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Josh Hicks
The Washington Post 2013-07-15 15:01:00
The Department of Homeland Security has warned its employees that the government may penalize them for opening a Washington Post article containing a classified slide that shows how the National Security Agency eavesdrops on international communications. An internal memo from DHS headquarters told workers on Friday that viewing the document from an "unclassified government workstation" could lead to administrative or legal action. "You may be violating your non-disclosure agreement in which you sign that you will protect classified national security information," the communication said. The memo said workers who view the article through an unclassified workstation should report the incident as a "classified data spillage." The NSA is a Defense Department agency, meaning it does not fall under the jurisdiction of Homeland Security. It was not immediately clear whether all federal agencies released similar warnings to their employees. | |
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Comment: Here is the 'super top secret OMG secret of
secrets' slide that will shock your state of blissful ignorance to its
very core... US govt employees, avert thine eyes!
"You should use both"? Is this a joke?! Apparently not. Apparently it's so serious that to cast your eyes on this 'secret slide' is to risk incurring the wrath of It's BS of course, intended to buffer the illusion in the U.S. that state secrets exist to protect people when in reality the govt works for the corporations against the people and everything the U.S. does is pretty much transparent to the rest of the world. |
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Sarah Rae Fruchtnicht
Opposing Views 2013-07-17 13:34:00
What does Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have in common with Rihanna, Justin Bieber, John Lennon and B.B. King? He will appear on the cover of the August issue of Rolling Stone. On newsstands Friday, the issue features Tsarnaev leaning against a wall and staring blankly at the camera. Below his image is the headline "The Bomber." The subheading reads, "How a popular, promising student was failed by his family, fell into radical Islam and became a monster." Northeastern University criminologist Jack Levin told MyFoxBoston.com that the cover sends the wrong message to Americans. "If they want to become famous - kill somebody," Levin said of the message. | |
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Comment: The arguments surrounding whether or not Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be on the cover of the Rolling Stone are distracting from the real issues of the story, which SOTT.net has covered extensively:
Strategy of Tension - Boston Marathon bombingLambs to the Slaughter: Boston lockdown for manhunt of bombings 'suspect 'Baghdad to Boston - Terrorism Strikes the American Homeland It's all a hoax!' Boston Bombings and "Crazy Conspiracy Theories" Why there were no 'actors' at the Boston Marathon bombings Ink Blot Tests and 'actors' at the Boston bombings Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's "thick Russian accent" in court |
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RIA Novosti
2013-07-17 13:33:00
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, will not appear on the cover of the Russian version of Rolling Stone magazine, its editor-in-chief said Wednesday. The magazine's US version used a photograph of Tsarnaev for the cover of its latest issue - followed inside by a lengthy story about the life of the 19-year-old, who has roots in Russia's Caucasus region - prompting a squall of angry comments from readers and bloggers. The Russian cover will feature US actor Matt Damon instead, although a translated - and truncated - version of the Tsarnaev story will come out on August 1, editor-in-chief Alexander Kondukov said. "The decision [not to run the story on the Russian cover] was purely a marketing move," Kondukov told RIA Novosti. | |
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Comment: Read the following articles to learn more about what really happened in Boston:
'Why did FBI execute my boy?' Father of Boston Bombing patsy's friend displays grisly photos of son's corpse showing unarmed man was shot seven times Boston, what if these brothers didn't do it? Two FBI Agents involved in manhunt of Boston marathon bombing suspect 'fall' to their deaths from helicopter Why there were no 'actors' at the Boston Marathon bombings Ink Blot Tests and 'actors' at the Boston bombings |
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Colleen Graffy
The Wall Street Journal 2013-07-17 12:32:00
The U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act seeks to co-opt foreign banks as long-arm enforcement agencies of the IRS. Beware the sledgehammer used to crack the nut. In this case, the nut is the U.S. government's laudable goal of catching tax evaders. The sledgehammer is the overreaching effect of legislation that is alienating other countries and resulting in millions of U.S. citizens abroad being forced to either painfully reconsider their nationality, or face a lifetime of onerous bureaucracy, expense and privacy invasion. The legislation is Fatca, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. To appreciate its breathtaking scope along with America's unique "citizen-based" tax practices, imagine this: You were born in California, moved to New York for education or work, fell in love, married and had children. Even though you have faithfully paid taxes in New York and haven't lived in California for 25 years, suppose California law required that you also file your taxes there because you were born there. Though you may never have held a bank account in California, you must report all of your financial holdings to the State of California. Are you a signatory on your spouse's account? Then you must declare his bank accounts too. Your children, now adults, have never been west of the Mississippi but they too must file their taxes in both California and New York and report any bank accounts they or their spouses may have because they are considered Californians by virtue of one parent's birthplace. Extrapolate that example to the six million U.S. citizens living around the globe. Many, if not most, don't know about these requirements. Yet they face fines, penalties and interest for not complying - even if they owe no U.S. taxes, own no U.S. property, have no U.S. bank account and haven't lived there in years - if ever. |
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Erica Ritz
Was Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, the much-discussed
Saudi national once identified as a "person of interest" in the Boston
Marathon bombings, at the White House for a 4th of July celebration for
military heros and their families?The Blaze 2013-07-10 12:25:00 Apparent pictures posted on the Internet and a Saudi news outlet say yes. A Twitter feed appears to show photos of the young man posing before the edifice - decorated with red, white, and blue banners to celebrate the holiday - in addition to close-up photos of the first couple. They come from the Twitter account of an individual claiming to be Alharbi's father, though that information has not been confirmed. According to a professional translation of the account's information, however, the given name is "'Ali Al-Salimi Al-Harbi," and the description reads: "Father of Abd Al-Rahman who was injured in the Boston bombings."
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brasschecktv.com
It's time to drive a stake through the heart of this one2013-07-17 12:24:00 Historian Stephen Davies names three persistent myths about the Great Depression.
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Madeleine Morgenstern
The Blaze 2013-07-10 12:18:00
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" panel derided Sarah Palin's hinting at a potential U.S. Senate run, including wondering what would happen "if someone asked her where the Middle East was." Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and Nicolle Wallace, a senior adviser to John McCain's 2008 campaign who afterward notoriously criticized Palin as unsuited for the vice presidency, said Wednesday that if Palin were to run any statement she made would dominate the news cycle. "If Sarah Palin injects her voice into a national conversation in any form, it's obviously going to bleed across the spectrum," Steele said. "That piece of it is largely irrelevant, because the press will make her relevant to any conversation the minute she says something." |
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Tom Kington
The Guardian 2013-07-16 11:16:00
Papal court handling pardons for sins says contrite Catholics may win 'indulgences' by following World Youth Day on Twitter In its latest attempt to keep up with the times the Vatican has married one of its oldest traditions to the world of social media by offering "indulgences" to followers of Pope Francis' tweets. The church's granted indulgences reduce the time Catholics believe they will have to spend in purgatory after they have confessed and been absolved of their sins. The remissions got a bad name in the Middle Ages because unscrupulous churchmen sold them for large sums of money. But now indulgences are being applied to the 21st century. But a senior Vatican official warned web-surfing Catholics that indulgences still required a dose of old-fashioned faith, and that paradise was not just a few mouse clicks away. | |
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Comment: The Catholic church business must not be doing
very well these days if they have to make such desperate offers to
attract more people under their control.
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Pierre Klochendler
Global Research 2013-06-28 10:38:00
The IPS article below originally posted by Global Research on May 31, 2012 sheds light on what is now "official" following the alleged leak of classified information about a covert cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities. |
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Noel Brinkerhoff
AllGov.com 2013-07-17 10:33:00
When Customs and Border Protection (CPB) first got its drones, the rationale for the acquisition was that the unmanned aircraft would help improve monitoring and surveillance along the U.S.-Mexico border. But now, CPB may be thinking about arming its Predator drones with "non-lethal weapons." The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) obtained a report produced by CPB in 2010 that shows the agency has considered equipping its Predators with "non-lethal weapons designed to immobilize" targets of interest. Given the date of the report, it is possible that the weaponization has already taken place. |
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Resisting the New World Order
2013-07-07 10:29:00
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Kristina Wong
The Washington Times 2013-07-16 00:00:00
A Marine who was fined and demoted for urinating on Taliban corpses in Afghanistan in 2011 says he would do it again. "I regret maybe any repercussions it might have had on the Marines. But do I regret doing it? Hell no," Sgt. Joseph Chamblin told WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., adding that he would do it again. The infamous incident was videotaped and uploaded to YouTube last year, becoming international news and raising fears of retaliation by Afghan troops against their coalition trainers. "These were the same guys that were killing our family, killing our brothers," said Sgt. Chamblin, who was on a mission to stop Taliban insurgents from making roadside bombs. One of his sniper team members, Sgt. Mark Bradley, was killed by a buried bomb days before the incident. "We're human," he said. "Who wouldn't if you lost your brother or mother? Wouldn't you want revenge?" |
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Liz Klimas
The Blaze 2013-07-15 18:00:00
Just last month, a supposedly declassified video showed a German-flown drone narrowly missing a flying Afghan passenger jet. Now, another "secret" video has made its way into public view, showing an unmanned aerial vehicle piloted remotely hitting a plane on a runway in Afghanistan. The German tabloid paper Bild (translated via Google Translate) claims to have "exclusive video footage documenting another, earlier drone debacle." It describes the UAV as a IAI Heron ramming into a Transall C-160 Transport plane at a base in Northern Afghanistan. |
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Luke Traynor
The driver was towing a trailer into a neighbouring field and decided to cross the line with the busy service fast approachingmirror.co.uk 2013-07-16 14:44:00
A tractor driver cheated death today after trying to travel across tracks moments before a 70mph train smashed into him. The driver was towing a trailer into a neighbouring field and decided to cross the line with the busy service fast approaching. Detectives from British Transport Police arrested the 27-year-old on suspicion of endangering safety following the smash. Amazingly, the driver emerged unscathed with hardly any injuries following the midday crash at a remote agricultural crossing in Buttington, Welshpool, in mid-Wales. Up to 200 passengers were evacuated from the 10.06 Arriva Trains Wales service from Birmingham to Aberystwyth and led across fields to waiting buses, while two people suffered minor injuries. They were taken to Welshpool Hospital for further treatment. The train managed to stay upright despite the high-impact collision and remained on the tracks with some damage to its front, at around 11.50am today. One onlooker said: "The tractor ended up in a hedge and the trailer was catapulted 20 metres down the track. "The train appears to have hit the trailer rather than the tractor which is probably why the driver is still alive. A spilt second earlier and he'd have been dead." Bob Gittins, landlord of the nearby Green Dragon Inn, was walking his dog with his wife and saw the aftermath of the drama. The 60-year-old told the Mirror: "It happened in the field next to our pub. "We heard the train coming as normal, but then a big thud and smoke everywhere. |
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Dabney Bailey
Opposing Views 2013-07-16 14:05:00
The Trayvon Martin case has sparked violent outbursts from angry protestors on both sides of the fence. Unfortunately, the list of violent incidents continues to grow. March 25-26: At least seven white people were attacked by mobs of black people in Grand Rapids, Michigan. / "The detective also told Jacob that he believed the Trayvon Martin media frenzy is what prompted the attacks." April 5: A 78-year-old Ohio man said that he was the victim of a hate crime after a group of young black men attacked him while shouting, "This is for Trayvon." April 10: Police in Gainesville, FL investigated a "racially motivated" incident after several black men attacked a white man. The victim was punched in the face and was then struck several more times while he was on the ground. The attackers allegedly chanted, "Trayvon" before the attack. |
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Sam Webb
Homeless people could face jail under proposed changes to lawThe Daily Mail, UK 2013-07-17 13:05:00 Activists say unavoidable parts of street life will be criminalised But city chief says homelessness has become a serious problem For years an uneasy truce has existed between people living rough on the streets of Miami and police officers. Before the late 1990s, Miami police frequently arrested homeless people for sleeping on park benches, eating on paths, or congregating in public places - but after a landmark court case in 1998, officers were instructed not to make arrests for these minor offences and instead take them to a homeless shelter. But now a Miami commissioner is petitioning the courts to renege on much of the settlement, Pottinger vs City of Miami, so many 'life-sustaining' aspects of street life are once again crimes.
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Ryan Grenoble
A woman in China's Anhui province has been rescued after spending a night stuck between two walls.Huffington Post 2013-07-16 12:02:00
According to the Independent, she'd taken a narrow path between two buildings, believing it to be a shortcut on her way home, then become lodged, unable to move, for seven hours. Unfortunately for both the woman and the owners of the buildings she was pancaked against, her calls for help were believed to be the cries of a ghost. As such, they were ignored (as much as the incessant cries of a ghost can be) until the next morning, when passersby raised the alarm, CNN notes. Once firefighters arrived, she was rescued in less than half an hour. Shanghaiist reports the woman didn't suffer any major injuries and has recovered. Earlier this year, firefighters in Portland, Ore., rescued a woman after she also became stuck between two buildings for more than four hours. The woman in that incident had fallen into the opening, though it isn't clear how she'd done so. |
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John Lichfield
The Independent, UK 2013-06-29 05:33:00
Pat McQuaid, the president of world cycling's governing body the UCI, has hit back at claims by disgraced rider Lance Armstrong that the sport cannot change its doping image while the Irishman remains in charge. Armstrong claimed McQuaid - currently facing a re-election challenge from British Cycling's Brian Cookson - must go if the sport is to clean up. "Things just cannot change as long as McQuaid stays in power," Armstrong said. "The UCI refuses to establish a truth and reconciliation commission because the testimony that everyone would want to hear would bring McQuaid, [his predecessor] Hein Verbruggen and the whole institution down." McQuaid yesterday released a statement of his own, which read: "It is very sad that Lance Armstrong has decided to make this statement on the eve of the Tour de France. However, I can tell him categorically that he is wrong. His comments do absolutely nothing to help cycling. Armstrong's views and opinions are shaped by his own behaviour and time in the peloton. Cycling has now moved on." |
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Press Association
2013-07-17 03:27:00
State Railway of Thailand governor Prapas Jongsanguan said the overnight train from Bangkok to Chiang Mai skidded off the tracks in Phrae province and seven of the 10 carriages flipped on to their sides. Railway authorities believe the accident was caused by old tracks due for repair. Mr Prapas said one passenger was seriously injured and the rest had minor injuries and were given free transport to their destinations. |
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Jessica Magee
A man who pleaded guilty in January of this year to raping his niece has
been allowed to change his plea after the complainant admitted she had
been lying.Independent.ie 2013-07-16 03:15:00 The girl, who is now aged 18, told gardaí that her mother made her file a complaint to gardaí and social services when she was about ten years old claiming her uncle had abused her. The 41-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had maintained his innocence until the trial but pleaded guilty on the day because he said he was "completely terrified" of going to prison. He believed a guilty plea offered the best chance of avoiding a jail sentence. He had pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to rape and serious sexual assault, including penetrating the girl's anus with his penis, at a house in Galway city on a date between September 1, 2004 and February 28, 2005. |
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CBS Chicago
2013-07-16 10:43:00
A sign posted outside a south suburban church is generating a powerful debate over race in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict. The marquee outside the First Baptist Church of University Park earlier this week read: "It Is Safe To Kill Black People In Amerikkka." On Saturday, a jury of six women in Florida acquitted Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Several comments on the church's Facebook page took issue with the reference to the Ku Klux Klan in the word Amerikkka, with many saying the church's sign is hateful and divisive and implies that all white Americans are racist. |
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Press Association
2013-07-17 03:09:00
At least 20 children have died and many others are sick after eating a free school lunch which was tainted by a heavy dose of insecticide, Indian officials said. It was not immediately clear how chemicals ended up in the food in the school in the eastern state of Bihar, though one official said the food may not have been properly washed before it was cooked. The children, aged between eight and 11, fell ill soon after eating their school lunch in Masrakh, a village 50 miles north of the state capital of Patna. School authorities immediately stopped serving the meal of rice, lentils, soya and potatoes as the children started vomiting. The lunch, part of a popular country-wide campaign to give at least one hot meal to children from poor families, was cooked in the school kitchen. The children were quickly rushed to a local hospital and later to Patna for treatment, said state official Abhijit Sinha. In addition to the 20 children who died, another 27 children as well as the school cook were admitted to hospital, he said. Ten of them were in a serious condition. |
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Santosh Digal
A nun, 28, was abducted and raped for a week. One of her cousins is
among the attackers. For the archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, "The
perpetrators must be brought to justice [. . .]. What happened is a
disgrace". AsiaNews 2013-07-15 00:00:00
Bhubaneshwar - A 28-year-old nun was kidnapped and raped for a week by a group of men in Bamunigam, Kandhamal District (Orissa). She was held between 5 and 11 July, but the case was made public only today. "The perpetrators must be brought to justice without delay and the law must take its course. What happened is a disgrace," said Mgr John Barwa SVD, archbishop of Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar, who condemned the attack. The nun, a Kandhamal native, lives in Chennai (Tamil Nadu), where she is studying in college. According to her testimony to police, she received a phone call from a woman about two weeks ago, who reported that her mother was very sick. On 5 July, she took a train to Bamunigam, where two cousins and some friends were waiting to take her home. However, rather than take her to the village of Minapanka, the men led her to a still unidentified place. Here the sister was gang raped for a week. |
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Yahoo! Canada News
2013-07-16 00:00:00
Toronto police Chief Bill Blair says an officer has been disciplined for posing as a stranded passenger on a waterlogged commuter train during major flooding last week. Blair told radio station Newstalk 1010 the officer was "shameful" to pretend he was one of the 1,400 riders on the GO train when it became trapped by flood waters during the evening rush hour. CBC said the officer was Const. Nickolas Dorazio. The network said he was working to help rescue the passengers, but told their TV crew he was stuck on the stranded train and even draped an orange towel around his shoulders for effect. Blair says the force has disciplined the officer for his "stupid behaviour" that Monday night. The police chief says the officer's conduct was an "eyebrow raiser" that undermined public confidence in the force. Police and firefighters used small inflatable boats to ferry the trapped passengers a short distance to higher ground, with the evacuation taking some seven hours. |
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The San Francisco Appeal
2013-07-10 09:16:00
San Francisco police are continuing to investigate a case involving numerous poisonous meatballs found on city streets recently. Police warned dog owners in the city's Twin Peaks and Diamond Heights neighborhoods about the meatballs last week, and now say hundreds have been recovered. The meatballs, which investigators said contained rodent poison, had been deliberately placed in spots where dogs defecate in the area of Crestline, Burnett and Parkridge drives, according to police. One dog gobbled up a meatball last Wednesday evening while being walked by its owner, then became sick and had to be taken to a veterinarian, police said. Anyone who sees anything resembling the meatballs should call the Police Department's non-emergency number at (415) 553-0123. Anyone who witnesses suspicious activity is asked to call 911. Police also advised residents in those neighborhoods who have been involved in disputes over pets to call the Park Station investigations team at (415) 242-3000 and ask to speak with Lt. Pengel or Inspector Nannery. |
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Jason Howerton
A juror in the George Zimmerman trial said Monday that the actions of
the neighborhood watch volunteer and Trayvon Martin both led to the
teenager's fatal shooting last year, but that Zimmerman didn't actually
break the law.The Blaze 2013-07-15 20:40:00 She also revealed that during initial deliberations, half of the jurors wanted to convict Zimmerman. The woman known as Juror B37 told CNN's Anderson Cooper that Zimmerman made some poor decisions leading up to the shooting, but that Martin wasn't innocent either. "I think both were responsible for the situation they had gotten themselves into," said the juror, who is planning to write a book about the trial. "I think they both could have walked away." |
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Bob Weber
The Canadian Press 2013-07-16 20:44:00
Recently published historical research says hungry aboriginal children and adults were once used as unwitting subjects in nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats. "This was the hardest thing I've ever written," said Ian Mosby, who has revealed new details about one of the least-known but perhaps most disturbing aspects of government policy toward aboriginals immediately after the Second World War. Mosby - whose work at the University of Guelph focuses on the history of food in Canada - was researching the development of health policy when he ran across something strange. "I started to find vague references to studies conducted on 'Indians' that piqued my interest and seemed potentially problematic, to say the least," he said. "I went on a search to find out what was going on." Government documents eventually revealed a long-standing, government-run experiment that came to span the entire country and involved at least 1,300 aboriginals, most of them children. It began with a 1942 visit by government researchers to a number of remote reserve communities in northern Manitoba, including places such as The Pas and Norway House. They found people who were hungry, beggared by a combination of the collapsing fur trade and declining government support. They also found a demoralized population marked by, in the words of the researchers, "shiftlessness, indolence, improvidence and inertia." The researchers suggested those problems - "so long regarded as inherent or hereditary traits in the Indian race" - were in fact the results of malnutrition. |
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Peter Vinthagen Simpson
The Local 2013-07-16 19:50:00
A man found unconscious in a California motel room who left US authorities baffled when he woke up only speaking Swedish, has been identified by a member of a Swedish medieval society as one of their kin "I first met him when we were both members of a Middle Ages association called the Society of Creative Anachronism (SCA) in the 1980s. He went by the name of Strongbow," Johan Cassel of the SCA told The Local on Monday. Cassel explained that the man identified in US and Swedish media reports as Michael Boatwright spent several periods living in Sweden before they lost contact in the late 1990s, adding that Boatwright learnt to speak Swedish fairly well. "He could speak pretty good Swedish, although you could hear that he came from an English-speaking country. He had an accent," Cassel said. The SCA is an international association that brings together people with an interest in the Middle Ages and members typically engage in range of activities, such as jousting. According to fellow member Olle Sahlin, Boatwright was active in the SCA's European chapter and was an early member of the Swedish Jousting Team. "He organized a jousting exhibition for Saab and Scania's anniversary in 1985. I was one of the extras clad in a costume from the Middle Ages," Sahlin told The Local. Sahlin explained that the SCA was launched in Sweden in the early 1980s and joined up with a Europe-wide movement that was dominated by servicemen and women of the US armed forces based in Europe. "The SCA is divided up in districts, principalities and kingdoms. We are in the principality of Nordmark, in the Kingdom of Drachenwald," Sahlin told The Local. Johan Cassel also recalled having met Boatwright while competing in jousting events and reports that the American, who originates from Florida, was a pretty accomplished performer. | |
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CNA
2013-07-16 23:49:00
Taipei -- Two sets of skeletal human remains that had been discovered earlier on Liang Island of Matsu are believed to have belonged to people from the Austronesia language family, an expert said yesterday citing results of a DNA research on the remains. Lienchiang County Magistrate Yang Sui-sheng and Chen Chung-yu, a research fellow at Taiwan's Academia Sinica, unveiled their research findings at a press conference in Taipei. Chen had led an archaeological research team, which had discovered the remains. According to DNA biochemistry analysis, the skeleton of the "Liang Islander" is related to the Austronesian language family, which had widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including Taiwan and the Philippines, Chen pointed out. Chen added that it is believed that Liang Island, situated 30 kilometers off China's southeastern Fujian province, was one of the locations where the ancient Austronesian people lived. Liang Island is part of the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands administered by Lienchiang County. |
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Rossella Lorenzi
Discovery News 2013-07-16 07:00:00
Mysterious, pyramid-like structures spotted in the Egyptian desert by an amateur satellite archaeologist might be long-lost pyramids after all, according to a new investigation into the enigmatic mounds. Angela Micol, who last year found the structures using Google Earth 5,000 miles away in North Carolina, says puzzling features have been uncovered during a preliminary ground proofing expedition, revealing cavities and shafts. "Moreover, it has emerged these formations are labeled as pyramids on several old and rare maps," Micol told Discovery News. Located about 90 miles apart, the two possible pyramid complexes appeared as groupings of mounds in curious positions. One site in Upper Egypt, just 12 miles from the city of Abu Sidhum along the Nile, featured four mounds with an unusual footprint. Some 90 miles north near the Fayum oasis, the second possible pyramid complex revealed a four-sided, truncated mound approximately 150 feet wide and three smaller mounds in a diagonal alignment. "The images speak for themselves," Micol said when she first announced her findings. "It's very obvious what the sites may contain, but field research is needed to verify they are, in fact, pyramids," |
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Washington Post
2013-07-10 00:00:00
The top-secret PRISM program allows the U.S. intelligence community to gain access from nine Internet companies to a wide range of digital information, including e-mails and stored data, on foreign targets operating outside the United States. The program is court-approved but does not require individual warrants. Instead, it operates under a broader authorization from federal judges who oversee the use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Some documents describing the program were first released by The Washington Post on June 6. The newly released documents below give additional details about how the program operates, including the levels of review and supervisory control at the NSA and FBI. The documents also show how the program interacts with the Internet companies. |
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The Extinction Protocol
Scientists say lava flow and ash and gas emissions have intensified at a
second Ecuadorean volcano, Reventador, as the full-bore eruption of the
Tungurahua cone continues. Ecuador's Geophysics Institute says the lava
flow on Reventador's southern flank has increased since Saturday but
poses no immediate threat to villagers in the region 60 miles (100)
kilometers) east of the capital, Quito. The 11,400-foot (3,475-meter)
volcano is nearly three times that distance from Tungurahua to the
southwest. It has been roaring since Sunday, when 200 people were
evacuated from its flanks and one pyroclastic blast was heard as far
away as the coastal city of Guayaquil. Tungurahua is 16,480 feet (5,023
meters) high and has been active since 1999. Reventador had its last big
eruption in November 2002. - Big Story2013-07-17 15:49:00
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Mark Davenport
live5news.com 2013-07-15 12:14:00
Another sinkhole has cropped up in the Lowcountry, according to the South Carolina Department of Transportation. SCDOT spokesman Bob Kudelka said a washout closed Wire Road in Dorchester County on Monday. Wire Road is located about half a mile from the Orangeburg County line in Reevesville. On-site SCDOT engineer David Pilch said the first warning of a sinkhole came Sunday night on a call by the South Carolina Highway Patrol. Pilch says when his crews arrived in the morning, the sinkhole was five feet wide and several feet deep. Those measurements changed early in the afternoon when Kudelka reported the sinkhole grew to 10 feet deep and seven feet wide. Monday morning both lanes of Wire Road were closed. |
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Mail Online
2013-07-17 11:59:00
Mexican authorities are investigating the death of at least 300 stingrays found on a beach of the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. Residents and visitors first spotted the dead rays on Tuesday on the Chachalacas beach in the town of Ursulo Galvan and posted photos on social media. Ursulo Galvan Mayor Martin Verdejo says it's possible the stingrays could have been abandoned by fishermen after being trapped in their nets. Upon realizing they were unlikely make much profit from their sale, they simply emptied their nets along the beach. Others say the dead came rays were washed ashore by the waves at sunrise. |
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strangesounds.org
In the following article, you will find a compilation of animal,
mammal and fish die-offs around the world. Keep safe and care about the
environment. 2013-07-17 10:13:00 Three killer whales found dead near Fraser Island off the Queensland coast (Australia) - SMH, NINMSN, SKY NEWS A third killer whale carcass has been found by wildlife rangers at Fraser Island, off the southern Queensland coast. The whale was discovered late on Friday in a creek north of Kingfisher Bay on the island by Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service staff. The discovery comes two days after two whales, believed to be a mother and calf, died on Wednesday when their pod became stranded on a sandbar in the Great Sandy Strait which separates the island from the mainland.
Hundreds of bluefish surfacing dead in and around Shinnecock Bay (New York) - HISZ Hundreds of bluefish are turning up dead off the coast of Long Island - and nobody knows why. |
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US Geological Survey
2013-07-16 23:25:00
Event Time 2013-07-17 02:37:42 UTC 2013-07-16 21:37:42 UTC-05:00 at epicenter Location 15.635°S 71.773°W depth=6.6km (4.1mi) Nearby Cities 18km (11mi) W of Chivay, Peru 88km (55mi) NNW of Arequipa, Peru 148km (92mi) NE of Camana, Peru 151km (94mi) WSW of Ayaviri, Peru 399km (248mi) WNW of La Paz, Bolivia Technical Details |
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US Geological Survey
2013-07-16 19:10:00
Event Time 2013-07-16 09:35:54 UTC 2013-07-16 19:35:54 UTC+10:00 at epicenter Location 6.309°S 154.782°E depth=44.3km (27.5mi) Nearby Cities 77km (48mi) W of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 84km (52mi) W of Arawa, Papua New Guinea 353km (219mi) SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 520km (323mi) E of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea 666km (414mi) WNW of Honiara, Solomon Islands Technical Survey |
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IFT
Putting a new spin on the concept of "stress eating," research
presented at the 2013 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual
Meeting & Expo® found that people who eat during times of stress
typically seek the foods they eat out of habit - regardless of how
healthy or unhealthy that food is.2013-07-16 13:14:00 Putting a new spin on the concept of "stress eating," research presented at the 2013 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Expo® found that people who eat during times of stress typically seek the foods they eat out of habit - regardless of how healthy or unhealthy that food is. The research co-authored and presented by David Neal, Ph.D., a psychologist and founding partner at Empirica Research, contradicts the conventional wisdom that people who are stressed-out turn to high-calorie, low-nutrient comfort food. "Habits don't change in a high-pressure situation," Neal said. "People default to what their habits are under stress, whether healthy or not." In the study he and his co-authors conducted this year, 59 MBA students at the University of California, Los Angeles, were asked during midterm exams which snack they would like from an array that included healthy snacks (fruit, non-fat yogurt, whole wheat crackers, nuts/soy chips) and unhealthy options (various candy bars, flavored popcorn, sugar cookies). They also were asked to rate how often during the week they choose that snack. The results found that during peak stress like an exam, participants were likely to fall back on their habitual snack. |
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Comment: Mechanical habits are an integral part of our
existence, unless one chooses to become more aware. And even then, there
is a place for beneficial habits. Stress is also an unavoidable part of
our everyday life. There is a way to minimize it, for example with
breathing programs like Éiriú Eolas,
but if you are already stressed and need to deal with it by snacking on
something, make sure that this something is as healthy and tasty as bacon.
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Indrajit Singh
Associated Press 2013-07-17 05:25:00
Patna - At least 22 children died and more than two dozen others were sick after eating a free school lunch that was tainted with insecticide, Indian officials said Wednesday. It was not immediately clear how chemicals ended up in the food in a school in the eastern state of Bihar. One official said the food may not have been properly washed before it was cooked. The children, between the ages of 5 and 12, fell ill Tuesday soon after eating lunch in Gandamal village in Masrakh block, 50 miles north of the state capital of Patna. School authorities immediately stopped serving the meal of rice, lentils, soybeans and potatoes as the children started vomiting. Savita, a 12-year-old student who uses only one name, said she had a stomach ache after eating soybeans and potatoes and started vomiting. "I don't know what happened after that," Savita said in an interview at Patna Medical College Hospital, where she and many other children were recovering. The lunch, part of a popular national campaign to give at least one daily hot meal to children from poor families, was cooked in the school kitchen. The children were rushed to a local hospital and later to Patna for treatment, said state official Abhijit Sinha. |
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Kris Gunnars
Authority Nutrition 2013-07-15 06:16:00
The mainstream health authorities have an excellent track record of getting things wrong. Since the failed low-fat diet was born in 1977, rates of obesity and diabetes have skyrocketed. New evidence shows that this advice is not only ineffective, but downright harmful for a lot of people. However, despite the studies piling up, the major organizations and their guidelines show no signs of being about to change. Here are 6 reasons why I do not trust the mainstream health authorities. 1. Many of them are sponsored by the big junk food companies In a perfect world, the people in charge of setting dietary guidelines and educating future and current nutrition professionals would be objective. They would let current science guide their way, not old dogmas, political pressure or financial influences. However, we do not live in a perfect world. We live in a world that is dominated by money and major corporations exert their influences everywhere, including the health organizations that are supposed to be in charge of protecting our health. The best example of this is the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the "world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals" (formerly known as the ADA - American Dietetic Association). This organization licenses and educates registered dietitians, the people who are supposed to be the ultimate authorities of what to eat to be healthy. However, this organization is heavily sponsored by junk food companies. Here are some of the Academy's most "loyal" corporate sponsors: |
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Murali Shanmugavelan
The Independent, UK 2013-07-17 04:57:00
This month a group of Dalit (or Untouchables, as they were formerly labelled) students organised a Beef Festival in Osmania University of Hyderabad. It was the festival to assert their culinary rights in public and make a political statement of dietary habits of Dalits and Muslims - by cooking and eating beef Biryani on campus. About 2000 students participated and although it started out well, the festival was disrupted and students were attacked by right-wing Hindu fascists. The Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) released a statement describing how Meena Kandasamy, a writer and poet who participated in the festival, was singled out and threatened with gang rape and acid attacks. This festival is very significant as some Dalit students have organised themselves to fight against food-fascism, campaigning against the very centre of Brahmanical Hinduism that connects caste with food. Culinary politics and contact with animals play a huge role in establishing purity-pollution rules to discriminate people in the caste system. Have Brahmans always been beef-hating vegetarians? The answer is a resounding no. | |
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Comment: Like the overall vegetarian myth, these lies endanger people's health and control them through diet.
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James Parsons
suite101.com 2013-03-25 04:50:00
Hitler was a complex figure: an inhuman monster who could nevertheless love animals, espouse vegetarianism and be vehemently opposed to smoking. Adolph Hitler is infamous for his dream of Aryan world conquest, his hatred of the Jewish race and his extermination camps. Nevertheless, like all the great horrendous villains of history, he was not a one-dimensional cardboard cut-out figure, but a multi-faceted individual with paradoxical qualities that in someone else might be considered virtues. Hitler the Famous Vegetarian and Health Freak Hitler, the man who could coldly order the death of millions of innocent people, did not like harm to come to animals and so was a vegetarian. According to Colin Cross in History Makers, Hitler refused to eat meat and was harshly critical of others he described as 'eating carcasses'. He employed an excellent chef to prepare him meals of vegetables or eggs. On state occasions he would not bend the rule: on his visit with Mussolini, he refused the grand banquet fare offered and had a plate of scrambled eggs cooked for himself. Those who wanted to toady to Hitler became vegetarian. Cross records that Martin Bormann was despised by his colleagues for being a vegetarian in front of Hitler at dinner but tucking in to a plate of meat when he got home. Nevertheless, despite the need for some staffers to emulate him, Hitler did not insist on others being vegetarian. He always offered meat and alcohol to his guests even though he did not touch it himself. | |
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Comment: Being an inhuman monster apparently isn't incompatible with being an anti-smoking vegetarian fascist...
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Barry Groves, PhD
Second Opinions 2010-02-07 22:29:00
If you want to get ahead, get a brain There is overwhelming evidence that we can not be a vegetarian species. In 1972 the publication of two independent investigations confirmed this.-1-2They concerned fats. About half our brain and nervous system is composed of complicated, long-chain, fatty acids. These are also used in the walls of our blood vessels. Without them we cannot develop normally. These fatty acids do not occur in plants, although fatty acids in a simpler form do. This is where plant-eating herbivores come in. Over the year, the herbivores convert the simple fatty acids found in grasses and seeds into intermediate, more complicated forms. By eating the herbivores we can convert their stores of these fatty acids into the ones we need. About 2.5 million years ago animal foods began to occupy an increasingly prominent place in our ancestors' menus. Smaller molar size, less robust facial muscles and alterations in incisor shape from that time all suggest a greater emphasis on foods such as meat that require less grinding and more tearing. An increasing proportion of meat in the diet would obviously have provided more animal protein, a factor perhaps related to the increase in stature which appears to have accompanied the transition from Australopithecines through Homo habilis to Homo erectus.-3 But greater availability of animal fat was probably a more important dietary alteration. Crude stone tools allowed early humans to break bones and allowed them access to brain and marrow fats from a broad range of animals obtained by scavenging or hunting. These and other carcass fats were probably as prized by early hominids as they are by modern human hunter-gatherers.-4 Not only did more animal fat in the diet mean considerably more energy, it was also a source of ready-made, long-chain, polyunsaturated fatty acids, including omega-6 arachidonic acid (AA), omega-3 docosatetraenoic acid (DTA) and omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). These 3 fatty acids together make up over 90% of the fatty acids found in the brain matter of all mammalian species.-5 Our brain is considerably larger than that of any ape. Looking back at the fossil records from early hominids to modern man, we see a remarkable increase in brain size from 375-550 ml at the time of Australopithecus, to 500-800 ml in Homo habilis, 775-1,225 ml in Homo erectus, and 1,350 cc in modern humans (Homo sapiens). While there is still speculation about why this should have happened, this increase in brain size could not have been supported physiologically without an increased intake of preformed long-chain fatty acids which are an essential component in the formation of brain tissue.-6 It would never have occurred if our ancestors had not eaten meat - with its fat. Human breast milk contains the fatty acids needed for large brain development, cow's milk does not. It is no coincidence that, in relative terms, our brain is some 50 times the size of a cow's. |
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Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo 2013-07-16 12:30:00
Millions of women undergo them annually, but few are even remotely aware of just how many dangers they are exposing themselves to in the name of prevention, not the least of which are misdiagnosis, overdiagnosis and the promotion of breast cancer itself. A new study published in the Annals of Family Medicine titled, Long-term psychosocial consequences of false-positive screening mammography, brings to the forefront a major underreported harm of breast screening programs: the very real and lasting trauma associated with a false-positive diagnosis of breast cancer.[1] The study found that women with false-positive diagnoses of breast cancer, even three years after being declared free of cancer, "consistently reported greater negative psychosocial consequences compared with women who had normal findings in all 12 psychosocial outcomes." The psychosocial and existential parameters adversely affected were:
In other words, even after being "cleared of cancer," the measurable adverse psychospiritual effects of the trauma of diagnosis were equivalent to actually having breast cancer. Given that the cumulative probability of false-positive recall or biopsy recommendation after 10 years of screening mammography is at least 50%,[2] this is an issue that will affect the health of millions of women undergoing routine breast screening. |
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| Science of the Spirit |
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Colin Smith
You may have more in common with a pigeon than you realize, according to research.Imperial College London 2013-07-17 12:51:00 A researcher from Imperial College London and his colleagues have developed for the first time a map of a typical bird brain, showing how different regions are connected together to process information. By comparing it to brain diagrams for different mammals such as humans, the team discovered that areas important for high-level cognition such as long-term memory and problem solving are wired up to other regions of the brain in a similar way. This is despite the fact that both mammal and bird brains have been evolving down separate paths over hundreds of millions of years. The team suggest that evolution has discovered a common blueprint for high-level cognition in brain development. Birds have been shown in previous studies to possess a range of skills such as a capacity for complex social reasoning, an ability to problem solve and some have even demonstrated the capability to craft and use tools. Professor Murray Shanahan, author of the study from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, says: "Birds have been evolving separately from mammals for around 300 million years, so it is hardly surprising that under a microscope the brain of a bird looks quite different from a mammal. Yet, birds have been shown to be remarkably intelligent in a similar way to mammals such as humans and monkeys. Our study demonstrates that by looking at brains that are least like our own, yet still capable of generating intelligent behaviour, we can determine the basic principles governing the way brains work." |
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| Don't Panic! Lighten Up! |
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WPTV
2013-07-11 14:22:00
Martin County, Florida - A family that though it was being targeted by vandals is breathing easier now that they captured the culprit - a squirrel - on video, according to WPTV. Nora Ziegler had called police on two occasions after 6-inch holes were found on two wheel wells on her SUV. "They asked me if I had any enemies and I said no," Zieglar tells WPTV. Then one day while taking out the trash, Ziegler noticed some funny business and grabbed her smartphone. Turns out it was a squirrel that was causing the damage. "I'm not happy to see my car like this but at least I didn't have any enemies, at least not people," she said. The family has since named the squirrel Munchy. |
