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Gary Boyle & Niall Bradley
Sott.net 2014-11-17 12:08:00
NASA's Near Earth Object (NEO) Program published a diagram a few days ago, showing 556 mapped comet/asteroid fragment impacts on Earth over the last 20 years (see above). NASA says it's based on data gathered from 1994-2013 on small asteroids impacting Earth's atmosphere to create 'fireballs', adding that "the sizes of yellow dots (daytime impacts) and blue dots (nighttime impacts) are proportional to the optical radiated energy of impacts measured in billions of Joules (GJ) of energy, and show the location of impacts from objects about 1 meter (3 feet) to almost 20 meters (60 feet) in size." Note the random distribution of impacts around the globe. But note also what the map and accompanying NASA report do not indicate: the year-on-year distribution of those impact events over that 20-year period. This omission enables them to give the following misleading subheading to their report: By not providing a year-on-year breakdown of the impacts, and by including their rather banal headline, NASA leaves us to assume that these events were more or less evenly distributed over those 20 years - on average, 27 fireball events of note in 2013 (556 total events/20 years). But we have serious doubts about this. We know from the American Meteor Society that there were nearly 3,500 observed events in 2013 alone - and just in the US. Check out the data for yourself: browse through the AMS Events database. Select for events in 2013 with both 'sound' and 'fragmentation' reported. Note how many of last year's 184 US fireball events, that were large enough to be both seen breaking up and heard exploding, were witnessed from multiple US states. Now go back to the NASA world fireball map from 1994-2013. Assuming its random global distribution is accurate, we can try a little exercise in extrapolation to get a figure for significant fireball events globally in 2013. | |
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Joe Quinn
Sott.net 2014-11-15 21:59:00
Media reports on Saturday claimed that Russian President Putin was planning to spurn the G20 leaders breakfast on Sunday and leave the farcical psychopathic love-in early. Within a few hours however, a Kremlin spokesman denied that Putin had any such plans. If the idea of an early exit didhappen to cross the mind of the Russian president, it would be entirely understandable. From the moment Putin arrived in Australia, most of the G20 leaders have acted like the discourteous, arrogant, obnoxious quislings of empire they are. | |
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Stefan Verstappen
Chinastrategies.com 2014-11-15 11:37:00
An extremely important and concise explanation of the cycles of history, their stages, how they proceed and end. Author of the Art of Urban Survival and Defense against the Psychopath, Stefan Verstappen makes the case that we are currently in the final stage of our cycle of history, defined, like all others, by chaos across all areas of our civilization. Historically, only small groups of people survived such periods of destruction, and they did so by forming themselves into tight-knit communities with a ethos that ran counter to the prevailing corrupt and destructive tendencies. Must watch!
For more on this topic see Laura Knight-Jadczyk's The Golden Age, Psychopathy and the Sixth Extinction and her fascinating and eminently readable book The Apocalypse: Comets, Asteroids and Cyclical Catastrophes | ||
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Pepe Escobar
RT 2014-11-17 19:27:00
Here's the G20 in Australia in a one-liner: a tiny bunch of Anglo-Saxon political buffoons attempts to drown out the Global South. Countries representing over 85 percent of the world economy get together to (in theory) discuss some really heavy economic/financial issues, and virtually the only thing pitiful Western corporate media blabbers about is Russian President Vladimir Putin cutting an 'isolated figure'. Well, Washington and its string of puppets did try to turn the G20 into a farce. Fortunately the adults in the room had some business to do. The five BRICS member-nations - despite their current problems, the G5 that really matters in the world - did meet before the summit, including the 'isolated figure'. Economically, this G5 more than matches the old, decrepit G7. | |
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Aeneas Georg
Sott.net 2014-11-17 15:30:00
It is wellknown to us that Russia knows full well the way of regime change that the empire of chaos uses over and over to ensure their supremacy as the sole super power. This was made clear by Putin in his Valdai speech China has also been subject to attemps at regime change both in the Xinjiang province in West China and most recently in Hong Kong. The question is how aware are the Chinese of the US role in these protest movements? A recent youtube makes it abundantly clear that the Chinese read the geopolitical chessgame very well, if the views presented also reflect the view of the Chinese at large. The youtube video maps out 12 steps that the US uses for regime change and goes on to explain, how these "regime changes" around the world and the antagonising of Russia and China follow a pattern that could lead to world war III.
The 12 Steps to regime change, employed by the US as outlined in the video:
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2014-11-15 19:02:00
Though Russia has a right to demand an early repayment of its $3 billion loan to Kiev if its total debt exceeds 60 percent of GDP, Moscow has already decided against it, as it wants Ukraine to get on its feet, Vladimir Putin told German ARD channel. Vladimir Putin answered questions from ARD's Hubert Seipel. Hubert Seipel: After the Crimea joined Russia, the West expelled Russia from the Group of Eight, this exclusive club of industrial states. At the same time the USA and Great Britain imposed sanctions against Russia. Now you are heading to a G20 summit of the most important industrial states on the planet. The focus there will be on economic growth and employment. Russian Finance Minister said the following about your country: "There is no more growth and unemployment is set to increase. The sanctions are starting to have an effect: both the ruble and the oil price have set anti‑records." This is the exact opposite of what you are going to speak about in Brisbane. The forecast of attaining 2 percent growth in Russia is unfeasible. Other countries are in the same situation. This crisis has a counter‑productive character, including for the upcoming summit, wouldn't you say? Vladimir Putin: You mean the Ukrainian crisis? Hubert Seipel: Yes. Vladimir Putin: Of course, who could benefit from it? You wanted to know how the situation is evolving and what our expectations are. Of course we expect the situation to change for the better. Of course we expect the Ukrainian crisis to end. Of course we want to have normal relations with our partners, including in the United States and Europe. Of course, the situation with the so-called sanctions is damaging for the global economy (it is damaging for us and it is damaging for global economy as well) and it is damaging for the Russian EU relations most of all. In this case it contradicts international law, which governs economic relations, the WTO principles and the agreements we will try to reach during the G20summit. It comes into direct collision. By the way, according to the European Commission data, the losses from Russia's counter-measures aimed at protecting our economy are estimated as 5 - 6 billion euro. Can we estimate the losses that these sanctions have caused Russia? It is rather difficult. To some extent, these are virtual losses. Although we have really sustained losses, it is true. However, there are some advantages as well: the restrictions imposed on some Russian companies on purchasing certain goods from Western countries, from Europe and the United States, have induced us to produce these goods ourselves. The comfortable life, when all we had to do was produce more oil and gas, and to buy everything else, is a thing of the past. Now we must think about producing goods ourselves, not just oil and gas. We have solid science and technology resources, which makes us fully confident of our ability to address any technology issues independently, including in the defence sphere. With regard to growth, we should note that this year growth was modest but it was present nevertheless at about 0.5 - 0.6 percent. Next year we are planning to achieve 1.2 percent growth, the year after that 2.3 percent and 3 percent in three years. Generally, these are not the figures we would like to have but nevertheless it is growth and we are confident that we will achieve these figures. | |
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2014-11-17 18:25:00
The West should not wait for Russia to solve the Ukraine crisis, but should instead try to influence the extreme policies of its "clients" in Kiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Hubert Seipel of the German channel ARD ahead of the G20 summit. Hubert Seipel: Good afternoon, Mr President. You are the only Russian President who has ever given a speech at the Bundestag. This happened in 2001. Your speech was a success. You spoke about relations between Russia and Germany, building Europe in cooperation with Russia, but you also gave a warning. You said that the Cold War ideas had to be eradicated. You also noted that we share the same values, yet we do not trust each other. Why were you being a little pessimistic back then? Vladimir Putin: First of all, I gave no warnings or admonitions and I was not being pessimistic. I was just trying to analyse the preceding period in the development of the situation in the world and in Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I also took the liberty of predicting the situation based on different development scenarios. Naturally, it reflected the situation as we see it, through the prism, as diplomats would put it, from Russia's point of view, but still, I think it was a rather objective analysis. I reiterate: there was no pessimism whatsoever. None. On the contrary, I was trying to make my speech sound optimistic. I assumed that having acknowledged all the problems of the past, we must move towards a much more comfortable and mutually advantageous relationship-building process in the future. | |
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Israel, not Russia, was behind the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July, an American political commentator says.2014-11-17 17:28:00
In a phone interview with Press TV on Sunday, Professor James Henry Fetzer said, "While the United States is claiming that the newly released photographs by Russia -- claiming that the Ukrainian military jets targeted the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 -- are preposterous, [but] that does not mean they are not authentic, or that the plane having been shot down by Ukrainian jets is not true." On Friday, Russian state media released satellite images purportedly showing a Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter jet firing a missile at the MH17. | |
Comment: Putting various distracting elements of Professor Fetzer's theory aside, the idea of Israel and Mossad being responsible for MH17 crash isn't new. SOTT talked about it first.
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The Saker
The Vineyard of the Saker 2014-11-17 18:01:00
This is bizarre. The recent two summits (APEC and G20) have, I would argue, ended up as a disaster for the US and its allies (see here, here and here) while Russia, China and the rest of the BRICS are clearly in control of the situation, yet there are still those who believe the western corporate media which wants to portray Putin are Russia as "weak". I suppose in our age of virtual reality perceptions are everything, and in this case such perceptions are clearly molded by exposure to the western corporate media whose brainwashing skills are nothing short of amazing. But let's look at the facts. The single biggest development which came out of these two summits is that Xi Jinping has clearly and, for the first time, openly shown that he fully support Putin and Russia. | |
Comment: The problem with psychopaths (and psychopaths are undoubtedly the movers and shakers of the AngloZionist Empire) is that they think they can shape reality to their own image; they think they can wholly manufacture 'facts'. To a great extent that works in their favor. They can mold public perception, establish global narratives by which to effect their goals. But facts tend to be stubborn, and wishful thinking will get you every time, especially when there are people who provide an alternative, namely the truth. It's a lot easier to prop up an illusion when no one is there to call a spade a spade. Enter Putin...
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Raúl Ilargi Meijer
The Automatic Earth 2014-11-17 16:35:00
Dumb and Dumber To, the sequel after 20 years, was released recently. Unfortunately for Jim and Jeff and the Farrelly brothers, unintended humor will always be funnier than the scripted kind, no matter how hard Hollywood tries. Case in point: the Dumber slapstick was easily upstaged over the past few days by the G20 summit in Brisbane. Not only did the pedantic Anglo-Saxon power hungry freak show of Harper, Cameron and Abbott (nobody even noticed Obama) give Vladimir V. Putin a good laugh with their empty chest thumping, entirely spin doctor scripted and entirely aimed at their domestic media and audiences, these so-called leaders also came up with no less than 800(!) measures they claim will boost global economic growth by 2.1%, or $2 trillion. Over 5 years, or some useless and opaque number like that (2018?). It would seem to be painfully obvious that what the world needs really urgently badly today is not so much economic growth, but growth in the dendrites, synapses and neurons in the heads of both our leaders and of those who put them where they are, ourselves. No use holding your breath. As things are, none of us are any smarter than either Dumb or Dumber. | |
Comment: For more on the psychopaths running the world and listen to this radio show: SOTT Talk Radio: Surviving the Psy-pocalypse - Interview with Stefan Verstappen
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James Cogan
World Socialist Web Site 2014-11-17 16:25:00
The remarks by Barack Obama at the University of Queensland on Saturday, delivered while he was in Australia for the G20 Leaders Summit, was a bellicose restatement that the US will use every means, including war, to prevent any challenge by China to American dominance over the Asia-Pacific. Much of the speech was devoted to reviewing the military deployments and diplomatic intrigues against China that Washington has carried out since Obama announced the "pivot to Asia" before the Australian parliament in 2011. He boasted of how the US has strengthened its ties with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines, opened new bases in Australia and Singapore, encouraged India to play a greater regional military role and pursued closer relations with Vietnam, Malaysia and Burma. China, by contrast, was discussed from the standpoint of US suspicions over "what kind of role it will play" in the region. Obama's platitudes that the US welcomed China's economic growth were swiftly followed by assertions that Beijing must "adhere to the same rules as other nations" - rules dictated by Washington - if conflict was to be avoided. | |
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UK Telegraph
2014-11-17 12:44:00
A Conservative MP murdered a young boy during a depraved sex party in the 1980s, an alleged victim of the Westminster paedophile scandal has claimed. The 12-year-old boy, who was being abused by a group of men, was strangled by the politician at a luxury townhouse in front of other victims, it has been alleged. On another occasion, the victim claims a young boy, who was around ten-years-old, was deliberately run down and killed by a car being driven by one of his abusers. The alleged murders are among three that are now being investigated by the Metropolitan Police as part of a major probe into claims that a powerful paedophile ring with links to Westminster was operating in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. Scotland Yard, which set up Operation Fairbank two years ago to look at the abuse claims, announced on Friday it had launched a fresh strand of the inquiry, entitled Operation Midland, to probe the alleged murders. | |
Comment: The extent of British 'elite' child sexual abuse is staggering, yet the true extent of the abuse is still unknown, and likely massively underestimated. Even today coverups continue into cases from the 1980s and 90s, files have been destroyed, and the evidence that they have been destroyed is itself being covered up. The only lesson that the British elite have learned from recent exposure of their brutality towards children is that they should engage in such inhuman acts with even more secrecy than before.
Lord (Norman) Tebbit, a close ally of former prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, publicly explained earlier this year how "different things looked" in the 1980s: Indeed, and Tebbit was one of those people who "thought it was more important to protect the system" than to protect innocent and vulnerable children. Tebbit, along with Margaret Thatcher and other Tory party elite, narrowly escaped justice when they were targeted by an IRA bomb at the 1984 Conservative party conference at the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Related articles: Blackheart Lady: Margaret Thatcher 'personally covered up' child abuse allegations against senior ministers About 40 politicians on UK pedophile ring: Report North Wales pedophile network: Government officials and high level public figures involved BBC 'buried Savile sex abuse claims to save its reputation' The BBC: Protecting Pedophiles and War Criminals Since 2004 | |
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A war is being fought for control over Western Kurdistan and the northern areas of Syria, including three de facto Kurdish enclaves there. The fighting in Western Kurdistan is a means to an end and not a goal in itself. The objectives of gaining control over Syrian Kurdistan and northern Syria are critical to gaining control over the rest of the Syrian Arab Republic and entail US-supported regime change in Damascus.Strategic Culture Foundation 2014-11-11 08:35:00 Western Kurdistan is alternatively called Rojava in Kurmanji, the dialect of the Kurdish language that is used locally there and spoken by the majority of the Kurds living in Turkey. The word Rojava comes from the Kurdish root word roj, which means both sun and day, and literally means «sunset» («the sun's end») or the «end of the day» («the day's end») in Kurmanji and not the word «west». The confusion over its meaning arises for two main reasons. The first is that in the Sorani or Central dialect of the Kurdish language the word roj is only used to refer to the day. The second is that Rojava connotes or suggests the direction of the west, where the sun is seen to set when the day ends. The Siege on Ayn Al-Arab or Kobani Despite the fact that neither the Syrian military nor the Syrian government controls most of Syrian Kurdistan and that a significant amount of the locals there have declared themselves neutral, the forces of the Free Syrian Army, Al-Nusra, and the ISIL (DAISH) have launched a multiparty war on Rojava's mosaic of inhabitants. It has only been in late-2014 that this war on Western Kurdistan has gained international attention as the Syrian Kurds in Aleppo Governorate's northeastern district (mintaqah) of Ayn Al-Arab (Ain Al-Arab) became surrounded by the ISIL in late-September and early-October. As this happened, the behaviour of the US and its allies, specifically the neo-Ottomanist Turkish government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, exposed their true objectives in Rojava and Syria. By the time that the Syrian Kurds in northeastern Aleppo Governorate were being encircled by the ISIL, it was clear that Washington and its counterfeit anti-ISIL coalition were actually using the ISIL outbreak to redraw the strategic and ethno-confessional maps of Syria and Iraq. Many of the Syrian Kurds think that the goal is to force them eastward into Iraqi Kurdistan and to surrender to Turkish domination.
Fears of another exodus in Syria - similar to the one that was felt when Turkey assisted Jubhat Al-Nusra's violent takeover of the mostly ethnic Armenian town of Kasab (Kessab) in Latakia Governorate in March 2014 - began to materialize. Nearly 200,000 Syrians - Kurds, Turkoman, Assyrians, Armenians, and Arabs - fled across the Syrian-Turkish border. By October 9, one-third of Ayn Al-Arab had fallen to the pseudo-caliphate. | |
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Moon of Alabama
2014-11-16 12:12:00
These headlines are silly:
And do these headline writers, TV correspondents and politicians know what the 20 in G-20 means? The people who publicly miffed Putin in Brisbane were Obama, Cameron, Harper, Abbott and Abe. I count five out of twenty. | |
Comment: Yet another crystal clear example of how the main-stream media skews the truth in order to serve its masters. But this is also a really instructive bit of 'reality creation' that is being attempted here. As discussed in Joe Quinn's recent article: Putin at the G20: Sharing a stage with psychopathic a**holes makes you want to leave early, Canadian PM Steven Harper and British PM David Cameron both addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin about Ukraine and Russia's "aggression" there. And later, Obama made one of the most despicable speeches, however short (demonizing Russia), that any leader has probably ever made about another country. This is no exaggeration. A true hit and run.
Here's the important thing to note however: The hardcore lies that undergird the accusations and speech are for perception purposes only. They serve to buttress the Anglo-American Axis's narrative as promulgated by the media doing their bidding. Because, why would anyone, no less a world leader - and someone who is a part of the vaunted G20 say such things to another world leader unless they were true, one would reason to ask. Who has the balls and the stupidity to make such accusations to the face of another about matters of such magnitude when they have to know, on some level, that such statements as theirs are absolutely false and based on lies? The answer is horrific in its implications. Only members of the intra-species predator found among homo sapiens - commonly known as psychopaths - are capable of such a thing. And many of these types appear to have found good high-profile ego-boosting jobs as Prime Ministers and Presidents. | |
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Mike Sygula
Activist Post 2014-11-16 15:06:00
I want to take just a few minutes of your time because this is really important. Please read this article, watch the videos and check out the documentaries linked below. If you've got any friends in the Army or know anyone considering joining up please share it with them.
War is part of human history, we have fought each other for millennia. In most cases wars have been waged to take territories and resources. All major nations have won their power through blood and iron. Not a lot has changed today. Big players still try to dominate the world by playing out a grand chess game. They conspire to deceive and manipulate the public through propaganda campaigns and false flag operations, they often invent non-existent threats to justify their actions. Soldiers are led to believe that they are fighting for a just cause to protect their countries, but in many cases this is a travesty of the truth. | |
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RT
2014-11-16 19:29:00
Kiev has suspended the protection of human rights and ordered the withdrawal of its institutions from areas controlled by local militia in the nation's east. Rebels have branded the decree, which hits the population on winter's eve, an 'act of genocide.' The move was prepared by the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council last week and enacted by a presidential decree signed on Friday. It has yet to be ratified by the newly-elected parliament, but the decree explicitly says that this procedure must be expedited - so there is little doubt that the new governing coalition will adopt it next week. | |
Comment: Kiev just doesn't know when to give up and admit defeat. Just last month Poroshenko was still talking tough prior to Donetsk and Lugansk's elections. See: SOTT EXCLUSIVE: Russia to send 7th aid convoy - Poroshenko says Donbas children can sit in cellars
But all recent attacks against the Novorussian rebels have been utter failures, easily repelled by the NAF. It looks like Plotnitskiy will be proven right: people in Lugansk and Donetsk will be living better than those in the West, all things considered. | |
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Riley Waggaman
Russia Insider 2014-11-16 15:50:00
Your faithful Russia correspondent was minding his own business when he accidentally clicked on an link which he naively thought was a picture of a funny cat. Instead it was a New York Times articlethat nearly melted his brain. There is no way to prepare for what you are about to see.
Imagine if Ted Bundy had evangelized about how "you can't murder people," and that The New York Times dutifully relayed this statement without bothering to mention that Ted Bundy was a prolific serial killer and necrophile, to boot. | ||
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Christina Lin
Information Clearing House 2014-11-15 00:00:00
CNN on 12 November reported Obama administration is suddenly focused on removing Assad as the core of its anti-ISIS strategy, once again submitting to Turkey and Arab Gulf states that enabled ISIS to begin with, and are actually contributing very little to the anti-ISIS efforts to be dictating such orders to Washington. Moreover, these demands are harmful to US security interests - redefining US anti-ISIS mission to one of anti-Assad mission - and thereby potentially drawing in Eurasian powers of China, Russia and Iran into open military conflict against the US. Presently the Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis is actually tacitly supporting the US-led coalition, and Assad is allowing US use of its airspace to strike ISIS and other Islamic extremist groups. Comment: The Beijing-Moscow-Tehran axis are playing it very cool, very smart, and very sane right now. They do not want war but they can also see the writing on the wall given the patterns of the US-led coalition's actions. Now, Ankara, Riyadh and Doha's obsession on removing Assad and hoping to replace him with a proxy Islamist regime is throwing a monkey wrench into coalition efforts. With Islamist strongholds spanning from Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and Egypt, this risks turning the Eastern Mediterranean into an Islamic Lake, a threat shared by Israel as well as EU members Cyprus and Greece. This is also a threat to US' Noble Energy, Italy's ENI, Korea's KOGAS, Russia's Gazprom, and other stakeholders such as Jordan, Egypt, and Asian consumers interested in the newly discovered natural gas resources in the Eastern Mediterranean. As such, removing Assad for a probable Islamist replacement that will also persecute the Christian, Kurdish, Druze and Alawite communities in Syria; escalate the conflict by drawing in two nuclear powers of China and Russia; harm development of hydrocarbons in the Levantine Basin and further regional instability, is not in US or EU's security interest. And it is definitely not in China's interest. | |
Comment: If it seems like the U.S. has entered into a maniacal and suicidal attempt to impose military and economic power over some of the largest and most independent nations on the planet, it is because they are.
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2014-11-17 22:19:00
Dutch investigators have begun evacuating debris of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from the crash site in eastern Ukraine. Human rights activists are addressing the UN and OSCE, warning the investigation is being either delayed on purpose or suppressed. More human remains have been recovered by experts during the latest debris retrieval operation at the crash site, the Dutch government reported. The remains will be transported to the Ukrainian city of Kharkov for further examination, before being sent to the Netherlands as part of the investigation. Estimated to last from five to 10 days, the recovery is partial, as investigators have opted to mark only those pieces of debris they are interested in, leaving the rest behind. The works are being supervised by the Dutch Safety Board investigators and observed by the OSCE. | |
Comment: "Looks like somebody wants to hush up the story, once they failed to put the blame for it on Russia". Exactly. And what exactly are they trying to hush up? Who's to blame? See:
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Billy Hallowell
The Blaze 2014-11-17 20:30:00
A man known as the "20th hijacker" who is serving a life sentence for his admitted role in conspiring to murder Americans in the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001 has come forward with some shocking new allegations, claiming that a Saudi Arabian royal helped fund the devastating terror events. Zacarias Moussaoui, 46, has said, more specifically, that a Saudi prince paid to train him and the 19 hijackers in the time leading up to the attacks. He issued these allegations in recently filed federal court documents, alleging that the prince was fully aware that the training was being done on behalf ofOsama bin Laden, according to the Daily Mail. "I am ready to testify about all the above and more in your court in an Open Hearing that I request,"Moussaoui said in a handwritten court document dated October 23. According to his account, Prince Turki Al Faisal AlSaud met with him, provided him with funding and also financially assisted the other 19 Sept. 11 terrorists. Moussaoui also detailed an alleged Al Qaeda plan to shoot down Air Force One when Bill Clinton was in office - a purported plot that he said involved an employee at one of Saudi Arabia's embassies, according to the Oklahoman. The Saudi government has denied any involvement in the 9/11 attacks in the past and some say that Moussaoui's own credibility is at issue in taking his claims at face value, especially considering that a defense psychologist once said he suffers from delusions as a result of paranoid schizophrenia. Still, this isn't the first time Saudi Arabia has been accused of involvement in the Sept. 11 attacks. | |
Comment: Moussaoui is not the only one who has linked Saudi Arabia to the 9/11 attacks:
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Gethin Chamberlain
Mail Online 2014-11-17 16:54:00
Western aid agencies are using the plight of Africa's Ebola orphans to fund a lavish lifestyle in $800-a-night hotels and leaving the children to fend for themselves, according to Liberia's development chief. Children who were forced to watch their parents die and were then shunned by their community are being ignored while useless facilities are being built, according to Julia Duncan-Cassell, Liberia's minister in charge of saving the orphans. She accused the agencies of handing out $235 daily allowances that are higher than her salary - and that the money invested is wasted on expensive hotels and driving around in big cars. Meanwhile thousands of orphans have been abandoned to the care of neighbours and relatives who are struggling to find money and food to support them. A MailOnline investigation has discovered that just 531 of Liberia's estimated 12,000 orphans are receiving formal help in government safe homes despite the hundreds of millions of pounds of Western aid pouring into the country. | |
Comment: If this sounds eerily familiar, it is because there is some history of Western NGO's using a crisis for their own benefit:
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Thomas Grove
Reuters 2014-11-14 18:04:00
Russia plans to create its own "Wikipedia" to ensure its citizens have access to more "detailed and reliable" information about their country, the presidential library said on Friday. Citing Western threats, the Kremlin has asserted more control over the Internet this year in what critics call moves to censor the web, and has introduced more pro-Kremlin content similar to closely controlled state media such as television. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia assembled and written by Internet users around the world, has pages dedicated to nearly every region or major city within Russia's 11 time zones, but the Kremlin library said this was not good enough. "Analysis of this resource showed that it is not capable of providing information about the region and life of the country in a detailed or sufficient way," the state news agency RIA quoted a statement from the presidential library as saying. "The creation of an alternative Wikipedia has begun." It was not known whether the project might affect Russians' access to the existing Wikipedia in any way. President Vladimir Putin has branded the Internet a "CIA special project", and the Kremlin has said it must protect its online realm from threats from the West, as ties between the Cold War-era foes have hit a new bottom over the Ukraine crisis. Since August, bloggers in Russia with more than 3,000 followers must register with the Moscow's mass media regulatory agency and conform to rules applied to larger media outlets. And since February, state authorities have been able to block websites without a court order. The webpages of two leading Kremlin critics were among the first to be barred. The presidential library statement said that 50,000 books and archive documents from 27 libraries around Russia had already been handed over for the process of establishing the "alternative Wikipedia". | |
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Pravmir.com
2014-11-15 00:00:00
November 14, 2014. His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill, of Moscow and All Russia, has stated that around fifty churches of the Russian Orthodox Church have been either completely destroyed or heavily damaged as a result of actions of the Ukrainian military since the beginning of the armed opposition in Ukraine this spring. The RIA News Agency has reported that the Patriarch delivered a speech during a meeting with learners of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Federation Ministry for Foreign Affairs at the Christ the Savior Cathedral, in which he noted: "Currently there is a forceful opposition against our Church - three clergymen have been killed, over ten priests have been arrested, detained, and tortured, and many clerics have been expelled from the country. Approximately fifty of our churches are either completely destroyed or heavily damaged by precision strikes of the Ukrainian artillery." | |
Comment: Since ancient times, monasteries, churches, and other holy buildings have been legally designated as places of asylum, allowing such shelters to grant refuge to anyone. Unfortunately, no asylum can grant protection from violence by the Ukraine military who have deliberately and heartlessly bombed churches, shelters and water systems with no concern for the humanitarian disaster they have created.
Ukraine's self-destruction: Unique church shelled, burnt to the ground Kiev Nazis murder over 40 children in Donbass Eastern Ukraine becomes a new Gaza thanks to Western intervention | |
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Mark Schatzker
Bloomberg News 2014-11-12 06:00:00
Mark your calendar: January 1, 2020. As this future year unfolds, the gap between how much cocoa the world wants to consume and how much it can produce will swell to 1 million metric tons, according to Mars Inc. and Barry Callebaut AG (BARN), the world's largest chocolate maker. By 2030, the predicted shortfall will grow to 2 million tons. And so on. Because of disease, drought, rapacious new markets and the displacement of cacao by more-productive crops such as corn and rubber, demand is expected to outstrip supply by an additional 1 million tons every decade for the foreseeable future. Here, now, as you read these words, the world is running out of chocolate, Bloomberg Pursuits will report in its Holiday 2014 issue. Last year, we again consumed more cocoa than we were able to produce. This year, despite an unexpected bumper crop, supply barely kept pace with the recent upswing in demand. From 1993 to 2007, the price of cocoa averaged $1,465 a ton; during the subsequent six years, the average was $2,736 -- an 87 percent increase. | |
Comment: Chocolate has been found to have numerous health benefits, so it is unfortunate to see that supplies have been waning due to climactic affects and disease. As with other crops, it appears that BigAg will continue find ways to genetically modify chocolate, notwithstanding any serious health consequences for humans. One wonders if chocolate supply scare tactics are being used to garner support for genetic engineering?
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2014-11-17 15:05:00
Dr. Martin Salia, a surgeon who contracted the Ebola virus while working in Sierra Leone, has died at a hospital in Nebraska from the virus. The 44 year-old was taken to hospital in Omaha on Saturday, but passed away on Monday according to hospital officials. "We are extremely sorry to announce that the third patient we've cared for with the Ebola virus, Dr. Martin Salia, has passed away as a result of the advanced symptoms of the disease," the hospital said in a statement, which was reported by AFP. The other two patients who were treated at the facility were given clean bills of health. The 44 year-old, who was a permanent US resident, contracted the virus while working at a hospital in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, according to his relatives. He was already suffering from advanced symptoms, including kidney and respiratory failure when he arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center, which is one of four US hospitals equipped to handle treatment of the disease and has the largest bio-containment unit in the country. Salia, who was based in the state of Maryland, but spent a significant amount of time in Freetown, had originally been tested for the disease in early November. His test came back negative leading to jubilant celebrations and embraces from worried colleagues, the Washington Post reported. However, his symptoms did not go away and he took another test on November 10, which was positive forcing everyone who had been in physical contact with the 44 year-old into quarantine "We were celebrating. If the test says you are Ebola-free, we assume you are Ebola-free," said Komba Songu M'Briwa, who cared for Salia at the Hastings Ebola Treatment Center in Freetown, the Washington Post added. "Then everything fell apart." Salia, who was originally from Sierra Leone, was the tenth patient to be treated on US soil for the virus. He is the second person to have died in the United States from Ebola. In October, a Liberian man, Thomas Eric Duncan, died at a Texas hospital from | |
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A sheep that was sexually assaulted by a Fresno State student is now being monitored by a veterinarian. Students on campus are still talking about what everyone is calling the "sheep incident." This afternoon, that incident has Fresno State police involved, and a computer engineering student is now facing serious charges. Fresno State Ag students say shock, doesn't even begin to describe what happened on campus. It was late at night, a student heard noises, and found a 23-year-old inside the sheep barn having sex with one of the ewes. Student Marisa Burkdoll said, "It's just kind of disgusting and revolting and personally makes me angry, I mean why would you do that?"
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2014-11-16 10:21:00
Teachers and students at a Florida middle school got the shock of their lives as an unannounced 'lockdown active shooter drill' sparked panic as police burst into classrooms with weapons drawn, drawing sharp criticism from the community. Students at Jewett Middle Academy in Winter Haven, Florida, spoke of the terror they experienced as police officers carried out their 'active shooter drill' inside classrooms - without informing teachers ahead of time about the exercise. Lauren Marionneaux, a seventh-grader, told WTVT-TV that when the police officers crashed into her classroom with weapons drawn, she immediately imagined the worst. "A lot of people started getting scared because we thought it was a real drill," Lauren said. "We actually thought that someone was going to come in there and kill us." Later, school officials sent an email to inform parents about the drill, which was compared to fire drills that schools regularly conduct. "Parents, students and staff are typically not notified about lockdown drills. For example, we do not give advanced notice of fire drills in order to evaluate how safety procedures work...We regret anyconcern that parents and students might have experienced in how the drill was conducted," the letter stated. But for many parents, however, receiving a letter from school officials after the fact was unacceptable. Stacy Ray, whose daughter texted her during the police exercise, said she believed the school was experiencing a real live shooting. "I'm panicking because I'm thinking that it's a legitimate shooter coming, that something bad is happening at the school," Ray told Fox 13. The video below shows police officers in an 'active shooter exercise' in the state of Massachusetts. | |
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Simon Black
Sovereign Man 2014-11-14 22:48:00
Years ago, an elderly, frail Japanese martial arts master once boasted a 200-0 record against his opponents. He claimed to have a unique power that allowed him to inflict serious injury on people without actually laying a finger on them. Was it Chi? Magic? None of the above. It was a total scam. But that didn't matter. You see, the legend of the master's powers turned out to be far more powerful than reality. His core following of students believed in the master so much that they would fling themselves across the dojo whenever he raised his pinky finger. And anyone who saw the display would become transfixed by the perception of the master's extraordinary abilities. It was an incredible case of mass delusion. Everyone believed it, including the master himself. He was so confident in his skills that he put up a $5,000 challenge that he could beat any fighter in the world. A mixed martial arts champion accepted the wager, and the result wasn't pretty. | |
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Mathew Lee
AP 2014-11-16 21:36:00
The State Department has taken the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified email system as technicians repair possible damage from a suspected hacker attack. A senior department official said Sunday that "activity of concern" was detected in the system around the same time as a previously reported incident that targeted the White House computer network. That incident was made public in late October, but there was no indication then that the State Department had been affected. Since then, a number of agencies, including the U.S. Postal Service and the National Weather Service, have reported attacks. The official said none of the State Department's classified systems were affected. However, the official said the department shut down its worldwide email late on Friday as part of a scheduled outage of some of its Internet-linked systems to make security improvements to its main unclassified computer network. The official was not authorized to speak about the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity. The official said the department expects that all of its systems will be operating as normal in the near future, but would not discuss who might be responsible for the breach. Earlier attacks have been blamed on Russian or Chinese attackers, although their origin has never been publicly confirmed. The State Department is expected to address the shutdown once the security improvements have been completed on Monday or Tuesday. | |
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CNN
2014-11-16 20:45:00
The report is full of harrowing details alleging that five New Orleans Police Department detectives in the special victims unit may have failed to investigate sex crimes over a three-year period. But one case stands out. According to the seven-page document released Wednesday by the city's Office of Inspector General, a 2-year-old was brought to a hospital emergency room after an alleged sexual assault. Tests would show the toddler had a sexually transmitted disease, the report said. The detective in the case, who worked in the child abuse unit, wrote in his report that the 2-year-old "did not disclose any information that would warrant a criminal investigation and closed the case," the inspector general's report said. The detective -- identified as Akron Davis by the New Orleans Police Department after the report was released -- is one of five officers whose reports were examined in the investigation. Only nine detectives worked in the special victims unit during the period that was investigated. Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux said the five officers are not rookies. Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said the detectives were "seasoned" and later said in a statement that they had been with the department at least 16 years each. "These people should have known... the right way to do things," Quatrevaux said. | |
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Houston Chronicle
2014-11-16 13:19:00
Four workers were killed and one was injured Saturday during a hazardous chemical leak at a DuPont industrial plant in suburban Houston, company officials said. The chemical, methyl mercaptan, began leaking from a valve around 4 a.m. in a unit at the plant in La Porte, about 20 miles east of Houston. Plant officials said the release was contained by 6 a.m. Methyl mercaptan was used at the plant to create crop-protection products such as insecticides and fungicides, according to DuPont. The cause of the leak was not immediately known. Five employees were in the unit at the time of the incident and were exposed to the chemical, the company said. Four died at the plant, and one was hospitalized. | |
Comment: Another tragedy manufactured by the same corporation that manufactures the cancer-causing teflon and tree-killing herbicides.
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Joel Benjamin
Business Insider 2014-11-16 19:12:00
Few observers are more astute on the markets, modern life, and human nature than investor Jim Rogers. An early internationalist, Rogers has made a fortune over many decades, seeing what others don't. I recently spoke to him about a range of topics, from the latest market turns (and what he calls his "hopeless" timing abilities) to his life growing up. Still wary of the US stock and bond markets, Rogers says he's not short now, but nor is he a buyer. He believes that sometime in the next year or two, US stocks will fall as interest rates rise, and that will be a turning point. The following has been edited for clarity and length: Henry Blodget: So, you're bearish. Jim Rogers: [No. Not yet.] If the stock market goes down - say, you pick the number, 13%, 23%, who knows - everyone will be screaming, and Mrs. Yellen and her friends will say, 'Oh, we're sorry, we didn't mean to hurt you,' and they will loosen up again. One way or the other, the markets will heave a sigh of relief, have a big rally, maybe even turn into a bubble, at which point I hope I'm smart enough to try to short stocks in the US. HB: We seemed to have a preview of that a few weeks ago where we had a pretty sickening plunge for a few days, and then James Bullard came out and said, 'Hey, we'll do what we need to do.' And suddenly stocks took off again. So you're expecting a bigger version of that? JR: That's exactly right. Wait until it gets worse and it will, somewhere along the line. At which point, the Fed will panic. It's all they know how to do, Henry, so they will pump huge amounts of money in. It's going to go into shares, and that will cause the top. I have no idea when that will be. That's when I would sell short. By the way, if it happens that way, one should be long, and long big time. I doubt if I will. Either I'm too smart or not smart enough. What we need is a 26-year-old. The 26-year-old will think this is wonderful. She will think she is very smart. She will make a lot of money for a while, and then it will collapse. HB: You said recently we're going to pay a 'terrible price' for what the Fed doing is doing. What do you mean? JR: We're going to have economic hard times again. Next time it will be worse because the debt is so much higher and because for the first time in recorded history, all major central banks are printing huge amounts of money. So there's this gigantic artificial ocean of liquidity that's going to dry up some day, and when it does, we're all going to pay a terrible price. | |
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Stephen Stock, Liza Meak, Mark Villarreal and Scott Pham
California Dept. of Conservation Deputy Director admits that errors were madeNBC Bay Area 2014-11-14 11:52:00 More Newsletters In a time when California faces an historic drought, the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has uncovered that state officials allowed oil and gas companies to pump billions of gallons of waste water into protected aquifers. Video here. State officials allowed oil and gas companies to pump nearly three billion gallons of waste water into underground aquifers that could have been used for drinking water or irrigation. Those aquifers are supposed to be off-limits to that kind of activity, protected by the EPA. "It's inexcusable," said Hollin Kretzmann, at the Center for Biological Diversity in San Francisco. "At (a) time when California is experiencing one of the worst droughts in history, we're allowing oil companies to contaminate what could otherwise be very useful ground water resources for irrigation and for drinking. It's possible these aquifers are now contaminated irreparably." California's Department of Conservation's Chief Deputy Director, Jason Marshall, told NBC Bay Area, "In multiple different places of the permitting process an error could have been made." "There have been past issues where permits were issued to operators that they shouldn't be injecting into those zones and so we're fixing that," Marshall added. In "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing operations, oil and gas companies use massive amounts of water to force the release of underground fossil fuels. The practice produces large amounts of waste water that must then be disposed of. Marshall said that often times, oil and gas companies simply re-inject that waste water back deep underground where the oil extraction took place. But other times, Marshall said, the waste water is re-injected into aquifers closer to the surface. Those injections are supposed to go into aquifers that the EPA calls "exempt" - in other words, not clean enough for humans to drink or use. |
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Anna Liesowska
The Siberian Times 2014-11-12 00:00:00
Scientists close to precise dating of the Shigir Idol, twice as ancient as the Egyptian Pyramids. The Idol is the oldest wooden statue in the world, estimated as having been constructed approximately 9,500 years ago, and preserved as if in a time capsule in a peat bog on the western fringe of Siberian. Expert Svetlana Savchenko, chief keeper of Shigir Idol, believes that the structure's faces carry encoded information from ancient man in the Mesolithic era of the Stone Age concerning their understanding of 'the creation of the world'. German scientists are now close to a precise dating - within five decades - of the remarkable artifact, which is a stunning example of ancient man's creativity. The results are likely to be known in late February or early March, The Siberian Times can reveal. Now the question is turning among academics to a better understanding of the symbols and pictograms on this majestic larch Idol, one of Russia's great treasures, which is now on display a special glass sarcophagus at its permanent home, Yekaterinburg History Museum, where Savchenko is senior researcher. German pre-historian Professor Thomas Terberger said: 'There is no such ancient sculpture in the whole of Europe. Studying this Idol is a dream come true. We are expecting the first results of the test at the end of winter, (early) next year.'
Professor Mikhail Zhilin, leading researcher of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Archeology, explained: 'We study the Idol with a feeling of awe. This is a masterpiece, carrying gigantic emotional value and force. It is a unique sculpture, there is nothing else in the world like this. It is very alive, and very complicated at the same time. 'The ornament is covered with nothing but encrypted information. People were passing on knowledge with the help of the Idol.' He is adamant that we can draw conclusions about the sophistication of the people who created this masterpiece, probably scraping the larch with a stone 'spoon', even though the detail of the code remains an utter mystery to modern man. | ||
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Notes: Since 2003 the sculpture has been displayed in a glass box filled with inert gas. The head reproduces rather faithfully a face with eyes, nose, and mouth. The body is flat and rectangular. Geometrical motifs decorate its surface. Horizontal lines at the level of the thorax seem to represent ribs, and lines broken in chevrons cover the rest of the body. | ||
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Owen Jarus
Live Science 2014-11-11 12:59:00
A 1,000-year-old tomb with a ceiling decorated with stars and constellations has been discovered in northern China. Found not far from a modern day railway station, the circular tomb has no human remains but instead has murals which show vivid scenes of life. "The tomb murals mainly depict the daily domestic life of the tomb occupant," and his travels with horses and camels, a team of researchers wrote in their report on the tomb recently published in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics. On the east wall, people who may have served as attendants to the tomb's occupant are shown holding fruit and drinks. There is also a reclining deer, a crane, bamboo trees, a crawling yellow turtle and a poem. The poem reads in part, "Time tells that bamboo can endure cold weather. Live as long as the spirits of the crane and turtle." | |
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Kazuto Tsukamoto
The Asahi Shimbun 2014-11-13 00:00:00
A glass dish unearthed from a burial mound here is the first of its kind confirmed to have come to Japan from the Roman Empire, a research team said. A round cut glass bowl, discovered with the glass plate, was found to have originated in Sassanid Persia (226-651), the researchers said. The dish and bowl were retrieved together from the No. 126 tumulus of the Niizawa Senzuka cluster of ancient graves, a national historic site. The No. 126 tumulus dates back to the late fifth century. The researchers' scientific studies show that fifth-century Japan imported glasswork, and that there was a wide range of trade between the East and the West. "The dish was likely produced around the Mediterranean Sea and then transferred to Sassanid Persia," said team leader Yoshinari Abe, an assistant professor of analytical chemistry at the Tokyo University of Science. "After it was painted there, the plate was probably taken to Japan." | |
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Frances D'emilio
Phys.org 2014-11-14 18:00:00
Archaeologists picking through latrines, sewers, cesspits and trash dumps at Pompeii and Herculaneum have found tantalizing clues to an apparently varied diet there before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius destroyed those Roman cities in 79 A.D. Much of what residents didn't digest or left on their plates went down into latrine holes, became remnants in cesspits built up over the centuries or was thrown away in local dumps. At a three-day conference ending Friday in Rome, archaeologists discussed their discoveries, including gnawed-on fish bones and goose eggshells that were possibly ancient delicacies for the elite. "We just have small glimpses of the environment, but some are quite curious," Mark Robinson, a professor of environmental archaeology at Oxford University Museum of Natural History, told the conference. | |
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Aero News Network
2014-11-17 02:43:00
Researchers digging deeper into the origins of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, which fell in California's Gold Country in 2012, found diamonds and other "treasures" that provide important new insight into the early days of our solar system. They report their results in thirteen papers in the November issue of Meteoritics & Planetary Science. "Sutter's Mill gives us a glimpse of what future NASA spacecraft may find when they bring back samples from a primitive asteroid," said consortium lead Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. "From what falls naturally to the ground, much does not survive the violent collision with Earth's atmosphere." Jenniskens found one of the first and one of the most unusual of the Sutter's Mill meteorites before rain hit the area. In his search, Jenniskens was guided by Marc Fries of NASA's Johnson Space Center, in Houston, who describes in detail how Doppler weather radar enabled the rapid and pristine collection of the meteorites. "The two 10-micron diamond grains we found in this meteorite are too small to sparkle in a ring," said Mike Zolensky, space scientist of Johnson, working with associate professor Yoko Kebukawa late of Hokkaido University, Japan, "But their size is much larger than the nanometer-sized diamonds commonly found in such meteorites." | |
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RT
2014-11-17 01:33:00
An Argentine student has invented shoes with ultrasound sensors which allow people with visual impairments to walk without a cane. The shoes vibrate when the wearer approaches an object. The new shoes for blind people, dubbed 'Duspavoni,' were developed by Juan Manuel Bustamante, a student at Industrial College #4, and presented at the National Science Fair in Buenos Aires on Friday. He says he worked on the project for six months. "I wish Duspavoni, my creation, could get to revolutionize the lives of people with sight problems, partial or total visual impairment," he told Ruptly. The shoes have three ultrasound sensors placed inside the sole - in the frontal, lateral, and back areas. The sensors emit ultrasound waves which are reflected by surrounding objects and come back to the sensor. The shoe vibrates depending on the distance and position of the objects. | |
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Tracy Staedter
Discovery News 2014-11-14 18:39:00
In The Netherlands, solar-powered paths seems to be all the rage. There's SolaRoad, which we blogged about yesterday. And now today, we bring you the Van Gogh-Roosegaarde bicycle path, which opened to the public this week in the Dutch town of Nuenen, where Van Gogh lived in 1883. The path, created by local artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde in collaboration with Heijmans Infrastructure, was inspired by Van Gogh's iconic Starry Night painting. The path is made of thousands of stones that absorb sunlight during the day and then glow at night. Embedded in concrete, the bikeway should last the lifetime of any cement path. | |
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phys.org
2014-11-14 13:03:00
Hailstones from three Rocky Mountain storms formed around biological material, then bounced around the clouds picking up layers of ice, according to a new Montana State University study. The discovery of a biological embryo extends previous findings about the formation of snow and rain, applies to hailstones globally and provides basic information about a little-studied topic, said the researchers who published their findings Nov. 6 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. "This is the first paper to really show that biological material makes hailstones," said John Priscu, a renowned polar scientist and professor in MSU's Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences. "Despite the millions in dollars of damage the storm caused in Bozeman (Mont.), the damaging hailstones provided us with a better understanding of hailstone formation, which will help us understand the role of aerosol particles in the formation of precipitation." Alex Michaud - MSU doctoral student and first author of the paper - normally studies Antarctic microorganisms with Priscu, but he took on a side project after hailstones pummeled Bozeman, Mont., on June 30, 2010. "If it weren't for his inquisitive nature of how things work, no good would have come from the devastating storm," Priscu said. Once the storm subsided, Michaud collected hailstones and stored them in an MSU freezer at minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit. The hailstones averaged 1.5 inches in diameter. Then Michaud gathered hailstones from two more area storms that occurred in 2010 and 2011. Those averaged about half an inch in diameter. Examining some 200 hailstones in MSU's Subzero Science and Engineering Research Facility showed that the hailstones formed around a biological embryo, Michaud said. Analyzing stable isotopes of water in an Ohio State University laboratory showed that most of the hailstone embryos froze at relatively warm temperatures, generally above 6.8 degrees Fahrenheit, which corroborates freezing temperatures of biological embryos recovered from the middle of hailstones. Two different research methods showed that a warm temperature of ice nucleation indicates biological material is the likely nuclei, Michaud said. He added that hailstones grow in such a way that makes them a nice model system for studying atmospheric ice nucleation and cloud processes. | |
Comment: In order to gain a "better understanding of hailstone formation" and other phenomena, researchers really ought to consider the winning 'Electric Universe' model - see Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection, available here.
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Three boys were seriously injured and 5 goats killed after a hyena attached Amalo village in Olenguruone division today. The attacked occurred as the boys were taking their goats to graze in the nearby Greenland field next to Olenguruone town. Speaking in Molo hospital after visiting the victims, Kenya Wildlife Service warden in charge of Amalo/Olenguruone ward Kipkorir Bernard Tuei said the three boys were attacked as they tried to flee from the hyena after it killed their goats. "The hyena attacked the goats on the grazing field and killed at least 5 of them and left other goats with injuries. This is not normal and we suspect the hyena may be suffering from behavioral change or a certain disease," he said. The warden vowed to establish exactly what could have caused the abnormal act after carrying out a medical examination on the hyena's blood sample. | |
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news.chennaionline.com
2014-11-17 21:16:00
A wild bear was shot dead by police Monday after it killed a farmer and grievously injured another person at a farm near Madhugiri, a police official said. "We had to shoot the bear dead when it tried to attack other villagers of Chilanahalli as firing gun shots in the air failed to drive it away from the field where it killed farmer Somanna, 36, and grievously injured Thimmanna, 55, earlier in the day," Tumakuru police superintendent Raman Gupta told IANS. The shocking incident occurred about 70km from here and 140km from Bengaluru when the victim (Somanna) went to his farm where the 12-year-old bear was hiding in the paddy field. The bear killed Somanna on the spot. | |
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Nguyen Chung
Thanh Nien News 2014-11-17 21:08:00
A wild boar allegedly gored a 15-year-old boy to death and injured another woman in a village in central Vietnam on Saturday. Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, police chief of Khanh Hiep Commune in Khanh Hoa Province, told Thanh Nien the incident may have taken place around 3:30 pm when Nguyen Van Dai, 15, was fishing at a pond in Hon Lay Village. No one saw what happened but by the time local residents found Dai, he was already dead in the pond with multiple injuries to his thighs, groin and hips. Tuan assumed that the boar attacked Dai, who tried to flee but instead fell into the water. | |
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The Moroccan Times.
2014-11-15 20:57:00
An old Moroccan woman passed away in the small village called Tizki Issafen located in the suburbs of Tata after that she was attacked by a wild boar and, above all, did not receive the necessary medical treatment once she was taken to a local health center nearby (Moustawsaf Sihhi). According to the local branch of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights in Tata, "soon after the attack, the women was taken to a local health center, but she could not be saved due to negligence." The Moroccan Association for Human Rights in Tata made it crystal clear in a report it released on the sidelines of this tragic death "that the women may have been saved if she had received the necessary medical treatment upon her arrival to the local health center." The Human Rights body is calling upon the authorities to open an investigation on what it called "a tragic death that came as a result of medical negligence." | |
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U.S. Geological Survey
2014-11-17 19:34:00
Event Time 2014-11-17 16:52:46 UTC 2014-11-17 18:52:46 UTC+02:00 at epicenter Location 46.392°S 33.794°E depth=9.4km (5.9mi) Nearby Cities 307km (191mi) W of Marion Island, Prince Edward Islands 1537km (955mi) SSE of Port Alfred, South Africa 1550km (963mi) SSE of Port Elizabeth, South Africa 1562km (971mi) SSE of Jeffrey's Bay, South Africa 1973km (1226mi) SSE of Maseru, Lesotho | |
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Sara Malm
Daily Mail, UK 2014-11-17 15:51:00
* Bull threw off his handler and trampled him to death during trek * Elephant then ran off into the jungle with tourists still on its back * Meaw the elephant made it two miles into jungle in Phang Nga, Thailand * He was tranquillized, and Russian woman and her daughter saved A routine jungle trek turned into tragedy when an elephant killed his handler and ran off with two tourists in south-west Thailand. Meaw the bull elephant is believed to have been in musth when he suddenly threw off his handler, trampled him to death, and disappeared into the jungle with a Russian woman and her nine-year-old daughter still on his back. Meaw was discovered nearly two miles away from the resort in Phang Nga, 310 miles south of Bankok, and had to be tranquilized so the woman and her daughter could climb off. | |
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news.yahoo.com
2014-11-15 15:10:00
A huge whale was stranded Friday on a white sand beach on Nicaragua's southern Pacific coast, despite efforts by dozens of tourists and residents to get it back to sea. The whale, estimated at 18 meters (59 feet) long, beached itself Friday morning at Popoyo beach, in the town of Tola, some 111 kilometers (70 miles) south of the capital, according to the Environment Ministry's delegate in the region, Mario Rodriguez. More than 50 people -- from Nicaragua and elsewhere -- spent the day trying to get the whale back into deeper waters, but gave up in exhaustion as the sun went down. | |
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U.S. Geological Survey
2014-11-17 10:22:00
Event Time 2014-11-17 01:06:00 UTC 2014-11-17 11:06:00 UTC+10:00 at epicenter Location 9.553°S 155.151°E depth=25.2km (15.7mi) Nearby Cities 245km (152mi) SW of Gizo, Solomon Islands 371km (231mi) S of Arawa, Papua New Guinea 526km (327mi) E of Alotau, Papua New Guinea 527km (327mi) W of Honiara, Solomon Islands 657km (408mi) SSE of Kokopo, Papua New Guinea | |
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US Geological Survey
2014-11-17 02:38:00
Event Time 2014-11-16 22:33:22 UTC 2014-11-17 10:33:22 UTC+12:00 at epicenter 2014-11-16 15:33:22 UTC-07:00 system time Location 37.675°S 179.660°E depth=35.0km (21.7mi) Nearby Cities 181km (112mi) NE of Gisborne, New Zealand 237km (147mi) E of Whakatane, New Zealand 304km (189mi) E of Rotorua, New Zealand 308km (191mi) E of Tauranga, New Zealand 580km (360mi) NE of Wellington, New Zealand Technical Data | |
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Dan Peck
Cold temperatures and snow across the Great Lakes in November is certainly nothing out of the ordinary, but this morning, a layer of ice was visible on parts of Lake Superior in Ashland, Wis.ABC News 2014-11-15 18:03:00
While this may not seem unusual given the current stretch of unseasonably cold temperatures, it is actually several weeks earlier than normal. The first sightings of ice on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes overall usually occur during the beginning to middle of December. However, a perfect combination of last season's record ice coverage, cooler summer temperatures, and an early blast of arctic air this fall has allowed for areas of ice to form earlier than normal for the second year in a row.
Last winter featured relentless, record breaking cold leading to the second highest ice coverage on record for the Great Lakes as a whole. Lake Superior also set a record for the longest length of time that ice was observed on the lake. In 2013, ice was first observed on Nov. 25, and it did not all melt until early June 2014. | ||
Comment: Break out your mukluks, the ice age cometh! To learn more about how humanity may be causing 'climate change', read Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.
SOTT Talk Radio show #70: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made? | ||
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Brian Lada
The coldest air since last winter is set to move over the Plains and the East during the first half of the new week.Accuweather 2014-11-16 16:14:00
The core of the cold air will focus over the northern Plains and the Great Lakes through at least Wednesday with overnight lows dipping down into the teens, and even the single digits in some normally colder spots. Bone-chilling nights will be followed up by frigid days with highs struggling to reach the 20-degree mark over the regions on Monday and Tuesday. Some locations are forecast to stay below 20 F until Wednesday afternoon, including Minneapolis, Minnesota. Temperatures this low can make it dangerous for outdoors activities if you are not wearing the proper clothing. While much of the Northeast will escape the cold on Monday, the arctic air is expected to move into the region by Tuesday. Highs temperatures from Washington, D.C., through New York City are forecast to stay near or below freezing on Tuesday, levels that would be considered below normal even during the heart of winter. A biting wind from the northwest will make it feel even colder with AccuWeather.com RealFeel® staying in the teens throughout the day along the I-95 corridor.
A significant lake-effect snow event will set up downwind of the Great Lakes as the arctic air blows over the comparatively warm waters of the lakes. | ||
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Newsmax
2014-11-15 19:12:00
The liberal media machine has spent decades bulldozing anyone who tells you global warming is a sham. They even came up with a clever little title - "deniers." Every time a heat wave hits, every time a picture of a lone polar bear gets taken . . . the left pounds the table for environmental reform, more policy, more money to combat climate change. But how much has the world really warmed? Their message is simple: Get on the man-made global warming bandwagon . . . or you're just ignorant.But how much has the world really warmed? It's an important question, considering the U.S. government spends $22 billion a year to fight the global warming crisis (twice as much as it spends protecting our border). To put that in perspective, that is $41,856 every minute going to global warming initiatives. | |
Comment: The global warming scam has been a goldmine for Al Gore and his ilk who have benefited like kings from their carbon trading schemes - and that is one reason the elites have been trumpeting this meme for so long. But the elites are also trying to cover the fact that the earth is cooling because they know that something wicked this way comes and are desperately attempting to maintain the illusion of their 'mandate of heaven' for as long as they can. Unfortunately, psychopaths are like parasites that don't realize that they too will pass with the death of their hosts.
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Mark Thiessen
Yahoo News 2014-11-15 02:47:00
Alaska's most active volcano is spitting lava into the air and producing an ash cloud at low elevations. But unlike Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, where there's been spectacular images of lava encroaching on a community and burning a home, there's no property at risk in Alaska because of the eruption of Pavlof Volcano. The 8,262-foot Pavlof Volcano is located in a relatively uninhabited area about 625 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Alaska Peninsula. The closest community is about 40 miles away. Observers from that community, Cold Bay, reported seeing dark snow on the surface of the volcano Wednesday, indicating an eruption has started. The eruption intensified that afternoon and continued through the week, David Schneider, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Alaska Volcano Observatory, said Friday. | |
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Michael Morrison
Lancashire Telegraph 2014-11-15 17:27:00
A Burnley schoolgirl cheated death after being bitten by the family dog - narrowly missing one of her main arteries. The 14-year-old was at home in Harling Street when the Staffordshire bull terrier attacked. It sunk its teeth into her groin area, missing her femoral artery by millimetres. The dog was expected to be put down following the attack. | |
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Redlands Daily Facts
2014-11-15 16:43:00
A six-year-old Labrador mix was impounded from a residence in unincorporated French Valley today, in connection with a dog attack that left a one-year-old boy with severe injuries to his face, authorities said. The boy, a month shy of his second birthday, remains hospitalized after being bitten as he played near his mother and a friend at Primrose Park on Cloche Drive, sometime after 3 p.m. Friday. A witness initially reported the unattended dog might be a Rottweiler, but today the mother's friend pointed out the animal to Riverside County Animal Services Sgt. Lesley Huennekens, who is investigating the incident. The dog, Dexter, which was properly licensed, vaccinated for rabies, neutered and micro- chipped, was taken into custody about 3 p.m. from a home on Starkey Court, animal control officials said. | |
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Alice Park
Some people may get a new flu shot that's made with dog cells instead of chicken eggs.Time 2014-10-30 15:25:00 Comment: Where's the outrage? Where's the disgust? The author writes this as if having dog cell remnants injected into you is the most natural thing in the world. (Not that chicken eggs are any better. Chicken eggs belong in your mouth, not in your bloodstream). This year Novartis shipped its first full batch of Flucelvax, a new vaccine that was only approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2012. The company made a limited amount of the shot last year, but there are more doses to go around this flu season. And for the first time, the doses were made at the company's newly approved U.S. plant in Holly Springs, North Carolina. |
Comment: Oh, great. Insect cells too. How about eye of newt and toe of frog? Is there some evil wizard stirring a cauldron at the Novartis facility? Of course, it doesn't end there. Flu shot ingredients can also include caterpillar egg cells and retinas of aborted fetal tissue. Someone please pass the sick bag!
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Associated Press
2014-11-17 16:32:00
A surgeon who contracted Ebola in his native Sierra Leone died Monday while being treated in a biocontainment unit at a Nebraska hospital, the facility said. Dr. Martin Salia died of the disease shortly after 4 a.m., Nebraska Medical Center spokesman Taylor Wilson said. "Dr. Salia was extremely critical when he arrived here, and unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we weren't able to save him," said Dr. Phil Smith, medical director of the biocontainment unit. Salia, 44, had advanced symptoms when he arrived at the hospital Saturday, including kidney and respiratory failure, the hospital said in a statement. He was placed on dialysis, a ventilator and given several medications to support his organ systems. Salia was given the experimental drug ZMapp on Saturday. He also received a plasma transfusion from an Ebola survivor - a treatment that is believed to provide antibodies to fight the virus. The first two Ebola patients to return to the U.S., Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, were treated with ZMapp in August. Their treatments exhausted that supply of ZMapp and Salia was treated using a new batch of the drug. "We used every possible treatment available to give Dr. Salia every possible opportunity for survival," Smith said. "As we have learned, early treatment with these patients is essential. In Dr. Salia's case, his disease was already extremely advanced by the time he came here for treatment." | |
Comment: For more information on how to protect yourself, see Ebola - The true vaccine is knowledge of current state of affairs.
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Tia Ghose
Live Science 2014-11-16 15:20:00
Thousands of kids have faced serious - and potentially deadly - side effects after consuming energy drinks, new research shows. More than 5,000 cases of people who got sick from energy drinks were reported to U.S. poison control centers between 2010 and 2013, and almost half of those cases were in children did not realize what they were drinking, according to research that will be presented Monday (Nov. 17) at a meeting of the American Heart Association. Many of these cases involved serious side effects, such as seizures, irregular heart rhythms or dangerously high blood pressure, the researchers found. And it was children under age 6 who often consumed the beverages without knowing what they were drinking. "They didn't go to a store and buy it; they found it in the refrigerator, or left by a parent or an older sibling," said study co-author Dr. Steven Lipshultz, the pediatrician in chief at the Children's Hospital of Michigan | |
Comment: These drinks have serious side effects that cause problems for adults as well, yet theindustry has managed to sidestep safety concerns.
Heart function disrupted under influence of energy drinks: Study UM Study Says Energy Drinks Pose Serious Risk to Kids Industry disputes Miami School of Medicine's findings | |
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Jonathan Kaminsky
Raw Story 2014-11-17 02:10:00
A cruise ship with 172 passengers and crew members suffering from a gastrointestinal ailment caused by norovirus was met by public health officials when it docked in California on Sunday, authorities and Carnival Corp said. Passengers said the crews were everywhere trying to prevent the virus from spreading. One passenger said: "There were so many people walking around with buckets of sanitizers and wiping down walls and every time someone got up from a table, they were wiping down the tables and wiping down the chairs." The outbreak marks the second time in less than a year that the highly contagious virus has spread on the company's Crown Princess ship, which is part of its Princess Cruises fleet. On the latest trip, the ship carried more than 4,100 people on a cruise that departed nearly a month ago from Los Angeles and included stops in Hawaii and Tahiti. More than 100 people aboard the cruise ship were sickened by the virus during an April trip. "Over the last few days, the ship began seeing an increased number of gastrointestinal illnesses, caused by norovirus," said company spokeswoman Susan Lomax. "In response, we have enacted our stringent disinfecting protocols developed in conjunction" with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The ship, which docked in San Pedro early in the day, will undergo a deep cleaning before embarking on its next voyage Sunday night, Lomax said. The ship is next set to cruise the Mexican Riviera, she said. Those set to board ship for its next cruise will be notified of the virus outbreak, with a CDC official on the vessel to conduct an inspection ahead of its departure, a CDC spokesman said. Outbreaks of norovirus have been reported by nearly a dozen cruise lines sailing from U.S. ports in recent years. The outbreaks are unpleasant but usually mild and typically stem from many people confined to a small area, lackluster hand-washing and buffet-style dining, experts have said. Norovirus is the most common cause of contagious gastrointestinal illness, with nausea, vomiting and diarrhea the typical symptoms. The CDC estimates that there are about 20 million cases of norovirus in the United States each year, resulting in 570 to 800 deaths. The virus usually clears up in one to three days, the CDC says. Carnival Corp is the parent company of several cruise lines, including Princess Cruises and Carnival Cruise Lines. | |
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Dr Sircus
Dr. Sircus 2014-11-14 08:36:00
Why would anyone worry about radiation, mercury pollution coming out of every coal fired electrical plant in the world, vaccines, most pharmaceuticals or genetically modified food? Pesticides are not a problem nor is plutonium or the massive nutritional deficiencies gaining ground in the public. Though these Australians in the above picture are demonstrating against their own government's climate position I think it represents quite well, how most of us are dealing with the great problems facing our civilization. The government says radiation is safe. Experts say it is safe, doctors say it is safe. Therefore, it must be safe so relax. TEBCO is officially telling us that radiation has reached the west coast but do not worry about it. It is safe radiation. It might even be good for you if you believe those who believe in such things. Radiation is up across the country according to EPA monitoring stations but that is not even worth a mention in the press since everything is safe. I wonder why we have not had a nuclear war since that probably would be safe as well. It is also safe to let psychopaths go un-confronted so they can run large corporations, banks and governmental institutions like the FDA and CDC. | |
Comment: Radiation exposure is so safe, in fact, that Japanese and American children are coming down with thyroid cancer.
Nearly 36pc of Fukushima children diagnosed with abnormal thyroid growths Japan Radiation Survey Shows 1 In 20 Fukushima Children Will Develop Thyroid Cancer Almost third of US West Coast newborns hit with thyroid problems after Fukushima nuclear disaster | |
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Anya Vien
LA Healthy Living 2014-05-20 13:12:00
The truth is, I am writing this article about the importance of wisdom teeth while all of mine have been extracted. They have been gone for years. I am pretty sure many of yours have been long gone as well. I didn't know any better. We trust our dentists to do the best job possible while often not even questioning their methods. I should've questioned and should've researched myself. But now I can share my research and finding with you so you can make the decisions for yourself and not just listen to your dentist just because he tells you so. Many of us have been told that wisdom teeth need to be extracted just because they are not really needed. According to the dentists, they are just unnecessary teeth that just inconveniently crowd out mouths. | |
Comment: See also: Should Your Wisdom Teeth Be Removed?
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Martha Rosenberg
Alternet 2014-11-13 21:09:00
The pharmaceutical industry has flooded America with antipsychotics. Does anyone remember Thorazine? It was an antipsychotic given to mentally ill people, often in institutions, that was so sedating, it gave rise to the term "Thorazine shuffle." Ads for Thorazine in medical journals, before drugs were advertised directly to patients, showed Aunt Hattie in a hospital gown, zoned out but causing no trouble to herself or anyone else. No wonder Thorazine and related drugs Haldol, Mellaril and Stelazine were called chemical straitjackets. But Thorazine and similar drugs became close to obsolete in 1993 when a second generation of antipsychotics which included Risperdal, Zyprexa, Seroquel, Geodon and Abilify came online. Called "atypical" antipsychotics, the drugs seemed to have fewer side effects than their predecessors like dry mouth, constipation and the stigmatizing and permanent facial tics known as TD or tardive dyskinesia. (In actuality, they were similar.) More importantly, the drugs were obscenely expensive: 100 tablets of Seroquel cost as much as $2,000, Zyprexa, $1,680 and Abilify $1,644. | |
Comment: More examples of Big Pharma drugging America:
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Michele Simon
Al Jazerra 2014-10-27 21:19:00
With consumers confusing natural and organic, the feds must not remain silent any longer. The natural products business is booming. By some industry estimates, retail sales topped an eye-popping $100 billion last year, with nearly 60 percent coming from food. No wonder more food marketers are labeling their products - from Pepsi to Cheetos - natural. But what does the term actually mean? Despite the term's popularity - or because of it - there is no official definition of "natural." With the potential to deceive consumers, the issue is now reaching a breaking point. The proposed solutions from trade groups, lawyers and government agencies range from defining the term to suing over it to ignoring it. Some consumer-advocacy organizations are even calling for a complete ban on the use of "natural" in labeling. But such disparate approaches won't help shoppers become any less confused and may even make the problem worse. One group that wants to define "natural" is called the Organic and Natural Health Association (ONHA), a brand new trade group whose mission includes "creating and promoting transparent business practices that safeguard access to organic and natural food, products, and services." I recently attended Supply Side West, an ingredient trade show, where ONHA hosted a panel about its plan to create a Natural Seal certification based on "objective and transparent criteria." CEO Karen Howard said that "defining the word 'natural' has become a priority for the natural products industry" and that her group plans to "take swift action." (By swift they mean by the end of 2015, Howard told me.) | |
Comment: Additional articles on The Great Organic Deceivers:
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Jon Rappoport
Activist Post 2014-11-14 20:41:00
Hail to the group! The group is all! The concept of herd immunity (protection for the population) is often used by vaccine addicts as a way to push guilt at people who don't line up, with their children, like robots for their shots. From the point of view of protecting people who are already vaccinated, herd immunity is flat-out absurd. Little Jimmy, whose parents have decided not to vaccinate him, will pass diseases on to kids who are already vaccinated? Oh, you mean those immunized kids aren't really safe? Then why did you vaccinate them in the first place? From another point of view, herd immunity is the idea that people who "can't be" vaccinated (for example, those who are obviously allergic to elements contained in vaccines) will gain a measure of protection, if larger and larger numbers of others are vaccinated. The vaccinated protecting the unvaccinated. | |
Comment: Key points to consider when addressing the idea of 'Herd immunity'
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Indiana University
2014-10-27 18:11:00
A new study by researchers at The Kinsey Institute and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found that the timeless, multicultural tradition of grandmothering might have an unexpected benefit: helping some women temper their hot flashes and night sweats during menopause. The researchers, two clinicians and a bioanthropologist, examined how close relationships can help women in midlife with this inevitable change -- with the clinicians looking for therapeutic benefits that might help patients deal with this unpredictable, poorly understood transition, and the bioanthropologist predicting an evolutionary connection. Their study, which focused on the relationship between mid-life women and young children, found that women who underwent rapid menopause, caused by the surgical removal of ovaries, had fewer hot flashes and night sweats when young children lived in their homes. The study was published in Menopause: the Journal of the North American Menopause Society. Study authors are Tierney Lorenz, postdoctoral fellow at The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington, Bonnie A McGregor, researcher at University of Washington's Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and Virginia J. Vitzthum, professor of anthropology and senior research scientist at The Kinsey Institute. | |
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phys.org
2014-11-10 10:49:00
Just as physical adaptations help populations prosper in inhospitable habitats, belief in moralizing, high gods might be similarly advantageous for human cultures in poorer environments. A new study from the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) suggests that societies with less access to food and water are more likely to believe in these types of deities. "When life is tough or when it's uncertain, people believe in big gods," says Russell Gray, a professor at the University of Auckland and a founding director of the Max Planck Institute for History and the Sciences in Jena, Germany. "Prosocial behavior maybe helps people do well in harsh or unpredictable environments." Gray and his coauthors found a strong correlation between belief in high gods who enforce a moral code and other societal characteristics. Political complexity - namely a social hierarchy beyond the local community - and the practice of animal husbandry were both strongly associated with a belief in moralizing gods. The emergence of religion has long been explained as a result of either culture or environmental factors but not both. The new findings imply that complex practices and characteristics thought to be exclusive to humans arise from a medley of ecological, historical, and cultural variables. "When researchers discuss the forces that shaped human history, there is considerable disagreement as to whether our behavior is primarily determined by culture or by the environment," says primary author Carlos Botero, a researcher at the Initiative for Biological Complexity at North Carolina State University. "We wanted to throw away all preconceived notions regarding these processes and look at all the potential drivers together to see how different aspects of the human experience may have contributed to the behavioral patterns we see today." | |
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David Moye
It's common for 4-year-old boys to pretend they are soldiers.The Huffington Post 2014-11-13 19:13:00 But one little boy in Virginia Beach, Virginia, claims he was actually once a Marine -- and his mother thinks he's telling the truth.
The bizarre -- and possibly exaggerated -- discovery came after Michele Lucas and her son, Andrew, connected with the producers of Ghost Inside My Child, a reality show on LMN about kids who are allegedly experiencing memories of past lives. Although reincarnation is a part of many religions, there is no scientific evidence supporting it, according to Ben Radford, the deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine. "Usually, people remember their past lives through hypnosis, but the interpretation of a past life is brought to them by someone else, such as a therapist who believes in reincarnation," Radford toldThe Huffington Post. Michele Lucas admits she was perplexed when her son, Andrew, started talking about his tragic death. | |
Comment: Skeptics can try to debunk the reincarnation phenomena as much as they want, but the fact is there is plenty of evidence to suggest that reincarnation has a high probability. Listen to the following podcasts to learn more:
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Jack Krone
Mail Online 2014-11-17 15:09:00
A mysterious saucer-shaped object has been photographed floating in the sky above Manchester. The peculiar outline was captured by craftsman John Hindley - who claims he took the picture of what looked like a 'glitch' in the clouds after feeling a 'magnetic pull' towards it. The 35-year-old insists he is a perfectly rational man but after zooming in on the photo believes what he saw could have been a UFO. | |
Comment: The United Kingdom is not alone in experiencing a surge in sightings of strange objects:UFO sightings soar to new heights in Canada
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Nigeria Tribune
2014-11-13 00:00:00
The acting district head of Soro in Darazo Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Alhaji Muhammad Kilishi, on Wednesday, informed that a mysterious fire outbreak had hit the town, razing more than 100 houses with property worth millions of Naira destroyed. Alhaji Kilishi, who disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Bauchi, stated that as of now, no one knew the cause of the fire outbreak, saying that people only discovered that fire would come from nowhere and gut houses. According to him, the mysterious fire outbreak started in October, saying, however, that, so far, no life had been lost in the incident. "This fire is quite mysterious because it is not caused as a result of an electrical fault or bush burning. One just notices that fire from nowhere will start burning and before you know it, it has started destroying houses. "This incident started mysteriously about a month ago, but no life has been lost since the outbreak. Idon't know the meaning of this strange fire which cannot be traced to a cause," the acting district head said. | |
Comment: This is something to keep an eye on. Perhaps these fires are similar to the fires that have plagued parts of Italy as covered by SOTT.net in the past and other sources recently.
Italian villagers call for exorcist to end 'demon' fires Signs Supplement: Fortean Fire Mysterious fires officials blamed on UFOs and aliens return to Sicily Italian Village Plagued by Mysterious Fires Has Been Puzzling Scientists for Years | |
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RT
2014-11-15 21:29:00
Twitter users have had a field day with Australian PM Tony Abbott's claim that he would "shirtfront" Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit over the MH17 crash - because the leaders' face-to-face encounter actually resulted in a...koala cuddle. Yes, that's right. Social media is abuzz with photos of Abbott and Putin snuggling up to the world's cutest marsupial, even though previous statements had almost guaranteed that a scuffle was in the works. When the soft, furry critter sunk its claws into Putin's suit, the Australian PM seemed to feel quite soft and fuzzy inside himself; a smack down shoulder charge appeared to be the last thing on his mind. Abbott's remark came back in October, after he told journalists that he would "shirtfront" the Russian president on the sidelines of the G20 summit over the MH17 tragedy. "I am going to shirtfront Mr. Putin - you bet I am - I am going to be saying to Mr. Putin [that] Australians were murdered, they were murdered by Russian-backed rebels," Abbott said. | |
Comment: Abbott is all bark and no bite.
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