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Joe Quinn
Sott.net 2013-10-07 16:17:00
Two BBC news stories, one published on August 29th, the other on September 30th, contain video of an alleged Syrian government "napalm" attack on a "Syrian school playground" during the last week of August 2013. The September 30th video refers back to the original story, one month previously. Both videos are from the same 'Panorama' investigative reporting program that aired on August 30th, the same day that the UK parliament rejected Prime Minister David Cameron's attempt to sanction the NATO bombing of Syria. Both videos contain the testimony of an English doctor allegedly working with the supposedly humanitarian 'NGO' 'Hand in Hand for Syria'. The doctor in question may be 'Doctor Rola Hallam', who appears to be a British ex-pat or 'exiled' Syrian woman or, perhaps, the daughter of Syrian 'exiles'. Doctor Hallam appeared on BBC's Newsnight program on August 31st, one day after the UK parliament vote, to complain about the fact that Cameron's move to attack Syria had been rejected by the UK parliament. |
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Lisa Guliani
Sott.net 2013-10-05 18:52:00
As I see it, there is understanding on an intellectual level and then there is a deeper, more visceral understanding that really only comes from living a hard life, when you hit the wall and the floor drops out from below your feet. How such experiences change a person inside is not something easily explained to others who haven't had things quite so rough, and I'm not sure that what is learned and understood by one can be taught to another who hasn't yet hit that wall, or hit it hard enough to bleed. If the Universe has shown me anything, if all the struggles, failures, setbacks, sacrifices, pain, solitude and suffering have taught me anything, it's that we have a choice in the matter, even when life becomes a nightmare. We can keep going or we can give up. That's the choice. Some people seem to think they can take shortcuts when it comes to life lessons. They seem to be of the mind that all they have to do is read a book, or a bunch of books and voila, they think they understand how to interact in the world on some 'advanced' level. Yet, it's interesting to discover that a lot of these same people who've read the fancy philosophy books, who think they're so smart and they 'get' it, don't seem to have a clue about how to interact with people in any meaningful way. They're so stuck in their heads or on the legend they've created around themselves, they don't know how to live and BE sincere in the real world with other real people. |
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CBS
The following script is from "Cosmic Roulette" which aired on Oct.
6, 2013. The correspondent is Anderson Cooper. Andy Court, producer.2013-10-07 13:12:00
For a long time, astronomers saw the asteroids and comets that come close to Earth as useless debris -- space rocks that blocked our view of distant galaxies. Not anymore. They're now viewed as scientifically important and potentially very dangerous if they were to collide with our planet. The odds of that happening on any given day are remote, but over millions of years scientists believe there have been lots of impacts, and few doubt there are more to come. A former astronaut told us it's like a game of "cosmic roulette," and one mankind cannot afford to lose. Concern over our ability to detect these objects that come near the Earth grew after an incident in Russia this February, when an asteroid crashed into the atmosphere with many times the energy of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, narrowly missing a city of one million. This is video of that asteroid in Russia, barreling toward Earth at 40,000 miles an hour. It exploded into pieces 19 miles above and 25 miles south of the city of Chelyabinsk. People thought it had missed them entirely, until minutes later, when the shock wave arrived. Shattering glass, crushing doors, and knocking some people right off their feet. More than a thousand were injured. | |
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Comment: Ifs, buts and maybes in this game of cosmic
roulette have periodically become dead certainties in the course of
human history - the collapse of civilizations in the past coincided with
Earth encountering larger swarms of cometary and asteroid debris...
like the planet is encountering now.
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Liz Bentley
PreventDisease.com 2013-04-09 23:35:00
If it were not scientifically verified, it would be a great storyline for a sci-fi flick, but NASA says alien microbes are hitching rides on meteorites. Some experts are stating that debris from outer space will only be increasing in frequency as they impact Earth in the coming year. A meteorite's size can range from small to extremely large. When a meteoroid enters the atmosphere, frictional, pressure, and chemical interactions with the atmospheric gases cause the body to heat up and emit light, thus forming a fireball, also known as a meteor or shooting/falling star. They can range from extraterrestrial bodies that collide with Earth or an exceptionally bright, fireball-like meteor regardless of whether it ultimately impacts the surface. NASA has launched a new website to share details of meteor explosion events as recorded by U.S. military sensors on secretive spacecraft, kicking off the project with new details of this past February's fireball over Chelyabinsk, Russia. The new "Fireball and Bolide Reports" website, overseen by NASA's Near-Earth Object Program, debuted Friday (March 1) with its first entry: a table with a chronological data summary of the Russian meteor explosion of Feb. 15 gleaned from U.S. Government sensor data. Scientists are calling the event a "superbolide," taken from the term "bolide" typically used for fireballs created by meteors. Part of the worldwide interest in meteors hitting Earth stems from what is now verifiable evidence that alien lifeforms are coming along for the ride. In 2010, Duane P. Snyder announced the discovery of the first and only known Ice Meteorite containing Extraterrestrial Life-forms. The Ice Meteorite's particle analysis, its gas analysis, and likely origin including photos of the life-forms found in the melt-water of the meteorite where also exhibited. Dr. Albert Schnieders of Tascon USA Inc, commented that they basically found nearly all elements up to 90u in the sample spherical particles tested. | |
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Comment: To understand the implications of this article see also New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection
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stuff.co.nz 2013-10-05 16:33:00
Police in Washington could have avoided shooting dead a woman pursued by officers in a car chase that led to the lockdown of the Capitol this week, the driver's sister, former New York police sergeant Valarie Carey, said late on Friday. The family of Miriam Carey, whose one-year-old daughter Erica was in the car with her during the encounter with police on Thursday, has said she suffered from post-natal depression. Carey, 34, a resident of Stamford, Connecticut, tried to drive her black Infiniti coupe through a barrier near the White House, then sped toward Capitol Hill, leading police on a high-speed chase that ended when her car got stuck on a median and police shot her. "My sister could have been any person traveling in our capital," Valarie Carey told reporters outside her Brooklyn home. "Deadly physical force was not the ultimate recourse and it didn't have to be." The chase and shooting came at a time of high political tension in the U.S. capital with Congress debating how to resolve the shutdown of the federal government. The Capitol was locked down after the shots were fired. In another incident that caused alarm in Washington, a man appeared to have set himself on fire at the National Mall on Friday. He was listed in critical condition at a hospital. |
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Wynton Hall
breitbart.com 2013-10-04 16:27:00
On Thursday, the government's official Obamacare Facebook page was riddled with people expressing sticker shock over the government's high cost premiums after struggling for hours to wade through the technical failures vexing Obamacare exchanges all across the country. "I am so disappointed," wrote one woman. "These prices are outrageous and there are huge deductibles. No one can afford this!" The comment received 169 "likes." "There is NO WAY I can afford it," said one commenter after using the Kaiser Subsidy Calculator. "Heck right now I couldn't afford an extra 10$ [sic] a month...and oh apparently I make to [sic] much at 8.55/hour to get subsidies." Another person shared a link found on the federal government's main Obamacare page listing premium estimates for small business employers: |
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Ellen Brown
Global Research 2013-10-07 13:34:00
Reports are that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is engaged in a massive, covert military buildup.An article in the Associated Press in February confirmed an open purchase order by DHS for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. According to an op-ed in Forbes, that's enough to sustain an Iraq-sized war for over twenty years. DHS has also acquired heavily armored tanks, which have been seen roaming the streets. Evidently somebody in government is expecting some serious civil unrest. The question is, why? Recently revealed statements by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the height of the banking crisis in October 2008 could give some insights into that question. An article on BBC News on September 21, 2013, drew from an explosive autobiography called Power Trip by Brown's spin doctor Damian McBride, who said the prime minister was worried that law and order could collapse during the financial crisis. McBride quoted Brown as saying:
How to deal with that threat? Brown said, "We'd have to think: do we have curfews, do we put the Army on the streets, how do we get order back?" |
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RT
2013-10-07 13:13:00
A court in Bahrain sentenced nine people to life in prison on charges of forming a militant group, manufacturing explosives and plotting attacks aimed at destabilizing the restive Gulf kingdom. Four of the defendants were present in court for the verdicts and the remaining five, tried in absentia, saw an additional 10 years tacked onto their life-sentences for failing to turn themselves in. Life imprisonment in Bahrain entails 25-years behind bars. According to the Bahrain News Agency, the convicted men had turned a Manama warehouse into a bomb factory, where they had prepared explosives to attack security forces, civilians and private and public property "with the aim of undermining the stability of the country and harming its economic foundations". Investigators say in searching the suspects' homes and other locations utilized in their plot, they seized highly explosive packs of nitro-glycerin and nitro-cellulose. "A memory chip confiscated from suspects included video clips, lessons on manufacturing bombs and explosives, Al-Qassam-type rockets, anti-tank weapons and also methods for procurement of substances usable in making bombs. DNA tests and fingerprints from the locations were proven to be compatible with those of a number of the suspects," ANA continued. | |
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Comment: The West remains silent on the suppression happening in Bahrain.
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Press TV
2013-10-07 13:05:00
China has warned the US that the prospect of Washington's first ever default over the debt-ceiling deadline could seriously harm Chinese economic interests. In a Monday press conference, China's Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said "the clock is ticking" and politicians in Washington should "ensure the safety of the Chinese investments".
The Chinese official said China has made clear its unease with the political impasse in Washington with the US government¸ which is in a partial shutdown due to a dispute between Republicans and Democrats on spending legislation. |
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Press TV
2013-10-07 12:47:00
Terror suspect Abu Anas al-Libi was released by British police in 1999, a year after he allegedly get involved in the twin attacks on US embassies in East Africa, it has been revealed. Al-Libi, who has been captured by US Special Forces in Libya earlier on Sunday, was reportedly arrived in Britain in 1995 and lived in Manchester after he was given political asylum in the UK. There are reports that the 49-year-old suspect was arrested by the British police in 1999, a year after the bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi, kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Al-Libi, whose name was placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list, was released by the Metropolitan police and later fled the UK. Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz said the serious questions over al-Libi being granted UK asylum would be raised with the Home Secretary Theresa May when she appears before British MPs next week. The US Special Forces seized al-Libi in a commando raid in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Washington claims the abductee is linked to al-Qaeda and that he has been one of the masterminds behind the US embassy attacks. | |
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Comment: Same game was seen with patsy Bin-Laden, who
was killed over and over again. You don't want to kill a good enemy that
you have spent good money to become the ultimate bogeyman in the eyes
of the population. Just like you don't let the star in the TV soap
operas die.
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Press TV
2013-10-07 12:14:00
Extremists are using the Syrian civil war as a training ground before returning to the UK, British Home Secretary Theresa May has warned. May said the Home Office was aware of some British nationals going to Somalia and Syria for terrorist training to fight alongside al-Qaeda-linked organizations. "Some of those people are potential terrorists, some of whom may get training, and in some cases may engage in conflict and then potentially return to the UK," May told the BBC's Andrew Marr show. British Home Secretary also warned that the individuals could pose a potential threat if they return to the country. The Home Office's comments come a few days after Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said terrorists from more than 83 countries are operating in Syria, killing innocent civilians and Syrian soldiers in the Arab country. | |
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Comment: Britain has been very vocal in wanting to arm
the terrorists in Syria. With well trained terrorists returning to
Britain, there is all the more justification for more control and police
powers.
As the Chancellor Sutler said in V for Vendetta: And what better way than first training and supporting the future "enemy" and then after they come home and start creating chaos and fear, to limit movement, freedoms and to hit the "terrorists" hard. It is already happening. In the words of the Chancellor: |
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Press TV
2013-10-07 12:03:00
A report says communications at Brazil's Mining and Energy Ministry has been spied on by Canadian intelligence services, as the country has mining interests in the South American nation. The new disclosure was reported by Brazilian Globo television on Sunday and was based on leaked documents by US whistleblower Edward Snowden. The documents showed that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service had made a detailed outline of the Brazilian ministry's communications including phone calls, emails, and internet traffic. Brazil's Mining and Energy Minister Edilson Lobao described the revelations as "serious" and said that it has possibly been spied on due to Canadian companies' mining interests in the country. "There are many Canadian businesses interested in doing business in our country. If that is where the interest in spying comes from, to help certain business interests, I cannot say," Lobao stated.Canada is not the only country to have spied on Brazil's Mining and Energy Ministry. |
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RT
2013-10-07 09:47:00
The Assad regime in Syria deserves credit for complying with the chemical weapons deal, US Secretary of State John Kerry said after the first high-level meeting with his Russian counterpart since Moscow and Washington agreed on the deal. Kerry and Russian Foreign Minster Sergey Lavrov met on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Bali, Indonesia on Monday morning. "The process has begun in record time and we are appreciative for the Russian co-operation and obviously for the Syrian compliance," Kerry said. The Secretary of State also said that the US has agreed with Russia to move towards Syria peace talks as soon as possible. Lavrov stressed that Russia is satisfied with the process of chemical weapons elimination in Syria, saying that over the last two weeks "Damascus flawlessly cooperated with the international inspectors." The two parties spoke after the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said that they had begun eliminating Syria's chemical weapons, with chemical experts in Syria destroying missile warheads, aerial bombs, and chemical mixing equipment on Sunday. "I think it's extremely significant that yesterday, Sunday, within a week of the (UN) resolution being passed, some chemical weapons were being destroyed," Kerry stressed. "I think it's a credit to the Assad regime, frankly. It's a good beginning and we welcome a good beginning." |
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RT
2013-10-07 09:33:00
Egyptian celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the Arab-Israeli War were marred by a fresh wave of violence, with at least 53 people killed and over 200 wounded in clashes between police and supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi. RT's Arabic team also got caught in the turmoil in Cairo, with producer Ahmad al-Ashqar getting injured in the right leg in Giza's Dokki district. At least 53 people were killed and 268 others injured across Egypt, AFP cited senior health ministry official Ahmed al-Ansari as saying. At least 45 individuals were killed in Cairo and another five south of the capital, according to the official. Deputy Interior Minister General Sayed Shafiq told local media that the security situation is now "under control" in Cairo. At least 423 people were arrested in Cairo and Giza during clashes on Sunday, the country's Interior Ministry said. According to the Ministry's Facebook page, 180 people were detained in Giza, and another 243 people were apprehended in downtown Cairo. |
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Bryan Preston
PJ Media 2013-10-04 08:58:00
Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden is making waves today for an off-color joke he recently told. The retired spymaster was speaking at a Washington Post forum on cyber security recently when he acknowledged that NSA leaker Edward Snowden has been nominated for a human rights award. Hayden quipped, "I must admit in my darker moments over the past several months, I'd also thought of nominating Mr. Snowden but it was for a different list." |
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Robert Parry
Consortium News 2013-10-04 22:48:00
With the U.S. government shutdown and a threatened credit default, Tea Party Republicans are testing out a new system of national governance in which they get their way - or else. But is this the beginning of a new Jim Crow era of imposed white supremacy or just the white man's last tantrum, asks Robert Parry. American pundits are missing the bigger point about the Republican shutdown of the U.S. government and the GOP's threatened default on America's credit. The real question is not what policy concessions the Tea Partiers may extract, but rather can a determined right-wing white minority ensure continuation of white supremacy in the United States? For years, political scientists have been talking about how the demographic changes in the United States are inexorably leading to a Democratic majority, with Hispanics and Asian-Americans joining African-Americans and liberal urban whites to erode the political domains of white conservatives and white racists. But those predictions have always assumed a consistent commitment to the democratic principle of one person, one vote - and a readiness of Republicans to operate within the traditional standards of democratic governance. But what should now be crystal clear is that those assumptions are faulty. Instead of accepting the emergence of this more diverse and multi-cultural America, the Right - through the Tea Party-controlled Republicans - has decided to alter the constitutional framework of the United States to guarantee the perpetuation of white supremacy and the acceptance of right-wing policies. In effect, we are seeing the implementation of a principle enunciated by conservative thinker William F. Buckley in 1957: "The white community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically." Except now the Buckley rule is being applied nationally. |
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Elizabeth Harrington
Washington Free Beacon 2013-10-04 22:54:00
The president's health care law is driving down employment in his home state, according to a recent report. Employers in Illinois are cutting worker hours to avoid costly penalties from Obamacare's employer mandate, where employees in the lowest wage sectors are the hardest hit. The Illinois Policy Institute studied the three employment sectors - retail, food, and merchandise - whose average hours were closest to 30 hours per week prior to the Affordable Care Act. The institute found that all three have now dipped below 30 hours per week, the threshold for a full-time worker under the law. Average hours for these sectors had remained steadily above 30 before Obamacare was enacted. |
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Washington Free Beacon
2013-10-06 22:40:00
National Park Service rangers are being ordered to "make life difficult" during the government shutdown, according to the Washington Times. After the shutdown began, park police have been barring tourists from a number of popular attractions nationwide, including the WWII memorial. Even privately-owned landmarks, such as Mount Vernon, are being told by the National Park Service to close their doors. |
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Elizabeth Harrington
Washington Free Beacon 2013-10-04 22:33:00
User info 'may be intercepted, monitored, recorded ... and disclosed' to government personnel The Kentucky Obamacare marketplace has no "expectation of privacy," warning its prospective customers that their information can be monitored and shared with government bureaucrats. When clicking "let's get started" on the state-run health insurance marketplace "kynect," the user is quickly prompted to a "WARNING NOTICE." "This is a government computer system and is the property of the Commonwealth of Kentucky," it states. "It is for authorized use only regardless of time of day, location or method of access. " "Users (authorized or unauthorized) have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy," the disclaimer reads. "Any or all uses of this system and all files on the system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized state government and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign." |
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iOL News
2013-10-01 12:34:00
Mbabane - An extensive black market in human body parts has been uncovered in Swaziland's second-largest hospital. Demand is strong in the country for human ingredients for use in traditional potions. Even the water used to wash corpses in the hospital mortuary is being sold to traditional healers. "If they are selling parts from the hospital, they can steal from someone who has just died or is about to die," said Reverend Grace Masilela, a Nazarene Church preacher who said she was once a traditional healer. Masilela revealed this at the weekend to a Swazi newspaper, but the practice of selling human organs from the mortuary at Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital in the central commercial hub of Manzini is an open secret. Traditional healers come to town to purchase herbs at the Manzini market and end their trip with a visit to the mortuary. A human brain costs R1 000. Other parts, from internal organs to body fat, fetch from R400 to R1 000. Body parts are roasted and pulverised into an ash, and mixed with herbs for a potion that is either drunk, ingested or in some cases rubbed into the blood through a razor cut to the skin. The user is then endowed with supernatural power, according to belief. "Children's parts are favoured because they are considered pure. An elderly person's parts are liked because the consumer takes on the person's wisdom," said Charles Mngomezulu, a traditional healer, who added that he does not dabble in muti. |
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Havoc13
ShadowSpear 2013-10-07 00:03:00
In ancient Rome, when times were tough and the plebs were restless the rulers would often resort to two time-proven techniques to hold on to power: bribery and distraction. By meeting the basic needs of the people by bribing them with money or food, and distracting them with the entertainment of various sorts of spectacles, the rulers of Rome ensured the loyalty, or at least the passivity, of the people. Of course, providing bread (panem) and spectacle games (circenses) did nothing to address the underlying issues inherent in Roman society, and in fact exacerbated them by diverting time, money, and effort that might have been better spent actually fixing problems instead of ignoring them. For a number of reasons, including the politics of bread and circuses, the Roman Empire, one of the greatest of its or any time, eventually fell apart under its own weight. Many people like to draw parallels between the Roman Empire and modern-day America. While these comparisons are often trite and over-simplified, modern comparisons to the "bread and circuses" tactics of ancient Rome warrant closer examination. This is because there are direct parallels between the "then" of ancient Rome and the "now" of American society. Social "entitlement" programs in modern America are a direct parallel to the bread and money handouts of ancient Rome. Originally envisioned as a means to protect those not capable of working and to provide a temporary "safety net" for able-bodied, welfare and related programs in modern America instead have become a snare that is useful only in ensuring a steady stream of generations of voters utterly dependent upon government handouts for their survival. With so many people on the public dole, and with many of the trappings of the middle class given to them for nothing, there is no real financial or social incentive for the poor to put in the work required to actually move into the middle class. Over time, politicians compete to see who can provide the greatest excesses from the public coffers to the most people possible, in order to ensure those politicians remain in power. And we all know what happens to a democracy soon after it reaches this point. |
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Karen McVeigh
District judge denies appeal of Sister Megan Rice, 83, and two other activists, citing their intent to 'disarm' Oak Ridge.The Guardian 2013-10-04 16:57:00
An octogenarian Roman Catholic nun, jailed for breaking into a nuclear weapons facility in Tennessee, is facing up to 30 years in prison after losing her plea for the most serious charge to be dropped. Sister Megan Rice, 83, and two fellow peace activists staged a non-violent protest to symbolically disarm the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons facility, home to the nation's main supply of highly enriched uranium, in July. They were initially charged with trespassing, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison, but felony charges quickly followed. They were eventually convicted of interfering with national security and damage to federal property. |
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Peter Gicas
E!Online 2013-10-02 20:58:00
Well, better late than never. In the wake of the outrage that stemmed from the placement of a poster promoting Naomi Watts' movie Diana near the entrance to the Paris tunnel where Princess Diana died, the 4-foot by 6-foot ad has been taken down. "It was requested that the poster be removed Monday afternoon, and we received confirmation that it had been removed Monday evening," a spokesperson for French distributor Le Pacte told The Hollywood Reporter. The sign, featuring Watts dressed as Diana, had been prominently displayed by the Pont de l'Alma tunnel, just feet away from the gold Flame of Liberty statue, which has become known as an unofficial memorial for the Princess of Wales. |
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Mail Online
2013-10-06 20:29:00
A tourist captured the moment a man saluted the Capitol before deciding to set himself alight on Washington's National Mall on Friday, Javier Soto was visiting the tourist hotspots with his camera snapping shots of the Smithsonian, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. Then he went to see the Thomas Jefferson Memorial and the White House. Finally, returning to the National Mall and, just before 4:30 p.m., he aimed his camera east, toward the Capitol and saw a man pouring gasoline over his body from a canister. Mr Soto says the man gave the Capitol building a crisp military salute, before igniting the fuel with a lighter |
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Institute for Justice
2013-10-06 20:10:00
Can the government use civil forfeiture to take your money when you have done nothing wrong - and then pocket the proceeds? The IRS thinks so. For over 30 years, Terry Dehko has successfully run a grocery store in Fraser, Mich., with his daughter Sandy. In January 2013, without warning, the federal government used civil forfeiture to seize all of the money from the Dehkos' store bank account (more than $35,000) even though they've done absolutely nothing wrong. Their American Dream is now a nightmare. Federal civil forfeiture law features an appalling lack of due process: It empowers the government to seize private property from Americans without ever charging, let alone convicting, them of a crime. Perversely, the government then pockets the proceeds while providing no prompt way to get a court to review the seizure. On September 25, 2013, Terry and Sandy teamed up with the Institute for Justice to fight back in federal court. A victory will vindicate not just their right to be free from abusive forfeiture tactics, but the right of every American not to have their property wrongfully seized by government. |
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Bob Sullivan
Credit.com Blog 2013-10-01 23:22:00
Caller ID isn't always what it appears, and increasingly, criminal telemarketers are taking advantage of that. Aggressive phone sales operators have pretended to be the IRS, and they've pretended to be charities, but apparently they've developed a new tactic recently - impersonating teachers, calling parents at home during the school day. A flurry of calls starting last week arrived at consumers' homes with "Teachers Phone" shown in the Caller ID displays. But those who answer don't hear about a sick or misbehaving child, recipients say. "It was a prerecorded message from 'credit card services,'" wrote one victim on a telemarketing calls complaints page. "There was a prerecorded female voice claiming to be from my credit card company saying that there was a limited-time offer to get a new credit card with a 6.9% APR," said another. The calls come from a telephone number that is allegedly in Brooklyn, N.Y., though that number could also be spoofed. Calls placed to it produce only a busy signal. |
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Doug Currin
KCEN TV 2013-10-02 14:01:00
One Killeen boy had to learn a lesson the hard way at Ft. Hood Street and W. Veterans Memorial Boulevard today. A 4th grader spent the afternoon holding a sign that says "I am a bully. Honk if you hate bullies." His father, Jose Lagares, says he came up with the punishment after his son got in trouble for bullying several times at school. "Bullying is also a form of public humiliation. Maybe he understands that when he humiliates someone publicly that doesn't feel good," said Lagares, "Hopefully he'll take that with him so the next time he tries to bully someone he'll think about it twice." Lagares says most passerbys gave him positive feedback. |
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Peter Foster
The Telegraph 2013-10-05 13:06:00
The family of Miriam Carey, the mentally disturbed woman who was shot by police up on Capitol Hill last week, has been on TV demanding answers about why she was shot. Ms Carey, 34, died in a hail of gunfire after she led police on a high speed car chase from the White House up to Congress, failing to stop at least twice when officers pointed their guns at her. Here 18-month-old daughter was in the back of the car when her mother was killed. You could argue, that anyone who behaves like that in an area as sensitive as Capitol Hill gets what's coming to them, but if you're mentally disturbed (she to have believed Barack Obama was stalking her) then by definition you are not rational. This woman did not have a gun. She did not wave anything that looked like a gun at police, so far as we know - and if she had, you can bet the police would have made a big deal of it. She certainly did not fire at the police. And yet they still gunned her down. Was this really necessary? Was there really no other way to stop that car? Clearly it needed to be stopped, as this woman was a danger to pedestrians, if nothing else. Comment: More than Carey's driving, the police shots were obviously more dangerous to the pedestrians present, injuring one of their colleagues. Given the concrete barriers that protect access to the Capitol buildings themselves, she was never going to get in there so what about deploying a "stinger" - one of those spiky thing that shreds a car's tires? Or using other cars to ram her off the road? | |
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Comment: Since empires hoping to turn into police
states depend on a very fearful populace, these trigger-happy cops are
not only undisciplined but encouraged to act this way by the state
itself. The very state that protects them every time they murder an
innocent citizen and gives them the incentive to do it again, knowing
they will get away with it.
For a good analysis, read: Why TSA, wars, state defined diets, seat-belt laws, the war on drugs, police brutality, and efforts to control the internet, are essential to the state |
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Gio Benitez and Alexis Shaw
ABC News 2013-10-05 12:43:00
The Connecticut woman who led police on a high-speed chase near the U.S. Capitol before being shot dead was a loving mother who had dreams of being a teacher and a dentist - not a criminal, her sisters told ABC News. Miriam Carey, 34, of Stamford, was killed by police Thursday after trying to ram her black Infiniti into a White House gate and leading cops on a chase down Pennsylvania Avenue with her 1-year-old daughter in the car. The toddler was uninjured and placed in police custody. But Carey's sisters said the woman they knew was not violent. Instead, Miriam Carey was suffering from post-partum depression with psychosis. "She had no political agenda. She didn't hate her country. She wasn't a terrorist," Amy Carey Jones, a registered nurse, told ABC News. "She was on medication." While police did not find weapons in Carey's car, her sister, Valarie Carey, said Miriam's illness may have influenced her erratic behavior. But the incident raised questions as to whether police handled the situation appropriately. |
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CBC News
89-year-old peace advocate Audrey Tobias objects to Lockheed Martin work on census2013-10-03 20:15:00
An 89-year-old Toronto woman who is a Second World War veteran will return to court next week to hear the verdict in a case where she has been charged with refusing to fill out the 2011 census form. Audrey Tobias faces a criminal charge under the Statistics Act, which makes refusing or neglecting to fill in the census form an offence punishable by a $500 fine and up to three months in prison. Her case began Thursday morning inside a packed Toronto courtroom. Supporters greeted Tobias with applause when she took the stand. The CBC's Charlsie Agro reported that Tobias arrived wearing her best suit and was adamant that she would not pay a |
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Meghan Keneally
Daily Mail, UK 2013-10-05 06:33:00
A man reportedly set himself on fire on the National Mall this afternoon and was airlifted to a hospital. Police were called to respond to the emergency at 4.24pm and the fire was put out. The latest reports say that the man is in critical condition but his identity has still not been released. The man has not been named, but DC Police reportedly said that he was conscious and breathing. Witnesses said that they saw him sitting on the Mall, dousing himself with gasoline which he had in a gas canister. Some reports say that two male bystanders initially tried to put the fire out using their own shirts while others put the number of Good Samaritans at closer to five or six people. 'I didn't hear a word from him,' witness Adam Stifel told CNN. 'He had already doused himself with gasoline, I saw his gas can.' |
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Press TV
2013-10-05 02:00:00
At least 14 people have died and 24 others have been injured in a bus crash on the outskirts of Mexico City. The accident took place on a highway that links the Mexico state capital of Toluca to Mexico City's northwestern suburb of Naucalpan at around 6:38 am local time (1130 GMT) on Friday. The bus, which was packed with morning commuters, hurtled down a hillside and left 14, including a child, dead. "There wasn't a collision with another vehicle, but instead the bus veered off the asphalt and plunged down the mountainside about 100 or 120 meters," Miguel Angel Contreras, the attorney general of the State of Mexico said at a press conference following the accident.Two helicopters and a number of ambulances arrived at the scene as the bus was lying upside down. Twelve people died on the spot while one victim died of injuries in an ambulance and another in a hospital in Mexico City, officials said. The cause of the accident is yet unknown. Road accidents are one of the main causes of death in Mexico. Approximately, 4 million traffic accidents occur in Mexico that claim around 24,000 lives, which amounts to almost double the people who die from drug violence, according to AFP. |
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RJ Eskow
AlterNet 2013-10-02 00:55:00
We think we're in the 21st century, but all the signs suggest we're living in an earlier and harsher era. Of course they shut the Federal government down. Tea Party Republicans long for the days when there were no government authorities to enforce laws and restrain the power of unchecked wealth, the days when there was no Justice Department, no SEC, no other agencies protecting Americans from the misdeeds of bankers and corporate titans. But it already seems as if our entire country has secretly been transported back in time. We may think we're living in the 21st century, but all the signs suggest we're living in an earlier and harsher era. Here are seven signs the United States of America has returned to the 19th century. 1. Wall Street can "send your man around to see my man" again. Shocked by newly elected President Teddy Roosevelt's moves against Wall Street, J. P. Morgan went to the White House. "If we have done anything wrong," said Morgan, "send your man to my man and they can fix it up." "That can't be done," said Roosevelt. "We don't want to fix it up," his Attorney General added, "we want to stop it." The year was 1902, and 19th-century privilege was over for Wall Street. Now it's back, and so are the "men" - and as the recent foot-dragging over female Fed chair candidate Janet Yellen highlights, they almost always are men. The chief architects of deregulation in the 1990s included Sen. Phil Gramm, President Bill Clinton and Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. That deregulation cost millions of Americans their jobs and millions more their life savings. But the parties behind it did just fine. Gramm went to work for UBS bank immediately upon leaving the Senate in 2002, and is now vice-chairman of its investment banking division. Robert Rubin eventually headed up Citigroup, the megabank whose creation was made possible when his Treasury Department pushed for a then-illegal merger between Travelers and Citibank. Rubin was to become deeply implicated in the fraud and scandal which led to the 2008 crisis, although he claimed ignorance of his own bank's doings and never faced prosecution. Larry Summers has made millions from Wall Street banks. Bill Clinton made tens of millions "advising" two investment funds belonging to billionaire Ron Burkle. Exactly how much isn't known, but a very public falling out involved Burkle's alleged "stiffing" of Clinton on a final $20-$25 million payment. Clinton went on to serve as an advisor of Teneo Capital until February 2012. Hank Paulson of Goldman Sachs was George W. Bush's Treasury Secretary. Barack Obama's first Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, is now collecting huge fees on Wall Street. Obama's second Secretary, Jack Lew, was an executive at Citigroup. His former economic advisor, Peter Orszag, has traded places with Lew and is now at Citigroup. Obama's former Chief of Staff, Bill Daley, broke the Democratic mold by working at JPMorgan Chase. White House visitor logs, which are woefully incomplete, show that Wall Street's top dogs were frequent guests, especially at the height of the bank bailout. Despite massive fraud and tens of billions in fines and settlements, not one senior banker has been indicted for the crimes which brought down the economy. Teddy Roosevelt's legacy has been undone. Bankers can "send their man" to see the president's man - and he's frequently the same man. |
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Colin Lecher
Large chunks of the National Weather Service--the group of scientists
partially responsible for predicting extreme weather events, among many
other important weather-related duties--are still working despite the
government shutdown debacle. They're just doing it without that whole "pay" detail. Upsetting.PopSci 2013-10-04 17:15:00 ABC affiliate station meteorologist Mike Masco apparently found a hidden message to Congress, venting that frustration, buried in some standard weather alerts. (You can see the alert here. As of writing, it's still there. Scroll down a bit.)
Ha! Clever. But seriously. They need to get paid. |
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The Inquisitr
2013-10-06 23:56:00
Archaeologists found what they are calling a "Swedish Pompeii" at an ancient fort on the island of Öland. However, while Pompeii's ruins were caused by a massive volcano, Sweden's version appears more like mass murder. The fort dates back to the 5th century and five bodies have already been unearthed among its ruins. Archaeologists from Lund University in Sweden are responsible for the find. Helene Wilhelmson, a researcher who specializes in the study of bones, explained, "It's more of a frozen moment than you normally see in archaeology. It's like Pompeii: Something terrible happened, and everything just stopped." |
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Colin Barras
New Scientist 2013-10-03 15:16:00
Shaken, scorched and boiled in its own juices, this 4000-year-old human brain has been through a lot. It may look like nothing more than a bit of burnt log, but it is one of the oldest brains ever found. Its discovery, and the story now being pieced together of its owner's last hours, offers the tantalising prospect that archaeological remains could harbour more ancient brain specimens than thought. If that's the case, it potentially opens the way to studying the health of the brain in prehistoric times. Brain tissue is rich in enzymes that cause cells to break down rapidly after death, but this process can be halted if conditions are right. For instance, brain tissue has been found in the perfectly preserved body of an Inca child sacrificed 500 years ago. In this case, death occurred at the top of an Andean mountain where the body swiftly froze, preserving the brain. However, Seyitömer Höyük - the Bronze Age settlement in western Turkey where this brain was found - is not in the mountains. So how did brain tissue survive in four skeletons dug up there between 2006 and 2011? Meriç Altinoz at Haliç University in Istanbul, Turkey, who together with colleagues has been analysing the find, says the clues are in the ground. The skeletons were found burnt in a layer of sediment that also contained charred wooden objects. Given that the region is tectonically active, Altinoz speculates that an earthquake flattened the settlement and buried the people before fire spread through the rubble. The flames would have consumed any oxygen in the rubble and boiled the brains in their own fluids. The resulting lack of moisture and oxygen in the environment helped prevent tissue breakdown. |
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World Bulletin
2013-10-04 15:34:00
A group of archeologists have made a significant discovery in Turkey, unearthing an ancient Roman column piece touted as the largest of its kind. Ataturk University's archeology team brought to light on Friday a colossal Corinthian capital measuring 1.9m in diameter and 2.5 m in height in Erdek district. "This is the largest and most exquisite Corinthian capital built within the territory of the Roman Empire," said team head Nurettin Kochan. The piece is crafted in the Corinthian order, chronologically the latest of three recognized ancient Roman architectural styles. It was found at the site of Kyzikos Hadrian Temple where excavation work has continued since August 15. Kochan said the discovery bore significance on a global scale and would contribute to Turkey's tourism sector. He said the dimensions of the capital surpass those at the world-renowned Baalbek Temple in Lebanon, among the best preserved Roman temple sites. "There's no other capital of this size in the Corinthian order," he said. "Kyzikos Hadrian Temple outshines even the Baalbek Temple of Jupiter in Lebanon, considered the largest and most spectacular Corinthian temple in the world." Kochan said they have also found large pieces of frieze decorated with reliefs featuring larger-than-life representations of human, eagle and bull figures. Hadrian Temple is similar in size to the Temple of Artemis in the ancient city of Ephesus and the Temple of Apollo in Didim, both located in Turkey's Aegean region. The excavations, carried out by a team consisting of university professors, grad and undergrad students and dozens of workers, will continue until October 8. |
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Robert S. Rodvik
The U.S. has a long history of unleashing chemical and biological
warfare against civilians both abroad and at home, primarily as an
experiment but also to get rid of outdated stockpiles while inventing a
villain to crucify. Canadian author Robert Rodvik rips into Barack Obama
for hypocritically warning Syria against its alleged use of chemical
weapons and lambastes his own country which, from a potential U.S.
target, turned into a U.S. accomplice in the chemical warfare waged
against the Vietnamese people.Voltaire Network 2012-11-11 00:00:00
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Nick Squires
It was lost for so long that it had assumed mythical status for art historians. Some doubted whether it even existed.The Telegraph 2013-10-04 12:25:00
But a 500-year-old mystery was apparently solved today after a painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci was discovered in a Swiss bank vault. The painting, which depicts Isabella d'Este, a Renaissance noblewoman, was found in a private collection of 400 works kept in a Swiss bank by an Italian family who asked not to be identified. It appears to be a completed, painted version of a pencil sketch drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in Mantua in the Lombardy region of northern Italy in 1499. |
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Ian O'Neill
Discovery.com 2013-10-04 05:41:00
As the U.S. government shutdown grinds through its fourth day, science projects are falling like flies as they get starved of funds. And now, one of the most symbolic of scientific institutions has become the latest casualty of the political ineptitude on Capitol Hill. Today, as of 7pm Eastern Time, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (site offline) will shut down all of its North American facilities. This includes the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) in New Mexico, plus the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. Apart from a skeleton crew that will remain behind as security for the radio antennae, the vast majority of the NRAO's 475 employees will be laid off in an unpaid furlough. |
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John Bohannon
Science Magazine 2013-10-04 12:26:00
On 4 July, good news arrived in the inbox of Ocorrafoo Cobange, a biologist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara. It was the official letter of acceptance for a paper he had submitted 2 months earlier to the Journal of Natural Pharmaceuticals, describing the anticancer properties of a chemical that Cobange had extracted from a lichen. In fact, it should have been promptly rejected.Any reviewer with more than a high-school knowledge of chemistry and the ability to understand a basic data plot should have spotted the paper's short-comings immediately. Its experiments are so hopelessly flawed that the results are meaningless. I know because I wrote the paper. Ocorrafoo Cobange does not exist, nor does the Wassee Institute of Medicine. Over the past 10 months, I have submitted 304 versions of the wonder drug paper to open-access journals. More than half of the journals accepted the paper, failing to notice its fatal flaws. Beyond that headline result, the data from this sting operation reveal the contours of an emerging Wild West in academic publishing. From humble and idealistic beginnings a decade ago, open-access scientific journals have mushroomed into a global industry, driven by author publication fees rather than traditional subscriptions. Most of the players are murky. The identity and location of the journals' editors, as well as the financial workings of their publishers, are often purposefully obscured. But Science's investigation casts a powerful light. Internet Protocol (IP) address traces within the raw headers of e-mails sent by journal editors betray their locations. Invoices for publication fees reveal a network of bank accounts based mostly in the developing world. And the acceptances and rejections of the paper provide the first global snapshot of peer review across the open-access scientific enterprise. One might have expected credible peer review at the Journal of Natural Pharmaceuticals. It describes itself as "a peer reviewed journal aiming to communicate high quality research articles, short communications, and reviews in the field of natural products with desired pharmacological activities." The editors and advisory board members are pharmaceutical science professors at universities around the world. |
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Robin Burks
DVICE 2013-10-04 18:48:00
In Frankenstein, a mad scientist puts together a man by sewing together dead human parts. One of those parts is a head. It seems like a far-fetched notion, but Italian neuroscientist Dr. Sergio Canavero of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group believes that with new strides in technology, a human head could be transplanted from one body to another in the very near future. To quote Young Frankenstein, are we "entering the realm of genius," or of madness? Head transplants are hardly a new concept, but the idea of it actually being possible has been up for debate. The main problem with the concept is that it is would be very difficult to connect a head to a different body's spinal cord. However, Canavero believes that with the recent creation of something called fusogens, the process is now possible. Fusogens, which are plastic membranes, were created to repair severed nerves. They allow nerve impulses to be transmitted to the donor nervous system. It sounds crazy, but Canavero believes that a full head transplant could be possible within just a few years. Even crazier? He's already figured out how to do it. In 2008, he used electrical stimulation to wake up a patient who had been in a coma for two years. He bases his own theories on those of Robert White, a neurosurgeon who transplanted a monkey's head in the 1970's. The procedure would begin with two bodies: the donor, and the recipient. Both bodies would be chilled to a certain temperature. Two surgeons would cut their spinal cords at the same time. The donated head would be immediately put on the recipient's body and, using fusogens, be attached to the recipient's spinal cord. |
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Seiichi Yoshida
Discovery Date: September 28, 2013Aerith Net 2013-10-05 13:58:00 Magnitude: 19.0 mag Discoverer: Catalina Sky Survey
The orbital elements are published on M.P.E.C. 2013-T27. |
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Colin Lecher
popsci.com 2013-10-02 16:35:00
Have you heard of the Leidenfrost effect? If not, it's about to be your favorite effect. If yes, same. The basic idea is, when a liquid comes in contact with something really hot--about twice as hot as the liquid's boiling point, although it changes on certain factors like the size of the drop--the liquid never comes in direct contact with the surface; vapor acts as a barrier that keeps the two separated. When you flick drops of water on to a pan to check the heat, that skittering you see and hear is because of this effect. Got it? Great. One more thing: by using a surface with jagged edges, you can control the direction the water moves in. (You know those tire traps that slash your wheels when you reverse? They're sort of like that.) That's what University of Bath undergraduate students Carmen Cheng and Matthew Guy did when they created this Leidenfrost maze. Without giving away too much, it's the coolest science-y thing you'll see today. |
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Daily Mail
2013-10-07 09:23:00
Lightning strikes killed 32 people, including nine children, during storms at the weekend in India. It is not rare for lightning to strike someone when it is monsoon season, but that the sheer number of the death toll is extremely rare. The strikes killed people in the eastern Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand. 'About 24 people including seven children were killed Saturday and Sunday by bolts of lightning across Bihar,' State Disaster Management Minister Renu Kumari Kushwaha said. In neighbouring Jharkhand, eight people including two children died, Puran Mahto, an official in the state's Dhanbad district said. Torrential rains accompanied by strong winds uprooted trees, damaged houses and brought down power cables across the region on Sunday night. |
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Robert Felix
iceagenow.info 2013-10-06 07:35:00
"The blizzard in the US was, be it only shortly, on the Dutch television news," says reader Argiris Diamantis. "However, in spite of the fact that many people of Turkish origin are living here, heavy snowfall in Turkey is not considered to be a news item in the Netherlands. "In Keremali Akyaz Plateau district about 10 most elderly stranded citizens were rescued after heavy snowfall there mounted up to 70 cm (27 inches)." According to information received from the region, they were caught unprepared. http://medyabar.com/haber/61716/yaylada-mahsur-kalanlar-kurtarildi.aspx Thanks to Argiris Diamantis in the Netherlands for this link |
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US Geological Survey
2013-10-06 23:46:00
Event Time 2013-10-06 16:38:08 UTC 2013-10-07 01:38:08 UTC+09:00 at epicenter Location 12.280°N 141.693°E depth=104.0km (64.6mi) Nearby Cities 306km (190mi) NNE of Fais, Micronesia 360km (224mi) WSW of Tamuning-Tumon-Harmon Village, Guam 361km (224mi) WSW of Mangilao Village, Guam 367km (228mi) WSW of Dededo Village, Guam 357km (222mi) WSW of Hagatna, Guam Technical Survey |
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Francie Ganje
KBHB 2013-10-06 15:31:00
Sturgis , South Dakota - The cost to what is being called one of the worst blizzards in South Dakota's history will reach into the multi-millions. In Sturgis and other Black Hills communities, collapsed roofs, extended power outages, damage from felled trees, the cost of around the clock emergency response divisions and the equipment needed; and the extra crews that are being brought in - will be the norm in the foreseeable future. But in the vast expanse of the foothills and prairies north, east, and west of the Black Hills, a huge economic impact is beginning to emerge. Lost livestock, drifting with 60 mile per hour wind gusts and blinding snow, were driven with the storm, trailing over buried fence lines. Those that made it through the blizzard, are still lost or stranded. And reports of hundreds of head of livestock that didn't make it, are beginning to come in. According to Meade County Dispatch, owners are attempting to locate lost livestock. Being hampered by poor road conditions and unable to reach livestock once located, is slowing not only that process but an accurate count of how much producers have lost. |
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Joshua Gardner
Experts predicted a very busy hurricane season, but scientists say there has been a 'mysterious lack of activity' this year.The Daily Mail 2013-10-01 14:33:00 The unusually weak Atlantic storms can be partially blamed on factors such as the especially dry air, lack of El Nino, and colder than normal waters, but as a whole it has scientists scratching their heads. It also has many wondering what factors they need to start considering in order to improve seasonal predictions in the future.
The weak year also appears to be a trend, according to at least on scientist. 'My research has highlighted the dramatic multi-year downturn in global hurricane activity beginning in 2007 which slightly recovered before dropping even further here in 2013,' writes Dr. Ryan Maue. According to Maue, only four other years on record have had a lower total storm energy as of September 30: 1962, 1977, 1983, and 1994. Though the number of storms has been near normal, they have been weaker or more short-lived than usual in the reports the Washington Post. A big reason for this could be dry air. |
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Earthquake Report
2013-10-06 13:16:00
For a couple of weeks, an unusual earthquake swarm is going on in Eastern Romania, close to Moldovia border. Galati is the province where the earthquakes are happening. The Galati area experienced dozens of earthquakes up to a Magnitude of 3.8 (last one just before writing this article). The quakes have an extremely shallow depth, have a relatively high shaking intensity and are causing a lot of damage in the villages near the epicenter areas (the epicenters have to be situated in an area of many kms and not in one location). Some people are not waiting for more earthquakes and left their houses due do the damage, fearing a collapse if further quakes would strike. Galati is a region with relatively low seismic activity and earthquake swarms like the current events are only known from the newspapers in other regions / countries (ER could trace some unconfirmed reports that a number of earthquakes occurred in March 1894!). |
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Jae Hur
Bloomberg 2013-10-06 04:53:00
Winds gusting to 55 meters per second (125 miles per hour) halted air traffic and caused power outages on Okinawa's Miyakojima island as Typhoon Fitow blew through on course for northern Taiwan and China's coast, with a second storm following close behind. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau hoisted a typhoon warning as Fitow neared the island's north coast today, while Chinese maritime authorities issued red alerts, the highest level, for storm tides and waves, Xinhua News Agency reported. Fitow was heading west-northwest at about 20 kilometers per hour, some 220 miles (350 kilometers) north of Taipei at 1 p.m. Japan time, the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. Its central atmospheric pressure was 960 hectopascals with maximum sustained winds of 40 meters per second. Typhoon Danas, with a central pressure of 970 hectopascals, was about 650 miles southwest of Okinawa's main island, moving west-northwest at 35 kilometers per hour, according to JMA. The storm is forecast to curve northward after passing over Okinawa tomorrow, brushing past the southwest coast of Kyushu and southern South Korea before turning northeast through the Sea of Japan. Fitow caused blackouts of 6,800 homes in Miyakojima city, public broadcaster NHK reported. It also forced delays and cancellations of some flights to and from Okinawa, All Nippon Airways Co. and Japan Airlines Co. said on their websites today. Fitow is forecast to make landfall between east China's Fujian and Zhejiang provinces tomorrow morning, Xinhua said. Storm tides are expected to rise as much as 2 meters above normal along the coast, Xinhua said. |
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Bangkok Post
About two million people in 27 provinces are still being affected by
flooding, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on
Sunday.2013-10-06 01:20:00 The death toll from the floods had risen to 31 as of Sunday morning, the department said. Chanthaburi, Chon Buri and Khon Kaen provinces have recently been hit by flooding, but the situation had eased in Kanchanaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon, Kalasin, Nakhon Ratchasima, Phayao, Mae Hong Son, Lampang and Mukdahan. According to the department, the Pasak Jolasid dam was holding 1.04 billion cubic metres of water and was discharging 60.5 million cubic metres of water every three hours. Water levels in the Chao Phraya river in the eastern part of Ayutthaya's Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district had risen by five to eight centimetres. In Ayutthaya's Tha Rua district, water levels continued to rise and 55 villages had been hit by floods. In Ayutthaya's Nakhon Luang district, water levels in the Pasak river increased to 7.54 metres, about 0.76 metre higher than its banks. |
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Greg McCune
ChicagoToronto Sun 2013-10-05 13:59:00
- The upper Midwest was recovering on Saturday from an unusual autumn wallop from a fierce snowstorm that trapped dozens of people in vehicles in western South Dakota and a swarm of tornadoes that left at least 15 people injured in rural Nebraska and Iowa. More than 80 motorists remained stranded in western South Dakota after a blizzard rolled out of the Rocky Mountains and dumped up to three feet of snow on parts of the Northern Plains. "Our priority right now is to get those people to a warm location," said Alexa White, spokeswoman for the Rapid City-Pennington County Emergency Management Office in South Dakota. "Many of them are out of gas in their vehicles." To the east, emergency responders combed through debris in Iowa and Nebraska after 18 reports of tornadoes touching down overnight, including some cutting a swath as wide as a mile. Fifteen people were injured in Wayne, Nebraska, including one man who suffered broken bones when his pickup truck was hit by a tornado, according to Nebraska emergency management spokeswoman Jodie Fawl. Fawl said the twister did millions of dollars of damage - pummelling a local airplane hanger, farm implement supply businesses and several homes. |
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beforeitsnews.com
2013-10-04 19:41:00
This spectacular show of bright red, green, white, purple and orange was captured over Saint Cloud, Minnesota, 65 miles (105 kilometers) northwest of the state's most populous urban areas, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul. It began shortly before midnight and lasted through dawn. Auroras are visible along the earth's poles and are the result of highly charged particles in the solar wind colliding with atoms from earth's atmosphere. The colors depend on the altitude and the gas involved in the collision. Comment: ScienceDaily |
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KCEN TV
2013-10-04 12:36:00
A newly born two-headed calf is calling a Whiting, Vermont dairy farm home. "It just was something different for us today," said dairy owner Kirstin Quesnel. "Just like with humans we have some abnormalities with animals and animal births and this just happened to be one of them." The condition, called polycephaly, is extremely rare. The calf was supposed to be a twin, but the egg inside the mother failed to split. "We had a vet take a look at her earlier today to check all of her signs, and she seems to be doing very well," Quesnel said. The calf spent much of Wednesday sleeping and getting her photo taken. She is also trying to walk, but her neck is not strong enough to carry the weight of two heads. Otherwise, she's perfectly healthy, but without a name. "Call it a miracle or call it unique, call it whatever you will, we were just blessed with this and we'll see where it goes from here." |
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David Archibald
A correspondent in Oslo writes:
wattsupwiththat.com 2013-10-05 00:00:00 "The official view in Norway is in contrast to what the people experience because of cooling weather: Late spring gives flooding and avalanches when late snow-melting in the mountains. Water pipes freeze because of early and deep frost in the winter. Insect populations down 40% in 5 years because of cool and wet summers. This of cause is bad for pollination of fruit and berries. The grain harvest in Norway this summer is down 18% from average the last 5 years, despite increase in area and better seeds. But officially it is getting warmer."Some of those observations are anecdotal but some facts can be checked - Norwegian wheat production for example. The following figure shows Norwegian wheat production from 1960. Wheat production is off 48% from its peak:
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Dirk Lammers
Associated Press 2013-10-05 02:23:00
Sioux Falls, SD - A storm system that buried parts of Wyoming and South Dakota in heavy, wet snow on Friday also brought powerful thunderstorms packing tornadoes to the Great Plains. A storm dumped at least 33 inches of snow in a part of South Dakota's scenic Black Hills, National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Helgeson said Friday afternoon. Later in the day, thunderstorms rolled across the Plains, and witnesses reported seeing tornadoes in Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota. There were no reports of deaths from any of the tornadoes. Earlier in the day, snow was blamed for the deaths of three people who were killed in a traffic accident on snow-slicked U.S. 20 in northeast Nebraska. Forecasters said the cold front would eventually combine with other storms to make for a wild, and probably very wet, weekend for much of the central U.S. and Southeast. Some of the greatest damage from tornadoes seemed to be in Wayne, Neb., a town of 9,600 where witnesses said at least four homes were destroyed. Mayor Ken Chamberlain said all of the residents in town were accounted for, but the storm caused millions of dollars in damage to an area that includes businesses and the city's softball complex. |
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KATU.com
2013-10-02 15:38:00
Salem, Oregon - The stormy weather we had recently didn't just knock down some trees and power lines, it also took a toll on one of the state's bird populations. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has received a number of calls about dead and dying Barn and Violet-green Swallows, with reports coming in from the Port of Saint Helens to as far south as Junction City. It's estimated that thousands of the birds have died this past week. Groups of 10 to 200 have been reported dead in barns and other structures and, according to ODFW, the deaths appear to be in greater numbers near rivers and standing water. "This type of mortality event is unprecedented and considered a rare and unusual event," said Colin Gillin, ODFW State Wildlife Veterinarian. "The effect on bird populations is unknown." What happened to the birds? Experts are blaming the recent heavy rains and high winds, which they believe prevented the swallows from getting food. When the birds were examined by a lab at Oregon State University, the swallows were thin and it was obvious they had not eaten recently. Swallows feed on insects and when the weather gets bad, it has an effect on the young and weaker birds because they suddenly become unable to take in enough food to meet their energy requirements. Sick or dead wildlife can be reported to the ODFW Health Lab at (866) 968-2600. Keep in mind that only licensed wildlife rehabilitators may treat sick or injured wildlife. |
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US Geological Survey
2013-10-04 20:55:00
Event Time 2013-10-04 17:26:14 UTC 2013-10-04 22:26:14 UTC+05:00 at epicenter Location 38.555°S 78.448°E depth=10.0km (6.2mi) Nearby Cities 114km (71mi) SE of Amsterdam Island, 2543km (1580mi) SSE of Ile Rodrigues, Mauritius 2831km (1759mi) SE of Mahebourg, Mauritius 2833km (1760mi) SE of Plaine Magnien, Mauritius 2866km (1781mi) SE of Port Louis, Mauritius Technical Details |
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| Fire in the Sky |
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wthr.com
2013-09-28 04:41:00
More reports of meteor sightings on Friday night are coming in from Indiana. Nearly 700 people across six states already reported sightings of meteors Friday morning. The American Meteor Society (AMS) said witnesses from Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin reported a bright light moving across the morning sky. An estimated trajectory computed from the witness reports shows the meteor was traveling from the west to east and ended somewhere over eastern Indiana. | |
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Roel Pareño
For two days now, villagers and authorities in the west coast of
Zamboanga remain baffled after a big ball of fire streaked from the
southern skies at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, hitting the coastal water before
exploding and illuminating nearby villages.PhilStar.com 2013-10-03 13:58:00 Senior Inspector Edilberto Alvarez, the police commander of Station 9, confirmed the mysterious phenomenon but could neither offer a clear explanation of the incident at Barangays La Paz and Talisayan. Alvarez said a dull but loud explosion occurred later at the sea water fronting Barangay Talisayan. "It was confusing because based on my own experience an improvised bomb if exploded would not create such bright and colorful light covering a massive area compared to that one... whatever it was," Alverez said. The police official also dismissed the possibility that the ball of fire that exploded was man-made. |
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Comment: It's very unlikely that anything actually hit
the water in this case. They would really know about it if a space rock
hit either terra firma or the ocean!
A "dull but loud explosion" is consistent with a bolide exploding high in the atmosphere. Although, from a distance, they often appear to have 'fallen to the ground/sea', fireballs are generally so far up that the Earth's curvature will make them 'disappear over the horizon'. |
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Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com 2013-10-07 15:57:00
Dr. Don Huber is likely the leading GMO expert in the world. He is an award-winning, internationally recognized scientist, and professor of plant pathology at Purdue University for the past 35 years. His agriculture research is focused on the epidemiology and control of soil-borne plant pathogens, with specific emphasis on microbial ecology, cultural and biological controls, and the physiology of host-parasite relationships. His research over the past few decades has led him to become very outspoken against genetically modified organisms (GMO) and genetically engineered (GE) foods and the use of Roundup in agriculture in general. He's really one of the best scientists we have in the GMO movement for documenting the dangers of genetically engineered foods.
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Andrew Dewan
GMO Evidence, 2013-07-30 15:15:00
We are constantly exposed to foreign DNA from various sources like benign or malicious microbes in and on our body, pollens in the inhaled air and as the largest amount with the daily food supply. DNA molecules are ubiquitous in large numbers in all raw and unprocessed food. Depending on the extent of processing, various fractions of DNA molecules of varying size may be present in the consumed product, even in processed food such as corn chips and chocolate. Uptake and fate of foreign DNA ingested with the daily food intake in the gastrointestinal tract of mammals is not a completely understood topic. Though exogenous nucleotides are essential at least for maintaining host immunity to allergenic tissues and restoring specific immune responses to foreign antigens, the amount of DNA in food is relatively low compared to other constituents and does not have significant nutritional value, hence nutritional studies rarely deal with this issue. The final step of uptake of nucleotides in the epithelium of the gastrointestinal tract is a relatively well understood complex process. In contrast, the comprehension of the degradation process of long chains of DNA and possible uptake of larger fragments face many methodological challenges and very few studies have been conducted on the digestion of food-derived DNA within the 68 m long digestive tract of adult humans. Animal feeding studies have demonstrated that a minor amount of fragmented dietary DNA may resist the digestive process and there are sporadic reports in the literature claiming that orally administered small fragments of bacterial DNA or plant RNA can transgress the intestinal barrier, but no studies have explored the question if large DNA segments can pass from natural food intake to the circulatory system. |
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Andreas Eenfeldt, MD.
Diet Doctor 2013-09-27 12:30:00
The Food Revolution in full swing: Below is an excellent article from local Swedish paper Corren about this week's SBU report showing that low-carb diets are superior for weight loss. It's particularly pleasing to see so many wise comments from Professor Fredrik Nyström, who was a member of the expert group of the SBU. For Fredrik Nyström the report represents a victory.The time has come for the health care system to learn how to advise patients on a low-carbohydrate diet. Here's the full article, translated into English: | |
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Comment: For more information check out our forum discussions "Life Without Bread" and Ketogenic Diet - Path To Transformation.
Before skipping up breakfast and reaching out for dairy products, see first Fried breakfast is healthiest start to day, say scientists and Why Milk Is So Evil. |
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Emily Deans, MD
Primal Docs 2013-03-14 07:28:00
Researching the viability of ketogenic diets for therapeutic usage was one of the original interests that launched this blog. And while there is growing data for brain cancers and even a Cochran review for the use of ketogenic diets in epilepsy, the bipolar story has always been theoretical. Ketogenic (very low carbohydrate and low protein) diets should work a bit like the mood stabilizer depakote in regulating unstable moods in bipolar disorder, making them an interesting option, should the research pan out. I explore the research and details in this post: A Dietary Treatment for Bipolar Disorder? But, as I stated in that article, there were no randomized controlled trials, not even a pilot trial, and the only two case studies I had unearthed had one guy getting psychotic on Atkins induction and another one where a hospitalized bipolar woman showed no benefit (but despite reported enthusiasm and being in an inpatient unit where her food was supposedly entirely controlled, she never acheived ketosis). But the other day PubMed emailed me a new paper with links to the following article: The ketogenic diet for type II bipolar disorder. Thanks to the good Dr. Eades I was able to see the full text without getting a librarian to request it for me. | |
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Comment: For more information on this diet see our forum discussion Ketogenic Diet - Path To Transformation and these other articles:
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Luqman Cloete
Panic befell students at St Theresia Junior Secondary School hostel at
Tses after 20 pupils on Sunday afternoon suffered from epileptic type of
attacks, triggering fears of demons.All Africa 2013-10-01 14:12:00 A relative of one of the affected girls said that those who were attacked ran around wildly and shouting: "The girl will not write the examination. I will keep her busy until 24h00. The woman is coming." According to the relative, the girls were withdrawn from the hostel by their parents. The Karas education regional director, Awebahe Hoeseb, yesterday confirmed the alleged demonic attacks at the hostel. "It's very strange that this alleged demons are aware of our examination timetable. They only surface when pupils are preparing for the exams," said Hoeseb, describing the strange behaviour of the affected pupils as "examination phobia". |
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Nadia Bashir
A Michigan veterinarian says she thinks the mysterious dog illness that
has killed at least four dogs in Ohio so far may be transferred to and
from humans.NBC News 2013-10-06 13:34:00 Last month, the Ohio Department of Agriculture said its Division of Animal Health had been taking reports of sick dogs and investigating. Symptoms of the mysterious illness include vomiting, bloody diarrhea, weight loss and lethargy. The dogs believed to have died from the illness were in the Cincinnati and the Akron areas. Dr. Lindsay Ruland is with the Emergency Veterinary Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ruland tells NBC4 she began seeing dozens of cases of the mysterious dog illness last year. Ruland says this year she has seen even more cases and has also noticed a correlation between the owners of her patients who have reported flu-like symptoms around the same time as their dog's illness. Additionally, many employees at Emergency Veterinary Hospital also became sick after coming into contact with dogs who were ill. |
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Christina Sarich
NaturalSociety 2013-10-06 06:59:00
Many of us have come to mistrust government agencies like the FDA, and CDC, but in a startling moment of truth, the CDC now openly admits that antibiotic prescriptions have led to the death of more than 23,000 Americans every year and the calamitous emergence of super bugs that are impervious to our scientific 'medicines.' Even the 23,000 annual deaths is being called conservative by the CDC in a new Threat Report 2013 being issued by the agency. Within these pages the true epidemic of antibiotic resistant superbugs is outlined as well as a quantifiable look at the way antibiotics have been misused and over-prescribed in a Big Pharma-run world. The report even goes so far as to admit that modern medicine has failed when it comes to managing infectious disease since Mother Nature always adapts to overcome isolated chemical weaponry concocted in some lab. Ever-newer strains of bacteria are developed to out-whit us. Super bugs are like expert hackers figuring out how to get past the best computer programmer's firewall, as we still utilize medical programming that originated in the 1950s. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC, said in the report, "If we are not careful, we will soon be in a post-antibiotic era" - this has huge ramifications for the current medical system. If doctors and hospitals can't treat us with prescription drugs, what exactly is their use? We already know that things like cancer and heart disease can be resolved with natural medicine - now even a common infection will need to be treated alternatively. |
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Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com 2013-10-03 14:06:00
In light of a long list of mass shootings over the past several years, the causative role of psychiatric drugs in violent events will undoubtedly have to be evaluated and addressed at some point. Personally, I'd vote for sooner, rather than later. Antidepressants in particular have a well-established history of causing violent side effects, including suicide and homicide. In a recent Scientific American1 article, the author states: "Once again, antidepressants have been linked to an episode of horrific violence. The New York Times2 reports that Aaron Alexis, who allegedly shot 12 people to death at a Navy facility in Washington, DC, earlier this week, received a prescription for the antidepressant trazodone3 in August."The drug in question, trazodone, has been associated with:4 "New or worsening depression; thinking about harming or killing yourself, or planning or trying to do so; extreme worry; agitation; panic attacks; difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep; aggressive behavior; irritability; acting without thinking; severe restlessness; and frenzied abnormal excitement."The naval yard shooting is just the latest event to bring questions about prescription medications to the fore, but it bears noting that in this particular case no evidence has yet been released confirming that the shooter had the drug in his system at the time of the massacre. |
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getholistichealth.com
2013-06-19 00:00:00
Have you ever wondered what exactly Coca Cola is? After 10 minutes Ten tea spoons of sugar contained in a glass of Cola, cause devastating "strike" on the organism and the only cause, by reason of not vomiting, is the phosphoric acid which inhibits the action of sugar. After 20 minutes A leap of insulin levels in bloodstream occurs. The liver converts all the sugar into fat. After 40 minutes Ingestion of caffeine is finally completed. The eye pupils are expanding. Blood pressure rises, because the liver disposes more sugar into bloodstream. The adenosine receptors get blocked, thereby preventing drowsiness. After 45 minutes Body raises production of dopamine hormone, which stimulates the brain pleasure center. Heroin has the same principle of operation. |
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Christina Sarich
Natural Society 2013-10-04 08:48:00
If you are on the fence about whether to get the HPV 'vaccine' that has been created by Merck & Co., known as Gardasil, you may want to think once more before subjecting your body to Big Pharma. For some, the situation is not just questionable, but absolutely horrid. Making things even worse, the device being used to determine whether or not you should get a very questionable HPV vaccine may be defective, so how can we truly trust that the 'diagnosis' is a good one? In an article originally published on Mesh Medical Device News Desk, lab technician and a Cytotechnologist Mark KrauseKrause who screens pap smears - a screening test for cervical cancer - describes what he calls an epidemic of fraud. He explains that what traditionally were called pap smears and no longer a 'smear' but a mono-layered preparation. Cellular material collected from a woman is dropped into a vial containing an alcohol solution. All mucous and blood or other debris are dissolved and removed. This sample is then deposited on a single slide. Many lab techs, Krause explains, like this because it is easier to read; however, the way the pap smear was changed was largely due to higher profitability. This single layer pap has nefarious underpinning. It is supposedly much more accurate than the conventional pap smear, with one corporation claiming it improved results by up to 230%. Krause mentions 2 studies that found no difference in the readability or accuracy of the 'new' pap smear. An Australian study found only a 12% difference. Krause believes the improvement might be only 5-10% at his lab. The problem is credibility with the major manufacturer of the 'new' pap smear. Even the 12% increase found by the Australian study is no where near the possible 230% claimed by the pap test's makers. | |
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Comment: More false positives will later justify more vaccination campaigns. For more information on HPV vaccine effects see:
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Lilja
Low Carb Food List 2013-01-11 06:52:00
Ketogenic diet plan Ketosis diets are sometimes planned for a 30-day period but are totally sustainable long term and you can be on a ketogenic diet plan for the rest of your life if you want to. A rigorous low-carbohydrate diet is followed as all your energy comes from fat and protein sources during this period. A ketosis diet is basically known as a high-fat diet, though protein plays a significant role in the ketosis diet too. Fat is taken to fill you up as well as give both adequate calories and vital nutrients to the body. It is imperative to seek advice from your doctor before commencing on any diet. But be alert that some doctors are not up to date on recent studies and might be against a low carb diet, even if it has been shown it's very beneficial and not dangerous. You can check out KrisKris (a medical student who blogs about nutrition, always cites concrete studies and knows what he's talking about) for more information. He also has a new site, Authority nutrition. Ketosis When the muscle tissue has depleted all the glycogen stored (when you stop eating carbs), the human body releases ketones. This state is referred to as ketosis. Ketones are released in the mitochondria of liver cells. These ketones start the breakdown of fatty acids as a way of giving energy to the body. Carbohydrates hinder this production of ketones as they bring back glycogen to the muscles, providing the body with a substitute source of energy. | |
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Comment: Some people don't tolerate foods such as nuts,
and most dairy products are best avoided while healing the gut. For
more information see our forum discussion Ketogenic Diet - Path To Transformation?.
Butter and a high-fat bone broth are excellent sources of fat during a ketogenic diet: Stock vs Broth - Are You Confused? The amazing health benefits of bone broth Traditional Bone Broth in Modern Health and Disease You'll find the scientific principles of this diet in: The Ketogenic Diet - An Overview The fat-fueled brain: unnatural or advantageous? Is the Ketogenic Diet the cure for multiple diseases? Ketogenic Diet (high-fat, low-carb) Has Neuroprotective and Disease-modifying Effects Beyond weight loss: a review of the therapeutic uses of very-low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diets |
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John Upton
Grist 2013-10-04 18:19:00
New Yorkers can eat all the organics that they want - but that won't be enough to protect them from the Big Apple's stubborn pesticide problem. Despite living in a dense city with only tiny patches of agriculture (much of it organic, local, and ad-hoc), New York City residents have higher exposure levels than most Americans to two toxic classes of pesticide, according to a new study. And the poisons are not just hitchhiking in on the produce. Researchers studied data from samples taken from New York City residents in 2004 and found that "exposure to pyrethroids and dimethyl organophosphates were higher in NYC than in the US overall." |
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Moises Velasquez-Manoff
Mother Jones Magazine 2013-04-22 17:24:00
Imbalances in the microbial community in your intestines may lead to metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes. What does science say about how to reset our bodies? A few years before Super Size Me hit theaters in 2004, Dr. Paresh Dandona, a diabetes specialist in Buffalo, New York, set out to measure the body's response to McDonald's - specifically breakfast. Over several mornings, he fed nine normal-weight volunteers an egg sandwich with cheese and ham, a sausage muffin sandwich, and two hash brown patties. Dandona is a professor at the State University of New York-Buffalo who also heads the Diabetes-Endocrinology Center of Western New York, and what he observed has informed his research ever since. Levels of a C-reactive protein, an indicator of systemic inflammation, shot up "within literally minutes." "I was shocked," he recalls, that "a simple McDonald's meal that seems harmless enough" - the sort of high-fat, high-carbohydrate meal that 1 in 4 Americans eats regularly - would have such a dramatic effect. And it lasted for hours. |
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Dan Goleman
Psychology Today 2013-10-07 10:36:00
You're at your keyboard zeroed in on some compelling task at hand, say, focused on a report you have to finish today, when suddenly there's a pop-up box or melodious ding! You've got a message. What do you do? Stay with that urgent task? Or check that message? The answer to that dilemma will be determined by a strip of neurons in your prefrontal cortex, just behind your forehead - your brain's executive center. One of its jobs is settling such conflicts, and managing your priorities in general. The ability to stay concentrated on what you're doing and ignore distractions counts among the most basic skills in anyone's mental toolbox. Call it focus. The more focused we are, the more successful we can be at whatever we do. And, conversely, the more distracted, the less well we do. This applies across the board: sports, school, career. Focus is the hidden ingredient in excellence - "hidden" because we typically don't notice it. But lacking focus we are more likely to falter at whatever we do. A test of how concentrated college athletes are, for instance, predicts their sports performance the following semester. A wandering mind, studies show, punches holes in students' comprehension of what they study. And an executive tells me that whenever he finds his mind has wandered during a meeting, he wonders what opportunities he has just missed. | |
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Comment: For a breathing and meditation program that will help you rewire your brain, check out the Éiriú Eolas oniline tutorial.
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Inexplicata Blogspot
2013-10-04 23:31:00
On 29 September around 21:00 hours near Bustamante Park in the downtown area, a strange flying creature was seen flying from one tree to another. Its size was estimated at around 2 meters tall and shaped like a manta ray. Ignacio, a young man who was the privileged witness to this brief yet disconcerting flying being sighting, does not wish to disclose his identity but made his narrative available to journalist [Juan Andrés] Salfate on Canal La Red. His description is specific, remarking that the entity had wings from the upper part of its body down to its lower part. He made a drawing of what he saw, which we present in this report. Eyewitness testimony soon appeared in other places in Santiago. A witness named Sylvia confirmed the image of this human-looking "flying manta ray" in the Los Barrenchea Commune. Someone even stated the following by e-mail, from a location near Bustamante Park: |
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