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Glenn Greenwald
The Guardian 2012-10-26 17:00:00
A new Rolling Stone interview with the president shows subservience to power, not partisan favor, is what drives the press corps Last month, Vanity Fair featured a major profile of President Obama by Michael Lewis, who was given what the New York Times called "rare" and "extraordinary access". Lewis "conducted multiple interviews with the president"; "rode in the official presidential limousine"; "was given a special lapel pin that identified him to the Secret Service as someone who was allowed to be in close proximity to the president"; and "flew with the president on several foreign and domestic trips" -- "not with the rest of the press corps in the back of Air Force One, but near the front." And, noted the Times, "the president even allowed Mr. Lewis to play on his basketball team." But in exchange for such access, Lewis, unbeknownst to readers of his profile, had agreed to a journalistically corrupt practice - now banned by many large media outlets - whereby the only quotes he was permitted to use were ones the White House approved in advance. Unsurprisingly, the profile was pure hagiography that left Obama's most devoted media fans gushing with ecstacy. Though I would have thought it impossible, Rolling Stone somehow just managed to top that profile when it comes to sycophantic, power-worshiping "journalism". This week, it features a cover story on Obama by its contributing editor, the historian Douglas Brinkley, largely based on a 45-minute interview in the Oval Office. The questions Brinkley posed are so vapid and reverent that it is hard to believe it's not satire. |
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Craig Murray
craigmurray.org.uk 2012-10-26 17:28:00
Of 110 containers of pharmaceuticals entering West Africa searched in a special operation coordinated by the World Customs Organisation (WCO), 84 were found to contain fake pharmaceuticals. 82 million doses of fake medicine were confiscated which included anti-malarial and anti-HIV drugs and antibiotics. Here in sub-Saharan Africa, over two children die every minute of malaria - which in 98% of cases can be cured with US $6 worth of genuine drugs. A spokesman for the WCO on BBC World Service radio last night said that the number of deaths caused directly by counterfeit medicine in Africa every year was in the hundreds of thousands. He called it "genocide". I might not use that word, but it is beyond doubt true that supplying counterfeit drugs to Africa causes more deaths than narcotics, than the wars in Syria, Afghanistan and the rest of the Middle East combined, and several hundred times more deaths than terrorism. |
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Aris Chatzistefanou
The Guardian 2012-10-26 17:14:00
Officer says government has turned blind eye to fascists and far right may be being used to provoke clashes with demonstrators A senior Greek police officer has claimed that the far-right Golden Dawn party has infiltrated the police at various levels. He has laid the blame on consecutive governments and the leadership of the police force for turning a blind eye to what he describes as "pockets of fascism". Speaking to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, the officer said the Greek state had been fully aware of the activities of Golden Dawn for several years, with the National Intelligence Service and other security agencies monitoring it closely. The officer claimed police chiefs had had the opportunity to isolate and remove these small "pockets of fascism" in the force but decided not to. The state, he said, wanted to keep the fascist elements "in reserve" and use them for its own purposes. |
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The Guardian
2012-10-26 16:56:00
Two men were spotted running away from scene of Nicholas Mockford's killing on 14 October, reports say A British oil executive has been shot dead in front of his wife in Belgium. Nicholas Mockford, 60, an executive for ExxonMobil, was shot three times as he left an Italian restaurant in a suburb of Brussels. His wife, Mary, was left beaten and covered in blood, cradling her husband and shouting for help. Witnesses said they saw the couple walk across the street to their Lexus car before shots were fired. Reports suggest two men were spotted running away from the scene, one holding a motorcycle helmet. The shooting is understood to have happened on 14 October, but the news has only now emerged after Belgian police imposed a reporting blackout. The Daily Telegraph said police in Belgium were considering all possible motives for the shooting, including an attempted carjacking, although Mockford's car was not stolen. |
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Tom Kington
The Guardian 2012-10-26 16:50:00
Italian former prime minister, who also faces accusations of sex with underage prostitute, can appeal twice more against ruling Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to four years' jail by an Italian court on Friday at the end of a lengthy trial for tax fraud related to the acquisition of TV rights by his company Mediaset - but it remains unlikely he will ever see a prison cell. Under the Italian legal system, the country's former prime minister will be entitled to two appeals before a definitive sentence. Berlusconi's sentence will also be reduced to one year under a 2006 measure that stripped three years off sentences for crimes committed before that date. |
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aangirfan.blogspot.com
2012-10-01 15:25:00
The BBC stopped an investigation, by Newsnight, into allegations that BBC TV entertainer Sir Jimmy Savile sexually abused a teenage girl at the BBC's Television Centre. BBC shelved Jimmy Savile sex abuse investigation 'to protect its own reputation' A woman told Newsnight that Savile molested her when she was 14 or 15. Newsnight found several women who said that Savile groomed and abused teenagers. Newsnight was told of claims that two other TV celebrities, still alive, sexually abused girls at Television Centre in the 1970s. The BBC bosses ordered that the investigation be dropped. |
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RT
2012-10-25 00:00:00
An US Secret Service agent assigned to protect the residence of Vice President Joe Biden was arrested by authorities this week and charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female family member. Hector Reynaldo Cuellar, of Woodbridge, Virginia was picked up by police on Monday following a law enforcement probe that investigated accusations that the man sexually assaulted the girl several times between August and October of this year, Fox News reports. The US Secret Service has offered little comment on the arrest, but has issued a statement to Fox confirming the agency has been made aware of the charges. Cuellar, the statement reads, "has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of judicial action." |
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RT
2012-10-26 00:00:00
The White House defends the deaths of civilians they've caused with drone strikes overseas, but as the number of casualties created by the remote-control murder machines perpetually soar, the United Nations says they will soon start an investigation. Ben Emmerson, the UN special rapporteur on counter-terror operations, told an audience at Harvard law school this week that a sub-section of the international organization will begin focusing next year on the Obama administration's extrajudicial killings of suspected insurgents and the innocent civilians all too often executed in the process. Speaking before a room of students Thursday afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Emmerson told the crowd that he will be launching "an investigation unit within the special procedures of the [UN] Human Rights Council to inquire into individual drone attacks." According to Emmerson, the probe will be spearheaded by himself and Christof Heyns, the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. |
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RT
2012-10-26 04:32:00
At least 41 people were killed and 50 more injured after a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan's northern city of Maymana, local officials reported. Worshipers had gathered at the mosque to celebrate the Eid al-Adha Islamic holiday. "Our latest death toll shows 41 deaths, and that might rise," Deputy provincial governor Abdul Satar Barez told AFP, adding that five children were among the dead. The bomber was reportedly wearing a police uniform when he detonated his explosives in front of the Mosque. Local authorities said that there were several police officers amoung the dead. The provincial governor and police chief were in attendance at the prayer service, and were reportedly nearly killed. "There was blood and dead bodies everywhere,'' Khaled, a doctor in the mosque at the time of the attack told AFP. "It was a massacre." |
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The Guardian, UK
2012-10-25 00:00:00
Source says Karim Ahmed Essam el-Azizi was killed by bomb which he attempted to use against security forces in raid. A Libyan militant suspected by Egypt of involvement in last month's attack on the US consulate in Libya has been killed in a raid by Egyptian security forces in Cairo, according to security officials. The Libyan was killed on Wednesday in a raid that targeted him and other militants with suspected links to al-Qaida in Cairo's eastern district of Nasr City, the official said. Four Egyptian militants were detained in the operation, he added. The Libyan, identified as Karim Ahmed Essam el-Azizi, was killed by a bomb he had tried to use against the security forces during the raid, the security official said. It was not immediately clear what role Azizi had played in the assault on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on 11 September, in which the ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans were killed. | |
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Niall Couper
A study into the way austerity protests have been policed reveals a
bleak picture of human rights in the EU that jars with the award of the
Nobel Peace Prize, says AmnestyPublic Service Europe 2012-10-25 00:00:00
Over the last couple of weeks, European Union leaders have been basking in the glow of their recent Nobel Peace Prize. There is some credence to the award - since its formation after the Second World War the EU has made notable progress on human rights across the continent and promoted peace and democracy, as the Nobel committee noted. Yet just two weeks on, Amnesty International has revealed a staggering hypocrisy that perhaps the award-givers should have taken into consideration. A new hard-hitting briefing on the policing of austerity protests in the EU paints a very bleak picture of human rights in the continent. Concentrating on Greece, Romania and Spain, it shows how protesters have been beaten and kicked, sprayed with tear gas, and shot at and wounded with rubber bullets by police officers. The abuses have gone un-investigated and unpunished - hardly the behaviour of an organisation worthy of winning the Nobel. If the EU truly wants to justify its award then it needs to get to grips with its police services. There is no doubt that this is a testing time. As austerity measures begin to hit hard over the forthcoming months, we will see more protests. The EU needs to step up to the mark and ensure the way these demonstrations are policed does not lead to a new wave of violence. Yes, the police are responsible for public safety and law and order. However, they must also ensure that everyone within their territories can enjoy the right to peaceful assembly. | |
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Comment: The hypocrisy of the EU receiving the Nobel Peace Prize goes far beyond police brutality during austerity protests in Europe.
War Is Peace: European Union Wins 2012 Nobel Peace Prize |
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Arash Norouzi
Global Research 2010-09-26 00:00:00
Wiped Off The Map: The Rumor of the Century by Arash Norouzi Global Research, January 20, 2007 The Mossadegh Project Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran's President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, "Israel must be wiped off the map". Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, as the following article will prove. Background: On Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at the Ministry of Interior conference hall in Tehran, newly elected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered a speech at a program, reportedly attended by thousands, titled "The World Without Zionism". Large posters surrounding him displayed this title prominently in English, obviously for the benefit of the international press. Below the poster's title was a slick graphic depicting an hour glass containing planet Earth at its top. Two small round orbs representing the United States and Israel are shown falling through the hour glass' narrow neck and crashing to the bottom. Before we get to the infamous remark, it's important to note that the "quote" in question was itself a quote - they are the words of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the Islamic Revolution. Although he quoted Khomeini to affirm his own position on Zionism, the actual words belong to Khomeini and not Ahmadinejad. Thus, Ahmadinejad has essentially been credited (or blamed) for a quote that is not only unoriginal, but represents a viewpoint already in place well before he ever took office. |
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| Society's Child |
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RT
2012-10-26 17:26:00
A Mississippi town is facing a lawsuit for operating schools that handcuff and send children to prison for minor classroom infractions like violating the dress code or talking back to teachers. Students in the town of Meridian sometimes spent days in a prison 80 miles away from their school without a probable cause hearing. They were not read their Miranda rights and sometimes spent more than 48 hours waiting for a hearing, which violates their constitutional rights. Meridian police routinely arrested students without determining whether there is probable cause of an infraction or whether the school wants to press charges. Handcuffed, the students were sent to Rankin County youth detention center, which is about an hour and a half away by car. Students were jailed for "dress code infractions such as wearing the wrong color socks or undershirt, or for having shirts untucked; tardies; flatulence in class; using vulgar language; yelling at teachers; and going to the bathroom or leaving the classroom without permission." |
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Stephen Lendman
Veterans Today 2012-10-26 12:18:00
Over a year ago, he knew he had inoperable esophageal cancer. It spread to his tongue, lymph nodes and lungs. It was just a matter of time. On October 22, it took him. His journey to the spirit world began. In August 2011, he said: Earlier he said: |
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Christine Hsu
Medical Daily 2012-10-26 12:00:00
A gang of Sweeney Todd cannibals murdered their victims and stuffed and baked their remains into pies to sell on the streets, a Brazilian court has heard. Trio Jorge Negromonte, 50, his wife Isabel Pires, 51, and his mistress Bruna da Silva, 25, are believed to have lured at least three women to their house with the promise of employing them as nannies before beheading, dismembering, quartering and stuffing their parts into pastries. The cannibal ring is said that have used their victims' flesh to make stuffed pastries, known as empanadas, which they ate themselves or sold to neighbors for 50 cents, according to police. The gang appeared at court for the first time yesterday in their home town of Pernambuco, north-east Brazil. They were accused of murdering Jessica da Silva, 17, Alexandra Falcao, 20, and Gisele da Silva, 31, but did not enter pleas, according to the Daily Mail. However, authorities said that the alleged cannibals have previously confessed to killing another six unidentified people. |
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RT
2012-10-25 00:00:00
A World War II vet says he was tied up and shot twice during an attempted burglary earlier this year inside his California home. The accused criminal sees things differently, though, and now wants to file charges of his own. Samuel Joseph Cutrufelli, 31, is on trial for attempted murder after allegedly shooting 90-year-old Jay Leone in the jaw and the back during a home robbery-gone-wrong back in January. When Cutrufelli attempted to flee Mr. Leone's home after things went awry, though, the nonagenarian managed to make off firing a few rounds of his own. According to Mr. Leone's take, he was tied up by Cutrufelli at gunpoint and left to watch while the suspect snuck around the Greenbrae, CA residence attempting to empty it of anything of value. Leone soon managed to wiggle himself free though, then pleaded with the suspect to let him use the bathroom. On the way, he found one of five handguns stored throughout the house and approached the criminal during mid-burglary. Cutrufelli, Leone says, fired first. "The .45 hit me right in the face here and went through the back of my head," the vet told jurors during court proceedings earlier this month. "I didn't feel a thing." So nonplussed was Leone, in fact, that he managed to fire off a few rounds himself moments after being shot in the face. "I said, 'F - - you, you son of a bitch, now it's my turn," Leone admitted to the court. |
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USA Today
2012-10-26 02:28:00
A nanny suspected of killing two young children she was looking after and then stabbing herself is in critical condition in a city hospital, as authorities continue to investigate a situation that is every parent's nightmare. The horror started for the children's mother, Marina Krim, when she and a third child returned to their apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side Thursday evening. Puzzled by the darkened home, she returned to the lobby to ask the doorman if the nanny had gone out with 1-year-old Leo, just learning to walk, and 6-year-old Lucia, known as LuLu. She was told they hadn't left, so she returned upstairs. A search led to the bathroom, where the children's bodies were in the bathtub and the nanny lay wounded nearby. It's unclear how many times the children were stabbed. "There was some kind of screaming about, 'You slit her throat!'" said music therapist Rima Starr, who lives on the same floor as the family, and said she heard screams coming from their apartment at around 5:30 p.m. The nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, who was found near a knife, was hospitalized in critical condition and was in police custody. The children were pronounced dead at a hospital. |
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Yahoo! Canada News
2012-10-25 00:00:00
Canada, Alberta - Three Grade 6 students were left in critical condition and five others injured after a minivan crashed into a classroom at a school in St. Paul, Alta., Thursday morning. The three most seriously injured students were taken by air ambulance to Edmonton, said Kerry Williamson, spokesman for Alberta Health Services, which runs St. Therese Healthcare Centre in St. Paul, where the remaining five were taken. Three of those five injured students have since been released from hospital, he said. Two of the seriously injured students are undergoing surgery and remain in critical condition. The third student taken to Edmonton is in stable condition. The driver of the minivan - a 46-year-old man from St. Paul - was taken into custody. RCMP said the man received minor injuries in the crash and is in hospital. "There's various aspects of this investigation that we are looking at and ruling in or out," said Chief Supt. Randy McGinnis. "One would be impairment, impairment by alcohol or a drug, and the other reason for this accident could be a mental condition." |
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Jordana Divon
Shine from Yahoo! Canada - Shine on 2012-10-25 00:00:00
Sold! A young woman's virginity. The price? A staggering $780,000. That's the sum a Japanese bidder was willing to pay in order to initiate 20-year-old Brazilian student Catarina Migliorini into the world of coital relations. Migliorini had submitted herself - along with sexy photos - to an online auction site called Virgins Wanted. As you can probably imagine, all items on the block involve one very specific thing. As the New York Daily News reports, the auction is actually more of a publicity stunt to promote a documentary by the same name. Virgins Wanted is the brainchild of Australian filmmaker Justin Sisley, who will film Migliorini before and after the deed. |
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P. Solomon Banda and Jocelyn Noveck
xfinity 2012-10-25 21:13:00
Golden, Colorado - Mindy Sigg sat sobbing on Thursday, listening to prosecutors tell a court that her 17-year-old son had confessed to the abduction and killing of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway. While any mother would be devastated, there was an even more heartbreaking wrinkle for Sigg: She was the one who called police. It was not the only high-profile case this week in which a mother made that painful choice. In New Jersey, Anita Saunders saw something on a Facebook page that led her to call police. Her two sons, ages 15 and 17, are now charged with murdering 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale, a bike-lover who authorities said was lured to their home with the promise of new parts. What does it feel like to turn in your child, knowing they could be sentenced to many years in prison? Surely, no one knows but those who've done it. But a main motivation, according to one criminologist, is simply a desire to do the right thing. |
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Geoff Mulvihill
Xfinity 2012-10-25 17:58:00
Clayton - Relatives of a slain 12-year-old girl from southern New Jersey said Thursday they want to avoid jeopardizing the criminal case and will not comment on the revelation that three days before she disappeared, she may have exchanged online messages with one of the teenagers accused of killing her. "We want swift justice for Autumn," said Paul Spadofora, a great uncle and godfather of Autumn Pasquale, whose body was found in a recycling bin Monday near the teenagers' home. "We don't want to jeopardize the case." Two brothers, 15 and 17, were charged with murder and other crimes against the girl, who would have turned 13 on Oct. 29. Authorities say the younger boy lured her to their home by promising to trade bicycle parts. Both teens are due in court Friday for a hearing on whether they should remain in a juvenile detention facility. |
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Jon Herskovitz
Reuters 2012-10-24 11:00:00
A South African film production designer armed with a nail cutter is trying to help stamp out rhino poaching by sending toenail clippings to the Chinese embassy in Pretoria. Mark Wilby said he wants to make the point that rhino horn, which sells for prices higher than gold as a traditional Chinese medicine, is made up of keratin - a protein which is a component in human nails and hair. "I felt that we have moved beyond the time of politeness. I am not doing it out of disrespect to the Chinese authorities, but how else do you get their attention," Wilby told Reuters on Wednesday. Wilby has produced a video (above) released on YouTube, calling on others to clip their nails and send them by post to the embassy. Chinese embassy officials were not immediately available for comment. Officials from China and South Africa have been working together to reduce poaching. Rhino poaching deaths in South Africa, home to almost all the rhinos in Africa, hit a record annual high in October, driven by the use of horns in Chinese medicine and a spreading belief in Southeast Asia, unfounded in science, that they may cure cancer. The number of rhinoceroses dying unnatural deaths in South Africa, either through illegal poaching or legal hunts, has now reached a level likely to lead to population decline, according to an expert study. |
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David Edwards
Raw Story 2012-10-25 16:46:00
The Archdiocese of Miami said on Wednesday that Father Rolando Garcia was placed on leave after they learned that he had been accused of sexually abusing a 16-year-old runaway boy. In a press conference on Tuesday, Tony Simmons recalled that Garcia began abusing him in 1994 at the Church of the Little Flower in Hollywood. Simmons said that the Catholic priest first offered him food and counseling. Over time, Garcia plied him with movies, concerts, alcohol and pornography, which eventually led to "oral sex and sodomy." Simmons explained that he was afraid to speak out because he lived and worked as a painter at the church. "I honestly thought I was the only person," he told reporters. "And if it came out, I could lose my job." Garcia continued to stay in contact with Simmons even after he joined the military in 2003. But on Oct. 15, Simmons said he changed his mind about coming forward when Garcia laughed while telling him that others had also accused him of pedophilia. |
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Google
2012-10-25 19:09:00
Guatemala City - Guatemala's Mayan people accused the government and tour groups on Wednesday of perpetuating the myth that their calendar foresees the imminent end of the world for monetary gain. "We are speaking out against deceit, lies and twisting of the truth, and turning us into folklore-for-profit. They are not telling the truth about time cycles," charged Felipe Gomez, leader of the Maya alliance Oxlaljuj Ajpop. Several films and documentaries have promoted the idea that the ancient Mayan calendar predicts that doomsday is less than two months away, on December 21, 2012. The Culture Ministry is hosting a massive event in Guatemala City -- which as many as 90,000 people are expected to attend -- just in case the world actually does end, while tour groups are promoting doomsday-themed getaways. Maya leader Gomez urged the Tourism Institute to rethink the doomsday celebration, which he criticized as a "show" that was disrespectful to Mayan culture. Experts say that for the Maya, all that ends in 2012 is one of their calendar cycles, not the world. |
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| Secret History |
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Kieran Mulvaney
Discovery News 2012-10-26 15:38:00
On Oct. 26, 1881, four men met at the corner of Fifth and Allen Streets in the bustling silver mining town of Tombstone, Arizona. They walked north on Fifth, turned left on Fremont Street and headed toward a vacant lot next to the OK Corral. Minutes later, three men would be dead, and the four men who had walked to the corral and killed them - Tombstone marshal Virgil Earp, his brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and Wyatt's friend Doc Holliday - had unknowingly secured their places in history. The Gunfight at the OK Corral is arguably the single most famous incident in the Old West. But what was it about? And why has it, above all the many other gunfights that took place in the era of frontier justice, achieved such infamy? To understand the gunfight, you have to first understand the town. Tombstone in 1881 was a thriving, bustling silver mining community. "There's a huge misconception about Tombstone in the 1880s: that it was a violent, dangerous place," says local author and historian Don Taylor. "It was extremely sophisticated and massively wealthy. Thirty-seven million dollars in 1880s dollars of silver was mined here; that's $8.25 billion today. They had everything. "They had fresh seafood every day. They would catch it in Baja California; pack it in barrels of salt, ice and seaweed at dusk; freight it by train to Benson or Contention City, immediately pack it on to wagons and bring it here by dawn every day. It was a very opulent town. But again, people don't understand - especially if they come today - Tombstone was open 24 hours a day. The miners worked rotating 10 hour shifts; everything had to be open when they got off, including banks. They were also pumping 2.5 million gallons of water out of the mines every day to keep them dry; so you had all the mining activity, all the milling activity, all the water rushing down Toughnut Street, and the town open 24 hours a day. It must have been noisy as hell." |
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BBC News
2012-10-25 19:29:00
One of the oldest Mayan tombs ever found has been uncovered in western Guatemala, say archaeologists. Located at a temple site in Retalhuleu province, the grave is thought to be that of an ancient ruler or religious leader who lived some 2,000 years ago. Carbon-dating indicated the tomb had been built between 700 and 400 BC, said government archaeologist Miguel Orrego. A rich array of jade jewels, including a necklace depicting a vulture-headed human figure, were found. The scientists found no bones at the tomb in the Tak'alik Ab'aj site - some 180km (110 miles) south of Guatemala City - probably because they had disintegrated. But the vulture-headed figure appears to identify the tomb's occupant as an ajaw - or ruler - because the symbol represented power and economic status and was given to respected elder men. |
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Jeremy Hsu
TechNewsDaily 2012-10-26 16:19:00
A dystopian society supported by genetically modified clone workers stands out among the six stories that make up the sprawling film Cloud Atlas. The idea may seem far-fetched because of political opposition to human cloning and genetic modification in today's world, but the science is closer than many people may think. The Cloud Atlas story focuses on a genetically-engineered "fabricant" clone named Sonmi~451 who is one of millions raised in an artificial "wombtank," destined to serve from birth. Such fabricants do practically every kind of manual or service labor, work as soldiers and prostitutes, and even act as "living doll" toys for "pureblood" kids in the futuristic society of Nea So Copros - an ultra-corporate version of a unified Korea that has grown to include much of Asia. "Of course, any technology could be abused, but a nightmarish Cloud Atlas future would not flow inexorably from the deployment of human germline genetic modification," said Kevin Smith, a bioethicist at Abertay University in the UK. Such genetic modification of the germline - the genetic material in eggs or sperm - already works in some animals. Researchers have made genetically modified animals and clones such as cloned pet dogs and gene-tweaked mice tailored to sniff out landmines. By comparison, similar research in humans has focused on cloning embryos to extract embryonic stem cells that could prove medically useful. But the reality of safe, effective genetic modification of humans seems likely to come true in the "relatively near future", Smith and his colleagues wrote in the October issue of the journal Archives of Medical Research. They also argue that the technology's possible benefits for humanity should prevent countries from automatically passing bans or heavy restrictions on such emerging technologies. |
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Giovanni Sostero, Nick Howes & Ernesto Guido
Over the past few weeks, comet 168P/Hergenrother has been under intense
scrutiny due to its strange behaviour, namely a 6 magnitude surge in its
brightness in a matter of several nights. Simultaneously the central
condensation became markedly brighter and sharper, whilst the coma was
also seen to grow in size. This has triggered the attention of amateur
and professional astronomers alike.Remanzacco Observatory 2012-10-26 12:46:00 Most of the time these brightening events (comets are among the most unpredictable astronomical objects from themselves) originate from some activity within, or associated with, the nucleus of the comet. There were strong assumptions in the astronomical community on the possible emergence of some visible fragments in the coma, the potential consequences of a break-up of in the comet's nucleus. There have even been a few claims relating to a sighting within the comet hunting community, however these turned out to be most likely false alarms, due to the unfavourable combination of seeing/instrumental resolution within the amateur community. Our team have been monitoring the evolution of this comet with a variety of instruments including the research grade Faulkes Telescopes, with sub arcsecond imaging capability. Today...we found the fragment... |
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Daily Mercury, Australia
2012-10-25 19:37:00
Next month, a rare migration will take place. From the furthest reaches of the earth, more than 100,000 amateur astronomers will converge on Far North Queensland for the chance to witness a total solar eclipse. And Mackay resident Warren Maag will be among them. A member of local astronomy group Tropical Stargazers, Mr Maag said planning was under way for his and wife Pam's cosmic pilgrimage. "We've got all our camping gear ready," Mr Maag said. "We're going to leave a day before and spend two nights in Cairns, then spend two weeks coming home afterwards as a holiday." A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the sun and the earth, temporarily blocking the sun's light. It will be viewable on November 14 from roughly Innisfail in the south to Port Douglas in the north. The next time a total eclipse will take place is 2015. However, it will be visible only from within the Arctic Circle. |
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Nancy Atkinson
Universe Today 2012-10-25 18:57:00
In 2010, a small, bright white storm emerged on Saturn's northern hemisphere. This storm grew until it wrapped around the planet in curly cloud structures, creating a colossal atmospheric disturbance that endured into the early part of 2012, becoming the largest storm seen on the planet since 1990. Being in orbit around the ringed planet, the Cassini spacecraft had a front row seat to watch the disturbance unfold, allowing planetary scientists an unprecedented look at this monster storm. While the storm was visible even to amateur astronomers on Earth, much of its activity took place beyond the reach of visible-light cameras and telescopes, astronomers say. Not only did huge "beacons" of hot air chase each other around the planet, but infrared observations show a giant oval vortex is still persisting as a side effect from the storm. "It's the first time we've seen anything like it on any planet in the Solar System," said Leigh Fletcher from the University of Oxford, UK, lead author of a paper describing the unprecedented storm. "It's extremely unusual, as we can only see the vortex at infrared wavelengths - we can't tell that it is there simply by looking at the cloud cover." Fletcher and her team also used ground-based observations with the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile, and NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility at the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii. | |
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| Earth Changes |
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RSPB
2012-10-26 16:40:00
An appalling combination of fog and winds around England's coast this week have created terrible conditions for migrating birds, with some fishermen reporting to the RSPB the deaths of many exhausted and disorientated 'garden' birds plunging into the sea around their vessels. England's east coast, from Northumberland to Kent, has seen the arrival of many birds, including redwings, fieldfares, bramblings and blackbirds, perhaps numbering in their millions this week. The RSPB believes these birds may be the lucky survivors which have managed to cross the North Sea, but the Society concedes many others may have perished before making landfall. |
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James Nye and Beth Stebner
New York has just been declared a state of emergency in advance of
Hurricane Sandy which is expected to hit the East Coast late on Sunday,
with the possibility it will halt subways and ground planes. Governor
Cuomo said the declaration allows the 62 counties to help localities
better prepare for the storm with access to federal funding and the
national guard.Daily Mail 2012-10-26 16:27:00 Hurricane Sandy is looking more and more ominous as it makes its way towards the East Coast, and local authorities are preparing for the worst, predicting at least $1billion in damage and the possibility and up to 375,000 New Yorkers could be evacuated. Meteorologists expect a natural horror show of high wind, heavy rain, extreme tides and maybe even snow on higher ground beginning early on Sunday.
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TDN.com
2012-10-26 13:30:00
Hurricane Sandy raged through the Bahamas early Friday after leaving 22 people dead across the Caribbean, following a path that could see it blend with a winter storm to hit the U.S. East Coast with a super-storm next week. Sandy knocked out power, flooded roads and cut off islands in the storm-hardened Bahamas as it swirled past Cat Island and Eleuthera, but authorities reported no deaths in the scattered archipelago. "Generally people are realizing it is serious," said Caroline Turnquest, head of the Red Cross in the Bahamas, who said 20 shelters were opened on the main island of New Providence. |
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YNN.com
2012-10-26 12:16:00
A minor earthquake is being blamed for causing a loud boom noise that was heard and felt in Niagara County early Friday morning. The U-S Geological Survey is confirming a 2 point 5 magnitude earthquake just outside of Olcott before one A-M this morning. They speculate that low-depth earthquakes can cause a loud noise especially in the Northeast United State. We received word from viewers early this morning who heard the loud sound they say felt like an explosion around 1 a.m. Friday in Barker, Somerset, Olcott, and Newfane. There were even reports of some residents in Canada hearing and feeling it. Some thought that it may have been caused by a plane at the Niagara Falls Air Base, but the Base tells us that they don't own any planes or equipment capable of creating a sonic boom. The FAA also confirms that there were no aircraft in the area around that time.
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US Geological Survey
2012-10-26 13:18:00
Event Time: 2012-10-25 23:05:26 UTC Location: 39.855°N 16.044°E depth=3.8km (2.4mi) Nearby Cities: 6km (4mi) SE of Mormanno, Italy 14km (9mi) WNW of Castrovillari, Italy 21km (13mi) ENE of Scalea, Italy 24km (15mi) WNW of Cassano al Ionio, Italy 358km (222mi) WSW of Tirana, Albania |
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CBS Baltimore
2012-10-25 11:33:00
Cuban state media have announced 11 deaths from Hurricane Sandy, including a 4-month-old boy who was crushed when his home collapsed. State TV's nightly newscast says nine of the deaths were in Santiago province in eastern Cuba, which is home to Cuba's second largest city. It is also known as Santiago. The other two deaths were reported in Cuba's Guantanamo province, bordering the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. The newscast says the oldest victim was an 84-year-old man in Santiago province. The report of the deaths came at the end of the newscast. Cuban authorities say most of the fatalities occurred when dwellings fell down, but the cause of others is still being investigated. | |
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Comment: Eleven deaths is a significant death toll for
Cuba considering they have one of the world's best hurricane
preparedness programs. Not including Hurricane Sandy, they've lost 35
people in hurricanes since 2001 despite consistently being in the the
center of these storms. Perhaps they got caught by surprise. Time will
tell if this foreshadows how the storm is received by many in the east
coast. The storm is set to collide with an early winter storm coming from the west and an arctic blast coming from the north. So, make sure you all are prepared!
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Douglas Main
OurAmazingPlanet 2012-10-26 11:38:00
A frightening collision of weather systems is brewing and could create a tempest even worse than 1991's "Perfect Storm." This "Frankenstorm," as some are calling it, is set to strike the Northeast on or near the 21st anniversary of that historic squall. On the one hand you have Hurricane Sandy barreling north, expected to hit somewhere on the U.S. East Coast in the middle of next week. At the same time, a cold front is moving across the middle of the country, bringing cold temperatures and snow. The two will probably meet about the time the hurricane makes landfall and, together, could form an even bigger nor'easter (snor'eastercane, some have said). And that's bad news. "In all likelihood, it will be worse than the Perfect Storm," said William Komaromi, a hurricane expert at the University of Miami. |
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Nick Squires
The Telegraph, UK 2012-10-26 00:00:00
One person has died and buildings were damaged after a powerful, 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit southern Italy in the middle of the night on Friday. An 84-year-old man died of a heart attack when the quake struck the province of Cosenza in the southern region of Calabria, Italy.The quake struck at 3.15am (0115 GMT), when most people were asleep in bed. Many people spent the rest of the night outdoors, afraid to return to their homes."I got up, it was the middle of the night, and ran out into the street. Outside there were lots of people and there was rubble all over the ground," Vincenzo Alberti, who lives in Mormanno, told Corriere della Sera.A hospital in the small town of Mormanno was evacuated after cracks emerged and many homes were damaged. |
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Scott Sutherland
Yahoo! Canada News - Geekquinox 2012-10-25 00:00:00
This morning, U.S. forecasters are predicting a convergence of Hurricane Sandy, an early winter storm in the west and cold arctic blast from north which would make for some very messy and expensive weather over the Northeast US and Atlantic provinces for the first half of next week. "It'll be a rough couple days from Hatteras up to Cape Cod," said Jim Cisco, a forecaster with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "We don't have many modern precedents for what the models are suggesting." Forecasting the weather 4 or 5 days before it happens is difficult because so much can change in that time. However, it's also difficult to dismiss the results when every piece of guidance you use starts pointing towards the same thing, with even greater certainty, each time you update your forecast. That's what's happening right now. The computer models forecasters use for guidance in making their forecasts showed the first indications of the merger of these weather systems, and the results of each subsequent model have made it more and more likely. |
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BBC News
2012-10-24 12:04:00
A giant moth with a 1ft (30cm) wingspan has been found on a windowsill in Greater Manchester. The Atlas moth is the biggest moth in the world and is normally found thousands of miles away in South East Asia. When it landed at a house in Ramsbottom, it was so large the Blackmore family "thought it was a bat". The moth, which only lives for a week, has since died but 30 of its offspring are being reared at a butterfly farm in Bolton. How the moth arrived in Ramsbottom is a mystery although it's believed to have escaped from a private collection. Watch Video |
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US Geological Survey
2012-10-25 20:49:00
Event Time 2012-10-21 01:25:22 UTC+00:00 at epicenter Location 66.296°N 18.685°W depth=9.9km (6.2mi) Nearby Cities 18km (11mi) NNE of Siglufjordur, Iceland 73km (45mi) NNW of Akureyri, Iceland 283km (176mi) NNE of Reykjavik, Iceland 286km (178mi) NNE of Kopavogur, Iceland 291km (181mi) NNE of Hafnarfjordur, Iceland |
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Robert Robertsson
Icelandic authorities warned people in the north of the island on
Thursday to prepare for a possible big earthquake after the biggest
tremors in the area for 20 years. The north Atlantic island, where
almost 320,000 people live, is a hotspot of volcanic and seismic
activity as it straddles a fault in the earth's surface.Reuters 2012-10-25 20:46:00 The Civil Protection Department said in a statement that recent small quakes in an area under the sea about 20 km (12 miles) off the north of Iceland had prompted it to issue a warning to local people. It said such shocks, one of which was a magnitude 5.6, often led to stronger quakes. Warnings were issued when there were grounds to expect a natural or manmade event that could threaten health and human safety, it added. "People are anxious because they don't know what might happen," said Amundi Gunnarsson, chief of the fire brigade in Fjallabyggd, one of the small towns in the area, and a member of the Civil Protection Department. "At the same time, life goes on as usual. People are going to work and children are going to school, but everyone is on alert," he told Reuters by telephone. |
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Amber Stegall
A sharp tremor was recorded by USGS monitors just after 9 p.m. Wednesday
at the site of the giant Louisiana sinkhole in Assumption Parish. The
giant sinkhole appeared in August near the Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou
areas.The Assumption Parish Police Jury says the tremor was large enough
that the body wave phases could easily be identified. A body wave
travels through the interior of the earth.WAFB.com 2012-10-25 20:33:00
The preliminary location of the tremor was just SE of Oxy #3 cavern at a depth of 500m. There is no additional information specific to this seismic activity at this time. The sinkhole is now about four acres in size. Residents were forced from their homes on August third, two months after the bayous started bubbling. They are still evacuated from their homes. | |
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John Schwartz
New York Times 2012-10-25 19:19:00
Hurricane Sandy, which on Thursday was barreling through the Bahamas as a Category 2 storm, may be taking aim at the northeastern United States and could make landfall along the Atlantic coast early next week. If so, forecasters say, the storm could become, to use a technical term from meteorology, a whopper. "It really could be an extremely significant, historic storm," said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami, explaining that conditions are similar to those that created the famous "perfect storm" of 1991. Hurricane prediction is, of course, an iffy business, said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for the National Hurricane Center, who noted that the storm was still days from the East Coast and could weaken drastically or even shift course and race off into the Atlantic. The chain of events that would make Hurricane Sandy develop into a grave threat to the coast involves a storm system known as a midlatitude trough that is moving across the country from the west. If the systems meet up, as many computer models predict, the storm over land could draw the hurricane in. "Now you've got this giant storm complex with a lot of energy," Mr. Feltgen said. The combined systems could produce high winds, heavy rains and storm surges that would cause extensive damage. |
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Stephanie Pappas
LiveScience 2012-10-25 15:39:00
With Halloween approaching, it's natural to wonder just a little bit more than usual about things that go "bump" in the night. But what about things that go "bloop" in the deep sea? Poltergeists, witches and ghosts aren't the only source for spooky seasonal mystery. In fact, scientists monitoring the oceans have uncovered a handful of sounds that can't be explained - at least not with any certainty. With names like "The Bloop," "Train" and "Julia," the sounds have been captured by hydrophones, or underwater microphones, monitored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Here are the six most mysterious noises ever heard in the sea, and what might have made them. [Listen to the Six Spooky Sounds] 1. The Bloop The decidedly nonspooky nickname for this sound does little to dispel the mystery surrounding it. In 1997, NOAA hydrophones picked up one of the loudest sounds ever recorded off the southern coast of South America: the Bloop (which sounds like, well, a bloop), was recorded by two hydrophones nearly 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) apart. The Bloop mimics marine animal sounds in some ways, but its volume is too great to be made by any sea creatures known to science. If your imagination is running away from you, you're not alone: Plenty of listeners have jokingly linked the Bloop to Cthulhu, a fictional part-octopus monster created by sci-fi writer H.P. Lovecraft in 1928. Deep-sea monsters aside, NOAA holds the most likely explanation for The Bloop is that it was the sound of a large iceberg fracturing. These "icequakes" have been recorded in the Scotia Sea and sound very similar to the mystery 1997 Bloop. If a cracking iceberg were the source, according to NOAA, it would have likely been floating between the Bransfield Strait and the Ross Sea of Antarctica, or perhaps at Cape Adare in East Antarctica. |
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The Friday Flyer
2012-10-26 16:49:00
The 2012 Orionid meteor shower peaked early Sunday, October 21, with forecasters predicting up to 25 meteors an hour for patient stargazers. Canyon Lake photographer Dennis Bickers wasn't exactly trying to be a stargazer but he believes he got a good shot of a large meteor passing across the western sky just after sunset Sunday. Asked whether it could have been the setting sun shining on a jet contrail, Dennis says he would have known the difference - the meteor was traveling too fast to be a jet. The next major meteor shower to light up the night sky will be the annual Leonid meteor shower in mid-November. It will peak on November 17. To see or purchase Dennis Bickers' pictures of Canyon Lake, visit gobickers.com. |
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David Perlman
San Francisco Chronicle 2012-10-25 16:39:00
And now there are two. Two meteorites, that is, because the "rock" that fell on Lisa Webber's roof in Novato from last week's explosive fireball in the sky turns out to be a true meteorite after all. Peter Jenniskens, the meteor scientist at the Seti Institute in Mountain View, said he first dismissed the one that hit Webber's house because its surface looked merely like a weathered chunk of granite and its outside wasn't black like most meteorites. But he changed his mind, he said, because a chip from a second "rock" showed tiny specks of what looked like metal under his microscope - telltale signs of the violent collisions that typical meteors endure as they form in the asteroid belt and fall to Earth. Now, a Sacramento man has reported finding the second meteorite in the Novato area on Monday. Brien Cook, an amateur meteorite hunter, told The Chronicle he too had dismissed his "rock" at first. He said he stuck it in his pocket and threw it in his waste bucket at home. |
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TheNews, Poland
2012-10-25 19:56:00
The largest meteorite to have fallen in Poland has been discovered on the outskirts of the western city of Poznan. Professor Wojciech Stankowski, a retired lecturer at Poznan's University of Adam Mickiewicz told the PAP news agency: "At the beginning of this month, a meteorite of about 300 kg was found," he said. "It is by far the largest to have been found in this part of Europe up until now," he added. The marvel from outer space was found in the Morasko Meteorite Nature Reserve, which was established in 1976 at a site where meteorites were first discovered in 1914. The most recent discovery was made by Magdalena Skirzewska and Lukasz Smula, two geologists from the Silesian city of Opole. Until now, the largest meteorite discovered on Polish soil - also at Morasko Meteorite Nature Reserve - weighed 164 kg, located in 2006. The latest find is almost twice as heavy. Nevertheless, the world's largest known meteorite - the so-called Hoba of Namibia - weighs in at over 60 tonnes. |
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Rich Everton
I was outside walking my dog (Bonney Lake, Wa) Thursday evening
10-18-2012 when at approximatly 7:45 PM Pacific Time the cloud covered
night sky flashed so brightly that it blinded me breifly. Aproximatly 20
seconds later there was a large continuous boom as you will hear in the
video! The weather in the Seattle where I live was unsettled that night
but in my location the was no lightning or thunderstorm prior or after
the event. The loud roar was unlike any thunder I have ever heard. Here
is video of one of my security cameras capturing the event. (The time
showing on my security screen is actually 1:30 minutes slow)Youtube 2012-10-25 17:57:00
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Steve Milloy
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been sued in federal court
for conducting illegal experiments on human beings. A federal judge will
now determine whether the EPA has violated federal law and the most
sacrosanct moral standards of scientific research or whether the EPA has
been lying to Congress and the public about the dangers of air
pollution.JunkScience.com 2012-10-23 22:53:00 Based on thousands of pages of documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, since 2004 and continuing through the Obama administration, the EPA has intentionally exposed hundreds of human subjects to extraordinarily high levels of air pollutants such as diesel exhaust and fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5. The experiments occurred at an EPA facility located at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Many study subjects were health-impaired: suffering from asthma, metabolic syndrome, and old age (up to 75 years). Financially needy, they enrolled in these experiments for $12 per hour. Since 1997, the EPA has regulated PM2.5, a major component of diesel exhaust, on the basis that it kills people after long-term exposure. In 2004, the EPA determined that PM2.5 could also kill on a short-term basis - within hours or days of exposure. The EPA also determined that there is no safe level of exposure to PM2.5 - any inhalation can kill. The EPA says that health-impaired people and the elderly are most vulnerable. The EPA also cites "strong evidence" that PM2.5 and diesel exhaust cause cancer. |
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Wall Street Journal
2012-01-12 19:56:00
What you think is going on in your head may be caused in part by what's happening in your gut. A growing body of research shows the gut affects bodily functions far beyond digestion. Studies have shown intriguing links from the gut's health to bone formation, learning and memory and even conditions including Parkinson's disease. Recent research found disruptions to the stomach or intestinal bacteria can prompt depression and anxiety - at least in lab rats. Better understanding the communication between the gut and the brain could help reveal the causes of and treatments for a range of ailments, and provide diagnostic clues for doctors. | |
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Comment: Learn more about the amazing connection between the brain, heart and gut minds:
The Secret to Brain Health: It All Begins in Your Gut! 'Knowing it in your gut' is real": The state of your immune system and your gut bacteria influences your personality The Real Butterfly in Your Stomach: Scientists Explore the Possibility of a "Second Brain" in Our Gut |
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Anna Salleh
Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2012-10-25 20:06:00
Analysis of bacterial cells killed by manuka honey shows it has a unique mode of killing microbes, researchers report. The findings are reported in a recent issue of the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents by a team of Australian researchers. "Manuka honey differed from the profiles of other antibacterial agents, indicating a unique mode of action and its potential value as a novel antimicrobial agent," they say. Honey has traditionally been used as an antibacterial agent, says microbiologist Associate Professor Dee Carter from the University of Sydney. She says one reason for this is because it contains glucose oxidase that generates small amounts of hydrogen peroxidise in the presence of water, which is toxic to microorganisms. Honey that comes from the bees foraging on the New Zealand manuka plant (Leptospermum scoparium), however, can have very high levels of antibacterial activity, even if the hydrogen peroxide in it is broken down. |
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Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com 2012-04-12 19:04:00
Depression is a pervasive health issue today. According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one in 10 American adults report some form of depression.[i] Eleven percent of the U.S. population over the age of 12 is on antidepressant medication.[ii] However, mounting evidence shows the drug approach is not helping this trend. On the contrary, it may be fueling it... At best, beneficial results from antidepressants are comparable to placebos, and at worst, they can cause devastating side effects, including suicidal and homicidal tendencies, and deterioration into more serious mental illness. Meanwhile, research has shown there ARE effective treatments for depression. The problem is, they're not drugs, so there's no way to make a profit on them... And that may be why you don't normally hear about these strategies. I will list them at the end of this article, and by the time you've reviewed the many side effects of these drugs, which is the main topic of this article, you will hopefully be motivated to give those drug-free alternatives a try. |
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Dr. Georgianna Donadio
allthingshealing.com 2012-10-25 18:38:00
Most of us are aware that there are lots of dangerous materials like additives, dyes, pesticides and carcinogens in our foods. What many of us are not aware of is that in the containers that our foods come in, especially take out, there are chemicals in the materials that may be even more harmful than the additives, dyes and pesticides. By now you have probably heard of the dangers of the toxic chemical Bisphenol A (BPA). This chemical can be found in polycarbonate plastic food containers, bottles and takeout food containers. Numerous articles have been written on breast cancer and prostate cancer that result from exposure to the BPA contained in packaging and containers that carry food stuffs. | |
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Comment: Read the following articles for The Facts About Bisphenol A:
Scientists Believe BPA is Risky - it's Just a Matter of Agreeing on How Much
President's Cancer Panel Warns of Toxic Effects of BPA BPA Report Details Chemical's Hazards BPA Exposure Worse Than Previously Estimated Are You Exposing Yourself to Toxic BPA? Consumer Reports Studies BPA in the Food Supply |
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James Nye
Something very strange was spotted high above the skies of Pike County
last week leaving those who witnessed the UFO bewildered as to what it
could be. The mystery glowing object which has left people wondering
what is flying over their heads was watched by amateur astronomer Allen
Epling from his Virgie, Kentucky home for over two hours.Daily Mail 2012-10-26 12:01:00 Taking video and pictures of the unusual craft, Epling was just one of thousands who saw the cigar-shaped craft across three states and the part-time star-gazer estimated the UFO to be operating at over 100,000 feet - over twice the height a commercial jet flies.
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Sally Hind
Daily Record, UK 2012-10-23 00:01:00
Gary and Amanda Linney saw the strange figure run away from their Aberdeenshire cottage as they tried out a new camera. The stunned couple yesterday told how they captured a spooky green man on camera at their home. Gary and Amanda Linney said the strange figure was spotted running away from their cottage as they experimented with a new camera. The bizarre snaps emerged just days after another family claimed to have filmed a UFO floating above their house about 25 miles away. Former policeman Gary, 52, said there was no explanation for the figure. He said: "It looks like a little green man running. It just disperses into the surface of the road. "If you look closely, you can see a head. It's very surreal. I was a policeman and a pilot for 20 years and have never seen anything like this before." Hotel owners Gary and Amanda, 46, from Collieston, Aberdeenshire, tried to recreate the picture but have never seen the strange light since. But they said they weren't spooked by the images after experiencing a string of paranormal happenings at the Slains Estate house. |
