Top Scientist Who Exposed GMOs Silenced by Biotech

This is the beginning of the end for GMO companies like Monsanto, thanks to scientists like Arpad Pustazai. - FUA

If I had the choice, I certainly wouldn’t eat it,” said scientist Arpad Pustazai in an interview conducted after his study of GMOs.

Have you heard his name before? Likely not, since biotech made an example of him in 1998, launching an attack against any scientist that exposed just how toxic GM crops truly are. What did Pustazai find when he conducted trials on animals given genetically modified food? Read on to find out what Monsanto has suppressed for decades.

Dr. Pustazai’s comments about GMOs were aired on British television in the summer of 1998, and they were a viral flame that biotech decided to hose down as fast as they could. Dr. Pustazai has credentials as a world-renowned expert on food safety. He worked at one of the UK’s leading food safety research labs, the Rowett institute. The scientist has more than 300 articles to his credit, as well as three books. Nonetheless, just a few days after his public statement, he was suspended and gagged by the research institute where he worked.

Dr. Pustazai’s curriculum vitae is what afforded him a $3 million grant by the UK government to study GMOs. Dr. Pustazai was possibly the first, if not a primary scientist to point out that GM food was not at all substantially equivalent to non-GM foods.

He also pointed out that the testing procedures employed by the UK, and incidentally, this is true for the US as well, were inadequate to determine toxicity due to the short durations used. He said that this only ‘superficially’’ tested foods, and only longer-term studies would reveal their true detriment to human and animal health.

The biotech industry set out to make Dr. Pustazai look like a senile idiot, but what he found in his own longer-term studies was extremely telling. Later, 24 additional scientists in countries around the world confirmed Pustazai’s findings to be true.

Read: Former Pro-GMO Scientists Admits GMOs are Dangerous

When the doctor fed rats GM potatoes, within just 10 days, the animals developed potentially pre-cancerous cell growth, smaller brains, livers, and testicles, partially atrophied livers, and damaged immune systems. What’s more, the cause was most certainly side effects from the process of genetic engineering itself. In other words, the GM foods sold in grocery stores, which are created from the very same process, likely have similar effects on humans, according to Pustazai’s research.

How many more Dr. Pustazai’s are out there, do you think? Scientists that have been shamed, fired, discredited, or possibly worse, so that the biotech industry can continue selling the world poison? One example that comes straight to mind is Tyrone Hayes, a scientist who was discredited, gagged, and more by biotech giant Syngenta – all because this biologist from UC Berkeley told the truth about the company’s herbicide Atrazine and its cancer-causing nature.

You can’t keep the truth a secret forever, though – even if you are a multi-billion dollar industry which uses illegal and immoral tactics. You can read Pustazai’s study in full, here.

Be sure to pass it along.

Source article - Natural Society

Windows 10 violates your privacy by default, here's how you can protect yourself

Windows 10 appears to have more ways of getting personal information from its users – have you adjusted your privacy settings after you installed it? - FUA

Since the July 29 release of Windows 10, the tech world has been talking about the latest OS update from Microsoft. A mere 24 hours after its release, more than 14 million users had downloaded Windows 10.

The quick ramp up was due, in part, to Microsoft releasing the update as a free download for existing Windows users. Windows 10 also came with a new service model as Windows will be releasing service packs every few months to users.

The model itself got some backlash, especially from organizations that don't want to upgrade their system that frequently. More recently, though, some criticism has arisen over privacy concerns brought on by the new OS.

The first issue is that Windows 10 automatically assigns an advertising ID to each user on a device tied to the email address that's on file. Using that ID, the company can tailor ads for web-browsing and using certain applications.

The next concern is that much of users' personal data is synced with Microsoft's servers. Some of this information, like your Wi-Fi password, can then be encrypted and shared with your contacts, using a feature called Wi-Fi sense. Although, some have argued that this isn't a security risk, because the user must choose to share the network.

Additionally, Microsoft's personal assistant, Cortana, must collect data as well to provide the kind of service it does, but it is likely not better or worse than its Apple and Google contemporaries.

One of the biggest worries, though, is Microsoft's policy on disclosing or sharing your personal information. The following is an excerpt from the privacy policy:

"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services."

The problem is that many users want personalized services, but it's difficult to draw the line at what data should be collected. Forrester's Tyler Shields said that instead of making these features default, Microsoft could have allowed users to opt-in later if they wanted to enable them.

"This is more of a privacy-friendly stance that may have been palatable to the general public," Shields said. "However, Microsoft would have had less adoption to its value added services had it made them opt-in, thus lessening the potential success of the Windows 10 launch."

So, how do you protect yourself from these issues? Here are some steps you can take to opt-on or disable some of the problematic features.

The first thing to note is that, if you haven't yet installed Windows 10 but you plan on doing so, make sure you that you do a custom install so you'll be able to pick and choose what is enabled at the onset. But, if you installed Windows 10 using Express settings, you can still disable some of the default privacy settings.

From the start button, click "Settings" and then click "Privacy" and click the "General" tab on the left sidebar. Under that tab you'll see a few sliders where you can toggle certain features on or off.

The top toggle button is the most important as it disables the advertising ID for each user. But, if you want to cover your bases, you should go ahead disable the rest of the options as well.

Read more  - TechRepublic

Monsanto Employee Admits an Entire Department Exists to “Discredit” Scientists

So, Monsanto does have a corporate entourage that will go up against scientists. Seems that the studies in rats, among other research about Monsanto’s GMOs has the corporation on edge.

Again, it’s been exposed that in 1999 that Monsanto and their catering entourage won’t eat their own GMOs, neither do the world power elite. Yet the company acts as if they stand behind their own products, while secretly behind the scenes, they do not.

Give credit to the scientists for digging deep into the effects of GMOs in rats and humans. - FUA

Dare to publish a scientific study against Big Biotech, and Monsanto will defame and discredit you. For the first time, a Monsanto employee admits that there is an entire department within the corporation with the simple task of ‘discrediting’ and ‘debunking’ scientists who speak out against GMOs.

The WHO recently classified glyphosate, a chemical in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup, as carcinogenic – news that is really heating things up with biotech. So Monsanto has been demanding that the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) retract their statements about the poisons’s toxicity to human health.

The company demands this even though a peer-reviewed study published in March of 2015 in the respected journal, The Lancet Oncology, conducted a analysis proving that glyphosate was indeed ‘probably carcinogenic.’

Monsanto’s vice president of global regulatory affairs Philip Miller told Reuters the following in interview:

“We question the quality of the assessment. The WHO has something to explain.”

It has already been explained, Mr. Miller. The study states:

“Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum herbicide, currently with the highest production volumes of all herbicides. It is used in more than 750 different products for agriculture, forestry, urban, and home applications. Its use has increased sharply with the development of genetically modified glyphosate-resistant crop varieties. Glyphosate has been detected in air during spraying, in water, and in food. There WAS limited evidence in humans for the carcinogenicity of glyphosate.

Glyphosate has been detected in the blood and urine of agricultural workers, indicating absorption. Soil microbes degrade glyphosate to aminomethylphosphoric acid (AMPA). Blood AMPA detection after poisonings suggests intestinal microbial metabolism in humans. Glyphosate and glyphosate formulations induced DNA and chromosomal damage in mammals, and in human and animal cells in vitro. One study reported increases in blood markers of chromosomal damage (micronuclei) in residents of several communities after spraying of glyphosate formulations.”

In a recent talk attended mostly by students hoping to get decent paying internships in their field, a student asked what the company was doing to negate “bad science” concerning their work.

Monsanto’s employee, Dr. William “Bill” Moar, who gives talks on Monsanto’s products to reassure everyone that they are safe, perhaps forgot the event was public when he openly revealed that Monsanto had:

“An entire department” (waving his arm for emphasis) dedicated to “debunking” science which disagreed with theirs.”

Likely, this is the first time a Monsanto employee has publicly admitted that they have immense political and financial weight to bear on scientists who dare to publish against them. Of course they don’t list this discrediting department anywhere on their website.

The company will stop at nothing to discredit and devalue the contributions of unimpeachably respected Lancet and the international scientific bodies of WHO and IARC, among others.

The stakes are high – after all, an entire industry of GMO seed (for which they currently hold more than a three-fourths monopoly share) is based on being Roundup ready. Glyphosate is their hallmark product, and it accounts for billions in sales when you account for the seed they sell to go with their best-selling herbicide.

In a single publicly made phrase, Moar has admitted that the Monsanto-funded science is sheer propaganda – essentially that they indeed have dozens, if not hundreds of employees out making sure that no science which tells the truth about their cancer-causing products ever garners any credibility whatsoever in the information age.

Monsanto has also held up the findings of regulatory bodies, particularly in the United States where the revolving door between agrochemical corporations and government seems never ending.

Source article - Natural Society

Doomsday Asteroid September 2015: Will There Be An Impact Near Puerto Rico?

September 2015 may be the most interesting time of the year, if things do not change with the asteroid event, the Pope coming to the U.S., among other events. Keep an eye on both the mainstream and alternative media. - FUA

If the apocalypse is happening next month, it's news to NASA. The space agency has shot down recent rampant reports that an asteroid will hit Earth between Sept. 15 and Sept. 28. And they should know, because they specialize in tracking such objects.

This kind of "news" can develop a life of its own based on how many people share the story. Sometimes a misunderstood or misquoted section goes viral, prompting more stories clarifying what the original article was actually about. Other times, a site eager to get massive traffic from a story shared on Facebook creates a new thing to be worried about. Such articles pop up every year, usually involving badly photoshopped images and comments from random "experts." After a few shares, the article is a runaway train.

The asteroid story in question said that NASA and FEMA have been working together to prepare for a cosmic strike expected in late September, that NASA has set up a "Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario," and that FEMA's been stockpiling supplies and medicine. The White House, it continues, has been alerted and the French foreign minister is well aware of this 2.5 mile-wide asteroid. Most of the sites that have picked up and spread the story have the word "truth" in their names, which boosts their credibility in some readers' minds.

But there's absolutely zero truth to the rumor. NASA is always tracking asteroids -- in fact it has a whole office dedicated to tracking near-Earth objects. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory routinely observes new asteroids and tracks their trajectories, and it confirms there's nothing that large, or deadly, coming this way anytime soon.

"There is no scientific basis -- not one shred of evidence -- that an asteroid or any other celestial object will impact Earth on those dates," Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Near-Earth Object office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement. If an object that large were approaching Earth, NASA would have spotted it a long time ago.

The space agency has a history of debunking these stories. There was the comet Elenin in 2011, the Mayan calendar apocalypse of 2012, and the annual doomsday asteroid stories. Then there's Zero-G Day and the 2015 Double Moon. The former states a rare cosmic alignment will lead to a brief moment of reduced gravity on Earth while the latter claims the moon and Mars will be visible in the night sky in July. The Double Moon story has been around for a decade and has been regularly debunked. And the next time you read a doomsday story with Nibiru in the headline, it's best to just ignore it. Nibiru has been a favorite of conspiracy theorists claiming a mystery planet or object -- dating back to Babylonian texts -- is on a collision course with Earth. 

For actual asteroids that will pass Earth, check NASA's NEO Earth Close Approach table. The largest asteroid that will make a close approach to Earth measures 800 feet and will pass at a comfortable 4.2 million miles from the planet. "Not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century," Chodas said.

Source article - IBT Pulse

China and America already at war? Tianjin explosion carried out by Pentagon space weapon

If the big explosion in China was a false flag over its devalued currency, things may get interesting between the Chinese regime and the U.S. - FUA

(NaturalNews) EXCLUSIVE: Mainland Chinese dissidents have handed Natural News the following bombshell story.

The Tianjin explosion, Natural News has learned, was waged as an act of “kinetic retaliation” by the Pentagon in response to China’s currency war Yuan devaluation. The Chinese government has put in place unprecedented secrecy surrounding the mysterious explosion, and aggressive police state tactics are now being invoked to control the flow of information surrounding this event.

“Last week’s explosions sent massive fireballs into the sky and hurled burning debris across the industrial area at the world’s 10th-largest port, burning out buildings and shattering windows kilometres away,” reports the Daily Mail UK.

The Chinese government’s official explanation for the explosion, which has now killed 114 people, is a complete whitewash. China is going to declare regional martial law in the next 18 days, Natural News has learned, in order to exercise total control over the movement of people and information. The government has banned reporters from entering the area and has begun arresting bloggers who promote what the government calls “conspiracy theories” regarding the cause of the massive explosion.

China has blacked out reporting on Tianjin in exactly the same way the U.S. media blacked out reporting on Dr. William Thompson, the CDC whistleblower who admitted the CDC buried evidence linking vaccines to autism. In both China and the United States, when the government doesn’t want the citizens to know something, it censors the story across the entire state-run media, invoking “information totalitarianism.”

Read more at NaturalNews.com

Aspartame removed from Diet Pepsi in US, Canadian soda unchanged

People thought Diet Pepsi was a healthier soft drink, but not artificial sweeteners like Aspartame, which is linked to Monsanto and the global elite’s plan to depopulate the world. But aspartame isn’t a natural substance, it’s a industrial product. - FUA

NEW YORK – A revamped Diet Pepsi without aspartame is popping up on store shelves in the United States in an effort to encourage people to give the soda another chance. However, the products in Canada remain unchanged.

PepsiCo says its new Diet Pepsi should be available across the U.S. this week. In response to customer feedback, the company said earlier this year that it would replace the aspartame in the drink with another artificial sweetener that has less baggage.

READ MORE: Pepsi to drop aspartame from Diet Pepsi, but not in Canada

The rollout will test the theory that the sweetener is to blame for fleeing customers, or if other issues might be at play. Other diet sodas that still have aspartame include Diet Coke, Diet Dr Pepper and Fanta Zero.

Earlier this year Global News reached out to Pepsico Canada asking if aspartame would be pulled from some products in Canada and received this response:

“There are no changes to any cola beverages in Canada at this time. As always, we will continue to listen closely to consumers’ requests and evolve our portfolio to meet the specific needs and preferences of Canadian consumers.”

Sales of traditional diet sodas have been falling. Industry executives blaming the freefall on unfounded concerns people have about aspartame. Two years ago, Coca-Cola even tested ads in select newspapers defending the safety of the sweetener.

“It’s the No. 1 thing that our customers have been calling about,” said Seth Kaufman, a senior vice-president at PepsiCo.

At least in the short term, Diet Pepsi sales are likely to see bump from the marketing push around the new formula, which will include in-store sampling and discounting in coming weeks.

READ MORE: Artificial ingredients: Americans demanded change and got it, Canadians not so much

In terms of taste, Kaufman said it’s not identical but that the drink should still be familiar to fans of Diet Pepsi.

It’s not the first attempt by PepsiCo Inc. to lift flagging sales of Diet Pepsi. In 2012, the company tried improving the drink by combining aspartame with acesulfame potassium, often called ace-K, another artificial sweetener that helps prevent the taste from degrading over time. The latest version of Diet Pepsi will also have ace-K in addition to sucralose, best known by the brand name Splenda.

Cans and bottles of the new Diet Pepsi have been making their way through the distribution in recent weeks. Stores that don’t do a lot of business may still have the old versions stocked. This weekend, for instance, a store in New York City had the old and new versions side by side.

The new cans will be marked with the words “Now Aspartame Free” above the Pepsi circle logo.

Source link - Globalnews.ca