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Julie Lévesque
Global Research 2013-04-26 16:32:00
As with many "terrorism" related events since 9/11, the Boston bombing official narrative proves to be a web of lies as important facts are revealed. It turns out that the FBI has lied about its knowledge of the alleged suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, already being presented as guilty not only in the mainstream press but by the President himself. According to the suspects' mother, the FBI had been following them for years: |
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2013-04-26 17:09:00
Officers of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency operated as consultants to Anatoly Chubais, the Russian deputy prime minister who oversaw the privatization of the country's economy in the early 1990's, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. "In Chubais' entourage, it has now turned out, CIA officers worked as consultants," Putin said at a live Q&A session with the Russian public. Putin also said "intelligence officers" had been prosecuted in the United States for illegally "enriching" themselves "during the course of privatization in Russia." He gave no further details. Putin also said "many mistakes" had been made during the controversial privatization of Russia's post-Soviet economy, but praised Chubais and the other reformers for their "courage" in taking the measures they deemed necessary. |
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Jeffry John Aufderheide
VacTruth.com 2013-04-26 16:27:00
The Centers for Disease Control has been quietly rolling out a nationwide program called the Immunization Information Systems (IIS), registering your vaccine information into a database. [1] This effort has been run in parallel with state vaccine registry implementations. What is the intention of such programs? My colleague Leslie Manookian, writer and director of the movie The Greater Good, wrote in a recent article, the "CDC has openly stated that vaccine registries are a tool to identify areas of 'undervaccination' so that they can be 'addressed' and brought into 'compliance.'" [2] I would also add to Leslie's statement that since the government purchases a large bulk of the vaccines (for example, the Vaccines for Children program), it is in their financial interest to make sure vaccines are consumed regularly. If you exempt your child from being vaccinated, your refusal is also being tracked and put into the database. If you want to know why this is a big deal, read on. But first, what does tracking every vaccine you or your children have ever been injected with look like? Big Plans for You I want to make this very real for you. The government collects information on who vaccinates their children and who does not. They know how many children have had their vaccines. They also know how many children have opted out of being vaccinated. They have the data. The government has big plans and the most outrageous part about this entire scheme is you don't have a choice - your data is entered. In order to accomplish this task we have to answer 3 basic questions. 1. What data is being tracked? 2. Who has access to the tracked data? 3. What will be done with this data? Let's start with the first question of what is being tracked. |
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Brian Witte
Military academies grooming future officers for warfare in cyberspaceAssociated Press 2013-04-26 09:50:00
In this Feb. 20, 2013 photo, Martin Carlisle, standing, a computer science professor at the Air Force Academy and director of the school's Center for Cyberspace Research, instructs cadets in cyber warfare, at the U.S. Air Force Academy, in Colorado Springs, Colo. The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks that control everything from electrical power grids to the banking system. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colorado (AP) - The U.S. service academies are ramping up efforts to groom a new breed of cyberspace warriors to confront increasing threats to the nation's military and civilian computer networks that control everything from electrical power grids to the banking system. Students at the Army, Navy and Air Force academies are taking more courses and participating in elaborate cyberwarfare exercises as the military educates a generation of future commanders in the theory and practice of computer warfare. The academies have been training cadets in cyber for more than a decade. But the effort has taken on new urgency amid warnings that hostile nations or organizations might be capable of crippling attacks on critical networks. James Clapper, director of national intelligence, called cyberattack the top threat to national security when he presented the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment to Congress this month. "Threats are more diverse, interconnected, and viral than at any time in history," his report stated. "Destruction can be invisible, latent, and progressive." |
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Simon Black
SovereignMan 2013-04-24 20:22:00
When you've got a guy like Senator John McCain who says "The battlefield is the United States of America," it tells you that almost nothing is safe in the Land of the Free. Whatever remains of civil liberties is going to feel the full brunt of the state's boot heel. They're already regulating some of the most fundamental aspects of life, from how we are allowed to educate our children to what we can / cannot put in our bodies to the very nature of money. People are forced to hold their savings in insolvent banks backed by insolvent insurance funds backed by insolvent governments. And those insolvent governments have demonstrated that they are perfectly willing to directly confiscate accounts. Retirement funds have proven to be an easy, tempting target. A number of countries including Argentina, Ireland, and Hungary have appropriated private pensions. Even the US government temporarily dipped into federal employee pensions. Western governments are making every possible effort to take over the Internet. Despite every previous attempt (SOPA, PIPA, etc.) failing due to public outcry, they keep trying and trying (ACTA, CISPA, etc.). They're raising taxes, creating new ones (including Maryland's new 'rain tax'), imposing capital controls, racking up debt, and rapidly devaluing their currencies. It all reeks of desperation... and it's all so obvious. At least, for anyone paying attention. |
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Jonathon M. Seidl
The Blaze 2013-04-25 18:48:00
Freshman Congressman Tom Cotton (R-AR) delivered some thought-provoking comments on terrorism and the Obama administration on Wednesday during a speech on the House floor. "In barely four years," he said, "five jihadists have reached their targets in the United States under Barack Obama." But he wasn't done there. "In the over seven years after 9/11 under George W. Bush, how many terrorists reached their target in the United States?" he added. "Zero! We need to ask, 'Why is the Obama Administration failing in its mission to stop terrorism before it reaches its targets in the United States?'" |
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Jonathon M. Seidl
The Blaze 2013-04-25 18:38:00
Regular viewers of Fox News are used to seeing popular host Megyn Kelly on their televisions every afternoon, but on Thursday morning Kelly made a special appearance during the morning to break some surprising information: according to her sources, the FBI was "shocked" to see a magistrate "waltz into" the hospital room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and read him his Miranda rights. So why were they shocked? According to Kelly, the FBI was under the understanding that they would get much more time with Tsarnaev under the "public safety exemption" before he was read his rights. Adding to the shock: the sources told Kelly agents were getting crucial information after only 16 hours of questioning and were making valuable progress. No matter. "It's really unbelievable," Kelly said. "The FBI had no idea they were sending over the judge, the prosecutor, the federal public defender; and the FBI said they were only 16 hours into what they understood would be a 48 hour period of questioning ... . They said they were in the process of getting valuable information ... and as soon as that magistrate judge went in there and gave him his rights with his lawyer present, he stopped talking. They said they would never have stopped interrogating him prior to the 48 hours unless they were forced to." |
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Billy Hallowell
The Blaze 2013-04-25 18:29:00
As officials release more information about the Boston bombings - and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture, in particular - key details previously advanced by authorities are changing. Among them, some police sources are now claiming that the 19-year-old suspect was not armed while hiding in a boat last Friday. But that's only a sliver of the new information that seems to contradict previous reports about the chaotic manhunt. The New York Times published an article on Thursday morning, highlighting some of these issues and corrections. To begin, not only did Dzhokar reportedly not have a gun in the boat, but it appears that police may have only found one other weapon that is traceable back to his brother, Tamerlan. This means that the brothers didn't necessarily have an arsenal, as was previously assumed. Plus, there's the issue of how the brothers first came to the attention of officers - one that also deserves a second look. It was the murder of Officer Sean A. Collier that apparently set the chaotic evening's event's in motion last Thursday. According to authorities, the Tsarnaev brothers were purportedly trying to get Collier's gun when they allegedly killed him. Evidence at the scene apparently corroborates this theory, as the two were, according to sources, unable to get the weapon out of its holster. |
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Julie Pace and Bradley Klapper
Huffington Post 2013-04-25 18:19:00
The White House declared Thursday that U.S. intelligence indicates Syrian President Bashar Assad has twice used deadly chemical weapons in his country's fierce civil war, a provocative action that would cross President Barack Obama's "red line" for a significant military response. But the administration said the revelation won't immediately change its stance on intervening. The information, which has been known to the administration and some members of Congress for weeks, isn't solid enough to warrant quick U.S. involvement in the 2-year-old conflict, the White House said. Officials said the assessments were made with "varying degrees of confidence" given the difficulty of information gathering in Syria, though there appeared to be little question within the intelligence community. As recently as Tuesday, when an Israeli general added to the growing chorus that Assad had used chemical weapons, White House spokesman Jay Carney said the administration was continuing to monitor and investigate but had "not come to the conclusion that there has been that use." | |
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Comment: Double Standards. What about the chemical
weapons used by the US and Israel? What about the illegal bombs used by
Israel on Lebanon?
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2013-04-26 15:37:00
Association for Asian American Studies passed vote last week during its annual conference; Ex-AAAS president Rajini Srikanth said boycott applies only to institutions, not individual. The Association for Asian American Studies voted in favor of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The academic nonprofit, known by the acronym AAAS, passed the vote last week during its annual conference in Seattle, according to Inside Higher Ed. The resolution calling for a boycott passed unanimously and accused Israeli universities of being complicit in violations of international law by the Israeli government. In addition to other claims, the resolution also accused the universities of discriminating against Palestinian students and academics. Former AAAS president Rajini Srikanth said the boycott applied only to Israeli institutions, not individuals. |
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Gabriel Roxas & Siemny Chhuon
News10.net 2013-04-25 15:23:00
A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor. The young couple thought their problems were behind them after their son had a scare at the hospital, but once they got home their problems got even worse. |
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Connexionfrance.com
2013-04-26 14:40:00
Unemployment in France has hit a new record of 3.224 million - beating the previous high set in 1997. The number of jobseekers grew by 36,900 in March, the 23rd consecutive month of growing unemployment, and the number of long-term unemployed who have been out of work for more than a year also hit a record high of 1.89 million. The previous unemployment record in France was 3.195 million in January 1997. |
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BBC
2013-04-26 14:30:00
A central London resident has released video footage of the moment when a pavement exploded in central London, narrowly missing a passer by. The blast, which left a crater in the street, occurred at about 10:25 BST on Thursday and is thought to have been caused by a faulty power cable. Eyewitness Charlie Brook filmed the second explosion from her window. UK Power Networks said: "Safety is our top priority and the cause of this incident is being investigated." |
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Natalie Evans
Mirror 2013-04-26 12:15:00
There were 41 people believed to be inside the building at the time - 36 patients, three nurses and two doctors - and only three managed to escape. A fire has torn through a psychiatric hospital in Russia, killing 38 people, many of them in their beds. The blaze broke out at the single-storey hospital building in the village of Ramensky, 70 miles north of Moscow, at around 2am local time this morning. There were 41 people believed to be inside the building at the time - 36 patients, three nurses and two doctors. Only three people - believed to be a nurse and two patients - escaped the fire, prompting speculation the patients were heavily sedated or strapped down and unable to escape. At least 29 people were burned alive, said Irina Gumennaya, a spokeswoman for the federal Investigative Committee. The Emergencies Ministry said the patients at the hospital ranged in age from 20 to 76.
Gumennaya told Russian news agencies that most of the people died in their beds. |
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Herald-Tribune
2013-04-24 18:25:00
Sarasota County emergency managers, local fire, police and EMS personnel and Sarasota Memorial Hospital will participate in a disaster drill Friday. The training drill will simulate an accidental explosion at the hospital in a hyperbaric chamber on the fourth floor of the Waldemere Tower. The exercise will include actors in make-up and Hollywood-like special effects, testing Sarasota County's disaster response, evacuation procedures and triage and emergency care of multiple mock victims. |
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Douglas Main
OurAmazingPlanet 2013-04-25 15:27:00
Sad news from Mozambique: Illegal poachers have killed all the rhinos in Limpopo National Park, a large wildlife reserve in the southeast African country, according to news reports. Park director António Abacar was quoted as saying this week that no rhinos had been seen since January, "which means that the ones that lived in the park are probably dead," according to the Portugal News. With all the rhinos gone, poachers are now turning to elephants for their tusks. The horns and tusks are valued for their supposed medicinal value, despite the fact that horns are made of the same basic material as fingernails, with no healing properties. The park spans 4,247 square miles (11,000 square kilometers), an area more than twice the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Meanwhile, Scientific American reports that for the first time in 33 years, a hunter has been allowed to import a trophy into the United States from a black rhino he shot in Namibia, outraging conservationists. |
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The Australian
2013-04-27 16:18:00
Central Floridians are no strangers to violent thunderstorms, living in the lightning capital of the country. But now scientists have discovered an exotic and dynamic form of energy lurking in the thunderclouds above: dark lightning. Scientists at the Florida Institute of Technology on the Space Coast are traveling the world explaining the mysterious bursts of energy in the atmosphere during lightning storms that emit little visible light. According to scientist Joseph Dwyer and his colleagues, space telescopes - looking for high-energy bursts from solar flares, black holes and exploding stars - detected strange, bright bursts but had no idea where they originated. The phenomenon occurs high in the atmosphere at nearly the same altitude as commercial airline flights. The radiation dark lightning produces is about 100 times more potent than an X-ray. |
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Clara Moskowitz
LiveScience 2013-04-26 10:07:00
New York - Is time real, or the ultimate illusion? Most physicists would say the latter, but Lee Smolin challenges this orthodoxy in his new book, Time Reborn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 2013), which he discussed here Wednesday (April 24) at the Rubin Museum of Art. In a conversation with Duke University neuroscientist Warren Meck, theoretical physicist Smolin, who's based at Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, argued for the controversial idea that time is real. "Time is paramount," he said, "and the experience we all have of reality being in the present moment is not an illusion, but the deepest clue we have to the fundamental nature of reality." Smolin said he hadn't come to this concept lightly. He started out thinking, as most physicists do, that time is subjective and illusory. According to Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, time is just another dimension in space, traversable in either direction, and our human perception of moments passing steadily and sequentially is all in our heads. Over time, though, Smolin became convinced not only that time was real, but that this notion could be the key to understanding the laws of nature. "If laws are outside of time, then they're inexplicable," he said. "If law just simply is, there's no explanation. If we want to understand law ... then law must evolve, law must change, law must be subject to time. Law then emerges from time and is subject to time rather than the reverse." |
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Reid Tulley
Local wildlife officials have determined an estimated one to two hundred
dead robins and other similar bird species that have been found in the
area died of starvation due to the recent snowstorms.Middle Park Times 2013-04-26 12:13:00 It is unclear whether the birds were resident birds of the area or early migrators that were traveling through the area and were caught in the recent snowstorms. "It's not uncommon in robin populations to have a wide up and down, it's actually rather typical," said District Wildlife Manager Mike Crosby. "Nature always persists." The robin population should have no problem recovering from the incident, he said. It is believed the recent snowfall covered the bird's food source and caused the birds to starve. Robins survive mostly on insects, Crosby said. And due to the snow they were not able to get to the ground to retrieve food to keep up with their energy demands and subsequently starved to death. |
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Tyler Treadway
VERO BEACH - Whatever is killing manatees and pelicans northern Indian River Lagoon remains unknown, but apparently wildlife along the Treasure Coast won't become victims.Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers 2013-04-25 09:18:00 Since July and 2012, a total of 220 manatees have died in the lagoon in Brevard County, about 100 of them under mysterious circumstances; and since February, between 250 and 300 dead pelicans have been found in the same area. Thomas R. "Tom" Reinert, a research administrator with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, told members of the Indian River Lagoon National Estuary Program Advisory Board on Wednesday that researchers have been stumped in their efforts to find the cause - or causes.
In March alone, Reinert said, 56 sea cows died from unknown causes in Brevard County, where the annual manatee death count from all causes averages 111. Reinert said dead manatees have been reported "here and there" along the Treasure Coast, but the numbers are within the usual mortality rate. According to the commission's website, six manatees have died in Indian River County, four in St. Lucie County and three in Martin County from Jan. 1 to April 19. Statewide, 566 manatees have died over the same period. A record 766 manatees died in Florida in 2010. "We're on a trajectory to eclipse that," Reinert said. |
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US Geological Survey
2013-04-26 03:49:00
Event Time 2013-04-26 06:53:28 UTC 2013-04-25 18:53:28 UTC-12:00 at epicenter Location 28.736°S 178.916°W depth=349.0km (216.9mi) Nearby Cities 115km (71mi) WNW of Raoul Island, New Zealand 921km (572mi) SSW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga 1003km (623mi) NE of Whangarei, New Zealand 1072km (666mi) NE of North Shore, New Zealand 1077km (669mi) NE of Auckland, New Zealand Technical Details |
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Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com 2013-04-25 16:12:00
A shocking new study finds that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, "...may be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment," capable of contributing to a wide range of fatal human diseases. A new report published in the journal Entropy links the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide known as glyphosate with a wide range of fatal diseases.[i] Glyphosate is the world's most popular herbicide and is designed to kill all but genetically modified "Roundup Ready" plants, such as GM corn, soy, beet, cottonseed and canola. Over 180 million pounds of the chemical are now applied to US soils each year,[ii] and while agrichemical manufacturers and government regulators have considered it 'relatively safe,' an expanding body of biomedical research indicates that it may cause over 30 distinct adverse health effects in exposed populations at far lower concentrations than used in agricultural applications. | |
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Comment: Read the following articles to learn more
about the negative environmental and human health effects of Glyphosate
the chemical herbicide in RoundUp:
Monsanto's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health US: Glyphosate Pollutes Air, Rain and Rivers Is GMO Farming Poisoning The World's Drinking Water? Un-Earthed: Is Monsanto's Glyphosate Destroying The Soil? It takes approximately 1,000 years for the earth to produce (on its own) a 2.5 inch thick layer of fertile soil. And yet, it may take only a single application of Roundup to irreversibly alter the microbial populations within the soil -- much in the same way that a single round of antibiotics may seriously and irreversibly alter your gut flora for the rest of your life.Monsanto's Roundup is Causing DNA Damage Death by Multiple Poisoning, Glyphosate and Roundup Roundup Herbicide Linked To Parkinson's-Related Brain Damage Monsanto's Infertility-Linked Roundup Found in All Urine Samples Tested Research: Roundup Diluted by 450-Fold is Still Toxic to DNA Roundup Birth Defects: Regulators Knew World's Best-Selling Herbicide Causes Problems, New Report Finds |
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Susan Scutti
Medical Daily 2013-04-26 10:40:00
Americans are increasingly skipping needed health care because they can't afford it, according to the Commonwealth Fund 2012 Biennial Health Insurance Survey. Living Without Health Insurance In 2012, 80 million people reported not seeing a doctor when sick or not filling a prescription because of cost. In 2003, 63 million people similarly reported skipping needed care due to cost. Accounting for the growth in population during those years, the percentages are 25.5 percent in 2012 versus 21.7 percent in 2003 - a rise of almost four percent. The survey also found nearly half of all working-age U.S. adults - eighty-four million people - went without health insurance for a time last year or had out-of-pocket costs that were so high relative to their income they were considered underinsured. On the other hand, the proportion of young adults ages 19-25 who were uninsured during the year fell from 48 percent to 41 percent between 2010 and 2012, reversing a nearly decade-long trend of rising uninsured rates in that age group. The authors of the survey, "Insuring the Future: Current Trends in Health Coverage and the Effects of Implementing the Affordable Care Act," believe this reversal is likely due to a provision in the 2010 Affordable Care Act allowing young adults to stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26. The percentage of Americans who were uninsured, underinsured, or had gaps in their health coverage grew steadily between 2003 and 2010; however, between 2010 and 2012, the numbers specific to underinsured adults leveled off, according to the survey. |
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Jo Willey
FASTING twice a week could be the key to a longer life by slashing the risk of a host of killer diseases.
The Daily Express, UK 2013-04-26 11:49:00
Research shows dramatically cutting the amount of calories you eat for two days can keep obesity, heart disease and diabetes at bay. The revolutionary weight-loss plan restricts calorie intake for 48 hours, like the Daily Express exclusive 48 Hour Diet by top nutritionist Amanda Hamilton, published last week. She shared her easy to follow plan which promises to not just shift the pounds but improve general health and mental wellbeing. Researchers have backed her methods of intermittent fasting and say it is as effective as weight loss surgery, without the cost or risk. The scientific review suggests fasting diets may help those with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. A review published in the British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease by a team led by James Brown from Aston University in the West Midlands highlights evidence from clinical trials which shows fasting can limit inflammation, improve levels of sugars and fats in your circulation and cut blood pressure. By fasting, the body is more efficient in selecting which fuel to burn, improving metabolism. The plan is to restrict calories on alternative days or on two specific days each week which are classed as "fasting days". On these, women usually aim to consume less than 500 calories and men less than 600. This type of intermittent fasting has been shown in trials to be at least as effective as counting calories every day to lose weight. |
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Sindya N. Bhanoo
The New York Times 2013-04-22 08:52:00
New mothers quickly learn that babies quiet down when carried and rocked. Now researchers say that this calming response is actually a coordinated set of reactions, involving the nervous, motor and cardiac systems. Dr. Kumi O. Kuroda, a neurobiologist at the Riken Brain Science Institute in Japan, led a team that used electrocardiogram measurements to monitor the heart rates of babies and mice after they were picked up and carried. Their heart rates slowed almost immediately. "It's very difficult for adults to relax so quickly," said Dr. Kuroda, whose study appears in the journal Current Biology. "I think it's specific to infant physiology." In the case of the mouse pups, it took only one second for the heart rate to drop. In human babies, it took about three seconds. |
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