Dr. Kelly Brogan, M.D., GreenMedInfo Waking Times The day has come and your little bundle is here. The wonder of it is overwhelming: this human grew out of two cells, inside you, and despite those last couple of days feeling like a year each, all of this happened in 9 months, without your doing much …
Maureen Nandini Mitra, Earth Island Journal Waking Times As was expected, Big Biotech’s legal juggernaut has rolled into action in Hawai’i. On Friday afternoon, three big agrochemical companies—Pioneer-DuPont, Syngenta and Agrigenetics Inc. (a subsidiary of Dow Chemical)—filed a suit in a federal court in Honolulu seeking to block Kaua’i County’s new genetically modified organism (GMO) regulatory law. Two …
Barbara H. Peterson, Farm Wars Waking Times New scientific discovery reveals DNA manipulation can create mutations due to ignorance of gene control mechanism. There was a time when science dictated that the world was flat, and that if you reached the edge, you would simply fall off. What they couldn’t see, they proposed to be …
Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease Waking Times Palm oil of any kind, whether it be from the fruit or kernel is not beneficial to the Earth or human health. The marketing gurus behind the largest palm oil manufacturers in the world will never give you the whole story. In fact, they are attempting to deceive international …
Thomas Prade, The Conversation Waking Times Bioenergy is currently the fastest growing source of renewable energy. Cultivating energy crops on arable land can decrease dependency on depleting fossil resources and it can mitigate climate change. But some biofuel crops have bad environmental effects: they use too much water, displace people and create more emissions than they save. This has …
Chris Bourne, Openhand Contributor Waking Times Have you wondered why news about the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant is eerily sparse? Recently the Russian Federation has raised reporting about Fukushima to its highest classification, meaning that if the truth was released, it could damage the foundation of the federation itself. And in America, according to insiders, …
Christina Sarich, Natural Society Waking Times Since the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) aren’t legally required to tell the truth about anything, why should they? Maybe this is just one of many reasons the public is unaware of the many problems revolving around America’s health system. …
Heather Callaghan, Contributor Waking Times With autism rates exploding in recent years and little to no effective mainstream treatments, families have turned to alternative treatments. So it was only a matter of time before researchers caught on to study them. There are no FDA-approved treatments for the core symptoms of autism spectrum disorder. The researchers, …
Jennifer Reynolds, Contributor Waking Times The number is zero, a symbol for infinity, without beginning or end (alpha and omega). Significantly here, its symbol represents the concept of things being cyclic. Although normally interpreted as void and nothingness, a circle is pregnant with potential. At some point the 22 major cards of tarot came to …
Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Waking Times There are plenty of reasons to boycott factory farms, including the top two: your health and animal welfare. But the big-picture reason is this. The only way to feed the world and restore climate stability is to restore efficiency to our food system. When we were hunters and gatherers, …
Peter O’Donoghue, Contributor Waking Times The moment we wake from dreamless sleep, the world, and us as individuals within it, suddenly come back into existence and a new experience begins. The reality we perceive around us seems definite and solid, governed by fixed laws. We use our senses to ascertain what appears to be going …
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times Across the globe, farmers who choose to plant non-genetically modified seed instead of patented seed varieties from the agro-chemical giants like Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta and BASF, are being forced out of business by the burden and costs of fighting seed patent lawsuits. Targeting farms who do not pay ‘technology …
Amanda Froelich, Guest Waking Times As complementary and holistic healing modalities rise in popularity, consumers are becoming more vigilant about what they consume. This means that the $37 billion processed food industry is finally dealing with scrutiny from the FDA and concerned citizens regarding the ingredients and sourcing of many food items. With this increase …
Ingrid Burrington, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times In a small park next to the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Md., signs explain rules about photographs one can take — and illustrate the kind of photo one isn’t allowed to take. (WNV/Ingrid Burrington)Mass surveillance has an image problem. The visual references commonly used to portray …
Chris Carrington, Guest Waking Times NOAA is predicting a geomagnetic storm later today as the CME from the X1 flare hits the Earth’s magnetosphere. The speed of the solar wind will spike at around 1.6 million miles per hour. (700km/s) The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has the following information for the 9th, 10th …
Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times There’s no doubt that many medications work in the short-term to suppress symptoms. In fact, that’s all they do as they are incapable of addressing the underlying cause of disease. But even when a medication works, half of its impact on a patient is be due to one aspect …
Waking Times The global cosmetics industry is huge, with sales estimated to be around $170 billion annually. Broken down into the segments of hair care, skin care, fragrance, makeup and miscellaneous, the chemical industries behind the production of most cosmetics create products that appeal to the eyes, skin and nose, yet too often contain toxic …
Alex Vandenberg, Contributor Waking Times The war behind all wars is a war on words; a war on language. For instance, in today’s world independence is overshadowed by “inter-dependence”, incessant talk of “democracy” overlooks our constitutional republic, “pooling” is now a substitute for sovereignty, “globalization” takes precedence over nation-states, economic growth has morphed into “sustainable …
Gregg Prescott, M.S., In5D Guest Waking Times How close are we to the collapse of the dollar and complete debt forgiveness? U.S. citizens will be the last to know that the dollar is worthless. Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008 and right on schedule, we saw the collapse of hundreds of banks. Pluto stays in Capricorn until 2023 …
Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease Waking Times Since the genetic code of the apple was mapped by researchers a few years ago, scientists have explored gene silencing and other manipulation techniques to alter one of nature’s most healing superfoods. Genetically modified apples may soon enter the food supply under the guise of preventing browning. First, though, officials …
