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The Truthseeker
RT 2014-07-13 21:18:00
'Degeneration into genocide' as President Poroshenko calls for the murder of 'hundreds' of rebels for each of his troops killed - more than Nazi Germany ordered as punitive reprisals in World War Two; eyewitnesses report Kiev death squads going 'house to house' executing all men under 35 on the spot, 'crucifying' babies and forcing their mothers to watch - unspeakable atrocities under a complete mainstream media blackout. On Sunday Ukraine's missiles killed and injured civilians in the Rostov region, the latest bombing on Russia. Seek truth from facts with leading war crimes prosecutor Francis Boyle; US Navy veteran Mark Sleboda; investigative journalist William Engdahl; and George Eliason, who lives with his Ukrainian family in the crosshairs of Kiev's bombing near Lugansk.
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RT
2014-07-12 01:53:00
Thousands have turned out in London and Oslo to call for an end to Israeli strikes in Gaza. The event organizers say Palestinians are facing "a horrific escalation of racism and violence" at the hands of the IDF. The British capital saw the largest turnout with thousands of protesters rallying outside the Israeli Embassy on Friday. Demonstrators flooded the streets around the building waving placards that read "Gaza: End the Siege" and "Freedom for Palestine." | |
Comment: That there is even any debate or "doubt" about the immorality and illegality of this outright genocide is just farcical, and is a clear sign of how blind the world has become. Israel is a rabid dog with an insatiable bloodlust, and in an ideal world would be treated like one. If you think those words are harsh or offensive, then it just shows how successful the Israeli propaganda campaign has been.
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Nafeez Ahmed
The Guardian 2014-07-09 15:03:00
Yesterday, Israeli defence minister and former Israeli Defence Force (IDF) chief of staffMoshe Ya'alon announced that Operation Protective Edge marks the beginning of a protracted assault on Hamas. The operation "won't end in just a few days," he said, adding that "we are preparing to expand the operation by all means standing at our disposal so as to continue striking Hamas." This morning, he said: But in 2007, a year before Operation Cast Lead, Ya'alon's concerns focused on the 1.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas discovered in 2000 off the Gaza coast, valued at $4 billion. Ya'alon dismissed the notion that "Gaza gas can be a key driver of an economically more viable Palestinian state" as "misguided." | |
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Pepe Escobar
Asia Times Online 2014-07-12 02:57:00
So The Caliph is now a global superstar. Ever since Dr Ibrahim al-Badri of Samarra, a minor Sunni cleric who impersonates neo-medieval Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, showed up in the stone pulpit of a Mosul mosque at the start of Ramadan, he's been on a roll. He fully advertised his piece of transnational real estate - from the suburbs of Aleppo to Mosul (and promised more takeovers). He cut his own video - essentially his own, a monotone rap, dressed in trademark Men in Black regalia. He eliminated the competition, essentially by killing them all. He exalted the mujahid, inviting them to follow jihad in the name of Allah. He condemned miscreants and hypocrites, exalting the "victory of Muslims" from "the West to the East". Modestly sporting a US$7,000 watch (or Chinese replica) and asking for "corrections" in his behavior, The Caliph announced that his Islamic State (IS) business, former ISIS, is not only about the Levant. Want an IS passport? Just ask The Caliph. He firmly set his sights on conquering Rome (Saracens sacked St Peter's in 846); "You will conquer Rome and will be masters of the world." It won't happen before Sunday though, so Pope Francis can watch Argentina against Germany in peace without fear of decapitation. | |
Comment: It's a big tell-tale sign that this latest incarnation of the Islamic bogeyman has nothing to say about Israel's ethnic cleansing in Gaza. He obviously wouldn't want to hurt the feelings of his masters and get in the way of their fun.
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BBC News
2014-07-14 16:53:00
A Ukrainian military transport aircraft has been shot down in the east, amid fighting with pro-Russian separatist rebels, Ukrainian officials say. They say the An-26 plane was hit at an altitude of 6,500m (21,325ft). The plane was targeted with "a more powerful missile" than a shoulder-carried missile, "probably fired" from Russia. The crew survived, reports say. Russia has made no comment. Separately, Nato reported a Russian troop build-up near the Ukraine border. A Nato official confirmed to the BBC that the alliance had observed a significant increase of Russian troops, bringing their number to up to 12,000. Russia denies supporting and arming the separatists, and has invited officials from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor its border with Ukraine. | |
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RT.com
2014-07-14 07:37:00
Moscow will not allow Washington to realize its plan of international isolation for Russia and many nations will not support the US, the head of the State Duma committee for international relations has said. Currently the economic and political isolation of Russia is impossible, MP Aleksey Pushkov told the Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta. "Statements are being made in Washington that the United States are starting to implement a global isolation policy for our country. Now the US administration attempts to attract the European Union to the isolation policy. The ultimate objective is to create a new tectonic rift between Russia and Europe in the spirit of the new Cold War," the senior MP said in the interview. However, such a scheme would not work, primarily due to the strong economic and financial ties between Russia and Europe that are important for both parties. "We are an important and large country; they have to do business with us. We also need this and we have to prevent the USA from creating the rift," Pushkov emphasized. | |
Comment: Russia is taking steps to counter US hegemony and it appears that Putin's government is doing well in its attempts to forge new alliances. This may explain the US led Ukrainian government' increased attempts to create chaos, thus drawing Russia directly into war.
US failing to push economic sanctions against Russia through EU allies Unintended consequences? Western sanctions will cause Russia to change its economic partners...for the better Russia, China banking deal to exclude dollar in transactions - Symbolic blow to dollar Bear baiting: Russia vows response after Ukraine shell kills 1, injures 2 in Russian city | |
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Lily Dane
Thedailysheeple.com 2014-07-12 14:34:00
Two federal judges aren't buying "the dog ate my emails" bs story the IRS is trying to sell. Finally, we might be getting somewhere with this ridiculous scandal. Congress has been working on this for a year without much success, but on Thursday and Friday, the two U.S. District court judges ordered the IRS to start providing some answers. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered the IRS to provide - within a month - a declaration explaining exactly how the agency managed to "lose" two years' worth of emails belonging to Lois Lerner. Sullivan issued the order as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a non-partisan watchdog group. He said the IRS declaration must be signed, under oath, by the appropriate IRS official. "I'm going to hold tight to that Aug. 10 declaration," Sullivan said. Judge Sullivan also assigned John Facciola, a federal magistrate, to conduct his own query into whether there may be another way to obtain Lerner's emails. | |
Comment: The answers should be very entertaining. Stay tuned!
IRS emails show Lois Lerner contacted DOJ about prosecuting tax exempt groups | |
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AJ+ Labs
YouTube 2014-07-10 14:14:00
Israel is responding to rocket attacks out of Gaza! That's the headline you see everywhere. But we show you what the mainstream media isn't telling you about this story.
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Comment: This is a good overview, but it's important to stress that the catalyst for every bombing operation on Gaza is a false-flag event or some other convoluted pretext in which Israeli agents precipitate a crisis, in this case by abducting three teenagers, executing them, and pretending they were missing.
Also missing is the reason why the Israeli regime does all this: to prevent peace and integration into a normal one-state solution, at all costs. Yes, at ALL costs, including killing some of their own from time to time. They're psychopaths; what else could we expect? | ||
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Foxnews.com
2014-07-13 13:45:00
The Pentagon is laying off thousands of military officers, including those serving or who have recently served in Afghanistan. Defense Department officials said the reductions are the result of mandatory spending cuts imposed by sequestration and are part of their larger plan to reduce the number of U.S. soldiers from 520,000 to 450,000. Roughly 2,600 captains and other officers have or will be laid off, with more expected, Fox News learned Friday. The decision to send pink slips to soldiers overseas on active duty is dangerous and bad for morale, says retired Major Gen. Robert Scales. "It puts the soldier, the soldier's family and the men under his command at risk," said Scales, a Fox News contributor. "Young officers look at each other and wonder who is next." | |
Comment: Engendering support for the military and war? These soldiers are and were death dealers who have caused much suffering in Afghanistan and Iraq. The number deaths suggests that the people of Afghanistan and Iraq have made ALL of the sacrifices. Where is the sympathy for all of the human beings whose homes and lives have been destroyed? What about the innocent people murdered by these solders?
Afghan civilian death toll reaches record high Iraq deaths: 1,455,590 Iraq War deaths exceed Vietnam War numbers Americans increasingly comparing Afghan war to Vietnam | |
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RT
2014-07-13 19:07:00
Crucial logs that confirm the British overseas territory Diego Garcia was involved in the CIA's black site rendition program as a secret prison have been passed to the UK police for further investigation, despite earlier claims that there were no logs. Senate report points to UK 'complicity' in US extraordinary rendition A Whitehall official was photographed earlier this week carrying documents marked as "sensitive," which have been handed to detectives, the Observer reports. The documents consist of a number of printed emails and handwritten notes and memos. They were written by an administrator for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's British Indian Ocean Territory section. In notes scrawled onto the documents, the official suggests the press office of the Foreign Office should become "more active" on the issue. He also asks what information should be released. "What else in public domain?" he asks. Well fancy that: this document shows HMG responds to #rendition questions by hiding details of flights 2 Diego Garcia pic.twitter.com/MlQ3kni1Xq | |
Comment: David Vine, author of Island of Shame: the Secret History of the U.S. Military on Diego Garcia writes that Diego Garcia island is a strategic location for the U.S. to maintain its global domination. It is reportedly more secretive and a "black site" for high profile-detainees.
Diego Garcia - A brief history lesson: U.S. military forcibly transported inhabitants and gassed their dogs
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RT
2014-07-14 12:31:00
Reactivating a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant could provide Japan with enough plutonium to produce up to 2,000 atomic bombs a year, a US expert has warned. The "reckless" move could destabilize the region, as Japan's neighbors rush to compete. Henry Sokolski, executive director at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, urged the House Foreign Affairs committee to hinder the reopening of the nuclear reprocessing facility in Rokkasho, North Japan. The plant itself was supposed to begin operations in October 2013, but its reactivation was delayed by new safety regulations. The operators of the facility, which, according to the IAEA, has an annual capacity of 800 tons of uranium, or 8 tons of plutonium, say it should be up and running by this October. Allowing the reactivation of the plant would be "insulting" and "reckless," especially when South Korea is not allowed to reprocess or enrich nuclear fuel, the US expert said, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. | |
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RT.com
2014-07-14 12:36:00
The daughter of a man killed by an artillery shell fired by Kiev's forces in a quiet Russian town just across the border from Ukraine is still in shock. In a night of horror, she also had to save her 11-year-old brother from the bombing. Andrey Shulyatyev, a 46-year-old father of four, was killed on Sunday when an artillery shell from Ukraine hit his private house on the border, in the Rostov Region of Russia. Irina, 20, was woken up in the middle of the night on Sunday by a sound of an explosion and could not believe it was not all just a bad dream. The girl was crying throughout her whole interview to LifeNews, in which she had to relive the ordeal of her terrible night once again. "I heard a scream, it was my younger brother, I grabbed him and ran towards the exit. Then I heard my father's scream," the girl said. "When my brother and I ran up to the door, glass from the windows shattered again. We stopped. When we went out to the porch, we saw my father lying there. He was without an arm. I was in shock, I thought it was a dream, I came back into the house, then went out again to see him lying there without an arm. He was screaming. My brother was screaming. We were bombed." | |
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BBC
2012-02-28 08:47:00
The political leadership of the Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas, has moved from Syria to Egypt and Qatar. Deputy political leader Moussa Abu Marzouk, now based in Cairo, said Hamas could not operate effectively due to the unrest in its long-time ally. The political leader, Khaled Meshaal, and his aides have moved to Doha. On Friday, the head of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, declared his support for Syrian people against President Bashar al-Assad. "I salute all people of the Arab Spring, or Islamic winter, and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform," Ismail Haniya told worshippers at a mosque in Cairo. | |
Comment: Maybe this isn't such a conspiracy theory after all?
Hamas is a Creation of Mossad CIA, Mossad Infiltrated Muslim Organizations | |
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Léopold Lambert
The Funambulist 2014-07-10 08:17:00
As the military siege on Gaza (the fourth since the 2005 evacuation of the Israeli settlers) continue to kill every day (81 Palestinian killed in bombings so far), I go back, once again to the idea that we should as much focus on the exceptional violence that affects many of us emotionally, as on the normal violence that unfolds itself on a daily basis upon what has been legitimately named "the largest prison on earth (1.65 millions inhabitants). Let it be clear, making maps won't save any life, and the production of knowledge during urgent situation is always problematic. Moreover, maps tend to be disincarnated and therefore carry the risk of a desensitization on the contrary of photographs and/or videos that allow us to identify with situated bodies. There is therefore a need for articulating the emotional approach to violence - it manifests most of the time through the notion of spectacular - with a more structural and analytical approach of it, as I have been recently writing again. This map can be put in relation with the three articles I have written during the last siege, "Operation Pillar of Cloud" in November 2012. The first one was introducing a map that I did in a similar concern of sensitivization. This map was one of "the Manhattan Strip" (only 4-times smaller than the Gaza strip) under siege like Gaza was at that time. The second one was describing Gaza as a scale-1 experiment for the Israeli government and army to test how little can the strip be fed in power, water, supplies, etc. without triggering an actual "humanitarian disaster." Finally, the third article was trying to think how a Gaza kid could picture Israelis since the only ones (s)he have seen in her/his life were soldiers or machines. | |
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Adam Taggart
PeakProsperity 2014-07-13 00:00:00
In what is quite possibly my favorite podcast so far this year, Chris speaks with John Rubino -- founder of DollarCollapse.com and recent author of The Money Bubble -- about the times in which we live. The discussion waxes across the defining trends of our time, including market manipulation by central planners, monetary hijinks of the highest order, crony corporatism, clueless and complicit politicians, and the explosion of State control. John sees us hurdling towards an increasingly certain future of banana-republic wealth disparity, currency failures, and civil strife. That is, unless we rise up to assume ownership of our own destiny. Doing so will not be easy, or pain-free. | |
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Jon Swaine
The Guardian 2014-07-11 19:09:00
Mayor's administration gave tax break to firm headed by Democratic rival with whom Christie signed non-aggression pact New Jersey governor Chris Christie's administration has awarded a public subsidy worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars to a politically connected manufacturing firm. Holtec International, which makes components for power plants, this week secured a $260m tax break from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) - the third-biggest corporate subsidy that the state has awarded. George Norcross, a powerful Democratic Party "boss" in southern New Jersey, who reportedly struck an important non-aggression pact with Christie, a Republican, during Christie's re-election campaign, sits on the company's board of directors. Holtec had been threatening to move 160 workers from New Jersey to South Carolina. As part of the subsidy deal, it must now keep the staff in the state and open a new plant, which is slated to employ 235 more people, in Camden, New Jersey's poorest city. It must commit to staying for 15 years. | |
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Noura Erakat
Jadaliyya 2014-07-11 17:51:00
[In view of Israel's assertions that it's current attacks on the Gaza Strip are an exercise in legitimate self-defense, Jadaliyya re-posts an analysis of this claim by Co-Editor Noura Erakat initially published in 2012.] On the fourth day of Israel's most recent onslaught against Gaza's Palestinian population,President Barack Obama declared, "No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders." In an echo of Israeli officials, he sought to frame Israel's aerial missile strikes against the 360-square kilometer Strip as the just use of armed force against a foreign country. Israel's ability to frame its assault against territory it occupies as a right of self-defense turns international law on its head. A state cannot simultaneously exercise control over territory it occupies and militarily attack that territory on the claim that it is "foreign" and poses an exogenous national security threat. In doing precisely that, Israel is asserting rights that may be consistent with colonial domination but simply do not exist under international law. Admittedly, the enforceability of international law largely depends on voluntary state consent and compliance. Absent the political will to make state behavior comport with the law, violations are the norm rather than the exception. Nevertheless, examining what international law says with regard to an occupant's right to use force is worthwhile in light of Israel's deliberate attempts since 1967 to reinterpret and transform the laws applicable to occupied territory. These efforts have expanded significantly since the eruption of the Palestinian uprising in 2000, and if successful, Israel's reinterpretation would cast the law as an instrument that protects colonial authority at the expense of the rights of civilian non-combatants. | |
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RT
2014-07-13 17:42:00
US secret services have recruited more than a dozen officials in various German government ministries to work as spies, with some of them working for the CIA for many years, a German tabloid reported on Sunday. Following previous espionage scandals in Germany, with several suspected US agents exposed in July, a report of more spies infiltrating German ministries was published by Bild am Sonntag, Germany's largest-selling national Sunday paper. The alleged spies work within the country's defense, development, economic, and interior ministries, reported the paper, referring to unnamed sources in the US intelligence community. Due to the current diplomacy tensions between Washington and Berlin, caused by espionage concerns, the spies are reportedly not meeting with their US handlers at the moment, according to Bild. Several inquiries into the activities of American embassies in Prague and Warsaw have been initiated, as US intelligence agencies are reportedly considering basing their recruitment activities there. | |
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RT
2014-07-12 17:24:00
A former official from the UK's social services has said that an alleged pedophile network in Westminster and Whitehall was ignored because "there are too many of them over there." David Tombs, a former official who ran Hereford and Worcester social services for 20 years,warned the government about the possible pedophile network after the arrest of notorious pedophile Peter Righton in 1992. Tombs claims he became aware of the pedophile behavior through a police investigation. "I had no particular names, but that was the impression I was getting," he told a BBC Radio current affairs program. "It was coming across to me at the time that there were names linked into the establishment, if you like,"he said. But when he approached representatives from the Department of Health, he was told thathe was"probably wasting his time" as there were "too many of them over there" in Westminster and Whitehall. | |
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RT.com
2014-07-14 00:00:00
Saying she was "not the right person" for the job, Baroness Butler-Sloss has stepped down as head of the UK government's inquiry that looks into reports of at least 20 senior figures including MPs and cabinet ministers abusing children over decades. Butler-Sloss, 80, had been under pressure to quit by both MPs and victims due to her family links. Sir Michael Havers, who is the Baroness' late brother, served as attorney general in the 1980's, and is suspected of turning a blind eye to incidents of child abuse conducted by politicians during the time. Butler-Sloss said that she was 'honored' to be invited to chair the inquiry but that she "did not sufficiently consider whether my background and the fact my brother had been attorney general would cause difficulties." "This is a victim-orientated inquiry and those who wish to be heard must have confidence that the members of the panel will pay proper regard to their concerns and give appropriate advice to government" she added. The retired judge had been appointed by Home Secretary Theresa May last week, a decision that has been called "somewhat shambolic" by a leading MP. | |
Comment: Perhaps the reason she was appointed to head the inquiry is due to her family links since the UK elites have been trying desperately to quash this scandal.
UK government ignored warnings about pedophiles: "There's too many of them" The U.K. political pedophile ring scandal is just the tip of the iceberg - The full story is much more disturbing About 40 politicians on UK pedophile ring: Report | |
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Zen Gardner
ZenGardner.com 2014-07-13 00:00:00
As America continues to be overwhelmed by an obviously orchestrated mass intrusion of immigrants over its borders, the utter hypocrisy of increasingly stringent so-called "security measures" for the rest of the population paints a very clear picture. There is no terrorism threat to the United States. It's bogus now and has been completely fraudulent from the get go. If there were such a threat, not only would this flood of illegals not be allowed never mind clearly encouraged, but anyone crossing the border would have to undergo the same rigorous Orwellian strip downs, x-rays, inspections and interrogations normal citizens are subjected to. On top of that, once they are herded over the border they are being given escorts to safe havens including military bases, given supplies and free transportation to destinations around the country, and are in line for free health care, legal representation and a plethora of other benefits that will no doubt prove back-breaking to the American economy and way of life. All by design, while cardboard cut-out Obama, the human decoy, takes his multi-million dollar 2-week summer vacation at swishy Martha's Vineyard. Get the picture? There's no concern because they are transparently behind it. Besides, while the stage prop Obama is away the real rulers in the shadows can have a field day without having to worry about programming their mouthpiece. Hence all the "vacations" for this vapid useful idiot. | |
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John W. Whitehead
The Rutherford Institute 2014-07-14 13:44:00
There's a lot to love about America and its people: their pioneering spirit, their entrepreneurship, their ability to think outside the box, their passion for the arts, etc. Increasingly, however, as time goes by, I find the things I don't like about living in a nation that has long since ceased to be a sanctuary for freedom are beginning to outnumber the things I love. Here's what I don't like about living in the American police state: I don't like being treated as if my only value to the government is as a source of labor and funds. I don't like being viewed as a consumer and bits of data. I don't like being spied on and treated as if I have no right to privacy, especially in my own home. I don't like government officials who lobby for my vote only to ignore me once elected. I don't like having representatives incapable of and unwilling to represent me. I don't like taxation without representation. I don't like being bullied by government bureaucrats, vigilantes masquerading as cops, or faceless technicians. I don't like being railroaded into financing government programs whose only purpose is to increase the power and wealth of the corporate elite. I don't like being forced to pay for wars abroad that serve no other purpose except to expand the reach of the military industrial complex. I don't like being subjected to scans, searches, pat downs and other indignities by the TSA. I don't like VIPR raids on so-called "soft" targets like shopping malls and bus depots by black-clad, Darth Vader look-alikes. I don't like fusion centers, which represent the combined surveillance efforts of federal, state and local law enforcement. I don't like being treated like an underling by government agents who are supposed to be working for me. I don't like being threatened, intimidated, bribed, beaten and robbed by individuals entrusted with safeguarding my rights. I don't like being silenced, censored and marginalized. I don't like my movements being tracked, my conversations being recorded, and my transactions being catalogued. | |
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Michael Krieger
Governmentslaves.info 2014-07-14 13:10:00
Yesterday afternoon, I happened to read a seemingly innocuous enough article in Time by Justin Lynch titled: Bloggers, Surveillance and Obama's Orwellian State. The article covered the usual bases. Such as the fact the Obama Administration is the least transparent ever, how it has attacked whistleblowers and journalists more than all other Presidents combined, and how citizen journalists pose a threat to the corrupt and dying status quo. All things that we already know. One of the people quoted in the article is Pentagon correspondent for the New York Times, Thom Shanker, who proudly noted "his employer has implemented rigorous standards to balance the security risks of reporting classified information with the public's right to know." While this guy's assumption that bureaucrats and media personalities posses this divine right to decide what the public "has a right to know," is extremely disturbing in its own right, what it really masks is a deep seated opinion of his own superiority compared to the unwashed masses. This seems to really come out in the extraordinarily disturbing final paragraph of the article: The government really needs to get its message out to the American people, and it knows that the best way to do that is by using the American news media, said Shanker. The relationship between the government and the media is like a marriage; it is a dysfunctional marriage to be sure, but we stay together for the kids. | |
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Alimuddin Usmani
Interview with Gilad AtzmonDissident Voice 2014-07-12 11:02:00
Alimuddin Usmani: After Cast Lead in 2009 and Pillar of Defense in 2012, the Israeli army has launched operation Protective Edge in July 2014 against Gaza. What is the purpose of these repeated large scale military operations? Gilad Atzmon: It is important to note that Israel hasn't won a single military battle since 1973. True, it has killed many Arabs, but it hasn't managed to achieve any of its military objectives. Israel's military domination has been sustained by the power of deterrence. The strategy was to force Arabs to avoid conflict by threatening that they could lose everything. This week has shown that this trick won't work anymore. Palestinian resistance has sprung back to life. Israel can not solve its problems by military means. The situation is desperate for the Israelis. They have started to realize that they are stuck within a political, ideological and cultural stalemate. Israel is unable to conjure an image of a resolution. There is no prospect of future for the Jewish State. Furthermore, the Jewish Left's blatant lie that the 'occupation is the problem' has been exposed this week as we witness Israeli Arab citizens chased by Jewish mobs. As we know, the right-wing call for mass expulsion of all Arabs from Israeli territory is becoming increasingly popular within Israel. This brutal 'solution' is totally consistent with Jewish supremacist culture and ideology. After all, Jews, and I mean both Zionists and anti, like to operate within a Jews only environment. But can Israel rid itself of the Palestinians. This is exactly what the Right wing parties within the coalition promise to do. Back to your question; since the military cannot provide the answers and the politicians cannot produce an image of a solution, the military is used as a firemen's brigade. It supplies short-lived victories. The IDF is buying time, it cannot deliver a victory because military objectives cannot even be articulated. The IDF pounds Gaza with missiles, it kills whatever it suspects might be dangerous (a lot of kids, elders and women). But as time goes by, the military options are shrinking and to a certain extent, are not viable any more. The German military theorist, Carl von Clausewitz suggested in the 19th century that "war is the continuation of politics by other means." In the case of Israel what we see instead is the reverse of Clausewitz' idea: Israeli politics is the continuation of the Jewish need for a conflict. | |
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Preamble: Considering the controversy this eyewitness account has already generated (and will continue to generate), it deserves a thorough review from the standpoint of legal and evidentiary rules. That review will be generated and provided over the next several days. For now, I can offer you my professional expertise, as a courtroom advocate with eight years of experience before all levels of Ontario courts, as well as multiple tribunals and administrative boards, and also the professional opinion of a forensic paediatrician with twenty years of experience investigating crimes against children (which, I hope, will be expanded upon). Both of us believe this account to be genuine, authentic and highly likely to be accepted as truth in court. In considering this testimony, please recall that eyewitness testimony is considered to be direct evidence, which, if believed, does not require any corroborating evidence whatsoever to found a criminal conviction. Further reasoning can be gleaned from the following:
Video Subtitles Kindly Prepared by Marcel Sardo (@marcelsardo)
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Comment: War zones are a lure for psychopaths. The chaos of such situations creates an environment free from the usual social and legal restraints of normal society. Without these constraints, they are free to act according to their true nature, as described by Andrew Lobaczewski in his book Political Ponerology. If the above report is factual, it is not surprising. Such atrocities are all too common during revolutions, civil wars, and genocides. And Ukraine is carrying out a genocide on the people of Novorussiya. Ukraine is currently ruled by a depraved, psychopathic regime, fully backed by the U.S. With the situations in Gaza and Iraq spiraling out of control, we are not only seeing a repeat of the blight on humanity that was the Nazi regime in Germany; we are seeing its exemplification.
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Chris Stephen
The Guardian 2014-07-13 19:03:00
Worst fighting in Libyan capital since 2011 revolution kills at least six after rockets launched against units allied to Khalifa Hiftar Islamist-led militias launched an attack on Tripoli's international airport on Sunday against units allied to Khalifa Haftar, the former general who has vowed to defeat the jihadis. Buildings and fuel tanks were set ablaze by artillery, rocket and anti-aircraft fire in the worst fighting seen in the Libyan capital since the 2011 revolution. Thick plumes of smoke rose into the sky and staff and passengers huddled for safety inside airport buildings as battles left at least six dead and 25 wounded. TV footage showed vehicles on fire after rockets struck the car park. Smoke swirled around planes abandoned on the tarmac. All flights to and from the airport have been cancelled. The airport is held by militias from the mountain town of Zintan, allied with Haftar, whose forces, backed by sections of the air force, have been battling Islamist brigades in eastern Libya for several weeks. | |
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Mira Bar Hillel
The Independent 2014-07-11 18:48:00
I can no longer stand by while Israeli politicians like Ayelet Shaked (pictured above) condone the deaths of innocent Palestinian women and children She is young. She is pretty. She is a university graduate and a computer engineer. She is also an Israeli Parliamentarian - and the reason why I am on the brink of burning my Israeli passport. Because behind that wide-eyed innocent face lurks the Angel of Death. Ayelet Shaked represents the far-right Jewish Home party in the Knesset. This means she is well to the right of Benyamin Netanyahu, just in case you thought such a thing was not possible. On Monday she quoted this on her Facebook page: "Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there." A week earlier, just before 17-year-old Mohammed Abu Khudair was snatched and burned alive, Shaked wrote: "This is not a war against terror, and not a war against extremists, and not even a war against the Palestinian Authority. The reality is that this is a war between two people. Who is the enemy? The Palestinian people. Why? Ask them, they started it." | |
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RT
2014-07-13 17:11:00
The Indiana State Department of Health has been collecting babies' blood and DNA without their parents' permission since 1991, according to an investigation by a local news station. Now the state wants to know what to do with the blood samples. When a baby is born in Indiana, as with other states, the state conducts a newborn screening test. A nurse or midwife takes a few drops of blood from the heel of each infant. The blood is collected on a specialized filter paper, which is then sent to the state's Newborn Screening Lab in downtown Indianapolis. At the lab, researchers conduct tests on the blood for more than 50 medical disorders, including hypothyroidism, sickle cell disease and conditions where a child is unable to process certain nutrients. Parents and doctors are then notified of the results. "All babies are screened, even if they look healthy, because some medical conditions cannot be seen by just looking at the baby," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. "Finding these conditions soon after birth can help prevent some serious problems, such as brain damage, organ damage, and even death." | |
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RT
2014-07-13 13:03:00
A French court has suspended a by-law banning wearing religious symbols on a public beach in a Paris suburb. The local mayor maintains the legislation protects the secular community and had previously banned two women from the beach for wearing hijabs. The Versailles Administrative Court has temporarily reversed the ban in the suburb of Wissous after plaintiffs alleged the by-law "violates the principals of the Republic" and amounts to "religious discrimination" reports AFP. The court will now decide whether to overturn the legislation for good. The by-law was challenged after the mayor of Wissous refused two women wearing hijabs entry onto a temporary beach. Mayor Richard Trinquier, of the right-wing UMP party, claimed that he was protecting France's commitment to secularism by barring the two women from the public space. "We wanted to affirm our commitment to secularism to promote community harmony," said Trinquer. He said the legislation was inspired by a 2004 law that made it illegal to wear religious garments or symbols in state schools. According to Trinquer Wissous, the beach should also be subject to the law because it is "an establishment that receives the public" and not "a public place." | |
Comment: Paranoiac, barbaric discrimination.
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Travis Gettys
Raw Story 2014-07-12 12:03:00
A Massachusetts man is considering legal action against police officers who repeatedly struck him with batons and shot him with beanbags in a booking room. Joseph O'Brien had been taken into custody in April 2012 after he was found unconscious in some woods. A video obtained by WCVB-TV shows that he was initially cooperative, but O'Brien becomes more combative as officers act aggressively toward him. The two-hour-long video shows two Bellingham police officers strike him repeatedly with their batons and doused with pepper spray as O'Brien - who has one wrist handcuffed to a bar - swings at officers with a phone receiver. "The police response looks like something out of the Keystone Cops," said former Boston Police Lt. Tom Nolan. "The video should be used as a training video in any police academy to train novice police officers what not to do." | |
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Travis Gettys
Raw Story 2014-07-12 11:58:00
A decorated California sheriff's deputy has been arrested on teen sex charges. Ken Skogen was placed on leave in May after prosecutors began investigating claims that the Placer County sheriff's deputy had engaged in a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old volunteer with the sheriff's department. The claims against the 35-year-old law enforcement officer date back to 2011, when another deputy reported that Skogen had a questionable relationship with the teen. Skogen was awarded a public safety officer medal for valor in 2009 after pulling an elderly woman from a burning home. | |
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Scott Kaufman
Raw Story 2014-07-13 11:53:00
Police morale in Fruitland Park, Florida has been shaken after a deputy chief and officer resigned when the Federal Bureau of Investigations identified them as members of the Ku Klux Klan. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement presented Chief Terry Isaacs with copies of a confidential FBI report last week that allegedly identified Deputy Chief David Borst and Officer George Hunnewell as members of the KKK. Earlier this year, a Florida Klan leader boasted to WFTV 9 that the organization has "police officers, paramedics, judges...everywhere." However, Chief Isaacs would only tell reporters for the Orlando Sentinel that the pair belonged to a "subversive organization," because he did not believe he was authorized to release the results of the report. | |
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Fox News
2014-07-13 10:33:00
A Frontier Airlines official says one of its planes was diverted to Salt Lake City after it was hit by lightning. Spokeswoman Tyri Squyres says that Friday night's lightning strike damaged the airplane's weather radar. Squyres says none of the 168 passengers were injured. She tells the Denver Post that the plane was traveling to Seattle when lightning hit around 6:50 p.m. Because of bad weather, she said it was not safe to return to its Denver starting point without the radar system, so it landed in Salt Lake. The flight remained there for several hours while repairs were made. Officials with Frontier and the Salt Lake airport didn't immediately return calls from The Associated Press. | |
Comment: Is is just coincidence that 4 airplanes have had problems in the last 48 hours?
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Agence France-Presse
2014-07-13 10:23:00
A Portuguese airliner suffered engine failure shortly after taking off from Lisbon early on Saturday, scattering debris on cars below and forcing it to turn around. The TAP Portugal Airbus 330 had just begun its journey to Sao Paulo in Brazil with 268 passengers on board when smoke was seen coming from one of the engines. "Debris from the engine fell on cars and a house, but no passengers were injured," a police spokesman told AFP. The plane made an "uneventful landing" at Lisbon airport shortly after the incident, a TAP spokesman said. "A huge plume of smoke came from one of the engines and a rain of debris hit cars," a young woman who witnessed the incident told local television. On Tuesday, another Airbus plane belonging to TAP was flying between Lisbon and Amsterdam when it had to land at Paris's Orly airport after suffering cabin depressurisation. Delays in the delivery of six Airbus aircraft that TAP acquired from other airlines have led to a series of flight cancellations in recent months. TAP has recently seen significant growth in its operations. During the first half of this year it flew 5.2 million passengers, 7.2 percent more than in the same period last year. It also opened 11 new routes this summer, including four to Latin America. | |
Comment: More airplane trouble in the last 48 hours.
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George Dvorsky
io9 2014-07-14 10:40:00
Archaeologists in Norway have found an 8,000 year-old skull at a Stone Age site that could very well be of human origin. Remarkably, it contains a grey, clay-like substance thought to be the preserved remains of the brain. If confirmed, it could be one of the oldest human brains ever found. As The Local reports, the skull was uncovered a the Stokke site in Vestfold, Norway. It's not known whether the skull belongs to an animal or a child. Initial tests date the skull to around 5,900 BC, making it almost 8,000 years old. Experts are being recruited to help the archaeologists confirm the exact origin of the skull. In addition to the skull, archaeologists have found numerous artifacts and a pit of carbon-rich soil containing bones. | |
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David Keys
The Independent, UK 2014-07-14 13:25:00
Scientists are investigating what may be the oldest identified race war 13,000 years after it raged on the fringes of the Sahara. French scientists working in collaboration with the British Museum have been examining dozens of skeletons, a majority of whom appear to have been killed by archers using flint-tipped arrows. The bones - from Jebel Sahaba on the east bank of the Nile in northern Sudan - are from victims of the world's oldest known relatively large-scale human armed conflict. Over the past two years anthropologists from Bordeaux University have discovered literally dozens of previously undetected arrow impact marks and flint arrow head fragments on and around the bones of the victims. This is in addition to many arrow heads and impact marks already found embedded in some of the bones during an earlier examination of the skeletons back in the 1960s. The remains - the contents of an entire early cemetery - were found in 1964 by the prominent American archaeologist, Fred Wendorf, but, until the current investigations, had never been examined using more modern, 21 century, technology. | |
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Jonathan O'Callaghan
Daily Mail, UK 2014-06-27 08:53:00
In 524 BC, a Persian army of 50,000 men sent by King Cambyses II marched into the Egyptian desert from Thebes - now known as Luxor. But, after entering the desert, they were never heard from again. For centuries. it has been presumed they were swallowed by a sandstorm, but now a researcher claims that wasn't the case - and instead they must have been defeated in battle. In the 5th century BC, Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the disappearance of the army could be attributed to an unfortunate end involving sand dunes. University of Leiden Egyptologist Professor Olaf Kaper, however, disagrees.'Since the 19th century, people have been looking for this army: amateurs, as well as professional archaeologists,' he said. | |
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Emma Weissmann
Healthy Debates 2014-07-13 00:00:00
The aptly named mousear cress may respond to caterpillar munching sounds. Plants have long been known to react to changes in their environment, and may respond to light, temperature, and touch. But are they listening too? For the Arabidopsis plant, the answer is a loud and clear "yes." The distinct, high-amplitude vibrations produced by a cabbage butterfly caterpillar munching on a leaf of this flowering mustard plant, commonly called mousear cress, throws its defenses into high gear, according to a study published in Oecologia this month by two researchers at the University of Missouri. The study, which combined audio and chemical analysis, is the first to find evidence that plants respond to an ecologically relevant sound in the environment, said Heidi Appel, a senior research scientist in the Division of Plant Sciences at Missouri. | |
Comment: More bad news for vegetarians in that science of their beloved faceless plantbased food source, no longer can be considered without functions of consciousness, but aware beings with ability to feel some kind of pain and reciprocate in more complex ways than formerly thought (purely electric and chemical communications).
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Frank Konkel
Defense One 2014-07-11 00:00:00
The intelligence community is about to get the equivalent of an adrenaline shot to the chest. This summer, a $600 million computing cloud developed by Amazon Web Services for the Central Intelligence Agency over the past year will begin servicing all 17 agencies that make up the intelligence community. If the technology plays out as officials envision, it will usher in a new era of cooperation and coordination, allowing agencies to share information and services much more easily and avoid the kind of intelligence gaps that preceded the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. For the first time, agencies within the IC(intelligence community) will be able to order a variety of on-demand computing and analytic services from the CIA and National Security Agency. What's more, they'll only pay for what they use. The vision was first outlined in the IC Information Technology Enterprise plan championed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and IC Chief Information Officer Al Tarasiuk almost three years ago. Cloud computing is one of the core components of the strategy to help the IC discover, access and share critical information in an era of seemingly infinite data. | |
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Bob Brewin
Defense One 2014-07-08 00:00:00
The Pentagon has delayed its plans to knock down a controversial Alaskan radio research facility until next year, for a possible transfer to a university or scientific institution, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, announced. Murkowski said July 2 the Air Force had agreed to halt demolition of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility until May 2015 while research institutions, including the University of Alaska, develop funding proposals for it. HAARP, located on 30 acres adjacent to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in southeastern Alaska, features 180 antennas that beam electrons into the ionosphere for research into radio communications and surveillance. Conspiracy theorists contend the Defense Department uses HAARP, which went into operation in 1997, to conduct mind-control experiments and to modify global weather patterns. At a May 14 Senate hearing, Murkowski questioned why the Pentagon planned to demolish HAARP this summer to cut costs, and asked whether it was fiscally sound to destroy a $290 million facility when it costs less than 1 percent of that to run it each year. | |
Comment: It's highly unlikely the defense community has no more interest in this technology. The fact that they are talking about dismantling it just means they already have a newer, better facility elsewhere.
Related... HAARP and The Canary in the Mine Mind Control and HAARP | |
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RT.com
2014-07-14 09:14:00
Samsung Electronics has temporarily suspended business with a Chinese supplier after suspicions it illegally used child labor. The company says it'll stop cooperation altogether if the allegation is proved. The world's biggest technology company said it is conducting an investigation into theDongguan Shinyang Electronics Company after watchdog China Labor Watch (CLW) reported employees under 16 were working at the factory. The day after the CLW report the New York Times published its own report which included interviews with three 14- and 15-year-old girls who worked at the plant. "Samsung decided to temporarily suspend business with the factory in question as it found evidence of suspected child labor at the worksite," the Financial Times quotes a representative of South Korean company. "If the investigations conclude that the supplier indeed hired children illegally, Samsung will permanently halt business with the supplier." | |
Comment: This is not the first time Samsung has been caught using suppliers who illegally employ children:
Samsung production line staff 'forced to work 16 hours a day and are given just one day off a month' | |
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Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes & Martino Nicolini
Cbet nr. 3921, issued on 2014, July 13, announces the discovery of a comet (~ magnitude 17) by the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (or NEOWISE; formerly the WISE satellite) team on images taken with the NEOWISE satellite on 2014, July 04.5. The new comet has been designated C/2014 N3 (NEOWISE).Remanzacco Observatory 2014-07-13 16:51:00 We performed follow-up measurements of this object, while it was still on the neocp. Stacking of 10 unfiltered exposures, 60-sec each, obtained remotely on 2014, July 09.6 from Q62 (iTelescope network - Siding Spring) through a 0.50-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD + focal reducer, shows that this object is a comet: coma about 15" in diameter elongated toward PA 200 (the comet was about +21 degree above the horizon at the moment of the imaging session). Our confirmation image (click on it for a bigger version)
M.P.E.C. 2014-N72 assigns the following parabolic orbital elements to comet C/2014 N3: T 2015 Mar. 15.67; e= 1.0; Peri. = 354.49; q = 3.84; Incl.= 61.73. | |
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C. J. Miozzi
Once upon a time, scientists actually believed the world was flat, the center of the universe, and composed of four elements. These were not views held by crackpot theorists living on the fringes of society - reputable scholars representing the scientific community held these beliefs. That is, until radical thinkers brought to light new evidence to cause paradigm shifts that would evolve our understanding of the world we inhabit.The Escapist 2014-07-02 03:00:00 Here are five other obsolete theories once commonly accepted by mainstream science.
1. Emission Theory How do we see? Our brains process the information held within visible light, which either issues directly from a source or is reflected off objects and "bounced" into our eyes.According to emission theory, our eyes aren't receiving these rays of light - they areemitting them. In short, we see by shooting "sight" beams from our eyes. Emission theory was first proposed in the fifth century BCE and supported by the likes of renowned scholars Plato, Euclid and Ptolemy. However, there was always a school of thought that opposed this notion and supported ideas more in line with our modern understanding of vision - though that understanding may not be as widespread as the education system would hope. A study conducted in 2002 found that as many as 50% of American college students believe human vision operates on principles in line with emission theory. Curiously, ray tracing technology in computer graphics is a technique that generates images in a manner very similar to emission theory, by tracing a straight-line path from the camera (or eye) to the objects in front of it and gathering the information needed to construct a picture. | |
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wildlifeextra.com
2014-07-12 09:24:00
A new insight into one of the biggest questions in science - why some animals, including humans, work together to maintain a common good - has been achieved by scientists at the University of Sheffield. Sociable weavers, a highly gregarious and co-operative breeding bird from the savannahs of southern Africa, build the largest nests of any bird, often weighing tonnes and lasting for decades, and housing colonies of up to several hundred birds. The massive nests consist of individual nest chambers which are used throughout the year for breeding and roosting and are embedded within a communal thatch. The thatch covering the nest doesn't originate from individual chamber building but requires separate investment from colony members to build and maintain it. | |
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RT
2014-07-11 20:29:00
Americans with their eyes to the sky this weekend could get a chance to see Earth's moon as it rarely appears. Starting Friday evening, a so-called "supermoon" will be viewable across the United States. There will be a full moon in the sky starting Friday night and into early Saturday, and this time around the super-sized satellite will look larger than usual. When a full moon occurs at the same time that its orbit brings it closest to the Earth, as expected this weekend, onlookers are greeted with what scientists at NASA call a "supermoon." Five supermoons are expected in all during the course of 2014, and two of them already happened in the month of January. Beginning Friday evening, however, Americans will have their third chance this year to see a full moon coincide as the satellite's orbit reaches "perigee" (or "near earth"). Scientists expect that this weekend's full moon will reach perigee at around 222,611 miles away from Earth - around 30,000 miles closer than the moon will be when it's at its furthest this year. | |
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| Earth Changes |
Thunderstorms rolled north through Central Oregon Sunday afternoon, accompanied by 3,400 lightning strikes that had crews scrambling to hit dozens of new, mostly small fires across the region -- some threatening homes on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. A Klamath County fire grew to 600 acres and burned structures. About 3,400 lighting strikes pelted the region between early Sunday morning and the evening hours, resulting in 65 smoke reports by early evening to the Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center in Prineville, said spokeswoman Jean Nelson-Dean. Nearly half of those resulted from an intense late-afternoon thunderstorm that rolled through the Ochoco National Forest and Prineville District of the BLM, as well as private lands in Crook County, she said. The largest new fire in Central Oregon was burning at the extreme southern end, four miles northeast of Cabin Lake, near Forest Service Road 18, about three miles north of the Klamath-Deschutes County border. That fire was estimated at about 40 to 60 acres, with five engines, a 20-person crew and a water tender working the fire, along with a pair of single-engine air tankers (SEAT planes) making retardant drops | |
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Amy Remeikis
Brisbane Times 2014-07-13 10:06:00
A major water main break has led to a 10 metre sink hole on the Gold Coast Highway and it could take another 24 hours to completely repair the site. Police spent hours at the site directing traffic around the giant hole, which reduced the Gold Coast Highway at Margaret Street in Broadbeach to one lane on Sunday. Police signed off from the area just before 2pm, but repairs are on-going. Gold Coast Council staff have been on the scene since early Monday morning, working to patch the road. Motorists are still advised to avoid the area. On Monday morning, a Gold Coast City Council spokesman said the site was cleared overnight. Council crews were waiting for Energex to disconnect utilities so they could get in and repair the pipe. It would take another 24 hours before the site was completely repaired but the spokesman stressed residents still had water supplies. One lane of the Gold Coast Highway remained closed on Monday morning.
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Comment: As with many of these water main break and pipe bursting explanations for the sinkholes phenomena, quite often nowadays it's really the other way round, the sinkholes open up first then cause the pipe fractures. The earth is opening up! See chart below.
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The China Post
2014-07-13 05:47:00
Seismologists said an earthquake that struck near Japan's shuttered Fukushima nuclear site early Saturday was an aftershock of the tremor that sparked 2011's deadly tsunami, and warned of more to come. The strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast of northeastern Japan caused a minor tsunami in the early hours, though authorities lifted all weather warnings roughly two hours later. Seismologist Yasuhiro Yoshida of the Japan Meteorological Agency said it was a delayed tectonic reaction to the 9.0-magnitude quake which left the Fukushima nuclear power plant in a meltdown crisis after the coast was ravaged by monster tidal waves in March 2011. "There are fears that relatively large earthquakes will occasionally occur in the ocean area where aftershocks of the great earthquake continue," he said. "The aftershock activity has been steadily declining on a long-term basis. But aftershocks, accompanied by tsunamis, will still occur." The 2011 disaster killed more than 18,000 people. Saturday's quake measured up to four on the Japanese scale of seven in terms of intensity, and Yoshida said there was a possibility aftershocks measuring a moderate three on that scale would occur in the next two weeks. | |
Comment: Readers can check out a short video of this earthquake here. Some additional updates on the Fukushima disaster can be found in these related articles:
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Corrie Taylor
The Sun (New Zealand) 2014-07-12 05:06:00
A rare species of albatross found injured on Chapel Street could be more than 2500km from home. Sooty the light-mantled sooty albatross is being nursed back to health at Oropi Native Bird Rescue Haven after being discovered in very poor condition on the side of the road last month. Haven owner Chrissy Jefferson says it's the first of this species she's encountered in her 54 years of bird rescue work in the Bay. "They're from the Antipodes Islands, down near the Antarctic. It's very rare for them to be found here. "It's even stranger he was found on the road; if he'd turned up on the beach, it wouldn't have been as strange." | |
Comment: See also: Monster storms bring rare seabird visitors to New Zealand
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U.S. Geological Survey
2014-07-14 03:44:00
Event Time 2014-07-14 07:59:58 UTC 2014-07-14 15:59:58 UTC+08:00 at epicente Location 5.696°N 126.534°E depth=22.5km (14.0mi) Nearby Cities 83km (52mi) SSE of Pondaguitan, Philippines 101km (63mi) ESE of Caburan, Philippines 129km (80mi) SE of Malita, Philippines 141km (88mi) ESE of Malapatan, Philippines 897km (557mi) WSW of Koror Town, Palau Scientific data | |
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Press TV
2014-07-14 01:59:00
Seven small earthquakes have shaken central Oklahoma in a span of about 14 hours. According to the US Geological Survey, earthquakes across Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas have increased in recent years. Some scientists say the temblors could be connected to the oil and gas drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, and especially the wells in which the industry disposes of its wastewater. Sunday's quakes ranged from magnitude 2.6 to 2.9 and were centered in the Guthrie, Jones and Langston areas, 15 miles to 30 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, ABC News reported. The USGS said the temblors were recorded between 7:57 p.m. Saturday and 9:51 a.m. Sunday. No injuries or damage were reported. | |
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Space Weather
The weekend of July 12-13 brought another outbreak of noctilucent clouds (NLCs) to Europe. Across the northern reaches of the continent, skies were criss-crossed by signature ripples of electric blue, like these photographed by Jaan Jalgratas of Tartu, Estonia:2014-07-14 01:56:00
"The display was very bright and it extended at least 35 degrees above the horizon," says Jalgratas. "It was my best sighting ever." NLCs are Earth's highest clouds. Seeded by "meteor smoke," they form at the edge of space 83 km above Earth's surface. When sunlight hits the tiny ice crystals that make up these clouds, they glow electric blue. | |
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US Geological Survey
2014-07-13 16:44:00
Event Time 2014-07-13 20:54:14 UTC 2014-07-13 16:54:14 UTC-04:00 at epicenter Location 20.245°S 70.357°W depth=35.7km (22.2mi) Nearby Cities 22km (14mi) W of Iquique, Chile 195km (121mi) S of Arica, Chile 205km (127mi) N of Tocopilla, Chile 248km (154mi) S of Tacna, Peru 475km (295mi) SSW of La Paz, Bolivia Scientific Data | |
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Kristine Angeli Sabillo
Inquirier.net 2014-07-13 15:59:00
Although not posing any serious threats at the moment, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Sunday told the public to stay away from Bulusan volcano's permanent danger zone in Sorsogon after volcanic earthquakes were detected. "During the 24-hour observation period, the seismic network detected thirteen (13) volcanic earthquakes. Ground deformation data from continuous GPS and precise leveling survey also indicated that the volcano is slightly inflated," Phivolcs said in a statement. The agency said the volcano's status is still at alert level 0. "The local government units and the public are reminded that entry to the four-kilometer radius Permanent Danger Zone (PDZ) is strictly prohibited due to the possibility of sudden and hazardous steam-driven or phreatic eruptions," Phivolcs said. It warned against aircraft flying near the volcano's summit since sudden eruption may be harmful. | |
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Business-standard.com
2014-07-13 15:50:00
Mount Sinabung, one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia, has erupted, spewing ash to the sky. No casualty was reported, official said here Sunday. The volcano located in Karo district of North Sumatra province erupted at 23.05 p.m. Saturday, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of national disaster management agency, said. "The height of the eruption could not be determined as it took place at night and there were many clouds," he told Xinhua by phone. "Rains of hot ash occurred in several place in Karo district, but it did not trigger further evacuation," Sutopo added. The 2,600-metre (8,530-foot) Mount Sinabung last erupted June 29, shooting columns of ash by up to 4,000 metres into the sky. | |
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More weather that is not supposed to happen. ------------------------------ 11 July 2014 - "Although summertime snowfall high up in the Alps is not an unusual occurrence, snowfall down to 6000 feet elevation IN JULY is something that wasn't supposed to happen nowadays," writes P. Gosselin on notrickzone.com. 20 inches of snow Last Tuesday, July 8, the Swiss online Blick reported that meteorologists were predicting snowfall down to 1800 meters elevation (6000 ft.), forecasting up to 50 cm (20 inches) of snow in the Canton of Valais. Blick writes that the snowfall presented a problem for grazing cattle, which would either have to be brought down to lower elevations or housed in mountain shelters stocked with feed. By evening, passes were closed and avalanche warnings had been issued. | |
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ABC News
2014-07-11 01:37:00
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Comment: Again, what was thought impossible in the realm of weather a few years ago is now being proven wrong with recent years increase in severe weather phenomena.
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Voice of Russia
2014-07-13 09:44:00
Heavy rain in the town of Zlatoust in Russia's South Urals on Sunday, July 12, suddenly gave way to a blizzard in a rare twist of weather for the summer season. "It wasn't just rain and snow, but real snowfall with snowflakes as white as during winter. T melted quickly, of course. A fantastic sight," ITAR-TASS quotes an eyewitness, Valery Semyannikov, as saying. In some areas of the Chelyabinsk region, snow lay 5-10 cm thick. It's the first ever mid-summer snowfall in the South Urals. The Chelyabinsk weather service predicted "wet and windy weather with moderate to heavy rain throughout the region, thunderstorms and soft hail in the east and ice hail in the mountains." | |
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A woman in Santa Fe, New Mexico, had just left her home early Thursday morning when her car suddenly stalled. A good Samaritan pulled over to help, but when he opened the hood of the car he didn't find a dead battery. Instead, he found a very much living 9-foot, 20-pound python.. "It was looking right at me. It flicked its little tongue, and I kind of freaked out a little bit," Jackson Ault said of the discovery. So Ault and the woman, who wasn't identified, called the local police to help. The first officer on the scene wasn't anymore interested in dealing with the snake (believed to be a Burmese python) than Ault.
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El Periscopio
2014-07-08 23:33:00
Translated from Spanish by SOTT.net Last Monday, at around 6 p.m, San Antonians from the region of Valparaiso started uploading pictures all over social networks of an unusual object. It was similar to a tornado, and they'd apparently first seen it between clouds. Experts attributed it to a meteor. At first sight, it looked like a spiral, tornado-like, thick cloud. Not having received any explanation, people began to panic. | |
Comment: The following video footage was aired the following day on local media, reportedly showing a meteor fireball leaving a glowing trail over the same city earlier that evening.
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Teresa Gubbins
Culture Map, Dallas 2014-07-13 00:34:00
A meteor crossed the sky over North Texas on July 12 at 9 pm, enthralling many around Dallas who watched as it split into two before its inevitable fade. From Denton to Waxahachie, from Lake Ray Roberts to Lake Tawakoni, night-sky viewers witnessed what some described as a double meteor, with two streams of blue-green light racing across the sky to the west. Many were already watching the sky to catch what was the first perigee moon, aka Supermoon, of 2014. According to Dallas photographer David Worthington, who was lying in wait to photograph the moon against the Dallas skyline, the moon became visible at 8:55 pm. The meteor emerged less than 10 minutes later. Midlothian resident Mike Prendergast was moon-watching with friends when they spotted what they first thought was an airplane. | ||
Comment: Check out some eyewitnesses' reports: a LOT of people saw this one and many of them were pretty spooked. SOTT.net reader KM also sent us her description of the event:
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ScienceDaily
2014-07-14 16:04:00
A decreased ability to identify odors might indicate the development of cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease, while examinations of the eye could indicate the build-up of beta-amyloid, a protein associated with Alzheimer's, in the brain, according to the results of four research trials reported today at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference® 2014 (AAIC® 2014) in Copenhagen. In two of the studies, the decreased ability to identify odors was significantly associated with loss of brain cell function and progression to Alzheimer's disease. In two other studies, the level of beta-amyloid detected in the eye (a) was significantly correlated with the burden of beta-amyloid in the brain and (b) allowed researchers to accurately identify the people with Alzheimer's in the studies. Beta-amyloid protein is the primary material found in the sticky brain "plaques" characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. It is known to build up in the brain many years before typical Alzheimer's symptoms of memory loss and other cognitive problems. "In the face of the growing worldwide Alzheimer's disease epidemic, there is a pressing need for simple, less invasive diagnostic tests that will identify the risk of Alzheimer's much earlier in the disease process," said Heather Snyder, Ph.D., Alzheimer's Association director of Medical and Scientific Operations. "This is especially true as Alzheimer's researchers move treatment and prevention trials earlier in the course of the disease." | |
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Jane Lear
Take Part 2014-07-14 15:59:00
Forget everything you heard about leaching minerals and eroding tooth enamel - it's just water with bubbles. Carbonated water is water in which carbon dioxide gas has been dissolved, thus creating tiny bubbles. It's what gives soft drinks their almost irresistible effervescence, but its allure is thousands of years old. Julius Caesar, for instance, had a spa built around the naturally carbonated springs of Vichy, in France, and to this day, balneologists (not your run-of-the-mill therapeutic specialists) recommend drinking Vichy water, notable for its sodium bicarbonate content, as a digestif. Artificially carbonated water was invented by chemist Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804), who published his findings in a 1772 paper titled "Directions for Impregnating Water with Fixed Air." He's most famously known, by the way, as the scientist who identified the gas oxygen, and as luck would have it, this coming Sunday is Oxygen Day at the Joseph Priestley House, in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. I can only wonder what Priestley, one of the world's great free-thinkers, would make of the current nonsense about the alleged harmful effects of carbonated water. | |
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Jim Fetzer
WiFi - An invisible but ubiquitous threat to the future of the speciesVeterans Today 2014-07-05 15:27:00 "Of the microwave-exposed women, 47.7% had miscarriages prior to the 7th week of pregnancy...." - Professor John R. Goldsmith, International Consultant / Advisor for Radio-Frequency Communication, Epidemiology and Communications Sciences Advisor to the WHO Today I conducted one of the most disturbing radio interviews of my life as host of "The Real Deal", with a British physicist and electronic warfare expert, Barrie Trower. By the time he had finished his service in the military, Barrie had acquired a great deal of expertise in the microwave field and he extended his research to common electronic systems, including cell phones, iPods, computer games and microwave ovens. He was appalled to discover that microwave radiation is ubiquitous and extremely hazardous, especially to pregnant women and young children. The risks are so great that the use of WiFi, which is enormously popular, can lead to permanent genetic damage to your children and your children's children. Here is his personal warning in his own words: |
Comment: Another interesting interview with Barry Trower
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Theextinctionprotocol.
2014-07-13 15:31:00
Disease The worst outbreak of Ebola moved to Sierra Leone's capital of Freetown where an Egyptian was found with the city's first confirmed case of the disease. The unidentified Egyptian national had traveled from Kenema, the largest city in the nation's Eastern Province, and checked into a clinic east of Freetown, Sidie Yahya Tunis, director of Information, Communication and Technology at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, said by phone today. The person was moved back to the Ebola center in Kenema, he said. "The Ebola disease usually spreads to other places when suspected or confirmed cases in one community move to another, they abandon treatment centers to stay with relatives or they seek treatment outside the Ebola centers," Tunis said. There have been 99 Ebola deaths in Sierra Leone out of 315 laboratory-confirmed cases, the ministry said in an e-mailed statement today. The ministry said yesterday that 92 people had died out of 305 cases. Cases of the hemorrhagic fever have killed more than 540 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in an outbreak that according to the World Health Organization may last another three to four months. The toll is greater than the 280 people killed in 1976, when the virus was first identified near the Ebola River in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The rapid spread of the virus is largely due to people moving across borders as well as cultural practices that are contrary to public health guidelines, such as people touching the body of a deceased relative before the funeral. Source: Bloomberg | |
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Jeff Ritterman, M.D.
Truthout 2014-07-10 12:21:00
For years, scientists have been trying to unravel the mystery of a chronic kidney disease epidemic that has hit Central America, India and Sri Lanka. The disease occurs in poor peasant farmers who do hard physical work in hot climes. In each instance, the farmers have been exposed to herbicides and to heavy metals. The disease is known as CKDu, for Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown etiology. The "u" differentiates this illness from other chronic kidney diseases where the cause is known. Very few Western medical practitioners are even aware of CKDu, despite the terrible toll it has taken on poor farmers from El Salvador to South Asia. Dr. Catharina Wesseling, the regional director for the Program on Work and Health (SALTRA) in Central America, which pioneered the initial studies of the region's unsolved outbreak, put it this way, "Nephrologists and public health professionals from wealthy countries are mostly either unfamiliar with the problem or skeptical whether it even exists." Dr. Wesseling was being diplomatic. At a 2011 health summit in Mexico City, the United States beat back a proposal by Central American nations that would have listed CKDu as a top priority for the Americas. David McQueen, a US delegate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who has since retired from the agency, explained the US position: | |
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Travis Gettys
Raw Story 2014-07-12 11:47:00
A 9-year-old Kansas girl died from an extremely rare "brain-eating amoeba," but health officials aren't sure where she was infected. Hally "Bug" Yust died Wednesday, and officials from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment confirmed that one person in Johnson County died from primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) caused by Naegleria fowleri. KCTV-TV reported that laboratory tests found the bacteria in a specimen from Hally's body, and additional tests by the Centers for Disease Control are pending. The bacteria are found in freshwater, but authorities are still trying to determine the source of the Spring Hill girl's infection. | |
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Lily Dane
A few days ago, word got out that 6 vials of variola, the virus that causes smallpox, were found in a cold storage room that is owned by the Food and Drug Administration on the NIH's Bethesda campus.The Daily Sheeple 2014-07-12 14:58:00 That research building was not equipped or approved for storage of deadly pathogens, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition to the 6 vials that were labeled variola, ten unmarked vials were found...and so far, no one has addressed what those vials may contain, or if they are even being tested. Yesterday, the CDC announced that at least two of the vials contain viable samples of the deadly smallpox virus. |
Comment: We should all feel safer knowing that the Keystone Cops of lab workers are
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Sonali Basak and Jennifer Oldham
Bloomberg 2014-07-12 00:00:00
A Colorado man is infected with the rarest and most fatal form of plague, an airborne version that can be spread through coughing and sneezing. It is the first case of pneumonic plague seen in the state since 2004, said Jennifer House, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. The man, who hasn't been identified, may have been exposed in Adams County near Denver, health officials said in a statement. While House said the man has been hospitalized and treated, she wouldn't release other details about his situation. "He's on treatment long enough to not be transmissible," House said in a telephone interview. He may have contracted the illness from his dog, she said, which died suddenly and has also been found to carry the disease. | |
Comment: What we are being told is that this is an occurrence of a highly rare pneumonic plague that was probably transmitted to the victim by his dog, who died from the infection. Precious little other information is given about the case. Could there be misdirection in what we are being told about it? Keep this in mind when you read:
New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection | |
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Medical Xpress
2013-12-16 18:49:00
Coffee and cigarette smoking may protect against the rare liver disease Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis (PSC), a recent study shows. In a new study from Norway published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, both coffee consumption and cigarette smoking are shown to potentially protect against primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). This is a chronic liver disease caused by chronic inflammation of the bile ducts. Great interest The findings are of great interest against a backdrop of increasing knowledge on coffee as a possible protective agent in other liver diseases. | |
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Jillian Rose
Live Science 2014-07-14 14:05:00
People may unsuspectingly choose friends who have some DNA sequences in common with them, a new analysis finds. Researchers compared gene variations between nearly 2,000 people who were not biologically related, and found that friends had more gene variations in common than strangers. The study lends a possible scientific backing for the well-worn clichés, "We're just like family," or "Friends are the family you choose," the researchers said. "Humans are unique in that we create long-term connections with people of our species," said Nicholas Christakis, a social scientist at Yale University involved in the study. "Why do we do that? Why do we make friends? Not only that, we prefer the company of people we resemble." The researchers did the study because they wanted "to provide a deep evolutionary account of the origins and significance of friendship," Christakis said. The new study is based on data from the Framingham Heart Study, which is a large, ongoing study looking at heart disease risk factors in the people living in one town: Framingham, Massachusetts. The researchers looked at data on people's DNA, as well as who was friends with whom. After analyzing almost 1.5 million markers of gene variations, the researchers found that pairs of friends had the same level of genetic relation as people did with a fourth cousin, or a great-great-great grandfather, which translates to about 1 percent of the human genome. | |
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Dr. Rolf Froböse
Huffington Post 2014-06-17 17:09:00
Some international physicists are convinced, that our spirit has a quantum state and that the dualism between the body and the soul is just as real to as the "wave-particle dualism" of the smallest particles. Dr. James G. of San Francisco, a former coworker of the German Max-Planck Society in Frankfurt, reported the following incredible story. "I studied not only in the USA, but I also studied chemistry in London for a few semesters. When I came to England, the student housing was full, so I added my name to a waiting list. A short time later, I received the joyous news that a room had become available. Shortly after I had moved in, I awoke one night and in the twilight was able to see a young man with curly, black hair. I was terrified and told the alleged neighbor that he had the wrong room. He simply cried and looked at me with great sadness in his eyes. "When I turned on the light, the apparition had disappeared. Since I was one hundred percent sure it had not been a dream, I told the housemaster about the strange encounter the next morning. I gave her a detailed description of the young man. She suddenly paled. She looked through the archives and showed me a photo. I immediately recognized the young man who had visited me in my room the evening before. When I asked her who he was, she replied with a quivering voice that it was the previous renter. She then added that my room had become available because he had taken his life shortly before." The author would never have recorded the story had "James" not been an absolutely trustworthy person. Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, former head of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, represents the opinion that the dualism of the smallest particles is not limited to the subatomic world, but instead is omnipresent. In other words: the dualism between the body and the soul is just as real to him as "wave-particle dualism" of the smallest particles. According to his view, a universal quantum code exists that applies for all living and dead matter. This quantum code supposedly spans the entire cosmos. Consequently, Dürr believes - again based on purely physical considerations - in an existence after death. He explains this as follows in an interview he gave: Comment: The problem with this analogy is that a wave is not analogous to a mind (at least according to how we normally think of waves or minds). For the analogy to work, we should posit that waves have some degree of sentience, which implies panpsychism, i.e., everything has some degree of awareness, not just organisms with brains. | |
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Gary Marcus
New York Times 2014-07-11 16:54:00
Are we ever going to figure out how the brain works? After decades of research, diseases like schizophrenia and Alzheimer's still resist treatment. Despite countless investigations into serotonin and other neurotransmitters, there is still no method to cure clinical depression. And for all the excitement about brain-imaging techniques, the limitations of fMRI studies are, as evidenced by popular books likeBrainwashed and Neuromania, by now well known. In spite of the many remarkable advances in neuroscience, you might get the sinking feeling that we are not always going about brain science in the best possible way. This feeling was given prominent public expression on Monday, when hundreds of neuroscientists from all over the world issued an indignant open letter to the European Commission, which is funding the Human Brain Project, an approximately $1.6 billion effort that aims to build a complete computer simulation of the human brain. The letter charges that the project is "overly narrow" in approach and not "well conceived." While no neuroscientist doubts that a faithful-to-life brain simulation would ultimately be tremendously useful, some have called the project "radically premature." The controversy serves as a reminder that we scientists are not only far from a comprehensive explanation of how the brain works; we're also not even in agreement about the best way to study it, or what questions we should be asking. The European Commission, like the Obama administration, which is promoting a large-scale research enterprise called the Brain Initiative, is investing heavily in neuroscience, and rightly so. (A set of new tools such as optogenetics, which allows neuroscientists to control the activity of individual neurons, gives considerable reason for optimism.) But neither project has grappled sufficiently with a critical question that is too often ignored in the field: What would a good theory of the brain actually look like? | |
Comment: Probably the biggest reason brain science is at an impasse is philosophical: materialism makes the problem insoluble. If everything is physical, there is no logical way of explaining how word meanings, for example, can be 'stored' in neurons. See: The Heretic: Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?
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University of Cambridge
2014-07-11 11:59:00
Pornography triggers brain activity in people with compulsive sexual behaviour - known commonly as sex addiction - similar to that triggered by drugs in the brains of drug addicts, according to a University of Cambridge study published in the journal PLOS ONE. However, the researchers caution that this does not necessarily mean that pornography itself is addictive. Although precise estimates are unknown, previous studies have suggested that as many as one in 25 adults is affected by compulsive sexual behaviour, an obsession with sexual thoughts, feelings or behaviour which they are unable to control. This can have an impact on a person's personal life and work, leading to significant distress and feelings of shame. Excessive use of pornography is one of the main features identified in many people with compulsive sexual behaviour. However, there is currently no formally accepted definition of diagnosing the condition. In a study funded by the Wellcome Trust, researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge looked at brain activity in nineteen male patients affected by compulsive sexual behaviour and compared them to the same number of healthy volunteers. The patients started watching pornography at earlier ages and in higher proportions relative to the healthy volunteers. | |
Comment: Journal Reference: Valerie Voon, Thomas B. Mole, Paula Banca, Laura Porter, Laurel Morris, Simon Mitchell, Tatyana R. Lapa, Judy Karr, Neil A. Harrison, Marc N. Potenza, Michael Irvine. Neural Correlates of Sexual Cue Reactivity in Individuals with and without Compulsive Sexual Behaviours. PLoS ONE, 2014; 9 (7): e102419 DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0102419
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Margaret Lutze
Liberty Voice 2014-07-06 07:25:00
Personality type was found to predict obedience in a study that asked the subjects to administer painful electric shocks to others, and the nice people were more likely to do as they were told. Those who scored as Conscientious and Agreeable on a personality test(specifically the Big Five Mini-Markers questionnaire) were more likely to be willing to administer higher-intensity electric shocks to an innocent victim. This study was an extension of a previous famous study, called the Milgram study, in which subjects were tested on their willingness to obey an authority figure. In the original Milgram study of 1961 the experiment tested how far someone would go in obeying an order to give another person (an actor that faked feeling pain) a painful electric shock. In the experiment, someone played the part of being a teacher who asked the subjects questions. With each "wrong" answer, the subject was told to shock the actor who then screamed as if in pain. A shock of 450 volts is very painful and can cause death, however, 65 percent of the subjects in the Milgram study were willing to administer this level of electric shock despite the fact that it made the person receiving the shock scream as if he was feeling intense pain. | |
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The New Zealand Herald
2014-07-11 22:28:00
Reading online could be making us dumber, a University of Victoria study has found. The study of offline and online reading behaviour found spending hours glued to a computer screen had a negative impact on cognition, concentration, comprehension, absorption and recall rates. People were reading more text than ever, but retaining less of it. Victoria's School of Information Management's Dr Val Hooper said people today almost expected to be interrupted when using their computers. "Multitasking when reading online was common, with activities such as reading emails, checking news, exploring hyperlinks and viewing video clips providing distractions, which could have something to do with it." While readers were churning through more content online, they were much more likely to be skim reading and scanning than absorbing anything of substance. | |
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Drake Baer
Nerve 2014-07-11 11:03:00
The thing about breaking up is that it's way less fun than falling in love. It's kind of likejumping into a pile of hot garbage. It's also like trying to kick a cocaine habit. I should know. About two months ago, the girl that I loved like a maniac was totally driving me crazy (not that I was making her feel particularly sane), so we decided that the year-long rollercoaster of strife-ridden romance we had (mostly) enjoyed had come to its final stop. As twentysomething New York transplants with poor relationship models do, we broke up. The resulting withdrawal? In a word: awful. | |
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Steve Robson and Jennifer Morris
Fears the life-sucking phantoms have materialised after haunting UFO appears in countryside.The Mirror 2014-07-02 18:35:00
Villagers were left gobsmacked by the sight of this 'Dementor-like' UFO floating in the Surrey countryside. Several called police after spotting the strange sight which one person described as "like something out of a horror film". Others said it looked like a Dementor from the Harry Potter books, GetSurrey reports. In the popular series, Dementors are described as a phantom beings which can suck the life from humans. Police said the reports varied from the possibility of a hot air balloon crashing to a large piece of sheeting flying through the air. | |
Comment: Bizarro! Evidence of very strange "weather" going on. Reminds us of all those historical cases of weird stuff falling from the sky - not that the stuff itself was weird, but rather that it was falling from the sky, which means the weather is the weird thing.
Hay was also reported to be falling from the sky across England and Wales last month... Mysterious rain of hay reported in Gloucestershire, Devon, Wiltshire, Mid Wales and Lancashire | |
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Antonio Urzi Simona Sibilla
Youtube.com 2014-07-10 14:51:00
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Pisomadera
Youtube.com 2014-07-07 14:47:00
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Stephanie Linning
Daily Mail, UK 2014-07-11 14:27:00
* David Langley-Evans caught 'ghost' on CCTV in his pub in Llanelli, Wales * In the video a wispy white shape appears in the hallway and rises to ceiling * Latest in a series of 'weird and wonderful' things seen by the landlord * Now he wants experts in the supernatural to identify the ghostly shape This video of a ghostly white shape floating down a hallway might look like it was taken from the latest science-fiction thriller - but in fact it was captured by a pub's CCTV camera. And the landlord said that this spooky footage is the proof he needed that his pub in Llanelli, west Wales, is visited by supernatural spirits. David Langley-Evans, 49, said he couldn't believe it when he first saw the wispy shape appear in his hallway - and now he wants experts on the supernatural to identify what it was.
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incredingo
YouTube 2012-08-06 11:41:00
Hilarious prank pulled at a bus stop in Israel with spray paint cans. Enjoy!
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Gary Boyle
Sott.net 2014-07-13 13:45:00
Armed police were dispatched after reports of a 'serious disturbance' in a men's toilet at Heathrow airport last night, with two suspected terrorists detained for questioning. With the current 'emergency' at the Home Office (see below), the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, offered to personally take responsibility for the interrogation. He stated, "National security is my prime concern, and after recent warnings from our allies in American Intelligence pertaining to a new insidious terrorist threat to airlines, this case required 'delicate handling' and a 'sure touch'. Although he later admitted he could not find any hidden explosive material or WMD's (Weapons of Mass Deception), despite numerous searches, Mr Hague added, "The great British public understand that these new invasive security measures are necessary and 'wholly' justified." Following their implementation in America, Westminster sources have confirmed that the controversial, 'rectal probing' security measures at British airports will be used "indefinitely" as part of the never ending "war against terror". The spokesman continued, "in our attempts to thwart these evil plots, we will seek out these terrible weapons wherever they may be, exploring every nook and cranny if necessary." However, Whitehall officials were left red-faced earlier today, as further details emerged about the alleged 'Jihadi bottom bombers'. Travelling under stolen passports, as Ben Dover and Phil McAvity, the two men were in fact prominent married Tory MP's, booked on a flight to Thailand for 'research' on the paedophile sex tourist industry | |
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Allie Robinson
Bristol Herald-Courier 2014-07-11 00:00:00
An Abingdon man claimed a kingdom so his daughter could be a princess. Jeremiah Heaton, who has three children, recently trekked across the Egyptian desert to a small, mountainous region between Egypt and Sudan called Bir Tawil. The area, about 800 square miles, is claimed by neither Sudan nor Egypt, the result of land disputes dating back more than 100 years. Since then, there have been several online claimants to the property, but Heaton believes his physical journey to the site, where he planted a flag designed by his children, means he rightfully can claim it. And call his 7-year-old daughter Princess Emily, the fulfillment of a promise he made months earlier.
"Over the winter, Emily and I were playing, and she has a fixation on princesses. She asked me, in all seriousness, if she'd be a real princess someday," Heaton said. "And I said she would." |
