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Odyssey Jackson
Sott.net 2013-11-15 14:42:00
I'd like to direct these words to my fellow black people. (This, by no means, excludes non-blacks so feel free to read on cause this definitely affects you too.) Specifically those of you who remain spellbound by the POTUS. Looking back to 2008, I can remember the cheshire cat smiles, the secret, gloating conversations away from the ears of white folks, the misplaced sense of pride when Obama took to the podium and gave one of his erudite and articulate speeches. Older black men -- Dad, this includes you -- who looked dreamily into space saying, "I never thought it would happen in my lifetime...." It was as if Uncle Sam himself kissed the boo-boo of 400 years of slavery, jim crow segregation, lynchings and rampant discrimination, wrapped it in a bandage and gently swatted us all on our collective butts urging us back outside to play cause it'll all get better. There was so much talk about how cool Obama was, how he had "swag". Besides being an actual black person, he was way cooler than our ostensible first black president, Bill Clinton, when he got down on the saxaphone on the Arsenio Hall show. Then there was Obama showing off his super smoothe dance moves with Ellen, playing pick up basketball games and wonder of wonders, crooning an Al Green tune at the Apollo! Are you too blinded by the blackness to notice that interspersed with all this Super Soul Brother Number One activity there are some very nefarious deeds taking place? | |
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Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Sott.net 2006-11-13 12:00:00 Comment: This is the sixth in a series of 12 articles written in 2006 commemorating (at the time) the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of JFK. This year, 2013, is the 50th anniversary of what can, in hindsight and in Truth, be called the Day America Died. Anyone who has taken the time to study the facts about that fateful day in Dallas, TX, will already know that JFK was deliberately murdered by a cabal of psychopathic warmongers who were opposed to his plans for a more peaceful world. That same cabal is still in power today, and it has extended its reach across the globe. We will be featuring one article per day between now and the anniversary. You can find the rest of the JFK series on the right hand bar of Sott.net. You can also purchase a Kindle of the whole series on Amazon. If you do nothing else, just take the time to watch the Sott.net/QFG produced version of 'Evidence of Revision', a three disc set that presents archive footage that will leave you in no doubt who killed JFK and why.
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Bill Gertz
Washington Free Beacon 2013-11-13 15:44:00
Russia is developing its first long-range drone aircraft capable of conducting ground attack missions, but lags behind other militaries in building unmanned aerial combat vehicles, according to U.S. officials. The new drone is being developed in secret and was first revealed in online images earlier this year. U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports said the drone is being called the Altius-M and work is being done at the Sokol Design Bureau in Tatarstan, a Russian republic. Recent analysis of images of the propeller-driven aircraft indicates the drone will be a medium or high-altitude strike aircraft, based on its long wingspan and V-shaped tail, the officials said. The aircraft appears similar to the U.S. MQ-9 Reaper missile-firing UAV. | |
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Daunting and exhilerating ten and a half hour look at the JFK, RFK and MLK assassinations with side trips into organized crime, mind crontrol and Jonestown Stitched together from other sources, both news reports, documentaries, interview pieces and other sources. Evidence of Revision is frequently one hell of a killer historical document, never mind the subject matter. The thesis of the film is that the John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Assassinations were all conspiracies, perpetrated by people connected to the government (LBJ, CIA) and covered up in part thanks to J Edgar Hoover. I don't know if the film ever proves who actually was behind the killings* however thanks to the use of simple news footage they make it clear that something more than the story reported in the history books was afoot. I'm not going to wade into a discussion of the conspiracy that the film sets out. This is not laziness on my part nor is it any sort of commentary about the validity or lack thereof, its simply that the entirety of the series is ten hours long and that any detailed discussion of the material would take up the better part of a large book. It would also require sitting down and spending several weeks going backward and forward through the series, which as of this writing is time I don't have. Pieces in part one ties into part six. It's a stunning achievement and if you can get through some odd technical hiccups due to the variety of sources the film provides real food for thought. | |
Comment: Join us on SOTT Talk Radio this Sunday 17th of November, from 2-4pm EST (11am-1pm PST, 8-10pm CET) as we as we look at the life and legacy of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy - JFK Assassination - 50 Years Later.
November 22nd 2013 will mark 50 years since the Day America Died. A tragic event for most Americans and for ordinary people the world over who choose peace over war, equality over injustice, and happiness over greed, the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was pivotal in setting the United States on its current path towards doom. This week on SOTT Talk Radio we're going to reflect on the life of a man who dreamed of a better world, and was making that dream a reality until assassins' bullets killed the American Dream that sunny November day in Dallas, Texas. Half a century later, it's common knowledge in the U.S. that JFK's murder was ordered by a powerful cabal. And yet, successive U.S. administrations have refused to release documents that would fill in the remaining gaps. Who exactly carried it out? And on behalf of whom? How did they organise it? And why did they do it? Despite the passing of time, the 'suiciding' of key witnesses, the barrage of misinformation and disinformation, and the 'loss' of crucial documentation, excellent research has enabled others to form a cohesive and reasonably objective narrative that counters the official propaganda and places the assassination in proper historical context. | |
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2013-11-15 11:19:00
Albania will not host the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons under the OPCW plan, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has announced. The country decided to turn the option down despite a request by its NATO ally, the US. "It is impossible for Albania to get involved in this operation," Rama said, following a heated debate in his country and discussions with several UN members, including the US. The possibility of Tirana inviting thousands of tons of toxic waste from Syria to be destroyed on its territory sparked protests, with hundreds of demonstrators taking to the streets to say "no" to such a plan. Albania's refusal coincides with the November-15 deadline for a detailed plan on chemical stockpile destruction to be agreed by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and Damascus. Syria needs to get rid of 1,300 tons of sarin, mustard and other nerve agents, which are too dangerous to eliminate amid the ongoing conflict in the country. Albania was considering hosting a facility for dismantling the chemicals at the request of the United States, its close Western ally. | |
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BlueDaze 2013-11-15 11:36:00
According to comments made by Mark Grawe, Chief Operating Officer at EagleRidge Energy (EagleRidge), Denton, Texas residents who object to his company's reckless operations way too close to their homes, schools and parks are terrorists worthy of inclusion on the Department of Homeland Security's watch list. Wednesday night Grawe attended a Home Owners Association meeting in Mansfield where EagleRidge has drilled and fracked several wells very close to a neighborhood, schools and playgrounds. He appeared at the meeting with a police officer in tow. When a resident asked if the officer was for his protection, Grawe talked about a Barnett Shale Energy Education Council meeting he attended where his industry peers advised him to take security with him to community meetings because "they" have been to meetings where "it escalated." I have been to hundreds of fracking meetings but I have yet been to one where anything "escalated." Sometimes we have carried paper gas mask masks glued to Popsicle sticks. Once in Denton after 4 ½ years of treating the council with respect while they ignored the residents' wishes, we refused to obey the 3 minute time limit and, one-by-one, were quietly escorted out by a nice police officer. But that's about as fractious as I've seen things get in the Barnett Shale. Grawe went on to tell the Mansfield residents that some people in Denton are "preaching" civil disobedience and that they are on "the watch list" but not his watch list. When another resident asked whose watch list, Grawe said "Homeland Security." | |
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2013-11-15 09:48:00
Three of the spent fuel assemblies that will be pulled from the Fukushima nuclear plant during a year-long operation were damaged before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Japanese facility. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), which operates the plant, said the damaged assemblies - 4.5 meter high racks with 50 to 70 rods of highly irradiated used fuel - won't be lifted from the plant's Reactor No. 4 when a large steel chamber, or cask, is employed to move over 1,500 assemblies to safe storage, Reuters reports. In an 11-page information sheet released in August, TEPCO said one of the assemblies was even damaged as long ago as 1982, when it was bent out of shape during a transfer. In 2010, TEPCO said that another two spent fuel racks in the reactor's cooling pool possibly contained wire trapped in them. Rods in the assemblies have small cracks and are leaking low-level radioactive gases, TEPCO spokesman Yoshikazu Nagai told Reuters on Thursday. The damaged racks were first reported by a Fukushima area newspaper on Wednesday, as TEPCO is preparing to decommission the plant and remove the spent fuel assemblies from Reactor No. 4. | |
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2013-11-15 09:40:00
Berlin has suspended the purchase of armed drones on the grounds that it "categorically rejects illegal killings." This follows a report by Amnesty International that accused Merkel's government of aiding the US with drone strikes in Pakistan. A draft agreement between the Social Democrats and the Conservatives obtained by Der Spiegel condemns the use of drones for targeted attacks. "We categorically reject illegal killings by drones. Germany will support the use of unmanned weapons systems for the purposes of international disarmament and arms control," said the statement. The government says that before acquiring the remote-controlled craft, it must thoroughly examine "all associated civil and constitutional guidelines and ethical questions." In spite of significant opposition in Germany - 59 per cent of the population according to a Pew Research poll in 2012 - outgoing German defense minister, Thomas de Maziere, spent hundreds of millions of euros on drones that were not permitted to fly in German airspace. "We cannot keep the stagecoach while others are developing the railway," declared Maziere, who announced to the German public in May that talks were underway to discuss the purchase of US Predator drones and Israeli Heron drones. However, with the formation of a new government in Germany following Chancellor Merkel's reelection in September, the German policy on drones looks set to change. Both the Social Democrats and the Christian Socialist Union parties voiced their opposition to the deal, writes the Local. | |
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Fredrik Dahl
Reuters 2013-11-15 09:05:00
Since Hassan Rouhani became president, Iran has stopped expanding its uranium enrichment capacity, a U.N. inspection report showed on Thursday, in a potential boost for diplomacy to end Tehran's nuclear dispute with the West. The quarterly report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) also said that since August no further major components had been added to a potential plutonium-producing reactor that worries the United States and its allies. The marked slowdown in the growth of activities of possible use in developing nuclear bombs may be intended to back up Rouhani's warmer tone towards the West after years of worsening confrontation, and strengthen Tehran's hand in talks with world powers due to resume on November 20. The six powers - the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China - are pressing Iran to curb its nuclear program to ease fears that it may be seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies. Iran halted a previously rapid increase in its capacity to refine uranium - which can fuel nuclear power plants but also bombs if processed much more - "when their team changed" in August, a senior diplomat familiar with the IAEA report said, referring to Rouhani and his administration. | |
Comment: Reuters forgets to mention that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty (NPT) and has been since the beginning on July 1st 1968.
Israel has never joined and will neither confirm or deny that is has nuclear weapons. Therefore no inspections are made in Israel as it has not ratified the treaty.
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Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online 2013-11-15 07:50:00
Here is definitive proof - if any was needed - that the Gallic fit-throwing that burned the possibility of an interim Iranian nuclear deal last week in Geneva was completely pointless. The key "concern" expressed by Israel-firster French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius to derail an interim deal was about the Arak heavy-water reactor. Well, UN inspectors this week reported that they had detected no new developments in Arak over the three months since August. [1] The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, was also in Tehran on Monday, and - unusually for his trademark paperboy role for Washington - had nothing to complain about. Fabius used the Arak gambit at the last minute in Geneva to derail the talks, provoking the ire of even fellow European diplomats. That was out of pure disinformation; Tehran was already doing what Fabius insisted they were not doing. | |
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2013-11-15 06:17:00
The Polish government's request to the European Court of Human Rights to prohibit the press and public from attending a hearing investigation on whether the US kept a CIA prison on Polish soil has been rejected. The public hearing is scheduled for December 3 in Strasbourg, France and will be the first time that allegations stating that the US intelligence agency used rogue "black sites" in Poland for its "extraordinary rendition" program are heard publicly. The US is accused of illegally detaining Al-Qaeda terror suspects and using torture to interrogate them in a forest in northern Poland. "I can confirm that the hearing on 3 December will be a public hearing," a spokeswoman for the European Court of Human Rights told reporters on Thursday. After the ruling was announced, the Polish Foreign Ministry told Reuters that the court had also, by its own volition, scheduled a separate closed-door hearing in the case for December 2. Warsaw has denied that any such facility has ever existed and said that court communications should be kept classified to protect Poland's national security. The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, which has a location in Warsaw, has accused the Polish government of deceiving the public. "We should have the right to review this case in public," Adam Bodnar, vice president of the group, told Reuters before Thursday's decision. "I do not see a reason for confidentiality of proceedings." | |
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Sara Malm
The Daily Mail,UK 2013-11-15 15:40:00
The homeless 26-year-old broke into his elderly victim's home in Nouilhan, southern France, bashed the man's head open with an iron rod before ripping out the body parts he consumed. The man ate the tongue and heart before burning the body and then setting fire to the 90-year-old's house.
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Laura Saunders
Wall Street Journal 2013-11-13 15:37:00
Year's Tally for Expatriations Sets Record; Increase Comes Amid Tax Crackdown on Offshore Assets This year will set a record for expatriations by U.S. taxpayers, with at least a 33% increase from the previous high in 2011. The Treasury Department published the names of 560 people who either were U.S. citizens renouncing their citizenship or long-term residents who turned in their green cards during the third quarter. That brings the total so far this year to 2,369, according to Andrew Mitchel, a tax lawyer in Centerbrook, Conn., who tracks the data. For all of 2011, the number of published expatriates was 1,781, he said. Treasury doesn't report when people renounced, and there could be a gap between that action and a name's appearance on the list. The department also doesn't distinguish between those giving up passports and those turning in green cards. Taxpayers who expatriate aren't required to give a reason, but experts said the overall increase was likely because of tougher enforcement of U.S. tax laws. | |
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Katu.com
2013-11-15 15:35:00
TACOMA, Wash. -- Pierce County prosecutors say a 32-year-old Lakewood man used a vacuum cleaner to beat his girlfriend to death after she refused to have sex with him. Refugio Sanchez Jr. was charged Thursday with second degree murder in the Tuesday beating and strangulation death of Angela Cannizzio. Sanchez, who's an active duty member of the US Army, drank a six pack of beer and a shot of rum after getting home from work Tuesday night, according to prosecutors. Detectives believe Sanchez and Cannizzio got into an argument about Cannizzio's estranged husband, who lives in Connecticut. After the argument, Sanchez wanted to have "make-up sex," and when Cannizzio rebuffed him he picked up a vacuum cleaner and began beating her with it, according to charging documents. | |
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Witness, dear readers, the mind of the psychopath. Contemplate, how fundamentally different this reaction is to that of a normal human reaction.
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Sam Baker
National Journal 2013-11-13 15:32:00
Roughly 100,000 people enrolled in health insurance through Obamacare last month - far short of the administration's goal. The Health and Human Services Department said 106,185 people have successfully applied for and chosen private insurance through the health care law's new marketplaces. That total is only about 20 percent of the administration's initial enrollment target for October, the first month in which consumers were able to sign up for coverage. Officials have long acknowledged they would fall short of that target because of the problems surrounding HealthCare.gov, the problem-plagued website that handles enrollment for 36 states. | |
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Daily Mail
2013-11-15 06:38:00
Latvian-born Elina who refers to herself as a 'Slutvian' and 'Sexeter', said winning the contest has made her 'even hornier'. The former pupil of the £4,000-a-term James Allens Girls' School said one of her proudest moments is having sex in a university computer room, and admitted her ultimate goal is to seduce a lecturer. Despite being begged by her housemates to take tests for sexually transmitted illnesses, the student claims she is 'just having fun'. 'All my friends are the same - we are all just up for having a great time and going out. A computer science student who boasts of sleeping with up to three men every week has been named Britain's Horniest Student after entering a degrading online competition. Elina Desaine, 20, doesn't even know the names of all her sexual partners, but tries to keep track with handwritten list using descriptions such as 'French guy' and 'third year' to recall her trysts. The University of Exeter student received £500 and a year's supply of condoms after winning the competition run by controversial 'no strings attached fun' website, Shagatuni.com. 'Uni life is three years to be wild before it starts settling down and it really flies by.' The third year IT management student keeps a list of her sexual partners or, in her words, 'conquests' but struggles to remember all their names. 'I have to put descriptions or question marks instead of names.' The self-proclaimed 'modern-day feminist' entered the competition after being encouraged by a friend who said she had a 'reputation for having fun'.
'My friends were worried about what future employers might say but I hope they see it as a bit of fun, and it shows I am more confident than the average girl.' Entrants were encouraged to post pleas to win the title on the 'casual dating' website's Facebook page. Elina, who was just one of hundreds of male and female candidates, wrote: 'I should be the UK's horniest student because I have sex with at least 2/3 different people a week. 'Sometimes I go clubbing, have sex with someone, and then go back to the club to pick my second victim'. The website's creator, Tom Thurlow, said: 'As soon as I saw Elina's entry I knew we had a particularly wild girl on our hands.' 'I love the fact she uses her position in the computer science club to have sex in the computer room. 'She even told me how the computer science club is perfect because it's full of guys. 'After meeting with Elina personally I am 100 per cent confident I have found the horniest student in the country - I have never met someone so sexually confident.' | ||
Comment: According to historian John Glum, six ages define the life-span of an Empire:
1) The age of pioneers 2) The age of conquest 3) The age of commerce 4) The age of affluence 5) The age of intellect 6) The age of decadence Guess which age we are in? There are common features to this last age across every known Empire. Those features are: 1) An undisciplined and overextended military 2) Conspicuous displays of wealth 3) A massive disparity between rich and poor 4) Desire to live off a bloated state 5) An obsession with sex | ||
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Matt Pearce
Los Angeles Times 2013-11-14 09:44:00
A small town about 50 miles south of Dallas was evacuated out of caution Thursday after officials said a 10-inch pipeline exploded and sent flames and a plume of smoke into the air visible for miles around. No injuries have been reported, Milford Fire Department Chief Mark Jackson told the Los Angeles Times in a phone interview. Jackson said officials were waiting for the fire to burn out instead of actively fighting it. A lieutenant with the Ellis County Sheriff's Office told the Dallas CBS affiliate they expected it would take 24 hours for the fire to burn out. | |
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Daniella Silva
NBC News 2013-11-14 21:04:00
Nearly 400 children have been rescued and 348 adults arrested following an expansive and "extraordinary" international child pornography investigation, Canadian police announced Thursday. The three-year project, named Project Spade, began when undercover officers with the Toronto Police Service Child Exploitation service made contact with a Toronto man allegedly sharing "very graphic images" of child sexual abuse in Oct. 2010, Toronto Police Service Chief William Blair said at a press conference on Thursday. Police said their investigation revealed an entire child movie production and distribution company in Toronto operating under via the web site azovfilms.com. The site was run by 42-year old Brian Way, according to police, and sold and distributed images of child exploitation to people across the world. Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins, head of Toronto's Sex Crimes Unit, said they enlisted the help of the United States Postal Inspection Service since many of the videos were being exported to the U.S. and began a joint investigation. After a seven-month long investigation, officers executed search warrants across the city of Toronto including at the business, located in the city's West End. Investigators catalogued hundreds of thousands of images and videos of "horrific sexual act against very young children, some of the worst they have ever viewed," Inspector Beaven-Desjardins said at the press conference. Police seized over 45 terabytes of data from the $4-million business that distributed to over 50 counties including Australia, pain, Mexico, Sweden and Greece. | |
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Owen Jarus
LiveScience 2013-11-15 08:57:00
She was a priestess named Meretites, and he was a singer named Kahai, who performed at the pharaoh's palace. They lived about 4,400 years ago in an age when pyramids were being built in Egypt, and their love is reflected in a highly unusual scene in their tomb - an image that has now been published in all its surviving color. The tomb at Saqqara - which held this couple, their children and possibly their grandchildren - has now been studied and described by researchers at Macquarie University's Australian Center for Egyptology. Among the scenes depicted is a relief painting showing the couple gazing into each other's eyes, with Meretites placing her right hand over Kahai's right shoulder. Such a display of affection was extraordinary for Egypt during the Pyramid Age. Only a few examples of a face-to-face embrace survive from the Old Kingdom (2649 B.C. to 2150 B.C.), the time period when the couple lived and pyramid building thrived, said Miral Lashien, a researcher at Macquarie University. "I think that this indicates very special closeness," Lashien told LiveScience in an email. | |
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Sarah Griffiths
The Daily Mail, UK 2013-11-14 06:11:00
A U.S. ecologist has claimed that humans are not from Earth but were put on the planet by aliens tens of thousands of years ago. Dr Ellis Silver points to a number of physiological features to make his case for why humans did not evolve alongside other life on Earth, in his new book. They range from humans suffering from bad backs - which he suggests is because we evolved in a world with lower gravity - to getting too easily sunburned and having difficulty giving birth. Dr Ellis says that while the planet meets humans' needs for the most part, it does not perhaps serve the species' interests as well as the aliens who dropped us off imagined. In his book, HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH: A SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION OF THE EVIDENCE, the ecologist writes the human race has defects that mark it of being 'not of this world'. 'Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth's environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more,' he told Yahoo. | |
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Deborah Byrd
On November 18, 2013, Comet Encke will pass within 0.025 AU of Mercury, followed a day later by Comet ISON at 0.24 AU (1 AU is the distance between the sun and Earth, 150 million km).EarthSky.org 2013-11-15 13:28:00 NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, now orbiting Mercury, will turn away from the sun's innermost planet for a time and toward the passing comets. Astronomer Ron Vervack at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab and a member of the science team for MESSENGER, called it: ... a unique coincidence and a golden opportunity to study two comets passing close to the sun.
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Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes & Martino Nicolini
Cbet nr. 3713, issued on 2013, November 15, announces the discovery of an apparently asteroidal object (discovery magnitude ~19.4) by Michel Ory on CCD images obtained with a 0.5-m f/3 reflector at the Oukaimeden Observatory, Marrakech. The object has been found to show cometary appearance by CCD astrometrists elsewhere. The new comet has been designated C/2013 V5 (OUKAIMEDEN).Remanzacco Observatory 2013-11-15 12:17:00 We performed follow-up measurements of this object, while it was still on the neocp. Stacking of 58 unfiltered exposures, 30-sec each, obtained remotely from MPC code Q62 (iTelescope, Siding Spring) on 2013, November 12.6 through a 0.43-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD, shows that this object is a comet: diffuse coma about 10" in diameter elongated toward PA 300. Below our confirmation image. Click here for a bigger version.
M.P.E.C. 2013-V95 assigns the following parabolic orbital elements to comet C/2013 V5: T 2014 Sept. 27.93; e= 1.0; Peri. = 314.39; q = 0.62; Incl.= 154.92 | |
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sciencedaily.com
Wolves likely were domesticated by European hunter-gatherers more than 18,000 years ago and gradually evolved into dogs that became household pets, UCLA life scientists report.2013-11-14 13:19:00
"We found that instead of recent wolves being closest to domestic dogs, ancient European wolves were directly related to them," said Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in UCLA's College of Letters and Science and senior author of the research. "This brings the genetic record into agreement with the archaeological record. Europe is where the oldest dogs are found." The UCLA researchers' genetic analysis is published Nov. 15 in the journal Science and featured on the journal's cover. In related research last May, Wayne and his colleagues reported at the Biology of Genomes meeting in New York the results of their comparison of the complete nuclear genomes of three recent wolf breeds (from the Middle East, East Asia and Europe), two ancient dog breeds and the boxer dog breed. "We analyzed those six genomes with cutting-edge approaches and found that none of those wolf populations seemed to be closest to domestic dogs," Wayne said. "We thought one of them would be, because they represent wolves from the three possible centers of dog domestication, but none was. All the wolves formed their own group, and all the dogs formed another group." | |
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Brett Smith
RedOrbit 2013-11-14 19:32:00
A defining mark of Jupiter, the Great Red Spot, should have disappeared centuries ago, according to prevailing theories. A new model being presented at the 66th Annual Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting in Pittsburgh next week provides a possible explanation for why the turbulent red vortex has lasted so long. "Based on current theories, the Great Red Spot should have disappeared after several decades. Instead, it has been there for hundreds of years," said study researcher Pedram Hassanzadeh, who is a post-doctoral planetary scientist at Harvard University. There are many forces working against the Red Spot that the study team had to consider. Turbulence in and around the Red Spot can draw energy out of its winds. Two strong jet streams that pass the spot in opposite directions can reduce its rotational momentum. The vortex also loses energy by radiating heat. One fluid dynamics theory says that a large vortex can survive for an extended period of time if it absorbs smaller, nearby vortices. | |
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Aliya Sternstein
NextGov 2013-11-14 12:03:00
The next Cuban missile crisis could be resolved through the power of music rather than an armed standoff between nuclear powers, military officials and researchers speculate. It is believed that sound waves can "jump the air gap" -- or hack a machine that is not on a network -- to paralyze a ship's control systems. Instead of using a blockade or firing Tomahawk missiles to prevent Russia from delivering weapons to Cuba, the United States could use malicious tones. "This is where you talk about fleets coming to a stop. Our ships are floating SCADA systems," retired Capt. Mark Hagerott, deputy director of cybersecurity for the U.S. Naval Academy, said at a summit in Washington organized by Government Executive Media Group. He was referring to supervisory control and data acquisition systems that control industrial operations. "That would disrupt the world balance of power if you could begin to jump the air gap," Hagerott said. It's conceivable sound waves can be transformed into malicious electrical signals. An air disruption causes the diaphragm of a speaker to create an electrical signal made up of ones and zeros. Targeted ones and zeros can override a computer-driven ship. | |
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Ted Thornhill
No wonder the person in the red T-shirt is pointing.The Daily Mail, UK 2013-11-15 15:30:00 The huge dark clouds that formed dramatically over Surfers Paradise in Australia's Gold Coast have a distinctly end-of-the-world look about them. Seen from Narrowneck beach on Thursday, they rose hundreds of feet into the air and turned a sunny afternoon dark and gloomy.
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Becky Oskin
LiveScience 2013-11-14 16:50:00
Superheated ash and gas flowing down the slopes of Indonesia's Sinabung volcano signals the intensity of eruptions may be increasing at the fiery mountain, according to local officials. More than 5,000 people have been evacuated from towns and villages in North Sumatra's Karo Regency since Mount Sinabung awoke in October after a three-year dormancy. Karo is an agricultural region that supplies vegetables for surrounding islands. The evacuation and devastating ash fall have affected crop harvests, leading to higher prices on vegetables and chilies elsewhere in Indonesia, according to the Jakarta Post. The Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation warned people not to approach within 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) of Mount Sinabung. On Monday (Nov. 11), a pyroclastic flow, a fast-moving avalanche of ash, lava fragments and air, was seen racing down the peak. Since then, the volcano has blasted out one to two ash explosions every day. Lava has flowed more than 1,000 meters (3,200 feet) from the top of the volcano. | |
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Tura - A meteorite falling in the areas bordering Bangladesh created panic among the residents of the Garo Hills region. The meteorite, which fell inside Bangladesh, lit up the night sky around 10.30 pm last night. It was eagerly watched by the residents living along these areas.All About Meghalaya 2013-11-14 23:43:00 The meteorite fell close to the Dumnikura BoP in the Sherpur district of Bangladesh, just beside the international border and the impact was heard even 40 km away from the area where it fell. Dumnikura is a border outpost in the South Garo Hills, very close to where five police personnel were killed last week. A resident of the neighbouring Dalu village in West Garo Hills, Dipu Marak, was witness to the incident. He said, "We heard a loud noise around 10.30 pm last night and immediately rushed outside. We were in a state of shock. The meteorite lit up the night sky and narrowly missed us." Other local residents said the whole area shook under the impact of the fall and the light could be seen even on the Indian side of the border. Panic-stricken people, who ran out of their houses, said that the sound resembled that of an aeroplane's at a close range. |
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Scott Rinckenberger
I've been shooting photos for 20 years. I've made my living in the profession for the last 15. I can count on one hand the number of times that everything lined up perfectly and a truly rare image was created. Now, I don't want to toot my own horn about this shot, but the fact that, during a 30 second exposure, after a 10 second timer (during which I hopped down from the roof of my truck where the camera was on a tripod, and joined the scene by the fire), a meteor (or so they tell us) would enter the sky EXACTLY in the corner of the frame and explode in the very part of the frame that needed balance, just as I had finally worked out the correct exposure and lighting to match the foreground with the night sky, is beyond rare. It's a non-chance. There is no way to plan for something like this. No way to even hope for it.ScottRinck Blogspot 2013-11-12 20:53:00
But lest you get the impression that I'm subscribing to a lifestyle of reliance on freakish luck, there is a deeper game at play here. Namely this: If you shoot enough arrows, eventually you'll pull a Robin Hood and split the arrow that was already a bulls-eye. When I took this shot, it was the final day of my project shooting fall landscapes in the American West. Five weeks previous, I had left Seattle in my truck with no mission beyond creating and sharing beautiful photography as I chased good weather almost all the way to the Mexican border. Every morning, I was up shooting the sunrise. | |
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| Health & Wellness |
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Matthew Boyle
Bloomberg 2013-11-12 11:00:00
Grain sellers want to have their gluten-free cake and eat it, too. As the stretchy protein found in wheat and other grains has become the latest dietary bogeyman, sales at companies like General Mills Inc., Kellogg Co. and Britain's Warburtons Ltd. have come under pressure. Yet instead of fighting back against what many dietitians contend lacks scientific grounding, they're boosting output of pricier gluten-free foods while leaving industry groups to defend their traditional products. Less than 1 percent of Americans have the disorder that requires a gluten-free diet, yet almost one in three now eschews gluten, according to trend watchers NPD Group, influenced by bestselling anti-gluten books and celebrity endorsements. The U.S. market for gluten-free foods will climb from $4.2 billion in 2012 to $6.6 billion by 2017, according to researcher Packaged Facts, as bread bakers, craft-beer makers and eateries fromHooters to Michelin-starred Hakkasan embrace the trend. "Consumers, rightly or wrongly, have made a connection between gluten-free and healthy," said Nicholas Fereday, an analyst at Rabobank. "Grain companies are hoping this trend crashes and burns sooner rather than later. But any trend is a marketing opportunity." Comment: There is no lack of scientific background when it comes to the dangers of gluten-containing foods and its role in our modern's age catastrophic health. There is however Big Agra's psychopathic greed when it comes to make a profit out of your suffering. Sott.net has published hundreds of articles on this topic. Since the introduction of agriculture, humanity's health has only deteriorated. We are now witnessing an unprecedented state of affairs and it is not only our health; it is practically our entire civilization as we now know it. We haven't known any other way of living for the longest time and look what it has brought to us: deteriorated health, wars, famine, slavery, and never-ending suffering. See Origins of Agriculture - Did Civilization Arise to Deliver a Fix? The gluten-free industry is thriving by promoting foods that are worse than table sugar. We shouldn't be surprised. When it comes to Food Industry, everything is permitted and you don't matter to them. See Food Politics and Power: The Men Who Made Us Fat. | |
Comment: They are getting desperate as people wake up to the fact that gluten has been killing us slowly since day one. For more information see:
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| Science of the Spirit |
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Victoria Woollaston
The Daily Mail, UK 2013-11-14 06:31:00
Yet one expert claims he has evidence to confirm an existence beyond the grave - and it lies in quantum physics. Professor Robert Lanza claims the theory of biocentrism teaches that death as we know it is an illusion created by our consciousness.
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Brandon Keim
Wired.com 2013-11-14 06:30:00
It's a question that's perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from? We know it exists, at least in ourselves. But how it arises from chemistry and electricity in our brains is an unsolved mystery. Neuroscientist Christof Koch, chief scientific officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, thinks he might know the answer. According to Koch, consciousness arises within any sufficiently complex, information-processing system. All animals, from humans on down to earthworms, are conscious; even the internet could be. That's just the way the universe works. "The electric charge of an electron doesn't arise out of more elemental properties. It simply has a charge," says Koch. "Likewise, I argue that we live in a universe of space, time, mass, energy, and consciousness arising out of complex systems." What Koch proposes is a scientifically refined version of an ancient philosophical doctrine called panpsychism - and, coming from someone else, it might sound more like spirituality than science. But Koch has devoted the last three decades to studying the neurological basis of consciousness. His work at the Allen Institute now puts him at the forefront of the BRAIN Initiative, the massive new effort to understand how brains work, which will begin next year. | |
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| Don't Panic! Lighten Up! |
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Andy Pattullo
Watts up with that 2013-11-15 08:48:00
This week UN delegates opened the current Warsaw Climate change Conference with hopes of engineering a renewed agreement to curb human-driven global warming just as effective as the last, however a new and catastrophic issue is emerging which threatens to derail the impressive progress made to date. Having reviewed the models of CO2 driven global warming from the First Assessment Report (FAR) IPCC scientists have discovered that General Circulation Models attribute most of the warming not to CO2 but to water vapor in the atmosphere. While it was initially understood that any rise in water vapor was directly attributable to a rise in CO2 it now appears there are many other human activities driving a rise in atmospheric water vapor, by far the most important greenhouse gas. IPCC Scientists expressed significantly increased certainty that their 95% confidence intervals include the plausibility that natural processes play no role. A Mannian statistical analysis of growth rings harvested from wooden hockey sticks in the Sports Hall of Fame confirms the role of rising water vapor as it clearly demonstrates a strong correlation between the rise of professional ice sports and the attendant increased use of artificial ice with the rise in global temperatures. The changes are described as unprecedented since the keeping of official hockey statistics began. The presumed mechanism appears related in part to the high humidity emissions of Zamboni ice conditioning equipment and an excess of spilled beer. The new information substantially changes some of the FAR conclusions such that an amended document, the First Assessment Report Two, is expected within months. (The summary for policy makers was published last May.) | |
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