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Timothy C. Trepanier
Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me...Sott.net 2013-04-20 13:48:00 - some guy, some place, some time long ago
Don't bother reading this essay, it won't do any good. I mean it, stop reading now, there is no point, it's hopeless. There is nothing worth saying anymore. All day yesterday the talking heads on the TV informed me that the entire city of Boston is "on lockdown" as enforcement officials search door to door for the one remaining "suspect" in the Marathon Bombings. And like the obedient, traumatized robots they are, the good citizens of Boston just rolled over and complied. Grateful for the protection of their black-combat-gear-laden overlords, they accepted being harassed and corralled like sheep in their own homes. Filled with the adrenaline of being directly involved in the center of this clearly manufactured crisis, they waited, trembling inside their bedrooms, not even dimly aware of how they were manipulated and played. Seriously, how is it possible that people still buy this crap? Ever wonder why scores of people numbly and willingly lined up for the gas chambers in World War II, without a shred of resistance, without even trying to fight back? This is why. This is what we've become. A nation of slaves. Blind, deaf, dumb and paralyzed with fear. | |
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Niall Bradley
Sott.net 2013-04-19 16:35:00
Today is April 19th. Today is the 20th anniversary of the dreadful end of the Waco Siege and Massacre, when Janet Reno and Bill Clinton cleared Federal agents to set fire to the Branch Davidians' compound in Waco, Texas, killing all 76 men, women and children inside. Today is also the 18th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in downtown Oklahoma City was blown up, killing 168 people. The blast was so powerful that 324 buildings within a sixteen-block radius were destroyed or damaged, 86 cars were burned, and glass shattered in 258 nearby buildings. Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for his role in the attack, although how a 'truck bomb loaded with fertilizer' caused so much damage remains a mystery. We were told he did it to avenge the Waco massacre and oppose the Federal Government's 'gun control measures'. The Oklahoma City Bombing went down in history as a case of 'domestic terrorism' by wannabe revolutionaries, but everyone ought to know by now that that was a 'Noble' Lie. Four days ago on April 15th 2013, Tax Day in the U.S., someone set off two shrapnel bombs at the Boston Marathon. The resulting carnage is identical to that seen in Baghdad day in, day out for 10 years. The Boston Tea Party was a key turning point in the growth of the American revolutionary movement. The annual Marathon is always held on the third Monday in April - Patriots' Day - a public holiday in Northeastern U.S. states to commemorate the opening battles of the American Revolutionary War - the Battles of Lexington and Concord - on April 19th, 1775. | |
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Jill Colvin
Politicer 2013-04-22 12:24:00
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the country's interpretation of the Constitution will "have to change" to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks. "The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry," Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. "But we live in a complex word where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change." Mr. Bloomberg, who has come under fire for the N.Y.P.D.'s monitoring of Muslim communities and other aggressive tactics, said the rest of the country needs to learn from the attacks. "Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11," he said. "We have to understand that in the world going forward, we're going to have more cameras and that kind of stuff. That's good in some sense, but it's different from what we are used to," he said. | |
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Kim Sengupta
The Independent 2013-04-21 16:38:00
Mass protest prompted by site authorites' Koran search - seen by inmates as 'religious desecration' Over half of all detainees at the US-run Guantanamo Bay military prison are now taking part in a hunger strike, with many being force-fed, a US military spokesman confirmed today. The number of prisoners on hunger strike has risen to 84, an increase of 32 since last Wednesday, with 16 now receiving "enteral feedings," a process involving being force-fed via tubes. | |
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Steven Chase
The Globe and Mail 2013-04-22 16:17:00
The Harper government is using the Boston Marathon bombing to expedite the passage of a relatively slow-moving bill that would restrict civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. Some of the measures in S-7, the Combating Terrorism Act, have previously been law but expired because they were so-called sun-set provisions introduced in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The Conservative have cleared time in their legislative agenda Monday and Tuesday to conduct third-reading debate on S-7, legislation that would authorize police to pre-emptively detain Canadians and hold them for up to three days without charging them. The bill would also allow authorities to imprison a Canadian for up to 12 months if they refuse to answer questions posed by a judge in what are called investigative hearings. | |
Comment: As we have witnessed in the USA with the Patriot act after 9/11, here it is the Canadian government exploiting recent events to continue diminishing civil liberties.
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Josh Gerstein
Politico 2013-04-21 16:13:00
With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev taken alive, the focus now turns to how the Obama administration is going to seek to bring the Boston Marathon bombing suspect to justice. Lawyers have already made one potentially critical decision: He hasn't been read his Miranda rights, at least for now. This means that FBI investigators may have a shot at trying to question him about other potential plots he may be aware of and whether anyone other than his deceased brother was involved in last Monday's bombing or Thursday night's crime spree. But if Tsarnaev's injuries leave him incapacitated for a protracted period of time, the Miranda issue may be of less significance. As soon as he's coherent, he's likely to go before a judge or magistrate, even in the hospital. The judicial officer will formally advise Tsarnaev of the preliminary charges used to detain him and tell of his right to an attorney, even if investigators haven't done that by then. On Sunday, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said Tsarnaev was still in stable but serious condition and has not been questioned yet. "He's in no condition to be interrogated at this point in time," Davis said on "Fox News Sunday." "He's progressing, though, and we're monitoring the situation carefully." One tricky issue now is how prosecutors and the FBI will balance the duty to get Tsarnaev before a judge promptly with their desire to do the initial public-safety interview. Meanwhile, a host of other questions are already bubbling up, from whether he'll be tried in civilian or military court to whether he'll face the death penalty for crimes that include killing three people in the explosions and a police officer on the MIT campus. | |
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Noah Barkin
Reuters 2013-04-22 16:12:00
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that euro zone members must be prepared to cede control over certain policy domains to European institutions if the bloc is truly to overcome its debt crisis and win back foreign investors. Speaking at an event hosted by Deutsche Bank in Berlin alongside Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Merkel also defended her approach to the crisis against critics who argue she has put too much emphasis on austerity, saying Europe must find a way to deliver both growth and solid finances. The comments came two months before European leaders are due to gather in Brussels to discuss moving towards a so-called "fiscal union". Expectations are low, in part because an easing of the crisis has reduced pressure on leaders to produce a big leap forward in integration, but also due to differences between Germany and its partners, notably France, over the next steps. | |
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Josh Gerstein and Darren Samuelson
Politico 2013-04-20 15:28:00
The unprecedented manhunt in Boston that concluded successfully Friday night earned law enforcement authorities the gratitude of the nation. But as relief replaces fear, the debate about what this episode means for the future is already beginning. And one of the most unsettling questions is whether the violence-related lockdown of a major U.S. city - an extraordinary moment in American history - sets a life-altering precedent. There are already worries that the effort to protect the people of Boston contained an element of overreaction. Local authorities told the city and nearby suburbs to "shelter in place" throughout the day and into the evening. They closed businesses, shuttered government buildings and suspended all public transportation in the metro area. That decision concerned some political leaders and policy experts. | |
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Chris Hedges
Truthdig 2013-04-21 14:14:00
Lynne Stewart, in the vindictive and hysterical world of the war on terror, is one of its martyrs. A 73-year-old lawyer who spent her life defending the poor, the marginalized and the despised, including blind cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, she fell afoul of the state apparatus because she dared to demand justice rather than acquiesce to state sponsored witch hunts. And now, with stage 4 cancer that has metastasized, spreading to her lymph nodes, shoulder, bones and lungs, creating a grave threat to her life, she sits in a prison cell at the Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas, where she is serving a 10-year sentence. Stewart's family is pleading with the state for "compassionate release" and numerous international human rights campaigners, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, have signed a petition calling for her to be freed on medical grounds. It is not only a crime in the U.S. to be poor, to be a Muslim, to openly condemn the crimes committed in our name in the Muslim world, but to defend those who do. And the near total collapse of our judicial system, wrecked in the name of national security and "the war on terror," is encapsulated in the saga of this courageous attorney - now disbarred because of her conviction. | |
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Bill Ottman
Its been a US tactic for yearsminds 2013-04-21 00:00:00
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Michael Synder
The End of American Dream 2013-04-21 18:45:00
Will we ever learn the full truth about the Boston Marathon bombing? Personally, I have been looking into this attack for days, and I just keep coming up with more questions than answers. At this point, I honestly have no idea what really happened. Why was a bomb drill being held on the day of the attack? Why have authorities denied that a bomb drill was taking place? Were Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev acting alone? What was the nature of their previous contacts with the FBI and other federal agencies? Why did the FBI at first deny that they had been in contact with the Tsarnaev brothers previously? Why was the investigation of a mysterious Saudi national with familial links to al-Qaeda suddenly dropped shortly after the Saudi ambassador held an unscheduled meeting with Barack Obama? Why did Michelle Obama subsequently visit that mysterious Saudi national in the hospital? If you are looking for answers to these questions, I am afraid that I don't have them at this point. But what alarms me is that the mainstream media seems to be afraid to ask any of the hard questions that they should be asking. They just seem to swallow whatever the authorities tell them hook, line and sinker without following up on any of the things in this case that simply do not seem to make sense. So what kinds of questions should they be asking? The following are 17 unanswered questions about the Boston Marathon bombing that the media appears to be afraid to ask... | |
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RT
2013-04-19 00:00:00
The US House of Representatives has passed the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act (CISPA). Lawmakers in the House voted 288-to-127 Thursday afternoon to accept the bill. Next it will move to the Senate and could then end up on the desk of US President Barack Obama for him to potentially sign the bill into law. Earlier this week, though, senior White House advisers said they would recommend the president veto the bill. Should CISPA earn the president's autograph, private businesses will be encouraged to voluntarily share cyberthreat information with the US government. The authors of the bill say this is an effort to better combat the reportedly increasing attempts to harm America's critical computer networks and pilfer the systems of private companies for intellectual property and other sensitive trade secrets. One of the bill's creators, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland), said during a round of debate on Wednesday that $400 billion worth of American trade secrets are being stolen by US companies every year. Passing CISPA, he said, would be a common sense solution to a threat that's growing at an alarming rate. | |
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Jason Howerton
The Blaze 2013-04-17 11:50:00
Paul Kevin Curtis, 45, of Tupelo, Miss., has been arrested in connection with ricin letters that were sent to both Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and President Barack Obama," The New York Times reports. Initial reports listed the suspect as "Kenneth Curtis," however, the Timesupdated its report with the corrected name. The letters, which were intercepted by sorting facilities before they reached their intended targets, were signed: "I am KC and I approve this message." "We have an investigation that is going on that has got local and federal authorities working together," said Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson. A few hours before federal officials announced the arrest, TheBlaze was contacted by bloggers at Lady Liberty 1885 who had noticed some key similarities between a "Kevin Curtis" from Tupelo, Miss. and the person suspected of sending the ricin letters. Among several other similarities, Kevin Curtis used the phrase "This is KC and I approve this message" in a previous Facebook post - the same exact phrase included in the ricin-laced letters. Additionally, the person who sent the ricin letters used this particular quote from Dr. John Raymond Baker to make his point: "To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance." Kevin Curtis uses the same quote in the "About" section of his Facebook page. | |
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Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner 2013-04-18 11:21:00
The head of the National Rifle Association mocked President Obama's Rose Garden "tantrum" after losing the gun control fight in the Senate, charging Thursday that Obama suffered the worst defeat of his presidency because "he bit off more than he could chew." David Keene told Secrets that the president and his team misplayed their hand because they don't have a sense of the public's attitude toward gun control. "They just can't gauge the public reaction to what they do because they don't have any sense that the public has feelings different than they do," said Keene. "He thought and his folks thought that Newtown changed everything. Newtown was a tragedy but that doesn't change people's basic values and feelings," added the NRA president. "What he learned is that he bit off a lot more than he can chew and that you can't just talk your way to a victory. You have to have something that makes some sense and he what he was proposing just didn't make much sense."
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PressTV
2013-04-18 11:06:00
North Korea has called on the United States and South Korea to immediately halt their military drills while demanding the withdrawal of UN sanctions as conditions for dialogue to diffuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula. On Thursday, North Korea's National Defense Commission said sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council against Pyongyang must be lifted, Washington and Seoul must stop provocations, fully apologize for their aggressions, and stop ongoing nuclear war exercises. "Fabrications of truth like blaming the North [Korea] for the sinking of a South Korean warship in 2010 and recent Internet hacking of financial institutions and media has to be discontinued," the Commission's policy department said in a statement. | |
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Tony Cartalucci
PressTV 2013-04-18 10:52:00
Massive US arms/aid deliveries prop up Al Qaeda in Syria, while US troops stage in Jordan to defend terrorists they spent last decade fighting. CNN reports that some 200 US troops are staging along Syria's border, this as reports reveal huge amounts of US-provided flour smuggled into Syria have formed the foundation of Al Qaeda's public relations strategy. Together with huge amounts of US-provided weapons, the aid is fueling Al Qaeda's continued operations and atrocities inside Syria. The addition of US troops along Syria's border appears to a response to recent and significant gains made by the Syrian government in stamping out terrorist operations nationwide. Syria's "rebels" are same terrorists US fought for last 10 years As reported in October 2012, the networks used to flood Iraq with weapons and Al Qaeda militants during the US occupation, had been positively identified by the extensive academic efforts of the US Army's own West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC). Two reports were published between 2007 and 2008 revealing a global network of Al Qaeda affiliated terror organizations, and how they mobilized to send a large influx of foreign fighters into Iraq. | |
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Tony Cartalucci
PressTV 2013-04-19 10:38:00
After a 10 year war and occupation in Iraq, the death of over a million people including thousands of US soldiers, all based on patently false claims of the nation possessing "weapons of mass destruction," (WMDs), it is outrageous hypocrisy to see the West arming, funding, and politically backing terrorists in Syria who in fact both possess, and are now using such weapons against the Syrian people. At least 25 are reported dead after a chemical weapons attack targeting Syrian soldiers was carried out by NATO-backed terrorists in the northern city of Aleppo. Aleppo is located near the Syrian-Turkish border. Had Libya's looted stockpiles of chemical weapons been shipped to Syria, they would have passed through Turkey along with weapons sent from Libya by the US and thousands of Libyan terrorists who are admittedly operating inside Syria, and would most likely be used to target cities like Aleppo. Worse yet, any chemical weapons imported into the country would implicate NATO either directly or through gross negligence, as the weapons would have passed through NATO-member Turkey, past US CIA agents admittedly operating along the border and alongside Western-backed terrorists inside Syria. | |
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Ellen Huet
SF Gate 2013-04-21 16:30:00
Cyberbullying among teens has shot up in frequency in recent years, from affecting just 6 percent of kids in 2000 to 85 percent today, polls show. Among those in the 85 percent is Audrie Pott, a 15-year-old girl from Saratoga who hanged herself in September after a cell phone picture of her, unconscious after an alleged sexual assault, was circulated around her high school via texts and in person. Three 16-year-old boys were arrested last week in connection with her death. Cell phones, in teens' hands, make the kids more likely to bully others electronically, experts say. Helping drive this phenomenon is a sense of callousness from communicating electronically and the growth of a documentation mentality, detailed here. | |
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CBS Detroit
2013-04-18 11:29:00
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan says Detroit police are removing homeless people from the popular Greektown entertainment district downtown and dropping them off miles away - sometimes outside the city. Following a year-long investigation, the ACLU filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department and sent a letter to Detroit police demanding an end to what they call a "disturbing practice." "DPD's practice of essentially kidnapping homeless people and abandoning them miles away from the neighborhoods they know - with no means for a safe return - is inhumane, callous and illegal," said Sarah Mehta, ACLU of Michigan staff attorney. "The city's desire to hide painful reminders of our economic struggles cannot justify discriminating against the poor, banishing them from their city, and endangering their lives. A person who has lost his home has not lost his right to be treated with dignity." The organization says it started receiving complaints last year and that the homeless are told they are not welcome in Greektown, which is popular with visitors to Detroit. The people are then forced in to vans, driven away and then deserted.
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The final prosecution witness against Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor on trial for the capital murder of seven babies and one adult patient, was Kareema Cross, a former employee of Gosnell's. Thursday Cross testified that she saw ten babies breathe before Gosnell killed them. The AP reports that Cross "saw the babies' chests move but was told by Gosnell they were not breathing." She also claims to have seen three of the babies move their limbs and another let out a "soft whine," before they were aborted alive. | |
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Sophie Schillaci and Kimberly Nordyke
The Hollywood Reporter 2013-04-18 11:10:00
A man claiming to have an explosive in his lunch box drew police response near the Chinese Theatre on Thursday afternoon. A stretch of Hollywood Boulevard is shut down after a man notified the Los Angeles Police Department that he had brought a lunch box containing a bomb inside the Hooters restaurant located across from the TCL Chinese Theatre. The stretch of road between Orange and Highland remains closed at this time as police evaluate the situation. | |
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J.G. Vibes
IntelliHub 2013-04-18 10:19:00
In this article I am going to list the 5 strategies for achieving freedom that I am most supportive of right now, and offer a brief description of how they work and why I believe they are effective approaches to meeting this goal. One of the main obstacles that tie the general population to the status quo is that many people are looking for a step by step process for how we can peacefully neutralize the power structure and achieve peace on this planet. This step by step process is not a possibility, because human actions and the advancement of technology are both totally unpredictable. Sadly, it seems that people are waiting for a list of instructions that could never exist. However, there is definitely hope, because although we cannot precisely chart the course to freedom, we can develop workable solutions that will lead us in the right direction and help us achieve greater levels of peace in our own lives. In this article I am going to list the 5 strategies that I am most supportive of right now, and offer a brief description of how they work and why I believe they are effective approaches to meeting this goal. | |
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RT.com
2013-04-20 02:57:00
Three people, including a child, died and as many as seven others have been injured in a fire and explosion in an apartment building in Moscow. The blast was so strong that a balcony was dislodged and several cars nearby damaged. The three dead in a fire which followed the explosion in one of Moscow's apartment blocks are a man, a woman and a little girl. "17 people sought medical help, including four children. Seven were hospitalized with two children among them," according to Russia's Emergencies' Ministry official, cited by ITAR-TASS. One of the injured is a 14-year old teenager who sustained burns of up to 60 per cent of his body according to reports from the capital's Medvedkovo neighborhood in the north. Another of the injured is reported to have 100 per cent of burns to the body. | |
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Nathan Fuller, Bradley Manning Support Network
truthout 2013-04-20 10:32:00
Spc. William Millay, a 25-year-old military policeman, was sentenced this week to 19 years in jail; a sentence reduced to 16 years after a plea deal, minus time served, for attempting to commit espionage and for illegally communicating "unclassified national defense information that could be used to the advantage of a foreign nation," according to an Army press release. The prosecution of Spc. Millay is strikingly lenient relative to that of Pfc. Bradley Manning, 25-year-old intelligence analyst on trial for passing documents to WikiLeaks. Manning sought to expose documents revealing crimes, abuse, and corruption to the American people, through WikiLeaks, and he faces a potential life sentence. The government charges him with Espionage and with 'Aiding the Enemy.' Millay "admitted to trying to pass on classified information to someone he believed was a Russian agent," according to Reuters' report. An FBI agent said, "Millay betrayed his nation's trust by attempting to sell classified national defense information for profit to a foreign nation." Contrast that motive with Bradley Manning's. In chat logs with government informant Adrian Lamo, Manning hypothesized, "what if i were someone more malicious...i could've sold to russia or china, and made bank?" | |
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Cynthia Hubert, Phillip Reese and Jim Sanders
The Sacramento Bee 2013-04-14 12:00:00
Over the past five years, Nevada's primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America. Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has transported more than 1,500 patients to other cities via Greyhound bus, sending at least one person to every state in the continental United States, according to a Bee review of bus receipts kept by Nevada'smental health division. About a third of those patients were dispatched to California, including more than 200 toLos Angeles County, about 70 to San Diego County and 19 to the city of Sacramento. In recent years, as Nevada has slashed funding for mental health services, the number of mentally ill patients being bused out of southern Nevada has steadily risen, growing 66 percent from 2009 to 2012. During that same period, the hospital has dispersed those patients to an ever-increasing number of states. By last year, Rawson-Neal bused out patients at a pace of well over one per day, shipping nearly 400 patients to a total of 176 cities and 45 states across the nation. Nevada's approach to dispatching mentally ill patients has come under scrutiny since one of its clients turned up suicidal and confused at a Sacramento homeless services complex. James Flavy Coy Brown, who is 48 and suffers from a variety of mood disorders including schizophrenia, was discharged in February from Rawson-Neal to a Greyhound bus for Sacramento, a place he had never visited and where he knew no one. | |
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Joseph Cotto
The Washington Times Communities 2013-04-19 15:11:00
Here in the United States, we tend to make much ado about nothing, losing perspective of what is truly a hardship in the world. Other than some genuinely pressing matters such as our economic and immigration policy, our politics revolve around purely social topics, like gay marriage or intelligent design-based educational curriculums, important perhaps, but not . This is not so in every corner of the globe. There are real injustices in countless societies, even ones as successful as India Over the last few weeks, I have been conversing with Yogesh Varhade, who is president of the Ambedkar Centre for Justice and Peace. He and his organization fight tirelessly for the interests of those stuck at the bottom of India's ages-old caste system. While every country does have a class structure of some kind, the sort that has prevailed in India is unique. According to ancient tradition, those born into a certain caste are mandated to remain in it for life. This designation has nothing to do with race, ethnicity or even religious differentiation. It is a social construct that has endured well into the modern day, preventing untold millions from looking up at the stars, let alone reaching for them. The politics Varhade discussed had nothing to do with left, right, liberal, conservative, or whatever. Rather they were the stuff of oppression and violence. A particularly brutal story was the one of a young man who fell in love with an upper-caste woman. He asked for her hand in marriage, and an assailant hacked him to death along with two others. | |
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A woman who allegedly lived with her two young boys inside a Ewing storage locker for weeks is being held on $75,000 bail and will likely spend the weekend in jail, police said today. Sheena Johnson, 27, faces two second-degree counts of child endangerment after Trenton police officers found the two boys, ages 5 and 10, inside the roughly five-foot-by-ten-foot locker at Extra Space Storage on the 1400 block of Prospect Street in Ewing Thursday morning. Trenton Officer Robert Arnwine tracked the boys down after Johnson was arrested for allegedly slashing the tires of her boyfriend's car on Calhoun Street earlier. Johnson was also charged with violating a restraining order, Lt. Mark Kieffer said today. Trenton police said Johnson had been turned over to the Mercer County Sheriff's Office and would probably be taken to the Mercer County Corrections Center. | |
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Associated Press
2013-04-20 14:38:00
A 5-year-old girl was in serious condition Saturday after being raped and tortured by a man who held her in a locked room in India's capital for two days, officials said. The girl went missing Monday and was found Wednesday by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her parents, said Delhi police official Deepak Mishra. The girl was found alone locked in a room and left for dead, he said. A 24-year-old man who lived in the room where the girl was found was arrested Saturday in Muzaffarpur town in Bihar state, about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) east of New Delhi, Mishra said. The man was flown to New Delhi, where a magistrate ordered that he be held in police custody. The girl suffered severe internal injuries, as well as cuts and bite marks on her face and torso, said D.K. Sharma, the medical superintendent of the government-run hospital in New Delhi where she was being treated. Sharma described the girl's condition as "serious" and said doctors were trying to stabilize her condition. | |
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The Christian Science Monitor
2013-04-18 00:00:00
The explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant had the force of a magnitude 2.1 quake. Here's a look at how the combination of fire and materials at the facility could have produced the blast. Rescuers are combing through leveled homes and apartment buildings in the hunt for survivors following Wednesday night's fire and explosion at a small fertilizer and grain-storage company near Waco, Texas. Initial estimates put the number of fatalities at up to 15, with more than 160 people injured. The blast had enough energy to trip US Geological Survey seismographs as a magnitude 2.1 quake. How did such a powerful explosion happen? | |
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Every day, Heba Abolaban of Malden checks on her family in war-strafed Syria, where water, bread and electricity are in short supply. She was far more worried about them than about herself on Wednesday morning when she put her baby daughter in a stroller and headed into the sunshine to a play group with a friend.Boston.com 2013-04-19 19:07:00 But as they strolled down Commercial Street, an angry-faced man charged toward the petite woman, his hand balled into a fist. He punched her hard in the shoulder and screamed curses inches from her face. Then he pointed at her and walked away shouting. "He said, '(Expletive) you. (Expletive) you Muslims, You are terrorists, you are the ones who made the Boston explosion,'" said Abolaban, recalling the episode in a phone interview Thursday. "I was really, really completely shocked. I didn't know what to do. Then I realized what happened. I was crying and crying." Abolaban, a 26-year-old physician who wears a traditional hijab, or head scarf, gripped the stroller carrying her nine-month old daughter and stood in shock. Soon, she and her friend, also pushing a baby stroller, burst into tears. "I was so afraid he might hurt my baby," she said. |
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Stephanie Pappas
LiveScience 2013-04-22 11:55:00
Talk about your archaeological jackpots: Researchers in Indonesia have reportedly discovered the 3,000-year-old remains of 66 people in a cave in Sumatra. "Sixty-six is very strange," Truman Simanjuntak of Jakarta's National Research and Development Center for Archaeology said in a statement. He and his colleagues have never before found that many remains in a single cave, Simanjuntak added. The cave is known as Harimaru or Tiger Cave, and also contains chicken, dog and pig remains. Thousands of years ago, the Tiger Cave and other limestone caverns nearby were occupied by Indonesia's first farmers. They used the caves to bury their dead, explaining the 3,000-year-old cemetery unearthed by Simanjuntak's team. The ancient farmers also manufactured tools in the caves. | |
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Sunduki in Siberia may be oldest human observatory in historyThe Daily Mail UK 2013-04-22 09:41:00 Russian scientist claims to have found evidence of crude solar calendars Ancients 'used landscape to record time' A Russian scientist believes a remote Siberian rock formation may be the first place that humanity began to follow the movements of the heavens. Sunduki, known as the Siberian Stonehenge, is a series of eight sandstone outcrops on a remote flood plain on the bank of the Bely Iyus river in the republic of Khakassia. Professor Vitaly Larichev, of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, claims that the 16,000-year-old site was not only a place of huge religious significance in the ancient world, but also its stargazing capital.
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Cyrus Farivar
Arts Technica 2013-04-21 16:30:00
While the whole country is relieved that this past week's Boston Marathon bombing ordeal and subsequent lockdown of the city is finally over, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told the Washington Post that the department's facial recognition system "did not identify" the two bombing suspects. "The technology came up empty even though both Tsarnaevs' images exist in official databases: Dzhokhar had a Massachusetts driver's license; the brothers had legally immigrated; and Tamerlan had been the subject of some FBI investigation," the Postreported on Saturday. Facial recognition systems can have limited utility when a grainy, low-resolution image captured at a distance from a cellphone camera or surveillance video is compared with a known, high-quality image. Meanwhile, the FBI is expected to release a large-scale facial recognition apparatus "next year for members of the Western Identification Network, a consortium of police agencies in California and eight other Western states," according to the San Jose Mercury News. | |
Comment: Irrespective of its actual usefulness, increased funding and further development of surveillance technology are clear benefactors of false flag terrorism.
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Gabe Popkin
National Geographic News 2013-04-15 23:06:00
In the lab, a team of French scientists has captured the ultrasonic noise made by bubbles forming inside water-stressed trees. Because trees also make noises that aren't related to drought impacts, scientists hadn't before been able to discern which sounds are most worrisome. (Watch a video: Drought 101.) "With this experiment we start to understand the origin of acoustic events in trees," said Alexandre Ponomarenko, a physicist at Grenoble University in France, whose team conducted the research. This discovery could help scientists figure out when trees are parched and need emergency watering, added Ponomarenko, who presented his team's results last month at an American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. | |
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Climate science/renewable energy critic Rainer Hoffmann has researched the literature on mean global surface temperature.No Tricks Zone 2013-04-21 16:49:00 Stunningly, he shows that something is not right with the figures coming from the world's leading climate experts. The figures tell us the mean global surface temperature has dropped 1°C over the last 25 years. At that rate, we'll be in an ice age by the year 2100! |
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sciencedaily.com
Apr. 22, 2013 - A new review of insect pollinators of crops and wild plants has concluded they are under threat globally from a cocktail of multiple pressures, and their decline or loss could have profound environmental, human health and economic consequences.2013-04-22 12:46:00
Globally, insects provide pollination services to about 75% of crop species and enable reproduction in up to 94% of wild flowering plants. Pollination services provided by insects each year worldwide are valued at over US$200 billion. The review, published April 22, 2013 in the scientific journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, was carried out by an international team of 40 scientists from 27 institutions involved in the UK's Insect Pollinators Initiative (IPI), a £10M research programme investigating the causes and consequences of pollinator decline. Dr Adam Vanbergen from the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and science coordinator of the IPI led the review. He said, "There is no single smoking gun behind pollinator declines, instead there is a cocktail of multiple pressures that can combine to threaten these insects. For example, the loss of food resources in intensively-farmed landscapes, pesticides and diseases are individually important threats, but are also likely to combine and exacerbate the negative impacts on pollinators." | |
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The Independent, Pakistan
About ten thousand birds of various species were killed when a storm with heavy rainfall lashed them at village Madanpur and Hatfazilpur under Shoilakupa Upazila in the district on Friday night. The birds were living at the branches of Mahogany trees there. As no one from the livestock department visited the spot even after a day, it had created dissatisfaction among the villagers. The dead birds might pollute the environment in the locality, it is apprehended by the locals and health departmental officials.2013-04-21 06:16:00 Even on Saturday morning, large number of birds were found lying there. Shalik, ghughu, bulbuli, tuntuni, crowm, stork, masranga, sprow, babui, suichora and others species were among the dead birds.There were a number of rare species among the dead, some locals said. Abdul Alim, a villager of Hatfazilpur said, the birds were living at the Mahogany gardens owned by Ayub Hossain, Babul Biswas, Jamal Uddin and some others. They were caught by the storm along with heavy rainfall that swept the area on Friday night. |
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Richard Youle
Horses have been "dropping like flies" on the Loughor Estuary, according to a lifeboatman.South Wales Evening Post 2013-04-20 05:22:00 John Edwards said horses have congregated at the marsh near Loughor inshore lifeboat station for years, and knew how to steer clear of the incoming tide, but that a high number of the animals had got stuck in the mud or perished.
The Post has been emailed photographs which are too shocking to print of horse carcasses on the marsh. The photographer, who asked the Post not to name her, also sent this snap (left) of what she says are horse bones at the same location. The RSPCA is investigating. Swansea Council said the dead animals were on the Carmarthenshire side of the estuary, while Carmarthenshire Council said the area was "a bit of a no-man's land". Loughor inshore lifeboat station secretary Mr Edwards said: "I don't know what is going on.We have never had these problems before. All of a sudden they are dropping like flies." Mr Edwards said the lifeboat had launched to help mud-trapped horses, but had to be careful not to scare the animals and make the situation worse. "Unless they are actually in danger we won't respond," he said. | |
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US Geological Survey
2013-04-21 00:15:00
Event Time 2013-04-21 03:22:16 UTC 2013-04-21 12:22:16 UTC+09:00 at epicenter Location 29.915°N 138.926°E depth=424.1km (263.5mi) Nearby Cities 360km (224mi) SSW of Hachijo-jima, Japan 506km (314mi) SE of Shingu, Japan 523km (325mi) S of Oyama, Japan 526km (327mi) S of Shimoda, Japan 644km (400mi) S of Tokyo, Japan Technical Details | |
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RT.com
2013-04-20 05:33:00
Torrential downpours along the Mississippi River have forced Midwesterners in half a dozen states to fight back floodwaters, which risk reaching record levels. Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin all experienced flooding as heavy rainfalls hit the region Wednesday - posing a sharp contrast to the drought which months prior endangered commercial barge traffic on the Mississippi River. On Friday, barge shipping was halted on parts of the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers as flooding prompted the US Army Corps of Engineers to close several locks until at least the middle of next week. Seven Mississippi River locks were closed in total between Thursday evening and Friday morning as water topped dams. The problem is set to intensify, as crests on the rivers are expected to be reached on Sunday at the earliest in more northern areas and several days later further south. River levels are expected to exceed flood stage by 12 feet (4 meters) in some parts of Missouri and Illinois, running the risk of inundation, mass displacement of residents, and untold property damage. | |
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The Salt Lake Tribune
The number of eared grebes rescued - and killed - after their Monday crash-landings at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground was far higher than originally estimated.2013-04-18 12:57:00 Wildlife biologists and volunteers spent Monday and Tuesday gathering 12,800 water birds, carrying the 7,828 surviving birds by pickup trucks to ponds in the region. The birds were migrating back to the Great Salt Lake for the summer, but apparently became disoriented by snow and fog and mistook wet roads and parking lots for water. Built for water, with legs far to the back of their bodies, they can lift off from the ground only with great difficulty. An estimated 100 birds were taken to rehabilitation facilities, Dugway spokeswoman Paula Thomas said. Biologists working under a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were burning and burying the birds that died or were so seriously injured they had to be euthanized. |
Comment: This is not the first mysterious or odd event to have happened in recent years at the Dugway proving grounds.
Missing vial of nerve agent shuts down Dugway US: Did meteor hit near Dugway, Utah? |
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The Extinction Protocol
A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 156 people and injuring about 5,500 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008. The earthquake, China's worst in three years, occurred at 8.02 a.m. (0002 GMT) in Lushan county near Ya'an city and the epicenter had a depth of 12 km (7.5 miles), the U.S. Geological Survey said.2013-04-20 15:23:00
The quake was felt by residents in neighboring provinces and in the provincial capital of Chengdu, causing many people to rush out of buildings, according to accounts on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo microblogging service. State media said 156 people had been confirmed dead with more than 5,500 injured. President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang said all efforts must be put into rescuing victims to limit the death toll. After arriving at the disaster zone by helicopter, Li directed earthquake relief efforts from a plaza in Longmen Township in Lushan, Xinhua said. Li asked that a road be opened to Baoxing County, one of the most affected by the earthquake, and that rescuers "act quickly" in their efforts, Xinhua quoted Li as saying. "The current most urgent issue is grasping the first 24 hours since the quake's occurrence, the golden time for saving lives," Xinhua news agency quoted Li as saying earlier. Xinhua said 6,000 troops were heading to the area to help with rescue efforts. | |
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US Geological Survey
2013-04-20 13:30:00
Event Time 2013-04-20 13:12:51 UTC 2013-04-20 23:12:51 UTC+10:00 at epicenter Location 50.140°N 157.225°E depth=20.2km (12.5mi) Nearby Cities 98km (61mi) SE of Severo-Kuril'sk, Russia 321km (199mi) SSW of Vilyuchinsk, Russia 337km (209mi) SSW of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia 348km (216mi) SSW of Yelizovo, Russia 2140km (1330mi) NE of Tokyo, Japan Technical Details | |
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US Geological Survey
2013-04-19 19:54:00
Event Time 2013-04-20 00:02:47 UTC 2013-04-20 08:02:47 UTC+08:00 at epicenter Location 30.284°N 102.956°E depth=12.3km (7.6mi) Nearby Cities 50km (31mi) WSW of Linqiong, China 99km (62mi) ENE of Kangding, China 111km (69mi) NW of Leshan, China 114km (71mi) WSW of Chengdu, China 1065km (662mi) NNW of Ha Noi, Vietnam Technical Details | |
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The Telegraph, UK
2013-04-22 14:05:00
Video footage, captured in the early hours of Sunday morning in Argentina, showed fans watching a band. During the concert, a bright light appeared in the sky to the right of the stage. It started off as a small greenish glow, before becoming a larger, brighter fireball. The suspected meteor then fell to earth, with some locals reporting that they felt the ground shake as it hit. | |
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The Indian Express
The mysterious fireball, which fell in Jadrangal village here, injuring two women, was not a "meteorite", but "low intensity explosives", the state forensic experts claimed Saturday.2013-04-21 12:48:00 "It was a low intensity explosive which contained radicals of Barium Nitrate, Aluminium and Iron Oxide, normally used in incendiary projectiles," Dr Arun Sharma, Director, Himachal Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory told reporters here. In a first-of-its-kind incident, two women sustained minor injuries as the explosives fell from the sky on the village on March 21. Two women were doing some household work when the fireball hit the surface and some of its parts fell on the women after splitting following which they sustained burn injuries on arms and back. The rumours of it being a meteorite started spreading soon after the incident. |
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thanluis3
Youtube 2013-04-21 11:48:00
A strong and strange light crossed the sky over Santiago shocking the thousands of people who went out to enjoy a Saturday night. It was exactly at 3:20 am. It came with a strong noise and shake. The phenomenon was perceived in Tucumán also. The police is investigating the strange phenomenon, since there are so many calls reporting the event. | |
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Ronald DeRosa
Wallingford Patch 2013-04-20 12:05:00
A loud boom was heard throughout several towns along the Connecticut shoreline and in New Haven County Friday evening, prompting several 911 calls and brief flurry of social media posts. Madison 911 Communications Center numerous calls from people reporting what sounded like an explosion shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, according to a post on Facebook, " ... along shoreline neighborhoods and as far north as County Road and Guilford Lakes. Also getting reports of the same thing as far west as West Haven and Milford. Anybody know what happened???" The post on the Madison 911 Communications Center Facebook page quickly received responses from people as far inland as Haddam. | |
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Jill Richardson
Truthout 2013-04-21 19:57:00
Monsanto controls our food, poisons our land, and influences all three branches of government. Forty percent of the crops grown in the United States contain their genes. They produce the world's top selling herbicide. Several of their factories are now toxic Superfund sites. They spend millions lobbying the government each year. It's time we take a closer look at who's controlling our food, poisoning our land, and influencing all three branches of government. To do that, the watchdog group Food and Water Watch recently published a corporate profile of Monsanto. Patty Lovera, Food and Water Watch assistant director, says they decided to focus on Monsanto because they felt a need to "put together a piece where people can see all of the aspects of this company." "It really strikes us when we talk about how clear it is that this is a chemical company that wanted to expand its reach," she says. "A chemical company that started buying up seed companies." She feels it's important "for food activists to understand all of the ties between the seeds and the chemicals." | |
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Anthony Gucciardi
Natural Society 2012-10-18 14:38:00
If you like to express yourself through painting, writing, or any other form of artistic action, scientists now say that you must be suffering from a mental illness of some kind. In a new display of how truly insane the mainstream medical health paradigm has become, mainstream media outlets are now regurgitating the words of 'experts' who say that those who are creative are actually, more often than not, mentally ill. After all, more than 50% of the United States is, by definition of the psychiatrists of the nation, mentally ill. Even questioning the government is considered a mental disorder. It should come as no surprise to know that upwards of 70% of the psychiatrists who write the conditions are - of course - on the payroll of those who produce the drugs to 'treat' the conditions. It should also therefore come as no surprise to note that the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is the foundation of the entire diagnosis system) now contains over 900 pages of bogus disorders. And perhaps creativity may soon be added to the massive textbook, which labels people who are shy, eccentric, or have unconventional romantic lives as mentally ill. | |
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Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society 2013-04-17 14:27:00
Often in life, our biggest problems are those we brought upon ourselves; the same could be said for medical problems. Many of our modern diseases and ailments are completely preventable and only present because we have somehow deprived our bodies of the ability to heal themselves. In that same vein, one of the biggest concerns of the health world is an infection that cannot be stopped, an issue largely due to the overuse of antibiotics. But there are many potential solutions for this issue - lavender is one of those solutions. | |
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Summer is fast approaching. It is a time when I see fear rampant on the beach in the form of slathering chemicals on our children's skin or covering them from head to toe. We don't want them to get cancer from the sun, do we?? So we do our due diligence and cover ourselves and our children with whatever our conscience allows. But what if the sun really doesn't cause skin cancer? Oh, I know we've been told for years that the depletion of the ozone layer decreases our atmosphere's natural protection from the sun's supposedly "harmful" ultraviolet (UV) rays. We've been told that these rays damage the skin's cellular DNA which then produce genetic mutations that can lead to skin cancer. And of course the US Department of Health and Human Services and the World Health Organization both have identified UV light as a proven human carcinogen. The CDC even tells us a few serious sunburns can increase your child's risk of getting skin cancer. Pretty scary stuff, huh? No wonder we cover ourselves and our children with chemicals or clothing - we'd be a fool not to! | |
Comment: Read more about Toxins in Your Sunscreens:
The question of whether sunscreens prevent skin cancer is an ambiguous one. A review of studies on skin cancer and sunscreens by Science News, found that people who use sunscreen are more likely to develop basal cell cancer than people who do not.Could an ingredient in your sunscreen harm you? Is Your Sunscreen More Harmful Than Being in the Sun? Article reveals the truth about sunscreens and skin cancer Toxic Fears Spark Some Parents to Rethink Sunscreen More Bad News About Sunscreens: Nanoparticles Senator asks FDA to Share Data on Possible Sunscreen Chemical-Cancer Link Sunscreen Chemicals Absorbed into Body, Found in 85 Percent of Human Milk samples | |
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Jon Rappoport
Activist Post 2013-04-09 13:43:00
This isn't a leak. It isn't a timid flow. It's a flood. I'm talking about about the criticism of Monsanto's so-called science of genetically-engineered food. For the past 20 years, independent researchers have been attacking Monsanto science in various ways, and finally the NY Times has joined the crowd. But it's the way Mark Bittman, lead food columnist for the Times magazine, does it that really the crashes the whole GMO delusion. Writing in his April 2 column, "Why Do G.M.O.'s Need Protection?", Bittman leads with this: "Genetic engineering in agriculture has disappointed many people who once had hopes for it."As in: the party's over, turn out the lights. | |
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Elisha McFarland
GreenMedInfo 2013-04-21 05:00:00
Few people are familiar with the term nightshades, and many will be surprised to learn that consuming foods from this plant group may be contributing to their pain and inflammation. Nightshades belong to the Solanaceae family which includes over 2,000 species. They also include some of the most popular foods consumed today; such as tomatoes, potatoes, all types of peppers, and eggplant. Although not truly nightshades, blueberries, huckleberries, goji berries and ashwaganda all share the same inflammation-inducing alkaloids. The Solanaceae family contains cholinesterase inhibiting glycoalkaloids and steroid alkaloids including, among others, solanine in potato and eggplant, tomatine in tomato, nicotine in tobacco, and capsaicin in garden peppers. The glycoalkaloids in potatoes are known to contribute to Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and negatively affect intestinal permeability. (1,2) According to Dr. Marvin Childers, "When these inhibitors accumulate in the body, alone or with other cholinesterase inhibitors such as caffeine or food impurities containing systemic cholinesterase inhibiting pesticides, the result may be a paralytic-like muscle spasm, aches, pains, tenderness, inflammation, and stiff body movements." (3) These symptoms may dissipate in a few hours or days if ingestion is stopped, based on the sensitivity of the individual, the amount of nightshades consumed on a regular basis and their level of inflammation. However for some heavy consumers of nightshades the process of inflammation and pain reduction can take up to 3 months. | |
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It's hard to overstate the impact that cardiovascular disease (CVD) has in the U.S.. Consider the following: To put that last statistic in perspective, the World Health Organization has estimated that ending world hunger would cost approximately $195 billion. One might argue that the $300 billion we spend on treating cardiovascular disease in the U.S. is a necessary expenditure; however, a recent study which looked at the relationship between heart disease and lifestyle suggested that 90% of CVD is caused by modifiable diet and lifestyle factors. (1) Unfortunately, cardiovascular disease is one of the most misdiagnosed and mistreated conditions in medicine. We've learned a tremendous amount about what causes heart disease over the past decade, but the medical establishment is still operating on outdated science from 40-50 years ago. | |
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Forbes
The number of confirmed H7N9 bird flu cases in China increased by four to 91 on Friday. Jiangsu province reported one new case, and Zhejiang province reported three, the state-run Shanghai Daily reported today. The number of dead was unchanged at 17.2013-04-19 00:00:00 An increasing focus among public health officials and the media is prospect that transmission of the disease is not only animal-to-animal but also human-to-human. More than half of the victims have had no contact with poultry, the newspaper said, citing agencies and its own reporting. "This is still an animal virus that occasionally infects humans," the newspaper quoted World Health Organization's China leader Michael O'Leary as saying. "With rare exceptions, we know that people are not getting sick from other people." Beijing and major eastern Chinese cities have closed live poultry markets and are taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus. Chinese media this week estimated that the poultry industry has lost 17 billion yuan, or $2.7 billion. Officials are concerned about the livelihoods and future source of bird supply from chicken farmers. |
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Paul Fassa
Natural Society 2013-04-19 20:05:00
In a world where creativity is deemed a "mental illness" by scientists, is it any wonder that a large portion of the population is on medications for some type of 'mental illness'? The old fashioned psychiatrist's writing pad for taking notes during talk therapy has been replaced by the prescription pad, granting the population with dangerous psychotropic drugs instead of simple talk therapy. DSM - The 'Psychiatric Bible' Have you ever been in a situation involving a psychiatrist and a prescription pad? Oftentimes, all it takes is a single short-term visit and a reference to the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) to determine what to prescribe to individuals. Any future visits are only to adjust dosages or add other medications. This has increased the profits of Big Pharma, attracting patients looking for magic fixes for minor problems that can be overcome with some common sense, or simply proper nutrition. Even major psychological issues can be resolved with a competent psychologist who's ethical enough to not pamper one for the sake of a long client revenue relationship. Psychologists also used the DSM until 1980 when DSM-3 was published. | |
Comment: Listen to the Sott.net radio show: Good Science, Bad Science - Psychology and Psychiatry for a more in depth discussion on Psychiatry for profit and the 'dispensing of drugs with impunity'
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ThisisGloucesterShire
2013-04-21 19:44:00
'George the ghost' has been popping up on staff at Gloucester's City Museum for as long as they can remember. The Victorian building, in Brunswick Road, is so haunted that some staff members have been left too scared to go into certain parts of the museum. But museum assistant Nigel Taylor-James, who has worked there since 1989, says George is a friendly soul. "From what I have seen he has a medieval appearance, with a hooded outfit made from simple cloth," said Nigel. "I've seen him three times. Each time he looks at you and then makes a hasty exit. He doesn't stay around for long. "Before I had seen him I was a non-believer. It is one of those things that you have got to see with your own eyes to believe. "He is like an apparition. I have never been scared at the time. It is not a scary experience, more one of surprise." There are a number of theories as to who George could be. |
