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Muslims for 9/11 Truth
2013-04-30 14:06:00
The vast majority of the world's Muslims understand that 9/11, Bali, Madrid, 7/7, Mumbai, and similar events have been false flag attacks conducted by the enemies of Islam. As a 2011 Pew Poll found: In Pakistan, the nation that knows "Al-CIA-duh" best, only 3% believe the official story of 9/11. Among the vast majority of Muslims who know the truth about false-flag terror: The accused Boston Marathon bombers and their mother. Dzokhar Tsarnaev's entirely-normal Twitter account included: |
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Prof. Peter Phillips & Prof. Mickey Huff
Global Research 2010-03-03 09:00:00
New research in the journal American Behavioral Scientist (Sage publications, February 2010) addresses the concept of "State Crimes Against Democracy" (SCAD). Professor Lance deHaven-Smith from Florida State University writes that SCADs involve highlevel government officials, often in combination with private interests, that engage in covert activities for political advantages and power. Proven SCADs since World War II include McCarthyism (fabrication of evidence of a communist infiltration), Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (President Johnson and Robert McNamara falsely claimed North Vietnam attacked a US ship), burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist in effort to discredit Ellsberg, the Watergate break-in, Iran-Contra, Florida's 2000 Election (felon disenfranchisement program), and fixed intelligence on WMDs to justify the Iraq War.1 Other suspected SCADs include the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, the shooting of George Wallace, the October Surprise near the end of the Carter presidency, military grade anthrax mailed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, Martin Luther King's assassination, and the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 on September 11, 2001. The proven SCADs have a long trail of congressional hearings, public records, and academic research establishing the truth of the activities. The suspected SCADs listed above have substantial evidence of covert actions with countervailing deniability that tend to leave the facts in dispute.2 | |
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Comment: Dr. Lance deHaven-Smith, Professor, School of
Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University, speaks
below on elite political criminality. DeHaven-Smith coined a term in
2006 to delineate crimes of high office: State Crimes Against Democracy,
such as Watergate, Iran-Contra, Plamegate, the assassinations of JFK,
RFK, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the staged Gulf of Tonkin
incident.
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Chris Morran
Consumerist 2013-04-30 13:34:00
The notion behind an overdraft fee - in which a bank customer is charged a penalty for overdrafting his account - is twofold: To incentivize consumers to pay attention to how much money is in their accounts, and to allow the bank to recoup any money it lost by covering the overage. But a new report claims that these fees have become such a profit center for banks that it's now in their interest to push account-holders with low-balance bank accounts toward overdrafting. According to a newly released white paper [PDF] from the National Consumer Law Center, banks brought in $29.5 billion in overdraft fees in 2011 alone (a recent study showed that number increased to $32 billion in 2012). Given that the median fee is now around $35, while the actual cost to the bank for processing the overdraft is anywhere from a few cents to a few dollars, a large portion of those billions is profit. The NCLC also found that the median debit card overdraft is only $20, while the median amount for all overdrawn transactions is $36. Thus, in many cases, the fee is larger than the amount being overdrafted. In recent years, a some of the larger banks have made no secret of the fact that the average checking account-holder is not a source of profits, and have tried to institute things like monthly fees for debit cards, a number of which have resulted in public backlash. |
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Eric W. Dolan
Raw Story 2013-04-29 19:07:00
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's denunciation of violence against Muslims during a speech to the Anti-Defamation League could be seen as offensive, according to Fox News host Megyn Kelly. Though the vast majority of his speech focused on the ADL's importance in fighting hate crimes, some conservatives have become outraged that Holder denounced "misguided acts of retaliation" against Muslims. Kelly addressed the issue during a segment on Monday. "He is speaking to the Anti-Defamation League, which is a group that fights anti-Semitism and he is lecturing that group on how they can't be bigoted, and we can't be ignorant, and we can't have a backlash against Muslims," Kelly said. "I mean, the context could be perceived by some to be somewhat offensive, that the Attorney General is perceiving the folks in front of him or others in this country are now getting ready to put on their bigoted clothes and go out there and exercise their ignorance as opposed to expressing outrage at the fact that we were attacked by two guys who apparently are followers of radical Islam." |
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Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story 2013-04-30 19:02:00
Facing what they called an "avalanche" of right-wing legislation this session, 17 activists with the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NC-NAACP) gathered at the state assembly's doors on Monday and joined hands in prayer, then refused to leave. The group, eight of them ministers according to an NC-NAACP advisory, held vigil to protest the Republican-dominated legislature's progress on cutting unemployment benefits, cutting taxes for the wealthy while increasing taxes on the poor, rejecting the Affordable Care Act's expansion of Medicaid, and moving to pass a restrictive voter ID law that will dial down turnout among minorities, the elderly and students. "The decision to engage in civil disobedience is not one we take lightly," Rev. William Barber, NC-NAACP's president, said in prepared text. "But the extremists are acting like the George Wallaces of the 21st century. They are pursuing a cruel, unusual and unconstitutional agenda reminiscent of the Old South. What happens in North Carolina does not stay in North Carolina. It has national implications. North Carolina is ground zero in a national struggle to defend democracy for all." |
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Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story 2013-04-30 18:58:00
Even though the Bush library won't be open to the public until May 1, late night talk show host Conan O'Brien somehow managed to score an early tour, and even managed to spot the facility's spot-on replica of the Bush oval office. In a sketch aired Monday night, Conan remarked that "it looks like they did a great job." News footage he queued up featured CNN's John King describing the elaborate re-imagining of the Bush administration's legacy, including "The Decision Points Theatre," where visitors try their hand at making the tough decisions Bush was faced with. If they make the wrong decisions, like not going to war in Iraq, The Washington Post notes that Bush emerges on a computer screen to tell them how wrong they are. |
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wsbtv.com
2013-04-23 18:51:00
Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss told Channel 2 Action News late Tuesday afternoon that a law enforcement agency may have had information in advance of the Boston bombings that wasn't properly shared. "There now appears that may have been some evidence that was obtained by one of the law enforcement agencies that did not get shared in a way that it could have been. If that turns out to be the case, then we have to determine whether or not that would have made a difference," Chambliss said. Though Chambliss would not get into specifics on the information or whether or not the bombing could have been prevented, he told Channel 2 Action News that they will find out if someone dropped the ball. "Information sharing between agencies is critical. And we created the Department of Homeland Security to supervise that. We created the National Counter Terrorism Center to be the collection point for all of this information, and we're going to get to the bottom of whether or not somebody along the way dropped the ball on some information and did not share it in a way that it should have been shared."
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Lateef Mungin
CNN 2013-05-01 15:18:00
Lucifer cannot be born in New Zealand. And there's no place for Christ or a Messiah either. In New Zealand, parents have to run by the government any name they want to bestow on their baby. And each year, there's a bevy of unusual ones too bizarre to pass the taste test. The country's Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages shared that growing list with CNN on Wednesday. Four words: What were they thinking? In the past 12 years, the agency had to turn down not one, not two, but six sets of parents who wanted to name their child "Lucifer." Also shot down were parents who wanted to grace their child with the name "Messiah." That happened twice. "Christ," too, was rejected. Specific rules As the agency put it, acceptable names must not cause offense to a reasonable person, not be unreasonably long and should not resemble an official title and rank. It's no surprise then that the names nixed most often since 2001 are "Justice" (62 times) and "King" (31 times). Some of the other entries scored points in the creativity department -- but clearly didn't take into account the lifetime of pain they'd bring. "Mafia No Fear." "4Real." "Anal." Oh, come on! Then there were the parents who preferred brevity through punctuation. The ones who picked '"*" (the asterisk) or '"."(period). |
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Joseph Stromberg
SmithsonianMag 2013-05-01 14:23:00
The harsh winter of 1609 in Virginia's Jamestown Colony forced residents to do the unthinkable. A recent excavation at the historic site discovered the carcasses of dogs, cats and horses consumed during the season commonly called the "Starving Time." But a few other newly discovered bones in particular, though, tell a far more gruesome story: the dismemberment and cannibalization of a 14-year-old English girl. "The chops to the forehead are very tentative, very incomplete," says Douglas Owsley, the Smithsonian forensic anthropologist who analyzed the bones after they were found by archaeologists from Preservation Virginia. "Then, the body was turned over, and there were four strikes to the back of the head, one of which was the strongest and split the skull in half. A penetrating wound was then made to the left temple, probably by a single-sided knife, which was used to pry open the head and remove the brain." Much is still unknown about the circumstances of this grisly meal: Who exactly the girl researchers are calling "Jane" was, whether she was murdered or died of natural causes, whether multiple people participated in the butchering or it was a solo act. But as Owsley revealed along with lead archaeologist William Kelso today at a press conference at the National Museum of Natural History, we now have the first direct evidence of cannibalism at Jamestown, the oldest permanent English colony in the Americas. "Historians have gone back and forth on whether this sort of thing really happened there," Owsley says. "Given these bones in a trash pit, all cut and chopped up, it's clear that this body was dismembered for consumption." It's long been speculated that the harsh conditions faced by the colonists of Jamestown might have made them desperate enough to eat other humans - and perhaps even commit murder to do so. The colony was founded in 1607 by 104 settlers aboard three ships, the Susan Constant, Discovery and Godspeed, but only 38 survived the first nine months of life in Jamestown, with most succumbing to starvation and disease (some researchers speculate that drinking water poisoned by arsenic and human waste also played a role). Because of difficulties in growing crops - they arrived in the midst of one of the worst regional droughts in centuries and many settlers were unused to hard agricultural labor - the survivors remained dependent on supplies brought by subsequent missions, as well as trade with Native Americans. |
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Charles Q. Choi
Space.com 2013-05-01 07:00:00
The mysterious bias of life on Earth toward molecules that skew one way and not the other could be due to how light shines in star- and planet-forming clouds, researchers say. If correct, these findings suggest the molecules of life on Earth may initially have come from elsewhere in the cosmos, scientists added. The organic molecules that form the basis of life on Earth are often chiral, meaning they come in two forms that are mirror images, much as right and left hands appear identical but are reversed versions of each other. Strangely, the amino acids that make up proteins on Earth are virtually all "left-handed," even though it should be as easy to make the right-handed kind. Solving the mystery of why life came to prefer one kind of handedness over the other could shed light on the origins of life, scientists say. |
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The Extinction Protocol
"The quake happened at 12.27 p.m. and measured 5.8 on the Richter scale.
The epicenter was near Kishtwar town at the Jammu and Kashmir and
Himachal Pradesh border region," R.S. Dattatreya, director, Department
of Seismology, India Meteorological Department (IMD), said. "It is a
moderate tremor in Delhi and other northern regions. We ask public not
to panic," he said. "The quake was 10 km beneath the earth's surface.
The possibility of aftershocks are very minimal for such a low intensity
quake," said L.S. Rathore, IMD's director general (meteorology).2013-05-01 10:08:00
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The Register
Australia's only active volcano is rumbling fiercely, with new NASA
photos revealing its lava lake has overflowed its crater. The volcano in
question, Big Ben, is happily located on Mawson Peak in the remote
southern reaches of the Indian Ocean on Heard Island, an Australian
territory. People only bother to visit Heard and its neighbour McDonald
Island every couple of years, because there's little there but chilly
wastelands and the territory is a nature reserve people aren't allowed
to visit without a permit. Even fisherfolk chasing the apparently tasty
patagonian toothfish, aka Chilean Sea Bass, don't often bother landing.2013-05-01 10:05:00
No permanent human presence exists on the islands, beyond an automated weather station. NASA keeps an eye on the islands, though, because of the volcano atop Heard Island's Big Ben occasionally fires up. Last October we reported things have started to look interesting on the island. NASA has now released the image below showing that the volcano's caldera appears to have filled with so much lava that some has since cascaded down Mawson Peak's flanks. |
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The Extinction Protocol
2013-05-01 10:01:00
The famous Icelandic volcano is showing further signs that indicate an eruption could occur in a near future. Significant rapid inflation, concentrated in the northern part of the volcano, has been detected since early April and likely represents accumulation of rising magma underneath. Already in mid March this year, an earthquake swarm, volcanic tremor and deformation caused an alert, because it was believed that this was caused by rapid movement of magma under the volcano. The last eruption of the volcano was in March 2000, and it is estimated that by now, a significantly larger volume of magma has since then accumulated beneath the volcano. This would mean that a new eruption should be expected to be larger than the last one. Hekla's eruptions normally begin with a powerful explosive phase, and could pose a significant hazard to anyone in close (less than 10 km) proximity during the onset of it. - Volcano Discovery |
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Al ArabiAl Arabiya
2013-05-01 06:23:00
Fourteen people have died and four are missing due to torrential rain, said the Saudi Civil Defense General Directorate. From Monday night until midday Tuesday, Saudi authorities received more than 4,213 reports from across the kingdom of accidents resulting from torrential rainfall. Classes have been suspended in affected areas of the country. |
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Heidi Stevenson
Activist Post 2013-04-28 13:26:00
Glyphosate was first introduced in 1974 and has become the world's most dominant herbicide. It's now generic, so there are many brands and formulations. As a result, it's virtually ubiquitous, found nearly everywhere on earth. Further driving its use are genetically modified (GM) crops, which were first developed for the purpose of creating glyphosate-tolerant plants, usually known as Roundup Ready. These have resulted in ever-more blatant and free use, especially in the wake of glyphosate-resistant superweeds. Estimates put glyphosate-tolerant GM crops at 90% of all transgene crops. |
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Kristin M
FoodRenegade.com 2013-05-01 13:06:00
Industrialized agriculture is no stranger to organic food. Sadly, organic standards in egg production do little to produce a nutrient-dense egg from an authentically happy hen. Industrial organic egg producers take advantage of the letter of the law to violate its spirit and cheat consumers out of hard-earned dollars by asking them to pay premium prices for eggs that are essentially the same as any other. |
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Jill Richardson & Michael Pollan
Alternet 2013-05-29 13:08:00
An interview with the acclaimed writer about his new book, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. Clearly, author Michael Pollan can take the heat, because he's in the kitchen. And in the barbeque pit, the bakery and the cheese cave. After revolutionizing the way our nation thinks about agriculture in his previous bestsellers like The Omnivore's Dilemma, Pollan has taken on cooking in his new book, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. Loyal Pollan readerswill recognize some of the memes in Cooked from previous newspaper columns by Pollan, like a 2009piece remarking on how Americans now cook less than ever, but love watching people cook on TV. In Cooked, Pollan looks at four different processes to transform our food, corresponding to the four elements: fire, water, air, and earth. The four processes examined are, respectively, barbeque, pot cooking, bread baking, and fermentation. As he goes, he reflects on the impact spending hours cooking in the kitchen and sharing home-cooked meals has on his family, even in ways that have nothing to do with food. He also shares the science behind why certain cooking methods work the way they do, like why slowly cooking meat over wood and smoke for a long period of time at low temperatures produces the flavors it does, or what - exactly - the "fifth flavor," umami, is. |
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Jeffrey Dach MD
Don't over do itBioidentical Hormone Blog 2013-05-01 10:48:00
George Washington's death in 1799 was attributed to a discredited practice called "blood letting", accepted in the 1700's as treatment for virtually any ailment. One day. George Washington contracted a sore throat, and his doctors removed seven pints of blood (3,750 ml over 9 hours, half of his blood volume). The result was hypovolemic shock and cardiac arrest.(7) Measuring Hematocrit in 1799 Perhaps the outcome would have been different if Mr. Washington's doctors had measured his blood count (hemoglobin/hematocrit), serum iron and ferritin levels during the blood letting procedure so they would know when to stop, Unfortunately, modern medicine arrived too late to save Mr. Washington from his overzealous doctors. Is there a health benefit to donating blood regularly? Some people actually make a practice of donating blood at the blood bank on a regular basis. Afterwards, one might feel good about doing such a "good deed". You might also wonder if there is a health benefit to donating blood on a regular basis. A study from Finland says there is. Finland- Donating blood every two months In a study done in 1997 in Finland, people who regularly donated blood at the blood bank had an 88% decrease in myocardial infarction.(1) This study from Helsinki Finland included 2,862 males aged 42-60 followed for 9 years. Heart attack rates for blood donors was only 0.7%, compared to 12.5% for non-donors. Another 1997 study from Kansas City showed a 50% reduction in heart attacks in non-smoking male blood donors.(2) I was intrigued by this information which I learned from Jonathan V. Wright MD in his April newsletter and again presented during his workshop at the Orlando A4M meeting in April 2013. | |
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Comment: For more information, please read our forum discussion Hemochromatosis and Autoimmune Conditions and
Iron overload - the missed diagnosis You will find here a more enlightening view on the role of smoking in our health: Let's All Light Up! Pestilence, the Great Plague and the Tobacco Cure Comets, plagues, tobacco and the origin of life on earth Nicotine - The Zombie Antidote |
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Andrea Germanos
Common Dreams 2013-04-26 18:40:00
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, may be "the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment," say authors The active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide may be "the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment," being responsible for a litany of health disorders and diseases including Parkinson's, cancer and autism, according to a new study. It's "the most popular herbicide on the planet," widely used on crops like corn and soy genetically engineered to be "Roundup Ready," and sprayed on weeds in lawns across the US. But in the peer-reviewed study published last Thursday in the journal Entropy, authors Anthony Samsel, an independent scientist and consultant, and Stephanie Seneff, a senior research scientist at MIT, crush the industry's claims that the herbicide glyphosate is non-toxic and as safe as aspirin. |
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Jo Marchant
Nature News 2013-04-19 10:20:00
People with genes that make it tough for them to engage socially with others seem to be better than average at hypnotizing themselves. A study published today in Psychoneuroendocrinology1 concludes that such individuals are particularly good at becoming absorbed in their own internal world, and might also be more susceptible to other distortions of reality. Psychologist Richard Bryant of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and his colleagues tested the hypnotizability of volunteers with different forms of the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone that increases trust and social bonding. (Oxytocin's association with emotional attachment also earned it the nickname of 'love hormone'.) Those with gene variants linked to social detachment and autism were found to be most susceptible to hypnosis. Hypnosis has intrigued scientists since the nineteenth-century physician James Braid used it to alleviate pain in a variety of medical conditions, but it has never been fully understood. Hypnotized people can undergo a range of unusual experiences, including amnesia, anaesthesia and the loss of the ability to move their limbs. But some individuals are more affected by hypnosis than others - and no one knows why. |
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Sean Coughlan
BBC 2013-05-01 06:29:00
A study from the University of Keele has examined links between bullying and different styles of playground humour. It found that some positive types of humour were used by children to raise their status and show social skills. But researchers found children who were victims of bullying were more likely to make "self-defeating" jokes at their own expense or about their appearance. The boundaries between bullying and teasing and "just joking" have always been blurred, but this study of more than 1,200 children aged 11 to 13, has examined how different forms of humour are associated with bullying and aggression. 'Class clown' Psychologist Dr Claire Fox says that humour can be deployed positively as a weapon to prevent bullying. |
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BBC News
2013-05-01 06:46:00
A passenger aircraft had a narrow miss with an unidentified object over Glasgow, a report has revealed. The Airbus A320 was making its final approach to Glasgow Airport on 2 December when an object passed about 300ft underneath it.The pilot of the aircraft said the risk of collision with the object, which did not show up on radar, had been "high". A report by the UK Airprox Board said investigators were unable to establish what the object had been.The A320 was flying with its landing lights on, in clear conditions and at an altitude of about 4,000ft above the Baillieston area of Glasgow, when the pilot and non-flying pilot of the aircraft saw an object "loom ahead" at a range of about 100m. |
