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CBC's "The Passionate Eye" presents The Putin System - a
point-of-view documentary that presents an ominous view of what Putin is
willing to do to ensure Russia regains its position on the world stage.2007-12-03 15:40:00 The Putin System chronicles the remarkable life of Putin, a tough, young leader who is not afraid to make harsh decisions and holds a secret purpose-to restore the old Russia of his dreams. The Putin System is directed by Jean-Michel Carré in association with Jill Emery for the French production company Les Films Grain De Sable.
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Comment: Putin did indeed change the constitution in 2008 and five years on, he remains firmly in control of Russia.
FSB Apartment Bombing False Flag Attack Moscow Subway Bombings Kill 38 in Deadliest Attacks Since 2004 'Caucasian Mujahadeen' Claims Nevsky Express Bombing Prominent Russian reporter shot to death Kremlin to blame for Beslan deaths, claims Russian MP Beslan victims' relatives allege cover-up |
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News.com.au
2013-06-25 15:48:00
American journalist Michael Hastings told colleagues he suspected he was being investigated by the FBI just hours before he was killed in a fiery car crash in Los Angeles. |
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Clark Kent
Michael Hastings was working on a story about the CIA prior to his death, according to LA Weekly. "That Hastings had the Central Intelligence Agency in his sights is no surprise to those who knew his work," writes Dennis Romero, adding that "the shadowy world of intelligence and off-the-record American aggression was a favorite topic of the journalist."Hangthebankers.com 2013-06-20 15:33:00 The story gets even more suspicious. Hastings apparently contacted Wikileaks a few hours before his death. The whistleblower organization posted the following tweet: |
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Ben Lynfield
The Independent, UK 2013-06-24 10:18:00
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest political ally has called for Israel to carry out a "thorough cleansing" of the Gaza Strip as a tenuous ceasefire between its Hamas rulers and the Jewish state frayed. Speaking on Israel Radio, the far-right former foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman called for Israel to reconquer the crowded coastal enclave to avoid "finding ourselves in two years with Hamas having aircraft and hundreds of missiles that will reach beyond Tel Aviv". His comments came as the Israeli Air Force attacked targets in the Gaza Strip after six rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel into the early hours of Monday morning. No one was injured. It was the first ceasefire breach since April. Mr Lieberman suggested that neither the eight-day aerial campaign Israel launched in November with the stated goal of halting rockets from Gaza, nor the devastating Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09 in which more than 1,100 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died, had proven effective at quelling the violence. "Without willingness to take things to their conclusion we merely increase the threats," he said, adding that Hamas "has no intention of coming to terms with the Jewish presence in the land of Israel and therefore what is needed is to seriously consider conquering the Strip and carry out a thorough cleansing." Mr Lieberman was number two on Mr Netanyahu's electoral list during elections last January, and currently holds the post of chairman of parliament's foreign affairs and defence committee. Mr Netanyahu's office declined to comment on Mr Lieberman's statements. Yair Lapid, the centrist Finance minister, said the remarks were "irresponsible". After the rocket fire, Israeli warplanes pounded what the military said were arms storage facilities and a rocket launch site in the Strip. There were no injuries from either the rockets or the air strikes. Israel ordered the closure of the Kerem Shalom and Erez crossings between Gaza and Israel, a step condemned as a "collective punishment" by Jaber Wishah, a spokesman for the Gaza City-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights. Israeli army officials believe the rockets were fired by the Islamic Jihad group, a small militant faction currently at loggerheads with Hamas. But Israel said Hamas, which has controlled the Strip since seizing power there in 2007, bears overall responsibility. Meanwhile, police said vandals slashed the tyres of 21 cars in the Arab Beit Hanina neighborhood of East Jerusalem in the latest of a wave of anti-Arab crimes by suspected Jewish extremists who have struck three times in and around Jerusalem in the past 10 days. Palestinian residents said the government was not doing enough to stop the vandalism. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said police are treating the matter as a "high priority". | |
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Comment: For more on Lieberman's poisonous attitude, see this -
Paramoralisms, twists and lies are the psychopaths trade: Spiegel interviews Avigdor Lieberman |
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RIA Novosti
2013-06-25 09:02:00
Russia said on Tuesday that Edward Snowden, the former CIA employee wanted by the US for leaking state secrets, had not crossed the Russian border. Snowden, who leaked details of a US surveillance program to newspapers in the US and UK earlier this month, was widely reported to have flown from Hong Kong to Moscow on Sunday, from where he was expected to fly - via Cuba - to Ecuador, where he has requested asylum. "I want to say right away that we have nothing to do with Snowden, or with his attitude to the American legal system, or with his movements around the world. He chose his own route, and we found out about it - like most people here - from the media," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference. "He did not cross the Russian border," the foreign minister said. |
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Niall McKay
The National Security Agency has its ear to the world, but doesn't listen to everyone at once.Wired 1999-10-05 16:10:00 That was one conclusion of a new report, Interception Capabilities 2000, accepted late last week by the European Parliament's Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel (STOA). The panel commissioned Duncan Campbell, a British investigative reporter, to prepare a report on Echelon, the US-led satellite surveillance network. "I have no objection to these systems monitoring serious criminals and terrorists," said Glyn Ford, a British Labour Party member of parliament and a committee member of STOA. "But what is missing here is accountability, clear guidelines as to who they can listen to, and in what circumstances these laws apply." Campbell was asked to investigate the system in the wake of charges made last year in the European Parliament that Echelon was being used to funnel European government and industry secrets into US hands. "What is new and important about this report is that it contains the first ever documentary evidence of the Echelon system," said Campbell. Campbell obtained the document from a source at Menwith Hill, the principal NSA communications monitoring station, located near Harrogate in northern England. |
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Paul Lewis, Rob Evans, Guy Grandjean, Alex Purcell and Mustafa Khalili
In extracts from a joint Guardian and Channel 4 Dispatches
investigation, police whistleblower Peter Francis reveals disturbing
details about his undercover deployment. His full story is detailed in
the book Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police, by Rob Evans and Paul Lewis.
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Noam Sheizaf
The implementation of the Prawer Plan for unrecognized villages in
the Negev has become a major policy objective for the Netanyahu
government.
972mag.com 2013-06-25 15:14:00
Following one of the most heated debates the Israeli parliament has seen in recent years, the Knesset approved the Prawer-Begin Plan for the Arrangement of Bedouin-Palestinian Settlement in the Negev yesterday (Monday). Commonly referred to as the Prawer Plan, the new legislation will allow the government to destroy dozens of so-called "unrecognized" villages in the South and remove between 30-40,000 Bedouin from their homes. According to the plan, those Bedouin citizens who have registered land claims will be offered monetary compensation or land in an area designated for resettlement. Following demands from the right-wing Jewish Home party, a new article was added to the bill at the last minute, stipulating that the government's compensation offer will expire after a certain period of time; failure to comply with the process will not only result in forced removal to the relocation zones but also a loss of monetary compensation or land, which would have previously been offered. This is the largest attempted eviction of a native Palestinian population by Israel in decades. At the end of the process, all remaining Bedouin land claims will be erased from the state record. During the Knesset debate, several Palestinian members of Knesset tore the bill before leaving the room. Due to opposition to the bill from the Right - settler groups object to giving any land rights to the Bedouin - none of the Likud ministers were willing to defend the bill in the name of the government. The offer ended up passing in a very narrow vote, 43-40, thanks to the support of Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid party, which also sent one of its ministers to defend the law. |
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Snejanna Farberov
A 41-year-old man from Ohio has been found naked and bleeding profusely
on the grounds of a Michigan school after police say he ripped off a
part of his genitals while high on drugs.The Daily Mail, UK 2013-06-25 12:14:00 The bizarre incident took place at around 1am Tuesday when Washtenaw County sheriff's deputies responded to a report of a burglary at Ypsilanti Middle School at 105 North Mansfield street. Officers who arrived on the scene discovered a naked man kneeling outside the school and covered in blood from the waist down, with his penis partially detached, according to Sgt. Geoff Fox.
According to police, the 41-year-old was near death when he was discovered outside of school due to extensive blood loss and shock. An initial toxicology test performed on the man's blood did not turn up evidence that the mushrooms were laced with another substance, AnnArbor.com reported. Police say the 41-year-old does not have a history of mental illness. According to the officer, the 41-year-old was screaming and making incoherent statements before being taken to a local hospital along with his mangled privates, according to the Detroit Free Press. 'He mutilated his genitals with his bare hands,' Fox said, adding that the suspect had no recollection of what happened. The man, who has not been named, later told investigators that he ingested some 'magic' hallucinogenic mushrooms earlier in the day while visiting friends in town. Sgt. Fox said that the suspect later broke a window to get inside the middle school, setting off an alarm, but he did not steal anything. He is now facing a burglary charge.
The 41-year-old was initially treated at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Superior Township and was later transferred to University of Michigan Health System, where he is listed in stable condition. According to police, the 41-year-old was near death when he was discovered outside of school due to extensive blood loss and shock. An initial toxicology test performed on the man's blood did not turn up evidence that the mushrooms were laced with another substance, AnnArbor.com reported. Police say the 41-year-old does not have a history of mental illness. |
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Richard Spencer
Nadia Umm Fuad watched her son being shot by Islamist rebels in
Syria after the 14-year-old referred to the Prophet Mohammed as he joked
with a customer at his coffee stall in Aleppo. She speaks to Richard
Spencer. The Telegraph, UK 2013-06-21 03:31:00
Mohammed Katta's mother witnessed the execution of her son in three stages. She was upstairs at home when she first heard the shouting. The people of the neighbourhood were yelling that "they have brought back the kid", so she rushed out of her apartment. "I went out on my balcony," Nadia Umm Fuad said. "I said to his father, they are going to shoot your son! Come! Come! Come! I was on the stairs when I heard the first shot. I was at the door when I heard the second shot. "I saw the third shot. I was shouting, 'That's haram, forbidden! Stop! Stop! You are killing a child.' But they just gave me a dirty look and got into their car. As they went, they drove over my son's arm, as he lay there dying." Mohammed was 14 when he was killed, earlier this month, prompting international condemnation. He has become a symbol of the fears many Syrians have for the future of a country where jihadists are vying with the regime for control. |
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Daniel Somers
Information Clearinghouse 2013-06-24 00:00:00
Daniel Somers was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was part of Task Force Lightning, an intelligence unit. In 2004-2005, he was mainly assigned to a Tactical Human-Intelligence Team (THT) in Baghdad, Iraq, where he ran more than 400 combat missions as a machine gunner in the turret of a Humvee, interviewed countless Iraqis ranging from concerned citizens to community leaders and and government officials, and interrogated dozens of insurgents and terrorist suspects. In 2006-2007, Daniel worked with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) through his former unit in Mosul where he ran the Northern Iraq Intelligence Center. His official role was as a senior analyst for the Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and part of Turkey). Daniel suffered greatly from PTSD and had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and several other war-related conditions. On June 10, 2013, Daniel wrote the following letter to his family before taking his life. Daniel was 30 years old. His wife and family have given permission to publish it. The fact is, for as long as I can remember my motivation for getting up every day has been so that you would not have to bury me. As things have continued to get worse, it has become clear that this alone is not a sufficient reason to carry on. The fact is, I am not getting better, I am not going to get better, and I will most certainly deteriorate further as time goes on. From a logical standpoint, it is better to simply end things quickly and let any repercussions from that play out in the short term than to drag things out into the long term. You will perhaps be sad for a time, but over time you will forget and begin to carry on. Far better that than to inflict my growing misery upon you for years and decades to come, dragging you down with me. It is because I love you that I can not do this to you. You will come to see that it is a far better thing as one day after another passes during which you do not have to worry about me or even give me a second thought. You will find that your world is better without me in it. I really have been trying to hang on, for more than a decade now. Each day has been a testament to the extent to which I cared, suffering unspeakable horror as quietly as possible so that you could feel as though I was still here for you. In truth, I was nothing more than a prop, filling space so that my absence would not be noted. In truth, I have already been absent for a long, long time. |
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Joel N. Shurkin
Inside Science News Service 2013-06-25 16:19:00
A large, sophisticated civilization that once built one of the largest cities in the world left behind hundreds of works of art, carved or painted on rocks in the open air or deep in caves in the Appalachian Mountains in the Southeastern United States, archaeologists have reported. That art work, some of it 6,000 years old, tells a unified story, the view the Native Americans had of the universe they lived in, according to archaeologists. It was a layered cosmology, similar to civilizations from ancient Greece to modern religions, full of spirits -- good and evil -- and colors -- dark and light. The paintings reflected not only where they were painted, but contemplated the layers of their spiritual world, according to Jan Simek of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Simek, along with Nick Herrmann of Mississippi State University, Alan Cresser of the U.S. Geological Survey, and Sarah Sherwood at the University of the South who published their findings in the current issue of the journal Antiquities. The people are known to archaeologists as the Mississippians or the Mound builders, named for the ceremonial mounds they built across the area, many of which survive to this day. |
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Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News 2013-06-22 04:38:00
An array of detailed aerial photos of the remote island where Amelia Earhart may have survived for a time as a castaway, has resurfaced in a New Zealand museum archive, raising hopes for new photographic evidence about the fate of the legendary aviator. Found by Matthew O'Sullivan, keeper of photographs at the New Zealand Air Force Museum in Christchurch, the images lay forgotten in an unlabeled tin box in the museum's archives. The box contained five sheets of contact prints -- for a total of 45 photos, complete with negatives -- and a slip of paper with the words "Gardner Island." Now called Nikumaroro, the uninhabited tropical atoll in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati is believed to be Earhart final resting place by researchers of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR). The legendary aviator disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, 1937 in a record attempt to fly around the world at the equator. |
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Ruth Dasso Marlaire
Physorg 2013-06-25 08:44:00
Colonies of bacteria grown aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis behaved in ways never before observed on Earth, according to a new NASA-funded study from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Recent findings provide important evidence of spaceflight's effect on the behavior of bacterial communities, and represent a key step toward understanding and mitigating the risk these bacteria may pose to astronauts during long-term space missions. The research team, led by Rensselaer faculty member Cynthia Collins, sent the experiment into orbit aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis missions STS-132 on May 16, 2010 and STS-135 on July 8, 2011. Samples of the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa were cultured for three days in artificial urine. The space-grown communities of bacteria, called biofilms, formed a "column-and-canopy" structure not previously observed on Earth. Additionally, biofilms grown during spaceflight had a greater number of live cells, more biomass, and were thicker than control biofilms grown under normal gravity conditions. Biofilms are complex, three-dimensional microbial communities commonly found in nature. Most biofilms, including those found in the human body, are harmless. Some biofilms, however, have shown to be associated with disease. |
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DC Agle
Jet Propulsion Lab 2013-06-24 22:46:00
More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected on the night of June 18, 2013, by the Pan-STARRS-1 telescope, located on the 10,000-foot (convert) summit of the Haleakala crater on Maui. Managed by the University of Hawaii, the PanSTARRS survey receives NASA funding. Ninety-eight percent of all near-Earth objects discovered were first detected by NASA-supported surveys. "Finding 10,000 near-Earth objects is a significant milestone," said Lindley Johnson, program executive for NASA's Near-Earth Object Observations Program at NASA Headquarters, Washington. "But there are at least 10 times that many more to be found before we can be assured we will have found any and all that could impact and do significant harm to the citizens of Earth." During Johnson's decade-long tenure, 76 percent of the NEO discoveries have been made. Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that can approach the Earth's orbital distance to within about 28 million miles (45 million kilometers). They range in size from as small as a few feet to as large as 25 miles (41 kilometers) for the largest near-Earth asteroid, 1036 Ganymed. Asteroid 2013 MZ5 is approximately 1,000 feet (300 meters) across. Its orbit is well understood and will not approach close enough to Earth to be considered potentially hazardous. |
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Paul Towers
Pesticide Action Network 2013-06-17 17:11:00
Last week, the term "bee-washing" emerged in public conversation. It doesn't refer to some new bee cleaning service, but to the insidious efforts of Monsanto and other pesticide corporations to discredit science about the impacts of pesticides on bees - especially neonicotinoids - by creating public relations tours, new research centers and new marketing strategies. This week, pesticide makers are showcasing these tactics during National Pollinator Week with offers of free seed packets to people who take their poorly named "pollinator pledge." The "bee-washing" term has gained traction as scientists and groups like PAN continue to cut through the misinformation and point to the emerging body of science that points to pesticides as a critical factor in bee declines. Monsanto hosted their first so-called Honey Bee Health Summit last week, a gathering at the company's headquarters in Missouri. Without question, some truly smart, dedicated scientists attended Monsanto's bee summit and are participating in these efforts. | |
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Comment: Pesticides are playing a key role in bee deaths!
Crop pesticides are 'killing our bees' - says MEP Beekeepers sue EPA over failing to stop harmful pesticides Silent Hives: Colony Collapse Disorder and Pesticides Co-op bans eight pesticides after worldwide beehive collapse U.S. Beekeepers expect 2013 to be "worst year for bees" Harvard Study Links Pesticides to Colony Collapse Disorder in Bees More Evidence Rises Of Role Pesticides Play In Bee Colony Collapse Have Bees Become Canaries In the Coal Mine? Why Massive Bee Dieoffs May Be a Warning About Our Own Health Plight of Bees Worsens This Winter and Scientists Spot Stew of Pesticides in Pollen, Hives |
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David Pitt
The northeast Iowa town of New Hartford was mostly deserted Tuesday
after authorities went door-to-door before dawn, warning residents a
flooded stream would inundate most of the small community.Source 2013-06-25 16:43:00 "Everybody was notified and told to evacuate," said Butler County emergency management coordinator Mitch Nordmeyer as he surveyed the town, about 90 miles northeast of Des Moines. "If they stayed they were staying at their own risk."
Although most of New Hartford's 500-plus residents heeded warnings and left town, some stayed behind and there was no sense of panic. Residents had seen the normally placid Beaver Creek flood before. And after some areas upstream received more than 7 inches of rain on Monday, few seemed surprised the stream was surging out of its banks again. |
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Herald Sun
Residents of New Zealand's capital are cleaning up after a storm rated the worst in over four decades subsided.2013-06-21 16:32:00 Winds of up to 140km/h - gusting to 200km/h in exposed areas - lashed Wellington, felling trees, lifting roofs, smashing windows, closing roads and schools and cutting power to homes and businesses.
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Jim Salter
Associated Press via Yahoo News 2013-06-25 16:25:00
About half of the ground-feeding songbirds collected from lead-mining regions of southeast Missouri had extremely high levels of lead in their blood, kidneys and liver, according to a survey released Tuesday by the U.S. Geological Survey. Lead mining and smelting have been going on in portions of southeast Missouri since the early 1700s. The region contains the world's largest deposit of the lead mineral galena. USGS performed the study at the request of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as part of an assessment of potential damage to wildlife from exposure to lead-contaminated soil. USGS scientists in 2009 and 2010 captured 34 songbirds in the region known as the Old Lead Belt, portions of the Big River flood plain and in an area within the Mark Twain National Forest. "We knew mining had gone on there for many years," said Nelson Beyer, author of the study. "We knew the area itself was very contaminated but there hasn't been a lot of work done on songbirds." Tested birds - mostly cardinals, robins, blue jays and eastern towhees - had eight times the normal amount of lead in their blood, 13 times the normal amount in their liver and 23 times the normal amount in their kidneys, according to the survey that compared the Missouri birds with birds captured elsewhere. |
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Elle Farcic
Parts of the Pilbara have been inundated with rainfall overnight that would usually only fall during a cyclone.The West Australian 2013-06-25 16:09:00 The highest rainfall in the region was recorded in Karratha, where 209.2mm of rain has fallen since 9am yesterday. The rainfall smashed Karratha's daily June record of 60mm.
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ABCLocal.go.com
2013-06-20 15:53:00
The Department of Environmental Protection says a biologist was sent out to Hirsch Lake in Runnemede, Camden County this morning after hundreds of fish were found dead. The lake, which is called both Hirsch Lake and Runnemede Lake, is located along Singley Avenue. Between 300 and 500 carp were found dead in the lake Thursday morning. It appears that only the carp are being killed - no other plant or wildlife in or around the lake seem to be affected. Officials suspect a pathogen specifically affecting the carp may be responsible for the sudden fish kill. Biologists are hoping to test the tissue of a living but sickly carp to determine if their speculation of a pathogen being the cause is correct. |
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The Inquisitr
Singapore officials assured citizens the recent hailstorm that hit
western parts of the country won't pose a risk to their health.2013-06-25 15:55:00 The National Environment Agency (NEA) held a media conference over growing concerns about the recent storm. Although the haze is considered to be a problem, the agency said the hailstorm isn't toxic. According to Yahoo! News, the hailstorm started in western Singapore at around 3 pm on Tuesday afternoon. The storm also included strong winds and heavy rain.
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Eyder Peralta
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a 6 ft wave that hit the east coast earlier this month
was a rare tsunami. The West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
said the source of the wave is "complex and under review," but they
believe it was caused by a strong storm and perhaps even the "the
slumping at the continental shelf east of New Jersey."National Public Radio 2013-06-25 15:48:00
The weather service says that Brian Coen, who was spear fishing near Barnegat Inlet in New Jersey, saw the effect of the tsunami first hand. He told the weather service that he noticed an outgoing tide that lasted a couple of minutes and exposed rocks that had been submerged. That was followed by a big six-foot wave. The Asbury Park Press, which covers the Jersey coast, talked to Paul Whitmore, director of the tsunami center. He explained the weather system that moved through the area may have changed the air pressure enough to "generate waves that act just like tsunamis." When that happens, the wave is called a "meteotsunami" - in other words a tsunami caused by meteorological conditions, not seismic activity. |
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Arun Janardhanan
The Times of India 2013-06-25 15:18:00
The Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has begun a detailed study to analyze the possible threats of an underwater volcano near the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) in Kalpakkam, about 70km south of Chennai. Confirming the presence of an underwater volcano five weeks ago, an AERB reply to an RTI query said the Geological Survey of India (GSI) has also recommended an advanced study to figure out the status of the volcano, though initial investigations did not detect any significant geological signs. |
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Kelly Bostian
Tulsa World 2013-06-21 03:56:00
State wildlife and environmental officials are investigating a die-off of thousands of fish in the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River in north-central Oklahoma. Kills were reported on June 4 and again on Monday. The die-off has spread downstream roughly 50 river miles from the initial report near Lamont to its confluence with the main channel of the Arkansas River, which is about seven miles south of Ponca City, according to Kay County Game Warden Spencer Grace, who is investigating the kill. There is no official estimate of the number of fish killed. "We're looking at stretches of the river, about a mile at a time, 100 or 200 in this stretch, 50 in the next stretch. You take 100 fish times 50 miles of river, that's a lot of fish," he said. Both Department of Wildlife Conservation and state Department of Environmental Quality officials have been to the river and taken water samples and fish samples, he said. Grace would not speculate on the cause of the kill but said it is widespread and "catastrophic." "I've been working on this the last three days with DEQ and it's been frustrating because so many miles of the river are dead now. There are no fish in the water, no gar, nothing. You only see the occasional turtle. You're not seeing any indicators of new fish dying so we just have to rely on the water tests now." DEQ spokeswoman Erin Hatfield said water tests would look for a wide range of substances looked for in any fish kill, including heavy metals. Results will be known in 10 days to two weeks, she said. There is no official warning to prevent people from going into the water or eating fish from the river, but Grace said he would not recommend it. Grace said the kill has hit largest fish the hardest. "I think the smallest one I saw was about three pounds," he said. "It's killing all aquatic life with the exception of turtles, freshwater mussels and clams. It seems to target species that live on the bottom and the big fish that hang out in those deep holes, so the catfish, buffalo, carp, some paddlefish. It is killing out fish in that system that won't be replaced in our lifetime." The Salt Fork, which forms the Great Salt Plains Lake where it is dammed in Alfalfa County, has natural salinity but levels measured this week are "astronomical," Grace said. |
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West Sussex County Times
2013-06-24 18:43:00
An eyewitness has described seeing a ball of white light shoot through Mannings Heath, just before a power cut and digital disruption. The object, which appears to fit descriptions of a rare phenomenon called 'ball lightning', was seen in the village on the afternoon of June 7. Roger Spinks told the County Times he was working at The Village Store, Pound Lane, when he saw it shoot past, heading south-west along the course of Golding Lane and Church Road. He was standing at the counter talking to a customer when he saw it out of the window, going past very quickly with a strange motion 'like a bouncing bomb'. Mr Spinks said it reminded him of the mysterious balloon-like entity from cult TV series The Prisoner. |
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Kerry Mcdermott
Claims Soviet-era missiles could destroy meteorites hurtling towards earthThe Daily Mail, UK 2013-06-25 11:23:00 A meteor burst over Russia's Ural Mountains earlier this year Sonic boom left 1,200 injured and thousands of buildings damaged Researcher claims missile could destroy similar rock before it hit earth It sounds like a plot lifted from a sci-fi disaster movie. A Russian scientist has said a Soviet-era ballistic missile system dubbed 'Satan' should be put back into use defending the earth from asteroids. Senior rocket researcher Sabit Saitgarayev - who spoke out after a meteor burst over Russia's Ural Mountains earlier this year damaging thousands of buildings - said the old 1960s missiles were ideally suited to destroying any potential threats streaking towards the planet from space.
Mr Saitgarayev, from the State Rocket Design Center, highlighted the havoc caused when the meteor burst over the Urals on February 15, leaving around 1,200 people injured. It created a sonic boom that shattered windows and damaged thousands of buildings around the city of Chelyabinsk.
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Jon Rappoport
Activist Post 2013-06-20 17:30:00
I now have the official CDC flu-death statistics for the year 2010. They were provided to me by Martin Maloney, who, some years ago, contacted me to show how the CDC was lying all the way along the line about numbers of flu deaths. Many thanks, Martin, for your good work. 2010 is apparently the most recent year for which the CDC has issued a final report. It was released on May 13 of this year. The report comes through a sub-agency of the CDC, the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS). On page 89 of the report, "Deaths: Final Data for 2010," in Table 10, we find the following:
But the CDC PR people have trumpeted, over and over, that 36,000 people die every year in the US from the flu. They've hyped this number, to emphasize how dangerous the flu is. They use the 36,000 number as a way to promote the flu vaccine. They use it to work for their pimps in the pharmaceutical industy. |
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Andrea Gerlin
Bloomberg 2013-06-25 15:30:00
Researchers have discovered a new virus in patients in Vietnam suffering from severe brain infections, a team of scientists reported today in mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The virus was detected in 28 of 644 patients who had severe brain infections and none of 122 patients who had non-infectious brain disorders, according to researchers at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust South East Asia Major Overseas Programme and the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam. It's tentatively called CyCV-VN and is part of a group of viruses known as Circoviridae known to circulate in animals such as birds and pigs, they said. |
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Christina Sarich
Natural Society 2013-06-25 15:11:00
New studies in cell research are bringing up some alarming new questions concerning GMOs, and one of them in particular makes liver failure or cancer seem like child's play compared to the garish possibilities that arise when we start to look at how genetically modified foods likely affect our DNA. Let's get one thing straight, first. All kinds of things can alter our DNA, for the better or worse. Bruce Lipton, a pioneering biology scientist, proved that emotions can change our DNA; research has shown that even exercise or chemotherapy can alter our DNA; ancient cultures have known that sound can affect our DNA; and the newest research states that we aren't relegated to a specific destiny because of our genes, but it seems our brains are being rewired via DNA to become 'new humans.' Our DNA contains two strands of nucleotides that make up its stair-like structure. Each nucleotide contains one of four bases (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine) a phosphate group and a sugar molecule. The bases contain nitrogen, which bond in very specific ways. In one species the way the four bases connect to each other are very different than how they will organize in another. In fact, double stranded RNA (dRNA) GMO created by Monsanto can allegedly turn off certain gene signals and turn on others. Usually, if you put in a Roundup ready gene into a plant, it requires a protein that can make a Roundup ready plant that can resist Roundup and still grow. However, the new dRNA can survive without protein synthesis. This allows the dRNA to alter genes. |
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Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com 2013-06-25 00:00:00
Disturbing discoveries relating to glyphosate - the active ingredient in Monsanto's broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup - keep emerging. No less than two shocking discoveries recently went public on the same day... Earlier this month, groundbreaking research was published detailing a newfound mechanism of harm of the chemical. Now, testing shows that people in 18 countries across Europe have glyphosate in their bodies, while yet another study reveals that the chemical has estrogenic properties and drive breast cancer proliferation in the parts-per-trillion range2. As reported by GreenMedinfo.com: Meanwhile, a new EU-US free trade agreement, known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), has again cracked the door open for genetically engineered (GE) crops and foods into Europe. This may effectively negate the hard work Europeans have done to limit the proliferation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in their food supply, and with genetically engineered "Roundup Ready" crops and the food made from it come increased glyphosate exposure... |
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Rachael Rettner
LiveScience 2013-06-25 05:49:00
A 31-year old woman's heart problems and fainting might have had something to do with the fact that she drank only soda for about half her life, according to a report of her case. The woman, who lives in Monaco, a small country near southern France, was brought to a hospital after she fainted. A blood test showed she had severely low potassium levels. And a test of her heart's electrical activity revealed she had a condition called long QT syndrome, which can cause erratic heart beats. The woman did not have a family history of heart or hormone problems. But she told her doctors that, since the age of 15, she had not drunk any water - soda (specifically cola) was the only liquid she consumed. She drank about 2 liters (2 quarts) of cola daily, she said. After abstaining from soda for just one week, the woman's potassium levels and heart electrical activity returned to normal. Drinking too much cola may cause excess water to enter the bowels, which in turn leads to diarrhea, and loss of potassium, the researchers said. High amounts of caffeine can also increase urine production and decrease potassium reabsorption, the researchers said. Potassium plays a role in helping a person's heartbeat, and low levels of potassium may cause heart rhythm problems. |
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Sandra Brown
Sandra Brown MA Blog 2013-06-25 17:19:00
Pathology Education teaches that pathological partners come in all levels of social and economic success. Survivors say, "He's a doctor" to which I respond "SO?" So what. Doctors, attorneys, clergy, law enforcement---it's not the job that's pathological--- it's the character and personality disorders underneath. Pathologicals flock to all types of careers. Those with high levels of narcissism and psychopathy flock to areas where they are experts, heroes, or are able to climb high up the career ladder. These disorders 'want' adoration. You don't get a lot of that on the back end of garbage truck as a worker. Paul Babiak and Robert Hare wrote about this in their book Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. The book examines the rise of white collar psychopathy in our country and in the work place. Some forms of pathology hide very well within their careers and success. A subconscious belief system is "If they are successful, they must be ok." A degree from Yale means he's smart. It doesn't mean he's safe. A doctor that saves 'others lives' doesn't mean he won't take yours. Clergy who will pray for others souls doesn't mean he isn't soul-deadening in a personal relationship. |
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The Huffington Post Alberta
2013-06-24 00:09:00
When Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi addressed the city on Sunday, he couldn't believe he had to state the obvious, which apparently wasn't obvious enough. "I can't believe I actually have to say this," said Nenshi, "but I'm going to say it. The river is closed." Referring to people who were still using the river while the city was in a state of emergency due to flooding, Nenshi said he couldn't let Darwin's law take care of it...or call people what we can only [assume] are names that include swear words. Catch the hilarious transcript of Nenshi's address below, or watch the video above. "I can't believe I actually have to say this, but I'm going to say it. The river is closed. You cannot boat on the river. I have a large number of nouns that I can use to describe the people I saw in a canoe on the Bow river today. I am not allowed to use any of them. I can tell you, however, that I have been told that despite the state of local emergency, I'm not allowed to invoke the Darwin law. |
