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UK Guardian
As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay
continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A
leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard
operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In this four-minute
film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning
director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as
Mos Def), experiences the procedure2013-07-08 10:41:00
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HandsoffSyria
This 12 years old boy is just stunningly, incredibly smart. Listen to
him as he excruciates the Muslim Brotherhood, relentlessly dissecting
their power grab in Egypt. Interview by Egyptian newspaper El Wady, in Cairo on October 19, 2012.Youtube 2013-07-08 05:58:00 Thanks to the Youtube channel 'FreeArabsChannel' for the video
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Comment: Most adults of the world apparently have some
catching up to do to reach the Ali's level of awareness. Whether the
Egyptian, Arab or global revolution is 'successful' or not, this is
exactly what Brzezinski warned his fellow elites about - the
politicization of the masses:
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PurpleHat1991
YouTube 2013-07-06 10:02:00
The officer orders me to pull over and get out of my car, bullies me around, gets the drug sniffing K-9, lies about me having "Illegal Drugs" in the car, searches without consent, and tells me that it is ok to take away my freedom. All while not being detained. All this harassment because my window was not lowered enough to his preference. I broke no laws whatsoever. All of this on a day that we are supposed to be celebrating freedom and liberty. At the end of the encounter, the officer did not want to give me his name when I asked him. After I repeatedly asked him, he finally gave it to me.
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Golem XIV
2013-07-03 08:57:00
In a democracy rule is by consent. In a dictatorship it is by control. Which do we have in the West? It seems to me, it is no longer clear. We certainly still have the rituals of rule by consent. But behind the elected front men and women is a shadow state. It's people ritually swear allegiance to those we elect. They declare themselves there to serve and protect. But when it is us they spend their time spying on, whose interests are they protecting? Can you really serve those you do not trust? In 2008 we discovered that behind the banking system we knew about, there was a vast shadow banking system whose size most of us never suspected. In 2013 we have glimpsed not only the scale of the shadow state but the degree to which it, like the shadow banking system, is out of control and not working for us at all. Of course Mr Obama and the 'security chiefs', brought blinking into the unwelcome light, justify themselves by telling us that all those things they never saw fit to mention to us, or even to the people we spend so much time electing, have been saving us from un-named terrors. Are we to take such unverifiable assurances at face value from people who we know do not trust us and who make a profession of lying to us? I remember when Treasury Secretary Paulson told the US Congress that unless they stopped asking questions and simply handed him $600 billion to bail out the shadow banking system, there would be anarchy and tanks on the streets. Am I wrong to see a parallel? |
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Harry S Truman
Washington Post 1963-12-22 05:50:00
Independence, Missouri - I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency - CIA. At least, I would like to submit here the original reason why I thought it necessary to organize this Agency during my Administration, what I expected it to do and how it was to operate as an arm of the President. I think it is fairly obvious that by and large a President's performance in office is as effective as the information he has and the information he gets. That is to say, that assuming the President himself possesses a knowledge of our history, a sensitive understanding of our institutions, and an insight into the needs and aspirations of the people, he needs to have available to him the most accurate and up-to-the-minute information on what is going on everywhere in the world, and particularly of the trends and developments in all the danger spots in the contest between East and West. This is an immense task and requires a special kind of an intelligence facility. Of course, every President has available to him all the information gathered by the many intelligence agencies already in existence. The Departments of State, Defense, Commerce, Interior and others are constantly engaged in extensive information gathering and have done excellent work. | |
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Comment: That 'something' about the way the CIA has
been functioning, and continues to function, is that it considers itself
accountable only to private, corporate interests that lie above the
State.
This op-ed by former President Harry Truman, timed as it was one month to the day following the assassination of another President who made it his mission to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds", was published in the morning edition of the Washington Post. It didn't make the later print runs. CIA officials pleaded with Truman to retract his op-ed, but he refused. And so, like Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation outlining the dangers presented to a free and open society by the 'Military-Industrial Complex', and JFK's speech about the "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy", Truman's message stands as a warning to the American people: your government has been taken over by sinister psychopaths whose "subverting influence" is corrupting the nation, international relations, and the global common interest. |
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Press TV
2013-07-08 16:34:00
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has called for 'uprising' after dozens of its supporters were killed by the security forces in the capital, Cairo. In a statement on Monday, the group's political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party, appealed for "an uprising by the great people of Egypt against those trying to steal their revolution with tanks." It also urged the "international community and international groups and all the free people of the world to intervene to stop further massacres... and prevent a new Syria in the Arab world." The party was reacting to killing of over 40 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi in a sit-in in Cairo on Monday. |
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France24
2013-07-08 16:34:00
Israeli doctors have been invited to the US to share their experiences of handling hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners as Washington comes under fire for its force-feeding of Guantanamo Bay detainees who refuse to eat. Officials from the Israeli Medical Association have been invited to the U.S. to present policy makers there with their methods of handling hunger strikers, as the U.S. administration comes under fire for its own practice of force-feeding of Guantanamo Bay detention camp prisoners who refuse to eat. |
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Guardian
Interview carried out before NSA whistleblower fled to Hong Kong appears to contradict Merkel's public surprise at snooping2013-07-07 17:22:00
America's National Security Agency works closely with Germany and other Western states on a "no questions asked"-basis, former NSA employee Edward Snowden said in comments that undermine Chancellor Angela Merkel's indignant talk of "Cold War" tactics. "They are in bed with the Germans, just like with most other Western states," German magazine Der Spiegel quotes him as saying in an interview published on Sunday that was said to be carried out before he fled to Hong Kong in May and divulged details of extensive secret US surveillance. "Other agencies don't ask us where we got the information from and we don't ask them. That way they can protect their top politicians from the backlash in case it emerges how massively people's privacy is abused worldwide," he said. |
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Brian Ross
ABC's Good Morning America/ Brian Ross interview about NSA agents
listening in to private calls. Spies on the line? It was reported that
NSA agents, charged with intercepting telephone calls are sharing these
calls with each other. In some cases these calls include "phone sex" or
"intimate" calls between American citizens. Agents David Murfee Faulk
and Adrienne Kinne both admitted that they listened and in some cases
saved the calls to share with others.ABC News 2008-10-09 16:29:00
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David Edwards and Muriel Kane / Keith Olbermann
Former National Security Agency analyst Russell Tice, who helped expose
the NSA's warrantless wiretapping in December 2005, has now come forward
with even more startling allegations. Tice told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann
on Wednesday that the programs that spied on Americans were not only
much broader than previously acknowledged but specifically targeted
journalists.The Raw Story / MSNBC 2009-01-21 16:21:00
"The National Security Agency had access to all Americans' communications -- faxes, phone calls, and their computer communications," Tice claimed. "It didn't matter whether you were in Kansas, in the middle of the country, and you never made foreign communications at all. They monitored all communications." |
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Sascha Bercovitch
Venezuelanalysis 2013-07-05 16:13:00
"As head of state and of government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, I have decided to offer humanitarian asylum to the US youth Edward Snowden," President Nicolás Maduro announced today at Caracas' military academy at the start of a parade for Venezuela's Day of Independence. "To be independent, we must feel it," he said. "We must exercise our independence and sovereignty. Our discourses are meaningless if they aren't exercised with force at the national level. I announce to the friendly governments of the world that we have decided to offer this statute of international humanitarian law to protect the young Snowden from the persecution that has been unleashed from the most powerful empire in the world,the United States," he said. "Let's ask ourselves: who violated international law?" he continued. "A young man who decided, in an act of rebellion, to tell the truth of the espionage of the United States against the world? Or the government of the United States, the power of the imperialist elites, who spied on it?" |
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Humeyra Pamuk and Ece Toksabay
Reuters 2013-07-06 15:48:00
Turkish police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters in an Istanbul square on Saturday as they gathered to enter a park that was the center of protests against Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan last month. Taksim Solidarity, combining an array of political groups, had called a march to enter the sealed off Gezi park, but the governor of Istanbul warned that any such gathering would be confronted by the police. "We are going to our park to open its doors to its real owners ... We are here and we will stay here ... We have not given up our demands," the umbrella group said in a statement. |
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Sital S. Patel
MarketWatch 2013-07-08 14:14:00
There will be no criminal charges for former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine over the use of customer funds leading up to collapse of MF Global. The criminal probe into whether there was wrongdoing on the part of Corzine by the Department of Justice will now be dropped due to lack of evidence, said a report in The New York Post, citing a person with knowledge of the matter. But the former CEO of Goldman Sachs is not out of the woods. Corzine is facing civil charges by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission for illegally using customer funds in the last few days of MF Global to help keep the company afloat. The firm's former assistant treasurer Edith O'Brien is also caught up in the scandal and charged by the CFTC for making the transfers. Ultimately Corzine was charged by the regulator for failure to segregate and misuse of customer funds and failure to supervise diligently. O'Brien was charged with one count failure to segregate and misuse of customer funds. To support the allegations, the CFTC used a recorded telephone conversations to support their charges that Corzine was fully aware of the transfers. Both Corzine and O'Brien have denied any wrongdoing. |
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Jill Richardson
Alternet 2013-06-25 14:48:00
It's going to be a tough row to hoe, from here on out for Monsanto. Oops. The World Food Prize committee's got a bit of egg on its face - genetically engineered egg. They just awarded the World Food Prize to three scientists, including one from Syngenta and one from Monsanto, who invented genetic engineering because, they say, the technology increases crop yields and decreases pesticide use. (Perhaps not coincidentally, Monsanto and Syngenta are major sponsors of the World Food Prize, along with a third biotech giant, Dupont Pioneer.) Monsanto makes the same case on its website, saying, "Since the advent of biotechnology, there have been a number of claims from anti-biotechnology activists that genetically modified (GM) crops don't increase yields. Some have claimed that GM crops actually have lower yields than non-GM crops... GM crops generally have higher yields due to both breeding and biotechnology." |
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Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel
Chicago Tribune 1990-06-10 11:05:00
For nearly 28 years the U.S. government has harbored an increasingly embarrassing secret: A CIA tip to South African intelligence agents led to the arrest that put black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela in prison for most of his adult life. But now, with Mandela en route to the U.S. to a hero's welcome, a former U.S. official has revealed that he has known of the CIA role since Mandela was seized by agents of the South African police special branch on Aug. 5, 1962. The former official, now retired, said that within hours after Mandela's arrest Paul Eckel, then a senior CIA operative, walked into his office and said approximately these words: ''We have turned Mandela over to the South African security branch. We gave them every detail, what he would be wearing, the time of day, just where he would be. They have picked him up. It is one of our greatest coups.'' With Mandela out of prison, the retired official decided there is no longer a valid reason for secrecy. He called the American role in the affair |
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Dylan Love
Business Insider 2013-06-13 11:00:00
This is an (admittedly huge) list of words that supposedly cause the NSA to flag you as a potential terrorist if you over-use them in an email. We found this on Reddit, where James Bamford, a veteran reporter with 30 years experience covering the NSA, is answering questions from the community. He just wrote a big profile for Wired on NSA director Keith Alexander that's really good and well worth a read. This list comes from Reddit user GloriousDawn, who found it on Attrition.org, a site that purports to follow the security industry, but the page was last updated in 1998. Take it with a grain of salt. You may want to peruse this entire list yourself, but here are some of our favorites that stick out: |
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Robert Booth, Vikram Dodd and Sam Jones
Guardian 2013-07-04 10:35:00
Expert in covert techniques says off-the-shelf plug socket device is unlikely to have been planted by state agency Surveillance experts have described the bugging device that Ecuador says was hidden behind a plug socket in its London embassy as rudimentary and unlikely to have been the work of the British police or security services. Photographs of the device were revealed late on Wednesday in Quito by Ecuador's foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, who claimed it had been installed by a Worcester surveillance and security firm, The Surveillance Group Limited. The firm's chief executive, Timothy Youngs, said on Thursday that the allegation was "completely untrue". The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lives and works in a different room in the embassy in Knightsbridge where he has been granted diplomatic asylum. After analysing the images, one expert in covert techniques who has worked for UK law enforcement agencies told the Guardian: "We do not do plug sockets, that's old hat. It's the first place people look. The bug is one you can buy off the shelf. If we do something, most likely we would custom build it. My first thought [is] it would not be a state agency." | |
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Comment: Another possibility is that, while the embassy
bug could be considered rudimentary, certain intelligence services
could have planted the bug there knowing it would be found in order to
send a message to Ecuador that they are being watched. They also likely
have far more advanced surveillance technology in use not only in the
Ecuadorean embassy but for every other countries' embassies.
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Hank P. Albarelli Jr
VoltarireNet 2010-05-08 13:38:00
Late last month, on April 24, media outlets across the Northwest United States began reporting that a strange, previously unknown strain of virulent airborne fungi that has already killed at least 6 people in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, is spreading throughout the region. The fungus, according to expert microbiologists, who have expressed alarm about the strain's emergence, is a new genotype of Cryptococcus gatti fungi or C gatti. Cryptococcus gatti is normally found in tropical and subtropical locations in India, South America, Africa, and Australia. Microbiologists in the United States maintain that the strain found here, for reasons not yet fully understood, is far deadlier than any found overseas. Physicians in the Pacific Northwest are reporting that an undetermined number of people in the region are ill from the effects of the strange strain. Physicians also say that the virulent strain can infect domestic animals as well as humans, and symptoms do not appear until anywhere from two to four months after exposure. Symptoms in humans include a lingering cough, sharp chest pains, fever, night-sweats, weight-loss, headaches, and shortness of breath. The strain can be treated successfully, if detected early enough, with oral doses of antifungal medication, but it cannot be prevented, and there is no preventative vaccine. Undiagnosed, the fungus works its way into the spinal fluid and central nervous system and causes fatal meningitis. |
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Rosalind Adams
The Santiago Times 2013-07-03 16:05:00
Members of student groups calling for education reform overwhelmingly dismiss major coalition nominees after primary elections. Despite years at the forefront of the political agenda in Chile, and in the wake of Sunday's primary vote, student demonstrators approach November's general election feeling increasingly marginalized. Student movement leaders have consigned themselves to the political periphery by fully rejecting the education reform plans outlined by either Michelle Bachelet or Pablo Longueira - winners in the left-leaning Concertación and conservative Alianza coalition primaries, respectively. |
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Olivia Page-Pollard
The Santiago Times 2013-07-03 15:56:00
With the conclusion of Chile's presidential primaries, students begin high school occupations once more in nation's capital. Students from four high schools in Santiago have once again captured their schools, after they were evicted by police last Thursday to allow the buildings to be used as polling booths for the primary presidential elections. On Tuesday, students from Liceo Arturo Alessandri Palma, Liceo Carmela Carvajal, Liceo 7 and Liceo José Victorino Lastarria returned to continue their "tomas," or occupations, following the weekend's vote. |
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Chelsea Karnash
CBS Philadelphia 2013-07-08 15:21:00
In a disturbing case of animal cruelty, a young dog was found wounded, emaciated and tied to a tree in Southwest Philadelphia last week. Now named Kuperus by the rescue that took her in, the Boxer pup is slowly recovering after a mailman discovered her at 22nd and Alter Street emaciated and suffering from severe wounds to the head and jaw. That mailman gave the dog food and water and called ACCT, which then transported the dog to Penn Veterinary Hospital, where she underwent surgery for a head wound possibly caused by a knife or bullet and had her fractured jaw wired. Kuperus also had multiple teeth extracted and was treated for sores all over her body. Following surgery, Adopt a Boxer Rescue took in Kuperus, and a foster parent is nursing her back to health with lots of love and four meals a day. Despite what she's been through, Kuperus' rescuers say she is a lovable girl who craves attention and human touch. |
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Adam Curtis and Massive Attack
The Guardian 2013-07-08 15:02:00
We all live in two worlds. One is the world of our own experience. The other is created by the millions of flickering images recorded on film and video. It is a strange world where the laws of time, space and mortality do not apply. So many of the images are of people who died long ago. They are the modern ghosts who will never leave us. It is a beautiful world. But it may not be as innocent as it seems. It keeps us in an enchanted cocoon - a static world that suits the modern system of power. This system reaches far beyond the old politics - into every part of our lives. It is a technocratic theory of management that wants to keep the world stable. It predicts what you want tomorrow on the basis of what you wanted in the past. If you liked that - You will love this. But it wasn't always like this. |
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Mark Memmott
National Public Radio 2013-07-08 14:44:00
One of the worst civilian aviation accidents in the state in at least 25 years killed all 10 people aboard an air taxi in Alaska on Sunday, . The crash happened at the airport in , a small city on the Kenai Peninsula about 75 miles southwest of Anchorage. The Daily News says that an initial report from the National Transportation Safety Board indicates the de Havilland DHC-3 Otter airplane was taking off at the time. According to the newspaper: "The Soldotna Airport is a municipal airstrip with a single paved 5,000-foot long runway adjacent to the Kenai River. The airport is busy in the summer months with fishing, hunting and sight-seeing flights that take off from the Kenai Peninsula town."The long distances between communities and the desire among outdoors enthusiasts to reach remote places have made traveling on small planes common in Alaska. Unfortunately, as the Daily News says, because of that Alaska is also "a state with many fatal aviation accidents." In 2010, in the crash of a small plane. Among the other accidents with high death tolls in recent decades was the 1987 crash of a Ryan Air Beechcraft 1900C. . |
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Agence France-Presse
2013-07-04 14:11:00
Beijing - Human breast milk has become a new luxury for China's rich, with some firms offering wet nurse services, a report said, provoking outrage and disgust among web users Thursday. Xinxinyu, a domestic staff agency in the booming city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, provided wet nurses for newborns, the sick and other adults who pay high prices for the milk's fine nutrition, the Southern Metropolis Daily said. "Adult (clients) can drink it directly through breastfeeding, or they can always drink it from a breast pump if they feel embarrassed," the report quoted company owner Lin Jun as saying. Wet nurses serving adults are paid around 16,000 yuan ($2,600) a month -- more than four times the Chinese average -- and those who were "healthy and good looking" could earn even more, the report said. Traditional beliefs in some parts of China hold that human breast milk has the best and most easily digestible nutrition for people who are ill. But the report sparked heated debate in the media and on Chinese social media, with most users condemning the service as unethical. |
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CTV News
2013-07-06 12:47:00
While the town of Lac-Megantic assesses the damage from an immense series of explosions that came after a train transporting crude oil came off the tracks, questions are being raised about the overall safety of transporting oil products to market. Investigators still don't know why the train, which was stopped overnight in a nearby rail yard, came loose and rolled into the Quebec community, 250 kilometres east of Montreal. The train, owned by Montreal Maine & Atlantic., had stopped for a crew change shortly before midnight Friday. Somehow, while the 73-car train was unattended, it got loose. |
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Jessica Jerreat and Lydia Warren
Mail Online 2013-07-07 12:15:00
The death toll in a Quebec town that was wiped out after a runaway freight train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in a fireball on Saturday has now risen to five. The massive inferno in Lac-Megantic, which is about 250km from Montreal, was finally brought under control on Sunday - but as many as 40 people are still missing. Parts of the town were evacuated in the early hours of Saturday morning as fireballs shot several meters in the air, flames spread to nearby homes and thick acrid smoke filled the air. Around 30 buildings were destroyed by the massive blaze. 'There are still people who have been reported as missing or unaccounted for,' Sûreté du Québec Lt. Michel Brunet said at a press conference. 'We can't give you a number. We know there will be other deaths. We are aware of that, but we can't give you any numbers at this time.' |
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Jason Easley
PoliticusUsa 2013-07-07 02:04:00
A report by the Center For Investigative Reporting (CIR) uncovered the shocking details, "Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, The Center for Investigative Reporting has found. At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules during those five years - and there are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s, according to state documents and interviews. From 1997 to 2010, the state paid doctors $147,460 to perform the procedure, according to a database of contracted medical services for state prisoners. The women were signed up for the surgery while they were pregnant and housed at either the California Institution for Women in Corona or Valley State Prison for Women in Chowchilla, which is now a men's prison." In the 21st Century, in one of the most liberal states in the country, women were coerced into being sterilized like animals if prison officials thought they were at high risk of returning to prison in the future. |
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Ria Novosti
2013-07-07 00:02:00
About 70 people were injured, six critically, when five cars of a passenger train derailed in southern Russia's Krasnodar Region on Sunday, an emergency official told RIA Novosti. Summer heat might have distorted the tracks, causing the derailment, said the spokesman for Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry, citing the locomotive's engineer. A high of 33 degrees Celsius (90 Fahrenheit) was reported for the area that day. The train had traveled some 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) from the Siberian metropolis of Novosibirsk when the cars derailed only 140 kilometers north of the final destination, Adler, on the Black Sea, according to information provided by the emergency official. |
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Michael Allen
Opposing Views 2013-07-05 11:37:00
Joshua Garcia, 8, survived a car crash into a river, swam ashore, walked a mile barefoot to his home, woke up his mother and asked her to call 911 to save his injured father. While the boy is being called a hero, the dad may be facing arrest (video below). Early Thursday morning, Eugene Garcia was driving a car with his son Joshua as his passenger in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Eugene's car hit a guardrail, flew into the air and landed on a sand bar in the Nashua River at 3 a.m. Eugene was trapped in the car, but Joshua was able to make it out and his dad was eventually rescued. |
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Jonathan Wolfe
Opposing Views 2013-07-03 11:33:00
Isthmus published a story today that takes a look at just how different life in the U.S. can be for immigrants. The story takes a look at the life of Russian immigrant Alex Timofeev. Timofeev, now 35, moved to Wisconsin with his parents at the age of 14. On the surface, his life in the states sounds like a common story. He was a little wild when he was younger. But soon he grew up, found a career, and started a family. So why is Timofeev now facing permanent deportation from the U.S.? He was caught smoking weed a few times over 15 years ago. |
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Sarah Rae Fruchtnicht
Opposing Views 2013-07-06 11:13:00
An Idaho teacher who let fourth-graders draw on the faces of their six classmates for failing to meet their reading goal that month gets to keep her job. Summer Larsen will return to teach at her school in Declo next semester, while an investigation into her behavior by the Cassia County School District is still pending, according to district public information officer Debbie Critchfield. Cassia County school board member Steve Lynch told the Times-News that Larsen's contract was renewed based on the teacher evaluations given by principal Rebecca Hunsaker. "The evaluation recommended rehiring Larsen. The evaluation was done appropriately and professionally and supported that decision," said Lynch. |
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Matt Williams
Federal Aviation Administration confirms crash of plane reported to be Asiana Airlines flight from Seoul while landingThe Guardian 2013-07-06 15:55:00
A Boeing 777 jet has crashed while attempting to land at San Francisco airport, US aviation authorities confirmed on Saturday. |
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Rik Sharma
The Daily Mail 2013-07-06 17:43:00
One man has been arrested on suspicion of decapitating a referee at an amateur football match in Brazil. The referee was supposedly quartered and then had his head cut off before it was stuck on a stake. This shocking act of violence was in retaliation after he 'stabbed' one of the players on the pitch in the Pius XII stadium, Maranhao. |
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A new exposé of Mother Teresa shows that she - and the Vatican - were even worse than we thought2013-07-05 00:00:00
First Christopher Hitchens took her down, then we learned that her faith wasn't as strong as we thought, and now a new study from the Université de Montréal is poised to completely destroy what shreds are left of Mother Teresa's reputation. She was the winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, was beatified and is well on her way to becoming a saint, and she's universally admired. As Wikipedia notes: [She was] named 18 times in the yearly Gallup's most admired man and woman poll as one of the ten women around the world that Americans admired most. In 1999, a poll of Americans ranked her first in Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. In that survey, she out-polled all other volunteered answers by a wide margin, and was in first place in all major demographic categories except the very young.The criticisms of Agnes Gonxha, as she was christened, have been growing for a long time. I wasn't aware of them until I read Christopher Hitchens's cleverly titled book, The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, which I found deeply disturbing. The book is polemic at Hitchens's best, and though the facts were surprising, he was never sued and his accusations were never refuted - nor even rebutted. (You can read excerpts here and here, but I urge you to read the book.) In light of that, I accepted Mother Teresa as a deeply flawed person. |
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Tia Ghose
LiveScience 2013-07-08 14:00:00
Angkor, the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire, has been mapped for the first time using laser light. The technique called LIDAR, which uses billions of reflected light beams to map the topography below a thick forest canopy, revealed that the city was even more massive than previously thought. The new analysis "shows there were hundreds, if not thousands of settlements, mounds, ponds, roads and urban blocks which actually organized a quite dense city," said study co-author Christophe Pottier, an archaeologist and co-director of the Greater Angkor Project. "This area of dense occupation was much bigger than what we were expecting." [See Images of Angkor Wat, New Temple City] The findings were published today (July 8) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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Esther Inglis-Arkell
IO9 2013-07-05 16:34:00
Over 200 years ago, Haiti was rocked by a terrible earthquake, and then by something worse. Over 15,000 people died from a mysterious plague that no one could quite figure out. It was a hundred years before people discovered the cause of the disease. On June 3, 1770, the earthquake struck Haiti, centering on the city of Port-au-Prince. Few buildings were engineered up for a seismic event, and there was widespread architectural devastation. The earthquake shook up the social and political institutions of the time as well. In the chaos, many slaves took the opportunity to escape into the countryside. Their escape proved exactly how much Haiti had depended on their labor for stability. An entire group of people responsible for harvesting and cooking the food had gone, and people everywhere faced starvation. The slaves hiding in the countryside also reduced the amount of wild food available for gathering by city-dwellers. Haitians were facing starvation. Which might explain why people bought shipments of meat that were otherwise unsaleable from Spanish merchants. The meat had come from cattle that had been sick, and soon afterwards, people began dying in droves. The sickness, which started with weakness and fever and ended with painful, blackened lesions and death, spread through the cities and the countryside. No one could figure out what exactly the sickness was, or how to avoid it. |
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Kelly Servick
ScienceNow 2013-07-08 15:25:00
It almost seems like a mystical correlation. Babies conceived at certain times of the year appear healthier than those conceived during other times. Now, scientists have shown that the bizarre phenomenon is actually true - and they think they may know why it happens. The work is "a really long-overdue analysis," says economist Douglas Almond of Columbia University, who was not involved in the study. "This is maybe not quite a smoking gun," he says, "but it's much stronger than the previous evidence." As early as the 1930s, researchers noticed that children born in winter were more prone to health problems later in life: slower growth, mental illness, and even early death. Among the proposed explanations were diseases, harsh temperatures, and higher pollution levels associated with winter, when those expectant mothers and near-term fetuses might be most vulnerable. But recently, as economists looked at demographics, the picture got more complicated. Mothers who are nonwhite, unmarried, or lack a college education are more likely to have children with health and developmental problems. They are also more likely to conceive in the first half of the year. That made it hard to tease out the socioeconomic effects from the seasonal ones. Economists Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt of Princeton University took a new approach to resolving this long-standing question, using data from the vital statistics offices in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania about births between 1994 and 2006. To control for socioeconomic status, their study looked only at siblings born to the same mother. And lo and behold, seasonal patterns persist, they report online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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Brett Smith
RedOrbit 2013-07-08 14:01:00
Next generation sequencing (NGS) techniques have allowed scientists to sequence DNA at faster rates than ever before, and in the process they have begun to revolutionize fields as disparate as anthropology and botany. The technology is also now being used to screen embryos for in vitro fertilization (IVF), and the first child to ever pass though that screening process was recently born in the United States. Developed in the UK at the University of Oxford, the embryo screening process is designed to scan the embryo for genetic abnormalities that could lead to a miscarriage, defective genes or mitochondrial DNA mutations. "Next generation sequencing provides an unprecedented insight into the biology of embryos," said Dr. Dagan Wells at Oxford's Biomedical Research Centre, who helped to develop the screening process and reported on the child birth at the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. |
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Jesse Emspak
Discovery News 2013-07-08 07:28:00
Hearing voices in one's head may precede a trip to a neurologist. But not necessarily, if you're riding a train equipped with Sky Go. German ad agency BBDO Deutschland has teamed up with Sky Go to produce a new kind of advertising that beams messages to a person's head as they ride on a train. Huh? It works using a small box-like device called a Sky Go module, which delivers audio advertisements in the form of vibrations across the train's windows. When a commuter leans her head against the window, the vibrations get transmitted to her skull and through the bones in her ear in a way that allows her to hear the message. |
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Tia Ghose
OurAmazingPlanet 2013-07-08 08:42:00
Scuba divers have discovered a primeval underwater forest off the coast of Alabama. The Bald Cypress forest was buried under ocean sediments, protected in an oxygen-free environment for more than 50,000 years, but was likely uncovered by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, said Ben Raines, one of the first divers to explore the underwater forest and the executive director of the nonprofit Weeks Bay Foundation, which researches estuaries. The forest contains trees so well-preserved that when they are cut, they still smell like fresh Cypress sap, Raines said. The stumps of the Cypress trees span an area of at least 0.5 square miles (0.8 kilometers), several miles from the coast of Mobile, Alabama, and sit about 60 feet (18 meters) below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. Despite its discovery only recently, the underwater landscape has just a few years to be explored, before wood-burrowing marine animals destroy the ancient forest. |
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Adam Withall
Seven Sumatran tigers were angered when the foragers
The Independent, UK 2013-07-08 11:50:00 accidentally trapped a cub, and mauled one man to death
An animal taming rescue team has saved a group of men who were trapped up trees for five days by an angry family of Sumatran tigers. Five men were helped down from branches where they had survived on rain water as the endangered animals circled beneath them. A sixth man was mauled to death. The 28-year-old sought refuge with his companions but, police said, "the branch broke, causing him to fall to the ground". The group was out on Thursday in the remote, protected Mount Leuser National Park in Indonesia, searching for rare agar wood that can be sold to make incense and perfumes. While using a trap to catch deer for food, they unwittingly caught a tiger cub instead. This enraged its mother, and caused five more of the animals to join in an attack on the foragers. From the relative safety of the trees, the men used text messages to ask villagers for help. |
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Littice Bacon-Blood
Associated Press via Yahoo News 2013-07-08 11:51:00
The sob is deep and exhaled on a frustrated sigh. "I cannot stand this!" The words burst from Annette Richie and ping off the bare walls of the empty living room as her neighbors of 20 years, Bucky and Joanie Mistretta, recall happier times along Bayou Corne. "I know, I know," Joanie Mistretta said, soothing her. "You come back now and it's just sad." They were supposed to be planning camping trips, cookouts and potlucks. Instead, the Mistrettas, the Richies and many neighbors in the swampy Assumption Parish community are packing up decades' worth of belongings, chased from waterfront homes that were supposed to be retirement nests by a gas-emitting, 22-acre sinkhole less than a mile away. The sinkhole, discovered Aug. 3, resulted from a collapsed underground salt dome cavern about 40 miles south of Baton Rouge. After oil and natural gas came oozing up and acres of the swampland liquefied into muck, the community's 350 residents were advised to evacuate. Additional images |
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Ashley Rodrigue
wwltv.com 2013-07-02 10:10:00
Biloxi, Miss -- Stingrays, fish, shrimp, eels and crabs, all dead, were spread along beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast Tuesday. Officials say it's the second day of a fish kill for the record books. "According to people at the MDMR, that have been working there for a long time, this extent, stretching as far as it did from the Beau Rivage all the way down to long beach, so from Biloxi to Long Beach, was a large area, and they just haven't seen that large of an area in the past," said Kelly Lucas, chief scientific officer for the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources. A family from Texas, with Mississippi family ties, described the scene yesterday as biblical. "Last night, we went out at low tide and there was just massive amounts of dead fish and stingrays and shrimp, shrimp 7 to 8 inches long. Never seen anything like that before," said Alicia Aldridge. "It was a lot. Disturbing," said 18-year-old Kendalyn Aldridge, |
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Carla Castano
koin.com 2013-07-01 09:56:00
Turner, Ore. (KOIN) - Since the 1950s, Eztel Farms has been raising sheep on a 200-acre property near Turner but over the weekend as many as 40 sheep died in their field. Neighbor Floyd Noel said the dead sheep brought in pests like buzzards and flies, but the stench was the worst part, he said. His wife called the sheriff's deputies to the farm when she said she heard strange noises and saw some sheep stumbling around and falling at the property on Little Road SE. The deputies found between 30 and 40 dead sheep on about 80 acres of land, but also noticed more than 200 sheep grazing in the field. The temperature at the time was in the mid-90s and one deputy noticed a protein-based soy supplement in the field, officials said. Neighbors said they have long been concerned about the care of the sheep and conditions turned fatal as temperatures climbed into the 90s. |
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The Extinction Protocol
The intensity of the current eruptive phase for Mexico's Popocatépetl
volcano remains high. A phase of particularly strong tremor accompanying
continuous explosions and ash emissions occurred this morning. As a
consequence of the elevated activity, CENAPRED raised the alert level to
Yellow, Phase 3. An exclusion zone of 12 km radius around the volcano
is in place. During the (intermittent) eruptions, a steam and ash plume
is rising about 3 km above the crater. A giant SO2 plume can be seen
drifting north from Popocatepétl, which is notorious of its large SO2
output during eruptions. -Volcano Discovery2013-07-08 09:24:00
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US Geological Survey
2013-07-08 01:58:00
Event Time 2013-07-07 20:30:07 UTC 2013-07-08 06:30:07 UTC+10:00 at epicenter Location 6.016°S 149.721°E depth=62.0km (38.5mi) Nearby Cities 29km (18mi) NE of Kandrian, Papua New Guinea 69km (43mi) SW of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea 312km (194mi) ENE of Lae, Papua New Guinea 336km (209mi) WSW of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 471km (293mi) NE of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Technical Details |
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US Geological Survey
2013-07-07 15:42:00
Event Time: 2013-07-07 08:38:59 UTC 2013-07-07 01:38:59 UTC-07:00 at epicenter Location: 36.456°N 112.576°W depth=5.2km (3.2mi) Nearby Cities: 4km (34mi) S of Fredonia, Arizona 102km (63mi) SE of Hurricane, Utah 111km (69mi) SE of Washington, Utah 115km (71mi) SE of Saint George, Utah 336km (209mi) N of Phoenix, Arizona Technical data |
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US Geological Survey
2013-07-07 14:11:00
Event Time 2013-07-07 18:35:30 UTC 2013-07-08 04:35:30 UTC+10:00 at epicenter Location 3.939°S 153.882°E depth=378.8km (235.4mi) Nearby Cities 110km (68mi) ENE of Taron, Papua New Guinea 185km (115mi) ENE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 311km (193mi) NW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea 374km (232mi) ESE of Kavieng, Papua New Guinea 904km (562mi) NW of Honiara, Solomon Islands Technical Details |
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2011Message / fidockave213
Youtube 2013-07-03 10:00:00 Comment: To put things in perspective, we have decided to put these video summaries in one place. For context on recent weather and geological changes, listen to our podcast on the subject: Ice Age Cometh? Extreme Weather Events and 'Climate Change'
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Sott.net
This so called roll cloud appeared last week over Svolvær, Norway.2013-06-30 08:27:00
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GlobalNews.ca
"There's still hail sitting around now and it's like what, noon?" said
Gaylene Whitley, surveying her lawn. "It's still sitting around. It came
down in buckets." For Taber residents, waking up to snow on the lawn is
normal in the spring. But waking to snowdrifts in July has the town
speechless.2013-07-06 20:01:00 Friday evening, large thunderstorms rolled into Taber, with hail covering streets, lawns and sidewalks. Ice pellets blocked storm sewers, flooding residential streets and sending some vehicles floating in the water. "In some spots in town I bet you there was two feet of water on the road. It was a lot of water and hail," said Taber resident Cody Cook.
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Comment: Weird weather is everywhere: Over a foot of hail covers Santa Rosa, New Mexico
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9news.com
2013-07-04 10:37:00
Santa Rosa, N.M. - In some areas of New Mexico Wednesday, it looked more like the night before Christmas than Independence Day Eve. More than a foot of hail covered streets, yards and parking lots in Santa Rosa, about 100 miles east of Albuquerque. A huge thunderstorm dumped golfball-sized hail around 6 p.m. Snow plows cleared drifting hail from the roads. The storm caused severe damage to many homes, cars and businesses. Meteorologists say large accumulations of hail are fairly common in northeast New Mexico because of the high elevation. |
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US Geological Survey
2013-07-06 01:01:00
Event Time 2013-07-06 05:05:07 UTC 2013-07-06 12:05:07 UTC+07:00 at epicenter Location 3.237°S 100.595°E depth=23.5km (14.6mi) Nearby Cities 154km (96mi) SW of Sungai Penuh, Indonesia 195km (121mi) WNW of Bengkulu, Indonesia 216km (134mi) W of Curup, Indonesia 252km (157mi) W of Lubuklinggau, Indonesia 617km (383mi) SW of Singapore, Singapore Technical Details |
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Braley Dodson
Little-known military flight area might be cause of noise reportsThe Daily Republic 2013-06-15 15:24:00
Some Mitchell-area residents were in a state of bewilderment last Saturday night after hearing a loud boom. Though definitive information is scant, the boom could have been from a jet flying at supersonic speeds through a little-known military operations area. The boom was heard around 11 p.m. and spawned calls to law enforcement officials in Mitchell and Mount Vernon, who did not determine a cause for the noise. The National Weather Service office in Sioux Falls reported rain that night, but not much thunder. A lightning strike would be heard as a boom nearby where it hit, but would sound like a rumble from farther away. Davison County Chief Deputy Steve Harr heard dispatchers discuss calls they received about a big boom. He heard reports of people who heard it in Mitchell, Mount Vernon and five miles northwest of Mount Vernon. "This was a first for me," Harr said. The noise may have been a sonic boom created by a jet flying faster than the speed of sound. The speed of sound varies with altitude and temperature, but is about 770 mph. The sonic boom would travel with the aircraft. Because the speed of sound can constantly change, it is possible to unintentionally break it. The jet may have been flying through the Lake Andes Military Operations Area, an airspace used by the military for simulated air combat and complex missions, and practice maneuvers. It is the only such military operations area in the state, other than a small portion of the Powder River military air space in Montana and Wyoming that juts into South Dakota's northwest corner. |
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2009-09-10 16:41:00
The men who ate nothing but meat for an entire year Low-carb diets and paleolithic nutrition are all the rage these days, and for good reason. Compared to the Standard American Diet, both of them are superb. Few of us would dare to take the two to their extreme, however. Giving up sugar and wheat is one thing, but what about giving up everything except meat? Yes, I'm talking about an ultra low-carb diet with even foods like nuts and berries removed. Unsurprisingly and understandably, studies on the long-term effects of such a diet are severely lacking. There is at least one study that did just this, however. If the diet brings the Eskimos to mind, it's no coincidence. You may have heard of Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson - the Canadian ethnologist who spent more than a decade with the Inuit during his arctic explorations in the beginning of the previous century. For nine of these years, he lived almost exclusively on fish and meat (you can read about his experiences here). At the time, this was considered heresy and life-threatening, just as it is today (note that Stefansson apparently refers to both fish and meat with the word "meat"): To the surprise of many (including Stefansson himself), he suffered no health problems during his decade of pure carnivorism. When he told people of his amazing experiences, he was met with skepticism from medical authorities who asked him to undertake a study that would replicate the results. He and a fellow explorer named Andersen agreed to eat an all-meat diet for an entire year in a closely observed setting. Composing a diet of nothing but meat and fat |
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Mark Kestal
Food Safety News 2013-06-24 15:35:00
Because Food Safety News holds an important perspective in the industry, I was surprised to see the website publish a commentary by Mr. Mischa Popoff. Mr. Popoff has spent the last few years promoting his self-published book, Is It Organic. He has made irresponsible and unsupported claims that 80 percent of all organic food in North America is imported and riddled with fraud - a grave disservice to the hard-working organic farmers in this country and their loyal customers. The subtitle of his book says it all: The Inside Story of Who Destroyed the Organic Industry, Turned It into a Socialist Movement and Made Million$ in the Process, and a Comprehensive History of Farming, Warfare and Western Civilization from 1645 to the Present. Whoa Nelly! If you connect the dots, by looking at the other issues that Mr. Popoff writes about, and commonly published on ultraconservative websites (challenging climate change, defending genetically engineered food production, challenging the efficacy of hybrid automobiles and even parenting issues) you would have to conclude that organic food is a component of some kind of Bolshevik plot to take over this country. | |
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Comment: Read more about the ongoing debate between organic and conventional food and how the Mainstream media launches another phony war against organic:
Organic Food: Cutting Through The Confusion Debunked: Ridiculous Study Claims Organic Same as Conventional Sound Science and Common Sense are On the Side of Organics State of Science Review 'New Evidence Confirms the Nutritional Superiority of Plant-Based Organic Foods' New 'Study' Based on Crops No Longer Grown, Twists Its Own Results, and Fails to Analyze Other Key Health Benefits of Organic Food Whoa, Is Organic Food No Healthier Than Non-Organic? Controversy Erupts Over Study Stanford Scientists Shockingly Reckless on Health Risk and Organics Cargill and Others Behind anti-Organic "Stanford Study" Thinking Outside the Processed Foods Box: Health and Safety Advantages of Organic Food |
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Tom Philpott
Mother Jones 2013-06-26 15:10:00
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 69 percent of US adults are overweight or obese. How did this happen? In a long article in the current Atlantic, David H. Freedman offers a mechanistic explanation: People are ingesting too many calories, particularly "energy-intense" fat, sugar, and "other problem carbs." The simple diagnoses leads to an easy solution: The food industry should apply its flavor-engineering wizardry to churn out lower-cal products that people will still scarf up, preserving its own bottom line while solving the obesity crisis. Indeed, he writes, this remedy is already playing out under our noses: Popular food producers, fast-food chains among them, are already applying various tricks and technologies to create less caloric and more satiating versions of their junky fare that nonetheless retain much of the appeal of the originals, and could be induced to go much further.Among the examples Freedman cites are McDonald's Egg White Delight McMuffin, a "lower-calorie, less fatty version of the Egg McMuffin," a "new line of quarter-pound burgers, to be served on buns containing whole grains," and Carl's Jr.'s "Charbroiled Atlantic Cod Fish Sandwich." |
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Claire Duffin
A chemical found in everyday cosmetics and household cleaning
products may be responsible for an "epidemic" of painful skin allergies,
doctors have warned. The Telegraph, UK 2013-07-07 12:20:00
The preservative - known as MI - is used in a wide range of shampoos, moisturisers and shower gels as well as make-up and baby wipes. But dermatologists warn people are being exposed to much higher doses than before, leading to a steep rise in allergies known as contact dermatitis where the skin becomes red and itchy and can sting and blister. Experts say the chemical is second only to nickel in causing contact allergies. One in 12 adults and one in five children in the UK now have eczema, of which contact dermatitis is one of the most common types. MI, which is short for methylisothiazolinone, is a preservative which is also found in paint. It is added to products to prevent unwanted growth of bacteria and yeasts. Well-known products that contain MI found on sale in shops included Nivea body lotion, Wet Ones and Boots men's face wash. |
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David Weston
University College London 2013-07-07 11:01:00
A new technique for detecting cancer by imaging the consumption of sugar with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been unveiled by UCL scientists. The breakthrough could provide a safer and simpler alternative to standard radioactive techniques and enable radiologists to image tumours in greater detail. The new technique, called 'glucose chemical exchange saturation transfer' (glucoCEST), is based on the fact that tumours consume much more glucose (a type of sugar) than normal, healthy tissues in order to sustain their growth. Comment: But notice how this important information isn't being utilized by many doctors to prevent or treat cancer. While, the fact is, that ketogenic - no sugar/ low carbohydrates/ high fat - diet is known to help with many diseases. Read the following articles to learn more: Ketogenic diet, calorie restriction and hyperbaric treatment offer hope for non-toxic cancer treatment and alleviation of multiple health issues Ketogenic diet: Role in epilepsy and beyond Is the Ketogenic Diet the cure for multiple diseases? Ketogenic diet may be key to cancer recovery The researchers found that sensitising an MRI scanner to glucose uptake caused tumours to appear as bright images on MRI scans of mice. Lead researcher Dr Simon Walker-Samuel, from the UCL Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI) said: "GlucoCEST uses radio waves to magnetically label glucose in the body. This can then be detected in tumours using conventional MRI techniques. The method uses an injection of normal sugar and could offer a cheap, safe alternative to existing methods for detecting tumours, which require the injection of radioactive material." Professor Mark Lythgoe, Director of CABI and a senior author on the study, said: "We can detect cancer using the same sugar content found in half a standard sized chocolate bar. Our research reveals a useful and cost-effective method for imaging cancers using MRI - a standard imaging technology available in many large hospitals." |
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Dr Mark Hyman
drhyman.com 2013-07-05 16:14:00
There is no biological requirement for cow's milk. It is nature's perfect food but only if you are a calf. The evidence of its benefits is overstated, and the evidence of its harm to human populations is increasing. The white mustached celebrities paid by the Dairy Council promote the wonders of milk in their "Got Milk" ads. Scientists are increasingly asking, "Got Proof?" Our government still hasn't caught on, in part because of the huge dairy lobby driving nutrition guidelines. When I once lamented to Senator Harkin that all we wanted to do was to make science into policy, he cocked his head and with a wry smile and said, "that would make too much sense." And the media is also influenced heavily by advertising dollars. Once, when I was on Martha Stewart's television show, the dairy lobby sponsored the episode, and her trainer was forced to mouth the talking points of the Dairy Council touting milk as a fabulous sports drink. Studies may show some benefit, but studies funded by the food industry show positive benefits eight times more than independently funded studies. In a new editorial by two of the nation's leading nutrition scientists from Harvard, Dr. David Ludwig and Dr. Walter Willett, in JAMA Pediatrics, our old assumptions about milk are being called into question. Perhaps it doesn't help you grow strong bones, and it may increase the risk of cancer and promote weight gain. | |
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Comment: Additional information about the evils of milk:
Why Milk Is So Evil 6 reasons why you should avoid milk at all costs... Your Milk on Drugs - The Dangers of rBGH in Dairy Products The Cancer Time Bomb Sitting in Your Refrigerator - Will You Stop Consuming It? Milk industry desperation setting in as America decides it doesn't really want to drink it |
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CBS New York
2013-07-02 11:09:00
A new disease spread by deer ticks has already infected 100,000 New Yorkers since the state first started keeping track. As CBS 2's Dr. Max Gomez reported, the new deer tick-borne illness resembles Lyme disease, but is a different malady altogether - and it could be even worse. The common deer tick is capable of spreading dangerous germs into the human bloodstream with its bite. However, Lyme disease is one of many diseases that ticks carry. The latest disease is related to Lyme, and an infected person will suffer similar symptoms. "Patients with this illness will develop, perhaps, fever, headache, flu-like symptoms, muscle pains - so they'll have typical Lyme-like flu symptoms in the spring, summer, early fall," said Dr. Brian Fallon of Columbia University. "But most of them will not develop the typical rash that you see with Lyme disease." |
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Fiora Stevens
Sometimes it's difficult to discern trend diets from the truth
about nutrition. It seems that everyone has an agenda, a special diet, a
"limited time offer." However, we're here to tell you about one
incredibly common food that is absolutely wrecking most people's skin,
joints, and blood sugar.The best part? There's no agenda here. The worst
part? This food is probably in just about every one of your meals.
Curious to know what we're talking about? Wheat.Daily Health Post 2013-07-06 00:00:00
Why Wheat Isn't All That Great Let's start at the beginning. The "wheat" we're referring to is hardly wheat at all. In fact, if you could give someone from the 18th century a baked loaf of bread (even whole wheat), they would hardly even recognize it. Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist, is one of many scientists and doctors that tries to educate others on the truth about modern wheat. If you want to learn more about the distinctions between modern wheat and the "true" wheat of centuries past, check out this interview he did with CBS News. |
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Traci Pedersen
Researchers have found that people with narcissistic personality
disorder have less gray matter in the left anterior insula, a region of
the brain linked to empathy.Psychecentral.com 2013-07-06 07:43:00 Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which the sufferers have an inflated sense of their own importance and a lack of empathy. They generally suffer from low self-esteem and feelings of inferiority, but have displays of arrogance and vanity. For the study, researchers used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the brains of 34 participants, including 17 individuals who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder, and found that pathological narcissists have less gray matter in a part of the cerebral cortex called the left anterior insula. |
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Sciencedaily.com
2013-07-04 06:55:00
New research suggests that reading books, writing and participating in brain-stimulating activities at any age may preserve memory. The study is published in the July 3, 2013, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. "Our study suggests that exercising your brain by taking part in activities such as these across a person's lifetime, from childhood through old age, is important for brain health in old age," said study author Robert S. Wilson, PhD, with Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. For the study, 294 people were given tests that measured memory and thinking every year for about six years before their deaths at an average age of 89. They also answered a questionnaire about whether they read books, wrote and participated in other mentally stimulating activities during childhood, adolescence, middle age and at their current age. |
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Elizabeth Renter
Natural Society 2013-07-06 16:07:00
In some parts of the world, good food is food prepared with care, attention, and a plenty of time. This sort of food philosophy, where meals are made with fresh ingredients and patience, doesn't lend itself well to fast food where cheap ingredients are premade so they can be warmed and slapped together in record-time. This sort of food dichotomy is exactly why McDonald's couldn't thrive in Bolivia - the first Latin America country to essentially kick the fast-food-giant out by keeping them in the red. McDonald's restaurants operated in Bolivia for 14 years, according to Hispanically Speaking. In 2002, they had to shutter their final remaining 8 stores because they simply couldn't turn a profit - and if you know fast food companies, you know it's not because they didn't try. The Golden Arches sunk plenty of money into marketing and campaigning - trying to get the food-loving Bolivians to warm to their French fries and burgers, but it simply wasn't happening. Some 60 percent of Bolivians are indigenous. "Fast" and processed foods are simply a foreign concept to them. Why would you pay someone to provide you with a less-than-delicious and unhealthy alternative to real food? This attitude is one that the U.S. fast food nation could learn a thing or two from. |
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Michael McEvoy
Metabolic Healing 2013-07-04 08:08:00
There is no debating it: the modern world has become a cesspool of environmental toxins. Repeated scientific studies have identified the health-deteriorating effects of toxins of all kinds: mercury, lead, BPA, petrochemicals, pthalates, parabens, benzenes, and many types of chemicals whose names are difficult to pronounce. The modern household has become a harbor for so many types of chemicals, it is remarkable, sad and very frightening. To illustrate the remarkable nature of household chemical exposure, take a 2003 study conducted by the Environmental Science & Technology Journal. In this study, the authors evaluated 120 households for chemicals detected in dust and in the ambient air. The number of airborne chemicals ranged between 13 and 28 and 6 to 42 in the dust per household. Among the chemicals detected, a number of EPA-banned chemicals were identified, ranging from DDT, intermediate flame retardant chemicals, chlordane, heptachlor and methoxychlor. Furthermore, of the chemicals discovered, 15 compounds exceeded government safety guidelines, while government safety guidelines did not exist for 28 of the chemical compounds. | |
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Comment: For more information on how to detoxify, read Detoxify or Die by Sherry Rogers.
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Kris Gunnars
Authority Nutrition 2013-06-25 07:48:00
A few months ago, I read a book called The Art and Science of Low-Carbohydrate Living. The authors are two of the world's leading researchers on low-carb diets. Dr. Jeff S. Volek is a Registered Dietitian and Dr. Stephen D. Phinney is a medical doctor. These guys have performed many studies and have treated thousands of patients with a low-carb diet. According to them, there are many stumbling blocks that people tend to run into, which can lead to adverse effects and suboptimal results. To get into full-blown ketosis and reap all the metabolic benefits of low-carb, merely cutting back on the carbs isn't enough. If you haven't gotten the results you expected on a low-carb diet, then perhaps you were doing one of these 5 common mistakes. 1. Eating too many carbs There is no clear definition of exactly what constitutes a "low carb diet." Some would call anything under 100-150 grams per day low-carb, which is definitely a lot less than the standard Western diet. A lot of people could get awesome results within this carbohydrate range, as long as they ate real, unprocessed foods. But if you want to get into ketosis, with plenty of ketoness flooding your bloodstream to supply your brain with an efficient source of energy, then this level of intake may be excessive. It could take some self experimentation to figure out your optimal range as this depends on a lot of things, but most people will need to go under 50 grams per day to get into full-blown ketosis. |
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Kelly Patricia O'Meara
Citizens Commission on Human Rights International 2013-07-02 07:27:00
During the May 2013 annual conference of the American Psychiatric Association ( APA), a study was presented, alleging that Electroconvulsive Therapy, ECT, (formerly known as Electroshock) for adolescents "is a safe, reasonably well-tolerated, and effective treatment." Unfortunately, like all psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, these claims are dependent upon the psychiatrist's interpretation - not scientific fact. Keeping in mind that the APA cannot provide any science to support that even one of its alleged psychiatric disorders is a real medical condition, it is difficult to accept this new study with any level of credibility. After all, if the psychiatric community cannot prove that a psychiatric disorder exists, how can it possibly prove that any "treatment," specifically frying a child's still developing brain with "therapeutic" electricity, is safe and effective? In a nutshell, psychiatry's theory of ECT is to induce, through electric current directly to the frontal lobes of the brain, a grand mal seizure, which will presumably "jump start" the alleged disordered brain. There are two glaring problems with the theory - no one knows how the brain works and, despite 70 years of research, nobody knows how ECT works. The author of the ECT study, Dr. Chad Puffer, a general psychiatry resident at the Mayo Clinic, said "the idea that this is a barbaric treatment is typically perpetuated by those who have not seen the treatments as they are currently administered." Dr. Puffer is alluding to the horrific ECT "treatments" that were conducted in the past, when patients were subjected to high doses of "therapeutic" electricity with no anesthesia or medications, causing violent seizures, broken bones and even death. | |
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Comment: More gruesome ways to apply transmarginal inhibition and deal up with dissent in a living pathocracy.
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Leonard Sax
Psychiatry's diagnostic bible has broadened the definition of mental illness to absurdity.The Wall Street Journal 2013-06-26 07:13:00
The American Psychiatric Association released a revision of its diagnostic bible in May, the first major rewrite in two decades. The Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM-5, is the official guidebook for diagnosing every conceivable psychiatric ailment. This new edition loosens the rules in a disturbing way. In previous editions, you the patient had to meet certain specified criteria in order to be diagnosed for any particular condition. For example, if I were going to diagnose you as having schizophrenia, then you had to have specific symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations. If you didn't have those symptoms, then I couldn't make the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Not anymore. Last month, DSM-5 introduced a new diagnosis, "Unspecified Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder." The only required criterion is that you have some distress from unspecified symptoms, but you "do not meet the full criteria for any of the disorders in the schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders diagnostic class." You don't have to have delusions. You don't have to have hallucinations. In fact if you do have delusions and hallucinations, then you probably don't qualify for unspecified schizophrenia. (You will find the new diagnosis in one short paragraph at the bottom of page 122 of DSM-5.) Likewise for every other diagnostic category, including, for example, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Let's suppose that you occasionally don't pay attention to your wife. You don't meet the old-fashioned criteria for ADHD, which included impairment in multiple settings, like on the job or while driving. You are inattentive only when your wife is talking. You pay attention to everybody else. Hey, no problem. You now qualify for "Unspecified Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder." |
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The University of Liverpool
2013-07-08 09:56:00
The study found those with clinical depression were more likely to set abstract goals that were difficult to achieve Researchers from the University of Liverpool have found that people with depression have more generalised personal goals than non-depressed people. A study conducted by Dr Joanne Dickson, in the University's Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, analysed the lists of personal goals made by people who suffered with depression and those who didn't. List personal goals The participants were asked to list goals they would like to achieve at any time in the short, medium or long-term. The goals were categorised for their specificity - for example a global or abstract goal such as, 'to be happy' would represent a general goal, whereas, a goal such as 'improve my 5-mile marathon time this summer' would represent a more specific goal. Researchers found that whilst both groups generated the same number of goals, people with depression listed goals which were more general and more abstract. The study also found that depressed people were far more likely to give non-specific reasons for achieving and not achieving their goals. |
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Stuart Wolpert
University of California - Los Angeles 2013-07-05 13:14:00
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted? UCLA psychologists have taken a significant step toward answering these questions, identifying for the first time the brain regions associated with the successful spread of ideas, often called "buzz." The research has a broad range of implications, the study authors say, and could lead to more effective public health campaigns, more persuasive advertisements and better ways for teachers to communicate with students. "Our study suggests that people are regularly attuned to how the things they're seeing will be useful and interesting, not just to themselves but to other people," said the study's senior author, Matthew Lieberman, a UCLA professor of psychology and of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences and author of the forthcoming book Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. "We always seem to be on the lookout for who else will find this helpful, amusing or interesting, and our brain data are showing evidence of that. At the first encounter with information, people are already using the brain network involved in thinking about how this can be interesting to other people. We're wired to want to share information with other people. I think that is a profound statement about the social nature of our minds." The study findings are published in the online edition of the journal Psychological Science, with print publication to follow later this summer. |
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Paul Levy
Reality Sandwich 2013-07-01 07:56:00 Comment: Readers may wish to first read 'The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity' by the same author for background information on the 'Wetiko Virus'.
A few days before my interview on Why Shamanism Now? Internet Radio Show, I received an email from the well-known anthropologist, author and shamanic practitioner Hank Wesselman. He mentioned that what I am calling "wetiko" the Hawaiian kahuna tradition was also familiar with, and called these mind parasites the "'e'epa." He mentioned that he talks about these archon-like entities in his latest book The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman, which I immediately went out and bought. When I found the section on the 'e'epa, my eyes almost fell out of my head, as the description of the 'e'epa by an esteemed Hawaiian kahuna shaman was almost word for word what I had written in my book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil. As my research deepens, I am realizing ever more fully that every wisdom tradition in the history of our planet has its own language and symbol system for illuminating what the Native Americans have been calling wetiko. Having just finished an article on how the Kabbalah described the evil of wetiko in its own unique way, I had recently started doing research for a new article on how a particularly powerful practice in the Islamic tradition was specially crafted so as to dissolve the pernicious effects of wetiko. After learning about the 'e'epa, I was left with the feeling that I was fated to continually find an ever-expanding number of wisdom traditions that articulate the wetiko psychosis, each in their own way. By whatever name we call it, wetiko is undoubtedly one of the most important discoveries ever made. |
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| High Strangeness |
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WBKatri
This is Cornwall 2013-07-05 13:49:00
The Beast of Bodmin has been spotted in Four Lanes near Redruth. Retired salesman Sid Yates said he spotted the wild animal yesterday morning at 9am. He explained: "I came out of my house yesterday morning at 9am and as I looked up the lane about 50 yards in front me was the Beast of Bodmin. I thought to myself 'good God there's another one'. "It looked a bit like a black Labrador but it had longer legs and tail and flat nose. It was definitely the Beast of Bodmin and not a dog. |
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Natalie Evans
Mirror.co.uk 2013-07-04 14:28:00
+Jadon Billington, 10, and his sister Lucy, eight, regularly talk to dead people at their home in Cheshire, and have made friends with more than 10 spirits - including their own grandmother. The thought of seeing a ghost may terrify most children, but for Jadon Billington and his little sister Lucy, it is part of every day life. The siblings regularly talk to dead people at their home in Cheshire, and have made friends with more than 10 spirits - including their own grandmother - over the last year. Jadon, aged 10, chats to a ghostly American couple called Sam and Simon Crease and an angel called Michael, while eight-year-old Lucy has befriended a young spirit girl called Rose. Mum Pam Billington says her kids talk about their spooky pals so much it feels as if they're part of the family. "It all started a couple of years ago when Jadon told me he had been visited by an angel in the night," she said. Comment: It's important to note, that paranormal and UFO phenomena aren't necessarily benevolent. In fact, the chances are high that something wicked is hiding behind the "angel" appearance. Read The High Strangeness of Dimensions, Densities, and the Process of Alien Abduction by Laura Knight-Jadczyk and John Keel's works to learn more about the real face of the Cosmic Trickster. "At first I dismissed it as being the product of an overactive imagination. But when Lucy started talking about it too I started to listen. "It's a gift and you either have it or you don't. It isn't a hoax, I really believe my kids can talk to spirits." The paranormal activity began in 2011 at the Billington's former home in Manchester, where the children said ghosts lived among the family and even in their attic. In March this year, the family moved to a new home in Sandbach, Cheshire - but it seems the spooks have relocated too. And full-time mum Pam, who has another daughter Emily, 14, says she's now a believer after having a spooky close encounter of her own. |
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| Don't Panic! Lighten Up! |
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The Daily Mail, UK
To go at a 'snail's pace' is rarely considered a good thing.2013-07-08 12:36:00 But when a snail decide to slide across a sleeping frog, it's very slow and steady rate probably saved it's life - because it didn't wake the amphibian, which normally feasts on the molluscs. This snail enjoyed a long game of leapfrog as it takes eight minutes to calmly climb over a croaker before reaching its destination.
The frog was enjoying an afternoon nap in a branch in Indonesia when the snail slid along to interrupt its snooze. |
