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2014-09-30 22:53:00
Tornado bombers from Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) have carried out their first attacks against the Islamic State in Iraq, according to the Ministry of Defense (MoD). "This action is part of the international coalition's operations to support the democratic Iraqi government," the MoD said in a statement. "In the course of an armed reconnaissance mission from RAF Akrotiri, two Tornados were tasked to assist Kurdish troops in north-west Iraq who were under attack from Isil (Isis) terrorists," the statement continued. Two Tornado GR4 aircraft were used, which are now based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. The Tornado is an all-weather day and night fighter bomber, which has been in use by the RAF since the 1980s and is now becoming a little long in the tooth. According to the statement, the patrol identified a heavy weapon position belonging to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), which was attacking Kurdish forces in the area. The planes used a Paveway IV guided bomb and a Brimstone anti-armor missile to take out the position, as well as an armed pick-up truck. Until now, RAF Tornados have been limited to flying reconnaissance missions over Iraq, and only began armed patrols after the UK parliament agreed to authorize military action against ISIS on Friday. UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon has said that RAF planes could be engaged in bombing ISIS for years to come. Although there is widespread skepticism of the effectiveness of airstrikes, Prime Minister David Cameron has insisted that they are crucial in the future destruction of the hardline Islamist group, adding that the most important tools in the fight against the Islamic State are better armed Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and better trained Iraqi troops. | |
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2014-09-30 20:19:00
Russia's Federation Council will boycott a scheduled business roundtable with US Senators next month, and has voiced intentions to stop co-operation with all sanction-supporting EU parliaments. The decision by members of the upper house to stay away from the October 14-15 summit in New York was voiced by the Council's International Affairs Committee to Izvestia newspaper. The forum was to give leading politicians and businessmen the chance to discuss "market conditions, complicated geopolitical relationships, and regulatory developments in Russia." "Inter-parliamentary relations with the US have never been great. And today attempts to respond to any opportunity to suddenly say hello to Americans appear to be inappropriate after our former colleague - a senator, who today leads the US - described the Ebola virus as the world's threat No. 1, and Russia as threat No. 2," said the deputy chairman of the committee, Andrey Klimov, referring to a recent speech by Barack Obama. Klimov said that Russian parliamentarians would not be barred from holding individual meetings with US officials. The move appears to be part of a wider drive to restrict official contacts with Western parliaments, which Vladimir Dzhabarov, the deputy head of the International Affairs Committee, said had been "fruitless" in recent times. | |
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Jerry White
World Socialist Website 2014-09-30 21:26:00
In a ruling Monday, US bankruptcy judge Steven Rhodes threw out a motion to stop mass water shutoffs in Detroit, declaring that city residents had no "fundamental right" to water service. The ruling sanctioned the city's brutal policy, which has terminated service to nearly 50,000 low-income households since January 2013 and continues at the pace of 400 households a day. Rhodes dismissed a lawsuit filed by victims of the water shutoffs, which argued that the city's policy was doing irreparable harm to residents and threatened to create a public health disaster. The residents argued that the city's policy violated the 14th Amendment's prohibition against a state "depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law" and the principle of "equal protection" under the law, since service to major corporations, which failed to pay, had not been discontinued. On this basis, the plaintiffs sought a six-month moratorium on shutoffs and the restoration of service to households without water. This time was needed, the coalition of liberal and Democratic Party-affiliated groups behind the lawsuit argued, to craft a plan with the city to reduce rates for low-income families. In throwing out the due process claim, the judge said the plaintiffs could not "plausibly allege that they have a liberty or property interest in receiving water service, let alone water service based on ability to pay." Nothing in city or state law, he said, "establishes property or liberty interests," he declared, specifically leaving out any mention of the right to "life" contained in the US Constitution. | |
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Javed Hamim Kahar & Muhammad Haroon
Pahjwok Afghan News 2014-09-30 20:45:00
A district development council head was killed in a militant attack in southeastern Paktia province while four people -- believed to be civilians -- lost their lives in a NATO drone strike in southern Khost on Tuesday. Paktia police chief, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Zaman told Pajhwok Afghan News the development council head for Syed Karam district Mirza Mohammad was shot dead by militants in the morning. He said the militants were in a car and managed to flee after the attack. An Investigation into the incident is underway. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the assassination. According to another report, four people believed to be civilians were killed in a drone strike in Ali Sher district of Khost province, the governor's spokesman said. Mubarez Mohammad added the four people were traveling in a car when they came under attack. | |
Comment: Meanwhile, Afghan, US, and NATO sign long-awaited pact to ensure war continues past 2014. The continuation of this illegal occupation will undoubtedly cost the lives of many more innocent Afghan civilians and U.S. troops. The psychopaths in power don't care about anyone else but themselves. When will the madness end?
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Azcentral.com
U.S. banks cut their branches by 1.7 percent over the past year amid shifting customer choices. Arizona's branch total has been stable, reflecting population gains and the lack of major mergers here.2014-09-30 21:07:00
Banks closed more than 1,600 branches across the nation over the past year, as companies directed more attention to dealing with customers through digital channels. The 1.7-percent reduction in the number of branches between mid-2013 and mid-2014 was reported by researcher SNL Financial and based on reports filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. SNL said the consolidation was fueled by banks' desire to cut costs and divert more resources to digital services. In some states, mergers and acquisitions resulted in the shuttering of some duplicative branches. It was the largest annual branch reduction since the FDIC began reporting electronic records in 1994, according to SNL Financial's report. It brings the nation's branch count back down to 1996 levels. But it didn't dim the ability of banks to attract deposits. Overall deposits hit $10.1 trillion at midyear, up from $7.6 trillion when the number of branches peaked in 2009. Among the big three banks operating in Arizona, Chase cut 15 branches nationally while Wells Fargo added 17, according to SNL Financial. Both moves represented changes of less than 0.5 percent in the branch totals of those two institutions. But Bank of America shaved 305 offices or 5.6 percent of its nationwide total. | |
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RT
2014-09-30 20:46:00
The Pentagon has supplied at least eight counterinsurgency and military-planning experts to Kiev to help Western-backed Ukrainian forces engaged in tense conflict with Russian-speaking populations in the east. The US military staff will be split into two units. One team will help Ukraine with planning tactics, techniques, and other procedures, while gathering information on needs of Kiev security forces, Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez told the The Washington Times. The other team will assess how the US could offer medical assistance to Ukrainian forces. The staff arrived in Kiev on Thursday and Friday, the Times reported, and are in the process of evaluating the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. "With support from Ukraine and the State Department, the security assessment team will also explore the potential of expanding our current Office of Defense Cooperation in Kiev, to enhance Ukraine's military capabilities and interoperability," Lainez said. The operatives arrived in Kiev as US and allies completed several days of military training exercises in western Ukraine. A total of 1,300 troops from 15 nations, either active NATO members or candidate-countries, participated in the drills this month known as 'Rapid Trident,' which ended on Friday. | |
Comment: Aside from the US already investing $5 billion to destabilize Ukraine, the US is not only sending their terrorists to train Nazis, but a bill, the Ukraine Freedom Support Act, is on the table to directly supply weapons to the fascists in Ukraine. It's clear the US is not supportive of any peace or cease fire.
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BBC
2014-09-30 20:57:00
Comment: Argentinian government bonds were bought at criminally low prices by US banks and other shady financial outfits under US-backed Argentinian dictatorships and client regimes in the 1990's. Government bonds were sold to these outfits for 30 cents on the dollar, with the promise of being paid back 100cents at a later date. Two of these 'vulture capitalists' are refusing to accept anything less than 100cents, and the corrupt US judicial system is backing them to the hilt and demanding that these two be paid before any of the other investors who are willing to accept a much more reasonable return. Argentina has deposited $161m (£99m) in bond interest payments with the state-controlled Nacion Fideicomisos bank, in an effort to skirt US court rulings. The country had previously kept its funds with US-controlled Bank of New York Mellon. The move comes a day after a US judge ruled Argentina was in "contempt of court". That ruling stated Argentina must repay two US hedge funds before repaying other bond holders. "By making this deposit, Argentina confirms once again its unshakeable commitment to meet its obligations to bondholders," said Argentina's finance ministry in a statement. Argentina is attempting to pay its bondholders in a second tranche of debt known as the Par series so as to avoid defaulting once more. | |
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2014-09-30 19:54:00
The new President of Afghanistan Ghani Ahmadzai has paved the way for US troops to stay in the country. He has signed a security deal with the US, which will see just under 10,000 American soldiers present, to help train and assist Afghan forces. National security adviser Hanif Atmar and U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham signed the bilateral security agreement in a televised ceremony at the presidential palace, a day after Ghani was inaugurated as the new Afghan president. "As an independent country, based on our national interests, we signed this agreement for stability, goodwill, and prosperity of the our people, stability of the region and the world," Ghani said in a speech after the signing, according to Reuters. Aside from the 10,000 US soldiers, another 2,000 NATO troops will also boost numbers. They will stay on after the US and its allies formally end their combat mission at the end of 2012. | |
Comment: The US and NATO successfully managed to continue their war in Afghanistan. The slaughter will continue unabated.
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Damir Marinovic
Russia Insider 2014-09-29 23:41:00
The news about neo-Nazi Azov Battalion keeps pouring in. In this video Ukrainian president Poroshenko decorates its members for valor. In the first part of the video one can see Ukrainian soldiers wearing helmets with Nazi swastika and SS insignia, next to wearing Nazi Wolfsangel (wolf trap) symbol on their army coats. Second part of the video shows Poroshenko praising neo-Nazis as Ukrainian heroes and awarding them with medals for their bravery. We just wonder for what kind of Azov heroic deeds Poroshenko is proud of? Is it related to neo-Nazis openly describing torture techniques, organising "human safaris", participation of foreign mercenaries or shocking revelations about tortured and killed anti-Kiev POWs?
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2014-09-30 20:09:00
Comment: It shouldn't be that surprising to read this particular bit of news. Obama, like all recent presidents, gets his marching orders from above and regardless of what the "intelligence" states, he's going to do what he's told. US President Barack Obama has attended only 42 percent of his daily intelligence briefings since assuming office more than five and a half years ago, according to a new study. The Government Accountability Institute, a watchdog non-profit organization, calculated the number of times Obama has received daily oral intelligence briefings, or the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB). The group found that as of Sept. 29, the President had attended 42.4 percent of PDBs during his first term and 41.3 percent during his second term. The report came days after Obama told 60 Minutes that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has "underestimated" the strength of Islamic State, the militant group currently the target of US-led airstrikes on its holdings in Syria and Iraq. "I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria," Obama said. | |
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RT
2014-09-30 19:53:00
Israeli intelligence has given up to modern trends and introduced an online questionnaire for would-be spies. Unlike the businesslike CIA or MI5 web draft campaigns, Israelis are luring volunteers with mystery halo always shrouding Mossad's activities. Mossad has become one of the last intelligence agencies in the world that vouchsafed to recruiting volunteer spies online, facilitating the induction process for those who always wanted to be a secret agent, but considered it unattainable. The agency's online recruiting website, available in Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Persian and Russian, looks like a creatively designed product, wrapping spy activities in bright and attractive packaging. The intelligence outlet calls on to potential candidates to "create history," make their life and "join the invisible to make the impossible." The internet resource contains general information about Mossad, its history, directors and an initial online job application. In case a candidate is invited for an interview, there are three more detailed forms to be completed by hand: a medical confidentiality/information authorization, security questionnaire and another security questionnaire for a spouse/partner. The promotional campaign of the Mossad recruitment site also implied production of a short video depicting the secretive activities of the agency's members, dealing with high-tech equipment such as drones and communication devices, called to inspire espionage enthusiasts to join Mossad ranks.
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Comment: Mossad may not technically be an "assassination squad", but they certainly have no qualms about carrying out targeted assassinations and basically operating as a rogue terrorist group:
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Larry Birns, Frederick B. Mills & Ronn Pineo
Council on Hemispheric Affairs 2014-09-24 00:00:00
By Larry Birns COHA Director; Frederick B. Mills, COHA Senior Fellow and Professor at Bowie State University; and Ronn Pineo, COHA Senior Fellow and Professor at Towson University The Washington Post editorial, "Venezuela doesn't deserve a seat on the UN Security Council," combines ad hominem attack with misinformed smears. The Post's views appear to have been formed by uncritically accepting all of the propaganda offered up by the right-wing opposition press in Venezuela. It should be beneath the Post to denigrate the recently elected Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, as an "economically illiterate former bus driver." Despite his lack of training in economics, Maduro is right that Venezuela is facing what amounts to internal economic warfare, with business hoarding, currency fraud, and contraband trading. The economic policies of Maduro, and those of former President Hugo Chávez, have certainly been experimental, even trial and error, but these policies have also reduced poverty by half and expanded access to the social goods long denied to millions of ordinary Venezuelans. These are real gains in terms of human development that are all too easily dismissed by the Post. Comment: That's because real gains in terms of human development have no bearing on what the Washington Post publishes and what side they take in any story. The Post might have mentioned that some of the "economic pragmatists" it champions are precisely those whose ideologically driven bad advice sent the global economy in its recent free fall. Deregulation of the financial sector was an epical disaster, in the United States, in Latin America, and around the world, yet orthodox economic advisors continue to call for free market solutions to any and all economic problems. This is really bad advice, and people around Latin America realize it: three-quarters of the region is governed by left-wing governments, which appropriately see a larger role for the state in guiding their economic fortunes. | |
Comment: In the geopolitical rat-race called US hegemony, any lie, any narrative, and any form of subterfuge is permitted, endorsed and implemented. The bullshit article from the Washington Post,referenced in the analysis above, is just one tool of many that the US employs to achieve the ends it seeks.
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Obama and the media propaganda machine created fake terror group 'Khorasan' to justify bombing Syria
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain
The Intercept 2014-09-28 18:55:00
As the Obama Administration prepared to bomb Syria without congressional or U.N. authorization, it faced two problems. The first was the difficulty of sustaining public support for a new years-long waragainst ISIS, a group that clearly posed no imminent threat to the "homeland." A second was the lack of legal justification for launching a new bombing campaign with no viable claim of self-defense or U.N. approval. The solution to both problems was found in the wholesale concoction of a brand new terror threat that was branded "The Khorasan Group." After spending weeks depicting ISIS as an unprecedented threat - too radical even for Al Qaeda! - administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new terror group was created in media lore. The unveiling of this new group was performed in a September 13 article by the Associated Press, who cited unnamed U.S. officials to warn of this new shadowy, worse-than-ISIS terror group: While the Islamic State group [ISIS] is getting the most attention now, another band of extremists in Syria - a mix of hardened jihadis from Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Europe - poses a more direct and imminent threat to the United States, working with Yemeni bomb-makers to target U.S. aviation, American officials say.AP warned Americans that "the fear is that the Khorasan militants will provide these sophisticated explosives to their Western recruits who could sneak them onto U.S.-bound flights." It explained that although ISIS has received most of the attention, the Khorasan Group "is considered the more immediate threat." Comment: Another boogeyman the American government created to scare Americans so that they will accept the bombing of yet another nation and killing innocent civilians. You'd think by now most Americans would have wised up to this tired act, but since the majority of people areRight Wing Authoritarians they have an overwhelming propensity to believe what their government tells them. | |
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Prof. Tim Anderson
Global Research 2014-09-30 18:27:00 Comment: An honest look at Assad and how the Syrian people actually see him. As with the Putin demonization by the media, one has to suffer from a severe case of cognitive dissonance to buy into their lies.
The sudden reversion of Washington to a 'war on terror' pretext for intervention in Syria has confused western audiences. For three years they watched 'humanitarian intervention' stories, which poured contempt on the Syrian President's assertion that he was fighting foreign backed terrorists. Now the US claims to be leading the fight against those same terrorists. But what do Syrians think, and why do they continue to support a man the western powers have claimed is constantly attacking and terrorising 'his own people'? To understand this we must consider the huge gap between the western caricature of Bashar al Assad the 'brutal dictator' and the popular and urbane figure within Syria. If we believed most western media reports we would think President Assad has launched repeated and indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas, including the gassing of children. We might also think he heads an 'Alawi regime', where a 12% minority represses a Sunni Muslim majority, crushing a popular 'revolution' which, only recently, has been 'hijacked' by extremists. The central problem with these portrayals is Bashar's great popularity at home. The fact that there is popular dissatisfaction with corruption and cronyism, and that an authoritarian state maintains a type of personality cult, does not negate the man's genuine popularity. His strong win in Syria's first multi-candidate elections in June dismayed his regional enemies, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey; but it did not stop their aggression. Syrians saw things differently. Bashar was thought to maintain his father's pluralist and nationalist tradition, while modernising and holding out the promise of political reform. Opinion polls in Syria had shown major dissatisfaction with corruption and political cronyism, mixed views on the economy but strong satisfaction with stability, women's rights and the country's independent foreign policy. The political reform rallies of 2011 - countered by pro-government rallies and quickly overshadowed by violent insurrection - were not necessarily anti Bashar. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and other sectarian Islamist groups did hate him, along with the secular state. Yet even these enemies, in their better moments, recognised the man's popularity. In late 2011 a Doha Debates poll (created by the Qatari monarchy, a major backer of the Muslim Brotherhood) showed 55% of Syrians wanted Assad to stay. | |
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The Ecuadorean president said that the new Obama-sponsored leadership centers are an obvious plan to intervene in democratic Latin America countries2014-09-28 10:12:00
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa criticized on Saturday a new U.S. government plan to intervene and weaken Latin American governments. Correa said that Obama's intention to create six innovation centers for educating new "leaders" in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, and Asia, was clearly intended to interfere with Latin American countries. Comment: As expected, they don't plan on stopping with eastern Europe and the Middle East, they plan to control everything. "What they want is to intervene in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, because they say we attack freedom of speech; but go and see for yourselves who are the owners of media in United States," said Correa. On Tuesday President Barrack Obama said that his government will support civil society in countries where freedom of speech and association are threatened by the governments. Comment: Complete insanity, everything Obama says shows complete disregard for objective reality. "We're creating new innovation centers to empower civil society groups around the world," said Obama during his speech in a plenary session of the Clinton Open Initiative. "Oppressive governments are sharing worst practices to weaken civil society. We're going to help you share the best practices to stay strong and vibrant." Comment: Right. What Obama means is that they will be sponsoring groups that will work on destabilizing governments not aligned with US interests. President Correa hit back "This is part of the conservative restoration: the insolent announcement of intervention in other countries." He added "Let us live in peace and respect the sovereignty of our countries." | |
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Dallasnews.com
2014-09-30 13:04:00
Dallas County health officials on Tuesday told county commissioners that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is dispatching a team to Dallas in case a patient at a local hospital tests positive for Ebola. The report was delivered after Health and Human Services officials cut short a presentation on the threat of an Ebola outbreak for a conference call with the CDC. Officials said the CDC team would lead the response if test results, expected today, come back positive for the patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. During a media briefing outside the commissioners meeting, Dr. Christopher Perkins, the health department's medical director, said it was after arriving home from West Africa that the patient started showing symptoms, the point at which Ebola becomes contagious. "We know at this time this person was not symptomatic during travel but became symptomatic once arriving here and being home for several days," Perkins said. "So that decreases the threat that might be to the general population." Symptoms of the deadly virus can include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and body aches unrelated to any other disease. Health and Human Services officials told commissioners that they had already begun an investigation to find people who had been in contact with the patient. Director Zachary Thompson said it was not unusual for the department to begin tracing contacts after being notified about a possible contagious disease. County nurse epidemiologists are tracking down the patient's family members, friends and work colleagues, basically anyone who might have been exposed, if the virus is confirmed, he said. | |
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Colleen Jenkins
The Raw Story 2014-09-30 00:00:00
An argument between two male students outside a North Carolina high school on Tuesday ended with one of them shooting the other before classes began, police said. Police received a call about shots fired at Albemarle High School at 7:40 a.m. EDT and arrived to find a student shot in the lower extremities, said William Halliburton, the police chief in Albemarle, about 40 miles northeast of Charlotte. The suspected shooter, who was not identified, surrendered to police, Halliburton said. The shooting occurred in a courtyard outside the school's front entrance, and police recovered the handgun that was used, according to Halliburton. | |
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Andrew Korybko
Russia Insider 2014-09-30 00:00:00
In a monumental move, Russia just sealed a deal with its Caspian neighbors to delineate the disputed maritime borders between them. This move carries with it enormous geopolitical meaning, and in no particular order, here are some of the most significant results:
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BBC News
2014-09-23 04:31:00
At least three people have been killed in a bomb attack in Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, officials say. Nine others were injured in the blast which took place in the morning near the city's railway station. Officials said a convoy of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC) was the apparent target.Peshawar has borne the brunt of militant attacks in recent years but violence has dropped dramatically since a military offensive in June. If the convoy is confirmed as the target it would be the first major attack on the military in Peshawar since the assault was launched against militants in their stronghold of North Waziristan. The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says grenade attacks and targeted killings have already resumed in the city. Peshawar police chief Ijaz Khan told the media that 45kg of explosives had been packed in a vehicle which was remotely exploded.
Mushtaq Ghani, information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of which Peshawar is the capital, said a woman was among the three dead in the blast. Television pictures showed the charred and twisted frame of an Frontier Corps vehicle which was still on fire. Reports said one FC soldier was among those killed. The dead woman was said to be travelling in an auto-rickshaw which was also hit by the explosion, and parts of its engine were strewn across the road. | ||
Comment: Another source stated the number of wounded were 13, two of which were civilians. The presumed target appeared to be Brigadier Khalid Javed, the second senior officer in the FC force. Peshawar is the gateway to the seven semi-autonomous tribal regions and has been under a military push to clear out militants, including Al-Qaeda, Tehreek-e-Taliban and foreign fighters Uzbeks and Uighurs, from their hideouts and retake the territory.
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Mark Bartalmai
Keep a close eye on 2014-09-29 10:10:00
Three girls sitting in front of my camera. Shy you might think. But this shyness is something else - they are traumatized. From a war that does not exist actually, if you would believe the western and German media. A war in Europe that no one sees. Because it does not take place in the media. Because it is hidden and hushed up. And though it exists here in Donetsk in southeastern Ukraine, where I live since over 2 months. In the middle of a metropolis that is heavily bombarded daily by the Ukrainian army. The war is here among us, it is in the midst between us, between me and these three girls - Paulina, Nastya and Katya. It is in their eyes, their voices, burned into their souls. And they recognize me, because I also now live in this war like them. It is mid-September 2014 and we are sitting together in a bare room of a refugee house in Donetsk. It took us some time to get this interview. The people in Donbass no longer believe in the West, in Europe, in Germany. For the West, they say, "they have forgotten us, they let us down". The West knows nothing about the dead civilians, the bombing demand here every day. "The West does not care about us. Assists even the junta in Kiev, which kills us here." I always swallow when they tell me - I know that they are right. No one in Germany knows that children like Paulina, Nastya and Katya have no home, that it was bombed away. Just like their school and the kindergarten there in the northwest of Donetsk, close to the airport. Just as the homes of more than 100 other children and their families solely in this house of refuge. And there are many of these refugee camps and homes in and around Donetsk. | |
Comment: The difference between these girls who in the midst of turmoil and misery still feel empathy and compassion for others and the cold-hearted and cruel actions of the psychopaths in Kiev is humongous. Thank you, girls, for sharing your experiences with us. We need to know about this.
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RT
2014-09-29 19:09:00
A Pennsylvania couple is suing three Collingdale police officers for entering their home without permission in an effort to confiscate a cell phone legally used to record the officers during a February confrontation in front of their home. In the lawsuit, Kia and Michael Gaymon say that Officer Carl White entered the home without a warrant and arrested Kia after threatening to use a Taser on her. The officers are accused of unlawful arrest, malicious prosecution, retaliatory arrest, and unlawful search, according to NBC10. The Gaymons say the incident on Feb. 22 began when police were notified to address a car allegedly parked illegally on the curb of the Gaymons' next-door neighbor. The car belonged to Michael's visiting mother. The Gaymons said they had done nothing wrong, and that the neighbor was falsely accusing them. Kia Gaymon said that one officer began to yell at them in an "aggressive and accusatory manner," leading her to retrieve her cell phone and record the interaction. "His behavior was so aggressive that the first thing I thought was to pull out my phone and video," Kia Gaymon told NBC10. Filming on-duty police officers is legal in all 50 states as long as the filming does not physically interfere with officers' ability to work. A federal appeals court recently affirmed this First Amendment right, as RT reported. | |
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Jim Puzzanghera
LA Times 2014-09-24 04:32:00
Comment: The true numbers are probably much worse than this survey suggests. One in five U.S. workers was laid off in the past five years and about 22% of those who lost their jobs still haven't found another one, according to a new survey that showed the extent Americans have struggled in the sluggish labor market since the Great Recession ended. Those who did find work had a difficult time with their job search and the effects of unemployment, the survey by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University found. Nearly 40% said it took more than seven months to find employment and about one in five of laid-off workers said all they could find was a temporary position. Almost half -- 46% -- of the estimated 30 million layoff victims who found new jobs said they paid less then their old ones, according to the survey of 1,153 U.S adults done over the summer. "While job growth has been consistent, it has been insufficient to produce enough full-time jobs for everyone," the study said. | |
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Patrick O. Strickland
Al Jazeera 2014-09-28 03:57:00
As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, 21-year-old Shadan Jabareen says she has experienced institutionalised discrimination since she was a child. In 1994, her parents wanted to get away from the constant noise and the overcrowded Umm al-Fahm and move to a Jewish-Israeli community. "My dad heard an advertisement on the radio for homes in Katzir," she said, referring to a kibbutz, or Jewish agricultural community, in the country's north. "The admissions committee told my dad that they didn't want Arabs because it would lower the community's value in Katzir," Jabareen, who studies literature at Tel Aviv University, told Al Jazeera. After a legal struggle, her parents eventually were admitted to buy a home in Katzir, where they lived for seven years. "The neighbours were usually okay with us, but the admissions committee never wanted us." Admissions committees are common in small semi-cooperative Jewish communities across the Negev and Galilee regions in Israel. In compliance with larger regional councils, these admission committees evaluate potential residents and ultimately decide whether to accept them into the communities. In March 2000, just a few years after the Jabareen family's struggle, the highly publicised Kaadan case made waves when the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to discriminate in housing admission based on ethnicity or religion. The Kaadans, an Arab couple from a nearby town, waged a long legal battle to protest their being rejected by Katzir's committee. Fourteen years down the line, on September 17, the Israeli Supreme Court essentially undid that ruling when it dismissed petitions put forward by rights groups challenging the Admissions Committee Law. Passed in 2011, the legislation legitimises the use of admission committees to reject potential applicants based on "social suitability". If admissions committees view applicants as "harmful" to the "social-cultural fabric of the community town", they are permitted to turn them down. Falling short of a majority, four judges ruled against the law. Judge Asher Grunis, one of the five judges who sided in favour of the law and struck down the petitions, ruled: "The court does not have a sufficient factual basis for a decision" because the objections raised in the petition are "hypothetical and theoretical claims". Nonetheless, several rights groups say it is most frequently employed to block Arab citizens from living in Jewish communities. | |
Comment: Israel can bleat on all it wants, that it is the 'only democracy in the Middle East". Acts trump words.
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Cassius Methyl
TheAntiMedia 2014-09-29 02:59:00
Perhaps due to the pressure now being seriously put on departments across America to not be brutal psychopaths, new information has been released on the murder of homeless man James Boyd by APD officer Keith Sandy. It has been revealed that prior to the murder of James Boyd, officer Keith Sandy already had plans to seriously injure the innocent homeless camper. He was recorded talking to another officer, saying he was going to "shoot him in the penis with a shotgun". Yes, you heard that correctly. The Boyd Family's civil rights attorney has this to say on the matter. "It's chilling evidence and stunning that he has not been criminally indicted. He says to a state police officer 'that f'ing lunatic, I'm going to shoot him in the penis.' It's crystal clear and he says it with contempt in his voice." The killer cop tried to defend his words, saying the gross phrase was uttered "Jokingly, just kind of locker room banter, just told him, you know, 'Don't worry. I'll shoot him in the pecker with this and call it good." He still seems to not even take this seriously; when you actually do something similar to what your 'locker room banter' was, it becomes not 'locker room banter', but the words uttered before murder. What more needs to be said here? The info you take away from this must be abundantly clear. Please share this with as many people as possible. Hopefully with our continued efforts to expose criminal cops, these events will happen in less and less frequency. | |
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| Secret History |
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Christopher Shea
A Yale historian wants us to rethink the terrible tales about the Norse.National Geographic 2014-09-26 21:24:00
The Vikings gave no quarter when they stormed the city of Nantes, in what is now western France, in June 843 - not even to the monks barricaded in the city's cathedral. "The heathens mowed down the entire multitude of priest, clerics, and laity," according to one witness account. Among the slain, allegedly killed while celebrating the Mass, was a bishop who later was granted sainthood. To modern readers the attack seems monstrous, even by the standards of medieval warfare. But the witness account contains more than a touch of hyperbole, writes Anders Winroth, a Yale history professor and author of the book The Age of the Vikings, a sweeping new survey. What's more, he says, such exaggeration was often a feature of European writings about the Vikings. When the account of the Nantes attack is scrutinized, "a more reasonable image emerges," he writes. After stating that the Vikings had killed the "entire multitude," for instance, the witness contradicts himself by noting that some of the clerics were taken into captivity. And there were enough people left - among the "many who survived the massacre" - to pay ransom to get prisoners back. In short, aside from ignoring the taboo against treating monks and priests specially, the Vikings acted not much differently from other European warriors of the period, Winroth argues. In 782, for instance, Charlemagne, now heralded as the original unifier of Europe, beheaded 4,500 Saxon captives on a single day. "The Vikings never got close to that level of efficiency," Winroth says, drily.
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TheWeek.com
2014-09-30 16:09:00
Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the dungeon that held Vlad the Impaler - the inspiration for Bram Stoker's character Dracula. The team found dungeons, tunnels, and a military shelter in Turkey's Tokat Castle, where Vlad the Impaler was reportedly held in the beginning of the 15th century. The archaeologists discovered two dungeons during the castle's restoration work, which began in 2009. The restoration work led to the discovery of secrets tunnel between the castle, a military shelter, and the Pervane Baths. The archaeologists believe Vlad the Impaler - a.k.a. Wallachian Prince Vlad III - was held in the dungeons by the Ottoman Turks in 1442. Tokate was conquered by the Seljuk Turks in the 12th century, and it became a part of the Ottoman empire in 1392. Tokat Castle, a ruined citadel, is in the hills above the city. "The castle is completely surrounded by secret tunnels. It is very mysterious," archaeologist Ibrahim Cetin said in a statement. "It is hard to estimate in which room Dracula was kept, but he was around here." | |
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The Siberian Times
Discovery means Paleolithic man penetrated hundreds of kilometres further north than previously understood.2014-09-30 08:25:00
Studies on the intriguing rhino spear are still ongoing but this remarkable find - seen as having considerable archeological significance - was shown to Vladimir Putin on his recent visit to Yakutsk, capital of the Sakha Republic. The spear tip, almost 90cm in length and seemingly still sharp enough to kill, was found on the island of Bolshoy Lyakhovsky, off the northern coast of Siberia, as researchers hunted for remains of woolly mammoths. 'This year we found a spear made of woolly rhino horn and if all the information is confirmed, it will be the northernmost point where a human implement was found - three degrees latitude further north than we had known before,' explained Semyon Grigoryev, Director of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum at Northeastern Federal University. | |
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Bahar Gholipour
LiveScience 2014-09-29 07:48:00
An ancient Egyptian mummy is sparking new questions among archaeologists, because it has one very rare feature: The blood vessels surrounding the mummy's brain left imprints on the inside of the skull. The researchers are trying to find what process could have led to the preservation of these extremely fragile structures. The mummified body is that of a man who probably lived more than 2,000 years ago, sometime between the Late Period and the Ptolemaic Period (550 - 150 B.C.) of Egyptian history, the researchers said. "This is the oldest case of mummified vascular prints" that has been found, study co-author Dr. Albert Isidro told Live Science in an email. The mummy was recovered in 2010, along with more than 50 others in the Kom al-Ahmar/Sharuna necropolis in Egypt. | |
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| Science & Technology |
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Julian Agyeman and Duncan McLaren
Time 2014-09-30 19:05:00
When mayors and developers focus on technology rather than people, smart quickly becomes stupid These days every city claims to be a "smart" city, or is becoming one, with heavy investments in modern information and computing technology to attract businesses and make the city competitive. But when mayors and developers focus on technology rather than people, smart quickly becomes stupid, threatening to exacerbate inequality and undermine the social cooperation essential to successful cities. After researching leading cities around the world, we've concluded that truly smart cities will be those that deploy modern technology in building a new urban commons to support communal sharing. | |
Comment: If our society was not ruled by a group of psychopaths, the natural creative and cooperative abilities of humans would be able to progress to the point where cities could develop in ways that would facilitate society's general health and well-being. Until the problem of psychopathyis understood by more people and steps are taken to counteract their influence, things will continue to deteriorate, and nature will take balancing steps.
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Nick Bostrom
Raw Story 2014-09-28 00:00:00
Biological brains are unlikely to be the final stage of intelligence. Machines already have superhuman strength, speed and stamina - and one day they will have superhuman intelligence. The only reasons this may not occur is if we develop some other dangerous technology first that destroys us, or otherwise fall victim to some existential risk. But assuming that scientific and technological progress continues, human-level machine intelligence is very likely to be developed. And shortly thereafter, superintelligence. Predicting how long it will take to develop such intelligent machines is difficult. Contrary to what some reviewers of my book seem to believe, I don't have any strong opinion about that matter. (It is as though the only two possible views somebody might hold about the future of artificial intelligence are "machines are stupid and will never live up to the hype!" and "machines are much further advanced than you imagined and true AI is just around the corner!"). A survey of leading researchers in AI suggests that there is a 50% probability that human-level machine intelligence will have been attained by 2050 (defined here as "one that can carry out most human professions at least as well as a typical human"). This doesn't seem entirely crazy. But one should place a lot of uncertainty on both sides of this: it could happen much sooner or very much later. Exactly how we will get there is also still shrouded in mystery. There are several paths of development that should get there eventually, but we don't know which of them will get there first. | |
Comment: What is the ultimate reason to have superintelligent machines? To monitor and constrain the evil tendencies of humans? Counterbalance emotion-driven thinking? To figure out the secrets of the universe prematurely to our ability to understand them? Just because we can? Humans are essentially machines, given our intrinsic COG-nitive functioning and behaviors. Few of us have mastered the controls. Even fewer have gone beyond. We are already a "programmed species" receiving input from propaganda, cointelpro, marketing messages, fear mongering, historical rewrites, manipulation of belief systems - individually and as a population. Question is how much more mechanistic will we become all on our own? With military and governmental mind programs, alteration and subjugation of learned topics, mass hysteria induced by false flag operations, social programming - and the list goes on - how much of the original human prototype is left untampered? Is this intelligent progress? In a world of burgeoning population, it might seem to a neocon that a reduction to a few million humans and a few million superintelligent machines would be the ultimate advantage, by-in-large relegating the future of humankind to a death spiral as supermachines self-adapt and the era of man is self-phased out.
P.S.: And then there is the theory that the material world didn't create consciousness but consciousness created the material world. Perhaps there already is a supermind watching us attempt to play with blocks and recreate the wheel. | |
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Brad Plumer
Vox.com 2014-09-29 14:56:00
If you ask the people who run America's electric utilities what keeps them up at night, a surprising number will say solar power. Specifically, rooftop solar. That seems bizarre at first. Solar power provides just 0.4 percent of electricity in the United States - a minuscule amount. Why would anyone care? But utilities see things differently. As solar technology gets dramatically cheaper, tens of thousands of Americans are putting photovoltaic panels up on their roofs, generating their own power. At the same time, 43 states and Washington DC have "net metering" laws that allow solar-powered households to sell their excess electricity back to the grid at retail prices. That's a genuine problem for utilities. All these solar households are now buying less and less electricity, but the utilities still have to manage the costs of connecting them to the grid. Indeed, a new study from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory argues that, without policy changes, this trend could soon put utilities in dire financial straits. If rooftop solar were to grab 10 percent of the market over the next decade, utility earnings could decline as much as 41 percent. To avoid that fate, many utilities are now pushing for reforms that would at least slow the breakneck growth of rooftop solar - say, by scaling back those "net metering" laws. And that's opened up a war with many fronts. There are solar advocates who'd prefer not to see any changes. There are conservative groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) pushing to pare back solar subsidies. And there are even Tea Party groups now defending solar. Meanwhile, state regulators are struggling to find compromises that would both allow solar to expand but also ensure that there's enough money to maintain the existing grid. Battles over solar are now raging in more than a dozen states - from Arizona to Utah to Wisconsin toGeorgia. (They're also flaring up abroad, in countries like Germany and Australia). And the debate raises some legitimately hard questions about how best to deal with a new energy technology. Here's a broad overview: | |
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Preston Dyches
Phys Org 2014-09-29 23:11:00
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan. The feature covers an area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilometers) in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest seas on Titan. It has now been observed twice byCassini's radar experiment, but its appearance changed between the two apparitions. The mysterious feature, which appears bright in radar images against the dark background of the liquid sea, was first spotted during Cassini's July 2013 Titan flyby. Previous observations showed no sign of bright features in that part of Ligeia Mare. Scientists were perplexed to find the feature had vanished when they looked again, over several months, with low-resolution radar and Cassini'sinfrared imager. This led some team members to suggest it might have been a transient feature. But during Cassini's flyby on August 21, 2014, the feature was again visible, and its appearance had changed during the 11 months since it was last seen. | |
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Deborah Netburn
Latimes.com 2014-09-26 17:07:00
Some of the water molecules in your drinking glass were created more than 4.5 billion years ago, according to new research. That makes them older than the Earth, older than the solar system - even older than the sun itself. In a study published Thursday in Science, researchers say the distinct chemical signature of the water on Earth and throughout the solar system could occur only if some of that water formed before the swirling disk of dust and gas gave birth to the planets, moons, comets and asteroids. This primordial water makes up 30% to 50% of the water on Earth, the researchers estimate. This finding suggests that water, a key ingredient of life, may be common in young planetary systems across the universe, Cleeves and her colleagues say. Scientists are still not entirely sure how water arrived on Earth. The part of the protoplanetary disk in which our planet formed was too hot for liquid or ice water to exist, and so the planet was born dry. Most experts believe the Earth's water came from ice in comets and asteroids that formed in a cooler environment, and later collided with our planet. But this theory leads to more questions. Among them: Where did the water preserved in the comets and asteroids come from? To find out, scientists turned to chemistry. Here on Earth, about one in every 3,000 molecules of water is made with a deuterium atom instead of a hydrogen atom. | |
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| Earth Changes |
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Hawky Davis
The world has been plagued by a flood of extremes in recent weeks and in some areas, it's been relentless. Various calamities have taken place the past month or so..HDC 2014-09-30 00:00:00
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Comment: There are no signs that earth changes are about to stop in its acceleration, yesterdays extreme is the new normal and is showing no sign of leveling. Worldwide floods, volcanic eruptions, sinkholes, animals on the attack, fish die-offs and fireball sightings are on the ramp up. Knowledge protects:
Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection | |
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Valerie Richardson
The Washington Times 2014-09-28 18:49:00
When Charlene Warner walks her dog each morning in her neighborhood in upscale Seal Beach, California, she's terrified she'll be attacked - not by muggers or gangs, but by coyotes. "They are killing our animals. They are scaring us. I go out every morning with rocks in my pockets, tennis shoes on, mace on my neck, a whistle on my neck and a foghorn on my leash, and I still don't feel safe," Ms. Warner said last week in comments before the Seal Beach City Council. She has reason to be nervous. Stories abound in nearby Orange County of dogs and cats snatched off leashes and plucked out of backyards a few feet away from their horrified owners. Mangled pet carcasses turn up on front lawns, often identifiable only by their tails. | |
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Tina Comeau
The Vanguard 2014-09-29 17:24:00
A dead whale was spotted floating in the water off Port Maitland Beach in Yarmouth County early Monday, Sept. 29. But then later that day it was gone, leaving others who came out to the beach to catch a glimpse of it to wonder if it has just been a whale of a tale? The whale was quite a distance from shore at low tide mid-morning when two officers from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans came out to inspect the situation. They assumed the whale would probably be washed onto shore by the higher tide later in the day. | |
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Elaine Lies and Chris Meyers
Reuters via Yahoo News 2014-09-30 16:01:00
Search and recovery efforts for at least two dozen victims of Japan's worst volcanic eruption in decades were called off on Tuesday due to worries about rising volcanic activity, including the chance of another steam explosion. Hundreds of military searchers had been preparing to enter Mount Ontake by foot and helicopter to resume recovery of at least 24 people caught in a deadly rain of ash and stone after the peak erupted without warning on Saturday when it was crowded with hikers, including children. Twelve bodies have been recovered from the 3,067-metre (10,062 feet) peak but at least 36 are feared to have died, with recovery hampered by high levels of toxic gas and ash piled hip-high in places on the still-smoking mountain. At least 69 people have been injured, 30 of them seriously. "I just want to know something soon," Kiyokazu Tokoro told Japanese television. His 26-year-old son was on the mountain with his girlfriend and has yet to be found. | |
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PhysOrg
2014-09-30 15:55:00
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over newborn Tropical Storm Phanfone on Sept. 29 and captured a picture of the storm that showed thunderstorms wrapped tightly around the storm's center, and a large band of thunderstorms spiraling into the center from the east. Phanfone is now a threat to various islands and warnings are in effect. A tropical storm Warning is in effect for Saipan, Tinian, Pagan and Alamagan. In addition, a typhoon watch is in effect for the northern Marianas Islands, including Pagan and Alamagan. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard Aqua provides visible and infrared images of storms, oceans and land features. On Sept. 29 at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) Phanfone had maximum sustained winds near 40 knots (46 mph/74 kph). It was centered near 13.8 north latitude and 149.6 east longitude, about 270 nautical miles east-southeast of Saipan. Phanfone is moving to the west-northwest at 11 knots (12.6 mph/20.3 kph). | |
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King5
2014-09-27 11:42:00
Ten years ago this week, Mount St. Helens awoke from an 18-year geological slumber. The news media and volcano-watchers flocked to Johnston Ridge, the closest road with a crater view. Steam and ash eruptions shot thousands of feet into the air, and for several weeks, the area near the volcano was closed because of safety concerns. Over the next three years, a second lava dome slowly appeared in the crater, eventually rising 1,076 feet above the crater floor. By the time the eruption ended in 2008, climbers had already been allowed back to the summit and media attention faded. Though the mountain isn't getting as much publicity these days, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey are marking the anniversary to highlight new eruption warning technology they've installed around the volcano since then and to remind people that Mount St. Helens will continue to rebuilt itself. The eruption that started a decade ago was the second of two dome-building phases. The first one started after the explosive eruption of May 18, 1980. Twenty lava eruptions occurred over the next six years. Geologists were surprised that the mountain stopped erupting in 1986. "Many of us were expecting it to continue a while," said USGS seismologist Seth Moran. | |
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| Fire in the Sky |
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Jason Major
Universe Today 2014-09-30 20:00:00
Thanks to the ubiquitousness of dashboard-mounted video cameras in Russia yet another bright object has been spotted lighting up the sky over Siberia, this time a "meteor-like object" seen on the evening of Saturday, Sept. 27. The video above, shared today by RT.com, shows the object as it streaked toward the western horizon over the Kemerovo region of Siberia. Even through the glare of streetlights and oncoming car headlights it could easily be seen... as to exactly what it was, that's not yet known. | |
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| Health & Wellness |
In 1987, when I was writing my first book, AIDS INC., I decided to look into vaccines as a cause of immune-system suppression. I had never dug below the surface of that subject before. Of course, the authorities and experts have been forever telling people how effective and safe vaccines are. They issue their remarks with great assurance. Here are just a few of my findings, from 1987. They paint a different historical record. | |
Comment: Additional articles on the flawed theory behind vaccinations:
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Frances Martel
Breitbart.com 2014-09-30 07:26:00
Sierra Leone's largest newspaper, the Awareness Times, is reporting with alarm that at least 1,028 Ebola patients appear to be missing in the country, as official Ministry of Health statistics account for a smaller number of combined victims and survivors of the disease than the total number of registered cases. The Awareness Times report notes that the Ministry of Health has confirmed 2,000 cases of Ebola in the country. Its official statistics note that 540 have died, while 432 are classified as survivors. That leaves 1,042 unaccounted for cases. The report follows up on a New York Times piece in which a Western diplomat is quoted as saying that official statistics in Sierra Leone are highly untrustworthy. According to the Times, those numbers are believed to be "largely inaccurate," rendering them borderline useless. Said the diplomat: "Even a 2-year-old child can look at them and see they don't add up." The Times notes that Sierra Leone has responded to the crisis largely by quarantining large areas-- nearly all 14 districts in Sierra Leone are at least partially quarantined, and it is believed that between one and two million peopleare being kept locked down due to this measure. The Awareness Times did the math to prove the inaccuracy of the numbers, and the response they received from the Ministry of Health did little to assuage the concern that the government has little control over the situation. In a statement highlighting the convoluted relationships between press and state in Sierra Leone, Dr. Sylvia Blyden-- both Special Executive Assistant to President Ernest Koroma and founder of the Awareness Times-- issued a statement to her own newspaper: She goes on to blame the erroneous numbers on "a flight of common sense" on the part of the government, and adds that many of those unaccounted for are those who did not die in medical facilities, but rather died in their homes, and may continue to remain in their homes undisturbed given the fear of touching the body of a person with Ebola. | |
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Michael Allen
Opposing Views 2014-09-29 00:00:00
Comment: The following article contains a wealth of misinformation meant to frighten parents into taking risks with their children's health. In recent months, courts, governments and vaccine manufacturers have conceded that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Other studies have shown that vaccines have no benefit, and vaccinated children have 2 to 5 times MORE diseases than un-vaccinated children. The number of California parents not vaccinating their kindergartners has doubled since 2007 (5 percent) to 11 percent in 2014. Public health experts claim that the failure to vaccinate is the reason why measles have made a comeback in California after being eradicated. California law says that kindergartners have to be vaccinated against "measles, whooping cough, polio, mumps, rubella, hepatitis B, chicken pox, diphtheria and tetanus," notes The Los Angeles Times, but parents who object to immunizations based on their deeply-held, sincere, personal beliefs can get exemptions for their kids, which places those kids and other people's children in danger. For decades, high vaccination numbers have prevented children from suffering diseases of the past, but the refusal of many parents to vaccinate is slowly moving California back to the Stone Age. | |
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ABC News 13
2014-09-30 06:36:00
A Dallas hospital says it is isolating a patient who is showing signs of having the Ebola virus. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas said in a statement Monday night that the patient's symptoms and travel history suggest the patient may have Ebola, the virus that has killed more than 3,000 people across West Africa. The hospital expects to receive preliminary test results Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Presbyterian Hospital says it's taking measures to keep its doctors, staff and patients safe. | |
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RT
2014-09-30 04:40:00
Several hundred US kids are being treated for Enterovirus 68 - a respiratory illness that can cause children to become paralyzed. Outbreaks of the virus have been detected in most of the fifty states. So far, the virus has infected 443 children in 40 states, and the District of Columbia, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Abbreviated as EV-D68, the virus was first identified 50 years ago. However, it has rarely been tested for until cases started appearing in the US Midwest and Southwest this year. EV-D68 causes symptoms similar to the common cold but progresses into wheezing, breathing problems and paralysis. There is no drug yet for the current strain of the virus, so treatment is focused on helping patients to breathe. | |
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Sayer Ji
Greenmedinfo.com 2014-09-28 02:10:00
Fluoride is put in your drinking water 'for your teeth' without your consent, but did you know that it could also be calcifying your arteries? A few years ago, we reported on a study evaluating a new diagnostic technology that inadvertently revealed a link between fluoride exposure and coronary artery disease. Our report stirred up quite a lot of controversy and criticism, even leading one of the most respected figures in alternative medicine (deservedly so) - Dr. Russell Blaylock -- to call us out on Infowars for our allegedly sophomoric interpretation of the following article: "Association of vascular fluoride uptake with vascular calcification and coronary artery disease." As one can see, the study's results revealed a hitherto largely unknown connection between fluoride exposure, coronary artery disease and cardiovascular events (e.g. heart attack). "There was significant correlation between history of cardiovascular events and presence of fluoride uptake in coronary arteries. The coronary fluoride uptake value in patients with cardiovascular events was significantly higher than in patients without cardiovascular events." | |
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Youtube.com
2014-09-28 01:26:00
The United States has launched a huge number of drone strikes under President Obama. It's widely accepted and extremely terrifying. | |
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