by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News

There has been a resurgence in interest in ancient grains in recent years, as more and more people begin to realize just how toxic modern wheat products are, with many “gluten intolerance” diseases increasing in modern times.

Unfortunately, ancient grains grown in the United States, along with all other grains such as wheat, oats, and barley, are almost all contaminated by modern pesticides and herbicides, even if they are certified organic.

We published a report on an investigation I conducted in 2014 by testing both organic and conventional products made from American (both the U.S. and Canada) grains, and we found very little difference between organic and conventional grains in terms of being contaminated with glyphosate, the active ingredient in the world’s most popular herbicide, RoundUp, which has been linked to cancer and other diseases.

See:
ALERT: Certified Organic Food Grown in U.S. Found Contaminated with Glyphosate Herbicide

Also:
Almost all American Grains Are Contaminated with Glyphosate Herbicide
How Glyphosate Herbicide Has Destroyed America’s Wheat
New Tests Confirm Children’s Foods Made from Oats are ALL Contaminated with Cancer-Causing Glyphosate
Herbicide Glyphosate Found in Organic Eggs and DairyContamination of U.S. Food Supply Worsens as 50% of Foods Tested Contained Cancer-Causing Glyphosate Herbicide
Most Beers and Wines Tested are Contaminated with Glyphosate
Study: 99% of Canadian Honey Analyzed Contaminated with Herbicide Glyphosate

We started testing ALL of the food we sell in our online store, Healthy Traditions, at that time, and stopped selling the organic grains we had in stock that tested positive for glyphosate.

So today, we do not even purchase, let alone sell, any foods that have not first been tested for the harmful herbicide glyphosate.

When we began to search for sources for ancient grains, all the ones we found at the time tested positive for glyphosate, which forced us to begin searching for glyphosate-free grains outside the U.S. We found that Italy had the cleanest ancient grains which consistently tested negative for glyphosate, and we found some organic, heirloom corn that tested clean in Central Mexico, where glyphosate was banned.

What shocked us the most is that farmers in America who were growing these organic grains were most certainly NOT spraying them with glyphosate, even though it is a common practice in conventional farms, where they want to use glyphosate to kill the wheat so that they could harvest it before the first snow fall, ensuring that they could harvest their entire crop first.

So even through the organic farms were not spraying their crops with glyphosate, it was obviously “drifting” to nearby farms. We have never been able to test any grains free from glyphosate in the northern states of Montana and the Dakotas, nor in Canada.

We eventually found a source of Khorasan Wheat from a single farm in Italy, and sold that for a few years.

But their harvest in 2023 was not successful, leaving us with very little left in stock from the year before.

But we recently just found a farm in Washington State that grew Khorasan in 2023, and samples from their field tested clean for any glyphosate. I proceeded to purchase many tons of this product, and we now have it in stock as a whole grain which you can purchase in bulk, as well as a whole grain flour.

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Via https://healthimpactnews.com/2024/are-your-grains-tested-for-glyphosate-ancient-khorasan-wheat-glyphosate-tested-now-available/

Dmitry Orlov

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Throwing myself at a wall of willful ignorance and self-delusion doesn’t seem to be working, so let me try something else. Here are my top five Western media narratives. I hope you like them.

Russia didn’t invade; it intervened in order to stop a genocide waged by the Ukrainian régime against its own population in the east of the country.

The Ukraine’s army has already lost to Russia and the Ukraine no longer exists as a nation. It has lost over a million soldiers, a fifth of its territory and half of its population. Its demographics are so dire that they leave nothing much worth discussing.

The fact that Russian troops haven’t occupied all of the formerly Ukrainian territory is beside the point: why should they rush (in the case of the bits Russia will want, such as Odessa and Kiev) or bother (in the case of the bits they probably will never want, such as Lvov)?

Narrative 2: There needs to be a negotiated peace in the Ukraine

There will be no negotiations between Russia and the former Ukraine or between Russia and anyone else regarding the former Ukraine. That has already been tried: there were the Minsk agreements, which, it was later admitted by European officials, were only intended as delaying tactics. There was the İstanbul agreement, cancelled by Boris Johnson as dictated by the White House crew.

Also, negotiations require a negotiating partner, and the Ukrainian officials are, after spending over a decade killing and maiming civilians, both in the east of their own territory and later in Russia, are no longer suitable as negotiating partners on account of them being terrorists. Negotiating with terrorists is generally a bad idea; it is far more appropriate to simply kill them.

The Ukrainian officials can either simply die (as has sometimes happened with them throughout history), or run away (as has happened more often), or surrender and be hung by the neck in a public place (that would be most traditional).

Narrative 3: The Ukrainians are a distinct people struggling for their freedom and self-determination

There is no Ukrainian ethnos; these are simply Russians that have been subjected to a singular form of abuse called “ukrainization” by the Poles and the Austrians in the second half of the 19th century, then again by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s, by the Germans during World War II, and then again after the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic became, quite unexpectedly, an independent state in 1991. Finally, after the US-instigated bloody coup in 2014, the Americans put ukrainianization on steriods, constructing a strictly ukrainianized totalitarian reign of terror in an effort to turn the Ukraine into a sort of battering ram to use against Russia in a now failed effort to weaken and destabilize it.

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Narrative 4: The Ukraine will need to make certain territorial concessions to Russia in order to achieve peace: Crimea, possibly the Donbass.

The project of Ukrainian statehood wasn’t a success and is being terminated. Russia will annex whatever bits of the former Ukraine it wants and turn the rest into a demilitarized, denazified, deukrainianized buffer zone. Any armed forces that blunder into that zone will get killed. Russia will take as many years as it needs to achieve this result; there is no rush at all.

The regions that have already been added to the Russian Federation — Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson — are still partially occupied by Ukrainian forces (except for Lugansk which is free) and this situation is being remedied. These regions have been accepted into Russia via a public referendum, written into the Russian constitution and are de jure Russian. Whether any other country recognizes them as such is not a legally valid consideration.

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Narrative 5: NATO involvement and escalation in the Ukraine risks starting a nuclear war

Nobody in NATO wants to die for the Ukraine. NATO has been involved in the Ukraine for at least a decade now, probably more. Sending more NATO troops to the Ukraine will simply mean more dead, wounded and missing NATO troops.

The purpose of the Ukraine, as far as NATO is concerned, is to put pressure on Russia, not to commit suicide using nuclear weapons. In turn, Russia has no reason to start a nuclear conflict. It is not under any sort of existential threat. In fact, it is doing just swimmingly: the people are unified, the president is more popular than ever, the economy is growing nicely and the Ukrainian conflict is moving in the right direction slowly but surely. Yes, there is some trouble with terrorist attacks organized by the Ukrainian régime with the help of the CIA and the Brits, but that’s not existentially dangerous.

US and its allies would not start a nuclear war because they know they would lose it. How can you lose a nuclear war? Simple! You can lose a nuclear war by having your nuclear weapons become obsolete. Look at the US nuclear triad: the Minuteman III ICBMs, on active duty since the 1970s, fail one test after another and give no reason to think that anything like the declared numbers of them would launch, fly to the target or explode. When they do work, they follow predictable ballistic trajectories and are very easy for the Russians to shoot down using their latest air and space defense systems.

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Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/4bffb1ae-0935-4bc4-879c-f08e330be094

All remaining airports must then close between 2030 and 2049 because to meet the legal commitment of zero emissions by 2050 every citizen of the United Kingdom must “stop using aeroplanes” for a significant period of time.

In addition, the report states that to obey the law of the Climate Change Act the public will be required to stop doing anything that causes emissions regardless of its energy source. According to the report, this will require the public to never eat beef or lamb ever again.

To do this national consumption of beef and lamb will drop by 50% between 2020 and 2029. Then between 2030 and 2049 beef and lamb will be “phased out”.

The report also confirms that construction of new building must cease by 2050 –

The underlying point is that any asset which uses carbon will have essentially zero value in 2050. This in turn may encourage greater use in the run up to 2050 – for example, putting up new buildings at a much faster rate for the next 30 years, knowing that construction must then halt.

The report was released in November 2019 and was authored by ‘UK Fires’, a collaboration between the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Nottingham, Bath and Imperial College London – the home of Professor Neil Ferguson.

Entitled ‘Absolute Zero’, the report is a research collaboration in which the authors reveal what the UK must do to meet it’s legal requirement to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and it makes for harrowing reading.

However, the timeline of events may speed up significantly because the Government enshrined a new target in law in April 2021 to slash emissions by 78% by the year 2035.

The authors of the report state the key messages are as follows –

In addition to reducing our energy demand, delivering zero emissions with today’s technologies requires the phasing out of flying, shipping, lamb and beef, blast-furnace steel and cement.

They also state this on jobs and location –

There are two key implications for how we live our lives: first, buildings will become much more expensive because the restrictions on building which generate substantial scarcities; second, transport will become much more expensive because the limits on air travel will generate excess demand for other forms of transport.

Those who are starting secondary school now, in 2019, will be 43 in 2050. Thinking about what education is appropriate for a very different set of industries is a key question. Should we still be training airplane pilots? Or aeronautical engineers?

And they state this on implementation of the requirements –

The changes in behaviour to achieve Absolute Zero are clearly substantial. In principle, these changes could be induced through changing prices and thus providing clear incentives for behaviour to change. The alternative is that the government prohibits certain types of behaviour and regulates on production processes.

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Via https://expose-news.com/2024/04/08/all-uk-airports-will-close-by-2029-climate-scam/

Dr Eddy Betterman

It is a good idea to pay close attention to everything you buy at the grocery store, especially if it comes from a major food corporation like PepsiCo, which is reportedly looking for new opportunities to slip cricket protein into popular packaged foods.

Cheetos, Quaker Granola Oats and other processed grocery foods could already contain cricket protein, depending on the brand, so make sure you read the ingredient labels closely.

“There are at least six or seven companies in this world that are now using crickets, insects to make flour,” explains the American farmer in the video below.

“Insect Gourmet says insect-related businesses in the Western world are producing insect proteins for foods, beverages, confectionaries, and other things such as butters, oils, and does as well as spice and seasoning.”

Believe it or not, insect and bug ingredients can also apparently be added to American food items without explicit labeling. The plan in just a few short years is to lace ground-up bugs into everything sold at conventional grocery stores.

By 2027, the plan is to reach $4.6 billion in sales from bug ingredients, amounting to around 1.4 million tons in total weight.

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is already producing insect ingredients at its Decatur, Ill., plant in partnership with Innova Foods. On the company’s website, it is stated falsely that crickets are 60 percent protein.

Iowa State University‘s (ISU) etymology department says that crickets are only about 12.9 percent protein, which means ADM is lying (big shocker) in order to make crickets seem more “nutritious.”

Whatever the case may be, crickets are not a suitable food item for humans. The Cleveland Clinic issued a warning that about 30 percent of all cricket farms, meaning the facilities where crickets are now being raised for human “food,” are loaded with parasites that transfer to humans who eat them.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) also expressed uncertainty about the alleged digestibility of crickets. The bugs’ exoskeletons, also known as chitin, is claimed to be a “digestible fiber,” but the NIH says it has no idea how it allegedly digests.

In other words, the human body cannot process crickets as food. And even the part that is claimed to function like “fiber” does not appear to digest, even though corporations like ADM insist it does.

Because the powers that be want only themselves to eat meat, everyone else has to eat bugs or “plants,” these being the only two protein options for poor people moving forward.

It is already a bad idea to eat processed foods from the likes of PepsiCo, by the way. Cereals from Quaker, for instance, are loaded with pesticides like glyphosate that are linked to cancer and reproductive problems.

“I’ll not eat bugs and only buy fresh meat from my local butcher,” one commenter wrote about all this. “Not labeled? Just boycott their products.”

Via https://dreddymd.com/2024/04/08/is-there-hidden-cricket-flour-in-groceries/

Episode 3 Ancient Egyptian Thought

The History of Ancient Egypt

Professor Robert Brier

Film Review

In the Egyptian origin myth, the world began with eight paired gods who emerged from formless water:

• Hok and Hoket – gods of formlessness
• Kuk and Kuket – god of darkness
• Amun and Amunet – gods of hiddenness
• Nun and Nunet – gods he primordial waters.

The moment creation took place, a mound of earth formed and Atum created himself on this mound.

Atum had two children: Shu (Air) and Tefnet (Moisture). They give birth to the god Geb (Earth) and the goddess Nut (Sky). The sky goddess drapes herself around the earth, swallows the sun everything evening and births it again  in the morning.

Geb and Nut

Geb and Nut gave birth to four gods: Osiris and Ist (referred to as Isis in Greek), Set (Evil) and Nephythys (goddess of death).

Set

Osiris and Ist (Isis)

Osiris and Ist came to earth to civilize Egypt (introducing domesticated crops and animals) and protect humanity against Set. Set built a wooden chest exactly fitting Osiris’s body, tricked him into lying in it, covered it with molten lead and threw it into the Nile (which killed Osiris).

The chest washed ashore tree Biblos (Lebanon), where a tree, which is ultimately used for a pillar in the king’s palace, encompassed the chest in its growing trunk. When Ist retrieved the body and returned it to Egypt, she hacked it into 13 pieces. Unable to find the phallus, she reassembled and buried the body with an artificial one. Osiris subsequently became god of the dead and ancient Egyptians prayed for resurrection in his name.

This origin story is essential to the ancient Egyptian culture of embalming corpses to ensure their life after death. They also adopted a body-shaped chest (sarcophagus) Osiris was trapped in as a specialized mummy case to preserve the body in.

Film can be viewed free with a library card on Kanopy.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/video/1492791/1492797

(Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock)

Zero Hedge

President Joe Biden’s new EV mandates will likely prove to be a sizable wealth transfer from rural red regions of America to urban blue sections, and to wealthy Democrats who reside in them, according to reports.

On March 20, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized its tailpipe emissions rules for the auto industry starting in 2027.

These rules are the strictest in history and will effectively force carmakers to have one-third of new car sales be plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) by 2027 and more than two-thirds by 2032.

This represents a dramatic increase from current EV sales, which were about 8 percent of the new car market in 2023.

Climate activists cheered the EPA’s move, with the Environmental Defense Fund calling it “a day to celebrate American achievement.”

But critics say that the measures will be particularly punitive for huge segments of the U.S. population who don’t want, can’t use, or can’t afford EVs. If carmakers go along with President Biden’s plan to shift their fleets to EVs, the cost of remaining gas-fired cars and trucks will likely escalate as demand dwarfs supply.

“This isn’t industrial policy,” Robert Bryce, author and energy analyst, told The Epoch Times. “In reality it’s a type of class warfare that will prevent low- and middle-income consumers from being able to afford new cars.”

And as many traditional car buyers struggle, the federal subsidies and incentives continue to flow, to the benefit of EV buyers.

According to an October 2023 report by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, as much as $48,000 of the cost of the average EV sold in the United States is paid, not by the owner, but in the form of “socialized costs” that are spread out among taxpayers and electricity consumers over a 10-year period.

These socialized costs come in the form of taxes, government subsidies, fuel economy credits paid by gas carmakers to EV manufacturers, and higher electricity bills as consumers absorb the capital costs required to expand the power grid and install new charging stations.

The report states that “the average model year 2021 EV would cost $48,698 more to own over a 10-year period without $22 billion in government favors given to EV manufacturers and owners.”

These dollars, which do not take into account the additional dollars that gas-car owners will likely pay for their vehicles as manufacturers are forced to make fewer of them, amount to a government-mandated wealth transfer to affluent EV owners, paid by those who often cannot afford to buy EVs.

The new EPA mandate is “aimed at accommodating a very narrow segment of the auto-buying public: wealthy, white Democrats who live in a handful of liberal communities,” Mr. Bryce said. “EV ownership is largely defined by class, ideology, and geography.”

In a February analysis of EV buyers, Mr. Bryce reported that 57 percent of them earn more than $100,000 annually, 75 percent are male, and 87 percent are white. In addition, EV buyers are overwhelmingly Democrats, with 71 percent of Republicans stating in a Gallup poll that they would not consider owning an electric vehicle.

A 2023 University of California Energy Institute report found “a strong and enduring correlation between political ideology and U.S. EV adoption.”

Looking at county-level data on new vehicle registrations between 2012 and 2022, the report stated that 50 percent of all new EVs were sold into the top 10 percent of most-Democrat counties, with 70 percent going to the top 25 percent most-Democrat counties, and 90 percent going to the top 50 percent most-Democrat counties.

Twenty counties bought 40 percent of all EVs sold in this period, the report states, and “most of these counties are urban, high-income, and in Democratic states.”

One-third of EV Buyers Live in California

Data from the Department of Energy supports this view. As of year-end 2022, California had 903,600 registered EVs in the state, or 37 percent of all EVs owned nationwide.

The next largest number of EV owners were in Florida, Texas, and Washington state, with 168,000, 149,000, and 104,100 EVs respectively, followed by New Jersey, New York, Georgia, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

The states on this list are home to large cities and suburbs, which are the target market for EVs. This contrasts sharply with rural states like Wyoming and North Dakota, where 800 and 600 EV owners reside, respectively.

According to a report by the Committee to Unleash Prosperity, “if you count all the EVs in North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Mississippi, West Virginia, Alabama, Montana, and Idaho, they account for less than one percent of the total U.S. sales.”

Of the top 10 states in terms of EV per capita ownership, seven are “deep blue states,” the report notes.

“By contrast, the 10 states with the smallest market penetration for EVs were all red states,” Unleash Prosperity states.

“Ironically, Joe Biden is the worst thing that ever happened to this industry. EVs have become ‘Biden cars.’”

The Biden administration is not alone in attempting to force Americans to switch to electric cars. A number of blue states including California, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington are on track to ban the sale of new gas-powered cars and trucks by 2035, according to non profit group Coltura, which advocates for the switch from gasoline to electric cars.

The lack of interest in EVs among red states isn’t merely a political issue, however. There are practical reasons why people are unwilling to spend thousands of dollars more on electric cars. According to a November 2023 AAA survey, the primary reasons for people not to buy electric cars are a lack of charging stations, limited range, and time to charge the battery.

A recent Rasmussen poll found that 65 percent of Americans surveyed don’t think they’re likely to make an EV their next automobile purchase.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/behind-ev-push-wealth-transfer-red-blue-regions

Zero Hedge

When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression, they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named them “Hoovervilles,” after President Herbert Hoover. Today, Americans increasingly live out of their cars because they can’t afford housing. If history is any guide, will parking lots full of Americans soon be known as “Bidenvilles”?

The problem has gotten so bad that Sedona, Arizona, recently set aside a parking lot exclusively for these homeless workers. The city is even installing toilets and showers for the new occupants.

Apparently, the City Council thought installing temporary utilities was cheaper than solving the area’s cost-of-living crisis.

And what a crisis it is.

The average home in the city sells for $930,000, while most of the housing available for rent is not apartments, but luxury homes targeted at wealthy people on vacation.

With such a shortage of middle-class housing and with starter homes essentially nonexistent, low- and even middle-income blue-collar workers have nowhere to go at night but their back seat.

Much like America’s Great Depression in the 1930s, this marks a serious regression in our national standard of living. But shantytowns were not prevalent in the 1920s (a decade that began with a depression) or the 1910s. Nor were they ubiquitous following the Panic of 1907, which set off one of the worst recessions in American history.

Indeed, Americans in the Great Depression faced such a cost-of-living crisis that many were forced to accept a standard of living below what their parents and even their grandparents had.

Fast-forward about 90 years, and countless families are in the same boat. Many young people today don’t think they’ll ever be able to achieve the American dream of homeownership that their parents and grandparents achieved. The worst inflation in 40 years, rising interest rates, and a collapse of real (inflation-adjusted) earnings mean a huge step backward financially.

That inflation has pushed up rents so much that young Americans are moving back in with their parents at rates not seen since the Great Depression because they can’t make it on their own. Sometimes, they can’t even make it with multiple roommates.

But many people cannot move back in with family, so the car it is.

The housing problem is not limited to wealthy towns in Arizona, however. It is systemic. The monthly mortgage payment on a median-price home has doubled since January 2021, and rents are at record highs. Like the Great Depression, this disaster stems from impolitic public policy.

For the past several years, the government has spent, borrowed, and created trillions of dollars it didn’t have. The predictable result of this profligacy was runaway inflation, followed by equally foreseeable interest rate increases.

The deadly combination of high prices and high interest rates has frozen the housing market and reduced homeownership affordability metrics to near-record lows. In several major metropolitan areas, it takes more than 100 percent of the median household after-tax income to afford a median-price home.

Since rents and virtually all other prices have risen so much faster than incomes over the past three years, even renting is unaffordable today, so many people have to go into debt to keep a roof over their heads. And for some, that’s a car roof.

This is the kind of story you might expect from a Third World country or somewhere behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, not the largest economy in the world—at least not outside of a depression like the one in the 1930s.

Hoover certainly deserved some blame for the Great Depression, but so did the progressives in Congress, who came from both parties and repeatedly voted to meddle in the economy instead of allowing it to recover from the initial downturn.

Similarly, President Joe Biden deserves blame for constantly advocating runaway government spending.

But today’s multitrillion-dollar deficits are also made possible by the big spenders in Congress, who come from both parties.

If this bipartisan prodigality of Washington continues, Bidenvilles will only become more widespread as the housing affordability crisis worsens.

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Via https://www.zerohedge.com/political/automobile-bidenvilles-are-new-shantytowns-amid-us-housing-affordability-crisis