By: bbcnews, 09/24/2013

A powerful earthquake of 7.8-magnitude has struck a remote area in south-west Pakistan, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) says. It struck at 16:29 local time (11:29 GMT) at a depth of 23km (15 miles), 145 miles south-east of Dalbandin in Balochistan province, USGS adds. It was reportedly felt in the Indian capital Delhi, where some buildings shook.

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By: Cornucopia.org, 09/19/2013

After years of deliberation in Congress, interagency meetings, lobbyist activity, and a never-ending stream of food poisoning outbreaks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is finally poised to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

However, according to a just released white paper by The Cornucopia Institute, the FDA’s draft rules are so off the mark that they might economically crush the country’s safest farmers while ignoring the root threats to human health:  manure contaminated with deadly infectious pathogens generated on “factory” livestock farms and high-risk produce-processing practices.

For more on this story visit http://www.cornucopia.org/2013/09/fda-food-safety-rules-threaten-crush-good-food-movement/

Prevent Disease.com, By: Natasha Longo, 09/23/2013

Although health experts have publicly questioned the bogus claims of Vitamin Water for years, people mysteriously continue to pay good money for what is essentially sugary, flavored and colored water. The vitamins added are also the most synthetic and poorly absorbed. So why buy this poison instead of making your own natural and healthy version with real nutrients from living foods?

For more on this story visit www.realfarmacy.com

Alternet.org, By: Bruce E. Levine, 09/19/2013

Fascinating research reveals that some people who suffer a psychotic break do better without a lifetime of medication. It was an amazing victory for mental health treatment reform activists and one investigative reporter: on Aug. 28, 2013, National Institute of Mental Health director Thomas Insel announced that psychiatry’s standard treatment for people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses needs to change. After examining two long-term studies on schizophrenia and psychoses, Insel came to what was previously considered a radical conclusion: in the long-term, some individuals with a history of psychosis do better off medication.

Insel finally recognized what mental health treatment reform activists and investigative reporter Robert Whitaker have been talking about for years—the research shows that American psychiatry’s standard treatment protocol has hurt many people who could have been helped by a more selective and limited use of drugs, and a more diverse approach such as the one used in Finland, which has produced the best long-term outcomes in the developed world.

By: Aisha North, 09/21/2013

We come again to give you all a huge pat on the back, and even if this will sound perhaps a bit condescending to some, take it for what it truly is, a sign of our utmost respect for the work you all carry out. For you are nothing short of Masters dear ones, as each and every one of you continue to raise to the occasion and keep bringing in round after round of transformational engery. This energy is doing wonders, not just for you, but for your whole world. And now, you will start to see the results from all of this even in the so-called mass media. For if you open your eyes and look around, you will indeed detect a change in the atmosphere on a global level. The rhetoric of hatred and fear is starting to fade away in some of the hotspots around your world, and instead, you will find the talk of reason passing over the lips of leaders hitherto more interested in spreading distrust and incite anger in their fellow men.