheEconomicCollapse When is the economic collapse going to happen? Just open up your eyes and take a look around the globe. The next wave of the economic collapse may not have reached Wall Street yet, but it is already deeply affecting billions of lives all over the planet. Much of Europe has already descended into a deep economic depression, very disturbing economic data is coming out of the second and third largest economies on the globe (China and Japan), and in most of the world economic inequality is growing even though 80 percent of the global population already lives on less ...
TheTruthDenied In China, some 560,000 manipulations of the weather have been conducted since 2002. So if you want to question the idea that chemtrails are being sprayed in our skies, just take a look at China, the leading manufacturer of artificial skies. “Chinese authorities didn’t become such meteorological control freaks overnight. Chinese research into weather control dates back to 1958. Forty years later, the government-run Weather Modification Program launches thousands of specially designed rockets and artillery shells into the sky every year in an attempt to manipulate weather conditions.” The Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences Weather Modification Department division the program employs and trains 32,000 ...
RT Cocaine addicts may soon have a ‘cure’ for their unhealthy dependence: researchers have successfully created a vaccine that prevents cocaine particles from reaching the brain and inducing feelings of euphoria, thereby helping users break their addiction. “The vaccine eats up the cocaine in the blood like a little Pac-Man before it can reach the brain,” Dr. Ronald G. Crystal, the lead investigator of the Weill Cornell Medical College study said in a press release. “We believe this strategy is a win-win for those individuals, among the estimated 1.4 million cocaine users in the United States, who are committed to breaking their addiction to ...
BlackListedNews Beetles, caterpillars and wasps could supplement the diets of billions of people globally and help feed livestock, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Monday, calling for more investment in edible insect farming. “One of the many ways to address food and feed insecurity is through insect farming,” the report said, pointing out that insects were “nutritious, with high protein, fat and mineral contents”. “Insects are everywhere and they reproduce quickly, and they have high growth and feed conversion rates and a low environmental footprint,” it said. Read More...
SFTimes First it was a cough. Then it was bronchitis. Then it was time to say goodbye to Michelle Aldrich. The year 2011 was supposed to be a good one for the 66-year-old. That June, she and her husband, Michael, were feted with a lifetime achievement award by High Times magazine for their four decades of work on marijuana legalization. Yet something was off. She was smoking a lot, maybe more than ever. And she couldn't get high. In the fall of that year — a bad time for the local marijuana movement, as the federalJustice Department began shutting down hundreds of California medical cannabis dispensaries — Aldrich ...
UKDailyMail Student living in US questioned him about pressure cooker suspected to be bomb Used to make traditional Saudi dish and taken the pressure cooker to other Saudi friend near his house FBI vigilant after Boston Bombers used pressure cooker to make explosive A Saudi student living in Michigan was questioned in his home by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker and called the police. Talal al Rouki had been cooking a traditional Saudi Arabian rice dish called kabsah and was carrying it to a friend's house. According to reports in a Saudi newspaper on Friday, the FBI are increasingly vigilant about ...
TheEconomicCollapse The IRS has finally publicly admitted that patriots and Tea Party groups were being specifically targeted for “extra scrutiny”, but the truth is that top IRS officials knew that this intimidating and harassing behavior was taking place two years ago. A report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration that is going to be released this week shows that the targeting of patriots and Tea Party groups began as early as March 2010, and that the head of the IRS tax-exempt organizations division was specifically told about this targeting in June 2011. But then the IRS lied to Congress five ...