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Julian Friese
Sott.net 2013-10-03 06:06:00
As a SOTT editor, I like to keep an eye on what's going on in the animal kingdom. The big news in recent years on that score has, of course, been the high number of mass animal deaths. But has anyone else noticed the extraordinary number of stories about snakes in the news lately? I first noticed a spate of snake stories at the beginning of the summer, and over the last couple of months snakes have been turning up in close proximity to people, and in some highly unusual settings, at an alarming rate. There have also been some particularly horrifying reports of attacks and resulting fatalities by escaped pet pythons - on both children and domesticated animals alike. It seems appropriate that 2013, according to the Chinese zodiac tradition, is the Year of the Snake! The following is a quick run-down of some incidents worth highlighting, starting in May, which initially show a slow build-up of such stories, leading fairly rapidly to 'spikes' in reports, some of which we've carried on SOTT. |
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Bradley Klapper & Laurie Kellman
Sacramento Bee 2013-10-03 14:13:00
A police officer was reported injured after gunshots at the U.S. Capitol, police said Thursday. They locked down the entire complex, derailing debate over how to end a government shutdown. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., told reporters he was walking from the Capitol to the Senate Russell Office Building across the street when he noticed several police officers driving fast up Constitution Avenue on motorcycles. "Within seconds of that," Casey said, "we heard three, four, five pops," which he assumed were gunshots. He said police ordered Casey and nearby tourists to crouch behind a car for protection. In about two minutes, he said, the officers moved everyone into the Capitol. | |
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Comment: Video footage has emerged of this 'shooting':
It looks like it was the cops who did all the shooting. In fact, it's starting to look like it wasn't actually 'a shooting' - it was just cops being cops and someone trying to get away from them. Remember the initial claim that the female driver "tried to ram the White House gates"? Actually, her black Lexus seems to have accidentally clipped one of multiple checkpoints in downtown militarized D.C. There was a child in the backseat, presumably her own. The mother may have panicked when approached by hystericized, trigger-happy cops, then reacted stupidly by attempting to speed away from them. For that, she was shot dead, summarily executed on site. The corporate media has taken full advantage of this story to freak everyone out and distract people from that other contrived 'shutdown' that has shut down vital services for millions of Americans... |
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Damien McElroy and Ahmad Vahdat
The head of Iran's cyber warfare programme has been shot dead,
triggering further accusations that outside powers are carrying out
targeted assassinations of key figures in the country's security
apparatus. The Telegraph, UK 2013-10-03 14:34:00
Mojtaba Ahmadi, who served as commander of the Cyber War Headquarters, was found dead in a wooded area near the town of Karaj, north-west of the capital, Tehran. Five Iranian nuclear scientists and the head of the country's ballistic missile programme have been killed since 2007. The regime has accused Israel's external intelligence agency, the Mossad, of carrying out these assassinations. Ahmadi was last seen leaving his home for work on Saturday. He was later found with two bullets in the heart, according to Alborz, a website linked to the Revolutionary Guard Corps. "I could see two bullet wounds on his body and the extent of his injuries indicated that he had been assassinated from a close range with a pistol," an eyewitness told the website. The commander of the local police said that two people on a motorbike had been involved in the assassination. |
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David Ferguson
Raw Story 2013-10-03 13:31:00
Police are scrambling after reports of gunfire at the U.S. Capitol. The nature of the disturbance is not currently known, but witnesses at the Capitol building describe a scene of mayhem. "Gun shots in front of Capitol. Cops scrambling. Not a joke," tweeted NBC's Luke Russert at 2:19 p.m. local time. Alex Leary of Leary Reports also took to Twitter with a photo of a tactical officer at a gun tripod, writing, "Something happening outside Capitol. Police running around with guns at ready." At 2:25 p.m., the Associated Press reported that the entire U.S. Capitol and related facilities are on lockdown. Raw Story will have more on this story as it develops. |
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Pepe Escobar
rt.com 2013-10-02 06:07:00
Iranian missiles will hit New York in "three to four years". A nuclear Iran is like "50 North Koreas". This could be the sound of a deranged, dangerous sociopath, or this could be the sound of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu addressing the UN General Assembly. Compare for yourself. Last week we had Iranian President Hassan Rouhani calling for the world to surf a WAVE (as in World Against Violence and Extremism). This week we had Bibi saying that was a "cynical" and "totally hypocritical honey trap". In the world according to Netanyahu, "Ahmadinejad was a wolf in wolf's clothing. Rouhani is a wolf in sheep's clothing." Rouhani tried to present himself as "pious", but he's always been involved with "the terror state of Iran". He's like "a serial killer going to court dressed in clerical attire and giving testimony to his nature as an 'ethical' and 'religious' man." Ranting aside, Bibi did change his game. Now it's not silly cartoons and begging the US to bomb Iran virtually on a weekly basis. Now it's Iran's "military nuclear program" that must be shut down - a program, by the way, that the alphabet soup of US intelligence agencies says does not exist. And this after Netanyahu told US President Barack Obama to forget - forever - UN Security Council resolution 242, which determined total Israeli withdrawal from all lands occupied after the 1967 war. |
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F. William Engdahl
Reseau Voltaire 2013-10-03 05:27:00
In 2011 when Muhammar Qaddafi refused to leave quietly as ruler of Libya, the Obama Administration, hiding behind the skirts of the French, launched a ferocious bombing campaign and a "No Fly" zone over the country to aid the so-called fighters for democracy. The US lied to Russia and China with help of the (US-friendly) Gulf Cooperation Council about the Security Council Resolution on Libya and used it to illegally justify the war. The doctrine, "responsibility to protect" was used instead, the same doctrine Obama wants to use in Syria. It's useful to look at Libya two years after the NATO humanitarian intervention. |
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Press TV
2013-10-03 04:26:00
New radioactive water leaks have been reported at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), said on Thursday that Japanese technicians found the new leak of radioactive water in one of the storage tanks of the broken nuclear power station late on Wednesday. TEPCO added that that contaminated water may have flown into the Pacific Ocean.
TEPCO said 430 liters (100 gallons) of the toxic water had leaked from the 450-ton tank because of recent heavy rainfall. "Workers were storing water very close to tanks' capacity because of the volume of typhoon rainfall," Ono said. "As a result, the water overflowed and leaked outside the gutter." The incident is another setback for the troubled clean-up process at the crippled nuclear power plant. |
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RT
2013-10-03 03:44:00
The Russian embassy in Tripoli, Libya, came under fire and there were attempts to get into Russia's diplomatic compound, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. One of the attackers was killed. "There has been an incident in Tripoli tonight, in which there was shelling and attempts to enter the territory of the Russian embassy in this country," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Lukashevich told RT. Libyan authorities say one assailant was killed. Four others were injured, AP reported. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, there were no injuries among embassy staff. The ITAR-TASS news agency's witnesses said attackers tore down a Russian flag. The situation was soon brought under control and there are currently no intruders on Russia's embassy territory. According to reports, around 10 attackers drove to the embassy in two cars. Libyan News Agency (LANA) reports that they first opened fire on a parked diplomatic vehicle. A video still from Ruptly's exclusive footage shows a car burning in an almost deserted street outside the embassy. |
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David Seaton
David Seaton's News Links 2013-10-01 23:03:00
What is going on in Washington, why are the Republicans in Congress acting in what would appear to be such a suicidal fashion? I think I have found the answer in Mark Leibovich's "This Town", a book which I have mentioned repeatedly in recent posts. Cutting directly to the chase: what Leibovich makes clear is that being a senator or congressman, instead of being the high point of person's career, is merely the necessary qualification, or apprenticeship, for moving up to become a millionaire lobbyist. Really it is that simple. It is called the "revolving door". In short, not to worry, if any elected representative should happen to commit political "suicide" in a way that pleases the money, he will soon reincarnate as a successful lobbyist. |
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RT
2013-10-02 22:58:00
Authorities have arrested a man in San Francisco, California accused of operating an underground website that allowed users to purchase guns and drugs from around the world using encrypted, digital currency. Ross William Ulbricht, a 29-year-old graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Materials Science and Engineering known by the online alias "Dread Pirate Roberts," was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday for his alleged involvement in the Silk Road online marketplace, according to court papers published this week. The Silk Road website was shut down following Ulbricht's arrest on Tuesday. A sealed complaint dated September 27 was unearthed by security researcher Brian Krebs, in which Ulbricht is accused of narcotics trafficking conspiracy, computer hacking conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and more. Complaint, courtesy of Brian Krebs
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Joshua Keating
Slate 2013-10-01 22:31:00
This is the first installment of "If It Happened There," a regular feature in which American events are described using the tropes and tone normally employed by the American media to describe events in other countries. Washington, United States - The typical signs of state failure aren't evident on the streets of this sleepy capital city. Beret-wearing colonels have not yet taken to the airwaves to declare martial law. Money-changers are not yet buying stacks of useless greenbacks on the street. But the pleasant autumn weather disguises a government teetering on the brink. Because, at midnight Monday night, the government of this intensely proud and nationalistic people will shut down, a drastic sign of political dysfunction in this moribund republic. The capital's rival clans find themselves at an impasse, unable to agree on a measure that will allow the American state to carry out its most basic functions. While the factions have come close to such a shutdown before, opponents of President Barack Obama's embattled regime now appear prepared to allow the government to be shuttered over opposition to a controversial plan intended to bring the nation's health care system in line with international standards. |
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Chris Parsons
The freakish giant rodent weighed ten times that of an average rat and
had been devouring 3kg fish whole in Shaoyang, in China's Hunan
Province.Yahoo! News 2013-10-02 16:07:00
Chinese farmers have captured a one metre-long, 5kg rat which had been terrorising villagers, it was claimed today. The freakish giant rodent, dubbed 'ratzilla', weighed ten times that of an average rat and had been devouring 3kg fish whole in Shaoyang, in China's Hunan Province. |
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Bruno Waterfield
The Telegraph 2013-10-01 15:41:00
A Belgian has been killed by medical euthanasia after pleading for death because a botched sex change operation to turn her into a man had resulted in "a monster". Mother of sex change Belgian: 'I don't care about his euthanasia death' Nathan, born Nancy, Verhelst, 44, was given legal euthanasia, most likely by lethal injection, on the grounds of "unbearable psychological suffering" on Monday afternoon. Wim Distelmans, a cancer specialist who carried out the euthanasia, is the same doctor who late last year gave lethal injections to congenitally deaf twins who were frightened they were also going blind. "I was the girl that nobody wanted," Mr Verhelst told Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper in the hours before her death. "While my brothers were celebrated, I got a storage room above the garage as a bedroom. 'If only you had been a boy', my mother complained. I was tolerated, nothing more." |
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Roland Oliphant
The Telegraph 2013-09-25 15:18:00
Dmitry Peskov has been forced to deal with rumours Mr Putin wed Alina Kabayeva, a 30-year-old politician and former Olympic gymnast, in a church ceremony last week. "It's his decision and he's not obliged to talk about his personal life," Mr Peskov told Izvestia. "He works so much I don't know where he finds time for it." Rumours that he had remarried were started by a Twitter user who claimed last week that the Federal Guards Service had blocked roads around the Iversky monastery in the Valdai Hills because "Putin and Kabayeva are being crowned," a reference to Russian wedding traditions. It snowballed after being retweeted by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, prompting Mr Peskov to call it "an exercise in boredom." |
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Brampton Guardian
Stouffville, - Cat owners in a community north of Toronto are being
warned to keep their pets indoors after a number of severed cat heads
were found, one of them near a daycare.2013-10-03 14:04:00 York Regional Police said Thursday there have been six recent incidents in Whitchurch-Stouffville where heads and, in one case, other body parts of a dismembered cat were found in public locations. Investigators don't know what the motive behind the dismemberments could be, said Const. Andy Pattenden. But he said it's believed the dismemberments were done intentionally, adding the heads were all placed within a one-kilometre area in residential neighbourhoods. The first incident was reported Aug. 12 when a head and two legs were found near a daycare centre and police were called to the scene. Five other cat heads were found during the next few weeks, with one being found near a school, and the last incident was reported on Sept. 13, when a homeowner found her cat's head in front of her residence. In five of the six incidents, just the cat's head was found, usually on or near a curb, Pattenden said. No torsos were found and there was no sign of any blood. |
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blacklistednews.com
One of the most influential dystopian novels ever written, 1984 has had a profound effect on the world. Since its publication in 1949 many of its concepts have entered modern day parlance. Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak and Room 101
are all part of Orwell's world. What's more, as a result of the book,
Orwellian is now a term to describes official deception, secret
surveillance, and manipulation of the past by a totalitarian or
authoritarian state. Orwell hoped that by writing 1984 he'd help stop
such a state ever coming to pass. Read these thirteen quotes to decide
for yourself.2013-08-30 06:57:00 "If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
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Paul Craig Roberts
The inability of the media and politicians to focus on the real issues never ceases to amaze.paulcraigroberts.org 2013-10-03 05:58:00 The real crisis is not the "debt ceiling crisis." The government shutdown is merely a result of the Republicans using the debt limit ceiling to attempt to block the implementation of Obamacare. If the shutdown persists and becomes a problem, Obama has enough power under the various "war on terror" rulings to declare a national emergency and raise the debt ceiling by executive order. An executive branch that has the power to inter citizens indefinitely and to murder them without due process of law, can certainly set aside a ceiling on debt that jeopardizes the government. The real crisis is that jobs offshoring by US corporations has permanently lowered US tax revenues by shifting what would have been consumer income, US GDP, and tax base to China, India, and other countries where wages and the cost of living are relatively low. On the spending side, twelve years of wars have inflated annual expenditures. The consequence is a wide deficit gap between revenues and expenditures. |
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George Galloway
Kickstarter 2013-10-03 04:11:00
"Some people make a living, others make a killing" - an exclusive new documentary on Tony Blair which will break unexplored ground Dear Friends, I'm making the definitive documentary about the Blair years. Years of war and plunder, death and destruction, corruption and disillusion. Tony Blair killed the Labour Party as we knew it. He and George W. Bush helped kill a million people in disastrous wars and Blair is currently making a financial killing out of both. In 2003, I was expelled from the Labour Party over my outspoken opposition to Bush and Blair's war in Iraq. I promised that until the last day of my life I would go on fighting to put Tony Blair on trial, a real trial in The Hague, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This documentary, the mother of all documentaries, will expose Blair's crimes. This documentary will not be another sterile chronicle of the Blair years. I witnessed his mendacity firsthand and am able to offer you the inside story. I will pull no punches in going toe to toe with those in the upper echelons of New Labour; the likes of Peter Mandelson and Alistair Campbell are all in my sights and so are the big business bankers he consults for. There is no doubt that the debates will be heated. But from that heat will come light. |
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Andrew Spencer
CNN 2013-10-03 03:57:00
The church bus involved in a deadly three-vehicle collision in eastern Tennessee was carrying a group of seniors on their way back home from a religious conference. The group was called "Young at Heart," said Rick Cruz, the pastor of the Front Street Baptist in North Carolina. They were returning home from the 17th annual Fall Jubilee conference in Gatlinburg after three days of preaching and singing. "We do know that there were several that went on to be with the Lord," Cruz told his congregants Wednesday night. Authorities are expected to release more information Thursday. But this is what they know so far: The Wednesday crash may have been caused when the bus blew a front tire, crossed a grassy median of Interstate 40, clipped an SUV and collided with a tractor-trailer. Eight people were killed: Six on the eastbound bus; one of three occupants of the SUV, and the tractor-trailer driver, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said in a statement. "We hope and pray that there will be no more," Sgt. Bill Miller told reporters Wednesday evening. Fourteen others were injured, some critically, authorities said. The wreck occurred about 2 p.m. in Jefferson County, about 40 miles east of Knoxville, said Tennessee Department of Safety spokeswoman People started to gather at Front Street Baptist in North Carolina as soon as they heard the news, CNN affiliate WBTV reported. "I'm in a state of shock," Jerry Wright told the affiliate. Front Street Baptist, on its Facebook page, thanked people Wednesday evening for their prayers. "We know that God is in control and we need His comfort and peace," it said. |
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Jennifer Viegas
Discovery News 2013-10-03 13:00:00
A spoof scientific report was recently accepted for publication in 157 journals around the world, proving how flawed some open-access publications are. The fake paper was part of a sting operation orchestrated by John Bohannon, a contributing news correspondent to the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Science. He wrote the paper under the fake name "Ocorrafoo Cobange," supposedly a biologist at the Wassee Institute of Medicine in Asmara. No such institute or biologist exists. Bohannon, in an article in the latest issue of Science, describes the fake paper as follows: "Molecule X from lichen species Y inhibits the growth of cancer cell Z. To substitute for those variables, I created a database of molecules, lichens, and cancer cell lines and wrote a computer program to generate hundreds of unique papers." That might sound reasonable enough, but the study was riddled with obvious errors and contradictions that an expert in the field should have caught immediately. Bohannon took the sting operation one step further, by slightly changing each version of the paper before he sent it out to the various journals. |
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Colin Barras
NewScientist 2013-10-03 13:55:00
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. |
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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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kgw.com
2013-10-02 13:25:00
Oregon scientists say thousands of swallows died during recent Willamette Valley rains, likely of starvation because the birds feed on insects while flying and they couldn't get out in the weather to feed. Veterinarians said four days of steady rain and wind helped make September the wettest on record in the Valley. They came at a time when birds would have been feeding in preparation for winter migration to Central and South America. The Department of Fish and Wildlife says it got calls about dead and dying birds from residents ranging from the Port of Saint Helens on the Columbia River to Junction City north of Eugene. Groups of 10 to 200 barn and violet-green swallows were reported dead or dying in barns and other structures where they perch. Source: Associated Press |
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Anthony Watts
From the James Hansen said the oceans would boil and the Tabloid Climatology™ department...wattsupwiththat.com 2013-10-03 05:35:00 As a long-suffering member of the television news media, some-days, I just want to find the reporter and slap him upside the head and tell him to do some basic science research before making wild claims on national TV. This is one of those days. The graphic below says it all.
From the Business and Media Institute comes this howler from CBS News about the latest IPCC report. "[CBS] Evening News" took a different tack, airing a story about oyster farming and complaints that climate change is ruining a man's business. But in Ben Tracy's story, which mentioned the IPCC's latest report, he said that oceans have absorbed much of the heat caused by CO2 and that ocean temperatures have risen only slightly. Then he made a claim that Principal Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville called "totally misleading and irresponsible."Here's what the reporter said, after telling us most of the heat went into the oceans: "Had all that heat gone into the atmosphere, air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees [showed 212 degrees onscreen]," Tracy warned. |
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Robert Felix
"Interesting there was a snowstorm on May 22nd and then Sept 29th," says reader Ralph Fato. "Four months between snowstorms."Ice Age Now 2013-10-03 03:37:00
"I wonder what the melt gap was?" asks Ralph. "I believe there was still snow there in June which makes it only 3 months being snow free? Something you expect from 10,000 feet up, not 5400′." See larger image | |
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Comment: According to one commenter there is a lot more
snow up there now which can not be viewed as the National Parks service
has turned the web cams off.
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Aaron Dykes & Melissa Melton
Activist Post 2013-10-02 17:14:00
Beta-carotene enhanced GM rice, the "golden" child of biotech, is now hampered by a fudged study under ethics scrutiny. A GMO study conducted in China, but funded by the USDA, tested unapproved "Golden Rice" on children without authorization, creating serious violations of ethics rules. Tufts University researchers admitted that their lead scientist, Guangwen Tang, had broken the rules of disclosure in tests on human subjects, but maintain that their August 2012 study titled "β-Carotene in "Golden Rice" is as good as β-carotene in oil at providing vitamin A to children" remains valid. Greenpeace China blew the whistle on what it called a scandal over a "potentially dangerous product." Not properly informing the parents of the children used in the study constitutes a clear and serious ethics violations, the organization indicated. |
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The Express Tribune
2013-10-02 16:21:00
Karachi: In separate incidents, four children including twins reportedly died in Sindh after they received polio drops and measles vaccines, The Express Tribune learnt on Tuesday The first tragic incident was reported from a remote area of Badin district, where 4-month-old Maria and her brother Ramazan died after receiving polio drops. According to Murtaza Jat, the uncle of the children, both the children were healthy till Monday afternoon, when the polio team came to their house. "After taking drops, both the minors got unconscious and were taken to nearby hospital where Maria died on Monday night while Ramazan died during treatment at the Children Charitable Hospital Mirpurkhas on Tuesday early morning," he said. He said two other children of same village also got sick getting polio drops. "They started vomiting and are still ill," he added. Murtaza believes that Maria's postmortem report will disclose the truth. "The doctor present at Pangrio's Public Hospital was not ready for Ramzan's postmortem. He made fun of our request," he added. He said the vaccination team carried drops in shopping bags without ice. "They didn't even know how many drops to give. They just leveled the bottle without counting drops," he alleged. "It is a very sensitive issue as health department's teams are playing with the lives of children." |
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Neely Quinn
Primal Docs 2013-10-02 12:57:00
Here's a really interesting question from a reader and my thoughts on the matter... I have been a vegetarian for almost three years and a few days ago I spoke to a friend that has been on the Paleo diet for a few months now. After speaking with her about all of the positive results she has seen so far I decided to change my whole lifestyle and transition into the Paleo diet. Previously my vegetarian diet was a lacto-ovo diet including some fish occasionally. My question would be, now that I am on day three of the Paleo diet, how slowly/quickly should I start introducing meat and protein into my diet in order to prevent getting sick (if that even is a possible risk)? So how does a vegetarian transition to Paleo? This is actually a pretty common concern among vegetarians, and sometimes a valid one. In my experience with clients and readers, I've noticed that some people's bodies stop producing enough of the necessary enzymes and other digestive juices to break down meat after being vegetarian for a while. This is made really clear when they start eating meat and feel like crap afterward. It doesn't sound like that's happening to you, so you're probably in the clear. However, some people get bloating, intestinal pain, constipation, heartburn, or they feel tired right after eating it. Any number of things can happen, but those are some of the symptoms I've seen. Sometimes these symptoms are totally new to people and sometimes they're just made worse by the introduction of meat. | |
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Jill Richardson
Alternet 2013-09-29 01:10:00
Sometimes herbs can deliver up healing powers that pharmaceutical companies can only dream about. Can't sleep? Try lemon balm. Suffer from anxiety? Lemon balm. Want to boost your immune system? Lemon balm. Cold sore? Lemon balm. And this lemon-scented mint relative is also antiviral, good for fevers, and great for indigestion, gas, and bloating. Find it surprising that one plant can do so much? Herbs are not always as multipurpose as lemon balm - not to mention delicious, safe, and effective - but sometimes herbs can deliver up healing powers that pharmaceutical companies can only dream about. And if that sounds crazy, then give it a try with an open mind and see for yourself. In my own case, after trying every pharmaceutical around, I've found two fixes for my migraines. One is Percocets, a controlled, Schedule II substance that cannot be used too frequently because of dependency issues. If you use Percocets regularly, you'll find that the same dose no longer delivers the same amount of pain relief. My other migraine fix is peppermint essential oil. Safe, cheap, non-prescription, and non-addictive. I smear the stuff all over the part of my head that hurts, keeping it well away from my eyes, and within minutes my headache dissipates. For me, that's an herb I cannot live without. |
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Dr. Mercola
Mercola.com 2013-10-02 19:57:00
According to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), antibiotic resistance is a major threat to public health, worldwide, and the primary cause for this man-made epidemic is the widespread misuse of antibiotics.1 Antibiotic overuse occurs not just in medicine, but also in food production. In fact, agricultural usage accounts for about 80 percent of all antibiotic use in the US,2 so it's a MAJOR source of human antibiotic consumption. According to a 2009 report3 by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on this subject, factory farms used a whopping 29 million pounds of antibiotics that year alone. Animals are often fed antibiotics at low doses for disease prevention and growth promotion, and those antibiotics are transferred to you via meat, and even through the animal manure that is used as crop fertilizer. Antibiotics are also used to compensate for the crowded, unsanitary living conditions associated with large-scale confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs). | |
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Comment: The CDC just realized the 'disturbing truth' about factory farms and super bugs?! The SOTT page has been covering the issue for the past few years:
The abuse of antibiotics and the rise of 'super bugs' Antibiotics Prove Powerless as Super-Germs Spread Factory Farms Make You Sick. Let Us Count the Ways Farmacology: Antibiotics resistance generated at factory farms As MRSA Gets Worse, the FDA Discovers Antibiotic Abuse on Factory Farms How Factory Farms Are Pumping Americans Full of Deadly Bacteria and Pathogens What the USDA Doesn't Want You to Know About Antibiotics and Factory Farms |
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Andrew Ranallo & Abigail Seiler
Ecowatch.com 2013-10-01 19:41:00
Late yesterday, under threat of a lawsuit, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responded to a nearly four-year-old petition, calling for the immediate withdrawal of the vast majority of arsenic-containing compounds used as feed additives for chickens, turkeys and hogs. A lawsuit filed by Center for Food Safety (CFS), the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) and seven other U.S. food safety, agriculture, public health and environmental groups compelled the FDA to respond. The FDA will withdraw three of the four arsenicals and all drug approvals associated with them. Of the 101 drug approvals for arsenic-based animal drugs, 98 will be withdrawn. "The withdrawal of these harmful feed additives is a major victory for consumers and the health of our food system," said Paige Tomaselli, senior attorney with Center for Food Safety. "It is unfortunate that legal pressure from outside groups was necessary to spur action by FDA, yet in the end, we are pleased that FDA listened to our scientific objections and is now working to rid arsenic from our meat supply."Arsenic is added to poultry feed for the purposes of inducing faster weight gain on less feed, and creating the perceived appearance of a healthy color in meat from chickens, turkeys and hogs. A 2006 IATP report estimated that more than 70 percent of all U.S. chickens raised for meat are fed arsenic, and testing of supermarket bought and fast food chicken found that much of it contained some level of arsenic. |
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Tanya Lewis
LiveScience 2013-10-03 13:05:00
From dress codes to anti-incest laws, all human societies have social norms that specify how people should behave in various situations. Scientists have now shown that a zap of electricity to the brain can influence whether people choose to comply with these norms or not. "The complexity of human interactions is so big, so independent, that our society wouldn't function without norms, said study researcher Christian Ruff, an economics professor at the University of Zurich, in Switzerland. "Even though humans are very good at following norms, we're always tempted to break them. We need punishment threats to follow correctly," Ruff told LiveScience. A previous study using function magnetic resonance imaging showed that the right lateral prefrontal cortex (rLPFC) is activated when people follow social norms to avoid being punished. Ruff and colleagues wondered if stimulating this area could make people more or less sensitive to the threat of punishment. |
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Kristofor Husted
NPR.org 2012-02-22 18:04:00
If you haven't noticed, gardens are popping up in some unconventional places - from prison yards to retirement and veteran homes to programs for troubled youth. Most are handy sources of fresh and local food, but increasingly they're also an extension of therapy for people with mental health issues, such as, post traumatic stress disorder or PTSD; depression; and anxiety. It's called Horticultural Therapy. And some doctors, psychologists and occupational therapists are now at work to test whether building, planting, and harvesting a garden can be a therapeutic process in its own right. |
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The Daily Mail,UK
2013-10-03 13:09:00
Golfers at the course in the alpine resort of Verbier, Switzerland, have been left watching in disbelief as the wily animal suddenly appears on the fairway moments after they tee off. The fox is estimated to have chased and gathered over 100 balls so far, often while they are in play, and shows no sign of getting bored.
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