“They are called ‘transient electronics.’ Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are studying how to make devices, like cellphones, disappear or dissolve so they don’t pose a threat to the environment.”
“Hamburger chef Jamie Oliver has just won a battle against one of the largest fast food chains in the world. After Oliver showed how McDonald’s hamburgers are made, the franchise announced it will change its recipe.” See more at: Jamie Oliver campaign makes McDonald’s change recipe.
On the Season Premiere of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution filmed in Los Angeles and aired on April 12, 2011, Jamie demonstrates how 70% of America’s ground beef contains leftover cow parts (a.k.a. “pink slime”) containing e.coli and salmonella that has been treated with ammonia. Ammonia treated meat can be found in virtually all conventional grocery stores, fast food restaurants, many national restaurant chains, and school cafeterias. The saddest part is that the USDA allows this ammonia treated meat to enter the marketplace and with no labeling requirement on the packaging to inform the consumer that the meat their about to buy contains ammonia, thus hiding the truth and pulling a wool over the consumer’s eye. This is certainly a rude awakening to the majority of Americans that don’t know where the meat in their fridge, the meat in their conventional local grocery store, the meat in their fast food hamburger, and the meat in their restaurant made hamburger comes from. How do you avoid this poison? Buy beef that has come from grass fed cows, which can be found at natural and organic grocery stores and your local farmers market.
Europe is again coming apart at the seams as the extend and pretend liquidity stitches of the past couple of years have once more worn through revealing a still torn, and now even more indebted, society. See this excellent update: The wheels are coming off the whole of southern Europe.
Alastair Newton, senior political analyst at Nomura, explains that October will be a crucial month for Europe due to sensitive reviews in Greece, France and Italy. Here is a direct video link.
China meanwhile, who was the biggest spender in efforts to stimulate the world out of the great recession of 2008, is now drowning in a fresh and intensified credit crisis. According to the IMF’s estimates, loans have jumped from $9 trillion to $23 trillion since 2008, a faster pace of debt build-up than in any major episode of the past century. See: China defies IMF on mounting credit risk and need for urgent reform.
At the same time, see: The End of QE looms on signals from UK and US. Central Banks and governments had hoped that if they spent, bad debts could be recovered, mistakes covered up, and a robust recovery would grow the world out of insolvency. 5 years later, the globe finds itself back in recession with more debt than ever. Time to knock off zeros and let reckless actors take their losses. Time to start fresh and direct available precious cash flow back into productive investment in lasting infrastructure and people. Only then can a true recovery begin.
