Veggie burgers were living an idyllic little existence. Then they got caught in a war over the future of meat | The Star

Veggie burgers were living an idyllic little existence. Then they got caught in a war over the future of meat | The Star:

GET READY FOR A MAJOR DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST VEGGIE BURGERS

But as plant-based meat goes from an afterthought to a financial juggernaut that aims to change how most people eat, the opposition has suddenly awakened: Many of the country’s 800,000 cattle ranchers have declared war on newcomers Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, which use technology to make products that hew closely to the taste and texture of meat, and now “first-generation” veggie burgers and similar products are caught in the crossfire.

In 2019, officials in nearly 30 states have proposed bills to prohibit companies from using words such as meat, burger, sausage, jerky or hot dog unless the product came from an animal that was born, raised and slaughtered in a traditional way. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Wyoming have already enacted such laws. In Missouri, the first state where the ban took effect, violators incur a $1,000 fine and as much as a year in prison. Mississippi’s new law is sweeping: “Any food product containing cell-cultured animal tissue or plant-based or insect-based food shall not be labeled meat or as a meat product.”

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Astronomers Show Dead Planets Could Be 'Broadcasting' Radio Wave Signals Into Space

Astronomers Show Dead Planets Could Be 'Broadcasting' Radio Wave Signals Into Space:

DEATH BECOMES US!

Astronomers are planning a hunt for the relics of long-dead planets.

They just found a big clue in that search: The cores of dead planets can “broadcast” radio waves for up to a billion years, according to a new study published by the Royal Astronomical Society.

The waves are caused by interactions between a dead planet’s core and the magnetic field of its dead star, known as a white dwarf.

After a star explodes, it often strips the surrounding planets of their atmospheres and outer layers, leaving just the metallic inner core. That metal conducts electricity, creating a circuit between the planet core and the dead star that produces radiation in the form of radio waves.

Scientists have known for decades that these planetary remains can emit radio waves. But this is the first research to establish a lifetime for those broadcasts - and it reveals that the signals last long enough for researchers on Earth to detect and study them.

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Just pareidolia ? A face on Antarctica it can be found at the...

Just pareidolia ? A face on Antarctica it can be found at the coordinates 72° 00’ 36" S, 168° 34’ 53" E. on Google Earth

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NORTHWEST IS SHAKING

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network has detected more than 4,500 tremors over the past two weeks deep beneath the Olympic Peninsula and southern Vancouver Island and from another swarm stretching from Eugene to the Siskiyou Mountains.

It’s a phenomenon called “episodic tremor and slip” or “slow slip.” Humans can’t feel it, but seismologists have discovered this happens along Cascadia’s tectonic plate boundary on a regular basis — every 14 months or so in the case of Puget Sound and on a different cycle in Oregon and northern California.

(Source: https://www.opb.org/news/article/slow-slip-tremors-oregon-washington-california-cascadia-earthquake/) 

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Cyborgs will replace humans and reshape the world, famed scientist says

Cyborgs will replace humans and reshape the world, famed scientist says:

‘Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end.’

Corey Powell writes, 

For tens of thousands of years, humans have reigned as our planet’s only intelligent, self-aware species. But the rise of intelligent machines means that could change soon, perhaps in our own lifetimes. Not long after that, Homo sapiens could vanish from Earth entirely.

That’s the jarring message of a new book by James Lovelock, the famed British environmentalist and futurist. “Our supremacy as the prime understanders of the cosmos is rapidly coming to end,” he says in the book, “Novacene.” “The understanders of the future will not be humans but what I choose to call ‘cyborgs’ that will have designed and built themselves.”

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Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the U.S.

Trump suggested dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the U.S.:

This is from the report:

During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, “I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” according to one source who was there. “They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?” the source added, paraphrasing the president’s remarks.

• Asked how the briefer reacted, the source recalled he said something to the effect of, “Sir, we’ll look into that.”
• Trump replied by asking incredulously how many hurricanes the U.S. could handle and reiterating his suggestion that the government intervene before they make landfall.
• The briefer “was knocked back on his heels,” the source in the room added. “You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f—? What do we do with this?’”

Trump also raised the idea in another conversation with a senior administration official. A 2017 NSC memo describes that second conversation, in which Trump asked whether the administration should bomb hurricanes to stop them from hitting the homeland. A source briefed on the NSC memo said it does not contain the word “nuclear”; it just says the president talked about bombing hurricanes.

• The source added that this NSC memo captured “multiple topics, not just hurricanes. … It wasn’t that somebody was so terrified of the bombing idea that they wrote it down. They just captured the president’s comments.”
• The sources said that Trump’s “bomb the hurricanes” idea — which he floated early in the first year and a bit of his presidency before John Bolton took over as national security adviser — went nowhere and never entered a formal policy process.
  

For those who think is this a crazy idea (well it kind of is maybe) .. Read this from 1997: Then Secretary of Defense Richard Cohen spoke about terrorists using weather as a weapon..

Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we’ve learned in the intelligence community, we had something called – and we have James Woolsey here to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. 

The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus, and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. 

Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.

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The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials

The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials:

Perhaps history will view the millennials as the cursed generation..

It was the last downturn—the once-a-century Great Recession—that set them on this doddering economic course. The Millennials graduated into the worst jobs market in 80 years. That did not just mean a few years of high unemployment, or a couple years living in their parents’ basements. It meant a full decade of lost wages. The generation unlucky enough to enter the labor market in a recession suffers “significant” earnings losses that take years and years to rebound, studies show, something that hard data now back up. As of 2014, Millennial men were earning no more than Gen X men were when they were the same age, and 10 percent less than Baby Boomers—despite the economy being far bigger and the country far richer. Millennial women were earning less than Gen X women.

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THE LATEST COMPUTER MODELS ON TROPICAL STORM DORIAN..It may have...

THE LATEST COMPUTER MODELS ON TROPICAL STORM DORIAN..

It may have Puerto Rico as a hurricane..

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The revenge of your social network: China’s social credit system about to hit the globe?

A cancer cluster in Massachusetts

After being diagnosed in 2015 with oligodendroglioma, a rare brain tumor, Nick Squires told The Patriot Ledger he noticed that an alarming number of other young adults who grew up in his neighborhood were fighting, and dying from, brain tumors.

The PATRIOT LEDGER article is damning

“I had anxiety about coming out and talking about this because I know it can cause panic,” said Squires, a married father of three children, including 4-month-old twin boys. “But there’s something very wrong here, and people have the right to know.”

The National Fireworks Co. began developing, testing and manufacturing civilian fireworks and military munitions at the site near the Hanson town line in 1907, and disposed of chemicals there until it closed in 1971.

The property was then purchased by American Potash and Co., which operated there for a few years before selling the land to the Atlantic Research Corp., a government contractor that produced explosives for the Army and the Navy, and also allowed other entities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to dump hazardous waste on its property.

In the mid-1980s, the federal Environmental Protection Agency found several dozen barrels of toxic waste around the property and indications that many had been dumped, according to several reports. Some of the toxins found include chloroform, Freon, arsenic, trichloroethene and vinyl chloride.

A variety of heavy metals, including mercury, were found in the soil and water around the former factory, setting off a decadeslong effort to clean up 140 acres between King and Winter streets. While the contamination was measured at twice the threshold for earning Superfund status – a federal program that prioritizes and funds the cleanup of hazardous sites – town officials asked the state to oversee the cleanup to avoid the federal process and stigma that came with it.

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These people rule the world.G-7 cracks emerge… Iran...

These people rule the world.

G-7 cracks emerge…

Iran foreign minister makes surprise visit…

Macron gamble…

Economic storm clouds hovering over global leaders…

Boris Johnson’s Long Journey From Trump Hater to Best Friend…

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