Shanghai Animal Apocalypse Accelerating: Pigs, Ducks, Black Swans, Chickens And Now Fish, 21 Confirmed Cases, 1 in 3 People Who Got Sick of This Flu Has Died, Gov’t Closing All Live Poultry Markets, Hong Kong On Standby For H7N9 Outbreak, MCD Slashing Chicken Prices in Shanghai on Birdflu… Shanghai Is The Largest City By Population In CHINA

Pigs, Ducks, Black Swans, Chickens And Now Fish: The Shanghai Animal Apocalypse Accelerates

Shanghai just can’t catch a break – first it was floating dead pigs, then ducks, then black swans, then mass chicken exterminations, and now fish. From the Telegraph: ” Just weeks after over 16,000 putrefying pigs were pulled from Shanghai’s Huangpu river, more than 250kg of dead carp had to be retrieved from a river in the city’s Songjiang district. Mystery still surrounds [...]

Scientists unlock the key for disease-proof animals!

The CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory project is producing genetically modified chickens via cutting-edge science from plants.

It is hoped the CSIRO super-chickens will breed disease-resistant offspring, creating a line of poultry immune to deadly bird flu.

“If we can do it for one, why the hell can’t we do it for every other disease? This is a proof-of-concept project, which is massive.”

Dr Jeggo said CSIRO plant scientists had found RNAi molecules [...]

WHOLE FOODS chicken ad featuring Obama sparks uproar

A Whole Foods supermarket in New York has removed a sign that used a drawing of President Barack Obama to advertise a sale on chicken after complaints that the ad was offensive.

The sign outside the supermarket on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, featuring an apparent caricature of Obama advertising an upcoming sale on whole organic chickens, outraged neighbor Woody Henderson.

“There are certain things that have been used to [...]

TODAY: Obama Calls For Delaying Spending Cuts vs. 2009: Obama Tells C-Span ‘We’ve Run Out Of Money’

Deficit President chickens out at the last minute.  $20 trillion here we come.

Story just hit the wires.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) – President Barack Obama will ask Congress Tuesday to craft a small package of short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to put off the automatic across-the-board cuts, known as the sequester, that are scheduled to kick in March 1, according to press reports. The request will come in a public statement from [...]

11 Amazing Facts about the McDonald’s McRib

The McDonald’s McRib is back, hitting restaurants nationwide today. The legendary boneless pork sandwich, famously molded to resemble a rack of ribs, is both a feat of modern engineering and shrewd marketing.

It garners almost as much attention for its pseudo-meat shape as its impermanence on restaurant menus.

The barbecue-sauce-smothered sandwich was supposed to return at the end of October, but was pushed back to help boost end-of-the-year sales.

Better late than never.

1. [...]

Hurricane victims develop toxic cough

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A bad cough is going around Far Rockaway, Queens. It is just one example of the post-storm health problems resident of hard-hit areas are exposed to in the aftermath.

Brett Scudder, a community activist, says he has come across many people who have a cough and migraine headaches.

Dr. Manny Alvarez of Fox News says migraines and respiratory problems could be signs of toxic exposure.

The city’s Department of Health says recent [...]

SEPTEMBER 12TH COULD ROCK THE ENTIRE WORLD

SEPTEMBER 12TH…THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT COURT CASE YOU WILL SEE…WHAT IS DECIDED HERE HOLDS UP OR DESTROYS THE EURO…THE GERMAN COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER IT IS LEGAL FOR GERMANY TO BAILOUT THE REST OF EUROPE. IF THEY RULE NO..THE EURO WILL CRASH AND THE US DOLLAR WILL BE HIT SHORTLY AFTER. I HOPE GERMANY SAYS NO! LET THIS FINANCIAL PYRAMID SCHEME FALL ONCE AND FOR ALL SO WE CAN [...]

Gene-swapping vaccines spawn lethal poultry virus: experts

Reuters
July 14, 2012

Three vaccines used to prevent respiratory disease in chickens have swapped genes, producing two lethal new strains that have killed tens of thousands of fowl across two states in Australia, scientists reported on Friday.

The creation of the deadly new variant was only possible because the vaccines contained live viruses, even though they were weakened forms, said Joanne Devlin, lead author of the paper published in the journal Science.

Devlin [...]

Changes In The Game Plan….

We are living a rural lifestyle and I can’t believe how much time I researching how we are going to be self-suffcient in the future. That said, we learned about peak oil and started planning in 2005 and we have only covered the tip of the ice berg when it comes to being self-sufficent.

I have gardened for over 30 years and can say with confidence – growing nearly all my [...]

Mexico destroys 1 million chickens for flu

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An outbreak of the H7N3 bird flu virus in western Mexico has infected about 2.5 million chickens and led authorities to destroy or dispose of almost a million birds.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_MEXICO_BIRD_FLU?

Research that U.S. tried to BAN reveals how mutations make bird flu MORE contagious (but less deadly)

Two papers detailing how deadly virus spreads was released Thursday after months of opposition

U.S. biosecurity pannel said papers could show terrorists how to make biological weapon
Scientists fear that mutated strand could more easily spread in humans

Controversial research papers detailing how to more easily spread the deadly bird flu have been released, ending a saga that pitted concerns about terrorism against fears of a deadly global epidemic.

Both papers were released Thursday [...]

Al Qaeda Offshoot Offers Camels for Obama’s Head, Hens for Hillary Clinton’s

The al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia has mocked the new $33 million bounty on its top leaders heads by offering its own bounty forPresident Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – 10 camels for Obama and 20 chickens for Clinton.

“Anyone who helps the Mujahideen find the whereabouts of Obama and Hillary Clinton will be rewarded with 10 Camels to the information leading to Obama and 10 hens and 10 cocks for Hillary,” said senior Shabaab commander Fuad [...]

The We-Fixed-Nothing Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost – Charles Hugh Smith

by Charles Hugh Smith

The We-Fixed-Nothing Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost   (June 4, 2012) 
When the real problems are masked with fake “solutions,” the chickens eventually come home to roost, and we wake up to the reality that the fake “solutions” have only made things much worse.

The reality that the global Status Quo has fixed absolutely nothing in four years is finally coming to roost in the global economy. Though there is an [...]

How much land do you need to be self–sufficient? A graphic. (Our place is smaller than this but we live in wheat country and plan on getting the chickens and goats.)

WSJ: Dimmer Jobs Picture and Sluggish Home Sales Cast Doubt on Recovery’s Footing

From WSJ:

Rising layoffs, falling home sales and slowing manufacturing activity are sparking fears that the economic recovery is headed for a springtime stall for the third year in a row.

New data Thursday provided fresh evidence that the job market is losing the momentum it built earlier this year, which could pressure fragile housing markets that have been showing signs of life. Separate reports this week suggested that the factory sector, [...]

AFP: China reports bird flu outbreak

Agricultural authorities in northwest China have culled about 95,000 chickens after an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus, state press reported Wednesday.

The outbreak in Touying township of the Ningxia region was discovered on Friday last week after over 23,000 chickens began showing symptoms, Xinhua news agency said, citing the Ministry of Agriculture.

The ministry said the “epidemic is now under control”, the report said, while work teams have been sent [...]

50K Chickens Abandoned by Broke Farmer; More than 1/3 Dead

TURLOCK (CBS13) — Thursday afternoon finally produced some good news after what has been such a heart-wrenching story when 50,000 chickens were left starving to death at a ranch outside Turlock.

A third of the birds have already died, and it was feared the rest would be euthanized, but instead thousands will be saved.

“We’re going to help load them up to the rest of the agencies that are here,” said Annette [...]

Farmland: The Only Place Real Estate Is Booming

Sara Nunnally: Farm life for me isn’t the same as farm life for actual farmers. I’m working on a small garden… But for me, it’s about having all my animals together — dogs, horses, cats — on a peaceful plot of land here in the Midwest.

For true farmers — like the guys who work the cornfields surrounding our property — it’s a different story. It’s awfully hard work, with hours sometimes [...]

What Would You Be Doing Today If You Were Greek?

Let’s have a thought experiment.

Translate your circumstances. You are a Greek citizen. You work in Greece, your family is in Greece, most of your contacts are in Greece. What are your thoughts? What are you doing today? Are you one of the people who has taken your money out of the banks? What are your plans – especially if you cannot leave.

Or, come from the point of view of someone giving advice [...]

Time to Start a Reslient Community

I have been contemplating how to deal with the current economic issues we face and what the best solution is to face up to the coming turbulent times. I have come to the conclusion that I need to build a resilient community in my area. This is how I came to that conclusion.

There are basically four options, as I see it, for preparing.

1) Do Nothing — These are the head [...]

How is rasing taxes going to cause the economy to supply more to meet demand?

Cutting spending?

How is that done?

By cutting the compensation of employees so that employers can pay them less?

Healthcare professional’s compensation is cut so that the employer can then spend less compensating them?

So cut healthcare professionals compensation and then raise the taxes on them so that their workload can be increased…Is that how the tax increases and spending cuts will be used to increase the supply to meet demand?

The demigods like Dr. [...]

High Costs to Start Farming Only for Conventional Farming

These high cost to start farming articles describe conventional (chemical) commodity farming.  Not the farming we need anymore of.

If you can afford a small house in town, then you can afford a small house in the country with enough acres to start raising vegetables, flowers, cattle, chickens, etc for little more than the cost of the land.

In Cody Holmes’ book Ranching Fulltime on 3 Hours a [...]

BASELINE BUDGETING (This is the “reason” spending always Has to go up)

“Baseline budgeting” is one of those Washington terms that sounds very dry and boring. In reality, baseline budgeting is one of the most sinister ways that politicians claim to cut spending when they are actually increasing spending. The Congressional Budget Office defines the baseline as a benchmark for measuring the budgetary effects of proposed changes in federal revenue or spending, with the assumption that current [...]

Do you feel the quality of your drinking water is healthy?

The Taint of Your Future Drinking Water – Gasland

Where do you live in the United States?

Do you feel the quality of your drinking water is healthy?

Have you ever thought of placing a lit match next to your sinks running tap to see as to whether the water coming out of it will ignite?

For that matter, have you, someone you know, or anyone you’ve heard of, ever had the [...]

The financial avarice of the global banking system – U.S. banks insolvent to the tune of $3 trillion. FDIC pretends to have funds to support over $7 T

Part of the big delusion in our banking system is the reality that debt has become a large source of money flowing through the economy.  This is why housing made the perfect vessel for Wall Street and banking speculation.  Banks create money by issuing loans and there is nothing larger to loan on than a home.  Think about the fact that banks were giving out [...]

Mark Zuckerberg: ‘The only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve killed myself’

Last year Mark Zuckerberg set out to learn Chinese. Now he’s determined to get in touch with his food. If the goats, lobsters and chickens of Silicon Valley aren’t trembling, they should be.

The eyes of a hunter.

When he’s not too busy connecting people across the universe, Mark Zuckerberg is pursuing a new “personal challenge,” as he calls it. “The only meat I’m eating is from animals I’ve [...]

Capital controls!

by David Pierre

One can only wonder what will go on behind the closed doors of the upcoming G-20 meeting. One thing is for sure, the rest of the world is really pissed at the United States for the fiscal and monetary train wrecks they have caused. From a fiscal standpoint the U.S. has “out-Greeced, out-Irelanded and out-Spained” the rest of the world.

From a monetary standpoint the [...]

In Bernanke’s prepared presentation at the beginning, we see him conclude with this.

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Among the primary forces putting upward pressure on the deficit is the aging of the U.S. population, as the number of persons expected to be working and paying taxes into various programs is rising more slowly than the number of persons projected to receive benefits. Notably, this year about 5 individuals are between the ages of 20 and 64 for each person aged 65 or older. By the time most [...]