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Beyond Prophecy
2013-05-23 17:32:00
Currently the UK has a weak government with strong ties and support for the EU - There is a significant groundswell from the population to hold a public vote to leave the EU. The citizens were duped into supporting the EU as a trading scheme... not the all encompassing one world government it turned out to be. The main opposition to EU is Nigel Farage leader of the fast rising UKIP party ... He is a thorn in the side of all things NWO. Recently the EDL threw its support behind UKIP. This embarrassed UKIP who are afraid they will be tainted by an extremist label and lose their reputation in other voting sectors.
The English Deference League (EDL) is a group of English patriots who want their country back. They are labeled as extremists and have taken the extreme route to bringing England back to the English, often violently through frustration. |
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The Sun
2013-05-23 17:08:00
A man seen ranting at a video camera moments after a soldier was beheaded in the street is Muslim convert Michael Adebolajo - who was known to MI5. Michael Adebolaj, 28, had reportedly been looked at during probes into extremism in recent years - and was also known to hate preachers Anjem Choudary and Omar Bakri. Tonight the soldier was named as Drummer Lee Rigby, 25, from the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. Meanwhile a man and woman, both 29, were today arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder in relation to the terror attack. |
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Press TV
2013-05-23 14:59:00
Labour peers have urged British Deputy Prime Minister and Lib-Dems leader Nick Clegg to stop opposing the Communications Data Bill, dubbed the snooper's charter by the opponents, in the wake of the Woolwich attack. Former Labour home secretary Lord Reid and former security minister Lord West urged Clegg to drop his opposition to the legislation after a soldier was beheaded by the knife-wielding attackers in Woolwich, southeast London. Appearing on BBC's Newsnight, Lord Reid said the police and intelligence services should have tools they need to prevent these kinds of attacks. |
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Scott Daugherty
Pilotonline.com 2013-05-20 13:25:00
Two members of the FBI's elite counterterrorism unit died Friday while practicing how to quickly drop from a helicopter to a ship using a rope, the FBI announced Monday in a statement. The statement gave few details regarding the deaths of Special Agents Christopher Lorek and Stephen Shaw, other than to say the helicopter encountered unspecified difficulties and the agents fell a "significant distance." A law enforcement source told The Pilot the incident happened about 12 nautical miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. The official blamed bad weather for the incident and said the agents - members of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, based in Quantico - fell into the water. The official said he believed the agents died as a result of the impact rather than drowning. | |
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The Extinction Protocol
2013-05-23 09:52:00
A day after the IDF and the Syrian Army exchanged fire in the Golan Heights, Israel Air Force chief Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel warned that Israel must be prepared for a "surprise war" developing. Speaking at a conference in Herzliya focusing on the conclusions of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Eshel stated that "a surprise war can develop today in many forms. Isolated events can escalate very quickly and require that we are ready in hours to act in the full spectrum - and when I say the full spectrum, I mean activating the full capabilities of the Air Force." Eshel stated that, in the Second Lebanon War, the IAF had employed just a "small amount" of its capabilities, but that in the next war, the Air Force "will need to give 100 percent, in order that our operations will be very quick and powerful." After Russia said last week that it remains committed to an arms deal with Syria to deliver the S-300 air defense system to the Assad regime, Eshel warned that the advanced platform could change the equation. "The Assad regime invested a great deal in order to achieve the best air defense capabilities that it could buy. Systems such as these are not just an operative threat, they also give a sense of security that can cause countries to do things they would not otherwise do." Eshel stated that the air defense system represented weaponry "from a completely different generation, which does not resemble what has come in the past." He added, however, that "there is no system which does not have a solution, the only question is, at what cost." Eshel stated that Syria was "changing before our eyes. If [the regime] should collapse tomorrow, we may very quickly find its large arsenal scattered and directed toward us." - Jerusalem Post | |
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Comment: SOTT's Focus article: Syria: WMD Redux
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Tim Walker
Man identified as Ibragim Todashev, who reportedly knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev as both were mixed martial-arts fighters
The Independent, UK 2013-05-23 08:08:00
An FBI agent has shot and killed a Chechen man with alleged ties to deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in what was described as a "violent confrontation" in the early hours of Wednesday in Orlando, Florida. Officials said the man, identified as 27-year-old Ibragim Todashev, was being interviewed about his friendship with Tsarnaev when he tried to attack an agent with a knife. The FBI confirmed the agent sustained "non-life threatening injuries" before shooting dead his assailant. Law enforcement officers reportedly visited Mr Todashev at his apartment late on Tuesday night. Mr Todashev, who had been living in the US for the past five years, spent some of that time in Boston, and came into contact with Tsarnaev through the mixed martial arts community. Authorities suspect the pair of a gruesome, unsolved triple murder, committed on 11 September 2011, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Brendan Mess, Raphael Teken, and Erik Weissman were found with their throats cut at an apartment in Waltham, Massachusetts; their bodies were covered with marijuana. Tsarnaev had previously described Mr Mess as his best friend, though the two had reportedly fallen out. |
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Michael Allen
Opposing Views 2013-05-22 00:00:00
A local Miami news station, CBS 4 News, recently gushed over plans for local police to use military-style equipment for Memorial Day Weekend (video below). Reporter Lauren Pastrana marveled at how cameras are installed throughout Miami as well as "62 light towers, twelve visual messaging boards and three watch towers." The reporter bragged about the station's "exclusive" on the police department using a LTV, which she described as a "light tactical all-terrain vehicle, similar to the ones used in the military." "But instead of war zones overseas, cops will use it to protect the city of Miami Beach," said Pastrona. | |
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Comment: Don't think the U.S. is a police state yet?
Militarized police state over Miami: "It's only a drill..." Concerns grow as local police look more and more like the military The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The US US: Local Cops Ready for War With Homeland Security-Funded Military Weapons |
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Rosie Taylor
The Mail Online 2013-05-23 15:39:00
Many were draped in St George's flags and wore black balaclavas with the EDL logo on. Riot police holding shields formed a cordon around the area as the EDL members waved flags and chanted 'no surrender to the Muslim scum', 'Rule Britannia' and 'England'. EDL leader Stephen Lennon - who goes by the name Tommy Robinson - addressed the crowd, saying: 'We have got weak leadership. They have allowed this to happen. People are scared to say the word Muslim. They are scared to offend them.
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CBS 13
2013-05-21 13:15:00
Sacramento - A man who called 911 more than 100 times in one month says he's not going to stop until his concerns are heard by the federal government. Jimmy Shao keeps a log book of every 911 call he's made. So many that he boasts he's probably set a world record. He doesn't believe he's wasting the time of emergency responders because he has an emergency of his own: Shao believes he's being watched by shadowy government authorities. He claims to believe his body is controlled by satellites. "My brain, I can feel it starting. I'm blasted by the signals, every couple of minutes," he said. "I yell and I scream, 'Stop it, I don't need this,' but they never listen." |
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Ashley Davis
Opposing Views 2013-05-22 00:00:00
When Emma Way hit a cyclist and drove off, she might have gotten away with it if she had not tweeted about it soon afterward. In the tweet, from her account which is now deleted, she said, "Definitely knocked a cyclist off his bike earlier - I have right of way he doesn't even pay road tax! #bloodycyclists" Way, from Norwich, England, had a small circle of 100 followers on Twitter. But the tweet soon spread, and got the attention of Norwich Police. Norwich Police tweeted back, "@emmaway20 we have had tweets ref an RTC with a bike. We suggest you report it at a police station ASAP if not done already & then dm us" And soon after that, more people saw the tweet, eventually locating the injured person. James Lucas tweeted that he knew the man who was hit, saying, "Police are on the case. They had already located her and were just waiting for the victim to come forward. He has contacted them ..." The cyclist was Toby Hockley, who was interviewed later by BBC. |
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Oliver Jenkins
Opposing Views 2013-05-20 00:00:00
A criminal investigation has been launched into a Las Vegas psychiatric hospital that allegedly bused over 1,500 patients out of the facility on one-way tickets over a five year span. According to a report published by the Sacramento Bee - which obtained bus receipts from the facility in question - patients were bused to every single state in the U.S., with approximately 200 arriving in Los Angeles County. As a result, the Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital is now facing a criminal probe from the city of Los Angeles into the scheme, which officials believe originally began back in 2008. According to investigators, over 30 percent of those bused out of the facility were homeless and stranded upon departure - equipped with only a small supply of medication and several bottles of a nutritional supplement. One such person, James Flavy Brown, said he was sent to Sacramento even though he had never been there before. The psychosis patient had only been treated for three days before he was sent to the California capital equipped with a one-way ticket, three Ensure nutritional shakes, and three days-worth of medication. "I said, 'I don't want to leave Nevada,'" Brown told ABC News. "[The doctor] said, 'California sounds like a really nice state. I think you'll be happy there.'" With no Social Security card, food stamps, or Medicaid card, Brown was eventually forced to check into a homeless shelter after feeling the early effects of medication withdrawal. | |
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Mentally ill man missing in alleged pattern of 'patient dumping' by Nevada health officials |
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DSWright
FDL 2013-05-22 11:15:00
As Occupy Our Homes demonstrates at the Department of Justice the fraudclosure crisis continues unabated. A Florida family man who not only made his mortgage payments on time but made payments early faces foreclosure by Wells Fargo. The explanation for initiating the foreclosure proceedings by Wells Fargo is nothing short of amazing and offers a sad commentary on how little has changed despite the 2008 financial crisis and supposed reforms like Dodd-Frank. So far so good. Family man working multiple jobs to make sure he is paying his bills - personal responsibility and all that jazz. Court records confirm that Syldor made his payments. Then something funny happened. |
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Becky Oskin
LiveScience 2013-05-23 14:11:00
Twelve years of supersized earthquakes have contaminated GPS sites around the world, a new study finds. The Global Positioning System is a network of satellites and ground stations that provide location information anywhere on Earth. Except for spots in Australia, western Europe and the eastern tip of Canada, every GPS site on the ground underwent small but important shifts since 2000 because of big earthquakes, according to a study published May 6 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. The research confirms that great earthquakes, those bigger than magnitude 8.0, can have far-reaching effects on the Earth's crust. And because GPS is critical for everything from calculating satellite orbits to sea level rise to earthquake hazards, scientists can't ignore these tiny zigs and zags, the researchers conclude. "We have to find a way to deal with it," said Paul Tregoning, lead study author and a geophysicist at Australia National University in Canberra. "The community needs to work out how to find all the offsets, estimate them accurately and get everyone to agree on how to correct them," he told LiveScience. Tregoning and his colleagues modeled the sudden jolts in Earth's crust from each of the 15 biggest earthquakes since 2000. They discovered that crust thousands of miles away from the faults had moved horizontally by as much as a tenth of an inch (a few millimeters). The model was checked against a few spots around the planet. On average, the earthquakes deformed the crust by a hundredth of an inch every year (0.4 millimeters a year) - about the width of the lead in a mechanical pencil. "It's quite amazing to us that we can see this and detect this," Tregoning said. These tiny effects won't make a difference to the GPS in cars or phones, or the tough little units carried by hikers and mountaineers. But scientists who need precise measurements to calculate sea level rise or satellite orbits should be concerned, Tregoning said. |
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US Geological Survey
2013-05-23 16:56:00
Event Time 2013-05-23 21:07:40 UTC 2013-05-23 09:07:40 UTC-12:00 at epicente Location 20.561°S 175.730°W depth=103.2km (64.2mi) Nearby Cities 84km (52mi) NW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga 668km (415mi) ESE of Suva, Fiji 690km (429mi) SE of Lambasa, Fiji 782km (486mi) ESE of Nadi, Fiji 855km (531mi) SSW of Apia, Samoa Technical Details |
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OzarksFirst.com
2013-05-23 16:21:00
An unusual number of earthquakes have been reported in Central Arkansas since Monday. More than a dozen have been reported across Morrilton, Strawberry, and Choctaw. James Newsom felt the quake. At the time, he didn't know what shook his home."I said what in the world was that," said Newsom. Scientists say a 3.5 earthquake hit the area. The U.S. Geological Survey says there have been 16 earthquakes, which is a high number. "It was just boom. It was so quick and shook my windows and made that explosion ya know," said Newsom. Each quake lasted less than ten seconds. "Even though we don't have reports of damage or anything or injuries, it's still a pretty good shake," said Scott Ausbrooks of the U.S. Geological Survey. |
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Emma Riley Sutton
A severe, slow-moving storm has hit the Greater Oklahoma City Metro Area.
Several roads are closed and more are expected to be closed. According
to a May 23 report by KWTV Channel 9 News in Oklahoma City, roads in
both Oklahoma City and Norman have been closed.Examiner.com 2013-05-23 16:16:00 According to live reports by KWTV Channel 9 News, cars are currently stuck in water on the streets of Mustang. Mustang is southwest of Oklahoma City and northwest of Moore. Those live reports are also showing streets flooding in Bethany, which is northwest of Oklahoma City and Moore. View slideshow: Flash Flooding Moore, which is between Oklahoma City and Norman, is also being hit with the storm. Moore is the city that was struck by the EF5 tornado on Monday. Recovery and relief efforts in Moore are being severely hindered, if not completely stopped, due to this latest storm. |
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Ed Merriman
Baker City Herald 2008-07-09 20:07:00
Oregon - A grasshopper plague spawned in drought-parched rangeland where the voracious insects laid their eggs last summer, is spreading to wheat, hay and potato fields, where crop damage could be devastating. "The USDA's threshold for economic damage is eight grasshoppers per square yard. In some heavily infested areas, we've had counts of 100 to 120, and possibly up to 140 grasshoppers per square yard," said Cory Parsons, Oregon State University Extension agent for Baker County. |
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US Geological Survey
2013-05-23 12:56:00
Event Time 2013-05-23 17:19:04 UTC 2013-05-23 05:19:04 UTC-12:00 at epicenter Location 23.025°S 177.109°W depth=171.4km (106.5mi) Nearby Cities 282km (175mi) SW of Vaini, Tonga 287km (178mi) SW of Nuku'alofa, Tonga 712km (442mi) SE of Suva, Fiji 812km (505mi) SE of Nadi, Fiji 818km (508mi) SSE of Lambasa, Fiji Technical Details |
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The Daily Mail, UK
New Orleans was struck by tens of thousands of swarming Formosan
termites on Wednesday night causing hundreds of thousands of people's
skin to crawl.Resembling something out of a creepy disaster movie, the
termites made for any car headlights, streetlights or lit homes they
could find in residential or commercial areas.2013-05-23 12:39:00 Usually the termites swarm like clockwork at the beginning of May, but with cooler temperatures in the New Orleans area combined with drier air the termite outbreak was delayed until last night's warmer conditions.
Formosan termites are not native to the United States and were introduced from the Far East in packing crates and other wood products during World War Two.Massive infestations in and around New Orleans have become endemic along Lake Pontchartrain and at the naval shipyard in Algiers. |
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Bruce Finley
The Denver Post 2013-05-22 12:21:00
Frogs, toads and other amphibians are vanishing so fast nationwide that if the decline continues at the same rate, they'll be gone from half their current habitats in 20 years, a federal study has found. U.S. Geological Survey officials on Wednesday unveiled the study, done over a decade, on 48 species at 34 sites from California to Colorado high-country to Florida swamps. Federal scientists found that the declines are more widespread and severe than previously thought and that amphibian populations are disappearing at an overall rate of 3.7 percent each year. Even species inside federally-protected areas, including Rocky Mountain National Park, are disappearing. "Even in what we consider pristine areas, we are seeing amphibian decline," said Fort Collins-based USGS biologist Erin Muths, who helped conduct the study. "If anything is doing poorly in an area we think is protected, that says something about our level of protection and about what may be happening outside those areas." Boreal toads, chorus frogs, wood frogs and salamanders were among the amphibians studied in Colorado. |
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Terri Russell
Thousands of young muttonbirds have starved to death on Stewart Island
and the Titi Islands this season because parental birds have abandoned
their chicks in search of food.stuff.co.nz 2013-05-23 09:26:00 Experts say warmer ocean temperatures have pushed small fish that the birds eat such as krill, squid and sardines into deeper and colder waters where they thrive. The muttonbirds have followed them to those colder waters. Invercargill naturalist Lloyd Esler did an annual count of muttonbirds on Mason Bay, Stewart Island, at the weekend, which revealed the most dead muttonbirds he had seen in about 15 years. Almost 2000 dead birds were found washed up on the shore compared with about 100 in previous years, he said. There was a "glitch" in the food supply and it could be because warm currents moved small fish into water too deep for the birds to catch, Mr Esler said. Kaumatua of Waihopai Runaka Michael Skerrett said muttonbirds were in terrible condition this season and the number of chicks were down. It could be because of El Nino climatic conditions, he said. Regular muttonbirder Jane Davis said the situation was probably as bad as it could be. While there were good hatching numbers at the Titi Islands most ended up dying at the mouth of their nest because they were not being fed, she said. |
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NASA
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) photographed
this striking view of Pavlof Volcano on May 18, 2013. The oblique
perspective from the ISS reveals the three dimensional structure of the
ash plume, which is often obscured by the top-down view of most remote
sensing satellites.2013-05-23 09:34:00 Situated in the Aleutian Arc about 625 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage, Pavlof began erupting on May 13, 2013. The volcano jetted lava into the air and spewed an ash cloud 20,000 feet (6,000 meters) high. When photograph ISS036-E-2105 (top) was taken, the space station was about 475 miles south-southeast of the volcano (49.1° North latitude, 157.4° West longitude). The volcanic plume extended southeastward over the North Pacific Ocean.
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9News World
Dead sea lions have been discovered on beaches in northern Peru amid
suspicions they were poisoned by fishermen, activists and authorities
say.2013-05-22 22:26:00 The remains, together with those of dolphins and sea turtles, turned up over the past two weeks near the port of Eten some 750 kilometres north of the capital Lima, Carlos Yaipen of the non-government organisation ORCA told AFP. "Initial reports indicate that between 30 and 50 sea lions were found, with signs they were killed with rat poison," Yaipen said. A spokesman for the Peru Sea Institute confirmed the find but placed the number of dead sea lions below 20. An investigation has been launched to determine what caused the deaths, he said. According to Yaipen, the area's fishermen consider the sea lions - a protected species - as competition, often feeding them fish filled with poison that at times are also consumed by turtles and dolphins. Yaipen also appealed to authorities to step up their oversight of the fishing industry and the use of poisonous substances, saying these can also affect human health. Source: Australian Associated Press |
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RT.com
2013-05-20 20:21:00
As the displaced residents of the Oklahoma City suburbs came to terms with the devastation around them Monday night pundits were already speculating that the tornado was one of the worst to ever hit the US, a dubious distinction for the newly homeless. The most destructive twister struck Ellington, Missouri at approximately 1:01 pm on March 18, 1925.The Great Tri-State Tornado traveled through Missouri before entering Illinois and finally dissipating in rural Indiana more than three hours after the vortex was first spotted. At least 695 people were killed in the Tri-State tornado with another 2,027 injured and $16.5 million in damage (over $1.4 billion in today's dollars). The tornado registered as an F5, the highest possible on the Fujita scale. Unfortunately, like Monday's tragedy in Oklahoma, areas with schools were the worst hit, with nine in all being demolished. |
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Daisy Luther
The Organic Prepper 2013-05-23 15:22:00
RT reported Wednesday on a bizarre spate of respiratory illnesses in Alabama, two resulting in death. A mysterious respiratory illness has claimed the lives of two people in southeast Alabama, and caused five other hospitalizations. The illness has left health officials baffled, who have no idea what this disease is or where it originated.While the cause is currently unknown, it's interesting to note that Southeastern Alabama's cotton fields are in full bloom this time of year - and that some of these crops are Bt cotton. Bt cotton is a genetically modified cotton that contains a Bacillus thuringiensis (or Bt) pesticide within the plant. There is no proof that this is related to the mysterious illnesses in Alabama, however, history shows us that serious illnesses occurred in India wherever Bt cotton was grown. |
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Natasha Longo
PreventDisease 2013-05-23 13:34:00
The world's most popular grain is also the deadliest for the human metabolism. Modern wheat isn't really wheat at all and is a "perfect, chronic poison," according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist, author and leading expert on wheat. Approximately 700 million tons of wheat are now cultivated worldwide making it the second most-produced grain after maize. It is grown on more land area than any other commerical crop and is considered a staple food for humans. At some point in our history, this ancient grain was nutritious in some respects, however modern wheat really isn't wheat at all. Once agribusiness took over to develop a higher-yielding crop, wheat became hybridized to such an extent that it has been completely transformed from it's prehistorical genetic configuration. All nutrient content of modern wheat depreciated more than 30% in its natural unrefined state compared to its ancestral genetic line. The balance and ratio that mother nature created for wheat was also modified and human digestion and physiology could simply could not adapt quick enough to the changes. |
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Science Daily
2013-05-22 00:00:00
Johns Hopkins researchers report that hospitals may be reaping enormous income for patients whose hospital stays are complicated by preventable bloodstream infections contracted in their intensive care units. In a small, new study, reported online in the American Journal of Medical Quality, the researchers found that an ICU patient who develops an avoidable central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) costs nearly three times more to care for than a similar infection-free patient. Moreover, hospitals earn nearly nine times more for treating infected patients, who spend an average of 24 days in the hospital. The researchers also found that private insurers, rather than Medicare and Medicaid, pay the most for patient stays complicated by CLABSIs -- roughly $400,000 per hospital stay -- suggesting that private insurers would gain the most financial benefit from working with hospitals to reduce infection rates. "We have known that hospitals often profit from complications, even ones of their own making," says Peter J. Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., senior vice president for patient safety for Johns Hopkins Medicine and one of the authors of the research. "What we did not know was by how much, and that private insurers are largely footing the bill." |
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Science Daily
2013-05-22 00:00:00
Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion -- the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic behavior. A new study by researchers at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center of the University of Wisconsin-Madison shows that adults can be trained to be more compassionate. The report, published Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, investigates whether training adults in compassion can result in greater altruistic behavior and related changes in neural systems underlying compassion. "Our fundamental question was, 'Can compassion be trained and learned in adults? Can we become more caring if we practice that mindset?'" says Helen Weng, lead author of the study and a graduate student in clinical psychology. "Our evidence points to yes." |
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