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PR Newswire
The Italian-German linguist and philosopher Francesco Carotta proves in his book Jesus was Caesar
that the story of Jesus Christ has its origin in Roman sources. After
more than fifteen years of investigation Carotta has found the traces
which lead to the Julian origin of Christianity. He concludes that the
story of Jesus is based on the narrative of the life of Julius Caesar.
The cult surrounding Jesus Christ, son of God and originator of
Christianity appeared during the second century. Early historians,
however, never mentioned Jesus and even to this day there has been no
historical proof of his existence. Julius Caesar, 'son of Venus' and
founder of the Roman Empire, was elevated to the status of Imperial God,
Divus Julius, after his violent death. The cult that surrounded him
dissolved as Christianity surfaced.
2010-02-08 07:25:00
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Julie Tate
The Washington Post 2013-07-30 16:46:00
An Army judge on Tuesday acquitted Pfc. Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy by disclosing a trove of secret U.S. government documents but found him guilty of espionage, a mixed verdict that dealt a rebuke to military prosecutors who sought to prove that the largest leak in U.S. history had assisted al-Qaeda. The judge, Col. Denise Lind, found Manning guilty of most of the more than 20 crimes he was charged with, including several violations of the Espionage Act. He could face a maximum of 136 years in prison. The case, tried in a small courtroom at Fort Meade, Md., an installation that includes the National Security Agency, unfolded amid a heated national conversation about the right balance between government secrecy and civil liberties - a debate fueled by recent revelations about the scope of U.S. surveillance programs. In charging Manning with aiding the enemy, government prosecutors argued that the former intelligence analyst's decision to release diplomatic cables and battlefield reports amounted to the highest form of treason. Lind did not buy that argument. But her verdict, which marked the first major espionage conviction during the Obama administration, is certain to set markers in the ongoing debate over government secrecy and whistleblower protections. Manning's attorney, David Coombs, said he was pleased by the verdict, but he signaled that the decisive moment will come during the sentencing phase of the court-martial, which opens Wednesday and could last several weeks. "We won the battle, now we need to go win the war," Coombs said after leaving court. "Today is a good day, but Bradley is by no means out of the fire." | |
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Comment: The Pentagon did a good job of spinning this
verdict to make Manning 'not guilty of aiding the enemy', but meanwhile
the point has been entirely missed that this young man has been
incarcerated for years, tortured and tried in a kangaroo court, and is
facing many more years in prison for exposing just some of the war
crimes of the U.S. government.
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William Blum
Williamblum.org 2013-07-29 00:00:00
It's not easy being a flag-waving American nationalist. In addition to having to deal with the usual disillusion, anger, and scorn from around the world incited by Washington's endless bombings and endless wars, the nationalist is assaulted by whistle blowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, who have disclosed a steady stream of human-rights and civil-liberties scandals, atrocities, embarrassing lies, and embarrassing truths. Believers in "American exceptionalism" and "noble intentions" have been hard pressed to keep the rhetorical flag waving by the dawn's early light and the twilight's last gleaming. That may explain the Washington Post story (July 20) headlined "U.S. asylum-seekers unhappy in Russia", about Edward Snowden and his plan to perhaps seek asylum in Moscow. The article recounted the allegedly miserable times experienced in the Soviet Union by American expatriates and defectors like Lee Harvey Oswald, the two NSA employees of 1960 - William Martin and Bernon Mitchell - and several others. The Post's propaganda equation apparently is: Dissatisfaction with life in Russia by an American equals a point in favor of the United States: "misplaced hopes of a glorious life in the worker's paradise" ... Oswald "was given work in an electronics factory in dreary Minsk, where the bright future eluded him" ... reads the Post's Cold War-clichéd rendition. Not much for anyone to get terribly excited about, but a defensive American nationalist is hard pressed these days to find much better. |
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Jason Burke
The Guardian 2013-07-31 08:10:00
Telangana: new Indian state closer to reality after government approval Ruling coalition led by Congress party votes in favour of hiving off part of Andhra Pradesh to create India's 29th state India's ruling coalition government, led by the Congress party, has backed demands for the creation of a new state called Telangana in southern India, immediately spurring activists to repeat other long-standing demands for similar measures elsewhere in the vast country. The new state - India's 29th - would be carved out of the existing southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Activists have long argued that the drought-prone northern area of Andhra Pradesh is underdeveloped and ignored by powerful politicians from the south. Residents of the 10 districts that form Telangana say they are discriminated against in the allocation of state funds, water and jobs. The state is currently run from Hyderabad, a city known for its booming information technology industry. | |
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GaryMule
Las Vegas - Multiple employees and managers at the Clark County family
court are under investigation for allegedly covering up a sexual assault
by a court marshal.YouTube/8 News NOW 2013-07-31 09:46:00 The I-Team has uncovered video showing a woman claiming a court marshal sexually assaulted her. She was later arrested by that same marshal. The marshal has since been fired. The I-Teams investigation shows how the internal affairs investigation is revealing much larger problems at family court. There are multiple marshals involved and allegations ranging from sexual assaults to choking a citizen in court. The investigation began with a 2011 video that shows family court marshals arresting a woman because she claimed one of them sexually assaulted her.
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TheLocal.es
2013-07-31 09:40:00
Saudi Arabia has granted a Spanish consortium a $7.88 billion (€5.94 billion) contract to build three metro lines in Riyadh but another key bid for a high-speed rail project in Brazil remains under threat after the recent train crash in Spain which killed at least 79 people. The Riyadh metro contract is one of three Saudi Arabia has granted to foreign consortiums, the kingdom announced at a news conference in the capital late on Sunday. The combined value of the contracts is $22.5 billion (16.9 billion euros) and the consortiums are led by Spanish, US and Italian firms. The 176-kilometre (110-mile) six-line network is aimed at easing chronic traffic congestion in Riyadh, a city of six million people. Spanish-led BTP-FCC consortium will build three of the metro lines for $7.88 billion, after it beat competition from 38 groups that were vying for the project. It is "the biggest international contract in the history of Spanish construction", the Spanish consortium said in a statement on Monday. |
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Mark Duell & Anna Edwards
Crash happened near Granges-Marnand station at 7pm local timeThe Daily Mail, UK 2013-07-29 03:22:00 Police, ambulances, helicopters and firefighters are on the scene Comes just days after 79 people were killed in derailment in Spain The body of the train driver has been found in the wreckage following a head-on train crash in Switzerland that left at least 35 passengers injured. The driver was pulled from the debris two trains collided on the same track after travelling towards each other near Granges-Marnand station in the west of the country. Dozens of passengers were hurt, four of them seriously, in the crash, which happened just before 7pm local time (6pm BST).
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Comment: There have been an unusually high number of
train accidents and derailments recently, along with an increase in
airplane emergency landings all around the world. Is the Universe
sending us a message? The global train is running off the tracks!
Death toll set to rise as 40 still missing following massive Lac Megantic, Quebec oil train explosion Russian train derails in Krasnodar region: Summer heat might have distorted tracks BREAKING: Passengers "Electrocuted and Crushed" as Train derails in Paris suburb station of Bretigny-sur-Orge Welshpool train crash: Tractor driver's miracle escape after 70mph service smashes into his vehicle Tourists hurt as Thai train derails Spain train crash: reports of at least 77 killed |
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RT
2013-07-30 03:15:00
The police department in Escambia County, Florida is under investigation after multiple officers opened fire on a 60-year-old man in his own driveway over the weekend, seemingly without explanation. Two sheriff's deputies - Jeremiak Meeks and Matthew White - responded to a 911 call about a possible burglary at approximately 3am local time on Saturday. When they arrived, Roy Middleton was leaning into his mother's car in front of his home, looking for cigarettes. The officers claim they called out to Middleton several times, demanding that he put up his hands before he supposedly lunged at them. Middleton, who was unarmed except for keys and a flashlight, was shot in the leg. At least five bullets hit his mother's car and the side of her house. "It was like a firing squad," Middleton told the Pensacola News Journal, maintaining that he backed out of the car slowly and made his hands visible before police shot him. "Bullets were flying everywhere." |
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Tim Walker
The Independent 2013-07-29 00:00:00
America's two biggest shock jocks just got a shock of their own. In a major blow to their broadcasting dominance, the second-largest radio station owner in the US is said to be dropping both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its airwaves. According to a report by Politico, Cumulus Media has decided not to renew contracts with the two talk radio titans at the end of 2013, meaning their radio shows will vanish from more than 40 of its stations across the US. Limbaugh and Hannity remain the highest-rated talk radio hosts in the US, with Limbaugh regularly claiming a listenership of 15 million. In 2012 he suffered a significant blow to his reputation, after describing 30-year-old graduate law student Sandra Fluke as a "slut" and a "prostitute" on his show. |
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Junius Brutus
Documentary film about a linguist and a Catholic priest who search for
and find the origins of Christianity and the real historical Jesus: Julius Caesar.YouTube 2013-07-31 09:00:00
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Comment: Having looked further into this, SOTT.net agrees that the mystery of the origins of Christianity has been solved...
'Jesus' was actually Julius Caesar! Jesus Was Caesar: On the Julian Origin of Christianity: An Investigative Report |
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History Channel
The recent 'news' that the UK's Central Bank helped the Nazis plunder
Jewish gold overlooks the fact that the Nazi War Machine was bankrolled
by Wall Street and City of London financiers from the beginning.2013-07-31 08:15:00
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Steve Hawkes
The Bank of England has admitted its role in one of the most
controversial episodes in its history - helping the Nazis sell gold
plundered from Czechoslovakia months before the outbreak of the Second
World War. The Telegraph, UK 2013-07-31 05:29:00
An official history, written in 1950 but posted online for the first time on Tuesday, detailed how the "Old Lady" transfered gold held in its vaults to the Germans despite the UK Government of the day placing a freeze on all Czech assets held in London. In the history, the Bank of England insists its role in the episode was "widely misunderstood", even though it "still rankled for some time". The Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in September 1938. In March the following year, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) asked the Bank of England to switch £5.6m-worth of gold from an account for the Czech national bank to one belonging to the Reichsbank. Much of the gold - nearly 2,000 gold bars - was then "disposed" of in Belgium, Holland and London. The BIS was chaired at the time by Bank of England director, German Otto Niemeyer. | |
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Yahoo News
2013-07-30 19:47:00
Murder is the main reason why humans and other primates mate for life, according to scientists. Infanticide was the key driving force that caused us to evolve into a monogamous species, it is claimed. Males of some animals, including lions and brown bears, kill the young of unrelated females to improve mating opportunities. |
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Amanda Holpuch
The Guardian 2013-07-29 12:42:00
Celebrated hacker who infiltrated implanted medical devices and ATMs was found dead Thursday in San Francisco The San Francisco medical examiner's office has said it could be several months before the cause of death for acclaimed hacker Barnaby Jack is released. Jack, who was born in New Zealand, was famous for hacking implanted medical devices and ATMs. He was found dead in San Francisco on 25 July. A San Francisco police department spokesperson told the Guardian Jack was found dead by "a loved one" in an apartment in the city's Nob Hill neighborhood and that no foul play was suspected. Jack lived in San Francisco, where he worked as the director of embedded security research at security firm IOActive. The company said Jack was survived by his mother and sister in New Zealand and his girlfriend in California. "This is an extremely sad time for us all at IOActive, and the many people in our industry that Barnaby touched in so many ways with both his work and vibrant personality," IOActive CEO Jennifer Steffens said in a statement. "But as a personal friend of Barnaby's for many years I know he'd want sadness to quickly turn to celebration of his life, work and the tremendous contributions he's made spanning well beyond his widely acclaimed professional accomplishments." |
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Telegraf.nl
A group of baboons in a zoo in Emmen, the Netherlands has become totally
lethargic all of a sudden complains Wijbren Landman of the zoo. The
whole group just sits there, staring at a certain spot on a roof.
Animals nearby are okay. This behavior has been observed a few times
before, in 1994, 1997 and 2007, when the strange state of the monkeys
lasted a week.
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strangesounds.org
This video features a water pipe that broke in the western area of
Rio de Janeiro (Campo Grande), causing a mini tsunami that destroyed
homes and killed a 3 year old child.2013-07-31 15:27:00
According to TV Globo news , a cascade of water gushing from the broken pipe destructed cars, garbage and some precarious houses like a mini tsunami. A 3 year old girl died and seven firefighters were wounded. The water and the power were turned off in the neighborhood.
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wildlifeextra.com
Very few storks fledged in 2013 - If any2013-07-31 15:08:00
White storks suffered their worst breeding year on record in the Czech Republic, as the cold weather put paid to nearly a whole generation. Almost all of the chicks that did hatch didn't survive the severe weather which prevailed in Bohemia just as the birds were nesting. Czech conservationists monitor the population of white storks at 285 sites across 25 districts of the Czech Republic annually. In 15 of the monitored districts there were 80 percent fewer chicks than last year and in 10 districts no chicks survived at all! To make matters even worse, it is very unlikely that the few chicks that have survived this far are unlikely to fledge successfully. The final assessment of this calamitous situation with nesting will be carried out in the autumn. |
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MSN.com
2013-07-31 08:43:00
You probably don't think about what's under the street much, but you might start to now. A sinkhole opened up in the middle of a Philadelphia street, and it was apparently full of this green ... stuff. What does this mean? Are secret tunnels below the streets pumping radioactive goo across the country for some nefarious purpose? No. As the Redditor who took this photo learned, this is actually a fluorescent dye. Cities add it to water in sinkholes to see where they go, and hopefully fix the problem that causes it. Still, nearby pizza restaurants should be on the lookout for a pack of giant talking turtles. Just in case. [Source] |
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NBC News
2013-07-31 08:26:00
Four families have not been able to return to their homes due to a giant sink hole caused by a water main break in South Philadelphia. It's at the middle of the intersection at 21st and Bainbridge. Crews say the sink hole is 15-feet deep. "It's enormous," said flooding victim Marisa Block. "I heard sink hole and I was thinking something like three or four feet, nothing that big. It's the entire intersection!" The 96-year-old, 48-inch transmission main broke at 9 p.m Sunday, according to a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia Water Department. Crews worked through the night, where water flowed up to three feet high in some spots, as you can see in this NBC10 viewer photo. On Monday, there was a gas leak at the same location, but authorities say it was quickly fixed.
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Katherine Scott
ABC News 2013-07-31 07:44:00
A sinkhole swallowed up the front end of a car on a street in Philadelphia's Hunting Park section early Tuesday morning. The nose of the Pontiac Bonneville was sinking down below the street - its rear raised in the air. That was the sight neighbors were met with early this morning on the 3600 block of Marvine Street in Hunting Park. Car owner Fran Leftenant woke up to an officer knocking on her door. "I thought I had two missing tires, but it wasn't the case. My car was sinking," said Leftenant. "Right now I'm just sick." She and other residents watched as the hole got deeper, and the lean on the car greater. A tow truck was called.
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KY3 News
2013-07-31 05:46:00
The sinkhole formed at about 10 feet. It's now an estimated to be about 50 feet wide and 50 feet deep. A big sinkhole in Christian County is getting even bigger. It's in a field in the bent-water subdivision on the north side of Nixa. The sinkhole formed at about 10 feet. It's now an estimated to be about 50 feet wide and 50 feet deep. Since it's on private property, it's up to the developer to decide what to do about it. The person who lives close to the sinkhole is bringing someone in to determine its potential impact. | |
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Comment: It's interesting to note that this sinkhole
formed during a drought. When they appear now during and after storms,
geologists and others are quick to claim they are caused by excess
groundwater eroding the soil layers beneath the surface, but check out
this quote from a geologist from when this sinkhole first appeared in 2006:
The fact of the matter is that they don't know how these things form,
but that doesn't stop them trying to explain away this new and bizarre
phenomenon as if it was 'normal'.
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The Guardian
2013-07-30 02:43:00
Man swept along 15 metres on to railway line by torrent outside his home in Walsden following day of heavy rainfall Roads and railway lines were submerged in water after torrential rain and flash flooding hit one small town for the second summer in a row. Parts of the market town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire, were left under 45cm (18in) of water. Emergency services worked late into Monday night to clear the water and deal with hazards such as partially collapsed roads. One resident in nearby Walsden was swept along about 15 metres by the torrent. He was carried downhill and ended up on the railway tracks at the end of his street. Clearing out his flood-damaged home, the man said he was too shaken to talk about the incident. One of his neighbours said: "The water was bubbling up and he was trying to redirect it. He went through the gate, was taken down the road and under the gate, on to the railway lines. "He thought he was a goner. It's a fair distance. And with the torrent that was coming through, he's lucky to be alive today. Very, very lucky." |
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kevinizooropa
YouTube 2013-07-31 07:40:00
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Tad Stoner
Cay Compass 2013-07-31 01:55:00
A meteorite passed over Cayman's skies Monday night, causing a little alarm and a lot of excitement. Chris Cook, president of the Astronomical Society, explained that sighting the object, that moved slowly across the sky in a shower of light around 10pm, was unusual, but nothing to be alarmed about. Comment: Nothing to see here folks, it's just a fragment from some larger body that is apparently on its way to smash up a chemical plant in Florida... Explosions rock Florida gas plant, force evacuations
"It was a very small asteroid, a fireball travelling from Honduras, across Cayman to Jamaica, a meteor that broke up. It's not unusual for these things to happen, although it is more unusual actually to see it," Mr. Cook said. While regular meteor showers are commonplace, he said, this event was "absolutely unpredictable", recalling that people started "waking up" to "near-Earth objects" only a couple of years ago when the massive comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter, the scars of which, apparently, remain visible. Comment: Small correction: comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 smashed into Jupiter a couple of decades ago. Since then, Jupiter has been hit at least 3 more times by similarly-sized objects, our own Moon has been hit, and tens of thousands of fireballs have been reported all over this planet, including the February 2013 Chelyabinsk blast that sent shockwaves around the world (twice), apparently the largest celestial event we've had since the 1908 Tunguska overhead cometary explosion. | ||
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Comment: Pretty rare thing?! Somebody isn't doing his job properly...
Check out SOTT.net's 73 pages of archived fireball sightings from the past few years: Fire in the Sky Meanwhile, "coming from Honduras and moving northeast" takes this meteor or comet fragment (with train of meteors) over Florida on Monday night, which coincided with the explosions that hit the gas plant in Lake County, Florida. |
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Christine Sarich
Nation of Change 2013-07-27 21:38:00
As UK officials tout GMO foods as 'safe' compared to organic crops, results of a long-term, peer-reviewed study conducted by a group of scientists led by Dr Judy Carman of the Institute of Health and Environmental Research in Australia has been released - and it proves that GMO are anything but 'safe.' Livestock in the UK and around the world have been fed GMO for over two decades, since the USDA authorized the commercial sale of GMO soy and corn to feed not only animals, but human beings in 1996. Much of the meat raised on these GMO crop are sent overseas, to countries like the UK, elsewhere in Europe, and even to cattle-abundant nations like Australia. This most recent study proves that a more sober examination of the long term effects of GMO on our environment and health should be demanded of corporations like Monsanto, even as other evidence mounts that GMO crops are unhealthy, especially considering that nations trying to remove GMO from their food supply are still being devastated by its ill-effects. A loophole in the European labeling laws insinuated on the EU Commission due to lobbying pressure from the giant US grain cartel - Bunge, ADM, Cargill have allowed huge exports of US-made GMO food into Europe. Under the current laws, anything over .9 percent GMO is required to be labeled. |
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Rebecca May
The Telegraph, Australia 2013-07-30 14:24:00
Psychopaths are everywhere. It's a recognised medical statistic that one per cent of the general population is psychopathic. And they're trendy too, taking centre stage in Jon Ronson's investigative bestseller The Psychopath Test, and a murderous turn in horror movies like American Psycho and Arbitrage. It's no wonder we're morbidly fascinated with them. The mental disorder is unnerving and enigmatic. If the psychopathic nature is to trick us, we want to uncover them. Just talking about the condition is enough to lead you to think: 'Am I a psychopath...?' However if you're thinking that, chances are you're not a psychopath, who are defined by their lack of empathy, remorse and chronic irritability in the globally recognised PCL-R test. |
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CBS, St. Louis
2013-07-30 18:05:00
Henry County - Who would cut the tongues and take the reproductive organs from several cows? That's the mystery police in a small town 90 miles away from Kansas City are dealing with. Robert Hills, Henry County Sheriff's Chief Deputy, says the first cow was discovered in December of 2011, the second and third this summer. All were female cows and were owned by rancher Lyn Mitchell. "We couldn't see any since of trauma, and it doesn't appear that there was any type of wild animal, such coyotes, that were involved," Hills told KMOX. The first cow discovered on Mitchell's ranch had her tongue and ear removed. Mitchell told KSHB-TV she assumed the mutilation was part of a sacrificial ritual or just teenagers, so she didn't report it. The next two discovered on July 9th and 19th of this year had their tongues removed along with their udders, anus, reproductive organs, and ears. A veterinarian wasn't called to examine the first two cows. But one did examine the third one. |
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