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Tony Cartalucci
New Eastern Outlook 2014-10-01 09:23:00
The goal of the US in Hong Kong is clear - to turn the island into an epicenter of foreign-funded subversion with which to infect China's mainland more directly. Protesters of the "Occupy Central" movement in Hong Kong shout familiar slogans and adopt familiar tactics seen across the globe as part of the United States' immense political destabilization and regime change enterprise. Identifying the leaders, following the money, and examining Western coverage of these events reveal with certainty that yet again, Washington and Wall Street are busy at work to make China's island of Hong Kong as difficult to govern for Beijing as possible. Naming Names: Who is Behind "Occupy Central?" Several names are repeatedly mentioned amid coverage of what is being called "Occupy Central,"the latest in a long line of US-engineered color revolutions, and part of America's vast, ambitiousglobal geopolitical reordering which started in earnest in 2011 under the guise of the so-called "Arab Spring." Benny Tai, a lecturer of law at the University of Hong Kong, is cited by various sources across the Western media as the primary organizer - however there are many "co-organizers" mentioned alongside him. The South China Morning Post in an article titled, "Occupy Central is on: Benny Tai rides wave of student protest to launch movement (1)," mentions most of them (emphasis added):
The Post also mentions (emphasis added):
Benny Tai regularly attends US State Department, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and its subsidiary the National Democratic Institute (NDI) funded and/or organized forums. Just this month, he spoke at a Design Democracy Hong Kong (NDI-funded) conference on political reform. He is also active at the University of Hong Kong's Centre for Comparative and Public Law (CCPL) - also funded by NDI. CCPL's 2013-2014 annual report lists Benny Tai as attending at least 3 of the center's functions, as well as heading one of the center's projects. Martin Lee, Jimmy Lai, and Joseph Zen are all confirmed as both leaders of the "Occupy Central" movement and collaborators with the US State Department. Martin Lee, founding chairman of the Democratic Party in Hong Kong, would even travel to the United States this year to conspire directly with NED as well as with politicians in Washington. Earlier this year, Lee would even take to the stage of NED's event "Why Democracy in Hong Kong Matters." Joining him at the NED-organized event was Anson Chan, another prominent figure currently supporting the ongoing unrest in Hong Kong's streets. | |
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2014-10-01 05:34:00
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Tuesday that the first case of Ebola has been diagnosed in the US. On Monday, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas admitted a patient into strict isolation to be evaluated for potential Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), based on the patient's symptoms and recent travel history, according to a statement by the hospital. By Tuesday afternoon, the CDC had received preliminary blood test results back, confirming that the patient was indeed infected with the potentially deadly virus. The patient had recently traveled to Liberia, leaving the West African country on September 19 and arriving in the US on the following day. The patient had no Ebola symptoms when leaving Liberia or entering the United States, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said during a press conference. | |
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Vivian Lee
Memory Hole 2014-10-01 22:07:00
With a rash of "beheadings" sweeping the world, a horrified public is asked to see this depraved barbarity as The New Normal. First we had the August "murder" on video of U.S. journalist James Foley, shown kneeling before a black-robed, masked figure brandishing a knife. Yes, even a rather small knife can do it (just as box-cutters can enable the hijacking of commercial airplanes). The perpetrator is identified as a member of the terrorist group ISIS (or IS or ISIL), which supposedly wants to install a new Islamic caliphate based in the region. However, the video did not actually show the beheading, but faded to black at the appropriate moment. A subsequent frame purports to show Foley's head propped up on his headless body. This video was staged, however, as proved by numerous researchers, and even admitted in the British press.[1] According to a report in The Telegraph:
Nonetheless, the U.S. media continue to report this "beheading" as a real occurrence, over and over again, followed by another "beheading" of an American journalist, Steven J. Sotloff, in a video released in early September. This was supposedly a "second message to America" from ISIS: "Just as your missiles continue to strike our people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people."[3] This video too is problematic, with no blood in evidence before the scene fades to black.[4] | |
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Dr. Jason Kissner
Globalresearch.ca 2014-10-01 21:49:00
We begin with the Public Health Agency of Canada, which once (as recently as August 6) stated on its website that: No more; the "airborne spread among humans is strongly suspected" language has beencleansed: Are we to suppose that very recent and ground-breaking research was conducted that indicated there is no longer reason to "strongly suspect" that airborne Ebola contagion occurs? Surely, the research was done three weeks ago, and we only need to wait another couple of days until the study is released for public consumption. Feel better now? If not, perhaps the 9/30 words of the Centers for Disease Control accompanying the Dallas Ebola case will provide some solace. Or, perhaps those words just contain another pack of U.S. Government lies. Let's investigate. | |
Comment: More evidence that Ebola is airborne:
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RT
2014-10-01 21:51:00
An Iraqi pilot accidentally dropped aid and ammunition into territory controlled by the Islamic State. They were intended to help government forces in the west of Iraq, but instead the blunder ended up aiding the enemy. The mistake was confirmed by two Iraqi officials, who said the airdrop of food, water and ammunition was meant to take place in Anbar province. However, the inexperienced pilot got his bearings a little mixed up and unloaded the cargo in the wrong place, according to NBC News. "Those soldiers were in deadly need of these supplies," said Hakim al-Zamili, an Iraqi MP. However they ended up benefitting the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS or ISIL) because of the "wrong plans of the commanders in the Iraqi army and lack of experience" among the Iraqi pilots. A brigadier in the Iraqi army, who did not want to be named, said that the incident took place on September 19 and also bemoaned the lack of flight time and combat skills of some of the pilots in the air force. They "do not have enough experience ... they are all young and new," the brigadier said. Meanwhile in Syria in late September, US-led coalition airstrikes destroyed grain silos and other targets in parts of northern and eastern Syria dominated by the IS, killing civilians while only wounding ISIS fighters, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. | |
Comment: Either this was deliberate, or a genuine mistake that serves as a symbolic reminder of what is really going on with ISIS. They are wholly a means to an end: regime change in Syria, Iran, and ultimately, Russia. The U.S. has supported them for these purposes, and it strains credulity to think that the targeting of the grain silos, not to mention the oil refineries struck last week, are absolutely deliberate.
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Mississippi Business Journal
2014-09-30 21:13:00
Oxford - Winchester Ammunition, which has manufacturing facilities in Oxford, has won a five-year contract to produce ammunition for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Olin Corp. and its Winchester division have been awarded a contract worth up to $50 million to produce ammunition at its Winchester Centerfire Operations in Oxford for two DHS agencies. "The Department of Homeland Security's wide-ranging border security and law enforcement missions require a significant amount of firepower, particularly for training. I'm pleased that Mississippi will be able to fill that need," said Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), who serves on the Senate subcommittee with jurisdiction over the Homeland Security Department. The indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract calls for the procurement of 40 caliber Smith & Wesson training ammunition, with a maximum dollar value of $50 million. The ammunition is intended for use by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) for field-level training. | |
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RT
2014-10-01 20:11:00
Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to terminate the Human Rights Act if the Conservatives are re-elected in Britain's 2015 general election. The controversial proposal has stoked the ire of civil rights groups across the nation. Speaking on the final day of the Conservative Party's four-day conference, Cameron pledged to scrap the act and replace it with a British "bill of rights." However, the prime minister did not explicitly confirm that a future Conservative government would withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights - a move that would have far-reaching repercussions for Britain's relationship with Europe. But legal experts and civil liberties campaigners suggest the PM's pledge to repeal the Act could radically transform Britain's relationship with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Kate Allen, head of Amnesty International, denounced the PM's controversial policy proposal, emphasizing that the Human Rights Act has historically been a bedrock of social, legal, and economic protection. "It's disappointing to hear the PM vowing to scrap the Human Rights Act when it has done so much good. We should be defending it," she said. | |
Comment: Cameron must be losing it. First, in his speech to the UN he says those who question the official story of 9/11 are as dangerous as the Islamic State. Then he goes on about scrapping Human Rights Act as described above and he also just let it slip that the poor are people "who we resent". Channel 4 News must have been tapping into something when they inadvertently tweeted, 'Cameron IS evil'!
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SCG News
2014-09-11 00:07:00
Comment: Did you catch that last bit by the suit giving the talk on how best to get America into a war to pursue it's interests? This is a prime example of the psychopathic thinking that informs all that the U.S. is now doing around the world, domestically, and in the future. What follows below is a transcript of the excellent video above, and includes the videos that were made reference to. If you've never seen them, they are worth the watch. Contrary to popular belief, the conduct of nations on the international stage is almost never driven by moral considerations, but rather by a shadowy cocktail of money and geopolitics. As such, when you see the mouthpieces of the ruling class begin to demonize a foreign country, the first question in your mind should always be "what is actually at stake here?" For some time now Russia, China, Iran, and Syria have been in the cross hairs. Once you understand why, the events unfolding in the world right now will make much more sense. The U.S. dollar is a unique currency. In fact its current design and its relationship to geopolitics is unlike any other in history. Though it has been the world reserve currency since 1944, this is not what makes it unique. Many currencies have held the reserve status off and on over the centuries, but what makes the dollar unique is the fact that since the early 1970s it has been, with a few notable exceptions, the only currency used to buy and sell oil on the global market. | |
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labourlist.org
2014-10-01 19:54:00
Unfortunate Freudian slip for David Cameron during his Conference speech today: "This party is the trade union for children from the poorest estates and the most chaotic homes; this party is the union for the young woman who wants an apprenticeship; teenagers who want to make something of their lives - this is who we resent."
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2014-10-01 18:52:00
There is irrefutable evidence that the National Guard and ultra-nationalist Right Sector fighters are responsible for the murder of people recently discovered in mass burial sites near Donetsk, eastern Ukraine said Russia's Investigative Committee. "For those who have doubts regarding who's responsible for these murders, the Investigative Committee has irrefutable evidence - witness accounts and appropriate examinations - that directly indicates that this crime was committed by fighters from the National Guard and Right Sector," the committee's head Vladimir Markin in a statement on Wednesday. The mass graves discovered in September near the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine "are further eloquent testimony to the atrocities of the Ukrainian nationalists," Markin said, adding that "all of the victims were tortured before their murder." The murders were described in detail in the testimony of a soldier from the 'Dnepr' battalion, Sergey Litvinov, detained in a Russian hospital as a civilian after he fled Ukraine, Markin said. Currently Litvinov is under arrest and is to be transferred to Moscow for further questioning, he added. | |
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Al Alam
2014-10-01 18:40:00
Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner on Tuesday charged in an emotional address that domestic and US interests were pushing to topple her government, and could even kill her. Domestic business interests "are trying to bring down the government, with international (US) help," she said. Kirchner said that on her recent visit to fellow Argentine Pope Francis - whose help she has sought in Argentina's ongoing debt default row - police warned her about supposed plots against her by ISIL activists. Comment: More like U.S. agents. "So, if something happens to me, don't look to the Mideast, look north" to the United States, Kirchner said at Government House. Don't believe US: Kirchner Just hours after the US embassy here warned its citizens to take extra safety precautions in Argentina, an aggravated Kirchner said "when you see what has been coming out of diplomatic offices, they had better not come in here and try to sell some tall tale about ISIS trying to track me down so they can kill me." Argentina is still struggling with the aftermath of a default on nearly $100 billion in debt in 2001, with the two hedge funds it labels vultures battling the country in US courts. But it has been blocked by US federal judge Thomas Griesa, who has ordered the country to first repay two hedge funds demanding the full $1.3 billion face value of their bonds. | |
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Andrew Korybko
Russia Insider 2014-09-29 00:00:00
Lost among the talk of Ukraine's Civil War and the ISIL threat is the coming Russia vs. West clash in Moldova. The country is sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, and the region of Transnistria has been de-facto independent for about two decades already. As Moldova leaps towards the EU (it signed the Association Agreement at the end of June), it is also running towards NATO, and the US has pondered whether or not to grant it major non-NATO ally status via the tentative 'Russian Aggression Prevention Act of 2014' floating around Congress. The problem is that Transnistria does not want to go along with Moldova's vision of the future. Instead, it has expressed its desire to politically and economically integrate with Russia, and over 1000 Russian peacekeepers are currently stationed there. | |
Comment: Western strategists are pursuing an obvious goal of pulling this traditionally friendly partner away from Russia. The activity of the foreign funds, information and political support and a number of issued preferences show how serious Brussels and Washington are as far as the young Moldavian state goes.
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First day of school Kiev army hits school and bus-stop in Donetsk: At least 11 killed and 40 injured
RT
2014-10-01 16:48:00
At least 11 people have been killed and 40 others have been injured in Donetsk, where a school and a bus stop came under fire - reportedly from Ukrainian Army positions. Two people are reported to have died at the school, and nine at the bus stop, according to Donetsk People Republic's Depity Prime Minister Andrey Purgin. No children were killed in the shelling of school №57, the Donetsk People's Republic 's Interior Ministry said, as cited by TASS. The ministry's press service added that parents and teachers became victims of the shelling. The city council stated that all 70 children studying at the school were in the building at the moment of the strike. They were hastily evacuated. The school building was damaged in the attack. The Russian Foreign Ministry describes the attack as a cynical and blatant breach of international law. | |
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Louise Turner
News Wire 2014-09-29 16:49:00
In his speech to the U.N General Assembly, David Cameron said that "non-violent extremism" is just as dangerous as terrorism and must be eradicated using all means at the government's disposal. He referenced 9/11 and 7/7 Truthers as examples of the type of extremism that must be dealt in a similar fashion to ISIS Is Cameron officially announcing a the plan to use a full assault on dissenting views? | |
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RT
2014-09-27 12:12:00
Armed British RAF jets have been deployed on their first mission in Iraq since UK lawmakers voted to authorize military strikes against so-called Islamic State (IS) targets in the country. A Ministry of Defense Spokesman (MOD) confirmed on Saturday that "Royal Air Force Tornados continue to fly over Iraq and are now ready to be used in an attack role as and when appropriate targets are identified." The spokesman added that no running commentary on the jets' movements would be forthcoming, but they "are pleased with the response time achieved." On Friday, MPs in Britain's House of Commons voted overwhelmingly to take part in military action against Islamic State (also known ISIS, or ISIL). The motion proposed by Prime Minister David Cameron's government was passed overwhelmingly by 524 votes to 43 - a majority of 481.
Britain's three biggest parties, coalition government partners the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, plus the opposition Labour party, all officially backed the bombing campaign. The government insisted the intervention was legal under international law because it was requested by the Iraqi prime minister. | ||
Comment: This is like buttering both sides of the bread while bombing wheat silos.
According to Cameron, the cause of the problem is the "poisonous narrative of Islamist extremism" and that Muslims must "reclaim their religion from these extremists." (WOW, that simple! It's a religion problem.) Cameron called for political efforts to support "inclusive" and "democratic" governments in Iraq and Syria and the British military has an indispensable role to play. There is "no realistic prospect" of defeating Islamic State without it. (Quite important, those Brits!) The Iraqi government "needs our military help and it is in our interest and theirs to give it...this is not 2003 but we must not use past mistakes as an excuse for indifference or inaction." (Don't let truth get in the way of today's agenda! Look the other way. No false pretext here...) The Labour leader of the opposition, Ed Miliband stated ,"Intervention always has risks but adismembered Iraq would be more dangerous for Britain," (Note the description and tie this to the public opinion poll trigger!) Britain is opting for "the long haul" and a commitment of three to four years to defeat IS. (Seems like a long time to correct a "poisonous narrative..." and a religion problem!) | ||
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Press TV
2014-10-01 14:56:00
Amid the rise of civilian deaths in US-led military operation against ISIL, Washington has acknowledged that any strikes in Syria and Iraq are exempt from its "standards" applied to other aerial attacks. US National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden revealed that the current airstrikes will not be performed in line with a previously announced standard for allegedly minimizing civilian casualties. Obama announced last year that the highest standard which the US can meet is un-authorizing drone attacks unless there is "near certainty" about the lack of civilian casualties. | |
Comment: What a load of BS! The U.S. government never bat an eye when their drones kill innocent unarmed civilians around the world.
Psychopaths on the Hill: "Unmanned: America's Drone Wars" Obama's Terror Drones: CIA tactics in Pakistan include targeting rescuers and funerals | |
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Marcus Weisgerber
Defense One 2014-09-30 14:27:00
Pentagon officials likely will keep using forthe foreseeable future a controversial war spending account that is exempt from federal budget caps, but with some new strings attached, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said Tuesday. Work kicked off the latest round of debate over the Overseas Contingency Operations, or OCO, account that was originally created last decade to pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "We're going to have to have Overseas Contingency Operations funding for some time. That is in debate now," Work said at the Council on Foreign Relations. Work said DOD has three options for future of the OCO budget:
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Comment: Put all those figures together and you still won't arrive at the amount of money that is being sucked through the vacuum of endless wars, nor would you ever find out where and what exactly they are being used for.
"It's for your security, stupid!" All right, move along... The congress will approve it anyway. Meanwhile, US poverty Levels: 49.7 million are poor, and 80% of the total population is near poverty and U.S. Congress to cut food stamps by $9 billion. | |
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John Vibes
The Free Thought Project 2014-10-01 22:16:00
Sorrento, Louisiana police chief Earl Theriot pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting an unconscious woman and then lying about it to the FBI. Sadly, the court seemed more concerned about his lying to the FBI, than the actual assault that took place. Theriot managed to escape jail time, while taking just a $2,500 fine and 2 years probation. This sentence is more lenient than a small marijuana possession charge in most states. Theriot believes that the "embarrassment" that him and his family have faced as a result of the scandal, and the loss of his job, is fair punishment for the crimes that he committed. "It's a matter that cost me my law enforcement career and brought embarrassment to my family and town of Sorrento," Theriot said in court after the sentencing, according to WAFB9. In court, Theriot apologized to his family and to the city, but did not apologize to the victim. While on duty last November, Theriot received a call about an unresponsive woman who was passed out at a gas station. Theriot responded to the call, placed the woman in the passenger seat of his patrol car and took her to his office. On the way to his office, Theriot stopped at a liquor store and picked up a bottle of vodka, which he intended to share with the woman. While in his car, he admitted to groping the woman and violating her while she was unconscious. | |
Comment: Sick and twisted cops taking advantage of people whom they're supposed to protect, happens every day.
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Alexander Donetsky
Strategic Culture Foundation 2014-09-26 21:18:00
Numerous reports on systematic destruction of populated areas in the Donbass and Luhansk regions by Ukrainian military have been becoming public domain. The evidence has been plentiful:photos, videos, international observers and journalists' reports. Neither the United States nor Europe have paid attention on the information as they considered it to be part of the «Kremlin's propaganda». Western media outlets have painted the use of internationally banned arms and warfare tactics as legal means of waging war against terror. Now the OSCE has to recognize the fact that the crimes have been committed by Ukrainian military and soldiers of chasteners' battalions, for instance the use of non-conventional weapons, the elimination of civilians and torture of prisoners. According to the report by Amnesty International, the servicemen of Aydar battalion practiced kidnapping and tortures of civilians. Some time ago international observers discovered mass graves of tortured people. Those who live in Donbass have many times reported «mysterious graves» findings. Two movable crematoriums have been bought in Germany to get rid of the bodies. The burnt soldiers were reported to be missing in action. Many corpses have been burnt without registration and leaving any trace whatsoever. On September 23, 332 Ukrainian military were put into grave near Dnepropetrovsk without making precise the names of the perished. Only 22 names were known. On September 22, in Zaporozhye 55 unrecognized corpses of Ukrainian soldiers were buried. In Dnepropetrovsk 11 more unrecognized servicemen, who had lost their lives in Ilovaisk, were put into grave. | |
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PressTV
2014-10-01 20:51:00
A 9/11 British activist hands himself in to UK's counter terrorism police following British Prime Ministers David Cameron's speech at the UN General Assembly last week, Press TV reports. In response to Cameron's remarks equating people, who question 9/11 and 7/7 attacks in the US and UK as well as the West's policy towards the Middle East, with Takfiri preachers who radicalize extremists, Nick Kollerstrom handed himself in. "As the evidence emerges about the backgrounds of those convicted of terrorist offences, it is clear that many of them were initially influenced by preachers who claim not to encourage violence, but whose world view can be used as a justification for it. And we know what this world view is,the peddling of lies: that 9/11 was a Jewish plot or the 7/7 London attacks were staged; the idea that Muslims are persecuted all over the world as a deliberate act of Western policy," Cameron said while addressing the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 25. Explaining his actions to the Press TV correspondent in London, Kollerstrom said, "David Cameron has redefined terrorism at the UN to include people, who believe that the London bombings involve government complicity, were to some degree arranged, which I certainly do believe, and I've published a book on the subject and also I believe the 9/11 was an inside job. I do think Islamic nations are being selectively targeted, it's perfectly obvious, and if the police force are going by his directive what constitutes terrorism, it seems to me that they need to arrest me." The Press TV correspondent was present while Kollestrom handed himself in. "We want to report a possible terror threat, we've got a bit of evidence and wonder if we could come in and report it," Kollerstrom said at Scotland Yard headquarters in London. The British police refused to arrest Kollestrom, but he said that Cameron's definition of nonviolent extremism will lead to the arrest of many Muslims, who share his views, and described it as another example of racial profiling.
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Comment: In related news, Cameron has also vowed to revivify the wars on non-mind-altering drugs, affluent poverty, educated illiteracy and sane politicians... Does Cameron realize what a fool he makes of himself on a regular basis? Somehow we doubt it.
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The Saker
Russia Insider 2014-10-01 20:44:00
Today's comment from the Saker is very timely, as we published a sensational video earlier today about the western media's ignorance of events surrounding the Odessa massacre of May 2. It's going to be a big deal. The increasing news flow about the extreme brutality of the Kiev regime and the massive neo-nazi presence in its ranks, is snowballing, and, we are sure, will end up being a huge embarrassment for the EU States and the US who have embraced Kiev. This is especially true for Germany, which is hyper-sensitive to nazi questions. Listen to the Saker, we couldn't have said it better ourselves: Today, buried 9 minutes into the latest edition of the Channel 1 news report on Russian television, was a 23 seconds long statement by Latvian Human Rights investigator Enorst Gronych who declared on camera that he has interviewed the people of a village recently evacuated by the Junta's repression forces who had told him about "repeated cases of gang rapes of minor girls aged 12, 13 and 14 years old" by Ukrainian thugs. According to Gronych, this kind of pattern falls within the definition of "genocide". | |
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Thesmokinggun.com
2014-10-01 20:10:00
When an 80-year-old Applebee's patron politely asked him to stop loudly cursing and talking about "titties and ass," a Floridian, 26, responded by punching the octogenarian in the face, according to police. The confrontation late Sunday in the Port Orange eatery resulted in the arrest of Mikie Sawyer on a felony charge for battering a person over the age of 65. Harry Sander told police that he was at the Applebee's bar when he heard Sawyer "talking obscenities." Sander said that he approached Sawyer "and asked him politely if he could please stop using the 'fuck' word and stop talking so loud about 'titties and ass,'" according to a police report. After Sawyer replied that he did not have to stop cursing, Sander noted that in his home country of Germany, "you don't speak in such a manner." A witness told a Port Orange Police Department officer that Sawyer replied, "I don't care where you are from whether it be Russia or Dutch take your ass to the other side of the bar." Sawyer then allegedly punched Sander in the face and pushed the pensioner to the Applebee's floor. Sander "stated he does not remember much after that moment." Sander's left eye was red and his left cheek was "discolored and bruised," noted investigators, who added that Sawyer's knuckles "appeared discolored and bruised." The elderly victim was treated for his injuries by emergency medical services who responded to the Applebee's. | |
Comment: Another psychopath with no concern for the moral (or legal) consequences of his actions. Sick!
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RT
2014-10-01 19:59:00
Prominent women's rights group NOW is demanding changes to how Louisiana treats rape victims, after it became known that some were charged several thousand dollars for emergency medical services. The news first broke last week, when the Times-Picayune reported that victims of sex crimes - once treated for free - are now being charged up to $4000 for forensic medical examinations by some hospitals. In one such instance, a New Orleans college student awoke nude in a public place. Fearing she had been drugged and raped, she called emergency officials. They urged her to go to the hospital, assuring that she wouldn't be charged. However, one year later she received a notice that she owed the hospital $2,254. The president of the Louisiana chapter of NOW, Charlotte Klasson, responded to the reports with a strongly-worded message, stating that the alleged practice is "a form of political extortion to discourage the pursuit of prosecution of crimes of sexual assault." Louisiana's Interim LSU Hospital said it does not charge patients for costs associated with the collection of evidence or a pelvic exam, according to the hospital's spokeswoman, as cited by theTimes Picayune. However, she said they still bill for related tests to learn if the victim is pregnant or has contracted HIV. | |
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RT
2014-10-01 19:49:00
Millions of people in Britain could go without heat and power during the winter months if they use a pre-paid meter system, according to new research from Citizens Advice. According to the network of independent charities, an estimated 1.62 million people could lose heating and electricity if they cannot afford to top up their gas cards, or if their payment meters are broken or difficult to use. Most energy companies only contact vulnerable customers, namely the elderly, a month after they last topped up. Meanwhile, firms are likely to contact customers who are not considered "vulnerable" after three months. Customers using a pre-paid system have to top up their cards or electric keys as they go, usually at a shop or online. However, both the cards and plastic keys can be unreliable, and in some cases customers have said their meter systems could not read them. The research also found that some people were going without gas and electricity due to rising prices and stagnating incomes. Others stated that job losses or receiving less in benefits meant there was not enough money to pay for energy and other household essentials. An increasing number of families are forced to choose between heating and eating. | |
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RT
2014-10-01 14:09:00
Roughly one-in-five American workers have been laid off during the last half-decade, according to a recent report, raising new doubts about exactly how secure job stability really is within the United States. The report, published last week out of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University, found that roughly 30 million Americans - or around 20 percent of the workforce - have lost a job during the last five years. Additionally, the pollsters found that Americans that unexpectedly end up out of work have a hard time recovering and regularly end up making less money once they're rehired, if hired at all. A survey of 1,153 Americans taken by the Heldrich Center determined that around half of the laid-off workers who did manage to find work after being laid off were paid less than at their previous position, and a quarter said those new jobs were just temporary. | |
Comment: The US economy is in such a dire state that 80% of the population is near poverty, due to economic policies that benefit the few at the expense of the many, and the largesse consistently given to the Pentagon to fund its global wars.
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Gil Matos-Sequi
Russia Insider 2014-09-30 00:00:00
Gazprom refused to soften its position in the latest round of trilateral talks between the EU, Gazprom and Ukraine to resolve the gas dispute. Instead Gazprom just stuck to the offer it made back in June. The offer remains $385 per 1,000 cubic meters for 6 months. This is the same price it offered to go down to in June when Ukraine rejected it. Technically the offer is a discount of $100 per 1,000 cubic meters. The contractual price remains $485 per 1,000 cubic meters. At the end of the 6 month period the $100 per 1,000 cubic meters discount ends and the price reverts to the full contractual price of $485 per 1,000 cubic meters. What has changed since June is that the EU now seems to be backing Gazprom's offer. | |
Comment: Now that winter is approaching, the EU is finally getting the message that it will be chilly indeed if an agreement is not reached between the Ukraine and Russia to insure gas supplies to Europe.
Ukraine's failure to pay gas debt may cut gas supply to Europe - Russia's energy minister Putin writes to European leaders and says Ukraine gas debt 'critical', transit threatened Ukraine gas debt exceeds $5bn, still hasn't made payments to Gazprom | |
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Al Jazeera
Ebola outbreak has left at least 3,700 children in the hands of relatives who are too frightened to take care of them.2014-09-30 13:39:00
The number of orphans who have lost at least one parent to an Ebola virus is expected to double in West Africa, the UN children's fund has said, intensifying a childcare problem as extended family members shun offsprings of Ebola victims. Ebola outbreak has claimed more than 3,000 lives in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, leaving at least 3,700 children in the hands of relatives who are too frightened to take care of them, UNICEF said. "The fear surrounding Ebola is becoming stronger than family ties," Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF's regional director for west and central Africa, said on Tuesday. He said that thousands of children mourning dead parents and in urgent need of support felt "unwanted and even abandoned". | |
Comment: UNICEF's plan sounds very good in fact, and they are only asking for $200 million. Consider that the U.S., during 2013, spend $10.4 billion just for sustaining its troops that occupy 70% of the countries of this world. And that the Pentagon has requested $58.6 billion for war in year 2015. Air strikes in Iraq and Syria, that kill mostly civilians, cost $10 billion a day. The money exists and could be provided, but instead are used to create more death and destruction by our psychopathic elite rulers. Meanwhile Ebola will continue to spread and more children will become neglected orphans.
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Vanessa Allen
The Daily Mail 2014-10-28 12:20:00
A cancer doctor treating five-year-old Ashya King admitted the only treatment available on the NHS would leave him with life-long disabilities, his parents revealed yesterday. Brett and Naghmeh King were told conventional radiotherapy would leave their son with 'special needs' which could be avoided if he received pioneering treatment abroad. Despite that admission, NHS doctors insisted they would go ahead with normal radiotherapy and threatened to have the horrified couple's parental rights removed if they questioned the decision, the family said. Speaking exclusively to the Daily Mail, Mr and Mrs King said they were forced to take their desperately ill son on the run across Europe to protect him from the devastating side effects of the NHS treatment. The family's plight shocked the world when the couple were arrested for child cruelty and thrown in jail while Ashya was kept under armed guard, alone in a Spanish hospital. His brothers and sisters were banned from seeing him, and his parents said he was left 'crying like a wounded animal through the night' in his single bed ward. | |
Comment: "This case is similar to that of Justina Pelletier, where the hospital and police have decided that they know what is best for children and are willing to kidnap children and arrest parents for daring to disagree with a diagnosis or treatment protocol. It's becoming frightfully obvious that the State wishes to eliminate parental rights. So we have now entered a new era of medical blackmailwhere some are finding the hard way how few rights they have and how fascist their medical "care" system really is."
For more information: Ashya King case: Missing boy with brain tumor alive in Spain, parents arrested Southampton hospital staff inundated with abusive calls after witch hunt of Ashya King family | |
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CBN News
2014-09-30 06:00:00
The same day a woman was beheaded at a Moore, Oklahoma, food processing plant, a second beheading scare occurred in Oklahoma City in what some are calling a "bizarre coincidence." The Oklahoman newspaper reports Jacob Mugambi Muriithi, who had been fired from his nursing home job, was arrested after a female coworker said he threatened to cut her head off "with a blade." The 30-year-old Kenyan native reportedly told her he represented ISIS and referenced killing Christians. "We take these threats very seriously," Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater said. | |
Comment: It is curious that these beheading incidents took place after the recent ISIS beheadings. See:
ISIS and the corporate state of war profiteering Corbett Report: Who is really behind ISIS? Origins, funding, training and intrigue | |
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RT
2014-09-30 09:03:00
It's a sign of the times when parents are willing to give up their first born children in exchange for internet access. But don't worry - it was just an experiment exposing how very few of us pay attention to security when using public Wi-Fi. The experiment, set up by security firm F-Secure, used a hotspot in London's Canary Wharf, which allowed users to connect to the internet on their mobile devices, such as iPads and smartphones. However, users would have to agree to the firms' terms and conditions before making a connection- which included giving up their children. In just half an hour, 33 Londoners attempted to connect, with six unknowingly agreeing to the terms and conditions, which stated the user would "render up their eldest child for the duration of eternity". | |
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RT
2014-09-30 01:27:00
Nearly 3,000 people have been trafficked for slavery and exploitation in the UK, according to a new report produced from the National Crime Agency (NCA), with the internet being one of the biggest drivers in proliferating abuse. According to the NCA, slavery from the UK has jumped by 22 percent since 2013, as traffickers use online dating, social media and job recruitment sites to lure their victims. In some instances, victims were lured into trafficking rings under the pretense of meeting someone posing as a love interest online. The report, published on Tuesday, identified 2,744 people, including over 600 children, being trafficked. More than 40 percent of the victims were involved in the sex trade, while many ended up being used for forced manual labor. Around 19 percent of trafficking victims were involved in other forms of criminal exploitation. The report shows that most of the victims being trafficked into the UK are from Eastern Europe, namely Romania, while those forced into manual labor mostly came from Poland. However, the victims identified by the NCA also had origins in Albania, Slovakia and Lithuania. | |
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RT
2014-09-30 23:58:00
Britons' spending on prostitution and illegal drugs bolsters the UK economy by as much as £11 billion (US$17.8 billion) per year, according to newly published figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Revised data released by the government statistical body indicates that household spending increased in 2012, partially as a result of Britons' consumption of narcotics and prostitution services. The ONS estimated the average yearly impact of illegal narcotics - such as heroine and cocaine - on household expenditure between 1997 and 2013 to be £6.7 ($10.8) billion per year. Meanwhile, prostitution contributes £4.3 billion ($6.9 billion) per year to Britain's economy if gauged in terms of current market prices, the body suggests. Data released by the ONS in May estimated that illegal drugs and prostitution contributed approximately £10 billion ($16.2 billion) to the UK economy between 1997 and 2009. This figure exceeded the amount spent on the construction of houses across the state over the same period. | |
Comment: Actually, it's predominantly propped up by Scottish oil:
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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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Laura Geggel
Live Science 2014-10-01 12:16:00
Ice-penetrating radar has uncovered a previously unknown ice-covered trench, and other detailed terrain, in the bedrock hidden beneath two massive, bluish glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica. The gaping features were revealed in the first, highly detailed 3D maps of the frozen bedrock - the land under Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier and Antarctica's Byrd Glacier - which may help researchers predict how glaciers, ice sheets and sea levels may change in the future. "Without bed topography, you cannot build a decent ice-sheet model," lead researcher Prasad Gogineni, director of the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas, said in a statement. | |
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Phys.org
2014-10-01 16:30:00
Researchers plan and plot every considerable aspect of their work, but sometimes it's something unexpected and seemingly insignificant that leads to the real discovery. That was the case for Scott Powell, assistant professor of biology at the George Washington University. While conducting field research on turtle ants in the savannah region of Brazil, Dr. Powell noticed something peculiar: a species of ant infiltrating the region of a host ant, Crematogaster ampla. The C. ampla is known for its hyper-aggressiveness, but did not attack the invading species, which was Dr. Powell's first clue that something was amiss. The invading ant species acted very similarly to C. ampla but looked slightly different. "I did a true double-take when I first saw this new species," said Dr. Powell. "As I turned away, after seeing what appeared to be large numbers of host foragers, it registered that a couple of the ants I had just laid eyes on were not quite like the others. Turning back around, I managed to re-find the few peculiar ants in the masses of host ants, and everything followed from there." | |
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A new battle is brewing over privacy for mobile devices, after moves by Google and Apple to toughen the encryption of their mobile devices sparked complaints from law enforcement. The issue is part of a long-running debate over whether tech gadgets should have privacy-protecting encryption which makes it difficult for law enforcement to access in time-sensitive investigations. FBI director James Comey reignited the issue last week, criticizing Apple and Google for new measures that keep smartphones locked down - without even the company holding the keys to unlock the data. "What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law," the FBI chief said, warning that law enforcement may be denied timely access, even with a warrant, in cases ranging from child kidnapping to terrorism. Former FBI criminal division chief Ronald Hosko made a similar point in an opinion piece in the Washington Post, citing a case in which the agency used smartphone data to solve a brutal kidnapping just in time to save the life of the victim. "Most investigations don't rely solely on information from one source, even a smartphone," he said. "But without each and every important piece of the investigative puzzle, criminals and those who plan acts destructive to our national security may walk free." | |
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On April 23, NASA's Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star. The initial blast from this record-setting series of explosions was as much as 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar flare ever recorded. "We used to think major flaring episodes from red dwarfs lasted no more than a day, but Swift detected at least seven powerful eruptions over a period of about two weeks," said Stephen Drake, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who gave a presentation on the "superflare" at the August meeting of the American Astronomical Society's High Energy Astrophysics Division. "This was a very complex event." At its peak, the flare reached temperatures of 360 million degrees Fahrenheit (200 million Celsius), more than 12 times hotter than the center of the sun. The "superflare" came from one of the stars in a close binary system known as DG Canum Venaticorum, or DG CVn for short, located about 60 light-years away. Both stars are dim red dwarfs with masses and sizes about one-third of our sun's. They orbit each other at about three times Earth's average distance from the sun, which is too close for Swift to determine which star erupted. | |
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Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes & Martino Nicolini
Remanzacco Observatory 2014-10-01 01:55:00
CBET 3979, issued on 2014 September 19, announced that observations of comet C/2011 J2 (LINEAR) (by F. Manzini, V. Oldani, A. Dan and R. Behrend) on Aug. 27.95, 28.85, and 30.91 UT led to the detection of a second, fainter, nuclear condensation (from now on Component B) located 0".8 east and 7".5 north of the main, brighter nuclear condensation (component A). For more info about comet C/2011 J2 please see our May 2011 post on this blog by clicking here. Whilst working on a long term morphology study on comet C/2012 K1 with N. Samarasinha and B. Mueller using the 2-meter Liverpool Telescope, we were alerted of the fragmentation event in comet C/2011 J2 and so diverted the telescope to this comet for a few days. | |
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| Earth Changes |
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PhysOrg
2014-09-30 23:02:00
Tropical Storm Rachel is spinning down west of Mexico's Baja California, and another tropical low pressure area developing off the coast of southwestern Mexico dwarfs the tropical storm. NOAA's GOES-West satellite showed the size difference between the two tropical low pressure areas. NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured an image of the Eastern Pacific Ocean on Sept. 30 at 1200 UTC (8 a.m. EDT). In the infrared image, Tropical Storm Rachel appeared small in comparison to the low pressure area called System 90E, coming together hundreds of miles south. As Rachel spins down over cool waters west of Baja California, Mexico, southwesterly wind shear was obvious in the GOES-West image because the bulk of Rachel's clouds had been pushed to the north. The image was created by NASA/NOAA's GOES Project at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted that Rachel was still maintaining tropical storm strength on Sept. 30 at 5 a.m. EDT, when maximum sustained winds were near 40 mph (65 kph). Rachel was centered near 23.3 north latitude and 117.5 west longitude, about 485 miles (780 km) west of the southern tip of Baja California. Rachel was stationary at the time. | |
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BBC
2014-10-01 19:37:00
Huge numbers of Pacific walrus have been coming ashore in northwest Alaska. An estimated 35,000 animals were pictured at the weekend hauling themselves on to land north of Point Lay, about 500km southwest of Barrow. The gathering was photographed as part of an annual survey undertaken by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Walrus will generally rest on floes of Arctic sea ice, but when that is not available will head to nearby beaches. | |
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Jon Erdman and Nick Wiltgen
The Weather Channel 2014-10-01 17:48:00
Typhoon Phanfone has pushed past the Mariana Islands and is poised to become a powerful typhoon in the days ahead, posing a threat to Japan this weekend. Phanfone pushed through the northern Mariana Islands north of Guam Tuesday night as a tropical storm. High surf advisories continue for Guam, Rota, Tinian and Saipan through Friday night, where 7 to 9 foot surf is expected, particularly on west and south-facing reefs. Typhoon Phanfone is now in a favorable environment of low wind shear and high sea-surface temperatures as it continues to track toward the northwest. This should allow it to strengthen into a powerful typhoon later this week. A cycle of rapid intensification could occur, given the favorable environmental conditions. As a result, the U.S. military's Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecasts Phanfone to become the equivalent of a Category 4 tropical cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale later this week. | |
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Just as the flood water in Jammu and Kashmir started to recede, heavy rainfall caused widespread flooding across the north eastern states of Assam and Meghalaya. The heavy rain first began around 21 September 2014. The city of Gauhati in Assam saw 203 mm fall in just 24 hours between 21 and 22 September. By 22 September, at least 100 villages were flooded in the state of Meghalaya. Flood water has remained in vast areas of both states for 1 week and has left 88 people dead and over 1 million displaced. Hundreds of relief camps have been set up for the flood victims. Teams from India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Border Security Forces have been deployed in rescue and relief operations. Currently focus is on relief work since the majority of rescue operations where over 6,000 were rescued, have been completed.
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RT
2014-09-30 00:00:00
The basin of Kazakhstan's Aral Sea, once the fourth largest lake in the world, is now completely dry. The history of the sea, which derived its name from a Kyrgyz word meaning "Sea of Islands," is revealed in a series of 10 videos. | |
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CBS News
2014-09-30 09:00:00
Denver - Some people in Colorado are cleaning up after hail piled up like snow in some areas. In western Colorado, the National Weather Service says several people reported golf-ball size hail near Pagosa Springs on Monday. The system that brought the unusual early fall weather to Colorado is headed for the Midwest, where officials have issued warnings about severe thunderstorms across the Great Plains. Quarter-sized hail piled up like snow in Greenwood Village while the unsettled weather led to a tornado watch for 14 counties. Monday's raging storm damaged more than 500 cars and shattered windows at the Hyundai dealership in Arapahoe. "Never seen anything like it. Only thing close would be a tornado," employee Eric Risch told CBS Denver. "Quarter-sized hail just ripping through the air." "Wind started coming in and all of a sudden it looked like it was snowing in September," sales manager Ray Saccomano said. "What kind of pressure do you need to do something like this? A lot of pressure." | |
Comment: Just an anomaly? Think again. This is the 'new normal,' and it's only intensifying. Just don't go to Al Gore or Leonardo DiCaprio to find out why.
Read: Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3 | |
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MissLisa
Youtube 2014-09-29 00:00:00
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Jason Maderer
Here's another reason why it's a good idea to hit the gym: it can improve memory. A new Georgia Institute of Technology study shows that an intense workout of as little as 20 minutes can enhance episodic memory, also known as long-term memory for previous events, by about 10 percent in healthy young adults.Georgia Institute of Technology 2014-09-30 19:25:00 The Georgia Tech research isn't the first to find that exercise can improve memory. But the study, which was just published in the journal Acta Psychologica, took a few new approaches. While many existing studies have demonstrated that months of aerobic exercises such as running can improve memory, the current study had participants lift weights just once two days before testing them. The Georgia Tech researchers also had participants study events just before the exercise rather than after workout. They did this because of extensive animal research suggesting that the period after learning (or consolidation) is when the arousal or stress caused by exercise is most likely to benefit memory.
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Comment: The study has been published in: Acta Psychologica Volume 153, November 2014, Pages 13 - 19 and can be found here.
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Kelly Gilblom
Bloomberg.com 2014-10-01 04:01:00
A mosquito-borne virus that can cause debilitating joint pain lasting for years has spread to the continental U.S. after infecting hundreds of thousands of people in the Caribbean and Central America. The virus is called Chikungunya, an African name meaning "to become contorted." While the illness, first identified in Tanzania in 1952, has long bedeviled Africa and Asia, the only recorded cases in the U.S. before July involved patients who contracted the virus abroad. Now, 11 cases have been confirmed as originating in Florida, spurring concern this may be the beginning of the type of explosive growth seen elsewhere from a disease that has no vaccine or cure. Medical and environmental experts are debating how best to quell the outbreak before it takes off. "In a way it's surprising it hasn't been here yet," said Scott Weaver, a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Patients who contract Chikungunya have joint swelling and pain, fever, headache and rash for about a week, though some symptoms last months or years in some patients, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the disease generally isn't fatal, more than 100 people have died in the Western Hemisphere since December, according to the Pan American Health Organization. Treatment includes hydration, rest and medicine that reduces fever or pain such ibuprofen or acetaminophen. | |
Comment: In July 2014, 2 cases were reported in Florida:
Reports of individuals contracting mosquito virus chikungunya confirmed by health officials in Florida More from around the world:
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Marjorie Owens
Usatoday.com 2014-10-01 19:05:00
Health officials are closely monitoring a possible second Ebola patient who had close contact with the first person to be diagnosed in the U.S., the director of Dallas County's health department said Wednesday. All who have been in close contact with the man diagnosed are being monitored as a precaution, Zachary Thompson, director of Dallas County Health and Human Services, said in a morning interview with WFAA-TV. "Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: The fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient," he said. "So this is real. There should be a concern, but it's contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment." The director continued to assure residents that the public isn't at risk because health officials have the virus contained. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas was the first person to be diagnosed in the United States with the Ebola virus. The patient left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in Dallas the following day. On Sept. 26, he sought treatment at the hospital after becoming ill but was sent home with a prescription for antibiotics. Two days later, he was admitted with more critical symptoms, after requiring an ambulance ride to the hospital. | |
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Abcnews.go.com
2014-10-01 10:08:00
The country's top medical official who has vowed to stop Ebola "in its tracks" in the U.S., conceded today that it's "not impossible" that others will contract the disease. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said an extensive tracking process is underway in the wake of the first Ebola diagnosis in the United States, with special focus on the patient's family and health staff. "We have a seven-person team in Dallas working with the local health department and the hospital, and we will be identifying everyone who may have come in contact with him and then monitoring them for 21 days," Frieden said. The city of Dallas, which has activated its Emergency Operations Center on "Level 2: High Readiness," said, "We are currently evaluating 12-18 people that the patient confirmed to have the Ebola virus was in contact with." In addition, the three ambulance crew members that brought the patient to the hospital were tested for Ebola. The tests were negative, but the crew members were sent home and will be monitored for the next three weeks, the city said in a statement. Frieden believes the disease will be "stopped in its tracks" in this country. The unidentified man's safety, along with the well-being of the medical people treating him, is a primary focus, Frieden said. | |
Comment: Evidence is surfacing that Ebola is/has become airborne.
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Paul Bedard
The Washington Examiner 2014-10-01 15:36:00
A former Food and Drug Administration chief scientist and top infectious disease specialist said that several people were exposed to the Ebola virus by the unidentified patient in Dallas, America's first case, and it's likely that many more will be infected. Dr. Jesse L. Goodman, now a professor of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, said while the nation shouldn't panic, it's best to prepare for the worst. "It is quite appropriate to be concerned on many fronts," he said in a statement provided to Secrets. "First, it is a tragedy for the patient and family and, as well, a stress to contacts, health care workers and the community at large. Second, it appears several people were exposed before the individual was placed in isolation, and it is quite possible that one or more of his contacts will be infected," he added. What's more, he conceded that it was "only a matter of time" that the swift-killing African virus arrived in the U.S. | |
Comment: West Africa has been decimated by the Ebola outbreak and has been in desperate need of funding and assistance. It's shameful that the virus has to reach the West before people take note and alarms are sounded for a long overdue global effort.
UK's top public doctor shames western society: Drug firms not trying to find Ebola vaccine 'because virus is only killing Africans' | |
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The Extinction Protocol
2014-10-01 08:33:00
Liberia, the West African nation hardest it by Ebola, has begun a frightening descent into economic hell. That's the import of three recent reports from international organizations that seem to bear out the worst-case scenarios of months ago: that people would abandon the fields and factories, that food and fuel would become scarce and unaffordable, and that the government's already meagre capacity to help, along with the nation's prospects for a better future, would be severely compromised. They are no longer scenarios. They are real. While these trends have been noted anecdotally, the cumulative toll is horrific. The basic necessities of survival in Liberia - food, transportation, work, money, help from the government - are rapidly being depleted, according to recent reports by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Comment: They keep writing reports, but what is actually being done? Meanwhile, people are also dying from malaria, typhoid fever and measles and women are dying in childbirth, because there are no beds available. The FAO says that food is in increasingly short supply. Fields in some regions have been abandoned in part because people perceive Ebola may be coming from them or from the water used to irrigate them. "People are terrified by how fast the disease is spreading," Alexis Bonte, FAO Representative in Liberia, said in a statement. "Neighbors, friends and family members are dying within just a few days of exhibiting shocking symptoms, the causes of which are not fully understood by many local communities. This leads them to speculate that water, food or even crops could be responsible. Panic ensues, causing farmers to abandon their fields for weeks." - Washington Post | |
Comment: CDC: If trends continue the number of Ebola cases could reach 1,4 million by January
And now Ebola has reached the U.S. Don't panic!: Vitamin C - A cure for Ebola Are you prepping your diet? | |
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Mans Denton
The Hacked Mind 2013-09-30 23:11:00
Today, I could not turn the shower faucet to the right any further. Victory. My first experience with cold showers was excited but short lived. Joel Runyon had a blog post andYouTube video discussing cold showers and how to begin. I was pumped and I gave it a try. I tried it, I yelped, I nearly peed myself, and then I stopped for a while. It was too uncomfortable. I didn't want to replace hot, enjoyable showers with frigid, painful experiences. Despite all of the health benefits, I now know that being uncomfortable is exactly what cold showers are all about. If health isn't high on your priority list, getting used to discomfort on a daily basis should be. By subjecting myself to discomfort now, I increase the likelihood I can stay the course in other areas of my life that are more important. Best of all, there are plenty of health benefits associated with cold shower therapy. | |
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| Science of the Spirit |
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MedicalXpress.com
2014-09-26 22:18:00
Neurons programmed to fire at specific faces - such as the famously reported "Jennifer Aniston neuron" - may be more in line with the conscious recognition of faces than the actual images seen. Subjects presented with a blended face, such as an amalgamation of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, had significantly more firing of such face-specific neurons when they recognized the blended or morphed face as one person or the other. Results of the study led by Christof Koch at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and carried out by neuroscientists Rodrigo Quian Quiroga at the University of Leicester, Alexander Kraskov at University College London and Florian Mormann at the University of Bonn, under the clinical supervision of the neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical School, are published online today in the journal Neuron. Some neurons in the region of the brain known as the medial temporal lobe are observed to be extremely selective in the stimuli to which they respond. A cell may only fire in response to different pictures of a particular person who is very familiar to the subject (such as loved one or a celebrity), the person's written or spoken name, or simply recalling the person from memory. "These highly specific cells are an entry point to investigate how the brain makes meaning out of visual information," explains Christof Koch, Chief Scientific Officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and senior author on the paper. "We wanted to know how these cells responded not just to a simple image of a person's face, but to a more ambiguous image of that face averaged or morphed with another person's face." | |
Comment: The field of cognitive science has provided much work in recent years on the subjective and mechanical nature of our minds. Reader's may wish to check out our forum threads on The Adaptive Unconscious and Thinking, Fast And Slow, which cover the unconscious mechanisms at work and how we might overcome them.
Interested readers may also want to see this related article: Brain cells in amygdala make judgments based on a viewer's subjective opinions instead of true emotion expressed | |
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Luke Beardsworth
Birmingham Mail 2014-10-01 20:12:00
The official Twitter account for Channel 4 news slipped up and appeared to call David Cameron evil. Although they were trying to say David Cameron had called IS evil, the way they presented it left it open to interpretation.
Channel 4 were reporting on the Conservative Party Conference that is currently being held in Birmingham. David Cameron was delivering his speech which used NHS spending promises as one of it's most important pledges. The slip was quickly picked up on by Twitter users rushing to agree with Channel 4's mistake. | ||
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