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Rory Mulholland
The Telegraph 2013-12-12 15:36:00
Nicolas Sarkozy drops strongest hint yet he will make a presidential comeback in 2017, as new opinion poll shows him almost twice as popular as Francois Hollande Nicolas Sarkozy has given his strongest indication so far that he plans to return to politics and battle Francois Hollande for the French presidency in 2017. "The question is not to know if I want or don't want to return. I cannot not return. I don't have a choice. It's destiny. Destiny," he has told friends and political allies, according to Thursday's edition of Le Point weekly magazine. | |
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Reuters
2013-12-12 15:21:00
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who lost parliamentary immunity when he was expelled from the Senate last month, said on Thursday revolution would break out if he were arrested and thrown in prison. The 77-year-old media magnate was stripped of his Senate seat after he was convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to four years in jail. This was commuted to a year, likely to be spent performing community service. But without parliamentary protection, he is now more vulnerable in other criminal cases where he is accused of offences including political bribery. He is also appealing against a conviction for abuse of office and paying for sex with a minor. | |
Comment: The hubris of some people has no limits!
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Reuters
2013-12-12 15:15:00
Speak Russian or be silent. Nationalist lawmakers want to ban foreign languages at the workplace - a rule that would leave some foreigners speechless, from menial laborers from former Soviet states to Western business executives in suits and ties. Two deputies from flamboyant ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky's party introduced a bill on Thursday that would bar Russians and foreigners from speaking foreign languages on the job during working hours, state-run RIA news agency reported. | |
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Mathieu Rabechault
Agence France-Presse 2013-12-12 15:05:00
An avalanche of intelligence leaks from former CIA contractor Edward Snowden sent shockwaves around the world in 2013, lifting the lid on a vast global spying network and raising fears of a surveillance state. As the year drew to a close, the 30-year-old Snowden remains exiled in Russia, his final port of call following a worldwide game of cat-and-mouse that appeared to come straight from the pages of a spy novel. A traitor to some, a heroic whistleblower to others: Snowden's disclosures have shed light on intelligence-gathering methods which shocked many through their sheer scale. | |
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Bob Unruh
WND.com/KITV 2013-12-12 14:00:00
A key Hawaii official in the dispute over Barack Obama's birth certificate - who lifted state restrictions to allow the White House to present the document to the public - has died in a plane crash. Loretta Fuddy, the state health department director, was the only fatality among nine people aboard a Cessna Grand Caravan that went down at about 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday while heading to Honolulu. | |
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Andrea Peyser
New York Post 2013-12-12 04:25:00
Maybe he went into sugar shock over a Danish pastry. The president of the United States, leader of the free world, standard-bearer for everything upright, good and wholesome about the nation he leads, lost his morality, his dignity and his mind, using the solemn occasion of Nelson Mandela's memorial service Tuesday to act like a hormone-ravaged frat boy on a road trip to a strip bar. In front of 91 world leaders, the mourning nation of South Africa and Obama's clearly furious wife, Michelle, the president flirted, giggled, whispered like a recalcitrant child and made a damn fool of himself at first sight of Denmark's voluptuously curvy and married prime minister, Helle Thorning-Schmidt. Not to be outdone by the president's bad behavior, the Danish hellcat hiked up her skirt to expose long Scandinavian legs covered by nothing more substantial than sheer black stockings. With Michelle glowering, the world judging and mental fidelity floating into the abyss, the president leaned into the air space of the cross-legged Danish cupcake, who is known in Copenhagen as a fan of America's randy TV show "Sex and the City.'' It was the memorial equivalent of a bodice-ripper. | |
Comment: A sincere apology is not likely forthcoming. Obama, along with other global political leaders is probably a psychopath:
"First described systematically by Medical College of Georgia psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley in 1941, psychopathy consists of a specific set of personality traits and behaviors. Superficially charming, psychopaths tend to make a good first impression on others and often strike observers as remarkably normal. Yet they are self-centered, dishonest and undependable, and at times they engage in irresponsible behavior for no apparent reason other than the sheer fun of it. Largely devoid of guilt, empathy and love, they have casual and callous interpersonal and romantic relationships. Psychopaths routinely offer excuses for their reckless and often outrageous actions, placing blame on others instead. They rarely learn from their mistakes or benefit from negative feedback, and they have difficulty inhibiting their impulses." You can learn more here: What "Psychopath" Means; It is not quite what you may think | |
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Henry Austin and Christopher Nelson
NBC News 2013-12-12 05:25:00
The health director who approved the release of President Obama's birth certificate has died in a plane crash, Hawaiian officials said Thursday. Loretta Fuddy died after the Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft she was travelling on went down shortly after leaving Kalaupapa Airport at around 3:15 p.m. local time (10:15 a.m. ET) on Wednesday. The other eight people on board were rescued, Richard Schuman, president of Makani Kai Air, told NBC News early Thursday, adding that that there was no indication as to why the plane had crashed. Fuddy hit the headlines two years ago when she approved a waiver request allowing Obama to access certified copies of his birth certificate, signed by the delivery doctor, Obama's mother and the local registrar. His mother, then 18, signed her name (Stanley) Ann Dunham Obama. | |
Comment: It is interesting to note that the other 8 people on board were rescued including the pilot - she was the only casualty!
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Army Times
2013-12-11 11:20:00
The U.S. government lobotomized roughly 2,000 mentally ill veterans - and likely hundreds more - during and after World War II, according to a cache of forgotten memos, letters and government reports unearthed by The Wall Street Journal. "They got the notion they were going to come to give me a lobotomy," Roman Tritz, a World War II bomber pilot, told the newspaper in a report published Wednesday. "To hell with them." Tritz said the orderlies at the veterans hospital pinned him to the floor, and he initially fought them off. A few weeks later, just before his 30th birthday, he was lobotomized. Besieged by psychologically damaged troops returning from the battlefields of North Africa, Europe and the Pacific, the Veterans Administration performed the brain-altering operation on former servicemen it diagnosed as depressives, psychotics and schizophrenics, and occasionally on people identified as homosexuals, according to the report. The VA's use of lobotomy, in which doctors severed connections between parts of the brain then thought to control emotions, was known in medical circles in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and is occasionally cited in medical texts. But the VA's practice, never widely publicized, long ago slipped from public view. Even the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs says it possesses no records detailing the creation and breadth of its lobotomy program. The Wall Street Journal's reporting series began with Wednesday's Forgotten Soldiers and included a documentary, archived photos, maps and medical records. | |
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Simon Black
Sovereignman 2013-12-12 11:13:00
Chile - The IMF just dropped another bombshell. After it recently suggested a "one-off capital levy" - a one-time tax on private wealth as an exceptional measure to restore debt sustainability across insolvent countries - it has now called for "revenue-maximizing top income tax rates". The IMF's team of monkeys has been working around the clock on this one, figuring that developed nations can increase their overall tax revenue by increasing tax rates. They've singled out the US, suggesting that the US government could maximize its tax revenue by increasing tax brackets to as high as 71%. Coming from one of the grand wizards of the global financial system, this might be the clearest sign yet that the whole house of cards is dangerously close to being swept away. Think about it - solvent governments with healthy economies don't go looking to steal 71% of people's wealth. They're raising this point because these governments are desperate. And flat broke. The ratio of public debt to GDP across advanced economies will reach a historic peak of 110% next year, compared to 75% in 2007. That's a staggering increase. Most of the 'wealithest' nations in the West now have to borrow money just to pay interest on the money they've already borrowed. | |
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RT
2013-12-13 03:52:00
The retired FBI agent who seemed to vanish in Iran seven years ago was in fact on a strange unauthorized mission for the CIA that was organized by intelligence agents who did not have the authority to do so, a shocking new report has revealed. Robert Levinson, a former DEA and FBI employee who gathered intelligence in Latin America for the Central Intelligence Agency after leaving the bureau, was long believed to have flown to an Iranian resort in 2007. Known as Kish Island, the small Persian Gulf outpost is known to be a place where tourists and international criminals mingle. Levinson then disappeared just days after meeting with an admitted killer, with the US government maintaining all along that his fate was that of a private citizen whose status was unknown. Yet, in a report published Thursday, the Associated Press revealed that the popular narrative that has pervaded in the media for the last seven years was not entirely true. The White House, FBI, US State Department, and CIA would all learn that Levinson's trip was planned by three CIA analysts who did not follow the proper vetting process or seek approval for the mission from the necessary supervisors. Levinson was paid to gather intelligence on US foes in South America and was paid by the CIA to gather intelligence on the Iranian government in 2007. | |
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Warangkana Chomchuen and Wilawan Watcharasakwet
The Wall Street Journal 2013-12-12 07:16:00
Thailand's former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva was formally indicted Thursday on murder charges over a military crackdown on street protests in 2010 that left scores dead. The indictment comes amid the biggest political upheaval in the country since the 2010 protests and risks further inflaming tensions. Antigovernment protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, who served as Mr. Abhisit's deputy at the time, faces similar charges. Mr. Suthep was due to appear for the indictment session Thursday, but he didn't show up. A public prosecutor told reporters that Mr. Suthep's lawyer had asked the court to postpone Mr. Suthep's appearance to mid-January, which prosecutors were considering. Both men deny the charges against them. | |
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German-Foreign-Policy.com
2010-05-18 06:03:00
Following last weekend's bloodbath, the government in Thailand - led by long-time partners of the German Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FDP) - is threatening to continue its use of military force against mass protests in Bangkok. As observers note, the escalating confrontation between demonstrators demanding new elections and the army is bringing Thailand "to the brink of civil war". The country's old elite - made up of the military, big industry and the royal dynasty - fear that the growing democratic movement will restrict their predominance. Some in the old elite, particularly the Democrat Party of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, have for years already been cooperating with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Alone since May 14, they are responsible for the deaths of at least 36 protesters. The Naumann Foundation had shown sympathy toward a putsch by the traditional elite in 2006 and the subsequent, heavily contested outlawing of a popular party, because "it could not have been done democratically". The assistant, who was responsible for the Naumann Foundation's activities at the time and for the support of the traditional elites from 2007 to 2009, is today head of the Asia department in the German Ministry for Development. | |
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Scott Creighton
American Everyman 2013-12-09 05:41:00
Upon his appointment as Prime Minister in 2008, Abhisit's officially declared personal assets worth 51.8 million baht (nearly $2 million). This increased to 54.4 million upon leaving office. Given that Abhisit has never worked in the private sector, the vast majority of his wealth was either inherited or given to him.[76] Since today is "judgement day" according to the minority protesters in Thailand who refuse to work with the current elected government and who also refuse to participate in the upcoming emergency elections being held because they took their balls and went home (quit the House seats they occupied (150 out of 500) because they couldn't get their way, I thought I would provide some history to the conflict in order to give readers here a little perspective. | |
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BBC News
2013-12-11 05:32:00
The US and UK have suspended all "non-lethal" support for rebels in northern Syria, but not humanitarian aid. A US spokesman said it was concerned about reports that Islamist rebels had seized bases belonging to the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA). Fighters from the Islamic Front, a new alliance of rebel groups, ousted FSA-aligned fighters from the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey last week. The non-lethal aid includes medicine, vehicles and communications equipment. | |
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Russia Today
2013-12-13 09:35:00
The Catalan regional parliament has set November next year for a referendum on the Spanish province's independence. The government in Madrid blandly said the vote won't happen, but activists wonder how it might be stopped. Catalonia's four pro-independence parties, which hold a majority in the regional parliament, announced Thursday that the rich industrial Spanish province will hold a referendum on whether to gain greater autonomy or even total independence from the country's central government. The vote's preliminary date is November 9, Catalan regional government head Artur Mas said. The people will be asked two questions: "Do you want Catalonia to be a state?" and "Do you want that state to be independent?" The former question was added for those Catalans who seek to change Spain into a federation, with Catalonia forming part of it. According to a Metroscopia poll in newspaper El Pais last month, 46 percent of Catalans favor separatism versus 42 percent who wish to remain within Spain. The support for greater autonomy, however, is very strong. | |
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Soumya Karlamangla
Los Angeles Times 2013-12-13 15:26:00
A student at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo., opened fire at the school, then killed himself, officials said Friday. At a televised news conference, County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said the student entered the building armed with a shotgun looking for a specific teacher. At least one student was injured in the shooting, he said. | |
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Jason Sickles
Two people have been shot and a shooter may still be inside a high school in suburban Denver, according to multiple Denver news outlets.Yahoo News 2013-12-13 14:51:00 Police and emergency vehicles are on the scene at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, about 15 miles south of Denver. Hundreds of students are being evacuated from the school. The high school is in the Littleton School District, and only a few miles from the scene of previous mass shootings at the Aurora movie theater in 2012 and Columbine High School in 1999. Denver Post reporter Ryan Parker says witnesses at the scene tell him that a student shot at least two students in the school cafeteria about 1 p.m. MT. Parker tweeted that Adam Jones, whose sister goes to high school, said students are still locked in rooms, and "very scared." 1st photo from #Arapahoe HS shooting scene. @CarlBilek in the area. School behind restaurant.
From Newsite 7 News: Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson told CALL7 Investigator John Ferrugia that there has been a shooting at Arapahoe High School. Robinson believes there are two victims and that the suspect is inside the school. Hundreds of students have been evacuated safely. There are reports that officers have made contact with the suspected shooter. The Sheriff's office tweeted that parents should go to Shepherd of the Hills Church at 7691 South University Blvd. A witness told 7NEWS she saw police in riot gear at the scene. Arapahoe High School is at 2201 East Dry Creek Road in Centennial. Littleton Public Schools and Elizabeth schools have been placed on lockdown. Cherry Creek Schools are on secured perimeter, which means the outer doors are locked. Douglas County Schools is on lockout, which means there is increased alert, all doors locked, visitors need ID to get in and children will be dismissed at normal time with increased patrols. All public schools in Aurora have been placed on lockdown as a precaution, according to Aurora PD. | |
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The Smoking Gun
2013-12-12 14:58:00
Though Jane Fonda's private foundation has nearly $800,000 in assets, the group has not made a charitable contribution during the last five years for which it has filed federal tax returns, an apparent violation of Internal Revenue Service rules. According to the Jane Fonda Foundation's most recent tax return--filed last year and covering calendar year 2011--the organization's cash, stock, and bond portfolio was valued at $798,133. The filing lists the 75-year-old actress as the foundation's president and chairman of the board, and reports that she devotes 10 hours a week to the charitable group. | |
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Reuters
2013-12-12 14:26:00
A decision by a Texas judge this week to give an affluent teenager probation after he killed four people while driving drunk has sparked a backlash and complaints of a miscarriage of justice. State District Judge Jean Boyd on Tuesday sentenced the 16-year-old boy to 10 years probation and ordered him to get therapy. The teen was driving a pickup truck when he ran down four people who were helping fix a vehicle at the roadside in the Fort Worth area. | |
Comment: Imagine what the sentence would be if the crime was committed by one of the youths from a minority community in the U.S., one of those who do not suffer from "affluenza"!
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Frances Martel
Breitbart 2013-12-11 00:00:00
Though with kind words for Nelson Mandela and for the speeches given at his tribute, theDaily Mail's David Jones reports from the scene that the event was "a shambles" and embarrassing for the late leader. In a scathing column for the Mail, Jones laments the empty stadium, the chronic booing of the event's host, and the fact that the ceremony -- four hours long -- began 57 minutes late. "It's my view that yesterday's memorial ceremony for Nelson Mandela not only failed to reflect the towering achievements of the man," he writes, "at times, it was a shambolic disgrace to his name." Jones notes the stadium, home to the last World Cup, was only two-thirds full. Despite warnings of potentially discordant crowds, "we gazed down upon rows of empty seats" and an "embarrassingly poor" turnout. What's more, he adds, the crowd that was there required disciplining as it booed the image of current South African President Jacob Zuma, the host of the event, whenever he appeared on the jumbotron. The crowd also cheered Mandela's second wife, Winnie, more than his third, Jones recounts. The crowd played a winners-and-losers game with the guests that made the event "almost like being in a Roman amphitheatre" and "frankly distasteful," writes Jones.
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Travis Gettys
The Raw Story 2013-12-12 14:25:00
The United States waged a decades-long war against Catholics who practiced the teachings that got Pope Francis named as Time magazine's person of the year, said political philosopher Noam Chomsky. He said that the 1962 Vatican II conference had restored the Gospels to the Roman Catholic Church for the first time since the 4th Century, when the Roman Empire took over Christianity as its official religion, and this had a profound effect on religious leaders in Latin America. Chomsky said in an interview last week with social justice activist Abel Collins that priests or lay people set up groups with Latin American peasants to read the Gospels and encourage them to demand more rights from the region's military dictatorships - which became known as liberation theology. "There is a reason why Christians were persecuted the first three centuries," Chomsky said. "The Gospels are radical - it's a radical text - that's a basically radical pacifism with its preferential option for the poor. | |
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Jonathan Watts and John Vidal
Environmentalists warn approval could shatter global agreement not to use technology, with devastating repercussionsThe Guardian 2013-12-13 10:33:00
Brazil is set to break a global moratorium on genetically-modified "terminator" seeds, which are said to threaten the livelihoods of millions of small farmers around the world. The sterile or "suicide" seeds are produced by means of genetic use restriction technology, which makes crops die off after one harvest without producing offspring. As a result, farmers have to buy new seeds for each planting, which reduces their self-sufficiency and makes them dependent on major seed and chemical companies. Environmentalists fear that any such move by Brazil - one of the biggest agricultural producers on the planet - could produce a domino effect that would result in the worldwide adoption of the controversial technology. Major seed and chemical companies, which together own more than 60% of the global seed market, all have patents on terminator seed technologies. However, in the 1990s they agreed not to employ the technique after a global outcry by small farmers, indigenous groups and civil society groups. | ||
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Barry Keevins
More than 7,000 horses have been abandoned in the past year in the wake of the economic downturn and the horsemeat scandal.The Express,UK 2013-12-08 08:42:00
RSPCA estimates show a sharp rise in the number of healthy horses left to die as owners cannot afford to keep them and in many cases cannot afford to have them put down either. Earlier this year a global investigation was launched when horsemeat was discovered in processed beef and thousands of burgers and ready meals were pulled from supermarket shelves. Overbreeding also has to be brought under control, campaigners say. Prices have plummeted and ponies can change hands for as little as £5 at some markets. A horse can cost up to £100 a week to look after and owners have to find even more for humane disposal of healthy animals which can cost up to £1,000. Actress Jenny Seagrove, who founded the Mane Chance Sanctuary near Guildford, Surrey, two years ago, said: "We are getting phone calls every day from people who are shockingly desperate and we probably turn away 25 horses a week. "They are all looking for hope and we try to give it to them. It's just so sad because these horses have done nothing. We just cannot take them all." | |
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James Fletcher
BBC World Service 2013-12-12 01:37:00
What would you do if you found out that someone had posted naked pictures of you online, without your permission? It's known as "revenge porn", and in the age of mobile phone cameras and sexting, more and more people are becoming victims. Some are fighting back. Hollie Toups remembers in vivid detail the day that changed her life. The 33-year-old Texan was at work last year when a friend called to tell her there were naked pictures of her on a website. "I left work and came home and ran upstairs and opened my computer," she tells me at her home in the small town of Nederland in south-east Texas. We're sitting on the same couch where she first typed in the address of the site - Texxxan.com. A few clicks later Toups was looking at topless photos she'd taken for an ex-boyfriend when she was 24. And not just photos - posted alongside them were her name, links to her Facebook and Twitter accounts, a Google map of her location and a stream of comments. | |
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Yahoo News
2013-12-11 00:12:00
A survey of 25 American cities, including many of the nation's largest, showed yearly increases in food aid and homelessness. The cities, located throughout 18 states, saw requests for emergency food aid rise by an average of seven percent compared with the previous period a year earlier, according to the US Conference of Mayors study, published Wednesday. All but four cities reported an increase in demand for assistance between the period of September 2012 through August 2013. "There's no question that the nation's economy is on the mend, but there's also no question that the slow pace of recovery is making it difficult -- and, for many, impossible -- to respond to the growing needs of the hungry and the homeless," said the group's president Tom Cochran. Around 43 percent of people who asked for food aid were employed, 21 percent were elderly and nine percent were homeless. The increase in demand grew because of unemployment, lower salaries, poverty and higher prices for housing. | |
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RT
2013-12-12 20:34:00
The American general in charge of opening the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba has come out in favor of closing the facility, declaring, "the entire detention and interrogation strategy was wrong." Writing in the Detroit Free Press, Marine Major General Michael Lehnert stated the time has come to close Guantanamo, and that the prison "should never have been opened." Lehnert was the leader of the 2002 Joint Task Force charged with constructing a prison in Guantanamo Bay. He said the facility was created out of fear caused by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, when the U.S. believed those detained would offer a "treasure trove" if intelligence. Soon after Guantanamo opened, however, Lehnert decided the operation was a mistake.Most of the individuals captured did not have much information, he said, nor was there adequate evidence connecting them to war crimes. "We squandered the goodwill of the world after we were attacked by our actions in Guantanamo, both in terms of detention and torture," Lehnert wrote in his column. "Our decision to keep Guantanamo open has helped our enemies because it validates every negative perception of the United States." | |
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Kristin Tate
BenSwann.com 2013-12-12 22:46:00
As we reported several weeks ago, a Tennessee man built a firing gun from items he purchased at the airport - after going through security. Since his project received a huge variety of responses from our readers, I decided to reach out to him and find out more. Evan Booth, a computer programmer from Greensboro, created the gun using items like a hairdryer, lithium batteries, and body spray. He calls his creation BLUNDERBUSiness. Booth said he decided to embark on this project after the TSA introduced body scanners, which he believes violate travelers' privacy. He told me, "People who understand security understand that the current screening procedures exist primarily to put passengers at ease - 'security theater,' if you will. They also know that, given enough time, a persistent attacker will succeed to some degree." Booth was able to shoot pocket change out of his gun with enough power to blow a hole through Sheetrock. | |
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Want China Times
2013-12-12 09:09:00
Twelve people from Wuhan in central China's Hubei province attempted to commit suicide together in Beijing after their petitions against the forced demolition of their houses three years ago received no response. They have been hospitalized after drinking pesticide but two have since fled and another three are otherwise unaccounted for, reports Hong Kong's China Review News Agency. The petitioners, three men and nine women from Wuhan's Jiangan district, drank pesticide in Zhengyangmen in Beijing at around 4pm on Tuesday to protest against the forceful demolition of their houses and unfair compensations. Their houses were demolished when their village, Xinchun, was remodeled in 2010. They did not reach an agreement on compensation with the village committee but their houses were destroyed without their consent. They had traveled to Beijing to petition multiple times over the past few years. One of the three men in the group said they had planned to kill themselves in November but they were prevented by officials who discovered their plan. They stated their suicide plan in Beijing again in the same month and to multiple government departments in Wuhan in the hope of securing their attention. | |
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Jack Moore
Australian children deformed by decades of incest found in scenes akin to Deliverance movieInternational Business Times 2013-12-11 17:44:00
A disturbing incest cult has been found in New South Wales, Australia, where four generations of family inbreeding has left children deformed and mute. In a scene reminiscent of the 1970s thriller Deliverance, the depraved relations of brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts created children that were incapable of speech, had odd features and lived in squalor. The name of the valley has been kept secret and the family has been given the pseudonym of Colt to protect the identities of the children. It was only when residents of a nearby town reported that children were living in the hills that anyone realised what was happening. Details were made public on the instruction of judges at the New South Wales Children's Court. | |
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Discovery News
Italian archaeologists have discovered an ancient terracotta pig which worked as a toy as well as a baby bottle. Known as a guttus, the unique vessel dates back about 2,400 years and was found in a tomb cut out of a rock.2013-12-13 13:47:00
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Ellie Zolfagharifard
The universe could be about to collapse and everything in it - including us - will be compressed into a small, hard ball. The process may already have started somewhere in our cosmos and is eating away at the rest of the universe, according to theoretical physicists.Daily Mail UK 2013-12-13 13:57:00 The mind-bending concept has been around for a while, but now researchers in Denmark claim they have proven it is possible with mathematical equations. The basis of the theory is that sooner or later a radical shift in the forces of the universe will cause every particle in it to become extremely heavy. Everything - every grain of sand, every planet and every galaxy - will become billions of times heavier than it is now.
The theory suggests that the new weight will squeeze all material into a small, super-hot and heavy ball, and the universe as we know it will cease to exist. This violent process is called a 'phase transition' and is similar to what happens when, for example, water turns to steam or a magnet heats up and loses its power. | |
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Discovery News
2013-12-13 02:00:00
A cave on the Indonesian island of Sumatra is providing a "stunning" record of Indian Ocean tsunamis over thousands of years. Paleo-oceanographers say layers of tsunami-borne sediments found in the cave in northwest Sumatra suggest the biggest destructive waves do not occur at set intervals -- meaning communities in the area should be prepared at all times for a tsunami. "It's something that communities need to know," research team leader Charles Rubin told AFP, adding that the team wanted to "promote safety of coastal communities". Professor Rubin and other researchers from a Singapore institute were working with scientists from an Indonesian university when they discovered the cave, south of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province. A quake-triggered tsunami devastated Aceh and areas across the Indian Ocean in 2004, leaving some 170,000 people dead in the province alone. Inside the cave the researchers found layers of sandy sediment, which had been washed in by tsunamis thousands of years previously, Rubin said. The layers, which contained small fossils from the seabed, were well-preserved and separated by droppings deposited by bats in the cave, he added. "This is a beautiful, stunning record of tsunamis that you just don't have very often," Rubin said. | |
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Becky Oskin
The Weather Channel 2013-12-11 11:15:00
A big, hot blob hiding beneath the bottom of the world could be evidence of a long-sought mantle plume under West Antarctica, researchers said Monday (Dec. 9) here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The possible hotspot - a plume of superheated rock rising from Earth's mantle - sits under Marie Byrd Land, a broad dome at West Antarctica's edge where many active volcanoes above and below the ice spit lava and ash. The hot zone was discovered with seismic imaging techniques that rely on earthquake waves to build pictures of Earth's inner layers, similar to how a CT scan works. Beneath Marie Byrd Land, earthquake waves slow down, suggesting the mantle here is warmer than surrounding rocks. The strongest low-velocity zone sits below Marie Byrd Land's Executive Committee Range, directly under the Mount Sidley volcano, said Andrew Lloyd, a graduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. "The slow velocities suggest that it's a mantle hotspot," Lloyd said. The hot zone also matches up with Marie Byrd Land's high topography and active volcanoes, Lloyd said. [WATCH LIVE: News on Earth & Mars at AGU 2013] Mantle Plume? Many researchers have long suspected that Marie Byrd Land sits atop a hotspot, because the region swells above the surrounding topography like the top of a warm soufflé (and it has lots of volcanoes). But with few seismometers sitting on the ice, scientists were left speculating about what lies beneath Antarctica's ice. | |
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Charles Poladin
International Business Times 2013-12-10 12:16:00
The European Space Agency is planning to shake its Rosetta satellite from its slumber and has set a date for Nov. 11, 2014 to land on a comet. ESA has targeted comet comet 67P/Churyumov - Gerasimenko. Prior to the satellite landing on the comet, the space agency has launched the "Wake Up Rosetta" campaign which let the public upload videos and the top submissions will be beamed to the satellite. Rosetta was first launched on March 2, 2004, and has been in deep space hibernation, near Jupiter, since June 8, 2011. During this first leg of its mission, Rosetta traveled around the sun five times but that was only the beginning of its ambitious mission. Rosetta will wake from hibernation on Jan. 20, 2014 and ESA expects the satellite to start communicating with Earth a few hours after waking up. The satellite will complete its first comet rendezvous maneuver in May 2014. | |
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Brett Smith
RedOrbit.com 2013-12-10 00:00:00
On Tuesday, NASA announced that it had started the countdown for OSIRIS-REx, the space agency's mission to collect a physical sample from a distant asteroid. "This is a pioneering effort, both technologically and scientifically," said Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-Rex principal investigator from the University of Arizona. "Starting the countdown clock carries a lot of symbolism for us. After December 9, we will have a constant reminder of the time remaining to send OSIRIS-REx on his quest to return a sample of asteroidBennu." Led by researchers at the University of Arizona, OSIRIS-REx is scheduled to visit the primitive, carbonaceous asteroid Bennu in 2018, collect a sample from its surface, and return it to Earth in 2023. "999 days seems a long time to get the spacecraft on the pad, but we know that time will pass quickly. There is a lot of work to do before our spacecraft begins its journey, and we have to be very disciplined to get everything done in time," said Mike Donnelly, an OSIRIS-REx project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. NASA is allowing the world to follow the run-up to launch on the university team's website, on official Twitter feed and on Facebook. "Osiris was formed from pieces scattered across ancient Egypt, where he awoke as the bringer of life and ruler of the underworld," Lauretta said. "Our spacecraft has a similar story - it will be consist of components fabricated in locations around the world, that once together, will allow us to connect with a near-Earth object that is an accessible remnant from the formation of our solar system." | |
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The Times of Israel
2013-12-13 16:29:00
Police tell Jerusalemites to stay home; electric corp. declares national state of emergency; IDF and police rescuing hundreds of travelers stranded near capital The Israel Electric Corporation declared a nationwide state of emergency Friday as tens of thousands of homes in Jerusalem and the surrounding region remained without power amid the severe winter storm currently besieging the area. The electric company said it was manning a situation room to receive reports of outages and was calling in emergency workers to help restore power to those affected in certain parts of Jerusalem, Mevasseret Zion, Har Adar, Abu Gosh and Tzur Hadassah where many power lines were hit by fallen trees. | |
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Voice of America
2013-12-13 16:12:00
A powerful winter storm sweeping the eastern Mediterranean this week is causing mayhem across the region and inflicting extra misery on Syrians convulsed in civil war and refugees who have fled the fighting. The storm, named Alexa, is expected to last until Saturday, bringing more snow, rain and freezing temperatures to large swaths of Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories. The bad weather, which began on Wednesday, is taking a disproportionate toll on the 2.2 million refugees living outside Syria and the 6.5 million people displaced within the country. | |
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Famagusta Gazette
2013-12-13 16:08:00
Bad weather conditions that hit Cyprus this week have caused problems in many areas of the island. Due to heavy snowfall, many areas remain today cut off. The bad weather has also caused power cuts and forced schools to close. | |
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Lama Abdel Barr
Prime Magazine 2013-12-13 15:49:00
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insidenova.com
2013-12-12 11:10:00
Witnesses say hundreds of black birds fell dead from the sky in Nokesville on Thursday afternoon, littering Aden Road with their feathery remains. Prince William County police spokesman Jonathan Perok said it happened about 2 p.m., near Aden Grocery. Police, animal control and crews from the Virginia Department of Transportation were called to the area, where witnesses said they were shoveling dead birds off the road. It was unclear Thursday night what type of birds they were, and what caused them to die. Several people reported seeing large numbers of birds gathered on power lines in the area earlier in the day. Kevin Rose, a wildlife biologist with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, said mass bird die-offs are usually the result of lightning or some sort of trauma. That trauma often includes birds in flight striking power lines. "Without a few samples we can't really tell," Rose said in an email. "Unless it starts happening more, we are not concerned." | |
Comment: Radar Doppler images confirm overhead 'turbulence' cause of 2011 mass bird death case in Beebe, Arkansas Meteoric Deja-vu: Exactly one year later, dead blackbirds fall again in Beebe, Arkansas
A Sign for the New Year: 1,000 Birds Fall From the Sky in Beebe, Arkansas Reign of Fire: Meteorites, Wildfires, Planetary Chaos and the Sixth Extinction | |
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Francys Vallecillo
World Property Channel 2013-12-11 09:26:00
While the number of natural disasters affecting U.S. property owners was lower than expected in 2013, an unusually high amount of sinkhole activity captured media attention and raised awareness for risks related to this often-overlooked hazard. Three separate sinkhole catastrophes occurred in Florida in 2013, which may be the sinkhole capital of the U.S., according to the latest Natural Hazard Risk Summary and Analysis by CoreLogic. In one the disasters, a sinkhole formed underneath a man's home, causing his tragic death. In Clermont, Florida, a 100-foot sinkhole heavily damaged a tourist villa. There are 23,000 identified sinkholes in the U.S. identified by CoreLogic, underscoring the substantial risk from sinkholes for the country and Florida in particular. Overall, the report shows record low numbers of natural hazard events in 2013. | |
Comment: Sinkhole activity is becoming a regular occurrence:
Three vehicles swallowed by sinkhole in Glenview, Illinois Massive sinkhole to keep central Washington D.C. streets closed for another week Russia: Giant Sinkhole in Dagestan Sinkhole Forms Under Pool With Family Inside Sinkhole swallows car in Bakersfield, California Large sinkhole swallows tree near DeLand, Florida US: Prince George's residents briefly displaced by sinkhole Enormous sinkhole swallows two homes, threatens others in Dunedin, Florida Sinkhole opens up on Lincoln Street in Bangor, Maine US: Sinkhole shuts down portion of US 41 in Brown County, Wisconsin Canada: ATV Plunge into Sinkhole Kills Researcher Large sinkhole discovered in Western Kansas Pastor plagued by third massive sinkhole on church property in Enid, Oklahoma | |
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Zack Newmark
NLTimes 2013-12-11 17:32:00
A 14-year-old girl cycling home from school yesterday was shaken up yesterday when she biked into a hidden sinkhole. One witness at the scene pulled the girl, Sarah, out before she was harmed. The girl was biking on the Noordsingel in Rotterdam-Noord. Water covered some of the road's surface, but the girl decided to bike through the puddle. | |
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The coldest air of the season so far is settling in around Connecticut. A new winter storm will move in this weekend and tap into that cold air. Temperatures will dip well down into the teens Thursday night. A breeze will add to the cold for a time, producing RealFeel® temperatures near zero. A storm will develop over the Deep South Friday and will head northeastward Saturday. While warmer air will move up with that storm, odds favor an extended period of snow Saturday afternoon into Saturday night. Roads are likely to be slippery and snow covered in some areas, because they have been made cold by the recent Arctic air. | |
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thelocal.se
Tens of thousands were left without electricity on Friday morning after a storm nicknamed Ivar swept in over the north. Pre-schools and schools will remain shut until Monday.2013-12-12 08:51:00
The winds damaged roofs, forced police to close off roads and the Höga Kusten bridge, while one man was taken to hospital with serious damage to his torso after a tree fell on top of him. The hospital in Öresund said the man's injuries were serious but not life-threatening. By morning, about 55,000 homes were without electricity in the county of Norrland. Customers of energy companies Eon, Härjeåns Nät, Fortum, and Jämtkraft have all been affected, including several schools and pre-schools in and around Ånge and Fränsta. Pupils will be allowed to return by Monday. Police in the town of Östersund counted at least a hundred incidents related to the storm. "There was a lot of pressure for a while," duty officer Hans Ängquist told the TT news agency. He said that by 2am the storm had abated and the police returned to regular duties. A spokesman for Västernorrland regional police said residents were well prepared for the storm, but it had nonetheless caused a lot of damage to powerlines, roofs, and cars. Energy company Eon has sent out a shoal of workers to repair the damaged power lines. "In total, we have 300 people who are either out there now or going out tomorrow," Eon spokeswoman Louise Gudmundson told TT. | |
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A bruising winter storm brought severe weather to the Middle East Thursday, forcing the closure of roads and schools and blanketing already miserable Syrian refugee camps with snow. The nearly three-year-old conflict in Syria has killed an estimated 126,000 people and displaced millions, including more than two million who have fled across the borders and thousands who are living in makeshift camps. Footage posted online by activists showed war-battered areas of Syria shrouded in snow, and at least two children have died from the cold, according to a spokesman for the opposition National Coalition. Bad weather also delayed the first-ever international UN airlift, set to leave the Kurdish region of northern Iraq for Qamishli in northeastern Syria. "When it will start is difficult to say - I think the authorities in Qamishli are going to check conditions at the airfield on Friday," UN refugee agency (UNHCR) regional spokesman Peter Kessler told AFP. Heavy snow in Turkey forced the cancellation of scores of flights and caused major disruption to road and sea traffic. In tent camps across Lebanon, thousands of Syrian refugees huddled on muddy floors under plastic sheeting that provided little relief from the icy winds. | |
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Nathan Rao
Another freak storm is set to sweep Britain next week as our topsy-turvy weather continues.The Express, UK 2013-12-13 07:49:00
Torrential rain and 100mph gales are expected to topple trees, bring down power lines and damage buildings. And forecasters warn that this time there will be no let-up until Christmas. As parts of the country were still struggling yesterday to clear up the damage caused by last week's storm and devastating tidal surge, there were reports of 80mph winds next week with 100mph storm-force gusts likely to lash areas of the North. After a few days of relatively calm, foggy weather, Leon Brown, forecaster for The Weather Channel, said a shift in the jet stream would turn things more unsettled over the weekend. He warned Britain could feel the full brunt of the storm by Wednesday with gales continuing until Christmas. "There is a 30 to 40 per cent risk of severe gales for central and southern Britain on Thursday as a deep area of low pressure tracks east to Scotland," he said.
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CBS
2013-12-11 22:48:00
A leading earthquake expert has issued a dire warning to Californians about the expected impact of a major disruption to the San Andreas fault line. The title of Dr. Lucy Jones' lecture this week to the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco was titled "Imagine America without Los Angeles." As KCAL9′s Dave Bryan reports, Jones, a Science Advisor for Risk Reduction at the U.S. Geological Survey, says when the "Big One" hits Southern California, the damage could be much greater, and could last much longer, than most of us ever imagined. "Loss of shelter, loss of schools, loss of jobs and emotional hardship. We are risking the ends of our cities," she said during the presentation. According to a USGS study called the "Shakeout Report," when a high-magnitude earthquake rocks the San Andreas fault, the damage will go far beyond the collapsed buildings and freeways seen in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. | |
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KVTU News
2013-12-10 12:51:00
Crews have shut off the flow of gas to a 4-inch pipeline that ruptured in a neighborhood in the Oakland hills Tuesday morning, sparking an underground fire that burned for hours and caused the evacuation of nearby homes. The one-alarm fire was reported at Golf Links Road and Fontaine Street at 8:24 a.m., Oakland fire Battalion Chief Lisa Baker said. Flames could be seen coming up through cracks in the roadway. No injuries were reported. Six homes were evacuated, and residents of other homes nearby were advised to shelter in place, Baker said. A hazardous materials team was called to the scene. PG&E crews shut off the flow of gas at 11:37 a.m. James Gouig, 36, who lives at that intersection with his cousin, said he was at home when he heard a knock at the front door. At first he was annoyed because he thought it was a salesperson, he said. However, the person at the door turned out to be a neighbor telling him his front lawn was on fire. | |
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Hannah Osborne
International Business Times 2013-12-12 16:35:00
A meteorite has exploded into a huge fireball above Arizona just days before the year's best meteor shower. The explosion involved a fireball and a loud bang, with some residents saying their homes were shaken by the meteorite. It was captured on film by a number of people, with footage of the fireball showing it moving across the sky. Eyewitness Tony Kubrack told CNN: "I see this tremendous, white, bright light in the western sky. And it was just ... it was absolutely enormous, I couldn't believe it." | |
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Science Daily
2013-12-13 16:23:00
A study in mice shows how a breakdown of the brain's blood vessels may amplify or cause problems associated with Alzheimer's disease. The results published in Nature Communications suggest that blood vessel cells called pericytes may provide novel targets for treatments and diagnoses. "This study helps show how the brain's vascular system may contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease," said study leader Berislav V. Zlokovic, M.D. Ph.D., director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. The study was co-funded by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA), parts of the National Institutes of Health. Alzheimer's disease is the leading cause of dementia. It is an age-related disease that gradually erodes a person's memory, thinking, and ability to perform everyday tasks. Brains from Alzheimer's patients typically have abnormally high levels of plaques made up of accumulations of beta-amyloid protein next to brain cells, tau protein that clumps together to form neurofibrillary tangles inside neurons, and extensive neuron loss. Vascular dementias, the second leading cause of dementia, are a diverse group of brain disorders caused by a range of blood vessel problems. Brains from Alzheimer's patients often show evidence of vascular disease, including ischemic stroke, small hemorrhages, and diffuse white matter disease, plus a buildup of beta-amyloid protein in vessel walls. Furthermore, previous studies suggest that APOE4, a genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, is linked to brain blood vessel health and integrity. "This study may provide a better understanding of the overlap between Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia," said Roderick Corriveau, Ph.D., a program director at NINDS. | |
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Fox News
2013-12-12 14:36:00
It's a breakthrough that could help thousands of American soldiers returning from dangerous deployments. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe they may have discovered a way to create a vaccine that could prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). "What it's going to do is that they'll still have perfectly strong memories of the event. They just won't have the bad health consequences," said Ki Goosens, an assistant professor of neuroscience with the McGovern Institute for Brain Research. | |
Comment: For stress reduction and alleviation of PTSD symptoms, practice the Éiriú Eolasbreathing and meditation program. It is easy to learn and simple to apply in your daily schedule, plus it is designed to help you work through traumatic memories and deal with intense emotions at your own natural pace.
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Matt Hall
Underground Health 2013-08-05 07:28:00
Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have made a "new" (and completely unsurprising) discovery: chemotherapy, used to treat cancer patients, can actually cause cancer. "Our results indicate that damage responses in benign cells... may directly contribute to enhanced tumor growth kinetics," the team wrote. This is an important blow to dangerous, ineffective cancer treatments and a good step forward for alternative medicine. | |
Comment: On the subject, you may also read
Does Chemo & Radiation Actually Make Cancer More Malignant? Cancer, Chemo, and Crony Capitalism Chemo Does Not Cure: Often It Inflicts Damage and Spreads Cancer Also a lot of studies show that a ketogenic diet, which has no side effects and is completely natural for the human physiological system, is the answer to cancer treatment: Ketogenic diet may be key to cancer recovery Starving cancer ketogenic diet a key to recovery Calorie-restricted Ketogenic Diet Effective Alternative Therapy for Malignant Brain Cancer Ketogenic diet, calorie restriction and hyperbaric treatment offer hope for non-toxic cancer treatment and alleviation of multiple health issues | |
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James Corbett
Rinf 2013-12-11 02:27:00
Since 1952, the American Psychiatric Association has published the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the DSM, as a guideline for the classification and diagnoses of mental health issues. The DSM, according to the APA itself, "is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States and contains a listing of diagnostic criteria for every psychiatric disorder recognized by the U.S. healthcare system." Earlier this year, the APA published the DSM-5, the fifth major revision of the manual. Commonly referred to as the psychiatric diagnostic "bible," the guide has always generated controversy. How are disorders diagnosed? What criteria are used to establish disorders in the first place? Are the categories subjective? Do they reflect cultural biases? These questions are not unique to the DSM. They have plagued psychiatry since its earliest days. But the DSM, as the base guideline for the use of clinical psychiatrists across Americafor the past half century, is the place where these philosophical issues are decided in concrete terms. Some of the DSM's most strident critics dispute the very name of the guide itself, pointing out that it is not statistical and that the term "diagnosis" is itself misleading. This question of terminology is not mere quibbling over semantics. If the label of "medical diagnosis" is extended to the field of psychiatry, even in the absence of any objective or external criteria for producing that diagnosis, then the medical prognosis of prescriptionmedicine seems justified, perhaps even inevitable. Again, far from an academic debate, the question of when and how to justify pharmaceutical treatment for mental health issues is one with real world implications. Implications that impact the bottom line of the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry. | |
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Christina England
Darryl is in jail for life, after being found 'guilty' for killing his partner's daughter, Amy. But there is a lot more than meets the eye to this story.Natural Solutions 2013-11-20 02:05:00
Parents and Carers worldwide are being falsely accused of harming and killing children shortly after vaccination. An alarming number of adverse reactions to vaccinations are automatically assumed by medical and law enforcement professionals to occur because caregivers have shaken their babies so hard that they have caused them to suffer from 'Shaken Baby Syndrome', defined by a triad of serious brain injuries:
We need to ask ourselves, whether just shaking alone can cause these injuries, or are there alternative explanations as to why these injuries occur? | |
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Amanda Froelich
School food is notorious for being low in quality and difficult to look at, but few are doing anything to change the processed and low-nutrient meals being served to the youth.True Activist 2013-12-09 08:00:00 It is popular belief that cost is the factor inhibiting healthier options, but the group Fed Updisagrees. "There is no major cost difference between nutritious and not nutritious food at schools." In addition, the folks behind the movement report that 71% of kids are unsatisfied with the lunches they're served at school. For these reasons, there are no longer any excuses for not implementing healthier options. With the growing childhood obesity epidemic in the US, what's being dished up in the lunch line deserves more attention than ever. Fed Up is literally done accepting the poor food-like products being served to adolescents, therefore they encouraged over 25k kids to participate in their "true state of school lunch". This project resulted in over 7,025 photos being sent in to document school lunches from around the country. Now, Fed Up is allowing visitors to view all the pictures and vote whether to "Eat It" or "Toss It". Here are some examples of what kids are being fed in the US. |
Comment: This is considered healthy??? Meanwhile, the war on school lunches wages on:
Canadian mother fined for not 'balancing' child's lunch with Ritz Crackers US, Washington DC: 'Lunch-In' Protests Crackdown on Homemade Lunches US: Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight US, North Carolina: State Inspectors Searching Children's Lunch Boxes |
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My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people. You are right in your assessments. The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking. Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement. | |
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Sean Thompson
Macarthur Chronicle Camden 2013-12-12 12:00:00
People from around the world have substantiated claims of UFO activity over the Macarthur region, with similar sightings as far away as Cleveland in Queensland and southern California. The sightings come after the Macarthur Chronicle last week reported UFOs drifting over Mt Annan on December 1, which divided the community into sceptics and believers. The reader from Cleveland in Queensland, who supplied the latest UFO pictures, said he was taking out the rubbish at 11pm on December 5 when he noticed strange lights in the sky. "The light in the sky was dancing somewhat, so I grabbed the camera and started snapping away," he said. "The whole thing only lasted a few minutes but it wasn't until I looked more closely at the images I wondered what I had actually taken. "There were no planes in the area at the time of taking the photos that I could see." | |
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Famagusta Gazette
2013-12-12 12:51:00
A resident of Limassol has been left stunned after spotting what appeared to be a UFO in the sky above the city. The resident, who is unnamed, left a statement along with amateur footage on Youtube claiming that: "I saw this strange light hovering on the sky which also changed colours to green. At first I thought it was a plane but as it got closer this thing was quite big and was hovering on the sky for about an hour and 5 minutes." The photographer zoomed in on the object - but was still unable to identify what it could be. The crystal clear video, which was filmed at the end of September, shows what appears to be a UFO floating above the city. The object, which looks like a bright white ball of light slowly moves around, with the photographer capturing its every move. | |
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Fox News
2013-12-12 20:20:00
The search is on for a truck stolen in Volusia county that was carrying $120,000 worth of Hershey's chocolate. |
