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Austin Petersen
The Libertarian Republic 2013-09-25 16:42:00
"Go home! Go home! They're blowing up the buildings!" A video has appeared on the Internet featuring some never-before-seen footage from the events of September 11th, 2001. The video is a series of mashups seemingly taken from multiple sources. It begins with a distant shot of the towers, while the rest of the 14 minutes documents peoples reactions to the explosions. Conversations from incredulous New Yorkers can be heard discussing the events, many registering disbelief about the tragedy that was taking place. The video was just released today and has yet to undergo strenuous tests to verify its authenticity but it is an intriguing insight into the psychology of the people who were there in New York that day.
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Comment: Note how, before the propaganda machine rolled
into action, common sense told ordinary New Yorkers that "powerful
bombs" had to have taken the Twin Towers down...
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RT
Iran's been reaching out to world powers to settle the impasse over its
nuclear programme ahead of the nation's upcoming address to the UN
General Assembly. The stand-off has dragged on for years, and now the
country's new leader Hassan Rouhani pledged to re-start peace talks in
return for an easing of painful sanctions. And as RT's Paula Slier
reports, the restrictions are hurting the most vulnerable.2013-09-25 05:02:00
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Comment: The way in which economic sanctions target the state is through the
people... they purposely target the people who - it is hoped - will
blame their government and thus pressure them into submission before the
High Court of U.S. Imperialism, or rise up and overthrow their leaders,
presenting opportunities for the U.S. to insert its choice of
leadership.
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Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online 2013-09-25 04:49:00
He came. He listened. And he surfed. Then he outlined what has always been the official Iranian position: "Talks can happen; equal footing and mutual respect should govern the talks." Then he addressed the expectation (actually, the world's): "Of course, we expect to hear a consistent voice from Washington. The dominant voice in recent years has been for a military option." But now he had another idea. So he sets the stage for the punch line: It's WAVE time. WAVE as in World Against Violence and Extremism. Not in Farsi, lost in translation; in English. So the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, has just invited the whole planet to join the WAVE. How come no "coalition of the willing" leader ever thought about that? |
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Press TV
2013-09-25 11:16:00
Israel's Finance Minister Yair Lapid has criticized the Israeli delegation for walking out of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's speech at the UN General Assembly as a mistake. "Israel shouldn't be portrayed as a serial objector to negotiations, uninterested in peaceful solutions," Lapid said Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli delegation to the United Nations to boycott Rouhani's address at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Following the Iranian president's landmark speech, Netanyahu issued a statement and described the address as "cynical" and filled with "hypocrisy". Netanyahu also said Iran wanted to use the talks to buy time for its nuclear program. In his address to the UN, Rouhani reiterated Tehran's readiness for talks on its nuclear energy program with complete transparency. "Nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction have no place in Iran's security and defense doctrine, and contradict our fundamental religious and ethical convictions," he said. |
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Press TV
2013-09-25 11:08:00
A US-led airstrike in war-torn Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz has killed Chardara district's shadow governor, reports say. According to local reports, the self-proclaimed governor was a senior Taliban official. He was reportedly killed in an attack not coordinated with Afghan officials. "Maulavi Ahmad Shah, the Taliban's so-called governor for Chardara district and his bodyguard were killed in a NATO airstrike at 12 am (1930 GMT) in Noorzai area," district police chief Ghulam Muhayyuddin said. The attack is likely to further torpedo US efforts to reach out to the Taliban. Washington's talks with the group have angered the Afghan government. Afghan officials say that more than 10 militants have been killed and 20 others arrested over the past 24 hours in nine different provinces. On September 21, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Afghan security forces have killed 11 Taliban militants, including a shadow district governor identified as Muhibullah. The attack comes months after Taliban militants announced the start of their annual offensive against US-led and Afghan forces. The United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan as part of Washington's so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to rise in the country. |
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Daniel Trotta
Reuters 2013-09-24 10:50:00
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used her position as the opening speaker at the U.N. General Assembly to accuse the United States of violating human rights and international law through espionage that included spying on her email. Rousseff had expressed her displeasure last week by calling off a high-profile state visit to the United States scheduled for October over reports that the U.S. National Security Agency had been spying on Brazil. In unusually strong language, Rousseff launched a blistering attack on U.S. surveillance, calling it an affront to Brazilian sovereignty and "totally unacceptable." "Tampering in such a manner in the lives and affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and, as such, it is an affront to the principles that should otherwise govern relations among countries, especially among friendly nations," Rousseff told the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations. |
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Josh Peterson
The Daily Caller 2013-09-24 10:46:00
Nearly 2 million of First Lady Michelle Obama's Twitter followers are not real. According to the Twitter analytics application Status People, 37 percent of Michelle Obama's 5,290, 506 Twitter followers - or approximately 1,957,487 followers - are considered fake. Thirty-five percent of her followers are inactive, and 28 percent are considered "good," or real. Michelle Obama's account is run by Organizing for Action, and sent its last Tweet on March 4. It was a retweet of a message sent by the Twitter account of the First Lady's Let's Move initiative. |
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Jim Angle
Fox News 2013-09-24 10:40:00
Andy and Amy Mangione of Louisville, Ky. and their two boys are just the kind of people who should be helped by ObamaCare. But they recently got a nasty surprise in the mail. "When I saw the letter when I came home from work," Andy said, describing the large red wording on the envelope from his insurance carrier, "(it said) 'your action required, benefit changes, act now.' Of course I opened it immediately." It had stunning news. Insurance for the Mangiones and their two boys,which they bought on the individual market, was going to almost triple in 2014 --- from $333 a month to $965. The insurance carrier made it clear the increase was in order to be compliant with the new health care law. |
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Ed O'Keefe and Paul Kane
Washington Post 2013-09-24 10:27:00
Continuing his vow to keep speaking against the new federal health-care law "until I am no longer able to stand," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) continued with his marathon speech modeled on old-fashioned filibusters Tuesday evening in hopes of slowing debate over a short-term spending measure. "I rise today in opposition to Obamacare," Cruz announced as he began his remarks Tuesday afternoon, saying he would be speaking on behalf of millions of Texans and Americans opposed to the new health-care law. "A great many Texans, a great many Americans feel they do not have a voice, and so I hope to play some very small role in providing the voice," he said.
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RT
2013-09-25 10:42:00
A 14-year-old girl turned to police in India to file a rape complaint, but instead she was allegedly forced to strip in front of a senior police officer to convince him that her allegation of rape was genuine. Earlier this week the teenager had gone to a police station in Kushinagar, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with her parents to file a report about her alleged rape by a local resident. But the girl's father was allegedly asked to pay 50,000 rupees ($800) to the police - to register the complaint and arrest the accused. After the man refused to pay, the senior officer asked the man's daughter to accompany him into a room where he locked the door from inside and demanded that she strip for him to make sure she was raped, The Times of India reported. "He took me into a room and closed the door and asked me to remove my clothes," the girl stated in her complaint. The police officer also allegedly verbally abused the girl and her parents and sent them away without filing a report. |
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Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse 2013-09-25 05:04:00
There is a reason why every fiat currency in the history of the world has eventually failed. At some point, those issuing fiat currencies always find themselves giving in to the temptation to wildly print more money. Sometimes, the motivation for doing this is good. When an economy is really struggling, those that have been entrusted with the management of that economy can easily fall for the lie that things would be better if people just had "more money". Today, the Federal Reserve finds itself faced with a scenario that is very similar to what the Weimar Republic was facing nearly 100 years ago. Like the Weimar Republic, the U.S. economy is also struggling and like the Weimar Republic, the U.S. government is absolutely drowning in debt. Unfortunately, the Federal Reserve has decided to adopt the same solution that the Weimar Republic chose. The Federal Reserve is recklessly printing money out of thin air, and in the short-term some positive things have come out of it. But quantitative easing worked for the Weimar Republic for a little while too. At first, more money caused economic activity to increase and unemployment was low. But all of that money printing destroyed faith in German currency and in the German financial system and ultimately Germany experienced an economic meltdown that the world is still talking about today. This is the path that the Federal Reserve is taking America down, but most Americans have absolutely no idea what is happening. |
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Jessica Donati
Kabul - Few companies showed up to Afghanistan's fresh appeal for
investment in its vast mineral wealth on Sunday, apparently deterred by
trouble plaguing two of its largest projects and allowing small firms to
emerge as the main contenders.Reuters 2013-09-22 09:18:00 The Mines Ministry pleaded to a handful of local and foreign firms to bid on a near billion dollar cement tender, luring interest with attractive terms like free currency conversions and 100 percent capital repatriation. Hopes are pinned on Afghanistan's trillion dollar wealth in resources weaning the country off international aid, but early attempts to unlock its potential have hit serious setbacks. These appeared to have deterred major international firms from attending - leaving the path open to small investors with unconventional backgrounds, prepared to take on deteriorating security and uncertainty ahead of next year's election. Afghanistan has been at war for decades. It is now trying to inject life into attempts to negotiate an end to an Islamist Taliban insurgency as most NATO combat troops prepare to pull out by the end of 2014, leaving the country to handle its own security. "Too many big international companies are too afraid about what is going to happen after 2014,"said Tom Watts, a director at SJH Group and former British paratrooper who served in Iraq. |
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Elise Hu
WKU Public Radio 2013-09-24 15:52:00
Here's a mystery involving physics, technology and the markets that meant the difference between nothing and millions of dollars. Last Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced it would not be tapering its bond buying program at 2 p.m. ET. The news takes seven milliseconds - about the speed of light - to reach Chicago. But before the seven milliseconds was up, a few huge orders based on the Fed's decision were placed on Chicago exchanges. CNBC broke the story:
How did this happen? Right now, we don't know. But in high-speed trading, where computer algorithms fed by data make trades based on pre-programmed strategies, the difference between trading at seven milliseconds after the news and two milliseconds after the news can be worth millions. |
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RIA Novosti
2013-09-25 16:26:00
The upper house of Russia's parliament approved a contentious reform of the country's Academy of Sciences on Wednesday, as some 200 protesters gathered outside the legislature's building in downtown Moscow. The bill outlining the reform passed the Federation Council with 135 members voting in favor and two abstaining. Its main provisions transfer the management of most academic property to a new federal government agency and merge three previously existing academies - focusing on the sciences in general, medicine and agriculture - into one, but bar the state from interfering in the academy's scholarly activities. An earlier version of the bill approved by the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, provided for the abolition of the academy, but the bill was reworked considering strong protests from the scientific community. |
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Dr. Mercola
mercola.com 2013-09-18 00:00:00 Why Is UNICEF Accusing Health Journalists of Lying? A recently published report1 by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reveals that the organization is tracking "the rise of online pro-vaccine safety sentiments in Central and Eastern Europe," and has identified the most influential pro-vaccine safety influencers" on the web. UNICEF included me on the list, along with other independent health websites like GreenMedInfo.com, Mothering.com and NaturalNews.com, just to name a few. In their opening reference, they use a quote by Mark Twain that reads: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."Clearly, UNICEF is inferring that I and other vaccine-safety advocates are lying about the situation and therefore should be ignored. This would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious. |
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Travis Crum
The Charleston Gazette 2013-09-24 14:18:00
Wildlife biologists will inspect the Sacred Heart Early Learning Center in Charleston after an employee found a small copperhead snake in a drawer beneath a crib on Tuesday. The employee captured the 8-inch snake inside a Styrofoam cup until a biologist with the state Division of Natural Resources arrived. How the snake got there is still a mystery, said DNR spokesman Hoy Murphy. The center is housed inside the Sacred Heart Pavilion on the corner of Quarrier Street and Leon Sullivan Way. "This is not typical," Murphy said. "We are talking about it being right in the middle of downtown Charleston." Eric Richmond, a DNR wildlife biologist, said the agency would sweep the building Tuesday night and early this morning Even though the snake was small, it carried as much venom as an adult-sized copperhead, Richmond said. The snake was turned over to Noel Braley of Wildlife Removal Service in Charleston. Dawn Snyder, director of the Sacred Heart Early Learning Center, did not return phone messages. The center is licensed by the state to provide care for 52 children age 6 weeks to 3 years, according to its website. |
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Teresa Blackman
KGW 2013-09-25 05:46:00
Portland - Placenta is being used to create art in a growing trend for new moms. The placenta prints, as they're called, involve placing the placenta and the umbilical cord on acid-free paper and making a work of art that looks something like a tree. Some families frame and display their prints while others save them as personal keepsakes. A local company called Portland Placenta Services specializes in making placenta prints and was featured in the NBC Today Show's Mom blog this week. Doula Raeben Nolan runs and owns Portland Placenta Services. She has an art background and started honing her skills at making the prints six years ago. These days, it's not uncommon for her to work with 10 clients a month as interest has grown for the unique art. "Portland is definitely more amenable to it," she said. "People really love it. I think it's a really great way to honor the birth." Nolan said sometimes the moms, dads or even the grandparents ask to help make the print. |
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Bruno Waterfield
The Telegraph 2013-09-24 12:46:00
The number of Dutch people killed by medical euthanasia has more than doubled in the 10 years since legislation was changed to permit it, rising 13 per cent last year to 4,188. Voluntary euthanasia or physician assisted suicide, where a doctor is present while a patient kills themselves, usually by drinking a strong barbiturate potion, has been legal in the Netherlands since 2002. Requests have risen steadily since 2003 when 1,626 people applied for medically administered euthanasia, in most cases by a lethal injection, or assisted suicide. As previously controversial "mercy killings" have become socially and medically acceptable, the number of cases, the vast majority of medical euthanasia, have more than doubled over the decade to 2012. |
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Andrew Jacobs
CNBC 2013-09-23 12:41:00
In their widening campaign against online "rumormongers" and other putative purveyors of social disorder, Chinese authorities have netted influential rights activists, freelance anticorruption sleuths and even a billionaire entrepreneur who championed the rights of poor migrants. Many of those detained in recent weeks remain in police custody. But the enforcers of Internet propriety, it seems, were not prepared for the online outrage stirred up by the arrest last week of a 16-year-old boy who had publicly questioned investigators over the mysterious death of a karaoke club manager in China's northwest Gansu Province. On Monday, the police in Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County apparently bowed to public pressure and released Yang Zhong, a middle school student who was among the first people to be charged under new regulations that criminalize the spreading of online rumors with up to three years in jail. The authorities contend the boy had simply confessed to his crimes and served his punishment. Hours after his release, he posted online a photograph of himself flashing a victory sign. His shirt read, "Make the Change." |
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Joy Wilke
Record number of Republicans say the federal government has too much powerGallup.com 2013-09-24 12:13:00 Six in 10 Americans (60%) believe the federal government has too much power, one percentage point above the previous high recorded in September 2010. At least half of Americans since 2005 have said the government has too much power. Thirty-two percent now say the government has the right amount of power. Few say it has too little power.
These most recent data come from Gallup's Governance survey, conducted Sept. 5-8. The 7% who feel the government has too little power has been mostly steady since Gallup started tracking the measure regularly in 2002. |
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Matthew Day
The Telegraph 2013-09-24 12:08:00
Lech Walesa has called for Poland to unite with Germany to form one European state, despite the bloody history between the two countries. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Polish president, whose Solidarity trade union played a key role in bringing an end to the Cold War, said the world had changed and needed new ways of organising itself. "We need to expand economic and defence co-operation and other structures to create one state from Poland and Germany in Europe," he said. Speaking to Russia's Itar-Tass news agency, Mr Walesa, 69, said national boundaries were not as relevant as they once were. |
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CBC News
2013-09-25 11:47:00
No reports of injuries A CN Rail train has derailed just west of Landis, Sask., resulting in a grassfire and an oil leak. There are no injuries. RCMP said crews were on the scene Wednesday morning fighting the blaze and dealing with the derailment. None of the 16 derailed cars had caught fire, the RCMP said. The fire, which was in a ditch, was extinguished. The Saskatchewan government said the cars were loaded with ethanol, crude oil, car carriers and grain. |
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Bill Quigley
While Colorado and Washington have de-criminalized
recreational use of marijuanaand twenty states allow use for medical
purposes, a Louisiana man was sentenced to twenty years in prison in New
Orleans criminal court for possessing 15 grams, .529 of an ounce, of
marijuana.Common Dreams 2013-09-23 18:33:00
Corey Ladd, 27, had prior drug convictions and was sentenced September 4, 2013 as a "multiple offender to 20 years hard labor at the Department of Corrections." Marijuana use still remains a ticket to jail in most of the country and prohibition is enforced in a highly racially discriminatory manner. A recent report of the ACLU, "The War on Marijuana in Black and White," documents millions of arrests for marijuana and shows the "staggeringly disproportionate impact on African Americans." |
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Julie Shea
Le Provocateur 2013-09-24 21:23:00
What was Dr. Bridget Buxton's secret to solving the mystery of the "the lost eagle?" Google images. Buxton, on behalf of the Archaeological Institute of America, presented her lecture to an audience of Assumption students, faculty and staff on Monday, September 16. The lecture was an interpretation of Rome's most famous statue, the Prima Porta Augustus. The statue presents the first emperor of the Roman Empire as "a symbol of western self control and excellence versus the great enemy in the east," said Buxton. Since it was discovered in the outskirts of Rome in 1863, historians and archaeologists have attempted to match the story that is carved out on the statue to the historical accounts that exist. However, "the correct interpretation that we've had for the last one hundred and fifty years is actually wrong," Buxton argued. Buxton began by presenting to her audience the original interpretation of the statue. The marble statue, which seems to be carved into what can be interpreted as a storyboard, references significant historical events in the history of the Roman Empire. The center of Augustus' cuirass (chest plate) depicts the surrender of an eagle, which in Augustus' time, was a legionary military standard. Eagles were prized possessions of each Roman legion, a symbol of victory and strength in war and conquest. Buxton laughed as she attempted to illustrate what would be the modern equivalent. "[It would be like] if somebody came in and stole the [Assumption] greyhound, that would be bad, right?" The audience responded with laughter. |
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Ivan Amato
EnidNews 2013-09-24 21:40:00
Don't forget to set your clocks ahead two thousandths of a second before you go to sleep tonight. Same thing goes for bedtime tomorrow. And every day after that, because that is how much slower the Earth turns on its axis each day now than it did a century ago. All of those sub-eyeblink slowdowns each century have been adding up, too. For Jurassic-era stegosauruses 200 million years ago, the day was perhaps 23 hours long and each year had about 385 days. Two hundred million years from now, the daily dramas for whatever we evolve into will unfold during 25-hour days and 335-day years. "We naively think there always has been 24 hours per day," says Thomas O'Brian, chief of the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). "But that is not the case." For all but the past 60 to 70 years, those extra milliseconds adding to each day did not matter one whit. The boss still can't tell if you arrive at work two milliseconds after 9 a.m. And twice a year, those accumulating micromoments essentially vanish when most of us adjust our clocks with the start or end of daylight saving time. Except for one thing: Those micromoments don't actually vanish, and in an era of intense technology, they now matter a whole lot. |
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Gayathri Vaidyanathan
Discovery News 2013-09-25 09:15:00
The Russian Navy has confirmed the presence of a new island in the Arctic, which would increase the number of islands in the Franz Josef Land archipelago to 192. The report was published in the Russian news service RIONOVOSTI. The archipelago - named after an Austrian emperor - is among the last true frontiers. Even Google maps can't zoom in close. The ice-covered islands resemble a white smattering of freckles near the Norwegian island of Svalbard below the North Pole. Fjords and sounds surround the islands, with water depths exceeding 250 meters. The waters are covered in sea ice for 9 months a year. More than 85 percent of the islands are made up of glaciers. A forbidding place, to be sure. It is a remoteness that men (and a few women) attempted to conquer in the early days of Arctic exploration. Franz Josef Land was officially discovered in 1873, and became a base for a number of expeditions. The British explorer Frederick George Johnson traveled to Franz Josef Land beginning in 1894 and arrived on the Northbrook Island, the southernmost of the archipelago. He settled at so-called Camp Flora, with the goal of exploring the archipelago and collecting rocks and fossils. His collections revealed to the British Geological Society that the islands were of volcanic origin (as opposed to continental). In 1896, Johnson suddenly saw a man not of his party on the island: "a tall man, wearing a soft felt hat, loosely made, voluminous clothes and long shaggy hair and beard, all reeking with black grease." |
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RIA Novosti
2013-09-25 16:42:00
Torrential downpours in Russia's southern resort city Sochi - due to host the Winter Olympic Games in February - flooded streets and homes on Tuesday, but water is nearly gone from the streets and Sochi's swollen river levels are dropping, emergency officials said Wednesday. Irina Rossius, the press secretary for Russia's Emergencies Ministry, said that rain had stopped completely in some areas and there was no threat to land or population, but because of "the negative outlook" of Tuesday night, a state of emergency was still in effect. Earlier on Wednesday, however, the local Emergency Ministries branch denied that a state of emergency had been declared. |
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Tamarra Kemsley
Nature World News 2013-09-23 16:26:00
A total of 130 earthquakes shook Yellowstone National Park between Sept. 10 and Sept. 15, according to a University of Utah press release, though most were too small for a person to feel. Bob Smith is a geophysicist who has spent the last 53 years monitoring seismic activity in and around the Yellowstone Caldera. During this time, he told The Associated Press, he only recently witnessed two simultaneous earthquake swarms, or groupings. Then, last week, he detected three. "It's very remarkable," Smith said. "How does one swarm relate to another? Can one swarm trigger another and vice versa?" The answers aren't clear, though Smith said he "wouldn't doubt" if at least two of the swarms were related. According to the University of Utah Seismograph Stations, the sequence of swarms began on Sept. 10 and have concentrated around Lewis Lake, the Lower Geyser Basin and northwest of Norris Geyser Basin. "Notably much of the seismicity in Yellowstone occurs as swarms," the press statement notes. "This is pretty unusual, to be honest," Smith said, explaining that an earthquake generally isn't felt until it reaches a magnitude of 3.0 on the Richter scale. The range for the latest swarms have fallen between 0.6 and 3.6. |
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US Geological Sruvey
2013-09-25 12:39:00
Event Time 2013-09-25 16:42:43 UTC 2013-09-25 11:42:43 UTC-05:00 at epicenter Location 15.851°S 74.562°W depth=45.8km (28.5mi) Nearby Cities 46km (29mi) S of Acari, Peru 91km (57mi) SE of Minas de Marcona, Peru 120km (75mi) SSE of Nazca, Peru 135km (84mi) SSW of Puquio, Peru 498km (309mi) SSE of Lima, Peru Technical Details |
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Steven Goddard
On September 21, Antarctica had the most sea ice ever measured at either
pole - 19,514,000 km². The extent of southern hemisphere sea ice has
increased dramatically since the start of satellite records in 1979.Real Science 2013-09-25 05:09:00
Most people with an IQ over 30 understand that ice forms when the air is cold, but this seems to exclude a significant number of government scientists. |
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John H. Douglas
Science News Vol. 107 1975-09-25 03:40:00
The winter of 1780-81 was a particu-larly bitter one for the American Revo-lutionary forces. Washington's troops hunkered down, ill-clothed and ill-fed, around their campfires at Morristown, N.J., while a few miles away British troops enjoyed the relative luxury of an occupied New York City. But even the British had their problems, for the win-ter was so cold that parts of New York harbor froze for weeks at a time, block-ing movement of their powerful fleet. The ice even got thick enough to allow hauling cannons from Manhattan to Staten Island. The colonists had struggled against devastating winters ever since establish-ment of the earliest settlements, when one of the few holidays celebrated by the stern Piiritans was that of Thanks-giving-for a harvest bountiful enough to ensure survival until spring. Though they didn't realize it, these hardy pio-neers were trying to conquer a New World in the midst of some of the worst weather in over 2,000 years, a cold spell that had begun in the early 15th century and was to continue until around 1850, known to later climatolo-gists as the "Little Ice Age." |
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Steven Goddard
Real Science 2013-09-25 03:24:00
Note that this super cold period from 1975 is now understood by climatologists to have been a super hot period, thanks to pioneering work done at Penn State University. |
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Press TV
2013-09-25 03:01:00
Deadly landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed 20 people in northwestern Philippines, raising the death toll from storms across Asia to 47. Soldiers and villagers were also looking for at least seven people missing in mountainside villages struck by the landslides in the province of Zambales, Philippine officials said on Monday. According to Subic Mayor Jeffrey Khonghun, 15 people died in two landslide-hit villages in his town. Five people were also killed in landslides in two other towns in Zambales. "This is the first after a long time that we were hit by this kind of deluge," Khonghun said.Meanwhile, Chinese officials said that Typhoon Usagi, which hit the country after passing by the Philippines, killed 25 people in China's southern province of Guangdong. Two other people also died after their boat capsized in northeastern Aurora province in the Philippines late on Sunday. |
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Press TV
2013-09-25 02:42:00
At least 16 people died and a dozen others went missing after a mudslide triggered by heavy rainfall swept vehicles off a road and into a river in Bolivia's northeastern Amazon region, officials say. A bus, a minibus and a car were swept off the road on Monday near the village of Caranavi, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) north of La Paz, Colonel Juan Cuevas, a traffic police official, said Tuesday. The vehicles were travelling along Bolivia's "Death Road" before falling down a 100-meter ravine and into the Cajones River, the official said. The persistent rain has complicated rescue efforts, though officials marked the death toll as high as 16, stressing that it could rise further due to fears that more bodies are buried under the landslide. Around 10 people have survived the accident. The event marked the latest landslide disaster in Bolivia. In February 2011, over 300 homes were destroyed by a massive landslide in the country's capital city, La Paz. |
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| Fire in the Sky |
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Devon Boen
A surreal bright blue color illuminated the entire sky and was accompanied by a thunderous boom at about 9 p.m. Monday.The Gillette News Record 2013-09-25 17:45:00 People from all parts of Campbell County can attest to witnessing the strange phenomenon that lasted only a few seconds. Whendi Kiewel thought a plane was crashing right before her eyes as she drove her twin boys home from Rapid City, S.D. They were near Inyan Kara and the interstate exit for the Keyhole Reservoir when it happened. "The sky just completely lit up. I couldn't figure out what it was," Kiewel said. The sky was bright blue and it looked as though a massive shooting star was falling from the sky for about 30 seconds, Kiewel said. She, along with others, believe that the fireball was a meteorite. "You could see it breaking apart and then it just kind of burned out," Kiewel said. Many people heard a noise resembling loud thunder, but Kiewel and her sons only got to watch the show. "I can't quit thinking about it," Kiewel said. "It was the most amazing thing." |
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Tamara Elliott
Global News Canada 2013-09-25 17:37:00
Calgary- An incredible fireball shooting across the Alberta sky has been caught on tape. Around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, a RCMP officer was driving down the highway near Manning when he saw the bright meteor flash in front of him. His patrol camera was recording at the time, and it was all captured on video. A community astronomer at the Telus World of Science confirmed that the sighting was in fact a meteor. |
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Laura Hancock
Star-Tribune 2013-09-24 19:03:00
On Monday night, Casper resident Anne Ladd was driving on U.S. Highway 20 between Casper and Shoshoni when she caught in the corner of her eye a flash of green light, descending from the sky. "It looked like it burned out before it hit the ground," she said. "But it got really close to the ground." Ladd likely saw a fireball, a meteor brighter than the planet Venus, said Mike Hankey, a volunteer with the American Meteor Society. About 25 people from Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and Utah reported to the society that they witnessed the 9 p.m. spectacle. Campbell County Undersheriff Scott Matheney told the Gillette News Record on Tuesday that people called to report a loud, thunder-like noise and bright flashes of light. |
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Janis Reid
Washington state - A loud sound, described by many who heard it as a
"boom," occurred around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday in the Crescent Harbor
area.Whidbey News-Times 2013-09-24 14:22:00 The source of the noise remains undetermined. On the Whidbey News-Times' Facebook page, some speculated it was aircraft operations in the area or an unintended sonic boom. While air operations were being conducted that morning, representatives at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station said that they weren't doing any sort of training or operations that would have caused the noise. The boom sent some Oak Harbor residents rushing outside to look up to the sky. Aircraft could be heard flying overhead in Oak Harbor at the time of the boom. Troy Taylor and Mike Harris were working at Jiffy Lube on State Highway 20 in Oak Harbor when they heard a sound that Taylor compares to a gunshot or car backfiring. |
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Paul Wallem
Basin Radio Network 2013-09-24 12:38:00
If you heard a loud thunder-like noise a little after 9:00 p.m. Monday, you are not the only one. Campbell County Under Sheriff Scott Matheny said his office fielded some calls inquiring about the sound. "Campbell County Sheriff's Department received several reports from residents in southern Campbell County of a loud noise that was somewhat like thunder but only longer in duration. Some reported seeing a bright flash along with that We checked with the National Weather Service, we thought it might be a possible meteorite or even an earthquake, but they wouldn't release any information until they were done investigating." Gillette residents in the Westover Subdivision and Lakeland Hills area also heard the yet unidentified sound. |
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HealthDay
2013-09-23 14:14:00
People chronically exposed to low to moderate levels of arsenic in their environment may be more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular disease, a study of American Indians suggests. Previous research has linked exposure to high levels of arsenic in drinking water (more than 100 micrograms per liter) with coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral artery disease and carotid atherosclerosis. Environmental health researchers decided to explore whether exposure to the lower levels of arsenic more commonly found in drinking water or food also would increase the risk of heart disease. "We didn't know what would happen at levels that occur regularly in the United States," said study author Dr. Ana Navas-Acien, a researcher in the department of environmental health sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Regular exposure to more common levels of arsenic did indeed correlate to increased risk of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular disease, even after adjusting for other risk factors such as smoking, obesity and cholesterol levels, according to the findings, which were published in the Sept. 24 issue of the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Comment: Smoking is hardly a risk factor, on the contrary. For more information see: Nicotine - The Zombie Antidote Tobacco used as medicine Warning: Nicotine Seriously Improves Health |
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Sophie Borland
Mail Online 2013-09-24 14:06:00
Researchers say the risk is for all antidepressants, not just some types.Antidepressants taken by hundreds of thousands of people may increase the chances of developing diabetes, researchers warn. A major study involving more than a million patients has shown that those taking all antidepressant pills are at far higher risk from the condition. Academics from Southampton University think this may be because antidepressants cause weight gain which in turn leads to type 2 diabetes. But despite the strong link, they cannot be sure that the pills are definitely causing the condition. Patients on antidepressants are more likely to be overweight so have a higher risk of developing diabetes in the first place than healthy individuals. | |
Comment: For more information on this topic and to deal with it effectively, see Mass nervous breakdown: Millions of Americans on the brink as stress pandemic ravages society.
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whydontyoutrythis
2013-08-05 00:17:00
After decades of passionate debate, parents probably missed the repeated admissions by drug companies and governments alike that vaccines do in fact cause autism. For concerned parents seeking the truth, it's worth remembering that the exact same people who own the world's drug companies also own America's news outlets. Finding propaganda-free information has been difficult, until now. Dr. Andrew Wakefield At the center of the fifteen-year controversy is Dr. Andrew Wakefield of Austin, Texas. It was Dr. Wakefield that first publicized the link between stomach disorders and autism, and taking the findings one step further, the link between stomach disorders, autism and the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine. For that discovery way back in 1996, and a subsequent research paper published by the doctor in 1998, Andrew Wakefield has found himself the victim of a world-wide smear campaign by drug corporations, governments and media companies. And while Dr. Wakefield has been persecuted and prosecuted to the extent of being unable to legally practice medicine because of his discovery, he has instead become a best-selling author, the founder of the Strategic Autism Initiative, and the Director of the Autism Media Channel. But in recent months, courts, governments and vaccine manufacturers have quietly conceded the fact that the Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine most likely does cause autism and stomach diseases. Pharmaceutical companies have even gone so far as to pay out massive monetary awards, totaling in the millions, to the victims in an attempt to compensate them for damages and to buy their silence. |
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Christina Sarich
Natural Society 2013-05-10 18:24:00
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) otherwise known as the Corporate Patsy and Drug Pushing Administration (CPDPA) wants to increase their budget by $820 million next year, bringing it's budget to just under $5 billion for 2014. Is it possible that interest group money to 'protect the people of the United States from chemical and biological threats' isn't enough? As an utter slap in the face, Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told Congress that the FDA was 'a bargain among federal agencies.' We certainly agree with you Ms. Hamburg. While:
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Dr. Brent Hunter
Natural News 2013-09-23 18:03:00
MSG is a neurotoxin that is used as a food additive. It is toxic, inflammatory and causes or contributes to many diseases. It must be eliminated from your diet but avoiding it may not be as easy as you think. Here is what you need to know to avoid it and reverse its damaging effects. MSG Toxicity I have often worked with patients who are simply unable to overcome their pain syndromes or weight loss problems despite many effective therapies, diets and exercise. This is most often due to toxicity of one form or another. That is why living a non-toxic lifestyle is vital to achieving wellness. Toxins must be removed from the foods you consume on a daily basis. MSG is the most common and deceptive toxin found in food. By eliminating MSG and other toxins, I have seen so many patients health conditions, including weight loss resistance, resolve completely. | |
Comment: Additional helpful information:
MSG is Where You Least Expect It How to Find Hidden MSG on Food Labels Avoiding MSG is Trickier Than You Think Monosodium Glutamate: What We All Should Know Protect Yourself from MSG and Aspartame Excitotoxicity MSG: The Flavor Enhancer That Sickens In Two Ways The Shocking Dangers of MSG You Don't Know MSG: Is This Silent Killer Lurking in Your Kitchen Cabinets Food Additives You Should Avoid: Aspartame and MSG MSG Lurks As A Slow Poison In Common Food Items Without Your Knowledge |
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| Science of the Spirit |
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Tori Rodriguez
Feeling sad, mad, critical or otherwise awful? Surprise: negative emotions are essential for mental healthScientific American 2013-06-05 09:09:00
A client sits before me, seeking help untangling his relationship problems. As a psychotherapist, I strive to be warm, nonjudgmental and encouraging. I am a bit unsettled, then, when in the midst of describing his painful experiences, he says, "I'm sorry for being so negative." A crucial goal of therapy is to learn to acknowledge and express a full range of emotions, and here was a client apologizing for doing just that. In my psychotherapy practice, many of my clients struggle with highly distressing emotions, such as extreme anger, or with suicidal thoughts. In recent years I have noticed an increase in the number of people who also feel guilty or ashamed about what they perceive to be negativity. Such reactions undoubtedly stem from our culture's overriding bias toward positive thinking. Although positive emotions are worth cultivating, problems arise when people start believing they must be upbeat all the time. In fact, anger and sadness are an important part of life, and new research shows that experiencing and accepting such emotions are vital to our mental health. Attempting to suppress thoughts can backfire and even diminish our sense of contentment. "Acknowledging the complexity of life may be an especially fruitful path to psychological well-being," says psychologist Jonathan M. Adler of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering. | |
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Bernhard Guenther
Piercing the Veil of Reality 2013-09-17 21:02:00 Over the past 4 months I took a break from the external world and the internet for two months. I needed to go on a sabbatical to address some childhood wounds and issues that have come up for me. Life has shown me my shadow once again to be looked at and made conscious of. |
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Kevin Collier
Grand Haven Tribune 2013-09-16 14:07:00
Several times in the past decade, West Michigan newspapers have reported on a strange canine-like creature people claim to have seen in woodlands - not the legendary Chubacabra, but the Michigan Dogman. Some eyewitnesses are convinced they have seen it - like one man who posted his opinion on an Internet message board. "If you also live anywhere north of Grand Rapids in Michigan, how can you not know about the Dogman? It is one of the largest legends in the area and the story has been around for years," he wrote. "It seems to me it is more than just a huge fantasy." The Dogman is reported to have a canine-like head, human-like body, reflective eyes and walks upright. According to one Ottawa County resident, a creature fitting the description of the Dogman appeared in Grand Haven from 1993-94. "Ben," who was a young teenager at the time, claims to have seen the creature not once, but three times. He believes each time he was seeing a different creature, in what could have been a pack taking refuge in a Grand Haven Township park. In 1993, after dark, Ben was hiking the trails in Hofma Nature Preserve with as many as four friends when, passing the float bridge near the center of the preserve, they heard a sound to their right. Ben spied what resembled a dog standing behind a tree on a ridge above, approximately 70 feet away. "I thought it was just a dog walking along, then it stood up on its hind legs," Ben said. "One of its feet gripped a branch on the tree. Our eyes met and we just stared at each other for about five minutes, then it ran off." According to Ben, the second encounter occurred in December that same year in the driveway of his family's home on Lakeshore Drive. Ben went outdoors in the cold to start his mother's car. |
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