Behind The Woodshed Blogcaster – February 2, 2014.

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No One Can Do it Alone, but All of Us Can.

Knowledge, Wise Counsel, Independent Effort, Persistence.

NoMoGMO

• Multiple Toxins From GMOs Detected In Maternal and Fetal Blood: What Does This Mean For Your Baby? More studies continue to emerge that allow us to better understand genetically modified (GM) foods and the potential dangers associated with consuming them. Research from Canada (the first of its kind) has successfully identified the presence of pesticides -associated with genetically modified foods in maternal, fetal and non-pregnant women’s blood. They also found the presence of Monsanto’s Bt toxin. The study was published in the Journal Reproductive Toxicology in 2011.(1) You can read the FULL study here.

Supplemental Updates

• Now You Can Panic: Economist Withdraws All of His Money from Bank of America Last week I had over $1,000,000 in a checking account at Bank of America. Next week, I will have $10,000.
• Woman Arrested For Small Amount Of Marijuana Dies In Jail After Guards Deny Her Prescription Medicine  Buying a small amount of marijuana for medical purposes in Colorado was a virtual death sentence for a Kansas woman after she was stopped returning to her prohibitionist hometown by a Kansas officer for “suspected” speeding. On Wednesday, after being off her medications for two days, Sewell fell ill in her jail cell. She was reportedly foaming at the mouth before passing out. Biggs and another inmate alerted authorities of the emergency while trying to revive her. According to Biggs, jail authorities responded slowly to the emergency. Sewell was eventually transported to the hospital where she was soon pronounced dead. Her distraught family now wants to know why authorities took so long to respond to an obvious health emergency in their jail.
• Hillary Clinton: ‘My biggest regret was what happened in Benghazi’ Hillary Clinton broke her silence on the Benghazi terror attacks Monday, claiming her “biggest regret” as secretary of state “was what happened in Benghazi.”
• Senate Intelligence Report Damning on Benghazi  “This attack was preventable”: That is the chilling and inevitable conclusion of a new report by the Senate Intelligence Committee on Benghazi. A good deal of the information in the “Review of the Terrorist Attacks on the U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya, September 11-12, 2012” has previously been reported, but what makes the 85-page document published today so significant is that Democrats as well as Republicans signed on to its findings.

• 15 More Benghazi-Related Victims Murdered: Does it Matter Now Hillary?    
  

  Congressional Democrats for the first time joined the GOP to condemn the State Department for refusing security measures they say could have prevented the deaths of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi.
  

  The report, worked on for months and released Wednesday by a bipartisan Senate intelligence committee, also says 15 people in Libya who have tried to help the FBI investigate the murders have been killed.
  

  15 persons in Libya who were attempting to cooperate with the FBI investigation are now dead. Isn’t that convenient?

• Here’s who will stop Hillary “Time Magazine asks, “Can Anyone Stop Hillary?” Of course the answer is yes. The Ghosts of Benghazi — Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Ty Woods, and Glenn Doherty –will prevent another Chicago progressive socialist, liar, arrogant deceiver, and murderer from occupying the White House.”
• Man put on trial after police kicked down his door without warrant, tased wife & roommate  
• The incident took place on May 10th, 2013, when a neighbor called the police because of allegedly hearing “yelling and sobbing” coming from the residence next-door.
• The residents, James Wood, 33, and his wife Jennifer, 29, admittedly had a loud argument in the backyard, but did not become violent and did not know that a nosy neighbor had phoned the police.
• “There’s no domestic violence,” the three residents echoed in unison, explaining they would not open the door without a warrant.
• James Wood was eventually taken to trial.  On January 28th, the jury hung in a 6-6 split.  Despite the disturbing video evidence and the hindsight knowledge that nothing except loud voices had caused this violent situation, half the jury was content with imprisoning the defendant.
  “The fact that a jury of American citizens could not agree that such a blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment meant the entry into my clients’ home was unlawful, shows how far this country has disintegrated,” noted defense attorney Benjaman Adams in an interview with Police State USA.  “There is little hope for salvage.”

Digital Conspiracy

• We Are Sleepwalking Towards A Cashless Society  

  And yet we continue to sleepwalk, almost zombie-like, towards a cashless society. For the sake of a few gains in convenience, we are prepared to grant our governments and biggest, too-fat-to-failest banks the possibility of complete control over our every single daily transaction. And while virtual currencies like Bitcoin might seem like an antidote from this scenario, they are, as Shay warns, also subject to monitoring and can be regulated in ways that could limit or even end their utility.

  Paraphrasing one of the most quoted dictums of our time — courtesy of the great, late Lord Acton — we are, it seems, descending into a world where new technologies threaten to put absolute power well within the grasp of a select group of individuals and organizations — individuals and organizations that have already betrayed just about every possible notion of mutual trust. You know the rest! By Don Quijones, Raging Bull-Shit

Study To Find Yourself Worthy

• Study Finds Firearms May Be Inanimate Objects  A scientific study that concluded the day before Christmas Eve found that guns may actually be inanimate objects with no will of their own. The highly controversial results were published today in Scientific Log, a leading journal in the scientific community, and has already drawn disbelief and criticism from top gun control proponents.

Pot Calling The Kettle Black?

• Disgraced former journalist Glass denied ability to practice law in California The court denied Glass the ability to practice law because it determined he was focused on “advancing his own well-being rather than returning something to the community” after his lies were exposed, the decision said.California State Bar officials have struggled to decide whether to allow Glass to practice law since 2007 and turned the decision to the California Supreme Court.

Your Next Encounter With a Cop May Be Your Last

• This Infographic Shows You How to Answer Police and Avoid Arrest 

  Some of the most important tips to remember when dealing with cops:

  • Clarify if it’s a police request or an order
  • Ask if you’re being detained or free to go—and ask to leave often
  • Don’t exit immediately when you see a “drug checkpoint in 1 mile sign”—cops/dogs are at the exit, not one mile down

  Couple this with the advice we heard previously from an ex-cop, and hopefully you can maintain your rights during a police encounter (assuming the officer isn’t a racist jerk).

• When can police search your car? 

  While police generally need a warrant to search you or your property — during a traffic stop, police only need probable cause to legally search your vehicle. Probable cause means police must have some facts or evidence to believe you’re involved in criminal activity.

  In other words, an officer’s hunch without evidence of illegal activity is not enough to legally search your car. Before searching, he must observe something real. Common examples of probable cause include the sight or smell of contraband in plain view or plain smell, or an admission of guilt for a specific crime. The presentation of any of these facts would allow an officer to perform a search and make an arrest.

  Be aware that minor traffic violations (e.g. speeding, broken tail-light, or expired registration) are not considered probable cause.

  Okay. So how can I keep police from searching my car?

• Cell Phone Video Contradicts Sheriff’s Version of Deputy-Involved Killing  An Arizona deputy shot and killed a man claiming he was reaching for a gun, but a cell phone video shows the man had raised his hands in the air.

Republished from last week, The Stuff of Wonder:
Star Water Evidenced For The First Time

• New UH Mānoa faculty make a big splash  “Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and University of California – Berkeley discovered that interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) could deliver water and organics to the Earth and other terrestrial planets.
  Interplanetary dust, dust that has come from comets, asteroids, and leftover debris from the birth of the solar system, continually rains down on the Earth and other Solar System bodies. These particles are bombarded by solar wind, predominately hydrogen ions.  This ion bombardment knocks the atoms out of order in the silicate mineral crystal and leaves behind oxygen that is more available to react with hydrogen, for example, to create water molecules.”
• Detection of solar wind-produced water in irradiated rims on silicate minerals
• Significance
  “Whether water is produced by solar wind (SW) radiolysis has been debated for more than four decades. In this paper, we exploit the high spatial resolution of electron microscopy and sensitivity of valence electron energy-loss spectroscopy to detect water (liquid or vapor) in vesicles within (SW-produced) space-weathered rims on interplanetary dust particle (IDP) surfaces. Water in the rims has implications for the origin of water on airless bodies like the Moon and asteroids, the delivery of water to the surfaces of terrestrial planets, and the production of water in other astrophysical environments. In particular, water and organic carbon were likely delivered simultaneously by the high flux of IDPs accreted by the early Earth and other terrestrial planets.”

• • Water found in stardust suggests life is universal “A sprinkling of stardust is as magical as it sounds. The dust grains that float through our solar system contain tiny pockets of water, which form when they are zapped by a blast of charged wind from the sun.
    The chemical reaction causing this to happen had previously been mimicked in laboratories, but this is the first time water has been found trapped inside real stardust.”

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