By Ross T. Runfola
Buffalo News

The recent Pew Research report on tensions between the rich and poor gives a road map to the ofttimes unfocused Occupy movement. Since 2009, the study found, there is “a growing awareness of class conflict” among Americans. Read More

ozhouse.org

So I was watching QFA64, a confirmed chemtrailer plane that has been filmed on multiple occasions dumping vast chemtrails in weather conditions where no other planes are putting out huge “contrails” – just this one. Read More

By Jonathan Lis
HAARETZ

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the international community Tuesday to take steps against Iran’s nuclear program and “not sit idly by” during any attempt to carry out another Holocaust. Read More

By Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism

McDonald’s,Taco Bell and Burger King have agreed to change their ingredients removing chemically treated beef filler from their products. The decision was quietly announced late last year but the Daily Mail is reporting today that it was activist chef Jamie Oliver expose of the filler on his ABC TV show that sparked the decision. Read More

By Sentient-Developments

A recent article in the Economist alerted me to a recent paper by Thomas Hair and Andrew Hedman that profoundly reaffirms the conundrum that is the Fermi Paradox, an observational problem that is sometimes referred to as the Great Silence. Read More

By Keith Gilligan
Durham-region

Russell and Katherine Loader say they have been living in a hydro vault for eight years and are now paying the price, health wise. The couple has been living in a two-bedroom apartment in a Gateway Community Home development at the corner of Colborne Street and Kaiser Crescent in Oshawa, across from the Valleyview Gardens.

They believe a high electro-magnetic field, caused by wiring under the floor of their fourth-floor unit, has been affecting them since they moved in. They’ve been living with their conviction about the source of their illness for two years, Mr. Loader said.

“In less than a month (after moving in), I started to get these awful sores on my ankles and they’ve never healed. They were so deep, you could put your finger in them,” Mr. Loader said. His feet began to swell from size 10 to 14, while his toenails died and fell off. “I had to wear flip-flops most of the time.”

Mr. Loader has a form of arthritis and he believes the electro-magnetic field has caused it to accelerate.Many of his fingers are crooked, while his head has tilted toward his right shoulder, giving him a hunchback look.

Mr. Loader says an arthritis specialist told him he was surprised at the speed Mr. Loader’s affliction spread.”A high magnetic field can cause it (arthritis) to speed up. It causes it to switch on,” Mr. Loader said, likening it to “accelerated aging.

“My hands started to give me problems. My legs healed, but my feet never healed.” Linda McLean, property administrator for the building which Oshawa mayor John Henry says is owned by the Province, said the issue is before the courts and she can’t comment on Mr. Loader’s allegations.

“It’s before the courts and I’ve been told by our lawyers that we have no comment. I wish I could, but I can’t,” Ms. McLean said.

When the couple moved in, Mr. Loader was a part-time instructor in interior decorating at Ryerson University. Ms. Loader’s background is in the creative arts. “I had to stop working because I didn’t know why this would happen,” he said.

“It’s strange because Katherine didn’t get the sores, but her feet swelled up and her toenails died….She lost her ankles. She used to have really slim ankles,” Mr. Loader noted.

He received home care for a year to help deal with the sores and other ailments that were affecting him. “We didn’t know what was happening. We thought it was mould,” Mr. Loader said.

Ms. Loader began taking Tylenol and is now up to Tylenol 4. She says she wakes up five times a night because of pain. “I felt like death warmed over,” she said. Their cat, Angel, won’t go into either of the bedrooms.

It was while watching a documentary called Dancing Cows, about how cattle were affected by electrical currents running under barns, the Loaders began to suspect they might have a similar issue. The symptoms the cows were suffering, such as blistering sores on their legs, made the Loaders question the possibility of an electro-magnetic field in their unit.

The Loaders began investigating electro-magnetic fields, which led them to a company that investigates electro-magnetic fields in homes. The technician came to their apartment and with a meter, checked the bedrooms.

“When he came out, he was as white as a ghost. He said, ‘Oh my God. I’m surprised you don’t have cancer. Get out of that bedroom now,’” said Ms. Loader.

Mr. Loader said the technician checked the unit and found the living room had the lowest readings of four milligauss, a measure of the strength of a magnetic field. In the bedroom, the meter registered more than 100 milligauss, Mr. Loader said.

In a video demonstration, Mr. Loader, using a simple strip of aluminum foil and a light fixture, demonstrate for This Week how the electrical current in his home, which he fears is the source of his and his wife’s health problems, is capable of lighting a bulb.

Dr. Magda Havas, an associate professor and environmental toxicologist at Trent University, was commissioned by the Loaders to study the electro-magnetic field in the apartment.

When asked what a safe level would be, Dr. Havas said, “It’s hard to say, but less than one milligauss of constant continuous exposure.”

A reading of more than 100 milligauss increases the chances of breast cancer (in both women and men), brain tumours and leukemia, she added.

Being in the room for a few minutes isn’t a danger, Dr. Havas said, but noted, “you shouldn’t be exposed 24 hours a day and certainly not in the bedroom when our bodies are regenerating.”

People living in these fields will suffer from sleep difficulties, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, headaches, depression, anxiety and cognitive difficulties.

“If you take the individual out of the environment, they very often recover. Depending on how badly they were affected, recovery could take longer, but recovery is definitely possible,” Dr. Havas said.

The Loaders are planning to move out.”We’re throwing in the towel,” Ms. Loader said.

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By Raoul Heinrichs
The-Diplomat

New Year in the Persian Gulf has opened in the usual atmosphere of scurrility, mistrust and competition. The Iranian nuclear crisis – already animated by economic and cyber warfare, an unrelenting diplomatic offensive, and a systematic program of sabotage, espionage and assassination Read More

By AllGov.com

Local, state and federal officials are investigating a century-old meatpacking plant in Texas after a local resident uncovered evidence using his unmanned aircraft. Read More

By Cecilia Kang
Washington Post

Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web. Read More

By Cristina Alesci
Business Week

Mitt Romney’s $21.6 million of income in 2010 included profits from elite funds run by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Golden Gate Capital Corp., illustrating how one of America’s wealthiest presidential candidates has diversified his private-equity fueled fortune. Read More

Earth’s magnetic field is already full of activity from an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). But all indications are another blast is headed our way from the strongest solar radiation storm since September, 2005. Read More

By Liam Eagle
The-Whir

According to a notice posted at Righthaven.com, the former domain of the notorious copyright troll Righthaven, a Swiss company that acquired the domain at auction intends to launch a “spineful hosting” business using the domain Read More

Alex Jones discovered an incriminating document on a U.S. government site. Within an hour, it was pulled. But he got an image of it. Read More

By Shlomo Shamir
HAARETZ

“The Arab world is in flames and the Security Council is dealing with construction permits in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank),” Israel’s United Nations envoy Ron Prossor said in a speech at the UN Security Council on Tuesday. Read More

By Shauna Myers

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megauploadwere about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core. Read More