That hamburger you’re grilling could contain harmful bacteria, and unless you cook it thoroughly, it could make you sick.
New lab tests conducted by Consumer Reports found that of the 300 packages of ground beef purchased in stores across the country, almost all contained bacteria that signified fecal contamination.
More than 40 percent contained Staphylococcus aureus. Almost 20 percent contained Clostridium perfringens, which causes nearly 1 million cases of food poisoning annually, many related to beef . . .
“That practice can lead to the creation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a major public health problem. If you get sick from these bugs, your infection can be difficult to treat,” said Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D., director of Food Safety and Sustainability at Consumer Reports . . .
Consumer Reports contacted the National Cattleman’s Beef Association and got this comment: “If all cattle were grass-fed, we’d have less beef, and it would be less affordable. Since grass doesn’t grow on pasture year-round in many parts of the country, feed lots evolved to make the most efficient use of land, water, fuel, labor and feed,” Kansas State University professor Mike Apley said. (Read more from “Consumer Reports Find Fecal Contamination in Ground Beef” HERE)
Under a new proposal, sanitation workers could be picking up much more than trash during their weekly visits to residents’ homes.
Officials in San Jose, California, are working on a proposal to increase Big Brother’s spying powers by affixing law enforcement license plate readers to city garbage trucks.
According to a proposal from San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Councilmen Johnny Khamis and Raul Peralez, the city wants to place license readers with the ability to send real-time information to the police to the front of each of the privately operated sanitation vehicles collecting trash in the city . . .
Northern California-based ACLU privacy attorney Chris Conley noted that the scheme would provide police with far more information than leads on stolen vehicles.
“If it’s collected repeatedly over a long period of time, it can reveal intimate data about you like attending a religious service or a gay bar,” the attorney told a local reporter. “People have a right to live their lives without constantly being monitored by the government.” (Read more from “California Officials Considering Using This to Spy on Residents” HERE)
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Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is one of the most acclaimed graphic novels of the decade, so it’s no great surprise that Duke University chose it as one of the summer reading selections for its incoming freshman class. But the selection has also sparked controversy among some students who have refused to read Fun Home, citing personal religious and moral beliefs.
The Duke Chronicle profiled a number of students who objected to being asked to read Fun Home, which depicts Bechdel’s experience coming out as a lesbian, as well as her father’s own closeted homosexuality. “I feel as if I would have to compromise my personal Christian moral beliefs to read it,” wrote freshman Brian Grasso in a much-discussed Facebook post. (Read more from “Duke Freshmen Refuse to Read Fun Home, Citing Christian Beliefs” HERE)
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An average of presidential polls in Iowa puts Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) at just 3.3 percent support. An average of polls in New Hampshire puts him at 6.3 percent. In national polls, he’s just above the threshold to make the next Republican debate, hosted by CNN.
Naturally, Rand Paul is heading to Alaska.
On Tuesday, Paul will begin a five-state march, across a part of the country that will not hold primaries or caucuses until after 2016’s “Super Tuesday.” Paul will begin in Anchorage, Alaska, fly to Fairbanks, shoot down to Seattle, then go east to Spokane and the cities of western Idaho. On Thursday, he’ll speak at a Republican Party BBQ at the Idaho Falls home of GOP mega-donor Frank VanderSloot, who is best known for claiming that the IRS slapped him with audits after he donated to a pro-Mitt Romney super PAC. On Friday, Paul will campaign across Wyoming with Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), one of his earliest congressional endorsers. And Labrador will follow him down to Utah.
Why the West — and why now? It’s part of a strategy to build campaign networks early, taking advantage of the infrastructure and goodwill left by Paul’s father, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Idaho will hold caucuses on March 8, and Alaska and Washington will vote together on March 26. (Utah and Wyoming have not locked in dates yet.) Ron Paul performed credibly in each of those states, with 24 percent in Alaska, 25 percent in Washington, and 18 percent in Idaho.
“Alaska has a tradition for having a libertarian bent,” Rand Paul explained in an interview last week. “Washington has a big liberty movement. I think there’s room for growth. They’re early caucuses, and we already have strong support out there, with the endorsements from Raul Labrador and Cynthia Lummis.” (Read more from “Rand Paul, Fresh off Caucus Victory, Will Campaign in Alaska” HERE)
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Fourteen people have been detained in Morocco and Spain on suspicion of recruiting people to fight for ISIS in Syria and Iraq, the Spanish Interior Ministry said.
The suspects were arrested in a town outside Madrid and in several locations in Morocco — Fez, Casablanca, Nador, Al Hoceima and Driouech — during a joint operation between the two countries, the ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
They are accused of being part of a network that recruited and sent foreign fighters to join the ranks of ISIS, it said. (Read more from “Spain, Morocco Arrest 14 Accused of Recruiting ISIS Fighters” HERE)
A photo of a little boy in St. Louis, Missouri, helping a classmate tie her shoe at school went viral.
The boy’s mother originally posted the photo to the St. Louis Language Immersion School Facebook page. It later went viral after Richmond, Virginia, news reporter Karla Redditte shared it on her Facebook page, garnering over 16,000 likes and nearly 7,000 shares.
Photo Credit: Facebook
“This is a picture of little Randy, who is in 1st grade, stopping to help his classmate tie her shoe at the St. Louis Language Immersion School,” Redditte wrote. (Read more from “See This Heartwarming Photo of Boy Helping Girl at School That Has Gone Viral” HERE)
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A message in a bottle thrown into the sea 108 years ago by British scientists has been discovered washed up on a beach in Germany.
It is believed to be the oldest message-in-a-bottle ever found.
Marianne Winkler, a retired post office worker, found the message from the past while on holiday with her husband on the North Sea island of Amrum.
Mrs Winkler found the bottle in April, but was shy of publicity and the full story has only now emerged.
“It’s always a joy when some one finds a message-in-a-bottle on the beach,” she told the Amrum News, a local website. (Read more from “World’s Oldest Message in a Bottle Washes up in Germany After 108 Years at Sea” HERE)
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By Charles Riley and Mark Thompson. World stocks and oil prices plunged Monday as a global sell off accelerated on worries about the health of China’s huge economy.
Asian markets suffered major losses, and the major indexes in Europe fell by about 3% in early trading . . .
The benchmark Shanghai Composite declined 8.5%, wiping out all gains made this year. Many companies listed in Shanghai, including some large state-owned firms, fell by the maximum daily limit of 10%.
China’s smaller Shenzhen Composite lost 7.7%.
In Japan, the Nikkei closed down 4.6%, and Australia’s ASX All Ordinaries shed 4.0%. Seoul’s KOSPI Composite lost 2.5%. Asian currencies were trading lower against the U.S. dollar. (Read more from “World Markets Plunge as Sell of Continues” HERE)
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Asian Stocks Plummet, Chinese Rout Gathers Pace
By Thomson/Reuters. Asian stocks dived to 3-year lows on Monday as a rout in Chinese equities gathered pace, hastening an exodus from riskier assets as fears of a China-led global economic slowdown roiled world markets. . .
Copper, seen as a barometer of global demand, tumbled to 6-1/2-year lows as the anxiety over China sapped investor confidence.
Bourses from Japan to Malaysia were hit hard as Chinese stocks plummeted immediately after the open on Monday, with investors failing to take heart from the formalisation of rules over the weekend allowing pension funds to invest in the stock market.
Shanghai shares dived 7.7 percent to a five-month low, having lost more than 10 percent so far this month.
“The market is in a downtrend. There’s no good news, stocks are still expensive, and there’s no fresh money coming in,” said Qi Yifeng, analyst at consultancy CEBM. (Read more about the world markets plunge HERE)
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By Steve Guest. Sen. Rand Paul blasted Donald Trump, stating “I think truly he is a fake conservative because he has been on every side of every issue in the last five years.”
Paul, whose comments were released by NBC ahead of his full interview on “Meet the Press” Sunday with Chris Jansing, further ridiculed Donald Trump, saying voters will “have to decide whether we want sort of empty platitudes or whether we are going to look at substance.”
Rand Paul: So it is important that the front runner on the Republican side is a disaster in a general election. He’s like ‘Here Hillary Clinton, have the election.’ Democrats are applauding saying. [Rand Applauds]
Chris Jansing: So why is Donald Trump doing so well on the the polls, senator?
Paul: Well 90 percent of the people are unhappy about what is going on in Washington. I’m one of them.
(Read more from “Rand Paul: Trump IS the Problem With the System” HERE)
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Donald Trump Heads to Cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, as Support for Mogul’s 2016 Bid Continues to Rise
By Adam Edelman. He says he keeps getting richer, and now he’s got his picture … on the cover of the Rolling Stone.
Donald Trump on Sunday notched his third magazine cover story in two weeks, after reports emerged indicating that he would gloss the front page of the ubiquitous pop culture mag.
The iconic monthly periodical is slated to feature the surging 2016 Republican candidate on its cover in its next issue, due out in early September, CNN reported.
A Rolling Stone spokeswoman declined to comment on the report. But if true, the cover would be Trump’s third in two weeks.
Last week, amid an extraordinary surge in national polls, the real estate mogul appeared on the covers of Time magazine and The Hollywood Reporter. (Read more from this story HERE)
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By Ari Yashar. The Iran nuclear deal sealed last month stipulates that the UN embargo on conventional weapons will continue another five years, and missile sanctions will remain for another eight years – but Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed Saturday to breach those conditions of the deal.
“We will purchase weapons from wherever we deem necessary and we are not waiting for anyone’s permission; if we deem necessary we will sell our weapons and we will do this without paying attention to any resolution,” Rouhani said at a National Defense Industry Day ceremony according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.
The comment comes after Rouhani threatened war if the Iran nuclear deal fails, saying, “Iran’s strategy is based on defense and deterrence. The first line is diplomats and the second line is generals. Diplomats should be backed by generals. If they fail, it is the generals’ turn to come forward.”
Critics of the deal already have condemned the agreement for weakening the restrictions on the missile trade of the leading state sponsor of terror, but Rouhani’s latest remarks indicate he doesn’t intend to even wait for the deal to remove the embargoes and sanctions.
While the UN Security Council resolution adopting the nuclear deal stipulates that the transfer to Iran of ballistic missile technology during the next eight years will be subject to the approval of the council, US President Barack Obama’s administration has said it would veto that request. (Read more from “Obama’s Peace Partner Out of Control: Iran Threatens War, Announces Breach of Deal, Will Purchase Missiles” HERE)
Tehran Unveils New Advanced Missile, Satellite Launcher
By World Tribune. Teheran unveiled a new advanced missile during National Defense Industry Day ceremonies, as well as a satellite launcher that experts estimate paves the way for Iran’s development of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
The nuclear accord includes the stipulation that Iran not test long-range ballistic missiles that can be used to carry a nuclear payload. Iran’s Shihab 3 and Sejil 2 missiles are nuclear capable.
Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Aerospace Force Commander Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh said on Aug. 21 Teheran will hold ballistic missile tests in breach of the UN resolution.
“The IRGC Aerospace Force will hold a large-scale ballistic missiles war-games soon,” Hajizadeh said . . .
Observers say U.S. President Barack Obama weakened the UN’s hand when he vowed to veto a stipulation in the deal that the transfer to Iran of ballistic missile technology during the next eight years would be subject to the approval of the UN Security Council. (Read more from this story HERE)
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That hamburger you’re grilling could contain harmful bacteria, and unless you cook it thoroughly, it could make you sick.
