USDA Suspends Honeybee Research Despite Rapid Decline of Bee Populations

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has suspended its annual surveys of the honeybee population as the federal agency increasingly turns toward representing big agricultural interests rather than regulating them.

Citing the need for budget cuts, the Trump administration’s suspension of the Honey Bee Colonies report will mean that researchers and the honey bee industry will lose a crucial tool to understanding the precipitous decline of honeybee populations since 2006.

Conservationist groups have denounced the move to curtail the program, accusing the Trump administration of waging a concerted effort to undermine federal research.

Rebecca Boehm, an economist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told CNN:

This is yet another example of the Trump administration systematically undermining federal research on food safety, farm productivity, and the public interest writ large.

A notice posted over the weekend by the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Survey said:

The decision to suspend data collection was not made lightly, but was necessary given available fiscal and program resources.

While the suspension is ostensibly “temporary,” according to a USDA spokesperson, the agency has been noncommittal about if and when the agency would restart the survey. It also has not provided a figure in terms of fiscal savings resulting from the suspension.

The move to curtail the Honey Bee Colonies report is at least the third bee-related research project to be halted or reduced by the Trump administration, which has moved toward reversing the Obama administration’s efforts to protect pollinators such as bees.

The USDA began the survey in 2015 to keep track of the quarterly population of honeybees in each state. The most recent report is scheduled to be released in August, but will only include data taken from last January to April of this year.

Since 2017, however, the USDA has been headed by Secretary of Agriculture George “Sonny” Perdue III, a former Georgia governor with a stake in the beef industry who has been dogged by corruption allegations throughout his political career and whom critics see as “more interested in rewarding industry and agriculture than in protecting the public health.”

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2019/07/usda-suspends-honeybee-research-despite-rapid-decline-of-bee-populations.html

Study Finds Psychiatric Diagnosis to be ‘Scientifically Meaningless’

A new study, published in Psychiatry Research, has concluded that psychiatric diagnoses are scientifically worthless as tools to identify discrete mental health disorders.

The study, led by researchers from the University of Liverpool, involved a detailed analysis of five key chapters of the latest edition of the widely used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), on ‘schizophrenia’, ‘bipolar disorder’, ‘depressive disorders’, ‘anxiety disorders’ and ‘trauma-related disorders’.

Diagnostic manuals such as the DSM were created to provide a common diagnostic language for mental health professionals and attempt to provide a definitive list of mental health problems, including their symptoms.

The main findings of the research were:

Psychiatric diagnoses all use different decision-making rules

There is a huge amount of overlap in symptoms between diagnoses

Almost all diagnoses mask the role of trauma and adverse events

Diagnoses tell us little about the individual patient and what treatment they need

The authors conclude that diagnostic labelling represents ‘a disingenuous categorical system’.

Lead researcher Dr Kate Allsopp, University of Liverpool, said: “Although diagnostic labels create the illusion of an explanation they are scientifically meaningless and can create stigma and prejudice. I hope these findings will encourage mental health professionals to think beyond diagnoses and consider other explanations of mental distress, such as trauma and other adverse life experiences.”

Professor Peter Kinderman, University of Liverpool, said: “This study provides yet more evidence that the biomedical diagnostic approach in psychiatry is not fit for purpose. Diagnoses frequently and uncritically reported as ‘real illnesses’ are in fact made on the basis of internally inconsistent, confused and contradictory patterns of largely arbitrary criteria and even placebo effect. The diagnostic system wrongly assumes that all distress results from disorder, and relies heavily on subjective judgments about what is normal.”

Professor John Read, University of East London, said: “Perhaps it is time we stopped pretending that medical-sounding labels contribute anything to our understanding of the complex causes of human distress or of what kind of help we need when distressed.”

https://www.naturalblaze.com/2019/07/study-finds-psychiatric-diagnosis-to-be-scientifically-meaningless.html

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New Evidence Connecting Jeffrey Epstein to Les Wexner (Victorias Secret)

Derrick Broze breaks down new evidence connecting Alan Dershowitz, Les Wexner, and Jeffrey Epstein.

Sources:

New Jeffrey Epstein accuser goes public; defamation lawsuit targets Dershowitz

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article229277874.html

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https://theconsciousresistance.com/2019/04/new-evidence-connecting-jeffrey-epstein-to-les-wexner-victorias-secret/

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Here’s the $77M Mansion the Feds Want to Seize from Jeffrey Epstein

1. Steeped in History, the Upper East Side Townhouse is Said to be the Largest Private Residence in New York City

The Museum of the City of New York features images of the building that was constructed beginning just before the Great Depression.

Macy’s heir Straus hired architect Horace Trumbauer to design a “40-room French Renaissance palace.” It was reported by blogger Tom Miller that “the Straus home was meant to reflect taste, elegance and wealth” and European antiques, fixtures indeed, “entire 18th-century rooms were purchased to be shipped to New York and installed in the new mansion.”

Construction of the six-story French limestone mansion was begun before the 1929 market crash and work slowed.

In 1933, Strauss died before seeing the mansion completed. That said, it sat empty owing to the high cost of taxes, The New York Times reported then: “His heirs…never saw fit to spend the additional money necessary to put the finishing touches on this lavishly appointed home.”

1. The Mansion Was Donated to the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York City. It Became a Convalescent Hospital, Then a Private School

The Straus family donated the building to the Archdiocese of New York, which could own it tax-free, and the mansion would become convalescent hospital St. Clare’s in 1945. Inside was centuries-old interiors, “a Romanesque-style chapel hung with 16th century Genovese red velvet” and with a “Louis XV reception room.” Patients had a view of Central Park.

The hospital closed in 1961 and the building was sold to the Birch Wathen School, now known as the Birch Wathen Lenox School, a private prep day school. The school relocated to East 77th Street and in 1989, retail mogul Leslie Wexner, of The Limited and Victoria’s Secret fame, bought the mansion from the Birch Wathen School, under his then-newly created corporation Nine East 71st Street of Columbus, Ohio. It’s reported that Wexner spent “tens of millions” renovating and decorating but never lived there.

1. Wexner & Epstein & No. 9 East 71st Street

In 1996, the New York Times wrote about the “majestic stone mansion at 9 East 71st Street.”

The Times wrote that Wexner paid $13.2 million for the house that he did not inhabit.

“Those curious to see the princely accommodations Mr. Wexner abandoned need look no further than the cover of last month’s Architectural Digest. When asked how long Mr. Wexner had occupied the property, Jeffrey Epstein, his protege and one of his financial advisers, replied, ‘Les never spent more than two months there.’ Thus the prorated cost of Mr. Wexner’s sejours would appear to have been in excess of a million dollars a day.”

In the ’96 story, the Times wrote that when “reached in Florida last week, Mr. Epstein said that the house was now his.”

It was officially deeded for $10 in 2011 from Wexner’s corporation to Epstein’s Maple, Inc. US Virgin Islands-based corporation according to New York City land records.

The Times piece also noted, “Visitors described a bathroom reminiscent of James Bond movies: hidden beneath a stairway, lined with lead to provide shelter from attack and supplied with closed-circuit television screens and a telephone, both concealed in a cabinet beneath the sink. The house also has a heated sidewalk, a luxurious provision that explains why, while snow blankets the rest of the Eastern Seaboard, the Wexner house (and Bill Cosby’s house across the street) remains opulently snow-free, much to the delight of neighborhood dogs.”

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https://heavy.com/news/2019/07/jeffrey-epstein-house/

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