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Joe Quinn
Sott.net 2013-08-28 15:17:00
In January this year, the web site of UK-based ' One email had "Syrian Issue" in the subject field and the other has "Iranian Issue" in the subject field. Both emails appeared to be from David Goulding, the actual business development manager of Britam Defence, and appeared to have been sent to Phillip Doughty, the actual founder of Britam. Many alternative news web sites have used these emails as evidence that the recent alleged 'chemical weapon' attack in Syria was the work of the Western-backed Syrian rebels rather than the Syrian military. The problem however is that the emails appear to be have been faked. The Iranian issue email stated: Amongst the other documents that were hacked is a word document apparently detailing a training program for Saudi military personnel to defend against an attack by an unknown enemy. |
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Niall Bradley
Sott.net 2009-08-26 16:26:00 Comment: In light of the alleged chemical weapons attack that may or may not have taken place in Syria this week, and the casus belli the U.S. and allies believes it gives them to launch yet another round of slaughter in the Middle East, we thought we'd remind readers of a REAL chemical weapon attack launched on Palestinians (sheltering in a school the Israelis knew was part of a U.N. compound) during 'Operation Cast Lead' in Gaza, just one of many instances in which White Phosphorous was used on Gazans in early 2009.
These photos, taken a few months ago, record in detail an Israeli attack on a Palestinian school, an attack using 'white phosphorus' as a chemical weapon: The use of this lethal substance is supposedly 'permissible' under the "laws of war", ostensibly to destroy the enemy's equipment or to limit his vision. But when a whole populations is designated as 'the enemy', as the Israeli regime has done with Palestinians, especially the those living in the open-air prison called Gaza, the results are horrifying. At the time the Israeli regime denied using this lethal substance during its bombardment of besieged Gaza. Roundly condemned by international observers, it now admits 'Willie Pete' was used, but says it did not fire munitions laden with the chemical weapons "inside populated areas." These photos tell the true story. | |
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YouTube
2013-09-01 16:43:00
Are you sick of the lies yet? This US woman certainly is. Does what she say here strike a chord with you? Then say it loud along with her! You know what they say, 'If you're not outraged, then you haven't been paying attention.' The personal is political, the political personal. When you see the big picture, you see how everything is connected, and you see how all the dominoes are set in place to trap you inside an eternal nightmare of your own making. If you want to get out while you still can, step one is to see the lies.
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Comment: Listen, then share!
It's time for everyone to start opening up and sharing what they see with others. With polls showing that 90% of Americans are against bombing Syria into submission, we suspect you'll be surprised just how many folks around you feel similarly. Don't push it with anyone who is reluctant, just let them be and communicate with those who do give a damn. Share SOTT articles, watch documentaries, read about what is really going on out there, find out what you can do within your communities to support each other - emotionally and materially - to prepare for the coming storm. And NETWORK with others. Many people have been preparing for this for years - they can help you. You're not alone, so don't despair. |
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Brasscheck TV
2013-09-01 10:03:00
I doubt anyone has forgotten, but it doesn't hurt to be reminded. In the modern era, war is invariably justified by official lying. Hitler did it. Lyndon Johnson did it. Richard Nixon did it. Ronald Reagan did it. George Bush Sr. did it. Bill Clinton did it. George Bush Jr. did it. And now Barack "Bushbama" Obama is doing the very same thing. What is war? It's an act of psychotic mass violence coordinated by governments funded with stolen tax dollars waged primarily against civilians for the purposes of stealing resources, enriching arms makers, creating terror and justifying oppression at home and abroad. See more here.
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Finian Cunningham
Information Clearing House 2013-09-01 05:37:00
The United States of America stands exposed in the eyes of the entire world as the number-one terrorist threat to the future of humanity. Many have known this fact already, but now it is universally clear. As the US prepares to launch an overt war on Syria (the covert war has been raging for 30 months), the vast majority of humanity can finally see through all its decades of pretense and conceit as the world's model of democracy and international law. And what they see is the ugly opposite. The US is a terrorist state that holds international law, democracy and human rights in utter contempt. It is ready, as it always has been, to kill countless civilians for its selfish political ambitions. That is the conventional definition of "terrorism". Syria's President Bashar al-Assad made a profound point recently when he said that his country has faced aggression for more than two years, but only now is the real enemy revealing itself - the US and its minions. But the US terrorist state is not just being called out over Syria. It is being revealed as the enemy to the entire world. | |
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Comment: Wearechange.org attended a protest against the
war on Syria in Times Square, NYC. Here's what the American people
think about bombing another country back to the stone age:
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RT
2013-09-01 04:27:00
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared 'utter nonsense' the idea that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons on its own people and called on the US to present its supposed evidence to the UN Security Council. Putin has further called the Western tactic a 'provocation.' Washington has been basing its proposed strategy of an attack on Syria on the premise that President Bashar Assad's government forces have used chemical agents, while Russia finds the accusations unacceptable and the idea of performing a military strike on the country even more so. Especially as it would constitute a violation of international law, if carried out without the approval of the UN Security Council. Further to this, Putin told Obama that he should consider what the potential fallout from a military strike would be and to take into consideration the suffering of innocent civilians. The Russian president has expressed certainty that the strategy for a military intervention in Syria is a contingency measure from outside and a direct response to the Syrian government's recent combat successes, coupled with the rebels' retreat from long-held positions.
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Comment: The "intercepted communications", by the way,
came via Israel's equivalent of the NSA... Israel has already bombed
Syrian military installations so it's not exactly an impartial observer
in all of this.
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John Walsh
Information Clearing House 2013-08-31 14:30:00 Text from letter of Rep. Scott Regall (R, VA) to Pres. ObamaThe letter of Scott Regall (1) to Barak Obama has exploded on the scene with its opening words: |
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Comment: What if enough Americans contacted their
representatives NOW, and demanded that Obama be impeached (and Bush
indicted) for his crimes against humanity, which he perpetuates in their
names, when in fact the American people are against such bloody wars
and tired of being hated around the world for their president's
unconscionable actions. Who knows, maybe hundreds and thousands of lives
will be saved!
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NHK World
2013-09-02 14:36:00
The only 2 nuclear reactors online in Japan will soon be shut down for regular inspections. That means all nuclear power generators in the country will be offline for the first time in about 14 months. Due to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in 2011, all of Japan's nuclear reactors were offline at one point in the past 2 years. But last year, Kansai Electric Power Company, the operator of the Ohi nuclear power plant on the Sea of Japan, restarted the facility's Number 3 and Number 4 reactors. The 2 are the only reactors currently online in Japan. On Monday afternoon, Kansai Electric began lowering the power output of the Number 3 reactor for regular inspections. The reactor will come to a halt on Tuesday morning. The plant operator also plans to halt the Number 4 reactor for a regular check on September 15th. To gain approval for the restart of their offline reactors, Ohi and 5 other nuclear plants are undergoing assessments by the Nuclear Regulation Authority. |
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Chris Hedges
Truthdig 2013-09-02 14:36:00
I and my fellow plaintiffs have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities. Carl Mayer and Bruce Afran, the lawyers who with me in January 2012 brought a lawsuit against President Barack Obama (Hedges v. Obama), are about to file papers asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear our appeal of a 2013 ruling on the act's Section 1021. "First the terrorism-industrial complex assured Americans that they were only spying on foreigners, not U.S. citizens," Mayer said to me recently. "Then they assured us that they were only spying on phone calls, not electronic communications. Then they assured us that they were not spying on American journalists. And now both [major political] parties and the Obama administration have assured us that they will not detain journalists, citizens and activists. Well, they detained journalist Chris Hedges without a lawyer, they detained journalist Laura Poitras without due process and if allowed to stand this law will permit the military to target activists, journalists and citizens in an unprecedented assault on freedom in America." Last year we won round one: U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest of the Southern District of New York declared Section 1021 unconstitutional. The Obama administration immediately appealed her ruling and asked a higher court to put the law back into effect until Obama's petition was heard. The appellate court agreed. The law went back on the books. I suspect it went back on the books because the administration is already using it, most likely holding U.S. citizens who are dual nationals in black sites in Afghanistan and the Middle East. If Judge Forrest's ruling were allowed to stand, the administration, if it is indeed holding U.S. citizens in military detention centers, would be in contempt of court. |
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Ali Abunimah
Electronic Intifada 2013-09-01 14:14:00
The Egyptian army began demolishing homes along the country's border with the Gaza Strip today, an Israeli-style tactic carried out under the pretext of creating a "buffer zone" to "reduce weapons smuggling and illegal crossings by militants." In fact, Egypt is tightening its side of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, deepening the economic and medical crisis faced by the territory's almost 1.7 million Palestinian residents. The dramatic effects of the tightening siege are revealed in the July monthly humanitarian report, published on 23 August by the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Meanwhile, the UN reports that Israel more doubled its number of violent attacks on Gaza fishermen in the first half of this year. |
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Titus Gwebu
iOL News 2013-09-02 11:28:00
Manzini - Swaziland's absolute monarch, King Mswati III, said he was visited by God at the weekend and this resulted in unseasonal electrical storms in the country - and a new name for the country's controversial political system. "The lightning was flashing even though it was (a time of year) when there is usually no clouds or rain," Mswati said when he opened a trade fair in Manzini on Saturday. He said the storm was sent by God to accompany his vision. The South African Weather Service interpreted it differently, reporting that a cold front from South Africa to the north colliding with warm air from the Mozambique Channel had created thunderstorm conditions in Swaziland. "As I was wondering at this (weather), I saw the new name of the Swazi government," Mswati told a rapturous audience. |
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International Herald Tribune
2013-08-28 14:03:00
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has secretly label entire mosques as terrorism organisations, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday. The label has allowed the department to spy on imams and record sermons without having specific evidence of criminal activities. This means that anyone attending the prayer service is part of organisation and can potentially be investigated and go under surveillance. As per confidential police documents and interviews, NYPD has initiated more than a dozen "terrorism enterprise investigations" into mosques following the terror attacks on World Trade Centers (WTC) in New York. |
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Press TV
2013-09-02 13:27:00
A big protest gathering has been in London to highlight huge popular opposition to Britain's military intervention in Syria. Protesters chanted slogans against war and urged the government to learn lessons from the experiences of lies and deception circulated to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003. The overwhelming majority of the population who attended Saturday's protest voiced strong opposition to an invasion of Syria based on U.S.-led attempts to proclaim the popular government of President Bashar al Assad in Syria of using chemical weapons against its own people in Ghouta. Various speakers from the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) hailed the British parliament's vote against an invasion of Syria as a "victory". STWC convenor Lindsey German, lauded the vote saying "it was a victory in parliament. It was a vote that the politicians should have had the guts to hold 10 years ago and they didn't." German described STWC's objective as to remind British imperialism of its national interests. "We've said for some years that one of our aims as a movement should be to break Britain from following the US in every step of its foreign policy," she said. "This week we made that possible". | |
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Eric Peters
EricPetersAuto 2013-09-01 13:11:00
The Dear Leader has Decided to pause - briefly - for a perfunctory congressional approval before triggering what could be TEOTWAWKI - the end of the world as we know it - by lobbing bombs at Syria. Which will likely result in Syria (and perhaps Iran, allied with Syria) lobbing bombs at Israel, the proxy poodle (or is it the reverse?) of the United State ("s" left of in the interests of accuracy). Whereupon the entire region - then the world - may well go up in flames. At least, until it runs out of oil. It is shit statue-carving crazy. Yet, "we" - meaning, they - Dear Leader and his relative handful of minions who control the missiles, the ships and "the troops" - appear determined to pursue this course nonetheless. Despite the obvious implications - and in spite of the equally obvious horn o' plenty of reasons not to do it. Wait. Check that. There is a reason - several of them, actually. Just not the ones publicly stated. No one but a madman could entertain the idea of deliberately batting at a hornet's nest that one could just as easily walk around. What goes on inside Syria may be tragic, but it's not our tragedy. We - that is, the Dear Leader, et al, - are neither wanted nor requested - and have about as much right to lob bombs at the Syrian government over its alleged abuse of its people as Syria has to lob bombs at America over its government's abuses of its people - none of them mere assertions based on iffy "intel" but admitted to, openly, by its government. For instance, rendition. And torture as state policy. Indefinite detention. And that's only the recent stuff. Let's not forget who helped "Saddam" gas Iranians back in the '80s. Or helped violently depose the "democratically" elected leader of Iran - ushering in the Shah and his Savak. "We" are in no position to lecture anyone about "human rights." Much less bomb them over it. |
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Eretz Zen
Youtube 2013-09-02 13:03:00
Will the "Coalition of the Willing" bomb jihadists into power in Syria? Most Syrians are much more afraid of the anti-government jihadists than of any other force fighting on the ground. NATO member Turkey is mainly responsible for the growing number of al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists in Syria. This report shows how Turkey allows jihadists from all over the world to use its land as a stonghold in order to fight the Syrian government. Turkey also arms the jihadists, provides them with medical treatment, and allows them to cross the Turkish-Syrian border freely without any restrictions. |
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BBC News
The US has said it has evidence that the chemical nerve agent sarin was used in a deadly attack in Damascus last month.2013-09-02 05:04:00 When asked if the Syrian government had used chemical weapons, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told the BBC's Jeremy Bowen that they were used by Western-backed armed groups aka 'al-qaeda'. He said that if there was an attack by the US, terrorism would flourish everywhere, and that US evidence for a CW attack by the Syrian government was the same as the 'evidence' for Saddam Hussein's WMDs.
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Voltaire Network
2013-09-02 05:01:00
King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia wished to thank France for it's offensive position in Syria by ordering the signature of a state to state contract, Life Extension Sawari 1 (LEX), for over 1 billion dollars of worth. The public firm ODAS (the consortium gathering the DCNS, Thales and MBDA) will upgrade four frigates of Al Medinah class and two supply tankers of Boraida class, in service since 1985-1986, at the time of the Sawari I contract. This contract could be followed by an even juicier one : the sale of six multi-mission Fremm frigates. However, LEX was signed before the French backtracking in the Syrian bombing and it isn't certain that the favours of the monarch will persist. Translation: Alizée Ville |
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BBC
2013-09-02 03:57:00
Egypt's state prosecutor says he has referred ousted President Mohammed Morsi for trial on charges of inciting the murder of protesters. The accusations relate to violence outside the presidential palace in Cairo last December when at least seven people were killed in clashes. Fourteen other members of the Muslim Brotherhood are to stand trial on the same charges. Mr Morsi has been held at a secret location since he was deposed in July. He faces a number of charges but this case is his first referral for trial. Since he was ousted from power, the military-backed interim government has cracked down on Brotherhood supporters, who are demanding Mr Morsi's reinstatement. Last month, hundreds of protesters died when security forces stormed pro-Morsi camps in the capital. |
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Press TV
Russia says the evidence provided by the United States and its allies to
prove that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons is not
convincing.2013-09-02 03:36:00 Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said during an address to the students of the Moscow State University of International Relations on Monday, "What our American, British and French partners have shown us before - as well as now - does not convince us at all."
"If there truly is top secret information available, the veil should be lifted. This is a question of war and peace. To continue this game of secrecy is simply inappropriate." Lavrov added that there were "many doubts" about the images posted on the Internet that allegedly relate to the chemical attack in Syria. |
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PressTV
2013-09-01 21:40:00
Egyptian security forces have destroyed a number of tunnels connecting the Gaza Strip and Egypt. Video footage showed explosions and then clouds of smoke rising up in the town of Rafah, on the border between the Palestinian territory and Egypt on Saturday. About 80 percent of the tunnels, which are used to transfer goods and medicines into Gaza from Egypt, are no longer functional due to similar incidents carried out by the Egyptian security forces.
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RT
2013-08-30 21:33:00
United States intelligence documents leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden now confirm that US authorities positively identified the body of Osama bin Laden with a DNA test shortly after his May 2011 execution. According to the Washington Post, top-secret documents provided by the national security whistleblower revealed that a DNA sample was taken from bin Laden's body around eight hours after he was killed inside his Abbottabad, Pakistan compound. The sample, the Post reported, "provided a conclusive match" between the DNA taken from the corpse and other bin Laden intelligence. When the Associated Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request after the May 2, 2011 killing, the Pentagon responded that it had no such testing documents in its possession. Post reporters Craig Whitlock and Barton Gellman wrote Thursday that information about the test was included within the secretive "black budget" document leaked by Mr. Snowden and published in part by the paper this week. | |
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Comment: Bin Laden was dead long before the CIA staged that event in Abbottabad, Pakistan: Benazir Bhutto confirms Osama bin Laden is dead
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RIA Novosti
2013-09-02 16:03:00
Investigators in Belarus reportedly opened a criminal case Monday against Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, the biggest shareholder in fertilizer giant Uralkali, which is embroiled in a commercial battle with its Belarusian counterpart. Minsk is seeking Kerimov's detention, including through an international arrest warrant, on charges that carry a possible sentence of up to 10 years in prison, the Belarusian state news agency BelTA reported. The arrest warrant is an escalation of the criminal case facing businessmen linked to Uralkali after the company's CEO, Vladislav Baumgertner, was arrested last week in Minsk's airport following a reported invitation from Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich to attend a official meeting. |
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Mark Duell
The Daily Mail,UK 2013-09-02 12:36:00
Carole Challis was heading down to her greenhouse in Derby when she saw the distinctive black and yellow reptile - believed to be a kingsnake - loitering under a table. Her husband Pete and their neighbour managed to capture the snake by using a garden rake to coerce it into a bin on its side, before tipping it up and putting a heavy weight on top.
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WWMT
2013-08-29 18:56:00
Battle Creek - Battle Creek Police make a bust at the Masonic Temple, sources have described as a drug fueled sex party. Police sources describe the scene on Michigan Avenue out of control, and arrests were made. Now, investigators are working with city leaders to make sure another out of control sex party, doesn't happen again. It's a secretive organization, sitting right next door to the Battle Creek Police and county courthouse. "Thank you for calling the beautiful Masonic Temple. For renting our facility, please call Charlie..." says the automated voice message, when you call the Masonic Lodge. We make a call to Charlie, and told him what police sources described to us as an out of control sex party scene. Sources told us the first officer to walk inside, was shocked to find a couple performing a lewd sex act, along with drugs, multiple nude women and men videotaping it all behind these closed doors. Charlie said Freemasons don't go on camera, but told Newshchannel 3 they did not know about the multiple arrests that were made. He says those who paid $900 to rent this space, told him it was going to be a dancing party. He adds his is not what they stand for, and suspended all future parties. Police say they plan to find any city code violations, not only against those renting the facility, but also those who run the building. |
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Mark Townsend
Guardian 2013-08-31 21:26:00
'Club drugs' in vast quantities - and even heroin and cocaine - are being delivered by post Britain has become an international hub for websites selling legal highs with postal workers operating as unwitting "drug mules", according to a report into the burgeoning trade. The report, which describes the UK as the "addicted man of Europe", says that "club drugs", such as salvia and green rolex, are being bought online in vast quantities and delivered throughout the UK by mainstream postal services. One in 12 young people have tried them, more than anywhere in Europe and a quarter of the European total, according to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a thinktank. The report also found some websites selling class A drugs such as heroin and crack cocaine for postal delivery. Elsewhere, the report criticises the government's inadequate response to heroin addiction, revealing that more than 40,000 drug addicts in England have been on substitutes such as methadone for at least four years. The CSJ, which was set up by Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, also claims the response to the growing crisis of legal highs, or new psychoactive substances, is bureaucratic and inadequate. Since 2010 the government has used temporary banning orders three times to control approximately 15 substances. In the same period, more than 150 new substances have emerged and are widely available online and in high street shops. |
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Daisy Luther
Activist Post 2013-08-30 17:39:00
What is the best way to change public perception on any topic? Through entertainment. The battle to control us through changing (or creating) our opinions is as old as history. Carefully disseminated disinformation was first documented in ancient Greece, when playwrights and poets created dramas for the sole purpose of indoctrinating their audience to a certain set of morals, standards, and beliefs. When creating his empire, Macedonian king Alexander the Great inundated the places he conquered with his image, on the coins, adorning building, and in the form of statues. Grand stories were written and shared about his generosity and the legends that were created on his behalf to this day make him larger than life. In 324 B.C.E., Alexander requested that he be deified so that he could carryout a scheme of repatriating 20,000 Greek exiles, which was contrary to the established laws of the League of Corinth. He became the son of Zeus, and his face soon appeared on coins, replacing that of Heracles, the real mythological son of Zeus. He commissioned, or allowed to be built, many statues and monuments in his honor, and representations of his portrait were to be found everywhere in his empire, adorning pottery, coins, buildings, and formal art (P. M. Taylor, 1990, p. 31). Alexander was the first to recognize that to maintain cohesion and control over his vast empire, such propaganda symbols could serve as a constant reminder of the various subjugated populations just where the center of power resided. (source)So through works of fiction, the unacceptable became acceptable, the alien became familiar, and the minds of the masses were changed and manipulated. |
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Lee Peace
A man walking his dog has reportedly found a royal python on the banks of a canal in Doncaster.The Star, (Sheffield) UK 2013-08-31 15:46:00
The RSPCA said the three-feet-long female snake was probably abandoned by its owner. The animal welfare charity did not give any more details as to where it was found or when at this stage. Kim Greaves, a reptile expert, said the RSPCA would prosecute the person who dumped the reptile if they were found. Ms Greaves added that the snake would probably not live long in the wild and the problem of abandoned animals in the area was "getting absolutely out of hand." She said: "This is a happy ending for this particular snake." "But more and more of my colleagues are faced with abandoned animals, not just snakes and reptiles, but rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets and cats and dogs. "It is a sign of the times, I'm afraid," The non-venomous royal python is found in Africa and survives on a diet of rodents. |
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Grimsby Telegraph
A large black snake which popped up out of a drain in a back garden in
Cleethorpes - in front of a shocked Cleethorpes family - may not be
the only one!2013-08-29 15:35:00 The Peck family were shocked to see the Mexican King Snake slither out of the grate covering a drain at their home in Mill Place.
Reptile experts say the constrictor snake - which can grow up to 4ft long - may have hatched from a nest of eggs, which could have been laid in the sewers of Grimsby and Cleethorpes. Petrified Linda Peck said: "My husband Geoff and I walked past our back door, which is made of glass, and saw what looked like a very large slug on the drain. |
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Claire Maxwell
Watford Observer 2013-08-29 15:27:00
A crowd gathered outside an Oxhey home yesterday, taking photographs of an escaped metre-long snake. The red, black and yellow striped reptile was spotted outside a house in Grover Road. Peter Trescak, a witness and Grover Road resident, said: "We found out that the snake is most probably a milk snake but it can also be a deadly coral snake, which resemble each other." Police were contacted and a Rural Operational Support Team with special equipment arrived at the scene to remove the snake. Mr Trescak added: "It was definitely a very exciting day for a normally quiet street." |
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Source
2013-09-01 14:30:00
Russia has orbited an Israeli communications satellite, the Federal Space Agency reported Sunday. The comsat was launched with the help of a Zenit-2SB carrier rocket at 00:05 Moscow Time Sunday (20:05 GMT Saturday) from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. |
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PressTV
2013-09-01 00:00:00
Iran's Majlis has approved the provisions of a bill that obliges the Iranian administration to assess and follow up ways of suing the US for its involvement in the 1953 coup d'état in the country. In their Sunday open session, the Iranian parliamentarians approved the first and second articles of the bill. Under the first article, the Iranian administration will be bound to form a committee to assess the material and non-material damages arising from the 1953 coup d'état against the democratically-elected then-Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq and provide the Majlis with ways to claim the redress. The committee, which will report to Majlis on a quarterly basis, is comprised of the foreign minister (as the head of the body), prosecutor general, intelligence minister, representative of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, economy minister as well as heads of Majlis committees on national security and foreign policy, legal and judiciary affairs, and planning and budget. The second article of the bill obliges the administration to follow up the claims through relevant national and international bodies after the claims are calculated. |
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Fred Ojambo
Ugandan inflation accelerated at the fastest pace in 12 months in August
as food prices jumped, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics said.Business Week 2013-08-30 13:25:00 The inflation rate climbed to 7.3 percent from 5.1 percent in July, as food costs surged 13 percent on an annual basis, compared with a 0.3 percent decline the month before, Chris Mukiza, director of macroeconomic statistics, told reporters today in the capital, Kampala. Prices rose 2.6 percent in the month, after a 0.6 percent increase in July, he said. Higher food prices were the result of lower supplies "to the market due to the effects of a long dry spell that affected most parts of the country," Mukiza said. Food prices make up 27 percent of the consumer-price basket. |
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Deccan Deccan Chronicle
2013-08-31 00:00:00
Controversial godman Asaram Bapu, accused of sexually assaulting a minor, was arrested by Jodhpur police from his ashram here late tonight. Armed with a medical report that the godman was fit to be interrogated, a team of Jodhpur police arrested 72-year-old Asaram and whisked him in a white jeep about half an hour after the stroke of midnight, after waiting for nearly eight hours at the ashram. "Asaram Bapu has been arrested and taken away by Jodhpur police", said Superintendent of Police (Indore West) Anil Singh Kushwah told reporters here. Asked where Asaram was taken to, Kushwah said, "I have no information on that", amidst reports that he was headed to Indore Airport to be flown to Jodhpur where an FIR was filed by a 16-year-old girl alleging she was sexually assaulted by the godman at his ashram in the Rajasthan city. Meanwhile, SSP Indore Rakesh Gupta told PTI that Asaram has been lodged inside Indore airport and would be taken to Delhi by a morning flight on Sunday, and then to Jodhpur. Security around Indore airport has been beefed up. As the vehicle carrying Asaram and Jodhpur police made its way out of the ashram in Indore, hundreds of his supporters, watched by posse of policemen, shouted slogans against the police and supporting the self-styled godman. |
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Michael Parenti
Michael ParentiBlog 2013-09-01 13:10:00
The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington---in which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. made his famed "I Have a Dream" speech---has recently won renewed attention from various print and electronic media in the United States. But the more attention given to King's extraordinary speech, the less we seem to know about King himself, the less aware we are about the serious challenges he was presenting, challenges that remain urgent and ignored to this very day. The March on Washington took place on 28 August 1963. Despite repeated fear mongering by certain commentators and public officials who predicted there would be violence in the streets---over 250,000 people descended upon Washington D.C. in a massive show of unity and peaceful determination. I was there. About two-thirds of the demonstrators were African-American, and about one-third were white. After all these years I still recall how gripped I was by the vast sweep of the crowd moving like democracy's infantry across the nation's capital, determined to awaken "our leaders" in Congress and the White House. The high moment of the day was Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. It was a call to freedom and enfranchisement for a people who had endured centuries of slavery followed by segregation and lynch-mob rule. In his speech King reminded us that "the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land." He went on: "The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom." King continued to stoke the new militancy: "We can never be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. . . . Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice." |
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upi.com
2013-08-26 12:24:00
A Swedish man was hospitalized after being bitten by a venomous cobra inside his Gothenburg home, officials said. The 40-year-old man managed to call authorities before he passed out after being bitten by the snake Saturday night, The Local.se reported. When paramedics arrived, 40 other venomous snakes were found in the man's apartment, including a taipan, the world's deadliest snake. The man was rushed to a local hospital, where he received anti-venom that was sent from Stockholm. His condition was unknown Monday. Illusionist Joe Labero said the snake was intended for his use. Labero had recently returned from a Morocco where he was inspired by snake charmers. "We wanted to have animals and something dangerous in the show," Labero told the Aftonbladet newspaper. "At first, we were thinking scorpions, but they are so small and hard to see that we decided on venomous cobras. We have always known of the danger and had respect for them, it was just the plan to have one or two at the show." |
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John Beieler
An animated time-lapse map of worldwide protests from 1979 to 2013:johnbeieler.org 2013-09-01 08:09:00
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Comment: This fascinating visual animation of data
clearly shows that the planet's population is becoming increasingly
agitated by what the Powers That Be are doing to both people and planet.
As Laura Knight-Jadczyk has written: |
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| Secret History |
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Lawrence LeBlond
Red Orbit 2013-06-18 14:41:00
For more than 45 years, the death of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to cross the Earth´s threshold and venture into space, has been shrouded in secrecy. But now, details of his 1968 death have been released by none other than the first man to walk in space, Aleksey Leonov. Gagarin, who became the first man to travel into space on April 12, 1961, was killed when his MiG-15 aircraft crashed on March 27, 1968. Gagarin was just 34 years old. The details of that crash and his death have long been a confusing and controversial subject, with many theories coming forward on the actual cause of his death. Now, Leonov, who conducted the first ever extra-vehicular spacewalk in 1965, has delved deeper into the touchy subject of the Gagarin death mystery. Leonov has been fighting for 20 years or more to gain permission to disclose the details of what happened that tragic day in 1968. |
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| Science & Technology |
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Becky Oskin
LiveScience 2013-09-02 14:00:00
A meteor or comet impact near Quebec heaved a rain of hot melted rock along North America's Atlantic Coast about 12,900 years ago, a new study claims. Scientists have traced the geochemical signature of the BB-sized spherules that rained down back to their source, the 1.5-billion-year-old Quebecia terrane in northeastern Canada near the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. At the time of the impact, the region was covered by a continental ice sheet, like Antarctica and Greenland are today. "We have provided evidence for an impact on top of the ice sheet," said study co-author Mukul Sharma, a geochemist at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. The results were published today (Sept. 2) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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Eugene M. McCarthy
macroevolution.net 2013-08-25 00:00:00
The Hybrid Hypothesis
A new theory of human origins
This article is a little different from others on this site, because it's about the findings of my own research. I'm a geneticist whose work focuses on hybrids and, particularly, the role of hybridization in the evolutionary process. Here, I report certain facts, which seem to indicate that human origins can be traced to hybridization, specifically to hybridization involving the chimpanzee (but not the kind of hybridization you might suppose!). You can access detailed and documented discussions supporting this claim from links on this page. But I'll summarize the basic reasoning here, without a lot of citations and footnotes. (If you would like to read an even briefer summary, click here; read about some objections to the theory here; also, a recent news story) |
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Anna Mikulak
Forensic psychologists and psychiatrists are ethically bound to be
impartial when performing evaluations or providing expert opinions in
court. But new research suggests that courtroom experts' evaluations may
be influenced by whether their paycheck comes from the defense or the
prosecution. The research is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.Association for Psychological Science 2013-08-28 15:08:00 The findings reveal that experts who believed they were working for prosecutors tended to rate sexually violent offenders as being at greater risk of re-offending than did experts who thought they were working for the defense. "We were surprised by how easy it was to find this 'allegiance effect,'" says psychological scientist Daniel Murrie of the University of Virginia. "The justice system relies often on expert witnesses, and most expert witnesses believe they perform their job objectively - these findings suggest this may not be the case." Murrie and co-author Marcus Boccaccini at Sam Houston State have worked in forensic psychology for years, watching the adversarial justice system use forensic experts to gain an advantage in their cases. "We became increasingly curious about whether forensic psychologists and psychiatrists could actually do what their ethical codes prescribed: handling each case objectively, regardless of what side retained them," says Murrie. |
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David Ferguson
Raw Story 2013-08-29 20:42:00
A coalition of top scientific and medical research groups is set to release a study next week which reveals that nearly 20 percent of scientists in the U.S. are considering leaving the country in favor of better funding environments. According to Sam Stein at Huffington Post, the lead organization, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) found that the majority of U.S. scientists are receiving less federal help than they were three years ago in spite of the fact that they are spending more time writing grant requests in search of aid. The ASBMB study confirmed that years of stagnant budgets and cuts to spending, now aggravated by the added stress of the sequestration, have gutted the sciences in the U.S. and now a large number of scientific professionals are looking for a way out. |
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| Earth Changes |
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The Siberian Times
Defences were breached in Komsomolsk-on-Amur engulfing several villages, as forced evacuation rise.2013-09-02 15:51:00
Water levels in the city of Khabarovsk mean thousands could be forced to evacuate in the coming days. Many are fearful to leave, concerned their water-logged properties can be looted, say locals in stricken regions. Concern on Monday focused on the villages of Molodezhniy and Kharpensky close to Komsomolsk-on-Amur, with rescuers carrying our an emergency evacuation. People are forced to leave their homes even if they initially refused because of the high risk to their lives for staying after flood defences burst. A dozen were reported to be refusing to quit. Some houses were completely underwater. 223 houses were flooded. Residents were evacuated to temporary shelters, specially arranged for them, or to their family members. New dikes were being built in industrial city Komsomolsk-on-Amur to a height of 9.20 metres. |
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Olivia Williams
A mysterious UFO-like cloud made homeowners in Scotland this morning do a
double take as it appeared to hover close to the ground.The Daily Mail 2013-09-02 15:36:00 Claire Stewart, 37, from Kincorth, Aberdeen caught sight of the strange-looking out over her back garden at 9.30am. She said: 'I was just looking out from my home in Kincorth when I saw the cloud. 'It looked like a UFO and I had to double take before I realised it was actually a cloud.'
'I've never seen anything like it before, but apparently they're called lenticular clouds. 'It's very weird.' |
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The Telegraph
2013-09-02 14:09:00
At least 27 people have been hospitalised after a rare tornado ripped through a suburb of Tokyo. Several dozen people were injured when a tornado ripped through parts of eastern Japan on Monday, tearing off roofs and uprooting trees. Footage shot by public broadcaster NHK shows a number of homes destroyed, upturned cars, schools with shattered windows and a warehouse that had been lifted from its foundations and hurled into other buildings in Koshigaya, north of Tokyo. Some electricity poles had been snapped and a number of them had hit houses as they fell, worsening the damage. The Koshigaya city hall said 29 people were injured, three of them seriously, in the city alone. Local news reports said most of the injured were members of a volleyball team at a local middle school. A meteorologist at Japan's weather agency said the tornado was caused by warm, wet air coming inland over flat areas. |
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Chelsea Geach
iOl SciTech 2013-09-02 14:11:00
Cape Town - Earth's magnetic field is undergoing significant shifts, and South Africa has front row seats to observe the changes. Satellites and magnetic observatories have recorded stirrings in the magnetic field - some areas weakening, some strengthening - which suggest that our planet is headed for a reversal of its magnetic poles in the next few hundred years. If that happens, compasses which usually point north will point south. Animals which use the magnetic field for navigation such as birds, whales and sharks will find it difficult to migrate along their usual routes. Our magnetic navigation systems will have to be recalibrated. And while South Africans won't be able to watch the aurora visible over the equator during the pole switch, we are in a prime position to monitor the process because we are situated between the two areas of greatest change in the magnetic field. Just south-west of Cape Town is the region where the largest decrease was recorded by satellites between 1980 and 2001: -8 percent. And not too far east of South Africa is the region in the Indian Ocean where the largest increase was recorded, of +3 percent. At the magnetic observatory in Hermanus, one of four in the country, the geomagnetic field has decreased by more than 20 percent since 1941. Dr Pierre Cilliers, a researcher at the South African National Space Agency (Sansa), said: "The area of largest decrease in the magnetic field is closer to South Africa than to the rest of the inhabited world." |
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BBC
2013-08-30 12:05:00
Unusually cold weather and snow in parts of South America have affected thousands of people in several countries. The cold spell has killed at least seven people in Peru, four in Bolivia and two in Paraguay. In the latter, the authorities blamed the weather for the death of more than 5,000 cattle too. Weather forecasters say a cold front from Antarctica entered the region almost a week ago. On Friday, the Peruvian deputy education minister, Martin Vegas, said schools were closed in 43 provinces in 10 regions. |
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Raluca Anghel
The video was captured in the town of Badouzi near Heping Island, on August 31 shortly after 16 p.m.softpedia.com 2013-09-02 07:55:00 By the 22-second mark, a mudslide starts to unfold and the car in the footage is sprayed with mud and water and pushed to the side of the road. The accident seems to have been caught on tape via dashcam by the motorist behind the white sedan driver. As the mountain top collides over the road, a large boulder becomes loose and gets within inches of squashing the vehicle, then stops. The driver comes out and, along with residents jumping in to help, tries to figure out how to get the rock out of the road.
A car is close to getting crushed by a boulder in a frightening video from Taiwan. This clip has received more than 3.8 million views on YouTube since Saturday. |
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Richard Shears
The Daily Mail, UK 2013-09-02 06:01:00
A New Zealand tourist who planned to spend a few days exploring an island in his canoe was left trapped and desperate on a hill for two weeks after being stalked by a monster crocodile. The unfortunate traveller had set up camp on remote Governor Island, off the coast of Western Australia, intending to paddle his canoe around the island but the arrival of the 20ft-long crocodile changed all that. Instead, he remained terrified at his campsite, which he had hurriedly set up on a hill on the 250-acre island in the hope that he was too far inland for the crocodile to reach him. |
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Fox news
2013-09-02 04:08:00
The wildfire burning in and around Yosemite National Park has become the fourth-largest conflagration in modern California history, fire officials said Sunday as clouds and higher humidity helped crews further contain the biggest blaze in the United States this year. The 2-week-old Rim Fire moved up a spot on the state's list of large wildfires dating back to 1932 when it grew to 351 square miles -- an area larger than the cities of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose combined, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesman Daniel Berlant said. Although the fire still is growing, it was 45 percent contained as of Sunday. Moister air slowed flames from advancing through brush and trees, giving firefighters room to set backfires, dig containment lines and to strengthen lines around threatened communities, fire spokesman Trevor Augustino. He said it also helped that more than 4600 firefighters were brought in to battle the flames. |
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Steven E. Greer
BatteryPark.TV 2013-09-02 04:11:00
After Hurricane Sandy, a sinkhole opened up on the esplanade in South Cove. Now, a sinkhole has formed in the lawn of Rockefeller Park. It is unknown whether the flood waters caused them. |
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Robert Felix
Ice Age Now 2013-09-02 02:56:00
Snow more than 5-feet (1½ m) deep is causing serious problems on the roads - and despair among the inhabitants - at mining centers Pacuni , Argentina , Mallachuma , Amporio , Viloco and Mina Sudamericana. Pacuni mining centers and Argentina have been isolated since last Saturday. The snow, which has caused severe damage to mining machinery and infrastructure, is not only preventing output, even people find it difficult to walk in those conditions. Weather conditions during the last days were terrible, said Panfilo Brand , president of Quime City Council. "We are cut off from the rest of the department . Snow has created havoc in our sheds and compressors, which have been damaged and no longer work, which prevents the production in the extraction of minerals. " |
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US Geological Survey
2013-09-02 02:32:00
Event Time 2013-09-02 04:30:18 UTC 2013-09-02 15:30:18 UTC+11:00 at epicenter Location 6.565°S 155.058°E depth=49.4km (30.7mi) Nearby Cities 54km (34mi) WSW of Panguna, Papua New Guinea 65km (40mi) SW of Arawa, Papua New Guinea 394km (245mi) SE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea 555km (345mi) ESE of Kimbe, Papua New Guinea 625km (388mi) WNW of Honiara, Solomon Islands Technical Details |
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RIA Novosti
2013-09-01 14:22:00
Police have killed a bear that was roaming through a city in Russia's Far East and threatening locals, the Interior Ministry said Sunday. The bear was spotted by residents of Nakhodka, in Russia's Primorye Territory, on Sunday. "The animal appeared to act aggressively and posed danger to people," a local citizen told police. The bear was located by police on Kirov street shortly after the initial report. A police officer shot the bear to "neutralize" it, the ministry said in a statement. No one was injured in the incident. |
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BBC News
2013-09-01 14:13:00
The Peruvian government has extended to nine more regions a state of emergency called to cope with unusually cold weather and heavy snowfall. At least two people have died and 33,000 others have been affected by the cold spell, local officials say. Tens of thousands of animals have frozen to death over the past week. President Ollanta Humala has travelled to Apurimac, one of the worst-hit areas, to oversee the distribution of emergency aid. The state of emergency would be in place for 20 days, an official statement said. The heaviest snow fall to hit Peru in a decade has killed tens of thousands of llamas, alpacas, cattle and sheep, and left farmers destitute. A man died when the roof of his hut caved in under the weight of the snow in southern Carabaya province but the circumstances of the second death were unclear. Three people were rescued on Saturday from the same region after their home was cut off by snow. Rescue workers said the three, two girls and an elderly woman, were suffering from frostbite and snow blindness. The cold front has also hit Peru's south-eastern neighbour, Bolivia, and Paraguay, where a combined total of five people have died. |
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BBC News
2013-09-01 13:51:00
Radiation levels around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant are 18 times higher than previously thought, Japanese authorities have warned. Last week the plant's operator reported radioactive water had leaked from a storage tank into the ground. It now says readings taken near the leaking tank on Saturday showed radiation was high enough to prove lethal within four hours of exposure. The plant was crippled by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) had originally said the radiation emitted by the leaking water was around 100 millisieverts an hour. However, the company said the equipment used to make that recording could only read measurements of up to 100 millisieverts. The new recording, using a more sensitive device, showed a level of 1,800 millisieverts an hour. |
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Russia Today
2013-09-01 11:54:00
The Russian Far East is experiencing its worst flooding ever. With almost half of the crops and 9,500 homes damaged, the estimated costs are expected to go above $910 million. The projected damage is already greater than the $600mn losses from last year's Krymsk 'flash flood' that killed 171 people. More than 100,000 people from 185 towns in the Far East have had their homes damaged. On top of that, 280 km of roads and 71 bridges are completely destroyed, according to the Ministry of Transport. The level of the raging Amur River hit 7.6 meters on Thursday and meteorologists say the disaster the worst in 120 years, and warn more is to come. |
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| Fire in the Sky |
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RT.com
2013-09-01 11:22:00
Witnesses in Russia's Far East were astounded to see a spectacular burning object break up in the sky near Vladivostok. Though bloggers hailed it as a "meteor," scientists are skeptical. Photos and videos of the object posted online have provoked a debate on Russian social networks, with various ideas offered for what it might be. "I was sitting in my car. I did not start taking pictures immediately - first I did not pay attention. It was flying soundless," said one Internet user, who posted several photos of the event. | |
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Comment: We have heard the bogus linking of meteors to rocket launches before:
Spectacular Russian rocket launch - more evidence of comet dust loading our atmosphere |
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lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com
2013-09-01 07:05:00
Initial Meteor Sighting Reports 25 August 2013 - Denise Totah, Lubbock, Texas 5:00 a.m. Thomas Ashcraft - Heliotown - New Mexico writes, Sue Davis said... |
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| Health & Wellness |
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Kate Kelland
Reuters 2013-09-02 03:23:00
The average height of European men grew by a surprising 11 centimeters from the early 1870s to 1980, reflecting significant improvements in health across the region, according to new research published on Monday. Contrary to expectations, the study also found that average height accelerated in the period spanning the two World Wars and the Great Depression, when poverty, food rationing and hardship of war might have been expected to limit people's growth. The swift advance may have been due to people deciding to have fewer children in this period, the researchers said, and smaller family size has previously been found to be linked to increasing average height. "Increases in human stature are a key indicator of improvements in the average health of populations," said Timothy Hatton, a professor economics at Britain's University of Essex who led the study. He said the evidence - which shows the average height of a European male growing from 167 cm to 178 cm in a little over a 100 years - suggests an environment of improving health and decreasing disease "is the single most important factor driving the increase in height". |
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David Cox
Guardian 2013-08-30 21:05:00
Most runners have to stop when they reach their lactate threshold, but Dean Karnazes' muscles never tire: he can run for three days and nights without stopping. What's his secret? From club runners to Olympians, every athlete has a limit. Scientifically, this limit is defined as the body's lactate threshold and when you exercise beyond it, running rapidly becomes unpleasant. We've all experienced that burning feeling - heart pounding, lungs gasping for air - as your muscles begin to fatigue, eventually locking up altogether as your body shuts down. However, there is one man whose physiological performance defies all convention: Dean Karnazes is an ultrarunner from California and, at times, it seems as if he can run forever. Karnazes has completed some of the toughest endurance events on the planet, from a marathon to the South Pole in temperatures of -25C to the legendary Marathon des Sables, but in his entire life he has never experienced any form of muscle burn or cramp, even during runs exceeding 100 miles. It means his only limits are in the mind. "At a certain level of intensity, I do feel like I can go a long way without tiring," he says. "No matter how hard I push, my muscles never seize up. That's kind of a nice thing if I plan to run a long way." When running, you break down glucose for energy, producing lactate as a byproduct and an additional source of fuel that can also be converted back into energy. However, when you exceed your lactate threshold, your body is no longer able to convert the lactate as rapidly as it is being produced, leading to a buildup of acidity in the muscles. It is your body's way of telling you when to stop - but Karnazes never receives such signals. |
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Ann-Marie MacDonald
CBC Doc Zone 2008-11-07 00:00:00
"We are conducting a vast toxicological experiment in which our children and our children's children are the experimental subjects." Dr. Herbert Needleman The Disappearing Male is about one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system. The last few decades have seen steady and dramatic increases in the incidence of boys and young men suffering from genital deformities, low sperm count, sperm abnormalities and testicular cancer. |
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Stephanie M. Lee
San Francisco Chronicle 2013-08-27 17:12:00
An Oakland watchdog group has sued four companies and plans to sue dozens more for allegedly manufacturing or selling shampoos, soaps and other care products without attaching labels warning consumers that they contained high levels of a carcinogen. The suit, filed Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court by the Center for Environmental Health, accused Walgreens, Lake Consumer Products, Vogue International and Ultimark Products of selling products that allegedly had cocamide diethanolamine, or cocamide DEA. The group said it intends to sue more than 100 other companies that make or sell such products. The organization listed Walmart, Trader Joe's, Kohl's, Target, Rite Aid, Sears, T.J. Maxx, Sephora and Colgate Palmolive. Cocamide DEA, which is used to make foam and bubbles, was named last year as a carcinogen under Proposition 65, which requires warnings for consumer products with harmful amounts of certain toxic compounds. The chemical was added after the International Agency for Research on Cancer declared it a possible carcinogen in humans. | |
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Comment: Are you Swimming in Chemicals? Read more about everyday products that contain cancer causing carcinogens:
Toxic Cosmetic Ingredients The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products Dangerous Beauty: 5 Hazardous Beauty Products The Danger of Toxic Consumer Products, Fragrances Recognizing Toxic Chemicals in Body Care Products Many Scented Consumer Products Emit Toxic Chemicals: Study Toxic Burden: Women Put 515 Chemicals on Their Faces Every Day Bodies of Pregnant Women Polluted with Chemicals Found in Consumer Products Everyday Products Are Filled With Toxins - And We're Not Doing a Thing About It |
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Mike Hart MD
Primal Docs 2013-08-30 17:34:00
In case you haven't heard, eating whole grains is slowly killing you. I know this goes against Canada's food guide and everything you've been taught, but I'm here to tell you the truth. Canada's food guide Canada's food guide is complete bullshit. If you want to get fat and unhealthy, go pick up a copy and follow it to a tee. They'll tell you to eat 3-8 servings of whole grains a day (1) I basically follow a diet that's the direct opposite of what I was taught in my nutrition degree and medical school. Why? It's not because I like being different and opposing every mainstream view out there, it's because I'm constantly in pursuit of being the fittest, healthiest person I can possibly be Wheat contains anti-nutrients Wheat contains phytates (2). Phytates block the absorption of key minerals like magnesium, calcium and iron (2). Low iron? Ditch the wheat; it can inhibit its absorption by up to 50%! (2). It also blocks the absorption of magnesium, (3) a mineral that is crucial in preventing type two diabetes (4). Low testosterone and sex drive? Wheat blocks the absorption of zinc, a mineral that's critical to your sex life and building muscle (5). I take zinc everyday. | |
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Comment: Read the following articles to learn more about the negative health effects of a grain/wheat based diet:
Wheat: The Addictive Opiate Wheat the Opiate of the Masses? Why Refined Grains Are Harmful Facts you might not know about gluten Caveman Diet: Grain Free, Disease Free Wheat contains over 23,000 potentially harmful proteins Modern wheat is the 'perfect chronic poison' says expert Take a Look at the Damage Wheat Bread Can Cause You Wheat's Cardiotoxicity: As serious as a heart attack Beyond Celiac disease: The universal toxicity of wheat, Part I Super-common food that's ruining your skin, joints and blood sugar Can You Stomach Wheat? How Giving up Grain May Better Your Health |
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Marie Ellis
Those who live in a particularly smoggy city in the US are able to
see the pollution that surrounds them on a daily basis. But a recent
study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) reveals that
people who live in all types of environments are at risk of
pollution-related death.medicalnewstoday.com 2013-09-01 12:00:00 The study, published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, saw a team from MIT's Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment track emissions from sources including industrial smokestacks, automobile tailpipes, marine and rail activities, and heating systems around the US.
In order to ascertain how many early deaths are a result of air pollution, the researchers used emissions data from the Environmental Protection Agency's National Emissions Inventory, which is a catalog of emissions sources. |
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| Science of the Spirit |
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| High Strangeness |
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Greg Newkirk
WhoForted? 2013-09-01 20:28:00
A New Hampshire man made a startling discovery when he noticed a ghostly figure photobombing a friend's Facebook snapshot. Now, an expert photo analyst is saying that the phantom is real. Two weeks ago, Daniel Tanner decided to peruse a friend's online photo album when something eerie caught his eye. In the background of an image that shows Tanner's friend posing with her canine companion, what appears to be the ghost of a young girl can be seen peering through a window. "My friend has been claiming for months that her house is haunted," Tanner told Reddit. "Her husband took this pic a few days ago." Tanner claims that the only people in the house at the time of the photograph were his friend and her husband, who snapped the image. While plenty of skeptics were quick to argue that the phantom girl was simply a trick of the eye, a a reflection, or even a clever hoax, the only investigator to bring any expertise to the table was a veteran photo analyst with 15 years of experience under his belt. After performing an in-depth search for evidence of manipulation, he gave the amateur sleuths an incredibly detailed breakdown of the image. His official opinion? The spooky photo is the real deal. |
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| Don't Panic! Lighten Up! |
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Niccolò Brogi
About a year ago, I wrote on my blog:blog.nbrogi.com 2013-08-27 05:25:00 Ops! Tragedy, or finally an excuse to get rid of "being always available" and get my life back? I'll probably just end up getting another cell phone, but it might be interesting seeing what happens in the meantime... So, it's been a year, and I still don't have a cell phone, and it's really great.
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