The conditions, such as solitary confinement, in which many US prisoners are kept are strictly illegal under international law, but that means nothing to “freedom and democracy America.” Solitary confinement, especially confinement inside tiny cells, is like being buried alive. Yet, “freedom and democracy America” is subjecting more than 100,000 citizens to this horror as I write. We hear so much about “America’s moral conscience,” but where is this conscience?

Other prisoners are used as a cheap work force for US military and consumer industries. Prison labor and the privatization of prisons have created an enormous demand for prisoners. American citizens are shoveled into the profit-making prison system regardless of innocence or guilt.

The foul siege reached from Sarasota nearly to the tip of Florida by early June, when ecological insult Number 2 arrived. A green film of cyanobacteria appeared, as it regularly does in summer, in vast Lake Okeechobee. But this year the bacteria also spilled over into rivers and canals, which carried the toxic green sludge east to the Atlantic Ocean and west to the Gulf of Mexico. Already distressed Floridians gagged on the noxious odor, and more than a dozen people reportedly went to local emergency rooms after coming into contact with the contaminated water. Some wept as beloved manatees expired, bloated and tinted a ghastly green.

The study took a look at 25 fruits and veggies, including the most popular ones in Canadian diets; specifically, potatoes, tomatoes, bananas, and apples. Each of them turned out to have lower nutritional value than their historical counterparts. For the analysis, seven key nutrients were examined, and a decrease in many of the nutrients was seen in the produce that was analyzed. The potato, for instance, lost 100 percent of its vitamin A content, 57 percent of its vitamin C and iron, and 28 percent of its calcium. Potatoes also lost 50 percent of their riboflavin content, and 18 percent of their thiamine content, with only niacin levels increasing.

In fact, nearly 80 percent of the food that was examined showed a decrease in calcium and iron, 75 percent showed a decrease in vitamin A, 50 percent showed a loss of vitamin C and riboflavin, 33 percent showed a decrease in thiamine, and 12 percent displayed a drop in niacin.

According to the report, the decrease in nutritional value can be attributed to modern farming methods, as well as transportation and cross-breeding practices. In addition, Phil Warman, an Agronomist and Agricultural Sciences Professor at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College noted in the report that the “emphasis is on appearance, storability, and transportability,” thereby compromising the nutritional value of fruits and vegetables.

Parents should be given official advice warning them not to give their children smartphones before they reach secondary school, a leading psychiatrist has warned. Dr Jon Goldin claimed parents are being forced into buying the devices for their young children so they aren’t left out at school. The vice chairman of the Royal College of Psychologists said government guidance on when to give smartphones to children would help parents stand their ground.

Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, he said: ‘Children often say to their parents: “All my friends are [getting phones] and you are not allowing me to do that.” I don’t think we can legislate [to restrict it to under 11s] but this guidance would back parents up when they were having conversations with their 10-year-olds.’ Dr Goldin also called on the government to recommend that children under 11 should be restricted to two hours a day on social media.

He said social media makes children anxious and depressed, and time spent online can leave them vulnerable to cyberbullying. The psychiatrist called on social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter to make it more difficult for young people to lie about their age and create accounts before they turn 13. Dr Goldin’s comments come ahead of the publication of a report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, which assesses the damage caused by children spending too much time online. It is believed almost four in ten children aged between eight and 11 own a smartphone.

What’s the motivation behind it? If Democrats gain a majority in the US House of Representatives, they promise to impeach President Trump — an act that would likely set off a nationwide civil war. By staging events that allow them to blame Trump supporters for violence or deaths, they hope to sway public opinion against conservatives and “steal” the mid-term elections.

With the elections just three months away, time is growing short for staged event operators to make their move. Sheer desperation is now driving the Democrats, who now believe that achieving election victory “by any means necessary” is fully justified. That’s why they’re willing to try anything.

The insane, deranged Left, in other words, is ready and willing to shift America from the “info war” stage to the “kinetic war” stage of the civil war. While no prediction is 100% accurate, August 4 looks like it could be a trigger point that unleashes the opening chapter of the kinetic war. Be cautious and safe this weekend, and pray for the safety of all Americans.

As All News Pipeline reports: …With Antifa terrorist groups they're now calling for ‘direct confrontation’ with a Patriot prayer group on Saturday, August 4th being put on by the peaceful patriot group called the “Proud Boys”, it’s a bit more than concerning that several Antifa members have discussed bringing guns to their ‘protest’ for a ‘direct confrontation’. What could possibly go wrong?

Frei.Wild (pronounced FRY-vilt) has become one of the most contentious and successful bands in Germany, where its lyrics about loving one’s homeland have resonated with people who want to challenge the postwar taboo against public expressions of national pride. The band sings in German, and its music is a punk-inflected variant of “deutschrock,” a form of German rock music. But a South Tyrolean identity allows the group to voice nationalist sentiments in German, for a largely German audience, while partly avoiding the backlash that a German band would encounter for making similar statements.

Mr Kindler said that Frei.Wild fit into the strategy outlined by the “New Right,” a loose movement of political intellectuals in Germany that believes right-wingers need to establish a “cultural hegemony” in order to bring their politics into the mainstream. The band, he said, “is bringing a racist, xenophobic, nationalist, ethnic thinking into the heads of young people through their music.”

Thorsten Hindrichs, a musicologist at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, said in a telephone interview that Frei.Wild had become a rallying point for right-wing populists in a German music landscape that has overwhelmingly positioned itself as “liberal and anti-fascist.” “Music articulates the interior psychological state of a society,” he said, adding, “Frei.Wild articulates a repertoire of opinions that is no longer a rarity in Germany.”

Some attendees saw the band’s appeal in more ideological terms. Bernhard Pahleng, 47, a customer service representative from the Black Forest region of southern Germany, said he welcomed Frei.Wild’s politics, which he said appealed to people who were “sick of being ashamed of being German.” He said the band was part of a patriotic German countermovement to the refugee crisis, which he believed might have been caused by a conspiracy of outsiders — including Jews “who hold the strings” in the United States — to keep Germany from being economically successful.

Cooper spoke to the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday to convince them he is the right man to assist Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. At one point, Senator Jeanne Shaheen (Democrat for New Hampshire) asked about the Russian-Turkish deal and US move to bar supply of F-35 fighter jets in retaliation.

“A sale of something like the S-400 would be catastrophic for us,” Cooper told Shaheen. “We do not want a NATO ally to be dependent upon the servicing and supply of equipment that is provided by Russia. That is for me an operational standpoint. The strategic standpoint is we don’t want a NATO ally to have a weapon system supplied by Russia.” He conceded that if the long-standing cooperation between Turkey and the US were to be broken apart, it would be catastrophic too.

Artificial sweeteners became popular that decade also, when super-models featured the tall-skinny-no-figure look. Next, add in some industrial-based artificial food coloring, high fructose corn syrup, chemically-conditioned gluten, and glyphosate-ridden wheat, and what have you got? A country full of sickly humans dying young from heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Americans don’t eat real food much anymore, they just eat junk-science, processed food-like products chock full of concentrated salts, synthetic sweeteners, artificial hormones, chemical conditioners, and “preservatives” that add shelf life to the products, all while shortening human life. Did you know that the softening conditioners used in most bread are synthetic? Most flour processed and distributed in America contains a boatload of chemicals (up to 60) that are all approved by the FDA, including bleach (which causes pancreatic and bladder cancer) and azodicarbonamide (the same kind used for shoe rubber and yoga mats).

Instead of simply using the “normal” formula for bread – unadulterated flour, water, salt and yeast, nearly all bread sold in America, including at almost every restaurant and fast food joint, fosters health nightmares no medical doctors can seem to solve. Plus, most US grain is covered in glyphosate weed killer (aka Roundup) to help dry it out before it’s cut down and piled into silos. The bleach then destroys the nutrients and the fiber, and the gooey gluten sticks like glue, along with all those chemicals, in your intestinal tract, which is literally more than 20 feet long stretched out. Got plumbing issues? It’s no wonder why. You’re eating bread-like food stuff.

Organizers of the initiative, which was launched Tuesday, believe more of their peers will sign the letter before Thursday, when they intend to publish the final version to coincide with this year’s Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem. The move comes in response to the letter published last Thursday by more than 200 Orthodox rabbis – including local chief rabbis and yeshiva heads – that described members of the LGBTQ community as “perverts” and their behavior as “aggressive terrorism.”

The original letter was meant as an expression of solidarity with Jerusalem Rabbi Aryeh Stern, who had come under fire for voicing opposition to same-sex couples raising children.